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'fl ' T,' Inoomo Tax Bn1 Tammnnr.

''I ill Ir MortoAM reminded the Republican'H f of the Sonntc last Friday of what he

till h called "a remarkable omission" In thoVH ! fj Tariff bill. It contains no provision tor theiH I I repeal of tho Income tax law. Though4H j? " tho Supremo Court has set aside the law,"PH said Mr. Mono an, " yet It is left on theVH1 f "$ statute book, so that In tlmo, with a;H change of tho Court, the unrepealed larr

; M; f ft' can be sustained.''.H" 'I ' j The law should be repealed, for there isfBi - $ lumber enough In the statutes without In--

', as eluding laws of known unconstitutionalityl'B xr' 'n them. Repealed or unrepealed, the In

BC I ' J' v come tax lavr remains In the Popooratlol Hk I ! u' platform and the Popocratlo heart. lb Is

B ' an Important part of the groat Chicago so--

fB I p clallstlo and rerolntlonary programme. ToJBC i l A doctor tho Supreme Court so that It trill

m 1 !' hold the Income tax constitutional is stilltH,v W f, a Bryantte plan. One hundred and thirty- -

:. I , Ave thousand men roted for it In this towntBah I $ last November. Every man trill rote for itJM '.I g who votes the Tammany ticket next No- -

Bn tif Tember.iBV'- - S? Tammany would prefer that neither Mr.;Bt ji fi Moiwah nor anybody else should say any- -

iB V II' L n thing about the income tax until af tor theIIHy fl Wj municipal election.

gV Why Cuba Can Prolong tbe War.ISsaTsBib' One of the elements In the success of the

S'' Cuban patriots, which has become clearer' f with the progress of the strugcle, Is the

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Bl "X X ' tlon. Considering that the patriots do not

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SsBJ i " I," sources of our own nary and revenue marine(BBj H V hma been so largely drawn upon to preventjBBl'' 1 unlawful expeditions from our shores, theBBl.i D f success achieved In blockade running hasBBB 1 ?' been extraordinary, and must have a great

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5,1 jBBsi j- tlnually harassing them, provided theres IBBB' ? was an abundance of arms and ammunition.

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Now for two years we have become accus- -

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l, BBB 9 Not New Policy.HHS'S 8 I'onon Chronicle, in commenting

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. 9l I k panslon. We wish the new experiment,& iBBf 1 g though with some misgivings, all sue- -

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BH I States Government has made a new depar- -

L flJB E f , turn from its historical policy," and that, MB 8 f "tho acquisition of foreign dependencies

fl 6 will bring a new and serious foreign pol- -

(V HjB 4 Icy," asking, finally : "WIUAmerlcapursueHB Y;. tho colonizing course upon which she hatflJB- - f nowenteredr .

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BhWBB) - familiar policy, begun almost with tbeBBkBI ' foundation ot the Government. In the earlyBflBBl '? Aajs of the republic, under JEFrznsotf, weBBJuBBE i annexed, by purchase from France, the vastBEKfrflJB srea stretching from the Gulf north- -

BPSftBBf ward to the Canadian line and west- -

BSB t ward to the Pacific, known as Loulat- -

BEfeBiB 4, "na- - This greatest ot all our expansionsX"r,BjB i, WU3 accomplished in 1803, ninety-fou- r

HBJS ' years ago, and only twenty after the deflnl- -

BwjB tlve treaty of peace with Great Britain.Bf'BB! 5 Next, nearly fourscore years ago, underBBl&BiB,' .' MoNnou's Administration, we acquiredBBFy mB ' Florida by purchase from Spain. OurthlrdBJBB fF great expansion brought in Texas, that alsoBbW Iflr J' being more than half a century ago, whileBBip BIB j the ensuing war with Mexico gave us Call- -

BBi.WB ' ' fomia and Now Mexico. These by the forceBB' JflUji ; of onus were then pieced out by the Gads- -

BfllHflS , den purchase. Finally from Russia we toBBSfBB'l '' quired by purchase In 1887 the great Ter--

BBp'BB, X ritoryof Alaska, this latest of our six greatBBa'BB'B ; acquisitions being thirty years old.

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B B 4 of Hawaii be called a new departure! Obvl- -

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BM'LBB' "'"' loranncxationwasfamlllartocarllerAmorl- -

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HM IBB flK ue nolut'011! wa3 or trying to have theBHI :;jW Brf Bte'ttv Bermudas as well as Canada join us in

BJ Blf lli, throwing off tho British yoke. We nowBBr?' sBB.lBfl fsli- - hold, in fact, some islets In the GulfBHJ'. 'BB Bi ' Moxlco sucu " Navassa. PresidentBH IrnBr'i'r, Sonnsov, nearly thirty years ago, In n mrs--

IIIbBu ,L eag0 Congress, expressly resented theBB' aMiBjJ'S1 '.Idea "that our political Bystcm cannot sue- -

BB 9 BKB ' "(ssfully be applied to an area more ex--

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Islands. With much good sense he pointedout that " tho Increased faollltles for Inter-communication" between countries shouldchango adverso notions on that point. In-

deed, what "new departure" Is there Inthe annexation of Hawaii, compared withthat of Alaska, so far removed from therest of our domalnn, and even with a foreigncountry Intervening t

Thus the European notion that we areundertaking u novel experiment Is allwrong. Tho Pall Mall Gazette's dictumthat " it is an undoubted departure In thecolonizing sense" Is imaginary, Hawaiiwill be no more a colony than Alaska Is, nomore than Louisiana and Florida were.Wo are still marching along tho rotd onwhich tho fathom of the republic started,and extending, as they did, the sway of theStars and Stripes.

Tho Kentnoky Wheat Trust.The farmers of Woodford county In Ken-

tucky have determined to form a wheattrust, and they have called a convention ofthe wheat growers of their State for thopurpose. They hope to persuade tho wheatraisers of Kentucky and the neighboringStates to keep tholr wheat from tho marketuntil high prices can be obtained for It.

Similar efforts to form a "combine" andforce up prices have been made at varioustimes In other States, especially in thoSouth and West. They have failed becausethe combination could not be made tightenough. Too many producers remainedon the outside. The trust Idea, however,teems to be a favorite among many of theSouthern and Western farmers, especiallyamong those of them who are Populists.No set of men is more activo in bellowingagainst trusts than theso Populist farmersare, yet they hanker for a trust whichwill leave tho prices of their own productsunaffected by free competition. Tho demonot plutocracy rages unexorclsed even Inagricultural bosoms; and even the noltynecks of Populist sages are gripped by theuniversal claws of the Octopus.

It la only Just to the trust-bulldln- g farm-ers of Woodford county, and to all othertrust-bulldln- g farmers, to say thatcomblna-tlon- s

ot farmers to raise prices are not sup-posed to be trusts. Neither are such com-binations when made by laborers. To besure, these exceptions are matters of cour-tesy rather than of law, yet who can forgetthat Texas did make these exceptions lawand solemnly exempted farmers and labor-ers from the pains and penalties of heranti-Tru- st law! That law was declaredunconstitutional. Such are the prejudicesot courts, but the exemptions which Texasprovided are otlll grateful to remember. ItIs safe to say that there are no sterner foesof other than agricultural trusts thanthe farmers of Woodford county. Theywill not make an exception of labor trustseven, and would be horrified If their hiredmen should combine to ratso wages.

We mention these facts simply for thesake ot Illuminating once more the sweetunselfishness of the scourgers of trusts.

Training for the Squadron.The announcement that Admiral SiOAitD

will assemble his squadron at HamptonRoads In August, for drill and manoeuvresduring the rest of the summer and in theearly autumn, must gratify those who havetho interests ot the navy at heart.

From the days of Actlum to those of theYalu, engagements of great fleets have beenthe most momentous events In naval war-far- o.

Famous single combats between ves-sels, such as those of the Constitution andthe Guerrltre, the United States and tbeMacedonian, the Monitor and tho Mer-rlma-

the Kearsarge and the Ala-bama, abound In our history, as Intbe history of other naval powers, butthere are also squadron engagements re-corded, like those of Perry and

while British annals are full ofouch encounters from Blake to Nelson. ItIs worth noting, too, that Perry, who cap-tured a British fleet when not much morethan a youth, had been noted for his studyof squadron drill and ordnance practice.

The North Atlantic squadron needs fre-quent training in tactics, not only becauseIt mny be called into active servico as a body,but also because It is tho school whenceships are drawn for foreign station duty asrequired. It Is therefore Important thatits opportunities for squadron manoeuvresshould be Improved before such ships aresent away for what may bo long absences.This is also true to a great extent of ourPaclfla squadron, of which, accordingly,tbe part available In home waters wasengaged last year In tactical training,while even on the Asiatlo station the samesystem was carried out.

No sooner was our new steel fleet wellstarted than an effort was made to giveIt the required drills. Under AdmiralWalker four of our earlier vessels wereunited as a squadron ot evolution, and Itswork was of great service. But not untilCommodore Bunce took command of theNorth Atlantic station was It practicableto assemble a fleet of tho numbers andpower desired for manoeuvres.

It Is therefore most desirable that, with anew flag officer, and with so many newcommanders of vessels, tho drill of tbe lastyear should be resumed and, If need be, am-plified. Several new ships that have takenno part In previous squadron manoeuvres,need tho experience, while there Is nodanger that the others will bo too familiarwith this Important work.

Hitherto presentations of gifts to newships by namesakes and details to take partIn public shows and celebrations of varioussorts havo scattered the command. Butafter the Fourth ot July, at least, Buch callsshould be rarer; and if the assembling ottbe squadron for training should also ren-der It more quickly available In case someforeign power should try to make troublefor us, that will beau additional advantage.

How liong Will tho Forests Last?The assertion ot Mr. D. R, Francis at

tho National Convention of Nurserymen, inSt. Louis, that " If the present rate of de-

struction continues for tbe next twenty-fiv- e

years the United States will bepractically bereft of forests" may becommended to the attention of Congress.That body has been considering lately theviews, on tbe one hand, of eminent expertsIn forestry, like Prof. Giiaules S. Sarqunt,and, on the other, those of lumbermen andsheep herders who deslro to work theirwill on the public woodlands.

Perhaps to an earlier generation theforests of this continent appeared abso-lutely exhaustless. But after a timethe existence of the vast treelessplains became known, while the axesof the pioneers made ravages far audwide. For many years, therefore, the needof protecting the publlo forests fromfire aud the axe has been manifest. In theRocky Mountain and Pacific slope regionalone, toVht census year 1880, the number

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of aerea burnt! over wat reported In anofficial document as 050,609, and the valuedestroyed as $8,528,171. We have noreason to supposo that this was an extraor-dinary year for fires.

Then there Is the enormous destructionof trees for various uses. The Chief of thoForestry Division, In one of his reports, hasestimated our annual consumption of woodfor various purposes at between 20,000,-000,00- 0

and 25,000,000,000 cublo feet.He thought that, with the most lib-

eral allowanco for all possible woodedareas, such a rato of consumption wouldexhaust our supplies In from fifty tosixty years, supposing that there wero nogrowth mcnnwhllo to replace them. Hofound that tho supplies of certain kinds oftlmbor wero waning, that "tho white pineof the North shows signs of exhaustion, thowhite ash has becomo scarco In many local-ities, the tulip poplar will not last long, andthe walnut has ceased to be abundant."

Mr. Francis's estimate ot a quarter of acentury as tho limit of tlmo for our forestsapparently has reference to the great forestsof the country rather than to tho total sup-ply of merchantable timber. But by anyreckoning It is clear that, under the pres-ent system, tho publlo woodlands aroIn danger. The greatest step evertaken to preserve them was the act ofMarch 8, 1801, authorizing tho Presidentto set apart csrtaln areas from settlement.Under that act nearly 40,000,000 acreshave been reserved, but the present Con-gress has suspended until next spring tbereservation ot one-hal- f of this area.

It may be hoped, therefore, that beforetho subject again cornea up for considera-tion next year, the friends of forest preser-vation will make a thorough study of theproblem, so as to bo able to know the dan-gers which threaten the forests, and thobest methods of avoiding them.

The Constitution and

Tho Hon. William Brookfteld has aRepublican organization or County Com-

mittee of his own, doubtless an excellentInstitution and comforting to its proprietorand Its members. At Its meeting In LyrloHall last week, however, it passed a reso-lution which docs not chime with facts.It resolved:

"That tho IUpubltcan prty ot thlt Btata, bj lr-edil-

tti oontrol of tho recant ComtltuUonU Conrtn-tto- n

to propota to ths paopia a ComjUtotlonal amend-ment exproulj atparatlnc mnnlelpal from nationaland State aleotloni, and by aeoarlnc for that amend-ment formal continuation bj the people, has de-clared 1U hlghtet Judgment that In municipal affalrinon partUanthlp U for tho public rood and ihonld bean MlablUhcd rule."

This is the view of that Constitutionalamendment that ls taken by the Citizens'Union, which Mr. Brookfteld's committee" recommends and urges to nominate theHon. Seth Low for Mayor." The Citizens'Union does not need any such recommend-ing and urging, but the Citizens' Union,Mr. Brookfield's committee, and variousMugwump apouters do need to be remindedthat they are not sticking to the ever-lasting truth when they try to read theirabsurd flimflam of Intothe Constitution. The object of separatingmunicipal from State and national elec-tions was to prevent the voter from beingoverwhelmed by the multiplicity of tickets,to allow him full time and opportunity tostudy tho situation, to give the municipalcanvasses tholr Just Importance, and keepthem from being slurred over and obscuredby the State or national canvasses. To as-sert that the people In voting for thatamendment voted thatshould control in municipal affairs ls con-siderably further away from the truth thanit would be to assert that the people votedthat tho world ls flat and that the GooGoos are wise.

In short and in long, there never hasbeen, is not now, and never will be such athing as in municipal af-fairs. It Is a mere Mugwump abstraction,a toy of tho Mugwump mind, a quillet ofnovices who have neglected to stay inJericho until their beards have grown, avision of political Bomnnmbulhts. Thomost breathless, perspiring, and crazy par-tisans in tho world are the very personswho are exhibiting this constitutionalamendment as a C. U. badge and yowlingdeliriously for As forerring Brother BnooKFiELD, he Is unusuallyhandsome and he Is pretty good; but hewould be as mum as a mausoleum In regardto If he had won In tbeRepublican primaries ot which he has notceased to complain.

In Its practical andactual meaning Is the partisanship of thofellow who Is In the minority.

The Yantlo and the Treaty.The proposal that the Yantlo shall be

turned over to the use of the Michigannaval militia acquires an additional Interestfrom tho question that has arisen as towhether this transfer would violate theprovlslonsof the Rush-Bsgo- t treaty of 1817.

That treaty contains this stipulation re-garding tho building and maintenance ofwar vessels upon tho great lakes:

"The naral force to be maintained upon the Ameri-can lakee by hie Majratjr and the Oorernmen! of theUnited Btaiei tbalt thenceforth be confined to thefollowing reueli on each elde, that In

" On Lake Ontario, to one reaiel. not exoeedlng 100tone burden, and armed with one eighteen poundcannon. Oa the upper lake, to two veawla. not

burden eaoh and armed with like force.On the wateri ot Lake Cbamplaln, to one veuel, not

xocedlnc like burden and armed with Ilk fore."All other armed vreaelt on theaelake shall be

forthwith dismantled, and no other vessel ot warshall then be built or armed."

Our Government has been most scrupu-lous In regard to this treaty, and whileSecretary Tracy had charge of the NavyDepartment It declined to accept the bid ofF. W. WnEELKR & Co. of West Bay City,In Michigan, for building the Bancroft,they being the lowest bidders, nltlimmlithe Bancroft was not to be maintained ontho Iskes and presumably not oven to bearmed there, since she was to serve as apractice ship for the cadots at Annapolis.About flvo years later, under SecretaryHerbert, the same ground was taken Inregard to the bid of the Detroit Dry DockCompany to build one or more of tho com-posite gunboats. And now Michigan fortho third time furnishes the parties in In-

terest a question regarding this treaty offourscore years ago.

We have no warship on Lnke Champlalnand none on Lake Ontario; but on LakeErie we have the old Michigan, which cer-tainly does not conform closely to thotreaty requiremente, for she Is of 400 Urnsmeasurement and 085 tons displacement,and carries, wo believe, four small gunsInstead of one. However, with a tinglenaval vessel on the lakes, whero we mighthave a total of four, no objection has everbeen modo officially, so far as we recall, tothe slzo or ths battery ot tho Michigan,neither ot which Is alarming.

The Yantlc, however, would make asecond vessel on the upper lakes, and It

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larger than the Michigan. She it not for-midable, being an old wooden craft, builtby the Government at Philadelphia thirtythree years ago, during the civil war. Shoused to cruise about our waters here, liketho Dispatch and tho Dolphin. On tho SouthAtlantic station she has dono good work,and now that sho is to giro way to a moiomodern gunboat on that station and hascomo North, she would prolong" her use-

fulness by serving as a naval mltltla craft-Stil- l,

sho Is certainly not within thotreaty specifications. Sho Is a bark-rlggc- d

vessel, with a length between perpendicu-lars ot 180 feet, a breadth of 30, and a meandraught of 12.2, having a displacement of000 tons. Again, her battery Is certainlynot tho "ono cannon" of thotreaty. It consists ot two smooth-bores, an muzzle-loadin- g rifle, and a

breech-loade- besides a im-

pounder Bmooth-bor- o howitzer, a Gatltng,and a breech-loade- In the secondarybattery. Her bunker capacity Is 130 tons,and her ordinary complement It 20 officersand 134 men.

Howovor, tho despatches say that theJudgo Advocate-Genera- l of the Navy, afterstudying tho question, has given tho opin-ion that tho Yantlc's employment for Statenaval militia on Lako Michigan will not boa violation of the treaty of 1817. It Is cer-

tain that wo have other armed vessels onthe lakes besides naval vessels, namoly,revenue cutters, and that theso are recog-nized by both sides as not coming under thetreaty restrictions. Nevertheless, tho Yan-tlc's appearance on the lakes would pre-sumably bring out Canadian oomment. Butjust now tho question ls whether, with herdraught, she could go safely through thoWelland canal.

"Jefferson Still litres."Mr. Bryan, the late Democratic and Pop-ocrat- lc

candidate for the Presidency, madean address before the literary societies of theUniversity of Virginia last week, which hoentitled "Jefferson Still Lives." Thesethreo words wero part of the devout andpatriotic exclamation ot JonN Adams asbelay dying in Massachusetts on the Fourthof July, 1820, not knowing, when ho spokothem, that the eyes of his great colleague Innearly all the scenes ot the Revolution andhis successor In the Presidency, were at al-

most the samo moment closing In death.Fortunate ls It, indeed, for the country

that Jefferson's pure political principlesare still the most potent forces In the direc-tion of the republic. Were they not, Mr.Bryan would now be President, and, undertho name of a spurious Democracy, weshould bo embarked, as a nation, on an un-known and shoreless sea of tociallstlo andanarchistic revolution.

In the lost campaign neither Mr. Bryannor any of his adherents was able to find aline In tho teachings ot Jefferson to sus-tain tho dishonest financial plank ot theChicago platform. On the contrary, Inthose teachings the condemnation of itstood out, cold, clear, conclusive. And soIt was with all the other Popullstlc quack-crie- s

set forth in that monstrous documentunder tho label of Democracy. Tried bythe Jcffcrsonian test they were, each andall, heretical, and at tho polls the peopleso stamped them.

That verdict was majestic proof of thegreat truth that "Jefferson still lives."If Mr. Bryan had learned It at last, thelesson would be of priceless value to him ;but his words were evidently only parrotchatter, for he continues on a course whichruns counter to the spirit and precept ofthe political teachings and philosophy ofThomas Jefferson.

A correspondent asks elsewhere If theEnglish newspaper orcan tn New York, theEvening t'ott. Is working up a scheme to pre-sent this republic, to Knglnnd as tbe most brll-lln-

incident of the Quean's jublleoyear. Inthe Evening Pott of Saturday there was pub-lished conspicuously on the editorial pane anasinine letter, which probably BUfrg-este-d the Ideato him. The writer, after desrrlblne how low,vulgar, and lncapablo of (rorernlnir ourselves weare. goes on to say. In discussing the remedy forthis dreadful state of things: "There wouldseem to be no historic reasons that would Justifya return to the old forms of aristocracy." Bythat, of course, he means that there are otherreasons than historic why we should Ret a King,preferably a Queen, to rule over us. Hut neitherour correspondent nor anybodr else should takesuch manifestations of the Evening Pott seri-ously. They are simply the childish efforts ofthe boys brought up In Godeik'b nursery to imi-tate his old tricks, now that he hrs left them tothemselves.

A "mass meeting of Democrats" washeld In Jefforeon Club Hall, Gt. Louis, Saturday,and was thrilled by the outpourings of the Hon.Wiluam Jawbreaker Stone, the greatest liv-ing mixer of metaphor. Col. Nick Bei l, andother men of might. " The Intention of thismeeting," said tho Invitations, " Is to bringDemocrats together and cornor the market onharmony. It ls expocted, too, that the firstbig battery for the campaign of 1000will be fired, and a policy and planoutlined whereby Dcmooracy, on tho Chicagoplatform, can effect an organization, cound theKeynote and sweep tho country." With all thisfiring, soundlng.and sweeping in prospect, whywan It necessary for tho Invitation! to holdoutthe bribe ot "muslo and refreshments I" Isnot the Hon. Bill Stone a whole band and acalliope I Is not Col. Nick Bell mors fillingthan a whole eating houso I

The non. Knutb Nelson, Senator InCongress from Minnesota, has an anti-tru-

amendment to tbe Tariff bill. Indeed, an anti-trust amendment seem to be as necessary asstntlonory to many Senator, aud tbo Govern-ment ought to provide a great grass of suchamendments for each Sonator at its owu ex-ponas. Mr. Ncusot propose to punish by aline of from ?S00 to $10,000 or Imprisonment athard labor for irom six months to two years, orboth, " every porson, Arm, or corporation whohall monopolies or engross, or attempt

to monopolise or engross, or who shallcombine or consplro with nny person, firm,

, or corporation to monopollxo or cnirrosstlio trade or commerro In raw or refinedBugarof any kind, among tho several States orwith foreign nations, for tbe purposo of undulyenhancing tho price ot such sugar." But sup-pose the monopolists, i ho are nil the time re-ducing the cost of production, combine to reducethe price of sugar I And bow much of a rise Isto be considered an unduo enhancing! Andsupposo the demand for sugar should Increaseunduly! Cloarl) it would bo bet tor or tbo Gov-ernment to furnUh anti-trus- t amondmonts totbo Senators. Thosj made by ths Senators arebadly made,

Hewitt will preside over aninteresting meeting at Chickcrlni; Hall

night. It will be u grcttlng mid a fare ellto IIku Cuatklain, who Is on tho evo of start-ing for Africa with tbe first party of teachers tostt on foot tho unlquo work of the I'lillafi leanLeague. It I tho original scheme for philan-thropic effort which Mr. Ciiatzlain proposedlast year, and which soiuo of our broad-mlndo-

cltlsens lire helping him to carry out. Nothinglike it has been tried before, and tho plan Ispeoullar, too, In tho commendation it ha re-ceived from all the Governments Interested InAfrica. They have offered large areas of land toMr. Ouatelain for the stations where hi Ideaswill bo carried out, and our State Departmentand the Portuguese Minister at Washington

have boon actively promoting the Interests ofhis first expedition.

His work villi bo among the myriads ot slavesIn Africa, freed by the agents of the eighteenpower which decrcod at Brussels thst slaveraiding and tho slave trade should cease. Howill gather them Into settlements, whore thoharmful Influences of tho vrhlto rnto may notenter, and thoy will have to holp mnko them

more useful, and more com-

fortable and tho experiment will bo first madoamong the highland of eastern Angola, wheretho cllmato Is comparatively hoalthtul.

Tnn Sun has already described in some dotal!ths features ot Mr. Ciiatklaim b plan, whichmany Afrluvnlits boltovo ls tho most practicalschoine for philanthropic work yet dovisod forAfrica. It Is tho outgrowth of his years ofoxperlonco In tho dark continent. There willbo distinguished speakers at tho mooting, but itwill be natural if tho chief lntorest of tho occa-

sion centres in the author and manager ot thisenterprise, ho, of all Amorican citizens, holdstho highest placo as an Africanlst, whose philo-logical and ethnological studies in Africa aroeverywhere acceptod na authoritative, andwhose whole life Is absorbed, as fow lives havobeen, in devotion to the work of lifting theAfrican native to a higher plane ot existence.

Tho annual report ls made that certainAmericans who believe themselves to be de-

scendants of Sir Francis Drake havo formedan association for the purposo of prosecuting aclaim to some wholly mythical DnAKB millionsin England. It ls quoer that some thrifty personshave not formed an association to raise fundsfor the purpose of recovering the value otAdam's equity in the Garden ot Eden.

At a tremendous demonstration by thirtyGoo Goos at Good Government Club 11, on Satur-day evening, a rapturously applauded addresscontaining this paragraph wat road t

"The Immense power of the Independent votwithin the limits of the Oreater New York was amplydemonstrated at the last election. To aeesr thewhole of that tot, without whJoh nocombination oan b successful, tho candidate forMayor must be primarily not the candidate of any ofthe old poUtteal organisations, but the nomine ot aaIndependent movement "

How happened it, then, that "tht Immensepower of the Independent vote " was demon-

strated last year at an election when the candi-date who brought out "the whole of that vote"was the candidate of one of " tbe old politicalorganizations I"

The Democracy can reaffirm the principle otthe Chicago Convention without laying speoial em-phasis upon tbem. EUJOT DixroaTH.

The Democracy can affirm, reaffirm, or straddleas much as it likes. It can't prevent the votersfrom laying special emphasis upon the revolu-tionary platform "d whacking with specialemphasis tho pa, . . bat Is responsible for It.

Mr. James Bartlett Wiooin of rt

writes to the lloiton Advertittr thatbe has "always wished that Harvard Uni-

versity had a chime of bells of her own." Hothinks that " such a chime would be the finishingtouch of beauty and poetry, so he puts it In thisform," namely, these tinkling verses:

- Fair Harvard Uvea at eatAmong her claulo tree.

Aad sat a voloe to break her sleepy spensiBat how her song would ring.And her memory would sing.

It Harvard had soma sweet chime balls.

Build a tower fair and high,Itanc the chimes toward the sky.

Chat to winds may har the story that ah tells i

We shall hear the welcome voloe.We ahaU listen and rejoloe.

When Harvard gets her sweet ehlm belU."

There are trolley bell enough around Har-vard square already, and there ls a bell in thocupola of Harvard Hall which used to have apernicious habit ot breaking the sleepy spells ofthe undergraduates and summoning them tomorning prayers at Inhuman hours, and whichstill croaks for recitations and examination.There are also chimes near enough to tho yard.There are bicycle bells innumerable. Sweetestof all, there are now the sweet chime bells of Mr.Wioorx of Cambridgeport, ohimes which no manwill wish to hang.

Lost week the Providence First Light In-fantry attempted to conquer those unconquera-ble trenchermen, tho members of the PutnamPhalanx of Hartford. On Thursday morning theLight Infantry men loaded the Phalanx upon asteamer and took it down Narragansett Bay.Light refreshments were served on the trip,and the Newport folks, hearing the corks shoot,believed that the torpedo station had blown up.At 1:15 the Phalanx charged upon " a genuineclam dinner" at Crescent Park, near Providence,and took possession of the following stores:

" Clam chowder, salmon from the Penobscot, soupfrom Newport, eels from Narragansett Bay, bluecshfrom Montauk. crabs from Chesapeake Bay. olara frit-ters, baked clams, sausage. Little Neck olama, Indianpudding with cream, watermelon. Ice cream, old Eng-U- h

cheese and craokert."

Tbe commanders of the Ericsson and Gush-ing are very grateful that it did not occur tothe phalanglsts to eat up all the torpedoes. Theycould have done It without an effort.

It ls only when thore ls a combination ot capi-tal In tbe nature of a conspiracy to prevent tbe work-ing of the law of oompeUtlon and butd up prloes un-natural ly thst such an aggregation of capital becomeInimical to pubUo Interests. LtwUton Journal.

Thl appears to be common sense, and musttherefore be rejected when the attempt to applyit to trusts 1 made. Combinations to put pricesdown are Just a wicked and injurious from thepoint of view of tho trust smashers aa combina-tlon- s

to put prices up. As the majority of theSupreme Court holds, the power to put downimplies the power to put up. The essentialtheory ot the harpooners of the octopus is thattrusts aro necessarily and lnovltably deceitfulabove all thing and desperately wicked. Infact, cheapening goods is supposed to be one ofthe worst of tho trust crimes. What right havethe trusts to make things cheap I

Xfblle til Doclor Went to Bo Married aa or-no-

Paid Ul rine.iVom tht Denv4r Timtt.

Colorado Srnihos, June 15. A prominentth) slcian. Dr. GUdea, was arrested this morn-ing for leaving his horses on the streot withouthitching t hem. When taken to court the J udcoordered (tho doctor to appoar at 0 o'clock to-morrow niornln.r to plead to the charge. Turn-ing to the City Marshal tho doctor said:" I can't bo hero to morrow."" Why not I" asked the Marshal." Because 1 am to be married and amgoing away." was the reply." All right." said tho Marshal. 'Til appearfor you and plead guilty

"Very well," said the doctor; "you do thatand pay my tine. Bond the blU to my office andI win pay It on my return."The Marshal assented and the doctor loft thecourt room greatly relieved.

Veil on Ilia Vt'roas; End.TYom tht Stonrot AdvtrtUtr,

On Monday nftornoon Mr. H. T. Shaw, thoeflltlont ciiBhier of the Bunk of Madison, waIilniiluir along on hi wheel whon suddenlyturning Hunter & Brooks's cornor he collldodwith a ema 1 negro girl, knocking her down andthrowing himself from his wheel. In the good-ness-

his heart Mr. Hlinw picked Ilia child untook hor Into a drug store, and callod for l)rl0ll". The doctor wu out, and Mr. Shawsent Dr. Stono. As tho mes-cng- startedotr tho wann-hoarto- uishlcr looV-o- down thostreet and saw that hla victim had escaped andwas tripping along as thliiper i.s you ploase.more nuxlous to get homo than to see u doctorwhose attentions wero entirely unnecessary, astho hud filitu on hor head.

Tli Most rtogular Sunday tebosl Puall BAmerica,

from tht Ilnlttmori Amtrtoan.nlSif? EmmaCorbetof Carlisle. Pa., won for theMission ho credit of huUng tbo mostregular scholar In America, as well as winninga handsome Ulblo Worth Tho prize

,e1rby Ab0. C.""''", &rUl of New York!Sr.i.?ir.' c2rbt record won tho prize, havingSunday school every Sunday fortwenty-fou- r yoare.

A orty.TCo-reHn- (l Catfish Caught ta a Trap.Jrom tlnZlbtrton Tribune.

Cheap excursion from all points Jersey oomoll-date-

line to the crest Huburlmu Hay and Coney Island race meeting beginning Tuesday. Kxc. tlekitsfrom Jersey city. wins by troU-- !IS cuts byroad rrom all Annex IwaUt both routes laud at tracksatoa. Laiider'a Hand, l'ain'a nr works, Sousa'eeoaceru. Adv.

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A Stranger Who Has Commented t'rea theMain Entrance Mw Visits the Park Itseir.

To the KmTon or The BvsStr t In my lastI ha1 proccodod In my explorations of Brooklynas far as tho main cntrnnco to Prospect Park,concerning: which I wrote that It Is more Impos-

ing than tbo main entrance to Central Pork atFifth ovenuo and Fifty-nint- h street In Now York.I hnvo now been over somo portions of tho parkitself. 1 find Proapect Park loss varied, striking,and bald in Its features than Central Park, ItI in parts moro llko a lovely stretch ot a boauti-fu- l

pastoral country, with woodod sectionsadded. I did not aoc a rock in tho park.

Tho great, ironlly undulating, treo borderedmeadows aro indcod beautiful; and people walkacross them freely und without tho slightestconstraint of tnnnnor. In somo places I sawbenches on tho grass. I should lmaglno thatthe grass Is freer hero than in Control Park;certainly the people nppcnroJ to more upon Itwith a freodom born of familiar occupation. Inthis portion of tho park I saw no statues what-ever, and this was something to bo grateful for,because, whatever tholr merits might be, theycould not do otherwise then mar the slmplobetuty of this perfect eceno. In other and moreartificial, or, rather, artificially Improved partsof tbe park, thero are, howovcr, statues.

Prospect Pnrk embraces an area of somethingmoro thun 500 acres, being about three-fourth- s

the area Included in tho limits of Central Park.Ithasoxpauscsot water, lakes and pools, andthore are the park bridges and steps and so on,as thoy may be required; but In architecturalImprovement and adornment, excepting as totho main entrance. Prospect Park Is far lesselaborate than Central Park. It ls ot a milderbeauty, and It ls left more as nature mado It.

While Central Park 1 of considerablygroatcr area, yet Its shapo ls such, being longand comparatively narrow, that ono may veryllko ly, if be look, see the buildings outside; dis-tant, hut there. In Prospect Park, however,there are noble spaces where one may see onlythe meadows, tho distant treos,and the overarching sky; a beautiful country.

Following the people, 1 came to w hero the bandwas playing. Here 1 found tho arrangemsntsadmirable. There are in Prospect Park a num-ber ot flower gardens. In front of the largest oftheso gardons there It alovel space, upon which,with aisles between the lections, thero aro ar-ranged, with tho general outline of a great fan,seats for I should say 5,000 people. The spaceupon which these seats are plaoed la sparselywooded; the troe trunks interfore but llttlo withsight or sound; the overarching branches andfoliage ot the trees afford ample pro-tection from tho sun. At tho front,upon which tho sections of this d

mass of seats converge, there is a promo-nod-skirting a bight of the lake, upon whoso

shoro theso soats are situated; there are alsobrood spaces on elthor side of the mass ofsoats. In tho lake, at tho mouth of tho nightupon which tho seats front, 1 a llttlo Island,and upon this Island the band stand ls placed, astructure In the simplest possible form, itsback curving forward to form a sounding board.At one side of tho promenade running around Infront of the seats there ls a lawn space set apartfor bicyclists.

It was on a Sunday that I visited tht park.The seats on the shoro of the lako were filledwith listeners and tho adjacent promenadeswere thronged. Bicycles were strewn upon thegrass in the space reserved for them, and thebicyclists themselves sat or rocllned In variousattitudes. Upon the lako two men among themany rowing there had grounded the bow oftheir boat upon the little island on which theband stand Is placed, and wero resting to listento the music. The whole made a scene that waspicturesque and attractive to a high degree.

Prospect Park ls a noble and beautiful park.I suppose that Brooklyn must bo very proud ofit,ns It has certainly ample reason to be, andI should say that the Manhattan Islander, who,satisfied with hi own, has never seen ProspectPark, could scarcely spend a day to better ad-vantage than by visiting it.

New Zealakdeb.

biotcze coAsrnro.Parttcalar Dlreetleaa a t It try sua Expert-no-4

Wheeler.To m Esrroa or Tax BvnSIr: Tour editorial of

the 17th. "Coasting Bleyole Instructor." Is senitbland to the point. Aa a rider of ten years' experienceallow me to add a tew pointer on braking that maysave a brokrn Umb or two.

First, a rear brake u ot little or no uses to test thisstatement clog your rear wheel and see how easilyyou can pull your bicycle along try tho same experi-ment with the front wheel and yon willseed no one to tell yon where the brakeshould be applied. A brake Is absolutelynecessary for safe city riding. One of the keenest

nti of cycling is coasting, and the greatest ele-ment of dangvr la removed If you know that you canstop your wheel when you see danger looming up Inthe course ot your Dying trip down a hill. You canstop your wheel anywhere on a hill by brakingwltb your foot. Ton can learn this In half an hour,and knowing how few of the thousands of riders usethe foot aa a brake has prompted me to make thlacommunication.

After you have learned to coast aeleot a hill with aneasy drecent: when started nloely, with your feet onthe coasters, slowly draw haefc your right root, keep-ing a Arm hold of the handles, your left foot on thecoaiter. and your wheel steady. Keep your ey, aahead, only glancing at your right foot to see that ItIs not low enougn to get Into the spokes, turntho toe of your shoe to the left, feeling yourway under the backbone and back of theforksi don't pres your foot down until you aresure your toe U acroea both forks, then presi downgently at nrit. Increasing the prruura until you bringjour wheel to a full stop Repeat this untU you havofull control of your wheel and can snub or stop It atyour pleasure, taking care, however, not to holdyourtoot so straight with the wheel as to have your toedrawn In between the forkt. and thus Jam your wheelsuddenly and throw you If easier, use your left footIn place of the right aa the brake.

I weigh ICO pounds, and have stopped awheel on a hill so steep using my foot aa a brake-t- hat

back pedalling and brake combined did not pre-viously stop. A rubber sole on your ahoe ls more ef-fective than leather. A. W. IUtwood.lmoon.iv, June ID.

Bicycle Brake.TomiEDiToaovTiriStnt sir: I have read with a

good deal ot Interest and aatlaf action your article InSen respecting bicycle coasting and the us of

tbe brake. You say:"If a person It able to wheel at all, power to oon-

trol his machine certainly dependa on his ability tostop quickly. And the brake enables him to do so."

Thlils absolutely true, although the average bicy-cle Instructor, dealer or agent will say otherwise ifquestioned on tbe subject. The cycle trade every-where discourage th use ot brakes, and for a purelybusiness reason. It probably ooeta a dollar to equipa bicycle with a reliable brake. Hupposlnj; the an-nual output of a manufacturer to be BO.000 machines,the brake Item alone would tik. s.n nnn ,M t.71,ju,uuu mm nisI.Uw..v cyclist demanded this accessory, which,from the standpoint of the thoroughly practical rider!ls absolutely necessary. The riding pubUo has beensystematically tauvht to believe that tht brake U anappliance nt only for women or effeminate men YetI tblnk It could be easily proven thst fully 75 perrent, of all cycling aoildenu would be avoided If allwheels were nttnfnlih brakis. Evidently the mat-"- r

i uf. ,unli:1:nt Importance to nier.t tboconsideration of law makers. The stock argu-mrnt- sof the dealer and subsidised Instructoraro that th brake Is In th way, and that It Inlure the tire. This It arrant nonsense. Th brake IsIn the way of nothing. If usrd constantly when un-necessary It would very likely spoil the front tire intime, but It U rarely that tbe competent rider findsneceuary to use It. He reserves his brake for

writer had ridden constantlysince 18So and provided himself with anew bicycleFor one year he tried the exerlmeniot goingbraketess, and round thai the extra watchfulness re-quired, the Inability to ooatt. and tbe general lack ofthat feeling of security wbloh goes with the con-sciousness of being able to atop Instantly at any time,took away much ot tbe pleasure of riding. It Is aract that riders who have once accustomed them-selves to the use or the brake are never known toTb ?li0Titl I "beelmen who ridwithout brakes are who began without them. Inthe belief that they were unsightly, oumbersomeandof no practical use. Ilinim

Hew Yoaic, June 18.

Beet Sugar.To rns Enrroa o Tub Bok lln The question of

producing sugar profitably from bests In the UnitedStates ls lately again agitated, and while rearing verymuch from what I hava aeon In print that It mightcom to a disastrous craxo, Ilka th sorghum eras, Ihave hesitated about writing to Tat Bos or to you.The recent publication in Tin Suv of a ststemrnt thatsixty to eighty tons of beets can be grown upon anacre of laud- -a perfectly rldUulous statement-Indu- cesme tn call your attention to the translation ofthe agricultural part of I,oult WalkboiT'a work,trlni.i ,u tho volume or Transactions of thoStat Agricultural Society for 1H71." Walkhoffglvos ths jroduct or UwU per l'russlan niorgon.(moreen, s, or , ,) , oermauy 120 tojbo centners, and In Iruuce ns rrom ISO to SHOcentners. Taking 880 centners, the hlgbeat. It Is 8 'J 4 1short tons erncre. It may bo urged that high ma-nuring may greatly Ininas-- the rirndMot. but hlkhmsnurlnir, only with nitrogenous manures,such ax frm urd manure ami guano, spoils the bootsfor sugar iiuUngfeje WalklioiT).

In my own glowing nr suar lieetsror stock ft eillng,under favnriilne conditions, I round Uini Imtliel.HB.uuu pounds a larjo average per aorc Hat I wouldrefer you to lr. James u. Bbeldon. whom I ptvsunieyou Lnnvt.who, when he had his grand herd ofshorthorn cattli, pcrtlsteutly grew for them sugarbeets, tn preferi'ime to any oilier roots

I'.eosi refer alio to Prof, t. A. tloessniaa'i1 report onexperiments In the i ultlvallon of tl e tugur beet rootIn th btatu of New Vork (Now York AgriculturalSociety, ibli ), Very respectfully,

T. 8. IUrisov.P. B The history nf tbe Mutne beet sugar menu-ractor- y

Is quite Interesting There the inanulac-turer- sround that they could not afford to pay tho

farmers $1 per ton for tbo beets delivered at the fac-tory, an I the farmi-r- s found that they ould not growthe beet profitably at that price, so that enterprisefailed. liEris.MoBLsr,N.Y.,Junell.

xns Bitmsn ojioax j.v jvEir rojig IA Cerretnendent Ash Some Questions Abosi, I.rwinner Defhmer or America. I

To Tim KutTOit OF Thk Su.v Sir: Onnjon 1inform mo whether any of tho responsible ed? Ktorlai writers of tho Evening Pout aro Amen sV

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'cans or not I Is it oditod hero, anyhow, or d"Its editorial utterances como from lionfloMTake that paper of y, for oxamplo. ltd!rides tho policy of our Government, the pposes and acts of tho President, tho good faithand honor of the Secretary of State and of thsChairman of tho Commlttoo on Foreign Affair.not from a decent partisan point of view, butfrom a strictly British point of rlow. Whit Utho Evening Pott after t Is it getting ready tastart a movement to mako tho Amorican peon).and tholr Govornmontto tho English tattab.bringing nbout tho return of the revolted s

to their old British allegiance as a flttlngIncident In this year ot Jubilee! Perhaps tierare soreral kinds of Americans, and perhtpithere is a kind that enjoys the Eventno p0ltiIf any considerable number of specimens of thatspociesbave settled here it shows a radical

in the laws governing immigration. Thskind of Americanism which belongs to thoti 1who aro descendants of the men who ha1 a partin the battles of the Revolution or tho civil warseems to be peculiarly obnoxious to that paper.

The comments of the i'ost on tho approachingboat raco are characteristically cockney. .ShouldHarvard loso tho raco It Is evldont that no on.will bo to blame except tho poor devils in thsHarvard boat, Thl make it doubly Importantto tho Harvard oarsmen. Harvard, you see hasan English coach. He, of oourso, knows morsabout racing than Bob Cook orany other Ame-rican could possibly know. Tho Hartard coachls not only English, but ho ls "a litterateur ofsome mark." Ill J flrst name Is Robert, hut It inot told by tho Evening Pott that he ls com.monly known as ' Bob." Tho point Is obvlont.It desires Harvard to win the race, so that tha'rcoach may bo the hero of the hour. I, too. honsHarvard will win. If she has tho best trow andbest stroke nnd best luck, and not otherwise.

American college man will agree to thstam willing the .Harvard tralnor should havs"fair play and half tbo road." I don't wantHarvard to lose because she has an Englishcoach. It she does lose, sho will feel bad enough.anyhow,

Has the cockney Pott made an arrangementwith Tammany Hull to destroy all chance of

success in the Greater Now York thlifall I Does it want a return to Democratic rule IHow are English Interests involved In this I Ilive In the woods, and I never heard of " Secr-etary Clark" or " Chairman Reynolds." Who artthoy, anyhow f Are they running for someoffice ! What divine flatulency do theypossesjwhich enables them to speak for tho people ofNew orkn bo desire good government! I'pinHU Lawrence county we havo heard of John rlSbeehan and tbe long-haire- d nnd InexhaustibleSulzer. We have anlmpression almost amoun-ting to an ldoa of Thomas C. Piatt and L.E.Qulgg. But who are Clark and Reynolds I IsJt possible that they ore representatives of thattype of human buzzard known as the Mugwump II assume tbat they nro superior beings whohave condescended for once to point the w ay forreform. They evidently know all about whatthe people want, and, like tbe Presbyterian mini-ster's child ot six brief summers, "know thewhole plan ot salvation." Why ls theA'wniMPott ao anxious that the Republican organiza-tion shall not be consulted about a candidate forMayor! If the odltor does not actually hareMb office in Snow Hill or tbe Strand, he nonknow that a great many Republicans look upontbe refusal to consult their trusted loaders as aninsult to the whole party, and. being only humanbeings and not demi-god- s or Encllfhmm, theyresent the insult- - Enwur A, Mkiuutt, Jr.

New Yonc June 19.

How at Coleay ef Use Bellamy Type TTerkt.To Tim EDrrott or Titb Suit Sir: Certala

tatcments have been made of late by John K.Rodgers. signing himself as Governor of Wazhlngton, to the effect that the y co-

lony will find a Joyous welcome in WashingtonState. Ho celebrates the resources of that lustyyoung giant of the Pociflo Northwest, " poin-ting with pride" to her dormant resources, herunrivalled position for foreign commerce, as anunusual field for the enterprise of man. Thlimay all be true. la an unguarded moment thspeople of Washington State, groaning underthe yoke of unusual times, made the fatal ex-

periment of Populism, but now, from all re-ports, the majorit of that people, with return-ing prosperity, aro admitting with chagrin tadsorrow that lc was a grievous mistake.

If this pretentious Governor would only studythe history of h's own State with some care, hiwonld remember an experiment of a llelliartype attempted at Port Atureles; a striUn;,Tsimilar undertaklc. It was during anotherhard-time- s period, in 1885 or 1880. that a lot offool beads banded themselves together, somawith their little all, some with nothing, and afew with considerable, hoping to enrich them-selves at the expense of the many. It was afailure as a cooperative colony, for the very sin-pl- o

reason tbat all would not cooperate. SomeJoined tbe colony with lofty ideals which thtrwere really anxious to put in practice. Otherswere wholly mercenary and looked upon thesincere idealists as gulls to be gulled, and thrvproceeded to work tbe Held for all there was Init. It became a gathering place for everycracked and hare-braine- d achemer who haifailed to come up to the moral and commercialstandard ot his age. and had some brand newplan for revolutionizing old and tried methods,which he was certain would work, for the rea-son that it had never been tried, and. moreore-- ,offered him as auj Individual a means of livingwithout work, and very often of gratifying hisbaser instincts. Tbe place became so morallyrotten tbat the more bad to getout with their families. It ls onl a step from acommunity ot industrial interests to a comm-unity of wives. And when one restraint and saf-eguard, whi'h is the result of human experience,is removed, it ls hard to keep the others fromfollowing. Fred W. Morris.

New Yokk, June 10.H

rerelga Xetea of Beat latere. ,

Grand Dnohess Victoria Hell' of Betie Darts- - 1

stadt, whs ta a daughter of rrtnc Alfred of tag 1

land, recently fled from her husband and eouiln,th Grand Duke, who Is a son of th late PrincessAlice, aad took refuge with her sister, the CrevsPrincess of Itoumanla, at Bucharest, but was In-

duced to return to her husbaad br the Interventionot her family. Though the Grand Dueheu ItsOuelph, brought up at the British court, the reatotgiven for her escapade Is that Darmstadt Is toedeadly dreary for her.

Since 1707 there have been 1,100 thsatrsnrsiwith 10.000 fatalities, according to 11 r. Bschi s

'Tire and Publlo Entertainment," just publlibsd.Ot the 408 took place In the United Statu 13V la

Oreat Britain, aad 101 tn Oermany, France nartmnearly the aame number. London has nal itlr.yAve fires and Paris twenty-eigh- t. Out of 343 tftrtret destroyed by flr,'.on half were burned withinten year alter they wer. constructed, forty ettnsm within th flrst year.

An Interesting feature of the yachting exhlblUeanow being held In London, is th set of cups wonby th old Arrow.whlch competed with the Americatn 1H01 for the Queen's Cup aud It probably thsoldest British yacht In commission, being originallybuilt In 18ta. It has been practically rebnlliera! times without losing Its Identity. Among theprizes are a later Queen's Cup, the first and lastcups glrsn by th Prince Contort, and (he first ont(Ivan by th Prlnoe of Wales.

An Italian actress named xtarlanl tnowed;anquality or pluck recently at the Teatr

del Vail at Rome. A three act farce by it. Saba-tir-

Lopes waa being performed for the first time.In which th principal femal part was taken byher understudy. Urns. Marlanl being HU Th audi-nc- a

biased from the start, and th undtrstuayfainted at th end of It.e flrst few sosnea, when

Mm. Uarlanl took up her part and kept It te thtnd, amid th howls of the spectators.

Paris, afier rsglog Impotently boaus th City

Council hat allowed street railroads to cross Itsavenue des Champs Elysees, Is now horrified at ths

plan piopoted for the temporary quarters to teused for the two Salons till th txhlbltlon buildlogs are completed. One story bulldlags are to hs

reeled around the little gardens In the Louvre,

that extend from th Gambatta monument to thsgalleries of Egyptian antlqultlar. Th sheds willbe let for other show when not used for the picturn exhibitions.

A play whose heroin I Aims Desclse, thsI'rrmh actress, written by an Italian aulhoreM,Oemtna Fsrrugla, and recently prouueed at theTealro Htnzonl In Ullan, has aroused much unfavorable comment, as persons; only recently leador still living are presented on tbe stage. Tl'.s

lover, though his name Is chaoeed, Is plslol) P"uda Itentls, now Italian Ambassador at Maitllwhile Alexandre bumas Ills, tn whoso plaisf"clee made her last appearances In Paris, Is rrp"sented under hta own name.

M, Bertbelot, the chemist, who wat foreign Xln

liter la I. Bourgeois's Government, reports t" '"Academic dt Sciences that the copper ot r "found at Kegedah aud Abydos In Fgjpt by M "Morgan are of pure topper and not of tiruirAmong them are an axehead, n curiously ! !"'pair of scissors, aud some needles. The lim'il ll0J

found on the tombs are so old that the liar n"'yet been declpnered and are believed to date fretstne Hrst Dynatty or earlier, tl, Bertnrlot tldntsthat th rtdnc fr a copper age it ooncluslr.

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