| Show i = = d = ontemporarj Cbbi j HALTSSTILL ITS WIT LAW Townsend London corre B ° S2 Sic Philadelphia Record o nd that ° Snlble for the statement responsive to whom the King oft Mra Brllaln Hartman has recently given a rest Greai Briton morganatic wjfo of the U err cC ppnrent is to the throne the Duke bft rnwaUand York The story has of cornwnll hinted at before but not so posl wel n with apparently confirm nnd not UTCS a It is to the effect that the iHs I g de who was a daughter of an Eng man faith the in married dmIraI morrled good Caih sh Jlmlral at Valla when his elder King tre was still living When Prince Hvlng t otMr dted sUI marriage of the heir Clarence nirefll to Princess May wfls deter apparent policy though adds slate lned on M a polcy had 2 Townsend 1C i the Duke had ir r rnuraU to remain true to his legal courage lb then had borne him two who even Sdrcn ould have been the most he havp Cft11tIren weak chidren man In England He was KSS to consent however to regard usb to the daughter of the Ad I mirrlage K morganatic though when It S m IraJ contracted as there was no under SldSS that It I was to be of that kind ftandlng form of marriage through a jfll i in hf of Cornwall Sfh the present Duchess Corwal Ilh York Mr Townsend vouches for the truth of the following dinner at a well known political A i the eve ot wel marriage of the nn lIe club W of cSrnw all to Princess May the Duke Oxford who was to assist nt of Kcrtmonv as was also a Was n present ft iho cerem ° London The lat to onaSc ondol merchant In JPIJonirc In circulation rcferrcd lo nJrnora then circulaton rmnOI trr carcd iidlrmed tFr morganatic marriage nml l1lrrmccl of th thorough disbelief In i He final hiS dS rnnllongcil the bl hop to deny I directly but the bishop mcroly l shrugged his I houlders nd said bulders nn affair of state Thr IIils merchant sprmg to his feet say Inl riils sir is how you Interpret the law l to conform to the law Bospel ml lie ospl and of the fond He loft I the tom al once The correspondents revelations make curious reading In connection with the sSemcnt recently cabled from Lon cfoo that the women of England are on the bill to permit a man to = cd to prmit 0pposed bi marry his deceased wifes slsLcr n they consIder It would be destructive of the I Scwoik of civilisation Now if it Is rmcwOk true that the heir apparent to the throne te has two living wives one mor thrne leflhandcd and the other anallc or lefhanded the future Queen of Great Britain It Is to be said that so long as this degradIng de-gradIng situation is tolerated and legal ised for Ihe sake of royalty it does not Fcem thai the country that approves of It has so much to lose of civilization by the passing s of the deceased wifes sister i bill In the Commons and thc Lords r When kings were the only source of law I they were of course above being included In its limitations and opera tions which could be suspended in their favor But In these days of wellde fmeJ limits on kingly power It is not to the credit of any people that they permit the keeping alive of a custom which deserves no milder name when L Indulged in by royalty than It does I when Us like is embraced by the commoner com-moner to the breaking of both the r ron divIne and the civil law Detroit Jour t M TOO MUCH OP A PARAGON Women are proverbially careless A itet t discussing domestic matters In V 4 j pSflc Two of them were seated In a CAistnut street car yesterday morning talking about the probabilities o a marriage between two of their friends Ore said He Is a fine man and a good I min Oh yes replied the other but he doesnt go to the theater he l dotsnt dance nor smoke nor drink hal would she do with n man like tIM He doesnt eat meat or drink coffee cither chimed In the first speaker I should be afraid he wouldnt be cheerful Of course it doesn seem lend to criticise a man for his virtues said the conservative oman o-man but then it Is n risk to marry 0 man who Is not in touch with his generation gen-eration lWtu l be n strain to Jive up to hB nUftaitd Well tm tone not the t-one that wans to many him Nor nm 1 Just then the conductor called L jut t Fifteenth street and they got off I without once mentioning the I name of this paragon to thp grcatrcRret of sev r crnl other women who had been I tested r t-ested listeners l don t believe there ever was such i a man commented one gt cGmmentec i elderly matron the others shook their heads gravely ns though they too had I their doubts Philadelphia JI Record I d NEXT t When Agulnaldo was captured Agon clllo promptly announced that San Hc 0 would succeed him and thus Free 0Ei doms battle once begun bequeathed frOrnwehlif we were minded to nick name the objects of disfavor as some of our urbane and dignified friends do wo might say irom Aggie lo Sandy And then the Wm bobbed up ihe awful dlsll I I lufloner Ihat Sandico f hud surrendered tefore Agulnaldo was captured fndered e CPtus ihcaTagal hopes chlelly In this i cgun I try have cenlered upon Alejandrino as I lejanBdrJno the successor te Agulnaldo But now Ihat conditionally doughty Insurgent I Really it surrenders begins to look un k a though Messrs Atkinson Wins low nnde Garrison and Crosby will have to pull tve GtrawB to decide I which of them shall take the the place of the lost leader 1 hlil n parlance of the day it is themNcv eT up to York Tribune t l I I FLORS i I 1 r T Not Jk < ou av then They are wlh I L I erlns n But 3f f p rce eOlelhl ng lingers oC remembered Atd A 1ouch a tonfxtho t beauty ot your YOUrb v Hs 1 locks clustering oer I I Fore cc oavcn etrW tis something In this world rJt > llnd 0 now tl lor coming from the clod I ho thCf 8 ° ne woman in this life lnwl violet Is the breath of TTT II i Who reps tare roscs from dim vales oC i I I A FJom n1 to terror ° c tho worM apart I breast the red thorn bruises her dear liitJs heart It Within the cloisters of her Jx Ix IV D Girt The I lilies the loletA nnd the lilies white > lie with their languor still and dPpl Q GIo White Jne ho dews that mako the daisies 1 GIWhltt Uvo UvoBleTp tho poppies that aro fain to 3 V bt t t GIo think Iho dreams e And lot rae rd bs I ATchcul nIQC lit the great blue or darkening from a eu HOld their no glOmIn 1 all their myBlorles s Lovej namo dtarcr than the name of I Lc I Frnk lon 1 Stanton in Atlanta ConsUtu lonWy I wily HE GOT WELL ill Jr Ca The tan with n Clear Conscience IgO on idvent ght oC a pal or tan shoes with the ulJ I b the Street spring and while going home 1 b sLreet car conJure up a mental cr tire otOrPh oC himself strolling along fou sandv strolns IOU I Randy beacii 100 hK be2ch ° C a aummbF resort ls Icdal extremities encased in r i now miLe8 j1 j ktn purchase That night he waG 1 I FOr four g PtC d days he contem tat hiij h I dow hll new ahoea with > his head on i 1 cclny tan pillow When he recovered ln Sld2 There I I Lrc Wl only one thing that wor me thinS tt rc whie J Vfta lck I couldnt those i I lln hors < out of my head d should die without having huvlnS chance to wear cm Such a I t tiflgency seemed to furnish an ad n ti anl and potent reason why I should I I getcl I just made up my mind 1 was going to live long enough to get my feet Into those shoes and well I dldNew York Mal and Express A CAUTIOUS MILLIONAIRE Mr Midas about to make will Indisposing In-disposing of my estate while I am anxious that my son should have the benefit of a goodly share of it I do not wish him to become possessed of it In bulk LawyerExcuse me for saying It but the Inference of that Instruction seems to do your son injustice He has always al-ways scomed to m0 to be a young man absolutely free from any tendency to dissipation I Mr Midas Very true but you cannot can-not tell to what channel ambition for I notoriety may lure him he may take I it into his head to become a United I States Senator Richmond Dispatch I I TEE CALLAETAN VERDICT Naturally not all the evidence In the I CallahanCudahy abduction case at Omalui was reported for newspaper i readers at this distance but the gist cf it appeared to be reflected in the I news accounts each day as the trial I progressed Now comes the intel gence that Callahan has been acquitted acquit-ted The public mind will probably find Itself more accurately attuned to the expressions of anger and disgust voiced by the presiding Judge than I the excuses recorded for the jurois I The story of the offense for alleged participation In which Callahan was I tried will not have been forgotten I was the abduction of the Cudahy boy and the blackmailing of the boys father I fa-ther I was tho most notable Instance of this sort of crime In several years I I rather because of the prominence of the persons injured and the size of the ransom patcl25000than because it was more atrocious than any other one of similar offenses The nature of the crime Is I one calcu hated to arouse widespread indignation indigna-tion for the perpetrators and sympathy I sympa-thy for the victims There have been advanced from sources not prone lo I hysteria arguments that the death pen ally Is 1 none too severe for convicted I kidnapers The belief may be accepted I accept-ed as an evidence of the deplh pf feelIng feel-Ing on the subject If as better sense prompts the suggestion Is frowned upon as of retrogressive effect In penology i pen-ology I The acquittal of Callahan will stimulate stimu-late the anger of persons whose conception con-ception of punishment for heinous crime is the imposition of tlC death I penalty For this reason the acquittal In view of the evidence thai has been reported is to be regretted t should be addpd that Callahan was positively identified by 1 young Cudahy his voice only to be sure but Callahans alibi also was apparently nullified by i the evdence of another child whom the reports represented an having let the Important evidence slip out unawares Then there Is the stern arraignment of the Jurors by the trial Judge I But the more regrettable result undoubtedly un-doubtedly will be to encourage the despicable sort of criminality Involved I looks ns though it will In the future be necessary only to prove that the I vIctim Is rich and the perpetrator of the crime a poor man to secure an acquittal I ac-quittal It Is represented that the juroYs were powerfully Influenced by I the fact that Cudahy Sr Is n millionaire I million-aire Fortunately even the worst of Jurors cannot be called more Boetlan I and cloddish than this Detroit Journal Jour-nal I 1 BROTHERHOOD That plenty but reproaches mo Which leaves my brother bare Not wholly glad my heart can bo While hlsjsbowertwllb care I i go free nnd Sound tnt1stout r < Whllo his poor fetters clank I npaled still Jlll still cry out And plead with whom J thank Y 1 i Almlphty Tlibu who Father boO i bo-O him o mo to nil Draw us together him and mo That whlchsoevc fall t I I Tho others hand may fall him not The others strength decline No task of succor that his lot May claim from son of thin I I would he fed I would bo chid i I would be housea and dry But If so be my heart be sad What benefit have II Best he whose shoulders best endure The load thnt brings relief And best shall be his Joy securo Who sharopthat Joy with grief 1 E S Martin In Scribner frl MrS lne JAPANS NEW NAVY In numbers the Japanese naval personnel per-sonnel Is Just bout equal to our own There are two Admirals five VlceAd mirals six RearAdmirals fortyfour Captains sixlyfour commanders 295 Lieutenants 203 subLieutenanls ninety midshipmen and about 23000 men Japans ambition like our own has been to built a navy of home productions I produc-tions but she did not wait until she I was able to build such a navy before 1 providing herself with any fleet at alK I She bought ships abroad and began developing her domestic resources at tho sam time She can build anything I now up to cruisers of COOO tons and the only reason she has not prepared herself to build battleships Is that it i would cost so much to Import the materials ma-terials She has an ably conducted department de-partment of naval architecture at the Imperial university of Toklo She has fifteen dry docks Government and commercial of which four can lake In th6 largest battleships and several i others are only a trifle smaller Her ship yards as far as they have goner gone-r equipped wlh the most modejrn ap pllanqes which her officers and workmen unlike the Chinese know how to make the best possible use On the whole JYipan Is at this moment mo-ment unquestionably the first naval power In the far East and while Eng land ox France could send force enough theretO overmatch her if necessary the feat would not be easy for another an-other powerFrom The Navy of Japan by Samuel E Moffetl In the American Monthly Review orReewf for May N I I AGUINALDO SEES THINGS We have been a nation 125 years lacking a little more than two months Our Stales are Joined together to establish es-tablish Justices and insure domestic domestc tranquillity For decades following our great Civil war the result of an Irrepressible conflict we bOasted Increasingly In-creasingly oil our leadership in peace over the whole world Where we sat at The Hague peace conferenece thereIn there-In our not too modest view was the head Of the council table These conditions con-ditions and others have not been without with-out effect We have drawn from the lips of Agulnaldo late an enemy these I words of tribute How terrible are the Americans They are splendid and ferocious fighters Thus the barbarism barbar-ism of tho far East bows to the civilization civi-lization of thc compelling Occident I New Yprk World CAPT CARTERS METHODS In his argument before the United States Supreme court In the Carter case SolicitorGeneral Richards thus described Carters methods r When the time came to make u payment under un-der the contract Carter who was located lo-cated at Savannah and had charge of the work on behalf the Government would give to the representative of I Greene and the aa lcprlentpthe In charge at Savannah n Government check 4ufilcient to pay for the labor I and materials which actually went into I the improvement and then he would draw Government check for the ex I I I cess of the contract price representing what gamblers would call the velvet the fruit I of the fraudulent conspiracy i and putting this in his pocket would go to New York Thcre he would meet Greene and the Gaynors Then hp division di-vision would take place Carter would be especially allowed out of the I amount 75 for traveling expenses and the balance would bo divided Into I thlrdc onethird going to Carter one i r third to Greene and onethird to the I Gaynors In this way Carter drew out I l I of the conspiracy S7U252802 and of this amount the records of stock brokern In New York shpw that he invested in stocks and bonds C9o301S5 For his traveling expenses Carter received 1575 He made twentyone trips to New York on thio mission and at the close was in excellent condition financially cially to be appointed mllllary attache to the Court of SL James No wond r thai Carter seeks to regain his liberty that he may enjoy his illgollcn gains Army and Navy r Journal WAR I i All trembling Is tho meadow All crimson la the rill The dead lie In the valley I Tho dead llo on the hill s And one side Is the victor I The other side has lost J I The women of two peoples Aro counting up the cost Edwin L Sabin In Alnslccs Magnrlne REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR A kiss on a pretty womans mouth Is worth fifty on a green billiard table We are Indebted to women for men to God for women and for purity to I little l children puriy Its a funny thing that the lower necked a womans dress is the higher her own neck comes above the top A womans Idea of an argument Is t claim that qlvlllzetl argment superior su-perior to savages because they wear corsets When one tabbycat spits at another I i Is saying how nice she looks this morning When a tomcat spits its is swearing I Even a man who would come back from the grave to let even with any I body couldnt keep up a diary to save his life s1e lfe A wise man isnt I the one Ihat knows most but he is the one that knows enough to make the other people think < I hc does I woman feels most like n martyr when shewants to cry and cant a i i man feels most like one when he has n to smile and doesnt ant to New York Press LOOKING AHEAD J f j And you are truly anxious to become be-come civilized 7 We are answered the Chinaman And what will you do when you are civilized l Oh I suppose well practice up In modern warfare and sde if we ant get even some day for the > losses we have sustained Washington Star A THREAT TO AMERICA The London Saturday Review follows thelead of the Spectator in declaring I the designs of Germany against South America but goes farther Into the de tails I asserts that Germanys naval increase Is intended for conflict with the United States to secure for the German Empire its coveted grabs of South American territory Reversing the Spectators intimation tat the United States must look to England for alliance this Journal declares that it would be absurd arid opposed to Eng lands Interest as well as contrary to good taste for her to oppose the German wish to annex American territory tr ritory How much ftf this Is for the purpose o making the United States amenable on the Nicaragua and Alaskan coast questions Is an Interesting topic But thC Is foundation for it In the earlh hunger of Germany and the haired of her mllllury aristocracy for the United States I the Saturday Reviews sen timent reflects the opinion the Sails bury Cabinet it may appear that the price paid by England for Germanys acquiescence in the Boerconquest was even greater than had been rumored The plain duty of the United States In view of thy persistence of these reports I re-ports cpncernlng thecpming attack on the integrity of the American repub lies is to knit closer the friendship with the weaker republics not on the basis of acquiring lerrltory but on the principle prin-ciple of maintaining the Independence of all American countries Plttsburg Dispatch I SOURCE OF BOER STRENGTH The Income of the Transvaal republic i for three years before the war was greater in proportion to the number of voters than that of any state in the I wbrld ancient or modern ThJs enabled en-abled the Government lo buy munl tlpns of war In unparalleled quanllliec unparalled quantJlct JSvory man able lo hold a rifle was furnished fur-nished with one o the latest pattern Land L-and a full supply Qt metallic cartridges re ardless of expense The country I was very rich in horses sheep and cat tic I is the possession of this wealth that has enabled the Boers to prolong I the war and When the last cartridge Ms exploded and the last sheep slaughtered slaugh-tered the war will Times w r wf ond Harlford THE UNEMPLOYED It would be quite true to say that the problem of the unemployed In America is l problem of the distribution distribu-tion of workers taking them from regions whore many men are looking for a Job to other regions where many jobs are looking for a mart But it i I would bo a shallow truth with little insight into thereal conclltipn Of multitudes mul-titudes Whose lifestruggle isf for n days bread and in whom the gregarious gregari-ous instinct Is an Irresistible gravitation gravita-tion I is not difficult to show that the congestion In an1 Industrial center with Its accompanying misery might bo relieved by an exodus to country I districts where an unsatisfied demand 1 for hands is chronic But the human I adjustment involved In tho change I would be beyond all calculation and even were they ef oed It would not be a llllle disturbing in the end to find j l large numbers returning to the town rrankly preferring want with companionship com-panionship and a sense of being In touch with lhclr time to the compara tie plenty and with it the loneliness and isolation o country living A part of the penally one pays for attempting to deal with elements so fascinating as those of human nature Is In their very Incalculability in the elusive charm of men who develop the host that hr in them In spite or circumstances circum-stances the most adverse and In an evaslyc quality In others who some times Cal to respond to the bestde vised plans for their betterment From With Iowa Farmers by Walter Wal-ter A Wyckoff In the May Scrlbners CHINESE I TRAITS While Chlpa is as autocratic as Is Russia she Is at the same time the most democratic country in the world This may seem a paradox but at the worst the Chinese Government Is a patriarchal despotism In the village the head man rules as a father would rule a family Lawsuits are abhorred There arc no lawyers no Jury trials Equity governs tho Judgments of tho courts I know of a case In Shanghai in which ther was a finding for the plaintiff but because his conduct had not been perfectly Just the amount as I scssed In his favor was ordered to be I paid to 0 charitable institution 1 Ia magistrate falla of his duty he is set upon by a mOb and drugged from his chair and the insignia of his olllco Inslfnlu 01co I are removed especially his ofllclal boots Tho ggds are treated In like manner They arC put ut In the sun shine in times of drought that they may see for themselves the inconve niece of the hot weather and during lalns which last too long they are lanhed l with whips as a punishment High and low are imbued with au peistitlon No two houses In Poking arc set on the same line One IH always al-ways farther back or farther forward than Its neighbor The reason for this aliocotnnl 1 < JJhat it Is believed that the J I evil splrils cannot turn a corner and I I that when they get slaved they must I continue In 0 straight line and so go i I out Into space and be lost Little clay I j t i r doSs arq placed on all the ridges of thea houses h with wideopen mouths to catch the evil spirits as they approach them i The chief funclon of thc great I almanac which Is published 1 l by the Government every year and controls Chinese action In every particular Is to name the lucky days following every act Jn life particularly for marriages A dog is supposed to be eating up the moon at the time of its eclipse and theI tmc I I population of the empire turns out beating gongs and Un pins to drive him 1 away Several years ago at Tien Tsin a wretched little water snako was caught In ihe Pelho river and the populace look it ton temple und worshipped wor-shipped It as the nter god LI Hung Chang attended and worshiped with I tho others When asked 1 he rely believed that the snake was a water god he said that whether he did or not the people did and it was best to humor them 1 After all In considering the subject I of superstition we mist remember that I It i prevails to some extent In all na j I lions In our own country people generally 1 gen-erally prefer to fee the new moon over I r their right shoulder and to have at the time some silver In their pockets l the salt Is upset some of it Is thrown I over the left shoulder to do away with the bad omen I is bad luck to pass a j funeral and Illfate also threatens If a black cat crosses your path The theater proprietor impllcllly believes that If a crosseyed man enters the house early In thc evening there will be audience that night We have a large l religious society based on faith euro and In the West ladles of this faith recently wrecked drug stores because be-cause they believed that drugs were deleterious By the Hon Charles Den by in the May Forum ROYAL DEMOCRACY I one wanted further evidence of the democratic tendencies of the Netherlands Neth-erlands court there was plenty of It at hand While the wedding guests Were arriving at the Hague the Queen and the Duke were accustomed to drive down to the station to give greetings in i person and with little formality When the Queen reviewed from the balcony of the palace an imposing procession pro-cession of trade and municipal socle lies she juggled about to keep her feet warm In the most easygong fashion oJJg and joined heartily in the laughter of the crowd below when the Duke mani croyc fested his Independence of his future motherinlaw by firmly refusing to wear the great coat perslstenely urged upon him by that excellent lady Cur lls Brown In Leslies Popular Monthly for May THE TYPICAL AMERICAN I Is then first of all because this I I Ideal of human equality of being and I I opportunity was In some form or other I always controlling I and assisting American life and thought says J D Logan in the MayAtlantic that prose Itseltthe pedestrian but free flexible and Inslrument of the ready the common man in expressing effectively his ideas on mailers of common welfare was adopted by the American citizen as his characteristic mode of utterance I Is too in Ihe second place because this same ideal expressed Itself in literature ture sanely responsibly effectively that tho distinctly American distncty prose style is Clear sane vigorous but tem peralc that its mood Is always manly The Ideal of political social and spiritual spir-itual clllzenshlp vividly realised and In splendid cheer sought after inevitably Inevit-ably created in America a prose literature liter-ature somewhat unaeslhellc In charm but still by way of its real subs tan ce and generous spirit powerful over the I heart and Imagination of the plain people And If I were asked In the Style of which of the distinctly American Ameri-can prose writers does the quality of t manliness in art most appear I should answer In the prose of Ihe one American who Is most typical of clearheaded clear-headed sane and effective aspiration In the prose of Lincoln As was Ihe man himself plain responsible human L so he spoke and wrote his Gettysburg address for example to my mind must remain the American ideal of prose style simple thought thoroughly socialized so-cialized by decent plainness and manly freedom ADVERSE TO ELIAS The title of Ellas Howe to the invention inven-tion of the sewing machine is impugned im-pugned by L contributor to the Popular Popu-lar Science Monthly who says In the list Lof names to be Inscribed In the Hal of Fame the name of Ellas Howe appears which must produce aatonloh meat in the minds of everyone who has a knowledge of him or of the his torT of the sewing machine upon which alone his claim to noloriely rests To all who are acquainted wjth the advent of that machine Howe occupies oc-cupies a very minor place Patents were granted for such machines long before Howe entered the field and he never succeeded Jn producing a practical prac-tical machine until more than one device de-vice Invented by others were added to It To place his name on the roll of fame above the host of his superiors on the records of the Patent office would bo dolnj American genius h grave Injustice that Would render the Hall of Fame absurd THE TEXAS OIL BOOM i One actual scene as described by the correspondent the Chicago Inte I Ocean will give an idea of the situation situa-tion around Beaumont He says I was walking down the street when I a man ran up to my companion and said i saidIa 13 this Mr Hart Yes sir Ill give you 1200 an acre for your t on tV P fllrT Hart The price is 1500 an acre sld Mr HarlAll HartAl right Ill be around at noon with a certified check Does this deal hold till then Ill tell you betlerat noon Anxious lo see the outcome I kept With Mr Hart and sure enough tho pospectlve buyer was on hand promptly prompt-ly at noon with a certified check for S30 000 I dont want your money said Mr Hart My lands worth 1750 an acre now and wH be higher before night My Ccl man I must have it the buyer yelled Walt here for mea me-a minute Back he came with authority from his principal to close the deal only to be told that the price had Jumped to S2000 an acres 1t acre-s almost like robbery but I cant help mysalf Here take this check on account to bind the deal before you I Jump the price again I LOCHINVARS OF FINANCE I Capel court is simply I aghast at tho activity shown by Wall street I So says the Heralds specially cabled financial article from London this I i morning and a broker whoso views are I given Is so bewildered that he becomes mixed in his metaphors and doesnt I leo whether to compare our boom to a lightning express or earthquake He clearly perceives and admits however I how-ever that London Is no longer a factor fac-tor to be considered in calculating the I future of American stocks British Investors I i in-vestors during the lost three years have sold their American securities while this country with Its marvelous merchandise mer-chandise experts has paid for them and aided by general prosperity Increased r In-creased volume of currency and still greater expanse of credit and the Im placablis optimist Imo carried prices to oven higher levels I would not be much of an ercaggerai lon to say that even Wall street Itself the Wall street of former days is ceasing to be a factor to be considered In calculating the future of American stocks Young Lochlnvars arc coming out of the West on special pxpress trains attended by bank presidents and armed with apparently unlimited credits and carrying away control of grrt corporations from the very arms of f uielr effete Eastern owners Wall street like the brides father in the poem challenges In aln the Impetuous Im-petuous l newcomers I mutters words 0 caution and contracts credits but the Western men scoff al cautions men scof a cautons opeh up their strong boxes and cry On with the danceancl as it proceeds Wall l street l beginning to forget fts rears and Is reentering the giddy whirl HoweVer it may end thin movement I has revealed the fact that US London has ceased to wield the financial scepter over New York so In like manner has New York ceased to wield It over the interior i < ovei Afler n long period of stagnatiOn and contraction the country has In five y chn plunged forward a generation a lerton The expansion of industries and the ac cumulation of wealth Is something stu pendous Bankers 1600 miles from the Atlantic seaboard are lending money on call In Val street and commission brokers get orders to buy an mllslon I blocks of securities to investors in towns they never heard of Westward I I the course of financial empire has ta ken Its way with a vengeance The In flation of values and expansion of credits have been enormous Every thoughtful person recognizes the danger dan-ger of a scare In such a situation but the optimistic throng cries There isnt a cloud in the sky and scoffs at all warnings and the end Is not In sight sight New York Herald RUSSIAS ADVANCE ON INDIA IrJohn Kimberly Mumford has written in the May Worlds Work an authoritative and interesting account of Russian political methods particu larly ll l as shown by the gradual assim ilation l of Persia and the struggle for Manchuria Striking pictures illustrate the text and a map shows Russias rapid encircling of India Peacefully says Mr Mumford blandly but relentlessly and with the t Blbllcan wisdom of the serpent by skillful utilization of the native clements cle-ments as well as by the Introduction I of new forces a Russian leaven Is he ing distributed throughout the entire Persian loaf The murmuring of the vanquished In the countries the Russian Rus-sian has overcome Is never wholly wholy stilled the prophecy of revolt Is con tinuous but the Cossack is u sedative of wondrous rous efficacy The Russian knowe the peoples he holds sway over He conciliates native agencies at every step He assures men of the friendship friend-ship of Russia He annihilates memories memo-ries he weans peoples from regrets He plays upon their vanity until It Is transmuted Into loyalty he grafts upon his already conglomerate speech some thing of the language of the conquered and the next generation speaks with the tongue of Mosco In brief he finds a barbarism and moving leaves a Russian That is what he will ultimately ulti-mately do In nil of Persia The Russian believes in his mission That he aspires pires to the possession of nil Asia there seems no longer any room for doubt There are great obstacles in his path he removes them He has one way In Manchuria another in Iran But he Is building warships as fast as he Is ta king up land in Asia He anchors them now In Port Arthur next in Bushlre and Bender Abbas How soon will the searchlights of his cruisers sweep tho harbors of Calcutta and Bombay A RIVER SHIP CHANNEL A steamship having left Chicago for Europe by way of the lakes and the St Lawrence river a Chicago paper remarks that there should be another shipchannel to the Atlantic by canal connecting with the Mississippi That such v route will be opened before many decades roll by may be regarded as certain Sometimes It is argued that the difficulties in deepening the Mississippi Missis-sippi to the sea are too great to be overcome Engineers do not talk in tale that strain The English are radically Improving the Nile by dams and the removal re-moval of obstructions They have recently re-cently cut channels through the sudd or floating vegetation that obstructs the Upper Nile forcing i down stream for a distance of 250 miles An open channel from 100 to 400 feet wide and 20 feet deep Is the result along that stretch and the time required for the transportation of supplies has been re duced from twelve months to six weeks A shipchannel In the Mississippi Is merely a matter o money In a reasonable reason-able amount nmount Engineering science will do the restSL Louis GlobeDemocrat SNUFFED HIM OUT As I was telling my friend the doc tor said the young man we must always remember in discussing these theories of life after death that our world Is but a small speck in the universe uni-verse What right have we to suppose that Godif there is a Godhas picked this Insignificant little planet out of the many millions of them that are rolling through space and peopled It with Immortal beings I we could know positively that no other planet was inhabited then we might Indeed Excuse me Interrupted the young womans grandmother who is rather hard of hearing did you say there was a woman in tho caseChicngo RecordHerald ADVICE TO A STUMPER Congressman Eddy of Minnesota relates this story of how one of his constituents got the better of him and curbed his youthful vanity In making ma-king the campaign In my district one 1 year I took along as an attraction a veteran of the war of 1812 and of the Civil war who was a famous hand at beating the drum Onc night after the Captains drum had given the usual T 1 UVU1LUIAT JL VJUJIIIllUIJUCU Illy ffJJttUUJl IU the populace which had been lured to the scene by his drum I noticed at the foot of the rostrum a brighteyed little fellow about 12 years old who sat through the speech following me with great attention I pleased me very much I spoke to the little fellow and I asked him how he liked my speech Oh I it will do he said but 1 I was you 1 I would keep the Captain adrummln1 all the time1 I RAINSFORD REGRETS Dr Ralnsford a New York clergyman clergy-man of great position has expressed regret that In 0 hasty moment ho should have characterized the remark I i of a fellowmember of the cloth ai damned rot Dr Balnsford Is not specific a to whether he Is sorry for Having used the questionable adjective the questionable substantive or the whole questionable phrase Much is said and written in these hasty days us well by ministers of the gospel a by others to which the word rot may fairly be applied As to the use of the word damned opinions will continue to differ as to whether standing by Itself It be profane or merely vulgar But we have the authority au-thority of a noted author for stating that the word damned In the mouth of an officer of the navy Is shocking at the very least We might go 0 step further and add in support of Dr Ralnsford that in their hasty assertions upon many subjects sub-jects men of the cloth frequently utter what may be considered among tho Blankest rot that was ever written or J rotten or spoken The word blankest l Is a feeble substitute for Dr Rains fords excellent and effectivE term butCh but-Ch reader may fill the blank to null himself Philadelphia Times Following Is Dr Ralnsfordo card of regret St Georges Rectory April 28 l01 To the ditor of the New York T imcsA day or two ago under the I Influence i of Strong feeling In n public addiess I spake unadvisedly with my I lips I wish lp say as publicly that T regret W S RAIXSFOKD THAT CONTINENTAL UNION Gloomy reports of a continental union against American products and American Ideas are quite offset by tho news of an orgahlxation in England of an AngloAmerican society the At antic l union the aim of which is by mutual entertaining to make the personal per-sonal domestic life and Ideas and points of view of each country known to the other whey would love I us if they knew nt might serve as the motto of thp English branch They shall know us by Jove they shall as Its war tIT Henceforth It will ho Impossible 101tbe accredited American to wan der lonely us a cloud past cathedral and Htorary shrine Members of com mitleeB will fathom his nationality and honorable cePlesl cnt will insist on detaining him at their country places from Friday to Monday The hurried or the retiring pilgrim will be driven to the Tyrolese hat with n cocks foather the highheeled shoo or other mark ot the continental tourist I the plan really assumes a businesslike form we may expect to hear of two day coupons for the stately homes of England being Issued gratuitously by Cook and Gaze to Americans only A better understanding between England and American Is desired by all sensi t al ble people but there Is measure even measuIe in I friendliness friendlness Welcome ore to an American landing at Liverpool or Southampton could hardly have other than the melodramatic ring New York Evening Post SOUND WORDS OF A JUDGE Judge Russell of Brooklyn has estab lished h u noteworthy precedent Jra libel suit brought ugtllnst the New York World The plaintiff whom the newspaper news-paper described as a burglar confessed that he had a baser purpose in entering a young girls room Nevertheless he had the effrontery to seek compensa ton al law for the dannge alleged to have been done to lilt reputation by being published as a thief Although the Jury awarded the crim inal i nominal damages Judge Russelli 1 set aside the verdict and directed a new trial The law he said would not al low a profit from the results of wlck edneiiH This was his reasoning What is tho Injury bv libel l T < c tho I actual wrong to character of the manor man-or the lowering of a faldercpulatlon oW rlns of u fnl e1eputaton for honor and good conduct The character 1ft what the man is the reputation what ho is supposed to be For defamation I compensation goes to equalize the dU minutlon of reputation below the real worth of the character And when It appears that the actual offense Is greater ir culpability ethically and I legally than he one to which an Incor rect name was given substantial com pensntlon for the mistake Jn publlQa ton would award a profit fora sup posed but false reputation Instead of L adequate restoration for a loss This Is most excellent common sense It contravenes long line of decisions In England and United States courts I which Were based on the principle that the exact truth must be proved in justi fication but f conforms to reason and I meels all the highest requlremento of Justice i Philadelphia North American c I I II I FREAK SPELLING I Is to be hoped that local school boards will take note of the fact that the freakish spelling reformers have gained control of the Northern Illinois Teachers a association which IlInois Just decided in favor of adopting the crazy crz spelling of certain words which was recommended not long ago by the Na tional Education association Phonetics Jn spelling soon lead to barbarisms In pronunciation Most of the people who have adopted the slovenly program nor pronounce the word as if spelled progrum If the school authorllles do not take the trouble to head off this folly the public schoolK will become the active disseminators of an unauthorlta tlve system of spelling which will make the works of tire late lamented Josh Billings look like classics Chicago Chronicle MY HERO f O my hero my hero No banners proudly fly From windows hlch above the street As you go trudging by No medal gleams upon your breast Men raise nor shout nor song No eager women line the vny There arc no martial airs to play As you press through the throng No happy father brings his son T6 press you by the hand And raw men when your work Is done Will call you great or grand No splendid roster bears your name You noer have proudly passed With martini trend to bravely share The dangers that arc present where The hordes of hate aic massed O my hero my hero Your lace Is worn and wan And from your weary wasted arms The strength Is nearly gone But still for helpless ones you toil Unflinching day by day Amid time deadly fumes that rise To lure tile luster from your eyes And cat your life away Aye cheer for him who proudly comes Ylttorlou3 from the fray < f And lot tire trumpets and the drums1 In thrlllhic measures play On my herO s sunken breast No medalhangs his tread Is slow and painful but 1 see A halo gleaming vividly Above his drooping hcad < S E Klucr in Leslies Weekly THE PARTITION OF AFRICA The London Times announces that under the Uvp agreements concluded by Lord Salisbury with the French Government Gov-ernment 1S9S and 1S99 the more recent agreement with Germany and an agreement yet unpublished between I France and Spain the parllllon of the Ing remaining but boundary delimitation delimita-tion Any statement of ownership protectorate protec-torate or Sphere of influence in Africa must be more or less approximate but Iho Times presents figures which It believes be-lieves to be nearly correct The tolal area of Africa In round numbers is eleven and a half million square miles In the appropriation of territory Franco leadn h having 1801971 square miles Great Britain comes second with 2713 010 and Germany third with 933350 which Is doing well since It wail late In Joining In the scramble The remainder of the territory Is divided as follows Italy i8S500 square miles Portugal 700121 Spain 109150 Turkey 395900 Egypt 1010000 while the separate States Abyssinia Morocco Liberia and Kongo Free State represent the remaining remain-ing i lIOIOOO France easily leads in the race so far as superficial area Is concerned the Sahara region swelling its total but 1C Egypt nnd the AngloEgyptian Soudan were absolutely English Great Britain would closely crowd France In area As It is so far aa political und trade influence influ-ence Is concerned Great Britain leads in Africa in spite of the tremendous and almost ruinous price It has had to pay Lot its latest acquisitions The novel feature In this partition la that it has been accomplished by the powers without conflict with each other The smaller powers have easily been made to yield their pretentious to ac commodale the bigger ones and the latter have amicably divided their plunder plun-der The sufferers by war have been the original owners though In more than one instance they have made the grabs frightfully expensive to the grabbers grab-bers Africa having been appropriated and Asia having been divided with China the world with the exception of a possible scramble In ChInathe world with the exception of tIre regions adjacent adja-cent to the north and south poles and some of the outlying Islands seems to bo well taken up so well Jn fact that the antllmperlallsts ought not to be apprehensive as to the dangers of American expansion Chicago Tribune A WONDERFUL STEEL MILL The most efficient steel mill in the world Is that at Ensley Ala There are larger ones Jn the North but none of which uses such remarkably modern methods In all the processes of production produc-tion Ev ry step IB automatic from the time a miner picks up a piece of ore in the mines and places It in his barrow bar-row It Is not touched by human hands until It Is ready lo be packed and shipped as finished product Meantime it haa undergone all the various operations opera-tions of the furnace and mill The building In which the steel furnaces fur-naces are located Is 80x736 feet It contains con-tains ten basic openhearth furnaces gas healed each of fifty tons capacity and having a stack 150 feet high The material Is charged Into the furnaces by two charging machines The charg ing boxes each holding two tons are mrr up to the doors of the furnaces on cars carrying four boxes each and the machine takes one of these boxes thrusts It Into the furnace inverts It and then places It back on the car The machine and cars are operated by electricity elec-tricity and controlled by the mere touching of a button The casting aide of the mill is at ai lower l level When the mass of molten metal ha3 reached the desired condition the whole furnace is tilled and tho fiery l fluid poured off Into wheeled ladles which roll up on tracks under the lips of the furnace to receive the spitting and sputtering cascade of fire The metal is then molded Into Ingots and subsequently rolled into billets The blooming mill where the latter operation opera-tion is accomplished is fortyfour inches diameter and the largest but one in the country The shears then receive the metal they can cut a piece ten Inches thIck and thirty inches wide The coke used in the Iron fumacs is made In the most approved manner Coal straight from the mines Is passed through a 600000 plant which saves all Ihp volatile portion The tar and ammonia am-monia are washed from the smoke The latter Is crystallized Into sulphate of ammonia and the tar Is made Into pitch and creosote The gas from these furnaces Is then conducted to the blast furnaces where In the process of iron making It Is forced through the molten metal Even then It is not allowed to escape it Is made to do service In heatIng heat-Ing boilers for generating power Each ton of coal thug treated yields 10000 cubic feet of gas 20 pounds of ammonia am-monia and 100 pounds of tar The ammonia am-monia Is used for refrigeration and for llllzallon the tar is taken by a roofing concern which has plant near by Another An-other Industry allied to the steel andIron and-Iron plant is the one which utilizes the slag refuse from the furnaces In the manufacture of cement March Worlds Work New York Excerpt GUTENBERGS INVENTION In the March Century Augustine BIrrell thus characterizes Gutenburgs epochmaking Inventions The Invention of movable types was the greatest distributive invention that ever was or probably ever can be made It circulated knowledge among the children of men and plays much the same part in human life as does the thansmlsslon of force in the world of physics It was marvelous how quickly thought was circulated even in the age of manuscripts rtA book like St Augustines City of God was soon copied thousand of times and traveled through Europe after a quicker fashion than most printed books can today reasonably hope to do but St Augustine occupied a Unique position and handcopying though a great trade employing thousands of scribes could never have fed the New Learning Learn-ing or kept alive the Reformation The age of Gutenberg was an age of ideas and demanded bqoks Just as bur day is a day of mechanics and demands cheap motion telegraphy and telephones tele-phones Gutenbergs first printing office is marked by a tablet Go and gaze upon it and think of the New York Herald the London Times and the Bible for twopence The Power of the Press coupled with the name of Johann Gensfieisdh commonly called Gulenbcrg would JJo a fine toast but 1 dare say Mr Choate would respond to It after dinner in fitter terms than ever could the olclfashionefl printer who led a l hard life a id died dispossessed of his business and In poverty A MARITAL COMPROMISE The compromise effected by Gov Bliss was very like that of Mr Jones a Coldwater husband with his wife concerning which he afterward spoke as follows The first quarrel we had after marriage was about sheets but we compromised it How was that Inquired Johnson Well you see said Jones I paid cotton sheets would do well enough but my wlfo put her foot squarely down and declared de-clared that we would have linen sheets I It looked like a domestic deadlock but we finally compromised it How did you manage lo compromise a difference like that asked the puzzled Johnson I Why replied Jones we bought linen sheets Detroit Tribune |
