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1 'fc 'v fPOPl a 4r Kxi tJijt' 'v s' i r' i THE DETROIT REE PRESS: MONDAY EBRUARY 1 1897 7 (BTjeTte published daily and semi weekly MOXDAT MORNING EBRUARY 1 1897 THE DAILY AND SUNDAY REE TRESS is delivered by carriers in Detroit and in ail towns throughout the state every day in the year for 15 cents per week THE DAILY REE PRESS for 10 cents per week Hy mail postage free in the United States and Canada DAILY One Month a 45c DAILY and SUMAY OneMonth GOe DAILY and SUMI AY One Year $700 SUNDAY One Ycnr $200 TAV1CE A AVEEK One Year $100 the stage Lyceum one i Z7 Kdftorlal Iluoms Job Oilier al do if one of js 1 WILHELMINA THE THE DEATH TEN But in LARGEST ARSENAL MR RUST GETS A LETTER of pro i say i GENIAL HAYS wi PERSONALS or pJAi Helen more careful elabora 3 more barbar at the hands asked go to ft Is the tclephcno number to call if you rot get your paper on time in the city the con to change the coins and with not to be lamentable of bimetal senate has of tall plumes high ribbon fan shaped laces wings an idea which I believe if put use would allow nil women to received reached a great some of had who There is Nicaragua will amuse i 1 'l "but have I map Mis was Mis take The senators who favor arbitration but oppose the treaty are like the statesman who approved a law but was its en Most of the eastern papers have nothing but praise for the selection McKinley has made for the war department to take issue man to escape for an Innocent man to AnscdclpW flS Mifedent Six shots were and I think Yallerstone Hill statootes long enough to do 1 the boys selves in ineuier nut ment but not for the reasons vou name I fi TT1 rt I I onnixfk V1 "Slyly may he a model citizen but they say he has his "To be sure he has It was this firm that failed last tKv Sl'BSCRIPTIOV DEPARTMENT That Is where to send your complaint you do not get your paper delivered to you on time In the state All complaints will receive attention im mediately The representatives of the ocean steam ship lines have a perfect right to petition their representatives in congress to op pose the immigration bill But when they threaten such representatives with defeat if they dare to disobey they are taking the best possible method wg should say of Insuring a heavy vote in favor of the measure No man even when he has been unwise enough to go to congress likes to be threatened or to have an effort made to drive him by threats In its main features the immigration bill Is acceptable to the general public It is not surprising that the ocean lines should dislike it but our legis lation on this subject has been in their interest long enough It is high time the interests of the rest of the country were considered 3 i Tim Murphy is coming to Detroit eb ruary 11 His play "Old is a version of the rench play from which John Hare derived "A Pair of Mr Sothcrn comes to the Detroit Opera House to night in his new play by Stephen "An Enemy to the The liveliest interest in this engagement is ap parent "Said Tasha etc Used to Simple Little and are some of the numbers i There is talk it appears of making Jahn Hay first assistant secretary of state un der Sherman He will be an Invaluable as sistant if Sherman ever decides to revise those "The Sea King" "The Lion Bowery What It Was a 'The Arion There is said to be a great abundance of spirited and catchy music In Hoyt's new farce comedy Stranger in New all the work of Richard Stahl Mr general musical director and composer of Notwithstanding the passage of the prize fight bill in Nevada Corbett still declares he is ready to light Perhaps he thinks the constitutionality of the law will be contested Would Keep Her Too Busy He have never kissed you Alice Would you cut my friendship if I stole just She might bo tempted to but I was just reading about forgiving 70 times 7 of fendings Goodness! That's 490" 1 mission in search abroad: but the for an international confer subject fools these It would be about as much as a life is worth to lay claim just now any where in the east to tho authorship of Snow" Senator Wolcott has made a failure of his He sentiment passed a bill once on the mortals be" as Puck remarks The wiping out of all the preliminaries to revenue reform and the substitution of the old McKinley act would have this merit at least that it would settle the question at once It would have another merit It would give the country assurance that the next house will not be Republican It is not often that a charity ball gets as much gratuitous advertisement as has the Bradley Martin affair in New York The pulpit both regular and revivalist has taken a hand at denouncing it and it prom ises to be a rousing success goes to bed! You or it fur any no danger apparently that the bill will pass but congress itself therewith this week strongest arguments One of these is of course the possibility of mistake to which our correspondent refers In convicting an innocent man In times past no doubt this has been done and the lawyers who have defended men accused of murder have made the most of it But under existing conditions there are yea a thous and chances for a guilty conviction to be convicted: and under a properly framed law providing for the execution of the death penalty only in such case as the jury shall direct there Is not 1 one chance in a mil lion that any man will be executed whose death will not be a sweet boon to the com munity in which he has lived lilt or Miss An Ingenious and thoughtful correspond ent of the Detroit ree Press offers this unique contribution to theatrical high hat literature: Women's hats of an extreme hight have gone out of fashion and those who have no other are the only ones who wear such headgear now The hat trim mings however are worn somewhat high er than ever and are a greater obstruction in theaters against a view of the stage to those sitting behind them than the former high bonnets were Such trimmings con sist mainly bows high etc I have to practical wear as high trimmings as they care to at theaters and other public places with out detriment to anyone My idea Is to fasten the lower end of each trimming to a metal socket or spike with a hinge or spring like a folding collar button but of course larger and to be attached to the hat perpendicularly and close to the brim When the hat wearer enters a the ater she presses the trimmings flat upon the brim there to remain until leaving time then she raises the hinged trimmings to the perpendicular again and there you are as easy as rolling off the proverbial log These metal attachments can be made of gold silver brenze or ether suitable ma terial ornamental in design and be an embellishment to the present fashionable low crown hats Should my suggestion be adopted there would be a fortune for the designer of the most suitable arrangement for holding the lower parts of high trim mings so as to keep them In a perpendic ular or horizontal position as may be de sired and there will be no need of a state enactment nor of a city ordinance compell ing women who go to theatrical perform ances to remain bareheaded whilst there wUn rt An anonymous correspondent asks us why we do not somebody and show up his and closes with the state ment: would give my name but do not wish the lie is perfectly willing even anxious that The ree Press should make an attack on a citizen and in cur all the odium which may attach to such an act but he wants to keep his own fin gers out of the door jamb He is the frankest cowards we have had on our anonymous list for many a day and is indebted to his distinction in this respect for the notice we give him Usually the anonymous letter goes into the waste bas ket without any notice whatever A variety team of wags have invented this play on words: you hear about the change that has been made at the What is I went down there this morning and instead of man in the general deliv ery window there was a woman Her name is Helen do you know her name is I went to the postmaster and him for my mail and he told me to Helen Wait for Kind Comments "Chollie seems to have something on his said the dear girl said the other dear girl mind seems to be completely hidden" Journal 3 Zi a The Iron and Steel Schedules Of tlie protest sent to the house commit tee of ways and means by presidentHIar rah of the Midvale Steel Company of Philadelphia the Boston Transcript says: This testimony certainly cannot be thrust aside it must receive careful con sideration If tho great iron masters of Pennsylvania can compete with England and rance in their high class products there can be no defense of an increase of tariff rates upon such articles They would not protect the wage earner nor increase the revenue We cannot doubt Mr evidence so far as he is con cerned and the government has no right to Inspire him to help a rival manufacturer if tlie conditions are satisfactory to his 'in terests why cannot they be made so to others engaged in the same general line of production? At all events the committee of ways and means should be very careful about taking any radical action with re spect to this industry in the face of such a strong and significant protest as this Ills Slzr Scott! Eph the number of your sah one foh each foot sah" state ball giv en ny tne Dutch court since the death of the late king The festivity took place on New Tears eve at the royal palace of Gravcnhage and it was the Russian Envoy de Struve who for so many years represented his government at Washington to whom was accorded the honor of being the partner of the young queen in the first dance of flrst full fledged ball that she has ever attended in her life nf th ln Europe more idolized than the child queen ne Netherlands Although only 16 years of age she possesses a wise head on her oers and many are the anecdotes told about her curt replies and wise a'bout been lhe rOUndS of tho prcss that the wilh hpr the regent visited rance and Italy This nas a sure sign that an engagement was arranged between herself and tlie I since ol Turin nephew of King Humberto Regarding these divers rumors of mar rblg? fhe fia already asserted herself as anxious to remain unmarried as long as thaP oncerecently expressed her determination to have a de cisive voice in the choice of her future husband We do not care to discuss with our cor respondent whoso communication will be found in another column the question whether capital punishment is in harmony with jlm teachings of Christianity or not We content ourselves so far as that point is concerned with the suggestion that mak ing allowance as he ostentatiously does for editors as familiar with he might have pointed out some of those i teachings on the subject We frankly confess that we are not familiar with anything in those teachings which covers the point unless it be the statement of the Great Teacher that he came to destroy the which at that time provided for the infliction of the death penalty not at the hands of the state but at the hands of avenger of which seems to us now much qua than a solemn execution of the law We are compelled however with our correspondent as to tho mount of those who urge the reten tion of the death penalty on our statute books or its restoration where it has been abolished as in Michigan He must have read the literature of the subject very im perfectly if lie regards the as he says to be possibility of a pardon or escape after There are those who urge this possibility as an argument in support of the death pen alty and it is an argument not without force When one notes the case of a mur derer like Latimer who went to prison for life and has already added to his original crime another murder for which ho can not bo punished under our law a good many even among the Opponents of capital punishment must be tempted to wish that his second victim had been saved to fam ily and friends by the prompt execution of Latimer en his conviction of the ter rible crime of The argument drawn from such cases as that of Lati mer however is not the strongest or the one most generally relied on by the advo cates of the death penalty Their argu ment is almost universally that the ob ject of penalties being the prevention of crime rather than its punishment those should be selected which have the great est deterrent value The death penalty it is urged is the most powerful of deter rents because men fear death more than anything else It should therefore be fixed as the penalty for murder the crime I which calls for the most powerful deter 1 rent Whether the argument is conclusive or not we will not now discuss but We as sure our correspondent that it and not the I argument to which he refers is the "para one in favor of the death penalty It is hardly worth while pointing outi perhaps that according to our correspon dent life imprisonment being far more dreaded by the "average than death is really the more barbarous penalty of the two but we are compelled to take issue with him in respect to an other assertion that murderer never takes into consideration the penalty" The disproof of this lies on the surface in the nrprant nnsr 44 LAX MUI MV If he did not take the penalty into consideration he would not care to hide his tracks or his crime It is because he knows the penalty and dreads it whether it be death or life imprison ment that he takes every precaution against discovery And while from the very nature of the case we cannot show how many men have refrained from murder who would have committed it but for fear of the penalty the world knows there must be many such just as there arc many who are only restrained from stealing or for gery or embezzlement by fear of the law and the penalty provided for Its infraction There is no argument to be drawn from the fact that there are lynchings in states where the death penalty is inflicted so long as there are also lynchings in our own state which is one of the four where the death penalty has been wholly abolish ed The advocates of the revival of the death penalty have nothing to fear from the fullest consideration of the subject or the presentation bystheir opponents of their Rehearsals of the new Sardou play which will be produced in New York ebruary 23 will begin to day with the following list of players: Maurice Bar rymore Gilmour Nelson Wheatcroft William Owen ritz Williams Charles Harbury Milton Lipman George How ard Virginia Hamed Olive Oliver Mar garet Robinson Blanche Burton and Jane Harwar The piece will be given for the first time at the Renaissance Theater Paris on or about ebruary 15 "The Lincoln melodrama De faulter" a dramatization of George Man ville novel "This is current at It was first seen here in August 1855 when it ended with the denunciation scene of the fourth act Mr Carter has added another act in which ingeniously contrived mechanical horses and riders are made to perforin a thrilling leap when they work according to the in purpose Some times they do so I work and again as it disastrously hip I pens they become balky and bolt That was what happened yesterday afternoon The one strong scene in the play dramatic ally speaking is the scene on which the curtain falls in act fourth Most of what precedes it is comparatively dull Several characters in it are well played They are Millicent Halm by Miss Alice Irving Julie by Miss Myrtle May Thisby by Miss Blanche Hall Robert Halm (the defaulter) by Richard rench and Christie Bailey by Louis Morrison Gus tave Appendicitis Brown is one of the Jack in the box comic men we meet only in melo dramas Andrew orsythe an agile gen tleman who sings a ditty or two and de livers himself of a carpenter scene mono loguewhile the hands are setting the stage gets his coveted laugh That being his one reason for living it were too exacting to require more of him i A lew incompetent players in the cast succeed in giving tlie performance as a whole the appearance of weakness and cheapness in noticeable contrast to tho spirited and capable Work done by the co pany who first played it here in August 1S95 Between acts two and three several pic tures are shown by means of Edison vitascope at Long Branch and the Black Diamond express on the Delaware Lackawanna Railroad rushing through space seventy five miles an hour are the most memorable of these wonderful reproductions NOT HUT TENCY 4 'vcourteous note from the secretary of the board of public works The ree Press that the board has adopted cer tain resolutions the gst of which is as follows: Tho board has learned that his honor1 the mayor and the editors of them four English daily papers have been crit icising its organization for tlie supervision of work under its control and being ever in cearch of methods it has re solved to make no change in its organlza tion temporarily but to Invite the mayor end the other critics to make suggestions xfor Improvement of such organization The board extends its assurance that the sug gestions will receive respectful considera tion and if they cammend themselves to the judgment of the board the latter will cheerfully adopt them and give the authors credit The resolve of the board is that these suggestions will be received in writing until ebruary 10 or it will "cor i dially receive the quintet in its office for i personal consultation at any date within time stated on twenty four hours pre vious notice being given it through the sec A suspicious person might get ano tion that there is something of veiled sar casm in all this but we are glad that we are not suspicious enough for Unit Wo assume that the board has acted in tills matter in entire good faith and with an honest desire for enlightenment st BMnuch as there are reasons why we can Jiot respond to tho imitation extended ac cording to its terms we beg to submit our suggestions through tho columns of The ree Press wheiethcy will reach not only the board but the public Our first suggestion is that the board has entirely mistaken the purport and purpose of the criticism of The ree Press what ever may be the fact as to the other ciitics rs it names We have no recollection of flnd Ing any fault with tlie of board and if wo have done so it has rife been merely incidental to criticism of its work Wo care very little about Its organ ization That may? be wise or unwise con venient or inconvenient but if the work of the board is well done and the public in terest subserved It matters not whether the organization is wise or unwise convenient or Inconvenient Our feeling about that (matter is expressed in Tope's couplet about forms of government where he says: forms ot government let fools contest That which is best administered Is In the same way that organization the Board of Public Works is best which gives the bust resultsj and it is mere ing in the to bother about the "or We have no idea that thewretched results attained by the notably on Jefferson are due at ail (Psasto faults in organization If the three mem bers were competent for public work and did their full duty as the charter requires it would be of no consequence how it was' organized? The trouble has come mainly from incompetency though it may to some slight extent be due to the district of throwing upon one member of the board as to certain parts of the city the responsibility which the charter imposes (upon all three No excellence of organiza tion however will prevent bad work when the members of the board are incompetent and no imperfection of organization will jirevent good work if they are competent and each performs his duty Such suggestions as we have to make for the Improvement of the board go not to Its organization but to its complete recon struction The law under which the board operates should be amended so as to Insure the appointment Of members for capacity and fitness not for political or partisan service It would be wiser we think to have one capable practical man at the head of the board and the other members subordinate to him because in that way it would be easier in all cases to fix the responsibility but as we have already said that is of less consequence than that every member of the board should know 1 bin business and attend to it These latter suggestions are for the legislature rather than the board but the latter Is quite wel come to them and we beg that it will ac cept them and what has gone before in lieu of the written answer to the courteous invitation which it seems to desire to its courteous Invitation Delayed Because Addressed to Him Under His Chemical Name As curious a letter as has been in Kansas City for many months the postolfice recently and after display of learning on the nart of the clerks it was finally delivered to tne man tor whom it was intended The dis tributing clerk who first got hold of the letter looked at it in despair It was plain ly evident that tlie writer of the letter had i been burning the midmgnt oil in an at i tempt to batile the postotuce force The first line contained the letters The letters were plain enough but what did they mean? The next line began with a large A then there was a carefully executed drawing of what had the appear ance a comb then a small a and finally a representation of a house drawn by one whose early education had been sadly neglected What should have been the third line of the address was in the shape of a more or less accurate map of Kansas City show ing the junction of the streets in that vi cinity rne last line was anotner showing the boundaries of the state of soun It was plain enough that the letter for someone who lived in the state of scuri and in Kansas City It did not a great stretch of imagination to disco' er that the comb and the sketch of a horse had some vague reference to the Acoma building So far it was easy sailing But who was the mysterious After puzzling bis brain for a long time without any good result the clerk took the letter to Night Clerk Canfield who is sup posed to be able to guess all sorts of con undrums can tell you a part of said he can tell you that are the chemical symbols for ferric oxide Now if you can find out who he is you arc all Still the distributing clerk was unable to solve the question He went about asklrg everyone what he knew about ferric oxide He finally encountered one man who was more of a chemist than the others and he Imparted to him the information that ferric oxide in common parlance is called That is how Rust received the letter over which his friend in Conception Mo had spent so much Kansas City Times TELEPHONE Nl'MUERS 84S IVO 211 Yallerstone Bill and borrowed my copy of the statootes to sit on fur this I draw up no warrant without my statootes to go you ask him for the I queried him! Ask Yallerstone Bill to hist himself off my book of statootes! Lord man but you know killed three men since noon and is to make tho numoer nvc a tore he must think drunk I get a you Birdsall Black Joe? "And nobody has followed on his trail? 'My two companions are after him 'And Instead ot jinin them and him down and shootin him full of holes you hev the Impudence to cum around and talk to this court about a warrant and the lawl Why alch ignorance is nuff to tear the covers off my book oftho statootes and make the court feel that bin held up by a duffer! contempt of court and give ye two minits to git outer town er go to jail fur six mule being handy and the road in good condition I was outside the city lino in a minute ana a half fired after me riz up oft the the British Admiralty Will Expend £6000 000 on Devonport The importance of Devonport as a naval base has been repeatedly demonstrated To day the dockyard and the Keyham steam factory cover an area ot 145 acres exclusive of the victualling yard the naval barracks the Royal Engineering college and the many other government buildings located on the Hanks of the Tamar and occupying 200 ad ditional acres 1 he present board of admiralty have now si sciieine ol extension which in costliness if not in importance will eclipse any work of the kind previously un dertaken and will convert Devonport with the exception of Pembroke the youngest cf tlie royal into the largest and most efficiently defended arsenal in the world The authorities in Whitehall have set their hand to a scheme of naval ex pansion at the western port which will en tail an expenditure of about six million sterling A million sterling has been spent in dredging operations as a preliminary to the extension of Devonport as a naval port and the means ot access to the dockyard at all tides has been rendered safe and easy The scheme includes the creation a tier'll basin with nn arcat of 35 acres belnsr four and a half times as large as tho big gest basin which Devonport now possesses It will be 1550 feet long and 1000 feet broad with a depth of 55 feet below the coping Ana la I I a LLUHi tllU UclSHl AVniCn WU1 bo entered from the Hamoaze by a tidal caisson will be three graving docks and an entrance lock sufficiently large to permit the passage through of vessels larger than any yet designed This lock will be an im portant addition to the accommodation for it is to be so constructed that it can be closed with a caisson and utilized as a dock The scheme thus aims at providing a large tidal basin which can be used at any state of the tide and five docks so commodious as to reduce to a minimum the possibility of accident in tlie docking or undocking of tqe largest vessels geograuh renders these additional fa cilities for the accommodation of the larg est war vessels of the greatest national im portance and nine or ten years hence when tins scheme has been completed the I docks wln be without a rival in the world London Globe Andrew Muck Andrew Mack the latest aspirant for stellar honors in the Irish drama began a engagement at the Lyceum last evening Mr Mack commenced his career as a star last season and was seen here at that time The Impression hd made was all in his favor and he won new honors last evening by his acting and singing in the character of Myles Aroon the simple hearted Irish lad He has a graceful pleas ing personality a light high tenor voice of much sweetness which he knows how to use and aside from a tendency to per mit his words to drag in the serious scenes his acting is commendable His singing of Low Back well known ballad and his own song Irish At delighted the audience and he was repeatedly encored is a fairly interesting play clean of motive and well out of the beaten track of Irish dramas Davenport Bebus an always reliable actor iras the Squire Thurston His portrayal of the well bred but unscrupulous gentleman was finished and natural James Vincent as Mike Carney did a neat bit of character work William Mason was amusing as at Phelan Louise Montrose was the Maggie arrell She looked pretty enough to win the heart of any Irish boy with eyes in his head and except where feeling was required was entirely satisfactory Olive VI hite made a stately and convincing Lady Glover Millie Sackett was again seen as Mrs arrell She plays the part with skill and a nice sense of its humor Little lorence Alp was the Nellie Glover She is a remarkable child whose acting would do credit tc a person four times her years Richard Webster was the Mother Bett Mr Webster created this part when the play was first produced by AV Scanlan and the audience last evening was quick to recognize the merit of his work A tariff mongering absurdly cries be dazzled by big exports at tho expense of decent wages and purchasing power among the American But ior the outlet afforded by the present tar iff policy to annual exports of American manufactures of the value of 5250000000 there would be neither decent wages nor employment for thousands of busy Amer ican workingmen It is impossible for the patriotic and spirited American citizen not to be dazzled by tne splendid proofs of the super ortty of his manufactures in the i eturns of export trade If however the tanff mengers in congress shall suc ceed in arresting the magnificent develop ment of this trade mapy an eye that wiu be with Philadelphia Record Contempt of Court "I was with a party of prospectors out in Arizona a few years since" began the man from Denver one morning wa left the negro cock in charge of the camp and went for a hunting AVhen we re turned It was to find that he had taken a pack mule and most of our outfit and skipped out While the other two men fol lowed on his trail I rode over to Boom City to get cut a warrant and semi an fleer after tho fellow It was 9 at ntgnt wnen 1 arrived in town and after repeated inquiries I located the justice of the peace Jn a combined billiard room bowl ing alley restaurant and saloon He sat on a chair with his legs over a table an! a big glass of whisky near at hand I was introduced to turn ry a man who said: another critter or other in your line and wantln it my skin but what roared the judge at mo as he kicked on tho table with his heels 'I want a warrant for a robber I humbly replied hev you a justice of the peace? "'You gamble that I and tike to hear somebody dispute it but ye hev no you heard a yere you sun burned he interrupted see that feller over with the long him on the your wife call you a's many pet nanus as she did when you were first mar not as many pet Indianapolis Journal is an eloquent fellow I heard him bring down the house last was that?" succeeded in er auading lis landlord to reduce the Boston Traveler and the world laughs with A fact most unpleasantly true Of the cause of the laugh you know only half The world may be laughing at you Chicago" Record am da tlma EbSiT "WhCn Er man kin i practical side of nature by letnn de formometer alone down er few maisurements de cold wed der in 'Is check AA'ashington Star 11 vou tears to shed over the sufferings of the destitute" observed Uncle Allen Sparks "don't shed them until you have sent a bundle of food and clothing to the sufferers And then" added Uncle Al tbe idea grew upon him "vou need to shed Chicago Trlhua His Reason remarked Mr Murray Hill after at the club had expressed them favor of the abolition of the high tit 4 At au vw Ul LIIH mnvo I am tall enough to see over the tops of hats when 1 am sitting down them aVkeT are purely State them" rul something like this: If lading do not wear hats at theaters they will be of one of the reasons for purchas ing a new hat every few weeks Every hat which my Wife does not buy means price of that hat saved to met Have some PiUSburff Loud plan Is to de Wi1lh'1imina of Holland enjoyed her first state ball on Dav Hpr partner in her first official dance was de Struve the Russian ambassador for2 merly minister to AVashington 1Or Wombell once the proprietor of the most famous menagerie in England 1 not the most famous in the world ro'v earns a precarious Jiving bv plavin cornet before the public houfes of Londond Magdalen college Oxford has refused to accept a tablet Ao Gibbon the historian who was a student there Gibbon had a very low opinion of his college and on record 145 years ego that life there stagnated in a round of college business stories and private Cl 1 1 CI Ql( senate which sits in the Luxem bourg palace has struck against having an' more statues of bald headed poets set up in the Luxembourg gardens it draws the line at the hairless Paul Verlaine the last poets honored Theodore de Ban'viUe 2s2baWUrRer' Leconle de LIsi0 being Gaston Paris of the Academia ran caise has struex a deadly blow against Germany in declaring that many of AVag ner plots are not German Tannhau er is an Italian legend of the fourteenth con VAC1JUI1 wniie Jt 'arsjval wel1 known are Celtic tales from the King Arthur cycle Sally Carroll who died the other day her year was a railroad switch tender for many years Dur ing the war and until a few vears ago she did the work alone and though there were 100 trains to pass each day she never had a switch misplaced She is said to have been the only woman in the United States to hold such a position are very glad to get from Mr Hanna a full explanation about the new tariff He tells an interested and we hope a trust ing public what tho is It includes the following items: Extra ses sion March 15 li)I to be passed in sixty days having been reached with tne (I the sil ver) senators the bill to go into force on July 1 from that instant the American people to enjoy unbounded prosperity The bill moreover is to be simplv perfect It is going to keep out foreign goods vet in Cyclists in the Streets ot Cairo A correspondent of one of the English cycling papers writing from Egypt says of the increased use of the bicycle in the land of the Pharaohs: are rid den in all directions they are also seen dotted about everywhere and piles of them may be continually observed stacked at the entrances to the principal hotels There are about a couple of thousand English troops and as it is the fashion for bicvcles to go wherever the military sojourn Britons have made it particularly lively for the dusky denizens on the banks of old ather Nile There are many good riders some indiffer ent ones and a few atrociouslv bad these latter mostly consisting of natives who look decidedly uncomfortable astride a pair of wheels At the citadel barracks the sergeants have thirteen machines and at the large barracks close to the Nile bridge any number of them can be found At the Gezirah palace the magnificent grounds of which are a dream to Europeans ladies and gentlemen may be seen cycling at almost all hours of the day and night The streets of Cairo are described as being decidedly lumpy and with the exception of the way out to the Pyramids roads as we under stand the term aro practically non exist ent Outside the city it is all sand and a six inch tire would be a boon to ride over the desert upon A large riding school on nearly an acre ot ground has been opened and is doing a thriving New Evening Post that the nations of Europe would do any thing of the kind the plan might be worth discussing seriously but there is no such probability Such action on their part would involve agreement with this coun try on the bimetallic problem which seems just now farther off than ever notwith standing Senator efforts and It would Involve a good deal more It would be a very difficult matter even if there were no question of disparity between gold and silver to settle to Induce servatlve people of the old world all their habits in the matter of used in their daily transactions: that question still pending it is thought of There seems to be an impression in cer tain though we are not aware that Mr Loud shares that the plan would be an advantageous one for this country alone even it the old world should not adopt it There is absolutely no foun dation for any such impression The mak Ing of such a coin as Mr Loud proposes would not change 'the elements of the I monetary problem in this country one whit If It is settled that the government cannot create value by stamping and nothing Is better settled among intelligent it cannot do so any better by combin ing the silver with gold and then stamp ing it than by stamping it separately Such a coin as Mr Loud proposes would contain fifty cents worth of gold and approx imately twenty six cents worth of silver according to the gold standard The coin would be worth then at present prices seventy six cents and no stamp that the government could put upon it would give it any higher exchangeable value than that As for the theory advanced that in the case of fluctuations in the market value of gold and silver bullion the loss of one metalwould be counterbalanced by the gain in the other it is a baseless dream Gold be ing the standard of the world any fluctua tions in the relative value of the two metals In the market will be credited to sliver just as they are now If silver be comes more valuable in the market rela I lively to gold tho value of the Loud dollar will advance correspondingly It sliver de clines the value of the Loud dollar will de cline correspondingly rom this proposl tion there is no escape The only conceivable advantage of the proposed always assuming that there Is no chance of its adoption1 international would be in its portability as compared i with the silver dollar doubt very I much whether this is advantage enough to I compensate for the difficulty which would i be injected into the monetary problem through the constant fluctuation in value of an alleged standard coin Should there continue to be the fluctuation in silver or it that is preferred in the relative prices in the market of silver and the pro posed coin i would be the most unstable measure of value we have ever had In this country not even excepting the greenback during the war Some acute observer has discovered that The swimming school the beach I the opera villain always sings louder than the hero 1 THE DOLLAR The plan which Mr Loud of this state has laid before congress for settlement of the monetary question is not essentially new It has been proposed more than once extraordinary combine gold and silver in a coin with takes against detection the double purpose of lessening the size end bulk of the standard dollar and of ad justing the difference between the two metals Mr scheme has the merit ns compared with most of the plans which nave prcceaea it or tion but it has all the essential defects tney nao Briefly stated the monetize both gold and silver and to create new standard coin which shall contain one half the amount of gold now containedr tn the standard gold dollar and fifteen and one half tlnes Its weight dn silver The re sg: suit lie estimates would be a coin ot about the diameter of the present quarter doliar but considerably thicker Thecoinage of it Is to be free and it is to be made by law the standard dollar it is a part of his plan to have the coin adopted by the nations of Europe taking tlie place in each of the coin which most nearly corresponds in value to our present dollar Xf there were the slightest probability QUEEN HOLLAND Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has made her social debut at the first en ny tne Dutch court since the death of the late king I 4M4 fiUUllIi vet in crease the revenue It going to satisfy both moderates and extremists No pros perity is to come till it goes into effect Mr Hanna says but he is firmly resolved on an era of national to begin the day aster AH this is most auspicous a prohibitive tariff for revenue onlv without a particle of jobbery or favoritism in it based on an with the sil ver senators will leave the pessimists in a sorry New York Evening Post Not Revenue for the Government It is rot revenue for the government that the tariff tinkers desire They wish un dr cover of needed change to secure larg enrourr The most every tbl of tbe i that jear tneie Is a larger and larpr th? nutacwrere ot tected LOnger to be heartily Insist uoon let alone Bailadelphia Record If tlie Doenn't Watch Ont The Midvale Steel Company at a single blow has punched such a big hole throu the high protection wall that the Rcpub mit'urazlnff adllphia Record doesn outl hll The Little Widow Won It was ono of those comedies sometimes arranged by fate An available widower with a snug fortune on a principal avenue had called upon a little widow who lias yet to travel tho short cnl of jour ney AVhile they were cosily conversing be fore tho grate fire the little widow had a caller who proved to be the big widow Jiving in the block and her coming seemed to embarrass the parties surprised This I made it inevitable that the weather should be discussed exhaustively years we never have a January said the little widow when this phase of the subject had been taken up I've seen as many Januarys as any other living declared the big willow who is nothing if not emphatic I never saw one yet when we didn't a thaw" course (there are a good many pie who have seen more Januarys than I nave aemurciy aamitteu tne little widow we are all liable to mistakes" But the widower was laughing The big widow face was a study in cardinal and her usually ready tongue seemed palsied At length she managed it sufficiently to say that what she meant was that she I seen as many Januarys as anyone i had lived no longer than she had practically what you did purred the little widow Then the caller saw the widewer trying to keep his face straight and she hastened to leave declaring to the little widow at the door that she never had a more de lightful evening The little widow has been invited to pre side over the snug house on the avenue and the inaugural ceremonies will take place soon A 41 4 it lUwM 7 aS ft i i a m' 't I'M' Wish I "'i a 'i.