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Che Einus-Scmorrat dtttttmcsban, fune BY TH3 BYI rial the memory of a man who was for two score BT Germany at $2 02 per centner (110 pounds). This minimum cost of $2 02 will, he says, after the bounty ceases on Sept. 1, 1903, come into direct conflict with the cost of cane augar in Cuba, Torto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines, and other tropical countries (which is stated to be $1 47 per centner), with the result of inevitable ru.n to the German beet sugar industry. He declares further that the aggregate beet sugar production of Germany, Austria and France (estimated at 4,815,000 tons during the present campaign of 1901-02) will decline reunion; but the manner in which the suggest ion of the veterans was received leaves little doubt that it will be fully carried out and that the entire South will unit by next year in celebrating one decoration day, as the North does, instead of having a half dozen days scattered through April, May and June. It has, of course, been impossible for the State Legislatures to act as yet in the matter of making June 3 a public holiday, as they were requested to do, and it is a holiday in only three of the Southern States; but the others are likely to follow suit.

In fine, the promise is that the South will have a tingle decoration day instead of the numerous ones it has at present, just as the several Confederate veteran organizations which existed at the end of the civil war were finally consolidated into the United Confederate Veterans. There are few facts which may In the future be In- mntin fscts which corporated in the Diograpny oi have been collected partly by the inquiry oi partly by the observations of laymen who live in sections where the pestiferous lnseft thrives in great numbers. The mosquito is observed in three different forms, as au i nmnnltn wittl egg. In larvae, as a wiggie-iau, nuu wings. Eggs are hatched by the warnitn oi me suu.

niosuutto may lay 1,000,000 eggs. Often many of these. eggs are destroyed. Mosquitoes cannot propagate witnout the aid of water. eggs are deposited on the surface of the water.

Eggs hatch within a few weeks after they are deposited by the female. They develop wiggie-ian. the curious form of life often found in rain barrels, cisterns, in gutters filled with stagnant water and la stagnant pools. In this wiggle-tall stage of his development the mosoulto breathes through his tail. He spends tnis pan of his life in rushing to and from the surface of the water.

When he reaches the surface, with head down, he snoves two delicate syphons above the water level, supplies his lungs with the needed air, and divts under the water again, where he sucks In the vegetable Juices necessary to his hiistenance. He remains a wiggle-tail for a week ot ten days, when his wings develop and he becomes a navigator of the air and sails forth to torment members ot the human family and other animals. He is fond of auimai blood. He needs It in his business. He cannot without it.

He also likes sugar. Blood, sugar and vege table Juices are his principal diet. A mosquito rood capacity is roughly estimated at one drop of blood. His dimensions are uncertain. The gray mosquito, the day tormento, Is probably the smallest variety.

He Is of a very light weight, not tipping the beam at more than one-fourth of a grain, and often not weighing quite so much. Some of them are so light when unfed that they will not disturb the balance of the most delicately poised scales. The small mosquito Is the treacherous kind. He always lights on the under side of the hand or arm, apparently knowing that he is beyond the reach of the eye. He is the same fellow who will crawl under the edges of the bar or slip under the sheet.

There Is another and a larger va riety, a kind that will drop on you like a flake of snow, but they do not feel like a flake of snow. They land with their labium, br lance, unfolded and with point down, aud they begin operations at once. While the mosquito of this brand weighs about one-half of a grain, he seems to have the tonnage and potentiality of a pile driver when he punctures the skin. There are about 250 known varie ties of mosquitoes in this section of the world. The mos quito's labium, tha thing he stings with, is of uncertain length.

It Is as sharp as a needle, hollow Hk a bajr, and It ia through this that he sucks blood into his system. The mosquito cannot stand- a' strong wind. He seeks a low place when wind is high. He never gets more than 100 yards rm the place, of his birth. The eggs are deposited on still, Otherwise they will be destroyed.

The life ef the mosquito covers a span of sixty days. As a dtssemtaater. of scientific men have agreed that his responsibility is very heavy. "A real estate man ort In my neighborhood ts telling a rather amusing story on a hard working and aged Irish woman," said a gentleman who lives uptown, "and while it is amusing in a way, there is a bit of pathos about it so far as the principal Is concerned. Recently there was a fire in the neighborhood and It was very disastrous so far as the old lady In question Is concerned.

The Are spread to the little cottage she occupied and before the flames could be extinguished the cottage and all Its contents was a heap of ashes. The old lady had left her home in the morning, and as was her custom had securely locked the place, putting the key in her pocket. It was impossible for either the firemen or the neighbors to save any ef her goods and chattels on this account. When she returned in the evening she fonnd nothing but the smoke and ashes of her home. She had lost everything she had.

She happened to remember that she had the key to the place, and the next morning she thought It her duty te return It to the real estate man from whom she rented the place. Accordingly she made the way to the agent's office and shoved tha key over the counter to him. he said smllllngly, 'what use have I for that key now since the house to which It belonged has burned down 'Sure, an sir, she said quickly, 'an 01 tho't yes might build a house for It some And with this she flirted out of the office, and the associates of the real estate man since that time have been having a great deal of fun ont of him about the suggestion that he should build a house around the key left by the old Irish lady." "While landscape artists are claiming a vigorous revival In this kind of work," said a man who takes a great Interest in things of an artistic kind, "I have observed that another kind of painting has begun to show signs of improvement. There is a greater demand now for animal pictures, and my attention has been called to the fact during the past few months. I have observe that men who deal In pictures have been making better displays and more handsome displays of animal pictures than ever before.

Now, what is the reason for this? Why should there le a greater demand for animal pictures now than ever before? A little while ago the statement was made that the landscape -picture was the thing, that men liked to turn to these restful portrayals because of the strenuous, ness of the modern situation, and I was Inclined to believe there was mnch In the statement. We have had a perfect gorge of war and bloodshed. We have passed through an era of fighting, an era peculiarly marked by sknlls arid bloody bones. The landscape became the restful incident. Now we are turning to the animal picture.

Why? Well, there may be a reason. The fact of the business Is, if on may theorize' about It, the world seems to have the taste of blood ia its month. Conquest, bloody, fierce, brutal conquest seems to be the watchword of nations. Each of the powers of -the world seems to be bent on reaching out, spreading and extending the domains of its power and adding to Its possessions. Now, here is the connection: Politics will always have an influence on the artistic com option.

No other condition of public thonght and public activity Is so Intimately related to art as politics. Men become weary of the turmoil and strife In Its earlier stages, weary of war and Its hardships, its bloody talcs. Its dead and Its dying, and they turn to the landscape. But a continuance of the thing has hardened the conscience and whetted the appetite. So we have another stage the animal stage, and we find now that the shrewd picture dealer i displaying his tigers, and his lions, and other animals that are more or less vicious in nature.

It Is one of the signs of the times. It is another Instance of where the artistic concept yields to and reflects the political drift of the time. If politics take on somewhat of the color of jears me I ore most citizen of New Orleans. A correspondent, says the London Chronicle, points out that out pronunciation (which la too ftn "prononncla- baa Its faults. It Is only too true, and "Gtberalter" is a roc on which many split.

Heigbth" is a common mistake, and a few months ago thousands of people were convinced that they were In "Febuary." ot one man In a hundred calls an Isthmus anything but an "Ismus." And aerated The maltreatment of that word demands a separate hospital. "'Areated'' la the common Injury. But there have been heard such fractures a "aer-eated' and "aefhirated." After that "dlptherla." which merely loses an is a mild case. Foreigners, however. may be excused, since their mistakes are usually due to a superfluity of conscience.

One may sympathize with a frenchman who puts faith In any rule as to the pronun ciation of "ough." The plural of "potato- may have no terror for him. but set him to pronounce this sentence. Invented by Punch: -A rough-coated, dough-faced plough man strode, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully through the streets of Scarborough." The foreigner who could take that fence would deserve Immediate nationalization as he lighted. In regard to the popular pronunciation of "fterk- shlre," "Derby." and "clerk." a correspondent reminds us that the late Prof. Freeman discussed the question some twenty years ago in the nineteenth century.

Prof, Freeman's view was. that it did not matter whether we say "Barkshlre" or "Burkshlre," since both are equally wrong. He supposed that the original and proper sound of the first syllabi waa the same as that heard In "berry" or "Berwick," when they are not pronounced, as they are in many provincial district, "burry" and "Burrlck." If yon take a Scotsman unawares he wlil Invariably revert to the original and proper "Balrkahlra" and "clalrk." Mr. Boosevelt, like Senator Lodgt, says the Philadelphia Times, has always belonged to the group of yonng Fed eralists, whose hero la Hamilton, but Hamilton himself. while be antagonized Jefferson, did not leave him out of account among the formative forces of the nation, as Mr.

Roosevelt does. la his Arlington address the President speaks of "the national structure raised by the far-seeing patriotism of Washington, Franklin, Marshall, Hamilton and the other great leaders of the Revolution, great franiers of the Constitution." Jefferson may probably come In with the "and others," but In a non-partisan appeal it would not have been amiss to include the great Republican by name. There are very many Americans who still cling to the belief that the author of the Declaration of Independence had something to do with the erection of the national structure. The total assessed value of real estate and personal property in the City of New York, uncorrected, aays the New York Sun. Each county of the State adopts its own rate of valuation as compared wltlt the actual value of real estate.

Thus Chautauqua fixes 80 per cent as the assessable value, Onondaga 85, Btenben 80, Tioga 75, Saratoga "0, and Nassau 65 the lowest of all In New York eonnty tho percentage is 67, in Kings 6S, in Queens fed and In Richmond 6i Practically, real estate In the five boroughs of the Greater New York is assessed at about two-thirds of Its probable selling value. Personal estate la New York is not all assessed. Inclusive of State, national and municipal property and of all property exempt from taxation. New York City represents In tangible ral and personal estate and this enor mous total quite overshadows all other American cities and many foreign countries as well. Chicago represents $500.

worth of real and personal property, Boston Philadelphia, St- Louis Saa Francisco $450,000,000, Buffalo $250,000,000, Baltimore $430,000,000. Pittsburg Washington 000, Cleveland $250,000,000 and Providence The greater wealth of Eastern cities when compared with the more populous places of more recent growth in the West, is due to the large accumulations of Invested capital, much of which finds employment in other places. Peoria, III-, and New Bedford, have substantially the same population, but while the assessed value of taxable property In Peoria is less than in New Bodford It la more than Polk Miller of Richmond, told some amusing stories of negro character at the last dinner of the New York Southern Society, says the Philadelphia Times. One had to do with the ex-slaves retained on his father'a planta tion after the emancipation proclamation. The elder Miller, a liberal-minded man, insisted on giving each of the freed negroes a salary, but asked, ia return, that each perform his or her assigned duty without fall.

Just aa would be done were they to seek service elsewhere, as they were free to do. To one old fellow, Jonas, was assigned the duty of watering Mr. Miller's saddle horse three times daily at regular intervals. Several times he neglected tha duty, and each time was told by Mr. Miller that they would have to separate if he were not more careful.

When next he forgot, Mr. Miller said: "Jonas, you've had fair notice. NoTv you and I must part." "Yas, Marse John, replied Jonas. "I'm sorry, too. I was bohn an' raised hert en de plantashun and shall die here.

I 'members to Marse John, since a baby, an' I does hate for to seeTou go way. Where a yo' gwlne to, Marse John?" The managers of American railways, says Harper's Weekly, might, to their own great advantage as well as to that of their patrons, take a leaf out of the book of the government railway control of Prussia. These officials have ordered that experiments should be made looking to ward the substitution upon the 30,000 miles of railroads which they operate or noncombustlble cars for the more or less inflammable boxee In which the public are now transported from place to place. The steel trucks are, of course, already comparatively safe from destruction by fire, but the construction of the superstructure of these coaches has always been of such a nature as to be some thing of a menace to the traver-s safety. The walls and floors and general trim of passenger cars have ordinarily been constructed of wood that are peculiarly Inflammable, and the nse of oils in their cleansing and decoration has intensified the danger.

The Prussian experiments, in recog nition of these facts, are to be in the direction of making floors and walls of materials chemically treated so as to make them noncombustlble, and of the construction of seats stuffed with Ore-proof cocoanut fiber and having asbestos coverings. It Is an Important step and In the right dlrec tion; and in a country like our own, where there is so much more travel and a corre-ponding greater duty fur conserving the security of the traveling public over more than 180,000 miles of road bed. It would seem as if it would be a wise precedent for the railway authorities to follow As a rule, our railways are exceptionally well managed, nnu me iratfier in me i nuea Mates gets a vast amount of comfort and convenience at a very slight personal risk but the further step toward the making of fire proof coacnes would serve to greatly reduce that risk to a mln I mum which would amount almost to its total extinction. a iiariem pooiroom Keeper, whose place is on Elgluh avenue, says the New York Sun, has a system of lookouts around his place, each lookout having a buzzer at hniid by which he can announce trouble In the room down kihiis. uue oi me jookouis is an alleged bootblack, who sits In a big chair out front with an electric btittou con cealed under an arm of the chair.

River Pirate bad won the third race yesterday and the clerks were busy pre paring the sheets for the fourth race when a terrlflc busting was heard by the crowd In the room. All the exits were closed and locked and the clerks began gathering up v. i 1 iiieir biuu to cirnr om. lie crowa was told to keep quiet while the boss went upstairs to see how his meu up mere were getting on with the raiders. He found the boothlaek In his chair, sound asleep.

It mas evident that i S'ime one who knew of the button scheme had pressed the button for a Joke. Without a word of warning the boss walked up to the sleeper and dealt him a blow under the chin that toppled him onto the sidewalk. He then explained things to the crowd in the poolroom and the game went on. ALL SORTS. fEE TUnS-DDCOCEAT PULTISHDfG OOMPABY.

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Hawley'a. In Tort Liraon. Costa Rica At Wood's Bookstore. 'EN PAETANT." Most of us think of Herbert Spencer as having felreadr passed over to the majority, for the sage Las long since placed the capstone on the edifice of his system and laid aside the tools with which, in years long past, he did a work so superb and unique Hut, as a matter of fact, the grand Englishman, as he stands in the gloaming with the "Weight of two-and-eighty years upon his shoulders, can say with the illustrious leaders whom he is soon to join, fen in onr ashes live their wonted fires. These reflections are suggested by a little volume which has just come from the press with Mr.

Fjencer'a name. This afftermath of a golden harvest consists of a runiber of short essays, in which the author condenses the conclusions to which his thought and investigation have led him. The subjects range from vaccination to the reform of cor-Jw law. No matter what the theme, there Is the same surentss of touch, the same limpidity of style, which successive generations of readers Lave learned to love. One may turn the pages at random and find truths which should never be forgotten, but which, fr the press of modern life, are seldom remembered.

Especially may Americans profitably ait at the feet of this "knight of humanity whose ermor never galled him when a victory waa to be won in the cause of the right. Hear, for example, these words which must go Lome ta the heart of a nation absorbed in the worship of the big: "I detest that conception of social progress which presents as its aim increase of population, grewth of wealth, spread of commerce. Instead of an immense amount of life of low type, I would far sooner see half the amount of life of high type. A prosperity which is ex-Libited in Board Trade returns, year by year increasing their totals, is to a large extent not prosperity but an adversity. Intrinsically, a Hate in which our advance is measured by spread of manufactures f.nd a concomitant production of nich regions ns the Black Country, looking as though it had lee lately invaded by an army of chimney-sweeps, a state to be emerged from as quickly as may Ik-.

This dclherance is of course the rankest heresy, from the viewpoint of all true believers in the magic of gold; bi has not England found to her sorrow, in this war with the South African farmers, that the ledc-cr is not the book of life, for nations or men? Has not the world-wide com merce of the United Kingdom been built up at a frightful cost, seeing that the stalwart agricul tural laborer of the olden time has degenerated iuto the narrow-chested artisan who, at a crisis of his country's fate, could neither ride nor shoot? At such conjunctures, 't is the roar of the guns, not the coal-cloud from the factory -chimney, that truly counts. And how stands it with us when the reckoning comes to be made after this crucial fashion? Four decades have come and gone since Americans were tried by the supreme test. The Spanish war was well enough in its way, but the serious thinker will draw no fixed conclusions from a straggle which hardly touched the integuments of our national physique. Unless the laws of the uni erse have been charged in our behalf, the future wi.l bring crimes of quite another sort in its train In that event, we Khali know only too well the eternal distinction letween the great and the big and we shall learn, perhaps too late, to value manhood above lucre. We read history to no purpose if we do not see that the grea tes-.

marvels have been wrought by 'little populations which strained every sinew in pursuit of transt emlertt ends. Athens was but a Milage, as meas-ired aeainst a human hive like uui tne vireeK ot old time left his impress on the ages. Kenublican Rome was but a pety town as compared with the im-jerial city, but the Romans of the elder type had the genius of liw and administration in their souls. So. too.

the founders of this republic were great in the truest sense, because thev clung to the ideals which have a boundless power to uplilt or to save. We may clutch our modern concepts of luxury and ease to our hearts, but we shall surely find in the end that our idols give no retnrn for the worship they get. Such is the message of a seer as he prepares for the part ing. His words of farewell should dwell in the ars ot a. I who world distinguish between the "due metal and the base.

"Great men are thev who see that spiritual is greater than any mate rial force; that thoughts rule the world." CONFEDEEA TE DA T. In accordance with the recent suggestion of the Confederate reunion at Dallas the anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis was celebrated yes terday generally throughout, the South, espe cially the Southwest, as Confederate or Decora tion Day. There were ceremonies held at Jackson, Miss-, where a Confederate monument was unveiled; throughout Texas, and at other points too numerous to mention. The day was far more observed than we had any reason to hepe isX, with the very short notice given by the by 10 per cent per annum under the new conditions from September, 1903, and will reach in ten years (1910-11) a total of only ton, while the cane and beet sugar product of North America which includes the West Indies and the Pacific islands of the United States will increase during the same period from 3,530,000 tons in 1902 to 8,323,550 tons in 1910-11. After reciting in elaborate detail the disadvantages that will result to the German sugar interests and the marked advan tages to the cane-sugar interests everywhere under the operation of the Brussels agreement, the memorial closes thus: The Brussels convention Is absolutely unacceptable.

The government rannot and dure not leave ns In extremities. Above all else. It Is necessary that the German sugar producer ball alnk all minor difference and disagreements, and units to combat, resolutely and unitedly, the greatest peril that has ever threatened them. It will be seen that Herr Meyer frankly ac knowledges that the export bounty is the main support and backing of the beet sugar industry, and that it has been through government assistance and stimulation that the beet sugar growers were able to sell their product abroad at less than the cost of production and thus to ruin all competitors. As we hare stated, the Agrarians are bringing all their influences to bear to induce Germany to reject the Brussels agreement.

If the other powers stand firm, the Agrarians will secure no benefit even if they succeed in getting their gov ernment to take the line of action proposed. The United States has already pointed out through its countervailing duty how the export bounty can be wiped out, and England has shown a disposition to follow our ex ample in this' matter. As the United States and England are the chief markets for the beet sugar product of Germany, this country would secure no possible advantage from continuing the export bounty system if its two best markets for Bugar met the bounty with countervailing duties. It 'a not likely, therefore, that the campaign of the German Agrarians will have any material effect in vetoing or repealing the Brussels agreement. INCREASED COST OF TRAVEL.

There are a number of persons in this cltv and section who go North every summer to spend a portion of the heated term in a more temperate climate. It would be well for these persons to look into the matter of expense closely this sea son and not proceed on the hypothesis that they can make the trip at the same cost as last year Hotel and restaurant prices have risen enormously in the North, due partly to the increased price of meat, but more to the natural avarice of the human race. "Hotel and restaurant proprietors have taken advantage of the increase of cost in running one department to raise prices all around, until the plebeian "ham and egger" is out of the reach of everybody but the owner of trust secu rities. It would be weR, therefore, for those contem plating a trip to the North this season to disobey the Scriptural injunction, and take both script and purse with them. The purse should be well-filled, moreover, and the script should be current.

The New York hotels announced some time ago that the price of one dollar meals had been raised to $1 25, but we are advised that prices have gone away beyond this. An unwary Orieanian who in tended to be frugal ordered a portion of broiled ham at a Philadelphia hotel a few days ago and found himself confronted with a bill for $1. He concluded philosophically that as he had to pay the hog for a hog, he would congratulate himself that he had not ordered terrapin. When broiled ham reaches the high water mark of $1 it be hooves the gourmet and the gourmand to stay at home or take his lunch with him. As things are going, it will be necessary for the traveler to take along not only his lunch but a shelter tent as well, so that he may camp out in the parks.

The marbleijed American hotel is not a delic-ht under the most favorable circumstances, and its plate mirrors and' barber-shop furniture become an absolute horror when one has to contemplate the prices he is be charged for the tawdry en-: tertainment that is furnished him. Why should one save money throughout the year to spend it in such miserable fashion? The most intelligent business men, when traveling, have the foresight these days to take along a washerwoman with them, for the modern millionaire hotel proprietor is not above robbing his guest on such a petty detail as the laundry bill. It seems to be the in tention of these people to make it plain to the stranger that "cleanliness is next to Godliness," by making it more expensive. Why should these hotel rates have taken such an advance? The cost of living has advanced, it is true, but there should still be hotels at which persons not millionaires should be permitted to stop. The horror of the modern hotel is enough without the gum-shoe bludgeon and dark-lantern tactics that have been adopted by the modern Boniface.

The inoffensive guest should at least be allowed to depart with his life and a portion of his clothing. There would seem to be no good purpose to be served in strip ping him completely, or of forcing him into in voluntary bankruptcy. There are to-day bankrupts scattered through out the length and breadth of this land who have lost their standing in the business world bv fool ishly taking a bath in a modern hotel and chan? ing underclothing. The cautious man will, of, course, do neither of these things away from home, and he will avoid the seductive "ham and egger" until he has reached that state of felicitr where he can pick at least five winners each wee from a mong the "long shots; but the averag' man rushes headlong to his fate that the hote proprietor may spend his vacation on the Rivier; and pose among the effete peoples of the other hemisphere as a distinguished American with "money to bum. Life comes easy to the hotel proprietor these days; it is the guest who is lead ins: the "strenuous life." "SECTS" SOT "SKI." Here Is one of the humnroua side-lights to the news paper business.

Night before last a member of the editorial staff of The Times-Democrat was directed to write an article regarding the proposed memorial in honor of the late Dr. Palmer. He was orally Instructed to Invite all persona, "lrrespec tlve ef sects," who might be in the movement. to send their names to the editor of this newspaper. When The Times Democrat appeared the next (yesterday) morn Ing contained the words: Ail jwrroiis, iiiriTi-im wx, in mis city, wno are interested in honoring the memory of the lamented dead are requested to send their names to the editor of The Times-Democrat.

In the local columns the Invitation was repeated in these words: "All men and all women who are Interested In thi movement are Invited to send their names to the editor of The Times Democrat." WTe may now state that It was not Intended to ad dress this appeal especially to the women of New Orleans In as much, however, as the error hat been made it seems unnecessary to attempt to correct It. On the whole. It may he wise to enlist the interest of "all persons, irrespective of sex. In this city," in the effort to rear aa enduring mem THE SPIRIT OF TILDES. The opening at New York June 19 of the new Tilden Club, a political organization composed of Democrats throughout the country, should be an exceedingly interesting occasion.

Democratic leaders, well representing differing shades of political opinion, have been invited to speak at the club's first public banquet, and there is reason to believe that this meeting will result in not a little good for the Democratic party. It goes without saying that when forces represented by Mr. Bryan on the one hand and by Mr. Cleveland on the other hand cease to contend and begin to coalesce, a day bright with promise has dawned for the na tional Democracy. It is indeed high time that Democrats through out the United States, however they may dissent from one another regarding particular political issues, should compose their differences and, rallying under one common banner, resolve to make a united, concerted and consolidated effort to check the evil tendencies that are now eating out the heart of Democratic America.

Democrats should recognize that the greater things in life crowd the smaller out; that in face of a common enemy members of the same household should get together and keep together; that when one's house is afire, it is the owner's duty, as Jefferson once pointed out, not to arrest the thief who may be stealing the furniture, but to put out the flames. To the Democratic party in this country is to day presented an opportunity that seldom comes to a political organization. The American people are in revolt against the men and measures that now rule the nation. Evils trusts have at length awakened among the people a keen'sense of resentment. On this one issue the present administration should be defeated at the polls.

The inequality of existing tariff laws is another question that comes home to the great mass of the voters. The foreign policy of the government is an emphatic disappointment. It was never intended that the flag of this country should ever be perverted, ai it has been in the Philippines, into an emblem of torture, spoliation and murder. Millions of men in this land to-day who are willing to die for their country are indignant that the moral standards of this nation have been lowered by the policy of imperialism. The people are both impressed and depressed by the results of the government's "colonial experiment.

The war in the Philippines is known to be financially unwise and morally wicked. New men and new measures are needed. The ideals of the republic must needs be once more lifted up to the eyes of every beholder. Economy, justice, righteousness these virtues must rule the conduct of this nation both at home and abroad. We need now to make a pilgrimage to Samuel J.

Tilden's grave; we need to revive the spirit of this gTeat patriot in the hearts of the people. To Americans of to-day the words spoken by Mr. Tilden in 1S76 to the Hon. James Carter of New York are especially significant. Mr.

Carter had expressed surprise that Mr. Tilden had not allied himself with the Republican party. He (Tilden) answered that while it was true that a large ma jority of men of wealth, culture and force were (at that time in the North) to be found in the Republican party, the trouble was, to use his own language, it was a party of self-seekers. He explained that he did not mean this in any offen sive sense; that what he meant was that the controlling men of that party were men of large pecuniary interests, seeking to build up fortunes and families; that these personal interests were so large as necessarily to engross their thoughts and control their opinions, leading them to use their powerful influence so as to shape the legis lation of the country in a form which would favor those interests; that it was difficult to lead such men along the pathway of those fundamental principles of Democratic government by which alone equal justice could be done to the masses of men; that the Democratic party held within us rantvs a lar smaller immDer 01 men 01 ttna II description, not enough to control its action, and consequently the opinions of its great masses could be more easily shaped and molded by the mere force of ideas; that this was the distinction between the former Democratic and Whig parties. and that the Republican party would, ns the pa triotic inspirations caught from the opposition to slavery and the defense of the Union died away, become the mere successor to the spirit and policy of the Yhig party.

There can be no doubt that this prediction of Mr. Tilden has been abundantly fulfilled. The Republican party of to-day is controlled by per sons whose individual interests "engross their thoughts and control their opinions." It is im possible to suppose that such men when entrusted with government will administer their office in the interest of the masses. Relief from existing ills can never come through the instrumentality of the Republican party. Republican leaiers- those who shape the party's policy "cannot be led along the pathway of those fundamental demo cratic principles by which alone equal justice can be done to the masses of men.

It is for this reason that the name of Tilden, the great commoner, should be remembered at this hour by the Democratic leaders. The spirit of such a man surely has in it much energy for good. He was in every sense a patriot and a statesman a representative of that class of men wno arisiocraiic in Taste out oemocraue in sym pathy have, as Dr. Holmes tells us. "rocked this planet like a cradle and kept it swinging to this day." Success to the Tilden Club! May it wax in power and prosper! THE SUGAR EXPORT BOUN TT QUESTION When it was announced, a few weeks ago, that an agreement had been reached at the Brussels conference of the leading beet sugar countries of the world, to abolish the system of -export bounties, the news was received with delight everywhere.

It promised to put an end to the ar tificial stimulation given to the production of sugar, which had resulted in overproduction and the consequent depreciation in the price of sucrar below the cost of production in many cases. The French and British West Indies had been ruined and even Cuba was threatened with bankruptcy ty this demoralizing system. The only sufferers by the action proposed by the Brussels conference were the Agrarians and other representatives of the beet sugar interests of Germany, and they are now up in arms and making so vigorous a campaign against the Brussels arrangement that great fear is expressed lest Germany may withdraw from it. The side of the German beet sugar interests is presented by Herr Conrad Meyer, director of one of the biggest refineries in Germany. He j-aces the cost of the production of sugar in ua.ure nan animal impulse.

ir public policy becomes vicious and brutal and bloody, we may expect art to take 1 on somewhat of the same coloring." FIBLIC OPISIOS. The dominating Influence of the political machine ore the ballot box extends to the Jury box as well, and there is no practical evidence that the Jury does not represent the moral Indifference and the political apathy of the com munity at large. Philadelphia Times, Iud. It I. curious to note that the St.

Louis Globe-Democrat Is the only Republican paper In the country which is now stigmatizing all those Republican, who favor a arrangement with Cuba as "free-traders." and It Is a Re publican paper in a State where the rarty has a ies, thnn 11 ha'! tPD mrs The Beef Trust claim, Is money bv prod.i-t to retailers at a hundred (ir he average bid of Armour fr dl Indian, was 24 a hundred, and those of the combination were almost equally low There may be nothing Illegal In this, but there Is now public to think A month or more ago Col. Crowder was sent out p.t haste to investigate the British camp. He mad- his report It wa, considered briefly in Cabinet nd referred to Attorney General. There it has slumbered. No has been taken, no announcement made, and the report ha, not even been made public.

It Bt denied In al ministration that the case hns been deiiber" te-y "Passed over" the hope that a decision Tfu Smith Africa thU 11 "TS may bring the to an end. The administration Is between two fires Tu'r and Is a.reuuousiy inng to escape tllrn -Chicago Herald, Ind. Record- In commenting on the error of Andrew Carnegie in Ing to give the I nited State, price mm Spain for the Philipplnes-if he could be assured th Filipino, would he given Independence, some of the pul Journals go so far as to impute to Mr. Carnegie worthy motives. They assume that he was actuated bv" selfish and vulgar purpose to exploit his power a vZl rich man and that, in fact, his whole career a 'J giver public benefactor was the outgrowth of per and jaundiced one.

it easy. course, to find JJhu selfish motive behind every is rather contemptible business to be constantly sernln' for such motives, when better and mo.e probable one, ha to be pushed reach city Journ.7 "He's a kind hearted automoblilst. isn't be?" "Exrep. tlonally so. I never knew him to run over even a child, unless he waa in a hurry." Life.

A Pretty Sure Sign: "Does she sing as If she had bad her vob-e cultivated?" "Oh. yes, I couldn't understand a word she said." Philadelphia Bulletin. Oreat Learning: Kind Lady (horrified) "My child, I hope yon don't swear!" Small Boy "Naw, not much; but I'm learnln'. Pay, youse otter hear my paw:" Ohio State Journal. Pore Sam was very good to me." sobbed the weeping widow.

"With all the latin's he gimme he never hit me where the marks would show so the neighbors could see 'em." Tit Bits. He Wouldn't Ho: "Why didn't your church call thst eloquent young preacher, after all?" asked Mildred. "Oh. it turned out that he knew nothing of ping pong." answered Amy. Pittsburg Chronlcle-Teiegraph.

Oood One "Brother, don't you know If yoi swesr at those mules you won't get te paradise T' Bad One "Yes, pawson; but if I don't swear at them I won't get to the end ef the row, and that's the Important thing at present." Ph-ladelshla Record. A i..