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8 THE PHILADELPHIA MOEKING, MAUCH 20, 1900 STRAWBRIDGE CLOTHIER ready made itself apparent to" those who know The Inquirer's unwavering line of thought, but for fear others may not have divined it we will add that the Pennsylvania insurgents and bolters are being buried Fancy Wash Flannels TUESDAY MARCH 20, 1900 Centre Store Genuine Ceylon Wash Flannels, full 34 inches west Aisie Extra Values in Dress Goods Centre Store Largest assortment, highest qualities, lowest prices Mam Aisie three reasons why buyers of Dress Goods are never disappointed here. These Stores have been headquarters for this class of merchandise for more than a generation, and were never better prepared than now to meet every demand. We note a few extra values for this week's selling i else will have any decisive vpice to the contrary. The doubt as to his willingness is the only element in the situation from which uncertainty proceeds. By his shrewd diplomacy, combined with the powe of the armaments which he controls, the Kaiser has made himself the arbiter of the destinies ot Europe.

It is he who stands between Great Britain and intervention, and for that substantial service, as for others, he will In due season claim and receive an appropriate reward. The short-sighted people who used to deride the Kaise. as 'a crank must have noticed by this time that he is not losing any tricks in the game. In playing his cards so as to win the greatest possible number of tricks William the Second is a past master. wide; sixteen different designs and colorings in stripes and plaids a popular fabric for waists, specially desirable for traveling and general outing wear.

Originally 65 cents a yard; this lot of six thousand yards is to go at less than half price 23 cents a yard. BTBRT DAT IW TBS TEAS BY THE INQUIRER COMPANY JAMES ELVERSON President Th Inquirer Building, 1109 Market St. WASHTJTGTOIT BTJKEATJ, M10-H Street. NEW TOBK KEW8 BUREAU. Brld Building.

NEW TOBK ADVERTISINGS BUREAU, 86 Tribune Building. beneath the loftiest banks of snow that ever fell upon, repudiated politicians. For further particulars be kind enough to consult the returns from the primaries already held and those which are yet to come. There were indications at midnight that the Boers were still on the toboggan slide and that they were enjoying the ride about as much as could be expected from people who knew that they had no soft place on which to land. The market yesterday was what the fellows who know call irregular probably another way of saying that some fellows got caught and some others got away, and that the one were sorry and the others glad.

But the brokers who never speculate ah, the brokers, they are the boys who went on smiling just the same as before. In their case things turned out exactly as they did with the darkey's trap. They caught the coon a-goin' and a-comin'. They don't make them very much slicker than that. Hair Mattresses $15.00 West Store The iMralra is for sola at the Landing Hotels and Newi Stands in yttm Tork by o'clock ererj morning.

a regular value; Third Floor made in our ovn factory, of pure horsehair, and covered with a heavy grade of ticking; fully guaranteed as to quality and cleanliness. Nit a large lot at this price which affords an absolute saving of one-third. this was the origin of "the great trek." It may be supposed that when they reached the remote region in which they settled, and especially when they gained their political independence, their treatment of the natives whom they subjugated was not more gentle or considerate than it had been in the south under the eye of the British authorities. Their and is, that the African native is no more than a brute, and upon that point, as upon others, they have always lived up to their convictions. It is, therefore, not at all surprising to read in the Christian Standard of this city a letter written from Cape Town by the Rev.

J. S. Moffat, son of the famous missionary, Dr. Moffat, in which the following statements appear: YetJ the war now going on between white men is being watched by the natives with intense-concern. As one of them put it to me the other day, "If the English win, then we black men can breathe and live.

If the Boers win, then we shall be no more looked upon as men, but as cattle; so we shall go home and pray to God to make the arms of the English strong." It is only fair to say with regard to this extract that the Boers and the missionaries have never agreed very well. The Boers have always insisted that the missionaries were bent upon making trouble, and that it would be better for them to mind their own business. The Irritation thus expressed is natural, for the remarks of the missionaries upon the treatment of the natives by the Boers have been persistently and unanimously disagreeable. It is no wonder that the Boers don't like it. These statements just made by the Rev.

Mr. Moffat can hardly be regarded as sympathetic. Black Dress Goods All-wool French Tamise with embroidered silk figures, in six different designs; 42 inches wide $1.50. Wool Crepe with silk ribbon stripes in different widths. This quality is very light in weight, and can be worn throughout the warm weather season; 42 inches wide $1.75 a yard.

Silk-and-wool Grenadine two distinct weaves, one of Camel's-hair Barege, and the other an open crossbar mesh; both with fancy silk stripes of different widths; 44 inches wide $1.25 yard. Imperial French Armure and Jacquard Granite seven large and small lustrous designs; 45 inches wide $1.50. Papulous Cloth mohair-and-wool, with embroidered designs of brilliant mohair, in six different styles; 42 inches wide unusual vaiue at $1.50. Colored Dress Goods Silk-and-wool Barege with satin and hemstitched stripe; in gray, tan, blue, reseda and heliotrope; 47 inches wide $3.50 a yard. Silk-and-wool Grenadine gray, tan, brown and blue satin cross bar stripe, forming a plaid effect in self colors; 44 inches wide $2.50 a yard.

Silk-and-wool Crepe de Chine an exquisite texture, soft and clinging, in grays, biscuit, tan, army, navy, heliotrope, brown and red; 45 inches wide $2.00 a yard. Silk-and-wool Crepe the fine crinkle kind, in the latest pastel shades; 44 inches wide; an extra quality $1.50. All-wool Voile fine, open mesh, for a self-colored lining, in gray, tan, new blue, brown, heliotrope, green and rose; 42 inches wide $1.25 a yard. The Baay Inqvlrer is delivered by Carrier at Six Cents a week, payable to the carrier or agent. Bj 11 Twenty-fly Cents a month, or Three Dollars per annum, tnadTanoo.

Sunday Edition, $1.50 per rear. Daily and Sunday, $5.50 per year. The 8 and Inquirer will be sold by Carriers. News Agents and Newsboys at Five Cents per copy throughout the city and country Including the beautiful Colored Art Supplement. Make an Money Orders, Checks or Drafts payable to The Philadelphia Inquirer Company.

Manuscripts will not be returned unless postage is sent for that purpose, but in no oase will the Iaqulrer be responsible for their tafs return. Speaking about those weather prophets again, the goose bone and ground hog included, the weather this winter was its own prophet, and it proved every variation that it made. Nemo Self-reducing Corsets East store Much wanted now by women Second Floor of stQut figure whJ desjre to wear the modish straight-front dresses. Give the figure grace and symmetry, and tend to strengthen and support those who are physically weak. Here in two favorite styles and in all sizes $2.50 and $5.00.

The date when the subscription expires is on the address label of each paper the change of which to a subsequent date becoraee a receipt for remittance. Ne other receipt is sentnnless requested. The paper la stopped at the expiration of the subscription if renewal is not receired. FEBRUARY CIRCULATION no th- proof Cedar Chests west store 0f solid Red Cedar, hand-Basement somely made and finished with raised panels, fancy-turned mouldings, gpod locks, handles and casters. Three sizes, each 24 inches high by 24 inches wide: 42 inches long $15.00 48 inches long $16.50 54 inches long $19.50 Golf Capes centre store A small collection, made second Floor Up 0f 0(jd sizes from several lots, sharply marked down for clearance; all desirable styles, from our regular 7.50 to $10.00 lines some even higher your choice now at $5.00 For another week or two it will still be incumbent upon the careful citizen who ventures out to business in the morning to take with him his overcoat, water-proof, galoshes, linen' duster, silk hat, storm coat, patent leather pumps, blizzard cap, rubber boots and the rest of his annual attire.

Under those conditions he- may be able to reach home at night with some degree of comfort. In the way of current history there is nothing to chronicle except the fact that the men of action are still making history and the dreamers are still dreaming. Up the State, rumor says, many women attendants on theatrical performances still wear their hats during those performances, an accusation which we regret to note. It isn't the fashion, ladies; it isn't the fashion. In fact, it is to-day considered a vulgar habit.

All of which, of course, is said in gentleness, but which still means: Take 'em off. 15 172,987 16 173,069 17 174,882 18. 170,829 19 173,003 20 172,752 21 ....175,409 22 173,462 23 173,354 24 175,863 25.. 170,687 26 172,940 27 173,143 28 173,252 .170,182 2.. ....170,397 3..,..

172,985 171,114 5 6 171,631 7 172,091 8 171,988 9 172,185 10 174,578 11 170,861 12 172,740 13... 172, 4 66 14 172,817 Total for month Mr. Root's Visit to Cuba It seems to us that while the opinions of the Secretary of War upon the present situation in Cuba and the future of the island are interesting on account of the prominence of his official position, their- value as contributions to the public stock of knowledge upon the subject to which they relate has been considerably over-estimated. Mr. Root paid a flying visit to Cuba for the laudable purpose of informing himself by personal observation how things were going on.

He stayed there a week, traveling from place to place and talking as well as linguistic difficulties would permit with the leading men In the towns and cities which he visited. Having devoted as much time as he felt that he could afford to these investigations, he returns home, and, through the instrumentality of a convenient reporter, makes public proclamation of the conclusions which he has reached. They are, in effect, that the Cuban people are bent upon attaining their political independence, but that, as they are convinced that the United States will evacuate the island and surrender the government of it into the hands of the natives as soon as it is thought prudent and practical to do so, they have made up their minds to await in patience the arrival of that happy day of deliverance. Is this, indeed, the attitude of the majority of intelligent Cubans who have the interests of the country at heart, and whose judgment as to the best way to promote those interests is not warped by personal ambition? Mr. Root says it is, and just because he says so a great many persons are willing to assume that such must be the fact; but how much is it reasonable to suppose that Mr.

Root could learn upon the subject in the course of a week's visit, and how much confidence is to be placed in the declarations of the office-holding class, with which he would naturally be brought into the closest contact? The functionaries, actual and potential, are naturally In favor of the Institution of an Inde S. C. Pillow Cases centre store made from finest COt-West Aisie and insertion hemstitched, all finished with three-inch hems: Fine Muslin Pillow Cases hand-drawn hemstitched 22x36 inches 21 cents each 25x36 inches 23 cents each 27x36 inches 25 cents each Finest Muslin Pillow Cases hand-drawn spokestitched 22x36 inches 45 cents each 25x36 inches 48 cents each 27x36 inches 50 cents each Finest Muslin Pillow Cases hemstitched and open-work insertion 22x36 inches 50 cents each 25x36 inches 53 cents each 27x36 inches 55 cents each Bolster Cases to match any of the above styles. Handkerchiefs East store Handkerchiefs a trifle Filbert st. soiled, some slightly damaged, reduced for quick selling.

Prices of the soiled ones average full one-third off; of the damaged ones, one-half off: Linen Handkerchiefs embroidered, lace-trimmed or lace-inserted 10c, 18c, 25c, and up to $1.00 each. Swiss Embroidered Handkerchiefs 8c, 9c. and 15 cents each. 4,833,118 sold dally 172,001 sold Sunday 170,873 Average number of papers Average number of papers The announcement that the recently-discovered North Pole is to be split up and used for kindling wood is believed to be the latest Bryan canard. Honest in all things, The Inquirer at this moment confesses to a doubt as to whether it will be the April or March showers that bring out May flowers.

At this very moment no one, surely, could foretell whether it will not rain warm rains for two weeks. Or snow cold snows. Handsome Tailormade Costumes centre store Buyers here have the advantage of choosing from the second Floor largest collection of Tailored Costumes in America the best and most varied, as well. Nothing in the market equals our 10.00 and 12.00 Costumes that's conceded; to-day we mention some values equally attractive in the next higher grades: Costumes of Cheviot good quality, black and blue; jaunty Eton jacket, single-breasted and tight-fitting, taffetas-lined; beautifully-shaped skirt, lined with fine percaline $15.00. Costumes of Cheviot high-grade, in blue and black; open-front Eton jacket, lined with taffetas; skirt box-plaited and lined with fine moire percaline $18.00.

Costumes of Homespun in gray and black; flare skirt, percaline-lined; double-breasted Eton jacket, lined with taffetas; exceptionally well-made $20.00. Costumes of Venetian in gray and tan double-breasted Eton jacket, dip front, lined with taffetas; percaline-lined skirt, handsomely tailored, with stitching $25.00. Costumes of soft Camel's-hair Cheviot lined throughout with good taffetas; single-breasted jacket, plain cloth collar and revers $.00. Costumes of fine Venetian soft and rich; taffetas lined throughout, both jacket and skirt; jacket finished with silk revers and edged with cord $40.00. These Costumes possess every touch of elegance and refinement that usually characterizes fine custom-made garments.

Yesterday Circulation ot The Philadelphia Inquirer was Knit SVJEIRER 173,427 pendent Cuban Republic, but Is that the senti Last Sundays Circulation was 171,916 STRAWBRIDGE CLOTHIER ment of the instructed Cubans who have a substantial stake in the country, and who cherish no aspirations in the office-holding direction? We doubt it very much. Cubans of that class realize very clearly that nothing could so greatly promote the prosperity of Cuba, that nothing could furnish so strong a guarantee for its future good government, as its incorporation into the territory of the United States. That Is the IS A LEGAL VACATION Supreme Court Makes an Important Decision in a Railroad Case. The Supreme Court yesterday In the case of Wetherlll vs. the Pennsylvania- Railroad Company, has, for the first time, decided that the striking of a street from the city plan by the Department of Public Works, in obedience to an ordinance of Council-, is a legal vacation.

The facts were that Councils by ordinance of July 2. 18'JO, authorized the Department of Public Works to strike from the city plan Wheatsheaf lane from Coral to Amber street. It wns subsequently amended by directing that the striking off should be restricted to that por consummation toward which the more enlightened Cubans look, and through whose attain J. N. Blanford, Mrs.

M. Blanford, Mrs. J. T. Waite, Mrs.

William Dungan, Mrs. J. M. Fenton, Mrs. H.

Hansell, Mrs. W. Knecht and Miss M. McCellan. The West Green Street Whist Club, which meets every fortnight at the residence of one of its members, was entertained last night by Mr.

and Mrs. A. Christ, of 1502 North Fifteenth street. Miss Mabel McKlnley. niece of President McKinley, and Miss Gretchen Emslie, of Johnstown, were ihe guests of Mrs.

George W. Pairman, of West Price street, Germantown, for a few hours while en route for Washington two days ago. Miss Emslie will visit Mrs. Falrman again in a few weeks. Mr.

and Mrs. George G. Davis are among the Philadelphians stopping at the Earl-ington. New York city. ment alone the vast possibilities of Cuban devel-1 opment can ever be fulfilled.

The "Cuba Libre" idea Is a delusive dream to which It is a 41 thousand pities that the United tion between Amber street and the northern States should ever have given countenance. Sooner or later Cuba must be absorbed into The Servant Girl Question Mrs. Emmons Blaine's reported solution of the great servant girl question recalls the famous remark made by the French princess just before the outburst of the revolution, at a time when thousands of people in Paris were on the verge of starvation. This ingenuous princess suggested that if the poor people could not get bread, what was the matter with their using cake as a substitute? No one had thought of that, but somehow or other the idea was not received with any notable measure of It fell rather flat, as it were. So with the Blaine plan for solving the vexatious question of domestic help to which so many able minds have addressed themselves in vain.

It is very simple, as simple as the plan by which Columbus made the egg stand on end after all the couriers of Ferdinand and Isabella had tried and tried in vain. It consists In extending the eight-hour system to the field of domestic labor. Mrs. Blaine has experimented along this line, arm she finds the thing works like a charm. She is no longer afraid to face the cook; she can venture in the kitchen when she wishes to do without assuming the risk of provoking a rebellion; she can give extraordinary orders for dinner and complain if everything is not just so with that enviable serenity of mind which arises from the happy consciousness that there will be a cheerful acquiescence in the equity and righteousness of her claim to be mistress in her own house.

It was not always so, and the satisfaction which Mrs. Blaine feels in the success of the plan which she has adopted to propitiate the help and render them happy, cheerful and contented can readily be understood. And how. It may be asked, has Mrs. Blaine worked out the eight-hour system in its application to the duties of the household? Very easily.

By having her servants work in eight-hour shifts. We are not informed as to the precise particulars of the arrangements which have been perfected, and there are some difficulties connected with its operation, the manner of whose removal has not been clearly explained. But in a general way the girl who begins her work at six in the morning, if any labors are entered upon at so early an hour in the Blaine household, is through for the day at two in the afternoon and is at liberty to follow her own devices. We don't quite understand about the cook. If she prepares breakfast at say eight o'clock, does she also superintend the cooking of a seven o'clock dinner, or does Mrs.

Blaine's plan involve the employment of a brace of cooks? There Is some regrettable confusion as to this. On the street car lines they have what is called a "swing," by which the man who works early In the morning has the middle of the day for himself and goes on duty in the evening. Perhaps Mrs. Blaine pursues that plan with cook. Perhaps that redoubtable functionary has a "swing." It is true that in that case there is the difficulty of luncheon.

If the cook "swings," who looks after that? Possibly the luncheon takes the form of something cold which the cook can prepare before she goes on her "swing," but there is an unfortunate obscurity upon the point which precludes any satisfactory definiteness of opinion. Happily, however, the' main principle of the Blaine plan Is easily and completely intelligible. It is that not fewer than three servants must be employed to do the work the house, and that these three must be worked in relays of eight hours each. Nothing could be simpler. It is unfortunate that the fact that of the families which engage any help whatever themselves a small minority of the whole not over ten per cent, employ more than a single girl deprives Mrs.

Blaine's discovery of any general applicability, but there it is, and an interested public can make the best of It. The Protection of American Citizens The exposure in this morning's Journal of the serious situation in China, which justifies the sending of at least four warships to that country, pending the formation of a regular Chinese squadron under Rear-Admiral Kempff, and which makes it necessary to discuss plans for the landing in China of a portion of the American army now in the Philippines, to be marched into the interior of China, created much concern in official circles, annoyed the administration and produced a spasm of apprehension among those Republican leaders who believe the United States Government is already seriously enough committed to an imperialistic policy which, in spite of specious denials, involves an offensive and defensive al- -liance with Great Britain. Xew York Journal. What is ihe use of lying? According to the official announcement of the Secretary of the Navy, a single warship has been ordered to Taku, at the mouth of the Pieho Elver, and he says concerning it: This was done as a result of the representations made to the State Department by Minister Conger, who reported that serious attacks had been made upon the missions in Shan-, tung by the "Boxers," a powerful and numerous anti-foreign league of Chinese. No other action has been taken, and yet the New York newspaper has already involved us in the superior mass of this country by the sheer force of gravitation, and the sooner that day Personal Mention arrives the better it will be for the Cuban people.

That is the gospel, and not the gospel of separat ism, which Cuba's true friends will preach. He was until recently a pretty steady customer at a well-patronized lunch counter not a thousand miles from City Hall. He doesn't go there any more, however, and it all came about through a bit of pleasantry which he blames upon the proprietor of the place. It seems that he is fond of reading, so fond, in fact, that away from his desk he is seldom seen without a book or paper in his hands, whether he be at home, riding" in a street car or walking slowly along the street. Of course, his lunch hour was devoted, a large part of it, to his favorite pastime.

Seating himself at the lunch counter, he would order whatever he wanted to eat and then read while the order was being served. But this was not all; he would read likewise while he was eating. If both hands were engaged in wrestling with the food he would prop the book up against a glass, or cup, or some other dish, and read just the same. Naturally a lunch eaten in this way required a much longer time than a lunch dispatched in a more business-like manner. As the hour selected by the book-loving man was the hour selected by hundreds of other patrons of the restaurant he patronized, and as day after day customers of the place stand in line.vwaiting their turn for a chance to eat, the sight of a man reading while he lunched was not one to promote the most pleasurable feelings among those who wanted a chance at his seat.

Grumblings deep, if not loud, there were, though none of them reached the offender's ears. Two or three days ago matters were brought to a climax. The man with the book sat down at the lunch counter. Ordering a piece of pie and a glass of milk, he opened up his book and was soon absorbed in its contents. Back of him stood half a dozen men, the majority of them w4th anticipatory grins on their faces.

The man with the book heeded them not, neither did he pay any more attention to the movements of one of the seven or eight waiters behind the counter, which movements were, to a keener observer, suspicious, to say the least. "Anything else, asked the waiter, when the last mouthful of pie and the last swallow of milk had vanished. "Another piece of pie, sir?" "No," was the response, the eyes of the speaker still riveted on the pages of his book. "No more pie. You may give me a glass of water, though." The man with the book didn't notice the waiter when the latter placed the glass of water in front of him.

Neither did he notice an oblong bit of cardboard which found its way against the glass, leaning on the side nearest him. What he did notice, though, two minutes later, when he had come to the end of the chapter upon which he had been so intent, was an inscription in bold, black letters on the cardboard. This was the way the inscription read: "This is a restaurant reading room at Free Try it next time." The man with the book grasped the situation and his book at the same instant. It took him less than half a minute to pay his check and disappear through the door, followed by the heartless laughter of the half dozen or so customers who had stood behind him while he ate and read. He hasn't been in the restaurant since.

Puerto Rico Hurry Congress has done the proper thing in passing the bill appropriating two million dollars, the total of the moneys collected upon tariff duties between this country and Puerto Rico up to January 1, for the exclusive use of that Island. But that is charity It is not business and it is business that Puerto Rico wants. Charity is but a temporary contrivance at best, but business is permanent. The business men of the island, as we understand the situation, do not care whether they have absolute free trade with the United States or are given the fifteen per cent. duty.

What they want above everything else is certainty, and until that certainty is given them they can not prosper, because their business must be run under uncertainties. To the Senate of the United States we would say, then hurry! This country can stand free trade with Puerto Rico without any serious annoyance. With the Philippines it might be different. With Cuba It certainly would be. All that it is necessary to stand out for In the Puerto Rico case Is the prin line of the right of way of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The object was to abolish srrade crossing of the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia and Trenton and the connecting railroads it Wheatsheaf lane. The Department of Public Works acted upon this authorization and struck from the city plan that part of the street in June, 1897, and In May, 1898, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company erected fence across the lane at the north line of its right of way. A. M. Wetherlll then filed a bill In equity to enjoin this erection as an obstruction to his Ingress and egress from his property, and as a public nuisance on the ground that the lane had not been legally vacated.

The Supreme Court says that the plotting of a street on the city plan does not make it a street nor trench upon private rights, but opening a street involves the exercise of the rieht of eminent domain in the taking of private property, and this can only be done by judicial proceedings, but vacating a street takes no property from anyone. It merely restores to abutting owners their portion of the land freed from the servitude of the public way. There Is no constitutional right to damages even on the ground of injury under the present Constitution. Answers to Correspondents ONIiY QUESTION'S OF GENERAL INTEREST ANSWERED COIN QUERIES ARE NOT ANSWERED. SEND FOUR CENTS IN STAMPS AND LIST OF COIN VALUES WILL BE SENT.

QUERIES REGARDING BUSINESS FIRMS AND ADDRESSES NOT ANSWERED. COMPLICATED LEGAL, AND MEDICAL QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED. EVERY QUESTION MUST BEAR NAME AND ADDRESS OF CCRRESPONDENT. p. N.

You probably refer to Professor James Hervey Hyslop. of Columbia University, author of the "Syllabus of Psychology." H. H. We should unhesitatingly adjudge superiority to the second of the two dally papers, the merits of which a party of friends were discussing, when a lady present stated, as a test of excellence, that she got a mackerel wrapped by chance In the first Journal, which proved too thin, and she had to purchase the second to get the mackerel home without soiling her gloves. That settled it.

A a B. One of the places mentioned In votir note is at Sixth and Arch and the other at Ninth and Chestnut streets. We do not Insert advertisements In this column. PRINCIPAL. To obtain the address of an author or to find any of his productions not yet included in his books, the quickest way la to write to his publishers l.

Use "Mr." In addressing a letter to an acauaintance unless he has a professional or official title or Is a lawyer, when Esq. may be put after the came. also may be used after the name In writing to a physician, though "Doctor" before tie name In social correspondence is the more usual and in better taste. No American has a prescriptlye right to a title, though Americans are specially fond of using such appellatives as "colonel." doctor." etc not from snobbishness, as is often charged, but from greater facility In remembering. jf.

w. A magistrate cannot. In case of debt, authorize a levy on a man's money in the hands of his employer, but what redress the employe would have In case the employer, not choosing to have his people run In debt, should pay the claim and charge It against the claim on him for wages is another question. Theoretically, of course, the payment would be at the master's risk, but the relation of employer and employe might make it less expensive for the latter to submit in dignifled silence. g.

H. Among the papers on equestrian an alliance under which we are to fight the battles of England In China! That Is yellow journalism, pure and simple the kind that manufactures sensations out of 'nothing. And yet, if American citizens are attacked, this administration would be justified in using all its powers to protect them. is not the word. It would be in duty bound to protect them.

There Is no higher duty for a government to perform than to stand by its citizens in "every quarter of the globe. It is proper, it is obligatory, that navies and armies should be used for that purpose. Germany seized a territory In China because two German missionaries were killed. She is in China to-day for no other reason, and she will remain there. It is not the intention of this government to seize upon a slice of China.

We simply demand that our treaty rights shall be lived up to and that the ports should be opened to trade. But if our citizens are murdered or threatened we have an absolute right to demand protection, and that protection requires no alliances with other nations. A vessel has been ordered to Taku, and, If necessary, a whole fleet and an army will bo dispatched as a matter of fact; but the attempt to show that there Is "Imperialism" In the protection of our missionaries, that we are to fight the battles of other nations, Is a miserable attempt at sensationalism that carries its own rebuke with It. What would yellow journalism have, any way? Would it permit American citizens to be murdered and applaud a government that would remain inactive? Faugh! ciple that the is not an integral part of Surveyor of the Port Lytle arrived at his office late yesterday afternoon, and was overwhelmed with congratulations on the tremendous Stalwart Republican victory he won in the primaries held in Huntingdon county. The Senator and two members from that district are pronounced Quayites.

and the contest was waged upon that Issue. Surface Indications, said Mr. Lytle, noin-very strongly to the complete annihilation cf the Insurgents In Huntingdon county within a short time. While Surveyor Lytle modestly disclaims any special credit in the victory, it is well known that he was one of the Important generals in the conflict. Benjamin B.

Brown. Collector of Customs of Erie. was In the city yesterday. He paid his respects to Collector of the Port Thomas, and Superintendent of the Mint Boyer. Speaking of the condition of affairs in Western Pennsylvania he said that a wave of prosperity was now being" felt in that section of the State, and that indications point to a continuance of these conditions.

"The custom receipts at snlrt Collector Brown, "now amount to $150,000, quite a snug sum for a port that depends almost entirely upon coast vise Robert K. Long, of Buffalo, was registered at the Continental last night. Mr. Long Is on his way to Havana for the purpose of looking over the ground with view to investing largely in Cuban enterprises, if he finds the prospects favorable. "I am one of a Buffalo syndicate," he told an Inquirer reporter, "which has a big capital, and which stands ready to Invest It down there if thare Is a show for fnir returns.

But we have heard and read so much about the discontent of a certain class of CubRns over the continued domination of the island by the United States, that some of us ave disposed to be extremely cautious. I think, as do many other American people, thnt the best way to settle the whole thing would be for the United States to take over the island, make it one of our permanent colonial possessions, and put It on the straight rond to prosperity. Anl, as far I can see ahead, that must be the logical outcome of the present SHuation." Charles B. Newcomb. of London, Is at the Colonnade.

Mr. Newcomb's Inst visit to Philadelphia was during the Centennial year. "I hardly knew the city," he said last night, "so much has It chunged for the better. A Londoner isn't afraid of the sort of weather you are having Just now, you know, and so I spent the greater part of to-dav out of doors looking at your magnificent hew buildings, paved streets and other evidences of solid prosperity, and I have come to the conclusion that if ever I leave England and come to America to live. Philadelphia shall be my home.

It suits me to a dot." David W. Edwards, of Allegheny City: S. T. Young and Andrew Lewis, of Allen-town: James H. King, of Wllliamsport; B.

E. Underwood and Frank NH. Jenkins, of Altoona: Herman Boetteher. of Lebanon, and Walter Phillips, of Mauch Chunk, were the Pennsylvanians registered at the Continental last night. Dr.

Henry G. Williams, resident physician at the Anamosa. Iowa, Penitentiary, and Colonel John B. Cunnningham, of Des Mcines, Iowa, were at the Lafayette yesterday. Dr.

Williams is on a pleasure trip East, but Is embracing the opportunities afforded him to visit some of the more noted penal institutions. He devoted two davs to Sing Sing, and expects to find as much or more to interest him out at Cherry HilL He designates the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania as one of the model prisons of the world, and attributes its nieh standing among penologists wholly to the genius of the late Warden Cassidy. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allison of Pan Francisco, and Mr.

and Mrs. Albert R. Tom-llnson, of Pasadena. are at the the United States, and to insist that Congress has a constitutional right to make such laws if it sees fit. That is the only principle involved.

The Republican Senators ought, therefore, to be able to get together. Free trade or a small duty, it is all the same, so long as either is granted by an act of Congress. Save the principle; that is the only real issue involved. The Boers and the Natives It is a strange circumstance, and one which A SIcy Fancy Oh. the moon's a mighty golf ball.

By stroke of Titan hurled; From off the far horizon's "tee" 'Tis driven 'round the world. And Venus looks In wonder And the war Rod redly blinks As the big white ball goes Bailing high Along the starry links. It soars o'er cloudy bunkers That seek its flight to stay. And In its path it crosses swift The misty Milky Way. And when it has completed Its course across the sky.

On yonder hilltop of the West It finds Its distant "lie." Where waits a plant player Who "lofts" with steady aim. And so without a pause goes on The everlasting game. Jennie Betta Hartswick in Life. A luncheon 'was given by Mrs. W.

H. H. Robinson yesterday at the Acorn Club, among the guests being Mrs. Edward Beale, Mrs. Page, Mrs.

A. J. Dallas Dixon and Miss Margaret Meade. Mrs. William N.

Wbelen and daughter. Miss Agnes Whelen, Will spend the greater part of the summer in Paris. It is understood that Miss Wbelen's wedding to Mr. Henry O. Thayer will take place next autumn.

A dinner was given last night by Mrs. Owen Wister in honor of Miss Annis Ros-seli. Mr. B. Frank Clyde gave a theatre party, followed by a supper, and Miss Mary Coates entertained a number of the vounger set at a chafing dish party.

In the afternoon Mrs. Edward Dutilh Smith gave a luncheon at her residence, 1802 Pine street. The Radnor Hunt Club will give a dinner at the club house, near Bryn Mawr, on Tuesday, April 10. Mrs. J.

H. Fassitt and the Misses Fas-sitt will be among the Philadelphia cottagers at Cape May next season. They are at the shore for the Lenten season. Invitations have been sent out by Mr. Francis Alcott Allen for a reception on Friday next at his residence.

l.19 Pine street, to meet President Hadley, of Yale University. The wedding of M1ss Wagner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Wagner, of W'est Walnut lane, Germantown, to Mr.

William Cornelius, of Pittsburg, will take place during Easter week. Indications point to a very lively Easter week. One of the dances will be given by Mrs. J. Emlen Smith In honor of her daughter.

Miss Rhoda Smith, on Monday night of that week. This event Is looked forward to with much interest by the younger set. The engagement was recently announced of Miss Mary Bradley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bradley, of 242 West Logan square, to Mr.

Erroll Baldwin Hay. Mr. Hav is a graduate of Haverford College and is a member of the Merlon and Belmont Cricket Clubs. Invitations have been sent out by Mr. and Mrs.

Jackson Richards for the wed-din of their daughter, Mies Deborah Richards, to Mr. Edward G. MeCracken on Wednesday evening. March 28, at 3141 North Fifteenth stteet. Mr and Mrs.

Edwin Poe. of Baltimore, are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. S. Xaudain Dner, of Pine street Mrs O.

A. Bruce, who has been visiting relatives In this city, has returned to New York. This week Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith, of Germantown, will leave for Palm Beach, Fla where they will remain two weeks, and will later start for Europe.

They expect to be absent ten months, during which time they will also visit China and Japan. Mrs. W. H. N.

Ward gave a luncheon recently at her residence, 005 North Fifty-third street, in honor of Mrs. William McCellpn. Among those present were Mrs. 6. E.

Proud, Mrs. J. B. Williams, Mrs. impressively illustrates the inconsistencies to JUST A FEW THOUGHTS AN OBJECT TO BE PITTED.

It makes the modest man blush to read some of the dry goods advertisements in the Sunday papers. Sommerville Journal. SOCIETY NOTE. Beware of the statuesque girl. She is apt to give you the marble heart.

Chicago News. GETTING HIM WARMED UP. An East Indian prince, on his first visit to this country, suffered so continuously from cold that he contracted pneumonia and died. He was cremated, and, after being some ten minutes jn the crematory, an attendant opened a small slide in the side of the furnace to note the result. The prince was sitting bolt upright on the slab and shouted: "Shut that door!" Life.

FULFILLING ITS DUTY. If a cat is playful that is all that is expected of it. Atchison Globe. NOT VERY ORNAMENTAL. How tough the average family bed clothes look when they are hung out of the window to airl THE REAL THING.

Daisy (taking her first meal in the country) "Mamma, what is the matter with this currant Mamma (in a whisper) "Hush, dear! It's real currant jelly." Chicago Tribune. SELF ESTEEM. An egotist is a man who imagines he is in good company when alone. Chicago News. LITTLE BOY, BLUE.

ttt Kins irnii'vp blown vonrself which humanity is prone, that the Boers, whi.a placing such a high value on personal liberty. should be to such a marked degree unwilung to allow to others what they claim as a right for It is an undisputed and indisput able fact that the first great "trek," that which took ilace in 1835, and which led to the settle ment of Natal, of the Orange Free State and of the Transvaal, was induced by the action of the British Parliament in decreeing the abolition of Railroad Concessions in Asia Minor The demand which has been made by Russia upon the Sultan for railroad concessions in Asia Minor is not a matter in which Great Britain is immediately concerned, and the consequent development will be regarded by that country with entire equanimity. It has been slavery. The Boers did not then, any more than they do now, work their own farms. They maue the natives do that, and as this compulsion could pursnits are "Men and Horses." "Trotter and Glancing again at the internal revenue receipts, especially those which come from the tax on tobacco, and even the unsophisticated reader would speedily become convinced that houses consumed by flames are not the only things which go up in smoke.

It is rather unfortunate for Colonel Watterson that Colonel Watterson has decided not to do his utmost to sidetrack Colonel Bryan. The sympathy between these two gentlemen is not. unlike that isting, since the fall of man, between the fox and the goose, the lion and the lamb, and the eagle and the fowl. It is not likely ever to change. But, and in this series of comparisons we have likened Colonel Watterson to- the fox, the lion and the eagle, leaving all the rest to Colonel Bryan, the gallant Ken-tuckian would at least have been consistent if he had gone ahead in the work in which he once so earnestly engaged.

Surrounded, as he no doubt is, by sycophantsand flatterers, men to whom anything except the attainment of their immediate ends counts for nothing, he may fondly imagine that he is not tuidermining the prestige which he built up by years of consistent advocacy of his convictions, but he cannot mislead the rest of the world. They know now, from his change of front on the question of the currency alone, that he has succumbed to influences which were powerful enough, but which he should have fought to the end of his brilliant career. Thus far the anti-Quay gains, so feelingly alluded to by the insurgent organs, are, as they ought to be, almost equal to those of Aguinaldo, but, after all' there is nothing singular in that. All birds of a feather can't always flock together, but they are still to be identified by the feathers when seen! Time out of mind all the world has admired a suggested that this demand has been made now because the conflict in South Africa Is occupying the attention and absorbing the energies of the British Government. This shows a mis- rrV.v V.

I Pacer," "Rider and unver, 01 ew i Chicago "Horse Owner." Kansas "Horse Show" and "Whip and Spur." of this city. J. D- One naval cadet Is allowed for each Representative or delegate in Congress. Ten are appointed by the President at large, that Is. from any State or Territory, and one for the District of Columbia, also by the President of the United States.

Candidates for nomination must not be under 15 nor over 20 years of age. Two examinations must be taken, mental and physical. All this, however, does not Imply that a cadet even if he should be admitted, would necessarily become a navy officer. Only a certain number of the graduates of the institution, the very best men. are appointed.

The superfluous graduates are given one year salary and relegated to privat. life till wanted. Bcb cadet during his six years at school, gets 500. gnough to support hfm with due economy. CITY NOTICES Thirty years as physician told me would die of consumption.

I was troubled with touching. Twenty years ago I com. minced to use Javne's Expectorant, and when-Sr troubled with colds and hoarseness baje itfreely eer since. It fcss never failed to relief I. N.

WILLIAMS. Tareo-tum. Allegheny Jan- 1- 12. not be exerted after the abolition of slavery had been decreed by English law, the Boers who were then residing in Cape Colony emigrated In disgust Into a part of the country where the English law did not reach, and where slavery could be practiced with Impunity. Perhaps they would not have done so had the compensation which the British Government paid as an indemnity to slave-holders for the loss of their legal property been sufficiently large to enable the Boers to hire the labor they needed; but it was not.

Instead of allowing the Boer slave-holders the $400 each which they claimed as payment for the some forty thousand slaves which they held in their possession, the British Government, only allotted compensation at the rate of $156 a head, and so the Boers had to choose between working their farms themselves and moving beyond the British jurisdiction. It was tjve latter alternative that tbej; chosej and ijiiuc Flowers and candy and theatres and cabs; Winsome she is, but capricious, the elf! As dainty and fair as a subject of Mab s. Little Boy, blue, your purse is flat-Careless, she recks not why you stay away; Careless her nod is when you lift your hat And drink in her smiles from far over the way. Little Bov, blue, come, come, cheer up! Smiles there are many in this world for you; You're only taking a sip at the cup That thousands have drunk of, poor Little Boy, blue. Puck.

THE REASON. Mrs. Pilkins: "Why don't that horrid man, Swil-ler, across the street, sober up; he's been on a spree 3Ir. Pilkins: "Swiller is a philosopher if he sobers up he knows he'll have a headache. Ohio State Journal.

conception UJ. tue siiudiiuu. puner nmcu is chiefly interested In the construction of Turkish railroads is Germany, and whether the demand said to have been made by Russia is granted will depend upon the view of the subject taken at Berlin. It is the German influence that is paramount at Constantinople now-a-days. Neither Russia nor Great Britain has anything like the same Influence with the Sultan as that exerted by the Kaiser, who, since his services to that ruler in preventing the intervention of Europe on behalf of the Armenians, can get anything from the Sultan that he has a mind to ask.

If he is willing that the concessions which Russia is de- Or. Amy S. Barton Dead Dr Amy S. Barton, the well-known eye specialist, lingering from Fridays stroke of apoplexy, died yesterday morning at her residence. 2045 Chestnnt street.

She was born in Camden, N. Ofctbe' descendant of the original Quaker settlers of Burlington county: graduated at the Woman's Medical College In 1874 and has eiven her energy argely to the diseases of the eve ear and throat. She was the first woman in the college, and perhaps the countrv to be elected to a professorship of ophthalmology. She was Identified with fair fighter, and time not yet in mind jt will do the same. Time out of mind it has despised the guerrilla and time not yet in Tnind it will continue to Imanv charitaDie msinuiuma.

a ursi intact" of apoplexy occurred a few months n- rniinwiMi bv another last Friday. despise him. The meaning Jhese words, we reckon, haa al.