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"A REPUBLICAN QUESTION." Th Tribune publishes the following passag from a speech by Senator Bcn- Toii of Kansas, explaining to his party In hi State his position on the Cuban auestion. as to which he openly fought the recommendations of the President: i. a luiiialnn between Renublicans. tut not a Durtv aueatlon aa as.alnst the I mmocratn. I deny that the beet sugar Henatora were In the minority.

If any one aava anvthlna- elfe he falsifies. If thirty- five Republican Senators had come to us mnA irf Wm are aolnc to naas that bill." they could hava done ao. They never came to us with such a declaration. On the other hand, they came and encouraged us to keep up the light. There are not fifteen Repub lican Senators out of the fifty-four who are In favor of the present bill at heart.

Uet sugar is a Republican question by au thorlty. The Tribune very properly calls the action of the majority Senators described by Mr. Bcbton It Is treachery to a loyal and confiding political leader, the President, who fol lowed the advice of his professed friends In the Senate apparently against his own judgment. It was his desire to press the measure for Justice to Cuba promptly and persistently, and to use all legitimate means, to carry it from the very start. Republican managers urged that this would tend to divide the party and that It would be better to be patient and they would bring the party around to an agreement.

It seems that the President yielded to this advice, on the strength of the pledges accompanying it. He is an earnest Republican. It has always been his policy to carry out what he believes to be the tight with the least 'possible friction In the party. He trusted to the Republican leaders. with the result described la Senator Bl'hton's cynical speech.

His experience in the House was not less humiliating. There the leaders were even more profuse in their promises to secure the end desired If their way was taken. They may have been more honest than the Senators. They were even less successful, for they wound up with the complete defeat of their own meas ure and the passage of- bill which the Democrats supported and which the Sen ate would not touch. We are convinced that-it would have been, far better for the President, after the leaders had been defeated in the House, to accept the House bill and to urge its passage by Senate, even if it had to be pasted.

as in the Houae, with Democratic votes. For that he was not One thing is plain. Mr. Burtok is perfectly right in asserting that beet sugar is a Republican question." It is so because it Is a question of protection, aiid protection to the trusts, the Sugar Trust in particular, against the National honor and the National interests. Paint you an inch thick, to this complexion It cumes at last," Mr.

Roosevelt must recojnlio this fact and act on It. In his. fight for justice and decency in our treatment of Cuba he will have to face the Stubborn, bitter, unscrupulous, treacherous opposition of all the protected 'nt crests. If he can triumph at all. It must be by an appeal to the conscience of his party against the Influence 1 of these interests and of their tools in the -House and in the Senate.

We. believe that his party Is behind him and will, on such an appeal, back him up. We- do not believe that his party managers are with him or that will stand by him unless the force of public opinion compels them. Any further effort to work or through them, save under the' stress of this compulsion, will bring only more failure, humiliation, and betrayal. In th Phlllnolnea "thv have la New 1 York, and titer have Just as good a right to Lv ta New York as yoo have.

Tit win mn Af hit aa inrr pimp 11, any ultimatum of Root to he con trs rynct- wtthsterdlng. F. Y. Dtl twi New Tor July 11, WO. It will be dif ferent though, win It not.

if the ultimatum carries from the Pope? Leo XIILis a reasonable man' and a statesman of a high order of ability. The question of the friars' lands and property is one of business. 'The question of disposing of the friars themselves Is one of policy. In these two aspects the matter has been presented at the Vatican by Gov. Taft.

Dispatches from Rome and from Washington foreshadow the proba ble manner of adjustment. It is not essential to the objects of our poller that the friars should go at once and In a body. A process of substitution by which ecclesiastics of other, nationalities may be sent to the Philippines, gradually taking the place of the Span-tab friars, appears to be under consider ation. If the Holy See. finds It incon venient or impolitic to make the change complete and Immediate this manner of meeting its views and Its necessities.

while at the same time accomplishing our purpose, might be accepted at Wash ington. The friars will, have to go, how. ever. The reason "Is that their remaining is incompatible with successful civil- administration In the Philippines. Dr.

Da Costa may scornfully whistle this reason down the wind. The being a sen sible man and, a wise statesman, per ceives at once that It Is paramount and controlling. The native Catholics dislike the friars very much. They bring against them charges so setious as to amount to a demonstration that to continue them In their church work would be deetruct Ive of peace and good order. In such circumstances they will hot be ordered by the Holy to return to their parishes.

They cannot remain idle in Ma nila. The burden of their support is too heavy to be borne by the local church funds. Sooner or lster they -will leave the Philippines all of them Dr. Db Costa quotes the treaty. The treaty is law, but the law -does not re quire of any man impossible things.

Be tween negotiators entirely reasonable matters rarely come to that The light of reason is the guide of both par ties to the present negotiation. are sorry that so little of it shines in upon the mind of Dr. Da Costa. and the bloodhound would to a certainty have Been upon mm. Tet at 12:30 precisely there was not a Hying tool la ICbowb! kitchen tvt Tract, who bad) Just put a kettle on the kitchen fire to toil a ham.

How did he di It? What became of the others? Is it nbt a sheer futility to at tempt an explanation? Can language teU how the captive boot owl moves his head? j4 of. the observer In the same absolute Instant of time sees the bird facing oppbatte points without visi ble movement. IThe thauxnaturglo tract Ukewise defies bye and tongue and pen. The situation In Cbowb's kitchen was distinctly sculptural, not literary. The eminent snake (carver who.

did' the Lao- koon thing ml fht have taken sense of the picture up his retina and through the patient yesrs have worked it out In marble, the most complex an- fascinating group ever chiseled. But written de scription? The I Seattle reporter had read his Lessing ana Wlnckelmann and knew better than to Wttempt it. So we most heave Tracy to his bam. which after hla Immense labors he must sorely need. A 1 the Summer wears away we, shall hear much of Tracy, of the posse, and of he bloodhounds, Custom cannot stale lis infinite evasions.

He may permit them to capture him, but It will be only for fun of getting away again. But the resources of civil author ity in the Stale of Washington are not exhausted. Ham Lewis remains un tried. When he takes the trail Tracy may as well grv it up. TRACY, THE HUMAN EEL.

THE FRIARS WILL GO. fe Sttrvr Tim A'nc or Time. la your (un-American) editorial of this rjornin entitled Vhe Friars Must you appear to teach that if the trlars do uot go. they will be forced to go, 1 think II you have made vour meanina: clear that a groat many perrons wouUi like to know how you expect to carry out that programme in the face of the ninth article of the treaty of I'arls, which reads as follows: Spanish subjects, natives of the peninsula. reai-Jins; In the territory over which Bpuiiv, Ly the present treaty, relinquishes or cede sovereignty, may remain in such territory or may remove therefrom.

retainUiZ lu elthi-r event all their rights of property. Including the right to sell or dla- poiM 01 uch yrorrty or or its procevas; end thev shall also have the rieht to carry on thlr Industry, commerce, ami profession. being subject tn respect thereof to such laws as are to other foreigners. ace has been declared in the Philippines and war measures cannot be resorted to. The irUrs hart as good a right to live Outlaw Tract's press agent broke down Thursday morning from brain fag.

The Seattle reporter who was engaged to take his place drove Into Covington after midnight, but still in time to get his dls patch on the wires before the morning papers of the East went to press. There is three hours' difference of time be tween New Tork and the State of Wash ington. Friday night, however, the new man, who Is a slow writer, had at o'clock' In the morning got no further than the shooting tn the railroad cut near the sawmill plant, and the last half of his dispatch, narrating the most exciting Incidents In this Iliad of wonderful adventure, reached the office of Thb Times too late for publication yesterday, We will give a brief summary of the events as -they occurred after Tract, having fired twice at the elder Bcncx. plunged into the brush and disappeared. Of course every newspaper reader in the country knows how' Tract, a very Ulysses in tricks and expedients, has for a week eluded the pursuing posse, dodg ing In and out of the mountain paths.

putting the bloodhounds out of the game by strewing cayenne pepper behind him. masking his trail by walking in the shal low water around the lake shore, and all of that. Well, Friday night he exhibited the astonishing breadth of his resources in a still more extraordinary manner, About half a mile from the railroad cut Is a settlement. The Btjkces live there. and Galvin and Crowe.

Tract, after missing Bunck, made for Crowe's house. entered the kitchen, and sat down to dry his boots by the The bloodhounds easily picked, up the trail, and the whole posse, Sheriff Crowe, J. C. Bcnce, Fred Bunce. and about twen ty others were soon at Crowe's house.

Through the window they saw Tract sitting at the fire and called on him. to surrender. The fireplace and chimney of Crowe's house are built of rough stone. projecting about throe feet Into the large room used as a kitchen. looked at his pursuers a moment, and.

then, back ing up into the chimney corner, drew his revolver. Thereupon ensued a remarkable series of eventaJ The posse poured Into the kitchen pell mell, some at the others through the windows. In an Instant the Buncb brothers had 'pressed their cocked re volvers against tha temples of Tract, one on each side. Crowb stood in front of him with an uplifted axe. -Galvik held a cruel-looking knife at his throat, and Cutohee from the doorway had him covered with a 30-30 Winchester rifle.

Crowe's plucky daughter "had' thrown a stout rope around one of his ankles and her big bulldog was In the air, springing at the outlaws The-two bloodhounds were slowly 'nosing trail across the kitchen floor and growing visibly more ravage and excited. seemed to- realise that They they Were ap proaching their It was 12:28 A. M. by the kitchen clock and things looked dark for Tract. Anybody can see that-" t-, Why attempt to describe what happened next? Ere the swiftest pen could shape the letters of the first word the Bcnce brothers would have blown out Tract's brains, Crowb would have deft him to the chin.

Galtut would hava di vlded bis jugulars, Ccdihee would hava put a huDet through Ms heart, the girl would have tied his legs, the bulldog would have begun to chew his pistol ever large CONEY ISLAND PARK AS AN OBJECT LESSON. The park oriened a fortnight since at Coney Island has been a surprise and delight to the se who have seen It, but its chief value resides In the fact that It is an object 1 sson which those Interest ed in seaside improvements all along the Atlantic Coast may study with profit. The particulars in which the Coney Isl and Park differs from most other at tempts In thil direction are that it has soil. Irrigation, and suitable trees and plants, the continuance of which Is as sured by adehuate protection from de structive wldds. The first thing to be done is 10 surface the area un der improvement with Dlentv of rich top soil, not! merely a veneer of six to twelve lnejhes in depth, but two to four feet, with this should be used plenty of material, selected with intelligent reference to the vegeta tion it Is desired to sustain.

The best trees for sufch positions are vigorous young planes, American ashes. Norway and others of like char They bhould be planted hlh. not deep, so that their roots will not soon penetrate to the underlying sand and are readily reachbd by rain and sun. After the trees are ket out It Is very Important to stake then properly, ao that the wind may not shake them too much or fract ure their roots while still tender. Thereafter they Will need water in oodIous quantities.

U. mere surface sprinkling will do then) little good, and they will probably die If left dependent upon what moisture the can assimilate from even frequent Sur imer showers. Water must be brought them and their roots liter ally The vslue of copious tree watering is tetter, understood by French tree experts than It has ever been in this country. Ns seaalde park can be made successfully (without plenty of water. Having slajrted right, or as nearly right as experience can suggest, care is neces sary, and With the best which can be given many failures may be expected.

Trees and foliage plants have wIUs of their own, a id if not suited with the conditions of tlielr environment will die in spite of all that can be done for them. With patients and occasional replanting tne desired result may be accomplished. and it is wet worth the In plan ning seasldjt parks it is weU to avoid attempts to imitate either forest or car- den effects. I With lmmensltr in front nt them, too nSuch artificiality on a small scale becomje trivial. AU seaside narks should consist principally of grass, and not be too inuch cut up with walks and barbaric devices." They should be aim.

pie and bro id fn effect, and as different as possible from the typical Coney Island side sh 5W in their scheme of treatment- Tre should be skillfully placed, and the sai tie is true of shrubs. When gay flower are employed they should be grouped rather than and nothing shuld be planted which even under favoifable conditions' cannot thrive in the stroRg and salt-laden airs of the sea. All this requires Just such practical Judgment as Mr. Samuel Parsons has brought to bear upon the problem of converting la bleak, and barren spot oa the sands qf Coney Island into a restful and beautiful park. If the improvements were not fitted to the practical and aes thetic peculiarities of the special land scape the I result would be a failure.

Equally certain Is this result to happen if only a hundred dollars are available where a thousand are required to create the necessary conditions precedent. If aeasid park is wanted, the cheapest way to get It Is to plan It liberally, how- tiey act win probably' be of interest to those who follow tha distressing narrative, v. The gas known 'as fire-damp Is chiefly methane, or marsh gas. Natural gas contains on the average 02.60 parts of marsh gas In 100. the remainder being' chiefly hydrogen and i nitrogen.

In coal mines gas -designated aa fire-damp may be either methane or ethane, these compounds of carbon' and hydrogen having respectively the symbols CH and C.H.-The fire-damp encountered In the bituminous mines of this country Is mostly methane, and Is essentially similar to natural gas. It forms an explosive mlxt ure with air In proportions of five to thirteen parts of gas and ninety-five to eighty-seven parts of atmospheric sir. practically all beds of bituminous coal give off more or less methane as they are broken Into In mining. The seams which yield a great deal are known to the miners as irey." How great a volume of methane may sometimes be liberated Is illustrated by the fact that one English mlne.w'th an output of 1200 tons of coal per day throws, oft through its upcast ventilating shaft 4,500 cubic feet of methane per minute, or the equivalent of 150 cubic feet of gas per cubic foot of coal mined. This means that it Is held in the coal seam in high compression.

Methane, or fire-damp, has very little direct action upon man, and acts Injuriously only by diluting: the oxygen of the air. A mixture of 79 per cent, of methane and 21 per cent, of oxygen cannot be distinguished from normal air by the senses. It is not fired through the meshes of the Davy safety lamp, but by a miner's naked light or the striking of a match it is exploded with great disruptive force" when in the proper admixture with air. After-damp, which follows the explosion of fire-damp, is Incomparably the most deadly of mine gases. What Mr.

Robinson says about the relative mortality from fire-damp and after-damp in the Cambria mine Is probably true. In English experience less than 3 per cent, of men and animals killed In mine ex plosions show burns or any visible injuries sufficient to cause death. The remainder are killed by after-damp, which is chiefly nitrogen and carbonic acid. In the normal proportions of about' 88.3 parts of the former to 11.7 parts of the latter. When, however, as Is usual and almost invariable, the amount of oxygen present at the time of the explosion is insufficient to effect the complete combustion of the methane and the con version of its carbon Into carbonic acid, more or less carbonic oxide is formed, the percentage of this deadly gas sometimes reaching 4.5 to 3 per cent.

As from 6.2 to 0.4 per cent, in air Is fatal to animal life, it wUl readily be seen tha't the presence of even 2 per cent, would give those who escaped the whlrrwind of flame very little chance to reach breath-, able air. It Is this fatal after-damp which makes the work of rescue so perilous after an explosion. Carbonic oxide is also the deadly element of water gas manufactured for illuminating purposes, and that which makes the leakage loss of some three thousand millions of cublo feet 'per annum of the gas distribution of Manhattan and the Bronx and nearly six hundred millions In Brooklyn so serious a matter viewed from the standpoint of the public health. The illuminating gaa of Greater New York contains usually In excess of 30 per cent, of this very poisonous constituent. The dead Une Is reached for many persons at 0.2 per cent, of carbonic oxide In air.

Some can stand temporary exposure to as much as 0.4 per cent, and even more for short periods. It is inodorous, has no Irritating properties, and destroys life by assimilation with the hemoglobin of the blood to the exclusion of oxygen. Its affinity, for hemoglobin is 'nearly 400 times greater than that of oxygen, and it forms with It a much more stable compound. It undoubtedly accounts for the prevalence of anemia in cities thus lighted, and for much of the mortality attributed to heart This brief explanation of what firedamp and after-damp really are win make the testimony in the Inquest concerning the causes of the casualties In the Johnstown disaster more Intelligible to the non-technical reader than it would otherwise be. sell food and the necessities of life to the families of those who have incurred the displeasure of the union.

How will Mitchell and bis lieutenants answer the following: butchers and bakers may not sap-ply meat and bread, when the doctor may not attend the sick, the drugslst may not dole out medicine and the priest may not minister, either to those tn health or to thoa at death's door; when public officers may not perform public duties, when teachers in the school msy not teach or be appointed except by the consent of strikers or their sympathisers, then, indeed, the last vestige of personal liberty has gone and society must be rebuilt upon a basts of submission to the tyranny, not necessarily of majorities, but rather of a band or-tnea who will not hesitate to employ every means of Intimidation as a lawful Instrument of controL Probably they win say that the union Is not responsible for such acts; that It does not authorise them, and that If the mine owners are hard hearted and refuse the men the opportunity to make an honest living such deplorable Incidents must be expected as expressions of In dividual desperation. Such an answer would be a lie of circumstance. We would suggest to the Citlsens Alli ance that It Is wasting time Inditing appeals to Mitchell. It would be much more to the purpose If (t should give the Sheriffs of the counties In which such crimes are committed notice that they must stop and that official negligence or Incapacity win be followed by impeachment and a prompt demand for removal from office. They should also lay the facts' fully and specifically before the Governor and see to it that they are understood.

To ask criminals, to desist from crime accomplishes nothing; to focus pubUo attention upon theacts of official malfeasance or nonfeasance which permit them would be likely to accomplish a great deal. If not. It would be In order to appeal to the President of the United States to take steps to give the people of Pennsylvania a republican form of government. What they have now is anarchy. which the doctors' have any- right to dogmatise.

Their proper attitude toward rheumatism Is one of humility and awe. with 'an arrogance which ap proaches shameless effrontery, they have recently, affirmed that It Is contagioua that a person of the most blameless Ufa may acquire Its seeds by consorting; with a rheumatic friend or neighbor under favoring circumstances, It may be so, but considering their appalling Ignorance of Its cause and Its nature and what tissues It Involves they can shew no warrant for any such alarming an nouncement. Surely It Is enough that the rheumatks sufferer Is 'without the hope of human themselves that It Is possible for them ae Lieut. Oov. David Coatea at Colorado, who was elected on the Fusion State ticket aa a Pepulist.

has lately publicly oecla.ed, as reported by the papers of that State, that he ts a Socialist, and purposes te ae aQ he caa te betp.the Socialist party success tn the Bute election next Fall. says ae will not be a Candida te for Governor er aay other office, but that an ether parties have been renounced by hint aad he will henceforth be Identified with Socialism ana its leaders. Mr. Coatee is sow Acting Governor of Colorado la the ts-swoce of Gov. Oman ton an East era trio.

Chairman Borches of the Tennessee R. publican State Executive Committee is desirous of having a Joint debate betweea the two leading candidates for Governor aid. Is the victim of the physician's lm- of State, the Hon. James B. FTtUn, idi vrnocnuo nominee, ana juage ueary T.

Campbell, who has been put up by the Republicans. Each of them la known as a he Initial expenditure. FATAL MINE GASES. In explax ation of the dreadful disaster at the coa mine of the Cambria Steel Company. 1 ear Johnstown.

Superintendent Seorob T. Robinson makes the followl ig statement: As to the direct cause of the explosion. I cannot exac Uy say. Wo know then was aa explosion fire damp la the sixth right heading of section of the mine commonly known as the Klondike. So far aa I can find out now.

tiers were not more than three or four deiths from the explosion itself. The rest were caused by the after-damp. As the Iterms fire-damp and after damp are likely to be used a good deal during tht Inquest Into the cause af this appalling calamity, an 'explanation of-what th sse deadly gases are and how A SEIGN OF TESS0S IN THE COAL REGION. Citlsens of the anthracite district of Pennsylvania who are neither mine owners nor miners have at hist found courage to tell the truth and dispel the Illusions which the union leaders have sought to maintain as to the character of the measures resorted to by organised labor to make their strike formid able. The statement made by the Citlsens' Alliance of Wllkesbarre' to President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers shows very clearly that the strike is one of violence and terror, and leaves no room for even a pretense that the min ers are patiently and with respect for law seeking to better their condition.

The Citizens' Alliance very properly characterises as criminals those who gather in armed mobs to turn back the willing laborer through what has been miscalled persuasion, but what we all know to be for the purpose of terrorizing him, by assault, calling 'scab. hanging In effigy, torturing wife and children, destroying homes and property, and by other forms of intimidation. It Is these acts, which have Jbeen widespread through this community, that have made this strike one of violence and terror, in stead of peace and! order, toward all those who actively dissent from those employed for, furthering Its success This Is to 'the point. Equally criminal are those who employ the brutal agency of the boycott to ruin tradesmen who LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG. A humorist Is Farmer Gross from the Palatinate, who in his broad dialect convulsed the southwestern 'Agrarians of Germany at Mannheim by his parallel between the Iron Chancellor; and the genial Chancellor von Bulow.

You have only to look at their dogs, quotha, to see the difference. Bismarck's dog was a stout German mastiff which stood firm like a German oak; BuloWs Is an English poodle that is nicely clipped. Just as we are being shorn by the British "there's a contrast that goes deep!" The answer of Chancellor ton Btlow this political "blow-word," as the Germans call an unanswerable phrase that Is bound to carry conventions off their feet, is pitiably weak. "He's not an English poodleT but a good honest German Is all the mighty man could ieply. The Chancellor lost an occasion when he failed to carry the war Into Africa and, letting- dogs run, riposte on another line attack, which would carry consternation Into Agrarian ranks.

Suppose he had said "What does Farmer Gross know about any dogs but swine-dogs SchwelnehflndeJ? Let him look to' his swine. They are full of trichinae, while the American pig can be eaten without fear of disease. Hat der Deutsche Bauer aber Sen we in! As "to bavs Schwein in very common parlance is the same as to have luck, this remark may savor of the recondite to foreigners, but would be understood wherever the magnificent language of the Fatherland Is spoke, and would cause the barb to bite yet deeper. For it is the contention of those who are not Agrarians that Germany cannot afford to rule out food stuffs, owing to her big population, and that the German agriculturists are lucky to have as much protection as they are getting at present But Count von Bulow Is not Bismarck In a number of ways, and especially not In Bismarck's way of answering- a stick with a club. This Summer the Prince Regent of Bavaria has presented him with the Prince Regental portrait In bronze relief modeled by Hildebrant, and the Emperor has advanced him on the army list from Rittmeister to Oberst, -skipping the- Important commands of Major and Oberstleutnant, and yaUowed him to wear the picturesque uniform of the King William No.

7' Hussars. A man so completely in the good graces of the Emperor and the ruler of. Bavaria Is not exactly gone to the dogs; on the contrary, he may fairly pose aa sir Oracle and bid no 'dog bark. It may be set down to the credit of Bulow, as weU as of Bismarck, that they have and had pets. It Is one, of the rifts In that otherwise nearly perfect lute, the German Emperor, that he has none.

The dog, remarked the philosophic French Sergeant, Is after aU the best part of a man. We are sorry that Wllbelm H. has no pet, not even an elephant, which would be a very suitable one for a gentleman with such expansive ambitions as he. Until he has. we cannot call him a perfect man, albeit he approaches very closely to that mark.

We wish clow's poodle a long life and many. Wurstchen. and that he will teach his master such things as any Intelligent bow-wow can Impart, be his breed Polish, Dutch, or British. potence. and lsjalready shunned -by the sensitive as a centre of moral pestilence.

without bis being proscribed as a source of physical Infection. Pugnacity. Irritability, and sometimes even profanity are characteristic of acute rheumatism. The moral descent of a good man in the throes of this ailment Is as pathetic as it is deplorable. So piteous, that considerate friends who are expert at dodging often leave harmless missiles within his reach that he may vary the monotony of pain with the pleasure of personal assault.

To proclaim that rheumatism Is contagious is to drive from the presence of the victim aU sympathetic friends and condemn him to the exclusive care of the hardened professional nurse. Should the declaration hat rheumatism Is contagious be allowed to go unchallenged, the future of the rheumatic patient wiU be on a par with that of the leper. Not only' win a glaring placard warn the menaiy visitor rrom ui door of the lonely rheumatic suf ferer, but as he hobbles into the street for a sight of his feUow-men he will be seized like an unlicensed dog. bundled Into a cart by the health office minions, and Jolted to the pesthouse as a menace to the public health. The doctors, who have scoffed at the carrying of a horse chestnut as a preventive of rheumatism without offering any more efficacious prophylactic, have no right to affirm anything about that disease except Its enduring mystery and Its Incurability at their hands.

forceful and eloquent speaker. The Prohibitionists announce that they intend te nam a man for Governor and te saake aa active canvass of the 8tate. They win also start a newspaper, to be undr the charge of their State Committee and to advocate tbefr cause. YIDDISH AND ITALIAN. Te Ike K4UT ef Tht Xtw Tork Time: At a meeting of the Board of Education a report of the Lecture ComaJltee was received, recommending lectures la TkUUh and Italian, How the Immortal Dante must turn in his grave, and wonder at the originality of the metropolitan school Board Unking- his beautiful, classical language with a Jargon he very likely never heard of In his lifetime.

The definition of Jargon by the Century Dictionary as "barbarous mixed speech, without literary monuments; a rude language resulting from a mixture of two or more discordant languagea." accurately describes the nature and character of the language proposed to hold lectiaes la. The learned -Lecture Committee seems also to be una wars of the existence of three or more Jargons the Russian, the Polish, and the Hungarian Yiddish. Tboa speaking the one do not understand Um cher. In which one of these are the lectures to be given and are not all the Jargons equal before-the law? If there la aay obligation on the community to educate Its adult population, teach them a language first and th Nation's languase before giving any lectures. The thinking and patriotic citlsens of foreign birth beUer It to be th Blrhest patriotic duty of th educational Institutions of the country us all their educational moans asiml-lata the foreign eiements of th population, and not to foster and perpetuate their peculiarities.

A JEW. New Tork. July ft. 1902. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

The number of questions of public interest that the readers of a newspaper of large circulation are all the time turn ing over In their minds Is unlimited. The letters to the editor published In to-day's Issue of Thb Ttmxs bear witness to It. Nobody sits down and writes a letter to a newspaper unless the subject of his communication interests him a good deal. Many readers of Thb Times have found in Its columns or In current matters within 'their observation subjects which Impel them to. write.

An army Captain writes of the complaints of water-cure torture In the Philippines, and other correspondents find something to say about the Filipinos. A Court of Appeals decision. Federal taxation, edu cational and constitutional questions, strikes, street railway transfers, motor-men, and a recent speech of District Attorney Jeromb are considered by other writers. A coUege Professor condemns Sunday newspapers, and a benighted poker player begs information concerning a disputed Jackpot, Men who do not read newspapers know little and care less about these matters. The habit of newspaper reading keeps the mind active and sensitive to Impressions.

The Dangers ef Trusts. To fa Hitor of TU Se Tork Timet Your denunciation of th "trusts." te your editorial of th 8th InsL, was well-timed, and should meet with the hearty approval of every sensible, falr-nunded person. Just such arguments ar ndd to open the eyes of a large portion of the American poopl to th dangers lurking naath th cloak of th fals and Injurious doctrine of protection, Th peopl should demand the repeal of a law which permits the forming of powerful combinations by avaricious domestic producers who seek to control production and rates th prios of commodities far beyond th reach of consumers of moderate meanA In speaking of the men who form trusts, David A. Walla says: "Men of this class ar generally rich beyond th averag of th community, and. therefore.

Influential in controlling legislation and in determining fiscal policies: and it is but natural that in doing they should 'consult their own Interests rather than th Interests th tnaasea. GEO ROE F. 8HRADT. Jr. New York.

July 9. 1002. 4 Samuel Pgrrlsh and the Southampton Gallery. Te tU Editor of TU Sew Tor Timet: Pray permit me to call your attention to an error In to-day's issue of Tan Toms. In your editorial entitled "Planting Art Museums you refer to th art gallery at Southampton aa being established through th efforts of Mr.

Ram no! Parsons. Tb nam should be. Mr. 8emol Parrlah. I trust that you will mak th correction la Justic to this gentleman, who Is doing a great deal for th advancement of art- FLORENCE N.

LEVY. PocanUco Hills. J. July 6. 19UZ.

GENERAL NOTES. BBXUltATISM, It was by rheumatic twinges In his Joints that Adam was able to forecast foul weather, and it was rheumatism which tortured Noah during the damp days of the deluge. Old as thla malady Is known to be. It still remains th same stupendous and baffling mystery and the same despair reproach of the medical profession. Now.

as before the Christian era. Its treatment Is empirical and its prognosis blind guesswork. Of aU the manifold afflictions which restrain the natural gayety of mankind, this elusive disease Is the last about Two hundred bonfires are to be lighted on the hills and mountains of New Hampshire on th opening night of Old Hum Weak In the mlddl of August. 000 There are 237.008 names In the new City Directory of Boston, an Increase of 4.T3 over the number teat year. Surprisingly, the John Bulltvana thla year outnumber the John Smiths Mire to one.

but there are Indications that the Smiths are in danger of extinction. .000 D. H. McAbee, State Factory Inspector of Indiana, is urging that a law be enacted requiring architects to pass aa examination In ventilation appliances. Ho says that moat of th school houses In th Stat have no ventilation except through the windows, which is wholly unsatisfactory.

Mis Etta H. Maddox of Baltimore. has a length been admitted to th bar of that State, and la th first woman to be thus privileged or righted. She wsa graduated from the Baltimore Law School a year ago and was' fully competent to practice, but not eligible for admission. Thla ineligibility was removed by tb Legislature, which at Its last session passed law allowing women to practice law In the State.

Gen. William C. Oates says he will not be a candidate for Governor of Alabama, la which office be served one term, be ginning in 1886, when he bed reluctantly resigned his sest In Congress to make the run on the Importunity of his party friends. He says now that If ever again runs for an office It will for that of United States Senator. John W.

Greeley, a cousin of the founder i of The New Tork Tribune, died la Londonderry. N. H-. last Tuesday eighty-fourth year of his age. He and Horace Greeley were born In th same hous in Amherst.

N. H. He was a member, of family of thirteen children. Ho la survived by bis widow, to whom had been married fifty-eight yeara. CoL JobV Mosbys men of the Confederate Army are to hold their next an nual reunion In Leesburs.

Vs. on Wednesday. July SO, and they will Invito aU former Confederates In the State of Virginia to join with them In making a glad holiday. CoL J. H.

Alexander of Leesburs- la tliate present commander. Old Horn Week tn Vermont begins Aug. 11. Th Vermont Association of Boston. Mas, win man an excursion to their native State, going by way of Saratoga, Lake oeorg.

and Lata Cham plain to Burlington. They bop to hava delegations Join them 'on th way from th Vermont Associations of Hartford. Conru. Springfield. Atasa.

Brooklyn and Buffalo. N. Sec retary Shaw of th Treasury Department naa promised that and Mrs. Shaw will meet th party at Saratoga and proceed te Burlington with them If things so shape NUGGETS, True Leva. Kitty D'ye raly love me.

Dlnny? Dennis Do Oi lev yet Faith, Kitty. Ol do annything to live wid th rut av me lolf. aven If Ot knowed 'twould kill this minute. Philadelphia Press. It Was Loud.

This necktie." said the salesman, speaks for Itself." "Speaks for Itself!" repeated the customer as he took in the loudness of the design: "I say that It positively yells! Baltimore Herald. Pleasantly Situated. Poor man! said- the lady visitor, sd-dressing on of the Inmate of the la- sane asyium. oon 1 you oiien teos very 7 aa1 to be shut ub here no. tn patient smswereo.

-The rner-Her- lunatlcs who come to look at us ar gener ally very amusing." Chicago Record aid. No Credit te the Constitution In the Bill. Dr. Jalap Wen. you may thank your fine constitution for pulling you through; sots- tne la ronlri han saved toil" The Convalescent But cannot see that you have mad any reduction In your bill for my fin constitution's snare la tn cure.

Bos ton Transcript. 1 Extravsgant Wish. Have you selected a play for next season?" No," answered tb sensational actress: that Is a matter of some difficulty. I would give a great deal If I could find a playwright whose imagination ts aa fertile as that of my press agent." Washing ua 8tar. THE MODERN SENATE.

J. J. Mootaga te Portlaad Oregoelaa, Under th Capitol's broad roof The Senate chamber stands. The Senators are mighty men. With bard and heavy handa.

And flexors and extensors thst Are strong as chilled -steel bands. Their beads ar long, and often hot. Their reach is Ilk th crane' a. And each te known to rent or wa A palace, where trains And educates th muscles that Sub for th weary brains. Week In, week out.

froaa morn tm night You caa bear th seconds shout. You eaa hear the solema refer Decision called la doubt. As. neata solar plexus blow, Senator goes out. And crowds that fill th gallery Look down at the flowing gore: They lev to bear th din and as Th crimson claret pour.

And if th fight is called a draw They wax exceeding sore. They go en Sunday to th club. The bra way. nervy mew. And there th member from New Tors ten roa last lures rouaas When Bailey flghta again.

needs must wis that ten. be says. Because, more bold than wis. He loot when TUlman's teft hook took WIU ramely wafer ten That Beverldg wc Hia ooileaau by surprise: And with a million -dollar bin He wipes bte weeping eye. Sparring, sidestepping, countering.

Onward through lite they go. Each seosioa sees mm flghe begun That testa tea rounds or so. And some on from th sunny south Gets la a knockout blow. Thanks, many thanks, our worthy frteada, For th te on have taught. Thus tn thla era strenuous Is tegialatlon wroughL Away with trifling etequeneel Let great debates I ought! 1.