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1 6 THE SUIj WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1809. il 1 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER IB, 1800. Subscription by Mall, rottpald. DAtLT, per DAILY, per 0 00 I SUNDAY, pr Tear 00 DAtLT AJtD BTJNDAT, per 00 DAILY AKD SUNDAY, pr Month 70 Postage to foreign countries added. Til Bow, Nw York cllr.

Psait-Klotque No. near Orand Hotel, and Klosuue No, 10, Boulevard dM Cepacia. If ear frttndt at yweer vilk mammtrlpU for luhllaititm vrtiS Aats rcyeixVet artUri rilunud. Uv Ml oil cam itni ittmflfrr tAal tmrpeia. Our Store of Money.

If tho British nool of cash, nrlslnff from i i the war In South Africa, should cnuso this country to oxport gold, a look nt tho stato f. of tho currency as It Is described in tho J' recent ofilclal reports from Washington i will show how amply wo aro stocked with Bjj money to spnrc. To-day tho total sum of monoy nvnllablo for circulation Is mora than two billion dollars. Estimating our populntlon to bo eighty millions, tho high-water mark of calculation, wo believe, we hayo moro than twenty-five dollars por head. Wo liavo more monoy than wo evor had.

We have moro monoy In proportion to population than we ever had. If we should roduco the amount of circulation per capita to twenty-two dollars, wo should still hnvo far morn than Is needed for tho comfortable conduct of buslnons. And we should hnvo two hundred and fifty millions for export, a far greater sum than tho requirements of any European Govern- Iment could wring from us under tho existing stato of trade. Our sllvorlto friends havo been accustomed to howl nt tho Incursions Into this country of BrltUh gold. Would thoy havo any objections to flood of American gold deluging the marts of Great Britain? jj The KIMtig Wnve of ICzpnnslon In JJ the South.

I We spoko recently of tho fact Hint even -4 darkest Arkansas was beginning to seo tho light of expansion and that Governor Danit.Ii W. Jon is, who wishes to bo elected h' a 'Senator In Congi-can, has declared himself In favor of Amorican possession of tho jj. Philippines. Thetrfconflo Ocuetteot Llttlo i) Bock, long tho most authorltattvo volcn of ffl the Arkansas Democracy, seconds the Gov- ernor's motion warmly and asserts that bis ivlows as to tho retention of tho Philippines and tho commerelol necessity of tho Asiatic trade to tho South "nro In lino with thoso 1 of tho business men of this section, who bellovo that tho South will bo more benefited than any other portion of tho country by tho United Stntes holding on to tho I sovereignty of tho After reciting that most Southern commercial bodies that .1 havo. had meetings during tho last year i havo passed resolutions In favor of ex pan j.t slon and an export trade of the cotton lB States with tho East, nnd that not only Southern business men but some prominent j-j! Southern statesmen have approved that iilf policy, our contemporary continues: jawj "The South In no longer blind to Its own Intercuts.

tnd when public srnUment It fully developed It will jEr found that this eecUnn is pronouncedly In favor rj of retaining the Phlllpplnea and all other newly 1 aeqnlred territory In th Paclfle." i There are still many crossroads hunkers Jy and blind Brynnltes In tho South who kick 'f agalnBt expansion Wnuso It happens to lo supported by Bepublleans; but the business brains of the South, tho stirring, modern go-ahead parti of It, know that Its lient hope Is expansion and new markets. From tho economic point of view, expansion will lo profitable and Indeed Indispensable to the South. From tho political point of view, expansion continues tho traditional policy of the Democratic party. In face of tho rising waves of expansion sentiment In the South Dame Pahtinoton ft BltVAN, with that poor little mop of nnti- Imperialism, makes ilguro nt which only the polite can refrain from guffawing. Decentralization In the Philippines.

The more ono studies tho history of tho 1 Philippines, the more Judicious seems tho President's suggestion that decentralizing principle should bo npplleil In tho i plan of government to bo framed ultl-mutely for tho island. I It will bo remembered that In his Message Mr. after pointing out that tho eompleto suppression of the Insurrection should precede tho formation of nny definite ndmlnlstmtlvn scheme, de. dared that ho could seo no reason why a steps should not bo taken meanwhile to Inaugurate local governments essentially popular, as fust as territory should bo held f. and controlled by our troops.

Ho went on to express the that reconstruction should not begin by tho establishment of ono central, civil government for all tho Inlands with Its sent nt Manlln, but rather bfS that tho work should bo built up from tho Jj.JL bottom, municipal governments bolng first raff estnbllsheil and then provincial govern- 3 ments, while central government should (i l-e created last, ir nt nil. In other words, ho advocatosa decentralizing policy, and thoro Is no doubt that ethnological, phllogleal and historical considerations may bo adduced on Its behalf. Leaving out tho Negritos, or ft aboriginal denizens of the archipelago, and i the Igorrotes, a name applied to tho pagan mountain tribes of Luzon, tho Inhabitants of tho Philippines may bo divided broadly i I Into tho Tngals, concontratod in Luzon; tho Vlsayas, who occupy all tho Islands to tho south of Luzon and north of Mindanao; and tho Mohammedan Malays, who con- stltute tho most powerful section of tho In- Ii I habitants of the last-named Island. As a i matter of fact, no fewer than thirty Inn- gusgcB aro rocogulzed offlolally. Of these wo need consider only two, namely, VIsaya and Tagalog; In 1805 It was estimated that i VIsaya was spoken by upward of 2,000,000 persons, nnd Tagalog by 1,000,000.

At i tho present day, tho figures mnst be en- larged In caoh case, but the proportion la, apparently, about the same. On tho face of things, tho Island of Lu- if win should havo a scparnto government, ihl the natlvotonguo officially recognized i by tho sldo of tho English and Spanish languages should lie thoTngalog. Qultoaado- serving of a eoparato local government as i aro ho Tagals, are tho Vlsayas, who inhabit Samar. Loyto, Bohol, Cobu, Negros, Panay, Mlndoro, Maabata and soveral smaller lsl- ji-4 ands. Vnllko the Tagals, who were still bar- 1 barous at tho dato of the arrival of thoSpan- attained aoon- stderable degrso of civilization partly for I that reason, and partly because tho Islamio propaganda had not yet reached the orchl- i pelago, they readily acoepted Christianity, and assisted the Spaniards In the eub-jugBtluu of tho Tigala.

0ba a i aERv'JaaaaHjaflaaHaflaHLHaMaiaH the first BpanUh capital Tho Vtearaa have always shown themsolvos relatively docllo and gontlo, and the only realstanoe which our soldiers have encountered In tholr Islanda has been fomented byTagal emissaries. Taken together, tho Vlsayan Islands linvo an area of about twenty-flvo thousand square mllos, nnd would conBtltuto a homogeneous and easily governed Territory. Tho outlying island of Palawan, on tho otlior hand, which contalnod only fow Spanish posta, and the groat Island of Mindanao, most of which was novur oven explored by tho Spaniards who occupied only a few ports on tho western coast, would havo to bo treated very much as wo wero compollod to treat Alaska for many yeare after tho acquisition of that region. It may well bo, not only that tho Philippines should bo distributed in threo or four groups for administrative purposes, but that a muoh groator division and localization of executlvo power might bo expedient. That Is a matter which should bo do-tormlnod by competent observers of local conditions, and, to that end, It Is to bo hoped that tho President will enrry out tho purpose mentioned In his mepsugo, of sending baok to tho Philippines tho commission previously appointed, or suoh of tho mom.

here as can bo secured, to aid tho military authorities In tho work of Investigation and thus faoUltato tho establishment of local govornmonU throughout tho archipelago. Not Democrats but Republican. Tho reported Intention of oortnln Congressmen elected from Now York as Democrats, to defy their party by voting for the Itepubllcan Currency bill, Is Inducing much political philosophizing In newspapers sympathizing with tholr sentiments, which Is nelthor pertinent nor reasonable. They are Congressmen who wero clcctod In 1808, In splto of their refusal to say whother thoy wore for gold or silver, but ns they wero candldutos put up by the Tammany organization after It had formally declared Its cordial support of tho leadership of Mr. BliYAN, it might bo assumed reasonably by tho Democratic caucus of Congress that they wero thus honorably committed to tho doctrine of tho party on tho subjoct; In other words, that thoy wero not elected, and could not havo been elected, ns gold Democrats, but only as Democrats sustaining their party's position on tho bud-Jcot.

If they revolt now, they may bo accused, very properly, of having been guilty of falso pretences at the election In 160H. And, unquestionably, honorablo obligation required that they should speak out then, Instead of waiting until ntter thoy had been elcctod and tho Congress had actually assembled. Into that question of political ethics it Is not our Intention farther to enter. Another question, however, may pertlntintly bo considered by us. It Is whether thoso New York Congressmen, being resolutely for the existing gold standard, can consistently remain In tho Democratic party or bo allowed to remain In It when It Is not less resolute for tlm cnortlirow of tho gold standard by the substitution of free coinage at 10 to 1.

On tho mnlu Ixbiio lietween tho two parties thoy nro Bepublleans and not Democrats; Mi'KiN-ixr Is their leader and not Bkya.v. If they vote for the Itepubllcan Currency bill In this Congress thoy must voto for Mr. McKi.ni.ky next year, unlesstheynreunprlnclpled men, becauxe tho Democratic party, under tho leadership of BliYAN, will bo In violent opposition to It. Obviously, It Is Impoislblo for a man of any principle, for a mun who Is entitled to any respect either from tihnt-olf or anybody oloc, to continue In supMrt of a party which In Its main Issue nnd Its overwhelming rioutiment Is radically optioned to his convict tuns as to a polluy essential to tho welfare of his country. Of course, a man who is for gold stultifies himself In sustaining a party which Is for silver.

Ho makes himself contemptible. If, then, this report Is tniothat Congressmen elected In New York as Democrats are to revolt against tho Domocratlo party In this Congress thoy will necessarily cut themselves off from that party In tho coming Presidential campaign, nnd not less noees-Rarily thoy will bo compelled us honest men to support the Bepubllcan party. Their few individual votes may bo cast for the Bepubllcan Currency bill, but outside of them tho wholo liody of Democrats in Congress will bo counted ngnlnst It solidly, and thus the Issue lietween tho two parties will bo emphasized the moro In tho campaign of next year. A Lake Krle Dam. Tho projt-ct of building a great dnm across the Niagara Blver where It Issues from Lnko Erie will bo brought prominently before tho country by tho coming report of tho Deep Waterways Conimlstdon and by Bepresentatlvo Coiimhh'h bill In Congress to authorize Its construction.

It was known somo tlmo ago that tho Commission had decided to recommend tho project ns the most practicable anil economical means of Increasing tho depth of water In tho channels connecting tho great lakes. Tho chief problom In our lako navigation has been to maintain a sufficient depth of wnter In tho channels to moot tho demands of shipping. Lnko vessels havo been Increasing steadily In size and In draft. Tho rapid growth of tho iron ore, lumber nnd grain shipping Interests has resulted this year In contracts for building new vessels, somo of which will hnvo larger tonnngo than any. now afloat on tho lakes.

Leading men In tho shipping business say that these vessels, If fully loaded, will not bo able to pass through somo parts of tho channels in their present condition. Tho policy, heretofore, has been to deepen these channels by dredging. Millions of dollars havo boon spent in this work nnd millions moro will bo necessary If dredging alone Is depended upon to keep the St, Clair Blver and ship canal and tho Detroit Blver deep enough for tho nnods of navigation. This year vessels havo been delnyed at times for hours In the Detroit Blver nnd theso dolays havo been unusunlly frequent because tho largo amount of freight offered has tempted owners to load thn steamers to their utmost capacity. Two hundred vessels, carrying 800,000 tons of ore, 12,000,000 feet of lumber and nearly a million bushuls of wheat, were lecontly blocked for days by tho sinking of a steamer In tho channel of the St Mary's Blver.

After tholr release many of them mot with nnother vexatious delay In tho Detroit Blver. Tho Investigations of tho Deep Waterways Commission havo convinced Its mom-be rs that tho best way to obtain a considerable part, If not all, of tho depth required In the channels will bo to throw a dam across tho outlet, of Lake Erie. The Commission has already expressed tho view that by means of this dam the level of Lake Erie will be raised three feet, that of Lako St. Clair two feot and that of Lako Huron one foot. Improvements comploted four years ago enabled vessels drawing twonty-ono feet to pass from Buffalo to Duluth.

Another great advantaoo will also bo secured. A large part of tho monoy annually expended for lako harbor Ira provcnienta Is devoted to dredging tho harbors; by raising tho lnko lovols tho depth of wotor In tho harbors will bo correspondingly Increased. Tho recommendation of tho Commission Is submitted as a practlcablo and a monoy-snvlng project that will bo of great lieneflt to tho Immenso commercial Interests using tho lakes ns a highway for truffle. Tho Premium on Gold liars. A very senslblo recommendation Is tnndo by Director of tho Mint Boukiits, In his annual report Just published.

It relates to tho sale, by tho Treasury, of gold bars, ond proposes a useful nnd necessary return to a prae.tlco which formerly prevailed, but which, for a few years past, hns been discontinued. By tho act of May 20, lBH'J, tho Secretary of tho Treasury was authorized to glvo without charge gold bars In exchange for gold coin of equal bullion value. Undor this net tho gold required for export was taken by thn shippers of It In the form of bars, liooausc, when tho bars got to tho other side of tho ocenn nnd wore melted down, there was less loss on thom than thoro was on coin, which was, often, somewhat worn by use. The Director of tho Mint In 1800, however, conceived tho silly Idea that this accommodation to shippers, although It Involved, no loss to thn Treasury, but, on tho mmtrnry, saved It tho labor nndoxpenso of turning tho bars Into coin, afforded an unduu facility for sending goltl out of tho country, nnd, at his Instance, Congress, In March, 1801, authorized tho Secretary of the Treasury to Iniposo upon gold bars given In exchange for gold coin, clmrgo equal. In his Judgment, to tho cost of manufacturing tho bars.

This charge, tho Secretary ut Ilrst fixed at 4 cents per $100, nnd slueo then It has been raised to 10 cents per $100, which Is practically prohibitory. The prohibition has been powerless to stop exK)rtof gold, nnd tho only effect of It has been to put tho Government to the cxponso of changing tho gold, which otherwlfo would havo been furnished In tho shape of bars, Into thn shape of coin, which It could not refuse to jwiy out without nny charge at all. Tho present Director of tho Mint sees thn folly of this policy. He says: "Thfra la nu object In forcing tho public to ULa our coin out of tho country hj maktnit it moro ri pniha to take bar. Wi had better furnish the raw material than the manufactured article.

The bars will hae to be ahtpped from New York to I'hlla delphla, melted and worked Into coin at aonievata and considerable eipeime to replace the com lotted, while thn bara would have aemd ever purpose for eiport. Theeipnrt cliatvu waa put rn ban several yearn airo, when cold eipurU era heavy and pome mean to dlacourauo them aouiiht. When the current coin abraded, eiportera will pay a ellctit premium to Ket bar, which are full weight, but onr current cold coin In now lankly new and on the average cloee to etandard. and es-portra are preferring to ahlp It rathirthan to par the barchartta," While Congress Is busy with tho subject of currency reform, It may us well reform tho nbutxi which Mr. Boiikuth points out.

Tho Navy anil the Country. Tho Wunhington Timm was not, as wo havo tho Impression the Wiinhiiigton l)nt was, privy to tho fraud attempted by Bear Admiral Scitl.r.Y In thn matter of the Hodgson corresiouilonce; but It has stood by Sciilky regardless of tho record, all tho same. It nowudvauens tho theory that Sampmin was never tho Commander of the Atlantic fleet, that theglvlng to hlin of authority superior to Sciii.kv'h was actually In violation of tho law, and therefore void, "At thn time of the engagement," says tho Tint. "Sampson's legal status wus that of a supernumerary Cnptoln acting with tho North Atlantic squadron under tho command of Commodore SciiLr.Y." Tho continued ofilclal denial of Justice to Bear Admiral HsirsoN, the comiiinndor of tho fleet at Santiago, and tho degradation of tho Naval service Involved In tho toleration of an officer Sen whoso utter unlltness for command nnd whoso guilt of fnlsehood Is written clear upon tho Governmental records, t-uggest this unpleasant query: How can tho United States Navy maintain for long Its traditional prestige In thn protection of thn country, If the country will not protect It against thn humiliation of seeing and dishonor lu Its ranks go uurebuked? Whllo a vigorous effort is making In Congress to fix tho highest and best standard for tho currently thn lowest standards are lielng fastened on tho Nnvy-upoit the Navy of America, of all countries or tho world. Westward tho course of tnkoH Its way.

Dr. Klidiia Henmmin Amuikwh adrancod from I'rovldcinee tnChlcnitn.cnrrylng with him Ills favorlto nnttonx. freo silver for men anil free lunch for school children. It Is said thnt he Is now preparing to advance from Illlnole to Nohranku. At hU present rate of progress ho will be In tho heart of China before long; and thuu theru will bo a thundering crash of crockery.

A stirrer and a rlppor Is tho Doctor, and no mistake. A very senslblo bill wns thot Introduced In the HouBa of Itflprcsoutatlvc mi Monday by Mr. Dull of lthodu Inland, limiting the ex-pensosof funeral of Members of the IIouhdIo a thoutnml dollars, A particularly commend-abls bill was thut of Mr. Gibson of Tenneaaou, nwardlng aspcclul modal to eaoh of the "volunteer and regular Roldlurn and nfTlcors who voluntarily remained on duty In the Philippines after their terms of cnllstmnut or appointment had explrod," The. Domnorney needs suro enough loaders.

Nathvxtl Amtriein. Well, can nnybocly ho nurnr than Col. Diitin HulsRuro that ho In going to ho oloeted. Ho Ii suro that tho country Is crnzy for his old Issues nnd Ills now Ueuos. Tho Colonel Is moro than suro enough; ho Is serural million diameters too sure.

Wo print on another page statement by aoompetent authority of thn facts concornlng tho proposed grant of land undor wnter to tho Astoria Light. Hent and Power Company, which we commend to sober-minded people desiring information on the subject. What Is Bald thero Is not denied, we believe, anywhore, nor, In our opinion, In It deniable that sound business and fair denting require that the Astoria Company be permitted to acquire the title It desires, nnd at a rate which shall be reasonable, instead of In vain tho Hon. John Jacoii Lento of Ohio celebrates AouiNAl.no and tho Idaho rioters. It has been determined by tho Demo-eratlo bosses In his Congress district that be shall not hnvo unothor term In the Jiouse of representatives.

Youth, genius, lira and undying symputhy for rebels against the law nro thus rewarded I Tho Hon. John Jacoii I.bktz Uto do the victim of an unrequited attachment to public lift. Wo are Informed, In reference to an editorial In Tns Bus of last Saturday on "Our Expanding Commerce," that In the first edition of tb rnttidanVs-HoMaco. on which onr remarks were based, there had been an omission of a line of statistic. The mistake I was rectified In a second print.

Instead of asserting that "our exports for 1800 exceeded the export and Imports for 1870 by moro than a billion dollars." It should read. "Our Import and exports for 181)0 ex-ceodod by more than a billion dollars our exports and Imports In 1870, and our exports alone In IBWt exceeded by mora than four hundred million dollars our exports and Imports combined In 1870." There nro few of us who treasure reverently (Jen. Jim WitAvxn of Iowa and will not lot themselves forgot that ho was a candidate for President Ho deserves to be treasured. Tho Btorago charges of Memory are moro than repaid by finding him In the bloom of hopo and oxpeetlng to "seo tho united Domoo-raoy, with IlnvtN at Its head, sweep tho country." What enthusiasm the Democratic propects causo In somo polltlolans who havo none of their own I v. can r.ity ry or rm: so vnr a fin c.i til TV A TIOS, What further light I thrown ou tho affair at Btormberg on Bunilay morning reveals a singular lack of Information at Gon, datacre's ie-ndquarters of the topography of thn country In which lie had to act.

Tho whole result do-ponded practically, according tt Oon. Gataoro's statement, on tho ono poUcoman who marohod tho force about from half past 0 on Saturday night until 4 o'clock on Sunday morning, and then landod It In nn Impossible position whoro It was raked on all sides by tho enemy's rlflo and nrtlllory flro, without a posBlblllty of replying. Gon. Gatacro hlmsolf acknowledges thnt both hlmsolf and tho local guides underestimated the dlstanco to bo traversed, an error that of courso vltlatod all thn calculations based on the mlstakon estlmnte. This Is a most oxlroordlnnry confession nnd suggests Incompetency in somo branch of Gon.

Gntacro's stall. Bomo comfort mny be derived from the statement of tho General that lie did not oonslder the error Intentional, but that Is nothing to the point In tho consequences whloh may flow from It. Tho total losses of the British aro 072 officers nnd men and 2 guns, tho Doers ssy3. Of these It Is bolleved that about 175 fell In the fight before surrendering. Oon.

Oatacre's last report described htm as holdlug Dushmnn's Hoek and Cyphemat on the nortli side of the Btormberg Mountains, after having sent the remains of the two battalions thnt nurtured so heavily In the fight to Bterkstroom Junction for rest. Tho lloer ofilclal despatch on tho affair puts the number of prisoner In tholr hands nt I officers and 480 iiuu-commlailoned officers nnd men. The absence of definite news of tho Klrabor-ley relict column ami Gon. French's command, (iswollusUcn Gatacro', since early on Monday, cannot bo entirely explained by the reported Interruption to tho western cable, as tho cnit const lino Is in working order. Either, therefore, their tetesrnphlo communications are Interrupted, or the British War Ofllco withholding news In the hopo of somocountor-stroke of fortuno on the part of Gen.

Methuen or Gen. Butler. Of the former all that Is made known Is that heuvy cannonadlna was hearJ no Monday In tho direction of the Mnddor Blver, but whether thoro had been an attack by one side or the othor is not stated, nor what was the result. The Boer commander. Cronje.

reports fighting at tho Moddcr Itlver on Buuday night, in which ho maintained his position and captured some fifty British prisoners. Tho Boers wero also reported annoying the right flunk of Gon. Methuen's force nnd his communications at flrns Pan. There are report llkuirlso of commandos operating from thn westward, Mippowedly oomlng from Grlqua Town by way of 1 '(inula, near the junotlon of tho Vnal and the Orunue rivers. In Natal the opposing forces are rexirted to bo in touch, but the forward movement so long anticipated Ims apparently not yet begun.

A rumor that the tridee nt Washbank had been damnved.liHA led to the Inference that a British fore, had crept up in some way unicrcalved by the Boors, nnd succeoJod In reaching that locality. On tho face of It the thing Is Improbable, and tin) rcixirt may also apply to a Wiishhunk not far from Dordrecht In Capo Colony. In which direction Gen. Gataore had sent forco under Cot. Dntgntty just before starting far Btormberg.

th Iloer bavins a commando of some olutit hundred men In tho nolehbor-hood. Tho small relieving force from Rhodesia trying to reach Mafeking Is said to have reached Gnberones ton days ago. and to have found it evacuated by the llocrs. who had tone south. There Is a long distance, however, some ten miles of track between Ans Vocel Kop nnd lilstl to bo rolald before they can teiioh their objective by roll.

Tho garrison niennwhllo Is on short rations. Another sortlo Is reported from Lndysmlth for the nurposo of destroying ono of ttio Bncr guns commanding tho town. Tho gun was rendered useless with guncotton. the sortie party of fiOO men reaching tho position unop-ixwed. On the return it hud to tight Its way thrnuch the liners who had nssemblod too late to save the gun, and lost 4 officers and 52 men killed nnd wounded, and 0 mado prisoners.

As at Ixiinbard' Kop. thn Boers appear to havo been caught sleeping. A Ilrltlah Colonist's View. To Titr. KniTon or Tux Bun In The Bun of this day's date you comment on tho lown expressed by tho Hon.

James Hrlce. M. as recorded In a recent Issue of the S'atth Urrtrtc, IntrraHa Mr. Ilryce denounced tho annexation of tho Transvaal to the British Crown by Blr T. Bhepston.

In 1877. "nt a high-handed and unwnrrantablo proceeding." The facts urn ax follows: In July of contents of the Treasury at Pretoria amounted exactly to $4,75. At that time th Zulus to tho number of 40,000 wero on the Trnnsvasl border threatening tho country with destruction. At the request of lauding public, men In thn Transvaal, the British Besldont Issued a proclamation annexing the country, nnd although there was not a British soldier In thn Bepubllc, the Zulus Immediately withdrew. In December of the snme year a dissatisfied section of tho Boers, headed by President KrUuer, who was nt the tlmo In the pay of the llrltish Government, commouced to stir up Btrlfo and nntematlcally assail British rule.

Then followed I'otcbofstroom, Lulna'sNekand Mnjubo. As to the origin of tho war: I would suegost to those who desire an explanation of the causes leading, up to the present crisis to read tho views of Mr. Then, hchrelnor (a brothor of the Prime Minister of Cape Colony), ns set out lu tho London weekly edition of the Timet, of the 1st Inst piiKn 7'H. Mr. Bchreiner is memliorof the lendltiB Dutoh family In Houth Africa, and thornuKhly conversant with tho past history of the couutry.

write as a British colonist and as ono who recently travelled over and Inquired Into the conditions that obtnln In Cape Colony. Natal. Thn Trnnsvnal, Orange Free State, Rhodesia and Portuguese F-nst Africa. New Yobx, Doo, 11. New ZEALANDin.

A Word for thn Nandwlch Men. To tii KniTon or Th Ben Air; You will, I am sure, pardon me for rallinir your attenUon to the extremely unfortunate position of the "sandwich niou" and "banner carriers" who have been compelled to look for some other lines of work by a recent order from Police Headquarters that they dmlat from their nefarious bualna. Tbeie "aand wlcli man" are, for the ino.t part, men who want to earn an hontat living and who are physically unable to do manual labor. They earn a iner pittance aa It la, never more than a dollar a day and, on the at oraxe.ouly fifty centi. They are a peaceful, Inonenelve let, and for one, cannot conceive what barm they do.

a. HuuiiLiyiN. New Yona, Dec. ll. Mualo tn Fiction.

Tn this Emma or Tn In this moraine's Hvn II. deplores the lirnoranc of muslo dlnplayed by fiction wrllora and Informs us that ths k.y J11 lu 'nu Up to tha nreaent tlree II" ha. wuue-ted the ksy of natuietto me. "i-1 fhnse tlKuaturt. la five and tha ker of tlat haa been called plain L.

van Ueethoven aeeuia also to have labored under the same delusion, There la no hope for him. fur ha Is dead, hnt there are others of ua who mar profit aud feel moat kindly toward "U.S." law Xuu. Ueo. 11. Ji.

JJ. I ABT ttOTKH. Landscapes by Arthar Hoobar. An Interesting exhibition of seventeen landscapes by Arthur Hoeber open at the Tooth gallery. 200 Fifth avenue, and will continue till the first of next week.

Mr. Hoeberlsan Amerloan artist whose contribution to tho exhibitions a few years ago wore sufficiently regular to koop his work In tho eya of the public but of lata nothing more than an occasional canvas at tha Lotos Club or eomo In some collection about to chango hands undor tho hammor of the auctioneer has repreBcntod him In the passing events of the nrt seatonB. The pictures now on view give proof that ho has not lost ground In tho Interval, and. In soveral Instances, show that tits work has be-como moro forceful nnd moro sympathetic. Thus "An Essex Vnlloy" (No.

31. with Its truthful observation of tho gradations In tint of suramor greens. Its agreeably toned sky and harmony, both In line and color, of tho composition. Is a picture of gonulne merit with much to recommend It as slnoore painting of landscape "Autumn" (No. 1).

a largo canvas. Is vory good In color. If not entirely convincing lu the drawing of tho numorous tree trunks. also large canvas, depicts poetic evening effoct with a great deal of sentiment nnd with competent handling of broad masses of hnrmnnlous color, though It Is probable that thn pioturo would gain in unity If tho still wntor In tho foreground were considerably lighter In valuo, for It should reflect tho brilliant warm tint of the sky. Among the other pictures thoro nro two or threo smalt compositions with autumn effocts, such as "October Woodland" (No.

12). that are notable for attractive color harmonies, and several othors such as "Kvontlde" (No. 5) nnd "A Tidowator 8troam" (No. B) thnt show clover treatment In general nnd some excellent work tn the painting of the Bkles. "Back from the Bench" (No.O).

a canvas of medium slzo. Is onnot the most eompleto and satisfying pictures In tho exhibition. TUKASVHKX OF JK.TC.1.V HAt.U They Were Opened to View nt tho Museum of Nntarnl History Yesterday. Mexico's by-gone clvlllzntlon Is represented In the Mexican Hall on tho fourth floor of tho Amorican Museum of Natural History, which was thrown open for a prees view yesterday The collection Is tho most complete and Important In tho world for tho study of the ancient civilization of Mexico nnd Central America. It comprises fao-slmlle casts of scores of Impnr-tnntsculpturesand hieroglyphs, thoorlglnnlsof which.

In most casus, still Ho In thn depths nt tropical umalcs or amidst tho ruins of ancient temples lu cities thnt hnvo been for centuries dead. Besides theso fac-simlles there ara a number of original hieroglyphic tablets and a large collection of utensils and ornaments. Nearly all of tho sculptures nnd utensils represent either the lost Maya civilization or tho still older Nahuatl culture. The most striking single object Is thn great "Calendar stone." which Is considered by nrelui'ologlsts to bn tho finest extant example of ancient Mexican stone sculpture. It Is a circle, about ten feet In diameter, and the segments represeiitlnit divisions of ths year are curiously and beautifully soulptured.

Thn restoration of the "Temple of the frees." with Its quaint, mysterious carvliurs Is also most interesting Mnnlvo stone animals abound, nnd there aro some human statues. Including a huge representation In white and buff stouoot Chacmnnl and a particularly hideous (lower god. The collection Is tho result of tho LMrll-lard explorations and of the researches of Dr. and Mrs. be l'loneeon and others.

Many of the finest sKdmens of pottery, ornaments ami Implements nr gifts (rem tho lmte of ioubnt. Many members of the Museum werepreonl yestorday. TO HKAVTirr Till! JlllOSX. One of the I'riijerte of the Tree-rinntln: AsMirlnttnii nt Sue York City. The Treo-1'lnntlng Association of New York city held lt annual meeting yesterday afternoon tn the Merchant's Club.

Broadway. All of the ofTicers were reelected except Hecre-tary John Y. Culyer, who has found It impossible to perforin the duties of the nflleo without neglecting his personal affairs. Dr. J.

Kin mot was selected as his successor. Mr. Cult er will remain the consulting and advisory architect nnd onglneer nt the association, which has found Its field largoly extaoded slncn municipal consolidation went Into effect. During the past year many citizens of Richmond and The Bronx liavn consulted the association on th best means to be taken to preserve thn trcei. which are found In tho outlying sections.

It is the Intention of tho association to do ovorythlng in Its power to preserve theso trees, and an appeal may Iki mude to thn Legislature for a law tn prevent their destruction. The map of the upper part of Thn Bronx shows that It the streets already laid out are built, much line woodland will bo destroyed. One part of the association's plan Is to make an elTort to change thn maps, so that the streets In thn upper purt of tho borough shall not run they do downtown It Is believed that by thn application of approved principles of lamlscape engineering tho upper purt of The Ilronx can be made a beau-tltulnssnmnnf the suburban districts around ludnn nnd Paris. During tin past year the BfBOeiullon has set out trees. Its membership Is about two hundred, nnd the financial statement shows thnt its.

treasury Is in a hoilthy condition. I'ncts l'roni the "ConcTrssltinnt IMrrrtary." fYom M' Chicago Itfccrj. There are snm queer facta lu the "Congressional Dlrocfrr" thla year. a usual, f.viry inomberof Congress furnisher a sketch of Ida own life and describes himself as he would like to have others ace him. Willis llrewer or Alabama eaya In hla autobiography that ha "has been a Journalist, baa practised law, ha written books and Is now a planter," James K.

Jonea uf Arkanaaa, chairman of the Democratic NaUonal Committee, eara he "was a private aoldier during the lata nnpleaautncaa, on the losing side." James M. Itobinson of Fort Wayne waa a newsboy, Ma'Cenas F. Ilvutounf Mlaaourl says ho "was the original nffeiinlve partisan removed for pernicious activity" while I'nlte 1 Slab's Attorner for ths western district of Missouri. William Oonnellnt Pennsylvania worked In tho minis wheu he was a joung man, but Is now tbu president of a bank, James W. Ityan of Ptnnsyl vaula says he used to be a mule driver.

Mr. Noonan of Chicago gives a picturesque vista of his past career, and eaya that "during the years lHiia and IBM Mr, Nnonan'a modeaty waa the eul-Ject of newspaper comment, as he held threo ofllres at th same time Htatehenator, Colonolaud l'ark Attorney, and waa a candidate for Congress," Court Interrupted by nn Owl, -rent CA Cincmntff Enqutrtr. Mtnicu, Ind Deo. H. A largo acreroh owl flew through a window Into the Circuit Court room this evening and stepped proceedings.

It flew straight for Miss Maud l'ugh, the Writing Clerk, who scrvamed and tied. The en. Ion at once broke up, and the Jurors and bailiff. L. Starr, started to catch the bird.

Btarr caught It. bat In doing so waa viciously clawed on the hands. Other persons ware also clawed, f-averal articles thrown at the owl by persons fearing an attaok went flying heller akelter and added to the confusion. Judge Irffflai adjourned conttunUl to-morrow rooming. Iteforiner lined Owns Up.

JVom tAs Cliflani I'lain DtnXtr, "llow do you do, Mr. fljieaker?" said Itepresentatlvo MrClellan uf New York to Tom Heed the other day. "I ara not Mr. (speaker any longir," drawled Keed. "Then how do you do, Mr.

Heed, and what do ou think or political" "I don't think of politics," he replied In his lary voice. "I am a reformer now, aud reformera don't think of anything eicept making money," Fast Kntlroiidlng In thn Hontb. From lt Allan a Cotiitilulion. UTJrHsan, Dsc. H.

The Southern Hallway smaahed the world's record to-day In runnlug aeveuty-four mllos an hoar over its new roadbed betweou Columbia and thla city. The six prlvata cars war as heavy aa the ordinary paaaenger tmtn of nine coaobea, bat with all the weight, and strain and apeed, the rear car rode smoothly, and the rear oar always swlugs and Jerks more than any other. Chloago's Longest Street. oaa IA CMuoo Tritmt. Waetara avenue, with Its twenty-two miles of length within the city, Is the lonueat street In Chicago, It la alao, aa a conse-inenoe, tue longest municipal highway in America, and probably la th woild.

BjJJjjjjjjjjjBjsjBjjsjBjsaBBassa LlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBaiaaaaaaaaaalllaaaaHBl SBBBssBsaawiOTSwsaKesBwiMaMwa maTMnsBTaw aw 1 MATURE OAK XAKK CABK OT TKVMIM. Testimony at Jhn Vo Berer-thsi Industrial Commission. WABntriaToN, Dee. was hoard by tho Industrial CommUslon to-day from John B. Do raso of New York, author of several works on corporation law.

Ills chief statements were that most American legislation Intended to regulate commerce and the growth of corporation had proved a doclded evil and that natural law of themselves are eu melon to prevent the over-development of corporation power nnd Influence. Mr. Dos Tassos desorlbed tho trust as an eoonomlo development, and held aggregated capital to bo the neoessary and natural handmaid of advancing etvllltatlon. "We could never have reached the advanced condition In which wo find ourselves to-day," he said, "unless It had grown out of the condltlonB nnd Instrumentalities In the form of aggregated wealth. The natural laws of commerce afford a suniclont barrier to protect tho publlo from monopolies.

Lenve tho laws of nature nlouo ond thoy will tnko care of commercial conditions." Laws Intended to guard the email dcalor, to protect tho smallor operator In tho commercial Meld havo for the most rnrt proved altogether Ineffective, he Bald. Tho Hhermnn Anti-Trust law. tho laws enacted aftor New York city' Black Friday and. except for conservative administration, tho Interstate Commerce law, are all examples of this. Instead of passing the Interstate Commetco law.

Congress should have had a commission of inquiry aptiolntcd to Innulro Into tho nneds and Interests of transforation nnd rollroad Interests. Then the country might havo been saved tho most remarkable legislation over enacted by nny legislative body. That low might liavo proved a great disaster to tho corporate Inter-esus of tho United Htatos. of our railroads except such aa were aided by thn Oovernment. were conHtrnotcd with BngllBh capital." tie said.

"The greatest risk attended tholr construction and so the projectors had great difficulty in disposing of their securities, In somn Instances common etook was given with tho proforred stock paid for and bonds were sold for whatever thoy would bring. Ot courso enough money had to bo raleed to build thn lines. The consequence was that those securities to-day often ropre-Bent more on their face value than the road Is worth. This. I think, is the socrot of tho ovor capitalization so much heard about to-day." l'OSTAL CUSSOLIItATJOy 11 Kilt.

Senator rintt Introduces 11111 for a New llullillng to Cost WAsniNoioN. Deo. 12. Senator I'latt of Now York Introduced In tho Benato to-day a bill to provide for tho erection ot a I'ost Ofllco In tho city of New York. It directs tho acquisition by purchano or condemnation of a tdto to bo chosun by tho rostmaater-Oonernl and tho l'ostmaster ot New York.

Tho bill carries an appropriation ot for tho slto and building, but no part of that sum. except what Is necessary for preliminary examination. Is to bo expended until the title for tho site ts vested In the United States and the State ot Now York baa coded jurisdiction over It. Tho hill was referred to the Committo on Tub-Ho Buildings and Grounds. Senator I'latt also Introduced a bill authorizing the consolidation of the Independent l'ost Ofllce in the borough ot Manhattan.

The Bronx, Richmond. Brooklyn and Queens, New York, with the Tost Ofllce at New York. It appropriates for uso In tho present fiscal year for tho employment of clerks, employees nnd carriers, and the establishment ot sub-statinns. cancelling machine, supplies. Ac, fortho purchoso and erection of letter box posts or pedestals and special package and street letter boxes.

Similar bills were Introduced In tho House by Representative fuinmlngs. First As-istant I'oatmaster-tieneral Heath said to-day flint the original plan of those who favored thn Now York city consolidation wus to make the appropriation for New York a part of a general bill which would provide for consolidation of post offices In othor cities, lly this means hn thought to obtnln for the bill tho support of Congressmen who planned to unite se.nrnl offices In their home cities. It was found, however, that such a measure would havn to bn referred to two oommlttees and would be delayed probably several months. Mr. Oum-mlngs felt that this measure was strong enough to pass without nny aid from riders.

It was thereinto arranged that tho bill should concern thn New York city olflcn only. Maine's nrrnt Log Cut. From tXf iJottcn Word, Banooiv, Dee. 0. A statement just Issued by the Surveyor-Oeneral ot the port of Bangor shows a wonderful Increase this year In tho lumber trado of the 1'cnobscot Blver.

From Jan. 1 to Dec. 1 there was surveyed at the port of Bangor, which Includes tho whole of Fonobecot county. 174.012.HOtt feot of lumber ot all kinds, aud It Is ostlmatcd that thn survey for December will add 4.000.000 feet to this amount, making the year's total 178.012.-huo feet, the largest survey, with the exception of that or 1M.O. since Tho excess over IKStH I nearly 34.000.000 feet.

There also ha been a surprising rise In prices. Logs that sold last year from to $1 1 per brought SU.fK) to this year, while spruce lumber that sold in lNKi nt 1 11.50 HO has been In great demand thla year nt to (22 per M. There are fow logs and little or no lumber left horn to wlntor. thn river being practically swept tmre for the Ilrst time tn tvventy-tlve years. An amir of men Is now in the woods, nnd nil over th Stato thn log cut will be Immenso.

On the l'ennbscot alone thorn will bo a cut nt HsJ.OtHi.OTsito'JiNl.OiKMSK) feet, nnd on tho Kennobco ubout 1SO.000.000 feet. JKHI.Stl IMMiailAXTS. Itrport I'pon the Htntr of the Jews AH Over the World. Fivm tke J'hilaJilpUa VMt Lfilatr, The fifteenth annual meeting of tho Association of Jewish Immlgrauta waa held laat evening. Prealdsnt Levy's report placed emphasis upon the general In crease In Immigration.

Of the Immigrant to thla country, representing an lucreaaeof OS per cent, over the figures of the preceding year, the Jewish contingent was 000, an lncreaaa of S3.1 perouut. A laige proportion of the Jewish Immigrant ramo from Kuasla, where, however, the persecutions to which the Jews were subjected wero being leas ilgorously enforced than formerly. Th firiiieat Infused Into thu European aoclal body by tho Drr) fua affair appeared to have had a clatlfylng cited, even tho l'rjcurator of the iiuaalan Holy Kynod having lu a rcient intarvluw disavowed antl-Keiultlo sentiments. Tho actual storm centre of Slavic antl Hcmltlsru had moved over th bonier from Uussia to Austria and Rouroanla. aud In Ilu-hernia the condition of a da Irs was descrlbud a gravily foreboding.

In Vienna the fever of antl-beiuitlsm hud passrd Its crlucal stage. Thla bad been, In part, due to the disclosure of colossal frauds In the administration of the city finaucea by num. eroua leaders of the anti-Semite majurity, lu Germany and franco tha londltlona wero aUll more favorable. Turning tn the aubjrot of Jewish colonization, Mr. Levy said that tho movement to colonize Jews In Palestine had been stemmed by tha Intarferrmo of the Turkish Oovernment.

Jewish colonies had been eatabllsbed lu Cyprus, and tho Do lllrsoh colonies In Argentina were showing unmistakable eigne of progress. Of th New Jersey ooloulra, the one at Woodbine, uuder th fosteitng care of Uie American Da lllrach l'und rusteea, waa growlrg In importance, aud left no doubt as to Its ultimately auc-cetaful establiahmant. The other colonies at Alliance. Norma, Carmel and Itosenhayn had passed tha problematic stag and save promise of success. An election for oflicera to serve during th ensuing year resulted a followsi President, Louis Edward Levy; Vice-President, 8.

Kaufman! Treasurer, ttemusl 0. rels; Bocrvtary, Charles Hoffman. Tha Stout Old Lndy anil the Man. From Ut Chicago TtmuUtrald. II rushed Into the car-'1 he crowded car suit ere The stout old lad who Had dropped her fare Hi covered It he took the only seat That bad been vacant there.

She grabbed a strap and atood before htm while I ho car lurched on and on Mite after mile. shu looted down at him and liauaied away; II eat, ehe had to stand 'IhsrVsinore to aay, Tho acene haa changed I A maiden ilr i'luys lightly on a sweet gnttars Her rhieksaie red and on her breast A buhoh of fragrant rosea are. He ooinoa at laat, she greets hlra aud Then leads him where Iter mamma waits, half burle-1 In Uer easy chair. A a tout old lady ilaun up, bows and then They both remember bow and when They met beforal were, A sad good-nlghtj iteoraetlraee pay I be polUe. A POLITICAL NOTES.

Th only vacancy in tha Flf ty-sltth flonae of np reientatltes la In the Seventh Congressional dlitrlol ot Kentucky, embracing the counties ef llourbon, Fayette, Franklin. Henry, Oldham, Owen. (Scotland Woodford. This district was repnacntrd In th Fifty-fifth Congreaa by Evau E. Settle of Oarcnton, who defeat! W.

0. V. Drrckinrldgr, Fuslonllt, In 1BP0. th vote being Battle, and Ilreckln ridge, who was supported by the Ilepubllrans and theOold Democrats, In 1SHS Mr. B.ttlere- eel ved 18,000 vot -a and Ida Itepubllcan competitor 0,100.

The Be vt nth Kentucky district Is known a sn th l)tu Grass district of that Hlate. ft The suocess of the Kheehan faction at the Reptera- ber primaries of th Tammany Uall organliatlon la the Ninth district waa evidently not conclusive, for there ha been no lack of preparaUona on the part of the Ooodwln men to reaume the fight on the same i. tinea nt ytar. According to th statement of some ot th Baltl- more newspapers the Democrat of th Esatem Hhore ara prouder than ever over the raenUon ut Col, John Walter Btnlth, Governor-elect and Con. greeaman, as a possible Presidential oandldat.

It Is the opinion of these Eastern Hhore Democrats that ei-Oov. K. K. Jackson of Wicomico county will receive the Democratic nomination for Congress In the First district to succeed Col. Hinith.

Bute (senator Applegartb, of Dorchester county, will also be a candidate. Th two most etpenslve departments of th municipal government of New York are the Doard of Kducatlon and the Police Department. The public burdens of one have been largely added to by the Ahearn bill! thelnorcave of the number of policemen now proposed wuuld In like manner add to tho expenas of the other. Collectively they coat year. It la remarked aa an unusual feature of th membership of th Aeeeniblr-elect that fifty-five of th nlncty.thrt Itepubllcan In thelowor houaauf th Li gtelatura last year hare been re-elected, and that practically all tha member of tha majority wh were on Important committees have been re-eleckd, aclrctimstauce which offer little encouragement ts the new and Inexperienced though ambitions legislators.

On the Deinocratlo aide, th number of veteram member It smaller than It ha been for many years. Complete relnrnt a officially canvassed of th Maryland ikctlon, abow the majority In favor ot John Walter Smith, the euccessful Democratic candidate forOovernor, to bate been lu alcessof fl.oou. One of hla compeUtora was the nomine of th Union Iteform party, the advocata of th referendum system In American politics. Ths vot polled by him, however, waa Inalgulflcant. Only fnurof th countle In New Jersey gave Democratic majoiltics at the recent legislative elections! Hudson, which Includes Jersey Cllyi Hunterdon, which includes Flemlngton; Husaet, wnlch la th most notthcrty county of New Jersey, and Warren, which la on thepennejlvanla border and th chief city of which la Belvldcro.

Of the city of Philadelphia It Is aald that It haa had a larger number of Oougreesinen of attended periods of consecutive servlcothan any other local Ity lu th country. It la pointed out that Congress men Keller and O'Neill ta. served twenty-ulne years, Congnastnan lundall twenty-seven and Congressman llarmer twenty-all. On of the present Congressmen, Gen. lllngbam, haa a record of ten termsor twenty year of consecutive service.

Gen. Bingham la a native of Philadelphia, and It It a peculiarity of Philadelphia Congressmen that they arc, usually, native of that elly. An icrptlon 1 William McAleer, th lleprcsentatlve of th Third diair.ct, lie Is a Democrat aud a naUveof county Tyrone, Ireland. David Ilremner Henderson, tha new Speaker of thaliouse of Ilepresentalivea.lt the first Congressman representing a veritable western district to occupy that office, lie la the tint trana-Mlaalaalppl Bpeaker. In the early Cocgresees th Eastern or AUanUo seaboard rJtatea furnished the Bpeaker untU th elecUou or Henry Clay of Kentucky la 1811.

Us held the office In flv Congreeeea. In lHiSJohn W. Davis of Indiana, a Western man, wa chosen. When, In 1M75, the Democrat recovered control of Congress, they went to Indiana for a Bpeaker lu Michael C. Kerr of New Albany, and, v.

hen alt tare liter, the lteput llcant regained control of ls)iigrea they choae J. W. Kelfer of Ohio. With thes exceptions, the Bpeaker of the House of Ib-preacntatlvca ha been chosen e.thcr from th New England Slatea or the South. Mr.

Hendereoa, hails from Dubuque, la. Senator Allison It from th tarn place. Thee are the general administration eaUmatet for lbou In the departments named: PubUa Ilulldlngs. LlghUngand Supplies, Highways, Kewera, linage. HG.usu and Water Supply, 117.000.

At the recent Chicago meeting ef the Executive Committee of the Democratlo National Commute theru wa the customary ustentaUout launching of Mayor Harrison's gubernatorial boom. Ex-Ooucrest-inan Dock Hinncheou xprred himself as heartily In accord with tha movement and cava it a his opinion that th Mayor would accapt the nomlntrioa If It were proffered to him. Other suggested Mayor Harriaun at a Vice-Presidential postlblllty and other aa a candidate for United BUU a Senator In plaoa est W. E. Maaon.

Mayor Harrison always a candidate for aum Democratic honor. Mayor VanWyck't nephew resume on Jan. 1 hi plade In the office ot tho District Attorney of Xing county. John Oillmgham Atbbrtdga, brother ot Mayor Aahbridg of Philadelphia, ha been appointed a tipstaff In th Court of Common PI at thatilty. New Jersey haa suffered much during th paat tan year from th death of prominent and dltlr guiahed publlo men, the list Including Yloe-President Uobart, former Governors Iledl.

Oreen and Abbett. Senator McPheraon, Congressmen Ilalaey and Phelpa and Judges lleaalsy, Ilunroa and OatteU. Two happenlnga In Pennsylvania! A Bwsd hag been elected District Attorney of Warren con tit y. Through an error the Jury Hat In Clearfield county haa been declared Invalid, and all th law rae la court for December have been postponed nnUl February In oonsequence. One of the Clearfield Jnry Commlaalonera haa disappeared and la supposed ta biding In Philadelphia.

Foreign Nntee of Ileal Interest. A new gltas roof la being put on th Sydenham Cryttal Ptlaoe at a cost of InO.OOO. Asottand boneless tall, two and a Quarter lnohss long, cut from an eleven.week child la Ktblng, waa shown by Dr. Simon of that town to tha Berlin Anthropological Society on Nov. 18.

Prof. Vlrchow called it "a splendid apecliui Itussia la getting ready to Ixtlld anew railway front the south of European llussla to Turkestan. On llu proiHiaed goe from Orenburg through th Tur-gal oouutry and Turkestan to Taahkend. Another starts at Aletaudrowsk ou th Caspian and follow the left bank of tha Amu Darla to Tcnardshulea the trana Caspian railroad. Col.

Wlngate'a smashing of th Mahdlia followed at once by the announcement of weekly excursion to Khartum by the lonrist agency that controls th Nile traffic. After Jan. 4 a train will leave Wady Haifa on Thursday evenings and reach Khartum Saturday inornlug. Incaas the hotel there la not ready, paaaenger will lodgod ou a steamer. I'ranrlequa Sarrey'e library brought pretty low prlcea at the sals In Parla, th total receipt being for the HO.OOo volume.

The beat price were obtained for Illustrated editions da lute. Vol-talre'e "Zadlg," with pictures by Gamier, Hops and Ilobaudl, brought D.derot's Jacquea Is Fatal-late," with Maurice Lelnn'a Illustrations, 111; Theo-phlle Oautler's "Mademoiselle de Maupln," with Toudoute's pictures, 104; Stendhal's "La Chartreuse de Parme," ir4 Guy de Maupassant's "Con-tea Cholaee," 174: liatidelalre'e "Fleurs du Mai," 78. Many three-frano paper-onvered hooka brought forty, fifty or sixty franca on account of the author's autograph Inscribed ou them. Abont't "Mar-rlageade Paris" brought flu aud Itostand't "Las Mutarditea," I'll. One of the famous twautUa ot th Second Kmptr, the iiintuatde Uutlglluno, died recently in Paris, Shu turns fiom Italy aud at court attracted the attentions ot Napoleun HI.

and the Jialousyof Eugenie. At a costume ball in th Tullenss, the outdid anything that Parla had teen in icantlnett of drcaa by appearing it Balammbo, clad In ber halt, which reached her feet, her Jeweta and very little It. When she came before the Empress, Eujcule declared that she must feel cold. Insisted on her wrapping haiaslf In a mantle, and never Invited her again. At that time, Paul Vaudry painted her full leuejlh nude portrait.

Thla she tor to places when her beauty begtu to fade. She then thut herself up for more than twenty ear In her house in the Due la Pali, near thn Place Yendome, where the shutter were closed to exclude daylight, and where her meala were brought from a reataurant, prrrauli mi botug taken that th waller should nut her. Shu ah oat Just died akin. I.