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VWiM rTfxJ wq jayy 1 THE WASHINGTON POST MONDAY NOyilMBER il 190 SteiKDiasbtnotcm post PibUcatlsn etncti BfsmsylvesJa Avenue near Fourteenth Street Ccnnt et Subscription tUmc It carrier In aafMn ton an sUcissbrta Deny Smnday lueladed one month iLo 50 SiUy tender tndaded one week De3ly Sunday excepted one month 5 Defly Sunday excepted one week ij St nt pMta preps Daily Seaday excepted eneyears 00 Dally Bondey included one year 7 je Sally Sunday excepted one month 50 Tdelly Sunday Included one month 70 Sunday one year 1 5 Xemfiteaces should be made by drafts checks paat emce orders registered tetters or express orders payable to Zbe BaaBblngton post Co CQaiblagton TO yenajylrania Avenue sear Fourteenth Street Catered at the sokt mec at Weabiagtoa aa eceaS cWac mail mtttr for commercial and industrial independ the mule End the hinnv out wall erect ence and wi Intend to retain that prind their ears In pride and exalt their voloes pie uvr uiraui nu uoor wnuu a lunexui gionncaaoru traae wiin us wnen we aesireo una Kew Tort Offlce Fladren BaUdlas PAUL BLOCK tlenagec Chlcaaa Ofln Unity Bunding FJEL BLOCK Manager MONDAY NOVEMBER 19 1906 do so There no reason why we should alter our policy simply because they cava found that there would be money In such a change for them Nor would It be prudent to accept reciprocity with the United States In preference to reciprocity with 80METHUTO NEW XX CHICAGO it the city of Chicago had not In divers ways mostly rood but some extremely bad exhausted her capacity to surprise people the recent announcement that he fire department had Joined the Federa cannot give us so valuable a market as that which we can secure across the ocean And the matter will probably stand about that way for some years IN IAN FRANCISCO Nature and men are writing history In lurid colors In San Francisco The city was as nearly destroyed as it could have been without obliteration Following the physical anarchy that resulted from the earthquake came stories of demoralize tloa of the police force and a reign of robbery and violence Then came the graft disclosures resulting in the Indictment of Boss Ruef and Major Sennits Not contented with this summary of moral and political disorder the report has been circulated that the relief funds have been looted to the extent of tl000000 and that President Rooeeelt has set at work one hundred Secret Service agents In the endeavor to unearth all the villainy San Francisco is In a badly demoralised condition but It is not wholly given over to anarchy There has been no thft of Red Croas funds The widely heralded story of the theft of a contribution from Searchlight Nev amounting to 1000 turns out to be untrue The money has turned up safely There couldhave been no stealing from the Red Cross contributions and consequently there could have been no occasion for setting Secret Serv lee agents at work If there has been pilfering bf contributions sent direct to Ban Francisco it has been on an exceedingly small scale and It is something with which the government has nothing to do The startling reports of enormous stealings are evidently the result of the intense feeling against Mayor Schmlts and Boss Ruef Political excitement has Inflated the imaginations of the San Franciscans It Is to be doubted that Schmlts or Ruef has been guilty of grafting on such a scale as has been reported The grand jury proceedings have sfmmered the matter down to a contemptible size depriving both of the principal figures of the notoriety that attaches to a real Napoleon of graft In spite of the political disorders the city of San FrancJtco is making remarkable progreas in recuperating from the shock of last April Real estate is as high as before the quake The town is being rebuilt with great rapidity Business Is brisk commerce ir exnandincr and within a fewyears the new San Francisco 1 win far excel the future that seemed to be before the old The substantial people of the city are dealing with a situation full of perplexities In a manner that calls for hearty admiration RESPOHSES TO MR HILL Mr Hills strong plea for reciprocal fre trade with Canada has elicited many and varied comments from the newspapers on both sides of the line As a rule Republican Journals throughout the united States with the exception of Mas sachusetts are now as heretofore disinclined to favor any considerable letting down of the tariff bars as they And present conditions pretty nearly satisfactory The Canadian Conservatives or Tories reciprocate this feeling and that Is about the only thing in the way of reciprocity that they hae in stock The Chicago Inter Ocean says of Mr Hills speech that was strong in its presentation of the present and future commercial advantage to both countries of such an arrangement It was weak In its Ignoring of the historical causes of the present situation and of the political effects of the change proposed The plain truth is that Canada is now paying for the political blunder of her government and of the British government from 1861 to 1865 With that by way of preface the Inter Ocean proceeds to frame a terrific Indictment of Great Britain and Canada for their course toward this country In our great domestic war Every count In the Indictment is true and all of them put together do not cover half the grounds as to grievances of the war time Long after that Great Britains North American dependency manifested the most persistent unfriendliness to this country depending on the home government to back her up And It was not until the government in London tired of this course of Canada and In the Alaskan boundary affair gave her a serious setback that she modified her exasperating tactics As to Great Britain in our war her course was an Incalculable and Irreparable Injury to both sides the Union and the Confederacy resulting in a prolongation of the struggle et the cost of thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of capital But why go back to that sad chapter of history It is like ringing the changes upon Marathon and Thermopylae The North and the South became reconciled long ago The people of the restored Union long ago forgave even those cltl ens who while sympathizing with the other side stayed at home and made all the trouble they could Why dig up the Ugly record of Great Britain and Canada In response to a plea for closer trade relations But the Inter Ocean after indulging In a fierce tirade over old scores does give ui something practical and up to date It says There is another trouble with the Canadian attitude It asks that we give with both hands while it offers to give With but one hand It asks us to go the Whole road but shows no disposition to travel that road with us It asks that we open our market to Canadians and protect them In tt against all the rest of the world but shows no disposition to protect us In the Canadian market against British competition That la a palpable iJX Canadas tariff gives Great Britain suil preference The Toronto Mall and Empire brings against the United States about as many falling accusations as the Inter Ocean hurls at Canada and the British government and winds up with the declaration that Canada may well say to Mr Hill nd to those who agree with him that Rrt Britain Britain can bur what we mn ot I1 must have created some have to sell The United States seeing sensation To be sure the that it grows a surplus of such products nmnx aa previously been wrormea wax me vucago puouc acnooi teacners were a trades union and had Joined that great organization but even that Unique Incident dldxnot create a suspclon that either the fire department employes or the police would go and do likewise Thus far the police have not been unionized but with the example of the firemen before them the country may expect such action any day Publla sentiment Is practically unanimous In conceding the equal right of labor and capital to organize The trades unions have the cordial sympathy of the people In organizing for the defense of their rights against the exactions of employing capitalists Organization of employers Is as defensible as trades unions The history of legislation In this country both national and State for more than forty years past demonstrates the hold that labor has on the people and the power of organization to operate on the peoples lawmaker Meanwhile great progress has been made In arbitration for the settlement of labor troubles and there is a cheering prospect that a few years more of mutual effort in that direction will put an end alike to the boycott and the black list But tt is a mistake a rash departure from sanity and safety for any class of offlclala or public servants to Join as such class a trades union What possible and proper use can the teachers or the fire department of a city have for protection against their employer So they contemplate going out on a strike for higher wages or a shorter working day Do they consider the probability of being ordered out on a sympathetic strike Probably neither of these steps will be attempted What then Is the object of teachers and firemen as organized bodies Joining the ranks of organized laborT What would a fire department be worth to a community If it did not at all times regard Its own obligation to Its employer as paramount And recognizing that why should a fire department take upon Itself any other obligation LEGISLATIVE BRIBERY For a dozen rears prior to the political tornado thafiwepti over Missouri In 1304 the legislature of that State had been an open market for the sale of legislation and to this function it had added blackmailing The demand for new laws In aid of special Interests was not sufficiently keen and active to satisfy the greed of hungry Solons and to make sure of getting their fill they introduced bills that threatened the business of corporations and throve abundantly by being bought off Contemporaneous with this were the operations of a corps of lobbyists at Jefferson City munificently outfitted with cash to bribe legislators of easy virtue The list of these go betweens contained more than one name that will not appear In print and the owners of which will not take the risk of repeating former practices Gov Folk will recommend in his message the enactment of a law providing JaU for a year and a fine of 500 for trying to Influence a member of the legislature dishonestly The St Louis Republic says The maximum penalties are none too heavy for the crime of trying to buy the power which the people of a district have Intrusted to a member for their own good That is all right so far as It goes but wouldnt it be better to have more legislators who did not need 1 other protection than their fists and boots against would be bribers THE CODFISH TRUST The codfish which In glorious company with the bean has nourished the fires of liberty In New England for many generations is to become the backbone of a trust There is no doubt about it The evidences are overwhelming The National Fisheries Company with a capital of J5000000 and a charter Issued by the accommodating State of Maine has come Into being It is taking over the boats rigging tackle and other paraphernalia of the principal fish dealers of New England On the day of this fatal consummation the sacred codfish wriggled upon its ancient perch and gave forth In dying glory the seven colors of the rainbow The Gloucester fishermen a sturdy folk danced a despairing saraband upon the wrinkled sands and sent a round robin to the Hon Henry Cabot Lodge their patron saint A blight fell upon the bean pots of Boston Kings Chapel quaked There was a deadly falling off in the attendance upon all theological lectures There Is no hint of the formation of a bean trust But if the codfish is to be subjugated will the bean escape Perhaps it is this thought which paralyses the will of Boston That it is paralyzed there is much proof Once when their tea was taxed the people of Massa chusetts Bay threw the stuff into the harbor When their rulers became a little too arrogant the embattled farmers of Concord took Important action Is theVold spirit there Can it be that a diet of codfish and beans has produced a degenerate race Are the people of Boston poltroons or is their petrifaction merely the prelude to an outburst that will electrify the world at a greater crisis when the bean itself is tampered with The codfish trust meanwhile will succeed to the rights of Gloucestermen in Newfoundland watera When these rights are infringed the trust will appeal as New England fishermen always have appealed to the hermit of Nahant In that perilous hour will the Hon Henry Cabot Lodge forsake the cod because it is In the trust or will he champion the trust for the sake of the cod No dilemma with sharper prongs ever threatened to gore the sides of a statesman A BRAVE DEFENSE When one recalls the fact that the New York Evening Mail only a few years ago was a rellglo political newspaper each Issue of which reverently carried at the head of its editorial page a fresh selection from Holy Writ deemed appropriate to some one or more of the great and grave questions of the time one cannot view unmoved the present trend of that Journal to waya quite the reverse of its former solemnity The contrast between a black robed priest and a circus clown is scarcely more marked than that which this change Indicate Probably there may be among the Mails patrons those who mourn over the substitution of frolicsome Jollity for stern gravity but we suspect there is more of Joy than of grief among the net products of the transformation But who could have imagined it possible under any circumstances or conditions that so faithful so orthodox a Republican paper as the Mail would select the or any contingent thereof as a target for Its shafts of biting satire In former times that course would have been deemed blasphemous If adopted by any other Republican Journal In thoie days the Mall would have hit it hard with at least three verses of Scripture followed by a leading editorial Now however there Is no theme on which the Mall discourses more flippantly not to say Jocosely than that of the aUeged aslnlnlty of the In the Empire State Ex Got Chairman Odelt referring to the defeat of Hughes colleagues speaks of the Republican campaign as asinine The Mail takes up that characterisation of the work of the Republican managers as a direct insult not to the managers but to the donkey Indeed the Mall stands up for its little client most manfully It says the epithet asinine is a misfit The ass is all bray and kick There was neither In the Republican campaign and there has been neither in recent Republican hit tory In the Empire State Waxing bolder in behalf of the defendant In vs donkey the Man declares that nothing so heartening as a hee haw nothing so lusty as a kick has come lately from the party of Cbnkllng and Seward We refuse to compare the Republican organization to anything as vigorous as the quadruped whose name Is Maud We prefer to liken It to a sick cat In that strain our cruel contemporary goes on for half a column Its client has every reason to be satisfied with the manage ment Of its case The entlr famtlw In what we have we hold We have fought eluding the ass and its hybrid blends5 According to one statistician the wealth of the United States if converted Into Jl bills would reach from the earth to the moon and back again thirty times Luckily statisticians are harmless If you let them alone Cincinnati street railway magnates are generously going to Increase the wages of their employes 1 cent an hour without compelling them to work longer hours The New York State treasurer elect Is a baker and says he Intends to run the office Just like his bakery In other words he will take good care of the dough It has been discovered that a rabbit will expire immediately if a drop of nicotine Is placed on Its tongue That ought to teach rabbits to leave tobacco alone A divorced couple named Carr have been reunited by their baby This Is something unique in toe line of Carr couplers The Pennsylvania Railroad will hereafter sell no ticket to a drunken man Carefully refrain from blowing your breath In the ticket agents face after this The lawyers who have discovered that Harry Thaw Is a physical wreck will do their level best to get him out of JaU If It leaves him a financial wreck Pittsburg policemen are still looking for burglars while Pittsburg citizens are kept busy looking for policemen The people in the Canal Zone displayed rare Judgment In singing My Country Tls of Thee Instead of Everybody Works but Father A pound of quinine can now be purchased for the price of an ounce twenty years ago So you no longer have a good excuse for dodging the playful malaria germ God sends a good wife to every man says Sir Thomas Lipton But as Sir Thomas Is still single there must be some trouble about finding one In stock good enough for this prince of good fellows When Mr Roosevelt returns Poultney Blgelow may find it advisable to make for the tall and uncut before Secretary Root makes another speech by authority of the President The Philadelphia Inquirer suggests that the bankers give some consideration to the question of replacing worn and dirty notes with fresh onea They could make a hit by finding an easy way to replace small notes with larger onea This years crop of whalebone amounts to only 20000 tons at 15000 a ton but as Christmas Is close at hand we have other troubles to worry over Fortunately for Mr Piatt the women with the petition habit have about used up their energy on Senator Smoot The people who were afraid Japan might pitch in and whip us while the President was away may now proceed to draw a long breath Mrs Sage really ought not to discourage the thousands of people who have been writing letters to her She should remember that we have an annual postal deficit that needs wiping out Baittn des Planches says he regained his health by using a motor car The folks along the route he traveled have probably lost theirs A good many of the trial marriages urged by Mrs Parsons would result in verdicts of temporary mental aberration Because the price of provisions has risen so much that the former husband could no longer pay it an Ohio Judge has reduced an alimony allowance It is now up to the woman to reduce her provision allowance All Jokes nowadays are made about drunken folks burglars or mothers in law says Dr Thompson the English critic He can get himself in trouble by telling which class Rockefeller Cleveland and Comttock are In John Lausaeur of Treskow Pa was killed by a barrel of sauerkraut last Saturday No he didnt eat it It fen on him Now that Bourke Cockran Is married he win find it much easier to arrange for a Joint debate whenever he is In the mood for one While Mr Roosevelt was wading around in the rain at the big ditch he may have noticed that the mud they were excavating also did some big sticking A New York paper indignantly complains that men promenade in short coats and silk hats Is it possible that the police ignore the absence of trousers 1 4 The news that Mme Oould is thinking of marrying again must make Lillian Russell feel hat it Is high time for her to get Into the papers again EKGUSH KOYAITT AT SEA Song of Prince of Wales toBecome Naval Cadet London Dtecpatek to New Turk Herald It has been decided that at Easter next the two eldest sons of the Prince of Wales will proceed to the Royal Navy CoUege at Osborne aa naval cadets Prince Edward will enter his fourteenth year next June and thus he win be more or less of the same age aa was the Prince of Wales when1 in company with the late Prince Albert Victor he proceeded t6 the old cadet training ship at Dartmouth anis decision to enter the two young princes as naval cadets at Osborne is particularly noteworthy because the system of training which is adopted there is entirely novel It is essentially the type of training which would have com mended itself with particular force to the iaio prince consort who in matters of education Was so far in advance of his generation and tlme When the prince consort wrote to his old friend Baron Stockmar forhls advice as to the unbringflna of hia vaunt sons he was advised that they should cucivo a Bjsiem 01 equcauon Truly moral ana truly English This definition exactly describes the training which the sons of the Prince of Wales will receive at the naval college at Osborne It Is English In Its character and though scientific is eminently practical They will have to work with their hands and work hard There Is a torpedo boat attached to the college and by this the young princes will obtain some Inside knowledge of naval engineering About a third of their time will be devoted to the practical aide of training The whole atmosphere of the college is naval Cadets from the day they enter the establishment usually about thirteen years of age are under naval discipline and thus at an impressionable period in their lives they become familiar with naval habits and learn to take pride In sea service The Prince of Wales In his public utterances has often referred in appreciative terms to the benefit which he derived from his early naval training HAPPY MAN OF MEDICINE From the New Tork Bun Npw hes every reason To enjoy himself For It Is the season When he makes his pelf Happy happy doctor Man of pains and Ills How he does rejoice in Piling up his bills When the snowflakes flurry From the curdled sky See him In a hurry To his patients fly Grip catarrh bronchitis Something all the time That the flesh is heir to In this beastly clime When the wind Is blowing With a northeast blast And there is no knowing How long It will last Thats a strain of music To him very sweet Frost and ice will tumble People off their feet As festlna lente Is no native cry Broken bones In plenty Make his charges high Shekels updn shekels In his purse will flow Happy happy doctor Happy medico ko coioE ausfaioff The Eejimenti of Black Troops Have Many Southern Officers i Them from the New Tork loo With the agltation about the dismissal by the President of three companies of negro soldiers in the Twenty fifth In fantry has arisen a wld interest in the other negro troops in the army There ure four regiments of negro troops two of infantry the Twenty fourth and the Twenty fifth and two of cavalry the Ninth and the Tenth Companies and the enlisted men of which have been dismissed were station ea at Fort Reno Ind With two or three exceptions notably ope In the Twenty fifth a second lieutenant and one In the Twenty fourth these regiments are officered by white men and many of these are Southerners In the Twenty fourth Infantry stationed tn the Philippines ten of the captains are from the Southern States three from Virginia and one each from Maryland Tennessee Missouri South Carolina Louisiana Texas and Arkansas The lieutenant colonel Dent is from Florida and eleven of the lieutenants are from Southern States In the Twen ty flfth Infantry the lieutenant colonel Hobart Bailey is from Mississippi MaJ Kernan is from Florida one captain is from Alabama and one from Missouri and seven lieutenants are from Southern States In the Ninth Cavalry MaJ James Erwln is from Georgia and three captains and sine lieutenants are from Southern States The Tenth Cavalry has MaJ Robert Read from Tennessee and six captains and eight lieutenants from other Southern States The fact that Gen Ernest A Gar Hngton Inspector general of the army upon whose recommendation the President ordered the three negro companies disbanded is a Southern man born In South Carolina and appointed to West Point from Georgia has been noted by many of those who have criticised the President and has afforded some apparent ground for the charge that race prejudice had something to do with the unusual course taken In this case But those who are acquainted with Gen Garlington recall the friendly attitude he has always shown toward the negro troops When a first lieutenant nt mint ry Gen Garlington served at the same post witn tnis very Twenty fifth Regi ment of negro Infantry at Fort Meade Dak Jefferson Davis advised Gen Garlington while a cadet at West Point to accept service in a negro regiment It came about In this way Cadet Garlington when about to Tadu ate found that his class standing would entitle hm tn caIa tv MawAi Nit Goodwins Bonanza From too New Tork Sun Nat Goodwin invested in a wheelbarrow load of Western mining stock a few weeks ago Yesterday It was rumored on Broadway that he had made no less than 40000 by the speculation In the stars dressing room at the Grand Opera House last night he solemnly confirmed this report and declared it was exact to a cent Moreover he told of being a fuU fledged director in a mining company I bought a good deal of that stock said Mr Goodwin squinting critically at one of his sketch masterpieces whlcn hung on the wall to recall a former performance of The Genius I bought SO much of it at 7 cents a share that I found myself 60000 to the good to night when It closed on the curb at 59 cents Mr Goodwin seemed pleased with his paper fortune though he mentioned with regret the Investment in a dress suitcase full of another stock at 40 cents a share and its sale at 96 when now Its quoted at 8 There are other equally attractive quotations on the curb till somebody desires to sell After realizing on his profits the genial comedian is maybe going to build a hotel in Goldfleld he says The Latest Postal Fad From the New Tork Timet A phonocard has been Invented by a German which Is finding much favor abroad but has not yet found its way to this country A description of the novelty Is aa follows For producing the phonographic postal card an apparatus is used which records the human voice upon a piece of pasteboard of the form of the card which it is claimed has many advantages over writing as It cannot be deciphered except by a reproducing machine The recording of the human voice Is done by an ordinary phonograph of simple construction by means of a pencil with a sapphire point This pencil makes Its impression upon a suitable substance called sonor lne spread upon the surface of the card The sonorine which can be easily spread over pasteboard possesses all the properties of a wax cylinder and is In reality the invention The signs are Impressed In the form of a spiral beginning at the margin of the card and ending In a very small circle and are Impressed so deeply that the stamping by the postal authorities can only destroy two or three worda The card has ample space for about eighty words Hen and Horse Companions McKeerer NT Dlepateh to New Tork World Henry Ransoms a farmer living near here has a leghorn hen a year and a halt old which Is never happy unless It is near a horse he uses for general farm work The attachment is mutual and strong and where you find one you are pretty sure to find the other A year ago last spring a biddy made a nest in Dobbins manger and refused to get out As the horse offered no objections Mr Ransome left the hen undisturbed and In due time she hatched out a fine flock of chicks It was one of this flock that took a shine to Dobbin At first the horse didnt pay much attention to the little one but after a time as he seemed to miss It when it was shut up In the hen house It was given the run of the barn When Dobbin went into the field to work the chicken followed always keeping in sight of the horse and when the work was done it returned and roosted on the headstni This kept up for many weeks and all the time the attachment grew stronger Finally one day Mr Ransomes road mare went lame and he drove old Dobbin to the village Before starting he shut up the hen but she managed to get loose and start In pursuit Helped by her wings she made fast time and when Mr Ransome was about a mile from home he found her trailing at th4 wheel Since then she has accompanied Dobbin on the road as well as In the fields REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR Frdm Um New Tork Frtas Women always consider It aa entair adrantact tor a pretty widow to here early hair The onlTklnd of rpeluag that would salt the averac person would pe to let him jU it aa ar he pleased Whit a women likes about her husband being elck la bow people ought to say what a devoted Bursa aha Is to aim On et the Jnoet satlsnetory thing about arguing Js that It the other fellow corners run yon can go around telling people what a plf haaded tool tin 1 PRINCE OF WALES Nd HIS TITLES King Haakons investiture with the Order of the Garter last week at Windsor Castle by his father in law Klngr Edward serves to call attention to the fact that there are two members of this knighthood who belong to it ex officio and who do not stand In need of any investiture or appointment thereto The one is of course the sovereign and the other the Prince of Wales The latter Is indebted for this prerogative to what may be described as a polite fiction For when the statutes of the order were modi fied to their present form Just a hun dred years ago it was declared that the Prince of Wales Is a constituent part of the original Institution Unfortunately there Is no historical foundation for this statement In no instance except that of Edward the Black Prince one of the founders of the order had any Prince of Wales been considered a Knight of the Garter until he had been elected like the other knights Richard II was not given the Order of the Garter until sereral months ater his creation aa Prince of Wales and neither Henry VI nor Edward VI was a member of the order until after their accession to the crown In fact King Edward was the first Prince of Wales in English history who became a Knight of the Gar ter ex officio and without Invent ure enjoying the dignity almost from his birth The present Prince of Wales was solemnly invested with the garter by his grandmother the late Queen Victoria long before he became heir apparent Were King Edward to die and the present Prince of Wales to become King his eldest boy would become a Knight of the Garter without any Investiture Immediately on beinz created Prince of Wales SHE TOOK STraatAS VlSXXk Daylight Intruder Knocked Out in Battls ith Mother of Grown ups yrara the New Tork San Mrs William Ewald wife of a member of the firm of Ewald Bros stationers and tnnato dealers in Newark avenue Jersey City had a battle with a burglar who broke into the Ewaldhom a Jthree story and basement brown stone front been attending a convention for the pre entitle him to select the cavalry branch of the service But It appeared at first that there would be no vacancies In the cavalry except in a negro regiment This was in 187Z when Bouth Carolina young Garllngtons native State was In the hands of the negroes as were several other Southern States and race feeling was very high It was also before the present regulations of lineal promotions were In effect so that once in a negro regiment he would have to remain always In one as long as he was below the grade of colonel Hesitating whether he should glvs up his chance of going Into the branch which he preferred or enter a negro regiment perhaps for life he wrote to his father in South Carolina for advice His father sent the letter to Jefferson Davis who was a personal friend of his In a short time the former president of the Confederacy made reply In a letter which is one of Gen Garllngtons most prized mementos Mr Davis said that neither In his experience in the United States army nor as president of the Confederacy had he ever felt or known any objections to negro troops and that in all the discussion in the Confederate cabinet he had never heard of any objection on the part of any Southern officers to accepting service in regiments composed of negroes explaining that there were reasons far apart from this which led the Confederate government to decide not to enlist negroes In the service He advised young Garlington by all means to accept service In the negro regiment rather than lose his chance of the branch of his choice The consequence of this was that Gen Garlington made up his mind to become an officer in a negro regiment A vacancy in another cavalry regiment whloh occurred Just about that time put him in a white command instead Handsomest Woman in World From the New Tork American She is the handsomest woman in the world said Harr Direktor Copried as he came down the gangplank of the French liner La Savole yesterday arm in arm with Mme LIna Cavalleti who comes to this country to sing Fedora Mme Cavalierl Is one of the many famous operatic stars who will appear at the Metropolitan Opera House this seasoi When the huge liner came Into port Herr Conried who was standing on the dock waved his hand to Mme Cavalierl who was sitting on a camp chair on the promenade deck She was attired In a dark blue gown over which she wore a magnificent sealskin robe The singers dark efres sparkled and she blushed as she walked I down the gangplank with Herr Conried ene speaks no English and when Interviewers gathered around her she said through her brother who accompanied her I am very glad to be In America and with American people Herr Conried drove Mme Cavalierl to her hotel in a cab a Papas Head Most Have Ached Trenton Dlepeteh to New Tork World Mary Larene ten years old saw her dear papa take a lohg drink from a bottle marked Gin a few days ago When I grow up to be a lady I will drink gin too Just like papa little Mary said to her mama Without waiting to grow up Mary took a favorable opportunity to follow her papas example yesterday She drank half a bottle of gin Her mother found poor Mary In alcoholoc coma gin had nearly extinguished her small life flame Mrs iArene rushed from the house screaming Help help Dr Seeds who was passing took prompt and heroic measures to revive Mary but she was not out of danger for several hours Then recovering her senses her first pathetic words were Oh mama how my head aches Does papas New Tork Mecca for Criminals From the New Tork World There are 10000 professional criminals at large In New York Citjr to day according to police estimates They include bank robbers burglars flat thieves commercial swindlers confidence men pickpockets and shoplifters A large percentage are ex convicts whose pictures are in the Rogues Gallery and who are known personally to the detectives of the Central Office As many as one hundred of these professionals have been picked up on the streets as suspicious persons in a single night by Inspector McLaughlins detectives only to be set at liberty in the morning to pursue their criminal vocations In other States notably in Massachusetts and New Jersey they have a law undet which known criminals unable to give aa account of themselves may be sentenced to short terms of Imprisonment as vagrants The law works so well that many Massachusetts and New Jersey crooks have deserted their homes and come to New York to live POINTED PARAGRAPHS From the Chicago Newa A crafty sua Isnt necessarily a sailor Humility la a rirtue that hobbles about on crotches la football If 8 a touch down matrimony Jta a ehake dowa Ufa is not worth tiring unices jou live fee the good yoa can da The less husbands aa4 wires aire to ear about Jealousy the better Title Not Inherited The dignity of Prince of Wales It may be well to observe is not an Inherited title and has to be created afresh for each holder becoming extinct with his accession to the crown or demise Thus If anything untoward were to happen to the present Prince of Wales his title as such would not be Inherited by his eldest son Young Prince Edward who would have to wait until his grandfather saw fit to confer it upon him It may be recalled that King Edward did not create his only surviving son Prince of Wales until after he had been a year or eighteen months on the throne although he himself had been created Prince of Wales a month after bis birth In a oatent dated December 1841 and one of the paragraphs of which runs as follows We do ennoble and invest with the said principality of Wales iand earldom of Chester by girting yilm with a sword by putting a coronet on his head and a gold ring on nis finger ana also by delivering a gold rod into his hand that he may preside there and may direct and defend those parts to hold to him and his heirs Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland forever King George IV was thirty five days old when he was created Prince of Wales and King George HI thirteen years old The earldom of Chester is a Joint dignity with the principality of Wales and alone among the earldoms Is not hereditary Some of the Kings of England neglected altogether to bestow the title of Prince of Wales on their eldest sons and there Is no record of Edward VI having either borne or received that title during the lifetime of his father King Henry VIII The heir apparent has other titles however which are inherited by him at his birth if his father is already on the throne or which come to him Ipse facto by his fathers accession to the crown Among them is that of Duke of Cornwall Duke of Rothsay Lord of the Isles ant Prince Of Scotland Thus by the accession of King Edward his son George until then known as Duke of York became without any special investiture or creation Duke of Cornwall a name by which he was known until advanced to the dignity of Prince of Wales on his re turn from his trip round the world on board the Ophlr The Dukedom Corn wall belongs to the eldest son of the soverefgn and were the Prince of Wales to predecease his father it would revert to the latter Instead of going to little Prince Edward and would remain vested in the crown until there was another king on the throne of England possessed of a son Butler Townshends Administrator Gen Sir Redvers Buller whom I msn tioned the other day as having been retired on the score of age from the army to the active list of which however he Is to be restored ere many months have passed by his promotion to the rank of neid marshal has Just been appointed trustee and administrator of the estate of his nephew the Marquis Townshend who dwarfed not only in body but also in mind was the subject of a sensational cause celebre last summer Sir Redvers has been named administrator bv the Court of Lunacy which last summer pronounced the diminutive peer as being too lmDecne to manage his own affairs though sane enough to be left at liberty and to cast his vote as a hereditary legislator in the House of Lords on issues effecting the welfare of the vast British empire with its population of nearly WAIUUVVUU It may be added that Sir Redvers Is the Joint selection of the Dowager Marchioness of Townshend who is his ttster In law of CoL Charles Townshend who Is the next heir to the peerage and entailed estates and of Lady Agnes Durham who Is the sister of the present marquis Lady Audrey Buller is a sister of the dowager marchioness Lord Townshends uncle the Duke of Fife and his aunt Lady Agnes Cooper have taken no part In the proceedings Sir Redvers Is not only the soul of honor but also an exceptionally able business man who has managed hia own considerable estates In Devonshire with marked success He may be therefore relied upon to administer the large Townshend estates so as to rid them of fhe heavy Incumbrances and above aU 10 extricate inem from the hands of Lord Townshend father in law the undischarged bankrupt and company promoter Thomas Sutherst Loyal to Unhappy Archduke If any doubt remained as to the very deep attachment and loyalty of Austrians toward their reigning House of Hapsburg it would be set at rest by the unanimity of kindly expressions of regret for the late Archduke Otto and of sympathy for the cruel sufferings extending over nearly two years and which must have rendered death welcome to him as a release True he had been very wild and his freaks frequently got him into trouble with his uncle the Emperor while his matrimonial difficulties were on at least two occasions made the subject of somewhat sensational debates in the national legislature at Vienna and at Pesth But all this has been forgotten by his fellow countrymen who recall only his wonderfully handsome and dashing appearance his many brilliant accomplishments and his kindly merry and genial ways in his better moments One and all seem Imbued with bitterness gainst his widow hitherto the first lady of the land but now by his death divested of her prerogatives and status as such As In the case of ex Crown Princess Stephanie the shipwreck of the marriage of Archduke Otto has been attributed especially since his death to the wife quite as much ss to the husband It is claimed that had she known how to make her home more congenial and attractive the archduke would not have been much disposed to seek happiness elsewhere Particularly do those near and dear to the archduke resent the fact that several weeks ago when ha seemed at the point of death at his chateau of Bchoenau and she was summoned from the shores of the Adrlatlo to his bedside she declined to remain with him for longer than an hour a mere formal visit while she was taking part in the wedding festivities of her brother at Cannes in the south of France when her husband fcreathed his last at Vienna In the arms of his devoted mother Archduchess Marts Therese with bis brothers and sisters around him Masquiss dm Fontxnot house at X3S York street Mrs Ewald is a sweet faced gray haired woman of fifty and the mother of grown up daugh ters she ts small but muscular and never has fainted in her life Mrs Ewald was alone Jn the basement at I JO oclock when she heard a ring at the lower door Beggars she said to herself Let them ring She then walked from the kitchen Into the dining room and dropped into a large chair near a window facing the street The curtains was unable to look into the room Mrs Ewald wore a pair of rubber gloves for1 kitchen work and she carefully smooth ed them out as she waited for the beggar to go away There was another ring and she walked into the hall with the intention of opening the door As she was about to put her hand on the knob the door suddenly flew open the lock dropped to the floor and a smooth faced man about twenty two years old stepped in Mrs Ewald said be turned as pale as chalk when he saw her and muttered Damn your He stared at her for an Instant and then seized her by the throat with one hand holdlnga Jlmmy In the other She believed that Ae UReded 0 force his way fcito the house and braced herself to keep him out The man tightened his grip on her throat ndT xsttid the Jimmy above his head I thought surely that he meant to kill me Mrs Ewald said and fought the best I knew how I caught hint by the arm and we wrestled around in the hall He apparently tried to push me into the dining room and my sole idea was to push him out It seemed a very long while that I was In his grasp but I sup pose five minutes seems like an eternity when vou are fighting for your life Once he threw me down In the hall and I fell on my right elbow bruising it Then he caught me again and I somehow managed to get the Jlminy away from him Exactly bow I did It I really cannot explain It was probably luck screamed Murder as loud as I could and folks In the street told me afterward that thew heard me The moment that I got my hands on the jimnrja the man let go his hold Just inside the dining room and I rushed toward the window I smashed the glass to attract attention Jumped out and saw the young man disappear up the street Dr Parsons a physician of S1I York street heard the crash of the glass and saw the burglar turn the corner of York street into Varick street The doctor learned from Mrs Ewald what bad happened and started after the man tracking him to Bright street where he lost him Several years ago Mrs Ewald raised the curtain of a dining room window in the middle of the afternoon and found a man trying to force open the sash He was as badly frightened as she was and took to his heels BTJEIAL PLACE OF COLUMBUS Minister Dawson Thinks His Body Still Lies in Santo Domingo From the New Tork Sun Thomas Dawson United States Minister to Santo Domingo In an address at the University Settlement 184 Eldrtdge street yesterday afternoon discussed the subject of the resting place of the bones of Columbus and declared his belief that they rest not in Havana as is generally supposed but in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo History and tradition have always agreed he said that the remains of Columbus were in the early part of th3 sixteenth century brought from Spain and interred in the Santo Domingo Cathe dral and it was popularly accepted that they had been removed thence toHavana in 1795 In that year Spain ceded to France the eastern portion of the island and a Spanish admiral who visited Santo Domingo gave orders to open a tomb which he supposed was that of Colurnhus and Its contents were taken to Havana The leaden box which the Spanish admiral had removed from Santo Domingo bore no inscription In 1877 in the course of some repairs another leaden box wa found near the spot from which the first casket had been taken It bore a metal plate with the inscription in Spanish The Illustrious and Enlightened Lord Don Cristobal Colon A controversy Immediately arose as to the authenticity of the discovery The Spanish Cuban and Porto Rlcan press regarded the affair as an American fraud but offered no convincing proof of their assertions I have not only read and compared all the publications I have been able to find on the question but have personally examined the box its contents and inscriptions and the vault from which it was taken have minutely studied the architecture structure material surroundings walls foundations have made myself familiar with the different building materials employed in Santo Domingo since its founding have verified the deciphering of all the cathedral inscriptions have searched all the original records of the sacristy and have cross examined the survivors of the men who worked in the excavation of 1177 and I am satisfied that there could have been no fraud and that the bones taken to Havana In 1798 were not those of Christopher Columbus PEOPLE MET IN HOTEL LOBBIES The prevention of the spread of the white plague Is to day the greatest problem before the American people said Bute Health Officer George Tabor of Austin Tex who with his wife Is registered at the New Wlllard I am on mr way home from New York where I have ventlon of tuberculosis and stopped over tin Washington to see the sights he con tinued If other cities of the United States would follow the example set by the Na tional capital in the matter of clean streets it would do more to prevent toe spread of the white plague than any tuuicr one inicg seems we naraeac uung in the world to convince people of the neceasity Dirty streets are conducive to consumption and the atmoe were drawn and the man at the doorlphere where such conditions prevail is filled with the deadly germs and inhaled Into tne lungs by a careless population Then they wonder how the disease was contracted point to the model lives they have led and never for an instant connect the disease with the dirty street a In our State we are very partlcula We will not allow passenger cars of any kind to be swept or cleaned while passengers are aboard We have Inspectors to examine the cars before going out of the yards or barns to see that the law has been complied with If it has not the guilty parties are punished and tn this way Texas is rapidly becoming the healthiest State in the Union When hundreds of persons were dying In New Orleans of the yellow fever I went to Galveston to prevent the fevers spread If possible Into that city The main thing I Insisted upon was cleanliness and as a result not one case was reported in Galveston or Texas The people of that city by way of showing their appreciation gave me a trip abroad While in Europe I observed that the cities where clean streets were maintained were remarkably free from tuberculosis where opposite conditions prevailed the reverse I was true The main thing that will pre vent the spreaa or tuberculosis is absolute cleanliness William Baker secretary of the Norfolk Va Board of Trade Is registered at the Raleigh Our people said Mr Baker are making extensive preparations for the coming Jamestown Exposition Norfolk especially has gone exposition crazy Merchants are now making improvements to their stores so as to present an attractive appearance and some of the decorations are to be beautiful It win be the greatest boost Norfolk and other cities In that section of the State ever had and as the business men are wide awake they are going to take advantage of it Five new hotels are now in course ef erection to accommodate the anticipated large crowds Office and other available buildings are rapidly being transformed into sleeping rooms and no one who visits our city need have any fear about his being well taken care of The elec trical display at night on the principal thoroughfares of the city will make the darkest night seem like noonday Visitors will be given the glad hand Our people have always been noted for their hospitality and Virginia will do Its best to make every one feel at home Norfolks historic old Granby street portions of which are lined with magnlfl cent homes Is rapidly becoming a 00m mercial street on account of growing business One of the landmarks of the city a magnificent crepe myrtle known In the tropics as the mimo a has been re moved from Granby street between Tazewell and Freemason streets to exposition grounds where It Is expacteU to prove a great attraction on ac oun of Its wondrous beauty There Is not an other Just like It in the entire South We are determined to make the exposition a advertisement not only to Virginia but to the South as well Objects to Education of Girls London Cable to New Tork Journal The Princess of Wales has decided views on the education of children Her royal highness It appears strongly objects to cramming children with useless learning which she declares is a mere waste of time She also considers it harmful to force a child In studies which re distasteful to It Her eldest son Prince David complained to her when he was nine years old that he Thated Euclid and would never understand It Learning from his tutor that the prince was only wasting time over triangles and things she ordered that he should abandon Euclid and take up some other subject Instead Similarly the princess disapproves of advanced arithmetic for girls Ote cently she found little Princess Mary puzzllne her brains over long division and was quite annoyed The princess considers that all that most grls peed ever know about arithmetic Js addition and subtraction enough to know how to do their housekeeping arid pay their debts she says Littlt Man Has Great Voice From the New Tork Sua AUessandro Bond the new tenor of the Manhattan Opera House is the smallest singer who has ever appeared before the local public In spits of high heels and every other aid to increased stature he Is barely five feet high In spite of this drawback Blgnor Bond is one of the two most famous tenors in Europe The other is our own Caruso and the extent ef the rivalry among them may be tinder stood from the fact that Signor Bond who had booked his passage on the same steamer with Signor Caruso refused to sail when he learned that his compatriot was also to be a passenger Because as his agent wrote to Oscar Hammer stein Signer Bond says that although the Americans have big ships there never was yet built one big enough to hold me and Signor Caruso Killed Five toed PwksTV Wlasteed Coaa Saeelal to New Terk World Baxter while butchering pigs at his barn at New Ashford in the Berkshire Hills noticed that the feet of one porker did not look just right On dose Investigation he found five full grown toes on each of the pigs forward The state of Minnesota presents rather peculiar political aspect eaij George Harmon Brill a St Paul attoi ney who was registered at the National last night Notwithstanding the fact that Mlnne sota Is considered the Western strong hold of the Republican party Its chle executive Is a Democrat who was re elected to the governors chair at the last election by a majority of about 40000 When President Roosevelt was elected he carried Minnesota by about 750Uu sweeping the State like wildfire In the face of this and also of the election of all other State officials on the Republican ticket Johnson who Is a comparative young man and the publisher of a HttV up State paper was elected governor The Voters refused to stand for the Republican candidate Gov Johnson has put up such a good administration that the Republicans are satisfied to let well enough alone Bachelors Cat Had Gaudy Wake From the New Tork World Friends of Henry Dreyer a middle aged bachelor and one of the proprietors of the Idle Rest Hotel at Bay Thirty second street and Cropsey avenue Bensonhurst have frequently expressed surprise at the affection which Mr Dreyer has lavished upon an aged Maltese cat Abbie To their customary Jest Why dont you marryT Dreyer has always replied I get along well enough as It is Abbie Is company enough for me The man and cat have been lnsepa table Abbte has followed her master tike a dog and has always made her bed in his room at the foot of his bed A day or so ago Mr Dreyer was die turbed by the actions of his pet The cat seemed 11L She refused to eat and Mr Dreyer consulted his friends He prepared delicades for Abbie but the cat seemed to grow weaker Yesterday Mr Dreyer missed Abbie and going to his room found the cat stretehed upon the floor It was dead of poison Mr Dreyer was Intensely arrle ved but soon left the house to return presently with several parcels He went straight to his room and last night invited his Intimate friends to call uson him When the guests had arrived he led them directly to his apartments Thre In the middle of the room they saw a tiny whlto casket Laid within it wss the body of Abbie At the head of the casket stood four lighted candles snd upon a silver plate on the cover was Inscribed At Rest A wake was held and with meats and drinks the comnanr mourned Mr Dreyer aeciarecr tnat Abbie snouia be siren burial the same as a human belns Japanese Are Setrrt From the New Tork Sua Every time the papers say something about Japs it hurts the Japanese people said a Japanese yesterday We can our country Nippon pronounced In the Jap anese tongue 2iinoa and a Japanese man is NlhonJIn Foreigners say Japanese and Japan because they dont know how to pronounce the real words But when they eaa us Japs we believe that it is a term of derision Just as yon speak of colored people as coons and aa cultivated Japanese hate the term None of the forergners living In Japan would think of Insulting us by using the abbreviation In Japan we call aa white people ssyoJn which means Western men Sayojln is a most respectful word But there Is another that was used Before we became what the Western world calls civilised that word means Toreign devs That is a very Impolite word and I hop the time will never come whan it will become popular again in Nippon SO THERE From the Cleveland Leader The world is better nowadays Than fifty years ago know and there are many ways That give me cause to know Ay though yon pick a score of flaws Since twoscore years and ten 1 say tis better now because Yoa were not In it then.