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GiT the Laurel Wreath to Tolman. Only a few months ago the newspapers of the Middle West were almost unanimous in condemning the course pursued by Henry Wade Rogers, president of Northwestern university, and Professors Von llolst and Laughlin of the University of Chicago. These college prof essors had denounced so bitterly the United States government, had prevaricated so glibly in behalf of Ajjuinaldo, had purveyed and vouched so readily for lies about the American troops in Luzon, ahd had been so flamboyantly venomous in their seditious propaganda of Filipino ideas that scarcely a newspaper in all the West defended or even excused them, while Jiundreds of representative journals adfised parents to boycott the institutions which these three men represented. This appalled and silenced the three professors for a few weeks, but tbey all have turned up again at Central Musie hall. Among the vice presidents of the anti-imperialist convention now in session are Henry Wade Rogers, president of North-western university, and Professor Herman von llolst of Chicago university, and most conspicuous among the members of two committees is J.

Laurence Laughlin. Nor does the revival of college copper-headism end with this. Among the speakers on Tuesday was Professor Albert H. Tolman of the University of Chicago, who, under the auspices of the three gentlemen mentioned, "thanked God" for the armed resistance of the Filipinos to American authority; declared that the United States no longer represented anything but despotism; characterized President McKinley's proclamation to the Filipinos as a tissue of falsehoods and a declaration of war, and finally, dropping to the level of blasphemous ribaldry, remarked that "the distinction between McKinley and God thould be preserved." There may be in all the Western coun try tributary to the University of Chi cairo a score ppi rP. liave tiieir children under the instruc tion of a man capable of such offenses against taste, decency, and truth, but we doubt it.

If there be that many, they ought to have the privilege of hiring him. But the Chicago university, which asks the patronage of citizens of all classes, is making a repellent spectacle of itself by retaining such a fellow in its faculty, besides countenancing bia disgusting language through the official sanction of Professors Von Hoist and Laughlin. As much should be said of Northwestern university. Both institutions have earned for themselves the suspicion, if not the emnity, of the Middle West. Detroit's Mayoralty Campaign.

Michigan politics this year centers in the? mayoralty election- in Detroit Ordinarily this fact would mean that the campaign would have little general interest for the people "of the Middle West. Such is not the case however, under present conditions. In 1S36 Detroit was regarded as safely Democratic. In that year the Republic ans nominated Ilazen S. Pingree for mayor, and he defeated the Democratic candidate by a majority of 2,318.

At the close of hisr first term Pingree was re-nominated by the Republicans, mainly on local issues. The Democrats put two candidates in the field, but Pingree's vote was 1,000 gieater than the combined vote of the Democrats. In 1893 the Republican party was divided on the question of renominating Pingree for mayor, but he was renominated and was elected for the third time. AVheu he was elected Governor, Mr. Tingree attempted to hold the two offices of mayor and.Govfrnor.-The Supreme court decided that he could not do this, and at the special election to choose bis successor ex-Congressman W.

C. May-bury, Democrat, was chosen mayor. He was elected two years ago, and is now a candidate put forward by a united Democracy. The Republicans of the city believe that their last candidate for the mayoralty was defeated because of the growing unpopularity of Pingrceism in Detroit. They have made an extraordinary effort to reconcile the factions resulting from the Pingree and anti-Pingree conflicts, and the consequence is that Mr.

Pingree and Senator McMillan pledged themselves to support any candidate named by the Republican i trvmcjii is in toe nature of a generality, but if Michigan Republicans are in earnest they will make it a living power. By putting aside personal quarrels and petty local issues and keeping the great contest of 1900 ever in mind they can make the truce between McMillan antl Tingree mean victory in Detroit and a firm hold on the state next year. TSo iimth i 1, 1 T-; cannot be made an issue either in a local, state, or national campaign except to the detriment of the whole Republican party. The overshadowing issue is now, us it will be next year, Republicanism as represented in the expansion, protection, and sound-money policy of McKinley, against Democracy as defined by Bryan, Aguinaldo. With this issue in view it is imperative that the Republicans of Detroit should unite on their strongest man for mayor and elect him, thus placing the Republican party in Michigan on the right road to win a sweeping victory in 1900.

-Mrs. Abbott of Ogemaw. Mrs. Merrie Hoover Abbott was chosen prosecuting attorney of Ogemaw county. Michigan; at the last election.

She quali fied, and took possession of the office. The attorney general of the state, however, "viewed with alarm" this invasion of. the courts by women. He therefore promptly instituted quo warranto pro ceedings, holding that Mrs. Abbott was in unlawful possession of office, as under the constitution and laws of the state the was ineligible.

The attorney general admitted the right of the electors to choose a prosecuting attorney, but held that under the constitution they must elect one of their own number. This position was sustained by the Supreme court in a de cision handed down on Tuesday. Conse quently, Mrs. Abbott is ousted from the office conferred upon her by the gallant men of Ogemaw. From this decision one Justice dis sented.

It is apparent, however, from his opinion mat ne was innuencea more oy what he considered the equities of the case than by decisions of the courts. In holding that a woman should be permitted to perform the duties of an office to which she had been elected and which she was competent to fill. Justice Moore was probably influenced by the trend of modern thought quite as much as by the legal authorities that he was able to cite in support of his contention. The majority of the Judges, with the hard-headedness characteristic of their profession, affirmed that the legal status of woman was defined by law and did not grow out of public sentiment; also that the enlargement of woman's rights was not a matter for the courts but for the Legislature to determine. In ab sence of such legislation, therefore, they held that Mrs.

Abbott was not legally qualified to hold the office which the electors desired her to fill. Their de cision is evidently good law, whatever may be said of it on other grounds. We're Prosperous; That Is All. famous epitaph commemorates the virtues of a Roman woman who, in an age of frivolity, "staid at home and span her wool." She did not promenade abroad until her household was clothed in purple and fine linen of'domestie manufacture. So, with but two intervals in the generation, the United States has been engaged in providing for its own people enough food, enough clothing, enough manufactures of every sort to supply every reasonable American want by the proceeds of American industry, It has stayed at home and spun its wool with success, and now it is ready to go abroad in search of markets for the ir repressible surplus of its industry.

For a long time we were accustomed to speak of 1S92 as "the McKinley as the "record-breaking year of But the inevitable trend of Republican policy has carried us far and away be yond the figures of 1893. For example, during the whole fiscal year of 1S92 our exports of copper and copper manufac tures were worth, during the first. months-ot-lSflft worth during the first eight months of this year they bare amounted to $25,197,056. Our exports of iron and steel, exclusive of iron ore, were worth $28,800,930 during the twelve months of the fiscal year 1892. They were worth $68,008,071 during the first eight months of 1899.

Our exports of leather and its manufactures were worth $12,084,781 in the. whole of 1892, and $17,413,458 during the first eight months of the present year. We exported agricultural implements to the value of $3,794,983 during the twelve months elapsing between June 30, 1S91, and June 30, 1892, and to the value of $11,495,450 between January and September, 1869. A phenomenal increase of exports is noticeable in almost every branch and department of manufactures. Simul taneous with this there has been a vast extension of the production of goods for home use.

Never have the demands of the home market been, more pressing; never have William J. Bryan's "common people" been so well fed, so well clothed, so well housed, so well supplied with money to spend, as at present. But there has been one decrease in exports. In 1892 our exports of provisions, exclusive of breads uffs, were worth for the first eight months of this year they are worth $121,651,443. We have now more money to spend on food, and we are eating more and better food.

The time seems not far distant when the American people will be able to consume ail of the choicest products of American farms. All these are hard facts, known to every intelligent man, but it is worth while to gather them and read them occasionally as long as the voice of the Democrat is heard in onr land. Two Political Hacks. Most conspicuous among the wise men of the Kast who are here to manage the anti-expansion convention are two who for the last twenty-fire or thirty years have been growing gray on the wrong side of public questions. These two hacks of error are Carl Schurz and Hor ace White, Carl Schnn was the bitter critic 'of Lincoln in 1864, the organizer of the lib eral Republican bolt in 1871, and the president of the liberal Republican con vention at Cincinnati which in 1872 nom inated Greeley for the Presidency.

The present generation has probably forgotten that one month after the Cincinnati convention and. but a few days after he had received Mr. Greeley's ac ceptance the volatile Mr. Schurx hastened, to repudiate himself, and to sign. a call for another convention, to be held ar the Fifth.

Avenue hotel in New York city. It was this second Schurz conven tion which put its political acumen on record by nominating William S. roes- beck of Ohio for President and Frederick L. Olmstead of New York for Vice Presi dent. In the excitement of the Presi dential campaign this ticket was entirely forgotten by all the American people except Mr.

Schurz. Mr. Schurz was one of the most malig nant enemies of. General Grant. He worked as strenuously to defeat Grant as be did to elevate Groesbeck.

Moreover. he was equally successful. General Grant became the foremost citizen of his time. Carl Schurz remained just JTHE DATLT INTEH OCEAK, TIIUIlSlJAY OCTOBER 19, 1899. what' jui is a repudiated political 1 H.f be was talking.

'Among the men who assailed Grant in 1872 was Horace White. No one was more active in the intrigue to defeat him. Mr. White staked his whole capital as a politician on the issue of 1872, and lost. Since that time he has been drifting about with no political home, no political principles, but with the general disposition of the cast-off dog.

He has been of some service to the political leaders of the country as a target, for it has come to be an accepted belief that if any stone hit Mr. Horace White it has not gone amiss. These are the two gentlemen who are posing in Central Music hall as the lead ers of a new political movement. They never led anything except to defeat and disaster. They opposed Grant and he succeeded beyond the measure of any other man of this century.

They voided their malice on Blaine, and the memory ttt Blaine is revered by the American peo ple. As, political powers, they are fit associates Mr. Edward Atkinson. His claim to political fame is the invention of the five-cent dinner; theirs, the inven tion of the five-cent bolt. The Next Governor of It will require about 600,000 Repub lican votes to elect a Republican Gov ernor next year.

Up to this date not far from forty persons have offered themselves, or have been offered by their friends, as candidates for the nomine tion. Of these only one has a compact host of friends behind him. Not more than three have even remote possibilities of aggressive and compact organization. But not one of the three, much less any one of the forty, can afford to assail with bitter personalities the friends of any one of his competitors. Some names have been presented that are not representative of 50,000 Republican voters.

The absurdity of the zeal that would discipline 550,000 for the pacification of 50,000 is remarkable. Let the candidates come on the more the merrier. Between now and February, 1900, the people will have ample time to look them over and to consider their ways, their records, and, above all, their associations. The Inter Ocean hitherto has found fault with but few of the candidates, Hough it has warae. some that no associate of mugwumps, no anti-expansionist, no traduceror slanderer of the men whom the Republicans of Illi nois have elected to the highest offices in the state, has a just claim upon the favor able consideration of the Republican party.

The candidate nominated must be a Republican with a big R. He must be stalwart. He must be capable. He must lte honest. He must be free from suspi cion of entangling alliances with bolters and mugwump marplots.

There are such, and from such the next Governor of Illinois will be chosen. Only a Panel-House Dream. Alderman Schlake and Assistant Co: ixj ration. Counsel Browning have taken in band the Panel-House Democracy uroiect lor bring avast amount of ready money within, the Tfc n-aity eminent. Alderman Schlake, at Monday evening's meeting of the city council, presented the entering wedge In the form of a resolution, for an amendment to the revenue law which would raise the limit of Chicago's bonded indebted ness from 2 to 5 per cent of the assessed valuation of taxable property.

However, as the Legislature is not to as semble during the coming winter, such an act would not meet the necessities of Carter H. Harrison's campaign fund in 1900. Hence the appearance of Assist ant Corporation Counsel Browning on the scene of action. Mr. Browning's proposition is calcu lated to dumfound anybody who is not acquainted with the insatiable greed and consuming ambition of the Panel-House Democracy and its leaders.

It places at $83,000,000 the limit up to which this city may issue bonds, wipes out the ne cessity of legislative action, and leaves the whole situation in the hands of the citv ball gang. Mr. Brownincr's opinion is double- decked and two-ended. First of all he pronounces unconstitutional the clause limiting the indebtedness of the city to 2V4 prr cent instead of 5 per cent of the assessed valuation ol taxable property. Second, he holds that the 5 per cent limit applies to the actual cash value of the property assessed, and not merely to the valuation, which, is the basis of taxation.

The basis of taxation is only one-tilth ot the declared cash value. It follows, ac cording to therefore, that bonds may be issued not only up to per cent but up to 25 per cent of the as sessed valuation. The actual values of assessable prop erty in Chicago under the assessment of 1S99 will not. vary widely from and the assessed valuation is approximately $400,000,000. Mr.

Browning's interpretation of the law, therefore, would admit of a city debt of 000. At the present time the debt is only $17,000,000, leaving $83,000,000 In bonds to be issued. The Browning proposition is not likely ever to be realized. It is destined, probably, to remain only a Panel-House dream. But it is interesting to the public as an illustration of the city hall gang's appetite for everything in sight, and its boldness in proposing even.

the wildest schemes for securing it. The Illinois board of equalization has served notice on Cook county that the patience of its members is nearly ex hausted. The assessment in this county for 1899 must be delivered soon or the board will proceed with its equalization without it, taking the assessment of 1838 as the base of operation. This threat on the part of the state board took the form of a resolution, setting forth the delay that had been experienced and calling upon the attorney general for an opinion on the. legality of using the assessment of 1893 for the current year.

No imme diate action, is expected, and the ulti mate effect probably will be merely to electrify the local board. The delay is not the fault of the county clerk, whose business it is to deliver the assessment, nor yet of the assessors. The board of review went Into so many details and made so many changes in the original as sessments that it was impossible to have the revision ready at the statutory namely, Sept. lovl But there is a limit to the time that the state board may be ex pected, to wait, and that limit is at hand, Dewey and' Chicago. It Is published that Dewev will come to Chicago.

No definite time has been an nounced for his visit. It is known, only that be is likely to be here within the next few weeks. This is the news that Chicago has been waiting anxiously to hear. The hope of it has been In every man's mind. So uni versa! is it that even the recent reception of the President of the United States took on largely the character of a Dewey jnbilee.

Dewey badges and Dewey pic tures were everywhere in. evidence and every mention ot the trreat Admiral called forth a response so ardent as to leave no room for doubt that Chicago was brimming over, with admiration for the hero of Manila bay. It is in the nature of things that Chi cago should feel keenly the importance of what Dewey did.vTbis city has upon It none of the moss of ace and decay. It belongs to the living present and the opening future. The achievement which means a new era in the development of this country and a new chapter in the history of the world appeals to it with peculiar directness and force.

Chicago is now the second city of the United States, and one of the few cities of the world that require seven figures to register their populations. Midwsy be tween the two great oceans, it cannot be indifferent to an event which. forecasts for our nation the mastery of ocean- borne commerce. With Dewey's help Chicago enterprise has been placed in a posi ion to encircle the globe. New York and San Francisco are each the gateway of a mighty commerce, brrt Chicago is at the focal point between them, facing and reaching both ways.

It is not alone for the victory in one sea battle that Chicago will honor George Dewey. He had long months of waiting and watching against unfriendly neigh bors. Many a brave soldier, on bind and sea, has won a brilliant victory, but few- have triumphed as did Dewey in a test of Steadfast The victory won had to be maintained without being en- joved. Months went by before Santiago and Havana fell. Then followed other months of diplomatic negotiation ia Paris.

Harder it ill was it to bold the balance even while the treaty of peace was pending in the Senate. It wss such a strain- as few victors have suffered, but Dewey bore It all with the same self- mastery which he 'displayed, on May 1898. Chicago did not fail to take note of all this, and the city win show when Dewey comes that it knows how to recognize the pluck, determination, and courage which have made possible its promise of a richer future than any previously re vealed to its viewl Schurz. Atkinsosi an.d Burritt Smith demand independence for rebellious Ta- gals and deny self-government to their own deluded When a little self-constituted -committee reported a platform to the copperhead convention in Central Music hall yesterday it was coolly announced. U.noaiueudjnents nuuld Lw -cwrowicreq.

The convention had to approve the ideas-of its self- appointed leaders exactly as the latter chose to express' them. And the conven tion, which constantly prates about the Declaration of rridependence. merely submitted to the dictation of this petty oligarchy. Such' is as practiced by Schurz. Atkinson, and Bur ritt Smith upon their followers.

The British Parliament is some conferences held in Chicago. Many of the members ol both parties in Parliament have criticised the policy of the government in the Transvaal, but when it comes to a question involving the honor of the nation all stand together, At the beginning of the Spanish-Ameri can war Congress put $50,000,000 in the hands of the President without question Parliament puts $50,000,000 in the hands of the British government without ques tion. Some of the speakers at the sedition convention yesterday quoted Lincoln ap provingly. Had they said as much against the government in 1864 as they say now, Lincoln would have sent them to Fort Lafayette, or treated them as he did Vallandigbam in 1863. Mr.

Lincoln is on record as asking why be should shoot a soldier for deserting and spare the man who encouraged him to desert? Mr. J. Laurence Laughlin and some others are right up to this question now. Old ieneral Flo del Pilar has offered to surrender his army and to deliver Agui naldo into the hands of the Americans for a consideration. General Merritt, when In tie Philippines, declared that Pio del Pilar was the greatest scoundrel in the Filipino army.

But, according to Edward Atkinson and Professor Tolman, Del IMlar is the peer.of any man in the anti-imperialist convention and ought to be encouraged to carry out his own designs. I The most independent of all churches in America is the Universalist. It has been disinclined to concerted movement or to missionary work. In the general convention to open in Boston tomorrow morning propositions as to common dec laration of faith and a more active missionary work at home and abroad will be It will be a novelty to see a Universalist missionary in the field. Brutality to women and adoration of Aguinaldo are twin virtues.

The daughter, sister, and wife of American soldiers, in Central Music hall yerterday, was moved to utter' a few words of pro-, test against the continuous insults to her country nag which she heard there. The Schurz-Atkinson gang hissed -her and yelled "Throw her out!" -And they threw her out. The woman, who shouted at the pro moters of sedition at Central Music hail yesterday, "Take down- that American flag; don't disgrace It any' longer," de clared she was the daughter of one soldier, the sister of another, and the wife of another. But who is the Rev. U.

D. Bige-. low. whose speech called out thewom- an's remark? What has he ever done for the flag? There are a good many people who be lieve that John R.McLeau is very popu lar among Ohio Democrats. The Cleve land Plain Dealer, a Democratic paper, prints a cartoon representing McLeroas a carpet-bagger, with the shades of Til- den, Thurman, and Pendleton exclaim ing, "To what base uses our party is put!" The committee on.

the Dewey parade starts out right in one particular. It recommends a line of march that will irive all divisions of the city a chance to greet the Admiral. Is no finer marching ground In the woria man Washington, Ashland, and Jackson boulevards. have been going up in. price for nine months.

The fact that the Boers are besieging Kimberley has sent them up several points. If Kimberley should be captured dealers in diamonds would no doubt make the Boer victory a ex cuse for higher prices stilL A disnatch from Pretoria to a London newspaper reports that a white flag has been hoisted at Mafeking, but the auie war correspondent who sends the infor mation naively says he does not Know what it means. A white flag at Santiago meant surrender. Three Oaks secured the Spanish cannon it set out to capture, is secureu a tibi and a speech from the President, and it lias a promise irom Aomirai jjewey. Three Oaks ia not large, but it hss lots of "get there" and old-fashioned enthusi asm.

It will be noticed that nearly all of the Associated Press dispatches from Cape Colony or the Transvaal that contain any important news are "delayed In- transmission" each day until after the appearance of The Inter Ocean. Mr. Bryan eon eased to Kentuckians on Tuesday that the people owed him nothing. The people have been feeling that way for some time. TO HELP BISHOP W0RTH1NGT0N.

The Rev. A. I Ift lUlasas mt Cnle Is Cemaeerateel IMskB Cextdjatvr. Special Dispatch to The Inter OMAHA. Oct.

18. Amid most Impressive ceremonies, BarUcipated In by nearly all the prominent Episcopal prelates of the West, tte Rev. Arthur Llewellra WillUms et Chicago wss consecrated bishop coadjutor of Nebraska this moraine. Trinity cathedral was the scene ot the ceremonies, and the church was filled with a fashionable congregation to witness the affair. Many Chicago friends of the minister were present.

The Rt- Rev. George Worthington, S. T. LL. D-, bUhop of Nebraska, wss the presiding bishop and consecrator.

The Rt- Rev. w. B. McLaren, bishop of Chicago, was unablo to attend, on account ot illness. BUhop McLaren was mentioned on the pro gram mo as the preacher of the official sermon, and la his absents the Rev.

Dr. Morrison, bishop of Iowa, delivered the sermon. After the music that followed Bishop Morrison's sermon, the elected bishop, vested with his. rochet, was formally presented to ths presiding bishop. Testimonials of the standing commute ot the diocese ot Nebraska were read by tho Vary Rev.

Campbell Fair, D- president of the standing committee. Ths Right Rev. Isaac Lea Nicholson, D. bUhop of Milwaukee, road the eertiflcaU ot the presiding bishop of the cbarch. The commission of the con aecra tors was read by tho Right Rev.

muni airot, ma satiiessa.n n.ssahop ot Kansas. Then cam one of tho unpressiv features of tho consecration. Tho bishop-elect appeared and promised conformity to his obligation. Among the distinguished visitors were ths Right Rev. John Francis Epaoldlng, IX IX, bishop of Colorado: tho Right Rev.

Sanroei Cook Edsall. D. D-. missionary bishop of North Dakota; the Right Rev. Theodore Nevln Morrison, D.

bishop of Iowa; ths Rev. Luther Pardee, dean of tho Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul. Chicago; tho Rev. Cllntoo Locke, D.

IX. and others. OLDEST ENGINEER IS DEAD. Wee1 Wats riveaaai Jokkat BII 1st 1831. a the Special XMspatch to Tne later Ocean.

-RED BANK. N. Oct. 18. Joseph Wood, the oldest locomotive engineer hi the United Slates, died yesterday st the home of his daughter.

Mrs. Willlsm J. Sickles. He wss born in Borden town, in 1S09. and at tho age of 17 got employment on ths steamboat Su perior, which plied oa tho Delaware, between Philadelphia and Borden town.

He was wood passer oa tho trial trip of the famous "John Bull" locomotive, which wss shipped from England to America la 1831. Sshsequently ho was engineer oa tho Camden and Amboy railroad, sad afterward master mechanic of the Raritan and Delaware Bay railroad. From 1841 to 1859 he was engineer for the New Jersey Transportation During tho civil war ho was employed by the government as superintendent of water supply for engines from Alexandria south. After he quit railroading he turned his mind to iaveations, and brought ort number of appliances now In general nse on railroads. He -was trustee of the First Method 1st cLnrch many years.

His wife died about three weeks ago, but he left one daughter and two sons. James of Jersey City sad John of New Tork. both of whom are locomotive engineers. ILLINOIS PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Attoraer Gfral Griarsra Reports tho Jollet Streator Sites.

Special XHspateh to The later Ocean. WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. IS.

The At torney General has examined and reported that the titles for sites for the public build ings at Jot let and Streator. I1L, are perfect. with one or two minor exceptions. At Streator the Judgment lien docket Is yet to be exam ined, and It it is found that there Is no claim against the property it will be paid for at once. At Jo) let the title is perfect, but the owner ot tho sits selected presented the city with a piece' of land adjoining.

When all tbs formalities of coaveymg this land have been carried oat the government will pay for that site. The Attorney General has not reported on the titles for the sites at Elgin, Freeport, and Monmouth. Daring tho winter the plans for these five government buildings will be draws sad tho buildings begun in ths spring. ADMITTED TO NEW YORK BAR. Bi-8rakrr Theaiai B.

real's Applies-- tloa la Approved. Special Dispatch to Th-j Inter Ocean. -NEW TORK. Thomas B. Reed.

ex-Speaker ot ths House of Representatives, was admitted to practic at the bar of this staie by the Appellats divUloa or the Supreme court today oa a motion of Lwyr Thomas H- Hubbard. Mr. Reed stated la his application that ho had become a resident aai intends to practice here. Ho presented a certificate of lite Maine courts ot bis admission and practice ia that tUt. Presiding Justice Van Brunt, who took the papers, immediately approved them.

It is usual on such applications for the papers to be submitted for further consideralloa by the court, although there Is ao inflexible custom. Mr. Reed took tte oath at once. GOSSIP: Op NEW YORK; lealpters Besest KeestTeiri Caarge That They Lack Originality. Special Dispatch to Ths later Ocean.

NEW TORK. Oct. 18. A charge of lack of originality preferred against tho sculptors of America by Robert B. Roosevelt has provoked sharp answers from several well-known artists of this city.

Mr. Roosevelt Is a member of a committee of tho Holland society charged with the duty of selecting a design for a monument to the Dutch founders of New Tork. "We started out four or five years ago," ho said, "ia search of sa original idea for this monument, but wo hare never found U. Recognising tho objection of tb leading sculptors to entering a general competition we obtained designs from several, for which we paid. The result was totally unsatisfactory.

didn't want a naked woman, but tho only two ideas which seemed to abound among ths artists were a woman mors or less nude, according to fancy, snd tho imitation of some European building, ancient or modern. "Finally, in sheer desperation, wo accepted a model by Daniel C. French of an equestrian statue ot William tho Silent, who. if not a Dutchman, had all tho Dutch virtues. None of us realty wanted that design, and wo took It only because It seemed absolutely hopeless to expect anything mors original.

That is where the matter stands sow. Wo are still hoping that something more appropriate ia an artistic way will turn up. but are much Inclined to believe, from our past experience, that nothing of that nature can be expected." When Frederick W. Ruckstuhl of ths National Sculpture society heard Mr. Roosevelt's criticism he was vigorous and emphatic ia his comments.

"What do these men know about art he asked. "How can they presume to pass oa what aa original artistic idea is? It is as ridiculous to expect business men to render correct verdicts in art matters as to expect aa artist to be a literary critic The whole trouble Is that these gentlemen didn't go about getting their deslga In the right way. Let them come to the sculpture society, tell as what they want, and leave the whole matter with as. Ws will guarantee to organize a competition that will give them a design that will bo aa honor to them and to the city. Whenever that has sees done the result has been entirely satisfactory.

"IX it is true as said Rust ell Sturgis. the art critic, "that Daniel C. French has made the preliminary study for aa equea-traim group, including the portrait statue of William the Silent, It Is probable that a scheme as appropriate with asperfect a work of art has been put Into shape as it is possible to procure." Charles R. Lamb declined to discuss Mr. Roosevelt's remarks, but he said that tho Dewey arch waa tho best answer to say charge against the ability of American sculptors to do good work.

Cartla Talks Sleaklewlea. Jeremiah Curtln Is st the Aitor bouse. Mr. Curtln is a nephew of Pennsylvania's famous war Governor. Andrew G.

Curtln. and accompanied his uncle as secretary ot legation when Governor Curtln went as Minister to Russia. Mr. Curtln, who Is widely known as aa author, is connected with the Smithsonian institution in Washington. He is best known, perhaps, through his translation of "Quo Vadis" and eight other works of Henry Slenkiewlcs.

tho Polish author, including the Trnogy. "WUh Fire and Sword." "The Deluge." and "Paa MichaeL" Mr. CurUn has Just returned from a visit to Warsaw, the capital of ancient Poland, whither he went to see Sienkiewies. who lives there. said Mr.

Curtln, "is man whom no one could once see without noticing sad afterward remembering. There is a certain Intensity about bins, snd his head IS tbs moat msgaiaeent one I thtak I ever saw. His eyes are of a nut-brown color and very bright. He wears a mustache snd imperial. Ho is of medium height, and ia about 51 years old.

A widower, with two children, a boy of 17 and a girl ot 15. he is very domestic in hU habits, caring little for society. He is rather a silent man. "Cp to this time his works are what I hav translated with one exception, a work ec Utled, 'Without At present I am at work oa tho translation of his latest work. Tho Katghts of tho Croaa.

Ho is a tre- meadoaaly hard worker, and speaks English well. He has one peculiarity about his work. and that is that np to the present he has never allowed any one to help him. and will employ neither stenographer, amanuensis, nor private secretary. He does all his writing, rewriting, and copying himself, snd when the finished book is turned out bo mortal hand but his haj had anything ts do with the writing of it.

"I was in Russia four or five years whea my uncle. Governor Curtln, was Minister, keenly tho course rh.ch mainly mean ot Slavonic literature. Russian and Polish literal ore, hut the mla- ate I read Firo sad Sword I knew I had found something new. and that tho book waa the work of a master. "The Poles are the most dramatic people In Kurope.

Two of the principal streets of Warsaw are unsurpassed anywhere, the one fronting oa the river Vistula, whose name I for the moment forget, and the Marshalowska street, which means the street sf the field mar Death Popatar Actor. Word has been received here that Robert P. Cottoo, for some years a popular actor la New Tork. had died of consumption at his mother's residence la Tuoadoa oa Sept. 27.

Mr. Cotton was brought to this country twelve years ago' by Daniel Frobman. and made his first appearance at tho Lyceum theater la "The Great Flak Pearl." He played for several years at the Lyceum, and attracted especial attention in "Our After his appearance at the Lyceum he decided to attempt comic'' opera, snd appeared with tho McAoII company In "The Seven Sua Ian at tho Harlem opera-house ia 1899. He returned to the dramatis stage in "The Ugly Duckling." ia which Mrs. Leslie Carter made her debut as aa actress.

Later, he appeared ia "Jane," Xoct, Strayed or Stolen." "What Happened ts Jones," "The White Heather," and "Ia Gay Paree." His health failed, and he went, in Jcce, to England. Mr. Cotton was a finished actor, but much of the fun he created came from his manner and appearance. Ho was very tall and thin, and ia some roles a sight of Mm was enough to create laughter. Bis; Earalaars of Lawyers.

It hits been said that ex-Icsldeat Harrison's fee in tho Venezuelan boundary ease will be IS30.M0L That Is aa Immense amoant ot money to earns in two and a half years Just $104,000 a yfar. It ts said that John E. lVrsona. Joseph H. Choate.

James Carter. Klihu Root, Frederic R. Coudert, Benjamin P. Tracy. Joha it.

Scribner. Francis L. Stetson. John M. Bowers.

William Nelaoa Cromwell, Joha M. McCook. and Joha F. Dillon make from to a year as a regular thing. The lawyer who makes a year is earning 5 per cent oa $2,000,000.

O. A. Lochrsnc resigned a chief Justiceship to accept tho office of general counsel la' Pullman's Palace Car company at a salary of $50,000 a year. Rush Taggart ge ts a big wage as solicitor for tho Western Union. Parsons must make at least $30,000 a year out of the sugar trust, and Dillon cannot receive much from the Manhattan railroad.

Sir William Vernon Harcouxt's private law practice brought him in an annual income of He abas it twenty-seven years aeo and weat into politics. Hts official salary In that period has been about $250,000. against that ho would have earned st law. He Is today a loser by assuming for the sake ot honeety that he did not feather his nest, Ex -Speaker Reed will easily clean cp JW.COO at his part of, his new- firm's business this year. Ia the twenty-two years of his Coo-greMlonal life, he earned $110,000, and to make ends meet wrote for the magaslnes, newspapers, and Saturday periodicals, besides attending to the Internal affairs of certain insurance companies.

Loan; Vsxat toe Chilareau Four children, the eldest 11 and the youngest S. arc to sail for England on the Frledrich tier Crosse tomorrow morning. Each will wear a lag with full Information printed" on It as to the destination of the children. Their father Is Percy 8. Clifford, a dry goods mer-chant of Freeport, L.

I. Their mother died about six months ago. All their other relatives live In England, and. as Clifford cculd not leavo his business and could no; bear to see them so lonely and homesick for tho want of mothering, he made up his mliid to send them to one of their aunts in Torquay, who has teen tegging for them. They will have a stateroom all SO themselves.

Chief Steward Erlanger has arranged to have two steward -ses look out for their comfort. Percy, the clue-jt child, has prepared a number ot songs and recitations with which to break the monotony of tho trip. Of the others, Wallace is 10 years old. Daisy Is 10 acd May is 3. FUkeratea Catch at Porpoise.

Captain Joe Crssemuck and Louis Knoll, a Washington market fish dealer, went out after blucfish in Knoll's mack last Saturda? bight and on Sunday night netted a porpoioe ten feet long, weighing close to 300 pounds. It is bow oa exhibition la front of Grass-muck's ears ia Nassau street. The smack was about 170 miles off Capo May oa Sunday afternoon. There had been soma good hauls of fish and everybody was happy. The set was lowered again and came -up as if there were a whale in it.

The big nsfa rolled over and over and lunged this way and that ia its endeavor to break out. Th ret held, however, and after a fight of sa hour and a half the porpoise was stretched out on deck, puffing and gasping. The men who had captured Mm were in the same condition, but with brighter prospects. The smack got back to the city on Monday night. Six feet is big for porpoise.

Mste Csghlaa Get Rise si Desli. Judge Brow a of the United States District court granted discharges today toahirty-two bankrupts, among whom was Rose Coghlan, fie- actress, who gets rid of liabilities to tho amount of $26,826. THROW FLOUR AT FRESHMEN. Prlaeetoa Sopkoaaorea Adopt Sew Scheaae to Prevent Class Pletsre. Special Dlrpateh to The Inter Ocean.

PRINCETON, N. Oct. 18. The sophomores tried new scheme yesterday after-boou to break up the annual freshman class group pictures. Contrary to the annual meth- -od of guying the freshmen as they posed oa the steps of the Whig hall for the picture tho sophomores stood around in silence, and tho proctors and Juniors were congratulating themselves oa their remarkable good be havior, but the innocent countenances and snipiciouzly bulging pockets of the second-year mea should have been a warning to the freshmen's protectors.

The sophomores watched the preparations by the photographer complacently, restraining themselves cvea when one' ot the unsophisticated freshmen palled out a pocket mirror to arrange his hair. Just as the photographer lifted the cap from his camera the peaceful scene was changed by a fusillade of five-pound paper bags of flour, slightly dampened, so ss to carry well, which waa concentrated oa tho freshmen from all sides. It was sll done ia a minate. But the transformation was remarkable, and the freshmen group looked as if It had been snowed under by a Dakota Ths chance to pay up old scores against tho proctors sad certain Junior classmen was too good to be missed, aad many well-aimed bags carried away Proctor Topley's hat. and tho rest of it sifted down his seek.

The surprise wii so complete that the sophomores had time to retreat In good order, and it Is doubtful whether the proctors can Identify any' of the ringleaders. The taking of tho freshmen picture has been postponed Indefinitely. The negative takes today has not beea exhibited. ARMY OFFICERS CHANGED. Latest Balletla Isae4 by the War De.

starlsneat. Special Dtspetrt to The Inter Ocean. WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct.

Is. These army orders have been issued: Acting Aeeiatant Surgeon Thomas D- Ingram, from Fort Mcintosh, Texas, ts Wash iagteo. D. Major Stephen Mills. Inspector general, from duty ia the office of the Inspector general of the army to Manila.

Philippine Islands. Second Lieutenant Marcus CoveU. Thirty-Ninth infantry, to his regiment. f- First Lieutenant Frank Donaldson, assist ant surgeon, Forty-Ninth Infantry, dishonorably discharged. Major Lewis M.

Mans, surgeon, from Fort Hamilton to San Francisco. Acting Assistant Surgeon Hugh L. Taylor. V. S.

from Vancouver barracks. Washington, to Fort Douglas, Utah. Major Henry P. Birmingham, surgeon, from Fort Douglas to San Francisco. Major Frederick von Schrader, quarter-master, from New Tork city to Camp Meada.

Fir.t Lieutenant George H. Seventh infantry, to Fort Porter. N. SAMPSON'S COUSIN MARRIED. Xisi Alice- Belle Saaapaoa.

Weds Chester Ferris Bakes. DUpat-Hi The Inter Ocean. GREENWICH. Oct. IS.

Alice Bells Sampson, daughter of Mrs. Adaline F. Sampson, and a cousin of Admiral Sampson, was married this evening to Chester Ferris Baker by tho Rev. Joslah Strong. D.

D. She was' attired In white. Her sister. Miss Nellie cimntas. was maid of honor, and wore Dink.

H. A. Hulct of Vermont was groomsman. Chrysanthemums and palms were the decorations la the Sampson home, where the ceremony was performed. Mr.

ael Mrs. Baker left for a trip to Washington. D. C. CHALLENGES CHICAGO.

Colo labia I'alverslty Wants tm De-bato Again. Special Dispatch ta TTa later Ocean. NEW TORK. Oct. IS.

The Columbia University Debating union at Its meeting today sent a formal challenge to the University of Chicago for a return debate this winter to to held la New Tork. Two debates have beea held betweea the two universities. Columbia winning tho first and Chicago1 tho second. Two of Columbia's throe repreaeala-Uves la ths last debates, Ernest and Franco, are stil hi college. Xa Raoaa f.rDeskt.

Author I tell you. my play has the real French flavor, eh? Wiggs Do you really think soT "Think? I dont think I know. The hero closes tho first act with these words: Sir, you, have done mo tho greatest wrong one ma a can do another: you have robbed me ot your wife's "Life. A Monopoliser. "Does your wife always hare the last asked Snagga.

"Yes." replied Splffins. "the first and the last, and all the Intervening words." Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph..