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Mis. Kriiger, wife of the former President of the South African Republic, died from pneumonia at Pretoria: it is thought that her death may brine about a speedy ending of the war. A dispatch from Tien-Tsin said that Europeans there distrusted China's pledges. Francesco Crispi, the former Italian statesman. is again seriously ill.

The freedom of the city of London will be conferred on Sir Alfred Milner on Tuesday. The Spanish Senate rejected a motion to inquire Into the pa of disasters in the recent war. Much work remains to be done by the British House of Commons; the government whips haw been seriously hampered. The Belgian Minister at Washington. Count de Lichtervelde, will be succeeded by Baron Moncheur.

The Berlin and London stock markets showed a partial recovery of prices In the last week. Elections in many departments in France showed small gains for the government party. The investigations of the Commissioner of the Land Ollee at Washington chow that the Louisiana purchase did not extend west of the of the Rocky Mountains and did include Texas, which was never really a part of Mexico. The firemen's strike in the Pennsylvania hard, coal region was practically declared oft and the men will go to work If they can secure their former places. The steel strike situation underwent no change, btit the tube mill workers at McKeesport were organized by the Amalgamated Association.

Intense heat prevailed in the Middle West the temperature in St. rising to 10s degrees, and In Chicago to Mai degrees, breaking records. Revelations of a conspiracy resulting in murder and the arrest of well known citizens of Kchols County. may lead to a feud in that part of the State. Four persons were killed at a grade crossing at Lebanon.

N. H. The Forburgh trial will be resumed to-day. William K. Vanderbllt bought sixteen head of racing brood mares and yearlings at a cost of $30,000.

Robert Folger funeral taka place at Spring? at o'clock to-day. Religious enthusiasm ran at the Epworth League convention in San Francisco. Trouble at Cleveland. between colored men and white citizens resulted In the killing of a negro find wounding of several others. The bodies of the Misses Colhurn were found in the cabin of the yacht Venltzla, in which they were drowned, with the-r father, the sailing master an a sailor; vessel, with all fail pet, was raised and towed to Brooklyn.

aptain Copeland. one of the oldest members of tbe police force, led the rescue of a party si imperilled yachtsmen in Pelham Bay. A boy was stabbed In a fight between boys and on a St3ten Island ferryboat. The "trlke was begun, a big committee goi-r. from shop to shop and calling out the men.

Magistrate discharged young Mr. V'aiton. the cbemtet. who was arrested on charged with breaking Into an in a Fifth-aye. building.

It was arned that the Japanese residents here were IsrrneJ SI the movement in San Francisco to i-e tbeJr countrymen included in the BBCta- act. Preparations were completed for opening of the New- York Yacht Club's cruise to-day. It was said the and the Constitution would meet In epsrta! races about the middle of September. THE lndications for to-day: Fait, continued warm; light to fresh sooth winds. Temperature yesterday: Highest, 91 degrees; lowest.

71; average, 81. Before you Irate the city for your summer outing, be sure to subscribe 101 The Tribune. You -sill fttl lest without it. The address trill be changed as desired. THE CONSULAR SERVICE PROBLEM.

The recent annouueement from Washington that -Tames Stowe, United States Consul-Gen era! at Cape has surrendered that office because of its imdequate Fa'ary calls attentionafresh to the essential character of our consular system. Mr. experience at Cape Town seems to have paralleled that of Atlelbert S. Hr.y at Pretoria, and of many other American consuls who have found themselves overwhelmed by unexpected demands at posts wliose salary ratings showed 100 the earmarks of peuii.vwjse rcoiiomy. With the Income which bis office assured Mr.

Stowe could not begin to meet the of life in Capo Colony, which are reported to have eleajkVd since the outbreak of the Betf war. Neither could lie respond to the many calls for assistance which have come every quarter as the privations ami miseries entail. by that war have steadily increased. The State Department. under existing law, ate no fund on which a consul can draw for emergency expenses, and no allowance can be made in auditin l- his accounts for conditions, however unavoidable, which burdened, him with beyond tbe ordinary requirements of his post, and still further beyond Us annual salary.

That no such fund Is available hi unfortunate; for its not infrequently compels resignations, as in Mr. Stowe's case, or entails which it uellhe'r just nor metier ous on covemment's part to ask a consul retaining office to It is, perhaps, expecting 100 much to look for a radical of the consular service for several years to A permanent consular corps, with fixed praties and it system of promotions for efficiency, Js the Roal of those who are endeavoring to persuade Cuiigress to take the consular sprviee but of politics, and JO ion it an agency, simple, for the extension of American trade. Kilt the attainment, of that goal is an appreciable distance for few v- go further nowadays than to listen politely, but sceptically, to appeals 33 sre presented for consular reform. The present of appointments, tenure and promotions has worked well enough, indeed, to stand wore or less in the light of any reorganization which is sweep it avray. For perhaps half our consulates are now filled by men who have them primarily rewards for political activity, and who Jack the trained which a gradual rise from the lower prades would Insure, the other half boast of perhaps sad experience thaa would be attracted to service as a t-ettled 'and permanent career.

Of the override CfljmcJty'or the present eonmlar corps, as well of Its marked in the last or two, there can no fbis increase In efficiency Is likely to be mainialned the work done by the consular prowt- in volume sod Importance. Greater stability of tenure to be deelred, bowever, arid whether or riot it shall BO to the length of radically reorganizing the system Congress ought at least to recognize the broadened duties and functions which many American consuls have now to discharge compared with those they discharged ten or twenty years ago, and ought to give them salaries commensurate with the Increased responsibilities and burdens they have been ailed on to assume. NEW-YORK AND THE NATION. The steady ami rapid Increase of the foreign trade of the United States is cause for general rejoicing. he equally steady if not equally rapid decrease of New- York's proportion thereof is cause for something more than local concern.

And (hat there is Sack decrease is just as certain as that there Is such increase. A few years ago New-York had considerably more than gO aj cent of the foreign commerce of the United States. In the fiscal year Which ended three weeks ago it had less than I. per of it. That was the lowest figure He percentage had reached since before the Civil War.

forty years ago. But there is no reason to suppose the next year's figures will not be lower still. Slowly but steadily, under existing conditions, New- York is losing its once unchallenged supremacy as the chief port of the United States, it Is still greater than any other port, but it is no longer, greater than all the other ports put together. That is not because New-York's commerce Is actually decreasing, for it is not, but because it is not increasing proportionately with the general Increase. Last year's percentage was.

as we have said, the lowest in forty years. At the same time the commerce of New- York was in that year greater by nearly $700,000 than in the preceding year or in any other year in its history. But the Increase of commerce for the whole nation was nearly Had New- York had its proper share of that increase its own increase would have been more than instead of less than $700,000. That means unmistakably that the chief city of the nation is net sharing fully the nation's commercial prosperity and progress. New- York standing still while the United States Is ndvancing.

Thai is a state of affairs not gratifying to Now York's pride nor conducive to Its welfare. It would not, however, be ground for serious concern if it were the result of natural causes. If. for example, the foreign trade of the I'nclfJc Coast, which is doubtless destined to attain vast proportions, were so to increase as to reduce New- York's percentage of the whole, there would be no reasou for complaint. Such, how ever, is not the case.

New-York is losing trade is failing to gain the normal increase of trade to which It Is entitled -because trade Is being diverted to other Atlantic ports, not all of them in the United States, and is thus being diverted not from natural, but from artificial causes. There Is discrimination by transportation lines against New York in favor of other ports, and there is a failure on the part of New- York to meet and to counterbalance that discrimination by such means as are within its power. That is the plain tale from the pc.rM. It remains for New-York, city nnd. State, to determine what to do about it.

It is scarcely to be conceived that this metropolis will be content to sit still gad let the rest of the country outstrip it in the field in which hitherto it has been supreme. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN RAILWAYS. When the methods and results of railway management In (Jreat Britain and the United Stales are compared it is not difficult to understand why the Americans are outstripping their rival-; in the commercial The conduct of the great business of transportation is doubtless typical of the spirit and enterprise of the two countries. When freights, are unduly high, and railroads run without economy because their equipment is behind the times, manufactures and trade are bound to be put at a disadvantage, no matter how well conducted, and in all probability they are ill conducted and slow to appreciate opportunities at they would compel the abolition of outworn methods and the facilitation of their traffic. How far the llsh railways have fallen behind those of the United States Is clearly shown by Colonel M.

U. Jefferds in a recent number of "The Financial News." of In IS7O. he says, the New York Central's working expense a ton mile was 17 per cent less than that of the London and North Western. In the twenty years following, the American company reduced its expenses from 1.14 cents to cent a ton a mile, or over Til' per cent. ii IAD the New- York Central has still further reduced its expenses from i4 to 0.296 cent I ton a mile, or 40 per cent, while the Kngllsh companies have made practically DO reduction at all in these thirty years.

In 1892 Sir Edward Watkin announced that the minimum of working expenses had been reached, and the present average expense of moving a ton of freight a mile on the London and North Western IM cents, as against 0.2.1."> cent on the New-York Central. 0.304 cent on the Pennsylvania and only 0.48". cent on the (Jreat Northern, a. road through a sparsely settled country, where the hauls are long and oftentimes the bulk of freight Is all one way The freight rates tell the same story of American economy. The New- York Central rate a ton a mile has been reduced from I.SS cents in 1870 to 0.76 cent in IMB, which is only about half what It would actually cost an English railway to do the same work Without making any profit nt all.

The London iiiitl North We-h-rn freight rate in 1000 was cents i lon i mile, or over three limes that of the New- York Central. Nor Is the lower American rate due toA-heap labor. Tin- average wage paid by the New- York Central, according to Colonel is double that paid by the London and North Western. Moreover, the English roads cost more to build than the American, and with their belter roadbeds they should be able to handle traffic at less expense, yet with all their outlay for equipment and their low wages they arc hopelessly outclassed. A fair specimen of their wasteful management seen hi the character of their freight cars.

They weigh about eight toils each, and carry a load not to exceed two tons. The average American freight car weighs twelve ions and carries a load of eighteen tons. So for every ton of paying freight the English road carries ii four tons of dead weight, while the American only drawl? two-thirds of I foil Of dead Weight. No wonder the cost of carrying freight Is high when every locomotive Ii thus handicapped. It Is easy to understand why hi a charge of 2.34 cent ii ton a mile for freight, and I.W cents a I passenger, each locomotive of the and North Western earns only a year, while with a charge of 0.54 cent for freight and I.OS cents for passengers each Pennsylvania locomotive eaniH a year.

Naturally our adapted to do twice much work as the English, arc found to use 'more fuel and oil than Dm latter when put to work oil English trains. The London and North Western's total' tonnage of freight last year To carry that tralt'n It drew over road Hit. tons, or ITii.Ml'.i. tons of weight, while the Americans would have moved the Fame amount of freight with a carriage of only tons of dead weight, thus Raving the expend of ha tiling 147,4:52.834 tons, the wear and tear of. that uuncceetdry burden oh NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE.

MONDAY. JULY 22, 1901. engines and track. The cost of moving dead weight must, of course, paid by the shipper of freight, and consequently English commerce If: jfandlf'apped by railway mariagement which persists in following cumbersome, expensive and antiquated Method-- RISKING LIFE FOOLISHLY. The feat of floating In a barrel through the rapids of the Niagara MOW tin- cataract to the whirlpool bos now been accomplished with safety several multitudes of spectators watched the latest exploit of that Most of the on the banks of the riveswere allured by the line, i taint so to the fate of the daring ad veil I liter who risked Ills life.

Few of them would have been troubled or sorrowful if the man in the barrel bad he. a victim of his own foolhardiness. like Captain Webb, the celebrated swimmer from England. Such perilous experiments should be prevent; ed by the police. They serve no good purpose.

nnd are objectionable for many reasons. No one is senseless enough til affirm that competitive exhibitions of jumping from the Brooklyn Bridge Into the Eaut Hlver to lie permitted, and it would be dlfflcuH to discover any good reason for allowing nisi- raici Impetuous fools to shoot the Niagara rapida merely to pratify the longing of llfbt headed crowds for a thrill of excitement. There. nre dangers enough I to be encountered for worth; Barrel navigators of turbulent waters li-vo no excuse for existence in these enlightened And bridge jumpers are no better. Such rattle brained challengers of fate should be down to useful and effective work of some kind: OUR TREATMENT OF SOUTH AMERICA.

Sofior Qranaac publicist and man of letters 111 Argentina, hns been arguing in "The Baltimore News" thnt the Monroe Doctriue has outlived usefulness, and that South America has no fear of Europe niifl no desire for the protection of the United Slates. Ills country, he snys. regards Europe with favor nnd confidence, since "she exchangee her goods for ours without trying to shut out our products." This hist statement is thought by "Tin' BpringfleM Republican" to contain "the sting of truth." innsmuch ns it covertly contrasts the commercial treatment received by South America from Europe with that received from the United States. Well. let us see about it.

Let us see to what extent Europe exchanges her Roods for South America's, and to what extent the United States tries to shut out South American products. In the latest year reported In 'Tin' Statesman's Year Hook" Argentina purchased from (Jreat Britain Roods to the amount of 539.000,-000. gajd sol.l to (Jreat Brltnin goods to the of only $19,200,000. Truly. Creat Britnin exchanges her goods for but it is at a two to one ratio.

So Brazil purchased from Britain worth, and sold to Great Britain only 123,000,000. So Venezuela took from (Jreat Britain goods worth iinil sent In return worth only $227,000. The same, story, with variations only of degree, is told of the other States. On the other hand, the South American States sold to the United States no less than $30,300,000, nnd bought from the United States only In the last ten years this country's Imports from Brazil have amounted to $753,400,000, find its exports to Brazil to only A similar ratio prevailed la the canes of the other States, so that from the whole continent wo bought worth more than Wi. while we pold to It goods worth less than $345,000,000.

With all respect for Sefior QrailMc ami "The Springfield Republican." then-fore, we must insist, upon the basis of Irrefutable statistics, th.it it Is the United States, far more than Europe, that exchanges its goods for South America's without trying to shut out the products'. Our market is the most hospitable In the worM to South American goods, and the contrast between this country nnd Europe in commercial treatment of South America strongly In favor, of the United States. TROLLEY COShUC'fpRS. The sympathetic observer on the Coney Island trolley ears is tilled with compassion when notes the desperate painful struggles of the conductors to do their duty In the collection Of fares. Upon many of these cars going to and returning from the shore every inch that can be stood upon or clung to Is in the of some Fquetzed and harried passenger.

All along the outer edges men and boys are hanging as thickly clustered as hives boo In swarming time. The unfortunate conductors are compelled to form arduous feats in gymnastics as they climb oVer and around the thickly packed manse? bulging out from both sides and both ends of the cars. These poor fellows arc offn fit Subjects for hospital treatment when their long hours of strain and worry and the hardest of hnrd work are over for the any or for the night. When conductors on the trolley llnf arc subjected to conditions so trying and to severe, is It surprising that they fomftlrr.es lose their tampers and are found lacking In and politeness? What saints they would lie were they not now and then lncllnfd to be peevish nnd irritable in the hottest days and nights of July and August, when the crowds of pleasure seekers are so great that their work hi rendered doubly illftlriilt and harassing? The are making trips for recreation and enjoyment, but they are travelling In such multitudes th.it they overwhelm the hapless conductors with toll and worry and trouble. The motcrman baa no light task.

It Is true, but he has this a.i vantage over the conductor that he ie always on the front platform and gets the benefit of the currents of air which the swift movements of the cars set In motion. He Is often squeezed somewhat, but even the most stupid and unreasonable passengers know that they must get out of the way of the sweeping handle which controls the motive power. The motorman may have his but he la far belter off than the overheated and much abused conductor. The people who travel on these trolley lines to and from the benches should not be harsh or.lnj~patlent toward the conductors, whose evident sufferings are frequently pitiable while the rush In each direction Is at its worst. They are human beings, anyway.

Hut they are often treated as if they were no better than the beasts which perish. MONEY AND in A week of the strike In the steel region has developed the fact that labor leaders made unreasonable demands because they expected that the stock of the United States Steel Corporatldn would be severely depressed, and that shareholders, becoming alarmed, would insist on a settlement. After a decline of about three points half the loss was regained, and Instead of clamoring: for peace at any price the holders of these securities appreciate the Importance of strong resistance. Some mills will resume work to-day with new men, while others are in need of repairs, and this time will be taken for overhauling machinery. Other Important controversies have been settled, but discussions have, arisen among clothing workers, entailing more or less interruption.

Great activity In the building trades is shown by permits Issued In the month of June at twenty iea.ilng cltif exceeding the same month last year by per cent, despite I large loss at Buffalo, Mrherd extensive work prior to the Is naturally succeeded by c6mparatlve quiet. Trade in general at all centres of distrU button la well above the average at this seuon. with notable preparation for large fall sales. AH measures of business tell the same encouraging story; occasional requests to postpone shipments of goods do not necessarily mean lost trade, and not Infrequently reflect only, the oversangune nature of early- orders. -Full returns of foreign commerce for the fiscal year show the largest total value of exports ever made, notwithstanding the exclusion of shipments to Hawaii and Porto Rico and the low prices fcr many products of which the quantity rent out was unusually heavy.

Ease in the money market Is assured when the surplus reserves of the associated banks increase over fifteen millions In two weeks, and loans are reduced more than twice as much. Liberal disbursements by the Treasury contributed to the cask on 'hand, as also did arrivals of gold from Alaska and the return of July Interest payments. There Is much difference of opinion as to the financial accommodation that New-York will give the West and South for crop moving. In many sections' last year's profits were so enormous that little borrowing be necessary. Foreign exchange recovered Kllghtly after an early decline.

Better rates were due to the heavy sales of "American securities for London account. Commercial bills scarce on account of high prices for grain and uncertainty regarding future shipments. Wall Street had another week of activity, transactions again reaching five million shares. It was on illogical market, largely manipulated, end variations were so as to discourage small Proximity to the coin pit had more. effect on quotations than any other influence, the course- of prices moving with the Chicago corn dial.

Speculators sell railway shares on the theory that a reduced corn yield will seriously affect the westward movement of merchandise, apparently Ignoring the obvious fact that at the phenomenally high prices now paid for corn the grower will have a large return even If the yield Is greatly reduced. All shares were very weak on Monday, after which there was more or less gain until Friday, when another soft spot appeared, which extended to the close on Saturday. Hallways averaged cents net gain for the week. Industrials 37 cents, and gas and traction stocks rose $1 15. A hardening tendency is noticed In steel sheets and.

other products affected by the strike. Actual sales at higher prices are rare, as buyers postpone purchases as far as possible. In hope of a speedy return to former conditions. In lines not directly affected ther Is large distribution, sales of steel rails being reported for delivery in As yet no change is made In pig Iron prices, but a protracted strike would lessen consumption nnd depress values. Record breaking.

production of coke In the Connellsvllle region Indicates little anxiety regarding at iron furnaces and mills, and soft coal mines are all working, with shipments insufficient to fill orders. In minor metals the only feature has been further depression In tin. After remaining nt the bottom point of the year for over two refined petroleum suddenly rose from to cents. Textile lines appear to have reversed the positions held earlier In the penson. Instead of activity in the cotton goods division there.

Is now comparative quiet, while at woollen mills an Idle wheel Is the exception. Revival In this manufacture was especially tardy on account of the heavy supplies Of goods made of shoddy, low grade Imported wool and but with general prosperity there has come increasing demand for better qualities. This is evidenced by efforts of mills to secure first class wool, and the general depression in the raw material has made it possible to pet the best at reasonable terms. Aside from an advance In Indigo finished products remain unchanged In prices. The lightweight season will open below last year's prices owing to the decline in all branches of the Industry and fail of ii's per cent In the average price of wool.

Great strength appeared in the cereal markets toward the end of the week, although crop agreed that nt leant 1,750,090,000 bushels Of- corn would probably be Secured, while there was no Indication that the yield of wheat would fall to surpass all records. Liberal receipts of wheat Indorse forecasts of a big crop, but the movement of corn Is Still slower than a year ago, although attractive prices ore bringing out farm reserves of 'he otd crop. Stocks la cribs are always an unknown quantity, but It hi a fair supposition that the heavy crops in recent years have left no small surplus. At prevailing quotations, which are the best in years, holders will secure large profits on this old corn, foreigners evidently consider prices excessive, as exports In three are p-r cent less than In and 45 per rent below 1809, On the other hand, wheat is comparatively cheap and crops abroad light, so that exports show gains of .7.1 and 35 per cent over the two preceding yearn. Park Commissioner Clausen has a glowing Imagination, ever iridescent with visions of Oriental splendor.

He asked the practical and haul beaded of Estimate and Apportionment for an appropriation of nearly for the Improvement of the Thomas Jefferson Park, In the Twelfth Ward. His plans Included an artificial lake and a marble cottage. The unsentimental Beard of Estimate has decided that if Mr. Clausen wants a Claude Meluotte marble palace on an artificial lake of Comu in the Twelfth Ward he must build it at his own expense. This Mr.

Clausen Is not eager to do, but It Is rumored that he Intends to fill the Thomas Jefferson Park in the Twelfth Ward with Spate chairs, paid for out of his own pocket. The Southern Democrat who runs for the Presidency In v. 11l have some novel arid exciting Certainly, he cannot be beaten more decisively than standard bearer who tried to lead the patty to victory In utul 1900. The catacombs of Home were quarried out of stone softer and more yielding than that Which In now rent open by the resistless force of modern explosives, and through which the shuttles of the swirt traffic of the future will soon be shooting to and fro. No catacomha to the dead, these thoroughfares below ground, but arteries through which the red blood of metropolitan life will go pulsing and bounding from heart to fingertips.

Corea Is now taking American petroleum. The Hermit Klngdeai was formerly supplied i.y HnsHla. lir.iiher Is treadliiK on many a toe In tkeae pwirsachlng dnjra. tko Ifuacovlte hear may be snektng a sore paw. Several tks in the International menagerie seem to be restless und uneasy.

In the Eastern Hemisphere as well as In the Western, fikies Of brass, blisttiiiiK suns anil burning airs have been productive of misery almost unknown In other summers. Drouth and dust, parched lands, scanty supplies of water. Bufferings from craterilke conditions In city and country alike, have been so widely prevalent that the first year of the century. Is likely lo hold an evil eminence In history an the moat distressing for many a cycle. Hut Just at this time tidings come from Alaska of vessels Icebound In" huge floes.

What contrast could be more striking? Canadian silver coins cause a great deal of petty annoyance In this part of the country. Few persons will accept them deliberately at their face value, rind it. 13 a favorite trick of unscrupulous persons to pass them out in change to those who arc in such a hurry that they don't etop to ccc what they are getting. If our Canadian friends could in some way confine their vef to their own of the border, the grateful 'Yankee nation would thank them heartily. Our District.

Attorney talks as If he had little faith In the sincerity of certain people in the Police Department who declare that they are desirous of bringing to justice every unfaithful man on the force. And Mr Phllbin evidently lias ample reasons for his distrust. Balloon experiments of the most daring and diversified kinds have found their chosen field in France i-Ince Mongolfler hie first ascent. There seems to be something In the atmosphere of Paris especially stimulating to the boldest exploits in aerial navigation. A club of aeronauts and a journal exclusively devoted to airships show how strong a bold voyages in the azure have taken In th'" gayest and "most lightpome city in the world.

and New-York have many burdens to carry on land that they are content to leave dizzy flights in the Clouds to soaring Parisians. PKMttONAL. The Archbishop of York has Just completed his seventy-fifth yenr. but still carries on all the work of his position and still reads dally- a fixed portion of which language, ha learned when a soldier In India. K.

Wellington Ruekstuhl. the St. sculptor and secretary of the National Society of Sculptors, has been appointed a of sculpture of the Louisiana Purchase Kxposltlon. The Crown I'rlncp of Bavaria hi the visiting sur- Keon of the P.ed Cross Hospital of Munich. William Doirey Jenks, the now Governor of bama.

Is a lawyer by profusion, and has made a fortune by his practice. I "The Boston Transcript" says: "Claims for the honor of originating the transcontinental railroad Idea have hern made for many Dr. Samuel B. Barlow, of Massachusetts: Lewis Gaylord Clark. I Irvlng's and Bryant's literary friend: Lilburn W.

Boggs. who was Governor of Missouri from to I 1840; Hart Well Carver, grandson of Jonathan Carver, and several nut the distinction unquestionably belongs to (S. Dexter, or to the man who wrote that article printed In 1832 In Dexter's paper ('The Ann Arbor Emigrant'). Barlow had an article In "The a weekly i newspaper in Westfleld. in 1534.

advocating a I route across the continent over a course which I the Northern Pacific followed very closely long I afterward, but Barlow referred in that article to contribution previously printed In "The Ann Arbor The Rev. Samuel Parker. a Presbyterian missionary, sent out by his church In New-TorS who crossed the Rocky to the Columbia In MS. Wrote in his journal, after making that that 'there would be no difficulty In the way of constructing ft railroad from the to the Pacific Ocean. 1 Possibly he had read Dexter and Barlow before going on his trip.

John Plumbe of Duhuone. lowa. In pamphlet printed In 15.16 advocated the construction of a railroad fri.m 1 Mlrnlgnn to the pacific, and continued his advocacy for many afterward. TRA NSA TLA STIC 1 1 fII Kits. Among the passengers' who arrived yesterday on the steamer Rotterdam, from Rotterdam and Boulogne, were W.

C. Bailer. R. M. Brohaw, Joseph A.

Burger. 11. afcrgaa. Frank B. Smith Captain Leonids Ue Tarammskl of the Iraperlai Hussion Guards: Mr-rUn P.

Townsend, Henry Walils Frank A. Wilder. William Bcaty. Loan Berthnut. Michael Knee.

A-i-riiVe Mackenzie, J. H. Thompson and Conrad Walter 1 jreaterdaj on the French Line uteamshlp La Til! TALE OP DAT. Columbia State." which, under the editorship of E. has become one of ablest papera of the South, has Issued a beautiful Illustrated Industrial art edition, in toe agricultural, commercial and manufacturing Interests of Columbia are described, Complete st.i-tlsriis are al3o furnished of the cotton manufacturing Industry of the Mate, a feature which Will Rive thla Issue ft value outside the State.

"In thla great Industry." "The State." "South Carolina. standing at the bead of the 'new has passed; one by one. all ore of the sreat cotton manufacturing States of the Union, Is second only to the old Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which hnu a hundred years the start of hfr; and the development and utilisation of a fraction of South water powers would jut Palmetto State ahead. Twenty years South Carolina had II cotton mills, with wr.3<> Inille-c small most of To-day there are within her borders Ml containing BpindlM and tMU looms." "The State" Is to bs congratulated on the way In which It has drsr-rlVcd the growth and prosperity of Columbia artl the Bt at large. thai off the or I'll nn jou In." ordered th- conscientious policeman.

why?" asked the man with the "Ms far It row. but that's a Bnltz md we have strict orders to enforce the In Public ULrnry thai tho first free public library ever established that of Petersborb, N. in IM Do you think we'd better take thn nubile iMto our oonfldrnce? LawoM PolltleJnn-rOh. wtfll take In. all right! I.lf«-! A Cnlca3O woman wbo has an antlclgaretto among the srrnll bays rave a pui-11.

exhibition the other day of the progress her charges had 1 wers offered for the best essay on Why I Don't Smoke Clearettes." One boy wrote: "1 omoked ebjarettes for two and then I nult because they and the dealer stopped the pictures." He didn't Ret even a look at the prizes. Merely Mis. your hurry? You're not off for now. Smith No. hot until to-morrow.

I Rolnff downtown now. Mrs Shopping? Mr-. -No: I h.ivei.T time for th.ii— the re many I simply save to Press "The Banker's recently prlrated a fao- Slmtla Of a Chbacss Treasury nets of Ike year 1367. probably the oWeet piece of paper money In existtttce This note was found last January, along with father valuables. In a bronze statue of Utuldhn which stood In a temple within the lnclosure of the summer palace lbs Empress Dowager of China, Italian soldiers' engaawd In looting broke a hole In the baas of the tlKitre.

and the paper money tumbled out alana with gold, silver and brass coins, lentils, rice, rolls of prayers, etc The was Issued, according lbs printing on It. "by lbs Board or Revenue of las' Kmpeior Hunt; Wu In the year 13(57." and its hi stated to be "253 taels" (about It to be "redeemable In silver being the oldest known piece of paper money, thla treasury note wakes It clear that Gutenberg was not the first usi-r of movable type. The was clearly printed with movable type at a date over a hundred years before (ititPtiberi; began to experiment. The Questions of "Well, Clarence, what Is It?" the boy's paps "1 nnyttiliiK. papa." replied "i know- you didn't, but It fully minutes since you asked a question.

Sad I know from experience thai another Is due. about this time." "Well. what are all those i Ik United Btatei flags ma of?" asked boy. "Some of them are made- of silk. Clnronee.

but by fur ii M- ti number are mads of banting." I nd, papa?" Well. Giarent-et" the little made of baby (Plttsburg 'ommetvial-Oasette, Says "The "That was rather a stalwart prayer that the Gardiner boy put up. and expressive, not wholly reverent. Living as near neighbors Is a that Is In a deplorable condition, inOlbfr dead and the four or Jive children cotnl-is kloni ulmost any way. One of younger male of ibis family ins a decided fancy for cllrnblng the tiers on Ike premises and has received a few quite SIMMS so when the little four-; tar-old tot ill the next house was snylnsr his prayer the other night bis mother was horrified to hear the following clause Injected Into It: God.

laks cars of tbe Blank family, Tommy climbs tin trees, and. God; see that he. doesn't iall and break Mi enssod Is needless to say that that prayer earns to a very abrupt miliu if Tse'are to retain jour services Mr. 1 "I), you must take more can; of your appearance. You look as if you hadn't shaved for a week.

Thj But, 1 am srovini "That a no excuse. You must do that sort of thine out of business (Oluffsw flints. THE TRTBTXE TX THE ARRIVES AHEAD OF At. l. OTHER YORK PAPERS BY THRKK HOT'RS X.

Y. 21 (Spec The Trih une ai .1 Ihasassei ag all other Xew-Tork pantra I.y Th- T. i Ihe HfJiesei As Central road liy sjiecial rh-n- Mjun- juf the men tain A WJSKKS FRESH Aik WORK. MANY PARTIES SENT OUT TO THE DE. LIGHTS OF THE COUNTRY.

Nothing tells a story more quickly or I lively than a picture. If all the children axvt mothers who received. a whiff of fresh air last week through the medium cf the Tribune Fresh, Air Fund and their abundant needs could be presented In a picture there would be no need for a statement in cold, bloodless type of what last week. Such a picture would represent hundreds of poor children assembling In the different railroad stations, with all sots of bags and awkward bundles, bound for the Indefinite place known to them as "the country." It would show them speeding across the land In special cars bound for all points of the compass. It would portray children climbing about on haymows and loads) of hay.

running through the fields after butterflies. picking huckleberries blackberries, playing baseball without Interference from any policeman, wading In pebble bottomed brooks and sleeping in big', cool rooms between white sheets. But no such comprehensive picture can be presented, so the story of last week's work will have to be told In another way. Here are the bare facts. The parties sent out last week for outings of two weeks each numbered twenty-one.

In all. 870 children were sent to the country. Besides, there were two day excursions up the Hudson River for mothers and children. On these, which were held on Wednesday and on Friday. 2,372 had an opportunity for a day's outing.

This makes the total number of persons helped by the Tribune Fresh Air Fund for the week 3.224. The friends cf the poor children of New-York are spread widely, as a glance at the names of some of the places to which the parties went last week will show. They went to Riverside. Honesdale, Great Bend and Dalmatia. in Pennsylvania; to Canton.

Boonvllle. ttJddWlonn. Claverack. Athens. Avon, Conklln, Greene.

Warwick and Watertown. in New-York State; to Chapel Hill and Tenafly. N. to Amherst nnd to Bethany. Conn.

The last parties started on Saturday They went to Warwick. N. and UsHtraadL Perm. This week hundreds more children will go speeding off to the land the child's delight. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Elvm to children to on Fourth cf July "8, 510 2T.00 Kdmon.l Drown 13 VO HcCutr-bron 11. William Macbeth "rtinfcrtl and CharU-3 and K. F. 3 2.1 F. Uihewocd.

N. Mr? a R. Jchnj Hoonnrtcwn. S. Stew I'linnnr.

Conn SO) T. Sackett O. Bi" Danbury. Conn Crt Previously 12.912 CJ Total 20. 1001...

AT NEWPORT. Newport. R. 1.. July 21 It is expected tKu Vlfct-Frijtfdeat Koosevelt will be the guest of nnrt of this city, nest week, durhis harbor It probable that he will member of General Wheeler's staff during parade in the afternoon of July 30.

J. F. D. lamer Is a guest of Mr. and Mrs.

Ccrn Vanderollt. at Beaulleu. M-hn-eh the Rev. C. Ernest Smith, of Philadelphia, was announced to officiate at both at All Saints' Memorial Chapel to-day, the pulpit was occupied during the service In th? morning by the Rev.

Braddin Hamilton, of Ne-r- York. had been heard on several prevMsn is. but Whose name toad been dropped from the list ef preachers for this summer. The preacher confined himself to the Gospel purely. making no striking utterances.

Ray. Mr. Smith at the afternoon service. Edward Harding and Archibald G. Thacher, of New-Tork, are guests of Lewis Cm? Jr.

W. S. K. Wetmore to visiting hi" parents. Senator and airs tieorsc Teabody Wetni Cornelius Vanderbllt.

entertuin. at Beau-leu. There were thirty gsifstr nr.ii the table decorations were American I.v^viy has carcH out i.r on next Friday and Saturday even- Inrs fci AugDSI i and 3. John I. Kanr, of New-York, has arrived for an extended as the guest of Mr.

and W. S. Scheruuruorr. At the Got I Club this afternoon A. Cass Cac field a large narty at luncheon.

Mrs. John CHmon Gray entertained similarly at Mrs. James Ilude Beekman at and. Tho steam ys.cht Narada left to-night for Glen Cove 10 Join the New-Tort Yacht Club fleet in Its annual cruise. Mr.

Walters has a party of guests on boars). trice Blake, of Brooklyn, Is the guest of MNs Haynen. in Red In the solf handicap at the Newport Club on. Saturday the trophy was won by H. Mortimer Brooks.

Other players were clarence H. Mackay. Dr. William Payne Thompson, the Rev. Hamilton.

J. Clinch Smith. Edward H. Bulkier. Terry, William H.

Sands and Arthur T. Kemp. SECRETARY ROOT HACK WASHINGTON. Bhliejtais. July Secretary Root.

who. -with General Glllesple. chief of engineers, and Colonel Randolph, chief of artillery, has been making an Inaoectlon of military posts In the West, returned to Washington this evening, XEWTOX BUBISBSS MAX DROWNED. Newton. July 21 H.

Locker, aged forty-one, a well known business man of this city, was drowned to-day in None Such Pond. Weston, hl3 boat while he was gathering lilies. The body was recovered. A widow and ene daughter survive him. CRlsn ILL.

Tfahtta July Jl- Francesco Crispl. the Italian statesman. Is again 111. His heart Is very weak. LEAGUE AGAINST AMERICAN TRADE.

In view of the talk In some European circles of a possible IragnH between certain Continental nations to exclude American trade. Sir Charles Dllke was asked by Weekly" to write an article on tht subject. in his reply, which will appear In tale week's Issue of the paper, ho says: 1 And myself wholly unable to write, such an article, because I have, not the least belief in the possibility of ii Continental European combination against the I'nlted States. There have been symptoms of a certain' dislike for some acts of the (Tatted States Government on the part of Germany. also of German activity In Central and South America, but those Germans who have pested to their government active Intervention In South American affairs with Iks view of the ultimate nriiiilsltlon aS colonies of South American States ere nut In the least likely to dominate the action of their government.

In commenting on this. "Leslie's Weekly" will say Thai Is sensible ms It la brief and to the point. Even If a few government officials and a considerable body of Kuropean manufacturers should fuvor a plan to boycott American trade In their own interests. It la utterly Inconceivable that the masses of the people would permit such a step to be taken. These masses, who bought our agricultural products last year.

our illuminating oils, our manufactured and other articles to value of ITiCO.OHO.CO). would be likely to resent any attempt to phut them out of such trade benefits with sp nt and vigor. It Is unquestionably true that a spin: of jealousy and fear of American greatness ana prosperity prevails in certain quarters on the Continent of Europe, but lbs It will ever assume form of open combination against American Untie we do not believe. The masses would have to be reckoned with in such an Issue, and tne musses) would not endure to have food, clothing necessaries of Inferior quality and at higher prices forced upon for the benefit of tne comparative few. TESTS OF warships- BOILERS.

London. July The British cruiser Hyacinth, which left Gibraltar si p. m. on July 17 a race with Mj cruiser Minerva to Portsmouth, for the. purpose of further testing the merits of the Heilevllle and Scotch boilers, arrived at Portsmouth two hours behind the Minerva, which was slsntea last evening at o'clock.

Both cruisers were de- lAyed by fogs. winner a-, erased jtiat kr.et» an hour, when the fog eovn- Belled her to alow down. One of Us tubes al thf Hyacinth burst la the Chaaatl.