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TUESDAY MORNING. THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. JUNE 7, 1898. 'DEIGNAN MONTAGUE PHILLIPS CHARET TE nELLY MURPHY CLAUSEN Brave men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people. THe A PUBLISHED EVERY DAY PUBLICATION OFFICE--The Times Building, Chestnut and Eighth Streets.

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comment it is upon not the safe Haytian to make dispatches which report the landing of troops at Aguadores, the point at which troops naturally would be landed if military operations against Santiago have been undertaken. The officials at Washington are properly reticent, and while the unofficial advices which come to us may be correct, there is about them an element of conjecture that makes it necessary to wait for fuller information than is at hand when this is written. From Spain our dispatches are even more than usually contradictory. The fleet of Admiral Camara is said to be still unprepared to leave Cadiz, to. have.

le left Cadiz and returned and to have sailed for the Philippines. It is also reported to be near the West Indies. We do not believe that this fleet need I cause anybody much uneasiness. Either Sampson or Dewey is able to take care of it and the latter is likely to have reinforcements before any Spaniards can get to him. The trouble at Tampa, of which we have been hearing, is now ascribed to the inefficiency of the Southern railroads, which need surprise nobody.

How many troops General Miles has got started and how many are ready to follow can only be guessed. It is evident, however, that we are not to be left very long without some more stirring news. The Troops at Tampa. SPOKE the other day of the the unreasonableness condition of of our comparing volunteer forces at this time with the condition of the German armies at the beginning of the war with France, and we are pleased to see that Mr. Poultney Bigelow's woful wail has called out protests and emphatic contradiction from some others of the correspondents at Tampa.

It is quite as unreasonable, however, to talk about "treason," and nonsense of that sort. If the condition of things at any of the camps is not what it should and could be, there is nothing to be gained by concealing the truth. We have no doubt at all that this particular correspondent told a great deal of truth and of a kind that ought to be told, though he seems to have got hold of it by the wrong end. The country had a right to expect that its small regular army, which is kept constantly in service and for which reasonable provision is made, should be always in condition for action, and this expectation has been realized. The regulars were mobilized with great promptness.

They were moved from scattered posts all over the continent, first to Chattanooga and thence to the Gulf posts, with the least possible delay, and might have been put aboard ship at once if there had been enough of them to make an expedition alone. We do not learn that there is anything lacking in their organization and discipline, their arms, clothing or equipment. This is all that the officers of the army can be held responsible for; it is all for which Congress, up to the outbreak of the war, had ever made provision. Probably the country also expected, in a vague way, that the regular army could be promptly reinforced by the organized militia of the several States; but this was not a reasonable expectation. These forces were not organized or equipped for foreign service, least of all for service in -tropical regions, and among forty-five different States it could not be expected that all would be equally prepared or their troops equally available.

That we ought to have seen to this before entering on a foreign war will not be denied, and that the War Department has done the best possible with the material at hand need not be asserted. Yet, that it should require a month or six weeks to form a serviceable army of invasion out of this material does not appear altogether inexcusable. It is a fact that ought to be remembered that the military officials of the War Department foresaw many of the difficulties that have since been generally apparent, and tried to provide against them. The army organization bill, which would have allowed the regular regiments to be recruited to a maximum, had been urged upon Congress for several years, but was not passed until war had been declared, and then only grudgingly and with reservations. They had also presented to Congress a bill for the organization of volunteers in the United States service which Congress muddled over for months and finally passed, with many contradictory and confusing changes that quite altered its character, long after the volunteers ought to have been in the field.

Under these conditions it is tainly unjust to blame the slowness of our military preparations on the officers of the army. There is no use attempting to disguise these facts. If they are not already obvious they must become so and the country ought to know just how it is making out in its experiment of going to war first and getting an army ready afterwards. Correspondents in camp should not be deterred by any fear of giving aid and comfort to the enemy from describing things just as they are; only let them be sure that they really know how things are and that their own judgment is sound and their expectations reasonable. No evidence is extant that the Quay candidate will serve as a memorial Stone to mark the spot where the factional hatchet is buried.

Another reason why rumors are flying is that since the press censorship the correspondents are all up in the air. Tangled Democracy. R. HARRITY is about to be dismissed from his place as a member of the Democratic national committee by the vindictive importunities of the Guffey-Garman-Gordon outfit of leaders, because, while voting the Bryan Democratic ticket, he did not approve of the cheap money and repudiation departure made by the national convention. After hurling Mr.

Harrity outside of all Democratic fellowship because he voted the ticket without approving the platform that offended Pomocratie, his convictions, the same Guffey-GarmanGordon 'outfit proposes to nominate Judge Gordon for Governor because he publicly denounced one feature of the Democratic national platform more vehemently than ever Mr. Harrity did, and because he didn't vote for Mr. Bryan for President. Such an entangled Democracy must speedily disentangle if it would hope to avail itself of the great opportunity now offered to honest Democracy in Pennsylvania to win control of the government of the State. To discard one leader because he voted for Bryan and didn't approve of the platform, and then nominate another for Governor who didn't approve of the Democratic platform and didn't vote for the Democratic candidate for President, exhibits a degree of moral obliquity and want of self-respect that would be likely to make a Democratic contest doubtful even in Berks county.

There never has been a time when the Democrats of Pennsylvania did not widely differ on vital questions of party faith, but no attempt was ever made to proscribe any who voted the party ticket. There were as wide differences on the tariff in the Democratic party during the last balf century as there are to-day on the money issue. Pennsylvania has many times had a member of the Democratic national committee who was not in sympathy with the national policy of the party on the tariff, but none questioned his right to position and fellowship in the party ranks. There are half a million voters in Pennsylvania who would vote the Democratic ticket under honest leadership devoted to honest reform in State affairs, but little more than half that number could be had to vote for the Democratic candidate for Governor who sought to enforce vindictive intolerance, and exclude all the Democrats of the State from the party fold who do not believe in the cheap money system of the semi-civilized and barbarous nations of the world. What the Democrats of Pennsylvania need is to disentangle themselves from leaders who are ready to sacrifice the party to maintain their mastery, and who are to-day much more likely to open ocratic headquarters as a trading-post for Senator Quay, than to seek the election of an honest Democratic ticket.

The Omaha Exposition might make a pretense of dividing interest with the war if the managers were just to get fighting among themselves. Dewey is said never to have voted, but there's likelihood of lots of Deweys voting on age twenty years from date. Reading's Jubilee Week. EADING, the county seat of Berks and the most important town, occupying one of the prettiest sites in the upper valley, is one hundred and fifty years old, and its thrifty inhabitants are taking a week off to celebrate the sesqui-centennial anniversary. To maintain the consistent record of their ancestors who subordinated everything to religion and emigrated to America to find a country in which they could carry into practice their own religious views, the Reading people inaugurated their week of celebration on Sunday, appropriate services 1 being held in all the churckes.

In Europe a town only one hundred and fifty years of age would be regarded as new. In this country such a town has an undoubted right to consider itself ancient, and the people of Reading are fully justified in indulging in a week of festivities on the occasion. Reading is the fifth city of the State in population, it is increasing in population more rapidly than ever before, it never was more prosperous than at present, and being the principal town in one of the richest sections of the richest State in the Union it has a bright future before it. Its people can well afford to indulge in a week of recreation, for they have the assurance that when the week of festivities is over they will engage again in one of the busiest industrial seasons they have ever experienced. Reading has a history of which its people have a right to be proud.

Its founders were a sturdy race of upright, conscientious, God-fearing people. In the darkest days of the revolution its people were loyal to the cause of freedom. In all its history it has been noted for its financial integrity. The founders of Reading and their descendants were men who believed that the way to pay a debt was to pay it, and the surest road to honest prosperity was to contract to do no more than could be done within the contract period and at the contract. price.

This characteristic has made Reading one of the solidest cities, in a financial and industrials sense in the country. And yet it has been a progressive town. While it was the chief centre of a rich agricultural region it was foremost in putting itself in communication with the rest of the world, first by stage lines, then by canal and later by railway. It has profited by the coal and iron industries and engaged in many lines of manufacturing. It has given to the statesmanship of the country several men of the first rank, to the bar some of its brightest lights and to the pulpit some of the best known clergymen in the country.

In all departments it has kept pace with the progress and development of the country. Of all the Pennsylvania towns dominated by the sturdy German element of the population of the Commonwealth Reading stands easily first, and its people and those of the rich section of the State of which it is the centre are entitled to a grand sesqui-centennial celebration, and the' people of the rest of the State will sympathize and rejoice with them in their jubilee week. Uncle Sam may spend big money this Fourth for fireworks at Spanish ports, but hardly with a view to the natives' Don Carlos is said to be worth 000. If money talks no wonder he can't keep still. The Applications of Electricity.

0 RECENT and so rapid has been the plications development of electricity of the that practical the ap- astounding novelty of yesterday has become the familiar commonplace of today, and even the wonderful exhibition that was opened last night, that seems to represent the utmost achievement, is full of suggestions of still more wonderful things to come. Already most of the new inventions that excited our admiration at the exhibition in West Philadelphia not many years ago are so familiar that it is not worth while to show them here. The production of dynamic electricity is taken for granted, and the electric motor is too familiar in our daily use, as are the ordinary modes of lighting and the ordinary uses of the telegraph and the telephone, for them to find a place in this show. The space is occupied with applications and variations that are still new, yet which seem to open out limitless possibilities of further expansion. The absence of any apparatus for the production of the power strikes one as a characteristic note of this exhibition, for the reason that it marks the evolution of electric light, heat and motive power as a commercial fact.

The building is filled with every manner of apparatus, from a lamp or a fan to a hoisting machine, all run by power laid on from the street and controlled by the turn of a key. This much achieved, the industrial and domestic uses of electricity are limited only by the cost at which the power can be supplied. Another feature that distinguishes this exhibition, even beyond the pictorial and decorative wonders, is the first public display that has been made here of diffused illumination by vacuum tubes, a. field of experiment quite apart from these with which we are already familiar. In these luminous rays there seems a possibility of great things to come, and it is in the evidence it gives that the current of discovery and invention is still going on, equally with its record of marvelous achievement, that this exhibition is so remarkably interesting and stimulating.

As an economic condition bigger imports than ever of Manila rope at a period when lynching is on the wane will in time properly adjust itself. If dynamite kites prove their utility the ordinary line of battle may in time become a kind of string. HILE IT MAY be true that all is necessary fair in to stealing set war, a and letters spy to that it catch is a spy, always makes an unpleasant impression on the American mind. We all felt that Senor Depuy de Lome must leave the country instantly when his indiscreet letter had been printed, but we could not dismiss an uncomfortable feeling about the way in which the letter had come to public view. It is so with Lieutenant Carranza.

Though we are glad that he has been found out, the manner of it is not a thing to be proud of. If this was the only way to secure evidence of what Carranza was doing in Montreal, we think it would have been more dignified for the Department of State to have said nothing about it, except to the British Minister. If Carranza is to be requested to leave Canada, it must be through diplomatic channels and not by popular clamor, and we cannot see that the publication of his letter serves any public ends. It is, nevertheless, a very interesting letter. We do not attach much weight to Lieutenant Carranza's complaint that it was garbled in translation, for it is quite with itself and with known facts and the criticism of his S11- perior officers, which he particularly disclaims, is not such as would have been invented by an American.

As in the case of the late Minister, it is not nice to steal letters; but the letter having been stolen and published, we think that Mr. Carranza will have to go. His country asserts that 'Cervera is a surpassing naval strategist. In fact just now it may be said on water he's unapproachable. At the present rates of army movement.

a curious statistician would like to know how many Miles it takes to make a league. OUNCILS should promptly appropriate the $600 needed to pay the necessary expenses of the commencement ceremonies of the Girls' High School, of this city, There is no hall owned by the city that is equal to such an occasions and the girls should not be taxed a dollar a piece to pay for what has become a part of their educational duties. The graduating class of the High School is probably the largest of any educational institution in the United States. This year it will number over 500, and no auditorium but that of the Academy of Music can give the necessary accommodations for such an occasion. is a very small matter to the city but it would be a very serious matter to the girls, many of whom have struggled with poverty to win an education.

Let the city promptly make the appropriation and show its pride in the success of its great educational system. TO-NIGHT'S AMUSEMENTS FOREPAUGH'S GIRARD GRAND The Red, White and Blue KEITH'S THEATRE. Vaudeville ACAD OF THE FINE Open Daily BOURSE Daily ZOOLOGICAL Open Daily Don't want no grand op'ry When the band begins to play, No waltzes nor no two-steps For to pass the time away. Some likes their music dancin' Around from key to key; But plain old "Yankee Doodle" Is good enough for me. I like to hear 1 it echo, AB with a mighty thrill, It makes ye think of Lexington An' likewise Bunker Hill.

My daughter knows sonatas An' tunes way up in But plain old "'Yankee Doodle' Is good enough for me. Washington Star. Lieutenant Philip Van Horne Lansdale, U. S. youngest son of the late Medical Director Philip Lanedale, U.S.

of Philadelphia, will be married at noon on Wednesday, June 8, to Miss Ethel Shipley Smith, eldest daughter of Sidney Smith, a wellknown lawyer of San Francisco. Lieutenant Lansdale, has lately been attached to the United States steamehip Alert, has just returned from Nicaragua, where he has been engaged in some surveying work connection with the Nicaragua Canal. He has received temporary orders to the receiving ship at Mare Island, San Francisco. His two brothers, W. Moylan and Edward and three sisters are residents of this city.

Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Rust, of New York, and Miss Rust and Miss Mabel Hastings are at the Walton.

They are here to attend the commencement exercises the Ogontz School, which takes place today. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Barr have returned home from Asheville, N.

where have been residing for the last two they for the beneft of Mr. Barr's health. years They will soon occupy their cottage at Cape May. made yesterday of the Announcement was of George A. Huhn, the engagement well-known banker of this city, and Miss Madeline Foote, of New York.

Mrs. James B. Copperthwait has issued invitations to the marriage of her daughter, Miss Ellen Stanwood Copperthwait, to Charles Elliott Lord, on Tuesday, June 21, at o'clock, at St. Paul's Church, Chestnut Hill. Mr.

and Mrs. Francis M. Holden, of Twentieth and Sansom streets, leave. for their cottage, at Eaglesmere, June 15. Mrs.

Joseph H. Burroughs, of Wyndmoor, ChestAut Hill, has sent out cards for Thursdays in June. The engagement is announced of Miss Ida M. Pugh to Reginald F. Sedgley, of Leicester, England.

Mr. Sedgley is at present a resident of Philadelphia. Invitations have been extended to the associate members of the Philadelphia Cricket Club to meet in the ladies' club house at Wissahickon on Wednesday, June 8, at 4 P. when Hampton L. Carson will make an address on "Woman's Work in Time of War." After the address some garments will be distributed, to be made by ladies interested in this work.

3 These garments have been recently asked for by the army surgeon in charge of the Government Hospital at Key West. Mr. and Miss Sedgley, of Leicester, England, are on a short visit to Reginald F.Sedgley, and are the guests of Miss Ida M. Pugh, 2222 North Twentieth street. They will make a tour of the principal cities of this country before returning home.

The advanced pupils of the piano department of the Pennsylvania Conservatory of Music will give a recital in the Conservatory Hall this evening. Mrs. Fleming, of Savannah, is the guest of Mrs. William K. Baird, of Wenouah street, Germantown.

The wedding of the Rev. John Summerfeld Bunting to Miss Mary Blair Horner, daughof Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Horner, of Marshall, will take place to-day at 3 o'clock in Trinity Church, Marshall, Va. The Rev.

Mr. Bunting Is one of the most brilliant of the younger Episcopal clergymen of this city. He was for a number of years assistant at Holy Trinity and now is associate rector of Holy Apostles. Dr. and Mrs.

William Pepper will not as usual occupy Newport residence the summer, but will shortly leave for Califorwhere they will spend several months. During Dr. Pepper's absence from the city son, Dr. William Pepper, will take care of his practice. Clarence A.

Worrall, the now famous portrait and genre painter, and whose work 1s trait and genre painter, is passing a few days the Hotel Brighton, Atlantle City. Mr. Worrall l6 almost as remarkable a musiclan as a painter and delightfully entertains friends who call upon him. He was one the founders of the Art Club, of which is still a member, as well as other art institutes of this country. An amateur production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, "Patience," will be given the Belmont Oricket Club this evening at Broad Street Theatre.

The patronesses Mrs. H. D. Jump, Mrs. J.

George Klemm, Mrs. W. A. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Bradford Knight, Mrs.

E. H. Lee, Mrs. Edward Kent Leech, Mrs. J.

P. Crittenden, Mrs. E. S. Kingsley, Mrs.

W. M. Longstreth, Mrs. John Scollay, Mrs. David J.

Collins, Mrs. J. A. Scott, Mrs. F.

M. Leonard, Mrs. W. S. Lloyd, Mrs.

A. J. Loecher, Mrs. Percy A. Legge, Mrs.

S. M. Lillie, Mrs. Frank Mattson, Mrs. W.

S. McIntyre, Mrs. F. L. Michener, Mrs.

G. T. Morgan, Mrs. Clarence North, Mrs. C.

M. Ostrander, Mrs. M. W. PhilMrs.

Frederiek M. Pile, Mrs. J. G. Ramsdell, Mrs.

I. H. Rastall, Mrs. J. H.

Roach, Mrs. G. H. Ball, Mrs. J.

P. BankMrs. E. B. Beaumont, Mrs.

Peter Boyd, Mrs. H. C. Brown, Mrs. O.

E. Busby, Clarence H. Clark, Mrs. Pau! Clayton, Mrs. Leon Clinton, Mrs.

Elisha Crowell, Mrs. George E. Curtis, Mrs. Percival Collins, Mrs. E.

F. Cook, Mrs. J. Barry Colahan, Mrs. F.

C. Dade, Mrs. Louis Dreka, Mrs. E. L.

Ellison, Mrs. Charles Este, Mrs. H. H. Fritz, Mrs.

Paul Fenlon, Mre. Hildebrand Fitzgerald, Mrs. Graham, Mrs. John P. Green, Mrs.

N. Gourley, Mrs. C. M. Gilbert, Mrs.

Albert Gumpert, Mrs. T. O. Harris, Mrs. A.

Heintz, Mrs. E. C. Hewitt, Mre. L.

Hoskins, Mrs. B. K. Jamison, Edward M. Sayen, Mrs.

Edward M. Sayen, Mrs. R. J. Smith, Mrs.

R. W. Steel, Mrs. James A. Stovell, Mrs.

W. M. Swain, Mrs. George C. Schoff, Mrs.

F. R. Shattuck, Mrs. R. Stevenson, Mrs.

A. L. Tafel, Mre. Harry Toulmin, Mrs. HarriTownsend, Mrs.

M. H. Todd, Mrs. F. Taylor, Mrs.

E. P. B. Warne, Mrs. F.

Warren, Mrs. E. B. Watson, Mrs. F.

H. Whiting, Mrs. W. N. Wilbur, Mrs.

W. H. Willams, Mrs. Harry Yarnall, Mrs. M.

G. Mrs. W. L. Waterall, Mrs.

R. F. Whitmer, Mrs. L. B.

Wilkinson, Mrs. J. J. Martin and Mrs. John A.

Inglis. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Morris and famhave closed their city house, and are now occupying their country place at Upton.

Miss S. George Ford, of Locust street, has returned from a two months' visit with friends and relatives in Pittsburg, Bellwood Altoona. Miss Ford and her mother will the summer at Hotel Roman, AtlanOlty, Seen and Heard in Many Places How many of you who have read of the summoning of colored regular troops to give battle to the Spaniards and of the enlistment of men African descent as volunteers in Uncle Sam's army without a single protest from our reunited brethren of the South, have given one thought to the public agitation aroused during the civil war, when those who had formerly been slaves were given arms to suppress secession? That was one of the most critical periods in the nation's history, and yet the act of those days is repeated at this time without a ripple of excitement or a word of adverse comment. The policy of arming the blacks was first officially announced in the final emancipation proclamation of January 1, 1863, and steps were immediately taken to put the project into force. John G.

Nicolay and John Hay, in a chapter of their history of Abraham Lincoln, as published in the Century of state that President Lincoln "not only watched these efforts with great interest, but from time to time personally wrote letters to several of his commanders urging them to active efforts in organizing negro regiments. If a single argument were needed to point out his great practical wisdom in the management of this difficult question, that argument is found in the mere summing up of its tangible military results." At the beginning of December, 1863, less than a year after the President first proclaimed the policy, he was able to announce in his annual message that about fifty thousand men formerly slaves were then actually bearing arms in the ranks of the Union forces. A report made by the Secretary of War on April 2, 1864, shows that the number of negro troops then tered into the service of the United States as soldiers had increased to 71,976, and we learn further from the report of the provost marshal general that at the close of the war there were in the service of the United States of colored troops 120 regiments of infantry, 12 regiments of heavy artillery, 10 companies of light artillery and 7 regiments of cavalry, making a grand aggregate of 128,156 men. This was the largest number in service at any one time, but it does not represent all of them. The entire number commissioned and enlisted in this branch of the service during the war, or more properly speaking, during the last two years of the war, was 186,017 men.

For official information concerning the subsequent development of President Lincoln's plan, we are indebted to the labors of Messrs. Nicolay and Hay for a succinct presentment of the facts. They inform us that the rebel authorities watched the experiment of arming the blacks with the keenest apprehension and hostility. In Mr. Lincoln's order of July 22, 1862, directing military commanders to seize and use property, real or personal, for military purposes, and to employ "persons of African descent as laborers," Jefferson Davis professed already to discover a wicked violation of the laws of war, apparently forgetting that his own generals were everywhere 1 using such powers in military labor.

When it was learned that Hunter and Phelps were endeavoring to organize negro regiments, the Southern affectation of surprise and protest bordered on the ludicrous. "The best authenticated newspapers received from the United States," wrote General Lee, "announce as a fact that Major General Hunter has armed slaves for the murder of their masters, and has thus done all in his power to inaugurate a servile war, which is worse than that of the savage, inasmuch as it superadds other horrors to the indiseriminate slaughter of ages, sexes and conditions;" and Phelps is charged with imitating the bad example. Halleck very proudly returned this and another letter, as insulting to the government of the United States, A little later the Confederate War Department issued a formal order, as follows: That Major General Hunter and Brigadier General Phelps be no longer held and treated as public enemies of the Confederate States, but as outlaws; and that in the event of the capture of either of them, or that of any other commissioned officer employed in drilling, organizing or instructing slaves, with a view to their armed service in this war, he shall not be regarded as a prisoner of war, but held in close confinement for execution as a felon at such time and place as the President shall order. President Davis, in his sensational proclamation of outlawry against General Butler and all commissioned officers in his command, declared: "African slaves have not only been incited to insurrection by every license and encouragement, but numbers them have actually been armed for servile war-a war in its of, nature far exceeding the horrors and most merciless atrocities of savages." In this it was ordered that "negro slaves captured in arms be at once delivered over to the executive authorities of the respective States to which they belong, to be dealt with according to the laws of said States;" and that Butler and his commissioned officers, "robbers and criminals deserving death, be whenever captured reserved for execution." President Lincoln's two proclamations of emancipation excited similar threats. About a week after the first was issued it was made a subject of discussion in the Confederate Senate at Richmond, and a Confederate writers recorded in his diary the next day: "Some of the gravest of our Senators favor the raising of the black flag, asking and giving no quarter hereafter." When the final proclamation reached Richmond Jefferson Davis was writing his annual message to the rebel Congress, and he said of it: "Our detestation of those who have attempted the most execrable measure recorded in the history of guilty man is tempered by profound contempt for the impotent rage which it discloses." This new provocation also broadened his field of retaliation.

He now declared that he would deliver "such criminals as may attempt its commissioned officers of the United States captured in States embraced in the proclamation--to the executives of such States, to be punished for exciting servile insurrection. When negro regiments began springing into full organization in many parts of the country the matter of their proper protection became a matter of serious import in view of the Confederate declarations. They, as a rule, were commanded by white officers, who were selected from the very best material in the army and whose brayery in incurring the additional risk of war placed upon them by the declarations of the Confederate Government demanded that they should be surrounded with additional safeguards. Frederick Douglass has related how when he urged upon President Lincoln a system of retaliation the great war President, with a quiver in his voice and tears in his eyes, said that he could not take men out and kill them in cold blood for what was done by others: that if he could get hold of the persons who were killing colored prisoners in cold blood the case would be different; but he could not kill the innocent for the guilty. Nevertheless, in view of the great suecess which attended the enlistment of black recruits, it necessary for the government to became, settled policy on the question, and on July 30, 1868, President issued the following comprehensive order: It is the duty of every government to give protection to its citizens of whatever class, color or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service.

The law of nations, and the usages and customs of war, as carried on by civilized powers, permit no distinction as to color in the treatment of prisoners of war as public enemies. To sell or enslave any captured person on account of his color, and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism and a crime against the civilization of the age. The government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers, and if the enemy shall sell or enslave any one because of his color the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession. It is therefore ordered that for every soldier of the United States killed in violation of the laws of war a rebel soldier shall be executed: and for every one enslaved by the enemy, or sold into slavery, a rebel soldier shall be placed at hard labor on the public works, and continued at such labor until the other shall be released and receive the treatment due to a prisoner of war. This order had a most salutary effect, and the Confederate Government abandoning its threatened barbarous conduct bloody retaliation did not become necessary.

This result, however, was not accomplished before the country was shocked and startled by the massacre at Fort Pillow. That is an incident worthy of another chat. MEGARGEE. SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ART Attractive Programme for the Closing Exercises and an Important Exhibition. The many friends of the School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum, Broad and Pine streets, are pleasantly allticipating the commencement exercises.

which will be held at Horticultural Hall, 011 Thursday evening, af 8 o'clock. Each sueceeding year the school has been developing its various departments into greater stability and gaining in authority as a leader among the schools of America which are fulfilling their avowed purpose of training in industrial art. This has been evidenced during the past year by the visit to the school of the National Association of Manufacturers in a body and their subsequent formal resolution expressing approval of its work; of the visit of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, which held their regular semi-annual meeting at the school, having convened in Philadelphia with the express purpose of giving the members an opportunity to Inspect the school. This association likewise adopted at the close of the sessions resolutions warmly eulogisic of the work of the school. During the year the school was also honored by a visit from President McKinley, who manifested great interest in and expressed high approval of its aims and methods.

The past year, which will culminate in Thursday's commencement and the accompanying exhibition of students' work, has been encouragingly successful, the school having been attended by 944 pupils, an increase of 33 per cent. over the preceding year. The address at the closing exercises will be delivered by Albert Clarke, of Boston. The exhibition will be open at the school building, Broad and Pine streets, from June 10 to June 18. and will repay examination from all interested in art.

CAPTAIN GRIDLEY'S DEATH His Widow Asks That His Remains be Cremated at Yokohoma. Washington, June private dispatch Mre. Gridley, widow of the late commander of the cruiser Olympia, was brought to the department to-day by Mr. Harry H. Smith, a friend of the family.

She asks that the remains be cremated at Yokohama if there are facilities there for this disposition. Otherwise, she wishes to have the remains embalmed, and sent to this country. The department will do everything possible to comply with the desire of Mrs. Gridley. The Family Prostrated.

Erie, June last night the family of Captain C. V. Gridley, residing here, was notified by the Navy Department of the death of the husband and father in Japan, a6 a result of the battle at Manila. The blow came with telling effect and the members of the family are prostrated' with grief. Captain Gridley was the son-in-law of Judge J.

P. Vincent, of this city, and is the father of three children, two daughters and a son. Mrs. Gridley was in the midst of preparations to go to San Francisco to meet her husband and accompany him across the continent to his home. Personal Paragraphs Major James Pond, the veteran lecture impressario, has been presented with a Congressional medal for bravery on the battlefield of Baxter Springs, Kan.

President Dwight, of Yale, announces that he would be pleased to have the alumni and friends of the institution furnish it with $4,000,000, and he would like to have it all before 1902. The Spanish court will spend the summer at the Palace of La Granja, San Ildefonso, in the of Segovia, about forty miles northwest of Madrid, instead of at San Sebastian, as usual. George Tillman, a brother of the Senator, is a candidate for Governor of South Carolina. A correspondent, in running over his qualifications, says "never wore an overcoat nor donned underwear." Eugene V. Debe, in expressing himself as against the war, says war is national murder; that poor furnish the victims, and whatever the outcome the effect is always the same on the tolling class.

Mrs. L. P. Johnson, of Idaho Fallls, Idaho, has been nominated for Governor -or, perhaps, it should be Governoress-by the Prohibitioniste of that State. Mrs.

Naomi MeDonald Phelps is on the same ticket for State Auditor. Judge James M. Smith, who died in New York last Sunday at the age of 87 years, was once Recorder of the city under Tammany, nearly forty years ago. Until taken Ill a few months ago, he was the oldest practicing lawyer In the State. Julia Marlowe is in London, with her hugband, Robert Taber, who has been playing at the Lyceum there.

"It is sayS the Athenaeum, "though arrangements are not yet completed, that she may be seen in 'Bonnle Prince Old Geronimo, the most noted Indian in America, chief of the Apaches, 1s 90 years old. He is straight as an arrow and his eye is piercing and keen. When at the post at Fort Sell he plays monte, but when he can get permission to leave the reservation his time is spent in hunting, of which he is still very fond, The Cleveland Leader says that when some one called on the President before Mr. Strauss' appointment as Minister to Turkey to explain what a wicked free trader he was and how he had written against McKinley and Dingleyism, the President replied, "'Then the best thing to do with him is to send him out of the country at once, and I'm going to do it." The breach between Richard Harding Davis and the Harpers Is deep and wide, and Poultney Bigelow's Indiscreet contribution has given him occasion to go for the editor of Harper's Weekly with great ferocity. Davis Is more than half right in his attack on Bigelow, and probably quite right in his citation of competent authorities to contradict his evidently exaggerated statements.

But let us keep our tempers. There are enough wars going on within the war without adding a war of correspondents. ORDINATION OF MINISTERS NINETEEN STUDENTS LICENSED BY THE LUTHERAN CHURCH. THE MINISTERIUM IN SESSION Reports From Various Committees Considered and the Election of the Different Boards for New Period Begun--The Business of the Convention Expected to be Finished To-Day. "We now commit unto thee the holy office of the word and sacraments of the triune God, and ordain and consecrate thee a minister of the church of Christ.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." These solemn words addressed to each of them in turn conferred the ministerial office upon nineteen young men at ordination services of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, held in Zion Church, Franklin Square, last evening. The edifice was filled by a congregation that joined in the hymne that had been selected for the occasion, and a largely augmented choir, to which four brass instruments were added, rendered five music. The ordination services were conducted by the Synodical President. Dr. Laird, assisted by Rev.

Dr. Steinheuser, Rev. Dr. Runkelman and Rev. Dr.

Ochsenford. Dr. Steinheuser preached the ordination sermon, taking his text from John 21, 15, "Love thou Me; feed My lambs." His theme dealt with the importance of the pastoral office and the high and solemn duty imposed on the ministry by the words, "Feed My lambs." The Ordination Sermon. He spoke of the cross Peter had taken up. which his Master had laid down, and of his suffering and his dying for Him, and impressed on the students the solemn fujunetion conveyed in the text, "Follow thou me into suffering; into Following the sermon the students took places at the railing and Dr.

Laird put to them collectively a series of questions relating to their willingness to take up the responsibilities and duty of spreading the word of God to the best of their ability, to which each answered separately, "Yes, with my whole heart, through the power of God and His Holy Spirit." The words of ordination were next pronounced over each man separately. The following are the names of the new ministers: Victor James Bauer, Preston Alburtis Behler, Jacksonville, Warren Jacob Ellis, Jonestown, Luther Daniel Gable, Reading. Carl Gustave Karsch, Philadelphia; Charles Edward Kistler, Lynnport, G. Snyder Kleeker, Bath, Frederick Charles Krapf, Wilmington, William Allen Lambert. Bethlebem, Luther Dech Lazarus, Allentown, Andrew Philip Lentz, Paxton, Henry Philip Miller, Selinegrove, Ernest Philip Henry fatteicher, Easton, Gomer Christmas Rees, Greenville, David Allen Roth, Lehighton, John Wilbur Smith, Albany, N.

Elmer Elwood Snyder, Martin's Creek, N. Albert Theodore William Steinhaeuser, Allentown, Anton Frederick Warns, Germany. Committee Reports Read. The fourth session of the one hundred and fiftieth annual convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent States Wats continued yesterday morning in the Zion Church, Dr. Laird presiding.

Dr. F. J. F. Schantz, of the committee on the Emaus Orphan Home, at Middietown.

gave a good account of the progress of that institution. In the past thirty years, he said, there had not been a death among the orphans at the home. A fund left by the late George Frey had enabled the trustees to pay off $1,100 of the debt of $2.900 aud make general repairs to the buildings. etc. Rev.

A. Spaeth, D. read the report of the delegates to the General Council, held at Erie last October. The report of the Board of Home Missions, recommending $10,000 for home missions and $5,000 for German missions, was adopted, but not before Dr. Schantz had made a strong argument for more money for the Germans.

The price of the books for Sunday schools of the church came in for some criticism, members holding that the Board of some Publication might get them cheaper. Dr. Schaefer, president of the board, said the board was doing its best and could do 110 more. At the afternoon session the committees education and the Board of on beneticiary Missions reported, and the question of congregational votes was brought up. Following this the work of electing the various boards commenced and was not concluded, It was will be resumed.

this morning and it is expected that the synod will adjourn this evening. Outside the elections -day the most important matter to come up is the report of the committee on the reorganization of ter is nia, his at his of he by the are lips, son, Mrs. John W. E. A.

Mrs. son H. P. Tull, ily just and spend tie the synod. FILLING STRIKERS' PLACES River Work Going On In Spite of Dissatisfled 'Lonshoremen-One Worker Assaulted.

The strike of the 'longshoremen, in' so far as it concerns the master stev dores, is ended. There a has been no difficalty in securing men to take the places of the strikers, and the vessels now in port are loaded or unloaded with as much being facility as before the strike was declared. thousand men, Italians, Poles and Over a are at work. The steamer Waesnegroes, is ready to sail this morning. The land British steamer Wordsworth, loaded with sailed last night.

Several vessels grain, will clear to-day. The master stevedores who have refused to John sign G. any Corcoran Sons, Charles W. agreement-John Grace Sous, Davis, Michael P. Howlett, Morris Boney and the Messrs.

Dougherty with yesthe work of the new men and that there terday that they were satisfied would be 10 the now employed would further trouble. They serted that men be. therefore, the only result to the strikers retained under any circumstances; is the loss of employment. There has been 110 trouble along the wharves in consequence of the strike, and that the there fact that about 150 policemen have has been none is due probably to been detailed for service and the strikers not allowed to congregate within two are All squares day yesterday the strikers' headof the river. were crowded with the men, and quarters still maintain that they will win.

they will refuse to return to they work They until say their demands are granted, which they hope will be done whose to-day. operations are John Grace Sons, chiefly at Girard Point, men supplied the by places John of the strikers with engaged Smith, a Pole, who had worked the for Arm previous to the strike. Through his efforts they were able to secure fifty or elxty Poles, and continued their work on the Norwegian steamer Kentucky, loading with Carnegie steel billets consigned evening to St. of Petersburg. On Saturday some the strikers met Smith and urged him to come out and, he claims, supported their request by an offer of $5 a day if he would call off the Polake working by his engagement.

This Smith refused to do and deelined the money, On Sunday night some of the strikers met Smith on Front street, near Christian, and after some words they set upon and beat him. While the row was In progress Policeman Fitzsimmons. of the Second district, treated came up, him, and it taking claimed, Smith with much severity. At any rate, when custody, the man came to the station house he bore evidence of hard treatment. He was locked up and arraigned yesterday In Magistrate Sinith's court and held in $300 bail.

Later in the day Mr. Grace, learning what had become of the man, gave bail and he was released. Two British steamers, the Hurworth, from Antwerp, and the Recta, from Shields, bound for this port, were ordered to New York upon their arrival at Breakwater yesterday, owing to the strike of 'longshoremen. Pay for the Volunteers. Washington, June answer to numerous luquirles on the subject it is officially annouuced that the government and not the State will pay all volunteer troops for the time between the dates of enlistment and muster..