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1 2 THE DAILY STANDARD UNION: BROOKLYN, SATURDAY AUGUST 13, UAGES. THE STANDARD UNION. when any raised.4 Don't worry. Mr. Connoty, there Is no doubt raised as the legality of the bonds- FOR SOUVENIRS.

Brass Cannon That Served Through the War. be the most completely appointed in the It would be interesting, from a political point of view to know whether Capt. Strong intends to 'take up his residence In' Hawaii after tbe war is over and he gets his dlnchaige from the army. Such a move suggests a trail of thought will he. beginning as a candidate for Mayor, like his up to Governor of the islands and possibly to 'M.

C. and Senator? When If? Hot You feel all played out, peak and debilitated 'because pour blooA is impoverished. Hood a Sarsaparilla la the best summer medicine you can take 'because it enriches and vitalizes the blood and takes away that tired and languid feeling, creates a good appetite and gives refreshing sleep. A small amount invested in Hood's Sarsaparilla will yield rich returns la increased vigor and vitality. Hoods Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Medicine.

91; six for 95. dently expected him. And waa vety "fly, pa the boy. wy. for -before Huge could the other Mid, "iw.U, that's a nice thing that wan done on me, wasn't It? end proceeded to expiate that "they took his machines that very morning.

Kuge told him It was very funny he knew all about it, and Huge has since been secretly placing metaphorical mines at various points, with the hope of getting the liveryman "dead to rights as the detectives aay. but thus far without apparent sue-, cess. It will thus be seen that the slot machines have distinct personality, The kinds under consideration are social outcasts. but, the liar; about your weight, and those that take your money and refuse to give you gum and other promised things, still tolerated. FLOATING.

FB0S STEEPLE. 9 STARS AND STRIPES PROCLAIMING PEACE! JN SOUTH BROOKLYN. One or tile -moat conspicuous objects, lying to the south of the Borough Hall, is the tall spire of the South -Congregational Church, on comec "of President 'and Court streets. This morning the steeple was more conspicuouus ban Wver. Workmen -were engaged- te-eepafcr-Ing the shaft, and this morning when they read of the signing of the protocol by the representatives- of--the- Halted States and Spain, and the announcement that peace had come, the men when they climbed up the steeple to go to work, took with them a big Americaikflag, and fastened to th' topmost poinK There It floats now at an, elevation where all can see, signifying that hs come with added honor and glory to ttye Stars and Stripes, which to-day is not only the banner of freedom but the emblem1 of humanity.

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FOB THS i lit HER SEASON Tbe Standard Union will be mailed, cat-paid, to anj address, changed ma often as desird tor 60 cents a month 1 The United Singers of Brooklyn. Soon the United Singers of Brooklyn will begin to look around lor aite on which to erect a hall for the National Baengerfest, which is to be held In Brooklyn In 1900. When the people of Brooklyn understand that over 100,000 singers and their famlfes will have to be provided lor, they will realize that this coming autumn will not be too soon to comence planning for the event, which President 8aenger says "must be conducted on a magnificent scale." The preliminary plans now In the hands of the Building Committe call for a grand hall that wlh eat at least 20,000 persons. The architects will no doubt have to study hard to draw plans for a structure with a sealing capacity greater than that of the Madison Squar Garden. It is to be only a temporary building, and so the difficulties will be all the harder to surmount.

But up it will go, and It will be a model of architectural grace and beauty. The Brooklyn singers worked tremendously to have the fest held in Brooklyn at the dawn of a new century The National Saengerfest is held once in three years. In 1894, when the fest was held at the Madison Square Garden, and again in 1897, when it was held at Philadelphia, the Brooklyn singers distinguished themselves and won the first prize. The splendid busts of Beethoven and Mozart in Prospect Park were both awarded to our local singers. Besides the important so-etetits like the Arlon and the Brooklyn Saengerbund, there are some thirty-five -oUierorganlze7'German singing societies In Brooklyn.

All of these meet once a week for rehearsal, and each pays a regular salary to a director or instructor. Unfortunately, many of our citizens who do not sing do not appreciate as they should the efforts of these song-loving Germans. Back of it all is much more than the mere coming together- for rehearsals. Many of the members of the German singing societies are poor men, and yet out their small earnings they gladly pay something to cultivate the most beautiful of all instruments, the human voice. Singing ls bred in the home of every German.

The history of German song extends back without a break for over 600 years. It started in the fourteenth century with the minnesingers. After the minnesingers came the meistersingers, made famous by Hans Sachs. Its a noble and elevating narrative to read the history of German song. It is a story of "upward and onward until to-day one can hear from a body of thirty or forty men, in some small hall in the Eastern District, the finest vocal music ever written, correctly and sometimes beautifully sung.

In this great city there Is not half enough interest taken by rich people In the advancement of music. A lasting service to the cause of the noblest of the arts has been rendered by the German singing societies and a few enthusiastic American women, and the time must come when both these elements will reap their reward. Amos J. Cummings, one of the- Democratic Congressmen from New York, says the of Sampson beyond Schley Wilt be made a Democratic "issue" In the next campaign. The Democratic party has hard work to find issues In these latter days.

The best thing It can do Is to issue out of politics for good and all. The Wicked Slot Machines. There Is comfort In the thought that ome of tbe wicked slot machine, are reaping the reward of evil asiociatlons and have actually been kidnapped by persona representing themselves as "Comstock's men, and who really were more Corrupt than the machines them selves. This particular kind of slot machine frequents saloons. They are prohibited by law, and fines are'imposed on people In whose possession they are found.

One Huge had about a dozen of them, find unloaded three on a livery stable keeper out of business. The buyer found no money In those he had. They seemed to be "hoodooed. He got mad and set things. In train to -make trouble for Ruge.

Huge Is not looking for trouble, and tried to buy the machines "back, but they could not agree on terms. Later Ruga fopnd that A bis own machines had disappeared from saloons where they had been plaeed, seized, the barkeepers said, by Comstock's men Ruge found that some was going around, exhibiting a badge, and taking the machines, 'and that Comstock and his 'melt knew nothing about It. Bus pecting the buyer, of his three 'machines, lie ent In search of him. Tbe man vi A New (ilacl.il Theory. Few of the younger Feneration of English travelers are doing better or more thorough field work than Sir Martin Conway, now exploring the high group, of the Bolivian Andes, containing the peaks of Illimani and Sorate and whose achievements In the Himalayas earned for him the highest honors of the Royal Geographical Society.

By way of diversion from his more important and serious Sir Martin, in 1898, with hla admirable companion and photographer, Garwood, effected the first crossing of Spitsbergen; and last year supplemented, with a vacation reoennoissance of six weeks, his Investigations in that most interesting and instructive Island. The last Journal of the Geographical Society contains in full, with illustrations. Sir Martins paper on his last summer's work, which is Interesting to the public at large chiefly from its new and radical doctrine of the function of glaciers, which. In subsequent discussion, was at once controverted by Frofr Bonney, a distinguished geologist. Sir Martin Conway holds, from his Spitsbergen observations, that the term Inland ice is essentially vague, and should be erased from geographical literature, since the juxtaposlton of no matter how many glaciers does not form an Ice sheet, but merely a glacial area.

He abandons entirely the old theory- that glaciers excavate their beds to any considerable extent, and says that the cliffs over which the Ice torrent pours are moving continuously backward, as the cliff over which Niagara falls retreats. Sir Martin cited Himalayan and Alpine glaciers in proof of his radical, not to say startling, propositions, tracing with much detail topographical changes which seem to confirm his theory. Prof. Bonney, however, while not rejecting the new doctrine outright, pointed out that configuration of the Alps was doubtless effected when, with a higher temperature. It had neither ice nor glaciers, and, therefore, thought that his friend.

Sir Martin, had really tried "to stretch a truth rather more than It will bear. The Contoay theory will doubtless attract the -attention of geologists and gladallsts generally, as it 1b the work of one of the brightest, most active and Intelligent of travelers, as well as of the most careful and thoroughly equipped students and observers, who reads the lessons of the rocks and the Ice withmtbe eye of an expert and the logic of a philosopher. It would now appear that the life-saving medal will be awarded to Mayor Van Wyck, whether he likes it or not. He has been very kind to the Life-Having Corps, and It will gladly exert every influence to get a medal for him. A New Polynesian -American Alliance.

There Is a new, alliance, American and Polynesian, probable in the near future. Capt. Putnam Bradlee Strong, son of ex-Mayor William Strong, last Mayor of old New York, and member of Gen Wes- ley Merritts staff, It Is announced, per latest steamer, is to wed ex-Princess Victoria Kalulanl of Hawaii, now legally only plain Miss Cleghorn, for the United States Government does not recognize titles of nobility. It Is said to have been a case of love at first sight. Miss Cleghorn met the young New Yorker at Honolulu, when Gen.

Merritts expedition stopped there to take water, and breath. Had the Hawaiian dynasty Continued the young lady would In time have been the ruler of the Island kingdom, butlhe misconduct of her notorious aunt acted as what the boys call a hoodoo," and she will never be queen, save in one home, and rule the heart of but one loyal subject her husband. She is not of the old Kamehameha royal line, but of mixed origin, Hawaiian on the male side, in part, from a line of high chiefs, and English on the mother's side, In part, her own father being an Englishman, A. S. Cleghorn, and her mother, the Princess Llkelike, of the same family as David Kalakaua and Liliuokalanl, was part, English.

The Kamehameha line is extinct. King Lot, the fifth Kamehameha that being an assumed title, like that of tbe Ptolemies of Egypt, died in 1872 without leaving an heir or appointing a successor. William Lunalilo Bill) was elected by a plebiscltum. He did not live long and David Kalakaua, descendant of a line of high chiefs, who had been a candidate against Lunalilo, was elected. Queen Emma, widow of Kamehameha (Alexander, who died In 1863), contested the succession, and civil war nearly resulted, but through Queen Victoria1 recognition of Kalakaua trouble waa averted.

Emma the daughter of Hawaiian high chief and an English woman, and before marrying the King was known as Emma Rooke. Aa to Kalulanls personality, ahe la 18 years of age, and described as a tall, handsome and "queenly" girl. She was educated in England, and Is a fine musician. During the second incumbency of the Presidency of the United States by Grover Cleveland she visited tbis country and made a strong personal appeal to Mr. Cleveland to interfere to save the succession for her, which was threatened by the annexation of the islands to this country, through President Harrison1 treaty not then completed.

Tbe events that followed are too recent to need reciting in detail. Annexation was delayed, but the republic was not overthrown although Cleveland and his "paramount1 commissioner, the never-to-be-forgotten but Unpleasantly remembered Blount, did their best to restore- the semi-savage Liliuokalanl to power. Mise Cleghorn, as an adopted American, she cannot be called "Prim cess, lives at Waikiki In A home aaid to Manhattan. WAS OWNED BY JOIN PETTIT. BOUGHT 'BY HENRY SIRE AT PRIVATE SALE MISSING- REAL ESTATE DEALER' SAID "TO HAVE BEN LIVING AT A HOTEL IN JERSEY CITY CALHOUN WANTS A RECEIVER IN MANHATTAN.

The Bennett Building, in Manhattan, the principal piece of real estate owned by the Pettit Realty Company, the head of which, John Pettit, has been missing for over two months, waa sold yesterday, as one of the first steps in the reorganization of the Realty Company. It waa purchased at private sale by Henry Sire. Tbe purchase price was The Bennett Building was one of the 'two properties owned and operated by the Pettit Realty Company The other is Beckman Building, at Beekman and Pearl streets. Pettit bought the Bennett: Building several years ago. He enlarged it and remodelled It, and it was said to he worth nearly A mortgage on it for 9500,000 waa held by the New York Life Insurance Company, and there were rumors early in the week that this mortgage was about to be foreclosed.

There was rumor current yesterday to the effect that Pettit had been living at a Jersey City Hotel unfler the name of Parks. The description of arks as given by Mr. Hamblen, the proprietor, and Charles Connelly, the clerk, of the Washington Hotel, in no way tallies with that of Pettit, who was a much older man than Parks. At any rate. Parks has not been at the hotel since May 3.

He went there on April 22, and Pettit has only been missing since June 2. George Robinson, counsel for William Calhoun in the suit to set aside deeds of transfer of several valuable pieces of realty in Manhattan, yesterday declared before Judge Beekman, in the Supreme Couurt, that Pettit four months ago, "never to return The application waa for the appointment of receiver of the property pending the decision of the question of ownership. The property is in the hands of Dr. Waite and Quarrier. They are collecting rents which aggregate 912,000 a month, and It is charged have not been paying the taxes and interest on the mortgages.

As a result foreclosure suits have been brought. Mr. Robinson asserted that Mr. Calhoun advanced the money to purchase these properties in as Pettit did not have the means at the time, and they desired them for speculation. He stated that the deeds were in the name of Calhoun, but he transferred them to Pettit to secure his profits and commissions for carrying on the sale.

The deeds were never recorded by Pettit, because, Mr. Robinson declared, be knew that he had no right to record them. Dr. Waite, he said, having a power of attorney from Pettit after the speculators disappearance, had the deeds recorded. He then made deeds of the same properites to Quarrier, "wfio, we are informed, served a term for bank robbery in the South remarked Mr Robinson.

Mr. Hopkins, for Waite and Quarrier, said that Calhoun was simply a clerk of Pettit, who was accustomed to place property in the names of his clerks until he had an opportunity to sell it.He said that Calhoun wanted assurance that he could continue in the employ of Pettit, and failing to receive a satisfactory answer, said that he would make trouble. He also called the attention of the court to the fact that a receiver of the property of Calhoun had been appointed oa Burbys judgment against him. Counsel were given permission to submit their papers on Monday. PERSONAL COSTELLO.

Jerry" Costello, jlie vet eran letter carrier, whom everybody knows, and likes, is just recovering from protracted illness caused by being knocked out by the about ten days ago. OBITUARY. WILLIAM T. DRAPER. The death of William T.

Draper, of 185 Amity street, occurred early Friday mom lng, at his home, from quick consump tlon. Mr. Draper held a' responsible post tlon with the Lloyd Platfr Glass Company in Manhattan, and eight months ago was married to Miss Cornell, daughter of Sam uel Cornell, a wealthy hardware dealer. He was prominent in society, and was a member of Gilbert Council, No. 1343, R.

A. Mr. Draper was 26 years old. The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon from the house, and the burial will be In Green wood. MRS.

MARTHA Mi MIDDAGH. Mrs. Martha M. Middagh died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George C.

Greene, 919 Jefferson avenue, on Thursday afternoon from heart trouble, superinduced by old age. Mrs. Middagh was born In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, eighty years She was an active member of the Bethany Presbyterian Church, and had lived here with her daughter for seven years. She leaves one daughter and two sons. The funeral will be held at the house "at 8 oclock to-night The body will be sent to Martin's Creek, for burial to-morrow morning.

WILLIAM HENRY BENSON. William Henry Benson, who died Thursday from paralysis of the heart, at his home, 66 Jefferson avenue, had been for several years a hottel-keeper at Marcy avenue and Fulton streej. Mr. Benson was born In New York City on Oct 9, 1856. He came to Brooklyn when a young man, and for some years conducted a restaurant in the Wallabout Market He was a'mem her of Hyatt Lodge, F.

and A. and of Champion Council, No. 350, Royal Arcanum. The funeral will be held at 2 oclock to-morrow afternoon at hiB home. The lodges of which he was a member will attend the funeral In a body, and eoncfuct the services.

He la survived by his widow and two daughters. Miss Katherine and Miss Marguerite Benson. Burial w-lll be In Greenwood Cemetery. MISS ALICIA A- CASSIDY. A dispatch from Saratoga announces the death of Mias Alicia A.

Cassidy, of 148 Lexington avenue, on Thursday night. Miss Cassidy, who has-been spending the summer at the Springs, went out for long bicycle ride In the morning, and was stricken soon after returning. EDWARD F. RICHARDSON. Edward F.

Richardson died on Thursday at his home. In Elmhurst, L. I. He was the Eastern passenger agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, having been appointed eight years ago.

Mr. Richardson was a veteran of the Civil War, and served two years as a lieutenant. At one time he was a bookkeeper in the Erie Railroad offices, apd subsequently he was with tbe Rock Island Railroad. He was a member of the John A. Dlx Post, G.

A. and leaves a widow and three children. -1. IT IS TO BE MELTED VP INTO MEDALS IN COMMEMORATION OH THE CINCINNATI GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMENT HANDSOME SOUVENIR BOOK ALSO PROMISED. For a week there was on exhibition In the window of the John Shillito Co.

In ncinntL a brass twelve pounder cannon weighing 1,241 pounds that; had gone through the Civil War and seen active service for about, three-years. The old relic of the(war was given to the Citizens Committee of Cincinnati, by Congress, tn order that it might be melted up Into souvenir badges on account of the Thirty-second National Encampment of the G. A. to be held in Cincinnati, Sept. 5 to 10.

The cannon, attracted a good deal of attention while on exhibition, and ts those, who looked at It gnd recalled Us honorable history it seemed rather pathetic to think that in amonth 6r thereabouts it will be dismembered and cArried away from Cincinnati in small bits to every State of the Union and Into almost every city, town and hamlet in every State. In the matter of badges, those who attend the G. A. R. encampment wiU be particularly fortunate.

The delegates to the encampment will receive the handsomest badge that has ever been mads for a similar occasion, and the members of the Women's Relief Corps, ladies of the G. A. R. and other organizations will fare- as well. There will be badges for the members of all and in addition to these the souvenirs that will be 'sold will be handsome and will cost a merely nominal sum.

The souvenir book of the encampment will be a handsome affair, and in addition to the pictures and record of the various officers of the G. A. and the Cincinnati Citizens Committee, there will be pictures and accounts of heroes of the present war. In addition, the views in and about Cincinnati will make -the book alone worth many times its cost. The souvenir is directly under the supervision of the G.

A. R. Committee and will be 4be only authorized publication. AID FOR SEASIDE HOME. CONTRIBUTIONS CONTINUE TO BE RECEIVED.

The following contributions are acknowledged by Edgar McDonald, of 26 Court street, treasurer of tho Seaside Home for Children at Coney 11-land. for the week ending Aug. 12. Mrs. Chas.

Adams, William Beard. Lavinia Beard. 5: Perry Dickie. $10; Mr. Grace Clark Du VaJ, SIO, Duryek Presbyterian Sunday School.

$11; W. Harris, $1, George Hobson, $2, E. E. Hand, D. V.

Hegeman. $5, Eliza Haag-land, $10; Jean, Frances and Mabel, $20; Miss M. L. Kenny, Ruth and Marguerite Mead, proceeds of a rainy afternoon. L.

D. Mason, per Brooklyn "Times, 25 cents: John Rae, Eliza Sheridan, Miss K. Van-derveer, Withers Street Sunday School. Washington Avenue Baptist Church and congregation, $7T5; R. Walbridge.

$10; Mra. W. H. williams, $5 Total. $130 Previously acknowledged, $6,406.77.

Grand total, 77. TOWN TALK AND DOINGS. If the Kings County Elevated Railroad Company were compelled to pay for all the fine dresses and coats it has ruined at Court and Fulton streets, the item in its profit and loss account would be heavy indeed. Every engine that draws a train puffing over that spot deposits its quota of oily, nasty waste water upon the heads of those beneath. It is safe to say that more men and women are made to Guggehheimer at that point, over the carelessness of the road in not providing proper drip pans, than anywhere else within the confines of Brooklyn.

IN FAIRYLAND. In the "St. Nicholas there is a fairy Btory of the ood old kind, written by A E. Bonser, and called "The Treasure at the End of the Rainbow. Here is what the hero saw in Fairyland: A fairys life is by no means all play "nothing to do, and plenty of time to do it not a bit of it! Idleness is misery, and "all play and no work is, if anything, worse than "all work and no play and happiness is found between the two.

A vast deal lies in taking a thorough interest In what one has to do, and doing it with ones might; and of all work, that of the fairies is perhaps most interesting. In many' parts of Fairyland there are hospitals where gnats, flies, bees, and other humble creatures are taken in, when injured, and carefully tended. There are schools for teaching spinning to spiders and caterpillars, and weaving to tbe weaver-bird; schools for the blind, where moleB may learn to burrow; swimming schools for fishes; flying schools for birds and such fishes as care to perfume factories, where the perfume is made that scents the jasmine, sweet-pfea, the lily, and the rose. There are storehouses, too, of splendid dreams and castles in the air. When you see a babys face rippled with smiles as he sleeps, you may be suro that thb fairies are whispering beautiful thoughts or showing him lovely pictures.

But the part of Fairyland to which. Nicnack had come was devoted to quite different occupations; it was store-place of wonders. Here the aurora-borealis was treasured; here, too. mlgnt be Been an assortment of halos, mock suns, mock moons, and the various forms of mirage. But, what was of far more concern to Nicnack, this w'as the place" where the rainbow was kept.

When it had done duty in the sky. and gladdened the eyes of men, it was taken down by the fairies, carefully duteted, and then folded and set aside until wanted. Nicnack had been full of curiosity as to T'hat the Treasure at the End of the Rainbow Could possibly be He now found that it is a magic crystal prism. When the rainbow is first set up in the sky it is perfectly invisible. Tl prism being placed at one end of the arch, the colors are flashed along, and all appear in their proper order.

The crys-tals are kept carefully wrapped in thistle-down, and a fresh one is used every time. AMUSEMENTS. MANHATTAN BEACH. Swept by Ocean Breezes. BROADWAY THEATRE OPERA CO.

Tw eeks Only, THE HIGHWAYMAN. Victor Herberts, Bandrr 1 Pains Manila Flreorks BICYCLE TRACK TO-DAY. GRBATEST RACE OP THE SEASON. Eddie McDuffie vs. Edouard Taylore.

25 Mile 60 Pacemaker; all the Big Multicycles. Other Events, Professional 4k Amateir, NEW YORK AMUSEMENTS. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. MATINEE TO-DAY AT 2:30. Thouszndz cheer IMRE KlRALFY'b counter felt presentment Times IMRE KIRALFYS NAVAL Daily St 2 90 and 980, Sunday IschidsA POPULAR PRICES.

THE TVRPa QUEENS CO. JOCKEY CLUl AQU DUCT. L. I. 9 RACES EVERY DAY NEXT Admission to grand stand, $1.80 Ladle.

Race train inave Flatbuah 185. 1 87. 2 P.tt. Track also reached via Bklya Elevated R.R, ADIRONDACKS AND THOUSAND ISLANDS. 1 The New York Central announces two more of its popular 95 Adirondack and Thousand Island and 910 Montreal -recreation excursions, on Friday and Saturday of next week, tickets and full information for which may be obtained at any of the local ticket offices, 338 and 726 Fulton street and 108 Broadway.

The train service and appointments of the Central are excellent, and tbe opportunity la a rare one to visit at small expense some of the most famous and rewarding resorts. WE ARE ON TOP. Jnited States Leads All Countries in Big Wages, THE LAST ISSUE FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS BUREAU OF STATISTICS OF LABOR COMPARES EARNINGS OF LABOR IN THIS COUNTRY AND OTHER COUNTRIES. Reports by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor are models of careful investigation and skillful arrangement of material, worthy of Imitation by its sister department in this State, and may be in other commonwealths dwelling in security under the folds of the banner that floats the Stars and Stripes. The latest issue by the bureau has for its subject "Graded Weekly Wages." Its compilation leaves little to be desired, and is a credit to the intelligence and ability of the bureau's chief, Horace G.

Waldin, and the special aptitude of his departmental staff for their work. It continues to date facts bearing on the subject collection of data for which commenced in the earliest years possible to obtain quotations of wages and prices. The opening is a summary of wage quotations, of which there are for Massachusetts 251,500 for males and 36,200 for females; for other commonwealths of the United States, males females, 6,300, and for foreign countries, males, 58,000, and females 16,200 The total number of the quotations is 489,600, and they cover the yeans from 1810 to 1891 The method adopted for the tables to present the matter is simple. In the Hist column the occupations. States and coun tries are mentioned.

The second column indicates the sex. Years are given in the third column, ranging from 1810 for foreign countries, and for th United States from 1810 to 189L The full range of years does not appear in any single presentation, but the entire range is covered by taking the presented occupations as whole. The fourth column indicates the grade, of which there are five subdivisions, and the fifth column contains the weekly wages, expressed in dollars and cents, the gold standard being used in order to make comparison of home wages with those of foreign- countries. For some occupations the reports collected by the department and which serve as a basis for the grading of wages, are more full than for others as regards States, countries and quotations. Among these in that, category are harness and saddlery makers, hat and cap makers, laborers of various classes, lithographers, machinists, pattern makers, moulders, mill-wrights.

millers, masons, machine ten ders, loom fixers, melters of metal and overseen in cotton, woolen and other textiles. The comparison given of weekly wages paid in Massachusetts, in other States and in foreign countries is most comprehensive and instructive, and is presented in a clear shape making it easy for the reader to gasp the situation. Wages are graded as hign. medium high, medium, medium low, and low. A general table and separate, tables of wages according to scales are furnished.

The final table of the series contains comparisons for the highest low weekly wagre, and to permit of comparisons being easily made for each State according to grade the five grade tables are consolidated in one presentation. In the occupations reported upon in the present issue foreign count iss me unrep resented In the highest quotations in any of the five grades, because the United States has an unquestioned lead. MACHINERY DISPLACE LABOR? But What of the future? During twenty years farms were added at tbe rate of 95.000 per annum, on wrhich were placed an average of 540,000 units annually. New farms absorbed the equivalent of the 8.050.000 immigrants reaching our shores In the twenty years, and some 2,750,000 others born in America or immigrating earlier. Instead of the farm absorbing, as heretofore, one-fourth more people than we import, it will hereafter pour a constant stream of employment seekers Into the urban districts- unless the surplus labor units born upon the farm shall be placed In a standing army.

That the anticipated progressive displacement labor by machinery is not imaginery, is apparent from innumerable facts, among which may be named that the setting of tobacco and other plants is effected by machines; that the seed potato is cut by one machine and planted by another, while the product is dug by a third; that the "self-feeder" of the tehreshlng machine displaces two men, while "blast stackers" and gasoline engines will, when in general use, reduce the labor of threshing 75,000,000 acres of grain annually in the equivalent of constant work for 150,000 men; that the "two-row" cultivator will displace labor In cultivating 110.000,000 acres of rowed crops In- the equivalent of constant employment tor 130,000 men; that in the pastoral regions the "hand-shearer" has been displaced by machines making 8,000 clips per minute; that Mr. Edison is, with a handful of men, demolishing mountains and converting them into iron ore and building sand; while on the Meseba range the steam shovel now mines and loads ore which displaces that formerly mined at an average labor cost of 91 per ton; that the pneumatic atomizer enables one unskilled laborer to paint more freight cars than can fifteen skilled hand-workers, while with the eight-pound ppeumatic hammer the workman drives more nails, rivets more boilers, calks more seams, and cuts more stone than can twenty men with older appliances. The list of such recently invented labor-lessening and destroying devices is endless. Till recent years no enduring dearth of employment has resulted in the United States only, however, because of an existing safety valve in the arable public domain, and cause we were one of a very limited number of machine-using peoples. 'The Forum.

Hoods Pills cure Liver Ills. 25 cents. NO CABLE RESTRICTIONS. WIRES NOW OPEN TO THE WEST IN-s DIES AND SPAIN. The Western Unlon'Tefegrkph Companys central cable office in Manhattan reports that all restrictions placed upon cable traffic to tho West Indies and Spain by the Government of the United States have been removed.

CUBAS FUTURE. HER INDEPENDENCE FIRST, PERHAPS ANNEXATION Tomas Estrada 'Palma, of the Cuban Junta, states that fighting on the part of Cubans will cease just as soon as they are notified that Spain will evacuate the Island. With reference to future operations, he says: The first thing to be done by the Cuban patriots in the United States now the blockade is raised will be to send food and clothing to the Cubans in the field. Money which would otherwise have been used for arms and ammunition wtll be devoted to the relief of the Cuban soldiers and their families. Without raising the issue of who should govern Cuba, we feel that we should have the hearty co-operation of the American government and the American people in relieving starvation.

That comes first. Afterward we will talk of other things. The leading men in our government, from President Maaao down, have implicit confidence in the declaration of the United States government that it went to war not for the acquisition of Cuba, bill to free the island for the Cubans. It may be only a question of time when the people of Cuba will wish annexation, but at the present time there are many, especially among those who went into the field against the Spaniards, whose aim and ambition is independence. Any policy of the United States which attempted to force annexation before the people were ready Tor it might cause considerable internal In answer to a question Mr.

Palma said that after the Spanish army Is withdrawn from Cuba there wilbremam about 120.000 Spaniards and about 1,200,000 native Cubans. "If there should be an election to decide whether annexation or independency is wanted in Cuba," said Mr. Palma, "the native Spaniards should not be permitted to vote unless each one of them publicly renounced his allegiance to Spain. It is true they are a part of the Cuban population, but their interests have never been with the Cubans. Even if the office holding Spaniards profess allegiance the Cubans would have little faith in them If the American government desires to rule Cuba temporarily with as much tranquility as possible the best way would be to dismiss from office everv native Spaniard and put conservative Cubans in their places.

This would remove all traces of Spanish rule and increase the confidence Cubans have in the American government. ON LAKE GEORGE Natural Scenery That Outrivals Any in Europe. BROOKLYN GUESTS AT CALDWELL-LIVE GOSSIP FROM SARATOGA THE RACES AND THE MEN WHO BET MEETING OF THE BAR AS SOCIATION. (Special Correspondence of The Standard Union.) CALDWELL, N. Aug.

13. Fort Wil liam Henry Hotel, at Caldwell, Lake George, which the Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage practically reopened this sea son by being the first guest to register, is, of course, the social centre at this point on the tteture8QU shore line of America's most beautiful lake, and after forty years of history.

In which figure host of celebrities from old New York and Brooklyn, it retains all its prestige under Us widely known manager, Edward P. Harris. Among the guests from Brooklyn are W. W. Welsh, wife and, daughters; Mr.

and Mrs. Charles L. Jewett, and Miss Mai Clarkson. The natural scenery of Lake George has been so often described that a schoolboy is familiar with it. Yet the new generation coming on the scene of life will have to see to appreciate it.

should say that Lake George is the paradise of people whose brain and bodjr is overworked. Newspaper men Seem to relish it immensely, if I may judge by the many I have met along the shores. There are no race tracks, no mineral springs, and no mobs of people as are common elsewhere, but there is a belt of sixty miles around as pretty a sheet of water as ever any one saw in the wide world, punctuated with charming private villas and public caravansaries. In all my wanderings through many lands, I have found nothing In lake seen ery more refreshing and inspiring than Lake George. I should say that Its fu ture must be wonderfully promising; since our growing American population cannot find anything to excel it in Europe.

If it were anywhere in the lands across the sea, how some Americans would rave over it, who now pass by it, thinking because it is American it cannot possibly compare with some foreign lakes. On the whole, I feel a good deal like the satisfied Methodist brother who used to sing at camp meeting: "My willing soul would stay In such a place as this." One of the marked features of Saratoga and Lake George social life this season is the absence of many once familiar faces. The war may have something to do with 1 this, and attractions elsewhere have called off many former patrons of these places. But it is remarked that, more new faces are seen this Beasarn than in many years, and It is to be accounted for partially by the entree of a new generation. This occurs periodically, illustrating those familiar lines: "They come and tjiey go, Like the waves of the sea." The Saratoga races come in for severe denunciation.

I hear well-known sporting characters quoted as saying some sharp things against them. One fact I do know is that the raoes this year are particularly demoralizing. Nothing in the line of reckless bettingha equaled the ventures of this season. The gambling is open and brazen, and the "jockeying" is something appalling to lovers of clean sport. The small betting contingent is very great and.

their losses are so continuous and considerable, that it has become a common remark in the hotels and boarding houses that "Mr. So-and-So has gone home 'dead-broke and wiU send for his trunk later." The coming annual meeting of the Bar Association at Saratoga, revives the recollection of the presence there two years ago of Lord Chief Justice Russell, of England; Sir Francis Lockwood, since deceased, and other distinguished British legal lights. The papers to be read at the coming meeting will include, it is said, one on "Diplomacy in American Colonial Affairs," which will, doubtless, eiloit a great deal of attention, as the subject Is a new one. The gathering will be followed by social entertainments and, per haps, by a dinner at one of the big hotels, T. T.

EVERETT. Pantaer Honk Your nephew that went to col lege hat kinder got cuTed of his retirin' disposition. aint he9 Parmer GrayneA Waal, ha is at least cured of all disposition to retire at a reasonable hour at night but. on the other hand, he a food deal more retirin', mornin than ev tayr retired till you might Call mornin than, ever before 4a fact. hfl about 10 Harpers Bazar," In Its latest Issue.

speaks of "Princess Bismarck, nee Jo- harms Puttkamer. That Is a queer error In the use of foreign phrases one would scarcely expect to find in a publication of so high a literary character as the "Bazar." "Nee Puttkamer," certainly, for that Is the name of the family Into which she was born, and "fee 'is simply the French word for "horn" but "bora Johanna, never. The Coming Episcopal Convention. The coming General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which meets in Washington on the 6th of October, will have matters of discussion before It that will claim the attention, mot alone of its own members, but that of other denominations. The High Church element proposes to make an effort to still farther restrict the rules of the Church on the question of divorce.

Its Influence will be felt, through the Committees on the Revision of the Constitution. In fact, a preliminary report by this committee, which was appointed in 1895, recommends that the Church make a canon that shall forbid the clergy to solemnize the marriage of any divorced person while the other party is living. This la the practice In the Roman Catholic Church, and will be hotly opposed, not on that account, but on account Of its alleged lack of equity and justice. It Is contended that tbe Church canon on that point" is at this time exactly what it should be. It permits the "Innocent party to a divorce to re marry.

Another subject of discussion involves a radical change in church government. It has been a growing theme in the Church for years the proposed adoption of the "provincial system. This system. briefly stated, la the forming of several contiguous dioceses into groups with an archbishop and a provlnicial council for each group. One of the reasons given by those who favor this Is that it will relieve the General Convention of considerable of Its work, and.

It might be added, it will localize the Church work and thereby Inspire a -larger degree of interestln it. The General Convention is a large, not to say, unwilling organization. Each of its fifty-eight dibceses In the United States sends four clerical and four lay deputies to the House of Deputies which, with the House of Bishops, form the convention.1- Their joint Action and approval is necessary on til active business before the convention In order to make It law. The proposed change to the provincial Bystem is another drift towards the ways of Catholicism, and this alone will give It a hostile reception by the Low and Broad Church party. A third proposed change that will come before the convention Is whether the Church shall have an archbishop, in other words, a primate, Curiously enough, here Is another proposed adoption of Catholic ways, and, taken as a whole, these three propositions would have given a theme to the Rev.

Dr. Justin D. Fulton on which he would have shown beyond peradven-ture the Insidious but deadly encroach- i ment of the Roman Catholic Church on the preserves of the Protestant Episcopal Church. It has been seriously suggested. but with a smile In the background it Is suspected that the proposed canon should be called a moderator or a president Instead of a primate or an archbishop.

It might be added that the canon would be Just as heavily loaded and its destructive power just the same. It was said Jong ago by some eminent divine who favored the adoption of secular music to church hymns that he dldn' believe In letting the devil have an the catching music! It may he that some of the Episcopalians are borrowing ideas from the CathoUcs with the same thought, though unexpressed. Birthday Offering for Church Purposes Hei Is another allurement of the endless chain order, in that It la novel and raises money for a good purpose where other plans might faiL The plan la working well thus far In paying off a 940,000 mortgage on the Lewis Avenue Congregational Church, of which the Rev. Robert J. Kent Is pastor.

It is called the birthday offering The pastor Ve ceives and registers-the birthday of member of his congregation. A week be fore the birthday of any of them comes he sends that person a note and an en velope in which the receiver may inclose his gift, to be deposited in the collection box the next Sunday. It Is a wholly voluntary ftffatr. The owner of the birthday may Inclose a penny, a nickel, a dot lar or ten dollars, and no one is the wiser. There le no censorious person to remark, "how stingy he Is," or "thats more than she can afford and all that.

When the gifts reach 91.000, they tally It on the mortgage. They paid off a thousand in April, and expect to pay another thousand in September. If the pay this summer installment it will bew great thing, wheh one considers the cost of vacations and Other summer luxuries. The scheme Is drawing like a porous plaster, and the pastor is to be commended for having or Iginated it. Served With An Order to Show Cause, service on the Controller yesterday of an order to show cause why he should not award the bond Issue to the Produce Exchange Trust Company will probably result, in any eventTn not giving it to the syndicate with the conditional bid.

If not by the courts to award to the Produce Exchange Trust, the Controller may readvertiee them, and if fee does so, there will-be no more "fufiny business," with a lawyer for an umpire to his clients after the bids are opened, that they can recede from their offer if they find It expedient to do so. Indications are that if the bonds were readvertised they would bring even high ejj prices than they did before. a Peace prevails, and the Porto Rice picnic party will pause, by order of the President. Our Short War. The unexpected happened In our short war with Spain.

It 'was won on sea. Most men looked for a land fight of short duration- Convoy duty waa expected of the navy, and It was depended upon with some misgivings to defend our seacoast cities. The misgivings were not official, b(it they had very general lodgment In the minds of the people. There was a notion that we didnt have much use for a navy, and that arm of the service Was neglected In the appropriations. Our little army had fought on the frontier at brief Intervals since the close' of the war between the States.

It was known to be a pretty good fighting machine. As to Cuba, there were two ways in which we could possess it at once without the sacrifice of American Uvea, according to the more sanguine of the war-at-all-hazard3 party. One was to supply the Cubans with arms and ammunition, and the other was to starve out Havana by a blockade. Even real war correspondents, who had been to Cuba and utterly scorned the claim that the Cubans if supplied with arms by the Americans could whip the Spaniards right' out of hand, were moved to believe that Havana properly blockaded must succumb In a few weeks. More than that Gen.

Fltzhugh Lee. a regular army officer, who had been consul for some years at Havana, expressed the opinion that he could deliver the city to the United 8tates within weeks after -war bad "been declared. If men on the ground, with every facility for securing the most trustworthy Information, were so seriously mistaken, the rest of ns need take no shame to ourselves because of lack of prescience. And at least we may be careful to tgq wise after the event. The lessons of the war must under our formof government be learned by each one of us.

if the full benefit is to be, reaped from the countrys successes on sea and land. The first lesson to be learned la that we were very, very lucky In acquiring the experience we now possess so cheaply. If our quarrel had been with a more powerful nation, ultimate victory would have cost us many thousands of lives, and left to our children an inheritance of debt that might retard the progress of our beloved country for a generation. The second lesson taught us Is that even an Industrial republic cannot afford to be unprepared tor war. It Is hardly too much to say that our unpreparedness for this war with Spain, ended yesterday-let us hope permanently cqst us more is lives than the bullets of the enemy.

The public opinion that forced the war must answer for these deaths. Our Government must be responsible to pubUc opinion, if It Is to remain a free government, so is not possible to put such blood guiltiness as may exist In tbla relation on official garments. If is true that by waiting we would have achieved the same or bettor results than we have achieved now, without the loss of oung lives that went out In the fever camps because there was not adequate provision made to aid them In their fight against disease, our own people who remained at home and forced the issue of war must hold themselves responsible. And if they acted not from purely patriotic motives, but for personal gain or hope of it, tbe difference between sucb as these and cowardly murderers Is not dla cernible. Let us hope there are few such.

But if, now that our short war Is we as a people think out for ourselves what In some circumstances our state of unpreparedness might have cost us in 'blood and treasure. It will not be possible In tbe future to stampede the Nation into war on any pretext, how ever plausible. For the rest If the same good fortune follows us In our treatment of the territory acquired, and to he acquired, that attended our armed conten tlon with Spain, a period of great prosperity is coming to us with pea6e that will more than pay the vast cost In money of the War." There Is one thing upon which we all. Republicans, Populists, Prohibitionists, Mugwumps and what not alike, can plume ourselves, and that Is the hearty unanimity with which we supported that great statesman, and glpr-iously patriotlo President of all the pecs-pie, William McKinley, In his conduct of the short but brilliantly successful war with Spain just closed. I Mineola, L.

long known to the out side world as the location of most attractive agricultural fairs, may become the capital of the new county of Nassau, Hlcksvllle Is trying for it, too; but certainly Mineola has the best chance. It was entirely to be expected that Act ing Corporation Counsel Connoly would be disgruntled: because the Controller did not take hip advice and award the bond dssue to the conditional bidders. He quoted as saying to a reporter jrssterdayi "It'ls a had thing to. have these bonds hawked about in dispute In the courts in this manner. A bond IS a delicate piece of property and quickly losea Its Salability The Lldgerwood Manufacturing Company, of Manhattan, have issued a collection of "advance proofs illustrating in a graphic manner the advantage of the newly patented safety derrick engine.

The danger and difficulty connected with the operation of engines equipped without these improvements are shown by means of a series of photographic reproductions, In striking contrast is a cut showing the ease with which an engine can be controlled by means of tbe Lldgerwood appliance.