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BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1899 Paris that the statletlcs are most.dlstress-ingly instructive. who had listened were fain to go their ways and were not little comforted among themselves by reason of tho melody that had reached their ears that day. Oscar Fat Adams Dec. 8a gogton Efomscrtot MONDAY. JANUARY 8.

1800 BOSTOS ETES1SQ TKAXSCBIPT RIUM DAILY Except Sunday ui Holidays mercial slavery, drives them to revolution as their only way to escape from destruc-tlun. One hnndxed ysara ago the Spanish dominion in the two Americas was far more extensive than that of the Anglo-8axon, and today Spanish rnie in the New "World is extinct. Cuba entered yesterday upon a new phase of her history. What that phase will finally he, who will decide? General Lacret, the Cnhan leader, in his address to General Brooke, promised the loyal cooperation of the people of the island with the Americans in the work of establishing the independence of Cuba. General Brooke, probably because he is a military man and did not desire to commit himself, thanked General Lacret, hnt avoided the point.

Undoubtedly the Cuban Chief was disappointed. Equally the people of Havana, who had looked forward to the New Year with high hopes, are disappointed. They ask themselves if yesterday's ceremonies mean anything more than a change of masters? Many people here in the United States, when looking towards Havana, ask the same question Ha a somewhat different way. They ask. Shall we ever get out of Cuba? In this doubting state of the publlo mind it is cheering to read the following from the New York Tribone, whose editor was one of the peace commissioners, and therefore may be expected to know the private mind of persons of our less fortunate fellow-countrymen here In England aa dear ss we have of late rears been learning to hold them.

If public opinion sanctions Imprisonment without trial in India, it is difficult to think that it would draw fine distinctions should similar methods of dealing with discontent he found convenient nearer horn LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION TO the Editor of tho Tranaurlpt: The purpose of the Police Commissioners In licensing certain hotel in South Boa-ton appears to have been misunderstood. Tho trend of modern educational methods la toward the objective plan of teaching. The old didactic lecture system ia -falling into disuse, and practical demonstration has taken Its place In most subjects capable of such demonstration. The honorable Board of Police Commissioner recognising this fact, have shown their approval of tho newer method by granting a license to this hotel. The hotel Is situated In an Ideal location for tho purpose of tho commissions almost oppoalts church having several largo congregations every Sunday, and within a stone-throw of several schools that collect dally four thousand children.

What better site In Boston could be selected for teaching In the most approved modem manner 1. objectively the dangers of the drink habit? The school for such the commissioners undoubtedly regard this hotel bas entered upon a glorious career. It is a success financially, and, I can aver from observation, leaves nothing undone to carry out tho educational ideas of the commissioner Every variety of drunk known Is faithfully demonstrated: ths maudlin, the befuddled, ths good-natured, the belligerent. ths deml-eensible, the seml-comatose, etc. Recently on a Sunday, an excellent specimen of the latest variety known to science the bicycle drunk was exhibited for tho instruction of the public.

Tho commissioners are to be congratulated upon the success of their school a model fit Its kind. Boston has already attained some reputation for its educational facilitle This contribution to her educational system-post-graduate Sunday school for will assuredly add to Bostons fame for keeping In the front rank of pedagogic achievement. The commissioners evidently desire the public to become familiar with the workings of the school. Sundays especially. Medford, Everett, Charlestown.

Roxbury and Cambridge cars pass tbe door. The annual commencement of the school Is expected to take place In May next. It Is hoped Ms excellency, the governor, will honor the occasion with an emphatic word or two expressive of his regard for the honorable commissioners and their contribution to the higher education. Respectfully. Edward A.

Tracy. M. D. 91 Broadway, South Boston, Jsn. I.

ANOTHER VIEW OF IT To the Editor of the Transcript: Mr. PLIsbury's letter to the Transcript of Dec. 81 shows an ignorance of the main point st Issue In the Traveller contempt case, which, to use his own word "Is so surprising from a man of his character as to indicate total misunderstanding of the jOTTinres best sleighing of the season. new year starts out with considerable energy. Brooke le all right, for the present, but we hope he wont go on forever.

ought to put on the additional slx-lnches that the Ice men have been calling for. Esop were olive what an Interesting fable he could start today on Ths Liar and his Thermometer. we go any farther let the question be settled whether Boston or St. Louis has the larger railroad station. the President condescended to wear a Confederate badge, that kind of decoration ia becoming quite popular In Washington.

new railroad station nt Somerville Junction, which was opened last week, la a great Improvement on its predecessor, and the people In that section who have occasion to use It are correspondingly happy. New York World says: While ths foreigner takes only half a cup of the coffee to half a cup of hot milk, we fill the cup to the brim with pure or nearly pure coffee and then pour In enough cream to make the cup overflow until It stands an island in a saucer sea of pale brown. Of course there Is no law agamst Indulgence in such slopplnesa. but it is much better form to stop pouring the coffee when the cup le two-thirds full, and check the cream pitcher when the compound is within half an Inch of the top. Rev.

R. E. Blxbee of Chicopee, who ee a congressional candidate last fell made himself quite interesting, sold In his yesterdays discourse: Aa the centuries roll by the Spanish war will occupy leas and less space in encyclopwdlse and school histories and the social movement will occupy more and more. This movement Is marked hy the socialist victory In Haverhill, the opening of free public baths In Boston, not aa great in themselves, but humble beginnings In a mighty revolution that shall not end until the angels song ia realised on earth. Saturday afternoon a portly woman of perhaps forty-five got on a car in one of the suburbs and paid her fare.

After riding about a block the conductor called out "Sycamore street. Up went the woman's heed in indignant query. Bjrc-a-more street, did you say? she almost screamed. "Yea. madam: do you want to stop here? Of course I do and I want my fore back, too; you should have told me it was so near! I can't return you the money, lady, you did 'nt say you wanted Sycamore street.

Weil, you should have known It, then. Mind-reading Is only reasonable think to ask of Boaton candidates for the conductors berth In these days of mental science. to make a great building look really great waa the architectural problem In the new union station, and this Is the way the Courier accounts for the srtlstio success: It Is the harmonious lines ef ths building, the eminent fitness to Its surroundings, the intelligent adaptation of ornament to the embellishment of utility. It Is a work of architecture in which the artistic spirit clearly dominates the sense that here Is the largest railroad station In the world. Granting these facts, and recognising that there is something better Chan lie in public buildings, there is nothing derogatory In making a boast of the dimensions of this work.

Bigness la not monstrosity: It Is a quality with which art produces Its grandest effects. ENQUSHANTMMPERIALISM I From the Manchester (Eng.) Guardian, Sor. SlJ One of the moat remarkable things about moat of those who call them selves Imperialists Is their absencs of Interest in ths government of tho empire. They are enthuslaotic about adding province to province, gold field to gold field, or It may even be ewamp to swamp. But when tho new province is once annexed and duly colored red upon the map the Imperialistic interest Is apt to evaporate.

The Imperialist is quite certain that where the British flag goes there will be found liberty and order. Justice and civilisation. But when the actual facts flagrantly conflict with his a at lions, when slavery la being Introduced Into South Africa or the principle of arbitrary arrest In India, those who boast the title of imperialist are rarely conspicuous for their championship of tho honor of tho empire. A wave of Jingoism has swept over the country, and though It will pass as waves do, still It hoe for the time, se it seet drowned the better feelings of many who a few years ago would have been loud In their protests against much that has been going on under tho British flag. The story of ths Bechuana revolt, one cannot hut think, would a few years ago havs echoed from end to end of the country.

Now, so far from being shocked, people are barely surprised when they are told that what passed as a rebellion waa in fact described by many who took part in it as nigger-bunt; that the campaign was In reality got up by whits settlers who wanted the land of the natives and found that the best way of getting It waa to call them rebel and If possible, make them so; that British Justice as shown In ths trial of Toto and ths other chiefs was a farce, or that British Juries refused to convict men who shot their prisoners in cold blood or murdered women and children among friendly tribe These things pass muster nowaday As to ths confiscation of tho land which was the object of tho nigger-hunt. It was expressly authorised hy Mr. Chamberlain; and Os to the forced labor by which the "nlggeva were punished for being caught, we have had an elaborate defence of that form of slavery from the same authority. The imperialist does not seem to think these things matter, provided ho can carry the British fiag farther afield and talk about conferring all the benefits of Its protection upon new million It may be questioned whether the name of Imperialism might not bo more fitly applied to the view that these things do go to tho very root of the Ideal of ths British empire as It hsfi been understood end in some slight degree worked out by Englishmen. It is popularly supposed that unless one is an imperialist one Is Indifferent to the empire altogether.

It srouid be fairer to contrast tha falsa Imperialism which cares nothing for ths credit, nothing for tho true honor and greatness of ths British empire so long as It con flaunt Its material power and extent In the eyes of all tho world, with ths true Imperialism which cares not for the outward show and semblance of so many millions of square mile so many hundred millions of subject peoples, but for tho real life of thf empire, its Just and honorable record. Its reputation for fair dealing among the motley races that we call our fellow-subject It may be that the growing dominion of the white man Is unavoidable, and that it may In the end work out for the good of tho world. But If the rule of ths whits man Is to be Justified, It must be hy the way In which the white man rule If we are to speak of ourselves as ths superior race, let us at least try to prove our superiority by our action The civilisation of the white man Is doubtless the highest which the world has known. It Is the more deplorable If on coming Into contact wkh savage peoples it should hs-coms corrupted by its own violencs, by the facilities for injustice and tha lowered standard of Ilf Whan white men light with savages they seem to becomo almost os savage as their enemies, and we find onlookers who have not the excuse of passion Justifying os natural incidents of savage warfare practices which no civilised people should tolerat and which can only be explained on tho assumption that tho savagery on either aids is pretty evenly balanced. Indeed, one of tho most serious sides of ths whole problem is the reaction of our treatment of inferior peoples upon our own conception of Justice end good government.

It is very difficult to be despotlo abroad and democratic at horn to becomo cheerfully familiar with tho wanton slaughter of Kaffirs sad siiU hold ths Uvea and upon the cases brought to test the legality of the sewer assessments before paying even their ordinary taxes. Ha congratulates tha city upon the creation of the hoard of apportionment, which he believes marks the most Important and far-reaching improvement effected la the government of Boston since tha passage of the charter amendment act in 1883, with Its radical redistribution of powers. This board will really be a small financial council, a sort of elective municipal ministry, with the complete responsibility for financial legislation, but without any administrative duties. Being so constituted. and partially elected, he believes it will be more amenable to the influence of public opinion than a common council of seventy-five members elected from purely local constituencies.

He accepts, with hearty approval, the compromise preposition in a bill presented to the last Legislature by a committee of citizens Interested In education, whereby the number of members of the school board is reduced one-half, three of them to be appointed by the mayor, one each year, and nine to be elected, three each year. If only a few persons are candidates for an oin 's, the people can be got to take an active an." Intelligent Interest la an elective contest, but this becomes hopelessly confused and belittled by such a multiplicity of candidates as is inevitable when eight are to be elected at a time, and he thinks if those Interested-la the movement of the Public School Association will devote one-half as mnch effort toward convincing the Legislature of the desirability of reform, Boston will be enabled to taka an important step forward la the admlniatratloa of her schools the coming year. The mayor makes one mistake ia his statement relative to the provision of the charter act of 1883 that the mayor should once a month or oftener call together the heads of the departments for consultation and advice upon the affairs of the city. lie says this provision has never been carried out in practice. As a matter of fact.

It was carried out during the administrations of Mayors O'Brien and Hart with good results, but was discontinued by Mayor Matthews. Mayor Quincy thinks considering the extent to which thedepartmenta have grown in personnel, that the general object could be better attained by the formation of an association, to be composed of such heads of departments as cared to join, to be addressed from time to time hy well-known authorities on municipal government or hy practical administrators from other cities. This would doubtless have a certain academic value, hut It could not entirely take the place of practical conferences on Immediate local questions. Attention is called to the fact that Boston is behind New York in failing to recognize the value of vacation schools and make provision for them, and he believes that a new department may well he created, to have charge of the nse of school play-grounds, of the Itandldge excursions, of the hoys camp and of any similar lines of work which may be developed relating particularly to the out-door life of (children, especially during the vacation season. He suggests aa inquiry into the expediency of insuring employees, discusses the extension of building limits and the limitation of the height of buildings and urges the desirability of procuring legislative authority to enable the city to remove tbe upper stories of the single building on Commonwealth avenue which was carried to a considerable height above other buildings around It shortly before the passage of the law of limitation.

In this long and exhaustive message, in which there is grist for mnch committee work not only in the City Council, but the Legislature as well, the mayor reviews the history and the needs of the Beacon street boulevard, tbe new bridge to Cambridge, the elevated railway, the Southern Union Station, and the subway, in connection with which pays this tribute to his predecessor: Without underestimating the value of tlie services of many others in connection with the enterprise, it Is not too much to say that the credit of securing the adoption of tbe general plan, and of obtaining the necessary legislative authority to execute It, is chiefly due to ex-Mayor Nathan Matthews, and it seems tome proper to recognise at this time the indebtedness of the people of Boston to him for a very important public service. DIVORCE IS PARIS The practical working of the divorce law in France la causing no little consternation. It may be flattering to 31. Nacquet to know that the piece of legislation duo to his Initiative, and celebrated In Sardou's troad comedy. Is flourishing like the proverbial green bay tree.

But others are alarmed at the fruit which It bears, and especially at Ita f-cundlty. If divorce had been allowed to remain a luxury for the rich or well to do. like the bonbon nitres now displayed at liolssler'a or Tiraudln's, the results would not have caused so much alarm to those who ruminate over Che future of society: but when the democratic principle of affording gratuitous Judicial assistance to perrons whose means do not permit them to pay for It, received the sanction of law. the blessings of divorce became a free boon to all poor but deserving candidates. Consequently, the working man and working woman who a few yearn ago never thought nbout divorce, however great the dissatisfaction caused by the matrimonial experiment, now get the marriage knot severed by the Judicial scissors with an alacrity and cheerfulness not to surpassed by the badly mated in the higher ranks of society.

Thursday Is the day on which the Parle divorce court deals with the petitions of those who are unable to pay the fees for having the matrimonial fetters struck off. The number of such cases has Increased to such an extent that these Paris Judges may bo said to have beaten the record by the expedition with which they unwind the hymeneal coll and return the victims to the state of celibacy. On one day of last month no fewer than 294 couples of the working class were gratuitously released from matrimony, and as the Court aat only four hours, the cases were dealt with at the rate of one per minute. These are altogether new manners. They have come In as the century la going out, and the consequences will be a legacy for the next century to Inherit.

The situation in which the children bora of all these dissolved marriages are placed la absolutely appalling. It ia bad enough in tha case of those whose parents having means are compelled to make some provision for their education, but when people of the poorer classes divorce, tha fresh union that le almost Immediately formed Is apt to drive the offspring of the first Into the gutter. Moreover, with such frequent examples of divorce before their eyes, people of this class become more and move disposed to look upon the marriage tie aa an absurdity. The cynicism of the Paris working population on this point was already sufficiently scandalous. Any country which by Its laws offers every poeslble facility to those who, dissatisfied with the matrimonial experiment wish to make another, or to form a union libre In the plenitude of their civil rights.

Is on the return voyage towards paganism and first principles; and there are others countries that are trying easy divorce as a social remedy: but It Is is TBE GOSPEL OP JOT No better spiritual handbook for the modern mind and temper could be written than Rev. Btopford Brooke's Gospel of Joy.r With a strong affection for that which Is good Iq the past, Mr. Brooke, who keeps In mind the solemn verities which have been commemorated In tha Advent season, the reverent tenderness of All Saints, the elevating hopes of Easter, comes to tho reader of today with entire sympathy In the reality of the world In which we live. There are passages and whole pages In wonderful hook of sermons In which the very voice of Phillips Brooks seems to be speaking. Sometimes he Is even mors specific and practical than our groat bishop waa wont to he, when he seemed to soar beyond our reach In his great spiritual flight Mr.

Brooke is always a brother, a friend, a sharer In the problems of life, and he makes every pathway of It possible and triumphant. Hors ia a passage which does mors than touch the fancy, or even excite an emotion: Most of our patna would be cleared away if we would let alone; if we were human enough and divine enough to have our highest interest and excitement, like that of the angel hosts, in the good and happlneaa of others than ourselves. God la blamed for our misery; fate Is blamed: anything la blamed hut our own self-involvement. The true thing to blame is our own gloomy, greedy seif, hugging our pain like a fetich, worshipping It within, sacrificing to it, like a savage, one natural Joy after another, one use of life after another. The Idolatry of pain and grief, whether it bo personal, or that common pretence of sorrow for the miseries of man, ia one of the moat debasing of Idolatries.

The sooner we are ashamed of this folly and wrong the better. That la a fetich we should fling Into ths flame of love, and when we have done that boldly, we can go forth, no longer arm pa thlslng with our own sorrow, to sympathise with the sorrows of other men. In doing that, we shall soon reach Joy. soon be able to cry. Glory to God in the highest! soon he able to say, My life is not dead, but Ilka my Master's Is arisen.

My futile sorrows be like ths grave-clothes In tho tomb, but I am alive In love for evermore. Mr. Brooke Is not one of those preachers who think tho Gospel a thing apart from life, yet he does not degrade his message by the halfway measures of cheaper men, What his gospel touches it raises to Its own dignity and glory. In the discourse, What? In exchange for tha soul, he applies his theme to national affairs, passing aa simply as his Master did from the spiritual needs of his disciples to the coming woes of the nation. We have something to learn from Mr.

Brooke in ths moment of our pride and ambition, when he reminds his hearers that they have not only the charge of their own soul, but the duty to preserve the soul of our nation; to ask ourselves dally not only, What sdranteg-eth It me If gain the whole world and lose my souir but also What advantageth It my well-loved England If It gain the whole world to its dominion, and lose its soul? What shall England give In change for her soul. GOVERXORS ABOVE THE LAW An Illinois grand Jury has brought In on Indictment against Governor Tanner, who la far from being willing to stand trial like an ordinary citlscn; on tho contrary, ho is reported os saying. I will kick any sheriff out ef my office who comes to arrest me on 1 1. At indictment. I will not be arrested.

This position of claiming to be elevated above the ordinary process of ths law Is widely stated to be without precedent, and this report Is echoed by one of the larger Boston papers, whoso editor (one would suppose) should be familiar with Massachusetts history or at least so much of it la referred to In The Scarlet Loiter. The Governor Bellingham, who is ona of the characters tn that romance, actually hod an experience strikingly similar to that of Governor Tanner. Governor Wlnthrop, In his History of New England. tolls the story, prefaced by an apology for publishing It, as follows: The governour, Mr. Bellingham, was married (I would not mention such ordinary matters tn our history, but by occasion of some remarkable accidents).

The young gentlewoman was ready to be contracted to a friend of his who lodged In his house, and by his consent had proceeded so for with her, when on the sudden the governour treated with her and obtained her for himself. He excused it by the strength of his affection and that she was not absolutely promised to the other gentleman. Two errors more he committed upon It. 1. That he would not have his contract published where he dwelt, contrary to an order of the court (that Is, to a statute).

2. That he married himself contrary to the constant practice of tho country. The great inquest presented him (that I the grand Jury found an indictment, as are now say) for breach of the order of court, and at the court following. In tho fourth month, the secretary called hlnr to answer the prosecution" (that is. to plead to the indictment).

But he. not going off the bench, aa ths manner was (for the governor sat as Judgs with the others), and but few of the magistrates present, he (ths secretary) put It off to another time, Intending to speak with him (the governor) privately, and with tho rest of the magistrates about tho cose, and accordingly he told Mm the, reason why he did not proceed, being unwilling to command him publicly td go off tha bench, and yet not thinking It fit he (tho governor) should sit as a Judge when he was by law to answer ee an offender. This hs took ill, end said he would not go off the bench, except he were oommanded. This scandalous position was maintained by Bellingham even under the administration of his successor, who tells the story; and It seems that both trial and punishment was thus finally evaded. Curiously enough, this episode appears not to havo permanently injured Bellingham among his strait-laced associates, and ho was repeatedly chosen governor after ths lapse of a dosen years from his first term within which the above-mentioned occurrence happened.

Though a lawyer bred, he made another serious error as to the law, for his will, drawn by himself, waa on ita probate found to be so defective that it waa set aside by the court. The above episode bears the only likeness to anything known hers, as in the career Governor Tenner, and the letter will hardly be given such an epitaph os Is to he found upon Bellingham's" tomb In the Granary burylng-ground: Virtues fast friend within this tomb doth lie, A foe to bribes but rich In charity. The Titan," Remenyl's famous Stradi-varius, upon which ho was playing when he fell dead at a publlo performance, has been purchased hy a rising young American violinist for 84000, though its former owner refused to pert with It at nay price. The late Frits Glese used to claim that he had refused an offer of $3000 for his favorite cello, from Mr. J.

Montgomery Sean, though we never heard Mr. Sears's side of tha story. Despite the severity of the weather last night there was a large and Interested audience In Music Hall, the occasion being the resumption of the municipal concert John C. Mullaly was the conductor, and his. programme was selected with a view to pleasing all taste One of the gems of the evening was Haydns Serenade, arranged for strings, and.

most exquisitely played. a torn of applause testified the appreciation of the listener Miss Hattie Belle Ladd, contralto, was tho soloist, and her selections were well received. Mr. Mullaly was greeted enthusiastically when he stepped to the conductors platform. In connection with the Commertcial Exposition at Philadelphia next year, a scheme has been suggested to import from China a whole colony of native including several hundred person who will bring with them their buildings and utensils com-piet so as to accurately reflect every phase of the empire's commercial Interests.

The houses will be built In China, and have only to be set up upon reaching this country, and the looms upon which the fine Crinese silks are woven and all the other machinery used will be of the construction now used by the native A number cf other Ideas are suggested, among which la a tropical root garden. BUOWXS CAMPHORATKD SAPONACEOUS DxxTirRicx preserves tha teeth and hardens ths gums; superior preparation. FkxsH DO per pound at Isaac Lockx 97. 99. 101 Faxxpii, Hall Mxt.

Order your lex Cxiam and Cake from Fexa, 171 Tremont street. MARRIAGES BUTLER -HORNE In this city, at St. Johns Churchman. 1. by kev.

Robert J. Cod man, Frank DeWitt Butler and Martha Joues Horn DEATHS BARNET At West Medford. Jan. 1. Levi C.

Barney. US vr 10 mo Funeral from tlie residence of his son-in-law, T. F. G. Day, 97 Monument street.

on Tuesday. Jsn. 3. at 3.80 P. M.

St. Johnsbury (Vt.) ana Montreal (Can.) papers please copy. BEN HE At Dorchester. Mas. Jan.

1. William Kerne. 80 yr 11 mo 8 dys. Funeral private. Friends are kindly requested not to send flower BLAKE At Newton.

Jan. l.Chanotte Patrick, widow of Cyrus Blake. 83 yr 3 mo Funeral at her late residence. 48 Jefferson street, on II ednesday, Jan. 4.

at 2 P. M. Bn rial private. BURNETT At Melrose. Jan.

1, Florence. Infant child of Mr. aud Mr W. IL Burnet tr 4 mo CHANDLER At Salem. Mas.

Dec. 31. Gertrude Cleveland, daughter of the late Gardiner Leonard and Elizaoeth (Cleveland) Chandler. Service at 81 Chestnut Salem. Tuesday.

Jan. 8, at 11.80 A. Al. CURTIN At Charlestown, Jan. 1.

William son of Bridget and the late Michael Curtin. 80 yrr. FAULKNER At Roxbury. Jan. 1.

William, son of Neil and Catherine Faulkner. 37 vr GILL At Neponset, Jan. 1, Mary, 'widow of Patrick Gill. GOOD At Koxhurr. Jan.

1, Bridget, widow of toe late Joseph Good. HOLMES At Revere. Den. 81. Emma 1L Holme wife of Jacob F.

Holme 33 yr 3 mo 9 dy HOYE In this city, Deo. 81. John son of Peter and tho late Mary Koye. 34 yr 3 mo MAYNES At Dorchester. Jan.

1, Rose wife of Charles Msyne 40 yr MERRITT At Hingham.Sunday morning. Jan. 1. Paul Brooks Merritt, 74 yr 3 mo 23 dy MUNROE At Cambridge, Jan. 1, Emelinc.

widow of Enoch Muiiroa, 80 yr 3 mo MURRAY At Farm Wakefield. Jan. 1, Mr Eliza Murray. 88 vr 6 mo PERKINS At South Boston, Jan. 1.

Ellen wife of Edward A. Perkin 72 yr QTTIMBY At Philadelphia. Dec. 80. Harriet Qaiinby, S3 yr EACHE In this city.

Dec. 29, Mary A wife of Charles A. Rache. REARDON At East Mil ton. Jan.

i. Mary Reardon, wife of the late Cornel ins Reardon, 77. RI ED ELL At Roxbnry. Jan 1. James A.

Rie-dell, 73 yr 11 mu 23 dy 8HANKLAND On Sunday. Jan. 1, Elizabeth Ellen Bird, wife of William Shanklaud. Funeral st her late residence, 818 Broadway, South Boston. Tuesday, st 1 oclock.

SWEENEY Jan. 1. Ellen J. OBrien, wife of John J. Sweeney, and daughter of the late Michael and Johanna OBrien.

TITCOMB At Allston. Jan. 3. Sarah E. Tit-comb.

83 yr 8 mo 20 dy Funeral notice later. WARDEN At Kingston. Mas. Monday. Jan.

S. Henry Hughes Warden. Funeral privet WHICHER At Roxbury, Dec. 80. William Elliot Whicher, 70 yr 8 mo Funeral services at his late residence.

88 Dearborn on Tuesday. Jan. 8. at 1 oclock. Relatives aud frieuds iavited to attena.

WILLS At Melrose, Jsn. 2, George A. Will Funeral on Wednesday, Jsn. 4, at 2 oclock P. at Trinity Church, Melrose.

YOUNG At 49 Newport st. Dorchester, Frederick son of James A. and Emma A. Young. 28 yr Funeral Wednesday, st 2 P.M.

YOUNGMAN At Charlestown. Dec. 31. Mary widow of Dr. David Yoongman, 82 yr 4 mo Funeral services Wednesday, Jsn.

4, at 11 A. MLat the residence of her daughter. Mr W. n. Hooct.

97 High st, Charlestown. Relatives and friends invited to attend. A Holiday Gift Always New and Entertaining For tbe Family For Business Men and Women For Professional Men and Women For tbe Student For tbe Old Tbe Middle-Aged And tbe Young Daily Evening Transcript Ate Sunday Edition Wednesday Evening Transcript Special Literary mad Educational laaaa Saturday Evening Transcript Twenty or Mora Pagan Weekly Transcript PubllaMed Friday SAbactipUoaa Rectlred by tha BOSTON TRANSCRIPT CO 324 Washington Sh, Boston, Mass 2S WM. FRANKLIN HALL ACCOUNTANT atsutrs2ZHax BOSTON, MASS sih mflimi Examinations conducted with tho almost asm mad MtefK. fHrenitflg.

Rentes. tc THS VATEnL HALL NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON The Annual Mooting of tho Stoekboideis of Tha Taos nil Hall National flank of Boaton. to sso It (hoy will mrUola thrso of tha articles of association te choose dimeters for tho earning year, sad to transact each other hnUneee as mey legally coma before them, will be held at their tanking room. No. Booth Market Street, on TUESDAY, Jaonaiy 10, 1880.

st 11 o'clock A- M. T- G. HUES, Cashier. Boston Poo. 188 10,11.18.07.

8.8C8J TEMPORARY BOMB FOB WORKING WOMEN The aaanal meeting will he held st ths Horn 4TJ Btawmut avenue, oa WEDNESDAY. Jsn. 11, im99l 11 A. tor the election of offleers and for such other hnslnem as should be toansaeted at inch meeting. M.

AMES, Ja 8.188 il KAflS. SOCIETY FOB THX PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Society will he hold at the oflle IB Pemberton equare, on TUESDAY. Jan. 10, at r.M-Per order, FRANK TAT, Secretary, BOSTON TRANSCRIPT COMPANT Ko. SM ViixiMiw Bnin, Boston.

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UO- ai aalla flmui toi rramta. Tbe Weekly totvavouere to tmaa toMto mlLUhrai amth T1 Tia iiMlaia aa Minis mrr'tr rT tka Dally ar Weekly Tnaaolp a to la paaa a aarpawi to the riM BaaCamdawMaxiclBeee eoati hum papo is tweesatot IS as SO tow nets to Lamp to IS iktoessatotMtoM aan fa Me Itoanserlpt kyJWI The year 1898 came In with snow flying thick and fast. The snow ceased to fall by mid-forenoon, and thenceforward the day waa beautifully bright. The cold wave so long predicted made its presence felt by moon time, for while the thermometer registered IS at sunrise, at midday the mercury tJ fallen to 9s. The descent was more rapid after dark, and at 10 P.M.

the mercury touched the aero mark. Today the sunrise reading waa l9 below aero by the ITranacript'a thermometer, hut mnch lower temperatures were reported In tha suburbs. The forenoon waa as fair and bright as anyone could desire, and the mercury rose rapidly, touching Id9 at noon; wind a little south of west and light. This being a holiday in Washington the service of the Weather Bureau la suspended. The man who seems to have the State of Pennsylvania In the hollow of his hand with power to cast It either to the one side or the ether is not, just at this time.

Matthew Stanley Quay, but Dave Martin, secretary of the Commonwealth, and after the 17th of month to be a State Senator. It li stated, and evidently believed, that he can dictate who shall bo Senator Quay's successor. Both sides are claiming his Influence with equal confidence. Today Mr. John Wana-maker goes to Harrisburg with a large delegation of the Business Mens League.

Governor Hastings, Attorney General McCormick and other anti-Qnay men believe that Martin will do everything possible to defeat the boss. It is claimed on the other hand that Quay has made a bargain with Martin and Magee, that in consideration of their support this time, be will resign before the end of the session in favor of Magee, while four years hence Penrose shall step aside to give place to Martin. The latter may be in aa much doubt as other people with respect to the position he shall take in this matter. He will take that which, in his judgment, will most inure to the personal and political profit of Dave Marlin. He was with Wanamaker during his fight against Qurfy before the State convention.

lie deserted to Quay when the hitter waa successful at that convention. He does n't seem to have a particle of conscience to trouble him. If ha could benefit himself by betraying either of his lam allies, or both, it would nt take him half a minute to make cp his mind. Tha question of officering the militia la referred to both In tha report of Adjntant General Dalton and in that of Inspector General Carter. The former briefly says that the elective system is detrimental, and General Carter comes to the same conclusion.

As the elective system is embedded in the State constitution General Carter su gests that the only practical way of correcting its abuses is to institute a more stringent system of examinations for commissions which shall take iito consideration the moral character as well as military fitness of men elected to office. There tee its to be little reason for questioning the timelineM of the inspector general's suggestion. Revelations of moral unfitness for command have been far from uncommon in our volunteer forces. Men do not like to obey those they have elected. They prefer tn coincide.

Nor do officers like to be severe with men who are their constituents. The lung ami the short of tlie whole matter is that the elective principle and the military principle do not mix. In civil life the elected official is the servant of those who elect him. In the army, tha officer commands and the soldier cbeys. There ran be no equality between the officer and the aoldier without impairment of the efficiency of both.

Reform of the militia is one of the necessities of our future demonstrated by the war. The reformation must begin with the officers, and if the adoption of General Carter's recommendation will bring it about, it may prove a happy solution of the problem of how to reconcile military authority with voluntary military service of the citizen. THE EXD OF A PAGE AX Yestenlay noon the American flag waa hoisted over the city and fortifications of Havana. The Spanish flag had been lowered at tha palace some hours before. Castilian dignity, of which we hear so mnch and see so little, proved inadequate to the occasion and the higher Spanish officials were alternately snappish and tearful.

However, our commissioners were tolerant of the emotions of men who had made their painful duty more painful and on our side no courtesy nor consideration for the defeated was lacking. General Castellanos was in tears when ha bade adieu to the scenes of Spains colonial greatness and the last Spanish governovgeneral deputed in anything but the high Roman fashion. He was the last figure of a pageant, for such has been the procession of Spanish colonization and conquest in the New World. Beginning in splendor and with all the pomp of armor and banners, the procession has ended with tha departure of a sick and sorrowful! rear guanl from tha last crumbling stronghold of Spain this side the Atlantic. From Columbus discovery of Cuba to yesterdays ceremonies was a few weeks more than four hundred years, a period covering the rise, decline and final collapse of Spanish colonial power.

In these four hundred years were crowded more woe, glory, energy, sloth, bigotry and brutality than can be found in any like period of the history of any nation now existing. The story is the same everywhere. Spain first, hr furve and fraud, destroys or enslaves the native races, and then having brought her colonists to the verge of ooiar- I I Administration The solemn plsdce made in the act of intervention still holds good. The nation raises Its tiax above the ancient Spanish capital not as proprietor, but as trustee. And there is no cant nor mere pretence in saying that a time of even greater satisfaction than today will be when that tlag can with asfetv and Judgment betaken down, its mission done.

and he placed not only pendence the flag of a native people that is nee. but is in its freedom and lpile- a too strong to be dispossessed. I util that time this nation must be strong for Cuba, and the flew that today is raised above the palace and fortresses of Havana is ample guar an tee of the sufficiency of its strength. To this already what those who make it regard as an answer Is forthcoming. Wo are glibly told that it will be impossible for the United States to live np to Its pledge because the Cubans are unfitted for self government.

We are further told that we shall have to continue in Cnba as England has been compelled to remain In Egypt, and the Implication is that the Cubans and the Egyptians are alike. Of this assertion it may be said truthfully that the Egyptians and the Cubans are not at all alike. The vast majority of the Cuban people are of Caucasian blood. They believe they are capable of self-government and to establish self-government they have in the spaco of thirty years fought two bloody wars. Patriotic Cubans hare sealed their faith in their belief In their capability for self-government on the battlefield, on the scaffold, la the hospital and the prison cell.

A race of weaklings do not fight, and starve, and suffer all manner of persecution for righteousness sake. There is strength in the Cnhan character, a saving strength that sboubl close the mouths of those who sneer at everything Cnhan. Classes exist In Cuba. The upper classes include many men of wide culture and of both civil and military courage. From these classes have come most of the Cuban officers.

The Cuban plain people, though unlettered, are far from unintelligent. There 1s good material for self-government in Cuba, if the United States honestly, faithfully sets about developing it. If the Cubans want to come Into the United States, if thev withont constraint seek our jurisdiction in preference to independence, that will be one thing; to first convict them of unfitness for self-government and then try them will be a violation of our pledge and a violence to our own institutions. How can the fitness of a people for self-government be ascertained except by letting them try what they can do in the line of governing themselves? We shall only keep our honor as a nation hy giving the Cubans the opportunity to try to govern themselves. If they fail it will still be sufficient for our interests if we assume toward them the attitude of a protecting Power.

The Cubans may become our fellow-ritizena in time. They never should allowed to become our vassals. THE MATERIALS FOR THE ROOM Today the stork exchanges of New York and Boston keep holiday, nominally because New Year's Pay is a legal holiday in New York, but for tlie more practical reason this year that business has been so active that time is required for brokers and their clerks to catch np with the same. While the sound of the ticker is low, the hanks are busy, amthe largest total of semi-annual interest and dividend payments in the history of the country is disbursing today. No less than foMKltO is paying today on the bonds and storks of various corporations of stork market prominence representing an aggregate pur value of some This means that not less than more of bunds and storks are paying intrreat and dividends today than was the case a year ago, the increased amount paid being S9.4ii0.000L The full effect of the 1KB panic on dividend and Interest payments was seen in the January disbursements of 1893, when only SlKJiCOOO was paid in dividends; this year the January dividends aggregate 82900,000.

while more is iid in internet on bonds than in that year a wonderful record of recuperation. Adding the Government bond interest and the payments on miscellaneous securities not active in stock exchange dealings, it is computed that all of 5110.000,000 is released today in dividends and interest. What effect must this mess of capital hare on the stock market? It is known that the market is almost bare of high-grade bonds; prices have risen so greatly tliat Investors are buying railroad issues of the second and third grades freely, and also shares with the added impetus of the reinvestment of this great January disbursement total, how can the boom" in stocks come to an early end? It is on this January investment demand that Wall Street depends for the proverbial January rise, and yet we have had steadily rising market since the November elections. Iu truth, 1899 bids fair to surpass the wonderful 1898 record; it hardly can fail so to do. MAYOR QUIKCrs IDEAS Whatever other, criticism maybe passed, justly or unjuatlyi upon Mayor Quincys inaugural and other messages, they are rarely, if ever, called dry or perfunctory, gauged by the average standard of city documents.

On the contrary, there is more apprehension that his Imagination will sometimes Srise superior to his practical judgment and that ha Is making the machinery of this old corporation more elaborate than the needs of our citizens require or its financial resonrcea justify. In the inaugural address delivered today there are perhaps fewer new departures suggested than formerly. There is more evident disposition to survey the ground already passed over, which our chief magistrate does to a considerable extent with mnch apparent satisfaction. As usual, the message is introduced with a full statement of the citys financial condition, which will command the careful and critical attention of all our taxpayers, whether they read the remainder of the address or not. The mayor regrets that the city is 1)4 pur cent behind last year on tha first of January in its collections, for which, however, he does not hold the collection department responsible, but considers it due to the foot that quite a number of taxpayers are awaiting the decisiuu of the Supreme Court His whole argument la wide of the point.

Mr. Wardner did not deny the propriety of proper punishment for contempt of court; but he asserted the fact that his imprisonment was a violation of the right of every rltisen, supposed to have been secured by the constitutions of the State and the United State to a trial by Jury as a condition precedent to any sentence that would deprive him of his liberty. It Is a right common to all of us that Is Infringed when a court undertakes to Imprison one of a in a cause where the same person Is lawmaker, plaintiff, prosecutor, witness and Judge, F. J. P.

WHERE OUR NATIONAL HONOR IS AT STAKE From the Boston Courier, Jan. 1 By our own declaration wo do not receive Cuba from the hands of Spain to keep as a national possession. Wo take that Island In trust for Its Inhabitant under voluntary pledge to leave it in their hands as soon ss stable government Is established by the Cuban The difficulty win be found in carrying out this pledge. Covetous eyes are already cast upon Cub Syndicates and monopolise have marked it for their own. Special privilege franchise concession are already fought for In Havana.

And tho cry Is again raised that the Cubans have not tho capacity for self-government and that we must make up our minds to keep the island we have taken and to exploit It for our own people. This Is disturbing, of course; but there Is ths pledge of the nation, and wo believe their Is Integrity and moral force enough In tho American people to cause them to bold their government squarely up to Its fulfilment. As to tho Philippine the simple fact is that Spain cannot deliver the goods which she bargained at Paris to deliver to the United State Here Is a check at once to the policy of expansion, and It leaves the Administration at Washington In a most awkward position. Spain can cede to us only such rights as she possesses In the Philippine and It Is very apparent that the only light she has In Pansy, and Indeed in the greater part of tho archipelago. Is that of taking possession and establishing control by conquest of the native owners who now hold that territory.

Is ths United States prepared to accept such a "cession the gift of a ready-made war for conquest? Are the American people ready to pay for tho privilege of making war upon a people, brave if not highly civilised, who havo been fighting for Independence and havo at last succeeded In whipping and driving out the Spanish invaders? It is a melancholy fact that men at Washington who assume to speak for the Administration declare It to bp tho duty of tho United States to proceed with armed fores against the successful Insurgents In Pansy and take from them tho territory their own territory, their native land which they have by their own heroism wrested foom their Spanish oppressor Tho ids of Imperialism must have advanced with rapid strides ovw the country If such action Is approved. Wo do not believe the American people will consent that their republic shall step into the place of the Spanish monarchy for such work as thl ARTHUR MASON KNAPP 1839-1898. Now when they came to look upon tho foes of Mm who had died ere he hod come to threescore year there was soma who would fain havo lamented sore, and beat tho breast by reason of their sorrow, for they had loved him much. And then was as If a bright mist was suddenly spread about them and their grief waa tilled, while from out of tho mist cloud came, as it were, voice but very sweet, such os none had ever before heard their like. And the voices mads, as It might speech with one another, and the matter of their speech was all of what ho had done for each of them who hlmaelf had now with time no more to do.

And the voices had ever (heir one tale to tell, (he tale of help from him, and moreover of how hs had counted not himself of any worth soever, but only ao aa he might oer vi those who ever came to Mm dally. And there were Innumerable of these votes and thsy mads swsst melody together that day. And presently their fair, sweet speeds with (ms another cams to an end, end there wore beard yet other voices chanting, so as It were, a great way off, but of their chanting might those who stood within tho bright mist cloud hear only tha one word faithful, but none other clearly. And when fhese voices had made an end In their turn. and their melody waa quite departed, they.

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