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MONDAY JANUARY 21 1901 Publication tore the iiuuciiis xjxjiLXrTa Pesxsylvama Avenue Subscription by 3I One Tear I MorsiMJ Evzxiso asuSoxoat O00 MOIlXISa AND SptUAY EVESIXO ASD SaXDAT 1 0C SESDATOSLY Monthly by Carrier I Monsisa Eycstsa and Sunday Tlftv centi MoustMl asd SoxuiT Tftirtu cc et vexo andSoday ThirtiJIt cents I Editorial Rtvoms IJphone I nJsinosJ office wj Aurnoera ovulation Departm nt 1HE TIMES COMPANY WALTER ST1LSOS llCTCIllSa Frtafilfllt tircvtlicf inn Statement The circulation of The Time lor the week ended January 19 1001 was as follows unday January 13 A Kil Monday January 14 33 3 Tueselav Janiurv 15 S9iiH vQ dnciiay January 16 S3M Thursdav January 17 3I1G1 llidav January IS VT Saturdaj January 1 Total SM337 Dally average Sunday 22118 excepted 393TS lnlne Sentiment Hark Twain has spoken on the hazing question and his remarks are characterized as usual by good sound American sense He makes no objection to Ashling in Itself recognizing the fact that no boy out of petticoats can be kept from more or less squabbling with his fellows but he does object emphatically to fighting which Is purposely unfair He says The fourth class man who is compelled to fight a man from the first class has not a lww in the world and it 1 not intended that lie tliouM have 1 hare read the rules provided to prevent such practices and they are wholly deficient because one provision is omitted I would make it the dutv of a cadet to report to the au thorities any cae ol hazing wlilcn came 10 ins i body like Mark Twain for taking the boni of rhetoric nrj devoted to the business rtf convincing the country that no methods But directly following- this Interview with Mark Twain in one of the newspapers In which it appears is an account of the lynching of a negro tramp In Florida It 1- alleged that he was a train wrecker because his shoes fitted the footprints left by the criminal After they lynched him they cut off his fingers for souvenirs A great deal of rhetoric might be used to prove that the outraged sense of the community demanded that this man should be destroyed without recourse to the slow processes of the law but what particular ends of Justice were served by cutting off his fingers It Is exactly the same with this West Foint business Around the somewhat elaborate system of hazing In vogue there has grown up a misty atmosphere of romance schoolboy romance and an Idea that honor is somehow concerned In its retention It Is important that schoolboys should have Ideals but It Is also proper that they should be of the right sort What kind of ideal does that boy have who Is set to pound another boy of half bis strength How Is the code of honor of the army sertcd by developing a spirit or bullying It Is not the influence of this system on the victims which Is alone to be considered It must rarlly have also an Influence on the hazers Is It desirable that boys should go into the army with ideals formed by a systematic course of tormenting other boys younger and weaker than themselves The absurdity of this kind of code of honor Is as obvious as the collapse of a pricked balloon Cniiltnl IuiilMlinirnt There Is a movement In tho State of Kansas In favor of passing a law- compelling the Governor to sign the death warrants of all prisoners In the penitentiary under sentence of death and efforts were made at tho last session of the Legislature to pass the law The influence of benevolent associations however prevented 1L It Is said that another attempt will be iade in the Legislature which Is now- In session There are more than fifty murderers now under life sentence In the State prison and some of them say that they would be glad to have the death sentence executed Three of the men who express this desire committed murder while under the Influence of intoxicants It is declared that a majority of these condemned to life Imprisonment would prefer death to serving out the sentence in their present condition They are emplojcd In the coal mines seven hundred feet under ground and many of them never see the light of day except as they go to their meals or to the mines It is quite conceivable that might prefer death to this existence Tho agitation against capital punishment wa considerable a quarter of a century or more ago but for seme reason or other Is now- subsiding The opponents of this time honored system are likely to declare that the reaction Gi Its favor Is due to a bloodthirsty modern spirit which regards trft taking of human life as a light offctSe but It can better be accounted for in other ways There Is undoubtedly in recent years a growing reaction against the old Idea that death Is the worst of all evils The dls crpearance of theological doctrines doubtlesis has- something to do tvtth this for so long as a man uelieves that the more or less modified happiness of this life lb- only happiness he will vcr have that he condemned to suffer unknown and fearful tortures to all eternity after death ho Is naturally Inclined to regard death as the greatest of misfortunes Dut with the increasing conviction that the passing of life from the body Is merely a natural change as natural as birth or any other fact of life and that there Is no absolute and arbitrary division of the sheep from the goats hereafter any more than there Is here the point of view of every man must naturally be changed and Instead of doing right for fear of future punishment ho does right because he expects to suffer In this life he doe3 not cither In his conscience or In his worldly prosperity The Idea of the opponents of capllal punishment Is that no man has a right to take the life of another even to serve the ends of Justice nut If the taking of the physical life is wrong is it not also wrong to destroy the life of the Intellect And that is precisely what is done in many cases by a sentence of life Imprisonment The criminal who is a degenerate Is apt to be so far out of the normal that the monotony and confinement of such a life together with the absence of his wonted companions and associations makes him actually Insane while a murderer who Is not a degenerate and has a conscience can hardly remain sane through half a lifetime of brooding over his crime and Its consequences Is It any more humane to send a fellow being Into the next world in a condition of insanity or Imbecility than to cut off his life by arbitrary Judgment when he Is in possession of his faculties Which Is the real life of the man that of the body or of the intellect The Went Iotnt Cniletie A closing incident of the Congressional Investigation at West Point reminds us of the beautiful lines spoken by the Rev Mr Chadband in Bleak House gushing stream of spirlltng joy To be a soaring human bo 1 Our embryo Hannibals and Shaffers In win a notice male ih reports a part of the runted West Toint code of honor and the beating of young boys by upper class men will be stopped 1 am not opjwsed to fights among los as a general thins If they are conducted in a spirit of fjrness I think it males Ihjjs manl but I do oppose compelling a little fellow to fight home man big enough to whip two of him VI hen I was a lior going to school elWTi in the Mississippi Valley we used to hare our tights and I remember one occasion on which I got soundly trounced but we always matched bois as nearly of a size as possible and there were none cf the cowardly methods that seem to prevail at IVest Point Those who are familiar with the writings of this biggest and best of American humorists wjll remember that he has shown on more than one occasion a disposition to sift out the true from the false in the very mixed code of honor which prevails In various parts of our country His merciless satire on the feudal system of Tennessee and Kentucky in Huckleberry Finn Is a good example of this Life on the Mississippi which contains a good deal of the raw material of Huckleberry Finn has in it some quotations from the public press describing the way In which some of the representatives cf old fashioned Southern chivalry blew one anothers brains out and carved their fellow beings with bowie knives and In this chapter the author gently suggests that while Scotts novels are good novels the methods of the twelfth century transplanted to the southern section of the United Statet may not be so charming There Is no- the advantages and exalted dignity of the station In life glorified by the poet They arc evidently aware that they are not as other boys but prize specimens segregated from the common herd and strictly because of their superior worth and merit taken up by an admiring but respectful country and paid to study lessons and to prepare themselves for positions of great prominence and command wherein they may appear more gorgeously than a drum major and look down upon civilians with noble and becoming scorn This last they Team to do by the time they are in their first summer camp and beginning to share In the petticoat Idolatry which docs so much to make some cadets the insufferable little prigs they are In one way or another these apprentice soldiers are thoroughly convinced that the eyes of the world are focussed upon their school and their doings The extent to which they take themselves seriously Is truly awful as the Incident we have In mind will show Just before the Congressional committee terminated Its labors and started for Washington a communication signed by the four class presidents was rend aloud by Colonel Mills It was as follows To the Superintendent of the United Statea ahlitar Academy iir Having become cognizant of the man ner in which the svsleai of hazing as practiced 31 me Military Academy rcgaraeil ly uie peo iast out Dt things When large rnJssHrfY 1 Lnilcd Mates MifiuofauemTWttnile nuinUm i ZrtTL ri ms tliat we Ime purueu our system from the beit motile ct realmne that the deliberate are too harsh to protect the honor of a 2 1 nscleratc now gentleman or securo the safety -of his reaffirm our former action abolishing the exercis family It Is difficult to make any of fourl n1 further airree to quale reply because It Is all so vague imaiu lc 11U1I1II Ul IIUI 11 UA men to eat anitliinfr aalnu their desire and the practice of callimr out fourth class men bv class action and tliat we will not devise other similar practices to replace those abandoned ftespectfully submitted There Is an nnspanked grandeur about these Infants that take3 ones breath away Their mothes have been pure and manly and their practice of having weak soft boys mashed into insensibility by big bullies was always a harmless and healthful diversion for everybody but the victims Nevertheless In a country like ours its aristocracy should always bend a little to public opinion when that can be done without Ios of dignity and so the cadet corps will overlook anything that has passed between it and the common people outside and hereafter will refrain from requiring fourth class men to eat anything against their desire and from tormenting or abusing them -otherwise This voluntary pledge seems to have affected the committee almost to tears it Is so ingenuous and sa disconnected from any Idea of tho storm that may break when the hazing question gets before Congress In due form If kept the promise is well enough in its way The same bunch of boys however have broken previous engagements and arc therefore nc too good to violate this one when the present trouble shall have blown oer So we rather think that Messrs Dick Driggs and Clayton should not make too much of It Amendment Is all right for a fresh start but it would be all the better to emphasize the change by making examples of a dozen or twenty of the worst offenders In the past and dismissing them from the army in disgrace HoiiseleK mill flic HeuMlx The leading lights of the Forum Literary Society of Phillips Andover Academy have been discussing the case of Vice President elect Roosevelt and they are horrified that a man on the eve of assuming the tremendous responsibilities connected with the Vice Presidency of the United States should bo guilty of such conduct as killing mountain lions and grizzlies At a recent meeting of the society the following resolution was carried Whereas we the members of the Sociity of tle Forum 1m lieve that the race of man lias no rfcht to destroy for realms other than ed defence the lives of wild animals ulnch an ail wie Creator has ordained to lire upon the earth and Whereas wc believe that the reports which iaie been spread hroadcat of tlie hunting expedition upon which the cc lrcef dent elect of the Inited States the Hon Theodore UooacicU is at the present time said to be engajred arc calculated to have a flehtsina effect uin tha irflnd of the bchool children and joulh of our coiintr and to counteract the sod results which have been accoipiuhed thiotih the efforts of humane societies churches and pnrate indlliduals toward sUinptn out tliosc savage imtfnclt inherent in the tomtit race which for acra patl catL rd wars and murih rs and Impeded the progress of the world be it lteitolvetl Tiict we the member of flic Society of the Io Jin do hereby condemn the spirit i anilr leu liy the Hon Theodcr Hooscvelt in nJthlcly talfng the Hies of innocent and unoffending animals without provocation and witi the sole aim of iratifinir a dctdrc for Idling which we do not belicic to lie comiiatilile with truly rranly and Christian cluracter The society In question might also have callcJ Coverncr Roosevelts attention to tin second half of an old proverb about the The conduct of tho Nlmrod in question in leaving his post at Albany to hunting in Colorado is of plcco with a number of other things dnc by him In brief but eventful rarirfr At the apostle of the strenuous life THE TIMES ASTTINGM MONDAY JANUARY 21 1901 one Job has never been enough to occupy his energies at any one time Other men have considered the Governorship of New York enough to employ their time and attention Roosevelt found time hanging heavy on his hind1 and not only made a long talking tour for campaign purposes In the West but found time to dicttte a Life of Cromwell in his spare mo mentsthe last named task being also one which the ordinary mortal would con sidar as requiring much time and thought It 13 therefore in character that instead of taking time for meditation and prayer over tho responsibilities of his future office and the duties of his present one he should go hunting what remains of the carnUorous quadrupedal aborglnes of the wilds of Colorado But It appears thnt the objection of the Andover literary society to Governor Rooseclts conduct Is based not on his strenuousm ss or his extraordinary crsa tillty but on the compassion for the mountain lions and the grizzlies which he is supposed to be slaying It is not known Just how- the society came to the knowledge that these beasts were suffering from the skill of the quondam Rough Rider Perhaps Mr Ernest has interviewed some of them If It is really true that they are in danger of extermination through the prowess of Roosevelt It behooves the officers of the natural history societies to bestir them seles and prevent the shurhter lest tho grizzly become as rare rs the megather ium and the panthei or a extinct as the dodo Science ha mc claims as well as the strenuous Uut on the whole It Is perhaps as wt vat to take report on this subject too seriously Tho grizzly bear is a creature ordinarily quite able to take care of himself and so is the mountain lion and so Is Roosevelt There may not be 33 much battle murder and sudden death out there as the peaceful inhabitants of Andoer suppose To judge by the book which Roosevelt wrote about the recent war in Cuba one would suppose that he single handed spread de structivencss and desolation among the Spanish forces and went around habitually dyed in red but when it came down to the actual facts It appeared that he shot ono Spaniard in the back ClrciiH htrenuoNlt If it occurs to the Hon Theodore Roosevelt as a pleasant thing to go roaring and raging over wild mountains of the wooly West talking about lions and grizzlies shooting jack rabbits and coyotes and being treed by prairie dogs nobody will object to his amusing himself In that way But he would contribute usefully to the comfort of nations if he would keep the fun to himself and tell his attendant giorifiers to cease throwing his eternal teeth and ec glasses In the face of a long suffering and jaded public If he could be Induced to withdraw into himself for a season there Is ample room Inside Mr Roosevelt would be hailed as a national benefactor Otherwise it is to be feared that people will begin to think that the prairie dogs when they had him the other day were greatly to blame for not doing their whole duty Certain press Indications In New York and elsewhere would seem to justify an Inference that the Asphalt Trust Is pursuing a liberal policy in connection with an effort to manufacture a public opinion Tafairievtoits adventure in Venezuela Again certain of shrieks about the rights of AmerlcatrSand the necessity for immediate intervention That will come no doubt In good time The Administration apparently hesitate to begin a foreign war of invasion for the benefit of a trust while Congress is In session If the trouble could be staved off until after adjournment a strictly executive war could bo arranged and it would be over and forgotten all but an urgent deficiency by the time the Fifty -seventh Congress assembled Postmaster General Smith had a very narrow escape in connection with the discovery of the dead letter sale swindle If he had printed a paper on the excellence and Incorruptibility of the postoflltc graveyard a couple of weeks ago In tho Farm and Barnyard or the Lady Helps Gazette it would have been very mortifying now As It Is all he has to do is to sigh and conceal the fear that ail the Neeleys are not yet out of his department luiy nml Ilmiiin Kron he Itoston Post The cne amelh injr feature of the return of tjuay to the UnilcJ Mates Senate is the prospect which it gives to another vote in that body against the Ship Subsidy bill tfuay has a score to settle with Hanna Lat sprmjr when the PennylvaDia bos tried to burglarize his way into the Senate he made his appeal to llanna for the help of the Administratiou The boss of the White House however with a Presidential campaign coming on fast could not sec his vay to take the strategic rik and refuMd to load Quav upon McKinleya back llanna voted with the reit to keep fuay out of the Senate It is now uaja cliauee to get even and unless his wrath ha3 cooled lie will aiail hituEelf of it Iiiiih Neuntorlul From the Pittsburg Leader The endin of the strugclc will be generally hailed with satisfaction It has seriously damaged the Republican party in PcnusIiania interfered to a shameful extent with public business and wrought widc prcad demoralization ia politics Hence any conclusion is preferable to a continusnee and equals success will afiord corresponding tense of relief even to those who are not in touch or in simpalhy with the fuay machines iiiile7zler AliiirilS Tilnplnl Inns From the Chicago Times Herald When we analyze the temptations that beset tills higli fljer wc find tliat they arc such as no man ol average moral musc would recognize The millions who are paving their way in this world uiion modest incomes are equally tempted With equal reason they too might succumb as Alyord succumbed and siend tfit when Ihe earned ten They then put forward the tame plea in extenuation comloundc of various exhibits vanity gliittonv and all tle forms of seusuality So flimsy i tins excuse of tetnpta tion that there are no doubt thousands of criminals who wouVl never have gone actrsy if they had had a tithe of Alvords opportunitc Tho troubles with the pljusible scoundrel was not temptation but an ingrained dishonesty is dollars to doughnuts that he would luvc been thief whatever his circumstance- und perliaps another school of sentimentalist will tiy lhat he oiuht to be coddled un that account The ioor fellow was bom that wav and couldnt help it liiriillel nf the Triiiet From the Boston llobe Whether wc will or not the trut is probably destined to capture the world This does not justify the trust but It only shuws the elirection things aretalin In the commercial world Lng luud muft trim her sails accordingly or her commercial supremacy will gradually slip out of her liands and drift toward the United btates llriiH lliitlou Honor fcs From the Indianapolis Press Tho harm investigation lias revealed a markeil Icndciicy amenjr officers of the army to plume thenielve on their superior sense of honor and to scorn the meddlesome iuclioni of mere ciiilians As matter of fact we are unable to discover an merit in bras buttons that serve to lltt men ulovc the ethical plane of those who regard the violent practices at West rdnt as otilraseous CAPITOL NOTES AND GOSSIP Sir IonilVs IVnlch Ciirtrm Chairman Loud of the House Committee on Vostofllces and Post Roads wears hanging from bisMwatch guard an unique but appropriate charm It is in the form of a postage stamp made In enamel and framed In gold Mr Loud values It very highly I find my fingers playing with it nearly every minute during the day said he and It seems 1obe of Immense assistance when I am thinking The stamp Is one of a pair which was sent mo by my friend Mr Collundan who Is now In the po3tal service at Hollo The other was much more Interesting as It was evidently of Filipino workmanship It was a facsimile of a stamp used by the- Filipino government and was surrounded by a curiously wrought silver frame On the back was an enamel reproduction of the Filipino flag and shield The little piece of Jewelry was extremely attractive much prettier than the one 1 wear now but I did not think I could wear It A3 I was cine of the few members to vote against -he SpaniBh war It did not seem to me fitting that I should carry about with me the flag and seal of the Islands which harc come Into our possession as a result of that war So I gave it away Inlil fur llln Unricinc Representative Dc Graffcnreid of Texas has the reputation of Deing after two terms in the House quite a popular danclns man The member from Teias admits his fondness for the dance and says that for the enjoyment he is aTways willing to pay the piper When I was a young chap In East Tennessee said he I would have surrendered my hope for salvation rather than miss one of the great country dances we used to have at the Cedars in Marshall County Those dances were reunions of the bojs and girls for miles around and were in every respect truly rural The girls who came walked barefoot with their shoes and stockings in their hands until they had crossed the last creek so that they should arrive at the dance with their footgear In the best of trim When I first used to go I was about the youngest if not actually tho youngest of all tho dancing men Naturally 1 had to take whatever partners I could manags to pick up and these as a rule were very few Finally having been left to cool my heels at the side of the hall for several dances with no partner at all I hit upon what I thought was a fine scheme I resolved to bribe my partners and with that end in view- bought a dozin ginger crackers at the country grocery before I set out to the next gathering I made an ostentatious display of my goodies throughout the hall and proclaimed loudly what they were for The bait did not prove ho alluring as I at first supposed it would but before the first set had opened I had secured as a partner one of the homeliest and most unpopular girls on the country side She danced with me and I paid her a cracker She danced the next set with me and I paid her another cracker and so It went ion through a dozen dances When the thirteenth was announced I made my bow to her She gave a quick glance at the pocket from which I had been taking the crackers and found it empty That settled ray popularity ith her She sat back in her chair refusing to Sudge and no amount of coaxing en mr part would make her accept me as a partner again that night Would Tnlk the Hill to Dentil Senator Allen says hs confidently expects to see the Ship Subsidy bill defeated The Subsidy hill will of course not pass he said in the Senate lobby Saturday I shall do my best to keep it from going through If anything In the way of talking expounding or arguing will do any good 1 shall contribute my services in hat direction with the best will inhe world There has been good deal of talking on the Army Reorganization bill If more talking is needed to defeat the Subsidy bill vvc shall have It In fact if I had my way I would talk cm -Hi -so Ibrrg a glad to abandon it in order to make me shut up VhciI tlie AVrttiip iMcture Representative Stark of Nebraska says he has not been seeking notoriety In any way but has had it thrust upon him rather unexpectedly In a recent Issue of a Chicago newspaper there appeared the picture of a stout man with a florid face and a white goatee and mustache Underneath was the name of Candidate Mercer of Nebraska and a paragraph telling how Mr Mercer was making tho fight of his life for a seat In the United States Senate The picture was one of Representative Stark as any of his friends will recognize from the description- The story of the mistake Is that Mr Mercer heard that his competitors had all arranged to have their pictures printed in the Chicago paper Not wishing to be left out he hastily sent a note to his photographer telling him to forward to the paper one of my latest pictures The photographer wrapped for mailing what he supposed to be a picture of Mr Mercer but what was really one of Mr Stark and sent It to Chicago where It was printed Mr Stark says he will have to employ an extra secretary to write letters of explanation to his friends BEDISTRICTING NEW JERSEY Ilejiiibllcnii Mute Clinlriiinti Murph Tm View on the hubjeet NEWARK Jan 20 Chairman Franklin Murphy of the Republican State Committee has announced that he favors a redisricting of the State to conform to the provisions of the Burleigh act which gives New Jersey ten Instead of eight Congressmen Some time ago the State Chairman was quoted as saving it might be well to have two but that sentiment does not correctly reflect his views Personally he says I favor a plan of redisricting the State fairly and equitably Of courso the redisricting will bo within the province of the Legislature and not the State committee 1 ut I think that it will be entirely feasible to divide the State into ten districts so that they would conform to the letter and spirit of the Burleigh act as to proximity contiguity and average population I am or the opinion that the Legislature will have as they should have regard for tbe views of the present Congressmen and It likely the leaders In the Senate and House will have a confer ence before a bill fur tho redistricting will be Introduced Tho present Repub lican members of tho New Jersey delegation in Congress havo served longer In each caso than has been the record heretofore and It Is- only proper that their views should be given consideration when It comes to making a reapportionment I am of the opinion that In the final disposition of the problem the Essex delegation In the Legislature will take a decided stand so far as tbe demands of this county are concerned My Impression Is that the delegation will Insist upon the right of Essex County to two Congressmen Wo have population to warrant such a claim and fair division of the county would cako both districts Republican Hudoon ounty is entitled to the same distinction That county undoubtcdly has a right to two Congressmen and unfortunately for tho Republican party it Is likely that for the present at least both would be Democratic Itniik CliecltM From the Indianalis Press What dense economic ieniorance is it tliat leads the Senate Finance Committee tu retain the tat on bank checks in order lhat ir iuaj reeluce the taves on tobacco Is it ignorance or is it iwlitics Tuliaeco is a luvury The revenue taxes on it do not seem to have reduced its consuiul tion at all and there would le no harm done if this consumption were reduced except to the two or three great tniita controlling the tobacco and cigarette trade Why should they he relieveel The tax on bank eiieels instead of liein a measure for the pro ductiew of revenue might better be called a measure for the VliMouraffcmciit of thrift and the contraction ol the currency THE DUC PE BR0GLIE The Itfp nf the 1rcnch Stntenmnn Who Died PARIS Jan 20 Charles Jacques Victor Albert Due de Broglle who died last evening was a French Minister and Conservative statesman who was conspicuous In the early years of the present Republic It Is chiefly through his ancestors that veils worthy of consideration The house of Broglia Frenchified Into De Broglle originally came from Qulcrs In Piedmont Ono branch still exists In Italy another settled In Provence and a third emigrated to Paris The first Count do Broglle a distinguished Italian general passed Into the service of France In tne middle of tho seventeenth century en the invitation of Cardinal Mazarin Dying on the field of battle Louis XIV granted him the posthumous dignity of marquis and Louis XV gave the baton of first marshal of France to his eldest son Two others of that race also obtained that highest military rank and the titles of duke and of prince were subsequently conferred on their descendants The father of the late duke married thu daughter of Mme de Stael in 1816 She died In 183S and her husband whose life extended to 1S70 naturally took office under the Bourbons In 1S14 who restored his title of duke and made him a marshal of France After tne revolution of 1SC0 he became head of Louis Philippes first Ministry In 1819 under the secend Republic he became a member of the Legislative Assembly -tout retired from public life in December 1S51 being mere than sixty six years old The late duke was born on June 13 1S3L Ho manifested an early ripeness of talent that was almost precocious He made his debut in La Revue de3 Deux Monties la 1C18 with a severe article on the foreign policy of the Republic He afterward became one of the principal contributors to Ix Correspondant He was elected In 1S2 a member of tie French Academy and was received in 1SS3 In February 1871 be was elected to the National Assembly from tho district of the Euro The Due de Broglle was sent at once to England as the Minister of the French Republic He came back to Versailles repeatedly to assist his party by word and vote and during the whole of 1871 distinguished himself In the Assembly by his support of the royalist policy In the spring of 1S72 complaints were made that he allowed his aristocratic proclivities to drag him into expressions which were not respectful to the Government of the Republic His recall was demanded Dc Broglle returned to France and the Assembly and at once lent the full strength of his talent and Influence to the Royalist party and was cne of Its most active men In June 1S72 he vva3 one of the delegates of the Right who called on President Thiers and tried to bend the stubborn will of that sturdy old Ttepublican toward the acccptanceof a policy more In conformity with the wishes of the Dukes party The next prominent service rendered by the Duke was as a member of the Committee of Thirty which was appointed in December 1872 to define the powers of the President and the Assembly Its object vas really to limit the Influence of Thiers and cut him off from debate except on tare occasions The report was presented by Do Broglle It was adopted De Broglle was the leader of the Conservative party and his tactics in May 1S73 precipitated the resignation of Thiers MacMahon wa3 elected President In consequence and De Broglie was made the Minister of Foreign Affairs the Premier of the Cabinet De Broglie showed in many ways that he wa3 not in sympathy with the Republic He even proclaimed that the restoration of royalty was near at hand De Broglio left the Cabinet In July 1871 He fought the subsequent Ministries and in 1877 President MacMahon called him to form a Cabinet In which ho became President of the Council and Minister of Justice but It was said that he was only the nominal head of the administration He was unpopular and finally resigned after a few stormy months devoted to combating the Republicans Ha continued to take an active partin the proceedings of the Senate but hl3 opposition met with successive defeats He failed of re-election In He wrote sTval pamphlets and books tho principal of TiWch are Studies ic Morels and LiteratureJTh9CriHrch and the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century this last Is the history of the reign of Constantine written from a Catholic point of view the Pontifical Sovereignty and Liberty and Divine and Human Liberty In short he was a clerical Just as Guizot had been a political doctrinaire He was also the editor of Talleyrands Memoirs THE CANADIAH CENSUS Creut Interest Tiiken In the Ireia lieetlve llouilnion Ciiunici utlon NEW YORK Jan 20 A great deal of Interest Is felt In Canada In the result of the census which is to be taken this year and it is with the object of showing as large a figure as possible that both the Dominion and the Provincial Governments have been offering all kinds of Inducements to Canadians who have crossed thj border to return to swell the population returns It is calculated that the population Is now about 0000000 but there is nothing in the ratio of Increase shown at the three previous countings to justify the estimate and in the Province of Ontario the birth rate has fallen so low as to attract tbe attention both of the moralist and the economist while among the prolific French Canadians a decided tendency to limit families has begun to show itself A Eketch of the progress of Canada In population has a certain Interest on account of the relatively slow- rate of Increase as compared with the United States The first official census of Canada was made in 1661 a little more than half a century after Charaplaln bad founded Quebec At that time It was taken New France as Canada was then called counted 53S families comprising 2215 persons Of these Montreal had 625 the largest aggregation in one locality at that time in the country Quebec came next with 517 and Three Rivers with 435 souls Around Quebec there was a comparatively concentrated population there being at Beaupre 533 at Bcauport 1S5 and on tbe Island of Orleans 452 persons The royal French troops numbering about 1200 souls divided Into twenty four companies were not Included Of the total of 3215 persons 747 were engaged in the different professions and commerce and of these 101 were merely servants or subordinates The clergy comprised one Bishop with eighteen priests and other ecclesiastics and there were thirty one Jesuit priests and brothers chiefly engaged In teaching and in missions to tho Indians There were also eighteen nuns of the Ursullnc order twenty three of tho Hotel Dieu and four of the Congregation There wero 1019 married per Eons and forty two widows and widowers and 1232 children under fifteen vears of age The males In the population exceeded the females by 853 During the eighteenth century there were twelve counts of the population and there were a number of irregular counts made during the first half of the last century the nineteenth It was not until 1560 Gl that a complete census of the whole country was taken simultaneously The census of 1S71 gave a total of 3635 204 that of 1881 4321810 and the last that of 1S91 a total of 4833239 Since then immigration has been artificially stimulated and repatriation especially of French Canadians has been encouraged In every possible way The first census of the United States In 1790 gave a population of 3929214 souls At the same dale the number of Inhabitants of the territory now comprised In the Dominion of Canada exclusive of the Indians was 228000 iilome Ailillterntfon From the lndianaiwlis Press The flower show in the Senate vesterday in honor of luay suggested very forcibly certain other occasions on which flowers are sometimes iwsl profusely The spectacle certainly was not edit 111 NolliMig more nauseous has hapicncd In recent years than this attempt to make a hero out of the corrupt and vulgar Pennsylvania tioss DUTIES ON CUBAN IME0RTS neleBnteis Cnnilnsr to XVnxlilnKtbre to Aslc for lleelnctleiii HAVANA Jan 20 A meeting of representatives of the political parties the Economic Society and the Society of Planters decided to send delegates to Washington to petition for a reduction as far as possible of tho American import duties on Cuban products and especially sugar and tobacco and the abolition of the Cuban export duty on tobacco Tho planters made an attempt to recommend a further extension of time allowed for the rayment of mortgages Speeches were made to tho effect that the revolution was responsible for the losses of the planters who would be ruined it the holders of mortgages were allowed to foreclose them on May 1 when the last extension of time granted will have expired Those interested in the economic movement were opposed to granting any further extension which they claim would not help matters but the lowering of the Import duties Imposed by tho United States and the abolition of the export duties In Cuba are points on which all tho parties and societies agree Many feared the movement might be split by the introduction of the mortgage question It Is claimed that the total amount of the mortgages is 210000000 Many delegates to the constitutional Convention were present at the meeting These claimed to be la hearty sympathy with the movement except on the mortgage question which they claimed Is one for the Cuban government to settle Tho project for the constitution will be publicly read tomorrow It is almost the same as that presented on January 15 which was drawn up by a central committee of five delegates whereas tomorrows project Is the former project modified by the private sessions Article II allows all foreigners who were domiciled In Cuba from January 1 1893 to six months after the establishment of tho constitution to become citizens Ar tlclo VII gives six Instead of four senators to each province There is an article allowing foreigners who fought in the ten years war and who arc fcrty years of age to become President This caused much discussion Senor Snngullly who opposed It did so on the ground that the article was directly designed to allow Gen Maximo Gomez to become President as the other two to whom it might apply namely Ruls Rivera and Ruloff were not likely to be candidates for the office He said the services of General Gomez should not be rewarded by giving him an office such as tho Presidency as he dlcl not have the disposition or knowledge to lip him for it Senor Sangullly and others fear that General Gomez will unwittingly become the Instrument of a gang of schemers DIVISION OF THE BABISTS The Amerienn Tactions of Hie Sect Led liy Women NEW YORK Jan 25 A sort of schism the very able books written on that sect by irof Browne of the chair of Persian literature at Oxford England The new faith In the garb It first assumed in Dr i Kheiralla hands showed some of the features of Christianity rjOt Dr Khelralra matloa that God had como down to earth again and had lived for seventy three years in Persia and Syria and that his vice regent on earth was his son now living at Acre Acre is called the Holy City by Dr Kheiralla Those who did and those who did not see the Holy Family or some member of It talked a good deal In Aero about what they had learned from Dr Kheiralla and much comment and no little criticism of the doctor followed Thereafter Dr Kheiralla hastened to Acre himself and took into the presence of the new Messiah two American women convert One of these was Mrs Phoebe A Hearst the wealthy Callfornlan who now resides in Washington Mrs Hearst enjoyed the distinction of having Abbas Effendl pay her special attention and bless her by laying his hands on her bowed head When she kneeling before him was told to rise he bade her be of good cheer So much Impressed was she by him that when she came back to America she increased her already liberal contributions to the cause until her gifts are said to count up Into tens of thousands of dollars She declared her faith In writing In these words I believe with all my heart and soul that he Is the Master and I hope that all who call themselves believers will concede to him all the greatness all the glory and all the praise for surely he Is the Son ot God A great many of the believers do not agree with Mrs Hearst and tho iect in this country is now- divided one faction admitting that Abbas Effendl Is the Christ the other with Dr Kheiralla at its head denying it and urging that Beha Ullah is the only one who should bev worshiped Mrs Hearst has been paying the expenses of several of the convert teachers and has made the cause her own But if Abbas Effend has a wholly devoted convert in her he has also an American woman opposing his pretention to Mes siahshlp This is Irs Rose Owen Oli phant Templetcn a daughter of the famous spiritualist Robert Dane Owen Mrs Tcmpleton went to see Abbas endi argued with him and tried to convince him of the folly of his course Her only reward has been abuse and ingratitude Now while the Babists in the East are looking to Ameafca as a field for the spread of Mohammedanism there Is presented the spectacle of two American women standing in antagonism concerning the leader of the sect Mrs Hearst is using her millions to spread this new religion and Mrs Templeton Is using her pen and voice to warn her fellow -countrymen against he pretensions of the man who says he is the Messiah The trouble in the sect has caused many who were not yet believers but who were Investigating it to give a wide berth to the Islamlsm designed for Americans Or lreteiieN Tt From Judse Little Willie who lias an cniuirin mind la what is a sage Mr Ilenny lecl 1 sage my son is a msn who always agrecH with his wife Well JVilnieel From the Philadelphia Bulletin I wnnd why the comrriscr culled tliic a cradle Mns Iroliahly because It has a roely tun MAINES POVERTY BELT Tnles of IJItler Distress From Soma It ti ml Towns BANGOR Me Jan 20 The bankruptcy of the town of Somerville In Lincoln County and the distressing conditions prevailing In the town of Otis In Han cock County where the chattels of citizens have been levied on to pay town debts are notable examples of the hopeless decay Into which many of the smaller places In rural Maine have fallen A dozen or more towns today are so near insolvency that their Inhabitants are seriously considering the advisability cf surrendering their charters and returning to the plantation form of government In many towns once prosperous the arms have become run out and as no manufactures have been established abandonment and decay quickly follow and the young men and often the young women go away to find In more prosperous places the means of getting a living The time was when the owners of these run out farms could raise enough by mortgage to keep them along for a few years perhaps until death should call them but now-a-days this would he very difficult In any case and impossible for tbe most part Some of the old folks have sons who have prospered in tho cities and who send them enough for comfortable support the others are as poor as they can wll te and keep out of the almshouse A case that occurred in a small Maine town not long ago will serve to illustrate the depths of this rurl poverty A sturdy old farmer whose place had run out and whose stock had dwindled To almost nothing leallzed after a particularly poor harvest that starvation stared him and his wife in the face and that he must do something at once He was too old to go out to work he was willing hut no one would hire him So he went to the selectmen and laid his poverty bare to them He was an honest and a proud man and in ten generations his family had never burdened the public with a pauper He said that If the town would support him and his wife while they lived he would make out to the town a free gift deed of his farm and all upon It Said her This is all I can do I would rather kill my poor wife and commit suicide myself than to take so much as a single meal at the towns expense We shall not live long and we shall not need much The farm will be enough to make the town whole Take my offer or we shall be hungry and maybe worse will happen vritutu a month The selectmen knew the spirit of the old man and they also knew that he was telling the truth so they accepted his offer Thus undoubtedly a tragedy was averted one of those -crimes in lonely places for which Maine has lately been noted But this practice was followed In other cases with the result that the town soon had upon its hands a dozen families ami nothing to offset the expense of their has occurred among the followers of support except a lot of abandoned farms ism In this country Babism which is a I that yielded little or nothing Taxes went branch of Mohammedanism was Intro- Beat UP steadily as long as the practice then he secmen were duced into the United States by a Dr Jontueli anJ forced to call a halt in that form of Kheiralla who he Is native of says a phlanthropy AIter tfce p00r people Cairo Egypt and came here seven years wno wanted to mortgage or give their ago His mission was to tell the reople arm3 0 the town In consideration of llfe of this country that God had manifested long support were obliged to go to the himself In the flesh again under the name almshouse or commit suicide It is a of Beha Ullah The latter was born in fact that several suicides came about in Persia in 1S19 and died at Acre in Syria thi3 way In 1892 He left a large family the eldest The town where all this occurred in son of whom the Abbas Effendl was de- spite of he most careful economy in pub clared to be the Incarnation of Jesns iin exoenditsres fell behind every year unnst ADoas tnenai is now living in ms father palace which Is named Bebjeh or Delight at Acre He has but cne wife and a few children whereas his father the Beha Ullah had two wives and twelve children Some American men and -women took an Interest in thi3 new- faith as Dr Kheiralla taught It and at parlor meetings held by Dr Kheiralla in New Ycrk wero seen for- mer Theosophists Spiritualists free think and the tax rate reached 3 1 2 per cent Well-to-do people moved away as fast as they could- Seeing from the place as though it had been stricken with a pestilence and soon all that were left were a few whose wealth as In stccks end bond that the assessors eVufd -not get at those who had sons away who contributed toward their support and those who re ceived pensions In this extremity tbe only thing to be ers and agnostics and also a few aone was to reTert to the plantation form slvo people who still retained their 0 government and to do this It was bershlp in orthodox churches There were necessary that the towns valuation a few others who knew- of Babism through should be less than 140000 Tho town as- sessors could easily scale down the val uation to less than 40000 but their val ution Is not final it must be approved by the State assessors In order then to force down the valuation many of the inhabitants moved nil their well-to-do tuuauiuiuM awcu cue mystified those who asked lor a full ex- live stock tnto an adjoining town tore position oc ms uoc criuer ot uut ui down their buildings and sowed the Unds hearers knew- exactly what he was teach- wlth oats anil buckwheat year after year ing until the end of his course when in without eTer returning anything in tho ikn Inn InsnAn tieos era va ttSsm tti a In fili mc ia ccuu uo way 0 dressing to mane ud tne 1033 to the soil In that way the valuation of tha town was reduced In about four years to less than 40000 and the place became a plantation Then the expatriated citizens returned and again took up their former the Babists It Is a place not Impossible aDOje3 14 0f paUper taxes to ana Dy trjjse wno nave time money Prosperity runs in two belts In Maine and inclination to go there and Dr 0n the coaat ani aIong the navigable ralla listened to by some people who was rlvers are town3 rh rom manufactured curiosity enough to go to Syria and I commerce and the fisheries far back Investigate for themselves Only those are more towns where iunDertnK yletQ3 succeeded In peeing Abbas Effendl who had i returns andbetween the two Is a re- lettcrs or endorsements of some kind from of on ack these sources ot wealth the region of the rocky and often abandoned farms In this poverty-stricken belt are situated Somerville and OtU and many more like them The belts form a sandwich of distress between slices of prosperity TH4PDETJS STEVENS WILL It Vrovl sloim Jnst Mnde Effective After Thirtj tvvo Tram LANCASTER Pa Jan 20 The full provisions of the will of Thaddeus Stevens the Old Commoner were yesterday made effective after a delay of thirty two years Mr Stevens died In 1S6S andh3 will provided that under certain circumstances if his estate should amount to 3000O 2OCOO of it should be expended In the erection ot a home for orphans in which no preference should be shown on account of race color or religious belief and the residue should be Invested in Government securities bearing no less than 6 per cent Interest When the first account was filed the heirs maintained that the estate without the accrued Interest did not reach J30000 and on that line carried the case to the Supreme Court and lost All the executors having died the Lancaster Trust Company was appointed trustee and recently the Stevens Orphans Home Association of this city petitioned the court to issue an order on the trustees to turn over to the association the Stevens fund now- in its possession amounting to nearly J60000 An opinion was handed down yesterday by Judge Landis granting the prayer of tha petitioner and the work of carrying Into effect the charitable Idea of Stevens will be proceeded with at once CATHOLICS IN AMERICA Their Totnl Nnmlier Now 10TTIfS7 With 11C7 Irlenti NSW YORK Jan 20 According to tho Catholic Directory Just issued the Roman Catholic population of the United Statea is 10774987 a growth during the year ot 645312 The figures were furnished by the chancellors of tho different dioceses The statistics for 1901 show there are in the Catholic Church in the Inied States thirteen Archbiahops one of whom Is a Cardinal and eighty Bishops Tho number of priests is 11987 of whom SOlf are members of religious orders and 8977 are secular clergymen There are 6127 churches with resident priests 3518 missions with churches and 1771 chapels There are eight Catholic universities ami seventy-six-seminaries la which 3195 candidates for the priesthood are being educated The colleges for boy3 number 183 tho academies for girls C77 In tho 3812 parochial schools 903950 boys ard girls are pupils Tho 247 orphan asylums shelter 3581 orphans and the charitable institutions number SS5 In all the Catholic Institutions In the United States there ara i055632 children.