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II RIPL e S III T. E Il.

Carist forces said to be dissolying gradually
Marshal Will defer action in regard to the Span
ish Cabinet crisis for eight days. Late frosts have
severely injured the grape vines throughout France.
- VallcanO the last Of the Topic insurgent chiefs,
has been killed.
In the House OF Representatives. on Saturday, the CON
federation OF the Indian Appropriation bill was COM
peted IN Committee Of the Whole, and the bill was
ported TO the House.
Two skirmishes during which person was killed.
took place in Little Rock on Saturday between the
Brooks and Baxter men, Attorney General Williams has
suggested compromise; Baxter refuses to accede to
the proposition, and Brooks accepts it. general
fab all the Western rivers is reported by the Signal
ONCE break in the levee has occurred at Helena and
that place is partly submerged. - Destructive fires
are raging in the woods in the Northwest
The Rev Dr. Cheever preached In opposition to Evou-
ton claiming that the doctrine excluded the personality
Sod. The Rev. DR.. Adams preached at the ded-
fcaton of q new Presbyterian Church. - The grad
Mating class at the Columbia Law School numbered
Iss. Cold 1924 l12s. Thermometer, $50, 94' go.
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Wboso initiates sees those leading statesmen
of the party. Messrs. Morton, Logan, butier,
and CARPENTER, advocating Initiation I'LL
thew are red in the face and hoarse
with yociferation. Whose resumes reads
with delight the platforms OF inc
marty and the veto of the President. Wboso
thinks Louisiana is badly treated and that the
KelloOo Government is usurpati0n reads inc
manifold utteranCeS OF Carpenter ana 10
banpy. Whose believes Louisiana ought TO DC
governed patcrnally from Washington reads
Morton and approves tho Presidents action.
Does any citizen desire Civil Service Reform
He reads the platforms and messages ana inc
b,nefuI reDorts of Messrs. Eaton and Shelia-
larger. Does any politician consider Clvii
sorvice Reform humbugG He may review
the appointments and find no cause for disSat-
;sfactiop. Indeed there seemed to be, uhtll
the Arkansas business began, no possible
question in politics upon which the Admins
tratjon could not, between itself and us au-
herents please both sides and all parties. ~
But this Arkansas di.s4.cuicy was from the
beginning too much mixed. Baxter was de-
cared elected Governor year and a half ago
in the interests Of the Administration and the
two Administration Senators. There was q
ANAL question as to whether he had votes
enough, or rather there was no question at
all but that his opponent had more but that
was not allowed to stand in the way. Baxter
WAS q good enough Baxter for Governor Till
he showed signs of revolving from the dlcta-
ton of the Senators, when those eminent
statesmen discovered that there were iraudu-
lent dongs in the counting of votes, and that
a. matter of fact and law Brooks was
elected Governor The gentlemen who
helped cheat Brooks out of his election
in the first instance are now exceedingly
anxious to have justice done and the usurper
Baxter turned out, or rather kept out. I'm
doubtedly they have interests at stake. But
fine Administration has none. The Admins
tration does not like to be bothered with
things that do not affect it personally. Nat
uraly enough the Administration got tired
Of if. In little matter Of civil war like this,
in which il is not entirely clear which is the
Administration side, why should the Presl-
dent interfere Why not let them shoot each
other down till they get tired of it as well as
the PRESIDENT 1t was IN this broad and en-
Ightcned view of it that the Acknowledgement
advised that the parties settle it between
themselves and cease to trouble the President
with a matter in which he has no earthly in
terest. and can sec nothing to be gained
whichever way he decides 1t.
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THE LONDON LIONS.

1t must be admitted that your lion In q
menagerie is exposed to great indignities.
Though the proverb has it that cat may look
at king, il does not follow that the king,
especially when he is in difficulties, likes to
look at the cat. The Gagged monarch of the
wilderness seems to know what is said of him
by the little boys who have come in at half
price, and it must be irritating especially
if he thinks how good they would have tasted
at q banquet in his Lybian home. Unques-
tIonably the lion, considering that oil his
courage and nobility are fraud, has been q
much overwOrked animal. In heraldry alone,
if we regard him only in the rampan; state,
his services have been prodIgious, whatever
assistance he may have derived from the uni
cOrns and grifiins. Of his figure in fables, from
Esop to La FOntaine, it would be waste of
space to speak, as well as Of his variegated
cOlors, blue and red, upon the sgnbOards. OF
his domestication in Britain all the world
knows, and how, since great wars have be-
come obsolete, he has engaged in cotton-spin-
ming, like Hercules at the distaff. And this
brings us at last to our topic. Everybody who
has been in London has seen Landseers monu-
mental lions in Trafalgar Square. Albeit of the
brazen variety, always heretofore supposed to
be uncommonly hard, (rid. Hor. Car III. 'sC
it seems that these metallic beasts are gradu-
ally wasting under the corrosive action of the
London rama tabes into which DR.. Percy has
been commissioned to inquire. Would 1t not
be dreadful if the Doctor should report it
necessary to furnish each of the poor lions
with great coat and an umbrella 7 The
latter article lion upon his hind legs might
manage to handle, but what is he to do with
it standing upon his four feet 7 Nor would il
be in keeping to provide him with a brass
Ycllowplush to hold the article over him. So
much for bringing lions from a natal place
where it only rains once year TO land of
exile where it rains every day in the year. and
generally all day! Black marble bulls of an
Egyptian cast would surely have been better.
Sir Thomas Browne, in his "Vulgar Errors
is very philosophical upon the fact that the
Egyptians adorned their waterspouts with the
heads of lions; but it is one thing to have
the water running from your mouth and
another to have it cascading down your ribs
and wearing there abnormal channels.
Sundry newspaper correspondents, however,
have come to the defense of the London
drench as consumer of lions. One writer In
The Pal Mall Gazette attributes the leonine
decay to tho political. temperance, and other
mass meetings held in the Square, And here
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value of their sacred mats by afixlng Gov
eminent stamp and making them circuiat
cling medium, subject to redemption, as ~
"paper money" 1t is not perfectly eica, ~
us whether by this measure Coz. o'elnoer-
ger means to teach them hhaicc" vi
to take advantage of their ignorance
He would hardly venture upon sarcastic III,
fusion to the Best Currency in the World anu
therefore we must assume that his proposal
whatever it MEANS is serious. The scheme
would perhaps have this advantage, that IL
would open field of usefulness for certain
class of American iinanciers whose talents
are not appreciated at home. But even
with stamped mats, cocoanut meat, canoes no
dos. a thermometer stationary at So all the year
round. and submarine volcanoes spoutng IRE
in the most lively and unexpected manner TO
the hight of o thousand feet or so, for weeks
at q time, it is by no means certain that we
should gam by the establishment OF protec-
torate enough. advantage to pay us for the
trouble, expense, jobbery, and political com
plications inevitably involved in 1t. IN our
system of government there is no place LOT
nrotectorates or colonies.
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SVRVEYS At THE VEST.

Tn view of the struggle at Washington be-
tween opposing interests in regard to the sur
views of the Western Territories, we present
to orr readers this morning a side of the
story that has never been told before. Of the
other great exploring expeditions, very full
accounts have been published from time to
| time in The TRIBUNE, and our readers have been
kept well advised through our correspondents
with the Yellowstone Expedition, with Prof..
| Haydens Expeditions and with that OF capt
Jones, as to the work performed and the IN
teresting incidents encountered The popular
ity of these descriptions has given them
widespread interest and justified the reprint or
their more entertaining features in. an extra
which has had an extensive sale both at nome
and abroad. Bat the work and experiences
of the surveying expeditions OF the Bu-
reau of Engineers of the u. ). Army,
which have for some years been conducted
under the skillful management OF Lieut. U.
NJ. Wheeler have never before been presented
to the public except in brief account given
in TIE TRIBUNE last Fall, after the return OF
the chief body of the expedition for 1873; and
the description to which we give page to-
day, with map, has both novelty and in
tereSt
The fundamental object OF this great under
taking, which has, as IS indicated in the map
| already accomplished its work over vast
! area, is, by combining its results with those
obtained by tho Coast Survey, including that
| of the lakes, to furnish ultimately complete
survey of the United States. 1t was stated
last year by Prof. Peirce, then Superintend-
ent of the Coast Survey, that the maps
of China made from surveys thousand years
ago were more accurate than the maps which
till a very recent day served in sci DOL ge0gra-
plies as a representation of our Western Ter
ritories. The hope in the present case Is that
| the work now under way will be completed
| within ten years and will furnish correct data
| for all minor surveys. How serious are the
! discrepancies that now exist may be judged
| from the statement of Prof. Peirce that the
error Of the maps as to the position of city
! in Illinois was about three miles; OF course,
| the errors in localities west of the Mississippi
may be supposed to be much greater.
The field of the survey is new. There is no
part of our domain of which so little is known
as of Western Utah, Arizona, and NewMex-
leo. The few Indian tribes remaining in these
regions have long since ceased to be foimlda-
BILE, and vast section Of country, rich in
mineral wealth and exceedingly valuable for
stock-raisng presenting the utmost variety
Of climate and scenery, is now open
for settlement. AS Prof. Henry justly
remarked at the recent meeting of the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences at Washington,
while we are inviting immigration from older
countries and urging in general terms the
superiority of our OVID, it is at least becoming
that we should know something of what we
have to offer, and be able to give definite de-
scriptions of the features and characteristics
| Of the lands we propose to populate.
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B.sT Plan IN LIFE INSURANCE.-The all
casa srt stock Tln Of c IaAvELER INsuRANCz COMPANY
Pot TIE SYSTEM IN FIGHTING TUNE.-The
great otec Indigestion and its accompanying arrangements
the LIVER bowels and nerves. put the condition
dissolve ai aal without pain the food submitted its action This
accomplished and than this. by daily of Hos
Brr4Es dose should be taken before every
meal TIE oo effect be apparent The loss Of flesh strength
ord which uasly dyspepsia will be arrested The de-
OF bile skin vlcase and that cathartic fluid will
pa The bose and keeping them free. livery organ
rced dependent upon the viii be and
The dn the sers Of the system. viii b, bnelcay Influenced
vel th liver the ameat4 canal and tie In short tie
whole .n1soa viii be in the fighting trim
sai erpe Geae II The medicine is tsen regularly and pessteay
tis result viii inevitably follow.
The TEIBUNE EXTRA No 10 contains in full
Car Soars Euogy Charles Sumner, the address by Wendell
Phillips aud tie funeral hymn BY Dr. Oh't Wendell Holmes precns
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the indignty to the poor beast becomes moro
notably painful for this writer says that tho
IiveIiest sympathzers are those who select tho
backs of the lions as a proper place TO SYM
pathze from and on All the seats, he says. on the
North Western Lion, upon recent occasion.
were taken; and he adds that his back wa
occupied by band Of youths who vigorously
expressed approval with their heels upon his
"brOnze RIBS Three street Arabs were
perched upon his very head or name, and At
this insult albeit of sounding brass, he could
NOT even roar. Other boys did lrrcverenAy
climb up and slide down the hind quarters Of
the animal, and with their boots, garDished
with iron heels and nails, did scratch his M
resisting sides. This was clearly more damag-
ing to the lion than millions Of feet OF rain
water-hc suffered greater abrasions in this
way than if he had been exposed 10. rory
days and Dii.nts when the WINDOWS Of heaven
were opened. If such treatment is to go on it
ia well suggested that the hind quarters of the
Trafalgar Lions will soon be as smooth IA
"the bronze toe Of st. Peter at Rome
Alas if we must moralize little after our
geological fable, the readiest thing to suggest
is that the two-legged lions CT society wear
ont much faster than their craven images in
London. When great man suffers tho
children of the world to make familiar play
ground of his head and shoulders, to fawn
upon him and caress him, and ever and ever
affectionately to embrace him, he will certainly
get shabby at last, and be secondhand lion
only fit for the pawn-shops in the back slums
of literature or science, of politics or art.
There is a kind of familiarity in such honors
which is apt to end in contempt. The shoulders
of a very great man may be broad and stout
but he ought to be careful how he suffers tho
fawning parasite to perch upon them. Notoriety
is the most ticklish of possessions, and there
il no sadder spectacle than a social lion groga
shabby,
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amnscmcnts ano Aleetinss.

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Ac.npMy OF MusIc-somce Mseique Prof. HERMANN.
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40,
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Tough. -
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Co,ossvuv-Dsy and evening: London by Night"
0,Iv,s FIFTH AVENUE THEATER.-" Monsieur Mphonse.'
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Coomhs.
Union SQUARE TuENER-'Lcd Astray."
VALLACKs THEArER.-" school," Lester Walack
ASSOCIATION H,LI.-Rccitals. Waller c. Lyman.
DRAMATIC FUND ASSOCIATION RooMs.-Eection OF Oil
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM or ABT-Open daily.
Mort MEMORIAL ROOMS - Lecture DR.. Mary d
Studcy.
Rose HIII METHODIST CHURCu.-Meoting OF New-forK
Branch OF Universal Peace Association
SrEIHwAY HALL-Ninth Anniversary OF National TEN
peramcC SOc.ntY.
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Did any Of our readers observe during the last
week that people had an uneasy look, as If they
heard the rumblings of earthquake, or smelt a
volcano or had seen comets head peeping over the
palisadesi We observed it ourselves and dozen
or so letters of unknown correspondents, In all
varieties of spelling and writing helped us to guess
at the reason for it. 1t concerned the weather
There was dreadful suspicion, which seemed to
have become epidemic, that somehow the atmo-
sphere had got hold Of the notion of Initiation, and
had been teaching Spring the odiOus art Of issuing
promissory notes which she never meant TO
redeem. She had come to spend her whole time' Ike
Mr. Richardson. in taking little square bits OF paper
and making faces at one end of them and filling mp
the rest of the space with pretty figures and writing
81 promise to pay" in big letters that every
read. and then next them. in small Letters hard to
read. "When two Sundays come together in tho
middle of the week." " The day after never In
Kingdom come" &c, &c. 1t was positively
awful to see so young a Sprng-a mere infant only
two months old-taking such pleasure IN deception.
OF course being grlite ana pretty she carried on
her little knaveries with more taste than Mr. Rich
ardsOn does She did not put gorillas on her notes.
but pretty pictures-now bit of blue sky with
soft white clouds drawn over it, as if an angelic
kitten had fallen into celestial creampot and been
chased by cherub for his crime Or she painted the
corner of meadow green as the eyes Of Camoens
lady-love with golden dandelions powdered over IT.
Or she sets small SPRAYS Of mezereum and towering
almond Tor o frame, and from out the delicate mesh
thrusts her own fair head in the pertest Of hats
that you take for new flower from Japan, or for
new and quaint macaw from the Amazon. 1t was
hard to hate her as ought when we found that
all her promises to pay blue sky. and green grass,
and dandelons, and soft winds, were mere
Richardson's, deluding words, pledges to do what
she no more meant to do than our Secretary means
what he promises-and that, in short we saw the very
elements infected with our abomindbe financial
theories. SO deep distrust had come from all
these disillusions that even yesterday, when a
July day came gloriously in, lighting up the brave
bonnets which had been faithfully bought according
to the Almanac and melting the too solid flesh of tho
righteous as they walked to church, you could sea
that there was hearty trust in the Spring. Those
who thought last week we had been sold out TO
February, yesterday averred we had been betrayed
to August 1t will be at least year before gen.
public forgets its wrongs, and Spring regaius
its lost habit and repUte.
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nations have improved the character of
the lower branches Of the Civil Service. But
people have been looking to see some improve
mcnt in the higher branches of the Civil Ser
vice. Perhaps this expectation is unreasonapie;
but while the greater appointments are made IN
defiance of decency and fitness, it IL natnrai
that there should be disbelief in the reality
of the reform.
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but while the greater appointments are made IN
defiance of decency and fitness, it is natural
that there should be disbelief in the reality
of the reform.
A curious complication has arisen from the
attempts to discover who Instlgated the sale
robbery in the offices of the District OF Colum-
bia Government 1t is charged by the friends
of the Ring that the burglary was prepared IN the
interest of the memorialisis who sought to bring
additional odium on the District Government.
Those who are prosecuting tho case against
the Ring assert that it was "put up" bur
elary, and was an invention Of the Ring and
their coadjutOrs. We print all accessible in
formation on the subject with the single re-
mark that there is no adequate motive assigned
for the conduct charged upon the memorialists
The Ring need nothing more to add to their
i'll repnte.
Just what the conduct of the New-l ork
Bank and Engraving Companies may have
been either at the outbreak of the war or
since its close, we DO not know. Neither can
we undertake to say that what they now ask
of the Government is in all respects right
We insist, however, that the subject of PRINT
ing tne notes, IracllOnai CuTrcHCy' anu pohuo
of the United States is one altogether
too vital to every citizen to begin
and end within a narrow Washington circle.
Absolute safety is doubtless hard to attain,
but certainly that system of checks in print
ing these obligations gives greater security
which confides the different processes on each
note to totally different organizations and in
different cities. And to this extent the CORE
spondent, who elsewhere discusses the ques-
ton of engraving and printing the Govern
ment issues, is clearly and wholly right.
Hot weather is needed to spur up the tagging
Congressman. A review of the condition Of
the public business makes a sorry showing.
Congress has actually done next to nothing.
Even the principal appropriation bills are
dragging their slow length along; and, since
the President has vetoed the Currency BILL
Congress has nothing to show for its
interminable discussion of the financial
question. The Geneva Award, Trans
portation, Civil Rights, Louisiana. and
multitude of other grave matters wait
for consideration. The session has so far
been proftless and without result. With
the thermometer in tho nineties, as it was
Yesterday, Senators and Representatives will
begin to mop their noble brows and think of
going home. This incentive to industry in
dispatching legislation is not lofty one, but,
under the circumstances, it is the best that
can be found.