The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-23

accommo dation during the ten days Ia which |
1t is TO be hold e for tho promotion OF the |
kingdom Of GOD" MooDY and SANKEY are not |
at all disturbed In their own faith by the |
higher criticism Of the now Biblical school. but
Brother MOODY has thought 1t necessary to
issue q circular in which he warns others
against the strange doctrines OF these peril
Gus times" He himself will preach. and SAN
KEY will sing after the fashion that made them
famous in the limos while yet the names OF
BRIaGs and NEWTON were In obscurity.
We are again confronted by our esteemed
contemporary the Kansas Citv Tunes uron a
point ON which its criticisms ore never with
out talent. The Times doesn't think that
Maud $. can ever DO the greatest brood marc:
she begins too old-l7. Yet suppose that OF six
imm, dlate descendants. or four. or even three
each should eclipse the record OF Its mother!
With such showing on the track would not
she become peerless In the barnynrd, md THE
SUNS surmiso be justined2 Whore would
there be tho other mares. whose produce hns
boon converted into mere commonplace. beside
Mauds comparatively small, but uneaualled
family? In tho higher grades OF horsenesh.
as in journalism. nm ounce OF quality is worth
more than a pound OF quantity.
Tho mutiny OF tho Coldstrcam Guards
must sorcly perturb and puzzle the officials OF
that most notorious OF English circumlocu,ion
Offices tho War Office. The only explanation
they can suggest is. however. Significant. that
"unreasoning compliance with orders was no
longer obtainnble from men who were per-
meated with 1uasi-cducation." This meansin
fact, that in an industrial democratic commu-
nifty like England. u high state Of military eff
cheney. with all the essential military virtues
cannot be maintained continuously IN
time of peace. Il ia possible in Ger
many to-day only because everything else.
| the training at school and college. and oil tho
influences Of society. are sacrificed or adapted
| to promote an ideal esprit de corps. and yet.
even in Germany. Emperor WILLIAM was
| probably expecting an impossible and prepos-
| ferrous thing tho other day. when he told his
army that If he commanded q soldier to shoot
father or mother he expected him to do It.
Popular education, democracy. and the spirit
! OF the age are Inconsistent with militarism.
In RupYARD KIpLING's lively tales OF soldier
life in India. disobedence to orders and mutny
find little placs. On the field OF battle or In
time OF war the Grenndier Guards and the
Coldstlenm Guards might be expected to do
their duty and would doubtless do 1t even II
the bugles should sound n second time n
charge as futile and as deadly as that at Bal.
aclava. But it is q different story In the stuIy
barracks Mt home. likeness and good living
breed hystsria. as KlrLISo once suggested.
and the mutny OF the Guards nay be OF little
more Importance than tho discomfort and hys-
terical folly OF girls at school.
PoE's weird and dreadful story of revenge,
Tho Cask OF Amontillado." is recalled by the
murder Of an unfortunate creditor at the
Mexican village with tue peaceful name Of
San Rafael. With the true virtuoso spirit Of
tho Italian nobeman OF PoE's story. the Mexi.
can villager persuaded his victim to help him
In cleaning his we'll. and as soon ms he reached
the bottom rolled 81 ones upon him TIL he Was
buried alive. The erimness OF the tale is made
more CHASTITY still BY the discovery OF the MUIR
der through the innocent prattling Of the MUIR
derer's little girl. why don't you get water
from your fathers we'll 2" the neighbors asked
her. Because my papa has man buried In
the WE'LL" was the guileless answer.
In these so-called prosaic days the lives OF
mon may be ground down TO pale unanimity.
but never has the world been SO brimmed
with romantic possibilities as for the American
boy Of this generation. For him the middle
ages live still. with all their Kaleidoscope
havoc and riot To him vacant house on a
commonplace Brooklyn street is as good as a
deserted castle on the Rhine. and he enters in
uproariously with q merry band OF 12.year-
old freebooters. and for two days holds
high carnival. For him the wonder Of the
| water has lost none OF its enchantment since
, Elizabethan days. and THOMAS ADAMS. aged
IS. with pistols and a rife. steals boat and
sails q full-nedgcd pirate on the broad Pas
. sale. canturnR and plunderinG md shooting
!, all opponents. II the lust OF travel woos hin
and the syren voices OF tho sea. he hides him
. sell. like 7-year- old TOMMY MULLIGAN. amons
the throng OF passengers on tho "eutonic. anC
for three weeks is the pet OF fair womer
till the fleet steamer returns him t.
9 his home. Even tho girl OF Is ma,
find her Othello in siave and pig-tnilcd SOL
n the Orient and love him. II not for the adven
lures he has passed. ut least for the fantastic
smoke Of the drug that opens the doors Of 1
thousand SORROWS and OF dreams as varied n!
tho tales OF tho Arabian Nights. The limo
cent chlldren's games OF England may repea
tho secrets OF primitive mythology but Ger
IS tninly all the romance that has faded from GU
. own lives seems to DO concentrated In til,
. daily misdeeds OF American girls and boys.
y Tho steamer that sailed from Duluth t,
Liverpool by way OF tho lakes and the Bt. Law
8 rence made long time. Her cargo OF grail
i could have been carried from Duluth to Liver
!, pool by way Of New York in less than half O
the thirty days TINT wcre occupied In her voy
4 age. and ut less than the price that was pai
y for its transportation.
70 There Is cheering news from the pleasan
. lands of central Alaska According to . re
port sent from that region by party OF ex
porers. Alaska is not all snow covered. sterile
and repelant. They toll OF discovering Their
an immense valley stretching away In a
Ia directions. and thickly covered with luxurian
10 grasses. There are fine pasture lands. 1
.. which the horses OF tho expedition enioye
" the timothy. blue-top. md bunch grass
There are wild fruits in abundance, an