Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-09-28

in short bow under the white linen
turn down collar. His sailor hat of
coarse yellow straw was broadly band
ed with black gros grain ribbon"
Could anything be more lovely? If
the spirits of the departed can really
come back to earth and realize what
the living are doing, how proud, in
deed, must Jay Gould be of such Il
son-in-law as this.
Unless all our traditions go for
naught the sympathy of Americans
must be strongly in favor of the Cuban
patriots. 1t Is the belief of Americans
that liberty, independence and self
government are matters of eternal
right. The country has always
deemed it its mission to encourage
patriotism in demanding these rights
wherever the struggle between deS-
potism and self government has oc-
Cured. 1t was an American poet who
lamented the fall of Kosciusko in lines
familiar to every school boy in the
land. 1t was an American poet who
made Marco Bozzaris immortal. 1t
was by resolution of the United States
Senate that our warshlp Mississippi
was sent to rescue Louis Kossuth
from exile and Imprisonment, and
men still live who remember the
prairie fire of enthusiasm that greeted
the great Hungarian poet when he
came to our shores. One of the most
eloquent speeches Henry Clay ever
made in Congress was i'll support of
resolutions expressing sympathy with
the Greeks i'll their struggle for indie
pendence.
1t was in defense of his own ideas
and in sympathy with the newly
emancipated Spanish American repub-
lies that the Monroe doctrine was
promulgated. That was our warning
of Glands OFF, in defense of human
liberty. When Castellar's republic
was set up in Spain great hnrrah
went up from the American people.
When the inoffensive imperialism of
Dom Pedro gave place to the republic
in Brazil, American rejoicing was fer
vent and universal. Why should not
our deepest sympathies go out i'll still
greater measure to the struggling
Cubans? They are fighting the cruel
est, stupidest and most barbaric des-
potism that has survived medieval
conditions. They are struggling
against worse oppression than that
against which the American colonies
revolted. They are contending with
an enemy who butchers women aud
children and supplements battle by
the cold blooded murder of prisoners.
They have shown an endurance rarely
equalled in history. With the mem.
DRY of ten years slaughter still fresh
in their minds, they have matched
themselves against the entire military
power of Spain in the hope of achiev-
ing either independence Of the 5 pau
ish tyranny or destruction for them
selves. Why should there be any
lack Of sympathy with such people
on the part of any American citizen?
If Success in long distance power
transmission shall be achieved by the
Niagara experiment. host of COM
petitive power supply stations will
spring into existence wherever there
is an available water supply or favor
able fuel locations, such as the coal
mining regions or oil or gas fields.
Though the Niagara plant has little to
fear from rival waterfall, the pro-
bable competition with power derived
from large steam central stations
promises to be serious, particularly
IN the manufacturing cities located
within radii of $50 to 800 miles.
The Niagara Company have offered
to sell electricity at the Falls station
at $1S per horsepower annum; this
figure doubtless including what the
company considers profitable mar
gin. In each case horsepower is to
be delivered for "a hours a day, 365
days per year. Obviously the difference
between $45 and SIS, or S27, may be
expended to cover losses in transmits
sion lines and still permit the Mag
ara company to compete on an equal
basis with the best designed central
station. This difference is very
wide margin and would seem to af-
ford so large n radius of distribution
rs to easily absorb all the energy that
the Cataract company could dispense.
Our more sanguine electrical engi-
neers predict that ut no distant day
even New York and Chicago may be
thus supplied. Steam experts posi-
bly, little jealous of their electrical
contreres, positively declare $50 or
IT'S miles to be the commercial limit
of power transmission.
The woman who jumped off the
Brooklyn bridge is not SO much in
fault as the authorities make out. She
wanted to be in the swim, and not in
those terrible crowds which are squeez-
ing across that mighty link by day
and night. If anything is maddening
it is stemming the tide of humanity
that flows between New York and
Brooklyn.
Richard Croker is an authority on
"practical politics" and "machine
politics. Considerable Importance,
therefore, attaches to the view which
he expresses that machine politics
are the kind to win with" He should
have said SIS of course, but he and
the grammar are not intimate friends
1t is important to remember, however,
that there are distinctions and diff