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Theatres and Business.

The receipts of Paris theatres arc caro-
fully collated under Government direction.
and at the close of q theatrical season IL Is
always possible to tell what the receipts
lave been, not only of all the theatres and
concert halls collectively. but of each.
General business in Paris during the late
theatrical year has not been good, yet
the receipts of the theatres for the sea-
son Just closed were 3O.O00.O00 francs.
or $4,000, 600, the highest since the Ex-
position year, 1889, when they reached
100000. Six millions expended In q
year for theatrical amusements is a consid-
cradle sum-a larger sum. perhaps, than
any other city can show for theatrical and
operatic amusements exclusively. The
ordinary receipts Of London theatres and
music halls are usually in excess of 91.-
100000, or 81. 5000 900, but the amount de-
rived from theatres alone Is probably less
in London than in Paris.
In Paris, In gross receipts, the Grand
Opera comes first, the Coincide FRANCHISE
second, the Opera Comique third, the Cha
telet sixth, the Gymnase seventh, the Am
bigu eighth, and the Porte St. Martin ninth.
The question is often asked why In
hard times theatres prosper more than
other business. Why is it that when
people arc stinted for other expenses
they have money for theatresi When
business Is not good, labor poorly re
Quilted, and capital partially unemployed
theatrical performances of a light and
diverting character flourish and serious
performances are neglected. Bad timel
are good for light entertainments, and
SHAKESPEARE spells bankruptcy unless
during great commercial activity. Such Ii
the rule, and the condition of affairs which
has been noted in the city of Paris is oh
seryable In New York.
When business is good serious plays at
tract theatre-goers. During the presen'
season the most successful performance
have been entertaining rather than i'm
ressive. At ont theatre In town a diyertini
show has been given which recently passet
J Its two hundred and hftieth performance
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In Hungary the harvest Is in q critical state.
Not only has the inclement weather dashed tho
hopes OF an excellent harvest to the ground, but
for the first time the effect OF Socialist propa.
OF agricult ,.ral Hungary. in the fertile Alfold
country. According to an old peasant maxim,
the day on which the Hungarian harvest begins
is st. Peter and Paul-Jupc 29. A universal
for that day, but the Hungarian Government
have decided not to expose the ingathering of
the harvest, upon which the well-bcing of tho
whole country depends, to the good or bad will
Of the laborcrs.
A great number of most energetic measures
dapmcs in all the threatened provinces been in.
creased. but the consent Of the War Minister
has been given to the concentration Of troops,
whose task II will be to protect the laborers who
them. The municipal functionaries will be re-
lieved of their ordinary duties during the har-
vest, SO that they can be on the spot and can
help to arrange affairs between employers and
lnborers. Government agents travel from vii
lage TO village to explain to the rural population
the greatest injury. The Minister for Agricul-
ture has decided to concentrate an army of
harvest laborers on the Government estate of
Mezohegyes. where they will be provided for
until the need for them arises.
As long as tho laborers engaged for the harvest
keep their engagements, these reserve laborers
will work. on the Government estate. But the
moment that any proprietor sends word that his
laborers have struck work. the required mum.
Der OF laborers will be sent to the property In
question. protected by soldiers, who will stay on
the property until tho harvest is over. Should
these reserves be insufficient to satisfy all de-
mands, the Government has provided that the
men employed in the extensive Government for
moro still are needed, convicts will be taken
from the prisons.
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A New Puzzle.

The enrolment pledge of the Brookield
or Citizens Union or anti-Platt Republic
cans is for the students of the enigmatical
or the occult, rather han for voters of
commonplace mind. The man who takes
1t declares his "belief that municipal cleo
tions should be conducted on a strictly
non-partisan basis" and then enrolls him
self In the Republican organization Of
the city of New York" How can a believer
in elections IN a non-partisan basis con-
scientiously enroll in n Republican organ
~ization, and particularly, the election be-
ing municipal, in a Republican organiza-
tion Of the city of New York;
The Order Of Republican Non-Partisans
or Non-Partisan Republicans is a new Goo
Goo puzzle, or 1t is straight lunacy. Or is
1t possibly a device to catch the poor Citi-
zen Unionists as "non-partisans." and at
the same time beard the Administration at
Washington for a little patronage as the
regular Republican organization of the
city Of New York"i
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CRUMPAcKER is opposed to annexation.
CRUMPAcKER doesn't PROPOSE to nllow any moro
annexation. CRUMPAcKER has introduced into
the House of Representatives q resolution for n
constitutional amendment providing that mo
non-contiguous territory shall be annexed
to tho United States except In pursuance
of a treaty negotiated by tho President.
concurred In by two-thirds of each house Of
Congress" and by CRUMPAcKER. Z" and ratified
by tho Legislatures of three-fourths of tho
States" and by CRUMPACKER, and providing
that mo contiguous territory shall be annexed
except by treaty concurred in by two
thirds of each house and by CRuMPAcK-
ER, "tho vote on tho question of con-
curronce not to be taken in the House of Repre-
sentatives until two years have elapsed from
tho time OF taking tho vote In the Senate and
tho vote of CRUMPAcKER. CRUMPAcKER Is very
particular as to the persons. contiguous or nom
contiguous, whom he permits to be his fellow
citizens. II annexation proceeds, IL will he over
the living body. and in spite Of the cries of
CRUMPAcKER. CRUMPAcKER vetoes 1t.
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accredited TO the Divinity. Religion has
always been, and yet IL the primal and the
final force in the thought Of mankind. The
spirit Of It lives forever, ~ n age and one
generation follow another.
Religion 10 the strongest, as It Ii the most
abiding, OF all the forces upon earth. No
Government can exterminate 1t. All pow
era arc subordinate to It. It can perish In
our world only when humanity perishes.
No assault avails against religion. We
know that there were doubters In old
Egypt; that there were plenty OF sceptics In
ancient Greece and Rome; that there were
latitudinarians among the Jews, as there
are in Mohammedan and Buddhist coun.
tries and that there are atheists and In
fdels in Christendom. But no unbelfever
has ever been able to affect the masses Of the
people, who are instinctively religious, or
to undermine religion. There have been
many cases in which apeople gave up their
old religion; but 1t was only that they
might embrace another religion. All Eu-
rope was pagan before It turned to Chris
tianity, as was that part Of Asia which
turned to Moslemism. Several European
countries turned from Roman Catholicism
to Professionalism In the sixteenth century.
Religion, then, Is the greatest and the
most enduring of the forces that exist among
men. One cannot imagine the world with
out It. One cannot conceive of humanity
as destitute Of It. One is unable to tell
how our race would get along, or society
would hold together, OF morality would
prevail, or life would be endurable, II relig-
ion were done away with. or II the force
that is inherent in 1t were destroyed. A
world Of atheists: what kind Of . world
would that be7
As force, religion Is at once spiritual
and practical, touching the soul and the
life. There is nothing else like It.
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Tho Candidate for Mayor.

The Republican enrolment made on Tues
day last shows that the party is in a state OF
unprecedented strength. Even In the days
of Gen. ARTHUR, the spirit Of organized Re-
publican p~artisanship was not 30 vigorous
and lively as 1t is to-day, and the hope
of victory was far less vivid and ex-
citing. There never was a foundation for
such hope as exists now. The coming cleo
tion will follow one in which the Re-
publican ticket received for the first time
In q long generation q majority Of votes IN
New York county. q Democratic stronghold
which years had made apparently impreR-
nable. In the whole territory which will
vote for the next Mayor of New York, the Re-
publican majority was more than $4,000.
M%indfulness of this fact and Of the tre-
mendous Importance Of tho uppermost
question Of the day fills the Republican
forces with ambition to repeat the VIC
tory, or at least to uphold their side OF
the issue at stake with undiminished show
of fight. The vote of the future city of New
York will be watched throughout the en-
tire country like the vote of a new State,
popular interest in it being intense because
of its bearing on the fortunes of the st.
Louis and Chicago platforms.
We may be thankful that the situation
is SO clearly understood by the New York
Republicans that they have rallied in such
great numbers. AS 1t is in the borough of
Manhattan, so 1t is in Brooklyn, In Bronx, in
Richmond, and in Queens. Foolishness or
knavery only could plunge this burning par
tisan enthusiasm for Republicanism into the
cold of non.partisanship, and sicken it with
subordination to the personal qualities OF
some candidate chosen because of a few
Republican agitators' adulation.
To the extent that the first candidate for
Mayor of Greater New York represents the
ideas in which the anti-Bryan public is
most deeply interested, the anti-Bryan oil
anti ammany vote may be expected tc
approach that of 1896. To the extent that
he represents indifference to those ideas
and their suppression under MugwumH
fiummery, the anti-Bryan vote will b
heartless and yea
The supreme national issue ofthe day can
not be ignored or slighted in the X cleo
tion of New York's Mayor with safety t.
the business of the country, in which thu
future city Of New York has so unrivallet
q share. The great bulk of the anti-Bryal
vote cast in New York next November will
be aroused by the principles Of the Repub
lican party.
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After having enticed thousands of his fellow
acted as decoy in the abattoir across the Schuyl-
kill. has succumbed before tho fury of one of his
victims. 1t was a pefarious calling was Bits.
the slaughter pens. lulling their suspicious into
fancied security, establishing them in tho right
positions in the right quarters, and seeing that
no bad breaks were mado while they awaited
their fate. Bill had performed this duty as far
Daok as ane oieesE ennptoyee OF inc stock YARDS
taken to the stock yard when 1t was founded
and there trained in his life work Of enticing his
fellow creatures to destruction. This. II true,
would make the time ho had been engaged in this
reprchensible business more than twenty-five
years. Bill met his death on Wednesday. An
other and much younger steer. apparently real
iZing the traitorous actions of tho old fellow,
charged furiously at him md gored him 80
badly that Bill died the next day.
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An English Statistician on the South
ern States.

Mr.. M. G. MULHALL, the English author
lty on statistics, whose articles on the
progress of the United States nave for some
time constituted q valuable feature of the
North American RevieW, contributes to the
July number of that periodical some com.
mcnts on the Southern States. in the list of
which he does not include three of the
former slave States, Delaware, Maryland,
and Missouri. TIL thirteen commemorative
with which he concerns himself are the
two Virginias, the two Carolinas, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
He begins by noting n fact, often over.
looked, that the increase of population in
these States since 1880 has been $50 per
cent, the same ratio as in the Middle
States. That of the Union us a whole,
however, exceeds 200 per cent. AS
the area of these States Is SlO,,
o square miles, or moro thar one
fourth of the superficies Of the Union,
their population averages only 20 to
the square mile, as against 40 in the
Middle States. Attention Is also directed
to another interesting circumstance, that
in 1890 the Southern States had a male
surplus o: 2 per cent, whereas In the Mid
die States the sexes were equal, and New
England had a female surplus Of 8 per cent
Curious, likewise, is the failure of tn,
negro element to maintain its ground
the Increase Of the colored inhabi
tants in the Southern States sine,
1870 having been only $3.50 per cent.
as against 10 per cent. exhibited by thu
white native Americans and 39.3 per cent
by foreigners. The ~shrinkage of the negro
element Is the more remarkable because, d
DR.. BILLINGS has shown in his report oil
the vital statistics of the United States
1000 colored women give birth to 10.
children, and 1000 white women to onl,
1877 yearly such Is infant mortality, how
ever, among negroes that their rate of In
crease Is 10 per cent. less.
1t is well known that there arc ~relativel,
few cities and towns in the Southern
States nevertheless, the urban population
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srxAron rAUrKxER,s sULLEr.
ne Mas the sntiaractisn or scs,nE Et AEain
AFTER MARY Wears.
From he Washington Post.


Prom the Washington Post.
Ever since the war Senator Charles J. Faulk.
ner OF West Virginia has carried q bullet in
his right leg. 1t 10 neither n Confederate bullet
nor n Union bullet. although tho Senator, who
was only a boy when the war broke out, saw scr.
vice In the great conflict He served with tho
cadets of the Virginia Military Institute at tho
battle Of Newmarket, and afterwnrd as aid to
Gen. J. G. breckenridge and to Gen. Henry A.
Wise, surrendering with tho latter at Apo
mattox.
The bullet which tho Senator has boon carry
ing around for over thirty years, however, was
frod from a revolver which he was handling
Surgeons probed for It in vain and Its. exact
whereabouts was never determined. After 9
time. when the wound healod. tho missile ceased
to mako Its presence felt, and for years past only
memory md a slight scar have served to remind
Senator Faulkner of the accident. A..
Since 30 muny successful operations with the
X-rays have been recorded ho has had q desire
to ascertain Just where the bullet had lodged,
himself It's exact location. Mr.. Elliott Woods,
of tho architects office of the Capitol, who has
u laboratory on Capitol Hill, has made a number
of interesting X-ray experiments, and last nizht
he discovered the little leaden missile In Senator
Faulkner's leg. Quite a number OF, public men
witnessed the experiment, among them Senator
Harris, OF Kansas. and his son; senator Shoup,
and Senator Perkins, and all saw the bullet
through tho clothing, and disclosed adark object
In tho calf OF the leg. Mr.. Woods suggested the
possibility that It was n button on the clothing,
SO a second experiment was. made with the
clothing removed and revealed the object In the
same position. Senator Faulkner at once recog.
nized tho conical shape of the missile. 1t was
located a considerable distance from the spot
whore the surgeons had probed for it and had
evidently worked its way along.
Senator Faulkner has no intention Of having
the bullet removed. as II is. perfectly harmless
and does not give him tho least Inconvenience
He was greatly interested In the experiment
however, as 1t had always boon moro or less OF
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TIE SEED RECORD BROKEN.
Over 30. 900, o Packages Sent Out By Con-
Ereasmcn This Year.
From the Washington Eventns Star.


From the Washington ErentnJ Star.
Over 20, 900, 900 packages OF vegetable, flower,
and field seed have been distributed by the De-
partment of Agriculture during the past spring.
This distribution has given to each member Of
Congress 40, 900 packages Of seed at a total cost
OF $l3O. 900. Over n million Of these packages
were flower seed and nearly 800. 900 field seed.
the balance being a great variety of vegetables.
In the entire distribution nearly every variety
Of vegetable known to the agriculturists was
10 varieties Of beets. % varieties of cabbage. IL
varieties OF carrots, 10 varieties of sweet corn.
1S kinds Of cucumbers. 80 kinds Of lettuce, 10
varieties Of m~uskmelons, II kinds of water
melons, and Is varieties OF onions. The entire
amount Of seeds distributed was sufficient to
plant an area of 1855 square miles. or about six
times the size OF the District Of Columbia
This Ia tho largest distribution of seed ever at
tempted by the Department OF Agriculture. and
complaining that they do not make sales to
farmers and others because they are getting all
the seed they want free from the Department of
Agriculture.
The distribution of seed in 1898 amounted to
$500 packages for each member of Congress, at
a total cost OF $66. $40; in 1894 each Congress
man got 10. o packages, the entire cost to the
Government being $57, 900; In 1895 the number
OF packages Of seeds distributed was the same
reduced to 9i7,O0 In 1896 Congressman got
$4,000 packages each. and the Government paid
$4,000 for the whole lot. During the past
spring each member of Congress has received
10000 packages OF seeds, for which the Govern
ment has paid $3.50
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A Populist O

The Finance Committee of the Senate
made q remarkable incursion INTO the
realm of Populism When 1t decided to lay q
tax upon transactions in stocks and bonds.
1t has been e~verybody's belief hat the tax
on tea and the increased tax on beer would
be abandoned. We are not concerned to
defend those taxes, but at least they would
have had the merit Of producing a great
revenue. 1t is not unjust to say that they
have been abandoned simply and solely from
a fear of losing votes. The "poor mans
breakfast table" and the immense political
influence and power of the brewers over
ruled considerations Of revenue. Tho Re-
publicans cannot be blamed for yielding to
such considerations. Every political party
is bound to take care of itself and not to
ALLEVIATE any considerable number of its
supporters.
But what is to be said of this substitute
tax in the form Of q tax on transactions in
stocks and bonds7 Is it a fair taxi No it
is tax directed especially against the stock
exchanges, and most of all against the Stock
Exchange Of this town. 1t taxes n special
interest, one which all the demagogues Of
Populism and Popocracy are hot-mouthed
in denouncing. The Republican party, the
sole stay of conservatism against the dan
gerous, disorderly, and property-hating
tendencies of the Chicago platform, is not
we'll advised to cater to or take advantage
Of the insane prejudice against Wall
street. If business is to be taxed. IL COM
mercial transactions are to furnish a
revenue to the Government, let all conf
mercial transactions and all business be
taxed. Do not discriminate. Tax not
merely transactions in oil and cotton and
grain and the other great staples, but tax
every mans business, the butcher, baker.
and candlestick maker. A grocer selling
c~abbages is just as legitimate a subject of
taxation as a broker selling stocks.
Even granting that the proposed tax were
sound in theory. will it work in practice
Will it be a good means of raising revenue
In the case of actual transfers of stock it
will be a double taxation, but in the great
body of business of the exchanges, how large
a part does the actual transfer of stocks and
bonds playi 1t plays a very much smaller
part than the well-meaning gentlemen who
propose this tax imagine. Their tax will irri
tate but it will not bleed. 1t is a hasty and
an ill-considered measure, smacking un
consciously Of Populism. 1t will be heartily
commended by the men who hate the prin,
ciples of the Republican party.
In sum, this tax is vicious in theory and
would be defective in practice. The Financ.
Committee should try something else.
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THE SUN. SUNDAY, july 4, 1897.

another house, with q similar entertain
ment, begun In May. will soon celebrate the
fftieth performance, while the moro pom
derous exhibitions have ceased.
The only adequate explanation OF this
IL that when times are bad theatre-goers
go to the play for diversion, whereas
when times arc good they go for instruc-
ton. S~hakespearean r~evivals have usu.
ally proved most successful in times OF
prosperity, and ~burlesque, pantomime, and
farce In time of depression. There is no
certain way, at present, Of estimating the
receipts Of New York theatres, but 1t Is
safe to say that New York spends in a year
for It's public amusements not less tina
$2,5o0,0O0 perhaps 100000
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the confederation Of the suggestions OF our
South American friends.
As for the long-credit system which Euro
pcan traders in the countries Of the far
south have been compelled to adopt, 1t can
not be less practicable for our manufactur-
ers than 1t Is for those Of Europe, by whom,
we may say, 1t has been brought under
proper safeguards. 1t seems undesirable
for us, at first sight. We like prompt pay.
mcnts; we frequently make q discount for
ready cash. But, as English and German
traders lave accepted the customs Of the
countries In which they seek business,
Americans must either follow their
pie. or offer some other particular and I'M
usual advantage to short-credit customers.
AS to the adaptation of our tariff laws to
the suggestions of our friends from the far
south, that would be troublesome, even IL
IL were practicable or desirable. Some
very unwise remarks about this subject
nave been made by several of the delegates.
They have spoken unadvisedly Of the tariff
bill now before Congress; they AVE taken
the liberty Of protesting against some OF
it's provisions which they regard as
adverse to their interests; they have
gone 80 far rs to talk of the likelihood
Of the adoption of what they have
called "~retaliatory measures" by their
own Governments. Such language seems
to us injudicious, not less SO than 1t would
be for US to call upon them to adapt their
legislation to our requirements. We trust
that when the now tariff bill shall be COM
pleted it will be such as to foster the
growth Of trade and commerce between
this country and the countries Of the far
south; but the method Of fostering must
commend itself to all the parties In interest,
and be advantageous to the revenues OF
each of them.
We again express u pleasure with the
visit of the commercial delegates from
South America and Central America and
Mexico. We and. let us trust, they also
have gained information by means Of it
We shall give thought to all the sugges
lions they lave made. We are of the
opinion that important advantages yet will
accrue from their friendly visit.
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without warrant OF Law.

TIC THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sfr: May I ask
through your columns for some Information re-
garding the criminal law rs 1t affects persons
accused OF serious crimesi
In England any policeman or detective who
arrests q party for such an offence as murder Is
bound 10 warn them that any statement he or
she may make Is liable to DO used as evidence
against them. and they are forbidden to exert
But here In New York, II one may depend on
the statements made In tho newspapers, q sus-
pected person is kept on tho rack by the ohi-
short OF physical torture TO extract an incrimi-
mating statement.
IL this the law of the land, or 10 II merely the
law Of detectiYesl EN0L1BHNAN.