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ducts is justifiable and has injured our
trade much more than American dis
elimination has injured theirs. The
Records Washington Correspondent
says: 1.-The only persons who are en-
tirely satisfied with the Dingley bill are
the eastern manufacturers and the Ohio
wool growers and they are fighting tn
prevent change. Very little is known Of
what the members OF the committee are
doing. They keep the details to them
selves, and refuse to give information
concerning particular items but it is
generally understood that they are re-
ducing the Dingley rate all around, and
that there will be but slight increase
over those imposed by the present law.
1t is understood also that the duty on
WOOL will be reduced from IL, II. and 13
cents 20 D, 6 and 8 cents per pound, and
that the rate on coarse wool, which is
not grown in this country, may be as
low as cents a pound The committee
is very much impressed by the protests
that have come from foreign nations,
and has sent to several of the ambas-
sailors, informal assurances that there
will be nothing to complain of when the
bill is completed.
In revising the bill the senate COM
mittee is trying to do something to
stimulute and encourage the foreign
trade as well as to protect domestic in
dustry, and it Is studying the protests
from other governments with serious
concern. Whatever retaliation may
come from the advanced duties upon
manufactured goods it will fall upon the
farmer and not upon the manufacturer
OF this country, and there is no use for
Secretary Wilson and other agents Of
the government to try to increase ex-
ports in agricul ural products as long
as the markets are disturbed. and en-
bargoes are raised against us 10 Ietalia-
tiOn for excessive duties and discrim-
nations on this side Of the water. By
single vote in 1894 the results OF twelve
years OF diplomatic negotiation with
Germany were destroyed, and until We
adopt permanent foreign commercial
policy it is waste o. time for either the
government or private enterprise to try
to build up any export trade.
/ believe the democratic vic tories in
Canton, Mckinley's own home, in
Cleveland, Mark Eanna's home, and in
Chicago are directly due to the tariff
threat. The people do not want pro-
tective tariff, but argument is idle. The
monopolsts who paid for McKinley's
election must he repaid at the expense
Of the convalescing business interests
Of this country. Speaker Reed
damned the bill tn. ough the
house because hs knew that it
would effectually prevent second term
for Mckinley. In the senate, Mark
Hanna will reply to all circumstances
Gentlemen, as Chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, prom,s-
ed that these duties should be raised to
this figure There is nothing TO be
said in answer to this though the bill
which doubles the manufacturer pro-
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OBSERVATIONS.
WHAT DOESIT COST?

VITA DOEOl NOoi
What does It cost, this garniture Of death?
1t costs the life which Gcd alone can give;
Ii costs dull silence, where was musie's
breath;
Ii costs dead JOY, that foolish pride may
live.
All. Life, and Joy, and song. depend upon
It.
Are costly trimmings for a woman's
bonnet.
May Riley Smith.
The slaughter of rds for trimmings
has begun to perceptibly decrease the
number OF songsters in America. Un-
less the women, for whose ornamental
ton the birds are killed, refuse to &C.
cept the saciifice any lorger the time
will come, is coming fast when they will
not wear birds because the supply has
been exhausted Field, forest and
brookside will be silent save for the
rustic of leaves and grasses, the purl and
patter OF the water. The so.oists of the
orchestra, the leaders OF the symphony
that has made summer time the vaca-
ton and medicine of the year since we
we're first turned out in the door yard
10 play, are being killed for their
feathers. How many times, battered
by defeat and treason into dispair and
infidelity has faith been revived and
courage renewed by the song OF birds
with the exquisitely modulated accom-
paniment of winds, waters and insects.
What would summer be without the
mathis and vespers, without the midday
chirping of the birds? Here are a few
etateme nts fro N reliable authorities con-
corning their destruction.
In London, at one auction sale alone,
last autumn, the catalogue included in
its descriptive list OF stock for millinery
purposes 5000 birds OF paradise, 5000
imperial pheasants, 100000 assorted
brrd skins from India. and 10000 hum.
ming birds. An article in Forest and
Stream, speaking OF the destruction OF
birds on Long Island, states that during
q short period OF four months 10000
were supplied to the New York d, alers
from single village.
1t is said that in one great New York
importing house there are stored the
skins and plumsge OF more birds than
are in all the museums and collections
OF the world put together.
Four hundred thousand humming
birds. Such tiny creatures-a single
high note Of color, quivering With con-
scious beauty and joy. Even these the
monster will not spare. just now while
the birds are nesting their plumage is
brightest and they are being killed by
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Mr. Marshall Field has gone to Wash
ington to confer with the members OF the
senate committee on finance about the
tariff bill, and he has found that the
hotels are full OF people on the same
business. This country is too big. its
interests are too diverse and varied for
any one OF them to be protected at the
expense of all the others When rive
nue. is accomplished protection shorld
not begin. Protection protects the rich
against the poor, the manufacturers
from the farmers, the tiger from the
lamb. So long as most Of the
manufacturers and accumulated
capital were in the east the
monied interest secured high pro-
lection tariff without much trouble.
few million dollars did not count when
the poi ulation of the Uultei States
could be forced to pay it back. But the
centre OF capital has been moving west
ward steadily. with occasional sp urts of
epeed d, ever since the war. 1t is harder
to agree upon tariff now than it was
a year ago and easier now than it will
be ip 1898.
A western dry gods merchant who
has built up busn So the size OF
Marshall Fields is, and has been
in close relations wi h the markets
of the world. His business is SO large
that no selfish or narrow policy can con-
troll it, a narrow policy would destroy it.
A business whose employees number five
and six thousand people is microcosm.
The principles by which it is ordered
must be ba.ed on congratulations broad
enough to administer a peoples affairs
successfully. Marshall Field said when
he was asked il he had anything to say
on the Dingley tariff bill that he had
nothing to say except the
one general remark that it
is the worst tariff bill ever saw, not
only as regards the rates of duties i'm
posed, but in the complicated and am.
biguous methods of imposing them.
There is scarcely line in the bill that
will not have 10 be interpreted by the
supreme court"
The Germans are especially licensed
at the discrimination against German
sugar. The retaliatory duties which
Germany has placed on American pro-
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SARAH F. HARRIS,
S. II. BURNHAM,
I" w. j. BRYAN,
JOHN L. DoRGAN,
Sc ID. ID. MUIR (Denver)
/" j. r. RICHARDS.
Miss OLIVE LATTA,
Z" SARAH B. HARRIS,
" Dora BACHELLER,
JOSIE READ,
/" SADIE BURNHAM.
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and the young are cared for.
There is no objection to the
wearing Of their rlumage.
The egret. a kind Of heron, from whose
tail plumsge the orrau emf call. an
a'grette is made, in full beauty at the
nesting sc as1n, has becom, almost ex-
tinct because OF the aigrettes.
at is a piratical, merc:less flag. the
dainty aigrette, rising among buds and
blossoms on the spring hats and bonnets.
The beautiful and grs ceful terms which
Dot long ago animated The seashore have
been almost annihilated by the use of
their plumsge on womens' hats. The
snowy heron, from which the most
beautiful aigrettes are obtained, is be-
coming very rare, and it is predicted it
will soon be extinct unless extraordinary
measures are taken for its protection.
In Chicago the women have become
deeply Interested in the crusade for the
birds led by the womens' clubs. From
that centre it is expected that the move
inert will be carried throughout the
country, under the auspices of the
federated women's clubs.
A strong, growing Audubon society is
already organized in Illinois and Massa-
chusetts. Pennsylvania, New York and
other states have such associations, or
are forming them. TIE Audubon 60
cieties require pledge from each men,
her that she will not wear the plumage
of any wild bird and that he or she flor
there are men in the Audubon societies)
will discourage bird slaughter in all
ways. These, with kindred associations
aud with the cooperation OF students
and lovers OF nature everywhere, are
arousipg such interest in the cause Of
the birds that it is in fair way to be
won.
The school children are greatly inter
es:ed in the protection OF birds, but a
Chicago teacher said the other day
that it was hard to teach boy not to
kill birds when his mother wears their
dead bodies or wings on her bonnet. The
work in the schools must be encouraged
at home.
Although the death of the birds to
lovers of nature is loss which can not
be exaggerated by any material VEN
geance, the value OF trees and
grain which the birds save
from destruction by eating the
worms and bugs which live on them
is not to be estimated. Ornithologists
say that there is a larger variety Of
birds in Nebraska than in any other
state in the union. They are sent by
Providence to devour the swarms of
Insects which are here in correspondingly
large numbers. If the race fails to ap-
preciate the reason for this nice adjust
ment, it must take the consequences OF
interfering with the plan.
1t is trite TO speak Of women as the
gentler sex. If by her merciless vanity
the most beautiful part of the natural
world is destroyed, the other sex can
laugh admoniiion to scorn, get other
mentors, and put and keep women in
the state OF subsection which their
wanton cruelty de servee. The only su.
periority worth having is that Of the
heart and the heaL. When women show
that they have neither by refusing an
appeal to both, at the same time they
resign, consciously or unconsciously, any
claims 10 superior moral instincts. How
ever women have never yet refused to
aid righteous cause. The following
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-01
HARD FIG RrING IN CUBA.
Tho Patriots RnGaGo the spantnFds Datly
Al Parts or the Island.

TAo Patriots RnGaGo the spantnFds Datly IN
All Parts or the Island.
HAVANA, via Key West, Sept. 29.-At oayo
Julia, near Manzanillo, Santiago do Cuba, the
Spanish battalion Of San Fernando In an en-
Ragement with the insurgents lost five officers
and forty-one soldiers.
At Risco de Esperanto, Ptnar del Rio prov
inoe, the Spanish guerrilla forces Of Guannjay
had another sharp engagement yesterday with
the Guiana. Tho losses were heavy on both
sides.
Heavy fighting IL going on among the Pur-
gatorio hills, Matanzas province. The insur-
gents, under Gen. Betancourt, are using dyna-
mite largely. In a recent engagement there
the Spanish losses were so great that the
Havana newspapers charged the Spanish OIL
soldiers were not allowed TO fight to the best
advantage.
On the border of Matanzas province fifteen
pacihcos have been assassinated by Capt
Cosso of the Spanish guerrillas. Among the
victims was q woman 70 years old.
Carlos Gonzalez, another insurgent who sur
rendered to Gen. Molina In Maranzas, has been
assassinated by the Spaniards. Tho Spanish
report Of the capture Of a recent expedition
from the United States Ia officially denied by
the Cubans.
Gen. Gomez has issued q proclamation re-
jecting- once moro the homo rule offered to
the Cubans by Spain.
A large herd OF cattle bound for Havana was
Jos6 de las Lajas. The scarcity Of meat and
other provisions is still felt in the capital.
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JUDGE yuHNsoN,s WARNING.
Many Kisudikers VIII Never Get % Dawson
white Pass Utterly Useless.

Many kieudikeru Will Never Get 70 Dawson-
white Pass Utterly Useless.
In Q letter which reached New York yester-
day the Hon. Charles S. johnson, United States
Judge for the district Of Alaska, writing at
sitka under date Of Sept. 10. says:
81 have answered about fifty letters OF in
quiry in the last week, and In every letter have
urged the wisdom of waiting until spring bo-
fore coming to Alaska To-day we get the lows
brought out by the Portland and l am sustained
in what I have written.
There are now more than 1000 people at
at Lakes Linderlnsn and Bennett trying to got to
Dawson and the Yukon. Not a quarter OF thorn
will get In this year. Many will never get In. They
are even now getting discouraged, and the
Queen, now lying here, has on board about nifty
disheartened fellows returning 10 their homes.
The White Pass is utterly useless, Only nfteen
outfits all told have been able TO get In over II,
and now, with the constant rains. 1t 10 impas-
sable. At Dyoa-the Chiikoot Pass-thoy are
still going in as far as the lakes. but can get no
boats there to go on down to the Yukon. Great
suffering 10 bound to ensue. Offers are made of
$3.50 10 carry four boards over the pass TO the
lakes. and even that Is no inducement.
o the boat two weeks ago quite q party
came to Sitka and took the Alaska Commercial
Company's steamer Dora, intending to go to
Disenchantment Bay and go to the Yukon via
what Is called the YakutaL or Mount b. Elias
pass. 1t iB alleged to be the easiest trail yet
found. bnt that remains to be, demonstrated
summit-only about 1900 feet In altitude-in
half a day, and that from there to White River
then down White River to the Yukon"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-01
BEPARr1sANsHIP IN TIE SCHOOLS.
VTsterviier's Beard or Education in . Dead
lock and the schools Not Vet Opened.

VJatervliers Beard or Education in . Dead
lock and the schools Not Vet Opebed.
ALBANY. Sept. So.-The non-partisan Board Of
Education in the city OF watervliet Is In q dead.
lock over the appointment of q corps Of teach
ers, ~janitors, and other employees necessary to
be made before tho schools can be opened for
the present school year. As q result the time
for opening the schools has passed by. while tho
children of the city still are enjoying q vaca-
ton. The two Republican members of the
board appealed to Superintendent Skinner Of
the State Department Of Public Instruction.
asking that they be directed to open the schools
Of the city with q full corps of teachers. and
that the two Democratic members OF the board
be removed. Superintendent Skinner has
ordered that the Board of Education
of Watervliet Immediately provide tho
necessary number OF Q~ualined teachers and
open the schools on or before Oct: 4
the question as to whether the Democrats or
Republicans are censurable for the condition Of
effairs existing in that city. but says that unless
his order is complied with he will exercise the
authority vested in him und r the general
school law and open the schools himself. In his
Whatever may have been the operation else
where OF this effor. OF modern legislation to
keep politics out of the schools by this method
of bi. partisan boards, the direct result In this
city has been TO inject politics In tho schools to
been lost sight Of. even the school itself. 1t 10
earnestly hoped that at an carly day some legis.
lation will be enacted that will render the pres
ent conditions impossible
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-01
CONVICTED OF 4 MEAy SPINDLE.
Linke Sent to Jail Ter Two Years for Running
. BoGus Employment Agency.

Linke Sent to Jail Ter Two Years for Running
. Boaus Employment Agency.
Richard Linke. who went from $50 Third
avenue. this city, to Jersey City about Sept. l
and opened q bogus employment agency at Al
Montgomery street. was convicted in the Gen.
oral Sessions Court yesterday Of obtaining
money under false pretences and sentenced to
two years at hard labor in State Prison.
Linke had a desk and a few chairs In his
office and two fiaring signs outside, On one
was printed Star Employment Bureau" and
on the other Central Employment Agency.
Ono complainant against him was William A.
Schubart, from whom he got So on q promise OF
furnishing employment in q brewery that did
not exist. Another victim was Henry Tango.
who went to him to get employment as chemist
in q distillery. Linke said he couldn't get him
such a job. but offered to employ him II he
could give $50 as security for his honesty.
LANCE pawned his watch and diamond ring
and re- Used $4b. Linke accepted that and
Lange went to work as collector at ga. 80 q
week. LAnRe found that he had nothing to do
except sit around the office. Linke collected
all the money himself. He charged applicants
fees ranging from 81 to IS and had no situa.
lions on his books. In pronouncing sentence
Judge Hudspeth said:
You have been convictsd of . mean and
most contemptible offence. trust your pun
ishment will DO a warning to others who are
engaged IN the same business
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-01
ORANGE COUNTY'S SHOW.
Great Preparations for . Banps1 Thrsng ut
Goahen To-Day.

SOhhtu S-hA
GOSHEN, Sept. 3o.-Everything 10 in readiness
for the opening of the Orange County Horse
Show Associations third annual exhibition to-
morrow, and II tho weather 10 fno Secretary
Van Nuyse and Managing Director Weston. OK
pet a bumper crowd. All OF the classes have
received generous and high-class nominations.
and society Is going to make q brave showing
tomorrow and Saturday. ..
A feature of this years exhibition will be tho
Increased proportion Of local horses included In
the entries. The fair sex Is going to be very
much In evidence not only in the boxes but
behind the high.strung horses on exhibition.
Miss Stokes Of Tuxedo will drive q tandem.
Mrs. John A. Goldsmith of Walnut Grove Stock
Farm. Washingtonville. will hold tho reins over
her new team Of high steppers; Miss Belle Hon.
ming OF Highland Mills will again put her hand.
some carriage horse Brilliant through his PAGES.
Miss Quincy Of Goshen will drive Royal Prin.
cess. and Miss Hartman of Arden her high.
stepping chestnut marc Warray.
In association has been Bingularly fortunate
n securing GSmpetent Judges for the exhibition
burg. who will, Judge tho heavy harness horses,
SEgHHre Garden and also In Phil.dslphia and
sas County Agricultural Association. He Will
b SS5Y.. to w Sp'S e , TSs saddle soIss. h ssS
ARA and Oliver '% Iseiln q f ris Z t SStS
S Sa ~h0% S., are o well 5pNSNn as eompetent
Cooke, both Of PHILADELPHIA, who s viii n iadse t M
troting classes. are both well known as anna,
ii eS a TeiT rane Assoeisted with Ms.srs,. Win
isiEsandda' c sfSSb = Hon S.S Carl Z, BUR-. Jr.: Of LONG
{sarold, record 2 :0Sl4. are owned By MT. 4, n
H%arrimIn. and both o. these famous turf win
of osf tso wi,l DO exhibited aud driven on both day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-01
TWO P~ERsIsTEST HALF DOLLARS.
Stamped aud Set Adrirt In lsS8 They Return
to Tickle Their FORMER Owners.

EAST o]RRINaroN,:: Me-, Sept. 3o.-one day in
the summer of 1856, when Albert George and
Humphrey Pinhorn Of this village were in
Bangor marketing, they received two half dol
lars fresh from the mint. AS both were young
men with plenty of money for their immediate
wants, they stamped their initials in stencil
upon the new coins and took them to q hotel,
whore they exchanged them for two dinners.
In the Lincoln Douglas campaign Of 1860 the
two young men, who had become voters, Joined
the wide Awakes." an organization of uni
formed Republicans who paraded the towns
with torchlights. One evening after a parade
in Rockland they went out to supper, and in
exchange for a bill paid to the cashier. Pinhorn
received a half dollar marked III. p" 1t was
the coin he had sent adrift four years before.
The war came on, and both of tho young
men enlisted, following the fortunes of the
Twenty second Maine Regiment. For five or
six years. after the war there was no silver or
marked coins untlil the fairfield Hancock cam.
6aif dollar marked III. p" in exchange for beef
which no had sold; He turned 1T over to Mr..
IR oeal store !; who af pstd that It s sSs FL fl f F." Sslt at doi Sss
returned frequently. Mr.; pinhorn got 1t In
l 1ssS, M, MIR. G Ss0rf BiDb IN lisa r. i Sss aK fn 1ss ss
Mr.. Pinhorn had II three times and in
1891 Mr.. George received it and paid it
in 1894, after which it made q long sojourn in
other parts.
the nalf dollar, which bore his initials, and adj
vertised, offering IS for It's return to him.
Several spurious mutations, Of the real arti-
stencil marks were not made in the right kind
Of type. Though he kept an advertisement
standing in all the local papers and in two Of
the Boston dailies for nearly q year, he re-
ceived no tidings of what he wanted. Last
week he went to a Bangor bank to get his pen.
cashier passed out were two half dollars.
Upon the face of one were the old initials. n.
p" and on the other were the letters OF his
own name, "a. A. G." 1t was the long-lost
half dollar which he had stamped and spent for
q dinner in 1855. and for which he had been
Offering a reward. Mr.. George has framed his
half dollar and hung II up over his desk with
orders to have II placed in his coffin. The coin
marked "H. p" was turned loose again to go
out and mako o history for itself.
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CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.
Business Wen Very Anxious Over the Cnsettied
Policy or Their Government

Policy or Their Government
QUEBEC, Sept. 3O.-Uneasiness and dissatis-
faction have been caused here among merchants
by the present awkward position of the Govern
ment in declining to declare its intentions re-
garding the application Of Sir Wlfred Lau-
rier's much-vaunted reciprocal tariff when the
German:and Belgian treaties are out OF the way,
as they will be ten months hence. The suppo-
sition that trade between Great Britain and
Canada would advance with rapid strides at
the expense of that of all foreign powers is now
rapidly disappearing upon both sides of the At
lantic. The representatives Of Canadian trade
have unsuccessfully appealed to their Gov
eminent to allay the existing anxiety in re-
gard to tho basis of trade next season, for
which arrangements should now be made.
A cablegram received here from England TO
ports that the London Chamber Of mmer
has issued a circular intimating that there In
much disappointmen In ENGLAND over the very
~erential schedule. which it was at first sup
posed WAS to apply to Great Britain only, and
that until II Is known what the course of the
Canadian Government for next year will be its
new policy will be OF no material benefit TO
tain this by showing that the Canadian impor-
tations from Great Britain have materially fall
len off under the influence Of the general pref
men Of Canada had the assurance OF its Gov
eminent that the minimum tariff would be ex.
Now they are asked to believe that a year
hence the foreign preferences will be abol-
ished and the mother country alone will get
Governments present position e shown by tho
fact that It Processes two different and per:
fectly irreconcilable trade policies. One of
nations whose tariff is favorable TO Canada; the
| other is to give q preference to British goods
the Canadian tariff, as the law now directs, Is
to be cut in quarter tor the benefit Of all ma
tions whose tariff is as favorable as the Cana
| dian minimum tariff, Canada cannot have an
exclusively British preference. 1t is equally
clear that IL the preference is TO be exclusively
British, the policy OF reciprocity with the
world, announced q few months ago, must be
abandoned.
In short, Notwithstanding all the British
Jubilee gush about Canadian tariff loyalty and
all tho rhetorical fireworks Of Sir Wilfred
Laurier, the ADMINISTRATION of the law as It
the application of tho preferential tariff, In ex.
actly the same position 1t holds to-day.