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Of Spain; they still prefer TO weaken that
army by perpetually harassing its detach-
ments, by lying in wait for 1t while 1t Is on
the march, by destroying It's supplies, by
capturing It's outposts, by causing 1t to
wheel about uselessly, and by thwarting the
plans of its leader. They have been highly
successful, all along, in this kin OF cam
paigning; and It Is the hope OF the revolu-
ton. Cuba could not raise an army so
large as that Of Spain, and could not equip
IL. She can but make the best possible use
Of such elements Of strength as she pos
sesses and it is fortunate for her that
these elements are under the control Of
men able to mako them available.
The rainy season for Cub Is now at It's
height; the yellow fever pervades the
island, and the troops Of neither Of the
belligerents can march in force; but Gen.
GOMEZ takes no rest, and will not give the
enemy any rest.
We now have q surprising piece Of news,
that Gen. GOMEZ has a plan for a campaign
that will last through the summer months.
II this news be correct, it must mean that
the revolutionary commander has deter
mined that, regardless of obstacles, he will
ITOSeCuUo yeb luIJhCE buCh oPSio
tions as those in which he is now engaged,
and that he will continue to harass the
enemy. without pause on account OF
the torrid weather, tho inundation, the
quagmire, or the plague. We cannot sup
pose that it means that he will attempt to
engage in any movement of magnitude, for
such q thing would be impracticable at any
period Of tho next three months. But
GOMEZ is q mar of genius, and IL he has
planned a campaign for the summer the
plan most likely will be executed.
We have another surprising piece Of
news, that the Spanish army in Cuba is
again in need of achievements. We were
not disposed to believe the rumor which OBJ.
tanned currency in Havana a week ago, that
WEYLER had called upon Spain to send
forty additional battalions to Havana; but
we learn from Madrid that Premier CANo-
VAS has made a statement that may be re-
garded IA in some manner c~onflrmatory Of
the Havana rumor. The Premler's words
were that eff the Spanish army in Cuba
should suffer severely during the rainy
season, the Government will send 10000
more troops to the island In October, so as
to inflict a final blow upon the insurgents
This statement is a significant one. 1t in
dictates that the Madrid Government does
not believe WEYLER's monotonous allega-
tions about the paci1cation Of Cuba, the
triumph of Spain, and the collapse Of the
revolution.
There can be no rest for Spain until Cuba
Is independent.
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The Cloud in India.

While there can be very little doubt that
the trouble the English Government Ia ex-
periencing in India with it's Mussulman
subjects is the work of agitators deriving
their inspiration from the neighborhood of
the Bosporus, there Is no reason to believe
that they would nave met even the partial
success they lave but for the plague and the
famine. The Sultan has before this made
efforts to stir up sedition among the Mus.
sulmans of India, but without success. In
1880 emissaries were sent by him to
different parts Of India to preach and propa.
gate disaffection to English rule, but they
were promptly recalled after Mr.. GosCHEN,
who had been sent to Constantinople by
the Government of Mr.. GLADSTONE as High
Commissioner, had notified the Sultan of
his knowledge of the facts and the names
of the emissaries, and had threatened ex-
IRENE measures. The Sultan brooded long
and modify over the contented submission
of the Mussulmans of India to foreign
domination, and on more than one occasion
confided his reflections on the subject to
persons in his confidence. One of these
persons put them on record In n diary, and
one day the volume of the diary contain
| llS lutln was SlOltu, anu, TtpOTU bdlu, IOunu
it's way to an interested embassy.
What troubled the Sultan most was
the contrast between the material condition
of the Mussulmans from India and those
under his own rule who met during the pill
grinlage to Mecca. 1t became a topic Of
conversation in the places of public resort
in the homes of the returned pilgrims, and
the ubiquitous eavesdropper carried the re-
ports to those who conveyed them to the
Sultan. During the Egyptian campaign of
1882, when a large contingent of the Indian
army, mainly composed of Mussulmans
was sent to fight the Egyptian nationalists
under ARAB, an attempt was made to
rouse religious sympathy among the In.
dams, but Intellectually. No symptom of
active disaffection showed itself among
them.
1t is very likely that the intrigues now
on foot in India would have had little sue
cess but for the violence done to Mussul.
man and Hindoo religions and social pref
udice by the invasion of domicile by order
OF the sanitary authorities. This afforded
material and opportunity to the agitators
to agitate, and In certain localities they
appear to have met with success. 1t Is to be
remarked, however, that so far, the active
disaffection has shown itself only in those
localities where it might most naturally be
looked for, at and in the neighborhood OF
the two seaport cities of Bombay and Cal.
cutta, and at Peshawer, close to the Afghan
frontier, all within easy reach Of outside
influence. Although disturbances are 10.
ported at Simla. there u ~ yet NO
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why More?

The Boston Advertiser, the proprietor Of
which is a Republican Congressman, chides
the caucus Of the Republican Senators for
"deciding not to enact an antitrust clause
of the new tariff bill" and calls "the news
of that caucus decision the very worst
news which has come from Washington for
many q long summers day" 1.-The country
wants antitrust legislation" says the Id
Vertiser, land means to have it, too"
The country has more antitrust legisla-
tion than 1t wants now, and more than Is
good for the great business interests. The
zeal of Senators on all sides Of the cham
Der to offer antitrust amendments to the
tariff bill seems to indicate either a strange
ignorance of the decision of the Supreme
Court in the case of the Trans-Missouri
Traffic Association or a belief that it is pop
ular to kick up q great dust about trusts.
Under the Sherman Antitrust law, as
interpreted by a majority of the Supreme
is illegal. Instead Of there being a need of
new anGmore sweeping laws against trusts,
the existing Federal law against them is
too sweeping. and should be amended in
the interest of business and for the purpose
of expressing the intention of the makers
of that law. They builded worse than they
knew, and something which they did not
mean.
Under that law there is full opportunity
to prosecute trusts, good, bad, and indiffer-
emit. What more, then, do the howlers and
trusts want? What further legislation
against their ~bugbears do they seeki They
have got law enough now. What maddens
them is that they cannot get evidence. 1t
must be the concern suspected of being a
trust which they are anxious to punish.
The antitrust provisions of the Wilson
bill are to be reenacted in the Dingley bill.
II that does not make the trust hunter
happy, they ought to console themselves
with the reflection that the Sherman law
is big and wide enough to scoop all the
octopuses In sight. Yet the laws OF
business necessity and strong common
sense cannot long be superseded by the
hasty enactments of men who do not or will
not understand the economic conditions OF
the times. In some form or other, evading
or tolerated or recognized by the law, trusts
must survive until they give way to some
better way Of carrying on business.
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Extraordinary Campaigning.

After the Cuban rainy season had begun,
early last month, we spoke Of the mill
tary activity Of the revolutionists, which
had not been stopped by flood, heat. mire,
or malaria. 1t seemed then that their op-
e~rations soon would have to be suspended
temporarily, as they were at the correspond
Ing period in the two previous years of the
war; but they nave been kept up full
bravely ever since. Up to the present time,
despite all the obstacles to campaigning in
summer, the Cubans lave waged war with
out cessation, refusing to give the Spanish
army any such period for rest as it formerly
had during the heated term.
On July 1, we printed a Havana despatch
which told Of fighting in four of the six
provinces of the island, from which it
appeared that the Cubans were the assail.
: In every combat. In the easternmost
province, Gen. GARCIA moves ceaselessly,
and our latest reports tell of his success in
several encounters; in the westernmost
province, Gen. MoNTEAGUDo, within a week,
has driven the Spaniards from a number
OF fortified places; in the central provinces,
Gen. GOMEZ, Gen. DELGADo, and Gen.
BETANCoURT have struck the enemy's
forces not less than forty times within
the last fortnight. Even in the province
or Havana, and very near the city, there
have been serious combats or skirmishes
every day, and the apprehension aroused by
the boldness OF the insurgents has been
such as to compel Spain to resort to un,
means for the defence of the Cuban
capital. Just before the rains set in, Gen,
WEYLER moved a large body of troops
to the eastward, in order to put a stor
to the revolution there, and he himself
took steamer TO Santiago. He probably
expected only to hold Gen. GARCIA in
check; but we know that he has beer
unable to do 80, and has kept out of the
way of the redoubtable leader, who has
repeatedly broken his lines, assailed hi,
tanks, and captured his artillery.
We need not say that the manouvring o.
the reyolutionists in the field is the same
~ 1t has always been; they still refuse t.
Aght . pitched battle with the great army
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The McCawley Nomination.

The fact that the Senate Committee on
Naval Affairs, by a majority of one, directed
a favorable report upon the nomination of
CHARLES l.. MCCAwLEY to be a Captain In
the Marine Corps shows that those who
voted for 1t did not consider the appoint
ment illegal.
Section 1900 of the Revised Statutes
declares that "no person under 20 or over
% years of age shall be appointed from civil
life as a commissioned officer OF the Marine
Corps" Mr.. NEGATIVELY Is many years
above this age limit; but the naval authori-
ties point out that this section, 1850, has
been superseded by the act Of Aug. o., 1882,
which puts no restriction on age.
On the other hand, this later act makes
certain restrictions in regard to civilian
appointments. 1t declares that call the
undergraduates at the Naval Academy
shall hereafter be designated and called
naval cadets; and from those who success.
fully complete the six years course appoint
ments shall hereafter be made, as it il
necessary, to fll vacancies In the lower
grades of the line and Engineer Corps
of the navy and of the Marine Corps." Sen
ator CHANDLER, who was Secretary of the
Navy in those days, urges that this was
an act directed against civilian appoint
ments, but the Judge.Advocate General
holds that the words of the act show
clearly that the restriction applies only to
the lower grades of the line and that the
Marine Corps staff Is exempted from it.
But, assuming that the nomination is
legal, is 1t wisel The whole modern ten
dency, in the navy as well US the army, is
to keep staff vacancies. as far as possible, for
the promotion of meritorious line officers.
This has been accomplished to a certain ex.
tent by legislation in the army, and there
is now pending, we believe, a navy bill for
a like purpose. OF course, appointments
to some staff corps, like those of the sur,
geons and chaplains, must take in civilians
but in the case of Quartermasters, for ex,
ample, which, In fact, is the present one,
there is no such necessity. Yot Mr.. Nc,
CAwLEY's appointment was made over the
heads OF nearly forty L~ieutenants in the
Marine Corps.
! The main argument for departing from
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The Bill for Decn,n Couxre..m.n,. Paw.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sfr: My attention has
been called to an editorial paragraph in your paper
Of the goth ult. concerning q bill which I intro
duced in Congress providing that when the expendi.
lures OF the Government arc greater than the receipts
thereof there should be deducted from each salary in
excess OF 5000 per month 20 per cent. thereof, and
from each salary under said amount 10 per cent.
All will admit that in times OF peace Il is wise
policy to restrict the expenditures of the Government
to the receipts thereof. The great tendency tow ard
extravaganza in the appropriations and expenditures
OF this Government arises from the fact that the mem.
bers OF Congress and the onicers Of the Government
have no direct interest in restricting the same. 1t is
easy to be liberal with other peoples money. MIL
lions OF dollars are voted each year for unworthy
projects. because they are coupled In the same bill
with meritorious matters. In order to overcome that
tendency toward extravaganza some means must be
devised to make the onicers directly interested in
economical administration. Members OF Congress,
when they find that their salaries may each be cut
$50 a month. will readily conclude that the unworthy
appropriations should be separated from the men.
without any detriment whatever to the nation.
u ens OF the o, strongest strongest i IN ,S.1 e; operating 'Rs upon the
Government. high and low. appealing for increase OF
sppTSpnatiops increase Of salaries. and increase OF
pervade Washingt2n that is bound to have an enor.
MEASURE upon the other onicers OF the Government viii
be TO limit their demands upon Congress for appro-
their own departments. When they ascertain that
such demands may affect their own compensation. It
prevail. The revenues of the nation have at all times
been sufficient to give good administration. Under
the influence of such . law. an entirely different senti.
ment concerning the appropria'ions will exist at the
national nat n capt capital; The on =. and employees win
preparations within the estimated revenues.
simply IVY II aS jee s% the e isS sas'% II p or s%Sh : int sp rs., Witch insn
the Affairs OF the nation, will forever in times OF
same time, by simply curtaiiins the unwise appropri'
a.ions. viii not impair the efficiency Of the admins,
WARRINGTON, d. c., July 9.
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Foreign Notes of Real Interest.

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Six Moroccan students. who have completed thef
studies at the italian Naval Academy. have been sent
back TO their country on the warship I%panto.
A society called LES Amis du Louvre" has been
formed In France for the purpose OF buying pictures
for the National Gallery which would otherwise so
to foreign or private collections.
Naturalization in France ,cems 70 ba d,u,r,sh,ns
o,,v 10 400 n.v c,,,,.p. hav,rr han 49, I,., go
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Tho Irish brigade.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sus-Sfr: without any dis
parAgemonto of the s~ixty.nrst New York. comrades in
our own Red Trefoil Division. allow me to suggest
to your enthusiastic correspondent, IL, NJ" that
"thcre were Others" Nor was the First Minnesota
supereminently distinguished except at Gettysburg.
II was usually on provost duty. Gen. Walker had
his preferences. but others, OF higher rank, did not
always agree with him. Sumner. Hancock, Richard
son. Caldwell. Humphreys. and smyth thought the
Irish Brigade did pretty well. Their showing is quite
respectable in FoI's 800 fighting regiments. SO did
the enemy, and the opinion of the London Times cor.
respondent from Fredericksburg ia quoted In tho
history studied In our public schools lin Barnes's).
while their charge al Antietam was specially men.
toned by Mcclellan.
ny the way. tho flags "captured" there by Barlow
had been already marched over. with a LOT OF dead
rebels. by the Eighty eighth New York, who were too
busy nghting to stop to pick them up, Miles was
always a glorious fellow. Bulow didn't like MS. and
once, under a mistake, Joyfuily exclaimed, THAT
Id Irish Brigade has broke N At last. - to he cor
rected by Col. Smith OF the sixty ninth. who told him
they had captured the enemy's works aud he had
come Tor further orders. IRISH BRIGADE.
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HEROIsM.
A Conneoticut Mans Experience with y Sub
stitute Bnthtub.
Nrops the Ansonid Sentinel.

Frop. the Ansonid Sentinel.
Ono Of those ridiculous situations which Al
the time bring the coolest sweat out on a mans
brow, and ever after remain with him as a con.
slant source of mirth, occurred to a Shelton
merchant a few days ago. He thought he
would take a bath, and as his fiat is minus ono
Of the chief requisites for the the job-a bath.
tub-he ~eXtemporized one out Of a small wash.
tub and enjoyed n cooling ablution.
He had just concluded and stepped from tbs
tub for the towel, when suddenly the top hoop
Of the tub burst with a sharp report, and the
OF the tub would soon be flooding the floor. Al
tho same moment he thought OF the store be.
meath and the amount Of damage the water
would do as 1t ran down through the ceiling.
He Is a man of quick thought, and in a moment
he did the only thing possible, threw himself
down beside the tub and, ~clasping his arms
around it, held the already fast swelling slaves
ter, in-but what a situation. He dared not yell,
for he was hardly In a condition to receive call.
ers, especially as he knew that all in the block
at the time were of the gentler sex, and he real.
lied at once that the only thing left for him was
to stay in that position until the return OF his
wife, who was out on a shopping, expedition.
fully remained in his most uncomfortable posi-.
ton until relief In the shape Of his wife ap.
peared. Then to cap tho climax, when he asked
her to get a rope or any old thing to tic about
the tub, she, after a long At Of uncomfortable
laughter, asked him why he didn't carry tub
and contents out to the sink room and pour out
on her face he did as she said, and without q
word donned his clothing and wandered out
into the cold, unfeeling world, q crushed and
Inundated man.
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INDIGESTION Of anything like an organ
lied general insurroction As In 1857,
probably due to the population being I'M
armed and to the vigorous execution Of the
Arms acts. All the same the position is
one calling for great vigilance on the part
of the English authorities In India, and
cannot but be the source Of considerable
anxiety to the Government in London with
so many troublesome complications to DO
considered nearer home.
The total European population Of India,
excluding English troops, 10 under one
hundred thousand, scattered throughout
q native population Of about 2S7, 600, 900.
Fortunately for the dominant race, the
native population is homogeneous neither
In race nor religion; and as yet the
national spirit has not sufficiently devel-
oped to bring Brahmins, Mussulmans,
and Buddhists into accord against
their %conqucror. At the same time the
Indian authorities have not neglected
preparations against possible revolt, Int
places Of refuge have been created at nu-
merous points throughout the country to
which the Europeans in the interior can
resort ut the first sign of danger. Some
dependence is also placed on succor coming
from Australia in case of any interruption
of the Sucz Canal route. On the whole, tho
| prospect that the Sultan's influence can stir
up a general revolt against English rule In
India, unless 1t is supported by some visi-
BILE, tangible demonstration Of force on the
Indian frontier, is remote. The mobiliza-
tion of the Afghan army and it's %concentra-
tion toward Peshawer and Candahar would
afford the required support to q Mussul-
man rising in Northwestern India, but
the Ameer is most unlikely to give the
British Government a pretext for reducing
him and his country to vassalage, unless In
his turn he were backed up materially by
some power nearer Cabul than CONSTANT
nople. The Sultan, therefore, may be TAX
ing no more for his trouble in melting the
Mussulmans of India to revolt against
English rule than to make the Government
in London more ~resolute than ever to
diminish his prestige and strip him of what
power and influence remain to him..
The only thingtha t would make the crisis
in India really dangerous for England would
he that some powerful European Govern
ment or alliance should be behind the
Sultan. OF that there is, so far, no proof.
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FORT HAWKINS WOW A sAnm.
new Tecumseh Once Caused It TO ne Ateacheo
by superstnious Indians.

Fron the Macon Telegraph.
A few days ago Ben l.. Jones converted thu
old fort built In 1905 at Fort Hawkins into a
barn. Although the old log structure has stood
the storm Of shot and shell and has been exposed
to all the varying changes of weather since that
early period, not AN unsound timber Is to he
seen In 1t to-day. The 'ogs OF which It is con.
structcd arc as solid and sound as they were "a
and to-day 1t would burn like rosin II a match
were stuck to n ragged end.
Inc structure was built as a Government
trading post or factory. whore deer skins were
var, from 1912 to 1914 1t was a rendezvous and
distributing point for the United States sol.
diers, and Major Phil Cook was In
Anticipating the dangers from the torch OF the
on n high stone foundation. the floor OF the
wooden structure extending beyond the rock
walls. Portfolios were made in tho extended
floor so as to shoot Indians who might try TO
scale the walls to set fire to the woodwork.
During tho famous Creek war melted nv
Tecumseh and his brother, who was known M
the Prophet, this building was in the centre az
the territory attacked. Tecumsoh was one OF
was begun between Great Britain and tbs
United States he communicated with the tribes
from Florida to Canada, advising them thai
then was tho time for the Indians TO reclaim
Eastern paper. that a comet would appear In
the sky at n given time. SO he notified the In.
dams that when his arrow appeared in thu
heavens. 1t would be q sign for them to attack
more vigorously attacked in pursuance Of this
order than was any other in the country.
The fort received its name from the Hon.
BENJAMIN Hawkins, a Senator from North
Carolina, who had been appointed a Comma.
sioner to Georgia to draw up a treaty with the
Creek Indians.
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From the Marine Journal.

Landsmen who are slow to realize the tre-
mendous force of the sea had an object lesson
ashore in this city the other day when five large
tanks, built to contain 100. 900 pounds OF SOAP,
but temporarily filled with water, and situated
on the fourth floor OF a large building on West
Fifty.second street, this city, collapsed and COM
three men and doing q large amount of damage.
The tanks were each fifteen feet high and about
pounds OF water, but the floors and supporting
beams proved altogether inadequate to stand
the strain. A wave Of the dimensions of one OF
when such a wave breaks on a vessels deck tho
force of the blow can only be estimated by the
amount of damage 1t does in spite of the elias
ITCHY Of the water beneath the vessel to ease
her in receiving the shock. When the city fire.
men state that a stream from q hose under fifty
pounds pressure will cut through any ordinary
brick wall. the force Of the sea In a gale may be.
perhaps, better imagined.
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We see, as we expected to see, that the
Hon. ROSWELL PETT1BoNE FLowER. lately
talked of as a friend and perhaps a candidate Of
a Tammany movement for municipal issues only.
with tho principles Of It's national platform
spirited away for the OCCASION, expresses tho
opinion, in the Forum, that anything approach
ing successful "non.partisanship in city govern
mcnt is impossible, and that tho elimination
of political considerations from local affairs, un-
Influenced by party Affiliations. " Is a "specious
proposition" Brother ROSWELL PErTrBoNE is
too old q bird to DO smothered In chaff.