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In sixty years the number OF Episcopal churches
in Scotland has grown from 10 to S21.
An English potato merchant offers free medical
attendance and medicine to all customer who buy
his potatoes.
Prince Yoshihito Harunomiya. tho heir to tas
hifado's throne. 10 to visit Europe. Russia In par
ticular. next year.
A clergyman in the west OF England recently
prayed that the spark OF grace might DO watered
with the dow of blessing from on high"
Another eighteenth century fashion seams to bs
revivinS in Englani. London is now admi1ng Q
male soprano. 80 years OF age. named Steele.
Japan has added up the cost of the war with
China and fnda that it is gil .oo0. 600 yen or silver
dollars. The War Department spent III, ooo, 900
and the Navy Department 20, 900. 900.
sIam'i outspoken monarch Is to visit Queen Vic.
toria at Windsor Castle next summer. He will 70
to Europe in his 2. 800. ton steam yacht Maha chakri,
which was built for him in Scotland four years ago.
They have Just discovered In France that though
the palace OF the Tuileries was des royed twenty.
Iix years ago. four onicials char Ked with the preser.
walton and care OF the palace still hold once and
draw their salaries.
An army chaplain at Gosport has Just broken his
right arm for the NTH time. He did It once while
skating. twice by being thrown from . horse, once
ny tumolins on a bicycle. and tho last time by fall.
ing out OF his dog cart.
Only 6,2l2 persons in Prussia had 4 fortune OF q
million marks. $3.50. 900. as compared with o .a5B
Ihs" 5esr before. The richest Prussian is Baron
Hothschnd OF Frankfort on.the. n AIN; next comes
Herr Krupp and then the Prince or Pleas.
An exhibition OF French decadence was given At a
recent performance In the Nouyoau Theatre. Two
very young authors quaIrelled. and instead OF night.
ing che traditional bioodless duel, one used his nsts
and the other his cane on the spot. when both were
removed by the police.
Izumi YoSuka, the inyontor NJ ,bo urr,L.E. 10.
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SUNBEAM6.

"A duck shot by Edward Jackson Of Atohison Ia
\ o.inch nsh in its asophagus.
Mules in carload lots have been shipped NJ q
pront from Heppner. Ore, to Virginia
Ono resident of Bynum. Me-. has taken In soven-
ty-nve pounds OF spruce gum this season.
Horses have been offered at Oxford. Me-. this
week in open market at "95, and take your pick
Finding . large number of ducks in q pond, a
boy huntsman of Abilene. Kan, took a pot shot and
got seventeen Of them.
There 10 said to have been very much less snow
in Maine at tho beginning of March than over before
at this season in forty five years.
AT the beginning OF this month the people Of
Fossil. in Gillian county. Ore. were suffering for
want OF -four. The roads were in such condition
that no hauling could be done.
Ono J. N. Landy. dubbed "the poet laureate OF
Auburn JAIL" 10 permitted to resd his poems to tho
prisoners every evening. at Auburn, Me-, and Il IN
said that his muse rarely takes q day OF.
Near Phoenix. AriE.. James Boyce found a-steel
lance point that appears to dste q long way back.
Some of the local antfquarians refer II to the march
OF Coronado. A few inches of the wood, much dc.
cayed, remain attached to It. The grain shows the
wood to be live oak. which is not found nearer
Phoenix than in Mexico. but was plentiful in Spain.
John D. sanburn OF Acton. Me-. u years old,
who lfvea on the farm where he was born, has AZ.
tended every town. State. and national election
since he attained his majority. has visited the Ac.
ton agricultural fair every day OF its seasons since
its establishment thirty. one years ago. ana has gone
regularly to the Congregational Church. He abJures
liquor and tobacco.
PARTS of the skeleton of aprehistoric animal
worn found on the farm OF Alexander Graham OF
Libarty township. Ind, the fragments indicating
that the animals jaw was probably four feet long.
A part OF the Jaw is in good condition.. as are some
M ina fAAfh which p ahnuf N foAf Ia... k,.
OF the bones were so far decomposed when uncov.
cred that they crumoled.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-16
An Opportunity Worthy OF q States.

y
The election of THOMAS B. REED as
Speaker of the House of Representatives in
the Fifty-ffth Congress, occurred without
Republican opposition. This is as it should
be. 1t is not only a tribute to Mr.. REEDS
past services, but it is also evidence that
the Republican party regards his presence
In the hair as indispensable In the tough
and dusty times ahead.
This incident marks the failure of the
efforts of those who have tried to start q
line of cleavage between q faction Of Nc
Kinley or Administration Republicans, on
the one side. and of Reed or anti-Adminis-
tration Republicans, on the other. There
is room enough, and there is work enough,
and there will be glory enough, for both
President and Speaker If the Republican
party j~ustifes its election to run the Gov
m for the next four years.
Speaker REED is the father of the billion
dollar idea. That is to say, he invented the
theory that because this Is q billion-dollar
country every successive Congress ought to
manage to expend at least one thousand
million dollars Of the peoples money for
purposes Of Government.
MIR. REED is growing older and wiser.
During the last Congress he did his honest
best to keep appropriations on the right
side of the billion-dollar mark; we mean
on the under side. He incurred some per-
sonal unpopularity in the course of this
patriotic undertaking, but he sees now that
it didn't hurt him politically.
Let him persist during the Fifty-fifth
Congress! By cutting out unnecessary
appropriations, by blocking jobs, by stamp
ing out corruption and discouraging ex-
travagance, by bringing the annual expend-
iture down as far as possible toward a rea-
sonable limit, he can do as much as any
other man in America, in the White House
or outside of it, to fortify his party and to
benefit his fellow citizens.
The opportunity is worthy of a great man,
and Tom REED of Maine is a great man.
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Tho Message.

The short but very lucid message which
President MCKINLEY sent to Congress yes,
terday is scarcely moro than q preface to
the Tariff bill which the Dingley COMMITTEES
has now completed.
The Presidents statement Of the condi-
lions which confront us is an indictment;
bis declaration that Congress must prompt
ly act Is a truism; and his forbearance
on every other subject and his economy of
words regarding even the business now in
hand, constitute a promise that whatever
this Administration may do or leave I'M
done, it does not intend to be q talk-shop.
That 10 O rainbow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-16

An order" of Importance to a great many
moro persons than are in our regular army was
issued by the Secretary of War on March 1 and
was put into effect at the forts in the neighbor-
hood Of this city on Sunday, the 9TH instant. Tho
order reads thus:
mo persons except officers OF the army and navy Of
the United States, and persons in tho service OF the
United States employed in direct connection with tho
use. construction, or care OF these works, will DO al
lowed to visit any portion of the lake and coast do
fences Of tho United States without the written au-
thority Of the commanding oficer in charge.
Neither written nor pictorial descriptions of these
works will be made for publication without the au.
thority of the Secretary Of War. nor will any infor-
nation he given concerning them which is not con-
tanned in the printed reports and documents Of the
War Department.
"Commanding Generals Of departments will SEQ
that this order LIS carried into effect. and that the por
mission to visit the defences referred to is only given
for proper military reasons.
Commanding officers. ordnance sergeants, and
others in charge Of Notifications or any means of
lake or coast defences, will exercise great care in act
ing upon applications to visit the works, and will
grant such only as may be warranted for good and
SUFFICIENT military reasons.
Recommending Generals OF departments concerned
will give to this matter their continued personal at
tention to tho end that any dereliction of the duty
herein enJoined may be Immediately observed and
promptly met by discipline"
The enforcement Of this order will interfere
with tho comfort of thousands of persons who
have been in the habit of using the broad slopes
of the forts as promenades; but the order is right
and should be enforced. Our forts have been too
accessible hitherto. We are spending millions of
dollars upon coast defences, some of the efficacy
of which consists In their being and remaining
unknown quantities. 1t is possible that no
harm has been done as yet. but 1t must be re-
membered that the rule is not intended to incon-
venience the 900 Americans, but to render in
nocuous the thousandth visitor, spying about
to learn all that can BIO learned about our do
fences. We are glad 1t has been issued.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-16

The Dingley Tariff bill may be open to
criticism, but to have any effect on public opinion
it must be criticism from some other source than
the Mugwumps, the disastrous failure of whose
lying tariff and humbug scheme of government
generally has been impressed too painfully upon
the people for any p~retence of political wisdom
from them to humbug the public a second time.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-16
Tho BluebIrds Coming Hack.
From he Atlanta Constnutfon,

TFoW mo atlanta COnSfuutfon.
take pleasure In announcing that our little friend
the blucbird. 1.-THE sweetest harbinger OF spring" has
not become extinct. as we all have feared, since SO
many OF his tribe wero frozen during the terrible biz.
lard OF two years ago. Not until last THURSDAY. tho
4th inst. had ! been able to md one. / thought
heard the wellknown twitter OF a bluebird at some
distance ON and upon following II up l came up with
a pair OF them. With returning prosperity the blue.
birds are coming back to US.
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Interesting to tho Hartford "Cou-
rant"

rant"
We find the subjoined remarks on arbi-
tration in the editorial columns Of our es-
teemed~ contemporary and always respected
friend, the Courdnt Of Hartford, Conn:
1.-THE name of the fellow who took the leading part
in the undoubtedly preconcerted) attempt to break
up the New York arbitration meeting was not cor
rectly printed in our dispatches. 1t is wAuHorn
LYNN. His New York nickname, a very appropriate
one, Is WARwHooP LYNN. He is q Civil Justice. a Tam
many man, afree silver man, ashining light at the Irish
Revolutionary Brotherhood dinners. and in all prob
ability q constant reader Of THE Sun. By the way,
another ~Irish-American. who couldn't go to the arbi.
tration meeting. wrote a letter in which he said that
every right-minded man must desire to see the sweet
reasonableness OF arbitration take the place Of war.
and asked: What nations could moro appropriately
and successfully take the initiative than the United
States and Great Britain p The name of this other
~rish.American Is MICHAEL AUGUSTINE CoRRIaAy, and
he is the Archbishop Of New York. THE Sun may have
heard Of him."
AS this appears to be addressed to us, we
beg leave To reply that we are not informed
whether Judge WAUHoPE LYNN is a con-
slant reader Of THE SUN or not. We do
know that Archbishop CoRRIGAN is a con-
slant reader Of the newspaper aforesaid,
certainly to our pleasure and, we hope, to
his satisfaction.
We cannot testify as to the origin of
Judge hymns lack of confidence in sys-
tematic arbitration as a preventative of the
peace between the United States and Eng
land, and a guarantee of the just settle
e of questions in dispute between those
countries. Judging, however, from the
printed reports of Judge hymns address in
the Cooper Union the other night, we
should say that he might very well nave
derived his lingo and anti English arbitra-
ton sentiments, not SO much from the ora
tory at the dinners of the Irish Revolu-
tionary Brotherhood, as from a memorable
speech delivered two months ago to-day at
a dinner of the Ohio Society in this town by
Gen. JOSEPH r. HAwLEY, a Senator of the
United States.
1t is quite true that Judge LYNN de-
nounced England as ga robber nation !"
but that is precisely what Senator HAwLEY
did, in words even severer than those which
are ordinarily heard at the feasts of the
Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. 1t is
true that Judge LYNN expressed the opin-
ion that the idea Of systematic arbitration
with England is largely humbug, but the
language he used in expressing that opinion
was moderate in comparison with that of
the Connecticut Senator on the same topic.
To refresh the recollection of the Hartford
Courant we venture to reproduce part of
Senator HAwLEY's speech of Jan. 16, 1897:
"Let me drop q few suggestions upon another mat,
ter. this being an executive session OF the Senate,
upon the arbitration treaty now pending. Let me say
that l think I shall vote for that treaty. But there are
most vital omissions in it. There Is no provision
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-16

1t would seem from recent occurrences in
Cuba that President MCKINLEY has moro in
fuence with the Spanish Government than his
predecessor had. Ifhe shall justify the reputation
he has won in Spain, and shall abide by tho prom
Use he made in his inaugural, he will relieve his
country from such annoyances in regard to the
Spanish Cuban question as it had previously suf-
fered. There can be no safety for us or for Spain
in a disregard Of the rights or the honor of the
United States, or in permitting tho American
flag to fall into disrepute.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-16
Tho SUN ana tho ..Roar,ur Lion,

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sir: As a daily reader
OF THE Sun for many years and az a wearer OF the
badge distinguishing the order you have called THE
Society OF the Rampant Lion" permit me in the in.
tercst OF accuracy to say that the name as publicly
current Ia THE Order OF the Roaring Lion. /" but that
In regard 10 Its purposes. objects, and Organization
there IA absolutely nothing 10 make public al present,
IL may be said. however, without indiscretion, that
the order cannot he called a literary society, since no
literary qlaiincatlons are exacted as o preliminary TO
displaying the badge. !"
The future OF the order remains TO he disclosed
!. ~, Secretary First Department.
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Contempt OF Court.

From the Kansas CITY Journal.
A dozen expert doctors testified that an Hmporia
woman had been SO injured I'm railroad accident that
maternity must be TO her a thing unknown. She
sot damages on this testimony, and the railroad ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court, where, after years Of
waiting. the decision OF the lower court has Just been
affirmed In the mean time the Empona woman hos
given birth TO three ehildssA-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-16
a STARTLING PROPOSITION.
Is Eaucatlon D~s.truotlye or ~AErleul.ur.,

From the Galveston Mos.
we can read present tendencies and conditions,
the vices, extrayagances. Establishments, and glitter
OF urban life are absorbing the native energy and man.
hood OF the farms just In the proportion that educa.
tion Is dinused in rural dbtrcts. The unparalleled
growth Of the great cities proves this hey ond all per.
adventure. The ~illiterate Immigrant Is therefore tho
immediate necessity OF agriculture.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-16

The various reports received from Cuba
within tho past ton days lead us to believe that
tho change in the Administration of this Govern
ment has served as a caution to Spain. That In
advantageous to both countries.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-08-20

| But-and this is a very important but"
unless the traveller lands At ST.
Michaels not later than August 25 he
stands good chance (or a bad one
rather) of finding the Yukon closed by
ice. In that case he can choose between
| spending the eight winter months on
| the bleak sea coast of ST. Michaels or OF
walking 1900 miles OH the Yukon TO the
mines as soon as the river is frozen
over. In this case he will require =
pack of Indian dogs and one or two In.
dian bipeds to make the journey.
The Juneau route is the other way to
the klondyke. II is more direct and
| 1000 miles shorter than the ocean
route, but ca q be taken best in the WIN
ter and ouiy by men Injured to hard
| ships. In this case, too, Seattle is the
/ starting point. A coastwise steamer
t: kes the traveller TO Juneau. 900 miles,
where the outfit can be purchased
I From Juneau to Dyea is another 100
iniles. then two trips taking eight .c
/ ten days. At Dyea the Chilkat indians
can be engaged to assist the traveller
over Chilkat pass-and having safely
! NiSSs1u ~ AN mus Il ocdl ~
| gate the lakes and streams. because he
has a journey of about 700 miles to
reach the mines after leaving ChiIkat
In the winter the boat gives place to
snowshoes and the dog sled.
AS VIC have said, this direct course is
only for stalwarts, but indeed none else
should think of going TO the Klondyke
and the fatigue and hard dships of such
journey will ties; even their best en-.
ergies.
The expense of the trip is also worthy
of consideration. On the ocean route
the fare from Chicago to Circle City,
the nearest point to the Klondyke. is
about $3.50. But the cost of freight on
| the Yukon from the ocean to the mines
may be calculated at IS cents per pound,
and as the prospective miner will re-
quire one years provisions, which. with
tools, etc, will weigh one ton. this item
will be an expensive one. In other
words, the cost of getting there" ready
TO work will involve an outlay of about
$1,000. That there is abundance of gold
is certain, and stouthearted men can
! get it. but 1t takes such TO fill the neces-
sary conditions.
| JAMEa IRvISa CRAPRE
The Holly chieftain., 1897-08-20
II. 4 o. .mpro,emcurs.

The work OF Strengthening the track and
reducing the grade at Tabbs Station on tbs
second division OF the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad was recently completed, and the
first train to use the new line was No. !, the
New York and ST Louis flyer. A heavy
grade and three bad curves have been elm
mated by this work \ mile east at Meyers
Hole, a similar improvement has also beer
completed after months OF work. Severa
reverse curves and nasty and dangerou:
dip are done away with at this point. Neat
Myers Hole, at Tablers, the alignment OF the
track is being materially changed, and, as il
the other two improvements, bad grades
and sharp, annoying curves are being re
moved. This part OF the work will be done
IN sixty days and then a series OF very dan
serous places viii have been entirely re
moved. This work in its entirety means tn,
hauling OF several additional cars in eacl
freight tram. besides reducing the danger
of derailments to almost nothing. The sec
3nd division, running from Cumberland tc
Brunswick, will soon be in first-class con
dition and more eheaply operated thar
ever
The Holly chieftain., 1897-08-20

accustomed to living within the trigid
zone find that life in the temperate re-
gions is not as comfortab!
Alaska has summer. short, close,
muggy and uncomfortab Bile. Those who
have tried both say that they prefer
the winter. During the winter the sun
IS invisible for many weeks. its place
being in u measure supplied by the
flashing splendor of the Aurora Borealis
and the marvellous briIliancy of the
stars. When the sun returns TO warm
the frozen earth the daylight lasts for
"a hours at a stretch for this is one of
the lands of the midnight sun"
The natives are Eskimo or (Esqui-
nlaux il you prefer Indians with very
many tribal names such as Siwash.
Stick. etc. They are not a very attrac-
tive people, and while they are not
fierce and turbulent like the Sioux or
the Blackteet, they are very debased
and cruel. They frequently kill old
people because they cannot help to
work, and infanticide is also very COM
mon.
The Yukon is one Of the greatest
rivers IN the world, ana Is SdIu 10 De
longer than the Mississippi. While it
bas not been thoroughly explored SO
far it is known to be navigable for large
steamers for at least $500 miles. The
Yukon and its numerous tributaries
swarm with fish. no finer salmon in the
world than the Alaska variety, and in
the dead OF winter one has only to pick
hole in the icy covering of rivers or
lakes to get an abundance of good,
large fish Beside fish the miner and
traveller can often get shot at moose,
and bear meat is to he had in the tim
bcred part OF the region.
T.ere are TWO principal routes to the
gold fields. One is by sea from Seattle
10 the mouth of the Yukon (port of st,
Michael's) q voyage OF 1900 miles. Inst
ing Is days. AT St. Michaels transfer is
made from the ocean to the river (Yu-
kon) steamer. after a delay of few
days, which is fiat-bottomed and which
reaches Dawson City at the mouth of
the Klondykc river in 10 to 20 days.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-08-20

him to withdraw from the Office He
succeeded Gen. Dearborn as paymasteG
general at a critical period and full.
filed the functions of that office to the
satisfaction Of three presidents.
During Mayor Brent's administration
the city market was established. where
il stands until this day. An ordinance
was passed requiring the maintenance
Of leather fire buckets filed with water
in all storehouses and hotels Appro.
priations were made for the digging
and maintenance of public wells for
drinking purposes and for the use OF
fire-bucket brigades.
Mayor Brent maintained an elegant
private residence, and Sir Augustus
Foster, the British minister, wrote to
his country at that time: There are
only three private residences main.
tained in this city; they ar. by Mayor
Brent, Mr.. Carroll and Mr.. Taylor"
The first mayor of Washington suf-
fered stroke of paralysis in 1919. when
he was in his sixty-siXth year. He
then resigned the position of payma ter
general of the army. Within few
months thereafter he died at his maa-
sion in Washington, September u. 1919.
SMITH d. FRY.