New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-07

II Is safe to assume that soldiers will not COM
plain II a rife bullet and then bruises them
or breaks a RIB, IL they only have coats that
will keep them free from holes.
Captain Sir Baden Powell puts forth the
theory that airships are likely to play impor-
tant part in modern warfare. The prospect
seems to him OF such urgency that he recon-
mends the roofing in Of forts in order to prevent
explosives from being dropped upon them by
balloons sailing overhead. His picture of the
destructive possibilities of these aerial hotillas
is rather more thrilling than plausible. but
in this age of wonderful invention everything
is possible. The world may yet according to
the laurelte's prophecy
Hear the heavens fill with shouting
While there rains CHASTITY dew
From the nations airy naves
Graphing in the central blue.
SO far. however. wars are fought out on the
ground according to old precedents, and the
evolution Of the airship is largely in the drec
ton Of its for advertising purposes.
The Cortes has voted the Spanish Govern
ment authority to negotiate a new loan, which
is the first step toward getting it, but not. in
this case. the one that costs. The expensive
ones will be in finding somebody to take it at
heavy discount. if it can be hoated at all
The woman who declared that most mad
dogs" are only creatures goaded to hysterla by
lot Of senseess people who would drive human
being crazy hit the nail on the head 1t is to be
hoped that her good sense in picking up fright
ened dog will teach street crowds not TO lose
their heads easily al the sight Of lost dog.
The society to promote the adoption Of the
columbne as our National flower is a year old
and large and noisy of its age. The claims of
this beautiful blossom set forth by its
apostles with admirable zeal and eloquence.
| but there is a great deal Of missionary work
To be done before il will he accepted. The great
majority of the people of the United States do
| not yet know what it is by that name. 1t is
more familiar as the wild honeysuckle, and
whatever other popular names it may bear in
different localities the botansts probably know
better than other people. It's advocates array
| a formidable list Of the qualifications which
| the Nations flower should possess. and assert
| that the coumbne is the only one native here
| which unites them all. Having taken the field
| in greater force and better discipline than the
| partisans OF any other bloom, they may win. but
| the prospects are that they have quite a long
campaign before them.
| One would think that a boat which goes
paint would go fast enough to give trouble to sea
growths seeking a resting place
The Sultan ordains that the poets of the Empire
| shall abstain from poetry calculated to make
popular heroes of any Of the commanders in the
recent war The Oriental imagination is quickly
| fred and burns like tar paper, and there is no
knowing what might happen If Islam were sud
! denly kindled with the notion that a new dellv-
, erer had risen, and new leader of its hosts
! against the inlde The poets are noisy varlets
ANYHOW, hardly ever seeing things or heroes as
| they are and ii is a good idea to shut them up
| Not every ruler possesses that extremely salu-
tary power and ii IL quite possible that the Sui
tan only thinks he does. the fact really being the
| other way.
| The didn't-know-t- was-oaded fool energies
| once more, with his customary superior s,nirk
| and deadly aim.
| The actions OF the just smell swee, and bios
l som In the dust. ana To all time the memory OF
| Peter Cooper in the city which he adorned with
! his virtues and enriched with his benefactions