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and the raya, or non n-Mussulman subject.
These relations are absolutely unchange-
able; they are articles of faith In the eyes
of every orthodox Mohammedan. Some OF
these immutable laws are the following:
Tho raya must not possess arms; he can
not give evidence against Mussulmans; he
is obliged to pay u yearly ransom for per-
mission to live during that year; he pays
all the taxes levied on Mussulman and
great many more, the total amounting for
the Christians of Turkey to 67 per cent. OF
their income. Though not allowed to serve
in tho army, Christian Is obliged to
pay for substitute. In Turkey the
obligation begins at the end OF three
months and continues until death. Islamic
law pursues the Christian to the grave
and makes him pay for burial
certificate thus worded: 1--WE certify to
the priest of the Church of MARY that the
corrupt. putrid, stinking body Of ZARID,
damned Il. e., deadl yesterday, may be con-
cealed under ground" It is obvious that
these laws put Christians throughout the
Mohammedan world in a state Of outlawry.
Deprived of arms, they cannot defend
themselves. Neither have they any redress
not be taken against Mussulman, and no
Mussulman will give evidence on behalf of
Christian against fellow Moslem. The
result is that no crime Is ever punished
when committed by Mohammedan
against Christian. These, we repeat, are
not Turkish laws alone; they are also the
laws Of Morocco. Persia, and Afghanistan;
they have prevailed in all Mohammedan
countries from MoHAMMED's time to our
own. The Sultan himself Is under the do
minion Of the so-called "sacred law" and
cannot alter 1t in any particular without
thereby forfeiting his throne in the eyes Of
the faithful. The moment, however. that
he receives an ultimatum from any power
which he has no reasonable hope of over
coming, he is bound to yield by the sacred
law, which forbids him to yield other
wise. Hence the significance of Lord
SALIsBURY's despatch of Oct. 20, 1896,
in which he eventually got the other
powers to agree to the principle Of
coercion, before they proposed any more re-
forms for Turkey. Without coercion re-
forms in Turkey are simply impossible; it
is the religious duty of every Mohammedan,
from the Sultan downward, to resist until
coercion is certain on refusal. Actual CO.
ercion, however, need never be applied IL
the Sultan be convinced that the applica-
tion Is inevitable in the event of contumacy.
Then it is his duty to yield, "lest damage
should ensue to Islam"
The whole question, therefore, about
handing back a part of the Christian in
habitants of Turkey to tho Sultan's rule is
a religious one, and Sir PHILIP CURRIE
hit the nail on the head when he called
attention to the fact.
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precedent for similar claims, In which
death did not result from the deprivation
of treaty privileges.
Will Spain deny the validity Of our
views regarding treaty rights, and en-.
deavor to keep that matter in allegiance,
while coming to some agreement In regard
to the amount Of the indemnify Even
such device might not prevent the Ruiz
settlement from having an influence on
other outrages, based on similar grounds,
although followed by less terrible re-
suit. But the Ruiz indemnity must be the
least Of Spnin's causes Of anxiety AZ to
the instructions Of Gen. WooDFoRD. A
profound sensation has been caused in
Madrid by q despatch from Minister
DUPUY DE LONE, relating to these instruc.
tions, (which purport to be that the
Cuban war has continued long enough"
The Madrid story is that q near period has
been fixed, at which the United States
will interfere, unless the war is ended. No
wonder that the Spaniards arc showing ac-
tivity in the island in spite Of the rainy
season. and that the Cubans are taking
fresh hope. We incline to believe that
when the instructions to Gen. WooDFoRD,
which Spain seeks to forecast, are officially
made known to her, she will see in them
the omen that the end is at hand, and that
end must be Cuban independence.
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What is to become of the Popocrats and
Populists Of Kansas in this year of q tremendous
wheat crop in tho sunfower Statei Millions on
millions Of bushels and every one Of thom o
buffot In tho faco Of the drooping-jawed sons of
calamity. 1t is hard work to be Democrat or a
Populist In those days. Hero you are standing
up and shouting to the spheres that there never
can be any prosperity until tho country is
permitted to have froo silver, tho income
tax, graduated or ungraduated, Government
railroads and teloeraphs, tho initiative and ref
erendum, and what not. Hero you are, purple
In the face and bowling marvellously, an earnest
and q conscientious advocate of calamity. and
the hrst you know hero arc these great, big. fat
crops all over the country; and folks begin to
mako money and leave you TO howl to the silver
moon. Thcro IL no doubt about 1t. The crops
are an outrage. They should be denounced In
the nercest terms by the Democratic and Popu-
list conventions next fall
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viii There BE Sealing Conference ?

There is q curious parallel between our
Venezuela dispute with England year be-
fore last and the present Behring Sea con-
troyersy. Each case has shown that JOHN
BULLS hide is not absolutely impenetrable.
although sharp thrusts are needed to make
him take notice. In each case, too, the Brit
ish newspapers have in advance indemnifed
themselves for any yielding of their Govern.
ment to American demands by roundly
abusing what they consider an unman-
nerly way Of presenting our views. And
finally, IL we do not mistake, the parallel
Is already pushed to the extent Of a sub
stantial diplomatic success on the part Of
our Behring Sea negotiators.
1t is asserted very positively that q con-
ference of the nations most interested in
the sealing business will be held within a
few months, and that 1t will be held at
Washington. That is one of the points for
which our Government has been laborng,
and 1t has insisted that we ought not to
wait until the expiration Of the five years
period of the Paris award before such con-
ference should be called. The news that
Great Britain has consented to it is broken
gently to the British public by the state
gathering, which will not make new rules,
but only collect and sift the facts, and ar
rive at conclusions upon which the revision
Of the rules can proceed.
Yet that is quite enough for the business
In hand, since no new regulations can pos
s!bly be made for the present year; and with
this practical result of Mr.. FOSTERS mission,
the filings OF the British newspapers at "di-
plomacy In shirt sleeves" and Yankee
insolence," as we'll as their vaporing upon
the advantages of teaching US lesson be-
fore our navy grows stronger, become of
little Importance. This sort Of talk relieves
them and does not prevent lis from reaching
the result aimed at.
Tho language employed in our later de-
spatchcs on the scaling dispute, as on the
Venezuela dispute, was undoubtedly sharper
than is desirable in diplomacy, where it can
be avoided; but years of experience have
suggested that nothing less than sharp
words can be relied upon to secure British
attention to distasteful subject.
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1t is a happiness to record that the Hon.
HoRATIUs LEoNIpAs CHAPMAN. tho plutocratic
Popocratic candidate for Governor Of Ohio. is
trying to do something to show that he Is
worthy of tho distinction OF representing the
Chicago platform. According TO the Columbus
correspondent of tho Pitsbur0 Dspdtch, Mr..
CHAPMAN used to "help out his short inches
with silk headpiecc. but he has discarded
that for the derby and souch of commerce.
and is footing 1t In tho remote districts,
trying to explain away his great wealth" Tho
slouch hat Is brilliant idea, and 1t is probable
that the campaign fund will explain away some
OF the wealth. 1t Is well for Candidate CHAPMAN
to foot it," and 1t would be still better II he
would barefoot 1t. Still, he has not yet dis
proved the charge that he has never lifted his
voice for the poor man." Neither slouch hats
nor bare feet will avail him until he takes his
voice in both hands and lifts 1t. hard and high.
for tho poor man."
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The Prodigal Sons.

The Brooklyn Eagle is one of those So
called gold Democrats that feel lonely and
unhappy in belonging to a minority and
are preparing, consciously or unconsciously,
for a return to the regular Democracy by
means Of q reunion with it during the
municipal campaign. The Eagle begins it's
backsliding with the usual but not plausi
BILE pretence that municipal and national
issues are not only scparable, but unrelated.
al man can be for free silver and for good
government" it says. "Municipal govern.
ment has nothing to do with monometal-
lism or bimctallism. A man can be for
free silver and be for honest administration"
A man who is for free silver wishes the
Government and people of the United
States to do n dishonest act. He shows
thereby that he is in favor of dishonest
government. 1t is all very we'll to say, as
the Eagle says, that his free.silver views
are economic error merely, but men with
that economic error are not likely to be
men whose notions of administration are
acceptable to the people of this town, aside
from the disgrace of letting the greatest
commercial city of the country fall a
prey to politicians preaching dishonest
make more easy its way back into the
bosom of reunion, the Eagle assumes
that free silver is the Chicago plat
form. There are other things in that plat
form which New York cannot forget or
learn to stomach the income tax, for ex-
ample, and the protest against government
by injunction. The party which nominates
municipal candidates on the Chicago plat
form nominates them on platform opposed
to the accumulation of money, to the pres
ervatton of good order as against the labor
trusts, and to the growth of great business
enterprises. Not merely free silver, ian
economic error" but the revolutionary
fanaticism of Socialists and Populists will
be approved by any Democratic organiza-
tion which approves the Chicago platform.
Municipal government, 80 far as the city
Of New York is concerned, has a great
deal to do with monometallism or bimet-
allism. II the silver monometallists (for
they are no more bimetallists than they are
eoraphim) carry the city of New York,
they will get thereby good purchase for
their efforts to carry the State. Moreover,
their victory will give an immense impulse
to Organism all over the country. Every
body will agree that there was nothing
municipal and local about the campaign IL
the Bryanites win 1t. Only in case they
should be licked will they consent to spare
the feelings Of the Brooklyn Eagle and the
other brethren with passion for harmony,
and say that no national issues were in.
volved. II they win, they will admit that
they were fighting for the triumph of Bry.
0nism In 1898 and 1900.
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JACK TARs COMPLAIN.


These on the brooklyn no Not Like the Few
System OF Catering.
There is growing among the sailormen on the
cruiser Brooklyn because on the last trip they
did not get everything they wanted to eat. The
Brooklyn arrived hero on Saturday from Eng.
land. and tho sailormen, like all sailormen,
began complaining as soon as land was sighted.
Tho trouble is that tho Navy Department IN
trying an experiment in feeding its men. and
the Brooklyn was selected for the trial. Hero
tofore tho men aboard ship have been divided
into messcs, each with its own cook and Its own
caterer. The Government allows for each mans
food 90 month. Half Is drawn in provisions
and half in cash. The half in cash is paid to
money is invested in shore provisions each trip.
The amount Is small and ordinarily the men in
the mess have made up the amount needed to
month. The experiment being tried on the
Brooklyn has been intended to ascertain II tho
mon could be as we'll fed without their contrib.
the crew being divided Into messes with sepa.
sary department was formed. and all the money
As far as the officers are concerned, the ex.
pertinent has worked all right. They like 1t,
and there has been no complaining among them.
tho variety OF food that they had before. Under
the old system, II man did not like what ho
got for dinner IN his own mess he could ex.
there was a dinner to his liking, provided that
also man in that mess was dissatisfied, and did
not like the dinner which was being served to
use in changing tables. Each californian. how.
hd 20 e
fact. when the sailormen realize It, may mako
them think well of the new system. If It
does not work satisfactorily 1t will not be adopted
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Of labor. They are likely to be possessed Of
moro than ordinary intelligence, and are
generally Of an ambitious disposition. Lots
Of them rise in the world, and lots of them
have money In the bank.
How much less chnflnR it In to raise
vegetables and other marketable things In
the country than to set type In town. Out
In the open air; out In the genial sun
shine; out with the hoe; out sowing
or harvesting; that's life for q man.
It's great thing, too, for a man to market
his crops and get the currency for them.
Cash for the potatoes; the same for the
cabbages, and more of 1t for the green peas
In their season. Think Of 1t, ye daily paper
typos, as you stand at the "case," long
after midnight, struggling with manu-
script that would drive q farmer mad
But will the out-of.work printers go to
the fields, where they can, at the least,
raise their own provender anyhowa We
cannot say. 1t will probably be hard to
induce the veterans to go; for plenty Of
them would rather live on short commons
in the ever-enticing city than spend their
days anywhere outside Of New York.
Perhaps those Of the younger men,
too, who have great expectations,
would refuse to go from the city
to the country, or, for that matter, to
the Garden Of Eden, even when hard up.
But there must, we should think, be hun
dreds Of printers between thirty and fifty
years Of age, men neither too fresh nor too
rusty, who, in times when the trade is
slack, would like to try their hand in the
fields where fodder grows, and where, when
tickled with hoe, they laugh with har-
vest. We shall see whether there are such
before the next planting season.
There is plenty of untitled land within q
hundred miles Of this city. There are
abundant facilities for transporting the
crops to the consumers. There Is q great
and insatiate market here. Why should
any ablc-bodied printer stay idle, moping
all day long1 1t is bad to be dependent
upon money drawn from the treasury Of
the printers organization.
If the typesetters make q success Of the
project newly formed among them, they
will present to the men of other trades one
of those "object lessons" which are 30
often described as valuable for instruction.
Those of the carpenters, builders, tailors,
and other craftsmen who cannot get work
at their trades will have good reason for
following the printers example. There
ought to be no idle men, so long as there
are opportunities for labor within reach.
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The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune sug-
gests thai the Hon. FRED WHITE. the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Iowa, who has
proclaimed his devotion to cheap money, and
tho cheaper the better. should receive some
practical financial instruction.
"His grocer Is liable to take him at his word and
give him Confederate money In change when he
squares his account At the end OF the month"
1t is mistake to suppose that Mr.. WHITE
wants cheap dollars himself He Is not known
to have any objection to a valuable dollar, and
the dearer 1t is the better he will like It.
He thinks that under the sway OF 10 to silver
dollar might bo worth ten cents. and he thinks
that there are thousands of Democrats and Pop
ulists in Iowa who want that sort of dollar TO
pay their debts with. It does not follow that he
pines to have debts which arc due him paid In
ten-cont dollars. AltruiSni does not extend 90
far. It IL cruel to prOpOAO 10 put Mr.. WHITE's
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Tho Regular Socialists Ahead OF tho
Citizens Socialists.

The Socialist Labor party, a compact but
not formidable organization of political
irreconcilables. has nominated its candi-
dates for the three municipal offices to be
filed this year, the Mayor, Comptroller, and
President of the Municipal Council.
The Socialists, In making their nomina-
tions, have shown the same wilful disre-
gard of existing conditions which the Cit
izens' Union, another organization of polit-
ical sentimentalists, having some points of
resemblance to the Socialists, shows in
many matters. For the office of Mayor
their party has nominated one of its peren-
nial candidates, Monsieur LUC1EN SANIAL
Of the borough of the Bronx. Mr.. SANIAL
was last candidate for member of Congress
in the Sixteenth district, and has been de-
feated for sundry offices on the Socialist
ticket for many years. His present nomina-
tion appears to have been due to the small
following of the Socialist party in the
borough of the Bronx, smaller relatively
than in other sections of the Greater New
York. For the two other offices, candidates
resident in what is now the city OF Brook
lyn, have been chosen. PETER FREBURG
has been selected to run for Comp
troller, and CHARLES II. MATCHETT for
President OF the Municipal Council. FIRE.
BURG has no particular record pro-
fessional candidate. but MATCHETT has
been Otter in the field. Last year he was
a candidate for President of the United
States, an honor somewhat diminished by
the fact that. running on the ticket Of the
Socialist party, he did not receive a solitary
electoral vote. though the popular vote for
him was 33 900, more than one half of which
was cast in the State of New York.
In the territory to be included in the en-.
larged New York the Socialist vote at last
years election was $4,000. but the most
popu lous part of the municipality and the
one in which the Socialist party was most
largely represented last year has no candi-
date upon the ticket of Saturday.
The Socialists, like the paternalist poll
ticians of the Citizens Union are for
claiming all the support which they can
get for their candidates by a platform
Large enough to include everybody" The
Citizens Union Is for baths and lavatories
and laundries at the public expense, rapid
transit and arbitration. the referendum.
progressive civil service, the enforcement
of municipal from State affairs, but not the
State from national politics. workingmen's
assembly halls, municipal control of public
franchises, cheap postage. and more light
houses. The Socialists, another and better
organized group of sentimentalists. are for
the election by city employees of depart,
ment foremen, the condemning of vacant
lands, and the erection thereon of cheap
houses, municipal drug stores. the public
nd ~ atr
ment of all idle persons on the public
works, monthly elections, the recovery,
operation, and ownership of car and tele.
graph lines, municipal coal yards, and pen.
sions for city marshals.
The Socialists and the Citizens represent,
each group, about 15, 900 votes In the en-,
larged New York, a constituency of more
| than half million.
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,rr1sn1,s ooxD1T1oN OF 111ND.
was = TIP to nay Sugar Stock Isst week .
sign OF Mental Aberrnttoni


Charles, Frederick A. Meiscl, examining
chemist in tho Custom House, was suspended
from duty at the Appraisers ofiice on Friday.
and on tho following day was removed, II is
said, from his homo at ~ Strong place, Brook
lyn, to a private sanitarium at Hartford, Conn.
He Is only % years old, and three years ago
was graduated with high honors from the
School OF Mines, Columbia College. Two years
ago he was appointed to his responsible place
in the Custom House. Recently no is reported
10 have shown unmistakablo signs of mental
alteration, resulting, as supposed, from hard
DR.. sherer, who Is at tho head OF tho chomi.
cal department In tho Custom House. noticed
marked change ell IN Mt MeisS' s n manner ,n M ne9as ~
official duties as soon as possible and 80 to
some quiet country resort. On "Wednesday an
tion to Mr. Meisels condition. On that day,
while in the Wall street district, Mr. Meisel
hm ose 20 timer PaonF 70 So sto
Exchange and investing all the money he could
raise In Sugar securities
There. was no cause assigned for this action,
the object being to prevent the fact Of Mr..
Meisel's. mental condition from becoming
Albert @. M. Meisel. the young mans father,
who 10 in the chinaware business In Park
ciined to discuss his sons illness. My, SON L
a the wss SoqRR' Re only
ii Mr. Msisel sent the .n sugar indGp,c, ZIP tS MI
forosisht and good judgement rather than p
mental collapse. On "Wednesday Sugar was sell
fs MT Bunn asi had tho aad s. Sopss
LOCO shares Of Sugar stock, he would DO $lo.-
oo4 better of tc;dny IN mont, or ri, uo,s,
he will bo able to ref ume his official duties
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:. The Girl ON the Bikc"--A Parody from q
Poem by Perceyal Graves.

To THE EDITOR THE sUS-Sfr: The story which
appeared in Fridays suS Is indeed, queer story"
The Chicago Journals pipe dreamer" had better
change his bunk" before he again essays "takin a
twirl" with The Girl on the Bike. The dope" sup
piled at the Joint" he froquents is entirely be
yond his " hitting" powers.
The Irish cVc'fsf weekly paper published in Dub
lin. the rst paper to print the parodied version
OF tho poem and the American papers got It from this
source In 1872 appeared a collection OF poems en-.
titled "songs OF Killarney" by Alfred Perceva
book poem entitled An Irish Spinning Wheel
Song" and this Is the poem tho liar OF tho 1htcaoo
Journal attributes 10 " n. r. w"
Mr.. Graves, the author OF the poem. is ono Of the
foremost Irish writers IN London to-day. ReAders
of Punch and the Spectator are familiar with hia
work; "opd Docthor Mack" Father oFlynn."
Molly Bralaghan," and several other OF his dialect
poems sung and recited all over Ireland.
Mr.. Graves was born in Dublin in 1916, and is the
son OF DIR. Graves the BiAhop OF Limerick He WA
educated In Trinity College. and graduated in 1870
His nrst literary appearance was In the DtbIta UNI
VeTSifv MuoazIAs, when he was but 10 years Of
Ass. y. r. kAARy, $50 West l2lSt st.
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would appear from the results hitherto obtained
that the substitution OF steam turbines in place of
reciprocating engines in vessels OF tho largest sire
and OF fast moderately fast speeds presents advan
tAges greater than those which have been realized In
tho little vessel Turbinia. and It may be roughly
stated that for such vessels the speed OF rotation
would be slow. from 900 to 800 revolutions per
minute. and the relative simplicity OF tho engines
would become still more marked than Is the In
tho Turbinias engines. indicating 2.4Oo indicated
horse power on Tuesday last. and giving her a
velocity Of thiryive knots, forty milos per
hour. with expenditure of steam OF IL pounds
per indicated horse power hour.
CHARIKs A. PARSONS.
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Unconscious Humor.
From the Cleveland Leader.

what are you laughing atr' said a man
with chin whiskers to youth who stood beside
him at the corner OF Superior and Seneca streets
yesterday morning.
"rm laughing at what you said to that man
who Just shook hands with you" the boy replied.
him."
"oh. you didn't know 1t was funny"
We'll what was II, anyway r.
~ W hen he came up to you and asked II you
didn't know him. you said Your namo Is far
miliar. but swear cant recall your face
Then tho man with the whiskers got mad and
said 1t was " a blamed lie."
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a Fish with . 10 to 4 Mouth.

wonderful fish story comes from Port Tam.
pa, Fla. It Is about a twelve-foot shark which
was caught in the shallow water near tho beach,
a short distance from Port Tampa. His shark.
ship appeared to be sick and was an easy VIC
ticed that his stomach was considerably dis
tended. while the lower portion Of his body and
curiosity OF the ishcrmen, and they decided to
dissect 1t. Upon opening his stomach a small
pork barrel with one head knocked out was
found. The mouth Of the barrel was pointing
upward toward tho fsh's throat and was lit
be digested hence the shark was literally starv.
ing to DEATH yet he had barrel of fish In his