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STRONG TO VISIT eETrTsBURe.
ne and other Members OF the soldiers ana SAIL
era, Memorial WIN SOCK Ideas.


The members Of the committee having in
charge the selection of design for the soldiers
and sailors memorial, which Is to DO erected
near tho entrance to tho Park at Fifty.ninth
street and Fifth avenue. are unable TO agree on
the kind OF monument they want. and now they
have determined to inspect the memorials
erected on the battlefield at Gettysburg before
taking any further action In tho matter. The
committee is composed of Mayor Strong, Ro-
corder Goff. Comptroller Fitch, Commissioner
Coils. President Mcmillan of tho Park Board.
and Joseph a. Gouldon, Chairman of the Memo
rial Committee Of tho @. A. r.. They will travel
at their own expense, and each member Of the
committee is authorized to bring along one
guest. They will leave for Gettysburg 49, ES-
day night and return ON Monday morning.
By an act of the Legislature they arc author
lied to spend $25O,0O0 on the monuments,
to ask q number of architects to submit designs
with a Wow to having "a limited competition.
The models were completed on Sept. 10, and by
direction OF the committee they were set up on
the third floor of tho Arsenal. The members
have inspected the models twice, and three
times they have met, intending, IL possible,
to make an award. but without accomplishing
the end In view. .
Eight designs have been submitted. Most OF
these are models of shafts. but one of them al
least calls for six magnificent arches. three to
lake. It is said that the question on which the
members of the committee are divided Is whether
an arch or q shaft is the moro suitable for the
memorial.
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spain's Futile Waste or Men.
From the Spectator.

Tho magnitude of the sacrifices made by Spain in
her attempts to subduc her revolving colonies is seen
in the oficial figures issued by the Spanish Minister
OF War. This following forces were sent To cuba he.
tween November, 1898. aud May, 1907: Thirteen cx.
petitions, comprising 1871 ,78s men. 6,20l Officers, and
40 Generals; and 81 guns and IL quick firing guns,
II this tragedy OF a nation were not so infinitely pa.
thetic. there would be something comic in these 40
Generals utterly helpless before u mob OF ragged In
~surgents. Though only some lss,O 900 men and officers
are enumerated In this list, 1t does not account for
the whole force In Cuba. when the first expedition
was sent there was already a large Spanish army in
the island. The total. then. Is probably 100000 men.
The figures as to the Philippines are propor,ionstely
almost 81 bad. To the Philippines were sent %, 7US
soldiers. sSl officers. o q narSls. md % gums. 1t Ia
curious to think that Spain In the last two years has
had . greater experience in transporting men by SEA
than any nation OF modern or probably ancient
times. Yet this great effort has been absolutely futile.
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An inspector for the Pure Food Commits

An inspector for the Pure Food Commits
sion Of this State charged a firm of merchants
with selling impure mustard. Tho case has
just been tried at Stroudsburg. The Judge held
that the defendants were entitled to acquittal
on the ground that mustard is not an ar
ticle Of food. Without disputing the legal
soundness Of this opinion, we may be permit
ted to say that there are States In which tho
courts might take notice that mustard is a food.
The Hon. Tom WATSON Of Thomson, Ca, cats
every noon q salad composed of mustard.
tabasco sauce. and red peppers. When In
training for a campaign tho Hon. ToBE
ScRUTcHINs diets on mustard pie. When
about to hurl some remarks at government by
injunction the Hon. EUGENE v. DEBs drinks
hot mustard and water in the proportion Of 16
to l. and his mighty mate, the Hon. JAMES
SOVEREIGN. never addresses the
country on tho pitiable state OF the coun-
try until he has partaken OF a leg of
mustard with melinite sauce. In Kansas
mustard has been a staple of life ever since
the early days Of the Farmers Alliance, and q
layer Of hot mustard between two layers OF cold
ditto is called a Populist sandwich. All octopus
hunters subsist entirely upon mustard. as do
writers Of Populist and Bryanite platforms.
Mustard is the favorite food of all the orators
and thinkers Of the hot-and-heavy school.
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eYueln -ThfIufrIphiu Ird1,r

When Governor PINGREE returns from Ven
ezuela.-IhAadeiphid Ledger.
Tho Island of Pingreea. known by some
geographers as the Isle of Potatoes, is remote
from Venezuela. 1t is commodiously situated
in the Sea Of the Marines. and not far from the
Archipelago of Humphfolderoldeedee. The lati-
tude and longitude are convenient to remem.
Der. for they are just the same, 10 degrees /
minute east Of the moon. west Of the sun, south
Of the ducst south and north OF the boreal
pole. reckoned from the meridian Of
Megalocephalitis and the parallel of Poppy.
cock. The soil is undulating and d.
versifed like the political career Of its
owner. Extensive mines OF brass are
found. There are large forests, consisting
principally of rubber and boot and shoe trees.
In the centre there are extensive plantations OF
chestnuts. The blarney-stono quarries are de-
scribed as exceedingly productive. The princi-
pal manufacture is that Of green cheese, which
is extracted from tho moon by radiation and
absorption. The food of the inhabitants consists
of preparations of the Flubdub plant tF1ubd ubia
Wolrerind). There is no capital. the proprietor
being averso to capitalists.
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Mans First Dcemster. Sir William Leece Drinh
water. has held his ONCE for nifty years.
Bohn's Library marks Its httieth anniversary by
the publication of a new literal prose translation OF
Horace.
Thomas Hughes. the author OF .Tom Brown" Is to
have a life size statue at Rugby School. old Rugbs-
ians having raised $4,000 for the purpose.
DR.. Quartey.Papaho a near relative OF the King Of
G6 on the gold coast OF Africa. has written q memoir
on malarial fever, which the British Colonial onioo
has printed.
Trains are now running between Chabarowka on
the Amoor and YlAdIvostock. the first long eastern
section OF the TranS.siberian Railroad being hnished.
Cardinal Poles cscutcheon over his monument In
Canterbury Cathedral is to be reprinted at the ex-
pense of a number of English Catholics. headed By
Cardinal Vaughan.
Gen. L'Admirault. 80 years OF age. is tho senior
General on the French army list. He was made q
General OF division forty.four years ago and has been
aGrand Cross OF the Legion OF Honor for thirtytwo
years.
Father Luigi Tosti. who for some time was librarian
at the Vatican. died recently, aged 40 years, at the
Benedictino Abbey OF Monte Casino. He was one Of
the leaders In tho attempts to reconcile the Vatican
with the Quirinal.
Bridget Sheridan OF Kilcoo. county Down. has juss
died at the GYc OF ll5 years. She was a peddler. and
was engaged In her business til shortly before her
death. She was fond OF telling what she had seen OF
the rebellion OF 'vs.
Drury Lane Theatre recently had to abandon a per
Torrance and pay baHk the money at the door for the
hrst time in Its history. The hydraulic machinery
used to raise the stage broke down Just before thA
time for the curtain 70 riEe.
English courts continue to refuse 30 recognize death
as Rn excuse. A juror returned as dead before a Lon.
don magistrate was fined clio for non.attendance,
that being the only way the Judge could think OF to
rampya the MANN fran iha tury ltaf
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The Meaning OF Benjamin f. Trac.

1t is interesting to observe how differ
emily the party treachery which has af-
fected the Democratic and Republican
parties alike in New York city has re-
suited. Tammany Hall desired to ignore
the Chicago platform because it was afraid
of it. The Republican factionists in the
Citizens Union desired to ignore the st.
Louis platform as the way to prevent the
election of n regular Republican, and elect
their own man.
The impetus of Organism, however, was
too strong to permit this evasion of the
Democratic principles 80 MIR. GEORGE has
been nominated in response to Bryanite
sentiment. Happily, the loyalty of the
Republican organization has been un
shaken, and n Republican ticket has been
nominated to uphold the principle of social
order and public credit with which the st.
Louis platform is identified.
We are to have the campaign of 1896 re,
peated, except that GORGE will stand for
BRYAN; and TRACY, instead of MCKINLEY,
will command all citizens who prefer
an orderly democratic government to a
frenzicd and anarchical socialism to rally
around the Republican ticket. The cam.
paign TO elect TRACY is precisely similar in
character and purpose to the campaign for
MCKINLEY. Let it be no less enthusiastic,
no less determined, and equally successful.
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Two young men, CHARoUsEK and WAL
BRoDT. in the lead in the Berlin chess tourna-
mcnt Just concluded, show how things have
changed in chess. When MoRPHY swept the
field as a youth, he was an exception that has
now uecome tho rule, Young men occupy the
front rank almoste exclusively. LAsKER. LIPKE.
~CHARoUsEK, WALBRoDT. and PnLsBURY, all
little more than boys. are the most distinguished
figures In chess to-day. With the immense lit
erature Of the game in print, a student can,
with a few years study, master tho profession
which took pioneers like STEINITz a lifetime.
We hopo that the younger generation are prop.
erly grateful for their advantages.
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SUNBEAM
< county. Ia. has paid on all its debA

Polk county. Ia, has paid on all its debA
There Ia q white sparrow in Lafayette. Ind.
Wildcats have attacked persons in various parss
of Monroe county. Ky. within the last few weeks.
Part Of the tombstone over his mothers grave
fell on q little child in . Jackson. Tenn, cemetery ana
broke his leg.
-Cye Pride and Kio sherod have adorned East
Nashville. Tenn. and their euphonious cognomens
the local personal columns.
An Iowa husband and wife were admitted 10 N
insane asylum at Mount Pleasant at the Same TINA.
It was tho nrst case OF the kind in tho history Of thu
asylum.
One of the cheerful prevaricators of DanvtIle. ~,
says that q scheme has boon proposed there for Q oook.
ing main arranged on the plan OF the Puturity run
ming ra.e.
During . part Of last month tho Missouri River
was so low at Jefferson City. Mo-. that It was said
that people might walk across It without wettins
their feet.
Two Anarchists under arrest ct Portland, Or, -
annoyed their cell mates by efforts to propagate theiR
doctrines among them that the other prisoners pett-
toned the Tailor for relief.
Fishers for salmon in the Yaquina Bay. Or, are
advised in these days to take whale hooks along. -
the cetaccans are so plentiful that 1t is dinncult to get
the salmon without encountertng them.
In Kentucky the names OF persons wanted IN
court are cried from the front steps OF the court
houses. and It is said that Kentucky is the only State
in the Union where the custom prevails.
"A Lawrence (Kan) man, writing from New
York to the Laurence Journal. says: Tho greatest
thing I saw here was a former student OF the music
department OF Kansas University playing q hand
organ in Central Park"
Honey dripping down a lightning rod Is the latest
novelty reported from Independence. Mo. The rod 10
on the spire of the Court House and passes through Q
big brass hall into which bees have made their way.
and where they have h.ved.
After spending a good deal OF time at Q IRE one
evening, the youthful son OF a physician OF North
Yakima, Wash. found himself the next morning al
most stranglng. Doctors. hurriedly called. took from
his throat several ciuders. and by means of An emetto
got some larger cinders out OF his stomach.
Horses cannot be hired at any price in whitman
county, Wash, where l, 800. 900 bushels OF grain were
harvested in one week recently. Tho grain was
valued at 81 $50. 900. and the indications were thas
with good weather the next weeks record would ex.
cel that. but It was almost impossible TO get horses
enough TO cart the grain. About Takoa, in the sam0
State. thrasherS have been 80 scarce that large cash
bonuses have been offered for them.
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Mr. Lows Character in His Own
Hand writing.

Mr.. Lows letter to the trustees Of the
Columbia University resigning the Presi-
dcncy denotes an extremely unattractive
and unadmirable man. 1t consisted of
these three propositions:
"I have felt constrained by . sense Of public duty
to accept a nomination for Mayor of the city of New
York.
81 feel It to be my duty to the university to place in
your hands for such action as you may see Mt to
take. my resignation as President OF the university.
Nothing but 4 deep sense of the imperative nature
of the call to public duty would have led mo to 40
cept the nomination"
The beginning and the end Of this letter
of resignation exalted Mr.. Lows sense of
public duty, and the middle warned the trus.
tees that Mr.. Low hoped that his resigna-
tion would not be accepted.
Mr.. Lows letter is enough to turn an
honest man stomach.
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Tho 0urprisinEly Low BID OF the General
Electric Company.

Tho ourprisinEIy Low BID OF the General
Electric Company.
WARRINGTON. Oct 5.-After a conference To-
day with tho Naval Bureau chiefs. Secretary
Long decided to introduce electric turret turn
ing gear on the battleships Alabama, Illinois. and
Wisconsin. The Secretary and his bureau OFF,
GERS considered a number of proposals from
electrical companies and shipbuilding firms for
installing the new system, and accepted tho
offer of the General Electric Company to do tho
work at $4,000 for each ship. This proposal
bids was Si75, 900 for each ship, while the others
were not much lower. Estimates made at the
Navy Department show that the work Of install.
lation will cost at least $125, 900. The COM
pany' 3 reason for making such a low bid was
not explained.
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From the 81, Louis Globe. Democrat.

FTOhI mo IT, LOUIE GTObt' DemOcrdf.
DUBUQUE, Ia, oct. 2.-Conrad May. a man who ng.
urcs here in a divorce suit. acknowledged In court
that he had buried Sac, 900 on his farm in Wisconsin
to save himself from paying alimony TO his wife. He
refused to say where 1t was buried, but yesterday 1t
was discovered by a farmer who was hunting squI'
rcl-, He was crossing Mays land when his dog ran \
gopher into its hole The farmer Logan to dig tor tho
gopher, and was a1tonished TO come across a number
OF shot sacks containing gold. silver. AMI paper. 1t
was. In fact. Nays buried treasure. May heard OF
the mud. and claimed the money, which was paid
over to him 10y the finder. in all over S4o, 900.
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No LaEEnrds for Tracy I

To THE EDITOR OF THB SuS-Sir: The leading cues.
ton OF the day seems to he How are you going TO
voto?" Yet. how can any good Republican ask this
OF another, when there Is but one Republican candi.
date In the field. and that Gen. benjamin 7. Tracy?
In both OF the HarrisOn'Clevolaud campaigns Mr..
Low was an enthusiastic worker for the Democratic
party, He cast his vote for Cleveland in proof of
this. CLARK HoLBRooK.
l2s WEST FIFTY.SINTH STREET. Sept. 80.
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Black slaves or BritaIn.

Nom the London Daily Chronicle.
The following extraordinary Official announcement
appeared In tho form OF an advertisement In the
Cape Times OF tho 18th OF last AuGust:
NATIVE LABORERs.
at is hereby notified, for tho Information OF farmers
and Others, that a number Of surrendered Bechuana
rebels will be available as farm servants, &C.. on and
after the YSth inst,
Applications should be addressed to the Supertn-
tendent OF Native Affairs. Cape Town, from whom all
particulars can be obtained,
1.-THE period of indenture Is xed for nve years"
Tho arrangement here proposed is In direct viola
tion OF the Emancipation Of Slaves act, 1884. and, II
carried out. will DO practically a revival OF slavery in
Cape Colony.
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the islands, they will have ample time for ex-
ploration and examination The expedition.
which sailed from California, is we'll equipped.
and we believe that tho funds for it were pro-
vidcd by an English friend Of science.
The Galapagos group Of islands, most OF which
are small, lilo In the Pacific Ocean, under the
equator, about 600 miles from the coast of Ecua-
dor, to the Government Of which country they
belong. 1t Ia estimated that about 200 people
live upon them. In old times they served rs a
place of refuge for hard.prcssod pirates.
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The American scientific expedition to the
Galapagos Islands il of interest to all seekers
for knowledge. Some OF the botanical forms
discovered there are not found elsewhere in tho
world. and there has been much speculation as
TO their origin. DARwIN had not the time to
pursue his researches as far as he wished; but
his revelations have kept alive the desire for
further investigation. AS the four members of
the American scientific expedition to the Gala
pages expect 10 spend about . half year upon
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-06

Mr.. A. LAWRENCE RoTCH and Mr.. II. II.
CLAYTON OF the Blue Hill Observatory now hold
the kite record. They have sent up kites 1905
feet above the level Of the sea. But the Citi.
zens' Union philosophers hope, and with reason.
to beat that record. The Low kite has more
paper and more wind than were ever contributed
to any other kite. It. will come down beautifully
from the heights of tho Mugwump ether.
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The Erening Post makes a childish at

The Erening Post makes a childish at
tempt to be funny over the alarm now beginning
to pervade the conservative community as to
tho undeniable prospects Of the election Of
HENRY GEORGE as the first Mayor Of the
Greater New York. 1t is an alarm which
reaches far beyond New York. extending to
every centre Of American civilization and
across the Atlantic even; but tho kindergarten
intelligence now controlling the Evening Post
secs nothing. If GEORGE beats "Plattism" 1t will
rejoice rather. for its spite will be gratiied.
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Two Of the Republican newspapers Of
New York are still treacherous to their party in
this grave crisis by openly or insidiously sup
porting the hostile and disturbing Low candi-
dacy. Fortunately, both of them, however, are
papers OF paltry and steadily dwindling circu-
lation, and they are Of insignificant influence.
individually and collectively. AS tho campaign
proceeds what little Of influence remains to
them will be gone, along with the last ~vestiges
Of their patronage.
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LIVERY At THE WHITE HoUsM
Light BIue. Round with white Cord. the Cen.
Ing Uniform.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-The White House en-
ployces are adopting gradually the uniform
which Arthur Simmons, Secretary Porter's door
keeper. flashed on the other doorkeepers and
messengers Of the Mansion last spring. Score
tary Porter's driver looked like a twin brother
Of Simmons to-day in his suit of light blue. bound
with white cord. The driver of the buggy in
which Executive Secretary Pruden goes to the
Capitol to present messages from the President
was attired in the same outfit. No order has
been issued directing the messengers and door.
keepers to don the uniform introduced by Sim.
mons, but they know that Mr.. Porter would
like to see it worn, and it is probable that the
tardy ones will get into line very soon. Under
the Cleveland Administration Private Secretary
Thurber wanted to put the employees of tho
White House in uniform, but did not carry out
the intention. The employees are not expresS-
ing any opinion on the subject.
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The difference between GEORGE and VAN
WICK. or between the United Democracy and
Tammany, is the difference between an honest
Bryanite and a sneaking and dishonest Bryanite.
Either is intolerablc, and the natural. the only
possible. and the only significant alternative IL
the Republican ticket, headed by Gen. TRACY.
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No Longer Quiet.

From Tft-
Forrester-You live In q quiet part OF the town. do
you notp
LancasteT-Eot now.
FOrrester-Moyedr
LGncASter-No. Got twiA1.
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The Tammany Ticket.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: The Tsmmany
ticket is here described;
A"Tank,'
A"CrAnk." and
A"Poy."
No good. F.M T.
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-Four Friends toho favor as 10TH uanuscrtpfs for
publication tvtsh to hats rejected arttolss returned,
thsy u,ust IN all GASES send stamps for that purpose.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-07-07
TWO MARROW ESCAPES.
Peculiar Accident in Unloading the
Bark Diamond Head.

At 1C minutes to IL o'clock yes
terday morning while Wilder
was standing near the safe in the
Office of Wilder & Co. something
came crashing through the window,
whizzed over his head and fell to
the floor near by, while broken
glass was scattered about in all
directions. He picked it up and
found it to be broken link about
two inches long that had evidently
formed part of an iron chain.
Investigation showed that it came
from the bark Diamond Head, at
Allen e. Robinson's wharf, having
taken a circle from the
ship, over Hopper's mill, to the
rear window of Wilder's Office,
going through the upper sash.
Lumber was being unloaded from
the Diamond Head in slingfuls by
means of a chain which dragged
it through a port hole and was
connected with the donkey engine
by block and tackle. A sling of
lumber in passing through the
port hole got jsmmed and before
the steam could be shut off the
chain parted. The broken link
sailed through the air into Wilder's
store. The block was sent whirl-
ing past George Aliens head, just
missing him by about three inches.
Both men had narrow escapes, es-
pecially Allen, whose head would
have been crushed like an egg
shell had he been struck by the
block. Five dollars worth of glass
will pay the damage done to Wild
er's Office but not to John Wilder's
feelings.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-07-07

Both the Advertiser and the
Independent refused to suspend
publication in observance of the
Fourth, although each takes day
off for every other public holiday
in the year. The Independent
gave as its reason that it would
not honor the anniversary of the
Republic of Hawaii. No reason
has been given by the Advertiser,
and surmises are rife in its case.
Probably it wanted to protest
against the delay in ratifying the
annexation treaty.