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An Underpaid photographer.

The August number of the National Geo.
graphical Magazine contains an article
by MARCUS BAKER on 1.-THE Venezuelan
Boundary Commission and Its Work" In
this article Mr.. BAKER says of the Anglo
Venezuelan boundary dispute:
1.-THE matter was taken up by our own Foreign
ONCE dhe Department of state) AMI c orrespondence
carried on In 1898 between Secretary oLSEy and
Lord SALISBURY. Secretary oINEY, in a document
resembling a lawyers brief much moro than 1t docs
the ordinary diplomatic despatch. stated the case as
It appeared to him, aud asked that It be arbitrated.
To this Lord SALISBURY replied in two careful and
most courteous dispatches las diplomatists are " ont
TO call le;ters) declining standardization"
MARCUS BAKER signs the article as "Car-
tographer, u. S. Geological Survey" He
thus puts forth his criticism of our State
Department, and his approval of the British
Foreign Office, in his official character, such
as it is. 1t is not necessary here to discuss
the pcrspicacity of a photographer who de-
scribes as "most courteous" the tone Of
easy fippancy which Lord SALISBURY at
first affected toward Mr.. OLNEY. The
question is upon the propriety Of a Govern.
ment officials criticising, SYSTEMATICALLY
and publicly, the manner in which our
State Department conducts negotiations
with a foreign power.
Is it one of Mr.. BAKERS duties as a car
tographer of the United States Geological
Survey, to pass judgment upon the methods
and respective merits of British and Ameri-
can diplomacy, and to rebuke our Secre-
taries of State, when he thinks they need
to be admonished2
If so, Mr.. BAKERS salary should nave
been raised from $4,000 to about $15, 900,
instead of having been cut down to So, 500,
as it was not long ago.
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Of the State they are Of little Importance.
A victory at Creedmoor is purely local.
But at Sea Grit q victory means some
thing. 1t is true hat teams from foreign
countries do not compete in tho inter
national matches; but they are at liberty
so to do and are invited. Even though
foreign teams are not present, teams from
distant points compete there. Last year
the Georgia men and teams won eleven out
OF the twenty.one matches, while members
Of the District of Columbia National Guard
distinguished themselves.
This autumn the New York National
Guard Is to be armed again with the
Springfield rifle. 1t is greatly to be hoped
that the result Of the rearming may be an
improvement in its rife shooting, and such
an Increase of interest therein as may re.
store Creedmoor TO it's old position, and
make of 1t, II 1t does not displace Sea Girt,
a second American Bisley.
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The Pechuel-Loeschke Method.

Considerable valuable expert information
on the proper method Of defence against
the ssallts of savage animals in their ma
tive haunts has been furnished in a recent
lecture in Berlin by the German savant and
traveller. Prof. PEcHuEL-LoEscHKE. He
has voyaged much in the worlds wilds and
has returned to Germany to tell Of his last
exploits. Prof. PECHUEL-LoEsCHKE is con-
WINGED that the most effective, though per.
haps least sensational, weapon of human
defence against the attack of a lion or tiger
is an umbrella! II you are quipped with a
hand made, all silk, or gloria umbrella, with
a ferule of either iron or brass and any de.
sign Of handle, it is the opinion Of this cru.
dite German that a tiger or lion, more es.
pecially n tiger, may be surely and prompt.
ly put to flight. If the savage quadruped
has been made desperate by hunger or by
thirst, so much the better, Herr PEcHUEL.
L%oEsCHKE declares; then a plain cotton
umbrella will do.
Tribute to the worth Of the Pechuel-
Loeschke system is given by our Citizens
Union. The Citizens Union organized, os-
tensibly, to oppose and overthrow utterly
the Tammany Hall tiger, has adopted the
umbrella plan of campaign. In the open,
but not with the ordinary resources of
political conflict, such as a we'll organ
lied and disciplined force of voters,
political leaders, and the inspiration
drawn from previous contests. Is the Tam
nan tiger to be attacked. Oh, no! That
method of offence is obsoletely partisan.
The Citizens method Is to flourish in the
face of Tammany a roll of paper upon
which are to be found the names of alleged
supporters of Mr.. Low. and thereupon, and
most precipitately, the Tammany tiger is
counted upon to flee from tho solemn sight
Of this enrolment and to take himself of,
and out of sight and of harms way.
Providing that the tiger does this, the
plan may be said to have the merit of sue
cessful novelty. But if the tiger doesn't 2
The method of DR.. PECHUEL.LoEsCHKE for
dealing, at short range, on sandy plains
with savage animals has the serious de-
feet Of being always subject to the assent
Of the tiger. The spectacle of the appraised
umbrella might not suffice, and the quadru.
ped thus threatened might refuse to depart,
leaving the traveller with no other means
Of defence or protection, a martyr, II not to
principle, at least to miscalculation.
Tammany Hall is proverbially Indifferent
to paper enrollments and to amateur poll.
tics. Its forces are we'll organized and the
battle of this year is a desperate one for it.
A sorry spectacle it would be for the Citi.
zens to be chased impolitely and inconsid.
erately from the field of strife by the raven.
GUS tiger, their flight marked by the dis.
carded leaves of their enrolment blanks.
An umbrella as a weapon of defence
against a wild animal in the desert has un-
doubtedly some merits. to which Prof. Pc
oHUEL-LoEscHKE does we'll to call the at
tention of the German students. But it's
analogue, the petition plan of municipal
warfare, is not likely to elect a Mayor of
New York.
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The Kansas Stat School Book Commits.
sion has adopted a Populist History of tho
United States. which must be a work OF interest
and even Of originality. According to the Topeka
state Journal. this history gives thirteen pages
to a history Of the civil war and ten pages to
CLEvELAND's Administrations. attempting to
show hard times on a gold standard" II Mr..
CLEVELAND were writing n school history on
the same scale. he would give ten pages
to an account of the civil war and thir-
teen to the story Of his administration
The Populist perspective is less dispropor.
toned than it seems. Nothing really important
happened until the Populist party was formed,
and the Populist history might well have begun
Mt that blazing epoch in the fortunes of man.
kind. At any rate. not more than ten pages
should have been given to the history of tho
United States before tho Farmers Alliance
burst into bloom. Still. this Kansas history
must BIO an able work, and will fetch o high
price in a few years.
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Democrats and Silver.

Some of the persons who are anxious to
keep the Chicago platform out of the
municipal campaign are suffering eagerly
that silver can be no longer an issue, be-
cause the price OF silver has been falling,
the price Of wheat has been rising, and
good times have come.
The Democratic newspapers and leaders
that were sincere IN their support of BRYAN
In the last campaign, hat Is the Demo.
cratic newspapers and leaders in all the
Democratic States and most of those In non.
Democratic States, do not admit or believe
that silver is now less of an issue than it
was in 1896. They admit that silver has
gone down on account of the want of a de.
mand for 1t. Shut out from the minis of
tho world, they say, how can it help going
downf Wheat has gone up on account of
the shortness of the foreign supply. The
good times have begun on account Of mere
accidental conditions, which cannot be
permanent. A glut of crops, over.produc.
tton and a return of bad times are to be ex.
pected until silver is restored to it's proper
position, and the gold dollar, continually
appreciating in value. ceases to be the
standard of values.
In short. the silver advocates are undis.
mayed by what they esteem to be tempo.
rary conditions. They maintain that there
ran be no permanent and genuine pros.
perity under the gold standard. They
maintain that the bulk of the fruits of ex.
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OLD ~IrOnsidea.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: I have this mo
ment real your excellent editorial remarks on Old
Ironsides in the issue of Aug. 90. 1897. 1t is my
purpose In addressing you to suggest that you may
agree with mo that the historic old vessel should be
restored as nearly as possible in spars. rigging, and
armament to her original cruising condition and
thon be stationed at the Naval Academy a. an ever
present object lesson In patriotism.
Such was her fate In 1850 with the exception OF
guns and gear. hut It can be remembered by those
midshipmen who were first quartered on board In
that year that they breathed an inspiration which
later became a quickening impulse during the stirring
days OF 1881 to 1905.
TO illustrate the sentiment which was once attached
to the old ship in the hearts OF the American people.
ana which would harm no one II now existent, ! will
give you an anecdote. A brief time ago. but be-
fore the upbuilding of the navy OF steel and high.
powered guns. 1t was the los Of tho writer to com.
mand \ small steam sloop, and In an American port,
converting with n wide awake Yankee visitor, the
subject OF a threatened diniculty with Great Britain
arose. To the opposition raised by tho writer
against such . war on account OF the weakness of
our naval force. the visitor remarked with much sur
prise. why. whore is the old Constitution p"
By all means the ship should return to the Naval
Academy to become an inspiration to young mon.
p. II. coorER, Captain, U. 8. Navy. Superintendent.
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY. AssAroLIs, Nd,
Aug. 20,
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III "C1Ts" OF PHILADELPHIA
They Have No Standing In Politics This Year
Nothing but Noise.

They Have No Standing in Politics This Year
Nothing but Noise.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22.-The Republican pri.
maries of Philadelphia will be held tomorrow
evening, and Of one thousand election divisions
in the whole city not more than fifty will be
carried by the "Cits," who for six months at
least have been making a great fight for J.
Hampton Moore for City Treasurer.
When the Cts began their campaign early in
the year in the interest Of young Mr.. Moore, it
seemed from the noise they made that there
would not be fifty delegates OF the 900 for Mr..
Moore's opponent; that the Chinese tom-toms
were making such q racket that no man would
have the courage to face 1t, and that the Re-
without a struggle.
But a half dozen political leaders. notably
Senator Quay. Charles F. Kindred. and David
Martin. got together, pricked the Cts bubble,
and. 10! being only wind. gas. or some other ex-
trenely tennous substance, 1t collapsed. Whom
will not even name a candidate for either tenn
poriry or permanent Chairman.
ordinary Sseg'S learning e. Pl.E 70 ike ike y e s0sh &r m Moo OF extra Sn 10
the mountain top ana show him the promised
land; to hold public meetings. influence public
sentiment in his interest, predict his nomina-
dire results il the party failed to follow where
the moment Kindred. Martin. and a few other
Republican leaders agree upon a Republican
candidate.
ought to mention that che "Cits'" commit
tee of Philadelphia was made up of professors
in universities of law. medicine, and engineer
ing; lecturers in our colleges. lawyers. doctors.
and merchants OF the highest standing. even
including doctors of divinity. When they met
and organized in March st in the interest OF
Mr.. Moore, It really seemed as II they were
in earnest; but In August, when the pri.
maries are to be held, these distinguished
manufacturers of public sentiment are some In
Europe, others at Newport. some at Bar Har.
Dor, and Others drinking the water ut Saratoga.
Few Of hem are In Philadelphia.
But this isn't because the Cits are not to be
relied on In n political contest either In midsum,
mer, midwinter or any other time.
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could not be avertsd. The project, there
fore, contrived by the advanced Radicals as
a substitute for the Gladstonian type of
home rule must be pronounced unworkaole.
Such IL the opinion of both MI, JOHN 4.
REDMOND and Mr.. DILLON.
The Unionists, while waiting for Mr..
| BALFouR to formulate the powers and linn
~itations Of Irish county councils, have inn
agined that they might revive Irish loyalty
by arranging that the Duke of YORK should
live in Ireland for some seven months OF
the year. They propose to invest 3 1,O0O,-
q In the purchase of q residence suitable
for royalty, and to apply to It's maintenance
the ESQ, 900 now annually expended or the
vice.royalty, which Is to be abolished. 1t
is taken for granted that the presence Of a
royal prince in Ireland would lure thlther
hundreds Of the aristocracy, who in
turn would cause a hegira Of well-to do
English sightsecrs and "~trippers' to
the Emerald Isle. In this way, 1t Is
calculated, a stream of British gold
might be diverted to Ireland, and there
diffusc to the profit and delight Of tho in.
habitants. The c~uriously low opinion Of
the Irish intellect entertained, even by
sober-minded Englishmen, Is brought out
clearly in this notion, that the Irish people
could be duped into %renouncing their hopes
of self.governing for a little pageantry in
cash. The abolition Of the vice-royalty
would indeed be a bribe to many for whom
Castle government Is a synonym for every
thing odious and oppressive in admin.
istration. Even Of this matter, however,
Mr.. T. HEALY takes a different view
not, Of course, that he approves of the way
In which the Lord Lieutenanoy has been
for the most part administered But he
reminds his countrymen that the vice.
regal office is the solitary remnant Of the
ancient Constitution of the separate king
dom of Ireland which has been left stand
ing by the act of the Union. To abolish it
would be to complete the evil work of PITT
and C~AsTLEREAGH.
We fear that lone of the recent overtures
to Ireland will answer the purposes Of their
~propounders.
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To THE EprroR OF THE sus-Sfr: VIII you kindly
oblige an annual subscriber by publishing the follow
ing in your valuable paper? Upon receiving tbs
weeks edition of the Scientific American, I notice to
my surprise that the Empire State Express no
longer holds the palm for being the fastest train in
the world; that there are at present two trains which
run every day and make better time than the train
above mentioned. viz: a train on the Atlantic City
Railroad and one on the Caiedonian Railroad OF
Scotland. The Atlantic City train runs from Cam.
den TO Atlantic City. N. J., q distance of nfty.
I'VE miles, in nfty.two minutes. thereby ayerag.
ing moro than q mile q minute. while the Gale.
DOMAIN train averages sixty miles an hour. IL
did not say. however, what distance the English
train ran. Seeing exclusively in THE Sun of late years
all the fast railroad records which have heen made
both in this country and England. II strikes me that
you exert an influence with the different railroads
which no other newspaper possesses. and therefore I
send you this information with the special intention
that you may use your influence with the different
city TO give the greatest city in this country. prob
FIRMLY believe that II the officials OF the New York
Central Railroad knew that they were not operating
the fastest train in the world they would not be very
long in making o supreme enot to do 90. I trust,
therefore. that you will kindly call the attention Of
the of1cials of said road to this fact through your val.
liable paper. that the Empire City may enjoy the ben
ent Of having the fastest train in the world ut ~
disposal. SuRsCRmuR.
NEW YonX. Aug. 10.
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listing prosperity will be garnered BY the
plutocrats and not evenly distributed among
all interests. They hold that the gold
standard works injustice TO the "produc.
ing classes; and they continue to ask that
this injustice be remedied. The senti.
mental effect OF this economic theory may
have been diminished temporarily, but
there is no intention of changing 1t or TAX
ing 1t out Of the way. Any party in oppo-
sition is more or less hurt by good times,
but it does not therefore revise or revoke
its principles.
1t is crazy to expect that $780, 900
voters, most of whom in 1896 believed al
most passionately in the free coinage Of
silver, can be led to change their belief in
1897. The Democratic dogma as to silver
is unaltered, and the Democratic leaders in
this State or elsewhere who want to pass
that dogma over as unimportant or obso-
lete, are in so far not Democrats. Both they
and the Mugwumps who are playing into
their hands are seeking to strip Organism
of its proper principles and to represent it
as something which it is not.
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The platform of the Iowa Middle-of.the.
Road Populists favors Government loans to
State, county, township, and municipal gov
ernments, the principal to be paid to the Gov.
eminent at 2 per cent. n year, without interest,
said money to DO a full legal tender" This is
very well for tho States, counties, cities, and
towns, but what is the Government to do
for tho individual citizen with . gift for
borrowings He, too. wants what the platform
calls "a sufficient amount OF sound and flexible
money" Shall he not get his sufficient amount,
without interest, from tho Government As he
is the unit Of the artificial organizations. State,
township, and so on, his privileges should be
moro than theirs. He should BIO allowed to Dor
row from the Government and never DO forced
TO pay principal or interest.
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A despatch from Corsicana, the site Of the
Hon. ROGER QUARLEs MILLS. says that "the
Senator'S mail is burdened with queries and
propositions touching upon his supposed oil
lands" Such Is tho fate of the plutocrat-
hunter who seems to DO on tho road to plu-
tocracy. Friendly warnings and remonstrances
crowd upon him. Draw back from the abyss
before you tumble In" cry the faithful who
have seen him chasing the money sharks and now
tremble lest the chaser should become the chased.
Mr.. MILLS tries to do his duty in spite Of tho
promise OF his Texan oillands. He does not care
to engage in any further correspondence on tho
oil question, having leased his lands to q friend"
He will not be q plutocrat, II he can help 1t.
save at second hand. II tho friend develops
the lands and finds them rich in oil, what Is the
foe OF plutocracy to dol He will have to be a
plutocrat. There will DO no way Of escaping 1t.
He will be able to plead that he Is rich in
voluntarily. made so by tho indiscrotion of q
friend and the sarcasm Of nature.
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The report that there is a strike in a sho,

The report that there is a strike in a shoe
factory In Detroit. of which tho Hon. POTATO
PINGREE Is one Of tho proprietors. need not
alarm any OF tho admirers Of that foe Of trusts
and friend of man and three-cent fares. II there
Is a strike In any concern with which Mr.. PIN.
GREE has anything to do, 1t is safe to assume
that the strike is for lower wages and longer
hours. Men who have the happiness of work
Ing for this statesman. philanthropist. and
harpooner of octopuses want to give him some
sign OF their appreciation OF his labors for hui
mainly. - lie is working for us" they must say;
let us do moro work for him and charge him
less Tor it, Thus there is a brisk but friendly
competition between the employer, who would
ike 10 give the highest pay for the least work.
and the employees. who would like to work
twehty-iour hours a day for nothing ut all. We
are reasonably sure that this will BIO found to be
the correct explanation OF an occurrence which.
at hrSt sight, seemed strange and almost dis
couraging.
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One Cure for Love and Aloohonsu.

~ <stS~s
n. de Fleury. in his " Introduction a Ia Medicine do
IEsprit. combats with great seriousness the old.
fashioned hypothesis that bodily Ills alone arc the
province OF the practitioner. The disorders Of the
psychic half Of the human economy are every whit
Is numerous and important. II not more 90. than
those affecting the somatio half. and every one TO
necting on the havoc they occasion must acknowi.
edge that aystemati efforts should be made to render
them amenable to treatment. Laziness, grief. and
anger are among the mental affections dis
cussed by the writer. not only from q cura-
tive. but also from q prophylactic. point Of
view. As might perhaps be expected. an entire
chapter is devoted to the tender passion under the
heading. LA Medicine des PassionS." Love-" says
II. de Fleury. isa physiological phenomenon which
enters the domain of pathology the moment It a.
sumes the form. Do We not habituAlly
say. 81 and-so Is madly in love-? This passion.
which is beyond the control OF sense. in face Of which
reason loses her rights and her powers. 10 moon.
testably q human maiady." The symptoms Of
ramour.maladie, we arc further told. bear . wonder.
full resemblance to those Of alcoholism and morphine.
mania. Every ono who inquiries into the facts for him.
self will be struck with the absolute Identity Of the
pathological processes in each case. The point OF do.
parture is different, but the results arc precisely sim.
liar. and the same overwhelmingly separation
cures both.
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Sheehan's Never :"

The deluder OF Tnmmany Hall issued his
first silver proclamation on Sept. 8, 1890,
a little less than q year g Its memor.
able phrases should be kept in mind:
The paramount and all absorbing question now IL
whether the People of the United States will adhere
to . single gold standard. or q financial system which
has been tried for over twenty years and found want
ing. and which has brought disaster upon the Country
and misery to the homes OF thousands of the plain
people. or Will they return to the Money Of the Com
s%titution, Gold and Silver, which existed from tho
adoption of the Federal Constitution until 1878.
when Silver was wrongfully and surreptitiously with.
drawn as 4 part of tho Standard Coin. . Our
enemies. with vast sums OF money at their command
are industriousiy circulating among our citizens liter
ature. misleading in character. The arguments
they use are false. and are intended to deceive tho
masses. II is tho bounded duty OF Tammany Hall to
combat this evil"
SHEEHAN's proclamation Of Sept. 8, 1895,
was followed in about two weeks by an
edict banishing for all time from Tammany
Organism. The edict Of expulsion came
right on the heels Of the proclamation Of
"bounded duty"
ANY man who claims allegiance to Tammany
Hall. and does not do his best to elect BRYAN and
SEwALI- will have no standing in the organization.
Every leader of every district will mark the traitors.
Never. now. or hereafter. will any traitor be reooC.
nized in Tammany Hall"
This decree sounded so awful, this sen.
tence Of perpetual exclusion from the VEN
cradle wigwam which MI. SHEEHAN had so
recently made his own abiding place, that
a disinterested citizen of Columbus, Ohio,
wrote to the deluder and dictator Of Tam
many inquiring If he really intended to be
pitiless. Mr.. SHEEHAN replied, sternly re-
peating the words printed above, and add
ing:
"Tammany has repudiated these mon 1.-THE gold
Democrats of last year, and will have none but 10y al
Democrats on guard. This defines the position OF
myself and every leader in Tammany Hail."
That was all less than twelve months
ago. Meanwhile, Mr.. SHEEHAN has been
promoted from the post Of deluder Of Tam.
many Hall to be its recognized and absolute
leader. He makes issues for it, he defines
its bounded duty" and he prescribes its
standards of Democracy and its tests of
loyalty to the organization.