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Gomez and Independence.

Madrid is just now interested in the pub
hcation there Of a letter addressed by Gen.
MAKING GOMEZ to Gen. MARTINEZ CAMPos,
q few days before the latter, being relieved
from command in Cuba, returned to Spain.
The communication seems not to have
reached MARTINEZ CAMPos at that time, but
to have been handed to his successor. Gen.
GOMEZ himself gave a copy of it to the
newspaper printed by the patriot Govern
mert, and 1t was there published as long
q as last August.
The point Of special interest Just now Is
the relation Of this letter to the statement
recently made at Washington that Secretary
OLNEY had received information leading
him to believe that Gen. GOMEZ would not
be indisposed to accept Mr.. CLEvELAND's
plan of peace on the basis of home rule.
In the letter written by GoMEZ last jan
uary we find nothing to support such an
Inference. Cuba as n colony Is already
lost to Spain" he writes to MARTINEZ CAM
Pos. All SPANS efforts to save 1t must be
utterly useless. Fl" resolved, as we are, not to
yield one single point until we have ac-
complished our purpose liberty" He ad-
dressed Gen. MARTINEZ CAMPos as the one
6paniard who must appreciate this, and his
object was to secure, on proper terms,
6pain's own acknowledgment Of Cuba's
Independence.
We know Of nothing that indicates any
subsequent change in this patriot leaders
high aim, or any Willingness TO compromise
upon home rule under the odious Spanish
sovereignty. CUBA is able, and Wishes"
he wrote, ito be like the other countries OF
America" An acknowledgment now by
our own Congress that she had achieved her
Independence might really smooth the way
10 peace, since Spain could Justly find in
this declaration from Cuba's powerful
%neighbor n reason for abandoning warlike
efforts, and accepting a liberal indemnity
for Withdrawing her troops.
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Ri

Wages In the lumber country OF Montmorenay
county, Mich. have fallen to the lowest figures re-
corded there, SIS to els . month.
Judge buckingham OF Shelby county, Ind. has
been applied 70 for an Injunction TO restrain ali
ciergeymn and magistrates from marrying the sou
OF one snodgrlss 70 . girl ~neighbor.
One citizen of Atchison. Kan. found himself the
other day . party TO three lawsuits In IS many if.
ferent courts NJ the sams time, one OF the cAsus
being . divorce action brought by his second wife.
While leading . COW 70 water at Deatorvills,
Kan. a boy tied the rope TO the bi; OF a Jridls
which he was carrying and slipped the bTiiis over
his head. The COW ran away, and he was dragged
aud fatally injured.
Large shipments OF eggs are spoken ~ more
commonly a. coming from the Northwest, but iaai
Kentucky does q share toward supplying the mar.
kets was shown by the shipment by one arm Al
Lancaster OF $1,000 dozen in one day.
Church congregations oil Portland. Ne, In the
event OF a pastors illness could easily have a ser
mon by borrowing the y. II. c. As 8! Aphophone,
which is charged with sermons OF a preacher known
from Brooklyn to jerusalem 1t contains also tev.
erA hymns
DIR. William Ebherd. who was one of the Pic,
neers OF Madison county, Ind. died lately al ut.
homo near Frankton. The sermon which was de
livered AZ his funeral he wrote himself three year,
ago for the occasion. Besides being a farmer aui
practising as a physician he was an Adventist
preacher. In recent years he had suffered pcrse'
cution from some unknown foe who burned Ia
barns and wrote threatening letters TO his family.
There are more breweries In California than Their.
are in Illinois; moro dls:illeries in Massachusetts
than there are In Kentucky, and more cir arctic.
manufactured In New York State than In -! tNs
other States OF the county combined. In NoNem
Der the internal revenue receipts were s7.S55,.'3,
an increase OF sll7.S7o over last year: from ,o'
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There ought to DO no interference with
those able-bodied squatters In the Indian Ter
fitory VINO have made arrangements TO 60 to
Cuba and squat upon tho vacant lands there.
There 10 much unoccupled land In Cuba at this
time, and tobacco can DO raised on some OF It.
The crop 10 profitable in good seasons. Tho
squatters have agreed to take firearms with
them to Cuba for self.protection or any other
use. That 10 right 1t Is tho custom OF the able
bodied mon there. both Spaniards and Cubsns,
to carry guns. The rights Of squatters must DO
defended In Cuba as well as In the Indian Ter
ritory. where there are rcd men.
We are happy to know that q code OF bylaws
has been drawn up for the projected Cuban
colony in arms. This leads us to guess that tho
expeditionary souatters are Americans ac-
ouainted with the old Yankee system Of town
government.
The finest feature Of the scheme is yet to be
mentioned. Each mar In the armed expedition
IL to pay into the han IL of the ~souatter Treas
urer a membership fee OF 500. and to buy his
own gun and to pay his passage TO Cuba. II
this bylaw shall DO strictly enforced we do not
think 1t will DO necessary for tho Government
to send out q feet of cruisers to catch the
squatter-carrying ship.
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Public LAvatsriss.

To THE EDITOR OF THE srE-ar: The question OF
permitting the erection OF kiosks under the elevated
railroad stations for the purpose OF selling news
papers has been agitaing the minds OF our City
Fathers for some months past, but they have over
looked another. and In my opinion more important
matter.
New York 10 In all other respects ono OF the fore
most cit es In the world. but in tho matter OF provid-
ing lavatory facilities for inhabitants she 10 probably
one of Oh. moat backward, IL 10 strange that this de
ncisncy has not been remedied before. Tho want OF
convenient toilet rooms IL not only 4 source OF great
discomfort, often undoubtedly leading to sickness.
but to e may be traced the downfall OF many ayouns
man who acquired tho drinking habit through being
Obliged to enter saloons to obey tho laws OF nature,
! may also add that tho closing Of saloons on sun.
days has I'm phasiLed the needs OF the community In
this direction.
! would suggest that the space under the elevated
railroad stations be utilized for the purpose OF erect
Ing a ~lavatory, at say every thirt station, each alter.
nate ono to be for tho use or females. This would give
a toilet room o. about every nfteen blocks along the
route OF an IL" road, and would probably come near
meeting the necessities OF tho case.
NEW York, Dec, 81. T. MosHRAY AMos.
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Tho Right OF Clearance for Cuba.

The refusal OF the Spanish Consul at
Jacksonville to authenticate the manifests
of the steamers Commodore and Dauntless
has not made, and could not legally make,
any difference in the duty OF our Collector
at that port to speed them on their way.
Under the Spanish laws an American ship
must, II a question comes up as to her en-
trance into aCuban port. have on her papers
the pis8 of the Spanish Consul in the port
from which she clears; and the refusal Of
Consul SOULS. under the instructions Of
Minister DUPUY DE LONE, to certify the
manifests OF the Commodore and the Daunt-
less, will doubtless prevent them from en-
tering the ports Of Cienfuegos and Neuvitas,
for which they have been cleared.
That, however, Is n matter OF Spanish
municipal law with which we have nothing
to do. 1t appears hat among the trade re-
strictions imposed upon Cuba Is one against
the Introduction OF arms and ammunition
there without a permit from the Governor
General. That course is clearly within
the power of Spain, and, OF the strength Of
81, the Spanish authorities have withheld
their endorsement from the Commodore's
manifest, SO practically refusing to let her
enter any Cuban port.
But an American clearance does not rest
for its validity OF n Spanish rise, Nor does
y Spanish restriction upon the methods Of
importing arms and munitions into Cuba
have the slightest effect on our laws relat-
ing to their export. The recent decision Of
the Supreme Court In the Horsa case covers
the ground in the specific case OF Cuba at
the present moment while Attorney-Gen-
eral HARMON, who once declared 1t to be
highly discourteous to Spain to hold meet
iugs OF sympathy here for Cuba, yet recent
ly laid down this rs the law.
The more sale or shipment OF arms and munitions
Of war by persons IN the United States 20 persons In
Cuba Is not a violation Of International law. however
strong a suspicion there may be that they are to be
used In the insurrectlon against the spanish Govern.
nsnt. indiyiduAlA In tho United States have a right
20 sell such articles 10 whomsosysr may choose TO buy
them."
1t is clear, therefore, that they could law
fully sell the arms Of tho Dauntless and tho
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For.lgp Note. Of Real interest.

or es, 900 applications tnr patents in England 80
far this year. more than oae third are for Inn
provements In bicycles.
william Onions. the London East End poet, hetor
Known as Spring Onions" spent his Christmas In
prison for beiuG drunk AMI !!soricr'y,
slgnor crispi has taken time by tho torelocS IN
having his marble monument erected IA the Naples
cemetery. The only inscription on 1t Is 'CrIspl.'
Russia's crarlna, a worthy sranddauShtcr VI
Queen Victoria. is nshtuf me practice OF 81 a"s
tobacco prevalent among thc women AT the .'.'
She IS said also TO have shu, down on hr Z"
bands allowance OF cigarettes. She Is ais 's.'ie
be not 50 well liked MS she Was.
British Generals hayo privileges not a'c.-'ci'o
peers in the EngiiSh police courts. ST. "'e'p"'l
olpps, who Was recently summoned fo7 J'itHrN
bicycle on u footpath NJ Alivrshot, sem h', scr'"t'
TO pay his hne Of i've sNIllinSs an - t,utr' IN
apology, which the mAsi,tr.:c ACCEPTED, Several
peers wives who were guilty " ',ry'us ua''na'
Eled iapdogs In their carriages were obliged to A.
tend court In person last year.
Swallow wort, or the greater ceiAn'ine oHh''t
donium nrdJus). which Or. pcu!seHk3 asserts 80
cure for cancer. has long been used by country poo
Pile to remove warts. Tho Doctor uses the Juice -
the plant diluted, both externally and inIyr,E'F'
In external cases Injecting 10 hu!i iypoicrn
around tho canccrous growth Accord. 90
Llnoot, however. experiment. with his = y
other observers have no; confirmed ~ re'af.
Lord Savilo's estates havo already IA.'
death duties than any Others In EuSlIni. aal
that he Is dead mgsG pay a tax Of n mil,.ag 'H .
10 the Treasury. lie and his brothers Nsro t...
climate sons OF tho eighth Earl OF S'arnnrra,' .,
who bequeathed to the eldest as much OF hts ir"'
erty as he could. Al In law they were no, f"''.i
to each other. the heaviest death duties wore
posed whenever the estates changed hands, . b
this has happened three times In htt"rn !r''
Tho late baron was raised TO the peeraSr In l'-7
and TO continue the title a special remainder hat .
be created In favor OF his nephewL - II IhsJ hEa
been strangers In bloed.
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the new bullet is much larger than the entrance.
and the bullet itself IL either mushroomod, or
the nicke l she'll and lead have parted company"
The Calcutta correspondent Of the London
Times especially notes tho havoc made In tho
carcasses OF sheep by the new bullet the effect
being somewhat like that which Ia produced By
explosive bullets. The result has been q con-
clusion that the new bullet Is sufficiently muir
derous to obviate the objections TO the old one.
1t may be worth while to observe that our own
ordnance officers have arrived at different con-
illusions in this very same Meter, after careful
experiments with the Tweedie bullet, which is
considered to be one Of tho best of the soft-noso
bullets. as this type 10 often called. The ex-
perimonts were made at ford arsenal, and
this report 10 made by Gen. FLAoLER on them;
Tho mushrooming effect OF tho softnoss bullet is
OFFSET by the socallod explosive effect OF the hard
pointed bullet at short ranges. The soft nose bullet
is inferior In accuracy. and IL especially inferior In
its ability TO penetrate hard substances used for dc.
fensive purposes. making II almost useless 10 reach
troops under cover that would be dislodged By the
service bullet"
II remains to be seen whether the new Leo
Motford bullet 10 FREQ from the objections which
our ordnance officers thus noted In ono Of tho
same general type tried hero.
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Tho old year has gone,
Let Il slide!
Time goes running on.
But we abide.
Was tho old year badf
Let's forge, 1t.
A new ones 20 DO had,
Why not get III
The old year died game,
But tho new
Has got there just the sAms,
70 may yoa.
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TTNW 10 INubFTWItH WINK
There Is some probability that the Rev. DR.. Watson
OF Liverpool, so well known as Ian NAolaren." viii
by aud by take up n pastorate In London. As pr.
Watson is Il brilliant orator. he would no doubt imms,
diately take his place in the front rank OF London
proacherA
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LOCAL NKva-The City and Suburban News Bureau
of the UsrED PHEss and NEW YoRK ASSOCIATED
Pass 10 at Ell to 30 Ann street. All Information
and documents for public use instantly dissent
mated to the press OF the whole country.
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1t Is pleasing to learn that tho London
newspapers reports OF damage TO the hull Of
the St. Paul by the shaking OF her engines were
the result of bad reporting or malice. and not
Of negligence or poor work on the part Of B'rer
CRAMP, the builder.
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Subscription. By Mail POSTPAID.
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" our Crferds uho fdvor US rfh na~usorti<s FOR
publication ul.h TO have rejected articles refurntd msy
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TEE rnEs1DExr AND CONGRESS.
Further Answers by Great Americans 20 the
Hos. Richard Oiney.


To TINE EDITOR or THE Us-St In . pre-
yious article, published ia TIRE SUN OF Dec. 30. I
allowed the views of Washington, Jefferson. and
Madison ON the Jurisdiction OF Congress in ref
erenco to our foreign relations. I shall now
present the opinions OF the leading statesmen
since their time. including the Administration OF
Abraham Lincoln, and show the precedents
that have been established on that subject.
On Feb. 10. 1921. Henry Clay offered this
resolution IN tho Uouse OF Representatives,
n.,a with m. n.orl. Of tbe United state. I'm the deem
interes, which they feel for the success OF the spanish
provinces Of South America, which are struggling for
their liberty and independence. and that II will give
Its constitutional support to tho President OF tho
United states whenever ne may deem IL stpedlent 70
recoen'he tno so'eresn'' II wv
A'u o'"'e
Ihis resolution WAS aoopteo' anu motion 10
amend IL by q proviso that THIS resolution
shall not be construed to Interfere with the In
dependent exercise OF tho
power" was rejected.
From this IL appears that the House OF Repre-
sentativeso OF the seventeenth Congress-. ied by
Henry Clay, regarded II as one OF It's functions
to give Its constitutional SUPPORT" to the Pros
idsnt In the recognition OF foreign nations. ana
that, too without regard to any supposed IN
reference with the independent exercise OF the
treaty-making power;" and that In this case II
did take the initiative In the recognition OF
these states.
On Jan. 20. 1922. the House followed this MP
by calling upon PRESIDENT Monroe Tor INFORMS
tion as TO the condition OF tho South American
States which had declared their Independence.
How did President Monroe and bis Secretary
OF State. John Quincy Adams. receive this
call on the part OF the Housef DID they tell II
lhAf Al mi nARA nj les n I NhAt - Ia nus
to recognize a so-called republic as an independ-
ent state rests exclusively with the Executive
Let the answer OF President Monroe speak FOR
Itself. 1t bears date March 8, 1929:
in Transmitting to the House OF Representatives. the
documents called for by the resolution OF that House
! consider u my du'pt 10 invite inc attention oil Con
:. N.l, "po''." suD.oeN u 70 q
.nov,, $500. .n,.s 49,. go
nav N. snon oo1n.,.,ion h.,-.an ,h. 80 s.n.,,1
m.n,. Of the aovsrnnent "A THAR resneo,,ys right.
and duties may REQUIRE"
Thar. 4. no,b,no .,o,r.,v. In ,,,. IT. =
.ide,s a. ..bi. du,vr IN invite Oh. at,sn,ion ~
Congress. he desires its cooperation, and he ad-
mits that IL has "rights'' and "duties' In CON-
nection with the subject. He then takes Con-
ores. into bia con sdence procesds Tn d..crih.
81. oo,,i,ia, -. -. Co.,. "a a..i.... "a.
-. ---.I.
ot"'eS eho op~in maniiestiS oeseieo III
their FAVOR, tho new governments nave q
claim TO recognition by other powers which
ought not TO DO resisted"
This message was referred to the Committee
on Foreign Affairs. who. on March %. reported
,hs tonovtno r..oi,,ton
.lha' the mouse OF representatives concur In the
oph'oH " foauent Inn "essAkeol
e"e So W
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-24

Defects often develop in steam en-
gines and other machines that are very
mysterious i'll their origin and call for
great ingenuity in detecting the cause.
Unless man in charge of an engine
develops habits of close observation he
is likely to be easily beaten when any
thing unusual takes place.
We read lately of tendency to run
away of Corliss engine, which was
great mystery for time. The engine
would speed up for few moments
without any apparent cause and drop
back to its normal speed without any
thing being done. The engine was taken
apart and examined carefully, and par
tloular attention was devoted to the
governor, but nothing wrong could be
found. One day, while the engineer
was looking at the engine, it suddenly
speeded up about 90 revolutions above
the normal, and before the steam could
be shut off it dropped back to the regu-
lar speed. The engine was stopped, the
governor again taken apart, the valve
mechanism examined and minute in
spection made over the whole machine,
and nothing could be found the matter
Some of the people about were be-
ginning to think this cratic engine was
acting outside of natural laws and that
a real mystery surrounded the tendency
to run away. By accident the engineer
grasped the governor belt and was sur
prised to find that the pulley turned on
the shaft. The pulley was of the com
mon kind, made in two pieces and bolt
ed together, being held to the shaft by
the friction of the parts The bolts had
worked loose and permitted the pulley
to turn on the shaft at short intervals.
When hearing about this mystery,
the surprise we experienced was that
the engineer did not thoroughly examine
that pulley after he had looked at the
governor. Locomotive Engineering.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-24

Layater, in his ''Physiognomy, F."
makes the following curious remarks,
81 have had occasion to observe some
infants Immediately on their births and
have found an astonishing resemblance
between their profile and those of their
father. A few days after this resem-
blance almost entirely disappeared. The
influence Of the air and food and prob
ably the change of posture had so al
tered the design of the face that you
could have believed it a different in
diyidual. | afterward saw two of these
children die, one at weeks and the
other at years Of age, and about
10 hours after their death they imme-
diately recovered the profile which had
struck me so much at their birth, only
the profile of the dead child was, as
might be expected, more strongly
marked and more terse than that of the
living"
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Mistaken Pride.

Phil May. the artist and caricaturist,
tells of funny experience he had on
his return from tour for the London
Graphic:
When / came back to London,
fastened to the office, and imagine my
qualification when 1 saw everywhere
respondent banners bearing the inscrip-
ton in large letters. welcome to
May"
''This is indeed fame" / thought,
and when got to The Graphic office
there was another inscription, with
flowers and all the rest of it, welcome
to M. and g." The G. worried me a
bit, but then the name of the man who
went out with me commenced with G.
1 told the editor of my qualification.
Why, you egotistical idiot" he re-
marked politely, Its nothing to do
with you! It's the marriage of Prince
George and Princess May"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-24

Our neighbors generally are the peo-
pie who have houses near to our own.
that nearness varying according to the
size of the district and the number of
householders of the same social rank as
ourselves. In town they live in the
same street; In apartments they are on
the same corridor; in the country they
are separated by field only or a garden
wall; in sparsely tenanted places they
are at distance of mile or two miles,
OF it may be six. And the neighbor par
excellence is the one who lives close
alongside of ourselves-perhaps in the
other half of the semidetached house
where we have our home or Just across
the road and opposite, not to the side,
This is the general idea of neighbor,
and when we use the term we rarely
mean aught else.
But in point of fact we have neigh
bors wherever we turn-men and wom-
en- to whom we are bound to render
such service of kindness as comes into
the possibilities of the time and place.
1t is not only domicile and the rates
and taxes which make us neighbors. 1t
is not only when we live divided by a
party wall one from the other at the
foot of the hill, or standing face to face
across the road, when we can signal our
goings out and our comings in and be
helpful and neighborly in the matter of
the garden roller and the preserving
pan. 1t is not only when we know all
the family history, and how our friends
and neighbors are impeccable as to their
grandfather and without the crooked
lines of scandal across their family
escutcheon. 1t is not necessary to be
intimate, nor even to have been intro
duced, for the obligations of neighbor-
illness to be strict and strong. For
wherever we can render service, show
a courtesy or do kindness we have our
work cut out for us in the way of duty
to our neighbor, and he is our neighbor
who stands in need, great or small, of
such help as we can offer -Philadel-
phia Times.