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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28
Theosophy Under Mrs. Tingley.

The fine old days OF Theosophy, the days
when BLAvATsKY, Col. OLcoTT, and kooT
HooMI were working in harmony and
JUDGE was a mere kindergarten pupil,
appear to have departed. There Is little In
the present TINGLEY-HARGRovE combina-
tion to thrill the Imagination or stimulate
public interest. This combinat ion has
been all around the world at the expense
Of some generous unilluminated The
osophist or Theosophists, but the net re-
suits. as stated by Mrs. TINGLEY herself in
the October number of 7heosophy, are not
particularly impressive. As might be eX-
pected, the TINGLBY-HARGRovE party en-
countered in India d~erisive opposition
from the OLCoTT faction, and they
seem to have made no attempt to
penetrate the Desert of Cobb, or to get prac-
tically any nearer to KooT and the Heart of
the Oasis thar they are when at home here
in Madison avenue. Col. OLcoTT must have
laughed ~sardonically when he beheld the
TINGLEY crusaders turning their backs
upon India without having seen KooT.
No wonder the promoters of the cult in
America feel the absolute necessity of hur.
rying up the organization of the Point
Iona School for the Revival of the Lost
Mysteries Of Antiquity. Unless they get
the laboratory of that institution into
working order, and revive a lost mystery
or two for advertising purposes, there
Is danger that the whole movement will
degenerate into a moderately philanthropi.
cal, mildly philosophical concern with no
more startling function than to preach
~drowsily vague doctrines concerning the
Brotherhood of Man. 1t was not the ethi,
cal rubbish or the half-bakcd metaphysics
of ThSosophy that commanded the attcn-
tion Of the entire civilized world at the
time when the Colonel was in his prime,
and Madame BLAvATsKY was working
miracles to the music of the bells of the
Eighth avenue horse cars, and mahatmas
and astral bodies were darting in every
direction through the magic.ladcn atmos.
phere of Madison square.
We are promised that the next number of
TheoS0phy will contain a full official re-.
port of the ceremonies which attcnded the
laying of the corner stone of the mystic
university at Point Iona. This account.
provided it throws more light on the char.
acter of hat educational enterprise, and
INT sui VI ioS' hHSteIieS Witch are 10 pt
revived by the professors and students, and
the mystic curriculum from the beginning
of freshman year to graduation day, may
serve to reawakcn partially the interest OF
the general public in old KooT and his
North American disciples.
Such will be the case, we doubt not, II
the November number of TheosOphy should
happen to announce that the School for the
Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity
has secured the services of DR.. L. BENJA.
MIN ANDREWS as its President.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28
Charges Against the Tax Commissioner Pre-
sentod In Forensic style.

Charge Against the Tax commissioners Pre-
sented In Forensic style.
John A. Mccall. President of the New York
Life Insurance Company. was a witness yester-
day before the Grand Jury. which is inves.i-
eating charges made by the Law and LeGisla-
tive Committee of the Central Labor Union
against taxpayers and the Tax Commissioners.
The Central Labor Union alleges that the Tax
commissioner have shown Partially to men
of wealth in this city, while levying taxes, thus
discriminating against the man OF small means.
and that tho mon Of wealth have sworn falsely
as to their taxable property.
After hearing a statement made by Mr.. Nc
Call and another made by Secretary Tying Of the
Tax Commission, who produced the Commits
sioncrs' books and papers for inspection. tho
foreman of the jury. Col. w. c.. Church, sent for
DIR. W. J. o'Sullivan. who is counsel for the
persons making the charges. When DR.. O'Sul.
Ivan had presented his allegations, several Of
the iurymen asked him to furnish the evidence
which he said he possessed. This he refused to
do, saying that he would rather withhold the
evidence until an indictment was found against
tho evidence at the trials. He declared that the
Equitlble Assurance Society had filed affidavits
that they possessed over 10000 900 worth OF
si3ners had figured it out at only g. o 5000.
DR.. O'Sullivan further stated that great cor
porations In this city had for years been using
the law to Cypress la or unions both by injunc,
tons and police court proceedings. 1t lie said
that he undertook to make a further speech to
the Grand Jury and was promptly sat upon.
The Grand Jury finally gave DR.. O'Sullivan to
! understand that he had no case. and 1t is alleged
that he reptile, that politics played an important
part in the matter. The foreman OF the Grand
ment OF what he meant by that. and when DR..
O'Sullivan offered no satisfactory answer he
was dismissed. When he came out Of the Grand
Jury room he seemed to think that he had been
turned down by the Grand Jury.
J To-day the Grand Jury will probably listen to
the statements OF william J. O'Brien of the
Granite Cutters Union. John $. Henry Of the
| ris OF the Cigarmnkers Union. and the repre-
sentatives of various other labor organizations
The Tax Commissioners may also be examined
by the Grand Jury to-day. but so far az could DO
learned yesterday the Central Labor Union has
not been able to substantiatc the charges 1t has
made.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28

We confess that our regard for the intel.
loctual ability Of our laborious contemporaries
OF the New York press is not as high as we
wish it could be, hut we should hate to put
them down so far in the intellectual scale as to
believe that their unanimous Qualification OF
the commonplace and shifty SETH Low is sin.
cerc. OF course. we know that the kindergarten
graduates. whose employment on the EreninO
Post has been a consequence Of the retirement
of Mr.. f. L. GoDKrS from its editorship. take
him with awful seriousness; but inasmuch at
they take themselves in tho same way. that is
not surprising. 1t cant be possible that the
kindcrgartens are the source from which the
intellects of all our esteemed contemporaries are
recruited.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28

The Hon. SETH Low seems to have in
ficted a cruel and an unusual punishment upon
the Hon. JAMES b. REYNOLDS. For the last six
days he has not permitted Mr.. REYNOLDS to
talk politics. II the Citizens Union has any re-
marks to make, l. SETH Low. I'm the man to
make them. Such have been the orders of Mr..
Low. and faithfully have they been obeyed,
though with a saddened heart, by the faithful
REYNOLDS. He is accustomed TO issue daily bull.
letins TO the city. He is full of politics. Since
the cruel he has been full of suppressed
politics. He suffers and says no word. No other
man in the Citizens Union has suffered so much
for tho cause. Mr.. Low ought to revoke his
silencing edict. Until he does Mr.. REYNOLDS
might distract his woe by the composition Of
some more Low poetry buttons.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sfr: Permit me TO
thank you tor your editorial OF Saturday regarding
Mr.. Plat. II is u tribute he deserves and must appre.
ciate. but win doubtless value most for Its indorse.
ment OF the principle he stands for-perpetuation OF
Republican control
To my mind the cutlery Of bossism In politics Is non.
sense. No household gets on well but under feminine
example Of 1t. one-man power runs everywhere
prosperous business OF large dimensions. In military
AFFAIRS II Is 'the born loader" Who can evolve tri.
umphant armies from q mob. I am sure the instru.
ment OF unequalled. harmonious development In tho
Church Claiming my allegiance ia a perfected boss in
tho highest sense. And tue present deplorable mud.
die over tho Mayoralty Is warning enough OF tho dis.
aster TO follow unless the leadership OF = man trained
and able as Mr.. Platt is evoked to avert II.
Your article Is admirably opportune for developing
recognition OF this. and aEain / thank you for It..
GEORGE MAcCuLLoCH MILLER.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28
An American Woman on American
Divorces.

There are some statements OF fact, and
there are also some curious misstatements,
in an article or divorce in the United
States, contributed by GERTRUDE ATHER.
TON to the Contemporary Rerie,r. The
misstatemerts should not be passed over,
lest they gain currency in England, owing
to the fact that the writer of the article Is
a N American woman.
AS for the grounds of divorce which are
recognized by the laws of the various
States, these are, Of course, obtainable
from any legal text book on the subject,
and they are set forth correctly by Mrs.
ATTENTION, so far as she goes. 1t is when
she comes to deductions from the statutory
premises that she sometimes falls into err.
ror. She Is quite right in saying that the
women of the United States are by no
means divorce-mad, but that. on the con-
trary, they shrink from the publicity of the
divorce court m the inevitable newspaper
notoriety. In most cases they bear their
burden as long as they can consistently
with self-respect. Mrs. ATHERToN also
does well to contradict an idea which has
found more or less acceptance in England.
that American women have a habit of d.
vorcing one man In order to marry another.
AS a matter OF fact. such cases are rare. The
women who seek relief in the divorce court
are, as a rule, extremely tired of matrimo-
ny and in no haste for another experiment.
Mrs. ATHERToN, however, Is unjust to her
feminine compatr!ots when she goes on to
qualify this well-founded assertion by af.
frming It to be unquestionable that IL an
American woman became convinced that
she had met the right man after having
suffered the infiction of the wrong one,
she would walk straight through the courts
to the church." 1t is a matter of common
observation that thousands of women who
find themselves in the predicament named
do, nevertheless, pursue un~fiinchingly the
path of duty in spite of streaming ewes
and breaking hearts, They are not, as
their detractor says in the Contemporary,
determined at all costs to be happy"
They could not be "happy" If they violated
what a great many of them believe TO be
not only the contract, but the sacrament of
marriage.
1t is, of course, true, as Mrs. ATHERToN
AYERS that Tomatter how favored a woman
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28

A Saltwater p~hilanthropist lmparts to
the 81. Paul Globe his " belief that all employers
OF men, or as many rs could be persuaded to,
should hold q general meeting, and devise
plans for o general raise of wages"
We should suppose that q general meet
ing would not be necessary. A small conven-
tion would suffice. and all it would have to do
would BIO to pass q resolution declaring that
wages ought to DO and hereby are raised. The
effect Of resolutions on tho market price Of COM
modities is well known. 1t would be pleasant
II all wages could be raised. but as 1t
cannot be done at present without expense to
the raiser, 1t may have to be postponed. It may
not have occurred to the Saltwater philan-
thropist that in Utopia or Altruria wages will
pay themselves; and 30 nobody will have to
bother his head about them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28
Minister HOshi's Explanation.

The statement made by Mr.. ToRu HosH1
shows Japan's sincerity. hut does not in
crease the prospect that the proposed ar
bitration will Soon be carried out.
Japan, il will he remembered, consents to
arbitrate only on condition tina the owner
ship Of the required $50 by each rejected
immigrant and also Hawaii's theory that
the treaty of 1871 is limited TO the merchant
class of immigrants shall not be questions
to go to the arbiter. These conditions have
seemed strange.
But Minister HosHI holds that the point
in regard to the $50 was not raised by
Hawaii at the outset, or until long after the
immigrants were expelled, so that it could
not have been on hat account that they
were sent back. Since 1t was an after.
thought, and since the difficulty in now
proving ownership would he great, Japan
cannot consent that this matter shall go to
arbitration.
But it does not appear that Hawaii fully
disclosed in detail her objections to the
immigrants when she rejected them. In
February last the Shinshiu Maru reached
Honolulu with nearly 600 immigrants,
and Hawaii refused to allow them to land
there. Within the two months following
the Sakura Maru and Kinai Maru arrived
with as many more immigrants, and the
same ground was taken about them. In
all, IL we do not err, about 1900 immi.
grants were sent back. The Supreme
Court was applied to for a writ of habcas
corpus In these cases, In order that the
legal questions might be decided, and held
that the immigrants had not yet come
within its Jurisdiction. 1t can easily be
understood that Hawaii may not at the
time have had any evidence that these i'm.
migrants were temporarily supplied with
funds not their own, so as fraudulently to
evade her laws, and yet may think she has
1t now. 1t would seem a sufficient protec,
tion both for the steamship companies and
Japan to agree that the presumption shall
be possession and ownership of the funds
by all the immigrants, on account of the
lapse of the time, and that Hawaii must
afiirmatiyely prove the contrary, which
she might find 1t difficult, If not impos.
sible to do.
But the main question seems to be
whether Hawaii surrendered by her treaty
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28
Mr.. Sheehan's Great Trick.

For several months past MI. JOHN @.
SHEEHAN has been practicing ~assiduously
a trick of political legerdemain to be played
by him at the Tammany Convention on
Thursday evening. 1t is a trick requiring
the greatest steadiness of nerve, for it in
wolves the incest adjustment Of weights
and balances in order to be successful.
The feat is to hide the Chicago platform
from the goldbugs, and at the same time
to show it to the Bryanites. 1t is played
with the aid of various and complicated
co%ntrivances to produce an optical illusion,
and it cannot be successful unless
the machinery is in perfect adjust
ment n the nerve of the politi-
cal juggler is absolutely firm Mr.. SHEE-
HANS long practice of the trick has
not yet reached the point Of absolute per.
lection. but by continuing it day and night
up to the hour Of the convention it is hoped
by his friends that he will be able to
audience.
Accordingly. it is especially desired that
the word Chicago" or Bryan should be
avoided in Mr.. SHEEHAN's presence, for
they may disturb his equipose. Mr.. BRYAN
Is said to have written incautiously to Col.
WILLIAM L. Brown on the subject of the
trick, and it is feared that the letter may
possibly result in marring the performance
on Thursday evening.
Meantime the public, g%oldbugs, Bryan.
ties. and everybody else, are waiting curl
ously or anxiously to see how Mr.. SHEE'
HAMS feat of political legerdemain is going
to turn out.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28
Tho Death or Hose pompou.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledoer.
PARIS. Sept. l2.-Thc news has Just been received
OF the death OF Rose Pompon. who for nearly n QUAR-.
ter OF . century was famous. or Infamous, as one OF
the most prominent figures OF the dcmi.monde. Rose
was OF something more than resp' ctaLle parentage.
for her father was a natural son OF Charles X. Her
blonde beauty. her wit. and her general attractive.
mss, served her well for som thing like thirty years,
hut at last neglect. starvation, and misery overlook
her Three years ago she became a bankrupt, and.
after making II forloin attempt TO obtain her living
as a fortune teller, she was turned out INTO tho wIntry
streets. homeless and utterly destitute. Nile, de Ia
Tour du Pin. o ~ell'known philantlroplst here, took
pity upon her and placed her IN a refuge conducted by
the sisters OF Charity at Nantes. and there she died
last week. %eontrite. Il is said. aud rep miami, though
to the last the ruling passion was strong. and almost
upon her deathbed she Insisted upon blackeniug her
eyelAshes with the burnt ends OF matches, q touch
which seems to belong rather TO nctlon than to real
LIE.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28
During the last decade congratulations

During the last decade congratulations
10 some new steamship as the swiftest on the
Atlantic Ocean have been an almost annual
ceremony. The lack of novelty. however, in no.
wise diminishes the feryor of our interest in
welcoming to that place the Kaiser Wilhelm der
crosse. Our only regret is that thu North Ger
man Company should have felt itself called
upon TO natter the vanity of the fresh young
German Emperor by giving to its new craft the
ridiculous title OF his invention. Emperor Will
liam the Great" instead of the true and much
more h~onoring title Emperor William l."
To-day the Germans. who. in seamanship, are
to-day OF any other day second to none. have the
best ship We expect to sec the William the
Great do the equivalent of the Queenstown
course in Ave days, or SO little short of 1t that
the odd hour will look like a mere accident OF
weather. And while tho brightest sun OF for.
tune is shining upon her 70 hope that the Teu-
tonic scientists will be studying ~unlagginEly
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28
Hail to tho New York Republicans

From the Providence Netcs.
II 10 stated that for the nrst time in tho history OF
the politics OF N W York the entire vote OF New York
county will be cast a. . unit In the coming City Con.
vention.
And eI-secretary OF the Navy Benjamin Y. Tracy is
the candidate for whom this n~sttering vote win be
cast by the Chairman OF the County
The proposition illustrates how soEidly the Republi.
can party OF tho Greater New York Is going into this,
the new city's nrst municipal contest.
No speciouS claims OF Goo Gooism. no Mugwump.
cry. no better element =" ~olaptrap. has had any effect
on the Republicans OF New York in their purpose to
have the party represented by q straight ticket. SO
far as IL now Indicated.
There is vigor In the organization and enthusiasm
In the rank and nle,
A party that is good enough TO control in nation
and In State ought to be good enough TO administer
the anAis OF the chief city OF the state ana tho
metropolis of the country.
And Gen. Tracy Is about the biggest and ablest man
In the big town
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28

Methodist Miniat~rs VIVA Propose n Change In
the system OF Appointments.

Methodist Mlnintera VINO Propose . Change In
the system OF Appointments.
The regular monthly meeting of the Methodist
preachers, held yesterday, was given over to a
discussion OF the p%ropriety of limiting the power
OF the Methodist Bishops in the matter Of the
control Of the ministers Of their dioceses. At
present the Bishops have absolute control Of. the
appointment and transfer of c!ergymen, but OF
late there has been a manifest disposition in
certain quarters to divide the power Of appoint
mcnt by the naming of q committee which
shall share with the Bishops the responsibility
of selecting the occupants Of tho various pull
pits.
This desire for a change in the present pro-
cedurc was made known at the last confer
cncc of the Methodist East Conference, when n
request was received from certain clcrgymen for
the re-transfcr of a popular preacher who had
church with whose congregation he was not
familiar. This request created n commotion
in the conference. Those in favor of the change
claim that IL is one of vital Importance. rs il
concerns the preservation OF a basic principle
upon which the Methodist Episcopal Church in
this country was founded.
More than 100 preachers were present when
the meeting was called to order Yesterday.
The main paper was road by tho Rev. John A.
ThOmp on. NJ one time pastor OF the Jane Street
Church in this city. He cited arguments for
tenn, and was understood to advocate n change.
Reporters were not admitted to tho meeting,
and no details of the discussion that followed
the reading of the paper were made public.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-28
SUSB MS.

In nine years the Indian population Of Tams
county. Ia. has increased by thirteen. The red people
there now number 394.
Plenty of deer re reported IN Vermont. and great
num,ers OF partridge escape the hunters attention
because all have their thoughts on deer.
Mortgages are being paid OF. by reason of the
good times. in cowli;z county, Wash, the Interest on
which han been left unpaid for two or three years.
"A couple OF dozen onions seem . few for q bushei,
but J. r. Douglas of ALBANY. Or, has exhibited TWEEN
ty.seveu onions which together weigh ~s,1ty.nvo
pounds. or fifteen pounds more than a bushel.
BY wipin- Precipitation from his face with the
back OF his hand while counting coin +. J. Eighmey
OF Waterloo. Ia poisoned his eyes badly, apparently
with dust from the foreign accretious on the metal.
There may be n deadly monotony in the hand
writing OF the next generation in this country. for the
vertical system" fad has spread to the furthest
confines. 1t has been adopted recently in the public
schools OF Tacoma, WASH. and AZ Portland, Or,
wh're the schools already use It and classes are being
formed to learn 1t by people in various walks OF life.
DIR. Roberts has instituted what he calls the Church
OF tho World in Kansas City. He conducts services
on Sunday mornings in u theatre. where the stage 10
set as a drawing. room in blue and brown. Nc colleo-
tion is taken up. THE churches have been begging
for a thousand years. he said. land are stn in
debt" His subject last Sunday wa THE Gospel OF
the World" He thinks the churches should progress
as the world progresses. so that a medieval monk re-
turning to life would not ind the creeds the only
things which have not changed since his exit.
1t is pretty generally known that the big candy
stores and the drug stores which employ girls TO ~.
tend the soda fountains in some OF the largo cities
now seek girls who are not distinguished for beauty.
aud that In many typewriting agencies preference 10
given to girls not called handsome, but little or moth
Inc has been heard or any EFFORT on the part OF tele.
phone companies in the same direction. The sheriff
OF Augusta county. Va, however. as manager Of the
Telephone Exchange at Stanton. has ldvrrtised for
homely girls as telephone operators. His reasons
have been vninly asked, and the puzzle deepcns with
the PRONUNCIATION OF the news tina, the girls employed
I'm the exchange marry soon after going there. what
their voices are like is not told, and It is said thas
their photographs have been refused to curious
correspondents time and again. 1t is to be noted
that. according to tho G%dsetteer, staunton. with Q
population OF less than 1000. supports four insu-
tutes for women and girls and a lunatic asylum.