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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services for Sabbath, Janua-
ry g: Sunday school. as usual.
at 9:45 a. M; Christian En-
deavor at 6 p. m. Morning ser
vice at IL: topic. Jesus the
Manifestation of God. Evening
service at z. All cordially in
vlted to attend services of this
church; strangers especially
welcomed.
S. A. CALDWELL, Pastor.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Our services as usual today,
morning and night. Chistian
Endeayor at 4 p. M, led by j i.
e. Bennett. All are cordially
invited; strangers especially
invited.
ARTHUR w. JONES,
Pastor.
BROADWAY METHODIST CHURCH.
There will be services at this
church at Ii a. m. and Z p. M. i;
Sunday school 10a. M; League
meeting 4 p. m.
A. J. WoRLEY, Pastor.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN.
Preaching at IL a. M. and
p. M; communion at the close
of morning service; Sabbath
school at 10 a. m.; Junior En-
deavor at 3 o. M; Senior En-
deavor at 6 p. M. A cordial in
vitation is extended to the pub
lie to attend.
). M. MARTIN, Pastor.
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OFFICE:-In Ledbetter & Bledsoe
Building, Main Street.
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a. NJ. FurmAn. q. L. Herbert. Jesse.H. Hill.
FURMAN, HERBERT Il HILL.
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c. C. POTTER, ]. W. owNBY,
C. L. POTTER, formerly of Paris, Tt.
c. b. POTTER, b. c. THOMAS.
of Gainesville, Texas.
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DIOK g. BOND,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Notary in Office.
OFFIcE;-Over the Ardmoreite
on Main Street. Ardmore. !. It.
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ATTORNEYs-AT-LAw.

LEDBETTER a. BLEDsok,
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LAWYERS,

POTTER, OwNBY & THOMAS,
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January 6, 1898.
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

S. A. CALDWELL, Pastor.
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important London newspaper, the Spectd-
tor, which has pointed put that, but for the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, q canal across the
American isthmus would have been built
long ago, and, meanwhile, British com
MERGE would have derived from IL inesti-
mable benefits. II was in the name Of
England's commercial interests that tho
Spectator urged Lord SALISBURY to take the
initiative in the matter and to offer vol
UNFAIRLY to %renounce the claim to exercise
Joint control, which Is founded on the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty. \
Such a suggestion on the part OF an infu-
entail English journal seems to us OF good
augury. We find il hard to believe, when
e consider the present cordial relations
between the British and American Govern
ments and the good feeling which prevails
between the two great sections OF the Eng
lish speaking people, that this treaty will
constitute an insprmountable obstacle to
the construction OF a Nicaragua canal.
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A Lesson for Croker from Thebo,.

To THE EDITOR OF TEE sUN-Sir; Mr.. Richard
Crokers stubborn defiance of public opinion has its
precedent.
You will recall the scene In the (" Antigone' Of soph-
ocles, where. after King CreoH has brutally con-
demned Antioone to death for her fAithfulness to
her brother. the citizens Of Thebes begin to murmur
at her unmerited fate and HGmon demonstrates with
his royal father.
The translation of Prof. r. @. Jebb thus givss the
scene;
HEMoS.-wear not, then. ono mood only in thy
self; think not that thy word, and thine alone, must
be right. For IL any man thinks that he aion 10
wise that in speech OF in mind he hath no peer, such
a soul. when laid open; is ever found empty.
c~aEos.-shAl Thebes prescribe to me how I must
HzMoS.-see. there thou hast spoken like q youth
,.GsEox,-Am to rule this land by other Judgment
HEMoS.-That 10 no city which belongs to ono man.
CnroS.-I. not the city held TO be the rulers7
HEMoS.-Thou wouldst make . good monarch Of 0
desert.
Cryos.-+ShAmoiess. at open feud with thy father.
HEMos-Nay. I see thee offending against justice.
CREoS.-Do I offend when ! respect mine own pre-
rogatiyesf
HRMoS.-Thou dost not respect them when thou
tramplest on the gods honors.
Too late afterward the King comes 10 his senses
and repents, but already the hand OF fate has fallen
upon his house in retribution.
Will he of modern New York SEQ no warning In the
fearful visitation that came upon him Of ancient
Thebes? HENRY A, PRrSoK.
NEW YORK, Nov. IL.
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dinner, and arguments for such extension
as n commercial necessity are the most
notable feature OF the discussions in that
newspaper.
A short time ago, when "anti-imperial-
ism was supposed to be fashionable, Bishop
POTTER OF New York rushed lnconsiderately
to It's support in his diocesan address; but
now Bishop DoANE at Albany responds
with a diocesan address In which he tells
his clergy that, for MS part, he Is mot
frightened by the alarming ound OF this
new-coined word imperialism, " and "can-
not comprehend the temper and the ten
dcncy which, in tho face OF what has
come, spends itself in vain regrets
or idle determinations or fault-tinding
with the ends and issues" Conf
dence and not cowardlce," says this
brave American Bishop, Ought to be the
spirit OF the Christian citizen Of to-day +;
the duties are upon us and the dangers are
before us, and we must meet them like men
and In the fear of COP, and not apply tothe
conditions OF to-day counsels that were
wise IL hundred years ago, nor whine like
babies at a little dose of medicine or school
boys over n lesson that is hard to learn"
The spirit expressed by Bishop DoANE
animatcs the American people, and it Is
only aroused to the more indignant re-
sentiment by the efforts Of Mr.. ScHURz and
others to impart to them their own distrust
Of our political system. Nor is it likely
that the proposition that Americans are
too vile and too incapable Of governing
themselves to be intrusted with the gov
eminent OF anybody else, agreeable as it
may be to that Mugwump coterie. will ever
find dangerous support in this country.
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An insult to the Brooklyn Republicans.

The large Democratic majority In Brook
lyn at the late election brought to Republic
a n their greatest surprise and bitterest
disappointment. Apparently with o
reason, they had expected that even IL they
were beaten at all in Kings 1t would be by a
slender majority only.
This is the explanation, or rather tustifica-
tion OF the Republican ~weaknessin Brooklyn
which Is offered by the New York Tribune:
The vote of Broohlyn makes it perfectly evident
that the Republican voters Of Brooklyn are not nat-
ished with the management of the party there. Ne
other explanation will at the case In face Of the mag
nincent vote of other sectionsof the State. Not in
many years have the Republicans made so poor =
showing In Kings county, yet there are more Hepuo-
licans there than ever before, more people who
In general favor Republican policy and with
proper encouragement will vote the Republican
ticket. Their refusal TO sustain what they regard as
unit party management. and the Independence OF
their voting a. shown in tho case OF individual can
didates. 10 rather . testimony TO their political alert
ness than to their apathy. They evidently did not
like the party situation in Kings county. and they
meant 70 show It with the same emphasis that AZ
other times they had shown their readiness to sup
port the party organization"
According to the Tribune, then. the cleo
ton did not impose on the oonsciences Of
Brooklyn Republicans any obligation to
support q candidate for Governor who
represented the highest type of pub
lilo character, and candidates for Con-
gress who would resist the debasement
Of the currency, but only offered them q
proper opportunity to strike down their
party, in order to show with emphasis
that they care not satisfied with the man.
agement Of the party there" That is, the
Tribune j~ustiies them in endangering the
defeat of ROOSEVELT and Of sound money
merely because they did not like the party
situation in Kings county"
Is that a correct description Of the char
acter Of Brooklyn Republicans? We do
not believe it. We do not believe that their
souls are 30 narrow and their attachment
to the principles Of their party so slight
They have too much common sense, too
reasonable a conviction Of public duty to
sacrifice a great cause in order to accom-
plish an object relatively 70 petty. 1t
would be a like a soldiers deserving be-
cause Of dissatisfaction with his rations
while the battle upon which his country's
fate depended was raging.
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nrcrrRoorrr wIrn cAxApI.
A Subject Urged by Commercial Rod,,,
the AnRlo-American Commission. w


WASHINGTON. Nov. 1850 much dero,s.
upon 9 satisfactory settlement OF the ops.,tus
OF reciprocity by the Anglo Americana Cav
dian Commission that after the adjournm"~,
OF the session OF the Joint High C~ornmissio.
to-day the Committee on Reciprocity resumes
its session. despite the absence Of Lord uo,
schell and Mr.. Knsson. The committee are 90.
ing over the subject item by item somoth.
ing after the process by which n Copsros.
committee makes up y tariff bill. In tMs
work the skill and familiarity Of Reprosep,o,Iva
Dingley are particularly valuable.
The United States Commissioners have hosr
and still are In receipt Of much information
advice and entreaty on the subject. and th0
expressions OF views contained In many q, tbs
communications sent TO the commission nav
mnae mem to the position indicated iE IN tIdsS: The
apatches yeSterday-that of support OF, M. az
least, not actiye opposition to, a schcme oi
have sent memorials representing their ,iesiro
that. this eh2nld be accomplished in the inter.
este 81 the United StHtes, and expressing the
OF freer trade relations with Canada would re-.
suit In an increased volume Of traffic. liut
same organizations especially those in elias
on the border. desire that the commission shali
settle the, questions which. they say, unsettled,
but an.lnfinitesimal proportion OF the citlaeuss
OF either country have the slightest interest or
concern. Whether or not reciprocal modiN-
cation OF tariff dues ia secured. these organi-
zAtlons ask the commissioners to make a treaty
ae to other matters committed to them,
D. President and Mrs. Mckinley tonight In.
auguratedsthe series of entertainment project
ed In honor OF the sitting Of the Joint High
Commission at Washington with a dinner nt
the White House. The guests were received
In the East Room, which was magnifcen,ly
decorated for the occasion. and music was
furnished. by the Marine Band. The guests
Comprised the British Ambassador and Lady
Psuncefote, the Right Hon. Lord Herschel,
the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Lady
Laurier, Sir RICHARD Cartwright and Miss
Cartwright, Sir Louis and Lady. Davies. Sir
James. Winter. the Hon. John Charlton and
Mrs. Charlton Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks.
Senator and Mrs. Faulkner. Representative
Dingley and Mrs. IRingl.y and Miss Dinelev.
Hon. John A. Kasson. the Hon, 7. Jefferson
Coolidge, Mrs. Sears, the Chief Justice and
Mrs. Fuller. the Secretary of State and Mrs.
Hay. the Secretary of. the Treasury and Nlrs.
Gage, the Secretary Of War and Mrs. Alger, the
Acknowledgement and Mrs. Griggs. the Post
master Genera and Mrs. Smith. the Secretary
OF the Navy and Miss Long. the Secretary OF
Agriculture and Miss Wilson. the Hon. Joseph
Pope and Mrs. Pope. Miss Scott, Mr.. Henri
Bourassa. Mr.. Chauncey Cartwright and Mr..
Chandler P. Anderson.
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Tho Oil Baron and the Malays.

The Hon. ROGER QUARLEs MILLS, the
Corsicana Oil Baron, has put forth a sort of
farewell address. His constituents are too
proud of him to send him away to the SEN
ate for another term. Before he returns to
his land of oil and money, he would save
the country for positively the last time.
He has found a new SILVER and he burns to
give it to somebody. Once the thought Of
Custom Houses made him all goosefesh.
Now he shudders at the Philippines.
"I am an old-fashionsd Bourbon Democrat. and I
have heard no argument thuSfar which has won mo
over to this new doctrine. It seems to me that II we
go into this annexation business We have to violate
either one or the other OF two fundamental American
principles. II we take q 900. 900 Mongolians. and
Malays, and what-not, and give them q voice In the
affairs of the Government under which they must
live. We have got to allow them TO send Senators and
Representatives to Congress. who will be voting for
this. that and the other scheme utterly repugnant to
our system, heaping all sorts of taxes upon US which
we shall be ~powerless to throw OF. and planting the
seeds OF revolution under our feet"
The old-fashioned Bourbon Democrats
were annexationists. A Texas Democrat
who opposes annexation shows himself UNI
grateful for the policy which gave his own
State to the Union. AS for his Mongolians,
Malays, and Whatnots, Mr.. MILLS is
easily scared. The Athabascans. %Innuits,
and Thlinkets don't keep him awake nights.
He isn't afraid that the Athabascans, In
NUTS, and Thlinkets will send Senators and
Representatives to Congress for the pur-
pose of heaping all sorts OF taxes'upon him
and planting the seeds Of revolution under
his feet. Why does he worry about the
Mongolians and Malays and Whatnots?
Is he afraid that they will be oppressed
If they are not allowed to send Senators
and Representatives to Congress? Has he
ever read about u place called Washington,
ID. c.? The inhabitants of Washington, ID.
c., don't send Senators and Representatives
to Congress and have no voice in the Gov
eminent under which they live, yet they
are not downtrodden and their town is re-
markably well governed.
With the highest respect for Mr. MILLS.
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Con. Charles HI. t. Coils.

To THE EDITOR OF The sUN-Sir; aovernor-eleot
Roosevelt could perform no more appropriate or
commendable act than to confer the appointment OF
Superintendent OF Public Works OF this State upon
Gen. Coils, There 10 no man in the State moro com.
petent TO perform its duties than he; this he clearly
proved while Commissioner OF Public Works of this
city by the mastery manner in which he solved the
dihhcult problems of better water distribution. street
aud street lighting, Our people arc daily
more and more realizing and approaching the value
of his services In these respects. His appointment
would not only meet with the hearty approval OF q
large majority of the best citizens OF the State and
city, but would set the seal OF condemnation upon
the dastardly attempts to Sully his fair name, which
have 40 utterly failed as TO be equivalent to a first.
class certificate of character. W. u. W.
Nav YoKK, Nov. 10.
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The Spirit of the American People.

The little knot OF philosophers who are
making petulant opposition to Imperial
ISM their latest hobby have nothing to
encourage them except their own convic-
ton that they are beings superior to the
overwhelming sentiment Of the country.
They won 726 votes at the election in New
York. out Of half a million. Nowhere else
in the Union was the amount Of resistance
TO the popular determination which they are
capable of mastering made thus measur-
able and calculable, for they appeared only
in New York as a distinct body, but doubt
less their relative strength is much greater
here than anywhere else except, perhaps,
Boston. They were compelled to witness
the extraordinary spectacle of national ap-
proval of the policy Of an Administration
midway in its term, under the impulse of
the very spirit of imperialism 4" against
which their little company had arrayed
themselves so disdainfully.
Since the election the evidence that they
are to remain conspicuous in their distinc-
ton IA one OF the smallest and most con-
temptible minorities which have ever ap-
pcared in our politics has been .accumulat-
ing steadily. Instead of gaining recruits,
they are distressed by the loss of support
in prominent places upon which they had
counted with a confidence hardly less than
hat they have in their own singular su-
periority.| The two sentiments manifested
most enthusiastically at the Chamber of
Commerce dinner On Tuesday evening were
exultation over the expansion of our do
main and rejoicing over the eordiality
of our relations with Great Britain
which the war with Spain has brought
about, the two being linked together
logically In every mind. Confidence
in our ability to sustain fully every respon-
sibility imposed by either was the senti-
ment expressed by the speakers which re-
ccived the heartiest and most general re-
Spouse from that company of hard-headed
men of business. The Journal Of Commerce,
which represents specifically the CONNER
cial community, ably and persistently advo-
Gates the widest expansion made possible
and practicable by the %conquests of the war.
The last hope of the eccentric "anti-imperi-
alists" is to prevent the acquisition of the
Philippines, yet eager desire for the addition
of those islands to our territories was the
prime stimulant OF the applause at that
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Constructive Statcsmanship-The Less
Haste the More Speed.

When Congress meets, two weeks from
Monday next. projects for the regulation
and governments Of tropical possessions will
bo ma thick MS Leonid meteors in the thirty
third year.
There will be plans for the government
of Porto Rico plans, specifications, and
working details.
There will be elaborate theories about
managing Cuba during the period OF our
occupation OF that island, and hkewise en-
phatic but diverse opinions as to the term
OF that occupation.
There will be no lack Of propositions con-
corning the Philippines.
The pockets OF Senators and Representa-
tives will bulge with more or less mastery
and more or less available schemes for the
adjustment of our existing institutions to
the new conditions of n now era. All OF this
comes properly within the functions OF
Congress. It's power is absolute to erect
whatever system of government 1t may
choose for the newly acquired terri
tory. II can make one form Of govern
ment for Porto Rico, another form for
the Philippines, another form for Cuba, an
other form for Hawaii. II can establish in
each territory just such u form OF govern
ment as may seem best adapted to the
special needs of that particular locality,
without troubling itself to keep the sew
ernl forms Of government homogeneous in
principle or consistent in methods. The
unlimited power OF Congress in this
respect has been affirmed by tho United
States Circuit Court of Appeals in the
Ninth judicial Circuit. The decision in the
Alaska case applies to all possessions ac-
uuired as Alaska was, as Porto Rico has
been, and as the Philippines will be acquired.
1t held that the governments created by
Congress in territories so acquired care
not organised under the Consultation. nor sub
feet to its compiled distribution Of the po1rers
of government as The organic ldto, but are the
creation, exclusively, of the legislative de-
partment, and subject to its supervision
and control"
The power of Congress Is undoubted to
deal with and settle the questions involved
in a policy Of expansion. These difficult
and fascinating problems afford an oppor-
tunity for constructive craftsmanship such
as never occurred in the whole history
of our national Legislature. Neverthe-
less. a premature exercise Of the power
would be unfortunate and perhaps fatal.
Common sense prescribes extreme delibera-
tion of movement on the part Of the legisla-
tors, until the facts are fully developed
upon which they may proceed to provide
for the future OF our new possessions.
Military government is the thing just
now. Trust the Administration, and keep
your bills in your pockets!
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TEE FIRST APPROPRIATION B111
It VIII BE One to Garry Forward the Ex
penditurcs IN Account of the War.

It VIII BE One to Garry Forward the Ex-
penditures on Account of the War.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 16.-The first a~ppropri-
alton bill to be introduced at the approaching
session Of Congress will be one to carry for
ward the expenditures on account of the war
with Spain. BY the explicit terms of the bills
passed at the late session. making provision
for the army and navy. authority to expend
the money appropriated expires on Dec, 81, so
that It will be necessary to prepare. and enact,
before the holiday recess. legislation extend
ing the period to June 80 next. the end Of the
fiscal year. This IL the view Of Cha rman Can
non OF the House COMMITTEES. on Appropra-
tions. and he has issued a call for the sub
committee on deficiencies to meet in this city
on Saturday of next week. the 26th inst, to
epter upon the preparation Of the necessary
bills. The members of the sub-committee are
Messrs. Cannon. Belden, Sayres. and Livingston.
The issue OF the call for the. meeting OF this
su~b-eommittee. to be followed on the succeed
ing Monday by the Sub-Committee on the
District Of Columbia, calls attention to tho
great political mortality that has befallen the
membership Of the Com mittee on Appropria-
tons. Since the recess began Representative
Northway OF Ohio has died. Messrs. W. A:
Stone and Joseph ID. Sayers have been elected
respectively Governor of Pennsylvania and
Texas. the two States which give the largest
normal pluraltties for their. respective parties.
Messrs. Mahlon Pitney. of New Jersey and
James J. Belden OF New York did not seek res
election.
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Tho CarolineB.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: When
Spain sued for peace. 1t was because she was
whipped. and to carry on the war any longer
with US would only cause her utter ruin.
We made the mistake of not assuming at
once the attitude OF c%onqueror.
With Spain completely at our mercy. the
United States ought to have acted as any
European nation would have acted in our posi-
ton. We ought to have made Spain pay for
the war to the uttermost.
With the destruction OF Spain's feet at Manila
Bay by Dewey and the capture Of Manila by
our lane forces all OF SPANS Pacific possess
sions became ours without question by right Of
conquest. the Philippines. Ladrones. Carolines
and all other islands. as her power there was
destroyed.
Therefore. instead Of parleying with Spain
we should have demanded the surrender at
once Of all SPANS possessions in the West
Indies and the Pacific Ocean.
In the Caroline Islands are many magnificent
hnrbors. which could be made into coaling
stations and fortified. These islands stretch
across the Pacific Ocean 1000 miles between
the Philippine and Hawaiian islands. f1anking
both of the groups.
Any powerful nation owning the Carolines
and any Of the Ladrones would be in a position
to harass and annoy the American possessions
Of the Hawaiian and Philippine islands and
Guam.
The territorial position OF the United States
upon the Pacific. the present and future growth
Of her commerce., industries and population
there. demand for their safety that we take
complete possession Of all Spanish islands in
the Pacific Ocean.
The partial possession OF any Of these islands
Is not to be thought OF. for strategic reasons.
II we do not take them all now we knowingly
leave the way open for future ~auarrels with
some stronger nation than Spain. who will
either buy or take them from her. and then to
save ourselves we shall have to fight to possess
them. GEORGE A. READ.
BROOKLYN. Nov. Is.