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Hawaii.

Opposition to the acquisition Of the Phil
ippines might conceivably be 30 intense that
its representatives would prevent, If they
could. the sending of men and supplies to
DEWEY, so that, flying from defeat or
starvation, he would be driven home.
This sort Of feeling. or rather this
school Of statesmRnship, goes no further
than to hamper the Philippine move
ment and at the same time risk serious
international complications in connection
with the war, by opposing the annexation
Of Hawaii, q spot which any military ex-
pert assigned to the task of unfolding
DEWEY, and every statesman whose Wis.
ions of the country's greatness are not
fenced in between the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts. would look upon as a gift of
Providence.
Without mourning the odium of leaving
our gallant tars in Manila without troops
and baked of q complete victory, the
anti-Hawaiian politicians see at least the
chance of preventing the United States from
ever having another DEWEY or from
further extending its name and prowess in
the East. Hawaii rejected, they think,
will mean a final check to our freshly
stirred ambitions and an abandonment OF
our hope to be one of the great powers OF
the world.
The United States need of Hawaii is as
clear as their need of an army and navy.
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The Change of Capital in China.

The reports that Pekin will soon cease to
be the seat of government in China are as
Stunning more definite form, but accord
Ing to the latest statement on the
subject, instead Of the new capital
being fixed at q spot within easy
reach Of civilization, 1t is to be Sc
cluded from the world among the noun
tain ranges of the province of Shensi. The
locality said to have been selected is ST.
gnan, a city about ninety miles up the
Hwei-ho from where it joins the Hoang-ho
Mt the point where that river forms a right
angle at the southwestern corner of the
province OF Shansi. Si-gnan is nearly 600
miles in a direct line from Pekin, with which
city it is connected by a highway run
ming in a general southwesterly direction
through the provinces of Chill and Shansi,
passing through many important towns on
the road and after leaving Si-Rnan 1t con-
tinues through Shensi to Tsin-chau in the
western province of Kan-suh, and from
there INTO Chinese Turkestan.
The selection of Si-gnan, IL 1t Is finally
adopted, as the future capital of China, is
significant of the intention of the rulers OF
the country to avoid contact with the outer
world as much as possible. 1t would
seem as II the recent visit of the Ger
man Prince, rHENRY, had determined the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-08
Tho limo for Peace.

We note an expression Of hope In some
quarters that the crushing of CERvBRA'S
feet and the capture Of Santiago may lead
TO the opening OF peace negotiations be-
tween Washington and Madrid. That 10
Q matter we need mob concern ourselves
about Just now.
Senior MoREr is represented as saying
that Spain is already sick Of war, and that
II a vote could be taken In that country 10
would be overwhelmingly for peace. But
the ex.MInister for the Colonies is a preju-
diced observer; he was one Of the few OF
his eountrymen who always thought that
war with the United States would be mad
ness, because 80 likely to end In SPANS
ruin. Among the main body Of Spaniards
we see no disposition yet to seek peace.
As for ourselves, 1t is clear hat our mill
tary work Is not yet done, and will not be
even with the surrender of Santiago. We
went into the war reluctantly, after endur-
ing for three years the close presence OF
the horrors in Cuba, and only when the
fate of the Maine had rendered further
patience impossible. Now we shall make
our work thorough. When our flag floats
securely over Porto Rico and the Philip
pines, 80 that they shall BIO universally
recognized as ours, our work will have
been done.
When the Germans invaded France that
country was not satisfied that she had
done all she could in var until Paris
had fallen. When Russia invaded Tur-
key, a few years later, the peace Of San
Stefano was not negotiated until the
Russians were at the gates Of Constan-
tinople. In like name it would not be
surprising If. after hostilities had ceased
around Manila. Havana, and San Juan.
Spain should be brought to terms only when
an overwhelming fleet was about to wrest
from her also the Canaries. Our duty,
therefore, is to make peace by making war.
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The Hon. Potato PINGREE, Governor Of
Michigan. 10 again stalking along tho dizzy
rAmparts of glory. and hollerfng. He treads
with all his feet on the idea that It is advisable
to I'LL tho regiments already sent to the war. A
Governor who allows himself to become the
victim of that idea will not have a big enough
batch Of commissions to distribute. To a Cover
nor who doesn't know to what party be belongs.
but who has determined to be renominated, q
new batch of commissions may DO q valuable
possession. So PoTATo stands upon tho rampartS
and screams that he is going to organize the
Michigan recruits under the new call for troops
as he pleases, and that Mr.. MCKINLEY will havo
to take them in the Pingreeized form or 60 with.
out them. What o thoughtful patriot and hero
the Hon. PoTATo PINGREE is. Never thinks Of
himself. Never talks above q whisper.
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view York Faruers - Call ths attsnsisu 81
the war Department. q the paatter.

nv NSN
WATERFOWL, N. Y, Juno There IL .
movement on foot among the makers OF cheese
in northern and central New York and the
cheese boards OF which they arc members TO 80
cure the adoption by the War Department OF
cheese as an army ration. The county OF JEFF
ferson alone produces 100000 pounds OF
cheese every season, and other counties of the
State have an output nearly as largo. Should
the War Department adopt cheese as q ration
for the standing army IL would mean the pay
ment to tho farmers Of Now York State OF hun
dreds Of thousands Of dollars annually. Tho
strongest cheese board in the State 10 the We
tertown Produce Exchange. The Secretary,
A. w. Munk, believes that IL those at tho head
of the CommissAry Department Of the army
had their attention properly called to the quen-
ton, It would be considered, and probably in .
favorable way. He says there 10 no element Of
q soldiers ratlons now issued that il equal to
cheese In nutrition. He lived on salt pork and
bareback for three years in the South, whom In
the regular army. and 30 he has some experi-
onoo on which to base his opinion.
To-day" says Mr.. Munk, tho soldiers
ration 10 one Of study in the Commissary De-
partment. The constantly increasing produce
ton of cheese without q comparative increase
In the demand are the causes for the low prices
realized for tho past few years. II cheese to-
day was an army ration, Instead Of salcsmen
being offered . cents q pound they would be
getting 8 to 10 cents q pound for good, solid
boring, shipping cheese, this being the stock
that would DO required by the.army. just see
what an enormous increase there would be In
ration. -
The watertown Produce Exchange. has
adopted resolutions favorinR tho use of cheese
In the army which will be laid before G. A.
Chiokering, the representative from this dis
triot In Congress-, by Mr.. Munk and Charles s.
Kellogg, State Dairy Inspector. Similar reso-
lutions will DO adopted by other cheese boards
throughout the State. The members Of tho
New York State Grange have taken steps along
the lame line. Pomona Grange of Jefferson
county, representing 1000 farmers, has reso-
buttons relative to the matter.
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The Memphis Commercial Appeal COM
plains because now that Mr.. BRYAN is to DO
made n Colonel, the Government arranges to
send him to the very farthest territory in its
possession. whore the battle has already boon
won and where there is no chance whatever
to distinguish ones self" This sort Of talk
must DO very distasteful to Mr.. BRYAN.
Presumably he goes into the war to obey
orders, go where he is sent, and make himself as
useful as he can. II he is to DO sent to the Phil
ippineS, he will have nOmore reason to complain
than the mon who arc now on their way thither.
There Is important and necessary work to DO
done there. Some of Mr.. BRVAN's injudioious
friends seem to think that It 10 tho duty of the
Government to give o green hand the centre of
the stage. We would remind our esteemed
Memphis contemporary that this war is not q
show,
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Foreign Notes or Real Interest.

Experiments with oil fuel arc being made for the
nrst time by the British Admiralty on the torpedo
boat surly at Portsmouth
CoolEardie. in West Australia, wants to hold an
"InternAtionAl Mining and Industrial Exhibition" 70
celebrate the NTH year of the towns existence.
Johann Strauss. the elder. and Joseph LAnuer. the
creators OF vienneSe dance music. are to have q COM
bined monument, costing $40. 900. in Vienna
Jean jacques Henner. the painter OF nudes against
asphalt backgrounds. has received this years medal
OF honor at the Paris Salon. He is . native OF AlsAoo
and Is now 90 years of age.
weeping willow on the Champs Elys6es. under
which Alfred de Musset 10 said to have written his
celebrated eloEy. lie SAule.' has been cut down in
extending the Avenue Marigny TO the Alexandra III.
bridge, in preparation for the 1900 exhibition.
Plymouth. England. has outErown at last the water
supply provided for the town by Sir Francis Drake,
BOO years ago. The old sea rover built q Leaf, or open
G~queduct, twenty miles long, to bring water from the
hills OF Dartmoor to the town. A larger reservoir 10
TO be built.
A bATkeeper ct the House of Commons restaurant
has been summoned before a London police magiS-
trAte for Illegally supplying Intoxicating liquor to
the public" The temperance people are fighting to
force the House OF Commons either TO take out Q
license for Its bar or TO stop the sale OF liquor.
Sir F. B urne.JoneS's Z" The Mirror of Venus "broughS
Se7.soo At the sale OF tho Ruston collection, the most
important art sale OF this season In London. This IL
the highest price paid for . work 10y a living English
artist save one, the S32, 1913 given for Longs +. Baby
loniSn Slave Market, in 1893. The picture was sold
nve years ago for 1l7.974. Burne-Jonoa'S "ChAnt
d'Amour fetched 0lo. S62. and the two water colorS,
"Dawn" and might" S5.llO. Dante Gabriel Roe.
Setti's "veronica YeroneSe " was sold for o.. $50. the
"Dante at the Bier OF Beatrice for SI5, $40, the
price paid likewise for his LA qhlrlAndalG" @. r.
YATES portrait OF himself. painted In 1867, brought
$500. his THE Eve OF Peace" s6.690. and the
portrait of Lady Lilford %. 800. A water color
BY ]. r. Lewis. THE Arab Scribe" sold for
Se.s6a. and one by =. de Whit. a river scene.
for S2,65b. or the ancient pictures Rembrandt'S
portrait OF Nicholas Ruts. formerly known A.
"a Jewish Rabbi" and sold from the King OF HoI.
lands collection In 1850 for Sl,4I5. brought $685..
900. and the Van Dyke madonna and Child" from
BleHheIm palace. S6.llO. Tho mixed character OF
the collection iS shown by the fact that tho 100 pho,
tuTss sold tho first day brought in SOS, 44S. while
the total for the 1870 offered the second day was only
0lA,6Oe.
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soMp Po1IrIoAI onANeEs.
In the whirIEiE OF city PsItics the Trisnd Of
one Wear II the EnonT Of Anathar.

-
In the year 1881 two factions Of the Now
York city branch Of the Democratic party pro-
sentod themselves for recognition at the Albany
State Convention. Ono consisted Of the Tam
many delegates; the other OF the County Do
mocracy delegation, and the latter secured ad-
mission. Among the County Domooraoy's
members In tho Twentieth district at that pc
riod were many citizens whose subsequent
prominence illustrates quito forcibly the kalsid-
oscopio character Of municipal politics. Each
Assembly district-thero were at that time
twenty-fC ur-wns entitled TO ten members Of
the Executive Committee of the County Domoc-
racy organization. OF the ten members in the
Twentieth district, one. Robert A. Van Wyck,
is now Mayor of New York. A second. Ran
dolph Guggenheimor, is now President Of the
Municipal Assembly, with the right of succession
to Mayor Van Wyok II the latter resigns, 10 re-
moved, dies, or IL promoted to . higher post
Y there DO any higher post for aNew Yorker
s stsin. Mayor now OF cd tnS city T. a., 4 t RnSrd T of H asRfs
q fourth was William A.. Butler, plumber. now
Supervisor q the city RECORD, the Official pa;
sRS f Is o%( hats N d SHsTfS Ct al the ih sf Mayor! ?fi az:
ton Of Holland followed among Mayor Van
Wyck's, ancestors would have been called field
fES"SSaGiS; COMMITTEES an2 GsSsG Of the the c6 %G@of 5cmo oe scS
Alderman, now dead; Frederick Thieluian, Jr.,
eH.Assemblyman, a city contractor, who does
not look With favor upon some OF the earlier
debt limit d%eciSions of the present Corporation
Counsel; Thomas Carroll, ex.AldermAn; An
drew I. Doyle, and Jacob Fleischauer.
These were tho sepTsssntatIyss Of the opp9.i;
at that time, and at tho head OF. tSs Tammany
was James A; Flaok, former sherini
Croker in the leadership Of Temmany Hall,
M EFs9iIt' MSGAe eSr SfsSrw ard A MSsS.n Jiob Rhi M'
Fox. The current Of New York city politics
Is worry often peculiar. Navy of tho Tammany
Hall leaders of that period have been entirely
superseded and many OF the. former County Do
mocrRcy leaders are now In places of prom.
inence. Michael O, Murphy u President of
the Board of Health. James Mccartney ID
Street Cleaning Commissioner. Patrick Keenan,
10 City Chamberlain. Wauhope Lynn 10 q Owl
Justice. James Oliver is a TammanL Hall mem
ber of Assembly, and Nicholas Muller 10 Dem
ocratic leader in the borough Of Richmond. In
like manner many Of tho Tammany Hall lead
ers Of the time when the present Mayor, Mr..
Van Wyck. was opposed to Tammany arc now
arrayed in opposition to that organization.
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nnarn u. a1ohs.pamoornr.

ToRT CLARK. Tex, June a.-There are few moro IN
teresting characters in the country than the famous
old Seminole chief. Dembo Factor. who, at the age OF
ia. IL boiling over with patriotism and anxious to
60 to the war. He has enlisted fourteen Of his Sons,
Erandsons. and great.grandSons in the army. Some
Of them are in the volunteer service and others with
the regulars. The aged veteran appeared ut Fort
CLARK . few days before the regiment started for Key
West and went 70 headquarters, accompanied by six
Of his grandOonS who wero in the regular army, 70
beg the ofncors to allow him TO 70 along with the
boys 70 Cuba He. like nearly all other seminoles on
the little reservation. looks moro like an African
than an Indian. and there must be considerable negro
blood in the whole race. They. however. have all the
race characteristics Of Indians. They speak the
Seminole Language. many Of them being incapable Of
understanding . word Of English. and nothing arouses
their indignation quicker than for one to hint thai
they look like negroes.
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Don't Forget tho Launch.

HoBsoN and his seven heroes Of the Mer.
rimac will certainly be rewarded by Con-
gress and the Navy Department, but the
brilliancy of their achievement should not
eclipse that of young POWELL and his -four
companions in the launch. This little craft
followed the Merrlmac among the Spanish
batteries, and formed a part of the general
plan. She was to await the Merrimao's
crew after the explosion, and nobly did
she perform her duty. Our account says
that she searched for the men of the Mer-
rimac under the tremendous, concentrated
fire Of the big Runs Of Dead Mans Point
battery and of the Cristobal Colon and the
Reina Mercedes. "Those on the battleships
looking into the mouth of the harbor saw
only a sheet Of flame, which, with the roar
of the guns, lasted for thirty-fve minutes"
Then, at last, when further search was seen
to be useless, the launch left the harbor.
The Merrimac's men deserve to be set
apart In a class by themselves, for dis.
tinctive honors and rewards. But after
them should come the heroes of the
launch, which was practically the Mer-
rimac's consort. There ought to be some
chance for them before the end OF
the war in the distribution of promo.
tions. And there might well be a like
practical remembrance for the original
party of volunteers, who were dismissed
after a days waiting, because 1t was feared
they had been too long under strain. That
fact eloquently tells what they had en-.
dured, yet they were not recompensed,
after all, by the Immortality of fame
which has come to their successors, always
to be known as HoBsoN's men.
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At Des Moines the other day a really

At Des Moines the other day a really
momentous and impressive State Convention
was held. 1t iS said to have consisted OF
eighteen Middle-or-the-Road Populists. So
tho Iowa dispatches rotate. but there can
be no doubt that tho actual number of
the delegates was sixteen. Both the size
of tho party and allegoricAl and mystical
reasons too numerous to mention convince
uS that there were only sixteen delegates.
They made noise enough for sixteen thousand.
They passed sixteen resolutions. all of which
arc not as yet sufficiently cooled down to be
read comfortably. 1t seems clear from q partial
displacement of the resolutions. however. that
these sixteen Observation-Disclosures are the only
men In Iowa who know how to save the country.
For which the country ought to DO more crate.
full than it Is.
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1t has been the melancholy duty Of the
Hon. JIM JONES of Arkansas, who holds tho
exalted post Of Chairman OF the Democratic
National Committee, to inform the Hon. WILL
lam FRANCIS HARRTTT OF PennsylvAniA that
Mr.. r. is no longer the representative Of
that State on the committee. To no purpose
did the dauntloSs HARRITY vote for Mr.. ~
He has boon dismissed. expelled. bounced.
dropped. fired out. Gloom dArkles around the
aureate-arEentino statesman. His place on tho
committee 10 filled to running over by q memoir
able man. Col. JIM GuFFEY. dearest of all the
sons Of moonlight. We mourn for HARRITV.
Who will not weep for HARRITYI We rejoice
for Col. JIM GUFFEY. Who II not glad for
GUFFEYI
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the Socialist Labor candidate for Mayor Of BoS-
ton, IL pleased to say that "a haK-raising by
workinEmen in the interest Of tho Cuban war Is
in violation of the principle of international
trades unionism." This is not a Cuban war but
an American war, and II any gentlemen in the
Socialist Labor line are kept from raising tho
nag on account Of tho principle of international
trades unioniSm, so much the worse for them
and international trades unlonism. National
unionism Is good enough for American work
men. Possibly a few Of tho Socialist Labor peo-
pie prefer voice-rGisings to fiAg-raisings.
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It'll definitely settled that Governor STEPHENS
- to have hut one room az Springfield during the
Impossible. Tho majesty of the Hon. Lon
STEPHENS cannot DO housed within q single
room. A whole hotel and threo boarding houses
are scarcely ample room and verge enough for
that grandiose statesman. It 10 we'll known
that 1t is q very tight squeeze for him to
got into the Capitol at Jefferson City. In fact.
he has TO spend most of his time there out OF
doors, and even there he feels himself cAbined.
Mature cramps me- he once said to the Hon.
CHAMP LARK. The probability 10 that all the
hotels and private houses In Springfield have
boon hired for him; and even then he will have
TO have . large tent put up for his show.
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PIaatHIIon Farewell.

From the Atlanta Constitution
Do pillow stop in do furrow,
I'm de mule IL grain niEhi
Good.by ter Mister Cotton.
I'm hiILer Con. good'byl
De bAllir line de army.
De chillun Rwine ter SCHOOL,
GOOd.by ter AIR. Mortgage,
Good. by ter Mister hulel
IRWine long wild de army,
Ter take do spaniel Ian.
WId "HooFAyi" fum Dc oaD'n.
In "Dtxio" fun Do bA1l
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First Duty or the Soldier,

The young recruit had passed his examination, had
taken the oath. had been assigned to his company
and regiment. had received his arms and accoutrO.
ments, and had put on his new and beautiful uniform
OF blue.
snow what am I to do =" he inquired Of the onncsr
In charge.
"oh, 90 and have your picture taken 10 send back
home. OF course" responded the onlcer. and the ro-
oruit obeyod.
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Brothers In Arms.
Nom tAs oynotNnan Enquirer.

1V0fN Ih0 CtnotNndU EHQutF0f.
HuRurH, Ind. June 4.-The Drudy family OF this
city have surely shown their loyalty to their country.
Martin and ThomAs, 1t has Just been learned. arc
with Dewey, Martin being q gunner on the Concord
and Thomas q gunner on the Petrol. Patrick. another
son. Il First Sergeant in Mckinley Own" ReEi.
ment. To-day John, the remaining son. enlisted in
the regular army and went to Mobile. The boys are
all iron workOrs By trade and hail from this city.
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ne Will Not ne Lured Int the Trap the Rapid
Transit Hoard Laid fer him..
Mayor Van wyck has declined to servo on the
committee recently appointed by the Rapid
Transit Commissioner to fix the compensation
to DO exActed from the Manhattan Elevated
road for the West street franchise. Tho follow.
ing letter was sent to Alexander e. Orr. Presi-
dent OF the commission, yesterday, by Private
Secretary Downs:
Tho Mayor directs me to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter Of 4th inst, notifying him
of his appointment as one of n subcommittee of
the Rapid Transit Railroad Commission, and to
say that he respectfully declines to act on suoh
committee"
The other members Of the committee are Me.
Orr and Comptroller Coler.
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Must we withdraw our compliments to
Don PAsoUALB CERvERA and TorETE for his
msnlinoss and generosity as a soldiori II, as
the report runs. the Hobson crew is Imprisoned
In MORO Castle. the first target for our Santiago
sQuadron's attack, Don PAsouALR has commit
ted the equivalent Of putting his helpless pris-
oners at the front to DO shot at, instead OF
sending them to the rear among the non.com-
batants. That Is not war.
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Ike0. No End

From tho GGIIfDolfS Daily Tribune.
Up ct New Haven, W. Va, there are 30 many pee.
pie named Isaac Roush that TO avoid confusion they
are thus designated;
Big Ike. Gentleman Ike, Spectacle Ike. nke-onIths-
Hill. Ike-in-the.Hollow. RoSA's Ike. Little Ike. Soldier
Ike. Lazy Ike. Thirteenth Virginia Ike. Fifer Ike.
Aunt CaSSy'S Ike. Drummer Ike. Fourth Virginia Ike.
Hartford Ike. Dam-It Ike, Kanawha Ike. sally'G Ike.
Helliky Ike. Trotter Ike. Fiddler Ike. Ten-MlO Ike.
Mart's Ike, and Aunt Betsys Ike.
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From the Atlanta Journal
4 49, -u-l-.AA IA

From the Atlanta Journal
Tho hyin' %squadron's lit
Down Oh sandy DAgO bay.
And it's OF the spinach up,
or 80 the papers sAy.
II has knocked old Fort SOOAppOr
Right into a cooked hat
It's Knocked FORT OmoTrO into next day
Or day after b
For Winfield Scott Is "develiSh Sohl0y,"
on Sandy DAEo bay.
And he's eat the Spinach up,
poNn In OubOb. - they say.
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IIo Remembered.

FTUW mo UeHUeT TO1.
He rose TO depart Is the clock sounded eight,
And, getting his hat and his cane.
bis wife SweeIly murlnuTod; Now. don't stay out
. late,
Dear Charlie, Remember the Maine ="
With thGt somewhat startling Injunction In yIOW.
He was back home at ten With his Dot.
For should be stay later he VOFy we'll knOW
what . EESAt blowing W ~ WOaIA -