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carr. srnTESs DIsoHARenD.

He Was Not One OF the Mon Who Assaulted
Saloon Keeper Bennett.
Capt. David Stevens OF the Us. transport Hart
ford. who was accused OF being one OF the four
men who attacked William Bennett in his sa-
loon at Willoughby and Pearl streets, Brook
lyn. on Dec. 0. proved yesterday to the entire
satisfaction OF Magistrate Brenner. in the
Adams Street Court. that he was the victim Of
mistaken identity He was honorably dis
charged. The saloon keeper and his bartender
swore positively that Capt. Stevens took part In
the assault but the evidence for the defence
showed that the Captain was aboard the trans
port, at the foot OF Pacific street, when II oo-
eurred. At tho close OF the proceedings Capt,
Stevens announced that he would sue Bennett
for false imprisonment
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8nsintss 5gutiess.

Mrs. winslow,s Soothing Syrup for Children
teethnR. softens the gums, reduces Inflammation,
allays pain cures wind colo. darrhea. 25c. bottle.
The sun., 1898-12-20

Both the Woolson Spice Company. controlled
by the Havemeyer interests. and Arbucke
Brothers advanced their price for roasted
coffee half cent pound yesterday The Ar
buckle price remains one cent poppd above
the WoolSon price. u
The sun., 1898-12-20
MARINE INTELLIGENCE

MINIATURE AI.ArLNAo-rHrs DAT.
sun Rises. 40 Sun aets SO Moon sets. IL OF
|. HoH wATER-rHm pAH.
Sandy Hook. 1 o5 Gov. .Isld. OF He'll Gate. 80
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By DEAN c.
WORCESTER,
Assistant Professor
Of Zoology,
University Of Michigan.
Nothing
Could Be
Better.

succeeded. As mirror Of the tslands
and their people nothing could be better. more
lrelike. or cro,1ded ,oith more Of the human IN
terest of real life. THE Independent.
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JOHN T. SE4RLEs TO RESIGN.
sever Active Connection with the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company.

""' sever Active Connection with the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company.
ma .V,m M Il, searlrs. for many years Secretary
IN. n Ieasurer OF the American Sugar Rein
A, COMPANY will retire from both Offices and
NJ, ulreetor Of the company at the annual
Jsr'.E J'.'nE 70 be held at the company's office in
hs,ithh hGh by Mr., Searler. He went abroad for hIs
ago Goa, snSM Swn months ago, returning fortnight
tscked ed'hhrently much improved, He was at
HssV1 men has been nj at the Hotel Manhattan.
visit ~ recovered sufficiently yesterday to
Nj" "ss Sss "lItce 3i the company In Wall street
Hstlss M lss-eeGlon and SO % informed FORM T PTesiSent re %
William ~ u Haayemeyer.. It Is understood that
a. ssaGs@5sasS s5s fortune has been estnated as high
Win ssuDoWpIu'o90. II has not been decided who
'uceeed Mr. Searles az Secretary.
The sun., 1898-12-20
Kid Mccoy Contradicts the Badgers Wife.

Norman Selby. otherwise kid Mccoy" the
puGilist, denies the story OF one OF the wives OF
William A, Z. Moore the convicted badger,
That Moore tried to play the badger game on
bin when Mccoy was 10 London. Mccoy says
hnet Moore in johannesburg. South Africa,
GdTas presented to his wife. His relations
Eth both, he says. were always pleasant and
be denies that Moore ever tried to extort money
IRON him by the badger game.
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Arrived-MoxpAr. Dec. 10.

ATrIVeu-MoNDAH. Dec. 10.
=. Be Norge, ,Knudhon. Copenhagen Dec. and Chris
tiansand zth.
Sc Brooklyn City, James Bristol Nov. AZ and Swan
seq goth.
S. Edam Devries, Amsterdam peo o.
ss AssyriAn, Wallace, London.
Be Ceviq CLARK, liverpool
es StrathAllan, Forsyth, Marseilles.
, Be Knight Companion, Finnis. SournbAya.
Ss Lanenburg, Sperling, La Guayra.
Bs Northern Light Nicholas, Cardiff.
Sc Queen Christina, Frame, Philadelphia.
Sc hltai. Morris, Kingston.
6s Uller, Kars, Sanchez.
ss City of Philadelphia, Delano. Baltimore.
Sc Seaboard. -, Philadelphia.
es Rio Graa6s Staples Brunswick.
Bs Excelsior, Boyd, New Orleans.
6s Old Dominion. Tapley, Richmond.
Bark Louise Adelaide Orr DernerarA.
Bark Giuseppe d'Abundo. Monte. Fowey.
tFor later arrivals sec First Paesl
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"e Rev. f. V. Collins Called to PennsyI-
Vania.

Rnsoonf'eS neS r. v Collins. assistant pastor OF the
.ysnNll .ylo church Of tine Messiah. in Greene
AetoTsbjnn jnnro2iklyR. oi has received a call to tile
SambeSbarg Pa He w Church in
The sun., 1898-12-20

SAILED FROM DOMESTIC PORTS.
Ss Nacoochee, from Savannah for New York
ss Algonquin, from Jacksonville for New York.
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SIS Bowie, from New York, at Liverpool.
ss La GarcoRne, from New York, at Havre.
ss EoordlAnd, from New York, at Antwerp.
ss Ems from New York. at Naples.
Ss Nomadic, from New York, at Liverpool.
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VIEW YORK SUN OFFICE, NEWARK, NJ J.

T0l BROAD ST, ADVERTISERS MAY LEAVE
THEIR ORDERS AT THIS ADDRESS, WHERE THE
SAME CARE AND INTENTION WILL BE SHOWN
AS AT MAIN OFFICE
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PASSED

Fastnet.
SIS ROTTERDAM. from New York for Rotterdam.
passed the Lizard.
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SAILED FROM FoRErdN PORTS.
Bs Patria, from Ham burg for New York.
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Coffee Higher.

ORC.-"Cyrano de BerGerac," Fire and Bwort
~ "Pan Miohal." 'Deluge." PRATT. IOl 9th
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SperiaI 3lutices.

CYPRESS HILLS CEMETERY.
ONCE, Madison Av., cor. Esd st., n. Y.
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WORCESTER, RIENcE, WITH
Assistant Professor RHoRr SUMMARY
Of Zoology, oFIMPoaTAaT
University of Michigan. FACTS OF THE
HISTORY OF THE
ARCHIPELAGO.
illustrated from photographs
Ken by DR.. E. 8. BoURNs not only on the
ast. but in the interior even Of some OF the
Ist explored islands.
Cloth, Svo, SA.0O.
The only authoritative recently prt9en fret
nd account Of actual conditions. The
tlook.
n comes from
Nothing sns"n. sa",e" ~ vv'usJ: 81" hs. VII
Couu DO alone. but for the too
Better. expeditions to tphioh hs
belonged. and a third
TO Dhose traditions he
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IleP|liIippine
Islands and
TheirPeopIe.

A RECORD OF Per.
soNAn OBsERvA-
TIoN AND ExPE-
RIENcE, WITH A
SHORT SUMMARY
OF IMPORTANT
FACTS OF THE
HISTORY OF THE
The herald., 1898-04-03
FOR EDUCATION OF THE DEAF

Many institutions for the education of
the deaf have discarded the sign Ian
guage and are devoting themselves
wholly to the oral system of teaching,
thus extending the intercourse of the
deaf with all, instead of being confined
to converse and associate, practically,
with only those who have mastered the
sign language.
This move should be fostered and en-
couraged by ALL and especially by par
ents of this unfortunate class.
The institution at Berkeley for the ed
ucation of the deaf, dumb and blind,
where both the sign and oral methods
are taught, has done, and is doing, a
noble work; but as our population in
creases the necessity for other institu-
lions will arise, and the growth Of the
oral system has been such that test
of it's efficiency without the sign Ian
guage should be made, and there is no
more opportune time than now nor bet
ter place than Los Angeles to make it.
An association has been formed in this
city which has in view the establishing
of a day school to educate the deaf to
speak and to read from the lips.
w. E. Waddell, M. D., of Ontario is
the president, and ]. F. Matheis Of this
city is the secretary. If the present
plans can be carried out, an oral day
school will be opened about the 1st of
September, which will be in charge of
a practical, experienced teacher.
The purpose is to give an opportunity
for the education of the deaf of the
city and vicinity, and permit them to
enjoy all the benefits of home influences,
the same as those enjoyed by the more
fortunate hearing children.
What has been accomplished in Eu-
rope and the eastern states can be &C
complished here.
The herald., 1898-04-03
THE Y. M. G. A.

1t Is a matte, of surprise to the great
to learn that the Young Mems Christian
association, just at the time of it's great
est usefulness, is seriously hampered for
want of funds to carry on its work. The
field of the Y. NJ. c. A. has broadene1
so steadily and the demands made upon
it have been so faithfully met that the
impression was quite general that a
fairly good provision had been made for
it's maintenance.
The actual situation is about as fol-
lows: The income derived from the
building is about sufficient to meet the
interest on the $4,000 mortgage, to-
gether with insurance, repairs and
taxes. The current expenses are met
by membership fees and personal con-
tributions. Last year not more than
four per cent of the receipts came from
the outside, and the association ran over
$4,000 behind. There remains at present
a floating debt of $500 to be cleared UP.
If this is not provided for the scope of
the work will be materially lessened,
thus greatly curtailing it's usefulness.
1t is understood that an active canvass
for funds will at once be made, and it
is hoped that the responses will be
prompt and liberal. 1t is pointed out
that, while the membership is the larg-
est in the state outside of San Fran
cisco, the contributions are very small
in proportion. Oakland gives two dol
lars where Los Angeles has given one
dollar, and San Diego, where the work
is only one-fourth the magnitude of that
in Los Angeles, gives four dollars where
this city gives one dollar. Such a condi-
ton of affairs is not creditable. 1t is
fair to assume that, now the real situa ..
ton has been made known. there will
be prompt response on the part of the
friends of the association. Los Angeles
cannot afford to let this worthy insti-
tuition abate any part of it's great use
fulness.
The herald., 1898-04-03

! duced by q company Of two hundred and
fifty people, consisting of actors. sing
ers and musicians; that "the character
of the play has been improved by the
addition of several new dramatic
scenes" AS if anything could be added
to such an incident! sN
Thus has the decadency Of the Pas
sion play idea been manifested in most
offensive way. The Swiss enterprise. with
| it's bold reaching out after the almighty
dollar and it's borrowing of modern the
atrical methods, should not be con-
founded with the famous presentation
at Ober- Ammergau, which, while 1t has
not altogether withstood the attack o!
| modern innovations, is still free, to a
very large degree, from the repugnant
almost sacrilegious features that mark
its imitators.
Ober-Ammergau is a village of Upper
Bavaria, with population of about one
thousand one hundred, the people being
principally engaged in wood-carving.
The Passion play originated in vow
taken by the population in 1884 to per-
form it every ten years, in the event of
their escape from the plague, which then
prevailed.
Everybody who has attended a per-
Torrance of the. Passion play at this
Bavarian village has been greatly i'm
pressed with the sincerity and ability
with which it has been performed by
the simple and uneducated villagers.
The fame of the presentation has spread
far and wide, and it has had number
of limitations, all of which, like the Swiss
affair, have been mere sordid, money
making enterprises. 1t will be recalled
that few years ago plan was entered
upon to produce the Passion play in
New York city; but public sentiment
was so much against the idea that it
was abandoned in it's incipiency.
The Swiss performance may catch a
few vulgar tourists who wish to be able
to say that they have seen a Passion
play, but that is all. A Passion play
with press agent is thing to be re-
garded with suspicion.
The herald., 1898-04-03

recently declared that the insurgents
would never consent to compromise
upon a money basis.
simultaneously with the rejection by
the Sagasta ministry Of the demands OF
the Washington government, radical
change in the Cuban program was in
augurated. comprehending the with
drawal of the concentration order and
a movement locking to the relief of the
reconcentrados. May not the Madrid
authorities, taking advantage of the de-
lay in action by the Washington govern
ment, make terms with Gomez along the
lines suggested by himself, and thus
leave the United States without cause
for war, unless that cause shall be found
in the real facts regarding responsibility
for the Maine disaster, which facts
neither congress n or the people believe
have yet been given publicity?
The other contingency, possible, yet
quite as remote, is European Interior
ence-not the interference hoped for by
Spain, but taking the form of Joint
appeal to Sagasta and the queen regent
to accept the terms imposed by the
United States, as the best that will be
offered.
Germany and Austria are dynastically
sympathetic; the pope is being impelled
by religious considerations; France is
deeply concerned in a financial way. All
Europe wants peace. 1t can have it by
persuading Spain to accept the inev-
liable. May it not be impelled to act
while the issue is suspended upon the
single thread?
The herald., 1898-04-03
The Soldiers Dream

Comrades, did you hear the rumpus?
There's excitement everywhere,
There are wigs upon the greensward and
there's murder in the air;
For the Dons have sworn to lick US. though
they haven't got sou,
But they'll get 1t like the chckens-com-
rades, that's tween me and you!
See the mighty preparations-ev'ryw eap-
on's shining bright;
'Lectric guns are good and ready-boys are
spoihng for a fight;
And Old Glory fiutters DER us as II longing
for the glee-
Won't there be some hot tamales when the
Grandees cross the sea!
And when sounds the call to arms we'll
have willing hearts again,
From the cities and the hillsides, and the
cowboys from the plain:
Then to notes of Yankee Doodle We'll go
dancing to the fray,
AS we did meath Lee or Sherman when we
wore the blue or gray.
Tho we're somewhat old and crippled, yet
Well rally with our sons,
For our cause today's as noble as was that
of Washington's;
SO you get your belts and knapsacks and
you follow glorys call;
If we'll have Spanish picnic We'll play
concerts at the bali.
T..D.s s.
Los Angeles, March 81, 1898.
The herald., 1898-04-03

The people of Cuba are now, and for
these many years have been, deprived of
their rights and most cruelty and inhuman-
ly treated. In parallel case the so-called
Christian nations of Europe stood calmly
by while the unspeakable Turk murdered
and outraged the unfortunate Armenians.
For this they have been condemned by the
best sentiment of the civilized world. Shall
the United States now emulate England
and Germany and allow a neighboring peo-
Pile to be similarly treated? After years of
most cruel warfare, Spain has failed to en-
force her claims and put down the rebel
lion, and the question is, shall she be- al
lowed to continue indefinitely a war of ex-
termination against her unfortunate SUBJ
jects?
? Our sympathies are with all oppressed
peoples, and whether the oppressor be
Protestant England, Mohammedan Turkey
or Catholic Spain, our duty in the premises
is not changed. The Tidings believes that
the United States should at once put stop
to this murderous state of affairs, even
hough she be compelled to wage war to
do it.-Los Angeles Tidings (Catholic).
The herald., 1898-04-03
MADRID MANEUVERS

1t is perfectly obvious that it has never
been the intention of the Spanish gov
eminent to part with Cuba, or to toler-
ate interference with its affairs by the
United States. Its seeming disposition
to do so has been with the sole purpose
of gaining time. The president only has
been deceived by that false, hypo-
critical Spanish suavity" which Prince
Bismarck affects to so much despise
Congress, which the president has 81
much distrusted, and the people, whom
he has never wished to take into his con-
fidence, have had no difficulty IN reaolne
the handwriting on the wall.
Now that their patience and compla-
cency has been broken down and they
display a determined unwillingness to
WELD further to the executive dalliance,
Sagasta, having immensely profited by
the delay, will turn from America TO
Europe, and endeavor, by all the arts
of diplomacy, in which he is past
master, to make the attitude of the
United States appear as untenable as
pOSSlDlS Ill Lie eyes VI tiAS
monarchies. By assurances of most
pacific disposition: by seeming to make
reasonable concessions to the United
States; by granting a more generous
measure of autonomy to the insurgents,
by resembling the concentration order;
by making an appropriation for the re-
turn of the concentrates to their farms;
by promising to provide for their neces-
sites; by mobilizing naval strength in
their own waters upon an apparently de-
fensive basis and making no demonstra-
lions against American interests, they
calmly wait for the United States to
strike the first blow, counting thus upon
making us the aggressors, and further
upon making it appear to the world that
conquest and territorial acquisition is
our sole anlmus and inspiration. Stress
is laid upon the fact that this is the first
time the United States has ever inter-
fered in the affairs of a European state.
and that this, in connection with its
rigid insistence upon the Monroe doc
trine, is a circumstance which Europe
must view with something of alarm. In
short, it is the undoubted aim of the
Sagasta ministry to make it appear to
all European monarchies that an injury
to Spain, inflicted by the United States,
is an injury to all and menace to the
peace OF the world.
Negotiations with Washington may,
and are, likely to suddenly terminate,
but the stage for the prolongation of the
diplomatic play will be removed to the
various courts of the continent, in the
hope that-if not now, at least as soon
as a few shots have been exchanged
relief will come from some quarter.
Spains financial and martial poverty
Is measurably compensated for by her
wealth of craftsmanship, against which
we have pitted only a crossroads Ohio
lawyer.
"'Tis true, tits pity; tits pity tits it's
true
The herald., 1898-04-03
POSSIBILITIES REMOTE

Tomorrow's developments will doubt
less end the nations suspense and def
nitely determine the course of this gov
eminent. The most aggressive steps are
likely to be taken, but in what direc-
ton may not be known until congress
convenes.
The issue of peace or war has been
narrowed down to two very remote pos
sibilities-so remote, indeed that neither
one has so much as been limited al in
the mass of opinion and conjecture. But
they. suggest themselves to us only in
that light.
The first relates to Gomez. Any CAL
culatons in which this factor is omttes
will be unsafe. He has for many months
past deprecated armed intervention
A week ago, when this country was upon
the point of intervening, and when it had
come to be the almost unanimous de-
termination of the people that PROPOSE
lions comprehendng the purchase of
freedom could not be considered, and
that unconditional grant of independ-
ence should be insisted upon as the only
price of peace, Gomez declared the will
ingness Of his people to assume a large
portion of the Spanish war Indebtedness
as a basis of compromise. He is said
to still maintain that attitude.
On the other hand, General Garcia,
the idol of the patriots in another sec
ton of the island, and who has been
represented as not altogether in har-
The herald., 1898-04-03
THE PASSION PLAY

1t has come at last. The Passion play
ceipt of a neatly worded circular from
Selzach, Switzerland, asking it to an
nounce that the Passion play will be
reproduced in that village next summer
ION the same scale with which it was
presented in 1896 with such wonderful
success"
1t is stated that the play will be pro-
The herald., 1898-04-03
MARTIAL STRENGTH COMPARED

| OHly the euuCdl6u CLASS III pain lQllS
appreciates what a war with the United
States would comprehend, and the edu-
Gated class forms very small minority
of the eighteen million people of the
kingdom. Sixty-eight per cent Of the
population can neither read nor write.
| The significance of this is seen only by
comparison, illiteracy in the United
States, taking only the whites into con-
sideration, being but six per cent.
| Spain's ignorant sixty-eight per cent
doubtless favors a war, but SPANS
thirty-two per cent, made up Of blooded
arstocracy, no doubt fully realizes the
extreme peril of the situation, and will
continue to counsel the ministry to go
to extreme limits of concession to avoid
conflict threatening to the monarchy
and menacing to all landed and money
interests.
The stolid peasants have no conception
of the strength Of the United States.
They have heard it has an army Of
twenty five thousand men, and they took
Weyler seriously when, in recent bonn
bastic explosion at Barcelona, he de-
clared that he would like nothing better
than to take division of the Spanish
army and march it across our territory
from New York to San Francisco.
1t is not likely that, in the event of
war; the land forces Of either country
will cut much of figure. The principal
&c he ho fov
and there it is agreed we are pretty
evenly matched, when is taken into con-
sideration the greater progress made in
this country, in late years, in the inven-
ton of new machinery of destruction,
the net results of which may only be
conjectured, since experiments have been
of a quasi-secret nature.
However, comparison of the military
strength of the two nations may not be
wholly without interest.
The military information division of
the war department has just reported
the number of men liable for duty in
the militia organizations OF the several
states as 1856, S4S, the actual strength ag-
gregating 1890. thus classified: In
fantry, 1OO179; artillery, 5O55; cavalry,
1918; special troops. 227O; generals and
staff officers, s7S; non-commissioned Of
ficers, 400.
But this finely equipped body of men.
embracing the flower of the country,
upon which the states last year ex-
pended nearly $3OOO,OOO, and which
could be brought into service and
modified at any point upon the ex-
posed frontier within a week or ten
days, constitutes but the merest frac-
ton of the grand army yet unen-
rolled but liable to military duty, which
could be called into being by a word
from the president. The number thus
liable to duty is 1O,37s.11S or more than
half the total population of Spain, men,
women and children!
Only yesterday General Schofield took
charge of the national volunteer re-
serve, the effective strength of which he
expects to speedily raise to a round mil
lion of men. Congress will be asked at
once to put this new organization on q
permanent basis, and it will doubtless
be Immediately undertaken.
A report upon the strength of the
Spanish army has just been made, and
is here shown, in comparison with that
of the United States:
The herald., 1898-04-03
THE HERALD'S MUSE


How LongP
BY the side of desolate hamlet,
In the midst of fertile vale,
A manly form is dying, =
With features drawn and pale;
Dying of slow starvation,
By the side Of starving wife;
Dying beside a starving child,
Crying for bread and for life.
Weeping-suffering-
In a ruined, desolate place!
Can you read the untold agony
That shows in that human face?
Can you see the hopes that are blighted?
Can you feel the grinding pain?
Can you know the terrible dread Of death,
And the yearning to live again?
Have you ever loved human soul?
Have you ever suffered pain?
Have you ever felt the need Of help.
And called upon God in vain?
Have you ever lost child you loved,
Or buried loving wife?
II you have, you may know the value
OF q suffering human life.
When you meet the God that made you.
Can you tell him that your life
Was more to him that the Cuban man
And his dying child and wife?
Was more to the Father Of all
Than another human life?
Was more than the helpless. starving ones.
Who died midst useless strife?
The Cuban man Is dying
In the midst of fertile land
The herald., 1898-04-03

Spain has, in addition to the above.
and the Philippines, few of whom could
at this time be spared for service against
the United States. The revolution in the
Philippines, which it was supposed had
out anew, while the rebellous spirit in
Porto Rico is being held in check only
with the greatest difficulty. Once Spain
became involved with the United States,
Spanish sovereignty over all these insu-
lar possessions would doubtless be lost,
especially if the war should be prolonged
beyond few months.
The herald., 1898-04-03
THE DANISH ISLANDS

All the arguments advanced against
the annexation of Hawaii or Cuba apply
with equal force to the proposed acqui-
sition of the Danish islands in the West
Indies. Their purchase at this time can
only be justified as war necessity. and