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American Armor for Russian Ships

Once more. in her contracts with the
Carnegie company for plating the Peresvet
and Olysibia, two 1 2 ,S40-ton battleships,
Russia comes to America for armor. The
price agreed upon is $500 per ton, and
while this Is less than the sum paid under
the last Russian contract, It is 800 per
ton more than the Bethlehem and Carnegie
companies will charge our Government
for the armor of the Illinois, Alabama, and
Wisconsin.
The bids offered on the Russian ships are
instructive. They came from leading Eng
lish, French. German and American armor
makers. The Vickers and Brown plates,
both English, were offered at 1888. 90 and
$569.3S per ton respectively. Ofthe French
plates, the St. diamond were offered for
1860 down to $500. according to thickness;
the Creusot, for 1869 to $47s.64 the Chatil.
lon, $563.5O to 1886, while the Marrel
plates were also offered. Among the Ger.
mans, Krupp plates were offered at
$562.52 for all sizes, and Dillingen at
$559.3O The lowest bid seems to have
been that for the Austrian Wilkowitz
plates, which is reported at $452. so for all
sizes, while our Bethlehem and Carnegie
bids were each $530.4 for all sizes.
Russia rejected all the bids, considering
them, 1t is said, too high. and then made a
bargain with the Carnegie company, which
reduced its bid to $500. Its original charge
had been about what it received under its
previous Russian contract, $533.12.
But the price is not the only feature of
this contract that deserves the attention of
Congress. Lately we have been hearing
great claims for the new Krupp hardening
process, which was said to Guido our Har-
vey super-carbonizing, and to have figured
in a Russian contract for the armor of the
1~O,95O-ton battleship Poltava 1T $542.64
per ton. Yet Russia returns to Harveyed
steel, such rs our ships carry.
1t should be remembered that both the
Bethlehem and the Carnegie companies
have obtained the right to use the Krupp
process of hardening, but unless our naval
ordnance authorities change their views
they will stick to Harvey armor for our
ships. There Is, in fact. an additional
reason In this new Russian contract to be.
lieve that American armor is unsurpassed,
and also to conclude that If we can get it
at $40O a ton for the Illinois, Alabama, |
and Wisconsin, as Is now possible, the
purchase ought to be authorized by Con. |
gress at once.
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From the Louisville Evening Post.
There goes my JONAH" said Capt. Cardwell.
tho l.. and y. conductor, one day as the O. and
N. passenger train was entering the yards Mt
Central City. When asked what he referred 10,
the popular old railroader said:
Il mean that old black hen you saw fly across
the track in front of the engine back in the
edge of town. She is a bird of Ill omen il ever
there was one, and every time she flies across
this track in front OF my train / have bad Incb
before / finish my trip.
p" first noticed the men about three years apo
on the trip over from RuSsellville to Owensboro
and we stuck IN a snowdrift before we got back
and were held out nearly all night. The neYt
time the evil portent worked its bad eject on
me was when the largo tunnel at Twin Tunnels
cayed In, compelling us to transfer passengers
anu oaggage, and stay out all night. Again she
spraining my, ankle. So 1t was on every occa.
sion when old blackey.' as ! used to cali her.
appeared upon the scene; She belongs to an
kill her tried to buy her. but the hens owner
said. Nav. sub; Outs a pet an she wnidn't
hahn nobuddy.' But / always felt a strange
fear seize me when my train approached Cen,
blackey' was.o Wv
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A Bryanite on Dividends.

The House Committee on Judiciary held
ahearing on Friday on the Bedlamitish Con
stitutional amendment 10 limit the daily
working hours Of persons employed in
the manufacture of textile fabrics and
other industries.
The Hon. JOHN F. FITZGERALD Of Boston,
the one Democratic member Of the House
OF Representatives from New England, dis.
tlnguished himself at this hearing by de-
nouncing all dividends in excess Of six per
cent. paid by the cotton manufacturers as
"robbery of operatives"
Why did Mr.. FITZGERALD stop at six per
cent? What right has a plutocrat to pay
himself or anybody else dividends Of Ave,
four, three, or any per cent? The pro
ducing classes" produce these dividends.
To them should the dividends be paid.
We suggest to Mr.. F%IrzeERALp, who is q
straight and loyal Bryanite, and as ready
as any other Bryanite to bestow his
voice upon the "toiling masses" that he
ought to prepare q Constitutional amend
ment %forbidding manufacturing establish
ments to pay dividends except to their en-
ployees. Corporations are loathsome to the
Bryanite in all their operations and offices,
but never so peculiarly ioathsome as when
they venture upon declaring a dividend to
Of record.
Dividends must "go," but they must not
go to stockholders.
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Five Tugs and q Cruiser.

A curious question of chronology must
have occurred to the persons whose duty
forced them to read the accounts of the ar.
rival of the Spanish cruiser Vizcaya in a
number of our New York morning con.
temporaries on Saturday.
The Press asserted that "the Press tug
first spoke her, conveying news of the
Maine disaster"
According to Mr.. JACOB REDS Tribune,
"the first news Of the destruction OF the
Maine was communicated to the Captain
of the Vizcaya by the Tribune reporters,
who went down to meet the vessel"
Mr.. BENEFITS Herald averred In q rash
of type that +" officers and men of the Span.
ish war vessel first heard of the terrible dis.
aster to the Maine from the Herald's tug,
which ran under the Vizcaya's guns" evil
IDENTIFY in a very spirited manner
"The Journal gives the Captain and
officers OF the Vixcaya the first informa-
ton of the destruction OF the big battle
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Wa. h Young Woman Toe Polite,

To TIKI Editor OF THE sUS-Sir: | am one of the
vast army who travel on tho elevated roads day and
night, and l have always held that Il is gentlemanly
10 give my seat to q lady. 1t is only an act Of COM
mon courtesy. but II l meet with one more such OK.
perience rs I had the other evening I shall join the
throng OF "keepyourseats."
A yourg lady. accompanied by a gentleman who
appeared to be her father. entered q car. every seat
OF which was occupied. one night last week. I
promptly offered mine to her. and the gentleman be-
gan to thank me efusively. but the young lady in
the same breath began TO protest against my disturb
ing myself. She delayed some time before she be-
came seated. and also spoke in a tone loud enough
TOT every one near us to near what she said. all Of
which 80 embarrassed me that I could feel the blood
coming TO my cheeks.
Is not this unnecessary? Does q woman think for
one instant that q man who has rendered her his seat
In 4 train Is going TO occupy it again II she refuses II ,
ferhaps II one or two OF us would do this 1t would
teach our fair friends q lesson. TRIyr,,x.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.
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from te BOSTON Ecertn0 record
A young girl was crossing the public garden
the other morning upon the main path which
crossed tho bridge. She was accompanied by o
magnificent mastif, who strobe along beside
her in the most companionable sort of o way,
mark casually that 1t was n very hne morning,
her.
The two crossed the bridge together, and
finally came to the Charles street gate. Here
the young girl. evidently not wishing to have
the care of the dog in the busy streets, turned
to him and said:
There. that is far enough now, Marco. You
need not go With me any further. but turn about
She did not take her hands out of her muR to
point the way. and she spoke as she would to o
small brother. In q pleasant conversationnl
voice.
Marco looked at her with his large eyes, then
looked across the Common, wagginR his tail
Slowly as though he were thinking how very
pleasant IL would be to go the rest Of tho way.
Finally he turned back to her again and with O
movement OF his eyes and head asked as plainly
as though the words had come from his mouth:
Please let me go a little further. 1t is such Q
fine morning."
mo, dear; I'm going shopping. you know"
answered the girl. explaining the difference, as
II Marco were human. "theren be crowds Of
people. and l shall not know what to do with
you. But go along. now. there's a good fellow.
walked back across the gardens. He did not
slink away. as some dogs do when sent back,
Sut marched leisurcly along with his head in
the air; stopped a moment on tho bridge to
watch the children skating below. then trottod
on toward Commonwealth avenue.
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Some Of our esteemed contemporaries in

Some of our esteemed contemporaries in
Pennsylvania are spending much worthy cogita.
ton on the choice OF a poet laureate for that State.
which, they are right in asserting. deserves to
have one. The poet laureate of Pennsylvania
doesn't need TO be chosen. Ho has chosen
himself. He is the Hon. JIM GUFFEY of
Allegheny, the Hon. JAMES MELLrTUs GUFFEY.
He is moro than a poet. He is a poem, epic,
didactic. lyric, narrative. dramatic. Muscular
eous and universal. As he stands at his second.
story window. his hand upon his heart and his
heart throbbing with harmony. and asks gentle
men who wish to have the happiness of
voting for him for Governor at the Demo-
cratic State Convention to come early and avoid
the rush. his eyes sing. his lips play %sonntas. his
nose is a dithyramb, his ears are Eolian harps,
his fell OF hair is as a forest of birds. He is the
genius of pocsy, music, harmony. and progress
sive Guffeyism.
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Concerning Dreams,

To THE EpiroR or TIE srx-Str: Your CORE
spondent. Mrs. x" asks: do other people have
dreams as l do?" ! believe her experience ia op,,a
common. This age. however. is SO materiali,tic this,
most people pay little attention to dreams ana do No,
say much about them. fearing ridicule. In anci.n,
times much more attention was pad IN tben go
classical Literature and the Bible record many nnt.bia
dreams and their fullnlment. ' No'1"'e
have had most remarkable eIpsrieno, in dr..m
Ing. and am satisfied that dreams are either nstnrn,
omens or are the att .mpts OF supra. mundane in,aii,.
Rences In convey informal on Ia ia.
one night last summer. while absent from hom.
! saw In a dream my wife standing by nv bed hnId.
Ing small clock In her hand. tn. works were hrnIsr
and lying In a heap at the bottom. The mainnnrin1
was slowly nick.rina. as II about TO stop. A few
! Am peculiarly sub1rci TO vivid dreams. and have
hau many OF asynhs lc character. the fuinlment Of
which was as remark able as that related 49,
cannot say, however; that they have ever proved in
advantage OF or pront by them or do more thsU s !.
their extraortin mary f%ulhlmeuI, ~ noto
new YORK. Feb. 20. 'F'A'
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FARLEY Of Franklin, a member Of the
Massachusetts, Senate, seems to be q man Of
primitive notions. He said in that Senate tho
other day that "the best man on the Prison
Commission parts his hair in the middle Ap-
parently q serious blemish. in the opinion of the
Massachusetts, philosopher. The Society for the
Restoration Of Superstitions should inquire into
the case Of Mr.. FARLEY. 1t is not common
outside of Massachusetts to regard . mans
way Of parting his hair as o grave matter
Of profound effect upon the intellectuals and
tho morals. Many statesmen have mighty little
hair to part. and SO arc sure of escaping Mr..
FARLEY's censure. 1t Is understood that he
will introduce q Joint resolution for a constitu-
tional amendment forbidding male citizens. in
Guiding Indians of full age. to part their hair
nearer than two inches to the exact geo
graphical centre of their heads. All heads will
be duly plotted. surveyed, inspected. and regis
tered by a Surveyor-General OF Heads. In Mas
sachusetts, as in most other States, there IL a
feeling that almost everything ought to be done
or forbidden by law. and everything else by
constitutional amendment.
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which would BE- fatal 70 his hopes Of &C
curing q foothold In the Middle Kingdom.
Kaiser WILLIAM IL, no less than the Gear,
must be alive to the i~Dexpediency from q
Continental Viewpoint Of provoking q com
bination Of the Anslo-6axon race which
would be irresistible at sea, and might
we'll look forward in the twentieth CEN
tury to the domination OF the world.
The Spectator and the Saturday Rerietc
may be quite sure that Russia on the one
hand and Germany on the other are pretty
we'll occupied in China Just now. and that
both are too sagacious to commit the
blunder Of backing Spain against the
United States.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-21
Jefferson on Birthday Celebrations.

If Congress is guided by Jeffersonian
principles and presidents, it will not enact
into u law the bill, recently introduced,
making April2, the birthday of JEFFERSON,
a public holiday.
The great founder of the old Democracy,
which now has no existence except in his.
tory. was rcsolutely opposed to this partic-
ular form OF hero worship, partly because
OF his extreme modesty, but mainly owing
to an exalted sense of patriotic duty. Birth.
day celebrations were regarded by him as
servile limitations of monarchical forms, in
compatible with the dignity and simplicity
OF the republican character.
J%EFPERsoN's convictions on this subject
were formed at a very early period in his
life, and he never allowed the date of his
birth to be made known. Public bodies as
well as private individuals made strenuous
Efforts TO penetrate the secret, but they
were all unsuccessful. Noteworthy among
those efforts was that OF the Mayor and
corporation OF Washington, Immediately
after JEEFERsoN's first Inauguration as
President. The governing authorities of
the young capital had resolved in their pa.
triotic fervor to AVE a jefferson Day"
and they waited on him with a request that
he would name 1t for them. He declined to
enlighten them. and In his reply framed the
sentence famous from that hour to this:
"The only birthday which / recognize is
that of my country's liberties"
Two years later q patriotic association
In Boston, anxious to do honor to JEPFER.
Son engaged his Attorney General, Mr..
LINCOLN, to make a similar request. The
appeal was equally fruitless. "Disapprov.
ing myself" wrote JEFFERSON, "of trans
ferring the honors and veneration for the
great birthday of our republic to any indi.
vidual, or Of dividing them with individu.
ais, have declined letting my own birth.
day be known, and have engaged my fam
w poi TO communicate 1t. This has been
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P~Ar-AMrrrCAr sBNxrmrun
n ssuthsvs Sssrnai Thiats shs Tfue Wss Ceus
te Rsturn the Eexicau Canpep.
~. .f. ps-f

FNom the lfianta Dtrts.
Events OF the past few years have made II
quite evident tina. the Monroe doctrine IL deep
rooted In tho hearts OF all Americans. The
threat OF European oppression or encroachment
never fails to arouse significant protest through
out the length and breadth of the American
continent Europeans have coma to understand
that war upon one OF the republics OF this con-
tinont would mean war upon all America Tho
cause Of q sister republic would be made the
cause OF ALL and the doctrine that is now q
patriotic sentiment would become q stern real
ity; the men Of all America would lock shields
and march against tho common enomy.
The spirit Of true Americanism 10 abroad on
this continent, and 1t 10 the earnest desire of
every worthy citizen that this spirit be f~ostered
and encouraged. Its development should take
practical form. To DO OF worth. this feeling
Of interdependence must DO based upon some
thing moro substantial than nero sentiment;
there must be deeds as well as words.
Our citizens are constantly visiting Mexico
and tho republics OF South America. They arc
received with uniform courtesy. and many Of
them have been lavishly entertained. This In
particularly true Of Mexico. So anxious has
that country been TO prove her good will that
many Of our private citizens have been pub
licly received and entertained by President
Diaz. He has taken occasion. time and again.
TO indicate his earnest belief In the spirit and
practice Of Americanism in It's broadcast sense.
Considering the many and cordial courtesies
extended to citizens Of the United States by the
officials. as we'll as the people OF Mexico. and
considering. too. the broad and liberal spirit Of
the day, Dirie begs to submit that the United
States Ia doing an ungenerous thing TO publicly
display the flags and other trophies captured
from the Mexican troops during q struggle that
occurred many years ago. The people Of both
countries have outRrown the bitterness Of those
days. We have clasped hands for the progress
and upbuilding Of our respective countries. Lot
us knit tho friendship closer by 4 generous decd.
Let the sons take back the trophies captured by
their fathers and ask tho Mexicans to accept
them as IN evidence of sisterhood between tho
nations. Let us be as generous as our neighbors
across the Rio Grande. They cherish no ami
mostly. Surely we can meet them half way.
To make the matter quite plain. we suggest
that the Mexican cannon and battlefags, now
displayed at the West Point Military Academy
and at the Naval Academy at Annapolis as
trophies Of war, be returned in good will and
generous spirit to the people Of Mexico. There
Is no disposition In tho hearts of our people to
maintain a spirit Of bragRadocio regarding the
result Of the past unpleasantness with Mexico.
and the display of these trophies is out OF har-
mony with the spirit and purpose Of continental
Americanism.
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ship Maine" The account given by Mr..
HEARsr's historians was most impressive.
"One Of the Journal tugs" Of which there
is q feet manned entirely by historians,
"cruising to the southwark sighted the
great warship stcaming along easily. She
looked very grim and powerful as she turned
the waves" Not 80 grim and powerful, we
may be sure, as the tug that carried the his
~torlans. The Vizcaya at nee "slowed down
as the Journal boat approached and hailed
her" W~hereupon a long conversation fol-
lowed, during which a Spanish officer was
reported as having used the remarkable ex-
preston, "Madro de Diosr'
According to the World historians, Gro
porters Of the World, on the Wortds tug,
Excelsior, were the first to greet the for
midable Spaniard !" and so on. The vizcaya
is beautifully described by Mr.. PuLrTzER's
explorers on the Excelsior % "a high,
cream-colored superstructure, ghostlike
through the fog" A cream-colored ghost
with a high superstructure must be a val
liable addition to the Pulitzer chamber of
horrors.
So five different tugs were the first to
hail or be hailed by the Vizcaya, and FIVE
different collections OF historians were the
first to communicate to her officers the news
Of the Names disaster. 1t will not do to
say that this was or is q physical impossi-
bility. Nothing is impossible to accurate
and painstaking historians with q record
to maintain.
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Joy expands its chest n Mirth whirls
in vertigo as the Galveston Netrs exclaims that
agriculture must be raised to its natural
standard. must be lifted from the degradation
TO which present policies consign IL; 1t is tho
most important of all avocations. and must
be so recognized by law and society," We
were not aware that agriculture was suf-
fering and degraded. but II 1t is, the Hon. ROGER
QuARLEs MILLS, the one man now engaged In
a~ssailing the tariff as the cause Of all miseries.
can be depended upon to lift up agriculture to
the height OF his own voice. Agriculture can
ask no sleeper uplifting than that.
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Mary . Toll or apIu.

From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Tho choir was singing a new arrangement of
the beautiful anthem. Consider the Lilies "
The pure. sweet voice OF the soprano rose clearly
and distinctly in the solo:
They toi.oi-oi.oil not,
They toll not,
They toll not,
Nyy.y'ther do they spin.
She paused and the tenor took up the strain.
Eee-ee-ee.ther do they spin.
They tot oi-oi.oil not.
They toll not.
They toll not,
Nee-ee-ee-ther do they spin.
The tenor ceased. and tho bAsso, n aolemn
red.haired young man, with q somewhat woridix
looking eye and q voice like . foghorn, broke In:
NAy.ay-Ay.AythS 10 they spin.
They toioi-oi-oil not,
They toll not.
They toll not.
ay-thsF do they spin.
Then the voices of the three were lifted nm in
semi-chOrus:
Nyy-y.ther
Ne0-eO-Oe-ther
EAy'AyAy-thec
They toi-oi-ot oil not,
They toll not,
They toll not.
Eyyy"theT
Neeee oNtheF
Hay-ay.Ay.fheF
do they spin.
Brethren" said the ~gray.haired. old.sash.
Toned pastor when the choir had hnished. I'VE
will begin the service OF the morning by Sin0JnS
the familiar hymn. And Am i Yet Alive F"
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From the Portland oreoonfan.
Arhymic chant TO celebrate
Immortal e~uphonies;
A cant!cle TO titillate
The vocal faculties;
monograph that shall endure
or W~GshiRgton's nomenclature
And weird derivatives obscure,
o muse. celestial, sing,
Researches lexical, san, use-
With ''siwa,b" evolution,
And LiterA will not refuse
Your spirit AbsnlutIon
II. writing meath the awful snail
You narrowed feelings shall rshsi
Aud md rent In q S~n!othenod 80, -.u
MOST any ancient thing, w"
klickitAt n S~tillARuamish.
senliahmoo and skykom'sh'
utsAlAddy and SnohomAh.
Mukilteo and SkokomiEh.
kIttitas and TAppsnish,
AtLel and Duamiah.
lpows sin n O~kinokane.
ChamokAne and OkAno0an-
6kookumchuck and Tuialip.
sAmish Flats and Puy ALUM.
WaAhongAl a wahkiakum-
wenAtchee n Umtanum-
enoquAlmie and CheWauEum-
Cowlche and Newaukum-
S~kAmokAMA and EnumnI.-
kahlotus n EntAtquA
hAmllcher and ChsWelAh,
sopenAh and W~AshtnenA,
ConconuilE n oleQuaI
H ceteTa and hAtaWA
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the uniform answer to every application Of
tho kind"
But whatever Congress may do or not do,
the Fourth Of July In and ever will remain
the great Jefferson day. It IL b ami.
versary OF his death, fifty years after the
immortal Declaration Of Independence was
written. Not until Americans forget 1t,
can they forget him.
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The report lately scattered over the coun.

The report lately scattered over the coun-
try that the Hon. JOE BAILEY Of Gainesville has
been seen to wear q silk hat" must be set down
as a malicious invention. Mr.. BAILEY habitually
crowns his crown with a black SLOUGH" hat
about the size Of two bathtubs. Hc scorns the
silk hnt" even as he scorns evening clothes.
He is positive that the head of the Money
Power is shod." as he says in his fine poetic
language. with silk" Plutocrats and monop-
olists adorn their heads with silk hats" Mr.
BAILEY may have borrowed one OF the abomina-
BILE things for the purpose of illustration. but he
would sooner perish than use It.
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The town of Tonawanda will DO returned to
the Democratic ranks by $50 majority on March g.
BuIydlo Times.
This is appalling II true. Tonawanda is known
and feared by millions as one of the capitals of
reform. Even Mexico. Mo-, a heaven grazing
and silver-studded peak of thought. is hardly
moro famous than Tonawanda. The National
party and at least thirteen other new and exclu-
sive parties were formed in and exist for iona.
wanda alone. II. then. Tonawanda is to be
wrested from the Money Power there will be
woe in all the palaces of gold.