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PNEUMAr1o TUBE SERVICE.
Proposed Appropriation or $500. 900 to RI
tend II In the several Ciiies.

Proposed appropriation or $500. 900 TO EH-
tend 1t In tho Several Ciiies.
WASHINGTON. March 3O.-The Senate Com.
mitteo on Post Offices and Post Roads to-day re-
ported favorably an amendment to the Post or
fec Appropriation BILL offered by Senator Car
ter Of Montana. providing for tho extension Of
the pneumatic tube service in the several cities
within the discretion Of the Postmaster General.
Half a million dollars is appropriated. The
amendment also stipulates that no part Of the
appropriation OF 1925 900 carried by the Post
offlce Appropriation bill for transportation of
mail by pneumatic tube "BhRll be expended in
the extension of that service beyond the amount
necessary to meet the requirements of contracts
therefor entered into, prior to the taking effect
Of this appropriation"
The Senate Appropriations Committee struck
from the Sundry Civil bill the item Of $4,000 to
pay the salaries during the coming year Of fire.
men and other employees required In the oper-
alton Of pneumatic tube plants
Senator Mason proposed an amendment ap-
propriating $50 900 for making experiments in
underground electric transportation of mail
matter between Post Offices, sub-stations, and
railroad stations in large citles. A proviso pro-
hibits the expenditure OF any part Of the amount
for pneumatic tube demonstrations.
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aHod Ratber" once Moro.

Our esteemed contemporary, the Albany
| Express, makes queer attack upon the
| old. good, and unexceptionable expression,
chad rather" which, It says, is an "error v
that "cannot be successfully defended be-
cause It is and will always remain an error,
| whoever and however many may use 1t. y
Wcshowed the other day that " had rather
WINS and had long been good English. used
by the best writers. Let us hear the theory
Of the ETpress:
"n this idiom' were TO be admitted 20 a legiti'
mate place in the Language, II would become neces
tense for which name would have 70 be found, and
which would appear follower
"Ihad be We had DO
Thou hadSt be You had be
He had be They had be.
EFT may not be amiss here TO oifer an explanation
of how the error crept the language. Among the
there Is always tendency to shorten expires
aions by Gliding letters in ordinary conversation
Tho expression 4 would rather shortened to ia
rather and from that form was expanded in writing,
through careessneas caaes through ignorance
in Others Il had rather because the sound of tho
shortened expression suggested 'had' moro readily
than would"
This idiom is legitimate English. 1t was
of years ago, and it cannot be crowded out
by the misguided persons who want to
make over English to suit their own ideas.
For the benefit of the Albany Express,
which seems to have had no time to inform
itself about the real character of the re-
spectacle expression which it assails, we
quote from the Century Dictionary:
''TO have rather. to hold, regard. consider
a. preferable; phrase equiv aent to, and used like
TO hare Iisfer. and OF much later ORIGIN not being
found. apparently, before the sixteenth century;
followed by an inhnitive with. or Cas now usually
withouD to. and now only with the pretert had.
So falls the theory of "error." "Have
rather" like "have liefer," chad liefer,"
and had lieverest," the last a form found
in Sir THOMAS NORTH and other Eliza
bethans, has disappeared; but had rather"
has lived through three hundred and fifty
years or so, the period during which most
of the best English literature has been
written, and it is just as good to-day as it
was when SHAKESPEARE and the makers
of the King James Bible used 1t.
Some unfamiliar with the English Ian.
guage and English literature imagine that
they are showing superior knowledge
dhu SoiACSbheoS Dy hiSAiuS oBoihoo udu
rather" pursuing up their lips and saying in
the prune.potato-prism manner of the Gen.
eral in Little Dorrit" "I would rather"
They are not displaying superior knowl-
edge and correctness. They are guilty of
an affectation founded upon ignorance.
They will never know much about English
until they understand that English is what
it is. not what it ought to be or what they
think it ought to ba.
The sun., 1898-03-31

Ing the past year. only requires the guns
and garrison now being Installed there to
make it the Gibraltar Of the East. The
forts and dock that were built before the
China-Japan war were not destroyed by
the Japanese, and have recently been re-
stored and improved by the Chinese. The
Siberian Railway had reached Kansk, to
the east of Krasnoyarsk, in October OF last
year, and, It Ia expected, will be open
to IrlCutsk, near Lake Baikal, this
autumn. The rate of construction of
the line has been about 400 miles yearly,
SO that, as there are about 1900 miles yet
to be laid to bring 1t to the seacoast,
another four or five years are required for
it's completion. This time, however, may
be shortened now that the terminus at Port
Arthur has passed under Russian control,
as the work can he actively pushed from
both ends.
A great opportunity is now open to
American railmakers and locomotive build
ers and manufacturers of railway mate
rial, which, no doubt, will be availed OF to
the fullest extent. For some time to come,
also. food supplies will be required for the
labor employed on the railway and the
population that has already begun to
flow into the country about to be
opened up by the enterprise of the Russian
Government. This will afford n market for
the produce OF our Pacific States, and the
intercourse which the great changes now
inaugurated in eastern Asia should devel-
op ought to lay the foundations Of
future trade capable of illimitable expan-
sion. When the Nicaragua Canal shall
have been built, our Eastern States will
have their share in the general movement
that must result from the awakening to
life of the long dormant millions Of China,
and the opening up to settlement by Rus
sian energy of the hitherto impenetrable
wastes Of northeastern Asia.
There is therefore every incentive for our
pushing forward the construction Of that
highway for commerce across the narrow
strip of land separating the two oceans,
and showing that we are in no way behind
our Russian friends in our desire to do our
share in contributing TO the progress and
development of the world.
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BISHOP HARzzELb RETURNS.
NE h eanEuIne over tho Future or the H1etho
dlnt Church in Africa.

NE 10 eanEuIne Over tho Future or the Hletho-
dlst Church in Africa.
Bishop Joseph @. Hartzel OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church, with his wife. arrived in New
York yesterday on tho Teutonic. Since Bishop
Hartzell loft hore on Dec. 0. 1896. he has trav.
oiled 10000 miles. Ho has travelled 1000 miles
in Africa. where he has absolute direction Of all
tho Methodist Episcopal missions. He went to
Africa to study tho field for mission work there
and TO plan for It's better cultivation. He es.
tablished eighty.fvo missionaries in their sta
tions during the trip. Ho has como back warmly
enthusiastic over the future possibilities Of
Africa under European control.
Bishop Hartzell bears credentials from Presi
dent Coleman of Liberia to President McISin-
Icy. Ho had similar credentials from President
Coleman to Lord Salisbury. Tho Liuerian Re.
public desires closer rotations with Great
Britain and the United States. There is feel
ing there. the Bishop said, that tho Independence
and. indeed, the very existence Of Liberia de.
pends upon the active good will Of Great Britain
and the United States.
Both tho Germans and the French look on tho
territory with greedy eve. While the Bishop
exact a heavy indemnity from the Liberians on
o triflinR pretext The Germans offered to Rc-
cept treaty establishing German protectorate
over Liberia In lien OF the indemnity. The mat
ter is still pending. Bishop HartZell wants
President Mckinley TO make some demonstra-
tion to show this nations friendliness for the
black republic.
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me seusts cos.r.lty.e ns.ssrss ,hs rrsvtslsu
mr. the paris Hrps.itisn.

mr. the Pnrta Rxposfttou.
WAsuryaroS. March sO.4-The sundry Civil
bin was reported 70 tho Senate to-day by the Al
propriations Committee The bill carries a total
OF e50,4I6,lS1. Of which tho committee added
sAO7O.s7s. Tho PRINCIPAL additions made BY
the committee woro these:
Ono lighthouse tender is authorized for service
on tho Great Lakes and another for tho Third
district New York;, to cost $50. 900 each. Three
new revenue cutters arc authorized, ono for tho
Gulf and one for the South Atlantic coast. to
cost s100, 900 each. and one for the Columbia
River. to cost s25O.000. Also now harbor boats
for Philadelphia and Boston, to cost $4,000
each.
An appropriation of s49l.163 is made to
cover the pay OF tho army Increased by the two
new regiments Of artillery.
For military posts, Including barracks and
quarters for tho now seaconst Notifications, the
amount 10 increased from s42o, 900 to s920, 900.
Tho provision for the Paris Exposition, which
was ruled out in the House on point Of order,
was restored BY tho committee. The limit Of
propriatod. The appointment OF tho necessary
ofhcors is authorized. These include n CoT-
missioner-General and an Assistant Conmls-
the Commissloner.G onerai twelve experts hav-
ing special Rttainuents in regard to the subjects
t6oS % may SS SS PospectIyely % sssiSnod. ProvsionS
are mado for agricultural exhibits by tho Gov
ernment 10 cost BI0,OOO.
Tho order issued by President Cleveland Fob.
%, 1897. aotting apart as q forest reserve some
twenty million acres of landg in wyoming.
Utah, Montana. Washington, Idaho, and South
Dakota is suspended indefinitely.
8. Bottoms Soma and four other brewing firms
in the Fourteenth internal revenue district of
New York are refunded some $40. 900 rebate on
beer stamps. They deposited with the Collector
Immediately before the Dlngley bill went into
effect moro money than tho latter could issue
stamps for, and as the department ruled that
the rebate could not he allowed after the act
took effect the appropriation is mado to cover
the rebate.
For tho purchase Of the Globe building in
Washington, to bo used as q storohouse for
documents, $45, 900, and for the purchase Of
the Union building, now used as a city Post
Office, $3.50, 900, arc provided. Condemnation
proceedings are authorized to secure adjoining
ground for an addition to the Government
Printing Office.
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Ia SIomOry or seidi.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUK-SiT; Permit me, as an
ardent Hdmirer OF the late Anton seidl, whose sud
den demise has sent shock through the entire
muSicloving world, to advance suggestion Rs to an
appropriate action TO take In reference thereto,
What would be more fitting or grauder than to call
upon the leading musicians and exponents OF elAssi.
cal music notably WAgners to enlist their services
In behalf of a movement TO hold concert ON a mas.
sive scale or some memorial exercises. designed TO
raise funds for the erection OF suitable mon umsnt
10 his memoTyi or if more preferred donate the ne.
celptS to his widow, the eStlmAbe Nine seidl
Who according to report, Is not In the afluent
crcumAtanres.
such an appeal. feel confident. would meet with .
port from the public.
II might. perhaps, bo wen to POSTPONE such action
outlined until the arrival next fall OF the De RssEkes
tnAn whom no greater admirers OF M. Seidl can bo
Ionhd a. their devotion the cause will bring Il
elestre and eninenoe that SURE 20 make the affair
very truly 4. II. BRAVE
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SAVED H1H WITH 4 PI1oHrOEx.
Plucky Attack by . woman On . DuIl that
Was GorinE Her HuSbaHd.
Erom the Spokane SpokesMan. Revte,r.

From the Spokane SpokeSRtan- Revtetr
Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ. Keenan, live with theiR
children on a farm on tho Little Spokane, about
ten miles north of the city. Mr.. Keenan, IL we'll
known in the city and throughout the county.
Saturday afternoon Mrs. Keenan,, from the
house. heard tho large and vicious bull owned
by them believing in evident anger. She wenb
to the field and saw the animal standing over
her prostrate husband and grinding at his linn
and helpless body with tho stump Of l1is horn.
Tho animal was dehorned some time ago, but
This he was trying TO drive through Mr.. Koe.
mans chest. Mrs. Keenan's children were too
small to be of assistance. She despatched them
- 70 the @ nearest az nsghbeoSFS S and SELLING apitch
She attacked him vicioueiy in the flank, driv-
ing the prongs OF tho fork fully four inches into
the bulls flesh, Still he continued to grind HE
grew desperate. She walked around to the ami
mails head, and with q strength born Of her des-
peration she again and again drove the sharp
from four to five inches at nearly every drive.
She says she does not know how many times che
stabbed the animal with the fork, but It must
Finally the maddened bull drew Off and stood
at bay. Mrs. Keenan throw herself In front of
her PROSTATE husband, who lay limp and still,
but his perceptible breathing assured her life
was not extinct. Nerved thus for the ordeal.
she stood there. and, with her crude weapon
checked the rushes and vicious attacks OF the
bull until help arrived half and hour later. Az
TO rush in and gore her, she. too. walked about
her husband, ever keeping his body behind her
and her face and weapon to the bull. She was
standing thus when the men, summoned by her
AS they drove the bull away she at last was
enabled to kneel beside her husband and raise
his wounded head to her lap. He was removed
to the house, but is not thought to bo fatally
hurt.
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Will the Maine Now Be ADnndonedq

1t looks as If the career of the Maine as a
battleship, borne on our naval list and pro-
tected by our flag, had nearly come to a
close. The Court of Inquiry does not, in.
deed, make any report as to whether the
ship can be raised, that being beyond its
province, but it speaks four times of the
disaster to the Maine as it's destruction" +"
while its description of the breaking OF the
keel asunder and the forcing Of portions of
the bottom of the ship above water only
confirms popular Impressions as to the
hopelessness of the wreck. The very photo
graphs of the vessel as she now lies JUS
tify the notion that it will never be raised.
1t is generally understood that this view is
held by Capt. S1GsBEE, and has been con-
veyed by him to the Navy Department.
However, naval proceedings are methodi-
cal and in due form, and the report of the
Board of Survey on the Maine, which will
soon be rendered, will be awaited before
settling her fate.
1t is said that we have already got most of
the contents of the Maine that can be saved,
or would pay for the cost of recovery,
and that the battery. including the 6-inch
guns and the secondary pieces, has been
saved. with the very important exception
of the four 1O-inch guns. The pair in the
starboard turret probably never can be
got up, because the turret cannot be moved.
Spain objected to letting Capt. SIGsBEE
facilitate the recovery of material by blow
ing away distractions with dynamite, ap-
parently on the ground of possible injury
to the surroundings, and perhaps also be-
cause she had plans of her own. But it is
said that we have at least secured the
breech blocks of the two after guns, SO that
probably little that is important will be
left to the Dons.
OF course Spain would sooner or later
get rid of the Maine as a dangerous harbor
obstruction. if once abandoned. Perhaps
she would seize the occasion first to make
Investigations, and she might herself en-
ploy dynamite for that purpose, or for help
ing to break up the wreck. At all events.
the ship will probably not much longer be
ours, but we shall have new and a greater
battIeship to bear its honored name.
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CONSUL WoxEN STILL MISSING.
He Will BE Arrested when Found for Desert
ing His Post.

He Will he ArreAted when Found for DESERT
ing His Post.
The search for Carl Woxen. the Consul in this
city for Sweden and Norway, who has been miss
ing for a week or more. was continued yester-
day. but without discovering any traces Of his
whereabouts. At the same time the investi-
cation Of Mr.. Woxen's books at the consulate
was also continued. 1t was said at the con-
sulate at "a State street that the investigation
OF the books was not yet complete, and that
until it was nothing would be given out as to
the results
1t was inferred, however, from tho manner of
those in charge OF the Office that nothing had
beon discovered In the accounts which would
account for Mr.. Woxen's disappearance, and
the impression seemed to be that Mr. Woxen
had wandered away while mentally unbalanced.
Mr.. WoXen's 8 only accuEcr o far Is Charles H.
Stroem, who says that gave Mr.. Woxen
draft for $4,000 to cash, when he came from
Texas two weeks ago, and had not received his
money.
Vice Consul Raon said that an order had been
received ct the consulate from the homo Gov.
ernment to have Mr., Woxen arrested, II he
could be found, on n charge OF desertion, as he
had left the consulate without permission.
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wHnnE 2 w1LErAn oHUnon1rEa
Hsrasr u. y Cessul at Apia nsiievsa 70 zavs
Cps,1ustteeo nutrtao

Perraer y. = Cansui ~ Apfn mellevcd - E7avo
Csusniitted suicias.
William Churchill formerly United States
Consul at Apia, Samoa. has boon missing from
his homo, 163 South Ninth street, williams
burg since Monday He ls 81 years old. and has
wife and one son. After graduating from
Yale College ho went to England, and later the
London Geographical Society sent him to tho
South Sea Islands Mr.. Churchill remained in
Samoa for long time, where he acquired tho
language Of the natives. He returned to Amer
lea and entered journalism in San Francisco
Then he came East and contributed to various
magazncs. Seven years ago he became tho lit
erary editor Of the Brooklyn Times. and retained
the place until about two years ngo, when Pres
ident Cleveland appointed him United States
Consul at Apia. Mr. Churchill took his family
TO Samoa. His wife and son became III, and
whom, in last Novem Dor, President Mckinley
appointed Ssmuel Lloyd Osborne an Mr.. Church
Ills successor, Mr.. Churchill. with his wife and
son. returned TO this country. reaching Will
MI. Churchill's failure TO obtain employment
made him despondent. Jhe continued illnoss
OF his wife also worried him. On Sunday night
Mrs. Churchill saw her husband pour lauda-
mum into q wine glass. Sho feared that he was
about to commit suicide, and knocked the glass
Churchill Kissed his wifo and left the house.
The police were informed yesterday Of his disap'
Mrs. Churcbin said she feared her husband
had committed suicide, as he had never before
absonted himself from homo without writing to
her. Mr.. Churchill Is over six feet In height,
and has q brown beard. Ho wore black diago-
nal suit and eyeglasses when he left homo.
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HousEsMIrHs oBJECr TO BILL.
They Say That Gt Would Hncrsase the Danger
OF Their WoFk-The stone workers. FiEht.

They say That u would Increase the Danger
or Their WoFk-The stone Workers' FiEht.
The Housesmiths' and Bridgemens Union
notified tho Board OF Walking Delegates yes.
terday that 1t would agitate against bill now
before the Legislature regarding the hosting
OF building materials, though the Carpenters
Union and several other organizations favor the
bill. Tho bill provides that all building ma
terlals for q building In course of construction
shall be hoisted inside of the building. The
houBesmiths say that this would increase tho
risks OF housesmiths, as iron beams are often
heavy beams would have 10 be hoisted verti-
cAlly, which would increase the risk of them
slipping from tho ropes.
The Board of Walking Delegates yesterday
gave general orders to the Hosting Engineers
and the Dorriokmen's unions to refuse 10 handle
any stone cut by n0n-union men In the yards.
The refusal OF the engineers and uerrickInen 70
work always causes tho bricklayers To become
selves
The sun., 1898-03-31
SCHOONER oL1vE1rE WRECKED.
Goes on p Ledge at tho Entrance to IaaiiraH-
Two Ien Drowned.

6Oeb on LeoEo Mt tnO Entrance TO 1hnItnT-
Two Men Drowned.
HALIFAX, n. s.. March 30-The British
schooner Olivette. Capt. Creaser. went ashore
this morning on Thrum Cape. ledge at the en-.
trance to tho harbor. and two lives were lost
She was ending q voyage Of twenty-five days
from Porto Rico to this port, with a cargo of
225 puncheons of molasses valued ut $5, ,OOO
The schooner was built two years ago.
Capt Creaser had been almost becalmed for
the past seven days. Last night the weather
was hazy; he drifted to the westward. but not
SO far as he thought. and he lost his reckoning
He struck between Thrum Cape and DEVILS
lslsnd at high water. Tugs were at work all
day trying to pull the schooner of, but tho
efforts were abandoned tonight owing to tho
high sea-, Renewed attempts will be made to-
morrow. but there is only the smallest possible
chance Of saving the cargo.
Two longshoremen, James he Young and his
son. were drowned by the capszinR OF q boat in
which they were attempting to board the wreck
with line from one of the salvage tugs. The
risk taken by the De Youngs will appear from
the fact that the Devils island lifeboat crew
would not venture near tho wreck at the time
on account Of the treacherous sea. The unfor-
tunate men were observed standing on the
crown Of tho reef for some moments, the son
supporting his aged father. Soon they became
exhausted and were washed into the sea by the
breaker0,
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FersIEn Notes or real Interest.

Berlin bakers now wrap up their oaves Of breed -
soon as baked In paper bags 70 avoid the dirO
that comes from handling the bread.
Jules schulhon. the pianist. whose "oalop a.
bravurA" generation ago was heard In every par
lor. died recently in Berlin at the age OF 70 years
southampton harbor now has a war boom said 10
bs the largest In existenoe IL clio feet long and
is held up when in position by vO gunboats stationed
across the channel
In Germany 10000 workmen were employed in
bicycle factories In 1899. This does not include
thoIe making only separate parts. such a. rubber
tires. &c. who would probably bring the number up
to 10000
Manuel Garcia MallbrAn's brother who sang tha paFG
OF Figaro at the INST performance OF 'Tho Barber of
Seville >" In New York seventy three yoaEs ago has
entered upon his year aud s stIn teach
ing singing 10 London.
Duke George OF Ke-MeInInEen has iust ealsbrated
his silver wedding with Helene Rrans, the acIFess
his third wife. by gala performance at ths eourt
theatre OF the Merchant OF vSnIos" IN which nine
teen former members OF his troupe took part.
bridge across the Little Rslt cOnnsotInR Il
island OF Funen with the coutiDental paFt OF Ne
mark Is proposed In bill before the DAnlsh lSKlsI1
tuTe The span TO bO brIdEed b 1900 feet IonEl th
plan is to support II ON Groups OF Iron columns OOt
feet apart so that the roadway shah b lSO fssf
eeove hlah'WateF Ievel Tue OOSt b sStimassa a
oS.Sbo.ooe. 80. Y
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LIEUT. roN HonNEL Ashore.
The DonAu's Commander Pays his Calls or
Courtesy.

The DOnAu's Commander Pays MS Calls OF
Courtesy.
Lieut. Won H0hnel, commander OF the Aus
trian cruiser Donau, now lying at anchor in the
North River opposite Fortieth street, paid his
calls Of courtesy yesterday morning. Leaving
his ship in a steam launch shortly after 9
o'clock. and attended by an aide. Lieut.. Won
H0hncl visited the navy yard. Ho called on
Admiral Bunce, and then. in company with the
Admirals aide. Lieut.. Ward, went on board the
Texas. The side was manned as the visitor
boarded the battleship. He spent short time
in the wardroom with Capt. Phillip and other
officers of the Texas.
From the navy yard Lieut.. Won H6hnel went
to GoyernoT's Island; where he called upon Gen.
Merritt and Leut.-Col. Worth, the post com.
mander. Col. Worth and Lieut.. Won H0hncl
are old friends but they had NOT met since
Lieut. Won H6hnel WIS here four years ago. A
call on the Austrian Consul.Go Goneral completed
the Lieutenant's visiting. He returned to his
ship In tho afternoon, but spent the evening in
town.