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What Are the Prospects of Austria.
lian Federation?

Although the kilograms from Melbourne
and Sydney are less full and definite than
could be wished, few cardinal facts are
known which seem to portend the failure
of the effort to unite the Australian colo
nies. In the first place, it should be noted
that New Zealand refused TO have anything
to do with the project. Delegates, how
ever from the five Australian colonies, and
also from Tasmania, met in convention
which drafted a federal constitution.
1t is possible that this draft would have
had chance of general acceptance had
the American precedent been followed I;
that is to say, had the instrument been
sent to the colonial Legislatures with
n request that it's fate might be determined
by a convention convoked for the purpose.
As matter of fact the draft was sent to
the colonial Legislatures with the un-
derstanding that these should pass en-
abling acts inviting the people to vote at
a special election whether to accept or re-
ject it, having first chosen delegates to a
final convention which was to revise the
proposed organic law. AS 1t was possible
that a majority of the voters might not go
to the ballot box, the number of votes
needed to make the assent of a colony
valid was fixed beforehand by the prelimi-
nary federal convention held at Sydney.
Such was the somewhat complicated rati-
flying machinery provided. Now let us see
what actually has happened. In Queens
land the colonial Government undertook to
carry out the wishes of the Sydney Federal
Convention, by which the draft had been
framed, and brought In a bill enabling the
people to vote thereon when 1t should be
perfected, and meanwhile to designate rep
resentatives to the final federal conven-
tion at Melbourne. The bill was beaten,
however. because the Government proposed
that the delegates should be chosen on one
ticket for the whole colony, whereas a ma
jority of the Legislature insisted upon three
electoral divisions corresponding to sec
tional diversities OF interest. The result is
that the large and important colony OF
Queensland will be unrepresented in the
Melbourne convention.
This is not the only obstruction encoun-
tered by the federation ssekeme. In New
The sun., 1898-02-14
A Test of Honesty.

In the same way that the title guarantee
companies, insuring to patrons their title
to acquired real estate, have superseded in
dividual lawyers making n speciality of
such examinations, the surety companies
have very largely and very successfully re-
duced the demand for individual bonds
men on undertakings in all judicial pro-
ceedings in the civil or criminal courts.
These surety companies also furnish bonds
of indemnity for officers and employees of
banks, railroads, and trust companies, for
contractors, for trustees and executors, ad-
ministrators and guardians, and for EN-.
ployees in public office.
A survey of the sureties filed In the Comp
trollers Office this year by those obliged
by law to give or renew bonds for the
faithful performance of their duties, and
for the due accounting of moneys passing
through their hands or intrusted to their
care, shows that in the great majority of
cases, and much greater than ever before,
incorporated companies furnish the bonds
rather than individuals. Recent official
reports made In Albany for the year
1897 prove that the number of such
surety companies organized in this State
or having branches in 1t Is larger
than heretofore, and that the business
done by them Is constantly on the
increase. The special business of surety
companies was established by the pioneers
in 1t less than fifteen years ago, and the
most careful, circumspect, and conserva.
tive management in the scrutiny of the
risks taken and of the liabilities arising
from each, is requisite to make it success.
full 4; but its prosperity Is due more impor-
family to the prevalence of higher stand
ard of honesty in places of trust, higher
now than ever before; defalcations are
fewer. and losses from them less.
Large defalcations In business life In New
The sun., 1898-02-14

Mr. Isaac p. Noyes writes to this papGr as
follows: Some years ago there WAS n tli he'
fore Congress to gild the Goddess of Liberty
but the effort ended with the building Of "a rude
and unsightly staging around the figure. ms
staging remained there for some months and
WAS then taken down. and the statue LEFT in i's
original condition. Now, in place OF eNpcndln1
any money for gliding, would suggest that the
present statue be removed and tnat II be rcScE
in some public place, about the Capitol or else
where, as may be provided for. forming some
such a design as the background and figure of
st. Michael In Paris.
1.-The statue OF ST. Michael, in Paris. is erected
with IA largo arch back of it, which practically
makes for It u grand frame or background. ~
such figure. artistically, has only ono go0i
point OF view. and that from tho front. Il nreds
no argument. it would seem. to sec hat such y
treatment OF IL would be very artistic and prop
or. In place OF the present figure, which has only
one good point of view. ] would suggest four
goddcsses. grouped about tho fNsces that VII
form the background and centre about when
the four goddesscs shall be. as II were, IN dane
ing attitude around the emblem Of power mo
figures to face north. east, suut b.. and w'si.
Above the fasces To bo "A liberty pole, from when
old Glory can over wave. Then glld lhrse
four statues In silver and gold. the faces 10 30
enameled with blue: the polo also TO be g!!Gei,
the liberty cap to be of cut glass. SO that "hlio
small object II will 30 shine as to be prominent
With this artistic treatment wa vii! have 4
thing OF beauty. and one that will DO beanl'iu'
from all points OF view.
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PENNSYLVANIA Democrats.

The Hon. JOHN NJ. GARMAN, Chairman
OF the Democratic State Committee of
Pennsylvania, has called a conference of
Democrats of that State to meet Mt Harris.
burg on Thursday to consider how and
what they are going to fight in the cam
paign of 1898. They have acquired a habit
OF fighting themselves. Mr.. GARMAN invites
them to come and contribute wisdom with
ont regard to previous rows. "There will
be no Harrity or ti-Harrity Democrats ut
the Harrisburg conference" says GARMAN,
as full CT harmony rs II he had never
thrown tomahawks at the Hon. WILLIAM
FRANCIS HARRITY ani hit him hard; cit
will be gathering of Democrats" By way
of making 1t so, he intends not to invite
anybody from Philadelphia or Allegheny
county to the conference. His reason Is
that he might be embarrassed in making
selections from among the representatives
of the lately warning factions, and, besides,
he thinks the platform question is one for
settlement by the country Democrats"
Will the platform bother the country
Democrats as much as it bothers the Phila-
delphia Record? That journal, striving
hard to be Democratic, and yet fearing and
hating the Democratic platform, offers this
grotesque advice to the Pennsylvania
Democrats:
p "Conditiors are now far more favorable to the
Democrats OF Pennsylvania than they were a year
ago. and they have only to seize the doorway to
flung wide open by the divisions of their oppo-
nents. But II they should 60 into the coming cam.
pagn for Governor Haunting in the faces OF the peo
pie their banner OF free silver they would bo dc.
servedly doomed overwhelming defeat For so
suicidal there 10 not plausible plea in
political principle. Besides q Governor two mem.
bers OF to be chosen at the next
Pennsylvania election. II tho Democratic State Con.
vention should choose to nominate two candidates
for Congressatlarge FREQ silver platform such
course. though certain to end in disaster would prob
ably be in accord with the sentiment of the majority
OF the party. But why should the Democratic can
didate for Governor of Pennsylvania bo set such
political deadfal? What has the Governor to do
with free silver coinage. the tariff or other ques
tons OF Federal legislation On the other hand.
not the State Issues involved IN tho election of the
next Governor defined as clearly as tho sunlight In
the sky2"
Old twaddle, and as weak as old. The
the Democratic platform. The national
issue cannot be lodged. The election of
Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania
would be tremendous victory for the ma
tional Democratic party, for free silver and
the rest of the Chicago platform.
And what sort of party would that
party be In which the majority was ex-
pected to swallow its convictions for the
sake of soothing the irritability of fac
tion in another party3 Either the Penn
sylvania Democrats are silver men or they
have no right to he called Democrats and
possess no national standing The Record
admits that they are silver men, but asks
them to pretend to forget it this year. AS
if the great mass of Pennsylvania voters
could be hoodwinked by device so clumsy,
palpable and blockish.
The sun., 1898-02-14

Ask the boy or girl OF Is or 80 what he or sho
has read OF SCOTT. THACKEEAI, DICKENS JANE AUSTEN.
ADDISON, GOLDSMITH. CHARLES LAMB MACAULAY. WORDS.
WORTH. SHAKESPEARE, TESNYsoS. BRowSISG-and how
often the result is the disclosure OF ignorance Of
each and alll-PrOrfdenoe Journal.
Ask the same question of persons Of so or so.
and good many of them will disclose equal
ignorance. provided they tell the truth Tho
world is full of books and authors. and it is n
tolerably fair plan TO let people read what they
want to and not to try TO force them to read
what somebody else thinks they ought to read.
Why should a boy or girl of Is read ADDISON or
MAcAULAy or BROWNING. for that matter
Even within tho precincts of our learned
contemporary. are the works of Mr.. WoRDs-
WORTH read consecutively and for pleasure .
How large q part Of GoLDsMITH's writings must
ono read to be sure Of literary salvation7 How
many professors of English literature could pass
q severe examination in tho works Of all tho
authors hereinbefore mentionedl And yet what
do we know about them II we don't know all
their work, the good, the Indifferent, and
the badl How many persons in these days
know at first hand what are SO easily called tn %
best works Of the best authorsi Come. breth-
rem, let road what suits us, ard not blame
the boys and girls if they don't spend all their
time in reading the standard authors" of past
generations. There arc very good authors in
this generation; and there is the same right to-
like the white meat rs to like the brown.
The sun., 1898-02-14

I South Wales the Legislature declared that
the acceptance Of the perfected constitution
would not be valid unless $4,000 votes
should be cast for It, whereas the num-
Der prescribed by the Sydney conven-
tion had been but $4,000. 1t seems to
be considered doubtful whether the larger
number Of votes can be secured, on account
of the dissatisfaction aroused In New
South Wales by the provision giving thinly
peopled Tasmania and West Australia the
same number OF representatives in the
upper house Of the Federal Parliament as
are allotted to the more populous colonies.
That, of course, is the rock on which our
own Constitution nearly split, for 1t seemed
preposterous to many members Of the Phil
adelphia Convention that Delaware and
Rhode Island should havo the same repre-
sentation in the Federal Senate as Virginia
and Massachusetts,. 1t is possible that the
delegates of Tasmania may consent to re-
nounce their claim of absolute equality In
the proposed upper house when the draft Of
the constitution Is revised by the Mel
bourne convention. In that event 1t would
still be doubtful whether the people of Tas.
mania will ratify the action.of their repre-
sentatives.
Any written constitution must needs be
the outcome of compromises and reciprocal
concessions, and to submit such an instru.
ment to the popular vote is hazardous
experiment. Had our own Federal Consti-
tuition been referred directly to the people,
instead Of being sent to State conventions.
it certainly would have been rejected in
Virginia and New York, and, probably,
also in Massachusetts,. On the whole. ii
looks as II the federation scheme would Sc
cure the approval Of only few of the Aus
tralian colonies. 1t is conceivable, how
ever, that the others may be driven, into
union at the last moment. by the indications
that the European powers are bent upon
acquiring territory in the far East.
The sun., 1898-02-14

In debating to the Kansas Legislature what
kind OF railroad bill 1t must pass II called together
Governor LEKDY 10 exceeding his constitutional
powers-Kansas CITY JOurnaL
Governor LEEDY' principal powers are extra
constitutional, and only vaguely defined oven
by the Kansas Populist platform. His accom-
plished private secretary. the Hon. ED LITTLE,
has written bill giving the State Railroad
Commission judicial powers. Mr.. LEEDY has sent
copies of the bill to the members of the Legisla-
ture, and II a majority of them approve the prl.
vato secretary's work. the Governor will call a
special session. The Kansas City Times ex.
plains that tho Governor is trying to come as
near as no can to the initiative and referendum.
He must not be regarded as exceeding his con.
stitutional powers. He is indulging in initia.
tive and referendum.
The sun., 1898-02-14

The Hon. SAMUEL GoMPERs is pr.pa.I lg
for his annual attempt to promote a great
movement for an oighthour day" The movo-
ment and the cighthour day are always going
to make the world happy on May !, but the
movement declines to move, and the procession
of the hours refuses to be disturbed. The pro.
gramme of the Hon. PEACH PANTS of Red Wing,
Mimi, is more attractive. The Hon. PEACH
PANTS has resolved to stop working on April
and never TO resume the habit. my platform"
he writes sis no work and full pay for twenty
five hours a day." Tho Hon. PEACH PANTS is
the founder or rcstorer of great party. Twen-
ty-hve hours day for pay and not second
for work. 1t is a platform which will bc well
coined by the numerous persons who are not
gifted with genius for activity.
The sun., 1898-02-14

York have become very rare, and In public
life they are almost unknown. Proportion.
ately to the volume of business done, it Is
said, the losses to banking institutions and
railway companies in New York are about
one-twentieth Of what they were twenty
five years ago and one-fftieth of what they
were half a century ago. Methods have
grown more exact and prudent. Addi-
tional safeguards have been imposed,
and the experience Of years has pro-
vided additional measures of precaution
for financial safety. The underlying cause,
however, is the growth of q higher standard
of honesty, so that arrests for embezzle.
ments and breaches Of trust have decreased
greatly, with the result that the risks Of
bondsmen and guarantors are less. This Is
illustrated in the increased prosperity Of
the surety companies.
The sun., 1898-02-14
PROGRESS OF ELECTRICITY.
From tho Invention OF the Leyden Jar to the
Present tho Development Has Been Rapid.


Present tho Development Has Been Rapid.
Prof. Elisha Gray In the Chicago TYnesH Herald
Something like fifty years ago professor Of
physics in one of our colleges was giving his
class course in electricity. Tho electric tele
graph was too little known at that time to cut
much of figure in the classroom, so the stock
experiments were those made with the fric
tional electric machine and tho Leyden jar.
One day the professor had in ono hour 8 time
taken his class through q course of cleo
tricity. and at the end he said: Gentlemen. you
were born too late to witness the development
of this great science" I often wonder if tho
good professor Is ever allowed tu part the veil
look down upon this busy world of ours in
in our everyday life. and IL so, what he thinks
of that little speech he made to the boys fifty
years or more ago.
II we make an analysis Of tho history of the
science OF electricity we will see that 1t has
progressed in successive eras. shortening as they
from Thales to Franklin. butiittle or n progress
was made beyond the further development ol tho
portant invention being that Of he Ioyden iar
From Franklin to Volta was forty.eight years.
and from Volta to Faradny about thrty.two
years. From this time on the development has
been very rapid as compared with the old days.
Soon after this time Morse. Henry Wheatstone.
and others began experiments that have grown,
during fifty or sixty years, into most colossal
system of electric teegraphs telephone, electric
lights. and electric railroads. In the latter days
marvel has succeeded marvel with such rapid
strides that the Ink is scarcely dry from the
description OF one before another crowds itself
upon our attention. Where IL will all end no
one knows. but that it has ended no one be-
lieves; The human mind has become so accGs'
toned to these periodic revclat ions Of tho
marvellous that it must have the stimuli,
once in a while or it suffers as the tOper
morcinl instinct Of the news vender is not
slow to see the situation, and II the develop
mcnt is TOO slow to suit the public demand
his fertile brain supplies the lack. SO that
every few days wo hear OF some great discovery
made by some one unknown to fame. IL has
served It's purpose. The public mind has had
its mental toddy and has been saved from lit
of intellectual deirium trcmens that it was IN
danger Of from lack OF its accustomed stimuli.
The sun., 1898-02-14
snsr, Meuan, Ll.t from New ssr.e,.

To THE EDITOR oP THE suN-Sfr: Park HI, VINO
ran an academy at Lakewood, died last week
The Hon. Hank Gulick OF Barnegat is a New Jersey
Pilot Commissioner.
The Hon. Rod Clark OF Point Pleasant repre'en"
Ocean county IN tho New Jersey Legislature.
Bont Cranmer is member or tho Election Board +"
MannahRwkin.
Dink Ernst is q Toms River tobaccon'st son Z"
Deputy Rev enue Collector Adolph Ernst
Zenas Bunting lives at New Egypt =.
Capt Eber Rider Is keeper OF the Little tf2 iarhoi
Lighthouse. OCEAN
TONS RIVER Feb. 10.
The sun., 1898-02-14
A Reappearancc.

Among the joint resolutions introduced
in the Senate last week is the ugly thing
herewith printed. 1t is joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the Constitu-
tion Of the United States, and its author Is
the Populist Senator, MARION BUTLER Of
North Carolina:
"That the following article be proposed to the
Legislatures of the several States as an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States which. when
ratified BY threefourths of said Legislatures, shall bc
valid as part Of the Constitution. namely;
"'ARrIcLE XVI.
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect
taxes all incomes regardless Of the source from
which the is derived acquired but all in.
come taxes shall be uniform throughout the United
states.'"
The raid of conf1scating socialism which
the Hon. BENTON MCMILL1N began and
led, with the acquiescence of Professor
WILSON and the permission and approval
Of the Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND, was
blocked by the Constitution Of the United
States as upheld by the Supreme Court in
it's memorable decision.
just as sure as Organism obtains the
necessary votes in Congress, and can hope
to control the Legislatures in three-fourths
VI eho ctuCes, Ohe hBhU lux al ihc"hio IaA
will be renewed, the first step being the
amendment of the Constitution to permit
the enactment of such law.
Under an amendment like that which
the Populist BUTLER proposes, any sort Of
an income tax which socialism could de-
wise for the equalization of wealth
would be Constitutional. The provision
that all income taxes shall be uniform
throughout the United States" means
nothing. An income tax might be levied.
uniform throughout the United States,
and yet falling exclusively upon dozen
citizens in each of not more than half a
dozen States, to the extent of the confis-
cation of their entire revenue.
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Tho Country Editors to tho First Assistant
Postmaster-GensraL

Tho Country Editors to tho First Assista nj
Postmaster- General
Rns Postmaster is not Incompatible with being an editor
Exemplar OF that higher typo
The best men love to SEQ
Intrusted with the reins OF rule.
We don our pens to thee
We hope that your SUCCESSORS may
or your description be.
You know that we who are tho We
Who dominate the State,
And set the pegs for everything
That makes q nation great,
Sometimes. when must meet a bill
Get there a little late.
And not because We wish to bs
lingerer or slow.
or are inclined. some may say,
To let the matter go;
But what we are. are because
We haven't got the dough.
And surely 1t is not our fault,
That by this dire mischanoo.
We arc pursued, because we try
Our fortunes to enhance,
And all our bills are plainly marked
Invariably in advance"
Still there is need of something moro
Tho great affairs OF State
Don't seem to pan out a. they should;
And to perpetuats
Our nberty's palladium
Demands higher rate.
And hore 10 where your noble deed
Comes In to set us free.
For. by your grace. Post omoeS
Are added TO our we
Which, great a. II has always been,
Has twofoId majesty;
And every pen blows glory to
Our Y. A. p. n. O. WILL
The sun., 1898-02-14
Diplomacy and Do Lsmacy.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Str: Diplomacy being
profession requiring shrewdness and good sense.
would II not be addition to the diplomatic yocabu.
larry TO coin the word De Lomacy meaning directly
tbs opposite? TALLEYRAND SnITa
The sun., 1898-02-14
Two Rournes.


From the Indiana polls Journal.
In Nowhcreville. in Limbo Place,
Mid lurid rseking muTk.
Two aged jokes mot face TO face,
Who'd died from overwork.
"Where rest thy bones since thou hast dledI~
Each asked him OF hts brolheT.
"In the almanac" the ono replied;
"HaIco comedy" the other. A
The sun., 1898-02-14

II our friends tCho Jduor Ss tcffh mdnusorfph for
publication ,cfsh TO hate rejected article returned
thsv must IN all cases send stamps for that purpose
The sun., 1898-02-14

PARrs-Kiosque No. 12, near Grand HOTEL an
Kiosque No. 10, Boulevard des Cspucines.
The sun., 1898-02-14

From the Letofston journal.
Isn't It possible for Col Patty de Clam Hose Smith.
and Dink Bolts to form triple star allianceP
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-12-30
Stole a Race Horse.

Dick Webber, a young Cherokee,
was brought in from Pryor Creek yes
terday, charged with stealing a race
horse from H. S. King last October.
The story of Webber's ride through
the White Oak hills and lying out at
night, and various other ups and
downs, reads almost like the story of
Ivanhoe and the Black Friar.
Finally when Weber reached the
Usage country with the stolen animal
he swapped him off for a pony and a
dollar, then sold the pony for $500
and left for Missouri, where he would
probably been safe had he not gotten
over his scare and came back to Adair
where he was arrested. He now Ian
guishes in the Muskogee jail.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-12-30
At the Play House.

The Grows portrayal last night of
the trials of "Married Bachelor
was highly interesting and in keep
ing with what was to have been an
ticipated by those who had seen their
previous performances. In addition
to being a clever lot of comedians the
company seem to have exercised very
good judgment in selecting plays for
which they are especially adapted.
Mr. Darlington is an ideal youth of
exuberant spirits-bubbling over with
mirth and good feeling. Mr.. Switxer
is especially good in parts a genera
tion advanced in age, and this is the
rule throughout the entire company.
Tonight the bill is "Duel of
Hearts," an English comedy drama
abo1nding in wit, humor and pathos.
That the little folks may not be de-
prived of their share in the weeks
amusement a matinee will be given
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30.