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ncation for his dlsparaging remark
Tho scramble for commissions wrought
much havoc" he said, but where was 1t aud
in what did It consist? Obviously great
multitude OF new commissions were
requisite TO meet the requirements OF
an army suddenly enlarged ten times
It's original strength. Possibly and
probably there were deficiencies due to this
cause, but they were temporary only
Where and when, President HADLEY, were
they scrious2 No such appear in the re-
ports OF the Generals who commanded tho
three great expeditions sent to great dis
tanccs to foreign islands. For example:
1T gives me great pleasure" says the re-
port of Gen. JAMES II. WILSON, the ranking
veteran OF tho civil war serving In the
army OF 1898, "to add that although the
officers OF my staff were mostly from civil
life, they have, without exception, shown
themselves to be admirably adapted to
military life. and sure, with suitable OPP
portunty to win distinction in the service
of their country. 1t is evident that the re-
public has lost nothing in the quality OF it's
manhood during it's thlrty-hve years Of
peace" Gen. WILSON was not alone in
testifying to tho worth OF his volunteer
assistants. And every one OF the expedi-
tions was successful.
No man competent to discuss the war
would say as President HADLEY said, that
"the record Of that branch 1.-THE army is
not equal to that OF our magnificent light
ing navy" The navy undoubtedly rem
dered splendid service on all occasions
but when and where did the army fall be-
hind it in that respect? 1t was every
where victorious. Interruption In its sup
plies OF food was ntlntesimal, il actual at
any time. Its ammunition was always
ready. And this record it made in the face
of far greater difficulties and dangers than
the navy encountered. The navy went
through the war almost without loss, while
necessarily the loss in tho army was COM
parativcly great. In Cuba, in Porto Rico
in the Philippines, where does President
HADLEY find any justification for his dis
elimination against thaarmy? What officer
of rank failed in his duty or did not distin-
guish himself by ability and bravery 2
There is no such officer.
Admiral DEwEYs achievement in taking
Manila was u splendid exhibition OF naval
prowess but not less distinguished and
more arduous has been the service rem
dered by the army in the Philippines
during the whole year since then. In the
history OF war there has been nothing more
heroic and skilful than its record. Does
President HADLEY know anything about
the long campaign there? II he did he
would not have undertaken to cast discredit
on the army in public speech by comparing
it unfavorably with the navy Admiral
DEWEY would tell him different story he
would tell him that the Philippine cam
paign has been illustrious in military his
tory.
Praise OF the navy is the justcr tho more
unstinted it is; but no man competent to
discuss the war would give it at the ex-
pense OF the army, equally entitled to the
admiration Of all Americans and all qualified
military judges throughout the world.
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DR.. Briggs's "shackls,."

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: 1t seems
to be In order for somebody to ask the "Epis-
copal Clergyman" who in last Sundays SUN
described the Rev Charles A. Briggs. ID. D.. as
having pat "shacklcs " on himself when he
entered the Episcopal ministry. why he con.
tinues himself to wear them if they shacke
him. There are good many Episcopal min.
listers who feel that their special ordination
vow relating to the Bible expressly provides
for the most candid attitude toward the truth
about that collection Of writings. l refer to the
nth question in the office for ordainiug prirstsi
y W III you Ice dlIlgcnt in PRAYERS. and in rcad-
ing the Holy Scriptures. and in such studies az
he to tho knowledge OF the SAM ="
i il hv no means certain that DR. Brggss
critics in the Episcopal Church M not much
more guilty II breaking their ordination vows
in this RESPECT than he Is likely 10 Ice. They
appear TO be afraid Of "such studies as help
TO III" knowledge Of the same" They diff
gently dodge and shun and mIsrrUr"ecut them,
s"'tlnR wnful example % timii lack of faith
tlon. j. j. pr Briggs and his brother higher
critics In the EplsrOn0l Church who are much
more lOTal not only To this question, hut to the
pledge which every man ordained In that
Church must max" before the Bishop and two
pr"sbyt"rs: do believe the Holy Scriptures
oi the O!d and New 'r"StHm"Hte to be the Word
OF God IL ! heliev" that. | do not fear tho
severest test that higher criticism can andy to
them: lust a.. II find "A diamond set In ring
teen, eighteen or twenty-five carats fine I
would call i a diamond ring II the ring were
copper ASnTHER EPISCOPAL CLERGYMAN.
HAMPpEN. Va. June -.
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An order has been introduced to the Alder
men OF Boston that the famous Boston pair Of
ferryboat gunboats. East Boston and Governor
William +. Russell. bought by the United States
Government for service in the war with Spain
be bought back for the sum OF S57.50O. re-
ceived for the East Boston only. and an addi-
tional sum not to exceed 100000 The patri-
otto cycle OF these noble craft will not be COM
pleted until they have been restored to their
original owners in Boston. and We therefore
hope that the Public Improvement Committee
to whom this order was referred. will re-
port 1t with approval.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Str: Permit me to er.
press my approval OF the admirable article in your
Saturday number on the proposed movement for
Christian unity among ProtestAnts. Such project
s Utopian in the extreme. for there is scarcely an
article Of the Christian faith which Ia not denied by
some one or other Of these religious bodies and q
union of all these could take place no platform
which did not eliminate almost entirely the whole of
the Christian faith once delivered TO the saints -
or course they can unite for certain charitable and
philAntkropio purposes. but regards the propa-
CATION OF the Gospel which Christ and His apostles
taught, that Is an absurdity.
We hear reports OF a decline in religion In many
quarters. and every ones own observation must
CONFIRM their truth but what else can be expected
when for the most part neither tho Bible nor the
Church is recognized as having any authoritative
voiceH The logical tendency OF such views 10 nevi-
tably toward agnosticsm and unbelief.
NEW YoRK, June ~. PRFsnYrKn
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THE PATRIOTS VOICE.
A stalwart Americans Tribute to His Coun
try, and Rebuke to Her Domestic Enemies.

A stalwart Ap1ericnn's Tribute to His Cou,
try, and Rebuke to Her Domestic Enc mics.
From Mr.. Justice John NJ Hd-tdn's address TO TIE Pm
Beta Kappa Chapter Of Rochester Univern,v.
"Some people have q curious way in which Ia
manfest their devotion to country. There are
those who rarely see anything In the opera.
lions OF our Government which they approve
They never fail. when the nation is in n contes,
or having dispute with other peoples, TO say
that our country IL wrong and our Anniversaries
right. and they do this even while our brave
soldiers are in far distant lands endeavorina
to maintain the rightful authority Of this ma.
ton. Some have not hcsitated to say. In the
most public way. that those who ambush and
shoot down our brave boys in the Philppns
jungles are doing only what they have right
to do. and what their honor demands They
do not hesitate to place tho treacherous Agui.
naldo by the side OF Washington and Lafayette
and Lincoln One OF the most conspicuous Of
that class has recently characterized this nation
as q great assassin nation and has declared
that the salvation Of liberty in the United
States depends upon the defeat OF our gallant
army In the Philippines These men are mover
happier than when attempting to persuade
their fellow citizens that America is entering
upon q dark and perilous future. and that all
that has so far been accomplished for the
liberty and we'll being Of the American people
For my part have an undoubting faith
that a great destiny awaits America and that
in the working out of that destiny. under the
leadings Of Providence, humanity everywhere
will be lifted up, and power and tyranny will
be compelled to recognize the fact That God 10
no respecter OF persons and that He hath
made OF one blood all nations OF men No.
gentlemen let us not despair OF our country
Let US have an abiding faith that it will never
depart from the fundamental principles Of
right and Justice. nor prove recreant to the high
trusts committed to 1t for the benefit, not alone
OF the American people, but OF all men every.
where on all the earth.
I'VE have had political storms that seemed
to threaten tho destruction OF our institu-
tions: and now and then We may have been
somewhat faint hearted as to the future Dur
ing all these storms the croaker was abroad in
the land. But these storms passed away and
we rcjoced. and now rejoice. that our appre-
tensions were groundless. We may expect
storms in the future but taught by the experts
ence of the past we will stand at our respective
posts OF duty in the firm conviction that tho
kind Providence that has always watched over
this American people will bring our ship OF
state into the harbor OF safety. We love tho
rocks and rlls. the woods and tempted hills
OF this fair land. and. come what may, we will
give to II the best service OF which we are ca
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The interesting fact about the new train
Ing ship launched this week at Bath Is that
she has no steam motive power whatever,
depending wholly on her sails. That seems
an anomaly in these days.
Since sails are only exceptional survivals
on any modern warship, and have wholly
disappeared from the most recent Of them,
there being no masts except military masts
for the fighting tops, why, ask the OBJ
jectors, should we fit up the training
ship OF the cadets Mt the Naval Acade-
my with sails. and sails only, as the
means OF propulsion? 1t has been urged
that II canvas must be employed, at
least there should also be engines, 80 as to
teach steam management at the same time
Indeed the original appropriation was for
composite practice vessel, to be propelled
by steam and sail.
But n subsequent act struck out the pro-
vision for propulsion by steam in conform
ity with the desire OF the naval authorities
to have the Youngsters grounded in their
education for sea service as their ances-
try had been grounded The result Is a
ship-rigged craft OF 1.175 tons displace-
mcnt, carrying six 4-inch and six smaller
guns. OF course, as she is yet to be
rugged, the distinctive feature of her ap-
pearance was not in evidence at the launch
ing ceremony. But she will be well
coined at Annapolis as one more appli-
ance for bringing up the cadets in the good
old ways which have yielded honor to the
navy and the country, and which produce
great sailors In these days OF ours just as
in days OF yore.
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John La Fargo" by Russell Sturgls. and
Daniel Webster" by Senator HoAr, are the chief
articles in Scribnsr'S Ad0dnns for July. Some other
contributions arc Z" Havana Since the OCCUPATION
by James +, J. Archibald; Anne, a Story by Mrs
Robert Louis Stevenson, and Tho Foreign Mail
Ssrv e At New York" by Z. @. Chat. steysnson's
l." r, at nued under Mr.. Sidney oolyin's
au,r e, ~ an'lcr Harris CUTLER Couch and
otnsrs SIJ,!Il ~.trleS Of interest,"
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Insanity and Badness,

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sir am Informed
by man who seems to know what he il talking
about that men who are baldhoAded never 20
crazy and that there arc no bAldheAded men in any
insane asylum in the country. Is this true and II So
why Isl tsoP ISuUIRrR
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What the, country needs is n new bank cur
rency; ono that is adjustable automatically to the
varying volume Of industrial requirements-never
too little outstanding and never too much.-Com.
mereidi and Financial Chron,cle
What the country needs still more is a new
arrangement OF the weather. whereby the sup
ply OF rain will be adjustable to the varying
needs OF the farmers-never too little and
never too much: but 1t cannot be had by legis-
lation; and the currency the Chronicle asks for
is equally beyond legislative powcr.
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Mark Hanna Exonernted.


Fr0W he DIITON Journal,
The horse thief was defiant
=" blame my early training for my unhappy fate!'
he shouted. glazing hercely into tho stern faces Of
the vi.laues ScOrn to truckle to popular sonti.
meut by blaming Mark Hanna
So the hardened wretch died as perhaps he de.
served to die Judged by the rugged standards that
obtained in this crude Western community
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To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sr' Your correspon.
dent. J. NJ. b., in your number OF June a. asserts
four alleged reAsons TO show that sbyterianism
in New York and presumably elsewhere is out OF
line OF approval. popular and divine" and that its
Influences on the wanc That this 10 not so Of the
United States in general, whatever may he said of
New York, is shown by following in the table OF
religious statistics for the 1898 the rate OF in
crease OF tho larger denominations thus;
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Then follow the smaller denominations the Prot
estant Episcopal increasing .O329 per cent. Tho
Presbyterian thus stands first in rate OF increase.
and that rate exceeded that OF It's greatest rival
WHEELING. W. Va, June %. Err
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II our Jrierdi vho favor Wth mdnuieripn for
publication wiih 10 Nav, rejected drei, returned, they
rust IN oil ea,ss Hnd stamps for that purpoD.
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Dewey Day Music.


Why would 1t not he an excellent even II novel
idea to engage the American Symphony Orchestra
for the Dewey celebration In New York;
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Plant of tho Bryanite,

FTom T'or1' .,'I IFiHiamIs addrsuto us cIouc.,t.y
buSInSJI man.
1.-THE vrsss u organized against uA-
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PARn-Kiosauo No. IL. near Grand Hotel and
Kiosque No. 10. Boulevard des CApucines.
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Subscriptions by Mail, Postpaid.
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Never dreamed, though right was
worsted, wrong would triumph;
Held, we fall to rise again; are bafled,
to fight better;
Sleep to wake;
No, at MONDAY, in the hustle Of men s
work time,
Greet the unseen with cheer
Bid him forward, breast and back, as
either should he;
Strive and thrive; Cry Speed, fight
on, forever.
There as here.
''Never say of me that am dead"
were in effect the last words of Charles
Kingsley, and he expressed them in the
epitaph he selected as his final mes
sage to the world "Amavimus, ANA
mus, amabimus"-we have loved, we do
love, we shall love. A gifted express
ion, not only of past condition, but of
undying destiny.
We often read, or hear read, one
grandly exalted deathbed expression;
but its familiarity has tendency to de-
tract from its sublimity. 1t is charged
like river full to the brim with tender
thought and feeling-the hymn of a
soul who knew his labor was ended,
his storms gone by, his victory sure
and final In the litany of the dying it
stands uneXcelled:
"For am now ready to be offered,
and the time of my departure is at
hand. / have fought a good fight; l
have finished my course; / have kept
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-09-14
Summer Resorts.

Many delightful summer resorts are Sit
uated on and reached via Southern railway.
Whether one desires the seaside or the noun
tain, the fashionable hotels or country homes,
they can be reached via this magnificent high
way of travel
Asheville, N. c., Hot Springs, N. c., Hale
Springs, Tenn, Roam Mountain, Tenn, and the
mountain resorts of East Tennessee and West
ern North Carolina 1.-The Land of the Sky
Tate Springs, Tenn, Oliver Springs, Tenn,
Lookout Mountain, Tenn, Monte Sano, Hunts
vile, Ala, Lithia Springs, Ca, and various Vir-
ginia Springs; also the seashore resorts, are
reached by the Southern railway on convenient
schedules and very low rates.
The Southern railway has issued a handsome
folder entitled Summer Homes and Resorts, -
descriptive Of nearly one thousand summer re-
sorts hotels and boarding houses, including in
formation regarding rates for board at the diff
ferent places and railroad rates to reach them.
Write to c. A. Benscoter, Assistant General
Passenger agent, Southern Railway, Chatta-
nooga Tenn, for a copy OF this folder
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A Narrow Escape.

Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada
E. Hart, of Groton, s. d. "Was tax
en- with bad cold which settled on my
lungs; cough set in and finally termi-
mated in consumption. Four doctors
gave me up, saying could live but a
short time. gave myself up to my
Savior, determined if I could not stay
with my friends on earth, / would meet
my absent onss above. My husband
was advised to get DR.. Kings's New
Discovery for consumption, coughs,
and colds. I gave it trial, took in all
eight bottles. 1t has cured me, and
thank God, l am saved and now a we'll
and healthy woman" Trial bottles
free at drug stores. Regular size al
SOC. aud $1.O0, Guaranteed or price
refunded.
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on his last birthday, at fever heated
Missoulonghi, where ho had gone to
take part in the struggle of Greece for
liberty. He was haunted by the pre-
sentiment that he would never return
and characteristic melancholy brcathed
in his last lines:
The days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker and the grief
Are mine alone.
Arthur Hugh Clough, a remarkable
man, whose whole life was a struggle
with doubt, in his noble death poem at
last spoke hopefully:
Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labor and the wounds are vain,
The enemy maineth not nor faileth;
And as things were they remain.
Et%%
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the
light;
In front the sun climbs slowly-how
slowly!
But westward, look the land is
bright.
Compare this verse with verse from
Longfellow's last poem, "The Bells of
San Bias:
o bells of San Bias in vain
Ye call back the past again;
The past is deaf to your prayers
Out of the shadow of night
The world rolls into sight;
1t is daybreak everywhere.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-09-14

The last poem of Whittier was written
to Oliver Wendell Holmes as the au-
thor was standing at the very gate OF
eternity,
The hour draws near, howe'er delayed
or late,
When at the Eternal Gate
We leave the words and works we call
our own,
And lift void hands alone
For love to fill. Our nakedne ess Of soul
Brings to that gate no toll;
Giftless we come to Him who all things
gives,
And live-because He lives.
Browning breathed the same spirit
in his last words spoken to a friend
at his deathbed. "Never say of me that
| am dead"
One who never turned his back, but
marched breast forward;
Never doubted cloud would break;
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the faith Henceforth there is laid up
for me crown of righteousness, which
the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall
give me-"
In all deathbed literature there is
nothing like this. 1t is a hymn Of VIC
tory in the most delicate prose-a song
Of Joy beside which the beautiful utter
ances Of Tennyson, Longfellow, Whit.
tier and Browning almost pale into
secondhand sentiments. - Indianapo-
lis Sentinel.
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Last Words of Poets.

Shortly before Tennyson died he
called for q copy Of Shakespeare, and
passed away with the volume in his
hands, his fingers upon the dirge in
"Cymbeline"'
Fear no more the heat of sun,
Nor the winters icy RACES;
Thou thy earthly task hath done,
Home art gone. and ta'en thy wages;
Joyous boys and girls all must,
Like chimney sweepers, come to dust,
In some persons this action would
have been presumptuously dramatic,
but in the author of the Crossing of
the Bar" it was merely another illus
tration of the ruling passion being
strong in death. Not long before had
he given the world his undying death
song:
Twilight and even bell,
And after that the dark
And may there be no sadness Of farewell
When l embark.
The dying speak better than the liv-
ing, for their souls presaging "a some
where else," often attain nobler
speech-prophetic, hopeful, inquiring
-divining the other life upon which
they are entering. Tender and solemn
are the words of Shelley's great poem,
1.-THE Triumph Of Death" written as
he drifted in his boat over the blue wa
ters of the bay in which he was to die.
Their unfinished condition adds to the
pathos of the lines, for they close alb
ruptly with the inquiry:
"Then what is life?" I cried,
He received his answer almost immedi.
ately in the halls of death; yet the
whole remains a commentary on the
poor fellows troubled life and prema.
ture death Byron wrote his last poem
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-09-14

Shall we not become charitable and
just when we know that every act is
but conditions fruit; that nature, with
her countless hands, scatters crimes
of every virtue and of every JOY; that
all the base and vile are victims of the
blind, and that the great and good
have, in the lottery of life, by chance
or fate, drawn hear I and brain?
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UNCLE SANS HOT BATHS.
The Hot Springs Of Arkansas via. Southern
Railway.

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For reduced excursion tickets and
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Strike with hand of fire, o wiered
musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's
golden hair; fill the vast cathedral
aisles with symphonies sweet and dim,
deft TOUGHER Of the organ keys; blow,
bugler, blow until the silver notes do
touch and kiss the moonlt waves, and
charm the lovers wandering midst the
vine-clad hills; but know, your sweet
est strains are disoord all, compared
with childhood's happy laugh-the
laugh that fills the eyes with light and
every heart with ioy
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-09-14
INGERSOLL'S APOTHEGMS.
IngersolPs speeches, lectures al

Ingersoll's speeches, lectures and
letters are filled with brilliant apo
thegms. Here are few of them:
I would rather have been a French
peasant and worn wooden shoes. l
would rather have lived in hut with a
vine growing over the door, and the
grapes growing purple in the amorous
kisses of the autumn sun. l would
rather have been that poor peasant,
with my loving wife by my side knit
ting as the day died out of the sky
with my children upon my knees and
their arms about mel would rather
have been that man, and gone down to
the tongueless silence of the dreamless
dust, than to have been that imperial
impersonation of force and murder
known as Napolean the Great.