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No Antarctic Exploration for Us Now

Mr.. WALTER WELLMAS who has returned
recently from Franz Josef Land, expressed
the opinion before the National Geographic
Society last week that the scientific socie-
ties OF the country should ask Congress to
appropriate funds for an Antarctic cxpe-
diton to enable the United States To COIN
crate with Great Britain and Germany in he
coming South Polar researches. He thinks
$3.50, 900 would be sufficient His suggcs-
tion IL said to have been we'll received
and to be likely soon to be discussed and
acted upon.
The purposes In view are purely scientific
1t cannot be urged that we know OF a single
commercial advantage that will result from
Antarctic exploration. II CONNIE rciul in
terests were Involved it would not be very
dnicult to ascertain 10 what extent. II at
all 1t is wise and proper to use public
funds in their study and development.
But scientific research is different matter.
The advancement Of scientific truth Is worth
any expenditure. but 1t often takes long
and close study TO mark the dividing line
In scientific explorations between the proper
use Of money and the waste OF It.
In the present advanced state OF science
1t Ia simply folly to send costly ex-
petitions to South Polar waters without
deciding exactly upon the questions TO be
studied. the methods to DO followed and
the appliances to be used in view OF the
conditions peculiar to polar ATTITUDES.
Experienced as the British are In Arctic
research, they did not consider them
selves competent to announce plans for
the Antarctic expedition OF 1901 until the
whole subject in all It's details had been
carefully studied by committees. They
collected and compared all the known facts
OF Antarctic meteornogy. the character and
position OF the South Polar pack, the nature
OF the ice and OF Ice navigation. They COM
pared Arctic and Antarctic conditions as
far as they were known and reported upon
every phase OF the enterprise. All these
materials led to decisions with regard 10
their vessel and its equipment, the oreani.
zation OF land parties and the general
scheme OF work. The preparatory studies
in Germany were equally thorough, and not
until the plans based upon this long pre-
liminary work had been heartily endorsed
by the scientific sentiment OF both coun.
tries did they receive any pledges OF Gov
eminent support.
There Is no time to submit to Congress.
before the Antarctic campaign Of 1901 be.
gins, an enlightened plan OF work that will
justify the appropriation OF a largo sum
OF money to carry 1t out and the sum of
$4,000 suggested by Mr. wELLMAN
seems wholly inadequate. The British
have 5000, 900 in their treasury. tho Gov
eminent has promised to swell the fund to
100000 and the committee Ia dlsap-
pointed because IL has not secured $780,
600 which would enable it to send out two
vessels instead OF one. The Relchstag
voted 100000 for the German expedl-
ton. The committees OF both countries
have been working in cooperation for years
and are fully agreed upon the division OF
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Tho Silver Ring Of Fusion.

The Executive Committee Of the Silver
Republicans has standardization in Chicago
to-day. The Hon. FRED DUBOIS. Chairman.
is confident az ever; he eeteems silver az
still the linchpin Of politics and believes, at
least for publication. that BRYAN and the
Chicago platform will win next year. Mr..
DUBOIS says with perfect truth and candor
that expansion will not be an issue as 1t will
be settled before the next Democratic
National Convention is held.
The Chicago platform. with silver AZ
the crown and summit Of II, is the only
thing that holds the highly mixed DEM
ooratic -Populist Silver Republican party
together. There are Silver Republican ex-
pansionists. Populist expansionists, DEM
ocratic expansionists. Besides, by 1900
kicking against expansion will be as prac-
tical and sensible as kicking against the
Mexican War. The tootling about Trusts
can be performed by the Republicans exactly
as we'll ns by the Democrats The Chicago
platform, and, above ALL Sixteen to One,
must be the bond OF Fusion unity. The
new Democratic issues won't wash Tho
old ones must be exhibited once more to a
public that has refused to buy.
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the work, each expedition doing all the
exploration possible in the half OF the
polar area assigned to II, the British line
extending from 9oo E. to 900 W. and the
German line from 9oew. to 900 E.
The two expeditions Of 1901 will make
the first really great attack upon South
Polar problems. No one expects that they
will solve all the questions OF large impor-
tance which that vast region presents.
Scientific exploration there will not be
completed by two or three expeditions.
Our country will have ample opportunity.
II 1t desire, to share in the toll, the secri-
foes and the rewards involved in revealing
to the world the only large area In II that
is still unexplored. But IL would not be
sensible or worthy Of our attachments In
science and our achievements In goograph-
ical discovery to rush into this field with
no well-matured plan or adequate equip
ment. We could not afford merely to dupli-
cate work done by others. nor could we
expect to achieve superior results with
inferior preparation.
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A Blind Leader.

The Hon. DAVID ABsALoM DE ARMoNp.
the Miami Creek statesman who wants the
capital removed to st. Louis, Is a candidate
for leader OF the Democrats in the Fifty.
sixth Congress. He has already moved
upon Washington and has been found
In peculiarly Democratic state OF mind
by reporter OF the Post OF that town. Mr..
DE ARMoSD believes that the course OF the
Democrats in Congress should he ono OF
aggression" aggression against tho
facts. We suppose. He proposes to aggross
the criminal aggression OF the Americans in
the Philippines and he wants the United
States to give up that portion OF its terri
tory. &" never believed that we ought to
have acquired these islands," says the Mis-
souri, candidate, "nnd am In favor now OF
getting rid OF them. In my judg-
ment, Congress should ut the earliest
opportunity make known to the Fillpinos
and the world that we will concede them
an independent, free government, and then
act In good faith upon the assurance"
Give up the fruits OF DEwEy's victory and
surrender to the Tagals when they are
whipped and hunted fugltives! That is Mr..
De Almonds Philippine policy. He is the
Democrats in the Fifty-sixth Congress
II their object Is to dscrcdit and weaken
still more their already shattered party,
sullenly opposing results accepted by the
country and sullenly blind to the great
hold which the expansion policy has upon
the South
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| that the other condition touching the
Bahr-el-Ghaza would become void. But
such does not appear TO be the opinion OF
the Belgian Government, for 1t argues that
the right to enter and occupy the Bahr-el-
Ghazal is not affected blythe nullihcation
OF the cession to England.
The British Government firmly declines
to relinquish it's rights in the Bahr-el-
Ghazal, basing It's claims on the fact that the
arrangement concluded with the King Of
the Belgians exists and remains In force
and has never been repudiated or annulled
by England. This was explicitly laid down
by Lord SALISBURY in letter to Sir
EDMUND MoNsoN, the British Ambassador
in Paris, dated Oct. 9, 1898, and was meant
as q reafflrmation OF the fact that the
rights OF Great Britain over the Bahr-el-
Ghazal we're In no wise impaired by the
Franco ongolese agreement Of Aug. Ia,
1894. under which the Congo State, three
months after It acquired tho lease Of the
Bahr-el- Ghazal from the British Govern
ment, allowed Major MARYLAND and his
companions to invade that province. The
British Government insists that In leas-
ing the Bahr-el-Ghazal to King LEOPOLD
In 1894. IL did not abate it's funda-
mental rights over the territory leased,
and quotes q despatch Of Lord KIMBERLEY
on the conclusion Of the Anglo-Congolese
Convention. In that despatch Lord KIM
BERLHY. after placing on record King
LEoPoLD's recognition ION behalf Of the
Congo State OF the British sphere OF In
f,uence. as laid down In the Anglo-German
agreement Of $780," goes on to cay:
Her Majestys Government are satisfied that un.
der the Agreement this portion Of the BritiA sph>rs
will be administered in full accordance with the
requirements Of civilization and Of tho Acts Of Ber.
lin and Brussels"
In what way the British Government will
meet the Belgian application OF the conven-
ton. Withholding on one hand the e1ecu-
ton Of the part favorable to England, while
carrying ont the portion favoring itself,
remains to be seen. 1t may be that there
are secret advantages to be derived by Eng
land in compensation for the conc ossion
made to Belgium which are not yet known;
but the English papers that touch the
subject are not by any means convinced
that the matter ia in a satisfactory condi-
ton, while the Belgian press says that Eng
land has no right to prevent their occupa-
tion Of the territory leasod.
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whether the Church has Divine authority
and whence that authority is derived.
Between the two parties there 10 no poesi-
bility OF compromise. for they are utterly
distinct in theory and point OF view.
In the past, the Episcopal Church has been
free from theological controversy, though
1t has included various schools and phases
Of theological opinion from Arminianism
to Calvinism and from substantial agree
ment with the recommendation and sacerdo-
talism OF the Church OF Rome to the
EXTREMIST prejudice against them; but this
new element introduces virtual rejection
OF beliefs held by all these in common. It
denies the Biblical and traditional author
ity on which all depend. This school Is
critical, rationalistic, supercilious and intol-
Grant OF dogmatic authority; to 1t the Bible
a. adopted officially by the Church Ia q
pure fetish, and It would have the Prayer
Book relieved from the "rigmarole" i'm
ported into the service OF the Church
because Of that reverence for . collection
OF human literature which It looks on a.
human merely, as . bundle OF myths and
frequently as spurious and immoral.
It seems inevitable, therefore, that the
two opposing theological views must come
into sharp and decisive conflict In the
Episcopal Church and that the clash can
not long be delayed By methods Of compro-
mise or evasion which may have been sue
cessful hitherto In avoiding collision be-
tween the faithful. While on the one side
the tendency toward pure rationslism has
been increasing. on the other that OF unre-
served belief in the authority Of the Church
and in sacerdotalism is approaching
nearer and nearer to the Church OF Rome.
The old Low Church party. lying between
the two. seems to be disappearing gradu-
ally and the only remaining division Is the
broad and radical distinction between the
rationalistic Broad Church and the sacer-
dotal High Church. 1t seems impossible
that these two. natural and relentless en-
emes as they are, should long remain In a
semblance Of harmony In the same COM
munion, when on one side there Is con-
temptuous defiance and on the other hor-
ror OF association with 1t as downright
infldelity prevails.
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Before tho trial OF the Kearsarge, tho
first OF our double turreted bnttleships, THE
SuN told OF tho peculiar interest attaching to
her behavior at sea, owing to the fear In some
quarters that the naval constructors had
placed the turrcts so near the ends that the
ship would pitch Unfortunately. To the hurt of
her Gunnery. The sister to the Kearsaree, the
Kentucky. was tried last week In what was
described by the Boston Journal as "a heavy
northeast swell. relic OF the coast storm Of
two days before and into this the battleship
"wallowcd until her forward deck was afioat
and the spray drove over tho forward turret,"
Under these difficulties the Kearsarae
exceeded her contract speed. but there was an
unfortunately strong suggestion that the
anxiety regarding her construction was not
without ground.
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To Rudyard Kipling.

From fic hickman,
Prophet Of Drawn and bravery
- Bard " the lighting man.
fou have made us knCel to a God Of Steel
And to fear His church ban;
You have taught the song that thu bullet sings
Tho knell and the crowning.ode OF kings;
The noerdenied appeal!
Prophet Of brain and handicraftl
Bard OF our grim machneHl
Ton have made ns dream OF a God Of Steam,
And have sho wn what His worship means;
In the clankiun rod and the whiriing wheel,
life and soul your songs reveal,
And power and might supreme.
Bard Of the East and mystery!
singer OF those who bow
To the eArthen clods which they call their gods
And with God.llke fees endow;
You have shown that these heed not tho supplant a
plea.
Nor the prayers OF the priest and deyotee
Nor the vestals futile vow.
Singer. We AJAX what We cannot learn
From our wise men and our schools;
VIII our offered slain from our gods obtain
But the old reward OF foolsY
Will our man made z Jds be like their kindf
II 70 bow TO u clod OF clay enshrined,
Wil We pray our prayers In vAini
VOL
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England and tho Congo Free Stat,

The despatch OF a detachment OF British
troops from Lower Egypt to Omdurman In
order to confront the Khalifa was thought
In England to be connected in some way
with the Belgian movements in the
Bahr-cl-Ghazal region. OF which the troops
OF the Congo Free State are taking
possession for the protection OF the
commercial expedition that follows In
their wake. After Fashods the world
at large understood that the question
OF that territory was definitely settled but
the Congo Free State, on the strength Of
an agreement between the British Govern
ment and the King OF the Belgans giving
him the lease OF the Bahr-el-G hazal In
return for strip Of territory along the
eastern border of the Congo Free State
for the Cape to Cairo line, has taken a
diferent view OF the agreement and is
putting 1t into practical effect
The European powers declined to recog-
nize the right OF the Congo Free State to
ALLEVIATE any portion OF its territory.
Under the circumstances. 1t would seem
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SALE or DICKENS MISCELLANY.
Photographic Letter From tho Novelist "a
Charles Reade Brings Only %.

A collection OF Dickens miscellany and Dick
ensiana was sold yesterday at the Bangs auc-
tlon rooms on Fifth avenue at very moderate
priccs. A holograph letter to Charles Reade
declaring that Dickens had determined TO try
the principle In the Court OF Chancery against
any manager who dramatizes book OF mine
without my consent" In relation to the un-
authorized dramatization OF one OF his Christi
mas ANNALS. was the first offering. II went
for S.. A number OF first editions brought
from 81 to 81 each. while many pamphlets aud
small volumes on subjects connected with
Dickens characters and scenery went for frac-
tions OF a dollar.
=, Fifty-two .playbilis Of dramas founded on
the novels OF Charles Dickens. many Of them
A collection OF original drawings by Robert
Cruikshank, sold In connection with the Dick.
ems miscellany. brought fair prices. as many OF
them were small.
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Mr.. MAURICE GRAU finds Chicago faith
less to grand opera. The gross receipts Of his
season there were not equal to the subscrip-
tons for the coming performances In Boston.
1t may be that money is little scarce In
Chicago at present. for the Cook County
Marching Club has locked up an immense
sum In diamonds. The gross recsipts OF
four recent burglarles. including a safe blow
Ing OF some merit were only twenty-three
cents Before expressing any opinion on the
financial side OF the matter. however. It will be-
well to wait until the Chevalier FULLER elucI-
dates the aesthetic side. Tho Cheyalier
FULLER views Chicago with alarm. yet he
should be encouraged to ind that the town
is interested In literature II not In music. A
reciter In Chicago variety theatre has been
compelled to substitute rap" for the nnsl
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The Longest Term in Congress.

To THE EpIroR or THE sus-Sr: Mr.. Leslie
J. Perry'S article in THn Sun Of Nov. 20. on Long
Terms In Congress-" Is interesting. and sinRularly
enough he fails to mention the man who holds the
record for service in he House OF Representatives
He gives the prize TO Holman. but without justin.
cation.
Thomas Newton Of Virginia was Representative
from that State continuously from 1901 to 1890. =
period OF TWEEN ty-ntns years. He lost his seat ON a
contest, March .. ls8o but he was again elected to
the Twenty second Congress. serving two yeara
Nov. ~.
To THE EDITION OF THE suN-Sir: Mr. Perrys in.
teresting article regarding long terms of service
in Congress omits to mention that OF Samuel
Smith OF Maryland, whose tenure OF forty years
was exceeded only by that OF Mr. Morrill,
In the House he overlooks Mr., Thomas Newton
Of Virginia, whose consecutive term OF thirty.tvo
years uanl.a3) exceeds that of any other
Lewis Williams of North Carolina was chosen
In 1914 and served until his death In 1912.
NOV ~ j. A. BANGS.
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The illinois Democrats are going to treat

The illinois Democrats are going to treat
themselves to campaign OF education. For
that purpose. a bureau Of Information will be
established with our old friend. the Hon. BUCK
H1NRrcnsEN. at It's head. Tho Information
distributed by the bureau will relate the wicked
deeds OF Trusts. and tell the voters that they
are mistaken in believing themselves better
on now than they were in 1898. Tho Trusts
must be an enormous evil II people don't Ii now
that they are injured by them and have TO be
educated to that effect by Democratic COM
mittees. bureaus aud orators And the Hon.
BUCK HISRIoHsES must drip with peculiar
honey and suasion II he can convince people
that good times are no better than bad limos
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The Hon. HORACE Chiffon and the Hon.
JOE BAILEY. who is trying to bulldoze Texas
Into making him Mr.. CHnToN's successor
In the Senate. are having Joint debates.
The most dreadful charge that BAILEY brings
against Chiffon ia that the latter voted
for the bill to pay s20.000.O00 for the
Philippines. This lie pretty thin cruel to
serve to an expansionist State. The Hon. JOE
BAILEY should use stronger arguments. He
should tell his fellow citizens that his temper
will suffer II he Ia not elected Senator and that
the Constitution will suffer too
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That small but choice collection of ancient
bores. the Massachusetts, Anti Imperiallst
League. has asked clerGymen throughout the
country to preach against expansion Thanks
giving Day. Apparently tho ancient bores
Imagine that Thanksgiving ought to be
tnyned into Fast Day But there Is
nothing to prevent them from being rs dank
with woe as they please. next Thursday.
The Hon. GAMALIEL BRApFoRD and the Hon.
ALADDIN ATKINSON can weep. wall aud howl
to tho rest OF tho brethren on Boston
Common, II they can get a license. People
who have a gift for snivellinG should DO allowed
10 SWIVEL to their gizZards' content.
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That Form stili Appears In Our NaturaIt.
ration Papers.

When Cuban by the name OF Antonio q.
Ferriandes y Raminez applied for first natural.
ization papers In the United States Court of the
Southern district yesterday. he was obliged to
foreswear allegiance to the King OF Spain
whose subject he Is" according to the pre-
scrbed form.
why I'll in the blank space with the name Of
tho King OF Spain when you know Cuban ia
OF a clerk
We don't know It Officially" said the clerk
The Department has never so instructed us
and no was formerly a subject Of the King OF
Spain. All courts In the land MI out the space
for the name Of an applicants monarch with
the name OF the King OF Spain II the applicant
bc n Cuhnn
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The Secretary OF the Tree Planting Assocla-
tlon wrItesto The Sun to say that now is a
very favorable time for planting Several hun.
dred troes have been planted this fall in the
There Ia widespread interest In tree planting
and Inquiries are received daily. not only from
New York but from other parts OF the State
and country. Local societies have been form ed
elsewhere to improve roads and streets.
Information can be- obtained from the Secre-
tary q the Tree Planting Ass ociation. Potter
Building. New York.
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION.
Methodist Ministers Vote Onos More &c
Keep Their Monday Meetings Private.

Keep Their Monday Meetings Private.
The Methodist ministers discussed at their
Monday meeting yesterday for the 9th time the
proposition that the meetings be open 70 the
public The vote was 40 for and 90 against
opening the doors. The Rev. DR.. James NJ.
Buckley. editor OF the Christian Adrocate. led
the opposition.
We ought to have some place where We can
talk among ourselves without talking to the
public" he said. There are some matters
which ought to DO dealt with secretly and that
people ought not to know about. II any NOM
per OF this conference should say a word out
side M to what has happened In this or In any
other meeting he should be held In contempt
AS soon as the meeting adjourned tho re;
porters rushed In and Dr. Buckley informed
them that the ablest men spoke almost unani-
mously IN opposition to the amendment" de-
clnrlnR for an open meeting.
II was decided to have doorkeeper who will
challenge every one who enters the meeting
hereafter and check on the names OF me IN bers
admitted. The editor OF the Methodist Rerictp
expects to get his reporter in as member.
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Tho British Armada
From Ire london Court yourra

with pArdonAblo feelings of pride It may b.
pointed out that tho Army Corps now arriving A,
the Cape 10 the largest armed force ever
by sea In the history Of Europe. We are now send.
ing out approximately 10000 men, exclusive Of the
transport crews, q force considerably larger than
that conveyed by the Spanish Armada, which has
been said 70 be the largest ever sent by sea- The
number or tho spanish force which sailed ON
$50 ships from Spain In 1855 is thus recorded
volunteer 1852; total, o0,AVl ''e'
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Rockaway Sick Of Consolidation.

At the next session Of the Legislature an
effort will be made to have what ia now known
as the Fifth ward Of the borough Of Queens.
which comprises all Rockaway. cut Off from
Greater New York" and annexed to Nassau
county; Tax rates In this section have bee
more than doubled and the residents gener.
ally are dissatisfied with the present form Of
Qoyernment 1853 W.
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100 YEARS OLD TODAY.
Caleb Baldwin Takes Walk and Chats
With NeiGhbors.

Caleb Baldwin Of 43 Orchard street cele.
brates his hundredth birthday to-day. The
old man took short walk In Orchard street
yesterday morning. as he does or every f,ns
morning. and he seemed to enjoy the bracing
air. He chatted with several mel Oh bors and was
family reunion There will be few present az.
cept i'm mediate relatives He has living six
children, twelve grandchildren and seven
great grandchildren. One OF his grandsons is
expected TO arrive from England to-day.
Mr.. Baldwin was born at Orange on Nov oS
lTH,. His father was soldier IN the Revolu-