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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15
THE SITUATION IN NATAL.
The news from South Africa is mostly limited
I'm aIg nj ncant dets fla and etorea of bonn bard

The news from South Africa Is mostly limited
to Insignificant details and stories oil lombard
ments without results that give an air OF un-
reality to the scenes described 1t 10 not. OF
course, to be expected that the actual condi-
tion OF things in any OF tho bockaded towns
should DO made public. but that It is
not Just exactly what 10 described, 10
quite evident from the anxiety manifested by
the War Office authorities In London and the
measure taken by the British Government to
cut on all communication between South
Africa and the rest OF the world except what
can be controlled by itself. the Governor
General OF Lourenzo Marquee being the
only foreign official privileged to CORE
spond In cipher with his Government
through the English cables. The reason
for this restriction Is probably that the British
Government had grounds for suspectinR that
the Pretoria Government was receiving yalu-
able Information through some OF the Euro
pean Foreign OfIlces 1t 10 not likely. however.
that the Boer commanders are the less igno-
rant OF the British movements on that account.
seeing the numbers who are In sympathy with
them both 10 Natal and Cape Colony and the
means they have OF obtaining Information.
Al the present moment there should be close
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15
Rapid-Fire Gatl,nr at Peace Work.
From n, Chicago Tribun


DIR. Richard J. Calling, who revolutionized
methods o, warfare by inventing the rapid fire
gun that bears his name. came to Chicago yes
terday. The aged inventor says he has spent
most OF his lite in working out improved fire.
arms for warfare. and he wants now in his las
years to give the world something more use
full.
The most novel OF the machines that came
from his brain Ia an automobile plough With
II expects to supersede the moldboard plough
that Is now in general use for the prepara-
ton OF land for cultivation. The machine will
be built on the principle Of tho automobile,
with disk paughs 40 arranged NJ to do he work
Of the implements now in use with greater
facility and rapidty and at n great saving.
He proposes to build the machine so it can be
operated by sinkle man, II will do the work
Of eight men and twelve horses. The propul-
sion power will lie either gasoline or oil
His other machines are Tor the cotton fields
One OF them is for thinning out" cotton
plants in their early growth This machine
will do away with the man with the hoe" in
chorpinG out the Young cotton plant Tho i'm
pement consists OF n bed On wlceIs somewhat
Ike wagon. with Shovels that mr." worked hv
the motion Of the machine. These Rhovels will
thin the rows Of plants uniformly and save tho
labor OF six men.
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The Result. 4. tho rw.nty.n,nth District

To THE EDITOR OF THg sUs-Sir: why didn't ths
silk stocking Republican district elect Its Assembly
candidate while 1t elected its Alderman
The election OF Moses s. Ryttenberg. the Tanmany
candidate for Assembly for the Twenty ninth As.
ssmbly district. may have caused . great deal Of
surprise among the politicians connected with the
County Committee but the local politicians OF tho
district could have told them OF the probable results
long before election day.
In the nrst place. Mr.. Homer Folks. the nominee
for Assembly. was . Citizens Union man Who was
net In favor with the rank and ne OF tho Repu bcsn
organization OF the Twenty ninth Assem- bly, district
His nomination was forced the convention by
Mr.. QnigR's friends. who also tried TO force the
nomination as Alderman OF q Mr.. LAuer. whom tho
rank and hle would not stand boiling and making
Mr.. Louis r. CArdini tho nominee. What the work.
lag element of the Twenty ninth wanted show the
County Committee tAs we'll - Mt ouug> was that Il.
iscapable Of managing Its own local Affairs elscted
its own candidate for Alderman without much eIer-
ton and defeated Mr.. Quigg's nominee for the Az.
sembly. pre- arranged By most Of the captains
OF the election districts.
The leaders Of tho Twenty ninth had three objects
in Wow. viz to show. hrst that the Citizens Union
does not control the district by any msAns: second
that could elect the candidate they nominated for
Alderman. and third. to slap at Mr.. Quigg. who 10
not popular up in that direction any longer.
NEw YoRK, Nov. Is. one Who Knows.
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The Com issionsrs OF Municipal Statistic,
mot ycster'ay to find out what has been dona
since the bureau was organized. DIR. John r.
Magic. chief OF the bureau. said he had submits
ted 27H blanks containing more than 2O.Uu)
columns to Mayor Van Wyck for approval Dr.
Magic said also that he had cullod manv
statistics from the City Record. md he han eel
a wad Of them to sa"h OF the Commissioners
Then he reported that Justice Van Brunt %
Information for which he had been nskeI. IN
the ground that lie was state officer. ant
pretty busy. too.
Com missioner CRUDE thonght tina, II wa,
very disresprct'ul Of Justice Van Brunt To
refuse to oblge the bureau. and that the case
should be reported to Nayor Van WICK. Ths
other commits sioners didn't approve Of this
plan. md It was decided not to deal harshy
with Justice Nan Brunt
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Is He Really Hesitating ?

Apparently, the Brick Presbyterian
Church in Fifth avenue called the Rev.
DIR. BABCoCK OF Baltimore to be Its pastor
on the theory, II not the understanding,
that he would accept the call as matter
pastor. still seems to DO equally confident
that such will be the result.
1t appears. however. that the Brown
Memorial Presbyterian Church at Balti-
more. where DR.. BABCocK is now, feels
much distressed at the suggestion that IL
Is to lose him and 10 bringing urgent
pressure on him to induce him to remain
with II. II he should go to New York
every prominent Presbyterian church In
Baltimore would be without u pastor, the
situation there. so far as concerns vacancies
in pastorates. being very much as 1t is In
New York at present. DR.. BABcocK's
church. therefore, complains, not unjustly
that 1t would DO robbing Peter to pay Paul
II New York should take him away from
Baltimore. 1T is indeed dreadful to con-
template" says leading member OF the
Brown Memorial Church.
DR.. BABCocK has not yet committed him
self on the subject to his Baltimore friends,
though he said last week that he Is bound to
Baltimore by ties which he could not think
OF severing, unless the gentlemen who are
coming to consult with my congregation
can satisfy us all that / could be OF
more real material service there on that
firing line than hero In Baltimore" adding
that he had mo taste for living In New
York" Referring to our remark that New
York Is just now ''stony ground" for a
Presbyterian pastor, he said, however, that
many more editorials OF the sort
twill make me decide to go there right
of" That is a creditable enough spirit
II he means honestly that he wants to
be whore he Is most needed and has to
work hardest though. as we have said,
Baltimore itself at present is not less stony
ground for Presbyterianisn. In an inter
view in the baltimore Ne,0s, from which we
make these quotations, he is reported, too,
as having spoken OF tho matter otherwise
In somewhat fiippant and slangy fashion,
| which We are sorry to observe.
Moreover, the assurances from DR.. IVAN
DYKE which induced the Brick Church to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15
A Lesson for tho British Volunteers.
From TIE spectator.


The first thing the war teaches US 10 that
We ought TO trust moro than We do to
the individual capacity OF the Volunteers. and
not try so hard to turn them into ordinary
soldiers. The Beers march as they please.
dress. within limits. as they please. as cid also
the Colonial men in tho first American war.
and form as they please. though they obey in
this latter respect some tradt onal rules. They
are expected to support each other rather from
willingness than from discipline, and to rely
on their rifes and their steadiness under fire
rather than any conference derived from drill.
They do not "a yet stand up TO bayonet charges
well but how oitsn is the bayonet charge pos-
sible when the rifles are we'll handled IL
takes the very best men to get through that
hail ~ FIRE. and the very best mon cannot
always do II, no troops that the world knows OF
consenting to charge home when moro than &
third OF their mum Der are on the ground. The
strength OF the Boer Volunteers Ia not In their
drill. but in their Individual ability when
Regulars are charging on them to await their
charge and keep on their desolatinR IRE. Thev
wait til the assailing force is actually in touch
That was the strength OF the New England
Militia against us. and OF Hofer's men against
the French and we are not sure that we are
not forgetting both how great that strength
was. and how best to develop II. We are. We
suspect. cultlvatng the company too much.
among Volunteers we mean. and the individual
not enough. Yet II Ia as Individuals acting
together that the Beers are giving us such
trouble,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15

Sundry proposed amendments to the New
York City Charter are being considered In
advance OF the next session Of the Leglsla-
ture; one relating to the term Of the Mayor,
which 1t is designed to reduce from four
years, as 1t Is now, to two. American
cities, with few exceptions have only two
years term for their Mayors and constitu-
tonal provisions in some States. New York
among them. make imperative either two
years or a four years term, to accord with
the arrangement for separating municipal
from national and State elections.
To-day Baltimore, following New York's
lead. begins four years. term for its Mayor.
Mr.. HAYES. elected on the 2nd OF May,
begins his term to-day. He announces
that he will cut loose not only from
politicians but from politics, promising
that no commissioner In any OF the chief
municipal departments "can be touched by
the politicians on either side" These are
valiant words which recall the declaration
OF Mr.. DE WITT OF Brooklyn. one OF the
New York Charter Commissioners. II am
for a Czar-Mayor for a short term and free
right to go again to the people,
Whatever may be the merits. or demerits,
OF a "Czar-Mayor." having arbitrary power
OF removal during the first six months OF
his term, but no such power thereafter. in
eligible to reelection and practically amen.
able to no authority Of the peoples repre-
sentatives in any local legislative body, the
frightening OF the term has the dis
advantage OF making the tenure OF
the Mayors appolntees four years,
whereas the term OF the Governor
and OF the State officers, whose duties very
nearly correspond with those OF the munich
, pal heads OF departments are two years
only. There is some incongruity In a
Mayors term twice as long as that OF the
Governor. In the broader field OF national
administration. though the term OF the
President Is four years, there are biennial
elections for members OF the popular branch
OF Congress- The verdict OF the voters upon
a federal Administration in Office is there
fore, recorded at the Presidential election
and at the Congressional elections in the
| period intervening. No similar method is
prescribed In the New York Charter for
| passing Judgment upon the course Of a
| Mayor In office.
All these considerations are likely TO have
weight with the members Of the next Leg
islature when they como to deliberate on
the proposition to shorten the ter m OF the
Mayor OF New York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15
His Insiies Topsy-Turyy.

From H' LOnt1n iihI NSUS,
At an inquest held at Mi.osnd some remarkable
evidence was given by Dr. John Harley, who had
conducted a post.mortem examination on tho bod
Of docS laborsr. Or. Harley found on examination
that both the LUNGS were transposed the RIGHT bsing
where the lstt ought to be- and the LETT whore tn,
right should have been fornd. This heart, instead
Of being tn left side of tho body inclined great.
~ to thu right lie found the Spleen IA exactly tho
wrong position 1t should have been, wh!Ic the bow.
els and stomach were completely transp ,sed. The
lvcc was 81 the wong siIn. and noth kidnrya we're
IN thcir wrong pns,ion3 In fact every organ in tho
mans boIy wa auspossd
The CprOner -'IhIslsa very singular history a re.
markahls ono,
The Doetpr--lcs. It - sir II alccorl case and
one of the gr, Attest interest To surgery
The Curonor-lt seems that AL tho o;Gaus in the
body were in tn rirwr'ng places. dow did that at
feet his DEATH
Tho Doctor'Not in thu least As said, the case Is
most remarkable one full o. med, al interest un
Am Gsrrtu.L watchlpSlI
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15
Is tho Navy to BE Disgraoed Z?

Certain habits or rules OF official action and
consideration OF those concerned cannot
wisely be broken. One II these applies to
Rear Admiral ScHLEY, who has been ex-
pecting soon to go to sea again in COM
mand.
1t cannot be expedient to send as the
United States Ambassador in a foreign
country, man with moral stigma that
makes his appointment in the nature Of an
affront to the foreigner. and gives the
latter a right, fatty, to refuse to receive
him. No more can 1t be expedient to
permit such . man to carry the Stars and
Stripes officially. In any capacity.
In plain words, Admiral ScHLKY is such
a man. BY the official records in the pos
session Of the Government. ScHLEY Is
guilty OF lie, told to the Senate and to the
public through his organs among the press
As commander OF an American squadron
he would represent the United States before
the fleets OF other countries and before
their officers. 1t would be beyond the funo-
tion OF foreign officers to give evidence
OF their feelings toward such a visitor; but
his presence would be an affront to them,
nevertheless, and ten thousand times more
would it be an afIront to the Navy Of the
United States. To say that 1t can be other
wise is to ascribe to our navy the loss OF
every particle OF self-respect and OF all re-
gard for its professional traditions of
honor.
Nothing can justify such blow at the
Navy as ScHLEY's appointment to for
eign station before he has rid himself OF
stain before Court OF Inquiry.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15

From he Cincinnati Commercial 7rtbun.
within the last few months the number of Aocss-
sions Of college Presidents have been oxtraor-
binary. We have Hadley at Yale. Harris ct Amherst.
Faunoe At Brown. Wheeler at California. Miss Haz.
ard At Well osley. Barrows at obsrlin. McLane at
Iowa State. Merrill At Colgate. Thompson at Ohio
State. Super at Ohio. Tappan 81 Eiami. FreshwAter
at baldwin Kane at Wabash. our own Ayers and,
last VI ALL Holden at Wooster.
The old fashioned college President was expected
TO be an Allaround man He must DO profound
scholar. Clergyman and an expert In human ma.
turs. Under the pressure OF the times multitude
of nen II asked for the prime qualification OF col.
iege President. would reply. He must bo . nrst
class business man"
The man OF affairs IL At the front. DR.. Holden Of
Wooster has started right. lie has announced gifts
OF s25. 900 for library building and $4,000 as q
starter for new chair during the nrst six weeks
This is In accordance with the new style OF being
college President. Tho example 10 recon mended to
the trustees OF less enterprislng institutions.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15
PosrMAsTERs IN CoNvEyr,o N.
Facts About the Greatest Business Estab-
lishment in the World.

WASHINGTON. Nov 1.-THE second annual
convention OF the National Association OF Post
masters began at the Arlington Hotel to-day.
In the membership OF the association are
three fourths OF all the flrst-class postmasters
OF the United States. Postm nster- General
Smith made an address In which he said:
You represent q service which stands for
the greatest business undertaking in tho
world. This age is witnessing colossal BUSH
ness enterprises: II sees enormous capitallza-
tions for the application Of material forces: 1t
develops gigantic railroad and financial orEani-
cations but vast as they are. the postal service
Of the United States is the greatest business
establishment OF this or any other country:
Ii Embraces tSs ss;,bisSmsn, tesn tho half Gov.
ernment, 1t counts, on its roll more
than 250,OOO men. While its expenditures as
recently as 1883 were % bout S3b.OOO,OOO year
And its rsceipts about ~, 0OOaIoO; we shall
revenues will be over SlUO.OOO,OOO Take u
period In which our population Increases %
per cent. and you will nnd our postal business
INCREASING 800 per cent
with this wonderful growth 1t IL not sur
prising that you all come to tho department
and cry for help. You want more carriers YOU
want more facilities. The revenues are grow
ing faster than the expenditures. They are
soon W ping out the deficit. When the legiti-
mate expenditures nre crowding upon us. tho
Legitimate expenditures growing out OF the
class matter should be cut on 7"
After The afternoon session the postmasters
called on the President who received them In
The East Room +. y. Dickinson. po,tmasterat
Detroit. was elscte! President q the associn-
!: q, Iawler. OF Rockford. ILL.,, Treasurer. and
W. Il. SprueRer. OF Detroit. Secretary.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15
THE RIGHTS or MEN AND WOMEN.
A Suggestion That Women Must Yield Ger
tain Existing Rights to Gain Others.

tain Existing Rights to Gain Others.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir: In . COM
munication from mo published In your columns
last week. quoted from an article under head
ing OF Tho Cause oil Woman" IN your Sun
days issue OF Oct 20 written by Mrs. Black
we'll 1T 10 not easy to see how equal rights
can be given to men without being given also
to women. since things equal TO the same thing
arc equal to each other" l then raised
the question that II this premise be true.
certain legal equalities OF men and women
in matrimonial and parental relations.
wherein now there are Irregularities In
favor OF woman would follow In last Sundays
Sun. Mrs. Black well replies to my letter by con-
tending that as women In bringing children
into the world and caring for them suffer many
cares and hardshps from which men are eI-
ompt. that therefore as an Offset It Is Just that
the husband and father bear all the expenses
OF wife. children and household Now, have
always supposed that the ady9catss OF equal
sn !29 G SoS Ssy. Il. pS5s' 1ha,
now POSSESS: but 1t seems that in other matters
agree with Mrs. Blackwell that tn. husband
and father should bear the peouniary burdens
OF the home and family, But why2 Because.
fsrent from men in their relations OF m atri-
mony and parentagsEdinerent IN ways In
%hsh greater cares burdens and
that IN other relations Of life, In ru pile affairs.
particularly. there are burdens and responsi-
women cannot support them. since men are
different from women1 How. then. In the NJ IN a
OF equality. can men and women be governed
by the same laws unless their rights are made
equal. l. O.. the same.
Is 1t not rather premature to say that men
will not object to women retaining their pres
ent legal privileges II they gain all the pot ical
rights OF men that this Is "a scarscrow that
has not oven broomstick Of truth In n"2 Has
| this question yet been thoroughly tested? II
women receive all tho rights Of men as TO
| suffrage and he holding OF Office and yet re-
| tain their present legal privileges and exemp-
lions. men " i'll not then have equal rights with
| women. Is Il reasonable TO suppose they will
| he content with this inequality? Would they
| not naturally seek to correct III According TO
| the advocates Of 'woman's rights" would they
| not he justified In 40 doing? Is not this lust
| what women who advocate ''woman's rights
| are doing now for their sex1 VIC.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-15
Foreign Notes Of Real Interest.

| St. Petersburg and Moscow are now directly con.
| neeted by telephone.
| Paris society has taken up the fashion Of slAb
orately decorated and expensive visiting cards.
Count Zeppelin has been obliged to put of the
| launch Of his arship until next year when he
hope for good weather - the contractors were
behind hand in delivering the balloons that are TO
con sn the gas.
Al Benevento. large Roman theatre, as large -
the theatres of Pompey and OF Aarcellus and better
preserved. has been discovered. The entrances the
ambulatorios. the lower OF seats the stage and
the orchestra are all perfect
Rones League Against the Abuse o, the Knife"
has had setback. The President OF the society got
into q discussion with some friends in . railway
carriage and settled the point by drawing his knife
and stabbing one OF them to death,
An English society has improved the 8. p. c. A.
It calls itself the Society OF United Prayer for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals" and in q recent
circular urges members to pray that Tho masters
OF Eton College may no longer countenAnce cruelty
among their pupils"
Ayoung Danish engineer. according to ENGINEER
ing. which does not give his has constructed
phonograph which will take telephone me ,sAges.
1t 10 much simpler than the Edison phonograph.
and instead OF wax roller has . steel baud from
which the message can be wiped OF after 1t has been
delivered.
n fhTib lnsIrU TOT Claims tho record
for long trAmps. having walked ~. 900 Kilometres,
or about 81. 900 miles, ordinary roads. Among his
trips Part to St. Petersburg in thirty eight days.
Paris.GenevA Venice aud Paris.Berlin. He tried
| TO walk to Madrid but was stopped by the spanish
| authorities when he reached Barcelona.
! Another British arstocrat has been sent to jail
| The Hon John Tyrwhlt. youngest son of Baroness
Berners. ~ years OF age has been sentenced in Lon
| don to twelve months hard labor for passing
worthless checks. About year ago he was arrested
like charge but was let on. He asserted that he
had been swindlod by tho money lenders. honson
and Honour. who arc now In prison.
| As head OF tho Orleans family as we'll - Of the
| House OF France. tho Due dorlsana has conferred
| the historic title Of Duo de Guiso on his cousin
| Prince Jean OF Chsrtres. who recently became HIS
| brother iu.laN. The title went with the 6uise in
horitanre to the House of Condo In tho last century
| and on the extinction Of that line In the early pat
81 this century to the orleans The last person -
| bear the ,lc the OF tho late Due d'Aumae.
| who died youns,
Can ssa, to which Bismarck declared he would not
co. after being ertlsed to be sold has be N bought
| by the Italian Government The castle. whore the
| Emperor Henry ". VAS compelled to humble him
self before Pope Gregory VII. torn down by the
| townHpeOple OF Reggie more than six hundred years
ago. he ruins VIII CHI are now called CArpineto bs.
longed t. Count Valdrish whose heirs had received
bids from several arch BIOLOGICAL societies. includuS
German cues. t9r tue place.
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THE CAUSE or MxLARTA.
Moro Evidence Against Mosquitoes Foun,
By n Missien to sierrn Leone.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 1.-THE State Depart
msnt has received from Consul Hill OF Amstsr-
dam q report OF the mission sent to Sierra
Leone by tho Liverpool School OF Tropical
Diseases for the purpose OF investigating the
causes OF malaria.
The results OF tho mission" he says, seem
to be the discovery that IA local species OF Ano-
pheles mosquitoes carry malaria; that these
species breed in a few staRnant puddles. The
practical results depend on the Government
and the medical profession. The grubs can he
killed in n few hours with kerosene oil: but
operations must be continued syat-matically
be drained. The physicians com pos ng the
mission have concluded that the truly malaria
fever 10 caused solely by the mosquito. rroba-
bly, entirely by the Anorhelcs s ecles. Most oil
the fever can he got rid OF at almost no cost
except Of little energy on the part OF the loca
authorities,