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The times., 1899-09-20
our NearestRennhIie.

(From the ST. Louis Globe -Democrat)
President Diaz, in his annual message to the
Mexican Congress, calls attention to the widely
extended prosperity which has come to his coun-
try. This is a point on which Mexico will be
congratulated by the United States. In a large
degree the prosperity OF Mexico is due to the
wise rule of its Executive. If all the Latin
American nations were governed with as much
skin and levelheadedncss their industrial con-
dition would be vastly improved and their re-
bellions would be abolished Mexico is the most
poPnious OF all the nations south of the United
States except Brazil, and it is growing more
rapidly than Brazil or any of the rest Of them
in industrial activity, commerce. and wealth.
Mexico undoubtedly has great future
The times., 1899-09-20
Hauna,s Dreams,
fFrom the CINCINNATI Enqrirer.1

ltrofn the Cincinnatl Enquirer.
The approach of Mr.. Hanna to Ohio makes
anticipation OF the lively surprise in store for
him. Before he stepped aboard ship for the
return trip The Senator confidently assured the
cable man that the money issue had been
'threshed out, and that things political
here in a state of desuetude. This pic
ture of expectant ennui would be a capital effort
at witticisn We're it not evident that the Senator
was in sober earnest. But it is not Mr.. Hanna s
fault that he has displayed such pitiable ignor-
ance. Colonel Dick, in the worry and trouble
that beset him, has doubtless failed 10 keep his
chief informed to the cyclone condition of
affairs prevalent just at present and steadily
growing more alarming. 1t is pardonable that the
Senator does not know that Ohio is regarded on
this side as storm centre, with every indication
that the disturbance will continue with accumu-
lating fury until early in November. Indeed, it
may be safely prophesied that the Senator himself
viii be gathered up by the whirlwind as soon as
he shall step within the States borders
The times., 1899-09-20
A Christian Queen.
From the pes Moines Leader.l }


No one has ever claimed for Queen Vic
toria that she is a great woman in the sense
that Elizabeth, her predecessor, or Cath
arine of Russia, were great. She has never
aspired TO mastery, and with her benign
consent the present democratic system of
government in Great Britain has been al
lowed to form and crystalline with the mon
arch reigning, but not ruling. But if not
great woman, Victoria is that which is bet
ter; she is a good woman She has been
gentle and kindly, and the precepts OF peace
have found firmer lodgment in her heart
than with the prating diplomatists who
leave peace conference to take steps lead
ing UP to war To the Queen peace parleys
are something more than mere contest
as to who shall turn the best-sounding hy-
pocritical phrase With simple faith she
has grasped the truth of Christ and Paul
that men are created, not to fly at one
anothers throats. but to be brothers. CO.
operating together, each nation in its ap
pointed sphere. With such firmly fixed
principles, principles in which her adored
husband profoundly believed, it is not
strange that she has been moved strongly
by the appeals for peace which have come
to her not to consent to war.
The times., 1899-09-20

that which empowered them to enslaye,
abuse, beat. and kill the black natives.
This divine right the English denied to
them; and then they got UP and got out,
even as our first parents emigrated from
the Garden of Eden.
In their new and fertile home beyond
the river Vaal, the Beers found a Patmos
in the desert; enc we'll filled with blacks.
and apparently designed by Providence to
be the happy habitat of Dutch slave
holders, Hottentct victims of the lash. and
other cattle horned and dehorned. Years
passed and the honest, Christian farmers
of the Yeldt prospered, as all good people
do. Knowing that education was useless
they eschewed schools, and being sure that
the natives were without souls, they neith-
er taught them Christianity nor allowed
them to attend worship. It was sweet,
pastoral idyll that the scrdid lust of man
broke in upon, when gold was discovered
in the Transvaal Rand,
Then the hated Britisher and American
appeared and straightway destroyed all
ruling economic conditions, by paying the
blacks to work-a thing never before toler-
ated in the country. Who can blame the
simple, virtuous Beers for resenting such
an outrage? But they proceeded to get
even. They made the invading Outlanders
pay per proboseis' as the saying is, for
their wickedness. They compelled them to
furnish nine-tenths of the State revenues,
and TO keep themselves disarmed that they
might be always at the mercy of the Lords
peculiar people. They were forced to en-
rich ~the leaders of their master element.
Old Kruger today is reputed to be worth
twenty-five million dollars, every cent of
it looted from the outlanders.
Yet the Transvaal is sister Republic
and it ought to have our sympathy, even
if we should wrongfully refrain from in
terfering to give it new lease of power
and monopolistic prosperity.
The times., 1899-09-20
Climate and oonsumptives.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.)


Whether consumption is contagious in the or
binary sense Of the term not, it is difficult
TO understand how California any of the other
far Western States can afford at this late day to
put up barriers for keeping people with pulnon-
airy troubles away. Colorado has a large number
CT men and women who went there with con-
sumption, got well and became energetic, useful
citizens, The same may be said Of California, or
The southern part of the State at least. Why
should people who may in the future, through
no fault Of their own, become victims of con
sumption be denied the privilege OF seeking eli
mates that may restore them TO health? The
air of California not necessarily made for the
exclusive use OF the people who there now
ii it could be bottled up and brought away for
those who may need it in future the disposition
to boycott consumptiyes might be regarded with
conplacency, but that cannot be done.
The times., 1899-09-20
TippIing and Longeyifr.

= IVI'I INC lIll17lRlf7lid IsllIls.
Statistics are not always safe basis of gener-
alization but they are often suggestive There is
1t least curious interest in some statistics col
ieeted by the British Medical Associate relating
TO the deaths of 1924 men, classified according to
their drinking habits The result Of this elassifi.
cation showed tie total abstainers to be the short.
est lived. They lived, average, 5I.22 years,
while the habitual drunkard lived on an average
SOB years. In this the extremes met The
drinkers lived average Ct 81 50 years. and
what called careless drinkers 5067 years while.
the average life Of the habitually temperate was
prolonged to a2-l3 years. Whatever significance
there may be in these figures points directly to
the practical value Of temperance. The man who
rejects all usa Of alcohol would seem to be at an
equal hygienic disadvantage with him who
abuses it
The times., 1899-09-20
Not n Nation.
(From The Nashville Banner )

IFrOIn
Hon J. c. Schurnan, President of the Philip
pine Commission says there is no Philippine na-
tion, but "the archipelago is inhabited by a
multifario,s collection OF tribes, having nothing
in common except that they belong to the Malay
race As a matter of fact they have not even
so much as commonality of race. Some of them
are Negritos, the aborigines of the islands, diff
fering essentially from the Malays; some are Of
mixed Spanish blood, and some are Chinese
Over sixty different languages spoken in the
islands and some of the inhabitants Chris
tians and some Alohammedans. There is no unity
Of any kind among them and the idea Industrious
Iy circulated by the Aguinaldo Aid Society in
this country that the Philippine Islands and their
tribal inhabitants constitute nation struggling
for its liberties, is an absurdity founded on as
s,med popular ignorance.
The times., 1899-09-20
FIGHTING FOREST FIRES.
a Dangerous Condition of Affairs I'm
New York.

ALBANY. N. Y. Sept 19-Col VIII
liam F. Fox. State Superintendent of For
ests, today stated that there were about
leo men in the north woods engaged in
lighting forest fires which lately have been
raging fercely in many sections Colonel
Fox today received word OF a dangerous
condition of affairs at Brant Lake, in the
town of Horizon. Warren county, where
two big fires are working toward one an
other. The fires in that vicinity are be-
yond control and among the results al
ready known are the burning Of four
houses and three barns outside OF the viii
lage of Horizon. The fires are destroying
good timber and only drenching rain OF
ten hours duration can be relied upon 70
relieve the situation.
The times., 1899-09-20

progress, and barricade the path of national
destiny, is false to the faith, teaching, and
record Of the Fathers. The whole policy
and history of the Democratic party have
been in the line of expansion. and its in
teIligence is enlisted for expansion today
Territorial contraction as political propo-
sition in a Presidential campaign. on the
part OF any party. would involve its certain
defeat and rout, if not its extinction.
The times., 1899-09-20
Fading Away.

From the Fort Worth Register)
That part OF the Democratic party represented
by the gold Democrats is fast passing away In
the Presidential election Of 1886 the total vote
for Palmer and Buckner was 1873, 900 The largest
vote, relative to population, given to this ticket
was in Massachusetts,, where l1,75O gold Demo
Gratis turned out. In 1887 their organization was
kept up and they ran a candidate for Governor
who pclied 1900 votes. Now the organization
has practically been abandoned and the Massa-
chusetts gold Democrat, if he exists, is to be
found in hocks Of one
The times., 1899-09-20
A GIFT TO DARTMOUTH.
The College Trustees Receive a
Large Endowment Fund.


Large Endowment Fund.
HANOVER, N. H., Sept. 1a.-The exer-
cises of Dartmouth Night this evening in
the old chapel closed with the announce
ment by President Tucker of the transfer
during the day of securities to the value of
100000 to the trustees of Dartmouth Col
lege, the gift of Mr.. Edward Tuck, of the
class of 1862, as a memorial to his father,
Amos Tuck, of the class of 1885, and trus-
tee of the college from 1857 to 1866. The
only conditions attaching to this gift are
that it shall be held as a separate fund
bearing the name 'TThe Amos Tuck En-
dowment Fund = that the securities in
which it is given shall not be changed DUR
ing the lifetime of the donor without his
consent, and that the annual income (S12.-
000 at present. shall be applied exclusively
to the purposes Of instruction. The fund
is not to be used for buildings.
Edward Tuck, the donor of the fund.- was
graduated from Dartmouth in 1862. Soon
after leaving college he entered the diplo-
matte service, and for the years 1886 was
United States Vice Consul in Paris. He
attracted the attention of John Monroe, OF
the firm of John Monroe & Co., bankers in
New York Mr.. Tuck was asked to enter
the employ OF 1hat nrin, IN Wnlch ne De-
came a partner in 1871. He retired from
active business in 1881. Mr.. Tuck is now
a director in the Chase National Bank OF
New York and is interested in various
railway and industrial enterprises in this
country. His residence is now in New
York and in Paris.
Amos Tuck. whose name the fund bears,
was one of the organizers of the anti
slavery party in New Hampshire He was
twice elected to Congress, 1S471851. He
was friend of Abraham Lincoln and one
of the committee to inform him of his
nomination for President.
The times., 1899-09-20
An Editors view of Doycotting.

lfiOti bHS aioahs dOhittHi.
Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of Paris, yester-
day published ar article in the New York edition
Of his HERALD in which he denounced what
he calls the folly Of all newspapers and indi-
yiduals who have advocated or suggested boy
colt against tho Paris Exposition because of the
wrong done by Franee to Dreyfus. While the ad-
visibility of sach "a boycott is considered by
many to be opan to question, and its justice is
so considered by some, there can be no question
anywhere as to the motive behind the article that
was published in he Herald"
The times., 1899-09-20
He Knew WHEREOF He smoke.

lFrom The Hartford Courant)
When the talk of Ayers candidacy for the
Senate was loudest, Senator Mcmillan, of Mich
igan, who knows the way around his own State
as well as the way around Washington, an
nounced that when the time came he would be
renomnated unanimously. Alger & Co. ridiculed
the notion Now Mr. Alger is out with card
declaring that he will not be candidate again.
and The Republican press says that there will
be no opposition whatever in the party to Mr.
Mcmillan. (Which he said 50 himself"
The times., 1899-09-20
In,ited "a Ohio

(From the Cincinnati Enqurer.)
Since Secretary Hay has addressed campaign
document TO '.Dear Mr.. Dick" he need not hesi-
tate to come to ohio with Postmaster General
Smith and spout from store boxes under the
sputtering light of gasoline lamps. He is off
the dignity OF his efiee and cannot climb on
again.
The times., 1899-09-20

Marcus Alc1zo Hanna has been keeping
himself ominously quiet since his return
from Europe. Until today we have been
unable to assign a reason for his strange
reserve; but it is now apparent. Readers
viii remember that, when Mr.. Mckinley
issued his surprising order demolishing the
merit system, and deereeing a return TO
that of spoils. we then said it was in
preparation for sonethingl Hanna is
hardly back on cur shores before an enor-
nous pie trust is organized in New York.
The local is to be consolidated witb the
national pie counter! This is that it might
be accomplished which was said of the
trust profits. that the Hanna Mckinley Ad-
ministration would be one of unlimited pie
ity. as to the faithful who should heel
and strike.
The times., 1899-09-20

Hawaii wants immigrants, and her Pro-
visional Minister of Finance is on his way
to Europe to secure them. His idea is to
seek a high grade of colonists in Scan
dinayia and Italy. 1t is therefore evident
that he is after variety as well as num-
bers. Why he does not encourage emigra-
ton from the United States is something
we do not understand. There are thou
sands of honest farming people who would
like to escape from the sterility OF some
sections in New England, and expatriate
themselves, like Thomas Bracket Reed,
on the chance of making a fatter living
elsewhere. Some more cashiered Army Of
ficers might be picked up; and we could
spare Griggs. II seems almost reflection
on American ability to unload its surplus
population. fer cur Hawaiian colony to
hunt over Europe for immigrants.
The times., 1899-09-20

Wayne Macveagh is expected to warm
up to his subject and show Griggs today
how nearly like Dreyfus his friend Carter
is. Let Otis Jouaust and Carriere Davis
tremble. We may look for an acquittal
or a pardon now within few days.
The times., 1899-09-20
cRcuLArIoN sTATEMENT.

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The times., 1899-09-20

TIE TINES. in all its editions Morning. Even
ing, and Sunday will be mailed TO one address
for FIFTY CENTS per month. Addresses changed
as Uftcn Re desired.
The times., 1899-09-20

We can see now where Denby.s conf
dence that he would be called back to
Manila, came in, Aguinaldo has made an
other of his periodical plays for peace
negotiations. and, as usual, MIR. Mckinley
is reported as willing to walk into the
tran
The times., 1899-09-20

Communications INTENDED for publication in
THE TIMES must be terseiy and plainly written,
and must in all cases he accompanied by the
name and address Of the writer. Rejected com
murications win not be preserved, and only man
uscripts Of obvious importance VIII be returned
10 their authors
The times., 1899-09-20

Readers Of TEE TIMES who may al any time
be unable 10 procure copies Of il az any news
Ttand railroad station, rziirosd trains.
viii confer a favor upon the management by
sending this Office information OF the fact.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-01
CHTRCH CHOIR on STRIKE.

CLASH BETWEEN y STATEN ISLAND PASTOR
AND THE SINGERS.
There was no music last Sunday. nor will there
he any tomorrow. in the Asbury Methodist Church,
N.w-snr,neville staten Island. THIS results from
a difference OF opinion between the members OF the
ho,r and the pastor az TO the style Of music which
the choir has been presenting. The choir consists
81 Mrs Charles ". Mesier. Miss Minnie Martin
Mira Dennis Mrs H. +. Decker Miss Lizzie Hunt.
Miss Carrie Van Pelt Isaac Winant ana Willard
Decker and John Decker. organist
The pastor is the Rev. John McMurray lie has
Leen there for three years. and has been popular
with the members OF the church The trouble be-
tween the choir and the minister Is Of long stand
try although II WAS never active or pronounced.
Mrs Charles W. Mesier. who lives near the
church said Yesterday that the trouble had been
brewing some time between the choir and pastor.
The latter she said always wanted everything his
uav and the members OF the choir had stood II as
long as they going 10. They had stood the
tnsults and were now standing on their dignity.
The members OF the church stood by the choir. she
said. the matter would be laid before the trus-
ties and the choir would not sing tomorrow
e'h- pastor. when seen al his home, SAID that ne
bsd not given the matter much thought. and
mad. about the singing had been misconstrued by
the members Of the choir. lie thought that az
n. stor OF the church he had right 10 say what
shnuld be sung the servlces but some OF the
chcir thought they should sing what they pleased.
Ind ne expressed surprise when told that the choir
rad refused to sing at Tomorrow service. He
denied that the trustees were going TO take action
and believed the difference would be settled soon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-01
THE KRJvS YELLOW FEVER PATIENT.

The condition OF Chief Mate Johnson OF the
Nunson Line steamship Krim, who was found TO
be suffering with yellow fever on the arrival or the
vessel at Quarantine on THURSDAY was reported
h,. Health Officer Doty late yesterday afternoon 10
he though practically unchanged since morning
favorable 10 his recovery. Dr. Doty has taken con-
siderable interest in the case and visited the hos
pltal on Swinburne Island Yesterday TO make per
sonaI inquiry. He has learned that the district IN
Havana where the pier at which the krim landed
&c Injected and cannot understand why the vessel
was allowed 10 tie up there. as IT Is against the
law
DR.. Doty has not been able TO use the serum In
Johnson's case as ne has sent his supply to Vera
Cruz 10 be experimental with.
The Krim having been thoroughly ceansed and
dieinrecte5 was permitted TO leave Quarantine yes
terday The crew which came on the steamship
from Havana and Matanzas were taken TO Hof-
Island yesterday afternoon ana new crew
was sent by the agents in this city TO bring the
vessel 10 her pier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-01
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.
SIR CHARLES AND LADY RIVERS WILSON AND
SIR CAvENDIsH BOYLE AMONG THOSE
WHO WILL. SAIL. TO-DAY.

Among the passengers who will sail for Havre
this morning the French Line steamship La
Gascogne are the Rev. John T. White the Mar
Quis de Champagne. George II. Troutman. Mrs q.
de Cespedes the Rev. J. Tierney J. j. Dalbemar,
Haytian Ambassador 10 Rome; Mrs. C. Romano.
MISS Louise Romano. Vicente Fernandez Mr.. and
Mrs. A. L. Rubino. NJ. d. Howell. DR.. and Mrs. ID.
Pauson. Miss Pauson. w. A. Hungerford. W. r.
Martin. j. l.. Lafontant. Secretary OF Finance.
Hayti; the Rev. John r. Murphy Perry Vacatos.
Mss Aline Perle. W r. Amory. William Henry
Burke +. T. IIGrtshorn. Conrad Hansen. Miss AL
berta Irwin and F. W. s Obermeyer.
On the Cunarder Lucania which will sail for
Liverpool this morning are Sir Charles Rivers
Wilson and Lady Rivers wilson. OF London; DR..
r. Appert. Mrs Evarts Tracy, Sir Cavendish
Boyle. Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Taller. Mrs Henri Cut
ting Louis Stern. Miss Ada Cowan. Sir Henry
Strong. Chief Justice OF Canada; Justice p. II.
Dugro Mrs Dugro the Rev. B. Reynolds. Eng
land: Amos F. Emo Mr.. and Mrs Charles s. Platt,
the Rev. James Fitzslmmons. F. p. O'Connor. J.
G. Fargo, the Rev. A. j. Lyman. Ramon Garcia.
Mr.. and Mrs. A f. Lamb, the Rev. Dr Charles
Gordon, Bishop Of Jamaica; Mr.: ana j Mrs A. ID;
On the Holland American steamship werken-
dam which viii sail for Amsterdam this morning.
are Wyman Whittemore. Miss Marion c. Barnes.
R. L. Pq Keller cT tbo Rev tH My Miss Miss
Grace Bgelow John G TiltOn and r. n Dragon ,On
for Genoa, viii carry among It's passengers to-day
Lieutenant Carlo de Luca naval attache to the
italian Embassy at Washington; Mr.. and Mrs. ID.
4, Bishop, Of Jersey City, R. s Hedges M and I'd
Mrs. J. Cavallero. Miss Ida Foster. X. Bay3rd
Cutting. Miss Florence Dale. DIR. A. +. Chapman,
the Misses Carrie and Emma Cooper. G. l.. Ris-
ley and Professor II. b. Richardson. OF Amherst.
Among the passengers the Holland-A American
steamship Maasdam, for Rotterdam, to-day. are
the Misses Anna c. and Sara A. Faunce. Miss NJ.
c. Ambruster. r. II. Comstock, ,jr.; Mrs; George
B. Appleton. c. II. Ayers. Percival c. Barnard.
Miss NJ Z. Chamberlain and F. H. de Weckern.
Minister Plenipotentary from the Netherlands to
the United States.
The Hamburg merjcan steamship Patria, for
Hamburg carries among its passengers to-day Or.
p F. Walden Professor G. christensen. DR.. W.
r. Shepherd. Egbert JurgeDsen. Professor W: II.
Pettee Miss Madeline Bruins. II. y. Muller, Clar-
ence Mabie. Charles II. Porter. Mrs Pauline Schil-
Ter. Herman Stening and DR.. and Mrs Philip
Grunenthal.
On the Anchor liner City Of Rome, FOR Glasgow,
to-day will be c. MAYNARD Evans Miss Anna r.
Goodrich Hans Won Briesen. the Rev. and Mrs
]. NJ Farrar Mrs. Elizabeth ]. Darcy, Or. and
Mrs. A. r. Higgins J. s Morley. John II. McQuil-
Ian. James II. Nelson !. w. Pearsall. Mrs. Eugene
r. Raphael. Miss l.. f. Warren. o. J.. Rogers.
Robert White. Or. w. c. Sherwood. Mrs. F. II.
Throop, j. L. Toch and Miss Amy w Saunders.