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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
CHARLOTTE TEMPLES GRAVE.
A Tomb in Trinity Churchyard
Often Adorned with Flowers.
n-rom the New York Evening WORLDLY

fFrom the New York Evening WORLDLY
As the month Of roses wanes the care
takers and gardeners at Old Trinity
chirchyard on lower Broadway are be ON
ing more interested in watching for an ae-
| customed happening that for sixteen years
would have told them that Jure was &C
hand, even if their calendars were fait--
/ less.
1t is the coming OF an aged woman, now
ut least eighty years old. who for over b II
4 generation has not failed TO adorn The
tomb of the once famous Charlotte Temple
with the seasons finest blooms.
Her visit during the sixteen years has
been in early June. but she has 10, "a
peared this year as usual. The Older ORES
among the churchyard employees miss her.
No one knows who she Is. The only thing
that is known about her is that her home
is in Elizabeth. Already the gardeners are
speaking OF the myterious visitor in tle
past tense, believing that nothing but
death would keep her from her self-im-
posed pleasure task.
There is another woman. fully as old as
the stranger from Elzabsth. who is alno-t
as we'll known figure at CCarott Tenn
pies grave. For nearly the same period
this ancient lady, about whom abzo.uteiy
nothing is known, has never missed a sea-
sons offering.
Her visit this year was made about rec
weeks ago. y nne towering Seranium on
the slab over the honored grave is the
token she left.
The grave OF Charlotte Temple-whi h.
by the way. may not be her grave at al
has been the mecca of sentimental sight
seers in Trinity churchyaId for years.
Probably an average OF fifty persons ay
visit it. Nearly all of the pilgrims are e.
derby; and men are by no means sc@rcs
among them. Seldom is the grave TN
adorned with flowers. The gardeners put
fresh flowers there when visitors do mt.
for it saves them lots of trouble They an
then direct sightseers to the fiat stons
over there with flowers on it, The o.ter
day there was a noble garland OF flaming
red peonies on the grave and 4 big bunch
of snow white lilies.
The depression in the slab, which NV
makes basin for the flowers and a bath
for birds was once occupied by an ins rib d
plate. This adds to the mystery of Chr
lotte Temples grave. Whether the plato
was lost during the chaotic condition TO-
lowing the burning Of the first church edi-
flee or removed to be sunk in new stone
are questions for the sphinx. 1t is believed
that the old Clipped stone marks no graTe
at ALL and that the name Charlotte Tenn
pie" was carved on it after it YVES thrown
aside as worthless. Not till the book which
made her famous is forgotten will the
grave cease to be an object OF mystery.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
STEAMSHIP RATES DOWN.
Many Lines to Adopt an EARLY Win
ter Schedule.

ItT ScAeuufes
NEW YORK, June 27-Practically all of
the important transatlantic steamship
lines have already taken steps to follow
the lead of the White Star and Cunard
Lines. which yesterday announced that
their regular winter schedule Of rates
would go into effect on August 1, instead
Of September. The local agents of the
Hamburg American Holland American,
and French Lines have communicated with
their European home offices, recommend
ing a change in their schedule to conform
to those OF the English lines, and asking
for instructions. There is nothing now
to do but wait for official replies, but ofii-
Gals OF all the lines stated today that
there was no possible doubt that their
lines would begin their winter or fall rates
on August l.
Gustav II. Schwab. of the North Ger
man Lloyd, said that the schedule of that
line had already been modified. with re-
spect to all its vessels except the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse. passage on which
on her trip August will be charged for
at the summer rates.
The A,ian-State and Anchor Lines,
whose winter rates were already schsd-
uied to go into operation August l. will
make no change. II don't see why they
Sly the Cunarc and White Star Lines are
setting the pace, remarked one of their
officers with smile. las matter Of fact.
it's our lead the other lines are following
We made out our schedule las. April"
The Holland America Line. howe YER, will
charge it.; fall rate" for time, begin
ming August 1. before going down to the
low winter schedule.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
LITERATURE IN TIE SOUTH.
A New Field Opened Since the Civil
Wnr.
CFrom Forum.)

1t is hardly more difficult to read the
novels OF Simms today than to imagine
that anyone ever read them. 1t needed
the war to emanciDate Southern genius.
That war not only gave the South sub
ject. but, by the attrition OF the sections
during the struggle. made that subject ia
miliar and interesting to all. Many high
ly educated persons had witnessed events
that were cardinal in the nations history,
and society was passing even then through
the evolution of racial problems when III
their entirety were momentous, ana III
their details infinitely pathetic. tragic or
grotesaue The tenderly <nurtured men
and women of the South could look oach
nm a social system clouded by disaster put
radiant in the afterglow Of tender memo
ries. and the pressure OF circumstances
,,adA a pen and an inkstard seem u SORT
Of Aladdin's lamp to hundreds
Under such conditions literature was
ono 10 arise. in the main ii was sure TO
he dominated by imagination, and in its
first generation was likely TO be largely
the work of women, as. indeed, 1t is STILL
Bu. of recent years there has been a
change Literature has widened its scope
in the South, both geographically and in
.he subjects of which it treats. OF course.
fiction is still in the lead. and il the genre
of fiction the old type, the negro story OF
one kind or another is still dominant.
But the time has passed when Southern
literature can be held to comprehend
nothing more Work is being done in the
South today in almost every field OF lttera-
ture-not, indeed, great work, but worthy
work. and 1t is worth while to call attel-
ton to it at the outset of this study OF
Southern literary activity. even though
the work itself is as yet In the bud.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
ELIHU ROOT. Ii. D.
Honorary Degree Conferred on the
Secretary by Yale.

secretary by fnie.
NEW HAVEN. June 27.-The closing
ceremonies of commencement week at
Yale came today with the public exercises
in the chapel. As it was the last day. SO
also was it the most important of the
week. 1t was the eliminating day Of the
college year, when the college gives its dip
Tomas to its graduating classes and when
it also awards honors to noted public men.
Among the latter one OF the most popular
this year was the Ii. d. given Elihu Root.
The commencement exercises were held
in Battell Chapel, commencing at 10
o'clock By that hour the south and north
galleries and transepts were filled with
guests of the graduating ciassmen. The
procession Of undergraduates, candidates
for degrees, specially invited guests. and
graduates, the last in the order OF their
graduation. formed OIL the campus at $50,
and. headed by brass band and led by
President Hadley and the corporation and
faculty of the university. marched out by
Phelps gateway t. College Street, where
it entered the green, going as far across
the pubic square as Center Church, and
then moving again to the campus.
In Battel! President Had.ey, the corpo-
alton, and specially invited guests wro
were to receive degrees. occupied the
raised platform over the choir box, the
main body of the chapel beiEg filled with
candidates for degrees, of whom there
were over 60O. The music was furni he'd
by a student choir. augmented by the New
Haven Symphony Orchestra under the a.
rection OF Prof Sanford. Prof. Jepzon PEE
sided at the organ. The comm ncement
ode this year was written by J. ". Barne3.
of New York City. and the music by d. S.
Smith, of Toledo, Ohio. Ericsson Bush
nell, the baritone, sang the solo pats in
the ode.
Honorary degrees were conferred on The
following named men:
D. D.-The Rev. Edward D. Eaton, prs
dent of Beoit College; the Rev. William n.
Clark. professor Christian thGol gy in Col
gate University.
LII. D.-Lesis A. stimson, NJ. D.. New
York City, Cornell Medical School: E!inu
Root, Secretar. Of War Of the United
States.
NJ. A.-Samuel T. Dutton, Columbia Uni
versity; Robert E. Speer, Secretary Pes
byterian Board Of Missions: Ju' ian KsGue-
dy. the oarsman and engineer; Pouitney
Bigelow. the writer, and Calvin n. KIN
dali. superintendent of schools at Indian
apOlis.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
do not In the end sustain this loss. Il falls

do not in the end sustain this loss. 1t falls
upon the wage Garner. Competition in our
industrial system is so sharp and the cost
of production is so delicately adjusted to
this competition that employers have or
gained their business around fixed stand
ard of profit beyond which, if they fail in
the course of the business year, bankruptcy
follows. To avoid this the profits of lab-r
are a1roitly drawn upon to maintain tie
balance of sOounts. To accomplish this
with the surest results either the hours Of
labor are heightened or the wage rate is
cut somewhere along the scale.
Now. we dare say that the cowardly
mayor of St Louis and the cowardly Gov
ernor of Missouri thought they were ben
citing labor-of course to their own great
profit politicaliy-by stubbornly refusing
TO employ the means at their disposal for
the suppression OF the strike. Contempti-
bic politicians of the Ziegenhein and Steph
ignorant. not being able to see beyond
the narrow limits of their petty personal
interests and devoid of the capacity to
understand the meaning of things beyond
that limit even if they should see. Each
now, we imagine is pluming himself in his
own peculiar way upon the great populari-
~ he has gained among the masses" 1t
will not be long time before these same
masses realize that their worst enemies
during the days of furious public excite
ment, of industrial paralysis. and social
decentralization were Ziegenhein and Steph-
ems We have never known this rule to
fail We have never known the man who
falters and palters in the discharge of
great official responsibility for fear of in
currin., unpopularity who did not in the
end suffer public execr alton and cor tumely
If our fool politicians could be made to
that there is an memorable
law Of compensation in all these crises
the country would be better governed, the
balance of relations would be more even
ly preserved labor. always pitifully CROP
ing for light and honest leadership, would
be better rewarded, the standard of Amer
lean citizenship would be raised nearer
to the standard of American ideals, and
the ccuntry's costly constabulary would
become virtually useless.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
AFFAIRS In CUBA.
Havana Custom House Fraud Case
Comes Up for TrinI.

Comes Up for Trfni.
HAVANA, June 27.-The trial Of the
persons accused of defrauding the customs
has begun, but as yet nothing special has
been evolved The examination Of the 1854
witnesses, who have been called. will prob
ably make the trial long. Nearly all the
evidence is documentary. The witnesses
will mostly testify as tosthe character OF
the accused.
A Cuban policeman, nineteen years old,
who was tried on the charge of shooting
IN American, has been acquitted. The rs
cal asked the court to sentence the &C
cused to fourteen years and eight months
imprisonment
General Lacret recently asked Archbish-
OPP Sbaretti to state whether he was
working for independence or not. The
Archbishop replied that he did not wish
to enter politics. General Lacret says if
the Archbishop would give his support to
independence the Cubans would stand by
him ard recognize him as Archbishop, but
they don't want a neutral in the office.
A new paper, the Marina Guiana" has
been started here. 1t is devoted to fos
tering sailoring among the Cubans, the
protection Of the Cuban sponge fisheries,
the opening of the arsenal, and the estab-
fishing of q Cuban navy
General Lacret, editor of the Discussion"
asks what powers the newly elected mu-
Will have. He says the pres
ent officers who were nominated to their
positions. are answerable to the central
authority, owing to the almost complete
financial dependence of the municipalities
on the State Department He hopes, how
ever, that autonomy will be extended as
far as possible to the new officials.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28

(Fron the Minneapolis Tribune.)
The partition of China is opposed by number
of eminent men in the United States. who claim
that It would be iniinica to our trade interests
there. But if the European powers bent upon
If. il is not apparent how the United States can
prevent it without preparing rsef fJr war
that would eclipse in magnitude any war that
we have had heretofore. We canrot afford 10
Rght for the preservation of the integrity OF
China, and it does not appear to us that our trade
interests would suffer from partition, providing
the policy of the open door were preserved and
strictly enforced There is reason, indeed. TO
apprehcnd that the trade of the several
provinces of China would be greater under the
orderly government of the European powers. each
sovereign in its sphere, than under the inefficient
government of native rulers.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
Circulation Statement.
The situation in China.

President Mckinley has a Presidential
campaign of the front porch order on his
hands Hence. he wants TO get away to
Canton as soon as possible, and also wishes
to believe that the worst is over in China
Mr. WI, the Chinese Minister. was yes
terday able TO comfort him considerably
with an eight days old despatch from
Pekin. bnt We are apprehensive that the
good cheer it brought will not last long.
The simple truth is that the Admins
tration is trying to shut its eyes. and.
more particularly. the eyes of the Ameri-
can public to the real situation with which
IT is confronted ON the Asiatic mainland
Just at present the powers, no doubt, are
working together in harmony and frater-
nity. and may continue TO do so until Pekin
has been occupied and order restored be-
tween the capital and Taku; but, after
that, what?
Heretofore there has been always
chance that Germany might side with the
United States, England. and Japan against
the Russian and French policy and pro-
gramme CT Chinese partition. 1t Is now
apparently plain that nothing of the sort
will happen. On the contrary it seems
certain that when the question of China's
future comes up for serious discussion, as
it must within very few weeks, ii will
be seen that Germany is aligned with
Russia and France, and that Italy and
Austria are with them also. Such COM
bination will hardly fail to put an end to
the last hope for the open door" This
country has been plainly, though unoffi-
ciRlly. informed that it must take pot luck
with the concert. in the division OF China,
or be content to stay out in the cold. 1t
is mo-ally certain that Lord Salisbury
recognizes the futility of armed resistance
in China. harnpered as his Government is
in South Africa, and menaced as the
British Empire is in Afghanistan and
Egypt. Ultimately even Great Britain
will doubtless make the best of an unwel-
come situation and take what can be
gotten of the loot.
This will bring the issue squarely be-
fore Mr. Mckinley. He will have to de-
eide whether the trade OF his oil, flour
milling, steel, and packing friends is to
be shut out Of China, or is to be saved
by the acquisition of Annoy and hinter-
land for the trusts and Republican car
pet-baggers to exploit. If the decision is
one which cannot be postponed beyond
the November election, it will be made in
accordance with orders. just as the decis-
ion to violate our plain duty to Porto
Rico" was. If it can be delayed until la
ter, then it will not create any uneasiness
at the White House or Hanna Eeadquar-
tiers.
In any event it seems certain to be a
decision TO proceed in the path of impe-
rialism, and to take part and lot in the
robbery Of Chinese territory, and the
American people will resent it. Even the
benefit of forty million dollars year in
trade with the Orient, would hardly De rec
ompense for an action obnoxious to our
faith and professions and which would of
itself operate to destroy the Monroe Doc
trine. But the trusts will force Mr. Nc
Kinley's hand, and compel him to sit in
the game, should the crisis arise before
he goes out of Office.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
THE FAMINE IN INDIA.
Conditions Described to Ambassador
ChOnfe by Lord George Hamilton

ChORte by Lord George Hamilton.
NEW YORK. June 27.-Lord George
Hamilton. Secretary for India. has written
letter to Joseph Choate, American Am
bassador to Great Britain. which the latter
has forwarded to William E. Dodge Chair
man Of the Committee of One Hundred On
India Famine Relief in which he says.
THE Government Of India has under
taken for years past the general obliga-
tion OF keeping the people alive when at
tackled by famine or scarcity OF food. At
the present time there are nearly 6.cg0. 800
persons SO maintained who are located in
camps and put upon works OF utility when
capable Of work: otherwise they are sup
ported in poortouses and hospitals. So
far as the expenditure upon this system
of Wholesale relief Is concerned there is
no lack of funds at present and should
(which is improbable) the financial re-
source OF the Government Of India prove
hereafter insufficient for these purposes,
the imperial treasury would come to their
assistance. But outside the defined sphere
of Government operations there Is a vast
Held open to charity and private beneyo-
lence. From the very magnitude OF the
operations OF Government discrimination as
W Inc spScIdi wants Oh inllvldualS Is al
most impossible.
1T may be said. without exaggeration.
that the conditions now existing. and the
scale ON which Government relief is found
to be necessary. are in themselves the
strongest proof Of the need for charitable
effort to supplement, both in money and
by personal service. the work of the Gov
eminent. There is the very large class OF
those. both men and women. who. for rea-
son Of caste or from self-resDect, will
submit to any privation rather than expose
themselves to the inevitable publicity at
tending the receipt of Government. relief.
There are also the cases of the old and in
firm. Of patients in hospitals. of children
and orphans. with which 1t is especially
difficult to deal officially In this conec-
ton it should be remembered that the
funds subscribed by private charity are
by district committees. work
ing in each locality. in which the nom
official element largely predominates; and
IL is obvious that this non official element
makes the committees a more effective
agency than any purely official one could
be for dealing with the multifarious wants
Of individual sufferers"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28

Mr.. Brlstow, who has been cutting down
postal salaries and generally locking the
stable door in Cuba ex post facto. is quar-
antined in New York, but will be here
shortly. Then the Administration will be
able to determine whether or not 1t would
be safe to turn Rathbone loose and let
him come back to the States. Much, Of
course, will depend upon the temper in
which Bristow left him. If he is willing
to promise that he will be good, and espe-
cially quiet, perhaps he may be enlarged;
but there will always be a risk while he
retains life, memory, and the power oil
speech.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
Civilizations Stride.


7
IT, few years ago, any person had predicted
that the regions about the Arctic Circle would in
time lie opaned up I" civilization, that there
would In. towns, railroads. and busy train cen
t,rs he would have been looked upon as vision
ary and laughed to scCrn. Yet such condition
nj Affairs is very likely to exist, and everyone
realizes IT. Cape Nome. The site OF the great
,aId te,ds in Alaska. for instance. is only two
dcprccs below the Arctic Circle. but the rush OF
old seekers ard others is sreat that large
eity within year or two is considered practi-
cal certainty. railroad has been projected TO
H. ~ ia connect with certain other sub
Arctic towns while the new city Itself is to be
iicbtrd by electricity and to be furnished with
all the modern improvements II Is only when
such things present themselves mat the "oIiu
really realizes how rapid and irresistible the
march OF civilization 10.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
TO SHUT OUT MIDD1EMEN.
Southern Yarn Spinners to Have
Agencies In Philadelphia

CHARLOTTE. N. c., June "a COM
mtttee of eight mill-owners of this State,
constituting committee OF the Southern
Cotton Spinners' Association, will meet
at the Lafayette Hotel. Philadelphia, on
July 3, in compliance with resolution
passed by the board Of governors of the
association declaring that the decline In
yarn prices is unwarranted and recon-
mending that the matter Of establishing
agencies of their own be considered The
committee is composed OF A c. Miller,
Shelby, n. c.. Chairman; W. C. Heath,
Monroe, N. c.; George e. Wilson, Char
lotte; A. ]. Alternately. and r. S. Rein
hardt. Lincolrton. N. c.; President ]. H.
mcAden and Secretary George H. Bliss,
OF Charlotte.
member Of the committee stated that
1t was purposed to suppiant the middle
man by a direct representation of the
mills, either by establishing agencies of
Of their own or to have as representatives
three or four commission houses whose
action and attitude toward the Southern
spinners have been clearly defined and
fair.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28

CFrom the Chicago Chronice.)
The man who defed conventionlity and frankly
resortcd to symbolsm-and with success-in
going to political convention in the hat OF a
military memory for its effect upon applause and
votes Is just the man who will tear tradition
to tatters when its lingering drapery hides the
front OF his career from his and the nation's
eyes. Theodore Roosevelt will not voluntarily
consent IN elimination from the public eye Tor
four wears in any rost
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28

(Fr0m the Omaha WorId'Herald.)
Natio.ial hank currency is founded upon public
debt To preserve the lives of these banks Of
issue the public debt must be maintained, and
when the Republican party paved the way for
the retirement OF the greenbacks to make room for
notes of banks OF issue it provided for the perpe
tuity Of this debt For years the Republican
party Loasted that it was the debt-payinG party.
Now il points with pride to the fact that it has
lesislated to make TIE debt perpetual.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28

The old postal game of 1896 appears to
have begun again. Democratic commit
tees are complaining that campaign litera-
ture fails to reach addresses. OF course 1t
does. and will continue to do So Accidents
will happen in the worst regulated fam
lilies; then why not in the best? The post
office is not altogether the most eligible
place to deposit tracts containing the true
history Of the Hanna Administration.