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New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
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Macrum is wanted. Immediately, if not sooner.
Wanted. TO emerge from the Cavernous and re-
sounding recesses of his self-sOught gmlet hole,
and TO pay attention to a grievous tale of woe.
In truth it might be not only tale of woe, but
of battle. murder and sudden death, We're
we not somewhat more brimming and bubbing
full of the milk of human kindness than that
stern and remorseless rebuker of secret alliances
and violated mails For there is trouble in the
world. We have a grievance, with a big. big
G.: away up in G.. not to say the Gee Gees. Or
a friend and correspondent of ours at Johannes
burg, Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek, has. Or
perhaps both of us together. Pray observe:
There lies before us at this moment letter.
addressed legibly to The NeW-York Tribune
New-York City, Z. s. America, via Lourenco
lent Macrum the neutral channels through
which it was to come1 1t was sealed and there
were placed upon it one half-penny and two
penny stamps of the q. A. r. aforesaid. 1t
should have come straight through to us with
out delay and with the inviolability of the
sealed mails saCredly observed. But no. 1t was
feloniouSly and treacherously and deSpotically
opened by Sitting the end of the envelope. and
doubtless its contents We're examined. BY
whom? The land grabbing British, who de-
stroyed the peace of mind of Macrum? Not So
BY the pusillanimous Portuguese at LourencO
Marques trembling under the menace of Brit
ish wrath? Not by a long chalk. No; no enemy
hath done this. but the Beers themselves, It
the patriot Government of the Transvaal
that thus violated the secrecy of the mails The
authors of the outrage stand confessed. The
despoiled envelope bears, pasted across the
mutilated end, a pink paper patch, inscribed
with the name of the Postdepartment H. A.
Republiek, and with the explanation that the
letter GeOpend onder Krijgswet. And as
the telltae patch is printed. may reasonably
assume that many more like it were made for
use many more letters which the gueless
shepherds of the Transvaal have been busily
opening!
Which is why remark that Macrum is
wanted No other than he is equal to deal with
this international crisis. If the opening of a
letter by the base minons of an effete mon
archy caused him to come home from the an
tipodes. while nations his eye suspended
waited though the offensive act was promptly
disavowed what shall be done when friendly
and free republic officially does the same base
deed? The violated fabric of that envelope cries
TO Macrum for swift and stern redress The
outraged confidence of our correspondents in
quiry about hay press to be answered in the
Asked and Answered Column of The Weekly
Tribune demands inexorable retribution If
Macrum came home for one such deed he must
come to the surface from the pulled-in hole for
this! We shall not be satisfied with this graft
flying reminder of the wide circulation of The
Tribune in the Zuid Afrikaansche Repubiek.
We propose to have our subscribers there pro-
tected in their inquiries about hay presses even
if it takes Macrum himself to do II.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Some of the delegates to the Methodist General
Conference in Chicago. have had difficulty in find
ing the churches and other buildings in which the
afternoon committee meetings are held. One after
last week a group of delegates who were
locking for the First Methodist Church Building. in
which committee meeting to be held
wandered into the beautiful building of the Cen
traI Young Mems Christian Association. IN La
Salle-st. They opened various doors on the hrst
floor, looking for their brethren. and finally got
into the natatoriun with the huge swimming bath
Immediately before them. Surely there is some
mistake about this" said of the delegates, as
he looked at the big pool this isn't Baptist
conference"
Rhoda Royal show will vote the Democratic ticket
next fall. He doesn't like the present prosperity
the season at Geneva SATURDAY and played Ashts- Is ia
aggregation ;i have been compelled to do the work
that thirty laborers usually perform. II is all be
I Sever eeS Saw @ such l dearth of mem E7erybody
seems 10 be employed Property Is so prey prevalent
pIoyment. Usually men come to US and beg for
work: now we have 10 beg for men to work.
(Conneaut News
A Western Congressman recently received the
following note from Of his rural constituents TO
whom he had sent a consignment of garden seed:
Kind sir and esteemed friend have the seeds.
They came this morning and suit very we'll.
speciay the cabbage seed which grows we'll in this
soil. please send me loads of fertiliser and new
harrer and if you could send me a man for couple
of DAYS would he obliged. With this help know
the garden stuff will al rite and will send
some to you and the president Your grateful well
wisher and Supporter
Poverty.-"Oh." sang the poet. how sweet is
poverty .
some leisure time their hands The Porto Ricau
tariff was res adjudicata. and the Dewey boom
was hardly vet in a condition to take up.
Let play practical joke on this poet!' said
the Fates.
Accordingly they bestowed upon him six homely
daughters and laughed loudly to see him huStling
The talk about the revision of the Westminster
Confession has brought to light poem written by
a clergyman who settled in Maiden, Mass.
from 1856 1908. II description of the
sented the Lord replying to the cry for mercy
from babies that had not lived day:
You sinners are, and such share sinners may
expect
Such you shall have; for I do but my
own elect
Yet to compare your sin with theirs who lived a
longer time
1 do confess yours Is much less. though every
sins crime.
to dwell,
But unto you I shall allow the easiest room in
hell.
Il understand you we'll off before you mar
ried." said the lawyer.
Yes" replied the witness, but like a fool.
didn't know it."-(Green Bag.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
APPRAISERSHIP APPOINTMENTS

IL the position taken by the Civil Service
Reform Association concerning the Inheritance
tax appraiserships shall prove to be well
founded every good citizen will have occasion
10 rejoice. Seldom has any State seen a more
discreditable piece Of spoils politics than was
displayed in the appointments which Controller
Morgan made forced TO make, under
The law which recently received Governor
RooseveIt's signature. That law In itself had
some honest advocates Something of the kind
was long ago urged by Controller Roberts as a
measure Of economy and reform. But whatever
good there was in ii was more than discounted
bY the brutally frank and cynical surrender of
The offices created by the act to the politicians
who as measure Of safety had to be plaza ted
hy the organization or as a measure Of pity to
lac provided for in the hour of political adversely
Mazei. Coggeshall and all the rest were con-
vincing evidence that the law was passed not
with the honorable motives from which ii origi-
mated, but in a sordid and unblushing grab for
offices. If the political appointments should be
declared Illegal and the places thrown open to
competition all possible good from the law
would be accomplished, the State would be
saved from the danger of these place hunters I'm
responsible position, and the Republican party
would be rescued from the burden which the
organization, through the Controller has placed
upon it.
The Civil Service law on its face would seem
IL include these appraisers in the competitive
class. Under Section Is that class includes all
positions "fOr which X is practicable to deter
mime the merit and fitness of applicants by
competitive examination. and shall include all
positions now existing or hereafter created Of
"whatever functions, designations or compen-
"sation, in each and every branch of the classi-
"fed service, except such positions are In
''the exempt class. the non-competitive class or
"fhe labor class" These appraisers are mani
festly not IN the labor class, they not in the
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10

sold stocks that Its prices had cut off part
of the demand. Nor is 81 40 low price, for all
through 1898 the quotation ranged from So 81
TO 81 o. and since the collapse in November,
1892 after the election of Cleveland, the price
scarcely reached S4, except for few days,
until 1899.
One other illustration has interest because it
seems to be connected with the largest CONNER.
cial failure that has occurred in this city fol
time that of silk importing house for
nearly S1,000,0OO, with assets reported remark
ably small. Whether the combination which
raised the prices of silk throughout the world
was mainly of Japanese origin and management
or not. it lifted Italian, Japanese and Shanghai
quotations above 81 in February of last year,
after they had ruled below that figure ever since
October, 1896. From S4 II in February they
mounted to 81 so in July and So Az In December,
keeping pace with the prices of metals controlled
by the great combinations completely as if
there had been a compact between the ruling in
terestS. When iron products began to yield silk
also gradually declined but at the end of April
there came n drop Of 80 cents in Italian and
Shanghai, 40 cents in Canton and 30 cents in
Japan filature, so that the price is now lower
than 1t has been since April of last year. In this
also it seems that restricted consumption
resulting from high prices has the same natural
effect, with the price apparently sustained too
long by commercial speculation, as in various
other products controlled by manufacturing
combinations.
The conclusion to which these events point is
that combinations and specuations are alike
subject in the long to the same ineXOrable
laws of trade which govern open competition
between individuals. When market is crowded
for all it can get of any product regardless of
price, free competition between individuals
about timely reaction. Individuals, firms,
spectators. manufacturing concerns. all get
loaded with products at high prices and when
signs of reaction appear they strain every nerve
to delay it until they realize. 1t has not yet
appeared that the strongest of the combinations
more BILE to resist the downward tendency
than some purely speculative cliques have been
and cotton is to-day held much above its
normal price, with good crop promised. as any
product which the combinations control. With
all, no matter what the form, the curtailment
of purchases because prices are judged too high
has in the end irresistible influence. Nor
have the great combinations power TO avoid the
losses resulting from undue accUmulatols of
stool; which the ordinary speculator has to face
in wheat cotton, lead or iron. When the de-
mand falls below the increasing supply the
wisest combination or speculator is thc first to
tighten the load
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
PARIS AND FRANCE

Much discussion has been provoked by the re-
cent municipal and communal elections in
France. These elections, although they deal
with local offices only almost invariably turn
upon issues of national politics, the French not
having learned the art of divorcing local from
general interests. They are therefore considered
significant Of popular feeling toward the Gov
ernment of the day, perhaps even more so than
the polling in a general election. The first re-
turns Of the recent voting were from the city of
Paris. There the tide seemed to be setting
against the Government. The Nationalists-
euphemism for Reyolutionists-made some gains
at Republican expense. At that the various
factions of the Opposition rejoiced and some
friends of the Government were dismayed
mindful of the tradition that Paris is France
Later returns from other cities and from the
departments generally came to hand, and
showed a different result. There was a pretty
general strengthening Of the Republican forces
all along the line, more than forty municpali-
ties having been redeemed by the Government
party from Opposition control
The full results for the whole nation are not
yet known, but there appears to be ground for
confidence that they will be decidedly favorable
TO the republic and to the present Government
Thus the departments viii have reversed the
judgment of Paris, and that will be the really
significant feature, and the most satisfactory
one, Of the whole case. For Paris, while it is
the political, social and intellectual head Of
France, should not be the whole Of France. It
is also the centre of the forces of disorder and Of
crime THE mob Of Paris" has become proven
bal through many a disastrous experience In
scarcely any State is large city the best ex-
ponent of civic life and public spirit. II would
be a sad day for Great Britain If q Trafalgar
Square mob were made the arbiter of its des.
tiny. We can imagine few things worse than
would be the extension of New -Yorks Tam
many rule over this whole Nation. In even n
more marked degree the mob of Paris embodies
that which is least admirable in France. The
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
OREDLENT COMRLNATInNs

Slowly men are getting to understand that
mighty combinations of capital do not escape
the laws of trade and Of competition which have
driven many small producers into consolida-
ton. Some of the lessons which have been
learned in these days are not entirely pleasing
Not even the shallowest speculator in the Street
is befooled any longer with the idea that there
was nothing the matter in the Steel and Wire
company except the wickedncss OF Gates who
reduced prices $50 a ton without any reason
Whether his previous statements were all true
is another question. but he invites everybody to
prove, if possible. that the company was
wronged by the statement that high prices had
cut down sales and caused products to accumu-
late Then came the closing of three Federal
Steel mills because they had been engaged in
making rods for the Steel and Wire The aver
age man would at once infer that the company
could not now take contracts for the products
of those mills without breaking prices and pre-
ferred the obvious loss involved by temporary
closing Of works. But the closing of other works
Of the same company at Joliet, which appear
from the directory of the Iron and Steel Asso-
citation TO produce 10000 tons Of billets. of
which the rod mills use about half. is not vet
explained.
The movement is not confined to steel COM
panles. The price of lead has been held without
change at 81 20 a hundred pounds by the Amer
lean Smelling and Refining Company since last
December and the company is said to produce
10000 out Of 100000 tons produced an
nually by all the works in the country. Yet
it has suddenly reduced the price to 81 40
which is shade below the quotation 81 40
which 1t established early in May last year
and held until July on the upward move
ment Everybody infers what he pleases but
well managed company would now hardly
make so great change suddenly if it had
not become convinced by accumulation Of un.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
GOLF CARRIED TO EXCESS
PROFITLEss COURSE FROM THE ALPINE
TO BELLEVUE HOSPITAL

Golf Is generally supposed 70 be one 81 the
gentlest games going The PLAYER can take hlz
time about IT, and it is especially adapted 20 the
aged and the infrm while on the other hand since
the player IS not forced 10 take any more time
than he feels that he needs it is adapted also n
those who desire more violent exercise. Anythi7-
so popular as golf is likely 20 develop into mad
ness, just as bicycling did but few violent cases
have hitherto been heard Of The craze Of the
bicycle widely diffused that the madness
appeared 10 be in the community rather than IN
the individual But golf is more expensive ard
smaller part Of the community could afford H.
so that its maddening effects when they did come
were more concentrated.
They came yesterday morning 70 Charles Ter
hume. who lives in the Alpine at Broadway and
Ihlrty-third-st IL was $50 o'clock when he de-
cded that the time had come to play golf and
that the links OF Broadway and Thirty-fourth-st
would have TO do since there was no better 50
near He soon came in contact with bunker In
the shape of the door of the house. But part %
1t was of glass and he smashed it with his sticks
and got through the opening. with few cuts IL
is things like this that make golf so expensive
Then he pursued a cable and a policeman pur-
sued him. The cable eluded him. and he
eluded the policeman
He through Thirty-fourth-st with his sticks
and tried 10 find a hole in the WaIdorf-Astoria
but they were mostly closed that hour Some
golf players spend good deal of time IN putting
but there was no time for that in this game Drv-
ing and lofting the only plays when policemen
are after you. Terhune drove across to the Cam
bridge. the other side OF Thirty-third-st. The
night clerk had time enough 10 be considerably
startled. but not enough 10 get IT, before ths
player was OFF again, but this time he did not Get
far before policeman caught him.
And now he began TO get into holes indeed. First
1t was the Thrtieth-st. police station and then Il
Bellevue Hospital. and there they thought him
proper subject for examination as his sanity.
But they did not, in the end, decide that ne
proper subject for treatment an insane patient.
He grew calmer after time. and IL
nounced that ne perfectly sane Then he
discharged. There no great harm done. ex-
cept to the door at the Alpine, but it may be
sarded established that golf is less expensive =
it is played recognized links. and in Broad
way or the more important cross streets.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10

exempt class by enumeration of the Civil Ser
vice law, and they cannot be In the exempt
class otherwise or in the non-competitive class
except on the ground that examinations are not
practicable; and this the association seems to
show is not true, for officers performing analo-
gous functions in the city Civil Service and
under the National Government are chosen
under the operation Of the competitive system
II is also plain that these positions cannot be
regarded as in the unclassified service, and
therefore at the disposal of politicians The
unclassified service is carefully defined and
enumerated. and there is not even a suggestion
of place for the appraisers in that list. There
fore they are in the classified service. and If
appraisers working for the city and the Nation
can be selected practically by competitive exam
ination appraisers for the State can be so
selected.
The general law made to carry out the self
executing Civil Service provisions of the Constl-
tuition establishes a method by which positions
existing at the time of its passage and also
those like these appraiserships afterward Gre
ated may be filled and it is not to be supposed
that the Controller can get around that law and
negative the plain intent Of the Constitution on
rne plea tnar special law gives him the
appointment. We hope that the politicians who
were settling down to the enjoyment of fat jobs
will have to their brains TO retain them in
competition against other men with competence
and without claims.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
NOTES or TIE STAGE.

The third performance OF Phyllis" by the Stroir
ers given the WaldorfAstoria last nsu,
for the benefit OF the Rrightside Day Nursery sn'
kindergarten The benefits for the rest or the
week will be: This afternoon. New-YorK Eye ". u
Ear lnhrmary; this evening Harlem ENc, ,aIss, Is,isn
WomanS Work; tomorrow evening. St,ls.l-
Home for the Aged. Saturday matinee, Metasn Mtetans
and Babies Hospital; Saturday evening No'"l''
University
Miss Bessie Macdonald viii make her local. 0ps'
attic debut next Monday night rs Fl3ua' !" .
castle Square Opera ComPauys preducSStsS,ris
'MignOn." which Is 70 alternate with Tam h'"Se'
at the American Theatre next week.
The Power OF Darkness" by Count TOlstoi. VIZ
be given in English on the afternoon OF May
the Empire Theatre by the graduating class Z"
year of the American Academy OF Drama a1S sS,sIish
Miss Isabel r HapgoOd has made me .-ift.s~i
Translation with the approval OF Count tSo.Sfsi
Preceding the TolStoi drama VIII oe Pi0
Alfred de Mussets "A Caprice.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
AFTER TIE PASSION PLAY.
DANIEL FROHMAN WANTS To BRING IT
To THIS COUNTRY.

DANIEL FRoHMAN WANTS To BRING IT
To THIS COUNTRY
Daniel Frohman. who sailed for Europe vester-
day is quoted saying Just before he started: Il
want 10 get the Passion Play TO this country. In
AFRAID It will be impossible. but intend to make
gigantic effort"
1t will be impossible. and Mr. Froh1nan OF any
body else whose thoughts turn that way may
well abandon the effort There IS no stage in this
city, probably. in this country. on which tire
Passion Play could he placed so as 70 look II
does at Oberammergau Such a stage miSht he
built in the Madison Square Garden. But that is
the least difficulty About six hundred players
would have TO be brought TO this country. and it
would be considerable expense; but that asain Is
among the lesser difficulties The real iusur-
moUntable is that the villagers of Ooeram-
mergau would never, under any consideration give
their play elsewhere than at home, nor even there
except every tenth year. II is not an amusement
10 them; 1t is the sacred OF religious services,
and they would deny their religion give
il for any other purpose manager might as
well try to get the Archbishop TO celebrate mass
his stage.
Several years ago the people OF Oberammersau
refused offer of $500 for two performances OF
their play in Vienna only a few miles from home.
That would seem to make the price OF bringing
proposed 10 bring them To Chicago for the Woruds
Fair. At that time an influential citizen or ooer-
denial of the possibility OF any such thins ever
happening
About eighteen years ago S1Imi Morse ard others
projected Passion PLAY in this country II W. a.
that time that John Stetson. who interested N
IT, was anxious 70 do the thing IN style anI nI~I 20
have one hundred apostles, instead or twelve -
play was performed for a short time IN san rFd--
cisco, hut prohibited in New-York. and iarse
sum was lost on H. Salmi Morse afterwards c''a-
mitted suicide
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10

TIE TRIBUNE, DafLy and Sunday. uW be
.7eliuered By any nc1cSdealer, in this city,
or any other part of f:e United States or
Canada, 10 roAr here. cfice, store or room
an the hOteI, upon rece:rtng rOHr order
TO that effect. and for any ferIod, long or
short Or The paper 1rW be saUed for .yOE
daily upon similar order Maize SIRE of
The TRIBUNE By LeaUing an order at the ne1rs
stand
Readers 1CN confer fapor by reporting
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For subscription rates, bp mai, see obpo-
site 5a9e
New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
MRS. GOULD ABSENT FROM COURT
SHE DOES NOT ANSWER WHEN HER NAME
is CALLED IN SUIT FOR DAMAGES

Mrs. Howard Gould did not answer when she was
called under the name of Kate Clemmons' be-
fore Justice Leventrtt. in Part of the Supreme
Court yesterday. She wanted a witness be-
fore trial in suit brought by clifford Leigh
actor. against Katherine Clemmons and Colonel
William f. Cody to recover S1500 damages for
breach of contract when they had the Lady OF
Venice company on the road In 1892 and 1893.
The order for Mrs. Gould's examination was OBJ
tanned from Justice Freedman last Friday In order
that she might be questioned TO her connection
with the company and the extent OF her response
Nility for any contracts made by the manager.
Herman l. Lurie, Leigh's attorney. said ne had
proof of the service OF the order on Mrs. Gould
but would produce II later David May OF
Howe & Hummels Office, told Justice LeVentritt
that MI. tummel had received an order Satur-
day staying Mrs. Goulds examination until the
determination of motion 10 have II set aside
This motion was on the calendar for to-day before
Justice Andrews. II MIR LuTte chose 10 so with
the proceeding in defiance Of Justice FTeedmans
stay, he could do so and take the consequences
Mr.. Lurie said he wanted Mrs. Gould's default
noted by the Court Justice Leventrtt said he
could do nothing In the matter, and refused note
Mrs. Gould's default
Mrs. Gould has sailed for Europe In the steam
yacht Niagara