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New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

speaking English. were at once ac-
credited to John Bulls dominions. and the natives
desired 20 have us know they despised US. We
were greeted with "Vive les Beers" Down with
the English" Connected English. but they can't
fight This to highly interesting. but
tempted to inform them that we were from
the only country that knows how to fight; that we
do the job up in couple of hours or so. and do IL
up effectually: and that we could fight TO beat
the Dutch" IL necessary.
Cards are not played as much the cars as
they used to be- said the commercial traveiier.
three or four games whist euchre. poker seven
up. going on in car, and wherever four OF sITT mTe
TO be lively game of draw in progress So Soburpan
and a light the sD engaged in
But ali this has been changed Nowadays it Is the
hnd m hns in the Ask K0ra 19 sss u he
to take yo RaPS W sTspso9T whs 9r ook An
worse. he is entirely justified in his suspicious; r
have been the harvest field for gamblers; bunso nS
men and short card experts. They have worked tne
fTn rom 70 2ermon9 ea to FiorGS they have worked
kinds of fmflam games until now it is almost 81 I'M I'M
smoking compartment of Pullman without the
man Who has been bitten once doesn't care to have
the experience repeated.'-(Rochester Post-Ex-
press.
Gadzooks dn restauranp-Don't let US sit at
that table; I gave the waiter tip yesterday, and
he will expect another to-day.
Zounds-Wel how about this table?
Gadzooks-Won't do; l have never feed the
waiter and he would doubtless expect me to begin
to-day
A stranger from the country rushed around the
hotels all afternoon to catch glimpse OF the Al
miraI and his staff. He into the Leland ana,
going up to the clerk. asked. Say, where are the
big guns?
"Over there" replied the clerk pointing 10
group of men in immaculate dress and SILK mats.
The stranger gazed
Mice looking crowd" he said to the clerk.
The stranger sided up to the distinguished visit
o2s and made remark about the weather Ine
man nearest him answered pleasantly. The man
from the country swelled with pride. Have a
drink re asked. The man in broadcloth de-
cned The man from the country sidled back to
the clerk
Kind of chilly crowd" he said.
yep" replied the clerk.
Don't drink" said the nan from the country.
Nope said the clerk. . .
..Funny gang of naval fellows" said the man.
They amt naval fellows" said the clerk
they're Methodists.'
Great Scott said the man from the country
And / asked that fellow have drink and III
bet he's a bishop. Say, here's where sneak
And he did. 49, :.
ITS pretty hard said the clerk, ito be in
CITY where there's a strike. Methodist conference
and a reception to a great man. A fellow can't
tell whether he's humping into crowd OF walk.
ing delegates a lot of ministers gang OF
heroes Nashville American
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

discrepancy between retail and wholesale prices
of such articles at different retail stores. cater
Ing for different classes OF trade or having more
or less favorable loca tions. has at all times pre-
vailed not merely in tn but in many other
articles, so that the cost to consumers does not
depend In the least degree upon the duties
charged on one material or another used in the
making of tnplates. upon the wholesale
cost of the plates themselves, nor even upon
the wholesale cost of the tipware, but upon the
state of local trade in the retail stores. The
fact which it is useful TO have in mind. if the
tnplate question is to be discussed, is that it
has nothing whatever to do with the cost of the
dinner pail, the tin cup or the milkpan.
This fruitful source of deception cleared away
it can he stated that the cost of tinware has not
been advanced in consequence of the duty, and
could not be since the actual cost Of the tin
plate is less than II was before the Mckinley
duty was imposed. For many years this eoun
try had been paying all sorts of prices for tim
plates. generally higher than those now quoted
for better grade of plates now made in Amer
lean works. The duty stopped that tax, and in
due time il will be found that domestic compe-
ttion will stop any unreasonable charge by
home producers They are getting large profits
now in spite of the higher cost of materials and
labor. and works at this time being erected
to start competition with them. But whether
the makers get for the time larger profit than
should be maintained is exactly like the ques
ton whether cotton growers should get over
cents for cotton wheat growers over ST
for wheat. Men in all markets take advantage
of the opportunity to get high prices when they
can because they know full well that other
times are coming in which they will try In vain
to sell their full product at much lower prices
and will score losses instead of profits. When
the wheat rises the consumer has to pay. But
when tinpates rise the buyer of tin dishes does
not pay the difference.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11
REPEBLTCAy CONVENTIONS.

The Republican party is behaving cTeditably
and deserving success. Those who read the
records of the various State conventions recently
held must have observed in their conduct and
nfterances al eeyatug sense of worldwide
responsibility. In that presence men of character
are ashamed 10 push selfish rivalripS or honest
differences of pel sonai opinion 10 the injury Of
the orga nization upon which depends so much
of the worlds present and future. Only the
cheapest of cheap demagogue risk the fate
of such an organization 10y seIfseeking tricks
Men large enough 10 have sincere differences
regarding the policy of the organization are
forced 10 realize that il would be an act OF
supreme folly aud wickedness 10 expose the
party TO defeat through excessive or untimey
suppression OF individual beliefs 1t is DO
cowardiy compromise which this sense of far
reaching responsibility promotes. bat an honor
able and genuine harmony respecting essentials
which bears ever in mind the supreme inlpor-
tance of an organization consecrated to the
welfare OF mankind aud of all that is necessary
10 IFS progress.
In several OF the States there have been sharp
controversies which have scented 10 threaten
the success Of the party. II is gratifying to
find that tie conventions have met these differ
enees il a STRAIGHTFORWARD and manly way and
ia almost every instance with the promise of
good results. The sense of great responsibility
has helped the majority TO pui aside mere
facfious wrangies and contests about the distri-
button of bonors and Offices as unworthy of men
who have their part 10 do in shaping the deaii-
lies of the world If ia one instance or anot her
the majority has seemed mistaken in its iudg-
uent, even those who dissent will admit that il
has honestly tried TO do its best for the welfare
of the party and the couniry. IN many years of
constant strife and rivalry and clash,ng Of
opinions there has been no other year in which
is spirit of the State conventions has been
more clearly shown.
The unanimify of The party in support Of
President Mckinley is gratifying. though ex-
pected. Long ago il was clear that the desire
for his denomination would he found 40 general
as TO be irresistible. Platforms adopted by the
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11
THE GOVERNOR AT H4SHfNGTOS.

Governor Roosevelt is to be congratulated
upon the incidents and the outcome of his visit
10 the National capital. where he has received
many polite attentions and obtained much inter
eSting infol nation. During the last four months
his literary and oratorca! engagements, together
with the not inconsiderable amount of work
attaching TO the Executive office at Albany have
kept him exceedingly busy. and while there is
fortunately no reason 10 suppose that his physi-
cal yigor has been depleted he has doubtless
found brief period Of social and domestic
relaxation enjoyable But more than this, his
mind has been relieved of an apprehension
which until now he has been unable to shake
off and he will return with light heart as well
clear conscience.
Governor Roosevelt has been personally con
vinced for some time that there reason
in morals or politics why he should not take a
denomination TO his present Office instead of
conSenting to accept the second place the
National ticket. Indeed, he has repeatedly
assured all concerned that he could be more
useful TO the party as the Republican candidate
for Governor of New-York than as the Repub-
lican candidate for Vice President of the United
States. But. though his own mind was fully
made up on this point. he has been constantly
burdened with the thought that other National
leaders finding 1t difficult to accept his
judgment. ana fnat PRESIDENT Mckinley in par
tcular. feeling that he could not spare him as
running mate, might be led 10 cherish dstruSt
not only of his sagacity but of his loyalty
II can readily be understood, therefore that
the Governor went 10 Washington in a some
what uneasy frame of mind. But. as often hap
pens when disquetng situation Is coura-
geously confronted he found at once that he
had no cause for worry. The President and
his advisers convinced that it Is not essential
TO the suecesS of the National ticket that Gov
ernOr Roosevelt should be the candidate for
Vice. President, and are even hopeful that the
Administration will develop such strength in
the campaign as 10 make a valuable contri-
button to the Governors chances for reelection
in case he should be renominated. He will con
sequenty return after restful sOiOurn among
old friends and admirers with the gratifying
assurance that he will be subjected to no embar-
RAISING pressure al the Philadelphia Convention
from delegates enjoying the Presidents conf
dence, or be subsequently made to feel that he
Is in the slightest degree object of disap-
proval and resentment The Governors Wash-
ington visit was well timed and has already
been well rewarded.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11
PERSONAL.
the same.

Professor Henry c. Adams of the University of
Michigan. will give the annual address at the COM
mencement of the University of Kansas.
city of Paris at the Exposition four fragments of
low relief sculpture which ornamented the old
statue of Louis XIV on the Place des VICTORIES
before the great revolution The fragments found
their way to England during the upheaval in
France, and We're given to Queen Victoria.
Professor Frank w Taussig of Harvard Uni
Versity, is announced deliver the annual address
before the University of Missouri on June l.
A Danish physician who has just returned from
Persia told by of the Shahs physicians
that Muzaffer-ed- Din Mira is suffering from a
menacing form of diabetes. Advantage will there
fore be taken of his presence in Europe try a
months treatment at Contrexeville. The Court
doctors fear the gaStrOnomc and festive side of
Paris where the Shah will stay only for a week
Proba bly, NJ. Delcasse will visit the Sovereign Of
Persia at the French watering place
President Eliot of Harvard said recently that a
greater proportion Of Harvard men going into
journalism and literature than into any other busf-
ness or profession, except possibly the law. And
ii is good place for them to CO. he added
EDWARD c. Delano. the Superintendent of
Schools of Chicago, identified with the cfty's
school system forty-four years ago assistant
tea cher in the first high school He worked his
way upward until he became head of the normal
department, in which capacity he served for
twenty years He appointed a district super
ntendent in 1877.
The proposed reception to General Otis in
Rochester will take place on June 15 four days be-
fore the meeting of the Republican National Con-
occasion would be opportune for starting a Vice
Presidential boom for him.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

come with proper training. Men ike Booker
Washington do not ask any white man to make
them unwelcome guests. They do their work as
self-respecting men, and let their neighbof 40
his and that is race adjustment. If the South
can educate its present menacing mass OF blacN
and white ignorance and Ia wlessness the soclal
relations, and even thc political relations. can
be left to look after themselves The Booker
Washingtons make no trouble. political or SOCIAL
The South cannot get along industrally With
out the black man. and it cannot saTely get
along with him for any length of time by
policy of repression. That reacts on the doml-
nant race. as the Montgomery speakers them
selves testify. DR.. FrSsels view that the
kernel of the race difficulty is the illiteracy-not
among both races is. ii seems to us the right
one and the South will he well advised If 1t
turns for its first step in practical solution OF IFS
problem to finding ways and means OF helping
the white boy and girl as we'll the black boy
and girl of the great Southern country districts
to lead better. more useful and more hopeful
lives In undertaking such task it would be
entitled 10 and would have the sympathy ana
practical aid OF the whole country, for the
trouble of the South is the trouble Of the Ma
ton Nobody at the North who watches the sit
uation would wish to hold ont anything but a
helpful and friendly hand.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

conventions may also be commended in almost
every case for moderation and dignity of state
ment. With good reason Republicans feel that
the wonderful change from prostraton TO pros
perity has been in great degree due to the re-
turn of the Government ia Republican princl-
pies. and that this fresh experience is the
strongest argument that can be offered in de-
fence of the principles and the men who have
been trusted to apply them. In the treatment OF
new questions the relations of the Nation with
its dependencies and the course to be pursued
toward Industrial combinations. the conventions
have shown sound The right principles
have heen stated. and the effort to cross all
Streams before reaching them has been avoided
s'ith creditai,e unanlmity.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11
THE T4LK OF THE DAY.

A Confederate veteran is thus quoted in .H1The
New Orleans Times Democrat: Il don't take
much stock In the theory that the superior tactics
of the Beers have been due to their foreign Off
GERS. The strategy by which they have outwitted
the British time and again during the present cam
paign is book strategy at ALL 1t is the kind of
cunning that is developed by frontersmen and
pioneers. who learn it from the savages whom they
are compelled to fight for existence. In the Rev
olution good many of leaders, including
Washington himself, adopts in that variety
of warfare and they routed the enemy more than
once by tactics that upset everything laid down
by the authorities 1t seems to me that the entire
history of the Boer campaign shows the handlworlx
of the hunter and trapper rather than the modern
scientific soldier, and whatever credit attaches to
their successes belongs to the Beers themselves"
An Observation-Disclosures here old chap
what do you mean by taking my Jokes and passing
them on as , Your own?
natured sort of fellow and don't mind taking
joke from frend.-(Chicago News
DR. Samuel Dixon. the president of the PenpsvI-
vania Academy OF Natural Sciences In PhiladeI-
phia has a large aquarium containing goldfish a nd
marine creatures which he is in ha bit of feed
ing every morning. During the winter he wore
dark-colored clothing and he ap-
preached the glass tank all the fish came to the
surface of the water looking for crumbs Chang
ing his clothing to light colored fabrics the first
OF May, the fish failed recognize him. and went
they began to recognize his face as he approach
the aquarium. and rose to the surface for their
food from his hands. His friends. who know the
tenderness of his heart that he had ordered
an extra black serge suit to please the fish when
they gave In and allowed him to appear in gray.
IN CENTRAL PARK
In Central Park. in softened suise
The childrens happy, gladstone cries
Blew DER the meadows verdant sheen.
High midst the branches all unseen
The squirrel chartered Ger his prize
In glinting lake and tender skies
found the color of yodf eyes.
And took new pleasure OF the scene
In Central Park.
AId you, my love all nature wise,
Found fresh delight and new surprise
In every leaf and blade OF green;
And never knew, nor cared, i Ween.
That | that day found Paradise
In Central Park.
-tRchard Stillman Powell In The Smart Set
THE Kansas City Journal says: Miss Anna
Neis the Topeka girl doing Europe. stopped for
a few hours with her party at station In Brus-
sels Our group was noticed says she, and. as
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11
TIN PLATES AND DISHES.

One small falsehood needs to be nailed early
before ii has gained such start that the truth
may never catch II. The people are frightfully
robbed by the tinpate tariff. it Is said the
cost of all tinware having been advanced 30 Der
cent and the profits All going to a greedy trust
There is occasion for any particular tender
ness Of feeling toward this one of many consoli-
datiOns. ana the whole truth about it, no matter
how unfav0rahle it might be- could have no
practical bearing on the tariff question. For tin
plates. |. {. Bessemer coke 10S pounds, sold here
at s. II box early in September. the month be-
fore the Mckinley tariff was imposed while the
Bessemer iron from which they were made was
selling at S1S at Pitsburg and the tin used in
tin brings 30 cents, the Bessemer pig S2i 80 al
Pittsburg. and the tnpates only $3.50 here
The wages Of labor have been greatly advanced.
the steel for the sheets has risen over third in
cost. all the processes Of manufacture from pig
to plate have become more costly, the two and
n half pounds of tin required for box has
risen from 54la cents to % cents, and the tin
plates bring 81 cents box less than they did
before the Mckinley duty was imposed.
But the particular Gntruth which needs at
tention is that the cost of tin utensils has been
advanced to consumers by this duty. Those
who remember an exhaustive investigation of
this question by The Tribune in 1892 will ut
once perceive that the thing can be proved ap-
parently, and yet have truth in 1t. For in
stances by the score were then given of retail
prices actually paid at different stores in this
city Oh the same date the utensils being brought
away for accurate comparison of quality. rang
ing all the way from to Il cents for the
same article and for others In like proportion.
Ii wonld be the easiest thing In the world 10
quote with absolute veracty the cents
charged at one store for the earlier date and the
81 cents charged al the store around the corner
for a later date. while in fact both stores were
all the time selling each article without any
change in prices. 1t was also shown that retail
prices OF many such articles had been precisely
the same at each of the different classes OF
stores for five years or more. but that the
profits between the wholesale cost of the uten-
sils and the retail prices obtained for them We're
from 40 TO 100 per cent in four cases. from 100
to 2D per cent in ten eases from 200 10 300 per
cent In six cases. 300 per cent In one. and 900
per cent In another case. so fha. fluctuations in
the wholesale prices could have no effect what
eyerlupon the charges at retail
. II Is, not necessary TO say that the same wide
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

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Amnesmerfs.


ACADEMY OF MJ-SfC-s.Is-way Down East
AMERICAN THEATRES: :1o-Iohensrin
ttsOADVAY-s-B Ben TIur.
tASINo@s-Jhe Casino Girl.
CRITERION THEA1,RE--s:I5-The Pride Of Jennico.
DAYS. THEATRE.s:I5-A Runaway Girl.
EDEN MI q. n. II u. T.-NaSworks Grand
Concert and Cinematogrsph.
EMPIPE THEATRES 20-I.orf and Lady Aigy.
FoIsRTEENTH STREET THEATRE-s--The Great Ruby.
GARDEN THEATRE -S-Hearts Are Trumps.
GARRfCk THEATRE Sherlock Holmes
GRAND CENTRAL. PALACE 70 II p. nl--Pfinting
show
GRAND OPERA ffOT-SE-s-Cleppatra
HARLEM OPERA HOUSES :I5-Hagbera Frietchie.
KEITH s@-ontinIous Performance
KSTCKERBOCEER THEATRE -S:15-Robin Hood.
LycETM THEATRES 30 E,erdersde.
MURRAY HEId1-2-s-Tady B0uatiful.
NEw-YoRK THEATRE-S-Quo Nadis.
PASTOR S-Contiaaous Performance
WAfIsAt7N' 'S-s-Saph0.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11
PSI rPSILON DELEGATES MEET

ternity met In National convention in this city
to-day. nearly a hundred delegates being present
Petitions for charters were received from ST.
Stephens College, McCiill University and the Uni
versity Of California Lieutenant Governor Wood
ruff spoke al the dinner this evening.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

The Middle of the Road Populists declare that
the land is "a heritage of the people, and should
not be monopoized for speculative purposes" >"
That logically means private ownership
Does the party expect to make much of a
paign among the farmers that issue?
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

The proposal to give horses ferry boats some
protection from the weather is a sound one
which should have been made and put into exc
cution years ago. Under the present system
horses on such boats compelled to stand in
a violent draught. which. considering that they
often much heated when driven aboard the
boats, is cruel, and not infrequently positively
dangerous to their health. 1t would not be a
difficult matter to provide doors screens that
would save them not only from gross discom-
fort, but from many of the grave diseases to
which those noblest of animals are subject.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

Lord Salisbury evidently wants the Irish Homo
Rulers to cherish no Illusions on the strength of
the Queens visit to the Emerald Isle.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

And so, after all the fuss and feathers at the
City Hall, the actual commencement of the sub
way excavation will not occur until next Mon
the same
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11

The people will not forget that the price of
Tammany rule is doubled ice bills.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-11
BROOKE TO ASSUME COMMAND TO-DAY.
GENERAL AND MRS. MERRITT SAIL ON THE
FRIEDRICH DER CROSSE.

General Brooke did not go TO Governors Island
yesterday to assume Command or the Department
OF the Fast. II was said there that he ex-
pected TO take command to-day. General and Mrs
Merritt sailed yesterday on the Friedrich der
Crosse of the North German Lloyd Line