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New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
cHJyEsE IRREcoNcILABLEs.

There is extant much comment, pro and
contra. upou the demands made or TO be made
upon the Chinese Government by the Powers
It will be instructive TO observe by contrast
what is the extreme Chinese view-that is 10
saw the Boxer view--of the settlement winch
shiuld be made or which should some time ago
have been made. of the differences between
that Empire and the Powers. Prince Iuah'
the leader of the Boxers and father Of the
heir to the throne, in August last prepared d
scheme of settlement which was formally
adopted by the Empress Dowager ana the
Grand Council of the Imperial Government.
Preposterous as its terms appear, they doubt
loss renresent what the Boxers think, or
thought. would be proper settlement and also
what not a few Chinese JIngoes four months
ago thought could be imposed upon the world
Prince Tuan prescribed first Of all that no
foreign demand for indemnity should be SO
much as considered, but on the contrary the
Powers should be required TO pay China an
indemnity of $500 100000 and another indem-
nifty of like amount TO the Boxers All mis-
sionar.es should get out Of China and never re-
turn. and all foreign churches should De con-
fscated Japan should surrender Formosa'
Germany should give back Kiao-Chau, Russia
should relinauish Talien-Wan and Great Brit
ain should restore the hinterland of kow-Loon
IN China. Moreover, Chinese sovereignty
should be re-extended to Corea and Anam, and
Japan should be compelled to pay tribute to
China. All railroads should be torn up, no
Japanese or other foreigner should be permit
ted n travel in China, the customs service
should be put under native control, exports OF
rice should be prohibited, all duties on imports
and exports should be doubled, foreign Min
listers should be excluded from Peking and
subjected to the humiliating regulations of
hundred years ago. and all Chinese friendly to
foreigners should be punished" Finally, on
the other hand, by way of compensation to the
Door foreign devils" the area OF the foreign
settlements should be doubled.
Now, these extraordinary proposals are not
to be dismissed with the smile which they so
naturally provoke, for they were no pipe
dream" but the serious programme of the rul-
ing statesmen of China, and they represent
large and formidable of native opinion
which must be reckoned with No doubt Earl
Ii and Prince Ching and Mr.. Sheng know bet
ter. They realize, as well as Mr.. WI and all
intelligent Americans, the utter impossibility
of executing any such reactionary and iniqui-
tous scheme. But Prince Tuan and the ma
jority of the Grand Council and the Empress
Dowager had no such realization, and it is
probable that there are scores Of millions in
China who suppose-if they ever think upon
the subject-that such plan could be executed
if the Chinese Government only saw fit to do
it. The existence of such ignorance and mad
faulty is in itself an appalling fact. The un-
dertaking TO deal with it and to govern it is a
task from which every rational foreigner mnst
shrink.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
PERSONAL.

The National John Brown Memorial Association,
organized In St Paul in 1885, announces that it has
raised $1,000 of the $4,000 needed for the proposed
monument and expects to raise the remainder in
few weeks The design is is feet in height with
a bronze figure of John Brown holding sword in
his right hand and nude negro infant on his
left arm The idea of the child was suggested by
Mrs Martha Davis, now living at little Michigan
town who is the only survivor of the sixteen broth
ers and sisters OF Mr.. Brown. Mrs Davis suggested
the nude infant as she said 1t was symbolical of
that for which her brother gave up his life. The
figure is to rest on heavy graiie ease' eshe teet
"John Brown Hero of Ossawatomie. Seized at
Harper's Ferry Va, 1859. Died December. 1889
'HTime will place a more cdar1taDle construction
on the incentive to the deed OF John Brown.
What value my life II by It's sacrlhce many are
saved?" 49,, -,
Chicago.
Speaker Henderson is said to be dissatisfied with
the portrait for which he sat last year The face,
he thinks Is a good likeness but he objects that
the artist has put mans head on a boys shoul-
ders
Ex-President Harrison has declined invitation
to deliver an address before the Illinois Bar Asso
citation at Springfield the occasion of the celebra
ton of Chief Justice John Marshalfs centenary. in
February next
Alison s. Sherman. who the third Mayor OF
Chicago, is still living at the age OF ninety-three.
He was born in Vermont. His present home Is in
waukegan, ILL.,. and he seldom visits Chicago. He
moved out of Chicago before the big fire.
1t is announced by Ann Arbor railway officials
that what are supposed to be the remains OF Father
Marquette. intrepid missionary and explorer. have
been exhumed by workmen Frankfort Mich
Only the skull and some imperfect bones remain.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
WORK Daily TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 26 1000

and experts declare them to be those OF "ni's
man Rust and small remains close to tne heaa
are believed 10 have been the Fathers beads anu
cross The find was made at considerable depth
while excavating for big summer hotel th 1he
Michigan Historical Society claims to possess Sns
proof that Father Marquette was buried az MS
point In the year 1915 in the bed of small stream
III was In changing the course of stream tnat tne
remains were found. Great interest is being taken
In the find by Michigan historians thorough IN
yestigation is being made.
Professor William James. of Harvard now IN
Rome account OF i'll health. shows no signs OF
recovering. While climbing mountains in California
three years ago he first noticed the symptoms OF
the disorder known valvusr insuficiency- Last
year he invited to deliver the Clifford lectures
at the University of Aberdeen, but owing 70 III
health ne was unable to do so, and nnally went s
TO Nenheim Germany, to try new treatment tor
his disease. There diagnosis of his case was
made, which showed enlargement OF the hesrt'
complicated with catarrh Of the stomach Pro1es-
sor James is much liked by the in his depart
ment at Harvard, where for the last few years DIS
work has been chiefly with the graduate students
IT Is hoped at the college he may return, but IL IS
not believed that he will be able to do so next
year, and his physicians will make no promises Tor
the future
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

be iudiciously brave and quite another 10 pay
the part of a bull in a china shop. "A news
paper that will lead public opinion is d NOUN
thing. provided it leads opinion nobly 1t may
be no less leader and yet may debauch puDhc
opinion. We suppose there is no paper OF any
Importance that does not lead opinion 10 som,
extent Neither is there any that does not |"
some extent consult and reflect public OPINION.
The newspaper should not be a servile follower
Neither, in these days of wide reading ana IN
formation. is it priggishly TO pose rs an in
fallibe dictator.
The whole case is summed up by implication
in the remaining specification, "a newspaper
that the people will believe" Who are "the
people,? They are the patrons OF the various
existing papers, and they very generally bciicve
the papers which they patronize. We feel entire
confidence that the hundreds OF thousands OF
readers of The Tribune believe The Tribune
If they did not they would not read It, Some
of them disagree with some OF It's opinions
sometimes and inform us plainly OF that Iac''
and we respect them for so doing, and tnSy con-
tinue to believe and to read The Tribune, rlghtly
realizing that exact unanimity on all subjects is
not to be expected in this world. 1t may DC
that some of those who are calling for al
ideal" paper do not believe any existing paper.
If they should start paper of their own on
their so-called ideal lines they would doubt
less believe it, or some of them would. But
there is no assurance, and indeed no probabil-
lty that all other men would believe it. There
are many who would say and would say Sill
ccrely, that they did not think it was telling
the truth or printing all the news or showing
proper enterprise or courage So in the end the
Ideal" paper would be, and would deserve to
be. in the same category with all the rest.
Those who agreed with the personal notions
and policy of its directors would like it and
would patronize it, and those who did not would
not. The newspaper which is to be universally
regarded as 'idear' will be possible only in a
community where all men Gre of the same
mind; and that is something which has not been
known in the century that is enGsng. and which
is not likely to be known in the century which
Is about to dawn.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
NEW ROOMS FoR TIE coURTs.

suggestion is now before the public that
the various branches of the Supreme Court out
side of the Appellate Division shall be provided
with rooms in the new Hall of Records. The
Appellate Division has a sumptuous home of its
own on the east side of Madison Square, and
the Justices are well satisfied with that build
ing, as they have every reason to be. Whatever
may be the final conclusion as to the Hall of
Records, it is admitted generally that the
County Courthouse is unsuitable for it's present
uses. That building was and still is a monu-
ment of the iniquties of the Tweed ring In
the course Of the revelations of the robberles
practised by city officials when William NJ.
Tweed was practically the ruler of New-York
it was proved in court by an overwhelming
mass of evidence that millions of dollars of
public funds were stolen in the construction and
furnishing Of that courthouse Every contrac-
tor. and in fact every person who had anything
to do with that colossal thievery, was compelled
to put in bills many times greater than the
actual value of the work performed or of the
material furnished, and Tweed and his accom-
plices divided the excess
The County Courthouse had cost the munich
pal treasury a dozen millions Of dollars when
the Tweed gang driven from power, and it
was then not nearly completed. To get it ready
for occupation large additional expenditure was
required, and the total outlay first and last was
more than $14.000,000. Even at such a cost
it is in such a condition that many judges
and officials compelled to pass their days there
have suffered severely in health. It was so
poorly huddled together, so imperfect in many
&taits and arrangements, its ventilation and its
entire scheme have been so unsatisfactory, that
the courts and departments which are housed
under its roof have been seriously embarrassed
and enfeebled 1t is doubtful whether any prac-
tcaole changes can remedy its defects; It's
faults are radical To pull down and rebuild
from the foundations courthouse which
has cost more than $140O0000 would be
revolutionary undertaking, and nothing of the
sort may be done for generations But the
health Of the Judges and court officials must be
considered, and the present condition of the
building is intolerable. The richest city in
America owes a plain duty to its judges and
IT'S courts, and changes should be made within
reasonable time
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

was. in regard to Christmas, changed anu
.o,together different man." Martin Chuzzie-
wiz, which appeared then, fell fiat, and the
author was frightened. Something had TO De
done: and in this emergency he turned Ior heip
and comfort TO Christmas. He soon became en-
thusiastic about the festival and for the hrst
time In his life he began to give large Christ
mas parties at his house. From these facts MI
Fiske nfers that Dickens either discovered or
invented the Dickens Christmas" after he
visited America and that it is therefore at
..least a delightful probability that the modern
eCbristmas to which Dickens owed so much
land for which we owe him so much origl-
mated from information acquired during his so
.-iourn in this country, and that the spirit ana
customs of the day were impressed upon him
by Longfellow, who was his guest IN LONDON
'for some weeks after his visit here.
All this is conceivably true. and yet the facts
must not be pressed too closely Dickens may
have introduced the Dickens Christmas into
England, and in its construction he may nave
used suggestions and ideas gained during his
American visit But it would be too much to
say that Christmas was previously an unknown
festival in England. 1t was undoubtedly OBJ
served, though perhaps not in a way to at
tract the notice of the novelist. But the Dick
ems Christmas so much more completely realized
the humanitarian spirit of the season that it
caught the popular fancy, and finally came to
be regarded as the simon EE.-ese traditional
method of observing the day.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
Amusements.


ACADEMY OF MUSIC-a-s:I5-Monte crsto.
AMERICAN THEATRE-2-S:l5-Faust
RIJOU-S S:20-Msiee Smith.
BROADWAY THESATRE-S:lO-A Royal Rogue
CARNECIB aAIIS-2-Oratorio Society.
CASINO-S:I5-Florodor
CRITERION TBEATRE-S-The Cay Lord cnex ,..
DALys THEATRES I5-Lady Huntworth's Expert
EDEN MuSEE-rhe World Wax
EMPIRE TEIEkTRE-2:s5-S.2 .20-Ricbard Caryel
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-2-s-Ihe NihaEe
Postmaster
GARDEN THEATRE-2-s-Hamiet 50,
CARRICK THEATRE-2:15-S:15-DaT aaruIn.
GRAND OPERA HOUsE-2-s-Ths Old Honesteso
HARLEM OPERA HOUSE-2-S-Zaza.
HERALD SQUARE TTIEATRE-2:2O--e:z0- e:z0..zl. :z0-A.laoia-
IRVING PLACE THEATRE-23o-Schnee"
Der Gross Kaufman
KEITH S-coDtnuous Performance.
KSICKERBOCKER THEATRE-2-s-LAigion
ROSTER & BIAL'S-2-S--Naudeville.
LYcETIM THEATRE-s30 Royal Fau1ily ,y.
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-2-s;So-The HOUSE
That Jack Built.
AFsTRoP0IITaN OPERA HoCsE-s:l5-La Bonernae
NCRRAY HILL THEATRE-2-s-Idttle l~oI1 reuli'ie'''
rSESV-YOF2Is THEATRE-2-S-The Giooy Ihrohk
pa ASTOR' 'S-Day ana Night-Continuous snow
PROCTOR'S-Con Performance = -
SAVOY-2-S.2l- Mistress Nell.
ST. NICHOLAS SKATING RINK-Skating
VICTORIA As 3n-Mss PRINT.
YALL.ACK's THEATRE-2;l5-s;so-Jani MereoI'n
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

KINDNESS SHOWN BY OFFICIALS TO MISSION.
ARIEs-THE LOYALTY OF NATIVE
CHRISTIANS.
.om The Cumberland Presbyterian.

From The Cumberland Presbyterian
The secular and too often the religious. press
seem only too willing to give the Chinese kick but
alas! how seldom We see them praisedI I desire
with tongue and pen TO protest against this unfair
treatment The American mob does not represent
americans neither does the Chinese mob repre-
sent the Chinese. No people on earth is more
peace loving than the Chinese, Among the heathen
have many warm friends and am in duty bound
to tell the good qualities OF Doth. The atrocities
committed and permitted by the Governor of Shan
Sc have been heralded TO the ends of the world.
aries by the Governor of Shan-Se. in the face OF
an edict TO slay, are almost unknown. This man
mot Christian-lost his positon ana perhaps his
life for our brethren. and yet we esteem him not.
recent letter from friend, Dr. r a. Keller, OF
Eastern Human. relates how the OF an off,
cal risked his life TO save him. Letters from mis-
places along the way nursed and kept alive the
ba be OF fleeing mother, who could no longer
ish it. The thing that impresses me most in
reading accounts OF the escapes of missionaries Is
the aid given them by heather Chinese,
OF the faith and loyalty or the native Christians
volumes might and will be written. Here is
written during the siege of Peking: Miss Gilman
assistant in the Girls High SCHOOL, overheard one
of the smaller girls say, Well II We die
how lovely IT will be for more than hundred
sent of their number TO tell Mrs. Jewel (priu-
cpaD that they knew she troubled about them,
but they wished her TO know that they We're all
praying and peaceful"
Some would desert these and lose the glory OF
seeking out others like them Are you, reader.
among that class? Give the Chinese their due.
was given us a trust not a luxury. II the
heather cruel IL Is because they Christless
and long as they are Chrstless we share their
guilt unless have delivered our souls by giving
them Christ Thousands have been and millions
can be transformed. not by might, but by the
Mighty One. Who will hslnf
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY To MEET

Chicago. Dec $50 complete the arrangements
for the twenty-second general meeting OF the Amer
lean Chemical Society, organization OF Lle
members. comprising instructors in chemistry and
technical chemists the secretary. Albert c. Hale.
of Brooklyn. arrived here to-day and conferred with
officers OF the local section OF the society The
The programme includes papers by leading chemists
original research The meeting Thursday VIII
be at the Lewis Institute Of Technology and FRI
days session at the Northwestern University Medi-
cal School, after which the announcement Of the
result OF the election for president will be made.
Among those who will be present are DR. William
McMurtrie. OF New-Yor6; Or. H W. Wiley. head
chemist in the Department OF Agriculture. WaSe-
ington; DR.. Albert Prescott. Ann ArbOr, and DE.
W. A. Noyes, Terre Haute
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

On the western border of Missouri a Kansas
City leader of thought has announced a series
of free lectures for newsboys on dancing, de-
pertinent and etiquette. That professor should
come to New-York and spend a few hours in
Park Row as the afternoon "extrees' pour pip
ing hot from the presses. The newsboys of
Printing House Square might give him few
free lessons in dancing. department and eti-
ouette that would open his eyes
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

valueiess They have some reason to think
that he has a tolerably clear idea of police
conditions and they will follow not without
interest and approval whatever steps he may
take in obvious good faith to stop abuses ana
punish offenders; but he has neither done nor
apparently, contemplated doing anything 10
alter their conviction that it is imperauveiy
necessary to get rid of Tammany, root ana
branch.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
SoTHERN ABLE no APPEAR AG4Iy.

ST. Louis. Dec. 25.-E. II. Sothern. the actor. who
for some time laid up by an accident that re-
quired cancellation OF dates all the country
made his first appearance last night since the ae-
cident. presenting Hamlet at the Olympic Thes-
and the production was we'll received The Inter
rupted tour will be resumed. the company gong 70
Chicago next week
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

spokane's new enterprise will assure the hold
ing of at least three international exhibitions in
the United States in the first two years of the
new century. If such rate is maintained. the
twentieth century will go far toward realizing
1.-The parliament Of man."
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

H0BSON, IMPROVING, SPENDS DAY ALONE
Lieutenant Hobson spent an isolated Christmas
inasmuch as visitors were not allowed 70 him
His condition somewhat improved YESTERDAY.
Several bouquets were received for him az th'
Presby yterian Hospital in the morning.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
MARK TWAIN AT ELNIR4

Elmira N Y. Dec. 25.-Mark Twain and his fam
lily arrived here today. and win remain until Sat
urday-
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
Juoes TO ADVERTISEMENTS.
Brslness Nonrrs.

Ivers G. Pond Pianos. -
Fspecialy desirable because OF the Singing OF 'ne" 49,
Al fshandIers 439 Fulron-st.. Brooklyn
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

On the steamer La Normandie. which arrived
yesterday from Havre. NJ. de Beauregard,
Italian Consul-General at Havana. and wife; Baron
P. de Langlade Charles H. Ganmick Gonzalez
MeJa' Minister of San Salvador at Paris. and
Count Jean de Sieyes.
Among those who are expected here to-day on the
steamer Teutonic, of the White Star Line. are AL
fred Harmsworth, proprietor of The London Daily
Mail Joseph Pulitzer and Leigh Hunt.
On the steamer Amsterdam. which arrived here
from Rotterdam yesterday. Jan Kruger.
formerly Justice of the Peace OF the Transvaal
Republic at Pretoria
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

The air of Brooklyn used to have a repute,
probably not altogether deserved, as being bad
for pulmonary complaints Its effect upon
'chestiness' is worthy of careful notice.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

Next year at about this time the oldest in
habitant will tell his story about the extraordi-
nary mild weather. 1t will be we'll to remind
him then of the fact that on Christmas. 1900.
open were running on several of the New
York lines, and that they were we'll patronized.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

The Tammany Committee of Five Purity Cru
saders has furnished the police with lists of
faro banks which ought to be shut UP. Why
doesn't this committee scatter its lists broad
cast? Then something practical might be ac-
complished. The members Of the committee
convict themselves of insncerity when they con-
fine their attacks vice to confidential whis-
perngs at the MuIberry-st Headquarters.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-10-17

street and line drawn from the june
ton Of School and Punchbowl streets
to the flagpole on the old battery on
Punchbowl. Polling Place: Building
at entrance to lower reservoir grounds,
Nuuanu avenue.
Inspectors: w. II. Hogs A. Bor-
ba, J. p. Kahahawai.
Fourth Precinct-All that portion Of
said District comprised in Honolulu o.
Kona and bounded by the Second ard
Third Precincts Beretania and Nuu-
anu streets. Polling Place: Royal
School. ...
inspectors: w. c. King, r. N. Boyd,
F. S. Peachy. r. r,.h
Fifth Precinct-Al THAT portion OF
said District comprised in Honolulu or
Kona and bounded by the Second Pre-
cinct, Beretania street, Richards street
and the Harbor Polling Place: Kapu-
aiwa Building.
Inspectors: Jno. Short, W. Kapela
L. X. Lilikalani.
Sixth Precinct-All that portion Of
said District comprised in Honolulu OF
Kona and bounded by Richards streeS
Beretania street. Nuuanu street ant
the Harbor. Polling Place: Honolu
lu Hale.
Inspectors: H. J. Mossman, T. e
Wall, John Mahuka.
Seventh Precinct-All that portion o
said District comprised in the Judicia
and Taxation District of Koolaupoku
and lying east and south of a lin
drawn from the Nuuanu Pail to Mo
kapu Point. Polling Place: Schou
House, Waimanalo.
Inspectors: G. C. Chalmers, Kline
A. Irvine. .,... .ss
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-10-17

Fifth Precinct-From south boun-
Diary of Keel to north boundary Of Kau.
Polling Place. Court House, Hookena.
Inspectors: ]. X. White, J. Nahinu,
g.. W. Naope.
Sixth Precinct-From the boundary
between South Kona and Kau to the
westerly boundary of Punaluu. Polling
Place: Waiohinu Court House.
Inspectors: J. H. s. Martin, ]. n.
Namomoku, o. X. Apiki.
Seventh Precinct-The remainder OF
the District of Kau. Polling Place:
Pahala School House.
Inspectors: w. p. Fennell, E. Ikaaka
J. X. Hoopii. -s'"