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, 1900-06-28
SEYMOUR RELIEVED
INTERNATIONAL COLUMN DRIVES
THE BOXERS BACK AND
SAVES HIM.
There is no News From Peking-Sey-
mour's Expedition is Returning to
Forty to Sixty Thousand Chinese
Troops are Before Picking.

Chez Foo, via Shanghai, June ?S.-
Admiral Seymour has been relieved by
Tien-Tsin.
There is no news from Picking. Rus
sian Colonel Schtelie, commanding the
combined forces of 10, men, is sup
posed to be proceeding to Picking. Ad-
miral Seymour's expedition is return
ing to Tien-Tsin. His force has suf-
fered greatly.
1t is estimated that from 10000 to
60, Chinese troops are now before
Picking. Boxers from all sections are
swarming there.
, 1900-06-28
FINE HAIR GOODS.

l. keep on hand n first quality stock Of
Hair Switches, Curly Pompadours, KAT
Rolls" Wigs; make Switches from combings
and cut hair. Goods sent on approval, Cor
respondence solicited.
MRS. MINNIE SAPP,
1sD Ferguson st. cheyenne, Wyo.
, 1900-06-28

be a fine addition to the university and
town. and will also fill a long felt
need"
, 1900-06-28

London, June 2S, 800 a. m.-The
composite brigade of 1900 men who
raised the investment of Tien-Tsin and
pushed on to help Admiral Seymour
has probably saved him, but the news
has not yet reached Chez Foo, the near
est. wire point. According to advices
from Shanghai, the Chinese Officials, by
direction of the southern viceroys, are
asking the consuls to agree to condi-
tions, "insuring," as the Chinese say,
the neutrality Of Shanghai and other
coast cities"
They are also asking hat foreign
warships shall not sail or anchor near
the forts, nor go to ports where there
are no warships now; that their crews
shall not go ashore and the protec-
ton of foreigners be left to the Chinese
authorities.
These conditions are considered at
Shanghai to be virtually an ultimatum
from Viceroys Liu Kung Yih and Chang
Chih Tung. The consuls desire a suf-
fcient naval and military force to back
up their refusal to comply with these
demands. The total national force
there now consists Of 800 men, with 81
guns. The Chinese have 5000 men with
six guns in the forts ana 10000 mer
outside Shanghai, with modern riff
and machine guns.
, 1900-06-28
THE ELKS-SAPHO.

ceive more for their heeces when they
ship from Soda Springs.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03

(From the New York Tribune.)
There are some indications that Governor Tsy-
Tor suspects he has made a mistake lie claimed
constitutional authority for his order adjourn
ing the Legislature and sunmoning it TO recon
vene next week IN London, but the article Of
the constitution upon which he must be sup
posed to have relied certainly does not explicitly
empower him to take such action. lie can con
vene the General Assembly ION extraordinary
occasions''-that IS he can call an extra session
at the seat Of government, or at some other
place il the capital is dangerous because OF an
enemy or pestilence; and he can adjourn the
General Assembly to such time as he may think
proper IL the tw houses disagree with respect
to the time Of adjournment. But he is not di-
rectly authorized to disperse a Legislature sit
ting at the capital for the purpose Of reassem-
bling il elsewhere. II he possesses the right he
has attempted TO exercise it must be derived from
a general, underlined obligation TO see to it that,
in the phraseoogy Of ancient times. the Com
monweath takes no harm, which is pretty fra
gile support for executive action, especially in
the case of a ,isputed title
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03

The Presidents conclusion that the cir
cumstances attending the Kentucky mud
die do not warrant any action on the part
of the Federal authorities is both prudent
and wise. The matter in controversy is
one TO be settled by the State Legislature,
and that body is quite competent TO dispose
OF IL. II only needs that Governor Goetel
Tor in the event OF his death, Lieutenant
Governor Beckham) shall use the power
with which the Legislature has endowed
him.
Pending Governor Goebel's restoration to
health or the assumption of executive au-
thority by Mr.. Beckham, the present con-
dition of things is likely to continue. On
Tuesday next former Governor Taylor will
attempt to establish a rump Legislature
in the mountain village of London, but the
proceedings there will be interesting rather
than important. Just how long his militia
will be allowed to prevent the real Legis-
lature from assembling in the State Capitol
is matter for the courts TO settle, and
their decision cannot be long delayed.
Too much praise cannot be accorded tie
Democratic leaders at Frankfort for the
great good sense and moderation they have
displayed in most trying circumstances.
Under the constitution and the laws of
Kentucky this man Taylor is now private
citizen, and his militia nothing but an
armed mob. Both should be compelled TO
keep the peace by force IL necessary,
but no force mas been threatened or used.
The Democrats rely upon the State courts
TO restore TO the Legislature the meeting
place now occupied by Taylor's troops.
When that is accomplished the whole DIFF
ficulty will be solved and order Will again
reign In the Commonwealth
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03
THE DOG LAW ASSAILED.
Taxation without Protection Said to
Make IL Unconstitutional

To the Editor Of The Times:
Allow me to correct an erroneous public
impression OF the law imposing tax on
dogs and authorizing the obnoxious muz-
zling order.
In the case OF the City of Washington VI.
Meigs. decided by the Supreme Court of
the District OF Columbia in 1878, Judge
Humphreys, in delivering the opinion Of
the court, said in part:
The law recognizes property in and TO dogs,
and the owner thereof is entitled to his remedies
for any invasion Of his rights Of property. tbs
is too well settled in England and the States OF
this Union to be now questioned.
That the law has recognized the relations OF
property in any species of it, arises from the
ssccrtained usefulness in some way to the wants
OF man OF that particular object or subject Of
property. The right TO the property is recog-
nizod for its protection.
In the case before us the entire record dis
closes view on the part of the corporation, ig-
norng the question OF property, and proceeding
as though a criminal deed had been done by
the defendant, and the dog 10 be excluded from
the list Of subjects and objects OF property.
The present law is adroitly worded, we'll
calculated, and probably was intended to
deceive many dog owners, believing that
it recognizes the dog as property. 1t does
NOT, nONtNtTr rs VIII "
The first paragraph OF the fourth section
says: "Shall be regarded as personal
property in all the courts OF said District"
but the second paragraph of the same sec
ton says, shall be liable to civil actor"
and in no part OF the act is it made Grim
inal offence to injure. kill. or steal a dog.
go that dog owner has redress only by the
civil law, and not the criminal. The dog,
therefore. is regarded as z kind OF property
different from any other domestic animal
which has the protection of both the civil
and criminal laws.
II a person steals a domestic animal
other than the dog. he commits peniten-
tiary offence. II he steals your dog, how
ever valuable the canine may be. you have
no redress unless the offender has property
from which your judgment for damages can
be collected.
For the reasons stated the law imposing
a tax on dogs is unquestionably unconsti-
tutional and there is hardly doubt that
the courts will SO decide in the action to
be brought at once by the Dog Owners AS
ISOLATION, recently organized for mutual
protection against oppressive laws and or
ders affecting this species OF property.
T. EDW. CLARK
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03
A Just Complaint.

The communication which we publish
from "A Washington Merchant Is Doth
forceful and pertinent, and The Times will
gladly assist him and his associates in
bringing about the reform so clearly shown
TO be not only needed. but justly their due.
1t certainly cannot be difficult to construct
legislation that will meet the case Pawn
brokers are held to rigid accountability
in their dealings with the public, and why
may not aucioneers be equally supervised
and restricted!
There is certainly the amplest measure
Of protection due TO the regular established
merchants OF the District. whose success
and prosperity are to the interest and
advantage OF the whole community. To
subject them TO competition which bears
no proportion of the burden placed upon
them is a handicap they have right TO
protest against and TO insist shall be re-
moved. All that is necessary is for them
TO get together, devise plan OF relief, and
unitedly push it along. AS we have said,
The Times will gladly assist them, and we
are confident Congress will give heed 10
their petition.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03
An Amateur BeERar.

An article In recent issue Of Public
Opinion" will prove interesting to persons
philanthropically inclined. Mr. Chauncey
AcGovern is its author, and it lie an &C.
count Of his experience. as a mendicant.
He tried begging in he borough of New
York for eight days, and found il remuner-
alive TO the extent OF nearly $40 a day
He put on old clothes, wore one arm in a
sling, and arranged his right hand SO that
II looked as 81 It had been burned. His
Disguise was SO good that his acquaint-
ances did not recognize him. He tried beg
ging on the streets and also calling at
houses, the latter part OF his experiment
occupying three days. One day was de-
voted 10 the millionaire district of the city.
the second to regions Inhabited by the
moderately well-to-do, and the third to
neighborhood made up OF people just above
the tenement house grade. He found that
the third day was the most profitable, for
while some Of the very rich gave him large
sums, most of them referred him to chart
table societies. while in the poorest quar-
ter about half the people gave him some
thing. Strangers were more generous than
residents, and the women gave more often
than the men, while the men who gave
were about three times as liberal as the
women. This feature of the situation is
probably due TO a difference in income.
Men have usually more pocket money than
women, when they are disposed to be gen.
erous at all. and. In like manner the
stranger. visiting New York to buy goods
or have a good time, would have more
money 10 spare than the resident who is
busy In making living. II is Mr.. Nc
Governs opinion that between six and ten
thousand people make a business of beg
cling in New York city.
New York Is the best place in The United
States for this particular business, and,
consequently, contains probably larger
proportion Of impostors than any other
city. The population is so rich that 1t can
stand such drain without feeling IT much.
and SO immense that the beggar is securely
hidden In most cases, so long as be does
not commit any crime which causes him to
be wanted by the police. II is unlikely that
this experiment in practical begging would
have succeeded so well anywhere else, and
again. II is probable that Mr.. McGovern
was industrious. and that he retained, even
In his disguise. that air Of having been
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03

used to better things" which is so effec-
tive In awakening the average mans
| benevolent impulses. 1t need not, there
fore, be assumed that the average beggar
in New YORK. or anywhere else. makes
any such sum as this amateur did in his
eight days When 1t comes TO serious con-
sideration, therefore, this story must be
taken with grain of salt, and 1t would
be unwise TO jump to the conclusion that
all beggars are frauds, swindling the pub
lie out of large SIMS, simply because this
young man. under somewhat peculiar con-
ditions. was successful in doing so.
As most people are coming TO understand,
some sort OF organized system of disposing
of the beggar and the tramp will have to
be devised before long II civilization is TO
progress in this country. 1t will not do TO
condemn Unfortunately all who belong
to these classes for that would result In
making criminals of men who are merely
unfortunate and dishesrtened. Some way
must be found in which those who are will
ing TO work may be sifted out from those
who are not and the criminal from the
merely shiftless and lazy. Some benevolent
people argue that private charity, with all
its defects, is best, because 1t keeps alive
the interest OF well-to-do people in the
class whom they thus benefit. But In most
cases where organization has superseded
private charity, the result has been good.
Take the county asylum for paupers In the
country districts. Before there was any
such thing, such unfortunates had to tramp
the roads or depend on some benevolent
person for shelter and food. Most old peo-
pie can remember when well-to-do farmers
housed insane or more or less vicious
Migrants for days at a time rather than
have them freeze. The effect Of such as
ISOLATION upon the children of the family |
could not have been very good, as a rule. |
1t is a question whether sensitive and i'm |
pressionahle children are ever benefited in |
anyway by close contact with the lowest |
types of humanity, and no child should |
ever be brought up in poor house If
there is anyway 10 avoid II. Some day We
shall find a way to rescue all friendless
children from bad associations, and give
them, through the State, the chance in life
which their parents denied them. and some
day We shall manage to check swindling
while giving aid TO the really needy poor
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03

EXTRAORDINARY means must nave been
used in some official way to suppress news
of the real conditions which obtain in
Porto Rico. or the American people would
not now be suddenly shocked by inte.li-
gence that the people of that island are
dying by thousands of starvation-"dying
like flies as one recently returned OBJ
server states it. They have no encour-
agement TO grow cane, tobacco. fruits. CT
! coffee, because we have taken away their
old Spanish and Cuban markets, and, after
| doing that, have excluded their products
from the markets OF the American main
/ land by a wicked, cruel, and uncoDstitu-
tional ipfiiction of the sccursed Dingley
tariff law upon them.
II is pleasant to be able 10 say that, as
far as he is personally concerned, MIR. Nc
Kinley is not responsible for. indeed is
vigorously opposed to, the preparation of
this bideous political outrage. But he
/ appears unable TO stem the tide of selfish
proiectionism which has overwhelmed his
good intentions, and dragooned the Repub-
lican party managers into granting the
demands Of the sugar, oil, tobacco, and
rum magnates. They are frank enough TO
declare that they will resist justice TO
Porto Rico to the last ditch; because to
permit ii would establish precedent I'M
der which the products OF all recently ac
quired American territory would have TO
be admitted free Of duty. And SO, in order
to placate monopolistic campaign contrib
utors the party leaders have cynically'and
with knowledge and generalization doomed
the majority of Porto Ricos population to
the lingering death Of Cuban reconcentra-
dos. The thing is too horrible for belief
yet, unhappily, it is true.
The sugar trust interest is alarmed for
the perpetuation of its exclusive privi-
leges. 1t is said that the Standard Oil
Company has an enormous quantity of its
product. upon which duties have been paid, |
now stored in Porto Rico. The influence |
OF this combination is not a matter of |
question. The power it possesses over |
Republican policy and action has been but |
too ominously disclosed in connection with |
the Gage scandals. The pure Puritsns of |
Massachusetts live in fear Of the importa- |
ton of West Indian rum, in competition |
with the pious wreckhead product of Med |
ford and the Connecticut Valley tobacco /
farmers Indignantly resent the introduc
ton into this country of anything decent |
to smoke except at prohibitive prices. All
these patriotic elements are considered as
able and willing TO pay handsomely into
the Republican campaign chest, in return
for favors which will result in the
murder of few hundred thou
sand men, women, and children, loyal
TO the United States, dying under
its flag Of Justice" and freedom" and
occupying territory as much part Of It's
common domain as are Arizona or New
Mexico. Probably they will get there will.
and settle commepsurateIy at the cap
tain's Office; but the Administration cannot
be unmindful Of the risk II takes in thus
creating new grievance for the whole
American people TO nurse, and resent at
the polls in November.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03

all appearances unnecessary The laws
| in New England forbid such employment,
and compel children under certain age
TO go to school. While this, in certain
ways, works a hardship to that section,
since 1t forces union men working under the
eight-hour law to compete with opera
| tiyes working from ten to fourteen hours
a day, and with children, 1t is far better
in the end than any other arrangement
could be, because 1t secures greater in
telligence in the community and chance
for future progress. There is surely no
reason why children in Virginia should be
compelled TO earn their living II those OF
New England can be ser. to school. The
cost of living is less in this part OF the
country, the winters are shorter, involv
ing less outlay for fuel and warm cloth
ing and the land is more fertile AMI less
crowded. These are natural advantages
which ought TO enable the cotton mills
of the South eventually to drive those of
New England out OF the market without
resorting TO the labor Of children or COM
polling the operatives to work for an I'M
vi
The great argument for compulsory edu-
cation is not that 1t raises the level of in
telligence or morality many degrees in the
community as whole One may often find
perfectly -illiterate persons who are
sharper, more quick witted, and more
conscientious than those who are edu-
Gated. Teaching man to read does
not lessen his disposition to commit
crime, although thorough education
seems TO do so to some extent. II may
be seen on reflection that the ignorant
man may sometimes break laws from
sheer love Of excitement or inability
TO control himself, when the educated man
would find occupation for his adventurous
disposition in some legitimate way, or his |
will would be SO disciplined by years of
training that he would De able to resist |
temptation. Again. the ignorant man Is |
sometimes drawn into difficulties which |
the more enlightened individual is able to |
avoid, by his superior experience and |
knowledge of the world. Generally speak |
ing. 1t is better to give a mans mind |
something to work on outside his personal |
affairs than TO allow him to be occupied
solely with his immediate surroundings.
1t is also we'll that he should have all the
tools necessary to enable him to get on in
life, since discomfort and baffied aspira-
lions often lead to unpleasant incidents of
one kind or another.
The argument of real force in this con-
nection is that general education helps TO
make progress possible. A community
which cannot be quickly and easily reached
by newspapers, and which takes no inter
est in books and magazines is bound to
stagnate in this age of the world. 1t will
be the prey TO superstition, to dema-
goguery, to any kind Of power that can
sway an ignorant people. Il. on the con-
rary. IT has lively interest in the events
" the day its vote will be intelligent
md its government comparatively wise.
When a community can be swayed by a
purely intellectual power instead OF by
emotional appeals it has taken a long
'tep toward real civilization.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03
THE WEEKS TRADE REVIEW.
Cotton Reaches the Highest Price
for Several Years.

/ NEW vopu r. 4, ,us.,.,
| No., .
''no'ro" VIII say
weather influences have played no
small part In the general trade situation
\ this week and Va, .o,,a =, ~. v,,,,.s-
| tionah,. ,r,n-a,....
/ hs oh,-, ." tune e@n haruis
eeu 10 'ne more seasonaole weatf-
er experienced. Whatever the causes, how
sr, ana these have been diverse, the
, ae. remains that number OF staples no
,ess .nan speculative securities, have
na,ueneu IN Vaiue during the week. One
lnuusry. mat OF anthracite coal. prices in
Wnicn nad begun TO droop because of the
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03

1t is hardly desirable. We think, to ex-
pei Pettigrew from the Senate. He is not
worth the trouble for one thing, and his
term expires anyway in a little more than
a year. 1t might, perhaps, be well to repri-
msnd him, but even that would be waste
OF time.
The truth about Pettigrew is that he is
typical product of a raw Western civili-
zation, which has caused a great many
men who went West to grow up with the
country TO come back East again. In the
State Senate OF South Dakota he would
doubtless be an imposing figure, but IL is
well known that his appearance, with some
others OF the same kidney in the Senate
of the United States caused the Hon.
George F. Edmunds to leave it.
In admitting TO the Union and practically
en- bloc the States of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Idaho Wyoming, Montana, Wash
ington, and E;ah, Congress made a mis-
take which the older members OF the SEN
ate have never ceased TO regret. Knowing
as they did that the country had hardly
digested Nevada, Nebraska, and Colorado,
they felt that the national stomach was
likely TO be seriously overloaded. 1t was,
and even now, after an interval Of ten
years, Pettigrew may be referred to as a
distinct and chronic grippe
However, considered as a Senator, he
has his uses as a warning and a whipper-in
for the side he honors with bis opposition
Obstinate and las to anything practical CT
concrete) ignorant as they are, we think
that Hoar, Mason, Wellington, Hale, Ba-
con. and Tiliman will sooner or later decide
TO forsake Pettigrew and once more fol-
low the flag In such case his last years
work will not be In vain.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-03


protest was recently made nv the
Richmond Times against the system of
compulsory education, which It calls pa
ternslism. The argument is that IL a
man wishes his son TO go TO work instead
of TO school he should not be interfered
with. This protest has called forth a num-
Der OF letters from people in various parts
presses decidedly sensible views. The
writer thinks that a law compelling par
ents to send their children to school is
badly needed in Virginia, and says that
many abuses OF national government have
sprung rom those OF domestic govern
ment. He then goes on to give an instance
OF two youngsters whom he saw in Man
chester. neither OF them over ten years of
age. who were required by their father TO
work in the factory. The father was in
good health. Neither of the children had
had any education except that afforded by
Sunday schools.
1t goes without saying that the children
of such a father will not only suffer all
their lives from their lack OF early advan-
tages, but they are likely to cause the
State 10 suffer as well. "A father who, be-
ing able TO support his children, requires
boys under ten years OF age TO work in
a factory instead of learning the rudi-
ments OF reading, writing, and mathe-
MATES, is certainly not competent TO de-
eide what are the imperative needs In his
household. The correspondent who tells
this story also advocates a law to bar
child labor out of factories on the ground
that It lowers wages for grown people,
besides being injurious TO the children.
The employment Of chiidren In such
work when they ought to be at school Is
certainly very short-sighted policy. and 10