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New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
PERSONAL.
years go OH.

John Howard Bryant a brother Of the late Will
lam Cullen Bryant. who celebrated his ninety
third birthday in Princeton ILL.,. last week, went
to Illinois from Massachusetts in 1881 He was
there" says a correspondent of The Philadelphia
Press" "at the outbreak of the Black Hawk War.
and day he a company Of volunteers on
the way to the front and was introduced to. the
6raries and Sroduct Of the Io bin. Mr. Bryant
chatted with this captain for while, and at once
according to Eastern Standards in his garb and
manner yet ne had clear mind ana was ed mIS fSs
captain his name wheFeuPon the oinceE introaTGeo @
teers in the Black Hawk War"
The Infanta Eulalia de Bourbon Of Spain is COM
peting arrangements with her lawyers and the
Government to carry out the deed of separation
which agreed to by her and by her husband
Prince Antonio de Montpensier. in Paris a short
time ago. This separation which has been ar
ranged without the intervention Of the Courts OF
Justice and by mutual consent will allow the In,
to travel abroad to visit her mother, Queen !sa-
bella and her sister Princes @ 300 Paz AT fed
by the Cortes, and the allowances under her mar
riage settlement
The italian Minister In Peking, the Marquis Sal
vaggo Raggi has with him his wife and only child
Paris a boy eight years old. He Is handsome
man. abou. thrty-five years old. while his VIE IS
beautiful to unusual degree. She was always
called La Bella PaIlavicini before her marEiage; @
She extremely reluctant 70 go 10 Snlna nG Waea @
her husband was appointed Minister In lSsS' aaving
already been tnere Wnen 4ddIquis vas
at the Legation. Being timd and nervous by dis
position, she was in continual fear because she
could not bring herself to trust the natives Sne
was not with her huband when his appointment
was decided upon, and. seeing the announcement In
the newspaper, telegraphed: Il hope the horrible
news is not true In fact, the new Minister lett
Italy for China alone, to be greeted on his arrival
by the news Of his fathers death. After that the
Marchioness Joined him at once
Halifax, N S. Aug 12-Sir Wilfrid Laurier ar
rived in New-Glasgow to-day his way to Ari-
chat c. B. to attend convention Of Acadian
French OF the maritime provinces on the 18th inst
The Canadian Premier will deliver patriotlc ad-
dress in Halifax FIVE days later in connection with
a memorial fountain for Nova Scotia volunteers
who fell in South Africa.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
EDUCATION AND NATURALIzATIOy

The enormous amount OF money spent or
the public schools of the United States is not
grudgingly furnished by the taxpayers. 1t is
the creed Of all parties that in a country where
the majority rules the systematic development
of intelligence is indispensable to National
! safety. Political machines, it is true and
perhaps more than any other the Tammany
machine in New-York, frequently contrive to
promote their unworthiest purposes by manipu-
latng the mass of ignorant voters, but even
Tammany is always eager to deny that it is
guilty Of neglecting the schools. Whenever the
opening of the school year shows a serious
deficiency Of sittings. that children are
turned away, there is an immediate and insist
ent outcry TO which no administration ever
ventures 10 appear Indifferent. The completion
of every new schoolhouse, If the work has been
honestly done, is hailed as a benefaction Thus
constantly and universally the imperative neces-
sity of bringing up the children to be good citi-
Zens is proclaimed. In theory and in practice
education is the cornerstone of our institutions
So much for the care taken to develop the
materials of good government by means of the
schools What a contrast the slow and costly
task Of educating the children for the duties of
citizenship furnishes to the swift and slipshod
process by which adult aliens are converted
into votersl Under the law passed in this
State few years ago person of foreign birth
must secure his final certificate at least ninety
days before election. This is a sautary enact
ment. which tends to prevent fraud and doubt
less has had that effect In a marked degree; but
no one familiar with the facts can believe that
it establishes a sufficient test of fitness for the
franchise. The final opportunity of foreigners
10 qualify voters under the operation of the
law occurred last week. United States Com
missioner Alexander granted certificates to
about one hundred and fifty applicants and
rejected as many more He said that they We're
the most ignorant lot of men who had ever
come before him. Presumably the worst of
them were turned away, but it is probable that
many of those who survived the examnat ton
were acceptab bic only by contrast We suppose
that The Commissioner would frankly admit
that very few Of the successful applicants were
anywhere near his standard of citizenship In
Judge TOwnsends court, open on the same day
for the same purpose the clerks were repre-
sented rs calculating that citizens could be
sworn in at the rate of four minute We do
not llnoW whether not that feat was actually
accomplished there and elsewhere during the
dnal rush. but have no doubt that such n
record has been repeatedly made. When we
consider the nature Of the scum cast up on our
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

]. c. Ingersou, the American Consul ct Coper-
hagen Denmark. says in his last report that the
popularity of American goods in Denmark Is con-
stantly increasing
GIdden-Your lawn always looks in fine shape.
HOY do you I'm manage o It. have +7vo srovr,
boys. and tell them every day that they mustn't
meddle with the lawn mower or the garden hose
The result is that my lawn IS well shorn and well
An order from Mexico recently puzzled the clerks
of a New-Oreans clothing house. The writer
wanted for my brother black suit with
white shirt, black tie. collar. cuffs and pair of
patent leather shoes. There a question
whether brother was about to be hanged
otherwise not expected to live The day following
its receipt telegram arrived, saying: DO not send
things. Brother is getting better" 1t turned out
afterward that the brother had been seriously ILL.,
and the garments were intended to array him for
the tomb.
a Holdup.-'It seems funny to hear you admit
1t was at the beginning of your career, of course
last Western tour. The man appeared at the Stage
door so suddenly and flashed his revolver ex-
-(Catholic Standard and Times
An English schoomaster recently gave his pupils
a talk patriotism, says THE Scottish Ameri-
can" He pointed out the high motives which
moved the volunteers TO leave their homes and
fight for their country. The schoomaster noticed
that boy did not pay attention the instruc-
tion and a test question he asked him: What
motives took the volunteers to the war; The hoy
was puzzled for a moment. then remembering the
public send on to the local reserves and yolun
at the railway station. he replied: Loco
motives, sir
The Cause aus Of 5s the iRsow.Judge-sO you claim you
PrisOner-Yes Yer Honor: shure OF wouldn't a,
hit i'm at all II he had n turned on me fur trowin
An ancient eptaph in Latin in the Chateau OF
Chantilly, France. may be translated thus:
Aelia Laelia Crispis
Neither man, nor woman. nor hernia DhrOdite
Neither infant. young old
Nel'her chaSSe, oePraSed. nor modest,
Removed neither by hunger, sword or poison
Eut by ALL
She lies neither in the sky nor In the water bur
everywhere.
LuCtuS Agatha Crspis.
Neither husband, lover nor friend
But all these
Neither weeping nor rejoicing
But both.
Has erected this, neither a mausoleum, a pyramId
nor a sepulchre.
But all three,
Both knowing and not KNOWING to whom he hatn
erected It.
This is tomb that holds no body
This Is a body held in no tomb.
But is its own oOdy and its tomb
The answer is not known and SO every Eimhle
wit Is invited to exercise itself the .ough cid
puzzle.
His Metre.-Mrs. Floodyer-Oh Mr. Bats how i
enjoyed your lovely volume OF poems!
.batts-Ioure very kind, indeed, Do you like the
Mrs. Fioodyer-AIcaic metre! Oh / see YOU
want 70 change the subject. Modesty is the crown
or genius But really cannot say. Does II save
much gas?-(Brooklyn Life
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
CHINA's OBJECT IN DELAY.

The question is often asked why China should
haggle and procrastinate and make delay in
coming to terms with the Powers since she
knows she must yield in the end and will prob
ably have to submit TO terms made all the
harder because of the delay. Many answers
might be given TO it, 1t is a common trait of
humanity to put off the evil day as far as pos
sible. There is no hope that more surely
springs eternal in the human breast than
the hope that something will turn up" TO
cbviate the necessity of doing the unpleasant
thing. And then there is always the consider
alton that the Chinese mind is differently con-
stituted from ours, and acts differently and
takes different views of things. There are
however, two concrete objects which the Chi
nese Government may have had in its delay
in reopening communication with the Picking
legations.
One is to seek to provoke disagreement
among the Powers. Chinese statesmen know
we'll all the jealOusies and animosities and
cross purposes that exist among the European
Powers. and have in fact often profited by
them. They are also past masters In the art of
fOmenting such passions and of taking advan-
tage of them Many time since the outbreak
Of the present troubles the Powers, or some Of
them, have been perilOusly near an open rupt-
ure. If such rupture should occur between
the rival camps China might win her case
The possibility of such deliverance is far too
attractive to be neglected for one moment
The other possible and we may say probable
object has been to make provision for the
future after the allies shall have occupied
Peking. With such occupation Peking will
cease to be Forbidden City" and will not
therefore fulfil the Tartar requirements of an
Imperial capital. 1t is well known that Nan
king was abandoned and Peking made the
capital in its stead because the former was too
accessible and the latter was deemed to be
practically inaccessible TO foreigners. The
Manchus believed EnGlishmen to be ampbIb-
ious animals, unable TO live away from the
water, and unable therefore to reach an inland
place such Picking 1t would not be sur-
prising if now another removal of the capital
should be made, for similar reasons Indeed II
has been directly stated by the Viceroy Of
Shan-Tung that such movement is in prog
ress. and we may conclude that the delay at
Peking has been made for the sake of gaining
time for the transfer OF the Court. The place
Indicated by the Viceroy as the capital is
the great city OF Sin-Gan, the metropolis of the
Province of Shen-Se. 1t is said to be larger
place than Peking. 1t is among the mountains
and on the Wei River. n small and not navi-
gable tributary of the Hoang River, the latter
Itself being not navigable by large vessels
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13

Sin-Gan could be reached, therefore, only by
marching inland from the Gulf of Pe-Chi-L
across the mountains, distance of six hun
dred miles; by going up the Yangtse River to
I-Chang and thence marching across the Pc
Ling range of mountains, n distance of three
hundred miles, or by marching down from
Siberia. across Mongolia and the great desert
of Cobb twelve hundred miles When to these
circumstances we add that Sin-Gan was the
capital of China ages ago, and is still held in
patriotic reverence, 1t is apparent that it would
make an ideal capital from the Tartar point of
view.
The Powers might, of course, object to any
such change of base. though on general prin-
ciples a country has a right to establish its
capital where it pleases. But suppose the trans
fer should be found TO he an accomplished fact
when the allies reach Peking II would not be
a bit surprising; but 1t would be uncommonly
awkward 1t would be no easy task to go to
Sin-Gan by any route. To do so would mean
the conquest of the whole empire. And China
might well decide that If such conquest is to
be effected ii must be in the place and in the
way most difficult to the conquerors.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13

can tip the balance one way the other. Some
times their sentiment favorable to one part of
one party ticket is so strong that the momen-
tum of their support elects another part, which
If alone at issue they would oppose and defeat.
But in no election are they powerless.
The Independent vote is the vote which Is
not to be had as a matter of course, which will
not support yellow dogs" to use the politician s
phrase. The size of 1t often depends on the
'yelIowness" of various dogs" The different
elements in any campaign which may lead GER
tain parts of it to move in one direction and
others in another direction make a complicated
question for political prophets and managers.
They may make up their minds that some par
ticular course on the whole will most surely
win, but never will they wisely assume that the
Independent vote is a negligible quantity.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
aetp9lprk Dailp Gribmtre
MONDAY. AUGUST 13. 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Messages from the American.
French and Italian Ministers in PelSing were re-
ceived yesterday, the latest date being August
8 Minister COnger in a message to General
Chaffee said he would hold out until relief ar
rived, which he hoped would be soon. - The
French Government has been asked by the
Tsung-I- -Yamen to order ifs Minister TO leave
Peking under the escort Of Chinese, which re-
quest has been refused. AN unconfrmed
report in Paris said that seven thousand Chris
tians had been massacred east OF Pekng. ==
Fifty lives lost by the sinking OF a torpedo
boat destroyer sby a battleship at the French
naval man9uvres of Cape st. Vincent -
Industrial securities continue to decline In the
Berlin market - German copper producers
seek higher duty because Of increasing imports
from America - Nearly two hundred rebels
have surrendered to Colonel Freeman near
Tayug. Luzon- Lord Roberts reports that
the Beers are fleeing in front of Kitcheners ana
Methuen's forces - 1t is reported tnat Ma Ma
feking is preparing for another siege - Six
hundred Senators ana Deputies caIleo on Alns
Victor Emmanuel III and expressed their 10y
atty.
DoNESTIC.-A dispatch from Minister Con-
ser, dated Pekng, August 4, received by the
War Department to-day, said that he would
hold out until relief reached him, but hoped that
II would soon reach the capital. - The text
Chang as Minister TO arrange terms with the
Powers was made public; the United States Will
make no change in its demands. - The man
who shot the express messenger in his car on
the Pennsylvania road near Cleveland on Fri
day night was arrested, and confessed that he
committed the crime to get money to marry.
Vania eleven persons lost their lives, and several
others were so severely injured that it is ex-
pected that they will die. - Addresses by the
Rev. Drs. Hoge, Meyer and Barnardo were
listened TO by large audiences in East North
Aeld, Mass. - Racing for the Astor Cup will
take place on Newport to-day.
CITY-There were sixteen deaths from heat
yesterday, before a storm brought cooler wealth
er; lightning struck nine persons. some of whom
will die; others were drowned - In fight
in Pell-st. q Chinese laundryman shot and killed
a fellow countryman; five Cinnamon were
rested. - Politicians expect interesting
struggle between Coler and Croker. - Sen
ator Platt said he did not think Controller Coler
would be nominated for Governor If Croker
could prevent It. - There was a small fire
on the Red Star Line steamer Aragonia. -
The Italians of Hoboken adopted a resolution
asking President Mckinley 10 call an nterna-
tional congress to consider the checking of
anarchy and the prompt punishment of Anar
cflists
THE Neutrality-suspicious. for to-day: Show
esr: cool The temperature yesterday, highest,
80 degrees; lowest, 73 degrees; average 7S1s.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13

shores year after year, and what 1t costs this
country to avoid far as IL can the lnfection
to which II is thus exposed and how serious
are the results of it's inevitable failure to
more than a partial immunity, 1t is literally
appalling to reflect upon the facility with which
the ignorant and the vicious of other lands can
obtain all the privileges which our own children
are thought fit TO enjoy only after we have
spent a stupendous sum of money on their
education.
A former Judge of long experience writing
to THE Brooklyn Eagle" on this subject, says
that he made it an invariable rule never to
invest an applicant with the right to vote unless
he had n fair knowledge of the English Ian
guage and of our form of government. and
could furnish satisfactory proof that he had
been a law abiding and industrious citizen for
the required period Of time. Assuredly that
standard is not too high. No magistrate who
has consented TO a lower one perhaps in hun
dreds or thousands of cases, through WEAKNESS
or good nature under political influence,
would pretend for a moment In private argu-
ment that it was too high. But everybody knows
that even that moderate test is seldom salts
fed 1t is admitted that the courts are con-
gested with litigation, and their treatment of
the naturalization business is excused on the
ground that they have no time to make a
thorough examination of applicants for citizen
ship. If this is true, then surely something
needs to be done to render their inability 10
perform an important function in a proper
manner less injurious to the country. If
different kind of machinery more machinery
Of the same kind Is required it ought TO be
provided 1t is intolerable that the electorate
should continue to be debased year after year
by aliens while we are spending millions OH
millions to make American boys worthy of the
franchise.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
AWAY FROM HOT TENEMENTS.
THE TRIBUNE FRESH AIR FUND SENT ONE
THOUSAND CHILDREN TO THE
COUNTRY LAST WEEK

The friends Of The Tribune Fresh AIR Fund may
we'll feel pleased with the work which their gener-
osity made IT possible for this charity TO accom-
plish last week 1t was week OF insu1erably not
weather-such week New-York has not eNpe-
rienced at any other time this summer. People at
summer resorts far and wide noticed the warm
wave. People who had to stay in New-York not
only noticed it, but suffered from IT, and those
who suffered most were the city's poor who i've
in the tenements. They have no escape from suen
weather that of last week, Tor they cannot
leave the city even for day They cannot pay
the carfare- The ordinary man who must stay IN
the city during the summer gOes away 20 the sea-
shore or the mountains over sunday and ne comes
back TO the city refreshed and invisorated- 9ul
the poor of the city stay in their not anI ii
sitting tenement quarters day in and DAY out' a.
through the summer, without relief or reSp!-s-s =
Is this that sends the ciJys mortality rate
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund helps oy SeiGlLs
them OF to the country. Last week Lv-- tE5
children were sent away for foTtnlSnt o. - -
air. The time OppOrtune and the nunloSS, w ,IS
large. and friends of these poor cAl!5IeN
enjoy such figures. Big they are IRe LIlo,-,e ir
Fresh Air Fund regrets that they are nol ots7g
for there still untold thousands o. lenealSlb ms
children who have not drawn breath OF tile '-N0-
air they need so badly. -, ,y,,7-,,
There five day excursions up the tlU-Si
last week. and these save day or rest anu anu (cSV
the water TO 5,Sl5 Door mothers aLU -
dren. This brings the total for the week up U u.s.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
THE WATER CONSPIRACY.

Brief but most pointed and convincing is the
letter on the RamapO water conspiracy which
we print elsewhere in this mornings Tribune.
Its writer, Mr.. Francis c. Moore, is the presi-
dent of one of the great insurance companies of
this city and knows whereof he speaks The
figures he quotes from the official reports of
the New-York Fire Department, and their cor
rectness will not, we assume, be disputed by
even the most earnest advocate of Ramapo.
Mr.. Moore addresses himself to the Ramapo
alarm cry about the need of more water for the
protection of the city from fires, and he answers
it with absolutely crushing force by showing
that the total amount used for extinguishing
fires in year is only fraction of the amount
allowed to run to waste every day. The Tam
many -Ramapo conspirators turn into the sewers
and into underground rivers every day more
than the Fire Department needs for a whole
years use. And then they raise the cry that
we are in danger of universal confagradon if
we do not permit Ramapo to loot the city
treasury.
1t is interesting To observe in connection with
this subject the state of affairs in the Borough
Of The Bronx There is something like water
famine there. In a large part of the borough
people cannot get all the water they need for
some of the most urgent requirements. And
yet the city authorities are deliberately diverting
four hundred thousand gallons a day from the
city mains into the mains of a private money
making corporation-a branch of the Ramapo
cOncern-which then resells it elsewhere at a
profit. So people deprived of the water for
which they, have paid through taxation, in
order that private corporation may sell that
water at an eXorbtant price to other people
who have also been taxed for public supply.
And the city authorities, while protesting that
they cannot furnish enough water for the legiti-
mate needs of the people, can yet furnish large
quantities to a favored corporation for it to
resell at a profit. If Mr.. Gilbert in his topsy-
turvy comedies ever depicted o more prepos-
terous situation we have yet to learn of it.
Controller COer is right when he says that if
the Department of Water Supply would it could
stop the waste of water to such an extent that
We should have no water famine nor anything
approaching to it. THE Commissioner of Water
Supply knows it can be done. But the Com
missioner of Water Supply does not want to
stop the waste. He wants to create water
scare for purposes of his own" The Tribune
took the lead long ago in suggesting that an
artificial water famine, or the fear of one, was
being manufactured by some connected
with the municipal administration for the pur-
pose of promoting the Ramapo grab. Mr.. Coler
unhestatingly, in the words which have
quoted, fixes the responsibility upon the Com
missioner of Water Supply himself.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on
the steamer statendam from Rotterdam and Bou-
logne. were Nathan Appleton. I. ". V. Ballard
Charles E Barnum. g. S. Beechwood, H. 7. Bel
lew Edward P Bliss Chester D. Clapp, Lieuten-
ant Thomas W. Fitsch Commander Francis NJ
Green (retired), L. S. N: II L Henderson,
Professor G. Legras, Willis F. McCook. Eugene b
Pierce. ". c. Sproul. Colonel ". D. Wolverton
and Charles A. Young.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13

The DAILY and SUNDAY TRIBUNE, BY mail,
Sl.0O month, except TO a city or foreign
address.
Readers are fn0Lfed 10 complain TO this
ofife, If they cannot find TRIBUNEs at a
HeIS stand The Presidential campaign
has caused an increase in sales.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-13
AmusemenIs.

CASlNO-s:So-Casno Beauty Minstrels-a;S ;So-Mhe
Alma-9:5G l1:0S-Casino Boy.
EAMMERsTEINS VICTORIA-Sl5-Roof Garden;
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KETTFFS-Continuous Performance.
MANHATTAN BEACH-3 :3o-Fanciulli's list Regiment
Bsnd-s-Pain's Great Spectacle and Ffreworks-s-
Faust
NFW-Y0RK THEATRE-S-Cherry Blossom Grove.
PASTOR'S-Day and Night.