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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: Two
items OF recent military news have suggested to
me that improvements on mounted infantry
may be looked for. One Is that the Chi
nese circumvented some French troops with
magazine ~jingals, with ounce missiles. OPP
Grated by two men apiece; the other that tho
Beers inflicted considerable annoyance with
one pound rapid-nre shells. II Is evident that
ordinary rife FIRE can make things interesting
for artillery at times. 1t Is also likely that for
steadily aimed fire, the heavier yet easily ma
nipulalel jingals and one Founders would
be too much for ordinary rifles. For rersis-
tent thanking and renr attacks. flying columns
Of mounted men literally equipped with
,ingals and one-pounders on the most spider
ish OF carriages, with the new Mauser auto
matte pistols, which carry 800 yards effectively
for close quarters. should. ] think. prove SUI
prrior TO Boer tactics, White weapons OF
some kind must be retained. They don't miss
fire and there are such things "a night scrim-
IMAGES. when the best mon win and the will
famous saltpetro" 10 at its lowest availability.
RED TREFoIL.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
No "~Calamity'' In Nebraska Savings Banks.

To THE EDITOR OF The sUN-Sri some very inter
esting and emphatic proofs OF the prosperity sctu-
ally existing in Nebraska to-day are furnished by
the tsbulatei report OF the Secretary of the stts
Banking Board, inst issued. There are 4O5 State aud
savings banks in tho state. and these are almost
without exception located outside OF the business
centres OF tho state, Lincoln and Omaha. They
make quarterly statements to the banking board.
The last quarterly statement showsthat there is on
deposit in these banks s2l,ocd'llo. or 81 100000
more than Just one year ago, As these are the banks
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
Two Adjectives From Pettigrew's
Vocabulary.

The proposition with which PETTIGREw
of South Dakota began his masterpiece IN
the Senate Chamber is worth printing here
in the exact language OF the revised version
in tho Congressional Record:
THE trouble with these imperislists 10 that they
coufound the Government OF the United States with
their puny President"
Puny means small or weak; Inferior or
imperfectly developed in size or strength;
feeble; petty; insignificant.
Having recorded his personal estimate
of Mr.. MCKINLEY's dimensions and powers,
PErrIGREw proceeded, with that un-
conscious hunor which makes some OF
his speeches delightful reading, to accuse
our President Of overriding constitutions
and trampling upon the rights OF individ-
uals and nations, waging wars Of conquest,
and altering political geography to an e4-
tent ~unequalled in the worlds history ex-
cept In a few instances such as those or
tho least puny OF Huns and the least puny
Of Corsicans.
Continuing TO explain his idea OF the
qualities which justified tho application
10 GItSlutlJ Va bAio otJNNeA'N
puny, PErr1GREw referred to the brutal
phrases" OF tho proclamation addressed
! by the President on December 81. 1898,
! TO the inhabitants Of the Philippines, both
the friendly and the hostile.
DR.. CHALLENGER OF New Hampshire, who
Is well known as an amateur OF the truly
humorous, immediately arose and with @
twinkle in his eyes asked PErTIGREw to read
from the proclamation one or W bruta
| phrases which had arrested his attention
and excited his Indignation. Here are the
b~rutalities which PErrIGREw produced
reading first from the passage Immediately
following the Presidents assurance to well.
disposed Filipinos that our army OF occupa
lion was there TO befrIend them and protect
them in their homes, employments, anC
personal and religious rights:
And others will be brought within the Lawful
rule va have assumed. with hrmness. II need be
but without %seyert,, so far as may be possible"
THE military government heretofore maintained
by the United states in tho city, harbor and bay o.
Manila Is to be extended with all possible dlspAsci
10 tie whole OF the coded territory"
Brutal means savage; cruel; inhuman
unieeling.
Preserving as well as possible the simu
lated gravity with which he had asked thu
original question, DR.. GALLINoEB re
marked to PErTIGREw:
III the Senator will permit me. It strikes me thu
his declaration that those expressions Of the Priest
dents message are brutal is absolutely rsfute'
BY reading them. The President Of the United
States used no brutal language. and has not done o
during the period Of hostilites."
P%ErrIGREw's remarkable justification o
the epithet puny as applied to President
Mckinley, and his illustration, at DR.
GALLINGER's instance, OF his private con
ception Of brutality, must have persuaded
the entire Senate that the South Dakot'
pest does not know what any adjective II
tho dictionary really signifies.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
RELIGION IN PUBLIo sCHooLS
Catholic Pupils In Piermont Dismissed for
Refusing TO Attend Services.

NYAcK. Jan. 2O.--A handsome and costly now
school building was dedicated In Piermout LAST
Monday night, and now serious trouble has
arisen between some OF the Catholic parents
OF school district No. 3, embracing PIER
mont. Grandvicw and ~sparRill. and tho
Board Of Education. Quite u number "
children who attend st. Johns CatholI,
Church at Piermont are pupils In school district
No. 3. Parents u some OF tho children hold
that the present form Of religious exercises
which take place after school opens IN the
morning ct o O'Clock. 10 not OF a strict non. seo-
tartan order. and rs. under the law. their chill
drrn are not obliged to attend such services
after the hour OH. II Il an imposition on their
For refusing to go into the assembly room ior
thesc services. Principal firmau say. he dis
missed sixteen tqtholIc pupils this week
johns. F FSTii said S io. GSy!'" . hs | '%S andars q, A. !.
II Is a violation Of the law to compel children 70
attend religious services after the hour "
, done In this district. The Catholic children
cannot IN conscience submit to it,
Sidney e. tlrman j. principal OF School
DISTRICT No. J, In an interview this morning
II am very sorry the question has come IN.
The exercises are uo different than .orMerly,
On Monday and Tuesday mornings some u
the Catholic children protested against gong
into the assembly room for the religious exer-
cises. Those mornings simply ignored theiR
action. "Wednesday, morning some OF them
went In. By Thursday morning had
received notice from tho Boari Of Eluca:
ton To notify the pupils who protested
against being. In tho assembly room TOT
service that they had their choice OF being
present or going home. Some OF them. went.
| The children in refusing to respond In. the
morning to tho teachers bell are guilty OF in'
subordlnation. | told the children who were
dismissed that they would have TO see Mr.
| Martin, the President Of the board. as to com.
ing back to school. simply do the bidding "
the Board OF Education"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
The Emissary From tho Transvaal.

On Friday the Hon. EUoESR HALE, OF
Maine. burst forth in the Senate with sym
pathy for the two Republics oil South AFRICA.
The ayersion wi ioh Senator HALE expressed
toward England's determination to extin'
guish the self-govcrnment which the boer
stock has established In the Transvaa' anu
the Orange Free State is, We believe 70 use
Senator HALE's W words, "felt by the
Administration representing the people Oh
the United States and nlne-tenths Oh the
American people" But when Senator HALE
EMPLOYS this sentiment to continue his long
sustained attack upon the foreign policy OF
the Administration he puts 1t to base USE
instead OF being in truth It's champion.
Inquiry as to why Mr.. HALE, whose
strenuous endeavor to protect Spain IN
her savage policy OF determination in Cuoa
caused him to be known "a "the senator
from SPAIN" now exhibits u intense In
terest In tho Beers, results In the discovery
OF no satisfactory ground for his action.
Mr.. HALE took up tho cause Of the Beers
while he was advocating the Allen resolu-
ton directing the President at once to give
to the Senate full information as TO his re.
ceiving or refusing to receive a recently
arrived representative OF the Transvaal
Republic. For q statesman OF Mr.. HALEs
long training to favor this peremp-
tory demand rather than the respectful
request into which it was transformed at
the instance OF Senator SPooNER, OF Wiscon-
sin, indicates rather a desire to worry the
Administration in Its delicate task OF con-
Quoting our foreign affairs than to obtain
the desired information through the con-
stitutional channels which Senator SpooSER
90 ably and soberly laid down.
The Transvaal has never had a Minister
at any foreign court. For the President to
recognize one In Washington would be a
square abandonment OF that neutrality
which, however American feeling may In
cline, no President with due regard to the
country relations to the rest OF the world
could undertake.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
Foreign Notes of Real Interest.

French painters should have room enough At the
| 1900 salon, as the architect of the building has pro-
vided them with nearly four miles of hanging space.
Awoman hanged for child murder In Vienna 9 few
days ago was the first woman executed in that city
since 1902. and the hrst IN the Austrian monarchy
since 1887
Germany's new civil code. tho "Bergeriiohss
Gssetzbuch.' which was taken IN hand tw enty. seven
| years ago, came into force for the whole Empire On
on Jan. l Of this year.
Austria. Hungary has now adopted a new monetary
standard. the krone, made mp u = hundred heller.
and worth half a horin. taking the place OF the norn
or eulden. with its DIVISION. into kreuLer.
According to the Kaiser'- new naval programme.
| Germany will have - battlo-hips In 1910 instead Of
tho II she has now, 20 large cruisers instesl Of IL.
~ small cruisers and %gunboats in place OF 80 and
I4torpedo boats instead of - as at present,
St.. Bede the yenerablc's feast day is to be observed
By Catholics al over the word a. we'll a. in England
from 1901 OH according to recent decree Of the
Sacred Congregation of Rites. lIIs nay in the calen-
dar will be May 81, his birthday.
Phllologsts in Germany have united to bring ont
a complete Latin dictionary. . "1hcsaurus Lingual
Latina" and expect to begin printing next April.
The standard IL sull For,ellint and Faociolat's
Lexicon Totius LatinitatiH,' compiled a hundred
and NIFTY years ago, and revised repeatedly by Italian
scholars.
Paris takes the lead in ths o.mpstkn against spit
ting 10 ptblic. A committee OF the Town Council
has recommended the putting up of enamelled sisns
In the principal streets aud parks with the insrrp-
ton In the interest of the people an TO avoid tho
spread Of contagious diseases you As requested not
to spit On the Sidewalk
Arv Scheiers aulhtar, Nine. Mari ,lin ISchoror
has be- iuea'hed her fathers famous ptintlns
"PaDlo and francesca ia k,m,ni, with ak portraits
OF celebrated lrenchme painted by him. g. the
Louvre GALLERY. Nine other portraits 20 to tho
museum at Versailles and one Of Princess Mare
d'Orlcans to the Duo d'Aumalas collection At
Chaut.ly,
Kaiser Wilhelm was unusually liberal with Itl,.
Of nobility on New Years Day, H. made Primo,
Hermann Won HItIfeldt, DIkc % 7 shyuuor. 4
dukedum l. an unusual Il Euitg fpr a G.mll
subject Count Philip Nv EIlrAbur,, Amtas,aI.r
to Austria an tn Emperlrs porspualf renl, IS ma .
a Prince with the ttlc "Durchlau, mt" which puts
him In the highest Gornan category OF tn AmmI
d. Gotto. Count Richard IN Dohna and Cuu.t
Ei2srd "a lnnhahuen unt Knyphausen are a.p
made Princes and "Duschlauchts." Tho u.ht %
put won before then names is granted " afssa
= omesrs and - Aany oivilsaA
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Not Easily Accessible.


She was quite a well-dressed woman waiting
for the 10 o'clock tram. and il was then $3.50.
How long will 1t be until that 10 O'Clock
train goes2' she ask ed at the ticket window.
Thirty minutes. madam replied the clerk.
suayely.
wi / have time to go out and buy .ome-
That will depend upon circumstances,
madam"
Il lust want to go across the street"
wv here IL your money!
This was a queer question TO ask. and the
lady rather resented i.
In my pocket. Of course" she answered
somewhat testify.
Then you have scarcely time. madam said
the clerk with gravity. and the lady ilirted
herself away from the window In q dudgeon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
Two Acres Raised Fifteen Feet
Erom n. san Francisco Chronic,,.

SANTA CRUl. Jan, ia remarkable phenom.
enun occurred on IeScadero Greek Ut IL O'Clock
Il few nights ago, when nearly two acres OK
ground. covered thickly with redwuqts and IN
Cludinga section OF the creek, raised NJ bodily
from tea 10 fifteen feet above the surrounding
surface. Tho uphcaval was accompanied ty q
heavy rumbling sound and was supposed 70
be that of an earthquake. A long section OF
the WAGON road was elevated in the air and de-
stroyed, The elevation II Il portion OF the
creek bottom changed thecolrse OF the stream.
which has cut a wide channel around the UPS
raised ground. Much Of the timber was PROS
trated. while all that was lett standing Is lean.
Ing heavily toward higher ground, Many dead
fish were found.
As there are oil Indications in the vicinity.
Il j. supposed the upheaVal was caused by an
explosion Of gas in the depths whore petroleum
finds its source. Those who have examined
the ground declare 1t is not n landslide.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21

qulps and persliage and mystihcationa
He does and says much that Is humorous
and nothing hat is morally objectionaole'
Mr.. RILEY will have none OF him, but We
must remind Mr.. RILEY that II there ~ any
feud In this ease IL belOngSto the kEibLfs
and not to the RILEYs.
In REGARD to the use of certain names on
the variety stage and elsewhere. there Is no
intention, We are sure, to offend. Indeed
tho offenders often bear the names which,
in the opinion Of our correspondent. arc
maligncd. We look at IL In this way'ht
seems to be a cOnvcntionality OF tho variety
stage, which deals in broad elects, that
everybody who IL OF Irish descent Ia funny
Now name u song-and-dance character
SALToNsrALL or VAN RENSSELAER, and
YOU chill the public at once. Name nm
CASEY or RAFFERTY,. and you dlspose
everybody To believe that he Is going 10
say something humorous or witty. Just 40
tho audience used to laugh when they
heard BUTTONS voice before he came on
the stage and before they could make
out what he was saying, so they
laugh at things said and done by
the CAsEYs and 80 on, knowing they must
be- funny. There Is 10 disrespect to any
body. There is 10 intention OF slurring
any name. In the audience are CAsEis
and RAFFERrYs laughing heartily. The
habit so detested by Mr.. RILEY is really a
compliment 20 brilliant race.
The world Is reasonably large, with room
for all sorts OF people. Some like to laugh
and some to be solemn. Our friend, Mr.
RILEY, seems tn be in the solemn class at
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
Pirates still In Canton.


A daring raid by a body Of pirates on one 81
the Canton gaols for the purpose OF releasing
one of their comrades who was lying there I'M.
der sentence Of death. was made at the end OF
October, but the details were suppressed by
the local authorities. 4 band of about eighty
pirates attacked the gaol and ~overpowerei the
warders. They then liberated their comrade
and eleven other bandits who were also under
sentence of death, aud fought their way back
to their boats, killing IA number oil. the city
trained bands who were called out to intercept
them. During the running light two OF ths
pirates were K He'd, but the rest got away. Tbs
lmpress-Dowagero on receiving news OF thisex:
plot, though some ofthe details were concealed
from her and rom the Niceroy. cashiered the
governor of the gaol and ordered an inquiry To
ascertain whether he was IN colll.ion with tho
pirates. She also ordered the trial OF the local
magistrate who was responsible for the so-
curity OF the prison. and gave him the usual
period Of three months within which to recap
ture the liberated criminals and the pirates
who released them.
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JaiIers to Celebrate n woman's Release


New CASTLE. Del. Jan. 1S.-After a residence
at he Jail ms a prisoner for eight years. Mary f.
Clark, convicted Of conspiracy, will bs released
on Monday next. The other " convicted OF the
same crime were Edward Clark. the husband
OF the woman. who was released a year ago,
and the son. Joseph Clark, who WAS released
five years ago. While In the Jail the husband
and son roomed and ate together with the
mother and wife. She gave the warlenst 10 I'M
dcrstand that she was not a low grade prisoner.
They lived well and prepared their own food,
taking their profrered share from the warden
and purchasing whatever their fancy desire
from the outside. The wnrdeus are well
pleased to get rid Oi the woman and will give a
dance in honor Of her departure.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
,JoUy RusKrN. who when he died yeste,

JOIN RUsKrN, who when he died yester-
day had passed his eightieth year, was among
the great Englishmen OF the nineteenth cen.
tury, He broke down the wall OF British Phil
istinism in art and for a generation was
listened TO with "a great respect as was EMER-
SON before his circle In this country. What
ever judgment be passed on RUsKIY's ideas,
he set people to thinking who had never
thought before, and what no had TO say he
said in phrases that will live as models OF Eng
lish prose.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
Senator Lindsay and His Voice.
From ne Washington Pos,

TTTTT ~ " T-TTTVv"F "T-'
Sometimes the senate gets as noisy as .
womrn'a sewing circle. Everybody talks at
o~ncr-uot trying 70 make speeches. undsr-
stand. but each man in conversation with hlI
neighbor. Then the buzz OF voices rises to the
ceiling,
Il IL during these periods Of universal gNs-
siping together that Senator Lindsay OF Ken
lucky shines conspicuously. When he makes
II set speech his voice l. unto the noise u tho
bun Of Bashan. and when he whispers Ia
mumbIes Ike an earthquake. He loans back
in his chair. hides hotn his hands in h.
rockets. looks lovingly dow upon his
caracious tumtum. and Then uttcrs his cor-
ments IN alleged sOtto voce 10 The senator's
around him The trouble is that The sO'test
tones Of Lindsay are louder than the ordinary
stcntorian cry. and even his whispers Gauss
the desks to tremble.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
QUESTION OF NAMES.
Lib critics Resented and an Amendment OF
the Libel Law Urged.

the Libel Law NTkeu'
To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: object
strongly to your publishing articles which are
unfounded on fact and which are calculated TO
draw ridicule and contempt on a numbe OF
persons s. in the community who may happen TO
be named after honorable and respectable an
cestors. i resent your publishing articles like
the ones you call "Sinkers and Sarsaparilla
Riley" articles which are pure inventions
without any foundation in fact and are simply
produced by some clown for a few dollars and
published by the paper in the hopes that they
will make some fools laugh, but the result
really is that a slur is cast upon a family name.
which 10 an injury.
This Ia a species Of libel which should be pro-
hitited by law. being an exact talsehood pro-
ducing annoyance and injury to some citizens.
So also are the contortions Of variety show
hirelin Ks who perform disgusting and discrcd-
table acts on the stage IN the name OF some
family designation. As for the name | spe-
cially write about and which your inventor
drags through the slums OF Park row. II has
been honorably known for centuries. in tho his
tory OF England and Ireland and in the history
Of spain, and as for our own country the name
has been SO much honored that the Government
deemed it Just to recognize the patriotic SER
vices OF Generals OF the name ny calling thelr
principal army post In the West Fort Riley.
dare wager that there are more honorable.
| respectable, moral and patriotic ndtlre imeri-
can citizens OF that name here in proportion TO
the number Of the name than there are OF the
! name OF the brilliant inventor Of the Sarsapa-
rilla sketches. Now let him change on and
give us the sketches with his name put In as a
Sarsaparilla -. Wemay have more fun with
| his name than with the present combination.
Seriously. Il is an outrage which should be
prohibited by law in the state Of New York and
elsewhere. At theatres you hear clownish
| comedians travestying some drunkard associ-
ate they will dub Casey, one OF our most hon.
ored Generals names, &c. At some menagerie
You hear a wretch OF a keeper call an ugly
baboon Miss Murphy. and the ink. singers
hasten to print all this as great fun, BAIL
II Is all wrong. Ii Is an outrage and an insult
and should be stopped. L. j. RILEY.
NEW YORK. Jan. 10.
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Told on Her Return From New York.
From ne K1nsdI Citv Sta,

A Kansas City woman, whose hair Is gray.
went TO New York recently and took a ride on
q trolley ear. Both OF the side seats OF the car
hanging to "a strap aud swinging md jerk lng
with the motion Of the car, she observed that
all Of the men seemed To be entirely hidden
behind their newspapers. She thought,
a, she stood there. that IN Kansas City men
often rise to give their seats TO women, The
difference was painful to contemp plate. Finally
q negro, near the other end OF the car. stood up
and said:
Take this seat. lady"
No" answered. the Kansas City woman,
with awful d~istinctnesa. Il will not take the
sent Of the only gentleman in the car"
The newspapers dropped suddenly. and sly
men jumped to their feet. Apparently they had
Just seen the gray-haired woman. And shA
took her choice OF seats.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
Hunting " lid Animals In Chicago.

To TINE EpIron or THE sunni. Knowing The
srs to be Interested In good sporting items | beg Co
remind you that the shooting season Las opened in
Chicago and hunters are hunLing In considerable
game Of the kind on which a hounty O.. paid. A
bounty has already been paid on u wolf KILLED within
the city limit-, aud one l. claimed on q bear | live
in q suburb OF Chicago and intend to move into the
heart VI the CITY IN the spring to get away from tho
wlld animals which n'ghtly disturb our sleep.
kuwAuKKk, Jan. ~. IHxo. VIVA