New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-12

the Bible nowhere says Let there be promiscu-
Gus dancing" He had prevailed. and his oppo-
nents were silenced, II not convinced"
Mr.. Henry Norman reminds us in his excellent
paper Russia, printer in "Scribner, that
there are two great characteristics in the Rus
sian social fabric without an appreciation OF
which Russian question or prospect can be
intelligently judged These autocracy, the
semi-divine, unquestioned, unbounded authority
the top; it's counterpart, iIliterate super
stitious. brutelike dependence, automatonism at
the bottom. The soldier, typical Of his class, is
a great child. and is treated as such. Nothing
is left to his intelligence or his initiative OF
virtues he has many-he is brave, obedient'
faithful; of wits he is not supposed or even de-
sired to show any signs The very words he is
to say put in his mouth If an officer asks
him a question that he cannot answer he may
not say. I do not know; he must reply I am
not able to know When his colonel greets him
collectively he has one answer; when the Car
greets him he has another-a whole sentence
carefully learned by heart and shouted in uni
son by the whole regiment in long series OF
explosive syllabes His pay is about A cents
every three months. From the point OF view or
the military martinez he is ideal Kanonenfutter
chair a To his number there Is no
limit"
bumptious concerning American infallibility to
read Mr. J. r. Spears's chapter on the slave
trade. These records of the American captains
who were inhuman beasts in their sordid greed
are not conducive to pride in the American
name. A terrible story is set forth In these
pages one of a bloody cruelty almost too shock
ing for belief
The author of The Capture of SLAYER in
the current Atlantic" was a midshipman fifty
years ago on a Government vessel engaged in
suppressing the evil business on the AFRICAN
coast. His "reminiscences are vivid and pict-
uresque-marked with horror. all such tales
must be. II is a question whether it was more
mercful to land the black captives on an in
hospitable shore hundreds Of miles from their
homes than to bring them to more civilized re-
gions In either they were destined to
slavery and exile.
The fiction OF The Atlantic" is singularly I'M
attractive this month. but there is a little
sketch. apparently from real life, by Miss JUS
tine Ingersoll which has freshness humor and
tenderness We had turned with pleasant an
tictpation to the collection of the late James
Martineau's letters addressed to an American
correspondent, but found them to be of only
minor interest.
In his suggestive paper in "Harpers Maya
predicts that this English port in China will
become for Europeans the great summer health
resort Of the East. The region is beautiful,
breezy and clear and the British policeman has
by the terms of the cession a range of ten miles
from the centre-insuring safety to white women
and children. Near the Japanese camp had
tasted the waters of medicinal spring Of great
volume and of a sulphurous flavor, suggesting
Carlsbad or Saratoga. No doubt some enter
prising company will build near by casino. or
Kurhaus and introduce here all the diversions
incident to Wieshaden HOmburg Admiral
Seymour guards this spring carefully, and when
its properties become better known there will
grow up around it succession Of charming
shady walks in lieu of the present lack of re-
freshing foliage.
Every kind of fruit and vegetable thrives
about Wei-Hai-Wei. and since American
missionary, Dr. Nevius introduced the Califor-
MIA grape into Northern Shan-Tung. near Che
Foo, the northern slopes Of that province have
given rise to a considerable fruit industry.
With mountains to climb at hand, fishing
in the streams, snipe abundant in the marshes,
excellent boating and yachting In the beautiful
bay, a we'll policed country, and climate the
best of all China, what white man
desire? And finally have the question of
transportation solved. for there are plenty of
competing steamship lines passing the port. and
affording cheap and luxurious travel. Even now
scarcely day passes without a steamer passing
Wei-Hai-Wei in either direction, whereas Kiao-
Chau, leading to nothing in particular and being
off the main track can only furnish passenger
accommodation at long intervals
Olive Schrener writing in THE Cosmopolitan
Of her country people, declares that to one who
wisely studies the history Of the African Boer
nothing is pathetic than his strange, fierce
adherence to the past That cry, which
ceasingy for generations has rung out from the
Boer woman's elbow chair, My children, never
forget you are white men! Do always you
have seen your father and mother do!' no
cry of a weak conservatism, fearful of change;
it the embodiment of the passionate deter
mination Of a great little people not to lose the
| little IL possessed and sink in the scale of
! being. To laugh at the conservatism of the
Boer is to laugh az the who, floating above
| a whirlpool. clings fercely with one hand to the
! only outstretching rock he reach, and who
will not relax his hold on it by one finger till he
| has found something frmer to grasp" Miss
| Schreiner's belief that if the Boer had not re-
NAMED true to his seventeenth century civiliza-
| ton he would have inevitably refrigerated into
which puts him down far below the Anglo Saxon
! level Why should not the Boer have made
| progress?
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