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MONEY AND BUSINESS

The time of a snowstorm makes a difference of
many millions to manufacturers and dealers, not
only in heavy footwear woollens, hats and
gloves, but in many other lines. This storm
comes too late, and has lost great part of the
value it would have had early in January and
yet it is worth more by a good many millions
than no snowstorm, and from forests and Ium-
Der camps of the North to regions far below the
limits of the snow itself the resulting benefits
are distributed. For even in Texas the distant
demand for woollen goods creates hope of a bet
ter price for wool. It's chief benefit is that Il
will help dealers to work off the great stocks OF
winter goods which, reckoning on a continuance
of the consuming demand Of last fall, they have
been carrying with retail sales considerably re-
strcted by the mildness OF the winter There
fore it is the more encouraging that IN two
weeks OF February payments through the prin-
cipal clearing houses outside New-York have
been 6.S per cent larger than last year and 81 3
per cent larger than in 1898 while even at New
York in the same weeks payments have been
81 100000 a twentieth OF 1 per cent. larger
than last year, and 161 per cent larger than In
1898
This is the more Remarkable because sales of
stocks in the two weeks were less than $500 900
shares this year, against 5000 900 last year. and
in par value $3.50, 100000, against 5000 900 900
last year. Obviously other business must have
materially increased at this city as well else
where. The temper OF the stock market is pecul-
lar. The average or sixty railroad stocks has
risen I cents share, and since December 80
only 80 cents Yet earnings have been 16 per
cent greater than last year In February thus
far. and reports of January earnings United
States roads only have reached $4S,517 632 gain
ing l31 per cent over last year and % per cent
over 1898. II is hard TO say where railroad stocks
would have been with such earnings had not the
market been heavily loaded with Street and In
dustrial stocks in which the substantial investor
has less confidence. These have decuped q ttle,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-19
Istppnrk ID ailp Gribnf,e
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1900. .
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-An unconfirmed rumor reached
London from the Continent that General Cronje
with his army of seven thousand men had been
captured; the British division under General
Kelly-Kenny or Saturday was harassing the
retreating Beers in the Orange Free State; Gen
eral Butler began his fourth advance to the re-
lief of Ladysmith on Wednesday; the Brabant
Horse drove the Beers from Dordrecht after
eight hours hard fighting: the British steamer
Sabine, from this port, was seized by a British
gunboat and taken to Delagoa Bay, suspected
of having contraband of war on board. ==
General Andrade, former President of Venez-
uela, is in Havana. -- TWO elephants got
loose, killed their keeper and caused panic
among the audience at a concert in Crystal Pal-
ace London. - The price of coal in many
places in Germany has almost doubled, and at
tention is called TO the opportunity of American
exporters. President DiaZ has decreed the
establishment of a system of bonded warehouses
at ports Of entry in Mexico. - Three more
plantations in Martinique were scenes or IN
cendiary fires.
DOMESTIC ffty-third annual report of
the State Board OF Charities to be presented to
the Legislature to-day, was made public. -
The State Franchise Tax Commissioners propose
to go ahead with their work, whether an addi-
tional appropriation is made by the Legislature
or not. - Miss Sarah Porter, whose school
for girls is known all over the country died at
Pennington, Conn, at the age OF elghty-slA'
- Many representatives of dairy interests
reached Lincoln, Neb, TO attend the National
convention which meets in that city to-day.
- Perry S Heath, First Assistant Postmas-
chase Madison square Garden making it the
centre Of NETWORKS postal system - free
traders in Congress are expected to snow oppo-
sition TO the Puerto Rican tariff. - The
Kentucky Legisla 5lre will resume regular SEES
sions in Frankfort to-day; the body of Goebel
has not yet been buried.
CTTY-The Hamburg Line steamer
Graf waidersee which grounded in the Lower
Bay on Saturday afternoon, was noateo
About sixty miles of streets were cleared or
snow by Commissioner Nagle and the UValde
Asphalt Paving Company, the snow removal
contractors. - The Rev. DR.. Minot j. Savage
in a sermon said that men did not need saliva
ton in q theological sense; what they needed
was salvation from ignorance and fear. -
Molineux spent much of his first sunday IN
Sing Sing Prison reading the Bible
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day: Part
" cloudy. The temperature yesterday: Highest,
q degrees Lowest, II; average, 2oS4-
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THE BOSNIAN EXAMPLE.

That was an apt reference which LORD Rose
berry made recently to the case of Bosnia ana
Herzegovina an illustration OF what Great
Britain might expect in the Boer States. 1t Will
be remembered that the Berlin Congress or 1918
directed the occupation and administration OF
those provinces of the Turkish Empire by Aus
tria- Hungary, upon which empire they immedi-
ately abut. AustriafIungary readily under
tool, the task. and did not expect it 10 be by any
means formidable one. She was one OF the
great military Powers, while in the provinces
there were only the rude peasants and noun
taineers and a few demoraliZed Turkish troops
The total population of the provinces was less
than three-uuarters of a million. and one-third
Of 1.-THE Christian element-was supposed to be
friendly to Austrian occupation. 1t was conf
IDENTITY supposed that there would be little more
than q military promenade through the prov
inces and practically unOpposed establishment
Of Austrian authority. That serious resistance
would or could be offered against Power
whose army more numerous than the en-
tire population of the provinces, and whose base
of supplies and action was directly upon the
border was not for a moment imagined.
Nevertheless, Austria Hungary meant to make
no mistake about it. She was fully prepared for
the invasion, having been getting ready for 1t
for two or three years. She decided to send in
an overwhelming force to display the greatness
OF her strength. Into Bosnia she sent whole
army corps, consisting of 1888 men, 1888
horses and 81 guns Into Herzegovina she sent
a division, numbering 1850 men, 3210 horses
and "a guns. Nor were these ALL She mobil-
lied her Dalmatian garrisOns and moved her
Slovenian and CrOatan troops to the border
IN all. she began the campaign with scarcely
less than 100000 troops in the field. Did she
have a "walkover'? The historical record
~ tha
hardest kind of fighting to subdue the provin-
Gals The Bosniaks actually assumed the often
sive, invaded Austrian territory and caused a
first class panic in Vienna itself. And before
the war was over the Imperial army in the field
and actually operating in the two provinces
numbered no less than 20S,000 men, 5000
horses and $50 guns. And all, as we have said,
close at home, within three hundred miles of
| Vienna!
In fighting the Boer States England has
similar task on hand. In the character of the
country it is almost precisely similar. But she
| has more skilful and better equipped soldiers to
! deal with, and she has to operate eight thousand
miles instead of two or three hundred miles
from homo. We expressed the other day some
could have done better than the British army
| has done thus far. 1t is interesting to observe
! that a German military authority, General Won
| Schmeling, says II think that in face of such
| fighting (as that Of the Boers) any European
'army would have had to buy its experience I'M
Tess it had been trained beforehand on the spot
| ''to pay back the Beers in the same coin" That
| seems to be the pretty general opinion.
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Amusemenfs.

ACADEMY OF MUsIc-si0-way Down East.
AMERICAN Observation-Disclosures.
BROADWAY-S-Ben -Kur.
CARNEGIE HALI>-s:i5-Concert-
CARNEGIE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
CASlNO-S-The Princess Chic.
CRITERION THEATRE-S:20-The Little Minister.
DALY's THEATRE-S3o-The Ambassador.
EDEN MUSEE-9 a. m. 10 Il p nL-Waxworks Grand
Concert and Cinemstograph.
EMPIRE THEATRES :3o-Brother officers.
FIFTH AVENUE Neutrality-suspicious.. Fiji.
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-S-A Romance Of
Abilene.
GARDEN MISUNDERSTANDING 5;4o-Hearts Are
Trursps
GARRlCK THEATRE-S-Sherlock Holmes
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-s-In Old Kentucky.
HAMMERsTETN's vICToRIA-s:so-Chr and the Wen
derf9l Lamp.
HARLEM OPERA HoUsE-s:l5-The Only Way.
Herald SQUARE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Anthony.
IRVING PLACE THEATRE-S-Als Ich Wiecerkam.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Performance
KNIcKERBoCKER THEATRE-S-20-Nhen We Were
Twenty-ons-
KosTER & BIAL's-s:l5-Round New-york in Eighty
r,ycFfTN TfIEATRE-sso-The Surprises OF Love.
MADISON SQUARE THEATRES o-Corale & Co.,
DressnaKers.
METROPOLITAN OPERA EoUsE-S-Ies Huguenots.
MURRAY HILL-2-S-Dipiomacy.
NETWORK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 20 TOXIC
PASTOR Performance.
S-S-Ssphc.
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much. at least. Is In no wise excluded ny the
act Of self-denial adopted by Congress at the
time or United States Intervention IN Cupah
affairs. Nor does that in any degree imply that
Cuba is one day to be taken into the Union as
State proceeding which we must nope VIII
never be attempted General Wilson, we Cd
serve, favors it, and thinks nothing Is TO DE
gained by further delay of the practical consld-
Grafton of it, That is one of the points on which
we are compelled to disagree with him. we Go
not believe Cuba should ever be admitted as
State, even If her people come TO desire 1t, ana
we do not believe any good will come from pres
ent consideration of that subject. On the con-
trary, much harm would probably come or It,
The people of Cuba have, should have, other
things TO occupy their minds. They will do
best to think of perfecting their local govern
ment of renaildng their industries, of extend
ing their consaerce and of promoting education
and prosperity and to leave idle dreams of
Statehood severely alone. This Union was
framed for free and Independent States on the
American Continent. The moment we leave the
Continent and begin seeking among the archl-
pelagoes of any ocean for more States, whose
people are to be invited to full partnership with
us and to a share in the government of this
Continent itself, we are inviting the downfall
which the enemies of republican institutions
have always predicted
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MUSIC.
DoINGs AT PIE OPERA HOUSE

DOINGS AT FHE OPERA HOUSE
Since that which compelled the change OF opera
last Saturday evening no new casualty list has
been reported from the Metropolitan Opera House.
1t would however, be venturesome to say that
none will be received between the time OF the
present writing and the breakfast hour Thanks
Nine. Nordlca, Saturdays substitution OF La
Traviata'' for the projected "RigOletto'' brought
with II enough compensation to infuse a very gem
eral feeling of cheerfulness and contentment in
the audience which, however, was considerably
less numerous than It would have been had normal
conditions prevailed. Nine. Nordca put of the
Brtnhilde mood which she had many
hours before in Philadelphia and donned one which
seemed native to her fifteen years ago. but has
Gbecome anomalous since her German education at
Bayreuth But she is as versatile she is Jealous
and gifted. and she carried her auditors quite of
their feet by her exuberant vitality in the first
act OF Verdis opera. and kept their admiration
warm and bubbling to the end. Worth their weight
in gold, not only to the management but to the
public also, artists of her sort.
Right worthy of her were her companions Sig
nori Campanari and Salgnac At the matinee
die Meistersinger' had another excellent perform
with Nine Gadsk II Is one of the prime
favorites of the season and though the glamour
which was thrown around the tetrology by the cir
cumstances of its original production In its en-
tirety at the first Bayreuth festival still clinss 20
II in the popular mind. IL Is not difficult to fancy
the speedy approach OF the time when wagners
comedy will sit more warmly than any OF tha
the heart OF TIE real lovers of wagner's music
In Germany 1t has won its way TO the top place In
the appreciation OF the tudicious. as mas attested
recently by a vote OF sixty of the leading COM
posers and critics OF the country. Die Meister-
singer" had an overwhelming majority of the
votes. and Tristan und Isolde" came second
Last nights concert adorned with the pres
ence OF Mime. Eames. and for a brief space long
enough TO sing Faure's "Crucihx twice, the star
shone In conjunction with NJ Planeon who had
nothing else 10 dc in the scheme. She also sang
the Shell Song" from Mancineifs Fro Lean
dro,' and with NJ. Van Dyck duet from oMireiIle"
Like the first duet. the second had 10 be repeated
for the audience had a capacious appetite The
other singers were Mime. Schumann- Heink and
Signor Campanari. who also won their recalls
Nine. Schumann- Haink sang Louis " saar's ac-
oompanied song. "Ganymede" which she brought
forward month ago at the fourth Philharmonic
concert and the prologue from signor Mancinellls
Fro Leandro." Both composers received tributes
OF appreciation from the audience.
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not to mention fifty foId-and you have annihl-

not to mention fifty fold-and you have annihi-
laton.
Again, there is the factor of smokeless pow
der, making the enemy's position difficult to de-
termine There is nothing more terrifying and
demoralizing than being attacked by an invs-
IDLE foe; nothing more trying, bewildering and
ineffective than striving to answer such an at
tack. The one Is to be stricken by the proverbial
bolt from out the blue" the other to do battle
with shadows and worse than shadows.
Charge fer the guns he sad'' and it could be
done, even in the Valley of Death, when the guns
marked out by clouds of smoke. But now
the cannon shot comes from anywhere within
seven miles. and the rifle shot from anywhere
within two miles, and neither piece betrays its
presence by much puff of vapor. You
cannot tell its distance to within mile, nor its
direction TO within dozen degrees of the hori-
IONS circle. But that unseen foe sees you with
perfect plainness, and knows your distance
from him to yard With a balloon you may
spy him out, provided that giant target escapes
the attentions of his markSmen. With cover
you may make your way to within desperate
StOrmng distance. but otherwise you are fight
ing the powers of the air."
Given, then, an army well intrenched. and
with two mile zone of cleared land about it,
and it should be practically invincible, so long
as ammunition and food hold out. No infantry
charge can cross that two mile zone of death.
You can scarcely hope to span so great space
with mines or parallels. If you come of long
lived race and have an inexhaustible supply or
iron you may in time destroy the garrison by
bombardment but you will probably have to
throw hundreds, perhaps thousands, of tons of
metal for every rifle you silence OF course, in
a war each party is likely to be at one time
the attaCker and at another the attacked so
that in the long run these changed conditions
will operate abo 1t equally upon both. But the
net result is to make the task Of each incOm-
paraby more arduous and more costly than OF
old and of that the result should be to dissuade
the nations from war. 1t is no idle fancy that
the lethal potency of an army may become so
great that no one will dare to set it in action
The realization of it seems now not far away.
The conflict of An irresistible force with an
immovable body is one which Nature herself
avoids
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-19
LESSONS OF THE WAR

The conflict in South Africa as did more
than one of its predecessors, gives the world
interesting lessons in the art of war. 1t has he
come truism that our War of 1912 showed the
value Of sights on naval guns. So our Civil
War transformed the navies OF the world by
demonstrating the effectiveness of the ronclad
and the monitor A revolution in small arms
was provoked by the success of the needle gun
in the Austro- Prussian War of 1866 Our war
with Spain first demonstrated the potency of
the modern navy. To-day in like manner the
South African war is showing the efficacy Of
modern small arms and smokeless powder.
II is seen, for example, that the day of in
fantry charges across the open against IN
trencbments is past. At Gettysburg and Sedan
such things were possible though even then
they were costly and not always successful. A
brigade or division could rush across a few
hundred yards Of ground and reach its goal and
use the bayOnet before Ii could be decimated by
a rifle fire at the rate OF two shots a minute.
At Gettysburg Pickett's division charged over
only four-ffths OF a mile, and was subjected 10
rife fire In only the last sixth OF a mile. Yet
its losses were appalling. Thus to cross a space
of two miles, and for more than half of that
distance-if not, indeed, the whole Of ito be
subjected to rifle fire ten times more rapid than
of old IS n very different matter In such con-
ditions IL is moderate 10 estimate the peril to
the charging troops as increased fifty fold. In
crease Pickett's losses at Gettysburg five fold
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PERSONAL.

Senator Vest is Mlssourian almost by mistake
lie was on his way to California in 1858 to practise
Law there. snowbound at Georgetown Mo
cided to practise there for the rest OF the winter
He did so well that he gave up the Pacific Slope
plan.
tary Alger in Detroit. says the history of the
Spanish War upon which the General is at work
will be simple narrative of the events and in
tended Tor any purpose save that of history.
Senators 1aliaferro. of Florida: Harris. of Kan
sas: and Lindsay Of Kentucky, natives OF Vir-
gnia.
The will OF the late Mrs. Ella P McBlain. of
Geneva N. Y, bequeaths $4,000 to the City Hos
ptal OF Geneva and $4,000 to the cemetery for
mortuary chapel.
Among the names proposed to the Swedish Acad-
envy of Sciences at Stockholm for award Of Nobel
prizes for scientific achievement are those of Pro-
lessor Rontgen and Signor Marconi.
The late c. w. Stevens the English correspond
ent always had twelve waits and strays under his
care-six boys and six girls They were collected
from all the dark corners OF the world. from slum
and alley, from. workhouse and thieves den. from
had fed. And under the care Of MI steevens and
his wife they were trained to capacity and hon
esty.
j. c. w. Beckham. who claims to be the de lure
Governor of Kentucky. comes OF one OF the oldest
families in Kentucky. His father was William "
Beckham OF Nelson County, and his mother is
the daughter OF Ex-Governor Robert c. Wicklifre
OF Louisiana. On the first day he was eligible to
hold the office he nominated by the Democ-
racy or Nelson to represent 1t In the House of Rep
resentatives. where he had years before served as
page Though the youngest member OF that
body, his voice often heard In its counsels
He declined 10 stand for re-election and was sue
ceeded by the late Isaac Wilson who died at
Frankfort during the memorable Blackburn Hunter
Senatorial race He was elected fill out the un-
expired term and stood by Blackburn during that
heated contest. He was reelected to that body
at the last session and was made Its presiding
officer. being the nominee OF the Democratic caucus
without opposition,
beautiful and costly villa will soon be built for
John Wanamaker at Narragansett Pier
Baltimore. Feb IS CSpeciaD-It Is expected that
IlE- Herbert b. Adams, who has been for some
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GENERAL ME1IA'S WILL BROKEN.
POSSESSION OF HIS ESTATE OF MORE TEAM
N.Ocoooo TO TURN ON DECISION As TO
LEGALITY OF CHILDREN

Dallas. Tex. Feb. s-Ths jury In Judge AcA
ford's court after being less than Two 49, ~,
last evening brought in a verdict oreaSihs 'hs w.
OF the late General l. A. MeSia. the NeH'e1a -
der and statesman. The estate Is Valaso a. 49,
than 100000 The point on which the Jury 80 -
It's verdict was one entirely Of fact. that Se s.
Mexa made his will on July So 1Ssc unoer uH.-.
influence and not OF his ewn free VII Ihis -
diet is a hard blow al Yuez Mexa. we R,,n Isnd
beneficiary under the provisions or lne W r,ost
who according TO the testimony W. -i.1 a. rhs
potential director OF General MeSias course - -
The erect OF the verdict II IL stands IN the Ssss
court rs to cut out everybody except AnssGa T,1fS
or Paterson n i and NneZ MeXia, or tl7 SorS
OF Mexico from consideration or he4Ishsijt a. ,ba
they will have 10 prove In the courts Whlon as a
legal heir az General MeNia This VIII co eessral
result OF the determln0tton or who wa Nostsr-
Mexla's legal wlfe-Afary Coleman Gray, q. ANsv-
son n j nv a cOHlmon law F19rIiase =. ~ a
York on July 40 $50. sarah X RAMSEY y, 'Sep-
church marriage ceremony IN New-Jo. 80 common
tember n lsS AusAda was born OF tne SvA'b orn
law marriage ON Ssntemoer lS"S I'm ,SS1 cisrenca
~ the Church marriage on May 10 lStGs Ihe.snss
~ Mexia and Adse Mexia are inetislo4e,, - iasal
u,ban they we're horn their mother was tnseT4f,n
wife Of Colonel Albert c. Ramsey ne harr out
,SaS thay NeTs General MeNias children POI" oo
OF wedlock availrg them nothing ~ me ohahly be-
test A motion lor a new trial VIII pf''~S
made tomorrow
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FIsCoUNT DE C4sTELL4yE HERE
HE IS COUSIN OF COUNT BoNI AND
TALKS OF THE LATTER'S TROUBLE
WITH THE FIGARO" EDITOR


TALKS OF THE LATTER.s TROUBLE
WITH THE FIGARO" EDITOR
The viscount and viscountess de CasteHane vera
passengers the French Line steamship La Tou
raine. which arrived here from Havre Yesterday
The Viscount is the fifth cousin OF Count Boni de
Castellane. and the only Viscount the CasteIIaus
family. He is engaged In selling champagne. and
IL Is In order to Increase his sales that he has
come TO this country. incidentally he and his
wife will visit friends and present letters Of intro
duction
There has been some controversy as 10 the ALSO
lutte right OF the different branches OF the CastsI-
lane family TO the title The Viscount says that
there in the family three Marquesses sixteen
Counts and one Viscount. His father. he said. was
the head of the family. When the pier. the
Viscount said:
time will be spent visiting friends: I did not come
over here carrying messages for Count Boni.
myself are the best Of friends see him frequent
ly on the other side There is no trouble between
the title. Ny father. who is in Paris is the head
before. and so everything is not altogether strange
to
The viscount willing to talk OF the trouble
between Count BonI and De Rodays the Editor Of
the Figaro When told that the former had
threatened to break the EDITORS bones he said.
IF he said that he will" Continuing. he said
de Rodays IS what you would call a bad
But he is not brave. and will not fight duel Ny
cousin right when he said that De Rodsys
would not fight
IT spoke to one OF the subordinates on the paper
about the story about the Count. and he said that
only De Rodays responsible. He further said
that he did not believe in attacks OF that char
acter.'
The Viscount is about the age the Count
and of the same build. He with his wife went 70
the home OF Mrs. Cotton. No. 5S7 West End-aVe.
Among others who arrived on la Touraine were
ID. Costa Narvaez. Consul OF Mexico at HaVre.
NJ. Fion. chief Of the public works at Tahiti ana
eighteen Sisters of the Sacred Heart. There NeIe
in the second cabin twelve miners. who going 70
seek their fortunes at the copper mines IN Miehf
gan.
VI. Frois. who was formerly the assistant p1Fser
La TOuraine. but who has been for year
purser one OF the French Line vessels or &c
Mediterranean, is now the purssr on La tou,Ssi5S
His predecessor has been transferred 10 the 1HVNA
terraneAn service.