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IGNORANCE AND SOVEREIGNTY.

Progress in Cuba is announced, general and
lasting progress, not of the cheap and tinsel
sort which demagogues hold up to view. Under
Spain there in all the island never more
than $4,000 children In the public schools. With
In a few weeks after the American organza-
ton commenced there reported 135, 900 chill
dren in the schools, with an increase of 10000
or more each week. No man of either party
will for a moment question that this is the
longest and most effective step yet taken
toward preparation of the island for free gov
eminent. Partisan audiences sometimes
dull and deaf on one side of the head, but very
few of them will fail to realize that self-gov
eminent cannot be expected to endure or to
bear good fruit without a far higher average Of
popular intelligence than has yet been found in
Cuba.
If any has supposed that the Democratic
party in the Presidential contest may be found
advocating a contrary view, and insisting that
the government of the island of Cuba ought to
be turned over at once to all the Cuban people,
without discrimination of race, color intelli-
gence, he should surely cease to expect such
disqualification from Democrats who are re-
sponsible for the restriction of suffrage in many
Southern States to a small fraction of the Dopu-
laton. According to Democratic reasoning
which has been discharged with no end Of ex-
ploSive passion and rhetoric for twenty years
past in Congress and elsewhere, this restriction
has been absolutely necessary to preserve self
government in Southern States where the ma
jority of the inhabitants is of African race
and the large majority of both races is unable
TO read and write. Under such conditions, it
has been declared, the whites would have been
faithless to their trust as citizens of the Re
public, faithless to their duty as protectors Of
wives and children and custodians of civic
rights for generations yet TO come had they not
restricted the suffrage.
If the same party should insist upon
self-government in Cuba without any restric-
ton of suffrage, although the negroes constitute
nearly a majority, and the proportion of persons
who cannot read or write is higher than in any
American State, it would cover itself with dis
grace. But what is to be said of its conduct re-
garding the Philippines? That is very differ
ent problem The United States might hold
itself under obligation TO strive for elfgovern-
ment by the people of Cuba because of the
Congressional declaration made when no man
of either party had any adequate knowledge of
the subject on which he acting Men who
now see clearly they believe, that nothing
like genuine free government will be possible in
Cuba for at least generation to come were
then gayly stalking the honor of their country on
the attempt TO establish one. But about the
PHILIPPINES there Is not the least possibility OF
ignorance Everybody is aware that the
negroes. Malays and Mongolians constitute the
great majority of the inhabitants In many ISL
ands nothing but the superior weapons and
discipline Of civilization keep down a majority
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Aewpurk Daily Gribnn1e
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Lord Roberts continued the ad-
vance On Bloemfontein, having turned the Boer
position; large force has gathered to oppose
his advance. - 1t is expected that a remark
able letter from President KRUGER relating to
terms of peace, will be introduced in the House
of Commons to-day, and it is also reiterated
the dispatches from the two South African Pres
idents. - Mr.. Wyndham spoke in the House
on the army estimates - Eight of the
10th Infantry, including Major Ward, were
wounded in a fight with Filipinos in Cagayan
Province. The Agrarian press in Germany
is bitter over the fact that the Rath will not
sanction Paragraph XIV of the Meat bill -
Many people starving in Barbados, and ar
rangements being made TO send twenty
thousand to St Lucia.
CONGRESS.-Senate: Mr. Rawlins. Of Utah,
spoke in opposition TO holding the Philippines.
- House: The Wise-Young contested cleo
decided in favor Of Mr.. Wise, the Republican
contestant: Urgent Deficiency BILL carrying
about S1.Jo1000. passed.
DOMESTIC.-It is reported that the Govern
ment at Washington has rendered its good
offices in behalf Of peace between Great Britain
and the South African republics. - The an
swer Of Andrew Carnegie and his associates TO
the suit of II. c. Prick against the Carnegie
Steel Company filed, denying all allegations
Of fraud and many of the averments of the
plaintiff. - Qualifications of the Gillian claims
treaty We're exchanged at the State Department.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Stocks were strong
and higher. = The police closed the Hay
market and Tivoli concert halls and McGurk s
place in the BOWery; the Grand Jury began
work on the evidence presented to il, hearing
Superintendent Burr. OF DR.. Parkhursts society,
McGiffert did not withdraw from the Presby-
terry, was expected. - Fourteen lives were
lest In an Italian tenement house fire in Newark
THE WEATHER: Forecast for to-day:
Highest, % degrees; lowest, IL degrees; average,
p degrees
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A HALL OF FAME.

The concept of a stately hall as the abiding
place or as the shrine of Fame is ancient and
widespread. 1t was familiar to art and litera-
ture long before Beatte sang of 1.-THE steep
where Fame's proud temple shines affair." and
trite and hackneyed when HaZitt reminded his
audience that 1.-The temple of Fame stands upon
the grave" Yet its aptness and its beauty give
1t perennial freshness, and something more.
They have led to its material and practical full
filment, so far as it is within material power to
fulfil a spiritual design. The pantheons of
Rome and of Paris, the Hall of Fame Of Munich
and Westmnsters great temple of silence and
reconciliation rise readily to mind as note
worthy examples. Each, in its way, is wholly ad-
bic, yet each falls vastly short of fulfilling
the true conception of flames great temple.
1t would be too much, no doubt to hope for
perfect fulfilment of it in the stately colonnade
which, through a graceful benefaction, is about
to be erected for the purpose upon the crest of
the great cliff at New-York University, though
in situation, material and design it may be all
that fancy could picture taste might crave.
1t WILL at any rate have certain intrinsic feat
ures unique In such memorials, and finely Sig
nif1cant of the time and place of its origin This
Hall of Fame is not to be erected by some proud
conqueror imperious government for primal
purposes of self-laudation, but by one whose
stands hidden in the shadow of a great
gift. tits not to be place of religious worship,
with sectarian restrictions, nor of burial with
air of mortuary gloom. And those whose
names or other memorials are to be placed
therein are not to be called by undiscriminatng
chance nor dictated by arbitrary power, but
are to be thoughtfully selected, by so repre-
sentative jury of the Nation, as to be beyond
all cavil those whom ''the common sense of
most delights TO hold in honor.
1t is well that this Nation should have such
shrine, to rebuke at once the nil admirari cyni-
clsm which sees no great men in our history
and the too bumptious spread-ea gleism which
would make all men great. 1t Is well that it
tons foremost city, in which have lived or TO
which have at times repaired those who are
worthiest of lasting fame. 1t Is by no means
least of all, fitting circumstance that it should
be confided TO the care and should form q part
of great university of science and art and lib
eral culture. That indeed. may be deemed one
of the most impressive and significant features
Of the institution. 1t Is not the field of battle
the scene Of political authority nor yet a
place of ecclesiastical control that is the repos
itOry of fame; no, but a seat of learning. The
school is the final guardian of the shrine of
fame, it is also the avenue through which,
with happily increasing frequency that shrine
is to be attained. In that fact in the contrast
in that respect between the Pantheon and this
Hall of Fame. reposes age long chapter of
the history of human progress.
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PERSONAL.
RACES hosp

DR.. Charles w. Dabney, president of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee, has received notice from the
French Government of his appointment a mem
Der of the Committee on international Awards at
the Paris Exposition
A French paper says that the words and music
of the Transvaal national hymn composed
by a Dutch woman Mile. Catherine Felicie van
Rees, in 1875, at the request of Mr.. Burgers
former President OF that State. Mile. Van Rees
was born in 1881 at Zutphen, the town chiefly
known to Englishmen by the story of Sir Philip
Sidney's heroic death there three centuries ago.
1t is announced by Johns Hopkins University that
DR.. Charles II. Herford. professor of the English
of Wales will be the lecturer this year in the Percy
Turnbull Memorial Lectureshp of Poetry. This
foundation provides for annual course by some
one who has gained distinction writer of
poetry or a critical student of the poetic art
The subject of Professor Herford's at Johns
Hopkins will be English Poetry, Viewed and In
sist of eight lectures. and VIII extend from April
% to May 4.
Major-General Ralph Arthur Penrhyn Clements
D. S. o., who is commanding the Twelfth Brigade
In Natal, has been all through the Zulu war of
1879. The youngest of the late sub-dean Of
Lincoln Cathedral. he was born In 1855 and was
educated at Rossall He Joined the 24th Regiment
and became colonel in 1896. He gained his D. s. o.
in the Burmese campaign of 1859 where his
bravery was conspicuous, he being wounded twice
severely.
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE. TUESDAY MARCH 49, 1900

Of barbarians. Only in few Of the islands
could the more civilized Malay and mestizo in
habtants with the whites claim a majority and
of that majority probably nipe-tenths
could not read.
1t is this amazing demand that ignorance
shall be charged with entire responsibility for
the future of the Philippine Islands, and that
negro and Monaghan blood shall be permitted
to rule over whites. as they are not permitted
in Democratic States in the South. which puts
the Democrats Of this country In the most dis
graceful and indefensbe position they have
ever taken Slavery was hostile to advancing
civilization, and yet was sheltered by the Con-
stituton. The theory of State sovereignty made
a great nation impossible, but was honestly be-
iieved to be the theory of the Constitution by
many. Excuses can be found for the Democrats
who fought in gray uniforms But the very
men who then took up arms against the Re-
public would have been the first, If living to-
day. TO denounce with all the passionate
nestness of their natures the proposal to turn
over the Philippine Islands TO the rule Of
Malays, Mongolians. mestizos, savages in the
woods and mountains, and a population almost
wholly destitute of even the rudest education.
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THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Speaking of the agitation over the play "Sapho +"
NJ De Regner. lecturng in Boston, said the
other day. IT fail to understand the attitude of the
public in regard to It, In France there has been
nothing of the sort. although Nine Rejane has pro-
duced there a dramatization of the same work
She studied the play the author intended that
IT should be studied. We the moral in it, We
scrutinized the acting. We looking for
immortality, and found none"
Judge-so the prisoner hit you the head with
McGinty-Yis, Yer Honor
Judge-But it seems he didn't quite kill you, any
McGinty-No. bad cess to him; but it's wishin'
Judge-why do you wish that?
McCinty-Begory. thin Oh would have seen the
schoundrel hanged for murther!-(Chicago News.
correspondent of THE Westminster Gazette"
asks: Does 1T not show great generosity on the
part of the inhabitants of Kimberley in South
Africa, In reference to the proposal to erect an
equestrian statue to Mr.. Cecil Rhodes that after
he has put them horsehesh for so long they
should wish TO put him horseback forever"
Baden-Powelrs Joke-The officers of the Mafek-
ing garrison were at mess-and what mess!
Powell, taking his SECOND helping of mule steak.
Indeed? l can't imagine It," growled the dys-
well, just fancy our diet if the automobile had
been introduced here!"-(Colier's Weekly.
Nome City the mining town on the Alaskan
coast already has a newspaper. four page sheet
which measures about twelve by sixteen inches but
which sells 80 copy. The new journal
styles itself THE Nome Gold Digger" and its first
issue contains some interesting advertisements. The
bill of fare OF the principal restaurant includes
tenderoin steak at So: reindeer steak So ptarmigan
81 boiled mackerel. 81 30; coffee and doughnuts 80
cents; corned beef hash. 81; sausage. 81 80: fried
ham, 81. salmon. ST. three eggs. 81: loaf of bread
IS cents; toasted cheese. 81 Two story seven room
dwellings are advertised for at 500 a month:
wagons and teams for hauling are hired out at SIC
an hour; shave costs 81 and hair cut 81 90
Bronco Bob 1.-THE prisoner offered extenua tin Q
circumstances so concluded we'd Just put I'm
out o town instid o. lynchin i'm
What was the extenuating circumstances?' in
quired Rattlesnake Pete.
We'll a bunch o. papers came to town containiu'
all kinds o. news. An We concluded that this
Teller was entitled 10 some consideration fur not
usin' lyddite or dpindum bullets. Washington
Star.
An Egyptian paper announces that first class up
to date modern dining cars TO be run this
season between Cairo and Luxor and that IAN
American dentist has started in business Assouan
which is on the edge of the Soudan." A ''palace
hotel" at Khartoum for the special accommoda ton
of tourists will also be completed and opened for
business In about three months
Greene-How uoes t happen that you don't trade
at Cleayer's any more? You used TO brag about
this nice cuts OF meat he always sent you. Is Ar
because he wouldn't give YOU credit?
oray-On tho contrary, 1t 10 because he did.-(Bos.
TYa
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AmnsemeuiS.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC-s:1o-way Down East
AMERICAN THEATRE-s:15-Fra Diayolo
BIJoU-s:l5-Japanese Players.
bROAnWAN-S-Ben-H
CARNESSIE LYCsEIIM-3:I5-Song Recital.
CRITERION THEATRE-s:i5-The Pride of Jennco
EDEN MUSEE-9 a. N. ii p. m.-Waxworks Grand
Concert and Cinemstograph.
EMPIRE THEATRE s:2o-Brother Officers.
FIFTH AVENUE TTIEATRE-s-The Ladies' Battle.
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-S-The Carpetbas-
GARDEN THEArRE-S-Hesrtk Are Trumps.
GARRECE TIL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Holmes.
GRAND OPERA EoUSE-S-Prtmrose and Docksfaoer
Minstrels.
HsMMERSTEIN'S VICTORIA-S: 3o-Marn' sele 'Awkins
HARLEM OPERA HOTSE-s:15-A Runaway Girl.
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE Madame Butterfly and
Naughty Anthony
IRVING PLACE THEATRE-S-Der Goldene Kaeng
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Performance.
kNIcKERSOCkER THEATRES oeespierre
LION PALACE-Vauderilie.
IYcECM TTIEATRE-s:30-My Dsughter-in-Law
MADISON SQUARE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Co..
Dressmskers.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-lo a. m. TO IL p. H.
Sportsrans Show
MURRAY HIII-2-S-Peaceful Valley.
NF-v-YORK THEATRE-S:1 a-Broa6way TO Toxic
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Performance.
ST. NICHOLAS SKATING RINK-s:15-Hockey Match
AILACK'S-s:i5-seeond Mrs. Tsncueray.
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THE DRAMA.
HENRY IRVING.

The re-entrance OF Henry Irving was rsa4. =,
night. at the knickerbocker Theatre In the -
acter OF RObespierre. and the great actor VA. -.
coined with enthusiastic plaudits by a dsllxb.',
multitude There Is no new word 20 be said -
Mr.. Sardou's play. II contains all the eler,s,,. .
a snowy spectacle. but II remains a cohers,, -,
propulsive drama. telling a distinct story ana :.
tanning TO climax by means OF continuous 49,.
and ingenious incident. and not hating upon "a.
ure. Henry Irvings embodiment OF RObes,,.--.
far from having become monOtonous through c,-
tlnuous repetition. has gained In weight % "a
vidual!ty and in authority OF expression Tbi..
always conclusive token OF spontaneitv "a
inspiration-that. however often the actor -.
played the part. his art remains fresh and brtvh,
producing as much illusion the last a. a,
the first. The wonderful faculty that He-,
Irving possesses OF investing himself with a char,
acter and allowing IL to express itself In na,r,,
speech and conduct. fluent from motive and sr,.
ton. again cOnspicuOusly shown IN tn. A.,
matte coloquy between Robespierre and his a.,
and in the grim and awful ghost scene IN -,
midnight solitude of the Conciergerie prison n.
deep heart the fine Imagination, the facial vlsv
the vocal variety and fexibiliJy. and the exprsss.
and picturesque movement that animate these n,
preme moments of the drama eloquent Of N.
actors profound sincerity and OF that .ntsp.s
and fascinating personality which Is the soul q,
all his art.
Robespierre. as ne stands upon the page o. Ma.
possible for any human creature 20 be I'm
Robesperre. as impersonated by Henry Irving N,
only fills the Imagination. but touches the hear,
Those observers who look for exclusively slccy
tionary effects will sometimes be disapposn,.
ed, but those Observers VINO can appreca.
a profound study of human nature and ths
exposition of a subtle and complex eharacsr
by means nf natural conduct. Will see In ths
portrayal a masterpiece OF art The substance
AMI the method OF IL have. before now. been amDy
and particularly described in this place and thes
seems to be present need of a rehearsal o. IA
details One thing. however. ought. especially u
be said-that after the plentude OF incompetsns
under which the local public has been compeasi
10 suffer during the past season in the thea1s
OF New-YOrk. II was great and tnexpressia.
luxury once more to behold an actor II any nan
since the chieftain Of whom il was written. eve,
taught the doubtful battle where rage"
was Henry Irving in the pOpulOus and turbulent
scenes of the drama last night. when the tun1c
OF the French Revolution liberated afrss1
and the terror Of that baleful epoch made IT,
ing powe-. The absence Of Ellen Terry par-cu-
larly felt in the scene of meeting between Roos<
pierre and Clarice, with its horror OF the passing
tumbriIs and its climax Of agOnizing gratituSe-
when thanksgiving seems almost wiCkedness. US
Milton. nevertheless. gave careful and effective
performance of the unhappy heroine and Mr. Tyas
repeated his marked success as the brutal Heron
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ADA REHAN.

One OF the most important and most auspicics
events Of the dramatic year occurred last nign-
in the return of Ada Rehan to the stage. after a
absence of nearly year.-ConSequent on the dea1
OF her manager. the intrepid and indomitable AZ
gustin DAILY. and the practical dissolution Of Is
theatre. with which she had been so long and .
brilliantly associated Miss Rehan appeared a.
Ford's Opera House. in Baltimore. beginning q
tour of thirty-One cities. that Will extend u
May 10. The opening piece The Schco
for Scandal" and Miss Rehan. as Lady Tsais
welcomed with every mark OF public favor
The return of this noble actress is an augury
happiness to a very large community, for il means
that one OF the sweetest voices ever heard u2oa
the stage will break a silence that has lasted al
too long. and that fine genius. cOnscientousy q
voted to the service of all that is beautiful
literature and art, will once more be exerted u
the public good Miss Rehan's company includes
George Clarke. White Whittlesey. Eugene Orraora
Wilfred Clarke. Mr.. Harbury. Mabel Roebues an
others. and Is in charge of Mr.. Rochard Dor1sy
Miss Rehan Will not act in New-York until Tex
season She intends 10 sail for England IN J1ns
and TO pass the summer at her seaside home. %
the coast of Cumberland
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the policy that succeeds, Is made forthwith
target for all manner Of abuse and Is attacked
by heterogeneous medley the only common
motive and bond of which is hatred of success
1t is so much easier to throw stones and mud
than to build with hewn stones and mortar
There was a striking illustration of this four
years ago in the wild witches cauldron OF
Organism, In which literally the "ragtag ana
bobtair' of the Nation were banded against
honest money and orderly government-from
the self-seekng mining speculator who wanted
his s., 100000 of silver made worth S1O,OOO,o0o
by act of Congress to the tramp who hoped TO
get dollars worth of beer for half dollar. The
same thing will occur again in union of all the
mixed and pehald forces of disorder against
law and order and progress There are few
stronger passions in men or nations than envy
and there are few things more certain to pro-
woke all manner of batreds than is success
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nation. and the pretty song TT Wa,
and Ills Lass, which Shakespeare g.. -
doubtless with the melody that will n. r..oacsd
afternoon. In "As You Like 1t" sbaLa tas
comedy appeared in the original folio - ,,s-a'ss
was Lover and His Lass" was 80 Y
Thomas Morley's "Firste Booke OF AYR. '. ~ n
tie Short Songs TO Sing and Play 10 a.. LII
etc, which was printed In London in 1sao ''e
speare was fond OF gathering up the so,.- AKA
had won their way 20 the popular hear - 1a
ting them into his plays. Anachroufs,, '-e
terrors for him 1T Was a Lover" 4. - %
which the two pages sing in Act v. So s0as
which they clap "roundy. without hawkins - I mo
ting. or saying they are hoarse which a., S7f-
OF them. Is "the only prologue TO a bad vo1S. que
After song by GoGnod. "Mgnon." s,x,o- =,
cinelh. composer OF Fro Leandro. a., ~aa-
ductor at the opera. and SlsnOr Szamha,t eea-
tendencies. influenced by studies IN Cer,, '-
with List. are strongly Tsutonic are 80, ~
to represent present day Italy. Then sollo -'.e'
by the greatest Lied composers thar r.. 6
lived. Schumann- Schubert and Brain, 'sr
represented by two songs: then come thu -
Tschaikowsky and Cui. the Poles Chopin ara 49,
usko. and. for the sake OF an ending win -
Memberships "Frdhlingszeit'' and r.,.i
"Marznacht" the latter OF these two .s
variation OF the old story which figures s-ah'
English folk-song that II is ''dabbling in the "a
that makes the milkmaids fair
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M1scELLANEoUs INCIDENTS.

The serio-cOnic drama of Peaceful Valley va
agreeably acted last night. at the Murray -
Theatre. The Japanese players appeared a. -
Bijou Theatre. Messrs. Primrose and DOeAs14-I,
gave a negro minstrel entertainment at the 0'a
Opera House. The Runaway Girl was presea4-
at the Opera House in Harlem with Mr.. JAMS
Powers and numerous company. Mr. Tim u - -,
acted at the Fourteenth Street Theatre n =,
Carpet Bagger." An elaborate production Of =
Great Ruby IS announced to occur al THIS 'Ho-.
on March 49, with Miss Rose Coghlan IN inc ~, ~,
cipal part. The closing performances on
Craigte's comedy OF The Ambassador are -
at Days Theatre where new cemeoy "
The interrupted Honey moon Is assigns
production March 20.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.

Nine Modjeska has entered the last week
her engagement at the Fifth Avenue Theatre IN
comedy OF The Ladies' Battle acted -
night and this will be repeated tonight and
Wednesday night repetition of Mr. Chn'o
Stuart's play of Marie Antoinetts is announces
for Wednesday afternoon Mary Stuart VII
acted on Thursday. Much Ado on Fr1lat
and two performances of Macbeth VIZ
occur Saturday. Mr.. Stuart Robson W
succeed Mime. Modjeska at the Fifth Asens
Theatre on March IS. and Mr.. jefferson VII "
coed Mr.. Robson. April 16. Mr.. jefferson
engagement will last three weeks, and 1t is nn'sf
stood that the Fifth Avenue Theatre will then 2as
into the hands OF Mr.. Proctor. and be devotea :.
vaudeville and variety. One chapter OF thssa1N~
history Is. therefore, drawing a close