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POLITICAL COMMENT

Bar Harbor. Me-. WILL during the next
week, be the general headquarters of the
operating department of the earth. ].
Pierpont Morgan is there-Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
When Germany gets her Colonial
army she'll of course have to stir up
colonial war somewhere to try ii on So
marches civilization. New York World
A reputation for utter irresponsihiiity
may be an important advantage" as seen
from the point of view occupied by Mr..
Shaffer. hut in the final roundup it is not
likely TO be found an asset of much value
to the association.-New York Times.
Manana in the Nicely case does not
mean tomorrow; it is to be translated
next month or next year.-New York Mail
and Express.
The British iron workers viii be pleased
to hear that it looks like another week,
at least. of the steel strike in America -
Boston Herald.
The Powers all have an anxious eye on
Panama. and all are sending cruisers TO
the isthmus. But as Uncle Sam Joined the
procession first he will be likely to main
tain his place at the head of it.-Boston
Globe.
The Mckinley Administration is certain
ly making record in respect to the Civil
otiNiSe law. us dppOintceS nave ulSCDV-
cred unnumbered ways of beating" the
law. and not one of them has been dis
missed or rebuked for his "pernicious
activity" And Mr.. Mckinley solemnly
promised that there should be mo back
ward step. indianapolis News
Tom Plat knew what he was about
when he bottled up Roosevelt in the
Vice Presidency.--MeXican Herald
Sow a victory and reap Il court of en-
quiry.-Cincinnati Commercial-Trib
No American with the memory of Far
ragut and Dewey in mind can read these
disclosures without thanking God that
Schley and not Sampson was accidentally
in command at Santiago when the fight
actually took place without wishing that
he had been In command in the first in
stance and without wondering how it
comes about that Schley and not Samp-
son is TO be tried next month on charges
amounting to cowardice and failure to
perform his duty.-Chicago Chronicle.
After while. perhaps. no one will be
allowed to vote unless he can produce a
vaccination Memphis Com
mercial Appeal.
II the American soldier Is the best and
most Intelligent fighter in the world.
should he not dress and act up to the
part ?-CHicaso Tribune.
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PERSONAL.

Friends of George G.. Vest in Missouri
are quietly launching a boom to return
him to the United States Senate despite
his announced intention OF retiring at the
end of his present term.
Gov. Ezra p Savage. of Nebraska. is
locally known as 1.-The man who looks like
Buffalo Bill" He is an ex-cowboy and
can ride Just little himself
Gavril Ssolodovnikof. OF Moscow was
known as a miser ali his life BY will
he leaves 25.OO.e0J rubcs (about Si2. 800
con TO found high schools for girls. cheap
lodging houses and training schools for
workmCn.
John X. Cowen, consulting counsel of
the Pennsylvania Railroad since its alb
sorption of the Baltimore and Ohio. is a
giant physically. He is the son of an
Ohio blacksmith and a self-made man.
William A. Anderson. the Democratic
nominee for Attorney General In Virginia,
is a Confederate veteran. and lost leg
in the battle of Manassas.
Sir Alexander Condie Stephen. who has
been for many years British Minister Res
ident at Dresden, is about to retire from
the Diplomatic service, and has been ap-
pointed a groom-in waiting to King Ed
ward.
Among those who have been promoted
by the French Minister of the Interior
to the rank of an officer of the Order of
the Legion of Honor is NJ. Zadoc Khan.
the Chief Rabbi Of France.
The Peabody (Mass) Historical Society
is TO erect a monument In that town to
the memory OF J Ohm, Proctor, who was ex-
ecuted for witclicraft In 1852.
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election time: but occasionally they get
thoroughly aroused, and when they do.
they have means to make themselves
felt through their members of Congress.
There is no sort of question that ma
tional sentiment resents and condemns
Long, Hackett, and Crowninshield for
their indefensible course and conduct in
encouraging and promoting the move
ment to deprive Admiral Schley of the
laurels he so worthily won in the sea
battle off Santiago, and to hand them
over to the man behind the horizon.
Since the Court of Enquiry was or
dered, their bias and prejudice have
been continually on exhibition. The de-
vice to hamper Admiral Schley in the
preparation of his case by Withholding
the names of witnesses against him,
aside from being a contemplate piece CT
business intrinsically, has been in vio-
lation of established rule. precedent,
and practice in the navy. 1t is an ex-
cellent illustration of what Secretary
Long is now popularity believed to have
meant when he promised that the de-
partment would treat the victor of San
tiago fairly and impartially." IL the
suppression of information concerning
witnesses is typical of this fairness and
impartiality, the country will be all the
more inclined to demand a rigorous in
vestigation by Congress of the Navy
Department, and particularly of the
Navigation Bureau, next winter. From
present indications 1t is probable that
political conditions by that time will
make it unsafe for the Administration
to resist such a demand.
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Popular Education i'm Art.

The "Pittsburg Chronicle" says that
when Uncle Toms Cabin" was in that
town not long ago two street children
stopped before a window in which pic
ture of the Madonna and child was dis
played. and one said to the other:
That's Eliza making her escape"
Some of the Madonnas recently painted
give some excuse for a mistake of this
kind. for If 1t were not for the label
they could not be distinguished from
any other picture Of a mother and child
In reaction from the exaggerated SUI
pernaturahsm of the earlier forms of
art. some modern painters have pic
tured the Madonna without any Access
series whatever to identify her. The
idea of motherhood, not necessarily Of
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The United States and Canada.

A short time ago The Times COM
mented somewhat at length upon the
slowness of Australia's growth In pop
ulation, and offered some suggestions as
to the probable cause. But all things
considered, the case of Canada is much
more remarkable. Australia is in the
antipodes. and far removed from the
great centres of Caucasian population
Canada abuts the northern boundary of
the United States all the way from the
Atlantic to the Pacific; IL is as accessi-
BILE to immigrants from Europe as is the
United States: in soil and climate a
broad belt of the Dominion, extending
completely across the continent, differs
but little from our own tier of northern
States. Considering the area available
for settlement and its varied resources,
it would seem that while the United
States was increasing its population to
seventy-six millions, Canada should
have raised hers TO twenty. But size
has not Her total population is only a
little more than five millions. while thet
OF the American States abreast of the
Canadian frontier is more than thirty
millions. ...,..-..--s --
As in the case of Australia, the query
naturally presents itself. Why this ire
mendous difference? The question is
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THE AMERICAN SOLDIER.

That West Point is the best military
school in the world is conceded by all
impartial critics. Its methods transform
the average raw youth into the honorable,
refined. and highly educated officer Of
our army. He is pre-eminentIy taught
the habit of command" which, as a rule,
he uses without any of the arrogance
shown by officers of some of the armies
of Europe. notably that of Germany He
is made to realize that he commands
men who are as sensitive as they are
brave, and who appreciate and respect a
character combining generosity. kindness,
nrmness and. above all else. physical and
moral courage These traits of character
are carefully cultivated at West Point,
with result that. besides having the
best enlisted personnel. we have in the
United States Army. without question or
doubt, the best trained and most capable
gentlemen as oftcers.-Army and Navy
Journal
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OPPOSING AUTHORITIES.

A late departure in the construction of
armored vessels is presented by the asSer-
ton that the coming tower. a small look
out cabin protected by thick armor for
the use of the commanding officer, is not
only of no use, but is positive disad-
vantage. 1t is asserted that it is in the
way Of the turret guns. while the COM
handing officer can from that protection
see very little of the engagement. On the
assertion that nearly all the commanding
officers both at Manila and Santiago dis
carded the coming tower and directed
their vessels from the bridge. majority
of the Board of Construction has deciar-
ed in favor of its abolition in future yes-
sells.
Yet the one exception should make the
board hesitate before laying rash hands
on that refuge. While trivial and light
minded officers like Dewey, Schley. and
Clark may have ignored the coming tow
er. 1t is asserted to have been dignifed
by the occupancy of one great hero dur
ing the Santiago engagement. refuge
which was resorted To by the famous
Fighting Bob" Evans should surely be
sacred against iconoclastic attacks. When
that eXtmplar of dauntlessness has ap-
proved the coming tower by his use how
can mere Board of Construction cast
1t aSide.-Pittsburg Dispatch
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THE PERPETUAL PENSION.

The costliness OF the pension establish
ment shows a steady and rapid growth.
The annual average of the appropriations
on the pension account in Grants two
Administrations was only about S29.Vo.-
600. 1t had risen to $3.50. 0sn coo in Harri-
sons term. and has stood at about $780,
100000 year during the Mckinley Adj
minstration. Predictions that the burden
would be lightened when life had run Its
allotted span among soldiers are doomed
to come to nausht because of the new
war and the peculiar longevity of widows.
We may, therefore. reconcile ourselves
to the situation ard regard the great PEN
sion hill az il permanent annual charge
in the budget of the Government.-Ph'ia-
delphia Times.
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The Bureaus Cloud of Witnesses.

AS was to be expected. the request OF
Admiral Schley for the list of witnesses
by the mouths of whom the Navigation
Bureau hopes to support the charges OF
Sampson. Maclay. and others. has been
referred to Judge Advocate Lemly.
who is in Canada, and cannot be heard
from for week. That viii make a
useful delay 10 which Lemly will prob
ably add II he desires TO please his de-
partment masters.
In this as in all other matters con-
nected with the Sampson scandal.
Messrs. Hackett and Crowninshield are
trffiing with the public in a way they
some time may regret AS the present
Administration views 1t, the American
people can be safely ignored except at
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supernatural motherhood, dominates
the picture.
But this incident proves how COM
pietely the imagination of city child
nowadays is possessed by the theatre
and by shows of all kinds. Most citye
children get their education not from
books. but from the stage. or from the
ideas drilled into them at school by dint
of various object lessons. and TIE stage
makes the deeper impression. Mechan-
ical toys replace books as holiday gifts,
and the juvenile fiction which is print
ed is frequently uninstructive. The
consequence of 1t all is that when
child is introduced to some new object.
he understands and is interested If he
has seen it on the stage, otherwise his
imagination frequently falls to kindle.
1t is a question whether this hap
hazard mental training is of much use
in after life. Compared with the i'm
preston produced by books. that of
play is fieeting and ephemeral. The
child goes to see Little Lord Fauntle-
roy" and retains more or less vivid
impression of certain scenes. When he
reads the book he re-reads 1t, and
comes to be familiar with every word
and scene If he can have but one of
the two pleasures, it seems as if 1t
would be wiser to give him the book.
The price of it is about the same IS that
of seat at a matinee, and the pleasure
is far more lasting.
The theatre, as means of entertain
ment and education for adults. is val
liable. The mind of grown person can
absorb all the points of every act, and
enjoy at once the acting, the lines, and
the beauty of the scene. To see a great
actors Interpretation of Shakespeare is
to get new light on the drama. To see
a company from the Theatre Franchise
in a play by Rostand or Moliere is an
experience worth having. But chiid's
mird is not sufficiently well stored with
facts, or strong in the grasp of ideas,
to be educated after this fashion. The
danger of too much theatre going for
children is that the imagination Is fed
rather than stimulated. 1t is precisely
the same danger which exists in a nur-
sery full of mechanical toys. If the
child is to develop any originality and
power of contrivance, it must be given
appliances with which to make things,
not be provided with them ready made.
The boy who has fret-saw and box
OF tools is likely to be cleverer. at the
end of five years. than the one who Is
supplied with toy steam engines and
other ingenious and expensive mechan-
icaI toys. Children who have books and
the dramatic instinct will be found
making their own plays. and a semi-oc-
casional attendance at the theatre will
stimulate them to further exercise OF
the imagination. But If they are al
lowed to go as often as they choose they
will, after the human fashion. rest con-
tent with being amused. and not try to
amuse themselves.
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1t may be taken for granted that I'M
less Admiral Howison shall deny the
language and views attributed to him in
the Boston Record interview in the
most explicit manner, Admiral Schley's
counsel will object to his sitting as
member of the Court of Enquiry. Should
he equivocate, OF fall back upon his re-
ported original statement to the depart
ment that he had never expressed an
opinion on the merits OF the Sampson
scandal. it may be difficult to unseat him.
1t is said that Hackett and Crowninshieid
are extremely anxious to have him serve.
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South African news has been badly on
the wane for some little time past. prob
ably owing to an increased rigor in the
press and cable censorship. The latest
reports inform us that the British have
made a rather important prisoner In the
person of Commandment VilIers, father-in-
law of General Schalk- Burgher. But the
war. which is no longer a war, but a
sangainary game of hide and seek. drags
along, and nobody can see the end of it
ALL
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If England could only get rid of the
South African war there is not much
doubt that her attention would be quick
ly turned to Afghanistan. where the
Ameer is increasing his army to a hun
dred thousand men. as he frankly ad
mits in order to be able to resist en-
croachments upon his territory. He is
fully aware that the British Indian Gov
eminent considers the Afghan Kandahar-
Kabul line as necessary to 1t as a first
line of defence. and he is determined that
it shall not be occupied without desper-
ate struggle. Russia is steadily closing in
on him from the north, and he realizes
the uncomfortable truth that between
two great Powers he is in the position of
the bone which two dogs are lighting for.
AS the Ameer puts il himself, the Afghan
goat is liable to be eaten by the British
lion on one side and by the Russian bear
on the other.
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Strike developments yesterday on the
whole appeared favorable to the strikers,
but were not sensational. 1t was gener-
ally believed that there would be trouble
at McKeesport before the end of the
week, but that, statement has been made
so often. and nothing has happened, that
ii may be groundless this time. Neverthe-
less. the conditions apparently are ripen-
ing for a heavy collision between the
opposing forces. at more places than one.
Both sides are strong. determined, and
well organized, and neither is likely to
stop at anything to gain it's ends. Before
many days are past the fight probably will
be hot enough to produce violent results
and they may be serious. 1t would be rea-
sonably safe to wager that Mr.. Mckinley
and Mr.. Hanna are considerably perturb-
ed. Should Ohio troops be sent to Wells
Vile, for example. to quell a riot we
can easily imagine that the sensations of
those eminent politicians would be pain
full indeed. They have forgotten the
Maine, and remember Homestead.
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In the new British army drill book spe
cial attention is directed to the paramount
necessity for obtaining the highest pos
sble efficiency in the use of the rifle. and
recently officers commanding yeomanry
and volunteer units have been directed to
report to district inspectors of musketry
particulars of any difficulties which they
have to meet in regard to range accommo-
dalton. This is probably in view of the
fact that volunteer infantry will be called
upon next year to fire about 80 per cent
more rounds than under the present regu-
lations. 1t is well known that the COM
mander-in-chief attaches more Importance
to good shooting on the part of all
branches of the army than to mere me
chanical precision of parade ground move
ments. A great deal of the time hitherto
wasted in barrack-square drill will, in fu-
ture be devoted to shooting and to train
ing the men In the intelligent use of COW
er. Volunteers, as well as their comrades
in the other branches of the army. will
be required to also train in this direction.
Hence the necessity that has become ur-
gent for the provision of suitable rifle
ranges.
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w. E. Waters. Mrs. Stanley Searies.
Mr.. Stanley Searles. Mrs Thomas Lucas,
Sister Darathea. Miss Sadie E. Edwards,
Aubrey Page. Lee Jewett Cox, Miss HELEN
s. Lincoln. NJ E. @. Corey, Mrs. F. f.
Richards. and Mr. Perkins Moseley ara
recent arrivals at the Glenmore, Ocean
City Md
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Mr.. C. A. Thornton and daughters,
Misses Vance and Mattye. left Monday
for Old Point Comfort, Va, and Ocean
City
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Mr.. and Mrs. G. ]. Drew, Of New Jer-
sey Avenue. left yesterday morning for
Buffalo. Niagara, the Thousand Islands,
Montreal, and other places Of interest In
Canada
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One session of the British Medical Con-
gress devoted a whole sitting to those
maIadies which arise from dangerous oc-
equations.
Dr. Alexander Scott, of Glasgow, might
have withheld his remarks on railway
dangers until after the travelling public
had finished its holiday trips. He was de-
cidedly disconcerting.
Il think" he said, that there ought to
be one more added to the official list of
recognized dangerous occupations. l refer
TO the neurosis OF railway servants. "
Many accidents-the majority of them. in
fact-were the result of the nervous ten
sion of railway employees.
One man who had been a stoker was
promoted to the position of engine driver.
After a time he went to consult DR.. Scott
with regard to dyspepsia All the RENE
dies were tried and failed. The doctor
sent the man to a consulting physician,
who also failed. Then the unfortunate fell
low went the rounds of all the quacks,
and they failed.
1t was only after big railway smash
upon which the man was dismissed that
he finally got well He had simply been
suffering from nervous tension. He had
been well ever since.
Another patient consulted DR.. Scott for
headache. malaise, WEAKNESS, and insom-
mia. That man had bee brought from the
life of farm labOrer in the north OF
Scotland. There he was always bathed In
oxygen and cain. After "A time he had
become "A signalman. The nervous ten
sion broke him down. The manager of the
line wrote to DIR. Scott saying he could
not understand the man suffering from
nervous tension. for only 10 trains passed
his box in the eight hours.
"Oh, doctor" exclaimed another sur
fering signalman, II have never entered
that box without feeling that | was on
the edge of precipice. and that some
day IL disaster would occur
DIR. Scott pointed to the fact that the
driver in the Slough accident had suffer
cd from an alteration of mind that led
him to run past the danger signal. Yet
that man had conveyed along the railway
line some l50.100.000 of passengers without
a single mistake. He thought it WAS time
the authorities took up the question of
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Miss Mary Lee. of Capitol Hill. has re-
turned home after spending several
weeks with a camping party at the We
tumpka club house, Falling Waters. w.
Va.
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Judge and Mrs. Alphonso Hart and
daughter. Marjorie Hart. have returned
from an extended trip through New York
and northern Ohio, visiting en- route
friends in the Catskills and Cleveland and
the Pan-American.
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The lingering death of the late Dowager
Empress of Germany has had few coun-
terparts in English royal history. Twen-
ty-fve per cent of the number that has
reigned there since the Conquest met vio-
lent deaths. Two. Henry VII and Ed
ward VI. died of consumption. Old age
with its complication of physical troubles
helped to carry off Victoria. George III.
Elizabeth, Henry VI. William ". Edward
III. and Henry III. Three died young.
Edward at fourteen. Edward VI at six
teen and Henry VI at thirty-three. Queen
Anne died comparatively young of apo
plexy Mary's death is said to have been
due to sorrow over the loss of English
territory in France. Henry WIS and
George IIrs last days were clouded with
dementia, and George lis demise was oc-
casioned by the bursting of blood vessel.
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Mrs. C. W. Holl. of North Capitol Street,
has gone to WATERFOWL, N. Y. on visit
to relatives, and on her return trip will
visit Buffalo and Niagara Falls
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Owing to this state of Mrs. o. H P. Bel
mont's health, Mr.. Belmont will close his
Newport house and take his wife for a
few weeks visit among the bracing hills
of the Berkshires. The sea air does not
agree with Mrs. Belmont, and for that
reason the programme of entertainments
which We're to have been given at Bel
court have been abandoned.
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Cardinal Vaughan seems to be in luck
so far as relics of ancient saints are con-
cerned. on the completion of the cathe-
dral at Westminster. another interesting
article is to be removed to 1t from the lit
tie Church of St Peter. NARROW, Bucks.
where il has been venerated for very
many years. This relic is supposed to
be the hand of St James. the Apostle,
which is preserved in crystal casket.
1t was, according to tradition, brought to
England from Germany, In l133, by the
Empress Matilda. as a present for her
father, Henry |. who greatly valued it,
and the Benedctine Abbey of Reading
was founded to provide for it a fitting
shrine. There 1t remained until the Refor-
nation. and 1t subsequently passed to DR..
Blenkinsop who died in 1872. Then 1t was
placed in the museum at Reading, and
eventually came into the possession of
Mr. Scott Murray, whose family have
been associated with NARROW and the
neighborhood for many years.