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sioner tho Commissioners has power to
allow a pension OF not more than 5000
a year, which he has power to revoke
at any time.
The law provides for pensions OF $4,000
to ex-Chiefs OF the department. Ex-
Deputy Chiefs get $500, ex-inspectors
$l,7s0, ex-oaptains Si,S75, and ex-ser-
geants $1,000. No policeman is eligible
to a pension unless he is in good stand
ing at the time OF his retirement.
With this elaborate system OK pensions
in operation no deserving policeman is
likely to come to want. A great many
policemen in the prime of life take adj
vantage OK the pension regulations, re-
tire from the department and seek en-
ployment as private watchmen or in
similar work. The pensions are much
higher than the wages paid for active
police service in some municipalities.
Mayor Low Is fond Of appointing
commissions to investigate various
things. He might find a good field for
a commissions activities in the subject
Of New York city pensions, which no
one understands thoroughly now.
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A Wight Flueist OF Manhatsa-

To rAR EDITION OF The SUN-,5ty: have re ac
your paper for the post thirty Ave forty years and
In an article to-day entitled Voices OF the Night
the writer says he has not heard tho sound OF a
flute on summer evening in New York for years
II he will take the trouble to 20 to Fifty sixth street
and Park avenue east side. between and 10 clock
he will hear good nutist play most every evening
whoever It 10 can get a magnificent tone, rich
full and sweet. Don't think he rs professional,
% no only plays simple. old fashioned music, aud
no must bs religious. ~ hs only plays sacred airn
on Sundays. but he plays shem grand. I often
walk around that neighborhoed Just TO hsar him
was always interested In the auts myself and only
wish could play II half a we'll - the unknown
player. but I am getting on Ia che sixties and val
have 70 lei Is 60 now. ORPHRus.
NEW YoRE, July 10.
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The John Hay Type.

That was highly distinguished COM
pliment paid to the Secretary OF State on
Saturday by one of the ablest OF the
Justices of our Supreme Court, but it re-
quires annexation.
Speaking ut Des Moines Justice DA-
vID J. BREWER remarked:
The diplomacy of tho Governments is now on
the highest plane. Not the Machiavelll and Taley-
rand type. hu. the John Hay typo marks this Gov
eminent among the most unselfsh and most honest
nations OF the world"
Honest Of course; unselfish, according
as you understand the word; unsophisti-
Gated, not by long shot.
A popularity Of the diplomacy de-
scribed by the eminent jurist as Of the
John Hay type is that its intellectual
fineness is quite as remarkable as II it
were ostentatiously mysterious in its
methods and professionally mendacious
In it's demonstrations.
Add to it's sanity, safety and stability
the quality and habit of success, and you
complete the definition OF the diplomacy
practised by the Hon. JOHN HAY to the
astonishment of some Foreign Offices
abroad and to the immense contentment
of thes American people, the greatest
peace-lovers on earth.
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Tho London GaMtse.
From the wearninste, Gazette

From the WeNTnfnHsr Gazette.
The London Gaseite IL the oldest and least read
OF any newspaper. II Ia at once the biggest and
tho least OF all our papers for It Is the only paper
In the land which changes It's size from one pags
TO hundred, according 10 tho pressure OF news.
IL Is the only newspaper whose word Is law and
whose authority Is accepted In the witness box.
II can make and enmake bantnIpts, II Ii the
only paper In which certain persons are compelled
to advertise. and in which certain other persons
cannot advertise for love OF money. II yields a
profit OF 10000 year.
The London Gasstss has become regulanZcd NJ
a part OF the British Constitution now. bu, time
was when the editorsh,p OF the Gazette was one OF
the spoils OF once, worth esO0 year. II was the
recognized reward OF party services In the press.
The Government Is more economical 70 day In Its
Journalism, Under the old regime the GAZETTE had.
besides is editor, a stan of Ave clerks appointed
by the Treasury: but In lSS0 the treasury re-
modelled the management OF the paper. found the
stan employment elsewhere. and left the whole
responsibility OF the Gazette on It's present pub
lishers, MessEs Harrison sons OF n. Martins
lane. The printing OF the paper has been In the
Harrison family for practically 100 years.
Absolute secrecy AZ To the contents OF any forth
coming Gasstte prevails az 81 Martins lane. and,
though there are a thousand workers In MeSsrS.
Hsrrsons' ofices. no Item of news has ever leaked
out before Its time. Every sheet Of copy" Is
private aud confidential until II appears for all the
world to sec The copy" for the Gazette is writ
ten In the Government offlces often by Cabinet
Ministers themselves. and Is invariably returned
with the proofs Each Secretary initials his copy
Lord Salisbury signing his with the letter IS" in
red ink--and In cases Of promotion In the services
no paragraph is accepted even In proof without
being inlnacd second time. Now and then on
very rare occasions piece OF copy" Is received
autographed by tn c sovereign,
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oHs,rs room, 90 Tedoicnt arc It's buds. blossoms
add foliage. 10 tho funess OF life. shs nAdsuI,-
mer, and who can help rsgretting that n passes
90 swiftly"
All, sweet, too sweet Gen. SAMBo
BowIEs cannot pour q fuller-throated
song from his nest in Agawam.
Our tympanums still vibrating with
that melody, and a tiny sweetbrier
rose In our buttonhole, we look at the
next page of the Transcript. What is
that horrible thing there? Ugh! A
COMPOUNDED caterpillar. Swat him with
the single branch. How can we COM
mune with flower folk when that re-
lentless nagger Of the Bay State 10 ravag-
ing Arlington, the Fells. Maiden, Med
ford--where they make the rum-Mel-
rose, Saugus, and who knows what other
garden regions? A committee OF the
State Board Of Agriculture, which the
gypsy moth has devilish delight in
jeering, and q committee Of the State
Grange, have been visiting the battle
fields or feeding place Of this Bohemian
moth. They found acres completely
defoliated, trees killed, underbrush al
tackled, grass demolished. Even the
pines and frs have been stripped and
slain. ALARIC or ATTILA was baby
and MARYs Little Lamb compared to
this Egyptian. who destroys nearly
every useful grass, plant, flower, shrub,
garden or field crop, fruit, shade or
forest tree that grows in Massachusetts.
Curiously enough, the more money
appropriated for the determination OF
the gypsy moth, the more gypsy moths
there are to exterminate.
The Boston poet is beautiful but per-
fidious. No rose, wild or tame, is visible
in the stricken gardens. The orchards
are black; the trees are loaded heavily
with the creeping caterpillars; every gust
OF wind but we must escape while we
can. Put not your trust in poets.
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AMERICANS ATTACKED IN CHINA.
Local Magistrate Furnishes Assailants OF
Railway Engineers.

WASHINGTON, July 2O.-From Robert
NJ McWaAe, United States Consul"General
at Cantor, China, the State Department
has received by mail a report of an attack
by Chinese upon some American railway
engineers at Yuan Tan, not far from Can
ton The trouble was begun by an old
woman who demanded compensation for
some paddy and ground nuts that had been
trampled upon by a surveying party under
Civil Engineer Howe.
According to the report Of the local
magistrate, one of the American party
said that the railroad would pass through
the village and all the houses would be
pulled down. Then somebody sounded a
gong and the Americans were assaulted.
but apparently not seriously. They lost
boat, with clothing, books and maps.
The magistrate had several persons ar
rested, including the Elders OF the village.
who were charged with mot dissuading
others from sounding the gong
All the natives in the lower San Tong
village moved away, but the ma gistrate
commanded them to move back again.
Il have had prisoners Lo Ping Kong,
Shung Man and Pun Bulk Shue chained
together with stones" says the magistrate,
and he had others placed on public view
at Yuan Tan
The action Of the Chinese authorities
il satisfactory to this Government.
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With PHIL DAYS Pennsylvania Club at
Long Branch sold under the hammer to the
highest bidder, and RICHARD A. CANF1ELD's
Saratoga art musuem turned into an eat
ing house, two Of the greatest sporting re-
sorts In the East are closed to gamesters.
However, roulette wheels are always on
sale In toy shops, sporting goods houses
and even in dry goods stores, and Broadway
Ia not yet denuded of Greeks. The betting
rings at the racecourSes are open, and poker
can be played on any table. In Italy, bets
are made on the Pope's successor. and at
Brighton the MoChesney Waterboy race
offers splendid opportunity to win and lose.
Soon every ono can bet on Reliance in the
yacht races, and then the Mayoralty cam
paign will open.
Even though deprived of the Garfield
and DAILY establishments, the public still
has opportunities to take chance.
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The Marine Band celebrated its l05th ami
versary week ago Saturday the act Of Con-
gress authorizing IL having been signed by
President JOHN ADAMS on July IL. 1898.
The first musicians, enlisted on July 10,
1913, were fifers and drummers, led by a
FIFE major; 1t was not until 1891 that must
clans OF the band were authorized, besides
tho drummers and ifers who now serve on
shipboard. The band Is marine only in
name. II Is purely land body, and Its
leader and men would take 1t In very bad
part il they were suddenly ordered to sea.
like other members Of the famous corps So
little is the idea cultivated that the band Ii
really part of the corps, that not 30 long
ago its leader was court-martialled for dis
obeying tho order of an acting adjutant to
play music Of different character from that
he was playing. Practically. the band might
be called the Presidents" or the White
House Band" Yet it deserves recognition,
for it Is older than most Of our military
bodies, and has played important parts on
many historical occasions
May the wind OF it's wind TANNERS. the
strength Of arm of its sheepskin-pounders
the skill Of its leaders, never grow less!
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.gNlst Sol
From Me Toronto World Of July 10.

From the Toronto World Of Juiy is
when Canadians first read In THE SCN
articles on the growing national sentiment Of
Canada. and its magnificent resources and
possibilities. they rubbed their eyes TO see il
they were awake But they became accus-
toned to the phenomenon, and were hardly
astonished even when THE Sun published
nne patriotic article on Dominion Day.
These editorials are not only complimentary
but are written with evident knowledge Of
Canadian conditions,
As we were not cast down by American
indifference and lack Of knowledge of Canada.
wa need not go Into rhapsodies over tho new
conditions, STILL from the point Of view Of
both countries. they are gratifying Gush
we do not value. but Straightforward state
ment Of the facts. such rs THE SIN Is trying
to give. cannot but have good results
The two peoples ought to know one another.
American newspaper enterprise once took
the form Of sensational stories from Canada.
usually Of calamitous kind, and the Ameri-
can editors got what they were after But
there IL, after all, no newspaper enterprise
equal to that which gets at the facts and
The SUN seems to have recognized this car
dinal truth
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Rose and Caterpillar I'm Msssachu'
sets.

What is the real present condition OF
the trees, flowers and shrubs IN eastern
Massachusetts As we unfold tina Boz
ton Transcript beautiful bird fies out
and twitters rapturously:
This 10 tho month OF color. tho period when
comes tho fullest fru,tlon Of the seasons norsf
promise, when one rsaps tho reward Of bloom shas
Is due to faithful attention through trying Periods
Of drought or excessive wet. Tho garden boauti =
ful-and who has not garden In these days OF
universal noriculturs--is living delight, yield.
ing new treasures every day. Ono inds the Keen
eat enjoyment liz watching tho unfolding Of tho
buds In the Development from day 70 day OF tho
plauts and vines whose existence one has watched
from the nrst tiny upshoos from tho hidden seed.
Nature Is Just now IN her primo, rcjuvenated BY
couious rains and by SUFFICIENT hos sunshine 70
produce tho greatest fuxurenos without the rank.
ness OF growth which comes Later In Shs season.
II the time 70 snjoy 70 sh. utmost the Odds and
woodlands rich IN their pageant OF Wild dowors
10 take long trarnps over the hfs and through shs
meadows for communion with the hosss Of flower
folk thxs nod brightly a. one nom every side. and
10 partAks Of xasir generous bcstowal Of perfume.
md Of these none y more lavish than the swess
utrs Wild rose that giorinss the waysds snd swsss
ems tho air from les dainty bosom stusss branch
OF the slny pink swsesbnsr roso will perfume A.
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TEXAS LIQUOR MEN LOSE.
ProhlbitiOnlsts Carrying All Before Them
I'm the County Elections.


New ORLEANS, La, July 20.-The local
option elections in Texas have resulted
everywhere in vict cries for the Prohibition
lists. They have carried Williamson county
by 200 majority. Hunt by $50 Majority,
Falls county 10y 400 majority, all Of them
among the largest counties In Texas
In Williamson county, the whiskey men
have determined to contest the election on
the ground that the Prohibitionists intimi-
dated the voters and stuffed the ballot
box and there may be contest in Hunt,
also.
The Prohibitionists have now trans
ferred their campaign to Bell and Parker
countless both of which they will seek to
force into the prohibition ranks The
campaign il likely to be decisive for the
whole State. The Prohbitionists have
already carried two-thirds Of the Texas
counties, and the saloon men see that I'M
less they can stem the tide they are doomed
to lose all Texas.
They have imported Stump Ashley, late
Populist candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Hon. Monitor Moore of Milan, one OF
the Democratic leaders in Texas, and a
large party of lesser oratorical lights
to make the fight for them. The Pro-
hibitionists have imported Cyclone Davis,
the Populist orator, to lead their cause.
The liquor men have endeavored to re-
strain prohibition in the counties won by
the Prohibitionists by injunctions. but at
the meeting of the State Bar Association,
County Attorney Greenwood announced
that these injunctions are null and void
and recommended that no attention he
paid to them as there can be no punish
ment for violation of an injunction which
is illegal in itself. This advice will be taken
in the prohibition counties in which the
saloons are being wide run open under the
protection of injunctions. 1t is generally
recognized that the present fight is death
struggle between prohibition and the liquor
Into
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FLOOD or IMMIGRATION.
Nearly a Million Aliens Added to Our Popu.
IatiOn in the Last Fiscal Year.

WASHINGTON, July 20-A new high-water
mark in immigration was made In the fiscal
year ended June 80 last, when nearly a
million aliens were added to the population
Of the United States The statistics issued
by the Department Of Commerce and Labor
show that in the twelve months just closed
021 ,3l5 immigrants and other alien pas
sengers were landed, being an increase OF
19O,5l7 over the number In the previous
year
OF this total nearly one-half came from
Italy and Austria Hungary. Italy sending
1922 and Austria 206,0i1, which were
respectively 52,247 and "a ,022 more than for
the preceding twelve months. Russia
came third with 1876, 093, Sweden fourth with
48O2s, Germany fifth with 400se and Ireland
sixth with $3.50. Japan sent 1888. China
2,209 and the West Indies $40.
In addition to those admitted, 8, 709 would
be immigrants were denied admission and
SAT more were returned to the countries
whence they came within one year after
landing. The grounds for disbarment were:
Pauperisrn, 5,Sl2 cases; disease, l,773; con-
tract laborers, 0S8 convicts, 81; insane
and idiots, pa women for immoral pur-
poses, 10: aided paupers, 0, and polygamy, l.
Of the total lumber admitted 631 1856 landed
at the port of New York. 81, 1888 at Boston,
SIS, sO2 at Baltimore and 80 ,943 by the North
ern border
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FUTURE TYPE or AMERICAN.
The indian. the ProtO-Aryan, the Kentucky
Mountaincer or the Classic Greek?

M0untalncer or the Classic greek!
To TIKI EpIroN OF The SUN-Sir: Darwin
distinctly and somewhat invidiously pointed
out that tho soil and climate OF North America
tended to change the appearance Of Eu-
ropeans after several generations OF resi-
denoe here He claimed We became lankier,
long with coarser hair. &c Had 80 great
an authority az Darwin insisted we were
altering to Indians it would have amounted
to an international offence. He however
evidently believed we were 30 tending. de-
generating perhaps. Virchow and other
eminent European anthropologists have fire.
quently alluded to this so-called Indian
tendency some claiming there was actually
a large admixture OF Indian blood here. in
stancing that our frontier had ever abounded
in half breeds
Darwin was a great naturalist. but was
often singularly hort-sighted as anthropolo-
gist and physician. Consequently he and
his unaokno wledging echoer and reechoer.
Prof. Frederick Starr Of Chicago. do err.
In explanation Of this Indian business. the
following hypothesis Is offered Huxley,
MacNamara and other men Of science have
Of tall. slender white giants occupied North
Thought, the influence. the Language. tIe
possess the world to-day and are visible and
10 be discerned on the ancient monuments
and in the language of Assyria. Egypt and
Mesapotamia
The Kentucky mountaneers Abraham
Lincoln, and the Gibson and Du Maurier girls.
| may be taken as modern physical exemplars
OF that ancient type The plethoric. soft
Grecian Hermes Of Praxteles and the over
loaded muscles of the athletes of the Grecian
statuaries arc not true OSCILLATIONS Of this
ancient wild race or Of their best representa-
tive descendants. The rondeur and sOftness
of the Hermes could not be In the wild state.
and large layers OF shoulder muscles are
evidently the result Of the manual labor
from civilization
We are not Mohawks, Indians. sachens.
suuaws-and what Darwin found fault with
was an eminent racial virtue. North Amer
ica with its fulness and free wildness, has re-
stored the best types has freed and cleaned
us OF the starvations, the stgmata, the dis
eases of Middls-Age Europe, and is breedin q
| US back to the greatest folk
NEW YORK, July is ANON r. JENKINS.
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RECEIVED BY CHINESE ROYALTY.
Reception to Rear Admiral Evans by tho
Empress DOwager and the Emperor.

WASHINGTON, July 2O,-From e. Fl.
Conger. United States Minister to China,
the State Department has received an &C
count of the reception by the Empress Dowa-
ger and the Emperor of Rear Admiral
Robley d. Evans and eleven other Amer-
can naval officers at the summer palace on
June To-
"The Admiral and L. says Mr.. ConSer.
were invited to attend the Deis, when in
uuiries were made by her Imperial Majesty
as to the President o health, as well as our
own. She expressed personal pleasure
at meeting the Admiral, made some COM
plimentary references to the United States.
bade us walk through the grounds with the
Minister'S and to partake OF q luncheon,
which had been prepared for us.
Immediately after the audience for the
Admiral, their Majesties received Mrs.
Evans, Mrs Conger and the ladies accom-
panying them. They were then given q
breakfast with the Processes, during which
their Imperial Majesties again appeared
and indulged In at great length general
and friendly conversation
Admiral Evans and the Emperor made
speeches when the Admiral was presented.
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HALF STARVED IN PRISON.
Complaint OF m American Who Is Con
fined I'm solol0. Guatemala

WASHINGTON, July 2O.-In a telegram
to the State Department United States
Minister Combs, at Guatemala City, re-
ports that Frank Brown. formerly of Mans
field, Ohio, who was arrested in SololA
Guatemala, Is still in prison and untrisd
Mr. Combs says that Brown shot an italian
and cont ends that it was done accidentally
The Italian is prosecuting him. II have
been urging trial.. says the Minister In
conclusion. In letter sent to Minister
Combs. Brown said:
II am here in prison almost without
clothing have no shoes. get about
half enough to eat, ! sleep on the stone
floor have one thin blanket and It is
a whole lot colder here than In Guatemala
CITY. am so hungry sometimes that
eat banana and orange peels to satisfy
my hunger. MY clothes are filthy from
vertnin and on the whole I am miserable
Therefore, implore you, for Gods sake
10 procure my liberty
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New York's Provision for Its Ex-
Policemen.

Tho Police Departments pension fund
will fall short of its requirements by
$3.50, 900 this year. When the budget for
1904 ia made up this fall there must be
provision for larger deficit in 1904.
The amount the fund must pay out this
year is not less than 81, 100, 600, and the
average increase in the demands on
it,, according to the Commissioners Of
Accounts, is Sl,5OO each month. The
city is by no means ungenerous to its
ex-polioemen.
Under the city Charter the Commits
sioner of Police Is the trustee OF the
pension fund, and he is under bond
of 500 900 to insure his honesty. The
fund is made up Of the unexpended bal
ance, of appropriations for the de-
partment, gifts, rewards and fees re-
ceived by policemen, the receipts from
ball and pistol permits, all lost, stolen
or abandoned moneys, the receipts from
the sale of lost or stolen articles, dis
carded property of the departing mt, all
moneys deducted from policemen's pay
in fines, or the like, all forfetures i'm
posed by the department, share Of the
excise moneys, and 2 per cent. OF the
pay of every member Of the department,
deducted monthly from his wages.
The law provides that if the fund,
after all payments due from it are made,
amounts to over s250,000, the excess
shall revert to the general fund for the
reduction of taxation. Deficits are TO
be made up by taxation, and deficits
are likely to be annual hereafter.
The widow and children under Is
years of age Of a policeman killed in the
performance OF duty, or OF n pensioner
OF the department, are entitled to asum
not exceeding $500 year from the fund.
A similar pension in also to be paid
when a policeman dies after ten years
service. Any member OF the police
force disabled in the performance OF
duty is entitled to a pension Of one
quarter to one-half Of his salary, and
any member of the department who by
reason OF age becomes incompetent be-
tween the tenth and twenty-fith years OF
his service is entitled to a similar pen
sion. A policeman disabled after twenty
years service is entitled to a pension OF
one-half his salary. The Commits
sioner has power TO retire q policeman
who has reached the age OF IS years and
been twenty years in the department
on the certificate Of the police surgeons
that he is incompetent for duty, on q
pension of not less than one-half his
salary. Any policeman Of SIS years Of
age and twenty-five years service car
secure retirement and a pension of one
half his salary on his own application
Policemen 90 years old, who served in
the Mexican OF civil war, must be re.
lieved Of duty by the Commissioner or
pensions Of one-half their sslary aftel
twenty years service, when they apply
for retirement.
To the widow and children Of Q pen.