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Ministers weIl-Trained Sons.

From the Pacific Churchrun.
Not the least gift OF the American clergy land
their wiycs) has been the training OF their sons.
Think for a moment OF Emerson. whose ancestors
had been ministers for Ave generations. James
Russell Lowell started from a minister's hons
Ouyrr Wendell Holmes learned TO tune his Tyre In
his fathers parsonage. Henry Ward Beccher
sprang from the lons OF a grand old minister OF
brain and Drawn.
Looking at the records Of literature in England
we md the same thing. Addison. Thomson. Cold
smith Colrrldgc. Young, Cowper Montgomery,
Hcbcr and Tennyson. were sons of the prophets
and wIthal hymn writer's and great poets. Turning
TO philosophy you have the same story, DuGa'd
Stewart. Reid, Abcrcromblc and Bcn'ham were
parsons sons.
In general literature We md mulitudcs o' min
listers sons-Swift. Macaulay. Thackeray. Kings
lev and Matthew Arnold were clergymcns sons
OF the more recent past or sun living are Su'h
men as Lord Charles Bcrcsford. Lord Curzon. tr'I
Rhodes ". r. Stead. Anthony Hope, r. D. hhrN-
more. Henry James, Marcus DodS and Grant Alien
such names as these, supplemented by thon'ano'
less conspicuous hut none the less uSrril maj cn"
he found in any American or English work OF ma
tIonal biography will stand as AN abiding "''nc"
that ministers sons turn out-and they turn ou'
,x,aI
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James McNsill whistler.

WHISTLER in earlier life was a great
etcher, easily the first of the nineteenth
century. The number of his plates of
the best quality is comparatively small
He soon lost his power or the incentive
to exercise it. His hand degenerated: his
work became trivial and insincere. AS
a painter none of his pictures will ever
explain to posterity the reputation, or
the apparent reputation, that he enjoyed
during his lifetime. The portrait Of
CARLYLE and the portrait Of his mother
will best represent him, and in both will
be found those qualities which distin-
guish his best etchings.
WHISTLER was one Of the early victims
of that curious fashion of intellectual
depravity that became manifest in Eng
land toward the end OF the century. II
affected literature and art equally and it
had it's beginnings in Modern Preraphael-
itism and it's end in OSCAR WILDE. While
it lasted 1t was an evil thing; land it is we'll
to indulge the belief that the country is
purged of it for generation or more and
that perhaps the South African war and
other Establishments Of the English Anglo
Saxon have not proved unmixed Attic
tons.
In the very roots Of the movement
were unbridled egoism with its insep-
arabic conoomltant of intellectual dis
honesty; and WHISTLER, the artist, the
petit n,attre, the fdneur, and finally the
decadent, was leader and conspic-
nous figure. A lady once, at dinner, e1-
pressed at some length her great adj
miration of LEIGHTON, then just elected
President Of the Royal Academy. She
spoke of his many accomplishments, his
gifts as a speaker, as a writer, and az
linguist. Paints tool" interjected
WHISTLER; and the bon mot spread to all
London. Writes tool" would in an
analogous dialogue fit the case of WIS
Tier. That particular kind Of writing
which was the main vehicle Of those
polemics by,which he advertised him
self and fed the fire of the notoriety so
Indispensable to his existence, was that
particular accomplishment by which he
set the most store. He conceived that
he was first of all writer. His supreme
eminence as an artist he accepted as a
matter Of course, his natural and inevi-
table destiny: but his writing he con-
ceived to be personal achievement and
in his later years it became an infatua-
ton He did not write much and never
seriously. He believed himself to be the
epgrammatist Of the nineteenth century.
There were undoubtedly others or at
least persons who supposed they pos
sessed the gift of epigrammatic express
sion, but they served only to show tho
superiority of WHISTLER. Nothing that
he ever wrote will bear the test of sane
or wholesome analysis. Divested of it's
malice it is as nothing; and grace and
felicity of phrase have but momentary
attraction when they are misused.
WHISTLER never kept friend. Many
were attracted to him by the singular
reputation which he so sedulously
achieved, by the quality of his CONVERSE
ton or by the faculty with which he
presented himself for circulation az
celebrity. He ended all intimacy, If IL
was persisted in, by his unfailing practice
of sacrificing it to the occasions Of his
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-19
CITY BOAT FOR VISITORS
Folks Who Want to 90 to the Penal lns,,,,,.
lions Baked by Slyhtseers.

The steamboat Massasoit of the Depar,-
ment of Correction took 100 meml ers q,
the Republican organization Of the Twenty.
fifth Assembly district up the East River
yesterday to make a tour of inspection
of the city's penal institutions The boat
left the pier at the foot of East TWENTY.
sixth street at 0 o'clock in the morniny
two hours before the usual time for leay.
ing on Saturdays. About fifty person.
went to the dock after the boat had gone
in the expectation of visiting relatives nr
friends on Harris or Riker's Island Whom
they FOUND that the steamboat had g[na
they complained to the men in charge Of
the landing They had no way by which
they could get to the islands except by TAX.
ing the cars to City Island and rowing
across the river.
Neither Commissioner OF Correction
Hynes nor Deputy Commissioner Mac.
Nulty was on the boat, but Secretary A. ]
McKinny went with the tourists Henry
Birrell, who succeeded McDougall Hawkes.
as leader of the Twenty-fifth, was also
there The visitors had been invited by
Mr.. MacNulty. They inspected the vari-
Gus institutions on Harris Island. after
which they had coffee and Sandwiches.
They were about to view the place where
1925, 900 Of the city's dead lie when The rain
came down in torrents and that part Of
the visit was abandoned.
After visiting Rikers Island they returned
to Manhattan, and Secretary McKinny
said.
"The trip was not an outing. 1t WIS TO
enable the citizens to see how the institu-
tons are conducted. We have had several
of this kind before This is not visiting
day for the friends Of the prisoners on
those two islands, so we did not cause any
great hardship by having the boat go a
little earlier than usual.
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Travelling Companions.


THE Sun very properly this morning directs
attention to the spectacle OF tho Governor Of this
state and the Police Commissioner Of this city
travelling together on m,dsumm er jaunt across
the continent at a time when the latter is under
grave charges In connection With his former bust
ness relations with the Asphalt Trust THE SIN
points out that, under the law creating the once
Of Police Commissioner the Governor. in common
yt,h'thc Mayor. Is given power TO remove tho Com
missioner. and Its sense OF the hness OF things
Is shocked by this close communion OF kindred
souls For, after ALL what could be more agree
able 10 a grocery" Governor than the companion
ship OF the OK head Of the wrecked Asphalt TRUST
Besides. THE SUN forgass that this power Of re-
moval WAS given to the Governor to he used only
against a Democratic Police Commissioner.
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Another Victim OF Nicotine

Why will men put an enemy in their
mouths to puff away their brains? Coun-
terblasting King JAMES would not smoke;
he would not chew y; hence his noble
intellect and wisdom. Old PARR smoked
a pipe. to be sure, and yet fingered long;
but Old PARR must have been weary
of being old. Doubtless he smoked with
self-destroying intent.
From Kalamazoo, rich in fame and
celery, is sent another sad story OF an
other young life burned and smoked
away Mr.. WILLIAM &. PATTIs0N has
persisted in consequence Of his servitude
TO tobacco. He belonged to u fine old
race, the Western stage drivers. He
had great early advantages in the matter
Of health and open-air exercise. He
was a good man. He was intelligent.
He was forehanded. But tobacco killed
WILLIAM PATTIsoN.
He was the record smoker He
seems to have set to work deliberately
to distance all competitors on the ashes
track. In twelve years he smoked $4,000
ten-cent cigars. In twenty years he
smoked more than 10000 ten-cent cigars.
This loss of $4,000 may not have dis
tressed him. He could afford it. Only
his heirs and high moral political econo-
mists will regret it. The money was
nothing or little; but now he has lost his
life The weeds have slain him in the
flower of his days.
Seldom has there been a more pitiful
case of mans inhumanity to himself.
GOETHE is said to have drunk 10000
bottles Of wine; and GOETHE was cut
off in his eighty-third year. PATTIsoN
smoked 100, 900 cigars in twenty years and
persisted prematurely at SO.
Despite this new and terrible proof
Of the deadly power of tobacco, Stogie
Trust has just been formed. Can moth
ing bring smokers TO realizing sense OF
their suicidal habit?
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LOGON OLIVES and Loyalty.

The Canadian press is giving wide
publicity to the recent statement of MIR
CHAMBERLAIN regarding the placing of
a large order for locomotives for Cana
dian railway with Glasgow Arm. A
week before this statement was made
an official Of the purchasing line was
asked why the order was placed abroad
rather than in the United States. He
replied that IL was because the American
shops were too busy to fill the order with
the necessary promptness.
1t is perhaps true that the preferential
rate made il possible for the Glasgow
firm to fill the order at an acceptable
price to the railway company, but it is
quite probable that the United States
would have filed the order, preferential
or not preferential, if the makers of loco
motives could have delivered the goods
when they were wanted.
The prominence which ia given to the
item in Canadian circles is Indicative
Of u sentiment which the United States
must counteract if it desires to maintain
and extend its trade relations with
canada. Whether with or without full
Justification, there is no doubt that
across the border Il widespread feeling
exists that the United States has shown
selfish disregard for Canadian inter-
ests. To the existence of that feeling is
to be attributed large measure of
Canada's welcome of Mr., CHAMBER
LAIN's proposal for imperial union
The Canadian or to-day is a political
composite. He ia British subject, and
is proud Of being such. But he is also
Canadian, and his love of Canada is
even stronger than his love Of England.
He will do much to build up the mother
land, but he will do more to build up the
land of his birth or Of his adoption. The
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HOW TO STOP LYNCHING.
Southern Newspapers Calling for the Coz
operation OF Decent ColOred Men.
From the Rdleilh Z


Within the past few days attempts have
been made to lynch two white men who were
guilty OF homicide. showing that this charac-
ter OF punishment Is not only not confined
to negroes, but extends to other crimes the
qualification of the appetite in one instance
stimulating the desire for such prompt pun
ishment OF crime.
The Montgomery Advertiser oalls-and calls
properly-upon the better element Of the
colored race to lend their aid and energies
to the suppression Of the crime which begets
lynching The colored people as race are
not In sympathy with this crime. We may well
believe: but as race they have been placed
In the position Of sympathizing more with
the criminal than Of condemnng the crime.
This is not only wrong, but. as we have said
and believe really does a large. very large
ma jority OF our colored people an injustice.
Mouthy demagogues and smart-alec negro
preachers, however, by their fiery speeches
denouncing the method of punishment for
the crime, with but little evidence that they
think--if that class do think-this crime is
more heinous than chicken-lifting, have given
color to the belief that the negroes as race
would shield those guilty OF the crime rather
than see them punished az they deserve
Let the colored people. the self-respecting
better element. be as earnest and outspoken
In their condemnation of the great crime and
the guilty criminal as others are and will
be. and give aid rather than disbursement
to efforts to arrest the guilty let the punish
ment be what IL may. or as II may. and the
orime itself will cease. in our honest iuds-
ment. and thus mob spirit as applied to crimi-
nails will be the more easily eradicated and
law easily maintained.
That the conscience OF good people is awak-
ening TO the real situation is indicated by the
prompt action Of the better element OF white
citizens In Tex as town 20 protect the decent
element OF negroes in the community from
mob who would make indiscriminate assaults
upon all blacks by the movement by the bet
ter element Of negroes in an Indiana town to
assist the officers of the law in arrestnG all
negro idlers and loafers and those known to
be vicious characters Jim Crow negroes
they call them. These are good signs.
Let such movement and cooperation OF
the best elements OF both races become
earnest and energetic in putting down crimi-
nnls, especially in running down and bringing
TO punishment those who assault women, and
we may expect that. the crime being sup
pressed. the mob spirit also will be wiped out,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-19

The board appointed to inquire into the
bursting of the l2-lnch gun on the Iowa
on April 0, after many meetings and tests
OF the metal of the gun, has made its report
to the Chief Of the Bureau OF Ordnance of
the Navy. 1t finds that the gun itself was
in good condition. and in no way weakened
by previous fring-l25 shots had been fired
from it between its completion in 1908 and
Jan OF this year, about seven years in all
and that the explosion was due to " abnor"
NAL action Of the powder charge, produce
ing wave pressures BY tests with powder
OF the same kind az that used when the gun
exploded. the board found that the charge
was made Of two kinds Of grain, one Of which
burned about one-half more slowly than the
other; and Is OF the opinion that this differ
enoe In rapidity OF combustion caused the
wave pressure. In conclusion. the board
says that the smokeless powder now made
is more homogeneous than that formerly
used, and that the liability to similar acct
dent In the future 10 lessened. 1t suggests,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-19
NAPOLEON AND Plus VII.
Nsr. Goodwin SMITHS ReJOlndeF with Mime
do Remusat's Testimony.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-!Sir. / do
not wish to be drawn into general discus
sion of the conduct of Pope Plus VII. My
remark. which think was not Incorporate,
referred to two special cases Of his conduct
with relation to Napoleon That other parts
Of the Popes conduct were laudable I am
perfectly ready to admit
That the Pope knew the ecclesiastical
marriage OF Napoleon with Josephine to
have been duly performed and valid, there
can hardly be a reasonable doubt. Nine.
de Remusat, whose authority on this point
l suppose will be considered unquestion-
able. says:
On the occasion OF her second interview with tho
Pope, the Empress carried out the Intention she
had secretly formed. and conhded TO him that her
marriage had been a civil ceremony only. His
Holiness. after having commended her for tho good
use she made Of her power. and addressing her as
My daughter" promised her that he would require
Of the Emperor that his coronation should be pre-
coded by the ceremony necessary TO Legitimate his
marriage with her: and. In fact. tho Emperor was
obliged to consent TO this On their return TO Paris.
Cardinal Fesch married Bonaparte 10 Josephine,
as l shall presently relate.
Two days before the coronation, NJ. de Remusat,
who. In addition TO being Grand Chamberlain. was
also Keeper OF the Wardrobe and therefore charged
with all the details Of the Imperial costumes. sub
mitted TO the Empress the superb diadem which
had Just been made for her He found her in
state of delight and satisfaction, which she could
hardly conceal from general notice. Presently she
took my husband apart. and confded to him that.
on the morning of that same day an altar had been
erected In the Emperors cabinet. and that Cardinal
Fesch had performed the marriage ceremony be-
tween herself and Bonapartc, in the presence OF
two aides de camp. After the ceremony she had
procured written certificate of the marriage from
the Cardinal. She carefully preserved this docn-
ment. and. notwithstanding all the Emperors ef-
forts 90 obtain It from her. she never could be in
duced to part with it."Mcmotrs." Chap K.
Surely. this is conclusive.
TORONTO, July IS. GOODWIN SMITH.
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People Are Not Leaving Newport.

The whole world Is concerned with the
intellectual growth and brilliant achieve
ments Of that moral pivot of society
Mr.. HARRY LEHR Nothing transcends
in interest the steadily ascending scale
of his progress and the inscrutable I'M
expectedness of his methods. Last year
he established the status of semnopithe-
cus Johns, of the tailed variety of ape.
as an associate Of the human family at
breakfast and dinner. This year he
has definitely and authoritatively fixed
the domestic and moral position Of
psittacus erithdcus of the rhetorical
branch Of the great Parrot family. His
next introduction to the circles OF wealth
and fashion will be cynopithecus agilis.
This most interesting Of the anthropoids
is Of ruminative and sedentary habit.
When we say sedentary we mean that
he sits much, and from motives of deli
cacy, thereby chiefly differentiating him
self from Mr.. LEHR, who does not sit at
all, except at meals. When, however,
the Cynopithecus agilis betrays activity
his strong points of affinity to Mr.. LEHR
are disclosed, and as he retreats swiftly
from the observer he appears, as the
late Mr.. CosToN would say-he appears
to burn blue lights" The current
report that people are leaving Newport
is SANDER. If a few indeed are going
away it lis from sense Of envy or from
actual despair Of initiating Mr.. LEHRs
illustrious example.
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The Procession Of Generals.

President ROOSEVELT, in the language
OF the ranch, has rounded up thirty
three veterans Of the civil war now in
the army, promoting them to be Briga-
dier-G Generals and then retiring them at
once, and finishing the work by pro-
noting thirty-fourth officer, who will
remain on the active list
The officers selected are all Colonols
except one, who is senior Lieutenant
Colonel Of Ordnance and will become
Colonel ON the retirement for age Of Col.
REILLY on Aug. 2. Here it may be noted
that Col. REILLY is to be promoted to
Brigadier- General and retired as the
twenty-eighth of the thirty-three officers
selected, and that he will probably be
retired for age before his turn for pro-
motion comes, as the procession does
not begin until after Gen. MILEs's re-
tirement on Aug s.
All but one of the officers selected
served for at least year during the
civil war, and all have served at least
thirty-five years in the army. None
of them could attain the stars of a Briga-
der were it not for the plan Of promoting
and retiring officers first practised by
President MCKINLEY, and since followed
on several occasions by his successor.
This plan, it is announced, will not be
followed hereafter. 1t has served, how
ever, to honor and reward more than
seventy deserving officers during the
past six years, and has been accepted
by the country as proper, although ow-
ing to disagreement between the two
houses Of Congress its principle has
never been recognized by statute, and
its practice might almost be described
therefore as extra-legal.
OF the thirty-four promotions thus to
be made, fifteen 60 to the infantry, six
to the artillery, three to the cavalry and
the other ten to the staff departments.
Seventy-seven officers who saw service
during the civil war still remain on the ac-
tive list as Colonies, Lieutenant-Co lonels
and Majors some Of them more deserving
Of promotion than some of those who
are now to join the procession" If
the Senate and the House shall still fail
to agree upon law that gives to the
army the same right of promotion that
the navy has-retirement with advanced
rank after a certain number of years,
including OWL war service-it is to be
hoped that the present wholesale pro-
motions may not be the last, and that the
comparatively few war veterans now on
the active list may yet receive the honors
and rewards given to their seniors.
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EVEN EXPECTS TO BE KILLED.
Thinks He VIII BE Shot When He Returns
to Testify I'm Feud Trial.

LEXINGTON. KY, July ls,-Belvn J. Even,
the witness in the trial Of Curtis Jett and
Tom White for the murder Of j. B. Marczm
at jackson, has made preparation to go to
jackson on Tuesday to testify before the
Grand Jury which has beer called by Judge
Redwine.
Capt. Even is in great fear Of his life
and says he feels that he will be shot down
the moment he enters the town. but that he
owes it to the people Of the State to go to
jackson and assist in the investigation OF the
burning of his hotel and Of the attempt to
bride him not to testify In the murder trial.
Capt Even says the public is not aware Of
the danger that awaits him in jackson.
From friend of EVEN 1t is learned that
he has made full preparation for death. He
has placed all the money raised by the vari-
GUS newspapers for his benefit In banks Of
Lexington to the credit Of his wife and has
told this friend what he knows about Judge
Hargis and the assassinations In jackson.
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wit No personal tie, no sense Of obliga-
ton counted for aught against the oppor-
tunity to turn phrase.
His etchings, those of them that no
made when he was only an artist, will
always be priced and they will DO held to
have much in common with not few OF
REMBRANDT's plates. His later etchin2s,
which depended mostly on manipulation
Of the plate in the press, will be rejected.
OF his pictures very few will retain
their interest OF all the rest, with
WHISTLER dead and no one to explain
them and continue the cult, the less said
the better.
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Boston Museum Gets Two Rembrandts.

BosToN, Mass. July 1s.-The Boston
Museum Of Fine Arts has just acquired
two valuable paintings by Rembrandt.
One Of the pictures, the 'Danae. formerly
loaned by the estate OF Francis Brooks, is
not new TO this community. Now, how:
ever, having been bought with part OF
the Arthur Rotch fund, il becomes a per
manent possession Of the museum; The
other Rembrandt was found In an Obscure
English private gallery and secured for
the Bosto n museum through the efforts
of Walter Gay, Boston artist, now re;
siding in Paris The portrait is OF an old
man, seemingly Rembrandts father. II
is a genuine Rembrandt, vouched for BY
Prof. De Groot, OF The Hague, one OF the
foremost authorities on early Dutch art
Ann Edwards fund.
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New York newspaper man WAS dining WV"
David Bennett Hill at a bachelor friends Hp"n
mrnt recently, and MI, Tiill asked the nr"'Ph,'I
man what he Thought Of the political ou''''" '''
the next national campaign.
What will the issues bet" he inquired la""'
Philippines" ,
The newspaper man interrupted by shake or
h-ad
MOI" said MT Hill In some surprise
no" replied the newspaper man y tn'hH
VII DC 'racc suicide, with Roosevelt on one "'he'
and you on the other"