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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
THE IOWA REPUBLICANS.

Democratic editors who had hoped that the
proceedings Of the Iowa Republican convention
would reveal g serious breach in the e.arty
ranks in that State and lead to disruption Of
the party throughout the country are making
their disappointment conspicuous. Their IN
happiness is natural, but they will obtain no
real consolation by processing contempt for the
tariff plank of the platform which the cOnven-
ton unanimously adopted. Their assertion that
IL means everything or nothing, according to
the Interpretation which individuals choose to
put upon it. is quite characteristic of men who
invariably hail a reafirmation of the principles
OF Thomas Jefferson" as the most specific and
infexibIe of all possible human utterances For
their benefit let US examine the declarations OF
the Iowa Republicans on the subject Of the
tariff
They say: I'VE reiterate our faith in the his
toTic principle Of protection" Just what If
anything, is the matter with that2 The enemy
may have sighed, but they can hardly have
looked for the reputation Of principle whose
''vindication is found in the history of its sue
'cess and the rapidity with which our national
resources have been developed and our indus
trial independence secured" The Republicans
of Iowa heartily renew their pledge to main
tain that principle. There is no obscurity or
Indecision about that. is there? Tariff rates
''enacted TO carry this policy into effect should
t'be just, fair and impartial" Shouldn't they2
Or should they be unjust unfair and STEPPED in
partially? They should be equally opposed to
foreign control and domestic monopoly" Will
some Democrat kindly put his hand upon his
heart and protest that they ought TO be ad-
1usted in such a manner as either TO invite an
invasion Of foreign manufactures or strangle
competition at home? 1t appears to us to be
highly desirable that there should be no sec
tional discrimination individual favoritism.
are we compelled to infer that our Democratic
brethren cherish a contrary opinionf Tariff
rates must from time to time be changed to
meet the varying conditions incident to the
ssurogress OF our industries and their changing
relations in our foreign and domestic com
s'merce" We should hate TO believe that any
follower of Jefferson or Cleveland or Bryan, OF
David Bennett Hill Richard Croker or Tom
Johnson was obtuse or insincere enough TO con-
tradict that proposition. Duties that are too
.loy should be increased, and duties that are
,4too high should be reduced" If not why
NOT? Does any rational being think that duties
which are too low should be reduced, and that
duties which are too high should be increased?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
MERE SOUND AND FURy

wouldn't Fourth Of July without noises and
smells, without explosions and fires, without
disasters and catastrophes without fireworks
and firearms, without overworked surgeons.
oVertaxed ambulances and overcrowded hos
pitfalls, without policemen and fremen almost
exhausted by excessive strain-wouId not such
a Fourth Of July make this great and glorious
republic almost an earthly paradise lust for
that one day.
By all means raise the flags By all means
honor the standard of the Union. Read the
Declaration Of Independence once again. Give
us many patriotic addresses. We cannot have
too many high minded, loyal and thrilling ora
tons on Independence Day Well ordered ban
quets, picnics and assemblages of every sort,
with decent behavior for the enjoyment OF the
holiday-an are acceptable. Wholesome and
wisely managed sports for the entertainments
OF this memorable occasion are welcome and
gratifying 1t is in many ways the chief out
door festival of the year. 1t ought to be. and
may ii long continue to be.
But why quietloving people, and especially
the unfortunate sufferers upon beds of sick
ness and pain, should be racked and tormented
in every sense and every nerve from shutdown.
or even earlier, on the third day of July until
sunrise on the fifth is not clearly apparent to
the intelligent questioner of old traditions On
Christmas on New Years Day. on Thanksgiv-
ing Day and on the birthdays of Washington
and Lincoln, this great American people is not
stupefied and almost suffocated by cannon
crackers and every conceivable contrivance for
offending the ear and the nose and the nervous
system. BOnfres, in proper places and prop
erly guarded, may be well enough Spread the
starry flag. Let the bands play and the gold
laced sons Of Mars go marching through our
streets. Let US celebrate; but let us not abase
ourselves in the dust before the Yellow Dragon
OF the Tartars or go wild over mere sound and
fury signifying nothing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

Or are there Democrats who are so vexed at
progressive Republicanism that they are ready
to fall back on the policy which they have
falsely attributed to their opponents of leaving
the tariff severely alone for all time to come?
1t is not altogether easy to be patient with
the political critics who try to hide their chagrin
behind a pretence that the resolutions of the
Iowa convention are crooked and ambiguous
They know that a party platform ought to be.
as the Iowa platform is. a firm declaration of
principles, not precise formula Of legislation
They hoped to see Republicans falling into dis
agreement and confusion. Instead they see
them increasingly united and confident. 1t is
painful experience, but they will have to bear
It. They are entitled TO the privilege of making
a wry face. but Misrepresentation will not help
Them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
TAPPING THE ELECTRIC SEA.

A Chicagoan, Whitney by name, is talking
about an interesting experiment. He proposes
TO mount a 13-inch cannon on Pixies Peak
point it straight upward, and fire a projectile
behind which will trail twenty or thirty miles
Of wire. What this genius hopes to do is to
penetrate the electric sea- which is supposed
to envelop the globe and bring down an IN
limited supply of current for commercial use
In the dispatches which outline the project it
is asserted that by getting the cannon ball out
beyond the pale of gravitation he would avoid
the necessity for supporting the outer end of
his Hnei Many persons besides Professor
Whitney have considered the possibility of
utilizing atmospheric electricity, and, while the
work Of so doing is beset with great difficult
ties. the idea itself is not inherently absurd.
Recent observation shows though, that the
greatest intensity in electric pressure is reached
at low level, and that only a trace is per-
ceptible at three miles Clearly, then, the Chi
cago man is likely to overshoot the mark from
twenty to thirty fold.
While reasonable doubts must be entertained
about Mr. Whitney's attainment Of the main OBJ
Ject OF his ambition, one cannot help wishing that
he may succeed in shooting a shell beyond the
limits Of gravitation Thirty miles may not suf-
fee perhaps, but If that will not do maybe he can
send his projectie still further The world is
full Of quack doctors, crank inventors, people
who turn to the left hand instead of the right
in crowded streets, and of other living nui-
sances. As some of these are sources of inno-
cent amusement, and as great many people
are so constituted that they would rather accent
error than truth, the immediate Punishment of
1mpostors can hardly be recommended. Be-
sides, there would be too marked depopula-
ton II all these undesirable elements of society
to be far sighted In case it should ever ha
found expedient to get rid of any Of them-or
ALL on the instalment plant would be worth
while to know exactly what means could he
employed for that purpose. Let Mr.. Whitney
go aheadI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
BLASTING ON THE HUDSON.

Householders on tho west line Of Manhattan
Island above Seventy second-st- have ample
reason for complaint because Of the excessively
violent blasts on the other side Of the Hudson
River, which aflict them with evils almost as
bad as If minor earthquakes were making
their homes tremble, bringing about serious
alarms and destroying fragile things.
1t ought to be possible to give these sufferers
security from such misdoing by proper legal
processes, and the wrathful victims Of this
abuse are now on the warpath.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

harm done to the spectators. The fortu-
nate outcome of the contest was attributable
to the frightful example recently afforded on
the Continent. the comparative fewness of the
participants and the governmental vigilance
exercised over the whole course. Whether so
much good fortune is likely to characterize
future undertakings of the same kind is open
to question Practically nothing new has been
demonstrated as to the possibilities and weak
nesses of the automobile but sporting event
in which thousands of people on this side OF
the Atlantic were interested has been added TO
the years record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
stitch
poetry.
-(Chicaz 90 Trfbul


Even Greenland's icy mountains have their pluto
Gratis, it seems. One Kor-ko-ya. of East Baff1ns-
land literally stupefes his fellow trfbesmen with
his luxury. He lives in a wooden house, owns a
table and a parafin lamp and recently. TO cele
brae the fortieth anniversary OF the foundation of
his business he stood cod liver oil all round to his
employees. Such scene of unrestrained revelry
had never been witnessed in the country before It
the maddest. merriest day that had dawned
for centuries.
"of course" the rich mans critics said to him,
ITS all well enough 10 give away libraries and all
the left hand know what the right hand doeth-,'
to give with both hands or I shall die rich
philadelphia Ledger.
Chicago man has in his possession a list Of
peculiar names of Maine citizens It was written
offhand by the late Thomas B. Reed. who used to
say that his State could produce more statesmen,
foxes. water deer and peculiar than any
other State in the Union One day. while speaking
of this matter. he wrote down this list: Eek Smith,
Hassasiah Jones. Liberty Brown, Calvary Thomas
Hopestin Waters, Bana Bullock. Kilah Manley.
Gallon Kirk, Summer Allfiend. Generous Pascal,
Uzza Fellowes, Zophan Harum. Diodamia Gilmore
Mesbach Carson Cotton Milliken. Piram Sproul
Leluva Dickson and Barcillai Sawyer. These men
were all personally known to Mr.. Reed
Leavitt-How are things at the old boarding
house, anyway? Get bacon and eggs every morn
stayer-oh: no. we get an occasional change now.
stayer-Yes. some mornings only get bacon
philadelphia Press.
Clay County Oio) man. according to THE
Plattsburg Democrat-Lever" took his pastor out
hunting day They had but one gun between
them and the preacher carried it After they had
been out half hour the man felt something
poking him in the side. Turning around quickly
he found the preacher poking him with the uuzzle
of the gun and fumbling over the hammers Say.
brother asked the minister. how do you let
these things DOWN. The man has sworn of taking
preachers hunting.
The Editors Mishap.-We suffering from a
broken leg and we have been criticised BY gum
heads for not saving it when could a done so;
but any gentleman Will understand position
1t this way: We was riding in horseless
carriage drawn by a mule, with jug Of ten-year-
old ticker by side We to a hog wallow
into which the wheels one side dipped and the
buggy was overturned, throwing out Our right
leg caught in the spokes Of the wheel and could
have drawn II out. but the jug there in
jeopardy. also, and had we saved our leg would
have sacrificed the jug. We saved the jug. and we
did right Anyhow. our leg was broken only in two
places aardeman (TennO Free PresA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

the Pacific is a much less pretendous project
Indeed there has been talk about a Pacific
cable for thirty years or more Sooner or
later it would have come anyhow, but it has
been greatly fastened by the annexation OF
Hawaii and the Philippines and the increasing
commerce between the United States and Asia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
4musenents.
s-The Prince OF Pilrsn.

BROADWAY THEATRE-s-The Prince OF Pilrsn.
SONEf 1SLANr-Bostocks Trained Animals
CRYSTAL GARDENS-S sO-Darling OF the Gallery Gods.
SasLNO THEATRES: I5-The Runaways.
EDEN MUSEE-2-s-The World in Wax.
KEITH S-Continuous Performances
kNiCRERBOCKER THEATRE-s:iS-Ths Blonde in
Black.
LUNA PARK-Iareuhari-u
and Dundy Shows
MADISON SQUARE GARDENS .30-Duss and His Or
ehestra--Venice New-York
MADISON SQUARE ROOF GARDEN-s-Japan by Night
-Otoyo.
MAJESTIC THEATRE-s-The Wizard Of
MANHATTAN THEATRES: 20--The Earl PaUtucket.
MANHATTAN BEACH-3:30-Shanno Band-S-Pain' 5
fcnpen and Grand Fireworks-e-The sultan OF Sulu.
fAhADISE ROOF GARDEN-S-Naudeville.
ST. NICHOLAS SUMMER GARDEN-S-Vaudeville-
TERRACE GARDEN-S-The Merry War
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

We desire to remind our readers TvhO are
hbout to IeaUe the city that The Tribune Mill
be sent By mail to any address in this country
Or abroad, and address changed as often as
desired. Subscriptions may be give" to your
regular dealer before IeaUiHg, or, if more con-
penient, hand them in at The Tribune office.
See opposite page for subscription rates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

The District Attorney Office and the criminal
courts will undoubtedly exercise unremitting
vigilance hereafter with regard to the witnesses
in the cases of keepers of poolrooms. Like GER
tain of the Paterson anarchists, some of these
lightfooted fellows have taken French leave of
the town between the setting and the rising Of
the sun. When they are once taken in the tolls
the meshes OF the nets ought not to be stretched
TO their advantage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

Those people who, for one reason or another.
have been laundering after abebodied summer
weather have what they desired. AS yet
there are fancy frills it The tempera-
ture has not gone much above 90 degrees
any day this week. If there is emphatic de-
mand for anything beside the present simple
unadorned style, the government will doubtless
respond handsomely, but for a few days. at
any rate. the public can probably worry along
with what 1t already has.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON
rrRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU

IRON THE TRIBUNE BUREAU
Washington July Mrs. Davis. widow OF Judge
John Davis. is the guest of Mrs. Richard H. Town
send at Newport.
General and Mrs. Arson Mills have closed their
house and gone TO Bass Rock, Mass .,
Mr. and Mrs John LownGes have opened tiie''
country place at Stockbridge. in the Berkshires-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

Even the enlargement Of the system of trans
fers may not entirely abolish every trace OF re-
sentiment with regard to certain needs in local
transportation. The car ahead" nuisance must
be sent to the limbo of "old, unhappy, far on
things" never to be heard of again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about
the international automobile race in Ireland
yesterday was the small number OF accidents
attending 1t. Although of the competitors
withdrew before the finish. none of them seem
to have been fatally injured. Apparently, no
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

Summer came in sweltering, seething and
steaming. leaving winter still lingering in the
lap of June. The old graybeard ought to have
been ashamed of himself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

town to-day for Baltimore. to stay with her aan~n
ter. Mrs Carroll Brown. Mrs. Daily and Ma.
Harriet DAILY will go in about ten days 70 th-s.
country place In Montana for the summer
The Summer Social Register with the count-,
Foreign and yachting addresses OF society peopla y
New-York. Washington. Philadelphia Boston. Chi
cago. Baltimore. ST. Louis and Buffalo. has fu4
been issued II shows SIC yachts in commission -
compared with SO last summer. OF these "a Az,
steam yachts OF the ISIS families represented a,
the register 3243 are inland. 26S4 are az the a..
shore, l59 make their home on their yachts 7s7 ars
spending the summer abroad. exactly the saus
number as last year. Families are distributes a.
follows: Three hundred and tveuty-nins on tbs
Jersey coast 100 on Long Island. Of which Isl ars
at the Hamptons; 30 on tne north shore OF The
Sound: SAB at Newport. substantial Increase a.
compared with last year. thrty-nine a. NarraG.an.
sett Pier. SEA on the New-EngIand coast OF w5rs,
90 are at Bar Har5Or, seventy-twO az L.eno1 ~
at their camps IN the AGirondacks. l62 in Canada
mostly at Pointe Pic. Murray Bay and 2sss a,
other inland resorts.
Announcement IS made OF the engagement OF Mrs.
Carolyn Goddard Woodward 70 Haakon E Dahr
OF Christiania, Norway. Mrs. Woodward Is The
daughter OF the late Colonel Calvin Goddard and A
niece of William G. ChOate OF this cfrv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
~
poetry.

The drop stitch pie has long been known
Gross ivered." it has held the throne;
And toothless people are in style,
For they possess a drop stitch smile;
The women. though--their wit Is such
They don't take a drop stitch too much.
Which wise reflection. then, will be
All of this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

Forty-foot geysers of flame from the man
holes of the electric railway conduits are i'm
pressive spectacles. If the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company would advertise its free
shows in advance, it could secure larger at
tendance than that which enjoys these i'm
promptu affairs If the exhibition were given
at night too, the effect would be finer than by
day Still, the public ought not to look a
gift horse in the mouth"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
THE DROP STITCH FAD.

Vain man adorns his clumsy feet
With hose in drop stitches replete;
Full soon he'll haggle with the clerk
For shirts that show more openwork-
But woman-her drop stitched attire
Would move monk TO strike the Tyre.
The fashion spreads. and now we see
A wave of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

Senator Blackburn, OF Kentucky. is reported
as saying that Senator German. OF Maryland
appears to be the who. as candidate for
President, could unite the Democratic party.
Senator Blackburn is mistaken. Such a feat is
undoubtedly beyond the possibilities Of human
endeaVOr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
Bring forth the yacht!
The yacht was brought.
In truth 1t was a noble craft,
A Herr shoff of the Bristol breed:
The speed of thought was in its lines

And Sir Thomas Upton lifted cup-of tea
Later he unnamed to himself a few words from
Lord Byron's Loem Of "Mazeppa."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

According to THE Philadelphia Record" three
Methodist ministers, they were dining together
the other day. talked about short prayers "A
prayer short as it was irreverent," said the first
was offered up by soldier before the battle Of
Waterloo. It was this: o God, IL there be a God.
save my soul, if I have a soul " That prayer,
said the second minister, "resembled one composed
by Bishop Atterbury in the early part of the
eighteenth century. II prayer for the SOL
diers about to engage in battle and it was brief
and impressive o God 1t ran, if, in the day of
battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.
The third minister after a moment of thought,
smiled, and said: when I was lad I one day
dined with two stranger aunts. They set me at the
head of the table and bade say grace. was
taken aback, for I knew no grace to say. but
text popped into my mind. 1 ratified 1t off, and,
after 1t was over realized that it appropriate
enough It was: o Lord open Thou our lips, and
our mouths shall show forth Thy praise
THE DROP STITCH FAD.
Drop stitches are the fad to-day;
There is damsel, glUm or gay,
But who is glad when she may strike
Some fabric porous plasterlike
We see the drop stitch gloves and waist
OF patterns epdermis- traced.
And now the poets. full of glee,
Are writing
drop
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

Mrs Norman de R. WhltehoUse. who has now
almost entirely recovered from the effects OF the
operation which she underwent at Roosevelt Hos
pital. is stin at her place at RosIyn. Long Island
where she will remain until her departure at the
end Of this month for Newport.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03

Mrs. Vanderbilt and Miss GLADYS Vanderbilt go
from Newport to-day to Lenox to join the large
house party which Mr.. and Mrs. William Douglass
Sloane are entertaining their country place there
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-30

WIkoNA, MlNN.-Following custom
started last year May Day will be OBJ
served in appropriate manner at the Wi
mona normal school morrow.-A new
Catholic church is to be dedicated at Ar
cadia on Sunday, and special train will
run from here on the Green Bay road.
ATWATER, MfNN.-The elevator of
Dahl & Peterson, with several thousand
bushels OF grain was destroyed by fire.
A horse perished in the flames. The ele-
vator was valued at $4,000; insurance,
81, 500. The grain was partly insured.
ORIGIN Of fire unknown. ..".@.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-30
MONTANA
COMES FROM 4 TICK
DR.. Wilcox Of the University Of Min
nesota in the Spotted Fever
Country.
Disease, He Believes, Is Communi-
Gated to Human Beings by q
Pestiferous Insect.
Special to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
Missoula, Mont, April 30-Dr. Wilcox
Of the University Of Minnesota has ar
rived here to make an investigation into
disease which breaks out in the Bitter
Root valley, about ten miles above Mis-
soula.
Exaggerated reports of the disease and
it's fatalities are said by DR.. Wilcox to
have been carried to houeseekers from
the east MANY homeseekers at St.
Paul. said he to-day, will not even stop
off at Missoula, having an idea that the
disease is plague which is apt to fasten
upon them
The truth is that the peculiar disease,
while often fatal, has never had a victim
in Missoua or upon the east side OF the
river. It seems confined to the one lo-
cality, and DR.. Wilcox's experiments 80
] far indicate that it is communicated to
the human system by a woodtick. Every
case but one, known to have existed, has
been proven to have followed bite from
one Of these insects. So far this spring
there have been but four cases reported.
! Mrs. Frank DooAitte, living near Lelo.
twelve miles up the valley, was seized
| with the disease week ago and died at
the Sisters hospital in this city. In her
| case 1t was found that she had been Bit
! ten by a woodtick while she was in the
woods.
! DR.. Anderson of the United States sur
geon's department at Washington, is on
his way here, and he. and DR.. Wilcox
will work together in trying to find some
! specific for the disease. Fornaidehyde
was tried in the case Of Mrs. Dooiittle. It
( is pretty well established that the wood
! tick is innoculated with its germ from
a gopher and it is along this line that the
experiments are being made What. con-
dition the gopher and woodtick must be
in to give and contract the germ is one
Of the mysteries which confront the bac-
] teriologists. A