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MARTTAL ETERCLSES

Line war practice which will be conducted In
This country under national auspices this week
though not entirely without precedent, will he
unusual In one particular. AT Manassas last
year one land force was pitted against another
land force. In naval manoeuyres off the New
England Coast one squadron has assumed the
aggressive and another squadron has acted ON
the defensive. In the exercises which begin
tonight, and which are expected TO continue
ior SIX Gays, Doth branches Of the military ser
vice VIII be employed. The navy viii threaten
Inc army will try to protect Something of
the same kind occurred year or two ago when
warships attempted to enter Long Island Sound
and the garrisons of the forts at the eastern
end OF that body Of water sought 10 prevent
their doing so. In the contest which Is about
10 open a larger number of troops will be en-
pioyed-from 1000 TO 5000 artinerymen. The
superiority in the strength of the defence MIGHT
be justified, perhaps, by the importance of tha
national capital compared with aIy other cttv
Still, it is probably dictated by other consid-
erauons. Along the Chesapeake the route nv
which il is intended TO invade the country. there
are more military posts than around Newton
don and Fishers Island
4 campaign Of this kind cannot fail f., have
a high educational value In real warfare
Americans like to think their navy would he
abe To thwart any hostile demonstration on
thelr coast. Good generalship demands how
ever tne provision of second line of defence
10 meet all contingencies. The duty of keep
ing an enemys ships out of Chesapeake
Bay altogether. or if they were once in. of
checking their northward advance toward
washington and Baltimore might some time
De imposed upon the army alone Much be-
sides skill IN gunnery, acquired in target prac-
uee would then be needed. vigilant observa-
ton OF the movements and strength of the ad-
Versary, readiness in meeting his most ingen-
ious strategy, promptness in the transmission
OF reports and instructions and other quail
ties would be requisite In order to defeat him.
To insure facility in the employment of these
essentials much the best way is 10 exact an
exhibition OF them by initiating as closely as
practicable the conditions of actual war.
The first OF many questions to be solved re-
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result of those negotiations, Of an honorapie
pesce upon the enduring foundation OF justice.
SIMPLE GRIEF.

A prest in a factory district OF western
Massachusetts recently began crusade against
COSTLY funerals among his pensioners oh III
vestipation he found that their expense ire
ouentlv impoverished the bereaved family, ana
that in order to pay for magnificent connh'
Ella borate floral settings and a long PROCESSION
of carriages all of which constituted only a
passing paseant of an hour household was
often compelled 10 deny itself for months the
hare necessaries of life. In his pulpit accord
insly he openly denounced such practices, ana
asked rhat henceforth those of his flock who
died be buried as simply as they had lived
The words of this priest, as told elsewhere III
The Tribune this morning. bore good fruit
Simplicity instead of ostentation has more and
more characterized the funerals of his parish.
and as result the community whole has
been much happier. This not because it
grieved the less over its dead, but because be-
ing less starved by eXtravagant manifestations
of it's sorrows, it could bear them with a greater
fortitude. Nor has single parish only Deeh
blessed The sentiment against costly cere-
monials for the dead has spread to other parts
of Massachusetts where other clerygymen have
followed the example of the priesl
1t is to be hoped that the gospel of simple
grief as some have called it, may find its way
to this city. Where, indeed could it work
vaster good? Where could its material benefits,
those which keep the cupboard stored, the mus
cles strong and the nerves steady. be more felt
than in the crowded tenement districts, where
death comes most often and life is hardest 10
live? And where could it perform a greater
spiritual mission, the sort which puts sincerity
before outward display, and a full heart before
full purse, than in some of the houses OF the
wealthy?
AS is well known, the funerals in some of the
most densey populate quarters Of the city are
OH wit 1lpb tra theV
quenty leave the bereaved families destitute.
Especially is this the case among some OF the
Old World peoples of the Christian faith 1t
is not true of the orthodox Jew, one OF the
tenets Of whose religion is the most severe SIM
plicity in the burial of the dead. Among the
Italians, however, extravaganza at funerals is
most marked. It is a common sight in the neigh
borhood of MulbeTy-st. to see, for instance
little white hearse bearing, perchance, the body
of Italian laborers child, followed by a
long string of carriages, the occupants Of which
look as If they had never before moved in such
grandeur, and headed, as If to make the mock
cry complete, by blatant band.
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Nttp1laTk DaIp 0nibss,rr
SUNDAY, JUNE IL, 1905.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Baron Komura- the Japanese
Foreign Minister, communicated to minister
(sriscoya Japan's acceptance OF PRESIDENT f1ooSe.
ve,t's suggestion that the beligerents shouio
discuss directly and exclusively terms or peace
The Russian Foreign Office announced the
governments willingness to appoint plenipoten-
tiares as soon as Japan had indicated her teIins'
Russfa fayors Paris the place OF negolia-
lions Despite the decision to open ne
rofiatfous with Japan, the bitterness or the
Russian people against the power OF the au
tocracy Is growing and many newspapers winch
formerly demanded peace blame the government
for .+s action Lieutenant Colonel Sprloo-
witch. of the secret police, was shot and seri-
ously wounded at Kief
rDoNESTIC.-The result Of President Roose-
veit's efforts peace is tho assurance that the
war Is practically over, and that the oelngerehts
will call an aTrnistice and begin negotiations IN
regard TO the terms Of peace - Frank e.
>BigeIow who stole 81, 800 900 from the First Ma
ten years at hard labor by Judge Quarles, a
personal friend Mayor Weaver removed
two organization" magistrates in Philadelphia.
CITY.-Stocks were strong. - AS the re-
suit Of the settlement of the Equitable contro-
yersy, stocks opened strong; the Hyde stock
holders paid for yesterday. - Express
ident Grover Cleveland accepted the trusteeshB
Of the Equitable stock bought from James Hazen
Hyde. - The head Of a coffee firm committed
suicide while sitting Speedway bench -
1t was announced that work on purifying Co
wanus Canal will be begun at once. - ItaI-
fans in this city were indignant over the court S
decision against Ernesto Biondi. - Ex-Gov-
ernor odeh returned on the St Louis from his
european tour. - The winners at Graveseud
were: i. Keator; 2. Hylas; 8. Bohemian; 4.
Cairngornl: 8, oarsman; 6. Astronomer
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for TODAY.
showers and cooler The temperature yester-
day: Highest 81 degrees: lowest, 90.
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ANTI-MORTGAGE TAX THREATS.

A certain extravaganza of statement Is al
ways to be expected from the critics of new
legislation The defeated party's privilege of
swearing at the court may be extended to per-
nit them TO swear at the party which is respon-
sible the legislature which passes and the Gov
ernor who signs measure which they oppose
But some of the gentlemen who do not like the
new mortgage tax are quite surprising their
kind in the swagger of their threats and the
recklessness of their aspersions Mr.. Alfred E.
Maring denomlnated the representative of the
Allied Real Estate Interests was the other day
quoted by our neighbor The Herald" as boast
ing that they would .'go right on to insure the
defeat of Republican candidates for Assembly
.at the next election" and saying: Lawyers
with whom l have talked generany regard the
''new law as unconstitutional, but think it may
'be difficult to get the courts to declare it such
because it is a Higgins measure"
We NAV pass over the assumption that any
single interest which thinks itself adversely
affected by tax can Insure" the defeat Of the
lawmakers who passed it. The notion of a few
persons that they are ''the people" is COM
mon form of egotism But does Mr. Alfred E.
Marling realize what his other remark means?
Such statement not merely ISLANDERS Governor
Higgins by implying that he would attempt to
interfere with the judgment of the COURTS it at
lacks the integrity Of the highest judges In the
State in assuming that they could be SO infu-
enced by the Governor even If he should so
desire. Does Mr.. Marling dare to insinuate that
Edgar NJ. Cullen could be reached by any IN
worthy influence or would let the wishes OF Gov
ernor Higgins or anybody else turn his Judgment
a hairs breadth on any question of law? Has he
any suspicion of the honor of Denis O,Brien John
Clinton Gray, Edward T. Bartlett, Albert Haight,
Irving G.. Vann and William e. Wernsr1 The
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NOTES FROM TUXEDO PARK.
az rELEGRAPH Ne TaE TRIBUNE. ]

IBT TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE-J
Tuxedo Park. n. Y, June Upright weather
favored Tuxedo for the week end. and a number
Of New-Yorkers came out to pass Sunday.
House parties given by nearly every cot
lager Mr. ana Mrs. Edison Bradley gave at
their cottage ON Tower Hill. to number Of guests
invited TO meet Baron and Baroness GSkra.
Among others who entertained house parties, fol-
lowed by dinners tonight, Mr. and Mrs
John G. Elliott, in the Gordon King cottage: Mr.
and Mrs Pierre Lorillard. at kcewaydin; Mr. and
Mrs Harris Fahnestock in the Lord cottage; MT
and Mrs George F. Baker. Mr.. and Mrs Robert
Waller IT, Mr. and Mrs. Charles b Alexander,
Mr.. and Mrs H. NJ. Tiiford, Mr. and Mrs H o.
Havemeyer jr Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Outerbridse
and Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Halsey-
Club dinners were given by Mr.. and Mrs John
Hone Foster Mr.. and MIS- J. H Towne MI and
Mrs G. Livingston. Mr. and Mrs G. H Partridge
Mr. and Mrs NJ. G. Barrwell, Mr. and Mrs A y.
Jennings MI and Mrs. c. B. Van NosIahd anu
Mr. and Mrs. w. S. Brown
NJ and Mrs MacGrane Cox entertained Pr7-
fessor and Mrs. B. D. Woodwork OF Coiunp'a
I-nfversItv and Miss Runyan at the cIuo uufiiS
+,,a r,ael. Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Spencer VINO were
-, IWasbinp+on have opened their Tuxedo nome
for the season and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward j. Hancy
and Miss Jean Hancy have arrived at thelr coz
taee on Tuxedo Lake. Mr.. and Mrs Conde Mast
arrived to-day and have taken the Stokes cottage
No 2 for the season. Mr.. and Mrs William =
T,ineroore ir have arrived at the Ballard Smith
co+taqe lust left by Mr.. and Mrs Samuel Carey
Otber cottage arrivals are ]. A Benedict and Miss
BENEDICT Mrs C. H. Iilford. Mr. and Mrs Robert
waller. tr.. and Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Bernhard
sfr and Mrs Henry ". Poor. who opened their
r,,xedo house last week. went abroad to-day for
several weeks Mrs. w H. Lewis and Miss Lewis
have closed their cottage. on Turtle Mountain ana
will spend the summer at Observation-Disclosures
Mr. and Mrs Daniel T. Worden arrived at the
,rex carly this week for the summer Other
arrivals are George o. Thatcher Miss Gourlie. Mrs
George Thatcher, DR.. George Roe Lockwood, MI
and Mrs A. Courtney, of London; S. C. Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs Henry Pendleton Rogers. Miss Rogers
MISS g L. Morgan. Emory S. Lyon, Mr.. and Mrs
rrneodore Roosevelt Peu ". F Seeler. Miss F.
Crosby. Frederick =. Plumner. Miss Frances T.
Tborne Gilbert G. Thorue. George E Barton, O. l.
CoId1hwaite J. F. Deter O. j. Brand. H CrugeT
Oakley. j. F. Pierson. jr.. J. r Tans. J. j Van
Allen George W Van Nest. Carlisle Norwood and
others
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statement attributed TO him is an outrageous
attack upoE the judicial character ana PERSONA
integrity of every one Of these men. Ihey con-
stitute the highest court of this State, and, III
the mortgage tax is litigated, will pass upon lts
validity Mr.. Marling should not In Inc petty
temper of disappointment give free rein to
an unruIy tongue against men better known
and for that reason. If for no other. much more
trusted than himself If he said what is attrib-
uted to him, he has wronged not merely them
but the whole State by reckIessly trying TO
undermine respect for the courts ana falth IN
the administration of justice. Loose talk OF
this kind is most harmful. Some people believe
it. and other people are led by IT to discredit
even moderate and responsible criticism
The Tribune does not like the mortgage tax,
and has repeatedly said so. We believe 1t mis-
taken in principle and unwise in some of its
detailed provisions. Nevertheless. we think
there is small! ground for expecting any popular
uprising against il OF for fearing that it will re-
suit in any great practical harm. In many
parts of the state il will be hailed as great
relief, for WHARF &c bulk of the mortgages are
taxed il will he long step toward the
total exer,p Cn which is sound in principle but
evidently net get attainable In this city it will
be felt more. but large number of the suffer
will have TO admit that their hardship lies
in the fact that by hook or crook they have
hithe % managed to arade personal taxes and
this is not heroic pose. Those here who have
nor evaded it will find the new tax a boon, and,
indeed, the bankers who have said that the old
liability to taxation made one-half Of per cent
difference in the rate on all mortgages may be
right In that a half per cent tax and no
danger of contscation is better than half per
cent insurance against cOnfiscation and actual
cOnfiscatOn Of the incomes Of few. Nobody
knows just how much the tax will be felt, and
it is sheer nonsense TO talk OF its alternating 80
per cent of the property owners of this city
from the Republican party as some people
doing. If 10 per cent of them think about It
year from now shall be surprised.
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SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
ley TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBU!

IEv TELEGRAPH 10 THE TRIBUNEI
Newport. r. l., June 10-Mrs- Reginald C. van
5orbt1t entertained at dinner tonight. and later
took her guests TO FreebOdy Park
Mrs Paul Andrews has rented her cortaSe IN
Pe1levue-ave to Captain Philip NJ. Lydig. VINO VIII
arrive for the season next week
Mrs James V. Parker arrived at her Newport
cottage to-day for the season.
Mrs William C. Rocker was seen IN lne d'e''''
+o-,5av with a tandem. the first Of the season
-, T,,dIov and a dinner this evening by
professor Alexander Agassiz-
lanes J. Van Allen arrived at Newport to- eGs,
JIM ,ot,e ~ Canada for a months fishing trip
Ms W j westcott. Of New-Yorik is the s'sS'
of MIS- J. T Thompson Wy
u NJ OeIrichs Whitney Warren and J. ; W
e NJ - from New-York this evening
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THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Rates laws are the coming institution. Even on
the Dark Continent the spirit of monopoly has to
be curbed Sir Charles Eliot reports that one dis
trict of Uganda the price of brides has lately been
fixed by law at 13s 4d.. irrespective of beauty and
accomplishments" This law had to be passed to
put a stop to enterprising members of the local
stock exchange cornering all the eligible brides in
the district and selling out at immense profits
ALWAYS MAY OR JUNE.
wsht at could have my way:
Time would always be in May,
The leaf would never leave the tree,
And everything would always be
In tune.
Time would always be in Nav
Eff could only Sgniy have my way.
Er June, when men an boys. awake
The duer ways for stream an lake
An play.
Eff I could only have my way
Men an boys could always plav:
The quiet lake. its liquid CLEAN
COsey hooks where flowers beam
An fish
Eff could only have my way
(New- Orleans Tfmes-D Democrat.
1t is not lack of enterprise that puts some men
in jail Here. for instance, is case of person
by his admission familiar with the inside OF
prisons, but keen to grasp an opportunity and
create new industry. He writes the following
letter TO a defendant In before London
police court: Dear Sir In case you are convicted
will be all the better off for entering upon your
sentence knowing the ms and outs of prison treat
ment and discipline. In return for some OF your
cast-of clothes and boots 1 will give you one or
two wrinkles" He should fill a long felt
want-gude, philosopher and friend of the ten
twenty. thirty day man!
II never knew buildings could sect"
Didn't Ell? Well, did you hear of a build
ing without site?"-CHarvard Lampoon
London "Tit-Bits' calls attention to the curious
fact that Great Britain between 1867 and 1880 lost
14S aoS acres by encroachments of the sea Even
this loss is small compared with others In times
past. Tnus. according to survey In the time of
Edward l. the Duchy of Cornwall had 150O 600
acres. but survey in recent years gives II only
s2s.500 acres. Whole villages in some cases have
been slowly undermined and swept away as in the
case of Dunwich. whereof only ruined church on
the edge OF cliff remains
automobile stopped at little repair shop by the
short, chunky fellow with a gray suit in a light
touring car. with no number on tip
apron He stopped here abo en Ho tne ieaohea
get a bolt frightened up
Did he give You any idea of where he was go
mo. sir; ne didn't seem to know himself He
was kind O. tangled up about the roads and wasn't
ee TIA when when ulrection ne wanted to take
'Er-no; it didn't look like one, 1t WAS one of
these dinky little runabouts."-(Chicago Tribune
Workmen in Baden have been restricted 10 four
quarts Of beer day. This prohibitionst measure
has exasperated the sons Of toll.
Sappy-Really Mabel you should treat me bet
Bits,
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THE LESSON OF SUEZ.

Ills forty years since" and what differ
ence between then and now! At that time men
were saying the Suez Canal never would or
could pay operating expenses. AT the present
time its profits SO enormous that the COM
pany is compelled again and again to reduce
the tolls in order to keep the dividends within
legal bounds Of a truth, Mr.. Greenwood was
PRESIDENT when thirty years ago, he persuaded
the British government to buy the Khedve's
shares. Lord Derby, the Foreign Minister, did
not like the scheme. Sir Stafford Northcote.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, distinctly dis
approved it. Disraei himself, Prime Minister,
was doubtful. 1t did not seem tempting
thing to pay f4,000,O00 for shares the interest
on which had been mortgaged for nineteen
years But Mr.. Greenwood persistent. He
pointed out that most of the shares, apart from
the Khedive's, were held in France, while st
per cent of the traffic through the canal was Brit
ish So British commerce must pay tolls into
French pockets. The tolls very high, and
when England asked that they be reduced
France answered that if England did not like
the canal she might send her commerce by the
old route around the cape. In the end Mr.. Green
woods pleas prevailed and the British govern
ment paid 100000 for shares that are now
worth f2S000,000i
A curious error was made in a dispatch the
other day, which said this years dividend was
OILY Ill per CeuI ANOL LUZ d IUuS ilets IL
been so low. The dispatch should have said it
was 141 francs a share, very different thing.
AS the shares are of 500 francs each, the divi-
dend is at the rate of 2S.2 per cent or just
twice what was at first stated. Last years
dividend was 80 francs share, or 26 per
cent Now the London agreement binds the
company not to appropriate profits of moro
than % per cent, but to reduce the tolls as
much and as often as may be necessary to keep
them down to that figure That is why the
company proposes another reduction. 1t did
reduce tolls two years ago from to S1a
francs ton, but still the profits kept on in
creasing and pushing the dividend above the
% per cent limit There are those who reckon
that if tolls were now reduced to 6 francs, the
company would still be able TO declare yearly
dividend of % per cent, and that few years
hence still further reduction can be made
without impairment of the legal dividend
The lesson of SueZ is to be commended for
careful consideration to those who fear the
Panama Canal will prove Improbable or who
think 1t must be constructed in the cheapest
possible manner if ever it is to be made to pay.
Suez of which these same things were said
forty years ago, has not for long time paid
less than % per cent year clear profit. he
possibilities of profit and the reasonable ex-
recitation of its increase are greater at Panama
than at Suez, and there is substantial ground
for believing that the gratifying experience of
the one will be repeated by the other in even
more marked degree
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THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

EFRoM THE TRIBUNE BuREAul
Washington June 10.-Sir Mortimer Durand. the
British Ambassador; General Oliver. Assistant Sec
rotary of War; and Hugh O'Beirne. first secretary
of the British Embassy returned to Washington
this morning from the Pilgrim dinner in New-York
Baron Bussche- Haddenhausen. first secretary OF
the German Embassy and Baroness Bussche- Had
denhausen started to-day for Lenox. where they
will spend the summer.
Minister Grip of Norway and Sweden starts for
Europe June Is.
The Haytian Minister and Mime. Leger. with the
Iatter's niece. Miss l.. Bourke, will go to Deer Park
on June Is to spend the summer
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arcrlusn sY lie POE.

Rome June 1oThe Pope to-day received n IT,, r.
,ta IN his own library Mrs. James Bu''''
80 daughters. of New-York- They were preSe,.
ed by Monsignor Kennedy rector OF sne -, ,is visit
Ia r,adaI gave Mrs Butler his white sSu''
can and impaired to them the Apostolic he'eO
tsII -t,cb he extended to the whole family
Cardinal Gotti Project of the PropasanoS
received the Most Rev John J. he"iie' r,r,
90 Dubuoue Iowa. who presented the oIncl%I
" Gjs STcbdocese and received coHsI5stt mas
on it's satisfactory condition Inc Sa Leane in
asked the Pope 10 receive <NiN4
r,ri,- IL audience.
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DR.. ELIOT ON HARvARp-M. l. T. MERGER.

Boston. June lo-President c. w Eliot OF Har-
ward when asked for his opinion OF the Tech
nology Corporation vote. said last night:
The action OF the Technology Corporation mega
tives any ACTON on the part of Harvard vari-
GUS legal computations must be eliminated before
Harvard - called upon to take any action on the
propoSed agreement For this there is
small likelihood that any immediate action will
be taken oy tne Harvard Corporation. The status
the vote OF the Technology Corporation.
President Eliot declined to make any comment
as TO tho sentiment prevailing at Harvard regard
ing the merger.
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ARMY AND NAVY NOTES.

IFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU
Washington, June 10.-Admiral and Mrs Dewey
will spend the summer at the Virginia Hot Springs
going from here ea-ly in July.
Commander L. L. Reamey, U. s. N, and his
family have gone Nantucket. Mass, and will
sail from Boston June "a for Europe. to stay
several months
Rear Admiral Charles s. Cotton. U. s. NJ. re-
tired. and Mrs. Cotton spending the summer in
Europe
Brigader General E V. Sumner. U. S. A. retired.
and Mrs Sumner will be until autumn Atlantic
CITY
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Mr.. Henry James thinks that the common
schools and the newspapers too often inf1u-
"ences which keep our speech crude untidy and
careless" Doubtless there is room for much
Improvement in both common schools and news
papers, but did Mr. James ever stop to think
what Kind Of speech should have if it were
not for the common schools and the newspapers?
The mass of our people would probably be talk
ing hundred dialects, almost uninteIligible to
the cultivated speaker of the English language