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FOR A NEW FORM OF SERVICE.
Report Of DR.. van Dyke Stirs Up Prcsby.
terrain General Assembly.

W1NoNA LAKE, Ind, May 2o.-Whether
the Presbyterian Church shall depart from
it's long established service. correspond
ing in many particulars to the Episcopal
Prayer Book, proved to-day the most inter-
esting question that has yet come before
the Presbyterian General Assembly. The
departure Is headed by DR.. Henry van Dyke,
professor in Princeton College. and to-day
his suggestions for form Of service were
placed before the commissioners In PAM
pilot that contains nearly one hundred
pages. DR.. van Dyke has been on the
ground sine, Tuesday and has been doing
some work among the commissioners
in favor Of his plan to revolutionize the
Presbyterian service, but 1t was evident
that he did not have all the commissioners
with him.
The report was submitted by DR. van Dyke
as chairman OF q special committee to which
the subject was referred ono year ago, and
in presenting 1t he alluded to the fact that
at that time the subject had been lodged
by the assembly. The report contains
forms Of service for the followin & occasions:
The Lords Supper, baptism Of infants and
fancy to the Lords Supper. solemniAation OF
marriage, burial Of the dead. the ordination
Of mlnister and "A Treasury Of Prayers
for general and special uses.
Accompanying the service was an .ex-
PLANTATION Of many Of its provisions. which
amounted In the main to an argument In
their favor. In presenting the report
DR.. van Dyke declared that there WAS no
ritualism In the book Of prayers, saying
he hated rituals and forms for ceremontes,
nor could it even To called q liturgy. He
deserted 1t ~ "a voluntary Ceremony for
the common democracy In the Presby-
terrain Church." and he declared that 900
ministers had written to the committee
for book Of worship.
He said some one had called those pre-
pared prayers canned prsyers,' but for
two years he had been tolling on these
prayers. Tears came into his eyes whom he
said he had In theds two years gone to the
mercy seat Of God.
A motion by commissioner to approve
the report started the opposition. There
was motion to reject the report and dis
miss the committee from further efforts
flong this line. Another commissioner.
moved that the words Holy Ghost" used
throughout the book Of prayers be changed
to Holy Spirit.
Speeches were made by a number OF
commiss toner's for and agai inst the report
and then a motion followed to refer the
matter back to the committee with in
structions to revise the infant baptism SER
vice and make other changes.
The Assembly finally disposed OF the
matter for the present by referring the
report back to the commission with In
struction to bring it forward again next
wear
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The Democrats OF Pennsylvania at their
Harrisburg State convention added one
novelty to the mixed stock literature OF
platform declarations. Heretofore, point
ing with pride" to whatever was to be ex-
tolled. viewing with alarm whatever was to
be discounten a 1ced, and "denouncing, stig-
matizing and arraigning' whatever was an
act of party opponents, have been the Ia
milar platform phrases. But the Harris
burg convention offered some. hing new in
the platform line, as follows;
We need not again rchearse the irrefutablc In
dctments Of our recent platforms convctine the
dominant party of the absolute prostitution OF
every function of government 10 corrupt debased
personal partiranshlp.'
These are strong words and will appeal
irresistibly to many of the campaign orators
of the turnpike and crossroad. "lrrefuta-
BILE indictments" is alliterative. Corrupt
debased personal partzanship" is an accu-
sation under which the unrighteous will
wr.the.
1t will be observed that the Harrisburg
platform builders, in accusing their OPP
ponents Of the misuse of every function OF
government" recognized, though, these
opponents az the dominant party. 1t is
always to be noted, unfortunately, that the
bravest, most vigorous and most valiant
platform statements are made by the
minority,
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THE EQUITABLE.
Plan SusEe5ted for Rec ncll'n' the inter-
eSts OF stockh 1lhcrs and P0lic1h r.ders.

TO THE EpfToR OF THE SrE-S'r; In the
Equitable matter the 100000 stock controls
tho company, with all its accumuations. ana
yet Is allowed only dividend not TO exceel
$1,000 per annum. With your permission
VIII mention plan existing in some financial
institutions on the Pacific Coast, which might
perhaps solve the problem satisfactorily to
the stockholder as vol as to the policy
holder.
That the capital stock OF the company
should control its management Is pr'md
tacte fair enough proposition. but IT IS evil
IDENTITY unsatisfactory In the case or large
iie insurance company. The semi-mutuai
plan l refer to consists in taking the stock
holders in partnership with the pclicyholders
In other words. instead OF limiting their
yearly dividend to per cent, let the stock
holders receive a percentage OF the yearly
profits. after making due provision for the
reserve requirements and the accumulation
OF reasonable reserve or surplus fund. In
this way the immediate profit OF the stock
holders controlling the company would
consist in managing the business as
economically as possible. instead Of as 1t Is
alleged. using graft" to get better
return than the paltry per cent. allowed
them. A percentage Of per cent, or per-
haps 10 per cent. would prove very profitable
TO them. think, and would satisfy the policy
holders as to the good management, and in
this way would practically mutualiZe the
company while preserving the rights OF the
stockholders.
1t is well to bear in mind that the so-called
naturalization plan would. after all, as is well
understood by those who know how the con-
troll Of somo financial institutions is obtained.
end simply in leaving the practical control
In the hands Of the manaR cment for the time
being. as is the case with come other large
mutual life insurance companies
NEW YORK, May 30 WILLIAM HASHART.
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Bile that assimilation which would hit
the Indian out of his isolated semi-bar-
barism and develop him into a self
respecting manhood. With the red man
who has passed middle life Mr.. LEUPp
believes that nothing can be done. He
will remain as he is, and nothing can be
done to make him anything else. He
believes that something may be done
with somo of the younger adults by
opening doors of industrial opportunity
and tactfully pushing them through.
He looks to the children for the redemp-
ton of the race.
| Weighed in the scales Of our policy
for redeeming Porto Rico and the Phil
| ippines, Mr.. LEUPP's plan for the treat
ment Of Indian children is essentially
heretical. 1t is. however, absolutely
sound. He would educate rather than
instruct them. He would cultivate and
develop what is in them, rather than
try to put into them that which, ut
present, would find only an alien soil.
Learning" he says, SIS secondary
consideration. When we get to that, our
duty is to adapt it to the Indians i'm
mediate and practical needs He be-
lieves that the Indian should work for
his living, and that his education and
training should At and qualify him for
his work. Our former policy made the
Indians as class, paupers, notwith-
standing the fact that the actual cash
and the real estate belonging in full
right to the 10000 Indians Of this coun-
try are estimated as exceeding the sum
of 81, 900, 900 900.
Mr. LEUpP would take the thirty or
forty thousand Indian children of school
age, and, with tact and patience, mold
them into citizens. He insists that 1T
is foolish to force upon an Indian those
studies which have no relation to his en-
vironment,' and beyond fair instruc-
ton in the rudiments, the Three RS,
he would not go except in the cases OF
those who showed desire and special ap-
titude for higher intellectual training.
He would teach the boy to repair
broken harness, to straighten a sprung
tire on a wagon wheel, and to fasten
a loose horseshoe without breaking the
hoof." He would have the Indian girl
taught ito make and mend her clothing,
to wash and iron, and to cook her
husbands dinner"
These plans would tend to the ultimate
assimilation and submergence Of the
Indian by the dominant race. No better
way can be found for disposing Of the
long vexed question. The Commissioner
will perhaps encounter opposition from
those we'll meaning sentimentalsts who
find great pleasure and interest in moan
ing over the poor and ignorant Mr.. and
Mrs. Lo in their tepee or their little
shack, dirty and decadent, with thou
sands OF dollars to their credit in the
National Treasury, and with more land
than would be needed to maintain twenty
white families.
II Mr.. LEUpP can nail down, securely
and permanently a policy through
which, during the coming years, the
Indian question will be solved by what
he calls merging this hardly used race
into our body polite" he will deserve
much gratitude from his fellow citizens.
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1t is interesting to note how few emil
grants leave the ports Of Bremen and Ham
burg for other countries than the United
States compared with the number leaving
for this country. Take the first three months
OF this year for instance. In those months
57,e2l left Bremen for the United States,
against only 4,lo4 for other countries. VI
that 4,lO4 no less than 2,775 went to Great
Britain, many OF whom doubtless sailed
later for the United States from some Brit
ish port. The 57,G2l leaving for our shores
was an increase Of 33,54l over the same
months OF 1904, or 9,48l more than double
as many. The total increased emigration
from Bremen was 1874 persons. " the
1891, less a5e rejected at Bremen. emil
grants who came here from Bremen, 2s,-
043 were Hungarians, 1928 Austrians and
s,279 Russians Sixty-one per cent. OF the
reflections. $50, were because OF eye dis
ease-trachoma.
In the same months the emigration from
Hamburg for America was 1850 persons,
of whom ,76s were Hungarians, 1926 Rus-
slams, 9o7 Germans and 80 OF various ma
tionalities.
The total emigration to the United States
in the single month Of March 1905, by way
of Bremen and Hamburg was $3.50 per-
sons,
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OPPOSE THIRD ELEvATEDTRACK
Plans for the second and Third Avenue
Lane Not Likely To he Allowed,

Lno MOI Lhhely ID be Allowed.
There Is likely to be rather animated
session Of the Rapid Transit Commission
next Thursday when the board will hold
q public hearing on the application Of the
marlborough company to add another
track to the second and Third avenue ele-
waited lines. Already numerous protests
have been received by the commission, and
many applications to be heard in opposition
have been sent in by civic and commercial
organizations and property owners along
the routes.
The marlborough company intends to
make a stiff fight for the additional tracks.
Vice-President E. P. Bryan said yesterday
that 1t would be explained to the commission
that the only way to furnish an express
third track and to build four track bridge
across the Harlem ship canal at l2Sth street.
He added that all the plans for these ex-
tensions had been prepared and that the
company could complete the job by the
end Of the year. He added that the COM
pany was prepared to pay. Immediately in
cash for damages caused to adjoining
Il was learned yesterday that Paul D.
Cravath, one OF the counsel to the Metro
politAn system, has informed the Rapid
permit tho plan the Metropolitan system
would be inclined to bid only for two
track local subway instead Of the four track
local and express subways 1t is willing to
build on the East and West sides OF the
There Is little possibility OF August Bel
mont's application being granted
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The Allied Question.

In certain respects Justice MADDox's
decision in the matter of Mr.. FRANKLIN
r LORDS application for an lnJuncuon
restraining the Equitable directors from
CARRYING out the adopted plan of mutual
ization is like acid on gold brick
When naturalization was first proposed
to tie directors as prophylactic OF I'M
pending scandal, the committee OF seven
was instructed to report plan for doing
two things, namely:
!. Giving the policyholders the rlght
to vote for directors;
81 . Settling the allied question OF the
indemnification of stockholders.
That was on February 10. A month
later. on March IA, the committee OF
seven reported scheme OF mutuallza-
ton, or alleged naturalization, ignoring
altogether the allied-and necessarily
allied-ouestion of the decentralization
Of stockholders. 1t was announced at
the same time by the committee OF seven
that the plan of naturalization without
indemnification had the express consent
and approval of MIR. HYDE as the repre-
sentative of the majority OF the capital
stock of the society.
Subsequent proceedings are somewhat
more fresh in memory hut that was
the last ever heard of the allied question
from the board. In the stress OF the
selfish struggle for the control OF the
four hundred millions the little matter
of the original property rights OF the
minority stockholders dropped out OF
sieht. One of these stockholders, ident'-
fed with neither faction in the ignooie
controversy. applied to the courts for
protection and he is getting it, The
stupid imposture of naturalization by
the express consent and approval of
Mr.. HYDE as the representative Of the
majority of the capital stock of the
Equitable" is enjoined by Justice MAD
pox until Mr. LORDS suit has been tried
in the courts and his rights have been
determined.
Thus the allied question is restored by
Justice MADpox's decision to the place
which it properly held three months
and more ago, before it was showed into
the background.
Why was it showed so suddenly into
the background? Justice MADDOX in
dictates an explanation when he says
that the question of the respective rights
of the policyholders and of the stock
holders to the surplus in the Equitable's
treasury should await the trial of the
action, when, if the Court finds it neces-
sary, the policyholders and their inter-
ests may be brought in.
The Lord suit, therefore, gives some
promise not only of settling the allied
question Of Naturalization Of stock
holders, but also of opening the greater
question of the ownership of the hun
dreds of millions which have come out
of the pockets Of the polcyholders into
the control of the officers and directors Of
both factions for the fattening thereof.
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TcN-ScOtt.

Miss Eleanor Atwood Scott and William
Harvey Tew were married yesterday after
noon In Trinity Chapel In West Tweniy-fNh
Dtreet. The Rev. Frederick George scott oil
a.. Matthews. Quebec. a cousin Of thu bride.
performed the ceremony at 40 O'Clock
Justice Francis NJ. Scott. the brides father,
gave her away. She wore. a costume of white
satin with lace. tullc and orange blossoms,
and carried bouquet OF lilies Of the valley
She was attended by her sister, Miss Margaret
shines Scott as maid of honor and by MIS-
Of honor. The Misses Betty Collamore ~ ~
beth Hurry. Miriam, +, Grose, Dorothy Hurry
julia Daw and Marie Louise WtckoS Mer"
bridesmaids,
James Dinsmore Tew assisted his brother
as best man, r. Sutherland Scott, brother
of the bride: John Douglas Fitzpatrick aui
clifford Buckingham Of this city thnrl"s, T.
Carpenter Of Baltimore. Charles roraIl ~
ton. FRANK t. WARREN '; "I Jr, Of si"SkhrJs,
Macs. and Alfred j. Brandt, Arao"m, i'"I-
land. were ushers.
Justice and Mrs. Francis NJ. Scott gave
reception at their home. ~ Park avenue.
after the ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs. Villa"
Henry Tew viii sail soon for Glasgow. Scot
land. where Mr. Tew. who lie a son of Mr..
and Mrs lew OF Jamestown, n. y, IS now
engaged In business.
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NEW ENITS FOR ST. THOMASS.
Also New Deaconess House for the Psriah's
East Side Work.

To eliminate any possibility Of danger
from inadequate exits officers Of 81. Thomas a
Episcopal Church. Fifth avenue and Fifty
third street, have provided for two new ral-
lery exits. One OF them will neoessitate
the building Of a new porch to the church on
the Fifth avenue side. The work will be
begun at once and viii be completed, II Ia
expected, by fall.
1t was announced yesterday at 81.
Thomas's Church that through bequeets
Dortic, much needed deaconess house
has been provided for the East Side work
of the parish. brownstone dwelling
adjoining st. .Thomas's Chapel in East
Sixtieth street has been purchased. and thi,
will be .sfittcd
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The Future Of the American Indian

The Future OF the American Indian.
In the Outlook Of a recent date MIR.
LEUPP, the new Commissioner on Indian
Affairs, presented brief outline of the
e. policy which he intends to pursue in re-
gard to the American Indian. That poll
icy seems to be as sound and wholesome
as our earlier policy has been weak and
wofully mistaken.
For many years we strove vigorously
to make our Indian wards a collection
Of worthless people herded in commune
tiles and virtually prohibited from doing
anything that would make their lives
worth anything either to them or to us.
We assumed their worthlessness and
their incapacity, and did all that we
could to make them that which we as
sumed them to be. We pited them and
gave them blankets. We prevented
them from getting food for themselves
in their accustomed way, and supplied
them with rations from Government
storehouses. With an underlying con-
sciousness of many years of wrong and
injustice in dealing with them, we sought
to salve our own national conscience by
being very kind and generous to them.
We called them wards of the Govern
ment. and our appropriations for their
maintenance in a state of uselessness
ran into scores Of millions Of dollars.
Under these conditions the Indians
did what good many white people
would have done under the same cir.
oimstances. They accepted the slms
doled out to them and despised the
source from which they came. Thew
were not deceived by what Mr.. LEupp
calls benevolent humbug." The sys-
TEN has brought many evils in it's train.
Nearly twenty years ago the late
HENRY L. DAWES of Massachusetts
formulated new policy which looked
toward the general dissolution of tribal
relations and toward NATURALIZATION
OF the members of the tribes, while still
maintaining the policy of national
guardianship. Mr.. LEuPP intends to
60 beyond that by seeking to make the
Indians men, to establish them on their
individual feet, and to enable them to
take place similar to that occupied by
other citizens in the life of the country.
The leopard is quite as likely to change
hss spots as the older Indian il to be-
come anything other than en- Indian. The
coionizlng system, on large or on small
scale, Fosters the perpetuation of race
3a&s 20 raAkes little short Cd. impossi-
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'\ON.BIOYANT GAS.
Fxyercnce OF an Aert naut With the city
Illuminant

InuHhnlnt.
To THE EDITOR OF THE Sun Sir: I have
just had an amusing experience with our
much talked of gas. but also a dangerous and
expensive one. In attempting to raise full
grown balloon over building on Chambers
street near Broadway. found it impractical
bic to use hydrogen gas because there was
no way to dispose of its waste products.
therefore tried illuminating gas, assuming
that il WAS either water or coal gas either OF
which, pure, would have answered the pur-
pose
We had partly filed the balloon when the
great dust storm Of May almost tore 1t to
pieces, and incidentally nearly asphyxiated
the aeronaut who. in trying to debate il. ac-
cidentally breathed n few whlfs OF the gas
and became unconscious instanter ,See New
neoessitated a call for an ambulance, so
much for the dcadliness of this widely ad-
vcrtised commodity.
power, "Con,bustible" city Official then
called on us and told us that the thing. on
Our roof was a menace to the surrounding
buildings that the authorities would not per
NIT it, and. further. that we, must debate 1t
forthwith without allowing the gas TO escape
on the ambient air in such killing quantities.
When the suggestion was made that he bring
truck and cart it away he s, LEFT in ., high
We learned too. that his visit was due to
complaint from some one In a nearby building
who possibly feared that he also might by
chance get under a chunk Of this gas and be
smothered II seems that this particular
breed Of gas contains too large a percentage
of naphtha to have buoyancy. and our ex
percnce indicates that. like London fog, II Is
better adapted for paperweights than bal
looms
Thus far | am not only out Of pocket for an
experiment which was dead Tor nearly dead)
failure, but am confronted with possible
awful consequences should any of this gas
(which we afterw ard carefully released during
the night fall by chance upon some distant
innocent village and either smother or crush
the inhabitants.
The aeronaut failed to see the Joke about
His Masters Breath" He considers IL a
serious matter--if gas can be classed a. such
NEW YORK. May 20 r. l.. THoMAE.
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the country, and called upon the members to come
TO the rescue of the veterans now. tApplsuseI'
The first roll call showed only 1870
votes to override the veto against 70
noes. or less than the two-thirds neces-
sary to pass the bill. Only ten Demo-
Gratis stood by the Governor. On the
second roll call the bill was passed over
the veto by vote of 1875 to Co. From
the House it went to the Senate, where
it failed of passage by vote OF 20 yeas
to IA nays. Only one Democratic sena-
tor voted to sustain Governor DOUGLASS
veto.
1t is remarkable how tender OF the old
soldiers feelings the Massachusetts
Democratic Senators and Representatives.
have become since Governor DOUGLAS
was elected.
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JUSTICE GIEGERICH DECLINED.
denomination as President OF Catholic
Club offered Him--NO Politics In Row.

The contest in the Catholic Club over
the forthcoming election Of new board
Of directors Is not due to political dissen-
sions, as was reported, but arises from the
fact that the comparatively small section
Of members who habit ually frequent the
club are anxious to obtain a larger repre-
sentation In the management. AS at pres
ent const ituted, both the board of direc-
tors and the total membership show fair
percentage Of the various political creeds,
The fact that DR.. Francis j. Quinlan has
been nominated for president Is due to
Supreme Court Justice Leonard A. Giege-
rich's fiat declination to serve fourth
term az president. A unanimous renomi-
nat ION was offered him, but he compelled
the withdrawal OF his name, as he finds
his work in the club usurps time that he
cannot spare from his judicial dut les. Tn
der these circumst ances DR.. Quinlan was
selected as a candidate on whom all could
agree.
night. June o, and it il net expected that
there will be any considerable change in
the complexion of the managing board
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NTBLO BOOKS BRING $1,000.
End OF the Sale OF the y. NJ. G. AS Col.
lection OF Rarlties.

The sale OF the Nblo collection Of rare
old books which belonged to the Y. NJ. C. A.
was concluded yesterday at the Merwin-
Clayton salesrooms in East Twentieth street
The total realized was $4,000. This sum
will be used for the requirement Of nov
books for the associations library.
Livv's History Of Rome, "ornanented with
thirty-two large initials and illuminated
In gold and colors. sold for $l83, while Vor-
agines Stories Of the Saints, with initials
painted In blue and red, fetched $3.50. The
latter is supposed to he one Of the first books
printed in Paris.
Among the other works sold were an
Italian calendar written on vellum, for e87 80;
Washington Irving's History of New York.
printed III 1907, S8s: Cotton Mathers Eccleei.
astical History Of New England, printed in
aThe Tragedy Of the Dutchesse OF Maffy,"
printed In 1898, with the names Of the origi-
nal actors, $50.