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Electing the General OF the Jesuits.

'O' NO''Nf 49,
The recent death OF the General Of the Jesu-
Its renders 1t necessary that the society should
elect a successor to him. and it may be inter-
esting to explain how and under what condi-
lions the election takes place. The society Is
governed by a General. aided by Ave Assist
ants. and a Monitor. They reside with the
General. and the Assistants are called re-
spectively the Assistant OF Italy, OF Germany.
OF Fgance. Of Spain and OF England.
These districts are divided into provinces,
There are five provinces in the district of Italy.
five In that Of Germany, four in that OF France.
five in that OF Spain, seven in that OF En- gland.
These districts have existed for long; thus the
district Of Spain embraces nearly all South
America, the district OF England all North
America and Gambia. the district OF Ger
many Austria Hungary. Belgium. Galicia
A the head Of each province there is a Pro-
vincial, and in each province there are col
legea. schools. homes Tor professed JesuitS,
others for those going through their novi-
~tiates. and missionary stations, each with a
a ae return the eorrect ness SsAe Of Which, HIGo / Cannot OF
guarantee, there are 3. 100 Jesuits; in that Of
France, 3.Oli: In that Of Italy l.s74; in that
But whether this includes only professed
JeSuits. who alone must be priests. or what
IN another order would be called lay brothers.
The General resides at Rome Before his
death he appoints a vicar, who acts on the
utdNH VI llt btlltTd u no NititTdl III TtBhIu u
current business until a new General has been
elected. II il his business to convoke a gen
eral assembly. This must meet within six
months Of the notice. Each Provincial on
receiving the notice convokes the %rectors, the
local superiors and the protested Jesults within
his province. They meet in assembly, and
It is decided which Of the ~rectors and the
local superiors are TO proceed to the general
assembly. Besides this, two deputies are
elected by each province.
So soon as they have all reached Rome.
interests of God and Of the society. The
three next days they are left to consider sepa-
rately who would be the best man to elect.
but they must not decide even in their own
minds for whom they will vote during these
three days. IL any Jesuit asks for a vote. or
1t is known to any person that he Is intriguing
to become General, this must be notified to
the vicar. and the Jesuit 30 offending becomes
ineligible should the accusation be proved.
On the fourth day they are all shut up in a
room, and they remain there without food
or water until the General is elected. Some
times the choice Is made by a common in
SEPARATION. When this does not take place.
each voter writes the name Of his candidate
on a piece Of paper and signs it with his own
name. The vicar then collects the papers.
aided by his assistants. and il any one obtains
more than half OF the sufrages he Is declared
elected. and the election Ia confirmed by all
voting for him. IL none gets this majority
the Assembly elects five electors, and these
five electors select the General.
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IRE immIWs,lsn Istll

Ths steamship companies want no
frs'flotioh ~ immigration and ~ slight
examination ~ poaalbie ~ tho paaaens
gers they bring ~ this country They
find q supporting influence IN ofaaHi.
paIlona NJ foreign born residents who
desife ah open door for their friends aud
kindred. Practically unrestricted i'm
migration IL favored also ~ certain
l~rsuhs who hope that O large lnhua ~
workers may make N possible ~ obtain
employees ~ low wages
Another interest desires rules aud
laws that will exclude a. many lmmi-
grants N possible n fears industrial
competition, depression Of wages'and q
lowering Of tho standards Of living,
Allied with this interest are those that
sweep tho whole question away with the
generalization that no moro immigrants
are wanted hero, particularly Of the
Ice % coming In great numbers,
Both Of these interests are distinctly
selfish. Their point Of view Is entirely
personal.
The third interest comprises those who
realize that the nation Is what II Is to-day
because Of the millions who have come
from other lands. bringing brains or
Drawn, special knowledge or special
skill, to become a part Of the producing
and consuming population and to o
tribute TO the national wealth. This
interest sees the folly Of an entirely In
restricted immigration and the equal
folly Of a policy Of rigid exclusion.
The measures now before Congress
embody practically the opinions OF the
third interest. To the exclusion of crimi-
nails, the diseased, the insane and the
feeble minded, and the other classes
which the pending bills forbid to enter,
there can be no reasonable objection.
The proposed educational qualification,
however, is opposed, and properly. In
ability to read or write is not indicative
Of mental inferiority or criminal ten
dency. The law would b, improved
by leaving out the literary test, but the
legislation should not be postponed or
killed simply because that test is in
oluded. Nor is the head tax a vital
matter. Both bills set this at IS,
whereas the present charge is 81.
Neither Of these propositions is of ne
cessity final. They are essentially ex-
p%erimental, and raising the bars a few
notches is worth a trial.
The propositions now before Congress
contain no dangerous provisions. The
advantages to the country from a sem
sible immigration act should not be
sacrificed to the clamor Of short sighted
s%elfishness.
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NO MEN TO SEND TO KiysAs.
western Railroads Arc Taking III the
Iaborers That chicago Gan spare.

western Railroads Are Taking III the
Laborers That chicago Cnn spare.
CHICAGO. June N.-Kanss cry for harvest
hands cannot be answered by Chicago at
present. Hundreds OF men are being
shipped to the West daily, but they are going
for railroad work, not for the farmers.
j. j. Hills Western railroad enterprises
alone nave taken 1900 men from Chicago,
Minneapolis and st Paul since the first OF
the year. Along his lines are camps OF
Chinese, Japanese, Austrians. M~acedonians.
Italians, Greeks, Swedes, Norwegians, Poles
and Danes. Railroad contractors do not mix
tho nationalities.
kansas can't get eny men here" said
one agent to-day. Tie railroads are pay
ing too high-wages. Tne farmers say they
there they find that 81 Is is the limit. Then
men cant get from Chicago to the harvest
fields. The planter won't pay the ~carfare,
the hands can't pay 1t and the railroads can't
carry them for nothing.
in a few weeks South Dakota will he
after hands. They will get them from the
railroads. The men we ave sent to the
fields, because the ranchers in the Northwest
will pay high wages. II hey want men
they will pay. s. a day and get them away
from the roads"
WICHITA, Kan. June 2O.-'one hundred
thousand acres OF wheat are going to ruin
in Pratt county because We are unable to
get harvest hands"
to-day from D.. w. Blaine of Pratt. Mr..
Blaine says the farmers in that county can
use 1000 harvest hands. In the county
there are ITS 900 acres in wheat
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DIR. DENAREST IN.AUGURATED
As President OF Rutgers College He's
Against Excessive Athletics.

Against Excessive Athletes.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., JuIe 2o.-Dr.
William H. s. Demarest was inaugurated as
president Of Rutgers College this noon.
In the procession from the college to the
Second. Reformed Church, where the in
augural ceremonies were held, there were
hundreds Of alumni and representatives
fromvarious colleges Of the country, most
Of them robed.
Gov. Edward c. Stokes delivered the
keys OF the institution to the new president,
and there were congratulatory addresses
from former Gov. Foster NJ. Voorhees,,
Dean F. G. Van Dych Of Rutgers, Dean
Andrew F. West Of Princeton University
and Raymond B. Johnson Of Newark.
Dean West of Princeton spoke against the
elective course system in vogue in some
colleges. He said: After a generation OF
experiment it does seem that the time is
passing when people are willing TO believe
that a large crowd Of students, each going
his own gait as he pleases, makes a college,
or that haphazard selection out of a bewil-
dering mass of eleotiv We courses will give an
education. 1t is not refreshing to find that
the very person who so roundly denounced
Greek as a college fetch some twenty-five
years g has only during this commence
ment season seen q great light and has come
out against the evils of the free elective
system. Let us take heart. The things
that cannot be shaken will remain. A free
elective system is a failu re.
DR.. Demarest in his inaugural address
took a stand against excessive college
athletics.
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Honesty In the PUNT,

To THE EDITOR or THs sUS-Sir: I should
like to ask "A Hereto" how he reconciles
his statement that he believed In Christ.
aud was ready and anxious TO do His will"
with his disbelief In the virgin birth and what
he calls alleged" miracles. According to
the New Testament. Christ claimed to be the
Son OF God.
a Hereto" comments on Or. Crapsey's
trial, As ! understand 1t. DR.. Crapsey denied
the resurrection Of Christ. st. Paul says In
| Cor. xv.,i4:"nC Christ DO not risen. then Is our
preaching vain, and your faith Is also vain. 4"
Why does DR.. Crapsey deny the resurrection.
aud then try to keep his place In .n Episco-
pal pulpitf / do not belong to the Episcopal
Church. being a member OF one OF the other
evan gelical churches. and | hold that a man
can serve God In any church. or outside Of
any church; but ! cannot see how any man
who tries to be honest to say nothing Of
calling himself a gentleman and a Christian
can want to remain in the pulpit OF q church
while denying one Of the fundamental doc
trines OF that church.
Belonging to the artisan class, and having
had scarce any education. / appeal TO the
more instructed for enlightenment on these
points, FRANK BoULTFR.
B~HOOKLYN, June 20.
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The Socialist View OF CAPITAL,

To THE EDITOR OF The SuN-Sfr: In an editorial
In your paper the other day you say: Socialism
claims that capital does not create wealth; that IL
only absorbs the wealth created by labor. This Is
disputed II not utterly disproved by the fact that
where there Is limited capital there is limited
production"
would say that the Socialist does not claim that
capital absorbs wealth. but we say that the capital
list, the owner Of the capital. absorbs the wealth
created by the worker. The Socialist Is not such
an Idiot as not 10 admit and recognize that capital,
whetherit takes the forua OF a steamship or railway
or q spade. enhances the production Of the worker
when he uses such Instruments. The point Is that
the owner. say OF the railroad. Is In the position
of taking all the extra production from the worker
as rent for the use OF his capital. the railroad,
The Socialist Is in favor OF capital in unlimited
quantities, the more capital the better. The only
point he makes Is that the worker should own the
capital, because the worker Is not only the man
who has produced the capital, but Is also the one
who uses the caINh In order 10 produce more
wealh.
You have confused the word capitalist" with the
word capital" GAYLORD wnsHIRR.
NEW YORK, June 20.
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pfuhibltlpn lee aad, Nv i%6fsfsnce ihs
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he should ~ ettautsi Nv saHd Nv he iast
aecUunt \ felt,v erpHttss shu heieves IN
Tho lmmuft aitr ~ thn arui tluvseHof
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lshtHeu' smi stemis IN thr psfmlaaivs raH
statetluH N lte statute N onp N me nfv
mfFdeFsTa shustld 10 haHeei whv an
Pifhi,c sentiment wmtid N euur4e, pfufes'
aaaiaal 4 riean swepp Then The scaAtii
aho,tld w. aholIshal w Esssaa
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The Sinking Chest.

from ie fHhuutU'h ftfToTh.
TouIsvILLK. KY, June l9,-The western end Of
this city Is greatly exercised over an extraordinary
freak in the shape OF an iron box that refuses TO be
excavated.
The Rev. G f. Scott OF IkA West Kentucky street
had occasion THIS morning DIDO some work In his front
garden. About six Inches beneath the surface his
shovel struck an iron box nearly two feet across
the top. HIS curiosity aroused. Mr.. Scott under
took to dig the box from its resting place. Each
time, however. that he cleared away the dirt from
the sides and seemed about to reach his nnd the
mysterious box would sink a few inches lower.
The hole was enlarged on all sides. but the same
result followed. Obtaining assistance. the preacher
to night reached a depth OF twenty feet, but IL
apparently no nearer the box than when he started,
The incident has created tremendous excitement
In the neighborhood and a party will assemble to-
morrow prepared TO gain possession Of the chest.
The box Is thought by many 10 contain treasure,
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Fao,s for the Senate.

II nov devolvea upon tho Senate ~
decide not only the plan but tho fate Of
che Panama Canal. AZ matters stand,
II Ia called upon To elect between n per-
manent lock canal and q narrow canal
a. sea level, tide locked.
A permanent locked canal enjoys the
contempt Of every competent engineer
In the world, and an earthquake Of half
tho severity Of that at Gan Francisco
would destroy IL. The proposition IA in
tolerable and its adoption would be pre-
posterous. What ls wanted Is n sea level
canal, but n wide one, not n narrow one;
q canal which forms an open strait, like
that which the French created at Suez
thirty-eeven years ago.
A temporary lock canal Ia essential
TO the construction Of a sea level canal;
essential because we want a canal opened
for business In The shortest possible
time and want a lockless sea level canal,
the Straits of Panama" which can be
built for the least possible expenditure
OF money and time.
That this idea has been prejudiced
and obscured is due to the fact that the
cost Of a dominant element Of the work,
the excavation OF rock, has been per-
sistently misrepresented. The Isthmian
Commission OF 1901 named four dollars
and seventy-five cents per yard as the
price of subaqueous excavation OF rock.
The committee OF the Consulting Board
reduced this figure to two dollars and
a half and a dollar and a half per yard,
according to conditions.
The sun has caused to be investi-
gated by expert authority, and has itself
investigated, the character Of the sub
e rock excavation now being done
in various places. Perhaps it will be
sufficient to cite the Manchester Ship
Canal, where a much harder and more
refractory rock is now being broken and
made dredgible for twenty cents a cubic
yard, and the work for the Yokohama
custom house, where the rock is identical
with the larger part Of that at Panama,
and Is being broken under water and
made dredgible at a cost OF two cents
per cubic yard.
These things we set forth as facts
proved and ascertainable from public
records. Is it to be supposed that the
Senate will ignore them? The munich
palty that would build a sewer upon the
data with which the Senate is provided
to determine the Panama Canal question
would be d~isgraced.
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Hopeful Sign.

The abandonment of the three platoon
system indicates that the municipal adj
ministration intends to have the Police
Department managed from City Hall
and 300 Mulberry street hereafter and
not from station house back rooms or
Assembly district political clubs. 1t is
also a sign that the local government ap-
preciates the often overlooked fact that
the public employees are paid to work
for the taxpayers. For a considerable
period of time the police at least have
been led to believe that the sole purpose
Of the city Of New York is to provide soft
jobs at high salaries.
Mayor MCCLELLAN and Commissioner
BINGHAM will be subjected to loud criti-
cism for insisting that the police force do
the work for which it is paid. In COM
pensation, they will have the approval
Of the citizens, who foot the bills.
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vNg RoW ~ arAsswAGA.


Wtaafg0fwt, Iine ~ pensons famllIse
9Th teat NJ tmeflraa aRaRa haileVs Inst
tle fsvsifl IN IN Cuafesuaia No. We eUgf IN
sslvadoF The Fess ~ ~ HtHattsH ~
euhfiuaI sHI contradictory, trF no'hins
lsa ruuv" shlch showa ~ evsA prints w ~
n%IFlslag ~ ~ t~liatemalsa rrBpls saaiNe'
flm t%aigefa Aduihlaf fHttun fbr mgve
r,en' ls Wste FINN 6,Igeids Nv t~ktalemsiaU
boundaries suh 4 Iffee faft N the atfarts
ina futee 10 masie ~ ~ eilIseNs ~ aalvadNF
Netlet fnI liouiufaa Win shis allrt
army ihsfe are allied = comparatively small
mNmt~s NJ dlssNecgei uuatemaisas s0d =
apflnhlne ~ foreign edventufrrs, lHeiuds
ing suHie Americans
t'nless Presiicht catfers micceeds IN
fepelllnn The iHvHslBn and In suppsesalnH
s,irh lpcsi distufhance NJ may arise Nv cuh.
nectlon With n. thr fpatitt N IN" fresen,
tfciihle car oniy be q Terlud ~ uhtcs, anil
revolt slrtld Cabrera he uhs"H,ei, thefs
u M tes~,n ~ think that Bafillaa, Toledo,
Castillo uf sh,evet his Miccesauf might
ba would cstfy on ths government ons
whit lister than he has done, ami there In
every reason 10 think that thrre would b.
= bitter quarrel fur the p%olitlcal leadegship
WV " N"''F w IeNoin'lD1HFE 'O''i''HN
II N lie true that Salvador IA behind thu
enterprises, W. motive must be annexation
81 Guatemala, should this be brought
about, there would ls more upheaVHl
and arrested progress, The great need Of
Central America 10 q few years Of peace.
The last decade has opened the why 10 .
conditions In that region. Another ten
ycars like the last would be almost q guar
antes Of quiet In the future. From this
point Of view the success Of the forces Of
tho 0uatemalan Government seems most
daatpahla
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Washington Unmasked.

After the assault on the fame of JOHN
PAUL JONES it was to be feared that
more shining marks would collect bricks.
The Reverend DAVID NJ. STEELE of Phila-
delphia has discovered that GEORGE
WASHINGTON has been imposing on
posterity, and he is determined that the
pretender shall be seen in his true light.
The reverend gentleman seized upon
an anniversary Of the evacuation Of
Valley Forge by WAsHINGToN's army
to tell the truth about the Father Of his
Country. There are several counts in
the indictment: WASHINGTON was not
an ideal churchman, he was not al edu-
Gated man, he was not a victorious gen.
eral, he was not a true blue reformer,
he was not a money maker. In fact, he
seems to have been a dissembler in all
these roles, and his regalia should be
ruthlessly torn from proportions that are
no more genuine than stucco is marble.
THE educator" says the Reverend
Mr.. STEELE, hangs WAsHINGToN's pict-
ure on the wall of the school and tells
, his pupils to emulate him, forgetting
. that WAsHINGToN's education was
meagre and incomplete" Guilty on
that count, il the emulation so urged
refers to WASHINGTON S lack of a college
degree. 1t must be confessed that, like
LINCOLN, he got most of his book learn
ing from a hedge schoolmaster and quit
early. The Farewell Address" and the
Gettysburg Grafton were well enough in
their way, but there's no rubbing out
the blemish that the authors were not
college men.
"The soldier" says the Reverend Mr..
STEELE, invariably makes a hero Of
WASHINGTON, overlooking the fact that
the Commander-in- Chief never won a
battle" In mitigation Of this damning
dereliction it may be pleaded that at
least he never surrendered and that he
trlumphantly led a revolution.
Reformers are taken to task by this
discriminating critic for regarding WASH
ISGToN as one OF themselves. They are
oblivious Of the circumstance that the
great Virginian held slaves" But per-
haps they are not oblivious Of the fact
that he advocated abolition Of all slaves
by legislative enactment and in his will
made provision for the emancipation of
his own. As for W~AsHINGToN's wealth,
people should remember, says the Rev.
erend Mr.. STEELE, that he inherited half
of it and the other half came to him with
his wife. 1t is certainly TO his disad-
vantage that he was not a rich pork
packer or a successful promoter. An
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Elections ut Cornell,

ITHACA June 2o.-The Cornell University
board OF trustees at its annual meeting
to-day elected Eugene Edwin Haskell Of
Detroit Director Of the College OF Civil
Engineering and professor OF civil engi-
neenng t, succeed the late Prof. r.. A.
Fuertes. MIR. Haskell took his b. G. r,
degree at Cornell in 1879. 1t was announced
after the meeting that Charles II. Blood, go,
OF Ithaca, and James II. Edwa rds, 'Ss, Of
by the alumni.
Charles 1. Gibson was elected professor
OF clinical elrgerv in the Cornell Medicll
College in Few York. l.. o. Howard of
Washington, d. c., was elected president
Of the alumni association.
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A review Of the many projects for a Cape
Cod ship canal leaves room for a belief that
the Pilgrim Fathers, after a service Of
Thanksgiving for the termination OF their
voyage, at once held a town meeting to
consider the development Of a shorter sea
route to Manhattan. At any rate, the first
canal project is covered with the mould OF
antiquity, and its successors have been as
numerous as the ~cranberries in the meadows
through which the ditch m run.
1t is now announced that a company has
completed the financial arrangements for
the construction Of this long considered
waterway and that q well known New York
engineer has been engaged to superintend
it's construction. The commercial advan-
tages OF the route are obvious. and it Ia to
be hoped that the dirt will begin to fly at
an early date.
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ANr RfforEa agaApnaan
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ttasm Aesiess lne8aip feaegal

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tiuv iRheer ffum the ilihoia tehttat Rail
rad THE hetef va vuioaH tr.dsy W.
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drelsiou which arrived from arFtn eArtI
The revolutionary hH'tte ~ Inc dtelstm
created y aif
Tho ruling n me crsif, That custom and
'eoitemruttnetHia eHnsirictlun' ervsfh ~
ihr eSchtslnH N ordinary frlNs NJ I'm.
etrieiiun Vhefe ihefe " duuiil about a
constitutional provision culnrilca With mo
rlct srt up "a the %cofntahr'a irtenur M :
brief hled Nv uoheral Cornarl John "
Dirksun,
Tlr llhnos Cenlr,l hts 4 constitution
charter un,rf Witch u rays tIhnUs pr
cent ~ Ne Hruaa earnings ~ M rhar'cr
Nn~a. Tlr Opvetnur is malr \ dirrr,or {
the road AMI intriaird with tlr 'I.k n
approvlnH Tie fuads frpuria ~ eHrhins
10 the State and ~ payment ~ tribute
uOv. utnten sTrm s'yctni thousand
dollars ~ hiH contingent fund employing
auditors to inveHtlRHte thu books ~ thr
Illinois Central for forty years hack, ~ de.
tefmine whether thu State had got ia nun
due and The Governor maintained that thu
road. owed "a, 0D, UO, although its reports
had been approved by hia predecessors ana
acluiesced In by State Legislatures.
Tbs Bupfeme Court holds that whore n
doubt Ia possible "a to the construction ~
tho Constitution the Interpretation put upon
IL for years by executive and legislative
authorities and by the public has tho weight
Of n judicial construction,