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PITTSBURGH COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER Ibxm. Cammmial (Sauttc. Established 1TSS.

tark greater than he ever accompli. -bid in his younger days. But as he his country's confidence to a degree that he trained soldiers belonging to a later generation evidently do not, he must keep at the work in which ha has been successful heretofore. "Old men fnr counsel, young men for war." evidently not the inaxhti by which England regulates her affairs. NEW JEWISH SYNAGOGUE.

Congregation One! Jaroli to Build House vt Worship on llerroa HiSI. A handsome Jewish synagogue, to be used by a new Jewish congregation, is to be erected soon in the Herron Hill district. The congregation has been organized and as soon as charter is secured the ground is to be purchased and the work on the building is then to be begun at once. The new Jewish congregation is to be perfectly orthodox and will be a prominent addition to the other Jwish congregations of the city. The organization is be incorporated under the nam of the Congregation Ohel Jacob.

"Tent of Jacob." and is composed of a cumber of prominent Hebrew men ana manufacturers. Among those who are interested in the new congregation and are prominent in its coumils are EUas Turner. Lou'is Mokowitz, Jacob Frecd-man, Isaac Sheffter and Jacob Schaoer. The new congregation is not an off -shoot of any of the other Jewish organizations of the elty, but is composed of nrtmberg of many of them who have been compelled to ro long distances to worship. As soon as the charter is secured, ground will be purchased and a synagogua erteted.

The plans for the buliding hiva not been made. rUEL-TSIIED 13 VERT MORNING. (Except Sunday.) NELSON P. REED CO PROPRIETORS. Office 318 and 320 Fifth Avsnue.

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S. S. AIIEGKENY. G-n. Lawton was bora In Ohio, entered the army as sergeant of the- Ninth Indiana Volunteers In ISfil, was brevet colonel at the close of the war, and entered tho regular army in 1S.

At the beginning of the. Srnntsh-Ameriean war ha was a lieutenant colonel and was made major-jeiieral of volunteers July 1S38. J. A. ROCHESTER.

There is nothing to prevent the building of war ships frv ot'tier nations in American shipyards. The Russian government is row having built at Cramps' a battleship and a f.rst class cruiser, and at Elizabeihport a flotilla of small war craft. Within the past year several cruisers have-been built for Japan by American shipbuilders. R. CITY.

When a citizen has hem as sensed on his occupation and pays no attention to it, the duty of the collector is to make- demand upon him for the amount or to disclose his personal property. If he refuses to pay or malts disclosure the collector has power to issue a warrant for his arrest and lodge him In jail. This course has been pursued repeatedly in thes past, and there Ls no doubt as to the law. A. M.

SHWTCKLEY. Sir Henry Irving was born near Glastonbury, England, in 1.SS3. Ills real name is John Henry THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21, 3899. TEN PAGES fWm" far IftT XO MORE HAZIXG AT WEST POIXT.

Col. ami's Appeal to the Students Cannes the Change. WEST POINT, N. Dec. cadets at the United States Military Academy without' a dissenting voice have decided to abolish hazing.

The whole cadet battalion is pledged to a man against it. Several class meetings were held prior to a decision being reached. The advocates of abolishing the custom were eo numerous that when a vote was called nobody raised a voice in favor of it. To Col. Mills, superintendent of the ac-demy, is due the credit of stopping hazing.

When there was so much comment last summer about the treatment of piebes by upper classmen. Col. Mills made a personal appeal to the cadets to abolish hazing. Other officers had done the ame. but were only laughed fX.

A few resisted in annoying the ple.bes, but they wer. detected and received heavy punnlshment. 'Asecond classman who had been suspending a year for haatng upon the day of his return attempted to haze Cadet U. S. Grant, third.

He was dismissed immediately, ard the War Department refused to reinstate him. The cadets soon saw that whoever was caught hazing would receive no mercy either at West Point or Washington, OLD WORLD ROTABLES. BY THE MARQUI3G 'OK FOXTENOT. It there is one thing more than another that Queen Victoria appreciates it ia forbearance on the part of a wronged wife. She always hss a warm corner in her heart for the marrleed woman who, instead of ruthivg off to reek redress In the divorce court, Is content to suffer ia Fi-lence for the poke of the name which she bears, for th8 sake of her children, for the sake of her own se-lf-respect; and.

last irtit not least, for the ske of the caste to which she belongs. That is why her Majesty was so particularly gracious to the widowed Duchess of Beaufort at Beaufort the other day. For I do not suppose that there are many ladles of the British peerage whose husbands have played the rolo of Don Juan with a greater degree of publicity and flagrancy then hers, and more than once she was forced to rective beneath her roof at Badminton women who should never have been permuted to cross her threshold. The Queen not only received the widowed Duchess in the most kindly and gracious iishion, but likewise accorded her the rare privilege of a private presentation 'for her daughter-in-law, the wife of tho present Duke of Beaufort, which dispenses the young peeress from any further presentation at court in London. Such a presentation p.a that of the young Duehess of Beaufort 13 entirely distinct from the audience Accorded by her Majesty to' Mrs.

Blow and Mrs. Ronalds 'the-other day la connection with the Maine hospital ship enterprise. The latter was a purely personal affair, and does not in any way relieve these two ladies from the necessity of an ordinary presentation at court, without which they cannot attend any court entertainments or state functions. The Queen received thes two ladies E3 a special act of courtesy, which carried with. It v.o offlcial consequences, and I may point out in this connection that her Majesty has received at Balrao-' ral, at Windsor, and at Buckingham palace quite a large number of ladies who have never been admitted to official presentation at court, owing to eocial disqualifications' of one kind and another, conspicuous among the number being the late Mrs.

Fitzgeorge, the actress wife of the Duke of Cambridge. The young Duchess of Beaufort on the other hand was presented like the daughters of Lord Rosebery and the sisters of the young Duke of Roxeburghe at what is known as a "private court" for the express purpose of relieving them of tha necessity of subsequent presentation at Buckingham Palace. If 1 call attention to this circumstance, it is because a good, deal of misapprehension neems to prevail in connection with the affair, and in some papers I have seen it stated that Mrs. Ronalds had now at length obtained the climax of her namfciy, presentation at court, which until now sue haa not enjoyed, although -on friendly-terms with several members of the reigning family. Her reception by the Queen at Windsor, while in itself a great compliment and one which numbers of people would go to very great lengths to obtain, "carries with it no official consequences or results.

Young Lord Ava, the eldest son and heir of the Marquis of Dufterin, spends so much of his time in this country, and has so many friends on this sid of the Atlantic, that I cannot help thinking that tho following extracts from a private letter just received may prove of Interest. As everyone knows, he formerly belonged to the Seventeenth Lancers, but had retired some years' ago. When the war broke out he immediately proceeded to South Africa at his own expense on the chance of being permitted to take the place of some officer who had been placed hors de combat. Determined to see some fighting, he besought his friend. Col.

Ian Hamilton, who commanded a brigade, to take him on his staff as a "galloper," or D. C. But a fundamental difficulty presented itself. Lord Ava had no horse. Col.

Hamilton could not lend him one, and it was impossible-to buy at Lady-cmith one for iov or money. 2. His first visit to the United States was In 1882. W. G.

TORONTO. There are several places in the city at which ferrets can be purchased. I. S. II.

CITY. The event will be duly announced In our advertising columns. V. T. CITY.

A license is required in Vi'esl but not in Maryland. A. L. C. ALLEGHENY.

May 20, 1SS4, was Tuesday. PROfiHES IV CVBA. The proclamation issued by Gen. Brooke on tumlrg over to his successor, Gen. Wood, the civil government oi Cuba, vas read in the senate yesterday, and was thr subject of interesting comments by Senator Hale.

The Maine statesman very appropriately declared It a most remarkable statement of progress made. "If Gen. Brooke is right." said and order have practically been restored on tLo Island, end the people will ba ready at an early date to enter upon a government of ttfetr own." Gen. Brooke Is undoubtedly right. Tho newspaper accounts of uneasiness and dissatisfaction, even if they arc completely true, do not prove that remarkable progress has not bsen made.

Order has come out of confusion, corruption and abuse of ofneial privileges have been, banished, the cities of the Island put in taivitary( condition for the first time In 'their history, free school have been established, ard peaceful Industry Is rapidly driving out Idleness and squalor. The country has reason to congratulate, not Gen. Brooke alone, but all his associates, -who have struggled manfully Tilth their difficult task and accomplished wonders. The change of administration at Havana 'presages that the came policy will be pursued with equal energy and success, and, as Senator Hale foresees, the dawn of a happy day for the Cubans cannot be distant. they decided to stop it altogether.

Although haslng has been practised at many other colleges, at no place has it been more severe than at West Point. The trouble between the chiefs of the academy and the students overhazing has been a matter off public comment for years. SOME RECEIVED PRIZES. Three Ten. Merchants Arrested HES AX ABSEXT MIXDED BEGGAR' Kiplinif.

ly Detectives Yesterday. The tea merchants who came here frcrs. Cleveland last Monday, were arrested by order of Superintendent of Detective O'Mara yesterday. They opened a stor at TOG Smithfield Street and advertised "Pin Yong" tea in pound packages for 1, and each package contained a prise These included diamond rings, watche end other jewelry, and the police capr1' fcr the house did apparent buy th open the box end extract prizes aovertised, besides So and 110 ne before the wondering gaze of the custtrfi- er. The latter, however, never got af'V thing eHe than a piece of tawdry jewelry-.

1VIIY FAVOR TAGALSf Those demagogues who prate so loudly of government without the consent of the governed In the. Philippines are not very good reasoners. Can they rossibly believe, If it were left to a vote of the Inhabitants of the Philippines, that a majority of them would rather be governed by the Tagals than by the Americans? The Philadelphia Record, a Democratic but r.ot an anti-American newspaper, says on tnis point: ''With equal reason the worm about two cents. An information was made by Supelin- our rights in the sulus. QoM4Ions of Their Value I'nder Ex istine Tripartite Agreement AVfth KnRlonil and Germany.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 20. According to Mr. E. Spencer Pratt, late consul general at Singapore, the treaty recently concluded with the Sultan of Sulu by Of neral Bates, of the United States army, will rot give the United States sole Jurisdiction over the JSulu Islands, as under a pre-existing convention Great Britain and" Germany have equal trading rights in the islands.

In a recent statement on the subject Mr. Pratt said: "This chain of islands, stretching between the Pnilippines and Borneo, is apt to precipitate all manner of international complications at any time. It may not be generally known in this country that cur claim to the Sulu islands is very limited that we must stand for ail trouble there and yet have no exclusive trading rights in the archipelago. "A protocol signed at Madrid in 1877 between Spain, Germany and England established free trade in those waters, the Spanish government, which exercised nominal suzenainty over the Sulu islands tendent O'Mara yesterday, charging I'lw operators with gambling, and Detectives Denniston and Richard Kelly arrestee P. 'sauof pua Jsrj'Hpi tinoq "eiJkl and' locked them up In Central Stajion A FEMALE FATHER IlAMIEX.

Story of ar Reed, an American Heroine and Victim of LONDON, Dec. 19. A Story even more striking and more pathetic than that of Father Datnien is tcid in a thin volume of 117 pages, "Mary Reed, Missionary to tho Lepers, by John Jackson, with an introductory note by the Rev. F. B.

Meyer, Bl (Marshall Brothers.) Mary Reed is an American lady who went to India in 1SS4 In connection with the Zenana Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She worked first at Cawnpore and then at Gonda, but her health broke down, and she returned homa in 1890 to rest and recruit. It flashed on her that her disease was leprosy. The doctors, one of them a specialist who had studied the disease In the Sandwich Islands, confirmed her suspicion, and, as Mr. Jackson says, "thl; refined Christian woman found-herself face to face with the appalling and paralyzing fact that she had fallen a victin to leprosy th most dreaded, loathsome, and hopeless disease known to mankind." Telling only her siter, and without saying farewell to her family, she at once returned to India as a missionary to the lepers.

She took it as a '-divine' call to a life service and was speedily-' appointed- to -the superintendence of the Lepers at Chandaf in the Himalayas. In this work she has been occupied for eight years. "Singel-handed, or at most, with a limited supply of native assistance, she has developed the institu for a hearing to-day. Some of thelnftea people of the United States, might be- was taken possession of and a given to a chemist to analyse, as th detectives do not believe it is tea aJ all. The leaf has the appearance cf -fy cr prairie grass.

i EARTtldt-AKi; EXPLAIXEnt, It Was Only The Testing Oti ft Twelve -inch Can In thePulnpuco. BALTIMORE, Dec, ilAMiS OFF CHIXA. Uncle Sanis Timely Warninz to France. WASHINGTON. Dec.

The State department is in receipt of a cable dispatch from Ambassador Porter, concerning the rignta of American citizens in China. There is the best of reason for believing that this unsually long communication bore directly on the French aggressions in Southern China, and presumably dellne-d the rights and privileges of American citizens living in the territory to be affected by the French grab. Thero seems to be no doubt that tht-French activity in Southern China has be en privately known to this, as well as to European governments, for several days, and that in dc-minding an explanation frra Franco as to her intentions the United St-tes again acted as the friend cf Great Britain. Such an interrogation could construed by France in but one way-that the United States considers her interests imperilled by the French demonstration and desires to put herself on record at once. In a word, the attitude of this Government seems to be one of halting France, while endeavoring to bring about a cessation of hostilities in South Africa.

Such a cessation would leave Great Britain freeto guard her possessions in various quarters of tha and prevent the stripping of her garrisons and the frontiers of regulars for South' African service. It is pointed out that the most severe blow that could be struck at Great Britain is the attack of France on the southern part of China. Great Britain's present helplessness leaves her in the plight of being unable to check France, and France is evidently playing, directly into the hands of Russia, and of the moves contemplated by her in Manchuria, Narthern China, and on the Persian Gulf. Diplomats regard it as an evidence of concerted action on the part of Russia and France. With attacked on the south, Russia would have a free hand in the north, since China could not cope with two such formidable nations, in ivussia should simultaneously make her aggressive movement toward the Persian Gulf, Great Britain's situation in Asia would be well nigh, desperate.

WASHINGTON, D. Dec. 20. It is asserted at the Slate Department that our government has interfered in no degree whatever between Franoe and China in connection with the pending difficulties between the two countries, growing out of the hostile clash that is reported to have occurred near the Tonquin border. Therefore, it is psitively denied that either through Mr.

Porter or anv other person has the United StateB ad'dressed any demand upon the French government for an explanation of its course. It is surmised that tho reports to tho contrary grew out of the knowledge that exchanges were going on between the United States and France as part of the general undertaking of the former to ohtain written guarantees respecting the maintenance of the open door In China-France, among other" European nations, has been addressed on that subiect. Although the negotiations have not been concluded, and, in fact, such a conclusion is not expected within six weeks at least, yet so kind has been the spirit manifested by the European governments, including that of France, in the discussion of our overtures that our government la firmly convinced of its ultimate success. However, the young Earl was not going to be out of the fighting for tho matter cf a horse, tfnd so throughout the entire battle of Elandslaagate he did the "galloping" on foot, rifie in hand, carrying, orders to and fro throughout the hot day. His last instruction was to convey to the Gordons, who were lying down oh the veldt under the trail of a heavy pheli i and.

rifle fire, the word to "advance." Lord Ava confessed that when he Came up with them he waa so out of breath that he could hardly pass the word. By way of rest, and as a-nice quiet way of regaining, his breath, he joined the Gordons in that dauntless attack on the rocky ridge, every tests of a twelve-inch gun at Fort Carroll, In the middle of the Patapsco River, nine' miles below this city, have caused earr asked to give California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico back to tho Mexicans, from whom the territory was torn by conquest." Yes; and It would be equally appropriate to Insist that the Indians, who originally held sway over this continent, should be given back the territory. It has h-en ascertained beyond the shadow of a doubt that the small minority of the Filipino represented by the Luzon rebels In no sense voice tho sentiments of the 8.000,000 or 10.000,001) islanders. Do we owe any special debt or gratitude to Agui-naldo, that we should obey his behest? Apply the theory that the wishes of the majority should prevail In the Philippines, and the Insurrectionists would have the last frail prop knocked from, under them. If a native government the thing, surety the Tagal robbers are not the proper persons to administer It.

quake sensations In Cb.etertown PARIS EXPOSITIOX IDEAS. Eccentric Stt8.etion For The Amusements of Visitors. LONDON, Dec. 19. To judge ly the Ingenuity of private individuals who have unfolded exhibition schemes to M.

Picard, Commissioner General, the inventive faculty exists in tropical luxuriance at the present moment. Some of these proposals are practical, others useless and rvin-ously expensive, others again wildly impossible. M. Picard has received over 790 from various quarters, and of the vast majority it may be sakt that they are luridly fantastic. One gentleman, who' considers himself an authority nn the public taste, proposes a constant repetition of the "Marseillaise" as an effective dra performed not in the orthodox maner, but by means of steam whistles, whose braln-spHttlng screeching would instil a love of harmony and of the French national anthem Into the eouls of foreign visitors.

Irtendlng visitors will be glad to hear that the gentleman's proposal is shelvd. Another inventor promises to prove oeyond a possibility of doubt that the stars are uninhabited. He supplements the offer by another which would have commended him to inquisitors of the Middle Ares namely, a demonstration that the earth does not revolve around it3 axis. An ambitious scheme is that of tho bearer of an English name. 'who counsels the French Government to- erect next year In Pari the wall of the New Jerusalem as described in the Book of Revelation.

Labor, time, and the necessary Bupply of jewels are wanting to this daring project. Somewhat Biblical, too, is the foundation of another proposal, which advises a reproduction of the Garden of Eden, with the somewhat incongruous addition of a variety theatre in its midst. In the case of the later ther would be little difficulty, but the Garden of Eden would have to be designed by guesswork, as ths surroundings of our first father are less familiar than is a modern bouse of entertainment. It is intereatitig to learn that the variety theatre which, by tbx way, is not very happily named Is to be used for the portrayal of scenes in the early vears of the world's history. Bullfights in the South and the beast-right at Rotibaix have possibly prompter the suggestion that a Brw Coliseum, with the one at Rome, should be erected in Paris for the exhibition.

Lions and tigers, bears and panthers, could here tear each other to their hearts content, and revive for the benefit of the Parisian holidav makers the bloody spectacle of a Roman circus. Gladiatorial thows and the favorite feature of the Roman Coliseum lion versus Christian are not included in Its modern counterpart. Less sanguinary, but sufficiently alarm-In? to tnose who have not made ballooning a favorite pastime since childhood, is the proposal to Lift carloads of visitors into the air and to send them down again by means of parachutes. As the height from which the amateur aeronauts will be dropped overboard from their balloon is put at anything between 300 and 1.000 vilages on the Eastern Shore the crnesapeaitA nay, many miles Windows were rattled and houses shak The resiaents of the towns were sure phenomena, were the result of an ear tion under her charge from a mere collection of huts and stables in wmlch some thirty-seven lepers were housed to an establishment with an average of eighty-five or ninety inmates, sheltered in quake. I The firing was done to test the gun ct riogo and emplacement.

Tho project weighed half a ton. and the amount! brown powder used was 485 pounds. FTPQf U- a thA PAritifl1nn that A wnrj house used by the engineer corps, at, seventy feet to the left of the gun, wrecked, and all of the windows in fort buildings were shattered. Russia's Xeed Of Coal. NEW YORK, Dec.

20. It 13 semi- relinqushing all claim to exclusive trade. "This protocol, so far as is apparent upon the face of the peace treaty at Paris, by which the Sulu islands were ceded to us, has not been abrogated. Presumptively, we have simply taken Spain's part in the tripartite agreemetft which granted fre trade to all nations in those the trading ship of the various countries a perfect right to go from port to port. Where, then, are the advantages to this country? We are apt to have trouble with this half-civilized people any day.

So numerous are the islands that it would require many garrisons to protect them. Unless we command the trade of the ports, where can possibly be any advantage in Owning them and garrisoning them at such heavy ex-penstj?" "The Spaniards could Hot compell a trading vessel to pursue any particular prescribed course or confine to trading between special points, and, furthermore, could not levy dues except at the points she (Spain) occupied. These points were essentially few in number. 1 "The various chiefs of the Sulus are always watching for a chance to dethrone the sultan. A row is apt to be precipitated at a moments notice, and under the pendmg treaty the sultan looks to the United States to protect him and uphold his right to rule.

An uprising in the Sulu Islands woui-1 be the beginning of unending the trouble, for it would spread to Borneo beyond doubt, because the Sulu people originally sprang frcm. there-, and for a long time claimed part interest in the government of Borneo. "This sultanate comprises, or is understood to comprise, some HO odd islands lying between Mindanao, the Southern-roost island of the Philippines, and the roft of British North Borneo. The. most important of the group ia Sulu Island substantial houses especially erected for them." The Rev.

F. B. Meyer, who met her at Lucknow durlDg his late visit to India, and had "more than one delightful talk" with her, says that "from the first day until now she has borne her heavy cross lit a spirit of consecration which makes the story of fcer life one of the most inspiring in missionary biography." But the most wonderful part of the story is that though Miss Reed makes use for her patients of all the ameliorations and-remedios that medical science suggests, she trusts her own case entirely to tha healing efficacy of prayer, and Is now and has been for many months past, in better health than she frequently enjoyed In former years. So remarkably and unusually has tho disease been kept in check that some medical missionaries pronounced that in her case it was not leprosy at all. But the opinion of the mot eminent authorities is that it is undoubtedly leprosy, though Dr.

Condon said some time ago that she was "practically healed." But -there she remains, isolated, from the world, among the Himalayan snows, with her band of -sufferers round her sustained by an enthusiastic' devotion and faith which, as we read of it, eeems itself to be a miracle. clally announced from Odessa, Ru: that the Runslan railroads are to be mltted to Import, duty free, 2.000.C0O of foreign coaL The duty on British which they have been ufeicg at vai times is about 7s. per ton in the Black ports and about half that amount iii Baltic. Owing to the shortage in tha ply of Russian coal, famine prices now obtained In the southern provit In Odessa, British coal is now 52s. and Russian coal at 42s.

psr ton, the prices are steadily advancing. work shops, the information rec; says, are now being closed, and the ifl er classes cannot afford to use wuch fueT either to cook or heat their dwelling. tnis state or arratrs, tn minister of finance had, tip to the mid.il'; line manned with death-dealing Boers. When one ridge was carried at the point of the bavonet, another loomed up behind it. Lord Ava' came out of the fire unhurt, but had a comrade shot on either side of him at the isame moment.

He declared that nothing struck him so much as the grim imperturbability of the Highlanders flsrhting their way slowly up those terrible ridges, kneeling to fire as coolly and as deliberately as if they were on the drillground. There is one Heir Apparent to a European throne of whom one hears little or nothing, who is probably the most un-obstrusive of Crown Princes, and who as modest as he is well conducted, that, too. la spite- cf the blood that he has in his veins. The. young Keir Apparent in question is Prince Louis of Monaco, who, for a number of years past, has been quietly serving in Algeria as officer in a French regiment, the -Second Chasseurs d'Afrlque, who are in garrison at Plemoen.

He lives very quietly, indeed, receiving a small allowance of not more than $2,500 a year from his father, with whom he is on not particularly good terms, as ha strongly disapproves of the continuation of the lease of Monte Carlo for gambling purposes to the Blanc-Bonaparte Radaiwill combination. Ho is a lad who has a very singular career, since his father and mother's marriage was annulled by Church as well as State, while he himself was expressly declared in the various decrees io be legitimate. Like the present King of Servia, he was the central figure in a sensational abduction case when a child, the abductor being, as in the instance of the young King, tho unhappy mother, who wished to remove her child from the evil Influence of the father. The present Prince of Monaco. like King Milan of Servia.

invoked the services of the police to recover possession of his son, and whereas Milan's efforts were crowned with success, those of Albert of Monaco were frustrated, thanks to the intervention of the Grand-duchess Helene of Russia, in- behalf of the fugitive Princess. The latter is now the wife of Count' Tassilo Festetiez, and one of the greatest ladies of the Ausiro-Hungarian Court, and. inasmuch as her brother was the late Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, and her mother. Princess Marie of Baden, young Lottis of Monaco may be said to have in his veins the blood, not merely of the Reigning House of Baden, but also of the Royal English House of Tudor. I have received a letter from M.

Camillo Romano, the Secretary of the Italian Embassy, at Washington, in which lie declares that the sanction of the Italian Crown to the vs of his title of Marquis, through that Government Department at or ust, refused to accede t-j the urgent petition of the Odessa munirl It may be confidently assertea mat pailty to suspend the tax on foreign co for at least six months. The raiiroe Senator Hoar Is too able a man not to understand that freedom and license are not synonymous, and that' "the Just rights of other nations or peoples" do not include the right to oppress those who happen to disagree with them. "The liberty to do wrong" Is just the sort of liberty that is not good. for Tagais or anybody else. It is sad to see the aged Massachusetts statesman playing a minor part in the company in whica Edward Atkinson appears as tho star and Billy Mason as Ms understudy.

There la to be one vice-president of the United States elected next year. New York fctate already has three candidates for the honor Root, Roosevelt and "Woodruffwith innumerable back counties yet to heir from. If this thing is kept up until the convention meets, and other sections follow the Empire State's example, the Philadelphia gathering will not have the eay task which has been predicted. But there are months in which to settle the question, and the Republican party may bo relied upon to settle It wisely, as is Its wont in relation to all matters of importance. It should not be forgotten that the national delegates, who have not been elected, have some voice In the matter.

The Democrat want an early national convention and a lng campaign. They can have both, and nobody will envy them what enjoyment they can get therefrom. At tho end they will be able to appreciate the remark of the Irishman who tickled himself with the expectation that he would play a joke on the bull "It's a moighty foine thing that I had tee laugh first." may. however, having influence, be lowed to import duty free. Wholesale Alton Ilninlaa.la.

A number of important changes In ftl management of the Alton will be mttJl on January 1. Among tb changes are n-eral Pa.ssengr Agent James Chut ton. Col. J. H.

Wood, general manager's and A. V. Haetweli, gene.ru! punfhaF. ing agent, all of whom will be retired. Vice-President Chapelle says 'Jhese middle-aged ladles inclined to obesity win not be setn fighting for tickets at the turnstiles.

Of a not dissimilar nature is a project to press the Church of the Sacred Heart into the service of the exhibition, and to connect it with the main show on the Seine by means of steered balloons. The latter will ply to and fro above the roofs of the houses in the sam manner as do omnibuses and trams in the streets. The Church of the Sacred Heart is a colossal building, which for the past twer.tv years has been slowly rising on the heights of Montmartre. but apart from the original method of transit, it Is difficult to see how the project would enhance the attraction of the exhibition. A numerous class of proposals embody the employment of the Eiffel Tower in one form or another.

An ambitious individual would f.et off the proportions of the tower by building a mammoth Are de Triomphe over It. He ilneq not state the time thftt A CHILD BRIDE. A Girl of Fourteen Weds a Boy of Twenty. KANSAS CITY. 20.

A wedding at the Court Houise discloses the fact that the groom is but 20 years old and the bride only 14. She is the youngest bride In the history of Jackson Co. Frank H. 1 arker is the groom's while the brtda is Margaret Annie Engle. They are both from the Brush Creek neighborhood, and their parents are farmers.

Thev were accompanied to the Recorder's office by the girl's father, who gave his consent to the marriage. As fooh as the license was issued Justice Ross went with them into a nearby room and said the few words that made them man and wife. Neither the bride nor groom appeared to be nervous. He is a big, strong man, and his hands and face fchow the effect of toil and exposure. The bride, notwithstanding her few years, Is apparently as large and well-developed as the ordinary girl of IS or 19 years.

They were very reticent, but they did not seem to bo bashful. When afked ubout the wedding they simply said they did not want their names in the changes are due to change in system! orgaT.iiation and in no way reflect oil the retiring officers. Mr. Feitou, the View president, being familiar with th details of every department, will laigely dirot their work himself, making it unnecessary to -P-eep so large a staff. Mr.

Chapelii utated also that he expected to retire by January 1, or soon thereafter, but the matter had not been determined. woud elapse before his building would lv finished or how the money lor tne jnnor and material would be forthcomiiig. Simi lar trifles do r.ot trouble the mlr.d of the pr per. "They are inhabited by a warlike race of Malays, who in early times were converted to Mohammedanism by the Arabs. The population is estimated at 110,000,1 n-cluding 20.0UO or more fighting men.

"They have always been a eiiiieult peo- gle to rule, and at the time of the recent panlsh evacuation there was an uprising which threatened to overthrowthe present sultan before the Americans could arrive, and which, had it succeeded, would have left us to deal with a condition of civtl war throughout the archipelago a condition we may have to face unless we are very carefuL" A REMARKABLE METEOR. It Fell in the Early MorniBff Near a Gronp of Xevtsbor. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.

A most remarkable meteor fell at Vandeventer avenue und Morgan street early Monday morning. At least that is what W. B. Haley, a newsdealer at No. 1004 North Vandeventer avenue, a dozen or more newsboys and two negroes solemnly assert.

And Mr. Haley, in proof of his declaration, exhibits the "meteor" itself. This is his story: "Just after 6 o'clock I went down to Morgan street to start my boya out on the suburban cars and see- after some missing papers. All at once there was a bright light overhead that made even the electric lights seem dim. I looked up and saw the meteor coming nearly straight down and moving very rapidly.

Its flight, after I saw it, lasted, perhaps, two or three more seconds. There was a big, reddish globe of fire, about the size of a football. Behind it was a tail, a yard and a half long, cf a- bluish-green color and intensely bright. The meteor struck the granite pavement between the two tracks on Vandeventer avenue, about sixty feet north of Morgan street. Immediately there- arose from the spot a burst oi flame and many-colored sparks, like Fourth of July fireworks.

This laeted several seconds longer and was accompanied by a hissing sound. gentleman who would erect taree new Kiffel Towers by the side cf the present one, build a platform at the summit, and car. the whole bv a fifth tower 6uo ft'et 'n heleht. The invasion of the skies, how EYE OPEXERS. TVhr cry for the Moon, ray tree Is there of toys txich.

m. rt.hT Why, child, you want more thtn jour dl-l. For he only atka for the Earth. Letroit Free "Is thU tha crackKi wheat. Jane?" flun' know.

ain't looked at St cr it, If It's cricked ut rr.kd sXare I coma here." Chlcaga Iteoord. ever, finds a fitting counterpart In susrt est Ion to drive a shaft into the ground Santa Claus is a diligent reader of tho advertising columns. Oin IXSULAil POSSESSION'S. Prospects of Form of Government For IfawnMti Ilu.ndn. WASHINGTON.Dec.

20. After the holiday recess, probably immediately following the passage of the gold standard bill, the Senate is expected to take up the bill to provide a government for In executive Fesion thu Samoan agreement for the partition of the Islands will receive prompt endorsement.There are signs of Democratic opposition to the assumption of sovereignty by the United States over the island of Tutuilo. Bacon, of Is jnakiug, the point that the wishes of the natives of that ieland have not been consulted. He wants to know where the title comes from to govern a people wilhout their consent.Thls absurd proposition scarcely will be pressed. The disposition in the Senate la to dispose of the subject with little delay as possible.

The good feeling between Germeny, Great Britain and the United States over the partition of the Samoan group hss brought forth many letters of congratulation, whichhave re tched the White House and the Senate. Most of the letters suggest that, as Great Brltian has been treated 'with great friendliness by the United State, it wil be pleasing to the Emperor, the German Government and the German residents of this country if the courtesy of a prompt ratification is shown to Germany. Two resolutions offered in the Senate locking to recognition of the Filipino independence and expressing anti-expansion sentiments are likely to provoke a discussion of this subject. One resolution Is --frora Bncon, of Georgia, disclaiming any disposition on the part of t'r-n United States to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control of the Philippines, and the other Js from Tillman, of South Carolina, of like import, but referring to the declaration of independence. the rules, Mr.

-Bacon, will recognized for a speech. Then Mr. Tillman iar be heard. It is probable that. Senator Hoar will follow, and this will gle the opportunity for Senator BeveriJgn.of Irsdiapa.in whose speech upon the Philippines great interest is felt, heoause of his recent viit to the new Pacific -possessions.

When the proper time com is to dispose of the subject, the r.aeon and Tillman resolutions Will 'be laid cmi the table, like that of Pettlgrew, which received such short thrift last week. It is the intention to deal summarily with all anti-expansion resolutions in the Senate except the courtesy of a speech is tothe depth of 3.000 feet, the said tnaft to be provided with restaurr.s, music halls, for the benefit of those wno prefer taking their meals in the atmosphere of a co-l mine instead of above ground. The scheme, at any rate, has the merit of novelty. Similar proposal thre Askum Do approve of "Christ- i tuna" to Tflluin I wish I eouH. It usually costs a or an I'd be wiHnic to Rome, which i3 known as the Consuita Iteraldica, will be given sometime towards the middle or end of January, and that he has taken the necessary steps for the purpose.

This is a virtual admission that he has been to say the least somewhat premature in his assumption of the title of Marquis, which figures neither in the semi-official annual of Italian nobility, nor yet in the November number of the monthly omcial list of the Italian diplomatic corps, Issued by the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Rome, a copy of which has, lately reached me from the Eternal city. are in abundance, ail more or less use- The Toy Mission has 40,000 gifts to distribute; the Salvation army will entertain guests on Christmas day, and the Association for tho Improvement of the Poor will ht 'p spread happiness in byways and dark places. The city's reputation for benevolence and good deads is likely to be greatly enhanced by the record made this year. les and unpractical. It to raaa lr my wire woulu ajree.

Alleged Stolen Good. Received. "Do yju believa that Presbyterians ar ruot rona people Fetectlves Denlnston and McTighe ar llCKS "Naw; I know a Presbyterian riri whcs rested William Miller, employed as a car tten; ton scared a young- Methodist clergy packer at the Baltimore and Ohio depot. on Tuesday night, on suspicion of robbing the cars. His home is at Etna.

When man clear out of the satt." Ind.anapoii JoamaL Tcmmy-Mnmt had a. lot of tMir sent heme C. O. V. today.

Whet rtoee C. O. tuan searched et Central Station, two bottles of whiskey and two fancy salt-shakers Tromy' Father O. in-ans "Cnl on I-'ad." Philadelphia Press. Ginnit President should have were found in his clothes, which were paid to have stolen.

R. E. Pvle, the ehlpplnar clerk Kt the depot, made infor The cadets of West Point have now decided to abolish hazing. This i3 one of the things they can do better than their superiors, Mcnellk of Abyssina Is now credited with hostile designs toward John Bull. His name and the first part of the name of his country may be significant of his fate if he carries out the intention.

invhen the stear.i and smoKe nad cieared mation againxt him yesterday, charging1 THE KHALIFA'S EMESIS. LONDON, Dec. 19. Sir Francis Reginald Wlngate, who has crowned his many achievements by accomplishing the defeat uid deafh of the tyrant of the Soudan, leceived his Lieutenant's commission In the Royal Artillery in July, 18S0. He served in the Nile campaign of 1SS4-5 as acting aide de camp nd miliary secretary to the Major General on tho lines of ct.mmunlcation, and received mention in' the dispatches, brevet rank of Major, fourtn class of the Medjidie medal, with clasp, and Khedive's star.

He was again engaged in the Soudan frontier operations in 189, and was again mentioned In the dispatches relating; to the batUe of ToskL He took part also in the operation of 13-91. Including the c-ipture of Tokai. and received an additional Eryptian decoration. In Lord Kitchen r's last two campaigns he acted as director of military intelligence, and received further praise frcm Lord Kitchener and promotion in the army, in which he is now Colonel. He was also made a Knitrht Commander cf St.

Michael r.nd St. George. Sir Reginald Wingate was made a C. B. In 135.

after he lad filled for a time the post of Governor of Snakin. He accompanied the special mission to King Meue-lek. of Abyssinia, and holds the "Star of Ethiopia." He also an Austrian order for his achievement effecting the escape of Father Ohrwalder from Khartoum. Sir Reginald Wingate never tested until he secured the release of the MahoTs and the Khalifa's captives, and when Ntufeld was rescued in Khartoum it was to Wingate' quarters- be waa taken to have Urn fetters knocked off." message a remedy for th; trus.1 evil. Furr It Perhaps that's apretty hard thing do.

Rim wun Jarceny. a search warran: was Issued and in a search by Detective Deninstoa of Miller's home, a gold-mount- Uinr.tt Ar.y tool can do It; I' show yo i Press. I ei gifts pitcher was found, which Mr. Pylc- claims was reported to have been stolen. Miller confessed tc have given a Poor Patint I Rent for you.

dofr. KOMASCB OF A HERMIT. Man Who LlTed Alone Fo Fifty Years. STROUDSBURG, Dec 20. Chasing a bear into the dense woods of Pike (Musty, a few miles from Dingmans, a party of hunters csme across a cave.

Upon investigation ft was found t' bo inhabited by Austin Sheldon, an aged man, who for the past fifty years has occupied it ac hl.i home. The man was sick, bu refused aid, saying he was well able to for himself Sheldon said: "Here I have lived for years, and hero I hope to die. I want no oth.r company than thess mountains end woodi give me. AH I ask of my fellows is that they will leave me to follow in peace my own desires." Whc-n quite young Sheldon was maried. His bride dMrd after a few weks and he left the world.

Sheldon says he corn--n from Connecticut, and that his people arc in sood circumstances. Inquiry at Dingmana and Miliord found that the man's tory was true. live- mostly on vegetables and chickens raiseu Bufe know yci ar a pbyuklan. bu I ftel It my tiuty to infcarm you that have' fit over J-i to my name. woman, living on trie two collarettes, which the ofheers also found.

Dr. Clefee Very well, then, we must trv P. R. R. May Get W.

X. Y. P. to cr you as noon a possible Tork Weekly. ooys crovoea arouna me spot whereShe meteor had fa-llen.

One of them over the largest pice with his foot, and it sizzled on the damp paving stones just as if it were hot. It was stiil quite warm when I got hold of it. The ground for a yard or so around was covered with a fine white powder, and small fragments of white stone. I don't pretend to know anything about meteors, but that one certainly came out of the sky. It could not have come from anywhere else." The newsboys tell practically the satte story as Mr.

Haley. The "meteor" is a white piere of limestone about three inches long and weighing' five ounces, it has the appearance of a healed Ftone that has been in water, but still shows quite plainly marks that ressrTible fossils found in ordinary limestone. Several persons of a. scientific turn of mind have examined it and agree that it is wholly unlike any meteor ever ettii before borrow any moner from you?" "DM "Borrow; how can I tell unlm he return Lord Roberta is fc7 years old. Yet he has been called upon to accept thj responsibilities, the hard work, the drudgery of directing the campaign in South Africa a difficult task, in which a vounger man has failed.

The new com-mandlug general erteren the British army when a youth, and gained the Victoria Cross for gall( tury at the age of 23, daring the Indian mutiny. Ha performed many great feats, and has long been a hers. It seem. a' hard' thing to set a haro- whe ia- almost a scptuaglnarlaii a Lii to. Teacher What la the feminine of ms.1T SIIAMOKIN, Dec.

20. Spectal.) It is stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad will absorb the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad. This rtad the most important connecting link of the Allegheny Valley and its tormina; tt Ntw Castle sre of great importance. By means of New Camle extension of the Western New York and Pennsylvania and the Erie and Pittsburg road, the Pennsylvania could secure the sh.ortet possible route to Buffalo, Contempt to Rnllroad Conimlsnion'. L.

J- Polk, manager of the Santa Fe, the subject cf an Innovation In railway commission history. The Texas Railroad Commission arraigned him Tuesday at Austin for contempt. Mr. Polk recently criticised the actton of the commission in reducing the rate on oats. After spending th dy In arguing over the cse the commission rurned a verdict of guilty and fined Mr.

Polk $1-0. LitliB tUrl Dud Harleir Life. "He's a very versatile you.ig "Indeed!" "Tes: there isn't anv kind of work ths he cant shirk." rhlladeiprJa Horxii American. by himseli..