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New York. land ana Germany agree the former will be allowed to fight out her South African war at leisure and the peace of Europe will be preserved. As to That State Constabulary Bill. The Intention to urge a State Constabulary bill on the coming Legislature is announced. One was urged on the last Legislature and commanded neither the approval of the Senate nor the favor of Governor Roosevelt.

A belief is expressed that the Senate, which holds over from last year, and the Governor can now be relied on to favor tlie measure. Difficulty in getting it through the Assembly elect is not apprehended, for that body is so strongly Republican as to make party measures "secure." If the Legislature and Governor were Democratic and proposed such a measure as this, the Republican party would denounce It. Having the power in its own hands, the Republican party favors the measure. Of course, it favors it for Republican purposes. That goes without saying.

Democrats are everywhere denouncing the proposition, on principle, as well as denouncing the Republican partisan intention of it. This would also he expected. But solid Republican support of the idea need not be looked for, if the application of the bill to all the first class and second class cities in the state be Intended. Elmira, Rochester, Albany and Troy are now in Republican hands, or will be after next January, under mayors elected for four years, and with a charter for all of them, which the last Legislature passed, which gives to those mayors extraordinary powers. A state coii MERINO UNDERWEAR MEN'S.

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They may be educated to a different view, but they are not non partisans to day. Yet, in spite of its impracticalities, the league's charter is not without some value. Its framing is an indication of a wholesome public unrest. The people are not satisfied with what they have and they are feeling around for a better waj. They will not find it In a moment, but will build it for themselves little by little as they progress.

In this state not much more will be done in charter building for a long time, as we have for New York City a charter which in its general provisions is reasonably satisfactory and as the Legislature last winter passed a charter for the second class cities of the state, that will go into effect on January 1. It is inevitable that some amendments will be made to each document this winter as experience proves that the theories embodied in it were impractical. All discussion of "ideal charters" and all argument about the relative merits of various amendments to existing charters are educative, but we need not think for a moment that any legal rules which do not conform to the habit of thought of the people will change that habit. The rules will be twisted and broken if need be to conform to the will of the majority. Colonel Austen and the Thirteenth.

The selection of Colonel David E. Austen again to command the Thirteenth Regiment is a compliment to him of an uncommon sort. This, we believe, Is his third election to the office. It should also be a benefit to the regiment, which is sadly In need of the qualities which Colonel Austen has twice before employed to its advantage in difficulties. The Colonel is an excellent soldier to make a body of men into a regiment of soldiers, and to keep them so.

The Thirteenth, owing to vicissitudes which need not be recalled, is in a condition demanding knowledge, firmness, experience and the possession of public influence and of public confidence in its commandant. In the past. Colonel Austen has been called a martinet. May be he is and may be he is not. If he is, then the kind of martinet he is is the kind the Thirteenth should have over it.

In any event, the prospects of the regiment are a thousand per cent, better because of his election than they were before he was elected. We congratulate tlie organization and the Colonel. He will have hard work to do, but that is the kind he likes. The regiment will have to undergo a great deal of experience at his hands, but it is precisely the experience which the regimeut requires. A regiment is a body of soldier citizens.

As soldiers, it is a body to defend law and enforce order in emergencies which are apt: to occur. As citizens, those soldiers comprise a series of company clubs, housed in excellent armories by the state. The conjoint military and civic character of these soldiers make the national guard, or the citizen soldiery or the militia representative of much that: is of substance and of merit in our public life. Wjth a competent commandant, the Thirteenth can lie brought back to its former excellence, popularity and efficiency. It lias that commandant in Colonel Austen.

JAMES McCREERY BROADWAY 11TH ST. New York. whom they can pose while undergoing it. The best way is to leave the direction of our penal institutions to those who have made a life study of them and who are often confronted by exigencies that officials do not reckon upon. If an inmate is refractory beyond bearing all purposes would be served if the superintendent submitted the case to the board of managers and secured their sanction to inflict corporal punishment.

Governor Roosevelt In this instance has rejected expert advice and taken the side of the sentimentalists. Dr. R. R. Meredith and Yellow Journalism.

Tlie Rev. Dr. It. R. Meredith came here to day to say that, he was victimized and misrepresented in the vilest way by the World of this morning.

It revmnped a scandal, several years old. that never got into court and that never concerned any church organization, social organization or other official body. It bears a relation to the late Rev. Dr. Edward Beeeh er and to relatives of his and members of his household, in his lifetime.

By the narrative Dr. Meredith is represented as an informant or as a sponsor. He declares that this is false and cruelly unjust; that he is neither a sensationalist nor an abettor of sensationalism, and that, he did his best to prevent and prohibit publication of matters to which he bore, in the past, no relation hut. that of a friend and the pastor of Edward Heechor. Dr.

Meredith adds that a person who called on him. on Monday, said he was "an editor." not a reporter, "of the New York that he. Dr. Meredith, told that person the grave injustice which rumors, mentioned by this Herald man. did to the character of Edward Beecher and that he impressed on this man the confidential character of the very brief statement made to him and secured from this man the recognition of its confidential character and the promise that nothing whatever should be published.

Dr. Meredith's statement, as made here, carried weight of conviction with it, not only from the honesty and honor of his character, not only from the obligation and habit of his sacred office, but also from his standing as a decent citizen and a manly man, who is circumstantially corroborated by every incident which he presents concerning the case. After the experience which Dr. Meredith had with Ids newspaper caller, followed, apparently, the two column sensation of defamation and dirt in the World where it is starred to day. Dr.

Meredith says that no World man saw him at all on Monday, that the only man who saw him claimed to be an editor of the New York Herald on Monday. He adds that, to day. a man from the World, or who said iie was from the World, came to see him further upon tlie matter, and admitted that tlie World got its story from the person who figured as "an editor of tlie Herald" to Dr. Meredith, on Monday. Tlie measure of manufacture which lias resulted from what Dr.

Meredith declares was a talk of less than five minutes, and which was given under promise of confidence and of non publication, can lie inferred by any reader. We may add that the Eagle was in possession of this stuff on Monday, but did not use it, because it injured tlie living, defamed the dead and concerned nobody in any respect that could be decently or defeusibly presented. The allegation is Hint a relative of Edward Ileecher and an inmate of his household fell into immorality and that Dr. Edward Beecher at lirst sustained them in their wrong. One of the persons thus involved has lately figured in print as a bride to be.

deserted in advance of her wedding by a person named Guilbert, who is suspected of having put out a report of his death, in order to cover his disappearance. The Eagle has been concerned in finding whether this person was murdered or committed suicide, or is simply in hiding. He was either the victim of an accident or of a crime, or is trying to make the woman and the public the victims of a fraud. The woman affected brought the case to police knowledge and to newspaper knowledge and asked the aid of the authorities and of the press to solve the mystery. That was legitimate.

The "enterprise" that ghoul islily goes far backward, to degrade the woman, to compromise another person and to defame the memory of Edward needier, is neither relished nor emulated here. The device of stealing the confidence of Dr. Meredith, in order to betray it. to deform it and to sell the perversion for money, is a kind of journalism not here tolerated or pursued. The impish skill of representing a clergyman as a sponsor or instigator of the stuff which, as a gentleman and a citizen, he sought to suppress should carry any honor which it deserves away from these premises.

The indignation of Dr. Meredith, his sorrow and his shame are natural and commendable and entitle him to all the good defenses which his career and character can supply at a time when yellow deviltry litis made them sadly necessary. The Editor of the New York World, by any conception of human nature or even of human depravity that can lie formed outside of the pit. must have been imposed on by the person or persons who have made him the instrument and Dr. Meredith the living and Edward Beecher the dead victim of this hideous injustice.

That sort of "enterprise" is so monstrous that no one in the semblance of a human being can defend if or fail to denounce it. We may add. as a lining commentary or adornment on that injustice, that Edward Beecher was past 00 and a victim of progressive senile dementia, when the attitude and the words imputed to him are said to have occurred, of which yellow journalism makes so much in its columns to day. The Meteors. It is thought that Wie meteoric shower will appear in the small hours to night, on the rising of tlie constellation Leo.

At this writing the promise of clear weal Iter, in which to view the 'Spectacle, is not good: but there is no saying what the state of it may be in tlie small hours. In New Loudon the people will be aroused when the fall of lire begins, that such of the populace as chooses to do so may hurry out. of doors, or go to the windows and see it. A powerful factory whistle is to give ten blasts on the appearance of the "shooting stars." It is a delicate matter to suggest that of the same sort might be done hereabout, because there are a good many people who would not get up If the sky was falling, TUESDAY EVENIXC, NOVHM.I3ER 14. 1S99.

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iry cock suroncss to the beneficence of the result. (lovernoc Roosevelt has ordered there he no more pa'lrlling at tlie Elmira Reformatory. It is entirely safe to assume that this order has a governor the ri.trht to Issue such an order? was made without due examination into the matter, and it is a reflection on the oldest and ablest of the penologists in this state, whose request was for wider liberty in the control of his charges, that he should be refused in this peremptory fashion. (lov ernor Roosevelt is an odd and interest ins self contradiction. lie is constantly preaching the strenuous life, yet when others attempt to be strenuous he invokes the law against it.

We need law for the repression of crime, rather than for the protection and coddling of criminals after they are caught. It is the great, decent majority that is to be considered: not the offending few. Prisons are not to be controlled by the hysterical, the weak, the sentimental, any more than by the brutal and unfeeling. They are to be conducted ns thoughtfully as are schools and shops, and the great improvements that have been made within fifty years in housing, feeding, employments, discipline, education and reformatory work in our jails, penitentiaries and houses for the cure of criminal tendencies in the young are the results of the same experiment and work anil study that develop armies from mobs, and tliar make progress possible in schools. We should not expect even Governor Roosevelt, to charge into educational matters without, some (reparation, and order that present methods be changed forthwith in the arbitrary fashion he has shown in respect of the management of the prison school at Klniira.

The purpose of a reformatory is to reform. Tlie supersensitive wiio would change that purpose to mollycoddling are ridiculous. Ir often happens that a boy or young man endangers the safety of the institution and of its inmates by acts of Violence, an I more endangers it by persuasion to mutiny. Shall the superintendent in such a case fold his arms and let tilings take their course? By no means. A soldier would bo shot for some of the acts that have been perpetrated in the reformatory, and a soldier is a better citizen, usually, than a convict.

Consciousness of safely from physical punishment the only kind that the degraded really fear induces a repetition and continuance of acts that arc dangerous to the well being of the rebel's associates. Knowledge that his olleiise was to lie rewarded by a whipping would prevent tlie appearance of revolt. Why is it that Delaware has less crime than any other state? that she is tormented by fewer loafers and tramps? Simply because she has her whipping post, and the criminal (dement is afraid of if. And rhe men who are punished in the jail yard of are often the betters of the men who are used to being punished in Elmira. Covernor Roosevelt should know this: that a convict is never "paddled" except when he invites paddling.

It rests with rhe inmate of tlie reformatory whether he will learn his lessons, learn his trade, secure his ticket of leave and his discharge, or whether he will shirk and lie and foment discords and engage in mischiefs that must he slopped immediately and in such a fashion as will furnish a lesson in self control to the other occupants of the institution. When a flagrant abuse or defiance has to be dealt with the superintendent loses power and respect, to a dangerous degree, unless he has the means at his command to stop it instantly. Other methods of control have been suggested and are more or less in use. but not one of them is effective, because the criminal is not influenced by them as lie is by the smart of a spanking. Confinement alone or in dark cells has a depressing effect and Induces insanity rather than the cure of tempers.

Low diet on bread and water causes Illness. Chaining to a cell door, somewhat in the old fashion of the pil lyry, is tile way in some prisons, but while ir is tiresome, many criminals endure it in sheer bravado, that their fellows may see how bravely they bear it. But they never endure a whipping with equanimity, and there are no witnesses before The Municipal Programme of the Reformers. At tlie convention of the National Municipal League in 1807 a committee was appointed to present at a subsequent meeting "a broad basis for the reconstruction of governments in cities ripe for reform." The committee was composed of Horace E. Doming and Dr.

Albert Shaw of this city, Professor Frank J. Goodnow of Columbia University, Charles Richardson and Clinton Rogers Woodruff of Philadelphia, Professor Leo S. Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania and George W. Guthrie of Pittsburg. It has devoted itself for two years to the consideration of the subject referred to it, and has produced several constitutional amendments and a form of city charter which will be submitted at the convention of the league which meets in Columbus, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week.

Existing conditions are so bad that they cannot be cured, In the opinion of the league's committee, without amending the state constitutions, so the committee has drafted a series of amendments intended to give as nearly absolute home rule as possible. The cities are practically separated from the rest of the state and made independent political entities. The homo rule sections of tlie New York constitution are provisions for state rule in comparison with those suggested. But it must be admitted that the committee does not expect: the adoption of these propositions at once. It has greater hope for its charter.

This document is remarkable, for the reason than it embodies about all of the cures which the reformers have at one time or another prescribed for municipal ills. The fact that some of them have been administered in the past and subsequently discarded does not seem to have affected the faith of the league in them. The basic idea of the charter is centralization of power and fixed responsibility. The only elected officers are the Mayor and the Council. The members of the latter hold office for six years, one third of them lK'ing elected every two years.

The Mayor holds office only two years. Put. he may be re elected. He has the appointment of all heads of departments, save the Controller, who is chosen by the Council. The men tilling the minor positions must be selected with the assistance of a Civil Service Commission, and every one save tin Mayor and the Coimcilmeu holds office during good behavior.

The members of the Council are to serve without pay and they are to be elected on a general ticket, on the theory that "the ideal local legislature is conceived to be a standing committee of the body of citizens." The candidates for office are to be nominated not by the regular political parties in conventions, but by petition of the unorganized voters. The conditions around tlie sale of municipal franchises are such that it will be practically impossible to comply with them. This has been arranged deliberately, so that the city will be forced to provide for itself those things which private corporations usually supply under grants from the local authorities. Thus we see that, "the best municipal thought" is socialistic. It would have all railroads, all ferries, all electric light, heat and power, till gas and ill water supplied and managed and owned by 1lie city itself to the exclusion of private capital and private enterprise.

Without entering into the merits of this proposition we think that it may lie said that outside of the league there is no agreement on the wisdom of municipal ownership. There are still thousands of public spirited citizens who believe that the people in their corporate capacity should not do what the people in their private capacity can do as well. They believe that if we are to have great trusts they should be. managed by the men who have proved their fitness to conduct them successfully rather than by such Inexperienced men as might be put in positions of responsibility at a popular election. Such an arrangement leaves a wider field for the exercise of individual abilities than the socialistic system.

As to the unsalaried council elected on a general ticket, we had supposed that the experiment in Brooklyn with such a Board of Aldermen had proved the futility of this expedient for reforming the "standing committee of the body of citizens." The advocates of the old Brooklyn plan were confident that it was a panacea for local ills, but they were woefully disappointed. The men elected on the general ticket were in the long run no better than those elected from small districts. The honor of serving without pay did not attract those public spirited citizens of wealth and high position representatives of the minority who it supposed would fill the offices. But men who desired the opportunity of profiting by aldermauic perquisites sought and secured the nominations, sometimes spending as much as $1,500 for the privilege of serving the city for two years without pay. It was not long before the general aldermauic ticket was abandoned and salaries were paid to the members of the board.

The plan which did not succeed here will not succeed in any other city. The trial of what is called the ideal system in what must be admitted were ideal conditions proved that something was the matter either with the conditions or with the theory. The experiment of non partisanship has been tried with equally disastrous results, yet the league persists in advocating It. What the people may want at some future time we do not know, but it has been established to the satisfaction of most observers that the people will not act for any great length of time independently of their national political or WOMEN'S. 300 dozen, White Merino "Vests, ribbed, trimmed at neck and front.

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AMUSEMENTS. ANNUAL FAIR OF THE Orphan Asylum Society OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN, In the Assembly Rooms of the Academy of Music. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 15, 16, 17. 1'S. FROM IS M.

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J. FERGUSON. JOSEPHINE HALL And the Criminal Criterion Theater Citst. Next week Chaa. Frohrciun's Empire Theater in "Lord and Lady A Iffy." COLUMBIA Mr wra.

Jacob Litt's Stupendous Production, The Gigantic English Melodrama, SPORTING LIFE. TEIK GRKAT CAST. 10 Sfenes of Wondrous Boautv. The Soirited BoxinsISuut. The Exciting UorBe All ta Marvelous Features.

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CoJMI, Manager. WKDNTPDAY EVENING, November 15. ism. FIRST CIIAMUZSK MUSflC CONCERT, Given hy Mr. Alexander Ptlhm, pianist, assisted by Mr.

Merman Dietmann. baritone; Mr. Henrv Sehra dinck. violin: Mr. William J.

Maier. viola; Mr. Leo Schulz. 'collo. Programme: 1.

Trio (B flat), npiis VI, A. Rubinstein; 2. Three Hongs from Scheffel's "Trom peter." H. Bruckler; 3. Quartet (G opus 2c.

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NOVEMBER 11. 13, 10. 17. IS. GRAND EXHIBITION OF HORSES TUESDAY.

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JAXON In Do DAUC OPERA GO. In Donizetti's Beautiful Opera JCHTER OF THE STAR stabulary bill which overrode those pow ers, now in Republican hands, merely to get at New York, Buffalo, Syracuse and i TTtica, which are In Democratic hands, might not be popular with some Repub I lican senators and might endanger the re i nomination of the Republican Governor. On the contrary, if the bill exempted Re I publican cities and took hold of Demo cratlc cities, it would be so inconsistent that it could not be defended and probably could not be passed. The Republican programme may be more of a threat than a programme, and in either character may fail. In 1S9S.

Mr. Piatt thought he had a Senate elect. In January, 1899, and all through the session, Mr. Piatt found that the Senate was a Democratic body, so far as any interference with the police force of New York City was concerned. A requisite number of Republican Senators to destroy Republican control and to assure Democratic control of police legislation affecting New York City was obtained.

That arrangement held during the whole of last session. The claim then was that the arrangement was "good to the end of the term of the Senators in it." If that claim be correct, the Democrats will hold the Senate through the next session, on police legislation, as securely as they held it through the last session. We do not know whether this will be so or not. The belief is that it will be so, and that when i Mr. Piatt talks about controlling the Seu I ate in the next session of the Legislature lie is taking for granted more than he can bring to pass.

The subject is one for which to wait, not about which to get. excited. And the same "arrangement" defeated all efforts to make fee offices into salary offices in counties and may do so again. We shall see. There are several Republican Senators who are resolved "to do the fair thing by Democrats who do the fair thing by them." A state control of the militia long ago replaced local control.

A state control of education was long ago established above local control, and local control of it was made, by delegation of power, auxiliary and inferior to state control. State control of the excise question, years ago, superseded local control. So state control of the police of cities would not be so strange, or, perhaps, so objectionable, were it fairly provided and fairly carried out. But as it is now projected, the Republicans would better have the United States Regular Army brought in as a state constabulary force than a mere McCullagh army of state political mercenaries. Between the proper consideration of a state constabulary and the Republican partisan provision of one Is a difference to bo regarded.

And if the Democrats got the governorship, with the powers of a state constabulary in their hands. Republicanism might long be sorry that it ever gave to them such a potential instrument for use. The Literary Drama. Brooklyn will get its first taste this week of the drama which has been a prominent development of the literary history of European countries during the last half, and especially the last quarter, of the century. In England and America our drama has almost nothing to do with literature.

Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones, it is true, print thoir plays which are acted, but their published copies have small circulation and absolutely no influence upon the literature of the time. In European countries part of the acted drama hns literary value. Ibsen in Norway, Suderman and Haupt man in Germany, Giacosa in Italy and Eschegaray in Spain, influence the literary thought of their time by the plays which they write for tlie stage. Various attempts have been made to introduce some of the dramas of one or other of these playwrights in this country, but the first which met with a hearty response for oven a single evening was the performance of Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Carnegie Lyceum last spring. The audience on that occasion was larger than the hall would hold, and that fact led Mr.

John Blair to arrange a series of five performances, one 'each month, for 1his winter, at which representative dramas of this sort should be given. Subscriptions were readily obtained in i Manhattan and requests for a repetition of the series came from Boston and Wash ington. Mr. Blair also decided to give one performance, at least, in Brooklyn, to ascertain whether there is a public in this borough for that sort of drama. The series will open in Manhattan on Wednesday evening with "El Gran Gal eoto" by Eschegaray, preceded by a one act drama, "The Rights of the Soul." by Giacosa.

Eleanora Duse created the chief character In this Italian drama on its i production and on this occasion the part will be played by Mary Shaw, whose per formance of Mrs. Alving in "Ghosts" last spring marked her as an actress of remarkable intellectual insight as well as of emotional power. In the Spanish play Mr. Blair will act Ernest and will be assisted by Miss Ann Warrington, Miss Florence Kahn and Mr. Arthur Forrest.

The performance of Wednesday night will be repeated at the Montauk Theater on Thursday afternoon. It is unfortunate In some respects that Mr. Blair chose to begin his series with "El Gran Galeoto." The Ibsen dramas and most of the others of his school which have become known here study life in detached impulses, instead of as a whole, after the Shakspearean method. "El Gran Galeoto" is a study of the effect of gossip ui)oii conduct. To the American mind the effect seems out of all proportion to the cause, and the drama is irritating for that reason.

But the work has had a marked influence on Spanish literature and Giacosa is one of the strong literary forces of Italy. For this reason the opportunity to learn what their dramas are ought to interest American students, regardless of what they may think of the message after they have heard it. It is that spirit of inquiry which has brought out the large Manhattan subscription for this series, 'which will include plays by Ibsen, Suderman, Hauptman and a new play by Edward Martyn, an Irishman. This is "The Heather Field," which has been given in London and is being translated for theaters in Berlin and Vienna. Americans have long been noted for their enthusiastic interest in the literatures of other countries, but the desire to study drama in action the stage is a new and interesting development.

POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. General Clpriano Castro, the new President of Venezuela, Is but 36 years old. He is well educated and has spent several years in Europe. Of the twenty one people who figured in Bicknell's painting, "Lincoln at Gettysburg," General Oliver O. Howard is the only survivor.

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Neither Ladysmith, Kimberley nor Mafeking has fallen under the Boer assaults. Some 14,000 British troops have readied Cape Town, of whom about 8,000 have continued to Durban and some of whom have arrived. Nine troop ships, with 11,000 men, are due at Cape Town to day. This means that the preliminary period during which tlie English were bound to be at a disadvantage in the war is Hearing its close. It is not yet ended and there are difficulties and delays in regard to the commissariat which remind one of our own troubles in Cuba and make us believe that our Algerian administration was not so exceptionally incompetent, after all.

It will be from ten to fourteen days yet before the reinforcements can reach either Ladysmith or Kimberley. That gives time for a Boer victory at either place, but the arrival of the large bodies of troops in South Africa marks the beginning of that preponderance of power which must inevitably end the war with British conquest. There is no indication of a shortage of either ammunition or provisions at Ladysmith and the garrison seems to lie equipped for the remainder of its siege. Even less news comes through from Kimberley and Mafeking. hut the garrisons there have not.

been frightened out of their relish for a joke. Some time since Mafeking supplemented 1he historic one mule of Matanzas by reporting one dog killed, and now from Kimberley comes the report of damage to a cooking utensil from the enemy's fire. General Bullet has apparently not abandoned his plan of a march from Cape Town through the open country of the Orange Free State across the Yaal. The time set for the start of that expedition is Christmas and the General is separating the troops which arrive at Cape Town, sending some commands entire to Durban, for the relief of White, and retaining others at the Cape for his proposed march to the mountains. That does not look as if lie had any idea of a short war, but neither does it indicate fear of General White's capture.

In that case all tlie troops would be sent on to Durban at once. Meanwhile England Is preparing for a reinforcement at home even more valuable than the arrival of her troop ships. That is the coming visit of the German Emperor. The Queen is preparing a fani ily reunion in her grandson's honor, and there are to be national festivities on a large and imposing settle. The Emperor i has enlarged his suite to include two ministers and three military attaches.

Much effort is being expended on both sides to give the visit the appearance of a cordial interchange of good will between the nations. That will check any foreign combination whicli may have sprung up to cripple England in case of Boer victories. Germany lias been in the triple alliance with Italy ami Austria, land, with the Emperor arrayed on tlie side i of England, any combination against her I would be limited to Russia and Franco. That alliance against England and Germanyto say nothing of and the United States, which loom dimly in the background as possible British allies will not be made. So long ns Eng.