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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MONDAY. JANUARY 4. IDOL 4 BUSINESS NOTICES.

BUSINESS NOTICES. MOOAV JAM. 4. 11MH. denies toward harshness of conduct, narrowness of ylew, and the maintenance of old world prejudices and false We have a hard task in keep-, ing order among the disorderly crew that prosperity has brought upon us, but If those In iKiwer will do their duty to the orderly element, as Judge Marr has done it.

trades uuions will still lack the authority which they hope to exercise over the free communities of the land, and we shall still enjoy a government that will represent tho virtues of the people. meals a day. HiP Totter deplores the increase of iustltutlonalism. Meanwhile Mrs. Charlotte Stetson-Perklns-Gilman is or was trying to invent an institutionalise wliiih will do away with family cooks ami relegate dishwashing to a union, whose members will work ouly eight hours a day.

If we are to cvolutc In all these various directions Mrs. Per-kins-Stetson-Giluiiin'g evolution should come first. Until we get a co-operative housekeeping which puts a restaurant ou every block anybody who proposes to substitute minds for meals is an enemy of her country. By the next century our descendants may be able to cultivate beauty on a breakfast food and two religions, but any attempt to bring into the world such an esthetic regime before its time by violence can benefit ouly the dtK'tors. Three square meals Is a sounder basis for expansion than any conjuring with brain cells that has ever been sees tleit tlie Southerners, having to live with the negro question, should be allowed to settle it and that Southerners on tlie whole handle it better tliau Northerner do.

Perhaps this outbreak at Sheffield will convince Mime of the few remaining theorists that ratv prejudice is not confined to the South, but is a matter of blood. If it gives the North a more vivid idea of thediihciilly of the situation lu the South, where negroes are a large part of the it will not have happened hi vain. Tlie action of the school author-ties was dictated by the practical ueces-sitits of tlie situation. But it was directly at variance with the theory which lias leen proclaimed from Massachusetts as proper lor the South. When Massachusetts people are unable to apply their tneories iu their own territory they may grow a little more tolerant of people outside that state who refuse to accept tiieni.

Facts are stubborn things and the antipathy to the social equality of the races is a deep-seated fact and is quite as bitter in Massachusetts as anywhere else when the question is brought home to the people there. TIJT(galtlhy ffif i good and ffly I good babies usually nIs. viiy I owe their health to good jK I I food food that require the Th i least digestion, least amount of labor by the stomach. Tha NS Mil Ideal food for Infant, invalid or In fact, Mil ereryone. Is the new table delicacy, I kl CORN SYRUP I flf rfk.

TJ" Greut Spread tor Daily Bread. 11 PA Pre-dlgested, ready to be used by the ffil iJ blood as soon as it enters the stom- ffM Vy3 55k'LrClV aoh benoe the food for little folks. jf Mlf Supplies energy, strength, vigor. Mf iM va Sold 1 airtight, friction-top tins. JMf lc-.

2Sc and iuc at ell grocerm. Jw noon All Mayors, Governor and Presidents have taken otlice at uoon of the tirst day of their terms. If Mr. Delany is right, a great deal of mayoral action has been wrong and uiight be attacked. A blanket at retroactively validating such action would lie as unconstitutional as the uuconstitiilioual acts themselves.

What is or was unconstitutional cannot lie cured by statute. Nor can mayors he inaugurated at midnight without mi absurdity bordering ou the grotesque. We shall lie surprised, if Mr. Dclany's contention is judicially sustained. The production of confusion or of chaos is a result that courts do not covet iu the decision of constitutional questious.

Nor is Mr. Fitzgerald's claim unaffected by the probability that had Mayor Low antecedently designated him to succeed himself, this proceeding would not have beeu heard of. We shall be surprised, if it does not appear that Mr. Fitzgerald's friends asked Mr. Low to redesignate him in advance of the expiration of his term.

Nor should it be forgotten that Mr. Low's Corporation Counsel, George L. Rives, advised him that his anticipative designation of Mr. Clark was within the legal power of the mayor. If so, the right of the Mayor to accept Mr.

Kives' declaration will not be popularly questioned, however it may be judicially decided. That contention may be avoided in the future, we should not disfavor nu act of the Legislature to extend the terms of future General Sessions judges, to be appointed to the end of ihe first month of a new major's term. That would prevent the recurrence of the situation now presented. And it must be admitted that Mr. Van Wyck's zeal to "head off" Mayor Low and the latter's zeal to "head off" Mayor MeClellun are acts which would make the records of both "better by their ab Thii Paper has a Circulation Larger than Out of any other Evening Paper oi its das in the United States.

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For rost of advertising arnly or sent for rate curd or make h.uuli-y Ly teleiuione. A Rather Singular Situation. There is a tribunal callt'tl Hit! Cmirt of Special Sessions. Its members now serve fin' ton years ami their salary is a year. The second division of that Court deals with the cases in Brooklyn, tiiieeus and Stalcu Island, which tall within its very moderate limits of power.

There are ten judges or members of that division. it was instituted in provision was made tiiat the first ten members should lie appointed in way to make the term of one of them expire every two years, his successor, however, to servo ten. The appointment was vested in the On January 1 of every second year the term of a mayor expires by law at noon. On December every second year, the term of one of the original ten members expires tit midnight. The mayor's term is, -therefore, twelve hours longer than that of the judge whose term thus expires.

On December SI, 1001, Judge Patrick Keady's term expired, but on January 1, 11)02, Mayor Van Wyck reappointed him, for ten years more, before the hour of noon, when Mr. Van Wyck's term expired. Mr. Keady Is now on the third year of his second term. The Judge, whose term expired on December 81, IflOS, is Thomas W.

Fitzgerald of Staten Island. Two or three days before leaving office Mayor Low named Appleton L. Clark of Staten Island, Kepubllcau, to succeed Thomas W. Fitzgerald, Democrat, on the expiration of his term. Mayor McCleBau has Ignored that designation and has undertaken to appoint Mr.

Fitzgerald to be his own successor. Both Clark and Fitzgerald have taken the oath of oilice. The Corporation Counsel has advised, the Mayor that Mr. Clark was not legally designated. There are thus two claimants for the place.

Superficially, it would seem that, if Mayor Low erred In designating Mr. Clark, then Mayor Van AVyck erred in designating Mr. Keady on the morning of January 15X12. But Mr. Van Wyck did not re-designate Mr.

Keady till several bom's after Mr. Keady's term had expired and Mayor Low designated Mr. Clark to succeed, Mr. Fitzgerald, when the latter's term should expire, several days before his term did expire. The Keady reappointment was made after a vacancy had actually occurred.

The Clark designation was made in advance of a vacancy and in anticipation of it. Mr. Keady's redesignation by Mr. Van AVyck was not questioned by Mr. Low.

He took the ground that the legislation which made Mr. Van M'yck Mayor till noon of January 11)02, vested in Mr. Vail AVyck all the powers of his oilice till that hour. Mr. Low also took the ground' that his term and powers as mayor did not end till January 1, 15101, at uoon, and that he had the right 1o designate Mr.

Clark to (succeed Mr. Fitzgerald, in tlie anticipative way which has been shown. Corporation Counsel Delauy has, as said, advised Mayor Mct'lcllau to tho double effect that an appointment, nutici-pative of a vacancy, is no appointmeut, for there is no place then to fill, and, 'secondly, tiiat the act which makes the mayor's term expire not until Hie noon born- d' first day of the first year of his successor, is contrary to the which, Mr! Delauy says, declares that his term shall expire at midnight of the last year of his two year teriu-vlich it says the term shali be two years. Now, this is a matter for lawyers, or, rather, for judges, to decide, but some facts can be recalled by laymen. Governor P.hick designated a Itepublican to be, or to 'become.

Chief Judge of the Appellate Division here, several days In advance of the expiration of the term of Judge Charles F. Brown, who held that place. (Joveruor Odell anticlpatively designated a sittiug judge of that court to become the presiding judge of it several days before the term of Governor Black's appointee expired. lov--ernor Odell also designated Justice Hooker to become a member of the Appellate Division here, days in advance of the occurrence of the vacancy, which did not exist until December Other Governors of both parties have done tin? same. Anticipative judicial deslguntions are the invariable hnbit of New York Governors.

The practice Is as prevalent as that of electing judges in Npvember to places that will not lie-come vacant (ill the actual close of tin: year. We fail to see how a vacancy, which Is to occur at a time set by law, cannot be anticlpatively filled, in the way Mayor Low pursued, unless the in variable habit of Governors of nil parties has beeu apparently wrong. It may lie that the law requires in terms these ad vance judicial designations. We think It does, but if it does, that very fact would seen to justify the Mayor In Indicating In advance his appointment to vacancy to occur before his term expires. If the term of the mayor, as expressed by law, contravenes the constitution, then Mr.

Keady was wrongly designated, and he is very fortunate that no one questioned his designation when It was jnade. Tin) constitutional question affects many nets done In the forenoon of the first day of the year, by retiring mayors. JFhey have signed ordinances In that fore Canal Treaty Before the Senate. The Panama Canal treaty was sent to the Senate this afternoon accompanied by a special message from the President. The ratineatiou of the treaty will be vigorously opposed from tho outset.

Mr. Morgan of Alabama is prepared to run counter to sentiment In the South rather than sacrifice his constitutional preference for being different Mr. Gorman of Maryland is expected to sustain Mr. Morgan because the opportunity to assair the administration is too tempting to be resisted by the leader of an opposition. Other Senators are ready to reinforce these two, but there is a better prospect of ultimate ratification now than there was some weeks ago before tho Legislature of Louisiana put itself on record for the treaty and before commercial interests lu Florida and Georgia had unmistakably expressed their choice.

It is well that the Senate should possess all the information obtainable regarding the secession of Panama and our relation to it, but we fail to see the reason for Senator Morgan's demand that Attorney General Knox shall submit to the Senate a detailed account of the negotiations with the Panama Canal Company. A discussion of these negotiations can have no bearing upon the canal treaty. The bargain with the company was made under the authorization of Congress and the legality of It was not questioned when the now deceased treaty with Colombia was under consideration. The transfer ot authority from Colombia to Panama iu no way affects the title of the French company to its property on the Isthmus. Even Mr.

Morgan Is not so foolish as to believe that a legal flaw in a deed would eject the United States from any of the real estate transferred by the Hay-Varilla treaty. In asking Mr. Knox for documents lie is merely sparring for wind. An Art Criticism. Tiie Eagle habitually recognizes and encourages genius.

The man who can take a picture printed months before, fortify it with a background suggesting the theme of the day and exploit the production ns other than an antiquity is a pictorial Ossiun who compels admiration. In the Friday Issue of a Manhattan evening contemporary to be more specific would be unkind there was an Illustration filling more than half a page, labeled "Unidentified Bodies in Front of Theater," referring to the Chicago tragedy. At tlie back was a suggestion of the often-described front of that ill-fated Iroquois structure. Bodies lay on the street pavement, a policeman and a citizen standing close to them, and there was a throng of men, women and children on the sldcwaik. The art feature made a strong impression in one of our South Brooklyn station houses, where the policeman portrayed is'Jwell known.

He is still there and has tiever strayed to Chicago, but in full uniform he is pic tured as gazing reverently at the Chicago victims; the hint of a tear In bis manly right eye, the left one obscured by a helmet bearing tho shield distinctive of New Yr.rk policemen and utterly unlike tlie wreath which adorns the headgear of Chicago guardians of the peace. The uniform was likewise of Brooklyn and not of Chicago. Everybody was puzzled till tlie mysterious policeman himself gave the clew to a solution. He explained that three bodies had been taken out of a Brooklyn fire some months before. Ho had been there and had been photographed.

"It's tlie same picture," he said, "but they've got a new background. Comment would be almost as odious as the offense, though it may be remarked that death In its most horrible form should nt least be free from Journalistic travesty. Ethics of Repose. No doubt any woman who keeps house for a poet Is justified In starting a don't worry club. That seems to be about the essence of the campaign against nerv-cti' iiess which Mrs.

John Vance Cheney opened in Carnegie Hall on Sunday. Campaign is really too aggressive a word, connoting too much strenuousness to fitly describe this new gospel, which would drive out not merely nervousness, but its kin, enthusiasm, in behalf of the higher life and the serener air. Undoubtedly nervousness Is a nuisance and nfldoubtedly it cau be overcome In large measure by cultivating serenity nnd mental poise. Undoubtedly, too, Illness comes from nn excess of worry about trifles iu many cases. Tho first duty of tlie race is to maintain good health, so Sirs.

Cheney or nny other apostle who banishes nervousness, or tight lacing, or foods fried lu fat, or any other of the causes of Illness, deserves well of her kind. But when a lecturer tells an audience tlint "food and regular horn's are not necessary when your nerves are In proper condition" she ought to be promptly suppressed in the cause of humanity. Nourishing food and regular hours of euting have more to do with the maintenance of health than almost anything else. One of the worst results of nervousness and worry Is an impaired digestion which leads straight to physical and nervous breakdown. Then this particular lecturer was talking to nn audience of women.

The preparation, or nt least the ordering, of meals is still largely a feminine function. Once impress upon women the Idea that the ne thought Is superior to bad food and yon let in the deluge. It is easier to cultivate half a dozen new thoughts than It Is to train a stupid cook, or to find a good oue whom some other woman has trained. It might even be easier for a pretty woman to coax her husband to go and listen to tho lecture than It would to rook his dinner. At the lecture he could be trusted to arise to an altitude of soul which would make Sherry's seem easy mid nn attitude of stomach which would make It seem desirable.

All that Is so much easier than just plaiu, old fashioned housekeeping that the prophets of new religions ought to be careful bow they tamper with, the traditional three The Attitude of Korea. lu all the news from the East there is a conspicuous absence of statement concerning the preferences of Korea In the quarrel which now threatens to disturb the quiet of this Land of the Morn ing Calm. We are too ready to assume that Korea would count for nothing In a struggle between Japan and Russia, that her people would stand Idly aside while two powerful adversaries wrestled on her soil for the privilege of playing suzerain from Fusan to the mouth of the Yalu River. But if the government at Seoul so chooses Korea can become a factor of considerable Importance In de ciding the Issue. Both Japan and Russia will disclaim any Intention of despoiling Korea of territory or of destroying her present semi-independent status, but even the sluggish intelligence of the Koreans can grasp the fact that Japanese victory will mean the strengthening of Japan's protectorate and that Russian victory will mean the speedy progress of Russia to the position of commanding in-1 fluence now held by Japan.

Korea is not fond of Russia, but she has no affec-! tlon for Japan, and the statesmen at Seoul are suspected of an inclination to fly to ills they know not of rather than bear those from which they now affect to suffer and which they wrongly attribute to the supremacy of Japan. For more than a thousand years Korea paid unwilling tribute to her island neighbor. On several occasions in past centuries Japan overran the peninsula with fire and sword. The legacy of hatred entailed by these invasions was iucreased in our own time by tlie summary action of Japan In compelling Korea to open her ports to trade. Korea bus never forgiven Japan for accepting Western civilization, nor has she yet grasped tho advantages springing from the forcible removal of herself from the category of hermit nations.

In 1805 Japan aggravated the situation still further by instigating or conniving at a conspiracy to overturn the Korean government, a conspiracy ending in the discomfiture of Japan in the murder of the Korean queeu and in the temporary ascendancy of Russia. In the whole course of her later relations with Japan Kora has witnessed a great increase of Japanese commerce through a development of Korean resources, hut she is unwilling or unable to realize that the growth of! those resources in great meas ure compensates her for the financial gaiu accruing to Japan at her expense. Korea is at heart hostile to her suzerain. A few years ago the Korean army was microscopic. It comprised four or five thousaud men equipped with antiquated weapons nnd entirely Ignorant of modern tactics.

Its peace strength Is now about seventeen thousand and Its armament is strictly up to date and should be effective in an encounter with either Russian or Japanese troops. Korean officers have acquired from European sources, mainly Russian, some knowledge of tlie theory of war, so that their leadership in crisis would not be altogether blind. Should Korea indulge her natural inclination to shake Off Japanese control there is no doubt that the Korean standing army would bo directed by Russian officers, who would see to It that recruits were forthcoming from the native population. This would so complicate the situation for Japan that the government at Toklo might require Great Britain to fulfill the terms of the Lansdowne-Hayashi treaty and come to the assistance of her ally with ships and men. The effect of such a step upon France and China might be to drag both into the vortex of a general war.

However, there are in this crisis several bridges that need not be crossed until we come to them. Of these the likelihood of a general war-is oue. The real danger of such a conflict lies rather In tlie uncertainty as to tho attitude of Korea than in the obligations imposed by diplomacy or by commerce upon the nations of Europe. In spite of all un official declarations to the contrary there Is no warrant for believing that there will be meddling in any Russo-Japanese war unless It bo Invited by the expression of Korean patriotism or prejudice. Safety In Theaters.

In one of our theaters, a few evenings ago, there was uo adequate ventilation. The atmosphere was hot and stale, and the heat so increased, as the evening wore on, that people began to be unpleasantly affected by it. At last a woman fainted. Three men and one or two of the ushers started to open some of the "safety exits," In order to allow the escape of the poisoned air, and to let in a trifle of fresh atmosphere from out of doors. They tried three of them In succession, nud not one could they budge.

Meanwhile the audience was watching their struggles with nu Interest as great as It had shown In tho piny, and the titter that followed the assault on the first door Increased to a laugh when the second resisted and was quite general when the rescue party retired from the third door, ballied. These doors were of absolutely no use. Their bolts were rusted iu place. The keys wero lost. Next day came tho news of the killing of an audience in a Chicago theater-a killing duo to tho greed of managers and corruption of ofilciuls.

That theater in Chicago was safer than the one In this city, where the doors could not be opened. No doubt the people who had watched the attempt to open the safety exits, and had laughed because it had not succeeded, had a moment of serious thought next day. The law is violated In every one of our theaters. We think that a safe James Longstreet. Whatever may have been his deficiencies as a strategist and tactician history must accord to James Longstreet the tribute due to a brave soldier whose courage commanded the admiration and affection of bis soldiers.

He may or may not have misunderstood Lee at Gettysburg. He may or may not have erred conspicuously in his investment of Burnside at Kuoxville. But throughout the entire couilict he was one of the trusted corps commanders of the Confederacy, because he had the confidence of the officers and privates who served under hiin. Men more brilliant than ho accomplished less because they had not this capacity to inspire personal loyalty. To the South-em soldier tlie nickname bestowed upon Longstreet implied as much as "Old Hickory" did to the riflemen who held the lines at New Orleans under Andrew Jackson, or ns "Old Kough and Ready" did to the columns that won Buena Vista under the eye of Zachary Taylor.

"Old Pete" Longstreet was still a young man when the Civil War began suggested that the Invention of tlie name was due to a general appreciation of tlie resolution and resource that excited the enthusiasm of tlie rank and file and brought Longstreet safely out of more than one nasty predicament. As for Lougstreet's career iu politics that Is something with which wo in the North have little or nothing to do. It is something with which tlie South is now but slightly concerned nnd with which tlie South of the future will concern itself not at all. War, not politics, made Longstreet conspicuous and by bis relation to that war, not by his relatiou to tlie political conditions that succeeded It, will "posterity judge him. "The unfading adniiratioYi and tlie uufprgettiug tenderness" that surrounded his deathbed will, we think, survive speculation as to what might have happened to ihe Confederacy had he done thus nnd so.

Strike at The strike now threatened in Pittsburg shows tiiat placating or pacifying labor is no easy matter. Wages in all lines are higher in Pittsburg than anywhere else lu the East, work has been abuudaul there for a good while and it is a towu' with more money for luxuries than almost any other of its size. The steel plants are tlie foundation upon which this prosperity Is built. Steel stock has-gone to the dogs this summer and tiie company announced a new schedule of wages, which ctit-the pay of the highest priced nieu severely aiitl of those earning less in a lesser proportion a process often reversed In scaling down wages. The high priced men many of whom own their own homes, have stock hi tlie corporation and money in the savings banks decline to accept the They have given the superintendent five days in which to adopt a scale which they are willing to accept.

If this Is not done strike threatens to spread to various outlying works of tlie company and to Chicago. Tlie men who make the demands are skilled workmen whom it is difficult to replace and they have capital for a long siege. The outcome cannot be even guessed nt yet, but tlie trouble shows that It Is always difficult to reduce wages, whether they are large or small, and whatever the condition of tlie business may be. There was once prodigal who insisted that his father should divide, giving him "his share." "What will you do when that is gone?" asked tlie father. "Oh, I can come back and we can divide again, tlieft." was the cheerful response-.

That sort of prodigal is not dying out. No Thugs as Citizens-Pennsylvania Is not a state to which we look in expectation of active leadership iu reform, but it has one Judge who deserves honor, not In his own commonwealth iilone, but throughout the country. Judge Marr Is tho man. lie will naturalize no more aliens who apply for the privilege of citizenship unless they can prove that they took no part In the labor union riots and outrages in tiie miners strike last year. The unions have recently shown themselves to lie ambitious of political control, especially lu Pennsylvania, where they crack the whip smartly over the shoulders of some of the so-called authorities, and it is in accordance with presumptive orders from tlie heads of professional agitators Unit the Poles, Lithuanians, Huns and Slavs, who represent the lowest grade of Intelligence, morals and social condition In that part of the state, live demanding admission to the right of the ballot.

Naturalization has been refused in Instances where the would-be citizens were so densely dull that they did not know when they camo to tills country, and It will be refused If tlie candidate is proved guilty of shar ing iu lights, boycotts, dynamiting and other illegnl practices. Every candidate will also be told that It is ills duty to give to others the liber ties he demands for himself; Hint he Is never to interfere with men who wish to work merely because he Is resolved not to. If we dan keep this rough, lawless, Ignorant class long enough to put it through the educational mill we shall not be the sufferers. Wo shall benefit by its brute muscle, which Is needed In a country where every oue has an ambition to be white handed and wear linen nnd we shall eradicate Its present ten- proposition. As nu army that neglected drill would prove ineffective iu time of emergency, so the playhouse that is safeguarded in a hundred ways on paper, is a death trap unless the safeguards are iu daily use.

No theater should remaiu open unless it has an asbestos curtain, adequate fire hose, exits that are opened after every performance, whether they are used or not, and it is not safe, ami never can be safe, when "standees" are permitted to obstruct the aisles and lobbies. Reform is needed, and the occasion for it has been horribly exemplified. VALUE OF EXPOSITIONS. They Leave Permanent Lessons In the Art of City Making. From the Chautauquan.

Each exposition has Its special spectacles, some transitory, some permanent. Philadelphia gained an art gallery and a horticultural building; Chicago, the Art Institute, the Columbian Museum and various minor buildings of more than passing value; Buffalo, its historical building and art gallery, the most beautiful public bliildings in tho city, and St. Louis will be enriched by notable additions to tho embellishment and equipment of the new campus of Washington University. Paris had its Eiffel Tower, Chicago its Ferris wheel, Buffalo its (Stadium, St. Louis is to profit by a gigantio model of Palestine.

Yet all of these, including the permanent perquisites to the city, are' eclipsed by the education tho citizens are receiving in the art of city making, through the admirable construction and management of these successive expositions. If emphasis has been laid upon the meaning of the objective features of expositions it Is not with the intention of ignoring the educational value of the commercial and industrial exhibits and the interchange of ideas in the The external aspects of the expositions are, it is true, incidental, but so is municipal life as. compared with the industrial world. It is the art of living after the means have tieen provided, but it is also the need pC the foment. umphed.

We enjoy national prosperity, we have an increase of individual leisure; we have a multirjlication of communal wants. Life Is fuller, but we need a background. wo are urea or ponutea air ana water, ainy streets, grimy buildings and disordered cities. From the "Whito City" to the "Ivory ma lesson nas Deen lmjiresoea mat ughness and inconvenience for the present and the future will yield to the magic power of the comprehensive plan. The Individual gains comfort and ths community beauty by uninterrupted co-operation.

CLIPPINGS OP CURRENT COMMENT. By omitting the Democratic Vote In the Second Jefferson District, where there was no Democratic Assembly candidate this year, the Republican state committee figures an "actual" Republican plurality of 27,647. 'By omitting the Republican vote for associate judge of the Court of Appeals, for which office there was no Republican running, the state is almost unanimously Argus see "We will stand pat for autonomy," says Woodruff, speaking for his Kings County machine. The Governor probably Is doing some thinking now on different lines from i those along which his mental efforts were directed just after the memorable confer-. ence at the White House.

Very possibly Mr. Roosevelt has some disagreeable thoughts also. rjunnio uouricr (uem.j. Police Commissioner Greene of New York replies to the raking over given him by Rev. Cortland Myers, In which he threatened to get Greene and his deputy.

Piper, indicted for failure to suppress gambling houses. Mr. I Myers, for the Society for the Prevention of Crime, offered J500 for any charity for proof I that any of the agents of the society had ever I been arrested and Mr. Piper gives two names. I with the facts.

One ot these agents is a fugitive from Justice because he presented worthless checks. It is folly for any such society to vouch wholesale for Its agents-It cannot be sure that it has employed only Impeccable men. Of course these societies mean to do that, but it. Is not only In the po lice force tnat men yield to temptation. Mr.

Myers Is too brash for a useful reformer. Springfield Republican POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. A mechanic formerly employed by M. Santos-Dumnnt has constructed, says the Paris Journal, a navigable balloon on which Kreui nopes ure nuu nini-ii win shortly be tried at Toulon. Prince Paul, the 10-year old nephew of King Peter, has become president of a children's union, which will collect gifts for The suffering Macedonians.

Tho members of this society are all under 10 years old. King Victor Emmanuel, who will open the international exhibition ot automobiles in Turin next February, is an enthusiastic motorist. So great is the demand In Austria for Lieutenant Bilse's book, "In a Little Garrison Town," that the publishers are 60,000 copies behind the orders. The book is forbidden In Germany, and a large consignment has Just been confiscated. Kentucky Democrats will erect to the late Governor Goebel, victim of a political as-ssBBinatlon, the handsomest monument In the state.

It will be of brome, with a pedestal of Vermont marble, and will stand in Frankfort. Japan's greatest warrior Is General Viscount Katsura, who became Prime Minister of the country two years ago. The Viscount, who has been called the Lord Roberts of Japan, began his military career In 1867, during the civil war which, overthrew the old order of things and resulted in tho adoption of Western civilization. He was a lieutenant then and so good wc his record that at the conclusion of the war the government sent him to Germany to study military affairs. Then he returned home and remodeled the Japanese soldiery on Ihe European plan.

Now, be says, the soldiers of his country arc fit to go against those of any other. i EVERYTHING "HARMONIOUS" In Republican Circles, According to Governor B. B. Odell's Home Organ. From the Newburgh Daily News Governor Odell and Senator Piatt had a talk Thursday afternoon and parted their faces wreathed in smiles and brimming over with good humor.

The conference was most' satisfactory, as have been all other conferences that they have ever held. The Brooklyn Eagle observes, "A lot Of small fry can come between the Governor and Mr. Piatt, In any idle week, but the Governor and Mr. Piatt always come to an understanding the moment they meet; and the small fry are then less than the dust on the wheels of the party band wagon." The small fry and newspaper mischief-makers have been particularly busy the last week, but their efforts have amounted to nothing absolutely nothing. Senator Piatt's summoning of party leaders the last week has been denominated by the press generally as a move more or less hostile to Governor Odell.

It appears, however, that the Senator's action was simply to ascertain the feeling In Republican councils with respect to the new arrangement whereby he retains the stnte leadership and the Governor assumes the active management of the party. Senator Piatt conferred with a large number of leaders, who came from every section of the state. He found that they are united upon party policy and will do their utmost to strengthen the party for the Presidential campaign. While the Senator discussed with his callers various political matters of moment, he broached to no one any plan that would be in the least -antagonistic to the expressed legislative and party policy of Governor Odell. Mr.

Piatt told the leaders that he and the Governor are working together an, I all stories of disagreement are without' any foundation. The Piatt conferenoas were attended by some of the strongest Odell' partisans, as well as by the Piatt adherents, a fact' which in itself discredits the claim that the Senator had any ulterior motive in his holiday week move. i y. 'Recent developments are signrficanfM' the harmony that exists- In the Republican councils of New York Stateharmony such ns has not existed in tile-' 'party perhaps ia When things reaeh that gratifying stage that anti-Platt Republicans'- confer with Senator Piatt, and Platf Rpnuhlinhmt- a knowledge the active leadership of Governor odell and pledge to him loyalty and support, it ls i or(er lor the Republican masses to rejoice and assure themselves that the year isoi will witness a glorious victory for Ro publieanism in the Empire State. FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

In Paris all trolley wires are underground. The Argentine Republic now has a com pulsory education law. Constables in Londpn receive a year as a clothing allowance. Tho only beast of prey found In Australia is the dingo, or wild dog. 6 The crystal palace tower at the St.

Louis fair will be 1,050 feet high. A Artificial rubles are now successfully made up to twelve and fifteen carats by M. Ver nuel, scientist of Paris. ') The Queensland gove-smeut Intends next year to introduce a bill in which the fran chise will be conferred on women. TCioMHn immwav cars in Rome are now fitted, wlih postal contents of which aro collected every quarter of an hour.

Plans for a standard-gauge electric "railway between Rome and Naples are said to have boon sanctioned by the Italian government, A steel-like grass from the volcanic slopes of Oran. 'Algeria, is so elastic that It' can bo used instead of springs In the manufacture of furniture. There are 7,672.848 houses and shops in r.reat Britain. Of these only l.lul.VOS ore private dwelling houses of more than $100 yearly rental. e.

Australia has more churches per capita than any other country. She has 210 churches to every 100.000 people England has 144 and Russia about nrty-nve. some Japanese temples may be seen tus pended great colls of rope woven from human hair. Such ropes, made of hair sacrificed by thousands of women and girls, were used to hoist stono and timber for the temple and are preserved as relies. It is staled that polygamy Is becoming increasingly unpopular In Turkey, and that cnnspniienttv the Ottoman government is faced with a denonulatlon Droblem.

The Sul tan has Just published an irado condemning the new tendencies. The Islahd of Cyprus, In the Mediterranean, will soon have a railroad from coast to const. The amount of 8,000,000 francs has been sp-orooriated for 1(8 construction. Engineers, with their staffs, have already arrived on the ground, When once filled In a Moslem grave is never rpnnnirl nn nnv account. To remove tne faintest chance of it thus being defiled a cvDress tree is planted alter every interment so that tho cemeteries resemble forests more than anything else.

The bubonic plague, which haa now been lu Tnriln mni-N than nix years, shows no sign of abating. There have been over 25.000 deaths a week from the plague for some time nnnt fine week the number reached 29,647. It is calculated that since 1896 over 2,000,000 people have died in India from the plague, Last year witnessed a great increase in the lmnorts of American annles into- uerraany For the first eight months of 1908 the Imports were metric tonB of 2,204 pounds each, against 214 tons and E43 tons during the same months in 1902 and 1901. Of American dried fruit, baked and simply preserved, the German Imports for the same period were 25,251 tons, against 11,981 and 12,000 tons, re spectively, in 1902 and 1901. A Gnarxnteed Care for Plies.

ttchlns. Blind. Blccdlm or Protruillne Tour druralnt win refund money If PAZO OI.NT- MbNT fulls to Liii-S you In 6 li II duylt We. sence." as the Irish say. A Message From the Mayor.

A general, statement of the finances of tlie city was sent to the aldermen by the Mayor this morning. It shows the total increase lu the bonded debt for the years 11)02 and to have exceeded The Mayor expresses tlie belief that other vital problems have absorbed the public mind to the exclusion of municipal finance, a subject which he proposes to discuss iu a supplemental message In the hope of awakening public interest. Incidentally, lie takes occasion to say that New York must bo made clean and safe before it can be made beautiful. His message also makes it clear that the present administration does not propose to permit tlie school problem to go by default. It characterizes this question as one that cannot dance attendance ou the convenience city authorities.

It is his Intention, he says, to take the matter up immediately, with the idea of adopting the speediest possible method of relief. Nor is lie disposed to overlook the matter of traffic at the bridge terminals during, the rush hours. He realizes that ho Is confronted by a stupendous task and promises that lie will address himself to it nt once. As to the subject of street cleaning, he explains that he invited the present head of the department to remain at bis post because he was satisfied that this course would provoke verdict of popular approval. His honor also liasa word to say about the additional water, supply, declaring that the pressure must be abundant iu qnnn- tity and that there shall be uo unnecessary delay in not only meeting the pres ent necessities of the city but in anticipating all the wants of tlie more imme diate future.

Mulberry street monopo lizes the lion's share of his comments. A cosjnopolitau city like New York, lie pro- tests, cannot be conducted on the same plan as a provincial town and every ef fort to so conduct it will result in a disrespect of law. He is convinced that the criticisms which have made a sort of storm center of the department were far from unreasonable and he proposes thai a vigorous and persistent effort shall lie made to sever the relations between the law breakers and those who are charged with the enforcement of the law. He addresses an appeal to all citizens, more especially to those who supported him lu November last to aid in purging tlie rtu pnrtment of such men and practices. Race Question In Massachusetts.

Tlie little mountain town of Sheffield, Massachusetts, has a race conflict of the sort into which Massachusetts used ener getically to precipitate herself when they occurred iu the South. There is small negro neighborhood in Sheffield and tlie white people objected to the mlngliug of tlie children of the two races iu the town schools. So one school building was set apart for the colored children and a colored teacher was hired for tiieni. The negro children declined to go there, but appeared at their foinicr school. Then a white teacher was em-.

ployed, but still tlie negro children went to the white school. A deputy slieria drove the colored children away and then the fathers of some of them were fined for not sending their children to school; an outrage which would have been good for columns of denunciation in Boston if tlie incident had happened iu South Carolina. The fines were Imposed last week, accompanied by a lecture from tiic Judge to the effect that the negroes must obey the regulations of the school board On Saturday the "Jim Crow School house" as it would be called In tlie South was burned down. Of course the negroes are suspected of setting it ou tire, but there is no evidence to war rant arrests. But there is the same bad blood between the races in Sheffield that would exist In a Southern town of the same size, if the negroes had done some thing which tlie whites considered stepping outside their place.

It. will be noted the negroes lu Shef field made a claim of social equality with tlie whites. There Is no evidence that the school provided for the negroes was not good, or that its teachers were not competent. It was simply separate. It drew the color line and tlie negroes ra-scnted it for that reason.

It is precise ly the fear of such a claim of equality and of forced association between whites and blacks, which has created all the white antagonism to education or civil rights for negroes In the South. It was because Northern comment for good while after the war was based upon the assumption that the negro had a right to such equality that it was resented so hotly In the South. The present generation of Northerner Is growlug wiser than the one which witnessed the war. It 1.