Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbllt arrived yesterday fromEurope withher niece. Miss May GOl t. on boardthe Campania. They were met on landing by Mrs.Ogden Goelet. who had come on from Newport towelcome them, and by Cornelias Vanderbllt. whohad reached New-York on Friday OH board hisyacht, the North Star, on which he had crossedthe Atlantic. After taking luncheon at Sherry'sthe entire party, including the children of Mrs.Vanderbllt, and the Duke of Roxburghe, who halbeen one of her fellow passengers on board theCampania, started for Newport by an afternoontrain. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbllt, with Mrs. Goeletand Miss May Goelet, as well as the duke, willreturn here within a couple of days for the pur-pose of witnessing the Cup races from th.ideck of tho North Star. Miss Martha Johnson,whose engagement to Dclancey Kountze was an-nounced some weeks ago, will likewise be one ofthe party on board.
The Duke of Roxburghe's mother is a sister ofthe late Lord Randolph Churchill and of the lateDuke of Marlborough, and is a first cousin, there-fore, of the present master of Blenheim. He at-tended the Prince and Princess of Wales as aidede camp on their trip around the world on boardthe Op'air. served with distinction In the House-hold Cavalry through the Boer war. and is theowner of Floors Castle, on the Tweed, one of thefinest Tudor mansions In the United Kingdom, aswell as of estates extending over an area of somesixty thousand acres. It may be of Interest to addthat he was recommended for the Victoria CrosaIn the South African campaign for his gallantryIn bringing out a dismounted and wounded com-rade from under fire at the battle of Rensberg.
Among the features en the programme of societyat Newport for the week which opens to-day iathe dance gU-en by Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton IfeK.Twombly on Tuesday night at their villa, on OchrePoint, for the debut of th'»ir daughter. Miss RuthTwcmbly.
The visit of the Governor General of Canada andLady Minto. with their daughters, the LadiesEileen and Ruby Elliott,brought a number of peo-ple up from Newport an 1 Lenox to meet themduring their two days' stay with Mr. and Mrs.Whitelaw Reid, at Mr. Reid's place on the UpperSt. Regis. Lord and Lady Minto arrived on Tues-day at Camp Wild Air from Montreal In time forluncheon, at which a number of young people wereInvited to meet their daughters. Dinners and re-ceptions at Camp Wild Air, a luncheon rivenby Mrs. W. Sheffield Cowles at the Coates camp:attendance at the races on the lake, and visits to
the camps of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Vander-bilt and Colonel and Mrs. Jacob Peabody occu-pied every moment of the time of the GovernorGeneral and his family until his departure late onWednesday night, certain measures before the.Dominion Parliament requiring his presence atOttawa on Thursday morning.
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Among those who have been staying In theAdirondack^ during the last week, and who metLori and Lady Minto and their daughters, areMrs. Stanley Mortimer, who has -with her herniece. Miss Eleanor Roosevelt: Mr?. Moses Taylor,Theoderc Robinson. Oliver Harriman, Jr.. Mrs.Morgan Dlx and Miss Dlx; Mrs. Lev! P. Mortonand the Misses Morton. Judge and Mrs. W. K.Townsend and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Thompson.Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock. Jr.: Mrs. Robert Win-throp, with her daughter. Miss Albertina Win-throp: Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Dupignac. Mr. andMrs. I). H. McAlpin.Mrs. Benjamin Guinness, andher mother. Margaret. Lady Williams Bulkeley,sister of the Dowager Duchess of Wellington, havealso gone to the Adirjndacks for the rest of theseason.
NEW-YORK SOCIETY.While Newport. Bar Harbor. Saratoga and
Southampton have each of them been gay during
the week which came to a close yesterday, the sea-son has been especially brilliant In the Adiron-dacks. Large house parties have been In progress
at all the camps that dot so picturesquely shoresand islands of the various lakes. Entertainmentscf every kind succeed one another with a rapiditythat savors rather of town than of the woods.
WASHINGTON NOTES.lrro>t tlieTRIBUNEBUEFUr.I
Washington. Aug. Rear Admiral Harris. therecently appointed paymaster of th* navy, willstart from here to-morrow or Monday to spend two
weeks at Narragansett Pier with Mrs. Harris, who
has been there about a month. Admiral and Mrs.Harris have taken a house on Connecticut-aye. forthe coming season.
11. A. Taylor. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
a«d Mrs. Taylor have returned to Washington
from their vacation in Michigan and Minnesota,
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Poe, of Baltimore, hav<»announced the engagement of their daughter. AnneJohnson, to Alfred Tyler, of this city.
Captain John J. Pershing, loth Cavalry, now as-signed to the General Staff, and who was in com-mand for several years in the Mora country andmade a record In subduing the chiefs at LakeLanao. has arrived In Washington.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.fVKOMTtlE TririNKBUltE.ll'.l
Washington. An?. 15.—Sir Chen Tung I.ianr-Cheng. the Chineso Minister, started to-night forNew-York on hi3way to Henderson Harbor. N. V..
where he willbe the guest of Mr. and Mrs. JohnW. Foster at their summer home.
Chung Mun-Yew. the interpreter of the legation,
who will close his official residence of ten years
here on Wednesday, is being generally entertained.On Wednesday he was the guest of honor at adinner given by the Delta Kappa Epsilon Associa-tion of this city, of which he is a member.
Yung Kwai. who is also a secretary-Interpreter
of the legation, will succeed Chung Mun-Yew.Yung Kwai. with his American wife, Is spendingthe summer In the Virginia mountains. The min-
ister's daughter and two sons are also of tho party.
Mrs. Shaw, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury,
and their two daughters, who are now in Paris,
will return to this country late in September. MissKrma Shaw, the younger daughter, willresume herstudies. . ,
Mien Wilson, daughter of the Secretary of Agri-culture, ended her visit to Islesford. M?.. yf.ster-day. and with Miss Oorham will spend the rest ofth« month with Mr. and Mrs. Alexander GrahamBell at their summer home in Nova Scotia.
THE CABINET.frrOst TUETT.IBUNE BCREXC.I
Washington. Aug. 13.—Secretary Root was the
guest of honor to-ni?ht at a dinner given by tieofflc-era of the chief of staff and asseecs of thogeneral staff of the army at ths Country Cub. Theadditional guests were the Secretary o£ the Interior.Postmaster General, the Secretary of Agriculture,
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Colonel
William Cary Sanger. Assistant Secretary " War;Ju.lj.-o Magoon. Mr. ScoSeld. Mr. Chance. GeneralCbaffee, General Bates. General Gillespie. General
worth. General Hawkins. General OReillcy.
General Humphrey. Colonel Hall, Colonel Symons.
Colonel Alexander, Colonel Edwards. Colonel Mills.Colonel Mordccal. Colonel Edgeriy and Major
Bcrlven.Secretary Hay vrl\\ remain at his family home In
Sunapee. N. If., until October.
On the Campania, which arrived yesterday. we?«Mrs. OoneUu-i VanU*rt>ilt. SIT Vil!!a:r.
••• . .>\u25a0'. »• »•Miss Hay Gcwlct. «"- aootfa-TBCtir.^H^T^AUnuUB-s- g^WHSmiIV. S. Curmlchar!. to.onel J. "•»»*-*•Colonel E. T. UtßKins. Wrnon C, i-vj}-The lU. Hon. L.t.l Strath- JUM M. «r>c*-
nt* and Mount Ko>»i. A. M. Bortm^AI-iiy ArathcoiMt.
On the F.trurla. which sailed yesterday, were:.^
P. Coc%r Hewitt. „*«*?>' ta Jaf*n-
MaJ;r 11. S. Logan. A. C. t-Ktt..Mr. ana Mrs. J. I>. M<h*3.\^'*",*»• r^',-,..!!Utatenaat Kraak MJirbte. • IColonel v.. U.SwweU.Mrs. Marble. p»- * °- Tracers.K-lH. Norris.
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On th Mesaba. which sailed for London yesta*
<1. y. »<;re;
Rich P'- E. Guenu^ Haakia-AMSbmt T Rich. X Oa«.-»»«T Raakia.
Cook. IMrs. i- !>. «\u25a0>"••
On th? St. Paul, which arrived yesterday. ****!Capiiii, J. U Itarr. ?'""»» V l3t*r J-CeWe>Mr. aua Mr». A. Bryioa. IJ. a. J**?*^.«'Uv« l*urr*f Mr"- J - *•• J*"**H. .>. ivr.n*. J; >£*\u25a0\u25a0 }$£?*•• ••'„,„... x»e"Mrs. WlllljtiC. F-s:iott. Mis. ViiKlartx Ht.rr
M1.43 Louis.- K. Klliott. \u25a0
'f.t'i'wni'
Mias JoKttblM Elliott. T>r. Char}*»Horace H. Furces*. .'r. Mrs Mothe U. j^ofl'-Mr». Homo* H. k'urnesa. Jr. StuiUslww
,t-,t-.tare%.:isr»\ II Hunim-l Mrs
Mm WilllHm W.nter JvfT«- A. J. J»e«*. vr .--ga,
NOTES FROM NEWPORT.New-port. Aue 15 (SpeciaD.— Percy A. Rockefsßaf^
of New-York. Is visiting James Stilfccaa at OakLawn, tn NatTagnns»tt-av^. Mr*. Var.d#rhlit andMi a Gladys Vanderbllt returned this SMOaa^ frociBar Harbor, am! are at The Breakers. Registeredat the Casino to-day wer* Robert T. 2lc<3u*ty.J. T. G. Walker, Henry ''• ''"->:"\u25a0 William t!Eldrl<?ge. R. P. Carroll and B. E. Johnson.
Dr. James Dwisht. of Boston. Is the guest wt MissFlorence Lyman. Mr?. Pembroke Jonea will g3r«a large dinner party at the Orchard Mondayevening. Mrs. H. Mortimer Brooks rtaiiMdforty guests at dinner to-ni^ht at The T>a^v» The
rations were American Beauty roses.Mrs. Hugh L. Willoughby and Miss \v lucnghby
have cone to Maine.Mrs. Burke Roche has returned from the hone
show at Bay Shore.IIN. Taasat has returned from Saratoga, and '\u25a0%
the guest of Mr. and* Mrs. Sidney J. Smith at th«Hartshorn cottage.
Mrs. Vanderbiit entertained at dinner to-night atTho Breakers for Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Van-derbllt.
After the playing in the ladies' tennis tournamentthis afternoon, and while the crowi was -waitlr.sfor the carriages. Miss Cynthia Bocae and Harry
Lehr. m the letter's carriage, were rreparuig laturn around in a narrow sjiace. preparatory totaking Miss Roche to htr home. Elm Court, whena Mercedes nicir.g- automobl'.ft came along »t rapidspeed. Itlooked for a min-rte as 1? the maahluwwould run Into Mr. Lehr'a carriage. The coachmansaw the danger, gave the horse a cut with th»•whip and the animal went thro . the narrowcpening without a scratch, the automobile follow-ing. Miss Roche and Mr. Lthr maintained t!;eir
self-pos"?cssion. while the crowd applauded.
After a vacation of more than a week, the runeof Monmouth County hounds were resumed thisafternoon. The start was from Oakland farm, andprevious to the start Mrs Vanderbllt entertainedthe hunting party at luncheon on the piazzas ofOakland. The h>unds made a good run. going forthe most part over the Wappir.g Road terriroryfrom east to west, and after forty-two minuteswound up at Honeyman Kill. Alfred G. VaziJer-bilt, on his new hunter. Delight, which he reeer.:^-purchased from Mr. Collier, was first in. closiiyfollowed by Percy "Wyndham. on Tiny Tim. SidserJ. Colford. jr., and Frn.ncl3 H. Potter made » goodstart, but Mr. Colford ran the first check, aad Zlz.Potter's horse in taking the nrsz balked and kickedand refused to take the wall. Mr.Potter managed
well and retained his seat, but it was some min-utes before he regained control, an.l he fuunaMato rejoin the chase. A3 the horse had cut himselfseverely and was unfit to continue the run.
At the Westchester Polo Grounds this af-ternoon two teams, the Whites and v *» R«i».made up from members of the club, had a goodpractice game of polo. At the close each side hadscored eight goals. Those who >--'.l wera P«tefD. Martin. Ogden Mills, jr..William K. Carter. C.P. Norman. W. P. Burden. Reginald Erooka. F. &TlßllliajSl. W. H. Allen. Arthur Iselm. Rot*/Collier, Bradish Johnson anJ I*awreneo Vl'atfc.bury. A feature of the game was the unusulwiKht of a woman. Mrs. Reginald Brcoks. 3taocki^ ta polo ball across the lieia. The polo players coni
gratulateti her anil offered her a place -in the team.
IN THE BERKSHIRES.
Lenox. Mass..- Aug- 15 (SpecialX-Charto TV. Hl*ford, of New-Bedford, is the guest ai Dr. RiclurwC. Greenleaf. at Windy Side.
Miss Heloise Meyer, who has been in Newport.
has returned to Lenox, and is with her sister. ra"Samuel Frothingham.
Miss Emily Tucker.: of Washington. *"*£*"let of Mrs. L. Tuckerman. who is » StoclMZl*for the summer, Ibm gone to Newport
Judge Gary, of New-York, arrived to^ay at •»•Red Lion Inn. in Stockbridge.
WUltea St;mley. Ism inventor, arrived to^ay at
his country place. InGreat Barriastoa. \u25a0u-.rrvMr. and Mrs. Richard Van Cott. jr.. and Harry
Werner, of New-York, are su«ts cf Mrs. n. *>•
Slaybaok. in Great Burlington.*
\u0084 _,•«\u2666 n,
G. Willis Peters, jr.. or Pittsbsrs. is the fu**°*
his parents inGreat Harrington- —v>rit.
Mr ami Mrs. W. Doming Goodal*. oi Nsw-^wr*.are at th^ir cottage in South Esremo.it. _„-,
Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Gray and family nave pMto Woodstock. Vt.
AT BAR HARBOR.Bar Harbor. Me., Aug. 13 <Special>.-Tfce Keb»
Valley Club gave its weekly dirir.er dance to-Mpt.
and a large number of guest* were entertainer.Those whw gave dinners M'^re Mrs. C. £?• an^sTworth. J«ird. c. E. Green. Senator NcwliU'is *=*
Mr. and Mrs. W. l". Zcllar.Heath Gregory, of the Crau Opera Coaijaay.
gave a delightful recital at Eden Hall the sus-na<?r home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ur.tercyrer. •><•
New-York, this morning- . \u0084_ u^rt-Captain Ree>!er gave a dance on >«a*g»P**^gford this afternoon. The younger Bar hS-O^r
—attended. \u0084 _._. fa-
.Mr and Mrs. Frank Cilis save a d.rn^r to.
twenty-four at their cottage to-iugnt.
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.
The semi-finals in the ladies' singles lawn teaa!*tournament at the Casino this morning flavalu|niltwo interesting matches, each requirmp three sets.In MM first Mrs. Burger Wallach, against its.Reginald Brooks, gave odds of 3 half 15 ami won i>.>
set. In the deciding set the play was "loser, and
ten games were necessary to determine tha wfcsrer.In the second match Miss Anna Saads playedagainst Mis* Alary Sands. 88888 Mary Saads anilMrs. Wafladi will meet In the finals on Monday.The summary:Mrs. Burger "Wallach beat Mr* Reginald Brooks,
6—2. 2—6. 6—6—
Miss Alary Sands beat Miss AnnaSands. 6—2. 0-6. B—6.
Mrs. P. F. Collier has cards out for a. Cir.acr «nMonday night at the Coats villa for her ruest. Sirs.Reginald De Kovm.
Mrs Philip Lyriiic entertained at dinner at tUtWillows, in CatlK-rine-st. Twenty-two guests werepresent.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Parsons are receivia^ cee-gratulationa on th« birth of a son at their vttsiat Newport. Mrs. Parsons is the fiacshtcr of Jir.and Mrs. Henry Clews. The boy has been n*r^after his father.
Among those- who arrived yesterday on beeH %Campania, and who are In town, are Captala ti»lion. Thomas and Ividy !r.i Tr.i««»y. Capta^Brassey Is the etfest sen and heir of Lord BrasiejHe served throughout th*> Boer war in the ansjand Is editor II"The Naval Almanac."'
Mr«. Vasal ;«« Vanderbiit ata*returr.«-ii ;.> Mewpeal 1 intsm
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay was In to-wn yesterdayand after taking luncheon at Sherry's return^ £the afternoon to her cormtry place at Rosbrn. Le».Irlnnd.
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September IS has been »•» a* th« date of the anniKil horse show at Lenox. Maas. It wu; \J,en William V. Sloan* a Highland am srouadiCharles Lanier. Reginald C. Vanderbilt. jofcnSlonne. Frank K. Sturgis. David LydJs ar.it Jfij.Marlon Haven w!llbo among the eshfMtors.
Sound, the win be a number of attr-ctio-s. «•„»the visitors willhave the opportunity of' tai2!IngMr. Berwick's automobile establishment
At Saratoga n thin mnnk of respect for tbe
CHECKS TO UAMBLIKG.This is a summer which hordes of profes-
sional gamblers will remember with sorrow forthe rest of their lives. Most of the rooms inthis city formerly used for speculation on horses.for risking money at faro tables aud at othergames of chance have been closed by the po-lice. This is no longer "a wide open town."
For thirty seasons, and even more, the so-called \u25a0vlnbi.uiise.*." which were really re-sorts for various kinds of betting, flourishedopenly at Lou;: Branch and Saratoga, and wel-'"];,\u25a0 Imultitudes of eager patrons. At LongBranch even on Sundays the games went onwithout check, and any well dressed man couldwalk into a "clubhouse" and lose all he caredto lose— and frequently much more. No onewould say him nay.
OUR ALPHABET FOR JAPAN.Japan seems to be about to take one of the
most remarkable and not least important of allher steps toward harmonizing herself with thehighest civilization of Europe and America.That is nothing less than the adoption ofRoman script—our own English alphabet—par!passu with, if not as a substitute for, her ownancient system of ideography. For the lastdozen years a knowledge of Roman script hasbeen Increasing in Japan among the mosthighly educated. But now it is proposed by themost influential educational organization in theempire to make the teaching of our alphabetand of our mode of word formation compulsoryand universal in the public schools. It neemsprobable that the government will adopt theproposal, in which case, of course, all privateschools will have to do the same, with the re-sult that all the children of Japan will pres-ently be learning, not necessarily the. Englishlanguage, but at least to write nnd read theirown language in English fashion.
That willbe a great tiling for Americans andEuropeans who want to learn the Japanese lan-guage. Itwillmake th,at language little harderto learn than French or German, and willena-ble people to learn it in the same way that theylearn the European tongues. At present thegreat stumbling block in the way of masteringJapanese is the necessity of learning a multi-tude of different ideographs. Once Japanesewords are expressed in letters like our own, thetask of learning will become immeasurablyeasier. Itwill then also bo much easier for theJapanese to learn our language, for of courseour alphabet lcally formed words seem asStrange to them as their ideographs do to us.Moreover, it willcause a change amounting al-most to transformation In the Japanese mind.or In the linguistic functions of that mind. TheJapanese will for the first time regard wordsnot as indivisible integers ofspeech, but as com-posite things formed of letters. Perhaps we canpartly realize the magnitude of that change byourselves trying to regard words as not formedof letters, but as indivisible units.
Nor is that all. Dual systems of languagesare abominations. Wherefore it is to be expect-ed that, having adopted alphabetical script bythe side of ideography. the Japanese willsoonsubstitute the former for the latter altogether.Itwill be greatly to their advantage so to do.and also to our advantage to have them do it.But it willnone the less be an extraordinarything. For the mother tongue, in all its de-tails, is one of the things to which men clingmost tenaciously. We need, to convince our-selves of that, to recall only the language con-troversies in Canada*, In Bohemia, in SouthAfrica, in Malta and elsewhere, not to mentionthe recent clamor about the teaching of Ger-man in New- York public schools. We may alsorecall Bismarck's inexorable opposition to theintroduction of Roman script into Germany inplace of the far less legible German characters.That the Japanese should voluntarily make thisrevolutionary change in their national script in-dicates their possession of an exceptionallyhigh ambition to place themselves abreast ofthe best civilization of the world—and all thisemergence from savage seclusion within thememory of men not yet grown old!
Some of Dr. Bell's recommendations concern-ing the automobile are equally excellent. Theyare made timely, too. by the recent decision in-validating the New-York law designed to re-strict speed- Perhaps the most judicious andpracticable of his propositions looks to the in-troduction of a clause in such statutes makinginjury on the high road with a carelessly drivenvehicle punishable. An enactment of that kindcertainly would inspire caution. Itis furthersuggested that excessive speed be made impos-sible by refusing a license for any machinewhich, being officially tested, is found to becapable of exceeding the legal limit on a levelroad. To this idea it will probably be objectedthat such a check would deprive the automo-bile of one of Its greatest advantages— the abil-ity to climb steep grades. No one who is famil-iar with its previous utterances on this sub-ject willsuspect that The Tribune has any sym-pathy with the kind of recklessness tinder dis-cussion; hut if tho objection just mentioned bebased on fact lawmakers ofeftjp well hesitate todisregard it. Perhaps Dr. Bell's paper willdraw out helpful comment on that possibility.
After simmering down the explanations givenby employes aud ottlcials of electric roads forfatal eollißiona, one usually gets a residue ofcomplaint against the brake. Dr. Bell thinksthat this is not altogether just On most carsin city streets and on country roads where seri-ous mishaps occur, the brakes are, in his judg-ment, what they ought to be, and are inspected
witu adequate frequency. He also credits theaverage motorman with intelligence and so-briety. The weakest point in the system, then,
seems to be the inability of this employe to
estimate accurately the distance over whichdanger should be expected. Recent tests haveshown that in order to stop a car weighing eigh-
teen tons and running from twelve to eighteenmiles an hour a run of from one hundred to twohundred feet is requisite. The best kind ofpower or emergency brake will do the work inthe former distance, while a hand brake needsah of the hitter. To these figures, however. Dr.Bell would add 50 per cent as a margin ofsafety. He then strongly urges upon the man-agers of trolley roads the duty of disseminat-ing information concerning this revelation andof training the men practically to know whatthese distances are.
DASGEROVS SPEEDS.Dr. Louis Bell, .1 well known electrical expert
living in Boston, discusses for the readers of
-The New-York Electrical Review" the dangers
attending the development of high speeds by
trolley cars and automobiles. He does so withmi. intelligence as to deserve consideration,
evert ir we do not entirely agree with bis con-clusions. Whether the number of fatalities on
electric railways is still on the increase, as Dr.
Bell imagines, or has already attained its maxi-
mum can be determined only by statistics.Though he does not supply them, it is rot un-likely that he has collected figures which wouldsustain the former opinion. It would hardly besafe to dispute the point. -Besides, itis of minorimportance. The essential question is, How cansuch accidents best be checked? From the Bos-
ton writer's answer there willprobably be littledissent.
motloa- the general civilizationand intelligence
of the negro by raising him up, instead of sys-
tematically brutalizing him by lynching andpeonage and keeping him In dejection and deg-
radation.
His Opinion—"lsfe that prisssjghtem fight In aring," remarked Miss Giddygirl. "What kind of aring is it?""An engagement riug la used for sparring.'* re-
plied the old bachelor, "but when it i» to tie .1nvi.tto a finish a wedding ring is used, 1 believe."— (Chi-cago News. ;-. ,
The death of the Pope has enriched the argotof Paris with a new wcrd. A policeman Is a"camerlengo." The first constable who heard him-self addressed by that epithet was indeed non-plussed, quite as much as the gendarme who wascalled "centurion." But the motto of the Parispolice Is "When in doubt, arrest yuur man." andIn this case the innovator spent a few hours at thepolice station before being released. According toone authority, the connection between a policemanand 0 eamerlengo la to be found Ik the silver ham-mer used to thrice strike the deceased Pope's brow.A policeman is a "cogne"—l. c.. he who strike?—and this furnishes the connecting link. Howeverthat may be, the fact remains that the wcrd isnow in common us*, and in every street squabbleat present some one Is sure to shout. "Eh, va done,camerllngne!"
ilab.l.—Noozey— I've heard a rumor that she is tobe mi'.rri'ii.iildbache— Tea,Koozey— Who's the lucky ore?Oldbacbe— Neither of them, if they only knew It—.r\:;adelphia Tress.
THE WHOLE SCIENCE OF FEEDING.(According to "The Daily Ohrontrle," an American
raze has discovered that vegetable fare has the follow-ing affects: Turnips produce melancholy, beets Jealousy,carrots Kindness ana peas true happiness.)
Though Inm mournful and depressed,'Tis not my sins give me unrest,Oi which remembrance you suggest
Should grow to an obsession.But all life's higher hopes seemed dashed,Since with the mutton, boiled and hashed.Dear, yo'J would give me turnips, mashed.
And turnips bring depression.
Now, though your mien is so austereAnd your reproaches most severe.There's really nothing in it. dear;
You have no cause to blame me.No! 'twas that envy breeding beet.Against my counsel you would eat.Makes you regard as most unmeet
My "goings-on with Amy."
But ail your food let carrots be:You'll smile on Amy graciously.And never be unkind to me.
Nor lsigh "WlUow-waiyi"And then I'll teach you. Iprofess.The truest, highest happiness.For we willbattrn to excess
On peas, though bottled, daily.—iLondon Chronicle.
The city of St. Paul will reach Its semi-centen-nial next year, and several dates have been sug-gested for commemorative exercises. It appearsthat on March 4, ISSI, the bill incorporating the citywas signed by Governor Gorman; on April11 thecity government was put in operation and on April18 the first Mayor. David Olmsted. was inaugu-rated.
Ihe editor of "The Chinese Daily "World." pub-
lished In S.tn Francisco, is a graduate of Yale. and.While retaining all th"! characteristic reticence ofhis race, he i*. nevertheless, rather clever at
repartee, as was recently instanced when a ratherdapper your? fellow called at the "World" officeto sell a certain grade of paper. The editor af-fects the American style of dress, and the paperhouse drummer thought he would be smart, andopened toe conversation by impudently asking:
"What kind of a 'nese are -you—a Japanese or aChinese?" The editor smiled blandly, and with acourteous bow retorted: "Before Ianswer yourInquiry, willyou kindlyInform me the kind of akey you are. and tell me if you are a monkey, adonkey or a Yankee?'^ The drummer fled Indismay.
The wonderful antediluvian mammoth discoveredeighteen months ago in Siberia has at last, aftertwelves months of labor and great expenditure, beensafely secured in the museum of the Imperial Acad-emy in St. Petersburg. It was discovered on theleft bank of the river Beresovka, in a region thatfor ages has been the scene of great landslips at
the melting of the snows In spring. The discovery
was made bya Siberian hunter, who secured one ofthe tusks for sale. Itwas of almost incredible size.Scientists estimate that the beast, entombed by alandslip, has been laid up for quite two hundredcenturies in the Ice. which has 50 preserved it thatthe hair and hide are sttll Intact.
So Mice and Sympathetic !—A gentleman, whoseone glass eye has served him for years, had themisfortune to drop it. It smashed to atoms. Thishappened when he was far away in the country.He inquired of a friend where was the nearestplace for him to go and set refitted.
"Why don't you coll upon the girl you were flirt-in<* with all last night? his friend inquired. "Shehas a first clnM reputation for making eyes."
—(Punch.
TUE TALK OF THE DAT.
At the beginning of every municipal campaign
there is talk of nominating a better class of menfor aldermen. At the last election we were go-ing to have a board of James McKeens, butson;. \u25a0'•- wor other we got a board which soldout iiTammany. How would it do this timereally to put the good resolutions into practiceand stop nominating on the Citizens Union ticketmen who cannot be trusted?
The opening of new playgrounds In this cityis always welcome. Tenement house childrenhave better opportunities for open air enjoy-
ment in the Boroughs of Manhattan and TheBronx than they had a few years ago.
The music on some of our roof gardens inthese summer nights is as melodious and de-lightfulas the wailingof lost souls. Where doseveral of the garden managers engage playersof instruments so hopelessly incompetent andsuch persistent offenders against the concordof sweet sounds? Some of these minor organi-zations of so-called bands and orchestras arelittle better than noisy nuisances, which oughtto be silenced for the relief of the afflicted peo-ple now tarrying in town.
The discussion over the rights and the wrongs
of early possession and stubborn retention ofthe end seats in open cars Is becoming not only
acldulous. but even acrid, in certain quarters,and may later be so violent as to be vitriolic.What are the chances for arbitration?
Tammany complains that there Is still somepolice blackmailing, but how different is the at-titude of General Greene toward blackmailersfrom that of Van Wyck's commissioners. N/O\vthe administration is the enemy, then it wasthe protector, of "grafters."
Our municipal authorities manifest a generousspirit in providing suitable armories for the or-ganizations in the State militia which are notalready housed In satisfactory quarters. This isa judicious policy, and one which the taxpayerswill approve. Plans for a new home for th<^(59th Regiment, which willcost at least $0001000,have been filed. For that sum a dignified andbefitting shelter for the regiment can readily besupplied.
What's Ina name? A. C. Dinkey is the newlyelected president of the Carnegie Steel Com-pany.
Now, at both of these alhirinc watering placesthe professional gamblers find their occupationgone. Moreover, the anti-gambling crusade hasextended to other parts of the country. Uponthe racecourse on the edge of the great city of.Chicago hundreds of deputy sheriffs haveswarmed into the betting ring and suppressedthe operations of the bookmakers. These aremarvellous changes for the better.
conventionalities and moralities was worn, andthe faro banks were seemingly deserted on theday of rest, although In a quiet way behindclosed doors and darkened windows players inconsiderable numbers handled their "stacks *!chips" and drew their bank cheeks to meettheir obligations. The pace was fast in Mon-mouth County and under the elms of the glit-tering Spa in those days— and it was a pace thatkilled many young men who persisted in frauticefforts to travel at a gait too swift for them.No raids were feared in that easy era by theowners an«l employes of the faro bnnks, whoprosiKired exceedingly and waxed fat. They
had full faith in "graft" and "pulP— a gen-eration, at least— their confidence was uotmisplaced.
So we see that events move in a vicious circle.Lynching* beget rape, and rape in turn leadsto lynching*, and the lynching fever spreadsand begets all sorts of violence, until govern-ment itself is endangered. With these factsstaring them in the face, why. then, shouldSouthern men simply kh helpless before theevil and contemplate lynching as if it weresome sort of old Greek fate? Has experienceshown— even though it be "idle to talk of abat-ing lynching while the crime continues"— thatit is idle to abate it ifthe leading white men ofthe South really want to abate it, and takeserious measures other than talk to that end, In-stead of apologizing for it as a necessary meansfor the protection of women, which it is con-fessed not to be".' Why not replace the viciouscircle by a circle better calculated to secure thesafety of women, the circle of law enforcementand teaching in morality and -control? Iflynching Increases the crime, stop lynching onthe pretence that itdecreases the crime. Itcan-not be done by sending John Temple Gravesesabout to proclaim lynching as the bulwark offamily life nnd encouraging the Southern mobto Indulge in it and so increase the r.imber ofravlshers. Bnt it can be done if the white menwho know lynching is evil and ineffective forthe protection of women rally to put down thelawless members of their own race and support the enforcement of the law against boththe negro criminal and the white lyncher.
There is some sense in the complaint thatthe respectable negroes are not sufficientlyactive in putting down this crime. Their lead-ers denounce it. it is true, but, in view of exist-ing conditions, every respectable and intelli-gent colored man should be aroused to preach inseason and out of season morality and respectfor women, and to co-operate to punish thoseof his race who commit crime. But, as the whiterace is the further advanced and has the great-er responsibility for civilization, it ought tolead in replacing the vicious Mreie of rape andlynching with the golden circle of law andmorality. Unless it takes the first step andguarantees legal trials with protection to theInnocent, no matter l»o\v swift and stern thepunishment of the guilty. it can hardly expectthe more ignorant negro to do his share in solv-ing the problem. When the benighted blacksare not certain what awful fate may await oneof their race, innocent or guilty, when accusedof crime. it is no wonder they are slow to takea hand in hunting him down. When they haveset before them examples of fiendish passion bywhite mobs, it is no wonder that the feelingsof the more vicious members of their race arestirred and that their impulse to wreak theirpassions on the white race Is shown in char-acteristic and horrible form.
The vicious circle, will never be broken untilthe dominant race does its part. How can itex-pect negro crime to cease ifit. with its superiorwisdom, goes on in a course which makes morenegro crime, as "The Charlotte Observer" sny.slynching does Doubtless the negro needs teach-ing to avoid crime, and, if the whites would dotheir share and stop lynching on any pretext,certainly the negro leaders would be glad toco-operate in a crusade against the negro vav-isher. It is said that the negro Is peculiarly ad-dicted to this crime, but that It largely duo tohis general low state of civilization. The crime
was not uncommon among Europeans in theMiddle Ages. The way to eradicate it is by pro-
TUE VICIOUS CIRCLE.To the defenders of lynching who have said
that, while it was Indeed an evil, It was theonly way to prevent the spread of rape, wehave often pointed out that it did not preventit. We are particularly interested, therefore, tolind a Southern Democratic paper, "The Char-lotte (K. C.) Observer," taking the same viewand showing that the lyncbers. instead of pro-tecting womanhood by their lawlessness, asthey declare, are merely raising up an addedmenace to womanhood. ItSays:
Experience has shown that it is Idle to talkof abating lynching while the crime continues,and the worst feature of the matter is thatlynching seems to Increase the number ofcrimes.
Secretary Root's retirement will not become,
effective for several months. But whatever datohe may choose for surrendering' his office, hecan count on carrying with him into private lifethe respect and gratitude of the Americanpeople.
SECRETARY ROOTS RETIIti:Ui:\T.Secretary Koot's decision to leave the Cabinet
—now semi-otficiitlly announced— will be gener-
ally regretted. Though no fault can be found
with his motives in seeking relief from the pub-lic burdens be has borne so long, we could wellwish that bis ripened judgment and trainedadministrative talent were to continue to bedevoted to the nation's service.
Iff.lUwt bag filled now for four years perhaps
the most exacting and difficult post at present
within the gift of the national administration.
Be has magnified his office. liehas faced hardlabor, and in mastering the problems of hisdepartment lie has shown energy and remark-able aptitude. To-day he sees the work he
undertook to do virtually accomplished. He
feels free to return to bis own neglected private
interests and private practice. No one can
begrudge him his retirement. But the publicrealizes—and realizes with a *tluß of genuine
regret-that in his return to private lifeitlosesa Cabinet chief of capacity and quality, one sureto be ranked by the future historian among our
great War Secretaries.In the four years of his administration Mr.
Boot has seen the American Army reborn andrefashioned. The regular establishment of IS9S—the survival of a century, obsolete in organ-ization, insufficient in numbers and unsuited to
the needs of a nation whose growth has faroutstripped it—has in that period been remod-
elled into a vitalized, modernized, elastic ser-
vice. The creation of a General Staff, theestablishment of schools of technical and pro-fessional training, with the new War College
at its apex; the introduction of the skeletonizedcompany, the three battalion formation, thereorganization of the artillery, the limitationto four years of future details In the staff corps,the nationalization of the militia—these andother reforms have given us an army notably
improved and invigorated. Itwas one of Sec-retary's Root's great services to the country
that he saw from the first the urgency of thesereforms, and that more than any other agencyhe wrung them one by one from a reluctant anddoubting Congress.It was his other great service that he under-
took and discharged the task of carrying, alongthe shadowy lines of earlier federal policy, a sys-tem of military administration in the dependen-cies taken over by us from Spain which hasproved both workable and, from a legal point ofview, of notable constructive value. The fullmeasure of this work isperhaps hidden from thelay critic. But some adequate impression of Itsimportance and its lawyerlike thoroughnessmay be gathered from an article published in"Scribner's Magazine" for July by Charles E.Magoon.
In the Statehood bill "holdup," might servoagain as the basis of a n6n-psrtlsan "elasticity"lav.-. But against any radical or thoroughgoing
currency measure the natural sluggishness andhesitations of the two booses Trill bo morethan likely to assert themselves.Ifboth :t currency bill and a Onbnn tariff re-
bate bill are to be the fruit of the extra ses-sion, October would seem to be a better monththan November for calling the two nouses to-gether.
THE EXTRA SESSION.As \u25a0 result of Wednesday's conferences at
Oyster Bay betw#tß the President and Sena-tors Aldricii, Allison. Platt, of Connecticut, and>*pooj)iT. a speedier summons to Congress tomeat in extra session is confidently predicted.\Ve are not surprise*! to find the leaden of theSenate Finance and Meering committees urging
the sdvimbilitT of an earlier and longer pes-ficn. A month ago Senator Lodge, just beforehis departure from Europe, fixed November & asthe probable dale on which the two bouseswould be asked to assemble in Washington. TheMassachusetts leader allotted just four fullweeks for the accomplishment of the extra ses-sion programme. Were legislation Carrying Intoeffect i!.. Reciprocity Treaty with Cuba aloneto be attempted, that scant mouth might pos-llsmf prove an ample allowance. But with acurrcr.cr bill of. some sort to be framed, digest-ed aud coaxed through the. two houses, it is ap-parent that an earlier Mart will have to be\u25a0safe and much larger drafts on the diligenceand patience of the managers Jn the twobranches will have to be honored.
The passage of a bill making operative thespecial tariff rates already conceded to Cubaby treaty presents, perhaps, no startling diili-<-ulti?«. The Republican majority In ea<*ibranch Is pledged to make good the promises ofthe Cuban convention, while the Democraticminority Is bound by past professions and rotesto give to Cuba th«lfreest practicable entry toour markets. But next year Is a Presidentialyear, and at least one candidate for the Demo-cratic Presidential nomination— Senator ArthurP. Gorman, of Maryland— has already an-nounced that the tariff issue is the only one on\u25a0which the Democratic party can make a hopefulcontest. Reciprocity legislation in Cuba's Inter-est may therefore offer itself as a tempting
text to an opposition leader anxious to impressupon the country the wisdom and practlcaDillty
of a general levelling of the tariff barrier.With a currency bill to be drawn. debated
and beaten into such shape as to satisfy themany schools of banking and currency whichflourish In the two houses and In the two par-ties, the obstacles to rapid progress becomegreatly magnified. Unless, as Senator Aldri<hhopes, be can prepare a bill which willmeet thenpprovai not only of the various Republicanjrroup*.but virtually alto of the Ilouse and Sen-ate minorities, the prospect of passing anyamendatory currency legislation at the extrasession is far from roseate. Such a bill as theAl<srlcb bill of last February, which got the as-pent of every Democratic member of the Sen-ate Finance Committee, and was lost in theSenate only because it somehow got entangled
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FORElGN*.—Russian warships have been or-dered from the Black Sea to Turkish waters inorder, if necfesary, to enforce demands for1sat-isfaction for the murder of M.Rostkovski. =====M. Petroff, the Bulgarian Premier, expressedthe belief that the Macedonian revolt would be#oon suppressed. -———
The Senate committeeon ihe canal treaty at Bogota continued to re-fuse to report favorably on ratification;
Panama's secession is feared if ratification Isvoted down. •-—•— Advices from Peking saidthat, although China and Russia had, it wasthought, reached some terms of settlement inthe Manchurian difficulty, It was improbablethat this country would be asked to arbitrate.:\u25a0 \u25a0*-" J. J. Harty. Archbishop of Manila, wasconsecrated in the Franciscan Church of St.Anthony at Rome; Cardinal Gibbons has goneto Switzerland. =~.
—;The eruption of Vesuvius
decreased and became slight. -'--" Lord Salis-
bury passed a comfortable titf*Ht and was re-ported stronger. == Three ministers wererhoren to fill places made vacant by resigna-tions in the Servian C binet.
DOMESTlC.— Officials identified with the ad-ministration of affairs in Indian Territory arecharged with being connected with companiesleasing lands at low rentals for five years, withcontracts to purchase at the end of that timefor small sums. =More Postofflce fraudshave come to light in the money order division,whose superintendent, James T. Metcalf, wasrecently dismissed, and an effort has been madeto Inflict him.
-—-.— The first meeting of theofficers of the new General Staff of the armywas held at "Washington.
'"= The rules for thepatrol by the government vessels of the courseof the International yacht races were promul-gated by the Department of Commerce andIjabor.=Serious Damage by another floodIs threatened at Kansas City, Mo., and KansasCity, Kan. ===== A well known Kansas Cityman murdered his wife, from whom he wasneparated. as she lay in bed. and committedFUicide, \u25a0 Justice Woodward spoke at theChautauqua conference against the frequencyof lynching and the growth of the mob epiritIn this country. -— —
Fourteen passengers wereinjured in a railroad accident in Colorado.
CITY.—
There was a moderate reaction inStocks.
— -Joseph Pulitzer has given $1,000,-
"ih« outright and $1,000,000 conditionally to
found \u25a0 school of Journalism in connection withColumbia University. == Members of the
rillllfss and Bridgemen's Union in Newarkrefused to obey an order of "Sam" Parks, theNew-York walking delegate, to engage in asympathetic strike against the Iron League;Parks eaid the league would have until Mondayto make terms. ===== The excursion boat Will-iam Storie was in collision with a tug, and thelives of nearly tnree hundred persons were en-dangered. 1 ir\u25a0\u25a0*\u25a0' By order of CommissionerWoodbury one hundred Italians were evictedfrom the city dumps.
—t A policeman In
charge of Issuing licenses at the Mayor's office"as charged with holding naturalization papers.
\u25a0 1 "'• It was learned that in the last monthabout fifteen thousand barbers of this city andnenrby counties had registered and received li-censee. t,.
-\u25a0 Ah altar for Kan Rocco, Italian
patron saint, in Elizabeth-st.. was burned; alarge parade of Italians took place in honorof the saint's day. '\u25a0- Many well known peo-ple arrived on the St. Paul and the Campania.
THE WEATHER.— lndications for to-day:Probably showers. The temperature yesterday:Highest, 77 degrees; lowest, GO.
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The W»*tchestirr County Horse Show opens nextWednesday week at the Empire City racetrack, In-stead of, as usual, at the White Plains fairgrounds. It is a show that i» always very popu-lar with those who own country homes In West-chester County, an.l it will be made the occasionof many house parties in the district.
At the me which will be given on Tuesday. An-gust 23. In aid of the Mamaroneek Free Kinder-garten, on the grounds of Mr. and Mr. A. C.Bom wick'« country home, at Orlenta Point on the
On Tuesday the annual horse show at Bar Mar-bor begins, and will la=t until Thursday. M!s3Dorothy Wh!tn«y, Miss Adelaide Randolph. m>Daisy Lelnr. W. IJutler Duncan on<l Philip Liv-ingston are am^s thes* v.ho have entries for theexhibition, in connection with which many emer-talr.ments an- la be given.
The Cup races this week will brir.g a number ofpeople back to town, which, especially after Thurs->lay. on which -lay the contest fins, willpresent,from a social point of view, an appearance as ifthe horse show were at hand. Nearly every ownerof a steam yacht has organised parties for Hatoccasion, houses which have been closed all thecummer willbe opened. an:l fashionable restaurantsand hotels crowded, while the theatres are likelyto r^ap a gok'en harvest.
Worthins,ton Whltehouse and the Rev. Dr. p.Parker Morgan left town yesterday at noon forNewport, where Dr. Morgan will preach to-day atAllSaints' Church.
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