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T IE SUN FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10 1900 I 1 m j r- i1 ft IJUnAY KFIinUARY 1 00- KiiMrrlptlitns by I DAILY r Month DAItY HIMAV rr Year DAirV ASM HlNUAV r Vmr- IM1IV AM HIJNUAV l Mouth 1cxUio ta foreign counlrl iM l- Tiir Hi Sew York City pARMKloilut 1 Oranl Hotel Klo U Mo J Ilouleranl CnpucluM- eur rtVifli ul orP- itliMefonw IHo M i l J arlKhl rrfvrnief milt in all l l llampi or Mai urpoi A renter Sriiiidiil Tliun Cuba A Biirelyns In the ynr 1W1S tlin stato- of Cuhn win ft scandal riot to Ixi endured by it cIvllUwil country In tlin position occupied by the Stntof w aro tho- exlstln rilntloim Ntwcpn tho Inlted- Ktatoannd Puerto Itloo Bciindalousand un- endurable To tnl tlin llrst wo worn required to Diftko war to end tlio second It IH netca nary to pits nn net of Congress waiving or modifying tariff Tho bent way of facing the now situation would bo to abolish tho tariff between tho United States nnd Puurto RIco entirely In accordance with tho original rocomtnondo tlon of tho President Hut n slmplo miHl- lfloitlon would ho butter than what IH Congress sullenly leaving out In tho voId tho victim of wnr a soldiers that refuses to tirIng In tho Bounded from tho bnttlclleld through un- willingness to diminish tho common share Bt tho mess table The American Canal mid tho Mug wtirnp mini Everybody understands clearly tho prin- ciple on whlrh this Oovernmnnt would to Ionstruct nn American canal across the Isthmus Tho motive of thin entorprlsj would bo enlightened national pelfInterest Tho waterway would bo Intended primarily for tho advantage of American oouimoreo and as a means of defence whim we were nt wnr It would bo tho channel for our coastwlso- niarlue It would eonnoct our Atlan- tic Hoaboard with our Pacific Realionrd- anil hiring thousands of miles nearer to our Eastern nail Southern ports tho Island possession wo Imvo acquired In tho Paeille Ocean IiKIdentnlly It would benellt thi- wholo world ant facilitate tho worlds time trafllc nnd thus promoto civilization Uo should nil ho Kind of that Hut tho- cnnal would bo built paid for owned mutt need und absolutely controlled by the tlnltod Stales Oovernment which would Hsaumo full responsibility for HH protection nml defence along with full ownerships unquestioned right to close tho gateway ngulnst any enemy attacking us For such an American canal thin peoples representatives In Congress would cheerfully two hundred millions of dollars or llvo hundred million If neces- pary Thin Investment would bo good without regard to tho question of dividends from tolls Tho appropriation would be justifiable antI lawful under section 8 of artIcle I of the Constitution which em- powers Congress to lay and collect taxes to provide for the common defence mid gen cm welfare o Ihf 1nittil Stales Observe thin Italics The canal contem- plated by Mr HAYS treaty Is nn enter- prise of a different sort Thn alleged Is not national solMntorest altruistic concern for tho amity of nations nnd the welfaro of tho whole world anti tho promotion of tho gennrnl Interest of com- merce Irrespective of ling Vo nro Invited to assume ns a high trust Innncliil burden of thin undertaking nUll In addition to tho prlvllego of llgnrlng In a rapacity analogous to that of the theatrical angel wo are to become1 the janitor caretaker nnd policeman In nominal charge of nn international wnterwny Wo nro asked to ronouneo In advnncn nil military ad Mintages front the canal for which wo am to pay and to subunIt ourselves to the Hipervltilng control of n syndicate of foreign powers not one of which will have contributed nnn shilling orono frame or ono nark or om ruble or ono urn but whoso duty It will bo to Join In coercing us In case the emergencies of war ever tempt us to net from selfInterest Wo are urged to do thin bocauso such U Americas mission bo cause wo am now great enough antI Strong enough to forego merely national considerations anti rich enough to atTend to pay two hundred millions or HO for n canal for tho common benefit of humanity find then turn tho siiinn over to Interna- tional control nn a free gift from this nation- to all the world That conception of nn Isthmian canal ap- peals strongly to tho Imagination of thosn- wlio nro llrst nnd Americans secondly From a certain point- of view It Is n magnificent If somewhat vague Conception of national duty Wo urn not surprised to notion that thin Hay rnunccfote canal Is already hailed as a- Mugwump ennui by on of surviv- ing organs of Mugwump thought hut the hundreds of million Wherein the Constitution of thin Inltcil States Is tho clause warranting the appropriation by Congress of two hundred millions of dollars from the NatlonnlTrensiiry ties for tho navnl operations of foreign powers anti the general welfare of thou world commerce lime Greatest Ocean Depth Tho United States steamship Nero has been making soundings between Minutia emil Honolulu In time Inturcst of thin cable to connect our chief lslmid ports In tho- Iaclllc with this country fun Nero reports deepest ocean wiiitiilings thnt have yet been recorded Tlin exact location of this deep 1st unit given but Iwtweon Guam nnd Manila a largo area haw been illscovoiid wliern tho soundings showed Blili fathoms oilr 10 feet which Is llO feet loss titan six statuto miles In have found a depth of 1100 fathoms live hundred miles enst of Ounm All meus ilcpthsuiid heightsaro referred to sell level nnd depth now reported Is lr rH feet further below tho level nf the t cn than the xitinnilt nf Mount Everest tIme hlglieht kmmii pint nf the world Is above It The deepest Miuiilitig hitherto mnde in thin waters bntwceii iuaiii and Luzon was 1I7H feet t directly east of thin north cn of und not quite half wily to tho Liidiiini s of which Is largest member While our knowledge of ocean very Incomplete wnimllng have Increased la number rapidly within the past Ilfty be UU M INI lINI I H NI 0 nor aDo I h th len I troop of oto mot to provIde I t t 10 holt u of j all Is I iitii so r ear I I wo fi Pith or easel I nit i iI I Iuorto t t1 proceed t mon i t lie cut Ire I orliIphui Inn thiroplst s r t hit faeIII hue Nitvtttl ir Iitt t liii Not i i ii4 Es rt I renon h4 t Ito I a t Ito I I Ito st Iii AV > < > < ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ = = = years For puriwues of naVIgatIon It Is n ceg ary In shallow waters to depths exactly and tho soundings along nil shores vlslteil by vessel are numbered by hundreds of thousands HO hlblnln many plioos to map the lOOfnthom linn with a high dcgreo of accuracy Deepsea art fur less numer- ous but probably jnOOO havo INMII niadn- In tin past ten years The records of the Ilrltisli Admiralty how over 00 by- Hrltlsh shlis nlonn In that time They are by far nunmrous In the North Attn tie anti himthweM Piioltlc unit contour lines of tho ocean Ixittom may be drawn In- thfmn regions with notch morn coiiHdiiico than In any other part of tho sons Tho who havo discovered this urea of greatest known depth havo named It NeroH title Wo suggest that It would bo bettor to conform to usage and call It the Nero Deep On tin Challenger ehmts till tho areas depth exceeds ilooi wore called nnd a- distinctive was given to each Till oceanograpliersofnllnatlons havo followed- thlsexnmplo and of thesn deeps Including thn Intent discovery arms now known The only depth excmdlng 5000 fathoms hitherto found Is within tho Deep in thn South 1uclllc northeast of Now Zealand and east of till KormadecR whcro u bounding of flOOUO feet hits wen made It Sir Alfred Mllncr Largely Charge- able With this South African War A new view of the causes of thin calami tons contest In South Africa Is presented In an article contributed to thin rn can Hrvinr by Mr MoxTAiur recently ConsiilCicneral of the In London It Is admitted that such gen- eral onuses as capitalism jingoism and vlndtctlvenofiH bad much to do with tho provocation of tim conflict but Mr WHITE contends thnt too little attention has been paid to tho mischievous consequences of personal ruin In South Africa which strict 1807 lion been pursontlled In Sir AiniED MnNrn tho BrItIsh High Commls- aloner To nppreclatu tho grounds of tIll assertion wo hhould consider first thin nature of thn dual functions entrusted to Sir ALPJUI MILNFK and secondly tho manner In which he as compared with hula predecessors has discharged them supremo lopresicntntlve of thin BrItish Empire In South Africa Is the socalled High Commissioner who Is at thn snmotime Governor of time Cnpo Colony In dealing with mattersthoHlghCom- nilssloner ns lovernor Is to net constitutionally that Is to the advice and consent of his colonial Ministers His duties ns High Commissioner on the other hand embrnco the earn of Imperial in- terests inlihodcsla and llngutolnnd as well ns thin conduct of negotiations with tho governments of tho South African Itepublle and the Orange Free State In the these latter functions ho would t o technically correct In acting autocratically- and Ignoring the views timid ado of his colonial Ministers Whether he would bo wise In acting In such a manner Is another matter Mr WIIITI points out that It Is Impossible for the High Commissioner to tiny step In regard to either tutu Transvaal or thin Orange Free State without such step having very marked direct or Indirect results In the Cnpo Colony nnd Natal because tho samo racial pontl- nicnt and the samo social conditions exist In the Puce State anti tho Transvaal as In the Capo Colony anti Natal Tho fntimnto connection of tho four coun- tries just named by tho blood timid kinship was recognized by Sir HKiurLKS- HoiiNKO who was High Commissioner from to and again to 1807 Thnt IB to say ho represented tho British Empire In South Africa during tho llrbt Itoer wnr for Independence tumid during tin crisis unused by tho Jameson raid Hy working In harmony with tin Ministers of tin Cape Colony on strictly constitutional line ho succeeded In estab- lishing throughout his sphere of Inllucnco a saiin Imperialism on tho broad bask of colonial sentiment Ho rejected nil lucas of personal rule woe sternly Intolerant of pooallcd Empire leagues anti of nil the paraphernalia of a bustard imperial- Ism When ho left Town In nt end of Ills first term of office tho breach between hutch anti English hind been healed mutual confidence ohnrao- tcrlzod tho relation between treat Ilrltnln and tho Boer republics A complete ehango of was Inaugurated by successor Sir Looir Lord a change which culminated departure In Jameson rnld WIn Sit IIiirrrta SON returned ns High Commissioner Town In 1805 the relations botween the South African republics and Great Ilrlt nln hod bciomo unsatisfactory thin attitude of tho Cape Dutch was otto of renewed vig llniuO ns to Imperial designs upon tho Transvaal mill tho racial cleavage through- out South Africa hind become very marked Throughout that year ho was deceived nnd kept In Ignorance of tho proposal coup detat In tho Transvaal and was con- sequently powerless to avert the catastro- phe of tho thereafter however ho proceeded to 1rotorla damped the revolutionary movement In Johannes- burg and was tho only official who con- vinced the Pretoria Government of his own absolute good faith In repudiating the notion of thin raiders On Jan ho telegraphed to CitAMiinitLAix I take this early opportunity of testify- ing In tin strongest manner to the groat moderation anti forUmrancn of tho loveintnent of thin South African Itepubllc under the exceptionally trying circumstances WHITE deems It safe to assert that If nny shred of Imperial dig- nity nnd honor was nt that time preserved In South Africa It was dun to the Integrity and lilglimliidoilncHsof Sir HEitrtLix lion INMJS Tlio latter continued to withstand Mr CiiMliiriiUNrt efforts at Inopportune interference nnd wish to uso force as a remedy In South Africa hula health broke down completely and n visit to England In 1 MHI when bo was raised to the jMorngo as LorI HossinAD he retired from olllee early in o Sir AIFIIKD was then selected by Mr CIIAMIIDHIAIS for thin Important oflloo- of High CoinmisHloner The new nppolntoo had hail a brilliant university career at Oxford and had served the staff of an Influential newspaper but he first bocauio well known as Mr ioscniNssoerotary and acquired distinction by thin ability with which dlseliHrged tb duties of Under- Secretary of Finance In Egypt We have had occasion to notice tn Tun his Uiok- Englninl In Egypt In sit forth thn value of the lisonl nfl economic services rondeied by Orvnl Britain to the Inhabitants of thin Nile Valloy Mr- MnSTAiif Wintn points nit however that while the Influence of British domina- tion has proved dlntitictly beneficent In Egypt thin administration of thnt Is u military despotism tho principle utiJ I know- I that It lot rich WIT Lull 1 t- ot of I I RhO froiu I I I poll hit nol HOI I r r hit Iu SIS I I Is pus 1411 I rid I umgs I hi I rogrmm plums fit t hit outs miOI his run iumt fort yf r Aiul strictly cohoniai tIes M4O 5I15 ape 581 t hun a nil en hits t tie mu rui tat ci 4 5911 M M his or Eli ill Iii ¬ > ¬ ¬ > ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ I methods of which are Inapplicable to tho libertyloving descendants of thin Dutch In South Africa Scarcely hind Sir ALKIIKD- MIINKH reached Cape Town when a delivered by him foreshadowed tutu oxer- olso of personal rulo as distinguished from the constitutional governorship of tho Capo That during a short visit to England In tho beginning of Sir AMIIKII urged a policy of tune upon the British Government Is fairly In- ferabln from tho which ho pur- sued on his return During absence Sir ItfTiKit Commander- InChief nt tlio Cape hod acted ns High- Commlsiloiinr and hind worked harmoni- ously on constitutional linen with time Cnpo Ministry headed by Mr SautKiNEii Sir WIIMAM refused to receive a petition to thn Queen got up by tho South African Lengun at Johannesburg ho warned Imperial Government against accepting tho statements of that body and ho mado n speech nt Grnlminstown In which he de- clared that South x was In need of rest and not of a surgical operation- tpon Sir AniirD MIINLIIS return Sir WIIMAM HtTLKUrt was rovursod A now pttltlim South African League ostensibly containing lilOUD sig- natures was unreservedly accepted by Sir AFIIKII and forwarded to thin Imperial Oovernment Sir WILLIAM BUTLEII was recalled and n surgical operation has been sluco attempted in South Africa BB tho outcomo of Sir AIFHEDS pulley Tho failure of tho Bloemfontnln confernncols- ascribed by Mr MONTAGU WHITE to Sir nut to lila Inslstenco upon Irroduclblo- minlmums Compromise Is pronounced tho essence of South African Polities with tho exception of tho highhanded annexa- tion In It haul characterized mull transaction between tho Imperial Govern- ment and the South African republics Blnco On May r Sir AipHEnMn- XEII forwarded to the Colonial Omen a despatch In which he referred to helots and festering sores antI expressed a craving for a striking penal poor During tho rest of thou your just closed Sir Abrnru Is charged with a galling exercise of personal rule Ho Ignored tho colonial Ministers and treated them ns traitors thin clergymen of the Dutch Keformed Ohurch and thn majority of tho Capo Parliament who strove for tho maintenance of peace suf- fered thin same fate I am determined to break tho power of Afrlkandordoui ho Informed thin delegate of thin Afrikanders who were preponderant In tho Capo Pnrlfa mint Ho Is further charged with sup- pressing Information as to thin pacific endeavors of Ptesident STRYN of time Orange Free State withIn cabling over In full the Inflammatory resolutions of reactionary associations Finally when a section of the Cape people irged him tn petition Queen VHTOHIA to send onn of her characteristic conciliatory messages to the Capo Dutch It is reported that Sir AIFIIEI MIINEII haughtily refused concluding l y saying that tin loud iniidn up his uilnd that there was not room enough for two white races in South Africa Such are the grounds on which Sir Ai FlIrt MiiSKit Is accused by Mr MOXTUIU- WIIITI of misusing n splendid opportunity for doing beneficent Imperial work in South Africa Instead of employing lila groat Influence to remove tho unrest arid distrust caused by Mr CHAMIIEIIIAIX- Sdiplomacy after tho Jameson raid In- stead of reactionary organizations like thin South African League of which Mr KIIODES Is thin President arid instead of Ignoring thin vindictive Incitements of local newspapers controlled by Mr KIIODJIS Sir HrnrD Is charged with utilizing nil these forces for the purpose of bringing ntiout the present disastrous conflict In South Africa Time to Itoduce Taxation Tho Hon JEFJTISOX M LEVY has Intro- duced a bill In thin House of Jtoprosontatlves designed to reduce federal luxation to tho amount of f 10000000 annually Mr LEVY hind hotter lot thin taxes alone This country today has far too many needs to serve In thin public expenditures for battleships and other things for It to think of cutting down Its income Marriage nml Divorce A special committee to draft a new cnnnn- on marrlngo and divorce for the Episcopal Church Is holding sessions In was appointed by thin Oonoral Convention- of that Church amid Its report Is to bo made to tIme next meeting of limit body nt Francisco In October of next year cunservallvo character of tho commltteo is suggested by thou circumstance thnt the llcv Dr Dix rector of Trinity Church Is tho chairman Of tho wholn membership of twelve onehalf art distinguished lay men Including much legal ability Tim distinctively Catholic party In tho Episcopal Church ns Is well known earn- estly advocates a canon which shall refuse recognition to divorce for arty fluke on tho ground of the sacramental character of marriage limit It Is not probable that this committee will go to that extreme In tho canon It reports for such a proposition would divide tho convention aunt provoke prolix debate which might leave behind needs of discord for tlio rimroh run two parties of Eplseopallnnlsin mire now tlio Catholic or High Church liberal or Broad Church th old Iow Church or Evangelicalparty having largely disap- peared and on divorce they are likely to bo radically opposed as they nro In their attitude toward sacerdotalism- Tho Episcopal Church at present takes thin Protestant position toward divorce so fur as making marriage dlsFolubo though It allows divorce for till Hlngle cause of adultery only nnd remarriage to tho Inno- cent Thnt position Is likely to remain unaltered In thin canon though It Is obvious that a great nUll perhaps a major- ity party among the olorgy moro especial- ly Is becoming more and tutor convinced thnt the scandal cnned by time frequency of divorces among Episcopalian of social prominence onn only Iu removed effect- ually by making marrlagn Indlssolulilo Hut Hint biieli a result would follow the absolute prohibition of divorce may questionable since the divorces which have ecamtallznil the Church HI greatly have been obtained almost Invariably In dellancn of tlin present canon It Is con- tended however Hint If the Episcopal Church should set Its face sternly against till divorce as Hie Itoimin Catholic Church does It would make suHi breaking uway from thin bonds so far disreput- able that the society o fashion In which Its membership holds doinlnanee would not daroto oountennmn it Making mar- riage nn Indissoluble sacrament however would bo a new and radical departure and no General Convention has yet ventured to take tho step Undoubtedly the nov canon proposed by I o I his poll I I Ri I t o Hal parI t S9 toil re V r i lAM t Iii t lie A fro Aiuumuo 31 itiuta uuutucounpromim1ng spirit M7 7 t tie thitik log t ii tu tim I t Ito y y Ill nun rriuugn lie yT r ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ the committee will guard marriage more strictly on the ground that Inconsiderate entrance Into the sUite la a prolific causo of matrimonial trouble It may surround tho ceremony with greater precautions anti Impose on tho clergy morn scrutiny of the applicants This will bo well butt It Is ques- tionable If all rights Involved In marriage property and other can ho sufficiently protected If tho civil law docs not require the contract tobeentcrcd Into before n civil officer nnd to bo ns carefully recorded us- a iced For thn protection of clergymen themselves nuoh ft preliminary civil core mony would wem to desirable Tho lawyers who minim on thin cotuniltlco for the revision of thn Episcopal canon on thin trtiject will be accordingly of great aenlHt- anco to It Tho parties whoso Interests mire concerned In a marrlagn urn not merely thin man and woman married and tho Church which solemnizes tho ceremony thin social organization Itself Society should Insist on having a voice In the mat- ter In view of tlin rights of children and of property affected by tutu union A New Temperance Scheme Since tho adoption In March of the present Liquor Tax law of Now York there has been n steady decrease of popular Interest In tIme agitation of thin Pro- hibition party nml a marked Indiffer- ence to thu appeals of Its loaders Interest In tho causo of temperance or In projects undorlnken In behalf of sobriety has not decreased but It has Leon manifested through other agencies nnd tho radical Prohibitionists have been bestirring themselves to discover a now method to attract people to their party At a meeting of Prohibitionists In Historical halt Brook- lyn last Monday a now departure for tIme temperance party hereabouts was mudo In project of local option by wards on tho plan successfully adopted In aetna other cities under selling Is prohibited In a ward or township division by the vote of a majority of Its electors In Illinois local option Is a part of tho general law of thou State a vote may bo taken upon it not ns In New York at a request of time majority of tho voters In a town but In a political division of a town such ns a ward Under this arrangement a section of New York or Brooklyn could through tho actsof Its voters adopt local option for ti sub- division of tho city or borough when tho establishment of a prohibition against liquor selling In tho whole territory would bo hopeless For two reasons however both uncon- nected with thin ethics of prohibition the proposed Innovation of thin local Prohibi- tionists does riot promise well In most Western cities where localized prohibi- tion has been established within ward boundaries tho divisional linen of these wards recently made fairly reflect tho distribution of population In Now York and Brooklyn thin ward boundaries wore established many years ago nnd these residential wurds In which It any- where biieli a project of exclusion of liquor saloons nnd liner shops should find favor urn those which arc tIle largest In urea and In population Thn other reason for believing thnt tho plan of tho temperance agitators will fall is thn fact that Now York has now a pro- vision ns to time restriction of liquor sell- ing which tills nil needful requirements Section 8 of Article 17 of tho liquor law provides In till case of n proposed new saloon that when the neatest entrance to It is within two hundred tent measured In a straight hue of tho entrance to a building occupied exclusively ns a dwell- ing as a to of the tax certificate this written consent of the owners of nt least twothirds of tho total number of buildings within two hun- dred feet must bo obtained Tho effect of this provision Is to apply the restriction to immediate neighborhoods without the necessity of any vote on tho question The Hon EDWARD M SHEPAHD yearns- to bo tho Democratic PIIOBFKHO but most of tho pliieuejr spirit send regrets when bo waves his wand Ho cant collect the material- for tho Rrnnil transformation scene and har- mony tableau of which ho dreams Tho horbes which haul belonged to tho hate IlunEtsT lUiXNKR bravely held their own at time sale of yesterday The most 8on atlonnl of them all In her lay ami hence the Interesting when In the hands of tho tioneer Hunol brought a t rlco fairly com niunsurate with her former greatness Four tliou niiil dollars lor a brood maro was not so much than younc flyer In tIm full flush of apparently nllsurpanslng speed what u tremendous clmnco from the of pubes that prevailed n years uso A stator of Mauil S for a thousand dollars A stallion dam was Suno dam amid whoso clros sire was Electioneer and whose sires grand dunn wa Luln for IfKs than four thousand dollars The hlahett price of all was 0100 for Projrtell a sum that twenty years ago Mr fur thin never famous And now forgotten Mol soy Tho entire lot of forty head brought nit tohl IOM than the prIce of Dexter Tho cracks of 1000 nro worth loss money In tho market than were thin Lady Palmers Lantern Flntbush Maids and Auburn Horses with which Mr HOSNER started his stable nearly hilly years ago Your Famn Is into of grass that comes ami ROCS The greatest statesman In Ded ham Mats the the Trust anil supporter rampant of silver permlttoj himself to bo In Chlcatto tho other day and what did Hero M the tragedy Tli r can t no illffertnllallon In the Trust qucitlon MM O Fnei WILLIAMS Curtain tails to mournful music from H lltilallftUt Did you over see tho name a lobster Is born with a kuil a lltli l aler the day It Is marked ou body No show you oneThe dealer took n live lobster out of a heap on the nami li Joe time dealer said after ho huh Inspected onu of tie lee Now can you Tin Lustnmnr took lobster gingerly by this hnckni where it could not reach hh liund with lift Turning U on Its so that th brown legs nt Its sldw flopped bank wart n sinwith htreak half an minI nearly wit wn 4 n mi tho linililnnf tim thigh In this streak like n mosaic worn hori L- nclfMJ K Some lobsters mire named denier until and stImuli John anti 1 once cleu ly mile out tho namo Julia Siil i rlpH ii In AM nf To THF Enrrnn or Tint Bus Strt The M n- hitlan ClifM Club nf nhowlnu It appr cl linn nf mite Mrflrrs bids Ilio ricbamplnn Mr William Stflnll rmdmiJ lorh i will rontrlbuta- ni that jaiin tii tnl ubicrliillon for the hrncnt of lute fitrolljr ronper tlon In- liivltini further tniraM Ibli imrpoip Ijnrn VioerrMlilent Manhattan Ch Club Xrw Yimit rob H TilT PCN will rerrlfe iiihiirlptloni for Ur SttlD ties amllr from ontadU nf the Manbatiin- Chvu Club sad forward theta to Ur Cobs I ut I mil mos for n Hit or this do to him IUh other I bo us Ilnll It rowl Ink tnt bMklallJ thu char Jim thus otlura MIn I all COH any one i Lust KIII t hue v luierluuuit e t hue less 141Ot few whose IloitsEa gave scourge Ciutcaru iobttrrui amuieu Tim his miumirble slab Its mimi the tIC mllik r Itmius as Nob I ifl El I nit with I Jimk S I trim Siph mill a act oimr ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ > < IIIK inui OF Further Illicuisetl by Intelligent Correc- puiiilenli To TUB EDITOR or Tnr BusSiV Among till the criticisms upon the finding of tlin Jury In the itollneux care nilmlrablc antI thought- ful though most of hnvn there are certain points that lo lmvi born fully developed andan life nnd liberty of Hvury cltlrnn nro menaend by any falluro of the HyKtoni uf trial by jury 1 tog a little of your valuable spaco I Invltonttentlun to what 1 coimlilur failure to ecnnecf this this with time crime of which hit I IH been convicted This juryapparontly considered that the tes- timony of time handiTrltlne oxp rt hand the writing of tho soCAlleil K Non package nddrcnH- iiiwn time ilofemlaiit Without dlscu sliuf thin point whether this flailing N juntlflulilii or runt I wish to call attontloii to that time prose- cution plainly fulled connect thluuiltli ess with the bottle which contained tho fatal powder mind thus bottlo holder ami again failed to con- nect these articles with defendant So far as my reading of iho testimony goesand 1 have read till I could get on the subject no i or oti liMtlflod that the bottle nail holder woro covored by rapcr on which thIs ndilresH nppenroJ except Mr nrnUh the person who by hi own admissionand thn finding of tIme Coroners jur ndinliilttnrcJ tho fatal doso to Mrs Adams No ntmaii was culled to testify to having delivered thu puck at tho club no employee of the dumb to tl ns to Its receipt Apparently the first known of title Address wn that It was on n paper In a waste basket In Mr Cornishs room while the holder and bottle were on hula desk and tho only evidence of their evur having together that before the jury of Mr Cornish to whom It was essential- to show an Innocent possession of the poison Aenln what proof Is there In nny way con- necting the defendant with thcso incriminating articles except thnt ot tho exports as to hula having written the address on the paper said by Mr Cornish to have been around tIme bottle anti the luckier He Is not shown to hun pur- chased nny bromoseltzor nor to have ever had nny bottles like tho ono tho poison was In In his possession ho Is not proved to Imvo bought any cyanide of mercury nor to have mndo any arid Yocum tho friend of Mr Cornish Is the only person who testified that It was nn easy substance to make Time bottle holder Is a tangible piece of evidence It Is positively worn to as tho ono sold nt Hnrtilecons store nail to whom Absolutely and defi- nitely not to time defendant but to a man whoso appearance dress mind manner were so marked mud welt defined thnt he might It would seem be found If diligently looked for Until that unknown purchaser of tho hot tic holder Is found and In some way connected with the defendant until It is more clearly es- tablished than It now Is that the socalled poison package wns received by Cornish through thu nut that when ha mixed tho those for Adams tho contents of tho bottle were In tho samo condition as when t was received by him the bulk of tho people In the United States remembering the axiom of tho law that It Is bettor that ninetynine guilty men should o cnno than that one Innocent man should stiffer wilt not In spite of this testimony of handwriting experts think that justice was done when n finding of guilty was rendered In this ease I trust that these remarks will not bo mis understood im Implying In any way a belief that the jury was other than time twelve Rood men and true that are suppose to occupy thin jury box No ono doubts I think that It was a grief to them to tlnd ns they did They did what they deemed their duty and theso re marks are only meant to show that In tho opinion of many theIr wore erroneous and should be corrected tho action of tim higher court T AununTi Me Feb H To TUB EDITOR OF TUB SUN Sir I am somewhat surprised nt what somo of yourcor respondents represent to bo the opinion of tho legal profession upon the outcomu of tha Mo- llneux trial To nn old lawyer like myself It Is not surprising that lawyers differ on questions of fact as buy notoriously do on attentions of law but that any ot them should reflect upon the jurymen who brought In the verdict Is sur- prising Nor do I believe tin general ptiblle all unanimous In bellovlne this verdict upon the evidence aol the law as given by thin Court should have been one of acquittal Thin fact that there was hung jury was no doubt surprIse to many for that seems to be ex- pected when both the promention and time do fence are as ably conducted as In this trial Most people are like the heard yesterday In a street car who said she was shocked at the verdict Not thnt she believed Mollnotu- lunocont for she did not but that any oim should bo convicted on circumstantial evidence of so grave n crime ns poisoning Hut sho believed him guilty nil this same That titers may have error of law In time trial Is probable criminal or even civil which necessarily takes ns long ns tho- Mollneux ease has lor errors of enum And If sumo ono error trove mifllelint In time highest court to secure a reversal ot the ease would not bo surprising Bun at least until after the finally passed upon It thin fair presumption Is that he has been correct in time decisive rulluirs Legally tho only question left which Is doubtful In my mind about tim Itecordors chief rulings Is that upon the matterof Unmet Hut ho h dall the facts and heard n full dis- cussion of the law brarlng upon It antI for tho present at least I think thin general public before assuming tIme Recorder was wrong nml that the verdict was not justified should con- cede that the Court was lu a butter position to- judgo the materiality of tho facts tool evidence than outsiders Whether the dofenco rustle n mlstnko In rest- ing the ease upon the evldenco adduced by thin prosecution Is hardly for an outsider to say but ns I loire heard men not lawyers say that course combined with the difficulty the prose- cution hall In getting omo evidence which appeared wholly within thin power or Influoiico of the defendant was very convincing to Un- common mind whether it ought to have hind any effect on the jury or not Tumncn are human nml circumstances not strictly legitimate do sometimes affect them such ns the nppenrnnco ot the defendant or of tho wit- nesses even at n truth In my judgment both prosecution and de fence were ably conducted and from reading of this evldencn as printed In THE Srx the charge nf the court I cannot but lie trial wax n fair one nnd thnt tho truth was under the Court fairly established II- NB YORK Feb 14 To THE KIMTOB or Tim Hex Mr Tin let r in your r mtoiinil ini M they rrm to think the Millncnt Trnllrt writeR the iinn Ivi itn n y A iiond onlirt Fxivpt one n aLit who wait a Uwrrr like ritil Inn wont ntxolutr NUT A Iitvuit- Sclfmtltlr Inll llrrnklnu- HuNTSvmE Feb nThren prisoners ef- fected their vMunptt front county thin morning l y making a hole ihriiiich it sand- stone with Tit men ore nil white Their Ii e Ihsiillor churnil wnii grand larceny John McMiinn luiriMiry II Levins grant larceny Tim wIn In this the crouint llnnrof Iho old They evMnntlv hal nti ncmmpllcann iho outside who furnished thorn with n curd or tnomof stove wood The three men Mimed rt tire the sandstone xuill nnd whlln It wits hot dalnd eild It This crumbled HatnNtnun tu sand nnd soon male n big enough walk through Siitillrm Vnvf In Smith Afrlrji- m ikr n 7rV- CnlnrSoreennt Thoiupxui of Jo Gwyntin- irnnue now with yu lloglment In Smitli Afrlin writes homWe KP an o other day and had hint fur dinner Iln went Him n of nf whMi we eat soot ore all right too You wo dont llvn badly There Is n tre In bn ccnnll rocksnny nmnunt of sunkes scorpions llrnrds and black tints Thesii ants the boys clothes mako them dance nnd swenr Tomorrow will lio Christmas nnd we nre to haven big roasted for dinner with lots of goats to I I MOlIWZ thor Ion In ale ben went moll ell at nota bell case role a Ant rs waf huh X Orum St r rr a aU- to Tons II arm Hanl I bl n Ilk rlD t lie hi lIe case the iat tie was t Mr hue had miy lkuordor has ito rit- a proof cC ii Inm Lie t hill I un hors canto ii lit I again wad C r tuna I rumit t hue Ciimuuiih Inn rich t lit loiut its n hut ¬ > ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ > I AU K1CJXS OS JUK IKK ITT Ailonlihnitnl Dlicuit anti lndl nntlnn t this 1ollcy uf Hurrrniler- To TUB Tint HUNSir I submit an analysis of the Har Iauncefotu Nicaragua Article I consists of ono paragraph or clause wherein Kniflund wives time United Stall prr- nlnslon to stand building tIm canal Ac Article i consists of eight paragraphs wherein tlm United Slates bind theniHolvcs to maintain thn neutrality of the canal at mill limns ArtIcle consists of one paragraph wherein thin lnItfxlHtiites and England European coercion of tho United Hiatus to guarantee this neutrality ArtIcle 4 consists of one paragraph wherein tim UniteJ States anti England agruo to do tho thing Inn hurry It will bumen from till that the treaty con sIstM of eleven paragraphs or parts as follows Onn part gives the UnlteJ States ponnlsslon to pay forth canal Eight parts rcijulre the Unltod States to Buarantoo ueutrality at nil times Otto part asks Hurope to make us stick to tho bargain Duo part promises not to think time ov r too long Wo wore by tin advocates of this con- vention ihiit lo our Interests to liMo this neutrality of time cnnal maintained at all times and that we culned n victory In obtaining the assistance of Kurope In that direction Mr Hay evidently realized this In view of thou fact that ho took olulit of the eleven parts to bind our- selves to it Or after all was that part of the treaty Loril 1nuncofotos Idea Hurrah for American diplomacy 0 0 R NEW You Feb 14 To THE EDITOR OF THE Sus9ir Much huts been already said with entire justice of the absurdity ot breaking down tho Isthmian bar rlor that shields time United States from I ho onslaught of European fleets In time of war Hut thero Is another nearly as serious side to tho tuestloii that seems to have escaped notice Thin primacy of tho American Union Is con ceiled In this Western hcmlst hen mid the pro- tecting rmmtloof dootrlno far shielded the coin naratlvolir powerless South American republics front European spoliation Our assumption of primacy carries with It cor re ponilng responsibility The Isthmian bar- rier Is a protection not solely lo tho coasts of this United States It Is pciunlly such to tho western coasts of Mexico anti Houth America- It Is claimed that the treaty should bo amended 10 ns to deny passage to the war vessels rif a nation nt war with tho United States limit does that BO far enough What nbout the passage of war vessels of a nation or power that picks a quarrel with Mexico Central nnd South American republics Must hold our strength In leash while tho warships of n truculent European power pass through the canal on a mission of comiuest to the coasts of our sister re- publics Is It not clear that not only our own territory but that of all other peoples to the south of us are Interested In the privileges granted or denied to European powers In war It Is not patent that the canal should bo closed to the war vessels of any power at war with any North and South American republic Does not the Monroe doctrine nt least reijulru thlsthat we refrain from adding to thou facilities of a foreign power for thus oppression of the republics south of us From Cora Horn to Alaska an Immense coast- line stretches on time lee tide of hue western continent Jho security of the peoplo on that side of tho vast Pacific pool Is greatly enhanced by the that this navies of Europe must round tim stormy Capo Horn If those navies over hereafter have a mission of war la the Pacific Ocean let them round tho Cape AS our own Oregon was obllcod to do or BO around the world by time existing Suez Canal route Hut let us not make any treaty that will permit the passage ot any war vessels with hostile mission against any republic on this continent whittier wo bo at peace or at war with thus powers having hostile business with our recognized wards I t no man flatter himself that the Monroe doctrine is riot yet to bo put to tha test Our diplomacy mndo mistakes enough In the de- limitation nf the Maine boundary by which we wore excluded from our natural boundary on the St Lawrence RIver mind In the Oregon compromise by which Great Britain unjustly gained tier frontage on the 1nclflc Ocean with time formidable fortifications at Esqul malt AS the result to us Hut flue crowning criminally stupid blunder of the closing century would be tho ratification of tim Hayriiuncefote convention from time consequences of which we might never escape save through n long and doubtful struggle with the powers ot Kurope Let no man deceive him self Once create a European concert as to so vastly Important a privilege as the passage of European war vessels nt nil times through the American IMhmlun canal and Europe would anti homely before consenting to its abrogation This Is no time for crimination It la ono for the sinking of partisanship and the mar shalllnizof moan of nil parties ns Americans In tin face of nn appalling subtle menacing danger to time national lifo and the develop- ment of the American people In peaceful security on their own continent OKUHOK V DITHBIDOK NEW YoitK Feb 14 To rita EDITOK OF THE SuxSir As a con- stant reader nf TIIK SUN anti an ardent nd- mlrcr of Its sterling Americanism this strong arguments In Its editorial columns nealnst tho- Hay1auncefoti Treaty havo appealed to me nsthey no doubt have to tho majority of Its reader I hop that tho United States Senate will not commit such a colossal blunder ns tn ratify this salt of our nations birthright Time excusn offered by thin supporters of the treaty that the business folk cannot under stand the wiles of diplomacy and therefore are not eatable of judging what should bo tlio- iwllcy of our country Is as flimsy In tho eyes of tho thinking peoplo of this bustlIng age as the worn out theory of time divine right of kings History has shown us tInt diplomacy when shorn of Its glitter and palaver Is nothing but plain common senso arid business foresight So thnn both the opponents nnd defenders of tIme treaty must admit that under Its terms wo loire simply acquired I Thn right to construct the Nicaragua Canal and pay for Its construction and mainte- nance out of our own rocket The which are the natural outcomeof such an Investment II Tho right to tidies the canal to tIme extent of preventing petty depredations On tIme other linnd we lose or fall to acquire 1 TIme right to defend our property In ease of war In which we are n party Hy Inviting the European nations to assist us In keeping the canal neutral we relinquish the Monroe doctrine Atlhopnsint tlmo the United Slntss forms n compact mass easIly defended from attack nml by means of luatn nnd the Philippine bold thin kny to tin 1aelllu If war should the attacking Europian nation would to distance i di- elded dlsadvimtnce In attempting to wrest our colonies from Hi Hut under thou llay1auncofote Treaty Great Hrltalu not the United Slatts would hold the key to the hituatlon Kingston In lamMcn and Ilcllzo in British Honduras mire r Hpectlvelyil7r nod 7f 0 from San Juan ilcl NerO whIte our nearest seaport IVjueo In 1uerto Itleo Is127i miles away Hies or the of mater loll coasts of or the we luuToa Cmimtuul convention exmjemmso agree ti tmmitua laehfle thin tlmm Monroe imas thus line oh fact light lomig hnrrlulsltes ha the ehinp of tolls 2 I in writ I Tnt I in arise ow inc sum To r lilt I mn lies iii omni ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ < Dm t bine of operation in the Initcd Stutos Impr ew Orleans and ialvpton mini l o mil front th ntirn trmlnus of the caiinl and oven then Helize doormen miiHt be irosseil Should we nciulro otto of thus Galapagos group of Island we would still be 10115 nM from the canals IVielllu terminus HO that a Jlrltlsh licet could leave Kingston for San Jutu dill Nurte pa ihtough canal anti either hue > await oncoming of our war vessel In th 1aclflo or eIto destroy our Una ol communica- tion with our Pacific possomloim Further whan Heat Ilrltnln Insisted on In eluding In thin HnyliiuniifotK Trnaty tho utrallty nuroomoiit govDrnlna time Snug hoodwinked the Administration effectually n shndld time powers In in when sims nindo thnt agreement with thorn for though Limo Suez Canal itself noulriU time Hrltl h forts mud naval station nt ilbrnltar Malta Cyprus and Adou wiiailo to provnnt accost to time Midlterrnnian and Red attic or ucce sfullycombat th ifiiiyIleutii therein Them urn no closed nt time termini of the Nicaragua Canal to enublo us to offset neutrality Hut tho optimist nraiien Great llrltoln In- terests nro with our own thu- thero I no danger from that source Such talk Ix Idle the fact that she l now engaged In ft disgraceful attempt to stlllo the llttlo republic of South Africa and that our neighbor Canadians are wllllnit uM lntnnts In such trite Is nrgumont ooough against her liberty timid justice That such n condition of affairs would b- nnullorated when In thin course of lioxC quarter century our shltn will crowd hum Mima spas whom Hrltnnnlii boastfully rules today mind when our morchnnts compete with hints for trade In thin very marts which site now com nietciiilly control must bo scouted On Iho action of tho Senate depend the wel- fare not only of the present Snerutlon but ot- tho unborn millions ot Americans Hotter no canal titan ono whIch would b Britains vantage ground In tlmo of JAMBS W TEnnr- NEWBUrou N Y Feb 14- To THE EDITOR OF THE BUN Sin The West U with you In your llehtagainst tho ratification of the proposed canal treaty Most ot our peoplo remember this of Bonator Caffory and comments as published In tho Oaiurrtiional Krfonl of Jnu 11 18J anti believe that we havo thou option to declare the Clnytonllulwor Treaty a nullity Keep up tho fight aol lot uc own the canal and have absolute control in peace as well or not mini canal OTTAWA Kun Fob ll AV A MADAIIM THE TEXKMKX TIIO risE COXS Til VCIIOX- Frnrtlrnl Suggestions Cnlltil Out by tha Tenement HIIIIKB ExhIbItion To THE FntTon or THE Bux 5ir After paying a visit to the cocalled tenement house exhibition the question presents Itself whether or runt thus tenement house problem Is solved Interesting tho exhibition Is lIfe In the tene- ments and lodglnc houses especially on the East Side Is Illustrated models and photo graphs of now and old tenements In this timid other cities photographs of modern nlrshafta plans showing the evolution of the tenement Into the present doublodocker life of tha tenants and In the tenements and what riot are here vividly put on view Men and wo men visitors prosperous appearing look tn amazement make serious remarks of sur- prise and wonderment flat dwellers whose flats mire just ns dark arid ns unwholesome as the tenements pass quietly by or talk charity Seventeenth ward landlords shako their heads and smile anti last but not least the plain ordinary workman he who understands the tenement anti Its dwellers best who Is wllllns to pay his way as ho goes who asks for no charity or philanthropy critically examines and has tho temerity to express doubts oven la regard to model tenements and the plans ex- hibited for them because ho knows that the question Is not solved When It cornea to a building on a lot say 75 1OU or more feet wide there is no necessity for any solution for the question Is solved by sim- ply copying somo of our office buildings or larger apartment houses All that Is necessary Is to adjust tenement house conilltlonstothem bearing In mind the purposes mind surround- ings 01 course the same expensive materials cannot bo used but electric light elevators baths Arc cnn b putt there Can such tene- ment be mats to pay for the same price that I paid for the lots in tlmono Instance would In the outer Instance pay for thechcapcr tenement mind the lots on which they stand Another thing that the bulldors of modern tenements should hear In mind Is to avoid cheap looking affairs Even so clijver an architect a Mr Klagg falls to apprecIate this point The designs which arc on exhibi- tion have for time most part a sort of factory or povertylooking nppeaance In other words they suggest a suit of wholesale charity affair The writer doesnt that the elevations should bo highly ornamented but does refer the architects to the photographs shown of tenement erected In Frankfort Germany liens Is simplicity coupled with de- sign there Is no excuse the expression soup house look nbout them It might be said that there is nothing In this cry of appearance and philanthropy but It Is to bo remembered that It Is not pleasant to the worklnemnn nnd children to be told by thin nclKhlors that they dwell In charity halt The model tenement should gr forth purely as n business venture bidding for tenants on Its own merits Now I como to the most serious question of nil namely the lot JtxluO In lossosslon of one Individual who wishes to Improve it Nowhere In the exhibition Is thorn anything covering this JlxlOO lot Mundlnc nil by Itself It neigh- bors Independent In the snmo way which solves problem Is there no solution T Thero are some plans on exhibition recent ones and some old ones by Mr Yare butt these and others depend for their success on the faa thatndjolnintr neIghbors with build likewise It really seems as It tho old tenement house many examples of which are still to bo found In the Seventeenth wiirdvfltli two families on each floor four room nplece with nn addition wherein could bi placed the socallod Improve- ments Is the most healthy tim lost ventilated and the cleanest house of nil Scoffers may sneer and point to the now doubledeckers thou price of lots the waste of room nnd the like These old houses are iilout fifty feet deep and haven fortyfoot yard Hut they are easily to bn preferred even with a rear house attached to the illplanned doubledecker Some of the modern higherpriced double flats are no bettor than tho modern tenement U tIme building question a question of law Shall the authorities be given power as Is the case In somo European cities to nv what kind of n house Is to be erected onn certain lot anal street how much lot spnro Is to remain whether the space to be between thin houses Is to bo In the front sldo or rear whether a certain design Is suitable street whether thin courtyard In thin roar Is lobe devoid of nIl fences so ns to to treated ns a common and numberless other matters that would take too long to recite Nsw YoiiK Fob 11 Jons Hrtow- virrnt Yrur fur thin linns llnrsn- mm lt 1arlltiHil Urrunman The range horses of time great Inblo lands having their Innings this year In plenty to eat Despised us worthless pursued for lImo pur- ros of extermination uimnil loaded upon crowded ears mind sent to time Rlniichtnr pen grudged reality mouthful of grass dug with bleeding feet front under the dcop Icecrusted snow thesennlmals for n number of years past been objects of pity to- htlinann people No onn shnild urildge them tho respite on the road n moderate temperature with plenty eat February Murch still to hear from It Is too early to eonirnituliifn Mm range upon tile good luck In securlnc this stay of but h hit lit hit o- cnp d tho blasts antI cnul hunger Hint hnro often been tile lot In Ixwmbvr timid thus a I Cumnnl elms tiC lit lie r ails ut iiiiuit hah ii nil the thus I love of Ito wan as- wan hays Yes say his thIs its for a cc rtahri J tire rout niluuI mind cannery thin ham to Lti Oct f rim I hIT Ii t hi ii nit horse proceHIl uimz ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Irrpnrlnc fur n Cnrrrr- mm H r iiui I think y u would havo your lucy twined business l am evtr lmi n lays ark hU- Thats docnnt know nnythlng except how to nail talk iioii ensi- hi I Part ol time training for lou expect to mako of bUuf The husband atmou lii for sonic Itiut lies mmi life true dress True mguiiui hut hunts 4

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endurableTo tnl tlin llrst wo worn required to

Diftko war to end tlio second It IH netcanary to pits nn net of Congress waiving ormodifying tariff

Tho bent way of facing the now situationwould bo to abolish tho tariff between tho

United States nnd Puurto RIco entirely In

accordance with tho original rocomtnondo

tlon of tho President Hut n slmplo miHl-

lfloitlon would ho butter than what IH

Congress sullenly leaving outIn tho voId tho victim of wnr a

soldiers that refuses to tirIng In thoBounded from tho bnttlclleld through un-

willingness to diminish tho common shareBt tho mess table

The American Canal mid tho Mugwtirnp mini

Everybody understands clearly tho prin-

ciple on whlrh this Oovernmnnt wouldto Ionstruct nn American canal

across the Isthmus Tho motive of thin

entorprlsj would bo enlightened nationalpelfInterest Tho waterway would bo

Intended primarily for tho advantageof American oouimoreo and as a meansof defence whim we were nt wnr Itwould bo tho channel for our coastwlso-niarlue It would eonnoct our Atlan-

tic Hoaboard with our Pacific Realionrd-

anil hiring thousands of miles nearer toour Eastern nail Southern ports tho Islandpossession wo Imvo acquired In tho PaeilleOcean IiKIdentnlly It would benellt thi-

wholo world ant facilitate tho worldstime trafllc nnd thus promoto civilizationUo should nil ho Kind of that Hut tho-

cnnal would bo built paid for owned muttneed und absolutely controlled by thetlnltod Stales Oovernment which wouldHsaumo full responsibility for HH protectionnml defence along with full ownershipsunquestioned right to close tho gatewayngulnst any enemy attacking us

For such an American canal thin

peoples representatives In Congress wouldcheerfully two hundred millions ofdollars or llvo hundred million If neces-pary Thin Investment would bo goodwithout regard to tho question of dividendsfrom tolls Tho appropriation would bejustifiable antI lawful under section 8 ofartIcle I of the Constitution which em-

powers Congress to lay and collect taxes toprovide for the common defence mid gencm welfare o Ihf 1nittil Stales

Observe thin Italics The canal contem-

plated by Mr HAYS treaty Is nn enter-prise of a different sort Thnalleged Is not national solMntorestaltruistic concern for tho amity of nationsnnd the welfaro of tho whole world anti thopromotion of tho gennrnl Interest of com-

merce Irrespective of ling Vo nro Invitedto assume ns a high trustInnncliil burden of thin undertaking nUll In

addition to tho prlvllego of llgnrlng In arapacity analogous to that of the theatrical

angel wo are to become1 the janitorcaretaker nnd policeman In nominal chargeof nn international wnterwny Wo nro askedto ronouneo In advnncn nil military adMintages front the canal for which wo amto pay and to subunIt ourselves to theHipervltilng control of n syndicate offoreign powers not one of which will havecontributed nnn shilling orono frame or ononark or om ruble or ono urn but whosoduty It will bo to Join In coercing us In casethe emergencies of war ever tempt us to netfrom selfInterest Wo are urged to do thinbocauso such U Americas mission bocause wo am now great enough antIStrong enough to forego merely nationalconsiderations anti rich enough to atTend

to pay two hundred millions or HO for ncanal for tho common benefit of humanityfind then turn tho siiinn over to Interna-tional control nn a free gift from this nation-to all the world

That conception of nn Isthmian canal ap-

peals strongly to tho Imagination of thosn-wlio nro llrst nndAmericans secondly From a certain point-of view It Is n magnificent If somewhatvague Conception of national duty Wourn not surprised to notion that thin Hayrnunccfote canal Is already hailed as a-

Mugwump ennui by on of surviv-ing organs of Mugwump thought

hut the hundreds of million Whereinthe Constitution of thin Inltcil States Is thoclause warranting the appropriation byCongress of two hundred millions of dollarsfrom the NatlonnlTrensiiryties for tho navnl operations of foreignpowers anti the general welfare of thouworld commerce

lime Greatest Ocean DepthTho United States steamship Nero has

been making soundings between Minutiaemil Honolulu In time Inturcst of thin cableto connect our chief lslmid ports In tho-Iaclllc with this country fun Neroreports deepest ocean wiiitiilingsthnt have yet been recorded Tlinexact location of this deep 1st unit givenbut Iwtweon Guam nnd Manila a largo areahaw been illscovoiid wliern tho soundingsshowed Blili fathoms oilr 10 feet whichIs llO feet loss titan six statuto miles In

have found a depth of 1100 fathomslive hundred miles enst of Ounm All meus

ilcpthsuiid heightsaro referredto sell level nnd depth now reported Is

lr rH feet further below tho level nf thet cn than the xitinnilt nf Mount Everest tImehlglieht kmmii pint nf the world Is aboveIt The deepest Miuiilitig hitherto mnde inthin waters bntwceii iuaiii and Luzon was

1I7H feet t directly east of thinnorth cn of und not quite half wilyto tho Liidiiini s of which Islargest member

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n ceg ary In shallow waters todepths exactly and tho soundings along nil

shores vlslteil by vessel are numberedby hundreds of thousands HO

hlblnln many plioos to map the lOOfnthomlinn with a high dcgreo of accuracy

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ous but probably jnOOO havo INMII niadn-

In tin past ten years The records of theIlrltisli Admiralty how over 00 by-

Hrltlsh shlis nlonn In that time They areby far nunmrous In the North Attntie anti himthweM Piioltlc unit contourlines of tho ocean Ixittom may be drawn In-

thfmn regions with notch morn coiiHdiiicothan In any other part of tho sons

Tho who havo discoveredthis urea of greatest known depth havonamed It NeroH title Wo suggest that Itwould bo bettor to conform to usage andcall It the Nero Deep On tin Challengerehmts till tho areas depth exceeds

ilooi wore called nnd a-

distinctive was given to each Tilloceanograpliersofnllnatlons havo followed-

thlsexnmplo and of thesn deepsIncluding thn Intent discovery arms nowknown The only depth excmdlng 5000fathoms hitherto found Is within thoDeep in thn South 1uclllc northeast of Now

Zealand and east of till KormadecR whcrou bounding of flOOUO feet hits wen made

It Sir Alfred Mllncr Largely Charge-able With this South African WarA new view of the causes of thin calami

tons contest In South Africa Is presented In

an article contributed to thin rncan Hrvinr by Mr MoxTAiur

recently ConsiilCicneral of theIn London It Is admitted that such gen-

eral onuses as capitalism jingoism andvlndtctlvenofiH bad much to do with thoprovocation of tim conflict but Mr WHITE

contends thnt too little attention has beenpaid to tho mischievous consequences of

personal ruin In South Africa whichstrict 1807 lion been pursontlled In SirAiniED MnNrn tho BrItIsh High Commls-

aloner To nppreclatu tho grounds of tIllassertion wo hhould consider first thin

nature of thn dual functions entrusted toSir ALPJUI MILNFK and secondly thomanner In which he as compared with hula

predecessors has discharged themsupremo lopresicntntlve of thin BrItish

Empire In South Africa Is the socalled HighCommissioner who Is at thn snmotimeGovernor of time Cnpo Colony In dealingwith mattersthoHlghCom-nilssloner ns lovernor Is to netconstitutionally that Is to theadvice and consent of his colonial MinistersHis duties ns High Commissioner on theother hand embrnco the earn of Imperial in-

terests inlihodcsla and llngutolnnd as wellns thin conduct of negotiations with thogovernments of tho South African Itepublleand the Orange Free State In the

these latter functions ho would t otechnically correct In acting autocratically-and Ignoring the views timid ado of hiscolonial Ministers Whether he would bo

wise In acting In such a manner Is anothermatter Mr WIIITI points out that It Is

Impossible for the High Commissioner totiny step In regard to either

tutu Transvaal or thin Orange Free Statewithout such step having very marked

direct or Indirect results In the Cnpo Colonynnd Natal because tho samo racial pontl-

nicnt and the samo social conditions existIn the Puce State anti tho Transvaal as In

the Capo Colony anti NatalTho fntimnto connection of tho four coun-

tries just named by tho blood timid

kinship was recognized by Sir HKiurLKS-HoiiNKO who was High Commissionerfrom to and againto 1807 Thnt IB to say ho representedtho British Empire In South Africa duringtho llrbt Itoer wnr for Independence tumid

during tin crisis unused by tho Jamesonraid Hy working In harmony with tinMinisters of tin Cape Colony on strictlyconstitutional line ho succeeded In estab-lishing throughout his sphere of Inllucncoa saiin Imperialism on tho broad bask ofcolonial sentiment Ho rejected nil lucasof personal rule woe sternly Intolerant of

pooallcd Empire leagues anti ofnil the paraphernalia of a bustard imperial-Ism When ho left Town In

nt end of Ills first term of office thobreach between hutch anti English hind

been healed mutual confidence ohnrao-tcrlzod tho relation between treat Ilrltnlnand tho Boer republics A complete ehangoof was Inaugurated by successorSir Looir Lord a changewhich culminated departure InJameson rnld WIn Sit IIiirrrtaSON returned ns High CommissionerTown In 1805 the relations botween theSouth African republics and Great Ilrltnln hod bciomo unsatisfactory thin attitudeof tho Cape Dutch was otto of renewed vigllniuO ns to Imperial designs upon thoTransvaal mill tho racial cleavage through-out South Africa hind become very marked

Throughout that year ho was deceivednnd kept In Ignorance of tho proposalcoup detat In tho Transvaal and was con-

sequently powerless to avert the catastro-phe of tho thereafterhowever ho proceeded to 1rotorla dampedthe revolutionary movement In Johannes-burg and was tho only official who con-

vinced the Pretoria Government of his ownabsolute good faith In repudiating the notionof thin raiders On Jan hotelegraphed to CitAMiinitLAix I

take this early opportunity of testify-ing In tin strongest manner to thegroat moderation anti forUmrancn oftho loveintnent of thin South AfricanItepubllc under the exceptionally tryingcircumstances WHITE deems It safeto assert that If nny shred of Imperial dig-

nity nnd honor was nt that time preservedIn South Africa It was dun to the Integrityand lilglimliidoilncHsof Sir HEitrtLix lionINMJS Tlio latter continued to withstandMr CiiMliiriiUNrt efforts at Inopportuneinterference nnd wish to uso force as aremedy In South Africa hula healthbroke down completely and n visit toEngland In 1 MHI when bo was raised to thejMorngo as LorI HossinAD he retired fromolllee early in o

Sir AIFIIKD was then selected byMr CIIAMIIDHIAIS for thin Important oflloo-

of High CoinmisHloner The new nppolntoohad hail a brilliant university career atOxford and had served the staff of anInfluential newspaper but he first bocauiowell known as Mr ioscniNssoerotary andacquired distinction by thin ability withwhich dlseliHrged tb duties of Under-Secretary of Finance In Egypt We havehad occasion to notice tn Tun his Uiok-

Englninl In Egypt In sit forththn value of the lisonl nfl economicservices rondeied by Orvnl Britain tothe Inhabitants of thin Nile Valloy Mr-MnSTAiif Wintn points nit howeverthat while the Influence of British domina-tion has proved dlntitictly beneficent InEgypt thin administration of thntIs u military despotism tho principle utiJ

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South Africa Scarcely hind Sir ALKIIKD-

MIINKH reached Cape Town when adelivered by him foreshadowed tutu oxer-

olso of personal rulo as distinguished fromthe constitutional governorship of thoCapo That during a short visitto England In tho beginning of SirAMIIKII urged a policy of tune uponthe British Government Is fairly In-

ferabln from tho which ho pur-

sued on his return During absenceSir ItfTiKit Commander-InChief nt tlio Cape hod acted ns High-

Commlsiloiinr and hind worked harmoni-ously on constitutional linen with time Cnpo

Ministry headed by Mr SautKiNEii SirWIIMAM refused to receive a petition tothn Queen got up by tho South AfricanLengun at Johannesburg ho warnedImperial Government against accepting thostatements of that body and ho mado n

speech nt Grnlminstown In which he de-

clared that South x was In need ofrest and not of a surgical operation-

tpon Sir AniirD MIINLIIS return SirWIIMAM HtTLKUrt was rovursodA now pttltlim South AfricanLeague ostensibly containing lilOUD sig-

natures was unreservedly accepted by SirAFIIKII and forwarded to thin ImperialOovernment Sir WILLIAM BUTLEII wasrecalled and n surgical operation hasbeen sluco attempted in South Africa BB

tho outcomo of Sir AIFHEDS pulley Thofailure of tho Bloemfontnln confernncols-ascribed by Mr MONTAGU WHITE to Sir

nut to lila Inslstenco upon Irroduclblo-minlmums Compromise Is pronouncedtho essence of South African Polities withtho exception of tho highhanded annexa-tion In It haul characterized mull

transaction between tho Imperial Govern-

ment and the South African republics Blnco

On May r Sir AipHEnMn-XEII forwarded to the Colonial Omen adespatch In which he referred to helotsand festering sores antI expressed acraving for a strikingpenal poor During tho rest of thou

your just closed Sir Abrnru Is chargedwith a galling exercise of personal ruleHo Ignored tho colonial Ministers andtreated them ns traitors thin clergymenof the Dutch Keformed Ohurch and thnmajority of tho Capo Parliament whostrove for tho maintenance of peace suf-

fered thin same fate I am determined tobreak tho power of Afrlkandordoui ho

Informed thin delegate of thin Afrikanderswho were preponderant In tho Capo Pnrlfamint Ho Is further charged with sup-

pressing Information as to thin pacificendeavors of Ptesident STRYN of time OrangeFree State withIn cabling over In full theInflammatory resolutions of reactionaryassociations Finally when a section ofthe Cape people irged him tn petition QueenVHTOHIA to send onn of her characteristicconciliatory messages to the Capo DutchIt is reported that Sir AIFIIEI MIINEIIhaughtily refused concluding l y sayingthat tin loud iniidn up his uilnd that therewas not room enough for two white racesin South Africa

Such are the grounds on which Sir AiFlIrt MiiSKit Is accused by Mr MOXTUIU-

WIIITI of misusing n splendid opportunityfor doing beneficent Imperial work inSouth Africa Instead of employing lilagroat Influence to remove tho unrest ariddistrust caused by Mr CHAMIIEIIIAIX-Sdiplomacy after tho Jameson raid In-

stead of reactionary organizationslike thin South African League of whichMr KIIODES Is thin President arid insteadof Ignoring thin vindictive Incitements oflocal newspapers controlled by Mr KIIODJIS

Sir HrnrD Is charged with utilizing nil

these forces for the purpose of bringingntiout the present disastrous conflict InSouth Africa

Time to Itoduce TaxationTho Hon JEFJTISOX M LEVY has Intro-

duced a bill In thin House of Jtoprosontatlvesdesigned to reduce federal luxation totho amount of f 10000000 annually

Mr LEVY hind hotter lot thin taxes aloneThis country today has far too many needsto serve In thin public expendituresfor battleships and other things for It tothink of cutting down Its income

Marriage nml DivorceA special committee to draft a new cnnnn-

on marrlngo and divorce for the EpiscopalChurch Is holding sessions Inwas appointed by thin Oonoral Convention-of that Church amid Its report Is to bo madeto tIme next meeting of limit body ntFrancisco In October of next yearcunservallvo character of tho commltteo issuggested by thou circumstance thnt thellcv Dr Dix rector of Trinity Church Is

tho chairman Of tho wholn membershipof twelve onehalf art distinguished laymen Including much legal ability

Tim distinctively Catholic party In thoEpiscopal Church ns Is well known earn-estly advocates a canon which shall refuserecognition to divorce for arty fluke ontho ground of the sacramental character ofmarriage limit It Is not probable that thiscommittee will go to that extreme In thocanon It reports for such a propositionwould divide tho convention aunt provokeprolix debate which might leave behindneeds of discord for tlio rimroh run two

parties of Eplseopallnnlsin mire nowtlio Catholic or High Church liberalor Broad Church th old Iow Church or

Evangelicalparty having largely disap-

peared and on divorce they are likely tobo radically opposed as they nro In theirattitude toward sacerdotalism-

Tho Episcopal Church at present takesthin Protestant position toward divorce sofur as making marriage dlsFolubo thoughIt allows divorce for till Hlngle cause ofadultery only nnd remarriage to tho Inno-cent Thnt position Is likely toremain unaltered In thin canon though It Isobvious that a great nUll perhaps a major-ity party among the olorgy moro especial-ly Is becoming more and tutor convincedthnt the scandal cnned by time frequencyof divorces among Episcopalian of socialprominence onn only Iu removed effect-ually by making marrlagn IndlssoluliloHut Hint biieli a result would followthe absolute prohibition of divorce may

questionable since the divorces whichhave ecamtallznil the Church HI greatlyhave been obtained almost InvariablyIn dellancn of tlin present canon It Is con-

tended however Hint If the EpiscopalChurch should set Its face sternly againsttill divorce as Hie Itoimin Catholic Churchdoes It would make suHi breaking uwayfrom thin bonds so far disreput-able that the society o fashion In which Itsmembership holds doinlnanee wouldnot daroto oountennmn it Making mar-riage nn Indissoluble sacrament howeverwould bo a new and radical departure andno General Convention has yet venturedto take tho step

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tionable If all rights Involved In marriageproperty and other can ho sufficientlyprotected If tho civil law docs not requirethe contract tobeentcrcd Into before n civilofficer nnd to bo ns carefully recorded us-

a iced For thn protection of clergymenthemselves nuoh ft preliminary civil coremony would wem to desirable Tholawyers who minim on thin cotuniltlco forthe revision of thn Episcopal canon on thin

trtiject will be accordingly of great aenlHt-

anco to It Tho parties whoso Interests mire

concerned In a marrlagn urn not merelythin man and woman married and tho Churchwhich solemnizes tho ceremonythin social organization Itself Societyshould Insist on having a voice In the mat-

ter In view of tlin rights of children and ofproperty affected by tutu union

A New Temperance SchemeSince tho adoption In March of the

present Liquor Tax law of Now York therehas been n steady decrease of popularInterest In tIme agitation of thin Pro-

hibition party nml a marked Indiffer-

ence to thu appeals of Its loadersInterest In tho causo of temperance orIn projects undorlnken In behalf ofsobriety has not decreased but It has Leon

manifested through other agencies nnd thoradical Prohibitionists have been bestirringthemselves to discover a now method toattract people to their party At a meetingof Prohibitionists In Historical halt Brook-

lyn last Monday a now departure for tIme

temperance party hereabouts was mudoIn project of local option by wardson tho plan successfully adopted In aetnaother cities under selling Is

prohibited In a ward or township divisionby the vote of a majority of Its electorsIn Illinois local option Is a part of thogeneral law of thou State a vote maybo taken upon it not ns In NewYork at a request of time majority oftho voters In a town but In a politicaldivision of a town such ns a wardUnder this arrangement a section of NewYork or Brooklyn could through tho actsofIts voters adopt local option for ti sub-

division of tho city or borough when thoestablishment of a prohibition againstliquor selling In tho whole territory wouldbo hopeless

For two reasons however both uncon-

nected with thin ethics of prohibition theproposed Innovation of thin local Prohibi-

tionists does riot promise well In mostWestern cities where localized prohibi-

tion has been established within wardboundaries tho divisional linen of thesewards recently made fairly reflect thodistribution of population In Now Yorkand Brooklyn thin ward boundaries woreestablished many years ago nnd theseresidential wurds In which It any-where biieli a project of exclusion ofliquor saloons nnd liner shops should findfavor urn those which arc tIle largest In

urea and In populationThn other reason for believing thnt tho

plan of tho temperance agitators will fallis thn fact that Now York has now a pro-vision ns to time restriction of liquor sell-

ing which tills nil needful requirementsSection 8 of Article 17 of tho liquor lawprovides In till case of n proposed newsaloon that when the neatest entrance toIt is within two hundred tent measuredIn a straight hue of tho entrance to abuilding occupied exclusively ns a dwell-ing as a to of thetax certificate this written consent of theowners of nt least twothirds of tho totalnumber of buildings within two hun-dred feet must bo obtained Tho effect ofthis provision Is to apply the restrictionto immediate neighborhoods without thenecessity of any vote on tho question

The Hon EDWARD M SHEPAHD yearns-to bo tho Democratic PIIOBFKHO but most oftho pliieuejr spirit send regrets when bowaves his wand Ho cant collect the material-for tho Rrnnil transformation scene and har-mony tableau of which ho dreams

Tho horbes which haul belonged to thohate IlunEtsT lUiXNKR bravely held their own attime sale of yesterday The most 8on atlonnlof them all In her lay ami hence theInteresting when In the hands of thotioneer Hunol brought a t rlco fairly comniunsurate with her former greatness Fourtliou niiil dollars lor a brood maro was not somuch than younc flyer In tImfull flush of apparently nllsurpanslng speed

what u tremendous clmnco from theof pubes that prevailed n years

uso A stator of Mauil S for a thousand dollarsA stallion dam was Suno dam amidwhoso clros sire was Electioneer andwhose sires grand dunn wa Luln for IfKs

than four thousand dollars The hlahettprice of all was 0100 for Projrtell asum that twenty years ago Mrfur thin never famous And now forgotten Molsoy Tho entire lot of forty head broughtnit tohl IOM than the prIce of DexterTho cracks of 1000 nro worth loss money Intho market than were thin Lady PalmersLantern Flntbush Maids and Auburn Horseswith which Mr HOSNER started his stablenearly hilly years ago

Your Famn Is into of grass that comesami ROCS The greatest statesman In Dedham Mats the the Trust anilsupporter rampant of silver permlttoj himselfto bo In Chlcatto tho other day and what did

Hero M the tragedyTli r can t no illffertnllallon In the Trust

qucitlon MM O Fnei WILLIAMS

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from H lltilallftUtDid you over see tho name a lobster Is born

with a kuil a lltli l aler the day It Ismarked ou body No show you

oneThe dealer took n live lobster out of a heap onthe

nami li Joe time dealer said after hohuh Inspected onu of tie lee Now can you

Tin Lustnmnr took lobster gingerly by thishnckni where it could not reach hhliund with lift Turning U on Itsso that th brown legs nt Its sldw flopped bankwart n sinwith htreak half an minInearly wit wn 4 n mi tho linililnnf timthigh In this streak like n mosaic worn horiL-

nclfMJ KSome lobsters mire named denier

until and stImuli John anti 1 oncecleu ly mile out tho namo Julia

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To TUB EDITOR or Tnr BusSiV Amongtill the criticisms upon the finding of tlin JuryIn the itollneux care nilmlrablc antI thought-ful though most of hnvn there arecertain points that lo lmviborn fully developed andan life nnd libertyof Hvury cltlrnn nro menaend by any falluro ofthe HyKtoni uf trial by jury 1 tog a little of yourvaluable spaco I Invltonttentlun to what1 coimlilur failure to ecnnecf thisthis with time crime of which hit I IH beenconvicted

This juryapparontly considered that the tes-

timony of time handiTrltlne oxp rt hand thewriting of tho soCAlleil K Non package nddrcnH-

iiiwn time ilofemlaiit Without dlscu sliuf thin

point whether this flailing N juntlflulilii or runt I

wish to call attontloii to that time prose-cution plainly fulled connect thluuiltli ess withthe bottle which contained tho fatal powdermind thus bottlo holder ami again failed to con-

nect these articles with defendant So faras my reading of iho testimony goesand1 have read till I could get on the subjectno i or oti liMtlflod that the bottle nailholder woro covored by rapcr on whichthIs ndilresH nppenroJ except Mr nrnUhthe person who by hi own admissionand thnfinding of tIme Coroners jur ndinliilttnrcJ thofatal doso to Mrs Adams No ntmaii wasculled to testify to having delivered thu puck

at tho club no employee of the dumb to tlns to Its receipt Apparently the first

known of title Address wn that It was on npaper In a waste basket In Mr Cornishs roomwhile the holder and bottle were on hula deskand tho only evidence of their evur having

together that before the juryof Mr Cornish to whom It was essential-

to show an Innocent possession of the poisonAenln what proof Is there In nny way con-

necting the defendant with thcso incriminatingarticles except thnt ot tho exports as to hula

having written the address on the paper saidby Mr Cornish to have been around tIme bottleanti the luckier He Is not shown to hun pur-

chased nny bromoseltzor nor to have ever hadnny bottles like tho ono tho poison was In In

his possession ho Is not proved to Imvo boughtany cyanide of mercury nor to have mndo anyarid Yocum tho friend of Mr Cornish Is

the only person who testified that It was nneasy substance to make Time bottle holder Is

a tangible piece of evidence It Is positivelyworn to as tho ono sold nt Hnrtileconsstore nail to whom Absolutely and defi-

nitely not to time defendant but to a manwhoso appearance dress mind manner wereso marked mud welt defined thnt he mightIt would seem be found If diligently lookedfor Until that unknown purchaser of tho hottic holder Is found and In some way connectedwith the defendant until It is more clearly es-

tablished than It now Is that the socalledpoison package wns received by Cornish

through thu nut that when ha mixedtho those for Adams tho contents of thobottle were In tho samo condition as when t

was received by him the bulk of tho people Inthe United States remembering the axiom oftho law that It Is bettor that ninetynine guiltymen should o cnno than that one Innocent manshould stiffer wilt not In spite of this testimonyof handwriting experts think that justicewas done when n finding of guilty was renderedIn this ease

I trust that these remarks will not bo misunderstood im Implying In any way a beliefthat the jury was other than time twelve Roodmen and true that are suppose to occupy thinjury box No ono doubts I think that It was agrief to them to tlnd ns they did They didwhat they deemed their duty and theso remarks are only meant to show that In thoopinion of many theIr wore erroneousand should be corrected tho action of timhigher court T

AununTi Me Feb H

To TUB EDITOR OF TUB SUN Sir I amsomewhat surprised nt what somo of yourcorrespondents represent to bo the opinion of tholegal profession upon the outcomu of tha Mo-

llneux trial To nn old lawyer like myself It Isnot surprising that lawyers differ on questionsof fact as buy notoriously do on attentions oflaw but that any ot them should reflect uponthe jurymen who brought In the verdict Is sur-prising Nor do I believe tin general ptiblle

all unanimous In bellovlne this verdict uponthe evidence aol the law as given by thin Courtshould have been one of acquittal Thin factthat there was hung jury was no doubtsurprIse to many for that seems to be ex-

pected when both the promention and time dofence are as ably conducted as In this trialMost people are like the heard yesterdayIn a street car who said she was shocked atthe verdict Not thnt she believed Mollnotu-lunocont for she did not but that any oimshould bo convicted on circumstantial evidenceof so grave n crime ns poisoning Hut shobelieved him guilty nil this same

That titers may have error of law In time

trial Is probable criminal or evencivil which necessarily takes ns long ns tho-Mollneux ease has lor errors of enumAnd If sumo ono error trove mifllelintIn time highest court to secure a reversal ot theease would not bo surprising Bun at leastuntil after the finally passed uponIt thin fair presumption Is that he has beencorrect in time decisive rulluirs

Legally tho only question left which Isdoubtful In my mind about tim Itecordorschief rulings Is that upon the matterof UnmetHut ho h dall the facts and heard n full dis-cussion of the law brarlng upon It antI for thopresent at least I think thin general publicbefore assuming tIme Recorder was wrong nmlthat the verdict was not justified should con-cede that the Court was lu a butter position to-

judgo the materiality of tho facts tool evidencethan outsiders

Whether the dofenco rustle n mlstnko In rest-ing the ease upon the evldenco adduced by thinprosecution Is hardly for an outsider to saybut ns I loire heard men not lawyers say thatcourse combined with the difficulty the prose-cution hall In getting omo evidence whichappeared wholly within thin power or Influoiicoof the defendant was very convincing to Un-common mind whether it ought to have hindany effect on the jury or not Tumncn arehuman nml circumstances not strictlylegitimate do sometimes affect them such nsthe nppenrnnco ot the defendant or of tho wit-nesses even at n truth

In my judgment both prosecution and defence were ably conducted and fromreading of this evldencn as printed In THE Srx

the charge nf the court I cannot but lietrial wax n fair one nnd thnt tho truth

was under the Court fairly established II-

NB YORK Feb 14

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To TUB Tint HUNSir I submitan analysis of the Har Iauncefotu Nicaragua

Article I consists of ono paragraph or clausewherein Kniflund wives time United Stall prr-

nlnslon to stand building tImcanal Ac

Article i consists of eight paragraphs whereintlm United Slates bind theniHolvcs to maintainthn neutrality of the canal at mill limns

ArtIcle consists of one paragraph whereinthin lnItfxlHtiites and EnglandEuropean coercion of tho United Hiatus toguarantee this neutrality

ArtIcle 4 consists of one paragraph whereintim UniteJ States anti England agruo to do thothing Inn hurry

It will bumen from till that the treaty consIstM of eleven paragraphs or parts as follows

Onn part gives the UnlteJ States ponnlsslonto pay forth canal

Eight parts rcijulre the Unltod States toBuarantoo ueutrality at nil times

Otto part asks Hurope to make us stick to thobargain

Duo part promises not to think time

ov r too longWo wore by tin advocates of this con-

vention ihiit lo our Interests to liMo thisneutrality of time cnnal maintained at all timesand that we culned n victory In obtaining theassistance of Kurope In that direction Mr Hayevidently realized this In view of thou fact thatho took olulit of the eleven parts to bind our-selves to it Or after all was that part of thetreaty Loril 1nuncofotos Idea

Hurrah for American diplomacy 0 0 RNEW You Feb 14

To THE EDITOR OF THE Sus9ir Muchhuts been already said with entire justice of theabsurdity ot breaking down tho Isthmian barrlor that shields time UnitedStates from I ho onslaught of European fleets Intime of war

Hut thero Is another nearly as serious side totho tuestloii that seems to have escaped noticeThin primacy of tho American Union Is conceiled In this Western hcmlst hen mid the pro-tecting rmmtloof dootrlnofar shielded the coin naratlvolir powerless SouthAmerican republics front European spoliationOur assumption of primacy carries with It corre ponilng responsibility The Isthmian bar-rier Is a protection not solely lo tho coasts ofthis United States It Is pciunlly such to thowestern coasts of Mexico anti Houth America-

It Is claimed that the treaty should boamended 10 ns to deny passage to the warvessels rif a nation nt war with tho UnitedStates limit does that BO far enough Whatnbout the passage of war vessels of a nation orpower that picks a quarrel with MexicoCentral nnd South American republics Must

hold our strength In leash while thowarships of n truculent European powerpass through the canal on a mission ofcomiuest to the coasts of our sister re-publics Is It not clear that not onlyour own territory but that of all otherpeoples to the south of us are Interested Inthe privileges granted or denied to Europeanpowers In war It Is not patent thatthe canal should bo closed to the war vesselsof any power at war with any North and SouthAmerican republic Does not the Monroedoctrine nt least reijulru thlsthat we refrainfrom adding to thou facilities of a foreignpower for thus oppression of the republicssouth of us

From Cora Horn to Alaska an Immense coast-line stretches on time lee tide of hue westerncontinent Jho security of the peoplo on thatside of tho vast Pacific pool Is greatly enhancedby the that this navies of Europe mustround tim stormy Capo Horn If those naviesover hereafter have a mission of war la thePacific Ocean let them round tho Cape AS ourown Oregon was obllcod to do or BO aroundthe world by time existing Suez Canal routeHut let us not make any treaty that will permitthe passage ot any war vessels with hostilemission against any republic on this continentwhittier wo bo at peace or at war with thuspowers having hostile business with ourrecognized wards

I t no man flatter himself that the Monroedoctrine is riot yet to bo put to tha test Ourdiplomacy mndo mistakes enough In the de-

limitation nf the Maine boundary by which wewore excluded from our natural boundary onthe St Lawrence RIver mind In the Oregoncompromise by which Great Britain unjustlygained tier frontage on the 1nclflc Oceanwith time formidable fortifications at Esqulmalt AS the result to us

Hut flue crowning criminally stupid blunderof the closing century would be tho ratificationof tim Hayriiuncefote convention from time

consequences of which we might never escapesave through n long and doubtful struggle withthe powers ot Kurope Let no man deceive himself Once create a European concert as to sovastly Important a privilege as the passage ofEuropean war vessels nt nil times through theAmerican IMhmlun canal and Europe would

anti homely before consenting to itsabrogation

This Is no time for crimination It la onofor the sinking of partisanship and the marshalllnizof moan of nil parties ns Americans Intin face of nn appalling subtle menacingdanger to time national lifo and the develop-ment of the American people In peacefulsecurity on their own continent

OKUHOK V DITHBIDOKNEW YoitK Feb 14

To rita EDITOK OF THE SuxSir As a con-stant reader nf TIIK SUN anti an ardent nd-

mlrcr of Its sterling Americanism this strongarguments In Its editorial columns nealnst tho-Hay1auncefoti Treaty havo appealed to mensthey no doubt have to tho majority of Itsreader I hop that tho United States Senatewill not commit such a colossal blunder ns tnratify this salt of our nations birthright

Time excusn offered by thin supporters of thetreaty that the business folk cannot understand the wiles of diplomacy and therefore arenot eatable of judging what should bo tlio-iwllcy of our country Is as flimsy In tho eyesof tho thinking peoplo of this bustlIng age asthe worn out theory of time divine right ofkings

History has shown us tInt diplomacy whenshorn of Its glitter and palaver Is nothing butplain common senso arid business foresight

So thnn both the opponents nnd defendersof tIme treaty must admit that under Its termswo loire simply acquired

I Thn right to construct the NicaraguaCanal and pay for Its construction and mainte-nance out of our own rocket

The whichare the natural outcomeof such an Investment

II Tho right to tidies the canal to tIme extentof preventing petty depredations

On tIme other linnd we lose or fall to acquire1 TIme right to defend our property In ease of

war In which we are n partyHy Inviting the European nations to assist

us In keeping the canal neutral we relinquishthe Monroe doctrine

Atlhopnsint tlmo the United Slntss formsn compact mass easIly defended from attacknml by means of luatn nndthe Philippine bold thin kny to tin 1aellluIf war should the attacking Europiannation would to distance i di-elded dlsadvimtnce In attempting to wrest ourcolonies from Hi

Hut under thou llay1auncofote Treaty GreatHrltalu not the United Slatts would holdthe key to the hituatlon

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await oncoming of our war vessel In th1aclflo or eIto destroy our Una ol communica-tion with our Pacific possomloim

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eluding In thin HnyliiuniifotK Trnaty thoutrallty nuroomoiit govDrnlna time Snug

hoodwinked the Administrationeffectually n shndld time powers In in whensims nindo thnt agreement with thorn forthough Limo Suez Canal itself noulriU time

Hrltl h forts mud naval station nt ilbrnltarMalta Cyprus and Adou wiiailo to provnnt

accost to time Midlterrnnian and Red attic orucce sfullycombat th ifiiiyIleutii thereinThem urn no closed nt time termini of the

Nicaragua Canal to enublo us to offsetneutralityHut tho optimist nraiien Great llrltoln In-

terests nro with our own thu-

thero I no danger from that source Such talkIx Idle the fact that she l now engaged In ft

disgraceful attempt to stlllo the llttlo republicof South Africa and that our neighborCanadians are wllllnit uM lntnnts In suchtrite Is nrgumont ooough against herliberty timid justice

That such n condition of affairs would b-

nnullorated when In thin course of lioxC

quarter century our shltn will crowd hum Mimaspas whom Hrltnnnlii boastfully rules todaymind when our morchnnts compete with hints

for trade In thin very marts which site now comnietciiilly control must bo scouted

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fare not only of the present Snerutlon but ot-

tho unborn millions ot AmericansHotter no canal titan ono whIch would b

Britains vantage ground In tlmo ofJAMBS W TEnnr-

NEWBUrou N Y Feb 14-

To THE EDITOR OF THE BUN Sin The WestU with you In your llehtagainst tho ratificationof the proposed canal treaty

Most ot our peoplo remember this ofBonator Caffory and comments as published Intho Oaiurrtiional Krfonl of Jnu 11 18J antibelieve that we havo thou option to declare theClnytonllulwor Treaty a nullity

Keep up tho fight aol lot uc own the canaland have absolute control in peace as well

or not mini canalOTTAWA Kun Fob ll AV A MADAIIM

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Frnrtlrnl Suggestions Cnlltil Out by thaTenement HIIIIKB ExhIbItion

To THE FntTon or THE Bux 5ir Afterpaying a visit to the cocalled tenement houseexhibition the question presents Itself whetheror runt thus tenement house problem Is solvedInteresting tho exhibition Is lIfe In the tene-ments and lodglnc houses especially on theEast Side Is Illustrated models and photographs of now and old tenements In this timid

other cities photographs of modern nlrshaftaplans showing the evolution of the tenementInto the present doublodocker life of thatenants and In the tenements and what riotare here vividly put on view Men and women visitors prosperous appearing look tnamazement make serious remarks of sur-prise and wonderment flat dwellers whoseflats mire just ns dark arid ns unwholesome asthe tenements pass quietly by or talk charitySeventeenth ward landlords shako their headsand smile anti last but not least the plainordinary workman he who understands thetenement anti Its dwellers best who Is wllllnsto pay his way as ho goes who asks for nocharity or philanthropy critically examinesand has tho temerity to express doubts oven laregard to model tenements and the plans ex-

hibited for them because ho knows that thequestion Is not solved

When It cornea to a building on a lot say 751OU or more feet wide there is no necessity forany solution for the question Is solved by sim-ply copying somo of our office buildings orlarger apartment houses All that Is necessaryIs to adjust tenement house conilltlonstothembearing In mind the purposes mind surround-ings 01 course the same expensive materialscannot bo used but electric light elevatorsbaths Arc cnn b putt there Can such tene-ment be mats to pay for the sameprice that I paid for the lots in tlmono Instancewould In the outer Instance pay for thechcapcrtenement mind the lots on which they standAnother thing that the bulldors of moderntenements should hear In mind Is to avoidcheap looking affairs Even so clijver anarchitect a Mr Klagg falls to apprecIatethis point The designs which arc on exhibi-tion have for time most part a sort of factoryor povertylooking nppeaance In otherwords they suggest a suit of wholesalecharity affair The writer doesnt that theelevations should bo highly ornamented butdoes refer the architects to the photographsshown of tenement erected In FrankfortGermany liens Is simplicity coupled with de-sign there Is no excuse the expression souphouse look nbout them It might be said thatthere is nothing In this cry of appearance andphilanthropy but It Is to bo remembered thatIt Is not pleasant to the worklnemnn nndchildren to be told by thin nclKhlors that theydwell In charity halt The model tenementshould gr forth purely as n business venturebidding for tenants on Its own merits

Now I como to the most serious question ofnil namely the lot JtxluO In lossosslon of oneIndividual who wishes to Improve it NowhereIn the exhibition Is thorn anything coveringthis JlxlOO lot Mundlnc nil by Itself It neigh-bors Independent In the snmo way whichsolves problem Is there no solution T

Thero are some plans on exhibition recentones and some old ones by Mr Yare butt theseand others depend for their success on the faathatndjolnintr neIghbors with build likewise Itreally seems as It tho old tenement house manyexamples of which are still to bo found In theSeventeenth wiirdvfltli two families on eachfloor four room nplece with nn additionwherein could bi placed the socallod Improve-ments Is the most healthy tim lost ventilatedand the cleanest house of nil Scoffers maysneer and point to the now doubledeckersthou price of lots the waste of room nnd thelike These old houses are iilout fifty feetdeep and haven fortyfoot yard Hut they areeasily to bn preferred even with a rear houseattached to the illplanned doubledeckerSome of the modern higherpriced double flatsare no bettor than tho modern tenement

U tIme building question a question of lawShall the authorities be given power as Is thecase In somo European cities to nv what kindof n house Is to be erected onn certain lot analstreet how much lot spnro Is to remainwhether the space to be between thin housesIs to bo In the front sldo or rear whether acertain design Is suitable streetwhether thin courtyard In thin roar Is lobedevoid of nIl fences so ns to to treated ns acommon and numberless other matters thatwould take too long to recite

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