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ResponsibilityX On Saturday Juno 20 the Army and

Journal mado this specificconcerning tho origin of

gooses to fall an attack on Gen

LEONARD WOOD

criticism of Urn WOOD which have heen

ton foot through the columns of Tile NEW YORK

3rx by an officer serving In Cuba who was espe

ally Injured the favor shown to the friend of

the Presfdent den LBONAIIII WOOD In the

iune quarter nrlKlnntes the attempt to make Gen

ABUtROn tho following Monday Juno 22

lire requested the Army and Nary ourtho foregoing state

inent or to name tho officer here referredand to publish fearlessly and without

4Cirouiuiuiuiiuii ouuutposed information and tho evidenceLJrhlch convinced it of the accuracy

iho statement and Induced it to makeMtBeJf publicly responsible for the santo

In its next issue that of Saturday lastJune 27 tho Army and Vary Journal re

followswe are not at liberty to give the Information

asked for we withdraw the statement to which THK

Sp objects and give that paper full and utter

nerved tredlt for Initiating and conducting the

ucltttpon Gen Wool without suggestion or In

ff trnallon from any officer of the Army the Navy

the Marine Corps the Revenue Cutter ServiceBeyond that we assume no

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however that the Army andI VMYfourno until or unless called to

j the responsibility of making positiveaflsertioTW concerning its contempor-ari8 on the strength of alleged inforpikUon which It is not prepared tosubstantiate and which In fact it doesnot possess

The Summer Headquarters ofHJ Administration

There Is not much that is veryIri abandonment of Washingtonduring summer as the place whore thePresident transacts executive businessThftfConBtitution has made the Districtof Columbia the seat of the Govern

the States but thatdoes not President fromexecuting the Constitution the treatiesand tho statutes wherever he may happen to be if he can thereat be put infiOBBession of nil the facts and thereK ra gjvo necessary orders to his

numerous subordinatesTfiat execution can be on a railway

train or by the aid of modern wirelesstelegraphy may bo on the high seasIt may be in a foreign country ThePresident may desire to visit our pos-

sessions in the Far East and in going orcoming may make tho grand tour andtarry in Europo or Asia or Africa Werehe in peson to command the navyarmy in war as he might wish to dohis presence would perforce be on theocean and might even be in the enemyscountry The Constitution has not madeprovision for absence by the Presidentfrom the country unless in the sentencerelating to inability to discharge theidutiesof his office which may possiblymean a portion of them

Tho four Virginia Presidents WASH-

INGTON JEKFERSON MADISON and MON-

ROE were as history tells us often attheir respective homes in the summerduring their terms of office and theelder ADAMS and tho younger ADAMS

were frequently at Quincy The countrywas then relatively smaller than nowand there were fewer treaties and fewerstatutes to be executed faithfully by thePresident

JACKSON was once or twice or oftenorat the RipRaps on the Potomac VANBUBEN Tyun POIK PIERCE BUCHANAN

and LINCOLN were less often absentfrom the scat of Government than wereJACKSONS predecessors It was GRANTwho sometimes disregarded some of theconventionalities of the White Houseunder his predecessors His many absences called forth a formal inquiry bythe Senate which resulted in a StateDepartment examination of the records6T Presidential absences Its report waspublished by tho as a publicdocument If the was reallyinitiated by the Senate it was an ex-ample of an exorcise by that body

assumed right to scrutinize the ab-sences of tho President

Probably in the light of precedentthere is not a sound constitutional ob-

jection to a temporary transfer of theexecutive office to Oyster hay withoutthe consent of Congress The President-is entitled to decide whore ho can mostconveniently to himself execute the Constitution tile treaties and the statutesHis is the discretion up to a certain

at least and his is always theresponsibility Ho must

somewhere execute tho laws In exe-cuting them he has option selection andchoice of ways within certain limitsif the words of the law are ambiguous

a proper discharge of that dutymay require consultation with the headof the proper department Such con-sultation and taking tho instruction ofthe President from day to day and hourto hour can of course be done best at

of Government where are thearchives anti the subordinate agentsTho postal telegraphic and telephoneservices may sometimes be quite inade-quate arid unsafe when conferences

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will not permit any consideration tostand in the way of a vigorous execution-by himself of the laws and especiallytho postal laws It will be well if eachhead of a department is at his post of

duty when the President shall be absentbut If all of them are absent at tho same

will be a condition of affairsseat of Government which per

haps the framers of tho Constitution-

did not contemplateThat is not likely to happen under

President ROOSEVELT who appreciatestho fact that his chiefhe may be is to take care that tholaws are faithfully executed

Music as an ArtTho fine contrapuntal hand of Prof

HORATIO WILLIAM PARKER composerof the Hora Novteslma and StChristopher was discernible one oftho notable doings of the

of Yalo University The desirabledegree of Master of Arts was conferredupon that estimable organist and direc-tor of choruses in the exclusive city ofBoston BENJAMIN J LAND The hon-

oring of this welldeserving person musthave given a fillip to the authorities-of Harvard to whom such a gracefulaction seems never to have occurredpossibly because they had the reverendHandeJ and Haydn Society and thojoyous Cecilia almost at the very doorsof Sanders Theatre It was reservedfor Yale and Prof PARKER the head ofher musical deportment to discover thevirtue of Mr LAND and to honor themwith a degree which was not only ap-

propriate to him but also peculiarlysuitable to his musical mastership

Usually when a degree is to be con-

ferred by a university upon a musicianthat of Doctor of Music is chosen InEngland for example Oxford has muchdelight in transforming plain composersof church anthems into Mus

while Cambridge seizesupon distinguished composers of otherlands and embellishes them with thetitle of Mus Doc Cantab For

grace and expressive distinction these degrees far excel such com-

monplace sittings of the alphabet nsL H D LL D or even Lin Doc

Unfortunately it happens that in thiscountry the degree of Doctor of Musicsignifies very little While several uni-

versities and colleges possess efficientmusical departments only two or threehave reached distinction in the tone arteither in their teaching or in the works-of their professors On tho other handthe of Music has beenhanded out without much consideration-by some colleges having no recognizedconnection with music and by manysmall musical institutions utterly without authority to confer degrees of anykind The degree therefore has falleninto some disrepute in America andthere are very few laborers in the fieldof music who would bo overwhelmed-with gratitude by the receipt of it

It seems altogether likely then thatProf PARKER who has himself beenhonored with the doctors degree fromone of the great British universitiesvery genuine and valuablegested the propriety of making Mr LAVO

a Master of Arts But in so doing Yalehonored music as well as the man forshe took a decisive step when she ceasedto treat it as a branch outside of the paleof scholarly culture She gave to a dis-tinguished professor of this art such adegree as she might have conferred ona learned teacher of Latin or a notablepractitioner of letters

And why not Music Is as much anart as poetry or sculpture or paintingIt much intellectual ability to

in it and it contributesquite as much to the refinement of itsstudents A distinction must naturally-be made between the scholars of musicand more blowers of brass and scrapersof catgut but universities may be trusted-to take care of that The main point tobe borne in mind is that Yale has actedaccording to a principle which seems soclear as to need no demonstration yetwhich has hitherto neglected forno degree could suitable toa scholar of musio than that which isapplicable to a scholar of literaturenamely Master of

Outcome of the German ElectionWith two exceptions second ballotings

have been held in every electoral dis-

trict of the German Empire which failedto choose members of the Reichstag onthe first ballot Wo are now able to define with a close approach to certainty-the composition of tho Chamber although the cabled returns are still tosome extent conflicting The one strik-ing and indisputable fact is the growth-of the Socialist party The aggregatepopular vote cast for its candidates ontho first ballot turns out to have ex-

ceeded materially the first estimatesbeing upward of three millions or about43 per cent larger than the popular votecommanded by the Socialists at the lustgeneral election The cabled returnsagree in giving them 81 scats in the newReichstag which is 23 more than theyhad in the last As we formerly pointedout if seats were distributed in

to population as accordingto the organic law of the Empire theyshould be the Socialists wouldtute by far the strongest partypopular branch of the German Parlia-ment

The Clerical party of the Centre which-in tho last Reichstag comprised 105members will have in the present Cham-ber according to one report only 101

and according to another but 00 TheNationalLiberals who numbered 51

have according to one report gained aseat and according to another lost oneThe Conservatives proper occupied 50neat in the last Reichstag socelled Free Conservatives 20 The totalIs unchanged although the Conserva-tives proper have gained one and theFree Conservatives liavo lost one scatIn the last Chamber tho Radical orRichter Left controlled 31 votes includ-ing those of 7 South German Democrats-and the Moderate or Bnrth Radicals 14

the total was 48 The Richter Radicalshave lost 7 the Barth Radicals 0

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vote is reduced to 32 although one report makes it 36 Of the 4 seats that theAgrarian League possessed in the toutReichstag It has lost all toone report but according to anotheronly 2 The 10 seats of the Alsatian

have been cut down to 9

of the IrreconcilablePoles increased to 16

It may be remembered that in the lastReichstag on the tariff issue the Socialists and tho Radicals of all threeshades cooperated and commanded 106

votes In the next Chamber they willbo able to cast 113 or 117 votes accord-ing as the Radical aggregate should beput at 32 or 36 Obviously the gain of6 or 10 seats does not materially strengthen the opponents of the high protectivetariff

The combination of ConservativeNationalLiberal and Clerical partieswill still control the Reichstag In which100 votes constitute majority because-it will still command 223 or 225 seats asagainst 228 in the lost Chamber ThereIs another possible combination thatmight defeat the commercial treatiesthe duties provided in which will proveunsatisfactory to tho Conservatives be-

cause they will seem too low and to thoSocialists for the opposite reason ThoConservatives Socialists and Radicalscould muster from 185 to 189 votes andcould undoubtedly pick the un-

classified independents anti from thePoles enough additional votes to make-up a majority It appears howeverthat no such combination is apprehended-by Chancellor YON Tho opponents of lavish appropriations for thearmy and navy are but little strongerthan they were tho Socialist gains hav-

ing been nearly counterbalanced by theRadical losses

Obviously the significance of theelections does not Ho in any seriouschange in the composition of parties intho new Reichstag So long as it cansecure the cooperation of the Clericalstho Imperial Government will bo ableto carry all its measures unless indeed-it should be confronted by a coalitionof Conservatives with tho SocialistRndicnls for a temporary destructivepurpose What renders tho outcome ofthe electoral contest ominous in Conser-vative eyes is the tendency of the Radi-

cals of all shades to absorption in theSocialist party and the probability thatthe SocialDemocrats encouraged bytho success of a moderate policy will re-

nounce tho doctrines of KARL MARX andthus becoming a Democratic rather thann Socialist organization will ultimatelymake large gains at the expense of theNationalLiberals and perhaps alsoamong the peasants who have hithertobeen counted on to support Conserva-tive candidates

The Socialist newspapers assert that apart of the extraordinary increase intheir popular vote was due to recruitsfrom the peasantry Only by carryingrural districts can the SocialDemocrats-hope to secure votes enough in theReichstag under the present unfair allotment of seats to command a majoritywith the help of the Poles and some ofthe independent members That this isnot aninconceivable result of a futureappeal to the ballot box may bo inferredfrom the trepidation with which someof the Conservative journals survey thoenormous expansion of tho popular votecommanded by tho Socialists

fleer Knthustaum and Water

One of tho fortyseven German agri-culturists who have been studying theUnited States speaks these words ofpraise and blame

I liked your American universities very muchThey are very welt put together Hut there Is onething that they mis nd beer The studentshere have the enthusiasm we have In ourGerman school by drinking water It Is beer thatInspires them

Youth is tho fittest and a sufficient inspiration and intoxication To toss beerdown adolescent gullets is to paint thelily Besides the American student isusually more nervous sensitive anddelicately organized than his Germanbrother and the American climate is nofriend of Bacchic ardors Still beer isnot absolutely unknown in the Yankeecolleges Even towns like Cambridge-and Evanston that live in a dry lightare not hopelessly far from the comfortthat a brewery grants

As to the comparative enthusiasm ofGerman and American students Havethe German visitors heard a good healthycollege yell Take nil the enthusi-asm and of all the Goths VandalsHuns Burgundians FranksLombards Visigoths Alemanni Ubii-Suovi Cimbrii TenchtheriAmerican Redskins that ever howledthe war cry and that volume of soundcould not compare with the enthusiastictempest of an American college yelland vet the best college yells arewaterborn

Turf FortuneWhether or not tho report be true that

Mr EDWARD R THOMAS is going to sellhis recently acquired racehorses andretire from the turf the young mans ex-perience in racing covering a period ofsomething like three months ought tosuggest reflections worth pondering by allthose who may bo thinking of gettingtogether a stable of thoroughbreds-

The great turfmen of America haveIn the habit of lookingat their ill lucka rather set face Not to go back

farther in turf history titan this younggentlemans own memory will carry himthe Hon WILLIAM C WHITNEY in theyear 1001 spent we imagine more thantwice as much for not many more thor-oughbreds than Mr THOMAS bought thisspring If our memory be not askewNasturtium won just one rare for MrWHITNEY after he bought him from thoformer bootblack TONY ASTE for 50000Endurance by Right did little if any better Yankee did worse and the rich stakesthat Blue Girl won were not for Mr WHIT-NEY but for the man from whom he pur-chased tho filly when her twoyearoldcareer was practically at an end Fur-thermore all of the best horses in MrWHITNEYS stable were so affected bythe influenza that came over the Wheattoy hills with the and the mistsfrom Long Island the win

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tar of U H2 that for fcll the dollars hexpended a handsome fortune for many

left with practically not athreeyearold for the campaign of lastyear and th splendid wrecks of his stablewere retired to the Mr WHITNKT

no complaint but tranquilly bidedand came up smiling for a now

attackTurning from the turf to yachting

suppose Sir THOMAS LIPTON had becomeas with the defeat of the first

Mr THOMAS Is reported tobo with his first venture in thorough-breds He would have been remem-bered not as one of the best follows In

the world and gamest of sportsmen butas only a disgruntledHeller of tea unable to stand tho gaff of defeat Yet the

of one Cuphunting expeditionpay tho original cost and a couple

of years keep of a larger racing stablethan most men maintain

The trouble with this young man isprobably his expectation that by theexpenditure of a considerable sum ofmoney he could get together n turf

that would win right off theGreat racing stables were never

yet got together in that fashion andnever will be The successful turfman is he who learns something of thogame before he begins to buy horsesLearning that he will with deliberation-and such shrewdness as ho may com-

mand pick up his horses where ho mayfind them and got his greatest pleasure-in patiently watching their developmentPatience and stick will triumph overtho ficklest fortune

The Noiseless Hoy

To the Police Commissioners of Kan-

sas City nothing is Impossible Lostweek they highly resolved that no fir-

ing of cannons guns pistols or otherfireworks will be permitted from thisdate within the city limits

This Is a beautiful order and all deli-

cate cars will approve It As sociolo-gists we appreciate it ourselves Isthere any good reason why the tympana-of the American people should be spliton time Fourth by the howling of cannonthe bark of pistols tho terrific basS ofcannon crackers the continual yelp andyell of firecrackers Is there any goodreason why torpedoes shouldthemselves under elderly toes Isany good reason why pinwheels should-be allowed to splutter on the night of theFourth and weak eyes be offended by therockets red glare

Why boys sit down in the parlor-on the read or have rend to themtho Declaration of lndei cndence andspend the rest of the day in improving-and quiet indoor games It is the dutyof each generation to bo bettor than itspredecessor Grant that the parents of

to split the welkin with theirhullabaloo and fill the country withroar and flame and miscellaneous popand bang are their children not to teachthe old folks a lesson

Kansas City gives a noble answer tothese questions Kansas City is full ofgood little boys who never get theirfaces dirty never tear their clothes arenever ragged of elbow never never letJOHN WHITE out of jail They havebig white collars like Theywear beautiful white Asthey fold thoir sweet and always cleanlittle hands and look at their clean littlewhite cuffs and admire their little chestsbright with for good conductpunctuality virtues theycant help singing in a sort of gentle an-

gelic whisper not loud enough to dis-

turb Papa who is studying the racingreports

0 I live In Kansvi CityI am my parents Joy

I never tire olt crackersFor I am Noiseless Hoy

Tho noiseless boy was sure to followthe horseless carriage and wirelesstelegraphy It seems queer that hoshould spring up in Kansas City a townnot without breath to blow its hornBut he has come The Police Commis-sioners count on him

We can hardly wait for the KansasCity papers of July 5

The wcond explanation of the socalledTulloch charges of corruption In the PostOffice Department made by former PostmasterOencral CHARICB EMORT SMITH ina letter to PostmasterGeneral PAYNEpublished on Saturday rather complicatesit seems to us than clears the situation-It must bo remembered that Fourth

PostmasterGeneral BBISTOW whois the scandal investlgatorinchlef hasdeclared that TUILOCHS charges have beenfound to be true Here It would seemIs a clearcut Issue of fact between theman who was at the head of the Department at tho time the alleged Irregularitieswere committed and the man who Is nowInvestiRatlng those Irregularities One orthe other Is wrong

The whole business IB still badlywhich moans that thobe prosecuted with the utmost vigor totho end

A visionary person desires to erect InWashington a monument very much tallerthan the Washington shaft to the industries-of America with an exhibition in everystory He says it will cost much less tItanthree battleships which moves a writerIn the Jew York Time to the comment thatthis monument will havo the additionaladvantage of being In existence long aftertho three new battleships shall have beenrelegated to the junk heap

All of this may bo but in viewof the handsome behavior of the GermanEmperor on the arrival of our squadron atKiel It really looks as if battleships were a

peace Investment and worth allthey costeven if they do go out of fashion-In a few yeses

Teem Pained EnillihmnnTo TBK KDITOK or TBK Sux Air I warmly In

dane Mr Z Him proposition that the languageused In the United States of North America ihould-becalledanythlncbutEngllsh Tube Informed thatthe MUCOUS rneaphonlc speech that Is twangedand burred from San Diego to Calais Me andtram Galveston to Seattle by educated and un-

educated allketo be Informed that that ton ruc-In Knillsl produces a feeling of Infinite pain Inone who lll myself Is AN KXOUSIIMANI-

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SIR WILLIAM JOHNSONS WIFE

Mr Explains mod Defenda IllchtReference lo Psirkmin

To ties EDITOR ot Tn BtwSfr It Is notmy custom to roply to criticisms upon mybooks But TUB HUN Is an exception frommy point of view because of the highcharacter of itS reviews andbecause of extremely pleasantlations dating back nearly thirty yeses Inthe l ue of Juno 24 current your reviewerIn a brief notice of my Mf of Sir WilliamJohnson just published by Appletonsafter describing the book aa a eulogy ratherthun a biography remarks Whon he canpause In his footnotes to revile Francis Park-man ho surely might find room to give chapter and verse for his contradictory assertions

The matter referred to Is a footnote onPP 48 and 47 of the book In that footnote-I had no Intention to revIle Francis Parkman All I dlrtor all I tried to do wasto rail Attention to the fact that Mr Parkman-In lila Montcolm and Wolfe vol 1 p 2081

had gone out of his way to revile a good andhonest womnn

After a description of Mount JohnsonParkman says Here presided for manyyears a Dutch or German wench whom hoJohnson afterward ninrrleU

This statement I describe In the footnote-as not only painfully Illnatured but grosslyInaccurate

Tho facts are as follows William Johnsonhad a neighbor named Phillips who had as-

boundservant a comely German girl namedKatharine Wciscnburg She had been

bound out at 14 to serve seven years WhenJohnson saw und fancied her she was about10 Johnson offered to buy her Indentures-for the two years or so they hnd yet to runPhillips at first refused Johnson offeredhim 10 guineas and said that If he did nottako that lip would take the girl anyhowadding that If Phillips Interfered ho wouldmake him run It Phillips thinking thatthe sum of 10 guineas was better thnn n dif-ficulty with William Johnson then 24 yearsold and ns stalwart a man as there was Intilt Coloniw yielded This was In May1713 according to tho Johnson papers usprinted In Canada by Sir John Johnson

Tho evidence of Immediate marriagefollows

In HaUeyH Old New York Frontierp 1V1 may be round the statement that

when Sir John Johnson was driven out ofthe Mohawk Vnlley the patriotsin May 170 tied precipitately

him the con-tained evidence that he unlike other childrenof SIr William wax legitimate

Tho evidence referred to Mrwas a record a lent In thatvided for the that Wllllnm Johnsonand Katharine were marriedMay SB 17OT-

v Max Ueld In his History of the Mohawksays the wits performed

the Ilev Mr In AnnesMission at Fort Hunter

William Johnson did not move trout Warreusbtifh to Mount Johnson until four yearsafter his marriage with Katharineburg is to say died late inthe fall of 174 Parkman says thnt she

presided for at Mount Johninn-us a or German wench and UnitJohnson finally married her

The hnd hern married to Johnson four year when moved from Warrensbush to Mount Johnson and she pre

there only two yearswas evidence

upon which I Parkmans state-ment grossly Inaccurate Nothing witsfurther from me than an Intention to re-vile him

The family Bible referred to by Mrwas taken by Daniel killedthe next year nt Oriskany but the BIble waskept In In 1700 SIr John

wrote to Fonnnn whoat asking If he knew where

was and If ho could do anythingfor Its restoration to him Hlr and

Forman ma been friends Inthe Colonial days The Captain knew wherethe Hible was the Ogdens when ap-prised of Sir Johns request readily gaveup It was possessionForman made a of the Johnson familyrecord and he took the llrst opportunity offorwarding tIle Bible to Sir wasthen at Montreal

Capt Forman was Horatiograndfather nnd his of the

Johnson family came ultimately Intothe Governors possession It was In 1877among his of Colonial at

I did not deem It worth while togo Into nil this detail In little bookfornothing else Hut 1 couldnot consistently so chal

as thnt embraced In TaBSrxs brief review under consideration

Your reviewer also that confusionas to titles Into which he plunges Imme-diately will rouse suspicions his hits

accuracyTliU semns gratuitous since I dis-

tinctly explain on page n as to Admiralon u is to Sir William

Johnson that I apply their titles somewhatprematurely for of convenience

and to avoid rather than createconfusionThere are a few errors in the book nn

rather than important On 10I say that was a short distancewest of the mouth of Creek AcI should have said east of theHchohurle Creek was the western boundary-of the Warren grant On page Z45of the Indian village on Sustiuehanna

I In parentheses nowOneonta It should now XlnevehlOn 237 tootIng Fzra ituells

of old Seneca In 1764 I make himthat it stood about rods from the

lake Pnnecn Lake he said wasabout sixty rods orcr a from the lake

I did not this but left Itto an assistant who omitted the words over-a mile On 43 I of Mrs Grantwife of Cnntnln afterward Generalthe then stationed at Albany17SIlas having painted a of

mon Van 1 should have saidStephen Van Ilensselner He wns the seventh

ArnfBTfs C IHTuPHILADELPHIA June SB

Sir Frederick reeves And AppendicitisTo THE EDITOR or TIlE I rend on the

fleet pre tf SUN a short despatch fromwhich will doubtless cause a mild sensation

amour medlal men Your correspondents areusually so accurate In their medical statementsthat I hope you will pardon this correction

Inreferring to that eminent and Justly esteemedEnglish surgeon Sir Frederick Treve the de-spatch says In a professional sense he Inventedappendicitis

DoubUfsi h employed the word InventedIn a playful way since ran hardly Invent apjtholoilcal condition naturally touches aYankees puSs to nnd that one of own dis-

coveries not Inventions Is credited lo anEnglishmen

For the linefH of lay readers allow meto rail your attention fart that a Ilostonphysician first established clearly the entity ofappendicitis and that to a New York surgeon betongs the credit of having first Intentionally oper-ated for the relief of acute Inflammation of theappendIx alt of which happened seventeenago or long before Mr now Sir FrederickWM known to fame MKOICU-

SNrw YORK June 27

On Mans View of the Iw and the LjncherTo THK EDITOR or Taft SDK sr Lynch law

Is a manifestation of a lack of confidence In thelaws and the officers of the law Aqd It Is only bysome kind of public expression of opinions thatwe can much Improvement lo the courts and agreater regard for Justice among the legal profcuton Human law Is Imperfect at Its best be-cause of the natural Imperfections and limitations-of the and the omcera of the law andthey hove not been Mlrred enough by the publicbut they will gel more of a shaking In the future

Why wu the Delaware criminal at large with hisdangerous record Because of the imperfectionsof the law and the officer of the law An assaulton a chaste woman means to my mind three thingsOne Is an Indescribable outrage and horror to thevictim another Is possible murder and time thirdla a frellng that only a sufferer could ex-plain A criminal assault on chaste woman lamuch worm tbnn law to the criminal Wewant more Justice law and fewer flowersfor confirmed criminals v It J

X w YORK June 77

The Supply of CrIsp Rllla to Iteward VistaTo TUB Ktinon or TUB stm v r During the

yeans that I have heen reading the newspapersafforded me amusement to lhl all

bills money bestowed In the way of reward hivebeen crisp Such wu the cue one day weekwhen as the reporter had It a woman gave theperson who returned her Jewels a 11000dollar bllllIt was crIsp and of women billsof that amount around butto know Is how long the supply of crisp bills willlast and how I It they are always crisp whengiven is a reward c HISH-

SKw YORK June 27

Praise Front Mr Skull In Pride IndeedTo TRI Knrron OF Tnt Sox Sir Todays

editorial 6age of Tn 9uw wax an Intellectualfeast of l highest order SXDUT FOLit

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in a recent memorandum issued to theBritish army Lord makes some

intorwtln remarks the Statescavalry The memorandUm theproper armament for cavalry and to deter-mine this considers the action of cavalryIn the field under three headings Firstcavalry cavalry Second cavalryagainst and artillery Thirdcavalry in pursuit

Under the considering tileGerman cavalry of 1870 and the fact that-It still clung to tho tradition ofand made very little USB of flroproceeds as follows-

In America on the other hand thocavalry leaders very early recognized theIncrease of power to bo gained bytheir men with a rifle in addition to thesabre Their tactics against both cavalryand infantry were a combination of fireand shock and their achievements werefar more brilliant than those of the Ger-

mans In 1870The cavnlry was no only employed to

capture and hold strategical positionsto cover flank to wide turn

movements and to cut the communica-tions In farreaching as

Germans veryuse of lire the Americans were far more

more dangerous In attackand strategically owing to capacityfor more effective

Under the third head after showingthat thore has been no Instance since thetime of Napoleon of cavalry in massesriding a army and caus-ing enormous losses Gen Roberts

Pursuit when effective beenout by fire and th cavalry hasendeavored to get ahead of the

line of rifles It was by adoptingtactics that Hherldannabout the of on theShenandoAh in 1801 and the surrender

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airy fought In two pitched bottles and droveenemy back 130 In nine days

10th to capturing overthirty 1700 andturning which the

attempted to hold The fightingwas not

During the battle of the 19tli Septem-ber one alone made sixcharges throe and three

infantry and artillery hut sthe and artillerywere tho decisive

Such tactics which the powerful arma-ment end defensive Ameri-can cavalry made possible are infinitelymore In massIarme blanche Their I far largertheir being the surrender of the swhole force not tho slaughter-of a few hundred fugitives or the captureof a few batteries

One of the objections raised to the sys-tem of was thatcannot be trained to fight Indiscriminately-on foot and in the saddlo that on footwill Ix Indifferent Infantry and Inthe saddle very timid To thislord Roberts

The American were notadmirable when employed as dismountedskirmishers but bo trusted-to charge home when mounted

Books and MoreTo vat THS Son 9ir The poet and

Penelope were plating under the rose tossing thefiligree both were children of destiny bornIn the on the Hudson near the house copesite adjacent lo our neighbors close to an East-

Side family Those delightful Americans were likepigs In clover until n tar heel Ihe master ofmlllloas espied through the the garden thesiege of youth this man In the gray cloak whofigured among the and posaet cd the sins of a saint been thelightning conductor and the talk of thePiccadilly as well a a regular typhoonRoman road WM no heta when he entered thecircle at the time appointed where the spinnersof life one the blue goose and the other one ofthe deepsea vagabonds were enjoying the priceof freedom However taking the main chance toovercome the modern obstacle of trees shrubsand vines this gold wolf cracked one of earthsenigmas and dashed like a detached pirate uponwild life near home say Marty who badabroad with the Jimmies In the kindred of lbsand the lions of the Lord didnt do a thing but liftthe log of a cowboy grown In the mountains ofCalifornia and standing twlxt God and mammonsaying You are the undet dog Lovely Mary

Penelope whose mother was Virginian girlcivil war Jumped upon the Intruder and

aid I Am a girl of the better sort alsodaughter of Thespls are the spoilsmen set

scat get you to In New England You areonly Perkins the

And he got lloruci SKTMOUR KEUEB-LTICA N V June 27

Babies and T chj enelfFrom the AlHtntrttm

The quadrupedal method of progression noticedby Sir lumholu In the case of ounr Ilulchol chil-

dren may sometimes be observed among our ownInfants One of my children adopted this gait InIts first cOons at locomotion and would run aboutthe place like a young bear for It was a true pIanOgrade action

According to the doctrine of evolution and thelaw of tachygenesls we may Infer that at somutime In the past history of the ancestors of thehuman race the quadrupedal method of progressionwas the normal atUtude and the bipedal WM onlyan occasional position maintained for short periodswith much difficulty Such Is the stage In whichwe find the anthropoid apes now Later thequadrupedal would have been the normal gait for youthand the bipedal attitude attained to only by thestrong adult iu that there would have been thespectacle of youths of 18 to JO lust learning to walklu the bipedal sense and only attaining perfectionas reached the full strength of maturity Thismay be conjectured to have here the stage ofIUliicanshropuitrtctui or of Prrhomo of the earlyPliocene The onward development of the racehas been the acquisition of the bipedal gait con-

stantly earlier In life until now we tee It attainedwithin the Oral two or three years of childhood

This phenomenon of the earlier acquisition of acharacter which Is found among all living timings

known as time law of tachyccnesls Kasy as Itseems to Its now to maintain the bipedal positionyet we may Infer that our childhood struggles Inregard to Its attainment are but a condensed epit-ome of the great labor and dlfficultlti encounteredby the race for many generations while trying tochange a to a bipedal gall especiallywhen we consider the great alterations In bodilystructure which were necessarily Involved

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And lastingly our speech endowWith lusty apothegms-

And classic Hornlngnlde shall learnHow much was left undone

When Shakespeare slipped Into his urnFor nig Bills eolD1 lo run

And Dill will stake tIn Rug thats brokeAnd pay the rent thats due

And nt the Parm anon will smokesavorythe dames will share

An outing In the sunAnd mil rough up a bundle there

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from Ihr fi litnaian PnHPlans have been drawn nod Approved

for the construction of twodons to the S3iith of the White llouoe Workwill bo started Immediately nft r theiCredent goes to Oyster Day for the summerThe gardens will bo completed late In theautumn but nil the plants will not b addeduntil next year The gardens will be similarto those at Mount Vornon and probably winbn the only ones of that style In the cIty

landscape gardeners have noticed thetendency to return to ColonIal flowers toharmonize with the Colonial style of

whloh has tiecome so Whenour ancestors were constructing their houses

mentlnif their lawns with plants anti flowersof the woods obtained nt little cost and efpendltura of energy With the spread ofwealth In tho land the more costly tropicalplant made their appearance finallythe demand was limited to nurturedthrough the winter In greenhouses and con-

servatoriesIt U to return to those sturdy plants which

form the national flora that LandscapeGardener George Brown has planned tbsgardens to be made within the private groundsof the White house Conspicuous uniongthe now WhIt House flora will bo the oldenrod which lana been urged as the nationalflower of the United States What haabeent-eriwxl oldfashioned Dowers will be givenplucis of honor In the now gardens becauseof beauty mid hurdy

Mr drowns Idea tt so arrange the gar-dens that they win i e In bloom as monthsan lie will select plants aswill bloom In tnaWiiai tics itoojievolt mind tIme children areat the Vhlte House

gardens are to be located on eitheraide of time south veranda mansionmind within the Iron fence which separatesthe private

where the public la admitted Eachgarden will be a borderreaciilne to the tenon andstandard shrubs These will beand placed so as to harmonte with the

terrnces Gravel walkssurround the gardens constructedalike on nil A of tree box willhem In the gardens A wIde border of selocted herbaceous nill tworectangular plots of These rec-tangular t divided n narrowgravel waist bordered by the hedge of treebox

In this manner beds be madeof at either of the southern cornersof the White House and four constitutingn garden Kach bed will bn about 76 by 2feet In dimension to streetson vide and bordering the southernroadwnv will two sectionsdrive whIch will be devoted wersA bed of roses will form the centre

to the south of the mansionhas received attention the gardenerClimbing roses next season will coverbars and form a beautifula rose bush la growing over the Presidentsoffice and next season It Is planned to hay

office covered with rosesclematis

To the Farthest MerthwettAbout the mat of July Mr Townsend W

Thorndlke a wellknown Bostonian willstart on a trip of exceeding interest to htraatlfand hU two companions and of some profitand advantage to the Peabody MuseumThe party proceed by rail to EdmontonIn northwest Canada by way of Vlnnlpegand Calgary At Edmonton they will bajoined by their guides and thence theywill proceed across country to navigablewater on the Athabasca River where theircanoes will be launched for a three monthstrip Into tIme little known regions of the Mac-

kenzie River country The Athabasca Rivertake thorn to lake of the same

Out of that the Great Slave River will takethem to Fort Resolution on the Sievebake where connection will be made withthe northwestward flowing theMackenzie be followed toIU mouth on the shore of the Arctic Oceanat about 70 degrees north latitude

region there are sundry tribesof little known ofhabits expects to

and from whom to obtainImplements Weapons clothing

Interestsentatlon to the Peabody Museumthis point they are to move westward alongthe ocean to a point Where thedivide will be crossed towaters of the Yukon River whose course willbe followed until connection Is withsteamers which wlU bring them back toregions of

Commissioner War GetS Lincoln Awtotgraph Cheap

from Ihr Kantai Cull JournalIn December last the Pension Purcau received

an application for a pension from David LevyIn looking up the records In the AdjutantGeneralsoffice It was discovered that David Levy was carriedwith the word deserter opposite his name Hewas Informed by the pension offlrlalt that pen-

sions were not for deserters He replied that Itwas true that he tad been a deserter but that hehad been pardoned by the President and hadserved faithfully until the end of the war Thepension authorities answered In turn that If hehad n pardon he must produce It as the recordsbore no evidence of the existence of such a docu-ment And thereupon Levy sent the pardonJust M written by the President together withthe statement that he had kept It safe allYeses

TIme pardon Is written on a piece of pasteboardabout the size of an ordinary visiting card Thewriting though dimmed by age Is clearly legibleand would be recognized at once by those familiarwith the angular hind of the martyred PresidentThere Is no circumlocution or legal vert I ire aboutIt II goes straight to the point as follows

If David Levy shall enllit and serve faithfullyfor one year or until otherwise honorably dis-charged I pardon hint for the past

Jan 12 115 LINCOUt

It will be observed that technically consideredthis Is not a pardon but only the promise of a pardon However David Levy was able to showthat he had faithfully carried out the conditionsflied by the President and the Pension Department corrected the records and granted himpension

The matter was brought to the personal attention of Mr Ware for decision tie became muchInterested In the case and when the pension hadbeen granted he wrote to Levy asking him If becould be Induced to part with the Lincoln docu-ment Levy answered that he would aeU It forU and It was purchased by Mr Ware at the price

Japanese fedoraFrom the Ianeet

The June number of Man contains an article entwo Japanese bokulo or emblems of the medicalprofession These objects were wooden wordsworn by medical practitioners In Japan beforerevolution of the last century which displaced somany of the old customs of the country A moan

of rank was formerly entitled In Japan as elsewhereto wear a word Indeed In Japan he WM entitledto wear two swords The retainers of a Daluilo orfeudal Lord also wore swords The medicalswords were generally of a somewhat fanciful de-

scription and were made In many forms some con-

tained lancets others contained knives fur cuttingherbs but the majority were quite plain

One of the objects now described and figured Is

In the shape of a large beanpod Its bean likecurvature approximates to that of a Japanesesword It Is I7H Inches In length and of a nearlyuniform drrumfcrenco of ili Inches or thereaboutsIt U made of some fairly hard wood which takes apolish and It Is carved to Indicate seven seeds InsideWrapped around It Is a silken cord by which It wuattached to the girdle Together with this cord Itweighs six and threequarter ounces avoirdupoisOn the side there are represented In lotquer a grasshopper and another large On the other sideare similarly represented a wasp a small fly somewhat like the common house fly and apparently asmall beetle

The other boltuto Is more Interesting It Is arough piece ot willow 18 Inches long And broaderat the bottom than tile top Japanese charactersmeaning Fpl lrrt oat have been deeply rut uponIt At a distance of Sj Inches from the top It IsPierced with a hole en Inch and half long whichhas been utlllred to attach a flat cord or tape andtoggle for convenience ot holding It In the girdleThe cord Is ot a pale red color now a little fadedThe Niulo cord and lozgle weigh together underfour and a half ounces avoirdupois The twospecimens now described were bought at AlandIn Japan a few months ago

Result of Clerrenn ElectionsFrom Tablet

There Is still salvation for the tlovemment andsit It stands for In German life hut the toad tosafety Is the historic road which passes CtnoaMThe Socialists In spite of their millions of votesare not Hk ly to command more than U out ot M7votes The Government may yet find iterationIt they learn of the sweet uses of adversity Thechance that the Jesuits will shortly be allrired tcjreturn to Prussia seem considerable

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