Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1896, Page 13

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GOSSG8O98O000 ee -$1.00 Women’s Merino Underwear ——S of Jersey Ribbed Suits in ecru oF GH. gaie BS Combination: ay STA: & Special Sale Price. . e $1.00 grade of Jersey Fitting Balbriggan Combination Suits, suitable for fall wear. Special Sale Price...... Children’s Jersey Ribbed Vests or Pants, fell weight. Sizes for children from 1 to 6 years— est 2 years old. ze 5 years old. % Size 6 years old =, During This Special Sale {egy During This Spec ‘2 ee — to facilitate your shopping. « Lansburgh & Bro., 420=422=424=426 7th Street. SSS SSSSS9SHSO8 OSSSH6 ¢ SOSae White Goods Reduced. We will make daily deliveries in Alexandria, Brookland, Bright- wood and Tennallytown. We have an extra force of salespeople 50 pieces Fine Quality Checked and Striped Nainsook, suitable for children’s aprons, etc. 12%e. quality. During this Sale.. gc, yard. 25 pieces Fine Berkley Cam- Dric, suitable for ladies’ and ehtldren’s wear. 18¢. quality. During this Sale.. Extra Fine Quality 40-inch ‘White Lawn, specially desirable for maids’, nurses’ and chil- dren's aprons. Regular 15e. quality. During this Sale. 12%. yd. Choice of our 20c., 25c. or STise. Dotted, Figured and Striped Swiss, beautiful quall- ties and very desirable for cur- tains, eto. 18c. yd. lic. yd. SOSH9S5OS0005008 During this Sale. . 866859080800 900008 DIFFERENCES IN DELAWARE. ‘The Higgins Republicans Have About Deeided to Withdraw. Correspondence of The Evening Star. WILMINGTON, Del., September 28, 1896. As predicted in The Star, the republicans of Delaware are preparing now to smooth over the factional differences in their ranks ‘and unite on one electoral ticket for Mc- Kinley. The Higgins republicans, realizing that Mr. Addicks and his friends are de- | termined tn the stand they have taken on | the question of the regularity of the ticket | mamed by the Dover convention, have de- | cided to take in their ticket nominated by the Georgetown convention on July 16. ‘There is no doubt now that the Higgins state central committee will order the with- | drawal of their electors, William 0. Spru- | ance and Manlove Hayes. In withdrawing their ticket the Higgins republicans claim that thelr motive can- pot be censtrued as a surrender to Ad- | dicks in any way. On the other hand, they declare that they will take in their ticket | Decause they deplore the division in the | pares ranks, particularly in view of the ch in the democratic party, which they ct. believe aoe a em republican party an excellent opportunity to cai Sp Wee a ames 5 npeewate icks and his party are not conside: by them. They propose to show the ate lonaire that they are in earnest and that it Bryan perchance is elected in Dela- ware they will place the responsibility upon him for his stubbornness, which they claim Prevented a compromise “of the differences of the factions several weeks ago. They also propose to show him that whilo they will leave the electoral field to him and his friends, they are still strongly opposed to his claims upon the United States senatorship, and they will fight him to the bitter end on that line. In New Castle and Sussex counties they have al- ready manifested this opposition by nam- ing legislative tickets to oppose the Ad- dicks and democratic nominees. Mr. Addicks is as confident of his elec- tion to the United States Senate this year as he ever was. He is sanguine that he can carry Delaware with both the Hig- ene republicans and democrats against im. In addition to the withdrawal of their electors the avinouncement was made here today in reliable sources that the com- mittee will.consider the advisability of withdrawing ‘their congressional ticket, leaving the field to J. 3. Willis, Delaware's present representative in Congress. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES, Authorities Quoted for the White Metal and a Forecast Made of the Future. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: When the question of restoring silver to our coinage was under consideration in Congress in 1878. such men as Kirkwood of Iowa and McKinley and Fosier of Ohio and Carlisle of Kentucky were in favor of such restoration, and Congress demonstrated by @ two-thirds vote, its decided convictions in favor of a 412%¢-grain silver dollar. And the following recorded opinions of finan- ciers of all parties in different localities in- dicates the convictions and trend of opinion among business men and statesmen of all parties, and is worthy of thoughtful consid- eration just at this time. The British historian, Sir Archibald Alli- son, says: “Columbus led the way in the career of renovation; when he spread his sails across the Atlantic he bore mankind and its for- tunes in his bark. The mines of Mexico and Peru were opened to European enter- prise. Tre annual supply of the precious metals for the use of the globe was triple: * © the weight of debt and taxet insensibly wore off under the influence of that prodigious increase in the renovation of industry; the relations of society were changed; the weight of feudalism cast off, the rights of man established. Among the many concurring causes which conspired to bring about this mighty consummation, the most important, though hitherto the least observed, was the discovery of the mines of Mexico and Peru.” (History of Europe, vol. 1, p. 10.) < And again the same author says on an- other page: “If the circulating medium of the globe had remained stationary or de- clining, as it was from 1815 to 1849, from the effects of South American revolutions and English legislation, the necessary re- sult must have been that it would have be- come aitogether inadequate to the wants of men; and not only would industry have been everywhere cramped, but the prices of produce would have universally and con- stantly fallen, Money would have become more valuable, all other articles, measured in money, less so. Debts and taxes would have been constantly increasing in weight and oppression; the fate which crushed Rome in ancient, and has all but crushed Great Britain in modern, times would have been that of the whole family of mankind. All these evils have been entirely obviated, and the opposite set of blessings intro- duced, by the opening of the great reserve treasuries of nature in California and Aus- tralia. * * * A fate, the precise reverse of that which destroyed Rome and so sore- ly distressed England, is reserved for the great family of mankind. When the dis- covery of the compass, of the art of print- ing and of the new world had given an ex- traordinary impulse to human activity in the sixteenth century, the silver mines of Mexico and Peru were opened by Provi- dence, and the means of conducting indus- try in consistence with human happiness was afforded to mankind.” In the report to Congress in 1791 of Alex- ander Hamilton on the establishment of the mint he says: “To annul the use of vither of the metals as money 1s to abridge the quantity of the circulating medium and is lable to all the objections which arise from. a comparison of the benefits of a full with the evils of a scanty circulation.” And Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Ham- ilton concerning this report said: “I con- cur with you in thinking that the mint must stand upon both metals.” In 1873 a law was passed by Congress containing no provision for the coinage of the silver dollar. Concerning this piece of legislation the report of the United States monetary commission organized under a Joint resolution of Congress August 15, 1876, say: “The act when passed was not read, ex- cept by title, and it is notorious that this transcendent change in the money system of the country, affecting the most vital in- terests, was carried through without the knowledge or observation of the countzy. It was neither demanded by the resolutions of public meetings or political conventions nor asked for in petitions from the people. As paper money was the actual money of the country at the time, a coinage act was not likely to attract general attention. In its relation to a single or double standard it was discussed but little in the House and not at all in the Senate. The press of the country was entirely unobservant or si- lent. when it was pending and when it was passed, and for more than three years af- terward. If it had been generally known that any such vital question as the de- monetization of silver was lurking in the bill, it would have aroused the most wide- spread discussion throughout the country. * °* * The most striking evidence, per- haps, of the public inattention to the ef- fect of the coinage act of 1873 Is the fact that President Grant, who signed it, and who was critically observant of the legisla- tion of Congress, had no knowledge of what it really accomplished in relation to the demonetization of silver, and was still uninformed about it as late as the follow- ing October.” And in this same year, to wit, 1876, the London Economist had this to say in refer- ence to the coin money of the nations: “Probably if there were gold enough for all the world it would be best that there should be only a single standard of value throughout the world and that one gold, but this is impossible. Some have doubted if there is gold enough even for the na- tions that now intend to use it, and there certainly is not enough for all the world.” ‘A few years prior to 1876, at a conference by a monetary commission appointed, I think, by the French government, one of the Rothschilds used these words: “Whether gold or silver dominates for the time being, it is always true that the two metals concur together in forming the monetary circulation of the world; and it is the genera mass of the two metals com- bined which serves as the measure of the value of things. * * * I should regret the demonetization of silver in its relation to our internal circulation, our commercial in- tercourse with other countries, and the al- ways uncertain eventualities of the future. But I should regret it even more if our ex- ample should be followed by other nations; for that suppression of silver would amount to a veritable destruction of values without compensation.” At a conference of financiers, held in Paris, in 1878, Mr. Goschen, once a chan- cellor of the English exchequer, and now @ delegate from Great Britain, said: “I have spoken against the theory of those economists who argue that the gold standard should be everywhere introduced; I have stated that I saw in it a great in- conventence, great danger and even great disaster. To that opinion I decidedly ad- here. I believe it would be a misfortune for the world if a propaganda for a sole gold standard should succeed.’ In April, 1802, the Bankers’ Magazine, in @ somewhat extensive articlé reviewing the history of the financial world, and the re- sultant consequences of different systems of finance to trade, commerce and the gen- eral welfare of the people, said: “England, for example, has been trying to live on a gold standard, and that coun- try has been thinking all along that it was quite able to transact its ess and make its loans in gold; but the situation has become more clearly understood, even by the English, and they are at least be- ginning to see that the requirements for gold are greater than it can fulfill. They are beginning to see that the en- ceexee to pees new gold jeans oe completing exchanges of the worl with the desire and inteation on the ot other nations also to adopt a sing’ standard, is causing such a great d. for gold as to jeopardize business interests, retard industrial development, and in other ways severely retard the world’s pros- perity.” And ene month later the same paper had this to say on the same subjects “The supply of gold is so small at pres- ent, in view of the world’s needs, that a considerable demand from any quarter must seriously affect its value, bringing evils in its train, though these are not clearly perceived. It is unquestionably t: that the depression from which the ch ized world is today suffering 1s due, to some extent, to the small quantity of gold TTEEN TO ONE, FREE AND ENLIMITED existing for th ious requirements made on the meta,” In_a somewhat fpnethy article written by Mr. Leech, while he was director of the mint of the ited States, I think in “Passing by the..great question of the fall in the oid paleo of commodities, so far as such fall ia dye to monetary causes, I find that one..9f the most serious dangers which ci nts us is the insuffi- clency of the si of gold as a basis of the present and prospective business of the commercial. wi and the consequent disturbances attending its accumulation and movement. *'* * The struggle for the pcssession of gold, with its consequent train of financial disturbances, is well un- der way. * * * If gold is to be the sole money of the world, not only will the ex- tension of business and of foreign invest- ments be seriously crippled, but the tm- mense fabric of credit, already top-heavy, is Mable to totter. Where is the gold to come from when the states of Europe now having a paper sndard resume specie payments? As I write, Austria-Hungary has decided to resume specie payments, and adopt the gold standard, and the nego- tiation of a loan with which to purchase the gold necessary for resumption pur- poses, and possibly fresh demonetization of silver, are sure to follow. The truth is, the supply of the precious metals is not more than sufficient to keep pace with the rapid increase of modern trade. What is to be gained by discontinuing the use of one of the money metals and throwing all the work upon the other? Not sta- bility of value; for, as already shown, for nearly a century, when the bimetallic sys- tem existed in France, the relative value of gold and silver did not vary appreciably. * * * The experience of the first seventy years of this century has demonstrated that both metals can be used ‘as money with greater stability of values than one alone. * * * Eventually the embarrass- ments arising from the attempt to use one metal alone as the measure of value and the medium of exchange will become so in- tolerable that commercial 1 ations will find it to their advantage to join the United States in the remonetization of silver.” In closing these quotations and com- ments on the the silver question I add the following from Mr. Howard Holden's pamphlet on that question, from which I have obtained in a condensed form most of the facts and figures herein given. On page 12 of that book he says: “In 1868 Mr. Sherman made a report to the United States Senate in favor of a single standard, to be exclusively of gold. In 1878, perceiving his mistake, Mr. Sher- man, then Secretary of the Treasury, In a letter to Mr. Groesbeck, who was ore cf our delegates to the monetary conference of that year, after referring to his action with the Paris conference of 1867 in favor of a single gold standard, said: ‘At that time the wisest among us did not antici- pate the sudden fall of silver or the rise of gold that has occurred. This uncertain- ty of the relation between the two metals is one of the chief arguments in favor of a monometallic system, but oth ments showing the dangerous et! ts upon industry by dropping one of the precious metals from the standard of vulue, out- weigh in my mind all theoretical objections to the bimetallic system.’ “And he urged that the conference adopt a double standard. (Proceedings of the conference, page 139.) In his speech in the Senate on June 1 of this year, he said, re- garding the act of 1873: ‘I have no doubt that if it had been known that silver was going to fall as much as it did after that, it might have made a change.’ “It 1s strange that so astute a man should have failed to realize that the withdrawal of the legal money value from silver and the consequent reducing of it to a mere commodity would destroy its status and re- duce its value as a money metal. His re- grets and changing of mind came tco late, and after he had been largely instrumental in setting in motion a train of evils that can hardly be measured.” Men of integrity and ability frequently differ in opinion widely as the poles upon questions of governmental policy, and such differences very ofted are only’ definitely settled when the crucial tests of time and trial have been applied. We are now as a nation more violently agitated and divided upon the coin money question than ever be- fore, upon any question, save and except during the days of the “late unpleasant- ness,” caused by the settlement of the question of human chattels. I have merely given in the foregoing some of the opinions of persons of different pojitical parties who were in position to know something in ref- erence to the questions now submitted for settlement by the American people. H. PRICE. Expediency, Not Morality, Rules. To the Editor of The Evening Star: In the current discussions of the free coinage of silver too much stress is laid uron the moral question involved. Men in large aggregates have never been deterred from doing what they believed conducive to their own immediate benefit, by argu- ments against the morality of the pro- pored course. Once satisfy them that they would be gainers by it, and they will speedily persuade themselves that the pro- posed action 1s honest and moral. In politics expediency, and not morality, is the consideration that controls, and if the majority of -voters can be made to be- leve that they would be personally bene- fited by a free coinage law, the election of the free coinage candidate will be as- sured. The great majority in this country, and in every country, are dissatisfied with their condition. If all the discontented can be united on any question they will sweep the country. In the present campaign the democratic party is endeavoring to bring about such a union. Their stock argument is that any change must be an improve- ment; it is the faulty argument of the single alternative, but it is not without its effect on the voters. It must be answered. The voters must be made to see that how- ever bad their present condition, the free ecinage of silver would not improve it. ‘What would be the effect of a free coin- age law? This country is now on a gold basis. There {s little gold in actual circulation, but gold is the standard of value. When we speak of a dollar we mean a unit of value, which may be represented by a coin, a silver certificate, an United States note, or a national bank note, but which is always capable of purchasing, in the world’s markets, 23.22 grains of gold or the amount of any commodity which is the equal in value of 23.22 grains of gold—the amount of uncoined silver which it wil] buy being about 700 grains. If a free coinage law should be passed silver would at once become the standard of value and a dollar would mean 371 1-4 grains of silver and would be capable of buying in the world’s markets only 12.30 grains of gold or such quantity of any com- modity as would equal in value in the werld’s markets that amount of gold. The mere election of a President and Congress in favor of a free coinage law would put us on a silver basis at once. ‘There would be an immediate scramble for the gold reserve in the treasury, which would all be drawn ott in a few days by the banks and cther large holders cf United States notes. . The $100,000,000 of notes necessary to draw out the gold would remain in the treasury and the currency would immediately: contract to that ex- tent, because the gold-drawn out would become a commodity and disappear from circulation. Attempts on the parts of de- Positors to get from the banks gold or notes payable in gold might cause a run on the banks resulting In a panic, In any event, 4 paralysis of business would follow, thousands would be thrown out of employment and laborers would find it even more diffltult to earn the ‘le- preciated dollar than {t ts now to earn the gold dollar, and Would suffer privations and hardships until things slowly adjusted themselves to the new conditions. In consequence of thé’ stagnation of busi- ness and the number of unemployed la- borers the demand for farm products would be greatly diminished, and the prices consequently lowered, both at home and abroad. Mortgages falling due could be neither paid nor renewed, and the prop- erty would pass by foreclosure into the hands of the creditors. The amount of money in ctrculation would, for some time at least, be less than it is now, because all gold would be hoard- ed, and the fact that all currency would be ultimatety redeemable in silver would make its amount still less in value. This condition of things could not last indefinitely. Affairs would ultimately be- come adjusted to the new standard of val- ue, and business would be conducted on that basis. When this stage has been finally reached who will be found to have been benefited? The silver mine owner would have the privilege of having his sil- ver coined into dollars, but the dollar would no longer have the same value or purchas- ing power in the world’s markets as the gold dollar. A goid dollar would still be capable of buying silver at the world’s market price gold, and as this silver could be coined into silver dollars, a gold wae would be worth more than a silver jo) if the gold price of silver bullion should go fe 68 cents per ounce, the present world’s price, the world’s supply of silver bullion would immediately seek the high market, which would soon be glutted and the price reduced. If the price should re- main high, silver mining would be stimu- lated, the supply increased and the price diminished in that way. A demand for silver to pay off outstand- ing indebtedness contracted in gold or its equivalent might cause a temporary in- crease in value, but this would soon cease, and the mine owner would find himself in the position of other producers whose pro- ducts can be gold only at the world’s price, regulated by the law of supply and demand. The farmer would receive a nominally higher price for his crops, but would be obliged to pay a correspondingly high price for everything purchased by him, including labor, and in the end would be no better off than he is now. ‘The case would be exactly the same with all who labor by the day orfor a fixed sal- ary. At first their wages would remain the same, although the!r expenses would be greater, but by slow degrees their wages would be increased, and after much suffer- ing they would eventually find themselves just where they are now. The creditor class would endeavor to save themselves by foreclosing at the ear- liest opportunity, and such as failed in this would lose by having their loans repaid in depreciated money. The debtors who escaped foreclosure would be gainers by the difference in value between the dollar redeemable in gold and the dollar redeemable in silver, a gain which would be offset to some extent by the’ loss resulting to them in their business from the intervening general depression. The merchants and manufacturers, able to meet their liabiiities as they became due, would be directly gainers by the change; they could mark up their prices as occasion might require, and they would for & long time succeed in keeping down the wages of their employes; but they would lose indirectly by the falling off in business during the transition period. The case of owners of city real estate would depend on circumstances. The rents of business property might be advanced as soon as business improved; but in many localities the rents of residences could not be increased until the general rise in wages and salaries had been fully accomplished. In a word, the net result of this tremend- cus disturbance of the business of the coun- try would be a readjustment of all values, realized with infinite trouble after a_pro- cess of suffering of indefinite length, affect- ing ail classes, but bearing with hardship upon the farmers and wage ers, and substantially benefiting none ex- cept the small proportion of debtors who might succeed In paying off in depreciated money their obligations, payable in gold or its equivalent when contracted. J. C. WILSON. ——_—_ SHE AWAITED HER PAPA. A Touching Incident at a New York Railway Station. From the Albany Journal. The traveler in his journeying sees many a touch of human nature. One of the most charming incidents it has ever been my lot to witness occurred some two weeks ago, at the pretty village of Cazenovia. While pacing to and fro on the platform at the railroad station at that place, wait- ing for the tram that was to carry Ine home, my attention was attracted to two little girls who were seated on a baggage truck. One, a sumy-haired miss of about ten years of axe, was zazing intently up the track with an unspeakable ionging written on her pretty face, and alicrnately expressing the hope that her papa wouid come on the train that was due in a few minutes, and the douot that he might not come. Her companion chided her finally for her impatience, but she an- swered: “I guess you would want your Papa to come, too, if he was away. The child's devotion to her fath2r touch- ly, and I approached to where ted and spoke to her, assur- ing her that such a dear little girl must have a very good father, and that he would not disappoint her. While I was talking to her the whistle of the train was heard in the distance. The little girl jumped with a start from her seat and stood in a quiver of expectancy and shouted, “The train Is coming; my papa is near!” The train pulled into the station, and’ one by one the passengers alighted, the little girl's fears that papa had not come after all increasing each moment. Suddenly her face brightened up with an expression of ineffable joy, the gaze became transfixed on an object’ in the car door, and dancing with delight, she exclaimed, ‘My papa’s come, oh, you dear papa: She could hardly contain herself, an as soon as she could get to him, smothered him with her embraces. She was in ecstasies. The hurrying of passengers to and fro was stepped for the moment, and all look- ed on in silence at the picture they made. It was simply sublime. No words can describe the supreme happiness of the child, nor the fond satisfaction of the father at their reuniting. They passed on in the gathering twilight, and the station platform again took on its usual bustle and noise, and I took the train that brought to the child her father and her joy. It was only one of those little incidents often met with in daily life that serve to make one think less harshly of the world about him, and lifts him up to a higher plane than before. ‘There was not one who witnessed the incident who did not con- tinue on his journey, feeling better for hav- ing seen It. Long may the sunny-haired little girl live, and may her devozion to her father never grow less. —-—— +e NOT THE BONES OF INDIAN CHIEFS. Startling Discovery in the Mound at MecKee’s Rocks, Pa. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. The startling discovery, backed up with conclusive proof, has just been made that the bones of supposed Indian chiefs found in the mound at McKee’s Rocks are those of white people. The skeleton of the seven- and-one-half-foot chieftain, which has been prepared for exhibition in the Carnegie Mu- seum, is that of Thomas Woods, a giant ferryman, who died about 1850. Woods’ descendants are still living here, and are talking of mobbing the mound wreckers. The supposed squaw and her babe, whose bones were uncovered last week, are those of a Mrs. Messick and her child, who were victims of the cholera plague in 1854. About that time the Panhandle railroad was being constructed. Many of the laborers fell vic- tims to the cholera, and were buried in the mound, which was a sort of potter’s field for the country. Other people who died from smallpox were interred there, ac- cording to records, and their bones have been dug up. The absence of coffins, &c., is eaplained by the fact that the mound is composed of gravel, and everything, with the exception of bones, decomposed and washed through. The above information was laid before the trustees of the Carne- gie Museum today. They immediately call- ed a special meeting to investigate the mat- ter. The work of wrecking the mound has been under the supervision of Prof. Frank Honore Gerlodette, recently of Boston, the curator of the museum. He denies the skeletons are those of white men. Asked why he thought so, he replied there was nothing about them to indicate they were anything but Indians. Asked to exhibit some of the arrow heads, tomahawks, &c., supposed to have been found in the mound, he could not do so. George H. Bennett, a business man, said today that he partici- pated in a digging into the mound twelve years ago. It was thought then that the skeletons were those of Indians, but it was proven they were those of white people. ——+-e+_____ Opals in Wells. From the Jacksonville (Fia.) Citizen. There is something mysteriously fasci- rating about the artesian well subject into which almost every intelligent Floridian delves. Almost everybody knows that vari- ous kinds of fossils have been brought out of the wells, but nobody ever before heard of opals being one of their products, Such, however, is the fact. John Linn, the young gentleman who went off to help Cuba, has two small opals in his scientific collection which came from the new Springfield well just being completed by Mr. Partridge. Mr. Partridge said yesterday that he dia not know whether they were opals or not, put that he did know that John Linn said they were. The opal is nothing more than yci- canic glass, hence the finding of opals bun- dreds of feet below the surface is not more startling than the finding of sharks’ teeth, sea sand and sea shells, 38. Tayer Bros. & Co., mands. —Prices you can judge for yourselves. Only one word about them. 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The celebration is to be the most remark- able affair in the history of this famous In- stitution, Committees having the arrange- ments in charge have been at work for a couple of years past, and It is expected that the occasion of Princeton’s assuming the full title of a university will be marked not only by the attendance of hundreds of her alumni, but also of prominent men from different parts of the country, as well as representatives from famous universities of Europe. Invitations were sent long ago to the great institutions of learning in the old world, and a large number have signi- fied their intention of sending delegates. Wednesday has been set aside especially for alumni day, and there is every reason to believed that hundreds of Princeton graduates will be back to do honor to their alma mater. The various classes will have headquarters in the town, and a large num- ber of class reunions will be held. In the evening a mammoth torchlight procession will be a special feature of the occasion. Course of Lectures. Advantage is to be taken of #he presence of so many illustrious educators from ebroad, and the celebration is to be pre- ceded by a number of public lectures, which are certain to attract a great deal of atten- tion. Admission to these lectures will be by ticket, free of charge, which can be reserved by written application to Prof. William Lib- bey, University Hall, Princeton. A’ special invitation is extended to all pro- fessors, scholars and teachers in the de- partments of study represented by the lec- turers. The same invitation Is cordially ex- tended to all the alumni of Princeton Uni- versity, to Princeton students who are pur- suing courses of study related to the topics of the lectures, and to ladies and gentlemen interested. Inasmuch as nearly ail the lec- tures will be delivered during the week pre- ceding the sesqui-centennial celebration, visitors to Princeton should have no difficul- ty in obtaining accommodations and lodging cver night at the hotels and boarding houses of the village. The program of lectures is as follows: Four lectures by Joseph John Thomson, Cavendish professor of physics in the Uni- versity of Cambridge, England. Subject: The Discharge of Electricity in Gases. These lectures will be delivered in the physical lecture room of the John C. Green School of Science. First lecture: 9 o’clock Tuesday morning, October 15. Second lecture: 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, October 14. Third lecture: 9 o'clock Thursday morn- ing, October 15. Fourth lecture: 9 o'clock Friday morn- ing, October 16. IL Four lectures by Felix Klein, professor of mathematics in the University of Got- tingen, Germany. Subject: The Mathe- matical Theory of the Top. These colloquia will be held in the English room, Dickinson Hall. First lecture: 11 o'clock Monday morn- ing, October 12. Second lecture: 11 o'clock Tuesday morn- ing, October 13. Third lecture: 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, October 14. Fourth lecture: 11 o'clock Thursday morning, October 15. iL. Six lectures by Edward Dowden, professor of English literature and rhetoric in Trin- ity College, Dublin. Subject: The French Revolution and English Literature. These lectures will be delivered in Alexander Hall. First lecture: 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, October 12. The Revolutionary Spirit Be- fore the Revolution. ‘Second lecture: 3 o'clock Tuesday after- noon, October 13. Theorists of the Revo- lution: William Godwin and Mary Woll- stonecraft. ‘Third lecture: 3 o’clock Wednesday after- noon, October 14. Anti-revolution: Ed- mund Burke. Fourth lecture: 3 o'clock Thursday after- noon, October 15. Early Revolutionary group and antagonists: Southey: Cole- ridge: the Anti-Jacobin. Fifth lecture: 3 o’clock Friday afternoon, SOODHODOHOSSSHSHSOH HOGG STO OHSS HOS HOSS DOS OOOH OSoOS OS | 69808 October 16. Recovery and Reaction: Words- worth. Sixth lecture: 3 o'clock Saturday after- noon, October 17. Renewed Revolutionary Advance: Byron: Moore: Shelley. Iv. Two lectures by Andrew Seth, professor of logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Subject, “Theism.” First lecture at 11 o'clock Friday morning, October 16. Second lecture, 11 o'clock Sat- urday morning, October 17. Vv. One lecture by Carl Brugmann, professor of Indogerm inc philology in the University of Leipsic, Germany. Subject, “The Nature and Origin of the Noun Genders in the Indo-Germanic Languages.” This lecture will be delivered in German Monday morn- ing, October 19, at 1 o'clock. VL One lecture by A. A. W. Hubrecht, pro- fessor of zoology in the University of Ut- recht, Holland. Subject, “The Descent of the Primates.” This lecture will be deliv- ered Monday, October 19, at 12 o'clock. Local Alumni, Efforts are being made to have a large attendance of Washingtonians at the cele- bration. Mr. Henry C. Stewart, jr, the secretary of the Princeton Alumni Assoc! tion of the District of Columbia, has sent @ note to all the local alumni ‘informing them that if a sufficient number signify their intention of going to Princeton a spe- cial sleeping car will be engaged to be used during the three days of the celebration. From the New York World. Dr. George Sterling lives at Southampton, L. I. He has a handsome daughter, and he also owns a fine Jersey cow. Thereby bangs this veracious tale: The doctor's daughter's name is Flora A. Sterling. His cow's name is simply Bess. Tie doctor is a good and affectionate father and Mi Flora 1s the apple of his eye. Every morn- ing he awakes Miss Flora. He bends over her znd kisses her, and the first glance of her waking eyes is into his. : “Good morning, my child,” says the doo- ‘or. “Good moraing, papa,” answers Flora, as she throws her arms around her father’s neck. The other morning an early summons hurried Dr. Sterling to a patient. It was but little after dawn when the doctor de- parted, saying to himself: “I'll let Flora sleep; time enough to awaken her when I return.” That same morning the doctor's son took it into his head to go fishing. He got his fishing rod and some bait, and, walking out the back door, joined a neighbor and has- tered away. In his haste he leff the door open. Bess, grazing behind the house, longed for green fields and pastures new. She walked into the kitchen, ate some fine beans that were on the table there and munched half a loaf of bread. Then she walked into the entry. On the floor is a freen carpet with red flowers. Bess tried to the flowers in the carpet. Failing in this, she walked upstairs. The noise she made did not disturb Miss Flora’s innocent slumber. Reaching the bed room, Bess poked her head in at the door. The young woman was nestling in the Pillows. To Bess Miss Fiora’s rosy cheeks, nalf-hidden by her curls, were more tempt- ing than buttercups, more appetizing than clever blossoms. The cow’s lips touched the girl's cheeks. They were damp with mcrrirg dew. “Papa,” murmured Flora, half awake, “How-early is it? I'm sleepy.” Then she opened her lids and her waking glance met the cow's mild eyes. “Get out of here! Get out of here!” she cried. “You horrid beast, what are you dcing here?” Bees, blinking, looked at Flora. Flora, fivshed with anger, stared at the cow. “Get out!” was easy to say, but Bess is not « trained cow. She could not turn around in the narrow entry and she could not walk down stairs backward. So Dr. Sterling’s return was most opportune. He grabbed the cow's tail and tried to pull her down stairs. But the cow weighed much more than the doctor and he could not budge her. Then the doctor scrambled over the cow's back and attacked Bess in front. Dr, Sterling yelled at her, struck her, did ev- erything but swear at her, and finally, by mest patient and skillful maneuvering, managed to head her down stairs. A cow- boy rounding up a herd does less real work than did Dr. Sterling before Bess reached the pasture again. Hereafter Bess will be tethered. ——_-+.-—_____ An American Composite. From the Indianapolis Journal, The Idler—“Whose picture is this?” The Photographer—“It is a composite. 1 call it ‘The Typical American Girl.’ ” “It is awfully pretty. I wonder if I know any of them?” “T'll give you their names, and you can see, They are Maggie Groarty, Sophie Pzxczinski, Wilhelmina Schwartz, Rebecca Einstein and Christine Oleson,”