Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1898, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1898-24 PAGES. EASTER LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL Enlarged to 48 Pages—Handsomely Illustrated THE INNER EXPERIENCES OF A CABINET MEMBER'S WIFE Intensely interesting letters, describing actual real-life happen- ings in social and official Washington. . These papers tell of facts only, and the authorship is naturally withheld, though they are none the less interesting on that account. . LILIAN BELL SEES THE GERMANS Perhaps the brightest of these lively foreign letters from this American girl abroad appears in this special Easter number. THE BACHELOR GIRL Ruth Ashmore gives a delight- fully common-sense talk about this type of the girl of to-day, in the Easter number. A HEAVEN- KISSING HILL Unquestionably Miss Magruder’s best novel—a romance of a New York society girl—commences in the Easter number. \ JAPANESE COLOR PRINTS. all about, and becomes lost in a study of their hands. Such hands! Each finger expresses v and every little muscle and joint seems to tell a story of its own. How different are the prints represent-j ing the Chino-Japanese war! A terrific man-o'-war is plunging away througlir the beautifully green sea, leaving behind the wreck of a Chinese craft which looks like some grotesque sea monster. One snowy scene is so rea! that the falling fakes seem to hav sred on after it was fin- ished. adidly vivid crimson } ‘They Give the Idea That the Poster- ‘ions CS Ty Sea ECS land Exists In the Orient. From the Philadelphia Record. Whoever thinks that Posterland was originally situated in Ezypt should take a look at the Japanese color prints exhibited fa the library of the Drexel Institute, and be convinced that it was discovered in pic- turesque Japan. Each of them is a hand- into a vorner, changed bill, an invitation to a dramatic perform-| flames soar up from each and every can- ner ett eee tigpeeee arce, ani snows some character or scene} non! Pietures of war are inspiring, but} "Tt must be stopped right here!” shrieked in the play, a quotation and the artist’s| War itself—that is too terrible. It seems| the jeading lady. Signature, sometimes his seal as well, for] 04 to sce the Japanese soldier in occi-| hotel and stay there.” dental dress, but there he One sees where some Chinese came with the red- haired Germans (in Japan red hair stands for a German) io offer peace. A proud day it must have been for Japan. + e+ —___ The World's Wenlth. Frem Pearson’s Magazine. The wealth of the world would suffice to gold-plate England and Wales all over. The gold plate would not be very thick, for if the total wealth of the world (70,385 millions sterling) be turned into a gold plate large enough to cover the surface of England and Wales, the thickness of such plate is only 1,118,760th part of an inch. In other words, the gold plate is rather more than three times as thick as the filmy leaf which flutters in the gilder’s hand, and it is not so thick as a cigarette paper. Let us put the wealth of the world in a more solid and tangible form than gold leaf. It makes a road of solid gold from Westminster bridge to just beyond the Red Lion, at Dorking (23.9 miles), and this new road is 18 feet wide and 6 inches thick. This golden surface is excellent for cycling, and the road to Dorking, through Epsom and Leatherhead, is a favorite one—but the whole wealth of the world has been used to make this road. If, from motiv to plant all the Japanese artists at the end of the eigh- “S'blood!” teenth century had regular seals. It is in reality block printing; the Japanese learned this color printing from the Chinese, who Were adepts at it 4,000 years ago. To the ordinary person it would seem that such a hand bill would be enough without going to the performance at all. However, after ene sot used to such treats one would Probably pass scant time with them, even though they were marvels both as to draw- ing and color. A lovely one, for instance, shows pink skies, terra cotta trees and a maroon building. Now, isn’t that pic- turesque? And the skies vary from a very timely military blue to odd black swishes, which might be the tails of so many horses belonging to the Valkyries themselves. One is at a loss whether to try and make out what the plays which each print repre- sents were about, or whether to be content with simple admiration. The thing that most strikes one about the men is their tempestuous expressions. Lots of us in- nocents have always supposed life in Japan altogether lovely, but in these prints not one is to be found who isn’t enraged to the point of locking cross eyed, save the one Who is evidently eloping’ with a lady through a dark garden, where only a heathen god is watching. They nearly all carry swords and, what's worse, wield them with stunning force. They have thing is to go on!” is it?” “What is it?” sides her on the stage! scare, anyway!” From the Century. of economy, you object to save money. world's wealth along the 3 : twenty-four miles betweea Westminst>r | ing a revolver for several months, nnd ficree side whiskers, too, and wonderfully. |anq Dorking, you may make it into a | cerries Is owe pocket a round, hard stone, uncomfortably high insieps. square band long enough to go round the As for the gentler sex. a tragedy queen | equatorial circumference of the eart With wild black hair and @ style as in-| (24,809 miles). Gold is so ductile and mal- | colliery serap’ hee tense as Bernhardt’s own enchains one. | jcable that this complete alteration of the | jan, too poor be One is glad not to offend her, for she shape of the world’s wealth will not do it harm. —E America’s Deepest Lake. wm the New York Press. Crater lake is the deepest American lake, and, indeed, one of the deepest lakes in the werild. ica. Crater lake is on the crest of the Cascade mountains, about 100 miles east of Ashland, Ore. It fs circular in shape and about five miles across. It lies on the very tap of Mount Mazama, and is com- pleiely surrounded by rocks rising straight from the water. Its greatest ascertained depth is 2,000 feet, and this depth seems to be almost the same over the greater part of the lake. There is no beach, the surrounding rocky shores extending ver- tically beneath the water to a depth of several hundred feet. There are few large fish in the lake, but much small life in the shape of crustace, etc. is just as bloodthirsty-looking as the men. Here's the leading old woman, too, a capa- ble-looking creature, who could look after two or three debutantes and still have time to pursue the even tenor of her own tempestuous way. The path of the flirta- tious young man in Japan must be exceed- ingly thorny, if all duennas are like thes The maiden aunt is an inspiration com. any no mean possibilities. stances. a draper What tantalizingly piquant perkiness! wonder some women have adopted their enchanting lit imones for negliges. Their “Pompadou: locks everybody has appropriated. What damage must have been done in the heart of the gallery god, or whetever corresponds to him in the Japanese theater. With all the men villains (we've only their looks to judge by) and all the otner Sex so many bundles of artistic curves, @ne ceases speculating as to what it's lives. From Pack. to print that.” day edition.” A Disturbing Element. The juvenile ‘The leading lady was furious. The heavy Hain pulled out his raven locks in wads and dashed them to the floor. took gff his Tuxeio coat and slammed it declaring that he would rather walk back to New York than go on and speak arother line unless things were “What on earth is all this row about?” who had been sum- “If tt doesn’t I go to my thundered the villain; are you paying me $85 a week for—to stand around like a stick, without getting a hiss frm even the remotest part of the gallery? I sever my connection with your company here and now unless you stop her.” “And as for rescuing the beautiful maid- en,” declared the juvenile, “you may go out and get some hack driver to do it if this “But, my gocd people,” the manager sald, as soon as he could get a word inserted, “you haven’t explained the trouble. they yelled in choru: “qwhat is it? You've got to make the so: brette stop wearing red, white and blue steckings. The minute the people catch sight of them they begin yelling for Old Glory, and forget that there’s anybody be- Dash this war After that the soubrette wore black stock- ings, and things went smoothly again. psec ees Foreign Miners and Deadly Weapons. The first purchase made by Slovak or Po- lack is a revolver, by Italian or Sicilian a stiletto; then the newcomer buys a silver watch, and after that is secured he begins If the Slovak or Polack is pariicularly thrifty he postpones purchas- large enough to crush a man’s skull, and in another a piece of iron filched from the The Italian or Sictl- , too poor or too penurious to afford a stiletto, buys, begs or steals a long file, and sits down in his shanty or by the road- side, with two or three stones. and grinds it to a keen edge and a needle-like point, Then he fastens the blunt end in a corn- cob and has ready for use a weapon of Once armed, how- ever, and provided with a watch, the for- It is one of the wonders of Amer- | eigner manages to live at a total expense of about $6 2 month—and this may be re- garded as a liberal estimate in most in- The remainder of his wages is saved toward the purchase of a vineyard or a farm in the old country, whither al- most all expect to return and spend their _———_- e+ —____ Its Place. Editor—“I am afraid it wouldn’t be safe Contributor (apopogetically)—“I thought perhaps it would be all right for the Sun- the crop; ‘and that it gave a better control of the << This enforced control, however, has often caused oppression and ill-treatment, notwithstanding the vigilance of the authorities, who have taken great Pains to prevent abuses, with the aid of Stringent laws to help them. It is felt to be time to terminate this sys- tem of employing labor. It s: too tmuch of slavery, although radically differ- ent from chattel slavery. It prejudices Ha- wail in the sight of the United States, on which account. we are anxious to be rid of the system. Then the various n>cessities formerly existing have been greatly modi- fied. It was once the only way in which reliable engagement of native laborers could b> obtained. Now other laborers abound in the country. If wanted, plenty of Asiatics are able and willing to come over. There ere numbers of Asiatic laborers to be had in the islands, although some rise in wages might be necessary to obtain thom. Most of them are experienced in plantation work, and are worth higher pay than the new ccmers. By giving some such increase of wages there is littls doubt that the planta- tions could be adequately supplied from the floating lebor of the country without importing any more from Japan or China. Then, again, long as planters can send to Asia for nominally cheap labor, there is no pressure upon them to give favorable terms, as they ought, to white men to cul- ivate cane for them on shares. Such “profit-sharing” or Co-operative work has been tried here with much success. It will be the labor system of the future on the plantations after annexation. White men without capital will take ten or twenty acres apiece to cultivate for the plantation, and make good living out of it. The plan- tation will furnish dwellings, tcols and ad- vances on the crops, together with all need- ful conveniences and advantages. Some of these workers will themselves employ a lower class of laborers. Alrzady over three-fifths of the plantation laborers are free. The repeal of the law now will make little change. The planters are making no determined opposition there- to. Public sentimant quite unanimously favors the repeal. President Dole’s Paragraph. President Dole and party reached home safely ten days ago. Mr. Dole was well, although so much visiting had put some strain upon the nerves. The business of th2 government and the legislature went on Steadily during his absence. We seem to have reason to be glad that he went; and we are glad to get him back. We made no fuss over either his going or coming; we ar> pleased that he worked to prevent any display for him while away. KAMEHAMEHA. —_-+——_ WONDERFUL MARKSMANSHIP. seek the advice of honest and capable men. * * © All that was demanded of her NO VALUBAS HISTOR Sis Liliuokalani’s $tatement P-“ited by an Qld Royalist, QUESTION Of-HGR ABDICATION Attempt to Modify the Oath of Al- legiance. book is in the argument she makes against her own cause. She has done it better than another could da, it.”’ The foregoing are the chief points brought out in this review of the ex-queen’s curious book, made by a formerly devoted friend of the Hawaiian monarchs. The book so bristles with misstatements that it pos- sexes no historical value whatever, except @s it mirrors the real'character of a his- torical personage. As samples of such mis- statements, two may be mentioned; one is where the ex-queen in defending her own ph te of the opium license bill, charges . F. Allen and Henry Waterhouse with Spectal Coftespendence of The Evening ‘Star. having surreptitiously dealt in opium. ‘Such HONOLULU, Maret 1, 1898. a charge meets only derision in Honolulu. A brief review of Liliuckalani's bcok has | Both these gentlemen have the highest just appeared in (he leading daily of Hono- | Character and social position, and are above lulu. It is by W! Nevius Armstrong, who | “The other charge is against a well-known is an elder brother of the late Gen. S$: C.| gentieman, whose name she does not give, Armstrong of Hampton fame. Mr. Arm- strong has several important qualifications but whose guest she says she was on Kauai during her royal progress on that sland in 1891. She had made him governor for discussing the book. Besides being an | of that island. She tells that in the revo- acute and experienced man of affairs, he | lution of 1887 he headed a party to search was for three years Kalakaua's attorney | Mr. Gibson's house at Waikike, (ghd threw eneral, and was the chief companion of | # lasso over his daughter, Mrs. Hayselden! She tiuwal ota wen tke globe in issi. |1,have Mrs. Hayselden’s own word that oe he was intieate with tra | S8€ W&s not personaily molested in that or young chiefs, and at one time boarded with them in the Royal School, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Cooke. He confirms the ex- any other way, except by being very un- cteremoniously questioned as to her hus- bend’ queen's complaint of the meagerness of the fare. whereabouts, and the house being ransacked. Mr. Armstrong's father, the Rev. Richard Armstrong, was in the cabinet 8f Kameha- THE CONTRACT LABOR LAW Are Fleet of Foot as Well as Fine Shots. From the Toston Transcript. It may be as well to refer to some other tribes about Cape Horn which attracted the attention of Prof. Hatcher. For ex- ample may be mentioned the Yahgans, who live nearer to the south pole than any other known people. They occupy certain small islands lying south of Terra del Fue- go, and are found also on the south beach of that great Island itself. The territory they occupy is a maze of mountain peaks, and the conditions under which they exist are almost beyond realization by a civil- ized person. The typical weapon of the Yahgans is the rawhide sling, with which they are able to hit a water fowl at 200 yards. To hit any bird at that distance would be called right good shooting. They can knock down and stun a guanaco with a heavy round pebble up to a hundred yards. ‘The reason for the sling as a tool of de- struction is found in the fact that the Yah- gans live on the beach, where plenty of round pebbles are always at hand. These | islanders fry out oil from whaie blubber and store it up for future use in the blad- der-like leaves of a ee of seaweed found everywhere in that region. Quite distinct and peculiar is the Ona tribe, which inhabits the prairie region of Terra del Fuego. This great island has the shape of a triangle, and is almost as large as the state of New York. Once upon a time it'must have had a tropical climate, inasmuch as the bones of monkeys and parrots aré found fossil there in great numbers. The Onas have no horses. They eat those they capture from the sheep men, considering horse meat the greatest of delicacies. They depend for food chiefly upon the guanaco, which abounds in Terra del Fuego, and a kind of prairie squirrel. In the chase they rely mainly upon bows and arrows and the bolas, the latter con- sisting of two or three stone balls on the end of hide thongs. On being thrown the balls diverge in obedience to centrifugal foree and fly around and around in the air until the object fs struck, when the thongs wind themselves about it. These Savages can throw the bolas so dexterously as.to fasten a man to his horse. The Onas, however, often kill the guanaco by sur- rounding a bunch and running them down, so wonderfully fleet of foot are they. Militin May Be Sent to Cuba or Spai From the Army and Navy Journal. The control of the President over the militia is absolute and unlimited in time of necessity, and as he is the sole judge of that necessity, there is practically no limit upon his discretion. In speaking of the militia, however, we refer to the national militia, and not of the National Guard. Mcst of the members of the National Guard are militiamen, and as such are subject in- dividually to the orders of the President, issued in accordance with law, but the or- ganizations of the guard are not recogniz>d by the government as organizations. * * = But once in the service, militiamen, wheth- er of the National Guard or not, become scldiers of the United States, and are a: ccmpletely under the control of the mili tary authorities as the soldiers of th regular army. The militia bill now before Congress expressiy provides that militia- men “shall serve wherever ordered, within or without the territory cf the United States.” This is not new law, but it is a clear statement of existing law as detined by the courts. As the law is now, the militia are subject to the jurisdiction of military law as soon as they are called into the service of the United States. It is not required that they should be mustered in to give tte military authorities of the United States control over them. o2—____ ‘The reviewer sums up by eaying: “We believe it just that this woman should be jucged not by ‘forelgn,’ but largely by Polynesian standards. She was not ca- pable of—no Polynesian is capable of—com- preherding the force and value of political institutions. * * * She is obstinate and suspicious. She never had the sense +o Unreliable as a History. It Is not quite easy to define the structure of a mind which could publish so many atsurdly untrue misstatements as her book meha III as minister of public instruction. | Abounds in. They necessarily recoil upon This gave the son much intimacy in court | ker. The most probable theory seems to circles during his youth, so that he knew | be that of a strife between the old barberian all about Kalakaua and his elster, whose | nature and the oneer of civilization, in i@ course of which a necessity for con- Se ee ey nee ous TOTAL | et “lagu leg eae eaiataan een eee youths of that day forbade their being | mcrai sense has become so darkened that thought of then as possible future candi-| recktessness has arisen in the habitual dates for the throne. That was fifty years | use of untruths. Between the heathen ele- tgo. Those young Polynesian chiefs in less | ments which largely pervaded this per- than thirty years had all succumbed. Tite | sonage’s private life among her native re- mulatto strain in the two survivors was | tainers, and her outward sembiance of hardier, ‘and the brother and sister took | ladyhood in the white society in which she the throne in succession. was intimate, a habit of duplicity becamy Mr. Armstrong, however, does not employ | established. She was living a double life. his intimate knowledge of court circles to | To those dealing with her in later years, betray any confidence. 1t simply serves to | and especially during the last. months of guide his judgment. The following sen- | her reign, this element of gross dissimula- tences disclose no secrets; they refer only | tion became painfully apparent. to well-known facts: “She takes a very | In thus writing of Liltuokalani, I do not rosy view of her married life with Governor | forget to credit her with many interesting Deminis. Those who knew the couple weil | and amiable qualities. She is a most at- for many years will be much surprised to | tractive woman. Her greatest faults are hear of the divine harmony of their lives, | due to heredity and heathen inheritance, especially those who heard thé governor | and to the exigencies of her royal position, gomme.1i from time to time on the subject.” | as she misguidedly conceived them. She 1s The present writer is in a position to | more to be commiserated than blamed. recognize in the above the reviewer's ex- > treme reticence about facts which would| |7° Modify the Oath of Allegiance. much perplex any cne not familiar with | Last week an incident occurred in the Polyresian domestic life. The governor, | legislature which is of interest as bearing however, was not ous to let sentiment | upon the relations of this republic to roy- Ce ene memeaaLing, himself to un- | ajistic sympathies among the natives. Loeb- Mr. Armstrong says she has a poor opin- | €P8teln of Hilo, who 1s a pronounced op- ion of the kings of Hawaii.’ “Yet what had | ponent of the administration, had brought our earlier monarchs ever done for the | {in a proposition to amend the constitution public good? Individually, nothing. They | by omitting from the oath required of had acquiesced in the course laid down for | voters and officials the following words: them by the missionaries. The government | “And will not, either directly or indl- established by ptpus:adventurers was the | rectly, encourage or assist in the restora- government of the day.” ‘The reviewer | tion or establishment of a monarchical points out that even the school in which | form of government in the Hawaiian she got her educitiofi was created by the | Islands.” missionaries, of ‘whom her foster-father, | The proposer urged that this clause was Fake, was the devoted friend; also that of | mere surpiusage; that it affronted the sen- thirty different cabinet officers under the | t*ments of many cf the natives who were Kamehamehas only four were from the old | well disposed toward the republic. and pre- missionary stock.; He might have added | vented them from taking the oath to sup- that those kings only established and port it; that {t was important to conciliate strengthened their, government, and never | these people. This oath cut them off from Tene, Tenobabans as Kalakaua and his | participation in the government, and by % = : that much impaired its representative ance” aethedaucna eter ea ees character and confidence in it abroad. a one, outside or inside the Hawaiian Islands, | Challenged the government to oppose the has contributed a; cent to the repeated out- : 7 lays T have made for, tho good of the Ha- | 4,7he, Challenge was promptly taken up by waiian people.” ‘At, last,” he comments, Ree es “we have a bottcm fact. The downctred. | Plusage, there could be no valid objection 2 paces jef ai | te taking this part of the oath. The fact roe eemurer eae ser with grief 4! | that many refuse to take it goes to show 8 @ Monarchy, and outraged at 5 thy.destruction ofthely dearest rights have | thut it is necessary, To strike it out now s would be misunderstood. It would give en- not for five years given their dear queen the, alsattabten. teed ou even the price of a-equane meal, What ex- | Courag@ment to the disaffetted. and dis- alted patriotism! ‘The true patriotism | Couragement to the friends of the republi. Which makes heroes is in your hearts,” says | Who might feel pledent Sete iaane Mr. Davies, but not a nickel from the 35,000 = ot those “deprived of their Tights” Some | Ment. : scores of the royalists have very large in- | The proposition was defeated by a major- comes. Hundreds of the natives buy ex- | ity of two-thirds. Some of the most em- peisive fish. Thousands of them patronize | Phatic opposition to it came from native the gin mills. Fut not one cent to restore | Tepresentatives, who best know their own the monarchy, which this unselfish, toiling | people. They knew that the moral effect queen had undertaken to do for their own | Upon both the opposing parties among the good.” natives would be disastrous. ‘The natives ‘ commonly believe that a rest of ae ot Semen monarchy would be the signal for reprisals Mr. Armstrong denounces as ‘‘a malicious | {pon all native opponents of the queen. In falsehood” her statement that when the in- | the debate, Loebenstein was reproached strument of abdication was presented to | with ee ee fossa eines <a mers sith | common ostimate vs s cee eet rea ee Gomet watt | Savaly. altaing to curry. favor with Tati ves Sie ane ales ale fete Hs = oe He | in hope of future votes from them. prominent friends would be put to death. 5 Her friend, Sam Parker, advised her fully. | “T° Hepeal Labor Contract scnreee The attorney general told her that her} A more desirable measure than signing would make no difference to the | going is before the senate, and quite sure government. They cared nothing for it and | to carry. It is a bill to repeal the labor El eo an ac oe aiore:tham faa j contract law. This law has existed for at the close er, trial, her counse! reac it idee = _ “ her own unasked statement, some of which | forty-five years. By it laborers ar eaten was in terms of strong reproach of the | under penal obligation to serve their em- government for trying her, in which doc- | ployers for not over three years. It is sim- ene ne ats timidated into abdication, | J@F t the existing laws for sailors in all “I was not intimidate into abdication, j 4 - but followed the counsel of able and gen“ | Countries. Laborers so contracted are al erous friends ard well-wishers, who ad- | Ways sald to be “shipped.” Formerly near- poised! amie that euch’ an act _would restore |ty/all| the: Hawaiians, wlio tormen #he/balke eace and good will among my people, | of the laborers on the few plantations Nitalize the progress and prosperity of the | existing “shipped” in that way, for the lalanis andl indues the-actual government | ake of the SAvance Of $20 to 640 thus se- to deal lenientiy,” etc. cul Le zatterly ie vance wa ave On page 275 of her book she says she was| been used to pay the immigration com- “force? to sign her abdication,” and on | panies for collecting and {fansporting the ¢ 288 she says, as above, that it was an| laborers from China or dapan. calel entirely voluntary act. “he utter unre-| benefit of the contract law. to both em liability of her statements 1$ clearly mani-| ployer and laborer has been its furnishing ” the means of paying the passage of the la- borers. 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EISNER & MENDELSON CO., Agents, New York. — <= IN THE BEGINNING, z How War is Declared Among the Na= tions of the Wo: From the New Orleans Picayune, In Great Britain and most other monar- chical governments the power to declare war is the exclusive prerogative of the crown. But in this country, when it is Gccided that we have a casus belli on our hands and that war must or ought to be made, it is necessary to begin proceedings in accordarce with that clause in the fed- eral Constitution which stipulates that the scle power to declare war rests in Con- gress. The President may recommend it, or even urge it, as he has done on two vc- cesions in our history, but Congress must agree with him and pass the enabiing act before a state of war can exist. And in this necessary action of the federal iegis- lature lie unlimited possibilities of unlimited Peffers and Joneses and other six-day ora- tors pulling off the opening of hostilities for an indefinite period in the matter of war with other nations we have only two precedents to go upon, the war with England in 112 and the war with Mexico in 1846, and for certain rea- Sons neither of these is very helpful for Present guidance. Looking back upon it now, the American people of today are unanimous in the conviction that the war of 1812 was perfectly justifiable, and the only wonder is that the American people of that day endured the studied insults and outrageous conduct of the English on land and sea as long as they did without striking back. But clear and good as the provocation for that war seems to us now, it did not seem so to all the people then. The question whether war with England should be deciared was made a party issue between the federalists, led by Randolph, and the republicans, led by Clay, the for- mer declaring that peace ought to be main- tained at almost any price, and the latter insisting that not a day ought to be lost in avenging the wrongs which America had suffered at the hands of England. There Was a fierce and acrimonious debate on the subject, lasting through the whole ses- sion of 1811-i2, and the act declaring war Was passed finally by the lower house with a majority of only thirty votes, and after- ward in the Senate by a majority of only six. The “war hawks,” as they were called, were mosily southern men. wiile New England and New York were the “hot beds” of the peacemakers In the case of the Mexican war matters moveil more rapidiy. We are far from be- ing unarimous at this time as to the ne- cessity or the righteousness of th: rug- gle on our part, but the people then were Practically unanimous fn support of it. But after the deliberate and legislative stage of proceedings is over and war has been actually declared by act of Con- gress there are certain observances en- joined upon us by iternational law which weuld prevent our pouncing forthwith upon the Vizcaya, if it were in the harbor at that time. or doing violerce to the first bedy of Spantards who fell in our way. One of the darkest deeds set down to the credit of Napoleon is that, upon the rup- ture with Englan1 after’ the peace of Amiens. ke ordered the immediate arrest of all Englishmen then in France, between sixteen and sixty years of age, and kept most of them imprisoned for more than ten years. Even the Turks feel compelled to do better than that in these times, for on the outbreak of the late war with Greece they gave all the Greeks on Turkish territory thirty days to get beyond their reach if they could. The exact number of ¢zys of grace to be given to an enemy un- Ger such circumstances does not appear to be fixed by any law. but the period must be long enough to give every one a fair chance to look out for himself. The am- hassadors and other resident offictets of the opposing nation must be given official rotice that their room is better than their eccmpany. and time to shake off our t from their feet in a dignified wav. When all this bas been done, and the President has issued his proclamation and his call for men. when the governors have re- snonded. the munitions have heen prepared, the equipments provided. the big guns made ready, the decks cleared, then, and not until then, will we be prepared to engage in the heroic business of yindieatine n tional honor and slaughtering our fellow- men. a Pekin Defended by Archers. From the New York Tribune. It is perhaps not generally known that the defense of Pekin ts still largely intrust- ed to men armed only with bows and ar- rews. A recent imperial decree solemnly directs that those who “succeed fn hitting the target with their arrows on horseback five times be given” such and such rewards, while those who mariage to hit the mark four times on foot and once on horseback and four times on foot only shall be pro- pertionately recompensed. The decree con- cluées with a list of the presidents and taliyists “appointed for archery competi- tions which are still to take place. Sactepsicicsalarille = = pesrenent rar, omreene at Buffalo, N. ¥., for =