AS THE
REVOLVES
"Rostand's Sister.
Mmc. do Margerlo, tho brilliant and
beautiful fllstcr of Edmond Host and,
tho author of "Cyrano d3 Bergernc"
and "L'AIglon," la now on hor way to
Amorlca to tako up her rcsldenco In
Washington. Hor husband, M. do Mar
gerlo, ono of tho mo3t promising young
diplomats In tho scrvlco of Franco, ar
rived in Washington about a month
ago to ossumo tho duties of First Sec
retary of tho French Embas3y. Dur
ing M. Cambon's absenco In Europo,
M. do Margerlo will act as Chargo
d'Affnlrcs.
Mms. do Margerlo, whoso mother
was n Spanlnrd, has Inherited from
her her dark beauty of color and fca
turo, with an expression of Indcflnnblo
chnrm. 8ho possesses also tho reputa
tion of being ono of tho brightest and
wittiest young women of tho dlplomat-
fc corps. During tho summer M. and
Mmo, do Margerlo will occupy a cot
tago at ManchcHtor-by-tho-Sea. In tho
autumn thoy will reside In Washing
ton at 17C3 N Btrcot, tho former homo
of Colonel Tylor, nnd whoro lator In
tho seanon thoy will cntortaln M. Ros
tand, who It Is nocdlcss to say, will bo
tho social lion of tho day.
Farmers of the Future
Professor L. 11. Bnlloy of Cornoll
university estimates that moro than
halt tho pcoplo of tho United States
livo on farms. Ah tho proper balanco
of production and consumption will
mako It necessary that nt least half
our population ulways nhall bo farm
ers, Professor Dalloy holds that tho
education of theso farmers Is ono of
tho gront probloms now beforo tho
world. In an nrtlclo In tho July num
ber of tho World's Work, Professor
Ualloy doclarcs that fully half tho en
ergies of tho agricultural colleges in
tho sovoral states aro devoted to tho
mochnnlo arts and that tho amount of
inonoy and enorgy dovotod directly to
agricultural education is small when
compared with that expended on othor
professional and technical education.
Senator Kyle of South Dakota
James H. Kyle, whoso Illness was
reported last week, Is sorvlng his sec
ond torm as United States senator
from South Dakota, having boon first
elected In 1891 as an Independent. Dur
ing his presont term ho hns generally
acted with tho republicans. Deforo go-
UN IT1SD STAT 15 3 SENATOR J. II.
KYLE.
ing into politics ho was a Presby
terian clergyman. Ho was born at
Xouta, 0 in 1854.
The Cold Output.
From advnnco sheets furnished hv
Tho Engineering and Mining Journal
It appears that tho United States was
tho greatest of gold and silver nrn
ducora durlnc tho voar 1000. in enM
production Australasia dropped from
first to socond placo and tho Trans
vnal. which boat this countrv'H minut
in 1800. foil far to tho roar, owlnir to
tho stoppago of mining operations by
tho wnr, Tho following tnblo Indicates
tho rolntivo position of tho countries
named oxcopt tho Transvaal, whoso
record last yoar puts it bolow somo
or tlto minor producers which aro not
mentioned:
1900 Flno ouncos. Valuo.
United Statos 3,781,310 $78,169,071
Australasia 3,551,280 73.4G7.110
Canada 1.350X93 27.01fi.7fi
Hussla 1,117,051 23,090,802
Trausvnnl 348,700 7,208,009
1899
United States 3.391.190 S70 nnn.nsi
Australasia 3.810.130 78.7GG.M72
Canada 1,018,371 21,049,730
Ilusila 1,159,214 23,903,010
Trauavaal 3.529.820 72.901.G01
It is likely that Russia produces far
moro gold than Is roportod and would
bold first placo woro tho bullion pro
ductlon Instead of tho colnn an tiro
ductlon glvon. Whllo gold la bolng
produced nt this rato and mndo Into
money there can bo no hard times.
People and
Canada and the DoaKhobcrs.
Tho Dominion of Canada Is eager to
mako immigrants feci at homo within
its borders, especially if they como
from tho land of tho czar.
Tho Doukhobcrs aro people who woro
"porsecuted" in Russia becauso of thoir
practices. It was tho proper thing
throughout tho British cmplro nt tho
tlmo to tako for granted everything
charged against Russia, and to extend
sympathy and succor to any peoplo in
tho czar's dominions who said that
thoy woro not pormlttcd to worship
God according to tho dictates of their
conscience. Canada as nn important
part of tho British omplro has oxtond
od a heart wolcomo to tho various
sects In Russia that during tho last
two decades havo boon ordorcd to con
form to tho laws and customs of tho
hind or movo out of it.
So tho Doukhobcrs enmo. They
founded a colony In tho far Northwest
and thoy sccmod to flourish. Then It
began to leak out that tho Doukhobcrs
entertained somo very peculiar vlows
nnd followed somo very peculiar prac
tices. They believe In a community
of wives nnd it is against their re
ligious convictions to pay taxes. Tho
Canadian govorntnent endeavored to
Bet them right In regard to theso mat
ters, but tho Doukhobcrs protested that
thoy would movo away from tho Do
minion rather than abandon their ro
llglous principles. Tho Canadian gov
ernment wanted settlers and colonists
nbovo nil things, so a special law was
enacted giving tho Doukhobcrs tho
privileges they desired and enabling
thom to prnctlco their freo-lovo and
nntl-tax doctrines without Interfer
ence.
Now tho wholo of Northwestern Can
ada is In n turmoil over tho agita
tion for a repeal of tho law. In tho
mcantlmo Russia has been relieved of
a largo numbor of pcoplo not wnnted
In that country of "ono law, ono re
ligion and ono rulor."
Ttc-d. McCooK Stirred Vp.
Rov, Henry C. McCook of tho Tnb-
crnaclo Prosbytorlan church, Phllndol
rhla, is ono of "tho fighting McCooks'
having mndo a rec
ord In tho civil
war. Tho wholesalo
rascality in connec
tion with street
raidroad franchises
thero stirred tho
old soldier up, and
from tho pulpit
last Sunday ho de
nounced tho cor-
ruptlonlsts in un
measured terms. Tho theft of tho fran
chises, ho said, was munlclpnl treason,
nnfl tho curso of God would rost on tho
mon who for personal ends bortnyed
their city. Mr. McCook has boon n life
long Republican.
Lessons of the "Doer War:
Jean do Blocb, promoter of pcaco
conferences, declares that tho main
lesson of tho Boor war Is that a suc
cessful outcomo of a war of .nggres-
Bion ngalnst any groat power could not
bo hopod for. Ho holds that military
sorvlco ns practiced today Is absurd;
that mnncuvors aro in no way rolatcd
to real war; that no results could bo
obtained in a Europonn war, and that,
as it has becomo Impossible to wage
war decisively, preparations or sacri
fices for wnr nro unnecessary.
Tho roal lesson of tho Door war la
that a dovoted and patriotic peoplo
fighting for country und homo cannot
bo conquored simply by suporlor num
bers. Had tho Transvaal boen uno of
tho great powers, tho war would havo
onded with tho enpturo of Pretoria and
tho dispersion of tho Door armies.
This would havo boon in nccordanco
with usago and procedont. Dut tho
Doors, u law unto themselves, (ought
on.
West Virginia's Co-Ocrnor.
Governor Albort B. Whlto of West
Virginia, who Is personally looking
nftcr tho Intorcsta of tho nllllctcd dis
tricts, came to West Virginia from
Ohio, tho stnto of his birth. Ho was
graduated from Marietta (Ohio) Col
lege, and soon afterward became a
nowBpapor roportor. Ho saved his
woalth, and in 1881 ho bought tho
Stato Journal of Parkcrsburg, W. Vn.,
at that tlmo an ohscuro pnpor. Undor
Mr. Whlto's mnnagonicnt tho paper
grow in valuo and importanco, nnd
soon becamo tho leading republican
Journal In tho stnto. In 1887 Its editor
QOVERNOR WHITE.
wna elected president of tho National
Editorial Association of tho United
States. His nomination for governor
two yoars ago by tho republicans was
unanimous. Ho had already served f.J
collector of internal rovonue by np
polntment of Presldont Harrison, nnd
wna rightly considered tho strongest
cauuldato In tho ranks of his part,
Opinions A
A. Harmless Octopus.
New York dispatches announco tho
Impending formation of a trust "to
control tho salt of tho earth." It is
to bo an amalgamation of tho National
Salt company of this country, tho
Canadian Salt company, and tho Brit
ish Salt union, with a capital of $50,
000.000. "Outsldo of tho savngo coun
tries and Russia," says ono of Its pro
moters, "it will supply tho entire
world with salt."
Such talcs may servo to attract un
thinking Investors. They will doubt
less bo swallowed without salt by
thoso who bcllovo that "tho trusts"
aro coming to own tho earth. Yet In
reality tho salt trud must bo n very
harmless octopus, und even thoso most
timid with regard to octopuses need
feel no alarm. A brief consideration
of somo of tho nalt deposits of tho
United Stnto3 n!ono will clearly show
how utterly lmposslblo It U for any
corporation to control that artlclo to
the detriment of consuraoro. The
known salt deposits of Now York stato
nlono cover C.000 square miles and nv
erago forty fcot In thickness. They
nro conservatively estimated to con
tain enough salt to supply tho United
States for from 700 to 1,000 years.
Thero aro also vast deposits In Ohio,
Michigan, and both tho Virginias.
Theso aro somo dlstanco undor ground,
that near Clovoland, for example, bo
lng 2,500 to 3,400 fcot down.
Dut in Lincoln county, Nebraska,
thero is a bed of rock salt bo easily
mined that ono man can dig and wheel
out flvo tons a day. Tho deposits of
Reno county, Kansas, aro from 300 to
400 feet thick, giving about 2,000,000
barrels to each acre of surface. In
Louisiana there aro beds of salt over
300 feet thick, of unknown extent, and
99 per cent puro without refining.
Theso aro only n fow and tho best
known of tho salt deposits of this
country. In addition thoro Is always
tho sea.
If tho proposed International Salt
company succeeds In Its alms that suc
cess will not bo duo to any actual or
posslblo monopoly of tho supply of
salt. It can succeed only by keeping
prices so low, so near tho cost of pro
duction, that none will caro to com
poto with It. Thero Is no possibility
of nny trust octopus, no matter how
largo, grasping tho world's salt. That
is a necessity of lifo which cannot be
monopolized.
The Federal Trust Inquiry.
If a Eccrot investigation of trusts by
tho fedornl government Is actually in
progress, ns reported, it may at loast
fiorvo tho useful purposo of revealing
tho Inadequacies of tho 8herman anti
trust law.
Notwithstanding tho popular clamor
for fodoral restraint of tho combines
tho Shormnn act represents tho only
legislation of that character enacted
by Congress. To go further than this
has been declared impossible without
violating tho spirit or lottor of tho
Constitution, which guarantees unre
stricted commcrco botweon tho states.
Any inquiry started by tho Attorney
Goncrnl must therefore bo mndo with
roforonco to alleged violations of tho
Shermnn net. That this law Is Inade
quate when It comes to authorizing In
terference with presont Industrial com
bines is plainly manifest to anyono
who Is nt nil familiar with tho nature
of theso consolidations. This net
prohibits agreoments bstweon individ
uals or corporations whoro tho nntur
al or direct offect of it is to regulate
or restrain interstate commerce In
threo cases Involving tho question of
agreoments to maintain rates and
prices tho Supremo court suBtainod
tho' law. Two of theso woro suits
ngalnst Joint traffic associations, whllo
ono was n suit against tho Addyston
Plpo nnd Stool Company, which had
sought through an ngreement to con
trol tho market for Its commodity In
thirty-six stntos.
"Boors as Fighters.
Captain Relchmnnn, tho military at-
tacho sont by tho United States gov
ernment to observe tho operations on
tho Door army, has made official report
which carries moro weight than tho
views of newspaper correspondents.
Captain Relchmnnn praises tho Boera
as men, but criticises thorn for lack of
discipline as soldiers. Ho says that
tho Amoricnns In tho Door army are
tho aggrosslvo olomcnt In It. Ho Inti
mates, howovor, that defeat was Inov
itnblo In any caso becauso of tho over
whelming numbers .of tho Dritish.
During a atay of sovon months Cap
tain Relclunann saw no drunkennoss
and heard no profanity In tho Boor
camps a record hardly to bo dupli
cated In nny Aniorlcan camp during
war or peace. Tho burghors read thoir
Bibles and hymn books after tho day's
fighting or marching, and thoir re
ligious Bontlmont controlled them at
all ttmos. Thoy woro horrified at tho
sliuighter of tho enemy nlmost as much
as they woro grieved by their own
loEsoa. Thoy never failed to treat
British wounded or prisoners humano
ly. lho military attache remarks that
if thoro was any violation of tho rules
of war It was not confined to ono Bldo.
The Hon. Hill Sterritt's Claim.
Tho Hon. Bill Storrltt, formerly of
Hawosvillo, Ky., but now a newspa
per correspondent going nt largo, la
bolng suggostod ns tho proper person
to fill a Congressional vacancy In ono
of tho Toxas districts. Tho peoplo of
Toxas might go furthor and do woraa.
Tho Hon. BUI is a flno, largo man.
Ho has tho reputation of ncvor having
turned a deserving Julep from his door,
LoulsviUo Post.
A committco of Americans with n
remarknblo religious purposo has walt
od on Herbert W. Bowen, lately United
States minister to Ptrsla, now In
Paris. That purposo was nothing less
than to ask Mr. Bowen earnestly to
petition the Shah for protection, free
dom from persecution, for tho Bablsts,
tho religious followers of tho Bab, who
havo long been oppressed by the Shah.
For tho teachings of their creed differ
in many Important points from tho
doctrines of Shllsm, tho stato religion
of Persin, saya n Paris cablegram.
Tho faith is spreading among Amer
icans here. Among those who hnvo
adopted It aro Mrs. Hoar of Now Jer
sey, Mrs. Virginia Trip and her daugh
ter of Boston, Miss Fairfax, Clifford
Barney of Bar Harbor and her daugh
ter, Miss Natalie, who 'writes lino
French poetry, and Mrs. John Jack
son of Now York. Even tho Intellec
tual Miss Arllno Peck is studying Bab-
'hlSG-ARUHE'PcCK'
ism, which in Its early history has
much In common with Chrlstnlnlty, ns
also In Its doctrines, emphasizing, as It
does, tho brotherhood of man and as
piring to a universal reign of pcaco,
JVebv Labor
(Chicago Letter.)
Prom the number of lottcrs received
by tho Christian BullderB' union dur
ing tho last week from different parts
of tho country it is conceded that tho
now religious labor organization hns
succeeded in obtaining a firm hold on
a great many of tho laboring class In
mailer places. Each mall brings a
number of applications for admittance
to tho new order, and tho rapid man
ner in which tho newest innovation in
labor unions has taken hold has caused
tho presldont, Henry P. Berck, to- di
rect all his energy to aiding tho growth
of tho union.
"From tho numerous letters I have
received and the manner in which the
religious orders havo token hold of tho
Christian Builders' union I am certain
that wo Bhall eventually havo na much
Influence with tho contractors as tho
labor unions now enjoy. All our
mootlngs are to bo open to tho public,
nd thoro Is to bo nothing on tho se
trot order about us. All that will bo
roqulrcd from nn applicant to the or
der Is that ho havo a clean reputation
nnd that ho provo that ho does not use
intoxicating liquors. I havo found
that tho more monoy tho laboring mnn
makes tho moro tlmo ho must havo to
spend it, and whllo I am in favor of
tho laborers gaining all they can I am
against tho saloons as n placo for
them to spond It
General Turchin.
Tho career of General John B. Tur
chin, who died a fow days since, was as
romantic and notable as that of any
distinguished Boldlor who Borved In
tho Union army during tho civil war.
Ho was a gradauto of tho military
academy at St. Petersburg, and In 1855
was classed among tho most promising
young officers in tho Russian army. Ho
and other members of his class at tho
acadomy wore, through efficient service
and family influence, in tho lino of
who stood Just below Turchin In his
clnss are now ranking officers in tho
Russian nrmy. Had Turchin remained
in Russia ho would havo been some
years ago, probably, tho actlvo chief
of tho cznr'B military establishment.
In 18GC Turchin went to London, on
leave of absenco, mot thoro somo en
thusiastic offlcera of tho American
coiist survey servlco, was Induced by
thom to como to tho Unltod States,
failed to secure tho promised employ
ment In tho wnr department, drifted
into tho railway business, and nt tho
opening of tho civil war was appointed
colonel of tho Nineteenth Illinois rcgl
mennt of infantry. In tho meantlmo, ho
BflWWffflt;
Dssweib..... .-...
WORKING- CARD OF
love, freedom and unity of belief. And
so earnest a disciple of tho Bab Is Miss
Natallo Barney that, following its be
hests against vanity, tho has glvon
all hor Jewelry to tho poor. Bablsm
Movement.
had been outlawed by tho Russian gov
ernment, and his vigorous way of
making war soon caused him to bo out
lawed by tho confedorato government.
In tho first year of tho civil war ho was
an experienced officer surrounded by
officers of Inexperience. Ho was a
fighter and strategist as well ns dis
ciplinarian, and his regiment and his
brigade when ho camo to the command
of ono always gavo a good account of
itself in battle. He was, towevor, out
of sympathy with General Buoll, nnd
In fact with tho government In tho
tendency to treat rebels in arms con
siderately and kindly. War to Turchin
was war, and ho treated tho peoplo of
tho South ns enemies. In any question
which Involved tho snfoty, health, and
comfort of his men nnd tho people of a
hostllq district, ho decided always in
tho Interest of his own men. His policy
was at first not approved, but in tho
later years of tho war it becamo tho
policy of tho nrmy. An attempt was
made to projuldco tho caso of General
Turchin through a court martial. Tho
court decided against him, but Presi
dent Lincoln decided in his favor and
commissioned him brigadier general,
nnd ho was a striking figure in tho war
to tho very last.
Turchin was of tho old rehosj of
soldiers and gentlemen. Llko many
other officers trained In foreign schools
ho at first looked askance nt our vol
unteers, but in tlmo ho camo to liavo
tho highest regard for them. Ho was
always Impatient of restraint and Ir
ritable undor tho pretensions of unsol
dlcrly men. Ho was given to petulant
and indiscreet speech, but In battlo ho
always camo up to his own high stan
dard of military duty.
Goneral Turchin believed, thoroughly
in tho future of tho Unltod States and
induced many of his pcoplo to nomo
here. Ho was thoioughly American,
too, in tho belief that it was tho duty
of tho cltlzon to do well whatovor
camo to his hand to do.
Will the Mistake be "Rectified?
"If a mistake has been mnde," says
tho New York Sun of Mr. Gngo'B Rus
sian sugar decision, "then tho mlstako
cannot bo rectified too speedily or too
frankly, and no prldo of Individual
opinion should bo suffered to stand in
tho way of such rectification."
That a mistake was made thero
would scorn no doubt. Our own In
ternal revenue and legal experts told
Mr. Gago plainly thnt Russia did no
moro In remitting her internal taxes
upon exported sugar than wo do In rs-
THE CHRISTIAN UNION.
jmsg,
- -
welcomes women to Its fold; indeed, It
was ono of tho Bab's chlefest alms to
amollorato the condition of womon in
Persia. Tho religion opposes tho plural
marriages of Mahometlsm.
mlttlng our internal taxes upon ox
ported spirits and tobaccos. Yet Mr.
Gago persisted in his course.
That is action has greatly injured
our trade with Russia is not tho only
or tho worst result. "Behind the dol
lar marks that figure in tho trado sta
tistics," as tho Sun well sayB, "is tho
Inestlraablo valuo to us of unvexed re
lations with tho nation that has never
been our enemy, never our rival or ob
structor, but always and cordially and
continuously our helpful friend and
well-wisher."
JUTItfCa M 1 ill L'J .
Times havo changed Indeed from tho
tlmo when Sydney Smith complacently
obsorved that tho United States had so
much wilderness clearing to do that
s- I J.J
HENRY P. BERCK;
(Who Is Organizing a Labor Union of
Christians.)
It might well tako Its literature, learn
ing and luxury In tho bulk from Eng
lllsh factories.
"Why," ho nsked, "should tho Am
ericans wrlto books, when a six wcoks'
passago brings thom, In their own
tongue, pur sonso, science, and genius
In bales and hogsheads? Prairies,
steamboats, grist-mills, nro their nat
ural objects for centuries to como."
Wo might almost revere this nnd
ask: "Why should tho English fool
111 nt case when a six days' passago
ninnliia 9
For a tlmo, nt least, tho Rov. Syd
ney Smith's chlof notoriety seoms to
bo that ho was tho author of certain',
observations whoso truthfulness han
proved as brlof as it wa3 bitter,
Harper's Weekly.
A monumont to Mrs. Brndloy TJ
Johnson, wifo of General Johnson, has
boon unveiled In Baltimore. During
tho civil war Mrs. Johnson was In
strumental In procuring comforts for
tho confederate soldlors. Sho followed
her husband in all tho camps and de
voted herself to tho caro of tho stckj
and tho wounded. After tho war sho
aided greatly in establishing soldiers')
homes. j
A public subscription has been
opened In Paris to buy Ranavalona.
tho dethroned Queen of Madagascar, a
black satin gown becauso hor allow
ance from tho French government is
said to bo too small to permit hor to
buy It herself.
General MacArthar will Eoon com
plete lhlrty-nlno years of military ser
vice When ho Is relloved of his cora
mtnd In tho Philippines ho expects
to virtt South Afl-ka nnd Europo bo
faro :rturnlns to Vxo United States