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tlGHTlXGI'BOTEfTIOX7 democrats will make the tariff an issue. Its Repeal nr Modineetlon [Irnianiird ' on the Pretext That In This Way Alone Can the Tru»t Problem Ue Successfully Solved. Will the tariff be made a conspic uous issue among the questions to be submitted to public adjudication in the presidential campaign of 1900? Opin ion varies widely on this point. By P many the belief is expressed that in the light of the splendid prosperity that has followed the restoration of the protective policy, and in view of the enormous extension of our for eign trade that has taken place con currently with the unrestricted opera tion of that policy, the Democratic par ty in its next national platform will not have the hardihood to reopen the tariff question, but will discreetly re frain from any agitation thereof. Among those who hold to this belief we find the New York Sun very posi tive and emphatic. After pointing to the splendid showing made in the sta tistics at our exports of domestic man ufactures—wherefrom it appears that, after deducting the exports of mineral oil and copper from the unexampled to tal of $338,667,791 for the last fiscal year, the net exports of products in which labor cost forms a higher per centage than in these relatively crude C articles reached in 1899 the sum of $252,000,000, a gain of $165,400,000 in ten yearn—the Sun announces this con clusion: "The prosperity of our manufac tures, Indicated by these statistics, re moves the tiresome and mischievous tariff controversy from the field of politics, for the time being at least, and relegates it to the purely academic discussion where only it has always belonged in this country. It did not appear In the campaign of 1896, and It will not appear In the campaign of 1900. The ridiculous and disastrous re sult of It after the campaign of 1892 has warned the Democratic party to let It alone.” Almost at the identical moment when the Sun writer was engaged in recording the conviction that the facts of trade and commerce and the disas ters which resulted from the cam paign of 1892 would compel the re moval of “the tiresome and mischiev ous tariff controversy from the field of politics, for the time being at least,” and would “relegate It to the purely academic discussion where only It hau always belonged in this country,” a ( body of orthodox Democrats were hold ing their state convention in Iowa. In the platform adopted by this body of orthodox Democrats, without a dis senting vote or voice, we find the fol lowing: ^ “We view with alarm the multipli cation of those combinations of capi tal commonly known as trusts, that are concentrating and monopolizing industry, crushing out independent producers of limited meanB, destroy ing competition, restricting opportuni ties for labor, artificially limiting pro duction and raising prices, and creat ing an industrial condition different from state socialism only in the re spect that under socialism the benefits of production would go to all, while under the trust system they go to in crease the fortune of these institu tions. These trusts and combinations are the direct outgrowth of the policy of the Republican party, which has not only favored these institutions, but has accepted their support and softe ned their contributions to aid that par ty in retaining power which has placed a burden of taxation upon those who labor and produce in time of peace and who figut our battles in time of •war, while the wealth of the country is exempted from these burdens. “We condemn this policy, and it is our solemn conviction that the trusts must be destroyed or they will destroy free government, and we demand that they be suppressed by the repeal of the protective tariff and other privi lege-conferring legislation responsible for them and by the enactment of such legislation, state and national, as will aid in their destruction.” Does this look as though the tariff controversy was going to be lifted out of polities and relegated to academic discussion? The Iowa Democratic state convention did not think so. We would gladly share the confidence of the New York Sun as to tile disappear ance of the tariff front among the live issue* of the campaign of next year, but the fuels and proltahilitles wholly fail to Justify that agreeable anticipa tion. On the contrary, the facts a id probubtliths point unerringly toward a savage and determined attack on the tariff all along the Democratic line. At the prese-* writing nothing appears more certain than that from this time on every Democratic state convention ■ will present the Iowa declaration in 1 sonic form or other, and that the re- I p*a| nr modification nf the Dlngley tariff will tie demanded in the national Dcnim-ratlc platform. Ilar.l TImm liM Haa I law. Ttt* of « prslwllti tariff ar« probably f»*lt (toalt*n« In th« toontry nixrr th*u m I’ltuintrg i* •nam|ii*at;y lb* following •UtUtir*. >mby |b* )'«w vorb World, gr* of ator* lb«a p.iaaing tatartal traa of Htttaborga laduatrlal kl«n4ib*, (M aqua re aiil*a. aumbor of |a<U«trt** being operated o». foil lima Hi n«mb*r of w«fi »m ploy*4 la tl«w, et»i>r*rlng all tlata**. ITd.Odd. atarage aagea par day. |.* I*, mad* «f w*g«a. II H to 91 par day. bomber of Ml* man i>«*. at apt from •Ivhaaaa anm ay ml »i!ta and fart., rla* aaabl* to yoa foil lima by r*aaoa •# aearalty »f labor M rallroa.te «p. | •bM to biota ftaigbi prom pi ip to«Mbb] the traffic 4s 30 per cent larger .than all the freight ears in service; gross daily value of trade In industrial Klon dike. JMOO.OOe. When it Is remembered that the fore going statements are published by a Journal that has lost no opportunity for denouncing and ridiculing the llingley tariff bill, they form pretty good evidence that there is more com fort in the present situation fc*r indus trial tollers than for free-trade theo rists. And it should alao be remem bered that most Industries throughout the country are nearly If not quite as active as those of Pittsburg. These are hard times only for those who are hunting anti-tariff arguments.—Pitts burg Commercial Gazette. The McK Inley Policy. It Is American first, last and all the time. It never halts, never hesitates, ■whether the question be the defense of American Industries or the defense of American dignity. McKinleyism and Americanism are synonymous terms. The one Involves the other. Listen to what the president of the United States said in his address before the Catholic summer school at Plattsbarg, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1899: “The flag symbolizes our purposes and our aspirations; It represents what we believe and what we mean to main tain, and wherever it floats it is the ilag of the free, the hope of the oppressed; and wherever it is assailed, at any sac rifice it will be carried to a triumphant peace." This utterance was greeted with ringing cheers all the reports agree in saying. Its lofty purport appealed instantly to the Intelligent minds to which it was addresed. It appeals to every true American throughout the country consecrated to freedom and progress. It ought to make the small coterie of "flre-in-the-rcar'' anti-Amer icans feel smaller and smaller. They Will lie lleenluleil. The family of trusts (loutitless needs regulation. Provision has already been made to control pools and com binations in restriction of trade and the like, but the problem still to be solved is: What interference can the government interpose against large capitalizations against the outright purchase of many small concerns for the purpose of concentrating and sim plifying management, cheapening pro duction and enlarging trade? Mean while the parentage of trusts is still in doubt, even though the protective tar iff has been cleared of responsibility for the progeny, but there is reason to believe that trusts are simply the outgrowth of business enterprise.— Kansas City (Kan.) Journal. CaiiM! for C'lmNtenfil Ka tin fart Ion. John Bull—We don’t worry about merchandise balances so long as our delieit is made good by returns on for eign investments and profits on our ocean carrying trade. Uncle Sam—Well, if you're satisfied we are; but what is to become of British industries if your American debtors keep on Increasing their pay ments to you in the shape of manu factured goods, in place of raw mate rials? Itayonri tlio Arcnmnntttt lv«t Stugr. Mr. Havemeyer's emphatic assertion that a high protective tariff is the mother of trusts will he seized upon by the Democratic free traders as a choice morsel of wisdom and the other features of his rather noteworthy tes timony ignored by them. His view of protection is distinctively Democratic and might have been written by the author of the famous Wilson bill. The value and effectiveness of a protective tariff to the country has got beyond the argumentative stage with the peo pie, who look to results more than to theories, and what Mr. llavemeyer thinks or says upon the subject will have little or no weight with them.— Seattle (Wash.) Poet-Intelligencer. Itcntflt* !§••* VI »»rkinuhimn. It would be a* foolish to blunt* par ent* who have reared a child In the b«*t possible manner for hi* turning to evil way* after he ha* grown to manhood, a* to blame the tariff for building up a splendid American Indus try. giving employment to Su.uoo Amer ican workingmen, he. a use avaricious men Mccure control of It and enter into a wicked combination Combination nr not, the tlu plate true! can make no money without employing the worV Ingnirn and paying them for their labor. Tacoma (Wash » l.rdgcr. Ik* Mm*. r«a H>«m. The year UW may he considered a* the time of our eacwnd wind-** Iaun year we look a deep breath of protec ts*. prosperity and ecilpaed all pre «tuu* record* This year there wa* nothing to do but to eclipse |*m tad We proceeded to da It, We have lwhen In tha fall, deep breath which always j carries the runner tw a race tw vic tory Our commercial rival* mar a* j well drop out, for the eluee of Hum will see the I’at'ed Plate* the alaaer by « gawd margin la the industrial «oa t**t , • * IS« »f fn<t«*4ry. If Mr. HAvemeyer had called the protective tariff the ".notuer of indus try” instead of the “mother of trusts," he would have been stating a truth in stead of putting forth a lie. The num ber of factories 'which have been re opened after years of idleness, the number of plants which have been ex tended, the number of mills which have been enlarged in the brief time during which ihe Dlngley law has been In operation are beyond computation. The number of new mills opened, of new business enterprises started and of new Industries established can only be estimated. The full number will never be accurately counted. And the showing of this short time has been but a brilliant repetition of the his tory of the two short years during which the McKinley law was In full ioree and effect. To go further back than that, prac tically every industry in the country owes Its existence to the policy of pro tection. When the colonies separated from Great Britain there w'as not a single industry of any consequence on this side of the ocean, thanks to the policy pursued by the ruling country. There never would have been any In dustries established if early American statesmen had been of the stripe of Bryan, or Cleveland, or other free traders. American enterprise would have had no show at all against the well-established and powerful Indus tries of England. But through tho adoption of the policy of a protective tariff American industries were estab lished; through that same policy they have been developed to their present unrivaled proportions; and through It American industries are today being extended and Increased, and the United States Is fast increasing the lead which It already has in commercial affairs over all the other nations of the world Northwestern Harvest llaml*. The farmers of the Northwest nra kicking again, hut It Is a different kind of a kick from that of three years ago, •In those days of '96, when lamenta tions for the crime of '73 filled the air of the Northwest, the burden of com plaint was scarcity of work, scarcity of dollars and the too large purchasing capacity of the dollar when acquired because of the cheapness of everything. This year the times are out of joint for the farmers because of the scarcity oj men to work in the harvest fields. Wages are offered ranging from $2.50 a day and board for common harvest hands to $0 a day for threshing mai chine engineers, and even at theso figures it is well nigh impossible to get men enough to do the work. Everyi body able to work seems to be having something else to do that Is more con genial or more profitable than harvest field work. If Brother Bryan would 1 make a tour of the Northwest at thU tme he could expound 1G to 1—16 jobs looking for every idle man, and his ex planation of the phenomenon would be interesting in view of the doctrines he preached in the last campaign year.— Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald. A Tramtlent Commercial Craze If we believed that the creation oi trusts would be a permanent feature of our economic system, we might share in the alarm expressed by some timid persons. We do not; we re gard them an a merely transient com mercial craze, which will die of ex haustion. The commerce of this coun try is altogether too great to be kept under control by any one set of men acting upon a single industry. The trade of the United States hf.s passed that stage just as it has passed the stage when the wheat product of this country can be cornered.—Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligeneer. Work Kfukn the Man. The following advertisement appears conspicuously in a leading northwest ern newspaper of recent date: “Wanted—Laborers are needed in the harvest fields of Minnesota and es pecially in the Dakotas. Harvest wii. soon begin, to be followed by thresh ing. Good wages are offered and low rates of transportation are offered by the railroads. Here Is an opportunity for all that are unemployed.—St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press.'’ This is a time when work seeks the man, and no man need search for work. It Is a time of McKinley and prosperity. Two of m Kind. The devil rebuking Mu and Mi Havt meyer. the president of the sugai trust, rebuking trusts, are two of a kind. When the devil is recognized as authority in ethics Mr. Havenieyer may bo recognized us authority on trusts. Not until then will Intelligent Ameri can voters lie influenced again*t a pro- j tectlve tariff by the railing against ; trusts by the president of one of the j greatest trust* on the American con tlueut.—Freeport tilt.) Journal. Well linnet Tb« Iowa McpublG an* took no back i vurd etep when they Indoreed In <le elded fashion the adininlatraiiun of I’reald^nt M> Ktnl#> and the column policy. Hound looney wae placed In ; the foreground, the IlSngiey tariff *p proved, and the truet* denounced W lieu the roll of ail the etalea liu been railed. It will be a u«*un*» >m ' • at 1 >1 ne a1 .■ !< b* » I have re ■ wived Grand Ur put* iMi lt I Her aid a t latent I uatotlusltt. The Ire# iraier la « nimble laaaei Me formerly told u* that If you haw j a protect!*# tariff yon ran l eel! t« i furetgm cooalrl#* ' II# twe any* “T ,« j feet that we are awtllag m> many mar*, f.tnred gu*«4a ahnual prove# that at do wot a**d a |tat#*tl»a tariff ** *>me ctreat ought to ha*# tkla matcttiag j let. • Ilea lea lUL) ItepublUaa TALM AGE'S SERMON. I LONGEVITY THE SUBJECT FOR LAST SUNDAY. from rsalms, 01 j 15. as Follows: "With I<ong 1.1 fe Will 1 Satisfy II Ini" — Ite IlKtun, SK-k-llt-ils ami Ui'ave-Yards— Mistakes of Zealots. (Copyright 1S99 by Louis Klopscli.) Through the mistake of its friends, religion has been chiefly associated with sirk-beds and grave-yards. The whole subject, to many people, is odorous with chlorine and carbolic acid. There are people who cannot pronounce the word religion without hearing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It Is high time that this thing were changed, and that re ligion, Instead of being represented as a hearse to carry out the dead, should be represented as a chariot in which the living are to triumph. Religion, so far from subtracting from one's vitality, is a glorious addi tion. It is sanative, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for tho digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles. When David, in an other part of the Psalm, prays that re ligion may be dominant, he does not speak of it as a mild sickness, or an emaciation, or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp; he speaks of it as "the saving health of all nations"; while God, in the text, premises lon gevity t the pious, saying: "With long life will I satisfy him.” The fact is that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion Joined the hand of medical science In attempting to Improve human longevity. Adam lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years. Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years. As late In the history of the world as Vespasian, there were, at one time in his empire, forty-five people one hundred and thirty-five years old. So far down as the sixteenth century, Peter Zartan died at one hundred and eighty-five years of age. I do not say that re ligion will ever take the rnee back to antediluvian longevity, but I do say the length of life will be Increased. It Is said In Isaiah: “The child shall die a hundred years old.” Now, If ac cording to Scripture, the child is to be a hundred years old, may not the men and women reach to three hundred and four hundred and five hundred? The fact Is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of the generations that are to come. Take the African race. They have been un der bondage for centuries. Give them a chance, and they develop a Fred erick Douglass or a Toussaint L'Ou verture. And If the white race shall he brought from under the serfdom of sin, what shall be the body? what shall be the soul? Religion has only just touched our world. Give it full power for n few centuries, and who can tell what will be the strength of man, and the beauty of woman, and the longevity of all? My design Is to show that practical religion is the friend of long life. I prove It, first, from the fact that It makes the care of our health a posi tive Christian duty. Whether we shall keep early or late hours, whether we shall take food digestible or lndlgestl ole, whether there shall be thorough or incomplete mastication, are ques tions very often deferred to the realm of whimsicality; but the Christian man lifts this whole problem of/health into the accountable and the divine. He says: ”God has given me this body, and He has called it the temple of the Holy Ghost, and to deface Its altars, or mar Its walls, or crumble Its pillars, Is a God-defying sacrilege." He sees God’s raligraphy In every page—ana tomical and physiological. He says: "God has g.ven me a wonderful body for noble purposes." That arm with thirty-two urious bones wielded by forty-six curious mureles. and all un der the brain's telegraphy; three hun dred and fifty pounds of blood rushing through the heart every hour, the heart in twenty-four hours beating 100,000 times, during the twenty-four hours the lungs taking In fifty-seven hogsheads of air, nnd all this mechan lsm not more mighty than delicate and easily disturbed and demolished. The Christian man says to himself: "If I hurt my nerves, if I hurt my brain. If I hurt nny of my physical faculties, I insult God nnd call for dire retribution.” Why did God tell the Uvites not to offer to him in sacrifice animals Imperfect and diseased? He meant to tell us In all the ages that we are to offer to God our very best physical condition, and a man who through Irregular or gluttuuous eat ing ruins his health Is uot offering to Goil such u sacrifice. Why did Paul write for his cloak at Troas? Why should such a great man as Paul be anxious about a thing so insignificant as an overcoat? R was because he knew that with pneumonia and rheu matism he would not be worth half a* much to God and the Church as with respiration easy and foot free. An Intailigrnt t'hrUUan man would emu Me r it an abaurdlty to kttr*l down at ulgbt and pray and aak Qod'a pro tection, ahlir at lha MIU« time ba kept the wlndowa of hU bedrtMini tight abut Mutant freak air. Ila would Juat a» auon tblnk af going out on tbe bridge between New York aud iirooklya. leaping off aad then graying to Ood to keep him from getting hurt. Juat aa long aa you refer Ihta whole aubjeel of pkMlral health to tka realm of whim •teality or to the paatry «■«■*•. or to toe butrher. or to ike hakar. you are gut acting like a 'hr'itian Taka rare of all your phyaieal forte* aerauua noueuMr, hone, h aln. cellular tie awe — for alt you nun be brought to Ju tg meat Mmohing your nereou* ayateai Into kilgeta. burning out tka runt tag of your atomark wltk wlaa b.^w—led •ad dryttlim ualhiag wita thia •hue* l« make yuui bat look fwoala, ftn^kag at the aiUt Mill you nr* nigh cut in two, and neither part worth anything, groaning about sick headache and palpitation of the heart, which you think came from God, when they came from your own folly! What right has nny man or woman to deface the temple of the Holy Ghost? What is the ear? It is the whispering gallery of the soul. What is the eye? It is the observatory God constructed, its,telescope sweeping the heavens. What is the hand? An in strument so wonderful that when the carl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his will $40,000 for treatises to be writ ten on the wisdom, power and good ness cf God, Sir Charles Bell, the greut English anatomist and surgeon, found his greatest illustration in the construction of the human hand, de voting his whole book to that subject. So wonderful are these bodies that God names his own attributes after differ ent parts of them. His omniscience— it is God's eye. His omnipresence— it is God’s ear. His omnipotence—it is God's arm. The upholstery of the midnight heavens—It is the work of God's fingers. His life-giving power— it is the breath of the Almighty. His dominion—“the government shnll he upon his shoulder.” A body so divine ly constructed, let us be careful not to abuse it. When it becomes a Chris tian duty to take care of our health, is not the whole tendency toward lon gevity? if i toss my watch about reck lessly, and drop It on the pavement, and wind it up any time of day or night 1 happen to think of it, and often let It run down, while you are careful with your watch, and never abuse it, and wind it up Just at the same hour every night, and put it in a place where It will not suffer from the violent changes of atmosphere, which watch will last the longer? Common sense answers. Now, the human body is Gnu s watch. You see the hands of the watch, you see the face of the watch, but the heating of the heart is the ticking of the watch. 13c careful and do not let It run down! Again: I remark that practical re ligion Is a friend of longevity in the fact that it is a protest against dis sipations, whch injure and destroy the health. Bail men and women live a very short life. Their sins kill them. I know hundreds of good old men, hut I do not know half a dozen had old men. Why? They do not get old. Lord Byron died at Mlssolonghl at thirty-six years of age, himself his own Mazeppa, his unbridled passions the horse that dashed with him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Bal timore at thirty-eight years of age. The black,raven that ulighted on the bust above his door was delirium tremens— "Only this anti nothing more." Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just be yond mid-life, then died nt St. Helena, and one of his doctors said that his disease was induced by excessive snuff ing. The hero of Austerlltz, the man who by one step of his foot in the cen ter of Europe shook the earth,killed by a snuff-box! How many people we have known who have not lived out half their days because of their dis sipations and indulgences! Now, prac tical religion Is a protest against all dissipations of any kind. “But," you say, "professors of re ligion have fallen, professors of re ligion have got drunk, professors of re ligion have misappropriated trust funds, professors of religion have ab eronded.” Yes; but they threw away their religion before they did their morality. If a man on a White Star line steamer bound for Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic, jumps overboard and Is drowned. Is that anything against the White Star line's capacity to take the man across the ocean? And if a man jumps over the gunwale of his religion and goes down never to rise, is that any reason for your believing that re ligion has no capacity to take the man clear through? In the one case, if he had kept tq the steamer his body would have been saved; in the other case, if be bad kept to his religion his morals would have been saved. There are aged people who would have been dead twenty-five years ago but for the defenses and the equipoise of religion. You have no more natural resistance than hundreds of people who lie In the cemeteries today, slain by their own vices. The doctors made their case as kind and pleasant as they could, and it was called congestion of the brain, or something else, but the snakes and the blue flies that seemed to crawl over the pillow in the sight of tile delirious patient showed what was the matter with him. You, the aged Christian man, walked along by that unhappy one until you came to the goldeu pillar of a Christian life. You went to the right; he went to the left. That Is all the difference between you. If this religion Is a protest against all forms of dissipation, then it Is an illustrious friend of longevity. "With long life will I satisfy hlin." Again: Kellglon is a friend of lon gevity in the fact that It takes the worry out of our temporalities. || is uot work that kills men, it is worry. When a man heeomea a genuine Chris tian he makes over to (jod not only his ! affections, but his family, his bust neaa, hla reputation, hla body. hla rulnd, hla aoul everything. Indue trloiia hr will b*. but never worrying, he* tu*e (UmI la managing hu affaire llow ran ha worry about bualaeva »lt'U In aaawer to bla prayrra Clod trII* blm when to buy. aud whan to •ell; and ir br gain, that la bant, aal If be lone, that la Nat Huppua* you bad a auparaalnral neighbor Who ram* la and aaid: ' Mr. I want you to rail on me la every ei Igeary; I am your fa«t frlead | could fall barb on HMdd.gga. | raa foreaee a peak- tan yearn I bold I be control! Ing aturh la thirty of the beat moan tary laatllutlona of New Vorh; whea •ver you art «a trouble, rail ua av and I trill help you; you raa Nu my money and you «ae have my tadueaee. bar* ta my bead la pledge for It * ||ow ntucb would you worry about bualaeea* XVby. you would aay. “1'U do the beat I can, and then I’ll depend on my friend's generosity for the rest.” • ••»•*• What do you want In the future world? Tell me and you shall have It. Orchards? Tnere are the trees with twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month. Water scenery? There is the River of Lue from under the throne of God, clear as crystal, and the sea of glass mingled with Are. Do you want music? There Is the oratorio of the Creation led on by Adam, and the oratorio of the Red sea led on by Moses, and the oratorio of the Messiah led on by St. Paul, while the archangel with swinging baton controls the one hundred and forty-four thousand who make up the orchestra. Do you want reunion? There nre your children waiting to kiss you, waiting to em brace you, waiting to twist garlands in your hair. You have been accustomed to open the door on this side the sepulchre. You have been accustomed to walk in the wet grass on the top of the grave. I show you the under side of tne grave; the bottom has fallen out, and the long ropes with which the pall-bearers let down your dead, let them clear through into heaven. Glory be to God for this rohust, healthy religion. It will have a tend ency to make you live long in this world, and in the world to come you will have eternal life. "With long lifo will I satisfy him.” WHITE HOUSE Dnilnrgoea Alteration* with Each New l'rt»l.liiii 111 Family. During the absence of President and Mrs. McKinley from Washington, Col. Hingham, superintendent of public buildings and grounds, had a large force of workmen employed in renovat ing und repairing the executive man sion, and this work Is being hurried to completion. It is quite a noticeable and Interesting fact that the white house hears In a measure the Individ uality of every lady who has had the honor to preside there, and by whom the expensive decorations and furnish ings have been In a great measure planned. It has been sought to pre serve the colonial appourance of tho mansion, but through the varying tastes for decorations very little of the colonial atmosphere of the Interior re* mams. The historic traditions of the mansion could he as well preserved, perhaps, if the president no longer continued to reside there. There 13 scarcely any doubt the American peo ple, In view of the Interest which haa always attached to the white house, would gladly bear the expense of keep ing It as It now stands, as Mt. Vernor. and Arlington are maintained. More historic traditions clustered around the old capitol than about the white house, but this fact did not prevent congress from altering It to suit Its convenience und needs whenever de sirable or necessary. If the white house had never been altered from tho day of Its erection to the present time, except to make necessary repairs, it would be of much more historical in terest than it is, or if it had received extensive rddltlons from time to time, such as the great castles in England, It would then present an lnterertlng appearance. But, as it is, no exten sive alterations have ever been made, but one president after another has snipped off a little here and added a little there. Inside and outside, until the white ..ouse Is neither purely colo nial nor modern, but a patchwork of both. “DITTY” BOXES FOR SAILORS. Crew of the Cruiser Detroit Supplied with Handsome Ones. Each member of the crew of the sec ond-class cruiser Detroit recently re ceived the small box, or chest, fami liarly known in the navy as a “ditty" box. This is a necessary article which each marine carries with him on all his assignments, and although not reg ularly issued by the government, it Is carried by the navy department free of cost for him. It is one of the few things which is the personal property of the marine or bluejacket. The* "ditty” box is not a new addition to. the belongings of a marine, having been in use for many years. It is about fourteen inches long, eight inches wide, and ten high. It is made of wood and divided into several com partments resembling somewhat the divisions in an ordinary trunk. The lid of the box contains receptacles, with a rack, which hangs midway in the other parts, and Is Intended for a blacking brush, a box of blacking, a triplcy brush and scouring materials. The scouring materials are used to polieh the brass buttons on the uni forms. Underneath this Is room for scouring rags, cleaning cloths, and: other small belongings which the ma rine may wish to take along with him. In the cover of the box he keeps s? la ■un, plus and sewing materials. The “ditty" boxen furnished to the crew of the Detroit are made in the navy yard and are of exceptionally neat work manship. All are stained a mahog any color and are highly prised by theme who were fortunate enough to secure them In this Instance the re cipients were not compelled to pur chase the buses, but will forfeit ft each If they are not returned In good order when the men's enlistment ev pirts.- Brooklyn Eagle. I hlu • Tr*.|« As animata of tba poeai util tie* «i trad* with t'h:n.* uimf b» jud«a>t •ruts th* (mil that only JJ<> a>tU« of railway ha«a haaa built la tha whole .ta#wa with a aofwlatioa of teo.ww tot), Aa atlumyk tolutaa of miuIi by orU-iJo 41 Uou tha ar*at compoaar of aa«r»4 Muala of tha autaaath re a ';i|. raaaatly 4Ueo*afa4 la tha MB yartal library at Vlenaa. aeautaa a httharto aabaowa portrait of tha mm yoaar 4raaa * baa ha wa* fa yaan *14.