Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Thorn King, who have

been vis'tlng relatives and friends In New York

and Massachusetts, have arranged to sail for their

home In Pau. France, on September 2.

Mr. and Mrs. Sylvanus !>. Schoonmaker havereturned from Europe after an absence abroad of

several months.

M!<=s Sarah G Almy. daughter of Mrs. John O.Almy, of Washington, will be married In the

Church of tho Transfiguration, New York, onTuesday next, to H. Brooks Price, son of Mr. and

Mrs. Benjamin Price, of West 9th street.

Mrs. Alexander T. Van Nest, who has spent the

last five weeks at Oyster Bay. has gone to Uindsor.

Vt.. t.-> remain until the middle of September.

J Plerpont Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steele.Mr and Mrs. William H. Falconer. Bruce Fal-

coner end Miss Ixiutse Falconer. Mr. and Mrs. t.

B ITollins and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cass Dedyard.

who have Rpont most of 'heir time while abroad in

England, have sailed from Southampton for New

York on board the Adriatic. Mr. and Mrs. Steele

\u25a0wrlll spend thf fall at their country place at \% SB»-

bnry. !-""&iflland- and Mr- and Mrs" Falconer wIU

go to their country place at I»ake Mohonk.

Dr an.l Mrs. Prp^ton B. Satterwhlte, who arecnii«lng along the New England coast on board

the steam yacht Atreus, which they chartered for

the summer, have arrived at Bar Harbor.

Dudley Davis has abandoned his Intention ofgiving his farewell bachelor dinner this evening at

the Knickerbocker Club, as his brother. PierpontDavis, although much Improved, is not sufficiently

recovered from his attack of typhoid fever to be

present. Nor will the latter be able to attend h!3

brother as best man on Monday next when fc*mar-

ries Miss Alice M. Grosvenor. daughter of Mrs.

William M. Grosvenor. at noon In EmmanuelChurch, Newport. Mr. Davis has not yet chosen a

substitute for his brother. His ushers are to be

Robert Grosvenor. Frederic F. de Rham and Buell

Holllater. of this city; Philip S. Hichborn. of Wash-ington- Ray Atheron. Frank J. Bulloway and WMt-

comb Field, of Boston. Mr Davis, accompanied

by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fellowea Davis, his

sister. Mrs. Ralph Miller Johnson, who has Justreturned from a trip abroad, and Miss Baker, will

leave here to-morrow for Newport, to remain unt

after the wedding.. Miss Grosvenor's attendants will

include her sisters. BUM Caroline. Miss Rose andMiss Antta Grosvenor. and Miss Laura P. Swan.

Among those due to arrive here tb-day from

Europe are Mr.and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, who

will depart at once for Brick House, their country

place at Noroton. Conn., where they will spend thefall, and Mr. and Mrs. Temple Bowdo'.n. who will

go to their country place at Elberon, H. J.

NEW YORK SOCIETY.

FOREIGN.—

The congress of the InternationalPatent Union, now in session at Stockholm, Isexpected to recommend retaliatory measuresaeainst Great Britain's patent law, which poos

into effect to-day. =Camilla Marquet. aFrench soldier, waul sentenced at Bordeaux to

six days1 imprisonment for attempting to black

mail President Roosevelt.==Many provinces

in th- south and west of Persia are m revolt,

the tribes demanding: that parliament be at once

convened. The Venezuelan CivilCourt of

Fi-Pt Instance has lined the French Cable Com-pany J5 000,009 on The ground that the company

aided the Matos revolt :thc French government

and the company will pay no attention to the

decision =The Belgian Senate began con-Eidenition of the Congo treaty, the Premier andForeign Minister speaking in favor of its speedyadoption == Advices from Paris further out-

lined the attitude of France toward Morocco;

a rumor of the capture of Ma U Bang by Gen-eral Bardani's forces was discredited. AdiFpatch from Tokio said that the government

had decided to postpone the international ex-position until 1917. =Admiral Sperry sentmessages of thanks to Sydney and Melbourne;

plans have been completed at Tokio for the en-tertainment of the American officers and men.

DOMESTIC.—

President Roosevelt returned toOyster Bay from his trip to Jordanville. X. T.—

Hotel guests at Ho Springs presentedloving cups to Mr. and Mrs. Taft and their sonCharles == William J. Bryan spoke at To-peka. Kan., in advocacy of his plan for govern

-meit guarantee of bank deposits. Gov-«-nor \u25a0 Hughes was enthusiastically greeted at

Dunkirk N. T.. where he spoke at the Chau-tauoua County fair. ==William F. Vilas. for-merly member of President Cleveland's Cabinetand a United States Senator, died in Madison.Wjc. == The floods receded at Augusta, Ga.:ten or fifteen persons were reported to havedrowned; the lops was placed at between $750,-

000 and $1,000,000. =Congressman James S.Sherman addressed the Oneida County Civil\u25a0War Veterans at Utica. ==Ferdinand Pinney

Earle was released from jailon bail at Goshen.X Y. and set on* on a hunt for his wife.

-Considerable reductions In the price of meatwere reported in Omaha.

CITY.—

Stocks were strong. \u25a0' The grand

juryof Atlantic County, N. J.. ignored GovernorFort's threat to send troops to Atlantic City todose up the resort. == Assistant District At-torney Elder, of Kings, said the grand jurywould investigate the Coler-Hurley loan.

-\u25a0

\u25a0

A petition in involuntary bankruptcy was filedagainst the failed Brm of A. O. Brown & Co.by creditors represented by House, Grossman A-Vorhaus. = Counsel for receivers of theMetropolitan Street Railway Company an-nounced the position that the Public ServiceCommission had no power to act in the matter

«f transfers.—

\u25a0 The estate of Russell SageWas appraised at more than $64,000,000, of which)lrs. Sage gets over 6 <">''""'.o <"' '. : '

Plans forthe funeral of Tony Pastor were announced.

\u25a0 Chairman Hitchcock announced the ap-pointment of chairmen of several state financecommittees. =Callers at Republican nationalheadquarters expressed cptimistic views of theoutlook in the South and West. ;;., -\u25a0\u25a0

-It was

reported In Wall Street that the Southern Pa-cific planned to increase its dividend payments

and night acquire the 'Frisco line. == Two\u25a0women "testified in the trial of a charge of ex-tortion against two patrolmen, that they werearrested and released after paying $3 each tothe policemen. == Mrs. Charlotte Hitchcock,

who is accused cf killingher husband, was ex-amined by a commission In lumcy.

THE WEATHER.—

Indications for to-day:Fair; to-morrow, fa:., warmer. The tempera-ture yesterday: Highest, 6S degrees; lowest. 56.

A COMPLETE FAILURE.The real weakness of the opposition to Gov-

ernor Hughes does not appear anywhere more

strikingly than in Its failure to produce a can-didate against him. Inall the months of dis-

cuss!..:! no man of sufficient calibre to com-mand genera] support or to be recognized as.-.. fitting successor to Mr. Hughes has been

found who was willing to have his name usedho opposition to the Governor's, and to put up

some mere local candidate, the -favorite son"of a county, whose name would not Inspire gen-

eral confidence, would be to enter the cam-paign ludicrously wreak. All of the early ef-forts to find a successor to the Governor were

based upon the proposition that some man ofthe Governor's stamp,! generally recognized as

strong able and Independent, who .cave prom-

ise of conforming to the best tradition* of thepresent administration, would make a stronger

candidate than the Governor because he wouldbe without the tetter's enemies. He would,

bo it was urged, have all the Governor'sstrength without the Governor's weakness. Itwas the most plausible theory offered by theopposition, though Its defects were obvious, since

the Governor's strength could not be trans-ferred to another with the Governor himselfa candidate. But what has become of this at-tempt to find an opposition candidate of thistype? The primaries are being held and theconvention Is coming on, and no one is In sight.

The only names in the field against the Gov-ernor suggest no such qualities as those theopposition stipulated to furnish in a candidatestronger than the Governor. Who will say

that one of the men now being favored by thej Governor's opponents has any of the strength| of Governor Hughes, which was once regarded

!as Indispensable in his successor?^ The at-

I tempt to get rid of the weaknesses of Gov-!ernor Hughes promises to end Inglorlously in

\u25a0 the production of a candidate who would| merely get rid of his strength. Instead of of-

fering a candidate who has strength withoutj weakness, the opposition appears to be reducedIto suggesting some who have weakness with-out strength.

It was inevitable that this should be so. Nojmore chimerical thing was ever planned than|to repudiate the Governor personally and yet

isweep the Ftate upon the strength of his rec-

j ord In office. Yet that was exactly what itIwas hoped to do by those who thought that the'Republican party could retain for itself all of

Ithe force of public sentiment that was behind

iMr. Hughes through naming some strong, highIclass candidate, some near-Hughes, in his place.

IBut to refuse to renominate the Governor was

Inevitably to surrender all the advantage tojthe party that lay in his widely approved ad-jministration. It was to put the party upon[ the defensive throughout the campaign, to keep

Iit constantly explaining why it hud rejected

Ione of the best Governors the state has ever

!had. whose services to the people were by noimeans complete, and to rouse among righteous'citizens an intense determination to punish the

! party for the lapse. It would have bad thiseffect even if the hopes of the opposition had

been realized and they had been able to Inducea really commanding person to lend himself

jto their purposes. With the kind of men the'\u25a0 opposition Is now able to present all of these'results would be greatly Intensified. Such can-Ididates might get the votes the Governor Is| reputed to have alienated, but it is bard to

jsee where they would get. many others.j The opposition to Governor Hughes is bank

!rupt in a most important respect— in its failure1 to produce a candidate who could be thought

!of for a moment as a serious rival to the Gov-

ernor. Yet it needs must have such a candidate\u25a0 or it will find, itself ridiculous when the con-vention assembles. It cannot without being

ilaughed at enter that body and resist the Gov-

ierror's nomination on the ground of weakness

land then offer in his place a candidate whose! weakness is the only obvious thing about him.

!It has failed and it should abandon its efforts,

jItis time to stop for the good of the party.

So long as the leaders maintained that they

were waiting to bear from the people and

that another candidate might be found withj all of the Governor's strength and none of hisweakness they occupied a technically respect-'able and correct position. But the people have

.spoken In no Uncertain way. not only in this

!state but all over the country. And the oppo-isition has egregiouslj demonstrated its in-[ ability to and a stronger man than the Gov-;ernor, or even one within njmy thousands ofIrotes as strong as he. It is time for this Im-

\u25a0 politic and discredited movement to stop.

Sir: As casting a much needed pidelight upon th*failure of many of the current Assembly district

conventions, properly to represent the real Repub-

lican and Independent sentiment of their respectiveconstituencies, permit me to relate in briefest de-tail the inside story of th« Ist Assembly District

convention of Suffolk County, held at Riverheadon Thursday. August CO. regretting only that th«

statement must of necessity be so largely per-

ponal. The salient facts are as follows:

Th« Assembly district primaries are all held In

accordance with the rules of our Suffolk County

Republican organization, upon the same day and at

the same hour, and In this case were held on Sat-

urday evening, August 15. Some- days previous

thereto Ihad announced myself In my own elec-

tion district as a candidate for the Assembly dis-

trict convention on a Hughes platform, but learnedonly on the morning of th* primary day that strict

order* had been Issued from the organization head-quarters that Imust be defeated at all hazards.

This challenge was at once accepted, and In th*

primary contest of the evening Iwas elected a

dolesate to the Assembly district convention by a

vote of 35 to r. and a resolution endorsing Gov-ernor Hughes for renomlnatlon offered by me was

passed unanimously.Though Suffolk County is undoubtedly one of the

most pronounced Hughes counties of the state the

organization, had It beer- left to Itself, would in

mv judgment, have failed :o pass any resolut onwhatever My opinion is founded on the fact that

the state committeeman. who attended the con-

vention, expressed himself to me as very strongly

opposed to resolutions, and that those prepared by

m were the only ones drawn up before the as-

sembling of the delegates. In other words man

of the strict organization nen throughout the state

are not only unable to lead, but have shojm them

Pelves utterly Incapable of even inte"iK«£>lowing public opinion. SAMUEL U PAWUSH.

Southampton. Long Island. Aug. -\u0084 1»».

DRUGGIST REPLIES TO MR. BIGELOW.To th« Editor of The Tribune.

Sir- In response to fh. comments of Clarence

O Blselew, Which appeared in your issue of the

\u0084,, inst.. relative to the Hoard Of Pharmacy. I

would like to say that Iam very much surprised

lit any intelligent man would advance suchargumeS There is no doubt that the Board;:",'harm :,y ha, done a lot of good and perhaps

their virtues exceed their shortcomings but. If

so. It is In spite of and not on account of the

"^r"^ states that a druggist who does

not join one of the different pharmaceutical so-

cieties Is not Bufllciently interested In his profes-

sion to entitle him to a vote, lie might Just as

well state that no man should have a vote Inany

political election unless be is an enrolled mem-

ber of one of the regular political parties. As \u25a0

m-Uter of fact, under the present system bo elec-tl n,, |a necessary and Is held s>n.,.ly as * .natter

of form Ml that Is required is to ascertain the

membership of the different societies, a little

wort In arithmetic, and the result is knows la'"

As'regards the system of inspection, it Is an

Ideal one. provided every o«edo 'leave hm.i eosa-

petent It I.q«lte true the, do Wave a sampH

of the preparation taken, but what good does that

do if U.e board analysis staid,. Mr. Billowneglected to state that the portion left with the

druggist cannot be altered without detection.

While that taken away by the inspector can be

The sample left and the .sample taken are both

sealed In the store with wax. on which the In-

spector places the Board of Pharmacy seal If

the druggist attempts to change th« contents he

necessarily destroys the seal. if the inspector

does the same thing, he is able to replace the seal

without any one being the wiser.

In my own case Iproved to the satisfaction of

the judge that the sample left v,lth me had no;

been tampered with, and that the contents werenearly double the strength reported by the Nvtrd.Incidentally I might mention that the chemistemployed by the board and the one employed bymyself wore personal friends and both strangers

to me, nnd also that before Itook any steps In

the matter Ipersonally telephoned to the secre-tary of the beard and told him exactly what I

was going to do, and offered to let him have the

analysts watched from beginning to end. a con-

cession which be failed to take advantage of.The present system reminds me of the time

when email were paid so much for every ar-rest they made and the case decided on the police-

man's evidence. M.K.WEIGHTMAN,

Maw Xuik,Aug. 2«. 1101.;

Samuel I.Parrish Says Organization MenAre Unable to Follow Public Opinion.

To the Editor "f The Tribune.

HUGHES IN SUFFOLK COUNTY.

NOT DIFFICULT FOR THE IBswl

From The St. Louis OSttf Democrat.

PERHAPS FA^SETT «• MISINFORMED.From The Bttnghamton Republican.

ment In Ma section was not in favor of Hughes.

THE INFLEXIBLE GOVERNOR.From The Rochester Post-Express.

Others may consider expediency and io™*££diplomatic line of least resistance but <*£?"£..Hughes is as uncompromising a* cato,

wM*«\u25a0flexible virtue may not be a >iuaUt> ;"B^» crtconjure frum popular V o™^o^*^^ heavilyit will command respect but I »el^R- -'jflwith people when they think b> tJiemae »«9

home Here is a man who wil^notemail Interest to placate a great one He«cj

face dead against thai kin.l of ?of trSbuys oft the enemy by making a sacrifice or irum.

PRIMARY RESULTS.From The Syracuse Herald i_t»r-

Yesterday's HlHlllHmay be largely; m:SW

preted on their face by those not wholly »™^,with the situation. The supporters «>'

l=,J&t

.11.1 not turn out in larg^ numbers. '^SSajTrfit was not the time nor the pla« tat a a^'^their strength. Thar will come la *r Tne^ re

of the primaries is not In any >«"?*,*£%£?**»the Hughe* sentiment, for mam «:

—-3 men

did attend voted the organization Uch.ei-

REN'OMINATION AND REFORM.From The Springfield Union.

inquiry in the Western «ate S has fevelopM5fact that the turning down of lixi^ajtoluuthousands of votes to Tuft. The people _m the «are radical They want ««%^.fiffinine reformers as candidates Thej.are^su v

lboof the Republicans at the t^t "P^ot cawe.New York Republicans, nt

**.V evidenc»

The failure to pomiMte Hßg""^.^that the party stan.la '»r

.r,.r,w?V *eiulne artic!*

but it is in reality opposed to the .stnu.ne th«The renomlnatu.n of Hush*'- wd> >ru;n <

...j^Kepublican ra«» in New Twte State &s rnorIn favor of the reforms for wlutft uus w

has fought.

WOULD BE HAZARDOUSFrom The Ontario County Times.

While It is an open secret that many a«£?«*>publican party leaders of the *%*£?%*o*o*dom of renominatins Governor llVs iJL^rithT**'for reasons political and P*™01

"1,*J_wft \A.tt

pleasure the prospect of a <*<***.t*'?mi ***seems now to be the consensus "i°£mor\7vr>should be and must be the nominee. ijuglieU tfTimes" has heretofore pointed out Mr.

"|v0Xita

peculiarly strong with the peop Je.^if not aiforf"with the politicians, and latter must Scurin*accept his candidacy and do

*n aP^J«, **\u25a0 l&3his election, or Invite defeat

nanf.re.MKe

vte^ °'-polls. The national leaders now taice_ talEi2g

the situation, it is stated, andM^!flgm^:_

from Interference In state affairs let" «

gak9 cf.(stood that they deem It Important for^ ereOr kthe party's Presidential ticket *m wHughes be renomlnated. «_«.- in Governor a

The truth la that the People Jf^it W » IHughes He stands for reform^ tw -^* a \u25a0

them Hl* unimpeachable . nttgnj. . £, \standard of on:, lal service «» "^,'±v

or rewardexecutive power to punish «£fm.e-> ur

tßsa tisfriends, weigh for more in th'lr

h.\le^i.ged &<*='sPossible lack of political tact or his^a^SWj 113of consideration for party leaders. Pf°PP *rverportant as these things may be -low»

:liaa ca* \u0084.--

ernur Hughes will command. as no flOcr g &m,^the entire independent vote up. »"™ m tkl~.

later days depends the result of l'e<-""

ad of » VEmpire State, and his retirement at

not, |y successful and acceptable nr^^ict oa-'<i Mslin public esUmatton deserves a fro*??extremely hazardous^ m the > •'\u25a0•

>£$agn***

president Roosevelt down. ae«m now to **»

THE HUGHES CAIHJIDACT.

Senator Dolliver and Colonel Davidson Pria-cipal Speakers in Anniversary Observance.

Fteeport. I!!.. Aug. 27.—1n the presses of =?ar!rfifteen thousand persons here to-day the memora-ble Joint discussion of fifty years ago. !n which

Abraham *\u25a0*—!\u25a0 forced Stephen A. Douglas, his

Democratic opponent for the Senatorship. to say

the words that cost Douglas the Presidency two

years later, was re-enacted. Speakers of national

fame repeated the words of the respective party

leaders of IS&S. The. spot was the s-ame. bat th»

scene had changed, and paved streets and dwell-

ings replaced the grove that shelter** the andl-

ence In ISES.Senator Jonathan P. DolUver. of lowa, »as the

first speaker to-day, having for his subje-t the••Emancipator's" part la the campaign of«

Colonel VT. T. Davidson followed with an address

on the "Little Giant." Others who spoke were

Congressman Frank O. Lewder, and General Sstf*I). Atkins.

EE-ENACT LIXCOLN-IOITGLAS DEBATL

BRITISH GIFT FOR THE PRESIDENT.

From The Birmingham Post.A movement has been started. Ihear, among

pome of our leading sportsmen to present MrRoosevelt with some souvenir of his proposedsnooting trio, after be leaves the White Bouu, atWashington, next spring, to British East Africa.It is suggested that a sporting gun of Britishmanufacture would be an RPP 1°Pria,te,. <>}>&*,to

offer to th« retiring President of the United fatutes,

and it seems very likely that the gift ultimatelywill take this form, and that the gun will reach Mr.Roosevelt before he lands at Mombasa, so that ho

can use it during his stay in tha 03rltish I'rotec-tomts- . >

"Whai Is your husband's Income?""Twice a <in> 8 P >" :>nd !a. m.

—Puck

The injuries, disease and peculiarities of thepeople uh<> lived in the Valley at th»" Nile fromprehistoric until early Christian tim<-s. a period <>fover Bye thousand years, ar.> shown in a path-

ological collection on vie* at the Royal College ofSurgeons In London. The collection, says "ThePail Mail Gazette." was obtained during the ex-ploration <>f fifty-seven cemeteries In thr area of

the Nile Valley lying Immediately south of the

Pillars <if Konosso, which murk the frontierof Ancient Egypt The survey was 'Nirrl.-.i out

un.h.r the direction of Captain 11. G. Lyons,

of the Kgyptlan government. In one grave werefound the abdominal organs of a woman sowell preserved that it was posulble to say thnt

Khe suffered from appendicitis- which Is consid-

ered to be the earliest evidence of this disease.

Typical lesions of gout were found In an early

Christian subject. A pair of *!>lliu.s. with ban-dages, were found on the forearms of a young

woman's body, both the forearms having been

broken Just above the wrists, Tho sprats are al-

most Identical with those used at the present day.

Hi—'s--I never want to see him again.Dlggs That'a easily ik>rif>. Keiul him a fiver.

—Illustrated Kit".

"Do you believe in ntKTIJi?"•Well, Imust confess that wlwn Isee a man

wearing one proclaiming that ho Is deaf and dumbIgel a little shaky."

—Philadelphia ledger.

A New York merchant who spends his Bummers

with his family in a New Jersey town wrote to afriend: "I read of the, Optimistic League whichhas been formed at Montclalr. I. too. believe, thatthe 'best way to hasten the good times which arepurely her« Is to tak.- an optimistic view of things,'

and before leaving home on«. morning told my wifeIwould Join your band. That day 1 missed mytrain, got to my oftlce. Into ami found that Ihad

left my desk key home and bad to send out to haveth«) tiling opened. Iwas m.id clean through. WhenI ipened my mall I found that three customers

whom we had considered good had gone over to

the "lame duck' class, and I no sooner got overthis setback than Iwas called up on the telephoneby my landlord, who told me that the house Ilivedin had been sold and that we must move. Ihadno appetite for luncheon. That day a pieco of the

office ceiling :>-!l and s-truck so close to me that 1

was scared nearly to death, and when Ireachedhonu- that night, as cheerful as one could b« underthe circumstances, l found four visitors who had

come for the week end I'm on the other side nowto socti an extent thai coming m this morning I

hold four aces and was afraid to make it notrump."

An interesting piece of antique Scottish tapestry

is on exhibition In Edinburgh. It hung In an oldhouse In Jedburgb, known locally as "QueenMary's House" a nnme which It owed to Mary

Queftn of Scots having: lived in it for aorne. time In

1556. The tapestry, which Is believed to have be-

longed to Quenn Mary, represents the, meeting ofJacob and Ksau. On tlifl rl§ht Is Rachel, with achild In her arm*, and bestd* her is I^oah; but

peculiar Interest attaches to the tapestry, owing toRachel's features being those of the unhappy Queenof Boots, while lAihs are. thos« of Quetn Elizabethof Kngland. although distorted in such a way nsto be almost repulsive. For many years th« num-ber of visitors to "Queen Mary's House" in .leiburgh waa considerable, and they managed to doa good deal of damage to the tapestry. Smallpieces were from time to tlm» snipped off by relichunters, until the lower border has now nearly dis-appeared.

A few minutes before the closing tim« on Satur-day a man went Into th* offlc« of a larse corpora-tion in the Wall BU«et district ami asketl a young

clrrk for information on a subject which he thought

was obtainable there He was toM that the infor-mation could only be oMalno.i through corre-nponil«nr«'. and When the man app»"iil*<l to a higherauthority In th* snme offlo* the yonn« man Inter-

rupted the conversation with a view to tnflUMlctnahis associate*. The man turned away, went to th*highest ofilclal In th* building, within live minutes

ne<-ur-.-d what ho had come, for, and r*«-e!ved fromthe official a* \u25a0 souvenir of his visit a paper weight

with the re'j'ie!>t to remember when he saw It onhis desk "that corporations art- not responsible, for

th* stupidity of their employes." Before his de-j>artnre from the building the story of the paper

wflcht was told where it would do th« most good.

"Ofllcer." said the magistrate, "what Is thecharge against the prisoner?"

"Having an Infernal machine in hi* possession,your honor

"replied th" policeman.

"Anarchist or chauffeur?" queried th* magistrate..—Philadelphia Inquirer.

THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The agropable announcement Is made that

Sefior J. A. Arango is to \>» Minister for Foreign

Affairs In the new Panama government. SeflorArango was one of the foremost organizers ofI'anaman Independence, and has from the first

been one of the wisest counsellors of the young

republic. His servlco as Minister at Washing-

ton has made him well and most favorably

known In this country, and his accession to theoffice named will give assurance that the rela-tions of Panama with the United States and all

the world willbe maintained on a dignified andfriendly plane.

Tha fleet Is off for Melbourne, and willdoubt-lpc3 g(»t a great reception there. Melbourne andSydney have long been rivals, and the Victoriancapital will exert itself to surpass that of New

South Wales Inhospitality and pageantry. Butthe sincerity of the. welcome will be as deep asthough each place were quite alone and withoutany competitor.

Mr. Coler is another martyr of coin.-iuences.But no one can believe Ms love of high art couldmake him forget "the dear peepuL"

A Venezuelan court Imposes a fine of $5,000,-

<>Oo upon the French Cable. Company. Mr. Cas-

tro'B Jurists are evidently versed In the higher

mathematics, and lova to deal with large num-

bers.

William F. Vilas. who died yesterday, was a

Democrat of the strict Jefferponian school. As

a memher of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet and as

United States Senator from Wisconsin he

fought valiantly for what he considered true

Democratic ideas, and he naver yielded to the

tenets of Populism. He would have had great

difficulty in identifying anything in the Demo-

cratic party's present attitude and policies as a

survival from the teachings of Jefferson, Jack-son, Tllden or Cleveland.

Mr Bryan says he ia the "natural heir" of

Roosevelt, and "The Ne v York World" supports

him as the opponent of Rooseveltism. The proc-

ess of getting together between these two great

authorities upon Bryanism is by no means yet

complete.

cerns which had Incurred the 111 will of the

unions must go out of business.The High Court has now decided by a vote

of 3 to 2 that the law is unconstitutional. It

holds that, notwithstanding its professed intent,

the r»al purport of the law Is not to levy a tax

or to raise revenue, but to regulate wages and

the internal trade of the states, and that there-

fore it is an unconstitutional infringement upon

the rights of the states. PoliticaJly the decisionis, of course, a defeat for the labor party, and-will doubtless drive It to other means for the

attainment of its ends, and perhaps cause a ma-terial realignment of parties. legally it marksthe beginning of a comprehensive system of

constitutional law, or legal interpretations,

which -will give much needed definition of the

powers of the federal as distinguished from

those of the state governments.

! THE SOUTUERX FLOODS.Although the first estimates of the damage

j wrought by ii;.>;>ds are often exaggerated, it can!hardly '\u25a0\u25a0«• doubted thai in h me parts of the! .South' the recent visitation was practically with-

!out si precedent The worst effects seem to!have been experienced in Georgia and South, Carolina, where the streams suddenly rose to

su«*li a height as to ruin the cotton crop in theirneighborhood \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'' to interrupt railway traffic,while the bursting of a dam near Augusta Inun-dated a part of that city to the depth of fromsix to twelve feet. Augusta's plight was ren-dered doubly trying because during the prev-alence of the deluge she also suffered from a

destructive fire. . •The area in which extraordinary precipita-

tion occurred extended northeastward to NewYork and New England. In this city the rain-fall for two days amounted to :s..'{<» inches, ornearly the proper quota for a single month.Though the metropolis escaped In what, on the

vyhole, must be regarded as a fortunate man-ner, the rupture of Water mains and sewers on

Tuesday and Wednesday and the collapse of\u0084..< \u25a0'\u25a0),>; :-:-::<\u25a0:-.• told bow auusual was the siorm.

rieods In th.- north and along the Ohio andinssisslppi rivers result almost invariably fromthe spring thaw. Bains may accompany therise iv temperature, but the abrupt melting ofsnow. some of which lias covered the hills fcrweeks, contributes most largely to the volumeof water to be disposed of. As a rule, the workgoods in the South are due to storms of tropia !origin, which enter the Gulf of Mexico or work

their way up the Atlantic. Sometimes theybank the water up to an abnormal level at Gal-vestou, Utm Orleans or Mobile. Charleston and

QUEER DEMOCRACY-In his treatment of the question of guar-

anteeing bank deposits Mr. Bryan exhibits thesame looseness of ideas and inconsistencies ofmethod that have marked his attempts to deal\u25a0with the transportation and trust problems. Hetries to throw dust in the eyes of Democratswho still believe in Jefferson's precepts bydeclaring that he will take no step which willabridge th** rights of the states or extend thepowers of the nation. BEe assorts iliat be is anindividualist of the Jeffersonian type and thatthe Democratic party under his leadership isessentially "the defender of competition and**ihe only great party which is seeking to re-"store competition." But his hope for "restor-nag competition"' among the railroads is to na-tionalize them and then let the federal govern:ineni operaie them. His plan for "restoringcompetition'" in production is to make th fed-era] government the regulator of all productionand the equalizer of the rates at which prod-nets are to be sold in every city, village andhasalel la the United States. Me is. of course,as lunch opposed as Jefferson or Jackson toled/rml appropriation of The function of bank-ing. Yet his plan for EiMiaiUifinjt bank de-j.rwjtsby raising a forced insurance fund wouldpractically wipe out state :;'.i private banksand commit the government to complete super-vision and control of the banking ;business.

So long as Mr. IJryan thinks lie can score apoint politically he Is utterly indifferent to theinconsistencies of his logic If he really be-lieved, as he says he does, that the Demo-cratic parry Is Individualistic and is trying torestore free competition, he would never advo-cate a scheme of communism like the com-pulsory collection from all national banks ofa guarantee fund to make good the losses dueto ,1 particular bank's dishonest] •;\u25a0 bad man-ag • nt. There are serious objections to sucha policy, as Mr. Taft has pointed out, asidefrom Up hihii iiHi tendency. The <\u25a0<\u25a0:\u25a0-

tainty tli::t a !urg- share of die losses .hie topeculation or wjrtJnss investment would haveUfbe bone by innocent associates would natu-rally encourage uuv.yrthy bank officials to takecli:tuc-es with tee beads of depositors. A pre-mium would be pot on Improvident and '•wild-<a.t" management and the sound and <arefulInstitutions would have* to pay the piper forthe folly of the frailer contributors to the guar-

antee blind pool. As Mr. Tafl pertinently .saidt>a V. \u2666 iiieo'iiiy:

\u0084 Kb« fundamental objection to th« proposed

AUSTRALIA'S WAGE AW.

The Australian Commonwealth, which ourlleet is now visiting, has long been known asa laud of political, social and industrial ex-periments, being second In thai respect to onlyNew Zealand. One of Its most noteworthy ex-periments •in industrial and social legislationhas been made this year, and has just ended in

failure. That undertaking, which in briefaimed at embodying trade union rules in thefundamental law of the land, was discussed atlength in these columns when it was first es-sayed, and the adverse decision of the HighCourt— a decision which is regarded In Austra-lia as the most important ever made In thatcountry, and as equally Significant from legal,political and industrial points of view -isworthy of attention In the United Stales.

Some time ago the labor unions, rinding them-selves Incontrol of the balance of power in thecommonwealth Parliament, determined to useit for the practical outlawing of all non-unionlabor, at least in manufacturing establish-ments. Their attempt was made in connectionwith the manufacture of harvesters and otheragricultural implements, an important industry,

which has grown up under a protective tariff.An act was passed at their dictation Imposingupon the output of such factories an Internalrevenue tax so heavy us to deprive them ofthe benefits of protection and to be, in factpractically prohibitive, but with a proviso forIts entire remission in favor of all concernswhich paid the union scale of wages

—wages

which were "declared by resolution of bothhouses to be fair and reasonable"; aid. ofcourse, as they controlled the vote of ems of thehouses, the labor unions could remit or impose

the tax upon whatever establishments theypleased. The law simply meant that all cou-

The reception of this message of the Gov-ernors bj the people of the state, and their re-sponse to It, cannot be In doubt. The peopleelected him Governor for Just such work as thiswhenever it might lie necessary, and we believethey will loyally support him in the Inexorable

execution of their will. Whether they will wantthe present excise law retained or modified orrepealed i* another matter, not of present con-cern. The point upon which the Governor in-sists, and upon which tin- people should sustainhim. is that bo long ns the law remains upon thestatute book it must be enforced, <t frt least anhonest and decent effort to enforce It must l>e

made. That is imperative, unless law is tobecome a farce and government a mockery, acatastrophe which is, we think, not likely tobefall the State <(f New Jersey.

GOVERNOR FORT MBANB BUBINBBB.There can be no mistaking the purport of the

extraordinary proclamation which was Issuedyesterday by the Governor of New Jersey. It

means that that conscientious and resoluteChief Executive intends to fulfil to the utmostextent of his abil'-ty the pledges which hemade during his electoral campaign, on thestrength of which and because of which hewhs elected Governor, which after election he

repeated and confirmed in his inaugural ad-dress

—namely, that he would enforce the laws

of the state in1part!.-illyIn all parts of the state,

without fear or favor. It means, moreover,

that he purposes to regard the excise law as

equal to all other laws In validity, and to com-pel, so far as In him lies. Its enforcement, just

the same as the other laws of the state. We

have hitherto explained the peculiar limitationsof power <>f the Governor of New Jersey, in

that he cannot remove unfaithful or incompetent

officials In counties or municipalities, as theGovernor of New York can do. That circum-stance accounts for some of the condition?* whichn«>w exist In various parts of that state. We

also expressed confidence the other day thatlie had not yet reached the end of his re-

Boorces, and that confidence is amply vindicatedin this morning's news.

The specific case In hand is that of AtlanticCity. In that place the excise law is violatedwith an openness and a flagrancy for which Itw..uld be difficult to find a parallel On the

simple -round thai it Is profitable, in dollarsand cents, to break the law, the local authori-ties—executive, legislative and Judicial have

entered Into a compact to defy the law. TSiepolice and Sheriff will not arrest offenders.

\u25a0nd the courts announce In advance that no

convictions can be secured In them. Recently

tne Governor ordered a Kpodnl grand Jury to

act in the matter of excise violations, aud a

faithful judge urged that body lo do Its duty.

But the grand Jury was largely made up of thevery lawbreakers against whom It wns ex-

pet-ted to proceed. The result w.is tlmt indict-mente were not found, although both Judge andprosecutor declared that there was adequate

ground for them, and the grand Jury took \u25a0recess, and the next Sunday its member* re-

newed their defiant violation of the law.

Such a condition of affairs is, of course, intol-erable iii a civilized ptate. To tCQtnesce init would be to admit thnt the state bad POpower tr. make its laws respected, and that any

community or, indeed, any combination <>f In-terested persons might Ignore and defy Its au-

thority with Impunity. Governor Fort has beenpatient and cautions in procedure, preferring toaccomplish the necessary end through the ord!nary operations of law, Just as he did years ago

in suppressing gambling In other parts of the.state, and Imping that ihe local authorities* ofAtlantic rjty arid Atlantic County would cometo their senses and do their duty. Hlf corre-

spofidence with some of thoHo authorities fully

reveals his admirable and Judicious oourse. Butextraordinary evils call for extraordinary rem-edies. Since the local authorities will not dotbeir duty, but contumaciously flout the author-ity of the state and Reek to nullify its laws. It

becomes necensnry for the higher authority ofIbe state, both executive and legislative, to be

exercised.

CLEARING UP.A United States district judge has justdecided

what wntekey is and ruled that imitation whis-key must be labelled and sold as only a poor

relative of the aboriginal article. This ruling:may have to the uninitiated a rattier axiomatic<lavor. yet it has been strenuously maintainedbefore the courts that no one could ever author-itatively answer that age-old conundrum, "Whatis whiskey?" Ifno court of appeals reversesJudge Thompson, of the Southern District ofOhio, a' perplexed public will at last be able to

Ret a line on when whiskey Is whiskey and

when it is only r. meretricious foster brother ofthe real Juice of the cornfield.

One by one great problems are solved. Some

day we may stumble on the answer to thatother desperate and d?9ant conundrum, "Whntis a Democrat?"

Itdoes not seem possible to identify the stormwhich has prevailed in the East Gulf and Atlan-tic states for the last few days as a tropical

disturbance. The Weather Bureau's maps show-that it was uot accompanied by any markedbarometric depression or winds of hurricane

violence. Ifit had come from the CaribbeanSpa its existence would have beon detected and

reported a week or more ago. Besides, therewas much more rain at Atlanta, Raleigh. Char-lotte and Lynchburg than at Savannah andCharleston. The fact indicates that the path

of the storm centre was over the land, not overthe sea, and a'so explains why so much harmwas done at a distance from the seaboard.

Savannah, too, have had costly experiences from

tidal waves. Tropi.al cyclones are almost In-variably accompanied by heavy precipitation,but they usually confine the mischief they malce

to the coast. Ifthey push inland their severity

abates.

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Iplan to guarantee deposits in national banks i|that it puts a premium on reckless banking and

;is an inducement to reckless banking. RelievedI of the responsibility to and the fear of the de-i positors, the tendency would be to induce cx-i ploitation, manipulation and the use of assets

lof banks in a speculative way. It would pro-lmote speculation at the expense of fellow bank-! ers and that ultimately means at the expense

of the depositors. Any proposition1 as to trie\u25a0 amount of the tax that should -J>e assessed, as;based on the present rate of loss, is an errone-1 ous basis, as the danger of loss of deposits is

i increased vastly by the proposed system, so that• the percentage of the tax would have to be

\u25a0 vastly increased.! Considered as a help to sounder banking,

! forced Insurance of this sort would be of doubt-

i ful value. Yet the creation of such a blindipool under federal compulsion is lightly advo-!cated by a candidate aud a party posing as

!anti-socialistic and antl-federalistic." Mr. Bryan'In one breath swears allegiance to Jefferson

!and Jackson and pledges the Democratic party

to restore individual initiative and free com-petition. With the next breath he demandthat the banks shall all be forced by the gov-

ernment to guarantee one another's Integrity,

the sounder and better being taxed Inpropor-

tion to their excellence to make good the blun-ders and defalcations of tnfirmer colleagues.

This is. of coarse, a travesty on .Teffcrsonian'theory. But Mr. Bryan seems to think that In

. discussing any question he can use the sheep's

jclothing of Jeffersonlan pretences to cover theerode socialism of his beliefs and proposals.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 190S.

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secretary and treasurer. The address of theofficers is the office of this newspaper.

the XEWS THIS JfOR.V73TO.

BAR HARBOR SOCIAL NOTES.[ByTeleiraph to TieTrtbun*.]

Bar Harbor. Me.. Aug. 27.—A large gallery wit*nessed the flnals of the men's doubles at the Swlm-mlng Club to-day. Kawasaki and Dixon, of theUniversity of Pennsylvania, defeated Potter andGregg. gl-4, $—3, 6—:. To-morrow tho rhsHnasamatch will be played between to-day's winners and

last year's champions. Rhodes and Bodman.Several dinners and luncheons were given yes-

terday and to-day, the Malvern and SwlmmtafClub being the favorite places. Among the enter-

tainers were Mrs. Sanford Bl3selL the MissesMarie and Alice Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald De

Koven. Mrs. Hunter Brown, Mrs. Munro and Mr.

and Mrs. John Harrison.

___ IN THE BERKSHIRES.[By Telegraph to The Tribune. J

ljcnox. Aug. SL—Mr-. Charles Astor Erfstiil'ij bridge party this afternoon at Lakeside wuithe largest of the summer. The prizes were award-j <•\u25a0.] to Mrs. Oscar Tasini. Miss Anna King, Mrs.I Aleyno Haynes, Mrs. Harry Livingston Lee, Mrs.

Robert S. Dana. Ml.=s Helolse Meyer, Mrs. RobertVarnum and Mrs. Frank K. Sturgis.

Mrs. Thomas Shields Clarke was hostess atluncheon to-day at Fernbrook. Mr.and Mrs. GeorgeBaty Blake entertained at dinner to-night for Mr.and Mrs. John Bolt, of Boston.

Miss Dorothy Bryant, daughter of Mrs. George

C. Bryant. Jr.. won the kite flying contest at theHotel Asplnwall to-day. Charles Randolph, son of'Mrs. Edmund Randolph, was second.

i Miss Nora laslgi and James E. Drumm won theImixed tennis doubles In the Stockbrfdge Casino|tournament.

SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT[ByTelegraph to Th» Tribune.J

Newport. Aug. 27.—The diamond fly v^,jcj,lost by Mrs. John Borland, of New York \u25a0

"**occasion of the ball given by Mrs. Edward J p^*wind last Saturday nl^ht. has been recovered! tT"valuable ornament was found In the grass be mone of the paths leading to the Berwind vllia/^^

Besides being a dull day on account of tiweather. It was also a dull day in entertaining tatday. Commodore Gerry had a small luncheon ir^,on board the Elect-a and Robert Sedgwlck eattalned with a stag luncheon at the ClaznbaClub. The largest social affair to-night was aa,

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ncr given by Peter F. Collier In honor of Xta.Norman Hapgood. who la his guest.

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Other dinners were given this evening by Lis-«aard Stewart. Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock and j£-iBayard Thayer.

Miss Alice Grosvenor, who is to be married oaMonday, is to give a bridesmaid's luncheon -,-\u25a0.'on Saturday at Roslyn.

Many of the Newport summer visitors ar» pt^.nlns to attend the complimentary danca to b«given at the naval training station Saturday •••—.noon In honor of the officers of the German cruiserFreya.

Miss Marie De Barril will leave Newport to-mo*.row for New York. Sha willsail on September Ifor Spain, remaining there for a month and thenreturning directly to this country.

The gathering: at the Casino this morning was asmall one on account of the weather. Those hosigned the register were Alfred Codman, ThomasHitchcock. Jr.. R. A. Curtiss. H. D. Scott andFrank S. Chick.

Mrs. F. C. Bishop, of New York, is the guest atthe Rev. end Mrs. Roderick Terry at Linden Gate.

The Rev. PhilipM. Rhinelander. of Middletown.Conn.. la the guest of Ha Bister, Mrs. Leroy King.Mrs. Herman Leroy Edgar, who has been theguest of Mrs. William Edgar, has returned to N'eirYork.

Mrs. Paul Dahlgren and Miss Romola Dihlgreaare guests of Mr and Mrs. E. D. M v ?an. Mr. andMrs. George Post are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hata-ilton Fish Webster.*'

About People and Social Incident*

Announcement baa been made of the engagement

of Miss Elizabeth Stevenson, daughter of the lateMr. and Mr?. David Stevenson, of this city, to

James Russell Harris, of Philadelphia, a son of the

lnte Jam<*s Harris, of Bellefonte. Perm. The wed-ding will take place In October at Miss Stevenson'scountry place at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson.

Mr. and Mrs. Perry Ft Pyne have returned to

Bernardsville, N. J. from their yachting trip.

Mrs. Morris K. J"?iip, who has been abroad forpevoral months, has nailed from Europe and !s due

here next wc»k.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, who spent thegreater part of the summer at Iroquois Farm, their

plnre near Cooperstown. N. V., expect to return to

Hempstead. Ix>ng Island, within the next fewdays.

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