THE SCRAKTON TEIBUNE SATTJRDAT MOBNTNQ, MAT 25f 1895. Believes in Free, Coinage of Silver, Ex-Judge HcConnell Position on the Currency Question. Tx-3uCkge S. P. McDonnell, president at the Iroauola club, of Chicago, recent ly electrified many of hie associates In that body by appearing as an advocate of the free coinage of silver. Below Is his statement of the reason whlcn caused his conversion: . Why Ho Is Blmetolllst. "I am convinced that there Is too little gold In the world to make It a stable and satisfactory currency. There Is a neces sary connection between business prosper ity and the volume of primary money. ' Gold alone does not furnish the necessary volume. Since the great nations demone tised silver gold has been constantly ap preciating In value. (Grlffln, a monomet allism but a great statistician, readily and thoroughly concedes this to be a fact.) This has shown Itself by depreciation in values of commodities, while gold has ap parently remained at the same value. This Is a mere appearance, however, That It should rise enormously in value was a necessary consequence of the disuse of silver by so many nations, the demand for gold being twice as great, and, per haps, in consideration of the extension of commerce, three times as great. The rise In the value of gold, or decline In value of commodities, Is well shown by the Sauer beck Index tables. He took forty-five of the principal commodities, and his tableB show a decline In the average price, from 1874 to 1883, inclusive, from 102 to 68. Silver In the same period, having been demone tised, declined from D5.8 to 65.4. In some respects this falling In the price of pro ducts Is less serious than the Increased burden of Indebtedness. A debt must be paid In the number of dollars promised, and, therefore. If the value of the dollar Increases and the debt remains the same, It can be easily seen how the debtor Is burdened In the end. On long time obli gations, long mortgages or long leases, confiscation is almost sure to result. Mu nicipalities, or rather the taxpayers of municipalities; railroad companies, or rather their stockholders, where long time bonds have been Issued, must suffer under the present monometallio system severely. "While products decline In price, very strangely, other things do not. Taxes re main about the same, because salaries, being regulated by law, government costs as much, or rather demands Just as many dear dollars as It did dollars not so dear. And, again, there are many things which we pay for that seem to be little affected by the law of supply and demand. They are governed more by custom or combi nation than products are. Transportation, amusements, gas, professional services and matters of that kind belong to this class. His View of Labor's Interest. "Labor In its direct products suffers first and most. A very little observation will teach any one that labor and raw mate rial are much more sensitive to the mar ket than materials In their manufactured or subsequent forms. The laborer and the farmer are the first victims of falling prices the richest manufacturer and the largest landholder finally feel the pinch. In the end we all surfer, except the broker and the debt-holding capitalist or, to put the matter less politely, the money changer and the usurer. "Even without the exclusive use of gold s primary money. It has other advantages which have often been remarked upon. The volume of It being small, it is easily cornered. And because representing large value In small weight, it is easily hoarded. Panics are easily precipitated by such a condition through greed on one side and fear on the other. The hoarder helps the cornerer always. The great principal fact, however. In this money question Is that the demonetization of silver caused a great contraction of currency and conse quent depreciation In prices. It has and will breed many disasters they are only beginning. Sir Archibald Allison, In his history of Europe, ascribes the downfall of Rome and Roman civilization to a con traction of the circulating medium, due to the failure of the silver and gold mines of Greece and Spain and the revival of com merce and civilization to the Increased quantity of gold and silver consequent upon the discovery of America. Hume, the philosophic historian, remarks that: 'Falling prices and misery are Inseparable companions.' The present secretary of the treasury, now a monometalltst from force of circumstances, said, In a speech deliv ered while a member of the Forty-fifth congress: "The absolute and Instantaneous destruction of half the entire movable property of the world, including houses, ships, railroads and all other appliances for carying on commerce, while It would be felt more sensibly at the moment, would not produce anything like the pro longed distress and disorganization of society that must Inevitably result from the permanent annihilation of half the metalllo money of the world.' Bimetal lism largely, and perhaps entirely, would re! eve the country from the disasters promised under the present system. The fluctuation In the currency would not be so great Statistics show that gold has fluctuated In quantlty.tin a single century, from 1 to 10. In all the years prior to the demonetisation of silver, the fluctuation of gold and silver together was never more than 1 to 4. We cannot, of course, avoid fluctuation as gold and silver are com modities before they are money, and are therefore subject, to some extent, to the laws of trade. We can, however, by com bination of the two metals minimize the perils of fluctuation. This is largely avoided by the very value given to them as money. I do not mean in mere flat value I mean the value which Is given by the demand of government for them as money. Of course, a constant, unlimited demand would make absolute stability. Anyone, however, asserting that the metal or metals used as money must circulate at Just their Intrinsic value, has read tittle end thought less. Apart from the In trinsic value of coin metals, they also have a law value. And this law Is and always will be the principal factor to prevent fluctuation. Aristotle said: 'Money is a creation of law, not of nature.' The writer on money In the Encyclopaedia Brltannlca says: 'The theory of the in trinsic value of money has been aban doned by the best writers and speakers.' The Price of a Silver Dollor. "The monometalllsts, not taking this truth of financial science Into considera tion, are fond of calling attention to the fact that the present gold price of a silver dollar Is only 60 or 60 cents. They forget or conceal their knowledge that they are valuing a metal discredited by legis lation and robbed of Its best use, In anoth er metal made valuable by the great artificial demand made on it, as the sole primary currency of the great nations of the world. Restore to sliver the purpose for which the world thought it fitted for years, and which is and always will be Its best use. and then it will be fair to make the comparison but not now. It would not be fair to enact a law that wheat Should not be made Into flour, and then talk about the price of It as Indicating Its Intrinsic worthlessness. I have gone ex tensively into the reasons against oui present monometallio system, because It affords perhaps the very best argument for a return to the bimetallic system, which we abandoned In 1878. I am con scious of the fact that a very ready ac quiescence to the bimetallic system is secured from a majority of those who are opposed to an adoption of a ratio between the two metals of 16 to 1. They grant all the advantages of the bimetallic system, but they want the ratio to be established on the gold price of sliver, or they want to wait until the other nations across the ocean come to some agreement with us regarding the ratio. '1 think what I have already said an of Chicago Explains His swers to some extent the proposition that the ratio should be established at ins pres. ent gold price of silver. That would be a perpetuation of the Injustice already done through the demonetisation or stiver. The nroDosltlon Is made without any ref erence to the value which will be given to sliver by the new and Increased demand for It. As I have said before, gold has a value now apart from Its intrinsic vaiue, growing out of the demand for it as money. T, tins Kpcm el to me that the ratio be tween the two metals must be established with reference to the history or money, thA relative nimntltv of sliver and gold In the world, and In view of the wealth and strength of this nation Us population anu resources, and of other nations either now coining sliver or likely to follow our ex ample in doing so. "History shows that for fifty years after England had demonetized silver, anu aown to 1873, it passed current without discount the world over, at a ratio of 16H to 16 to 1. In some countries it was selling at a prem ium. The relative quantity of sliver to gold Is less now than at any period prior to 1873, and Is about 5 2-8 to 1. There Is a lurger demand for Ms use now In the me chanical arts than at any previous time In the history of the world. These con siderations load me to believe that we can safely open our mints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. "I am unable to foresee any calamities which would follow such action. It is easy to predict panics, and sometimes easy to precipitnte them by prediction. In the midst of an area of falling prices, In the very throes of a crisis brought on by the demonetization of silver, It Is rather absurd to predict another panic to ensue upon our getting rid of the cause of the present lamentable condition. And, again. It must be remembered that 95 per cent, of our commerce end business Is among ourselves. The S per cent, we transact with the outside world Is divided between silver nations and monometallic nations. Our relations with silver using countries would probably be made some what closer, and our commerce In that direction increased. I do not apprehend that our trade with monometallic coun tries would be sensibly diminished. Neither they nor others buy from us anything they do not need, and they only pay for what they get, the prices which the supply on tho one hand and the demand on the other fixes. The Monomotnlllsts' Theory. "The monometalllsts seem to think, at least they say, that if we adopt the policy of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 then by some kind of financial legerdemain the Europeans are going to be able to get our wheat and cotton for even less than they do now. I do not think sensible men are to be frightened by any such bugaboo. From 1861 to 1876 we had only a depreciated paper currency, and yet the Europeans were obliged to pay full and adequate prices for all they took from us. The monometalllsts also say that the European capitalists will buy silver In Europe for 70 cents per ounce and bring it over here and have It coined Into dollars and buy our products with It. "I think they reckon without due consid eration of the most Important factor In this problem. After a nation of 66.000,000 people, the greatest producing nation In the world, has remonetlzed silver, silver cannot be bought In any market for 70 cents per ounce. After remonetizatlon S714 grains of pure silver will pay a dollar of debt and buy a dollar of produce In America, and then 371 grains of silver will be worth a dollar In gold In London, Frankfort or Paris. "The monometalllsts also think or say that the Europeans will buy silver at 70 cents per ounce, and have It coined by us Into dollars, and then take our gold dolars away and leave our silver. They cannot get our gold much more rapidly than they have lately under the fatuous monometal lic policy of the present administration. Now they are able, about every ninety days, to take 1100,000.000 of gold out of our treasury at a profit of from 16 to 20 per cent. "A sufficient answer to the suggestion that all gold would leave us In case we coin silver dollars at a ratio of 16 to 1 to gold Is that our present system doesn't prevent our gold from going, therefore the sugges tion ought not to frighten us. The present trouble grows out of the opportunity which Is always offered under a gold mon ometallic system to bankers. They see the chance to make money out of the situation and they do It. "But I think there Is a still better answer to their threat of a gold famine consequent upon the coinage of silver, and I have al ready In part suggested It. There is not a surplus of coin metal in the world. There are no great stocks of silver on hand, ready to be rushed to the mints. Such silver as has been mined has been put Into use. The demand for It which will follow from free coinage, and the value which will be given to it by Its adoption as legal tender by the greatest producing and most resourceful nation of the world, will put sliver on a par In Europe, just as here. The probability, too, is that other nations will promptly fol low our example from necessity. They are already calling for International confer ences upon the subject. Francs Is strongly inclined to remonetize silver, and has al ready suggested it would open Us mints to sliver if we would. There Is In England a very decided and growing sentiment In favor of silver. The thinkers there are all with the movement; the debt-holders there. as here, are against It." ' Next Saturday we shall print an able argument of Professor j. Lawrence Laughlln, professor of political economy at the University of Chicago, made be fore the Waubansee club, In behalf of gold monometallism. WELSH JOTTINGS. A meeting was recently held at Cardiff to decide upon the best method of erecting a monument to the. memory of Lord Aber dare, when the following resolution was passed: "That this meeting Is of opin ion that the most appropriate me morial would be , a statue In bronze to be erected on the most suitable site that can be . obtained In the county borough of Cardiff, the seat of a University college, towards the formation of which he so powerfully contributes, and that the surplus of the fund should be de vo"d n the founilntion of a scholarship In the University of Wales, of which Lord jtuuiuani was ine first chancellor." Mr. Gladstone has written as follows to Lady Aberdare: ''Pear, Lady Aberdare: Myself In the last stage of life, I always feel It strange to be engaged In taking notice of the removal of others whose years were fewer than, my own, but I cannot avoid putting upon record In very brief words what I have ever felt about your husband. Among my political friends and colleagues I should find It difficult, after a largo and long experience, to name a better man or one for whoBe devotion to duty anr" singu lar unselfishness I shall ever retain the liveliest recollection ., Heartily wishing you the fullness of divine consolation, I remain, dear Lady Aberdare, sincerely yours, W. K. Gladstone. March 26, 1895." Professor John Rhys was entertained a few days ago at the Grand hotel, London, upon the occasion of his appointment as principal of Jesus' college, Oxford. Sir John Williams, .Bart, in speaking of the guest of the evening, said: What had Pro fessor Rhys done? He had devoted him self in' various ways to the service of his country. He had served on various com missions in connection with Wales the Sunday-closing commission, and now was serving on the Welsh Land commission. He had earned European fame as a Csltlo scholar by his works on Celtic mythology, Celtic antiquities, and Celtlo folk lore. Scholars sometimes become - fossilised. That was not the case with Professor Rhys. The more learned he berime the more interesting he became, and the more attached the people of Wales became to him. He now dwelt In the affections of the people of Wales, and his name was better known perhaps than that of any other Welshman. His popularity was due, no doubt In a great degree, to the warmth of his patriotism. He was a pillar of the Eisteddfod, and he (the chairman) was sure that that evening there were hun dreds of hearts In Wales beating in unison with those In that room, and congratulated Professor Rhys. Everywhere notices appear of promising Welsh talent in the musical world. Among Welslj, vocalists of today few there are with prospects of a brighter future than Miss Edith Parry, who, a few years ago, as a pupil of Dr. Joseph Parry, became a prominent figure In elsteddfodlo circles. Latterly she has assumed the part of lead ing vocalist In Urogden's Swiss choir, which has been touring Wales for some months. It Is worthy of notice that In a type fount of English and Welsh there are found the same number of the letter "E," viz., about 12,000, the letter "A" numbering about 10,000, while of the letter "8" an English fount would number 8,000, while tho Welsh would only have some too. One of the best songstresses which Wales ever produced says that In consequence of this predom inance of the silent sound It Is fur more difficult to sing on English than a Welsh ballad. DRAMATIC NOTES. New York is to have a winter circus. Boerbohm Tree will revive "Fedora." Seabrooke will give "The Mogul" next season. M. B. Curtis will do "Sam'l of Poscn" in London. Paul M. Potter Is writing a play for William II. Crane. Sol Smith Russell will appear In "Tho Rivals" next season. A comic opera libretto Is a recent effort of the Marquis of Lome. Charles Dickson will burlesque Mans field In "The Mimic World." Paul Potter and Bill Nye are to collab orate on an original comedy. Lotta has returned from Europe, but has no Intention of acting again. Henry Guy Carlcton's new play for John Drew Is entitled "The Love Knot." Eugene Tompkins will produce "Bur mah," a spectacular drama, next season. Cleopatra will be a character In "The Wizard of the Nile," Frank Daniels' new opera. Charles J. Ross, of Ross and Fenton, will be seen In "The Rainmakers" next season. Nym Crinkle declares that Sarah Bern hardt Is the most theatrical actress he ever saw. John A. Crabtree, brother of Lotta, has purchased the American rights to "Gen tleman Joe." "Kismet," a comic opera by Richard Carroll and Gus Kerker, will shortly be produced In Boston. Olga Nethersolo will play the leading role In Plnero's "The Notorious Mrs. Ebb smith" hero next season. Salvlnl's rendition of "Saul" In Rome last month Is said to have been the chief theatrical event of the year In all Italy. A one-act play, with Edgar Allan Pos as one of its characters, and William E. Burton as another, has been performed. Theresa Vaughn will appear as Bertha, a Swiss maid. In R. A. Barnnt's "Excel sior, Jr.," under Rice's management next season. "Washington Crossing the Delaware" will be one of the big tableaux In Camllle D'Arville's opera, "A Daughter of the Revolution." There will be twonty-two musical shows on the road next season. The great ma jority of them will be directly In the line of comic opera. Charles and Daniel Frohman will look for "clean comedy-dramas representing the highest class of people." They don't want any more "problem plays." Richard Mansfield will put on a burlesque called "Thrillby." He has engaged Charles Bigelow as Svengali; E. D. Lyons, as the Laird; Adele Ritchie, as Little Blllee, and Carrie Perkins, as Thrllby." It Is said to be likely that the English actor, W. H. Vernon, will be engaged to play Falstaff In the ambltlou. revival of "Honry IV," which Julia Marlowe-Taber contemplates for next season. John Hare, the next English actor to introduce himself to America, Is small and nervous, with the typical features of the old-time actor. He Is any age, from 30 to 60, and Is Queen Victoria's favorite player. In Grattan Donnelly's 'burlesque on "Hamlet" the characters will be assigned as follows: King, John H. Bunney; ghost, George broderlck; Polonlus, Jacques Kru ger; Ophelia, Catherine Lewis; aueen. Kate Davis. Tho Dramatic News av that Mo-io Tempest Is now a proud mamma. So, the charming, plump, partridge must have married Julius Steger, after all. Julius was the gallant-appearing young man, with the yearning baritone voice, who supported Miss Tempest In "The Alger ian." Forced hv rjnvprtv in onrn n living herself and famllv And In nnla, ts. h.r titled husband from bankruptcy, LMuy ciancariy, nee ueiie Hilton, has re- tlipnnd tn tha fttno-A Uha will ..... u.-B-, ui.tr nil, fjiuisnuijr Visit America, tn "Irlolr" tnf Amotion.. and to fill her pockets with American dol lars. Bernhardt c. 'sets to pass the summer In an old rulneu astle on the Atlantio coast of Brittany, where she hopes to lead the life of a barbarian, with only two servants l rather luxurious barbarlsm-hnd with no more clothes than a peasant Woman would need. She comes' to America in October. . -ytlili,..- The managers of the Betan 'theatres hope to reap a rich harvest from the visit ors to the Industrial Exposition in thnt city next year. Preparations have been made to keep all the theatres open during the summer of 1896, and, In addition to this, four theatres are to be erected in tho exposition grounds. Ttnhnrt Tfthnt tha hiinl,int . f..li lowe. Is a graduate of Princeton, and his miner, a wen-snown cotton merchant of New York, was earnestly opposed to his Arlnntlnn nf thA atnirn utmn whlnh k& .,- been very successful, preferring that he noma enter me profession or me law. Joseph Jefferson last week declared that acting was not a mimetic art. True act ing was to suggest. Whereupon he quoted Emerson to the effect that "the Imitator mars his own perfections by giving us the Imperfections of others." Genius produces, but art reproduces, "I can no more tell you what personal magnetism Is than can Mr. Tesla tell you what Is electricity." Mansfield's season In New York has not been a great success. He will close to night. Carrie Turner, Mlnnlo Sellgman, Mrs. aictiee Kurutin, Henry Jewett and Daniel H. Harklns have been engaged for next season. A novelty In managerial methods next season will be ton subscrip tion performances, Each subscription will cost $100, and will entitle the holder to five orchestra chairs for every first night of tne season, in addition to five seats for the duly advertised subscription nights. "Actors are far moro egotistical than act. resses," said a New York manager. "The man Is always sure he can 'do' a part. Nothing Is ever too big for him, At the very mention of It ho will declare that It was Just cut out for him, and he can tell you on the spur of the momont about all sorts of clever business that he can work In. But womanshe Isn't so cortaln. She would like to try, and believes she could, The better actress she Is the more modest she Is. The actress who knows it all Is ran, and she can neer act." AN UNEARNED INCOME. Derived from Postoffice Romlttanses Which (lave Nover Been Claimed. Recently the assistant treasurer of the United States at New Tork city has turned Into the postoffice, department fund the sum of $1,300,000, which has been accumulating In the subtreasury during the last thirty years from the funds paid to the money order post offices for remittances which have never been claimed. Old money orders are presented at the postoffice depart ment almost every day, but the amount of the unpaid money order fund increases constantly, and, accord' ing to Harper's Weekly, there Is no likelihood that any part of tho $1,300,000 will be claimed by Its owners. In faot, every year from $50,000 to HOO.OOO'ls ad ded to the fund, which represents care lessness or neglect. This is only one source of unearned Inccmo which the government has. The postofllcedeparttment furnishes another in the stamps which are destroyed from year to year without cancellation or are bought by collectors. The value of a stamp Is represented In the service which It will never be called upon to perform. So common a source of In come Is the sale of stamps to collectors that it Is said that some small gov ernments have Issued stamps Intend ed mainly as a source of Income. Many Central American republics Isbus stamps of new design every year. The Rerubllc of Liberia, It Is Bald, issues more stamps for an lcome to be de rived from sales to stamp collectors thnn for rjoatal purposes. The treasury department has a large source of income In tho Issue of bonds and bank notes. There Is no doubt that of the $50,000,000 worth of bonds Just Issued some proportion will never be presented. There Is more than a million dollars In the treasury today due to holders of government bonds, There are millions of dollars of United States notes marked on the treasury's books as not redeemed which will never be presented. Most of this money has been destroyed. Occasionally gome of it appears and Is presented for redemp tlon, but each year the fund grows larger. As to the amount represented In unpaid claims or supplies that is something which could hardly be com puted. It often takes the lifetime of not onlv the claimant, but me genera tlon coming after him to reach a settle ment with the dilatory congress. CHRISTIANS, AWAKE t From the Christian World. Ye that have written our annals With blood for your Ink, and your pen The devilish spear that has entered the womb. Piercing the fruitage of men. On ye who have reddened the rivers, On ye who have crimsoned the sod. Dash down from His armory. Heaven, The uttermost vengeance of God 1 Warning, men of the hill-top! Warning men of the vale, Upon .your vlneynrds falleth more than the Icy hall. Warning, men of the outways; behold, ye do your work Between the greedy knife of the Kurd and the greedier knife of the Turk! Back, come back from the sheepfold; back from the woodland' hive, For the butcher has come for his cattle, the butcher Is here for the drive! Warning, shepherd and ploughman! Be hold ye do your work Between the hellish knife of the Kurd and the glutting knife of the Turk! Back, come back from the mountain; back, come back from the stream; Gone Is the homeland safety, dead Is the homeland dream. In, come lh from your labor; behold, ye do your work Between the thirsty knife of tho Kurd and the thirstier knife of the Turk! Ye of the uplands yonder, tracking the wary deer, Home again at the quickest! Behold, the butcher Is hero! Merchants yesterday gone, turn back, for ye do your work Between the bloody knife of the Kurd and the bloodier knife of the Turk! The lambs of the household call you; come, for their need is great! What of the flock deserted, what of the oxen's fate? The lambs of your heart are bleating, surely their cry Is heard Against the dirty lust of the Turk and the dlrtlor lust of the Kurd! Why are the nations silent, gathering gold to gold? Are souls thus dulled by distance? Is the Western Christ grown cold? Their women are all In safety, scented and snug and furred, And far from the ugly grip of the Turk and the uglier grip of the Kurd! Why are the nations silent? Have done with drowsy words! Up! it Is time for camping! Up! It Is time for swords! Shall the story of unwombed children discover a land unstirred? An end to the filthy lust of the Turk and the filthier lust of the Kurd! Ye that have written our annals With blood for your Ink, and pen The devilish spear that has entered the womb. Piercing the fruitage of men; On ye who have reddened the rivers, On ye who have crimsoned the sod. Dash down from His armory, Heaven, The uttermost vengeance of God! Norman Gale. THE MONUMENT. A monument for the soldiers! And what will ye build It of ? r Can ye build It of marble, or brnsi,vor bronze, j . - Outlasting the soldiers' love? Can ye glorify It with legends ;! As grand as their blood hath writ From the Inmost shrine of this land of thine ' To the outermost verge of It? And the answer came: We would build it Out of our hopes made sure, And out of our purest prayers and tears, And out of our faith secure; We would build it out of the great white truths Tholr death hath sanctified, And the sculptured forms of the men In arms, And tholr faces ere they died. ' And what herolo figures Can the sculptor carve In stone? Can the marble breast be made to bleed, And the marble Hps to moan? Can the marble brow be fevered ? And the marble eyos bo graved To look their lost, as the flag floats past, On the country they have saved? And the answer came: The figures Shall all be fair and brave, And, as befitting, as pure and white As the stars above their grave! The marble Hps, the breast- and brow Whereon the laurel lies. Bequeath us right to guard the flight Of the old flag In the skies I A monument for the soldiers! Built of a people's love, '. And blazoned and decked and panoplied With the hearts ye build It on And see that ye build It Btately, In pillar and niche and gate; ! And high In. pose as the souls of those It would commemorate! . . . . James Whitcomb Riley. Random Notes , of Life in London ' Describes the May Day Festivities, and Hiss Kaiser Sees the Queen and Prince Albert. London, May 12. It Is, perhaps, very late In the day to tell you anything about the first of May, over here, and I do not see how it was thait I was so careless as to forget it at the time; but I must have been very busy. I suppose I should have spoken of the way they celebrate May Day over here. The old fashioned English custom of "going-a-Maylng" la not quite so obsolete as one Is led to suppose, as there still stands a May-pole In several parts of England, and the May Day festivities are carried on with great ceremony In these places, just as regularly as May Day comes around, and in fair weather or foul. The little May queens are elected by popular vote from year to year, and have really an onerous lot of duties to perform ,and many a tedious little speech to remember and deliver during their short reign of a day. Not only the children Indulge in going a-Maylng in these three or four old towns of Eng land, but the big folks join In, too, and complete all the arrangements for the occasion, drill all the children most carefully, and see that all goes off all right and according to the revered old customs to which they are 'bound to stick and keep going from year to year. I am told that the custom will not now be allowed to die out, but will be kept up as long as England herself lasts, on account of its historic value. It Is a sort of society for the preservation of antiquities, you see, or rather antiqul ated ceremonies, and, so long as the ceremonies are as pretty as those of May Day, why, there is no reason why they should not 'be kept up, I suppose. In London Itself, however, there are no May Day festivities of any account to be seen, except the little processions which have for tholr center of Interest a "Jack-ln-the-Green," This article Is really some man out of work, who has dressed himself up in fluffy tarleton garments and bedecked himself with roses and other flowers, and carries a wand. He is very awkward, indeed, about It all, as are also his satellites, who are some more men, also out of work, and are dressed up as attendants to this "Jack-ln-the-Green," or make believe May queen. They are often very funny Indeed, and collect a great many pennies from the amused passers by. I have discovered that there Is over here a tree that is called "the May," and which Is supposed to flower by the first of May, for the benefit of the May merry-makers. It always disappoints, in these modern times, and Is flowering now, In the middle of the month, In stead. Gotng-a-Maylng used to mean going for the Mayflowers, Just as they go for arbutus In Pennsylvania, at home. Besides the occasional processions of "Jacks-ln-the-Green," we had the so cialistic orations and demonstrations In Hyde Park, which I merely saw as I passed by, without going In to hear what they were about. Miss Radical says they are quite mad affairs, any way, and do no good, even though they are not allowed to do any harm. It seems odd what an affinity the Social istic cult have for May Day all over the continent. I wonder why It Is that they are so fond of that particular day for their demonstrations. Besides being May Day in England, the first of May is also called "Sweep's Day," on ac count of the unwillingness of the sweeps to sweep a chimney oni that day, which has practically resulted In their having a holiday from all work on May Day. A Wonderful Violinist. The other evening my landladies took me, as a great treat, to hear Herr Willy Burmester play the violin at St. James' hall, where he was giving an orchestral concert that night. It was wonderful Indeed, and I never wish to hear anoth er violinist after him, tiow. The mem ory of it Is a Joy all by Itself. I never heard such a perfect performance In my life. It Just satisfied every musical desire, from a to z. Cowen, that prolific song-writer, conducted the orchestra like a dream, It was so beautifully done, and Herr Burmester la simply Incomparable. His violin is a perfect gem of Itself, and his tone marvelous, while his technique is so unapproach able as to have drawn upon him' the appellation of "Paganlni redlvlvus," given him by the critical and phlegm atic Berllners themselves, this winter, from whom he Just comes, after having simply charmed their Teutonic hearts away'. He played the Paganin! things superbly, and people were beginning to think that he was better on his techlnque than on anything else, when the dear young man simply astounded them by doing his expressive pieces with an almost supernatural spiritual ity. It was a night I shall always be thankful for. The hall was crowded and the people were simply beside them selves sometimes, and! even sat still and refused to go home at the close of the programme until they had had more. They say there has not been such a tre mondous success made In the musical world since Paderewski, which Is saying a very great deal, I should think. 4 P OHmpso at tho Queen. I fiave seen the Queen. Think of it. I went with Miss Radical to see the pretty ladles who were to be presented at the drawing room last week, and enjoyed It very much Indeed. Hyde Park was simply crushed full of peo ple, and the crowd In front of Bucking ham Palace would have swelled my heart with pride, If I had been the Queen, to see so many loyal British sub jects collected at my gates. We suc ceeded in getting pretty good places, and watched the carriages drive, up with their lovely ladles In them. Some old dowagers had their coronets on and actually wore ermine, on that hot day. Others wore their tiaras and all had the prince of Wales plumes tn their hair, be sides the aigrette and veil. Some of the young debutantes looked very sweet and fresh and pretty, but the beauties were very few and far be tween. The pomp surrounding this function Is something Impressive In the extreme, I assure you, and as I never saw much pomp in the United States you may be sure I enjoyed this. I do not ask for democracy In England. In fact, I am glad that there Isn't much, and If It were offered me I think I Bhould feel moved to say, like the little boy dining out for the first time: "No, thank you; I get that at home." So I really do en- Joy all the old-fashioned customs and ceremonials all the more for being not used to it. It Is all so ridiculously Inter esting! Well, to get on, just before the drawing room commenced there came through, the park a company of sol diers on horseback, and they were all dressed In red velvet skirted jackets, trimmed all ovet with gold lace that shone very brightly In the sun. They were the Queen's Trumpeters, and took their place in the palace yard, and com menced their duties by playing "3od Save the Queen" before the palace. They were followed by the finest body of cavalry In the finest uniform that I ever expect to see,, who took their place on both sides of the gates, thus forming a guard through which the guests had to pass. There were a great many state carriages, and these were most elaborate. The Lord Mayor's was all red and driven by red drivers, and be hind on the rumble were not less than three powdered footmen standing, all dressed In white stockings, red velvet knee breeches, red swallow talis, white lace shirt frills and cuffs and three cornered hats on their heads. The vari ous embassies represented also had very elaborate and peculiar carriages and. liveries, as did also the members of tho royal family, who came In their state coaches also. Tho Popular Pilnco The prince and princess of Wales were most loudly cheered as they rode up In a vehicle which made me think instantly of the pictures of Cinderella's pumpkin shell coak of Fairyland, It was so big and lumbering. The people seem to like the prince very much Indeed, and MTss Radical says that he is very much more popular than his reigning mother. As each member of the royal family drove up, no matter how far removed from the queen they were, the trumpeters blew forth "God Save the Queen," so that they really stayed there all afternoon, and at every appearance of a royality, either coming or going. they played it. After watching this passing show awhile, I found a seat in a part of the park near Rotten How where I sat and looked at the people riding up and down this magnificent roadway. Not being the fashionable riding hour, however, there were very few women mounted, and, of course, the men are not so Interesting nor pretty to see, so I soon arose and went to the Duke of Wellington's monument, whore I stood waiting for her majesty to come out and let me gaze upon the glories of her royal countenance. It was about 5, and the drawing room was over, and a large crowd soon collected to see Just what I was waiting to Bee, too. We waited a dreadfully long and wearisome time, and at last were really rewarded by sjeelng the gates of tho arch open, and, knowing that they are never opened for anyone but herself, we, of course, knew that she was com ing. So we Just did crane our necks. First came a company of the aforesaid Beefeaters; then the trumpeters, then four outriders In the queen's livery, fol lowed by a carriage drawn by six horses, and In this carriage Princess victoria. Princess Beatrice and her own Royal 'Ighness 'Erself, with a stiff, tiny little bit of a public smile on her face, and bowing a lot of very little digni fied bowu, on all sides. The people did not yell and screech and throw up their hats so much for her as they did for the prince and princess, at all, but they looked at her sort of reverentially, you know, so I guess they really do love her, anyway. She had on a black bonnet with white feathers, and a long widow's veil, from which they say she never parts, and looked just like her photo graphs, exactly like them. There were three Scotchmen servants on the rum ble, dressed In Highland costume, and looking very picturesque. The queen, you know. Is so very fond of her Scotch servants that, like her veil, they go wherever she does. I saw her afterward In the park, where she was driving about, and now, after having wasted an afternoon In getting a look at her, I am quite satis fied and shall not waste any more time, though I am really very glad that I did see her, at last. There have been a great many con certs this week, too many, in fact, and there are such a number of them to talk about that I shall not speak of any at all. - Sadie E. Kaiser. ON THE VERGE Of Giving Up the FightAn El mira Citizen's Last Resource Proves a Success. tFrom the Elmlra Gazette. Do you know Mr. J. S. Bodder, of 214 South Main street? 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