tion is repugnant to his deep, long-standing thize with its principles and objects. A split conviction. But the academic discussion of is deemed inevitable by many former Bryan the question still continues, though nothing Democrats, and the new party may serve as worthy of the slightest consideration has the refuge for the radical elements. been advanced by the opponents of the "unwritten law" dating from the days of Washington and Jefferson. The really significant fact is that so few influential Americans in public life (including the editorial field) have weakened in their opposition to the third-term proposal. HERBERT W. BOWEN, States Minister to A new national party has recently been called into existence at Kansas City. It is to be known as The Allied Third Party. Its organizers and adherents are radical Democrats, Populists, Single Taxers, and advocates of public ownership of monopolies. The party will interest itself in Missouri politics, but the aim is to give it a national character and place a presidential ticket in the field in 1904. The platform adopted by the delegates who formed this party contains the following planks: Government issue of all forms of currency and the abolition of the national bank circulation. A graduated income tax. Direct legislation through the initiative and the referendum. What invests the birth of this party with special interest is the continued inability of the Bryan Democrats and the Cleveland or sound-money Democrats to reach an understanding. There is much talk of Democratic reorganization, but Mr. Bryan and his stanch adherents view it with suspicion and apprehension. They fear that the "bolters 1896 and 1900 will secure supremacy, repudiate the platforms of the last two national campaigns, and alienate more Democratic voters than they will win back into the fold. Mr. Bryan has disavowed responsibility for the new party, but he is supposed to sympa of It is rather sorry fun that the English cartoonists and comic paragraphers have had this summer over the irrepressible invasion of American ideas. When the Anglo-Saxon alliance was first talked of three years ago in the war-summer, they made graceful cartoons representing that great gentleman J. Bull, Esq., wooing the willowy maid America in her star-spangled frock. Later, when the crisis in South Africa was on and England faced a hostile Europe, Mr. Bull did not conceal his satisfaction that the lady on whom he had so suddenly and completely bestowed his affections was possessed of considerable means in her own name, and might prove quite a respectable helpmeet should occasion arise. But since the lady developed a disposition to assert her power in the old homestead and rearrange the furniture and pictures, there has been a manifest change of attitude. The Saturday Review's ill-tempered contributors are allowed to say about us and our money-grubbing ways all the bad things they can think of as if we were the original " nation of shop-keepers." And even Punch under the guise of goodhumor scarcely conceals his irritation over the present situation. In one of the summer numbers was a long article thus introduced: are interesting to American readers as specimens of British humor: "On June 12 a Tammany meeting for the appointment of ward bosses and captains will be held in the Guildhall to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of the lord mayor and corporation. "The national hymn, My Country, 'tis of Thee,' is now sung at the close of work in every school. 66 "The Frohman-Lederer Dramatic Trust has lately acquired the whole of the West End theaters and roof gardens, where in future only American talent will be employed, with the exception of histrions Irving and Tree, who are engaged to do a cake-walk in ragtime. The L railroad running from East Twenty-third street to Westminster Abbey has caught on terrifically, the fare being only two cents all the way, while for a quarter one can be jerked round London in the vestibule cars of the regenerated underground. Folk who formerly traveled any to the city will rejoice at the extinction of hansoms and 'busses. If you want to go a block or two, there is the moving sidewalk. "The new county abbreviations are quite popular. It is so much smarter to write Ke., Sy., Che., Shro., Wi., Du., that we wonder at the old-time addresses. On and after Thursday next the Times will appear as a one-cent yellow journal, with an illustrated Sunday edition. "We like the new double-decked stern-wheeled ferryboats that have just debuted on the Thames, which is now a businesslike river at last, with its fringe of thirty-story skyscrapers, grain elevators, and aerial gangways in place of the obsolete bridges. "The baggage-check system is working well on all the lines, though there are complaints of the customs regulations at the ports of entry. We give, with no reserve, the menu at the Tenniel banquet: rockaways, clams, bluefish, terrapin, canvasback duck, cantelupe on ice, pop corn, ice cream soda, and Huggins punch." The despatches from England have afforded pleasant reading to Americans for some months past. It was altogether a new sensation for us to read that Mr. Morgan had purchased outright a great fleet of British steamships, and coming after the taking of the British loan by American capital, and the success of our bridge-makers and locomotive-manufacturers in selling their goods to British customers in Egypt and India, it capped a climax very effectively. Even the acquisition of the London underground railway by Chicago capitalists and its transformation into an electric "tuppenny tube" on the American plan, was less of a shock to the conservative Briton than the purchase of the Leyland line. "Britannia Rules the Wave" is a song which still has its admirers. Englishmen have not acquiesced in these Yankee commercial aggressions without speaking their minds, and some of the discussions, notably the heated give and take argument over the purchase of American locomotives by the Indian government, have brought out matter of considerable interest on both sides of the water. Thus Lord George Hamilton, Secretary for India, ex plained the obnoxious transaction in locomotives on the ground that the English makers were kept out of the competition by the labor troubles prevailing at the time, so that the Indian railways had no choice. Other purchases had since been made because the American goods were cheaper and the deliveries more prompt. The direct inference was that British iron-masters and shippers were behind the times. They replied by raising the point that the American locomotives in Egypt had proved a dear bargain, as they required one-fourth more fuel and lubricant to keep them up to their work. This prompted an American to retort that the Formerly U. S. Consul at additional running THE LATE ADELBERT S. HAY, Pretoria. expense per mile was not a real fault, since the American machine would draw a much heavier load, per ton of fuel consumed. He adds the parting sting that, however much Britons may be influenced by prejudice, it cannot be doubted that in the neutral markets of the world, where cheapness and power are alone considered, and patriotism weighs nothing, the American locomotive is driving out the British machine. Those persons-especially the labor agitators who were successful in pushing the Chinese exclusion act through congress about ten years ago, are now greatly agitated over the "alarming" increase of Japanese immigrants entering our ports, particularly those of the Pacific coast. That this country is proving more and more attractive to the Japanese may be seen from the fact that in 1880 there were only one hundred and forty-eight of them in the United States, and in 1890 only two thousand and twentynine, while during the last ten years the influx from the land of the chrysanthemum has been unusually large, a thousand Japanese sometimes coming on a single steamer. Just how many of them are now here cannot be learned definitely until the census report for 1900 on that point has been announced. Naturally the great majority of the Japanese remain on the Pacific coast, and the movement for a Japanese restrictive these priests to lead a procession through the woods, singing and shouting in honor of the great Teutates, their sun-god. What a picture this must have been! The tall and venerable Druid priests dressed in long white robes and crowned with leaves, the bards with their harps, and the vates swaying in prophetic ecstasy as they chanted the praise of the giver of light and heat, and foretold his benison for the coming year. Led by young student-priests came two milkwhite bulls whose horns were wreathed with garlands, and behind them marched a throng of rude Celtic warriors with their warlike wives and sturdy children, all shouting, "To the mistletoe, for the new year cometh. Lead to the mistletoe!" act finds most sympathy and support in that section. There is a vast difference between the Chinese and the Japanese immigrant. The former is far from being the highest type of the Chinese common people, while the latter is of much better grade. The Japanese is more ambitious than the Chinese, quicker to learn, more eager to adopt American ideas, and is in fuller sympathy with our national life, and so is considered a better grade of immigrant than the Chinese, Italian, Russian, or When they got into the woods the archany of the hordes Druid strode up to an old oak tree, on the coming through our trunk and branches of which grew a curious wide open gates from plant with narrow, dull sage-green leaves and many of the Euro- viscous, milk-white berries; the mistletoe pean countries. The we call it. Amid singing and cries of praise next congress will the bulls were tied to the tree, the chief Of Pennsylvania, new Unit- be called upon to priest climbed, or was raised, until he could reenact the present reach the mystic parasite; then, during a Chinese exclusion solemn hush, with a golden sickle he cut off law, which ceases to be operative by limita- bunches of the plant and dropped them down. tion on May 5, 1902. It is to be expected to a priest who caught them in the folds of that the Pacific coast agitators will use their his robe, broke them into twigs, and distributmost endeavors to place the Japanese uted them to the people. under the ban along with the Chinese proposition which deserves to fail, because the Japanese are by far better fitted to enjoy the rights, privileges, and immunities of residence in this country than are the citizens of many other countries against whose coming there are no prohibitive restrictions. L. G. GRISCOM, ed States Minister to Persia. a Miss Mary E. Merington of New York City sends to THE CHAUTAUQUAN the following interesting study of the word " Aguinaldo": For a month past the name of the young leader of the Filipinos has been constantly on the tongues of a multitude of people; probably comparatively few of these know the interesting history of this name which is of ancient origin. It is this: Some fifty years before the birth of Christ, Cæsar and his great Roman armies entered Gaul and the island of Albion. In these two countries they found the Celts, whose manners and customs differed greatly from their As, for instance, the Romans worshiped in temples, the Celts out in the beautiful oak forests which abounded in their lands. Their religious rites were conducted by priests who are known to us as Druids. At the winter solstice it was the custom of Eager hands caught the sprays and held them carefully throughout the ceremonies, and after the bulls had been sacrificed and more hymns had been chanted the people carried the mistletoe home and hung it over the doorway of their dwellings to ensure health and good-luck in the new year. Probably they ended the short northern day by burning cheerful logs and by feasting. "To the mistletoe, for the new year,' was their cry, uttered in Celtic two thousand years ago. For many decades the festival was kept up until priests came from Rome, converted the people to Christianity, and diplomatically induced them to celebrate the Christmas that commemorated the birth of the Christ child at the season in which their heathen rites had heretofore been held. However, though they turned Christian, our Cymric forefathers continued to give each other good things to eat and drink at this time, and in a new language that was partly Roman, partly Celtic, the poorer class went about calling, "Au gui l'an neuf" (0ghee-long-nerf), which means" To the mistletoe the new year, " and their richer brethren gave them money or other Christmas gifts. Now the pronunciation of the illiterate 66 poor is never classical, and since, as time went on, they did not always know what they were shouting, they merely repeated garbled sounds. The consequence was that Au gui l'an neuf" became " Aguilanneu Aguilanneu" in one part of France and " Hoguinanno," or "Oguinano" in others, while in Scotland it changed to" Hogmanay" and in the north of England to "Hagmena." In some places December 31 is still called Hogmanay. At this time when Scotch children go round crying "Hogmanay" they get nice oat cakes given to them; when the French peasants call "Aguilanneu" they get pennies; and the young Spaniards receive a Christmas box when they go begging for an "Aguinaldo;" for this is their way of pronouncing the old Druid cry, "Au gui l'an neuf." The modernizing of the Holy Land continues at so rapid a pace that we are told it will not be many years before, in some sections at least, the country will have lost its ancient oriental aspect. This transformation is due largely to American ingenuity and commercial activity. Somebody has said that if one of the prophets had returned to Palestine a few years ago he could have looked upon the scenes of his earthly career and would have been able to recognize them. But that time has passed away. The railroad from Joppa to Jerusalem was WATERKLOOF. PURSUING THE BOER. GEN. KITCHENER-"Hi, Tommy; there's your Boer." TOMMY ATKINS "Yes, General, I'm just goin' around the mountain to 'ead 'im off."-Minneapolis Journal. FRANCIS B. LOOMIS, New United States Minister to Portugal. the entering wedge in the modernizing process, and now other lines running up and down the valley of the Jordan are to be connected with this road. Jerusalem is becoming in many respects a modern city. Electric lights, telephones, lights, telephones, phonographs, sanitary plumbing, modern stores, and many of the comforts of civilized life are now found there. It will not be long before one will be able to ride from Jerusalem to Bethany, Bethlehem, the Sea of Galilee, Samaria, Jericho, Nazareth, and many other historic places by trolley. One of the United States consuls states that over two hundred phonographs were recently sent into the Holy Land, half of them going to Damascus and the rest to Jerusalem and other places. One wonders. why phonographs should go in such quantities to these places, and the wonder increases when we are informed that the best customers for these machines are the Moslems of Beyrut, Jerusalem, and Damascus, who purchase them for their harems. A large number of American windmills have gone into Palestine, as well as irrigating machinery of various sorts. A large assortment of articles of American manufacture are steadily pouring into the Holy Land, among them being cotton fabrics, bicycles, rope, shoes, clocks, wire nails, paints, hardware, welldrilling and agricultural machinery, mechanics' tools, canned meat, and corn meal. There seems to be a movement on foot to secure control of the once fertile valleys of the country and to transform them once more into a land flowing with milk and honey. The people connected with this movement are said to be Zionists, whose supreme purpose in life seems to be the reëstablishment of the Jews in their ancient heritage. The news of the pardon of Arabi Pasha, who was sentenced to life exile in Ceylon for treasonable connection with the Egyptian outbreak of 1881-82, brings to mind a critical moment in the development of British policy in the Mediterranean. Arabi was an officer in the khedive's army, a native Egpy EX-SENATOR THOMAS H. CARTER, the Louisiana Purchase World's Fair National Commission. Interesting statistics as to land or farm tenure in the United States have been published, with certain deductions and comments, by Chief Statistician L. G. Powers of the Division of Agriculture in the Census Bureau. They furnish material for the economist and the sociologist. The number of farms in the country in 1900 was 5,700,000, against 4,564,691 ten years ago. What percentage of these farms is operated by tenants instead of by independent proprietors, and what percentage was so operated in 1890? The following table gives the answer: 1880-North Atlantic states Per cent. 16.0 18.4 20.0 36.1 38.5 45.0 20.5 tian of peasant ancestry, whose opposition Mohammedan university at Cairo, will see to the employment of Turks as officers had the hand of fate in all that has followed his made him a favorite in military circles and short-lived rebellion, which was in a certain with his countrymen generally. The joint sense a failure. As an effort to substitute control of the finances of his country by native influences for foreign its failure was French and English commissioners in the indeed complete. But its very collapse interest of the for- brought with it consequences of the most eign holders of Egyp- revolutionary sort, vitally affecting the polittian bonds, brought ical and economical condition of his country, with it great irrita- of the Sudan, and (through the "Cape to tion. The army was Cairo" project) of the whole vast British greatly reduced in imperial policy in Africa. numbers, and European officials took the place of Egyptians in most of the responsible and lucrative offices. The army became the center of the spirit of disaffection, and Arabi was its recognized leader. The cry of "Egypt for the Egyptians" Of Montana, President of rallied all native elements in opposition to the foreign control, and brought French and English ironclads to Alexandria. Arabi's attempt to put that port in a posture of defense precipitated the bombardment of July 11, 1882. The two months' campaign which followed ended with the English attack on the earthworks of Tel-el-Kebir. Arabi was arrested and was held on the charge of treason. Powerful influences were exerted in his behalf, and he was induced to plead guilty, on the understanding that his sentence should be commuted to exile on the full pay of his military rank. He was sent to Ceylon by his own choice. He sank out of sight at once, and his return now will have no political consequences. Arabi Pasha will find a changed Egypt awaiting him. In the place of the joint control he will find England not only in undisputed command of the finances, but apparently permanently entrenched in the valley of the Nile. The Suez canal, built by a French engineer with French capital, he will pass through as an English ditch owned and controlled by England, and looked upon as a main gateway to her eastern empire. He will see no more of France in his native country, but he will everywhere find evidences of the energy and intelligence of the Englishmen he fought. It has been suggested that Arabi, the honored graduate of the great 1880-South Atlantic states 1890-South Atlantic states 1900- North central states BECOMING AN ISSUE. 23.4 26.0 ting so swelled with his importance that he'll soon think THE OCTOPUS-"That little canteen question is gethe's in our class." -Minneapolis Journal. |