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i i i i a I i i'" wDh. uni fun-: i i i Oft, 4.t 2 T5' .20 Funility tuition our. Any m. day (nxtrpt cWnnayl w'e-aly edi'ion 1 2.wi l.iw; Mjo; I'usUk prevail! t- all point itt the Canada and Jleali.o. Hi Jiew-totk City, vtrbcra lb ntg 1.

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ast-noy fftf Germany and Austria, -Ilo, Italy; lcher A I bo addreas of iuVcnt)ar wfll 64. often dii-d. In wilcrtr.it' nf ai-7" Gnu liila old sod tr.ainew JJrns MUST t. rlft. I CuU in adraica alwajs, tlamUtancei at tha rlrk tha aubacribar, bnleaa rnnOa ty Ilegia-tert-1 Irlter.j Ct-eck, Order, at xpr PrJor.

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LAINTSL Subiicrtb(rB "hu fa.lll.to relv alnela copy Tba U'iCM-i aboubl lrnmpjiately notify tba I wbo are unabla to purcliaaa Tha Tlm4' at any nw taoUit or cn any rallrafl tralB or ai.at(ibokt w'illobllga ua by prompitly reportlnf that -fact. UDkX TV CLASSIFIED ADVEUTibEXEMS. I'a. Amiinint 7 Mctfnr San-j Eio JiicyeUa fij mils 11 Waists i'ian'M' ani 7 U(iii luni- VwA- Oltlca utitw. "if'K'lVWMil It City Itaal For lutlli- 11 H.il- Kittata at lAu Hubs To Itmn .12 L-t N.ftliv I.VMtha'.

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i- C.rUK'K-Thmihbl.rwl-fi:3. ORACD OX'EItA JlOVsifl-Clilmea of Normanrly ll.F-l..5.TKIN-'t iJ A-EWolJacop 'S ir.OSTKK.k lUAL'i VltuicopaJ-VaJeviUe :00. HAi lf-C'N' OAIILEN Cuban Fair U-v. un.t JiVriTis at -IhON fc'UUAHiJ itOOP- liiod p. M.

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-v. i Kaa Aniurncrrt AdvwrtliKrbciita Pas a T. OF TWS. J.i::s.Kiljiro3 Thurder Drove III Ma-t- In iht TwthlrJ HuJe. liinfiociatle Sentlmfitit Jn All States.

Couerta to ThkT Chase on a Bicycle. Lltfh'tnlu KHJa a Pollcraan." Kew-Jersey Convict-Confirtsc-dL Fatal Panic In Loulk; gchouiur Lost.OfT l'oint JuJiih. Pox Hunt In Central A PleTninjr -Juror Injurt-d. 4'nue 3 Treasury Dtfimt Orowlrie. Trolley Men Have a CrleVance.

3 rossSMe. Conteata at Sti' The Silver Victory in Congress May- AJjourn Saturday. The Iliver and Harbor Had His Caller Ai rested. Tniryinif the St. Ltiuls pfad.

Trtlyy Oar Yletlm No. 14a. -r Uitten by Their Pet Por-s. Badly lnjtued by a "Header." Vl.iUora Se the AVhlfe Squadron. Lafayette Students Cluba Under Iinliiea Law.

1 lifooklyn Handicap Hordes. i OornelPa Oaramen lliuay Cyclera Jlevle'w theMlllburn Twentjr8i Girls Jn'a Itunaway, The Suicid'a Nartw Dafcitla. Hetilry Crew in Pine Form. V. Tt(5Uy Cat td Catt-h TIiteL- Pae 7 A Twelve-Year-Old Burglar.

P'ue Arrests for Cunningham, Murder. Patrolman Lutz lie. Uvely Au tJ.ba at-A'aesar. Iclc of ater at Bay'liids-e, Kewa of Greater New-York. "Hishop Potter as Lubur Arbitrator.

Annivertary pays In Brooklyn. i rase Ixtuia Stern'a Forfeit, i Third Victim of Ben Franklin-DIaaater. "Vt poinfa Year's llvi. V- The Armenian Outrages. to Travel.

Shot AVere la Self-Def ense. CouUstpvr Misa Handlton'a Will. 13 oy froit Newport. It. Detertd.

Ot igrtaal Short. Etwy. 'm Pr. Newman italj. at EUrtty.

1 i -Ceorga Towle of Brooklya Iceuiea. r.ocetit Growth of St. lU'vieW of Nw rasa-11. T.a I-'lnanciAl Mafkets. T.i ntemSnj cf Mra.

Dyer. Ir. i'jnoe. i Cv-rt. 12 1'Eljj The followir, recordkiare titken rrorrTHH vhlch 1 rlaced on the taca of The Tiur.a Xiuiidinif.

cj pos.ie ir rrankllnj Status, fl fett above or teathr Bureao, whtth fttt aoove me ttrwt ie-vtL Ecrfb. reiorrls how rjihe 24 hour the chanita of; ended; at mMnfeh apJ jihat rftlMi U'tatbf-r Uureau givt tli? tftihprfratu ti th corre- e4i hor j'l95HH ISM. 3 0 A.U,...,-.. 12 V. 0 IV M.

0 PM. 12 a 1 J. Avei iiif.4rat uirer It; I'rin AvrK temjirature 4t th ather 'Averas" at t'. yv'eatter tiureuu. for jccrrtsp'jfiJlniK ic 3at SI year Average ttritratur it -tli Al'eather Bureau for corf'epfinOlc iite for', last, twenty years.

I PROBABILITIES FOK U-DAY. lo-aay i wettier usts by tho UiircaU tort: Fair, For The weather' fore complete etc Page PAQ-EO. XEw.Toa.rf-, iiC'NmY, ITfcc Tiwcit tloi, vwnuu-riptn. i not itxAMab turn UjCCtfiil litre ti rtlarn of manutvript C6IXG oii 'pF TQ reader The. ric- rH Times Icar- ing the city ffcr tie SUmwft pair wilt :0 Vnt changed as he mcUviJl Uailu and kufn per month.

And the often as desired. I TUB T.1UIP1?. IH 7 lljolaa of people in this cotint-y wh -Jlavj tt)fi1in ledj to be lieve that there was 8tfi)st rated ior; the McKinle; ae- In August, Mf. a vtree- trade" tartfS, and; tMat Ui that tariff became opem ttlve the.lanjl vtaiH uooaea with fnormiua uaitltli' ft itnvsrted fr.te trkiuti i dutiable' at merely no in tal have been arty r.ews- Manht that (this Is patera whicnt knew loot ahd by party leaders who jhsivc urt them as tfie reuil lert to mislead nuse the palji-c Cf, on C. flo'tvi-rig it.

1 i OfHcia reyorta hav lh he iveight with a majority -or those have given tart tt delusion. themselves to his but surely tpe're are f-onle among' these mllllcina who; are not mad that they will jr-these rejlorts conta: so lipjiie Ject the n. "We ssly tarltl- Iproof which- take from Statistical the Treasury Departmenrs Abstract P' the follow! ng figures, showing: th irnvx last Ova ages free, and dutia for, tne fiscal yeara, tl nflual aver- i i- the McKlnlby tu rift! and the avernipe ad valordm rAte iqf the duties actually jj'ald: IMPOrtTED Gvoris. Al "Valorem I'er-t't-rit. tii Dutiable.

ii.2S 4T1 iM.H-j..ni "7.ci3,7tCl 60.ti Annual Av.eraji..fT.81U.947 77.5;U II! 71,000. 41.75 as to tlte aubtik erring nota seijyd that the firfit fiscal year terj months of of Imports. It will lie eft dutiable Imports-! for! the of the new tariff (durin the present law' v) foree) fell the annu all aver jTpr the four McKinley tariff yr-ars, exbedijng the duti able imports of -Dly out? of those ye rs -the panic year beglnklrgv jon July 1, Do these, figures sl)0W that the alleged te'motal of p-otective rates and of I low. duties caused enormou dutiable po.oas an mnux whicw iirostraied our matiufai-lturlns iadutrids? I Vf such wiks the eSeVt of "the laSpotftatloh of 354. 000.000 worth In the same Industrie escape'! In Whin the or Jn when It jaraft But the delude 'partisan say that, the "fl.iiid consisLed ofj foods' upon which duty woa ollc c-telj goods from which protective Yates; had Ibeen wholjy.

Withdrawn, and Whi I he I free traders 'placed on list. Can, be flhtk any support 'fprj thlaj asser tion in the ofBcia.l atatemenl as to free importst The -show (thi-v may lie found on Page 248 of the BUtlstical Abstract) that the value" of) tb goods Imported free of duty In JSOo Mas notlqnly Jess by than" the! ajlhual, average for the four years, but even less that? the value ojr jU free Imports of the pahit; 'year. ere 'no signs of that thjsfj-ee-j kU Kthen. cn they be fdund? Now, as to the'irenisTe rate of duty on goods! th first fiscal-year of the' prewni: ta 1ft It i was 41.75 per cent4 as; against ar annual vf 4S.tli. per Cent, fjr the four years of the McKlnley tarift.

It ahovld be borne lit mind jttat the veify Ijng list of dutia-ble product In theres tarlS Is aub-atantlally ldenUcal: Wltli the liat of auch pro-tuota; la the ar1fp McKInlry, wool, lumber, and raf aygiar txceiitti 13 there ao difference: btwea average of 4AoOiper cent, ori ai annual average S3T0.0(.0.O0O worth it foicds, aid average if 4LT3 per frerJt worth, that one of titesej rates ta protection" and the otberj "pee trade How many Iteputllcaiia can be Induced ti believe that the iaverage' afl -valorem cf 'the prewnt Uri lsj 41.75 per cent? The tru.h la that If the atvfrage could be' calculated upon imports ct all' the named products In crotaerdal QuanOties and average aasortroehts tt i would be raucli Owtog ia the fact that YESTERDAY'S TESl El ATl'RE. Houia In this free-trade tariff are prch titory, if the average co.uld be calculate uplon $100,000 worth of each named prf.3utt. might rise to GO per Jut as the McKlnley average, as- certained ktndtT similar conditions, would have beer corirespondtngty higher. P.epubl leadera atd organs have xpjdi'nt io rair-Ieaid the rink and file- fv'the party-as to the-actual character effect of the newaarifT, In order th it 'attention, might" be 'diverted from the al cause of the panic of 1SJC anJ Hie ensuing commercial and Indus- r.ria.1 (Jep That fellv'er 1 jse was the operation of the chajfie act, and that act was the price paid for the enactment of 'the JtKinley arjnt. Tliese.

leaders and origans w-re uny Hicg to in tb'c-lr party clous act, only because it own legislation a4bvcfiuife it actlcable toj deccjvethciifoI- fjthat ien was theii Btvmed i lowers a of a Den t'oithe nature ami- inflaence ilKsrailc tariff; law, but also and especially bedause it 'was; foreseen! by i the couM pass another iXIc-iff only bjityin't? such a price i-49. They Would not denounce iment 'viich: they must fuse them thi KInley In a second th "lnst ag-ain. sp they have labored daily for a yes and a half to mislead the-Re- publican rnassf-s by hundreds and thou- columns of misrepresentation istaiting "floods" of imported sands of about de -9 Roods rir a f'frea-trade" tariff, all 'of which ar answered end upset by th4 Ht- table Ivhich w'e have taken from! the official 'Tt .1 AT CHICAGO. The ph -dclim? of the Democratic Party who are oihf.to'' Chicago t( 'minister. Us fever learn from our dia patches ls morning the actual civJltion aiiont.

It is bost thht they ow the whole? truth. Our- cor of their should responde es hive- tuld it bias or concealtr 1 The fn- nt. I -c'oii age rlo'legu'tef have arf ap- i l'aren two-tl rent iif-rity. It! will hot approach hlrd We i'lll be a small in Cirty by the time the convenV tion is fu no majoi organized. They would have ty at all If.

dtl-igates who are not Pem but something eisej like the folio ers- of uaxtgelo, tjiie Anarchist, were ex udedj i With a probp.b4o preponderance of sil-. i ver men, the cjoiiYentionJwiH.be diss-osed ta set' tton of Jt at a Jivuly pace In. tho dlrec- i-ath and the graveyard, The I I the! party; under w-hose kuld- leaders ance Jt as won all the victories that have fal tti Its lot sinite Bucjiakan- will be nfronted with, t.hd task of: exe- cutlny a uddeh abiut We con- fidtnt th they will succeed. The Dwa- ocratic I rty larse is not a. thoroughly drsciplini eVtr, ha ll bo4y.

Its conventions, how- i iuevially been more' willing to Listen to expei-lr nced an'I wise lenders than ublican conventions. However Wldesp're and earnest may be tliefree- coinage wnliiynt amQrigl Deniocs-atsr It Is sin iri credible thai the conven- tion will bv- nomi 1G to 1 elibe ately apnlhi'ate thej party atind iiienu o.r a itoies; on a itforrh. It' is too preposterous. Fortu'n pearancc as present ap- will send able and represen In behal rive max that the fctive delegates whose appeals of aip.hohest eu.rre.ncy. wjll de- Imbfesslveriesa -froj the- fact htrtyrsix EJecaT vXfvs tsfpe.

State ca be' Selivered to a candidat whi will prott'cV'the: gold standard but; to no other. lliey will reinforce by pemocrats of. prominence from all Elect'ora by a against he States, where Wjtes are likely. t) be Plcked.uo nd plemocratic candidate as i All tol there will -be 'nearly iTA) dele-will oppose the iturposes 'of the gates wh silver ru Silch a minority: ably led as St will and Working for the rigbt and for the alvjdtlon of the party, cannot well fail to cairy the convention. Every the acci H13B.tIA inelligent, person Who has read nt ct the competition for "the Shermar-J Monument in Woihlngton must have co to the conclusion that It 1j high tim a flnI period were put tb-uch proCecdi ia.

the half a -TiiU country is by no means trie, tuatioa iq which it was ago, when it contained oAury 'very judges of and when rtobody thought taking their judgment. J'that was the time whiin one man's-opinion was apt member: j. lo be as good as another's. The of Congress who ordered the weird wt rka art which the Govern- ment ac muchal that uired at that period knew as i tit the matter as peopl say, hothing at alL There' be- ing sob these ly of instructed opinion upon Iters, jthere was really nothing for Conkress to defer to. i The caLe is vjery different to-day.

We have mi abl to produce and able to judge wJr ks of art, and we must confide the. docl' on of such queBtlona to tTpem on pain of la ing retarded aa, in these things, only lialf-ciynised Nation. That Is what mif tea th fiasctMa the 'case of the hernial Statue not only deplorable, but scandal a. ltils 'true that there are ua- pleasant A- tumors that the' result of the competitl on was determined by mere fa- vorltlsm and had no reference to what Incompetent judges regarded as even the! the meris of the works. 'But these ru- mors are irrelevant to the main point, the public aspect of the mat- which, ii ter Is ot whether, number, of ln-q competed perstina honestly thought, they were of the i king-.

a choice on the merits orks t-efore them. The mals point is that it does not matter whether their Judk meat! was honest, since1 it waa obviousl. disgrace 1 incompetent, and since' it ul tliat a juestI6n of art -should referitd to an Incompetent tribunal." Ther Is no w.ay la which private citi zens cai be prevehtel fa-om spending their owh money in bad art, but there ought toj be some way of preventing the waste ofl publio money on toad art. Flf. ty thouiAjQd dwUara of tba publio money many du waa 'appeeprtatcd a.

monument to Gen. Shermak, and this money has twert j' by Intrusting the spending of it to incompetent This -unfortunate result "dhould Ikave the effect of powej-fully promcitlnj the purpse of" the Public Art "League. The1 object of that body is to secure 4hat jtha Government shall pot purchase or. ptfocure any work of art which has not received, the approval of a body of judges. The necessity for such 'a precaution is Very vividly illustrated by the ruin which has overtaken the project for a monument to Sherman from the lack of 'such a precaution, AS A Jl.lKKIt OP I i i Sotiie ot ''Sir.

SIcKixley's friends are still iUompting to' excuse his silence by sayiijsr that ih ought to the pialfpria," "They coolly assume, of couro, that if he should proclaim his idhetslon' to! the nil ver standard, or the standarO, or snerraan A'ur- chase acthe Republican Parry would prorr ptiy and glriiion struct out of his r'emi rka n. currency for St jjjurs Conventlor'i. As wJerstawd thes gentlerrvn aid It la- rep-jftetl by McKjinley newspaers that in private the candidate himself defends his alienee upon the sarrte; frround anything he might say about the currency or any other prominent political topic w'ould be rselzcd by the and placed bodily in the platform. But.whtn dlsl this aversion toj the rak IngoT become Imbedded In; Mr, McKiNLts's It is admitted that, he and "jerote. the wretched strad-dlitiff currency resolution in the Hatform adopted by the Ohio, Republicans a i-w weeks' ago! At that time he was ready and willing to make a platform.f and he did make a dlsgracefulljr ambiguous and misleading one.

i WIIKKETHK MOSEV GOfcTS. There Is vast amount 'of money running out' of, English pockets thsse days. The up of idle earnings and savings Eincje- the breakdown Of tlie house of Baring ha's been. very great. To ihts has been added a large amount taken our.

of Americap investments from fear of. the future of American currency, and. practically, front that alone. No doubt there has been bud business management of our- properties held In in England, but not (more than In other clasaes of la-vestment into which Englishmen are now pouring jthelr Jfold. How much they are Investing and in What kind, of atuft a few eleanlngs front a single number 1 of Sir.

Lauouchere's Truth will journal has a. department with the cynicism of the editor, is" ent.ltled Jlsmmon," iarid to be a letter t-j' Bonjiimin Boss fro.nk- his Affectionate-Uncle, Sloavs One part i-f tuo ittyr. covering a a half, jcoiitaiTis Kst. of. 'pn-terprlses and Iuts," witlx comments On Siay 21 the number of citese noticed was, The capital-ganged in I-jOKK) to-: each.

Th- shares in but six of them w.re except onq. lii which the hares are $1.20 each. capital if tho enterprises.ptTt'red in the wus oyer and. with the low of shares, it la -plain that speculation by perrons of smell means ii parties ularly Invited: -lrgest; --the concerns, with a nominal xapitai of Eurppeah. Petroleuni" Company, Limited, formed-to develop the trade itt'petroleum and its l)t gets handsome Sfiid-off from Uncle Moses." It has a Slartiula for Chairman, 'ah Earl for Vice and Irish Lord among its Directors all cf which is en not reassuring.

Another con cern Is "The Great Horseless Carriage With a capital of $3,750,000, which Moses'. does not approve. There is ay lot of mining ventures and a wide range 'of odd enterjrises. suc.h "as "The Railway Station Indicator Company," capital $lMUMi; a cycle company formed to ma)e The Dream wheel, capital a London Electric Omni bus Company," The Hotel Cecil, 'Capita! a'nd the 111 til nV. Finance Syndicate, Umlted-," capital which enables its shareholders to "Wcaulre.

doal with, ahd otherwise turn to prohtable account mining properties, in alf parts of the Tlie shares of the latter company, are put it $1.20 each and are within reach vt tlie liumblist pitrs.j. Some of these concerns, and 'many of longer standing, adverUse in pages, which, with the Mara- mon' maka up nearly half of the contents of the number. To. the- who are interested in matters cf "Moses Moss" gives gratuitous advice, which; from the" tenor of part of it, we should ay may be costly to those who take it and profitable to 'persons whom it is impracticable to name, Thua ho tells Scrutator to hild pertain shares and to "buy for spec-ulation 'certain othera HorSul Is Informed that If he wants to buy West Australian shares he 'should make his selection from those mentioned la my looses Moss's) letter under A West Australian Boom Dora is, advised to hold certain bonds named for improvement," and Moses will "tell her when to average. And so on through a page, and a half.

have no knowledge of MoBs Mcg" as tohls character, his judgment, pr the ratio of.hls omniscience. But. unless be is successful crass be tween a shrewd atock broker and an angel of lighy we should say that the honest and, trustworthy discharge of his "professed vu a mental and moral Impossibility. No American Journal would Ijeep up such a department or expose Its readers ta the obvious and terrible risks involved In it. The Interest of Amerliana la the itata -i of things ehown by tthe curious contents of this department or one of the most popular of English papers Ees In the fact that th.

enormous amount cf money that is seeking investment in England would come jhere.if our ctirren- cy were believed to be tafe. The chances actually taken by the Knglish investor are much more than any involved Jn our currencyybut Ihey are not eo ol-vlous. gome speculat ons are regally profitable. No one fat tell In advance whether any particul ir one will succeed or fail. But every on knows what a great Government I or fails to do, or threatens to do.f .11 the world knows that the value of io'u currency depends on "the raaiflteranetf of the uold'standarvl and that; that ia ari unsettled question in our polit.Jea.

lf wetccjuld settle it rightly' In November, It wdulp literally be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to our country' makej tie income of every voter safr'an larg-r. 1 Ll i JOHK SIORLET falls F1GIITI? foul of Sir. LiicKT's Democracy aiidiilJertj', as one might have expected, with' great fierceness and with much effect. there Is one la the Justorian's Iftdletment of Penjocra cy as toi which ltsj a Bvocate is forced to plead guilty. "TJ-r fesaes, "one of the oubtedly, h6' coti- most remarkable of alt the clrcumstanceit of the democratic viIsienat1on is its fa lure as a guarantee of internatRml peaoe." "No other ef fect of pemocracyLU comparable with thla, ha other-no surprising, no other so widely it variance iwithcjTlent 4nd reasoned anticipations." And ho vigraoly suggests that the- real trouble ham its roots in thejhldden and complex working of those -eljigious and 'scientific ideas which at allj times have exercised a 'upon human Institutions and theilr.

Wkh all tlo Mr. muujey, this trlk48 ys as solemn nonserjse. A democracy is more ready to figitjt than even iionarchs were, it believes that it is fighting' for its bn cause, whereas a monarch had to make hia subjecis fight for him. Human nature "much the same In Kings and in democratic peoples, and as yet humsn nature is combative. It la prone to! anger, t-o ambition, or to righteous resontn nt as the sparks to fly upward.

Tlie joSd thepry that de- ocracy would not readily go to. war be- aue It had. to ftipbly the soldiers' and foot' the. "bills was hi mply a piece of that priori reasoning! khich the family of inari has be bring iaui of history, ag to grief from thf think that the act-itarism is somewhat ttai ixagjreratedL The a bmles grow, but they ave done no serloMS fighting for a quar ter of a century. But that, perhaps, is (flue not So much fjo the form of govern- A I ment as io the spread of trade, vhich the i-eoples not like to brea4 in upon, But wlen Idcoaslon arises a 'te- hiocrac-y may be counted on to go to war.

io less promptly effislently. than Anointed King. LEOAG SAM. The press Sar (Francisco has discov- R-ea i.nat a trouj-fc oz Chinese 1 hctors i I li rvhfch came t-xthij country last year for he purpose of performing at the Atlanta Jxposltion had an! Hncidental mission as aad proiitable as their ostensi ble purpose. They 'had been advisc-4 be-ore' leaving China that the cuTious whom they were about to -Visit were Willing' to pay for.

silver with a certain Easily linitable Starup upon it twiea.what the silver was woirth7 Leoxq. the leader of the had not subrrVerged the artistic ideals of -a Chiaese' actor he shrewdness" ot man of busi- he had -the wonder- ivorklnff stamp of! the Unlusd Statlea f- i fixed to eome worth of silver, con- tertingr the same lintcr 20.000 silver half dollars. With' thefee he proceeded, to load tils artists who numbered forty, and they proceeded to distribute their wares, at a profit Of 100 ier cen.t. among the simple-minded people of the United IStates. -i Doubtless LKoxti Nam was aware that this operation, was- forbidden by' the laws the 'United States, but it.

is eVtremely tmlikely that he piercelved any objection to it on ethical grounds, and Indeed It Is. bard to pee why should' have perceived any. imitate the of the United ttatesi oh the disiks of" metal to jwhloh that stamp gives exchange able' Value, must be toa ChSiiamar merely a rhalum prohibitum," and fnot "at all a "malum se. We do not; believe that the writ- ngs of CoxFuacs; or of any Occidental orallst condemn this operation. "Whom pes It wrong? would be the Ursti ques-' tjion that a sensitive soul, Bucti as w'e may assume Leok.O- Nam'jS to be, would ask tself an undertaking that promised to be so gainful.

Thre Is, indeed, ontj point In the case which seems to Indicate moral on the part of Lkono Nast, and that la that his silver was but SS4 fihe. while the sttuidard of the United States Is 900. It is byl this difference rather than by any decree: in the atamp that the counterfeit is detected. But cdmmon chartty reaUires us assume, thitt this difference la due a defect In thie Chi-aeae assay. It is a wanton aspersiQn Upon icoxo Nam4 Intelligence as well as upon his integrity to assume that It Is due to his desire; to add a precarious" profit per cent, to the profit of 100 per cent, which was secured to him by following the ways of morality, Assuming this variation to be accidental, then, whom did Leo no Nam wrong The laws of Various countries used to be jery tsertire on ellpplns the King's' coin.

Of which practice the soverela thus attempted to preserve the monopoly. But Leono Nam has not committed that oft rfense. As a forelgcer he graoefully de ferred to the etandard of the country in which ha found hlmaelf and gar its.peoi pie what they were ready to talcs from him at their owa valuation. Nothing could be fairer than that It Is true that he Imitated the form of cf the United States Government But this is a merely municipal offense. In the forum of morale on oertlflcat that a.

quarter' a worth ofallver makes half a dollar is aa good aa anothar. Tba Gov- ei-nnif-ni prosecuiir.g Leono! Nav, if it could him, would be -mei-ely assert-Inrr for jftself the exclusive. rlgh of lying abouttiiti value of silver. This right a foreigner; cannot" be expected respect, Ekonc Na was In fact exercising-; on his, owe account what, throughout jthe white-riietal belt, is to I be the Goji-gSven right of the free and unlimited coinage of stiver at it he ratio oi' 18- to 1. We do not assert that Wewart or joxiis or Teller! or Dvsois has a silver still In which he makes moonshinef money" in deroga-tlon of the rights the; mint.

Wpj do say, however, that no one of these statesmen is entitled to take on any airs of moral superiority over Leoso Jasl If he were to take up his rtidehe'e in this' country, he should be elected to the Senate from oua of the mining fetateg Jn, Recognition of his services as a practical pioneer ln the cause of. free silver. A sign of the advance cf th Japaqes-e the hlesslnga of civilization is" glverj ia. the Consular Reports for 3Iir. CoNKEid.T, Conpul at Osaka; writes hat the leading mer; of the empire are tjery ariilous to hasten the Importation laior-aavlng machinery, because of the Incrf-as-tfng demand for labor, and the corresponding demi.na for an advance in wages.

"The Japanese." he reports, "are exceedingly jpanial -to guilds, "trade 'organizations, Jand secret scletle4 generany' and will ehtfer ioa a conflict between capital and labor" with the more readiaefs on account of ithis-tencienqj'. This is a fact to be noted those timid observers who have been prying out khat the Whole Western world jwaa to be-drowntpd put by a flood of the-prod- of 'chiien 1' yellow They' tiatfe think that labor that p4cial huo Woulutirtain cheap While Its products were spreatfiJivprofUably ver the earth. But the motlv-estrSmen, In th long do not vary greatlyUh the longitude, and the demand for betli, pay is as eure to go Vth the capacity to give better pay Japan as In the Unit! States. -XJ VERSOS ALS. TJiolosan, wife of.

the late Sh'ah'a Freiich physie'an, was in many wajs.a remarki.ble woman. She had lived in iPer-iia many years and was full of anecfjotes of her varied experiences of harem life In that country. She had Jong ren literally pursued by the fire fiend." Fifteen yeara ar sheW-as saved frpm a burning vtsH itf Batoum. She was among the rescued from th terrible fires which destroyed the Opera, Conrcique, in Pari and Municipal Thane at Nice, and she arrivMl in Constantinople on the morning of the fatal fire whelh turned down Mctslpe'a famous hotel, and only escaped with her lifei ail her projwrty, beinvf burned. She caught a roKI In rtiiis whfoh ultimately settled (in the lungs and cause! her death.

i -President, Faure is said to have Jules -Simon the other day; aa toj the Ministerial, situation. hearing iom purely ooimsels. St. Faure ai-5: And what about jny own position? "Oh." replied the old Republican, i a you have to ride straight artel not la M. Casimir-Pericr lost his balaiiee was "always piTusinj: the cuttings about himself, which, after were written to goad film jlnto resisning." Be not surprised if your ears s-econje warm with the cuVses of wives and mothers i i children, and a blight fall cm your.

head and fortunes." This blooja-urdlirrg denunciation'-, was drc-ppetl the totber i.day into tht letter box of the Lord Provost ot. ndiribuiffh by the minister of Ija'ry Con-gregatk-hal and all bca6sei tae Lord Pr-jvoat had sanctioned the opeiaing two public houses in the District, ThejComte Alexandre da Cho(seui-Couf-fuir, who died In Paris thla monthr an intereatiog link between he French and Russian, His' fattier "having flej to during the Revolution, became one of the Caar's chamberlains, and married aUouptess Potocka. -All his sons Sook ItusslaB Polish that of theilati Comua being Countess Czapska. M. the first Premier of France who has also been Slin later of Agriculture, has din-ted the Professors of AgTleuhure to susiM-nd their lectures and to.

go thrbuph the rural tils' riots in order to advise farmers to r.ieet-the failure of ths hay crop by sowmg vetcjies, maize, ana other foaaer, as also by iitillzlng oilcake, straw, bran. In Ilaron Hirsch'S a wrijriftally LOOO.OuOf.--. was left to Institutions -in 'Vienna, 'but a codjctl added soon alter Ilerr Luper's firt eiectlotj to the Mayoralty proved the growth of: the antl-Sinitie riiovement At the Austrian tra.rfsferrea the bequest to similar institutions In Moravia. SorrM lrlea of how agricultural land In England has iu vulufc can be gathered fact that "a farm of 247 acres at Dowsby, Sotith Lincolnshire, whidlt isisaid to hav cost forty years asm.) has just bein offered for sale bv auction and withdrawn, the- highest -bid be8n 'bnly it.boo.- -i i. Two ketches in oil by Sir John Stj'lais fetched remarkable' prices In Lohdoi at auction las! The original jtdek of "Sir Itiumbras at -the Ford." 14 Iby i loi, Inches, was ild for gnineas, and a stilr maller-sizd first plan of The Huguenot realized 62U guineas.

I That Aliaard Trpol PlaaJ i Frt'm "The Epectator. Ths Spanish statesmen are evldeintly-growing desperate about Cuba. It la gravely stated that they have decided to) raise a loan of tiO.otM.Otw for the xpenaes ofj the war, and that in the early Winter ihey will forward 40.000 more conscripts, jthus raising the nomlnv.I strength of the army in thd Island to 165,0 men, a force ejual to the' whole adult male population now la insurrection." Meanwhile i the "cultivation of sugar is -suspended, and the output of tobacco! has sunk such a point that, merely to prevent Havana from being byj the stoppage of all the cigar manufactories; the p-xpor- of tobacco has hern forbidrlTi by decree; No such failure of an army to do its work has been- reported in modern time, and we confess that no explanation' as yet ofTerei se-ema us In the least to lit the -Even incompetence in: the Oenerals. will not explain the situation. There must oe unwilllnffnesa to act stme-where'ln the garrison, but where it j-Vno-body either In Spain, Cuba, )or New-TTork even pretends to know, The ofilce: do their work fairly well at the men are among the bravtst' of niariKin-j, ana me nons.ci military raate-riai are- enormous, yet it.

Is grav-ly seated that the only plan of campaign ii ta stretch a cordon of troops right asross the Island, as to prevent the insurgents massing: to'ther precisely the movement which comyetent General would bei pected to encourare. Is it possible, that the muster roils of the Spanish reeiroenta are all or that the men dio; in some hitherto unltnown proportion Eaat aad Weat 5ieet lw )Ieow. Frmrt Tha SaraMay Review. The semi-Oriental C3ty of Moscow makes a mere eee41ve background for the crown. in cf a sovereign than any other town In Christendom.

It is a apectacle la Itself a strmrire" JnimWa of Samarkand and the most iTOgreaslve of Western American cities- It possesses more telephones and general electrical plant than doea London probably, but it has no sewage system whatever. In some inspects It could give lemons in raodernlty to Birmingham or Olasgow; In others It eouid learn- thn from tbs dervighs of the remotest Soudan. i Th Bast aad West tread on eaoh ethr at every comer of the Holy City. It makes a fitting stare fur the dramatic aeries of tableaus which Russia has be-en pre-lartnjr for nionths past- The royal: and crucial guests from abroad, who are to be T. umbered Ljr thousands, ajid, for that matter, the young imperial who are Nominally tiveir hosts, have as bttis la ec-mmoa wit a tho rl Huaaia, which paya the bil-s for tha feauvlU, um the Ctttiiop cf PeterberfMjgb has wilit the unwashed and uniettered monks who beg at ta iora t-f the Bazaar.

XOT TOO tATp TO Pnr.VKXT C0 11. I'tETIOX OF SJIBUMAx STATVE. Pl.leV. Ibe 0( he Army of tbeVvanc.ar. Weaf IJeyond Its iBloo'Vr In GirIBff th Centraei 'Carl it Wh Hve of H.d TaJr Treat-! ir.a fr Lmmi i Interference.

May StPersofta who have been dissatisfied with the sztraordlnary verdict of the Society of tha Army of ths Tennessee in selecting the Carl Rohl Smith model of the sUtue of W. T. Sherwaa to, be cornplewd have been looking at law under which th. eompetiun was arranged, and are wpndering whether Co- gres will permit' a contract to be r.iai,' with Mr. Smith without further quUon.

Jt. la not quite! clear that the Society of Ui Army of the Tennessee was entitled to have a much.to sfty about the selection as it has assumed (to say In deciding upon tba least meritorious mpdel offered. The Government will ai the expense of erectlrg the statue, anil th law authorising-ft does' not appear to give the Society of the Army of the Tennrss more than miitority representatloh: on th boari to direct tha construction." The aubstitneeof tho law under which the models were produced and tiw' compeUtioa undertaken Wis that 00.wv appropriated by th, act of Juiyb.l&y2. "for preparation of a slta; and the erectloni of a pedesUl for a statue cf the late Gen. Vi'l- ian io therein of Waskinf-'.

ion, said site to be aetected by and Said pedestal to be erects ntftr iv- ci of tha President of the Society, of tha Army ct the Tenntsssee. tho Secretary of Wan and "Jr vfrverat oc-mmaraing tho army, and any part of the. sum hereby sppror priated not eeded for preparation of eiie and the erection a pedestal L-a Uaed and expanded in the completion of said atatue of tho latf Gen. W1Uiim T. Sherman." If this language bad been adhered ts.

tba decision npou' tha pedestal ani statu mode would have been In me hands of ta President ot the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, tha Secretary cf and Major' -Gen. Miles. As was, the' aiiection Was. taken out of the hanls nftV. of t'heseperafiia, and was astmod by the tweiety jvZ the Anmy of the Ihls soaisty was represented by fcaif a oozen or more ex-otfuers of tho armv.

ts which they were attached aa subor.jintU-a of fcherman, I each with a vota. ani they outvoted, if they chose, the m-rt indicated to speak and vote for tha Government. Perhaps some of the competitor may have reason to beUsve that Secretary Lamont and Major Oen. Miles favored rjm otiir model tha that of Carl liohl tauth. if taese two membera of the cr-ated by law were not la favor of tne f-rrHtit and th soldier was -allowed to outvot the legal com havw not tho man who stood a chance winuii.a; the baals a.

leal interfwence will. tie grossly unfair decision of the Society of tea Array of the Tennessee? A resolution of Congress, setting forta tho faets.i would poetpomt, until iiwesti-gation. cooldj to had. the molding of tii Smith statue and the preparation of tha alte and pedestal for its reception. In tha interest of fair play, and tp put the Government rn SiMneUUng- iikn aa attitude of Justice toward competitors, wbo wtra forced out of the final competition by what looks like wretchel favoritisnv this ba taken.

If at wide-awake of the Hou acquaJud with th- Uusi--ness, ahiUl be induced 'to take charge cf the resolution, it la not too late to have it put through the House and tee Senate before adjournment. It would be a gain to art and Juotlca to defciy work us- th Sherrnaa atatue. rather than, lutva it go on in the rather ecandaJous stances eurrounding the competition that has Just coins to so farcical a conclusion. BERMUDA' COMES BACK BFATE.V Her Last Trip to Cabs a Fallar -Ileal Sarraw Kaeapa, Phtlaoklphia, May St AIT ccnjetur regarding the whereabouta.cf the bow fa-raoua filibustering ateamer Bermuda win aet at rest to-day when she sttaroad up the Delaware River and fast to her She came from Puerto Cortex, Honduras, jlnstead cf 'arms an-J ttton" her cargo consisted of 8.f bunches of bananas and 8.0UO ailVer dollars.) The sii-, vep was taken out to buy fruit, bii.t a strike" among the fruit cutters, "coupled with th belief that the vessel was nrt bound.on a legitimate voyage, snade Jt impossibla secure a full cargo. The attempt to land her outward cargo and passengers on Cuban soli was a fl.U failure, and the escape of the vessel front destruction by "Spanish shells was llttia short of providential, Thjk Bermuda saUed from i Philadelphia April 23.

In command of Captj O'Brien, for Jacksonville. She sailed fruat the Jiittvr port April in command of tapt. iUiew, who aucceeUwi 0Brit-n. The expe iltton waa made up of ninety-six men from Key Wtt. and Philadelphia.

In comriiand or JUen. Leidal Vidal, a soldier of tlie revolution and a native of Snutiago Cuba. -The -cargo consisted of two Gating eruns, 1,4.100 rttles, Uxi.m rounds of ammunition, and l.ttutf of dynamite. An attempt was ro.H-ie under Uett. Vldala arder land the of May 4.

at a point on the coast of Cuba, ten miles east of Cardenas. A gunboat was sra early la the evening, it was thought She did not jiotice tne Bermutla, aad elyht boats, with forty-ajlne men, were in water, about one an-1 abalf miles from ti. coast, when a- aearchiitfht from an ap--proachln? cruiser waj Uahed, over tha ea-tlra party. All hands were instantly in a state of hopeless demoralization, titd a desperate attempt to'get back to ta steamer was tna-ia Only a few, however, tchl tha liermuda, which started at ono at fail speed. She lad only run al-out eight miles, when' a Becond gdsboat started in pursuit, whicrt waa kept up until daylizht.

Tfire were r4-peated flainca and ruars from the unn the bpinisn warship, Solid shot and fell thlck-and fast until the distance teiw-a the vessels increased, the Bvrjnuda b4imr forced to her utmost" speed, ana when dy iitwat.1 th gunbastt could not be seen. The arrived two days later at Truxirio. livnduras, the ret cf tha war material Imvltig, beea how kit overboard duriiig the rae. i Five of the party were drewned In at-tempting-to make the lan-iinc. among beinc Nicolo Cardenas, a brother of C'd.

yi insurgent, -t-hief. fit fits of t.ia others is not known, t-ut it is b. greater niar.ber were jjcaught on the coast praabiy. ahot bij the At lea ft thirty-two of th party ar The. other ptissengeri were landed tr rr.

coast of Honduras lttwen nl Puerto Corlez, and alter srl reachel Sio-bite. on the atr4mer Clearwater, Hayden Vet of and Adri.m El-indge of thl- city rturril ri th-. Hr-mii-iA The fate cf XI. ijmilic Caha-ia Is unknown, but It is Irlievei be woo those io't- i It is said there Is now t'Ula doubt that th Intended landing: place of the h.r- -mud waa known tuith Statilwh officiA la New-York before arte let Jacksonvuia. i novr Rhodes Mm Ilia lirpatatloo.

rroro. In TrotA. Pills and patriots become popular if they are puffed. Thia hai been the rasa in regard to Mr. Bhodis.

That astata apeculaaor perceived that Jingofsoa waa In the ascendant, and worked this vein, much Jabes Balfour worked the religious vein. In order feather the nest in which he "aid his of -shady fiiianciaiista bAU-htd their vu g8- At ths Cape he bought up African r-papra: he kept weii wilb the correspondents -of English newspapers; he ent-iriairel royally ail men of mnuence who vis.ted South Africa, and be I tba i--rs of his compani-ns broauyat. Tims a mythical Rhoues was created the th the least aelf-aeeiinff ot V-trlota. The ia wearinir oat tha l. and.

notwithstanding tne rie--'perat e.T jris of hla led cajULina, of fc! himncing ao-ctatea, and bf thuao wbo taka on crt-t tba patriotism ary orie wh-a aT-cts t-j p- to JK; Jir.g ti.a re..