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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CITROOTC1LE THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1890. THEIR NAMES IN PRINT. ROCHESTER PROPERTY Democrat and Chronicle. XnUrcxl at tfc Pot-OJUe at Rochester, jr.

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XaUy eO.OO 93.00 1.60 Weekly l.OO 50 IS I 05T INVSSTMSNT be left to the courts. The district attorney is expected to satisfy himself as to the proper course of procedure The coroner's jury is a survival of an ancient form, but the system has been brought into disrepute by working it professionally for the fees. The behavior of coroners who formerly depended on fees became such a scandal that the Legislature abolished the fee system but this remedied but one of the evils and scandals attending inquests. There are no fee hunters among the coroners, but it has been charged that there is frequently speculation in the fees due to jurymen and as a consequence what is known as the professional juryman has come to have a plaoe. If this scandal continues the Legislature will be called upon to devise some other method of determining the cause of death It may be that the office of coroner should be abolished altogether and the matter of inquests left to justices of the peace in towns and to similar offioers in cities.

jroz tries as will reduce the profits of labor to such an extent that the farm and the village workshops will offer more than equal opportunities for remunerative employment. We say more than equal opportunities, because the love for the excitement of city life is an important factor in determining the direction of change in population, and men remove to cities without any gain whatever in opportunities for remunerative employment. The rapid growth of cities in this country is natural and is one of the most interesting phases of national development. The decrease of farm and village real estate values reported by the state assessors may not be fully substantiated by the census which has just been taken. The work of the state assessors is not based upon the complete information which a census would furnish, but it is probably true that the rural districts do not keep with the increase of values in rapidly growing cities.

New England was the first section to show a decline in rural wealth and population. The great and thriving West drew part of this population, while creating a competition in farm products that has caused a lowering of New England farm values. New York will never suffer so much from these causes, because her soil is better and crops are surer. There has been an effort in some quarters to make political use of the changes which we have discussed. The theory of the free traders is that if our farmers and manufacturers were crippled by a world-wide competition, everybody would be prosperous.

This reasoning of the free traders leads to an absurdity. All values would be depreciated proportionally and the present home market of the farmer would be partially destroyed. Whatever changes of values may now be noted will adjust themselves in time by natural processes. His Responsibility. To the Editor of the Democrat and Chronictb Sir: As one deeply Interested in the proper management of our water works system I desire to call your attention to a few facts in regard to the construction of the old conduit which have escaped publio notice, The Post Exjiress of Saturday contained the following As we closo this article communication comes to hand which put one ei iiiUcaiit lact verv stroiifc-lv: readiness ot the general public to iorsret is indued stupendous, and yet it is hnnlly supnosable that the general Rochester public already toruets the practical pertection of the Jtnchester water works in iiuiii Kuichlln's himcH from tho elav itsopeniutf oxuibitiou astou-ishi'U Western New York utitil ihuday buiil Kuioh line, quitting tho Executive iioaru.

rcv.itjntid its control: or how rapidly from that day it has been poinir to the anu, cneeed or hastened by fraud and quaeki ries and ex uienls aud nostrums of inside and outoide expertsand luaulpu-hitors so that no taxpayer knows whether his water supply is shortened by blunders or jobbery, liid chicliy togetridof lias pestilent 6ource of uneasiness iliuiail wuo know t-unl Kuiehiiufr desire bis appomimcut as chiet engineer. It is lor uis morai aa won us lor his pi otcBSinua 1 reliability luut ue should be appomleu. He is master ot every detail cif the Uocucsuir water works; be helped to Ueaitcu uud to make them: uud, so far as one man ut ruous eouid, to make tueui ef-leoiive. lu ins huuus they were etleeiive; and iu his hands tuny fcnouid ba Xlioutfii the writer forgets tiieoilicinl responsibility ot others aud may over-estimate the uo-tuui intlueueo ot Kunl Kuicalintf, he hiU precisely tno puiut we have made as to the tendency which such a muu exerts lor trood. Tuere was no uuestioii as to the tanure of our water supply or tuo condition of tho line until after bis retuo-uieut from the Executive iiotud.

David Clancy, (who repaired portions of the line in 1875, testified as follows before the Supreme Court in the case of George D. Lord against the city of Rochester I Wis employed in repairing leaks In this pipe iu Noveuiuer, 1 taink, 1676, from Factory Hollow to Jacques's Hiil, a distance ot two aud a half miles. When 1 took up a length 1 took a lamp with me and went into the pipe and followed through tue pipe aud found In several places the pipe sagged aown at the top. 1 went into Lbe pipe nvt or six hundred teet with a lamp, i knew the distance by counting the rims on the pipe. U'lu pipe was sagged down iu places, perhaps from six to twelve mches." 1 worked at the business of repairing tbis pipe about tuat uiomua." yueatiou Vou spoke ot cutting the pipe by driving tue leau? Answer fjiiving the lead so tight to keep it from tagging; I hould drive it tight enough tue pipe would sag down and tne lead would go in between tno ucli aud tho spigot.

I couid not say how lar 1 made the iron pipe sag down, but far enough so the lead would give way aud go into tue pipe." It should be explained that the sagging spoken of is a bending inward of the ends of the thin wrought iron pipe during the process of driving lead into the cast iron bell which was employed as a coupling ring. The bells were frequently broken by the process or by the settling of the ends of the pipe. Mr. Clancy testified: There were forty-eight broken bells that I found aud repaired, i did it by putting ou sleeves iu place of bells." i repaired forty-four by putting ou half sleeves-" As the length of a pipe was about ninety feet the length repaired was about one mile and a half, of the two and a half that he went over. Mr.

Kuichling says in testimony given in the same suit The plans for those pipes the wrought iron conduit tue oriuinal design was made by myself, both the two loot and the three. The general design of it was made by me, the details afterward. On the subject of a brick conduit Mr. Kuichline: testified as follows Question: State whether in your opinion a brick conduit could have been bunt, with brick al tl a thousand, hh cueapiy as the iron line of conduit that was substituted for it? Answer: Under the circumstances I don't think it could have been doue or built so cheap as a wrougut iron conduit. Mr.

Kuichling further states in his testimony that a brick conduit would require an expensive foundation, but the fact still remains that with hard burnt brick at $1 a thousand, and with the expensive foundation which Mr. Kuichling declares was necessary, that the brick conduit would cost not to exceed $4 per lineal foot, while the wrought iron conduit which was substituted actually cost more than $8 a foot. Tax -payer. Rochester, Ar. F.

Sept. 1S90. ROCHESTER MEN I Why not make a good profit in the rapid advance of Rochester real estate? Property is rising in value nights and Sundays. Invest $1 a week in a Building Lot. One of the best investments is a lot in the North Goodman Street Building Lot Association.

One Dollar Down and One Dollar a Week takes any lot. Shares on the Section Plan, $150, $200, $225 and $250. This is the best investment offered in Rochester. Secure a lot. EQUALIZATION OF TAXES, The equalization table for 1890 adopted by the state board on the 2nd of September, shows the following valuations and ohanges in Monroe and adjacent counties 2 5.5s 5-2- 5" 3 E.5 a i nniuiiH I I -r? fJ -j -r; Assessed value of real ac3 5.3 estate, 1889.

i- 4- w' i a to Assessed value of vet- ii sonal estate, 4 V- w' J. i f- 3: ij Total assessed value of ij a real and versmuil estate, 1W9. It a Ti t-! r-- mom Amount deducted from ii 35 5 asesed value of real s-t. estate. i -1 gizSsjgiiS it: Amount added to assets- ed value of real estate.

Equalized value of real 5.4gsS:3 55 estate. jgljjfSliSsfil Total equalized real and Sf SSiiS personal. ii: i -i 3 WARNER 3 and 4 Osburn House Block. .1 i ii There is a great Three groups of sun-spots are now visible in the sun's western quadrant. They probably came to view about the 23d or 2 1th of August passing the sun's meridian about the 31st of August.

One of the spots is verv large. The atmospheric conditions prevailing during the week ending August 30th indicate that there was only moderate activity about the sun-spots. Indeed it may be said that spots of the character now visible are formed after the most violent solar action has ceased. The spots now visible may represent, the final stage of a great disturbance. The seat of the present great sun-spot has been in a 9tate of agitation for many months, but spots have been seen only at intervals.

NOTES AND OPINIONS. We observe with sincere approval the disappearance from the title headline of the Albany Argus of the emasculated version of young Mayor Manning's immortal poem on the -Argus's mortal dulness. If we cannot have the masterpiece in its original and genuine form, let prose replace it by all means. yew York Hun, Little Rock special to the Chicago Tribune: To-day 's election in Arkansas has been a repetition of fraud, bulldozing and other crimes of greater magnitude by the Democrats. It was even more violent and illegal than the election two years ago, which is generally known to have been carried by the foulest and blackest crimes against a free ballot.

Even the liquor dealers threaten Mayor Grant in his extremity. The H'fne and Spirit Gazette gives Grant due notice that he must be careful. 4 The molestations and harrassments of the trade, says the Gazette, "under the present administration of the Excise Department have reached a pass which warrants plain language. The leaders of Tammany Hall may as well understand that the liquor dealers are not so securely bound to Mayor Grant's chariot wheels. Buffalo Express.

Attekttvk observers will not fail to see that the inducements offered by the United States to Brazil, or to other sugar-growing countries of Central or South America, would be materially diminished if Spain should make satisfactory arrangements on behalf of her West India islands. But that is a matter with which diplomacy can deal. The essential thing is to establish the principle that this nation is now prepared to use retention or remission of its purely revenue duties in order to secure broader protection for American labor. yew York Tribune. CURRENT TOPICS.

There are 100 deer forests in the Highlands of Scotland. The Paris Figaro pays yearly a dividend of over 100, 000. There are seventeen registered sects of Wesleyans and Methodists. Douglas county, Ore. is turning out variegated marble of excellent quality.

The latest scheme for marking the points made in playing cards on the cars is to stick a pencil between the slats of the window-blind, and the pencil travels up and down according to the luck. An American actress has sung The Star Spangled Banner at the top of the Eiffel Towar. It now remains for a French artist to don a diver's suit and warble ''Down Went McGinty at the bottom of the English Channel. At the Tamarack and Osceola copper manufacturing company's wire mill in Houghton county, Mich. a coil of copper wire miles in length was recently drawn.

The foreman of the mill says it is the longest ever drawn in the world. It weighs 24 tons. A wat up 4, 000 feet above the Columbia river, at the base of Mount Adams, six large ice caves have been found. One of these ice caves, the largest one, is used by the farmers as a cold storage warehouse for butter and milk, and answers the purpose admirably. A retired English army officer of means is on a tour through the Western States of America.

When he sat down to dinner a day or two ago he met with quite a surprise. The waiter who took his order was his son, who had run away to scalp Indians some seven years ago. Tennyson is seldom tempted from hls're-tirement, and if he meets any excursionists or inquisitive persons staring at him in his tramps across Blackdown will at once make his way back to his favorite woods. Sometimes a rude admirer will even go so far as to spy in the windows at Aldworth and it is told that on one occasion Tennyson caught some Paul Pry in the act and flung the book he was reading out of the open window at the fellow's head. M.

Pozdneef, a professor of Oriental languages at the University of St. Petersburg, has discovered in the National Library of Paris a Manchu manuscript which is probably the most ancient known. It consists of 161 leaves of Chinese papyrus, contained in four portfolios of yellow silk, a circumstance which has led scholars to believe that it belonged to an imperial library. The heading on the title page has been interpreted to mean Book of Words and Phrases, compiled by order and duriug the sixth year of the reign of the present Ming dynasty. Children and Cigarettes.

To the Editor of the Democrat and Sir: In your article, "The Law and the Boys, in your issue of September 2nd, you fail to notice that the new law, chapter 417 of the laws of 18'JO, prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes and the use of tobacco in any form by children under 16 years of age, by declaring the same a misdemeanor, fails entirely to accomplish its purpose, for the reason that courts of special sessions are not given jurisdiction to try offenders for violating that law. A child arrested for a violation of this law must be taken forthwith before a magistrate, who, having no authority to try the offender, must hold or commit him to await the action of the Grand jury of the county. That ancient institution will very likely think that the indictment of a child under 16 years of age for smoking a cigarette contrary to this law very much like driving a 1 brad with a sledne. A ohild under 7 years is not capable of crime and of 7 years and under 1V2 years is presumed to be incapable of crime. If the Grand Jury refuse to indict as is probable, the law goes for nothing.

Yours etc, DliI.EKKT A. ADAM3. Brockpori, N. Y. Sept.

M'JQ. been something lacking. difference in mem Emfle Zola's 'wife never reads any of her husband's stories. So says a friend of the family. An old Mississippi river pilot says that Mark Twain was the laziest white man he ever saw in a pilot-house.

Liilie Devereux Blake has a yellow brocaded silk dress, which is said to have been once worn by Theodosia Burr. Senator Ingalls has just finished a handsome home on a hill overlooking Atchison. It is an imposing brick poutaining fifteen rooms, and has been christened Oak Ridge. The Senator has been a resident of Kansas since 1858. Colonel Elliott Shepard has recently purchased a tract of ground at White Plains, K.

Y. overlooking the Hudson, for which he paid ex-Mayor Grace He intends to erect a handsome residence on it for Jay Gould has a brother in St. Louis named Abraham Gould, the burden of whose life is his relationship. He is the purchasing agent of the Missouri Pacific railway on a moderate salary, aud he complains that he cannot go anywhere without hearing somebody whisper; HThere goes Jay Gould's brother. In Holland, Mich.

C. J. Doesbury publishes the yews, and in its columns strongly recommends Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil for coughs, colds, sore throat, catarrh and asthma. POLITIC County Convention.

The Republican elentors of tho several towns of the county of Monroe and wardsi of the city of Rochester are requested to send five delegates from each town and ward in Monroe county to a convention to be held In the City Hall, Rochester, on Tbuirdar. September 18, at 11 o'clock a. for the purpone of nominating county officers to bo eupportcd at tho general election and to transact such other buciuess as may come before the convention. HORACE G. FIERCE, Chairman.

EiHLL H. Bec'y. First Assembly District Convention. The republican electors of the towns comprising the Hrst Assembly District are requested to send five delegates each town, to a convention to be held at the Phoenix Hotel, Pitts-ford, on Saturday, Sept. 20th, at 11 o'clock a.

for the purpose of nominating candidates for member of assembly and school commissioner, and transacting any other business that may come before the convention. Chabi.es Raymond, T. L. Hclbehi, Georob A. GOS8, District Committee.

Third Assembly District Convention. The Republican electors of the towns comprising the Third Assembly District of Monroe County, are hereby notified and requested to send five delegates from each town in said district, to attend a convention to be held at Lincoln Hall, Spencerport villago. on Saturday, Sept. 13th, 189K, at 12 o'clock, the purpos ot nominating a candidate for member of assembly and a candidate for school commissioner, and to transact any other business proper to be brought before the convention. John D.

Burks, Alfred G. Wright, Btephes Bennett. District Committee. (W THIRD WARD The Republican electors of tho Third ward are requested to meet at No. lsd Plymouth avenue on Thursday evening.

September 4th, from 6 to o'clock for the purpose of electing delegutes to the and County conventions. By order Ward Committee. Naturalization. All persons who desire to be naturalized, and who intend to vote the Republican ticket at the coming election, may have the necessary papers made out free of charge, upon application at the rooms of the Republican County Committee, National Hotel, West Main cor. Plymouth from 9 a.

in, to 5 p. ui. H. i. PIERCE, Chairman.

E. H. Slocum, Beoretary. LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF BEEF Makes the purest, cheapest and best Beef Tea Finest meat flavoring stock for Soups, Sauces and Made Dishes. One pound of Extract of Beef equal to fortj pounds of lean beef, of the value of about $7.50.

I Genuine only with 2-lJustus von Liebig's Cf 2j signature as shown. LADIES! Use Only CROWN'S pop a i on your Boots rrcciawn and DRESSINGS Ehoee. Awarded highest honors at I FRFIiCH VhTi LADIES AMO "JHtrisflTftoK 1876i Frmnkfort, 1881 Amsterdam, 1883 New Orleana, S4-f Faria, Berlin, 1877 Parii, IK'S Melbourne. 1SS0 and wherever exhibited. Paris Medal en every bottle.

Beware of Imitations, URNISH THE EW HOUSE WITH GAS FIXTURES! DON'T WAIT UNTIL FALL. Make your Selection while the Stock is Fresh. SAMUEL SLOAN 24 Exchange Street. LI I TED PARTNERSHIP. "VTOTICE is hereby given that the underalpned have formed a limited co-partnership the following terms The nameor firm under which such partnership is to be conducted i C.

E. Drake. The (reneral nature of the but-iness intended to be transacted is a mercantile business comprising buyine and selling; produce on account of the firm and making advances thereon for a commission. The undersigned are the only partners: Said Corwin E. Drake, who resides at Rochester, is the (reneral partner, and said Edward W.

Eames, who resides at Buffalo, N. is the special partner. raid special partner, Edward W. Eames, has contributed $15,1 Ou capital to th common stock, which amount he bas actually and in good faith paid In cash. Said partnership is to commence on the first day of September, l(-80, and will terminate on the 31st dHy of L'ecember, The principal plaoe of business of the partner-SliipfchHil be situated at Rochester, ti.

V. Dated August 30th, 18'J0. Corwin E. Drake, tieneral Partner. Edwakd W.

Eamks, hppclal Partner. I hereby designate the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and the Rochester Post Express as the two newspapers in which the terms of partnership shall be published pursuaul to si suite. Dated, August SO, William Oliver, Clerk of the County of Monroe. i THE REAL ESTATE FO Ti SALE, I THREE ACRES Business and manufacturing property oa N. T.

cor. North Union street. New Corliss enptnein brick engine house. Office, sheds, burn. 8ou ft.

Kit. truck oa property. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN CROXISE CONKLIX, 807 Ellwanifer Barry Building, Rochester. Goodman Street 2,300. $200 down.

New houe, rooms, I in provetn'tc. Easy terms. Hounes built oa payment of jloO. Marshall, Patten fj. New Houses for Sale OFFER FOR SALE FIVE VERT handsome ami convenient brick and frams dwelling on South avenue and Linden strtft, supplied with modern improvements; terms of payment as e.ny an can bo desired.

Apply ta Kllwanyer iiarry. Mt, Hope avenue. A HOUSE OH RDTGER STREET I JUST COMPLETED AND NOW OFFFKED for Rule at a moderate price. Hard wood finish. Portland stone Everything complete for occupancy.

WILLIAM C. WALKER, TOI EllwaUfctor A Barry Building. South Clinton Street. I LEG ANT HOUSE, NEWLY DECORATED. Good place for high-class phy.loiau or boarding house.

WARNER BltADTET, 3 and A Osburu Ilotino Block. House and Lot fob BRICK HOUSE; 18 ONE OF THE FINEST places in Uoneoj Fills; must be sold tj ose an estate. Inquire Bank of HoueoyS Falls or of D. B. ECKLKK.

Pittaford. N. V. $2,000 ILL buy a handsome new two-story house. East side, deep lot.

ti down and SH a month. WARNER BKAIVLFT, '3 and 4 Osburu House Block. North Union St. AVERT handsome ten-room bouiN with high class Improvements. Is offered under rval value.

An uiuual chance. WAHNKR A 3 aud 4 Unburn llouae H.ock. FARM FOR SALE. VFINE FARM OF PT ACRES IN TH TOWS of Mendnn. Nice houxe and ground, bara Mir.

orchard, some timber, tine spring Of never failinir water. The owner is a cripple and in no condition to work it. Only "no mtiO froin fwiolliir and nehools and church. KI3STGSLEY fc CO Real Estate HI A roadw. ron kent.

TO LEASE. IOR THE SEASON, SI MMWIVIM.I! f.A Kit Beach eottai'e. Ten rcoux kitchen, dining and other rooms, hi.v-l- uk, barn and earn-. ui- room, row sa! i. VicU.

ii. S. 4LiCiUE, Miutw Moru, iu. a.u.i-.- FOR SALE OR TO RENT, AT A BARGAIN, FARM OF 40 ACUE3 IX the village of Fast Henrietta, 6 mile, south ot Rochester. Buildings In good repair; house; hen hoUM very coaiplute, costing larao orchard of choice ruiu Call oa or addresl 10 State street.

Room 5, Sulwertpffcm to the Democrat and may be mad through the Purchasing Drpart-punt of the American Express Company at any place where that eomvany ha an aaency. A gents viil ffive mnnry order receipt tor rubteriptuuu, and will forward the money order attached to an order to mend the paper for any stated time, fre ef any chary, except the usual fc for iwuing the erder. REPUBLICAN NOMINATION For Representative in Congress, John Van Voorhis. LET TELE INQUIRY PROCEED. It is well to baT an investigation of the methods pursued by the officers of the United States courts of the Northern district of Xew York.

The attorney general would have been justified in making an investigation some time ago. Congress lias now moved in the matter under a general resolution and inquiries have already been made in several states. The attention of the congressional committee bas been called to the Northern district of New York. If half of the reports concerning the conduct of the public business are true, there should be a general reorganization. The exercise of Federal power should not be made odious by continued abuses.

Let the investigation be sweeping and the people will applaud. A BRIGHT OUTLOOK. The Interviews with respresentative bankers and merchants which are published in the local department this morning afford gratifying indications of a pronounced business revival, and it is the general opinion that activity in fall trade has made itself apparent unusually early. It is the judgment of the most conservative and sagacious, la Rochester not only, but throughout the country, that it is safe Co anticipate a decidedly prosperous fall and winter trade, and already the condition of the market justifies the most sanguine expectations. There i a renewed and general feeling of confidence in town and country, and it must be traced directly to the certainty that we are soon to have a settled and improved tariff, which will afford intelligent protection to American industries and stimulate legitimate trade in all directions.

The teavy importations of the last few weeks may have a depressing effect, but it will be temporary and the cause will be easily understood. Surely the good times are coming and capital and labor alike will rejoice at the passage of the McKinley bill. AMERICAN SHIPPING. The importance of the lake marine in the United States is shown by the operations of a single ship-building firm in Cleveland. During the past eight months this firm has launched nine iron vessels, the combined carrying capacity of which is more than 25, 000 tons.

The cost was over 2, 000, 000. This great tonnage, from only one yard in less than a year, is an indication of the immense extent of our internal commerce. The fleets of lake vessels already in existence, the activity in building new ones, and the thousands of miles of railroad in operation, show how great are the demands for transportation between the busy marts of the United States. Cleveland is now the great inland shipbuilding city of the United States, a fact which is alluded to with pardonable pride by the Leader of that city. In this connection the Leader remarks with truth and force The development of the lake marine is due to the protection from foreign competition it has enjoyed and when the shipping bills already passed in the Senate Lave also passed the House and received the President's signature, the mercantile marine interests of seaport cities will undergo a great development also.

American industrial, producing and manufacturing interests are anxiously awaiting the passage and operation of these measures. REPUBLICAN CALL TO ACTION. The Republican state committee at its meeting in New York on Tuesday adopted a et of resolutions voicing the sentiments of all Republicans. These resolutions place in a clear light the legislation of the present session of Congress and fairly outline the principles and purposes of the Republican party in state and nation. The resolutions should be carefully read.

The committee followed a rule which has been generally approved, of renominating faithful and efficient judges of the Court of Appeals without reference to politics. Judge Robert Earl, Democrat, was named by the committee, and Lis nomination by the Democratic state committed will follow. Judge Earl deserves the honor which has been conferred, of a unanimous renomina-tion by both parties. The removal of partisan politics from the election of judges of the highest court must have a good influence upon the judiciary of the state. The suggestions of the committee in regard to nominations for office and earnest work in preparation for the campaign should be heeded.

The contest will require'all the energies of Republicans. They should increase their representation in Congress and assure a large Republican majority in the Assembly. CORONERS' INQUESTS. The manner of conducting inquests in thi3 city should be reformed. The inquest has come to be something not intended by the law, and its scope has been enlarged by efficious jurymen until it Las almost the same functions as a trial court.

Juries do xtot confine themselves to inquiries into the cause of death, but proceed to inquire into the character of everybody concerned nearly sr remotely. Counsel are allowed to make an elaborate defense of clients by witnesses as though the trial were actually la progress. The business of a coroner's jury hould be very simplo, nd the statement of its conclusions should be to the point, which is the cause of death. Bo far the determination of the guilt or innocence any one is concerned, that should THE POLITICS OF IT. As to the point of choosing a Democratic engineer to which tho Herald returns this morning, we have only to repeat in substance what we said In the beginning: A Republican held the position for about eighteen years; and the fact that a man proposed as his successor is a Democrat is neither a qualification nor a disqualification.

If the partisan declaration made by a member of tho Executive Board be taken as good ground for excluding a Democrat, then the plain fact is that only a Republican can be considered eligible to an oilioe held by a Republican since its creation and now vacant for the first time. Men who insist that only a Republican must be chosen to this vacant position take precisely tho partisan ground that Mr. Arui-brm-ter toon in Buying that only a Democrat should be We say simply that the place is vacant; and no candidate should be Bhut out on pu.itical pretenses of any kind. Pott Express. The above is hardly a fair statement of the situation.

The place referred to is not vacant, but is filled temporarily by ilr. Rafter, who was Mr. Tubbs's chief assist-and and who has discharged the heavy and peculiar responsibilities of the office in a manner eminently acceptable. Virtually Mr. Rafter was placed at the head of the Water Works Department on trial and how well he has endured the test it is scarcely necessary to remind the public.

No one, we believe, has insisted that a Republican must be chosen to fill the place permanently, but the claim is made that a man who has proved his capability by his works should not be deposed simply because he is a Republican. It is a question of efficiency and not of politics, but other things being equal, as a matter of common justice it would seem that Mr. Rafter should be given the preference. He has served the city faithfully and well at a critical period and he is now discharging the duties of chief engineer with prudence, skill and sound common sense. Circumstances have removed him from the level of other aspirants for the position and unless it can be 6hownthat he lacks the necessary qualifications, it is difficult to understand upon what moral grounds Iub discharge could be successfully defended.

The Post Express has indulged in covert threats several times, but thus far Mr. Armbruster's declaration I want a Democrat in that position, seems to be the only ground upon which it is proposed to remove Mr. Rafter. ELAINE AND M'KINLEY. The Troy Press finds the Democrat and Chronicle's interpretation of Mr.

Blaine's letter amusing and unique. 'The editor of the Press must have read Republican newspapers very inattentively during the past few weeks, not to have found in them many indorsements of both the Blaine idea and the McKinley plan one providing for protection in competitive industries, and the other contemplating free exchange of non-competitive products. Is there anything inconsistent in these two schemes? If so, the Press ought to point it out, instead of adopting the Democratic-Mug wumpian plan of vaguely asserting that reciprocity is only another plan for free-trade and proclaiming that Mr. Blaine has ceased to be a protectionist. We presume it has not occurred even to the most perverted imagination to call Major McKinley a free trader.

Yet the bill which goes under his name provides that many articles of foreign production may be imported into the United States without payment of duty. The most conspicuous of these is sugar. This is the very feature of the bill that Mr. Blaine criticises. He says Let the sugar duties remain at least until we can make arrangements for the free entry of our own products and manufactures into sugar-making countries.

And for advocating this kind of reciprocity Mr. Blaine is called a free trader I Could anything be more 'amusing and Mr. Blaine's record as a staunch protectionist ought to shield him against any imputation of the kind noted. He ha3 not hintod at any departure from the convictions that have hitherto inspired him in his brilliant and effective battles for American industries. He has not proposed to subject those industries to the assaults of cheap foreign competition.

He has not found a word of fault with the protective features of the McKinley bill. He has denounced the only important step toward free trade which that bill takes. He would make this step conditional on our receiving simply compensating advantages. The Democrat asd Chkojjicle has not made any discovery, as the Press alleges. It bas simply interpreted Mr.

Blaine's utterances in the clear light of their obvious meaning. Any other interpretation is forced, illogical, and in most cases insincere. Mr. Blaine would open new markets for American products Major Mo ICiii ley would strengthen the home market. Neither plan conflicts with the other.

The two are admirably adapted to work together. CHANGES IN WEALTH AND POPULATION The State Board of Equalization has completed its work at Albany by adopting the equalization table reported by the state assessors. The report of the assessors shows a vast increase of wealth in the city of New York and notes a falling off in wealth and population in rural districts and small villages. This reported change is probably owing to the concentration of great manufacturing industries in large cities. The establishment of these industries attracts population from all quarters, and rural districts furnish a fair proportion.

Whether it be wise or unwite, there is continual flow of population from rural districts to the cities. How long this will continue time elone can determine. The probabilities are that there will be no cessation of this change until there is such an overcrowding of manufacturing indus AMUSEMENTS. Matinee To-day at 3. in, To-uiirht, and the balance of this week.

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY A Great Play, A Splendid Company. All next week and uunl matinees Kate Pur-cell, iu QUliEJi OF THE PLAINS. jy R. JACOBS' ACADEMY. Telephone xii kef ISept.

4th, 5thaiidCth. sights 1 ONLY,) Matinee Suturday. TONY PASTOR And his Grand Double Company of American and European Vaudeville Stars, headed by London's greatest character singer and change artist, MISS BESSIE B0 IV EH ILL, who has been ensrnged at an enormous salary. Next week The World Against Her. th Powers Gallery of Fine Arts On the Fifth Floor of the Powers Bldg.

Open Dally, Sundays excepted, from 8.00 a. m. until 6.00 p. m. Admission, 25 Cents.

31 ISCELIiAXEOUS. AFTER BEAKFAST. DINNER or SUPPER. Smoke the celebrated Fumar Imperial ten-cent cinar. Sold by Mt Greal 2T North avenue; M.

T. Walrath. South St. Paul street; Gor-ham Snyder. lSd State street, and many others.

GEO. W. SPRAGUE, FIRE INSURANCE AG'CY ot) Arcade Hall. Imperial Fire Ins. Northern Assurance Co.

City of London Fire Ins. Orient ire Ids, Co. Me. chants Fire Ins. Dutchess Fire Lus.

Co. Barnes Safe and Lock Co. Manufacturers of Improved Fire and Burglar Proof BABITES SAFES W. F. SULLIVAN, 65 Clinton Place Le GRAND BROWN, Civil Engineer and Surveyor 89 Exchange Place Building.

Take the elevator, 18 State Street. Charges reasonable. Orders attended to promptly. Notice For Sale. STOCK OF THE DIAMOND MANCFACTPR-ing; Co.

at par. 15 per cent. Kuaraiueed on siock. Call at Company's office, 73 East Main-sL, room 4, for information. DIAMOND MANUFACTURING CO.

FLOWERS. Pmtlax. Carnations. Bermuda Lilies. Calla Lilies, Tulips.

Violets. Astilba, Hoses. Alalia, In abundance. Cor. Union and Alain fit.

WHITE BROS. For One AVeek Only. Plain or Diagonal Cheviot Suits to Orderv $18.00. Marked down from ikh Rochester Pants 1, over 102 State St. Screened Oats.

I DAVE A CHOICE LOT OK WHITE. ALSO Mixed Outs, which I have recieaned, and filer at tho lowest market rates. Kyo Peed, torn Mual aud Uround Corn and Oats alwav ou hand. HEN KV SM lrvuiit MUla. Miii-aU ii mm w.f,'n LETTERS OF CREDIT.

A married man's a hub, they say As it it were a juke. And proiiably the thing is true, A wife's so like a spoke. Wis.) Press. Chicago may not be blind, but she is certainly Biteless, so far as the world's fair is concerned. Dansvilln Breeze.

She Do you believe in second sight?" He 'Yes when I see a girl as pretty as you are, I' bound to look at her twice. Binghamton Pepublican. He (a tailor) I'm sorry that I can't be with you to-morrow evening, but I've got to go to the shop to press a suit of clothes. She pshaw, why not bring the suit of clothes here and kill two birds with one stone? Binghamton Leader, Miss DeNote I cannot enjoy Madame Phatwaist in opera. She is so awfully stout.

Mr. Phil Osopher Do as I do. Look at her through the wrong end of the opera-glasses. Street db Smith's Good yews. Customer I want the most beastly fit you can aw give me, y' know.

Salesman (astounded) Sir? Customer want to make the deah boys think I had it made in Englan', y' know. Smith, Gray di Monthly. THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY, BEECHAM'S PILLS For Eilioiis and Nervcis Disorders. "Worth a Guinea a Box" but gold for 25 Cents, nv in. nnicciisTci 22 "ASSISTANCE" Is all nature nfeds in nine cases out of ten to remedy sickness.

The old idea of bleeding, blistering, purg. in, has been superseded by that of assisting nature, that is, seeing to diet and sanitary surroundings and giving medicine to act gently but just as certainly as the old style. In all cases of Stomach Trouble, lndiesiton, I pia, DYSPEPSYN an artificial pastric juice formula on every bottle aids the weakened stomach by putting into it what it lacks, namely, gastric yaiVf.wnich assists the dieestion of the food, relieves the pain or heavy cures the constipation usually accompanying stomach troubles. As vou value your future health ar'oid flit ters. lilood Purifiers and Purgatives, which only irritate and wealcen the tomuch, at'jrravating the Dyspepsia.

The disease is in the Stomach, so aid the Stomach. Endorsed by physirians. Send i cts. in stamps for valuable bock to HAZEN MORSK 55 Maui Uikpalo, Y. COVELL PORTER 7 Tront Rochester.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PEA LFR8 IS Paint. 'II. tilu8, Fifnth Crjctni bhade'. Varnishes, Alutuuaiue, hrudus. rti-.

A Mo man-ufaeturm-i' sqi-nts for Mot'lokky'e Liquid Uoval Wood Filler, lor tilling hard and (ioft woods with, out rubbing off It is the only filler I.y which a perfectly smoora and hard surface ta.i be ob Vi The changes in assessed values of real estate amount to 699, 200. That is, this amount is taken from the assessment of certain counties and added to other counties which have shown such an increase of values or such discrepancies in former valuations as to warrant the change. It will be seen from the above table that $122, 061, 343 is added to the assessed valuation of the county of New York, while a deduction of $26, 187, -972 is made from the former valuation of real estate in the county of Monroe. This reduction is not so much owing to a shrinkage of values as to the fact that the assessors of Monroe county had endeavored to obey the law while other counties had neglected it, thereby gaining an advantage. The state assessors in their report to the Board of Equalization entered into a discussion of the valuation of property in the city of New York and showed conclusively that the complaints of the city officials in regard to overvaluation were unfounded.

The valuation of the city is accordingly increased by a large sum. It looks very much as if the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration might be called upon to investigate itself. It needs the assurance of Mr. Powderly to convince the public that the strike on the Central has not been discontinued. Many of the leading Democratic papers of the country are constrained to admit that the defeat of Major McKinley would be a national misfortune.

Lawtes Roger M. Sherman proposes to make another attack on the state law in defense of the Japanese sailor who was sentenced to death by electricity. He will have the backing of a public sentiment which is almost universal. Francb deprives her people of cheap meat, and America deprives ber people of cheap Courur-Jimrnal. The latter clause of the above statement is disproved by the experience of every man, woman and child in the United States.

Tariff talk at county fairs is not to be monopolized by free traders. Protectionist speakers will also be ou hand, and some of the debates will doubtless be interesting and lively. With close attention to the arguments on both sides, the sentiment in favor of protection must be confirmed and strengthened. A Dexteh, man scratched a match on a convenient iane of iciass and to his euiprl it lighted as readily as though the phis had been sand paper. To those who have been accustomed to seeing people search to a rough surface on which to scratch a match, it would be rather etartiinjr.

Not only ordinary matches, but even the suft-ty matches, usually uniitbtble except on the box in which they come, can be lit on LKmocraU Tbis isn't true. We have tried it. Buffalo Courier. I'ei haps the glass was all right and the match was ail right and yet there may hav.