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The Times trill ht tent to any address in Lurept, postage included, for $1 35 per month. The date printed on the wrapper of each japer denotes the timctrhen the subscription arpires. The only np-town ofIce of The Times it at 1.209 Broadtcay, between Thirtg-ftrst and Thirty-second streets. The Signal Service Bureau report indicates for to-day, in this city, slightly warmer, fair weather. Whether or not ths law of the survival of the fittest is to govern the proceeding at the Chicago Convention, the struggle for existence among the various candidacies is extremely earnest, and already it is begin ning to telL Certain notable booms" hare paused through a period of promising lax urionre to the stage of premature debility, The liuraationa this way and that of the convention's voting strength are coming to be less capricious and uncertain.

Tha result of the first ballot, if not yet to be determined with accuracy. has certainly come within the range of enlightened guessing. Judge Grkaham's candidacy appears to have passed into the eclipe that was early foretold for it If not-actually losing strength, it is stationary, and that is condition equally fatal. The Alger wen have been sorely em barruwxl by the cry of boodle" which Is raiHed agaiuHt their candidate and by their own inability to show that he represents anything higher or better than "boodle." Tho Wt that can bo said for Aixisoh is that he is practically certain of the nomination for Vice-President In case Mr. De- rr.w should be named as the head of the ticket, and upon him would devolve the task of convincing the Grangers and anti monopolists of Iowa that their) prejudices against a railroad candidate are groundless and stupid.

Harrison, who next to Alger is iu mind and achievement the most insig mucant of the entire group of candidates, holds his own State firmly, thanks to Mr. Jotxx New, but seems to be making no sure galas elsewhere. The little eddies of talk and activity which busy hands have set in motion around the names of such persona as Inoalls, Forakeb. and Phelps, and of the excellent Mr. Hawley and the Honorable Mr.

Fitter must be conn tod as the Innocent paotinieof a hot Bummer's day, It is difficult to say bow much good faith there is in the candidacy of Mr. Depew or whether there be any. The prevailing opinion is that the compliment of New York's seven ty-t wo voteanpon the first ballot is the extentf Mr. Dr. pew's demands and expectations.

But if the great railroad President and his friends-were less apprehensive about the effect of his nomination upon the untamable anti-monopolist of the North we unquestionably he would make a bold and perhaps a successful push for the honors. Everybody concedes that Mr. Siiermax will have more votes on the first ballot than any other candidate, but very few outside of his few really loyal followers expect to see his strength increase. It is much more likely to diminish rapidly. It may safely be said that Major Mckinley's chinos of aecur Ins the nomination la really much bettor than Mr.

Shekxak'h, for the MoKluley "boom" has been wisely kept in such modest retirement that its benefioiary may be brought forward at any time as a dark horae" in the event of a dead-lock. If any one mind were now directing the policy of the Republican Party, this would be a highly probable outcome of the convention. sine Mr. McKl.VLEY would represent the prinr iplfvof tho inviolability of the protective tax Uws as clearly as Mr. Cleveland represents the demand for their revision and cforro.

Lastly, Mr. Blaixb must be con sidered by those who survey tha shifting furors at Chicago, Mistaken and excess of seal on the part of some of his friends have within tha List two days made his nomination less probable. Tha California demonstration for him on Saturday was a failure, and the anti-Blaina sentiment has gained something In strength and bitter-Bess through the peraistoo.ee with which his Bam is openly used. 8tilU Me. Blaixb bad less than 330 delegates whsn tha con- vsntioa of 1884 assembled.

Ha has bow. ouatlas Vr aetaal pcalaraascs. probablr more than BOO. All that is needed to brine sbout bis renomi nation is a dead-lock: of two or three days' duration. It is announced from Washington that there will be no quorum in the Senate this week, and therefore no actios can ba taken except by unanimous consent.

This red noes that body to stats of comparative lav-potenco and harm leanness, in which it will be prepared to consider appropriation bills. The fortifications and tha general legislative appropriation bills will probably en gags tha attention of tha Senators remaining st tba capital. Similar business will be taken up in tha House, where tha Sundry Civil Appropriation bill will bo called up by Mr. AXDAix to-day. This is the most considerable of the regular bills, and should hava been disposed of long ago.

It is not likely that it will excite much debate, and it will probably go to the Senate before the week is out. The- Hon. D. J. Johxstos' is the Superin tendent of the extensive hosiery mills known as the "Harmony Mills" of Cohoea, on the Mohawk Elver in this Stete.

He has recently given his views to the press on the Mills bill, and has been roundly abused and misrepresented by the protectionist press. In reply to the charge that he is a free trader" he says I am not a 'freetrader'; on the contrary I am and always have been a home protectionist, and for this reason am in hearty sympathy with the Mills bill, and I would be in favor of anj tariff measure that gives 40 per cent, protection." He declares that manufact urers who are opposing a revision of the tariff, blind to the growing sentiment in its favor, are making a great mistake, as they will find when a measure of tariff reform is passed, not by Republicans or Demo-eratA, but by tariff reformers, making the duty on manufactured goods from 10 per cent, to 15 per cent less than in the present bilL" He then describes some of the work of the present leaders of the Republican Party, and concludes: "Now, if not to follow such men and adopt their measures is to be a Democrat, then I accept the designa tion but whether a Democrat or a Republican. I am and intend to be a very inde pendent one, acting according to my convictions." Obviously Mr. JoHXSTOir represents a class among the manufacturers on whom our extreme Republican friends cannot with safety count too confidently. The particular department of the City Government Heaven only knows whioh it is that mismanages the lighting of the streets has recently added to its many claims on the resentment of the community by removing the names of the streets from many of the old lamp frames in streets provided with electric lights.

The result is that there are considerable quarters of the city in which it is Impossible for one not intimately acquainted to tell where he is. This is an obvious nuisance, and even dangerous to strangers, and it is by no means without annoyanoe to residents, who cannot al ways know in detail the geography of so large a town as New-York. How much of an evil it is is shown by an incident that recently occurred in the neighborhood of Union-square, where a citizen wishing to guide an unfortunate stranger of foreign birth, who had lost the way and bad been wandering for several hours, was obliged to inquire of three policemen in succession before be found one who knew the address given. It would be a very simple and easy matter to have the names of intersecting streets on each of two of the corners at the crossing in a manner easily to be read from the walk or from a horse car by the electric light. But it is doubtful if any one knows by whom it should be done, and more doubtful if those will do it who should.

WORKIXQMEX AGAWST THE TAB-IFF. The Republicans will not get so many of the workingmen's votes on the tariff issue this year as they have been in the habit of getting, and not nearly to many as they are counting on. This is, indeed, their chief reliance. They are organizing wherever they can get a footing in districts where large numbers of men are employed in mining or manufactures, to secure as urge a vote as possible. They have subsidized or established so-called "labor" papers, they have engsged agitators from among some of the officers of the trades unions, and in their own party organs they are pressing the appeal to the working-men with much Zealand such ingenuity as they can command.

But thev are not meeting with the success they had hoped for and expected. They find that, many of the workmen in the protected" industries distrust their employers and argue that if a lower tariff would make lower, wages the employers wonld advocate it. It happens that the "protected" employers have had quite as much trouble with their men as any others, and have been quite as reluctant to advance or maintain wages unless they were forced to do so. Thus, quite apart from the merits of the tariff question, the protectionists are encountering a deep-seated suspicion among the work-ingmen as to any plan open'y advocated by employers. Beyond this the workingmen are learning to think for themselves on this question, and there is a definite tendency toward organization for the discussion of the real effect of the tariff upon wages and the cost of living.

Our readers are familiar with the movement begun in Philadelphia last Winter, chiefly among the men in the woolen mills there. We do not know bow much strength this movemeut has developed, but it is plain that it is still going on, and that those engaged in it have the intelligence to bring (be facte in the question fairly and effectively before their fellow-workmen. We hare before us an Address to the Workingmen of the United States" issued by the Workingmen's Tariff Reform Association of Philadelphia." It is a well-written, well-reasoned document that will secure attention wherever it goes among the class to whom it is addressed, and it ought to be given a wide circulation. It is conceived from tha workingmen's point of view. It declares that the labor reformers have bees fighting effects Instead of causes.

Bad "becauss of tail tho removal of eae wroac bat loom for another to grew bp." Tho chief cause of tho difficulties noder which laboring men have been struggling is, says tho address, "a system which is creating an srer-increasing army of idle men by stimulating production while it places re oti ietioBO upon trade. This prevents 4he fn exchange of ear products, where-bj alone they can bo brought into eo ismmption, which is necessary to ks room for mors of oar products and raish us with tho opportunities for work. Tl is forces men to a sharp eontpetitio for to and makes good men bo or starve. This is the sys. te of indirect taxation of which the prove tariff is the moat conspicuous and most damaging example, working, as it dees, like the prowling thief in thedsrk.

le ting no man know what is taken from hi spon the specious plea of contributing to the support of the Government, while its re il purpose is to make the masses eontrib-ut to the wealth of the few, and to exempt th rich from tho burdens which the poor hi ve to bear." tTje address then quotes from the con-fir ential" circular of the Republican League of the United States the letter attributed to a Republican United States Senator, saying th st he did not propose to contribute money to advance the interests of men the manu-fasturersof the United Statesj who were ge tting practically the sole benefit, or at lei the most directly important benefits, of the tariff laws." and declaring: "If I hs my way about it I would pat the man-nf ictorers of Pennsylvania under the fire ar fry the fat out of them," and adds What worktagxaaa eaa read such. lanroace as this, psssiag confidentially between the Interest ed parties, without drawing the so col as I on th tt the protective tariff ring Is a gigantic eon-sp racy to rob the peopls Wo save long known th A their greed would not let the working peo-pl have soy share of the oensfltti of a tariff; In i eed. we do knew that they have used toe ve 1 power and advantages given them by the ta Iff laws to red see our wages, oppress us, and pr tsttmte every effort of orgaalsaUea to get for lai or what belongs to It, but it Is nsws te as th it they have been so- selflsh and niggardly as to neglect to furnish the boodle In sufflolent qu satlty to keep tha political machine which tu: ns out the good things for them well saoogh gr lesed te keep It from being lieos are arguments to which the work-in nen will listen. They go straight to the pc The protectionists have long since be sn driven from the pretension that the pr tec ted manufactures are infant indus-tr bs." They have; as a last resort, fallen ba ck on the plea that a high tariff is neces-sa to enable the employers to pay good wi ges. The reply is coming from the work-in jmen themselves that if the tariff enables en ployers to do this they still do not do it bat pay no more than they can heln paring.

To this there is no answer, and th more the facts are examined by the rkingmen the more plainly it will be a that there is none. CAPT. BELFBIDGFS ACQUITTAL. The members of the court-martial that trikd Capt Thomas O. Belt ki doe cannot wholly surprised that their findings are disapproved by the Secretary of the Navy.

So ne time ago Mr. Whitxet had commented on the case in an official order, and had ex-pn seed a view of it differing materially wi tho one now taken by the court. His ground was that the facts in regard to the taaget practice held by the Omaha at the island of Ike-Sima, on the' coast of Japan, shiwed that Capt Selfredoe had violated international law in holding it there and that he could not have taken proper pre cautions for the safety of life. Still, the Secretary then pointed oat that there was no reason to suppose that there was deli be r- otJ and wanton negligence. A court of in- qu iry thereupon held at Nagasaki substan tia ily took this view, whereas the court-ma rtisl at Washington acquits Capt 8elf-kiios of any neglect of duty whatever.

Hence the Secretary insists that the opinion of khe Nagasaki court was in accordance the evidence and that the opinion of thS Washington court was not Doubtless the findings of the court-mar tial were influenced largely by two classes of lestimony brought before it One officer wl formerly commanded the Asiatio sta-tio i testified that target practice with the heiry guns was sometimes conducted on ishinds, and frankly added that he did rftt consider it a violation of international law. An ther officer drew the broad distinction thi while firing at a target placed upon th shore would be a violation of the rights of a European country, unless permission was first obtained, it was not a violation of tho rights of Japan. Another class of evi dence, given by Capt Sixfridob and oth ers! showed that he had intended to conduit his target practice at sea, but finding the whole region covered with fishing boats. concluded that the island of Ike-Sima wonld furnish really a safer place, since bluffs rot 9 from ths shore and apparently pro-tec ted the Tillage behind them. An evi-dei ice of precaution on his part was sending a I oat to watch the flight of the shell, and itiras doubtless because the person thus set reported that all had exploded that Cs Selfridge did not search the island aft the firing.

It is known that one shell exploded among the natives, killing four and wounding seven of them, it probably hating been found and carried to the vil lage after the Omaha had sailed away. Taking together tho evidence of what other American officers have thought and doi as to target practice within Japanese or Chinese jurisdiction, and tho proof that son ie precautions had been taken, the court dec lined to find Capt. Selfkicge guilty of nei of duty. But Secretary Whitsey holds that whatever the precedents in some casW, it is a violation of well-settled princi pieo of international law to practice with grekt guns in tho waters of a friendly power without its permission and without inquiry as to its rales and regulations. He also dwells on the fact that whatever Capt 8elfridoe's precautions to note the flight of the shells, tho Omaha did leave behind not only one, bat six, snexploded projectiles.

One evident purpose of the Secretory in disapproving of the findings of the court is to forbid any assumption that tho Navy De partment might countenance tho repetition of Urge practice like that of tho OsteAe. Heisaaxioos that there should be no mis- tajjBotat. Cast. lxu srxx has no doubt bees subjected to i xsack mortincatloB. already, and tbe Secretary evidently is not aaxJoBSthat ho shomld onffef farther.

While tho omrt-martiar findings are a triumph for Capt. 8EUTtiPOB, target practice will, of course, not hereafter bo carried on without permission along tho shores and is tho waters of Japan, and whenever shells la such practice fall noon an island examination win make sure thai none are left then unexploded. BBIPPISO BOUNTIES IN FRAxCE. By tho law of Jan. 29, 1881.

Franco be came the first nation to adopt the policy of boon ties pure and simple to revive her shipbuilding industry and enlarge her mer chant marine. The leading argument for the measure was the rapid decline is her sailing tonnage, which between 1873 and 1880 fell off 27 per cent Daring tho same period, however, her steam tonnage was steadily increasing, the gain for tho oevea years being 50 per cent, as against Ger many's 29 per cent and Italy's 68 in tho same time. The law proposed a system of bounties both for the construction and navigation of ships on tho following scale For Iron or steel ships, per grits ton. Wooden ships of 200 tons or upward 4 Wooden skips under 200 tons Ships of mixed eonstructlon. 8 There was besides a bounty of $2 40 per ton for all machinery, boilers, All this.

of course, applied solely to French-built ships, and was partly balanced by the im position at the aame time of paptectivo duties on the raw materials entering into the construction of ships, which bad heretofore been admitted free. The navigation bounty established in the same law was as the rate of SO cents a ton per 1,000 miles foreign-built ships to receive one-half thai amount This law was limited in its operation to a period of ten years. Over half of that time has now passed, and a study of tho effects of the new legislation can be intelligently made. It has been undertaken by M. Arthcb Rajtalovich in tho Journal dot oon mistet, and the account he gives of the results attained nnder the bounty plan is sufficiently instructive.

He makes it plain at the start that the law did not accomplish one of its leading objects to check the decline in sailing tonnage. That has gone on as before, falling off 18 per cent between 1880 and 1884. This is suggestive of the absolute helplessness of artificial measures in the face of such a widespread and persistent economio law as that which has ordered the displacement of sails by steam and wood by iron. A marked increase in the steam shipping of France, however, did undoubtedly result in port at least from the law of 1881. Daring the six years of the operation of that measure the steam ton nage flying the French flag baa become four times what it was in 1880.

Bat this mere increase does not tell the whole story. The increase in German steam tonnage, for example, daring tho same years has been greater than the French, and Germany has had no system of direct bounties. More than that the great depression in the French shipyards in 1880, which gave way to booming activity daring ths first three years of the working of the new law, baa reappeared again, and there is no likelihood at all that it will be 'relieved daring the remainder of the period fixed for the bounty law. In 1888 only $72,000 was paid ont for bounties, as against 1,718,000 in 1884. Even with tho bounties.

French shipbuilders, as long as their raw materiala are taxed, cannot compete with the English. M. Raffaxoyich estimates tho cost in France to be to that in England as 1.30 to 1. In fact French shipowners could better afford to buy their Teasels in England, and get only tho half-rate navigation bounty, than to purchase of French builders. This appears from the fact that up to 1885, of 141 steamers whioh had been paid bounties but 40 were of French construction.

Thus the lamwhich was designed to stimulate French shipbuilding bad its greatest effect in British shipyards. A sttu more important question is as to the effect of the increase of French shipping, brought about in the way described, on French commerce. The French flag has gone into many new ports since 1881 to what extent has trade "followed the flag" The answer appears to be that the carrying trade has increased, and that only. Thus of the total French shipping trade with North America but 37 per cent was carried in French bottoms in 1880, whereas 65 per cent was so carried in 1887. The figures for South America for the same dates are respectively 49 and 64.

Bat the total commerce of France with the Americas has not increased at all in these seven years. The French people, accordingly, have been taxed millions of francs, hare got so a result, four times aa many steam vessels afloat aa they had in 1880, have given the one industry of the carrying trade a considerable lift but are practically no better off in point of foreign commerce and profits accruing from it The conclusion which M. Raffaloyich draws from his Investigation is as follows: The bounty system was Introduced with the object of benefiting ta French shipbuilding la- austry, hat ss a matter of faet has had a greater effect npon foreign shipbuilding. Bounties have not been sasceesrol la infantum- new life in either shipbuilding or nsvlgatton. It is cheaper to purchase vessels In Easland, where, epits of Ike east of later being perhaps a lUUa higher, free trade allows of the production at a lower rate.

Finally, It may be asserted that the bounty system la France, which was Intended te bridge ever a temporary depression, has ag gravated the situation, and has proved Itself to a souree of mlseaief, net of We feel less diffidence than formerly is inviting the attention of protectionists to such an experience as this. They exhibit their lofty contempt for all abroad" much less frequently than in other days, and eo pecially in this matter of shipping boon ties axe continually pointing to tho exam ple of the European nations. Tho only trouble is that they are about ten years too late. If tho disastrous experience of tho beet-growing countries with sugar bounties bad not culminated in the determination to aboliah the whole system, there might bo more chance of introducing tho scheme is thU oountry. And if, as would sow appear to bo probable, tho shipping bounties are to go tho same way lato tho Umbo of exploded Biasto aoatet Bntaro aa Baatieav it win hardly be is good keeping to try to persuado us to oontinao tho bopeleso experiment LIFE WISES AKD DEAD WIRES.

Mayor Hewttt complains that bis action in regard to both dead and live wires has been misrepresented, and once again poses as a martyr to persecutios because, as ho claims, bo is latent only on doing his duty aa Chief Magistrate of the city. It Is not often that our Spartan Mayor unbends himself sufficiently to. toko notice of any criticism of his actions, much less to complain of injustice, and when ho does thus assimilate himself to tho common herd of mankind by showing some Uttls sensltiTenoos to tho opinion of tho community over which ho presides it is only right that duo attention should be paid to his complaint and justice bo dono him if it be found to bo well grounded. Ho has voluntarily withdrawn from all participation in tho meetings of tho Board of Electrical Control, of which ho was made a member at his own request, and aa ho will probably no longer figure in any proceedings to relieve this city from ths nuisanoe of overhead wires, it may bo worth while to place on record. just what he baa done In ref erenos to dead and live wires in the past, and tho public can then judge whether ho has been "misrepresented" by his critics.

So far as the live wires are eoneerned, Mr. Hewttt deliberately announced to a Times reporter on Saturday that he nor Gen. Newtoit had any control over them. but that tho Board of Electrical Control alone had power to deal with them. Statement is a quasi defense of tho Mayor's action, or failure to act ss a member of the Board of Electrical Control, and as a defense it has been swept away time and again by simple reference to the subway law of last year.

Thai law, as Mayor Hewitt well knows, distinctly gives to him and the Com missioner of Public Works exclusive control over live wires which tho companies fail to remove within ninety days after notice to remove them is given by tho Board of Electrical Control. It provides that in this case tho Commis sioner of Pnblio Works shall, on tho written order of the Mayor, proceed to remove tho poles and wires of delinquent companies or individual owners. The Mayor has refused to issue tho order asked for by the board, on the ground that Gen. Newtow had no money to do the work, ignoring tho fact that it was not his duty to inquire whether there was money to carry out his orders or not His record on this sub ject is well known to tho public. and has created widespread indignation, placing, aa it does, tho Mayor of tho city in tho position of aiding powerful corporations to defy a law which it took years of public agitation to force through the' Legislat ure.

Wo believe that there is no "misrepresentation" in this statement of the Mayor's relation to tho live wires" whioh would now be nnder ground but or his dogged refusal to do his plain duty. Hie action created such hearty indignation that one Judge In this city to reported to have said that ho had laid himself liable to im peachment by his course, It is scarcely worth while to repeat the argument which shows the utter fallacy of tho Mayor's position on this subject that wires once condemned by the Board of Electrical Control are incumbrances, and as such removable by the Bureau of Incumbrances. Nxwtox himself gave tho death blow to Mr. Hewitt's position when he declared that if he was ordered to remove these poles and wires he would do it 8o far aa the dead wires" are concerned, the Mayor has ordered Gen. Newtow to remove them if the owners cannot bo found and made to do so.

Ho will certainly not claim that this statement is misleading. He has been awakened to the fact that tho public will held him responsible for tho loss of life caused by these unused wires, and with the awakening has coma to bim a revelation that the money appropriated for the Bureau of Incumbrances is legally available for this work. For condescending to yield this point in deference to humanity, the com munity is duly grateful, but it may be doubted whether Mayor Hewitt realised that in issuing his order for the removal of "dead wires" ho was placing in tho hands of the Board of Electrical Control the very power it has been so long asking of him, the power to ges- rid of the poles and wires along ths lines of completed subways. This is practically what be has done. A dead wire" is a wire which is not in use for the conveyance of an electrical cur rent because its owners have abandoned it for some other As soon aa the "live wires" now in use along tbelfneof the subways are abandoned they will be come dead wires" in the technical as well as the legal sense of the word, and aa such will come under the order of tho Mayor, already given, to Gen.

Newtow to remove all such wires. It is doubtful whether these wires would not be construed as dead" by a court from the expiration of the ninety days' notice, but to secure such a judicial construction and throw a large section of the city into darkness for an indefinite period, while it might be justifiable in law, would be scarcely good policy. Tho board is rapidly coercing the companies into submission, and in a very few weeks at most ths subways will probably all be occu pied. From that moment the wires along their line will be strictly "dead" and a constant menace to human life, and Gen. New- tow will realise that it ia his duty under the Mayor's order either to force tho com panies to remove them or to do so himself.

The prospects were never so bright for making a beginning in tho work of getting rid of the poles and wires, and. strangely enough, we shall have our "misrepresented' Mayor to thank for it in spite of himself. The old rivalry between Watorrliet and Frank ford Arsenals aa sites of tho proposed Government factory for finishing heavy guss does not appear to have been extin guished. Doubtless it was one element the failure of the Fortification bill in both sessions of the Forty-ninth Consreos. It-wfll take perhaps a million dollars properly to eucn.

a xactory, waUo a great many munonsttay bo laid out la it largely Bibs, to finish fhs hundreds of heaw Ewg wilsja forcings are furnished by private foundries. Naturally tho factory Is eoreted by local Uterosts la ths Bsighborhoods el tho altos proposed for it Tho choice 1 practically between WatervUet, at West Troy. and Frankford, la a suburban ward of Philadelphia. WhOo TYank- ford at one time was recommended by illtsry authorities. WatervUet was ths choioe of the Gob Foundry Board, and has recently received a declsiv preference front a board sf ordnance officers appointed sz preealy to determine tho relative advantages of the two sites.

Mr. Raitoaix was promptly on hand on. Saturday to raise a point of order agaisst proposed appro prlatioa of 126,000 for tho improvement of WatervUet whoa tho Army bill was under discussion. Bis remarks, however, seemed to betoken a plan of procuring guns of all calibres complete from private eon- tractors without finishing them In a Gov ernment factory. Tho persons who have projected a World's Fair at Washington with which to celebrate tho four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America have soored a suc cess to start with by securing a unanimous report of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs la faro of their enterprise.

Exactly what is meant by a permanent exposition does not appear la tho bill, but doubtless tho purpose Is to havo it run as long as ths Govern meat is willing to sustain it ss an additional attraction for tho capital. Its financial backing would bo more assured than that of some previous BBdertakingsof tho sort, since it would havo a plethorie Treasury to draw upon. It ia sometimes called the Throe America's Exposition, and this feature is brought out by including in its proposed advisory board of management a roproseatativs from each of the sixteen independent Americas nations, as well a from each State and Territory of oar own, As it is many years since a World's Fair has been held in this country, bo doubt by the year 1892 a good deal of interest could bs counted on for such a project Bat whether Con gross will feel disposed to make eo large an expenditure in honor of the achievement of Columbus ie a matter of doubt The recent Senate debate oa too American International oonf erenos for next year developed a strong opposition to tho permanent exposition scbems. TAR10U8 AFFIRMATION 8, "Silence Is tho severest criticism," but most wives don't seem to know mumu stilt It writing is indicative of character, eotns people's ehereetors must be nighty hard to make out West Chester (Fenn.) rows. Longfellow, tho poet was once a member tas old Portland They were gor-xeous grees uniforms, Limittem Journal.

He is a bold man who dares always to say what as talaka. Besides being Veld no Is generally aa awful bom.temereiUe Jtmrnmt. It is a waste of time to look back at one's own mistakes when there Is much mete foe la watching the mistakes of other people. aiou. Mayor Hewitt is a good Mayoi, but as a specimen of amiability he eeald set get "favorable mention1 at a eouaty fair.

JfarOe't rins-yard Herald. The Republican Convention will.be so brlUlaatly Us-feteS that there IssaagwxeC taO dark horse gotug Mind la one Jm.Lemieeille vemrwr jemrnai. yji A city cannot know whether it has streets or a. charter, or corporate existence satU-tt hears from the railroads oa the sbJoet JTsw- wnni M-waymme, A woman from Bweetsburc writes that the recent big storm blow over her asaooop and ktUed ens ehleken. Tsose that have must lose, Mieherm Ft Journal.

A young woman in Linoola, has married a man bseaase he had dreamy eyes," A man with dreamy eyes asaalry has a dreamy poeketoook. Tepsas CCaa.) JemmeU. Allen GLThnrman was born Nor. 13. 1813.

There are IS letters ta sis Basse, 18 in "the red bandana." and. therefore, eo will lSIy be sleeted If agues don't lis. Washington Crills. When a man learns to mind his own busi ness sad leave the affairs of ethers alone ho aeeesBpnshes a suoosss as great as falls to eesv mea mortals. Martha's Vineyard Bermid.

Some of tho boys of Sitka" school suspected eae of their number of reform tag the tcooBora of their praaka Setting late a qnaml and dsslriag te eeemse aim of being a tele bearer eae ef teem sailed out Yes are a telegraph." tiixa Harih har. "He is a wonderful baby, Mr. Pogson. Tea een't help beUgprendef aim. I never saw ne noma am te aave maented year irs- nmruuio new language." catoaps zrtevae.

As the people were shaking hands with tae nominee tor ueverner. Tsssday evening, a little fellow some 6 or 8 years eld earns bp. aas. taking Mr. Barletoh'e haee.

ante: -I wtaal wore a maa that I nit eh I east a ballot for yes." The Uttls fellow wsat away apparently aa Sappy a If he had discarded knee peats forever. Augusta We.) Journal. The Rev. Robert Kourse of Washington. D.

C. ta visiting ths coast. He Is a native of Eadaad. "Ths first wedding ceremony I ever performed." said Mr. JTonroo, sis eyes twinkling nterrlly.

was just aa tae sleek struck IS and yea knew a marrlAM la no hni vm- land after that hoar, and my fee was a lot ef gTOiesvei peeimens. tbis is the Bret Rate I ever asked for bread and literally got a stone Is man fnwnw uwuur, Seldom a fire, however sad may bo tbo drcumstaaces. but that some thing win occur which Is sure te eveke lea ntec The nu wk. sew a baby wrapped np la a heavy blanket and tsrowa from a talrd-siery window of tae aeese asit the burning stable yesterday morning says ho taut bod. Who blames aim so toe as the oaer was set injareu.

Another oa tae sameeeeaaion. a heavy wet rug thrown iiwh wwiwt wm nis nneo ama i laaga. are vnm nue nun, eiiaec augueta (MS.) Journal. I do not believe press specimens of Sun day-school humor are at an exaggerated. whatever ths ronton may be, possibly et tae meaning ef words er timidity, tae jure- mm oioto 01 tea erou sonata.

r. inntuy is oiosr tana said a yoeth called Meyer te a comrade. "Hewdeyeu kaew was the reply. Weil, my family ie nenuOTea in tne uioie-tae Jerry Meyers sad tbsNeber Morer.1 Where Old God piaM.Aaat ana eve t- eskes a teeeaer. Ia tae Garden ef Svoa ea Moaat was the answer from a yoathfal miss who eertalaiy hoped to get tho TBAXXM rMOM OgJT.

MBMMIDAtr. Iromtks Moehesier Berald, Jrtns 18. The members of tho Eighth Kew-Tork Cavalry yesterday received the. foOe wing muateaUea In answer to the irprmUss eC petty seat te Oca. Sheridan on the reseat eioa of the aaaual resales ef the cavalry: uiAPQCAjmca abut or tub Uwitbp statbs.

WAsenurroB. D. Jena It. ISaS. I OBTumioi Oosv SaorWIas Sisttss me So say rally he has apsnotsloS to iir of i puny no nas resolves Sarin sis 111: omrsdee ta arms.

The knwwledso that Show are tat few bis roooosry has bees te aim a Bourse bh imtisoauoe asd ooyoMt jtoooo son. wish efmh Tor bio boot wieaoa nmA alniirs a ehtld that eeuld talk so well at such aa early age, said Mrs. Foenoa, prowl lr. si yea, Alvtra." replied the father, soasewbst it sslly. ZZitimSnT seesa wuiy.

ECALT3 ZOR TUB ma as sous thixtes vrixxixxm AST XILtSB. TTexxwa, Montana. Juno 17 A. Suttags tens o( aa tmmmw mmM 41 -w mmmttrnm IWIWkVUI rUSUlbnl tm the Crows tektag a eeelple of eselpa aa taoule. tag ta a war saaos.

Tares pro wttag rhmu stole horses from the CrewTta-Friday, aas, en the Oeeevery eg the then, ao Crews started la pereutt. TkT a rtde of 45 miles te fares mm up with the thieves at wsneon we! revered the Crowe Bred sAthZL? killing a aene. Too tnsgwas eseae2 them! res, and 1 a reenter, battle On Ftogasi was kill aa "iltu iJg wee wee Immediately dtopairhod. ThethlJ2 bedly wsmi.jsapol tatotee rrTeidS templed to swim to the fsrthor snoea nTTvZ rtddlet wttt suUetsead seek. TaeCrews sasteS the eld sasmiss.

ea eMiee a aaaTaad sd smmu! the eteedy trophies es a pole. retarsedtetnM eamp with ttetr Serosa. Their Vetera wests! signal fee a grand war jssss by ue Ctwe? wales lasted all Bight, i xrrw A COLORED SCHOOL BURSEJ 0BemwmmsBmmBBawSB A CKXXX WBica CACRD wttB. arUEAD HDIQBATTOBV- Summit. MhavJ June.

17-Tho Marias used' far osiored ekOdrea and hi tasted ta tho south centre perttea of Bus (Pike) eemnty. near the Tea Ulnae has, was bereed te tho greead Thursoay night by mem. dlsrtsa Fret Van Buahlrf, a worthy oslsrei nsaa, nasi jess op ansa tsia sea qaietiy osndaettag tt as county was kerned, and tae feOewtag note was the next morning Biased to a tree near brt "Well. Prefesser.lt yes waat te live roe k27 better leave, it yes seat vast year mojAa BBSnaksrauau It eeeeeded that there was seeejeetieam the teeeaer person ally, bet seme piVuWc? Bet waat seeeete tan rut for liniu, iil eaarastenaod i oa all sMes ss as eetrecese sr the respeoBlble eitUeas iwaMtatbi meed waste the deed wee aoalt? eeodlsr and tae neigabeeb guilty parttee and bnag teem to prompt PSataa ROW DOMM TBli BV7T TOVX i0Cr JfX LMY1 P. MOMTOMi from tha mis en Truth.

Sir Robert Loder inherited am I fortsas from his father, who was a ooatraotori bat he was a dJaappotated for maay years he; had pasted for a and had speat meeey extravagantly ecder te obtain owe. The Tertat sled this eesw er wlik eharaeterlsUe BBsernpuloqssiss. sad te a aldoses extant, asd bo waster teas Urns the reedy vtetlm of all tho needy eedsers sad aeegers-eeef that party I but was betel after betes of honors were eeaferred without kit aamo appearing he p. earns seared, sad so wonders and the tarty effaf ml shareaetsy by ao meaas rektndisd his party sseL If the painful details of Sir Bobert Xedefs private aa. oessts ssd political eorrospoaaoasc seals to tsvsslsdto the world vaiaebte tosses weulg be taught te wealthy simpletons who are xader ths IUbsIou teat a lavish exyneairats fee party sure te be spssiriy sad fisiustli sewarded.

Blr Behert would have fared better with the Liberals, aad If bo had abases But party, asd had spent money as freely bs as did for tho Bsgrstefsl Tories, ho would have eo talned sis peerage maay years ago, XMAMVMMM AOAUMT OB SAX fMIMVMMA Parte Ditpnlm to fas London Dotty XslsgrmgK 8evere measures are to bo takes by tat Parte pelioe against orgaa griadera, TheMpsp. ambslstlag eeeopaeelsts wtU be ao teaser eb lowed te merder the eompeeltioas ef ttetr iHne-trtess oosstrymes atesstaV Torsi, sad Dee settt is tho streets ef the sprightly eepttaL If found grinding eat the -Miserere." the -Tern. et the Heart." or asy cotter eocreUe air. the grinders are te be, th the words ef taepo lies order, diriots eur le dkpt. er "relocated to the teek-sp." ead their lastrameatearalehe asnt te a kind oJ nmnmA Uk m.uiu tae Soteam aad jetsam -eolleetod bv the representatives ef the law oa their diaranl boat.

There Is a previse in the stem akase which has been Issued by the head polieemaa et the elty. Port or mors ea the segues ao tar oris will be allowed te marder the spores ta eeerta, alleys, aad eels So see at ttetr own awoot wtlla. The mea, however, who an to be admitted te thte prtvtlegewUl be very Tew, aad they mast saew seme rsssss way uay save adopted tee peculiar pretesslea et dlssnsrsiag bona! art as masto la preference to stone breaking, asphalt peddling, er eeltlvatiBS eers aad wine in rassod Piedmont, level Lemberdy. er eeaay Tesooay. The prtvtleged ergsa grinders, moreover, are te wear badges ea thouerma.

These article are te bo Is copper, ea graved with lyre sad the asms of the yedreas. After the lesee et these reguletleas a strong exedae ef maate moo core aad Ptffarart will ne doubt take eiaea ta the direction et free Jeeclaad, waieh to the hut the ueuaa happiest hunting grossd of iUaerast MIOBTT XMAMM IB )MM FA KILT. Parte JHspaieh the London Daily Telegraph An old and feithid family retainer is rather a rers amis la rraaee la thin lnwug days. So that It Is ratter utter- eating to hear that the SoeieU rgaeeeragisiist as Btes has stsgled est for a reward ef merit a female aemeaUe who has bees 80 years ta the family. The great sees Boa ef servaats ass a burning aad meek llsismti ea Is Parts ever since the marder ef a lady by her valet.

and a leaned magistrate has goso so far ss te write aa exhaustive treaties ea the subject sad te suggest therein that a special order of merit should he created by tte State for eeesrvmg domestics. The magistrate's soggesuea ss-cited, et eearee. tha nWbOltv or the wasa. yost ee did at. -htellao's -eteettea" et the ureow, suneea or uteor ef tae xsoa tee egrteeJterleta.

Farther radicals was aateralty auag ea the -Servaats Order et Merit" by the Decoration eeaedalA' ysvertheless, the svgeetioas at the ago d'lastreettea. hf. Beanlosee Ossnosyi. are brtmfal et means ssaso. for the aether ef the treattas writes with experteeee of hla esbteet.

as hie erefeestsaai datiee frequently comprised the adjnotmsets raimmhle er the reverse of eareele slwsms aad disputes between master aad earveata, The learned Jadge, for tastsese, rinmsnsrti that the syadleatee or aeseelaUees et sere eats sheald give "eeUeetive gueraatse' et the probity ead worth et the parses who set employed through their laetrumeatauty by householders A MABBt BtMStMM CBVBCS, Tho following rsry graceful aad iatortot tog tetter has bees reeetved by the Xev. a A. Bsrthelsmew ef the first Christies CBurshi lews ratter and Beard of trustees of mt Warn Chrteuan Chuveh ef thte etty i Hoso asn eisat Taster say ev sies'sgsHss neH tholr loos mitIm tm la. ws took loo to of it SBsrsd preeiaots with tosllsgs at tree attaohmoet as a aaiaral iiunim of year kind beoeUoilty ea)eved thsesin danag these part so wa year s-insso woo eee mm taooo sroloe Uaks bs tee sotdoa ohola ef molool rooognlttoe whteb. endor ta toMrtog arm of sros AmorMaa etvUisatloa.

mmmi ta iiIm ot Mooes te the disciples mt Joeme. May this OeCr piru efe tree trstorslsaUea abide sad minim te roars roil oa I Mar the Btornal Lorn ot Bom. Sod ot Israel, hie year eharob aad aO yeaf pueal my brethren' os ao 1 1 tiisnt inn lor tea. For teams tneeer sake I eospeak iisn I el ear Sod's bees 1 solicit thy 5 isiiaisiiy years. a.

at. BabBI et CserosTstioa Tomat teronl The Temple Israel eeogrogatieo have boss eesupytag the First Chris una Chares, at Sevesr teeatt aad Gave streets, for nearly two rears, while ttetr new torn pie at Lofltas ooll-evooo aad rnaoetreet wee baildiag. That eeareh a aearly eempteted. 1, Psbbl Eoanmhwn ht Bew-Terk ea ate vsoauoe. aad when he 1 statu the eeasreaetteo wtU oegla So wersalpls thea bow aad soauttful syaaegwa IBM MTOXT OF TWO A PPODJTXZTTl Bteten lamer to too Mm ingjtgld i A MassachBsstts man who has eualstasee with Mr.

OoTalaad was rag te aim eae day ef two partteslar ossetst meatewhleh he made te thte rate. The PienV dent replied by bnagiag out a aOe ef letters ssd shewed thoslgaAtnjes, asking tho mea tt thaf did aet rsprsesat men who steed as high as say la boms ms el rotes Is Vsaseesasetav The Tteltee replied thee theydleV It was es ths strength ef those Barnes, tve for eae man aad fear er smother eeld the tesMeaf. that I tteee two appoiBtmetA- Taoa he drew platnms that he had appelated eeeh eAee. aad emeag ttetr writers were taoau bed booe mad. At tret, sold sest, he was laeaned to publish tee whole ear Psspsadooso.

but aftefwurdao tteuyhl to Beat sis tsrsolMUssWlko".