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-THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE-SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1895-THIRTY-SIX PAGES. I 110VIARFS LETTER. AD, F- a How to Handle a Burglar at Night -i-: rc Tilt) 4C. A. it.St likely to terminate in the defeat of both contestants.

As the tight between Grant and Blaine left both upon the field. and allowed Garfield to slip in as victor, so the contest between Reid and McKinley may be so disastrous to both that the field will be left Virtually to Harrison and Morton. Here again it would seem there is a large probability of a tremen(lows fight. and if history should again be repeated, and the two should be left unhorsed, what's the matter with Allison? If the democratic convention assembles and places its nominee first before the people, the republican nomination will very likely be guided and determined to a certain extent by the name at the head of the other ticket. In spite of the third term bugaboo, I can see no other name than Cleveland on the democratic banner.

That being assumed, there would be a certain degree of sentiment in opposing Harrison to him. There is an element of humor in that suggestion, and would be in the situation. If there is any one factor in affairs better appreciated by Americans than any other, it is that of humor. It is said money makes the mare go, but humor certainly greases the axles on which the wheels roll round Cartoonists would have ample scope with the grand-father's hat and third term suggestions. Comic writers and heavy editorialists would never need texts, while stump speakers and profound debaters would find an inexhaustible fund in the renewed contests of these two estimable men.

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attack all brag that Sunday. It have lest quit. sa thirds vote In each instance Mr Cleveland has been thrice nominated, and today there it a soundly logioal basis for a fourth candidacy. The issues upon which the electors will pass next year are his own, and his personality and his career will be the chief elements in the contest. But national sentiment and his own disposition may be depended upon to overrule the logic of the situation.

He has broken many reeords and been altogether a precedent unto himself. but the prejudice against a third term is unyielding. It is more than sentiment. It is wisdom. Experience has burned this precaution in the public mind.

Great power must frequently be recalled by the people and transferred to new hands. The presidency is the most powerful place in the politics of the world, because it is always invested with the pride and trust of every citizen of a mighty nation. Congress bores and vexes the people. legislatures fall under general suspicion, governors are divested of their authority, and the judicial system of the United States is gravely distrusted, but the presidency always dominates the popular imagination. Violent conflicts of opinion may rage around the temporary incumbent and his course, but history does not call In question the honor and patriotism of any man in the long and matchless line of presidents.

The presidency and the flag are synonomous, and never fail to enlist the patriotic zeal of the whole nation, whose majesty they typify. I Deep in the republican breast lies the instinctive dread of this incomparable dignity losing its constitutional moorings and becoming an irresistible instrument of mere personal and selfish ambition. There the hostility to a third term finds its source. In its support, to be sure, we have invented a history for it, Just as a philosopher has said that from necessity men would Invent a god if there were none. We attribute its origin to Washington, and point to Grant's futile candidacy in ISSO, as proof of its impregnability.

As a matter of fact, howevermeither Washington nor Grant is a competent witness. The former left no warning against a third there were other grounds of opposition to the last candidacy of Gen Grant that would" have sufficed to defeat him. Washington's declination of a third election in 1796 in his farewell address contains no hint that he acted upon principle. He was old, and the rising tide of anti-federalism had wearied him, even If It did not seriously threaten his further continuance inoffice. There have been only three presidents, aside from Grant and Cleveland.

who have had any proper occasion to express themselves on the subject of a third term, and two of these, Washington and Jackson, had the sufficient excuse of old age for their retirement, and it was Jefferson alone, that deep well of American political philosophy, who, upon retiring, implied that he acted on a principle. "I should unwillingly," he wrote, "be the person who. disregarding the sound precedent 'set by an illustrious predecessor, should furnish the first example of a prolongation beyond the second term of office." Mr Cleveland now enjoys the opportunity, which has been reserved for only four other presidents, of addressing himself to this subject, and I am sure whatever he may say about it will make, in the homely but graphic words of Horace Greeley, mighty interesting reading. Uncle Dudley. ristrin SUNDAY, 'AUGUST 4, 1895.

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242 Washington at Boston Entered at the poetoiSee. Boston. Masse as second-class znatter. A Century a Cures! Of Rheumatism, Gravel and all forms July and Bladder established the name famous old New spring in all New so permanently that can never efface it A Decade of Prosperity! Never dreamed of body in the history mineral waters CA HAS PLACED THE NAME "Londonderry Lithia" IN EVERY CORNER OF THE Thousands of drink and prescribe this we have the proof, their own signatures. Thousands upon sands of our most and refined drink it utmost regularity.

Why? Simply because there came out of Me ground a at once so delicious, so and so ture. Beware of imitations. Send for pamphlets. Still and Sparkling. CHALICE IC IPEHKINS sitt selling- Agents.

83 Kilby cast of discomfort for an along the line. Take no stock in the police New York is a dry city on may be that the liquor dealers their pull. but 'push" works well on side doors as it ever did. 1 HANCOCK'S COFFIN FOUND. Tomb Opened in Which Lie Remainsit the Siener of the Declaration of Independence.

In the quiet corner of the historic Old Granary burying ground. wbere Iles the Hancock tomb, a curious reminder of revolutionary days has just been die-, covered by the workmen who are preparing the spot for laying a foundation for the state monument to John Han-. cock. The tomb is one of several which are ranged along the southern boundary of the burying ground, and the surface of the ground being considerably higher than the street level of the buildings that adjoin it on Park st, a retaining wall preserves the embankment, and also forms the ends or tnese tombs. The workmen found this wall too old to be depended on as a support for the heavy monument, and, In order to provide a suitable foundation.

they had to remove enough or it to allow the construetiOn of brick piers. As the removal progressed and the interior of the tomb came into plain view, the workmen were attracted by what appeared to be a metal box, In dimensions about three feet long and 16inehes square on the end. It was lying nearest the open end of the tomb. and consequentty farthest from the entrance, and aroused the curiosityof the men by its from all the other coffins in the vault. As soon as the end wall had Leen removed.

a plate was seen to be fastened to the top of the box. and a workman, leaning r.to the damp vault, made out this inscription: John Hancock. Horn Jan 23, 1737. Died Oct S. 1793.

John George WaPhington Hancock. Died Jan 27. 1787. Aged Nine Years. The letters are perfectly plain 'Ind the copper-plate untarnished.

In this zinc coffin, securely sealed are the re- nmins of the famous signer of thO declaration of Independence. The peoond name Indicates the presence of the bones of a son of John Hancock. PRESS CLUB'S TRIBUTE. Members Appointed to be Present at tha Funeral of Ex Mayor O'Brien. 7 The following named members of the 14 Boston press club hare been appointed to represent the club at the funeral ex Mayor O'Brien, an associate member: Hon Patrick Magnire.

Aldermaa John H. Lee. Alderman John F. Dever. Hon William S.

McNary, Mr Robert 0 Fitch, Mr NVilliam B. Smart, Mr M. Curran and Mr William J. Quinn. Miss Conway Will Resign.

Miss Katherine E. Conway Intend' soon to retire from her posit', as prison commissioner. Her editorial and literary labors exact so much of beS energies that it is difficult for her tO at, tend to the duties of the prison commiSo n. THE BEST COURSE of study to prepare boys and zirls business is our "Combined Course. Graduates of this course are always la demand.

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y44 41 .10 I Boston chase a burglar away. If, however, I found myself where I had to choose be-. tween hurt and hurting the burglar. I don't think I should hesitate which to do. EDITORIAL POINTS.

For warlike appearance the naval brigade beats the Boston Fusiliers clear out of sight. The tax rate reported so far Is that of WaketleldS18.50. The lowest Is that of Milton-47. The international geographical congress is going ahead to make a new map of the world. without waiting to see if any changes are to be made by Russia and Japan.

It Is an amusing fact that nobody at, first paid any attention to the of the young woman who was assaulted by a man with a chisel in a Cambridge office because it was thought that the screams proceeded from a dentist's office across the hall. Very likely, however, neither the girl nor the dentist can see anything funny in It. The BriEsh are sure of winning the America cup, and so are the Americans, but the one thing that seems to be really sure, so far, is that there Is likely to be an interesting race. A French physician says that out of 100 persons from 20 to 30 years of age, about 27 will be found to be baldbut not all of them will own it. The suburbanite who registers at the summer resort hotels from Boston instead of from Somerville, or Everett.

or Brighton, in whichever place he really lives, may safely be set down as an advocate of a greater Boston. Under naturgi draft the fast cruiser Columbia eatslup between 200 to 300 tons of coal a day and under forced draft more than 400 tonsa record that any servant girl may well look upon with envy. American lawyers are likely to get a fair share of the $1.500,000 to be paid by Spain in settlement of the Mora claim. Already a legal dispute over its disposition has been begun. It is to be hoped that Th.

Nast will be as successful with the painting of Shakespeare. ordered by Sir Henry Irving. as he used to be with his portraits of Doss Tweed. The Illinois state legislature adjourned its special session In a blaze of bribery charges. Three republicans and one democrat were accused by name by the Chicago Times-Herald, but the legislature refused to pass an order to investigate.

It appears that most of those who were associated with H. If. Holmes at his "castle- In Chicago got In on the ground floor. Delaware county, is interested in the disLovery of a will man, who at horses and cattle. We may all be tloing that In tlme.

now that both are canned. The July report of the Chicago Bureau of Public Health contains this interesting paragraph: Do not let others kiss von indiseriminately, and never without that wiping your lips ith earbolized rose water and thoroughly drying the "Kissing is vicious. intolerable. barbaric. and vile." says Dr Frank W.

Reilly. who is responsible for this injunction. "That's the way half the people get consumption." He might add that that's the way half the people get married. too. If Lieut Peary brings the north pole back with him, there will be the south pole still to be attained.

Even through the big telescope on Boston common nobody can see yet the termination of the subway job. Last month was the coolest July noted by the weather bureau for the last six years. Now let's have the coolest August. WORSE THAN MURDERED. A.

O. Rickard Down" Iltrel by His Wife and Plans Revenge. Mr A. O. Rickard's ingenious suggestion that The Globe publish a full list of all the persons who have not been murdered by H.

II. Holmes, in order to show that he is not such a very bad man after all, has had a peculiar consequence in the once happy home at Claremont. The unfortunate man sends a second communication to The Globe and writes his own headlines as follows: O. Rickard Finds Himself Worse Than Murdered in His Own HouseholdHis Wife the Cause of It." The details cf the sad affair are given in the letter which follows: CLAREAIONT, 11, Aug 1, 1895. Mr Editor: Dear SirThe Globe has done its duty and done it well in reporting me as among the living.

I bought six extra cot-Joys to distribute among friends at home and abroad who have considered Inc worse than (lead for several years. On reading it to my wife, says she. "You old fool, Holmes murders for money." When I come to view it in that light I become bored in my own estermation. It makes me feel as if I wasn't worth murdering. My intentions now are to lay by a part of my wife's earnings until I am.

I'll learn her to call me down. I understand Pres Cleveland is on his notice and refuses to serve us another term. Please see him through the columns of your paper and induse him to stay another four years. If by that time I am not murdered, I'll take the chair. I would now only I'm advised by friends not to hurry.

My rezards to The Globe and its belongings. rd. rd rd. rd. Vacations of Bostonians.

At Niagara Falls are W. K. Dunlap, Mr and Mrs F. 11. Wright, John H.

Sperry and E. H. Gardner. At Bar Harbor are Nellie M. Harris, Mrs Andrew J.

Loud, Mabel J. Durgin, J. H. Mason, C. E.

Nickerson, Rev P. J. Daley, Rev J. J. Bell and Miss S.

Walker. At Asbury Park is Mr William Grinby. At Denver, are Mr and Mrs Miss L. O'Riley, Mr and Mrs S. O'Riley and J.

G. Whitman. At Lake George are Maurice Metcalf, R. C. Teuton, C.

T. Plimpton and Miss A. E. Vigoureaux. At Poland Springs are -Mrs A.

L. Holbrook and Mr A. McGugor. At Adirondacks are Fred P. Hitch-lags, G.

H. L. Coulthurst, Mr and Airs W. H. Arrott and Master William Arrott.

At Saratoga Springs' are Mr and Mrs C. C. Nash. Mr and Mrs John E. Muldoon, Miss Mary Ayer and Mr and Mrs H.

I. Webb. At Jamestown, I. is Miss Bessie Hosmer. Thirteen Was Lucky for Him.

Is there something in the 13 superstition after all? On the 13th of this month an Ohio man left home with only 13 cents in his pocket. Exactly 13 minutes afterward he was informed that an uncle who had recently died left him York Tribune. A I 4' lid Told GEN A. P. MARTIN.

(Chairman Boston Pollee Board.) 11 HE question is one that no man can answer with any certainty that the answer will be borne out by the facts. if ever the actual experience comes to the man. There are many different circumstances that might exist, and each circumstance would call for a separate kind of action. It is true. of course, that burglars enter houses for the purpose of stealing property, and if they can get away without being disturbed they are not likely to disturb anybody without reason.

This suggests that a feeble person or a woman, if awakened by a burglar at night, would do the wisest thing to remain quiet, unless an alarm can be given without attracting the attention of the burglar. A strong man ought to try to apprehend an intruder, since he owes that as a duty to the cause of public order and morals. As a matter of fact, the appearance of a man is likely to drive off a burglar, and any alarm which is certain to bring the neighbors or the police on the scene is also likely to cause the burglar to run off. I think I should know what to do if I found a burglar in my room at night, and yet there is no certainty that I should do it. There is hardly any experience in which a person's action can be foretold with less hope of fulfillment than in this one of the burglar In the room at night.

There is only one thing tolerably sure, and that is, that the person who keeps a cool head is almost certain to escape Injury, while the person that gives way to excitement may be not only robbed, but be subjected to violence as well. I CRIES JAMES H. McKENNA. (Of the Waltham Pollee.) IF I should wake up at night ana find a burglar in my room I know exactly what I should do, but I am not certain that I could tell anybody else what to do, sine circumstances alter cases. I should try to disable the burglar with any weapon at hand before I thought of using a revolver.

I should dislike very much to shoot beforg I knew positively that I had a desperate criminal before me who would not stop short of great violence to me to help himself to escape. In these days burglary is done a good deal by young men and tramps, who can easily be overcome or driven away, and I don't think it would be pleasant after killing a man to have the knowledge that you might have overpowered him and saved your house the stain of blood. But In the case of women and weak or feeble persons, the circumstances are complicated. I think the only thing a woman or feeble man could do would be to lie still until a chance could be obtained to give the alarm. Of courses where a burglar attempts violence I do not believe that the assaulted person should hesitate an instant about shooting, but even then I think the shot fired should be intended to disable rather than to kill.

My whole idea of the subject is that the strong man should try to overpower and disable the burglar without killing him, at the same time giving the alarm, and that the weak man or the woman should either lie still and as soon as possible give an alarm, or should try to only disable the burglar if it became necesiary to use a revolver. I think it is a very good plan to keep some light serviceable weapon 'at hand at night after going to bed. A well-directed, if not very heavy, blow from a strong club would usually disable the toughest burglar. CHIEF CHAS. F.

RICHARDSON. (Of the Newton Pollee.) IF a man or a woman should wake up at night and find a strange man in the room. I think prudence would suggest that the strange man be Identified as a marauder before anything violent was done. But if it could be ascertained definitely that the strange man was a burglar or other criminaland strange men in rooms at nightusually are there for no good purposethen the person in whose room the man is discovered owes a duty to himself and to society not to let the Intruder escape, and in preventing the escape I think violence is justifiable. If the person is weak and possesses a weapon.

that weapon ought to be used as quickly as possible and effectively enough to prevent the possibility of the intruder committing injury in an effort to avoid capture. I am free to confess. however, that I do not think any attempt should be made to kill an intruder when less summary action would prove sufficient for the safety of the invaded and the apprehension of the invader. LW '( CHIEF ALONZO BOWMAN. (Of the 111'001(1h-to Pollee.) T0 guard against burglars there is nothing so valuable as a good watch dog that can't be bribed by strangers.

A good plan is to leave all doors open at night throughout the house Sa that the animal may move around. After a while he will learn to appreciate his responsibilityand no unusual noise can take place anywhere without his starting an investigation. But where a room has been locked, and a person, man or woman, wakes up In it to find a burglar there, the circumstances are a little peculiar. My acquaintance with burglars teaches me that they are not so desperate a class that they will fight against odds, but they love liberty so well that a sligot noise by an awakened person usually will scare them off. However, it is also true that they love liberty well enough I Ore A a ef 1 71776 1(dV-t-gt4 Long Since Bay State Had a Candidate.

Her Chance in Presidential Race This Time. With William E. Russell at Head of Ticket And Another Strong Man for Second Place, Who Can Tell I'Vhat the Result Might Bel NEW YORK. Aug early bird gets the proverb. There's no doubt of the success of the early bird, but how about" the early worm? It seems to me that this is a kind of boomerang proverb, working one way quite as well as another.

Its application may be found, I think. in the unusually early discussion of presideptial possibilities, looking toward a sueeessor to Grover Cleveland. to be provided by one of the present great parties. or possibly by the house of representatives, a popular election having failed to materialize. The last time Cleveland and Harrison rode in an open barouche down Pennsylvania av to the capitol the heavens were wide open and rain and StIOW intermingled filled the A high wind blew everybody and everything whither it listed.

Pneumonia was contracted by the acre. Colds of all sorts and description. grip, chills and fever, bone trouble and rheumatism received on that occasion an impetus from which the nation has not yet recovered. It was a great day for angels, and the toughest in sears for mere mortals ho stood in slush, their enthusiasm fairly shivered out of them, while the great and the good of the earth passed comfortably along under a common umbrella and well protected from elemental disturbance. On that occasion, in the service of The Globe, I caught cold in company with Senator and Col William L.

Brown. a newspaper proprietor of great wealth, the only dielornat living who ever succeeded in getting the Cleveland-and Dave Hill lec3 under his table at one and the same time. 'One of us said to the other: "Dollars to cents those two fellows, Cleveland and Harrison, will be driven up the avenue in precisely the same way on the 4th of March, 1S97, the only (lifference beIng that Cleveland will hold the umbreF.a. over Harrison's head, while today that relation is reversed." I still think so. I know it is unpopular to talk of a third term candidate, and that many wise friends of the president think it would be an indiscreet chance for him to take.

Nevertheless. I thought then, and think today. Cleveland is the strongest possible candidate for the democratic party. I believe him to be the logical candidate, and the only possible man with whom the democracy has the ghost of a chance to win, with one exception. That exception is William C.

Whitney; but recent utterances of that wise man of the world shows that he not only doesnt care for, but, unless if mailed into a corner from which there is no escape, would not allow himself to be saddled with the responsibilities of a campaign and the onerous duties which would of necessity ensue in case of an election. This 'matter, premature though it be, is discussed every day by intelligent men all over the country. Friends who reached this port on a great ocean liner today told me that presidential possibilities and political surmises were the conversation of every day on board the ship. As it was there, so it is at the seaside, in the mountains, and wherever two or three are gathered together, no matter under what political banner they may be ranged. Hence Its pertinence In this correspondence.

-There is no long list of democratic possibilities, is there? Let's look at it for a moment. After naming Cleveland. Whitney, Carlisle, Bayard. who is there? The most sanguine friends of Gov Hill know that the suggestion of his name would precipitate into the convention Just such a fight as made the last Chicago gathering tumultuous and almost uncontrollable. Unless something extraordinary occurs.

there is possible chance for Hill's success; Bayard is entirely out of the question, when regarded from the financial point of view, and to assume that there is any degree of enthusiasm for Carlisle would be an absurdity not likely to be permitted in any intelligent grouping. Russell's Chicago reception was a suggestion. I remember, during the great parade, when the goverr.iors of the several states made their appearance at the head of their respective commands, attended by their brilliant staffs, Gov Russell's coming was a signal for prolonged and unfeignedly enthusiastic applause, which rolled down the line like a rattle of discharged the red blood of gratification into his closely shaven cheeks, and making the nerves of every New Englander present tingle to hial finger tips. As an American citizen was proud that day of the old commonwealth's product, and equally proud of the great American assemblage, whose brains and hearts and voices worked together in harmonious welcome to this bright and deservedly popular public servant. I don't know why it wouldn't be well for the democracy to try a little new blood once in a while, in which case it would be difficult to suggest a more genuinely American choice than William E.

Russell of Massachusetts. That there will be a contest between the east and the west, in both the great conventions next year, is obvious enough. It is a long time since Massachusetts had either a president or a candidate for the presidency taken from her sons, and, although I don't believe it is probable that the old bay state will be thus honored, the possibility seems plausible, and if, with Russell at the head, a strong sound-money man at the foot of the ticket, who can tell what the end might be? Better luck attends the republicans. In spite of what are alleged to be inspired interviews, indicating not only a disinclination. but a positive refusal, on the part of Gen Harrison to enter the lists, I feel today, as I felt before, and so indicated in my correspoiadence, that he is the logical republican candidate.

As a New Yorker, proud of the chief magistrate of the empire state. I should be pleased to see the name of Levi P. Morton at the head of what I believe will be the winning ticket. Certainly, so far as New York itself goes, Morton 'will be first, second and last choice. With Reid coming strong and lusty into the field, filling to an appreciable extent the eye of Young America, popular with all classes, and in every way equipped for the service, confronted by McKinley from the west, equally strong in his line, with a great record of service well done as republican and as American, there is certain to be a tremendous conflict.

This conflict is quite by Heads of Police in and About to tight for it, and the effort of the awakened person should be to scare the burglar off and then give the alarm. If the burglar Is faced by a revolver there Is a chance that he will shoot, too, so that the best methld is to drive him away and then make all the noise possible. I don't think the necessity for the use of a revolver is ever so urgent thaz it needs to be considered When such necessity arises the assaulted person should shoot, but in my judgment it is hardly ever necessary to kill a burglar. It, might be necessary, of course, for an officer who has been called into a house by the presence of burglars to shoot to disable the intruder so that he could be captured. CHIEF WILfIAN P.

DRURY. (Of the ('behlea Pollee.) HE best arswer that I can make to your question is, that there are so rrany circumstances that might accompany the visit of a burglar to a man's house and his appearance in the bedroom at night, that no man can tell what he ought to do without knowing what the burglar is going to do. If' the burglar is peaceable and inclined to get away without making trouble, then I should say, lot him go for the time being, but attract the attention of the po1l2e as soon as possible. If the burglar wants to make trouble. make as much as you can yourself.

As to the question whether a man ought to shoot a burglar or not, that Is a matter must be kft to each man's4 personal feeling. As for myself, I don't believe that any man needs to choot a burglar once In a thousand cases. The burglar is only too glad to get away after he finds you awake, and usually it is only necessary to make a slight noise to drive him off. Of course, a revolver is a good thing to have in a bedroom under certain conditions, but not otherwise. Some of these conditions are: (1).

It must be loaded and within easy reach. (2). The man must know how to use it. (3). The man must be cool.

If these last two conditions are not fulfilled the chances are that a avolver is not likely to do the burglar much harm. CHIEF 1. L. CLOYES. (Of the Cambridge Pollee.) MY experience has led me to believe 'that the average burglar is not prepared to seriously injure.

much less to kill, any person in the house which he enters to rob. I have found that not one in 20 of all the burglars with whose capture I have been personally ocquainted or connected has carried a revolver or any other deadly weapon. That is to say. the burglars who have been caught and searched seldom have been found to have with them any murderous weapon except the tools that they actually used. This would seem to Indicate that the business of the burglar is neither murder nor personal injury and long acquaintance with the burglars of these days would appear to establish the fact that they partake of the character of sneak thieves.

They creep into a house as stealthily as possible, hoping to accomplish their theft without detection. When they are alarmed by the awakening of anybody in the house, they nearly always obey the first Impulse to fly. Usually it is found that they have left open a door or a window by which to escape in case of alarm. In view of these facts, I should be inclined to say that the best thing for a man or woman to do when awakened at night by the presence of a burglar in the house or even the bedroom, is to raise an alarm instantly and follow the burglar's movements so as to be able intelligently to direct the officers or neighbors when they appear. I should think that it would be folly lor a man or a woman to do more than this, since ay effort by a lone person to prevent the burglar's escape might result in loss of life.

More burglars have got away by striking down the person attempting to stop them than have escaped after flying from the house with shouts and screams after them and officers to follow. CHIEF MELVILLE 0. PARKHURST. (Of the Somerville Pollee.) WHATEVER the burglar of old may have been, it seems to me that the housebreaker of today is a coward. Burglary Is no longer the exalted criminal profession that it was when strong men like Bill Sykes were practising, and "the best men" among the plunderers of modern society are in other lines, like bank-breaking and safe.

robbery. The burglar class is made up a good deal today of the rovers and tramps and the young roughs of country places. These are usually not noted for their bravery. Encounters with burglars show that they are not inclined to fight much, but are content to get away as soon as any alarm is made. It is hard to tell just what you would do if you woke up in the dark, with a burglar in the room.

Napoleon was a shrewd judge of men, and he said that he thought 2-o'clock-In-the-morning courage was the rarest quality that be had found. It is true that people seldom do the thing they said they were going to do. Women, for example; who had declared that they should die of fright if they found a burglar in the room, have proved to possess remarkable strength and courage when the man really appeared. I think it is seldom necessary to do more than raise the alarm In order to 4 t'cfrLV It is to the credit of our nation. that.

with very few exceptions, smirched men rarely succeed in politics. We have had ilustrations in this city of politicians with a money itch, who have succeeded in stealing themselves rich at the expense of the public. but what has Invariably been their end? I believe firmly that the horizon of ex Gov Hoffman's political life was narrowed and brought quickly and closely to him, because of his close connection with the old Tweed ring. We. who knew him, believed then and believe now in his personal integrity.

his business probity. his financial straightness, but he was tarred with the Tweed stick. He was politically shifty. If certain papers were to be signed when he was mayor, of which he didn't approve, instead of refusing to sign them he left town; when he was governor, although his general course was straight as a beeline, he was found acquiescent in of measures. Arhich, although repugnant to his personal sense of honor and propriety, found no barrt2r In his political creed.

He was a strong, sturdy. stalwart democrat from his youth up. As recorder he was an honest, impartial, fearless magistrate. Taken altogether as mayor and governor, I doubt if the acutest critic would peril reputation by adverse criticism. In spite of this his conduct with the ring was, to say the least, cowardly.

and his subserviency to Tweed in the state election which reelected him, and also in the legislative approvals, was such -that when his term ended, his retirement to private life met universal approval, and I doubt if he could have been elected a town constable- in the least conspicuous hamlet in the state. Ice names of men who made money over fast at the public expense, and not so very many years ago at that, are fresh in the memories of the people of today. Where are they? What can they do? What Is their influence? By whom are they respected? By whom is their absence felt? They affard significant and eloquent Illustrations my assertion, that smirched men do not succeed in political life, the public being shown the truth. We are fortunate In our presidential candidates. The lists as given don't show a man against whom aught can be said, when viewed from the financial, moral or personal standpoint.

Look at them. The democrats are Grover Cleveland, David B. Hill, William E. Russell, William C. Whitney, Carlisle and Bayard.

They differ radically in birth, breeding, social standing. natural equipment and educational attainment, yet there Isn't one of them who hasn't the respectful regard of a majority of his fellow-citizens. Mr Whitney Is, perhaps, better known personally and socially than any name upon the list, and his candidacy would be less embarrassed, in spite of his wide acquaintance and his Intricate connections, than that of any of the others. The republicans are Benjamirt Harrison. Levi P.

Morton, Thomas B. Reed, William McKinley and Allison. It would be difficult to find a number of men with greater differences, social, financial, temperamental, than they present. Yet they, like their democratic rivals, are not only known, but noted in the length and breadth of the land for personal purity. for probity, for all-around excellence of character.

This, to students of human nature, means much. The selection of these men stands as a continuous and everlasting compliment to the nation itself. Like breeds like, and these indeed be your gods. 0 America. We have had weak men, Irresolute men, easily worked men, in the white house, but we have never yet had a curse to the nation whose personal character brought the blush of shame to the cheek of any man, cast a stain upon any state, or caused any party responsible for his elevation to droop its head in chagrin.

To say that we are proud of this may, to some small minds, seem as unnecessary as to recall the fact that two and two make four, but, in these days of anarchists, red flags, professional agitators, workmen who labor with their jaws alone, sneerers at honesty, cavillers at our institutions, and above all our numerous instances of trusted men gone wrong, it can do no harm to show the young men and maidens of the day that, even as at matter of policy, honesty Is the trump card, and by pointing to the names of men elevated to our highest places prove that character is the essential cornerstone of success. Whatever may be the issue one thing Is unquestionably a certainty. The democrats will nominate a gentleman and the republicans will do likewise. The white house will have as a tenant a man in whom the nation will repose unbounded confldence, and the flag will fly over the head of a chief magistrate worthy of the honor conferred upon him, conscious of the dignity of his and Intelligently industrious in his endeavor to maintain his character and to uphold the flag of which he is the official custodian, rot nts. There Is considerable feeling in the company engagea by Mansfield to support the Holland brothers, because after weeks of rehearsal he saw fit to postpone the opening from Aug 5 to Sept 3.

Mrs Phillips, who will be remembered as a valuable member of Palmer's forces for many years, threw up her engagement with Mansfield and was Immediately engaged by Charles Frohman. The managers are all coming home from the other side. Henry E. Abbey, Charles Frohman and Joseph Brooks arrived last week and Harry Miner came in today. The boys are having a good laugh over the fact that the band which went down on a tug to meet Miner saluted him with that cheerful old whiskerando, "The Bowery." Ex Mayor Hugh Grant is home again, and Tammanyites feel quite cockey.

Robert PPorter, founder of the New York Press, now editor of the Cleveland World, is in the city today, homeward bound after a health-giving European trip. Christopher Oscanyan, formerly a member of the Turkish embassy, one of the oldest members of the New York press club, after a lingering illness, died Thursday, and was buried today. The Herald sq theater opens with what is called a Boston success, "The Two Tangled Turks," a week from Monday night. Our weather has been quite pleasant of late, until today, when Gen Humidity took command, and marshaled the fore-. EDITORIAL POINTS.

Weather forecast for SundayA good day to go to the beach. The break In the Defender's gaff followed immediately after the break in the Harrison presidential boom. "Coxey for governor and Debs for president" Is the cry of the Ohio populists. That might be called a non-Interest-bearing ticket. It is pleasant to think that the Indian uprising Is likely to be put down without any necessity for calling out the Ancient and 'Honorable artillery company.

The Chicago press club held a 12-hour celebration Thursday because it is out of debtas a corporate body, of course, that is to say. Beef, wine and iron frequently go together, and so do beer and iron, according to the statistics of manufactures in Milwaukee. The figures for the year's production are: Beer, Iron manufactures, $12,021,342. The girls have done one good thing. They have shown the men that it is possible to sit up straight while riding on a bicycle.

In to the Evening Bulletin, "the prevailing low prices for coal are the one subject of conversation among coal shippers, sales agents and wholesale and retail yet the Boston dealers have just put their prices up. Philadelphia is trying the experiment of selling her municipal bonds in small denominations to the people, at 3 percent interest, and it is working well. A 1,200,000 loan has just been placed, within a week, after the financiers of the city refused to take it. In the state of Wyoming the lower grades of horses are actually being sold for $3 a dozen. Sound, unbroken mustangs can be had for $1 apiece.

For from $6 to $8 one can purchase a thoroughly broken horse, sound in every way. Livery stable prices in the east, however, haven't been correspondingly reduced. Ask a New York boy wherein Sunday Is different from other days, and he will tell you promptly that it is because on Sunday nobody can get a drink. In view of the fact that her $5200 a year income will stop in case she marries again, the late Mrs Corbettnow 011ie Lake once moreis likely to prefer alimony to matrimony for awhile. The Corbett divorce decree contains a provision that the $5200 a year alimony may be decreased by the court if the circumstances of Corbett should warrant such reductionin other words, of course, if Fitzsimmons wins.

Villages that want to become cities are numerous, but until now who ever heard of a city that wanted to become a village? That is the case, however, with the city of Harvey, III. Moody and Sankey were instrumental in founding the place, and now it proposes to give up its city charter, as the only feasible means of keeping out saloons. 'W. P. Hazen, chief of the secret sem ice, is at a New York hotel.

It would be iLteresting to watch him go out today and see if he could find a place where he could get a drink. No particular boom is reported in the suspender business, even though bloomers are a fad. Did Holmes kill Cock Robin, too? TRIED TERN TALL If no man may have three terms in the chair of the chief magistrate of the republic there can be no higher distinction fora president than to be thought of In such a relation. A good many highly distinguished statesmen have felt they had reaped glory enough when they beard themselves even mentioned for one term, nattering their aspiring souls that they could catch, with prophetic ears, the boast of generations unborn that once their great progenitor was proposed for president of the United States. Moreover, when Roscoe Conk-ling was advocating Gen Grants cause at Chicago, he declared that the principal opposition to a third term came from men who were anxious to get a first term.

Ai he trolls the waters of Buzzards bay this summer, Mr Cleveland wears the honor of a third-term discussion personal to himself. For more than two years, whenever the tide of his good fortune has set in. jealous minds have accused him of what Mr Tilden denounced as "the bad ambition for a third term," and for several months now Zealous supporters have favorably discussed such an iconoclastic project as a growing possibility. There can be no question that as this most unusual and tempestuous administratiom draws to a close, Mr emerges from all the uncertainties of the period with many challengers, it is true. but without a rival In his party.

Ile has maintaintd himself not always by intellectual or tactical superiority, never by the prestige of unbroken popular successes, not by crafty planning, but by sheer force of character unsppreached In the leadership of the democracy for 11 years, including two terme in the presidency, an honor which he shares only with Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant. Surely thtre must be a satiety for mortal ambition in gaining this glorious company, denied to 15 of our presidents, and the eminence must seem much the greater for Cleveland since he alone has achieved it solely through the victories of peace and unaided by the blinding glory of war. Memories of the revolution controlled the choice of the first four double-term presidents, as the renown of Jackson's services in the war of 1812 affected his political standing, and the exigencies of the civil war determined the fate of Lincoln and Grant. Figuratively speaking, they were all men on horseback, while Cleveland Is the man afoot. Since the selection of presidential candidates first deolved upon party conventions, omly Jackson, Van Buren, Lincoln and Grant have won a second 320mination, bult by more than a a 1 'tic L.

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