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10, Boulevard )M Capucln. yBr i A Short Municipal Campaign. Kf The reported decision of the Republican Ri leader In thU city to put off their noml- Bating conyentlon until the latter part of jj September or the beginning of October Instlcatlvvj of -political sagacity. Vw, The people of this community hare had a vti surfeit of politics, and now that the tariff bill has become law and Congress has ad 'Vv Journed they aro entitled to a rest from S'V'' political controversy. Nor Is there any justification for bringing In the dlatrao 2p I tlons and excttcmenta of the municipal campaign before political necessity abso- lately requires the nomination of tickets.

fi month before the November election Is ong enough for such a campaign, and no wise politician will venture to disturb the now hopeful business situation with its controversies for a longer period. I The character of the campaign which we are to have next autumn has been determined, and no manoeuvring of politicians can change It. Tammany Hall will make Its canvass on the Chicago platform and with a ticket representative of Bryan-Ism. The Republican party will ngain be the leader and form the nucleus of the opposition to tho Dryanism which will be preached by violent Tammany orators. Some talk is heard now of a ticket to be put up by gold Democrats, but even If there shall be such a ticket, It will command comparatively small support, for long before the election everybody will recognize that whoever votes for It will simply throw his vote away, the sole issue being between Tammany and the Republicans, Bryanlsni and civilization.

It will be a hard light and spirited throughout; but four or flvo weeks will be ample time for It, more especially as the questions at Issue have already been discussed thoroughly. Everybody, therefore, desires that the period of disturbance Caused by the campaign shall bo short. As to the selection of a candidate to lead the conservative forces, there Is no need of pending time so long In advance. The right man will bo found among tho three million people of the Greater New York, gt and nobody Is In any hurry for his nomlna- 3 tlon unless here and there an aspirant for J-J- the distinction put forward by a few super- serviceable people who ore Indulging hopes $b' of political and personal profit by his eleo- M- tlon. The matter will settle Itaelf in due time and to thegoneral satisfaction.

ti Prosperity and Bryanlsm. Shortly after the election last November illy' the Hon. Arthur Sewaix expressed the If'-. opinion that only a period of general pros- yv' perlty could prevent the triumph of free pjjn silver. Such a period baa now begun.

It has begun among the farmers and will pread from them to all occupations. The result upon politics must be vast. Not merely the demand for the free coinage of fflp' silver at the ratio of 10 to 1, but the whole fvJ''- stock In trade of tho Democrats and the Populists Is founded upon the theory that the people are not prosperous, and owing to laws and economic conditions favorable to capitalists and unfavorable to the mass of I the people, the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer." Hard times have their periods like everything else, and during them It Is easy to persuade tho discontented that the Government Is to blame. The whole movement called Bryanlsm Is an appeal to discontent, social and economic, and an attempt to Increase It by violent and demagogical language. Such a movement must lose much of Its force when everybody but the tramp is working and getting paid for It.

In times of financial depression and disaster men may be ready to try desperate remedies, but when they are Improving their condition and making money, they have no time or disposition to bother their heads with the promises of the agitators and the cranks. The Bryanttes have said, In effect, that there could be no prosperity without free silver. Prosperity has come and shamed their theories and predictions. It Is reasonable to suppose, therefore, that the Bryanlte propaganda, though still resolute and active, will have lost some of Its Impetus by 1000. TjftV British Difficulties In India.

jm It would appear from the latest Blue Book Issued by the British Government on the bubonic plague In India that the recent troubles and killing of Indian officials dur- rL Ing the Jubilee week might have been averted had the British Government heeded Stf 0 the warnings It received from India. The rafrX story contained in the Blue Book Is of very wwd' great Interest, revealing as It does the in- ternatlonal influence In the Internal affairs of nations. The dangerous nature of the plague, and the fear of Its spread to Kuropp, caused the Governments of the Continent to bring pressure to bear on the British Gov. i ernment to prohibit the annual Mussulman vfe1 pilgrimage to Mecca from India. Tho In- m'r''1 J'an Government, which was awake to the danger of thus opposing a barrier to 'ii the most cherished desire of every devout i Mussulman, and bad apparently some Idea B( that sanitary reasons were not the only ones prompting the pressure of the Euro- pean Governments, anxiously asked the Vi India Office In London whether the Sultan of Turkey was among the powers urging tff that the pilgrimage might be prohibit- ed, as, If that were the case.

It would W'i' strengthen their hands In dealing with the irXr question. The Sultan, It would seem, had Sy been approached on the subject, but, with id' his usual desire to discover some advan tS tages for himself, would give no decisive answer, and declined to use his Influencn In J1 the way ft was desired. Meantime the ur- Wi gency of the European Governments was lf. such that Lord Georob Hamilton, Secre- 5B i tary State for India, having the choice of jjjRtfi two evils, chose, as he thought, the least, liLt" and pressed on the Indian Government the Mk' cessation of the pilgrimage for the season. MtPi Tno on the Mussulman mind of such action can bo easily Imagined, and all re.

Wh ports from India go to show that the re- bentment among that section of the popu- aE latlonlsstlmulutcdnctlvelybypolltlcalagl. jfjSV tntors, who see an opportunity for Htrenfjth- enlng sentiment against English rule. 2' The political asnhslnatlons nt I'oonn, in ij Bombay Presidency, appear to hae I BsissMstiissBlsaissMMMiMMiMM 'MSiLf'ly '-r tees duo whollr to the tubbora iMtetemM of the India Office la Londoa cm drastlo application of the regulations for the trap-prcsklon of the plague. In Bombay Iteolf the provincial Government carried out the sanitary regulations In such a way as to conflict as little as poitlbla with the religious and social prejudices of the people, and employed In the sanitary service, so far as possible, nativesof the same religion and race as those Inhabiting tho districts infect-d with the disease. The result, In the opinion of the Bombay authorities, was that they averted a calamity more serious and more widespread than the very terrible one with which they bad to deal.

At Poona the case was different. The regulations were applied In their full rigor by Mr. Rand, who was assassinated, described as an unsympathetic, auspicious, and high handed officer," with theresult that the native spirit was aroused, and the events which we have heard of followed. Tho natlvo prea for some time has violently denounced the Government and Its methods, and the people are urged to form commltteesfortho protection of thelrrlghts. To do this, In a country administered despotically like India, Is really on Incipient form of rebellion.

Tho Anglo-Indian press Is for the severest treatment of all agitators, but It seems more likely that the short period of violence that has Just passed over certain districts In India has served as a warning to the British Government, and that It will go forward more warily In the future. Already there are signs of a more conciliatory disposition toward the natives In the Poona district, who ore Mahrattos, and among the proudest and most warllko of the native races. Tho editor of two Poona papers, one, the Mahratta, published in English, tho other, Ktsari, In tho vernacular, In which some of tho most vigorous denunciations of the Government, Its agents, and the English soldiers havo been printed, has been renominated by the Lieutenant-Governor to tho Bombay Legislative Council, in, splto of tho opposition of the Anglo-Indian element. In his papers Mr. Ganocdiiar Tilak has not gono out of his way to avoid wounding the susceptibilities of the dominant race, and has poured out, especially In the native paper, Ktsari, his bitterest wrath on the Indian princes and officers who went to England to take part In the Jubilee.

A portion of the English press emphasizes the situation In India in order to strengthen its arguments for an increase of the English garrison In that dependency, and some employ the old time-worn phrase that what has been won by tho sword must bo held by the sword, oblivious of the economic forces comlne Into play against which the sword' Is of no avail. The English sword may cut down the armed rebel, but It cannot collect taxes from a people reduced to the last rag for clothing and a few grains of rice for food. But there will bo no change in the system of governing India until the burden of Its cost falls on the shoulders of the British taxpayers themselves. Tho Next Changes In tho Senato. At this year's elections legislators are to be chosen In many of the States who will participate In tho choice of United States Senators to fill the vacancies arising on March 4, 1809.

There will be thirty vacancies. Thirty Senators go out of office on that day, thirty go out of office on March 4, 1001, and thirty on March 4, 1003, the total number of States now being forty-five, and the total number of Senators, with a full complement, being ninety. Of the thirty Senators who will go out of office In what has sometimes been called "tho next batch," fifteen are Democrats, eleven are Republicans, three are silver Republicans, and one Is a Populist. The loss to the Democratic side probably will be more serious than to the Republicans, not merely in numbers, but in respect of tho men who go out. Among the Democrats whose terms expire are Arthur P.

Gorman of Maryland, Charles J. Faulkner of West Virginia, John L. Mitchell of Wisconsin, and David Turpie of Indiana. Turpie has already announced himself as a candidate for reflection two years hence, but he, like Faulkner, Gorman, and Mitchell, is by no means sure of reelection, for tho three States from which these Senators come were carried by the Republicans by large majorities in November last. West Virginia gave 10,000 Republican majority and has now a Republican Governor In office.

The present Legislature has a Republican majority of 21 on joint ballot. Maryland was carried for McKinlet by a majority of more than 30,000. It also has a Republican Governor, and tho present Legislature is Republican by more than two to one. Wisconsin was carried for McKinlet by a majority of more than 100,000. A Republican Governor was elected by nearly 100,000 and the Republicans control the Legislature nearly flvo to one.

Whatever chance of Democratic success there may be In Indiana, there Is less In thootber three States named. Senator Gorman has been In the Senate since 1881. Senator Faulkner became a United States Senator In 1887. The terms of some of the best known Republicans, active and influential as leaders of the Senate, expire on Mnroli 4, 1800, but these Senators happen to hall from States In which the supremacy of the Republicans Is so well established that tho possibility of Democratic success Is hardly to be considered. In tho list of these Senators are Nelson W.

Aldkicu of Ithodo Island, Matthew S. Quay of Pennsylvania, now more than ever a Republican State; Henrt Cabot Lonan of Massachusetts, Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota, Euoene Hale of Maine, and PnocTonof Vermont. In no one of these six overwhelmingly Republican States Is thcro any prospeot of Democratic success. New England Is now without a Democratic Senator.

Tho four Middle States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, have three Democrats, all of whose terms end with tho next change In the Senate. One of those whose terms expire Is Edward Munpny of New York another Is James Smith, of New Jersey tho third Is George Gray of Delaware. In tho South and Southwest there are several Democratic Senators whose terms expire on the 4th of March, 1600, and who have, at least, some prospect of return to Washington, or of being succeeded by Democrats of similar political notions. These are RooEn Q. Mills of Texas, John W.

Daniel of Virginia, Senator Pasco of Florida, and Senator Bate of Tennessee. There will be one Democratic vacancy In California and another lu North Dakota. The terra of Senator Hawley, Republican, In Connecticut eplres on the name day. The three nilver Republicans whose terms expire In 1800 nre Cannon of Utah, Mantle of Montana, and Stewart of Novada, 'hree roprebeuiatives of States of minor political lmpeW: wart, however, though ia JJftart twweseat-atlve of a State politically IntHrnlflcant, Is a notable figure la Waahldgtoa. He was elected to the Senate away pack In 1804, In advance of any ot hU colleagues and before even the venerable MonniLL of Vermont, who took his seat three years later.

Senator Stswabt has not been a Senator conaeoutlvaly since 1804, but be has been long eaongh In Washington to know what Is going on and occasionally to hava something to say about It. Oawitow and Mantle are generally listeners. The Populist Senator whose term expires Is William V. Allen of Nebraska. In addition to being a Populist from tho Bryan Stale, Mr.

Allen Is an Ohio man, and If he has the proverbial luck of Ohio mon In American politics ho may continue to represent Nebraska Populism at Washington, a privilege which would not have been his solely if TnunsTON hadn't beaten William J. Bur an for Senator In January, 1800. Dyea as a Fort of Entry. The complaint of some of the San Fran Cisco shippers against the Administration for having constituted Dyea a sub-port of entry seems to us unreasonable It Is truo that Dominion vessel owners are aided by this measure, which was tho result of their own petition, to share with our own shipping Interests the transportation of passengers and supplies to the Klondike region. But that region Is Itself on the Dominion side of the boundary, and our miners have not only had free access to It, taking out large amounts of gold, but thus far seem to have been the principal occupants of It.

To ask that Canada should be cut off by us from easily granted facilities to reach gold mines In her own territory, and meanwhile should allow these mines to bo worked by Americans who had refused her request for such facilities Is rather too much. The view of tho San Francisco shippers Is not only selfish but short-sighted. The effect of their policy might be to cause the Dominion to try to shut out American miners under alien labor law provisions. Some foolish Canadian papers aro calling for such exclusion now. Whtlo It would be absurd for the Dominion to embark on such a policy, the case would be quite different if we should inhospitably refuse to supply adequate entry facilities along our Alaska shore, for tho express purpose of preventing Canadian vessels from transporting tbelr own people and their own goods to our coast line, thence tobe carried overland to their own mines.

This last might fur-illsli a justifiable ground for retaliation. There is astillbrooderconslderatlon. For some time there has been an effort on the part of somo Dominion people to try to run the part of the treaty line that lies south of Mount St. Ellas nearer tho coast, by measuring tho prescribed ten marine leagues from tho outer edge of the Islands Instead of from the main shore. The object, of course.

Is to give the Dominion footholds all along our line and especially the control of harbors. Sundry mapmakcrs and others havo urged this extraordinary claim, which, of course, we never could admit. But now we find Canadian shipowners applying for the opening of new ports of entry along the Alaska coast line, and on the ground that such commercial facilities would be a favor. Our ownership of the seaboard strip Is In fact compatible with giving them fair opportunities for entering their Arctic regions by way of American ports. The opening of Dyea will also be a convenience to Americans.

In short, we have nothing to fear from giving a fair field In this respect alike to our neighbors and our own citizens. There will be trade for both and a better feeling. The Rifle Meeting at Blsley. There are several points of Interest to foreign observers In the thirty-eighth annual meeting of tho British National Rifle Association, just held on Bisley Common, the successor of the old AVImbledou range. Foremost in importance among these Is tho success achieved by tho new British military rifle, the Lce-Metford.

It shoots harder and shoots further than the Martini," an expert said, and its degree of accuracy gave very general satisfaction. The number of instances in which at the shorter distances the highest possible scores wens mode was noticeably large. The meeting was strong In marksmen from the British colonies, attracted by the Queen's jubilee, many scores of them entering for tho Queen's Prize. Canada, the Cape, Natal and New Zealand sent contingents, while Australia sent three teams, representing New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. The opening competition was one of tho most picturesque and pleasing, the Evelyn Wood match, which Is that of teams advancing in attack formation, each divided Into a firing line and supports, and these lost comlug up toward the finish and adding volley firing.

Then came tho annual match between Cambridge and Oxford teams of four, flf-teen shots each at 800, 000, and 1,000 yards, won by Cambridge, 074 to 033 and simultaneously tho team of eight match between regulars and volunteers, on tho same conditions, won by the volunteers, 1,340 against 1,280. The Ashburton match for public bchoolu was won by Bradncld College, over twenty-flvo competitors, with Eton second. The Kolaporo Cup match Is always of Interest for Americans, because the colonial teams compete In It ngalryst England's, and our good wishes always go out to the Canadians as neighbors and representatives from tho Now World. They won the cup flvo times between 1872 and 1880, but since then havo not been so fortunate. This summer Victoria took It with the fine score of 751 points.

Now Zealand winning (second place and Cnnnda third. Perhaps tho most widely famous team match Is that for the Elclio Shield, open to teams of eight at 600, 000, and 1,000 yards, fifteen shots per man at each distance. Eng land won It again this year, but her score, 1,003, was much behind last July's. Ireland was second, with 1,401 points, and Scotland thlid, with 1,484. England leads on the total of these contests, but Ireland did not enter them until 1873, and tho record from that tlmo until now shows Ireland still ahead, in spite of England's four successive wins, having a total of 11 victories, against 10 for England and 4 for Scotland.

Scotland won In 1874 and 1870, and not again until 1802, when she made the unequalled record of 1,600, A remarkable match was the one for the Qraphlo Cup, In which over thirty competitors made 35, the highest possible score In seven shots at 200 yards. Fifteen competitors tied again In the shoot-off, and the trials went on until only one was left with a uniform string of buUscyes. A good score was made In the shooting fj i for tee Queen's Prlwy eUrer taeaal, awarded before the toa! was won by 210 points at 200. 000, and 600 yards out ot a possible 230. The winner of the gold medal In the third stage pockets the handsome sum of 1,200, and plenty ot smaller turns are connected with this famous match.

Indeed, to an American a moat striking thing about the annual Blsley meeting Is the number, variety, and aggregate value of the prizes. During one year the Canadians won, It Is said, $2,700 in money, besides cups and trophies. No wonder that there are throngs of competitors, and that the practice for the meeting Is regarded as a valuable adjunct In the training and efficiency of tho British military forces. Judge Van Wrote on the Iiaw of Misfits. The iVtto York Law Journal reports a decision rendered by Chief Judge Robert A.

Van Wyck In the City Court of New York, General Term, the case being that of Adelaide May against Frederick Guntiikii and others. A remodelled sealskin garment was the occasion of dispute. In the course of his opinion Judge VAK Wtck laid down the law of misfits, and by the subjoined Illustration attempted to niako clear the general principle of damage for misfits: "If sireotleoiui honld pontMM pair ef putt whlota wer an Inch too long, and taka tnara to tailor who mraaurtd him and atretd tor a fixed price to make thn proper alteration, but by ntittke cat off ten tnchti Initead ot one, the gentleman would not be required to pay the tailor and aosept return ot the panta, and to an the tailor tor tbe difference between tbelr value aa a pair of knee braecbee and their value aa a pair of pants, bat could refUM their return and aue for their value when deUrered to the tailor." It Is not contempt of court to remark that tho learned Judge Is all wrong. Tho common law principle Is almost as old as Blackstonb that no gentleman can ever wear pants, or purchase pants, or own pants, or Bend them to a tailor to be altered. We are not awaro that any statute of tho Stato runs against this vcnerablo and Inexpugnable principle of the common law.

There being no legal ownership In pants by any gentleman, it follows that no gentleman can recover damages for alleged Injury to them. One Inch off or ten Inches off, it is all the same. Judge Van Wyck's extraordinary opinion Is hereby reversed, with costs, and tho gentleman who attempted to make an honest tailor his accessory and accomplice In the wearing of pants Is sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Tho Bond Sale. On Thursday afternoon Comptroller FiTcn will receive proposals for more than $10,000,000 of city bonds, the last Important fiscal operation of the city of New York to be undertaken before the enlargement on Jan.

1, 1808. The rate of Interest nt which tho bonds are offered, 3Lj per is likely to be reduced to a smaller figure by a premium upon the bonds, one of the conditions of the proposal being that no bid shall be accepted for less than par. A year ogo there were sold for the city of municipal bonds, obtaining therefor a premium which reduced the rato of interest to 3.20, and with the accumulating evidences of a restoration of public confidence through the revival of business there Is reason to believe that tho bonds to be sold this week will be disposed of even moro advantageously. Of their number, $3,000,000 are for dock purposes; 91,750,000 for Improving the city's water supply; $1,000,000 for new schoolhouses in tbe more crowded and the rapidly developing parts of town $500,000 aro for street pavements, for additional water mains, $350,000 for charitablo Institutions, $100,000 for street-cleaning machinery, $200,000 for the new city prison, $800,000 for the Fort Washington Park, $300,000 for the new Court House on Madison avenue for the use of the Appellate Division of the Supremo Court, which now rents offices, $400,000 for tho new Harlem River Bridge at Third avenue, ctpected to be open to traffic by the 1st of November, and the remainder for sundry public purposes. During the year 1800 there was a net increase of $8,000,000 in the funded debt of the city of New York, but the actual Increase by the Issunnce ot new bonds was $1 0,000,000, of which $5,000,000 was for increased water supply, $1,200,000 for pavements, $1,100,000 for bridges, for park and parkway improvements and extensions, $2,800,000 for school-bouses, and $1,000,000 for other public buildings.

When Mr. Cleveland slurried the Oorra.sn bill he ronfeejed with bltlerneu, tc.Ktimb4o Daily Journal. If this la the way our contemporary proposes to write history, the year 1000 will hear It discoursing about tho feelings of Mr. Qorman as ho signed the Cleveland bill. Mr.

Thomas Huackktt ItEED, wlion ho returns to Maine, had better don little school teaching again for the honor of his State. Our esteemed contemporary, tho Cleveland faadtr, lias found now trouble for the Hon, Horace Leonidas Chapman, the Plutocratic Democratic camlllate for Governor. It aers that HorucE Leonid 43 "was a Copperhead," and It Is going to "review his record" nnd show, or try to show, thst "during the civil war ho was disloyal to his country." What do the DucLcye Democrats euro whether be was a Copperhead or not I As long as be Is for silver nnd copiously plutocratic, they will continue to regard him ns unaffected by ancient history. Tho real rock In his way Is his Inability to show I hat he cr lifted his voice for the poor man" before tho present campaign. Vet even this rock may bo removed.

The plutocratic, candidate of plutocrat-hunters Is a necessity, nnd little accidents nnd details cannot mnr his greatness. Hosldes, lifting one's volto for "tbe poor man is on accomplishment oaslly acquired. What is to become of the Popocrats and the Populists without their old friend, tho mortgage I Wheat up high, stiver down low, and tho mortgages melting away. ThU Is a pretty condition of things for I'opocrats nnd Populists. Whore are their platforms now I Wheroistho wind of their sails Is It the hand of tbe Money Power that has throttled so many eloquent windpipes Who puts up wheat, put down sliver, pays off the mortgages Somo form of the Money Power, and for the obvious purpose of discrediting the I'opocrats and Popu-lists.

It seems natural to suspect that trusts are the guilty parties. Trusts are liable to be guilty ot everything, and are known to be Ingenious, Is tt not time to Investigate their responsibility for Prosperity, thst Crime of 1897 1 Missouri Is a State of marvels and miracle, and nothing that happen In It causes much surprise. Bo the story of a Missouri farmer who has found a sure means of defeating the potato bug trust may be accepted without much preliminary Inquiry, save by naturalist and precisians. Tbe story Is that a farmer living near Golden City ha contrived a potato which will grow without vine. In cultivating the vlneles potato the harrow 1 mightier than tho hoe.

Tbe potato bug has to ai, Met -W4ita taV Xt-waeM "MTMlffiee Mltaesrl Man could be extended to all the frnlU and vegetable. Why should man have to Mbub" hi peas and "pole" his beans! Why should he have to shake the tree or climb a ladder on the tree or uso a picker or a club when he wants an apple or a pear I Many Improvements aro needed In agriculture and horticulture, and the world look to Mlseourt for them. In fact, the moat hopeful mind forme the time whan thing will grow without being planted and the crops will get np or down, as tha ease may be. and take care of and gather themselves. The Augusta Chronicle tries to pay a erlou compliment to Dr.

AlfDiuews, formerly President of Drown Unlvenlty, by aaylng that "he I one ot tho brainy men of the day." Wonld any man who has been or hope to be the President of a college be pleased to be called Would he accept that adjective without a "palny" feeling, so to speak! One may see in the elevated cars advertisement of a well-known and highly respectable dictionary which describe It as the work of "brainy specialists." Doubtless a bratny" specialist ought to bo perfectly atlsfactory, but as a maker of a dictionary he may seem Inappropriate to conservative mind. Would a contlpede be described properly a "footy" and the Nile a "mouthy" and a many-gated city ns gatey" I Aro the Rockies and the Himalayas "chalny A singular fact, If fact It be, has just been communicated to an admiring country by the Hon. Potato PiNonca of Lansing and Detroit. In a special message on the tariff which hs sent to Mr. MoKimijct, the Hon.

Julius OstSAn Dun-nows, and a few other favored persons beside the general public, he said: Tbe laborer wears twice many shoe a the millionaire, and must contribute twice a much for the tax on hldea." Mr. PrNansE Is somewhat of an authority on shoes, and he must be right In saying that the laborer wears twice as many shoes as the millionaire, but tbe reason Is hardly clear. It cannot be that the "laborer" has twice as many feet a the "millionaire." The latter person Is often In the octopus line, and so may be supposed to have a collection of feet; and it Is rumored that there are sovcral millionaire who have a number of pairs of shoes. The Fort Collins Argua burns and bathes at once In a glorious metaphor. It say that "that wave of prosperity which the gold Republican and the gold Democrats promised last fall Is still hanging Are." As the result of this procrastination on the part of the wave, "the only hope of tbe people Is through the turning down of tbe goldbugs at every election, and finally.

In 1000, by placing William Jennlios Brian in the Presidential chair." So tbe only hope of tbe people of tbe kind of tho Fort Collin Jrgut is to bavo a good long period of hard times. Prosperity Is poison to them, and they will not take it if they can help It. But they can't help taking It. It will come to Fort Collins, Cob, as well as to Lincoln, and wherever It comes the long faces will be shortened and the short bank accounts will be lengthened. It Is one of the many queer traits of Bryanlsm and of the Populism which It stole that they have no hope whloh I not founded upon general hopelessness and misfortune.

They cannot be comfortable unless everybody 1 ruined. A new crime of the Money Power bos been discovered by a Chicago aller poet. He weeps over the good ol' times we used to have when "wheat was worth a dollar and corn was thirty cents, and the pralrio ben and meadow lark sang sweetly on the fence." Hut the melodious cralrie hen and the meadow lark have long ceased to give concerts on the fence. Ood bleu tha little creatures, their songs stick In their throat. They know we are embarrassed and cannot pay our notes i A btrd will sit for hours and droop hU head and tall.

And wonder when the old farm'U be aold at Bherlff'a sale." Somebody ought to tell the Chicago poet of tbe rise of the price of wheat and of thepayln; of the mortgagoon the old farm; and then the poet ought to go and tell tbe prairie hen and meadow lark and Induce them to resume business. The shutting up of tbe concerts ot tho prairie hen and the meadow lark Is one of the most awful of tho many woes ascribed to tho Crime of 1873, but there Is no reason why the songs should stick In their throats any longer. Tbe old farm "111 not bo sold, and the silent sessions on the fence can be adjourned without day. Pcrht Belmont is one of the leading bankers of New York. XMntrr KrinWcun.

This Is not so. Mr. Pkhrv Belmont Is not a banker at all. Ho never has been a banker. He has no connection with any banking business in New York, or In any other city.

Driving Convicts Insmne. To vtnt Editor or Tin Bcs Sir If the newspaper reports In regard to lunacy among ronTlcta confined In penitentiaries. In comequenre of their enforced Idleness under tbe new law prohibiting tbe employment of conTlct labor, are true, I thlok that the law la one of the moil Inhuman erer enacted. I cannot Imagine that It 1, possible to Inflict upon a human being greater cruelty than continuous and unem ployrd aolltary confinement. Auumlng the truth of the reports recently publlthed by your own paper and othrr papers, the situation li one that appeals to all those who hare any Initluct of humanity whatever.

I nealre no newspaper publicity, and especla'ly request that you will make no uift of my name, but I am much Impressed with tbe nerd of some orKKntfed (Tort looking toward the repeal or modification of this law, and tt ou agree with me aad can. through your newspaper or o'herw se. organise such effort. I shall be only too glad to ar my share of the work and expense in connection therewith. T.

U. P. Nxw York, July 34. Tbe Van Cortlmndt Uaks. To tit Editob or Th flrn Sir There seems to be a great deal of very Just complaint aatothe way In whloh the golf links at Van Cortlandt Park are latd out, and there la room for a great deal of Improvement.

The hazards on the nrth and seventh holes are very poorly placed, but the worst ature of tbls course Is In pla'liig three extremely long holes together. These are the lait tbne bolea and cover a dlslanee of about 1, 400 yanta, whloh Is nearly enough for good nine hole course and nearly equal to the distance covered by tbe other tlx holis. This coulu he eaully reniedlrd and should as tt la extrenely tiresome and spoilt g.xKl golfing Anything that cun be done to Improve this will highly appreciated by those who play at Van Cortlandt. W. 1), A.

Mr. Bryan Answered by Ilia Own State. From Iht Omaha fit. The rain falls and the sun shines and the corn grows lu Kel rsska. As the corn tassels out the hope of the calamity howler grow allmmer.

The calamity editor Is having a hard road lo ho In these times of dally Improving crop prospeot. Stragglers. TYom tht TndlanapolU StntlnU A Hide crowd of Populists snd silver Itepnblleans assembled at the Court House on Thursday, An examination of their platform shows that they have dropped the word unlimited" from the demand for free coinage. Tea Culture In Booth Carolina. Jnrom th Augtuta lltrald.

Tea culture In South Carolina la voted a sueoess and th Industry will toon enjoy a new Impetus. Beeni I Wheat It jumping, fairly humping. With an upward paoe tt pumping, Aad the farmer wears smile ne'er seta before. Oojd Is pouring. Vlners boring, Unknown Arctic fields exploring Tor the mllUons whloh the earth has hsld In store.

Silver's dropping, Theorlss popping. White the Pop their eyes are mopping. As the mortsagoors are paying oil their dsbts. All bustle. All bustle, i Work for train and Work far tnusalt, Th CtiimltjlU or palug un tkslr tall.

t-t ko Bihar rn xmAwI TMk ttfW-twe )lw svrsr 8 Ktas Awake IBvf wttire. rrom tU SI. o( TUpiMlo. John a Stutto, carpenter and builder, has been awake twonty-flvo year. Hit lt slupiber came so manyyoars ago that he ha forgotten what It is like to He down at night and awake refreshed and reju venatod.

Sleep Is an unknown quantity with Stutte, and whllo others are burled in a deep somnolency he either He upon his bed and gato on tho tar, or If In a roUo mood take long walk out Into tho country, returning at daybreak to begin work in hi little hop just north of the house. An old man walking with ncano la a very familiar sight In St utte's nelghtorhood. Bo widely known has hiln- i omnia become that nil tho residents thereabout i call him "Tho Man Who Saver Sleep. Btutto attrinutes his sleeplessness to a noise which continually ros in hi head like a cataract. At tlmo It sounds like tho burr and whirr of whoel sawing their way through heijvy Umber.

Agtln the sound recmblo cleaning team, and nl time they mingle In a horrible, deafening roar. Owing to tho noles In bis head 8tutte doe not hear readily. He that the ringing In hi ear was caused by un ovcrdnso of qulnlno whlth wo administered to him In 1872. He took flftytvro grains at one dose, and when ho woke up the next day i he beard a nol In his head which ha remained thero ovor since, Icoeplng him awake eve day and night for twenty-live Tbe Man Who Savor Sleeps" I 70 year old. He carries hi age gracefully nnd does not loos: the worse for his long siege of wakefulness.

Ho Is strong, powerfully built man, and shows light trace of ago. During the Mexican war he served undor Col. Jefferson Duvl ns a drummer. In tho civil war ho fought gallantly undor tho tars nnd bars. I considered that a man had a right to keep what be had acquired by his brain or labor, and therefore I a with tbofioutli," liesaya.

"Iwa in favor of a convention to pay the owners of the slaves and ship them back to Africa, I told the fellows that shouldered guns to free tho nigger that attor a whllo tbey would shoulder guns ogalnst the nigger, and now I seo tbnt I am about right." Stutte is a church member and Is aatd to be truthful. Ills claim that he hs not slept for twtnty-flve years is given credence In tho neighborhood. His own family la not able to dispute It, cause they are always asleep during tbe time the old man says that hoi awhko. Tho craving for unconsciousness ha entirely dlsappetrcd, and he finds refreshment In simply closing his eyes and lying still as long as possible hi a calm repose. THIS "SQUAD" AT SPITIIHAV.

A rmrilng Example English ataSbe la Spake. JYom CA XnglUK page of La Carta Ul Sabad of Havana, The recent naval review with which when th English tbe atxtleth anniversary of the crowning of Queen Victoria, tbey gave to tbe world's sight, giving In Spltzhead, over tbe Uancba Canal tbe speo-taole of a aqnad of more than on hundred and sixty war vessels, the majority manufactured by th best models, gave an Idea to an American eorresponsal that bad never occured to any one, before now, aad that being expression of the truth, lowers a great deal the power that ttU to-day all the world ha agreed In granting the marine war of the superb Albion. There Is no doubtthe named correspondent says that It It a monttroua ecuadron, bnt the vulnerable that It present, Is that England has not enough men to make It trlpulatlon. Front the French press to the hettentote, that la, like the civilised world a the barbarous, all bow their bead In signal of conformity In recognition ot tbe naval power of England, but to an American redactor of a cosmopolitan newspaper, The Btrald the demonstration of 8pluhead, has caused him the aame effect aa of artificial Ilxhta. whoa sparks brighten the high, but that once that they nave ablned, their foundation falls on tbepubllo that bad contemplated tbem shining above.

Let us htar what are tbe reasons th Tank critic, ounda himself on. England has vessels, yes; but with all th respect due to that press that represent the civilized and the barbarous world, now many men. I atk haa the said nation to trlpulate tbem In an another way, ar there enough men tn England who are apt for th eervlce those Teasels require? lias England the aame recourses a Frano naa it the aame at Germany or Ruttla According to the last censut, all th masculine population of Great Britain, ascended to lS.oOH.3.17, with aland army or 22S.104 men. and of th -a, only 98.750, between omcere and sailors. Now, France has a population or 3D.

817.971 Inhabitants, and an army, at the hour ot combat, of 2.000,000 soldiers. Germany with a population of Sz.S7e.901 souls, poateate an army of 3.000,000 combalera. Italy with the same number of Inhabitants, can put over her arms 9.600,000 soldier, and Ruaala, betide her enormous army, haa Its Innumerable bordea of farmer, who would quicklr let themselves be cut, at tbe first order of lu Imperial master. "By those ciphers. It cautes companion to ateth forces with which England counts, and more when tt Is considered that Its masculine populaUon, cannot proportion It, greater contingent In case of war." There Is a great majority of buslneta men that compose the town of England, which would not fight, for anything In the world.

Ueanwhlle. That naval manifestation of Spltzhead tt applauded, and meanwhile all tbe press, including the American, congratulates England, and the English, for the sp endld feasts realized, Europe should not allucinate Itself and close tt eyes, to the truth i but that at tbe aame time It points to something, that on the contrary accuses a great debility. It Is Just that tt should remember, the words of Slarlacal Leboenf, that cost France so dearly: There is not even one button mining of any gaiter" We belong to the Americans, to the Angloeaxon race, and of It we feel proud, as we are alto proud ot the prosperity and the advancements of England; but for this same thing, we do not wlsb to see, that our Anglo-Saxon brothers, should deceive themselves, nor that they should pretend to do so with the rest of the world." England would find herself tn a Ox. If she should battle against Ilussla, France and Germany, If these should unite themselves against her. May God forbid that anything ot the sort should happen, because Fngland Is a brave nation and of this she ns given proof to the history.

Out she still remembers, notwithstanding, that It Is not agn cable, that such nations, a Russia and Germany, should fling In her face aa a glove of challenge thote one hundred and teventy five vessels ot war, tb-t they well know that are nothing but paper little ships, and that It would be tumel nt to squeeze tbem a little with the fingers, to have them all at the bottom of the sea. He It not a bad tailor. If hs know tbe cloth we lay when remembering that like thlt Judgement that thta aald critic glvea, has deserved Ideneos persons, some of them from the American nation, th Yarjttt squadron. Segulturaue patrem. paullut orouU.

Williams va. Williams. To tit Editor or Tux Hex sir: Mr. IteulnitJ n. WUUams.

whoInTux Sen of July tOerlll lies an article In the fuurrler l.lattCnU on the drcadence of tbe English race, says that ho It not an Englishman. Well, If lie la not. he Is evidently msdo of a portlonor the stun that enters luto tho composition of tbe British and that Is hatred of the French. He says: "The French raw It diminishing perceptibly, and France it dependent on German and Italian Immigration lo prevent the eztluctlon of her population." Now that It a piece of exaggeration that Is very Eng-llh Indeed. As a matter of fan, the population of 1-ranee Is not diminishing.

Certainly It It not Increasing as rapidly as French statesmen and patriots would like to tee It Increase. The slownesa of Its advance la dne simply to the diminished opportunities for matrimony In a country where every arallablu roan muit aerve In the army. The German and ItMlan nsm-t In the civil and mill, tury Hits count for little or uottdng Gen. Uallenl sanMr. wl'llams.

"o.ild not think of denyUig hit Iib'Ihu orlkln" Well what of that? The same ni'g-it If said of Csprivl. laflv Chancellor of the Oer-mau fcinptre. and also of Uambctta. the gr at French patriot. Ijlr.ll Is not a iMCUIIarly EnglUli namei but Muggins.

Vlgglns. Scrogtlns, and Dlcklnt are aonoromly and beautifully IlrttitV Alter all. there It not rouoti In name, even when It It Willi; nu Lookattliephyalcaldirferrn Mr. between the Mg strong F.i g'lsh ami the Frrnch, whoarerronamv the small, at rnceln Europe" JL? 11 countr'et beat present thtt Physical difference. The averaire Fnzllth oavalrymsn la all helmet and I jilti the Oerinsns have orten remarked, and -he Urltlth lufsntry.

with the ezc-p-tlon ot a few picked rexlm nt. g-n-rally fccotch or Irish. Is ro-npoMd of narrow-ihoi Idered, sha'low. cheated, and I Igli partdi-d warrlon. the Isurhlng military critic of Continental Mirope.

When the two aim'es were flgbtlrg tide by side In the Crimea the Fren took the Mai koir and the Fnglltb failed inlwrahty at th Kedtn and were saved In tha Freach from utter destruction at lukennan When at the clote of that meinor ble war Queen Victoria pr-sented tho French solOr, with n.ed" Is thoy lauahel and eallfd the-n "roedal.frt de snuiWaor." No. the Fr nch do not hate trie Enillsh. as Mr W. avers. They dei1se the cowards who shout Intuits from the saf of theCh.nn.l and at tH etlme display their terror of the French prnrord unnl.

The great big Englishman exKts onlv In the vanity th." TeP "Ml Frenchman sppeara on Brlrl'h paper on'y Ko'ody ca fn1 him or. the stnw tt or Parts, nd nolodr ne-d look "tor Mrn In ibe "rm7v fellow, and tbe Infantry sol Iter It a broad-thouldered, ttocky chap that needt no paddln Mr- B- n- w- 0 Inherited a rl'r' Jealouty of tha Inferior for the su- I riw'laVoivM, eumtliur I AJtOtJOBI WuXIAxa. i ymAXm rjro movna eon I Went About tt In aRmine Way a 1 I Were Rewarded. 1 fl JYom (A Cacooo Tlnxrt-Hernld. I The member! of the Woman's Christian Ten, I peranco Union havo bcon praliic (or money that they may lift the load of debt from their )M beautiful tcmplo and mny foci Unit reality a wollasln namo thoyaro Its onncri It in not do for tho Blotter to casta dotild in 'he pro encoofouo of theso women on Ih prayer.

He will besllonccdlnan instant by thu rejoinder to his sneer: We prayed for monoy for a pool Bt prayed tho prayor of faith, and tho in mny Cm $34.000 within two hours, nnd finin In many cases from which nothing uould hri flowed but for the touch of tho nphit Got Tbe efllcacy of prayer Is established henni jj 1 cavil, for wo have tho proof solid, an lonanzj Iiroof. On Monday our prayers went un Hon thonnswor a material anHer mon mid. for tbe redemption ofour' house bc.ini. ui The faith vtlikh possessed tho oul or thn, praying band of women In tbe Inner rin. Kr.

of tbeTompcrancr Teniplo hist Mondu) umgi the kind that motes mountains. Iht mo nuts ot thoScrlptrro, which, Itlsenld. tlm iir.jtrof fnlth mny move, has bion typified tbo whlte-rlbboncd women a a mountnin jf tho debt nhicb ns an aliiioi ru-hinc weight upon their building Tncrt have been few such seem of cnthnmiro wit. nesed In Chicago as th it of the pruycr hinj of women gitbered touctlicr to Hpjn il fro- their heart lor tho snvtng of that mIi 'her hold dear. It was a tttno eort of ruin mnsm nil tho greater because It was buIhIuciI.

I' umil expression In kindling cyc, In llin tleh 0j tho bands, nnd In tho strength nnd poucr if tht Imply worded prayers which wero utti i Tbey did not mluto mittcr. those ij-ij. Their prnycrs went slr.ilirht to tho poln "yt need money." said ono of them. "Tncrefors, let us pray for roonoy. And pray for rnontr they did.

and whllo they prayed tht moot bepan to come. Ono nftcr another tho (vipt enmo In, unit ns tho names were elvcn oi i stj tbe amounts read facts hrluhteniul, nn the spirit of el ad ess spread, puree tuns was opened and tho money lul 1 In Pi'i im. nnd the slchl of Its glistening- prot cd tmirfi incentive to the desire of tho nuin to seo the piles irrow. When after tuo tiour ihi pnvlnsrccssed and It was found Ihrt hedtti load was $34,000 lighter than It had ten 'oItj brief space before, there was a hjmn of om.ii which ranp with tho tone of true re at "Prayer did it," said tho women; "we mtn pray again." aT Violent Death In One Town In nineteen, lYom tht Chicago Timet. erud.

CniPPtr CnKEK, July 24. W. D. Mnrlow, Coroner of El Paso county, bos just an astounding- record of violent dentin Cripple Crcelc The record covers a perlol rbre and one-half years, nnd shows Cripple to be the "toiiRuest town" In the Lnitc It al'osa total of 247 recorded violent iathi In Cripple Creek alone since Januan, 1 -''Loan average of more thin seventy a car orost for every Ave day, and this for an average population of less than 0,000 people. Of course not all of these deaths were rmrdcrt.

More than 100 were caused by dynam sal mine explosions. Twonty-flve were sui ices ot despondent prospectors and a score of o'ht were brought about by heart failure, ale and other causes, but tbe feature of the rei-ord that Is most remarkable Is thnpreat numW ot murder. In this respect It shows that ij's Creek has outclassed either Le.idvllle orKute, even In tbelr "palmiest days," nnd lht it has made a record for the whole wild West." TThy Boy Was Cstd nrty Tear Ag. From fa Sprlnafltld Republican. Assistant Marshal Wright amused himself th other day with vvatchiuir a email bov nt.) thought be mi unobserved, try to let the win! out of a bicycle standing In front of tho Wotern Union office.

He unscrewed tbo r.ip from th valve und then Blamed about to sec if anj oru wns looking; then he squeezed the tire, put hii knee on It, nnd tried various me. ins to trer th air out, looking, meanwhile, to sec If tbe owner was coming. Ho finally hid to give up. Mr. Wright said to ex-Manual Hendrlck: "Talk about bad boys, thev wouldn't bar done tht fifty years ago." Mr.

Hendrlck, evidently a believer In tbe boy of to-day. answeredi "Ob, no; they didn't have bicycles nfty yean ago." Statue or Patrick Henry la ar Shew TTIndew. rrom rae Cnarlesfon, n. ra-, Gazttf. Monongalia county 1 the owner of a (tatueot Patrick Henry, which for forty year mutely challenged the attention and great respect her people from II honor-ble position on top ot the old County Court House.

But when a new temple of justice was erected on tbe site of the old, a few years ago, Patrick fell from his high estate and the namo of his marble lmnrre wm mud. To-day the statue stands in Monrm-town shop window as an advertisement, Th Monongallan calls the attention of tbe county court to tho fact, and characterizes tbe abandon, ment and dishonor of the statue of the great Virginian as a shame and disgrace to Monongalia county. Political Coarteay, From th JTaatal Citv Journal. The appointment of Gen. Prentiss to the Postmaatership at Bethany, mode several months ago.

Is still hung up in thn Senate and probably will not be conn mi od during the extra session. This in no wise reflects upon the General, however, but is strictly In accordxnee with his wishes He wa permitted to serve out his former term, although It covered nerrlyayear of the Cleveland Administration, nnd be. with the full approval of President McKlnley, desire similar courtesy shown his Democratic succes-eor. the present incumbent, whose term will ead In December. A Covered TTagon Coartiblp.

From the Toptka State ATcnisof. July 22. A. W. Carter, a yonnpr man from Victor, who was on his way to sees hi fortune in eouthern Kansas, travelling in a covered wagon, overtook another family going west with the same Intentions.

MissUer'ena Meek, an 18-year-old girl, attracted the attention of Cartor. and they exchanged their affections as readily as ordinary movers exchange horses. Tbey wero mirrled In Atchison to-day by Probate Judge Snyder, and tho party weal on their way rejoicing. nrae Still Caea rar Travelling. From the Lvnchhurg, Harry Brown and William Lynn of Colutnon, arrive I in tho city yesterday.

Tho two young men rodo all tho way from Columbus on horseback, having left tbelr borne on July i). After remaining here for a few dnya the will return to Columbus by way of thoatatunf Kentucky. Their horse are wlrv-Iooking animals, nnd 'o. not aoem to be much the worse for the Ion, 'rlP-(J Ferelm IVotee or neat Interest- i One of the four dressmakers who recently commit-' ted suicide together In Paris turns out to bare beea great grandnleee of Mgr. AtTrr, the raritwhowat shot on the ban-hades tu 1-4 hll trying to atop the fighting.

Franc haa Jutt ratified a convention with lb SMb of Persia by which In return for a large nn ment the obtalnt the monopoly of archmi'1 si cavatlont lr Persia. M. J. de Morgan, late nr rot excavatlont In Egypt, hat been appointed to tuj crlr tend the Persian Investigations. In two conns dated 1C30, recently drip! u' 'a tss foundations of an old monastery lu the Hue In Paris, the sku'lt wero found tobe ruled crystals of blcalclnato of phot horrrt, un rare substance.

It at ound once lf. ro when aucofCu watopue 4 Princess Feodor of raxe Melntngcn. Queen eldest great grandchild, the Art! to be betrothed soon to Prluce Hupcrl The Princess Is IB years or age and th Kaltcr Wllhilm's eldet titter Apart fr. fjrenee tn religion there are difficulties lu na'of the match Since 1 R3 the British mint his recotned ,0 n8' gold coins, sovereign, and half IW average lota In wear of the gold colus me I si being 1 ght weight was pence for the erf" and pence for the If sovereign worth of tllver coin was minted I a thcj.ai JK June 30, I8U7. Prince d'Arrnbsrg has been elected tutor! Acadfrate del neaux-Aru la succewtini Due d'Aunrale over M.

Charlet Vriarte. t're For the In the section of palntln "''V the death of Krancala, the landscape a nagnan Dourer t. Francolt Hameng, Maignan, and Volluu havo present their Uruueltlt thlt summer the seat of a ier Mv grettesd. al nr with qurttiont icmcerm s' Ingclatiet They will beheld from Jn 'sl of September The tint, held at thn glr ll;" month, wat on Sun lay It Is to "ri by other on "Cheap Dwelling." on the of Labor," and on the International i worker in mine, and factories The-' tlonul coureis against slcohil sm will a Ilruttelt at tbe eud of August Verdi haa been demonstrating that be lent health and tplritt Ou hit huv Montecatl'il he alopped over In Jlllnu an evening party given by Rloordl, his (mi be tang (he love duet from titeli Btoli. tbe original liulthtliii, tti 1 nerlsmsof th tinorTamatnu i.

i mart to deny the rumors "whluh anju a a cand date for Paradise." tertralfor "'lrt' will celebrate lis 85lh birthday, Oct of hi first Optra, "It Cvute di IK Viiv. vaval.