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THE MORKING TIMES, tHUBSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1891
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7 IICUSRAY:, SEPTEMBER 9. 1S97.
Tangible Results.
Silver in Stave Meadlly contended thai
u incrwme of the circulating medium of
Urn vwutry was absolutely essential to
j-tcnl Uines, and being devoted, as most
uf them arc-, to hard money," or paper
xvlcoMHilile in hard money," have iu
smil that sold and silver their volume
or Mtppljr being established by the law of
iiatwe shotrtd tie equally and inlerchange
blijr employed.
The gold advocates, many of them, we
..re .-wire, from lack t.t investigation havts
opposed diver because they have not ac
cepted the declaration of a scarcity of
r.wue. holding that it "was the l!u-eat
"fa larger volume, hj the infusion of silver,
that made capitalists timid and enter
prise moribund. It will be interesting.
TiJiereflwfc. to wkc a view of present
etwioinic conditions and ascertain if
jpreriwjy what Uic bllver men claim should
be Hone Jas not. t the extent tliar, it has
been done, brought about the improvement
which we are asked to recognize as "pros
perity." One yeaJHg thaanioiinl of money MCtually
in ciicitJatfdH was $1,530,100,634; thas
In tie amount of money reported to be
tm dejMH4t in the different national banks
MhcC to their drcHlation and the amount
tr gli itnd Hver that had been put out
jmoI whs "titl owtntanding from the Trcas
try DejmrtJMtcnt.
Titus mtm included- but should not have
iB6kikd, for Oris is the crucial point the
a-Munt of money withdrawn from the
!1mu& and general use by tiraidowuers and
datiof.itcd in safe deposit vaults or trust
tmiiauicc an juiuxiut which might, and
pna'iatrty did. roach u several hundred mil
lten AVtrfsC was the consequence? Every--wUcre
falling prices, restricted manufac
ture nUruHken sales, failures and industrial
toipw. We tacked money with which to
lo hunfes. It was daily increasing In
ahieBl uwaors feared t part with it.
On JhbmIioiI ami twenty-five millions of
I 'is hearded money has in tliis year been
put 'int circRiation, the present figure,
as gtvon out by the Government being
1,OCCJ5SO,09S Whntis the result? Bet
ter Umesin many directions and interests,
tat we. and'-Pro-sper'ty," with a capital
P, fy Bhe gold men.
"Wltat 1rs brought it? An increase In
unuiiey. What would bring more of it?
J stiM grejttLT increase. And what is the
IbeH ami safest method of IncreuseV The
five o4mige of hllver as of gold.
A 2s"Ice I resident.
"Win'H te President visited Cleveland,
Mno recently the town felt proud; and
t'KiT was Mirefy proper; and 200 of the
Citizen lined up at the railway station
to es Iiim off; and that was also quite
proper. The chewing gum factory suspend
ed operattotts lens enough for the employes,
to 'lO'ue and j,cc Mr. McKInley, which
was, iMst proper of all. Anything that
lc-M-ns the supply of chewing gum in the
w.-lrt I a benefit to humanity, whether
the cause be a President or not-
But among tlie thronging human beings
at the station were fifty kindergarten m
fflit. who wiibed to add their acclama
tions to tho general hurrah. Tradition
saith tlmt out of tlie mouths of lube
ceme i he Itest -and most satisfying kind
of praise, and it is a fact that the accla
mations of children are peculiarly gratify
ing to uie man of any humanity of feel
ing 'Chey give him a happy, all-round
conirnied sensation in his heart. And
when It comes to educated children -children
enrfn-Jed by the scientific influence
or the kindergarten -cliildren of no
ble nitres trained by Froebel -why,
then, one may expeet high art in
the proceeding. Y'hatdid these infant&say?
It was not to be supposed that they
vrotild give polysyllabic addresses, be
cause they were not Boston babies; nor
th6 it to be tupposed that they were
nill-riedgcrtV orators, as if they had lived
in JTansas; but one might at least antici
pate tlmt they would have shouted hur
rahs to the full extent of their childish
lungs, and perhapt. sung some patriotic
6ong, or strewed flowers In the way of
the chief magistrate. But they didn't.
They didn't do one of these things. The
cultured children or the Cleveland kinder
garten, fresh from tlie best educational
Influences of the century, cried out with
one shrill squeak:
"Nice Mr. McKInley!"
Jins Mc-McEJaleyeyer belpje been called a J
tHbe
nice President ia public" He has been called
intellectual, courtly, polite, suave, delight
ful, andlotR of other pretty things, but haa
he ever been called by fifty babies at
at once, a nice man? It probably was a
new experience.
Nice, according to the dictionary, means
precise, exact, and hair-splitting in correct
neM. A. nice man is a man who is fussy,
ohl-Bettyish, prim; particular about the set
of hit collar and the scaKonlng of his
puddings: the kind of man who would find
his moit congenial occupation in knitting
thread lace and piecing quilts, were that
sor1 ol thlnu fashionable for mankind: the
kind of man who hunts up derivations In
dictionaries and becomes a librarian or a
watch-repairer or a connoisseur in old
China. That sort of mnu Mr. McKiuley
is not. And why should he be called so?
One need not say with the Englishman
that nice is a nasty word, because, as the
American n-torted, nasty Is not a nice
word- hut we needn't teP.ch our children to
use It in ta'king to the chief of thu nation.
Cleveland needs dlctionarifs.
Tlie End-Seat Hog.
Public attention should be called to a
certain wnall nuisance in connection with
street car travel in this city. It is the
habit which fotne people have of occupy
ing tlie end feat of the car and obliging
everyone else who wishes to occupy that
scat to climb past the protruding feet, um
brella, and mmctlmes the provision basket
of the end-cat hog. Of course, it is a
Might inconvenience to bo obliged to move
along one, two. or three teats, though it is
an inconvenience, too. to have people
clatnlering over various parts of one's
anatomy, anil sitting down in one's lap
when the car unexpectedly starts. But the
person who dos the climbing is exposed to
the risk or being thrown off the car while
in the proners of getting a seat, to say
nothing of the vexation of spirit ex
perienced in-trying to, get pact a more or
less bulky person and keeping hold of
puroels at the same time. The cu.stom
does not obtain everywhere, and it Is con
trary to good tense and good breeding,
The original reasou probably was that
the eud seat.ou the shady end of the car,
is rally the. most desirable, and It is not
pleasanc to sit in the blazing sun at the
other end of the seat. But all Washing
ton cars are provided with shades wluch
can be drawn down at pleasure, and In
most cases it is only a matter of a very
few minutes' discomfort at the worst.
There is no reason, at any rate, why the
cnd-cst hog should persist in his repre
hensible practice during the evening.
To see a large man or woman .sitting
s:enely unconscious in the end of a
seat, while an overburdened woman with
a basket, an umbrella and three or four
bundles painfully struggles over the bar
rier, and jwEsibly past another person in
Use scat bevor.d, trying to hold on to the
side of the car with one hand and to the
buudlfS with the other, .and get into a
seat before being thrown there in the
forward jrk of the car, is a spectacle
both patliPtlc and comic. It Is time the
.end-soat hog was rebuked; and it Is
herebj recommended that all of us move
along oheerfully and promptly when we
are in the end scat, and request the person
occupying that seat to move along and
give us room. If we happen to arrive later.
For people who are really determined to
have an outside seat for themselves there
Is always the grip car, and It the practice,
of moving up becomes general we shall
all get the end seat sometimes, if we are
good. Prvideiice will sec to It that we
do; and we shall have the added con
eciousui.'Ss of virtue iu that we do not go
through the world obviously grabbing all
that we can get, whether or not it is
rightfully ours.
EnImid'ri Entanglements.
If we may believe the dispatches from
Pirr.la, the rising in Xortheru India is
collapsing, perhaps because the Ameer
or Afghanistan lias concluded not to side
with it, as everybody there and elsewhere
expected him to a couple of weeks ago.
If Great Britain can get rid of this
trouble it wUl leave her hands clearer in
other quarters. Probably the Indian
danger Is much lessened, since tlie concert
powers now appear to show a better dis
position to listen to Lord Salisbury in
connect ion with the Graeco-Turkish set
tlement. The latest intelligence on that
Fcore is that Greece has. withdrawn op
position to German influence over her
public debt and treasury interests. Sl
multaneoiialy England has proposed a new
basis of financial control for Greece, plac:
ing her revenues, assigned for the purpose
of meeting the war indemnity, under a
oomniisdlon upon which each of the sis
powers shall be represented.
In view of the Greek spirit oZ conces
sion to Germany, It is thought hi Europe
that tlie English proposal may become
the basis of an early agreement- and
the withdrawal ot the Turks from Thes
saly, Wiich the British premier does not
cease to insist upon.
It is pleasant to be able to hope that
the liorrors of an Asiatic frontier war
and possibly of an Indian mutiny have
beea averted.
A Ui'.nUinc Campaign of Education.
All the forces Interested In a perpetuation
ot prewsnt national, financial and fiscal
policies, and Hint involves, of course, a
continuation in power or the Republican
party, already have combined to Hood
the country with literature calculated to
advance their Joint and revcral interests,
and, under ihe auspices ot Mr. Banna and
the select moneyed and monopolistic oli
garchy, or which lie is the head, a political
"campaign of education" has been in
augurated, the like of which for organiza
tion, scope and lavish expense never be
fore has lieen seen In this or any other
nation. Monopoly has -Its stronghold and
argument factory in the Protective Tariff
League, gold contraction and the scheme
to destroy the non-Interest bearing cur
rency of the people In the literary bureau of
the American Bankcrb' Association; while
tho Republican National Committee main
tains a handsome corps or writers and dis
bursing ofricexs for the tame but more gen
eral purposes of "education."
Secral pretentious looking magazines
devoted to the dissemination of the gold
doctrine and cognate missionary work
for some months have been making their
appearance regularly and must cost the
Banna campaign fund a pietly penny,
since probably nobody would accuse lhar.i
of lefitimate subscription 'llxt.s or fall to
note their total lack or advertising matter.
A number of finely printed and bound
monographs on the single standard, "sound
money." "national honesty," etc., have
been published through good houses and
with great pains boomed in the gold press.
They do not amount tu much as books, to
be sure, but they have an interest peculiar
to themselves In af lording an insight into
the mental processes or their bank cashier
or bank president authors who, however
much they may know alw.it shaving notes
and sweating customers, evidently have
not taken ihc lime to master the first
rudiments of political economy. e
It appears, however, that the craze of
authorship has bitten thu bankers rather
venomously. Not content with the ejacu
lation of these attractive but useless
works, the literary bureau of the Ameri
can Eankers' Association lias been ordered
to enter upon the really serious task of
instructing tlie people -in the philosophy,
art and science or banking, and explaining
to them In simple terms, so they can
comprehend the master, that their whole
ruture life and eternal salvation depend
upon banks, and always more banks. In
cidentally, it will be shown that banks
tonn the only economic rorce which should
be endowed with the power to iivsiin money.
Tn the course of this campaign of edtica
Hon, we presume that bank credit in the
form or bank notes, not a h-gal tender,
will be spoken of and"" treated as actual
money, and a great many other convenient
lessons will bo attempted, but which need
not here be discussed-1
Books, pamphlets, leaflets, tracts, pic
tures all the devices of a big missionary
propaganda, are to he resorted to, anil from
the great center in New York they will
pennant the whole organization through
out the United Suites. Some or this new
religion will be printed on the back or
checks, and on odd leaves in deposit
books. Every depositor will get a dose
of it when he deposits, or rashes out, or
gets his book balanced. It is a pasting
clever device: but we are not In the least
'.afraid of its effect upon the people. It
the American Pankers' Association le not
able to put out anything less pareslc than
its recent contributions to literature, say,
"Monetary Problems and Iterorms," by
Mr. Jwan;and"Souud Money Monographs,"
by Mr. Cornwell, or Buffalo, the "educa
tional" prospects ot iU erfort are not
pregnant of alarm to the friends of bi
metallism. A vast nation ot seventy-three million
people, more c-r less, stands with uncovered
and bowed head lefore the picture of
Grovcr Cleveland turning in his tax list.
Admiration waits on surprise, and cold
chills on both, as he modestly tells the
assessor that the aggregate of his realty
is twenty thousand, and the "demnitlon
total" of his personalty is one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars, as nearly as he
can figure it out on the present v.'ilue or
securities.
Poor Prince Bismarck is suffering from
that weary feeling natural to a man of his
age and history. In the face of the Imperial
antics be is forced to witness, but cannot
interfere with. In a recent interview he
admitted that the time appeared ripe for
France and Russia to seize Egypt anrl
the Suez Canal, but lie added with bitter
pathos' ' "Perhaps they are right to wait
for us Germans to become still more deeply
involved in our foreign policy, for now we
have neither leadership nor principle
nothing whatever. Everyone is groping
about, and the treasures of influence I
labored to accumulate are being prof Itlessly
squandered."
The Klondike and the Mississippi fever
epidemics are equally yellow, and, from
present indications, appear about equally
dangerous to those stricken with cither of
them.
According to the New Yorkliernld, Mor
al d Croker comes to New York with a
vi-iw to Insisting upon the Tammany nomi
nation for mayor. He Is reported to have
suggested his nhibltion to the leaders, and,
it is aid, to have been icily treated. Mr.
Croker is a very able man and has been
an efficient Tammany leader. His nomina
tion wou'd fill every Republican voter in
New York with wicked enthusiasm.
Tho revision of Botany of the Agri
cultural Department has issued an inter
esting circular devoted to the camphor
tree.dcscribingitshabltat, rangeicuhlvation
and uses, with much other useful informa
tion. A map accompanies the circular,
and It bhc.ws that this valuable commodity
can be produced plentifully over a con
fiderable area in this country, stretching
along the South Atlantic coa.t Trom South
Carolina to Texas, including the whole
peninsula ot Florida; and on the PaclHc
side, taking in a large share ot the ter
ritory in Southern California and Arizona.
Although the corporation and faculty of
Brown University have asked Dr. Andrews
to withdraw hit resignation, he finally has
decided not to do so. From his own
point ot view doubtless this is a wise
decision. The trustees wanted to get rid
ot him to please Mr. Rockefeller, and only
retraced their steps In the face of national
object inn, contempt and ridicule. Rut they
are. the same trustees, with the yame nar
row and KTdld hypocrisy, and President
Andrews will be well rid ot the lot.
El Globo, Sagasta's Madrid organ, de
nounces Weyler's pacification yarns, and
says: "To demonstrate that the province
of Santa Clara is actually pacified, Gen.
Weylcr should move through the province
with a small escort; but he prefers to go
with a column 4,000 strong, as was the
case a few days ago, when he went from
Placetas to Sancti Spiiitus." El Globo
with truth might have added that, even
with 4,000 trooifi'Tor escort, he was badly
whipped, and skulked from the field.
Somnambulist's Ncclc Brolccn.
Troy, N. Y., Sept. 8. Thomas Kennedy,
sixty years or age, Janitor of the Thirteenth
ward school, fell from the second story
window ot his residence this morning while
walklngin hlsslcen. His neck wan hrnton
j aud he died soon after being rouad-
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
The situation in Maryland is becoming
intensely interesting There has been a
sundering of the ties that have hereto
fore bound the Republican brotherhood
together, and they are just now endeavor
ing In tiie most earliest manner to tear
each other to pieces All tills grows out
or the fact that Senator Wellington and
his erstwhile friends were unable to agree
as, to what witfr the best thing to do to
save the party in Maryland, and rather
than yield his judgment to others, the
Senator has started in to fight It out iu
his own camp.' "
There wore rumors ot a rupture be
tween the Senator and one or two or his
followers before tlie Ocean City conven
tion, but the rupture became open at that
meeting, ami has since become more and
more apparent.
The Ocean City convention marked the
parting, ot the ways between Senator
Wellington and Congressman Mudd, and
these two men, who have pulled to
gether, will now pull at odds, the one
agaluBt the other. This Is but another
proof of the old adage that politics make
strange bed-fellow.s, and at the same time
cause a fulling out betweeu bed-follows
It was Congressman Mudd who made it
possible Tor Wellington to be made u
United Ptate.s Senator. Mr. Mudd himself
could not have been elected at Annapolis,
but he controlled sufficient votes to keep
the election from going to Wellington. Mr.
Mudd delivered those votes at a critical
time In Wellington's right, and by them
he was elected. Wellington declared his
appreciation of Mr. Mudd's efforts nnl
they have been the best of friends. Wel
lington hus said that he would support
Mudd for Senator when tlie contest came
up for the seat of Senator Gorman, and
Mr Mudd has been truinlng himself for
that fight believing that he would have
th'! Influence of Wellington. The slate was
-t t up and It wju, gfveu out by the Soua
tor that so rar as his influence could pre
vail upon the leadprs'of tho party in Mary
land .Mudd was'to'be the legatee of the
seat of Mr. Uornan, ir tlie RepublJoarib
were in a position to make the bequebt.
So things ran along, and affairs looked
rather plenaiitf6r Mr. Mudd, save that
now and then'there'were rumors aboutthe
candidacy of various other men, among
t iu'iii personal friends of Wellington, be
tween whom it would be hard for tho
S motor to make a choice. At times Post
master GciieralGary was talked of; then,
aguiu.lt was J udgeMcComas, and atother
times-it was Gov. Lowndes who was being
carefully groomed as a possible candidate.
All or these things led to the suspicion that
there was pending a straining of friendly
relations in Maryland. With the unex
pected likely to happen, at any moment,
the Republicans got along very well until
the iuayoruIt contest in Baltimore began
to figure as nn important factor In the
State election.
ATter the KejiubllCfiu machine had set up
one ticket and launched it upon the people
with tec authority or the party leadcrs.lt
was pulled dowu at jthe suggestion of the
Independent lender,: and the Senator, In
an interview, repudiated the man he had
helped to bringforward and came outflat
fooled for tne -candidate of the independ
ents, who are Mipposed by the Republicans
who roliaw in the wake of Mr. Wellington
to hold the balance of power In Maryland.
Tills u as tbe fir.stopen break in the party,
and II r. Muddfouudhimselfuuableto agree
wholly with tha Senator. Tho result or the
primaries and the "subsequent events at the
State convention are or too recent date to
ncd more than a more mention. Welling
ton fought thellahter delegates and was
ousted horse, fuot and Iragoons. He made
a stubborn flglitfor his man for chairman
or that convention and was beaten by a
small majority.,
It Is now said. that at that convention
Senator Wellington and Mr. Mudd had
'several lonrerences, during which -tlie Sena
tor endeavored to persuade Mr. Mudd to
withdraw his championship ofthe Malster
people. Mr. Much! refused, saying that he
belie ed theonly way to mai'utalnthe party
.organization was by nominating a party
man. Senator Wellington argued long but
vainly, and It ia Fftid that he finally told
Mr. Mudd that I r he persisted In his de
termination to oppose the Wellington can
didate for chairman of the convention and
to ldcntiry himself with what the Sena
tor said wats opposition to himself, he
(Wellington) should withdraw alibis recom
mendation lor the nomination of Br. Tuck
for the c-ollectorshlp ror Maryland. In
ntead of conciliating Mr. Mudd this threat
only ma jc him Uie more determined, and
it is o-'ild by a gentleman who attended
that convention that the interview ended
In a stormy scene, In which both men
lost their tempers and said ugly things
to each other.
Senator Wellington was defeated and,
smarting under the stiug ot the first re
buke given Inm since his elevation to the
Senatorshlp, came to Washington in hot
haste and withdrew all his indorsements
of all the friends cf Mr. Mudd. Then Mr.
Mudd appeared on the scene and issued
his pronunciamento. He declared that if
Wellington wanted war he could have It,
and started in to put, his weapons In fight
ing condition. He visited Secretary Gage
and asked blrn to make no nominations;
foi the State of Maryland until after the
convention, which mcts to conclude its
labors on the lothot this month. Mr.Mudd
said that the result of that convention
would show that Senator Wellington has
been shorn ot bis power in the party, and
it would make little difference whether he
'juloispd a man or not. Secretary Gage
declined to take any part in the con
test, and lias turned the whole matter
over to the President.
Meanwhile the Wellington forces have
prepared a program which will, they hope,
lead to the elimination of Mr. Mudd as a
raetor m the Senatorial race should they be
so successful as to carry the State this fall.
All theopposition-to Mudd haa for the time
lielug been solidified and the cry is iiow
anything to beat Mudd. Postmaster
General Gaiy, Judge McComas and Gov.
Lowndes are said to have joined hands In
theii eflort to down the Congressman who
had the hardlliood to antagonize the Sen
ator. It Is a formidable looking combine
aud it threatens dire disaster to the Con
grc-ssman. ButMr.Mudddoesnotappearto
be frightened. Ills friends tay that he is
still in the race and that tlie approaching
convention will clear the atmosphere very
materially by sittlngdown upon the Senator
and putting forward those men who are
opposed to him.
There are eomo evidences of the active
work of this combine, and the fight to
control the convention will be bitter. All
sort3 ot things'- arc being said by the op
posing factions. Had faith is charged all
around, ard tbe party ta fast drifting upon
the rocks that promise to wreck and dash
It to pieces. Mr. Mudd Is losing no oppor
tunity to go anion? the people. He is hard
at work looking after his fences, and has
Inaugurated a campaign that is of the
mo?t vigorous character. His friends say
he .vill win out, in the face of the present
condition of afTaire, and they point to
the conflicting interests of the combine as
the beat reason .for their belief in their pre
dictions that the opposition will go to
pieces before it can accomplish the defeat
of their candidate. The feeling is getting
high, and there ia every promise of some
sensational scenes before the convention is
over.
It is reported from Ohio that Hanna has
been successful in forcinc Gov. Bushnell
j to discipline Col. Conger for his recent ut-.
teranees against Mark Hiiniia. Col. Con
ger Is on the staff of the governor, and
Ilanna sent a messenger to the governor
to demand If he indorsed the sentiments
expressed by Conger. It Is said that Gov.
Bnshnell repudiated what the colonel had
fenid, and on the strength of that inter
view is preparing to call Conger and the
rest of the men opposed to him to account
Tho situation In Ohio is becoming badly
mixed and harmony iK growl ug less and
less harmonious. The latest exhibition
of littleness on the part of Banna Is found
In tiie assignment of men to speak at the
triangular opening of the campaign on
the llth Ilanna is to appear ut Burton,
In Geauga county, one of the Republican
ttrongholds of the State. A tremendous
crowd will be out, of course, and tiie meet
ing at tills point is intended to show what
a magnet Banna is.
Anv old Kpeakcr would draw a crowd
there so long as he was a Republican, but
to attract the people In multitudes 8ena
cor Forakcr has been drafted an-1 "will
speak. While Ilanna will thus poc be
fore a large crowd, Gov. BuGhneU will
speak at a point where Republicans are
an exceedingly scarce article. Without
consulting h'm at all, the governor was
assigned, together with Senator Burrows,
to speak at Newark, a place where even
the babies lisp Democracy. If he suc
ceeds In drawing a corporal's guard he
will do welL. The papers, of course, will
speak of the crowds that come out to See
and hear Uauna, while proper attention
will be given to the "frost" that awaits
the governor. For the first time In the
history of Ohio the head or the ticket Is
a mere figurehead, and ia not consulted
with respect to any of tlie detaiLs of tho
campaign.
The4w.iudertul bookkeeping or the Treas
ury Department wa i'lustrated yesterday
In a report made to Comptroller Tracewell
bv one or his subordinates. Under a recent
statute the comptroller and the auditor
tor the Treasury Department are charged
with the duty or Investigating the account
of the disbursing officers or the various
departments situated la the District of
Columbia- This work is now being carried
on. For the past three or Tour years there
has been a controversy between the Treas
ury aud the disbursing orflcer for the
auditor for the Post-office Departmeiitover
an alleged shortagu of 1 cent. The dls
buiblug officer mentioned pays out a very
large sum of money and it is remarkable
tuat his books balance to within even 1
cent. Still there has been that apparent
shortage, and the ofricial has contended
that the matter was due to an error In
the Treasury Department.
When this investigating committee was
appointed it went to work on the books of
the auditor for the Fostofrice Department
and went over them Tor the whole or the
last seven years. Arter a great deal of
work tney found, the error and lo'-ated a
mistake In addition made by the disburs
ing officer, which showed that he had cred
ited himself with exactly 1 cent too much
and that he was In reality 1 cent short
In his accounts. Ofcourse, there was noth
ing to do but make good the shortage,
which was promptlydonc. That particular
penny oughtto be framed. Thedlspute haa
been definitely and finally settled, but it
has set at rest a dispute of several years
standing and goes to show the woinler
fnlly accurate methods of the Treasury
experts.
TIIE I'HIEII'PIXE REBELLION.
Spuni.sh General liiveru Telegraphs
for 25,000 Re-2Qforcetiients.
Madrid, lug 28. Gen. Primo de Rivera,
captain-general ot the Philippine Islands,
telegraphs that he needs 25,000 re-enforce-mea
ta
in pitc ot this the government say.s that
the sltuatior. in the island improves every
dav and that the hour of complete pacifica
tion approaches
'If the Insurgents occasionally take the
offensive," the minister says, "It is only
Lecause they are pushed by hunger."
Commenting upon this, the Heraldo says:
"The theory that the insurgents are
starving was Invented in May, and jo we
must conclude that Aguinaldo, the Philip
pine generalissimo, and his men knew a
great deal about fasting, or that the
Spaniards are easilj led on delusion."
It ia said that Gen. Polavieja will soon
replace Trimo de Rivera in the governor
ship of tha Philippines He has been re
ceived twice by the queen and later he
held a cecret Conference with tho under
secretary of war.
It will bo remembered that Polavieja re
signed because Cannvns refused to send to
the Maud the re-enforcements for which
Primo de Rivera is now asking. Many
persons fear that the insurrection has
already recovered from its reverses in
Cavlte early this year. Over 200 officers
will start for Manila by tbe first mail
steamer from Barcelona.
DOG SAVES A MAX'ri LIFE.
Knocks His Master Away From an
Appruachlug Locomotive.
Port Jcrvis, N. Y., Sept 8. -Charles Ma
rean, engineer of the "W. B. A E. train
which is due at Stroudsburg at 7:11 p. in.,
tells a strange story of a dog saving a
man's life. Last night, Marean says, his
train was bowling along at a forty-mlle-an-hour
gait, and when near the old saw
mill at Dunfield.N. J., he saw a man and
a dog walking on the track. The man
was evidently deaf, for he paid no atten
tion to the usual signals of the engineer.
Th" latter reversed his engine and applied
the air brakes, but tt was not needed, for
the dog, a large nnlnihl, took Ih Use situa
tion, and, running at great speed, jumped
on the back of his deaf master, striking
him a blow with its body with such force
as to send both man and dog down a six
foot embankment. Several ot the man's
teeth vero knocked out and he was some
what bruised about the body. The dog
came out uninjured, but the fellow seemed
much surprised from his narrow escape from
duat'i.nnd refused to give his name. When
the train started up the man was seated
on a pileof stones hugging the dog which
had saved hlsllfo.
A Greeting: From tbe Sonth.
(From the Baltimore Sun).
The Washington Times believes that the
rise in the price of wheat will prove a
special blessing to the Western farmer be
cause It will supply him with enough ready
money to make a home for himelf In the
South, where conditions are .more favor
able. The South will welcome immigration
from the West, and can offer the farmer
of that section more substantial induce
ments than a genial climate and whole
souled hospitality. The resources of the
South are of a varied character, and its
industrial development is at present only
In, Its iufancy when contrasted with the
magnitude of those resources. There Is a
profitable field for small enterprises In
the South, while thu farming Interest
should expand with the industrial growth
of this favored section. The Western farm
er whose money crop is now limited to
the great staple, wheaf, will find a more
iu-dtlng field In the South, whose evo
lution, all hough recently begun, hasalready
produced marvelous results. As the West
em fanner, therefore, lias been fortunate
enough to make a big grain crop this year,
he would do well to look at Southern lands
r before he Invests hi.i surplus cash.
Air on Trust.
(From the Chicago Dispatch.)
There is talk ot a compressed air trust.
At last the combines have discovered how
to scmeeze money out of the atmosphere.
KO'CTflNG FOH REPORTERS.
Private Citizen Crol-r InsintH That
He Has No News.
New York, Sept. 3.-It was really re
markable, considering the antecedents or
his callers and tnelr predilections for
politics, that Mr. Richard Croker should
have so thoroughly and successfully avoid
ed the discussion of political topics with
them S3 he and his good friend and real
estate partner, Teter F. Sleyer, assert lie
did today.
Mr. Croker got to his office at No. Ill
Broadway shortly 'ter 11 o'clock. He
didn't appear to beiu tlie most aclableof
humors. IIo looked worried andbored.and
his characteristic abruptuessof manner had
developed into almost a case- of positive
Kurjiness. He hadn't a word to nay to re
porters, and was evidently muctullspleaaed
by tl.plr piesenoe. He greeted his friends
with something less of effusiveness than
he had displayed toward those who wel
comed him home yesterdav.
Mr. Meyer acted aa spokesman for Mr.
Croker In dealing with the reporters and
the general public. Mr. Meyer voiced the
indignation which Mr. Croker was under
stood to feil that a "simple private clti
zen attending to bis personalaffairs should
be co lKiunded" by unsympatlietic and In
qulsitive seekers arter information. Mr.
Meyr stood without the door leading to
Mr. C.oker'a ortiee and kept the reporters
at long mn ge. He admitted to the Macrell
rreclncts only such or Mr. Croker'.s old tint j
Uetuei-'inta as tbf entertain had prevloua
1 info! in rd him would be welcome.
AX A1H OF FROST.
Lnciir!iuKiutic Convention of Penn
btylvnuin Kcpublic-itii Club.
"WUHamiport, Pa., Sept. h. There was
an air or rrost about the Republican State
League or Clubs convention this morning.
The attendance at the Opera House was
very light. The advertised sho w ot
Kulieinatorial booms was a disappoint
ment. Tliere were but three booms In
evidence in the person or the two Stone
aud Col. Coryell, Quay's local candidate to
hamper Attorney-General McCormick, who
is likely 4o be- the choice ot the Hastings
Business Men'u League.
Letter ot reirret were received rrom
Candidates McCauley. and Beacom, Gov
ernor Hastings and Attorney-General Mc
Cormick. The Philadelphia delegates cau
cused and adopted a resolution condemn
ing tho ci"il service law.
President KoheLs called the convention
to order, and Mayor Man-ell welcomed the
delegates. Arthur L. Bates, ot Craw
rord. t-exponded. The roll disclosed that
not one-half the clubs of the State hedsent
delegates-
After smgins by the Truitt Club quartet
of Pittsburg. Henry F. Lepee, president or
the Rhoda Island Republican League, was
Introduced and spoke against civil service.
This closed the morning session.
At this afternoon's session Sobel was
rtveJented, as well as the present stufr of
officers.
MAIL IIO.V ItOHKER CAUGHT.
Prentiss) Tillfr, a Notorious Crook,
Ajnln in Custody.
New Vork, Sept. S.-Prentis-t Tiller, ahas
Charles H. Trice, one of the most notorious
Criiuinalsiuttiucountry.andGus Lawrence,
alias John Williams, aliasHawkhis.a hotel
Enenkthler, who was reccntlyreleasedfrom
Blackwelfs Island, were arrested here last
night, and today Tiller was arraigned be
fort Com-nHsloner Alexander. He is want
ed on a charge of robbing street letter
boxes in St. Joseph, Mo.
Tiller is known to the postorfice au
thorities as a daring and ingenious mail
box robber and a forger. He stole checks
and drafts from letters and raised them
In this way he and his confederates are
said to have swindled the banks and Individual:-
out of several hundred thou-,
sand dollars. Tiller's ingenuity was shown
in his escape from a Michigan peniten
tiary in 1S93. Be worked at packiug
agricultural Implements for shipment to
Austral'a. Tie hid himself in one of the
boxes as taken to the railroad station
and escaped arter nightfall
In ISSJ, Tiller, while an employe ot
the Pacific Express Company, absconded
With $90,000. He was caught and he
scr wo five years in the penitentiary. "Upon
his release lis began a systematic robbery
of mnll lioxcs. On June 5,1 S97, arter
having been in Jail several times, he was
released Horn a Michigan peiiltentiary.ouly
to be re-arrested by a United States
marshal ror robbing letter boxes In St
Joseph, Mo. While the marshal was writ
ing a letter Tiller walked away aud since
then has been at liberty.
Tiller waived examination today and con
sented to go to Missouri Tor trial. He told
Inspector Ashe and Inspector Jacobs that
he would plead guilty there, and hoped for
a sentence ot not more than three years.
Signs of the Times.
(From the New York Evening Post.")
Some ot the "signs ot prosperity" with
which we are now joyfully ."erved every
day are rather curious. They are cu
rious, that is, as signs of a prosperity
which grows directly out of the tariff.
Thus we had yesterday a triumphant dis
patch announcing the reopening ot several
New England cotton mills. Ot course.
It was the tarirf that had done it.' Yet,
unless our memory is- entirely up-e.t by the
return of prosperity, nearly every one ot
Uiess mill had shut down only after the
Dlngley bill had passed. Their lack ot
tact in doing so was extensively remarked
upon at the time. But there was a deep
strategy in tlieir action, it is now clear.
How could Dingley open them unless they
were first shut? Some dull minds allege.
It Is true, that these mills always shut
down at the time ot year tha Dingley
bill pawed, and always orvm ogam about
now; but this line of reasoning would
rapidly destroy the saeredness of the
tarirr. No, the American people cannot
be Imposed upon In this way. The mills
were shut; they are open now: Mr. Ding
ley guesses lie knew who did it. Then
there Is the great rejoicing over the re
opening ot tlw Illinois Steel Company's
works. Dingley did it again. Some
chronic grumblers allude to the fact that
tho men went hack to work at wages re
duced by 10 to 15 per cent; did Dinsley
do that, too? Now, how beside the point
that is! The argument Is about opening
the mills, and here Is the entirely Torelgu
question or w.-jges introduced. This looks
to uf like an attempt to do that most das
tardly thing, "befog the isue " "Wo thought
lt was now understood that reduced wages
were relevant to tariff discussions only
when the Wilson bill was in question.
AlCOSlIliMTl.
As one who to some loug-lockcd chamber
goes,
And listens there to what the dead have
said,
So are there moments w hen my thoughts
are led
To those dull chronicles whose pagesclose
Epochs and ages in the same repose
That shall the future as the past o'er-
spread.
And where but Memory may tend the
dead,
Or prune the ivy where once grew the
rose.
And as there to me Rom their pages
streams
The Incoherent story or the years.
The almlessncss ot all we undertake,
I think our lives are surelybut the dreams
Of spirits dwelling In the distant spheres,
Who, as we die, do one by one awake.
-Fdgar Saltus.
and
10tb, llth and F Sts. N. "W,
Oar business boars are 8. o; ta
to 6 p. ID.
Our Miss Rubenstein, buy
er of Millinery and Women's
Neckwear, has just returned
fromher trip abroad. She
is enthusiastic over her pur
chases of Parisian Millinery
and Neck Fixings in the
proper styles for fall and
winter of '97-'98.
All possible speed will be
made in getting the goods
from the custom house to
the counters after they are
landed in America, and you'll
not have to wait long for a
look at the new thing3.
Store
Is always readable here.
Fresh arrivals daily make it
worth your while coming
and looking, even if not dis
posed to buy. "We always
say "welcome." You are
just as free to ask questions,
examine qualities and com
pare prices at one time as
another.
Fall
Draperies.
Upholstery Department
announces the arrival of sev
eral lines of Lace Curtains,
Heavy Curtains, Drapery
Materials by the yard,Frin
ges, etc., for the fail and
winter season. Following
are a few selected low-priced
items:
3G-lnch Coln-spotandFIgured muslin
excellent quality. Per yard 12 l-2c
30-inch Embroidered Sash Muslin,
well covered and choice designs.
Per yard 12 l-2c
50-mch Satin Russe Furniture Cover
ings, new colorings-Per yard 05c
Extra Heavy Tapestrv Curtains. 50
inches wicU, 3 1-2 yards long, heavy
friuge top and bottom. Special
price, per pair. SC.0O
Figured Tapestry Curtain., good col
orings, fringe top and cottoiu
per pair. ?2U30
Fourth floor.
White .
Enameled Beds.
Best from a hygienic
standpoint. Fasy to keep
clean. Look best.
"White Enameled Beds, brass trim
mings, all sizes. Each S2.75
Better onesup to $30.00
Woven WlreSprlngs.aU
sizes. Each S1.25 to 5..00
Husk Mattresses, cotton top, dou
ble bed .-tze. Each 3.00
Hair Mattresses, well made, strong
ticking, uouble bed size- Each. SfJ.OO
Better ones up to S30.00
Fourth floor.
Boys'
Clothing.
Suggestions for the school
outfit.
All-wool Pants, serviceable -mixed
coodf, well made, 3 to Id years.
Per pair 4-lc
"Mothers'" Friend Shirt Waists, un
laundered, new patterns patent de
tachable waistband, 4 to 1-1 years
Each ...50
"Mothers' Friend" Shirt Waists, laun
dered, pretty patterns, -k
to 14 years. Each 75c and 51.00
King" Shirt Waists, laundered, 4
to 14 years- Each 39c
Third floor.
Underwear for
School Girls.
The following items will
prove of interest to mothers
who are preparing to send
their daughters to boarding
school:
Misses Cambric Drawers, cluster
of tucks, deep hem. Per pair 25c
Mlf.es Muslin Drawers, deep rurtle
ot embroidery, cluster ot tucks
Per pair. ..C0c
Misses' Cambric and Muslla Drawers,
cluster ot tucks, deep embroidery
Per pair. 75c
Misses Cambric Corset Covers, high or
low neck, lace and embroidery
trimmed. Each 50c
Misses Muslin Gowns, embroidery
trimmed, full sleeves- Each 50c
Misses Cambric Gowns, embroidery
trlmmed. full sleeves. Each 75c
Misses' Cambric and Muslin Gowns,
ten styles. In "Empire" and "Ilub-Uard,-
embroidery trimmed. Each.. ..$1.00
Second floor.
"We cleanse Lace Curtains and
Blankets perfectly Curtarns,
75c per pair Blankets, $1.50 per
pair. Called for and delivered,.
Wooiwam & Lothrop.
