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THE sENrGHTED EAST.

We have lrad occasion more than
once in recent times to notice the
curious retrogression of commune
ties which were formerly noted for
their high order of intelligence. There
is no section of the country today
where fads and wild-eyed- political
and social theories. find a reader or
warmer reception than in New Eng
land. There is no city today which
is the seat and center of more move
ments based on what we have been
accustomed to consider ignorance
and superstition than Boston. For
tune telling and faith curing and
mind reading and spiritualistic man
ifestations have had a new run of
favor in the place which has been
called for SO many years 1.-The hub
Of the universe" and the center of in
tellectuality.
We need not be surprised, there
fore, that this same community was
the scene, on Thursday, of a riotous
demonstration participated in by
friends and enemies of the A. P. A.
movement. We have almost for
gotten out here, as they have pretty
much everywhere else, that there
ever was such a thing as the A. P. A.
in politics. Common sense and COM
mon patriotism stamped out the idea
of introducing the religious issue in
political discussion elsewhere almost
as soon as it was advanced The
A. P. A. business was a boom
erang, and all political parties were
glad to drop it. It has retained it's
strength and interest only in New
England communities. In Boston it
appears to have been strong enough
to precipitate riot, in which at
least one man was killed and others
We're wounded.
1t is sickening to think how silly
the whole trouble was. There was
parade in the streets, with a float
representing the Little Red School
house" Now we have never heard
anybody object to the prominence
of the Little Red School-house" in
our national life, and have been rath-
er proud Of it ourselves. But it ap-
pears that the A. P. A. people have
claimed this symbol as in some sense
indicative of their order, and so it
acted as an irritant upon the sur
rounding mob. Without further
provocation they pitched in and had
lively riot with long list of cas-
ualities. There was nothing what
ever to cause it except this foolish
display of an emblem, honorable in
itself, but assumed to represent a
political order offensive to many peo-
pie. The rest of the country is get
ting good reason to be ashamed of
Boston. If this sort of thing can
happen in the vicinity of the ezra
die of liberty" we will need present
1y to send batch of specially COM
missioned missionaries to enlighten
the people of this degenerate and de-
teriorating community.
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PRICES AND THE FIAT THEORY

We cannot imagine anything more
conclusive than the effect upon the
fiat money men, including the adj
vocates of independent free coinage
by the United States, of the recent
general and marked rise in prices.
It simply destroys every position
which they have taken. 1t wipes
their argument off the face of the
earth as totally as if it had never
existed. The amusing thing to us
is that anybody should cling to that
argument after every vestige of foun-
dation has been removed from I'M
der it. Consider that the argument
of the silver men is simply this:
that the act of 1873 has diminished
money volume and caused the val
lie of money to appreciate, thereby
producing progressive decline in
prices of all commodities. This is
their fundamental theory, from
which they draw the conclusion that
it is necessary to have an imitation
of the currency in the shape of free
coinage of silver, in order that prices
may be prevented from falling or be
brought back to their ancient level.
Yet the fact is that, without any
change whatever in the desperate
condition of things as the free sill
Verite and the Populist represent
them, there has occurred within the
past three months a rise of prices
scarcely equaled in the same length
of time in any period of our his
tory.
The New York Evening Post has
treated this argument ably and ex-
haustively. 1t shows that during the
operation of the silver purchase law
of 1890, from thirty to fifty million
dollars were added annually to the
money in circulation. Yet during
that time the money of the country
was diminished by the expulsion of
gold, and prices fell rapidly and dis
aStrously. AT the beginning of the
present year it was thought, for
short time, that the finances OF this
country would go to the silver basis.
That would have made, according to
our silver friends, an increase of
money volume and a rise in prices.
The commercial fact to the contrary
is thus stated by the Post:
The markets themselves did not wait
for long discussion. violent decline
IN securities began. This was not all.
Wheat, which on Jan. il sold in New
YORK at 81 cents per bushel, broke by
lower before it rallied. Corn, at the
same time, fell from 523s to 1891, and
every other commercial market de-
ciined along with these two great sta
pies,
After an arrangement had been
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PROF. MOORE INTENDS To MAKE
THE FORECASTING BUSH
NESS PERF4CT.
NO STORMS TO BE MISSED.
SAYS EVERY SEVERE CHANGE
SHOULD BE PREDICTED
WITH EASE.
GOOD MEN TO BE UTILIZED.
The Most Responsible Positions
Cam BE Held Only by Those
Thoroughly Competent.

WASHINGTON, July 5.-Prof.
NooTe's; policy in directing the work
of the weather bureau. of which he
assumed. charge today, was outlined
in an interview with the Associated
Press. The principal aim of the bu-
reau now will be to concentrate the
work ON forecasts. Prof. Moore is
an expert in this line. and will make
every effort to increase the accura-
| cy of the predictions.
"Tins,'" he explained, will be ac-
cosndisfled by the most rigid ad-
herence to the merit principles which
| have prevailed throughout Secretary
Morton'S administration of the de-
partment. Every man will be as
signed to duties governed by his
competency, and every recommended
| ton made by me will be based on
civil service principles. The service
| is now in its embryonic state, and
general app}icat ton of practical prin-
| ciples will tend toward a material
! Improvement. We cannot predict
| just when rains will occur always,
but there is no excuse for failing to
| forecast severe changes in the
| weather and remarkable atmospheric
| disturbances. ForecaSting severe
weather changes I conceive to be the
| object of the office, and in this direc-
| ton the work will be broadened and
! steadily improved. Forecasts should
be made of severe storms, cold waves
| or remarkable atmospheric changes
| at least twelve hours in advance,
and one such forecast sometimes
| more than pays the actual entire cost
| of the office up to date
The successor to Prof. Moore in
the forecast station in Chicago has
not been selected as yet. Prof II. J.
Cox, the assistant chief, is tempo
rarlly in charge, but he will doubt
less be relieved within a few DAYS.
There is little doubt that Edward B.
Garriott, now in charge of the fore
casting division of the bureau in
Washington, and who has had nearly
twenty years experience in the serv-
ice, will be appointed, though Park
Morrill,, now national forecast Off
| cial, and formerly in charge of the
Atlanta, Ca, station, is under con-
sideration.
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MINERS RIOT AND BURN.
Fresh Troops Ordered Out in West
Virginia.

WHEELING, w. Va, July 5.-A spe-
cial dispatch says that miners through
out the Elkhorn region are rioting,
having burned houses and committed
other depredations. The Elkhorn min
ing region is on the Norfolk G. West
ern road, near the boundary of Vir-
GINA, and Is ON the West Virginia side
of the line, where the governor of Vir-
GINA has had troops for two months
past. The present trouble is sup
posed to be due to the long strike, dur
ing which the strikers have been driv-
en- to desperation through hunger.
Gov. MacCorkle has been watching af-
fairs closely and has matters we'll in
hand. If necessary, troops will be on
the ground by noon tomorrow, and
there is little doubt that they will be
able to cope with the situation.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, July s.
Companies 1 and G, of the military
here tonight received orders from Gov.
MacCorkle, at Charleston, to report at
the Pocahontas mining district at once.
A special train is now in waiting to
carry them to the scene of the trouble
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-06
UNIQUE zOUAVE DRILL.
Interesting and Novel Contest at
Camp Hancock.


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 5.-This was
Zouave day at Camp Hancock, con-
testing companies in that class drill
ing for prizes aggregating $2,25O. After
the big day of yesterday, when it was
estimated at least $4,000 people turned
out, affairs at camp were very quiet.
AS there We're early signs of rain very
few people were present during the
forenoon, but later, when the weather
cIared up, the attendance became
larger. The Hale Zouaves, of Kansas
City, under command of Capt. Lecht-
man, came upon the field first and
went through a very creditable in
spection. This company made a very
fine appearance in regulation zouave
uniform of red trousers, blue coat,
yellow sach red fez and white leggings.
After them came the Neeley's, of Mem
phis, with their black uniforms, yell
low sashes, white leggings and white
and red turbans. The famous Chicago
ZouaYes We're the last on the field for
inspection. Capt. Ford's boys were
dressed entirely in white, with the ex-
ception of the red fez and sashes, the
uniform being such a striking one as
to attract universal attention.
The drill was not according to any
authorized tactics, but consisted of
unique and effective fancy movements.
entirely different from the regulation
evolutions of the regular and militia
infantry. Each company has it's own
specialties in the way of unique move
ments, which are always well received
by the spectators.
Following the Zouave drills there
were exhibitions by different COM
panies in the manual Of arms and foot
movements. The fearless charges of
the regular army cavalry was revel-
alton to most of the spectators. 1t is
announced at the last moment that
Secretary of War Lamont, who is on
a tour of inspection on the Pacific
coast, will not be here tomorrow, as
was expected.
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SPAIN ON sILYER,s SIDE.
Dupuy de LONE Says 1T Would
Necessarily BE Interested.

WASHINGTON, July 5.-Senor Du-
puy de LONE. the Spanish minister,
says Spain will take part in the next
international monetary conference, as
she is greatly interested in the solu-
ton Of the bimetallic question. Spain
uses both gold and silver, the latter
being coined at a fixed rate with gold,
and there is also an issue of paper
currency. Only two of the Spanish COL
onies, Porto Rico and the PHILIPPINE
islands, use silver almost exclusively.
For these reasons Spains policy is
definitely favorable toward the use of
both metals, and her interests, particu-
larry in her colonies, are toward an
enlarged use of silver The belief is
expressed by some of the best posted
representatives of foreign countries
that any international monetary con-
ference agreement should embody GER
tain essential features. To assure it's
power it must secure the adherence of
the United States and of at least one
of the three great money centers of
Europe, Great Britain, France or Ger
many, and the adherence of as many
lesser countries as possible. 1t should
also include that feature of the Latin
be coined by each member of the union
is definitely fixed in advance, in ac-
cordance with it's needs. The opinion
is expressed that these features would
; tend to make an International agree
ment very effective and dominant on
the monetary conditions of the world
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industries cannot exist without pro-
lection against competitors from
without. The same spirit which
makes our venturesome youth take
great chances of being blown into
the next world by fitting celebra-
ton of the Fourth seems to have
moved Gov. Mckinley when he thus
commemorated the day by speech
which gives the lie to every argu-
ment of that theory on which ali his
political pretensions are based. Of all
the victims of Fourth of July hilari-
ty, he seems to us to be the most
severely and incurably wounded.
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IT WOULD MEAN DEATH.
Capt. Sampson illustrates His Ar
guments Against Double Tur-
rafS

WASHINGTON, July 5.-A very i'm
portant test has been made recently
at Indian Head which will have a
bearing on the construction of the two
new battleships over which there has
been so much contention. The test
was made under the direction of Capt.
Sampson, of the ordnance bureau, ard
he has submitted a report of his find
ings to Secretary Herbert, who is now
considering the naval plans of the bat
tleships. The bureau chiefs of the
construction bureau of the navy de-
partment differ radically on several
features, one of the most essential
being as to double-storied turrets in
dorsed by the bureau chiefs, and sin
gie-storied turrets. one in front for
the heavy guns, and the other ele-
waited and just in the rear and con-
tanning eight-inch guns, which is the
plan of the construction bureau. 1t
was claimed by the chief of the ord
nance bureau that the eight-inch guns
would be rendered useless in an en-
gagement in which the vessel had her
bow or stern toward the enemy, be-
cause if fired over the turret contain
ing the large guns, the blast from the
rear guns would kill the men in the
other tower.
Capt. Sampson ordered the test
made by having an eight-inch gun
fired over an inch steel plate, the
thickness of the plate designed to
cover the sighting tower. The muz-
zle of the gun was twenty-four inches
above the plate, and the first charge
bent the plate down in the center four
inches, while a strong charge still fur
Their dented the plate eight inches on
one end and nine inches on the other.
The plate was about five by four and
a half feet. and the supports We're
equal to those which could be placed
on the ship. This has caused the Off
GERS of the ordnance bureau to renew
their assertion that the conclusion of
the nine-inch gun would kille4the men
at work in the upper portion of the
turret, and they point to it as proof
of their views in reports submitted to
the secretary OF the navy. This test
adds another feature of perplexity to
the plan of the battleships, which is
giving the department considerable
trouble
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-06
TEACHERS TOPICS
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSO-
CATIONS GREAT CONvEN-
TIOd OPENS
F..
PRELIMINARY MEETINGS.
SPECIAL PAPERS READ BY MEdI-
BEERS OF THB NATIONAL
COUNCIL
TWIN CITY REPRESENTATIVES,.
in Elementary Schools Under
Discussion

DENVER, Cod, July 5.-The thir-
tY-fourth annual convention OF the
National Educational association be-
gan here today. Comparatively few
teachers have yet arrived, as the
first three days are taken up in ses-
sionS of the national council of edu-
cation, the general convention hold
ing its first meeting Tuesday, July
8. The work of the local committees
in preparation for the reception and
entertainment has been completed.
The council met at 10 o'clock today
in the supreme court rooms in the
capitol building. The meeting was
called to order by Prof. c. Rounds,
of Plymouth, N H, president OF the
council. The attendance was meager
on account of several delayed
trains. N. c. Dougherty, of Peoria,
secretary, was present. The report
of the committee on moral educa-
ton on Moral instruction in the
Elementary Schools" the pro-
gramme for the morning session,
was dispensed with on account of
the non-arrival of E. c. White, of
Columbus, o., chairman of the COM
mittee, and discussion of the sub
Ject was substituted. It was par
ticipated in by Earl Barnes, Of Men,
10 Park, Cal; Joseph Baldwin, of
Huntsville, Tex; c. C. Rough, of
Plymouth, N. H; David T. Kiehle,
of Minneapolis, and H. Richards, of
Washington, D. G.
SMALLER CLASS THE BEST.
The afternoon session was devoted
to- the reading of the report OF the
committee on elementary education
on economy in elementary educa-
tion," by the chairman of the COM
mittee, Miss Bette Dutton, of Cleve-
land, and its discussion. The position
was taken by the reader that the
teacher should be required to in
struct much less number of pupils
than is ordinarily the case She
thought smaller primary classes and
more thorough application would
give the pupil a start in the first
school years that would be invalu-
able in after school work The dis
cussion was by George P. Brown, of
Bloomington, Ill; Z. Richards, of
Washington; T. l.. Sedan, of st.
Louis; John w. Cook, of Normal, Ill;
A. r. Taylor. of Emporia, Kan; l..
N. Jones, Of Cleveland, o., and c. Z.
/ Gilbert, of st. Paul. Mrs. buttons
| idea of smaller classes was opposed
by Mr.. Brown and others, and
warmly supported by Mr.. Richards.
The council voted to have the paper
and the discussion printed in it's
annual reports. Those present at
today's session of the council were:
A. r. Taylor Emporia, Kan; George
P. Brown, Bloomington, ILL.,; Miss
Bette A. Dutton Cleveland; William
F. King, Mount Vernon, To-; John w.
Cook, Normal, ILL.,; G. B. Gilbert, st.
Paul; Earl Barnes, MenlO Park,
CAL; L. II. Jones, Cleveland; Nicho-
las Butler, Patterson n. j.; F. Louis
Sedan, st. Louis; Joseph Baldwin,
Austin, Tex; M. C. Daugherty.
Peoria; Henry Sabin, Des Moines;
D. A. Kiehler, Minneapolis; c. G.
Rounds, Plymouth, N. H.; u. Rich
ards, Washington; James H. Baker,
Boulder, Col; Aaron Cove, Denver,
Col; Irwin Shepard, Winona, Mimi;
H. H. Sherley, Cedar Falls, 10.
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WASTED HIS THOUSANDS.
Tore Up What Remained aaid
JuonUed Into the Lake

Tore Up What Remained and
jumped Into the Lake.
CHICAGO, July 5.-The police be-
lievenow that the mystery surround
ing the $1,000 worth of torn money
found on the lake shore between
Twenty-second and Tweuty-siKth
streets a week ago is solved. They
believe that the money was torn up
by John Chambers, of Covington,
KY, and that his body is now IN
der the waves of Lake Michigan.
Chambers was about tWenty-eight
years of age, and is said to belong to
an excellent family in Covington.
Some time ago he left home with
about $4,000 in his possession, and
in company with a young woman.
About month ago he was seen in
Seattle, Wash, by William P. Trim
BILE, fellow townSman. Chambers
told Trimble that he had been to
Sitka, Alaska, and that all of his
money was gone excepting $4,000.
The young woman and he had parted
company, and Chambers, according
W Ills OWH StdlSillcllt, was cOuAlS
for the East, probably Chicago"
Trimble returned to Covington and
made report to the family of
Chambers. While he was in Coving-
ton the story of the torn money and
of the board which was found on the
shore bearing the words 81 am tired
of life-John Chambers" was pub
lished. Trimble was at once urged
to return to Chicago to make fur
Their inquiries regarding the MISS
ing man, and neither he nor the po-
lice have now any doubt that Cham
bers killed himself. A photograph
of the board bearing Chambers
handwriting will be made tomorrow
and submitted to his friends in Gov
ington.
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Released From Bondage.

Chicago Chronicle.
We have not yet had year of the
Wilson law. The result shows all over
the United States. Out of the clutches
of McKinleyism the country begins to
resume that prosperity that Mckinley
and Sherman between them had nearly
destroyed. The Wilson bill, lacking all
that it ought to be, yet furnishing on
the average some so per cent reduction
Of taxation, assists the people of the
United States to regain their feet far
more rapidly after the panic of 1898
than after the panic of 1873, when
Grant was president and the Repub-
lican party was in full control of every
branch of the government
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Troops Under Army.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, July s.
The situation in the Elkhorn and Blue
field region has become so threatening
that Gov. MacCorkle tonight ordered
eight companies of state troops to be
in readiness to march. kilograms TO
the governor from that region today
state that strikers are arming, and
say they will drive out scabs, with
which some of the operators are trying
to run the mines. The operators have
moved part of these men over the Vir-
ginia line: Strikers are massing at
various points, all pretty well armed.
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band, j. N. Williams, of Springfield,
Mo. She alleges that he owes her
that amount for the board of their
f1fteen-year- old son.. Mrs. Colts
maiden name was Matilda Polk
Roundtree, and she is niece of
James K. Polk. She married Williams
in Kentucky, but after they had had
several children they were divorced,
the father being given the custody of
the children. Mrs. Williams married
Mr.. Colt, of this city and after her
marriage her son came to live with
her. She claims his father should pay
his board
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SLAIN BY HIS WIFE.
Sir Edwin Arnold7s Nephew MUIR
dered in India.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 5.-A strange
story is brought from India via Hong
Kong by the steamer City of Rio
Janeiro. The narrative tells of the
murder of J: F. G.. Lester, acting SUI
perintendent of police at Cobra, by his
wife. The woman makes excuse for
her terrible deed by explaining that her
husband was most brutal to her, and
in moment of passion she seized Il
rife and shot Mr.. Lester through the
back, killing him instantly. Peculiar
interest is taken in the case because
of the prominence of the principals.
Mr.. Lester was the nephew of Sir Ed
win Arnold, and the son of an old
Bombay general, and Mrs. Lester is
he daughter of Col. Braham, an old
Indian campaigner. She was married
to Lester five years ago.
Mrs. Lester was arrested, but ex-
pressed no sorrow for her deed, which
has created a sensation throughout
India
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Not Many Strong Enough.

Buffalo Commercial.
Any Republican paper strong enough
and manly enough to be Independent,
can and will endorse what the Boston
Transcript says, that in the result of
the Kentucky convention ''Carlisle and
Watterson have both the best of right
to claim high praise for what they
have done in behalf of sound financial
principles at critical time, when it
was of vital consequence that the pro-
motors of free silver coinage should not
be beaten, but routed"