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The sun., 1896-07-07

Of view, the money which changes
hands over the Boston bars-nine- e-tenths
Of which must be presumed to
como from persons of modest incomes
would suffice to meet the total living ex-
penses of nearly 11,7o0 families, spending
5000 year each. Again, there are in Bos-
ton 989, ,666 male residents, of whom 80, 186
are under go years Of age, and therefore by
law excluded from the saloons. OF males
above go years OF age there are l56,69o. 1t
follows that the patronage Of Boston bar
rooms Ia as if every adult male in the city
drank some alcoholic beverage once every
day, and in addition treated n friend from
the country every other day.
Prof. PEABODY Is shocked at these statis-
tics, and suggests several methods of re-
stricting the drink traffic. The most effec-
tive mode OF checking the saloon evil would
be, he thinks, TO administer the IL
csnse system In connection with more
limited districts. II seems that under
the present law tho number OF sa-
looms is regulated by the total popu-
lation Of the city, not more than ono saloon
being allowed for Ave hundred inhabitants.
These saloons are set, however, wherever
Jne commissioners hay ueperhiho, "hu ~ 20
assumed that the maximum number shall
be licensed to which the city considered as
whole is entitled The effect Of this assump-
tion 10 that, as one part of the town is un-
profitable to tho drink-seller, all the moro
barrooms are planted among the more
largely tempted CLASSES. II the unit of as
siRnment were tho "division" or ward"
instead Of the city, the total number Of sa-
looms might be signally lessened, with no
loss Of convenience to the drinkers and no
radical change in the basis Of assignment
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Blue on tho silvor Thames.

At or about half past 8 this morning,
when tho citizens of this town and adjacent
parts arc reading THE Sun, eight mighty
youths and smaller PALMURUs will be
urging boat along the Thames and trying
to beat the English, at sport at which the
English have long been expert, and to win
still another trophy for the Yale collection.
The Leanders are good. Arc the Ysles bet
ter That is the question, which 10 also
one in the larger cabechism: Tho English
are good oarsmen; arc the Americans
betters 1t may como down 10 this, though
The English are good men. Arc the Amer
leans betterf
The Yale crew In composed Of pleasant
and manly fellows. Even the English con-
descend to like them, and will like them
still better il they give Leander the wash
this morning. Yale has had q good teacher,
good material, and good pluck. AS she
wants rough weather to-day, the god Of the
winds, as classical old party, though very
careless with his bag, ought to give her the
wind she wants, and keep the rest Of his
Populist Convention at home. There should
institutions. To be sure, LEAEDER was
classical, too, and waterman.
The United States Is Yale "rooter I"
this morning, and repeats with moro en-
thusiasm than tune tho New Haven hymn {:
sMay their stroke be strong and steady. may not
wind or muscle fall
TIL their boat in the winner and the air goes
wild with 'Yalo" Z"
The sun., 1896-07-07
Last Chance to Toll tho Truth.

The number Of Democratic politicians now
expending all possible energy to prevent the
adoption of free-silver platform at Chicago
Is very great; but the ono man whose voice
would be most potent in their assistance 10
silent and refuses to help.
"What do we oare for your arguments
about the material and moral virtues of tho
gold standard ?" say the silver men. I'm
less than four years, upon the word Of
President CLEVELAND, it has cost the coun-
try two hundred and sixty-two million dol
lars to preserve it. The sooner It is got rid
of the better"
The statement put forth from the White
House that the various bond issues Of late
were to maintain gold payments was Q
colossal lie. Nearly one hundred and fifty
million dollars of the bond money have been
used to pay current expenses unprovided
for by the CLEvELANp-WusoNt tariff.
The formal withdrawal of his misrepressn-
tation, over Mr.. CLEvRLAND's own signature,
would be q greater service. even at this late
day, in staying the prostitution of tho DOM
ocratic party to the cause of debased money,
than all the arguments that gold Demo-
Gratis can give to their silver colleagues face
to face at Chicago, and that business men
can send over tho wires-
Mr.. CLEVELAND, whose hope for Q third
term drove his opponents to rally round tho
cause of free silver, Is mistaken If he imag-
ines that silver's control of the Chicago Con-
vention being an accomplished fact, he Is TO
leased from all further responsibility of
speech. He has slandered gold. Let him
withdraw tho slander.
The sun., 1896-07-07
The boom of the Hon. WHARTON BARKEE

The boom OF the Hon. WHARTON BARKER
of Philadelph has boon found In Chicago. and
In good condition, as all lovers of tho beautiful
will be glad to hear. 1t WAS taken to Cook
county last week, sweetened and cleared tho air
for moment. was received with barred heads
by all beholders, had . pressing invitation to
make tho MARSHALL FIELD Museum It's head
quarters. and then disappeared. leaving no
explanation and no clue. Some OF tho detectives
thought II had been stolen by banditti In tho
pay OF other booms; others believed that 1t had
been blown out or smothered by getting into
crowd of Populsts. The Hon. JOHN II. LoRIMER
OF Philadelphia has found that lost and lovely
boom again, still lovely. wholly uninjured.
never to DO loat again. ~ think Mr.. BARKER
will secure the nomination." says Mr.. LoRIMER.
"And fully believe him 10 be tho man destined
by the Almighty to lead us out of tho wilder
ness" 1t is worth while TO bo lost to be found
SO splondidy.
The sun., 1896-07-07
Tho Hon. JAMES STEPHEN Hoae of Texas

Tho Hon. JAMES STEPHEN HoGa OF Texas
is in Chicago. happy in tho recollection that
his name Elittered in tho list OF "promi-
nent arrivals" Mr.. Hoao arrived promi-
nently, not because he has been Governor
OF Texas or because he 10 o hater OF Wall
street, for O number of mon have been Gov
ernors Of Te1as. and tho Chicago hotels arc
packed with wise and conservative citizens
who hate Wall street. What made Mr.. Hooo's
arrival prominent was tho fact that he is nre-
sprting foo Of the bicycle. which he has de-
nounced as tho dromedary of dudes" This
seems to DO harsh. for the dromedary is not
often hanged for superfuity OF charm. and It
seoms safe to infer that Mr.. HoGo de-
tests bicycles even more than he detests Wall
street. He might have spared something. left
something. but he has resolved that Wall
street shall go" and that bicyclers shall be
prevented from going even II they have silver
shoon. In the right upper inside pocket OF his
cardigan Governor HoGG is said to have
plank " for the Committee on Resolutions. de-
nouncing good roads and calling upon Congress
to legislate against the bicycle.
The sun., 1896-07-07

As several persons in Chicago and else
where arc beginning to have nervous starts and
quiverinRs, and to complain OF spots before tho
eyes. ringing in the ears, and weakness In the
knees II 10 in place to say that II Is too carly to
get excited, and that there is really nothing to
get excited about. The world will continue to
spin around on It's wheels, whatever is done in
Chicago, and even tho beaten candidates will
be able to eat a roueinR breakfast by Sunday
morning. at the latest Business and golf
and bicycling. summer schools, vacations.
fishing, all tho great arteries Of life. will
not suspend. Tho dog days will not put on a
collar of frost and tho cable cars will not relax
their activity at Dead Mans Crossing. The
Hon. JOSEPH CHoYNsKI and the Hon. PIERRE
MARIE are to hold public debate In San Fran
cisco carly in August The peas are unusually
fne this season. Sir EDWIN ARNOLD hasn't
written any verses lately. Life is luxuriant
with hope. Take reef in your nerves. excited
brother. You will live.
The sun., 1896-07-07
Information for Mr.. Belmont and
OtherN.

The Hon. PERRY BELMONT, who arrived
in this city on Saturday, on his way from
Paris to Chicago, has been telling the
public, through the newspapers, what Eu-
ropean fnanciers think about our currency
troubles. Mr.. BELMONT says that he was
"surprised at the accuracy of the informa-
tion which European experts in finance
have of the details of our currency difficult
ties," and he laments his inability to enlarge
that information from his own store.
Among other things, he was embarrassed
by the question frequently put to him in
Paris: why did not the st. Louis Conven-
tion present a feasible plan to stop buying
gold at such ruinous cost to redeem the end
lessly reissued Rreenbacks 2" to which,
he says. ~ could not find an answer" In
another place he remarks: "What for
eigners cannot understand 10, why our
Government reissues, like bank, its green
back debt after having onoe paid 1t in
gold" and, again, he speaks OF "the Great
ing of $500, ZOO, 900 new Government debt
in order to redeem our paper dollars"
II Mr.. BELMONT had been as we'll informed
ON tho subject of our national finances a. o
man in his position ought to be, he need not
have been unable to explain the recentissues
Of bonds for the redemption Of the legal
tenders and the reissue of those Same legal
tenders after they were redeemed. As we
hsye over and over again demonstrated in
the columns Of THE sun, both tho sale Of
bonds and the reissue Of the greenbaoks havo
been made unavoidable by the deficiency Of
the national revenues to meet the national
expenses. The Government has been called
upon to pay out, during the last three years,
91As, 200. 900 moro than It's income. and
to provide that amount and for such an
additional amount a. immediate future
needs may require, It has sold the bonds to
which Mr.. BELMONT refera
Mr.. BELMONT makes to tho public tho
further astonishing misstatement that
illegal tender greenbacks have never been
of the fact that every Democratic Repre-
sentative and Senator voted in 1878 to stop
the retirement Of those greenbacks under
the Resumption act of 1875. and to compel
the reissue of them after redemption. OF
which he now complains. Nor has any
Democratic member of Congress to this day
ever offered, with the sanction of his party,
q bill to repeal the act Of 1878, and to en-
force that of 1878 according to its terms.
The trouble with Mr.. BELMONT is that he
is too much in sympathy with the banks
and not enough In sympathy with the peo-
pie. He would have the Democracy at Chi
cago recommend that the greenback once
paid in gold shall never be reissued. and
"devise q plan for safe and sound bank
notes" That is to say, he would have the
nation loaded with perpetual interest
bearing debt of $500, 900, 900, in order that
the banks may step in and earn interest on
$500, 600, 900 of their own notes Issued at
the bare cost Of paper and printing!
The sun., 1896-07-07
The Drink Habit in Boston.

In the current number of tho Forum, DR..
FRANCIS G. PEABODY, Plummer Professor
or Christian Morals In Harvard University,
sets forth the remarkable results of An in
vestigation made last year In Boston con-
cerning the number of licensed barrooms in
that city, and the extent to which they arc
patronized. The figures were procured by
the police and are believed to be as near tho
truth as is attainable Where they obvious
ly fall short of the truth is in leaving out OF
account all resorts where drinking may be
regarded as an accessory, as, for instance,
hotels, private clubs, and licensed groceries.
Restricted as the inquiry was to licensed
barrooms, it has shown that the dimensions
Npf the drink habit in the Puritan capital arc
pfpdigious. The census of 1895 gave Bos-
ton 49e, ,9eo inhabitants. or, in round num-
bers, \half a million. Now it appears
from a computation based on the daily
and almost hourly observations of pa
trolmen that no fewer than eee, 75e
persons, or nearly half the population
of the city, patronize daily the eoe licensed
saloons. In this estimate each patron II
counted every time he enters The number
: of individual drinkers Ia. therefore, reduci-
BILE by the number of repeaters. There
should also be subtracted the largo number
of drinkers in Boston who are residents of
other towns, aud especially of adj djacent towns
under no-license rule Such deductions,
however, are In q considerable measure
balanced by the patronage OF hotel bars,
private clubs, and licensed groceries by city
dwellers. We may probably assume with
confidence that the number of victims of
the drink habit in Boston exceeds one hum
dred Thousand.
How much money Is expended upon Alco-
holic drinks In Bostoni According to Prof.
PEABODY, the preponderancs Of expert
opinion iavors the belief that the average
patron spends ten cents every time he
enters a barroom. II this estimate be not
excessive. there Is daily disbursed in
the saloons of tho Hub ee2,e7b,
or in year of three hundred days
the portentous sum of Se, 500, 800. This IL
equivalent to an annual gross income of
over $4,000 for each of the 900 saloons.
The Significance of the figures IL best
brought out by some comparisons. The
total running expenses Of the Boston public
school system for 1S94-95 was 81, ,O6l ,l6O.
The total cost of the Boston Fire De-
partment for tho same year was ST.
o. The aggregate outlay ON the
Department in the same twelve
was s1,31s, 1855. The total expense
.e city parG system for the year was
,e14,814. All these items of expendi-
DIRE, taken together, amount to a smaller
sum than was spent during the year In the
barrooms OF the New England metropolis.
I To look at the matter from another point
"A
The sun., 1896-07-07
10 WASH THE BLOOD,
A Simple Salt and Water Injection In
Place OF Trausruslon.


From tho Washington Etenfno stay
Washing the blood 10 the latest remedy for
diseases brought on by or causing q sluRgish
circulation and low state of the blood. The
washing process is performed by plain salt and
water. From q pint to two quarts of water ia
injected into the system by means of an ordi.
nary hypodermic syringe.
ven Is opened in the arm of the NATHAN,
with the usual antiseptic precautions, and the
salt water injected In large doses. A profusa
perspiration and general activity of the secre.
matter present In the blood. Tho new remsSv
Is recommended by several doctors in nanrrs
in Paris, and has been successfuiiy empious as
nnper9us instances. In oases OF an@mi,
IN cases OF sSis bonS onSSos and
is said, works wonders. For some ysSIa sn. "
ge1ns have used o saline infection in csses Of
powerful tonic known, and has saved mSnv Tss
lives. Its efficacy In ordinary diseases Sas hanys
Modern med doins has a tendency IN r..o~, A..
pte nnWer, mstHSas o ThS9 rseoSnfe the AcprinS
prActised by several New York phy"icansh N az az
1 yery recent 9 origin and is considered nvaiaable
tho stomach to its normal condition hy rs,,"r
ing the poisonous waste products which are NOT
BY means of soft rubber tube pSt 3o~S SrSehs. ms
throat water can be poured into the stomsnS snS
Of courset more dificult, as the Wa,sr g oiood 10
injected into q vein e' "aS 70 De
IL Ia well known that thLblood ~ . g..
be drawn OF and the blood of another frogs eau can
stltutod withou greatly inconvenieneinss eIo- ,h
solution cap be substituted instead OF bIontS tS'er
SSns'debrsSe nS b extent at least and the frog VIII
gave the scientists the idea OF iniocii" SCI SCI nrst
hcial serlm into the veins of q human hstnua- hStru-
o. Sither shemlc or intoxicated. Tho new remsaEs, edaE,
said, be employed with safety, "eSAs u u
The sun., 1896-07-07

theological tendencies of the abandonment
of the doctrine Of the infallibility of the
Bible by the Presbyterisns As It is now,
belief in the Bible Is not requisite for a
Presbyterian, minister or layman. He has
a right to criticise 1t like any other book.
1.-The Storm and Stress OF the Medieval
and Modern Church" will be the theme to
which Prof. HUBERT Of the Lane Theo-
logical Seminary will devote himself, and
he also will have to be careful to avoid
dangerous controversial questions peril
nent to It.
These arc few Of the many subjects to be
treated, aud they are all pretty solid for
consideration in the dog days amid the
allurements Of the gay life of Saratoga; but
tho experience OF summer schools of even
the gravest sort affords promise that the
grave and scholarly lectures will be we'll at
tended and closely followed by eager listeners
Religious and philosophical themes COM
mand q surprising amount of interest at all
these studious resorts. Inf1delity competes
with faith. but the moro successful gather
inRs are those dominated by religious belief
and infused with It. Tho demand for moro
negation Is not large The aSnosticism of
the subjects of religious speculation as in
volving waste of time for their considera-
tion. The man who says, ~ don't know
and nobody else can know" is much harder
to reach than the violent infdel. What
Is the use Of quoting texts from the Bible to
convince Presbyterian follower Of DR..
BRIGGS who does not believe tho authority
Of the Biblef He answers, II he answers
at all, by quoting texts from DR.. BRIGGS.
Besides tho courses Of lectures at the Sar-
atoga School Of Theology. there are to be
simultaneously classes in tho Old Testa-
ment, conducted by Prof. CREELMAN of Yale
University, and in tho Hebrew language.
Persons attending tho school, therefore,
will be kept we'll occupied until Its sessions
are brought to close, about the middle OF
August.
The sun., 1896-07-07
Remembered ae Gainsboroueh.

~ am much pleased to learn that will
be rememberedat at Gainsborough, when there
will be rehcarsed the profoundly impressive
results of the Mayfower emigration"
Thus writes GROVER CLEVELAND to the
pastor OF the John Robinson Memorial
Church at Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire.
1t is astonishing what capacity some people
have for the profoundly impressive. Every
thing that they are called upon to consider
is profoundly impressive. They live in an
atmosphere Of profound impressions.
Sometimes these impressions are SO uni
formly profound as to produce lack Of
discrimination.
II man is looking out from Buzzarl's
Bay these days in search of the profoundly
impressive, he need not go back to the time
of the Mayflower nor as far as Gains
borough, England. Hewill see quite enough
II he turn his eagle eye on Chicago.
Right there and now he can study the
profoundly impressive results of four
years more OF GROVER" He can see a
devitalined Democracy struggling for ex-
istence against tho band Of frees silver agita-
tors, Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists
who have stolen the livery OF tho Demo
cratic party to serve the devil in and he
can hear echoes OF his own public utter
ances demanding an income tax and de-
nouncing the communism of wealth.
Yes; it is pleasanter just now to be re-
membered at tGainsborough than at Chicago.
The sun., 1896-07-07

Tho Hon. Com HARVEY is wandering
through the mazes of silver mind in Chicago.
bound In thought His candid and learned
work. Coins Financial School," was scattered
over the West and South; acres OF It were put
into circulation; It became nearly as cheap as
the irredeemablo paper money Of which some OF
the most advanced thinkers in the Populist
party dream. 1t won praise even from such
leading economists and Hnanciors as tho
Hon. HEs LUNo, tho Hon. PorTsEY GRUBBs
and the Hon ToBE SoRUroHINs, and was even
highly recommended by Mr.. HARVEY himself,
who made himself master Of the subject while
riding from Detroit to Chicago. Are there no
hopors for the Hon. OoIN HARvETf Docs no.
body nominate him on ticket with the Hon.
SILVER BRICK BLAND or soms other silver
philosopher7
The sun., 1896-07-07
TEE LARsEsr WAFER LOCKS.
Great Inprovenents IN the 0toanshiu
Basins at Brenerhaven.

nobInb NJ DFchernoVeo.
From. the ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
Next fall tho new imperial harbor Of Bremer-
haven will be opened to the public. and q work
will then have been completed which must be
counted among the most important of its kind.
The new harbor has been in course Of construc-
tion since 1892. 1t will be protected from all
sides by very strong levees against tho frequent
high flood tides OF the North Sea. and will con-
tain three large basins, which will be open dur
inE ordinary high tides while at ebb tide theen-
tire complex system of basins and passages will
s!ons of steamships are continually growing.
and the largest steamship of the North German
Lloyd mn must Be able TO , enter the new har5or. the
The former inner harbor at this poiut was
greatly increased in size and q new entrance
built dixie over three-Quarters of . mile long.
the largest lock SO far constructed. This lock
Weser River is lower than the depth Of water
to be maintained in the harbor. Whom
hs set Being ,hrtS
sIsht S feet p siEh , the largest in the world:
700 feet, and at ordinary high tide there 10 a
depth OF OF water OF thirty-three feeS The eates
Fess of Weny soS s;
cemented to the ground. The building of these
structures which took place under very favor
well. considering that Is one Of the most DIM
cult technical problems
tho length OF the piles varying from so to 70
feet. Most of the construction work was car.
ried on during the ebb tide. recurring twice
every twenty-four hours SO that only four hours
n day could he employed at that work. and that
only in favorable weather. What an immense
amount OF work was necessary to con-
strnct this hnrbor is evident from The follow
ing figures: Twenty thousand piles were sunk
for foundation, 45.0o0,00o. cubic feet OF soil
had To be taken away on dry ground and 40
much more dredged out by the Immense dredaes
formerly used in the construction of tho North
sea. Baltic Canal. AT the entrance OF the har Dor
to strengthen the dikes and hold the colossal
locks. An immense dry dock has been built
Immediately adjoining the har Dor, which will
accommodate the largest vessels or the world.
Its dimensions being Identical with that of the
lock at the entrance of the harbor.
The sun., 1896-07-07

Our esteemed contemporary, the Memphis
Commercial Appeal attempted to register some
undoubtedly important political utteranoes of
the Hon. BUCK HINRIcHBEN, the man-of- all
work Of the Hon. JOHN PARDON ALronLp, and
this 10 how 1t broke down and porishod in the
attempts
-f s1snicmfwyp shrdlu etsotn shrdiu M"
Tho Hon. BUCK HrnnroHGnN 10 q statesman Of
the largest folio sise, but no man, however es-
timablo his character and brilliant his genius,
can swallow sixteen silver dollars minute and
talk TO . reporter at tho saIne time.
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The Hon. BABE BAILEY, the young Texas

The Hon. BABE BAILEY, the young Texas
statesman. who wears q large silver dollar as o
collar button, 10 occupying considerable space.
including two hotels in Chicago, and is sure to
mako himself heard, II he speaks. As constitu-
tionel shyness prevents him from keeping silent
for moro than fifteen minutes q day, during
which interval ho thinks, sleeps. or reads his
speeches. he speaks often. The moment that
tho crowd catches tho CLEAN of his collar but
ton, such shout will arise as never yet has
smitten tho heaven in tho neck and made tho
stars SEQ themselves Majestic, radiating in
tolect from his eye and light from his collar
button, tho Hon. BABE BAILEY will glide down
the aisle; and gigantic Texans in the galleries
will hug ono another and tho largo tears will
spout from their eyes until tho feet OF tho lordly
assistautsof of the Sergeant-at-Arms are soaked
A great day for tho worshippers OF the Lone Star.
The sun., 1896-07-07
Stability or tho Hawaiian Republic.

To THE EDITOR TnE sun SIR; have just read
your editorial In to-day's suS, headed "a New Ameri
can RoyalsL" spent an entire winter In Honolulu
since tho overthrow Of the royal Government. had
no part whatever In politics there, having been Wis
itor merely. But know, as everybody there knows,
thar thers about ms much chance for tho Icstora
tOn OF tho Hawaiian monarchy nA thefs is for the
restoration OF tho hItisA monarchy In what is pow
the tnitch Statek, Tho present republican Govern
ment there Is backed 10y all the commercial imam
cIl. educational, AMI moral interests OF the Islands
TnrTe II nothing the other side that IA worth any
tniny q, counts Tor ANYTHING IN Western industral
JuLY o, 1895. O.. AKERA