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The City's Gold Threes.

Comptroller FITCH opened bids on Thurs
day for about 81, OUo, 900 Of the city's three
per cent. gold bonds, and he is described as ex-
pressing a good deal of disappointment ut
the paltry amount of the bids, less than
5000, 900 in all. We do not think that the
Comptroller, upon due reflection, should be
surprised or disappointed. The Government
has just taken about 500, 900. 900 out Of
the money market, and its bonds are now
pressed for sale at a price which makes
the city's gold threes compare unfavorably
with them. Then, again, the condition of
things has not in a long time been such
as would warrant a repetition of the salts
factory issues of the city's credit which
have heretofore been made.
The time may come, however. when the
Comptroller need not be surprised If he
fails to get a single bid for a like issue or
even for IN issue bearing a much higher
rate Of interest. That will be when the
various schemes now actively promoted for
the increase OF the public debt are carried
to a successful end. Thu underground rapid
transit project alone would produce such a
result, to say nothing Of countless other
agencies, among which not the least is the
present system Of reform in the city's run
ming expenses. And of this last it will not
do to underestimate the potency. In one
year it has added $4,000, 900 to the annual
burden of the taxpayers, and has at the
same time exhibited a distinctly cumulative
tendency that may we'll cause grave con-
Germ to every thoughtful citizen.
Nevertheless, we Mould think that Comp
troller FITCH would presently find his loan
marketable at par, perhaps not all at once,
but gradually. Indeed. we have little doubt
that IL he will authorize us to make public
his willingness to SO dispose of it, it will
be taken without much delay.
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President. The other conceivable motive
would be to promote the cause Of silver,
that is to say, OF the double standard as
against the single or gold standard. Mr..
CHANDELIERS predictions are supposed TO
be for silver. and recent events show
that in this respect he represents a con-
siderable body Of the Republicans of
New Hampshire. Now, the obvious pol
icy OF the Senator, either as an aspirant for
the nomination for Vice President on the
ticket along with a Western man. or as a
silver or s~ilvcrish statesman, would be to
attach himself frankly and openly to the
MCKINLEY boom. Yet, since McKiN-
LEY began to loom portentous over
the Western horizon, Mr.. CHANDLER
has neglected no opportunity to ex-
asperate and a~ntagonize the friends
of the Ohio man. Nobody else in the
United States has spoken so severely of the
methods adopted by McKINLEY's managers.
Nobody has drawn upon himself so com
pletely the wrath Of the whole Western con-
tingent. The extent to which Mr.. CHAND-
LER has provoked even the MCKINLEY and
pro-silver men in his own State of New
Hampshire appears clearly in the bitter let
ter addressed to him since the Convention
by the Hon. HENRY M. PUTNEY OF Man
chester, the leader Of the McKinleyites and
bimetallists of the Granite State.
Even IL it were supposable that Mr..
CHANDLER Is scamp enough to play the
false friend to REED of Maine with a view
to furthering his own ambition or of help
ing along silver, it is not supposable that
he is fool enough to adopt the very means
surest to defeat his purpose. Many harsh
and generally unjust estimates of Senator
CHANDLER have been expressed from time
to time by those who have felt the sting Of
his tongue; but we don't believe his worst
enemy considers him n fool.
How much simpler and more satisfactory
to adopt the explanation which the facts
plainly suggest II Mr.. CHANDLER ever
entertained the ambition to be Vice-Presi-
dent, it was cheerrully laid aside long ngo
for the sake of New England and New Eng
lands candidate for President. His finan-
cial opinions he is ready to subordinate
to the prevailing sentimento of his part OF the
country. He is Loyalty and truly for REED
and against MCKINLEY up to the time when
the st. Louis Convention shall name the
ticket; but at Concord the other day he en-
countered unforeseen conditions of a serious
and surprising nature, n got a little
tangled up on the question of tactical man
agement; and since then he has said and
people injudicious, but which are in no
sense discreditable to him as a loyal friend
or a man of honor.
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tender for debts, public and private, redeemsbie in
coin. II that is what the people NJ this country want,
they can have II by a vote concurrlng N the recon.
and Measures TO non.concur in the senate amend
ore''fonai Record, FIRST session. Fifty. FIRST Congress.
d. H,i47.l
Mr.. McKinley's real position Mt this time,
however, Ia known only TO those who acted with
him In the Republican caucus and In the meet
ihgs Of the advisory committee Of fifteen by
which the Conger bill was framed. In the eau
Gus he urged further concessions to tho free
coinage men, but his proposition was ovcrruled.
The advisory committee OF fifteen was ap-
pointed by the caucus and comprised tho eight
Republican members OF tho Committee on Coin
age, Weights, and Measures, together with
seven other Republican leaders, among whom
was Mr.. Mckinley. This committee held many
sessions, and there was a fierce struggle between
the more earnest friends of free silver and those
who were determined to give the free coinage
sentimenG as little encouragement as possible.
Just what Mr.. Mckinley did or proposed in
that committee. Just how consistent he was with
himself from day ~ day. Just how much re-
lance was placed upon him by the friends OF a
stable currency, cannot now be told. The lips
of every member OF the are sealed.
One OF them has said: II will never toll what
Mr.. Mckinley said or did in the advisory COM
mitteo, at least not until after the election for
President. l am too good a Republican for
that"
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They are capable OF doing anything In
Ohio, and they have done It. There is a man
named FosDIcK in that retiring State. His Is
the name which will bruise Its heels against oil
the corners of all the ages in his unhappy quest
for glory. He is the man who, not recognizing
the limit set by nature to the power of man.
and therefore essential TO the modesty Of man,
has written and had passed through the Ohio
Legislature a preposterous bill preventing wo-
men at the theatres from wearing hats as
monumental as they choose.
Poor FosDICKl In all other respects SOLOMON
may be an idiot compared with him. and all the
saReness of the Seven Wise Masters may be a
baby book by the side of tho quintessential
sapience that seethes within his burning brain.
But FosDICK has made n mistake. 1t Is no
business of his though the women Of Ohio
should choose to decorate their lovely heads
with bonnets that outclass the Great Pyramids
or hang higher than the hanging gardens OF
Babylon. IL the women of Ohio choose to wear
hats Of that kind, they will wear hats Of that
kind; and the philosopher will no more think Of
making any practical opposition to the decision
Of these irrefragable judges than he would or
turning the laws of gravity into the laws Of
humor. or setting up the Hon. JOSEPH BENSON
A as the supreme sage of the universe
and Ohio.
The women of Ohio or of any other place have
an inalienable right to wear what sort OF hats
they please; and they will DO allowed to.
whether they have that right or not, and
though all the FosDIcKs In the world should sit
up through all the nights Of all time de-
vising idiot sumptuary regulations.
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should discriminate against reprints OF back
numbers. and against any newspaper or
periodical that changes it's frequency OF
issue, and that these shall pay book rates OF
postage when they are carried In the mail.
There is nothing whatever in the law to
Justify this ruling, and until 1t was promul-
gated no suggestion was ever made OF any
illegallty in the mailing Of periodicals by
publishers in the ordinary way Of business.
The law is absolutely silent as to what num-
bers and what editions shall be entitled to
the rates applicable to periodicals., and 80
long as the simple and explicit provisions OF
the law defining a periodical have been com
piled with, the Post Office is authorized by
Congress to transmit it to subscribers and
newsdealers at the pound rate Of postage.
The Postmaster General should at once re-
lieve the public mind and the publishing
interests Of the country by suspending in
definitely this extraordinary exploit Of Post
Office ingenuity.
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Americans in Cuba.

Ordinarily there are between ten and
twelve thousand Americans resident in
Cuba, the greater part of them natives of
the United States and the others natural
lied citizens. A few Of them are own
ers of estates; many Of them are en-
gagged in business and m at the
larger seaports; a good number of them
are employed as engineers and otherwise by
railroad and manufacturing corporations;
some of them are engaged in skilled ndus-
tries; hundreds of them hold situations upon
sugar and tobacco plantations; and not a
few of them stay in the country for a part
Of the year because they like its climate.
Since the war began, perhaps half Of them
have left the island, because of the paralysis
of business, the destruction of plantations,
the danger to life, the existence of martial
law, and the turmoil which prevails every
where. To nearly all Of them life has been
disagreeable, because they were under Span
ish suspicion.
So far as has been made known. but a few
OF the Americans in Cuba, either native or
naturalized, have suffered at the hands of
Spain and each of the three men who have
held the Office of Captain-G General during the
waI. even the present incumbent OF that
Office, has expressed a willingness to listen
TO any complaints that might be made by
Consul General WILLIAMS on behalf of
Americans. The revolutionists have always
been especially gracious toward our coun-
trymen in Cuba, and have often given them
protection against Spanish marauders.
Some millions of dollars worth of American
property have been destroyed. partly by
reason of the fighting which has occurred
within the vicinity of 1t, and partly on
account Of the extension of the fires by
which Spanish estates have been devastated.
At times, when the Spanish excitement
against this country ran high, the Americans
In Cuba, even at Havana, have lived in ap-
prehension Of danger; but the authorities
have prevented any of the anti-Ameri-
can manifestations from passing into VIC
lence. The American flag has sometimes
been treated contumeliously in Cuba, as in
Spain; but 1t has not suffered much more,
either in Cuba or in Spain, than the Spanish
flag has suffered at the hands Of wild boys
or foolish men in a few of the outlying
parts OF this country, Spain may have had
the advantage in the flag business, but we
make no complaint Of that the American
flag is of philosophic temper.
Within the past two or three weeks, dur
ing which WLYLER has more vigorously en-
forced his DEGREES, n number of cases in
which American citizens in Cuba have suf-
fered serious wrongs have been made
known. We can mention the case of the
three FARRAR brothers, that OF DIR. DEL
eADo and his family, that of GoBEL, that
of DEsvERNINE, hat OF DYGART, that OF
6OMEILLAN, and, at an earlier date, that
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Of CEPERo; there are also other cases, the
facts OF which are difficult to procure. my
decrees," said wEYLER some days ago,
ARE binding upon American residents as
upon Spanish subjects, limited only by our
treaty obligations" Under these obliga-
lions, an accused American Is not subject to
court martial, and can demand n trial by
civil law but In nj case has such a trial
been held, 80 far as we are aware.
In the event Of the recognition Of Cuban
belligerency by this Government, the
Americans In Cuba will surely be In serious
danger, and we doubt whether the Captain
General will max any effort to protect
them. II il the bounden duty of the Amert-
can Government to provide for their pro-
lection, more especially in consideration Of
the threats that have repeatedly been made
against them.
Upon several occasions the Americans resi-
dent at Havana have expressed a desire that
an American wal ship shall be stationed
where IL can promptly offer them protection
in an emergency. The joint resolution
which senator CALL OF Florida introduced
into the Senate last Wednesday contained
this provision THAT an adequate naval
force OF the United States shall be immedi-
ately sent to Cuba for the purpose Of
protecting American citizens there, and In
order to prevent the violation of treaty obli-
cations" The resolution is one which
ought to be adopted without delay. It's
adoption and execution lie within our rights
under existing circumstances The carry
ing Of it out could not reasonably be re-
garded by Spain as a cause Of offence.
The first duty Of Congress is to put the
belligerency resolutions into the hands Of
the Executive. The duty of the Executive
is to see to it that Americans in Cuba are
s%afeguarded without violation of our treaty
with Spain. There is a serious response
bility upon President CLEVELAND.
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1t would be impolite not to greet the Hon.
CY. LELAND. the Kaw member of the Republican
National Committee, with the warmest of hearts
and the giaddest of glad hands. He is a poet and
a patriot and a thinker and an enthusiast. and
laden to the gunwale with imagination and with
hope. The Hon. Moses PATULUs HANDY. full Of
disappointed whiskers, will now nave to step over
them and occupy for a moment a more removed
ground on the stage. The trouble with HANDY
is that he Is . pessimist. He Is not sanguine
enough. The Hon. CY. LELAND Is a prophet
whose blood tingles with richer expectations.
The Hon. CY. LELAND says that Mr.. MCKINLEY
will be the only man whose name will be con-
sidered by the National Republican Convention:
that Mr.. MCKISLEY will be nominated by &C
clamation. In spite OF all this blushing divina-
ton. the Hon. CY. LELAND asks no reward for
himself. MCKINLEY does not want me for
the Chairmanship," says he, "and l am not
seeking the place. The man for the place
is HANNA of Ohio" To the Hon. CY.
LELAND Of the Kaw not merely one glad
hand. but two glad hands, and glad hands
ali round in one equal knot OF Joy. The man
who not only believes that Mr.. MCKINLEY will
be nominated by reclamation. but that there Is
known to the voting lists and directories OF men
such a person as HANNA OF Ohio" sits already
In the best reserved seat OF renown. The Hon.
dent or something equally as bad.
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Mr.. HARRIS of Tennessee, no relative of
Mrs. Harris, but n real and live person. and
lately the principal competitor of the Hon.
ROBERT LIGHTsoME TAYLOR. the musical man
DARN, who is again a candidate for the Dem
ocratio nomination for Governor OF Tonnes
see, has withdrawn from the competition, II
competition there was. and all the rivers and
the eternal hills are playing tunesof Joy twenty
seven hours a day. From under the earth in
visible strings are heard twanging and thrill
ing with inetfable melodies; and overhead tho
sunbeams and the rainbows squeak and gigGle
tremendously. TIT Hon. RoBERT LIGHTsoME
TAYLOR is a candidate who cannot be beaten.
Once or twice In the history OF the world there
may have been greater men. but there never
was and probably never will be another man
who can touch SO many hearts In Tennessee
with the magic of his bow and the sweet en-
chantmcnt OF his fiddle. Though technically a
Democrat, no must be regarded as the candidate
Of good feeling. and he seems 10 be feeling par
~ticularly well, as does everybody else in the
State. with the possible exception OF the Hon.
HENRY IL EVANS.
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Our esteemed contemporary, the st. Paul
Pioneer Press. is deeply conscious of the educa-
tional value Of the reindeer to the struggling
Indians Of Alaska. The Commissioner Of Edu-
cation could not have a higher idea OF the ne
cessity of the reindeer to the necessities of the
Alaskan. IAN animal that can draw a sled
ninety miles a day." says this gopher enthusi-
asst, and live on the moss that grows under the
snow is obviously the solution Of the transit
problem for a country like Alaska"
The hearts and hopes of every thoughtful
American are interested in the solution of the
rapid transit problem in Alaska 1t may not be
wholly clear, however. why the Alaskan is
anxious to travel ninety miles a day. The moss
might be made into excellent puddings. as we'll
as sacrificed TO reindeer. In fact, II would be
much cheaper and at least as easy for the Gov
ernment to educate the natives in the uses of
ice cream. Who can tell how soon the sporting
and gambling propensities Of the natives might
be aroused by the cultivation of reindeer? The
mountain goat, the tame polar bear. the ice yacht,
the water bicycle, the snowshoe, and various
to be cheaper and less liable to regrettable
misuse than the reindeer: and the moss in
Alaska is altogether too valuable to be put upon
the bill OF fare OF reindeer. That moss and all
the rest of the moss in the world can now be
heard growing and should be allowed to con-
tinue to grow over the relics of the boom of the
Hon. RUSSELL ALGER.
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stupidity In tho Post once.

Stupidity on the part of the Post Office
officials is not a novelty that calls for any
extended notice, but recently a ruling has
been promulgated by the department that
transcends the ordinary violations of reason
and custom for which the public is prepared.
For "A period of a quarter of a century
newspapers and periodicals have been car
ried in the United States mail, whether of
current date OF back numbers, or reprints of
back numbers, regardless Of their frequency
OF issue, as second class mail matter at the
pound rate Of postage.
Postmaster General WILSON'S new ruling
determines that this is all wrong, that
the law intended that the Post Once
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PooR LITTLE LANE or sUMMrn
How His Years or Idoiatrous Zeal Have
Hcen Rewarded by Cleveland,

ANNH Nv NNeNeInnus
To THE EprroR or THE suN-Str: A speci.
men example Of tho petty spite NJ the Admins.
tration Ia the dismissal nj Thomas +. Lane OF
Summit. Nj, from nm 81, 300 office in the Treas
ury Department. for going to Kentucky to help
his father.in-lnw. Senator blackburn, in the re-
cent attempts to elect n Senator.
Lane was recently tho editor OF two newspa-
pers In New Jersey. For years ho has been a
rampant Cleveland idolater and a "hands-ali
around" shouter whcnever the Mugwump band
OF l~unatics struck up n march toward the bed
lamite bog OF IOpullsm, wherein many foolish
Democrats are cropping.
The story OF the vtndication Of the presidsnt's
theory OF the conduct OF civil servants ms illus
trnted In the case of Mr.. Lane is as follows,
When Joe Black burn wa1 making ready tn
GO to Kentucky to fight for q reelection. his true
friends told him to purge himself Of the free
coinage nonsense, and he would win. But
version. from free coinage" was regarded in
Kentucky a. very like the conversion Of a MALE
factor on the gnllows. refused to 90 back on free
coinage. In consequence thereof. the v isest and
best among hi, friends IN the commercial ranks
were obliged to work against him. Now, wien
lucky, Mr., Lane secured sixty days leave Of
absence and went to Europe. When the KEN
lucky contest was hottest II II said that MIR.
Lane, like n good and loyal aon-in-law. decided
to go to Kentucky and take a hand in the shindy,
A. Democrat Of long experience ad vised a friend
OF Lanes to keep Lane away from Kentucky.
Tho advice was not followed. Lane went 10
Frank fort. and OFT rolled his head In the Carlisle
basket. Meanwhile. the cause OF reform goes
merrily on. Conservation is sick with In grippe,
WASHINGTON, April 2.
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Truth Abou. the British Navy.

From the 81. Jdmes's Gazette.
The intelligent foreign critic who writes in the
Reuue de Puris about the British navy has certainly
hit upon two of our weak spots. He asserts that the
equilibrium between the mdftriei and the personnel
no longer exists, - In other words, that W have not
enough men for the ships. That is just what we have
ourselves had to point out While the Government is
building new ships which will require Il. 900 men to
man them. II only provides for 1900. In the second
place. this French observer has not been deceived
any more than the German Journalists about the
hitting out of the Flying Squadron. II took us a fort
night, Instead OF forty eight hours, to get these half
dozen vessels ready for sea, and they have been re-.
turning to the docks one by one ever since for repairs.
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We know nothing about the writer OF the subjoined
letter. He may be a Christian, a pagan. or a Turk.
but. from pure love OF sport, we will give him a free
advertisement:
Occult SCIENCE, HYrSoTIsM, AND MUsIc,(
CARNEGIE MusIC HALL, NEW YoRK.
permanently cure the worst cases of inebrlety by
hypnotic suggestion.
Inerer jail Respectfully,
FRANK HARRISON.
was formerly a Journalist and editor in a small
wav.
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senior Jose de Armas Justo de Sara has issued
the nrst number OF a weekly pamphlet IN Spanish dc.
voted 10 the cause OF Cuba. Las Arispas (Ths Wasus,
Il its title. sehoT ArmAs published Las Autspds nrst
in Havana In 1874, aud Il prepared public oplniOa for
the actual revolution
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An low. Estimate or P.rIhur...

From the Creston Gazette.
There Is a class OF political "reformers' who take
advantage OF the natural eructations OF the body
polite to purge itself of abuses which grow so Justify
during the intervals OF calm to thrust themselves
upon the attention OF the public. In this connection
a few words OF comment are indulge In with respect
to the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst OF New York.
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Twin brother. Wed Twin sisters.

From The IfftsburOh Dtspdfch.
WOOSTER, o., March 3O.-A remarkable double wed.
ding took place last evening at the residence OF
Mrs. Repp in Medina county. The contracting par,
ties were Vernon r. Stair OF Burbank ami Irene V.
Repp and vertal II. Stair and Idina V. Repp. The
grooms arc twin brothers aud the brides twin sis.
ters.
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from me Fopui.st Platform Of Oregon.
iemanl the free and unlimited coinage Of
gold aud silver at the ratio n rs to l. without wait
lug Tor tnc consent ~ any other nation"
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Not - Failure.

IRON Tos0n Topics
Marie-I married my husband to get rid Of him.
Estella-And did you succeed
Marie-oh, yes, After the nrst six months | only
saw him after 9 A. NJ. and for an hour or two on
Sundays.
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TTWW Wf TNNHOH duttITIsFT.
There are 400 empty stores In Toronto sn,cn
latlvc boom, whether In land or brick and lime. is a.
ways demoralIslng, Toronto and the Northwest ar.
both in cVldrn1e,
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SEEKING the Opportunity.


TTNW IW"N Topics.
Cluhleigh-I understand you are going TO marry
your typewriter
B~rokerly-Thats right! She's the only woman l
ever found that | could dictate tot
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Ono E~,rav"GDnt ana Ono Prua.u, Man

Prom me- hnHsds CnU Times.
A Clay county man heat his mule and was nned S3i
and costs Another brute In tho same county heal mis-
wife aud was fined 81.
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IIs Throws IIImssII Away.

iron. the AfchisJH Lady Giobs.
We never knew a mother who was not sorry for her
married son.