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The Dickinson press., 1896-02-29

Mistress Jane, widow of Cuthbert
Fenwick, Of Fenwick Manor. legislator,
councillor, commissioner, died in 1860,
leaving a will through which we catch
glimpses of the wardrobe and toilet Of
a colonial lady of the period. To her
stepdaughter, Teresa, she leaves the
little bed, the mohair rug and the yell
low curtains, besides her taffeta suit
and her serge coat, all her fine linen,
her hoods and scarfs except the great
one" and her three petticoats-the
tufted Holland one, the new serge and
the spangled one. TO her own three
boys she gives that great scarf" and
all her jewels, plate aud rings, except
her wedding ring, which goes to Teresa,
and to each a bed and q pair of cotton
sheets. To her step-sons, Cnthbert and
Ignatius an ell Of taffeta; to her negro
maid, Dorothy, her red cotton coat;
and to Esther, the new maid, all the
linen Of the coarser sort. To Thomas,
the Indian, two pairs Of shoes and q
match coat, and to Thomas mother
three yards of cotton. To the Rev.
Francis Fitzherbert, n hogshead of to-
bacco annually for five years; and to
her slave, William, his freedom, pro-
vided he pay a hogshead every year to
the church; and to the church, the same
william, ito be a slave forever IL he
shall ever leave her communion" for,
had not her beloved brother, William
Eltonhead, and many Of her dearest
friends, died by the bloody fangs of
Puritan wolves T'-Century.
The Dickinson press., 1896-02-29
Heating Railway Travellers in
Europe.

The way in which travellers are
brought to a comfortable degree Of
heat in European railway cars is from
the feet upward. The traveller, in fact,
has to be warmed instead of the car.
The absurdity Of the inversion Of the
common-sense process strikes the
American quite as much as its incon-
venience and inetiiciency; but the ma
tives take it as a matter Of course that
the only way to keep a man from
freezing In a railway car is to give
him a foot-warmer. An English paper
complains that the Anticipated and
troublesome system Of warming with
water pans is still employed, especially
on local and suburban lines, while on
the other side of the channel the
French are becoming actually scien-
tiic in their car-heating methods. 1t
appears that an innovation has been
introduced on many Of the French
lines to the great satisfaction Of the
travelling public. 1t has been found
that hydrated baryta is a better re
tainer of heat than the acetate of soda
| ulluCllV OlAPAlJ Gu ~ ~ LuCl6
Of railway trains and omnibusses on
the continent. The acetate of soda
can be supervised and remain liquid
at a lower temperature than Its fusing
point, without rendering back its heat;
but the baryta never misbehaves in
this way, and weight for weight with
the acetate of soda, it stores up q
larger quantity of heat. Its point Of
fusion Is, moreover, higher Than that
Of the acetate of soda. The difference
In the power Of retaining heat between
the English hot water pan and the new
French foot-warmer is shown by the
fact that whereas a warmer containing
water cooled from 100 degrees to so
degrees Fahr., in about six hours, the
Migrated baryta pan took fifteen
hours. In other words, the baryta pan
remains hot twice the time that the
water pan does. The pan Is simply
filed with the baryta once for all and
then sealed alright. 1t is heated by
plunging it in boiling water for a time
and is then ready for use.
The Dickinson press., 1896-02-29

Bulgaria was formerly .volgarh, %
from the Volsci hhabiHng It
The Dickinson press., 1896-02-29
Used O.Iy Il Transit.

what have you got rubbers on for
this fine, dry day2"
Il ride into the city In Q smoking
car."-Chicago Record.
The Dickinson press., 1896-02-29

a coroner's jury at Centsrvtlle. Iowa,
The sun., 1896-10-31
Our NayaI Ordnance.

The remarkable work accomplished for
the armor and armament of our warships
by Commander FoLGER during his term of
duty as Chief Of Ordnance has been worthily
followed up by his successor, Capt. SAMP-
SON. AS under the former our American
ship plates became the best in the world, so
the latter feels, as his current annual report
would indicate, that, thanks to recent i'm
provements, American naval guns, includ-
ing their carriages, powder, and projectiles,
may now be declared superior to any others.
In this matter. as in many relating to
army and navy affairs. foreign nations sur
pass us In quantity of material, but not in
quality; they overwhelm us with numbers,
under their systems Of enormous military
and naval establishments, but they can
come to school to us for ingenious and eff
fective mechanisms, and for brilliant
trumphs on the proving ground.
Thanks to the liberalityo Of Congress at it's
last session, and to the energy and skill
with which It's appropriations have been
used. the gun supplies for our navy are now
abundant. Not only have the ships of
the regular navy been provided for in ad-
vance, but the auxiliary cruisers, to be
drawn at need from the merchant service,
have batteries In course of construction for
them. Within year there will be hun
dred guns ready for such merchantmen,
now numbering 81, besides many reserve
guns for the regular navy.
The ordnance trials at Indian Head have
made that proving ground renowned the
world over, and caused their results to be
approvingly compared with those of Shoe
buryness. Portsmouth, and Spezia. and of
Gavres, Meppen, Amager, Pola and Ochta
If high praise has been awarded to our
guns, the still higher compliment has been
paid to our Harveyed armor OF adoption
in England, in preference to the TREsIDDER,
and also on the European Continent, while
the long famous HoLTZER shells, which q
few years ago were regarded as the acme of
possible excellence, have been outdone by
American projectiles. We were long be-
hind other countries in smokeless powders,
but now even in this particular are coming
to the front rank, and the delay seems to
have been due largely to the high standard
of quality insisted upon.
American naval ordnance was famous in
the war of 1919, and again, through the
monitors, in the civil war, while now once
The sun., 1896-10-31

Extreme CONSERVATION prevails among
the Republicans of Philadelphia, and with good
reason. DIRFENDERFER, the immortal DIFF
FENDERFER, Secretary of the national silver
party, has gone to Philadelphia and begun
making speeches. The time is short, but
DIPFENDERFER is sufficiently long and DIFF
fusive, and he may work wonders to-day
and on Monday. DIFFENDERFER has re-
solved to carry Philadelphia for BRYAN.
After studying carefully the map Of the United
States he has decided that the most promising
opening for a free.silver orator is to be found
in the Schuylkill. Tremendous results may be
expected. Examine the returns from Philadel-
phia very carefully next Wednesday morning.
Tho work of q man like DIFFENDERFER always
rewards examination.
The sun., 1896-10-31

Lutte principle. the risk should not pre-
vent the voter from taking that course with
care and intelligence. But at this election
there is only the single Issue OF Reputation
in which is involved n question OF principle.
That principle requires the election of Nc
KINLEY; that is to sny, it can only be made
triumphant by his election and by the cleo
tion of candidates for Congress who are
sure to vote against Reputation. Their
party names are nothing; how they will
vote Is everything.
The great duty OF Democrats, so far rs
concerns candidates for State Offices purely,
is to vindicate their party's honor, and wipe
out the disgrace from It's name by defeatin Z
every candidate who took a nomination
from Organized convention. The work OF
the election will not be complete unless that
is done; and practically, as every man of
common sense knows, 1t can only be ac-
complished, under the circumstances, by
the return of the candidates in the NC
KrNLEY and HOBART column. In every
Congress district, especially, the whole
honest vote should be united on single
candidate for Congress who Is indubitably
against Reputation.
Don't complicate the issue. Don't risk
the validity Of your vote for MCKINLEY.
Don't waste your powder. Keep your eyes
on the single mark. Beat BRYAN and Re
pudiation. That will be glory enough for
one day; and you can win Ill
The sun., 1896-10-31

The list Of the business houses which are
to take part in tho great patriotic parade to-
day occupies almost nine columns of The
Sun. All branches of industry. trade.
and commerce arc represented. Tho list
is almost a directory of the business
of New York. Employers and employed. the
men who make tho commercial activity Of
this city and dlffuse that activity over
the country. will march to-day in tes-
timony of their belief in an honest
currency without which there can be neither
commercial security nor permanent prosperity.
There has been no such unanimity among the
business men OF New York since the war. There
has never been in New York or elsewhere
q more imposing demonstration of the opinion
OF business men. 1t is demonstration beyond
politics. II is the merging Of partisan views in
a general patriotic sentiment 1t is the pro-
test OF men who know tho high value
OF commercial honor against Reputation.
1t is the voice of this commercial capital, voting
No to the schemes OF the swindlers and the
brewers OF panic and disorder.
The sun., 1896-10-31
Keep Your Eye on the Single Mark

We published few days ago an official
statement of the returns Of defective bal
lots at the election of last year. They
amounted to nearly nineteen thousand in
the State and to more than ten thousand in
this city alone, although they were farfrom
complete. since many Of the counties made
no such returns.
This great loss of voves should serve as
warning for all citizens to make absolutely
sure next Tuesday that they are casting bal
lots which will be counted for the candidates
for whom they intend to vote. 1t should
discourage all unnecessary scratching, for
it is in splitting tickets that the risk Of null
lifying the ballot is involved.
In truth, and fortunately, there is less in
ducement to the splitting OF tickets at this
election than ever before in the history of
our politics The issue is between honesty
and Reputation, social order and social
revolution, and each side has it's representa-
tive. 1t Is solely between MCKINLEY and
BRYAN, and there Is no side issue to distract
the attention of the people. Every opponent
of Reputation knows that he must vote the
MCKINLEY and HOBART ticket or throw his
vote away, SO far as the result of this election
Is concerned.
This accordingly simpliies the question
OF the use of the official ballot. The voter
has only to mark the ring under the eagle
of the MCKINLEY and HOBART ticket If
he does no more, he votes for all the candi-
dates in that column; and, under the cir
cumstances, Is not that the best way for
him to voter
OF course, he cannot vote for a single can
didate in the star OF BRYAN and SEwALL
column. They are all, from top to bottom,
put up in the interests of Reputation.
Every one of them must be defeated as men
who have brought disgrace on the Demo
cratic name, by consenting to be associated
with that vile cause. That Is another very
simple duty for the voter
The PALMER and BUCKNER column con-
tains a ticket of which, of course, the cleo
ton is utterly impossible. A vote for it
will be a vote thrown away, as everybody
knows. 1t stands no more chance of being
elected than does the Prohibition ticket
The candidates for State offices upon it are
good men, and under other circumstances
it would be the duty OF all Democrats to
vote for them; but at this election, when
Bryanism is In control of the regular
Democratic organization, vote for
them will be utterly useless. 1t will
be worse than useless, for the possible ap.
gregate poll for those candidates will be so
small as compared with the Reputation
vote that it will serve only to make more
impressive the apparent preponderance of
the other in the Democratic party.
Moreover, to vote for MCKINLEY and
HOBART, the first and imperative necessity,
and also to vote vainly for the State candi-
dates and the Congress candidates in the
PALMER and BUCKNER column, will in
volve the marking of the ballot with
the consequent danger of invalldation.
II the splitting was required by abso-
The sun., 1896-10-31
Foreign Notes OF Rea, Inte-est.

DR.. Temple, appointed Bishop of London
by Mr. Gladstone is the nf,h Bishop OF Lon.
don translated TO Canter bury since the death OF
Archbishop Laud. He is 7o years of age. only two
Bishops Ryle OF Liverpool and Eilicott OF Glouces
ter ana Bristol. being older than he.
AT tina Theatre Salon, ''the first OF the single
performance entertainments to open this season IN
Paris the show consisted OF the recitation OF
ballads OF low life, with living pictures as Illus
tratons All the songs were indecentiy amblsu
ons, while the pictures were not ambiguous all,
providing the exhibition OF woman's underwear
now common to the variety stage. Tho show
presented US parlor entertainment.
Italy is about TO publish at the Government cS.
pense Photographic reproduction of the manu-
script "f Justinian's "Pandects" now preserved IN
the Florence library. The Florence is the
Oldest and most correct have OF the great colo
OF Roman law. 1t is OF the sixth seventh cen
tury. at least, and may perhaps have been writ.
ten as early as Justnian's own time.
Enaiands Royal Marine Corps is TO be Increased by
1900 men, who are To be substi uted for the army
contingents that form the garrisous OF British
strongholds out OF Europe. such as Halifax. ioHg
Kong. Bermuda. SC. Helena, and Alden. TIc iiaA
seems To have sprung from the recent growth II
the French lnfanterie dc Marine and colonial
army The result OF the change would be 70 pas
the military control OF these places entirely IN tho
hands OF the Navy Department
An unused pair OF Barbados Postage stan ps, one
penhy ana nVa shillings, was sold for S52j IN Lon
don recently; n pair OF Nevis sixpenny stamps for
sl+g and one shilling, yellow green for sNDi
Cape OF Go'd Hope red fourpenny, error, dam
aged. for sl2O; Reunion 3Ocent, frst issue un
useu. Tor V3AO; a Canada seven and half penn,
green, for S77i a pair OF teppenny blue, for sljs
ana pair or sixpennJ stamps for sl47 tnii"h
S'A"s w cent Oluo stamp of the issue OF 47p'
brought sal, and a Zurich four rappen soo,
Anton bruckner, the musical composer died 49,
The sun., 1896-10-31
A1b.ny,s Centennial Celebration.

Governor MORTON has appointed four
Commissioners to supervise and conduct the
celebration of the one hundredth anniversary
of the establishment of our State capital
at Albany. This celebration will tnke place
in January next and the always festive and
sometimes bustling town will be even moro
enlivened than usual.
During the colonial period, New York city
was the capital Of the State, though occa-
sional sessions of the Colonial Assembly
were held at Jamaica, on Long Island. The
occupancy of New York during the Revo-
luton by the English troops compelled
the Legislature to meet at towns In the
Hudson River Valley. The first ses-
sion OF the Continental Assembly, that
held in 1777 at Kingston, was dis
persed by the approach Of detachment Of
British soldiers. The next meeting place
was Poughkeepsie. In 1879 Kingston was
tried again. and then Albany. In 1871
Poughkeepsie was the State capital. In
1884, following the evacuation Of this city
by the British troops the year before, New
York was again the capital, and continued
to be such until 1888, when it returned to
Poughkeepsie. The year following and for
two years the meeting place was Albany,
then again New York, then Albany again,
and after sundry changes on Jan. 3, 1897,
the anniversary which the Commissioners
appointed by Governor MORTON are to cele-
brate, the Legislature established itself
permanently and lawfully at the Stadt
Huys, at the corner of Broadway and Iud-
son avenue, in Albany. From that time
until now Albany has been the capital of
the State.
Albany has the distinction of age to qualify
it as the State capital. With the single eX-
ception of Jamestown, Albany is the
oldest town in the United States. 1t
was incorporated as village in April 1852,
and it remained village officially until the
22d of July, 1886, when it became n city, or
at least was called city, and was
endowed with the benefits which come
from a charter. Such Is the official record
of Albany's longtime prominence, but there
are histor ians within it's borders who date
earlier the establishment of the present
New York capital as a village, declaring
that before 1862 it was recognized AS dis
tinct community in proclamation from
the King of Holland, though no copy Of
this proclamation has been preserved.
1t is not, however, to celebrate the antiq-
uity Of Albany as settlement that Governor
MORTON has appointed the four Commits
sioners but simply to celebrate its estab-
lishment as the capital of New York. The
Legislature has appropriated $4,000 for the
festivities, which will begin at noon on Jan.
3; and the city of Albany has been author
lied by statute to expend SIS, 900 additional.
One of the Commissioners is a lineal de-
scendant of Governor JAY, elected in 1895.
Another is descendant of Lieutenant-Gov-
ernOr VAN RENSSELAER,, who was elected in
the same year The two remaining Com
missioners represent the two branches of
the Legislature, Senate and Assembly; and
q unique addition to the working force of
the celebration WAS provided by the Legisla-
turc in the person OF Mr.. JOHN BOYD
TEACHER
The sun., 1896-10-31
The Great Patriotic Parade.

Broadway 10 one long line Of MCKINLEY
and HOBART flags. The procession which
will march under them to-day will be the
greatest political demonstration that New
York has ever seen. but 1t will not be q Nc
KINLEY demonstration. 1t will be some
thing moro imposing and majestic than a
parade in honor Of any party or man.
1t will be an army OF patriotic Ameri-
cans, Republicans Democrats, Mugwumps,
high tariff men, free traders, tariff-for-rev-
enue-only mon, civil service reformers, be-
lievers in the doctrine that to the victor be-
long the spoils. They are united by no
common beliefs, political or economic
They are united only by their COM
mon conviction that misfortune, disgrace,
and peril threaten the United States. and
that it Is their duty, as patriots, to vote for
MCKINLEY and HOBART. not as Repub-
hcans, not rs advocates Of a protective
tariff, but rs advocates Of the national
honor, Of an undebased currency, of the In
tegrity of the Supreme Court, and of the
right Of the Government TO enforce tho
laws of the United States.
MCKINLEY and the Republican party ara
but the instruments whereby the American
people protects and vindicates itself, and
crushes the thieves and the traitors who
would bring IL TO shame and disaster. The
great parade to-day Is not Republican; it
IL American.
The sun., 1896-10-31
The Unspeakable Altgeld.
Governor ALTGELD said this in his Cooper
Union speech, among other things:

governor ALTGELD SRlQ UnlS IN MS SOOpcE
Union speech among other things:
"our people are beginning to understand that for.
erly there added every year the worlds stock
OF money nearly all Of the gold and silver that was
mined. which In measure kept pace with the In
crease of population but that since 1873 only the
gold has been added: that 10, only onehaif as much
hns been added each year as there formerly was
while the population has increased more rapidly than
ever ana that this fact alone must produce contin
fail in prices"
The exact truth is that from the founda-
tion of the Government to 1878 the total
number OF silver dollars coined was s,O31,-
gas, and all of these, owing to the lighter
coins of France and Spain or to undervalua-
tion at the mint, had at that date gone out
Of circulation, while the full legal-tender
silver coined from 1878 to 1895, inclusive,
amounted to s423, $50 ,3O9.
ALTGELD talks about our money having
kept pace with the increase of our popula-
tion before 1873, and falling behind it af
terward, when the fact Is, as may be seen
by referring to the latest Report of the
Secretary of the Treasury, that since the
first Of July, 1878, while our popula-
tion has increased only about 81 per
cent, onr circulation, outside of the
Treasury, has increased more than 1lS
per cent, not to mention the simultane-
GUS and marked increase of credit in
struments, in place Of cash, whereby the
quantity of currency is increased as really,
though indirectly, as by new coinage or new
issues. Last year. as Secretary CARLISLE
stated in his speech at Chicago in April, we
coined S43,933, ATS in gold and S9, ,069, ,4S0
in silver, increasing the quantity Of our
money by S58, ,OO2, ,955; and in the current
year we have already coined more than this
amount, the silver coinage alone amounting
at this time to upward of $4,000, ,o0O
and proceeding at the rate of more than
80, 600, 900 monthly, to say nothing of gold
coinage at a rate more than twice as great.
We are in reality increasing our money
every year by a larger percentage than that
of the increase of the population.
Not merely is all this true, but it is with
in the knowledge of every decently informed
politician in the country. Is ALTGELD
ignorant Of it, when he ignores it, and de-
liberately asserts the contrary of it IL he
is not an ignoramus, he is something in
finitely worse; and he certainly is not an
ignoramus.
The sun., 1896-10-31
rho Loreiiest speotaole ON Enrth.


Neither in times Of national rejoicing nor
in seasons Of national peril has there ever
been In thia town an exhibition OF the ma
tional coiorS 80 impressive as that which
now delights every patriotic eye and In
spires every patriotic heart. The red, the
white, and the blue are everywhere. The
Flag Of the Union overspreads New York.
In avenue, in street, and in byway, the Rlo-
rious spectacle extends for miles, and no
citizen can go forth without being reminded
a thousand times by the radiant colors that
he Is first of all an American.
Under these innumerable banners, each o
campaign argument incomparably eloquent,
there will march to-day an army Of Ameri-
cans ON their way TO the front to protect all
that makes the flag dear to them. The be-
loved rcd, white, and blue banner is the
symbol Of their cause: 1t 10 their cause.
They arc marching out upon its summons.
Every toss and tremor Of it's beautiful folds
invites them and urges them on.
10 10 credible that Of the vast array Of
honest men and patriotic citizens who will
pass under this archway Of red. white. and
blue to-day. feeling at every step renewed
the thrill which the glorious, continuous
spectacle imparts, any considerable number
will detach themselves from the main body
On Tuesday next, to imperil the result by
deliberately wasting their votesf
Friends of honest money! Friends OF
American institutions! Servants Of the Flag,
who march together to-day! keep your eyes
on that Flag and march together to the end
The sun., 1896-10-31
The Country Post Once.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sfr: Every now and
then see by the that the Post once Depart
ment is trying TO establish rural mail deliveries and
would like to know what is the good OF it. We In
the country haven't many places go besides tho
Post ONCE, and why does the p o. D. take that
away from usf wouldn't it be more to the point to
cut the postage on letters down a cent each and
then mako It object OF the department to get the
expenses within the receipts at the lower figure,
rather than TO continue the postage at cents and
hunt around for ways to spend the money, Suburban
rural deliveries may do but the last attempt saw
recorded was In Bartholomew county, Indiana and II
there is any other diversion earth the nhabl.
tants of Bartholomew county. Indiana than going to
the Post ONCE. I'd like to know what It is Possibly
tho p o. D. has erudge against these and
simple minded people. RUSTIC
sXMnEs FROM A PosT. OFFICE, Oct, 90.
The sun., 1896-10-31

misery to the homes OF thousands OF the
plain people; or will they return to the
Money OF the Constitution, Gold aad Silver,
which existed from the adoption OF the
Federal Constitution until 1873, when
Silver was wronsfully and surreptitiously
withdrawn as a part Of the Standard Coin"
This masterpiece OF SHEEHAN does not
seem to have fred the heart OF Tammany
Hall for the flfty.cent dollar, for now comes