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Jubilee and Fourth OF July.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sir: I have been com.
mended 4 good deal and. l fear. condemned some.
what for not praying. In the church OF which I am
rector. for the Queen on Sunday. June 20. this year,
and for having an Independence Day festival upon
the Sunday next following save one. July I. did
not pray for the Queen upon the day in question sim.
ply because l forgot the circular containing the re-
quest and the prayers-left 1t on the mantleshelf In
my study when l should have carried 1t to the church.
Ny not praying for the Queen might not have been
80 much upon had l not to
have the Independence Day festival. at which the
chancel was simply but very effectively decorated
with the American nag; the music. not snowy, hut
patriotic; an In the course OF which I preached ser.
mons upon the principles Informing the Declaration
OF Independence. Why should ! not have had such a
festival? In praying for tho Queen. In praying for a
greater oneness ar sub a thing. he d~esirabiel OF the
two great nations who speak the Eng iSh Language.
perity OF Amaricap
For forgetting the circular. as related. I owe an
apology to Ri hop Capers.
l cannot clio 9 without expressing the regret that
the American church had not, by authority, an Indie.
pend nee Day festival throughout America. indie.
pendenos Day falling on Sunday this year, of all
years. the opportunity seemed providentiai. / am
criticise my ecclesiastical superiors.
CHARLES JOSIAH ADAMs,
Rector 81 Luke's Church kossville. Staten Island.
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Ex-GoT HOGG'S KISS.
nc Full In the Mouth OF q H1iss 1t the
Cotton Choppers Convention.
From the G~alre,tor Ns,cs.

From the Gdireston Netcs.
1TAscA, Hill county, Tex, July 1o.-K the
members Of the Texas Cotton Choppers Asso-
citation can manipulate the hoe like they can
dispense genuine old-time hospitality they are
what Col. Hogg is pleased to term blown daisies.
They gave their first annual celebration hero
to-day. President Upton delivered the opening
address. welcoming all in the heartiest manner
possible. The young ladies, he said. were wei
come TO the young men and everything else in
the town.
At this ~juncture Colonel Hogg, who was the
orator of the day and occupied q scat on the plat
form, made a swipe at q molasses haired baby
which was standing near him. He kissed the
baby on the head and 1t sounded like a Missouri
mule pulling his foot out Of the mud. The child
glared at him and passed on, when the Hillsboro
military band discoursed some excellent mu-
sic. Turning, to the. Ne,rs correspondent Col.
little kid angels like a pup did potlicker.
AT the conclusion of Ex-Gov. Hogg's address
Miss Burton presented him with a hand-painted
hoe. and spoke a piece. In accepting the hoo
the tempest-tossed executive spoke feelingly as
follows:
by this simple act you have placed me under
still deeper obligations to you for many valued
implement OF commerce. the emblem of high
civilization. The man who uses a hoe and lives
by the sweat of his brow is too honest to steal,
too Industrious and Independent to be a vag or
a criminal. He is the man who makes and MAIN
tains good government ] thank you from the
bottom OF my heart for this assurance of your
friendship, and esteem." and. the Ex-Governor
grabbed the young lady and kissed her full in
the mouth. while the great crowd applauded
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A remarkable story, of coincidence and sailor
superstition was told by the survivors OF the
John Carey on their arrival the other day 40
Auckland, New Zealand. Tho John Carey. a
trading brig, ran into dirty weather and sprang
a leak. which at last forced the Captain and hvo
others to take, to the only boat left uniniured.
They were picked up by the Ladybird. another
BriGhtwell. hove in sight. and being sienaIied
by the castaways. sent a boat to take them
OF; The John Carey's men were the hrst to
wells boat was upset and the occupants were
drawn, on board half drowned. At this dis.
aster the Ladybird's crew set up q cry of Jonah"
The J. C.'s people, they said, had been twice
wrecked, and to embark with them again was GER
tain death. And so firm was their faith in the
a second boat they actually refused to be res
cued. ,preferring to stay. where they were and
take their chance OF another ship coming that
way, to sailing in company with a crew of Jo-
nahsl Accordingly the Brightwell sailed away
with the six survivors, who must have expert.
enced lively and varied emotions when, the very
next day, a heavy sea broke on board, stove ono
Of the boats, and carried away a portion OF the
bulwarks! However, the weather cleared, and
the much-hnrassed and luck-tormented John
Careyites were eventually landed In safety al
Auckland.
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Tents for L.aborers.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sir: Among the many
efforts ofkind and charitable persons to help the labor.
EYEGLASSES OF our city 1t is a wonder that one thing con.
corning their daily comfort has so far been neglected.
This is the providing OF a decent shelter wherein
laborcrs on buildings, railroad excavations, &C. may
eat their MONDAY meal In decency. In the blazing sun.
perchen on rough stones, on heaps OF building mate.
rial, seated on the curbston's ~, balanced ON the beams
OF hali.laid foors. nay. sometimes sitting on the bare
ground. glad 10 get the slight shade OF a neiRhborlnR
fence, men may be seen with their dinner cans, swat
lowing their poor fare. more uncared for than the
,'oosses" are using moya,le structures. quite
large and roomy, to hold tools for build.
Ing, excavation, and dwelling. Would II not
DO possible TO furnish some such shed for
their worknien, even by putting a second story over
these tool houses? Here, seated on benches, at tables
ever so slight and rude, their food might be eaten In
q way which would not degrade civilized humanity,
! hope that by your kind insertion OF these sugges.
ton' the attention OF some OF your merciful and
philAnthroP Q subscribers and readers may be attract
90 " the suplncl ID. u.
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Tho arindstone and the Nose.

In spite OF a good deal of doubling and
shufling, there are two things which the
leaders Of Tammany and of its allies In
Brooklyn and the other boroughs cannot
avoid doing without splitting the Popo.
cratic forces straight In two.
They can't help reaff1rming the Chicago
platform.
They can't help nominating candidates
who are known to believe In that platform.
The hope Of the trimmers has been to
appease the sincere majority of their party,
with no great credit to the latter, by a for
NAL or pe~rfunctory approval Of tho Chicago
platform and her to befool the public by
nominating on the Chicago platform a nan
who Is against that platform.
The Tammany trimmers have got to
play fair or take the consequences. They
may be perfectly ready to slur over the
principles Of their party for the sake of
creeping into Office, but the followers are
honest whether the leaders arc or not.
Known and straight Organizes on the Chi
cago platform that is the sort Of nomina-
tions which Tammany has to make.
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The announcement was made the other
day Of the marriage in 1895 of a member Of tho
class which was graduated from Yale this year.
Tho marriage had been kept secret, 1t is said,
on account Of q college statute forbidding
undergraduates to marry. Such cases are
tolerably common. although tho strictness Of
the college law against marriage has probably
been relaxed somewhat in tho last few years.
Where the college law does provide that q
degree shall not DO granted to q mar
ried man., such law must be regarded
as Q superfluous survival of medieval ideas.
The college has ceased to be a cloister. and there
10 no reason why it should punish q student who
has chosen to take the most interesting of cleo
tives. Presumably most Of the colleges wink
at the married undergraduate, but he should
be technically exempt from any statutes in re-
straint Of marriage. 1t may DO said that tho
college ought to protect youth and inexperience,
but forbidding the boy to marry is just the way
to encourage him to do so. and gives him the
highly relished opportunity to have q secret.
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Homestoad's Shadow.

with every great strike, such as the Goa
strike now before us, these axioms have to
be repeated In the common interest Of peace
and order:
The right Of an employee to quit work
and the right of an employer to stop his
business are equal;
The right of an employee to get o new
master and the right Of IN employer to get
. new servant are equal;
AS JAMES G. BLAINE put the case tersely,
lone man's right ends where another
man's begins"
Whether the coal laborers ave instigated
the strike as q move to raise wages or
whether 1t Is al effort of the employers 10
lower wages, 1t is for the employers to say
how long they will stand out against the
opposition to them, and It Is for the miners
to say how long they will DO idle; and II
Is nobody else's business.
Unfortunately, but inevitably, It appears,
before strikes last very long the labor side
of 1t, not content with standing by It's own,
reaches out for what belongs to others. Un-
able to vii by stopping work, they resort
to force, directing 1t against those who
would take their places. The first sign Of
l~awbreaking in the coal strike has been at
Danville, III. Thus a movement, which at
first was wholly within the law, and,
backed, as is usual, by an immense amount
Of outside sympathy, degenerates Into vio-
lence, atrocity, and perhaps murder.
The typical strike of this sort in this
decade was Homestead, memorable for its
shocking scenes, the extraordinary energy
required of the Law to restore peace and
defend men against further outrage, and for
the fury with which the populace, maddened
as 1t were with the scent Of blood, elected to
the Presidency the leading apologist for the
murders DONE. Homestead's shadow has
appeared at Danville.
A repetition of the past horrors cannot be
tolerated. The year 1897 must not be
smirched with the murder Of any man, en-
gagged in the lawful endeavor to work, by
the hands of q man on strike.
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1MrEn1A11sM AND DEMooRAoH.
Tho Contest M Bitter NJ Ever-The Lesson to
He Learned BY Vi.

The Contest na Bitter N Ever-The Lesson to
He Learned BY Ua.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: For ages
tho great duel between democracy and impo-
rtalism has engaged the attention of the world.
Only during the last 100 years has there been
any notably permanent successes upon the side
Of democracy; and those only in the United
States, with some minor thrusts, through tho
prowess Of Switzerland. Mexico, and France.
Until quite recently that form of democracy
in which representative government is exer-
cised under a nominal sovereign of hereditf ~
right has made strides in England toward that
more complete democracy in which the people
elect their chief magistrate. But two thrusts,
as sly as any Italian trick thrust, have been
given in our day to true democracy. One was
when D'Israeli made Victoria Empress of India,
the other when Salisbury, under tho thin fiction
of honoring that good old lady, the Queen, star
tied the world with its most tremendous pageant,
pire were exhibited. England and her colonies
ARE r now IVA drink rm ky with z the glory Of a matchless
They forget that, aside from the present pos
session OF the mightest navy. the great American
ments OF swift advancement and material great
ness; and that its wondrous development has
Sring.tencod', farm Of america has as0j p sas 5 Ill.,
ties of wealth development in every direction,
beyond the fencies OF Pluto.
the United States has been, Is. and ever will be
that OF Imperialism against democracy, and no
And so. we should deprecato the hamefu
adnlation OF an Empress and disclaim all share
and sympathy In the recent Qualification of i'm
perialism. That sterilization has already
doubled the, power OF England by doubling the
Enghshman's already splendid sense OF patriot
ism. 10 us 1t Is at once O shame and a lesson.
A shame that we should be so outstripped in
the dominion OF the seas, a shame that patriot
ism here should be subject for laughter; a lesson
that just as patriotism gives power. so does
power beget patriotism; They act as stiafu.
lants upon each other. Give us patriotism and
we shall have a great navy and merchant ma.
rine; give us those and in tho same degree shall
we have patriotism-that most vitaliZing of all
FORCES In national growth. J. c. c.
NEW YORK, July 10.
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The Comparison by Averages.

Those who imagine that there is vitality
yet in the old Mugwump free trade argu-
ments of 1887 and thereafter. arc asserting
excttedly that while the average of the
duties In the war tariff OF 1862 was 80
per cent, and the average of the duties In
the Mckinley tariff of 1890 was 40 per
cent, the Dingley bill shows an average of
bS per cent, and the Senate bill of nearly
"a per cent.
What of itf The circumstance Is not
very important, but it is worth while to
remember that these comparisons of tariffs
by the averages of the ad valorem duties
which they impose are essentially mislead-
ing, If not Intentionally dishonest.
Such comparisons by averages do not
necessarily signify anything as to the char
acter of the tariffs compared.
For instance. II there should DO absolute
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A curious instance of the effect of a,

A curious instance of the effect of sur.
roundings upon tho temperament and of tho
aesthetic sense upon the moral sense is reported
by the warden OF the Topeka Penitentiary. Tho
guests Of that institution have Just been put into
q new uniform, and It is having a wholesome
effect upon them. The warden says that tho
prisoners are very much pleased with the plain
gray suits, and that the change so far has had q
tendency to raise the department." It is con-
ceivable that plain gray should have q tran
quillizing effect upon savage breasts which
would be maddened to crime by rcd and
green. Sufficient attention is not given to
the moral effect of clothes upon convicts.
Who can tell that o tender blue flannel blouse
might not soften a hard case. and q white waist
coat reform better than solitary confinement
Nobody can blanc q convict for getting tired Of
his clothes. They are not pretty. and they
must DO remarkably monotonous.
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The Slaves of the Silver Serpent are pre.

h Slaves Of the Silver Serpent are pre-.
pairing for their annual ball on the last night of
the Festival OF the Mountain and the Plain at
Denver. There will be q shadow dance, with
lights turned low and most mournfuI music,
representing the Crime OF 1879. Tho Red
Headed Rooster of the Rockies. clad in silver
armor, will dance a war dance over the pros.
trate form of the Money Power. The Rev. MY
RON w. REED as Perseus will rescue the United
States as Andromeda bound to a gold reef
and about to be sacrificed to a herd OF octopuses.
The performance will conclude with a single
combat between the Gold Serpent and the Silver
Serpent, at the close of which the former will DO
left without a single scale and then devoured by
the Silver Serpent amid terrible clouds Of
steam. Then thore will be unconnned Joy and
dancing. which will continue until the Hon.
WILLIAM MORRIS STEWART OF Nevada appears,
as usual, with a sixteen.mile speech In his hand,
and disperses the spectators.
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Tho Right to Nominate.

The tabulated results of the revision OF
the rolls Of The Republican organization
made on June 8 show a present enrolment
Of 80, zoe names.
No political organization In the history
Of New York, not even Tammany Hall be-
fore It's expedition into Organism, ever had
an enrolled membership SO large as this, and
compared with 1t tho professed enrolment
OF the C!tizcns' Union, 80 called, Ia insig-
nihcant, and the claims OF membership
In the various outside organizations, of
which there are many this year of a
vigorous Mayoralty canvass, are unworthy
Of consideration. Before the revision of
the Republican rolls there were upon the
lists g 1879 names. OF these, 10000 were
dropped, and $4,000 names were added,
the result being q net addition Of 5000,
bringing up the total enrolment to con-
slderably moro than one-half Of the votes
cast In this town for the Republican candi-
date for Governor at last years election, the
LAG, 68s votes polled for FRANK S. BLACK.
The extent, completeness, and increase Of
the Republican enrolment in New York
are impressive; but that organization, now
moro powerful than ever before. has an
other great advantage as compared with
the vociferous Citizens Union. 1t has,
and the amateur concern has not, the
right under tho law of this State to
nominate candidates for elective Office,
with all the machinery of nomination ready
for use, and with q right to utilize and en-
Joy the benefit Of the sun6ry safeguards es-
tablished by the electoral code for the pro-
lection Of the integrity of the franchise.
Tho Republican organization in New
York, representing some $4,000 enrolled
electors, and, very probably, as many as
10000 more, is entitled under the law
to make nominations for office without
any perplexing formalities, through the
preparation of "petitions and certificates"
or otherwise. Nominations so made will
not be subject to attack OIL grounds of tech
nical irregularity. There will be no "blank
spaces" on the Republican ticket this year,
as there would be on the Citizens Union
ticket II It assumed to make independent
nominations. The candidates Of the Repub-
licans will enjoy a benefit which the nomi-
nees of the Citizens Union could not have.
The election officers under the bipartisan
system, which is the law of this State,
are equally divided between the two great
parties. Thus the Republican candidates are
assured of protection in the count, a benefit
which cannot be guaranteed by the Citizens
Union, an organization not recognized by
the laws Of the State as a distinct party,
and not entitled to representation in the
Boards of Election officers.
IN enrolment in the city of New York
of $4,000 Republicans is important, de.
cidedly SO; but the right to nominate can
didates against Tammany as a definite and
recognized party is more important, and by
sensible and sophisticated persons it will
not be moderated this year.
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wound" The hi~ghwayman escaped but the
innocent pedestrian was removed to the
county hospital and no particular attention
seems to rave been given to the occurrence.
The number Of highwaymen In Chicago
is so large that stray shots are looked upon
as a salutary measure for scattering them.
Unless some practical measure Of inn
provement Is adopted 1t may not be very
long before an ordinance is passed exclud.
ing no~n-residents or recent newcomers
from the rights Of the road In Chicago.
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PoStmaster Turns . Hose On the saivat,on
Army.
From the Chicago Record

KEwANEE, III. July 11.-Friction between
postmaster Mayhew and the American volun-
Owens. The Postmaster declares the Volun.
teers to be a nuisance, as their shouting and
singing in front Of the Post Office so disturb
his money-ordcr clerks that they cannot do their
work. For several nights during the last week
ground.where the Volunteers:nsually stand, hop
Ing the mud would prevent them from meeting
them while holding their meeting. Friday
evening the quarrel reached a climax when
Owens, a young man employed by Mayhem.
kept the water playing on a fixed spot while
Capt: Julius Koenig and his soldiers marched
into 1t. They were thoroughly drenched, espec.
tally an infant, which was in a baby carriage
guided by the Captain.
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Vain Attemp. to Chlorororm Hornets.
the San Francisco Post.

William Harold, the cigar dealer, has lust
won a good hot fight: For months his country
residence at Mill Valley has been infested with
hornets. Whence they came was a mystery,
but, every once in q while one would dart out,
stab some ono. and disappear as mysteriously as
covered that the hornets had taken up their
abode between the walls on the shady side OF his
mouse. He made n small aperture and burned
sulphur, but the disturbance was only tenn.
porary. and resulted in more annoyance to the
owner OF the house than TO its vicious little
tenants. Then Harold tried chloroform, but
the hornets only slumtered for a while and woke
with renewed energy. Finally he was COM
PEELED to tear out the whole side of his house,
remove tho pests and their mud houses. and
board 1t up again.
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Of Mr.. WHITNEY and Of the money bags In
his company. Mr.. SHEHrfAN, however, has
now discovered what both he and Mr.. WHIT
NEY would have foreseen last spring II they
were men Of political sagacity: that the
Bryan vote Is not deliverable on any such
terms. Technically, too, support Of the Chi.
cage platform Is now the test and standard
of Democratic regularity. and Tammany
dare not have its regularity impeached.
II 1t should neglect to stamp its campaign
with the mark of regularity by following
the Democratic rule Of p~roclaiming for
mally its allegiance to the national stand
ard Of the party, a portentous rebellion
would be sure to occur In Its ranks and
would claim to be solely regular, and conse-
quently entitled to singular recognition as
such in the future. Mr.. WHITNEY is re-
ported to have threatened that, unless
Tammany Hall made the bargain and zig
nored the Chicago platform, he would put
up an opposition Democratic ticket in the
field, but that, Of course, would be
an avowedly boiling movement, with no
sort of pretence to regularity and dis
dalnful of 1t. Moreover, Its possible in
jury to Tammany would be triling as com.
pared with that which would be done by a
Bryanite and regular bolt In Its own anks.
Instead Of frightening the Organizes, Mr..
WHITNEY's reported threat, therefore, only
increased their determination to stand by
their colors. They look upon his friend
ship Is moro dangerous than his enmity.
They want nothing to do with the crowd to
which he belongs, and any suggestion that
It take the actual lead In the Tammany
campaign exasperates them.
Any mere strategy would be powerless in
the present political situation. Opposing
principles concerning the very basis Of civ
ilized society are clashing, and at such n
time statesmen and not political tacticians
are needed. Principle and not strategy Is d.
manded. Momentous issues are before the
people, and the small games of politics will
not divert them from their consideration.
Mr.. WHITNEY Is now in an encounter
where he is outclassed. II he Is wise, he
will protract the period of his withdrawal
from politics, lest he be carried from the
field a permanently disabled st~rategist, who
in a war Of giants could use only the puny
weapons and the paltry arts which had
seemed SO powerful in bygone days of hum
bug politics and insincere politicians.
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Candidate John r. McIrAN's nonar N,

Candidate JOHN r. MoLEAN's paper says
OF candidate HORACE CHAPMAN tn at he sis q
plain man and has no ambition for handles to his
name which he is not entitled to-" Mr.. CHAP
MAN Is President of the Ohio Coal Operators. of
a national bank. and 30 on. He has titles enough
already for any man. plain or handsome, and
there seoms to he no imminent danger that he
will be compelled to be called Governor OF Ohio.
The Ohio people will respect HoRAoE's dislike
for handles.
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Now 10 the song Of tho reapers betting our
country as they harvest tho acres. the ~aections, tho
townships. tho counties Of ~wheat.-Aibany TTncs-
linton
And now IN heard tho wall Of the calamity
liar as no bolts himself In wrath and disgust.
What right has wheat to grow when the triumph
of 16 to l 10 still unachievedi