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Kid Gloves.
0SC instead of ST.

Four Button Dressed Kid
Gloves in shades OF mode, pearl
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65C a yard.

Black Brocaded Silks for sepa-
rate skirts or dresses in new de-
signs and excellent values at ST so
yard. Clearance Sale Price,
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COlOred
Dress Goods.

Space only permits of speaking
OF our big dress goods stock in sec
tions. You'll find it interesting to
look into the following price at
fractions for Monday.
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55C instead of ST 90.

5 pieces, 46-inch Black Silk Lus-
ter Grenadine, handsome illumi-
mated floral designs, mingled with
the lace effect, makes up beautiful
lly over silk or colored Innings.
Clearance Sale Price, 55c yard.
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Black
Dress Goods.
75c instead of ST. 25.

10 pieces 4S-inch Black Silk
Luster Mohair Grenadine in hand
some designs OF pattern suited for
full suit. One of the seasons most
popular fabrics. Clearance Sale
Price, 75c yard.
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SeaSOnabIe Silks.

Best quality, twilled Foulard
Silks in grounds of navy, brown,
olive, myrtle, with the new
designs in scrolls OF white; "a
inches wide. Clearance Sale Price,
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80 pieces 36-inch silk and wool'
Cheviot Mixtures in the seasons
best assorted shades. All new
stuffs and surprising values. Clear
ance Sale Price, I9c yard.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09
Regulars and Militia.

The readiness of the War Department to
send detachments from the army to the
summer camps of State troops, has received
fresh illustrations this year. At Quonset
Point, a battery Of the Fort Adams garrison
has encamped with the Rhode Islanders.
At Lake City, the Third Infantry took part
In the July encampment Of the Minnesota
troops. At Louisville, a company Of the
Sixth Infantry has been in camp with
the Kentucky National Guard. At Mobile
and at Tuscaloosa, portions Of the Fifth In
fantry have performed like service with the
Alabama troops. At Sea Girt, Capt. For
NANCE company of the Thirteenth Infan-
try was engaged in target practice while
the New Jerseymen were in camp. Orders
not long ago directed two companies Of the
Nineteenth Infantry to join the Michigan
cncampment at Island Lake, while toward
the end of next month, at Topeka, four
troops OF cavalry and a light battery from
Fort Riley will attend the summer encamp-
ment of the Kansas State troops. At Ches-
ter, Troops c, E., and G., Third Cavalry, will
camp with the militia of Vermont.
Possibly there ma be other instances Of
cooperation, but the foregoing is a note
worthy list, n the system of Joint en-
campments may be carried out still more
largely next year. In addition, of course,
there are the regular details of inspecting
officers from the army, which further serve
to show the close relations between the
regulars and the citizen soldiers.
The experience of many years shows, we
think, that good results come from these
joint encampments, and perhaps particu.
larly in those States whose troops most
need such an object lesson as regulars 60
ing through the routine of camp life and
drill. In some cases the size of the
camps or other circumstance may preclude
the attendance of regular soldiers, but
wherever it can be brought about, its ad-
vantages are obvious.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09
Our Reindeer in Alaska.

The United States Government is now
the owner of more than a thousand rein
deer in Alaska. They are kept at Fort
Clarence, in the region of the lower Yukon.
They multiply rapidly, after the manner OF
their kind, and it is probable that in a few
years, with decent luck and barring acct
dents, there will be many thousands of
them in the herds.
Four or five years ago, when Congress
was led to make an appropriation for the
trial of the experiment of introducing the
reindeer into Alaska for the promotion of
trade and travel, small herds of them were
purchased in Siberia and brought to Fort
Clarence. In about two years 500 of them
were procured for the experiment, and since
| then the number of them has doubled bynat-
| ural increase. At the same rate ofgrowth the
Government is likely to own four or five
thousand reindeer by the end of the cen.
fury. At first the animals did not thrive
under the incompetent keepers chosen to
take charge of them; but a number of Lap
landers accustomed to caring for them
were sent to Alaska, INT since then they
have thriven very well. They are said to
be in better condition than they were when
brought from Siberia.
So far they have not been put to service +;
but we learn that it is the design of the
Post Office Department to use them for the
transportation of the mails along the route
of the Yukon Valley. A number of the
animals have recently been under training
for this service but, of course, only a small
proportion of the thousand head of them,
will be needed for it.
What does the Government want with
thousands of reindeer9 The expense of
their maintenance must be paid out of the
Treasury, and every year this expense
grows larger.
The people of Alaska, the miners, the
goods carriers, and the pleasure seekers.
ought to be allowed to make purchases from
the Improbable herds at Fort Clarence.
Inc reindeer would be of great service to
these parties, and the Government would be
l relieved from the care of thoseo Of them that
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09

From the Boston Erenin0 Transcript.
An institution characteristic of Washing
ton is the 'sundowner." This term Is hero
applied to a man who is in Government employ
from 8 O'Clock till 4. but who has a profession
which he practises for the rest of the day.
There are shutdown doctors, shutdown lawyers,
and shutdown ministers. The regular physicians
have for years made war upon their shutdown
competitors. and under the last Administration
they succeeded in persuading the Secretary Of
the Interior to issue an order forbidding the
clerks in his department to practise medicine.
This applied particularly to the medical ex-
aminers in the Pension Office. who, II was
contended. should not be under obligation to
outside clients. But with that exception there 10
little or no restriction upon the practice of these
professions by the clerical force of the Govern
ment.. The pastors of many of the smaller
churches. especially in the surburbs, are men
who during the week are clerks in the depart
ments. Occasionally a "sundowner" achieves
such success in his profession that it ceases to be
profitable to give six hours and a half O day for
the salary which the Government pays. He then
resigns and devotes himself wholly to his avoca-
tion.
The professional schools in the district do
much e. encourage this shutdown" system.
They all have evening sessions exclusively, and
almost every young man who comes to WASH
fngton to go into the departments at once takes
up the study of law. medicine. or dentistry.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09

municipal reform In the ieldi Has
. the Union been wrong in its earnest
efortsl Which is the more stupendously
great, ADoLpHUs LEE DUNLAP or SETH
Low? The situation is not a comfortable
one for the Citizens Union. That instltu-
ton has held up Mr.. Low as the perfect
candidate, and has excited the public 10
show it's transports by means OF stra"
votes and petitions; and here enters Adolf
Plus LEE DUNLAP, who is described as a
p~reterperfect candidate, a Low Improved
| and enlarged. What is to be done2 How
| In the layman unlearned in the lore OF the
Goo Coos to ccide between two such phG-
mixes as ADoLPuUs LEE DUNLAP and SETH
Low2 Which il the real and only original
supreme municipal reformer and savior OF
! the town2 Which one Is the veritable
Mugwump MosEsl
Clearly either Mr.. DUNLAP or Mr.. Low
will have to be withdrawn. AS the League
will not nave Low and the Union has not
yet declared itself against DUNLAP, per-
haps the chances of the latter are the bet
ter, but there is a question of merit in
volved, and blind chance should not be al
lowed to decide it. Is ADoLPHUs LEE
DUNLAP or SETH Low the Aristides Of
New York, the nonesuch of all the bor-
oughsQ Both men or demigods should be
examined either by the Civil Service Com
m%issioners or by a joint committee Of the
Workingmen's Political League and the
Citizens Union. Their merit and fitness,
their stupendous greatness, should be COM
pared, Judged, and rated authoritatively,
and the winner in the competition should
be accepted by both organizations as the
Mugwump nonpareil.
The platform on which ADoLPHUs LEE
DUNLAP is nominated by the League is:
Honesty, Justice, and Frugality." Some
what broader than the Citizens Union
platform, which seems to consist Of nothing
but "SETH Low"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09
Prudence Is the Policy for Japan

Both in commerce and in war Japan has
been remarkably successful lately, and her
progress since she first set out in the path
of Western civilization Is one OF the mar
wells of the century.
This progress no nation, as Japan well
knows, has been quicker to recognize than
ours. ON of her prominent men suggested
recently that she might call America the
mother country in respect to her career I'M
der the conditions of modern civilization :;
and it is true that we were foremost in
welcoming Japan to her new life, and In
treating her like other enlightened and
progressive nations.
Americans will not be accused, therefore,
of unfriendliness If they think that Japan's
true policy just now is that of going about
cautiously and not being overeager. EX-
hilarated with past successes, she may well
be both ambitious and confident but there
are perils to guard against. We do not
suppose that she ~contemplates going to war
with us, or supposes that her victory over
China, easy and splendid as it was, would
justify her in expecting to beat the United
States in the same hollow way. Blu she
may be tempted to try to make a point
against us in diplomacy, and to pose as a
nation that exacted terms from our Gov
eminent in negotiations.
That endeavor, however, even with greater
chances of success than it now promises,
would hardly be worth while. Japan's
policy apparently SHOULD be to consolidate
her interests and strengthen her friendships,
rather than to create new troubles. There
N p rnf;nno ,rhnSa op,h;t;o,, ,aoa;ot ILL
hers that are watching for her mistakes.
Already we hear rumors of straitened
finances, resulting from her liberality
in railroad building and other internal
improvements and her large outlays on her
navy and army. The war indemnity she
obtained from China was heavy, but it
seems to have been largely reserved for new
ships. ForInosa must be rather a burden
on her for a time, and complaints are made
by foreign countries of insufficient control
of the natives. There are rumors of Chinese
intrigues to excite the latter to revolt, and
while these rumors may be groundless,
China can hardly yet look upon Japan as
her friend. AS for Russia. how long would
it be, with Japan in serious trouble, before
she began to work her will in Corca2
Japan has frankly told us tina she does
not approve our new tariff, and also that
she prefers having Hawaii independent to
having it a part of the United States. AS
a fact, we have undoubtedly been consult
ing our W interests and wishes in both
matters rather than hers, as she probably
consults her interests and wishes when she
makes laws or effects annexations. mas
much as we shall take Hawaii into the
Union, Japan's best policy would seem to
be that of remaining on good terms with
us instead of continuing to argue against
what she cannot prevent.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09

The Hon. JAMES WILSON, Secretary Of
Agriculture. makes too sweeping an assertion
when he says that "the farmers Of this country
should DO just now the happiest people In the
world, because they arc the most prosperous"
He should have excepted the Democratic and
Populist farmers, not from the prosperity, but
from the happiness. They can't help being
prosperous, but they can strive for sufficient
consistency and frmness to keep them from
being happy. What is 1t to them that crops
are good and bring good pricesH What is
It to them that live stock and cereals are rising !
What cheer does 1t bring to them to know that
they must have their share in that $75, 900, 900
to 500, 900. 600 advance over last years prices
which Secretary WILSON finds In wheatI Silver
has sagged. Silver is In tho abysses. With
silver in the abysses, the Populist or Democratic
farmer ought to feel, and will II he can. I'M
happier than ever. Prosperity, accompanied
with the ruin of silver. Is a crime. another crime
Of the Unsuitable Money Power.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09

were sold. The animals themselves would
probably like to scour the snow-clad banks
Of the Yukon. We think it would be well
for the Government to sell of one.hah OF
the number in it's possession. Lots OF
young ones will be born very soon.
Ii the reindeer has, indeed, been accli-
mated in Alaska, as naturalists say 1t has
been, 1t is a good thing for Alaska. They
can make eighteen or nineteen miles an
hour over the snow; they find their W
forage in the MOSES that abound in Alaska;
their meat Is good for food; their skin Is
valuable; the milk of the female is whole
some; they can stand the coolest of weather
and much hardship. Commissioner HARRIS
says that Alaska has forage enough for mil
lions Of them.
What does the Government want with
millions OF them7 We are ready to believe
that five hundred of those now In existence
could be sold for 81 900 a head. The horse
is OF hardly any use in Alaska; the dog is
fit only for light hauling; the reindeer Is
the animal, not only for the mail service,
but for the transportation Of passengers
and merchandise.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09

From the Ohtotco, Neb. Ohiouun-
When you meet a man who is habitually do
spondent and discontinued and pessimistic put
it down that be is a Populist and nine times out
of ten investigation will show your guess to DO
correct. There seems to be something even in
the personal appearance of a Pop that distin-
guishes him from other men. His contracted
brow and expression OF gloomy melancholy
mark him as a cynic and indicate a soured, dis
torted and distempered nature. He is distrust-
ful to the extent that he suspects every man
with whom he has any business relations. His
hopes are crushed and all confidence in neigh
bors and ASSOCIATES is DESTROYED. To the gloomy
sadness and despair. He closes his eyes and
steadfastly refuses to see any improvement in
the times; taxes are getting higher. the Govern
ment Is growing more corrupt, crop prospects
are unsatisfactory and everything is going 70
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09

The devising of a suitable clock for the
tower OF the Philadelphia City Hall is giving
many anxious hours to tho Clock Committee of
the Public Buildings Commission and the
burghers generally. The dial is of tremendous
size. We have not tho exact figures at hand.
but 1t is somewhat smaller than the moon.
although when Illuminated it will put out the
moon and stars and be barked at by dogs
as far west as Cleveland. There are to
DO no figures on 1t. because they would
hide the hands, and probably there will be
no hands on it, for they would ~penumbrate
tho dial. Who cares for time in Philadelphia,
anywayi The illuminated dial should be TN
ornament and illumination merely. Public
CLOCKS do not exist for the immediate purpose Of
telling the time. They are familiar objects on
the landscape. and one looks at their face as at
the lace OF a friend. For exact time you do
better to depend upon your watch.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09
Two Billion Dollars for Pensions.

The pension figures which we printed the
other day have been copied widely and COM
mented upon as significant. They showed
hat at the present rate Of expenditure
the annual pension list has been consum.
ing more than nine-tenths of all the rev.
enue taken in at all of the Custom
Houses of the United States; or, again,
If the customs duties are considered as
paying the general expenses of the Govern
ment, the pensions nave been using up not
less than ninety-six per cent. of the total
receipts from internal revenue.
This is striking, startling even, but it is
the plain truth.
One or the other of the two great sources
of the Governments income is devoted
almost exclusively to the payment of pen.
sions on account of a war that ended a
third of a century ago.
The more sober and searching the thought
that is bestowed by the Republican leaders
upon this all-important subject, the better
II will be for the financial condition of the
Government and the future of the party
now in power.
Let 1t no longer be considered the patri-
o otto thing to accept without question, as a
AhdtteT VI CouiSe, any pension expenditure,
no matter how extravagant, as a necessary
consequence of the war for the preservation
OF the Union, and a proper tribute to the
heroism of the soldiers In the field. On the
contrary, let patriotism study the facts.
- Here are some more facts:
: Thirty-two years after the end of the civil
war, the number of pensioners on account
OF that war exceeds by about a quarter of
. million the number of soldiers actually
engaged In service in all the armies of the
Government at any time between the firing
= upon Sumter and the surrender of LEE at
A~ppomattox. The army of pensioners after
a third OF u century is between thirty and
forty per cent. larger than the fighting army
At any one time during the war.
In the period between the warof the Revo.
luton and the second war with Great Brit,
ain, the pension expenditure eliminated
at "a. SO, 900 in 1904. about twenty wears
after the end of the Revolutionary struggle.
In the period between the war of 1912 and
. the Mexican war, the pension expenditure
m in 1916 and thereafter de,
creased, with fluctuations, from 81, 500, DOC
in 1915 to 81 SOC, 900 in 1916. In the
period between the Mexican war and the
wa for the Union. the pension expenditure
was highest In 1882, when it reached
$2,4Ol 900. This is all according to the
normal process of growth and decline.
Dividing the years since 1855 into four
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09

The historians who represent the Hon.
ROGER QUARLEs MILLS of Corsicana as refusing
to allow a company to sink oil wells in his l 900
acres near that famous town because he wants
to find out whether he or the Standard Oil Com
pany will control it" must be inaccurate.
Mr.. MILLS Is a candidate for reelec-
ton to the Senate and a hammerer Of
trusts and plutocrats. 1t would be in
convenient. IL not positively painful, for him to
be developed into an %oil-trust plutocrat. A man
who owns 1000 acres of oil territory is in a
dangerous position for a hammerer of pluto
Gratis and trusts, and is liable to fall into the
hands of these terrors at any moment.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09

The Kansas City Journal hears that a
number of Kansas Populists of the younger
generation have determined to move to Utah IL
the Populist campaign in the Sunflower State is
calamitous next fall. They are going to make
one moro effort for principle and office. II
that effort fails. they are going to Utah,
where they will SCATTER about in va
rious directions, and by each others aid,
in a short time, control the politics of the
State and all get Office. This is a tender
and springlike plan and shows much imagina-
ton in its makers. There are some shrewd cam
paigners among the Mormons. however, and tho
downy Kansans may get less office than they
look for. Still. the emigration of unsuccessful
politicians from one State to another is a con.
venient scheme.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09
rrsroL sHors IN rHE srSoD.
spitt In . Michigan Church Over the Neat
Wire's sister Question.

FTOW " INtCuVU NtcOTu'
ST. CLAIR, Mich, Aug. 1.-THE Lutheran
Church OF St. Clair has split ON a very trivial
rock. Although nobody has wanted TO put tho
theory into execution. it was because the minis.
ter held that 1t was not wrong for a man 10
marry the sister of his deceased wife that n dis.
sension has arisen, eliminating in pistol shots.
Pastor Julius Becker held that IL a widower
could get the consent OF the sister OF his deceased
vito TO marry him there would be no harm
in such a marriage. This, the Synod said, was
heresy. The Rev. MIR. Becker had never preached
the doctrine, but because he had such thoughts
in his ministerial mind the Synod and he quar-
relied over it at Detroit. adjourned the jHngle to
Saginaw and there took another hitch, with the
result that the pastor resigned from the Synod.
The Synod then appointed a committee to
come and lag tho matter before the church. The
church, by n vote OF % to 20. voted TO stay by
the pastor. Two factions sprung up. taking
sides with tho Synod and with the preacher. A
meeting was called TO decide who should have
the church property and IL ended in a row. Tho
church board. all but one member OF which ad.
hered to tho Synod faction. then decided TO close
out as pastor they thought they would prohibit
him and his faction from using the church prop
eS ill., and nd they neyyob had in nar MIND g'ins the church
conducted by a minister from Detroit
The church trustees closed the building. but
the Becker trustees crawled in through a WIN
dow and opened the church to the congregations.
New locks were then put on the door. Trustees
John +. Ruff and John w. Stein OF the Eyno6
following broke In tho back door with a stick Of
wood and barricaded themselves. The Becker
faction tbereupon stove in the door to open tho
church for Sunday services. Ruff fred two or
three shots and declared that the first man who
entered would be a dead man. Ruff and Stein
were then arrested, and the Becker faction
gained control of the church and have held
services there ever since. The Synod faction
worship together in the Baptist church edifice.
The Circuit Court has yet TO determine which
faction shall have the church building for a
sanctuary.
At the trial OF Ruff and Stein. charged with
assault to do great bodily harm. there were many
contradictions as to the number of the shots
that were, fired. and whether, or no the shots
went in the direction Of the head Of William
Stang. a Becker man, or into the air. The pris-
oners were finally discharged. The case has
just terminated, and as 1t has dragged its weary
length along intensely bitter feeling has devel-
oped. Members of the different factions have
boycotted one another in business. and children
toddling about belonging to the households OF
opposing factions are not allowed to play to-
gether. 1t is all the more ridiculous because no
one here wishes to marry his wife's sister, and
he might not get the chance, even il such .
craving did exist.