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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27

The Augusta Chronicle tries to pay .
serious compliment to DR.. ANDREWS, formerly
President OF Brown University. BY saying that
"ho IL one Of the brainy mon Of the day
Would any man who has boon or hopes to be
the President OF q college bo pleased to
bo called "brniny" Would he accept
that adjective without . "painy" feel
ing. 90 to speaki Ono may see In
tho elevated cars advertisements Of . we'll
known and highly respectable dictionary which
describe IL as the work Of "brainy specialists.
Doubtless a +" brainy'' specialist ought to be per
fectly satisfactory, but as a maker OF q diction'
AIRY he may seem inappropriate to conservative
minds. Would q contipede be described proper
ly as "footy'' and the Nile as "mouthy" and q
many gated city as Z" gatey"i Arc the Rookie,
and the Hlmalayas "chainy"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27

What is to become Of the Popocrats and
the Populists without their old friend. the mort
gagef Wheat up high. silver down low. and
the mortgages melting away. This is a pretty
condition Of things for Popocrats and Populists.
Where are their platforms nowi Where is tho
wind OF their sailsl Is 1t tho hand OF the
Money Power that has throttled so many
eloquent w%inhpipesi Who puts up wheat,
puts down silver. pays Off the mortgagesf Some
form OF the Money Power, and for the obvious
purpose OF discrediting the Popocrats and Popu-
lists. 1t seems natural to suspect that trusts
are tho guilty parties. Trusts arc liable to be
guilty Of everything. and are known to DO In
genious. Is 1t not timo to investigate their ro'
sponsioility for Prosperity, that Crime OF 1897 I
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
A sinpnlnr fact. II fnct Il he. has tust been

A singular fact, II fact IL be, has Just been
communicated to an admiring country BY the
Hon. POTATO PISoREB OF Lansing and Detroit.
In q special message on tho tariff which he sent to
Mr.. MCKINLEY, tho Hon. JULIUS Cesar BUR
ROWS. and o few other favored persons besides
the general public, he said:
"The iaborer wears twice ~ many shoes a. the
millionaire, and must contribute twice - much for
the tax on hides"
Mr.. PINGRRE Is somewhat Of an authority on
shoes. and he must be right in saying that the
laborer wears twice az many shoes as tho mil.
lionaire. but the reason 10 hardly clear. 1t can.
not be that the "laborer" has twice as many
feet as the millionaire" The latter person Is
often in the octopus line, and 30 may DO sup
posed to have a collection Of feet; and 1t is ru'
mored that there are several millionaires who
have O number of pairs Of shoes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27

Prom the Chicago Times-H he raid.

CRIPPLE CREEK, July 24.-D W. d. MARROW,
Coroner Of FL Paso county, has jus; given OUT
pie Creek. The record covers a perioi o. tire,
and one-half years, and shows Cripple Greek 10
be the toughest town" I'm the United S.atea
It gives a total OF 247 recorded violent death,
in Cripple Creek alone since January, l-9t, or
an average OF more than seventy a year. or one
for every five days. and this for an average pop
ulation Of less than 5000 people.
or course not all OF these deaths were murder
More than 100 were caused by dynamite and
mine explosions. twenty-five were suiciGes o.
Respondent prospectors and a score OF other
were brought about by heart failure, alcoholism
and other Causes. but the feature OF the record
that lie most remarkable is the great number Of
murders. In this respect 1t shows thai Cri0plt
Creek has outclassed either Leadville or butte
even In their F." palmiest days." and that IL hN
made q record for the whole wild West"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
Prosperity and Organism.

Shortly after the election last November
the Hon. ARTHUR SEwALL expressed the
opinion that only o period Of general pros
perity could prevent the triumph Of free
silver. Such a period has now begun. 1t
has begun among the farmers and will
spread from them to all occupations. The
result upon politics must be vast. Not
merely tho demand for the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 10 to 1, but the whole
stock In trade of the Democratic and the
Populists Is founded upon the theory that
the people are not prosperous, and owing to
laws and economic conditions favorable to
capitalists and u~nfavorable to the mass of
the people, the rich are growing richer
and the poor poorer" Hard times have
their periods like everything else. and
during them 1t Is easy to persuade
the discontented that the Government
Is to blame. The whole movement called
Organism Is an appeal to discomfort, social
and economic, and an attempt to increase
1t by violent and demagogical language.
Such q movement must lose much Of Its
force when everybody but the tramp is
working and getting paid for 1t. In times
Of financial depression and disaster men
may be ready to try desperate remedies, but
when they are improving their condition
and making money, they have no time OF
disposition to bother their heads with the
promises of the agitators and the cranks
The Bryanites have said, In effect, tina,
there could be no prosperity without free
silver. Prosperity has como and shamed
their theories and predictions.
IT, In aonahla RI a,1ppoaA tharafnra thot
the Bryanite propaganda, though still reso
Lutte and active, will have lost some of it,
impetus by 1900.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27

A new crime of the Money Power has been
discovered by q Chicago silver poet. He weeps
over the good OIL times we used to have when
wheat was worth q dollar and corn was thirty
cents, and the prairie hen and meadow lark sang
sweetly on the fence" But the melodious prairie
hen and the meadow lark have long ceased to
give concerts on the fence.
'God bless tho little creatures. their songs stick in
their throats,
They know we are embarrassed and cannot pay our
notes;
A bird viii. sit for hours and droop his hoad and tail.
And wonder when tho old farm'n DO sold at sherin's
SALE"
Somebody ought to tell the Chicago poet OF
the rise OF the price OF wheat and of the paying
of the mortgage on the old farm; and then the
poet ought to go and tell tho prairie hen and
meadow lark and induce them to resume bust.
ness. The shutting up Of the concerts of the
prairie hen and the meadow lark Is one of the
most awful OF the many woes ascribed to the
Crime of 1873. but there Is no reason why the
songs should stick in their throats any longer.
The old farm will not be sold. and the silent
sessions on the fence can be adjourned without
day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27

movo On. q. vfithinn. sseAs thspiain and csaseA
n ,vouid b. great douvsnisncs n this Missouri
plan could Be extended 10 an the fruits and
vegetables why should D man have TO
"bush" HE peas md "pole" his beans
why should no have 10 shake the tree
or climb Q ladder on the tree or use
n picker or . club when he wants an apple or q
pearl Many improvements arc needed In egri-
culture and horticulture, and the world looks to
Missouri for them. In fact. the most hopeful
minds forosee the time when things will grow
without being planted and tho crops will rot mp
or down. &c the case may DO. and take care of
and rather themselves.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
Tho Van CortiAndt Iinls.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sir There seems to
be . great deal of very just complaint as to the way
in which the golf links ut Van Cortlandt Park arc
laid out, ana there ia room for a great deal OF i'm
provement. The hazards on the NTH and seventh
holes are very poorly placed, but the worst ( ature OF
this course Is in pA ing three extremely long holes
together. These arc the last thr, Q holes and cover a
distance OF about l.i00 yards. which 10 nearly
enough for n good nine'hole course and nearly equal
TO the distance covered by the other xix holes.
This could he easily remedird and should he, rs IL IA
eItren ely tiresome and spoils good golnng. Any
thing that cnn be done to improve this win be highly
appreciated by those who play at Van Cortlandt.
w II
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27

Missouri is a State OF marvels and mfr
acles. and nothing that happens in 1t causes
much surprise. So the story Off Missouri farmer
who has found a sure means OF defeating tho
potato bug trust may DO accepted without
much preliminary inquiry. save by natural
lists and precisianS. The story Is that a farmer
living near Golden City has contrived q
potato which will grow without vinos. In
cultivatins tho vineless potato tho harrow IL
mighier than the hoe. The potato bug has TO
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
why . hoy Was Good FIFTY Year, Aga
Fron the Spr{r1d,Id Reoubifcnr

Assistant Marshal Wright amused himself the
other day with watching a small boy, who
thought he was unobserved, try to let the wind
out OF a bicycle standing in front OF the Western
Union office. He unscrewed the cap from the
valve and then glanced about to see il any Cns
knee on it. and tried various means TO get tho
air out, looking, meanwhile. to sec II the owner
was coming. He finally had to give up. Mr..
Talk about bad boys, they wouldn't have
done that fifty years ago MI. Hendrick. evt.
IDENTIFY a believer in the boy of to-day. answered.
"Oh, no; they didn't have bicycles fifty year'
ago."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
Boon

wheat Is jumping.
Fairly humping.
With an upward pace h pumping.
And the farmer wears . amiIe ne'er seen before.
Gold Is pouring.
Hineu boring,
Unknown Arctic helds exploring
For the millions which tho earth has held in store
silver's dropping,
Theories popping.
While the Pops their eyes are mopping.
A the mortgagoors arc paying on their debts.
All Is hustle.
All u buHtle.
Work for brain and work for muscle.
Thu Ca~AmityitSs are paying uD thstE beta
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
Political Courtesy.
From tho Kansas cssv Journal

The appointment OF Gen. Prentiss to the
Postmastership at Bethany. mNde several
months ago.. is still hung up in the Senate and
probably will not be confirmed during the EXTRA
session. This in no wise reflects upon the Gen
eral, however, but Is strictly In accordance with
his wishes. He was permitted to serve out his
former term, although IL covered nearly a year
Of the Cleveland Administration and he. with
the full approval OF President Mckinley. desires
similar courtesy shown his Democratic success.
sor. the present incumbent, whose term will end
In naCamhar
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
Statue or Patrick Henry In . Show window
From the CharLston, ". Va, Gazette.

Nonongalia county is the owner OF q statue Of
Patrick Henry, which for forty years mutely
challenged the attention and great respect o.
her people from Its honor Bile position on top Of
the old County Court House. But when q new
temple OF justice was erected on the site Of the
old. a few years ago. Patrick fell from his high
estate and the name of his marble image Wal
mud. To-day the statue stands In n Morgan
town shop window as an advertisement. Ths
MononEalian calls the attention OF the county
court to the fact. and characterizes the abandon.
ment and dishonor OF the statue of the great
'Virginian as a shame and disgr ace to Mononga-
liza Cnuptv
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
A Covered wagon Courtship.


ATcHIsoN. July ga. W. Carter. a young
man from Victor, a., who was on his way 10 seek
his fortune in southern Kansas. travelling in a
covered wagon, overlook another family going
west with the same, intentions. Miss Bertena
tion OF Cartor. and they exchanged their afeo-
tons as readily as ordinary movers exchange
horses; They were married in Atchison to-day
by Probate Judge Snyder. and the party went
on their way rejoicing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27

When Mr.. CLEVELAND signed the German
bill he confessed with bitterness. &c.-Rennebso
Daily Journal.
II this is the way our contemporary proposes
to write history. the year 1900 will hear II dis
coursing about the feelings OF Mr.. GoRMAN as
he signed the Cleveland bill. Mr.. THOMAS
BRACKET REED, whom he returns to Maine.
had better do a little school teaching again for
the honor OF his State.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
Horses san Usea FOR travelling.

FFom tc LVnchhuro. "a, Nttcs,
Harry Brown and William Lynn OF Columbus,
O.. arrived in the city yesterday. The two Young
men rode all the way from Columbus on borse-
back. having left their home on July q. After
remaining here for a few days they will return
to Columbus by way OF the State Of Kentucky.
Their horses are wiry.looking animals, snd 10
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
BtrnEglors.

Nfom the indianapolis Sentinel.
A little crowd OF Populists aud silver Republicans
assembled at the Court House on Thursday. An e1.
animation OF their platform shows that they have
dropped the word unlimited " from the demand for
free coinage.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27

PERRY BELMONT is one OF the leading bankers
OF New York Denrer Republican.
This is not so. Mr.. PERRY BELMONT is not a
banker at all. He never has been a banker. He
has no connection with any banking business In
New York, or in any other city.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
Tea Culture In south Carolina

FSom the Augusta Herald.
Tea culture in South Carolina Is voted . SUCCESS
and the industry will soon enjoy a now impetus.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
The stilted In Juvenile Literature.

There is no reason why people, because
they are virtuous or repentant, should con-
verse in stilted and unnatural language.
A contrite burglar in one of these edifying
stories confesses POLITICALLY, my sins are
more numerous than the hairs of my head
or the sands of the seashore," which was
probably true, but not precisely the way
in which the Bill Sikeses of real life are
wont to acknowledge the fact In another
tale, an English one this time little girl
named Helen rashly asks her father for
some trifiing information. He gives 1t
with the usual grandiloquence and then
adds by way of commentator, MANY
children are so foolish as to be ashamed
to let those they converse with discover
that they do not comprehend everything
that is said to them, by which means they
often imbibe erroneous ideas and perhaps
remain in ignorance on many essential
subjects, when by questioning their friends
they might easily have obtained correct
and useful knowledge" If Helen ever VEN
tured on another. query after that, she de-
served her fate.-Agnes Repplier in Serb
ner's.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
Gigantic Antarctic Iceberrs.

"The snowfall of each year adds a new
stratum to this ice cap, which is as distin-
guisbable to the eye as Is the annual accre-
ton of forest tree," writes General A.
w. Greedy, u. 5. A, describing In The
Ladies' Home journal what There Is mt
the South Pole. - "Thus in centuries have
accumulated on antarctica these SHOWS,
which by processes of pressure, thawing
and regulation have formed an ice cap
that in places exceeds 5000 feet In thick
ness. Through the action of various forces
that of contraction and expansion by
changing temperature being, perhaps the
most potent-this ice cap creeps steadily
seward and projects into the ocean per-
pendicular front from 1000 to 1000 feet
i'm height. The temperature of the sea wa
ter being about 80 degrees. the fresh water
ice remains unwasted and the ice barrier
plows the ocean bed until through fiotation
in deep water disruption occurs and the
tabular berg is formed. These bergs are of
a size that long taxed the belief of men,
but il is now well established that bergs
two miles square and 1000 feet in thick
ness are not rare. Others are as largeas
20 miles I'm length and some nearly 5000
feet in thickness, their perpendicular, sun
wasted sides rising from 200 to 400 feet
above the sea.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
A VERY STRONG HINT.
He Took 1t and Likewise the Fast Freight
Train.

Sam Wood whose name il written ali
over the STATE of Kansas, was one or the
brightest lawyers and best newspaper men
in the state He made and wasted several
fortunes before an effort to change coun-
ty seat ended In a gun fight which cost
him his life. Not prescriptions, he still
had his good traits, and he has almost as
many friends as enemies even now
One time Sam Wood went out TO new
county seat and opened "A law Office. Pres
emily he iouad a flaw in the title by which
about half the town site had Eeen convey
cd TO the present holders, and he picked up
the link and served notice ho would give
quitolaim decide every lot if the people
i'm possession would pay him. If not, he
gave notice he would begin suits In eject
ment.
Thoy were wild They were awfully
frightened They held Il meeting and APP
pointed u committee. The committee look
ed into the matter and then went TO Sam
Wood with their reply.
"We have searched the records, Mr..
Wood, " said the chairman of tho commit
tee, land we find you are right. If you
insist on trying these cases, all these peo-
pie must be thrown out of their homes.
What sound is that, Mr.. Committeeman"
at is che fast freight from the west, ."
was the reply
eyes, It is the fast freight from the
west" repeated the chairman. at will
stop at the tank for water You have just
time, Mr.. Wood, TO catch that train, and
wouldn't take n return ticket if | were
you" And he began to unwind a rope he
had looped up under his ulster.
"But through frcights don't carry pas
sengers. said Sam Wood, fully grasping
the situation and looking swiftly over the
utterly hopeless situation.
"This freight will carry "a passenger, :"
said the chairman of the committee calm
ly.
"Put the end of this rope over that avn
ing POLE, Mr.. Committeeman. 1t will
carry passenger, and he can go as live or
dead freight, just as no likes We have
just time
But Sam Wood was in the middle Of
the street and half block away, running
for dear life. He caught the freight at the
water tank, and he never returned. Chi
cagO Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
STARTLING FIGURES.
The Colonel Floored the Scoffer at Ken.
tucky's Mineral Greatness.


The colonel from the Blue Grass who
had been abor. New York trying to get
people interested below the surface of the
state was footing his trumpet in the Office
of the Fifth Avenue hotel
Jaw, colonel, come down peg or two,
won't your exclaimed scoffer. "Im
perfectly willing TO grant that what you
say Is true, for the figures are practically
oflicial but, granting that, there isn't
enough coal there, for instance, to make
1t worth while to spend money in build
ing roads to get IL out. Railroads can't
run on wind, and when the coal is all
mined what will the railroads do then,
poor things?" and the scoffer gave the
colonel the haw haw.
Others joined in with the scoffer, and
the colonel grew hot in the linen about
his neck.
"Let me call your attention TO few fig
ures," he said, taking book out of his
pocket. Il have made these up from the
figures which our friend here says he is
willing to admit are true. Now, won't
say word in this argument for anything
in eastern Kentucky except the camel coal
which is there There is, according TO
these estimates, a camel coal area of 1000
square miles, which is under rather than
over. On much of this there are two and
three veins, running from "a TO 60 inches
But let us be modest and cut it down to
an average of RS inches. Now, the stand
ard of measure calls for 1870 tons of coal
per inch per acre. Thirty-six inches at this
rate means 4 1850 tons per acre There are
$40 acres to every square mile, and there
are 1000 square miles, or 2, 800, 900 acres
Multiplying this by 1850, the number of
tons per acre we have an aggregate of
IL $50, SOC, 900 tons"
The scoffer began TO show wrinkles in
his brow.
"This," continued the colonel, without
particle of Colonel Sellers i'm his tone,
closes only 3 per cent in mining, so we
have for shipment II, 421, 760, 600 tons.
Counting 90 tons to the carload, this coal
would require 571 ,0SS, 900 cars, which, il
sent out from the mines at the rate of
1000 cars per day-that is, 90 trains of 90
cars each-would require 1,56i years and
@ months, period of time quite long
enough, l think, for any reasonable man
to expect an investment TO last.
"Of course" continued the colonel,
"these figures apply only TO camel coal.
The bituminous area is twice as large not
to mention fire clay, petroleum, timber,
from
"For the Lords sake, colonel" gasred
the scoffer "stop How much money did
you say You wanted us New York people
to put up?" And the colonel told him as
promptly as he had given him the camel
coal hgures.-New York sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
ROYAL Roads.

People will discover at last that royal
roads to anything can no more be laid in
iron than they can in dust; that there are,
in fact no royal roads to anywhere worth
going to; that, if there WERE it would
that instant cease to be worth going to-
mean so far as the things to be obtained
are in any way estimable in terms of price,
for there are two classes of precious things
in the world-those that God gives us for
nothing-sun, air and life (both mortal
life and immortaD, and the secondarily
precious things which he gives us for a
price. These secondarily precious things,
worldly wine and milk, can only be
bought for definite money. They never can
be cheapened. No cheating nor bargain
ing will ever get single thing out of ma
lures establishment at half price. DO we
want to be strongS We must work. To be
hungry We must starve. To be happy
We must be kind To be wiser We must
look and think. -Ruskin.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-26
The Greatest Park In the World.

Writing Of "The Greatest Nation on
Earth" in The Ladies' Home Journal, Will
liam George Jordan says: "Uncle Sam set
apart royal pleasure ground in north
western Wyoming and called 1t Yellow
stone National park. To give an idea Of
what it's size, 3,312 square miles, really
means, let us clear the floor of the park
and tenderly place some of tho great cities
of the world there close together as chill
dren do their blocks. First put in Lon
don, then Greater New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Paris, Boston, Berlin, St.
Louis, Hongkong, San Francisco and Wash
ington. The floor of the park would then
be but half covered. Then lift up Rhode
Island carefully, so as not to spill any of
its people, set 1t down, and press in the
West Indies, and even then there are 200
square miles left No equal area In the
world has such diversity of natural phe-
nomena and such magnificent scenery. 1t
is marvellous land of streams and water
falls, geysers and hot springs, mountains,
canyons, lakes and forests of primeyal age. I"