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En-saEemen. OF the Rev. Arnola N. Reading

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sfr! desire to mako
q statement in contradiction to the various false re-
ports published In the press relative to tho breaking
of the engagement between Miss Margaret Carleton
and myself. The day Of the announcement brought
three reporters. to whom I simply ~knowledg tho
Official statement as being correct, this being all the
situation Justified mo in saying. The following day
q sensational article appeared in the Herald, in
which my brother and sister were quoted as as.
auming responsibility for the broken engagement.
This Is entirely false. as they did not give
as they knew nothing OF the affair until tho
announcement appeared in Thursdays Herald.
l went TO the Herald the day of the articles appear.
ance and stated the fact that Miss Carleton had
broken the engagement all reports and published
untruths TO the contrary. The denial did not appear
until Sunday. and then In false and garbled form as
~relegatcd TO an OBSCURE place in the voluminous edi.
tion OF that day. II is Lumiliating that my efforts TO
protect Miss Carleton from published lies should
meet with such equivocLl success through the col.
umns OF the New York papers. Ny profound respect
and regard for Miss Carleton PROMPT me to appeal to
the Sun for Justice. hoping that this will end oil
further questioning and vindicate me In my honest
purpose to get the truth to the public.
ARNOLD N. REppIEo.
ST, MARKS REcToRY. TARRYTowS, N. Y, July 30.
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Confusion in the Gieldsensuppe Case

The announcements from day to day in
Trajectory and confusing as to convey the
idea that there must be great uncertainty
in the law or in the minds of the prose.
cutting authorities.
The accused prisoners have been indicted
in the county of New York, although the
actual killing appears to have been done at
Woodside, in the county of Queens. The
Code of Criminal Procedure provides that
when a crime is committed partly In one
county and partly in another, or the acts
or effects thereof constituting or requisite
to the contamination of the offence occur
in two or moro counties" the Jurisdiction
Is in either county. The Indictment against
MARTIN THORN, which was before Mr.. JUS
tlce TRUAx on habeas corpus proceedings,
was evidently framed with reference to this
provision, for it charges that the murder was
committed partly in the county of New
York and partly in the county of Queens.
The Justice did not decide, as one Of the
newspapers stated, that "the murderers
can be tried either here or In Queens
county," but he did hold that the indict.
ment on It's face charged a crime triable in
New York. He did not undertake to say
h would be the result il the proof upon
the trial showed that the murder was com.
United wholly in Queens county.
1t is perfectly clear that the case should
be tried in the county where the fatal blow
was struck aud the victim died. If the
alleged confession as to what happened in
the house at Woodside Is true, this place
was Queens county. The only theory, then,
on which it can be said that the muir
der was committed partly in the coun.
ty Of New York must be that
the intent to kill was formed here
and that this WAS the locality In
which the necessary generalization and do.
liberation took place. But proof on these
subjects will be difficult, and we cannot
understand why any element of doubt as
to the proper place of trial should be intro.
duced into a case certain to be difficult In
any event, when there appears to be no ques'
tion whatever as to the jurisdiction Of the
Supreme Court in Queens county.
According to a statement published yes.
terday, the prosecution here Is to be aban.
doned and the Grand Jury Of Queens county
is to be asked to indict. Indeed, the state.
ment is made that District Attorney Oh,
OFT has never thought of trying the pris'
oners here since 1t was ascertained that the
murder was committed at Woodside. We
had supposed, however, that all the infor
nation In the possession of the authorities
in respect to the locality of the homicide
was obtained before the indictments were
found, and that this indicated clearly that
Woodside wa the place of the murder.
But a wise decision is not to be con
demned because it might have been made
earlier. If District Attorney OLCoTT and
District Attorney YouNGs have agreed that
the persons suspected of killing WILLIAM
GIELDsENsUPPE at Woodside shall be tried
In Queens county, they decided wisely.
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trary, she II q chicken, but something Ii
due to metaphor and must be paid. Tho
Hon. Lorraine d. LEwELLINe, who used to
be the Populist Governor Of Kansas, will
shake In his boots when he reads about
chickens, hawks, and Mrs. LEASE. She de.
fed him once, waged war with him, con-
quered him, refused to take his hand when
tho poor chap offered IL in the meekest
spirit. Both hawbuck and urban Populists
who would like to oppose the candidacy Of
Mrs. LEASE will contribute to their W
happiness by recalling the fate Of LEW
Filling and taking care not to initiate 1t.
Kansas Populism Is rich In statesmen and
stateswomen, but the Hon. MARY ELIZA
BETH LEASE is the best statesman and
stateswoman In the lot. PETER PAUL
ELDER, JOHN WILDMAN LEEDY, JERRY
SIMPSON, ANNA E. DIGGs, WILLIAM Al
FRED PEFFER, are not to be mentioned in
the same year with her. She wants more
additions, reforms, changes, M general
repairs of things h anybody else in the
business. and she wants them more. The
other folks have their agues Of timidity,
their attacks of conservatism Mrs. LEASE
is consistently against everything that Ia
uhu uiIhyidiioiCdiiy u ihNof VI cNSIyIhihB
that isn't. Such are her principles, and she
is afraid Of nothing, loves the stump, and
has great resources Of language. II any
body can stir up the money sharks and the
mortgages, she Is the man.
1t is said that there is nothing in the
Kansas Constitution requiring the Gov
ernor to be a man. II there were the great
est living stateswoman would override and
intimidate the Kansas Constitution with
out effort. The Kansas Populists may as
we'll yield gracefully, If she has made up
her mind to have them nominate her.
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The Greatest Living stateswoman.

No message from the world OF Kansas
Populism can fail to appeal to the student
of poetical politics and millennial econom-
les. There are more revolutions to the min
ute and the square inch in Kansas Popu-
lism thar In any other kind, although all
kinds are active and swift revolving. There
are more fervencies of speech and song,
more originalities of proposition and dec
lamation, more passion Of elocution and
novelties of character In Kansas Popu-
ism Thar in all other Popullsm, including
Tom WATSON. CYCLONE DAVIS. and HEz
LUNG. The tornado and the grasshopper
have gone into politics.
The latest message from the world of
Kansas Populism is that the Hon. MARY
LEASE, the greatest living
statesWoman in Kansas. Is a candidate for
the Populist nomination for Governor. She
ought to get 1t. Probably she will, If she
asks for 1t with her accustomed air of maj
esty, and injects into the brains of the army
of hawbuck Populist politicians the idea
that she means business. She has plenty of
enemies among them, for her vocabulary
and her candor are large, but If she swoops
down upon them they will scoot to the coop
like chickens when 4 hawk is sighted. Not
that Mrs. LEAan u = hawk. On the o0n-
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The wicked conduct of Nature toward
some Of its children who are engaged in the Pop
ulist and Popocrat business 10 particularly
wicked in Kansas. Tho State" says the To-
pekd Capital, has twenty-five million dollars
worth of old corn in tho crib, the prospect
of two hundred million bushels of new corn,
and its wheat this year will sell for
$25, 600. 600 more than last years CROP" This
is a pleasant prospect for thinkers who have
arranged a programme Of weeping and wailing
for the next three years. What is tho use of
cultivating whiskers and pathetic eloquence,
and of having a talent for dismal prophecy, II
things will insist on looking 30 irredeemably
cheerful : Here is Governor LKKpY of Kansas, Q
Populist full Of tears and fire to tho gunwale,
making this horrible admission:
kansas nnds herself to-day with moro Of her sbts
iiquidated and her finances in better shape than. Per
haps, any other State in the Union"
So despair after despair is lost, and State after
State turns away from tho Popocrats and tho
Populists. forswears disaster, and becomes too
busy and prosperous to stop and listen to tho
shoutings of the calamity army. Every feeling
heart will pity the Populists and the Popocrata.
Everything is against them. They have to be
prosperous themselves.
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Americans 3ust what . statesman % the right kinA
cen do Count KANT1 or Herr voH HnTL or Count
LnrnUna-sTmun could be sent - special Ambassador
TO Warrington TO straighten things out and TO restore
to Germany the respect which abe enjoyed before
1890. OF course. IL would be easy enough 70 market
elsewhere the 5000, 900 hundredwsight Of sugar
which We sold 70 America in 1898. and there would
be no troubls about doing the same for the few hun
bred millions of manufactures which our industries
export 70 the United States. Certainly the dignity OF
tho empire demands IL. Then We could place . diner
ential duty Of e9B q ton on American grain. Moro
over, We could prohibit again tho importation OF the
American pig and American pork-it IL 30 easy to md
q trichina here and there.
THAT Is the position Of the g~entlemaniy Agrarians.
Herr Won MARscHALI, to be sure, disagreed with themi
he believed that the application OF Count RANTz's
recipes would be q grievous error and would imperl
most seriously the very interests whose encourage
ment and protection are intrusted TO the Federal
Governments. But Herr Won MARscHALJ 10 . sick
man; he has no longer the right to speak in the name
OF the Federal Governments The A~grartans have Q
clear course. and nothing IL In the way OF their put
ting their excellent theories into practice. They are
now At liberty to begin q gay and festive tariff war
with the United States, and incidentally TO raise rap
idly tho price Of grain at home"
The Boersen Courier, In commenting or
the same situation two weeks ago., de-
clared that the time had come when the
Agrarian nobility, In view of their vic.
tories at court, must show whether they
were ready to hold their peace or were
really rash enough to plunge Germany into
q tariff wal with the United States" In
view of the petition Of the Farmers ALI.
ance to the German Government last week,
there can be no doubt as to the choice OF
the German mobiles. They stand con.
demned out Of their own mouths. They
are bent on checking this oountry's exports
Of agricultural products, no matter what
may be the form of the sugar clause or any
other clause in the Dingley bill, and unless
the most trustworthy newspapers in Ger
many have gone suddenly daft, the Berlin
Government is largely at their service.
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This Klondike affair has a very yellow

This Klondike affair has q very yellow
look, which will not escape the watchful eyes Of
the lovers Of the great white dollar. Is there
not good reason to believe that British Columbia
has been sailed by. capitalists, European and
American. for tho purpose Of attracting popular
attention from tho sacred white metalf How
did gold como to DO discovered there at
this time II tho discovery was not
made by collision with tho Money Power
in the hope of weakening the cause Of silver.
which is tho cause of humanity and ADoNIRAM
JuDsoN WARNERi Is 1t not the duty Of Con.
gress to investigate what may provo to have
been another movement in the long campaign
of corporate wealth against tho toiling
masses" and tho Hon. BILL STEWART !
While molten lips are still pouring forth
horror upon tho Crime OF 1878. tho Crime Of
1897 is in progress in the Klondike country.
More gold and moro dear dollars, and the tri.
umph Of tho good cheap dollar 10 postponed.
Shall the glorious issue Of 10 TO / be buried In
the gold fields Of Klondikei It 10 timo for the
friends Of silver to rise in their soats and their
temperatures, get out their brooms, and sweep
back the tawny waves. How would It do to be-
gin an agitation to mako tho possession of gold
O crime1
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they are talking about, tho Western farmersare
and must continue to be, downtrodden and Inn
poverishod. Why, they will not have enough to
eat or be ablc to bur a now piano until the
nccursed hand Of plutocracy il taken from
the throat Of agriculture. Is II conceivable that
these victims Of oppression arc paying their
mortgagcsi No, there Is n monstrous conspiracy
at work. The Money Power and the Money
Sharks havo MORTGAGES to burn, and they have
been burning them just to give pain to the faith
full children Of calamity and to exhibit a mirage
Of prosperity. Where Is Gen. jim WEAVER OF
1owai Where is the Hon. ToBE SoRUToHINs Of
Texasi The plot of the plutocrats must DO OK
posed.
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form or other ct home. They all their
houses with beautiful things. One would
suppose that from among them there would
be at least ono man genuine enough In
his relation to art and familiar enough
with the proprieties of public business to
see the essential vandalism of the over
throw of Prof. SARGENT and his colleagues,
and to bring the proceeding 90 discredit-
able to the Society and 90 offensive to the
public instinct to o stop. Yet we can tell
these gentlemen again that among their
most active members are some who are as
utterly unable to comprehend the relation Of
aplan to q work such as a botanical garden as
they would be to lecture upon a~uaternions.
Well does Hdrper's Weekly remark that
"the question involved is not only of great
but Of general Importance" 1t is with nat
ural indignation that the Critic exclaims
that 1t is bad enough to have any portion
Of the public lands-so increasingly pre-
cious-perverted from their proper use, but
far worse when that portion happens to be
the most beautiful of any in the possession
Of the people and one of the most beautiful
places within many miles Of New York"
1t is with no unknown feeling of disgust
that a citizen of special earnestness in de-
Tending New York against just such
affronts, asks THE SUN: Gould not a
campaign similar to that which swept the
Speedway out of Central Park be organized
to stop thlsm onstrous perversion of public
property to the control Of 'semi.private
institutions r"
The Fine Arts Federation respectfully
urge the Park Board to reconsider It's res
olution approving of the general scheme
referred to and to give to the report of Its
experts the consideration to which it is en-
titled" The Fin Arts Federation, and the
public behind them, are not concerned with
the merits Of the Botanical Society's plans.
So far as they are concerned that question
is In the hands of Prof. SARGENT, Mr.. HAST
INGs, Mr.. OLMsTED, and Superintendent
PARSONS. What the public resents is that
the Indispensable method for sound and or
derby administration Of IN important ques.
tion involving public art has been f1outed at
the solicitation of the Botanical Garden So
ciety acting Upon a weak and ignorant Park
Board and a queer and unaccountable
Mayor. 1t is to the Society that the Fin
Arts Federation really appeals to "recon.
slider this resolution" And what will be the
Federation's SUGGEST Will the Botanical
Society finally bow to decency7 Or, with
the Park Commissioners and the Mayor
in their control, will they return to the
public that famous but unpleasant an.
aver, What are you going to do about itT'
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The Hon. FREDERICK EDWARD WHITE,
the Democratic candidate for Governor Of Iowa,
cannot DO a very strong candidate. judged by
the description found in a sympathetic critic,
the San Francisco Examiner. From 1857,
when he went to Keokuk county from Ger
many. till 1861. when no entered tho army, he
was "a farm hand" From 1865 to the present
day he has owned a farm near Webster, which,
with the exception OF a term in Congress, he has
titled ever since" He "does his own work.
that is. physically assists his help In the
ploughing. sowing and harvesting of crops"
Now, all reputable labor is on a high plane of
unvarying dignity, Notwithstanding the dema-
gogues think 1t popular to despise the labor of
the mind and exalt the labor OF the hands. But,
all the same, such is the ineradicable common
sense of mankind and Its instructive respect for
the higher intellectual faculties that In general
public sentiment does not sympathize with tho
proposition to make a man who Is moro farm
hand than anything else the Governor of a State.
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West Point

The Board of Visitors. which has Just
made Its report to Secretary AL0ER, dis
cusses the question Of opening the Military
Academy to n greater number of candidates
each year. 1t points out that by allowing
each Senator to select . cadet, - Repre-.
Bentatiyes do now. the maximum would DO
increased by ninety. To these could DO
added moro cadets at largo.
The difficulty just now. however. 10 to
secure vacancies in the companies for the
graduates of each year. With every 70.
curing June much the greater part of the
graduating class must go into the army as
Additional Second Lieutenants, and this
year every man so went, because there were
ALREADY y many Second Lieutenants a.
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me Tally stopped with the WAN

FrozD the Atlanto Constitution
A Georgia man was arraigned for boating htF
wife.
What have you to say for yourself =" asked
the Judge.
kin / speak ont, Jedgef"
Yes. What have you to say z
ledge, yer honor, / want to say Jest th'si Y
never did have no trouble with nonr e. ny
wives. 'cept this one, My fust wife was N angel.
third wuz willin. an reasonable. my 10Th wu1
moderate, my"
I'm the name of goodness" interrupted the
Judge, "how many wives have you hadI"
The man looked thoughtful. aud hen said;
ledge, don't know. 1 use 10 keep track Of
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A remarkable discovery has Just been made
Ing Of q new ray Of light, closely resembling tho
Roentgen IN its properties, but produced under
entirely different conditions. The rays are OBJ
tanned directly from decomposed light, and Mr..
Woodward has named them Spectropic Y arys.
The have great penetrative power, and with
transparent bodies have been obtained.
Like the Roentgen ray. the Spectropio K ray
eludes the spectroscope. and II believed of very
short vibrative period.
The discovery of tho Woodward rays will
throw important light upon the nature OF Roent.
gen rays, and prove Beyond doubt that the
Roentgen rays are waves Of very short vibratiye
period.
woodward rays have not yet been made public.
Mr.. Woodward 10 q member of the American
Institute OF Electrical Engineers Of New York
city.
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From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

nc u 7 nv D7l1ET
Tho youth In tho tan-colored cycling SUI
turned to the white.mustached man with
deferential gesture.
Pardon me, Mr.. Bards." he said. "hrC vi
you perIlit mo to ask what kind OF mat, hes %,
prefer for domestic use ."
matches r. echoed tho old geuilc'lhI
Matches for domestic usei What hu c>lr OF
binary question: Why. safety matches, 0
course"
The young man smiled.
Then, Mr.. Bards." ne said. "peruit rr +"
70 inform you that your daughter Milne q .
eloped on wheels this morning and Ar now h.,I.
Tor the customary parental hlessiLI."
lie blew lightly on his whistle aud the lovely
girl darted into the room.
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Tho Captured Park noard.

From the Commercial Advertiser.
II ia Just IA well that tho Park Commissioners
should have ignored the Fine Arts Federation's pro
test against their disregard OF the experts report ON
the Botanical Garden plans. The Federation repne.
srnts practically all OF the artists In this neiRbbor.
hood. so that there is no excuse for suspecting that
our Commissioners OF Parks have any sympathy
whatever with art,
From the Tribune.
1t docs seem surprisinT that the Park Board. having
asked advice OF a skilled commission. should reject
its counael
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The debate or colloquy In the House DO
tween the Hon. BENro MCMILLAN Of Tennos-
SEQ and the Hon. JOE BAILEY of Texas as to
the tariff, appears especially humorous In Wow
Of the fact that at least ono Of those Atlantean
statesmen has never been able to comprehend
what a tariff for revenue only is. The colloQuy
was for buncombe only. When Mr.. BAILEY
spouts, Mr.. MoMnLN has to spout too, lest
his young rival should get ahead OF him. Be-
sides. the Texans acreage of shirt-front never
fails to awe the gallery.
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The labor trusts in Chicago delight to show

The labor trusts in Chicago delight to show
their power. They have ordered that everybody
who marches in the Labor Day parade shall
wear union-made shoes, with the union label
on the soles thereof. A committee Of the trust
will review every sole in the parade. Presume
bly, each parader will be required to stand on
his head at the reviewing stand and exhibit his
labels to the committee. Anybody who has
lost his labels will be driven from the ranks. 1t
might be q little moro convenient for the pa
raiders to have their soles inspected before tho
show. but the majesty of the trusts will DO dis
played much more effectively by means Of q
public scrutiny Of the parading feet.
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At The Trans.Mississ,pni Convent,on Al

At the Trans-Mississippi Convention the
Hon. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN declared with
his usual wealth of dramatic declarations
"when I desert bimetallism. you can brand mo
with disgrace. but II every member OF this convention
deserted it. you cannot disgrace mol Will light for
silver still"
An unnecessary gust Of emotion over an T.
fusion. Mr.. BRYAN can't desert bimetallism.
because he is not a bimetallist. He Is . silver
monometallist or monomaniao.
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from w inca OoNtTffF.
A gentleman who was fishing on seventh lake
a few days ago became tired ana sit. ny. 80 10
anchored his boat near the shosr IL q sandy
spot and lay down III the no tom Tor uIl.
After awhile he was awaken, hy something
blowing upon his face, and whtu he q ned us
eyes he saw a big buck standing 90 a., belly ia
the water beside tho boat aud wN'h his nose
close to the tlsherman's face. The gentleman
lay quite still, rather enjoying tue situation.
About that time another boat came around no
corner into the little cove, and The buck with 9
bound disappeared in the woods.
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There seems to be ample evidence of
another nefarious conspiracy of the Money
Power and tho Money Sharks. How else can
these reports from many Western States of the
paying OF Of millions on millions of dollars of
mortgages bo accounted fort Minnesota, No
braska. Iowa, Kansas, the Dakotas have been
reducing their mortgage debts by impress
sive payments. Is 1t to BIO supposed that
tho farmers are able to pay mortgages with
out tho aid of cheap dollarsi Does Mr.. BRYAN
believe for q moment that tho farmers Of his
State have been wiping out their mortgages
at the rate Of &c. 0o.O 900 . yeari It can
not b. II the apostles Of 10 TO ! know what
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Public opinion will want to be moro
thoroughly enlightened than It is at present be-
fore it supports the Secretary Of the Navy in
confirming the dismissal Of a freshman from the
Naval Academy for setting of q firecracker on
the Fourth Of July.