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item into the General Deficiency bill is that
It is desired to avoid . special and more
elaborate measure on the subject, such
as will be offered In December. Such q
measure now would bring up demands for
considering other subjects deemed equally
important. But this preliminary action
will clear the way. The invitation will be
accepted, the different States will be able
to prepare for their share Of the work,
rules and regulations will be drawn
up. Congress will no doubt have a
preliminary report from the Commissions
to act upon in December, and the desired
space at the fair will, as soon as possible,
be secured. The House should concur
with the Senate on this measure.
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All uer Estate to Her Negro Servant
From the ST. Lo,tf, Globe Democrat.

MEMPHIS. July 1O.-Yesterday Alexander 3.
Williamson, colored, didn't have a cent on earth
that he could call his own. This morning he
went to the Probate Judge. J. s. Galloway, ana
qualified to take possession Of a fortune valued
at S45 600 that had been left him under the will
OF the late Mrs. Clara Mariani. This is the re.
ward the negro gets for a lifetime of devotion
to duty In the service OF the family of the woman
who has just died. He has for years been in
charge OF the affairs of Mrs. Mariani. and has
always been found honest, diligent. and pecu.
liarly Trustworthy. She gave him credit FOR
having done much to make the fortune she left
behind, and as she had no relatives living To
whom she could leave her property she thought
it was only Just that it should go to this faithfu!
servant.
Mrs. Mariani died last Tuesday morning.
About n week before that time. feeling that
her end was approaching. she sent for her law.
yer and instructed him TO draw up her will,
leaving oil the property she possessed. of what
ever kind. to her negro servant, Alexander
Williamson. There was realty. and cash In the
bank. and insurance policies, and some stocks
and bonds. Alexander was entitled 10 them al,
and the Judge made an order to that effect
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Lake OF Ink with Curative Power.
Rrom the Morning or,Oomiam.

In the middle oI the Cocopah hills IN Arizon-.
is what Is known as tho Lake OF luk. Though
supplied by beautiful springs OF clear water tao
liquid OF the lake is black and OF an ink,l!kp
character. The temperature varies from no 10
2l6', according 10 tho locality. and the water
feels smooth and oily. Accordin. To the In
dams, not only OF the vicinity, hut ar away. 10
waters of Tho Lake Aave strong ~, nal guar
ties, though most white people would hest
tate TO adopt the mode OF treatment pre-
scribed. The invalid is buried up TO his moui..
In the hot volcanic mud for from twenty to thirty
minutes. Then no is carried. covered with mui,
to the edge Of the lake. into which he is PLUNGED
for from fifteen to twenty minutes, after which
he Is rolled in n blanket aud allowed to sweat On
the hot. sulphurous sand o. rock near by. TIE
cures wrought are said to be wonderful.
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The Paris Exposition OF 1900.

The Senate's amendment to the General
Deficiency bill, arranging for the appoint
ment of a Special Commissioners to repre-
sent MS at the Paris fair, and to begin
preparations for the American exhibit
there, cannot be called premature.
The great show opens April IS, 1890,
and other countries have already made
their appropriations for it. have applied for
space, and In some cases have received con-
c~essions of particular grounds to be &C.
cupied. Since we are to be represented
there, we shall do well to wait no longer
in securing whatever advantages come
from a timely choice of space and an
early application for privileges. At best
we are under the disadvantage of having
to cross the ocean with our products, and
the appointment of the Commissioner Is
necessary before anything can be lone to
spread information among those who desire
to exhibit.
The sum provided for in the bill is only
$25, 900, which includes the Commission
er's salary of $4,000 a year, and is, of
course, to be regarded as n preliminary
amount. Countries like Russia and Ger
many have appropriated from $500, 900 to
$4,000 it appears, and, while we shall
not attempt to compete with them in this
particular, yet we shall undoubtedly have
to go very far beyond $25, 900 in order to
secure suitable representation at what will
undoubtedly prove the greatest of the
worlds many great fairs. For the Paris ex.
position of 1850 we appropriated $3.50, 900.
We are already behind all the other great
nations in providing for this exhibition.
Or course, the reason for introducing this
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His Slave wire the RiEhtruI One.
From the Karsas CITY Tina,

SNb @'"
LAWRENCE. Kan, July 1O.-Judge Burris. in
the District Court to-day, decided an important
legal question and one which involves the title
to considerable land in Douglas and Leayen-
worth counties.
In 1852 Grant Renfro. q colored man, was
married, under the slave custom. in Howard
county. Missouri. He and his wife Ann lived
together until 1867 or 1868, when he left her
married TO another woman, his slave wife
remaining in the, country. Wife after vi :
died. until be had been married to five, be-
TO Kansas and acquired some property. selling
one farm and buying another. A year ago he
died. owning a valuable farm near LawEeuCr.
besides considerable personal property. His last
wife and several children survive him. VIE
No. l is also alive and has come forward to as.
pute the claim Of wife No. 8 TO the property.
Judge Burris held that she was the leGsl
widow of Grant Renfro. the common law mar.
ringe made in Missouri being a valid ono. IT. J
decision affects not only the land own "
ECniro at the time Of his death, but clouus tbs
title 70 the real estate decided at various times
by him and his other wives.
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cone into power, but came under subsection
10 a Mugyump "ruler." When again
elected in 1892 he completed the disrup-
tion of the Democratic party and brought
about It's disintegration. The old Demo
cratic party gave place to a new party with
radically opposing principles.
Meantime the spirit Of distrust and
defamation, Of which this ruler" was the
representative, had worked injuriously to
all departments Of business. Confidence
gave place to gloomy misgivings. The OPP
timistic feeling which had characterized
this young and aggressive country wa re-
placed by q spirit Of doubt as to the
wisdom and security Of our institutions
and the value of the actual results Of
our American political methods. 1t was
the bear spirit replacing the bull spirit
which needs must always characterize q
progressive people. The fashionable cry
became q howl that Congress and the
had fallen into hopeless ~decadence; that
our public men had declined in ability and
moral responsibility that the boss" had
arisen as n consequence; and that organ.
lied parties were merely corrupt machines.
Such was the howl that went up unceas-
ingly, though every competent student Of
our political history knew that in our polit-
ical methods and in the character Of our
public men there had been advance rather
han retrogression.
The time has como when this reasonable
defamation of the great American repub-
lie must be stopped II we are to have
progress and prosperity. 1t has been suf-
fered to go on too long without the sharp
rebuke it deserves from public opinion.
Its continuance has involved incalculable
! injury to this country and all its inter,
ests. 1t has lowered American reputa-
ton in the eyes of the world, lessened
confidence in American integrity, security,
and enterprise, and spread among the peo'
pie at home dangerous dissatisfaction with
conditions inseparable from human society.
The men and the newspapers engaged in
propagating this spirit of defamation. de-
traction, and suspicion must be curbed by
the business community more especially,
and compelled to desist from their essen
TALLY reasonable enterprise.
This country is now entering upon a new
stage in its development, and, in order that
it may proceed unhampered in the fulfil
ment of It's destiny, the influences Of which
we have spoken must be repressed by thu
whole force of our society and our politics
They constitute a dangerous conspirac!
against our national prosperity.
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A Cuckoo Democrat on the Chicago
Platform.

A misstatement made at the gold Demo-
Gratis Convention in Kentucky should make
the Hon. JOHN G.. CARLISLE hang his head
with shame. and with modification that
any remark of his should have exaggerated
the credit due to the Chicago platform.
There is not a genuine Democratic senti-
ment," said Mr.. CARLISLE, speaking of the
Democratic platform, "in any of its declare
tions." This was al unwise and wholly
needless Misrepresentation of the existing
Democratic party. TIL Chicago platform
has a plank that says:
ave declare It to be the unwritten law Of this re-
public. established by custom and usage OF one
hundred years. and sanctioned by the examples Of the
greatest and wisest OF those who founded and have
maintained our Government, that no man should DO
eligible for q third term of tho Presidential ONCE"
Between this expression of a fundamental
idea Of the Democratic party and the free
silver and anarchy of Organism, made
parts Of the Democratic creed at the same
time, there is a singular connection. TIL
Bryanite Democracy, against which MIR.
CARLISLE and his friends revolted, was an
immediate consequence of the third term
ambition Of the President to whose Ad-
ministration Mr.. CARLISLE belonged Off
cially. Staggered with it's effort to thwart
Mr.. CLEvELAND's insatiate longing for the
White House, the Democracy fell back into
the clutches of the radicals, and into the
platform resulting there went the above
declaration of IN American principle which
must nave drawn thousands of would-be
rebels into the Bryan camp under a sense
of moral obligation to uphold 1t.
And of the entire organization of gold
Democrats now talking volubly Of a Democ.
racy hat Is genuine" and "true" and
"pure," not one, with exceptions SO few
as to be Insignificant, stamped upon the
third.term snake when it's death might
have preserved the Democracy in its orig
inal spirit. The Hon. HENRY WATTERsoN,
the Hon. DoNELsoN CAFFERY, IL we remem-
Der Alright, and the Hon. JAMES Z. CAMP
BELL of Ohio about make up the list. After
them none of their colleagues now 80 glow
ing with patriotism was man enough or
Democrat enough, when asked for his opin-
ion Of Mr.. CLEVELAND as again the candi-
date Of the Democratic party, to put forth
any more effective protest than was con-
tanned in the ~pusillanimous evasion 81
don't think Mr.. CLEVELAND is a candidate
In the National Democratic organiza.
tion, with its Endorsements "of the
CLEVELAND Administration" income tax,
deficiency bonds. and all, and it's continual
exaltation of the ex-President as a states,
man and a letter writer, is one OF the most
exciting and strengthening forces that
keep Organism alive and threatening.
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The thermometer Drips Millions.

Tho effect Of hot humidity upon brain
tissues of q certain texture continues to be
painfully manifest to the southwest-by-
west of us. The prospect Of the annexation
of Hawaii by common consent and peaceful
treaty has infamed the intellect of our
neighbor, the Ne,p York Times, under re-
cent weather conditions. to an extent that
begins to be alarming. Yesterday the Times
took q lead pencil between its trembling
fingers and neuropathic thumb and ciphered
out the cost of annexation in this extraor-
binary fashion:
"The matter II important. II We annex Hawai We
shall DO compelled to build q navy for the Pacific
Ocean. A neet OF battleships could not steam from
New York to Honolulu in much less than Q month.
allowing for the inevitable mishaps and detentions Of
the voyage. We must have . navy at hand to defend
our interesting new sister. We shall require a. q be-
ginning at least twenty seagoing lighting machines
OF tho nrst class, mainly battleshipe, with q few
cruisers thrown in. This will constitute q foundation
for a Pacific navy. 1t will cost us 500. 200. ooo."
But why should the Times limit the
necessary expenditure to twenty new
battlcshlps and cruisers7 Why not sixty,
which, at an average of $50, OO0, 900 apiece,
would make the demnition total on
Hawaiian account, in the Navy Depart
ment alone, not less than $1So,O 0O, 900,
or twenty-five times more than SEWARD
paid for the Klondike gold feldsi Who
will dare to contradict the Times II it
asserts that not merely twenty new battle
ships and first-class cruisers, but sixty, or
eighty, or even a hundred of the expensive
craft, will be required for the protection of
Hawaii, II it is annexed2
Moreover, II these new battleships and
cruisers should be wrecked and totally lost
IN the Scilly Islands, let us say, on their
way out to protect Hawaii, they would
have to be replaced at once, which would
double the cost.
Why, the superhcated Times can count
in millions quicker than a mind at normal
temperature can reckon in units or tens
From it's SEQ, 900, 900 estimate it jumps in
the very next paragraph TO $275, 900, 900:
"since 1894 we have expended S275,Ooo, 600 IN
building and maintaining our navy. At least tina,
amount must be expended for the defence OF Hawaii
before we can feel that we hold our leprous fellow
citizens in secure possession
1t is not at all pertinent to remark thai
since 1894 the total expenditure for build
ing and maintaining our navy, including
the total Of appropriations for the fisca
year just ended. has been, not $275, 200, 900
but $S6, sos, 1906. A little error Of ont
hundred and lightweight million four hun
dred and ninety-one thousand eight hun
dred and ten dollars and ninety-fou cent
is nothing to an excited thermometer which
drips millions as easily as a soda fountain
squirts arbonic acid gas.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sfr: Your editorial of
to-day. Seth Low Reveals Himself. =" is eIactly to the
point OF what alumni OF Columbia have been saying
to themselves for several years
SIN. as Mr.. Low has some executive ability, we
have not trembled for the future of Columbia on &C
count Of Mr.. Lows calibre. What we have worried
about is his policy Of niling the 800 professorships
with mediocre men TO conceal his own calibre. SO that
OF all these professorshipS Il is impossible to md one
nlled by 4 man Of any prominence or special reputa.
tat.on whatever
The question iS, were Mr.. Low Mayor OF Greater
New York would he inaugurate the same policy there ?
GEORGE ". LAWRENCE, %.
BAsKINo RIDGE, n, J., July o. 1897.
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Pocatero. the w,de-open Town or Idaho.
From the Evansville Journal.

Talking Of widc-opcn towns. this is the hose.
Saloon licenses cost 81 OBI $500 state. 800
town, and $2S Government. This is considered
pretty steep, hence there is q tacit agreement 10
let the saloons have full swing. They are a. r,
DAY and night, including every Lay in the y.l-
and Sundays, except election days. Bee. IS
brought 1000 and 500 miles, yet is sold fu. :
cents a glass. How saloon mon can atfuTd t.,1
Industry here, but WAS %intterly pr"hiIit%d by (.
town ordinance. am informed that considcr,-
bic of IL is still done on The sig. Pocatci.O -.
at times and yearn TO be nj home with my 10. 5
and to sec some OF the boys. inulyGing yours. 4:
AS the appropriation for n" commission WI.
wintering at home. which vii! suit me cNactl.
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Hawaii's OFFER to Japan.

One of the objections urged by Japan to our
annexation of Hawaii was that ait might
lead to the postponemcnt by Hawaii of the
settlement of claims and liabilities already
existing in favor of Japan under treaty
stipulations." But the latest news from
Honolulu shows that President DoLE's Gov
rnmen is already brushing that objection
aside, by offering to submit to arbitration
the question of Nnwaii's liability to Japan
in the immigration dispute.
Such n proposition certainly suggests no
anxiety to postpone the settlement of
Hawaii's liabilities. 1t indicates, rather, a
confidence on her part that she is right,
and also a determination to accept the
award Of any fair arbiter, even II adverse to
her. This we understand to be the purport
of a recent communication from Minister
COOPER to Mr.. SHIMAMURA, and il Japan
really believes she has a good case, and that
its settlement might be hindercd by an
nexation, she would do we'll TO accept
Hawaii's offer.
Still, the matter is not of primary
consequence. II Hawaii is really respon-
sihle pecuniarily for any injuries in
ficted by her on japanese subjects,
tho matter is In the nature Of a debt,
and we do not ask her to come into the
Union without paying her debts. Japan,
in fact, need not fear for any vested rights.
The thing, however, we could not consent
to do for her is to delay annexation until
she can get all her affairs settled with Ha-
wall. That might give her an unwarranted
hold on the islands and lead to wholly
unjust concessions, with the view of clear
ing away the path at any cost.
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Reports OF q deal between Mr.. WILLIAMS md
Mi. QUINCY IRE current The Mayor OF Roston ueslres
10 be Reflected, ana he wishes IL uuderstood. II IL said,
that no Ia not 40 much OF n gold man a. to fall to nave
n friendly feeling for siivcr.-trocfdence Journd'.
The WILLIAMS here named is GEORGE FRED,
who came out of the late Bryanite campaign
doublo.plnted with silver, and tho QUINCY Is Jo-
sIAH. tho Mayor Of Boston. The game, we must
assume, is the same as that proposed by the gold
Democrats horo for tho municipal campaign in
New York. Say tho gold Democrats to the Bry-
antics: "Give MS the harmony OF silence on the
Chicago platform, tho office of Mayor perhaps,
and we are with you" The combination prom
Uses to be as full of tricks rs a nursery.
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Heat Curled Up the Rolls.
From the Kansas CITY Journal.

Santa FS trainmen youch for the Statement
that Fridays through California train was
tagged by section men two miles this side -
Lexington because the rails or the ira * H..
been curved by the heat into the appe7raDct G.
sleigh runners, the heavy srtkes having boon
pulled from the oak ties and thrown into &c air
by the strain of the bending rails.
The accident occurred but Il few minutes q.
fore the train was due 10 pass, and had not lie
section men been at once attracted to he slg-
by the noise o. The flying spikes the train would
have dashed into the break ana h. { been hurled
from the track.
Passengers on the train stated that the H-1.
at the point of the accident was terrific. " ma
the repair OF the track was going on the oe,-.
pants OF the train sought a wood at one r.dC -
the track and remained there until the wJrN
was completed. II was two hours before .Ls
track was in shape for the train TO proceed.
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The struggle for Prosperity.



The promise of a gorgeous crop
Ii certain. I suppose,
And that Il why each bowling pop
Is looking down his nose.
q. party of u.cal'cd for cresds,
To prpsi.' 10 yOur sport
when earth's dried cover cracks and bleeds
And corn aud hay are short;
when moi winds blow across the plain
And hum the crops In atreaks,
n there has hecn no sign OF rain
For thirty-soven weeks;
When grass and grain and potted plants
Are withered by the sun,
The poppy pepper sees his chance
To make a winning run
But rain has fallen far and wide,
Joy he within our gates
Nebraska sitteth Ia her pride,
TIN queen OF prairie statesi
We have in sight . wealth OF crops
To harvest in the fall;
Dui, dern our skins. we have the pops,
The greatest scourSe OF all
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AM "old Thinner" asks TnE suN what hns

An cold Timer" asks THE SUN what has
become OF that famous old drink. brandy" and
advises youngsters who want to prolong their
days" to forxake tho new-fangled coolers"
prominent on the list Of summer drinks, and TO
substitute brandy. Our friend is wrong. Abolish
tho summer drinks, II you like. but substitute
nothing alcoholic. In the opinion OF a great light
In medicine. every drop Of alcohol introduced into
the system of a healthy man does so much harm.
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From the baltimore sun

ELLICoTT CITY. July l2.-tor n man to stretch
flRt ON tho Ground. face upward, Grl.
with both hands extended. arise without ass,'-
ground, is counted something o. a feat ~
strength and agility. but there is II Hownr!
county strcnc m'n who can not only do This. l. :
at III same time iii Np l. iItl standing uu tIi
palIus Of his hands and wcighin. $50 POEM.
The man Is q co,orcd farm hand. employed ly
torno, Mcclure. lio in 30 years old and weiyi15
$50 pounds. lie is the wonder of tho ncighhur'
hands in the way described he can get up and
stand erect
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Here is n Shakespcarean quotation which
is not altogether without pertincnce to the ne
Gotietions the Manhattan Club is now conduct
ing with Mr.. SHEEHAT, for the purpose OF buy
ing of Tammany from q Bryanite declaration in
the municipal campaign:
"Apotheoarv-My poverty, but not my will. con.
scuts."
"Romeo-I pay thy poverty. and not thy will"
-" romeo and juliet" Act y, Scene l.
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The calm and conservative members Of Thu

The calm and conservative members Of the
Citizens Union must observe with peculiar in
tcrest the gradual revelation Of what the Citi-
zens' Union is. II is an organization of tho
crank class, in It's essence a socialistic, univcr.
sity.settlemcnt sort of affair. of unlimited and
We fear uncomfortable possibilities for eccen.
tricity. After the manipulation OF the public
laundry scheme, the last to emerge from the
Citizens Union outfit, tho next addition to its
working forces ought to be the Salvation Army.
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1t Is clear from the remarks Of the Hon.
PoTATo PINsREE to the National League Of
Republican Clubs that that selt.effacing patriot
has not yet grasped the fact that he was hit
with power by his party in tho Detroit munich
pal election. and that his little hour Of strut
and rave Is nearly over.
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thsrn 70 change their form end feature. But thsy win
rssppsar again IN some other shape. Business men
and Industrial interests that are fighting for their ex-
istence are shiftisr by far than the mon who ~legisiats
in Warrington, and they will easily evsde any law
shat aims 10 restore the old order without aboiishins
tho conditions that made the old order impossible"
Get the free coinage Of silver, and sec II
you can make the trusts disappear then.
But they must disappear then. Plenty Of
money, no trusts.
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The Democratic party has never enacted laws
TO favor one class of citizens and injure mother
JOHN q. CARLISLE.
What party passed the income tax lawi

The Mugwumps who wcrc aghast at
the brutality" OF the Venezuela ultimatum
are, OF course, distressed by the "discourtesy"
OF Secretary SHERMAN's letter exposing the
disgraccful conduct OF England In the matter
Of tho sealing regulations. Their frail nerves
can never stand the shock OF a vigorous uttorance
of American sentiment. The Mugwump 10 the
legitimate successor Of tho Copperhoad who was
for tho war but against its prosecution.
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system Of shorthand cannot read each others
notes accurately takon at q speed Of 1925 words
a minute, unless they have given special atten-
ton to tho subject. Mr.. DEMENT, 10 doubtless a
rapid reporter, but he hasn't yet proved that he
Is ablo to keep pace with the photograph.