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The times., 1897-09-09

nice President in public He has been called
intellectual. courtly, polite, suaye, delight
full and lots of other pretty things, but has
he ever been called by fifty babies at
at once. d nice man? 1t probably was a
new experience.
Nice, according TO the dictionary, means
precise, exact, and hair splitting in correct
ness. A nice man is a man who is fussy.
old Bcttyish. prim; particular about the set
OF hil collar and the seasoning of his
puddlngs. the kind of man who would find
his most congenial occupation in knitting
thread lace and piecing quilts, were that
sort OF thing fashionable for mankind; the
kind of man who hunts up deriyations in
dictionaries and becomes librarian or a
waLch-repairer or a connoisseur in old
China. That sort of man Mr.. Mckinley
is not. Aud why should he be called so?
One need rot say with the Englishman
that nice is a nasty word, because, as the
American retorted, nasty is not nice
word. Ia. we needn't teach our children to
use it in talking to the Chief of the nation.
Cleveland needs dictionaries.
The times., 1897-09-09

for some months have been making their
appearance regularly and must cost the
Hanna campaign fund pretty penny,
since probably nobody would accuse theia
of legitimate subscription lists or fail In
note their total lack of advertising III after.
number OF finely printed and bound
monographs on the single standard, ''sound
money!" national honesty ETC.. have
ieen published through good sfouses and
with great pains boori ell in the gold press.
They do not amount IT, much as books, TO
to themselves in afiording an insight into
the mental processes of their hank cashier
or tank president authors who, however
much They may know ahoIt shaving notes
and sweating customers, evidently have
not taken The time to master the first
rudiments of political economy.
1t appears, however, that the craze Of
authorship has bitten the bankers rather
venomousIy. Not content with the ejacu
lation of these attractive but useless
works the literary bureau OF the AmeH
can EaEkers' Association has been ordered
TO ent-r upon the really serious task or
ipstructing the people iii the philosophy,
To them in simple terms. so they can
comprehend the matter, that their whole
future life and eternal salvation depend
upon banks, and always more banks. ln.
cidentailv, il VIII be shown that banks
torn tie only economic force which should
he endowed with the power to issue money.
In the course Of this campaign of efdca-
ticn, we presume that bank credit in the
form of hank notes. not legal tender,
VIII he spoken of and treated as actual
money. and q great many other convenient
lessons win be attempted, but which need
not here be discussed.
Books, pamphlets, leaflets, tracts. pic.
lures all the devices OF big missionary
propaganda. are to be resorted tn, a nj from
the great center in New York they will
out the United States. Some of this new
religion win be printed on the back of
checks, aud on odd leaves i'll deposit
books. Every deuositor VIII get dose
of it when Ne deposits. or cashes out, or
gets his book balanced. 1t is a passing
clever device: but we are not in the least
the American Pankers Association Is not
allie to put out anything less paresic than
its recent contributors 10 literature, say,
Monetary Problems and Reforms by
Mr.. swan: and Sound Money Monographs =
by Mr.. CCrnw ell, of Buffalo, the ''educa.
tional' prospects of It's effort are not
pregnant OF alarm to the friends of BIZ
metaIlism.
The times., 1897-09-09
NOTHING FoR REPORTERS.
Private Citizen Croker Insists That
He Has No News.

New York, Sept. g. 1t was really re-
markabIe, considering the antecedents or
his callers and their predictions for
politics, that Mr.. Richard Croker should
have so thoroughly and successfully avoid
ed the discussion of political topics with
them as he and his good friend and real
estate partner, Peter F. Meyer, assert he
did today.
Mr.. Croker got To his office at No. / 1
Broadway shortly ter IL o'clock. Ee
didn appear To ee In the most au uiatle Of
hunors. He hooked worried and bored, and
his characteristic abruptness of manner had
developed into almost case OF positive
surlinsss. He hadn't word 70 say To re-
porters and was evidently much dispIeaset,
by their presence. He greeted his friends
with something less OF effusiveness than
he had displayed tow ard those who wei
coined him home yesterday.
MFR. Meyer acted az spok esman FOR Mr.
= Croker iii dealing with the reporters and
the general public. MI Meyer voiced the
indissn alton which Mr.. Croker was under.
stood 10 feel that simple private citi
zen attending to bis pcrso nal affaiTs should
be 40 hounded" by uns ympa thetic and in
quistiYe seekers after information. Mr
Meyer stood without the door leading to
Mr.. Cookers office aud kept the reporter,
at long range. He admitted 10 the sacreii
precincts only such or Mr. Croker's old :ini.
lie,aeran1s As the chieftain had previous
iy informed hin would be weicume.
The times., 1897-09-09
Signs of the Times.

(Fron the New York Evening POstl
Some OF the signs OF prosperity" with
which we are now Ioyfaliy served every
day are rather curious. They are Gu
rious, that is, as signs of prosperity
which grows directly out OF the tariff.
Thus We had yesterday triumphant dis
patch announcing the reopening of several
New England cotton mills. or course,
1t was the tariff that had done IT, Yet,
unless our memory is entirely upset by the
return of prosperity. nearly every one of
these mills had shut down only after the
Dingley bill had passed. Their lack OF
tact in doing no was extensively remarked
upon at the time. But there was a deep
strategy in their action, il is now clear.
How could Dingley open them unless they
were first shut? Some dull minds aIIege.
it is true, that these mills always shut
down at the time of year the Dingley
bill passed, and always open a,sain about
now, but this line of reasoning would
rapidly destroy the sacredness OF the
tariff. No, the American people cannot
be imposed upon in this way. The mills
were shut they are open now; Mr. Ding
ley guesses he knew who did it. Then
there is the great rejoicing over the re-
opening Of the Illinois Steel Company's
works. Ding,ey did it again. Some
chronic grumhlcrs alIude to the fact that
the Inen went back to work at wages re-
duced by 10 to 15 per cent; did Dingley
do that, too? Now, how beside the point
that Is! The argument is about opening
the mills, and here is the entirely foreign
question CT wages introduced. This looks
to US like an attempt to do that most das-
tardly thing, ''befog the issue" We thought
it was now understood that reduced wages
were relevant to tariff discussions only
when the Wilson bin was in question.
The times., 1897-09-09
4 Nice President.

When the President visited Cleveland,
Ohio. recently the town felt pr roud; and
that was surely proper; and 200 of the
citizens lined up at the railway station
70 see iln or: and that was also quite
proper. Tie chewing gum factory suspend
cd operations long enough for the employees
to ootue and see Mr.. Mckinley, which
was most proper Of all. Anything that
lessons the supply of chewing gum in the
world is d benefit to humanity, whether
tie cause be a President or not.
But among the thronsing human beings
at the station We're fifty Kindergarten in
faI,rs, who wished to add their accIama-
tions To the general hurrah. Tradition
saith that ont of the mouths of babes
come The best and most satisfying kind
o. praise, and it is a fact that the accIa-
nations Of children are peculiarly crafty
ing 10 tie man OF any humanity of feel
iHg. They give him happy, alI-round
contcnted sensation in his heart. And
when II comes to educated children chill
dren encir,5ed by the scientific influence
Of the Kindergarten children of no.
ble races trained by FroebeI why,
then, one may expect high art in
the proceeding. What did these infants say?
IL was not TO be supposed that they
would give polysyIlabic addresses, be-
cause they were not Boston babies; nor
Tas it 10 be supposed that they were
TuII-fiedged orators, as If they had lived
in Kansas: but one might at least antici-
pate that they would have shouted hur-
rsshs TO the full extent OF their childish
lungs and perhaps sung some patriotic
song, OF strewed flowers IN the way Of
the chief magistrate. But they didn't.
They didn't do one OF these things. The
cultured children OF the Cleveland kinder
sarten, fresh from the best educational
influences OF the century, cried out with
one shriH squeak:
Mice Mr.. McKinleyr'
Iias Mr. McKnleyeYer before been cAlied a
The times., 1897-09-09
A Greeting From the south.

(From the Baltimore SUM.
The " Washington Times believes that the
rise in tie price of wheat will prove n
special blessing to the W estern farmer be-
cause it will supply him with enough ready
money to make a home for himself in the
South, where conditions are more favor
able.
The South viii welcome Immigration
from the w est, and can offer the farmers
of that section more substantial induce
ments than a genial climate and whole
souled hospitality. The resources of the
South are of varied charact and it's
industrial development is at present only
in Its infancy when contrasted with the
magnitude Of those resources. There Is Il
pr,.fitatle field for small enterprises in
the South, while the farming interest
stlould expand with the industrial growth
OF tins favored section. The W estern farm
er whose money crop is now limited to
the great sta pie, w heat, will find a more
inviting field in the South, whose evo-
luton, ali bough recently begun, hasalready
produced marvellous results. As the West
eIn farmer, therefore, has been fortunate
enough to make a biz grain crop this year,
ne would do well to look at Southern lands
before he vests his surplus cash.
The times., 1897-09-09
THE PHILIPPINE REBELLION.
Spanish General Rivera Telegraphs
for 5000 Re-eoforcements.

ioT -osOoo
Madrid, Aug 28.-Gen. Primo de Rivera,
captain general Of the Philippine Islands,
telegraphs that heneeds 25, 600 re-enforce-
nieats-
Ia spite OF this the government says that
The situation in the island improves every
da aud that the hour OF complete pacifica-
ton approaches
IF the insurgents occasionally take the
offensive" the minister says, lit is only
tecause they are pushed by hunger"
Commenting upon this, the Heraldo sa Us:
"The theory that the insurgents are
starving was invented in May, and So we
must conclude that Aguinaldo, the Philip
pine generalissimo. and his men knew u
great deal a bout fasting, or that the
SpaniarJs are easily led on delusion.''
1t is said that Gen. Pulavieja will soon
replace Primo de Rivera in the governor
ship OF ths Philippines He has been re-
ceived twice by the queen and later he
held aecrct conference with the under
secretary Of war.
II VIII be remennered that Polavieja re
signed because Canovas refused 10 seud e
the island the re- endorsements for which
Primo de Rivera is now asking. Many
persons fear that the instruction has
already recovered from its reverses ia
C6vite early this year. Over 200 officers
will start for Manila by the first mai
steamer eroin Barcelona.
The times., 1897-09-09
DOG SAVES A MANS LIFE.
Knocks His Master Away From an
Approaching Locomotive.

Port Jcrvis, N. =, Sept 8. Charles Ma
rcan, engineer of the ". B. & F. train
whichis due at Stroudsburg at I'LL p. IN,
tells strange story of a dog saving "A
mans life. Last night, NJ arean says, his
train was bowling along at a forty mile
an-hour gait, and hen near the old saw
mill at Dunfield, n. j., he saw man and
a dog walking on the track. The man
was evidently deaf, for he paid no atten-
tim to the usual signals of the engineer.
The latter reversed his engine ami applied
tie air brakes, but t W as not needed, for
the dog, a large animal, took in tie situa-
ton, and. running at great speed, jumped
on the hack Of his deaf master, striking
him a blow with Is tody with such force
as to send both man and dog down a six
foot euibankment. SeH eral of the man 5
teeth we're knocked out and he was some
what bruised about the body. The dog
came out anir iured, but the fellow seemed
much surprised from his narrow escape from
G.atI, and refused to give his name. When
the train started up the man was seated
ON q pile OF stones hugging the dog which
had saved his life.
The times., 1897-09-09

The Division of Botany of the Agri-
esting circular devoted to the camphor
tree, describingits habitat, range, cultivation
and uses, with much other useful informa-
tion. A map accompanies the circular,
and it shows that this valuable corn:nodit y
can be produced pleRtifully over COLI
siderable area in this country, stretching
along tue South Atlantic coast from South
Carolina to Texas, including the W hole
peninaula of Florida; and on the Pacific
side, taking in large share OF the ter
ritory in Southern California and Arizona.
The times., 1897-09-09
AkoS mism.

As one who to some longIock ed chamber
goes,
And listens there to what the dead have
said,
SO are there moments when my thoughts
are led
To those dull chronicles whose pages close
Epochs and ages in the same repose
That shall the future as the past Ger
spread,
And where but Memory may tend the
dead.
Or prune the ivy where once grew the
rose
And as there to me from their pages
streams
The ineoherent story of the years,
The aimlessncss of all We undertake.
1 think our lives are surely but the dreams
or spirits dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who. as W die, do one by one aw axe.
Edgar SaItuS.
The times., 1897-09-09
EngInnd,s EntangIements.

If we may believe the dispatches from
SiIla, the rising in Northern India is
collarsing, perhaps because the Ameer
OF Afghanistan has concluded not to side
with it, as everybody there and elsewher re
expected him to couple of weeks ago.
If Great Britain can get rid OF this
troalle it viii leave her hands clearer in
other quarters. Probably the Indian
danger is Iauch lesseRed, since the concert
powers now appear to show d better dis
position to listen TO Lord Salisbury in
connection with the Graeco- Turkish set
tlement The latest Intelligence on that
score is that Greece has withdrawn op-
position to German influence over her
public debt and treasury interests ST.
multaneousiy England has proposed a new
basis OF financial control for Greece, pIac-
ing her revenues, assigned for the purpose
of meeting the war indemnity, under n
cournission upon which each of the six
powers shall be represented.
lii view OF the Greek spirit of conces
sion to Germany, 1t is thought in Europe
that the English proposal may become
the basis of an early agreement and
the withdrawal OF the Turks from Thes
sally, w'Iioh the British premier does not
cease TO insist upon.
IL is pleasant to be able to hope that
the horrors OF an Asiatic frontier war
and possibly Of AN Indian mutiny have
beca averted.
The times., 1897-09-09
MAIL BOX soBBKR CAUGHT.
PreDtiss Tiller, al Notorious Crook,
Again in Custody.

PreDtiss Tiiler, Notorious Crook,
Again in Custody.
New York. Sept. 8 Prentiss Tiner, alias
Charles II. Price, one OF the most notorious
oriminaIsin thecountry and Gus Lawrence.
alas John Williams, alias Haw kins, hotel
sneak thief, W no was recently rele ased froii
BlacEweii's Island, were arrested here last
night, and today Tiner W as arrafgned be
fore Commissioner Alexander. He Is want
cd on charge OF robbing street letter
boxes in ST. Joseph, Mo.
Iiiler is known 10 the postoffice au.
thorities as Z daring and ingenious mail
box robber and forger He stole checks
and drafts from letters and raised them
In this way he and his confederates are
said to lave swindled the banks aud in
dividHais ont of several hundred thou
sand dollars TIller's ingenuity was shown
in his escape from Michigan peniten-
tiary in 1898. He worked at packing
agricultural implements for shipment to
A astraIia. He hid himself in one of the
boxes was taken TO the railroad station
and escaped after nIghtfail
In 1884, TiIIer while an enploye o.
the Pacific Express Company, abscondet
with 100000. He was caught and Il,
seryec five years in the penltentiary. Upor
his release he began systematic robberl
OF mail boxes. On June s.. S97, afte'
having been in jail several times, lie was
released from Michigan penitentiary, onI,
TO be re-arrested by United States
marshal for robbing letter boxes in st
Joseph. Mo. While the marshal was writ
ing letter Tfler walked away and sine,
thea has been at liberty.
Tiller waived examin alton today and cou
sented tu so to Missouri for trial. He tolt
Inspector Ashe and Inspector Jacobs thai
lie would plead guilty there. and hoped 10
a sentence OF not more than three years.
The times., 1897-09-09
A Bnuking Campaign of Education

Banking Campaign of Education.
All the esinterested in a perpetuation
OF present national, financial and fiscal
policies, and that involves, of course,
continuation in power OF the Republican
party, already have combined to flood
the country with literature calculated to
advance their joint and several interests,
and, under the auspices of Mr.. Hanna and
the select rnoneyed and n1onopolistic oil
garcny, Of which he is the head political
''campalgn of education" has been in
augurated, the like of which for organiza-
ton, scope and lavish expense never be-
fore has been seen in this or any other
nation. Monopoly has its stronghold and
argument factory in the Protective Tariff
League, gold contraction and the scheme
TO destroy the non-interest tearing cur
rency of the people In the literary bureau OF
the American Bankers Association: while
the Republican National Committee main
tains handsome corps OF writer's and dis
bursting officers for the same but more gem
era! purposes of education"
Several pretentious looking magazines
devoted to the dissemination OF the gold
doctrine and cognate missionary work
The times., 1897-09-09

Our Miss Rubenstein, buy.
er of Millinery and Women's
Neckwear, has just returned
from her trip abroad. She
is enthusiastic over her pur-
chases of Partisan Millinery
and Neck Fixings in the
proper styles for fall and
winter of 81 90.
All possible speed will be
made IN getting the goods
from the custom house to
the counters after they are
landed in America, and you II
not have to wait long for a
look at the new things.
The times., 1897-09-09

IT IS now said that at that convention
Senator Wellington and Mr.. Mudd had
several conferences, during which the Sena-
tor eudeayored TO persuade Mr. Mudd to
withdraw his championship Of the Malster
people Mr.. Mddd refused, saving that he
believ ed theonly way to maintain the party
orea Eization was by nominating a party
man. Senator Wellington argued long but
yainIy, and It is said that he finally told
Mr.. Mudd that il he persisted il. his de
termination to oppose the Wellington can
dt1ate for chairman Of the convention and
10 identify himself with what the Sena-
tor said was opposition to himself, he
(Wcllinsronl should withdraw all his recon-
mendation tor the nomination OF DR.. Tuck
for the colIectorship for Maryland. In
stead Of cunciliatiHg Mr.. Mudd this threat
only maze him the more determined. and
it is said by gentleman who attended
that convention that the interview ended
in j stormy scene, in which both men
lost their tempers and said ugly things
TO each other.
The times., 1897-09-09
El Globo, saeasta's Madrid organ, de-

II Globo, Sagasta's Madrid organ, de-
nounces Weyler's pacification yarns, and
says: ITO demonstrate that the province
of Santa Clara is actually pacified, Gen.
with a small escort; but he prefers to go
with a column 1000 strong, as was the
case few days ago, when he went from
Placetas to sancti Spiritus." El Globo
with truth might have added that, even
with 4 900 troops for escort, he was badly
whipped, and skulked from the field.
The times., 1897-09-09

A vast nation of seventy-thrc million
people, more or less, stands with uncovered
and bowed head before the picture OF
Grover Cleveland turning in his tax list.
Admiration waits on surprise, and cold
chiIls on both as he modcstIy tells the
assessor that the aggregate OF his realty
is twenty thousand, and the "demnition
totar' of his personality is one huhdred and
thirty thousand dollars, as nearly as he
can figure ii out on the present value OF
securities.
Poor Prince Bismarck is suffering from
that weary feeling natural TO man OF his
age and history .in the face Of the imperial
antics re is forced % witness, but cannot
interfere with In recent interview he
admitted that the time appeared ripe for
France and Russia to seize Egypt and
the Suez Canal, but he added with bitter
pathos. Perhaps they are right to walt
for US Germans to become still more deeply
involved in our foreign policy for now we
have neither leadership nor principle
nothing whatever. Everyone is cropping
about, and the treasures Of Influence ]
| labored TO accumulate are being profitlessly
squandered.
The times., 1897-09-09

Although the corporation and faculty Of
Erown University have asked DR.. Andrews
to withdraw hir resignation, he finally has
point of view doubtless this is q wise
decision. The trustees wanted to get rid
OF him to please Mr.. Rockefeller and only
retraeed their steps in the face Of national
objection, contempt and ridicule. But they
are the same trustees, with the same mar
Andrews will be we'll rid of the lot.
The times., 1897-09-09

According to the New York Herald, Rich
AID Croker comes to New York with d
nation for mayor. He lis reported to have
suggested his ambition to the leaders, and,
it is said, to have been icily ire ated. Mr..
Croker is a very able man and has been
an efficient TaInmany leader. His noIIina-
ton would fill every Republican voter in
New York with wicked enthusiasm.
The times., 1897-09-09

The wonderful bookke eping of the Treas
ury Department was illustrated yesterday y
in a report nade To Comptroller TraceweIl
by me of his suborsInates. Under recent
statute the comptroller and the auditor
for the Treasury Department are charged
with the duty OF Investigating the accounts
departments situated III the District of
Columbia. This work is now being carried
on. For the past three or four years there
has been q controversy between I he Treas.
ury and the tiisbursing officer for the
auditor for the Postoffice Department over
an alleged shortage of / cent. The dis
huIsing officer mentioned pays out a very
large SIM Of money and II is remarkable
tnat his books balance to within even L
cent. Still there has been that apparent
shortage, and the official has contended
that the matter was due TO an error i'll
the Treasury Department.
When this investigating committee was
appointed it went 20 work on the books of
the auditor for the p Postoffice Department
and went over them for the whole of the
last seven years. After a great deal OF
work tney found the error and located q
mistake in addition made by the itisburs-
ing officer, which showed that he had cred
tied himself With exactly cent too much
and that he was in reality cent short
in his accounts ofcourse, there was aoth-
ing 10 do hut make good the short age.
which was promptly done. That partic'II 81
penny ought To be framed. hedispute has
been definitely and finally settled, but II
has set at rest a dispute of several years'
standing and goes Ia show the wonder
fully accurate methods or the Treasury
expert u.
The times., 1897-09-09

After the Republican machine had set up
one ticket and launched it upon the people
with tire authority OF the party le eaders, it
was pulled down at the suggestion OF the
independent lenders, and the Senator. in
Hn interview, repudiated the man he had
helped 20 bring forward and came out fiat
footed for the oanslhlate of the independ-
ents. WHO are sapposed by the Republicans
who follow in The Wake OF Mr.. Wellington
TO hold the balance OF power in Maryland.
THIS yg a. the first open break in the party,
and Alr. Mudd found himself unableth agree
wholly with the Senator. The result of the
primaries and the subsequent events at the
State convention are Of too recent date 10
need more than n mere mention. yelling
ton fought the NaIster delegates and was
ousted horse, foot and Dragons. lie made
a stubborn fight for his man for chairma II
Of that convention and as beaten by a
sinai rna jority.