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The German professor. Herr r. Won
LARIsCH, is evidently a gentleman OF that
bewilderingly bad taste which presents the
saddest symptom Of the malady which
makes a man blind to the beautiful. In a
| pamphlet which he has Just published In
Munich, lie utters the following frightful
b~lasphemy:
"IEsthetically woman 10 not so we'll made as man.
and the term feminine beauty is simply q paradox.
There are no beautiful women; there cannot possibly
be any beautiful women"
The horrid wretch! And the impudence
of him! Even the pessimist, ScHoPEN-
HAUER, in whose eyes everything was hor.
rible, did not dare to go 30 far. In
one Of his outbursts Of blind depravity
he spoke of the fair sex as Glow in stature,
with narrow shoulders, big hips, n short
legs. And we call that beautiful! Pshaw r
ALFRED DE MUssET, in all his mascu.
line egotism, stopped with the opinion
that 1.-The beauty of women Is all in our
love for them" Certainly there are fellows
in this world who can give points to the
ladies in personal ~conceit, and the funniest
of them all is the chap that thinks he is
more beautiful than O woman. AS a mat
ter of fact, there Is q certain natural grace
and dignity in the movements Of a we'll
formed woman that can be initiated but
poorly by some Of the most ~splendidly de-
veloped men.
But 1t is a very simple matter to knock
tho theory of LAR1soH into sauerkraut.
TAX the ~best-looking clean-shaved young
fellow within reach, not under 1S and not
over 81, dress him up in all the fashionable
flnery of the fair sex, bang his hair or put
on false curls, paint and powder him as
much as you please, and the total will foot
up an old maid of fifty or sixty. and a fright
at that. Take a man of a more mature age
and put him through the same process, and
he will be bound to look like HEoATE, or
the grandmother of CRooUEMITAINE.
On the other hand, when in a theatre or
anywhere else a woman appears In male
attire, she is always far too beautiful for
a man.
Evidently estheticism, like figures, can
be bribed into any service; but no war
upon feminine beauty can ever be popular.
We take Off our hat to the ladies. THK
Sun shines for them.
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United States and tho credit Of the Gov
eminent they support, but also upon social
order and the observance Of the forms Of
law in every American community.
Here was n subject not touched upon by
Mr.. GRAIN in his address, and it seems to
be either ignored or disregarded by Tam
many orators generally this year. 1t is a
matter of much greater Importance than
the minor and subordinate question of the
trihing increase In taxes made necessary by
the enlargement Of the city, the addition.
al expenses Incurred in the requirements
OF administration, and In other ways.
The supreme issue Of tho last canvass Is
likewise the supreme issue Of the present
canvass: The preservation Of public credit
inviolato against the attacks OF population
lists. and the maintenance Of law and order
in the United States against incendiary
and lawless assault.
There may be citizens In the community
who, having property to protect and prop
erty rights to defend, savings to safeguard,
wages to maintain or obligations to meet
in the money in which they were con.
tracted, regard with indifference Tam
many's campaign Of Reputation Of a year
ago when informed by its orators and
others that this year 1t is opposed to any
increase of the tax rate, and unalterably
hostile to any political arrangement where.
by an Increase from 2.1A to 2.16, for in
stance, shall be overlooked or forgiven.
There may be such citizens, and from among
them Tammany Hall may get recruits to
It's cause; but the position Of Tammany
Hall n vpar ano md ita rarnpafon for for.
t~y.seven per cent. reduction, will need to
be explained, and its declaration with
drawn and disavowed, before the great
majority of our citizens will consent to
consider any question Of tax-rate increase.
The Tnmmany Hall campaign Of educa-
tion begins badly.
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Lee Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans,
OF Richmond has been hurting resolutions at tho
Hon. JOHN T.. MAssIE, State Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, and ordering GovernorO OFFER
RAIL- to remove him. His offences seem to DO
that no permits a Northern history OF the United
States 10 be used In the schools and that he en-
ploys some Northern teachers. who teach his
tory In n manner unacceptable to Lee Camp.
Sons OF Confederate Veterans. No doubt Mr..
MAssIE has erred grieyously II he did as
charged; but sentence ought to be suspended.
Until Lee Camp. Sons OF Confederate Veterans.
prepares n history OF the United States, it
will be impossible for any teacher OF Ameri-
can history to know the exact facts OF that his.
tory. Lee Camp should not waste It's energies in
criticising Mr.. MAssIE. II should devote them
to the composition OF an absolutely authorita-
tive work. When that masterpiece is finished
Mr.. MAssIE will be ready to apologize for his
errors, and the Northern teachers will sec tho
truth and make due recantation.
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venomous, nor should 1 say that they were
wilfully or even materially unfair"
We have said that England was very
slow to repent Of tho position which abe
had maintained toward the colonies from
1895 to 1888. We do not mean, however,
to deny that repentance has come at last.
MIR. SMITH cites from the report
OF the British Commissioners Of Education
for lS94-05 some interesting specimens OF
the present methods of teaching American
history In British school books. We note
as he notes, with satisfaction that these ex-
tracts are laudably free from prejudice or
passion; that they state the facts fairly;
that they do not shrink from laying
blame, when 1t is due, on the BRUSH
Government, or even on the British people,
and award just praise to opponents. one
OF them, for instance, referring to the hevo-
~lutionary war, does not hesitate to say;
THE chief causes of this long and disns-
trous conflict are to be sought in the high
notions of ~prerogative held by GEORGE III.
In his infatuated and stubborn self-will
and in the equally absurd s~elf-conceit Of
his English subjects"
The most rabid of Anglophobists would
scarcely go further han that.
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A new idea has been introduced In poll
tics by Mr.. JACOB WORTH. That gentle
man is struggling desperately for the con-
troll OF the Republican organization In
Brooklyn, for the sake Of delivering 1t to a
declared enemy, the Citizens Union. Mr..
WoRTH's mind must be in a worry extraordi-
nary state when he counts on the spread OF
his own treachery over the entire Republic
can party in Brooklyn.
We will not believe that even the con.
siderable power of patronage with which
Mr.. WORTH has been lntrusted as a Repub-
lican can make dastards Of enough Brook
Ign Republicans to give Mr.. WORTH the
victory.
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A o Indeodi

When Mr.. Low accepted q guerrilla NOM
ination for Mayor no platform had been
provided for him, but he promised to make
one for himself in due time.
He reiterated substantially this declara-
ton made in his letter of Jun z last:
"Ishould be unwilling to accept any nomination II
there were attached to 10 any obligation. expressed
or implied, in case of election. other than the obiigs.
ton OF the orncial oath as Mayor. to make tho inter
ests OF the city the paramount concern in the dis.
charge OF every duty"
That Is, he refuses to be the representa-
tive of any party policy. He will go 1t
alone and as he pleases. He will consult
his own conscience solely and follow his
own discretion without regard to anybody
else. 1.-The interests of the city" will be as
he supposes them to be.
But he graciously acknowledged that It
was proper for him to let those who nomi-
nate me understand my position in the
campaign and the spirit In which I shall
administer the Government in the event of
election" This information he promised
to convey in his formal letter accepting
the proposed nomination" Meantime no
one knows what are the position" and
the Esprit" Of the boss exactly.
He was nominated In the dark. His
agents went into a blind pool, politically.
Instead of picking out a candidate to rep
resent their position" and spirit" they
left 1t to the candidate to tell them what
they want.
This is certainly a new departure in
American politics. 1t dispenses with polit-
ical parties representative of definite prin
ciples, and substitutes for them simply the
individual dictation of a boss. The boss
hires canvassers to get signatures asking
for his candidacy, and then he constructs q
| platform for himself at his leisure.
That looks like carrying bossism to the
furthest extreme possible for it to reach
but in this case the boss goes even further.
If elected by a community disposed to sur,
render it's time-honored right of having
political principles of Its own, the boss Is
not to have "any~ obligation, expressed oil
implied" except the obligation of "the
official OATH" to be interpreted solely by
the boss himself.
That may all be very fine for the boss, but
1t annot be called American. 1t is a fla
grant violation Of the principles upon
which rests our republican system of gov
| ernment.
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To THE Error OF The sUS-Sir: Let the good
gods be praised tina, there is a resemblance in the speech
OF the Southerners In the play Secret Service e
ofcourse. II is almost impossible for Northern actors
to initiate Southern pronunciation perfectly. But,
at least, some OF Mr.. Gillettc's company do IL. Mas
Hope Ross work is the best.
Nowhere In the South. particularly at the time Of
the war. did any southeIncrs OF any class use the
broad A in such words as half. can't, &c. Perhans
actors. all or whom. from whatever section OF the
country they come, use the broad A. are not willing
TO sacrifice this precious pronunciation In favor OF ac-
curacy. but they commit artistic sins when they do
not, Also, all Southerncrs use the short sound of Z in
hear. whatever they may do with the II. Mr.. Henry
woodruff. an exceptionally clever young man. makes
a mistake when he says. "a Wilfrrd varney. "Hecah h.,
~, ne WORD whose pronunciation is supposed always
Most New York newspaper men write ont a South.
anh then. ! imagine. sprinkle at r ninm and libcralIy
,r,n, ,sahs:. tn nrEr" OF the South says some.
o. Gsr IA, af r1Gn Lang %'"nsnTs' won his Enslish, Just as a
sounded, ON the othcr hand, the cause OF sonths-ns
ss " ny a on me i iaW Sf in ~h,ts pe aaa Is THAT my.,.riou.
climate on his original. pure English, "N
tecadrnce. II You you'd have 1t SO, Of English ii,s:Slf
and not by ne ia,mcnGc q other dial cts ard Ian,
In the South is gwen with thr corrcc; SOUND but IT, ,
sonsns Gf n, G ( & I lnsr. when hn, setting we'll into iheR
the law Of la2iness the law Witch made. for ,n.tan
| 'hN Ay'SNh oh' ~ I ''FaT ANgnsfnS-tiN Cpnanp.nt.
are lost before tho vowcls. When tho mai .
dropp d iron! the ending ing, the sound OF The 7 IA
not changed thereby. So. when the sound az tr n a.
soincw ha; lost In sir. that docs not, or las moi n. x AZ
nf cited tho sound OF the !. The Southsrner nnrs ny,
say sal. He docs not say sub. He SAYS sr ~, ~
the II GUIDED when lust begun. '"'' I" VITA
Il should always he remembered that tha dia,oo, -,
the negro Is. a.. II were. an African spenkIny hrota y" al
Im M pnr thG accent ~ the white soutiern"r Is
MA, 'nn.r 81 Ina an EnSilshman whose tongue has changed
mentioned. The Englishmrn fl Australia o"bi A., CIV"
,nl,hy 40 not talk ."r"cis-ly like EnsII rr"n in r"ni'r.
lah1 nor INK" each other, n though Can. cninn,s7s
aud Australians do not depart 50 far from the FpgissS
OF England aS.du the English Of tire South .In,,Ju"
bS'apse the colonists have never hecn left - cnn,is
tho English OF the South, nc W. pfeh
sputh'rners AMI Now Englandera sneak Fn,l,sh
more correctly than people In other parts ~ ',hmn
S Wm.%9 ! nelleSs TIA. Sogtherner prono"neo t%C
ihan any other people IN the Union "xc, M t' 20 l'S
Lngianders. Dictionari's =, however. arc for ~ and
ut sew EnRlandrrs; ! am particularly hGpny tosns
y yas thew n%udsn n nm, s,,h9nEh ley N ght slIghi tho r.
ana vent a sound very much Ike one chokinS over AZ
,.bHnr,on,ioe oy.trI That ls what Is done TO the r in
] NEW YORK, Sept. 9. kouraKns1.
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The Boston Record may be permitted to
amuse itself by talking of Sen" LODGE and
Gong" BARRETT, distressing as those abbrcvi.
atoms may DO to the sensitive, but when II
speaks of the Hon. GAMALIEL BRADFORD as Mr..
GAM BRADroRD. Propriety shrieks in agony and
Reverence blubbers in a corner. In the first
place, GAMAIIEL Is q namo too rich in sound and
instructive In suggestion to be shorn of its fair
proportion and length. In the second place. the
Hon. GAMAIIEL BRADFORD has been engaged for
years in saving the country by means OF articles
and letters innumerablo showing that mem.
bers of the Cabinet ought to have seats in Con.
Rress. In the third place, tho Hon. GAMALIEL
BRADFoRD has been selected by some apprc.
ciative friends as the most senseless and lit can.
didate for Governor of Massachusetts on the
Gold Democratic ticket. In view OF these spe.
cial facts and the general fact that the Hon.
GAMALIEL BRADFORD is an unusually earnest
miscellaneous reformer and impressive citizen.
the reduction Of his Christian name to an un.
pleasant monosyllablc should be opposed alike
by the friends OF virtue and Of euphony.
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Not tho Time to Disband.

We call the Washington Posts attention
10 the fact that 1t did gross injustice to a
distinguished public man when in COM
menting on the recent denuncintion Of Mr..
WILLIAM f. HARRITY by the Democrats of
Pennsylvania It said that Mr.. HARRIrY has
imagined that he could follow in the foot
steps of Messrs. WILLIAM Q. WHITNEY,
BouRKB COCHRAN, WILLIAM d. BYNUM,
and others Of that class"
The gentleman hero wronged by the Post
In Mr.. BoURKB COCHRAN, between whom
and Mr.. HARRrTY there has been on one
point only q purely theoretical likeness in
their attitude toward Organism. Mr.. HAIR
RITY, while pretending to be a friend of
honest money, voted for BRYAN. Since the
last election Mr.. HARRITY has been try
ing to persuade the Democrats Of Penn
s~ylvania to engage in a campaign of false
p~retence by covering up the Chicago
platform 30 as to make his place in the
party moro comfortable. He knows, Of
course, that all the strength that, by hook
or by crook, can be given to the Penn
sylvania Democracy will contribute to the
strength Of It's master, the Democracy Of
the Chicago platform. But what a con-
demnation of this course Is found In the
words Of Mr.. COCHRAN, delivered at the din
ner Of the New York Chamber of Commerce
following the election of MCKINLEY:
How arc the fruits of this great victory to be
harvestedp Can We AFFORD to disband the forces OF
order while the forces OF disorder are still in the feld.
their defeated leader actually marshaliing them for q
new assault upon credit and upon industry? Can
We afford the luxury OF political divisions
~ to the administration OF tho Government
while the existence OF the Government is
imperillodr Can We AFFORD to quarrel about
statute law while the moral law itself remains an
iasue in American politics? We who have scattered the
political Affiliations OF a lifetime to the winds when
to persist in party loyalty would have been to verge
on treason 20 the country. must not now endanger by
private opinion that which we have achieved by 80
many personal sacrifices. believe that the proper
course for every one to pursue In the campaign still
before US IN to strengthen the hands of the President
elect in any policy which he may see ut to adopt"
Since Mr.. COCHRAN said this the essen
tial character of the situation has not
changed, Notwithstanding the sneaking pol
Icy attempted by Mr.. HARRrTY and others,
except that q combination of Republican
factionists with the University Settlement
has tried to stab the Republican organi.
cation in New York. The Democratic Or
ganizations in those States which thus far
have been called upon to express themselves
again, namely, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Kentucky, Iowa, and Ohio, have brushed
aside ali opposition and reaffirmed the Chi
cago platform amid general enthusiasm for
BRYAN.
The time to disband the forces of order,
now likewise the forces of commercial peace
and prosperity, has not come. Mr.. Cock
RAN doesn't belong In the list put together
by the Washington Post.
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The Richmond Times, an opponent of
Organism. says that the Virginia arti-Bryanite
Democrats will not vote for the Bryan State
ticket next fall unless their votes are needed to
save that ticket, for their support OF 1t might be
construed by the Free Silverites Into an in.
dorsement Of the Chicago platform" 1t would
be SO construed by everybody else. but our es.
teemed Virginia contemporary has a surprising
theory OF political mental reservations. 1t ,vers
without a tron:or that II It becomes necessary
for the Gold Democrats to vote for the regular
Democratic ticket, they will do so with the
full understanding that they vote for the nonii-
nees. and not for the platform" The thing can
not be done. with full understanding or empty.
Whoever votes for Democratic nominees votes
for the Democratic platform. 1t is impossible to
wriggle away from the Chicago platform. A
man Is either for 1t or against it. II he Is against
1t he will not vote for candidates who represent
and stand for II. and all Democratic candidates
do represent and stand for II, or they would not
be Democrats.
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For the benefit of Mr.. Bliss cARMA,

For the benefit of Mr.. Bliss CARMAN,
and all other immortal sons Of song who say
that they are afraid of getting specks on their
imaRinations by reading the newspapers, It
should be said or sung that the Denrcr Times
will give three prizes OF So each for the best
three poems in celebration OF the great Denver
Feast OF the Mountain and the Plain. Five dol.
lars will not buy many yachts. but the glory of
the prize is not to DO set down In figures. Mr..
CARMAN and the other immortal sons OF song
need not DO asked to put this notice In their
scrapbooks. 1t is known to men and Mug.
wumps that nobody else reads the newspapers
30 industriously as the sky kissing genius who
never looks into a newspaper"
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stopping Up Ersah.Air unIets.

To THE EprroR OF TIRE srN-Sfr: Did you ever no.
uce go called fresh-air inlets IN our sidewalks And
the manner in which many, II not most. OF them are
nlled up with mud, &c.
Is there no law compelling either the owners o. tho
property or the city's street cleaners to keep them
cleaned and in proper working order2 Why arr We
compelled to put them in. as 50 very necessary. when
the Board OF Health must know the utter usele.n-ss
Of most OF them under present circumstance The
old way Chavtng pipe open In Ar-AwAy ana neatly
capped was far less dange rous, and certainly Of some
use. II seems 10 me that owners. or their tAnifors cr
other representatives on the premises, should Ne ,cu.
PEELED by the section boss or manager OF the street
cleaners to keep the grating and pip's Of these frr>''
air inlets clean. and II persistently negligent, iulpo-s
a tne sufficiently heavy TO command respect.
II any law exists bearing on this, why Is IL not en-
forced?
There Is no city where the lava governing plumb
ing ART so stringent rs our own. and vet q few hhnI.
fuls OF mud render imperative the entire ventiINtiCn
OF back air pipeS- A IRE In a stove will not hurn =
You seal up the araft openinEs-And these grating n
the sidew alks arr TO the plumbing system Just whSt
. draft plate or damper Is to n stove.
Let THE SUN shine on IL. c. N ..
NV YORK. Aug. 81.
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Political campaigns" said the Hon.
SETH Low in his solemn response and address
to the Hon. JOHN Columns CLARK at North
east Hnrbor. are In this respect like real
battles. They arc seldom fought out on the
plans originally laid down." Political cam.
paignsi Is Mr.. Low going into q political cam
paignl Is not the sacred banner OF non-parti-
snnship, Of municipal non-Dolitics, rustling over
him 7 1t Is hard work to learn the new lingo,
but 1t must be learned. 1t will never do for tho
hierophant Of non.partisanship TO talk about
political campaigns. There used to BIO such
things, but the Citizens Union has formally de-
clared them abolished. For the chief actor In
the new Mugwump comedy. Mr.. Low seems
strangely ignorant t. of his lines.
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Between the unemployed energies OF the up
per class and the unemployed brains OF the lower
there sometimes comes An explosion. - Washington
Times.
What sort Of imported jargon is this. heard
within earshot of the Capitol What is the
upper class and what is tho lower class in
these United Statesf When the Rev. DR.. RAINS.
FORD uses these expressions about the inhab-
itants Of this country. folks grin. remembering
that the English or Canadian burrs are still
sticking to him. but the Washington Times
ought not to DO suffering from want of &C
climAtion.
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One Mr.. wooLwoRrH, a member of the

One Mr.. WooLwoRTH, n member of the
Omaha bar. made before the American Bar As
ISOLATION some remarks which must cndear him
to the few but shrill persons who dotc upon dis
asicr and feel that calamity is the general
condition Of the United States. 1T cannot be
denied he said, that great accumulations OF
wealth in tho hands OF u few so along with
the process by which tho poor are crowded
down In deeper depths OF poverty. and more
and more the multitude on the brink is precip-
itated into the abyss OF hopeless misery" and
80 on and worse. Mr.. WooLwoRTH seems to
have the inexpensive oratoFical temperament
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-IaIpSstOn Nstrs,

-GdirestOn Netrs.
II the Hon. JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN is
elected Mayor of Boston. as the petitions of more
than l27, 600 Of his fellow citizens. without dis.
%tinction OF party. give him hope that he will be,
the work of municipal reform will engage all his
energies. As the representative of non-partisan.
ship and the idol Of the Betting Element he will
be charged with high and serious duties, and
seriously and highly will he discharge them,
even IL the task, TO borrow his own graceful
phrase, takes a leg" Among his plans OF re-
form a municipal boxing house has a place OF
honor; but for the present he can give only a
general outline Of tho reforms which the spon.
taneous arising OF his follow citizens proposes
to intrust to his hands.
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STpNT.
singular Appeal from Chicago.

To THE Error OF THE srS-Sfr / write TO ask
You II you think there are any parties in Greater New
YORK who have confidence enough in this place TO IN
vest an amount ~suflcient TO supply TO CHICAGO drink
ing water comparatively free from typhoid fever
germs, and would they be willing TO furnish pe1ons
with energy enough to md the water and trrs u
here. thereby relieving this Serm%tricken city Of ias
foul and c~ontaminAtine lake water
The case seems hopeless unless New York or sans
other race OF people come to our relief. b
CHlcAao- Sent
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Diplomacy.


From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The young diplomat looked at the lovely girl.
"Did ! understand you to say" he softly asked,
"that your father was OF Russian descent ?'
"Yes.'' abe said.
lie gave a sigh OF relief.
"And my grest-graudfather was q Frenchmsn." he
said.
He took her hand.
Lets form a Eweibund. :" he said.
They will DO married shortly after the leaves begin
% turn.