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We have too many statesmen like that Popu:
list who, after making the welkin roar In behalf OF
the referendum. wrote to q newspaper to ask what
the referendum ~nt.-PhtddeLph Ledger.
How can there DO too many such statesmeni
How can there be enoughi You might as
well say that we could ever hear or have
enough OF tho referendum. The charm of
the referendum to highly poetic natures
is the beauty and the mystery of Its
name. Associated with the equally fascinating
name of initiative it becomes the dream and
hope of millions. "In Xanadu did KUBLA
KHAN" Would this be improved by substitute
ing sin Canada did JUBA CooNsT Who cares
what referendum meansi 1t means to the
ear OF a judicious hearer a thousand things
utterable and a million unutterable. II
MILTON had heard Of the initiative and ref
erendum he would have put them on tho map.
They have moro than the music of Javan and
Gadire. Of Ormus or Of Ind. CoLERIDGE would
have woven a garment of pipe dreams around
them. Poe would have made them a magical
dark poem Of refrains. KIPLNo may get hold Of
them yet.
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\ 1cAprmr.s rAnLE1s AeA1x.
IN. Prepossd scheuis Criticised for Its nns
consistent Netneneiature

consistent Nomenclature.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. I think
attention should DO drawn to tho peculiar desig.
nations adopted for tho artists names on the
lists proposed for tho new Academy Of Design.
In tho cases OF Raphael. Michael Angelo, and
Titan only the haptismal names arc used. with
out tho family names, santi. Buonarotti, We
colli. It is "a II WI should place upon one OF
our national structures the names OF George.
Daniel, and Benjamin, taking for granted that
the intelligence Of the reader would supply
Washington, Webster. and franklin as the
most noted mon of hose names. In fact, these
national names could DO more easily taken for
granted than the others. since they are 80 much
more familiar to all.
With Michael Angelo, no doubt Buonarotti 10
intended, though three men named Michael An
COLO appear as important painters of the six.
teenth and seventeenth centuries. The name OF
Raphael occurs also moro than once.
With Ghirlanddjo the opposite rule is adoptedJ
IL is tho family name; and while Dominica is no
doubt meant, there are two Of hi IbrQ!hers known
In the history of painting. Bottlcclli Is only an
adopted name, and that Claude Gellee should
be simply called LORRAINE that is to say, the
strange. we would not think 1t proper to desig.
nate q distinguished. person from New York
simply as the New Yorker" instead Of giving
his real name.
! Jacopo Robusti appears as Tintorotto. his nick
name, 4" the little dyer As II we should in.
scribe Abraham LINCOLN on a public monument
as the railsplitter,," or President Garfield as
properly arouse public Indignation.
great educational institution like the Acad.
envy OF Design, In referring in q public manner to
the most famous representative men OF It's pro-
which is not only correct but digniHed.-
| NEW YORK, Nov. "a. NASARI.
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The descriptions of the garb donned by
the Hon. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, leading
juvenile in the melodrama of The Silver King"
when ho witched Missouri with noble football
ship last Tuesday, cannot DO trusted. In some
respects they are intrinsically improbable. No
good mar need refuse to believe that the heroic
form Of the leading Juvenile was drapcd in a
striped sweater" when he strobe upon the field
Of fame. No good man can be induced by argu.
ments or tOrtures to believe that the heroic form
wasdraped in q sweater Of "old gold and black"
Black 1t might put on as a sign against prosper
ity. Gold, the accursed livery OF the Money
Kings, 1t would not paint itself with in health or
in disease. The leading Juveniles motley con-
sisted Of blue and silver. 16 stripes to l. Blue
for regret and silver for immortal hope.
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The Theatre as a Barometer of Trade.

Thanksgiving Day Is additionally the
best day in the year for theatre managers,
If not always for their patrons. 1t is a
somewhat significant circumstance his
year, an evidence of returning prosperity,
that the principal theatres nave been
crowded recently to repletion, and the IA
miliar sign Last Nights" is not to be OBJ
served in the announcements of the chief
places of amusement. At least five of the
principal houses have been playing to what
is called in the phraseology of the box
office " standing room only" This desig-
nation, long in use. has not always the
merit of accuracy; for, when theatrical
business is very good and public patronage
is abnormally large, there is not even any
standing room. The old phrase, however,
has been so long in use that 1t has come to
have a special Significance.
Usually when theatrical business is Ian
gushing, managers seek to attract audi
ences by announcements concerning either
the close of the current bill or the immi-
nence of the substitution of a new bill.
When public patronage is liberal, as Is now
the case, no such announcements are made.
A perusal of the advertisements of some Of
the reading theatres shows that not before
in many years have there been 30 many
houses in New York with a clear field and
without underlined future attractions.
This is invariably a sign of good business,
of returning prosperity and of the restora-
ton OF those material conditions which are
most favorable to general business.
Another inevitable sign of assured pros
perity reflected in the patronage of theatres
In large cities, is the character of the enter
tainments offered. When times are bad,
when the current of business has slackened,
when the pressure of obligations overdue is
heavy and the means of meeting them are
scant. 1t Is found uniformly that light, friv-
olous, diverting, and nonsensical entertain
ments predominant, bringing a surcease of
care n distracting the attention of
theStregoers from more serious matters.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-25

Our esteemed contemporary, the Ciarks-
vile Times. unites with certain other hopeful
calculators of political nativities in nominating
the Hon. CARTER HARRISON of Chicago as
the Democratic candidate for President in
1900. Mr.. HARRISON is an active young
man. and he is surrounded by a Gordon
OF statesmen. but II 1t DO true that he dis
charged an elevator boy in the Chicago City
Hall for the crime of not knowing him by sight.
he will have to learn to be a trife less rash and
sudden before he can BIO considered as an Inn
portant political quantity. Horses, light or
dark, must not DO allowed TO kick upon too light
nroyocation.
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GEORGE FREDERICK WILLIAMS of Massachu-
sets has the most beautiful collection OF defeats of
any man In politics.-7rop Press.
Troy interfered with the gods more than once
and with the Greeks once. and was punished for
it. Has Troy learned nothingi The middle
name of one of the most modest statesmen in
Dedham, Mass. is not FREDERICK" but plain
FRED" FREDERICK savors OF the feudal
and the plutocratic. the robber barons, and the
money lords. Plain FRET" is appropriate to q
plain friend of the plain people," Mr.. WILL
LIAMs is much moro friendly to the people"
than the people are to him, but that is no
reason why Troy should try to rob him of his just
name. Nor is 1t true that he has a collection of
defeats. When he seems to be beaten, the
people" are beaten. Ask him.
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LoNDoN,S FIRE sERTICE.
A Defence OF British Methods Against Yankee
Aspersions.

huberutOnb.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Your cor
respondent, Charles 7. Hills. writing under the
caption London Fires and New York Fires"
takes himself altogether too seriously.
Think of a man gravely discussing q despatch
which says that the Fire Department OF the
worlds largest city takes twenty minutes to
reach n f1rei
Why, even a messenger boy could have walked
to and from the nearby fire station in less time.
even had he forgotten the numerous telegraph
offices opposite the burning building.
MIR. Hills need not have intimated that he had
department, for that is evident upon the face of
his letter. His accuracy may be judged by his
fanciful statement that the policeman proba-
bly, ran to the nearest fire station" when tho
despatch, upon which he places 30 much
credence, expressly says the policeman did not
only with his penny @ whistle"
The time occupied by all the details your
amusing correspondent discusses is so little
that, when the writer's house in tho suburbs of
London was burned Il few years ago, the engines
were working three minutes after the fire was
discovered. To us in New York this is not es-
pecially quick. and any EnElishman who has
will admit tho inferiority OF his own. But il 10
not the burlrsque show Mr.. Hills writes 1t down.
II 1t were, $25. 900 900 fires might be the daily
occurrence he seems 10 imagine they are.
What the London Fire Department needs ia a
better paid service. There, as in her Police De-
such misstatelments TO go unchalltngcd. Ihave
several friends in London who read THE Sun,
and they might smoker. WALTER LEFoRT.
BROOKLYN, n. V, Nov. "a.
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From the Minneapolis Tribune.

TTo" ~ ntHNfuIJp'iSJ OuH
There is q certain Young man in this city bo-
longing to the Four Hundred who does not call
on a certain young lady of his set any more, and
the great hired.girl question is at the bottom of
the trouble. The young man and three COM
panions, in their efforts to add to their fund of
worldly knowledge, attended one of tho dances
where the domestic help are wont to congregate
on saturday nights, and they had a very de.
lightful time. The young man in question paid
marked attention to. n petite young lady.
but pleaded a previous engagement when
the time to escort the young ladies homo
arrived. The other evening, in glancing
over his list of engagements, he discovered
that it was about time to return a party call due
n young lady, and started out to fulfil his cn-
gagemcnt. He arrived at the house and rang
the bell. The door was opcnel by the maid,
who looked at the young man for a minute. and
then said:
Good gracious, you must not come to the
front door TO see me: the help must receive their
company at the back door,"
1t was the petite young lady of the servants
ball. and the young man fell off the steps in his
hurry TO leave, and this is the reason why a GER
tain young man calls no more on n certain
young lady.
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Badly Frightened b, an Echo.

LOUISVILLE. KY, Nov. 2l.-Engineer Frank
North Vernon. tonight, had tho most frightful
experience Of his life. 1t was his first run on
mysteries of Echo Gut" n spot feared by train
men, located near McNab's Station, Ind. As
the train entered Echo Cut Haring blew his
OF prolonged whistling, evidently from a train
ahead of him In the cut, came back. He quickly
reversed his engine. and. with his whistle throt-
tie wide open. brought The train to a standstili,
He was completely, Frustrated by the train he
had undergone. Having brought his train ON
to the city, he was somewhat Crestfallen when
told that the supposed warning whistle was sim
ply an echo.
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ApnL TO EsrABIIsu A oUnREscr nEsERvE FUND.

Be It enacted by the Senate and House OF Represen.
tatives Of the United States Of America in Congress
Department OF the Treasury a fund, to be designated
and known as the :" Currency reserve fund. " to be
Treasury. and to be accounted for distinctly from the
general cash in the Treasury; provided. however.
in any supTreasury. mint. or assay ONCE OF the
osleu states. ,n
mediately after the passage of this act. deposit and
pay into said fund. out OF the moneys now In the
OF dollars; OF which sum not over one hundred mil.
lion shall consist of gold coin or bullion reserved for
lion to be converted into coin as speedily as may bel.
and the remainder OF said sum shall consist Of equal
OF 1890. And the said Secretary of the Treasury shall
further deposit and pay into the said fund; from time
notes. or treasury notes Of 1870. in the treasury in
excess Of cash balance Of $4,000 600 ga d cash
which 1t is now determined). until the aggregate
q ountfn the said fund shall amount to 5000. 6o0. 900;
900 shall have been Deposited in said fund no bonds
Of the United States not actually due and payable
SEC. 8. That whenever any United states notes or
Treasury notes OF 500 are presented for redemption
coin sO held SO in s sasi f fnnd. az and it an amount mt. Of q such ehe notes sses
equal to the amount SO redeemed shall be deposited In
the fund, so that the amount Of money held in said fund
shall never be diminished; and none OF said notes
shall be reissued for any purpose Whatsoever except
bullion to be deposited in said fund; and it is fur.
ther provided that the Secretary of the Treasury may.
held in the general cash of the Treasury for notes
held In the fund; and he ia hereby further authorized
amount OF notes Of smother denomination or notes
of one OF the two classes, for a like amount OF notes
unnt for circulation by new notes Of the SAME class;
but none OF these exchanges shall at any time dimin.
Sec. 1. That ali authority whatsoever FOR the issue
or reissue OF certificates for deposits OF gold coin or
gold p9ilion - hereby rescindea' not, o,,o,.
with the provisions OF this act are hereby repealed.
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A just man struggling with the storm of
politics and his own powerful ideas may be
pitied, IL not helped, on Thanksgiving Day.
Such a man is the Hon. THOMAS JoNEs-JoNEs.
Governor of Arkansas. Mr.. JoEEs'JoNEs wept
last Thanksgiving. and he has made solemn
proclamation of his intention to weep to-day.
Casting his penetrating eye over the coun-
try. the Hon. THOMAS JoNEs'JoNEs cannot
find prosperity. where is prosperity r.
he cries. THE Money Devil may DO pros
porous. He usually is. He battens on the
blood of the plain people. Arc they prosper
0uSi They never win DO until we have 10 TO l,
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From the Chicago Duflu Tribune.
Mister, please give me n few cents to luy
something to eat. I haven't had n bite for two
days. and Tin"
But the man had passed on.
Mister, won't you please give me q few cents
to buy Il loaf of bread far me pore old mothcri
She's hungry, and there hain't been any coal in
the house fur"
But this man also had passed on.
Mister, won't you please give me n few cents
fur me blind fatheri He hain't got no use of
his legs, and"
The third man likewise had failed to yield UP.
Mister, won't you please be SO kind as 10 give
a few cents to a pore orphan that hain't got no
home. and hain't had nothin' TO eat sence last
Friday, and can't
No response. The fourth man had not seemed
to hear him.
Mister, won't you please give II few cents to
a man that's dyin' of thirst | hain't had Q
whiskey fur three days. and I'm mighty near
Thanks May heaven bless you, sir !"
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The Christmas number Of Scribner's Magazine
makes Its appearance with a cover distinctly Christ
mas'y. though not conventionally SO. The contents
are az timely as the cover. Mr.. Frost gives his con.
ception OF the Christmas "slide /" IN "PickwIck."
and Mr.. Henry Van Dyke tells a Christmas story.
Rudyard Kipling AFFORDS a poem, Joel Chandler Har.
rs a story, Cosmo Markhouse tells about Sir Edward
Poynter, President OF the British Royal Academy.
and j. Russell Taylor has q poem. Guy Wetmore
CArryl. Walter Wyekon. Robert Herrlck, Sarah Barn.
well Elliott. Charles Prescott Sherman. WhItcomb
Riley. W. NJ. Browne. and Clara Z. Laughlin are other
contributors to q pie Asing numbSg.
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An IuraImble Hard-WInter Sign.

ITVW TIT BUJUFV ttWTH TWtF'
BATAVIA. Nov. 22.-On Friday Of last week o
son was born TO MT. ana Mrs. George Waterman
distant. The advent of this youngster has
caused "A considerable commotion in and around
that village. The reason is because the child
came into the world with n fine growth of hair
on its head. The capillary patch which covers
quite thick.
A resident Of South Byron. who is inclined to
draw morals from all happenings, declares that
the phenomenal growth of hair on this infants
head is a sure indication that II severe winter Is
In prospect. So sure is this man of the truth Of
day in laying in an extra supply Of fuel for the
coming months.
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THANKSGITINo, NINETY-sETEM.

Thank Thee. o God, who didst ordain
The bounteous crops that nature yields,
Who gavo TO earth the sun and rain,
And blessed the workers in the fields!
Our barns are filled with golden stores,
The happy lands astir with health,
The worlds a.beRging Mt u doors
To share In this imperial wealth.
We bring, o Lord, with willing hand.
The fruit of love and labor's gain.
The gift that rises from the land,
The growth of valley, hill, and plain.
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Tho GobbIer's Address.

Friends and Fellow sunererA.
leone not here to talk.
You know too well
The story of our thralldom.
We are slaves;
The bright sun rises to his course and lights
Arace OF slaves-up q treel
He sets. and his last beams fall on q slave
Going to roostl
Not such as swept along by the full tide of power
The conQueror led to crimson glory
And undying fame.
But base Thanksgiving slaves
Whose crimson glory is no moro
Than cranberries,
Mingled with the pale cast
or celery.
And whose martial cloak
And winding sheet
Are oysters and gravy.
Such shames are common,
But I have known Deeper wrongs-
that speak to you.
had a brother once.
A loo loo bird.
Full of bronze feathers and nope.
And with Q gobble in his manly bosom
Like the melodious pleasing
OF o big bass drum.
How I loved that gracious boy.
Younger by fifteen months.
Brother at once and son.
He left my side,
An autumn bloom on his
Waving wattles
And q strut In HIS proud and naughty tread.
In one short hour
That pretty, harmless bird was slain.
Butchered to make o human holiday
Gods can q turkey long debate
Which ~ OF the two 10 choose,
Thanksgiving or Death?
And / am told that vengeance 10 not ouSi
oh, peers of mine.
To you ! must unload my grief.
II you have tears to shed.
Prepare to shed them nowi
Are We to bear the Ills We have.
Or ny to others that we wot not OFF
My voice Is still for war!
Rouse. ys Turkeysi
Rouse. 20 slaves!
Have 20 fat sons?
Look at the next Thanksgiving
To see them diei
Have ye tender daughters?
Look to see them torn from your arms.
And carried to the shambles,
And II ye dare call for juItice.
Be answered by their hash
Yet this Is thus,
And this Thanksgiving law W. ]. l..
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From the Richmond Register.

II. w. and J. NJ. Cornelison report a curious
phenomenon on tho farm of Il. j. Smith, two
miles from town, on the Lancaster pike. On
cutting down a large elm tree. they were aston
ished to see a stream OF water gush out of the
stump and fall in sparkling spray like water
from a fountain. This was two weeks ago, and
there has been no cessation OF the flow. Tho
supposition is that there is q spring beneath the
tree. To which tree worms during the drought
made an artificial channel. and when the tree
was cut the water found "a way OF escaping.
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SOL VAN PRAAo. says 1T guess there are
others,"-SL. Paul Globe,

othera,"-St PnNl GLOBE.
You know not SOLOMON and deny oil his glory.
Unique. unrivallod, unapproachablc, unparnl.
leled, unlimited, the Hon. Sol VAN PRAAa
glitters among and above the ordinary states.
men, extraordinary elsewhere. OF Chicago, oven
as the moon among tho minor stars. JOHN
POWERS wears the red light Of Mars. HINKY
DINK is the distant but impressive Aldebaran.
BATH House join initiates the cold and bilious
light without light Of Saturn. All the rest
together and all the myriad milky ways Of all
those '~sparklers" and bosom glasses and rings
Of price are. compared with the fulgence, re-
~fuleenoe and effulgence of Sol VAN PRAAG. rs
the pale bronze head Of Tom WATSON is to tho
primeval fires that baked the world.
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HALL GAMES physician has ordered him TO
take q long est.-Cieteland Leader.
A long rest for Mr.. GAME must mean that he
Is writing another long book. A long rest for
the rest of the community means that he has
promised not to write.
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ana lots Of H. and consequently something 10 be
thankful for" 30 tho Hon. THOMAS Jorrs.
JONES whimpers and sulks. Turkey Ia a sor-
row TO him.. II he will abide cranberry sauce, IL
10 for the hope Of congenial sourness. More
than the hope Of the "toiline masses" has been
ruined in JoNEs.JoNEs's opinion. Nobody
was killed IN tho big football games: JONES'
JONES hates football as II 1t were an honest dol.
lar. Don't forget to make duo libation of Ice
water to-day in honor OF JoNEs,JoNEs.
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Jumps OF LuseIousnssa for the ,pa..um.
From the Albany tGa.) Herald.

From the Albany CGd) Herald.
Persimmons are fast getting ripe and mellow,
and will soon become pendant Jumps OF creamy
lusciousness ut for the pdlntes of the most faa.
licions flavor. the persimmon deserves the
deepest reverence OF every Georgia cracker on
account OF the leading part II plays in keeping
br'er possum's sides round and fat throughout
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Rr,,k,,r ..tbe r,aIo,, chain,

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-sir: The vigorous edito-
rial in this mornings issue, in which the process OF
breaking the "endless chain" is set forth SO that any
one may understand II, contains one point upon
which there ia likely to be q difference Of opinion
sufficient to defeat the proposed measure which you
properly regard the best that can at present be de.
vised with hope OF success. I refer to the proviso to
repeal tho act of Nay 81, 1873.
A careful reading of that act will show that. in add.
ton to directing the reissue OF the greenbacka, once
redeemed. 1t also prohibits the cancellation Of the
notes provided for in the %ump act OF 1875;
consequently the repeal OF the act Of 1878 would per-
init III not actually direct) the cancellation of notes
redeemed in coin.
It appears wise, therefore. to eliminate from the
proposed measure this repeating clause; indeed no
mention Whatsoever need DO made of the act Of 1873,
aimee the compulsory reissue of redeemed notes can
be abrogated without such reference. The simplest
proposition to accomplish the purpose appears to be
that embodied in the subJoined bill. introduced last
July by the Hon. John Murray Mitchell. and now be-
fore the Banking and Currency Committee OF the
House Of representatives GALLATISUs.
New York. Nov. 23. 1897.
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No Amens.
EEnm Tia

From the Kansas CITY Journal
Tho convicts OF the penitentiary are stilI wondering
II County Attorney Miller OF wyandotte. who de.
livered an address before them in the prison chapel
not long ago. was Joking when he started out by say.
Ing, ~ am glad 70 sec you all herr today."
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lDidn't Undersland.

VT" TTWTFFTTT'
"oh, ClArence," exclaimed Mrs, Mcbride as her
brother entered the house. :" baby's cut q tooth"
WY do you let her play with kniVeS?" asked IL
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n our friends tUho favor us triih manuscripts for
qualification trtsh to hars rejected articles returned.
nsv s,ust " all cases ssnd stanps for that purpose.
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P~Anis-Kiosoue No. ~, near Grand Hotel. and
Kiosoue No. 10. Boulevard des capucines.