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New-York tribune., 1897-07-29

Liverpool. July -. 3:i5 y. m-Exchange-Closing-
40 / red Northern spring firm Us l0l Corn
American mixed. spot. new steady Is Od. do old firm
IS ia; July quiet, = eAd August steady IS lod: Sep
tenber steady - ll3sd. Flour-St Louis fancy
nrm - Sd Hops London dacinc COAST. steady
55elcJs. Beef-Extra India mess firm. OBS prime mess
nrm SOS. Porl<-Prime mess line Western. steady As
prime mess medium, Western steady i2s 6d. Hams
Short cut II 10 ~ n dun 3ss. ,mmberap pd
cut IS H. steady. 2ds short rib. ou2i ~ steady
2s long clear middles light 81 - n. steady. 27s
long clear mddes heavy. ~ TO ~ ~ steady 26s
clear middles heavy ~ TO 10 lb steady. 26s clear
bellies IL II 10 firm 23s. Shoulers-Square IL 10
IA ~ firm. 2Gs ID I-iri-Sp1t dull. 2ls Gl. Cheese
American finest white and coored steady. sos Ga Tai
lov-Prme city steady. lis 3D. Cottonseed oLiverpoo
refined steady. 6s. Turpentlne-Spriis firm. 20s 9l.
Rosn-Common steady. Is I'd. The Grain Provision
Exchanges will be closed saturday. July 81 and Monday
New-York tribune., 1897-07-29
range Of contract prices follows;
coffee Is as follows.

N,-Corec market steady: No Rio $3.50; exchange.
receipts 1000 bags cleared for the United states
100 stock. 10000 bags
position OF coffee Is follows:
New-York tribune., 1897-07-29
TO P1CTFY THE DOG.
The San Francisco Post.

From The San Francisco Post.
Smith walked up Market-st. the other evening
with box OF candy under one arm and a big pack
age OF meat under the other
Hello. Smith" said Brown, gone TO housekeep-
ing? didn't know you were married"
I'm yet"
What are you doing with that candy and meat.
them"
Going to see my girl"
DO you have to furnish the family with meat
already?'
"Oh. no The candy is FOR the girl and the meat t
Is FOR the dog have 10 square myself with both"
New-York tribune., 1897-07-29
SOUTHERN COTTON MARKETS

Galveston July 2s-Cotton quiet: middling 7ssc: low
maiing ne good ordinary. 67sc sales. 10 bales stock
35I bales. No exports yesterday
Norfolk. July 2s-Cotton hrm mdding, sac: low
mddlng nc: good ordinary l6c: receipts % bales;
exports coaswise 2l bales sales bales: stock ll66
bales
Orleans Juy 2s-Coon steady: mddling. 7].c;
low middng 5-l6c: good ordinary Csc receipts 20
bales. exports Great Britain 1890 bales 10 the Con
tinen 100 bales coastwise 80 bales; sales. 225 bales
stock 0GO6 ba'es
savannah July 2s-Cotton firm: mdding 1%c low
m,ddling nc: receipts. 81 bales stock 9042 bales
New-York tribune., 1897-07-29

FLOUR AND MEAI,-The erratic nuct cations in wheat
buyers accordingly withdrew large buying up
S sar @ G 1 a & @ asS @ III i h on the
od fass although considerable reduction would have
spns i psssa1 qaoed 81 @ Winte sraish s.a
( s,1 y'e x paep T5,tr - . 81 % Tss enr % No wn e
g 2oass F1oUKRAs;iys AID a nrm s:,S sass,
sales. 700 BIS ono;ed Kiln-irisd 81 5oasl So as to
sr ~ BOG & ns v1is 5's 9 e. ans ans
s. SO n : ~19s g in S @ ;sGc' 5 s9THs ,sa f ss ss'2S y
s%ge Sst Of .s,. ne wnss
TosTks, srjoycd t,day amos, enre:y as result
Tho maT.et during most q the Cay was narrow affair
answer 70 speculative business. largely scaping in its
ehsaceI The sro%d .semed 70 be mo,s ~ t~ash than
tie favorable spring wheat news and The winter wheat
% en; wnse as S S' G da1 was 9 CENT eS'Ty us dy
time di the marke, show positive strength while
.yideroce- Of decided >eakness Had trailing been on
seTs might have Wan the dsy Gon;,entai nsrkes aSa
ose9 6yfef ssasi ssht decline "a, Liyerpooi a,p and
early private cables rom The former markets practically
cay in fact. again heavy scale. As usual
in such cases howeyer T. WAS well nigh impossible 10
generally los, part - their big h2res undcr close in
3Oi 900 bush were worked and a outpofts This
very conservative estimate. many Of the leading
unders,ood TO be Tor the Continent Private alyces
touching on The crop ou'lo9E In Europe were fully as
buish 70 day essrday The Freneh situation IN par
proepec,s and estimates suffered further reduction
country the news generally Of exceptionally heavy
movement with railroads huslns cars IN from all direc
spring wheat territory unavorable. but glance
bessh prejudiccs Conservative opinion at close
that needed an abundance ~ reign support
70 hold Us own Final prices were E9 &c net 10 love-
Curb trading was sa ana prices unGa,"sea m & from from The
o.uded 2iH, -,h 10 lIt @ 1.s ~ Xnr hc9r ~
,f.l bush a!el ed nd
New-York tribune., 1897-07-29

THE GENERAL LIST. irh
RAILROAD STOCKS.
--Actlal sales-- Closing Shares
Omen High Low Fin Bid. Ask sold.
New-York tribune., 1897-07-29

Adams Express
American Coal.
Am Cot on co.
do pref Il p c..
American EN
Am Tel * e Co
Am Tobacco Co.
Do pref .......,
Amer spirits. -.
do pref. .......,
The sun., 1897-06-27
Lehman Again.

Cornells victory on Friday was the most
brilliant In tho history of intercollegiate
rowing; and that il saying great
deal 1t showed the soundness Of the
old adage for estimating an oars
mans qualities: First endurance; second,
skill; last, strength. The Cornell boys
lasted. Their skill of course was apparent
to all. Tho Yale crew did nobly, and the
Harvard crew-well, their performance was
too bad to be true. They must have been
overtrained, and that badly.
II Harvards interest in the science Of
rowing In as intense az that Of Mr.. LEE
MANN, they will ask him to como and try
again next year; and he will como. Let us
have another trial Of the lehman stroke
perfected out of the knowledge that has been
spread in Harvard this year.
1t Is an accepted principle Of science that,
in moments of great stress, tho ways 40
quired by learning are laid aside, and
the ancestral habits reaesert themselves.
A kitten thrown into the water can swim
because the motion of swimming Is the
same as the motion of walking, to which it
has been bred from the beginning. A child
thrown into the water founders and sinks,
because all it can do In such desperate straits
Is to repeat the motion implanted in its
instincts by Its prehistoric ancestors; and
that is the motion Of climbing trees. For
swimming that is useless.
When exhaustion showed itself in the
Harvard crew, it dropped tho stroke
practised under Mr.. LEHMANN's eye, and
foundered back to the traditions ground
into Harvard during the last twenty years.
The now stroke was not second nature to
them. 1t must become 80 before they can
test 1t to the full; and to that end we trust
that it may be epossible for Mr.. LEHMAN to
repeat In 1898 his interesting and sports
manllke effort of 1897.
The sun., 1897-06-27

In his Chancellor's grafton at the Union
College commencement. the Hon. ST. CLAIR Nc
KELwAY said:
1.-THE nation which abolished the salo OF human
beings is being accustomed to the sale OF law This
ia evil against which the colleges should set their
faces like mint"
Law schools sell knowledge OF law to stu.
dents. Lawyers sell their knowledge of law
to their clients. Outside OF these legiti-
mate transactions, where is law sold Who
sells 1t and who buys It'll When Mr. Nickel
WAY charges that law is sold by Congresses and
Legislatures, he talks with loose sentimental
ism as careless OF facts as OF consequences. the
same sort of loose and reckless sentiment alism
which inspired the attacks on the protective
tariff under CLEVELAND and on wealth in gen.
eral under BRYAN Law is not sold In tn
United States; but vast talk about tho sale of
law is given away and is dear at nothing.
The sun., 1897-06-27
Not for Now York Only.

We had not expected to prod for cause
the Republican organization as assembled
In its Election District Association ON the
night of last Friday. Nevertheless. that
must be done because of the principal reso-
luton Of the meeting, which was this:
.Rsso,v.d That 10 IL not in the interest of united
and harmonious campaign for the good government
of the city of New York to attempt at this time BY
forced and unusual methods to manufacture public
continent In the interest Of particular candidate"
This In too limited view Of the coming
campaign to be taken by q body bearing
tho responsibilities that rest upon the Re-
publican party In this city. The good gov
ernment Of the city of New York is desirable,
a. q matter Of course. Both parties will DO
for it. however, and will offer 10 with equally
enthusiastic commendation Of themselves.
The great distinction between them, the
distinction that everybody will understand
and mono will be able to deny, will be In
what they represent In national politics.
Ono party, Tammany Hall, will be for the
Chicago platform and Bryanism, openly or
secretly; and the other will be for the ideas
and principles for which the majority Of
voters In every single borough Of the future
Now York fought with such passionate de-
termination in November Of last year.
There 10 Disagreement In the Organised
Democracy as to whether its strongest can
didate will be one who represents the
party as an honest, straightforward advo-
cate Of It's platform, or as an apologist and
o. acompromiser. For the anti Bryan organ
iEation, however, there can be no possibility
of disagreement or of doubt that the candi.
date will bo stronger % he represents moro
emphatically and directly the principles Of
tho national Republican platform. That
stands for honesty in finance, stability In
political and social order, and, after the
passage of tho Tariff bill, relief Of business
from the theorists and tho humbug's pes
tiferous disturbance of the tariff.
The next election In New York concerns
not only the government Of this city, but
far moro urgently the government Of tho
United States.
The sun., 1897-06-27

tics In the days Of JEEyERsoN, of MARox,
and of SEWARD. Except for that policy
Of annexation, vigorously pushed by states
men with imagination to foresee Its bril-
liant consequences, this republic would
now be poor and feeble indeed. Before
this Administration passes out there Is
reason to expect, too, that our obligations
to suffering and outraged Cuba will be per
formed, extending and increasing the
worlds respect and fear of our republic,
and stimulating further the national pride
and tanning still more the fires of patriotism.
Every project Of pushing forward Amer
lean power and authority has been carried
forward, however, in face Of the opposition
Of dull and provincial spirits; but at this
particular time the resistance Of stolid stu
pidity Is seemingly more obstinate than
ever. A small part Of the people, arrogat-
ing to itself virtue and intelligence supe-
rior to the rest, Is now engaged In an
effort to disparage everything characteris-
tic Of the American genius, and to stifie
and chill every manifestation Of the dis
tinctively American spirit. The feeble
creatures King up this body Of defamers
Of their country imagine that because they
have had a conventional school and col.
lege education they are wise and qualified
to be preceptors Of the people. They are
distinguished by their admiration Of Eng
land and tho English character and meth
DDS and manifestations, yet the same
quality Of loyal devotion to country and
pride In 1t which In an Englishman 10 a
title to all mems admiration 10 derided in
an American by these snarling detrac-
tors as "jingoism." They are tire
less in their efforts to destroy all respect
for constituted authority in this republic,
in ridiculing every aspiration that is most
truly and peculiarly and honorably Ameri-
can, and in picturing this republic as de-
cadent and contemplate. Undoubtedly IL
is suggestive of decadence that such q
tribe should have sprung up here. 1t
10 naturally indigenous only to an old
and decaying civilization, and Its appear
ance In this young and vigorous society 10
certainly anomalous Probably the ex.
PLANTATION of its discreditable genesis here
10 that the very vitality, strenuousness, and
aggressiveness of American life and char
acter have exhausted the sooner and moro
thoroughly weak natures, who have fallen
out of tho march of progress, and are
whining by the wayside because they are
30 little regarded.
The great mass Of the American people
are only strengthened in their moral muscle
by the struggles which have revealed these
degenerates, and the fire Of American pa
triotism now burns moro brightly than ever
before.
The sun., 1897-06-27

escape from Jail he would be unable
both to know his way and to ask his
way in any language comprehensive to the
residents Of the Tenth ward, where there is
very little Plattdeutsch spoken, The plight
of an escaping keeper, therefore, would
be as hard as rules and regulations. bolts
and bars, sentries and securities could make
1t, and he would have no other recourse but
to return the Jail in, provided that he could
force an entrance, despite the precautions
taken by DAMsEN.
The complaining correspondent Of THE
SUN, who AYERS that the Damsen keepers
are overworked by the time schedule Of
eighty-four hours week each, falls, perhaps,
to take into account the fact that the la
bors OF these keepers under the amended
rules are not merely disciplinary, but are
literary also. To learn a language is
sometimes hard; to unlearn a language
with which in the days Of adolescence one
has grown familiar is still more difficult,
and as there is a rigorous prohibition against
the use of English by these keepers, re.
inforced in number by authority of the
Legislature, they are compelled to devote
some portion of the time to what may per-
haps be described as the art of language
forgetting made easy.
Thirty months Of the thirty.six months Of
DAMsENs tenure have been expended in es-
tablishing rules for keeping the aufsehers
or keepers in tho Jail. and for guarding II
against assault by others. prisoners or
keepers. At the same rate of progress,
DAMsEN might. II encouraged by what
the Citizens Union describes in some
of Its bulletins as healthy public senti.
ment, devise methods hereafter for re-
tanning prisoners in custody as we'll az
the keepers. This would be q salutary
addition to the Damsen code of prison
rules, but for some reason not clear no ef-
fort in that direction appears to have been
made. and 1t might therefore be no cause
for surprise II there was another delivery,
forcible and lawless, of Federal prisoners
from the jail out, at any time before the
4th Of July, 1897, the second anniversary
Of the departure Of K1LLoRAN, RUSSELL,
and ALLEN.
For the sake Of DAMsEN's serenity Of
soul. let the hope be indulged that there
will be L such escape; and the hope 10 not
vain, IL the recent reports be true, that there
are now no Federal prisoners in Ludlow
Street Jail. Not onel
The sun., 1897-06-27

A subject commanding the thought Of
many persons. bicyclists and drivers particu-
larly. is that of new laws to govern the use of
vehicles In the citys streets. Some days ago the
New York Consulate OF the League Of American
Wheelmen submitted to the Board Of Aldermen
q list Of proposed ordinances and amendments
which, 1t is expected, will soon be passed
upon officially. Tho rules offered by the
l. A. w. are. for the most part, good. But
in formulating rules for the protection OF
life and limb on the public roads, the l. A. W.
has apparently overlooked one OF the most es-
sential requisites; namely. brakes. Happily.
though. an amendment to the list in question
has been offered by the Livery and Boarding
stablemen's Association which answers the pur-
pose. 1t is as follows:
ANY person using a motor wagon. bicycle tricycle.
velocpede or other such vehicle OF propuAon on the
public streets OF this city shall be required on and
after the LIST day OF January, lsss carry on such
vehicle brake operated by the hand or tho foot and
Of sufcient to stop such vehicle when going AZ
the rate OF eight miles hour. within the space Of
fifteen feet"
An ordinance to this effect should be passed al
once.
The sun., 1897-06-27

Are the masses we'll to do. or oven able to sup
ply themselves with the necessities OF life fRoehSs
ter Herald.
They are. They are able to supply themselves
with good many Of the luxuries OF life Tho
tears of demagosues over the supposed miseries
and priyations Of tho American farmer and
workman must amaze nobody more than tho
workman and the farmer. The theory that all
tho wealth and comfort arc in the hands of q
few persons 10 thinner than the air under the
receiver OF an airpump. The masses of the people
arc the great accumulators and holders OF wealth,
the real capitalists OF the country. and they arc
going to hold on to their wealth. and are not 60.
ing to part with half OF 1t by oonsenting, as the
Rochester Herald would have them do. to "the
restoration of silver" 1t is q romantic inven.
tion Of the silver spouters that everybody but
few plutocrats is poor. and that the free coinage
OF silver will make everybody rich except the
plutocrats. The spouters ought to be able to and
more plausible humbug.
The sun., 1897-06-27
Tho Jail Impregnable.

Tho rules adopted by Befehlshabcr DAM
SEN for the guidance of the keepers en-
ployed in Ludlow Street Jail have made
their appearance in both English and Ger
man. These rules, the result of careful
and laborious study Of existing methods in
prison management and discipline, were
prepared originally In Plattdeutsch, and
with the aid of Holstein glossary were
translated into Swedish, from Swedish into
German, and from German into English by
the interpreters of the Landvogt, and. as q
correspondent signing himself Justice"
declared In a communication to THE SUN
the other day, they provide that the keepers,
whose number has been increased by four,
by an act of the Legislature. shall bo "com-
PEELED to work eighty-four hours u week"
Every safeguard which precaution could
suggest for exemption from assault or at
tack has been provided. Under the new
regulations and with the increase In the
force authorized by the Legislature 1t has
become under DAMsEN's administration
practically impossible to break into Ludlow
Street Jail. Every door of ingress has
been made to open outward. Every win
dow and easement has been barred securely
oiA eho ihoiuoI oo lhat hO pCIbOu, WlluOuL
formal commitment, can enter. The
keepers quarters are hedged about with
sentries. and if any keeper at any time
endeavors to escape from the CALLING rule
of EDWARD j. ii. DAMsEN of Avenue 4 and
Elka Park he would be forthwith appre-
hended, and his chances of being riddled
with buckshot, in addition, are fearful. Not
only has the physical trainingo of the keepers,
district leaders all of them in the German
American Reform Union, been zealously
looked after, but another wise and provi-
dent precaution has been taken by Land
vogt DAMsEN. Keepers have been chosen
who do not know their way about New
York. and in order that they should not
obtain such knowledge, all maps, charts,
diagrams, and drawings of the city streets
have been removed from the Jail out, and
an inexorable rule has been laid down,
Rule 335l2 of the Damsen prison code,
that no persons familiar with English shall
be employed as keepers and therefore If
by chance one of the keepers al ould
The sun., 1897-06-27

The Committee on tho Soldiers and Sail
ors' Monument to be erected in this city are
again at work trying to place 1t according to
their desire, in defiance Of the recommendation
of the professionally qualified artists who have
studied tho question as tho Park Departments
ofncial advisers. To their great credit, Mayor
STRONG and Recorder GoFF stand by the experts;
but President MCMILLAN Of the Park Board,
appointed and paid on the theory that he should
sec that the parks are preserved and not in
rsded- .alss the side against tho artists and
favors the committee.
The public may well be indignant at this new
attempt to force q municipal department. to sub
mit to the demands of a special group Of citi-
zens against the opinions of experts speaking
for art and the city at large. We confess. though
that there 10 nothing surprising in 1t when 1t
follows right on the heels of a similar effort on
the part Of some Of the best citizens" in New
York, members OF the Botanical Society," to in
duce the Park Department to violate its prece-
dents in precisely the same way. Unfortunately
the Botanical Society successful. The Park
Board gave way to It's influence and did as it
desired. We trust that that mortifying occur
rence Will not be repeated in the case of tho
Soldiers Monument
The sun., 1897-06-27
The eminent minds in the Colorado Legis-

The eminent minds In the Colorado Legis-
laturo are now beginning to receive due graf
itude and honor for what seems to bo tho most
notable achievement Of Populist law.wrights in
recent hmes. They swept from the list Of hol-
idays New Years Day. Memorial Day, Fourth Of
July, Thanksgiving. and Christmas. Tho rea-
son for the sweeping must be guessed rover
emily. Some students aver that the Legislature
held that as life is real, life 10 earnest, every
body In Colorado ought TO work full time
and forego loaflng Others believe that the
Legislature saw tho universe in blue after
the defeat Of Mr.. BRYAN and resolved that mo-
body should bo encouraged by the State to bc
festive and make holiday. The more cynical
think that the eminent minds resolved to punish
bankers and bank clerks and plutocrats by de-
priving them Of their holidays. At any rate
Colorado has tho solitary glory OF declining to
honor Memorial Day. the Fourth, Thanksgiving.
Christmas, and New Years.
The sun., 1897-06-27

their principal citisens free access to rank
and titular honors.
The time, however, for securing large
political results by such unsubstantisl
bribes has, obviously, long gone by. The
Dominion of Canada, New South Wales,
Victoria, South Australia, New Zealand.
and all of England's self-governing depen-
denotes are, in the strictest sense Of the
word, democratic communities. In none OF
them does q knot Of oligarchs exercise
preponderant influence, or, for that mat
ter, any appreciable influence at all. In
all Of them politicians, in order to acquire
or retain office, must keep in constant touch
with their constituents. They must be
careful not to shock their prejudices, and,
above all, they must not arouse the sus-
picion that by emoluments or honors de-
rived from an exterior source they can be
warped from single-minded attention to
their colonys interests. The moment
colonial statesman accepted title or
decoration. he would be, to certain ex-
tent, marked out in the eyes of his fell
low citizens for wary supervision, not
to say dstrust. The distrust would be-
come profound and irrepressible, should su-
De TeuueTeu vain tuTOuBu buc
titled colonists exercise Of legislative
functions at Westminster, thousands Of
miles from his native land. Intelligent
colonlals, moreover, would repel the notion
that they could be represented usefully In
far distant assembly, utterly unacquainted
with their affairs, and where their delegates
would be certain to be Overwhelmingly out
voted. They would not even consent to send
delegates to federative House of Com.
mons, which, under the imperialist scheme,
would be the driving wheel Of the British
empire. How much less willingly would
they submit to being put Off with the poor
privilege Of sending few spokesmen to
the House of Lords, which has no power
over the purse and which for upward Of q
century has been shrinking into legal
fiction.
1t Is too late to catch the colonists with
ohaff. They will not give up the solid pud-
ding Of self-government for tho pinchbeck
glitter of peerages that would give no gen.
uine political power.
The sun., 1897-06-27
The plan of electing Postmasters has had

The plan Of electing Postmasters has had
heavy fall at Stafford. Mo. There were four
candidates for Postmaster. To save bad blood
tho Congressman Of tho district agreed to REQ
ommend the appointment of tho candidate who
should get the most votes. That candidate
was appointed, but his happiness has not
bcen equal to his vote. He has had
hve men. including one Of the unsuocess-
full candidates, arrested on the charge Of
conspiring to molest him in the discharge Of
his official duties. He says that the five have
hired every house in tho town suitable for q
Post Office, thereby obliging him to use his own
house as an office, although 1t is remote from
where most Of the townsmen live. He also
charges that his rivals will not use the home
Office. but send their mail to other offices. So II
appears that tho now-fangled way of selecting o
Postmaster has It's imperfectiona