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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13

JELoFE, a German waiter, who had signed
his name flfty.flve separate times on tho
Damsen enrolment petition, and claimed
$40 for services rendered to tho Ger.
man reforncrs In the transportation to
them, in stems and mugs. Of lager beer.
JEIoTF demanded the payment Of tho
$40 90 marks), but in total disregard
OF what LEMUEL ELY QuIoG calls "in.
~itintivo intervention" JELoFF was lit
orally "sat upon" by seven OF the mem.
bers Of the German Reform organization,
and In n somewhat dishevelled condition
he was afterward taken into custody "a a
discrdcrly person, and in the Yorkville
Police Court on Tuesday was fined SD. lie
paid the ilnc-in American money-and
then he said this is an English translation
of i): THREE dollars, hey; that costs
DAMsEN my voter
The loss of one supporter to DAMsEN (who
needs many supporters, and needs them
much) in his contest for Burgomaster Of
New York, would be, so to speak. n sinister
blow to his Plattdcutsch boom but for a
simultaneous and most opportune happen.
ing in the far.off city Of Chicago. At the
very hour, indeed, ut the very minute
following for the difference In time), that
GoTTLIEB JELoFF was being sat upon in
Lexington avenue, GEORGE E~PAMINoNDAs
PoLYCRAMIs was wheeling a fruit wagon
along Madison street, Chicago. He was,
as the current saying is, right in the push.
and while thus engaged, and not very
far from he point where Paulina avenue
crosses Madison street, GEORGE W. HAZEN,
Of the United States Secret Service
Bureau, arrested him, but for nothing
30 harmless as he sale Of fruit. No!
PoLYCRAMIs was taken, into custody
and handcuffed to his captor, as one of the
Ludlow Street Jail fugitives of the delivery
of Jan. ii, 1897. He had from der chail
oudt gone. Since that time PoLYCRAMIs
had been a fugitive, and, though he owes
his liberty from January to August to DAM
sEN, his absence from the city of New York
during that time has precludcd him from
any written expressions Of gratitude or
from any participation in the German re-
form movement to make DAMsEN Mayor.
Arrested in Chicago as a fugitive from jus
tice and an absentee from Ludlow Street
Jail in New York, he said this is an Eng
lish translation of the Greek): lone for
NC
Some of the Chicago papers lin Chicago
DAMsEN is known now explain this state
ment of ~PoLYCRAMIs as a tribute to the
adroit detective skill of the Sheriff. But
as he had nothing to do with the capture,
or with the operations of the United States
Secret Service men, this, clearly, is one of
the errors into which Chicago papers are
always falling. What the grateful, the ap-
preciative, the reminiscent, the entrapped
PoLYCRAMIs meant, was "one"-one vote
for DAMsEN-when PoLYcRAMIs gets back
to New York.
JELoFF is from the Damsen Mayoralty
movement out gone; ~PoLYCRAMIs, a Greek
substitute for a German waiter. is in come.
AMsE will nothing lose! The prison
door which closed for one, opened for the
other. The Damsen boom is intact, and
until JELoFF changes his mind. Poly
GRANTS will be as safe as bolts and bars
can make him in the chail.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
The Damsen Boom.

There is a proverb in the Arabic, a trans
lation of which may be found in any
printed book of Plattdeutsch folklore,
that where one door closes another opens;
or, as it is more literally translated from
ANDERSEN, where one door Is shut yet,
another must have been opened already"
An illustration of the abiding truth of this
homely proverb has been found in the very
recent case of the Meinherr f. j. ii. DAMsEN,
now Sheriff or Landvogt of New York, who
Is a candidate for the Office of Mayor or
Burgomaster of the enlarged city, under
the circumstances following: The German.
American Reform Union, of which DAM
Sen is the President, Secretary, Sergeant.
alarms, and Treasurer, has had in
view the nomination of Herr DAMsEN
for the Office of Sheriff, as a vindica-
ton of his course in Office; or had until
the attention Of its member was called, in
q bulletin which Herr DETTMASN positively
refused to sign, to that provision of the
State Constitution ARTICLE ", section u
which declares that "Sherifs shall hold
no other Office, and shall be ineligible for
the next term after the termination of their
Offices" Two views of the Interpretation of
this, are held in German Reform Union cir
Giles, the Hoch.deutsch members taking the
position hat "holding no other office pre-
cludes a Sheriff or Landvogt from becoming
a(ter1cnrd Mayor or Burgoniaster, whereas
the Plattdcutsch contingent regards the
word archaeological Tor simultaneousness)
as intended, and In their view of the case
Ito which DAMsEN also inclines) he NAV
become Mayor Of elected) after having
been Sheriff, though he cannot become
Mayor while he is Sheriff.
Up to date the Mayoralty canvass of Herr
DAasEN, narrowly limited to the German
Reform Union, has gone forward with a
laggard step. Neither of tho great political
organizations regards DAMsEN seriously as
Acandidate for any elective office. of course,
unless, perhaps, as a successor to Meinherr
Observation-Disclosures HoEBER, his colleague
and mentor. AS neither of the regular or.
CARNATIONS would nominate DAMsEN for
Mayor, and al the German reformers are
determined o~bstinately that DAMsEN should
be nominated, no alternative remains to
the Landyogt but to nominate himself, and
there have been within the last few days
mysterious and sybilline conferences In one
of h small rear rooms of tho Grand Cen.
trail Palace, on Lexington avenue, TO pro.
mote the e%andidature of EDWARD. the first
Plkttdeutsch Sheriff.
lon Monday evening one of these confer.
sAces vas broken into by one GoTTLIEB
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13

An indignant "friend of poetry" COM
plains that THE SUN has called Sir LEWIS
NORRIS the Welsh BLoODGooD CUTTER" The
indignant friend of poetry AYERS that BLOOD
GOOD II. CUTTER can write better poetry back
wards than NORRIS can write with both his
feet in the longest day in the year." 1t was not
THE Sun that called Sir LEWIS the Welsh
BLooDGooD CUTTER That is what he is called
In Great Britain. To his inferiority to the Long
Island poet we have borne cheerful witness. At
the same time it would be unjust to Sir LEWIS
to forget that he Is one of the hardest workers
in the verse manufacturing business. He works
fourteen hours a day and his estimated output
for 1897 is 3,l63,944 lines. Can CUTTER beat
that
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
Canada and tho Klondiko.

When 1t was first announced at Ottawa
that the Dominion Government had de-
cided to make miners in the Klondike dig
gings pay a royalty Of from 10 to 10 per
cent. upon all gold secured by them we
pointed out that the collection of such a
tax would prove impracticable. If, we
said, the find of n given miner proved in
considerable, it would be impossible for
him to surrender 80 large a fraction of the
gross yield, all or most of which would be
needed for food and shelter. If, on the
other hand, the find proved rich, he prob
ably would fight before letting himself be
mulcted Of so large a proportion of his
treasure. The attempt to impose n burden
so inordinate would require, we added, a
much larger force of Canadian policemen
than is now at hand, and even the presence
of a force ostensibly adequate would not
avert friction and collision. The expert
ment would cost a great deal of money, and
the probable outcome of it would be a
sweeping migration of miners from the
Klondike to other placers no less tempting
on the American side of the border.
Our remarks seem to have given offence
to some of our Toronto and Montreal con.
temporaries, but they were pronounced SEN
sible and truthful in British Columbia,
where the social and economic conditions
of mining communities are thoroughly un-
derstood. Protests against the projected
royalty have since poured into Ottawa from
the Northwest and the Pacific coast, with
the result, we learn, that the Dominion
Government has reconsidered its intention.
1t might as well rescind, also, the order re-
serving every alternate claim on every
placer hereafter discovered. This, again,
is one of the proposals that no men person.
ally acquainted with the ways of gold
hunters would have ever made. An effort
to enforce it would either cause a fight be-
tween the Government agents and the
miners working the reserved claims or else
lead to the abandonment of prospecting in
Canadian territory.
We advise the Canadian authorities to
let the Klondike miners alone, or, at all
events, to confine themselves to levying
duties on the merchandise intended for
their support.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
h Pacific Gable.

1t is announced at Victoria that the
Algeria will soon reach that port to take
part in u survey for the proposed British
telegraphic wire across the Pacific. and
that the Penguin has completed the survey
between Australia and Honolulu, leaving
to the Algeria the remaining work between
the latter port and V~ancouyer's Island.
We do not find in this news any contra
diction of the recent official statement in
Parliament that there is a hitch in the Pa
cihc cable scheme that requires its post
ponement. The orders for the reported sur
vey must have been given long before it be-
came evident that the financial aspect of
the problem had caused adeadlock between
the imperial Government and the colonies.
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DIR HERE'S CLAIM ron Damage,
the state Department Declines to prcs. ~
AEninst the Rronch Government,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Secretnry Sherman
to-day declined TO permit tho utilization OF thu
Department of state TO press a claim aenin,t
France for Dr. Cornelius Herr, who has hocn
under surveillance in England for the mast
three years owing to his alleged connection with
the Panama Canal scandals. DR.. Her, lcf,
France suddenly about three years ago. during
tho canal investigation, md went to England.
The French Government Immediately demanded
his extradition on a charge that he had misep-
propriated subscriptions for the canal, and nm
English magistrate issued n warrant citing him
to appear for examination at B~ourncmouth.
where he had gone for his health. 1t being
shown by medical testimony that Herr was un.
able to leave his bed, and this condition contin.
uing for three years, legislation was enacted by
the British Parliament permitting ratcs.
under such circumstances, to hold hearings N
tho sick chamber of the accused instead Of the
court room. Under this law the examination
recently took place and tho case was dismissed
for lack OF evidence.
DR.. Herr Immediately appealed to Secretary
Sherman, claiming, as an American citizen.
damages against the French Government tor
tho long continued persecution. After q No.
ionged Consultation with the French Ambassa.
dor, Secretary Sherman to-dny concluded thai
the United States could not cntcr upon ncgotia.
tions In such n matter with my hope of suCCeSs
He therefore refused to tnko I'M the case, and
SO notified DIR. Here's counsel. There is nothing
In our extrndition treaty with France which
a treaty with that country. which has been hung
up in the Senate the past four years, would
make such an offence extraditable II proven b.
yond q doubt.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
A Terrible Bathine Accident.
rrorr the Pnaadelphta Record.

From fhe Philadelphia Record.
The beach bather IN u familiar object on the SAND.
at Atlantic City. but none of these fair creatures. have
attracted moro attention o.. lato than a young woman
attired in an elaborate bathing suit Of white Chin.
silk. She apparently has q great horror Of the water,
although she has been known to make a blum By
wading along where the waves would lap her dainty
feet. She was INDUCING in this daring pasti lie the
other morning while an admiring crowd OF tho male
sex stood on and compared notes.
The girl was glancinR around with q conquerina
air. when she tripod and fell just as an extra large
breaker came in. Her skirt was instant y soaked,
ard the way those folds OF silk chung to her nsurs
would have made q living picture blush. Strange to
say. those men didn't get scared. In fact. they
seemed to enjoy &c, Judging from the laughter tina,
was heard. A motherly old German woman took
pity on the weeping lass, and. wrapping a large
shawl about her. took her to u near by bathhouso.
Tho girl sent for her clothes. and thus was forced to
faco tho waiting crowd when she anne out, Rumo7
has 10 that she made her father. who is a PhiladsL
phia piano dealer. take her homo that night.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
About the Monitor.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir: In to.day's Sun
I notice Mr.. william l.. Stone has n letter anent the
soldiers monument in Troy, aud some of his state
mcnts seem to me to be erroneous. He states: "s . =
fight ~ the Monitor droncIad turrets and ALI which
occurred before Fortress Monroe In 1890"
Capt. John l.. Worden. commander OF the Monitor,
In his official report says tho fight occurred March o,
1902. So do Lieut.. s. ID. Greene OF the Monitor and
Lieut.. John Taylor Wood OF the Merrimac In their mr..
tirlcs In the Century Magazine for March. 1888.
"lronclad turrets'' The Monitor had but one turret.
Hundreds OF photographs. cngravingh, paintings, and
descriptions attest to this. As to the fpht occurring
before Fortress Monroe. Il was really afore SewaIrs
Point and between Sew all's Point and Newport News
Point.
Fort Monroe, not Fortress Monroe, was named after
President Monroe. II was designated Fort Monroe in
an appropriation hill dated March y. lA2I. BY order
OF the Secretary OF War, Feb, <. 1892. II was called
Fort Monroe. FRANK II, PIERCF
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
From the Nursery.

From the Euoatn0 Post.
The course Of the Republican, on tho currency has
been marked, since the election. BY such vacillaton
and insincerity that they have lost all title to thu
support Of Democrats devoted to the gold standard.
No; the gold Democrats In Ohio and all other States
will do much better to run . ticket OF their own and
avoid fresh betrayas.
At the precise instant that Platt's newspaper q CALI
ing upon the gold Democrats Of New York to support
Plat against Bry anism, Platt's Collector Of the Port
peremptorily dismisses from ONCE the gold Democrat
who ha, been serving a. cashier OF the Custom House.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.-Even though Charles ?. Dun
bar. Lyman ]. Gage. John @. Carlisle, and Prof. Taus'
sig are firmly convinced that the existing currency
system is unsafe. and an obstacle In the way OF 70.
turning prosperity. our lawmakers seem determined
to wait.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
DrauKhta and LIGHTNING.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Si,: A correspondent
signing himself "Draughty' In your Issue OF the 9th
inst. asks II there is any reason for the belief that It
is dangerous to stand In adraught during q thunder
storm. My experience leads me to believe that the
electric fluid is carried by a draught Just as smoke Is.
The following incident came under my observation q
few years ago: Awoman standing at the end OF a
narrow alley, through which q strong draught OF wind
was blowing. was instantly killed by a bolt OF light
ming whica fell at the entrance OF the alley. 100 feet
away. while persons in the immediate vicinity were
not even shocked. W. u. DAES.
WASHINGTON, n. j, Aug, 10,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
THE OUTRAGE IN BRONX P4RR
A Demand for Its Recnncauo..

From the NeW York Times.
II 10 very much to be hoped that the adoption by
the Park Commissioners OF the modified designs for
the Botanical Garden In Bronx Park will not DO az.
cepted as a %nnality. In form. Of course, the decision
was nnal, but there is altogether too much at stake to
allow q formality to prevail. There have been some
signs that some at least OF the majority OF the trus.
tees regret their hasty and inconsider Ite action and
would be glad OF a decent preteIt upon which TO re-
open the question. They might of their own motion
reconsider their action. or the ~propriety OF reconsid.
ering II might he suggested TO them by the Mayor. II
would be a lamentable thing II there were no way OF
correcting what there Is much reason for believing TO
have been a disastrous mistake.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13

To THE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sir: Tho New York
lawyer who ia'd 81 900 to discover that there was
no treasure on tho British frigate Hussar could have
got all that information for 9 cents II he had read
THE Sun.
About twelve years ago ! wrote . letter to THE SIN
stating that an English frlgate OF the model OF 1870.
$500 would not sink in less than three hours. which
would he ample time 10 set the treasure OFT. and that
Admiralty orders would navo been obcyed. which
would have been TO pass. hrAt Of all, that treaaure nm,
IN less than thirty minutes.
As a matter 81 fact, rs ! then stated. the HuSsar
drlfted over half n day. finally sinking after every
man, the log, papers. and Instruments had been car.
ried OFT To suppose that the treasure was n ON
board Is to take an idiotc view OF the premIsr.'
PLAISFIELD. N. j., Aug. z. CHARIfs ". HrNyoN
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e

A cattle dealer of Maitland. No.. is named Good
pasture.
1t is reported that q minister. whose name Is used
in Western papers, has been fined o. for swearing on
the street at Hamilton. Caldwell county. Mo.
John Hatchett of Brown county. Ind. found .
o.. 900 pot OF gold coin while ploughlns. II is sup
posed that his father. who was rich. buried It.
Chesterfield, Ind. which is n spiritualists' head.
quarters. has come out for prohibition. and deter
mined to close up the only saloon in the place.
-Huckleberry swamps in the neighborhood OF
Marshall. Mich. which used to be free 10 all corners.
are now to DO entered only on pay ment to the owners
OF 25 cents for each picker.
-Bluehsh in larger numbers than have visited thas
region In half n dozen years. have been reported ~
the mouth OF the Saco River. Ne. where they have
been gobbling up mackerel.
-Twenty.eight pineapples growing on = plot Of
ground ten feet square, near Orlando. Fla. weIo pho
tographed for exhibition purposes. II was estimated
they we ghed together 400 pounds.
An the grape growers OF Oldham and Jefferson
counties, KY, have united in the Pervee Valley Grape
Growers Association and engaged to ship the whole
product OF their vineyards TO one fruit company this
season.
The latest Kentucky bunco game reported was the
pretended arrest OF an Otisco. Ind, farmer. Rodney
Blake. Just as he stepped from a train at Louisville.
and his release by the pretended detective on pay
nient OF $50.
As an index of north Missouri's fruit yield this
season IL Ia mentioned that a two.yearold tree near
Hamilton produced a half bushel of peaches, and
that on a plum tree branch OF the diameter OF ones
thumb a hundred plums grew.
In the house of u deaf.mute brother and sister.
William and Julia Barnes. who have lived alone on
farm near Columbus, Mo-, an investigating commit
tee OF ~neighbors found, after the death of the hrothev
at ~ years money TO the amount OF $4,000 hidiea
about In all ADFfa NJ nlaraa
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13

1t is remarkable that neither the Ohio
Populists nor the Virginia Democrats freed their
minds as to wheat. The conduct of wheat
merits the severcst Reproduction. and tho Demo.
cratic and Populist platforms ought to speak of
1t as it deserves. Wheat used to walk hand in
hand with silver. while the Hon. WILLIAM JEN-
NINGs BRYAN wept pitifully over both victims
OF plutocracy's inhumanity to man; and now
wheat is n plut0crat itself, and silver is in the
poorhouse. Wheat Is q traitor to the glorious
cause of 10 to 1, and incandcscent resolutions
ought to be hurled at it by every convention Of
silver thinkers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
Bos,on Hem. Ju.unablo BewndsrmeuL.

From the LondOt Daily Telegraph.
A most wonderful phenomenon has recently oc.
CURED At Boston. Lincolnshire. A poultry keeper
placed . hen on fifteen double, yolked eggs. aud TWEEN.
ty-nino chickens were the result. 1t is said that the
hens bewilderment at this extraordinary brood from
such an ordinary number OF eggs was very pro-
nounced. The chickens. which are black hlnorcas.
are now about three weeks old. healthy and peckish.
and have been viewed by scores OF incredible curl
osity huntera,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13

From the Nesc Orleans Times. Democrat.
GUTHRIE. Aug. s.-In woodward county. si1teea
miles east Of the town OF woodward. during q thun.
der shower on Friday. Robert Bolt, his wife and tive
children. and two men who happened to be passing,
took refuge in the Belt home. a little cabin built on
the side of o ravine. The extreme hot weather OF the
past two weeks had heated up tho peculiar sandy
and quartz soil in that vicinity until the falling rain
drops made It hiss with rising steam. A little gully
soon nlled with water. which ran down under tho
cabin. ana suddenly there was an explosion. which
overturned the building. inJuring all the ~occupanu,
tho two children 90 badly that they will die. The in.
Jured men state that the cause of the explosion was
undoubtedly the formation of steam by the contac,
Of tho water with the heated soil and air under the
house and In the cracks Of the ravine. and being pre-
vented from escaping by the house the explosion ~
suited.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13

Gen. JACOB S. CoxEY and his o n-interest.
bearing bonds occupy tho middle OF Middle.
of-the-ltoad Populism in Ohio and are a sublime
spectacle. Gen. CoxEY is we'll known on the
road and has lifted up his voice for the poor"
with a vigor and frequency which must make
the Hon. HORACE LEoNIDAs CHAPMAN regret
his lost opportunities. Tho Notwithstanding
bond Is a beautiful and poetical idea. but a non,
principal-paying bond might seem even moro
meritorious economically.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
Meant the Same Thing.

From the Ptttsburo Chronicle.
A little girl who lives IN Grafton received an invt
tation to o party which . friend was about to give,
The invitation had been written by the small hostess.
After surveying the note with delight for q few min
utes the recipient said:
Papa. 1 wonder If 1T is q birthday party7"
LET me see the invitation"
After q brief inspection he said:
Yes. 1t must DO q birthday party. It begtAA
your presents is desired"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13

There have been two great political as.
sassinations recently which have concerned
Spain and Cuba, that of CANovAs the Spaniard
and that of MACEo the Cuban; and we congratu-
late the Cuban people that. although the blood
of MACEo is on the heads Of the Spaniards, the
Cubans are innocent of the murder of CANoyAs,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
a Deed Tor n strip Of Atmosphere.

=" FTV FFFIItTTHWT TTT8N.
Nav BRrSswicK. Aug. lO.-A curious deed WAS re.
corded yesterday In this city. The deed gives to
Charles Banks tho privilege OF allowing the caves OF
his new house TO encroAch on tho property Of Mrs.
Sarah Edwards to the extent OF four inches. and binds
the heirs OF Mrs, Edwards for tho same encroach.
nent. The consideration named is $40.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
Protection In the south.

From the Petersburg hndep Appeal.
Evidences are multiplying in support OF the predio-
ton. made by the IndSI- Appeal recently, that the
person 10 now living who would see the Democratic
party Of the South a protection party.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13

" our friends ,Uho favor us tith manuscripts for
publication ,ctsh 10 haue rejected article, returned,
tAey urusf IN all cases send stamps for that purpose.
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Juvenile spsr, in Mckee.

From the Asrtedn Herald.
II iS said that somo OF the pupilS OF the preparatory
school will give an amateur bull nght very shortly.