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on1MArn xor onAxo1xe.
Persons Change, Especially tire Oldest nnhab-
itant. bat the climate Dees Net.

EToW me AonNhtt HCoiHer HeVtCt.
correspondent In Mortified, Mass, desires
our opinion on tho question. Were the winters
OF fifty, sixty. or seventy.ave years ago much
colder, or were the snowfalls deeper than at
PRESENT. The opinion In widely held that tho
winters were colder and the snowfalls deeper.
but l can find nothing 10 warrant the belief
except that In the first part of the century q
much larger percentage OF the population lived
In the hill towns or in the interior. which are
On the general question as TO appreciabie
changes In, climate the editors opinion is that
there has been NO such change in any respect
cerned. IL we divide our records OF the weather
recorded In North America since the. days OF
after the y 'aSD 1900. we shall ind that every II
peculiarly, such as remarkable storms, winds,
rent rSrh'; century MT I c alob c maj matched ieSp' By a Correspond.
Ing remarkable event before the year 1900.
dhs pSp%alsr, r Impressions sImo., ai .nftee,y 70 from o9 9 9Se
imperfections Of our records and especially OF
our memories. There 10 a largo class OF persons
they experience any very remarkable weather
they jump to the conclusion that the climate
have had such a limited personal experience
that they are not fair Judges Of the weather over
the whole country or Of tho climate N n OF = SHINY fSaf.
certain change in the habits Of the people. such
as the removal from the interior to the coast, or
or vice versa. win partly account for widespread
errors in respect to the climate. Tho sugges-
tion Is excellent, but the editor would be in
clined 70 interpret the phenomenon somewhat
differently. The general movement of the pop
ulation In the past century has been from tho
Atlantic States westward. and from the
country TO the city. or quite oppo-
correspondent. In. fact, we. find no real agree
ment In the so-called popular traditions with
regard to the weather. We have met with quite
as many persons who think the winters are moro
severe as with those who think the winters are
less severe than formerly. Everything seems to
depend on how and where the oldest inh alb.
liant lived when he was q boy, as compared
with his present condition. Tho average eli
mate of New England. so far ~ the weather 10
concerned, has not appreciably changed since
the days when her oldest forest trees were
young SaplinRs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-20
They Want to BE Policemen,

One interesting, though not, perhaps, In.
furious effect of the controversy over the
proposed $4,000, 900 appropriation, since
reduced, for the Police Department Of
the enlarged New York, has been an un.
wonted rush Of applicants for appointment
on "the force" The list Of such appli.
cants during the second week Of February,
transmitted for publication to the Super.
visor of the City Record, in conformity with
section 2s2 Of tho charter, Is longer than
any similar list has been for o like
period since the establishment Of the
present Police Department in April, 1870.
The conditions prescribed for appoint
ment to the police force by section 2s4 Of
the present charter, are citi zenship of the
United States, a record clear Of conviction
for felony, ability to read and write under
s~tandingly the English language, and resi-
dence in the State for not less than ono
year. No person Is eligible for appoint
ment as patrolman who, ut the date of
u appointment, IL over 80 years Of age,
and as citizenship requires FL years, can.
didates for policemen must be between 81
and 80.
The new list includes q larger number Of
UuCOilC dppllCuuIS tudu mas HERETOFORE
been the rule, and some whose stated occu-
pations would not seem to qualify them
specially for the service. One applicant, to
be sure, gives his occupation as "profes-
sional athlete;" another is connected with
the salvage corps, and another is an express
messenger. One is connected with the
United States Army. But the list further
includes an adjuster of door springs, . ma
rine engineer, a carpet layer, o lamp trim
mer, a picture hanger, q piano tuner, Q
newspaper inspector, a swltchman, several
farmers, and nine undertakers.
The measures adopted from time to time
to "regrade" the Police Department of New
York by increasing, under various legisla-
tive expedients, the salaries of Its members,
the favorable provisions of the New York
charter respecting patrolmen, and the pro-
visions made by the Legislature for safe
guarding and a%ugmenting the Police Pen
sion Fun have, all OF them combined,
made the post Of policeman in New York
by no means undesirable. As the efficiency
of the criminal courts has been increased,
the danger of police service has been much
reduced. Riots are unknown "Rangs' are
o thing Of the past. Crime exists and GRIM
inals are still many; but there is no longer
any organized crime as such, and the perils
of 4 policeman's life in this town are fewer
in number and much less serious thar those
that confront the fremen.
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The Prohibition newspaper organ, tho
pofce. publishes q report from ANTHONY Con-
STOCK. whom 1t sent to New Haven to report
on the number OF drinking places in the neigh.
borhood Of Yale University. The potce has as
serted that their number was SO; CoMsrocK
reports that no found actually rs. of which four
arc groceries and four Wholesale liquor dealers.
Apparently this may DO accepted as sufficient
evidence. ana the condition OF things disclosed
cannot DO called desirable for Q college commu-
nifty; but how can Yale be held responsible for
It'll The university has no power to close the
saloons or TO prevent their increase. Nor does
the existence OF neighboring saloons indicate
necessarily that the students are addicted to
drink because Of such accessibility.
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NewS-Tka san.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sir: 10 was an un-
mixed pleasure this morning to take up THE Sun and
see the dignihed display headlines and to note the
careful utterancss relative TO the Maine disaster after
one had read the almost maniacal displays, and the
liea. of at least two of the papers of tho evening be.
fore.
Tho vile methods to which these Journals stoop,
and in which they wallow with glee. arc insults to q
self. respecting people.
1t would be q blessing TO this great city-what .
great blsssinRl-did these last paipable evidences OF
the utter unreiiability OF these misleading Journals
a. vendors Of news result In their lasting damnation.
Long live THE Sun for Its dignity. candor. and
truthfulness. + TIL
NEw YORK. Feb. 10.
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cause IL was believed that he had induced
the Athenian police 10 prohibit the Easter
custom Of burning JUDAS IsoARIoT in eflRy.
The British feet laid an embargo upon Greek
shipping. and thus compelled the payment
OF an ample sum by way Of indemnity.
II the explosion Of . Spanish torpedo AN
ehored in the harbor near the foreign wal
vessel caused the disaster and was purely
accidental, It IL difficult to perceive any
basis for charging Spain with liability. II
would be different, however, II such ex-
plosion was due to any want Of reasonable
care on the part Of the Spanish military or
port authorities.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-20
An Extraordinary Transformation

Happily the Ellsworth bill has been
abandoned. For this we congratulate
warmly the Republican party Of the EN-
pire State, and we salute with friendly 70.
spect Senator ELLSWORTH, whose zeal to
correct the manifest abuses Of yellow jour
nalism had led him to overstep the limits Of
safe and prudent statesmanship. Never.
theless, as ever useful and still particularly
timely instruction, we print ON another page
Of this mornings Sun the full text OF the
speech delivered by the Hon. FRANKLIN
BARTLETT before the Judiciary Committee
Of the Senate in Albany on Wednesday
last. No intelligent man who reads Mr..
BARTLETT's impressive argument will fail
to perceive the need Of championing the
freedom Of the press 1T this juncture as he
has championed It, or to feel that the influ.
ences behind the bill had failed to give to
the big and little things In politics their
due relation.
The Ellsworth bill, however, has served o
useful end with most astounding thorough.
ness. Its history in the Legislature II Q
short but startling record Of the utter de-
moraliEation Of the Democratic party, and
Of the complete change In It's motives
and ideas. II the Democracy had been
what Il was before its Transformation into
tho ncendiary and socialistically despotio
body that IL Is, 1t would lave hailed the
Ellsworth bill a. the Heaven.designed in
strument Of Its own return topoweri In New
York. So fatuous an attack upon the free
dom OF the press and upon the common lib
erty would have brought the old-time Dem.
ocratic party to its feet with q thunder Of
denunciation that would have walked the
State. And upon that issue nothing could
have stopped its triumph over the party
In opposition.
This. however, has not happened. Not
% much az the blind impulse of tradition
remained In the revolutionized Democracy
to rouse It to defend Its old principles,
or ever to make It conscious Of its ex-
~traordinary opportunity. Changed, dull,
degraded, 1t kept o silence which proved
It's total separation from its political past,
even Its readiness to turn Its back upon IL.
Not o Democrat In the Legislature raised
his voice against the Ellsworth bill. The
Democracy that existed in the Empire
State down to the time Of SAMUEL J. TIL
DEN has zone out. A cowed, uncertain, and
unprincipled organization, getting It's In
spiration from the wild Populist spirit Of
opportunism, has taken its place.
The Republican party must keep up with
the times. The Transformation of the Do
mocracy has given to the Republican or
ganization new relations to American pol
tiles, and therefore new responsibilities.
BY the formal abdication Of the Democracy
the Republican party has become the keeper
Of certain conservative ideas and sentiments
which once 1t was the Democracy's glory
to protect. Republican leaders should sec
to It that the party 10 worthy of Its trust.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-20
Buying Drinlss with Nails.



There Is an endless number of tricks resortsd
to by the man with the fearful and everlasting
thirst to get a drink after his financial means
have become exhausted. A new one comes to
the front, and a South Side saloonkeeper was
the victim. During the early morning the Ger
man proprietor Of the place seated himself at
one end Of the bar and road his morning paper
while waiting for trade. A glass worker who
was known to the proprietor rushed into the
place on his way to work and threw something
on the bar. 1t rolled OF into the rinse tank back
Of the bar.
threw q dime over there, g." no said,
"oh!t that's all right, Jack. What will you
haver ,m.
The glass OF Cheap. whisEey known BY tina.
name was served and the man hurried to work.
The same thing occurred twice again durin 4
the week. and on Saturday tho tank was cleaned
out.
You will find three dimes in that tank"
said the proprietor to the woman who was
doing tho cleaning; but when the bottom Of the
tank was reached a half dozen tenpenny nails
night bartender in the same fashion.
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Some Legal Aspects OF tho Maine
Disaster.

II the explosion which destroyed tho
Maine was due to causes originating on
board the ship and in no wise proceeding
from without, the disaster is one for which
there can be no reparation In q legal sense.
II. however, 1t should turn out that the
vessel was sunk by the discharge of . tor
pedo outside. whether Intentionally or ao-
cidentally, an interesting controversy In In.
transitional law would engage the Govern
ments Of the United States and Spain.
On Wednesday afternoon, in lecturing be-
fore the New York Law School, Judge
WILLIAM ". GooDRIcH Of the Appellate
Division Of the Supreme Court in Brook
Ign, referred to the possibilities In this re-
spect. His prominence as an admiralty
lawyer, when at the bar. and the close re-
lations between admiralty INT interna-
tional law. make his remarks on tho sub
ject peculiarly instructive at this time.
We quote:
"a very grave question may arise whom the rolls
tions between nations have become strained. In re-
spect to which I have not been able TO discover au-
thority.
1--WE have already seen that our public vessels in
time Of pesoe have . right to enter the ports Of q na-
tion with which our country Il 1t pace. This i'm
k'NS beN - ehe ia ocGAd W " VI
security from molsstation or injury by any public
act OF the foreign nation. and for any damage ON.
eiaiiy done thsrs would be . clear right OF redress.
"But . further question arises where the damage
results from malicious acts done by the citizens OF Q
foreign State acting IN Q private capacity.
"For instance. . public weasel OF the United States
might. In the exercise Of the common right. enter the
harbos Of Havana. and there be wilfuily DESTROYED
by the explosion of . torpedo lying at the bottom of
the hArbor. such act being deliberately and inten.
uonAliy performed by . Spanish citizen.
"or. suppose that the spanish Government, In the
exercise OF Its undoubtsd right 20 protect is hArbor,
had planted t~orpedoss in the harbor. one of which,
through the carelessneSs OF the Spanish on1ciAls in
charge, had exploded and caused injury TO the vessel.
"Ths vessel 10 . part OF the sovereignty OF the
United States and an extension Of Its territory, and
shs and all persons on board ere entitled 10 proteo-
tion and immunity against public acts. To interfere
with or injure either would DO q gross breach Of In
ternAtional law"
Judge GOODRICH did not directly answer
the question which he suggested In regard
to the injury which might be inflicted upon
a warship by private citizens of the coun-
try In whose harbor she lay; but he in
timated pretty plainly that indemnity could
be exacted and ought to be offered in such
a case, The proposition that a State is
responsible to a foreign State for injuries
inflicted by the private citizens Of the
former upon the private citizens of the
latter was enforced by England In the
celebrated case of Don PAoLBIoo, q Brit
ish subject. whose house at Athens
] was piundersd By . mob In 1SA7 b.
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Dead, down there in that tepld sea
Where tho sharks hold high their revelry.
Some sailors have fogni a sailors grave,
Beneath tho turmoil OF " Ind and wave,
Away from the battle OF free and slave.
Dead, and their ship Is their winding sheet.
Its fold OF iron around them meet
And hold them close in a cold embrace,
That the hungry sharks may not d!splace.
Dead are they aud the great white ship
Has gone with them on their nnal trim
Together they rest down ia the d.ep-
All. me! will the waters the secret keep
Which eissps IN its hand the sunken Maine,
Ana caoA's tomoEro~. and the fate Of spainr
W. IL
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-20
Tho Friction Between France ana
England in West Africa.

The most interesting feature of the de-
bate In the House Of Commons on the ad.
dress in reply to the Queens speech was
the announcement made by Mr.. CHAMBER
LAIN that tho French rave committed two
acts Of aggression on the British sphere of
influence In West Africa. To appreciate
che Significance of this news one should
call 20 mind the agreement between France
and, England concerning their respective
claims in that quarter OF the world.
In 1890 q convention concluded by the
British and. French Governments recog.
nized as within the French sphere of in
6uence, or, to use the German term, as a
French hinterland, q vast territory stretch.
ing inland q thousand miles from the for
mer frontier of Algeria to Say on the Niger
and to Barua IN Lake Chad. This territory
Il exclusive OF that which the French had
already acquired through the extension of
SenegambiA northeastward to Timbuctoo,
Eastward toward Say, and southeastward
DO a. 10 inolose the British colony of Sierra
leone On the other hand, the same CON.
Nentdon Of 1890 recognised a. within the
Sr1tiah sphere Of influence all the territory
lying between the meridians Of Bay and
3AxoA south of . line connecting those two
places. 70 win be observed that the hinter-
lana Of Lagos lies wholly or largely within
the Territory thus defined, but that the
hintarland 81 the Gold Coast including
AAhAnA. iiss b the vesb Of IL Lagos and
the Cola ooAso are Of course British
possessionA
With thsseEActs IN visVslt win be mani
Ssst thai the moro Important Of tho two
dispatches read by Mr. CHAMBERLAIN ON
BridAy was that announcing that on Feb. 0
ABreneh foroS arrived At Boria In the Lagos
hinterlanA. and demanded that tho Britlah
dag. which three days previously had been
hoisted at that place. should DO pulled
down. We call this news the more i'm.
portAnt because, while O similar encroach-
ment. made . little earlier. ON the hlnter-
land Of the Gold Coast will doubtless be
resisted. the retention of the Lagos hinter-
land Is indispensable to the control Of the
Niger River from Say to its mouths. The
whole OF the great waterway above Say
belongs to France, and 1t L. equally
certain that under the convention of
1890 all that part Of 1t to the south
of Say belongs to England. At the
time when the convention was ratified
there was no misconception of its meaning
current In Paris newspapers. The Debats
said: We have obtained all the Upper
Niger and the great bend of the river down
TO . To the south OF this point and Of
the pArselsl which passes through 1t are
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-20

Our theory Is that It was O small boat from
this YACHT (Amercan) that was seen by the Ame Pican
sailor approaching the Maine with = lighted fuse. OF
course much greater excitement could DO made by
the blowing up OF . ship and much larger sales OF
newspapers would result thsrefrom.-EvsHfn0 Post.
This 10 the stun that is laid before the respect
able Mugwumps OF New York. While 1t is not
morally so yellow 40 the journals Of that hue, IL
10 mentally shallower than tho Boys Otpn.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-20
xsSrasLa's Gov.rasr Sc, ssusl or . DAus.r.

FFom the NebTaIka State Journal.
Gov. Holcomb has been invited 70 attend . prosper
iy ball In New York which 10 20 come on before
Lent. As the Governor isn't much OF . dancer be
should send ~ his " sui" on the occasion old prosper
ity himsslf. the high-Stsppins Labor CommissionsI.
Sid Kent. Armed with one Of hs celebrated ~letters.
showing thai farming aOssn't pay In Nebraska. sid
would have 10 IN his power 10 bust he bah n thsy
refuse % elect him the bella 0G L.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-20
The Cure for Rowdyism.

Give the players to understand that the nmnirc,.
'out' Il q signal for them Ia go 10 their seats and
that argument Is Vigorously forbidden, aud the ronvh.
est character On tho hail neld viii be nsLannsd 70
break out In .mpotrnt crrsing. -THE sUS.
BY all means let US have The suS's cure.
HRNrY ru.DW,ry
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uxIOa LEAGUE, PHILADELPHIA. Feb. is.


To suppose that the Populists Of tho South can
unite with the party that has again and again de.
frsuded them, robbed them of hard earned victories
10 absurd.
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Ready 60 bay.

Prom ths Chicago Daily Ness.
T,A%R1ss hOe.' wed ys dVs a poor Teller q dime
ola sp0Tt-Why. cert Whsrss de drtakF
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y err Jrtsnds uAe fsueT 80 sttA 1dHussrtDts NJ
.SsnNeaftos vtsA 10 havs rHsotsd Articles rstsrasd,
hAev usss ~ ell easss ssnd staplps Jov tAat SvTposA
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Dsll.r wA.a, a, tho Two End. or the I,.,,

To THE EDrroK OF THE srS-Sir: Dollar wheat Il
good for the farmer. and I'm glad of IL; but / have e
pay more for . bag OF hour now than l used %.
A CITY RoHkER-
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RAnu-Kiosqus 10. II, near Grand Hotel, aad
Eiosqus Ne. 10. Boulevard des capucinss.
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The RAILWAY Tr.la az ,ns Trenns.s ceslur,

IL indicated by the new PennSylv ania Limited. St..
nogrsphsi' stock reports, library. barber shop, hala'
ioOm ana Aladies' maid are SOms OF its novel lee
!gIe.. Leaves New YORK every morning for ~
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-31

Every man watches
his balance in the bank,
and his balance in his
cash account, pretty
closely. There is an
other ledger account
that the average man
entirely forgets to his
own undoing. 1t is his
: = IAf II
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-31

Acting Executor Of the
Estate Of Priscilla Prettyman, deceased
Henry /. BUDD, JR Proctor
Dated Febr uary 26, l-9s
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-31

GHERIFF'S SALE BY virtue of a
- writ OF 4. ia. to ME directed, issued out of
she Court OF CbaBcery Of the State OF New Jersey
will be exposed TO sale at public veHdne, On MON
DAY, IHE 25tb DAY OF APRIL, 1898. between
the hours ei II and O'Clock, tat o'clock, in
the afternoon OF said day. at the Court House at
Freehold in the township OF Freehold. county Of
Monmouth, New Jersey. Al that certain lot. tract
parcel of land and premises, situate lying and
being in the Township OF Middletown, county of
Mon mouth aud stale OF New Jersey, a7d being
more particularly mum 0ered, designstea and dis
tineuished IS lot No. 19, on map OF the Sears es-
tate, Portland Heights, east Of and adjoining At
lsntic Highlands, scale so ieet per inch, surveyed
and mapped by Wm. L. Sneden, @. E, Red Bank.
n. j. Dec. 1892. plan and lines established by D,
n. sears, the said lot being by reference 20 tine
said map more particularly described as follows.
TO wit Beginning at point in the southerly
line Of Portland road at rs iptersection with the
thence running ~ south eighty-seven de-
erees nine minutes east in the southerly line of
said Portland road one hundred and ss feet
to stake; thence ~ north nfty-tour degrees ano
twenty-two minutes west fifteen feet to the
point where the southeiiy line OF said Portland
road iatersects tie easterly line OF % feet wide
driveway: thence k3 southerly in the eastsriy
line 81 said driveway eighty-sesen and ave-tsnths
feet TO the norsnerly line OF plot Number 70
Thence a. eAsteriy in the nortberly line OF said
lot NlEsber 20, one hundred and 1orty-elgnt
feet and hve-tssths to the westerly line OF said
Sears landing road; thence 90 north thirty-three
degrees and thirty-one minutes east, seventy four
feet a stake in the westerly line OF said Sears
landing road. Thence g61 north seventy-eight de-
grses ard one minute east, seventy-one and nye-
tenth feet TO a stake in the now norfheriy line OF
said Sears landingfroad and thence I'D north forty
seven degrees aud cne minute east. seven fset
TO the point or place of beginning and heing or
intended to be all of said lot Number 10 on afore
said map.
Seized as the property OF Stephen W Sears et
NJ Ell al taken IN execution at the suit OF The
New Jersey Building Loan aud Investment Com
pxny, and TO be sold BY
HOUSTON FIELDS Sheriff
BxRTos B. HUTCHINSON. solr.
Dated March 81. 1888. ss.no-l
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-31
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

IN Estate Of Lydia Vauhorn, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the accounts Of the
subscriber Executor Of said deceased will be
audited and stated by the Surrogate. and report
ed for settlement TO the Orphans Court Of the
County Of Monmouth on Thursday the 7tb day
of April next. ALBERT a. TAYLOR
Dated January "a, 1898