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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-31

mihishing al the side. The jacket had
reVers of white linen over the pink, and
was trimmed with the fashionable fine
crochet on ;ire epaulettes. a high collar
and a large Jabot of white chiffon; it
ended at the waist, and the skirt fast
eLed owe k.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-31
Military Trimmings.

Military trimmings for women's
wear are being manufactured for the
fa gowns. and a few fashionable girls
have got hold of some of them. There
are eqaulettes. %adjutant's cordings and
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-31

The oldest trained nurse in England,
with the exception of Miss Nightingale.
Is Mrs. Florence Craven, Her experience
Of work In hospitals has extended 10 Hol-
land. Denmark. Germany and France. In
the Franco-Prussian war. volunteering FOR
ambulance work. the care was Cunndcd
to her OF a fever station % the Tenth
army corps investing Metz. The list Of
her decorations is a long one.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-31

Puudita RamahJt the Hindoo rsformer,
" no is nov visiting the United States, has
labored Tor wears 10 improve the child
widows Of her native land. Her mother
was married az q years Of age TO a learn
I'd Brahmiu. who proceeded TO teach his
child-wifs according TO his theories Of ed
uCatlou. These decply-iuCulCated prinCi-
piles were transmitted 10 their children.
Nfshuu.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07
Three and Fifty-threo.

The Hon. WILLIAM HoUsToN KENYON,
Chairman Of the Committee Of Fifty-three,
has furnished this account Of that eccentric
body as viewed by itself:
"our movement 10 q movement Of the rank and nie
against the bosses. Nothing Is excluded from the
new organization except bossism. This 10 the simple
issue that 10 before tho voters OF this county. II tho
Republican voters Of 1900 believe in the cause OF tho
rank and he against the losses, they will enroll in
the new organization. For the ommittee OF Fifty
three to return q favorable answer TO the letter Of
LEVI p. MORTON and the other eminent gentlemen A.
ISOLATED with him In the supposed work of harmony,
would be to r~epudiate the very principles that called
them into being. II they should attempt II, they would
not be followed by the voters Of the county, who do
mand the determination OF the party boss"
The Committee of Fifty.three, consisting
entirely Of bosses, regards itself as consti-
tuting the rank and file Of the Republican
party in New York.
1--WE, the people Of England" said tho
three tailors Of Tooley street, Southwark.
1--WE, the rank and file Of the Republi-
can party" say the Fifty-three Mugchumps
of the Windsor Hotel.
The representative character of the Three
was exactly equal to that of the Fifty-three.
The Three had exactly as much right to
speak for the people of England as the Fifty
three have to speak for the rank and file of
the Republican party.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07

The Democrats, Populists, and Silver Re-
publicans Of North Dakota have determined to
make a monster demonstration" for the pur-
pose Of warming the temperature of their en-.
thusiasm and of their State. The Hon. WI. LIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN of Nebraska and the Hon.
CHARLES ALGERNoN TowNE Of Minnesota have
been invited to furnish tho heat. 1t is our
duty to warn the North Dakotans that Mr..
TnwNE 10 peculiarly impressionable. He
fell out Of his chair in tho House of Rep
resentatives tho other day whom the Hon.
CHARLES SUMNER HARTMAN OF Bozeman was
making q molten silver speech. Hot silver
oratory always fills Mr.. TowNE with uncon.
trollable agitation. If 1t IL deemed safe to lot
him stay on the platform while Mr.. BRYAN
pours himself out. he must be securely strapped
to his chair and the chair must be rivetted to
the floor. If HARTMAN made Mr.. TowNE
tumble upon the floor. BRYAN will make him
jump through the roof.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07
The Case of Mrs. Ruiz.

A letter from the widow of DR.. RICARDO
RUIZ to the State Department, asking what
had become of her claim against Spain, is
very properly to be made the occasion of
bringing this matter once more to the at
tention Of the Madrid Government.
The latest communication on the SUBJ
ject, We think, was made to the Canovas
Ministry, and was followed only by the
routine acknowledgment of it's receipt,
without discussion of its merits. When
SAGAsTA came into power, more pressing
affairs had to be considered; but now the
appeal of Mrs. RUIZ should be heard.
The amount of her claim is $75, 900. In
what spirit it will be met cannot be fore
told, but there can be no question of the
terrible loss sustained by the wife and chill
drcn Of the victim of Guanabacoa Jail.
Even should Spain argue that, instead of
being killed by his guards, he committed
suicide, the frenzy might well be traceable
to his having been kept incomunicadO for
30 long, although the law and treaty rights,
~ our Government views them, would
make three days and nights the utmost
lawful period for which an American, taken
without arms in hand. could be so kept.
The story of that cell is fearful one, even
IL we admit that doubt hangs about the
way in which the fatal wound in the head
was received. 1t was rumored last year
that Spain had quietly settled the claim of
Mrs. RUIZ. SO as to avoid a precedent for
other cases on the question of damages aris-
Ing out of holding an American citizen
iHcomunicado for an excessive period. But
now it appears that nothing has yet been
done In adjustment of this fragrant wrong.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07
The Great Louisville Trust.

The octopus has appeared in Louisville.
JACK CHINN. o BLACKBURN, WAT HAIR
DIN, HEz LUNG, and the rest of the hunters
are winding their horns. The insolence of
monopoly must be punished. The trust
that is now ~wiggling it's accursed ~tentacles
In Louisville must be pulverized.
This manifesto issued by the Hon. WILLIS
WASHINGTON, a member of the Bootblacks'
Union, tells the story of a new and danger
Gus combination:
Tho bootblacks have formed Q union and they arc
asking the shoe houses to do away with the free shin.
ing. The bootblacks and BARRIERS and all the best
citizens and ~newsboys are all In favor OF 1t and nve
OF the shoe houses have already signed the petition
to do away with free Shines
To do away with free shines, mind you.
To take from "the toiling masses the privi-
lege OF having their boots, shoes. and bro
gans polished for nothing, and to force
those f" toiling masses" to enrich q grasp
Ing and avaricious trust. 1t is useless for
the Hon. WILLIS WASHINGTON and the
Hon. jim LIVELY to asseverate that "the
shining will be done In future at the old
popular price of Ave cents" The most
popular price of everything is nothing.
Does anybody really believe that the mo-
nopolists who are trying to rob the "pro-
ducing classes" of their free shine, and
of five cents a shine besides, will stop at
the hye-cent limits No; all history tells
that the iniquity of the Money Power is
cumulative. viii the victims Of the Boot
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The Municipal Assembly has not yet con-
sidered officially the proposition which
emanates from the West End Association
respecting Broadway. A formal applica-
tion has been made to the Assembly to con-
slider the change Of the name Of the Boule-
ward from Fiftysntnth street to One Hun.
dred and Fifty.ffth street and OF Eleventh
avenue from One Hundred and Fifty-ffth
street to Its intersection with the Kings
bridge road at One Hundred and Seventeen
street, to Broadway.
At present Broadway, the lower part of
which wa In Dutch times the Here street,
and Great George street during the colonial
period, is known ~variously north Of Fifty
ninth street as the boulevard, Eleventh
avenue, the Boulevard Lafayette and Kings
bridge road. 1t 10 proposed to harmonize
this variegated and unsatisfactory nomen.
clature by designating officially as Broad
way the ~thoroughfare now called the Boule-
ward, between Fifty-ninth and One Hun.
dred and Fifty-hfth. and experimenting
this by additional changes above One
Hundred and Fifty-ffth street, which will
secure to the city of New York not merely
one continuous street, for the city has that
already, but one street continuously and
appropriately named from the Battery &c
the Yonkers city line. o
Broadway's historic Importance and com-
mercial prominence mako 1t New York
city's most distinctive t~horoughfare. Pend.
ing the comprehensive but still delayed
process Of naming anew some New York
streets. an undertaking which has become
necessary in order to avoid confusion since
the consolidation with Brooklyn and Long
Island City, the adoption of a uniform
designation for what Is now and has al
ways been since the establishment of the
city 1.-THE broad way" would be a suitable
exercise Of discretionary power by the mem.
bers OF the Municipal Assembly. At least,
there are many valid and cogent reasons
In favor Of the change.
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The Urbann Africans.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sir: Your Cleveland
correspondent. who writes OF the negro protection
party in Ohio. disputes the accuracy OF a statement
made by The Sun that Mr.. Lewis. the Afro American
candidate for Governor Of that State. pnlled oHl-
500 votes. He declares that the vote for Lewis was
"nearly 5000" q statement which. II true, would
point clearly to something which is very rare
namely. a mistake In THR Sun.
Your Cleveland correspondent Is In error. The
OF Ohio nominated at the election OF
last November what would DO called in New York
"a complete ticket with q distinguishing emblem
The vote for the candidates upon It was as follows
Lewis, for Governor. A7o; Tilley. for Lieutenant
Governor. 400; Maxwell. for Treasurer. I37. ARM
istead. for Attorney'0eneral. 4b3; Denwell. for judge
OF the Supreme Court, 402; Mckee. for member u
Board OF Public Works, 449. and Horner, for school
Commissioner. asa.
Your Cleveland correspondent exAggerates, uHin'
tentionAlly no doubt, the number OF coIored vote"
In Ohio. He says there are l2. 500 in three II tho
eighty'eight counties OF that State. This Is . mis-
take. There were by the last census only $500 col
ored male adults in Ohio 81 years OF age. Alof
them were not voters. and all OF those who are qpa'!'
ned do not vote. Less than BOO OF them voted for The
oolored protective ticket laat year. and in urtaGA'
where the "coiored movement" was said to 10
strongest. Mr.. Lewis did poorly. Ho polled four
votes only In Champaign county. OF which UrbAnsn
the chief town 4 NEW YoRLIA
NEW yoAK. Feb. ..
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MARK TWAIN AND III OTHER MAN.
by the Author on the Many Runners
Circulated About Him.

~ ne hutuor ON inc many humofs
Circulated About Him..
During Mark Twain's stay in Vienna this
winter the newspapers have devoted a great
deal of attention to him. One OF his latest say.
inRs quoted refers to a cable despatch he re.
ceived from America asking II the rumor OF his
death was true.
News Of my death grossly exaggerated was
the answer Mark Twain sent back to his own
country.
So many rumors concerning his affairs have
been spread about that he has written the fol.
lowing to a friend In Hartford:
"Rumors about my unimportant self ara
easily circulated. 1t was reported that | was
seriously sick-that was some other man: then
II was that ! was about to die-again another
man; then II was that l WAS dead-another man
again. Then the rumor wal that ! had inherited
a legacy-it was, another man: then came Tho
report that i had paid all my debts-once moro
another man. Now tho rumor is that am
writing another book. know nothing OF IT,, 10
would, indeed, surprise me II j should publish
another book for the next three years. The only
thing that Is left for them to say Is that ] have
emiRrated permanently and become an Austrian;
That last Is one thing I will never. never do. l
do not want to increase the confusion OF Ian.
Mark Twain's new book Is shortly to be trans
lated into German.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07
VINO Are the Discouraged Leaders ?

The intelligent and usually well.informed
correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle re.
ports from Washington that "the Republi.
can leaders expect to lose the next House
Of Representatives"
What Republican leaders expect that
che House Of Representatives In the Fifty
sixth Congress will be controlled by the
Bryanite Democracy II any Repub.
lican leaders are now preparing the
way for an. actual defeat in the Con-
gress elections OF next November by
confidently predicting defeat and dis
cnssing the reversal of the majority
in the House as a ~foregone conclusion, their
names ought to be known as soon as posi-
BILE. They are dangerous men to retain as
party commanders on the eve Of a battle
as important as that which is ahead. The
Republican party ought to rid itself Of
them, rs too poor of spirit and too pale Of
liver for the needs Of the time. At the very
least 1t ought to know just who they are, in
order that 1t may try the virtues of large
doses Of ~qulnine and small doses Of arsenic
and strychnia upon their depressed energies
n alarmed imaginations, with q view to
bracing them up again, II possible, to the
conultion OF men and patriots.
Who can they be, II such there are7 Ger
tainly not President MCKINLEY. He has
Just sounded the clear note that calls the
united forces of honest money and the ma
tional credit to victory at the approaching
elections.
Certainly, no member of the Presidents
Cabinet. Secretary LONG has admirably
expressed for himself and his associates the
confidence and courage which Mr.. MoKIN-
LEY's New York speech inspired In his Of
fetal family.
Certainly not the Speaker. The raven
croak was never heard from tho Hon.
work to be done.
Certainly not the prudent DINGLEY, the
self-reliant JOE CANNON, the fiery HEN
DERsoN, the intrepid DALzELL, the rugged
GRosvENoR. They and the men who with
them constitute the backbone of the Re-
publican majority are no raw recruits, who
deem the fight lost before the bullets begin
to whistle. They all expect to be back In
their seats when the Fifty-sixth House is
called to order, and to find there a sub
etantial majority of Republicans behind
them, as determined as ever to preserve the
nations honor against the assaults of the
Fepudiationists.
We survey the whole field from this dis
lance without discerning the first sign of
down.hearted leadership at Washington.
The Brooklyn Eagle ought to justify It's sur.
prising statement by giving the names of
the rabbit-nerved leaders who are already
prophesying Republican defeat in Novem-
Der and preparing their timid souls for that
unspeakable, Unreasonable catastrophe.
And If 1t cannot give the names. the Eagle
ought to withdraw with an apology its i'm.
putation of folly and cowardice.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07

Many Atlantean intellects are engaged
in building laws in the various Legislatures
now in session.. and 1t may SOON invidious
to assign to any one Legislature the place Of
honor in tho noble pursuit. Tho Kentucky
Legislature does we'll. Tho Democrats in the
Illinois and Ohio Legislatures do well.
Tho Democratic heroes in the New York
Legislature who are hurting themselves
frantically against property and capital can
not BIO forgotten. On the whole, however. tho
prizc must go to Tennessee. A bill seriously
considered by the Legislature of that State
proposes to prohibit corporations which believe
themselves to be taxed excessively from appeal
ing TO tho courts.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07

The Hon. JOHN PARDON ALTeELp has
taken the trouble to write a letter saying that
1.-THE great Democratic party must take no
backward stop" 8 the great Democratic party
has not shown any desire to take any backward
step. the letter was not absolutely necessary.
Still. 1t is welcome. for 1t contains this eulogy of
the Chicago platform:
"Tha platform we adopted in that year WA Q sec
ond declaration Of independence for tho American
people. and It is much stronger now than It was then.
All we need to do is TO stand manfully by It, and we
will sweep this country as the hills are swept by the
bosom OF thunder"
Thunder. regarded az q sort Of hill-cleaning
witch with a broom. is o hne poetical concep-
tion, worthy of this eminent author. We are
compelled to say. however. that thunder 10 not
particularly formidable or effective.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07

In the February number of the Forum,
Mr.. F. G. PENFIELD, lately United States
diplomatic agent at Cairo, describes the
extent to which the agricultural resources
Of the Nile Valley have been developed by
British administration. His testimony is
the more trustworthy because he is by no
means one of those who think that Eng-
lands occupation of Egypt is defensible
from a moral point of view. At the same
tim he considers that to discuss the legal
or ethical right Of Great Britain to control
Egypt is now, at the end of sixteen years,
as s%uperfiuous as 1t would be for a lawyer
to argue that the State has no power
to arrest his client when the latter is
already a prisoner behind the bars. Mr..
PESFIEID believes that the British
Government intends not only to retain
possession of Dongola, which has been re-
Gently occupied, but also to recover the
whole OF the eastern Soudan, and that with
this territorial extension Is connected an
industrial programme of great importance.
1t is the reasons for this belief that are of
interest to Americans.
We are reminded that the well-known ex-
plorer, Sir SAMUEL BAKER, after descend
Ing the Nile from its source to it's mouth,
expressed the opinion that the river might
be so controlled hat the enormous volume
OF water, which now rushes uselessly into
the Mediterranean, might be made to trans
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THE GREAT INTERROGATION MARI
would AnnihIlation he the Greatest Blessing.
After ALI

would humiliation he the Greatest BLESSING,
After All
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: That's the
most awfully fascinating question that ever
stuck a mans life full of Interrogation marks,
"Is there a future life r. I should like to ask
Hope" who dawned with to-day's Sun, how
he would fill in the order slip II future lives
were served to order. That's what has always
stuck in my religious crop. so to speak. Some
how the older day future life. made up of harps
and hymns and holiness. never seemed quite
worthy Of men who have lived anywhere nearly
up to their ideals.
Latter-Dayists preach future life as a continu-
ance of our growth; the bodily weight being
dropped here. and the mind, soul, ego, spir-
itual core. or what you will. passing to the
next grade, or not passing. according to the life
lived here. Some day there comes to these
happy faithists a wee small voice. of a friend.
And the query Is put: Wouldn't humiliation
after Fa, AZ be ,t the Erestest blessing r -
we want to live here the very best lives we can.
because We are men and because we have high
pain, but the more pleasure. real pleasure. Just
is IoD the more Ssc one knows the hen m8Ee l91nelynrsadly
divine comedy, he becomes hoarse with long
:. Like Ak, % Ids y I h9Poi but sometimes the hope
greatest blessing for self might also be the great.
est for ones friends. They struggle so, have
such hardships. and we are. after all our On.
deavor. 80 little of help and good to them that
we, really don't want 1t all to continue in
definitely ION the other SIDE"
Pessimismf Yes. And even az ono reasons
thus there comes before his minds eye that
Figure. meek and lowly, the face saddened. Yet
the soul-depth is there; all tho poems Of the
ages wreath themselves around those features;
and the voice says. so fervently. so softly, ''I
am tho way and the life" And there that Fig
ure stands; and there that great Interrogation
mark stands; and life slips by. day and night.
And, ere long, we shall know. K. b. i.
GREENFIELD. Mass. Feb. 4.
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blacks Union wait until the price Of .
shine is ten cents or will they nov arise In
the might Of freemen and smite this foul
conspiracy of the money changersi
The trusts that have been cruel enough
to the producing vlasses" to lower the
price Of the articles subject to the trust,
are pursued savagely by octopus-hunters.
What will these stern spirits do to q trust
which sets a price on q commodity that
hitherto might be had for nothingi
The Kentucky Legislature can be de-
pended upon to devise sufficient fine and
imprisonment for the Hon. JuN Lively and
his fellow monopolists.
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noor our ron Z srnAr NOOK


nsuna ulnsh EoAy. eco, 0oo n1i,es Away
wantsa ~ . nsnbuFE hutreseser.
American astronomers are requested.to keep
their eyes open for q stray moon, which DIR.
Waltemath OF Hamburg Is anxious TO ind again.
His object IL to account for and to control GER
tain Irregularities in coming to time on the part
Of the old moon that we arc accustomed to sec.
He knows exactly what sort OF n moon he wants
and where It ought to be. Its apparent diameter
IL 140 seconds, but its real diameter 10 ago
miles, It's surface about one-twenty-ifth and its
bulk oneeightieth that Of the visible moon. and
It is els, 600 miles distant from the earth, two
and two-third times AZ far as our moon.
This little moon has been seen n number OF
times in tho last 800 years. During the seven
teenth century IL appeared as a fiery red ball
with q white streak across II. Later observers
describe Il ne Of the dark gray color of the spots
on the moon, and as q round, black body. 90 that
It had probably cooled OF In tho interval. Cassi-
nj, the father, saw It at Montpelier Nov. 2, 100.
and seven other appearances are noted In that
century. DR.. Ritter a Hanover school teacher,
saw It with tho naked oye in broad daylight in
tho neighborhood OF Naples on juno IL. 1855.
It crossed the sun from right to left. Mr..
Convey saw 1t at North Lewisburg. o.. on
Sept. 4. 1873. None of the observers had any
idea Of It's true nature. however. till DIR. Waite
math made his discovery.
On Feb. 8 Of this year. the little moon passed
over the sun. and 1t win do It again on July 80.
Its mean synodic course 10 1T dayp, and its
daily motion q little over three degrees. Any one
noticing It in Its wanderinss will please inform
DR.. Georg Waltemath ut Hamburg-on-the-Elbo.
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BrlaEsDsrs FACTORY De.,roysa b. n,..

,~BRDaEPoRT. Conn, Fob. 8.-The factory of
the Bridgeport Silver Plate Company was de-
stroyed by hre early this morning. The loss is
&46. 900. It will be rebuilt at once.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07

U our Jrtsnds tho 6avoT us vttA raansscrtpts for
qualifications totsh to hovs rejected articles rsturnsd.
hAsv mast IN ell eosss ssnd staups for that purpose.
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lawIessness. Yen are . Rpntieman. Get
out Of the whitalhw Reid gang.
These, Mr.. CHoATH, are the great public
duties which await you.
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From the Danrllls Rsotstsr.

West Virginia has . Baptist preacher. who, were he
apohuciAn. would DO . Joy forever 10 TINE sUH. His
mama s the Rev. Hes SVEN and he Il . Eood mAa.