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at is not strange" says our esteemed
contemporary. tho Au0usta Herald, that the
autocratic Speaker Of the House. whose vanity
is as monumental as his obstinacy, should have
retired under the merciless c%astigation Of Con-
gresham FLEMING on Friday. It was a tri-
umph for the Representative from the Tenth
district" This triumph Of the Hon. WILLIAM
HENRY FLEMING and this discontinue Of the
autocratic Speaker have not boon visible in this
part Of the country. But Mr.. FLEMING is q
man Of whom much has been expected. "In
April, 1894" he remarks in our esteemed con-
temporary. tho Congressional Directory" he
" Sustained q severe and almost fatal injury by q
kick in the face by q runaway horse"
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ALTG ED REDIVIVUs.
He Thwarts MAJOR Harrison's Attempt TO Con.
troll the Illinois Democratic State COMMITTEES.
Frofn The Cbtrooo R..o.a

rs hu"Nrtb hAnyOr htnFrlDOn'g Attempt TO Con.
troll the Illinois Democratic State Committed.
From the Chicago Record.
Mayor Harrlsons boom for Governor was punctured
by the Democratic State Central Committee yesterday.
The Cook county machine had planned to hold pri.
maries under the old system OF machine domination
before the new primary law went into effect, and in
this way to name a delegation that would force the
State Convention to indorse tho candidacy of Mayor
Harrison for Governor In 1900.
With the Tammany and other Altgeld. silver Cd.
position to Harrison In Chicago. the machine leaders
fought hard to maintain the regularity OF the
primaries and convention called Saturday. Failing
in that they made a last stand against Senator Ma.
honey's resolution, but II won,
Democrats who are on the inside claim that this
means the widening OF the breach between the State
partisans and the Cook county machine; that the Alt.
geld people Will force the silver issue in the coming
municipal. county. Senatorial. Congressional. and
State campaigns. and that not only will Harrison DO
attacked for his alleged tendencies toward the gold
Democrats. but all his candidates who refuse to sign
In black and white a freesilver platform will be
knifed. and knitted hard. by the Altgeld men.
Politicians declare tho organization of the new 30.
ciety means that Altgeld is determined to have the
United States Senatorship.
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According to the Kansas city Times, the
Hon. TIM MURPHY wears the coat in which
BRYAN made his great speech at the Chicago
convention" Mr.. MURPHY is In tho habit of
giving ian impersonation" Of Mr.. BRYAN. The
two actors arc said to be intimate friends.
Each admires his W genius and that of
the other. The coat in question is OF silk
alpaca, but in his impersonatlon Mr.. MUIR
PLY wears "a black frock coat as rather
a more dignihed garment" With tears In
his eyes Mr.. MURPHY describes Mr.. BRYAN as
taking of. not only his silk alpaca. but his neck.
tie. and giving them to the impersonator. All
this seems TO be believed by our Kansas City
contemporary, but is contrary to the known fact.
When Mr.. BRYAN delivered his silk alpaca
speech. he was giving an impersonation of the
Hon. TIN MURPHY.
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~LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY.
Schools Celebrated Yesterday and Grown.Up
VIII Take Their Turn To-Day.

Schools Celebrated Yesterday and Grown.Ups
Will Take Their Turn To-day.
In honor Of Abraham Lincoln, to-day, which
Is his birthday. is a legal holiday in eight States.
including this State. The banks, counting
houses and public institutions arc closed, and
public school children 60 free for q full round of
the clock. 1t Is even more than q full holiday
for them, since the afternoon session yesterday
was given over to special patriotic exercises, In
accordance with the circular or
ton sent out by State Superintendent Charles
r. Skinner. Two weeks ago Superintendent
Jasper called a meeting of the public school
principals Of this county and directed them to
hold Lincoln exercises based on the suggestions
of MIR. Skinner. Those exercises consisted in
the. salute to the flag, patriotic songs and
declamations. and essays on historical subjeots,
To-day there will be various celebrations.
Bishop Charles II. Fowler of Buffalo will de-
liver an address at the Union League Club.
Brooklyn. There will be a large meeting al
Madison Square Garden on behalf of negro in.
dustriai education, at which ex- residen Cleye-
land will preside. and among the speakers will
be President Daniel Colt Gilman OF Johns Hon
kins, President Charles Cuthbcrt Hall Of Union
Theological Seminary. Robert @. Ogden. and
Booker T. Washington, the colored orator. The
Republican Club will give its annual Lincoln
dinner at Delmonico'p, Chauncey M. Depew pre-.
siding; Theodore Roosevelt, Representative
Charles A. Boutelle. and DR.. Howard Dufieid
will respond to toasts.
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about ten years. They were withdrawn ct
a time when there was unusual need Of
them elsewhere, q remarkable series OF
Indian hostilities breaking out at the West.
Besides, they seemed to be Of compare
lively little use at Fort Wrangel. Tho
transfer of Alaska had been effected with
out difficulty, and the new order Of
things had been accepted On all hands.
The natives v comparatively little
trouble, and although there wore some
alarms, they usually resulted in nothing Inn
portant. Besides, 1t began to be recognized
that, with the total lack of roads In Alaska,
there would be great difficulty in trans
porting troops by land to distant points,
and that revenue cutters were more to the
purpose for preserving law and order. Tho
navy, also, tool q hand, and for many years
has kept q gunboat at Sitka. The great
movement to the mines Of the Yukon, the
chief feature Of interest and Importance to-
day, was still to come.
1t can thus be understood why the troops
were originally withdrawn, and why they
go back now In stronger force b a ever. 1t
is probable, too. that the occupation now
undertaken will be permanent. Not only
must law and order be maintained, but the
development Of the Territory, which is sep
arated from the rest Of the country by
British Columbia, makes 1t necessary to
have a permanent garrison there. Among
immediate dangers to be guarded against
appear to be those Of combinations Of put
laws to seize provisions and, indeed, any
other property. But there may arise dis
puted jurisdictions, conflicts over boun-
diaries, and various disturbances Of the sort
familiar to mining communities, even
where there is a better system of civil Gov
eminent than the one prevailing In Alaska.
1t will be interesting to see how the
troops stand the temptation to desert.
The gains possible from mining and from
other occupations will make the soldiers'p pay
seem very meagre and desertion may be-
come frequent in consequence. However,
the Wal Department has felt that 1t must
take the chances, and will not be surprised
II the applications to purchase discharge
are many and the establishments few.
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The Proposition at tho End.
The voice of another victim of the gram.
mars and grammarians:

The voice of another victim Of the gram
mars and grammarians:
"To THE EDITOR OF THE sux-sfr: A school
teacher. IN order to impress upon his pupils the use
Of the proposition. once said to them; . A proposition
should never be used to end q sentence WITH
"ln an editorial Saturday, Feb. 8. 1893. under tho
heading 'Parenthesis and Bracket 1 find this sen.
tence: Mother is excessively beautiful, but you arc
entitled to make your choice II you want to-
"Ihave always held to the opinion that o preposi.
ton at the end Of o sentence is faulty syntax; but 30
many prominent writers, including the editor Of THE
Sun. having made such use Of It. would like your
opinion on the subject. W. H. RISEHARr.
WHEELING, Feb. a."
Why is the placing of a proposition at
the end of a sentence to be regarded as
faulty ~syntax7 Our West Virginian critic
gives no reason. Probably he has read a
solemn oracular categorical obiter dictum
to that effect in some English grammar.
Perhaps some worthy schoolmaster or
schoolma'am, laden with the spoils of
learning contained in one of those trea-
tises, impressed upon his mind in the ten
der days of boyhood the belief that a prepo-
sition used as the last word in a sentence
is a high crime and misdemeanor. How
ever produced, the impression is erroneous.
English writers make English syntax;
writers of literature not of English gram.
mars. Take the Hon. WILLIAM SHAKE
sPEARE for example. He had no objection
to a final proposition:
"what to delight in, what to sorrow for"
THE truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak II I'M
"If't be the %afiiction OF his love or no
That thus he suffers for"
And 80 on. In prose, in the same act of
Hamlet" from which the last quotation
is taken, occurs the well-known passage,
with more offences at my beck than 1
have thoughts to put them In, Imagination
to give them shape, or time to act them in"
In fact, SHAKESPEARE is reasonably full of
final propositions.
So there is nothing sacred about the last
place in a sentence, and a proposition is not
excluded therefrom.
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WANTS TO SELL THE sonUYLH111,
The Reading Railroad Assumes Complete Owns
ership OF That River.

ernhiD OF That River.
REApING, Pa, Feb. 11.-For ninety miles the
business men in the Schuylkill Valley ara ask.
ing the question, Can tho Reading Railroad
Company sell the water of the schuylkil River
to the city of Philadelphia President Harris
Of the Reading Railroad Company and his law.
yers say they can, and they have offered tho
schuylkill River water to Philadelphia for three
and a half millions Of dollars. Philadelphia 10
now using the Schuylkill water at Fairmount
for part Of its city supply, free of charge, but
the railroad company wants to go further, and
sell all the water in the various dams along tho
river to Philadelphia, in times of drought, when
that city is short of water.
The railroad company own the Schuylkill
Navigation Company, operating the Schuylkill
Canal. This chartered canal settled all water
damages along the Schuylkill River many years
ago and erected dams and locks. These large
dams In the dry season contain millions of GAL
Ions Of water, which the Reading, Railroad says
dry season and remains to supply the canal. but
as rs The navigation business is extremely dull
p f@e asai'H water 31%B By all pWfiPSsGis Il to to s run int into I'm, I'm,
river and thence to Philadelphia.
By the proposed sale people are informed that
control Of the schuylkill River water; an owner
ship of the whter which is more than riparian
ers along the river. while owning one.half tho
river bed. do not own the water. The Reading
SOlnphuy hlsO purposes CnaU fnllaQeIplla snail
have complete police control over the river
water as to keeping 1t pure. This is
f BUSINESS essm m aens al If s aione the cesis sennylH HnS
from Philadelphia to the coal regions.
Should PHILADELPHIA accept, how far would this
new owner of the Schuylkill River go toward
stopping existing infows to the Schuylkiil from
FARMS. business places. manufactures, towns. or
citiesf People even go SO far as to say that fish.
ing. bathing, &C.. could be stopped. and many
other annoying features introduced by the new
owners OF the river water. on the plea that the
water, must BIO kept pure and indebted for
household purposes.
There are many who say that the Reading
Railroad Company has no right to sell any
privilege by. which these many dams along tho
river containing more than 1000. 900 gallons
can be drained dry in July or August and thus
leave the canal above or below dry, or in danger
of becoming too low for navigation. The rail-
road company says 1t will assume all RESPONSE
bility of any loss to boatmen, but a dry river
bed threatens other losses. Others also say that
the navigation company chartered rights do not
include the right to sell its impoundcd water for
q city water supply.
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The Hon. ]. BAYARp BAoKus of the

The Hon. J.. BAYARD BAoKUs Of the
American Geographical Society and the Mug
chump Enrolment Committee has discovered
that an stimated enrolled strength of 5000
means "a voting strength of 10000 for the Or
ganization." According to this enthusiastic dis
coverer. 1.-THE experience Of the enrolling officers
indicates this very strongly" Five voters to ono
e%nroller. Is that strong enoughi We feel conf
dent that when tho Hon. WILLIAM Houston
KENYON brings his mathematics to boar upon
the question Of the normal proportion Of enroll
ments to votes. he will decide that every name
enrolled is equivalent to at least 12lo voters.
There should be moro careful calculations
among the Seven. the Eleven, and the Fifty
three. They must assume that the smaller tho
enrolment is. the larger will be the vote.
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4nH1xo 70 DoDes rHs IRE BoND.


Nno hoEtu IroBnik Comu1te1lon 80 hLnAn Ne
fsre the 'supreuo Ceurt.
Tho motion as the result of which the Rapid
Transit Railroad Commissioner hope to cut
down the bond Of els, 000. 900 now required Of
prospective contractors for the underground
road was submitted to the Appellate Division
Of the Supreme Court without argument yes-
torday. Tho matter came up on q motion for .
rearRumont on the decision OF the court approx.
ing tho plans of transit on tho bond condition.
The roargument, according to the notice OF mo-
ton, was asked solely on these questions:
Whether tho entry Of tho order Of approval
herein should DO conditional upon q stipulation
by the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Com
missioners as to tho amount Of security, or upon
any other stipulation, and
I'm case such q stipulation be required,
whether tho amount of tho security should not
DO greatly less than s15. 000. 900 and whether
the provisions as to security should not be diff
ferent from those mentioned in the said opinion,
and
board a stipulation as n condition Of the entry
Of tho order or otherwise, then for an extension
tho time. of the giving Of such stipulation By
the said board until the pending question of the
Of thsp ToS vi lone eShasssns Of Sfo SdSi dpnalF f%seiii aRa
board shall mako further application. to this
lief as may be Just"
Tho burden. Of the papers in support Of the
motion was that the commission found 1t i'm.
possible to .raiso a bond Of that amount. George
Zabriskie, in behalf, Of property owners. urged
that.tho court should not, TO suit contractors,
decrease q bond which the interests of the city
required. His information was that the roads
could not be built except at an outlay Of 800.
100000 moro than the estimates of the board.
Albert 3. Boardman. Of counsel for the board.
said out Of court. regarding the motion:
IF the court should not SEQ Its way clear to
reduce the amount of tho bond from &l5, OOO..
600 to 81, 5o0,ooo or to shorten the time Of tho
bond from fifty years to the period of actual
construction, the only thing the Commissioner
can do is to take steps to test the authority Of
the Appellate Division to impose such exao-
tiQns."
It became apparent that the end of the uso.
les, expenditure 10 not yet, when q motion was
Arthur d. Williams, and G. w. Young SIG, 900
each as Commissioners. They were appointed
to ascertain II the road should be built, not
withstanding that a sufficient number OF con.
sents to the construction could not be obtained
from property owners. Mr.. Smith. who made
tho motion, stated that the work of the com.
mission was particularly arduous, as they had
taken much evidence on the subject last sum.
NOR, and he thought the allowance asked was
moderate.
The court reserved decision on both mo-
lions.
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Much water Marks a x~eutuoL,an,s Grave.

II think we have n pond down in our neigh.
oorhoOd," said a citizen of Auburn, which
takes the prize in the wonder class. 1t Is known
lance from the little hamlet of Corinth.
THE story goes that q man was plOughing in
the field one day in June, several years ago. when
horse he was driving was swallowed up and no
trace OF either Of them was ever found. A pond
OF water spread out over q siX-acre field and
now marks the farmers grave. From that day
to this the lake has always contained about the
SAME quantity of wator. That the pond is fed
by some large underground stream Is evident,
for 1t never goes dry, it matters not how pro-
lonRed the droughts may be.
Il once talked to a man of 95. a native of the
immediate locality. who told me he remembered
distinctly, when the farmer was swallowed up
by the sudden cavinR of the earth and that tho
people from up in Simpson county. thirty miles
away, went down to view the pond and learn
the particulars"
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A correspondent of the Savannah Press

A correspondent of the Savannah Press
gives this picture of the One.Eyod Ploughboy of
Pigeon Roost, who seems likely to DO the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor OF Georgia.
~ have seen him In Augusta when he was trying
to float the bonds Of his Gainesville narrow gauge
railroad. leave the bank. and steal away to a book.
stand. There he would take acopy OF LoSdFELLow's
poems and remain the whole afternoon behind the
counter lost behind the tangles of 'Evangeline.'"
Not all the pattering OF Mr.. LoNGFELLow's
Acadian can distract the panied
eye and heart from the spectacle of this pluto
crat and corporation man trying TO float his
narrow gauge bonds. What have onseyed
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We have received letters from several
graduates of Yale University bitterly rcsenting
accusations against the moral character Of that
college community, which have been made by
the newspaper organ Of the Prohibitionists
1t seems. however, that the Board OF Council
men of New Haven have decided to take the
matter under consideration at u meeting next
Monday evening. with q view to disposing OF the
defamatory allegations by presenting the pro.
else facts as they are, and that is far better than
a newspaper controversy. We do not doubt
that the moral tone Of Yale. like that of our
colleges generally. Is higher than ever before.
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An OLD Country Admirer or Tom Nolan.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sus-Sir: / notice that THE
Sun ia giving great notoriety to the new chieftain OF
%Tammany Hall. Assistant Corporation Counsel Tom
Nolan. which I think is very well deserved.
! am glad. as q citizen and as a County Limerick
man, that his persuasive and foghorn voice is still I'm.
tact for to make an impression here. that Thomas
was so noted for so long ago at the fair OF "Rakale.n
"Long Tom Nolan" is a County Limerick man. He
comes from a family OF giants who were highly re.
spectacle and wealthy farmers in the west part OF the
county.
Tho %eloquence that is so Inherent In him WINS
achieved in his young days on historic ground.
cahirmoyle. the home of Smith o'Brien shanid.
"Shanid Aboo.' aud Mick Mack's forge were nil 70.
nowned In the ann ,lR OF his native county,
Tom Nolan was the best story teller that eyer s.t
up az n wake In the parish OF Ardagh. and his genial
\" bol0 yeruy" was as reverential as his unsullied
reputation that was handed down from father To- son
! have not met him In forty years.
JERSEY CITY, Feb. o. SHAWN O'DAwnA
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Chinese Minister ru,.led a. Gr.alrou Fun.


WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.-Mr. WI WINS n guest nd
the Gridiron Club dinner Saturday night, and
was at first somewhat puzzled regarding tho
fun that always goes with a Gridiron dinner.
When one of he members stopped the dinner 10
manded that the soup pot be brought in, to see
what gave the peculiar taste complained of. Mr..
wv looked serious and inquired OF his %neighhor
breaking up the dinner. He saw the hotel pro.
prietor brought in, and then the soup pot, and
he expected to see trouble over the dinner before
II was served. But when the President OF tho
club 1lshed out a civil service reform bill from
the soup. the Chinese Minister saw the humor
OF the affair and from that moment there was
no guest who caught on quicker or enjoyed
more the jokes of the Gridiron than did he.
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1sRhHzm E1xooEN.
mo circumstances er mis- Ker,instisu Recalled
on the nay OF rlia birth.


To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sfr. As we
have nothing but praise and honor for Abra-
ham Lincoln as each anniversary Of his birth
occurs. I have thought It we'll to give tho
younger generation some idea OF the state Of
affairs existing at the time Of his first nomina-
ton for the Presidency in Chicago. In May. 1860.
/ was a resident of that city from 1854 to 1861,
and I cast my first vote for Mr.. Lincoln in tho
memorable campaign with Mr.. Douglas in the
fall Of 1853. for United States Senator of Tli-
nois. I was also present in the wigwam during
the sessions Of the Republican convention which
resulted in his nomination for President of the
United States, and well do I remember how
coldly It fell upon New York's forty.four dele
gates, led by their honorable Chairman, William
NJ. Evarts of this city, who were united In their
support of Mr.. Seward; not a cheer came from
q single delegate from that State, while the rest
Of the convention was in q grand tumult, wild
with excitement.
Finally Mr.. Evarts arose and moved the
nomination of Abraham Lincoln be made unani.
NOUS, which was done. have always been Of
the opinion that had the convention been held
In the East. Mr.. Lincoln would not have been
nominated. The people of the west-not tho
convention-nominated Mr.. Lincoln.
The only States which were a unit for Mr..
Lincoln's nomination were nlinois-which put
him In nomination-and Indiana. When Indiana
WINS called, the Hon. Mr.. Lane. Chairman OF the
delegation and United States Senator from
Indiana at that time, arose and In stentorian
tones said: Indiana seconds tho nomination
OF Abraham Lincoln for President of the United
States; a man good for splitting rails and maui
ing Democrats"
The following editorial. copied from a New
York paper May 10. 1860, will do much to show
the feeling that existed with at least one Of the
great dailies prominent in the newspaper field
then as well as now. This editorial was printed
the day following Mr.. Linco!a's nomination for
the Presidency. and in the light Of the historical
events which have occurred since this was writ
ten 1t certainly has not proved q good predic-
tion. MUNRoE CRANE.
NEW YORK CITY, Feb. IL, 1898.
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Kansas Teachers Gum-Chewing Cure.
EGofn IhA pIenannfnn Dhaeri4r

One of the teachers In the Pleasanton school
has found n cure for tho gum-chewing habit.
recently. and when the pupils assembled several
of them were working their jaws at a good
gait. The teacher compelled them to disgOrEo
their guilds and a liberal coating OF quinine was
sprinkled over the same. and the chewcr was
bSut The gum had lost ali its 1a W and dd in II,
place was a bitter dose OF quinine. We do not
know whether tho pupils abstain while out ot
chewing in school has been completely broken.
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before passing this Joint resolution to gild.
Nevertheless, II the experiment is hastily
undertaken and proves not to be a success,
there always remains the possibility Of
treating the Goddess with nitric and
h%ydrochloric acids to get the gold of.
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The resignation of eight members Of the
session OF DR.. HALLS Fifth Avenue Presby-
terrain Church ought not to be a matter Of any
consequence to 1t. They are rich mon. It is true,
but their riches are on earth, and 10 it not tho
treasure laid up in heaven which alone is Of
vital consequence to q churchi