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districts in the State constitution at the
last constitutional convention. The worst
feature of the whole affair is that the
gerrymander is fastened on the State for
twenty years, as the constitution cannot
be revised or amended only at intervals
of twenty years. The Democrats cannot
be sure of having a majority in the New
York Legislature unless they carry the
State by about rs, 900 majority. That emf
nent reformer and political jurist, Joseph
II. Choate, was president of the constitu-
tional convention which adopted the leg
islature gerrymander. The scheme was
arranged and engineered. 1t Is said. by
Mr.. Choate and Elihu Root The latter
is now the private counsel of Col. Roose
welt. Once upon time he was the pri-
vate counsel of William Nj. Tweed.
The reports from Nebraska that Col.
Bryan's supporters would be successful
in that State are confirmed by members
of the Presidents party that made the
recent trip TO Omaha. One of the objects
Mr.. Mckinley had In view in going out
to Omaha was to help defeat Col. Bryan
in his own State. II was requested,
said gentleman who accompanied the
President, .to look carefully into the
situation in Nebraska. l did so, and in
a very short time l learned enough 20
satisfy me that there was no earthly
hope of our carrying Nebraska. ] so in
formed the President. Nebraska will
give a larger Democratic majority this
year than it gave in 1896. Mark the pre-
diction.'
More money has probably been wagered
on the New York contest this year than
in any off-year campaign in years. AL
ready several hundred thousand dollars
have been put up, and the heaviest bet
ting always comes in the closing days of
the campaign. 1t is a safe estimate to
say that at least Sl000,G00 will change
hands on the result of the fight between
Roosevelt and Van Wyck. The betting to-
day is nearly even, although II is easier
to find Van Wyck money than Roosevelt
cash When the campaign opened in Sep
tember the odds quoted in the betting
rings were two to one on Roosevelt. Be
fore election day they are likely to be two
and perhaps three or four to one on Van
Wyck However, it is never safe to bet
unless you can afford to lose.
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II is only in the districts where Blancos
power is still supreme that the Cubans
have to live entirely on American rations
In all the others they are at work on their
farms and in fair way to support
themselves. AS long as BIanco retains
authority the Cubans will be reluctant TO
go to the country, where they would be at
the mercy of bands of Spanish marauders.
This is only one of very many reasons
why the Americans should take COM
mand, but there is no prospect of it be-
fore next year.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1895.
4 Silent Press.

There is not yet that display of the
jubilee spirit we had reason to expect
from the Republican press on learning
that we are to keep all the Philippines
on the condition that We assume the
debt of the islands. There has been
much cause to fear it was not the Pres
ident's purpose to take all, and the de-
cision in favor of all must surely graf
ify newspapers that have urged that
course. Perhaps it is the difficulty of
explaining the arrangement in salts
the rejoicing-the possibility of gil
gantic scandal.
Spain sold the Philippine bonds at
price a good deal below par. They are
now in other hands-most of them in
the hands of the Hanna-Atkins syndi
cate. The payment of the bonds will
not put a dollar in SPANS treasury,
but will only relieve her of their future
payment. That can afford her no pres
ent benefit, and when we consider how
much greater is the sum of the Cuban
bonds which she will assume herself,
the Philippines debt must seem small
too small to produce bankruptcy if the
larger debt can be carried. Yet we are
told that in consideration of our prom
ise to pay the Philippine bonds, Spain
will say nothing more about the Cuban
debt; she will even allow US to take all
the Philippines instead of single ISL
and, so eager is she that the holders of
the Philippine bonds shall be paid, that
If we do not consent to pay the Ameri
can holders of the bonds their face
value-though they bought them al five
cents on the dollar-Spain will with
draw her Commissioners. the ministry
will resign, the dynasty will abdicate,
and we may have to renew hostilities to
get Blanco out of Cuba.
Was ever such a fine sense of honor
shown by any other people? These
Spaniards who have been wholly bar
barous in their treatment of colonsts-
on whom they imposed bonded in
debtedness for the exclusive benefit of
Spain-who do not hesitate to rob
banks and who hate and despise every
thing American, are yet so high-NiIded
that they will surrender to their enemy
the precious islands, will themselves
carry the enormous Cuban debt, in or
der to insure the payment to the hated
American bond sharks of the face value
of the bonds which they bought for a
song. Rather than have these bond
sharks fail of their great profits, Spain
will renew the bloody war that has
cost her so dearly.
That is virtually what the RepubIi-
unless some plausible explanation of
the mysterious deal is invented by SEN
ator Hanna and his partners That the
American people will swallow no such
tale we need hardly assert. To say
that Spain's plea of poverty, her appeal
for immediate relief in the way of
money to maintain the present dynasty
in power, is fully met by an agreement
by which America is to assume re-
sponsibilisy for the Philippine bonds
which Spain no longer holds. is TO in
suit common sense. Compared with the
Cuban debt, these bonds are insignifi-
cant; their payment could be long de-
layed by Spain without actual repudia-
ton; the payment of interest alone
could hold them off for years. There
fore their assumption by this country
is of no great profit or Importance TO
Spain. 1t cannot save her from any
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present trouble. If we are to pay
money to Spain for the islands. nobody
will object: but there. is-no reason why
we should agree to pay Hanna. We
are prohibited from doing it by our
own arguments when we rejected the
Cuban debt. That the Republican
newspapers should hesitate to enter in
to explanations of the matter is not at
all surprising. It Is a filthy mess.
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Polite.
(From the Detroit Free Press

FfoH the DttrOlt FREE Pfess-)
1t was a sample OF innate politengss that tckled
crowded street load of passengers. He was
big, good-natured son OF Erin. going from his
days work and standing near the doorway in the
crowded She tlbowed her way in at the
State Street crossing. resplendent in her own
beauty and her fall tailor made suit The men
who had seats We're industriously pretending to
read the paper and she beside the big work
man when she ran her tightly -gloved hand
through a strap.
Its sorry ON. mum, thot | hav no safe as I
can git up and give yez, but all the Imply ones
took whiB got aboard.''
She blushngly assured him that she was just
much Obliged and then smiled at him when
three suddenly discovered her presence and
insisted on her having seat.
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rather than to lead might follow him.
Conscientious people would always
know on which side their influence
should be thrown in order to be right
Intriguers and wrongdoers would be
swiftly reduced to poverty. But un-
fortunately for the easy-going people,
for every reformer who turns out good
there are, perhaps. nine spoiled in the
making And reformer who does not
succeed is crank. In Russia they put
him in Jail; so they do oftentimes in
Germany; in Great Britain and the
United States they simply let him alone.
Those whom he has injured in his at
tempts to reform things do not like
him; those whom he has benefited US
ually do not care for him: and the
greater part of the world has never
benefited or injured anyone in partic-
ular he might. when the ardor of youth
was over and he had seen the error of
his ways. reform himself instead of
other folk, and become decent sort of
body; as it is, his past haunts him like
Banquo's ghost. This is the more un-
fortunate because half the young fell
lows who really amount to anything
have fits of wanting to reform the world
at a certain time in their youth. They
see truth and honesty and goodness
clearly unbiased by any considerations
of stocks or bonds, and it is a great
deal easier to give up good position
for the sake of principle at twenty-five
than at fifty-two. That is the reason
why. when there is call to war, the
young men respond with a fire and de-
termination not shown by their elders.
Their idea of patriotism is a sentiment,
not policy. 1t really seems as if there
should be some way to prevent a mans
being carried away by sentiment in the
days of his youth so that he destroys
his prospects for wealth and honor in
old age.
In the farm columns of a newspaper
recently appeared a recipe for curing a
horse of kicking. 1t advised that the
animal be put into a narrow padded
stall. and sack filled with hay or
straw suspended so that it would strike
to be left to fight 1t out, and the result
would be that in the end the horse
would absolutely refuse to kick the
sack or anything else. If some such
plan could be followed in the treatment
of the human kicker it might cure
him as effectually as the sack of straw
cures the horse. He could be put in
some place where he could not hurt
himself, given something innocuous to
fight, and left to exhaust his kicking
proclivities on that.
But. after all. ii may be that the con-
genital reformer is an absolute neces-
sity TO this world. The method of ma
ture in evolution seems TO be to create
a dozen failures TO every success. The
successful reformer is simply he in
whom the impulse to reform is so in
tense and overmastering that it bends
his world to his opinion. Such archie
types can only be produced through the
waste of many inferior specimens. Per-
human kicker should not be cured. The
young farmer said, when accused of
keeping a horse which jumped fences,
that horse which hadn't spirit enough
to jump some fences would not be of
any use to him, and if his neighbor did
not want his crops ruined it was his
business to keep up his part of the
fence. Let the conservative people con-
slider this and be patient.
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When He Goes.

(From the Chicago Record) -
Docs your husband go to church. Mrs.
Badger?'' -
'.oh. yes, he gees quite regularly in the winter
time" - 80 - - :.
why does he go in the winter time and not at
other times?' 8
''well, you see, he generally has the qninsy
when the winter weather is raw and thinks he is
going to die
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Marchand has voluntarily left Fashoda
and it is rather bewildering to the Eng
lish. Whether to feel relieved or to sus-
pect a new scheme is a question. That
two nations should be on the point of
war over his determination to stay when
he is so ready to walk away puzzles
diplomacy.
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DrvotrI sport.mnn.

(From the Detroit Free Press.)
$50 YOU can't 20 hunting With me Oh. the
20th?" yelled one young Detroit business man 10
another over the telephone.
Don't see how possibly can old man. But.
say. leave il open for couple of days. Between
YOU and me. have appointment to be married
on that date. but she may be willing 10 make
a change so that | can get away with you.
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What thief or gang of thieves made
the profit on the transportation of SOL
diers and hospital patients in box, coal
and cattle cars when the American peo-
pie paid for them at Pullman rates?
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A Clerical Error.

(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
''That was a good sermon that DR.. Binks
preached this morning.
Excellent 1t would have been almost perfect
if the doctor hadn't interpolated few sentences
of his own
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What thief or gang of thieves looted
the nation when many yachts of million
aires were bought by the Government at
thirtythree to fifty per cent more than
the sellers actually received for them?
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What thief or gang of thieves got the
money made out of the fever camp sites
selected because they could be reached
only by single line of railway whose
proprietors were willing to and did divide?
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II the President persists in his ref,1s,

If the President persists in his refusal
to go to New York for Roosevelt, he will
have a week here before he goes to Ohio
to vote. In that time the information he
got from General Lawton should induce
him to order some warships to Havana
to keep his Commissioners from appear
ing too ridiculous and helpless.
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1t is the opinion of military men in
Cuba that General Blanco has no notion
of letting go of the Havana custom
house or of evaeuating the place by the
first of January. No doubt a warship or
two would expedite matters, but Blanco
seems to understand that in spite of the
urgent appeals of the Evacuation Com
missioners the President will not send
any. Why he will not is mystery.
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Two PracessianA

(From the Philadelphia Item.)
While the military parade. with its flavor of
war, may closest to the American heart, the
civic day procession will be object lesson in
Philadelphia's prominence as a manufacturing
center. and reveal why this is the City OF Homes
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What thief or gang of thieves plum
dered the Government when it bought
secondhand tramp steamers and old
hulks for transports, at many times their
outside value?
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The Highest Point.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
(Which one of your party reached the highest
point on that Alps-clmbing trip?''
'.Mamselle Lucie. She's the famous high kicker
YOU know
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A Modest Foreigner.

(From the Boston Journal)
Isael Zangwill, the Jewish novelist, has formed
no opinion of America and Americans He has
been in this country a few weeks. This we
believe is the record for d distinguished foreigners
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What thief or gang of thieves would be
enriched TO the tune of twenty or thirty
millions, If the people. of the United
States were TO be saddled with the Philip
pine debt?
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But Losing the Game

(From the Cincinnati Commerc;al-Tribuna.)
Spain isn't much in war, but when it comes
to diplomacy she has all the in the deck.
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Natural Effect.

(From the indianapolis News.)
''As 500. as started my speech the crowd
.'Yeu must have made tham hot. my boy
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COuuensatiOn.

(From the Chicago Democrat.)
1t is alleged that things look dark for the
Cock County Republican candidates, but there's
enc consolation-their vote will be light
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Go Well Together.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.l
''why do you say he's good match for that
grass widow
''Because he's 4 rake"
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THE TINES should be tersely and plainly written
and must in all cases be accompanied by the
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munications will not be preserved and only man
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to their authors
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT

THE TINES, in all its editions. Morning. Even
ing and Sunday, will be mailed 10 one address
for FIFTY CENTS per month. Addresses changed
as often as desired.
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election by a plurality of 1900, Demo-
cratic Legislature at Albany, and a Demo-
cratic majority in the next House The
Worlds young man, after March 4. 1899:
Republicans. 40: Democrats, 49, Populists
and others. s. The House. probably: !:
Democrats. 1Sl: Republicans 161 fusion
and POpulsts, 10, a Democratic majority
over all of five.
Discussing the political outlook yester-
day. an old campaigner said: "One
thing that seems to stand out clear
in the mass of bewildering estimates. is
that Col Roosevelt is fore-doomed to de-
feat. Assuming the Herald's esti-
mate of only 1900 for Van Wyck to he
approxima tely correct can Roosevelt's s
friends extract any comfort out of it?
Can they hope to overcome that narrow
margin in the remaining days of the cam
paign? Most decidedly no, in my judg-
ment. You must remember that Roose-
welt entered the campaign prime favor
ite; the betting odds were two to one or
better in his favor. In a word. he was
stronger on the day of his nomination at
Saratoga than he has been at any time
since. His supporters nave been growing
less and less every day. If he is 1000. or
even 1000 behind Van Wyck today he
will be still further in the rear on cleo
ton day. / think that conservative esti-
mate should give Van Wyck a plurality
of at least 25,000.'
Outsiders will, perhaps, wonder at a
forecast which indicates the election of
Van Wyck governor and at the same time
comedies the Legislature to the Republi
cans. In most States the party that
elects its candidate for governor gem
orally captures the legislature as well.
but it does not follow in New York for the
reason that the Republicans inserted an
outrageous gerrymander of the legislative
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Readers of THE TINES who may at any time
be- unable to procure copies Of it at any news
stand or railroad station or railroad trains.
will confer a favor upon the management by send
ing 10 this office information of the fact.
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The Journal figures out plurality for
Van Wyck of 12,o5O; good working DEM
ocratic majority in the legislature, insur-
ing the return of Senator Murphy and
The next Senate, according to the Jour
nails forecaster, will be very close" with
the chances 'favoring the Democrats." "
He gives the Democrats 100 representa-
tives in the House, the Republicans 1856
and sixteen to the fusionists. leaving thir-
ty-six districts in doubt.
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beneficial. though the complaint is that
they are too sweet. The refresco is a
concoction of pure water and the whites
of eggs and sugar beaten together into a
kind of honeycomb. which is called a
'.pasale." AT first ecertr American de-
spiseS the refresco. hut after a while
he finds that ii is really refreshing There
is a lager beer brewery in Havana and
beer is also imported from New Orleans
II is not. however, a good beverage in
the tropics, especially to those of bill
ious temperament. English ales can al
ways be had. The water drinker can get
along all right in Havana which has
supply of pure water not excelled by any
city in the world Most of the larger
towns also have good systems of water
works. but in the smaller villages. and es-
pecially along the south coast. in the
marshy lands, the water is not good
Spanish elarets and other light wines can
always be had as substitute. For those
who have scruples against the use of wine
there is usually a chance 10 procure a
mineral water of some sort at the village
drug store The druggist. as a rule. does
not know what he has in stock but when
urged he can usually find somewhere a
bottle of mineral water.
In most of the towns somebody can
always be found who talks English. The
return of a large number of Cuban reflI-
gees who have been in the United States
during the last three years has largely
increased the number of people spread
over the island who talk English. so the
American who wants to travel about
while he will be at disadvantage, need
not let his ignorance of the language
keep him in Havana. He will find both
Spaniards and Cubans invariably civil and
courteous. For those who have gained
some knowledge of the language advice
is, of course. unnecessary. but a hint may
not be out of place. Spanish is like all
foreign tongues in that those who speak
it do not always understand their own
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Gounirn properip fer Sale.

A pamphlet prepared by residents of
Metuchen, N. j., describing that place, is
directed simply to heads of families. 1t is
not a real estate agents circular. 1t gives
the facts about Metuchen. Those who
Issue IT desire to reach only congenial peo-
pie, looking for a suburban home, who may
from reading the facts be led to visit them,
and who may from visiting them decide
that Metuchen offers the kind of home
and the kind Of surroundings they want.
The pamphlet may be secured by addressing
A. c. Lterst, Me,uchen, N. J.
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Conntrp Real estate tor Sale.
Talking
About Houses!

Have you any idea Of what we have for sale
at GLENWOOD HEIGHTS. in fonkers!
Fifty architectural Gems" most delightfully."-
located 80 feet above the Hudson-di-
recty opposite the far-famed and always
beautiful Palisades-ln the very best part
Of New York's best suburb-where real es-
tate il always advancing, and must con-
tinua 10 do so as long as health. scenery,
convenience of access, city privileges ana
lovely surroundings are factors In making
homes desirable.
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0ountrn properip Go Get.


vI,O RENT In CORNWALL. y "a farm Of 80
| under good cultivation. well watered: large
barn ana windmill Well adapted for stock raising. In
qulre % f. CROMWELL Cornwall
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FURNISHED Gouscs 60 Get Conntrp.


I,LRERON - 20 room residence. fully furnished
r. grounds lS7NSs the stable. stalls. bath
nouses. for sale special price. WILLIAM LANE Long
Branch.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Columbus-ave. s. 7Oll q Of ioSd-st SoSiV; .,
John - Hennessy 20 Elm Hennessy. .....-.-. u
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S1jse,r ''' .-,..,....|...... 100
esrn,s. 30 >, Mary Iak1r ..".... 200
% 60 @ts, end another 70 r Il Bent -. 1900
Maeisoa nS~,nd 10 Maria Tiiienbrand ~ 900
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RECORDED MORTGAGES.

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corner Southern Boulevard and l67th-st. De
fnhnd .
BlumenthaI Samuel 10 Matilda August; No 334
West S4th-st 3 years ........... ........
Coel,z. Paulina and Henry to Louise Freudsn-
berger. part OF lot No $3. map Of village Ct
MorTisauia years. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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CITY VS.. COUNTRY.

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