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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-19
New York.

The general prosperity OF our country
continues to be the theme Of national
comment and congratulation, and fitting
attention to it has been paid in THE Sun.
Nevertheless, we do not think that full
Justice has been done in popular observation
to the exceedingly pleasant state OF affairs
that prevails in our own city. Never before
were people in this town SO comfortable
and well Off. Never before was there so
much money in circulation, business so
brisk and profitable, the social and intel
lectual atmosphere clearer or more
bracing, and the happiness of the entire
community greater.
Our streets are jammed with well dressed
and prosperous looking men and women.
BY day the shops and stores are filled with
purchasers, and the wares displayed are
rich and costly At night the theatres and
other places OF public resort are the scenes
OF gayety and splendor. The theatrical
attractions presented this winter are OF
an unusually high grade, and they are
attended by throngs larger than ever pre-
viously recorded who cheerfully pay high
prices OF admission, and do not grumble at
the extortionate demands made for choice
seats, or sometimes for any seat at all, by
spectators. The hotels have been occu-
pied for months by visitors from out
OF town, who seem to be plenteously
provided with money and have come
here TO spend 1t; while the restaurants
OF the more expensive class are so crowded
at the dinner hour that seats at table
are obtained almost as matters OF favor
Poverty shows its ever present face with
comparative rarity, and the few cases Of
distress and suffering that become known
meet ready succor from warm hearts and
abundant pockets. While the social season
proper has hardly begun. it can safely be
prophesied that it will be one OF the most,
ifnot the most, brilliant our city has known;
and Mr.. MAURICE GRAU will undoubtedly
have reason to thank his lucky stars that he
lived to give performances OF grand opera
In New York in the season of lS99-leOO.
The demand for labor is great and not
easily satisfied. The building operations
and physical growth Of our city are OF almost
incredible magnitude and OF ever increasing
beauty. On Morningside Heights the
pillars OF the new Cathedral loom full OF
majestic promise, and in Madison Square
stands tho great Arch, the most thrilling
and glorious monument in the land,
that no American can ever see without
q sound In his heart OF rolling drums and
pealing trumpets. We trust that it will
soon take an enduring form. Not mort
does 1t commemorate DEWEY and the heroes
OF the war just ended than New York $ own
artists and sculptors inspired by patriotic
fire. Here lives and breathes our grea,
city, happy, radiant and supreme.
The cloud, sometimes big and sometimes
tiny, that so often hovers over our Thanks
giving festival will not darken it this year
Never have We had SO much to he thankful
for and 80 little to give US trouble in the
mind or heart.
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To THE EDITOR or THE suN-Sr: Noticing
In yesterdays Sun the account OF young man
who broke his marriage engagement after his
hancee had made a visit OF four weeks to his
parents. l think he did very wisely under the
circumstances, and think II every ono con-
templatng marriage would try the probation
airy plan as he did, and invite the young woman
to visit his parents for four weeks It would be
good test and prevent great many unhappy
marriages,
Speaking from personal experience. l think
nine-tenths OF the married men are unhappy,
and probably as many women. This could be
prevented II the plan OF probation were carried
out. In this respect think the Jewish people
are a great deal more careful and sincere in
their love ma king and match making than the
so-cnlled Christians, and "a a people they are
much moro happy and contented In their mari
tai relations
II anything can be done to prevent III advised
marringes land most marriages are H. -atvisod)
prccaution which the young man referred to
In your paper. took. seems to be one to he imi-
tated. BENEDICT,
NEW YORK. Nov IL
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with England, our good friend in 1893, has
JEFFERSON for it's sponsor.

with England our good friend in 1893. has
JEFFERSON for its sponsor.
"In a letter TO President MONROE, dated Oct ~.
1925 he said. Great Britain is the nation which
do ms the most harm Of any one or ALL ON earth
and with her on our side need not rear the whole
world. with her. then. we should most sedulously
cherish cordial friendship, and nothing would
tend more to knit our affections than TO be hghtng
once more side bv side in the same cause.
As to the other Jeffersonian tenets. both
parties are agreed, although Judge CLARK
might have said that the majority OF Ken
lucky Democrats seem averse to honest
elections. He does not omit to mention,
however, that tho Democrats don't permit
the negroes to have their votes counted.
The conclusion OF Judge CLARKs letter
must be given In full:
Tho Democratic party has In moments OF error
or of alarm stampsdsd from the principles OF the
founder and has SLOWED It's ancient Hamiltonian
enemy, tho Republicans to enter th
OF IL. temple AMI carry away and appropriate to it
own uss the most vital OF the principles 40
announced. In its pursuit OF tine phantom OF
domsgoEy, the Democratic party has thrown away
the nag. which. in JErrEnsoS's day, and for many
years thereae stood for equal and exact justice to
all men for the rights Of the States and abe preser
walton OF tho general government In all Its viaor.
and for the sacred escryation OF the public faith
and the defence OF the national honor. and has
permitted the Republicans TO take Il mp and with II
march TO victory VIII It rotraco its steps and live
Will Il ever regain the road which alone leads to
peace liberty and safety Let us wait and see."
There must be thousands Of Democrats
who, like Judge CLARK, are weary Of a
Democratic party which has nothing OF
Democracy save the name, which denies the
fundamental Jeffersonlan principles and IL
straying even farther into the wilderness OF
wild, violent and unjust changes. The
Democratic platform OF 1899 is far worse
than that Of 1896. 1t not only attacks
the public faith and the integrity OF
the Supreme Court, and proposes to
destroy some OF the most vencrated
institutions OF government under tho
Constitution, but 1t sullenly resists newt
able growth and expansion. II would
destroy much that has been held good and
at the same time IL would throw away new
opportunities for the development Of ma
tional power. Tho Republican party. on
the other hand, represents all the vital prin-
cipes OF the old Democracy and is at once
conservative and progressive. Names and
prcjudlces cannot long keep the best Demo-
cratic minds OF the South from the party
and the policy which are not only the act
ual upholders OF all that was best OF the
old Democratic belief, but which are indis-
pensable to the prosperity OF the South.
Self-interest and constitutional theory are
drawing the South toward the Republican
party. Only Democratic reaction, revo-
luton as sudden and extreme as that OF
800, can save the Democratic party.
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Human Being with nm Animals Power of
Scent.

To THE Enron or THE sus-ST: Referring to
the article in the Sun OF yesterday, copied from the
Indian Lancet concerning humsn odors, It may 10
interesting to record that tho fifteen yearold son Of
. prominent citizen OF this town has power of
scent for the human odor almost equal to that Dos
sessed by bloodhounds. He has been subjected to
the following test clothes basket containing the
family laundry, fresh from the cleansing and iron.
ing was placed In room; the Lad was blindfolded
and In the presence OF witnesses each separate gar.
ment from the basket was handed to him. He
smelled of each and laid them in appropriate piles
for each member OF his family of nve persons with.
out an error. 1t was done purely by the sense Of
smell.
His possession Of tho acute sense was discovered
one evening during the absence OF his mother when
the pajamas OF the three sons were brought in
together. The sons were nearly of size and the
father, unable to tell which was which" expressed
his doubt. The gifted boy at once volunteered to
apportion them by the odor aud succeeded. He did
not consider It an unusual feat and can trail his
brothers about the suburban place where they live
LOUISVILLE. Ky, Nov. 10. A.
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The Hon. GEORGE CLARK is one OF the
ablcst of the Texas Democrats. He has been
Acknowledgement OF that State and Judge Of
the Court OF Appeals. He was the recognized
leader of the State Democracy until 1892
when the radical and Populistic element
overthrow the old conservative and ortho-
dox Democracy. The triumph OF the new
and violent principles was complete in / s86
Judge CLARK could not accept the Chicago
platform. The Organism of 1899 is a still
wider divagation from the original and es-
sential Democratic tencts. In letter.
found in the N. Louis Globe Democrat,
which has drawn and deserves attention,
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ENSIGN GBERA RDJ LIFE SAVER
For the Third Time the Navy Depsrtm,n,
Records His Heroism In Days OF Pence


The Navy Department. for the third tim.
within three years. has recorded officially tho
bravery Of Ensign Walter Rockwell ahcrnrI,
and IL is interesting to note that in each casa
the young officers heroism found its opror.
tunity in time Of peace and that 1t was excrtcl
in the saving oflife.
Three sailors were swept overheard from ,b.
battleship Maine In n tremendous gallo of
Hattsras on Feb. O. 1897 and Ghcrardi, then "A
naval cadet. volunteered to take n boat to their
rescue. The boat was destroyed Ave minutes
after II was launched and the cadet and his
crew were rescued with lfel nos
Several mouths later. while Ghernrdl was
sttached TO the Tevas, then at the Brookiyn,
uniform. and rescued IA drowning sailor.
.Cant. A. y, SnoW Commandant OF the Uni,od
has rerored 1 TO III" Nav bn uan a"rt2 hco
Gherardi's latest feat In the cyclone Of Aug'S.
1870 the schooner Conception loaded win,
steamer Vasco dragged their anchors and
went ashore in the harbor OF MayaRuca.
anfsn sh.tstd ran and down hS SS@ nsG
| render assistance. The storm was 1T
it's height and the wind was terrific. Cher.
ardi plunged into the water with his clotho,
on aud saved. with the assistance OF Jimihoz,
such mem hers Of the crew ard passengers ot
reach. All but five or six people who did i' n"t
dare to jump into the water were saved and
after providing them with shelter Ghcratli
relief OF, the crew Of the steamer Vas.
co. which was boating herself to piece.
on the beach few hundred yards from
the Concepcion. The yasco threw out n lie
line but II fell short OF the shore. The resct-
ing party formed n line, by joining hands
which extended out into the surf with Gh"rardi
in the lead. By this eSpedient. which was the
only possible ono in the circums stances. Cher
| ardi caught the life line and brought It ashore.
and by means Of IL the crew we're saved. Capt.
Almy OF the Fifth Cavalry. who voluntarily re-
ported these rescues to tho commandant OF the
naval station at San Juan, says:
That so many lives were saved from the
schooner Conception and the steamer Vasco Ia
undoubtedly due to Ensign Gherards efficient
leadership and his heroic personal efforts -"
Mr.. Ghcrardi In a sou OF Rear Admiral BAN
croft Gherardi who was retired In 1894 after a
| gallant career IN the navy. The Ensign is now
In the Naval Hospital in this city recovering
from an illness brought on by his exposure at
Mayaguez.
Commander Bowman McCalla had no more
ca liant men on the Mnrblehead than the naval
cadets and ensigns who worked In the boats
| dragging for hidden mines. a. regar less OF the
hostile fire from shore as the m ct seasoned
veterans. II was Ensign Irwin " Gillis OF the
Porter who jumped overheard and unscrewed
the war-head OF a floating torpedo that threat
| encd bis boat. Cadet Powell commanded tho
boat that waited to rescue Hohson. and Lieut.
| Victor Blue made himself famous by daring
| feats afioat and ashore.
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Major HENRY LEE HIGaINsoN OF Boston. to
whom Harvard owes the Soldiers Field,
has given the college $50, 900 for the con-
struction OF University Club The pur-
poses OF the club were described by Major
HIGGINsoN in speech made at mass
meeting OF students in the Sanders Theatre:
There are to be large simple rooms where Har.
ward men meet on equal footing. There are
TO DO rooms for the different branches OF college
activities, social. athletic and other public works
There arc tn be rooms where the men assemble
games to have quiet talk and large hAllwhore
the meet for unrestricted talk in public.
There will DO also, let us hope. corner, and a table
where homeless graduates from other cities can be
content"
The extraordinary increase Of the num-
Der OF undergraduates in recent years, the
extent and diversification OF social and
athletic interests, and the divisions neces-
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The French Ministry Upheld.

Last weeks proceedings in the French
Chamber OF Deputies must have surprised
many persons because they falsihed the
predictions OF those who, recalling the
circumstances under which NJ. WALDECK-
ROUSSEAU took Office, assumed that his
Ministry could not survive tho re-
assembling OF Parliament. As matter Of
fact, the hostile preparations made during
the recess by NJ. MELINE and other Anti
Revisonists proved Intellectual, and tho
Cabinet secured a vote OF confidence by a
majority OF 1925; this. It will be observed,
was five times larger than the majority
by which the present Ministers, when
appointed. were confirmed. What has
happened to make them so much stronger
than they originally We're and to give some
assurance Of stability to a combination
supposed to be ephcmeral2
The wording OF the resolution which wns
accepted by n. WALDEcK- ROUSSEAU and
which was carried with unexpected ease,
reveals the fundamental motive that
impelled most Of the sincere Republicans
to rally to the support OF Cabinet which
they had at first regarded as an unsatis-
factory makeshift. The successful motion
ran: THE Chamber, approving OF the acts
OF the Government for the defence of the
Republic, pa sses to the order OF the day. -
In other words, those Deputies, still, luckily
for France, In the majority, who care
more for the maintenance Of free insti.
buttons than for the triumph OF any
particular faction, desired to commend the
arrest OF reactlonist conspirators. and re-
fused to pursue course that would be
construed as discountenacing the trial of
the accused persons now proceeding before
the High Court OF Justice. 1t is not easy
to see how NJ. MELTNE who spoke and
voted against the motion, can reconcile his
attitude Myth his professed devotion ito
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TICTIMs OF THE MAINE DISASTER.
Those Buried in Havana to he Brought to
the United States.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 1S.-Brig. Gen. Ftzhugh
Lee, commanding the Military Department OF
Havana Province and Pinar del Rio had an
interview to-day with Acting Secretary Allen
OF the navy about the removal to tho United
States Of the bodies Of the men who lost their
lives in the destruction OF the battleship
Maine. All the bodies recovered. with the
exception OF a few sent to Key West. were
inferred IN the Cristohal Colon Cemetery,
Havana. The plot in which they were buried
has not been kept IN good order and the Navy
Department has decided that II Is advisable to
disnter them and give them n last resting
place in the Arlington National Cemetery near
Washington. Gen. Lee suggested that an
Maine the bodies OF the men which are known
TO he in the vessel. Only about half the bodies
were recovered and buried ashore. The Navy
consideration.
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Plague of Rats In Denmark.
From "A, london Nous.

FTNNI nv TUWUVV lNF0N'
In Denmark a campaign against rats is being
prosecuted with rivor. 1t was originally started in
Copenhagen. where the alarming multiplication Of
rats induced the municipal authorities TO pay
tain for each dead rat An official report Of the
statistics OF rat slaughter has been issued every
week since the opening Of tho campaign. In the
fret week the rat cachcrs, professionals and anna
tours gave In the heads of 5000 rats in the second
week I.6id, in the third week $3.50. We are told
thai the average weekly bill OF mortality among the
rat population OF Copenhagcn has risen to about
10000. Other towns and COmmuneS followed ths
example ~ III capital, aud the Danes arc making
patriotic attempt to cxtorminato tho petty wof.~
~ Hendrix not inuptly named the rat
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Reversed Stree, signs In Brooklyn.

To TIN EDlroR or TAI SUNNI; Referring 70
tho communication from Mr., Rickeywhich you PRINT
under the caption. Brooklyn Wants Reversed Lamp
posts trust THE sUS will stick to Ito original i'm
preston when the change WAS hrst made ~ New
York. As 4 mater Of fact person ON street ar
looks ahead for the street sign before the car reaches
the street which ~ more Fenrlbn thug 70 do thdn
10 wait unit the IL abreast OF the street he wants
Sitting IN car yOu cannot easily see tho sign On the
posts as now arranged IN New York unless you al.
most break your neck leaning forward 70 look mp At
II or turn right about; whereas. under the former
system IL could be easiy seen with little bendiLg %
half a turn half a block away, u. ~ AA
BRvokLYS. n j., Nov. II.
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The Enormous Sermons of the Past.

From co., r. ". Hiogtn'ons address on Puraaa
OrdiOry
We md that the Puritan oratory, In quantity. Al
least, II not in quality, was enough Ia oNerpOwos
the most daring modern mind, Holy Master Cotton.
minister of Boston, came out from England with
two crgymen-eldrrs they would then have been
callcd-to accompany him, and they preached
sermon apiece ON every OF tho forty days of the
voyage. After every meal they had u sermon. We
know that when samuel SuTall, atterwArd hust
known M Judge SewAll preached hi, hrst sermon,
no was too shy u look a. the hour glass, and
preached for two hours aud half before he got 70
the end Of the sermon,
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Sorrow in Cambridge. JOY in New Haven.
The high hopes OF DR.. ELIor's debaters have
tumbled. while DR.. HADLEY's combination has
done better than most Of its friends expected.
1t was a rafting game and the draw should
be sufficient honor for both sides Yale
has braced w in her most brillian,
style. Harvard finds the end OF the season
rather unsatisfactory. but at least she has not
been conquered. Better luck and bigger
figures to the better eleven next fall!
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The Schley case exists. 1t cannot he
done away with until settled in accordance
with right ard justice. The partisans Of
ScHLEY have made It political The idea that
1t can be ignored by any party responsibility
connected with It contradicts every known rule
nf
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-19

Men OF this generation recognize in WILL
LIAM DiLIISdHAM the man most htt-d tn take up
In the United states Senate the duties and respo
ht that were borne by the venerable aud reyered
MoRnILI--honipsiier Ddily Journal.
What's the matter with your Uncle JoSArH AN
Ross. now sitting In the late Senator MORRILL, 8
seat by the grace Of Governor SMITH?
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To THE EDrroR or TIE sus-S,r' How does Sim
badly BsllAby strike your lie 10 a miner aud lives
at Fort Hily Fayetts county. Franz 4. FARQuHAR.
UsIosToy~ Pa. Nov. 10.
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PAnrs-Klosaus 40 IL. near Grand Hotel and
Eiosque No. 10, Boulevard des Cspucincs.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-21
A RIFT IN THE CLOUDS.

Charleston Gazette.
The Gazette is pleased to note the fact
that the Governor of the State will not
contribute nor conserve the purpose of
the revoIutionists.
1t was indeed gratifying to all lovers of
liberty yesterday morning. when Mr.. +. l..
Boggs, the private secretary, appeared
before the House and presented the Gov
errors message to that body.
As was said in these columns yesterday.
the State ought, through its constitutions
al officials, put itself upon a firm fOunda-
ton of regularity in such a clear manner,
that hereafter such questions as have agi-
tated the Legislature will not have to be
gone 6t9r again.
Notwithstanding the great party pres
sure. the Governor has made a valuable
contribution to this end by no longer de
laying his message.
He has said that so far as his power
goes he will preserve the three coordinate
functions of the government-the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial branches-in-
tact. and he is evidencing his good faith
in that regard. 1t is to be hoped that a
few more days of elaboration will lift
the mantle of mystery from the Senate
chamber and that body will put itself in
line with the constitutional legislative ma
chinery of the State.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-21

1t was truly high time the upper
house of the Legislature recognized the
coordinate branch in that body. 1t
has taken the Republican leaders just
nine days to make up their minds to do
their duty and cease blocking the
wheels Of legislation.
Up to yesterday the Legislature had
been in session since Wednesday
week at a cost of about $500
a day to the taxpayers and not a thing
had been done in the Senate toward
had wasted the time and money of the
people up to yesterday in lodging
the committee sent to notify the Sen
ate that the House was in session and
ready for business. 1t was scandalOus,
criminal work the Republican leaders
were engaged in.
What they hoped to accomplish by
their foolish dilatory tactics, however,
is past comprehension. 1t looked like
a sheer wanton waste of the peoples
money without any intelligent purpose
whatever.
This, however. is but a sample of
the methods of the Republican bosses.
1t is high time the political leaders
at Charleston were made to know their
proper place-that they are the ser
wants. not the masters of the people.
The Republican leaders in this State,
however, have never taken that view
of the public service. They always
have seemed to regard the people and
the taxpayers as legitimate prey to be
used for voting and taXpaying purposes
and for the personal and political ad-
is all. They have never deemed the
people worthy of other consideration
or as possessing any rights they were
bound to respect.
Their chief purpose, just now. is the
theft of a United States Senator, which
they can accomplish only by revolu-
tionary means and the o~verturning of
the will of the people as expressed at
the polls.
Whatever their next move in this
direction may be. it is time the sover-
eign people were expressing themselves
and firmly calling a halt on the high
handed work of the revolutionary gang
at the capital.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-21
wHEELTNG REGISTER, SATURDAY., ANUARY q, 1893

ident do? Smash him out of existence, as
sert our rule and protect the lives ana
property of the peaceable and industrious
portion of the population? No. When
confronted with something to be done, he
again vacillates and, ~resorting TO the old
expedient, throws down the reins to still
another commission. The revlving hostil-
ity of the Continental press and the time
ly warning of our London contemporary
demonstrate What this country needs in
the present iuncture is not a commission
but an Executive.