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JOKE ON MTNDJI hey,
Alleged Petition TO the Sultan 10 Let him
work for tho Newspapers.

Some person has pcrpetrated n joke on
Mundii Boy, who until about n month ago was
Turkish Consul-O,encral in this city. 4 de-
spatCh was received from Constantinople
Yesterday which said that Mundii Boy had
requested the Sultan 10 allow him 20 add TO
his meaGre income as Con-ul-G General by on
Elging in Journalistic work. Mundli Bev,
who comes Of a very wealthy family. has for
several years past spent much Of his time writ
ing novels This i believed la have inspired
some friend here to write To the Porte asking
for the permission referred to in the despatch
and intending 1t as a Joke. The acting turk-
ish ConSul-General said Yesterday that Mundii
Bey has been transferred to The Hague. whether
a. u result of the letter or not is not known
The acting Consul said.
Mundii Boy was always we'll supplied with
money and lived AZ the Waldorf Astoria This
does not look as If hc was reduced TO the eN-
tTcWhty implied by the despatch.
While II, may bc that the salary allotted 10
the tou-uitiencral of Turkey in this city j.
sufficient Ia support a person not given 10
eNtravacances II Is well known that the sultan
l. slow pay and that officials are often com
PEELED to wait several months for a remittance.
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JrDGE OPPOSES rOrAL ABSTINENCE.
Says Attempts to Enforce u Have Failed for
FIFTY Years In New Jersey.

NEW BRUNSWICK. y. j., oct. 23.-Judge
Woodbridge Strong Of this city answcrci from
tho bench Yesterday certain criticisms which
have been made against him by pastors Of the
local Anti-Saloon League for what Is styled n
wholesale diSpcnsation OF licenses. In part
the Judge said:
a great many people think 1t the right and
tho duty Of n Judge on tho bench to refuse all
applications on tho ground Of immortality. and
thus saloons. II seems exceed
ingly strange that an intelligent man should
ADVANCE in public such a proposition.
The law makes II the duty Of the court to
what it pl"aScs about the morality II such
places, but IT. Is IN duty bound To license them
to "A reasonable" extent. ] may say AT the pres
ent time II seems best TO the Court that there
should be- a reasonable number of saloons In
every county In the state. For fifty years
the Court has been familiar with attempts
10 force upon the people total abstinence. All
have failed, The people will have these liquors.
The refusal 10 license such places docs nor pre-
vent the sale. They will have it in spite Of
rcfuSalS. When they are. arraigned for thus
violating the law they will defend themselves
In court by producing false and p%erJured
witnesses.
The proper course to pursue. in tho judg-
mcut of the Court. j. 10 educate the neOpl" In
moderation and doCeucy i'm thrruattcr Of drink
ing, which l. not, 10 n large majority Of the peo-
J. immortality IN granting excessive licenses
Drinking IN moderation i no more Illegal than
i, eating IN moderation
Judge StrOng'~ remarks were made in con-
neCtlon with two license applications from
South Plainiield, He granted one Of them,
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~MFT4PHySICIiNS MEET.
Second Annual Convention OF an Interesting
League OF Phila nthrOplsts

The second annual convention Of the Inter
national Metaphysical League began yester-
dar afternoon in Madison Square Garden Con-
cert Hail. The asscmhlage. composed mainly
Of erudite-lookin women and middle-aEed
men in white ties. was a large one. The morn
ing sessions are devoted 20 business. members
only being admitted. The public is invited
to the afternoon and evening meetings. which
will be given mp entirely 10 addresses and papers
by men and women prominent in metaphysical
circles.
The league was founded on Feb, 81. 1890.
NJ Hartford, by Charles Brodle Patterson.
II began with sixteen mon and women mem
hers, and it, plrros" was defined in the con-
To establish unity and coopcration Of
thought aud action among all individuals and
organizations through the world devoted to
the study OF the science Of mind and being,
and TO bring them. 20 far as possible, under
one nan" and organization. E
To promote interest in and practice OF q
true spiritual philosophy Of lite; TO develop the
highest solf-culturo through right thinking ms a
means Of bringing our loitle-t ideals into pres
on realization; 10 stimulate iaith in and study
Of the higher nature of man In its relation 10
health, happiness and progress.
To teach tho universal fathcrhood and
brotherhood of God and the all-lndebtedness
Of man
Tho first regular meeting was held in Boston
last October and attracted much interest, the
meetings hcing crowded To Overlooking Tho
members believe that tho movement is destined
20 be the most potent Of all forces NJ work for
tho spiritual uplifting Of society Mr.. patter-
son was elected President. Henry s. Tart Of
Providence Vice observation-disclosures. Warren
\. RodWan of Boston Secretary. and twenty
seven men and women from various states and
countries were chosen Nice-Presidents The
sessions Of the present convention will continue
throughout the week.
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For New York city to Determine.

more than usually important obligation
doyolyoa unon the voters Of New York
oitv this wear I'm the matter OF the choice
Of congressman. According To present
adyicea the districts In the business centres
~ the Greater New York, or tributary 10
them. will determine the control OF the
Fit~ty-seventh House.
The total membership OF the House OF
Represe ntatiyes Is now 351, ana l'S seats
are required for n majority. In IN" '"h-
gross elections Of four years ago. the kepup-
licons elected 2O6 Representatives, OF whom
20 were from the State of New YORK. WIN
out these 20. the Republicans were TWO
short Of a majority in the House notW'h-
standing the fact that MCkINIEY had' out
aide Of New York State. a popular hlaJor'S
Of nearly 400. 600 and 23j Electoral votes
20 I7e for BRYAN. New lorkS delegato !
elected in that year was. 10 the great circuit
Of the Republicans and Of honest money
Democrats, made up of - l'phph'alS
and only 5 Democrats, n result alone maze
possible by the success Of the Republicans
,r Now York CITY and ncIrhhorhood in
thirteen Of the eighteen Congress districts
In the election Of " years ago Tor mem
hers Of the Ffty-sixth House, the kepubA-
cans elected ls5 members, or only SIX moro
than the required majority, and more 'hah
one.hqlf Of the reduction was in tins state
md chiefly in this city, the New FORK dele
cation having is Democrats ana 10 hepupA-
cans. though the state was kcpubhcan
on the vote for state and Legislative offices
- a,,Igtantu1 ma iDritN.
This year there il II prospective loss TO
the Republicans Of some Southern CON
stitnencies. notably in North Carolina,
Texas and Maryland, one district in each
state, and some doubt IA to one OF the West
Virginia districts and one in Missouri.
New York's opportunity il to restore the
record Of four years ago and reverse the
record of two years Z by sending TO
Washington a majority Of Republican
members from this state. The Republicans
in every one of the metropolitan districts
have made popular and judICious nomina-
tons and in the six districts in which Messrs.
WILCOX, Parsons. DOUGLAS, Van Corr,
and OTIS have been nominated,
an aggressive fight Is in progress, inspired
bv the determination that the great COM
mercial capital Of the Western continent
shall not continue to be represented by
enemies Of the industries. well being, and
Advancement Of its people.
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Few similar organizations have during their
first wears existence display ed so much activity
as the AUTOMOBILES Club Of America. At It's
first annual meeting. held on Monday night, II
was shown that the conception Of three men
in 1899 has resulted in tho association and CO.
operation OF nearly 300 men for the purpose OF
advancing their interests as automobilists, and
at the same time the interests OF drivers
cyclists and all other people benefited by good
roads.
The clubs history. although brief, contains
the record Of several entertaining events and OF
much substantial and praiseworthy work
toward improved legislation, The clublsliKely
IN the near future to exert strenuous efforts 10
remove the tstrictions upon the use Of motor
vehicle, In parks and driveway, aud to secure
the passage Of avs intended 10 simplify
the conditions affecting ChHuieurs, without
In any degree rendering their machines OBJ
jectionahle to other persons. The sentiment
OF the members against the excessive speed OF
automobiles In the streets was clearly mani
tested. aud II ia TO be hoped that the clubs de-
sires in this reLard will be respected by auto
mob!listS generally
The remarkable growth Of its membership
aud the vigorous condition in which II finds
Itself a. the close Of It's first year. Indicate that
the Automobile Club Of America Las u large
future.
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The BRYAN Law TO Destroy Monopoly.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-SE: The fol-
lowing Is lh- act " In the nature Of the at which
william j. Bryan mus! propose 10 " secure from
Colgrc,, IN order to crush out all private monopol'es'
according to he economic S~entlmentsl expressed In
his late speeches at syracuse and through this Stale
ga his stamping tou, a. a candidate for the Presi
Ctucy.
IAN Act to repeal all laws Of the United States
granting private mOuopulteS.
"Bs Il s]pd0cIby me Senate aud House OF Repre-.
,sufInry IN congress di'eg,bef 1Aat Title sixty Of
tue Revised Statutes Of the o nlt-d States Oh the sub.
feet Of Patents. Trade Marks and Copyrights aud the
Act Of Congress approved March ,, 1891. entitled
. An Act to amend Title Sixty Chapter Three Of the
Revised Statutes Of the United States relating 10
Copyrights and all laws Of the United States author
hing the issuing u Patent Rights or Trade Marks
and Ia auy manner o; Dfm creating private monoDo.
lleS. he and the same are hereby repealed. This Act
" take eject from and after It's passage"
PRIVATE M~ONOPOtIST
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Maryland said TO He "Certaln,"

To THE EDITOR or The SUS-Sr; In your
forecast Of states that will 20 for Mckinley in
TO. day issue, you arc away of In the matter
Of Maryland. Maryland Is as certain to cast
her vote for Mckinley As Massachusetts,. or
Michigan. or Ohio. or any Of the States that you
put down as beyond \ peradventure for him ]
have been a close observer OF politics In Mary
land for sixteen years, and | confidently make
the prediction that Mckinley will carry this
State by at least 20. 900 majority. Nearly all
the Republican prophets who prophesy az 70
me T suits here are far too conservative ana
modest.
nv business takes me every day among NOR
chants, manufacturer, and all classes OF So
ciety and IL is simply marvellous thn unanim-
ity of opinion hat exists with regard TO me
certainty OF Mckinley carrying this state, ]
was In u prominent manufacturing clothlng
house tho other day, and | asked the proprietor
what percentage OF his hands would vote Tor
Mckinley, and h said, AT least 90" This esti-
mate was given me not only in one place nut
hall a dozen that ! visited. The, last place
/ was in, the proprietor said: You mis-
take If YOU think our hands do not under
stand the Issue They know as well az
YOU and | do on what side their bread
Is huttered, and they are as certain to vote Tor
thousands or tens OF thousands In capital AZ
issue upon the result" To use n common .eH-
preston. II makes me tired" To see politicians
put DOWN MARYLAND among the doubtful states:
They evidently do not know how the pul~r, OF
the business community here beats When ,hey
do this. JOSEPH BoWEs.
BALTIMORE, Oct. %.
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Beware OF the Business Ignoramus!

We invite every business man In this vast
business country. the laburers with the
capitalists, 10 consider this Bryan talk az
Hinton. ". Va, on Monday night:
" We say that the nctitious person created by law
aud called \ corporation ought not to have higher
b. the Almighty"
Mr.. BRYAN'S Misrepresentation. or igno-
rance. Il he likes that better, of men and
corporations Is wonderful. Instead Of the
corporation having higher rights than the
natural citizen" the case is the other way.
The man pays nothing 10 be born; the
creation Of Il corporation costs money.
4 man can begin business for nothing,
Il corporation has to pay for lis License.
4 man may mind his own business free
from the inspection of the State, "A corpora
ton has to report 10 the Inspector, And
there are other differences. all Of the same
nature.
Every time the Democratic candidate
for President discusses matters concerned
with business, he shows himself a plain
downright ignoramus. Raising him To an
office of great authority in the great Amcri-
can hive Of industry. would be- equal TO
making the dullest land -lubber commander
Of the national Navy. That would be wan
ton insult to the Navy is well as political
f~nplislngsS
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To THE EDITOR or THE - Mt william
J. Bryan tells us that the people who hold mortgages
are worse than black slave drivers.
What niche in the economy OF the financial world
do / M. Judging from the following facts:
Some time since | loaned a woman think az H. a
woman some money with which TO establish her son
IN a business whlcA seems TO have been a success
For Sscuuty, she gave me a mortgage on her house
THAT makes MT a mortgage. Some time atIetward |
borrowed some money from a savings bank repre-
sentlng deposltors' savings and have given the BANK
a mortgage on my own home This makes me a
moftgagor According TO Mi Bryan. ! am a merci'
less slave driver TO the woman who borrowed my
money, and a metcilessiy driven slave to the savings
bank.
have been wondering II my virtues as the banks
slave will coun,erbalance my vices OF slave diver to
tAr woman. I r l.
NEH YORK Oct 80.
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counts. This Is evidently what is contem-
plated in tho third clause OF the Anglo
German agreement, which speaks OF an
other Power making use OF the complca-
tons In China In order to obtain territorial
advantages under any form Thdteper'
The clause Of the agreement to which we
have referred intimates in a diplomatic
way that, II on any pretence Russia should
try to keep Manchuria, the two contracting
parties will consider the advisability OF con-
straIning her to respect China's terrific
rial integrity. We may take for grantedtha
our Government will not bind itself to
cooperate In any such coercion, although
we cannot but regard with extreme salts
faction the determination OF Germany and
England to carry out the policy OF the " open
door" Especially welcome. because less
confidently expected. is the stand taken by
the Berlin Government. 1t Is idle to deny
that, since Germany's despatch OF a large
military force to the Far East and since the
material enlargement of her fleet in Chi
nese waters. there has been a good deal or
uneasiness touching the nature and extent
OF the claims which she might ultimately
press upon lne iekll bONf IlIl'uN'
For the murder Of her Minister. Baron
voN KETrFLER, and for the cost OF her
punitive expedition, might not Germany
exact a huge pecuniary indemnity. the
prompt payment OF which would be i'm
possible, and in that event would she
not insist upon holding a l1rge part
of tho Province OF Shantung "a mort
gagec? Experience has shown that such
mortgages are almost always foreclosed.
1t is certain that, had Germany upon any
plea, however specious, expanded the terri
tory already leased to her in S%hantung, II
would have been generally recognized that
the process of partition had begun, and all OF
the treaty Powers. with the exception of
the United States. would have taken part in
the mutilation Of the Middle Kingdom IL
is because Germany has now pledged her
self to pursue no such course that We call
the agreement a self-denying ordinance.
We presume that Japan will gladly be-
come a party TO the Anglo-German agree
ment. including even the third clause,
which, II il means anything. means that II
Russia should try to annex Manchurla she
will be expelled thcrefrom by force. with
such a combination IL would be- hopeless for
Russia and france to contend. For that
reason we regard the compact as u guar
antee that tho peace of the world will not
be broken by any conflict Of interests in the
Far East.
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Meaning of the Anglo-Gcrman Agree
ment.

The more carefully the text Of the Anglo
German agreement is studied in the light Of
the circumstances under which it was
made, the more important it appears.
The document ia equally significant,
whether we consider Il in its af-
frmative or in its negative aspect.
on the one hand 1t is a self-denying or
dinance; on the other, Il is a writ Of pro-
hlbition. II cmbodics a promise. 1t wells
n threat. Why was such a combination
supposed to be needed? At whom is il
aimed. and by whom, outside Of the two
contracting parties. Is it likely to be sup
ported?
The document bears date oct. 10. SO far
as the world at large was informed at that
time, there was no need of the agreement
which It sets forth. Every one Of the
great Powers had officially declared its in
tention to uphold the territorial integrity
and the administrative solidarity Of the
Middle Kingdom. II will also be remcm-
bcrcd that. in reply To an inquiry made by
our state Department. all the Powers, with
one exception, pledged themselves to re-
spect tho treaty rights of all foreigners
NlNllll Nll'N' ltl ~ W 'A'''" NV 10y ~
their respective spheres Of influence. A.
Kiao-Chou, for instance, the citizens Of all
countries which have had treaties with
China were to have precisely he same
rights as regards freedom of trade, harbor
dues and railway rates which are TO be pos
sesscd by subjects of the German Empire.
This engagement was entered into cXplic-
fly by every Power except Russia. Even
the -. Petersburg Government promised
that AT Talienwan T. would not discriminate
against the citizens or subjects Of any
foreign Power, 50 far IA customs duties
should hn concerned. II omittedtoSa any
thing about harhor dues or railway rates.
though Il il obvious that, If n preference
were given to the Cars subjects in those
particulars. our merchants would loo prac-
tically shut out. not only from M%anchuria,
with which We already havc a fourishing
trade, hut also from the whole region north
of the Great Wall. " for by that phrase. which
covers Mongolia and a part Of Chinese
TIrkcstan, is defined tho sphere within
which China has conceded TO Russia certain
privileges of railway building and mining.
Since the ostensibly friendly but insult
GENTLY explicit reply Of the Russian Foreign
Office was received by our state de-
partmont. Russian soldiers have occu-
pied NewchwanG. the principal cntre-
poi Of ManChuril, which for some
time has imported a large quantity
of American commodities, II i true that
assurances were given by Russia that she
had no intention Of occupying permanently
either NcvChwanC or any other pant Of
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McDcrmott Kicks Two Great Demo
cratic Issues.

The Hon. ALLEN MCDERMoTr, Demo-
cratic candidate for Congressman In the
Seventh New Jersey district. knows which
side his bread Is buttered o New jersey
cannot be lured into consenting TO the free
coinage Of silver. New Jersey, as sensible
az she Is rich, is hospitable TO the Trusts
and makes money out Of them. SO Mt
MCDERMoTT. standing on a platform mat
calls generally and specifically for 10 to
and the destruction OF the Trusts, told the
Elizabeth Democrats Saturday night that
neither the money question nor the ques-
ton of Trusts is an issue in this campaign.
lie ~iauntily tossed away two great Demo-
cratic issues. both Of which are ianatlcal
and dangerous attacks upon business;
and ne only dared to talk about imperial
ism, a harmless phantom. what the Malays
call a " ghost tiger"
Mr. MCDERMorT's standing az an ortho-
dox Bryanite will not be impaired by his
rejection OF much Of tho Democratic plat
form. Hide this Issue here; make most
Of that issue there. suppress anything
that you think the voters won't swallow:
that Is the Bryanite policy in this cam
paign. Still, it must hea little irritating
to the sincere worshippers Of the Chicago
platform and the Kansas City platform
to sec "A Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in a district that Is, or at least was In
1888. absurdIy and hopclossly Democratic.
denying two main Bryanitc tcncts and
calmly kicking away not only the special
Bryan issue Of silver, but also the Trust
issue. about which In this campaign Mr..
BRyAN has beloved more and louder than
about any other except his ghost tiger
~ imnpriul-m
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Minneapolis Dre,.malers on Strike.

From IN" Minneapolis Times.
Minneapolis women who cannot make their
own dresses must now remain at home, or,
when they ~ out, wear old gowns. The dress
makers are on n strike. and propose TO remain
on strike until the bosses" sign an agreement.
Upward of n hundred and fifty Of the
strikers held a meeting At AIexnnder's Hall last
night. Following Is the Language 81 the agree
meht' submitted IN The form ot a petition.
We. the Undersigned, members Of DrcsSmakers'
Mon No. ] NJ Minneapolis, request that the follow.
ing rules and regulations BE- compiled with.
First hat the hours OF toll shall be from 4 a. NJ.
to y. NJ, allowing one hour Tor lunch.
Second That all work done overtime shall be paid
as Time and onrEalf for the nTst three hours, and
after that double time.
Third That the change OF time shall have no ,f.
feet on the present rate ~ wages.
We trust you will comply with these rulns and
give us an answer before we begin WORK ThurSdav
morning. Oct rs. 1900.
Nearly all the proprietors OF dressmaking es-
Establishments refused TO sign this agreement and
consequently every member OF the union ault
work yesterday morning.