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\ CLOSE AT 5 P.M. SATURDAYS AT 1 P.M. * MOSES F st., cor. 11th. I AND SONS, Stornge, 22d and M. Storing, Hauling, Moy- ing and Packing are spe- cialties with us. Best of service, smallest of charges. Clearing Out Summer Floor Coverings. MATTINGS—25 hundred yds. . in Remnants and Odd Rolls of Fine Japanese and Chinese Mat- tings will be sold now at ONE- HALF their regular value. We must get ready for our new Car- pet stock, and these Mattings must go. We lose, you gain. Remnants from 8 to 30 yards. Mattings. Oe. Fancy Mattings. Tze. Fancy Mattings. -1e. yd. Fancy Mattings -12tge. yd. Fancy Mattings. Ibe. yd. aney Mattings. Fancy Matting: 5c. Fancy Mattings. Gc. Fancy Ma Matting Rugs Jo Matting Rugs, 36 by 72 Be St in. Regular pri $1.00 y Tapanese ee. in. Regul 25¢. > Faney Japanese Matting Rags. o 36 by 7Z in. Regularly Te. Now — 45C. 100 Faney Art Japanese Matting Rug b ii Regularly $1.50, Now... . $1.00 200 Inlatd Art Matting Rugs, 36 in. Regularly $1.50 and $1.00 8 sds. by $8. Now. $5.00 Matting Bugs, Rug Yon know the stock son. of Rugs we showed 1 Here's how they go: Japanese Rugs. 1S by 36 In. hy 48 In. Hy oO in. Smyrna Carpets. tterns (h © ft 7 tt 9 ff. by not be duplicated: by in, ft by 10 tt a: 6 in Painless Extracting So OC W. B. MOSES & SONS. tion of ZONO to the gums...... Highest class dental operations by experienced experts at one- half the charge of other first- class dentists. Painless fillings, 75e. up. Very best teeth, §8. Solid gold crowns, $5. U S Dental Ass’n, eo’ Cor. 7th & D Sts. mylt-3m,30_ ‘Mantello” Photos, Only $2 Dozen. : are dainty photos, and are sure to them so they'll you and us. Same pains r-priced photos. & specialty of artistte pos- ing. tellos’” only $2 dozen. W. H. Stalee, 1107 F St., to M. B. Pradr. ve 3y31-16d ee rs :Teeth Are ‘Made White And decay prevented by the use of LISTER’S DENTI- FRICE. The most valuable preparation for the teeth—per- fumes the breath. Only 25c. bottle. PP > OH $ anand + forget to take a bottle with you aw. Thompson, 793 15th. PHARMACIST. “Sar osa$ ete te set won °S. INA Wilson's Retiring Sale. ‘Deeper Cuts ; ‘In Shoe Prices. ( We sbut our eyes to normal values when < we began cutting prices. We're aiming to clear out our stock as ( — quickty as possible in order to retire from < business, ‘The result fs we're offering ‘ins ( that $ are unparalleled im the history of eboe selling. Like these, for instance: $2.00 Oxfords, $1.23. Russet Oxfords that Ladies Ladies" old regularly at $2. Reti (ime pe ee SEF ‘Ladies’ $2.50 Oxfords, $1.68. * Oxtord Ties, in russet and blac Reduced from $2.50 tow. Ladies’ $3.50 Shoes, $2.68. Russet $1.68 ( r SI mel made. Re- 2 4 ease $2.6 ($5.00 Bicycle Shoes, $3.85. $3.85 High-cut Bicycle Shoes, made $3.85 and finished In the best manner. Reduced from $5 to... WILSON, HIGH GRADE SHOES, <Men’s 36.00 Shoes, $3.85. 929 F St. N. W. ( Patent Leather, Calfskin, En anvel Leather ond Russet Shoes, all styles. Reduced from $6 to. The Style n Wheeling — is to have your costume match your bicycle. We'li clean your sult and dye It, Wish—make it look like new. = ANION FISCHER, 906 G St. aul. Telephone 1442. too. if you 1-84 THE EVUNING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 189¢-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. : TALK OF THE TOWN [iss stoic sotmy cf 2asue'b3ue | OPENED IN THE WEST | sesireaisczctsatn sedacti ten | ret ote pote want web 1 cannot ve The Best Machines for Keeping Time that it is possible to make are American Waltham Watches. Get either the “RIVERSIDE” or “ROYAL” movement. For sale by all retail jewelers. Reoma Pure Rye Whisky Is distilled especially for medicinal purposes, and is highly tecomr. ended by the leading physicians for its wedicinal virtues. Sold only in quart bottles, $1.25 each. REEVES, POOLE & CO., myl$-3m,14 1209 F st. Dw. The Mortality of Babies is appalling during bot weather. For Itel kin and Prickly Heat—use E TALCUM POWDER, plain or perfumed. box. 2 Veholesale Evans’ Drug Store, 938 F St. hlesale anl-Sd_ IF SICK HEADACHE Is MISI Carter's Litule Liver Pills if they will positivel cure it? People who have used them speak frank- ly of thelr worth. ‘They are siuall and easy to take. IF THE BABY IS CUTTING TFEIH BE SURB and use that old and well-tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children teething: It soothes the child. softens the gum, allays in, cures wind colic end is the best remedy for iarrhoea. 25 cents a bottle. eclO-ly ANGOSTURA BITIERS MAKES HEALTH, AND health makes bright, rosy cheeks and happiness. Dr. J. G. B. SIEGERT & SONS, Sole Manufac- turers. Ask your druggist. AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN Red, tY, WHAT A Complaints of Citizens in Regard to Im- provements. Movements of at the Wharves—Local Notes of General and Especial Interest. The expressions of the citizens here rela- tive to the condition of affairs in George- town, and the claims that the section ts ne- elected by the authorities, are made in vigorous language. Here are some of the things that are being said: Mr. R. A. Casilear: “The sidewalks in Georgetown In many places are as uneven @s a rough sea. There are streets here whose condition is a disgrace to the Dis- trict. The Commissioners apparently have forgotten that our seciton is supposed to be under their care. We pay taxes, but get very, very little in return.” Mr. Chas. H. Trunnel: “The existence of a@ graveyard in the center of a population of 23,000 people, half of the graves of which are open and filled with water, and the whole square covered with a reeking vegetation, is an evidence that Georgetown is very far from the careful eye of the Commissioners. In fact, it is a glaring proof that George- town is ignored by them.” Mr. W. A. Cunningham: “There are many improvements needed here. It would take a large appropriation to put our streets in a presentable shape. Many of the most im- portant streets are guiltless of sidewalks, notably R, S and T. Mr. Geo. W. King: “There is a crying de- mand for much nere. We need sewers in the western part of the town, sidewalks, public hydrants for the zoor people, a wes ern outlet to relieve the present crowded Canal road, and other things too numerous for The Star to print. One would think, from the lack of official notice we get, that Georgetown contributed nothing to the gen- eral supporting fund, yet they ran the as- sessment on some suburban land that I im- proved at a personal expense entirely from one and a quarter cents per foot to twenty cents per foot. There is a general remark against the Commissioners taking the $30,- 000 appropriated last year and spending it on M street, a street that was torn up sole. ly by the Washington and Georgetow: Railroad Company, and put back so mis- erably that horses slipped continually on the dangerous grades, rendering the second expenditure a necessity. According to plan the street will be torn up in a week or tw This should either come out of the rail- road company or the general fund.” Dr. A. B. Shekell: “R street is in a very miserable condition. On one side there is no sidewalk, and when it rains the road- way is almost impassable. The improve- ments of the neighborhood are worthy of the best character of streets. The property helders are among the best of the citizens and the most prompt of the taxpayers. The street calls for immediate attention.” Mr. Calvin Payne, a large owner of real estate, hopes that the authorities will at once take heed of the peopie’s ery. Im- provements are being greatly retarded by the condition of streets. A blind man, he says, can see that Georgetown every year out at the littie end of the horn. The West out at the little end of the horn. The West Washington Citizens’ Association was dis- banded because it was thought that the Commissioners would take heed of George- town’s needs in the future voluntarily. It is now seen, Mr. Payne says, that noth- ing can be secured unless the authorities are dunned. A united effort is always nec- essary to the attainment of improvements that are given to other sections, often with- out the asking. At the Wharves. The following schooners are in port and engaged for next week's loading: Schooner Agnes E. Manson, 1,400 tons, for Boston; schooner Chas. N. Simmons, 1,200 tons, for Boston; schooner Georgie Clark, 500 tons, for Lynn, Mass.; schooner Clara Goodwin, 1,400 tons, for Boston; schooner Bertha Dean, 1,200 tons, for Boston; schooner Hen- ry L. Peckham, 1,400 tons, for Boston. The following schooners left this week for the designated ports: Chas. N. Patterson, 1,200 tons, Portsmouth; schooner Rose Olavari, 1,200 tons. Boston; schooner Robt. I. Car- ter, 1,200 tons, Boston; schooner Louis H. Goward, 2,000 tons, Boston; schooner Ed- win R. Hunt, 1,700 tons, Boston; schooner Annie M. Stelle, stone, to Hampton, Va.; schooner Oakland, bricks, to Norfolk; Alice Hodges, plaster, for Norfolk. The princi- pal shippers of the coal are Agnew & Co. and the Meredith-Winship Company. ‘The present heavy shipments are likely to keep up all during the month of August. Coal is arriving by way of the canal just about as fast as it can be carried away. Notes. Camp Georgetown at Colonial Beach will break tomorrow. Mr. David L. Reynolds leaves today for two weeks at Colonial Beach. A new house, to be known as the Hotel Kaiser, has been opened here, on 824 strect. The Knights Templar of the Georgetown commandery are already making arrange- ments for the pilgrimage to Pittsburg on the occasion of the twenty-eighth trien- nfal conclave of the Grand Encampment of the United States. A “Pittsburg club” has been formed. A sick and tired-looking colored woman came to the station last night and asked for lodging for the night. She stated that she had walked from Rockville in the past day and was on her way to one of the Washington hospitals, where she was go- ing for ireatment. The unfortunate was accommodated. Officer Anthony Fennally has obtained leave of absence and gone to Ireland for a month’s stay. He is in bad health and there hopes to benefit. Ireland is his old heme, his mother still residing there. Officers Seymour, Connor and Ward of the seventh are also off duty. Two of them are on sick leave. Rumors of Queen Victoria’s Inten- tions Cause a Sensation. MIGHT NOT BE AN ABDICATION Preparing for the Visit of Li Hung Chang. STORIES N CIRCULATION ee . (Copyright, 1896, by the Associat-d Tress.) LONDON, August 1.—The persistent ru- mors circulating in regard to the health of Queen Victoria and her intention to retire almost immediately in favor of the Prince of Wales have caused quite a sensation in court and other circles. While it is ad- mitted that such reports have become cur- rent frequently in previous years, there is ho denying that her majesty's declining health is causing much anxiety to her en- tourage, and it is generally believed that her retirement from public life is only a question of a short time. According to the program, the queen, when not on the con- stinent, will reside either at Osborne or at Balmoral, and will turn over Windsor Cas- tle and Buckingham Palace for the use of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The prince may not be declared regent, but may exercise the duties of such a position to all intents and purposes, according to the re- Ports in circulation. The tradespeople of the West End may approve of the change should it take place, for there has been much regret expressed among them at the very short and long- between visits paid by the queen to Lon- don of recent years. But, should her maj- esty retire, it is safe to say that, from one end of Great Britain to the other, and throughout the British empire generally, there will be a profound sentiment of deep regret that her majesty’s health is such as to compel her to retire from the dutles which she has so long fulfilled to the satis- fection of her subjects. The keynote touch- ed by Col. Walker of the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Company of Massachusetts when he referred to her majesty’s “woman- liness as a queen and queenliness as a wo- man” finds an echo even now throughout her majesty’s dominions. Though the queen may not be actually upon the point of retirement, it is stated by those who are in a position to judge of the situation that her majesty has felt the weight of her years more and more since the death of the late Prince Henry of Bat- tenberg, who was a most constant and de- voted attendant upon the ancient sover- eign, and that the retirement of the latter from active participation In the affairs of state cannot be much longer delayed. Li Hung Chang's Visit. The preparations for the reception of Li Hung Chang continue, and her majesty, in spite of the precarious state of her health, 1s said to be especially interested in the com- ing of the Chinese ambassador extraordi- nary, who has been made so much of in Russia, Germany and France. The Chinese statesman {s booked to land in England on Monday, and he will be escorted to Lord Lonsdale’s splendid mansion on Ca House terrace, this city, which ha secured by the government for the accom- modation of Li Hung Chang during the month which he is expected to spend in England. Lord Lonsdale’s establis contains a wealth of art treasures, in which it is sald to be the equal of any house in London, and it is, therefore, capable of adequately accommodating ‘the distin guished traveler and the sixty persons who compose his suite. As Lord Lonsdale’s liv- eries are canary, gold and light blue, the lord of the yellow jacket will probably be gratified. Li Hung Chang will be escorted to Carl- ton House terrace in a royal carriage, and his suite will be similarly accommodated. On Wednesday he will start on his visit to the queen as Osborne. One of the royal yachts will await him at Portsmouth. Up- on leaving that port the traveler will pass through the Solent at the height of the yachting season, and will enjoy the sight of about as large and attractive a fleet of pleasure craft as ever studded those, wate: Upon his arrival at Trinity wharf, Cowes, Isle of Wight, Ei Hung Chang will be re- ceived by the Prince of Wales, and the lat- ter will escort him to Osborne. On the fol- lowing day, Thursday, the distinguished Chinaman will review a fleet of sixty bat- tle ships and cruisers at Spithead. Vanity Fair warns its readers against the members of Li Hung Chang's suite, saying that the bulk of them are quite a low class of men. who would not dare to venture into an English or American merchant's private reception room at Shanghat. The newspapers, for some time past, have contained a mass of matter concerning the visiting Chinaman. It is said that the Chi- nese viceroy, when invited to a dinner, in- sists upon dining from his own cuisine be- fore going to the table of his hosts, and he only makes a pretense of dining when he is at the banquets given to him. After the dinner given to him by Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe, the German statesman ex- pressed astonishment, it is said, at the fact that Li Hung Chang did not taste any of the dishes placed before him, whereupon the traveler is reported to have said: “It is not at my age that one changes one’s habits. If I dined with you. I should be forced to partake of fare which I did not like. Hence I prefer to abstain from eat- ing, rather than be asked to make a face at everything not to my taste.” Prince Bismarck is reported to have there- upon remarked: “How do you know that yeu would not like our good German cuisine, since you have never tried it? “That {s true," the Chinaman ts credited with having replied, “but would you eat with pleasure the Chinese dish of rats and dogs If I served it up at my table ‘This question seems to have silenced the great German statesman. Li Hung Chang takes his neals alone, drinks only cold or warm tea, never eats between meals and takes only two meals a day, one at noon, and the o'elcck. He smokes opium in a_ silver mounted pipe, which is specially cared fo: by one of his servants, and during his meals he takes 2 puff or two. He is said to dislike rice, and has about two dozen dishes, including meat, poultry, fish, vege- tables and dessort of various Chinese de- scriptions served up to him at each re- past. On the other and, it is said, the mem- bers of the Chinese staiesman’s suite soon become accustomed to foreign cookery and dri:k wine and even beer with their meals. The Socialist Congress. The socialist congress, which has been in session here during the past week, has furnished what is classed as a ridiculous exhibition of impctence and inzd2quate or- ganization of the simplest de‘ails neces- sary for the conduct of a successful con- gress, and the delegates would have been handicapped thereby in any serious at- tempt to do business, even had there been no discord. Mr. Matthew Maguire, the leader of the American section of the socialist congress, informed a representative of the Associ- ated Press that absolute ignorance of the principles of the socialist movement ex- isted in the committees appointed to frame the resolutions. For example, he says, that in the agrarian committee, of which he was a member, instead of denouncing the accumulation of capital, the committee wanted to denounce Great Britain's co- lonial aggrandizement. The congress has also proved that so wide is the dissimilarity between the foreign and English-speaking delegates that nothing closer is possible than inter- naticnal sympathy. Concerted methods are out of the question. The English press and people, while crea- iting the congress with serious intentions, heve been much amused at its helpless- ness in the face of internal dissension. Noten of the Metropolis. The British Medical Association opened its annual meeting at Carlisle on Tuesday with its various sections well attended. The usual interesting papers were read and the association decided, in response to the Canadian invitation, to hold its meeting of 1897 in Montreal. Professor Roddick, president of the Montreal branch, was ap- Fointed president-elect, and it was decided that the business part of the meeting was to be held in London and the scientific part only eat Montreal. Mr. Robert Crockett. uncle of the au- thor of “The Raiders,” has just retired, other at 7,| las, ond was presenti ith a gold watch ron his retirement. \ffe,managed to save enough out of his ¥ es to send his rephew to eollege at Edinburgh, and is very proud of the latt. career. Before the commii on Indian mili- tary expenditures, Lord Wolseley, the com- nender-in-chief, testified, on Wednesday, that he would not like {9 put the British Indian troops in front,ot JJuropean soldiers, and that he would nof like to fight France, Germany or any other army with Indian eee neues Lave caused the great- In the pre: rs v st moat severe com eresh atid have roused the The Globe, for instance, says: ‘Lord Wolseley ts ng logger our only gen- eral, because, in th ne war which many believe inevitable with Russia, our Indian army, which he recklessly insults, will play an important part, and we should not iike to see them called up 3 intenselpaen upon to follow such an ter at the railway ne at Castle Doug- ny was cabled to India, where it has aroused great indigna- tion. A dispatch trom Simla says: ‘The Ligh authorities fear 4 iscontent among the Indian troops.” The long and elaborate article by Mr. John Morley, the late chief secretary for Ireland, in the Nineteenth Century, on ar bitration, is attracting considerable atten tion. Mr. Morley contends that while the Ine of difference between Secretary Olney and the Marquis of Salisbury is narrow, it _will cause great at what is to be 7 mest be done quickly, and dreads the ne sult of fatalistic confidence in the wisdom of Downing street. Mr. Morley adds that for the foreign office to leave arbitration alone would be nothing short of a disaster to one of the greatest causes now moviag the western world. If Lord Salisbury fails the question will be set back many years, Theatrical Gossip. The theatricai season is now upheld by very few places of amusement, and these, practically, are only those devoted to musi- cal pieces or to melodramas. But Augustin Daly’s production of “Love on Crutches” cn Tuesday was received with the greatest favor by the press and pity is expressed that it was produced so late in the season, as, it Is claimed, the play would have run all through the season. A successful ballad of “Rip Van Winkle,” aes the Jefferson plot and Planquette music, was produce: E Wedaea tan: produced at the Alhambra on George Edwardes, having scored an customed success at the Gaiety with Girl,” that piece will held the boards with- out interruption, as will “The Geisha,” Whose popularity has not suffered by the hot weather. The Vaudeville is still cr a Be aes crowded to witness Rutland Barrington has resigned from the Savoy for his vacation,and his part in “Th Mikado” has been acceptably taken 1 Fred Billington, who sang it so long in New York. - Charles Warner closed his successful sea- son at the Princess as Conpeau in “Drink” wst evening. Tonight Sutton Vane’s “in Sight of St. Paul's” will be given its first London representation. Arthur Bouchier, this week, completed twelve months of successful occupation of the Royalty—a house that for years had never had a run of more than a month to any profit, and which had come to be con- sidered so unlucky that no sort of a run ible. Mr. Bouchier will return to 3 t the close of his tour in the United States, which Legins in the autumn. He will open with “The Queen's Proctor, which he has made a London suece ‘orbes Robertson, who closed the Lyceum aturday last, has made up his mind not to appear again in London for at 1c though his partnership with Mr remains une month he begins his pro Las not duce his lo.” Yvette Guilbert has ¢ nd of this incial: tour, -but led whether or not to pro- much-talked-of version of “Othe gagement for a merican trip, by which, und the ent of | rks, she All the p: sof the engagement opens with at Koster & Bial commencing December 14. Mile. Guilbert was recently approached by Messrs. Dorn and Barron of the Winter Garden, Berlin, who offefed her 4,000 marks four weeks’ » New York, per week for a season in the German apital. Her reply was: Ww I have ceased te be an attraction in Paris, 1 shall then move to Berlin, tte Guilbert has signed engagements with Parisian managers that extend until is to rec an accumulative ar of the world’s fair. stand September next enjoy a vacation in th appear Paris during October and 'No- vember, with a repertoire of twenty new songs. ican composition Girl” and “Nancy. Maurice Grau sailed on the toria irom Southampton yesterday. He will remain in the United States for a week and will then return to London and begin hard work here in connection with his man- agement of Covent Garden Theater. Mr. Grau has practically concluded en- gagements with all the leading singers, in- Cluding thé’ De Beszkes, Mel Calve, Eames ani Nordica, for both New York and London. The De Beszkes, in Wagner, will be the chief novelty of the New York sea- son. Augusta Vic- Mra. A statement was recently American papers to the effect that the real reason why Mrs. Florence Maybrick has not been released is owing to the personal opposition of Queen Victoria. Her majesty was reported to have asked for a copy of the evidence, and that because it contained allegations of an intrigue with a lover the queen intimateé to Mr. Henry As home secretary in the Rosebery go’ ment, and latterly to Sir Matthew V Kidley, the present home secretary, that un- Ger no circumstances would she receive consider a memorial in favor of the rele: of Mrs. Maybrick. At the request of Baroness Roqui Maybrick’s mother, a representative Associated Press has investigated the stor and fs able, on the highest official author- ity possible, to state that the story has ab- solutely no foundation in fact. Not only as her majesty never intimated any wishes the matter, nor requested any coy the evidence, but she has never expressed, officially, opinion in the case to any home si with whose action, if it was decided to release Mrs. Maybrick, her majesty would not interfere. The printing of such so-called “idle tales” ft Is considered here always marks the periods of election struggles in the United States, though why Mrs. Maybrick should always be brought up at such times, pre- cisely like political issues, English officials cannot understand. But what they do maintain is that if Mrs. Maybrick’s friends are really anxious to influence the home of- fice they should abandon their newspaper campaign in America, which is not a meth- od of agitation favored by English govern- ment official: The Maybrick case came up in the house of commens agajn: yesterday, when the home secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley, was asked whether ‘the government would lay on the table the statement of the lord chief justice, Baron Russell of Killow which attracted so much comment in March last. He replied that the government could not do so, as the ¢durse’ was unusual and undesirable, and asthe: letter was written in his private capacity and not in his ca- pacity as a judge. jJt was stated in Mareh that the present nome secretary had re- considered the Maybrick case and had prac- tieally decided in Mrs. Mayhrick’s favor, but that the lord chancéllor, Baron Hals- bury, to whom the cas? was subsequently referred, had prondunchd against the un- fortunate woman, gfid Mr. Henry Aisquith, the late home secretary, Was also quoted as intimating that he Was, Opposed to the re- lease of the prisoner. Both these opinions were contrary, it is, belleved, to that of the lord chief justice, who ig,said, in the letter referred to in parliament Yesterday, to have expressed the belief that Mrs. was unjustly convicted. Maybrick’s Case. printed in some Maybrick The Navy Department Headicss. Secretary Herbert has gone to Alabama to vote for Johnson and free silver. He will return Tuesday evening. Assistant Secretary McAdoo has gone to Gloncester, Mass., to accompany the Dolphin back to this city. He will resume his duties at the Navy Department Monday morning and will act as Secretary while Secretary Her- bert is away on his vacation. Until his errival, the department will be without an official head in this city, none of the bu- reau officers having authority to act for the Secretary. Mr. Herbert has arranged, how- ever, toe be within telegraphic communica- tion with the department in case anything should occur requiring his attention be- fore the return of Mr. McAdoo. Senator Thurston Inaugurates the Republican Campaign. MAJOR WKINLEY TALKS 10 VETERANS Protest of the Single Taxers in Del- aware. ARIOUS POLITICAL MATTERS ee The political campaign of 1896 was open- ed in the west at Madsion, Wis., yesterday. In the presence of 8,000 people Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska and Clar- ence 8. Darrow of Chicago for two and a half hours presented the respective sides of the currency question. Each talked for an hour and a quarter. Senator Thurston said in part: “My countrymen, there is a disturbance In the political world over the question of Money. There have been disturbances in the political world in years gone by ever other questions. We are meeting a new issue today, so far as a presidential can- vass is concerned, and yet as I look the forces over I find that arrayed upon one side is the same old stalwart riotism, is the same security of accomplished efforts which has stood upon the statute books of the United States for the last thirty years, for that wonderful measure of prosperity and advancement which has come in ill its fullness and all its wonder to the people alone of the United States. “I say to you today, in all sincerity and candor, believing it to be a legitimate ur- gument, and knowing that it is entirely appropriate to say that if I had no other guide to light me onward in the right path of my political duty, it seems to me that Justice and honor to my country would be safer for me to turn away from the leader- ship of Tillman and Altgeld and Waite, to follow the liberty of Allison and Reel, and the greatest among them all, Willlam Mc- Kinley. (Loud applause.) “I happened to hear W. J. Bryan four years ago in the congressional campaign in my state. 1 pledge you, my countrymen, and it is a solemn fact, that from the be- ginning of that campaign to the end that William J. Bryan advocated no other issue, made no other argument than that upon the tariff. “Four years ago I heard William J. B: an to a great audience in my state ‘Give us free trade and the American work- i = wages will go up.’ But they went He said: ‘Give us free trade and wilt boom.’ But it busted. and laughter.) “The same man today comes before with a new promise. They have di the issue of four years ago, and the: now: ‘Give us free silver and the w men will increase; give us free sliver ive us tree of employment will (Loud the prices of products will rise; silver ani new avenues up: give us free silver and the of the country will boom. My countrymen, as a business proj jon on which dep your welfare and mine, in view of the predictions of four years ago, don't you think it would be advisable to ask for a little collateral security in aid of promi (Loud “You are asked to known sea: to cut pplause and cheers.) il out on an un- loose from: all well- detined landmar! to go beyond any an- chor, and to follow the glittering Shoe: that comes from over the water that fic before the mariner as rapidly as his prow goes. WILL B AID IN nm the National De! enxions. yout four workingm. GOLD. Major MeKin t hundred old 1, mostly engaged tin plate Industry, from Gue county, went to Canton, Ohio, ernoon to call on Maj. McKinie MeKinley spoke without manuscript He said “It gives me great gratification to receive this call from my old friends and neigh- bors and fellow-citizens of Guernsey coun- ty. Ihave made many visits to your coun- ty in years gone by. I know most of you Ss and nsey yesterday ual emphas personally. I know something of the qual- ity of your population. I know something of the spirit of your people. “I know somethir.g of your loyalt a devotion to the Uaion in war, and I know much of your loyalty and devotion to pa- triotism and good government in peai (cheers), an@ knowing you as weil know you, I am certain that neither flood nor fire would stop you from doing what you had proposed to do. (Laughter and ap- plause.) 1 am glad to meet the representa- tives of labor who are assembled here this morning. “I congratulate them upon the advance that has been made in the tin plate indus- t to which Col. Taylor has referred. iam glad to know that republican legis- lation gave to this country an industry that gives work and wages to American workingmen and brings happiness to American hom: « cheering and ap- plause.) I am glad, my fellow-< s, to meet my old comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic. (Applause.) My com- rades of thirty-five years ago, for the war commenced thirty-five years ago, and it is nearly thirty-two y since its close. It seems not so long n 0 far away, but as I look into the faces of the old soldiers be- fore me today I see that age is stamping its lines of care upon them. Their step s steady and as firm as it w thirty-five years ago, but their hearts are just as loyal to the old flag of the Union (tremendous cheering), and they are just as loyal to national honor today as they loyal to national unity then. (Ap- “When the war closed there were two reat debts resting upon this government. One was the debt due to the men who had loaned the government money with which to carry on its military operations. The other debt was due to the men who had willingly cffered their lives for the preser- vation of the American Union. (Cheers.) The old soldiers waited on their p ions until the great debt of the government was well out of the way. "hey waited patiently until the govern- ment of the United States had reduced nearly two-thirds of that great money debt. The old soldiers never were in favor of repudiating that. (Applause.) They wanted every dollar of the debt paid in the best money known to the commercial world. (Applause.) And every dollar of that debt, up to this hour, has been paid in gold or its equivalent, the best recognized money of the world (cheers), and every dollar of that debt, my comrades, yet to be paid will be paid in the same unques- tioned coin. (Tremendous cheers.) “Most of that debt is out of the way. The great debt of this government is now to the surviving soldiers of the republic. (Applause.) There are 970,000 pensioners on the honored pensien roll of this govern- ment today, and the government pays out of its public treasury in pensions over $140,000,000 every year to the soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphans. Every dollar of that debt must be paid in the best currency and coin of the world. (Great cheering and cries of ‘The republican party will see to that!’) “There 1s nobody more interested in maintaining sound and stable currency than the cld soldiers of the republic.” (Ap- plause. Cries of “You are right, major.”) SINGLE TAXERS IN JAIL. Many Others Willing to Suffer for the Right of Free Speech. A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from Dover, Del., says: Fifteen up-to-date martyrs are in jail at Dover. They are ad- vocates of the Henry George theory of sin- gle tax. Their enthusiasm for the cause has led them to speak from one end of Del- aware to the other. Recently the Dover authorities have taken it into their heads that this speaking was a violation of an old municipal ordinance which was unearthed by some one opposed to the single-tax doc- trine. This ordinance is as follows: “It shall be the duty of the president of the council, the councilmen, the constable of Kent county residing in Dover and of the town constables to suppress all riotous, turbulent, disorderly or noisy assemblages or gatherings of persons in the streets, squares, lanes or alleys or other places within the limits of said town, and for this purpose it shall be the duty of any of the said constables forthwith to arrest any { s 1 do conviction any such ‘person shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than $1 nor more than $10, or may be committed to jail for a period not exceeding thirty days, or until | such fine end costs be paid, at the discre- tion of the alderman.” The Men in Prison. Under this ordinance the arrests were made. Those arrested are: Arthur H. Stephenson, merchant, Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Charles A. Brothers, teacher, Dover, Del. Victor Durand, farmer, Smyrna, Del. W. H. Keevan, salesman, 12th and Mar- ket streets, Philadelphia. Samuel Melville, insurance agent, 111 Jus- tison street, Wilmington, Del. H. B. Tawresey, ship-joiner, 111 East 7th street, Wilmington. Rev. Augvst Deligren, minister, 1224 King street, Wilmington. Alexander D. Stirlith, machinist, 209 East 22d street, Wilmirgton. Frederick W. Moore, printer, 714 French street, Wilmington. James J. Haggerty, florist, 1616 West 6th street, Wilmington. James O'Neill, clerk, 240 2 Mutter street, Philadelphia. Dr. D. F. Longstreet, lecturer, Dover. PB. F. O'Hara, grocer, 612 West 2d street, Wilmington. Joseph W. Gross, barber, 46 Lord street, Wilmington, panomas Graham, salesman, Carrington, What Mr. Stephenson Says. When a representative of the Sun pre- sented his card at the jail in Dover he was met by Deputy Sheriff Downs, to whom he expressed a desire to be admitted to see the single-tax prisoners. The sheriff es- corted the reporter to the main hall of the jail containing the cells. It is about 40 by 2 feet, and in this space were congregated the single-tax advocates, while the faces of other prisoners could be seen peering from the cell doors. Mr. Arthur H. Stephenson, who wart chairman of the single-tax campaign com- mitice, was found sitting at a table engag- ed in answering a voluminous correspond- ence. Among other things he said: ‘his gross outrage on American liberty will have no terror for us. We can see through the whole thing. It is done for political purposes. Seventy-five per cent of our converts have been drawn from the democratic party in this state, and the manipulators of the democratic party have determmed to squelch us out by taking these high-handed methods. But such methods will be ineffective. “We have arranged to have a speaker in Dover every night. Already 122 have en- tered their names as willing to @ome to Dover and speak, even in the face of a! rest and impriscnment. When the 1 have been arrested we will have others to take their places. Jails and politicians have no terror for our people. We will furnish them with enough to pack the jails in every county. A Petition of Protest. “Already this outragcous treatment has begun to rouse the better element of the citizens of the state. A petition is being circulated and is being generally signe protesting against the methods brought in use by the little coterie of Dover politt- us. For myself and for the others I in- tend to use every effort in my power to sift the matter and see whether we have been legally or illegally deprived of our rights. I will sue out a habeas corpus be- fore the United States court at Wilming- ton, and shouid I win we will then sue th town of Dover for $5.00 in each case. © town authorities of intend to remain firm - plan alread: in« speaker © the that arrying out Started, and that arrests ery no matter how they to arr The county for each prisoner is 20 h is allowed for food 2 Who are thus imprison- is far above the avera Mr. § he ant. and is well off, so far lds goods are conc political creeds the t equally divic tween rats and the repui ans, while a they voted the prohibition tic CURRENT POLITICS, Matters That Are Being Considered by the Voters, Senator Edward 0. Wolcott last night at Denve “ol lining his po: the silver que issned a signed statement out- tion in the campaign. He says tion is most vital, and that while recognizing that international bi- metallism is the most desirable means by which silver could be restored as a money metal, he firmly believes the United States could restore it independently of other na- tions. He maintains that his position has always been during his seven years in the Senate the same as that of the other silver Senators. The financial plank of the republican plat- form, he says, is far from satisfactory, but he holds that the pledge for the furth : of international bimetallism in good faith in view of th on other questions. The platform is, he affirms, aside from the money question without flaw, and the nominee of the party a man of highest presidential qualification What we need in Colorado,” he ads, less hysterics and more common sens closes with the opinion that “free coinage will never come out of the jumble and folly of the Chic: latform, nor will it be of populism 8 record part Senator All which hi on S written a letter in s the belief that an inte > time, the is of value and of the world’s which cannot be carried on with- mable fixed par of exchange. The ator then proceeds to justify hi Ss citing the evidences of the growing, bi- allic sentiment in Great Britain and Germany, and concludes as follows: ‘The silver question is a vital one in a world-wide sense.and international bimetal- lism is making rapid progress in and, if we make no mistake now, Is like produce a practical solution whereby and gold will again circulate at a 1 parity in value at an agreed ratio. Iver tical Tammany Hall of New York city will in- dorse Bryan and Sewall without waiting for the state convention. The executive com- mitt yestcrday afternoon passed by ac- clamation a resolution to that effect, after defeating a motion to postpone action by a vote of 1 to 4. Immediately immense pic- tures of the democratic nominees were raised on the outside of the building and arations begun for active work. James J. Martin presided and John C. Sheehan offered the resolution and support. ed it with a speech. Register Sohmer, Henry C. Purroy, Senator Guy and Congressman Cummings also advocated immediate action. Mr. Martin offered a resolution deferring action until after the state convention, and Rollin M. Morgan seconded it, but it received only four votes. Mr. Bryan, the democratic presic candidate, has announced his since io his eastern trip to meet the notification committee From dhe democratic national convention in Madison e cure Square Garden Au- Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will leave Line o'clock Friday evening, August 7, pray in Chicago Saturday afternoon. ‘They will stop over Sunday and will leave Chicago on the Pennsylvania road about midnight Sunday night, reaching Pittsburg Monday night. They will stay over night in Pitts burg and leave tor New York early Tues. day morning, arriving there about 6: Tuesday evening The national committeé will meet in New York at the time of the notification and im. portant campaign work will be discussed. From New York Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will go to Bath, Me., and spend a few days with Mr, and Mrs. Sewall. The return trip will not be arranged until after the New York meeting. Mr. Bryan is not making any dates for speeches at this time and will not do so until after the national committee has been consulted. Arthur Sewall, the vice presidential can- didate, has expressed himself upon the is- sue of the campaign in an interview, in whicn he said: ‘The only issue of the campaign is free silver. The republicans have been trying to force the tariff to the front, but cannot do it. It is such a secondary isste that the people are not thinking about it. The trouble is not there. The people want pros- perity, which is having every man at work, and all the wheels moving. They have tried high tariff and low tariff and matters have been continually growing worse. “The democratic party have decided that the trouble lies in the financial system, and the remedy is the remonetization of silver. “The people have decided the same way. and what they want they will have; also The democratic national platform, adopt- ed at Chicago, as certified by the official stenographer, E. B. Dickinson, contains a clause in the money plank, which, accord- ing to Senator Jones, chairman of the democratic nstional committee, was reject- ed by the convention, and has no place in the official platform. In the cert'fied copy of platform, after the sentence “we favor such iegislation as will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract,” appears the clause, “but it shall be care- fully provided by law at the same time that any change in the monetary standard should ‘not apply to existing contracts.” This latter clause, accerding to Senator Jones, was not adopted. It was offered as an amencment by Senator Hill. All amendmeats to the platform proposed by Senator Hill were rejected. FREE COINAGE CATECHISM. The Gold Standard Aru: Wage-Earners. From the New York Evening Post. Q. What do the free coinage leaders espe- cially charge against the gold standard? A. They declare that it has helped the rich and has caused distress and loss to every- boay else. Q. Is this statement true? A. It is not. Q. Suppose the gold standard had worked injury to every one except the rich: how should we know the fact? A. People with smali incomes would have been growing steadily poorer since the gold standard was adopted. &. Have such people been growing poor- er? A. Or the contrary, their prosperity, since this country returned to the gold standard, in IST, has increased in an un- precedented degree. Q. What proof have you of this? A. The increase in savings banks depos'ts. Q. By whom are such dep: for ts made? A They consist almost entirely of the surplus income of tradesmen, wage earners and smail producers, . What are the figures of these dep» its? A. In 187% the total savings bank posits in the United States we 208; in 185 they were $1.si4 6, $1041 *M), or 120 hat is your authority A. The official statements savings banks, of the United States ment, published in the reports of the cor troller of the currency & What do the figures show? show that during the seventeen yea this country’s return to the single gold standard, the savings of its poorer people have been a thousand million dollars larger than they were in any preceding period Q. Are the savings bank deposits our only proof that the people have prospered under the gold standard? A. The building and loan associations are another striking proof. Q. Who are the depositors with building and joan association A. Chiefly wage earners, tradesmen and people with smuil salaries, Q. What do the reports of these ass a- tions show? A. Twelve rs ago the de- posits with such assoclatic were paratively insignificant. In 1NW2 the r of the United s departn f showed the aggregate 1,000 Today the to-al of the in this country ix estimated at Q. How do all these figures compar with savings bank deposits and with bu ing and Ican a tion accounts in tries now on a silver standard? countries have neither savin n associations . Why Presumably because th ‘age-earners in those countries have vings to deposit. | How do you explain so en: savings of our nents lowered 7» ine. peopl Qw s that w have increa tion of the gold knewn autho: repc catechism, Q. How much this re average wai have incr the resumption of st Up to the latest date payment covered by the rert they had increased 4 per In many industries the ir se had been much larger. Q. Then the average wage-carner’s in- come has increased under the gold stand- ard, while living expen: have decreased | for everybody? A. Such are the facts. Q. Would this advantage continue un der free silver coinage? A. It could not We have already shown that wages would not increase spontaneously, if at all, while prices for necessaries of life would rise rapidly. Q. Do the f this certain they decicre that all prices are low, and that free coinage will rai Q. But do not th high prices for foc hold necessaries will tentment and prosperit Q. How can we be clai and othing house- Zeneral con- A. Th they ot ye re rot right? A. Read up the when uitency Inflation in this country. tion of other countries wh now are high under a silver stand Q. When were prices and living highest in this country? had xpenses A. In i> and " What did the Q. American people of that 5 hink of high pri They n we find any record of such mplaint Go to a public library and read the newspapers of those years, Q._ Give some illustrations, A. In 1865 the New York papers seriously advised p. ple to step eating meat in order to che the high pr Letters from reade » lished in papers complained that miik, butter, coal and ice were almost be- yond the pocr man’s reach. er, in the New York Times of June de- serves to be quoted. “All las writer says, “I could hardly any meat. The little bits of beef and mu ton that we poor people buy cost so mi that my wife says it is like cating money You can readily consult all these published letters. Q. Would people object to now as much as they did th head of a family and every hous competent to answer this ques Q. If prices advanced und would not the employer of labor 1 pay very much hicher wages? A hving expenses would increase as f his income, his business would be throw into confusion, and all his profits would be come a matter of speculation. Q. Was this his experience when prices rese before 1865? A. It was emphatically his experience. high prices Q. But surely, if the money supply in- creased, the wage earner would get his share? A. He could get no more than his employer paid him. Q. But might not his employer advance wages simply because the money supply had increased? A. We leave the answer to this question to the wage earner himself. ————-see- A Case of Verbal Injury. According to a report recently received at the State Department, the criminal code of Austria includes an offense described as a “verbal injury,” consisting of language re- flecting upon the conduct of officials, es- pecially policemen, in the discharge of their duties. The penalty for such an offense 4s imprisonment for forty-eight hours on bread and water. An American citizen re- cently visiting Vienna had a personal ex- perience with this law. He had done some- thing which seemed to call for the inter cession of the local police and in the cours: of his conversation with the officer of the law he expressed the opinion that he had Deen treaied in an “outrageous ma This remark was regarded as a “ver jury” under the law, and the perpetrate was subjected to forty-eight hours’ impris- onment on a bread and water diet. Ins. Co., Anna P. 37; $1. Frank C. Henry ason to Allen T, Curran, 1 i 10, “Spuilip 7. Halt and 2, blk. 1 perty; $! PRuaan M. Williamson to Ruth wards, lot 24 David F. 18, Bq. 1052: 28, UI and Wim, $1.00, in. H. Ban 1G1, #4. 753: lot 12, sq. 1 . 23, Col, Hts. lots 18, 19, 20, sq. 105: E. Ea lot 2 lot 5 $10.