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EOCHESTEK DI3JOCPAT AND CHEONICLE, FBIP AY. JANUARY 8, 1897. 6 In any of Its provisions anything at variance I lation of all the colonies at the beginning ers in Havana dangeons were also read. The senator was reported as follows: What Madame Scalchi thought of the manners of Rochester people, after that experience, may be imagined. Exactly the same outrageous- rudeness was committed at the Nordica concert.

At the close of his very trying "Siegfried" number, Barron Ber-thald was recalled by a delighted audience Democrat and Chronicle. Entered at the rot-Offlce at Rochester. N. as Second-Class Mall Matter. TRMSTO SUBSCRIBERS Postage or Delivery at Door Free.

with the principle as we have described it. The advantage, to the whole country and to all classes and Interests, of Its passage would be very great. The leading requisites of an equitable bankruptcy law are that it shall release honest insolvents from the burden of hope- less debt, that it shall not open the doors of escape to those who can meet their ob- Speaker O'Grady. New York Mail and Express. The election of James M.

E. O'Grady aa speaker of the assembly crowns with tilting reward a long period of faithful and efficient service In the legislature. The unanimity of sentiment In favor of Mr. O'Grady's selec. tion Is in itself a compliment which few speakers in recent years have enjoyed.

ne has been, while on the floor, a careful, conscientious and successful legislator, a ready debater and a brilliant leader, and he ha in full measure the qualities of tact, firm-ness and parliamentary skill which make a successful presiding officer. The recommendations In his speech, on accepting office show that he has practical Ideas as to the coi duct of business in the assembly, and they will. If carried out, enable him to prevent much needless or foolish legislation, and to Instill into th assembly more careful and business-like methods. Mr. O'Grady ros.

ligations but will not, and that it shall not esty wealth and power drawn d.t mf. u-give too much power to rapacious creditors Pew. glowing as it is, does not adequately two Republican senators aided the Democrats in organizing the senate. Delaware is rightfully a Republican state, but Ad-dicks has brought Republicanism into disrepute, and his supremacy must cease as a precedent to Republican restoration. The Toronto Globe learns that a circular letter has been distributed among Protestant clergymen in Ontario proposing a "Patriotic Vigilance Committee," and charging a conspiracy under Liberal auspices to take Canada over to the United States.

The alleged conspiracy is attributed to Roman Catholics. Some hare-brained partisan has undoubtedly contrived the circular for political purposes. The object is to break down the new Liberal government, because it is not hostile to the United States. The Liberals have expressed a desire for closer commercial relations with the United States and the propo of the Revolutionary war. In every great nni.ifv department of American life it primacy tne sisterhood of states 13 too apparent to be a matter of dispute.

liOOKing backward, at the present, or into tne iu- ture, one cannot fail to be impressed Dy tne thought of the high destiny of this mighty commonwealth, a he picture or us muj- portray the greatness of our state, xjui when we reflect that she is but one of meny, some of which almost equal her in importance, all united by indissoluble bonds in one grand national fabric, our Patriotic pride should be tempered by a RlHlfr KtIlN tL I I'M IIIUSlUlllLV 1U sober sense of responsibility in view the vast interests committed to our trust and that of the American people with this wonderful political heritage. NO OCCASION FOB ALABM. The Rochester Herald is needlessly dis- tressed by the composition of the new com mon council committees and especially iy the retirement of Alderman Johnston from the chairmanship of the finance committee. That Alderman Johnston has been a hard working member is cheerfully admitted, but it does not necessarily follow that his labors have been productive of the greatest benefits or that good intentions have been sustained by good judgment. Indeed there are excellent reasons for assuming that his financiering ability is of rather a deceptive and dangerous character, and as our citizens study the situation more carefully they may discover that there is a wide discrepancy between the vociferous claims of reforms accomplished and the actual facts and figures.

In this connection we would refer our readers to a statement made in the local columns by the Hon. Merton E. Lewis. As a member of the finance committee of the common council and as acting mayor of the city Mr. Lewis made an exhaustive study of municipal finances and there is probably not a man in Rochester better qualified to discuss the subject intelli gently and with authority.

His con clusions, which seem irresistible, do not reflect the greatest credit upon the manner in which Alderman Johnston has managed the city's finances, and. unless his asser tions can be successfully refuted, our people may well pray to be delivered from the kind of financiering which has marked the management of the finance committee for the past year. But even if it could be shown that Alderman Johnston's theories and practice have been advantageous there is no apparent reason why the Herald should despariugly con demn the city to the demuitiou bow wows. Alderman Johnston is not the only man in the common council nor is he the solitary hope of its salvation. Several of the members are quite his equal we speak with due moderation in point of ability.

honesty and fidelity, and among the num ber is Alderman Cook, the newly appointed chairman of the finance committee. He was selected for the position by President Dewev whose responsibility in the matter. we believe, the Herald has not leen asked to share, and there is no good reason for supposing that the choice was not dictated hv reliable business judgment, a sincere intnrost in iho citv's welfare and sound Republicanism. At all events it cannot be said that the Herald would violate any of the proprie ties by suspending judgment until the men ir. ti.a now nlaces have been tried, even should it neglect to try and manufacture a little political capital in the interests of those who make it their business to assail Republican management of municipal af fairs THE SANGUILLY BESOLUTION.

On Tuesday Senator Call, of Florida, of fered a resolution calling on the president for the correspondence and reports of the consul-general at Havana, in regard to Julio Sanguilly, an American citizen now under sentence of perpetual imprisonment in chains at Havana. This resolution was promptly adopted on Wednesday In addition to the resolution of inquiry Senator Call offered the following: Whereas. Julio Sanguilly, an American cltl 7en arrested in his home in Havana the day before the outbreak of the present hisurree- u.r. hna been confined in his cell in the Cabanas prison for the past tweuty-tbree mouths; and "Whereas the lawyer who derennea mm in his first trial has also Deeu liuynsuueu said prison; and Whi.rpHH principal witness, 1.0 pra loma, was shot in suid prison by order of the Spanish authorities immediately preceding the second trial of said Sanguilly; and Whereas the attorney who conducted the the at.teal before the nuthor- ities at Jiaana mis nutc his office and emoluments attached thereto bv the authorities at Madrid la consequence thereof; and whereim the said Julio Sanguilly has been tried and condemned to perpetual imprisonment In chains, without evidence against him and without the opportunity of defense TI-nroforA iVi-solved bv the senate and house of repre scntatives of the United States in congress assembled, That the president of the United States be instructed to demand the Immediate release of the said Julio Sanguilly. with to return to the Uniteu Mates.

As originally proposed, this resolution was concurrent, but upon consultation 1 was changed to a joint resolution, was t.TT title on Tuesday and on Wednesday was referred to the committee v. I on foreign relations. On that day and be fore the reference Senator Call spoke on the resolution in the senate. His speech, wincn was briefly reported by telegraph, was a justly indignant demand for the protection of the rights of American citizens residing abroad. As matters stand to-day, uudi the disgraceful rules promulgated by Presi dent Cleveland, an American citizen may be expatriated upon a suspicion entertained by a consul or consular oihee that he does not intend to return to the United Mates Possibly this order was promulgated to cover the case of Sanguilly.

It first came to notice through a protest from Jeru salem. At all events it may rurnisn a excuse for the administration to escape it duty in the case of Americana punished by Spain in the island of Cuba Senator Call discussed the neglect ot the government in an eloquent manner, and showed the necessity for action to save th American name from deep disgrace. While the resolutions refer to Sanguilly, Senator Call took occasion to discuss the case Charles Govin as coming under the gen eral rule of neglect. Documents were presented to show that Govin, while acting as a correspondent, was captured, tied to a tree and hacked to death by machetes in the hands of cavalrymen. Letters in regard to the treatment of American priaon- Air Call declared that those prisons wero stained with the blood of American citizens.

It needed but an Investigation to unmasK the extent of the butchery. He asserted that a nation which failed to protect Its citizens justly deserved the execration the civilized world. If the United States remained passive while such outrages as those on Govin and Saniruilly proceeded, there could be no prosperity for this country and no respect for it. It was a spectacle which belittled the United States In the eyes of the world. The senator spoke bitterly against the delay in the senate, the Idle assertions that trade and commerce would be jeopardized bv action, and the concerted movement emanating from some central source to have chambers of commerce and boards or iraue rn-e rielnv We.

rloolnred that the Whole force of the United States was being used to protect and continue that condition. He closed with an appeal that the American flag be made the symbol of power ana or protec tion to American citizens throughout tne world. Senator Call was none too earnest. The cases of Sanguilly and Govin demand m- tant attention. After the president has answered the resolution calling for corre spondence the resolution of instructions should be promptly considered.

There is really more need of it than of the Cameron resolutions. They can wait, but the defense of outraged American citizenship cannot wait. The mere recital in the Sanguilly resolu tions of the means employed to convict hould stir every American. It is bad enough for our government to be in practical alliance with Spain in suppressing the cause of liberty; it is unendurable to see American citizens deprived of protection and neglected for fear of offending Spain. The great question now is, are we to become a nation of poltroons dominated by a mean spirit at home and without respect abroad? It is high time for congress to act in a way to dispel the impression that has liegun to prevail in Spain that the American has degenerated to a shop-keeper without honorable or patriotic impulses.

The opportunity is ripe for a new char ter for Rochester. Blest le the tie which binds in the board of education the family tie. The average governor's message Is getting to be so long that It is pretty difficult to crowd one into the space of a single official term. l'hiladclphia Press. Have you noticed that Governor Black, of New York, has started a reform in this matter? The first appointment made by Governor Black was that of George W.

Aldridge for superintendent of public works. Rather a significant answer to that crowd of rowdies who tried to insult Mr. Aldridge when the governor v.as in Rochester a few months ago. Perhai Alderman Dewey may be per suaded to believe that he made his great mistske when he did not permit the Rochester Herald to name the common council commit tees. The Herald knows no well what it wants and what the Democratic party wumv At Inst we have a solution of the Cuban problem.

Our old friend, "Bloody-Bridles Waite," proposes to go to the island and wipe Weyler off the face of the earth. ContM-quvntly. we presume the world will pause until tli old gentleman has assuaged his tliirft for gore. The poem of William II. McEIroy.

of this city, read at the Albany centennial anniversary on Wednesday, was a graceful and charming feature of that interesting occasion. The opening passage relating to the well-known proverb that "Time ami tide wait for no man" was particularly apt and felicitous. Report come from Cuba that the Spaniards have been putting Cuban ba.se bull players to ilea tli. ouldu't the New York nine be per suaded to visit Cuba New York Tribune. The exquisite humor of this remark can be best appreciated when it is understood that the Tribune is supporting in its weak way the merciless efforts of Weyler to subdue the Cuba patriots.

Senator Mills offered a resolution yesterday recognizing Cuban independence and appropriating $10,000 to the support of a miuister to reside near the government of the Cuban republic. The proposed appropriation brings a new element into the discussion which tends to confirm tie power of congress in the premises. The suggestions of Governor Black in regard to the state forests and the need of prompt action to save the Adirondack region from spoliation were energetic and commendable. In his reference to the slowness with which the agents of the state have moved in curing for the public interests, the governor seems to be well-informed. Some time ago there was promise that the squatters on state lands would be ousted, but nothing has recently been heard about the matter.

The World Almanac has for years had a high reputation for extent of scope, com pleteness and accuracy, and the issue for lSJi is fully up to its predecessors in every respect. For 25 cents you get 584 pages, packed with political information, financial statistics, election returns, and an innumerable muss of facts relating to current history. It is a veritable cyclopedia, and as a book of reference has a value which can hardly be over-estimated. The contents are systematically arranged, and there is a copious index. Henry W.

Lamb, president of the New Englaud Fm. Trade League. disclaims any desire to "nag the McKinley administration," and says: "All that is necessary to prevent us from finding fault is that the coming administration shall leave the tariff alone." ns that would be the very way to make the vast majority of the American people find fault, it is probable that the administration will lay violent hatids on the present tariff, even at the risk of being "nagged" by the Eastern gentlemen who are "agin" protection. The Republicans in the Delaware senate who united with the Democrats on luesday to quipt the of J. Edward Addicks were fully justified.

Ad-dicks prevented the election of a Republican to the United States senate there was a Republican majority, and has sought to force his claims upon the new legislature. He fa a niarplot and do. serves no consideration. To dispose of his pretensions and retire him from politics and, for a perfectly obvious reason, cti-mistakably "declined the encore" twite. More than this he plainly showed his disgust at the audience's stupid persistence by his expression and manner.

Bat the oblivious minority kept tip its row until he -vas forced to sing one stanza of "The Fair Land of Poland." The manner in which he cut this "encore number" short should have been enough to convey to a wooden Indian that the time to' stop applauding had come, but it conveyed nothing whatever to the misguided minority which persisted in making the whole audience ridiculous, until it had fairly bullied Mr. Berthald into singing again. It is needless to characterize such incidents further than by saying that they are much to be regretted by every patriotic Rochesterian. AT ALBANY. New York has a governor who possesses what the writers of state papers so commonly lack, a fine command of the English language.

Buffalo Express. Governor Black believes civil service re form and common sense are not natural enemies, and In that belief he Is in company with all practical business men. Utica Herald. Chauncey M. Iepew, IX.

has never been happier than in his superb oration at the centennial of the establishment of the state capitol at Albany. Brooklyn Standard- Union. Choate's chances are looking np. Ivnst week he could count more than five votes In the caucus. Now it Is considered likely that he will get six, if Flatt withdraws.

Albany Argus. Even the most ardent and Impractical of civil service reformers cannot fail to be im pressed with the calm, direct and practical manner with which the governor handles the subject of the civil service. Albany Journal. The governor indicates with none too much emphasis the mischief that must fol low the devastation now going on in the Adi-rondacks, and calls the notice of the legislature to an immediate duty. Syracuse Standard.

Mr. O'Orady of Monroe county, who was chosen speaker, is a man of exceptional abil ity and has come rapidly to the front during his legislative career. He was the leader last year and will undoubtedly make an excellent presiding officer. Utica Press. Governor Black's first message will favor ably impress the people of the state, and in its line and temper confirms the Impressions that have been formed of the new executive, from whose administration good things are reasonably expected.

Syracuse Journal. Civil service Is discussed by Governor Black in a very frank way. Civil service cranks will probably call the governor hostile. But the spirit of his comment on this subject is marked by plain, practical horse sense. If it were observed in the execution of the laws there would be no ground for comi'laint.

Syracuse Post. Taken altogether, and with due allowance for such reservation as is naturally dictated by expediency and a spirit of conciliation and harmony, Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff's speech was admirable in both matter and manner. If the senate lives np to its injunctions it cannot well stray from the path of rectitude. New York Mail and Express. The one way to get the true flavor of Governor Black's first message to the legislature is to read it.

It la neither dull nor overlong, like so many official deliverances, but a truly readable production; and whoso reads It will find at the conclusion that his time has been both instructively and Interestingly employed. Oswego Times. WOMEN OF NOTE. Hetty Green Is scheming to consolidate several short railway lines Into a through line from ft. Louis to Galveston, of which her son, E.

II. K. Green, shall be president. Mme. Paul Blouet translates her husband's (Max O'Kell) books into English from the original French.

She is an English woman by birth, but learned French as a child. Mrs. Sala Is about to edit the much-talked-of "Commonplace" book of her husband. When the work is publisned the original volumes are to be presented to the British museum. The much-traveled Duchess of Cleveland, morher of Lord Hosebery, Is anticipating a voyage to South Africa this month.

No other duchess living has explored the world so thoroughly. Mrs. Theodore Tllton has recently recovered her sight after two years of blindness. She bus changed little in twenty years. Her hair shows a few strauds of gray at the temple, that Is all.

Among Mrs. Clevelanefs aids In the blue room at the New Year's reception was Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, who was the lady of the White House during the presidency of her uncle, James Buchanan. Harriet Maxwell Converse, the Indian chieftain, is soon to start out on a lecturing tour, her subjects being the history and traditions of the red men. She Is a fluent speaker, an able writer, and understands her subject perfectly.

A young woman has received the unusual honor of the freedom of a Loudon guild. She Is a daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackuey. and, having written a "History of Gardening in England," has just been thus honored by the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. The Duchess of Portland's gardens are full of carnations, the latest of which Is of unique coloring, a peculiar heliotrope. The Malmalson Is the first favorite of the duchess, who never appears without a knot of them, or some other variety, tacked into her dress.

Russia's czarina, a worthy grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, is fighting the practice of sucking tobacco prevalent among the woni en at the court. She Is said also to have shut down on her husband's allowance of cig arettes. She Is also said to bo not so well liked as she was. Bargain in Romance. Detroit Journal.

The prince In the fairy tule proceeded with his glowing description of the home he had pre tared for his bride. An hundred witching odors," bo exclaimed, "shall greet thy nostrils!" Can't you make it ninety-nine scents suddenly demanded the princess, who was Inclir ed to be advanced a couple of cen turies on such a matter, and whose every aspiration was harking forward to a more practical age. A Dilemma. St. Louis rkneer-Fress.

Noiseless shoes for horses are one of the mi. mis of this era of ultra-sensitiveness. But with noiseless shoes and rubber tires there will be a new demand for a warning bell on every animal and vehicle. Possibly the multitudinous clanging of tluy gorgs might prove as trying to the sensltory nerves as the continuous roar of street 1 Tear. pmiT S.oo Dally and Sunday 7.50 (iunday 1.5 "Weekly l.OU Mos.

fS.OO 3.75 .75 .50 Mo l.BO W.H. MATHEWS President! N. P. POND Sec'y and Treas. Trustees M.H.CLARKE A FOOLISH BILL.

Assemblyman Sanger's bill barring the approach of citizens to the legislature by requiring the deposit of the measures with the secretary of state for thirty days, pay-fnr nrintin in advance, should never see the light of day. The legislature of New York is the great and general court of the people of New lYork, and it must not be closed to the people as individuals or associations or corporations. It is singular that Mr. Sanger should consent to father such a bill as that attributed to him. EHEBMA.N OS PAPEB MONET.

Albert II. Walker, of Hartford, baa made public a letter written to him by Senator Sherman December 6, 180G. The letter was written in the senate chamber at Washington, and is as follows: Mr. Albert H. Walker: My Dear Sir: Your kind note of the 2Cth nit Is received.

I do not sympathize with the' movement proposed to retire United States notes from circulation. I believe It Is easy to maintain a limited amount of these in circulation, without danger or difficulty. The maintenance in circulation of 000 000 United States notes, supported by a serve of $100,000,000 gold, not only saves the Interest on $246,000,000 of debt, but is 4 vast convenience to the people at large. Tne best form of paper money is that which Is backed by the government and tta-ntained at the specie standard. The absolute security of these notes was never called in question, after the resumption of ppceie payments in until the reserve was being trenched upon to meet deficiencies In current revenue, brought about by what is known as the Wilson tariff law of 1S94.

Very truly yours. JOHN SHERMAN. For concise and conclusive statement this is in Senator Sherman's best vein. It sets ferth facts that the anti-greenback cur Tncv reformers vill find very stubborn Svhen vie-ved in connection with their rev Dlutionary schemes. A KANSAS RADICAL.

Recently a Bryan dinner was given at Lincoln, Nebraska, and among other letters read on that occasion was one from David Overmeyer, of Topeka, Kansas, the beaten candidate for governor in 1S94, and now a candidate for United States senator. Overmeyer's letter was not given out for publication, so he has taken the responsi bility for its publication himself. He called on Bryan to advocate not only an ''equitable dollar," by which he meant, of course, a dollar worth fifty cents, more or loss, but such legislation as "will place taxes upon great incomes and great estates with an ever-increasing ratio in the ascending scale." Judging from Mr. Bryan's utterances during the campaign, that could not have been particularly obnoxious to him. But Overmeyer proposes to go beyond that.

He followed it np with this attack on corporations: Why should we not declare for the extirpation of this alien and sinister power Why should not the nation and the states rest me the franchises so long and so freely bestowed upon such unworthy, ungrateful end dangerous objects, and for the future grant no franchises except after public ex-emiration and Inquiry by a public tribunal, end then only for reasons of public policy and to objects of public interest and utility, with absolute public control and public participation in earnings This seems to have been a little too much for Mr. Bryan and hi friends, and the letter was suppressed. M'KINLEYISM VS. WILSONISM. A striking exhibit of the comparative workings of the McKinley law and the Wilson-Gorman law is afforded by the receipts and expenditures of the government during the first twenty-eight months of each measure.

The figures are as follows: McKinley law Receipts, expenditutes, $.831,972,429.20. Wilson law Receipts, expenditures, The receipts during the McKinley law period were greater than those in the Wilson law period. For the first twenty-eight months of the McKinley law the surplus was For the first twenty-eight months of the Wilson law the deficiency was Two years and four months of each, law ought to afford a fair comparison of the merits of the two measures. Under the the government more than paid its expenses, while financial tranquillity prevailed. Under the second, the government failed by over $120,000,000 to pay it expenses, while financial and industrial disorders shook the country.

The McKinley law worked all right, and the Wilson law has worked all wrong. Each has had a fair trial and no evidence is lacking from iwhieh to make np a verdict. To "let the tariff alone" would be a crime and violation of faith. To reconstruct it on liies that shall afford protection and yield revenue is an. imperative duty of the incoming congress.

Happily, there is no fear that the duty will be shirked or evaded. THE BANEKUPTCY BILL. A measure that has hung fire for years In congress is the Torrey bankruptcy bill, and petitions for its passage are now pouring in. It is universally conceded that nme such measure would be an excellent thing for the country, and the Torrey bill Ss said to be just to all interests. The New l'ork Times says: The principles of the bill are sound and practical.

They have been carefully studied and developed In the light of the years of debate to which they have been subjected. The essential purpose of the bill Is perfectly simple. It to relieve honest insolvents who liave surrendered their assets to their creditor of the obligation of their debts, while preventing the release of those who have not been honest and have not made such surrender. The bill does this in the simplest, least expensive, least dilatory, and most Impartial ninruer. We have been unable to discover in the way of forcing deserving debtors into involuntary bankruptcy.

All these points have been carefully covered by years of debate and amendment, until the pending bill appears to be as sound and practical as such a measure can be. Bankruptcy laws are proviaea ior Dy tne constitution oi tne United States, their benefit to the general welfare is recognized, and this subject may fa- I well engpge the attention of congress dur ing the closing two months of the session, liarely has a measure commanding uni versal approval been so frequently taken up and laid aside again as has the Torrey bill. Why not take it up now in earnest and push it to enactment? 6ENAT0B HILL BREAKS HIS SILENCER Senator David B. Hill's present mood is not a very cheerful one, and it seems to be exercised chiefly at the expense of those whom he designates as "the radicals in the Democratic party," meaning, of course, the silver men. In the New York Sun's interview the senator declares himself su- Piemely indifferent to the action the Demo- cratic minority at Albany may take re- garding the empty honor of the senatorial nrminntinn "Who ha ovMnima "Tina use fdr post-mortem Certainly not David B.

Hill. He never cared much for the gew-gaws of politics. What he has been after were the sub and as1, in his opinion, through the folly of his party in Chicago and this state, the Republicans have captured all the prizes, he is not going to grab for the scraps. Some of the New York senator's remarks were particularly spicy. "The demagogues," he says, "by their violent doctrines have driven every man of property fiom the Democratic party, and the party now is on the rocks of populism." Never, perhaps, were there more complacency and satisfaction over a shipwreck.

The craft as sailed by Senator Hill for a number of years scarcely deserved a better fate. He encouraged the sentiment which led Tarn many and many other Democrats through out the state to sacrifice any principle and cause for the spoils. The New York Democracy under Hill's leadership had learned the lesson so well that when even the senator himself drew back from the su prune folly and madness of Bryanism many of his followers refused to be guided by his counsel and example. They thought Bryanism was to be a winning movement, and, though scarcely a man of them had the slightest faith in the free-silver doctrine, large numbers went after the Demo cratic idol of an hour. At the Chicago convention Senator Hill made a strong and plucky fight for honest money and sound political principles.

He touched the high-water mark of his public life on that occasion. But when he came hack to New York, instead of joining Gov eruor Flower, Bourke Cockran and other leaders of his party in the fight against the men whom he now denounces as "radicals" and "demagogues," he took to his tent, put a padlock on his mouth and has scarcelv been heard from since We are glad, however, for hi. sonally, that he has some nhilosonhv comfort him in his forced retirement from public life. There is no gloom," he says witnout its tallow dip." It is pleasant to know that he will have at feast the feeble a 1 .1 I tl ciieer mm on ins way as he leaves the senate. MR.

DEPEW AND THE EMP1BE STATE. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew's speech in Albany on Wednesday at the centennial celebration of that city as the capital of the state was published in full in these columns yesterday. Our readers should not fail to give this fine historical ad dress a careful reading.

Mr. Depew would not be the great ora tor he as if he were not a man of manv moods. His intellectual versatility sur passes that of any other person in Ameri can public life. The popular, we might say the ignorant, conception of him as chiefly or wholly a witty and entertaining after-dinner and political stump orator does him great injustice. That view of his powers, however, is not entertained bv the intelligent and thoughtful.

By these i.o a isiuuiji. out lu i tn ritifj ua iij ils evilly, humorous and eloquent. His exquisite tact and solid judgment are among his greatest qualities. His business know! edge and capacity have made him the trusted counselor of the chiefs of finance and the highest official of one of the greatest railways on the continent. Years ago, doubtless, he would have been president of the United States had he chosen to cut loose from his official relations with that great corporation As the orator of a great historic occasion Mr.

Depew is always both instructive and brilliant. The grace and color of his fine mind and temperament adorn every theme he discusses, while his extensive stores of historic knowledge are drawn upon liber- ally for the body of his discourses. Re- garding the anuals of our own great state, the men and measures that have made it illustrious, its resources and development, he is particularly well informed, and theso alwavs move a congenial theme for him on the many special occasions of which he is the orator. Albany's centennial opened a wide and attractive field of discourse con- cerning the growth and greatness of the Empire state. The address is a panoramic view of the state in many of its most dis tinguishing features and of its progress from the days of the Iroquois to our own time.

One is astonished in going over this full page address at the wealth of infor mation on a great multitude of topics displayed by the accomplished speaker. The rapid sketch of the great political leaders of the state from Hamilton to Conkling, and including Burr, Van Buren, Croswell, Weed, Seward, Fenton and Dean Richmond, showed keen insight into the char acter and qualities of those eminent men. The greatness of New York state has far outgrown cavil and even jealousy. Its imperial power is conceded by all. Its population to-day more than doubles the popu- sesbes the respect and confidence of the peo.

pie in a degree never enjoyed by his prede. cesser, and the personnel of the assembly committees will, we are sure, show th this confidence Is deserved. A Dimpled Mystery. Salt Lake City Tribune. Tbe Chicago papers print pictures of Misg Edith M.

White, an exceedingly pretty em of twenty, who Is now in prison In Minneap olis, cnargeu witn uignway robbery. with two men, was arrested, and it ops that Edith is the leader of the gang. She doesn't claim that she was deceived or beguiled, but she Is a highway woman just for the reason that the Missourian said he drank whisky, because he liked It. Jiisg White has a regular baby face, with an exceedingly weak chin. She is the despair of phrenologists, because she has more nerve than five men need.

She was a member In good standing of the Baptist church when she started out, and she supplies another proof that we cannot sometimes most gener. ally tell what there may be in demure little woman's mind just by looking into her fuce. McCullagh's Regularity. St. Louis Republic.

In the early years of bis connection with the Globe-Democrat he became set in hit ways and he soon adopted a routine such as would have made an old man of any young man. For twenty years he came to the office at 12:.10 every afternoon, went out for an hour at 3 and went to dinner at the Southern hotel at 7:25 in the evening. At 0:45 the faint soueak of shoes set flat upon the floor told the attaches of the editorial stuff that lh chief had returned. From that time until 12:20 he worked at his desk, but as sure as the clock struck he could be heard eotninj down the hall on his way home. So punctual was he that it would have been safe at anr time to have set your watch or clock by hit goings or comings.

7 Spain Didn't Wait. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The New York Advertiser, opposed to Cuban recognition, says: The French gov-ernrrent, with all the traditional hostility of that nation toward England, did not reo ogr.ize the independence of America until after the British General Burgoyne had beea compelled to surrender his army at Would the Advertiser mind telling what Spain did In 1S1; and how long sh waited to strike a blow at the United States? She hardly waited for the firing on Fort Sumter to cease. It was not because loved the confederacy, but because she desired the United States disrupted and eoon of its power. Superintendent Aldridge.

Utica Herald. The reappointment and confirmation wltl out reference to a committee, of Superintendent Aldridge are well earned compliments. Partisanship has assailed this official through out his two years of service without reason. as the proof of good works Is found in results achieved. The canals have been brought to, and maintained at, a condition that has won the commendation of those best qualified to judge the boatmen and forwarders.

Their business has Increased, and discipline throughout the department has been raised a high standard. Superintendent Aldridge an official in whom the public servlc it for tunate. A Cabinet Gues. Hartford Courant. Major Handy guesses that one of feat Southern men Nathan Goff and Stephen B.

Elkins of West Virginia, General Felli Af nus and Mr. Gary of Maryland will sit in the McKinley cabinet. He doubts whether Elkins and Agnus are really desirous of that hor.or, and he thinks Judge Goff would prefer to go upon the bench of the snprem covrt. Gary Is a good man to watch the home 6t retch." he suggests. Well Fixed.

Leavenworth Times. Kansas Is so rich In the product of coal tin and zinc and particularly In Its soil-that a Chinese wall might be built, 100 feet high, around the state, and Kansas cooll then not only support her present population, but a population ten times as great. There Are Others. St. Ixniis Globe-Democrat.

A Main man followed a deer track twt miles and then found the deer had been traveling the other way. He need not feel very bad, for several million Topocrats emulate! the feat last year. Too Good to Lose. Chicago Becord. Josephine won't take any medicine her dreadful cough." Why not She doesn't want to get rid of It beeau she got it In Easily Satisf.ji.

Troy lie'11'! Tresident Cleveland is said to be satisn with his administration. If that is the fact serves only as another illustration of little It takes to please some people. Might be Loaned. Philadelphia Times. It's not leap year, but if February did new an extra one It could borrow Jackson's dif from January.

It evidently Isn't goinf be used for any other purpose. The Ruling Motive. Chicago Tribune. England's eagerness to act as peaeemal" Is usually lusplred by a desire to got one the pieces. C3o Gripe TThen you take Ilood's Pills.

The big. fs' loned, sugar-coated pills, which tear you pieces, are not in it with Hood's. Easy tottM run and easy to operate. Is true of Hood's Pills, which are np to date In every respect. Safe, certain and sure.

All Pills druggists. 25c. C. I. Hood Lowell Ma The only nils to take with Hood's Sump" sition seems to have startled the United Empire Loyalists.

They should calm themselves; there is no immediate prospect of Liberal success in treaty making. The people of the United States are not willing to open our markets upon any terms yet offered. CHRONlCIilNGS. The other night, at the Lyceum, waiting for the Nordica concert to begin, the Chronicler overheard this remark: "My! What a short programme! I hope this is not going to be like the Blank concert. Why; don't you remember? They charged something perfectly outrageous for seats and it was all over by half past nine.

Everybody was talking about it." The remark, a perfecty innocent one, was not intended for the Chronicler. He had no business to hear it and, of course, had no right to be amused by it. But he was. It instantly brought to his mind the story of the rustic who, having had an aching tooth quickly and painlessly extracted by a skilled dentist, objected to the expert operator's charge of two dollars, in terras somewhat as follows: "Well, I don't want to be mean about it, but that strikes me as pretty big pay for two minutes' work; ny dentist up to home yanks me all around the room for pretty nigh half an hour and never charges more'n a quarter." So it seems that there is a point of view from which it is possible to determine whether or not one getting one's mon ey's worth out of a minor surgical opera tion or a musical entertainment by a process of strictly quantitative Analysis. It also seems that there are a great ir.any Rochester music lovers who regard con certs from this point of view.

In these facts may le found the explanation of a feature of the Nordica concert and of previous concerts in Rochester that is entirely commendable or entirely cred'table to Rochester audiences. The Chronicler means the overdoing of recalls. A part of the audience last Monday night was utterly unreasonable in this particular and so conveyed to the rest of the audience and. it is to be feared, to the artists, an impression that the motive of these undj'y pc r-sistent applauders was less a desire to compliment the singers than a stern determination to get their money's worth of singing. The impression may have been a mistaken one, but the conduct of the noisy minority made the mistake, if it was a mis take, entirely excusable.

There are, of course, two sides to this question of "recalls." Certainly artists like to be recalled up to a certain limit, which differs with different artists. Everv singer expects and wishes to be recalled once and is hurt and disappointed if he is not. Others are accustomed to two recalls. Probably such singers as Melba and Nordica expect to be recalled three or four times. Audiences cannot be expected to know each singer's limit in this respect i ituu i-uunoi wen do iiinmeu ror sometimes passing it in their amiable eagerness not to nppear to the artist discourteous or uu appreciative by stopping short of it.

But all civilized audiences are expected to know that the artist is under no obligation what ever to respond to a recall or to any num ber of recalls by an "encore number," that hether the singer is to respond to a recall by a lww or by another song is and must be solely and entirely within the singer's discretion, and, above all, that when i singer has signified as plainly as "les con venances" permit that he does not wish to sing again, there is the end of the matter. An audience that betrays to an artist that it does not know these things convicts it self of ill-breeding, and instead of pleasing him, rouses in him a feeling of wrath or of contemptuous amusement, according to his temperament. The audience that in sists that an artist shall sing again, after he has asked to be excused from singing 1 -a i again, is guuty uoorisu tyranny. uva a singer, responding to a recall, accom panies his bow with a little deprecatory gesture of the hands and a slight side- wise shake of the head, he is giving the signal, supposed to be understood and re spected by civilized people the world over that he "declines the encore." He says "I beg you to excuse me from singing again." He means what he says and the audience is bound to take it for granted that he has his reasons and to respect them. Whether the reasons are good or bad, frivolous or serious, is none or.

tne audience business. The audience that, in its ignorance of the meaning of this signal, persists in its demand for another song is not complimenting the singer; it is cracking a whip over him; it is saying to him: "We have paid to hear yqi siug and we haven't had our money's worth of your singing. We don't care a hang whether you want to sing or not. You step out here and sing, confound you, or we won't let the show go on." It is guilty, in short, of ignorant, ill-bred, uncivilized, brutal rudeness. It is to be regretted that at the two most important concerts recently given in this city, representative Rochester audiences have been made to appear guilty of this very barbarism by a comparatively few pei sons, untaught nn to the etiquette that governs the relatioiw of artist and auditor and utterly ignorant of the menuiug of the conventional signal by which a singer "declines the encore." At the Melba concert hist winter.

Mine. Scalchi was recalled at the close of her first number, and, because she was feeling exceedingly ill, asked the audience to excuse her, by giving the conventional signal. The well-bred majority instantly ceased applauding. -The ill-bred minority kept on applauding and persisted until it had forced Scalchi to sing again..