Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 September 1893 — Page 6

HILL ON SILVER, The New Yorjk Senator Presents His Views. Tb« CttQSfa Leading Up to tho Prevailing Monetary Crisis Reviewed and the Permanent Remedy Prescribed. Washington. Aug. 25.—At tho close of the .routine morning business, Mr. Hill idem.. N. Y.) addressed the chair and was recognized, 'tout yielded to Mr. Vest idem.. Mo,) who had 'the clerk read a communication to him (Mr. Ycst) from tho diroetor of tho mint, giving jrtat istics of the purchase, cost and coinage of silver Mr Vest said that he assumed from the jsciul manifested by the advocates of the uncondiAtonal repeal of the Sherman act that the ureal tiling to l e decided in the interest of the Amorhan Dcople was a parity between the two metals a:ur*hut the commercial ratio should toe as far as possible the same as the ratio established by statute. Tho commercial ratio toad been up to within a few days 28 to 1, while the legal ratio was 16 9 16 to 1. and he took it for granted that if there was to bo owe attempt

Senator Hilt. of Hew York, to bring- the two metals together in order to redeem the nledges of the two great national parties and of the adiriinisfrution there should toe coinage of gold and silver on a parity. Now it seemed, said Mr. Vest in. a contemptuous tone, that the question of the expense was to he injected into the discussion, and that, leaving the great and-6bsol'ute necessity of parity, uenators were led into an examination of the nuailierof dollars that the’ change of ratio 'Mould cost. He had made a short analytical ?statement of the account between silver and the government at this, time. It showed the profit to the government under the IJland-Alli-of 1873 as (in round numbers) $70,000,«0Ch. nnd the protit of the Sherman act •*>! 1890 as $58,000,000. the total profit being $128,000,000. The uncoined ^ silver tn the treasury was 133,000.000 buncos, and the pro'fit on that $57,000.0*). Tho number of ounces necessary to recoin the silver dollars now coined was 81.000.000, and the number necessary to recoin the subsidiary silver coins 19,000,000. If this quantity of silver bullion Mere taken from the uncoined silver in the treasury on the 6th of August there would be Ktili left of unjoined silver in the treasury 33,’000.000 ounces. llis summing up of the silver account was: -Credit side.$128,133,314 Dei tor side....... 112.805.321 Balance in favor of silver.$ 15,207,993 If the secretary of the treasury, Mr. Vest continued, meant to put the question fairly to the American people, why had he not told the senate wliat he proposed to do with the vast •mount of silver now uncoined in the treasury Mhen the purchasing clause of the Sherman act were repealed? Was that silver to be there a monace to bimetallism for all time to come? Or did the secretary propose to coin it and liold it tu the treasury as dollars. Mr. Hill then resumed tho floor and addressed the senate. There was perfect quiet and stillness in the chamber while he spoke and the closest attention was paid to the speech tooth on the floor and in the galleries, Commencing his remarks by an allusion to the president’s “much commended and criticised special message to congress,” Senator ; Hill supplemented the president’s quotation from Daniel Webster by the opening sentence of another famous speech of tho same distinguished statesman in which ho urged upon the senate “Before we float further on the waves of this debate let us -refer to the point from mrixioh we departed ” Adopting Wobster’s prudent suggestion, let Nus tlrst recall the poculiar circumstances under which we meet, and the Important character of the duty which surely confronts us at Ah is hour. The existing financial disturbance may he attributed to three causes: First: It is a natural or inevitable result or Incident of many years of real or fictitious Ijmsperity. The nation is not unlike an indi'vitaual. Sickness is incident to humanity, and commercial panics are incident to trade. The student of history knows that financial panics occur about every twenty years, and our country has not been an exception to tho general rule. The panics of 1813, 1837 and 1857 should have led us to anticipate one in abo’jt 1893.

in addition to tnese causes, wnien, ior tne purpose of this argumen}. I denominate “natural" causes, against which it is probable that no prudence could guard or prevent, there was much reason to apprehend linancial troubles at this time owing to the violation of correct business principles on the part of our business •men in their haste to become suddeuly rich. Our financial centers have been flooded with ^watered stocks of every description, in which fnnoeent people have been induced to invest their means by the glittering promises of enormous dividends which are not forthcoming. €andor compels me to say that these transactions have usually origintod with that class of financiers who infest our marts of trade and are to-day ostentatiously attracting publio attention by their parrot-like clamor for an "honest" dollar and against the continued use of' ailver money. Besides we are suffering from the evils of over-production. The balance of trade has unfortunately been against us. We have sold our . railroad and other securities abroad instead of at home and the interest as well as portions of the principal have been coming due and must be paid in gold, because it was so "nominated In the bond," and hence our gold has naturally i been leaving us for foreign shores. Unquestionably some of the present diffl•eulty may be attributed to the uneasiness of our protected industries which have been accustomed to rely to a certain extent upon governmental favoritism to support them. They •do not disguise the fact that such uneasiness •exists and that it contributes its share to the general existing disturbance of financial affaire. ®ct there is no relief for this situation unless the dominant party abandons its principles and surrenders in advance to the interests which werd defeated at the last election. The democratic party is pledged to tariff reform, and it must redeem its pledge come what .may. Of course it must be expected there will r* some friction. It is unavoidable. It is in<«/>ent to the anticipated withdrawal of public hid;from private enterprises; and it can not be prevented, but must be endured. The people perfectly understood the question lastlall, and Ataey ^oted with their eyes wide open. Our course is onward, and we shall not retreat. Second—Some portion of the present panic may be tracod to a concerted effort on the part of numerous monometallists to produce it, in order to further discredit silver as a part of the standard money of the country. With i*houlish glee they welcomed every bank failure. especially in the silver states, little dreaming that such failures would soon occur at their own doors. They encouraged the hoarding of money; they inaugurated the policy of • refusing loans to the people even upon the best of security; they circulated false petitions, passed absurd and alarming resolutions, predicted dire disaster, attacked the credit of the^goverument, nought to exaot a premium on currency, and Attempted in every way to spread distrust ihroadcast throughout the land.

Ttie Deal financial system in the world coma not stand such an organized and vicious attack upon it. These disturbers—these promoters of publio per: 1—represent largely the creditor class; the men who desire to appreciate the gold dollar in order to subserve ‘heir own selfish interests; men who revel in hard times; men who drive harsh bargains with their fellow men in times of financial distress, and men wholly unfamiliar with the true principles of monetary science. Third—'The Sherman silver-purchase law has been at least in part and possibly the most largely instrumental in producing the existing complications. No one now defends it. Few aiK>logix© for it. The political party that enacted it seems now the most, anxious for its repeal. It was a violation of every correct principle of monetary science. It was not even an honorable compromise. It was a makeshift , a subterfuge, a mere temporary expedient. The president, in his message, not desiring at this time, for obvious reasons, to offend the sensibilities of those who had voted forlt. politely called it a “true©." It has been asserted that the president himself. In his hostility to independent free coinage was dispose 1 at one time to regard with favor or acquiesce in the provisions of the Sherman law. which had been the instrument or inean-:i by which such free coinage had been defeated. Whothor this be so or not, the fact remains, and has not escapes! observation, that while the democratic national platform denounced the Sherman law and demanded its repeal— denjjimeed it, not as the result of a •truce.*’ but as & cowardly makeshift—yet Mr. Cleveland, neither in Vis speech delivered at Madison Square garden. New York, in answer to the notiiication of his nomination, nor in his subsequent letter of acceptance, nor in his inaugural address in March last, criticised the Sherman law. nor made any allusion to it whatever, althoqgh It was then already threatening the prosperity of the country with the dangerous results of its operation, which were apparent to everyone who had given the subject any careful attention. -Mr. llill then gave his personal record on the sil\^r question, and then discussed England’s opposition to a single standard, and continues as follows: I would myself accept tin Idea that the An-glo-Ipdian ukase Is merely monumental British stupidity, if it were tho first act in the monetary drama instead of fourth. Great Britain defeated'* the renewal of tin parity of gold and silver at the monetary conference of 1H78.

Groat Britain defeated the renewal or tno parity of gold and silver at the monetary conference of 1881. Groat Britain defeated the renewal of . the parity of gold and silver at the Brussels monetary conference of 189-!. Great Britain now. in 1893, is combining her Asian with European power to prevent renewal of the parity of gold and silver by the United States and France or other foreign powers at any future timo. To create the hugest mass of inconvertible money ever known while posing j as money purists may look like pious imbecility, worthy of a Pharisee in Bed him. But on review of the successive acts of Mae monetary drama, a statesman Of sense will "doubt not through the stages an increasing purpose runs." I admit, for I affirm, that the British new fangled theory of gold monometallism is an ignorant. Insular, weak-minded theory, dike their theory of taxation without representation before irrfi; like their theory of impressments. for the British navy from American j ships before 181:2; like their theory of irresponsible naval intervention to assist the disunion of these states Lcfore the Alabama arbitration of 1871. It will be observed from what has already been stated that the permanent remedy for our financial difficulties is a return to bimetallism which existed prior to 1873. It has been stated over and over ugain during the present debate, especially in the other house, that the country has tried the experiment of silver coinage and that it has proved a failure, and that therefore we should now return to a gold standard. Why not try the only remedy that has not been applied? This great and growing country of ours needs a much larger circulation per capita than any other country in the world. It will not answer to compare the needs of our nation in this regard with the old unprogress- j ive, tlnished nations of Europe, where the | wealth is largely controled by a few families. The insufficiency of our present volume of currency seems to be everywhere conceded, and yet there is an unaccountable reluctance to establish a permanent silver system under which the deficiency can bo easily supplied. The proposition now before congress to allow the national banks to increase their circulation 10 per cent.—and which proposition I earnestly favor—is the outcome of a general desire for an increase of the currency, the insufficiency of which was made plainly muni fest during’the present crisis. To that proposition itself there is little objection, yet there is a spectacle presented when we wftnesfe that those who are the most clamorous for such increase at the present juncture are usually holding up their hands in holy horror and solemnly protesting against any other increase of the currency—especially an increase of silver money—as "inflation” when in truth both silver and gold are money metals absolutely in capable of inflation. I do not propose to discuss to any extont the matter of ratios, because I do not believe that the time has arrived for its serious consideration. If the existing ratio is to be changed at all. the feasibility of which at the present time is of great doubt, it should not be enlarged, but diminished, and put at 15 to 1. so lis to correspond with tho ratio under which the silver pieces of the countries composing the Latin union are coined.

Tno enlargement oi me ratio uy mis country involves the recoinage of nearly all our silver' &t a tremendous loss, or else its absolute retirement, which would be disastrous; while a reduction of the ratio to 15y$ would enablo us to recoin at a profit, and thus place our silver pieces on the same plane as those of European countries. Mr. llill then pays his respects to the president's message: If I l!elieved for one moirent th^t the repeal of the Sherman law would injure the cause ol bimetallism and be the means of placing or tending to place the country upon a single gold standard, X should never yoto for it, but would as earnestly oppose it as 1 am now favoring it. It is .to be regretted that the president was not more explicit, in his last utterances. He expressly advised the repeal of Mho Sherman law' and t hen urged other legislation as desirable, but ho left the exact nature thereof in doubt. It was hoped that the pres ident,. in view of the provisions of the democratic national platform in favor of a double standard and in view of the well known opinions of a large majority of his party in congress would have at least spoken a kind or encouraging wrord in behalf of a return to bimetallism. It would certainly have made the path of repeal an easier on© and prevented much misconstruction and bitterness. But while I regard such omissions as unfortunate, and while conceding that it is not easy to reconcile the closing words of his message with a desire for the establishment of a double standard. yet I am not disposed to accept such a construction of them until further evidence of his adverse intentions has been manifes ted. If he really intended us to understand that he proposed hereafter to favor the policy of a single gold standard, then I must absolutely decline to follow him in his new departure. I shall refuse to follow in the footsteps ol any administration that seeks to place the democratic party in a false position;^hat seeks to lead it away from the path of safety, away from democratic principles and platform*, and intodho very cump of the enemy. Eighteen Lives Lost Philadelphia, Aug*. 3 26.—Assistant Engined* Albert Smith of the Reading Railroad Co.’s steam colliery Panther, which, with the barge I^ikens Valley, was lost off the Long Island coast about 8 o’clock Thursday morning, arrived here yesterday. Of the twenty persons on the two vessels only two were saved—Engineer Albert Smith and a fireman employed on the Panther. Mr. Smith is not positive us to the name of the latter.

THE SILVER DEBATE. rhe General Drift of Arfument on the Silver Question In Congress Gathered from the Dally Speechmaking on the Subject. SENATE. * Washington. Aug. 2!.—Among the numerous petitions presented in the senate this morning was one remarkable specimen as to orthography, writing and ideas which was presented by Mr. Peffer (pop. Kan.). It gives the views of some of the agriculturist and laboring classes of a neighborhood in Illinois on the subject of finances. It was referred, as are all the others on the same subject, to the committee on finance. Mr. Peffer also offered a substitute for the bill to increase the national bank circulation. The finance committee bill (reported last Friday), discontinuing the purchase of silver bullion, was then taken bp so as to afford Mr. Morrill (rep.. Vt.) an opportunity of addressing the senate on the bill. He first, however, asked and obtained indefinite leave of absence. remarking that he was in tho senate chamber to-dav against the advice of his physician. He then proceeded to read from slips his speech bearing the motto: “Souud Money Cheats Nobody.” HOUSE. After the reading of the journal Mr; Powers (rep.. Vt.) took the floor in support of the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act He referred to the Chicago platform and to the Interpretation placed upon it by various democrats. The gentleman from Pennsylvania. Mr. Sibley, had referred the to Saviour of mankind as the first democrat and had taken the utterances of the Saviour as his platform. The gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. ilrerett, had taken Grover Cleveland as his platform and had gone around his district singing at the top of his voice, “Oh, Isn't He a Dandy?” Mr. Powers went on to argue that the pur chasing cluuse of the Sherman bill was vicious in principle and dangerous In application. Mr. Cooper (dem., Ind.) spoke in opposition to the free coinage of silver. He would rather favor a policy which would give the country a safe, recognized stable currency than enter upon experiments at this time. If congress repealed the purchasing clause it would not strike down nor kill silver. In his opinion it would lift up silver and make it the equal of gold. It would strike down the silver industry but not the silver money. He then argued in support of the proposition to repeal tlje tax on state banks. senate. * Washington, Aug. 22.—-Mr. Allen (pop., Neb.i gave notice of an amendment which he would offer to the bill reported by Mr. Yoor hoes, discontinuing the purchase of Silver bullion.

Mr. \ oorhees (dem.. Ind.) chairman of the finance committee, then at 12:25 p. m.. took the floor and addressed the senate in advocacy of the bill reported by him discontinuing the purchase of silver bullion. Jn the course of his remarks Senator Voorhees said that while the calm unbiased public opinipn of a great majority of the American people, irrespective of parties, had justified the action of the president in convening the extra session, the causes for the action were widely and dangerously misunderstood, and by certain classes purposely misrepresented. Therefore, he deemed fitting a few words in explanation spoken in na spirit of strife or controversy. For five months had gone up the voice of tho prophet of financial evil; from the great money centers had emanated cruel edicts contracting currency and resulting in panic. No one believed there was want of confidence in the government credit or in the stability of its currency. Notwithstanding the empty treasury left by the last administration and the record of a billion dollar congress, tho credit of the government was to-day better than that of any country on the face of the globe, and even cowardly capitalists seized upon our bonds with swift greed. There were many reasons why our credit should be stronger now than ever before; It rested upon tho absolute unity of purposb of the American people that it. should be upheld. No one but a political madman could deem a political contest ever again possible on lines of sectional animosity. The public credit of every European government was unceasingly threatened by shadows of coming war; financial resources there were constantly weakening by vast standing armies and permanent navies, but throughout the wide earth there were n9ne to molest us or make us afraid of war or rumors of war. Mr. Voorhees said that he spoke in no partisan vein, but yet it was with great satisfaction that he quoted from the Record that not a single vote on his side of the chamber was cast for the act which bore the name of the senator from Ohio to such a peculiar eminence. Mr. Palmer (dem , 111.) argued in support of the bill. He expressed the opinion that the great majority of the American people would not only approve but would rapturously applaud legislation that would establish and maintain the bimetallism of the Chicago convention. He believed, however, that in the present state of tho market, it would be beyond the power of any finite mind to fix the ratio of silver to gold, because the market- value of silver was in a state of chronic fluctuation. The present ratio should be adhered to, the Sherman law repealed, and the use of silver coin encouraged by judicious laws. Mr. Stewart (rep., Nov.) was the first senator to take the floor, and he set out to antagonize ^some of the positions taken in Mr. Voorhees’ speech. He compared the position of the Indiana senator to that of a Missouri jury,which, m a decision in a fugitive siiave case before the war. was said to have given the law to the north ixnd the negro to tho south. HOUSE

The silver debate was resumed and Mr. Brickner (dem., Wis.) addressed the house in favor of the repeal of th€i purchasing clause. Mr. Lane (dem.. 111.) spoke in support of free coinage, contending that a silver dollar was the equal of the gold dollar. A silver dollar was worth one hundred cents in any bank, or in any .store in this country. He was praying for free coinage and might God forget him if he forgot his duty. [Applause.] Mr. Bynum (dem., Ind.), in advocating the Wilson bill, said that unquestionably the vast majority of people believed that the Sherman law was responsible for the evils of the pres ent time. By this fall the government was losing more than $10,000,000 a year. * Gold was being exported in large sums. He highly eulogized the action of Secre tary Carlisle for his refusal to issue bonds. The time had come when subterfuges should be driven from these halls and cohtldence restored. It was said that silver had appreciably fallen in value during the past twenty years because during that time it had been under fire. There might be some truth in that assertion. The United States could not open its mint to free coinage at any ratio, with the mints of all the other civilized nations closed against it SKNATK. Washington, Aug. 23.—Mr. Pascoe (dem., Fla.) gave notice of his substitute to Mr. Vest's minority bill for silver coinage at the rate of 20 to 1. Mr. Hoar (rep.. Mass.) made an argument against Mr. Butler's amendment to the national bank circulation act, repealing the 10 per cent, tax on state bank circulation. He said he was opposed to allowing the state banks issuing and furnishing currency. The people were entitled to have a currency, every dollar of which should be equal to every other, and which should be unchanging in value so far as the wit of man could bring that to pass. The currency should be national. It was the function of the national government to see that it was provided. It never had been and never would be provided bv the states. He desired to relieve the distress of the people by authorizing the use of national bank notes, which were secure and safely guarded, ancl everv dollar of which would be as good as a gold dollar in the pockets of the people, and, in view of the probable repeal of the purchasing clausespf the Sherman act, he was also willing to take measures in concert with other commercial countries for restoring silver to its proper and permanent place in the service of mankind. HOUSE. The debate was opened by C. W. Stone, of Pennsylvania, in favor of the repeal, and his remarks were ably seconded by his colleagues —Dalzell, Ryan, Fitch and Covert, who also spoke against free-coinage. Mr, Hatch (Mo.) argued against the Wilson bilL

Messrs. Colleen (Wyo.) and Taylor <Tenn.) both upheld the cause of silver, and were reinforced by Messrs. McGruder (Cal.) and Bell, (Tex.). Mr. Hicks (Pa.) closed the day’s debate in favor of the repeal bill. SENATE, Washington, Auj?. 24.—A rather amusing scene took place in the senate etamber to-day on the question as to whether Mr. Peffer (pop., Kas.) or Mr. Stewart (rep.. Neb.) should have the privilege of addressing the senate. Each had given notice of his intention to speak yesterday. and both had been crowded out by tha discussion oh Mr. Peffey’s resolution as to the national tanks. The Kansas senator claimed precedence because he had b^en the first to give the notice, while the Nevada senator insisted that that had nothing to do with the Question, and that as he had already beea recognized by the chair he was entitled to. the floor. The vice president took that view of the situation. and recognized Mr. Stewart s right. As the latter then offered to yield to Mr. Peffer. the vice-president treated that offer as an abandonment of the floor and immediately recognized Mr.'Peffer who thereupon began a throe-hours' speech on the silver question. He was folio wed by Mr. Allen (pop.. Neb.) who spoke for over an hour and a hair in support of his amendment proposing to add to the Voorhees bill a proviso for the free and unlimited coinage, of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. HOUSE. This was a field day in the house. Mr. Pence the populist member from Colorado, spoke and strengthened his position as one of the rising men of the house. * A speech by Mr. Dingley was the feature of the day. but his poor delivery detracted materially from the able presentation of his subject. Mr. Kemp (pop.. Neb.) was in favor of recoinace and contended that if the preside?** and secretary of the treasury had performed their duty there would have been no encroaching on the reserve. Then the floor was taken by George Washington Murray, of South Carolina, the repre sentative of the colored race in congress. He said there were three distinct and somewhat antagonistic elements. There was a cla?s composed of bankers and commercial men. who controled the currency. The second class was composed of the owners of silver mines and ancNfcH the uncoined bullion not in the possession of the government. The third class was composed of toiling and producing millions who were neither gold bugs nor silver bugs. [Applause.] To the last class nearly all of his constituents and his whole race belonged. [Applause.] In many respects he represented a larger com. stituency than anyother man on this floor. He represented a constituency of and he represented a race of 8.00), OT). He did not believe that the great troubles now existing were attributable to the Sherman law. His race had felt the mailed hand long before 1893. He attributed the distress to the contraction of circulating mediums: and in hi's opinion it could be relieved only by the enlargement of tho volume of money. His constituency combined patriotism with self-in-terest. [Applause.] His race believed that there was not enough money la the world to act as currency. He was in favor of making up the deficiency with silver and to that extent he was in favor of free coinage and bimetallism. [Applause.]

SENATE. Washington, Aug. 25.—Mr. Vest (dem.. Mo.) sent to the clerk s desk and had read a communication from the director of the mint, sent in response to an inquiry, giving statistics as to the quantity of silver bullion purchased since 1878—the date of the Bland-AUison act. its cost and the amount coined. He intimated pretty broadly that Mr. Carlisle, in his letter to Senator Voorhees on the same subject. had not treated the question fairly. Mr. Hill tdern.. N. Y.) then took the floor and began his speech, the^ opening paragraphs of which attracted much attention. At the conclusion of Senator Hill’s speech he was heartily congratulated by many senators. Senator Stewart (Nev.) followed with a free-silver speech, denouncing the pending bill as a measure destructive of silver. HOUSE. The second day of the five-minnte debate on the silver bill began in the house at 10 a.m., and will probably not end until midnight. Mr. Pendleton (dem., Tex.) and Mr. Bowers (rep.. Cal.) were in favor of free coinage, and Mr. Dockery (dem., Mo.) spoke in favor of bimetallism. Mr. Moon (rep., Mich.) spoke for bi-metal-lism. Mr. Cobb (dem.. Ala.) opposed unconditional repeal. Mr. Burrows (rep., Mich.) called especial attention to the fact that within a period of less than four months from the time the democratic party assumed full control of the executive and legislative branches of the national government the president had publicly announced to the country and to the world that there was general distrust and apprehension concerning the financial situation, of the country, fie quoted from the message of President Harrison last December, the then outgoing executive, giving a picture of the condition of the country then in striking contrast to that presented to-day. and suggested that those citizens who nine months ago were deluded with the idea of the necessity for a change, had by this time the full measure of their desires gratified, unless they had an appetite for misfortunes which no calamity could appease and no disaster satisfy. Mr. Durburrow (dem.. 111.) was in favor of repeal and urged upon his colleagues the necessity of restoring confidence among the people. Mr. Springer (dem.. 111.) favored the unconditional repea 1 of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law. Mr. Springer predicted that if the government should pass from the present standard to the silver basis there would result at the same time a financial crisis in this country, in comparison with which the present financial depression would be as an evening zephyr tQ a western cyclone. He did not believe the statement that some of the democratic representatives and senators, and even the president, would doubt the friends of the repeal measure unless a provision wei£> made for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. If it be that the chief executive will so prove false to his trust 'twere better for him that a millstone were tied about his neck and that he were cast in the sea. He did not believe that any gentleman upon this floor contemplated such treason; he did not believe for a moment that Grover Cleveland would in the slightest respect prove false to the pledges he had made. ^

f The Color to Match. The man went into a dry goods store on Woodward avenue and was waited on by t very pretty young woman. “I want two yards of ribbon an inch wide,” he said. “What color?” she inquired. “I don’t know.” ° “What is it for?” “I don’t know that, either.” “Well, who is it for?” • “My wife.” “Why didn’t you ask her what color she wanted?” “I didn’t think of it.” „ “What are you going to do about it?” “Haven't you some idea what color I ought to get?” he asked, helplessly. “Yes, you’d better get a whole bolt of green,” she smiled, and he went and telephoned to his wife.—Detroit Free Press. _ > A Match. She (to herself)—I like him, he’s so intellectual. He (to himself)—I like her; she is a charming little fool.—N. Y. Weekly. Two of a Kind. First Disputant—You’re a liar—that’s flat! Second Disputant (knocking hin, down)—So are vqu.—Truth.

STORM SWEPT. The Atlantic CoJtot the Scene of a Regular Cyclonic Storiu which H’roofht Havoc Among Light Shipping on the Water and Movable Things on Land—Plate Glass Windows In New York City Suffered—There was Some Loss of Life. New Yoke. Aug. 35.—V cyclonic storm struck this city Wednesday night lust before midnight. The wind b'ew a gale and the rain fell in torrents. The storm was by far the most severe that has been experienced in this city this summer. There was no thunder, no lightning and there was not the brief heavy fall of rain characteristic of August storms in this region. Instead of this, nfter a .lay of .threats. manifested in an overcast sky, an occasional light shower and an atmos-. phere sultry to a painful degree, there came an .outbreak that startled those who were on the streets. A gentle breeze began to relieve the sultriness just before 11 o'clock. .Within ten minutes it had increased to a violence that was calculated to frighten the timid. It whistled around every corner. It caught every light object, a hat, an umbrella1 or a stray newspaper, and whisked it off. The rain came soon after the wind, and it was not a shower, but a deluge. The high wind carried the water through the air, so that its volume was apparently greatly in excess of the actual fail. It was driven in sheets over the pavements, and pedestrians had a hard time of it. No serious accidents are reported. The damage appears to have been confined v to plate-glass windows, trees, fences and chimney tops. The rainfall was the heaviest in the history of the weather bureau, according to Weather Obsprver Du an. There were nearly four inches of rainfall on the record for September 23 and 33. 1883, bnt last night's rainfall exceeded that, being over tour inches. All the cellars along East river were flooded. The cellars and basements along North river were also Hooded, and great damage to property will result. The effects of the storm in the city parks is quite noticeable. - ,?*%t Madison square a force of men wssore put to work clearing up the wreckage of-the numerous trees that had been stripped of their branches and clipping others that showed signs of breaking. At Central park numerous trees were blown down and the ^shrubberies and vine plants ware considerably dam

agea. The effects of the storm at the various yachtclub anchorages along the sound were tremendous. The ex-cessively-heavy winds on the shore drove the small boats together, and in many instances great damage was done among the frail craft by collision. At Larehmont harbor a big schooner went ashore during the height of the storm on the»rocks at Sheppard's Point. Her crew of seven men remained on her at work ^>n the pumps, but at the falling of the tide she was left high and dry and will inevitably go to pieces. All along the sound shore from Indian harbor at Greenwich to Port Morris, the devastation of the storm is apparent in the .destroyed piers, the flooded meadow lands and the shore houses, whose first floors were in most instances on a level with the water. The l ay, when morning broke, presented an unusual appearance. The strong southwest wind prevailing produced B, sea that small crafts were unable to weather. Along the shores of the bay great clouds of spray dashed high in the air, and at vantage points of view crowds' . of spectators congregated to watch the magnificent spectacle. Reports by incoming steamboats from the surrounding localities and resorts show that the storm has played havoc with small sailing craft, and that the shores are strewn with wrecks of schooners-, yachts and tugs. The tugboat George M. Prey, in the service of the government, and engaged in surveying, is ashore on the South Atlantic Highlands. The fate of her erew is unknown. The schoimer yacht Tel fen; owned by W. A; Parry, of Philadelphia, is ashore near the railroad lock at Atlantic Highlands, and is full of water and brefakr ing up. The yacht Brendai is ashore at the same place, and seven or eight other yachts, the names of which can not be ascertained, are badly damaged, spars gone and full of water. The schooner W. W. Story was picked up in the lower bay by a tug; completely dismantled, i Along the shore at Tompkinsville a number of ynchts and schooners ait ashore. ** ' The bark Advance, lying-off Liberty island, dragged her anchors and went ashore on the island.

The Storun on Lons' Inland. Nkw York. Aug. 25.—Last night’sstorm on Long Island was. very severe and caused a great deal of damage from Brooklyn to the eastern end of the island. Thousands of trees fell before the fury of the gale, forty houses and small building were destroyed and fences were-leveled in. all directions. Crops, in many sections oft the island are ruined. The storm, was. particularly severe on the south side. At Freeport several yachts aotl a number of small boats were washed ashore. The tide was so high that the streets were flooded to the- depth of a foot. . Oyster floats were ruined b.y being cast from, their anchorage, and several persons, are missing. Vessels ami Their Crws I*ost. New York, Aug. 25.—The fishing schooner Empire State, with a crew of ten men, and the Ella M. Johnson, with a cre-w of eight men, went down Wednesday night oft the Jersey coast and all board were lost These two vessels were in company with the Chocorua last Wednesday at midnight, when the storm struck them, and after beating around all night in some of the worst weather ever known off the coast, and with a loss of her captain and first mate, the ChOoorua tied up at 4:30 to-day the only survivor of the three.

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