Show tur columbus kentucky explains mily mr HENRY WATTERSON kasnot nas not at the thurman banquet it sas ais lie had its his prepared and was anxious anous to attend but tile tho committee having charro charge ot of tho the celebration put aim down as tho the last sj speaker caler of tile evening mr would not have and hence he kept away we are arc glad that thatis if this Is true lie ho look the courso course ho he did because tile cli chances ances are five to one that his speech would havo have boon the most aunt brilliant of tho the evening this the chances chance are 11 ne as to one that outside onla lilo of 0 the old roman lie ho was a brighter man mail than there wis was in that hall that night furthermore lie stood for a vili which fich has at tills till time more moio significance than any other profession tit in the united slates which blob makes inore great men thin than all tho the other factories a cloncs for or making great rut mi it can call turn out lla it to his own al dignity lit in tile the first place to ro re fuso to accept tile the in the second place ho he owed it to his profession the newspaper men the country over will in their hearts heart it i not with lips or pens congratulate the great editor of tho the courter co that lie ho consent to bo be second fiddle lit in an orchestra composed mostly of hot houis its and drums IT 1 not good to send a cable to this country front from london that tho the prince of wales hn hew quarreled u tit ills ilia enoth or be because causo ot of tile attentions to the wife ot of au all american who ili 1 public estimation Is a little off color lor for tile the prince to motive the americal Ameri cai at all sho lie would have to bo be of some consi quence every american woman of now in fit 1 angland Is known on this side which Is a the Par particular cular lady is who ito Is receiving the attentions of tile the prince to the horror of his respected mother Is it mrs barown Ui row mrs mrs SMITH or mr Rota rits such saida a depatch ought not to bo be sent because while tile the chances aro are one hundred to ono one that it la 18 nut not anal to auy onu woman it Is that it la 13 an to every other oilier american lady mho ever ro re coves tile lionor honor of attending a queens reception lon tho the bt best way wo ue belle bellec us for almost all Amor leall aai ladies would bu bo not to I 1 lu e ache thu tho direct ot of thu the of 0 waleri THE now new york Is responsible lop for the assert assertion fors that professor SULLIVAN at 81 first had greatt great difficulty in carrying through his role in tha tho place m bore tho the tolls cells him that she can call nov orbal ba ills his and the iho business tit if tho the play demands that lie ho put ills his hands over ills hia evoe and take three steps backward it as it if stunned it Is said the iho professor could not so much forgot forget ills hla former profession as to perform tile tho apparently simple act without instinctively looking loo klui around for tho the ropes but tho the tribune denies tile the assert fay 11 mi lidil do by somo some envious artist that th tho a professor was unable to play anle ss ho be could see a aman man sitting billing in tho the flags mleh ilia a candea pall a bottle and a sp sponge 0 D go and declares that that story Is a la asso 8 10 slander started by pro professional fess loual rivals aw AN eastern paper eulogizing tho the lato late mr AUGUST Au T says no A always contributed liberally to tho the democratic campaign fund fluid trial and adds that tho the ambition of his bis life was waa that his only son lion peany BELMONT should bo secretary t state slate and with that end lit in view mr lair BI LMONT made a re rc mark kahlo ablo and splendid effort forler tor mr to A splendid effort for a banker to lit in politics as a rule la Is to untie his purse strings or la ia political to break out tho the head ot of its barrel it 14 I 1 not that mr DELsi oNT expended a largo amount ol of money in now york Is it to try and carry t that hat tor for clr clevelano according to mr 8 own theory there tharo should he be no use mado ot money in elections except to boar bear the hie ex 0 sots 0 n campaign cani palen does docs legitt legitimate to ex expenses include such means A as may bo nece necessary sury to change tile tho opinions opinion of certain gent gentlemen louten who havo have no fixed principles aud and who on oft election on d day arc r willing to bo be influenced tho the statement ment as it compass comes has a bad look tor for the perfect purity of 0 tho the ball ballot ot elm in n so some m e ot of tho the doubtful districts it in N now Y york 0 rk CY city then had mr CLEVEL b been eon az elected would lie have made ills his secretary ot of state wo havo been ton told that ilia t tho the e price ot of carpets w would hn be advance dl perhaps as 3 much as SO 10 per cent through tile the action ot of tho the mckenley ileX triley bill when the duty was grit first jorged on carpets car pota ordinary brussels Bruhs cla carpets wen 3 retailed in tho the east at from 12 per ier upward this year they have bavo fallen alien below st sl tho the prices of fino fine foreign carpets I 1 like axminster and because ol of the tha tit in america Amerl cn which wits was mado made possible pos by tho the tariff havo have fallan alinn 60 per cent in value we must not judge hastily the tariff has hai mado made m a good many things cheaper lit in this country than they over ever would have bare boon without it for in 1 1860 SOO we imported all our shoot sheet iron and paid from 7 to 0 cents per pound for it bill bat a tariff was put upon it and the same wall wont went up that Is now being sounded over tho the tariff on an tin till plate and now wo we mako make all our sheet iron and in the east it costs less than halt half what it cost in I 1 1800 T tho lie I 1 new ew tariff will como come pretty nearly vindicating itself dur during ri ng I 1 the 0 next two years now york asserts that all american railroad stocks which were told held in europe throe three months ago have been returned to this country slid and adds it misfortune now overtakes the forel foreign g flour bourdes bourses Bo sest they will bo be to tn ro go tt it alone so tar far ns as so no aro concerned wo have taken back all our stocks and future liquidation bo be for some one OHO else tonal toan americans jt it does not scorn secre possible that abo above can bo be true our railroad stocks in the united states must amount to quite or one third more inore than our national debt was at tho the cloro of the war it does docs not possible pos that this tremendous amount can all bo held in this country but if it Is then it Is true that already all other nations of tho the world aro are second class compared to ours caurs |