WORLDS FAIR FAR BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
Verdict of a New York Writer Who Spent a
Exposition at St Louis in July
Tho Worlds Fair at St Louis Is
low in Iho midst of its splendid sea
ion Colossal complete cosmopoli
ian it commands the attention of tho
jyorld as no other enterprise of the
present year From all nations there
iro pilgrims coming to this shrine
md from all our states and territories
hero is a constantly growing throng
f visitors United States Senators
Sovernors of States men eminent in
science art and letters all express
mqualifled admiration for the Exposl
ion and free acquiescence in the oft
epeated statement that this is by far
he greatest and best universal expo
sition ever held
During July a well known magazine
and newspaper writer from New York
Mr Addison Steele spent a week at
Hie Worlds Fair inspecting the
grounds buildings and various attrac
ions as thoroughly as was possible in
hat limited period Returning home
Mr Steele published in Brooklyn
Life tho following appreciative com
ments on the Exposition
In tho expressive language of tho
cay St Louis has the goods I had
expected much of the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition for I had kept in
touch with the making of it from its
very inception five years ago but
nfter nearly a week of journeying
through this new wonderland I must
confess that in every essential par
ticular it is far beyond my expecta
tions The biggest and best it was
meant to be and the biggest and best
Thousands of Negatives Made For
Millionaire August Belrnont
Among rich American perhaps
none is so fond of being photographed
as August Belmont James R Keene
being a close second One New York
photographer whose patrons are most
ly wealthy men has made thousands
of negatives for Mr Belmont in the
last few years 0n3 of the largest
smgle orders for prints from old nega
tives ever received by this photog
rapher came from Mr Belmont himself
soon after the death of his wife It
Included a good print from every nega
tive in whicb Mrs Belmont appeared
The photographer never guessed how
many photographs he had taken for
Belmont till then he found that they
numbered nearly a thousand
Why Birds Live Long
Why do birds live so much longer
than mammals which are often a hun
dred times their size Possibly among
other things because they have beaks
instead of teeth All carnivorous
beasts become weak and liable to star
vation as their teeth drop out or
break Neither are the herbivorous
animals in much better case Old
horses would probably die of starva
tion if wild for their teeth would fail
them indeed in some stony countries
old horses have to be killed because
their teeth are worn away by cropping
grass close to the rock Rodents con
stantly die from injuries to teeth But
a birds beak neither wears out nor
drops off and as it constantly swal
lows fresh grit to aid in grinding food
in the gizzard that needs no repairing
cither
ent parts do justice to their nobility
of architecture and general grandeur
Then again in the ground plans and
birds eye sketches the only possible
manner of showing it the tan shaped
arrangement of this group looked stiff
and unsatisfying Far from that it is
quite as remarkable in Its way as the
famous Court of Honor of the Colum
bian Exposition In one respect it is
even more notablq for instead of two
gifand vistas it offers a dozen The
main vista is of course the one look
ing up the Plaza of St Louis whose
crowning feature is the great Louisi
ana Purchase Monument and across
the Grand Basin to the Cascade Gar
dens On the right are the Varied In
dustries and Electricity buildings and
on the left Manufacturers and Edu
cation these with Transportation and
Machinery still further to the right
and Liberal Arts and Mines beyond
at the left making up the body of the
fan For its handle the fan has the
Cascade Gardens rising in a grand
terrace to a height of sixty five feet
above the floor level of the buildings
mentioned and crowned by the great
Festival Hall the Terrace of States
and the East and West Pavilions and
the Fine Arts building directly behind
The Pike has in the Tyrolean Alps
the finest concession that I have ever
seen There is a great square with
many quaint buildings a little village
ttreet and above the snow clad moun
tains which look very real as the
evening falls The best scenic rail
road yet devised affords several fine
glimpses of the Alps and there is a
very graphic exposition of the Ober
ammergau passion play in the little
church The Cliff Dwellers conces
sion alsoslooks very realistic at night
fall It is elaborate in arrangement
and the courting snake and other
dances by the Southwestern Indians
make it another of the Pike shows
which should be taken in by all In
Seville there is an amusing marionette
theater and some genuine Spanish
dancing For the rest the Pike offers
How the Waiter Lost a Tip
At one of the Kansas City hotels
where the colored waiters give espe
cially good service but always expect
adequate remuneration for the same
from the guests a waiter was espe
cially officious the other day in serv
ing a man from whom he expected a
liberal tip When the meal had been
served and he was standing off at one
Sde eagerly looking for an opportu
nity to be of service he said to the
guest
Didnt yo have a brothah heah last
week sah
No said the one addressed I be
lieve not
Well continued the waiter theh
was a gemman heah at mah table
what looked vey much like you and
he was so well pleased with the serv
ice that he gave me 50 cents when he
left
The guest had by this time finished
his meal and as he arose he said to
the expectant servitor
Come to think of it Sam that was
my brother that was here and I guess
he paid you for the whole family He
may be back again in a week or two
Kansas City Journal
Church and School for Indians
Mother Katherine Drexel of Phila
delphia founder and head of the Or
der of the Blessed Sacrament com
posed of nuns who devote their lives
to the uplifting of the Indian and ne
gro has offered 500000 of her own
private fortune with which to build
a church and- school for the Indians
of the Winnebago Neb reservation
The only condition is that the Indians
consent and this Father Schell of
Fjmr Neb has obtained
Week at the
irfinhe variety and as a rule tho full
moneys worth is given Tho enor
mous Jerusalem and Boer War con
cessions are not on the Pike
It is a case of dine at the German
Pavilion and die at the exposition In
a beautiful Moderne Kunst building
adjoining Das Deutsche Haus the best
fcod and the highest prices on the
grounds are to be found tho table
dhote lunch and dinner costing two
and three dollars respectively There
is also a la carte -service Everything
considered the prices are not exces
sive and at least one meal should be
taken there for the experience An
other should be taken at the Tyrolean
Alps either outdoors or in the gor
geous dining room in the mountain
side The best French restaurant is
at Paris on the Pike Lower in prices
and in every way admirable are the
two restaurants conducted by Mrs
Rorer in the pavilions of Cascade
Gardens The east one has wait
resses and no beer and the west one
waiters and beer For a bit of lunch
Germany France and England all
offer delicious pastry in the Agrlcul
Ural building These are not free
ads but time saving tips for the trav
eler There are no end of restaurants
to fit all purses on the grounds I
tried nine of them and nowhere found
the prices more than they ought to be
As a matter of fact for neither food
tor lodging no one need pay any more
ac St Louis than he feels that he can
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It is The exposition rumors notwith
standing quite finished
r
One of the greatest and certainly
one of the most agreeable of my many
surprises was the extreme beauty of
the main group of buildings For the
simple reason that the camera does
pot exist which could take in the
vast picture as the eye sees it the
early views of the group a bit here
and a bit there gave a scant idea of
the scheme as a whole Nor did the
early views of the ten individual
buildings which make up its
HAS FAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHS
afford and yet be well fed and housed
it he will use ordinary common sense
in making a selection out of the
abundance offered
Hot Yes but on the two hottest
days of the summer at St Louis I
suffered no more from the heat than
in New York before leaving and after
returning Every day of the seven
there was a breeze at the fair grounds
and it was always possible to find a
shady spot The nights were cool and
comfortable
ADDISON STEELE
SETJTHEM ON EACH OTHER
Belligerent Callers Fooled by Quick
witted Newspaper Man
Representative Brqwnlow of Ten
nessee tells that once he was running
a country paper during campaign
times and was printing fighting
language every week One day just
after the paper was out a big man
armed with a club walked into the
sanctum and fiercely inquired if the
editor was in The frightened Brown
low had wit enough to answer that he
was not but that he would go out
and hunt him up He started for the
street and at the foot of the stairs
met another irate fellow who asked
Will I find the editor of this dirty
sheet upstairs Yes said Brown
low hes up there at his desk just
itching for a fight The second man
went up and Brownlow disappeared
Which whipped the other is not re
lated and Brownlow didnt go back
during the day to find out
Ancient Phases Corrupted
Ancient Picts in England were
called by the Celtic word pehta or
fighters This was Latinized into Pic
ti So too Barbary of the ancient
maps is a monument to the miscalling
of the Berber tribe by the Greek word
signifying barbarian Even the leg
end of the victory of Guy of Warwick
over the dun cow is assailed by ruth
less etymologists who insist upon its
derivation from his conquest over the
Dena gau or Danish settlement at
the champions gates The Celtic
words alt maen are responsible for
many old man crags upon sea coasts
and among mountains They mean
however high rock
ttm iWiyxi
rHEYDKAW THE LINE
DEMOCRATS MAKE THE MAIN IS
SUE PLAIN
By Declaring in Their Platform That
Protection Is Robbery They De-
dare Anew That They Are Wedded
to the Doctrine of Free Trade
The Democratic party in national
convention has declared that protec
tion is robbery of the many t6 enrich
the few The Republican party in
national convention has declared its
belief in and support of protection as
essential to the prosperity of the
American people
Practically all of tho issues men
tioned in the platforms of the great
parties this year will have little con
sideration in the campaign except this
squarely drawn line of difference be
tween them on this elementary prin
ciple in the economic policy of the
American republic It will be useless
for the leaders of the Democratic par
ty to attempt to make an issue over
alleged violations of principles of the
United States Constitution by Presi
dent Roosevelt and his party when it
is a fact perfectly apparent to all
thoughtful American citizens that the
complaints made by the Democrats in
respect to these alleged issues have no
real foundation In an attempt to get
away from the overpowering influence
of sweeping defeat in two great na
tional campaigns on the issue of the
monetary standard the Democratic
party through its delegates in nation
al convention assembled has by elect
ing to maintain absolute silence on
the subject of the money question
sought to eliminate that question from
among the issues to be discussed dur
ing the campaign With so many still
unsettled problems intimately associ
ated with the financial system such
as national banks of issue and pro
visions for increasing the monetary
supply it seems incredible that a par
ty which casts six and a half million
votes in a national campaign only four
years ago while declaring against the
single gold standard should so far
admit defeat on that question as to
desire that there shall be no further
discussion of it But whether the par
ty shall be successful in this attempt
to evade an issue which its leaders
forced upon the country during two
national campaigns remains to be
seen At this time when there is dis
cussion of the question whether the
tariff law of the United States shall
be revised and when that revision
shall be made it certainly becomes a
paramount issue in the campaign when
the two parties are lined up with for
mal declarations the Republican party
for and the Democratic party against
the doctrine of protection
In its course upon the money ques
tion the Democratic party in national
convention at different times during
the past fifteen years has made decla
rations positive and unequivocal at
one time to be followed by evasion
equivocation and silence at other
times The party has heretofore de
clared that the principle of protection
which has been the fundamental prin
ciple underlying every tariff act since
the first tariff law was signed by
George Washington is an unconstitu
tional principle and directly hostile
to the basic law of the republic In
its platform declaration this year the
Democratic party does not say that
protection is unconstitutional but vio
lently assails it as robbery Surely
it would seem that a principle of gov
ernment or of taxation that is sub
ject to denunciation as severe as
would be applied to a criminal offense
consisting of one person violently tak
ing the property of another must not
only be unconstitutional but de
serves to be uprooted from the law of
theland without the slightest hesita
tion
The Republican party declared in
its platform at Chicago its faith in and
support of protection as essential to
the prosperity of the American people
The Republican party in that platform
recognized the present public discus
sion of tariff revision to the extent of
saying that changes in the tariff
should be made Avhenever the good
to be derived from such action would
not be overbalanced by the evils which
might flow from the agitation inci
dent to such changes What was more
important in connection with the tar
iff issue of the time was the formal
declaration in the Republican plat
form that when changes in the tariff
are made the work should be intrust
ed to the friends of protection not to
the enemies of protection It is the
belief of protectionists that the ex
perience of the American people un
der the revision of the tariff made by
the Democratic party in 1894 which
was attended by great industrial dis
asterthe closing of mills and facto
ries and the throwing of thousands
of men out of employment and caus
ing widespread loss to American
workingmen in reduction of wages as
well as in loss of employment war
rants them in saying that when the
tariff is to be revised it should not
be revised by the Democratic party
That the Republican party will read
just the tariff when it is necessary
and do it upon protection lines is
demonstrated by the experience of
the past
The Republican party has never hes
itated to undertake readjustment
when in its judgment changes in the
tariff schedules were necessary or de
sirable The Republican party in
May 1S60 introduced what is known
as the Morrill tariff bill as a purely
protective measure and it was passed
ten months later and signed by Pres
ident Buchanan two days before the
Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln As
a check upon foreign importations and
the outward flow of gold to pay for
them as a stimulus to domestic pro
w
duction and as a producer of rovenuo
to defray tho expenses of the War of
tho Rebellion the first tariff law
passed by the Republican party proved
itself of incalculable benefit to the
country
The Republican party readjusted
the tariff downward in 1872 and again
in 1883 for the purpose of correcting
some Inequalities The results of theso
downward readjustments were far
from satisfactory
The Republican party readjusted
the tariff upward in 1890 and in con
sequence the country entered upon a
new era of prosperity
Once more in 1897 the Republican
party readjusted the tariff upward in
order to correct the gross inequalities
and disaster producing features of tho
Democratic tariff readjustment of
1S94 and forthwith followed a period
or prosperity far exceeding anything
previously known in the worlds his
tory
Through all those years of tariff re
vision and modification the position
of the Republican party has consist
ently been in favor of a tariff law em
bodying the essential principles of pro
tection Through all those years the
Democratic party has opposed protec
tion and in the only period of Demo
cratic control in all branches of the
Federal government that party re
vised the tariff upon lines that ig
nored as far as possible the princi
ples of protection Here is presented
therefore in a few words the records
of the two parties during the past for
ty years The Republican party has
revised and modified the tariff when
such action was necessary either to
increase the Federal revenues or to
correct inequalities of the law The
Democratic party when entrusted
with power revised the tariff upon
non protection lines and in the sched
ules of the law which it passed re
fused protection to some of the most
important industries in the United
States the factory the mine and the
farm In every instance when the
Republican party made a tariff law
the industries of the country were
quickened intojiew life capital found
ready investment and workingmen re
ceived increased opportunities for em
ployment at increased and increasing
wages When the Democratic tariff
act of 1894 was passed it was followed
by greater competition from the prod
ucts of foreign lands with the result
that domestic industries were crip
pled and a million workingmen in
this country were either thrown out
of employment or their wages were
greatly reduced
Admitting for the purpose of argu
ment that the time may come when
the tariff law of the United States
should be modified in order that any
inequalities it contains may be cor
rected and its schedules made to con
form to altered conditions the ques
tion which will confront every voter
in the coming campaign is whether
such changes in the tariff shall be
made by the Republican party the
friend and supporter of protection or
by the Democratic party which op
poses protection and declares it to be
robbery
It would seem from this statement
of the situation which is an accurate
statement borne out by the facts ol
history and the experiences of men in
this country during very recent years
that the efforts of the Democratic par
ty in its national platform to meet
the tariff issue with the plain declar
ation that protection is robbery
and at the same time attempt to sugar
coat those powerful and significant
words with the suggestion that the
tariff be gradually reduced togeth
er with the for-revenue-only stipu
lation that the tariff be limited to the
needs of the government cannot but
be regarded by thoughtful people
everywhere as a covert attempt of
the party to mislead the people into
striking a blow at protection under
the claim that the blow will not be
permitted to do harm
The effort of the Democrats to dis
guise their purpose in assaulting pro
tection will not be successful The
American people are in favor of pro
tection They will not entrust the
making of a tariff law to a political
party that is opposed to protection
As Aell might the American people
have invited Mr Bryan in 189G or in
1900 to make and execute a law estab
ishing the gold standard as to invito
the Democratic party under Judge
Parker on a platform that declares
protection to be robbery to make a
tariff law that shall protect American
industries and American labor
Why Gradual
In one sentence denouncing protec
tion as robbery almost the next
phrase of the Democratic platform
guarantees the gradual revision of
the existing protective tariff Whats
that Protection a robbery that is to
be corrected gradually It is as
though a thief caught red handed
stood in the prisoners dock to be thus
addressed by the judge
I find you sir convicted of picking
pockets The sentence of this court is
that you gradually revise your thiev
ish propensity and that you diminish
the number of pockets picked from
day to day and from week to week
until finally you will cease altogether
to pick pockets You may go
If it be true that protection is rob
bery then there should be nothing
gradual about suppressing the fel
onious policy It ought to be instantlj
stopped If it be not true as everj
person of common intelligence knows
it is not but if protection is on the
contrary a system and a policy undei
which millions of homes have been
made happier and our country has
gained the foremost place among all
the nations of the world then the
Democratic party should be held un
worthy of confidence and unfit to
undertake the management of national
affairs And that is what is going tc
happen
ITS GrLGKIES ENDED
FAMOUS NEW YORK HOSTELRY
FORCED TO CLOSE
Old Morton House Where Statesmen
Politicians Actors Professional and
Business Men Were Wont to Gather
Is No More
Subways and tunnels which are re
ported to have proved blessings for
Boston hotels have bepn the ruin of
the Morton house one of Nov Yorks
oldest hotels and at one time one of
the citys best paying properties The
house has gone into a receivers hands
the employes havo scattered and tho
man who ran the hotel until the un
deground route of travel ran them and
ihe hostelry under tho ground too
f ay that no hotel -man will tacklo tho
job of running the old house when so
many new ones aro going up
Nugent Jackson who ran tho ho
tel until forced into bankruptcy say
the tunnel ruined them With tho
blasting and the dirt coming in
through the windows for the past three
years they couldnt keep their patrons
Things went from bad to worse and
the hotel for which Grover Cleveland
had once signed an application for a
1quor license and whero James G
Blaine and other famous men could
always be found when in town is now
hardly a memory
The furnishings of the hotel were
sold at a receivers sale a few days
ago The night before the sale there
was a wake at the old house Some
of the old time patrons of the house
were there and had things to eat and
drink The gathering was called to
clean out the food supply but the par
ty was far from cheerful Every one
felt that it was a solemn occasion this
parting with an old stand by
James Morton became the manager
of the hotel in G8 The name of the
house was then changed to that of
the manager
Morton was a congenial man and
very popular His house became the
stopping place of all the men of note
Chester A Arthur was often there
The late James G Blaine could be
found there too when in town Les
ter Wallack was then in the height of
his glory and Shed Shook and A M
Palmer were enjoying theirs Every
body of any consequence went to the
Morton house Politicians profes
sional men and actors rubbed elbows
at the bar
When Morton took charge he of
course had to have a license to sell
liquor The city had its own excise
bureau then and there was little for
mality about obtaining a license All
that was necessary was for the appli
cant to notify the excise board that he
wanted a license and they sent a no
tary to him to swear to the applica
tion It was necessary to have twe
witnesses as a sort of recommenda
tion but that was all
When the notary appeared Morton
failed to have his two witnesses on
hand to sign the application In
fact he didnt know the witnesses
were needed and he expressed some
surprise His remark was overheard
by a heavily built man vho happened
to come into his office
Whats the matter Jim said the
newcomer
Why I want a witness to this doc
ument said Morton
Ill sign it said the newcomer
He grabbed a pen and affixed the
name Grover Cleveland Mr Cleve
land was then mayor of Buffalo and
r patron of the old hotel as well as a
friend of its manager
The Dulcimer
Tho loaves were blowing red and brown
Beneath the beech trees bare
When the Dark ilaid came to our town
With gold pins in her hair
Her eves were like a forest pool
Her lips they were po sweet
Everv man put abide his tool
To watch her down the street
The leaves were blowing- yellow and
Tn the waning of the moon
When the Dirk Maid came along the
way
With shoon
Ier mantle fell like folds of mist
That rift and shift and change
Wns never wandering lutanist
That played a tune so strange
The leaves were blowing crimson and
geld
The wind was like a sigh
That sobs across a ferny wold
Befoie the raindrops lly
And none beheld her whence she came
Or knew the way she went
Our hearts being stirred to smouldering
flame
Of tenderest discontent
The leaves were blowing ash and dun
Athwart the edge of night
When the Dark Maid toward the setting
sun
Sang herself out of sight
And every man from marvel roused
Took up his toil again
How should that fairy joy be housed
In homes of mortal men
Ent still against a singing wind
In dreams we follow her
The Dark Maid never looks behind
That plays the dulcimer
May Byron in The Spectator
The Summer Resort Widow
The widow said I W Read of
Nashville furnishes the most de
lightful study to the observer of the
tricks and maners of human beings
One summer he continued in a
ruminating manner I was spending
some time at White Sulphur Springs
Va I only tell this as an illustration
of the acumen and intelligence of the
genus widow and one afternoon a
handsome young woman and her little
six-year-old son sat near me on the
veranda The little fellow trotted upr
to me and I patted him on the head
Whats your name he asked
I told him
Is you married he lisped
No Im not I replied
Then the child paused a moment
and turning to his mother said
Mamma what else did you tell ma
to ask him Louisville Herald
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