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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNE8DAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1904.
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OEORCJE B. TZ9CHUCK.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me tnla 81st day of August, 1904.
(Seal.; N. B. HUNGATE,
Notary Public.
Doughs county commissioners will do
well hereafter to carry on negotlntlons
for the stile or purchase of bonds direct
Instead of paying commissions to middle
There Is a well defined rumor that the
floutu Omaha $100,000 city hall bond
petitions were Improvised In the interest
of real estate agents and land specu
lators. Chairman Cortelyou will never be sure
of success in tills cnmpnlgn until dem
ocratic cartoonists make him a suit of
clothes covered all over with dollar
uinrks.
Candidate Tibbies did not propose to
be tho last candidate to Issue n letter of
acceptance. And now that the Nebrns
kan has spoken, Candidate Davis can
begin work on his letter.
Uncle Sam's weather bureau an
nounces that the Nebraska corn Is out
of the way of' the frost. Two-dollar
wheat predictions will now have no ter
rors for the Nebraska farmer.
King Peter of Servia has received a
friendly letter from the czar. When a
man Is sitting on a barrel of dynamite
be cannot afford to be too severe upon
another fellow in a similar predicament
Secretary Shaw opens the national
campaign in this city at Boyd's theater
this evening. Everyone who wants
to hear the Issues of the campaign in
telligently presented should arrange to
attend.
"High finance" has ltd purposes no
doubt, or how could Charles M. Schwab,
chief promoter In the bankrupt United
States Shipbuilding company, have so
much to say about the disposition of the
assets.
The Nebraska supreme court Is In ses
sion again for its fall term, but the
judges of our district Court here will re
quire several weeks longer to recuperate
from the exhausting strain of their sum
mer vacatious.
The Japanese have resumed their at
tack upon Port Arthur. This seems to
be the Japanese method of keeping their
oldlers In practice while waiting for
Kouropatkin, to get ready for another
forced march
Perhaps the commanders of the Rus
sian ships said to be cruising near the
California coast are waiting to see how
Captain Itorllnsky likes the clluiute be
fore Adopting a plau for the disposition
of their vessels.
Iloth candidates for governor on op
posing tickets in Nebraska having run
the gauntlet of his royal highness, Kin
Ak-Mur-tion. we may take It for grunted
that the issue of imperialism Is burred
from the state campaign.
Ohio democrats are clamoring for
Itryun ro come to that state. Possibly
the local .leaders are seeking for some
one to help bear the weight of the merci
less republican majority which Ohio Is
sure to. roll up again this full.
If Commander Peary Is really anxious
to do good service ir the north be
might tell Mr. Zelgler bow to reach
Trans Joseph's land with relief for the
America, whose crew must by this time
be longing for the pleasures of home. '
The populist national committee an
nounces that it will huve presldcntln.l
electors in the flcld in all but two state
of the union this year. It does not ven
ture, however, to prognosticate how
hiany of them will come within gunshot
of election.
Edgar Howard kmb that there Is a
man lit Columbus who spends mo much
of his time preaching the doctrine of po
litical cleanliness that he finds no time
In which to clean the filthy weeds off the
street In front of his residence. Wo
have sputa X them in Omaha, toa
. IMS COTTON INDUSTRY.
The cotton ludustry of the United
States Is not In as favorable a condi
tion as could be desired. For a year or
more past, owing to the speculative ad
vume In the price of the raw material,
there hns been a very material falling
off In cotton manufactures and this
has Wen aggravated by strikes. For
the past two months the cotton Industry
in Fall River has been practically stag
nant because of trouble between the
operators and the employes and the con
troversy Is not yet ended, although there
is a promise of an early settlement. The
loss to both sides has been very con
siderable. The cotton Industry conditions are not
at present altogether satisfactory, either
In this country or abroad, and as this In
terest Is one of very great importance
those who are concerned in it are very
eagerly seeking a means to Improve the
situation. Southern bankers, at a re
cent meeting, had under consideration a
plan to bring about closer relations be
tween the foreign cotton spinners and
Interests and the southern cotton men.
A i resolution wss adopted favoring a
visit to this country of the cotton man
ufacturers of Europe with a view to
making a personal study of the cotton
growing and manufacturing possibilities
of the south and the earnest hope was
expressed that the spinners of Europe
would visit this country this fall and
look Into conditions here.
British cotton interests, which consti
tute a vefy large part of the industries
of the United Kingdom, are profoundly
Interested In the cotton situation in this
country. The extraordinary price to
which the staple has been carried within
the past year, due to a decrease In the
crop and to speculation, has had a most
depressing Influence upon the Industry
In England. The industry In the cotton
districts of that country has suffered se
verely and the accounts from there show
that there is greater distress than has
existed for many years, while the out
look Is most dlscouroglng. A similar con
dition of affairs exists on the continent,
though less serious than in England.
In these circumstances the countries
abroad that manufacture cotton are na
turally planning to get supplies from
other sources than the United States,
f Jrent Britain. Germany and France are
endeavoring to promote t,he growth of
cotton In their several colonies and or
ganizations with this In view exist in
all those countries. Some progress
has been made In this direction, but the
fact remnlns that nowhere can a grade
of cotton be produced equal to the best
quality of the American product, so that
this country, judging from all experi
ments thus far. will continue to hold
primacy as the cotton producing coun
try. It Is possible that Cuba will some
time come Into rivalry with us, but
there Is not much danger to our suprem
acy from that source. Industrially con
sidered, the cotton question Is mani
festly one of very considerable lnpor
tance and It Is apparent that this Is
fully appreciated by the? people of the
south. v -V
THE MAN WITH A PLATFORM.
In these degenerate days of slippery
politicians, political dodgers and fence
riders, It is exhilarating to find a candi
date for office who has opinions on pub
lic issues and has the backbone to make
them known to all men. Such a man is
J. H . Dundas, editor of the Auburn
Granger, who has built a platform of
his own on which he Is willing to stand
or fall as a candidate for the state sen
ate. That all the voters of the Second
senatorial district may know Just where
he stands on the questions of the day
Mr. Dundas submits over his own name
the following declaration:
Regarding the campaign fund as more
often n corruption fund than otherwise, I
will neither contribute to such afund nor
ask others to do ao.
Regarding anything in the nature of a
campaign present dr a treat aa to some ex
tent a bribe, or a proceeding by which a
cnndldate places himself under obligations
to the voters, I will not countenance auch
doings.
Regarding a free pass in the pocket of
an official as value that might tend to bias
such officer In the discharge of official duty,
I oppose the free pass practice.
Believing that the secret lobby Is a great
menace to honest legislation, I would de
mand that while both sides be heard before
the proper committee, or the whole body,
that the secret lobby be considered as
pirates In legislative halls and treated ac
cordingly. The practice of giving places In state In
stitutions to parties aa a reward for party
loyalty (which is often disloyalty to the In
terests of the state) la a practice repre
hensible and one that costs the state many
thousands of dollars, hence should be dis
continued. The provision of the state constitution
fixing salaries of state officials should be
adhered to in all cases.
The president of the senate and speaker
of the house and the chairman f the com
mittee on expenditures in each branch of
the legislature should be held to strict ac
count in the matter of approving claims
and not allow the state to lose many dol
lars by reason of the haate and carelessness
that may characterise the doings of these
officials.
The present law relative to the Inspection
Of oils Is of no practical value and costs the,
consumers of oil many thousands of dollars.
It should be repealed or amended and en
forced. About one dosen and six laws now on the
statute books are dead as the mummies of
Egypt and should be repealed that the ex
pense of publishing them again and again
may be saved to the state.
I am not In favor of the hasty and Incon
siderate repeal of the present revenue law,
but favor some amendment thereto.
As an aspirant for the Important office
named I will say that I have not the dis
position to go out to pack primaries or fix
delegate. Not time to make windy cam
paign speeches magnifying the cussednesa
of one party and minimising the cuisaedness
of the other. No time to spend kissing the
babies Uod bless 'eni. But If there I any
voter In the district who want to know
whether I am favorable to any measure he
can auk a specific question through the col
umns of the Oranger and thereto I wlU
give specific answer. v
And If any voter in the district wants to
read the Granger from this date to the
first day of December be can have Jt de
livered at his postofflc or bl mall box for
that length of time for S6 cents; five copies
to ih sum or different addresses for $1.
Whether this manifesto to the electors
,of the Second senatorial 'district 1 aim
ply a shrewd way of advertising bis
paper or whether It is promulgated In
earnest, the platform of Mr. Dundas
should commend Itself to candidates of
all parties who ask the voter of their
respective districts- to trust them with
the framing of their laws during the
Coming session of the legislature.
JVST1CK Tu TUt VETERANS.
The union veterans must understand
the present position of the democratic
party in regard to the order of Presi
dent Roosevelt In naming sixty-two
years as the minimum age at which dis
ability should be regarded as entitling a
veteran of the civil war to a pension.
The so-called Constitution club of New
York, composed of democratic lawyers,
has put forward as Its primary purpose
to show that in the order of the presi
dent of the United States making this
privilege for the veterans he hat gone
beyond his authority as the executive
and usurped power that belonged to con
gress. They undertake to show that
In this matter President Roosevelt has
exceeded bis authority and assumed
a practically autocratic position.
It Is impossible to conceive of a more
complete misrepresentation than this of
the president's position. As we have
already pointed out. the president in his
order regarding the modification of the
age limit was simply following out a
precedent that had been established by
the last democratic administration and
then accepted by the country as entirely
proper and absolutely consistent with
the law. There was no democratic ob
jection to the ruling by the Cleveland
administration In regard to the law then
in operation respecting the age limit ns
to disability for union veterans. The
rule established by the commissioner
of pensions under the Cleveland ad
ministration and approved by the presi
dent, was regarded at that time as per
fectly fair and Just and so undoubtedly
it was. But nobody regarded it os final.
It. was but the first order under a new
law which still afforded opportunity for
enlarging the scope of favor to the men
who had made their sacrifices in , the
cause of the union.
The republican party Is still the friend
of the men who fought to preserve the
union. It la still anxious to subserve
In every possible way the men who
made every sacrifice that patriots could
make In the service of their country. It
still recognizes and is willing to re
ward all the devotion and courage of
the soldiers who saved the union. Pres
ident Roosevelt Is In sympathy with this
policy and his order that has elicited
democratic objection attests the op
posing positions of the two parties.
South Omaha is now paying $3,500 a
year rent for Its accommodations for its
city officials and it Is argued that this
could be saved to the taxpayers by vot
ing bonds to build a city hall of Its own.
That reminds us forcibly of Howell's
humbug water primers, which show that
many cities in America which own their
water works pay nothing for hydrant
rental, while Omaha is paying $02,000 a
year. There Is no doubt that South
Omaha taxpayers would save $3,500 in
rent, but if they build a city hall of
their own they will pay $4,500 a year
at least In Interest on the city hall bonds
and then they will pay from $7,000 to
$7,500 for superintendent, Janitors, ele
vator men, engineers and firemen, fuel,
light and water, besides the cost of
keeping the building in repair, and they
will, moreover, lose the taxes now paid
on the lot on which the city would erect
the building. To be sure, the accom
modations would be much better vIt Is
also certain that $5,000 or $6,000 a year
would Insure much better accommoda
tions for the city offlclnls in South
Omaha than they now enjoy for $3,500
and there still would be a saving to the
taxpayers of at least $5,000 a year, not
counting the wear and tear of the build
ing. Down In Lincoln the agitation for a
new passenger depot has culminated In
the organization of' a terminal company
for tho purpose of erecting a union sta
tion for all of the railroads that enter
the city. The experience of every large
city Is that a union' station Jointly occu
pied has many advantages over separate
stations for each road. Omaha now has
two creditable passenger depots, but If
the money Invested had been put Into
one union station the public convenience
would have been greatly enhanced, to
say nothing of reducing the operating
expenses for tho rallronds. Another ad
vantage of a union station and terminals
owned and operated by a separate cor
poration would be that the taxes on this
valuable property could be levied and
collected exclusively by the local au
thorities Instead of being as now' almost
entirely evaded under pretense of dis
tribution over the whole length of the
line within the state borders. How to
get the rallronds to go into such a union
station, however, will be another prob
lem for the citizens of Lincoln to work
out in fact, the chances are more ob
stacles will be met In this direction than
in the quest of capital to finance the
undertaking.
Now that the Inspector of the National
Bureau of Electrical Fire Underwriters
has served notice upon Omaha that the
contention of the city electrician regard
ing the danger to property and life
caused by the electric lighting company's
prevailing system of wiring is substan
tially correct, it is to be hoped no
further obstacles will be placed In the
way of the enforcement of Mr. Michael
son's regulations.
If the United States doesn't look out
Panama and Colombia will be making
common cause against it, on the ground
that It will not permit third parties to
Interfere In the Panama canal deal.
Those ports of entry In the canal zone
may yet require a little International
diplomacy.
Somehow there is not that simulta
neous movement to the porch at Esopu
which was Men at Caatao la the cam-
palgn of 18ftfl. Americans who delight
In solving mysteries must be busy with
the puzzle departments of the comic
supplements.
Italian worklngmcn hare announced
that they would go on a strike for twen
ty-four hours In eight towns of the
country. This Is something novel in the
way of strikes. In this country the
strike usually lasts until someone Is
whipped.
'Russia la objecting to the ease with
which Great Britain secured a practical
protectorate over Thibet Compared
with Its own fliscd In Manchuria the
work of Great Britain shows the dif
ference between the amateur and the
expert.
Wha' the t't.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Russia ha apparently decided net to
have any more of her warship sunk. By
putting them out of commission in alien
porta she ran save them till the next war.
The question occurs. Will she be able to
hav any mora warT
Bankers Getting Wise.
New Tork Tribune.
Western banker who have been In coun
cil assembled In New York, declare that
they believe heartily In liberal advertising
of financial Institutions In newspapers.
Sensible student of the way to walk in
the paths of prosperity and progress!
Calm ThlnklnaT Supplant olae.
San Fransioo Chronicle.
There 1 a good deal of talk about the
present being an apathetic campaign, ft Is
chlelly based on observation of the fact
that noise and fustian are not In evluence:
but the days for these things have gone by.
Tho torchlight procession and uniform club
are becoming a thing of the p.tst, and four
years hence they will have disappeared en
tirely. They will cut little llgurv this
year.
Great Time for Deliberation.
Philadelphia Ledger.
W are advised by high medlc.il author
ity that the process of getting up in the
morning should be exceedingly gradual.
There should be a eerie of tentative ef
forts to get awake. Soma time should be
given to stretching the limbs and prolonged
yawning Is said to be a prophylactic
Jumping out of bed suddenly may produce
apoplexy. Nothing should be approached
with' more conscientious deliberation than
the act of getting up. Deliberation takes
time. Are we not told that everything
come to him who wait?
Spellbinder In Their Glory.'
Baltimore Ar erlcan.
The spellbinders' greatest days have now
arrived. They have gone to campaign
headquarters, gotten their assignments,
with the money they need, and their voices
will soon be heard In cities, towns, village
and 'at every cros roads. They will tell
the voters how to save the country from
ruin by following In the way they point
out. The pictures they will draw will be
In either the brightest or In the darkest
color, either all sunshine or all clouds.
They know their business, and have made
themselves masters of the art of stump
oratory. Welcome the spellbinders. May
their voices never fall to arouse voters and
to make a presidential campaign one of the
most picturesque features of our American
life.
Doctors, Editors and Charity.
Columbus Telegram.
At a meeting' of doctors in Lincoln re
cently one of "the speakers dwelt at length
upon the wonderful charity of the physi
cians. He said that If It were not for the
almost divine charity of the family doctors
the skeleton In many homes would be
paraded on the1' streets and the divorce
courts would bo compelled to work over
time. I guess that's so. , But, say, brother
doctor, did you ever stop Ao think that
sometimes considerable charity Is exercised
by the newspaper men? I am of opinion
that were It not for the sublime charity of
the newspaper men a large per cent of
doctors would find a pretty thorny path In
this world. Suppose the newspapers should
give wing to the wicked stories told by the
common herd aqout the doctors. It Is all
right for the doctors to be charitable.
Charity Is good, stuff. But many of the
doctors would appear In better light If they
would keep still about it.
Cortclj-on Maklnff Good.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
If there Is one notable feature of the na
tlonal campaign .up to date, aside from
democracy' appeal to Parker to do some
thing, It Is the complete obfuscation of the
critics of George Bruce Cortelyou, repub
lican national chairman. Led by Senator
Boles Penrose and a few of the senatorial
coterie of professional politicians, who love
to dominate national campaigns for well
known reasons, there was a bowl of disap
pointment when President Roosevelt se
lected Cortelyou for national chairman.
The smaller fry politicians who ape the
great one took up the cry that It was
ruinous to put a "novice" Into the saddle In
a vital campaign, but Mr. Roosevelt per
sisted and had his way. The results up to
date go to show that Mr. Cortelyou Is
neither a misfit nor a novice. He keeps
his own counsel and Impresses that fact
upon all who see him, but he also hustle
and seems to know how and where to ope
rate. Mr. Cortelyou' success In office has
bee.i the product of hard work and brains,
both of which faculties seem to be yet at
his command, confounding as the fact may
be to those critics who vocalised their fir
appolntment so strenuously at the Chicago
convention.
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.
Chicago New: Judge Parkeiuread his
entire letter of acceptance to Grandpa
Davis at one sitting, thereby affording the
country another proof of the veteran's ex
traordinary powers of endurance.
Washington Pot: Henry O. Davis says
he Is In New York for the purpose of get
ting In touch with the democratic leader.
That should start Tom Taggart to whistling
"It's a Shame to Take the Money."
Pltuburg Dispatch: Some mugwump pa
per and the entire St. Petersburg press
ar attacking Preeldent Roosevelt for hi
position on the Jewish passport question.
It Is regarded as settled that he will not
get any electoral votes from Russia.
Philadelphia Press: The democrat have
pictured the president a the man on hone
back, a the man with a big stick, and as
the man with a gun, but they ar keeping
strangely mum about the man with a pen.
That letter of acceptance I beyond their
power of characterization.
Nw York Tribune: Th terrible "war
lord" at Washington has missed a (m op
portunity to embroil thl country with Rua
la or Japan, or with both, In the Lena
affair. Such callous disregard of th neces
sities of the democratic campaign Is painful
to contemplate by democrats.
Minneapolis Journal: That will be a re
markable tour by Speaker Cannon during
the next six or seven weeks. , The wall
seasoned and vigorous old speaker of th
house, one of the most popular men In
America today, will start on a speech
making tour which will Include prsctlcally
very doubtful congressional district In th
country, and probably some other.
BOt "ID ABOUT HEW YORK.
Ripple on the Cnrrent of Life In the
Metropolis.
rive hundred thousand people In Greater
New Tork. living In so.Oo tenements, will
be directly affected by th new tenement
house law that goes Into effect October 1.
"If this law Is enforced," says the Brook
lyn Eagle, "It practically means the aboli
tion of the sweat shop the greatest menace
to life, health, morality and decency In th
congested home district of the working
clasae of the city. For mor than a quar
ter of a century th reformers have fought
this evil. Laws have been passed and
broken. Charges hav been made that offi
cials were lax. In turn the officials have
retorted that the laws were Inefficient.
Now the legislature hsa passed the most
drastic measure ever enacted In this or
any other couhtry. Its enforcement will
result In a revolution of tenements. By Its
provisions every sweat shop In th cities
of New York state may be swept out of
existence. Tenement house owners that
hitherto were seemingly out of the reach
of the officials are now under direct control
of th state government. Under the new
order of things there ..is no possibility of
evasion or quibble.
"Already the order has gone forth among
the districts wher these home manufac
tories sre fostered that the new law Is to
go Into fore, "filrty thousand circular
were sent out the other day by the Depart
ment of Labor of the State Bureau of Fac
tory Inspection to the manufacturers and
contractors. Another circular has been
prepared and will be sent this ' week to
every tenement house owner In Manhattan,
Brooklyn, the Bronx, Richmond and
Queens. In these circulars the new law Is
fully explained. It Is simple In Its pro
vision, requiring that the tenement house
Itselfthe building where the work Is done
not the worker, nor the manufacturer, nor
the contractor, is to be licensed. These
licenses must be obtained from the Depart
ment of Labor by the owner of buildings
and each building must have a separate
license. No license shall be granted unless
th building 1 approved by the Are, tene
ment house and health departments, and It
must be made clear that there Is no Infec
tious or contagious disease In It. And even
If It passes all these departments the fac
tory Inspectors may refuse to grant a
llcense'to a landlord If they ascertain that
the laws of cleanliness, ventilation or over
crowding ar not fully observed. Th law
gives a free rein to Inspectors."
One of the strangest colonies In the
United Statea. If not In the world, 1 cov
ered by the roof of a big apartment build
ing In Madison avenue. It Is made up of
nearly half a hundred physicians and sur
geons In private practice, and was brought
Into existence by the merest accident. It
happened one night that a big real estate
operstor could not, get Into communication
with a regular physician, try as he would,
and his failure to reach a physician nearly
resulted lh the death of his wife.
It set him to thinking, and from his
thinking was evolved a plan by which
many doctors could be gathered under one
roof 'and kept in constant touch with pa
tients by telephone both day and night.
The plan ha been In operation only
since last spring, but Its success Is already
so great as to indicate that the co-opera
tive idea has taken hold of the minds of
physicians aa strongly as the studio Idea
caught artists some years ago. There are
now buildings all over the city devoted ex
clusively to artists.
The building in which the physicians are
gathered Is known as the Sydenham, being
named after an eminent English practi
tioner. It la within a stone's throw of the
most aristocratic part of the city. Around
It ar the house of those to whom a phy
sician fee of $10,000 Is not a novelty.
The structure Is an Imposing seven-story
building In the style of a modern apart
ment house. Not a sign Is to be seen any
where, not even in the windows. Here are
some more Important rules:
No signs are permitted on the exterior of
the building or in the main hall.
No directory of tenants shall be exhibited
anywhere.
No employe shall recommend any ahvsl-
clan to a caller.
Every visitor must specify the Dhvslcian
desired.
No visitor Is permitted to wait In the
main hall, but must go direct to the main
parlor.
No sleeping In the building is permitted.
NO drugs of any kind whatsoever are. to
be sold In the building.
Two bankers attending the convention of
the American Bankers' association, neither j
wniiui naa oeen in new rork for sev
eral years before their present visit, were
discussing the city In the hotel lobby.
l ne crowds In the streets are gettlnc
thicker and thicker," said one of them. "I
was down there by the city hall, where the
newspapers are, last evening, Just before
dark, and I had to give up' trying to stick
to the sidewalk, and finally took to the
middle of the street. I find myself con
stantly Irritated as I go about town and
don't know what I am, getttlng so cross
about until I stop to think a minute. Then
I figure out that It la because of the con
stant elbowing and shoving snd trying to
get around people and having people
trampling on my heels. It's business, won
derful business. Likewise, It's hell, as
'Uncle Billy' Sherman said of war. If I had
to live In It a month I'd develop homicidal
insanity."
"And there's another thing about New
York street crowds," said the other banker.
"You notice that they are all rushing on
with set faces and a kfnd of a got-three-seconds-to-get-there-in
expression on their
face. But let the least thing happen In
the street and there are a thousand or so
right on th spot In three minutes, and all
of them have got tlm to burn, pparsntly.
They ought to be usd to seeing hole In
the street here by thl time, but every
hoi has frorn a dosen. to half a hundred
people staring down Into It though It
wer an astounding phenomenon. Queer
people, thee New Yorker."
Let thoee who arrive home In the wee
ma' hour and find themselves In that
ridiculously uncomfortable position of being
locsea out take Heart again. Her I a
reelp from a Nw York policeman, which
will enable any one to get Into hi houe.
It I th tru "open esam," although bn
trial of It Is likely to upset the entire
neighborhood. The recipe waa learned by
an unfortunate, who, after banging at th
front door of hi house and rattling tho
knob for nearly an hour, failed completely
to rouse a soul In the house. Then It was
that the policeman came along, and lh un
fortunate appealed to him.
The policeman waa first asked to stand
by, pie, while th young man forced a
window or broke a pan of glass.
"You needn't do oJther." the policeman
replied. "Just wait a mlnut. I'll show
you how to get them up."
He went a short distance down th block
to a place wher building material was
piled in the street, and there selected a
plank about five feat long. When he cm
back he walked Into th amall enclosure
before the house, and, standing very close
to th front wall, slapped th plank sharply
against It twlc.
"That'll help some. I think." he said.
It was to be hoped It would, because th
noise wa enough to arouse th neighbor
hood. "You ee," he went en, "that ort
of a blow aeta th whole house vibrating.
Th wall carry th eound, and you'll."
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At this point the front door was opened.
a head appeared, and this question was
asked In an awed voles':
"What, in heaven's name, waa that
noise?''
Special trains for the conveyance of ex
press matter are now In operation on the
elevated railroad lines. Following the gen
eral movemen for quicker transportation
facilities from the business section of the
city to upper Manhattan and the Bronx, an
arrangement to this effect has been reached
by the Interborough Rapid Transit com
pany snd tho United States Express com
pany. Heretofore th Metropolitan Street
Railway company, which controls the sur
face railroads, has carried freight In this
manner by an arrangement with a sub
sidiary company known as the Metropolitan
Express company, which leased all of It
rights and privileges to the American Ex
press company.
"DOCTORS" WHILE YOU WAIT.
Decree Making; Industry Worked to
the Limit by Prof. Farr.
Brooklyn Eagle.
It Is an Impressive thought that no less
than 20,000 people are running around this
country wearing the label of. doctor of
laws, or letters, or science, or theology,
which label they have bought from a young
person named Farr. A most energetic and
enterprising person he must be, for In his
corporate capacity, as distinguished from
his personal, he Is the George Washington
university, the University of Michigan, the
Omaha university, the Oklahoma univers
ity, the Nashville university, the Chatta
nooga College of Law, Nashville School of
Law, National College of Law and Amer
ican College of Law. At least, that Is all
he Is up to the present, for there is no
saying how msny more things he may be
tomorrow. As head, faculty, alumni and
student body of these Institutions, he has
taken it upon himself to distribute doc
torate to the knowing and the worthy
who ar willing to spare 110 for the honor,
and If he received that sum from er.ch
candidate he has feathered his little nest
with 200,000 American dollar bills enough
to keep off th chill winds of several
springs.
Having thus persuaded certain of tho
com:nunlty who perhaps deserved to be
persuaded, th postofflce has awakened
from Its reveries and has advised him that
he will no longer have the benefit of the
malls, after Its attorney general, who has
not yet found time to do much with the
gentlemen who have been committing sun
dry little pecuniary peccadillos In the post
office Itself, hss taken up his case. As thnt
cannot possibly occur before the year 19!0,
at legal rates of speed (speed is sarcasm),
Mr. Farr can turn off a few thousand
more doctorates while he waits.
And, do you know, there are people who
are perfectly willing to pay $10 for a piece
of sheepskin declaring them to have been
doctored by a university that Isn't there,
rsther than not have the sheepskin? It Is
a curious trait In some human natures
that they are willing to wear honors they
hsve not earned, medals for success In
battles never fought, rewsrds for service
never given. We have 20,000 specific In
stances before us. But, fortunately, there
Is a saving remnant that has no thought
of being doctored In, or by, or for anything
In particular, that will go on doing Its
work as well as It knows how, and asking
only Its wage In return. Part of that wage
Is a peaceful conscience. That ' remnant
does not Interest the Farrs and Omaha uni
versities, yet It exerts Influence enough
to curb them, nnd even st odd . times to
affe?t the courts. Possibly It may affect
them In this Instance.
The Silent Chairman.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mr. Cortelyou haa been In Washington
lately looking after aome remnants of busi
ness there and talking to aome of the
speakers who are soon to go out as mis
sionaries for the republican ticket. He re
fused to make any statement touching poll
tics, except a few stock assurances that
New York and the country would go repub
lican. Mr, Taggart Is pursuing about the
same course on the flemocratlc side. Both
of these gentlemen have now much Im
portance In the public mind. Thousands
of people are yearning for their tnlde In
formation and real Impressions in po'.lM a.
They can only be assuring, though. It
would not do for either man to give rea
sons for the faith that appear to be In
him. The situation of the campaign man
ager Is a provoking one. He Is brought
Into great prominence. He la a central
figure In affairs, and everybody wants to
hear from him. He I obliged to discourage
his own prominence and to refuse to say
anything that Is of consequence till after
the election; snd then nobody care to
hear from him. Everybody then know all
about the election.
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PERSONAL NOTES.
Joaquin Miller, the "Poet of th Slerrss.M
Is In a fair way to become an oil magnat.
E. J. Vawter of California hss the most
extensive garden for raising carnations of
any man In the United States.
The ctar of Russia has a brother, an
uncle, four flrst cousins, ten second, thir
teen third and a great uncle. Hla first snd
second cousins are "Imperial highnesses"
Andrew Carnegie has written a little
book on James Watt, the great engineer,
which will be published this fall, and will
be the concluding volume of the famous
Scots Series.
fian Francisco papers speak of "the heated
term". In ponderous editorial terms, as
though hot air was a local rsrity. The
time when San Francisco was not a warm
member Is not recorded.
The flnet 28,000 of the souvenir gold dol
lars mwited by ths government to help
along the Lewis and Clark exposition In
Oregon have been delivered and are now
to be sold for $2 apiece.
Chairman Taggart has gone to French
Lick Springs. If this is in the nature of
preliminary training, he should be told
thnt the wallop coming to him In Novem
ber won't be a French lick,
Alxander Blair of De Moines Is th
oldest voter In Iowa. He was born In
1K10 In Braver county, Pennsylvania, and
has been voting for seventy-three years,
his first ballot being cast for Andrew Jack
son. '
Two Kentucky matrons fought a duel with
knives over a man who was the husb"und
of neither. Circles In which the duellM
move are considerably cut up over
fracas. So ar the women. The ma
escaped.
It Is fortunate that Boston la not on the
Pacific side of the nation. Those phantom
warships winging their flight from San
Francisco to Seattle would revive the fear,
some memory of '98, when codfish balls
alone saved the Hub physical collapse.
Marconi, the wireless wlsard, has re
turned to New York. In an Interview thei
other day he said, "I traveled on a steamer
not equipped with the wireless service. j
Such vessels feel the effect of the dlscon-!
tlnuance of the Nantucket station, be-
cause they have no means to report to the
land. When that service was In force the'
vessels passing In sight of the station were
reported. I hope to see It restored before
next spring. My present trip Is made to
Inspect the service of the Cunard steamers
and the Cape Breton station."
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
Oolllfer Let's go fishing.-
Gosch What's the use? Can't we get it
easier and cheaper at a saloon? Chicago
Tribune.
"Father," said the small boy, "why do
they call a speech made at a banquet a
toastr I
"My son," was the answer. "It is proba
bly because they are so dry." Washington
Star.
"Which would you rather have. Influence
or affluence?" asked the earnest man.
"Influence," replied the practical politi
cian. "Give me that and the affluence will
come easy." Cincinnati Tribune. i
Thirsty Tanks Maine's a nutty ole stat.
ain't It?
Frayed Fagln Well, mebne dere'a method
In Its nuttlness. Mebbe dey wanter dls
con rn are tourists like us.
Thirsty Tanks Well, dey're doln' It;
cuttln' out booze an' namln' one o' delr
towns "Eath." Philadelphia Press.
"Is your husband up yet?" Inquired the
early morning caller.
"I guess he Is." replied the stern looking
woman.
"I'd like to say a few words to him."
"So would I. He hasn't come home yt."
Philadelphia Catholic Standard.
"The Uppertena lead an Ideal 'family
life.' "
"Do they never quarrel?"
"Never. She Is In Europe, he at Saratoga
and the children are with their grand
mother." Judge.
"Why shouldn't they be In aoclety?"
"Well, 1 don't know. They"
"Certainly their money Is as good a any.
body's, and their manners aa bad." Cleve
land Plain Dealer. "
"S:y. pa."
"What?"
"Are you n traveling man?"
"No; why?"
" 'Cause I heard Mrs. Smith tell me that
you were traveling an awful paoe." Cleve.
land Leader.
IX THE WOODS.
Somervllle Journal.
The autumn leave are getting bright
With hues of brown and red.
The forest is a wondrous blase
Of color overhead.
And through the woods Myrtllla walk.
With Colin at her side,
And eagerly collects the leave
Ky nature' colors dyed.
At last she finds a lovely one.
Unique among the rest.
And In her girlish way she cries:
"Oh. I must hav that pressed'"
But how? Site looks at Colin, with
A look that can be felt:
Then with a smile she slips th leaf
In underneath her belt.
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