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Tho Ak-Sar-Ben illuminations will be
brlllinnt, even if some of the principal
thoroughfares are honeycombed.
Perhaps General Kouropatkln will be
sorry he Inaugurated the policy of de
motion for officers who failed to meet
requirements.
I
Senator Cockrell Is supporting Joe
Folk in Missouri as though he did not
want to be succeeded in office by a man
in the class of Senator Stone.
Was It necessary for the board of
governors of tho Fontanelle club to hold
a star chamber, kecp-It-dark meeting to
put up such a legislative ticket?
Telephone rate reduction continues to
be the subject of discussion in the coun
cil, sitting as a committee of the wholo.
But talk, even telephone talk, is cheap.
If members of the Board of Public
Works will carry-' outMuett" threat to
turn state's eylflence thetounty attor
ney may lave a lot of business to attend
to this full.
Omaha is now the greatest sheop mar
ket in America, if not lu the world.
Why shouldn't Omaha also boast the
largest woolen mills and manufactories
of blankets and other woolen-wear?
The "venerabl TiWegeut" of Thibet
gave the British expedition his blessing
when it left L'lmssa probably feeling
thankful that it did not cairy the city
along as one of the exhibits of its ac
tivity. Judge Parker is wise not to be too
specific in bis treatment of current po
litical questions. If his generalizations
occasion such friction u democratic
ranks what would specific declarations
produce?
From the reception that Lord Dun
raven's; new party Is receiving from
both the nationalists and unionists the
organizer of tho new movement may 'ex
pect the usual fate of those who "butt
In" on a family row.
. The appointment of a member of the
royal family to the position of com
mander of Russian forces In Manchuria
would Indicate that the czar has de
cided that the family of Romanoff must
be renponslbittof' Its own success or
Out of the twenty-five candidates for
the lower house of the legislature who
have filed their names with the repub
lican county . committee only three are
lawyers. What are we coming to? Are
lawyers becoming scarce or Is the law
iujKinus too good?
Democratic cttudldutes for, president
and view president are in luck. If they
are elected they '..will' have the unex
pected' pleasure 'of success and If de
feated they will have the advantage of
t'njoylug prosperity under the best ad
ministration on record, i
Chicago U alUicled with ten separate
taxing bodies the city government, the
county, the drainage board, the school
boa ltl, the library board and five park
boardseach of tobich levies a separate
tax. Omuha has only three separate
taxing hoards the city, the county and
the school board but it baa Just two
too many.
At this time members of the demo
cratic party are divided only on the
questions of tbe powers of the presi
dent, tho, colonial policy of tbe govern
ment, the Panama canal, the tariff, the
negro, ship subsidies, pensions and-labor,
to-say nothing of the flnunclal ques
tion, which by common consent Is not
au "issue" in the cumpalgn. As other
questions arise the division may in
course of time overbalance the force of
desire for office, and then the party
would be disorganized, Indeed.
THZ DEMOCRATS AltD PIXSIOSS,
The prominence which the democrats
have given to the pension question, la
the attack made upon pension order 8,
known as the age order, has made this
an Issue in the campaign. The uypoc
risy of the declaration regarding the
surviving soldiers and sailors of the civil
war contained in the St. Louis platform
Is very distinctly shown in the opposi
tion of the party to the action of the
president In reducing the age limit re
specting disability. The professed rea
son for this opiK)sitlon Is that in making
the order President Roosevelt exceeded
his authority and usund a function of
congress, but if this is not a mere sub
terfuge It hns been shown to have no
substantial ground, since what was done
by the president was In accord with both
democratic and republican precedent.
The first "age order" was made by Mr.
Cleveland and the ex-presldent, when
his attention was" called to tb,e last order,
unqualifiedly expressed the opinion that
it hud the authority of law. Judge
Parker and the club of XewYork demo
cratic lawyers organized for the special
purpose of defending the constitution
do not take this view, but the opinion
of ("rover Cleveland Is entitled to at
least as much weight as theirs."
Speaker Cannon discussed this matter
in his speech nt Kearney and took occa
sion to point out the record of the demo
cratic party regarding pension legisla
tion. No one Is better qualified to do
this and what he said Is so pointed as
to Justify republication: ''There are
fourteen bills," said Mr. Cannon, "that
have been passed from time to time,
and those bills form the pension code.
Who possed them? Democrats for the
bills, 41": democrats against the bills,
(348. Republicans for the tllls, l.OGS:
republicans against the bills, none.
That's how the record of the vote upon
those measures stands. Is there any
hoiie there for Mr. Parker's Influence to
be effective? He Is to take pensions
awny from thousands of people and only
replace them by a promise to use his
Influence with a party In congress that
hus a notorious record against that very
thing." The distinguished speaker of
the house of representatives pointed out
that In the event of the next house
being democratic two-thirds of the ma-'
Jorlty will be made up of members from
the south, who are not liberal with pen
sions for tha union soldiers. With the
popular branch of congress controlled
by southern dtnocrats any effort on the
part of Judge Parker as president to
carry out the promise of his letter of
acceptance regarding pensions would be
utterly futile.
The fact Is that the democratic party
takes very little Interest in tbe welfare
of the union soldiers and sailors. Its
profession of concern for them Is not
sincere. The record as stated by Speaker
Cannon very conclusively shows this.
The republican party stands by pension
order 78 and Is prepared to meet the
democrats on the Issue they have made
of it.
.A.DASaROVS AQIIATIOX
Tbe dangerous nature of the demo
cratic agitation for Philippine Independ
ence, which that party has made an
Issue in the pending campaign, has been
strongly presented by Secretary Taft,
whose service iu th? archipelago made
him thoroughly familiar with the con
ditions there and the character of the
people. He has repeatedly pointed out
that a present promise of Independence
to the Filipinos, however qualified, must
inevitably have a bad effect. He has
declared that no promise can be made
to tbe Filipinos except that we will
grant them Independence when they are
fit for complete self-government; that
If now we make a promise to them
which can be so construed as to charge
this government with a breach of the
promise, we shall lose our power for
good in tbe islands and sap the founda
tions of our government there,
In an address a short time ago Secre
tary Taft said: "Let us suppose that
by law the Issue as to whether the
people are fit for self-government Is de
clared to be that one upon which shall
turn the time for independence. The
men of force, of violence, and the dema
gogues In the Islands will go before tbe
people and argue that the people are
uow fit for self-government. Is there a
people In the world, however ignorant,
of whom when such an issue is pre
sented there would not be an enormous
majority in favor of their fitness for
self-government? No one of their own
race( however friendly to our govern
ment, would have the courage to take
the negative in such a discussion, and if
independence was not at once granted,
the government would stand convicted
of a breach of faltb and its friends and
supporters among the Filipinos would be
silenced." This Is the deliberate opinion
of a man who has given the most careful
and patient study to the Philippine ques
tlon and who has . shown the most
earnest interest in the welfare of the
natives of the Islands,
The present governor of the Philip
pines is General Wright, a democrat.
He Is in full accord with the views of
his predecessor and in a letter to Presi
dent Roosevelt points out that the agita
tion In this country for Filipino Inde
pendence Is having Its effect In the
Islands "and makes our task more .diffi
cult than It otherwise would" be." The
attitude of the democratic party In the
United States la made known to the
Filipinos through the native newspapers,
which make it "the text for editorials
insisting that the Filipino people are
now ready to become an independent na
tion." Governor Wright states that the
effect Is distinctly Injurious, tending to
restore the influence of the old Insurrec
tion leaders and make them active, with
the result of demoralizing and weaken
ing the more conservative and thought
ful Filipinos, "who fear that If they
speak out as they really think they
wonld be considered the enemies of their
people and lose their prestige with
them."
If such Is tbt effect of tbe democratic
agitation for Filipino independence, and
It is presumed that no one will question
the truthfulness V Governor Wright's
statement what might reasonably be
expected to result from the success of
the democratic party in November? Can
thero be a doubt that the men of force
and violence and the demagogues among
the Filipinos would organize and de
mand immediate independence, and that
refusal to accede to the demand wuld
bring on another uprising against the
American government? It seems in
evitable that this would follow, com
pelling the government to choose be
tween abandoning the Islands and carry
ing on another costly warfare, perhaps
of more formidable proportions than
that which required three years for Its
suppression.
It is inconceivable that a majority of
the American people will approve tbe
democratic position on this question
that they will support a policy which
involves the danger of overturning all
that has been accomplished for the bene
fit of the Filipinos and reviving a con
flict that was so costly In men and
money, or accepting the alternative of
abandoning the Philippines and leaving
them to internecine strife and anarchy.
PUBLIC OB PR1VATK PA RK WHICH
South Omaha laud speculators and
promoteis have circulated petitions to
their council to submit proposals to Issue
about $200,000 in bonds for the erection
of a city hall and tbe purchase of public
park grounds. That the investment of
$100,000 in a city ball at the present time
would be a costly luxury for the tax
payers of South Omaha scarcely needs
discussion. The proposed Issue of bonds
for the purchase of Syndicate park seems
to us to be equally Indefensible.
Syndicate park was laid out about
eighteen years ago and dedicated by its
owners as a public park. The lots adja
cent to Syndicate park were sold on that
condition and the ground laid out as a
park must forever remain as a park. A
few years ago Syndicate park was closed
to the public and it has so remained. In
the meantime, however, the pork is ex
empt from taxes because it Is a park
and not because it is unoccupied ground
fenced In to keep out intruders.
Syndicate park is either a public park
or a private park. If It Is a public park
It Is exempt from all taxes. If It is a
private park it is tbe same as any other
land of equal dimension from which the
public is fenced out, . and would justly
be subject to taxation just the same as
Mr. Joslyn's private grounds, over which
there has been so much contention, or
for that matter anybody's else private
grounds however much money may have
been expended by the owners in their
embellishment
If Syndicate park Is a public park it
certainly would be reckless and wasteful
for South Omaha people to mortgage
themselves and tax the next generation
to meet the Interest on the bonds. If It
is a private park South Omaha, Douglas
county and the state of Nebraska are en
titled to levy and collect the taxes in
proportion to its value as a piece of un
improved land.
While South Omaha is interested In
the proposed bond Issues Omaha must
sooner or later assume the bonded debt
of South Omaha whenever the two cities
are merged into one corporation. In
'other words, Greater Omnha will sooner
or Inter have to assume every dollar of
bonded debt which South Omaha shall
Incur, and, therefore, Omaha taxpayers
are equally interested with South Omaha
taxpayers in checking any attempt to
create bonded debts that will not pro
mote the welfare of both cities or debts
that would be without any adequate
return.
The discovery has been made at the
state capital that the amended oil In
spection law is defective because no
penalty can be enforced against dealers
who sell explosive oils. If this 1b tnio,
the proper thing for the mayor and
council of Omaha ia - to enact an
ordinance for the inspection of explo
sives that will Impose penalties on deal
ers In low grade oils within the city
limits, whether the state law Is defective
or not. And this reminds us that tbe
city council for some reasons that have
pot yet been explained has failed to
respond to the Imperative popular de
mand for the more rigid regulation of
the storage '.and' transportation of ex
plosives within tbe city limits.
A member of congress was injured In
tbe Tennessee railroad wreck and a
candidate for congress killed; the wife
of the vice president of one of the rail
way lines was killed this week In a
wreck In New York; the archbishop of
Canterbury and J. Plerpont Morgan
were both shaken up In a wreck In
Massachusetts, while during the same
time nearly 100 people were killed in
these various accidents. Now that rail
road accidents have begun to reach for
"shining marks" It is possible tbe gov
ernment and the railroad companies
may realize the importance of more
precaution against such disasters and
the railroad wreck may become less
common.
It will be noticed that Judge Parker's
letter of acceptance was addressed to
Champ Clark, thus dragging the 'Mis
souri politician once more from that
oblivion Into which he fell after threat
ening to cut the throat of an Indiana
man who questloued one of his political
statements.
If Congressman Hitchcock cannot
kiss all the babies in this district he
can Jolly all the preachers and all the
deacons and soft-soap all the denomi
national college faculties through his
purely religious orgsu. In this kind of
cauipalgnlug be could give Sam Slick
pointers.
Luke E. Wright is a Tenuessee demo
crat. He Is also at the bead of tbe Phil
ippine government, but his reports will
not be used as campaign documeuts by
bis party, because, to Judge by his latest
letter to Washington, his partisanship
has not yet run away with his patriotism.
Jaysa Xrtt Rmaala pqr.
Chicago News.
By rights at least half the bouquets
which the British diplomats are throwing
at themselves for the success of their In
cursion Into Tibet ought to go to Japan.
The Fever Brae4 Oat.
Buffalo Express.
Senator Peffer, who has swung back front
the populists Into the republican fold once
more, and will take the stump for Roose
velt, Is aaother proof that the fever of the
'80s has run Its course.
Needed Glasxer Promised.
Chicago Post.
Tom Watson la to make campaign
speeches in the vicinity of New Tork next
week and the prospect Is that Judge Parker
will find more ginger In the atmoepher
than even he bargained for.
leavcati ( War.
Hew Tork World.
The tsar's dismissal ef Generals Orloft
sod Stakelberg will 'seem unnecessarily
harsh to military experts who realise that
the best commander cannot prevail against
superior force. Petulance Is not Justice and
scapegoats do not absolve national fallings.
Better Be Rla-nf. Than Sorry.
Brooklyn Eagle.
There are papers which regret the Eaerle's
advice to democratlo polltlrlans "to let
the Philippine question alone." Those very
paper, after tha election, may regret that
they did not give the same advice when,
we did. It Is better to be right at once,
than sorry too late.
List of Wtrtl Tldlaars.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
So the College of Heralds finds only 177
families In the United States of eminent
descent and entitled to presentation at
court! Inasmuch as more than that num
ber of representatives have already been
presented It Is a fair Inference that further
efforts to secure that distinction wilt be
useless.
What Woald Democrat Dot
Baltimore American.
Would thoee democrats who deplore the
little treasury deficit have It remedied by
an additional tariff on Imports or by In
ternal taxation? It Is a direct result of a
reduction of taxation and of a cash pay
ment of 140,000.000 for the Panama canal.
Doubtless, the critics would have wished
President Roosevelt to tesue bonds for that
150,000,000 after the fashion of Cleveland,
to the. further enriching of New Tork
bankers.
Perils of Worshiping; Titles.
Philadelphia Press.
American women who perslct In marrying
foreigners with title? meet with s me tryln
experiences. A Cleveland woman whose
father is rloh married a Hungarian "noble
man" last November, but she signed a
140,000 notefor him to pay debts he owed.
He Is now sued on the note and she was
brought Into court and compelled to sur
render her Jewelry. She did not have on
her wedding ting-, but the "noble" scoun
drel suggested to the court that she had
one, so that was also given up. That Is
what many women get by their worship
of titles.
AMERICA'S STOCK OP GOLD.
The Pile of 10O4 Contrasted with that
of 1896.
Chicago Tribune.
Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer of the United
States, says the world's stock of gold is ap
proximately. , 600,000,000, of which this
country holds 11,843,000,000, which Is over
one-fifth. Of the: American gold the trees-
ury holds $700,000,000. "
These figures seem more Impressive when
one looks back to ta. The world's stock
of gold then was roughly estimated at
$4,280,000,000, of which the United States
held tW.000,000. being a little less than one.
seventh.. Absolutely and relatively the gold
holdings of this country have . Increased
greatly In eight years. In the summer of
1F96 there was In the treasury $150,000,000 in
gold, or a little more than one-fifth of the
present stock. ,
Xt is not to be wondered at, with the
treasury and the banks overflowing with
the yellow metal, that occasional shipments
to Europe, which would have excited alarm
eight or nine years ago, pass unnoticed
now. . The shipments would have to be
large and continuous to attract attention
In any quarter. As the gold production of
this country is $.SO,000,000 a year out of a
total for the world of about $300,000,000 It
can export considerably more than It Im
ports, and yet be adding steadily to Its
stock.
The prediction of UM that If the United
States stuck to the single gold standard It
could not get enough of that metal to do
business with because of the world's strug
gle for It sound ridiculous now, when It
holds $1,842,000,000, or more than $l per
capita.
"PLAIN LIVING" IP TO DATES.
Lavish Expenditure tbe Feature of
Modern Hotel Construction,
New York Mall.
The opening of a palatial hotel In this
city Is followed by that of another In Phil
adelphia, while Chicago announces the pro
posed construction of a third. In each In-
stance the cost of building, furnishing and
decorating haa been a secondary considera
tioneverything has been subordinated to
the determination to excel In gorgeousness,
the famous hotels of the world. Instead of
making known Its comforts and Its
reasonable prices, each hotel Is advertised
as the highest-priced in the world and the
moot luxurious.
Everything to fascinate the eye and
tempt the purse la emphasised. At one hos
telry you are told that the chair In 'which
you will be seated at dinner. If you have
dinner there, eost the proprietor $68, while
the table service represents a much larger
sum. One hundred thousand dollars haa
been spent on the walls of the room. If
you puit through with e. $:o check for a din
ner for two you are not the kind of patron
the hotel wants, and the lordly waiter
knows you no more.
As for the apartmenta, an Astor built
them, and only an Astor could permanently
maintain them. One night would tax an
ordinary Income.
What does It all meant Where will It
stop? Must each new hotel exceed all oth
ers In the lavlshness of Its appointments
and the cost of patronising It T Are we all
te be In a mad whirl to spend the mighty
dollar In hoatelrles that outrival palaces,
and In living that whets the appetite but
ruins the stomach? Is the best advertise,
ment for a hotel the fact that It costs more
to live there than elaewhereT Ha our
home Ufa eome to be a mere notice to our
friends of the amount of money we can
afford to throw away en "Royal Blue
Rooms." state suites and absurdly extrava
gant dinners. ' -
The Boldta, who make a study of human
weaknesses, say so, and back their opinion
by Investing millions In great buildings
and sumptuous furnishings. They make It
known to the world that without a princely
Income you could not be on their list of
patrons and so yeu pay for the advertise
ment. The feeling that the whole world
knows you esn throw sway thouasnds of
dollars In extravagant living Is worth the
price, evidently, for a great many people.
"What fools these mortals be!
APHORISMS Or ROOSEVELT.
American waseworhers work with their
heads r.s well as their hands.
The loyalty that counts Is the loyalty
which shows Itaelf In deeds rather than In
words.
To be permanently effective, aid must al
ways take the form of helping a man to
hel.i himself.
Back of the laws, back of the adminis
tration, back of the system of government,
lies the man. .
The first requisite of a good cltlien In
this republic of ours Is that he shall be
able and willing to pull his weight.
Oood cltlsenshlp consists in doing the
many small duties, private and public,
which In the ngs-rrgate make It up.
A man Is not a good cltlien, I do not care
how lofty his thoughts are about cltlsen
shlp In the abstract. If In the concrete his
actions do not bear them out.
The worth of a civilisation Is the worth
of the man at its center. When this man
lacks moral rectitude, material progress
only makes bad worse, end ancinl problems
atlll darker and more complex.
It Is a good thing to have n sound body,
and a better thing to have a sound mind,
and better still to have that aggregate of
virile and decent qualities which we group
together under the name of character.
A man, to be a good cltlien, must first be
a good bread-winner, a good husband, a
good father I hope the father of mnny
healthy children; Just ns a woman's first
duty Is to be a good housewife and mother.
The prerequisite to doing good work In
the field of philanthropy In the field of so
cial effort, undertaken with one's fellows
for the common good Is that It shall be
undertaken In a spirit of broad sanity no
less than of broad and loving charity.
Each of us needs at times to have a help
ing hand stretched out to him or ber.
Every one of us slips on some occasion,
and shame to hla fellow who then refuses
to stretch out the hand that should always
be ready to help the man who stumbles.
No action by the state can do more than
supplement the Initiative of the Individual,
and ordinarily the action of the state can
do no more than to secure to each Individ
ual the chance to show under as favorable
conditions as possible the stuff that there is
In him.
The rood citizen is the man who, what
ever his wealth or his poverty, strives man
fully to do his duty to himself, to his fam
ily, to his neighbor, to the state; who is
Incapable of the baseness which manifests
Itself either In arrogance or In envy, but
who, while demanding Justice for himself,
is no less scrupulous to do Justice to others.
All other qualities go for nothing, or for
worse than nothing, unless honesty under
lies them honesty In public life and hon
esty in private life; not only the honesty
that keeps Its skirts technically clear, but
the honesty that la such according to the
spirit as well as the letter of the law; the
honesty that Is aggressive, the honesty that
not merely deplores corruption it Is easy
enough to deplore corruption but that wars
against It and tramples It under foot.
PERSONAL NOTES.
The third negro bank has been started
in Mississippi. It Is safe to say that the
whites will consider the color of its money
as good as anybody's else.
Sato Cohn, known throughout Austria for
his beneficence In feeding the homeVss
poor through the medium of the People's
Kitchens, is visiting this country.
Princess Stephanie comes to tho front
with the verdict that Princess Louise Is not
crazy. Now, will Princees Louise kindly
certify to the sanity of Princess Stephanie?
"Jeff" Davis' plantation at Mound Bayou,
Miss., Is now owned by a former slave of
the brother of the president of the confed
eracy. Furthermore,' the' eri-elave Is worth
$300,000, It Is said, and employs 150 men.
George B. McCutcheon has, It Is said,
written a successful novel under an as
sumed name. A Chicago concern bet him
$100 that he could not write a book that
would sell on its merits, and he won. The
title of the novel Is "Brewster's Millions."
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, the greatest
living botanist, has Just passed his eighty
seventh birthday. He' -was the life-long
friend of Huxley. Some of his most Inter
esting works has been the result of - his
studies In Utah, Colorado, California and
the Rockies.
Having emerged from his cloud, "Cotton"
Sully enters the fray once more with this
pronunclamento: "The horizon which has
been darkened for so long is now Illumi
nated by the rising sun of prosperity, and
Its brilliancy will shine equally upon the
farmer, the manufacturer and the con
sumer." Patrolman James Dockery of the St.
Louis police force tbe other day reacued
Mrs. Walter Able from the Mississippi
river. He was standing on the levee when
he saw the woman Jump In. Throwing
off coat and revolver, he plunged In after
her. The current was strong and she at
tempted to fight her rescuer, who dragged
her to shore by her hulr. Mrs. Able had
lately been sued for divorce. This makes
Patrolman Dockery's sixth rescue from the
river this year.
A WEAK "BROADSIDE."
Parker Constitution t'lub Makes a
Sorry Showing-.
8prlngneld (Mass.) Republican (lnd.)
The Constitution club Is weak in Its
broadside when it attempts to excuse Pres
ident Cleveland's action In Axing a pension
able age under the lnva.11 pension law of
1S90. To be sure. Mr. Cleveland set the
age limits of physical dlHaUUty much
higher than Mr. Roosevelt did, yet he mule
the vicious precedent under whkh Mr.
Roosevelt acted. Congress, In the law of
1899, did not specify mere age as a cause of
disability calling for a pension, ar.d mere
age should never have been treatej as a
disability until congrcai had by law er.ao!e 1
that ago should be regarded as a dl-abl ity,
at the same time specifying the age llm ts.
The Constitution club, It seems, does not
meet this point squarely, and it la unable
to break seriously the force of the Cleve
land precedent to which President Rcoso
velt appealed.
Ia another respect the Constitution club
falls to be entirely fair. It charges that
President Roosevelt wrote his pension or
der three months before his nomination as
"a bid for the pension vote." That Is not
altogether true. The truth is that congress
was with difficulty being restrained by the
republican leaders from taking up and
passing a regular service pension bill, by
which all civil war veterans of a certain
age should be pensioned regardless of the
question of disability. It must be said, too,
that the democrats were prepared to com
pete with the republicans In supporting this
legislation, which would have Increased
greatly our annual pension bill, and thus
cater to the war veterans' vote. As the
pension scheme stood In congress, It was
a glgantlo offering to old soldiers, and
neither party would have opposed It had
tha service pension bill been brought
squarely Into the parliamentary ring.
What President Roosevelt did was to
head off the service pension bill by throw
ing a nop to the old soldiers in the shape
of his executive order. He muxt be cred
ited with having saved much money to the
treasury for the time being by arbitrarily
taking a smaller sum of money nut of It
without strict wsrrsnt of law. He over
ruled congress In order to prevent a pen
sion "raid." His motive was probably good.
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ROIND AnotT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Current -of Life In the
Metropolis.
Sliver dollars are few and far between In
the circulating medium east of Chicago.
Silver change is plentiful, but coins above
the W-cent piece are pushed out of eight
or shipped west. Paper money ts the favor
ite form of the wherewith. The discrimina
tion against coin Ib Important. Gold is
tabooed with equal vigor. In New York
particularly a man with gold In his pocket
Ls not as rich as he thinks and experiences
difficulty in exchanging eagles for his cur
rent needs. "As a matter of fact," reports
the Times, "gold money Is so Beldom seen
In circulation in New York that tho publlo
feels afraid of It. No man who does not
see a certain kind of coin more than once
a year or so feels that he Is competent to
distinguish It from a counterfeit, or that
anybody else Is for that matter, so that
when a gold coin Is offered to him even by
a person In whom he has confidence, he
feels that maybo his friend has been bun
coed, and that It Is safer to steer clear of
the thing anyhow." A pilgrim from Cali
fornia spent the greater part of one night
endeavoring to exchange three $5 gold
pieces. He woke up next morning with a
headache and when he counted his money
he found that It had cost him $11.30 to pass
the three gold pieces. In addition to which
he had nearly been locked up for a coun
terfeiter and had acquired a lot of articles
that he didn't know what to Co with.
New Tork, with Its rapid transit tunnel,
will soon be boasting of a new wonder of
the modernised world, it Is the longest of
the underground roads, having a total dis
tance of 22 miles. The London "tuppenny
tube" Is thirteen miles long, and the rat-tlety-bang
altair In Paris only eight and
one-half, and the Berlin underground four
and a half. There are some long tunnels
In the Alps, the Slmplon being twelve miles
long, the St. Gothard nine and ono-quarter
and the Mont Cents seven and one-half.
The famous old Hoosac tunnel is four and
three-quarters miles long and Is probably
the best known railroad tunnel In this
country. Boston's mucb-vaunted subway
Is two and one-half miles In length, and so
will not compare with the new subway at
New York, when length ls considered.
A Are engine, heavy with metal, and a
truck, loaded with nothing heavier than
crates of geese and chickens, came together
on Orchsrd street the other day, and na
turally the latter got all the worst of It.
The crates were spilled and, breaking
open, the pavement was soon covered with
the noisy creatures. Children and grown
ups as well gathered quickly, ostensibly
to help in the work of refilling the crates,
but when the fuss was over the driver,
scratching his head In a puzzled way, mado
It known that nearly one-third of his load
had disappeared. The bystanders were
sympathetic, and no doubt forgot to tell
him that in the 'Confusion some of the
neighbors had absent-mindedly, gone to
their rooms, a man with a chicken under
his arm perhaps, or a woman with a fat
goose concealed in the fo'ds of an apron.
There were savory odors on that block that
night.
A good-looking girl who gave her name
as Florence Gray arrived from England
In the White Star liner Oceanic last week
and returned with the same vessel. Sho
came to satisfy a whim of a guardian who
controls her inheritance and who had as
serted that she must first pay a visit to
this country before ha would turn over the
money which he held In trust. She could
have her allowance, but the main sum he
would withhold until she attained her ma
jority. On arriving she told her story
said she had no Interest whatever In this
country, had merely come here to gratify
a whim of her guardian, and if they would
allow her to stay on the Island until the
Oceanic sailed and certify that she had
actually been here she would be much
obliged. When the Oceanic sailed she
waved a careless goodbye to New York.
Michael Glynn's 410 pounds taxed the In
genuity of Bellevue hospital stewards, who
have had to move him twice In a week.
He is probably the largest man ever In
Bellevue. He was moved thero from the
Presbyterian hospital, and was transferred
to tho hospital on Blackwell's Island. No
ordinary stretcher would hold him, so a
wooden one had to be Improvised and re
inforced with iron support, and the for
strongest stewards were called to carry
the Injured giant. Qlynn Is 24 years old
and a watchman. When 19 he weighed 175
pounds. He hurt his knee by a fall from
a car and erysipelas developed.
The profits of necromancy have been so
great in New York recently that many new
fakirs have sprung up in this field. Lately
they have taken to the practice of adver.
Using In such woman's magazines as would
aocept their matter, and a gulden harvest
has resulted. Over to per cent of tha
"clients" of clairvoyants are women. Up
In Harlem an astounding case of credulity
was developed by the arrest of a fortune
teller. A widow of means paid over ll.'crt
to this charlatan, who promised to rend
the veil of her future He sent a man Into
her neighborhood and got a line on her
acquaintances. Then he told her many
things about herself which she thought
were close secrets.
Against a background partly of white
terra cottu, and partly of blue sky a pair
of human legs fmalnv dangled from a lofty
perch In Nuhsuu street one morning lust
week. As he was cleaning windows on thu
nineteenth floor of the .American Tract
building Frank Brandenburg lut hla gate
roam over the roofs of tha city and the
bay with Its shipping, and soon he fell Into
a reverie. He thought and thought, and
pretty soon fell asleep, perchance to dream
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of owning unlimited retO estate and an
argosy or two. He lay prostrato upon a
ledge about three feet wide with his legs
sticking over. A slight roll and he would
have tumbled 250 feet to tbe Nassau street
nsphalt, a particularly hard variety of
pavement. The Janitor of the building saw
the star-gazing crowd and then went to a
window on the nineteenth Hour. "I've been
looking for you for two hours," he said, as
he Jerked the window cleaner over the sill.
"You're ducked half a day no, I guess
you're fired. Go home and sleep and don't
come back "
WIUTTI.KI) TO A POINT,
"Why did you discharge the scene
shifter?"
Because he was so shiftless." Cleveland
Plain licaler.
"Young man, do you know anything
about law?"
"Yes, lr; Just enough to keep out of It."
Plillad. Iphia Ledger.
Think twice liefme you speak. And even
then, nine Units out of ten, the world
won't lo"e anything If you keep still.
tsommervlllo Journal.
"Ho the editor sent your poem back to
you." remarked the sympathetic friend.
'Yes," riplli'il Wouldbc liarde.
"Any comment?"
"Well, yen; he said my 'handwriting was
quite promising'." Philadelphia. Cathollo
Standard.
"She Is an unearthly talker."
"Heally?"
"Yes; she never says 'how on earth."
or 'what In the world!" or 'my land!' "
Philadelphia Press.
Maud Have you noticed that peculiarly
sinuous pnakellke motljn wlih which Mr.
loiiKe-Knpp dances lately?
Mabel 1m; he Ills acquired that uncon
sciously from Ills habit of crawling under
his automobile to toe what's the matter
with the machinery. Chicago Tribune.
SIXDAY IX TOWX.
Caroline Duer in Scrlbner's.
The sun Is misty yellow and the sky Is
hazy blue.
And the chime bells ring out quaintly.
Near and deeply, fair and faintly,
Each one following Its fellow In an echo
clear and true.
Through the streets, clean swept for
leisure.
Many feet make haste toward pleasure,
And the sound ls us the rustling of the
leaves in paths we knew.
How I wish I were a-walklng In the
autumn woods with you!
Oh, the fragrance of the hollows that the
little brooks ran throunh!
Oh, the scarlet maples burning
I.Ike a torch at every turning.
On the way my spirit fallows In a dream
forever new
Where from quiet, distant meadows,
Dim beneath the mountain shadows,
Came the clank of swinging cow bells down
the softest wind that blew.
Oh, I wish I were a-walklng In the autumn
woods with you!
We have hud our fill of roving where
spring blossoms bound the view.
We have played In young Romances,
Iianced the nymph-and phepherd dances;
Now the summer of our loving glows and
throbs about us. too.
In our eye the llRht yet vernal,
In our hearts the Are eternal.
And when time has touched the branches
and our rose leaf days are few,
Oh, It's then I'd still be walking in life's
autumn wnodn with you.
THE MELAXCIIOLY DAYS.
Somervllle Journal.
Now the year Is getting oidir,
And tiie nlKhtB are guiung colder,
And pretty soon the ice and snow will
come, come, come.
And you'll nted a furnace fire.
Though the price of coal Is higher,
And the tnought of paying for It makes
you glum, glum, glum.
For your grate you'll need some canr.els,
And some heavy winter damn Is
You will have to buy to Keep you nice
and warm, warm, warm.
And your wife aid charming daughter
Each will tny she thlnlis she d oughter
Have a seal ttkm to incase her lovely
form, form, form.
Every season ain't It funny?
Has its new il mands for money.
And the winter's no exception to the
rest, rent, reM,
So without equivocviilon
Hand out that accumulation
In the right-hand lower pocket of your
vest, vest, vest.
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