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Those red letter water rate primers
hare been put In cold storage. '
Irish politics are " becoming almost
warm enough for the advent of a Kittle
Shea, the second. 1
Vith a Richmond in the field the
World-Herald ought to be able to carry
the state for the man from Lancaster.
The battleship Nebraska has been
launched), and so have several smaller
political craft simultaneously with it
Now that Tom Watson has told the
people that he accepts the populist nom
inationall are agog to see what he will
do with it .
In' writing the opinion in the railway
terminal tax cases Judge Holeomb de
stroyed what might have been good fu
sion campaign, literature. I .
Bryan, having Closed; his cam
paign in Nebraska, will now proceed to
"the enemy's country," butxwill fcardlj;
repeat some of his former speeches in
that country. .t M'r"'4
if. . : . t . -..i :.i
One of the best arguments in favor
of woman's suffrage to-the statement
from Colorado that the managers of
pelther party know how the women are
going to vote. :,...'
For the next three weeks President
Blabaugh of " the . Civic Improvement
league will devote himself to the culti
vation of political posy beds and mend
ing of political fences.
When' it comes down to brass tacks,
the average republican voter is gov
erned as much bjr the standing and char
acter ofthe candidate as by the polltf
cal faction to which he belongs.'
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The new Russian minister of the In
terior evidently does not intend to dis
appoint those who trust him. He has
Just discharged the bodyguard which
formerly . shadowed bis predecessor.
' Secretary Wilson's estimate of f 30,
000,000 for the corn crop that will be
harvested in the Platte valley is very
moderate unless the corn market takes
a big slump within the nrttt six months.
Charles F. Weller has reason tofee
proud of the handsome compliment paid
him by the republicans of Omaha. The
expression of confidence came to him
unsolicited and free from even the sus
picion of selfish means or ends. '
Fifteen populists met in mass conven
tion ' Saturday to endorse O. M. Hitch
cock for congress, without exhibiting the
slightest sign of discontent over . Mr.
Hitchcock's conversion to Parker and
the gold standard even before Parker
was considered a probability. '
Now' that the republican legislative
ticket has been determined upon the
democratic bosses of Douglas county
may proceed to patch up the, holes la the
list Of nominees they put up several
months ago. The chances are It will
take persuasion to get desirable demo
crats to run.
The decision of the supreme court In
the Huld bridge case knocks Omaha and
Douglas county out of several thou
sands In taxes on the Union Pacific
bridge, to the erection of which Douglas
county and Omaha contributed 200,000
In bonds, and on which more than 200,
000 In interest has hgen paid.
The fact that the United States gov
ernment has reduced the price of
messages to Alaaka since the opening of
Its new cable line may show the people
one of the advantages of government
ownership of the telegraph but it will
also be an Incentive to renewed effort on
the part of commercial cable companies
to haver the government line abandoned
or uaed exclusively for government business.
A-TEMPEST I.T A TEAPOT. .
The Intimates of the submerged can
didate for the vacancy , on the Water
board are trying to create a roar" over
the fact that the primary election tick
ets in the lower wards were headed by
Charles. F. Weller while the primary
tickets In the tipper wards were headed
with Howell's name. While this may be
a technical infraction of- primary elec
tion regulations it has worked no in
justice or wrong and could not possibly
have changed the result of the election.
From the point of equity, no candidate
for office should have any advantage
over a competitor because his name be
gins with a letter at the top Instead of
at the bottom of the alphabet. "Equal
ity before the law" is Nebraska's
motto, and by rights a man whose
name begins with an "A" is entitled to
no preference over a man whose name
begins with a "V or a "Z." In this
Instance one-half of the ballots were
headed with the name of Howell and
the other half with the name of Wel
ler, but Inasmuch as there were only
three names on the ticket it could not
possibly have made any material differ
ence In the balloting. Even if Mr. Wei
lei's majority of 2fl0, given to him in
the three lower wards of Omaha, were
wiped out Howell would still have been
defeated by 84 majority. The outcry
of "Foul play," therefore, is only a tem
pest In a teapot.
WHAT IS HE THERE FORI
When a man employs a doctor he is
supposed to take bis medicine; when a
man employs a lawyer he usually allows
him to manage his case in court; when
a man employs an architect he allows
him 1o plan his building. For the same
reason a. city that employs an engineer
is presumed to allow him to plan Its via
ducts, its sewers, its street grading and
other public improvements that require
the skill and educational capacity of an
engineer. j
Reasoning on similar lines, it Is natu
rally to be expected that the city elec
trician would be consulted on all mat
ters pertaining to "public .lighting and
electrical conduits, and other matters
pertaining to his professional duties.
For some unexplained reason, however.
the dry electrician of Omaha has1 been
for years treated as an ornamental ap
pendage so as to make a faint attempt
to comply with the charter provision
and the ordinances pertaining to the
office of city electrician.
Nobody contends or pretends that Mr.
Mlchaelson, present city electrician, is
not qualified to perform the functions
and duties of his office, but for all that
his recommendations regarding public
lighting and electric wiring are persist
ently Ignored because they come in con
flict, with the interestsof the electric
lighting company. While this Is a fla
grant disregard of the spirit. If not the
letter of the 'law; and while life and
property are being endangered there
seems to be a stublwrn and indefensible
opposition to every effort on" the part of
MrMlcbaelson to safeguard the.publlc
according to his best Judgment.
It is also passing strange that the city
electrician. ehould have been entirely ig
nored In the program of the proposed
establishment of a municipal lighting
plant. Surely no good business man
who Intends to build a several thousand
dollar storehouse, or costly home, would
undertake such a project, without plans
and estimates from a competent archi
tect. The ordinance contemplating the
establishment of a municipal lighting
plant provided for an Issue of half a
million dollars of bonds, but the electri
cian has not been taken into the confi
dence of the Ynayor and council suffi
ciently to enable him to make a com
putation or estimate of what expendi
ture the establishment of a first-class
lighting plant would Involve.
While half a million dollars undoubt
edly will be ample, it is possible that
half of that amount or one-third of that
amount would suffice. Inasmuch, how
ever, as we are right in front of an elec
tion and the council must act without
rurtner oiay, tne proposition as intro
duced may as well be submitted with
the provision, that only .an ; amount of
bonds will be issued as will be actually
required for an electric lighting plant of
sufficient magnitude to supply the city
of Omaha with its own street lighting
facilities.
AO COyCESS10X8 TO THIS COVyTRT,?
, A leading British protectionist and
member of Parliament who has been
making a tour of this country and Can
ada, said in an lntervfewa few days
ago that the sentiment among the man
ufacturers ''of the Dominion, many of
whom he bad conversed with, was that
there was no thought whatever of grant
ing to the United States any tariff con
cessions that would permit . the larger
importation of manufactured articles
Into Canada from the United States. At
the same time he said be was author
ized to take back with him te England
the assurance that the entire manu
facturing Interest of Canada stood
pledged to maintain the existing prefer
ential of 33 per cent In tariff rates In
favor of British manufactures.
While there Is nothing particularly
new, in this statement, it is interesting
as confirming Information which had
previously come from Canada regard
ing the attitude of the manufacturing
Interest there. We recently referred to
what was said at the annual meeting of
manufacturers at Montreal. It was
there very plainly and conclusively
shown that this Influential Interest In
the Dominion Is not only opposed to
making any trade concessions to the
United States, but demands that the
Canadian tariff shall be raised so as to
give them better protection . against
American competition. We quoted from
the address of the president of the as
sociation of manufacturers to this ef
fect He argued that the great thing to
be sought was the building np of the
Canadian home market, so that with the
growth of manufacturing Industries the
condition of , Ahe agricultural producers
wMd b, Unproved. In urging this.
which had the unanimous, approval of
the manufacturers, be unquestionably
had In view the example of the United
States. The republican tariff policy has
had the effect of building np a great
home market wfllch consumes 5 per
cent of the-frodncts of the farm, and
very naturally the Canadian manufac
turers believe that a like result must
follow the application .of a similar pol
icy in the Dominion. There is reason
to think there Is a growing sentiment In
this direction among the agricultural
producers of Canada. . ' '
What prospect Is tjiere, then,1 of a
reciprocity arrangement between the Do
minion and the United States? What
have the advocates here of reciprocity
to propose, which would be fair and
equitable, that the Canadians 'would be
likely to accept T If we cannot get any
concessions for our manufacturers,
would it be wise to enter Into an ar
rangement affecting only natural pro
ducts, thus creating a competition with
American farmers in their home mar
ket which could not fail to be to their
disadvantage? It Is not to be doubted
that a great majority of our people are
unfavorable to any treaty that might
prove inimical to our agricultural Inter
est' yet It appears 'obviou that no
treaty could be negotiated that would
not discriminate against this-Interest In
view of this there is no excuse or sound
reason for continuing, as Is being done
In Massachusetts, the agitation for re
ciprocity. It Is manifestly impracticable
nnder existing conditions and may be
expected to become still more so with
the growth of the manufacturing Inter
ests of the Dominion.
DEMOCRATIC APPROVAL.
Judge Lochren, who was commis
sioner of pensions under President
Cleveland and was by blm appointed to
the federal bench, has publicly expressed
his approval of the pension order which
the democratic candidate for president is
pledged to revoke if elected. He is
quoted as saying that the ruling of Com
missioner Ware, reducing the senile dis
ability age limit from 75 years to TO and
beginning gradations jf or such disability
at 62 years, is entirely right and reason
able and that it simply carried out the
intention of congress in passing the pen
sion act He states that he deemed it
proper, when commissioner of pensions,
to adopt a rule that a man of 75 years
was unfit for the performance of man
ual labor. That order was approved by
Mr. Cleveland. This is the democratic
precedent for what the present commis
sioner of pensions, with the approval of
President Roosevelt has done. A sim
ilar ruling was made under the adminis
tration of President McKinley. In
neither of these cases was there any sug
gestion of executive usurpation. Judge
Lochren is undoubtedly as capable a law
yer as Alton B. Parker, yet it never oc
curred to him or to Mr. Cleveland that
their interpretation of the pension act
was erroneous. They made the ruling
without the slightest suspicion that they
might .be, exceeding .their authority and
Infringing; upon that of the .legislative
branch of . the government ' . .
Judge Parker takes a different view of
the matter. He can see nothing In the
fact that congress . endorsed the order
by, voting the appropriation ' necessary
to carry it out. No democrat in con
gress, so far as we are aware, raised any
question as. to the legality of the order,
or If there was any no serious effort was
made to prevent the appropriation. But
all this has no weight with the demo
cratic candidate for president He sees
In order No. 78, which will enable a
union soldier to draw $0 a month for
partial disability when he reaches the
age of 62, an act of executive usurpation
and be proposes, if elected, to undo it by
revoking the order. Then he promises to
contribute his effort to the enactment of
a . law giving an age pension without
reference to disability. He did not spe
cify, however, at what age a pension
should be given or what the amount of
the pension should be. The omission of
this deprives his promise of consequence.
The fact stands that the lost pension
order was Justified by the law and un
doubtedly is so regarded by a very large
majority of the people.
The taxpaylng Citizens . of South
Omaha , should put on their thinking
caps before they vote to mortgage them
selves for the erection of a $70,000 city
hall . which is projected v chiefly to
promote the private Interests of real es
tate speculators . and incidentally, de
signed to pave, the way for an' endless
chain of jobbers, pie-blters and grafters.
They should remember afeo that every
increase in the bonded debt of a city
weakens its ccedlt and Increases Its
taxes even where the money realized
from the bonds Is honestly expended,
which would be something out of the
ordinary in South Omaha.
Inasmuch as the law . creating the
Water board prescribes that one-half of
the water works board shall be made
up of members affiliated with pne of
the leading political parties and the
other half from members of the op
posite party, it would be eminently
proper for the democratic and repub
lican city committees to endorse the
candidates respectively nominated And
make their election unanimous. Charles
F. Weller and Dr. A. II. Hippie are both
men who will represent the Interests of
the city oh the Water board creditably.
Having officially located the seat of
recent revolutionary agitation in Switz
erland the Russian police have made It
easier for the government to adopt a
more lenient policy toward the dissatis
fied Russian people. It Vs a wise police
man who knows when to stop playing
detective.
. Looking Out far Namker Oae,
Indianapolis News.
Mr. Bryan predicts that tha republican
national ticket will be . succeaaf ul In Ne
braska, but ha thinks that the, fusioniste
will probably elect tha state officers. In
cluding tha legislature, which, no doubt,
from bia point of vliw, la mora Important
MR. BRTA.1 AS A "SAVIOR."
Called froaa His Retirement
tke Party.
New York Tribune. ,
Aa we said a week ago. It looks aa If the
democratic party would have to turn In this
crisis from the vacillating and makeshift
leader of. I9t4 to the aggressive leader of
IK and 1900. - The labor which Alton B.
Parker will not undertake must be shifted
to the shoulders of William J.sBryan. The
Hon. "Tom,r'Taggart aeems to think he has
already succeeded in so shifting It. Ha has
Induced Mr. Bryan to make a tour of In
diana knd West Virginia. In those two
'doubtful" states as In Idaho. Colorado.
Montana and Nevada the Nebraska orator
la to be allowed to hava free swing. Ha Is
to become once more the man of tha hour
the pillar 'and aheet anchor of the demo
cratic canvass. He will make hla appeal In
his own way and on Ms own terms. Hla
personality will necessarily overshadow
that of the titular leader and presidential
candidate; and whatever success the party
has In these six states he can justly claim
as a tribute to hfe own still potent per
sonal influence. Defeated at St. Louis, ha
has to be summoned once mora Into thu
arena when democratic enthusiasm Is to be
stirred and democratic principles are put on
trial. '
What sort of a crusade for "safety and
sanity" Mr. Bryan will conduct may be
guessed from tha remarks he made a day
or two ago at a democratic mass meeting
In South Omaha. In rousing popular fervor
for the democratic nominees, ha said
among other things:
"I shall not tell you that I was delighted
with the nomination at St. Louis. I op
posed the nomination of Parker because Me
did not stand for what we had been ngtlt
lng for In Nebraska for eight years. I
stand today for every doctrine I have ad
vocated. I have not recanted and have not
withdrawn from where I stood. I have not
changed my platform.. We got a good plat
form. The platform at St. Louis la bad
only where It omits to state the party's
policy on two questionson the money
question and the income tax."
Further on. In making clear his sympathy
with the policies Judge Parker is sup
posedly advocating, Mr. Bryan announced
that he "agreed with the populists on many
questions, and with the socialists on others,
such as municipal ownership of public
utilities, state ownership of railroads and
the creation of postal savings banks." It
is interesting ' to know . that in his un
muzzled speeches in Indiana and West Vir
ginia Mr. Bryan will continue to repudiate
Judge Parker's theory that the gold stand
ard ia "Irrevocably established"; that he
will couple a demand for tariff reduction
with a demand for an Income tax to supply
the revenue so surrendered; and that he
will freely urge state ownership of rail
roads and the various other radical reforms
which he has borrowed from the populists
and socialists. Does Judge Parker care to
owe his chance of carrying states abso
lutely necessary to his election to an advo
cacy like thlsT Or are political "saviors"
like gift horses, which cannot be looked too
scrupulously and too critically In the
mouth? "
Dodartna the Tariff Problem. -
Baltimore American.
Democratic spellbinders are chary of the
tariff, and don't dare come within seeing
distance of the gold standard, which are
the only vital questions of tha day, kut
when they get astride of the "big stick"
or in- close contact with "negro domina
tion" they are so jubilant that they can't
help being real silly,
A Rla-hteoaa Ruling.
Philadelphia Record (dem ).
The president has decided that the wives,
widows and . daughters of ' soldiers shall
hava a preference1 ' over lower bidders in
the work of. making uniforms for the
Srmy.. ' This mayv,flpt be defensible ' from
the cold standpoint-of law and business
procedure; but it will meet with a strong
concurring publlo .sentiment. The United
Statea government cannot afford to split
hairs when the soldiers' widows make ap
peal against department awards.
Bong-Una; Canipaiarn Work.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The democratic national committee Is do
ing bungling campaign work. It is trying
to convince the people that they are not aa
Well off now as they were when consump
tion was at a low ebb, because work was
scarce, but It makes the blunder of prefac
ing its illustrations with such remarks as:
"There are 1,312,537 railway employes in the
United States." Such a statement only
calls attention to the fact that In 1S96 the
number of railway employes was only 826,
620 and suggests the Inquiry: What caused
the extraordinary increase in seven years
of nearly 60 per cent of the number of rail
way employes 7
The West Not Yet Won.
Burlington Hawkeye.
' The real winning of the west is n.t an
accomplished fact. ' It has but just begun.
And the work that is now being prosecuted
In the west Is more Important than any
that haa preceded It arid more' interesting.
What the west needs Is water. And that is
what the government end private enterprise
are gradually supplying. If he be one of
the most useful of men who makes two
blades of grass where but one grew before,
then what monuments do the workers de
serve who make unlimited harvests grow on
land that formerly produced nothing, who
turn the . desert .Into a garden of unsur
passed fertility?
Train Men and Excessive Hoars.
Philadelphia Press.
A railroad engineer or other employ who
goea to sleep, and In that way brings about
an accident, should not be released from
responsibility any more than the man who
commits a crlma when drunk. That Is the
ground on which a locomotive engineer was
convicted in Montgomery county on Mon
day. At tha same time if tha responsible
agent of the railroad company knowingly
kept that engineer continuously on duty for
twenty-two hours, as waa alleged, the re
sponsible person should be punished. There
should ba no halting in a matter of that
kind, where human life Is sacrificed.
Bryan's Glowlnsr Eathaslaam.
Kansas City Star.
At Norfolk, Neb., . Mr. $ryan told his
audience that tha split In the. fusion elec
toral ticket had Inaured Nebraska for
Roosevelt. He added: "I won't tell you
that I am delighted with tha nominations
at St. Louis, either. Parker la too much
like Roosevelt. I fought Parker because
he did not stand for things for which w
have been fighting in Nebraska for tbs
last eight years. And I hava neither re
canted nor receded my position." There
Is red hot enthusiasm for you. Mr. Bryan
Is simply glowing with loyalty to tha
democratic nomine. V,'hf doesn't Chair
man Taggart invite him to New Tork to
Inject soma ginger Into the Empire stat
compalgn?
' Little or Ne Campaign.
Indianapolis News (lnd.).
Th expressed desire for a short campaign
baa certainly been met There haa been
no campaign at all In moat plaoea, a little
on in others, where early elections, for
tha most part. Induced. It. And her w
are within five weeks of election day. Th
democrats, while officially In th running,
certainly have not scored. With election
day so near, th democrats have yet their
direct Impression to make 04 th country.
Few careful and candid observers of the
current of public opinion can look over th
field today "and have any doubt tha,t the
ropubliuaaa will win.
V
CHKERi?tG COIDITIOJS.
Political Apathy Overaaadewed fcy
Bnslness Activity.
Philadelphia Ledger find.).
From th very beginning of th present
national campaign until now there has
been common complaint made by the man
agers and organa of both the great parties
of the general lack of Interest shown by
the country In the contest. This complaint
appears, on the surface, to be Justified, but
appearances were long ago decided to b
deceitful; and though there Is less march.
Ing with banners and less beating of
druma now than in former presidential
campaigns. It la not Improbable that there
Is as much public interest felt now aa then,
The previous and present conditions are
different Now no candidate by hla can
didacy threatens, as Bryan did by his In
ISM and 1900, to undermine the nation's
financial stability. Its honesty and safety;
the threat of socialism triumphant is
flaunted in no party platform.
It la reasonable to believe that to the
prevailing conditions," differing so broadly
from those of the preceding two campaigns,
Is largely due the seeming public Indiffer
ence. This reasonable belief finds con fir
matlon In the general activity, the buoy
ancy and steadily Increasing prosperity of
the business world, which is extraordinary
during a presidential contest. At such
times It was Invariably said that the busi
ness of the country suffered from the gen
eral political excitement and turmoil.
It la not suffering now; It Is going on
as if there were no such thing as a na
tional campaign. Among the most con
vincing signs of prosperity are the ex
changes and the railroads. Despite the
enormous losses of the last two years In
the stock market, resulting from tha greedy
absorption by the publlo of submerged se
curities, the market la. filled with buyers,
who, as a rule, are not wild speculators,
but sagacious investors. Unless all signs
are misleading, the market Is on a safe and
sound basis. No longer ago than last
spring, before either party had selected Its
presidential ticket, the traffic of th rail
roads having largely diminished, Important
Improvements were abandoned, men laid
off in multitudes, salaries and wages re
duced, building was stopped and repair
shops were closed, orders for rails were
revoked or postponed. Today the entire
situation is changed. The railroads, th
aotlv porters of commerce, agriculture
and th Industries, are not only busy, but
they have called their old employes back
to their places, reopened their shops, re
sumed their unfinished Improvements, are
ordering new rolling stock and buying rails
for old and new lines.
The country Is not wasting Its good
breath in shouting, is not throwing up its
hat in wild political excitement. No doubt
it is, as usual, thinking a great deal about
what choice of a candidate it is going to
make next month, but while doing that It
is also attending to business, and Is doing
it so vigorously and shrewdly as to give
new Impetus and vitality to the enter
prises and activities which mak for na
tional wealth.
Tha campaign managers may not think
this la precisely as it should be, but the
strong common sense of thb country will
not complain of It. 1
STATE! PIIKSS OPINIO".
Petersburg Index: This is th year Ne
braska is the land of milk and honey, says
the Hastings Republican. That's once
Frank Watkins missed It. he should have
said, "This Is the year Nebraska is 'th
land of corn and money.' " ',
Fremont Tribune: Omaha may congratu
late ltsejf on the rousing success it has
m6d of Its Ak-Sar-Ben festivities, This
has now. oome to be. one of the very fore
most of the great spectacular celebrations
of the country. It la growing better every
year. I
Burt County Herald: The crowds from
Tekamah to attend the Ak-Sar-Ben this
year did not materialise. ' The old adage
has been verified tha't "you can't fool all
the people all the time." Whether it Is the
fault of Omaha or the railway company
makes no difference. The result Is Just the
same. '
Tekamah Journal: A man does not have
to be a prophet nor the son of a prophet
to read the political signs In Burt county
or in tha state of Nebraska this fall. There
is not, as many buttons, torch lights or
dsy goods box statesmen as some years
and nearly every -voter seems contented
and pleased with existing conditions polltio-
lly.
Kearney Hub: Fault Is found'in the east
ern part of the state where the crop of
peaches and grapes, has been so abundant,
that express and freight charges have beeq
so high that the growers could not afford
to market them. In other parts of the itat
people have not been able to buy sufficiently
because the cost has been too great. The
transportation . companies stand between
the producers and the consumers and ought
to be ablo to provide a basis that both
could stand on.
Auburn Granger: A little over fourteen
years ago The Granger looked up the mat
ter of legislation expenses and published tha
following: Tha inexcusable extravagance
of .the republican rule In this state, and
th subsequent high taxes, are exemplified
in th amounts voted for employes of the
house and senate in the last legislature.
The total amount paid to members of th
senate for mileage and per diem was 10
645.60. But tha amount paid to employes,
such aa pages, clerks, doorkeepers, janitors,
eto, was t24.t6fl.40, being more than double
th sum of what senators received. In a
like manner the members of th house
reached down into the pockets of the
toilers of tha stat and took 136,640.25 for
their henchmen, while . the constitution
prevented them from getting more than
$32,666.27 themselves. This was exercising
their power to destroy th stat to th
fullest extent. No wonder that there Is
something the matter with tha farmers.
Since that date we have had several ses
sions of th legislature and the same
wanton disregard for th taxpayers ha
characterised each session; at the very
lowest estimate one-half the amount paid
to "employes" has been paid because 'these
"employes" did great service to th party
during th campaigns. Shall tha done be
repeated ?
Blair Pilot: Thar are those who would
not vote for Folk if they lived In Missouri,
or or Deneen-lf they lived in Illinois, or
for La Follette if they lived In Wisconsin,
but If tha editor of The Pilot were living
In any on of those states b would vote
for th above' mentioned candidate. Ne
braska needs a Folk, a Deneen or a La
Follette about as bad as It needs anything
In th world, and when the common peo
ple turn down such reformers they are
playing directly Into the hands of those
who have always sucked th life-blood of
the republic. The average citizen of Mis
souri needs Folk, the same class in Illinois
need Derieen and the sam class In Wiscon
sin need La Follette. It will be Impossible
for th gang to defeat any on of them.
They may defeat them In tha races that
they are now running, but they are made
of the material that knows no such thing
as defeat. The time la coming when the
result of the efforts of such man as Folk,
. Deneen and La Follette will drive th ras
cal out of politic and when honest men
no longer hav to compete with roa-ues and
scoundrels In th rao for publlo office, then
better aien win permit lumlvea to be I sine It was founded, but denied mphat
crowded forward, , .JlcaUX Uiat tha tnuiclts to Uta applicant
ROrND ABOIT NEW TORK.
Ripple an the Carrent f I.lf In the
Metropolis.
Last Monday was the opening day for
taxpayers In New Tork City, and the fact
that a discount of .664 centa on every $109
was given for advance payments brought
hundreds of people to the treasurer's
wicket. Slightly more than tl6.000.000 was
turned Into the city's coffers that day. The
total amount to be collected, according to
the tax levy of 1904. is ts6.61,5. of which
the borough of Manhattan Is assessed t63,
(38,316. Here are soma of th amounts
which were received:
Elbrldge T. Gerry 60,000
New lork Central 3..000
Vr.ndcrhllt family
Mary Plnrkney estate No. On)
Hlprglns estate- MVOO
John Jacob Astnr 3f.0i
John D. Crimmins &6.imn
J. P. Morgan lTo.O")
Trinity Corporation lln.OO)
Ktihn. Loeb A Co ft&.OA
Goelet estate Jno.mj
August Belmont 175.UO)
City Railroad 400.VU0
The city's expenditures Increased over
tS.OOO.OOO for the current year, and an In.
crease of tl6.0O0.0O0 la asked for by the de
partment heads for next year.
While all th principal figures in New.
port society are disposing of their real es
tate In that famoua center, new movements
are In progress to establish colonies on the
Hudson within an hour's tide of New Tork
City, and along the north shore of Long
Island. The Goulds, Mackays, Whltneys,
Pratts and other wealthy families have
purchased every foot of water front for
miles along the sound, and It Is doubtful
if these great ducal estate will ever find
their way again Into the market. Over
M2.000 were th sales for th last six days,
and the aggregate of the summer has ex
ceeded $200,000. The corporation la now en
gaged in laying flower beds, parking th
entire tract, so that it will become a ver
itable garden spot Along the Hudson th
Morgans, the Harrlmans, the Havemeyers,
th Rockefeller and the Fishes have al
ready secured large tracts with the Inten
tion of establishing estates on the English
plan.
The New Tork Central's Improvements
under Park avenue are beginning to rival
the subway as a seen of upheavals, and
there Is further aptitude In a distinguished
foreign visitor's remark that 'New Tork
will be a very nice city when It is finished."
The Central's plan is to run eight tracks
under Park avenue, instead of four, and
the additional four are to drop sixty feet
below th surface of th street, tunneling
under th present four tracks at Forty
ninth street. There the new yards begin,
which means eight surface tracks and tour
more forty feet below, which will bs Con
nected with the subway, In order that
suburban New Tork Central trains may use
the subway to tha city hall. Th con
struction company In charge of this work
now has at work on Park avenue nearly
600 men; there are also nine locomotives, 200
flat fcars, three steam shovels and fifty air
drills. The result Is that the avenue is in
an uproar with noise of all varieties. Every
home on th West Side has been invaded
by workmen, sewers have been opened.
filling the air with obnoxious odors, and
the incessant din from the air drills has
driven many away into the country. Th
worst of It Is that it will require two years
to complete this work.
Before he sailed for his English home tha
other day William Waldorf Astor put his
name to a check for $476,000, which repre
sented the taxes on the assessed valuation
of Mr. Aster's real estate holdings in New
Tork for the current year. At the rate of
1H per cent as a basis it would appear that
the assessed valuation of Mr. Aster's realty
is something more than $31,000,000. Assum
ing that he derives 6 per cent therefrom
his annual Income from real estate alone
must be about $2,860,000. With th sum paid
by his cousin, th total tax of these two
branches of the Astor family is $826,000, and
If the amounts paid by still other branches
were added the aggregate easily would
reach $1,000,000.
A "get-rich-qulck" concern was nipped In
the, bud by expedition of the police. Th
outfit was found to consist of a young man
in the hall bedroom of a boarding house, a
pile of envelopes and a bundle of circulars.
These promised a return of $1 per week for
each $10 Invested In a discretionary grain
pool.
The young man could net be held, as he
had not yet received a penny from his in
tended victims, who wer farmers of the
far west. But the court held him on the
charge of doing business under the name of
an incorporated company that had never
been Incorporated.
Dispensaries and clinics where th poor
receive free treatment, relates th Evening
Post, are often taken advantage of by well-
to-do persons, ' from various motives,
usually, no doubt, th old desire to get
something for nothing. These impostures
have been annoying, but with every pre
caution this form of charity continues to
be abused. One surgeon, head of a large
Institution of this sort, tells with much
satisfaction of his success in dealing with
a case.
"On day not long ago," h says, "an
elderly man presented himself for treat
ment Ha was shabbily dressed, and I did
not for an instant suspect the worthiness
of th case. He had a tumor on the skull,
a growth with some rather unique features,
which Interested me, and when the man
asked to ba operated on I consented readily.
I told him that I would like to lecture on
his case to my students; he consented
readily and th operation was performed
and tha patient placed in on of th free
beds.
'Do you know that man you Just oper
ated on?' on of my assistants asked me
later. , , -
" 'No . '
" Why, h la , who Is worth at least
a half million.'
The next day I stopped at tha man's
cot and asked Mm If he was the rich busi
ness man referred to. Ha admitted ' it
shamefacedly and pleaded that 'everybody
did If
' Well,' I told him, 'you are an Impostor.
I'm going to charge you $600 for this opera
tion, and If -you don't send me a check the
day you leave her I'll sue you. I'm going
to transfer you to the pay ward, too, where
you will have to pay $18 a week.'
"I got the check promptly, too, and
turned It over to the hospital. If he had
come to me in th regular way my charge
for th operation would hav been only
$260."
Th New Tork correspondent of th Phil
adelphia Ledger notes an earnest effort
being made by the Church of the Trans
figuration, more familiarly known as "The
Little Church Around th Corner," to live
down Its reputation as a place for free and
easy marriages. This famoua little house
of worship celebrated lts-lxty-flfth anni
versary recently, and, to a congregation
that Included many persons who had come
from distant cities to attend the aervlce,
th rector, the Rev. George C, Houghton,
D. D.i talked feelingly and deplorlngly of
th erroneous Impression that his church
Is a haven far. divorced persons and others
who could not get the marriage ceremony
penormeu rinvwncrv. t nvrv ia no bduui
that more marriages hav taken place In
Th Little Church Around the Corner"
than in any other church In the country.
Dr. Houghton aaid that more than 16.000
couples hav beck wedded In this church
were less searching ther than In 4he
churches.
Aa evidence that the greatest care Is ob
served in excluding persons who are In
eligible to legal marriage ha cited th fact
that he turns away on an average seventy
flv couples a month, or nearly 1,000 a year.
He always refuses to perform th cere
mony when parents do not approve of th
union, and will not marry divorced couplea
unlsss tha wedding has been approved by
the higher church authorities.
PERSONAL NOTES.
t
President Butler of Columbia university
wants $2,000,000 for his Institution, and he
wants It now.
ChlcMsrn'n "KunnUnn of erffV h.i ei t
a petition In bankruptcy, with liabilities
of $270,674 and assets of $4,600. '
The absence of the modern western
farmer from nolltlcal meetings Is exnlalnet
by the assertion that he Is either riding on
an automobile or throwing stones at one.
The production of gold In th world at
large Increased last year, but Unci Sam's
share fell oft somewhat The output of
gold bricks In this country shows,' no signs
of diminishing, nevertheless. 1 '
A cousin of John D. Rockefeller, who
bears th distinguished patronymlo of the
oil magnate, is running for the Kansas
legislature on an anti-trust platform. If
he isn't disowned by the voters he probably
will be by th family.
Henry W. Chadwlek. the "father of base
ball," Is still In the front ranks of thos
actively employed In newspaper pursuits.
While over 80 years of age, Mr. Chadwlek
conducts a syndicate of chess, whist,
cricket and base ball specials, and hla
articles on these subjects are as vigorous
today as they were forty years ago or
more.
Graham Kingsbury Molten, the 23-year-old
son of Charles H. Mellen, president of
th New Tork & New Haven railroad. Is
starting at the bottom of tho official ladder
and Is a stenographer and clerk In his.
father's New York office, under the
tion of Mr. Fabian, private secretary to
rresiaent juenen.
The latest venture in thn Inmrmn. ki.
ness is the advent of the Eyeglass Protec
tive association. This concern began busi
ness three weeks ao In New York nt..
Its incorporators are New Tork and Brook
lyn men. The association Insures all kinds
of eyeglasses and spectacles. Dnn riniiai
a year is th fee, and the company guaran
tees to keep tha glasses In repair and hav
a duplicate pair made In case they are lost
or DroKen beyond repair.
A Challenge to Dr. Miller.
Fremont Tribune: Dr. George I Mil
ler's plan for taking the Platte river from
Fremont to Omaha for power purposes was
presented In full with diagrams In Sun
day's World-Herald. Th doctor maintains
the importance of the development of a
power scheme. He says: "I wish to re
mark at the outset that ho mora Impor
tant question than this has claimed th
earnest, intelligent attention of the people
of this city or that more deeply con
cerns every man, woman or child who has
a future at stake in It, sine tha relocation
of tha Union Paclflo bridge from Child's
Mill to Omaha." It will be agreed by
all familiar with the situation that there
ia opportunity here for a great and prac
tical power development The doctor urges
Omaha capital to the task. He believes
in conveying the water to Omaha througa
a canal and there applying the harness.
The main thing is to have It done. If tha
dootor's plan Is better than th Fremont
plan it will doubtless be chosen, when the
tlmo comes. But it would require a mUob,
longer and more expensive canal than
would tha Fremont canal and would
doubtless be much more costly to eon
struct Thus far th financing of tha Fre
mont plan has contemplated a good many:
liberal slices for promoters and rooter, .
W fear that its being so heavily loaded
waa one cause of failure. If the doctor
can dispose of kho leeches) he may pos
sibly get the estimate of cost for his
scheme down to a level with the Fremont
proposition. The latter has a definite esti
mate. It haa stood the test of comparison
with a plan of development at Columbus,
It challenges the Dr. Miller schema ta
test or the same sort
LAUGHING GAS,
"Wouldn't you be dreadfully worried t
your husband should become a free
thinker?"
"Yes." replied Mrs. HenDeck. but thera'n
no reason why I should worry. He doesn't
do the thinking for thla fmnilv St hllA-
delpbia Press.
First Stork Got a pencil?
Second fitork Whn t vrut wan a Jl
with it? '
First Stork I want to put down the at
home" address of a couple who were marw
rted today. Town Topics.
"Do you consider nolsa inlnrinua n
healthr' asked th seeker after informa
tion. "Indubitably." reDlled the old-fajihlnnsit
doctor. "I have always thought that If jlm
Jeffries hadn't chosen bollermaklng as a
trade he might have been a strong aad
healthy man. Chicago Tribune.
T would rather.W declared the nrond eld
millionaire, "follow my daughter to her
grave than see her become your wife."-.
un, man bji rigm, answered trie earer
young man, "you needn't come. 8h oaa
hav her brother or unci or. somebody give
her away." Chicago Kecord-Herald.
When Tim Langhed.
I was seventeen, and she
Blushed and bloomed at twenty-thr
When I hinted we might wed
"You're too young for me," eh said.
But I thirsted through tha years.
Tortured by my hopes and fears;
And I longed to win her so, )'
That it must have helped m grow. -
For I hastened on so fast
My momentum bore me past!
And today, by anguish rent.
See my sad predicament.
She's still twenty-three; while Tva
Waxed sedate at thirty-five;
And I hear her now aver,
I am much too old for her!
D. L. Sabln In. September Leslie's;
AN APOSTROP11B TO A PANAMA HAT.
Oh, Panama! I would I had again
The fifteen aoiiars mat i paia ror you;
For winter draweth nlgb, and Cold and
blue '
I stand and shiver In the night of men.
I bought you In the spring. T'was lovely
then.
The fields were dotted with the purple hue
Of modest violets. 1 flourished, tqo.
With Maude I wandered ln the shady glen.
It is not that I lovo you any leas;
I am not fickle, but I am no cold.
I IihiR so seedy in this summer dress.
'Tis sad a man must fret for filthy gold,
I'll go to Isaac and perchance for thea
He'll trade my overcost again to me.
ISAbKL RlCHET.
Consult your
doctor about
your cough
At the same time ask him
what he thinks of Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral. He will
know all about it, for wc
send doctors the formula.
For over 60years doctors
have endorsed it for colds,
coughs, weak lungs, bron
chitis, asthma. Ltn
