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IN THE LIMELIGHT i PICKED TO SUCCEED GOMPERS James Duncan, selected as the hope of those members and officers of the American Federa tion of Labor who hope to oust President Gom pers from his position at the head of the organi zation. is already the first vice-president of the Federation. He is likewise national secretary of the Granite Cutters' union, and has been prac ticallv the director of the destinies of that bod> since 1895. Duncan is one of the notable figures of the organized labor movement and has taken a prominent part in its affairs. He led the great educational campaign and ultimately the great strike in the granite cutting industry to secure the eight-hour working day in 1990. and repre sented the American labor movement in tl.« P.ritish trades congress at Bristol. England, in 1S9S. In 1901 he was selected as a member of the industrial department et 'he Civic Federation. Proof of the broadness of his intereats is the fact that ue is a member of the National Geographical society, the Public Opinion league and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. A native of Scotland. Mr. Duncan has been a monumental granite cuttet since 1873. and is also a granite statue f itter. He was active in the earliest effort to organize American wage workers for the betterment of their con ditions and has been a vice-president of the American Federation for 14 years. The present movement to place him at the head of the Federation, has been started by that element of the organization which objects to Presi dent Gompers' action in carrying the union movement into partisan politics as a part of the Bryan campaign. The movement has commanded wide sup port among the non-Bryan union leaders, who declare that the Gompers move ment misleads the public in the belief that organized labor's votes can be de livered to any candidate by its leader. They declare with confidence that Gompers will be ousted and replaced with Duncan at the Federation con vention in Denver next month. NEW ASSISTANT POSTMASTER Joseph Stewart, newly appointed second as sistant postmaster general of the United States, owes his good luck at this j>articular time to the rule which President Roosevelt has pronounced to govern all the federal departments. The executive declares that when a man holding an important position engages in outside politics and becomes a candidate for an elective office, he must resign his place at once and separate his name from the Uncle Sam payroll. One of the first men to feel the effect of the new rule was James T. McCleary, second assistant postmaster general. He was formerly a congress man from Minnesota and had become a power in the house when he was unexpectedly defeated two years ago by W. S. Hammond. McCleary was promptly taken care of bv the aDnointment to the postoffiee department, and this year he went out after his old place in congress again. After a bitter fight he secured his nomination, but he still has a hard fight on his hands for the election. He was not permitted, however, to remain in the official list while his cam paign was going on. He was given an intimation that, it would be a graceful thing to resign forthwith. He acted on the suggestion and Stewart was at once named for the vacancy. Mr. Stewart has been connected with the department for many years, and his appointment is really a deserved promotion, for he was superintendent of the division of railway adjustments in the same branch of the postal depart ment of which he is now the head. OFFICIAL WHO WILL BE PROBED Herman A. Metz, city controller of Greater New York, was one of the best known young men in the financial world of Gotham even be fore he was elected to his present position, per haps the most important office of its sort known in America. His administration of the office has been considered far above suspicion, and he has gone to greater lengths than is usuai in an < elective position to save the metropolis from any j wrongful raids upon its treasury, even when the suspicious demands were engineered and ap proved by his fellow officials. It is therefore a matter of much surprise to learn that Controller Metz himself is to be in vestigated. The state civil service commission has decided to take cognizance of the charges filed against the controller's department by the neiorui association oi .-\ew ioi'k. it is alleged oy me rerormers that Me:z lias run his department as a political machine in open defiance of the civil service regulations; that he has made appointments and dictated dismissals among his subordinates from purely political reasons, and that he should be dismissed from his office. The controller meets the charges with a fiat and comprehensive denial. Metz, horn of poor parents and compelled to depend entirely upon his own efforts and acumen, is at -il accounted one of the wealthiest young men in Brooklyn, where he lives. He has made his money in the manufacture of chemicals and dye stuffs, and he is known as a liberal contributor to all char itable causes. He lias spent his money with a free hand wherever he was in terested. whether for the equipment of the state military company to which he belongs, in the political campaigns or his friends, for the benefit of the pub lic schools or in the care for the city's unfortunates. As controller he spends more than $"-10,000,000 a year of the public money, and no charge of dishonesty or graft has ever been hinted against him. He is not a reformer, however, but a stanch believer in partisan politics, in political organizations, machines and 1 aders. and in the old-fashioned style of rewarding the followers of the phrty in power with whatever patronage there is to be distributed without crippling the public service. The outcome of the impending investigation will be awaited with considerable interest throughout the country. HOLDS TICKLISH JOB Sir William E. Goschen, British ambassador to Austria, is at the present, moment standing upon a particularly thin sheeting of diplomatic ice. TTpon his tact and diplomacy depend, in no small degree, the peace of Europe, and the sta bility of the boundary lines of several nations. As the official representative of the British empire at Vienna, Sir William stands between the war dogs that are snarling at each other across the map of Europe. Bulgaria, announcing its independence of Turkish rule, is presumed to have the backing of Austria, which has some ulterior aims of its own. Germany, France, Rus sia and Italy are interested in the embroglio, al though their relations between themselves are such as to make direct action impractical in the nremises. The chance for involving m net nr oil of these nations in a scramble looks excellent, unless the arts of diplomacy shall be successful in keeping them from each other’s throats. In this crisis the British representative on the spot is facing a task of extreme delicacy and in a great degree the outcome for peace or war depends upon his diplo^ macy. Sir William has been in the diplomatic service since 1869, when as a youn° man of 22 he became an attache and was connected with the embassy of Madrid. He rose rapidly from one higher position to another and served at Buenos Ayres. Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Constantinople. Pekin, Copenhagen Lis bon. Washington. St. Petersburg and practically all the important capitals of the world. He was charge d'affaires at Washington in 1893. He reached ihe rank of minister in 1898, when he went to Belgrade, and after two years he went to Copenhagen as ambassador. His transfer to the court of Francis i Joseph took place in 1903. ------ j Truth as to Leprosy. The disease which mankind looks upon with the greatest loathing, and aiso with the greatest horror when he ’ happens to encounter it, is leprosy, ! and leprosy has been thus viewed with terror for years, because it is regarded as contagious, or at least infectious. Now comes Lieut. Charles E. McDon ald of the United States army medical corps with somewhat conclusive proof that it is neither. McDonald has had sxlcnsive experience among the lepers jf the Philippines, and his work among them, together with observa tions and experiments, has led him to believe that leprosy is only a rare form of tuberculosis, contracted by eating diseased sea foods. There is at least this fact apparent to all to sub stantiate his assertion: Leprosy is most common among the tropical is lands, or along the shores of the con tinental tropics, where sea foods are common, and most likely to be in foul condition. Production of Petroleum Increased. The United States, in 1907, pro duced 166,095,335 barrels of petroleum, an increase of 40,000,000 barrels over 1906. THE UtfFltflMED rTWiUOft Oft THE 3LLTrF ATMAHATOftnA One of the most beautiful spots in ne Ozark mountains in Missouri has teen secured by a group of wealthy St. Louis men, who propose turning the tract into a playground for their own delectation. The place is known by the poetic name of Kahatonka and has something of a romantic history, having been originally owned by a St. Louisan named Snyder who chose this wild and wonderful spot, deep in the recesses of a rugged region, and inac cessible to a marked degree, as a place where he could build an ideal home far removed from the marts of men. The original tract of land, con sisting of about 2,000 acres, was pur chased from Maj. Kellogg, Col. R. C. Scott and others. The present estate comprises 5,400 acres, lying in a nar row, irregular shape, the extreme length being 14 miles. Col. Snyder had planned to acquire not less than 10,000 acres. When Mr. Snyder found he had a bigger contract on his hands than he could manage there was a move to have the place purchased by the gov ernment and turned into a national park. Congressman Shackelford put ting forth earnest effort in this direc tion. Failing in this, the place has re mained in a neglected condition until its recent purchase. The name Hahatonka is Indian— meaning laughing waters, it is said— and there is an Indian legend con nected with every scenic feature of the place, most of them lugubrious, as In dian legends are inclined to be. It is said that Mr. Snyder put a quarter of million dollars into the improvements on the place and the visitor is sur prised at the extent of the improve ments, the estimated cost being $200, 000. The pay roll at one time amounted to $1,100 per week. The lo cation of the mansion—such it is called and so it is—is on a high hill, once the site of an Indian burying ground. Many skeletons were un earthed when the excavation for the building was made, and tomahawks and other implements of Indian war fare are yet found. In the mansion are 2S large rooms and many smaller ones—about 00 in aii. The entire building is wired for electric lights and piped for water and gas. 7.000 feet of steel piping having been placed in position. Immense fur naces in the basement supply the beat. Rooms had been planned for the vari ous members of the family. Then there are guest rooms, a smoking room, a billiard hall, winerocm, etc., each fa cing on an inclosed central court ex tending from the first to the fourth floor. Mr. Snyder had selected his own suite of rooms on an upper floor and in the southwest part of the build ing. From the windows one catches a view of unsurpassed and indescrib able loveliness and grandeur. From here one sees the sun sink behind the blue ridges far beyond, lighting with tenderest glow the lake below, and, a little later, as the day dies, kissing good-by to the heights on Sunset hill, the highest point for many miles. To the west of the mansion are the greenhouses—five buildings, two of which are 25 by 120 feet, and three 20 by 50 feet. The boilers and pipes are in place, and the thousands of panes of glass are on the grounds, ready for the frames. A hundred yards or more to the east of the mansion is the stone stable, to by liu teet, and ot even finer workmanship than the house, the stone work having been done by Scotch workmen. Beyond the stable, on a higher point, is the water tower, 80 feet in height and with stone walls five feet thick at the bottom. Count ing from the bottom of the bluff to the top of the tower, the height is about the same as that of Washington monu ment—555 feet. Two pumps, run by water power at the old corn mill, half a mile to the west, force the water into the tower tank, from which it is piped to other buildings and to distant parts of the grounds, including an ice pond built on the hill, as the water in the lake never freezes. It had also been planned to have water furnish power for the electric light plant. Such was the princely home in which Col. Snyder was fated never to reside. At his death the tools dropped from the workmen’s hands, and since then nothing has been done on the es tate except such work as was necessary to prevent destruction by weather. At present the great mansion stands an unfurnished monument to the uncer tainties of earthly ambitions. But in this enchanted spot it is not what man has done, but nature’s work, which awakens our wonder and ad miration. On one side of Sunset hill, to which 'we have already referred, is LOOKING ACROSS HAHATONKA LAKE the great spring which bursts from the foot of the mountain, making a surging stream of clear, cold water which whips itself into foam as it rushes against the rocks, makes the roar of the rapids and, far below the mansion, forms the falls. To the north the rock walls rise abruptly and are bleak and bare, save for some scraggy cedars that overhang the perilous heights. From the south the Big spring is reached by a path, very steep in places, which leads down through dense growths of trees, wild flowers and ferns. The spring (it may be but the outlet of some subterranean stream* has a flow 80 feet across and averaging five feet in depth—a volume of water sufficient to supply a large city. We follow this stream, in whose waters we see scores of fine fish, down through Trout glen, the most beauti ful of all the beauty spots, past the Balanced rock, the meadow and the mill, until it spreads out, forming a 60-acre lake, on which wild ducks nest, and moss and water cress grow. At the lower cou of the lake the water rushes over a dam on through sluice gates, then on a few hundred yards into the Nianeua river, the waters of which, like that of the lake and smaller streams, is so clear that the rocky bottom may be seen to a great depth. To the east of Sunset hill are the Coliseum and Natural bridge. The Coliseum, so-called because of its for mation, natural slopes making seats on all sides, would seat 10.000 people, and the acoustic properties are so superior that all could hear a speech delivered in an ordinary tone of voice. From the central plane rise tall and almost branchless trees seeking the sunshine. The entrance to the Coli seum is through the Natural bridge, 180 feet in height, and above which runs a roadway. Farther to the east is the Devil's fireplace, with an open ing large enough for a yule log that would last a week and a sure-enough chimney, so big that old Santa could drive his deer down it. Near by are the Red Sinks, really a small hill-in closed meadow, without an outlet, the water, after a rain, rapidly sinking into the ground. Hut all the beauties of this wonder land are not above ground. The caves, of which there are a number, are among the finest in America. The principal ones are Island Cave. Coun terfeit Cave, once the headquarters of a band of counterfeiters: Amphithea ter Cave, Bear Cave, in which the last bear killed in the county met its death; Robbers’ Cave, long ago the rendezvous of a band of robbers: River Cave, Cullin's Cave, Onyx Cave, Bunch Cave, Griffith Cave and Bridal Cave. jne hta-Ha-ionha region is an ideal place for the hunter and fisherman. Boating and bathing are also fine. The streams abound in trout, bass, crappie and many other game fish. The late Col. Snyder was an enthusias tic fisherman and stocked the streams with a carload of rainbow trout. The finest trout shown at the St. Louis world's fair were taken from these ■waters. It has been several years since bear were seen, but there are yet a number of deer in this region. Wild turkey are so plentiful that no good hunter who knows the haunts and the “how” need fail in a day's hunt to bag a bird. Wild cats are oc casionally killed and small game of all kinds is plentiful. New Zealand Birth Rate Alarms. France is not the only country with a falling birth rate. The Hon. J. A. Millar, the minister of labor in New Zealand, has been calling attention to the "staggering statistics" on this sub ject in that part of the empire. The New Zealand birth rate has fallen from 41 a thousand in 1880 to 27 last year. The reduction of the attendance at their schools is very noticeable. It is feared that New Zealand's indus tries, instead of expanding, will shrink and disappear if the population is not i maintained. THE PEOPLE’S DUTY. To Support These Who Have Given The State Good Govern ment. The political campaign in Nebraska fast draws to a close and within a few cays the people will render their de cision at the ballot box. While many minor matters of policy have been in jected into the campaign by designing democratic politicians, the real issue in Nebraska stands out clear and plain and no voter should permit his mind to be removed from the real issue tc the minor matters introduced only to befog the mind and play upon the prejudices of the individual. The real issue and, in fact, the only issue in the state campaign in Nebraska, is whether the administration of state affairs by Governor Sheldon and his associates in the state house and th» thorough redemption of all the plat form promises of the republican par ty. made by the last republican legis lature, shall or shall not be endorsed by a vote of confidence from the peo pie, indicating their desire to approve the good work that has already been accomplished in Nebraska and that these policies shall be endorsed and continued. If the people of Nebraska appreciate honesty and intelligence in administration, the square deal prin ciple, as applied to all the relations between the public and corporations of a public nature, together with eco nomical state government and the straightforward fulfillment of party obligations, they will continue the republican party in control. The converse of this proposition is equally true and is the negative side of the real issue in Nebraska. It is, in fact, if the people want to deny conscien tious service the reward that is its reasonable due and to set no higher premium upon faithful performance of duties and scrupulous redemption of promises than they would put oc faithlessness, extravagance and repu diation of solemn pledges, they will I then, in that case, wilfully retire Gov I ernor Sheldon and his republican asso ! ciates in the management of the state I affairs of Nebraska and give control > of these important matters of the peo ! pie’s business to that party which has | not only opposed these reforms but in the days of its success was abso j lutely and uniformly faithless in keep ing the pledges It had made to the | public. l ne real issue being tne question as to whether the people by their votes will sustain and support the reforms they, themselves, asked for, it mav be well to review briefly the promises of the republican party in its state platform of two years ago *and the measure of fulfilment rendered the people by the enactment of thesp promises Into law and the conscienti ous administration of them. That re publican platform of two years ago guaranteed the people of Nebraska, among other things, that it would en act laws. To compel the railroads to pay their taxes at the same time and iti the same manner as private indiv iduals; a direct state-wide primary law for the nomination of all public officers, including congressmen and senators; a law prohibiting free passes 1 in all forms except to bona fide rail way employees, their families and caretakers of live stock; to empower the State Railway Commission to pro hibit rebates, discriminations, special rates to corporations, persons or lo calities, and to reform all unfair and improper transportation discrimina tions; an employers' liability law. ab rogating the old common-law rule of the fellow-servant and permitting re covery for injuries, notwithstanding the negligence of fellow-servants; to ieduce appropriations to meet tha current expenses of state government, administered only under the most rigid economy; a terminal tax law pro viding that railroad property in cities shall be taxed for local purposes the same as private property similarly sit uated. and a pure food and dairy law for the uniform test of these pro-d fcts and the purity of food products offered the public. Few will need to- be told that the republican legislature of 1907, under the leadership of Governor George L Sheldon, and assisted in every proper way by the repulican state officers of Nebraska, redeemed every pledg<> made in this platform and added to it, through meritorious measures, such as tile reduction of the passenger rates, and the abolition of corrupt lobby ing at legislative sessions. These en actments were the result of a con scientious and honest wish to pro vide the people of Nebraska with ev ery reform endorsed by the platform and every other needed measure, though perhaps not mentioned in that, document, necessary to give those promises full force and effect. ilia real issue touay is. ao uie peo ple of Nebraska.really care that these great steps in the march of progress were taken? Will the people in whose behalf these laws were enacted stand themselves in support of them by giving a vote of confidence to the men who with courage faced every ad verse interest and with rare fidelity to the people enacted these reforms into law and redeemed to the full ev ery pledge and promise made. There is no indication that the citizens of Nebraska will fail to do their duty and rally to the support of Governor Sheldon and the republican state and legislative tickets. To fail in that would be to repudiate all the pro gress made in state government in the last two years, the two years brightest in the history for the clean cut and effective rule of the people and Nebraskans have never yet re pudiated an obligation or proven false to a public duty. Make the vote straight for Sheldon and the whole republican ticket and prove to the world that Nebraska has lined up per manently for good government. CAST YOUR VOTE ! Nebraska will show a republican majority for Taft and Sherman, for Sheldon and the republican state tic ket, if the men of Nebraska who favor their election go to the polls and vote. It is a sacred duty to protect your own prosperity. It can be done no other way. Do it. Cast your vote and let nothing prevent you doing so. E First Interest cf the Nation That the People Prosper. Inthe closing days of the national campaign it will be well for the farmer, business man and workingman, who may be not wholly convinced as to where his best interest lies, to pause and consider the real meaning of the campaign the country is passing through as shown by the efforts made by the two great parties to present to him the issues of the times and there by hoping to favorably influence his vote. Into this campaign the democra tic party has wilfully injected ques tions having no clear relations to great national policies, for the sole reason of clouding the real issues and keeping the thought of the people as far removed as possible from the sub ject of widespread business disaster and the grinding hard times which have fallen on the country at every period when the democratic party was given power in the nation and the op portunity to put into actual practice its high-sounding but disastrous theor ies of government. As an example of this palpable attempt to merely cloud the real issue may be cited the great democratic uproar over the “publicity of campaign contributions." This is a country of ninety millions of people whose vast interests of daily life, of food, clothes, shelter, education and the million necessities that are permitted through prosperity or de nied by adversity; are inseparably bound up in governmental policies, tha result depending on the wisdom of those policies and that, with such enormous interests of a great people and a vast nation at stake, the demo cratic party should make the isolated Incident of "campaign contributions" the foremost issue of the hour, proves that party's utter incompetency to deal W'ith the great questions before the people of the nation. That issue was settled in Nebraska by the “Corrupt Practices Act," passed by a republi can legislature nearly ten years ago. making full publicity a matter of law with severe penalties, and which, by the way, has been ignored and avoided wherever possible by the democratic party managers in Nebraska. That is sue has been settled in the nation nearly two years ago by law enacted by a republican congress forbidding corporation contributions under severe penalties and the voluntary selection by the republican party as its national treasurer of a resident of New York state, whose stringent laws compel the fullest public accounting of campaign receipts and expenditures. Such is the “paramount issue" presented by de mocracy to a nation whose people and whose business affairs are the greatest in the world. On such great subjects as “contributions” the vast interests of ninety minions of people are to be caref for if they place democracy in the seat of power to administer this great government. The republican par ty in the nation comes to the voter with greater and it believes, more im portant issues. The republican party believes that general, continued and widespread prosperity for all the peo ple under a government pledged to the "square deal” policy of Theodore Roosevelt in all things, is the real and greater issue in this campaign. That William H. Taft will honestly, conscientiously and vigorously endeav or to carry to completion the great and wise policies of Roosevelt has the unqualified endorsement and promise of President Roosevelt himself, and that Mr. Taft, through the administra tion of republican policies that affect the material welfare of the country will govern through a period of un exampled prosperity that will reach into every household in the land is already proven by the established facts of history. The assertion Liiat “good times or bad times" never flowed as the result of government ad ministration is sometimes heard in de nial of nistoric fact, a fact so well established that only a clear memory of a dozen years past in Nebraska proves the contention. The country was prosperous from shore to shore when, in 1892 by a small margin of votes in a single state, the people turned their government over to demo cratic rule and democratic free-trade theories of which they had heard so much, for the purpose of experiment. The democratic party made the experi ment and the i>eople of this great country had the experience and a most serious experience it proved to ue. ,\ir. bryan. the present democratic candidate for president, was on hand, a member of congress, ready to as sist in enacting his •‘theories” into law. This with the help of a demo cratic majority and a democratic pres ident he succeeded in doing and the result was that statute of folly and disaster, the Gorman-Wilson free-trade tariff bill that wrecked prosperity from the farm to the factory, from the mill to the meadow, put more than two millions of workers on the streets and highways looking for work that could not be found and carried into the home of America both on the farms and in the towns, more of wretchedness and disaster than tongue or pen will ever tell. That same issue, "prosperity” that is the issue today should have been the issue then, but the people forgot until it was too late. For four lean and hungry years democratic “thories" of business stalked through the land and distress spared no one but the extremely wealthy and even they sat by and saw their property and investments shrink and crumble. As the end of those four democratic years approached the real problem on the Nebraska farm and in the Nebraska household was a meagre living and in many homes actual want was a not in frequent visitor. The product of the farmer’s toil did not return the cost of production and debt, with crushing rates of interest, hung like a pall over the farmer while the workman walked the streets in search of employment, unable to buy the farmer’s produce even at the ruinously low prices at which it was offered The re-enactment of the republican protective tariff laws in 1897 changed these disastrous conditions and there has followed the most prosperous years ever experienced with good prices for the farmer and a good job at good wages for the workingman. THE TEACHER’S CREED I believe in boys and girls, the men and women of a great to-morrow; that whatsoever the boy soweth the man shall reap. I believe in the curse of Ignorance; in the ehicacy of schools, in the dignity of teaching, and in the joy of serving others. I believe in wiBdom as revealed in human lives, as well as in the pages of the printed book, in lessons taught, not so much by precept as by example; in ability -— I to work with the hands as well as j think with the head; in everything j I that makes life large and lovely. I | | believe in beauty in the school room, | in the home, in daiiy life and out of , doors. I believe in laughter, in love, i in faith; in all ideals and distant hopes that lure us on. I believe that every hour of every day we receive a just reward for all we are and all w-e do. I believe in the present and all its opportunities; in the future and its promises, and in the divine joy of living.—Edwin Grover. How Red Herrings Came. The first red herring was accident ally produced in England many years ago by a fisherman, who. having a sur plus of fresh herring, hung them up in a smoky shed to dry and then for got all about them. When he looked at them some time after he found that they had changed in colbr. The king, to whom the fishes were pre sented, was so interested that he gave permission to the fisherman to ex hibit them around the country as strange monsters. Jealousy a Sham. Jealousy is a terrible thing. It re sembles love, only it is precisely love’s contrary. Instead of wishing for the welfare of the object loved, it desires the dependence of that object upon itself and its own triumph. Love is the forgetfulness of self; jealousy is the most passionate form of egotism. ! REMARKAci. E “SPITE HOUSE." Built Around Giant Elm Because Neighbor Wouldn’t Buy Lot. Des Moires. Ia.—Dr. A. G. Field, a prominent Des Moines physician, ia completing the most remarkable “spite house" in the state. Recause his next-door neighbor, Charles E. Walker, a wholesale cigar dealer, would not purchase the lot of Dr. Field the latter is erecting his new home as near the lot line on Walker's side as possible. And be cause a giant elm tree stands within a few feet of the line and upon the Dr. Field’s “Spite House.” site chosen by the doctor, the latter has built his house around the tree. The tree in question is a giant elnt. It is more than 100 years old and is a landmark in Des Moines. Dr. Field refused to fell it. But he wanted to be on that lot line if possible. That is why he left a hole through the middle of his house, causing more talk among Des Moines folk in that vicinity than any residence in the entire city. To construct the house it was nec essary to build a portion of it from scaffolding suspended from the branches of the old elm. This was because Mr. Walker got somewhat spunky himself and threatened to en join Dr. Field's workmen from even so much as stepping a foot on his lot while they were building the house. He didn't enjoin them, but he built a high, barbed-wire fence square ly on the line. This cut the carjien ters off from putting on the weather boarding on that side. So they worked for days on the suspended scaffolding. While they were thus engaged thou sands of people gathered in front of the residence and gossiped about it; also about Dr. Field and his strange method of getting even with a non purchaser of his property. Walker made another threat. He said he would cut off every single branch of the big elm tree that hung over his land, even down to the fraction of an inch. But his wife talked him out of that because she said she liked the shade. Neighbors are now whispering that Walker is planring to erect a board fence 20 feet high on his lot line, which will completely shut out the light from that side of the Field house. Just what Dr. Field will do in that contingency is a matter of spec ulation. Dr. Field’s residence, while it is of the bungalow design, is no cheap af fair. The doctor has spared no ex pense in fitting it up. He is now liv ing in a brick mansion on Forest ■ j avenue, in the fashionable district of the city. But when the new house is completed in a fortnight he will move into it and convert his brick residence into a private sanitarium. The tree stands in a chute running up through the northeast corner of the long living room, which faces the street. From the living room, just south of the tree, a window opens into the shaft which houses the massive - trunk. The window permits the en trance of air, but no light. MAY REPRESENT THE KAISER. Possible Appointee as German Ambas sador to United States. Washington.—Count Mumm von Schwartzenstein, who may be appoint Count Mum von Schwartzenstein. ed ambassador from Germany to the United States, is now German minister at Tokyo. He has served in the orient since 1900, when he was ap pointed minister from his country to China, and in 1899 negotiated the par cels post treaty between the United States and Germany. For a time he served at the German embassy in this city and was a social favorite, being young, handsome and wealthy. The count married an American, Miss Maude Le Vinsen of New York, who was one of the belles of Washington and whose maternal grandmother was Mrs. Cornelius Roosevelt. They Do. “The intrinsic value of a gift should never be considered by the re cipient. It's the sentiment that counts.” "That is true. But I notice that most people carefully remove the price tag. just the same."—Cleveland Leader. When Charm Meets Charm. Mr. Black—I don hab my rabbit's foot erlong, but she gimme de mah ble heaht jes' de same. Mr. Jones—Mebbe she done had her rabbit's foot erlong, too.—Sketchy Bits.