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Speaker Cmim, Chairaai of tie Nationl Con
iiittee, Makes the Address.
RESPONSE OE PRESIDENT THERETO
Chief Executive Touches Upon Some of the
That Will Be Before the People in the
Coming Campaign.
July 27th President Roosevelt was
formally notified of his nomination for
the presidency by the national repub
lican convention. The ceremony took
place at his country home at Saga
more Hill. There was, first of all. an
Informal reception, at the conclusion
of which Speaker Cannon, chairman
of the notification committee, deliver
ed his address, as follows:
Mr. President: The people or the
l'nite.1 State by llxl. heredity. 1-.-Mtion
and practice are a self-govern-Ihk
people. We have 3ometitnes been
Mibject to prejudice and embarrass
ment from harmful conditions, but we
have outgrown prejudice and overcome
..millions as rapidly as possible, bav
ins !' reuard to law and the rlKbts
of individuals. We have sometimes
Made mistakes form a false sense or
jsecurltv or from a desire to change
policies. Instead of letting well enough
alone, merelv to See whut would hap
pen, but we have always paid the pen
alty of unwise action at the ballot box
and endured the suffering until under
the law. through the ballot box. we
have returned to correct policies.
Tested liv experience no nation has so
successfully solved all problems and
chosen projier policies as our nation.
I'nder the lead of the republican party
lor over forty years, the Tinted States
from being a third-class power among
the nations has become in every re
spect Mrst. The people rule. The peo
ple ruling it is necessary that they
should be competent to rule. Compe
tency requires not only patriotism, but
material well-being, education and
statecraft.
IJberal compensation for labor
makes liberal customers or our prod
ucts, ruder this policy of protection
our home market affords all our people
a better market than has any other
people on earth, and this. too. even If
we .11.1 not sell any of our products
abroad. In addition to this, we have
come to be the greatest exporting na
tion in the world. For the year end
ing June r.0. 1904. our exports to for
eign countries were valued at $1,460.
UOo.000. of which $4r.0.0U0.000 were
products or the factory. The world
fell in our debt last year $470,000,000.
mi increase of $7.r..ot0.000 over the pre
ceding year.
IHIeaaaui -t Democracy.
This policv of protection has always
been opposed by the opponents of the
republican party and is opposed by
them today. In their last national
platform, adopted at St. louls. they
denounce protection as robbery, rhey
never have been given iiower. but they
proceed bv word and act to destroy
the iKilioy of protection. Their plat
form is as silent as the grave touch
ing the gold standard anil our cur
rency system. "I heir chosen leader,
after hif. nomination, having been as
silent as the sphinx up to that time,
sent bis telegram, saying In substance
that the gold standard is established
and that he will govern himself ac
cordingly if he should be elected.
Correct revenue laws-, protection or
fiec trade, the gold standard and our
currency sstem. all depend upon the
sentiment of the majority of our Iso
lde as voiced at the ballot box. A ma
jority may change our revenue daws;
: tniiioriiV may chalice our curreny
laws; a majority may dc--tro the --.id
standard and establish the silver
standard, or. in lieu of either or both,
make the treasure note, iioninterest
bearing and irredeemable. the sole
standard of value.
Since the republican party was re
stored to jMtu.r. in IS17. under the
lead of MeKinley. our country has
prospered in production and in com
merce as it never prospered before.
In wealth we stand tirst among all the
nations. Under the lead of William
McKlnley the war with Spain was
speedily brought to a successful con
clusion. I'nder the treaty of peace and
our action Cuba is free. and. under
guarantees wrlten in its constitution
and our legislation, it is assured that
it will ever remain free. We also Re
quired 1'orto Rico. C.iiain and the Phil
ippines by a treaty the ratification of
which was only possible by the votes
of democratic senators. Civil govern
ment has been established in Porto
Ulco. and we are journeying toward
civil government in the Philippines as
rapidly as the people of the archipela
go are able to receive it: ami this. too.
notwithstanding the false cry of "im
perialism" raised by the democratic
party and still insisted upon, which led
to Insurrection in the Philippines ami
tends to leatl to further insurrection
there. The record of the republican
arty under the lead of William Mc
vinley has passed into history. Who
dares assail it?
In pursuance of the usual custom the
ronventon appointed a committee, of
which It honored me with the chair
manship, to wait upon you and inform
you of its action, which duty, speaking
for the committee. 1 now cheerful)' per
form, with the hope and the confident
expectation that a majority of the peo
ple of the republic will in November
next approve the action of the conven
tion by choosing electors who will as
sure your election to the presidency
as your own successor.
At the close of Mr. Cannon's ad
dress. President Roosevelt, standing
on the veranda of his home, under a
festoon of American flags, spoke as
follows:
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee: 1 am deeply
sensible for the high honor conferred
upon me by the representatives of the
republican party assembled in conven
tion, utid 1 accept the nomination for
the presidency with solemn realiza
tion of the obligations 1 assume. I
heartily approve the declaration of
principals which the republican nation
al committee has adopted, and at some
future day 1 shall communicate to you.
Mr. Chairman, more at length and in
detail a formal written acceptance of
the nomination.
Three years ago I became president
because of the death of my lamented
predecessor. 1 then stated that it was
my purpose to carry out his principles
and policies for the honor and the in
terest of the country. To the best of
my ability I have kept the promise
thus made. If next November my coun
trymen confirm at the polls the action
of the convention you represent. I
shall, under Providence, continue to
work with an eye single to the welfare
of all our people.
A party is of worth only insofar as
it promotes the national interest, and
every official, nigh or low. can serve
his party best by rendering to the peo
ple the best service of which he is
capable. Effective government comes
only as the result of the loyal co-oper-ution
of many different persons. The
members of a legislative majority, the
officers In the various departments of
the administration, and the legislative
and executive branches as toward each
other, must work together with subor
dination of self to the common end of
successful government. e who have
been entrust'' with power as public
Here Saved Fifteen Lives.
James Shay, engineer at the Blue
Ridge colliery, near Peckville. Pa.,
with flames all about him and a hose
company playing a stream of water on
him to keep his clothing from taking
fire, stood at the lever in the fiercely
burning engine house and safely
hoisted fifteen men to the surface.
A moment after he staggered out
of the building, with his face and
bends badly blistered, the roof of the
building fell in.
Alum Found in Colorado.
Alum is one of the latest mineral
substances of value to be added to the
list credited to Colorado. A blanket
deposit, four feet thick and of great
width, has been discovered a few
sites east of Florence, and it is pro
noanced to be of high commercial
quality. This is therst discovery of
aim i Colorado.
Catch.
Fresh ophratJoas against the por-
which are spoQlac the sardine
on the canst of Brittany, are
nndertaken by -French tor-
Issues
servants during the last seven years of
administration and legislation now
come before the people content to be
Judged by our record of achievement.
In the years that have gone by we
have made the deed square with the
word: and if we are continued in power
we shall unswervingly follow out the
great lines of public policy which the
republican party has already laid
down: a public policy to which we are
giving, and shall give, a united, and
therefore an efficient, support.
.Mare Fartaaate Taaa Oaaaaeata.
In all of this we are more fortunate
than our opponents, who now appeal
for confidence on the ground, which
some express and i:ome seek to have
confidentially understood, that if tri
umphant they may be trusted to prove
false to every principle which in the
last eight years they have laid down
as vital, and to leave undisturbed
those very acts of the administration
because of which they ask that the
administration itself be driven from
power. Seemingly their present atti
tude as to their past record is that
some of them were mistaken and oth
ers insincere. We make our appeal in
a wholly different spirit. We are not
constrained to keep silent on any vital
question: our policy is continuous, ana
is the same for all sections and locali
ties. There is nothing experimental
about the government we ask the peo
ple to continue in power, for our per
formance in the past, our proved gov
ernmental efficiency, is a guarantee as
to our promises for the future. Our
opponents, either openly or secretly,
according to their several tempera
ments, now ask the people to trust
their present promises in consideration
of the fact that they intend to treat
their past promises as null and void.
We know our own minds and we have
kept of the same mind for a sufficient
length of time to give to our policy
coherence and sanity. In such a fun
damental matter as the enforcement
of the law we do not have to depend
upon promises, but merely to ask that
our record be taken as an earnest of
what we shall continue to do. In deal
ing with the great organizations
known as trusts, we do not have to
explain why the laws were not en
forced, but to point out that they actu
ally have been enforced to increase
the effectiveness of their enforcement.
We do not have to propose to "turn
the rascals out." for we have shown
in very deed that whenever by diligent
investigation a public official can b2
found who has betrayed his trust lie
will he punished to the full extent of
the law without regard to whether he
was appointed under a republican or
a democratic administration. This is
the efficient way to turn the rascals
out and to keep them out. and it has
the merit of sincerity. Moreover, the
betrayals of trust in the last seven
years have been insignificant in num
ber when compared with the extent of
the public service. Never has the ad
ministration of the government been
on a cleaner and higher level- never
has the public work of the nation been
done more honestly and efficiently.
l'adM ta t'aaagr Umo Fallrlea.
Assuredly it is unwise to change the
policies which have worked so well
and which are now working so well.
Prosperity has come at home. The na
tional honor and interest have been
upheld abroad. We have placed the
finances of the nation upon a sound
gold basis. We have done this with
the aid of many who were formerly
Mir opponents, but who would neither
'' I'.pori nor silently acquiesce
in i lie heresy of unsound finance, and
we have done it against the convinced
ami violent opposition of the mass of
our present opponents who still refuse
to recant the unsound opinions which
for the moment they think it inexpe
dient to assert. We know what we
mean when we speak of an honest and
stable currency. We mean the same
thing from year to year. Wc do not
have to avoid a definite and conclusive
committal on the most important issue
which has recently been before the
people, and which may at any time in
the near future be before them again.
Upon the principles which underlie
this issue the convictions of half of
our number do not clash with those
of the other half. So long as the re
publican parly is in power the gold
.standard is settled, not as a matter
of temporary political expediency, not
because of shifting conditions in the
production of gold in certain mining
centers, but in accordance with what
v regard i the fundamental princi
ples of national morality and wisdom.
I'nder the financial legislation which
we have enacted there is now ample
circulation for every business need,
anil every dollar of this circulation is
worth a dollar in gold. We have re
duced the interest-bearing debt and in
still larger measure the interest on
that debt. All of the war taxes im
posed during the Spanish war have
been removed with a view to relieve
the people and to prevent the accumu
lation of an unnecessary surplus. The
result is that hardly ever before have
the expendtiures and income of the
government so closely corresponded.
In the fiscal year that has just closed
the excess of income over the ordinary
expenditures was $9,000,000. This does
not take account of ir.0.000.000 expend
ed out of the accumulated surplus for
the purchase of the isthmian canal. It
is an extraordinary proof of the sound
financial condition of the nation that
instead of following the usual course in
such matters and throwing the burden
upon posterity by an issue of bonds,
we were able to make the payment
outright and yet after it to have in the
treasury a surplus of $160,000,000.
Moreover, we were able to pay $5,000.
000 out of hand without causing the
slightest dsturbance to business con
ditions. Caaatrjr aa High Plaae.
We have enacted a tariff law under
which during the past few years the
country lias attained a height of ma
terial well-being never before reached.
Wages are higher than ever before.
That whenever the need arises there
should be readjustment of the tariff
schedules is undoubted: but such
changes car. with safety be made only
by those whose devotion to the princi
ple of a protective tariff is beyond
question: for otherwise the changes
would not amount to readjustment but
to repeal. The readjustment when
made must maintain and not destroy
the protective principle. To the farm
er, the merchant, the manufacturer this
is vital: but perhaps no other man is
so much interested as the wage work
er in the maintenance of our present
economic system, both as regards the
finances and the tariff. The standard
of living of our wage workers is high
er than thnt of any other country, and
it cannot so remain unless we have a
protective tariff which will always
keep as a minimum a rate of duty suf
ficient to cover the difference between
the labor cost here and abroad. Those
who. lika our opponents, "denounce
protection as robbery" thereby explle
itly commit themselves to the proposi
tion that if they were to revise the
tariff no heed would be paid to the
necessity of meeting this difference
between the standards of living for
wage workers here and la other coun
tries; and therefor on this point their
antagonism to oc. position is funda
mental. Here again we ask that their
promises and ours be Judged bv what
Gen. Von Troth's.
Gen. Von Trotha. commander of
the Sixteenth Infantry division of the
German army, who recently sailed
for German South Africa to take
charge of the campaign against the
Kaiser's rebellious subjects, the He
reros. is fifty-six years old. From
1894 to 1897 he commanded the
Kaiser's colonial forces in East Africa
and in 1900 he accompanied Count
Von Waldersee to China, with the
rank of major-general.
Franz Josef's Titles.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
is nine times king, twice a grand
duke, once a grand prince, and the
multitude of the titles as count and
so fourth is past enumeration. In
addition, as King of Hungary, he
bears the title of "most apostolic,"
which is one of four honors bestowed
on him by the Pope.
Priests May Grow cards.
It is understood that the Pope is
to issue a regulation whereby all Ro
man Catholic bishops and priests who
so desire may allow their beards to
grow.
nas been aone in the immediate past.
We ask that sober and sensible men
compare the workings of the present
taria law. and the conditions which
obtain under it. with the workings "of
the preceding; tariff law of 1894 and
the conditions which that tariff of 18
helped to bring about.
Aa ta Reelaraclty.
We believe In reciprocity with for
eign nations on the terms outlined In
President McKinley's last speech,
which urged the extension of our for
eign markets by reciprocal agree
ments whenever they could be made
without injury to American Industry
and labor. It is a singular fact that
the only great reciprocity treaty re
cently adopted that with Cuba was
finally opposed alone by the represen
tatives of the very party which now
states that it favors reciprocity. And
her again we ask that the worth of
our words be judged by comparing
their deeds with ours. On this Cuban
reciprocity treaty there were at the
outset grave differences of opinion
among ourselves; and the notaoie
thing in the negotiation ana ratinca
tlon of the treaty, and in the legisla
tion which carried it into effect, was
the highly practically manner in which
without sacrilce of principle these dif
ferences of opinion were reconciled.
There was no rupture of a great party,
but an excellent practical outcome, the
result of the harmonious co-operation
of two successive presidents and two
successive congresses, this is an il
lustration of the governing capacity
which entitles us to the confidence of
the people not only in our purposes
but in our practical ability to achieve
those purposes. Judging by the history
of the last twelve years, down to this
very month, is there justification for
believing tnat under simiiiar circum
stances and with similar initial differ
ences of opinion, our opponents would
have achieved any practical result?
We have already shown in actual
fact that our policy is to do fair and
equal justice to all men. paying no
heed to whether a man is rich or poor;
paying no heed to his race, his creed,
or his birthplace.
Capital aad l4iaar.
We recognize the organization of
capital and the organization of labor
as natural outcomes of our industrial
system. Kach kind of organization is
to be favored so long as it acts in a
spirit of justice and of regard for the
rights of others. Kach is to be grant
ed the full protection of the law. and
each in turn is to be held to a strict
obedience to the law; for no man is
above it and no man below it. The
humblest individual is to have his
rights safeguarded as scrupulously as
those of the strongest organization,
for each is to receive justice, no more
and no less. The problems with which
we have to deal in our modern indus
trial and social life are manifold: but
the spirit In which it is necessary to
approach their solution is simply the
spirit of honesty, of courage, and of
common sense.
Irrlgatloa aad Caaal.
In inaugurating the great work of
irrigation in the west the administra
tion has been enabled by congress to
take one of the longest strides ever
taken under our government toward
utilizing our vast national domain for
the settler, the actual home-maker.
Hver since this continent was dis
covered the need of the Isthmian canal
to connect the Pacific and the Atlantic
has been recognized: and ever since
the birth of our nation such a canal
has been planned. At last the dream
has become a reality. The Isthmian
canal Is now being built by the gov
ernment of the United States. We
conducted the negotiation for its con
struction with the nicest and most
scrupulous honor, and in a spirit of
the largest generosity toward those
through whose territory it was to
run. Kvery sinister effort which could
be devised by the spirit of faction or
the spirit of self-interest was made
in order to defeat the treaty with Pan
ama and thereby prevent the consum
mation of this work. The construc
tion of the canal is now an assured
fact: but most certainly it is unwise
to entrust the carrying out of so mo
mentous a policy to-thoe who have
endeavored to defeat the whole under
taking. Our foreign policy has been so con
ducted that, while not one of our just
claims has been sacrificed, our rclatoius
with all foreign nations are now of
the most peaceful kind; there Is not
a cloud on the horizon. The last cause
of irritation between us and any other
nation was removed by the settlement
of the Alaskan boundary.
In the t'arribean sea we have made
good our promises of independence m
'ub;i. and have proved our assertion
that our mission in the island was
one of justice and not of self-aggran-dir.etnent:
and thereby no less than by
our action in Venezuela and Panama
we have shown that the Monroe doc
trine is n living reality, designed for
tiic hurt of no nation, but for the pro
tection of civilization on the .western
continent, and for the peace of the
world. Our steady growth in power
has gone hand in hand with a strength
ening disposition to use this power
with strict regard for the rights of
others, and for the cause of interna
tional justice and good will.
Itralre Frlraaaala af WerM.
We earnestly desire friendship with
all the nations of the New and Old
Worlds: and we endeavor to place our
relations with them upon a basis of
reciprocal advantage instead of hos
tility. We hold that the prosperity of
each nation is an aid and not a hin
drance to the prosperity of other na
tions. We seek international amity for
the same reasons that make as Re
lieve in peace within our own borders;
and we seek this peace not because we
are afraid or unready, but because we
think that peace is right as well as
advantageous.
American interests in the Pacific
have rapidly grown. American enter
prise has laid a cable across this, the
greatest of oceans. We have proved
In effective fashion that we wish the
Chinese empire well and desire its in
tegrity and independence.
Our foothold iri the Philippines
greatly strengthens our position in the
competition for the trade of the east;
but wc are governing the Philippines
in the interest of the Philippine people
themselves. We have already give
them a large share in their govern
ment, and our purpose is to increase
this share as rapidly as they give evi
dence of increasing fitness for tho
task. The great majority of the offi
cials of the islands, where elective or
appointive, are already native Fill-
f ilnos. We are now providing for a
egislative assembly. This is the first
step to be taken in the future, and
it would be eminently unwise to de
clare what our next step will be until
this first step has been taken and th
results are manifest. To have gone
faster than we have alreaay gone in
giving the Islanders a constantly in
creasing measure of self-government
would have been disastrous. At the
present moment to give political inde
pendence to the islands would result
in the immediate loss of civil rights,
personal liberty and public order, as
regards the mass of the Filipinos, for
the majority of the Islanders have been
given these great boons by us. and
only keep them safe because we vigi
lantly safeguard and guarantee them.
To withdraw our government from the
islands at this time would mean to the
average native the loss of his barely
won civil freedom. We have estab
lished in the islands a government by
Americans assisted by Filipinos. We
are steadily striving to transform this
into self-government by the Filipinos
assisted by Americans.
The principles which we uphold
should appeal to all countrymen, in
all portions of our country. Above all
they should give us strength with the
men and women who are the spiritual
heirs of those who upheld the hands
of Abraham Lincoln; for wc are striv
ing to do our work in the spirit with
which Lincoln approached his. During
the seven years that have Just passed
there is no duty, domestic or foreign,
which we have shirked: no necessary
task which we ..-e noi performed
with reasonable efficiency. We have
never pleaded impotence. We have
never sought refuge in criticism and
complaint Instead of action. We face
the future with our past and our pres
ent as guarantors of our promises, and
we are content to stand or to fall by
the record vhcli we have made ant
are making
Mighty Bag of Big Game.
It is often said that the day of the
big same hunter in Africa is over,
now that the continent has been par
celled out by white nations, seamed
with railroad, and more or less civi
lized. But there is still good- sport
there, judging by the experience of
Mr. A. C. Butler, a young Scotchman,
who recently returned to his home
after a hunting trip in Abyssinja.
According to a Scottish newspaper,
he brought with him the skins; tusks,
or skulls of thirty-nine lions, eleven
elephants, twenty-two rhinoceroses,
four leopards, and forty-two antelopes.
Ke shot every one of these 118 ani
mals himself.
Expert of German Toys.
Since 1896 the exports of German
toys have risen from $9,280,000 tc
$13,566,000 a year. The native con
sumption is estimated at $16,660,000 a
year.
Tipserary Centenarians.
Twenty-four persons living in Coun
ty Tipperary, Ireland, are centenarians.
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STEAMSHIP MINNESOTA TO TRY
TO LOWER OREGON'S TIME
Great interest is manifested in the
long race against the time made by
the battleship Oregon, during the
Spanish-American war. by the mam
noth steamship Minnesota of the
Ireat Northern Steamship company.
In order to better the time made
y the Oregon, the Minnesota must
make the 14,000 miles to .San Fran
cisco to Key West in sixty-five days.
Allowing for the time to New York
from Key West, seventy-two days
would heat the Oregon's record.
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VALUE OF THE RAILROADS.
Investment Placed at $12,000,000,000
by Interstate Commission.
Railway statistics for the year end
ed June 30, 1903, are announced by
the interstate commerce commisison,
They show that the par value of the
railway capital then outstanding was
$12,599,990,258, which represents a
capitalization of $63,186 a mile. The
number of passengers carried was
694.891.535. an increase of 45.013.030
over the previous year; freight car
ried, 1,304,394.323 tons, an increase of
104.078,536 tons.
The gross earnings from the opera
tion of ihe total of 205.313 miles of
railway line, which is the aggregate
single-track mileage, were $1,900,846,-
907. an increase of $174,466,640; oper
ating expenses. $1,257,538,852, an in
crease of $174,466,640; operating ex
penses. $1,257,538,852. an increase of
$141,290,105; net earnings, $643,
"08.055. an increase of $3:5.176,
535; income from other sources than
operation. $205,687,480; net income,
available for dividends or surplus,
$296,376,045.
Total casualties. 86.393. of which
9,840 represented the number of per
sons killed and 76,553 those injured.
Aggregate number of locomotives in
service, 43.871. increase 2,646; cars in
service, 1.753.389. an increase of over
113,000 during the year.
AMERICA IN THE LEAD.
Educational Institutions of This Coun
try the Best.
United States Consul Dledrlch at
Bremen, Germany, has been making a
close study of German universities as
compared with those of the United
States. Mr. Diedrich. who was long
a college professor in this country, de
clares most emphatically that in bis
judgment the "United States offer to
day facilities for collegiate, academi
cal and postgraduate studies equal in
quantity and quality to those offered
by any country in the old world."
American attendance at German uni
versities is growing smaller continu
ally. There is less potency to-day
than there used to be in the expres
sion "He was educated abroad."
American students have learned to ap
preciate the advantages offered by
American educational institutions.
MADE THE AUDIENCE GASP.
Paper Favoring Vivisection Read Be
fore Its Opponents.
The British Anti-Vivisection society
was thrown into spasms at its recent
annual meeting through the indiscre
tion of Lord Liangattock, a member,
who asked permission to read an in
teresting letter from a military officer
whose name he did not give. In the
course of the communication the writ
er said: "My views as regards anti
vivisection are these; that all the ani
mals in God's creation should suffer
the excruciating torture of hell for
millions of years, provided that by do
ing this they saved humanity from a
pain in its little finger for five min
utes." The paper was excluded from
the society's report and Lord Liangat
tock was politely requested to famil
iarize himself with his correspondence
in future before laying it before the
august body.
Duchess Likes Fast Traveling.
The duchess of Marlborough is con
stantly in trouble over the rapid driv
ing of her automobile. She is abso
lutely reckless about traveling at a
high speed, with the result that her
cbaffeur is about half the time be
fore some English magistrate on
charges. She will not have a driver
unless he can get the top speed 'out
of the machine. The duchess con
tends that motors were made to run,
not to crawl. When the duke is
along, however, she has the car kept
at a moderate speed.
Will Cut Cardinal's Incomes.
Plus X. is introducing many econo
mies in the church administration. It
comes largely from his ideac based on
hi3 personal experience when he was
a cardinal. At that time, in Venice,
he lived on $200 a month and had
free use of a house and a gondola.
He now proposes to reduce the in
comes of all the cardinals in Rome,
allowing them by way of compensa
tion free residence in papal palaces.
The cardinals do not take kindly to
the suggestion.
Author's Conception of Life.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has the
prizefighting conception of life. He
estimates man by his brute pluck, his
se-called sporting instincts and by the
acute cunning that he brings to the
The Senses of Animals.
John Burroughs, after a careful
study covering many years, is of the
opinion that animals 'don't think, but
have n keen perception, and live en
tirely and through their senses.
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The Minnesota is one of the two
largest ships ever built in the United
States. Her gross tonnage is 20,718;
net tonnage, 13.323; length. 626 feet;
beam, 73 feet
COSTLINESS OF MODERN WAR.
Combatants Already Are Spending
$3,000,000 Every Day.
It comes pretty high for nations to
quarrel these days when implements
of warfare have such tremendous pow
ere of destruction and so much deli
cate machinery plays such an import
ant part in the game.
Military experts have figured out
that the war in the Far East is now
costing the belligerents Just about
$3,000,000 a day. Of this sum It. is es
timated that the cost to Russia is
$1,800,000 and to Japan $1,200,000.
That the war is proving more expen
sive to the Russians than to the Japa
nese is due to the fact that it is being
J fought so far away from the main
1-ase.
If Great Britain should happen to
become involved in the struggle the
experts think it would mean the
waste of $5,000,000 a day, $35,000,000
for every .week the struggle lasted.
And these figures take no account of
the initial cost of fitting out the
armies and fleets.
CLEVER DEVICE OF HUSBAND.
Bouquet of Parma Violets Put End to
Divorce Proceedings.
M. Porel, husband of Mme. Rejane,
the noted French actress, .tnew how
to touch the tender chord in his wife's
nature when she was trying recently
to secure a divorce from him. She
was playing in London. Every morn
ing she received a royal bouquet of
Parma violets. Finally she became
curious and applied to the florist to
tell her whom her aamirer was. He
cabled to M. Porel in Paris and se
cured permission to tell. When she
learned the identity of the sender of
the violets Mme. Rejane exclaimed
that be was a dear and that it would
be wrong to discard so thoughtful a
man. Then she ordered her lawyer
to discontinue the suit, and the
estranged couple made up. Parma vio
lets did the business. Foxy Porel.
Fads of Society Leaders.
Eastern society leaders have their
fads and superstitions. Mrs. George
Gould defies the old saying that
pearls typify tears and wears a col
lection that outdoes royalty. Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish's luck omen is a
small gold locket with her initials in
monogram. Mrs. Reggie Vanderbilt is
never without a certain bracelet of
Turkish manufacture. Mrs. Tommy
Hitchcock wears horseshoe diamond
brooches. Mrs. Payne Whitney's amu
let is a necklace composed of every
translucent precious stone known to
lapidary art.
Where Balfour Rests.
Premier Balfour has his pleasant
sallies with members of parliament
now and then. John Morley took him
to task some weeks ago for lax at
tendance in the house of commons.
Mr. Balfour denied that there was any
disinclination on his part to attend
the sittings or to listen to the debates.
On the contrary, he declared, some of
the moments of greatest repose that
he could snatch from a somewhat
strenuous and laborious oflclal career
were those spent on the treasury
bench listening to his oratorical
friends.
Colors of tho Campaign.
The current campaign is a sort of
rouge et noir affair as far as the color
of the leaders' hair z concerned. In
red the Democrats have it by a large
majority. Judge Parker has red hair;
so also have Mr. Littleton of Brook
lyn, who nominated him; "Billy" Shee
han of New York, Gov. Montague of
Virginia, John Sharp Williams of Mis
sissippi and Senator Carmack of Ten
nessee. The Republicans are mostly
black from Roosevelt down, save
where time has silvered the locks of
the grave and reverend seniors.
Writes Daily Letter to Brother.
There is one habit that Henry G.
Davis, candidate of the democracy for
vice president, has contracted with
which he will not let even the distrac
tions of a campaign interfere. He has
a brother named Tom to whom he has
all his life made it a practice to write
a letter daily. They have never bad
a disagreement. No matter how many
engagements he has with politicians,
Mr. Davis goes to his room early, even
while In New York, to write his dally
letter to rom.
Feared Homicidal Insanity.
Dr. Eugene Mayraad of Lowell.
Mass.. fearing that he might be seized
with homicidal mania, placed himself
in charge of physicians at one of the
hospitals. He said he felt a desire to
kill somebody and he feared he was
becoming insane.
Immense Window.
The largest window in Britain is
the east window In York cathedral.
It is seventy-five feet high and thirty
two wide.
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PANORAMA
HAS CANCELED ALL TREATIES.
Colomhia Severs Diplomatic Relations
with United States.
The Colombian congress has sev
ered all diplomatic relations with the
United States after canceling all ex
isting treaties and withdrawing all
diplomatic and consular exequaturs.
The action created the greatest ex
citement in Colombia, but has the gen
eral support of the populace, which is
exceedingly bitter toward the United
States.
Colombia has not been represented
diplomatically at Washington for more
than a year. Minister Cocha. who
took up the original canal negotia
tions, was forced to retire from Wash
ington because of his demands for a
personal consideration as a pre
requisite to any treaty. Dr. Herran.
secretary of the legation, concluded
the canal treaty which the congress
of Colombia repudiated.
Then came the revolution of Nov. 3.
by which Panama declared its inde
pendence. Even Dr. Herran retired
from business then, and since that
time Colombia has never been regu
larly represented in this country, al
though Minister Concha has never
presented his recall.
SPECULATES IN QUIET WA
Oldest Wall Street Man Not a Mem
ber of the Stock Exchange.
Five days a week Edward B. Wes
ley goes to Wall street. For a man
who has lived ninety-three years he is
wonderfully sturdy. He is a million
aire many times over, but. although
he is the oldest speculator in Wall
street, if not in the world, he never
has been a member of the stock ex
change. The whirl, the rush and the
roar of the "board" bother him. He
loves to play his part in the great
strife from outside the lines. With
the tape in his hand he sits in his
favorite chair in a commission house
at 7 Wall street, and there feels the
pulse of the market and gives his or
ders to buy or sell. The old man is
proud of the fact that he has been a
speculator all his life, and he confi
dently predicts he will live to he one
hundred and that he will he in the
speculative harness then. He has r.o
thought of retiring. Old and feeble as
is Russell Sage. Mr. Wesley is older
and has been in Wall street twenty
five years longer. New York Corres
pondence Pittsburg Dispatch.
NEW RULER OF ELKS.
William J. O'Brien, Jr., of Maryland,
Chosen for Position.
The election of William J. O'Brien,
Jr., of Baltimore. Md., as grand exalt-
WIL&VT J. 03G&WJ&
ed ruler of the Elks at the Cincinnati
convention is claimed as a victory for
the administration forces over the rad
icals in the order. The new ruler Is a
prominent attorney in Maryland.
Scores the "Scorchers."
Wayne MacVeagh. ex-attorney gen
eral of the United States, has taken
up cudgels against automobile scorch
ers in his neighborhood in Pennsyl
vania. He wants them punished as
severely as tbs state law will permit
and declares that many of the drivers
of these machines are simply speed
crazy and seem to get no pleasure out
of them at a moderate gait. It is
along the country roads tnat most
harm is done. Mr. MacVeagh voices
a sentiment that is widespread and
rapidly intensifying.
Students From Africa and India.
Columbia University"s summer
school is clearly ahead of all its ri
vals, so far as the names of two of
its students are concerned. One i8 a
full-blooded African from the gold
coast, named James Euraan Kodwo
Mensa Ostiwadu Humanpunsam Kweg-yir-Aggrey.
The other, Srirangan
Desikachar Sheshadry Iyrngar. is an
East Indian. Both -re said to be good
students. The former will be the first
negro to receive the Ph. D. degreo j
from Columbia.
Head of Christian Science Church.
Mother Eddy, the head of the
Christian Science church, is 84 years
old. She showed herself in a carriage,
at the recent visitation In Concord,
looking like a woman of not more
than 60 years. She dresses in white.
Tolstoi's Opinion of Spencer.
Tolstoi, in acknowledging the re
ceipt of Herbert Spencer's autobiog
raphy, confessed that he did not like
tho saagUsh philosopher because he
had little heart.
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A Unique Power Plant Location.
Cost of water-power development
depends in large meacure. on the lo
cation of the electric station that is
to be operated. The form of such a
station, its cost, and the type of gene
rating apparatus to be employed are
much influenced by the site selected.
This site may be exactly at. or far
removed from, the point where the
water used is diverted from its nat
ural course.
A unique example of a location of
the former kind is to be found near
Burlington, Vt.. where the electric
power hctisc itself forms the dam. be
ing built entirely across the natural
bed of one arm of the Winooski river
at a point where an island divides the
stream. The river at this point has
cut its way down through solid rock,
leaving perpendicular walls on either
side. Up from the ledge that forms
the bed of the stream, and into the
rocky walls, the power station, about
110 feet long, is built. The up-stream
wall of this station is built after the
fashion of a dam, and is reinforced by
the down-stream wall, and the water
flows directly through the power sta
tion by way of the water wheels. A
construction of this sort is all that
could be attained in the way of econo
my, there being neither canal nor long
penstocks, and only one wall of the
power-house apart from the dam. On
the other hand, the location of a sta
tion directly across the bed of a river
in this way makes it impossible to
protect the machinery if the dam.
should ever give way. Again the pe
culiar natural conditions favorable
to such a construction are seldom
found.
Automobile Fire Escape.
The most important thing for a fire
man to do in case of an alarm is to
get his apparatus on the ground and
working just as soon as he can. No
matter whether he has a chemical ex
tinguisher, a hose cart, steamer, water
tower or a hook and ladder, his par
ticular apparatus may come into play
just as soon as it can be got into
service. In the case of the hook and
ladder truck it may be that even in
the incipiency of the blaze some per
sons have been cut off from escape
and unless the apparatus arrives
early they are forced to jump from
the building or are suffocated in the
smoke and flames. The illustration
Extends Vertically to the Windows,
shows a new use for the automobile
as applied to the fire service, trans
porting an extensible fire escape
thiough the streets to the scene of
the fire. This apparatus is designed
to he elevated to a considerable
height and brought into contact with
the windows to permit persons in
the threatened building to step on
any of the platforms and make their
way in safety to the ground. At each
corner of the carriage is a bracing
post, which is dropped to the ground
as soon as the truck is in position
to prevent the apparatus from weav
ing about on the sprint; trucks.
Victor, Jetley of London. England,
as the designer of i'ms apparatus.
The Life of Machinery.
Although th'e rapid improvement in
electrical devices makes apparatus ap
parently out of date in a very short
time, a good ileal of electrical ma
chinery is still in use and giving a
good account of itself after prolonged
years of operation. Some of the early
Edison dynamos are still doing i;ood
work, and the material of the origi
nal Sieniens-Halsk- electrical road is
stH used for a trolley lint near Chil
Ior.. Switzerland, though it was de
vised twenty-three years ago.
On the other hand, a great deal of
old machinery has been worked over.
The managers of a steel plant at
Hamilton. Ontario, say that they have
worked over into steel the iron of the
original Niagara suspension bridge,
that of the Vic.oria bridge at .Mon
treal, the hull of the once-famous At
lantic steamship City of Rome, and
the framework of the Great Eastern.
Foundation for Machinery.
Making the foundations for ma
minery elastic so as to minimize or
pi event the vibration present when it
is operated is a subject which has at
tracted considerable attention of late.
A felt is now being used in many
l parts of Germany for this purpose.
i This felt conies in sheets of ranging
tp.cknesses from & inch to 1
inches and is impregnated with min
eral fat to make it moisture proof. It
w:ts intended for insertion beneath
rails, girders and machine beds, but
its use has been extended to str-am
hammers, railway cars, stationary en
gines, anil it has even found a place
on shipboard to separate the machine
rv from the decks and bulkheads.
New Idea in Ocean Rafts.
The Pacific coast, noted for the
enormous scale of all its undertakings.
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the handling ot huge logs into raits
which well merit the term gigantic.
Huilding a cradle iu the form of the
hull of a big ocean liner, the tall tim
bers are floated alongside and liftcl
in by means of a steam derrick. Whr
the raft has reached the dimensions
of a whaleback in length and depth
upwards of K0 tons of chain are bouna
around it. the removable aide of the
cradle floated away, and it is ready
for towing to sea for shipment.
Incombustible Celluloid.
j A valuable addition to the materials
suited for use in manufacturing elec
trical appliances is thought to have
been patented. To a solution of cellu
Frenchmen of an incombustible cellu
loid, for which the process has just
neen patented. To a solution of cellu
loid is added a mixture of ether and
alcohol, containing iron salts. A clear
liquid of the consistency of sirup re
sults, and when from this the solvents
are driven off an incombustible nanin
flammable material remains. The ma
terial can be worked as easily as ordi
nary celluloid, and is suited to the
many uses of that material while doing
away with its greatest danger.
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AIR IN A REFRIGERATOR.
Haw to Maintain Constant and Even
Circulation.
Constant Suascriber.-Pie.se de
cribe how to ventilate a refrigerator
that Is used for storing meat in large
quantities. -
It is impossible to ventilate a r
frigerator and maintain condition
suitable for preserving meat. Venti- -Iation.
of course, means a change of
air. and to bring the warm outside air "
into a refrigerator would be to make
it anything but a refrigerator. Prob
ably the correspondent means, in
stead of ventilating, maintaining a
circulation of air through the refrig
erator. This is doue in various ways,
For keeping meat, a cold and dry air
is necessary, and this can be doue
best by means of the following plan,
a drawing of which is herewith sub
mined.
In order to have a room sufficiently
cold, it will be necessary to use salt
anu ice in iron cylinders. The
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Cross Section of Refrigerator.
Moor and cylinder should be some
what as shown in "the drawing. Any
ordinary refrigerator with space over
head can be made over according to
thib plan. The top of the cylindei
should be two feet or more above the
ceiling of the refrigerator, in order te
create a current of the wanner ait
from the top of the refrigerator up
through the spac between cylindei
and wall, as shown by the arrow,
and down through the space sur
rounding the cylinder, thence out to
the refrigerator at the floor Hue. A
fairly good circulation can be ob
tained by thifc intrant, of cold, dry air.
The ice for the cylinders should be
broken up into piece;- varying iu su
from half a pound down to poller.
and with each shovelful of ice put
into the cylinder a sprinkling of salt
should be added. A number of cylin
ders in a row along the side of the
wall would be necessary, the number
depending upon the size of the re
frigerator and the temperature re
quired. This cannot be specified
here. Outside of the row of cylinders
a thin partition is constructed six
inches below the ceiling of the re
frigerator. These are shown in the
plan. Below th row of cylinders a
trough sloping in one direction
should be placed for the purpose of
carrying off the meltage. This trough
may connect with an iron pipe lead
ing through the outside wall. An
ordinary trap iu this pipe, constructed
as a U-shaped bend, would prevent
the air from the outside from enter
ing. Weeds.
Z. Kindiy tell me what will kill
burdock, carraway and mullein; the
are growing in my garden?
You should have no difficulty at all
in getting rid of the three weeds you
mention, for they are all large, grow
ing conspicuous biennials, or two
year plants, and if hoed up the first
year, or kept from seeding the second
year you should have no trouble in
getting rid of them. The most diffi
cult of the three is the carraway. be
cause it is more easily overlooked, and
is more apt to grow among grasir.
Close mowing, however, for a couple
of years should eradicate it entirely
and without trouble.
Treatment for Moldy Combs.
A. R. -M. What is the best way to
treat old combs in Irames. some of
which are musty?
These combs, if not ton badly mold
ed, can be used again by the bees, as
they will clean them up Just as good
as uew. If they are in very bad con
dition 1 would advise rendering them
into wax and using full sheets of
foundation in their place. The bee.n
will iean up combs that are iu quite
bad condition from mold. (Tare should
be exercised in giving them to the
bees, especially oung swarms. a
they are likely to leave such combs.
I always hive the swarm on a single
frame of clean comb or foundatiou.
and give the bees the balance of their
combs just at nightfall, and by morn
ing they are cleaned and the bees
prepared to accept them. You cau
give an old colony two or three dirty
combs at any time, and if they Bave
bees to cover them they will at once
clean them without difficulty. By fol
lowing either plan joii can get rid of
your old combs without danger or
losing bees by absconding.
Good for Young Artists.
An invention by means of which
perfect drawings in perspective can
be made by an operator ignorant of
drawing is the result of the work of a
Swiss inventor. A telescope with
ctossed hair-lines is connected by
means of levers of the pantograph
i rinciple v.ith a crayon holder. The
machine having been turned in a giv
en direction, the paper is clamped iu
losition and the operator, by so mov
ing the telescope that the crossed
hairs follow the outline of natural ob
jects in the field of view, makes the
crayon draw a true anil correct per
spective outline ujxm the taper.
Crows and Corn.
Air. John Fixter. foreman at the
Experimental Farm. Ottawa, reports
that, he has discovered a very simple
and effective means of protecting
voting corn plants from the ravages of
crows. The plan is to scatter about
the corn field a dozen or two of hen's
eggs, each containing a small quanti
ty of strychnine. The poison is in
serted through a small hole punched
in the shell. Crows are very fond of
eggs, and those which come for the
corn will devour the eggs flrsL The
birds which get a taste of the eggs
will not leave the field but will be left
lying on the ground. In a very short
time the flock will vacate the field
and. warned by the fate of tbeir coni-
panions. give It n wide berth in fu
ture.
Come to Gather Gold.
In 1901. of the total emigration
from Venetia. over 9 per cent. (111.
"8) declared their intention to re
turn, while the balance (5,178) was
classed as perssaaent. emigration.
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