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before m thla 80th day of September. 1904.
(Seal) M. B. HUN GATE.
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Only two weeks left for the campaign
workers. It la to be a short campaign
In fact n well aa In name this year.
Have you registered? If not, be
sure to register Friday. Take no
chances on losing your vote by your
own neglect. .
Have you beard the stunning news?
The repavemeut of North Sixteenth
street hns actually begun. Blow the
siren whistle!
' A Russian diplomat alleges that Ad
miral Rojestvensky ia an extremely
nervous man; which allegation seems to
be redundant and unnecessary under the
circumstances.
Nebraska day at the fair has been
celebrated with befitting credit to Ne
braska. Nebraska, moreover, has always
been one of the Items of credit in the
Louisiana ;ptrchasi : -,; '
The "harmless" candidate will dis
cover the day after election; that he bas
done more harm than good for himself
In the defensive and offensive alliance
with "Howell the Humbug."
A semi-official report to a medical so
ciety says there are 20,000 quacks in
New York city. , The patent medicine is
not the only obstacle with which the
regular practitioner bas to contend.
The man who enjoys a lively cam
paign should go to the Rocky mountain
country. From Canada to Mexico and
from Colorado to California there is not
a voting district where the presence of
apathy can be truthfully alleged.
The completion of the harvest should
see signs of more vigorous life In the
Omaha Drain exchange. The corn and
wheat aro In sight the problem is to
get It cleared for market through the
Omaha exchange.
If the managers of the democratic
party believe all they say on the Panama
question they Have an excellent oppor
tunity to prove their contention In court,
as a on xo Is now being heard to stop the
payment , of . the money for the canal
strip.
Thomas Tibbies evidently believes that
he Is really running for the vice preel
dency, for that Is the only possible ex
planation of his predictions of a panic
within two years. The calamity song
lost its hypnotic Influence after the out
come of ltSM. '
Senator Fairbanks baa the aatlsfacitou
of knowing that be Is not tearing down
any of the ideas be helped to form into
legislative measures while on bis pres
ent campaign tour and in this respect
be can rest much easier that several
speakers of the opposition party.
People who thought the vindication ot
Captain Dreyfus would end that cele
brated case are doomed to disappoint
ment, fort the men who worked to secure
bis conviction are now to be tried and
the reading public may as well refresh
Its memory as to brochures and notes.
Annual reports of western railroads
show that as compared with eastern
roads they have enjoyed unusually good
business the past year, and, what Is
more, had the benefit of specially eco
nomical management. As paying prop
erties, the western roads have advanced
several notches on the financial scale
during recent years.
u 1 1
The Washington Tost votes Grovrr
Clovelaud "the roost reoisrkable specta
rls In the history ef modern politics,"
and adds that uad the democracy been
wise enough to nominate him as their
candidate, not aD tbeVrww' of the em
battled ' government could have pre
vented bis election by en overwhelming
majority." It will take several pairs
sf spsi'tacles to make pvoyle umt thut.
BALDWIN AND BERGE.
Two years ago John N. Baldwin of
Conncil Bluffs was caricatured in every
Issue of the Omaha . World Herald for
months as the pmgmltor of "Our Man
Mickey," and Governor Mickey lost
thousands of votes because people were
led to believe that he was owned, body,
soul and breeches, by John N. Baldwin.
This year the first caricature of John N.
Baldwin at the guide, philosopher and
friend of "Our Man Mickey" has yet to
appear In the World-Herald. .
Why Is this thus? Ia it because
Mickey has mortally offended Baldwin
In refusing to appoint bis pets to tbe
Omaha Are and police board and turned
down his requests for executive clem
ency to Inmates In the penitentiary?
Surely such matters. of comparatively
trivial moment would not Justify Bald
win before his employers In giving aid
and comfort to the populist candidate for
governor. Other questions more perti
nent to the rank and file of republicans
and tie people ot Nebraska generally
suggest themselves.
Would John N.v Baldwin, political
headlight of the Union Tnclflc railroad
be praying and plotting for the election
of George W. Berge, a populist with
pronounced anti-monopoly views, unless
he had received poeltiveassuranee of gen
erous treatment for himself and the al
lied railroad corporations which he rep
resents In the present campaign? Is the
preconcerted effort to defeat Governor
Mickey's re-election merely Intended as
a warning to all other republican candi
dates In the future that Mr. Baldwin's
will and wish moat be Implicitly obeyed,
let the consequences be what they may?
We realize that In the eyes of John N.
Baldwin Mickey's offense was rank, not
only In the matter of appointments, but
Iq the assessment of railroads In general
and the Union Pacific and Northwestern
In particular, Mr. Baldwin had made
up his mind that a raise of 15,000,000
or $ft,000,000 In tbe general assessment
of Nebraska railroads would be enough,
but Mickey voted to raise the assess
ment by $19,000,000, and that destroyed
the illusion of the TJnion Pacific mag
nates in New York that Baldwin was
the real governor of Nebraska and "Our
Man Mickey" only a dummy. '
The paramount question now before
the people of Nebraska, therefore, is.
What are the relations of Berge to
Baldwin and what obligations has Mr.
Bergs assumed that would justify the
political headlight of the Union Pacific
before bis employers In supporting the
populist candidate for governor of Ne
braska? ' A REPUBLICAN HOUSE NEEDED.
There fs reasonable certainty of the
election of Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
There is some doubt about the house of
representatives and the democrats are
claiming that they will bave a majority
in the lower branch of the Fifty-ninth
congress. Speaker Cannon recently ex
pressed the belief that the republicans
will control the house, but be hod not
found in, the close districts he visited
as much Interest as Is desirable. If
the house should be lost to the repub
licans It will be due to apathy, and it
is to be feared there is much more of
this than there ought to be. , ,
The Philadelphia Press remarks that
if the democrats, through the aid of the
solid south, should obtain a majority in
the house legislation, beyond the pas
sage of . the necessary appropriation
bills, would be at a standstill. "The
president cannot do much to develop the
nation without tbe aid of congress and
with one house under control of one
party and tbe other in the control of
the opposite party practically nothing
would be accomplished." While It is
true that a democratic bouse could not
effect any legislation of a partisan char
acter it could block legislation for tho
carrying out of republican policies and
in this way might do no little amount
of mischief. It is therefore manifestly
Important that a republican bouse be
elected with a republican president.
since otherwise the recommendations ot
the hitter would be of no avail. What
la needed for the continued progress
and prosperity of the country is that the
government shall be wholly In repub
lican control. :; '
TBE NORTH SEA INCIDENT.
The firing upon British ffsblng ves
sels by Russian warships was unques
tionably a serious matter, but there is
no reason to apprehend that any grave
trouble will result from it. Very prop
erly the British government has taken
a firm stand in the matter and proposes
to insist upon apology and an ample in
demnlty. To this, according to the ad
vices from St. Petersburg, tbe Russian
government will accede, only asking
such delay as may be necessary to ob
tain tho facts in the case from the com
mander ot the naval squadron. Such
a request is of course entirely reason
able.
Obviously Russia cannot afford to
get Into any serious complication with
Greet Britain over this matter and her
wise and safe course will be to placate
British indignation and resentment as
promptly as possible. How keen this
is was shown in the popular domonstra
tlon against the Russian ambassador in
London, an Incident which, by the way,
does not In the least reflect upon the
government, though quite forcibly show
log the feeling of antagonism toward
Russia In the public mind of England.
This Is far more Intense and deep
seated than Is generally understood and
It bas been growing since the war In the
far east.
That tbe trouble will be settled to tbs
entire satisfaction of the British govern
ment there appears to be no reason to
doubt From such Information as there
is at hand the course of the Russian
naval officer seems to be utterly inex
disable and Indefensible. It Is no palll
ation of his offense that be had been
wnrned of a possible attack by Japa
nese vessels. Tha question suggested
by this and other Incidents since tbe
breaking out of the war is whether the
JBusalan naval commanders general!;
are so carefully Instructed In regard to
their duties and responsibilities as they
should be. There Is reason to doubt
whether they are so well versed in the
principles snd regulations of Interna
tional law ss nre the naval officers of
other countries. It Is hnnlly concelv.-
able that an American or British officer
could commit so grave a mistake as that
of firing npon a fleet of fishing vessels.
whose character Is said to have been
easily discernible.
SVIT8 AQAiyST COMBINATIONS.
The democratic party claims to bave
done quite as much ns the republican
party toward enforcing the law against
combinations or so-called trusts. Mr.
Cleveland, whose last administration
gave only a perfunctory consideration to
the anti-trust law, on the ground that
the act was defective and inadequate,
said In bis recent speech that "the peo
ple will hardly approve the vociferous
pride which, claims that a successful at
tack upon the merger of the stock of
certain competing railroads has rescued
them from their oppressors." Yet It is
unquestionable that this was one of tho
most Important actions ever brought
under the act of J 890, not alone in tba
public interests,, but in the giving to
the law. a scope and comprehensiveness
which It had not before been thought it
possessed. The decision in this cose of
the highest tribunal may not indeed
have "rescued the people from their op
pressors," but it went a very long way
in that direction and will render some
what less difficult the efforts hereafter to
be made to relieve the people of the op
pression of the combinations.
The Department of Justice hns re
cently prepared a statement which
hows that since the enactment of the
Sherman law there have been twenty
seven suits brought and prosecuted by
the federal government under its pro
visions. The first of these was In 1800,
under the Harrison administration, and
was decided in favor of the govern
ment Five suits were instituted in
the next two years, in all of which the
government was defeated. In 1892 the
famous Transmlssouri Freight associa
tion case was started and ran along
until 1897, when a decision was rendered
in favor of the government. This was
prosecuted under both republican and
democratic administrations. A couple
of minor cases were won in 1893, but in
1895 tbe government lost its case
against the Sugar trust. There was a
victory for the government in the Joint
Traffic association suit which is placed
to the credit of the democratic adminis
tration, as is also the verdict for the
government in the Addyston ripe com
pany case, although the decision in this
was rendered during a republican ad
ministration. The department state
ment shows that six suits have been In
stituted under the present administra
tion, tn four of which the government
has been successful, two being still In
the-courts, . , - ,
The record shows that In the enforce
ment'. of the anti-rust (aw "republican
administrations have decidedly the ad
vantage over the Cleveland administra
tion, and for the simple reason that the
former had faith in the adequacy of the
act of 1890, while the latter had not.
It was the opinion of Mr. Olney, when
attorney general, that the law was in
sufficient and this view was concurred In
by Mr. Cleveland, yet a democratic con
gress made no effort to remedy the al
leged defects in the law and strengthen
it where it was, in the democratic view,
assumed to be weak and defective. In
face of the record tho attempt of the
democracy to discredit republican fidel
ity to the anti-trust law must prove
futile.
The contract for nn electric lighting
plant to be established in Lincoln within
the next six months has been awarded,
an Omaha firm carrying off the outsldo
work. The total construction expense
under the Lincoln contracts is less than
$70,000 and will give Lincoln an electric
light plant capable of generating 325
standard electric arc lamps. In other
words, the city of Lincoln, with about
one-third of tho population of Omaha,
will be able to light all its streets with
first-class are lamps for an investment
not exceeding $100,000. It goes with
out saying that $400,000 will bo ample
for a municipal lighting .plant that will
furnish electric lights for every street in
Omaha and do away with gas and gaso
line lamps altogether. Can anybody
explain why Omaha should not make a
beginning in municipal ownership this
fall or next year? Of course, the elec
tric lighting monopoly will object and
so will all its paid lobbyists, Its hired
knockers and Its beneficiaries.
If there is any good reason why re
publicans should not vote for tbe can
didates on the republican ticket in this
city, county and state in November, it
has not yet been advanced. Direct
primary nomination took away every op
portunity to work convention sales snd
trades and every candidate on the ticket
la there because more of the rank and
file favored him than bis unsuccessful
opponent.
City Electrician Mlchselson Is charged
with being responsible for the threat of
tbe fire insurance companies to raise in
surance rates in Omaha unless the couu
til enacts an ordinance that will safe
guard life and property in Omaha from
defective electric wiring. Mr. Michael-
son csn stand the responsibility.
Remember that no one can vote In
Omaha or South Omaha who does not
appear personally before the registrars
of his precinct and hare bis name prop
erly enrolled on the registration Itooks.
No. registration of previous years holds
good for this year, Register next Fri
day.
lrarroaa a ad Praperlty.
San Franclaco Chronicle.
Ia 1W1 there were 821,(16 railway em
ployea; the number dropped to 786.081 In
1896; It Is now 1.312,537. The (27,000 taken
ou wrire IK'S, and who one their jobs to
the Increased proeperlty of the country
could glte Le l'ttrker bureau some poluta
on the cost of living; so. too, citild tba
mors than HS.0W) who were knocked out
of employment by the hard times which
followed the threat of repealing th pro
tection laws.
Bryaa Wla Sliver Medal.
New York Tribune.
Mr. Bryan won a silver meflal at 8t.
Loula for hla eshiblt of rys grown on
Ma farm In Nebraaka. Were he running
for the presidency this year this would
win him many votea in Kentucky.
Baele ef rlarlty.
Waahlngton Post.
The La Follette managers have asked
the republican national committee to keep
Its spellbinders out of. Wisconsin. Still,
some persona profess to be unabla to under
stand why La, Follette ia popular with the
plain people.
Aaaerloa'a Imdaatrlal Explolte.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The United States ralaes one-fifth ef the
world's wheat, four-fifths of Its corn, one
quarter of Its oats and four-fifths of Its
cotton. Our exploits In thla induatry af
ford an admirable refutation of the free
trad charge thst the protective policy Im
pedes the agricultural development of the
country.
Talk About lllah Speed.
Brooklyn Eagle.
It took four .days to run a train thirteen
miles on the Siberian railroad a while
ago. but the tracks are now clear and
trains go whisilng over them at a pace
of thirteen milea an hour. An American
train operated on that line would startle
the Ruaalans almost as much as the ap
pearance of a Japanese regiment.
Warm LinUarr ia the Race,
Iloaton Herald.
The planet Jupiter Is now culminating In
his greatest brilliancy, and it Is the testi
mony of the aatronomers that no heavenly
body that adorna our evening sky, except
the moon and, at times. Venus, can com
pare in glowing splendor with this magnifi
cent orb, whose diameter is eleven times ?
greater than the earth's.
Royaltr'a Ideala of Valor.
Chicago-Record-Herald.
Grand Duke Boris of Russia has been
decorated by the csar with the Cross of St.
Oeorge. Boris is the young man who
alashed General Kouropatkln's ear because
the commander wouldn't let the grand duke
hold high revel in camp with a lot of woman
who claimed to be "perfect ladles." Thus
Is valor rewarded at St. Petersburg.
Characterlatlca Americana Admire.
. Philadelphia Press.
Roosevelt's American pluck appeals to
Americans. They like a man to speak
out, even at the risk of being caught up
for some small slip. If he has what fas
tidious people call bounce, the average
American never forgets that this country
waa made by people with bounce. On the
big main laaue President Roosevelt Is right,
He Is an American. He slips, he overaays
It and gets some detail wrong, but the
great mas of his fellow cltlsens watch
with a just pride a president frank, manly
and fearleaa, holding the center of the
world's stage, known to all the world, ex
ecuting the laws and observing the con
stitution, but always remembering that a
government Has no right to stand still or
wait on some one to wake up, but ought
to find the lawful means and the consti
tutional way to carry out a great national
policy. , ,.
THH SENATE'S DYI.VO THIRD.
List of Members' Whose Terms Expire
- - v.tl t Tear. '
t .. i'NesV'Tork Bun.",""
. Below Is a jllat ot the members of the
United States .senate whose present terms
expire March 3, 1906, with the length of
time each has been a member of that body.
Former Governor Crane of Massachusetts
Is not yet a member of the senate, for he
has not been sworn. If Senator Fairbanks
Is elected vice president, the Indiana legis
lature must elect a successor to serve out
his term, which expires March 8, 1906, when
the term of , the vice president expires.
Hera is the list:
Service In
Name. Pol. State. Years.
Aldrlch, Nelson W...R.... Rhode Island. .24
Ball. L. Hetsler R... .Delaware i
Bard, Thomas R R.... California 5
Bate, William B D Tennessee IS
Beverldge, Albert J. .R... .Indiana 6
Burrows. Julius C... R... .Michigan 10
Clapp, Moaes K R... .Minnesota 4
Clark, Clarence D....R....Wvomlng 10
Cookrell. Francis m..l.... Missouri ...
Culberaon, Chaa. A. ..D... .Texas
Daniel. John W D... .Virginia ...
Depew. C. M R....New York .
Dietrich, Chas. M.....R....Nbraaka ..
Foster, Addison O....R.. ..Washington
Gibson. Paris .-, T)... .Montana ...
Hale, Rugene ..R... .Maine
Dick. Charles R....Ohlo
Hawley Joseph K R... .Connecticut ...24
Kean. John ,.R....New Jersey..., S
Kearns, Thomas R....Utah 4
I.odge, Henry C R..,.Msachusetts.lS
McComsa. Loula E.... R....Marvland S
McCumber, Porter J.. R.,. .North Dakota. S
Money. Hernando D-.D... .Mississippi ....
Proctor, Redfleld R... .Vermont 14
Ouarlea. Joseph V..., R.... Wisconsin 6
Knox, Philander C... R....ni"vlvinla.. 1
Poott. Nathan B R....W. Virginia....
Stewart. William M.. R....Vevda 1
Taliaferro, James P. .D... .Florida t
ARB RKPI BLICA1XS SPENDTHRIFTS t
Comparison -with the Records of tho
Cleveland Administration.
. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Judge- Parker's chief campaign argument
Is the "extravagance" of McKlnley and
Roosevelt as compared with Cleveland.
Senator Allison at South Bend, Ind., on
Friday proved that Judge Parker Is Igno
rant of the facts.
The average annual Increase of expendi
tures in Cleveland's last term over Harri
son's term was $26,500,000. As the nation
was at peace, thla may be taken as the
normal Increase required by the country's
growth. It was the rate of Increase estab
lished by the democratic party.
Aside from those for the army and navy,
the expenditures of Cleveland's last term
averaged t2T5.BOO.000 annually. On the same
baala thoae of McKlnley's first term aver
aged 1295,760,000. The average annual rate
of increase was 123.260,000, or 51,760,000 less
than the democratic rate.
Take another comparison insisted upon
by Judge Parker: The democratic appro
priations for the three fiscal years ending
on June 50, 1897, aside from those for the
army and navy, averaged 5275.000,000 an
nually. The republican approprlatlona for
the three fiscal years ending June 80, 1904,
aalde from those for the army and navy,
averaged 5300,000,000 annually. The average
annual rate of Increase, after not four but
seven years ot national growth, waa 126,
000.000 still leas than the democratic rate.
Democrats contend that military expenditures-
should not be omitted from these
comparison. To Include tham would be
manifestly unfair. At least four of tbs
seven McKlnley-Roosevelt years bave been
years of war. The war with Spain, with
Its consequences, was not brought about
by either party. It waa forced upon this
nation by the acta of Spain.
As Senator Allison rightly amid, the ques
tion of expenditure Is not a partisan one.
In congress democrata have been no leas
eager than republicans tn spend the peo
ple's money. Neither party ran claim
monopoly of "economy." Neither can
safely charge Us rival with all th "ex
travagance." . But the republican party can and does
challenge comparison of the records, for
these prove that the republican party In
the laat aeven years has kept the rat of
Increase In national expenditure below that
regarded sa right by th demoaratlo party
when It was in power.
JOIH U KEEDT..
Those who know John L. Kennedy re
quire ho reasons and need no argument to
convince them that he la entitled to their
vote. In a larg district, however, such
as the Second congressional, there ar of
necessity a vast numher who do not have
suci personal knowledge of the man as to
enable them to weigh his merits, know his
life or Judge his worth. It Is to those
that t wish to present my reasons why
John L. Kennedy should be the next con
gressman from this district.
He received the nomination after a fair,
clean contest. He Is a man of high char
acter, excellent education and splendid abil
ity. 11 has carved out hla own fortune.
Is a first-class lawyer, occupies an enviable
position among his fellow attorneys and
has the respect and esteem of the people
among whom he has lived for almost a
quarter of a century. He not only has th
carefully trained mind of the lawyer, but
he has been a student ot history. Is well
grounded In the science ot political econ
omy, has kept well Informed on all public
questions and taken a prominent and active
part In the solution of important problems
which have confronted our people in our
own county, state and nation.
He has given freely of hi money and his
time, not only to his pnrty, but to the up
building and development of his home city
snd the state of his adoption. He hus
never been a factionalism but always a re
publican, loyal to his friends snd just to
his enemies.
Important and grave national prob
lems await solution. John L. Kennedy
can aid In solving them. It Is essential
that there should be a good, safe working
majority In congress, and all thoae who
admire our strenuous president and agree
with his policy can, by their vote for John
L. Kennedy, do their part in upholding
Theodore Roosevelt. He can do more for
this district than his opponent, hampered
as he Is, and selfishness slone. If their
were no other reasons, should ' Impel re
publicans and democrats alike to vole for
the republican nominee.
Now, let me warn you not to be Indiffer
ent or apathetic. John L. Kennedy's op
ponent Is also a 'man of high character
and sterling worth, indeed, a gentleman
and a scholar. He has many friends; he
will get a large vote, and I therefore appeal
to republican voters to be up and doing, it
their wish to keep In force thoae principles
and policies which are dear to us all and
which have made our party great and re
spected. '
John I j. Kennedy's heels are squarely
placed on th republican national platform.
If you believe In that platform a vote for
him will aid In it support and you will
never have to apologise for casting It in
his favor or blush for his conduct when he
represents you In the councils of the na
tion. He will be watchful of what af
fects the Interests of his home district.
He loves the state of his adoption and has
breadth of thought and patriotism sufficient
to make his services of value to the whole
country. He la clean, fearless and able.
No one can control him. He will always
be close to the people and will try earnestly
to Inform himself of their needs, and when
h has weighed matters well and arrived at
a conclusion, nothing will swerve him from
what he thinks Is the path of duty, and
when his vot Is recorded on any matter It
will be rendered according to th best Judg
ment of John L. Kennedy. ,
I have given a few reasoni, why he should
receive your vote. I know of none why
he should not. ROBERT COWELL.
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.
Chicago Tribune: Debs thinks that if be
could get the votes of the "working people"
of this country he would be elected. . He
would by over 12,000,000 majority.
Philadelphia Press: Tom Watson Is prob
ably too extravagant when he says that
510,000,000 were paid for the nomination of
Parker, for the Job would be dear at any
price. "
Washington Post: Tom Watson says he
does not car where the votea com from
so long as he gets them. Tom Is not so
different from the other candidates as he
would try to make us believe.
Chicago Post: Grover Cleveland has sent
to Pennsylvania for a mascot horseshoe
for Judge Parker. The only antidote for
this daring maneuver Is for the republicans
to send to Texas for a good luck emblem
for President Roosevelt.
New York Tribune: The report that
Parker, in the event of his failure to be
elected, will be made general counsel of
tho New York subway at a salary of 550,000
a year may be said to Indicate that Mr.
Belmont realises his responsibility for the
present campaign.
Brooklyn Eagle: Mr. Bryan, ' who Is
now engaged In lighting up rainbow In the
west, intimates that Abraham Lincoln was
a man of the people, quite like In appear
ance, virtues and purposes to one who
would accept his place for a consideration,
but who should b nameless for the present.
Baahfulness Is Mr. Bryan's most persistent
falling.
New York Tribune: The Evening Post
declares that It finds reason for opposing
President Roosevelt in the "strenuoslsslml
cujusque perlculum." When Andrew Jack
son received his degree at Harvard and
everybody 'talked Latin, he remarked that
the only Latin he knew was "B Plurlbus
L'num." He would not do for the Parker
democrat of today.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Now that James Bryce, the distinguished
English visitor, has been made an LL.D.
by Columbia university, he Is the owner of
four such degrees, the others having been
conferred by Ann Arbor, Glasgow and
Edinburgh universities.
Dr. Swallow says he has written letters
to both President Roosevelt and Judge
Parker, but has received no replies. , Both
gentlemen are quite busy just now. Per
haps by the middle of next month they will
find time to answer him.
Colonel "Pick" Jones, who was a room
mat of Edgar Allan Poe at West Point,
died In Austin, Tex., on Wednesday. He
was to yeara old, and waa an Intimate
friend of "Davy" Crockett, General "Sam"
Houston and many other noted men of
early days.
After walking from Terre Haute, Ind.,
to Knoxvllle, Tenn., and despairing of sue.
cess, T. E. Leroy, a tramp, was offered
and accepted 5164.000 for a one-fourth In
terest in a patent to tie the ends of steel
rails together. ' The New York Central
railroad Is th purchaser.
William K. Vanderbllt, jr., has been
elected a director of the Lak Shore
Michigan Southern railroad, th first rail
road board to which he has been chosen,
and he Is th first of tbe younger genera
tion of Vanderbllta to be admitted to any
of the Important railroads in the Vander
bllt system.
Israel ZangwiU Is again a vlaltor to New
York, having arrived laat week. Mr. Zang
will la much Interested la the plan to
establish a oolony of Ruaalaa Jew Iq Brit
lah Bast Africa, and will make an effort
to Interest prominent American Hebrews In
the project. The British government has
offered a tract ot 400 square miles to ths
coloniser.
John M. Lorets, th Brooklyn musical
composer, Is about to go to Mexico to mik
bis boms. ' lie la th author of "Pearl of
Bagdad" and a muss that won papal dec
oration. He la leaving this country at th
age of U, expecting to find In hla new
horn a mora appreciative and sympathetic
peopl and to accomplish the life work
which h bltv himself cupaU.
ROtD AIIOtT HEW YORK.
Ripples nm th9 enrrent of Mf
Metropolis.
It will coot the city of New York . just
5.'W to receive and declare the vot of
on Joseph Thomas on election
Thomas haa no greater drag than ths aver
age man. His weight la about right, M"
sis normal and his Job as lumber ysrd
boss Isn't Influential enough to shake the
balance of power. But Thomas has an n
tlr election district to himself, and the
government would blow Its lat cent rather
than deprive a sovereign of the b.esied
privilege ot voting. Who knows but what
one lonesome vote may turn the scale?
Thomas Is the only voter left In ths dis
trict stripped of homes to make room for
St. Gabriel's park. All others have bceo
banished. H Is receiving mora considera
tion from an official point of view than any
other voter In th United States. Th district
election board, much th same In personnel
as th registration board, will alt another
day to receive Thomas' vot. That will
end It, however, for never sgsln will th
city pay so much to give Thomas a chance
to exercise his Inalienable right of suf
frage. Details have been given out about a re
markable run made a few days ago by a
fast mail train on the New York Central
railroad. There Is now official testimony
to a report that a train of an engine and
six cars made the run from Albany to New
York. 141 miles,, in 143 minutes, averaging
SO. 42 mllea an hour. The time mad, two
hours and twenty-two minutes, beats the
regular schedule of th Empire State ex
press by eighteen, minutes. Th regular
schedule of th train that mad th rec
ord, however, la three hours and twenty
five minutes, sad the schedule running
time of the other regular trains on the
road between' this city and Albany Is
about three houre and ten minutes.
The Empire Stat express, which makes
regularly the beet run on the road, carrlei
usually three cars, sometime four. Car
for car, those on th Empire Stat are
heavier than the mall cars, but the mall
train was composed of six oars, all heally
laden, and, taking these facta Into consid
eration, the officers of the road said ths
other day that a new record had been
made. The train left Albany one hour and
ten minutes late and It was to mak up
thla time that, the engineer bent his ef
forts so successfully. The run from Rhine
cliff to Staatsburg, 5.49 miles, waa mad In
four minutes, or at the rate of nearly
eighty-three miles an hour, but these per
formance were eclipsed between Croton
and Osstnlng, when the engineer, pushing
his engine to th limit, made tho 8.51 miles
In exactly two minutes, or at the tremen
dous rat of 106 milea an hour.
The run waa made at an Ideal hour for
making fast time, between 1.46 and 4.07 In
the morning. As this was practical rail
roading, the record run la of greater sig
nificance than the results ot the Zoesen
peed trial In Germany.
"Whatever may Interest th average
New Yorker most, one of the things that
concerns him least Is his mother tongue,"
writes Richard Holbrook in . Metropolitan
Magasine. "In th choice of his clothes he
Is as scrupulous as any barbarlo king. He
ia fond of society mainly because he ha
friends and because he like to ba 'In th
swim.' Unlike th business man of Franc
or Italy, he Is seldom a fluent talker and
rather given to despising those who are.
his chief literature Is In journalese. When
this average man goes horn he Is usually
In no mood to think consecutively. His
wife and daughter are, however, quit
likely to be interested in good literature,
and it is noticeable that they generally
speak more elegantly than he. To be brief,
his Intellectual Interest aro mostly com
mercial; he cares littla for books, good or
bad, and he cares still lesa a'bout th lan
guage In which they are written.
Frenchmen are not often nice In dress, but
they are keen to distinguish the niceties ot
language. They are artists in every-day
speech, and French books, therefor, and
even the French newspapers, do not teem
with blunders, as do ours. Your upper
class Englishman also Is so scrupulous in
this regard that he will hem and haw for
the right word rather than be guilty of
slang. In English drawing rooms there ar
many person who eeek through slang a
reputation for genuine wit (such persona
are not Infrequent here), but whoever dis
likes Jargon snd bad sounds wl:i listen
with pleasure to the careful, sweetly mod
ulated speech of th cultivated men and
women of England. Their language la to
day as sweet and pure as it ever was, snd
it smacks of the soil."
"Dr." Olney Richmond, grand master of
the Order of the Magi, has been arrested
on complaint of the County Medical soci
ety, which accused him of practicing med
icine without a lloense. He gave powders
to a woman detectlv who pretended to
ba 111.
Dr. Richmond Is about 60 years old and
began six weeks ago to advertise that the
Order of the Magi waa ready to instruct
students. The seeker would receive th
explanation that . th .Order of the Magi
flourished on the continent of Atlantis 1600
B. C. The continent, aocordlng to Magi
records, waa submerged In 1600 B. C, when
ths Magi crowd fled to Egypt. In th new
country the Magi, It appeared, prospered
until th dark ages, when priestcraft be
headed them all except two. ' Sine that
time the mysteries of th order have been
handed down verbally to candidates In due
form after the candidates have met th re
quirements of the order.
Right there cam th rub. It cost 8100
to be initiated. Also -the student would
"find it needful to possess the works of
Dr. Richmond I ., 'The Religion of th
Stars,' 51-25: 'Evolutionism,' 51-86; Th
Mystlo Text-Books,' 55; flv of our principal
charts, 60 cents each, 58.60."
According to th pamphlet, the course
of study covered eight weeks, during which
Dr. Richmond gave lectures on "astronomy,
astrology, chemistry, geology, evolutionism
and other subjects which ar secret to th
order." i i.
The students of the order are supposed
to range three degrees Neophyte, Mystlo
and Master at the rat of 55 a degree, .
New York' expenditures, aocordlng to
the budget finally decided upon by tha
Board of Estimates, will be 8110.600,000 next
year, an Increase of about 53,860,000, but
there will be no Increase in the tax rate.
It I expected that the Increase In th
budget will be provided for by th tag to
b realised from th normal Increase lu
tbe assessed values of taxable property
and th normal Increase in tha general
fund. The Increase of only 53.K60.0OO shows
that ths board did some heavy cutting In
th amounts asked for in th vsrloua de
partments. Ia all, the Increase asked for
aggregated over H8.00t.0O9. The borough
presidents ar particularly displeased with
ths amounts allowed to them and ther has
been a heavy cut In th amount asked for
by th Board of Education. It Is generally
admitted however that th hoard could not
have been more liberal wltheut Increasing
the tax rate, and to maintain It as It la
aeems to bsv bean tha principal considers
tion. They war standing th front of tha Met
ropolltan Museum the other afternoon, two
young New Yorkers, relate th Evening
PohL ,
"Why do they hsv thst high gravestone
In th park?" asked tha girl. 'This len t
a cemetery."
Th bo allowed her te tak th full f.
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plained, condescendingly :
"That Isn't a gravestone. That's an ob
solete; an Egyptian obsolete."
,"Oh," sighed the girl; "I wonder why ,
they call it an obsolete."
I Ann't know that." answered the vouna .
encyclopedia, "but papa ssys there's sn-
other obsolete In Paris, and ft one waa
Cleopatra's needle."
His companion took the measure of th
New York needle again with a speculative
glunce. "I wonder If It is called an obso
lete," she ventured, "because w don't US
that kind of a needle nowadays!"
PASSIMU PLEASANTRIES.
"Do you think a man's Importance Is
measured by hia pocketbookT"
"Certainly not," answered Senator Sor
ghum. "A - pocket book couldn't hold
enough to amount to anything. It's the
bank book that counts." Washington Star.
"Isn't the major a rather free ImblberT"
"I should say so. !' never known him
to buy a drink In the last twenty years."
Detroit Free Press.
To make yourself popular with a fat man,
say to him every time you meet hlral
"Why, you are losing flesh, aren't youT"
Bomervllle Journal.
"My complexion bothers me so," com
plained Miss Muddey. . 'Soma doctors, I
see, recommend arsenic." ,
"Yes," replied Miss Pepprey, langulldly.
"Yes, I wonder how much on should
take."
"Well, If you don't want It to bother
you any more you'd better take quits a
larg quantity.' Philadelphia Prese.
The o'd woman who lived In a shoe
was looking at the children and figuring.
"Land sakea," she exclaimed, "I can't
crowd 'em all In! I think I'd better look
through one of thoae vote colonies and
find out how they do It." Cleveland
Leader. p
"Now, with this little device," said thsv
agent, "you can save half your coal bl'l."
"My!" exclaimed the sarcastic woman.
"If I take two I can aavo all my coal
bill." Philadelphia Ledger. . '
THE FLAG THEY BORE.
Wallace Bruce.
(Delivered at the unveiling of the soldiers)
monument on the battlefield of Saratoga
October 17, 1904.)
Th circling hills sre bathed In light, , ,
A thousand fields salute the morn,
October decks with colors bright,
Th land where Liberty waa bora,
Columbia's sorigs again are heard ,
On Saratoga's sacred field: .
One more eaoh loyal heart is stirred
4J'o trace, with prid? her,. .storied sWsId.
For her yoa flag first met th foe, '' ' ' ' j .
Baptized In blood of yeomen true,
The homestead hearth Is all aglow !
With welcome for th Boys in Blue.
Who wrought new glory in Its folds ,
ui viciunea wuu uii dch uu "n"i ,
What smiles and teara the century hold
Embosomed In th flag they bora,
Two monuments In triumph stand
rr . I , V. 4nt , Vi a miMilnv Attn
One chorus Joins them hand in hand
Heroes of Grant and Washington.
And wider yet tha chorus leapal
Two famoua hills th song unites.
As Mount MacGregor'a anthem sweeps
Across the plain to Bemis Height.
Flsg of th Free! by right divin
Of Justice, equity and truth;
No other message like to thine
No age bedims thy glorious youth.
From Stony Point to ; Lookout Height,
From Yorktown to Manila Bay,
No cloud obacurea thy radiant light ,
Or dulls th luster of a ray. j
AH other banners born' of earth
Bear symbols wrought by human hand-. I
Our flag alone of heavenly birth.
With stars that emblem love's command. ,
Her blue from God's own aiure torn.
With light that to HI throne replies,
The only flag by heroes borne
Without Intrusion through th skies.
Pull down that 'flag! Nay, songs ot hop
Swell high above a factious cry;
No craven hand shall touch th ropo
Which swings Old Gloiy to th sky.
No word but love for brother lost. I
A fearful price, but worth tho cost
Th land is free for which they died.
Then who would grudge to men Ilk thso
i ne pension or a crui i
Strike down yon flag that flaunts . tba )
breeze, . .
And all our wealth Is glittering dust. '
A Tand with honor gone Is naught,
Th peopl want no huckstering cry.
Too rich the realm for which they fought !
To let her brave defender dl.
Thrlco happy ho who reads aright
Ood's provldenoe through blttor year
His love shines clearer in th night, I
His goodness through tba lna of Mara,
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