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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER t, IMi
THE POLITICAL SITUATION
The campaign is approaching its
dose. On next Tuesday the American
people will choose their next Presi
dent. The chances are still largely
in -favor of the Democratic candidate,
simply because the Republican party is
divided in nearly every State. In
States with large Republican plurali
ties, like Illinois, the Republicans can
experience a defection of even 2$ per
cent and still carry the State. In
- other States, like Missouri, which was
carried four jears ago by the Republ
cans with a plurality of only 629, and
in Indiana, where the Republican plu
rality was about 10,000, the dominant
party cannot lose many votes without
suffering defeat The trouble is, so
far as the Republicans are concerned,
that there are too many States with
narrow margins of safety.
President Taft and the Republicans
have made a gallant tight against
enormous odds. If they lose, they can,
with entire accuracy place the respon
sibilit upon Roosevelt's shoulders. It
is. of course, impossible for him to be
elected, inasmuch as it would take
eight out of ever ten Republican
votes to assure him victorv, and he
cannot approach anything like this
percentage. At the same time, it has
aluavs been possible for him to defeat
President Taft. and, apparently, this
has been his sole object. Acting un
der his instructions, his followers in
every State have placed third tickets
in the field for the purpose of dividing
the Republican vote, and in California
and South Dakota thev have not al
lowed the Republican electors to go
upon the ballot. The best Democratic
asset in the entire campaign has been
Theodore Roosevelt, even though he
has asserted that the election of Wood-
row Wilson and a Democratic admin
istration would plunge this country
into a panic, beside which all other
panics have been as child's play. More
than this, he has predicted, in his con
fession of faith, that Wilson's election
would be followed by an era of de
pression which would indefinitely con
tinue. It is one of Mr. Roosevelt's numer
ous inconsistencies that he has ma
terially aided to bring about the very
condition of affairs which he paints in
such despairing words.
Republicans
who believe that President Taft will
be elected, and although with them the
wish is father to the thought, they are
able to give some .substantial reason
for .the faith that is in them. They
state" that President Taft. in the 'first
place will get a large number of Dem
ocratic votes. This J is undoubtedly
true. I here are many business men.
workingmen, and farmers' who do not
want a change in the present prosper
ous conditions and who fear the men
ace of a free trade Democratic ad
ministration. It was the Democratic
vote, which in 1896, elected William
McKinley over William J. Bryan, and
there is a Republican hope that the
same miracle wHl be repeated in the
President Taft wHl also receive the
rote of the solid and substantial ele
ment m each community, together
with a large percentage of the for
eign-born vote. He will be materially
aided in other quarters, such as the
Hebrew vote, which appreciates his ac
tion in abrogating the treaty with
Russia, but it will require much in the
way of accession to compensate for
the Republicans who will vote for
Roosevelt There is another class of
Republicans who propose to ote for
Wilson in order to make Roosevelt's
defeat all the more certain. This class
of Republicans is diminishing in num
ber, but it is sufficently large to be a
factor in the result These Republicans
have come to realize that not only is
there no possibility of Roosevelt's
election, but also that if Roosevelt gets
a larger popular vote than Taft, which
will be the case if Republicans vote
for Wilson, he will at once claim that
his candidacy has been justified.
It does not look as if Roosevelt
would carry more than two or three
States. He cannot get the ote of
California and South Dakota, because
in those States the Republicans nuke
no secret o'f their intention to vote
for Wilson. He may secure Oklahoma,
but that State is more likely to go
Democratic this jear, as it did four
years ago. Kansas and Nebraska are
not likely to give him their electoral
votes because in the former State
there are fully 50,000 "Republicans who
will stand by the regular ticket, and
in Nebraska most of the Republicans
will vote the Democratic ticket He
cannot carry Illinois because in that
State he would have to receive seven
out of every ten Republican votes cast
and this is impossible.
It is the fact that Roosevelt cannot
be elected which is bringing many Re
publicans to the Taft standard.
Me Vice Preside warBM whoee
tmaf. and uerfal dJspostkti,wfrose
loyalty to bit friends, sad -whose stat
ural congeniality wis almost a-aa-tional
prorerb, tasile hi beloved 'by
thousands.,. His death is tnurersally
moaned. More than this, it leaves
President Taft in the position of mak
ing, singly .and alone, the fight for Re
publican supremacy.. There is no doubt
thai this fact will bring back into the
Republican ranks 'many who would
otherwise have., felt no interest in the
outcome of the contest which is now
being waged.
And in this coaneotion It is in
terestintr to note that in the West;
at least, the entire campaign was sus
pended during the two hours during
which the funeral of Mr. Sherman was
in. progress... No work was, done in
any o'f the State headquarters, and
wherever meetings were scheduled for
the afternoon they were in.) the na
ture of memorial services rather than
political gatherings. If, in the future,
death should remove a candidate upon
a national ticket the precedent thus
established will undoubtedly be ob
served.
Court Gossip Bearing on ' ;'.
- , Matters of General Interest
There is, of course, a possibility that
the election will not be decisive. In
that event, the House of Representa-
tives must undertake to make a choice,
and, as is generally known, that body
is evenly divided as to the political
complexion o'f its State delegations.
Under the provisions of the Consti
tution, each State casts one -vote-
There are twenty-two States with Re
publican and twenty-two States with
Democratic delegations, while four
States Maine, Nebraska, Rhode Is
land, and New Mexico have delega
tions composed of an equal number of
each party. The House will, there
fore, be unable to elect, and the Senate
will be compelled to act
Merely as a matter of information,
in the event that there is no landslide,
it may be interesting to state that
should any Presidential candidate fail
to receive the votes of a majority of
the States in the House, it will de
volve upon the Senate to choose a
Vice President Upon such an elec
tion each Senator has an independent
vote. In so voting for a Vice Presi
dent the Senate is, by the Constitu
tion, restricted to the two candidates
for Vice President wlvo received the
highest number of votes in the elec
toral college. The Vice President thus
elected becomes President of the
United States.
In the event, therefore, that the
election is not Conclusive next Tues
day, the selection of a successor to the
late Vice President Sherman becomes
of importance, because the next Presii
dent may be either Marshall, Johnson,
or the man named by the Republican
National Committee at its meeting in
Chicago on the 12th instant If Wil
son and Marshall and Roosevelt and
Johnson .get more electoral votes than
the Republican candidates, the Senate
must vote upon Marshall and Johnson,
and, by the same token, Johnson may
be eliminated from the possibilities.
There has been nothing more re
markable in American politics than
the change in public sentiment which
has occurred during the past two or
three weeks. In the beginning of the
campaign President Taft's candidacy
seemed utterly hopeless. He was weak
est on the day of his nomination Since
that time he has gained, and there is
no doubt that to-day the tide in his
favor is running more strongly than
ever. If election day could be post
poned for two or three weeks, it
would have a volume which would be
sufficient to elect him.
It was unfortunate, of course, that
the campaign started late. For this
no one can be held responsible. In the
first place, the Republican managers
had to separate the sheep from the
goats, so to speak. They had to find
out who were loyal to the party in the
organization. There were national com
mitteemen to be replaced, there were
State and county chairmen to be re
moved, and even the newspapers had
to be classified. The organization, to
use a common expression, was shot
to pieces. In addition to this, there
was a necessary delay until primaries
were held in 'various States before it
was known who would comprise the
list of candidates, who, in turn, would
name the State chairman. In other
States a separate and distinct organi
zation of Taft Republicans had to be
formed in order to consolidate the
members of the party who favored tht
President's re-election. This was the
case in Iowa, North .Dakota, Wiscon
sin, and Kansas. In the Eastern States
conditions were not quite so disturbed.
but even in the East it required con
siderable political manipulation to bring
the party into a condition of harmony.
in the meantime, the Democrats
forged ahead. They had no difficulties
to overcome. Their organization was
intact If there was any soreness it did
not manifest itself. All of the Demo
crats were conscious that this 'jear, at
least they had an opportunity to win.
and not one of their leaders had any
inclination to be found outside of the
breastworks. It made little or no dif
ference that Gov. Wilson, in his tour
around the country, created little or
no enthusiasm. As long as he said
nothing that excited antagonism or
created opposition no harm could be
done.
In the midst of the Presidential cam
paign little or no attention has been
paid to the Congressional election. As
a matter of fact, it has generally been
believed that if the Democratic candi
date should win, the House would be
overwhelmingly Democratic The polls
which have thus far been made, indi
cate the election of a Democratic ma
jority.
It could hardly be otherwise, espe
cially as in nearly every district the
Republican candidate for Congress has
had a rival put into the field by the
third party. Mr. Roosevelt has played
every card in his hand in order to ac
complish, if possible, the defeat of the
Republican party. He has sought
everywhere to divide the Republican
vote, and he has succeeded. He has
brought to his standard all those who,
having been disappointed in their quest
for office, or who, having been defeat
ed in elections, imagined that by iden
tifying themselves with the Roosevelt
movement, they could once more stand
in the spotlight of public attention.
Take former United States Senator
Beveridge, of Indiana, for instance.
Defeated for the Senate, he has be
come the third party candidate for
Governor of his State. Whether he is
elected or not he will attract to him
self a personnel following which will
take away a certain number of Repub
lican from the regular organization,
and afford him a nucleus for exploita
tion in the future. In Pennsvlvania
there is an attempt on the part of the
notorious Bill Flinn to once more gain
control of State politics. Other States
afford similar examples.
What is to be the outcome? No mas
ter how the election may result, there
is a determination on the part, of the
men who have been lifelong and loyal
Republicans to see that their organiza
tion preserves its entity. They will not
if they can help it, let the Republi
can part-, with its half century of
splendid achievement, come to an ig
nominious end. They know that
Roosevelt, with an unlimited fund at
his disposal, will attempt to create a
new party, with himself at the head.
They will counteract this effort with
an organization which will be ef
fected immediately after the election.
and which will have for its purpose
the perpetuation of the Republican
party. They believe that if Wilson is
elected, the country will be more than
anxious, four vears from now, to re
turn to the party under which, for
fifty vears, with the exception of the
four vears o'f the second Cleveland ad
ministration, the nation has made safe
and steady progress. Their endeavor
will be to hold the Republican party to
gether during the interim, so that
when the next Presidential election
shall occur, they will be prepared to
enter upon the campaign with a united
front
Even if the unexpected should hap
pen and President Taft be elected, the
Republican managers will prepare at
once for another gr-at struggle four
vears hence. If defeat comes, they
are none the less ready and willing to
enter immediately upon the work of
restoring the Republican party to
power.
Strange as It mar anna ifcara nrobably
U no country In Kin-ona wham coold
finds less employment' fir Mi arts than
cmvalroua, lmnulstra. sentimental France.
And yet as anvone familiar with French
domestic life will1 have' to admit- there
are few. If any, countries when matri
mony is-a success more federally, or
wnere .the ties thai bind husband to
We, or parents to- children, are stronger.
anis, of course, would armrest the start-
In- and indiscreet Question whether the
little Ood Amour' In reality U necessary
.. .- . . .
wueiner ne l not rsore a. source- 01
oancer than of help In brinstnav about
matrimonial alliances! -
To the Anele-Saxon and Teuton mar
fiage Is almost entirely a matter ot sen
timent Heartwbole they would- not for
a moment consider the attp to the altar.
But If they fall a victim ot a glrlis
charms and fascinations they are deter
mined to put their Tate to the test and
r iuck favors them to make "the one
woman" a partner for life. In moat
cases sentiment has the field all to her
eetf. No considerations, be they social.
financial or personal, are allowed to ham
per Cunld. and two nersons. who. In the
end may prove altoa-ether unsutted to
each other, embark upon the sea of
matrimony with a sublime, naive, child
like trust In Providence for happiness to
u ena.
To the unbiased unsmltten observer It
must seem an Incredible piece of folly that
any man should enter Into the most vital
undertaking- of his life, -one that may
make or mar him, with less precaution
that he exercises In burins- a suit of cloth
ing; And yet so strong Is custom, or. If
you win, so weak is human nature, that
the Identical man who sneers at the
"folly" of another, will do exactly the
same ' Idiotic" thing when his turn
comes. The marvel Is not that many of
these marriages. In which the molt ele
mentary common sense has no part-Drove
disastrous; but, on the contrary, that so
many ot them are even half was successful.
This method of marrying Is unintelligi
ble in Franco. The sentimental, amorous
Frenchman scoffs at the Idea of "losing
the head" when marrying. And now so
berly speaking IS he so very wrong? In
France marriage, as It ought to be. Is
taken much more seriously. It Is the cal
culated (the very word Is noxious to
Anglo-Saxons and Teutons alike In this to
us sacred connection) result of prudence
and forerlght.
The Frenchman realizes has he learned
from experience? that quite often love Is
as evanescent as the rays of the sun In
midwinter, and as for being a guide, a
regular wlll-o'-the-wlsp. He looks for
something durable to anchor his happi
ness to. The qualities he seeks In a wife
are good health, amiability, suitable age.
social position, capability and. In short.
all those qualities that are Important to a
successful union.
The Frenchman shows himself ex
tremely prudent as to the question of
ways and means He realises, for he
Is shrewd, that what will suffice for
one in reasonable comfort may be In
adequate for to or more. For this
reason he expects the parents of the
girl he proposes to wed to contribute a
share toward the Joint housekeeping
they are to begin. This Is not, of ne
eeBSltJ.. mercenary, but It is eminently
practical, and how much misery might
be spared, especially In America, if seri
ous, practical thoughts were to go
nana in nana with sentiment
But, of course. In the United States
a carclty of women In the davs nf
sparse settlements of colonists begot the
practice or going to any length Just to
secure a helpmeet and to populate the
virgin lano. Ana this custom for the
most part has survived, though now
there is a surfeit of female In the East
and Middle West.
4, The puMIo betrothal follows, and
wtthia a couple of months -they baoaaH
man and wife: and M their union laaka
the intoxication of romance. It to at
least based on the qualities and mutual
fitness which outlast aentlmsnt or beau
ty, and 'which are 'the surest uaraatee
of-a happy and successful life-tewsthsr,
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The purchase of the historic fthern
bourne Ball Farm estate has at last
been accomplished by King George ot
England. King Edward always had
bees .desirous of, adding the property to
his neighboring Sandrlngham,Aut the
owners, the master and fellows of
Emanuel College, Cambridge, somehow
never were Just quite ready. The mag-
nincent property was bequeathed to the
college In 1S4 by Francis Bhernbourns,
whose family had owned the manor for
six centuries.
The farm comprises .close upon 700
acres, moil or it nelng arable land, and
It affords excellent partridge shooting.
The hall now a farmhouse. Is a pictur
esque Tudor mansion, which' formerly
was surrounded by a moat and It has
Interesting castellated walls and pleas
ant 01a gsraens.
The King now owns the whole nf h
parish of Snenbourne, part of which
wss included lq the Sandringham estate
wnen mat property was purchased from
Mr. Spencer Cooper. In 1862 for the
rnnce or waiea.
The Countess of Warwick, who visited
our shores last summer. Is not only
nuieu tor ner equal rights and so
clalistlq proclivities. The lady also Is
famous for her collection of pets at
Warwick Castle. She has every op
portunity to gratify her love for animals,
as her fine estate lias especial advan
tages for the care essential to the dif
ferent species. The birds almost have
the freedom of a forest home. The
Avon'RIver, which forks Just above the
castle, surrounds a little Island on which
kingfishers and wild ducks mingle in pro
fusion. Perhaps the best beloved of all her
pets Is the famous white peacock, which
was presented to the late earl by Lord
Beaconsfleld some forty years ago. It
would seem to be quite an old bird, vet
Judged by peacock standards. It Is not
Jet middle-aged, for a companion bird.
also belonging to the aristocratic breed
of white peacocks, which never mate
with any but birds of their on featheK
is established as brine more than a
century old.
A very old family servant remembers
it as having been a vigorous bird In his
childhood, while his father, who died a
very old man, remembered It as having
been a vigorous bird In his childhood. It
Is still hale and hearty, though It Is
losing its feathers and generally begin
ning to look aged.
Lady Warwick's most constant com
panion Is a fine collie, which is never
happy save when at her heels.
FLANEUB.
(Coiotkm. ijk. by rout Gowp Smduate.)
H ERO E S
a
B? flsWBOl FITCH.
Asrtkew'stf "AS OsMMl Old IwsmsW
,;A hero la a' brave man who s at bom
when Opportunity 'knocks, w ' l
Thousands of brave nun are; not beroea
because they were somewhere else
when a hotel burned or a beautiful jrouns
lady fell into a damp river. Opportunity'
baa charge of the whole hero business,
and It Is a poor Judge ef heroes at that
If this were not true more lifeboats
would have gone back to All up when the
Titanic sank.
To be a hero a man must use his life
aa recklessly as If he has a whole bag
ful of Uvea left In the vegetable cellar
at home. A man who Is tnore careful
of his Ufe than he Is of the lives of
outers has very little chinra nf he.-nm.
flng a hero. Being a hero Is one of the
easiest known ways of breaking into
history and also Into tbe silent tomb. It
Is a more unhealthy business than going
to sea In a etearnshiD which uses calm
gardens for life rafts.
For many years the hero business was
conducted without system and a good
many men got into the lodge without the
proper credentials. However. Andrew
Carnegie has recently taken over the
whole conoem and has organized It 'on
modern lines. There Is now a full set
of referees, umpires, and timekeepers to
sit on the case of the would-be hero, and
ir he Is pronounced genuine he Is en
dowed, subsidized, medaled. photographed
and catalogued like a prize Jersey.
'tne Carnegie Commission, however.
heroes who ten tbe truth when it to
"'n to cost them money; who spend
tnalr lives In public oftee and die poor:
who go without cigars and new clothes
la. order to beautify their daughters;
f VNM I HD
nmlA ti
only recognizes the common or literary I the silent hero who makes tbe world
brand of hero and would be much more I more pleasant to live In and gets kicked
useful if It widened It-, activities. We! with vigor for his pains,
need medals for the unappreciated! (Copiriatit. UHby Geonje Matbev Adaoa)
ELEPHAHTS ABE EXPENSIVE.
The death of Vice President Sher
man has been the one tragic event of
the campaign.
The attack upon CoL Roosevelt, hap
pily without serious effect, was a dra
matic incident, which, like a two-edged
sword, cut both ways. It undoubtedly
created some sympathy for him, but
it also brought the country to a reali
zation that a candidate who aroused
the passions and the prejudices of the
people was likely to be the victim of
levrAvirvfisvsfv f & J i... Is J - .
..wju,.u . mi wuik acpenaent nis own conduct. The riMth -r at.
upon the outcome on Tuesday, but Sherman was entirely dnferent The
John Wanamaker's Suggestion.
John Wanamaker, once Postmaster
General, and therefore more or less
qualified to criticise the American Cab
inet system, recommends that a Sec
retary of Manufactures, Tariff, and
Customs be added to the list of the
President's advisers. This is interest
ing, and it suggests a readjustment
along familiar lines.
Should the Senate pass the bill al
ready passed by the House to create
a Department of Labor with a Secre
tary in the Cabinet; the work ol the
Secretary of Commerce then would be
roughly that outlined by Mr. Wana
maker. To him would fall the task of
promoting trade and gathering tariff
statistics, and possibly recommending
tariff rates. There would be, of course.
many overlappings with other departments.
The government, looked at from the
point of view of efficiency, is nothing
more or less than clumsy overgrowth.
It is not a systematically aranged busi
ness, and, therefore, the problem of
conducting it is a difficult one. Mr.
Wanamaker's suggestion is in the line
of progress, but it is only fragmen
tary. "The entire structure needs re
modeling.
Kamr straw vote will tumble down
m the whirlwind of nextr Tuesday,,
Marriage )n France Is regarded as the
natural thing for every girl who Is not
de-tlned for a convent life. From her
very birth her parents begin to save for
her dowry, upon the amount of which.
to a large degree at least, depends the
standing, social and financial, of the
man she may expect to wed
But this Is not all The French jouth
who seeks a wife often realizes that
he may not be the best person to make
the choice Therefore, he is content to
leave the matter to the older and wiser
heads, who bring to beir upon this high
ly important subject a matured Judg
ment and ripe experience.
It is his parents who look nround
among the diughters of their friends
for a desirable helpmate for their son
They have known them all from their
Infancj. are familiar with their training
and characters, health and social stand
ing ana of course the amount of the
aowry. They have, in fact, all the
equipment for making a wise choice
And having made the selection after
mature deliberation, they approach the
girl's parents and arrange the match to
their mutual satisfaction, thus avoiding
mat Dugoear or so many of our mar
riages family disapproval.
When the match is happily settled a
party is arranged at which the two
young people, who have probably known
eacn otner rrom childhood, meet formal
ly under the eye of their -nartnts. and
begin the more intimate acquaintance
wmch is to lead to the altar. But
probably long before this stage has been
reached they have been attracted as
pla mates and Know each other inti
mately, and under the glamor of their
new relations become genuinely attach-
ItallroHd Facilities Must Expand.
1 im the CleTtlinti Lr ado-
The pressure of traffic upon the facili
ties of the railroads for handling It Is a
condition In the buslnes world which
tends steadily from bad to worse. Every
thing points to much congestion of freight
and general complaints of inadequate
equipment on the larger railroad bjs
tems of the country
AH of which meina that there will
have to be more liberal provision for the
growth of the business which naturally
rails to American rallas The railroad
companies must have more cars, more
locomotives, more sidings, more room
for handling freight Which means, In
turn, that they must put more money
.i great deal more Into their equip
ment. The country will have to reckon with
this condition As the Leader has said,
there will have to 1hj more provision for
railroal growth and this necessity will
have to be taken fully into account by
the public authorities In dealing with
railroad revenues and expenditures. The
countrj will nevar relinquish any of the
ground It has gained In the rrgulitlon
of the great common carriers, but It will
tertalnlj not be unwise enough to pre
vent them from providing amply for
the natural and necessary expansion of
the traffic which measures the general
progress of the nation
A Tibet Slump.
From the London Om:!r!e.
A philatelic curiosity has Just reached
this country from Tibet It is a postage
stamp designed and executed apparent
ly in anticipation of the return, after
his long exile in India, of the Dalai
Lama to rule once more over the land
of the Li mas
Of ruddy purplo color, the stamp is
very crudely designed and printed, and
bears traces of the divine ruler's long
residenco in India. It has evidently
drawn its frame and spandrel ornamen
tation from the same value of the Ed
wardian I anna stamp of India. In the
place of the central portrait, however,
there Is the ,nistenous-looKlns beast
identified as the white lion of Tibet Pos
sibly by an error of drawing the white
lion is shown in color on a w hlte ground.
The inscriptions are in native and Eng
lish characters, the latter reading. "Tibet
Postage " The native characters are In
terpreted as (at top) Pod Tibet. Shung
Government: (below) Ylg letter. The-Hu
postage or stamp, Kha anna, Kang
one. .
Giraffes Alaa Come Illsik, bat Cir
cus Managers Moat llaae Them.
"I want to take little 'Georgle' to see
the animals," is what every father saa
when he starts away from homo on his
annual visit to the circus, and the same
bluff goes for little Gwendolen on Com
monwealth Avenue, and little "Mike" it
the North End. Fond relatives alwa
are glad of the excuse to teach the young
sters all about the animals and see the
circus themselves but the chances are
that they do not appreciate the true sig
nificance cf a menagerie. To tbe circus
visitor it means strange amulets and
thrills, popcorn and peanuts. To ir.e cir
cus company It means somethlrg like
tTM.OOO. says the Boston Transcript. This
figure, however. Is by no means aibi
trary, tor the value of wild beasts fluc
tuates remarkably. To-day the alus of
a rhinocerua may be tlO.0uO. but let a few
more rhinos be hauled from tneir African
lairs snd be put on the European market
and the value per animal may drop u pr
cent.
Another thing that affec-s the valua
tion of wild animals is the njezMun as t
whether they are accllmsted it Vra."
The mortality rate among the latter-
animals fitsh from the lumac Is ex
ceedingly high. The wild ouluii! that has
demonstrated the fact tnat it can live
ir. a cage, particularly a cage that hops,
si.l.-s a d Jumps over the cou'itr) W'th a
ci.cus hus mere than inp'.h: It value.
A fresh chimpanzee from Africa is
worth from S30o to ll.r Lot this time
chimpanzee prove bs, hi-" continued exist
ence that cage life Is not mortally tdl-
ous to him and Immetllale'y his value
leaps to t.'.J'j
Another Instance Is the giraff In
spite of the fact that it Is a rare beast
Its market value Is onl about ti'.tuO.
The simple reason for this is that the
giraffe in lapttvlty has such a stai.ll
chance of continued existence that tne
average shewrran dees not care to gam
ble J7.000 on it.
Some eight vears ago Barn'im &
Ballej's circus staked til Ox) un two
giraffes. Those two long-necked beasts
have established the long-term record of
giraffe existence in circus captivitv they
have also established another world rec
ord for themselves a jear ago last win
ter they presented the management with
a bahj giraffe, the second one ever b rn
In captivitv and the only one up to date
that lived Last winter the second
voungster was added to the family.
The elephant market fluctuates a greit
deal. The rrice of a "green " elepnsnt
runs from 1I.CO0 to S3 0X) Get that ele
phant used to captivity and his valuo
Jumps, but train him to stand on his
head, ring a bell, beat a drum or btlatce
himself on a rolling ball and Immediate
ly hU' value soars That Is why th herd
of f rt elephants In the big show is
valued at more than 30 OX)
Except for the Increases in the nicnis'
erie families the long lay over in the
Bridgeport winter quarters is a sfady
and heavy drain on the circus exchequer.
The animals born each winter In the
menagerie are worth about JIC.COO.
I
PEETINEriT AND BdT'E'ETINEirr.
Frrm the Chicago Eximmer
If the report comes from Podgoritza.
the Montenegrins win If it comes from
Constantinople. It is an overwhelming
,ctory for the Turks The Ananias
Club Is not confined to America.
Frrsn tbe New York Ensure Sun.
With the Christians supporting Straus
because of his good work for the Chris
tians in Turkev, and with the Jews sup-
fortlng Sulzer beciuse of his good work
for the Jews in Russia, this Is certainly
an era of good feeling so far as religion
Is concerned.
Fnan tbe Rochester rVmoent
A Luther Burbank might succeed in
growing figs on thistles, but nobodv
could ever make a light registration
produce a heavy Presidential vote.
Frcm tha St. Lotas Rcitibhc
Even if the prediction that eges will
reach 8D cents before spring should come
true, that Plymouth Rock hen which laid
2S times In eleven months will still hive
a clear conscience.
Frnn the Topcka CarsuL
The straw vote Is "a frail suoport to
lean upon," says the Springfield Repub
lican. It is. but drowning politicians
will grasp even at a straw vote.
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
SAYING OOOD.NIGHT. "
He said goodnight at the front door
And later said goodnight once more.
He said goodnight, yet lingered on.
While darkness shifted into dawn.
He said goodnight, but didn't goi
Just talked another hour or so.
Her raven hair grew slowly whltef
He noticed that and said goodnight.
He said goodnight: years rolled away
A legal missive came one day.
And then she toid him with a pout
He'd better go: their lease was out.
Uncle Fessywlae Say at
I think I may claim to have lived a
fairly eventful life. The north pole has
been discovered in my lifetime, and the
Balkans have finally gone to war.
A Good Thin.
This was overheard by a -visitor In a
northwestern State.
"Our State Prison Is now self-eupport-
Ing." said the first citizen
Good." said the second citizen, "la
that case we can afford to start a couple
more." v.ui.
Xoemlwr a In History.
November S. iol Columbus performs
bis famous ere- trick r th- -... .
Castile. "" """ "
November 3. 1T6Q. John ruir,i t
his famous reliability run.
Try Something Else.
"I ee this gang that shot ,.n . ..
on the bench are all in Jail now."
.k"Ys: Jh,,s lloo,'I'ir up a Judge on
the bench is about plajed out as a way
of getting into vaudeville"
Same Searatlon.
"Can you Imagine." demanded the re.
turned explorer, "the enormous extent
of thoe vat snow fields?"
"I kin." declared the statesman from
avback. "I had the same sensation
the first time I appeared In public wear
ing a dress shirt."
ITeaay Responsibilities.
The dean was addressing the freshman
Young men. your responsibilities are
,"""" 3'0U fuIly alke thlsf
.... ,e do- Professor." said the leader.
it is up to us to Invent an entirely
new class yell." "cijr
Last Days of the Campalsn.
"A feller can't be too careful In my
section.' said the rural candidate.
How now?"
hi'VY d.l,nr,c1 ct"ltln er M cents a
head is alluded to by the opposition press
as a feast of Belshazzar."
PARTRIDGES IN CAPTIVITY.
S access
AN EXCHANGE OF COURTESIES.
"Tea, m the Janitor! Wha't J want?" s
Bibulous Individual Nothln' only runs; bell .'emu ! .u . wn
biases can't y'rlmr It for yourself? " -
The Pressure Remains.
From tlie.SpriccfltU Rexxibhcaa.
It is painful to learn that the Mil
waukee young man who was reformed
by surgery has backslidden He was in
prison at Green Bay for burglary, but
was released on the testimony of sur
geons tnat his criminal tendency was
caused by the pressure of bone on his
brain. The bone was removed, but he
committed another burglary. The scient
ists examined him again, and found that
the silver plate Inserted to replace the
bone was responsible. This was ad
Justed, and for nearly a year he kept
straight. But lately he was convicted
of stealing from his employer, and has
been sentenced to five vears In the peni
tentiary. It Is a blow to surgery, but
It Is not unlikely that ne belongs In a
hospital rather than a prison. The di
agnosis may have been sound, even
though the cure failed. If his perver
sity was really due to a mechanical
cause a morbid condition might possibly
have been set up which removal ot the
cause would not cure. In the old days
remedial surgery was both simple and
efficacious because It was applied at the
neck: both the social and the surgical
problems of to-day are moro compli
cated. A prison sentence for the victim
of an Injured brain may not be, absolute
Justice, but it is at all events an Im
provement on hanging for theft, with no
Inquiry into motives or mental condi
tion.
of nn Experiment Made at
Massnchusrtta Hatchery.
From the Berkshire Cbuner
The State game hatchery at Wilbraham
is making an experiment In partridge
propagation that will be watched with
interest by sportsmen all over the State,
and if It proves successful It will demon,
strate something that has long beer,
hoped for but never realized
The State hatchery has proved that
plsants can be raised and bred In cap
tivity, but the partridCB. with n ,h
and timid wajs. has been an uncertain
luuuiem an mese jears. At last the State
hatchery has succeeded In hatching four
teen partldges. all of which r iiin
mm are ooing nneiy and bid fair to reach
maturity in captivity.
The method under which he State be
came possessed of these birds has a local
flavor, for they were hatched from Great
Barrington eggs. Game Warden Sargood
on one of his hikes over Beartown Moun
tain Into Great Barrington territory came
unexpectedly upon a partridge's nest In
which there were fourteen eggs upon
which the mother bird had eat for ten
days or so. Sargood gathered up the
eggs, wrapped each one In cotton bat-i
ting and some other protection and car
ried them to the State, hatchery.
The eggs had been sixr hours away front
the nest when he reached the hatchery.,
but fortunately a bantam hen had Wr,
setting on a clutch of pheasant's eggs
Just about ten dajs. so they transferred
this bantam to the partridge eggs and
she hatched every one of them. Now
me naicnery people will do their best to
so domesticate these young partridges
that when they reach maturity and ar
rive at the laving stage their eggs may
be hatched in captivity end the flock at
the hatchery thus materially increased
until In course of time partridges may
be put out from there Into the woodland
covers the same as pheasants are now
handled.
This means the solving of a problem
that has long been considered, but which
hitherto from lack of the right oppor'
tunlty has not before been tried at the
hatchery. There has always been such
an element of doubt entering into the
problem In securing eggs at the right
time to insure a hatch that many ob-.
stncles have hitherto surrounded the at
tempt. Now the way to success appears
most encouraging.
NOTICE
,i
"Jfadaled asd catalogued Use a prbs Jtnar.-
and who allow themselves to be flrecf
by the boss with a loud hissing noise
because they win not weigh In their
thumbs with every pound of beefsteak
or sugar.
The hero business Is grand and shosrr.
out more attention snouia be
Cosmopolitan . .
Ravlow of Rovlows
American . . . .
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