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THE AGE-HERALD.
Birmingham, Ala.
lht ONIY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Many Tickets in the Field.
The Presidential nominations have been
made, and the noter certainly cannot com
plain that he has a limited choice this year.
We add a list of the entries:
Republican, Wiliam McKinley and Theo
dore Roosevelt.
Democratic, Wiliam J. Bryan and A. E.
Stevenson.
Populist, Wiliam J. Bryan and Charles A.
Towne.
Silver Republican, William J. Bryan and
A. E. Stevenson.
Prohibition, John G. Wooley of Illinois,
and H. B. Metcalf of Rhode Island.
Populist (middle-of-the-road), Wharton
Barker of Pennsylvania and Ignatius Don
nelly of Minnesota.
United Christian, Rev. F. E. Clark of
Massachusetts and Rev*. Charles M. Shel
dondon of Kansas.
Socialist Labor, John Harrlman of Cali
fornia anu Max S. Hayes of Ohio.
Social Democrat, Eugene V. Debs of Indi
ana and Job Harrlman of California.
De Leon Socialist, J. F. Maloney of Mas
sachusetts and Valentine Reminill of Penn
sylvania.
The gold Democrats and the anti-lm
pcrlallstic Republicans may add two more
tickets to the list, but it is not likely they
will, and we may safely say that the fore- ,
going list will not be increased.
Almost every shade of opinion can find a
voice in one of the numerous tickets, but
the chances are that the eccentric vote will
be light. Votes cast outside of the two
great parties of the country are votes
thrown away. They are considered under
the general head "scattering." It is diffi
cult to say what Induces men to throw
away their votes when by choosing between
the two great parties that govern the coun
try they could wield an influence and gain
some of the good they profess to seek; for
there is no man who does not have a choice
when the two leading tickets are alone con
* sidered.
Control of the Next House.
Much interest Is taken by acute political
observers in the control of the next House
of Representatives. The Republican ma
jority in the present House is sixteen, and
this was in part obtained by seating Mr.
Aldrich of this state, Mr. Wise of Virginia,
and Mr. Pearson of North Carolina. Simi
lar partizan acts will be repeated if the
Republicans gain control of the House.
Twelve Republicans and thirteen Demo
crats of the present House were elected by
majorities of less than 1,000. The Demo
cratic members whose majorities were
small are Jett of Illinois, 725; Turner of
Kentucky, 568; Gilbert of Kentucky, 841;
Denny of Maryland, 596; Taylor of Massa
chusetts, 159; Scudder of New York, 410;
Glynn of New York, 557; Thomas of North
„ Carolina, 189; Lentz of Ohio, 702; Gaston
of Pennsylvania, 341, and Johnston of West
Virgina, 765. Nearly all of these men live
in districts that are normally Democratic,
and in which a heavy Democratic vote will
be cast this year. No fear of losses in
these districts is entertained.
The Democrats hope to carry the district
now represented by Mr. Pugh of Kentucky.
He was elected by 10 majority; Mr. Baker
of Maryland had a majority of 470 .and Mr.
Wachter of that state 132 majority, both
Republicans. Both will be succeeded by
Democrats. Mr. Needham of Calitornia
carried a district usually Democratic by
113 majority, and it is not believed he can
repeat the task. Mr. Faris of Indiana,
«*!e .ted by 252 votes, is representing a d!s
ttlot normally Democratic.
There are reasons for thinking that the
next House may be Democratic; and the
closeness of the struggle renders it impor
tant that no gap be left down. Especially
important is it that the Fourth district in
tills state be placed beyond he reach of the
peat grabbers by electing a man the Repub
licans dare not unseat—by electing a man
who will carry the white counties of the
by such votes that any attempt to
unseat him would be barefaced robbery,
which he would mercilessly expose. The
Fourth district has a duty to perform to
the rest of the Democrats of ihe state.
Fate of the Boers.
If Messrs. Kruger and Steyr, had a bit
of political sense they would utilize the
Chinese situation for the purpose of pro
curing better terms of settlement than
would otherwise be open to them. But
they have none, and the men who sur
round them have none, and in the end the
two republics will simply be absorbed into
the great empire on the empire’s own
terms.
Prof. Ambrosa, the Italian philosopher,
holds that in the course of three or four
generating the Boers, uniting with all
other Afrikanders, all holding common
traditions, will be able to achieve their
independence. Such a prophecy Is much
j\.oo distant to be valuable, and is subject,
j at the best, to many cross purposes, which
may displace it altogether. As to what
may take place one hundred years from
now wc are not concerned; the immediate
future is ull the world will consider.
Of the whites south of the Zambesi,
•140,000 arc Dutch, 270,000 British and 90,
009 non-Dutch and non-British. These fig
ures show a Dutch preponderance of 80,
000 only. The railroad and mining develop
ment of South Africa, including the ouen
lng of the rich coal mines, may change
this to a minority, and that would perma
nently settle the problem.
The tide of population in the next twen
ty-five years, while all South Africa is in
British hands, will determine beyond a
doubt its permanent condition. There will
not, at any rate, be another Transvaal.
Either there will be a great British colony
extending over South Africa or else there
will be a South African republic, in which
the English-speaking people will have at
least as good a chance of control as the
Afrikanders will have.
Keligious Toleration in Japan.
Religious toleration did not formerly ex
ist in Japan, where Shintoism and Buddh
ism are the prevailing religions; but in 1873
a ch&ngfe took place in the attitude of the
government, and today Christians are as
welcome In Japan as any other lot of re
ligionists. The country is one of religious
toleration, whereas Russia is shut as close
ly as any country in the Middle Ages was.
In 1873 the Shinto and Buddhist priests
were deprived of state pay, and since that
time there has been no state religion. In
this respect Japan outranks in religious
toleration even England. In 1876 the Ja
panese government made Sunday a day of
rest for its employes. In 1884 all official
priests were cut off, and all religions were
placed on a common footing before the
law, although this had practically been
the case since 1873.
At times there has been some prejudieces
in country districts against Christians, but
no well-defined riots against them have
occurred in thirty years, although before
that time persecutions of native Christ
ians had been frequent. Japan’s prompt
and full acceptance of the best of western
methods has been one of the most re
markable events of the present century,
and Corea will be fortunate indeed if its
districts are handed over to tolerant Japan
rather than to intolerant Russia.
The Republican politicians of New York
and a yellow journal have unmasked, so to
speak, a plot against President McKinley.
But it is too belated to be even plausible.
Spaniards are not doing any plotting at
present.
Some consider the silver question In the
academic class, and some consider It a
living, throbbing Issue, and both schools
can consistently stand on the Kansas City
platform.
Fifth Avenue should set the pace in the
fence reform movement. The removal of
the street fences would make it the hand
somest residence street in this town.
The Rev. Sam P. Jones has reached a
point in his life where he feels at liberty
to favor trusts and to oppose free schools.
Atlanta's Mayor and fellow citizens did
not seem to mind the lack of a water sup
ply last week. The other fluids held out.
Tien Tsln is about as hot a spot as the
world affords at present. Fighting and
bombardments are in its menu daily.
If there is no formidable resistance, the
Japanese and their allies can march to
Pekin in three days from Tien Tsln.
The patriotic thing to do Just at present
is to pull down the fences that mar the
residence streets of this town.
If every property owner will act at once
up to his convictions, the bucolic street
fences will soon disappear.
Gen. Buller discovered in Pretoria that
his Christmas dinner had been carried off In
Oom Paul's observation car.
The New York Democracy are pulling
themselves together wholly regardless of
Mr. Croker's prejudices.
No bolters and many recruits Is the bur
den of the Democratic reports from all
quarters.
The editors of the State will soon be In
our midst, but this will not be bad for them
or us.
Li Hung Chang knows what it is to be up
against the outside barbarians of the world.
Teddy's hat is his platform, or rather it
was until Mark Hanna sat down on it.
The Boers scarcely do enough to entitle
them to an occasional mention.
A new city directory is the plank that
saves the pride of Chicago.
Each day's news from China reverses
that of the previous day.
The campaign poets should not settle
dowrn to business.
Pekin's unconfirmed news factory is work
ing double time.
Charles A. Towne is now a full-fledged
Democrat.
Theodore Roosevelt is the Buffalo Bill of
politics.
A NEW SUBMARINE CABLE
N. Y. Letter In Pittsburg Dispatch.
The work of laying the Commercial Ca
ble Company’s new cable between Coney
Island and Fox Bay, Canso, N. S., will
begin tomorrow. The British cable steam
er Sllverton, from which the operations
will be conducted, is anchored in the har
bor. with a crew of 350. There are 950
knots of cable to be laid, and the total
cost will be $1,125,000. This cable will con
nect with the new cable to the Azores,
which was laid by the Faraday about
three months ago.
JERKY SIMPSON’S ECONOMY
Kansas City Telegram to the New York
Sun.
Sockless Jerry Simpson has been one of
the most interested spectators at this con
vention, but nobody has been able to find
him except when the convention was in
session. “Sockless” came here with a load
of cattle from his farm at Medicine Lodge.
He started because he was a national com
mitteman w’hich was appointed to force
the Democratic Convention toi nominate
Charles A- Towrne. The reason that the
“Sockless" one could not be found except
at convention time was because he tatfttaed
the hotels and put up in an out-of-the-wiiy
boarding house. The last experience the
“Sockless” one had with a hotel was in
Sioux Falls. He arrived there on tha day
before the Populist Convention meff afrd,
going to the Cataract House, registered.
After he had registered he said to the gfen
tlemanly clerk:
“I want to get my dinner; what will it
cost?”
“Seventy-flve cents, Mr. Simpson,” re
plied the clerk.
“Holy Moses!” exclaimed Simpson.
“What will it cost to take my name off the
register?”
“Fifty cents,” said the clerk, without
ever cracking a smile, and the “Sockless”
one threw down a half-dollar and went
out of the hotel. He wanted to get a plank
in the Populist platform denouncing hotels
generally, but the Populists would not
have it. The "Sockless” one, however, has
never forgotten the hotels and never will.
WIIEKE ALL AKE POLITICIANS
From the New York Success.
It was during the silver and gold cam
paign of 1896 that an Indiana Congressman
came home from a tour of speechmaking
for Mr. McKinley. He was glad to get
home to his vine-clad cottage; glad to get
away from the never-ending discussion of
the coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
He wanted to be free from the hated ques
tion for a week at least.
His 5-year-old girl, a winsome and intel
ligent miss ,ran to meet him, leaving her
playmate at the gate. This playmate w’as
the 4-year-old daughter of a Democratic
neighbor, an active politician named
Schultz.
“Oh, papa,” said the Congressman's
daughter, clasping his neck. “I have some
thing dreadful to tell you!”
"Why, w’hat is it, my dear?” he replied,
tenderly patting her head. “You haven’t
hurt yourself, have you?”
“Oh, no; it’s worse than that.”
“Your mamma’s all right, ain’t she?”
“Yes, yes, but this is something awful;
I hate to tell you.”
“But you must tell me or I shall be
frightened. There, there, don't cry; tell me
the worst at once.”
The little one dried her eyes, and, bend
ing to his ear, whispered, tragically:
-^Baby Schultz is for silver!”
•'.UAXISE”
Florida Times-Union and Citizen.
The Courier-Journal wants a Kentuckian
of the old breed, all wool and a yard wide,
but would the average Kentuckian support
him now? Does not Colonel Watterson
know in his heart that the “old breed is
not dead,” that numbers of him linger in
sequestered places, lonely and forlorn, who
would gladly respond to an authoritative
call for him? Is it not true that he some
times offers himself to the public, and is
straightway turned down for the shrewd,
unscrupulous son of today, w'ho knows what
he wants and cares little enough how he
gets it? It is the majority that has
changed—there is no call for the old kind.
Whether Democrat or Republican, the
man for the time has come, but the man
of the other time has not yet disappeared.
But the one is always with us—the other
must be searched for, and he will soon
disappear, like the buffalo. What would
we do with him if he came, except shut
him in a glass case and charge admittance
for a sight of the curiosity? How would
Watterson do?
WHISKEY IN THEIK slot KINGS
St. Paul Telegram to the St. Louis Repub
lic.
“The liquor habit is decreasing among
! the men, but it is increasing among wo
men,” said Mrs. Leonora M. Lake of St.
Louis In her lecture on temperance at St.
Mary’s Hall. Mrs. Lake was introduced
by Father Gibbons of St. Mary’s Church,
and spoke for over an hour, her subject be
ing: “Why I am a Total Abstainer.” The
lecturer stated that one reason why more
men were total abstainers now was be
cause their business interests demanded it.
Many business concerns refused to employ
a man unless they had sufficient proof that
he never touched liquor in any form. On
the other hand, many firms that employ
women complain, said Mrs. Lake, that their
employes bring liquor to their work with
them. A man at the head of a large fac
tory informed the lecturer that it was not
uncommon for girls to bring bottles of
whisky with them to the factory, hidden
away in their stockings.
JOHN CHINAMAN HAS NO SUNDAY
From the New York Tribune.
There is no Sabbath in China, but to
make up for this there are many general
and local festival days. Business is sus
pended only on the first day of the year,
and then everybody makes merry and
celebrates the day with good eating and
drinking. The first three days of the
lunar year and several days about the
middle of April are devoted, also, to wor
ship at the tombs. The days of relaxation
and merry-making are the two solstices
and the festival of the dragon boats
RECEIVED A WARM WELCOME
From the Mobile Register.
Rev. Father P. A. O’Reilly of Birming
ham, Father Wright of Bessemer and
Messrs. A. J. Riley, Redmond Wheeler, Will
Kennedy and Mike Malo»:ey, all prominent
residents of the Magic City, were in Mo
bile for a few hours yesterday en route to
the coast, where they will spend several
days. Father O'Reilly received a warm
welcome from his many fric&ds here, who
pleasantly remember him as the pastor of
the Whistler Catholic Church.
UR YAK’S GREAT CIGAR JOKE
Lincoln Special Chicago Times-Herald.
Mr. Bryan brought out cigars for Uis
guests. He himself does not use tobajeed
in any shape.
"I sent to town for cigars for you boy3,"
said he, "and without specifying any par
ticular brand. They have sent me some I
want to get rid of. They are called the
‘Golden Crown.’ The first word Is ob
noxious to me on general principles*- the
secnod represents Imperialism, and I am
satified they are the product of a trust.
So burn them, gentlemen, burn trrejB.**
—
IIRYAN'S POWER
From the Chicago Record.
What is the secret of the power wierdod
by this youngish citizen of Lincoln? Un
questionably it is the absolute confidence
of the people of every political shade in
the honesty of purpose which dictate the
words and actions of William Jennings
Bryan.
TO BE A HARVARD MAN
From the Indianapolis News.
Li Hung Chang’s son, Lee, has passed
his entrance examinations to Harvard with
honors in Greek, Latin and English.
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Astrologer Raphael's prqphecies for this
day, Thursday, July 12, 190(1:
“Avoid superiors and keep quiet.”
“Beware of sickness and ill-health, and
do not give offense Hor go to law; in thy
business and domestic affairs thou wilt
have a very unfortunate -year; those in
employ may expect to lose it.”
“Young women may expect to be court
ed, but should beware of men, more espe
cially such men as bear gifts."
] “A child born on this day will be very
unlucky, whether In employ or not.”
Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for
Thursday, July 13, 1900:
“Travel, seek work, ask favors and push
thy business.”
• “Thou will have a successful year, and
thy business will increase.”
■ “The young may court.”
“A child born on this day will be gen
erally successful in all it undertakes, and
it will rise in life.”
A lunar rainbow of remarkable brilliancy
was seen from Birmingham shortly after
2 o'clock yesterday morning. It was first
observed at ten minutes past 2 in the
southwestern heavens, about two-thirds
down from the zenith, apparently. The
clouds were shifting and almost black
where the rainbow appeared, shading
northward to the familiar mackerel forma
tion. Assuming a wide circle about the
moon, the rainbow appeared about a six
teenth segment of such circle, and it
glowed in great brightness, displaying dis
tinctly all the colors of a clear solar rain
bow. The effect of the phenomenon upon
the observer was of awe singularly. The
night was still and wondrously beautiful.
When the rainbow was brightest there
was a broad and perfectly regular bar of
light, bright as burnished silver, extending
from the horizon apparently across the
moon straight up almost to the summit of
the great arch of the heavens. The two
splendid phenomena glowed in noble ma
jesty, spectacles of the upper deep to in
spire!
The person first to see the phenomena
was a toller of the night, given to star
gazing, cloud-gazing, mooning, if you like;
one who is a sunset worshiper. He sum
moned an hotel night clerk and a good
soul who was keeping the clerk company,
and the three summoned two policemen
from down the street to see the wonders.
■ • •
Note.—Observing persons will remark the
extraordinary similarity between the pro
phecies as printed yesterday and those as
printed today. This denotes as to July 12
a singular combination of star influences.
• • •
“Those who profess themselves Demo
crats, free to cry out .‘clap trap’ upon the
anti-imperialist plank built at Kansas
City, ought to re-read the several letters
of Jefferson, in which he declared he had
no anxiety to enlarge domain for the re
public in the Louisiana purchase,” said a
learned and veteran Democrat. "He wished
mainly to head off European monarchies
from our neighborhood. He distinctly says,
‘let the settlers of Louisiana make one or
more separate republics, if they so elect;
all I want is republican institutions hold
ing the land.’
“Jefferson and Burr defeated John
Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
in 1SOO on the same substantial theories
now embodied in the Kansas City plat
form. Parties are again back upon the
lines of a century ago. Bryan will win
now as his John the Baptist won then.
"Read Jefferson's letter to Dr. Priestly
in the first few pages of volume four of
his works and then go to McKinley for im
perialism.”
“The decision of the president of the
Birmingham Police Commission that a tie
vote had all the force and effect of adoption
is an extraordinary departure from parlia
mentary law and usage," said a Birming
ham citizen who had for years the duty of
observing and reporting the proceedings of
the Senate and the House at Washington,
who had reported several state legislatures,
and who had studied at first hand the meth
ods of the principal parliaments of Europe
in actual session. “It is the rule of both
houses of Congress and both houses of the
Alabama Legislature, and therefore is the
law of the United States and the law of
Alabama, that the full force and efTect of a
tie vote upon any proposition or measure Is
to defeat the proposition or measure.
Identical law governs every parliamentary
body of consequence in the world—even the
new parliament of the new Japan. An act
declared adopted by a tie vote is not worth
a pencil scratch on white paper.
“One of the chief parliamentary purposes
of a presiding officer Is to break tie votes.
The custom la the Alabama Legislature Is
for the President of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House to answer to their
names in the roll call upon any measure.
The contrary Is true of Congress.
“Perhaps the most historic vote cast by
the Speaker of the House was given when
Mr. Carlisle voted for the ill-fated Morrison
tariff biU in lhS4. It was a moment of in
tense excitement in the House. The gal
leries were densely crowded with on
lookers; and the assemblage was still under
the influence of Frank Hurd's marvelous
eloquence. Speaker Carlisle stated the ques
tion to be upon the passage of the bill,
and Reading Clerk Walker began the long
roll call. For every ‘aye’ there was an an
swering *no' along down the list. Some of
the responses to the names so resonantly
spoken were short, sharp, shrill, defiant!
Others were muttered, some half whis
pered. The tension was terrible. Up In the
press gallery some of us fancied we could
hear the beating of hearts down in the
House. Randall was as white as marble,
i lie seemed .not to breathe. His square
I jaws were as if carved of granite. His lips
seemed as they would never part again.
The great brow beetled adamant above the
black cavernous eyes, which looked straight
to the front between lids that might have
been petrified, so bard and motionless. He
sat bolt upright, a Marius about to grow
bitterer amidst the Carthagenian ruins of
his party.
“Over on the other side, in a scat pre
cisely corresponding, sat that other Phila
delphian and apostle of high tariff, Old
Kelley—him they called Pig Iron—about to
rejoice as Dessaix at Marengo, rejoice and
die! There was another man amongst the
lawgivers, concerning whom none took note
then, but whom the world w'a.s to mark
in the after time. His name was McKinley:
a somewhat boyish-looking man, and with
al exceeding comely and gracious. Inherent
ly greater and big with more greatness
than any other there.whoever! Yet others
were there destined to play fretful part*
upon the world’s stage, and yet more who
were never to be limned by the footlights
against scenes however shifting.
• • 4
“The last name upon the last line of the
last scroll of the roll had been called, and
we who had kept tally knew that the great
est purpose of the Democratic party had
been defeated by Democrats. Not a mortal
moved: not a mortal seemed to have breath.
Carlisle arose from the historic Speaker's
chair, the proudest place but one in the
republic. His tall form seemed never so
tall, and it became rigid as pillar of steei.
His white face was deadly white, and it
never so powerfully delineated the master
ing and masterful passions of the man.
In it there was much of the god, vastly
more of the intensely human.
“ 'The clerk will call the Speaker's name!*
“ 'Mr. Carlisle?’
“ ‘Aye!’ ”
• * •
Fire was very nearly damaging the great
battleship Alabama, now at Cramps’ yard,
Philadelphia; and the renewed attention of
the country to that proud vessel should
make Alabamians feel very miserably
ashamed of themselves. With the praise
worthy exception of a donation from Mr.
T. C. King of Huntsville, and most com
mendable efforts by newspaper workers of
Mobile, nothing has been done towards
procuring a suitable gift from Alabamians
to the U. S. S. Alabama! This shameful
truth becomes more "Shameful every day
as the time approaches for the Alabama
to go into commission and begin the work
of defending the old flag that for more than
a hundred years has braved the battle
and the breeze. Alabama's history is nobly
proud; but Alabamians are no prouder of
it than they are of empty beer kegs. Alas,
alas!
The Dust Devil held high carnival in Bir
mingham yesterday evening. The densest,
dustiest dust storm that ever raged in the
dustiest dusty town between the seas raged
at half past 6 o’clock. Half a gale blew up
great black clouds of the air from the
south, and also blew up great black clouds
of the streets, and this town had a rare
lesson in how to keep dirty. The air be
came almost as dark as night, and after
the wind and dust fell, fell rain.
* * *
Mr. R. A. Brantley, a leading Atlantian,
who has been spending a week in town
looking after private property interests,
was joined at the Morris yesterday by Mrs.
Brantley and her daughter, beautiful little
Miss Linn. Mrs. Brantley was the widow
of the lamented Edward Linn of this city.
Hon. H. Austill *of* Mobile, some time a
chancellor of the state and subsequently
one of the strongest members of the gen
eral assembly, was in town yesterday.
• * *
F. L. Morgane of Gadsden and Warren F.
Dent of Montgomery are at the Morris.
WOOD’S DEATH LIST
Several Deaths from Yellow Fever Have
Occurred in American Ranks
Washington, July 11.—General Wood’s
last death loss is as follows:
Havana, July 11.—Death report 1st to 10th:
Santa Clara, 1st, Private Solomon Dunphy;
8th, Private John Thomas and Private
J&mes Bianchi, all Company E, Second
Cavalry, yellow fever.
Matanzas—Seventh, Artificer Edwin Bore
key, Company F, Tenth Infantry, suicide
by shooting: Columbia Barracks, Joseph
Mason, civilian, carpenter, yellow fever;
7th, Connor, civilian, dysentery; 9th, Pri
vate William H. Jones, D, Seventh Cavalry,
appendicitis.
Cabanas Barracks—Second, Sergeant Hen
ry S. Sekamp, H, Second Artillery, acute
dysentery.
Pinar Del Rio—Thomas Clery, H, First
Infantry, pernicious malarial fever.
Guanajay—Ninth, Private Samuel Walker,
I, First Infantry, yellow fever.
NEW YORK FOR DEMOCRACY
National Committeeman Mack Makes
Safe Prediction as to Result
Buffalo, N. Y., July 11.—National Commit
teeman Norman E. Mack said today:
“Unless Mr. Bryan desires the notification
made in a western city I should prefer that
it be made in some of the large cities of the
middle states. I favor New York because
of its importance as a political and com
mercial center. New York State will prob
ably go into the Democratic column at the
coming election, and Democrats in this
section of the country would like to have
the honor of having Mr. Bryan notified in
the east, especially as the west has had
the convention which named him.”
PILGRIMS BARRED
They Will Not Flock to Canton This
Year to Hear KcKinley Speak
Canton, O., July 11.—The campaign of
1900 in Canton will not be a duplicate of
the campaign of 18%. President McKinley
will not make speeches to delegates who
may visit Canton, even if he should remain
here all the time. He says that four years
ago he was a private citizen and the can
didate of his party and felt Justified in tak
ing an active part In the campaign. Now
he is President and feels that he should
give his attention to the many questions of
government. He will not make speeches
from the front porch to visiting delegations.
Appeals for Protection
Washington, July 11.—The war depart
ment has received the following message
from General Randall, dated Nome City,
Alaska, June 26, via San Francisco, July
11:
“At request of Chamber of Commerce
have assumed control of affairs in town
of Nome until arrival of the judge and
the establishment of municipal government
under recent act of Congress. Estimated
this date 16.000 people in the town and no
effective civil organization for protection
of life and property.”
ESTIM ATE OF CHINA'S STRENGTH
From the New York Press.
Major A. E. J. Marshall, a British officer
who is certainly well fitted to speak of
the numbers of the Chinese forces, gives
the fighting troops at 205,000 and the re
serves under arms at 6S9.000. Of the fight
ing troops, he estimates that 125,000 are
what is known as Fighting Braves, 50,000
as the Manchurian Fild Force, 20,000
Manchurian irregulars and 10,000 disci
plined troops. The Fighting Braves are
voluntarily enlisted men, and were the
first section of the army to*be drilled in
modern foreign style. Their discipline of
late years, however, has not been up to
the standard. The Banner Men, who are
in charge of Pekin, are the dirtiest, most
ill-disciplined and beggarly lot of bipeds
iu the whole world.
SHORT STORIES
OF THE DAY
Forgot All About HU Hones
Congressman Littlefield of Maine, the suc
cessor of the late Nelson Dingley in the
House, who has twice distinguished him
self by brilliantly taking a firm stand
against the “machine" majority of his
party there, was at the University Club the
other night, the guest of a party of New
York friends, relates the New York Com
mercial.
There was little doubt of his nomination
last summer by the special Republican con
vention that had been called, but Littlefield
thought it best to look very closely after
his fences. So he "shook” his office prac
tice for about a month in order to “nail"
delegates. During this period he was travel
ing over the district a good deal, and his
family didn’t see much of him.
On the evening following the adjourn
ment of the nominating convention, Little
field was besieged at his home by hosts of
callers, who came to congratulate him.
While the punch was going around at the
liveliest pace and the room was blue with
cigar smoke, Mrs. Littlefield appeared at
the door. She shook hands cordially with
all her husband’s assembled friends and
neighbors, and then, turning to the hero
of the hour, said:
“Well, Charlie, you got the nomination,
did you?"
“Yes. It was more than unanimous; it
was overwhelming. I really needn’t have
fretted over the thing at all."
“You are quite sure that you are all
through with politics for the present?"
“Yes."
“Then, please, before you settle your
self in the office again, go down to the
stable and water the horses. I’ve been
doing it myself for a month back, when
ever I happened to think of it, and I’m
tired of it."
It was necessary to explain to the club
men who heard the story that there are
a good many thrifty people in Maine own
ing elegant private “turnouts" who never
dreamed of the luxury of a groom or a
coachman.
Tobacco Was HI# Unit of Value
When James Coogan, president of the
borough of Manhattan, was at the Demo
cratic National Convention at Kansas City
he was accosted by a long, lean bewhis
kered individual wearing an Arkansas
badge, says the New York Tribune. “Ex
cuse me, partner,” said the Arkansas vis
itor, “but I don’t recollect ever seeing a
hat like that before. Would you mind tell
ing me where you got it?”
The hat in question was a fine, flexible,
snow-white Panama.
“That, my friend,” said Mr. Coogan, “is
not an American hat; I bought it in Lon
don.”
“I reckoned you did,” said the Arkansas
man, as he squirted a stream of tobacco
into the gutter. “But would you mind tell
ing me w'hat a hat like that cost, brother?”
“That hat,” said Coogan, as he took it
off to mop his forehead, “cost me £7 10s.”
“Seven pounds 10,” said the Arkansas
man, “seven pounds of what? Tobacco?”
Mr. Coogan says it took him an hour to
initiate his interlocutor into the mysteries
of English finance.
Only a Boss to HU Workmen
John R. McDonald, the contractor for the
proposed New York tunnel for the rapid
transit railroad, is about 56 years old, and
has made his fortune by hard work. It is
said that he can get more work out of his
men without urging them than any other
man in New York, unless it is John D.
Crimmins, the millionaire railroad builder.
One day last spring, at Jerome Park, where
Mr. McDonald is doing the greatest work
of his life except the tunnel contract, a vis
itor noticed a square man, covered with
mud and built like a peg top, with wide
spreading shoulders, talking to the fore
man.
“Say,” he asked of a laborer, “is that
Mr. McDonald, the famous contractor
who is going to uild the rapid transit
tunnel?”
“Naw!” answered the workman. “He
ain’t no famous contractor. That’s Jack
McDonald, our boss.”
Encountered a lioyal Botanizer
A story illustrating the Democratic sim
plicity of the King of Sweden and Nor
way is told in the “Echo de Paris" by
M. Gaston Bonnier, the botanist. M. Bon
nier was botanizing near Stockholm when
he met a stranger similarly occupied. The
two fraternized, and M. Bonnier suggested
that they should lunch together at an inn.
“No, come home and lunch with me, in
stead,” said the stranger ,and he led the
way to the palace and opend the gate. M.
Bonnier was naturally astonished, but his
new acquaintance w’as most apologetic.
"Hm sorry,” he said, “but I happen to be
the King of this country, and this is the
only place I’ve got to entertain anybody
in.”
So they went in and lunched and tulked
botany together all the afternoon.
FACES
By Walt Whitman.
Sauntering the pavement or riding th<
countrybyroad—lo! such faces!
Faces of friendship, precision, caution,
suavity, ideality;
The spiritual prescient face—the always
w’eicome, common, benevolent face,
The face of the singing of music — the
grand faces of natural lawyers and
judges, broad at the back-top;
The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged
at the brows—the shaved, blanched
faces of orthodox citizens;
I The pure, extravagant, yearning, question
ing artist’s face;
The ugly face of some beautiful soul, the
handsome, detested or despised face;
The sa<jred faces of infants, the illuminated
face of the mother of many children;
The face of an amour, the face of venera
tion ;
The face as oi a dream ,the face of an im
mobile rock;
The face withdrawn of its good and bad, a
castrated face.
Sauntering the pavement thus, or crossing
the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and
faces;
I see them, and complain not, and am con
tent with all.
Do you suppose I could be content with all
if I thought them their own finale?
These faces bear testimony slumbering or
awake;
They show their descent from the Master
himself.
Of the word I have spoken I except not
one—red, white, black, are all del tic;
In each house is the ovum—it comes forth
after a thousand years.
Spots or cracks at the window do not dis
turb me;
Tall and sufficient stand behind and make
signs to me;
I read the promise, and patiently wait.
Walt Whitman. ,