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10 THE MOKNING ORE.GONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1900. LITERARY REMINISCENCES: BY DR. E. K ME (Copyrlfht, 1800, by feeymour Eaton.) THE OREGONIAN'6 HOME STUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED Bi PROF. SEYMOUR EATON LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES xvx. It must havo been in 1S30 that I first heard the name of Oliver Wendell Holmes. I -was a little boy 7 or 8 years old. The country had Just turned out John Qulncy Adams from the Presidency. The Southern oligarchy, which, by talc ing a "Western candidate and electing a "Western President, had put New Eng land upon the back seats again, sought some lit opportunity to slap New England in the face. "With an ingenuity almost Machiavel lian, the Secretary of the Navy, whoever he xras, acting in this amiable view, an nounced, that the Government was going to break up the frigate Constitution called for conven ence "The Old Frigate." In trtuh she was hardly 50 years old; she had been launched in Boston. In a gene ration she had revolutionized naval war fare. She had fought with success in many battles; she had escaped as by a miracle from hostile fleets. But she was a John Adams frigate, Massachusetts bullt'and Massachusetts called. To Ireak her up before a generation of the men who built her had died, just as the younger Adams had been turned out of office, would be a good token that the reign of the Adamses of New England was Indeed finished. So the order was given that Old Iron sides, as she was called familiarly, should bo broken tip. This order roused Oliver "Wendell Holmes with a theme worthy of him. He went up Into his little attic room in the old Cambridge parsonage, the house which was General Ward's head quarters In the siege of Boston. On the roadway below, Prescott's regiments had .formed on their -way to Bunker Hill, and the parson had offered prayers to the God of battle. Holmes shut himself into his little room and wrote his immortal ode: Noll to the raast her holy flue. Spread every threadbare sail. And give Mer to tho God of storms, The lightning and the pale. Holmes -was a lad of 2L He took the ode, hot from his pen, to the office of the Daily Advertiser, of which paper my fath er was the editor. Of course the Adver tiser published the poem. It flew all over the country. The "'harpies of the lind" "Were frightened, cowed and blinded, and the order was revoked. The Constitution is afloat today. We saved her from An napolis In the days of the rebellion, znd now she lies a shrine for worship in Bos ton harbor, as the "essel of Theseus lay at Athens. Well, my mother was always on the lookout for "rleces" for us boys to speak when Saturday came round, and so Holmes' ode was cut out from the paper and I was made to l-arn It arTV to speak It. That was th way In wh'ch In those days -boys learned by heart "Scots wha hae," "Nelson and the North," "Down to the dust with them." "The Turk was dreaming of the hour" and eth er like lyrics which did them no harm. And thus I first knew the name of Oliver Widell Ho'mes. 1 us-d to tell him afterward that I was the first nt a mil lion boys and girls to repeat his lines the schoolroom stage, and I think he T.ced mo the better for it. But when I saw him first our renditions were reversed. It was in 383G. and I was In college His reputat'on was fssurd now. He was the young r-eet of th t'me. People knew what he eould do, and i us boys he was the representative of T Harvard. So as -we all sat amon-r 20X) graduates a.nd und-rgraduates In 'the lar gest Tiavlllon ever heard of on the 2Xlth anniversary of "ra'r Harvard's" birth. he was our hero among" the great men o" the occasion. Webster. Everett, Story, Shaw these were jrreat men; but we wanted to hra- Holmes, and for us he bore away tho laurels. r The little man nnswerrd the call or "Holmes! Holmes!" end n cited that very funny poem: And who was In the catalogue When college first begun? Two nerheTVB of the president And the rrofcssor'3 ton. Sometimes the entering class was small. And rometlmes there was none. Lord! How the seniors kicked about That freshman class of one. I may say in passing that I have often been at one or another dinner party Where he spoke, -where the audience made him stand in his chair or even on the table, so that they might, see him and hear him the better. And, indeed, cne does not know his odes at their best un less one has heard him deliver them, for it was always above and beyond recita tion and declamation. He loved Cambridge and the college end all college festivities with genuine and inimitable enthusiasm. When we -were both well forward I had, as I said, bv accident, to preside at a dinner of Phi Beta Kappa. In making sure of the right ppople for guests I wrote to Holmes and asked him to remember the -day, to -which request I received a very funny answer. He could not come and would not. He was tired of being tapp?d for verses like a cidir cask for elder when ever an anniversary came pund. He would not respond to such calls any lon ger. To which I replied at once: "Who said anything about verses? Not I!" I was embarrassed with riches already. I. had Longfellow and both Qulncys, and 1 knew not how many others. But the boys would want to see him. and all that I wanted of him was to sit at the cross table and let them look at him, he need not say a word. As quick as the two letters could ro aild come I had his answer. It read something like this. Dear Hale: Til's Idea of a Phi Beta dinner without my readinc some vcrees is ridiculous. I have a good motif already and have the poem half written. I shall come and shall ex pect to speak. Observe, I shall be very angry with you if you do not call me up. So, as the man said who could not make Clay's speeches but who once held his hat when he made one. I can boast that I have contributed one of Holmes' poems to our college literature. That would be a good working history cf this country from 1S31 to 1S9G which could be made from Holmes' poems, Low ell's and Whlttier's, with a few from iBrynnt, Emerson and Longfellow. The "Blglow Papers" would come in, of course; Mrs. Howe'-s "Battle Hymn" and six or eight good marching songs of the Civil War. To this anthology, perhaps, Holmes would furnish the most. But the best of our historical ballads, in fact one of the best of the modern bal lads, none of- which are true ballads, is Longfellow's ballad of the French fleet. Holmes and Lowell were 10 years apart in age. Holmes likea to say that 18C0, "the year of his birth, was 100 years after the date of Sam Johnson' birth. He pre tended to regard It as an "annus mlrabll is." It was the year in which Gladstone was born. This -was always- in a sort of bubbling fun. in which he was at his best. In which there was not the last flock of conceit or vanity. He and Low ell were both Cambridge boys, and in a way were able to link together personally the old war days of 1775, with the war days of 1SC1. In the Cambridge gardens of those days were, as there are now, the wrecks of Putnam's and Ward's fntrench menta. We nsed to point out staples In tho celling in Massachusetts Hall from which we pretended that soldiers ham mocks hung when the college buildings were barracks. At West Cambridge they showed bullets of the day of Lexington in the timbers of the -wooden houses. Lowell -was born within a mile from Holmes' birthplace, ten years after him. Ho never remembered a time when ho did not know Holmes, and he was among the eager grouo of boys -who heard -with de light Holmes' Phi Beta appa poem. Jhogp wb-o- crp- fajaijrar -with the writings of both will remember the enthusiasm with which they always turn back to their Cambridge memories. Lowell would question the old negro who remembered Earl Percy's march from Cambrlde bridge to Lerington: Old Joe Is dead, who eaw proud Percy goad His slow artillery .up the Concord road. And he tells how that talo grew from year to year, so that if the Old white haired negro could have lived a Uttle longer, Vanquished Percy, to complete the tale. Had hammered stone Cor life in Concord Jail. His boyhood's home Is but little changed, a beautiful old house, of the kind -which rich torles lived In then, and which we arc apt In New England to call colonial houses. His mother was not in strong health, and his training fell much into the hands of an older sister, a charm ing woman, who seems to have known early that she had a poet in her charge. At all events, the training was Just such as you and I might be glad that a poet should have. Lowell's love of nature is not In the least manufactured, and his acquaintance with hangblrd3 and blue Jays and brown thrushes js the, friend ship of a man who had known them from his childhood. So in skating on French pond, in tracing up Beaver brook, and in the freedom and ease of his know ledge of trees and flowers, Wo find I do not say a country boy, but a boy who had beon brought up in the open air. There is an amusing but pathetic story about Lowell's fortunes In college, which has a lesson so Important that I believe . 1 The Autocrat of the Brcalcfnst Table. (From Vanity Fair, London, June 19, 1880.) it Is worth repeating. I say this because tVio nprenn trVin Vilmclf nut It In cir culation was evidently proud of his own part in it. This gentelman was in Kome In the Spring of 1838, when Dr. Charles Lowell, the father of the poet, was there. "I heard that Dr. Lowell had not re ceived "his American letters, and as I had mine I thought I would go round and see him. So I said to him that I had my letters. And he asked me what was the Cambridge news. And I told him that my brother was to have the first oration at the college commencement. And I told him that his son James had been 'rusticated that Is, suspended from col lege and sent into the country In exile to work -with a clerical tutor." But I told him the class had -chosen James to be the class poet." That was pretty grave news to tell an affectionate father about a son greatly beloved, and dear- old Dr. Lowell met it by saying: "Oh, James promised me that he would quit writing poetry and would go to work!" I am afraid that most fathers at CO years would be glad If any son of 18 or 19 would promise to "quit writing poetry and to go to work." But all the .same one Is glad in this particular case that the country and the world did not lose "Sir Launfal" and the "Biglow Papers" and many others like them because a fond .father hoped that a dear son would "quit writing poetry." The story belongs here as one begins to write about Lowell. It involves a certain moral. It suggests the competi tion between the goddess of wqrk, who ever she may be, and a- half-dozen other muses, more or less, who preside on such poetry as theirs, a competition which af fected the life of Lowell as of Holmes I think not unfavorably. Some years ago In hi? own absence In Europe it fell to me by accident to pre side in his place at the annual dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa at Cambridge. The Phi Beta Kappa society "xists only for the purpose of holding these dinner par ties, and they are very good fun. There Is a certain rule, stern as those of the Modes and Persians, that no word of the after-dinner speaking shall ever go Into print, so that you have men of every sort of fame ready to talk to each other with the freedom of so many sophomores at a college dinner table. In making my preparations for this dinner party, the advice was given me, with a certain bit terness, that I should riot "trot out the old warhorses." To which I replied: "Really, the 'old warhorses' are not a bad set. I can have Longfellow and Charles Francis Adams and Holmes and all but Lowell. And let me tell you that the day Lowell graduated we knew as well as we know now that he was going to be one of the leading poets of his. time. If you will tell me who Is going to be the leading poet of his time among the youngsters who will graduate here next Wednesday I .will call him out" I am fond of telling -this story because It shows definitely the early period at which he had Impressed us all with a sense of his power. Mr. Hlgglnson. In his charming reminis cences of that time, -says he remembers the Interest with which the boys of his own ago heard that James Lowell was not going to be a lawyer, but was going to be a poet. The mere Idea that any body in the world should say that poetry was, to be bis vocation and that other work was to be what people like to call an avocation in those days surprised and interested a set of bright fellows like young Hlgglson and his companions Bnt without anything like arrogance this de termination was made. That is to say, after he had studied law studied it care fullyand had opened an office In good faith, to show his friends that he was. not beyond work or above It, Lowell de termined that he would give himself to literature as his duty. He corresponded with the Journals most advanced in the politics of that .time which meant with the anti-slavery Jour nals. Some of his best work was written for them, and it is quite worth while for the young gentlemen and ladles who are reading this to try to hunt up in the files of the old newspapers of that doy papers, of his which have not been brought together in collections of his published "writings. At that time I was very Intimate with him personally. I saw him almost every day of his life, and I like to testify to the firm habit of work which he had al ready formed, which as an underlying foundation is responsible for his success in life. Do not let any of the young authors who read this think they are to work spasmodically or when the, fancy takes them. He says somewhere that he gave 15 hours a day to his duties nsj-in editor. It is impossible to attempt here any detail of Lowell's Nwork. These papers do not involve any study of his methods or of the secret pf hi successes, It is MfM ffl re & enough to say that for the period of the Civil War and the years which fal lowed it his literary life Is all mixed up with the life of a conscientious' leader of the people. He was editor of the At lantic Month'ly and of the North Ameri can Review sometimes editor of both at the same time. Besides the regular work of an editor he was writing forcible articles on the duties of the men of- the free states. If poetry helped irr this work he wrote poetry. If, men -needed prose he wrote prose. . It is one of the good traditions of our Government that In Europe we shall be represented by some men who have won their spurs .In literature: Mr. Lowell, however, declined all the four great for eign missions Russia, France, Germany and England. But he said to somebody in private that it they had offered him Spain he thought he could not have re sisted the temptation. Such an expression was, of course, repeated in Washington, and the Government "at once offered him Spain." Ho went to Spain, and they found, I have sometimes supposed to their great surprise, that they got business like letters from him of great value and interest. It was the time when Spain had Just offended .us, and Mr. Lowell's, business was conciliation. So satisfactory was his workas a diplomatist In Spain that to his surprise he was offered our mission to England when there ..was a vacancy. He fulfilled hl3 duties there with remarkable success. Some of his public addresses, especially that on democracy, may be opoken of as standard statements of what ft republic means and what it stands for. I have been glad, to see that the address on democracy Is used as a text-book In the classes in some of our better colleges. Roxbury, Mass. ; CALLS BRYAN A TRAITOR. Senator Stewart Says He Has Incited United States Subjects to Rebellion. St Paul Pioneer Press. CHICAGO, Sept. 24. W. J. Biyan, while In Chicago today refused to dls uss a charge of Senator Stewart that "e 1j guilty of treason under the law. Senator Stewart who was a former supporter o Bryan, applied tho word "traitor" to the Democratic party in, his noonday speech Saturday. Today he declared he not enly meant it, but quoted acts of Congress to make Bryan appear guilty of treason. The Senator declares that the technical difficulties In the way of proving hl3 charge are so great that he does not be lieve Colonel Bryan could be succes.f ally prosecuted In, a trial court, but he asserts the people of the United States should adjudge him guilty by applying as a penalty part of the punishment provided by the treason statute that he shall "bs Incapable of holding any office under the United States." "I consider Mr. Bryan as much an en emy of his country' as Aaron Burr or Jefferson Davis," said the Senator today. "I publicly accuse him of the violation of the following act: " 'Section, 5334, Revised Statutes of the United States: Every person who Incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or Insurrection against the au thority of the United States, or the laws theeof, or gives aid and comfort thereto, shall he nunlshed bv imDrisonment not more than 10 years, or by a fine of $10,0)0, or by both of such punishments; and shall, moreover, .be incapable of holding any offico under the United States ' Incitement to Rebellion- " "I don't think that a charge of treason against Mr. Bryan could be establish d technically under the terms of the Con stitution of the United States, but It Is a fact that Mr. Bryan's speech and the en tire programme of campaign for the Pres idency have been a direct Incitement to the continuance, of tho rebellion against the sovereignty of the United States in the Philippines. "I believe this statute was enacted as a measure against such persons as Val landlgham and other copperheads who In 1864 proposed that the Federal Govern ment should compromise with the South ern rebels. Then, as now, tho small suc cesses of the Confederacy were cited as reasons why the war for the preservation of the Union should be abandoned. In the same way the argument Is now pre sented by Mr. Bryan that the war to es tablish order In the Philippines is hope less and should also be abandoned. "I don't think It possible to Indict Mr. Bryan, as It is not necessary. It is, only necessary to defeat his ambition to bo come the President. He says that if elected he will call a special session ot Congress to violate the provls'ons of fho treaty of Paris, which could not have been confirmed In the Senate without hl influence. Worse Than a Hypocrite. t "Bryan is worse than a hypocrite. At a time when he knows that the Fil,pnos were in open, war, in pursuance of treach ery against the United States, he advo cates the confirmation of the treaty wh ch gave to this country sovereignty over thj archipelago. I agree entirely with my respected friend, Senator Hoar, of Mas sachusetts, in saying that thi3 action of Mr. Bryan is entirely inconsistent with his present attitude. "To indict Mr. Bryan it would be, in the first place, necessary to secure at least tw witnesses against him. Then it would be necessary to show that his offense was committed In. a country or in a state in such a manner as to incite aid for the rebellion In the Philippines. Be side this, there are other technical diffi culties that any Attorney-General or Dis trict Attorney In the United States would understand. But despite these technical obstacles of our legal machinery, I do not hesitate to say that Mr. Bryan is ethic ally guilty of treason under the Constitu tion." ' GOOD OUTLOOK FOR SHEEP. - Prices Are Satisfactory and Full Gross Grovrs Well. William Hughes, a Heppner capitalist and sheepraiser, is in Portland, looking after his real estate interests here. He reports Morrow County sheep all in fine condition for the coming Winter, and Fall grass growing well on the foothills, though the open prairies are still rather dry. At present 'the flocks which have summered In the Blue Mountains are coming slowly back toward Heppner, being now pastured on the "breaks" of the John Day. They were obliged to leave the higher elevations, as storms may be expected on the summits any time now, and sheepmen do not desire to be caughfcby deep snow. The-animals are therefore loitering among the lower levels .where, green grass Is good, in ordor to ldll time and permit a few showers to fall on the open prairies. Sheep are hi big demand about; Heppner, Mr. Hughes says, as feed Is abundant and the Winter ranges of Morrow County are not overstocked. Last Spring's lambs are held at $2 15, and some sales are being ma.de at this unusually high figure. Year ling ewes n.re also needed, but few -of these can be bought at any price. The practice of purchasing sheep in the Fall to sell after shearing In the Spring has become very popular with Morrow County stockmen, ho says, as there has bean good money In It of late years, and the annoyance of herding the flocks In a hos tile country during' the Summer is avoided. SUNDAY TRIPS TO BONNE VIL&E The Sunday trips to Bonneville still con tinue popular! -many people taking ad vantage of the low rate and splendid train service to spend Sunday under the pines and along tha banks of the Columbia. The train leaves' Union depot Sunday morning at 9 o'clock; returning train reaohes Portland at :3u P. M, Fare to only 50 cento for the round J trip. IS NOT A GOOD MEASURE CHARLES E. LOCICWOOb'S T3IRECT PRIMARY BILL FAULTY. Perpetuates the Convention System and Restricts the Right of Elec tors to Name Candidates. Charles E. Lockwood and other mem bers of a committee of the Jtvjpub.i.an Ciub of Portiann nave draxtcd a, direc primary bill for he consideration of the next Legislature. A copy of the -ill v,o. snown to 12. V. Bingham, an autnori.y on direct primaries, ana ne wats skea h s opinion uL It. io aaia: "In my opinion, the plan and scope of the bill are essentially .wrong, 'xhe bill, if enacced would prove utterly woru.l3.-s as a direct primary law. It alma mere ly to provide a dlrect primary elect on to nominate candidates i'or offices to i.e vot ed for and elected wholly within a coun ty. Hence, it would not leguiate the nom ination of state o-fiicers, Joint Representa tives, Joint Senators or Judges oi the Cir cuit Court where the judicial district em braced more than one county. It would appear to be intended to apply only tJ Multnomah County, .and possibly one or two other counties. "This seems to me. an all-sufficient ob jection to the bill. What we need ii a better plan or method of nominating can didates in. the names of the different tat ties, covering the entire state .and eery office, from United States Senator, Mem ber of Congress and Governor down to Coroner and Road Supervisor a system which will restore to the electors tho power of nominating the candidates, and relegate to perdition the present system of conventions of delegates. Let the con vention system become obsolete like the system of having each party's central committee print the stnaight party tick ets, and all the other i abominable p. no tices which prevailed before the intro duction of the Australian ballot. We ne.'d a system of making nominations whicn will be so satisfactory and popular with the voters of all parties' that they will all turn out at tho direct primary election with as much interest as they now do at the general election, "Mr. Lockwood's bill fails entirely in its scope. It would not provide a meth:d for making the nominations for state and other high offices. Therefore, the conven tion system in all its details would still continue, and no doubt the party mana gers would nominate a full ticket, state, county and all, and the only effect of the bill would be a double set of candidates for county offices. What is needed Is a method of making the nominations which will consolidate the parties rather than split them up Into factions. We have too many candidates on the ballot now. This bill would only tend to aggravate the difficulties. If it is the intention in this bill to' prevent by statute the pirty or a taction or tne party irom nominating any candidates for county offices by any other method than the one prescribed in the bill, when once this method Is pstl tloned for in a county, then the bill pre scribes an. exclusive method, and it is open to the same constitutional otjec tlons which wore successfully urged against the Stratton primary law in Cali fornia. "Another radically wrong feature Is in sectlops 12 and 15, providing for prlnti g the names of the candidates of eacn party upon a separate 3heet and giving the voter only 'the' ballot of that politi cal party which he shall declare he de sires to affiliate with.' An elector should judse for himself whom he wants to help nominate for each office, Just as he now does with the; Australian, ballot when je comes to elect the men to office. If he has a constitutional right to make his 'ree choice when he votes at the general June election he should posses the same op portunity at the primary election. The right to elect Includes the right to nomi nate. In other words, such a law should leave the electors free to nom'nate the best men. Just as they are now free to elect thsm at tho general election, and especially for all the purely ministerial cr municipal offices, which Include the coun ty offices. "The repealing clause, or section 22, ia confusing- when considered with section 2 and other sections and our present pri mary law. It reads: Section 22. All acts or parts of acts relative to primary elections, within any county lu which this act may be made applicable, in conflict with tho provisions of this act, arc hereby repealed. "This act is not to be operative in any county unless 'Upon a petition signed by at least 160 electors of the same political i party,' etc., and then It affeets only that party. So that If only one party peti tioned in a county, the other parties in the same county would act -under tho present primary law. And as this till does not 'conflict' with the present p.i mary law so far as the latter operate3 upon state and congressional nomlnatl:n?, It would not repeal it for those purposes. In this county it would permit 150 voters to dictate to '7000 or more whether .the convention system or this method should be followed. A small minority of a party would thus be empowered to dictate to the great majority of a party which method should be pursued in making its party nominations for the county offices the present method or the Republican Club's method. "Other primary bills, or laws, have teen held unconstitutional for fewer faults than this one presents, and even if it were permitted to stand it would involve the expense of holding an election In each counts' where it was invoked, nearly as costly as a general election, or to suit the whim of possibly 150 disgruntled mem bers 'of a single party. And after it was held It would have accomplished nothing but to add another set of county candi dates to those nominated by some other method. It Is Just as effective at present to 'bolt the convention, or start a 'citi zens' ticket,' or In some other way try to .defeat the 'machine ticket and much cheaper for, the taxpayers." The Lockwood Bill. Following is the text of the Lockwood measure: - Section 1 In all counties of this s&te, nominations by a political party, for all public offices to be olected wholly within any of said counties at the next ensuing general election, may be made as provid ed in this act ,Sec. 2 Upon a petition, signed by at least 150 electors of the 'same political party affiliation, residents of a single county in the state, and addressed to the County .Court or Board of County Com missioners, being filed with the Clerk of said Court or Board, not more than five or les3 than three months previous to any feneral election, said court or board shall lrect and provide for the holding of a primary election on the first Monday in April of that year, between the hours of 8 A. M. and 6 P. M., under the provisions of this act, for the purpose of electing the candidates of each political party so petitioning, for all state, district, county, precinct and city offices, to be elected at the next ensuing general election, wholly within said county, and central commit teemen for each of the political parties participating therein ,. Sec. 3-The Judges and -Clerks appoint ed for the general election shall act as the Judges and Clerks of said primary election, and shall qualify therefor and bo compensated in the same manner as pro vided for In the law governing general elections. I ,faJf 1,1-rt 4.0 YEARS fr WORLDS Lfl&Si NSED R KVORITE M1 BoftPEN'3 Coxdehsed For GirLf MJo A. H. Rcbcrson, J98 S. Rtzhugh. Street, Rochester, N. Y., tells fcow Dr. Williams Pink Pills saved her life. "Three years ago I was in a pitiable condition j I had just reached that critical stage in a girl's life when she merges from girlhood into woman hood. I had grown too fast and the rapid growth had sapped my strength. Consequently, when the change which is incident to this time of life toot place, my system was unequal to it and I broke down completely. I was scarcely able to drag myself from one chair to another. My face was white as a sheet, and I looked as though I had not a drop of blood in my body.- I became so nervous that at times I was hysterical. One day a friend told me about Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, and induced me to try them. I did so, and improved rapidly. I gained tx weight, grew strong, my cheeks took on a healthy color, and I looked and feltl'ke a different girl. In fact, I was mads well enough in three months to be able to accept a position and start to work. I cannot praise Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People too highly, as they have made of me a strong and healthy girl." A. M. Robersoa. Subscribed and sworn to before mo this Gth day of Jnly, 1889. Fkauk DoEULin, Notary Public for the common cemplaizts of women Dr. Williams' Pink PUls are norlrolled. DrWilliams' PinK Pills for JL CJLJl Jt iL iLP oJ? m At all druggists or direct from Dr. Wtniams Medicine Co. .Schenectady, N.Y potpald on receipt of price, SOc. per box ; nil bozca, $2.10. Sec. 4 The precincts and polling places set off and established for the general election shall be the same for the primary election provided for herein. Said pre cincts shall contain 200 voters each as near as practicable, and In no case more than G0 or less than 50 voters. Sec. 5 At least CO days previous to the time fixed for holding tho primary elec tion, the County Clerk shall notify the Judges and Clerks of their appointment to act at said primary election! and shall prepare and cause to be published In on& or more of the leading newspapers pub lished" in such county, a notice of such primary election. Sec. 6Tiie County Court shall provide the booths, necessary stationery and sup plies for each polling place: contract for the printing of the official and sample ballots, and let the same to the lowest responsible bidder, and see that they are placed in the hands of the Sheriff to be by him delivered to the Judges of election before the time fixed for opening the polls. Sec. 7 Individual electors to the num. ber hereinafter specified, of a political party that shall have petitioned for such primary election, may- join In a petition nominating one candidate for each office to be elected at the next general election. Such petition shall state the name; resi dence, occupation, party affiliation and office for which the person named Is de sirous to be nominated, and shall give tho name and residence of each of the sign ers, who must be electors within the dis. trlct for which the nomination is to bo made, and of the same party affiliation as the nominee. Two of the signers thereto shall make affidavit as to the truth of the statements therein made. See. 8 Said petition shall contiin tho names to the number of at least 3 per cent of the votes cast at the last pre ceding general election of the same po litical party as that for which the nom ination Is desired, for the office of Con. pressman, in case of a county or judicial district office, for the office of Mayor, In case of a city office, and of the same of fice in a precinct or district less than the entire county or city. Sec. 9 Said petition shall be filed with the County Clerk not more than 00 or less than 15 days prior to the day of the pri mary election. Said County Clerk shall place the same In a register of nomina tions, similar to the register as now pro vided for nominations for general elec tions. Sec. 10 The acceptance of the nomlnea shall be filed with the County Clerk at least 12 days previous to the primar election. Sec. U The County Clerk shall. Imme diately after the time for filing the peti tions and acceptances shall have expired, arrange the ballots as hereinafter provid ed: and post a copy of the same in a con spicuous place In his office. Sec. 12-The names of the candidates entitled to be placed upon the ballot shall be grouped together in alphabetical or der by surname under the name of the office for which they are nominated: the candidates of each party oelng placed to gether on a separate sheet of the same size, under the name of their respective party. Sec. IS A prson to be entitled to vote under the provisions of this act shall be a duly qualified elector of this state and of the county and precinct in which ho offers to vote, and whose name shall appear on the precinct register for that year. Sec. 14 The County Clerk shall give to the Sheriff to be by him delivered to the Judges of election in each precinct before the" time for opening the polls, the pre cinct registration books of that year so far as made. See. 15 A person offering and entitled to vote at the primary election shall be handed a ballot of that political party, which he shall declare he desires to af filiate with, he shall then repair to one of the booths and mark on said ballot a cross opposite the name of each can didate he desires to vote for. Sec. 16 In addition to the offices to be filled at the next general election there shall be nominated and elected In -each election precinct for each party partici pating herein, a central committeeman; provided, that in counties that shall con tain an incorporated city containing within Its limits, a major portion of the population of such county, the County Court or Board may, provide for the nom ination and election of one committee man from each ward in such city, and one from each district outside, of such city, each to contain relatively the same number of electors. Said committeemen to be nominated and elected In the same manner as provided for precinct officers. Sec. 17 Immediately' after tho comple tion of the canvass of the votes by the Judses of election and the returns are received at the County Clerk's office, the County Court shall meet and canvass the returns as shown by the tally sheets for each precinct, and the name of each person who shall have received the high est number of all the votes cast by hj3 nnrt-r for that particular office, shall be Dlaced on the official ballot (followed. with the party named), as tne nominee of tliat party to be voted for at the gen oral election. Sec. 18-Immedlately after the comple tion of the canvass, as above provided, the County Clerk shall notify each of the candidates for central committeemen, who shall have received the highest number ot vntac nt hi nnrtv cast in each precinct or district, of his election, and shall call them together witnm live aays inereaiier for the purpose'of organization. Sec. 19 In case of a vacancy happening in anv nomination -made as provided In this act or in the position of committee man, on account of death, withdrawal or otherwise, the central committee of that party in which the vacancy occurs, shall have the power to fill such vacancy, by electing from among the candidates, not exceeding, two, who received the next BRAND Mll$ SEND POR "BABESn A BOOK 'FOR MOTflERS Milk Go. New York, -4 1 highest number of votes at the primary election, one of them, whose name shall be certified to the County Clerk and by him placed on the official ballot in place of the original nominee. Sei. 20 The County Central Committee chosen and elected under the provisions of this act shall have the power to select delegates to district, congressional and state conventions of their respective par ties, and such delegates shall be selected from each precinct or district in each county as near In proportion to the party vote cast at the primary election as prac ticable. Sec. il The provisions of the general election law shall apply and govern the manner of conducting elections under this act. in all cases where practicable and not Inconsistent with this act Sec. 23 All acts or parts of acts rela tive to primary elections, within any county In which this act may be appli cable, in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Bankruptcy Cae. Bankruptcy cases occupied the attention of the United States District Court yes terday morning. The proceedings on the petition of C. Levy wer continued until "Wednesday, October 3. C. H. Ostrandcr, Susan A. Proctor and Edwin S. McCoy were each given a bankrupt's discharge. No More Dreed of the TEETH EXTRACTED AND FILLED AB SOLUTELY WITHOUT PAIN, by our 11 olentlfle method applied to tho (urns. Iio flnop-produclne ajrents or cocaina. 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