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An American consul writes that Ger
mans msnnifw 130 lanre business e
tahli!hnieiits tn Braxil and that f 135.
000XX) of Orinan capital is invested
iu that country. The thorough ay.
tern of commercial education carried on
in Gorman v is at the bottom of it
success in crttina forclim trade and
opportunities abroad for its trade rep
resentatives.
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Mr. Bryan's advice is "Let Uis Cu
bans rule.' Oh, certainly. "Let the
Russians ba quiet, and "Let the sul
tan pay his debts.'" These generalita
tiona, are a great comfort to a states
man out, of a Job,
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The French have, never proposed to
mate a president of Count Boni, though
he elected to the assembly, where
he set an example to Congressman
Hearst by answering roll call occas
ionally. -: ,
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The Republican candidate for gov
ernor of acw lorx wiu not receive
much help from the insurance trust or
other big corporations, but he ought
to draw heavily from the great body
of voters.
STATE OWNERSHIP SAMPLE.
Here are some municipal ownership,
or rather management, figures, which
are instructive. In Bismarck, N. D,
the State owned an electric car line.
Under State management it did not
pay, and it has just been leased for
two years to private company, headed
bv a Mr. Hughes "will run it upon a
continuous service, thus shortening the
present running time over one-half. The
rental is understood to be but nomin
al, as the State is glad to be rid of
the octopus, the line having (been a
heavy loser. It is estimated the lease
will make a saving of nearly $4,000 a
year to. the State. The Hughes com
pany will also fnnush the light lor tne
esritol building. It can do it much
cheaper than the State can with its
own plant." Again, from Alexandria,
Va" dome word that after trial of
many years with a municipal-owned
plant, that city haa leased its electric
works to a private corporation lor a
jri at thirty years. The plant cost
the dty $17,000. The lessee gets it
for $3,500. These facts and figures
apeak volumes. -
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J TO TEST THE MORALE.
There are so many money-making
schemes that come o near the line de
nominated as "graft," without obviously
it. that it would seem that
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some other standard than mere condem
tuition hv nublie opinion should be
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adopted for testing the essential moral
ity of such practices. The use of per
sonal influence for a consideration, es
pecially where that influence is insid
iously employed by teachers to govern
the eollege destination of young pupils,
is one of the latest threats of evil.
The president of a college offers a bo
nus of $50 to school principals for each
pupil whom'' they may induce to enter
his institution, and in hi offer he states
that one gentleman who took up with
it influenced in the space of six weeks,
some nine students to enter his college.
Of course, the institution and its head
are likely to get much free advertising
from this "graft" scheme. But what
about ilie doutiizg pr"nt4 wn flav
taken teachers' advice as to the college
destination of their sons and daughters!
What; too, about the lowered status of
all colleges of its class by. these prac
tices of one?
Perhaps the Cuban inmrcents who
have not disbanded are waiting for an
other cash distribution of $31,000,000
in fighting and Weeding for Cuba. The
nature of the bleeding is manifest,
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In the legal investigation of trust
and monopolies, a system of rebates
is almost invariably uncovered. And
yet giving rebates is a crime clearly
defined by the laws of the country.
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A man in New York who pulled one
of his own teeth with a pair of pliers
has died from tne effects of the opera
tion. The pliers of . self-treatment
should not be allowed to spread.
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In the appendix of a patient a Col
orado surgeon found a gold nugget. In
some appendicitis cases in New York,
surgeons nave oeen Known to una a
regular gold mine.
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A bronze St. Lou:j in armor, riding
a blooded horse in aimor, is a fine fig
uie cf a figurcd. No American city
can', product its equal except the city
of Washington.
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Judge Alton B. Parker of New York
declares it to be a public duty to put
a crimp in the ambition of William R.
Hearst The crimp will be duty affixed
in November.
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On account of the heavy odds being
offered on Hughes in New York, it is
suggested that newspapers transfer the
campaign news to their sporting pages.
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Chicago is breaking away from Phil
adelphia example: It is equipping banks
with sleeping quarters, instead of
sleeping quarter with banks.
Sun's Heat Not Due to Radium
y Lord KELVIN, One of the World's f.ritit IcIsntlMs
T . WISH to romark that an isoliittxl oxporimontal discovery by
Sir William IJiimsuy ami l'rofossor SovKly, brilliantly intor-
csting as it is and solidly instnu'tivp ns it is toward tho theory
of radium, susrgests notliinjr more toward any modification
of tho ATOMIC DOCTRINE, proposed tomo 2,500 mn ago by
Domocritus and universally adopted bv chemists and other plulotto
pliisU in the nineteenth century, than does Sir William Jinuway' origi
nal disoovery of helium as an emanation from the mineral elevite.
The obvious conclusion from the two discoveries is that clovito am'
radium both contain helium. I cannot refer Urns publicly to the dis
cussions of radium m the British association meeting WITHOUT
PJROTESTIKO against the hypothesis that tho heat of the sun, the
earth or other bodies of Hie universe is duo to radium.
I BELIEVE IT 19 MAINLY DUE TO GRAVITATION AND IE
LI EVE THAT THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON WHICH THE
RADIUM HYPOTHESIS HAS BEEN BUILT OIVI NO FOUNDATION
UPON WHICH IT CAN,, REST,
AMUSEMENTS.
City Dusts Cause Drinking
By Proffor C,J. HOWARD of the Technical School. Ctt? of Msalco
II NTIL the time comes when streets and pavements and even
fl II the facades of buildings may 'bo washed and flushed by
rV water there is no chance of reducing the volume of DIS-
EASE BREEDING DUST in the'air. There aro plenty
of experts who advance arguments against tho flushing and washing
of streets, but it will be one of the greatest helps toward tho reduction
of INDIVIDUAL DRINKING that will be made in that direction.
The mineral dusts of the citv in themselves aro not necessarily
dangerous, nor do they do any great harm to the nasal organs, but
where they are mixed with the more GENERATIVE VEGETA
BLE DUSTS that come from tho animals of tho streets and from
the tons and tons of fine powder of the interstices of building, added
to tho mass of insect laden mixtures made by tho birds that ue the
cornices, windows and chimneys for homes, they rnnho a mixture that, !
breathed into tho nose, stomach and lung, IS JUST LIKE TTLT
MUCH POISON, and it is no wonder that men will seek a drink with
alcohol in it without knowing why they should be doing so.
TO PROTECT CARS.
This is the message of the corn-
husks, the squirrel and the bee: A long
cold winter, heaps of snow and a late
spring in the East
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It takes the world a long time to
learn that the vapor of benzine and
gasoline is as dangerous and deadly as
gunpowder.
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In the pure food hearing it developed
that people tasted with their eyes, also.
They can now feast on correct labels.
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New York never could have become
the Empire State by preferring its
Hearsts to its Hughes. ,
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The Democratic party feels worse off
than Job since the Hearst eruption has
fully developed.
"HARK! FROM THE TOMB!" .
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Senator and ex-Secretary of War Al
ger, admits that when we took over
Porto Eico, he was in favor" of includ
ing Cuba, but President McKinley and
some others in the cabinet did not
agree with him, and it was not done.
This is another proof of McKinley's
long-beadedness. Mr. Alger now realizes
that we "have -enough to do" without
annexing Cuba, and the people say
"Amen.'
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EXTREMES MEET.
The Providence "Journal' thinks it
would be logical for Cennany to tax
learning, that is by putting a sort of
high protective tariff on all foreign
students who come to v,ermu um.c.
It is the opinion of experts that Cuba
will have to be renovated at least once
in each decade.
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London uses only one-fifth as much
water as New York (exclusive of Wall
street).
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How will the rise in Cuban tobacco
affect the price of" our cabbage crop?
Cuban sugar is only a crop, not a na
tional disposition.
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Oyster Bay is again as quiet as a
clam.
A BADLY BURNED GIRL
or boy, man or woman, Is quickly out
of pain if Bucklen's Arnica Salve is ap
plied promptly. G. J. Welch, of Te
konsha, Mich., says: "I use it in my
family for cuts, sores and all skin in
juries, and find it penect. yuicicesi
Pile cure known. Best healing salve
eities, and it so reasons because "thejmade 25c at Chas. Kogers' drug store.
purchase as much equipment as it needs
and depends for handling its traflk upon
Railway Association Will Mako Lines securing enough cars from other lines
Boy can. fat a per diem rate which is unproov
J able to the owners,
CHICAGO, Oct. 12. An effort will At prexent eacn road is charged lb
be made at the meeting of the Anier-j cents per day for the flrst 30 days dur
ican Railway Association which willing which It us a fiiht i-ar belong
begin in Chicago October 21, to secure lng to another line. Experience has
the adoption o measures which will put j shown that this, pei diera Is unprofitable
railway leeches out of business and for the road owning the car and ia la
win impose such heavy penalties on sufficient t0 batten its return by a line
"car thievea" as to make it profitable which may be making f 4 or 5 a day
from them to quit their evil ways. A clr on it. The roads which have been
"car thief" is a railroad which geta pos-' depending upon others to provide them
session of cars belonging to other roads, with equipment are expected to fight
runs them away and uses them for, the proposed change but enough lines
its own purposes. A "railway leech", have signified that they Havor them
is a road which persistently refttes to to indicate they will be adopted.
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J THE PILGRIM FATHERS J
y By John Pierpont . I
JOHN PIERPONT was born In irJS and dlrJ in !.
His native plaoe was LIlchflrM, Conn. He was s spir
itualist and advocated th causejvlth his churucU-rUUc
eloquence and seal,. He was employed a few years
bfore bis death In the tramiry drpnrtmrnt at Wash
ington. J. Pierpont Morgan Is hi grandson.
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l HE pilgrim fathers where ' are they?
The waves that brought thcl:i o'er
Still roil in the bny and llirow their aproy
As they break hIoiir the aliore;
Still roll In the bay as they rolled tlmt day
When the Mayflower moored below,
When tho sea urouud was black vll)i storms
And white the shore with snow.
The miKts that wrapped the pilgrim's sleep
Still brood uppn- the tide,
And bis rocks yet keep their watch by the deep
To Htny Its waves of pride,
But the snow white sail that he gnve to the gale
When the heavens looked dark Is gone,
As an angel's whig, through an opening cloud
Is seen auu lLa Trttadrawa......
The pilgrim exllo sainted name! ' ',
The hill whose icy brow
Bejelced when he came In the'iuornlng'g flame
In the morning's flame burns now,
And tho moon's cold light as it lay that night
On the hillside and the sea
Still lies where" he laid his houseless bend
But the pilgrim where is he?
The pilgrim fathers are at rest.
When summer's throned on high
And the world's warm breast is In verdure dressed
Go stand on the hill where they He.
The earliest ray of the golden day
On that Jiallowed spot Is cast,
And the evening sun as he leaves the world
Looks kindly on, that spot last.
The pilgrim spirit has not fled;
It wulks In noon's broad light, v
And it watches the bed of the glorious dead
With the holy stars by night;
It watches the bed of the brave who have bled
And shall guard this icebound shore
Till the waves of the bay where the Mayflower lay
Shall foam and freeze no more.
STAR THEATER
P. GKVURTZ, Manager
Theflack Swain Theater Go.
presenting tonight the great 4 act society comedy
lif! OKiarity ,T
SPECIAL!" SCENKRY
Popular Prices; 15 c 25c and 35c
box orncx opes 7:451 cotTAUf goes up' at ms sbasp.
Astoria Theatre,
Saturday, October 13
The Barnum of All Tramp Shows
Louis it, Christ Presents
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Presented by a New York Cast.
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Ths Realistic Brooklyn Bridgs 6cot.
Th Crt fin Scsm, Rsw York.
Tit Great Circus Train In Motion,
Th Realistic Circna StM. '
Prices sjc. 35 30c sod JSC
Box Offlct Open Friday, October nth, 11 a. m. to 7 p. ra.
ASTORIA THEATRE
Monday, October 15
;THE ORIGINAL AND PURE ARTICLE
Hi Henry's Greatest Minstrels
5Q--ALL WHITE ARTISTS 5Q
The Most Kfflned Aggregation of Comedians, ghigers, Dancer and Black
Fars Entertainers aver Collected by This Noted Minstrel Manager.
Requiring two rrlat Palaos Car to Transport This
UP-TO-DATE 160,000 PRODUCTION,
Introducing the Flaet Minstrel First Part Even (tan on any Minstrel
Stage, EntitWd
THE PALACE OF ALLAD1N
Tho New Novelty Transformation Scans, With Funny Brownies, South'
ern Belles, Dixie Quartette, Elahorata Electrical Effecti, Passing
Clouds, Rippling Waters, Rising Moon and th Lobiterseope,
GRAND STREET PARADE at NOON
Friers 25 M-75 1.00. Seats on sale at Box Ofllee.
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ten strike. ' , . "
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