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TCSiSEfe js THEWASHINaTOK OSTr FRIDAY OCTOBER 12 1906 gbe TOfaafelhgtoit post pabttotton blBcf i end jylranla Arcane near Fourteenth Street tlerm Subscription ffclfvcrcft It cartiet In TOasbinf ton gn Daily Sunday Included one month to Daily Sunday included one week so Daily Sunday excepted one month JO Dally Snnday exccpted one week Is Xf Ban postage prcpttt Daily Snnday excepted one year Seo DaUy Sunday induded one1 rervi 7s Dally Sunday excepted ope month 90 DailyiSondylnclnde3 one montbi Sunday one year I 5 Remittances ihoald be made by drafts checks post office orders registered letters or express orders payable lo Cbe Xdasblrtflton poat Co TCUsbinaton Pennsylvania Avenue near Fourteenth Street iew fork OSce Fatlroa Building PAUL BLOCK Chicago once Cnlty BuUdtnc PPL BLOCK llanacer i FRIDAY OCTOBER 12 1900 WHAT IS THE LOBBTT One of the numerous iemands ot the Massachusetts Democrats is the abolition of the lobby and that makes necesary the question What Is the lobby In truth the thins called lobbylngjmay serve a good purpose and has done so many Is the time Congress Is not possessed of an the wisdom in the world and when a Congressional committee has hear ngs 11 Is only the lobby Instructing CongTess That is useful and virtuous lobbying and we see it in this town every session of Congress The vicious lobby is that which bribes or persuades a legislature to do unwise and corrupt things and we make no doubt that is the lobby the Marsachusetts Democracy is trying to chase It was once very prominent In State and nation and brought much reproach on American polities and American legislation In a Republican State it was a Republican and In a Democratic State It was a Democrat but a vigilant and patriotic press has nearly deprived it of an occupation The prince of lobbyjsts was Sam Ward and he said he bought more men with dinners than he did with money He uiM to relate how he cooked a Smith field ham cut from a razor back hoj reared in an Accomac swamp finished on goober peas and sugar corn and smoked with seasoned hickory chips corn jjg wllo invents a next hook On which cobs and red cedar shaving mx Ward method of cooking the ham was a process first It was boiled with a brick virgin from the kiln then It was boiled with a wisp ot new mown hay and lastly It was bathed In boiling old sherry wine Ward declared that a solon who ate the third slice of a ham at his table would vote for any bill he asked him to vote for George Edmunds and John Carlisle since they retired from public life hate frequently appeared before commit tees of Congress and advocated or opposed proposed legislation Surely that Is not vicious lobbying but in the strict sense it Is lobbying and Congress could not get along as well as it does If that order of lobbying were abolished POLITICS IV 3IASSCnUSETTS In the present mix up of political conditions predictions as to what the voters will do on the 6th of next month cannot be made with confidence that they will be justified by the election returns For several years past the Independent voters have been getting in their work in a way that has astounded and confounded politicians of the old school For example in 1904 no less than hree States which gae Rcoeevelt their electoral votes bj large majorities turned down Republican candidates for governor with cheerful alacrity and brougnt in their Democratic opponents with a rush One of this trio of Commonwealths was Massachusetts which gave the Republican national ticket a majority of about 63000 and handed the gubernatorial office over to Douglas Deirocrat by a majority of S300T In 1905 Gov Douglas refusal to accept a renomlnatlon left his party in thepe for an easy defeat despite the tariff revision disturbance In the bosom of the GOP and the fates seem to ha been equally unkind to the Democrats of the Ray State this year Their nomination of Moran for the head of their ticket looks to a disinterested outsider like a bid for defeat The Springfield Republican which Is not unfriendly to the Democracy and ould speak a good word for Its candidate if facts warranted such speaking refers to II Morans dramatic success In gain lng the office of district attorney of Suffolk County and the spectacular use which lie has made of the opportunities which thereby carao to him as having combined to throw upon the screen of public opinion an ideal and not a real Moran As to what the real Moran Is the Republican declares that those wno know him best place the greatest discount upon his claims and many and scattering official undertakings It is charged that for the first time upon such a scale as this the office of district attorney la being used for personal and political purposes There is much want of faith both in the man and in the official Mr Morans spectacular ue of his office is illustrated by his ac tion in the affair of young Roosevelt The lioston ist a veneraoie organ 01 uemoc racj makes these sensible comments on the conduct of its partys candidate for the highest office In the gift of the people of the Grand Old Commonwealth Theodore Roosevelt Jr sophomore at Harvard College Is entitled to precisely the same treatment at the hands of Boston Authorities as any other young man The fact that he is the Presidents son should not affect his treatment either way For this reason the attitude of Police Commissioner OMeara as to the episode of stuaent rowdyism on Boston Common entirely correct The commissioner made no discrimination whatever Fcr the same reason the action ot District Attorney Moran In hutting into the assault case already pending in the lower court and ostentatiously summoning young Roosevelt as witness before bis grand Jury is very unfair Had an ob scure young man been Involved there is not one chance in a thousand that the district attprney would have Interfered with the usual process of the law in such a case In the ordinary course of events a case of this sort would probably hare been settled in the lower courts and not Tcacnea ine aisinci sxiorney at all But Mr Moran yields to his extraordin anr mania for whaling prominent people be fore he grand Jury and without waiting for tbe lower court goes out of his way to mmmou the Presidents son apparently because he Is the Presidents son jits neither fair nor courteous As td the Republican nominee the BDrlngfleld Republican ears Gov duild has done well in office his personal tour age and Independence of action have been nrnved And Tie merits weu ai me nanus of the people tftus9 of this proved capacity Therefore It plain thai he to be preferred In the executive chamber to the erratic and more doubtful John Moraa it is not witninreaonauie prv ability that the Independent voters In a Bute where tney are an exceptionally conspicuous factor will see in Mr Moran the qualities they diacpvereAIn either of those Democratic candidates to whom their Votes gave the position of honor and dignity to which he aspires Still anything riot utterly defiant of a law nature is possible In these topsyturvy hurly burly time Radicalism Is the fashion and Moran ought to satisfy the most radical element of the Massachusetts electorate JQXES PtS THE FREIGHT Some of our valued New Tork con temporaries are demanding the abolition of the coroner and his opera bouffe court and All the Pickwickian proceeding and circumlocution embarrassments that make part of the affliction That is very well In Its way We have no protest to submltas regard any ot the arguments advanced We might even offer a few additions to them If any further strengthening of the case were needed But the world moves all sorts of untried experiments present themselves from day to day new fields of controversy are opening In great numbers Why then should The Post squander Its time and energies in fruitless efforts to scale the heights whereon political patronage has created its impregnable and final fortress The coroner may be of no use to the community from which be derives his emoluments We shall not contest that point It Is fact nevertheless that the office is extremely Important to the party in power as well as to the party expecting to get in power It is another and a particularly luscious plum to hang up a a reward Tor good work among the boys It means so much more to strive for another Incentive to campaign industry an augmentation of the dividend To rob the ticket of that gaudy Invitation would be like divesting a bad man of one of the most important weapons Sn Ills armament Men are not in politics for sentiment They are In It for practical results The longeryou make the prize list the more numerous and active re the ticket buyers The bigger the purse the swifter the runners and the more industrious the horsemanship There must be a complete revolution in our scheme if we would reduce the number of the salaries in sight The tendency of the time is to multiply not to re duce the array or campaign stimulants 1US woo luveiiLS tt new uuun vu wmvu to hansr a public salary is the hero of the hour He who would remove the least of such hooks may expect derision and contumely for his pains The effort to establlshon our sea board a national system of quarantine a system securing uniformity cooperation and harmonious conduct met with the bitter It unavowed Op position of every local board of health along the line Behind this opposition was the influence of the politicians It was not with them a question 01 pro tecting the country against Invasion by exotic diseases Npr yet was it a ques tlon of saving money to the taxpayers by a reduction of the official establishment It was a question of patronage for the party In possession of a etlll more powerful equipment at the machine Let no man delude himself with Utopian dreams The State boards ot health will remain end so will the coroners This is a land liberty and political rewards Jones still pays the freight foes hand In hand wth pur primacy among tbe nations in the promotion and adoption of arbitration THE LAWs DELAY if Harry Thaw nad killed Stanford White In London Instead ot In New Tork he would have been Indicted and tied tor It long ago and that Is the on5 great reason why it Is a more aerioui matter to kill a man In England than it Is In America HumaiwllfaU cheap in the land of the free and the home of the brave Not a long time ago an eminent judge In a large city ot the Mississippi Valley charging the grand Jury eald TThellte of a man ln jthls toVn worth aoout Given a shrewd and an unscrupulous attorney these continuances a little money and yonr murderer can shake his finger at justice In this country We are an emotional and a sentimental people We have got more means than all the rest of minklrfd and have more hysteria There is something fascinating In an outrageous murder At first we are horrified but Jn a little while we get sorry for the prisoner public opinion goes out to him and the jury catches it and the accused turned loose Daily there are miscarriages of Justice in our criminal courts The Sickles case had a most demoralising effect on the American nubile It was followed by thecCoie Hiscocs trag edy and that by the McFarland Rlch ardton affair So that the unwritten law is far stronger than the written Rut what ara human laws compared with thAdlvine The murderer makes his vlotim his constant companion for life sleeping waking feasting fasting Banquos ghost will not down We speak of the murderer but every homicide is sot a murder And we would not be understood as even insinuating anything to the prejudice of young Mr Thaw He be lapgVio Judge and Jury What we de sireto call attention to is the laws defay thatencouragis crime Mr Jerom6 has suddenly discovered that his duties as prosecuting attorney will prevent him from stumping New New Tork for Mr Hughes At least once a year Mr Jerome remembers that he is prosecuting attorney There are still a few persons left who are not disturbed pver President Roosevelts plan to tax fortunes This is to he a poor nians campaign aays George Fred Williams who talks like a man who had just interviewed the treasurer of the committee That London alienist who insists that everybody in this country is going crazy might find support for his contention by attending the Chicago baseball games It it be true that the Dutch have stolen one of the Philippine islands the administration might retaliate by making it keep it That press correspondent in Mexico has evidently become too busy with real news to pull off the scheduled massacre of all Americans in that country sThe heredity of hair length in guinea pigs and its bearing on the theory of pure gametes is the title of the latest pamphlet Jssued by the Carnegie Institute No more important question has been settled since Secretary Shaw placed frog legs under the head of dressed poultry In the customs classifications A STRONG NAVY The same patriotic public sentiment which a quarter of a century ago was shamed by the lmpotency of our so called navy and demanded that the great work of constructing a new navy should be entered upon without further delay the sentiment that has stood by or rather has Impelled Congress In every step and stage of naval construction from tbe glad beginning under President Arthur and Secretary Chandler with the Chicago Atlanta Boston and Dolphin the advance guard of the White Squadron which was the pioneer of the noble fleetB that now bear our flag with pride whereour old semi decayed wooden hulks bore It In something very much like humiliation that sentiment has parted with none of Its virility It Is still as Insistent in demanding a strong navy as It was twenty five jrears ago It is the voice of the people No acts ot Congress have been more welcome to or more heartily applauded by the people than those which have provided for new ships of war No Representatives or Senators have placed themselves more solidly In Jhef confidence of their constituents than those who were prominent In promoting the demand for beginning the regeneration of the navy and those who have followed their example by Expediting the great achievement A glance at our water front on the At lantic and the Pacific coasts shows that as compared with any other great conti rental power it is lnmense In its extent This fact of itself constitutes an urgent necessity for great sea power greater even than we possess at this time although our stick has become big Hawaii Cuba and Porto Rico have come under our protection since the new navy was far advanced In case of war and war is always a possibility to be provided against each of these three great Insular dependencies would require a strong squadron tor Its defense As to our col lection of 100 Islands In the Orient our people are not extremely glad that we acquired them but we are bound to defend our ttle to them If an honorable exit from the Philippines were available we think this republic would be more than willing to get out But there are very few It any American citizens who would not support the government to any possible extent In repelling an Invasion ot the archipelago Should our nag ever be hauled down In that quarter or Indeed in any quarter where It floats as the cm olem ot our sovereignty It will not come down at the bidding of an enemy Besides the islands we have mentioned the United States has others including Guam and one ot the Samoa group In facttOuinsular responsibilities are scattered over ike globe promiscuously and there lsnot one of them that we wouid not defend to the last man and the last dollar rather than submit to Its conquest by any power or combination of powers Added to all these demands for naval strength we are constructing the Panama CanaL and that work may fnr rdsb occasion for the use of sea power It need not be said perhaps for it is a fimlllar truth that oar people and thIr government propose to maintain a strong navy primarily In the Interest ot peace Power to punish aggression Is the surest guarantee against aggression It is in Insurance policy that is costly to be sure but it Is the only one available And It French dealers are putting American labels on their shoes to insure their sale Getting even with California for putting French labels on home wine Manuel Sllvelra responsible for the failure of the banking house of Ce ballos Co of New Tork left word with his employers that collections were very slow Btlil the average employe who could cop out 1500000 on short notice and get away with it would be disposed to leave a kinder word for the creditors The Chicago teams have been playing ball during a snowstorm The Washington team played during heavy frosts nearly all season Mr Cleveland has expressed his views on the political situation in New Tork and they are Just exactly the views Mr Cleveland would be expected to hold on the political situation in New Tork It took the commissioners a long time to decide that contractors were more effective than typewriters in building the Panama Canal Any good reason why asks a New Tork paper Mr Roosevelt should be sent to the United States Senate from this State There are at least two good reasons and they are now on the Senate pay roll 1 A Baltimore clergyman Just returned from Europe says he did not see any evidence of immorality in Paris There are none so blind as those who think they see Casualty reports from the Adlrondacks make the Cuban revolution look like a pink tea affair All of tho insurgent generals in Cuba have accepted the terms of the amnesty proclamation and there seems to be nothing left for the private to do but to return to the reservation eirm wekbeil Heotm fiis Viewtaa a Critic oaThe Scarlet Letter Tnm la New Tork sob1 The most Interesting ItemMn the sale of autographs by the Merwin Oayton Company In East Twentieth street yes terday was a letter from Tr Ov Holmes to Margajet Jean Lander the actress containing his Impressions ot The Scarlet Letter In Hawthornes novel and on the stage The letter was sold for S15 and Is as follows 294 Beacon Btreet Jan 14 JOT Dear Mrs Lander I thank you fpr your kindness In sending me tickets to thef matinee It is a year or two I think since I have been in a theater for am getting to the stay at home period of life and It takes a good deal to draw me from my chimney corner The Scarlet Letter Is admirably put upon the stage ami made more impressive and effective than I had expected to find It The essential difficulty is that In the story everything Is still and concentrated but on the stage it 1 absolutely necessary I suppose to give a more demonstrative character to the personages involved in the plot In order to reach the sensibilities of mixed audience The remark applies especially to tho part of Roger Chillingworth whom I idealized from the story as a little shrunken venomous old man who works quietly without the outward show which betray the malignant passion There Is more of Iago than of Othello about Hawthornes old physician Mr Stewell was at times almost as vehement as Salvini was in Othello I shall not venture to criticise your impassioned reading of the partof Hester Prynne If It were tempered down to the more sober and quiet tone of the story a told by its calm reflective author It would probably lose that unbroken hold which it kept upon the feelings and sympathy of the audience I do not think you lost control of their emotions for a moment though at one or two points the dialogue was a little more lengthened out than I could have wished Perhaps I could not hear them so well as I should have heard them twenty years ago but this is a confession I hope you will have continued success with the play which seemed to me a venturesome experiment but which greatly Interested the audience of which I was one and is likely therefore to prove interesting to other audiences Tou will see by the whole character of this note that It is meant for your own eye and not for managers or editors I received your renewed and very polite Invitation as a compliment to which I hardly feel entitled and could not be content with a mere formal note of thapks Believe me dear Mrs Lander very truly yours HOLMES The sale was the first Important One ot the season and good prices were realized A full autograph letter of Catharine the Great Empress of Russia dated Chatilow J5ec 2 1775 and addressed to Ueyt Gen Slewers sold for 25 50 An autograph music manuscript signed Chopin 14 9 1S32 with a mazurka Pomposo on one side was sold for 75 A letted signed Approuve lEcriture Chopin fisted Paris Nov 24 1S36 brought J17 A nine page letter of Mark Twain written in 1877 to Thomas Nast was sold for 15 A two page document signed by Ferdinand arid Isabella and dated Madrid May 25 1495 sold for 26 and a two page manuscript of Philip II of Spain husband of Queen Mary of England fetched 34 A manuscript poem of Jean Jacques Rousseau consisting ot sixty five lines in Italian sold for 15 Once Bernhardt Rival From the Philadelphia Prew Mile Rosella Roussell says a Paris correspondent hajNbeen granted a bu reau de tabac by the minister of public instruction and the same minister i still battllng with the council of the Legion to wrest a red ribbon for Mme Sarah Bernhardt Thereby hang a tale On prize day forty four year ago at the Conservatoire two girls were waiting be hind the scenes eyeing each other while the awards ot the Jury in the annual contests were being read out Mile Roussell had been awarded the first prize in tragedy The girl swept out and met again in the wings her rival now crushed for Mile Rosine Bernard was soon called only to hear amid gen era indifference that the second prize for comedy had been bestowed on her Rosine Bernard afterward became Sa rah Bernhardt Mile Roussell has just received from A charitable government the grant of a tobacconists shop that Is to say a small pension consisting ot the annual revenue paid by a tenant for the privilege of running one of the shoos licensed under the state tobacco monop oly xne actress short career on the stage nas long since been over After the glory then unappreciated of defeating Sarah Bernhardt at the Conservatoire she knew no second triumph She served the Comedie Francalse honorably but without distinction for some years after a debut to which all Paris looked forward but which fell flat Then she sank Into obscurity and soon Into poverty and retired for a time into a convent She left It to attempt the struggle again and now will end a life of strange disappointment forgotten but at least free from want For reasons that are probably unsatisfactory to themselves Messrs Greene and Gaynor Will not bid on the Panama Canal contracts Lillian Russells daughter Is seeking a divorce Heredity tells Mr Taft lost none of his popularity In Cuba but It Is doubtful If Mr Magoon will fare so well when the Cuban patriots discover that he will not have offices enough to go around Cuba is settling down says a cable from Havana That will be easier than the task ot settling up which will come when the bill ot expenses for the latest American occupation la presented Unless the sequence is broken this Is the day for a reconciliation of the Howard Goulds Ohio Republicans may exchange notes with the Cuban insurgents on the effects of Intervention by Secretary Taft The Chicago University has decided that Its young men and women must be educated In different buildings and must not speak to one another when they meet on the campus on their way to the class rooms The University has also banished some of Its sensational professors and will be classed as a safe and sane institution as soon as It aUallshes Its press agent The politician and the Weather Bureau are united in urging the use of the registerregister The soap manufacturers of England have formed a combine Ought to bo a clean trust Let us help those who have not as much as we have says ydung John Rockefeller It will be easier for him to find them than It will for Some of us While an Oklahoma man was praying hi wife stumbled over him and broke her neck It will require nerve however tor him to talk about prayer answered Never mind thevcoaI bill The cost of living has been greatly reduced by the authors of the Republican campaign textbook Old time Texan will recall the day when the kind of talk now being Indulged In hy politicians in that State In joint debates would have meant work for the undertakers SPpfclO US PEAXLS kannfictered in Pari and Mixed with Wabash Rivet finds rraia ti Nav Tork feua Pearl dealer in this city have received warning In the last few days from representative at the fisheries along the Wabash and other Western river that a new class ot Imitation ha lately made ft appearance the spurious product being mixed with real pearls in lots that are sold to wholesale buyers who suppose that they are getting only the natural gem Several wholesale merchants ot the Maiden lane district have picked out from recent shipments fromthe West peel men of the counterfeit gem iney so closely simulate real pearls a to deceive even traders In somIntaacea Wholesale dealer have learned that they were brought to this country a short time ago from France by a merchant of ram Clam diggers In the West bought some of his stock which then began to appear among the pearlafreshly taken from tne waters Buyers here say that the digger In most cases wa probably deceived as he not uncommonly buys pearls from traveling venders to mix with those ho find himself Some of the men who buy for New Tork houses were also fooled As the greater part of all the pearls found In the VTest make their way to New Tork the result were quickly noticed Id this market The imitations are in the round oval and pear shape of the natural pearls and have also been cunningly made to re semble the Irregular baroques The wholesale dealer say that In the larger sizes and regular shapes the false are distinguished from the true as soon a careful examination la made They admit however that some of the ordinary test fait Acid which eat rough ridges Jn ordinary imitations ha no more effect on the new kind than on the genuine Jewels The most annoyance has come In the tampering with the supplies of baroques which art sold in largequantHles usualy by tne ounce American baroques are furnished by New Tork hovfaes to Europeans and Orientals for use in the Ornamentation of article ot dress one of the principal avenues of consumption being in the trimming of saddles of Arabian and Turkish horsemen It 1 feared that If shipments of baroque to foreign buyers should chance to contain any of the spurious French product the reputation of the honest pearl of the Wabash would suffer Especial anxiety is felt hy concern which sell to the Chinese While tbe Chinaman is secretive as to the use he makes of the purchases which are in large amounts it Is generally understood that he pulverizes the pearls and employs the powder as a remedy for stomach trouble the carbonate in the gems having been esteemed by his race since ancient times a valuable medicine Although the French Imitation pearl are made by a secret process they are known to consist principally of glass to which the luster Is Imparted by the application of a pigment obtained from the scales of Southern fish and a solution of isinglass WIID KOSE BEATTTY MR KICKER From th Nw Tork Sua He grumbles if his coffee hot And walls if it is cold He whines In case the maid Is And roars if she 1 old youpg He hates a pleasant day because The sunshine hurts his eyes And cloudy Weather make him shake His fist up at the skies If Mrs goes out to call A gadabout he growlsj And if she tays at home with him Youre watching me he howls The world Is growing worse he sigh I wish that I were dead And thats the only hopeful thing He ever said Mrs Knox Has Clocks Galore From the Nw Tork Praia Collections of dock generally prove a source of worry to their owners for though they may be set at noon every day from standard time they disagree on short notice In the most mysterious way Friends who call on the clock owner and whose watcnes have been set carefully wont find any of the clock with the true time that Is time exactly like that given by any of the watches Of course the watches are at sixes and sevens too but it 1 no use trying to convince their own ers that any of theclocks are right lira Philander jHux wire of the Pennsylvania Senator 1 brave enough to face four hours at once she has markable collection of clocks Besides modern timepieces she has forty or flty of antique make If all struck at once the clangor but they dont They make any particular sixtieth minute last about a quarter hour One of the recent additions to the Knox collection came from Paris It is a huge bronze affair intended for the library mantel and the clock face is a ball of blue enamel Married in Newport to a Londoner Among Fashions Devotees From Taitardar New Tork World In Emmanuel Church to morrowmorrow the young daughter of Atherton Blight known a the Wild Rose Beauty Miss Evelyn will be married to the young Londoner Mahlon Alonzen Sands The brides sister Mrs William Payne Thompson and Mrs Gerald Low ther the last named the wife of the British Minister at Morocco are here for the ceremony The bride who will be given away hy her father Atherton Blight will wear a princess gown of white chiffon embroidered In silver and Will wear the Brussels lace veil worn lf her mother at her wedding Her attendants will be Miss Muriel PRobbins daughter of Mrs Collier Miss Natica Rives daughter of Mr George Rives Miss Margaret Win throp daughter of Mrs Robert Wln throp jr of Boston and Miss Green ough a cousin of the bride elect They will wear the turquoise blue panne satin and silver picture hats encircled in blue plumes The bridegroom has chosen for his best man Graham Murray of London and the ushers are to be Francis Otis Willing Spencer of Philadelphia and Blair Falrchlld of Boston They are the recipients of handsome link cuff buttons of quartz cats ey from the bridegroom elect while the bridesmaids have received from the bride elect bar lace pin ot gold studded with pearl and turquoises The wedding breakfast win be served at Mis Blights father Bellvua avenue home a large reception to follow The bridal couple are to sail for Europe Mr Sands whose home Is In London Is a son of the late Mahlon Sands a former summer resident of Newport who owned Lands End the present Bummer home of Mr and Mrs Livingston Beeckman Miss Blights grandfather was the late Richard Sailtonstall Green ough the celebrated American sculptor who died a few Tears ago In Rome Italy where he lived for decades The Muench Inger King Cottage wa the scene ot Mr Sands bachelor dinner this evening and Miss Blight entertained her friends at her borne in Beilevue avenue Ever since Miss Evolyn Blight came out four years ago she has been known to society as the Wild Rose Beauty Owing to her rose colored complexion and her fine brown hair with glints of gold this nickname was appropriate The Blight girls of Philadelphia daughters of Atherton Blight have been prominent for year in Newport society They were all beautiful and many consider the eldest sister Mr William Payne Thompson tbe handsomest woman in New Tork The second sister Miss Alice Blight married Gerald Lowther the British diplomat after being a great belle Mrs Lowther was one of the intimate friends ot Mr John Jacob Astor Mrs Henry Rogers WinthrOp and Mrs Waldorf Astor Miss Evelyn Blight has spent much of her time In England and Is often mistaken for an English girl Mahlon A Sands is not related to the weH known Sand famnyof New Tork and like Miss Blight has lived abroad a great deal POINTED PARAGRAPHS From tfca Chicago Dally Kava A aplnatars romanea la alwaya ona sUefi Man aaUom foUww got adrlca unlearn thJy pay for it Rarl tabor la a plaatar tkat aHTtatea the pain tha mind Ita easy tor a vomaa to keep aeerats that are not InUreaUss Awoman eaat sea how It ia poaalbla to leaa fa a game at chaace Tbera la aomatttlns wrong with email boy who kaepa his face clean Two women like to atart a fan and then Jeare their hnsbaade Beat It oat rea when anas knows a womaafa aca aha aerer thinks ho thlaka aba looka Jtr Monkey Shocked to Death From the New Tork American More than 1000 spectators saw a monkey climb nimbly up an pillar at Ninety third street and Columbus avenue last night and finally perch itself on top ot the station at that point The monkey was the property of Mr Goodman of Graham Goodman who have a garage In West Ninety third street not far from the station The chain attached to the animals collar had slipped out of Mr Goodmans band as he stood talking to a friend Where the spectators 1 came from no suddenly la a mystery but they were there and Inside of two minutes Two youth climbed to the root of the station to et the monkey but tbe latter after watching themgravely skipped to the platform and from there to the track It ran up the track for two block and started to cross to the west side of the structure Just as a train came along The animals chain caught In the third rail and Instantly the system was short circuited while flames reached out along the chain and electrocuted the monkey REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR HQUSR OF QG1LVJB AND JTS LEGENDS Lady Kitty dgilvie sister Ot tha Bart of Alrlie ha so many relatives living In this country and belongs to so notable a family in Scotland that her marriage to Capt Berkeley Vtncentat Cortachy Caa tie should not be allowed to pass unno ticed la these columns In fact there ara few house of the Old World aristocracy that are more wldelr known on this ide of the Atlantic than that of Oxllvle Of which Lord Alrlie I the chief The late art wa killed battle during ne soer war six years ago and his father the seventh earL died at Denver about a quarter of a century back He had with him at the time hi second son the Hon Lyulph Ogilvie who ubsequeotly secured letters ot naturalization as an American citizen settled In this country and at the time of the war with Spain enusiea as a Drivate either In the First Colorado Regiment or else In the Rough Riders I forget which to fight for his adopted country He Is married to an American girl a Miss Edith Boothroyd of Colorado where hia sister Laoy uauae uguvie likewise made her home for a time as the wife of the ate Theodore Whyte of sates Park Culo There are doubtless many people here Who will recall the Hon John and Donald Ogilvie uncles of the late Lord Alrlie althourh not much older than himself They were twlns who always traveled together and whose amazing likeness was so remarkable that It Was absolutely im possible to distinguish tnem rrom one another It sometimes caused positive consternation In the hotels where they were staying especially when the entered and took their aeats in the dining room For the other guests present particularly those who were not addicted to strictly temperance principles were afraid that they were beginning to see double and in some cases were feo convinced that they were seeing things that they collapsed and caused themselves to be led out ot the room On one occasion I remember their entering a theater during the middle ot the performance when tjieir appearance caused such a sensation as to almost Interrupt the play First came John walking down the aisle to the second row of orchestra seats and the noise which he made with his heavy footsteps caused everybody to turn around He had just comfortably settled himseji In his seat when similar heavy footsteps were once more heard coming down the aisle again disturbing the attention of the audience Everybody turned once more to see who it was and to their astonishment they beheld coming along identically the same man as they believed whojhad walked down the aisle about a mmute before The amazement which prevailed was ludicrous and for about five minutes every eye was turned and every nfeek craned in the direction of the Ogilvie twins An Ancient Scottish Family The Ogllvies are one of the oldest houses In Scotland and formed what the Germans described as the Uradet For they are descended from one of the seven great hereditary chiefs of Scotland who in the eleventh century exchanged the title of chief for earl Of course everybody knows about the ghostly drummer who haunts Cortachy Castle the ancestral home of the lords of Alrlie But few people are aware of the fact that this ghost on one occasion formed the subject 0 litigation at Edinburgh The familiar spook of Cortachy Castle Is the ghost of a drummer boy whom one of the old lords of Ogilvie kicked In a fit of anger over the battlements of the castle onto the rocks below the lad only living long enough to declare that he would haunt the Ogilvie family forever He however only makes his appearance on the eve of the death of one of the chieftains of the Ogllvies or of the chiefs wife Then his weird muffled drumbeat la heard and startles the entire countryside It seems that the sixth Lor dAlrlle heard the fateful and ghostly drumbeat and as his wife was ill at the time be took it for grantedl that the summons was for her and not for himself Wlth out delay he proceeded to Insure her life which In Great Britain can be done through Lloyds and similar concerns without medical examination A few diys later the countess took her departure for another and it Is hoped a better world The insurance companies however got wind ot the fact that the earl had received warning of the Impending demise of hi better half through the fhostly drummer and refused to pay he Court of Sessions thereupon ruled that the civil law of Scotland could take no cognizance of ghosts decided in favor of the earl and compelled the insurance companies to pay the full amount due on the death of the countess Impersonated by Swindlers I do not think there has ever been a member of the English peerage who was ever so often impersonated by swindlers of every description both in this country and in Europe as the late Lord Alrlie During the lifetime of his father there was a man who traveled all over the United States with a female companion passing himself off as Lord Ogilvie the courtesy title then borne by the late earl In England too where the real Lord Alr lles appearance might easily be expected to be familiar to his countrymenT he was constantly Impersonated by swindlers and not long before his death fn South Africa a bogus earl spent a fortnight at one of the leading hotels In London inducing the too confiding bonlface to cash a large check for him which he signed as Lord Alrlie actually having the impudence to show himself on one occasion at the hotel in the undress uniform of the First Dragoon Gaurds although at the time Lord Alrlie belonged to the Prince of Wales now the Kings Hussars the nondanclng Tenth Six months after Ward in spite of the publicity given to this episode another bogus Lord Alrlie turned up took up his residenceat the leading hotel at Bournemouth where needless to say he defrauded the proprietor and had the incredible effrontery to visit the military barracks in uniform where the battery was paraded for his inspection Emboldened oy this he caused the Coast Guard contingent to be paraded for bis benefit a couple of days later and it was while this function was in progress that he was suddenly pounced upon by a couple of detectives and thrown into Jaji Assumed the Oe Vers Arms Stephen Vere de Vere whose marriage to the daughter of the Anglican Bishop of Durham has Just taken place Is an OBrien by birth and belongs to the family ot which Lord Inchiquln is the chief being a nephew of the late peer He assumed the name and the arms of the de Veres a couple of years ago on succeeding to the extensive estates In Ireland of his granduncle the late Sir Stephen de Vere of Foynea Island County Limerick Sir Stephen an elder brother of the Irish poet Aubrey de Vere was for nearly half a century one of the most prominent figures in Irish life and politics and It Is the experience which he acquired on a voyage to this country in connection wth the Irish famine of 1847 that caused him to atart the agitation which resulted in effecting legislation against those sinister engines nf destruction the so called coffin snips Sir Stephen and his brother Aubrey mm such courtly old fellows and per sonified to such a degree everything that was patrician that It was somewhat of a shock to learn that the so aristocratic nomeef d0 Vere came to them by adoption rather than by direct inheritance Tbe family was founded by one of Cromwells soldiers of the name of Hunt who married Jane de Vere granddaughter of the Earl of Oxford and a member ot the noble English House of de Vere long since extinct and of which Lord Oxford was the chief It was one of the descendant of this Cromwelllon soldier and Taw ak At VeM srl lr Fvl Tt tha si iter of tho first Lord Limerick dropped the name of Hunt and assumed that of bis de Vere ancestor being subsequently created a Baronet He was a schoolmate of Byron and showed his literary tastes Kr nrnrlalmtnar the sunerioritr of Words worth to Byron at a time when It was It ahe eoald gatladlsnaat at hla klaslng her One of tha watt habits a man ca have la to hare headachea on aeeonat of hla bad hablta It there was aa Internal rereane tax on milk man would order It in barrooma Just to be able to kick about the way the sorerameat robs tha pahlle WKUfstJXTE comma How penitentiary Warden Escaped Death 07 Keeping oL From the Calcase Mews PEOPLE MZT IN HOTEL LOBBIES At Ihe Arlington on his way home after a pleasure trip around the worUt I 3 Early on a certain morning many Haseba of Tokyo leader ot the Consti years ago tha warden of a peniten tuuonal Liberal party In the parliament tlary an elderly gray bearded man or japan When Marquis Itq was pre was at work at hia desk On a sudden mier Mr Haseba was secretary general he heard panther like tread In tbe of home affairs Teaterday he was pre room and he divined a presence behind sented to the President by the Japanese him that would have made a less fear Minister and will leave to day in order to less man faint away be home for the opening of Parliament The presence was that ot one Patrick November 15 Burns a desperado wno was doing life Through an Interpreter Mr HaSebi a service for murder This man held an small active man with strong expressive ugly looking dirk in his hand The features told of Bome of the problems warden knew he was alone with the now confronting Japan most dangerous prisoner In the penl My country said he Is now endeaw tentlary oring to meet problems arising out of It Pretending ignorance of Burns prox suzerainty in Manchuria smd Korea its imlw th wardrw want on iirith his relations with China and Its financial writing as It the criminal were not in affai niachurlt aild Kre Xxl ls existence But his brain remote from iu nwuuuums the papers that lay on tha desk be roads jartlcuUrly to the latter country fore him was calculating with the In order that it may be brought Into dose swiftness and the accuracy peculiar to relation wltl the ootaiz world cvnd Jo3P brain when the owners of them are in Jhe civIUxaUon Its purpose danger of their lives cburla and Korea ls to open First of alt tho warden wondered them of the world not how Burns had managed tr slip past wJ tor Uelf but or other nations as the guards and how he had come Into 7 11 possession of the long ugly dirk Then In China our purpose Is In no sense re reflected hit the nurdVrtr hid jMtZET erowrt rv in th Hrtm that knew on a Progress In the main all the ins and outs of Itand th he fan1 i Tent 7 hI haa nen tain nio ht tav 1 commercial development during the next year after year Tiow he could accomplish this very feat In the little drawer just over the wardens gray head fn easy reach of his hand his revolver was locked To secure it would mean bIsiulvation to hls ulvation be seen making the attempt would cost him his life There were four or five guards In range of his voice but had he spoken above a whisper to summon one of them the dirk Would hae severed him from existence He wrote on as if undisturbed his heart thumping his hand steady Mr Warden its me thats here said Burns finally and its mighty cool you are about It I know you are there replied the warden coolly Why did you come I come because I am tired of this I aint going to stand it no longer ToUre notr HQ Im pot Tve been In here twenty years and thats enough for any man Id rather be dead than stay longer Ive had enough Im going to kill you and get out How long did you say youd been herer Twenty years The mans eyes blinked Its a cool way you oave of facing death Mr Warden But Ive had enough of this Im going to leave this hell hole I dont know that Ive got anything agln you particularly but Im going to get out do you hearr He raised the dirk What do you mean by getting out Burns Dont you know that you couldnt get a yard beyond the wall before the sentinels filled you full of bullets The warden sparring for time turned his keen gray eyes toward the little drawer that held hi revolver Til take chances If epough Ive had of It and Im going to ran chances and get out of here alive or dead Weil I wouldnt get excited about this Burns lets talk it over coolly I dont want to talk it over Dont you think youre foolish Burns Tou ve been serving a long time your conduct has been good and I was just thinking of asking the pardon board to consider your case Well Mr Warden I Burns faced the barrel of a revolver aimed by the surest of hands The warden was on his feet If you move that knife an Inch to the right or the left you drop Now turn and march to your cell I aint goin back I said I was goln to get out of here alive or dead and Im going to keep my word Til have to shoot then Tou kin shoot He watched the warden unflinchingly the knife tightened in his grasp He was waiting a propitious second to drive its blade home Toure a fool Burns said the warden to ruin your chances of a pardon Do you promise me a pardon if I dont promise anything I simply say tnat 11 you go back and behave yourself Ill see what can be done The prisoner reflected a second But I said I was goln to do this and its naggln me to death they will be if 1 come back I dont want them to know I lost my nerve Go back Burns nobody but you and me will know about It Very wen then He dropped his dirk on the floor and marched off the way he had come Turbine for Racing Automobiles From tha New Tork Herald An automobile weighing less than a thousand pounds with an engine developing 150 horse power and a speed capacity of 100 miles an hour Is the wonderful racing machine promised by Fran cols Richard a French engineer who constructed a high power machine test for the last Florida raee meeting for Alfred Vanderbllt These results are to be accomplished by the employment of a turbine gasolene engine constructed by Richard for automobile use This engine weighs only 120 pounds as against pounds for an ordinary engine developing the same power It ls only fourteen inches in diameter on the block and Is said to have given from 100 to 3000 revolutions a minute Richard Bays an entire racing machine with this engine need not weigh more than six or seven hundred pounds The turbine was constructed in a Harlem machine shop and those who have seen It declare that It ls exactly as represented by its designer Mr Vanderbilts racing car which wa3 taken to Florida before it was completed has been altered In some minor details and ls now being put In order in this city Its cost is said to have been CO 000 and Mr Vanderbllt has offered a premium to Its designer If It establishes a record on the Florida beach From tha New Tork Preea It worrlea a woman terribly not to hate anytime fie Vere ancestors to worry oyer Children would lnaiat on ateallas castor on to take If yon locked It In tha pantry ZttZLS2LVi fhionabinolridicuTe the Lake PoeT Joseph Letter Reported Engaged From the New Tork Preea Interesting news has traveled across the seas about tha bachelor Joseph Letter now spending the summer with his mother lruTulloch Castle near Dinarwall In Scot land This that Letter ls to emulate tho example set by his three sisters and seek a helpmeet in the British nobility It Is the wish of his mother that he should wed and she would prefer an English to an American daughter In law Letter has been reported engaged almost as many times as Ethel Barrymore and nothing has ever come of the rumor But this time his friends say he is willing to do anything to console his mother in her grief over the loss of Lady Curzon and he has fallen In with her match making humor The woman Is that charming young girl tbe sister of the Earl of Suf folk Lady Everyn iiowara wno war tor several months the guest of Lelter In company with her brother on their ranch I in Wyoming Lady Evelyn figured quite I extensively in wasmngion society ana was entertained by the present Ambassa dor and Lady Duranav Life of a Bank Note rrom tha London Sally Graphic During the hearing of a case at the Old street police court yesterday Mr Ernest Codrlngton an Inspector ot bank notes at the Sank of England was questioned as to the life of bank notes He said that tha average lite of a 5 note was sjxir two days ot a 10 fifty eight days a 10 100 not thirty days 300 to 600 not eleven days and a 1000 note fifty five days He said that they could never tell when a note would come back It might be generation but perhaps not so great as In other parts of the world though I hope it will be greater What ls done will depend upon tho extent to which commercial nations avail themselves ot possibilities there Japan ls anxious to extend Its trade In that direction and hopes the United States will do so also At home our people are now prosperous and the revenues will be sufficient to meet the extraordinary expenditures arising from our plans of development rand our ordinary expenses of carrying on the government The Japanese are Indeed grateful for the financial assist ance given them by the people ot the United States during the recent crisis At the suggestion ot Japan taking the Philippines Mr Haseba laughed heartily We are altogether too busy In Manchuria Korea Formosa and at home to think of that said he All signs in the State ot New Tork now point to an overwhelming majority for Charles Hughes the Republican nominee declared Capt Charles Cook of New Tork City Mr Cook Is a lawyer and represented some of the policy holders during the insurance Investigation a year ago I should not be surprised to see him elected by a plurality of 150000 votes1 he went on If elected he will make a splendid governor and perhaps a candidate for the Presidency I have known him for a long time and believe him to be a superior man both In his private and public life A year ago I saw htm every day and every Sunday morning I usually meet him on bis way to church He ls always the same dignified kindly gentleman Mr Hearst has made nothing by the expose of his method of conducting his newspaper corporation nor by bis deal with Murphy the man hi paper a year ago said should be In jaiL The insur ance policy holders throughout the State will vote solidly for the great investigator the business men will be with him and the conservative up State people will give him a big majority I believe he will come down to the Bronx with a lead that cannot be overcome by anything Mr Hearst may uo In the city Representative Ralph Cole ot tha Eighth Ohio district whose home ls at Flndlay was at the Riggs yesterday He left last evening for his home townwherd he will open his campaign to night with a big rally at which Representative Longworth will be one of the speakers Before his departure he commented on the Ohio political situation saying I hear nothing but good reports from all over the Bute and indications of Republican victory Districts which have been considered doubtful artf scorning around our way For Instance Mr Mauser and Mr Smyser now have a bright outlook before them and by hard work will pull through I do not know so much about Mr Campbells district but I understand that conditions there are better than they were The State ticket will easily be elected If the Republicans are not overconfident and the voters get to the polls A feature of tbe situation which will swell the Republican majority ls the return tq the fold after their opposition to Gov Her rlck of the anti Saloon League men Stopping at the New Wlllard ls Hugh Gordon Miller of New Tork a lawyer and a member of that States commission to the Jamestown Exposition The New Tork State building site has been selected on the exposition grounds said he last night and the building to be erected thereon will be one ol the finest structures of Its kind at the great fair The building will have two floors the lower one containing a commodious hall where dances receptidna and other entertainments will be given under the auspices of the State I remember as though It were yesterday the events at San Juan Hill and the few days preceding when I often saw then Cot Roosevelt leading his Rough Riders said Sergt Henry Foster of Rochester who has now retired from active service in the army bnt was tter in the cavalry arm of tbe regular service Mr Foster is a grizzled veteran who was present at tbe capture of Geron Imo years ago It was Just a few days before San Juan thatM saw the colonel riding along by the side of Gen Lawton under whom I had served in he Indian campaigns and who was later killed in the Philippines The general introduced me to his companion who was Just as active as he is now I did not see him again until the day of San Joan and then the brave and courageous colonel who never feared to face danger In the hour of doty was leading his men on top of the hilt was shot through the lung and was a year In recovering I did not see htm again until the other day and then was highly pleased by his actually remembering me after ail these years Tbe late Sir Stephen de Vere was tbe fourth Baronet and It ls probable that the Baronetcy may be revived ere long in favor of bis nephew the Stephen Vere Am Vr rtk formerly OBrien who has iUBt married the Bishop of Durhams daughter MAxqtnss Fontkxot Hale and Hearty at 306 From tha New Tork Herald Oldest of all living things In New Tork Is the big tortoise of the Bronx Zoological Park which la 206 years old He was i slider when buffalo were grazing on what ls now the White House lawn at Washington Memoirs of Cot Samuel trgall Deputy Governor of Virginia 1812 In the first three hundred years of his life he attained a weight of 1S pounds In the last six he has gained eighty one pounds And he keeps on getting latter and bigger greatly disconcerting scientists who have been accepting as a fact that the size of the btar South Pacific I tortoises was an indication of their wealth of centuries of age Buster Is the tortoises name His shell and his fleh are worthless and he is too old to add to his ancient line now practically extinct He came from tha Galla pagoa group to tbe Bronx six years ago but not directly HI race ia forgotten on the islands and only a few specimens are distributed in zoological parka over tbe civilized world In spite of his years and the new environment Into which he has been cast Buster healthy and promises to lire to a hearty old age of a thousand or so is very gentle and eat from tha hand of hla keepers How the Canteen Got Its Name From tbe Chicago Daily Kewa A strange etymological history is that possessed by the word canteen which has caused so much talk In temperance and army circles If its origin la correctly assigned to the old Latin quinUna many years They had In their pos which literally means of the fifth rank sessloaa note that was out for HI or fifth In order The quintana CyUV years Misers and old ladles were very ras a siree ra uiw on camp so ca fond of hoarding up banknotes Hun JM btt1loSSnwItlnSeai1x jj ihit rnanlpie or company and the sixth dreds and thousands of notes never hu the business and marketlm or came back at ell and that was all profit the camp was done and qun tana eve te the Bank Of England finally came to mean a market.