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Er.CXTTAT.T of ITalaaa. For Xttornty Ganeral, tt, J. BsxacnrRiuaz, Boyi Tor Aviitor, CrS a COTJTTTB, Tor Treasurer, HAGUE, cf Boyd. Tor Seretary of State, B. HUX, cf Clark.

Tor flnpt Publie Xaatraettoa, i fcL V. ITCIir3irST, of LlTtntraton, To Commissioner of Agriculture, X. B. HAIX, of jafferaon. Tor Bailroad Commissioner, tniTGXEB SXUPSST, of Eopkin county Tirst dlatrict a CL H'CHOILD, cf XCaRilngrton eoan.

ty cond district. XT. of aTontgemery ee an ty Third district. Wednesday Evening. Sept.

SO. There ajraa a gigantic BtruRg! between bulla and tara In Wall atreet to-day; rt one and i then the other having the advantage. The cloae was at fractional changes, but rea- araHy a little lower than reeterdar'a final quotations vera thrown on the market in great Mocks due to the liquidation of loans by bank. Brooklyn Rapid Transit in the feature of the day, being forced down and thin closing at a hand some tain. Money a at -374 per cent, on call closing at Sterling exchange was aaaier- but yet thtra are no IndlcaUona cf gold Jmporta.

Government bond were leedy. but railroad issues were easier. Speculation' la wheat, was stronger, the Efpterrler option advancing and the December Ho. Corn and oats were unchanged and provisions lV57o higher. Cotton and loaf tobacco were strong.

The Chicago live stock markets were dull and easier. J. The Yellow Fever Situation. The el low fever situation, though it jr. as srread distressingly In Key West, lmi to be well under con trol elsev here in the South.

Iniey West It has teen confined so far. and co doubt r.ce is equal to the task of prevent-ir th. spread of, Infection from there Ii the Ji-ture. The few cases that have vvelfpd in New Orleans have been I romptl Isolated, and Jackson, anl ether infected centers have sue-rtt-Ied In stamping out the disease. In J.ict, such precautions have been taken ,3 prevent th-s spread cf the subtle ln- ction; that quarantine regulations Kev Orleans, the chief center of Key West, are being wlth- cravn in all the Mississippi gulf coast f'fcs, ani trains are now being run T-'-rulaiiy.

This is the best evidence that l.e dl3fase is undr control, for the 'jits along the gulf coast and In MIs-r Llrri are morbidly rusplcious and un-? the Kast provocation would estab-3 "i th- tliotfrun picket lines, which ab-r -'jteiy prohibited travel and trade and 1S93. Such arbitrary I etdfnR cost the South 0.009 during those years, and a 1 season would practically bankrupt uft-cted cities Lat makui tha matter pcrbpas even more rratlfjlne; to Kenhicklans that It now appears that Louisville will be tinder no necessity of closing her gates to refugees. Much as our hospitality has cost us In loss of trade during past years, it Is Questionable that any state of affairs would Justify us In refusing" a home to the wanderers driven ont ty Tellow Jack. We are safely beyond the yellow fever line, and the two-or three cases we had Imported here' during recent epidemics were easily handled without spreading" the disease. Considerations of humanity have ever appealed to us more than the prospect of gaJn or loss, and the record we have established in the past is one we should not willingly abandon.

Fortunately. It seems that there will now be no necessity of even considering such a step. Certainly there would not If the Icy temperature that prevailed in Louisville yesterday morning could here been transmitted to the fever section. Tte South African Muddle. The call for another meeting" British Cabinet.

Is a 'symptom of the progress of the Transvsal dlfSmUy, but whether It shall be In the interest of peace or war may be doubted. The long continuance of the agitation Is dangerous to the cause of peace. If the Cabinet had the backbone to force the resignation of Chamberlain, there would be an assurance of peace. But this would be dangerous to the integrity of the Tory-Liberal-Cnlonlst alliance, and Is not to be expected. Great Britain is anxious to avoid a declaration of war against the South African Republic It has accordingly been suggested that no declaration of war Is necessary.

As Great Britain is now disposed to claim suaeralnty over the South African Republle there la aa obvious embarrassment involved la declarer war on what she calls her own people. Neither can she Intervene to put down an insurrection because there Is ao Insurrection there. Hence some Ingenious person has suggested the Ides, that a proclamation be issued that the convention, or treaty, London is annulled, and that the Queen has resumed the government of the country known as the Booth African Republic Then the British troops In South Africa, would proceed to occupy the country If they could. This, of course, would be a virtual declaration of war by Great Britain, but it would afford a pretext which can be made to serve in aa emergency alraoat as well as a reason. The suggestion shows that the statement that the Boers are about to begin the fight does not command full confidence la Cabinet circles.

Meantime, the preparations for war and the shipment of troops to South Africa continue. President Kruger has to face a disagreeable, dilemma. He most either delay hostilities before re-enforcements In overwhelming numbers strive from Great Britain, or- he must Incur whatever odium attaches to inaugurating hostilities when peace, may still be possible. In spite ot the professed impatience la London at the delays attributed to "Oom it to altogether probable that it to the policy of the British Cabinet to delay hostilities until there to an overwhelming force in South Africa. This policy may be frustrated by an accidental collision, but the advantage of it too obvious to justify the belief that it has been overlooked.

There is a wide difference of opinion as to the number of troops the Boers can put Into the field. Some say 23,000 men, while other estimates are as high as 50.000. Much depends upon the assistance received by the South African Republle from the other colonists of Dutch descent in South Africa. The Boers are sttll in a majority In Cape Colony. "The Orange Free State eems disposed to make common cause with the Transvaal, but future developments may change all this.

Hence President Kruger has need of all the resources of statecraft in dealing with a powerful enemy apparently bent oa his destruction and that of his Government. Of course the proposition to annul the London convention has no merit behind it. That treaty recognised the independence of the Transvaal In all its internal affairs, and in every other way except aa to one particular. It would be Just aa competent as a matter of right for Great Britain to undertake to annul the convention of 17S3, by which the Independence of her American colonies was acknowledged. The suggestion to a mere makeshift to get the Government out of an embarrassing position.

Hanging; Kust Go On. It is an astonishing story which comes from Kansas that Governors of that State have for years been nulllfy- xne laws oy rerusing to sign war rants for the execution of murderers. It is an almost unprecedented Instance of official criminality. The delinquency of these Governors has unquestionably cost many lives, for the loss cf which they are morally, and ought to be legally, responsible. There is nothing better established than that the non-enforcement of the laws sgalnst crime leads to an increase of it.

Similarly the non-enforcement of the law against a particular crime increases the frequency of that crime, while other crimes that are adequately punished by the courts will decrease. So far as murder is concerned, nothing so fully prevents It as the death penalty. In most European countries where the death penalty almost Invariably follows murder, homicides rarely occur, and such as do occur are mostly perpetrated in secret, in the hope that they will not be discovered. There are exceptions to this rule in parts of Europe, but they are In those portions where the laws are not faithfully executed. Even the option given to Juries to punish murder either by death or by imprisonment for life has done a great TIIE COURIER-JOURXAL, LOUISVILLE, TIT' KSDAY MORXIXG.

SEPTEMBER 21. 1S09. deal to promote murder, although the number of judicial executions was shamefully small before the option was given. Other States have abolished the death penalty entirely, so far as the law is concerned, but the assassins have not co-operated In the worK. The fewer assassins are executed by law, the more innocent persons sre executed by assasaina There is no fact better establlshel than this by human experience.

It Is the law of God that murderers shall be put to death. "Whosoever sheddetb man's blood by man shall his blood be shed." wss the tow enunciated from heaven directly after the flood. It was not a part of the law of the Jewish nation, as some hsve pretended. It was enacted centuries before the Jewish nation existed, and was binding on Noah, hto sons and their posterity. It is ss much In force to-day as it ever was; and woe to the man and woe to the State that disregard it.

Qod has said so plump and fairly It's aa long- aa it Is broad: And you've got to amt up airly Ef you want to take ta God." But It Is not merely In written codes that the Almighty has prescribed the punishment of murder. He has written it so plainly In the hearts of men that they will even transgress the law against murder itself in order that murderers shall not escape Justice. It to a well-known fact that In the United States a much larger number of murderers are hanged by mobs than by officers of the law. These hangings by mobs are wholly illegal, and would seldom occur If the laws against murder were executed. The Courier-Journal deplores, and has always deplored, mob But neither its protests nor the protests of minions of others can alter human nature.

The hanging of will go on, whatever the laws may be. When the courts stop har.clnrr them, the mobs will Inevitably do a i-ait of the work which Judicial tribunals neglect. It is tn the interest of the public safety that murder be punished by death, whenever the proof justifies a conviction, The Two William E.s. A Joint discission between Senator William E. Chandler and Senator Will-E.

Mason would be highly diverting. Chandler to about as sharp as they make them. In a region of sharp products, and he would easily stab the paunchy Mason between any or all of his ribs at wilt But Mason usually does, not mind a little thing Uke that. He has been known to recvlve stab after stab In the vitals without eve? letting up in his orating long enough to catch his breath. Indeed, some ot his ugliest wounds seem only to answer his own purpose by serving as so msny additional orifices for the emission of his surging and seething oratory.

In all fairness be If said, some of thpse who have seen William Mason when In action say that the more stabs he receives the more torrential his oratory becomes, there being nothing to liken him to at such a time, with mouth and wounds In fun play, unless it to a soda-water fountain with all its cocks turned on. or peradventure a shower-bath. WUllara EL Mason being now in New Hampshire, William E. Chandler has sallied forth with the following little Jabs, aimed straight at the Illinois statesman's tenderloin: "Is President McKlnley bound to main-tain the sovereignty (over the Philippines) la our hands until otherwise ordered by taws of Congress? "Can any power bat Congress, acting by law. make the Philippines a colony of the Cnited States? "Has any power but Congress the right to surrender our sovereignty in the Phil.

Ipplnes? "Has President McKinley.any right to surrender our sovereignty in the Philip-Pines? "Has President McKlnley any right to forestall the action of Congress In either direction toward making tn Philippines a colony or surrendering them so that they can aot be made a colony if Congress so decides "Do you think tho United' States should do anything to prevent the partition of China among tba continental Powers of Europe? la not the maintenance of United States power in the Philippines essential to enable us to aid In preventing the dismemberment of China? "What is your affirmative Philippine policy. If you have one?" Of course. It will be no trouble for the Illinois William E. to answer any or all of these. He can answer any or all of them at the aame time, It he takes a notion; and he can answer any or all of tbem'at the aame time in a dosen different answers per each inquiry.

But will he? That to the question in which the Inhabitants' of New Hampshire are most deeply concerned. Have they got to move out of the State and give William E. room't answer? Or will that performer decide to postpone the opening of his season until the close of the hot spell? At any rate, the New Hampshire William E. need not fear that his interrogations will go unresponded to. If the Illinois William E.

restrains his impulse to turn loose on them. It can be said that that profound thinker, statesman and soluter, the Hon. TJchard Croker. of New Tork. to fairly honing to get at them.

Growth of Southern Cotton Spinning. The following paragraph, from the London Financial News, to of Interest as showing the profits that may accrue from a standard manufacturing business, though In this case the raw material has to be drawn from a country thousands of miles away: "A correspondent says the profits of fifty well-known cotton spinning companies in the southeast area of Lancashire' amounted in the aggregate during the first half of the present year, according to official returna, to cloae upon SlOftjo or an average of over per company' The dividends of these particular compal nies have ranged from 7i to 15 per cent, per annum. The profits of forty-five other limiteUa in the aame part of the country tPalatlce) and la the same period oJ many rrlvate firms, who, of course, do not their turnovers, have aleo, la stated, been of a satisfactory character so fsr during the. present year. Tlie issuing: of the prospectuses ot half a dosen new companies which sre about to be floated in the Rochdale, Heywood and Oldham districts Is being awaited with considerable eagerness by intending Investors." These returns are surely satisfactory, though they do not Indicate that it will be many years before the sceptre passes away from the Manchester cotton spinning district.

It does show that if cotton can be picked In the South, transported by rail to the coast and then sent three thousand miles across the ocean to be worked up In the mills of Lancashire at a profit. It can be manufactured still mere profitably where It is grown. Statistics of the spinning industry bear out this view. Though msny new mills are going up in England and on the Continent and in Japan, the tendency to to concentrate them in the Cotton States. New England was the birthplace of cotton spinning in this country, and some of her mills are still among the largest and best in the world, and are now.

very profitable. Nevertheless, the ratio of gain in spinning goes on at a snail's pace In the North as compared with the leaps and bounds made by it in the South. Last year Northern mills took X.211.000 bales, against 1,369,399 bales consumed in the South, but the comparative rate of Increase was overwhelmingly In favor of the latter. Beginning with 1870. nearly every year has shown an increase in Southern consumption, so that while in eighteen years Northern mills have gained IS per cent, the South has gained CO per cent.

The following table shows the consumption of cotton by Southern mills for the year ending five-year periods, beginning with 1S7Q. and also the percentage of gain of Northern and Southern mills for each period: Bales Per cent of gain consumed. South. North. 1S70 8MW CM J7.M i8 rn.ooo To.oe 48.97 uss a.u 4T.a s.n 1X99 000 71-44 S3.S7 1SD5 82.000 E8.8J 11.41 1S99 CJ.ST We have previously published In these eolumna statistics of the wonderful Increase In Southern spinning capacity, which Indicate a consumption of 1.640,-000 bales for the current year.

This would give a gain of 92.49 per cent, for the five years ending with 1900. It indicates, too, that Manchester will not always be the center of cotton spinning. So great to the Increase that It is predicted that In five years' time the South will manufacture more than half the cotton spun In the United States, and that tn fifteen years It will manufacture as much as all the rest of America and Europe combined. How much this means for Southern prosperity and Increase in the relative importance of the South it requires a lively Imaglna'lon even to approximate. If France hopes that both by the conviction and the pardon of Dreyfus she win at the same time satisfy the claqueurs-of the army at home and the civilization of the outside world' she to greatly mistaken.

Dreyfus' pardon docs not reinstate him In the army; It does not punish the scoundrels who have hounded him out of France, to live In exile; It simply says that ths man has been unjustly condemned, without inflicting any penalty upon, those who wronged him or restoring to him anything they robbed him of except his liberty. Messrs. Sapp and Baker, who hold office under the Government and spend much of their time In not only denouncing but In violating one of the laws of the Government, could not even have a convention for making local nominations without passing a resolution condemning that law. Whether the law ir a good one or a bad one, It will be generally agreed that there are worse things, among which are men who draw salaries under a law they are sworn to uphold, and who seek to earn the salaries by nullifying that law. If the trusts are to be made an Issue In next year's campaign both the leading parties will start In on pretty even terms so far as that question is concerned.

Both will make a great ado In their platforms, and both will have records of having done nothing against the trusts, although both have had ample opportunity while they were in full administrative and legislative control of the Government. The ticket of well-known and reputable citizens which the Louisville Republicans were going to put dwindles to three or four such cltiiens, who are expected to carry through the rest of the slate manufactured by Baker. Sapp pi jobbers, wholesalers and retailers. The haste of the Massachusetts Democrats in selecting now delegates to next summer's National Convention Indicates that they are going to make a desperate effort to catch up with Barton Wharker in the presidential race. Hanna seems to think he to pitted against Croker In a talking contest.

The country to willing to award both the verdict. It is satisfied that It now knows all about everything that Hanna and 2roker can teach it No Democratic Governor from the North to at the St. Louis anti-trust conference. Thanks to the 1 to 1 silver trust, there are no Democratic Governors la the North. When they threatened to turn the hose on Guerln he promptly came down, Johnny Crapaud never did like a bath, Where could there ever be such a pti-formance as the capture of Guerln, Except ia opera LouSe or In France? political gossip.

A Cluster of Five. Covington Times. little Brown band of Newport at- te1 to held a "mass" convention last rJay night to select an Executive mlttee to the liking of Al Berry and L. and but so beautifully small a i gradually leas has the Brown band 8" wn since the call for the convention Issued, there were only five voters I enu It takes six to furnish a repre- tatlve for each ward; but as there is r- hope for the Brownies again reaching measure of strenirth in Newport, the ter of five resolved Itself Into a com-D lee for mutual admiration and support a i maintenance by the L. and N.

Surprised At Its Smallness. Stanford Interior Journal. low did you find politics in Simpson nty?" Was asked of Col. Welch, who is 3 back from there. He replied: "I was at the smallness of the disat-f ed element In the section said to be i hotbed of the bolters.

The Demo. ci tie party la In good shape there, and 1 roil up the usual majority." a a Eo Word of Condemnation. Georgetown Times. The antl-Goebel Democrats claim to be tie embodiment of "true Democracy" In Kentucky, and yet none of the "true Democratic" speaker have a word of con-d mnatlon of the Republican policy or p-actlces, although the extravagance and corruptness of that party was denounced a- the Lexington convention, which put ri-rth the ticket headed by ex-Govcrnor Brown. I a I Couldn't Get a Special.

Winchester Democrat. The Democrats of Ford, all of whom desire to attend the Goebel Blackburn speaking here- September 30, applied to the L. and N. for a special train to bring them here, so that they would lose only half a day from their work, and the rail-road, company flatly refused to consider trie-matter, though the Ford people were willing to pay well fcr the train: yet on the day of the county convention here It is well known that the L. and N.

furnished a speciai train free of charge for the Hardin voters to come from Ford. Doesn't that look like the L. and N. la iu pc lit lea some? "Hew Time Table In Effect. Owensboro Messenger.

The L. and N. Paducah News atill carries the name of the Rev. EL O. urn-ant a a candidate for Superintendent of Public instruction.

The Nws should know that a new time table Is In effect. a a The Colored Vote. Bardstown Record. A colored Goebel club has been formed In Bardstown, with a membership at last accounts tf nearly forty members. Blm-Bar action is being taken at many other points in the State, and the indications are that Republican control of the colored vote ia broken.

KESTUCKY 2JXW3 AND SOTXS. Tollgates were raided near Doudton. In Pendleton county. Saturday night by men who left notice that if they were replaced they would blow the gate, bouse and all atorris-y eae 1 Deputy Sheriff S. M.

Miller, of Claiborne eounty. has Just been extradited rmm Tennessee by the Whitley county authorities, charged with kidnaping. Aa rr out in the indictment. Miller re-v arreted a man named Capps, who -r-i Taaewell to answer for The charge Is made by the Ken. authorities that he kidnaped Capps a witnesses across the State- line in to arrest them, a.

a Catlettaburg Independent says: ver In the history of the Big Sandy va -y have so many cattle been shipped to narket as this season. The high price ot cattle, abundance of reed and greater attention to farming find the raising of cattle for the market a most profitable buaineaa. It to also true that large shipments of hogs have been made and are beine made almost daily, which Is another prolific source of revenue to that valley." a a John T. Lents, who left his wife and a large family of children near Bentoa over three years ago for parts unknown, has at last been heard from. He has been in the South, and is coming home to remarry his wife, who secured a divorce from him after his departure, i a a a The little three-year-old son of Joe Thompson, Irving at Cub Run.

Hart county, crawled Into a bed of live coals that had been drawn out of a sorghum fur-aace. and almost burned off his feet and one hand. a a The Hardy-villa correspondent ot the Glasgow Republican contributes the following item which Indicates business for the census takers In that village: "It's a girl at Pleaa Harper's, a boy at Will Gum's, a boy at George Richardson's, a girl at John Reynolds' and a boy at Lawrence Harper's. Continued next week." a a a Emiar Pate, of Tennessee, aged forty-one years, and Minnie McMillin. ot Allen county, aged fourteen years, were married in the courthouse yard at Scottsvllle.

the girl's mother being present and giving her consent- The girl never saw or heard ef the man until he came to her mother's house the day before they were married, a a a Preliminary arrangements are being made for the building bf a new roundhouse by the Illinois Central at Paducah. The building to to cost eae Clay Hollon, teaching at Lane, furnishes the Campton Bugle the following Item: D. Landsaw, familiarly known as 'Uncle Dow, has lived in that community to the age of eighty-seven, and haa always lived within six miles of his birthplace, lie is yet a strong and vigorous man, able to ride any distance horseback with no fatigue, and to go- into the Meld or woods and do as much work as the youngest. But the anomalous part ia the extensiveness of bis family, via: He has eleven children, eighty-three grandchildren, 177 great-grandchildren and twelve great-great-grandchildren, making a total of2 The Hustonville correspondent of the Danville Advocate wrttea aa follows to that paper: "A few years ago I told you of Charley Oliver's wife (colortd), of More- lund, falling heir to corner lots, etc, in Chicago by the death of her father. She rented the property a year or so ago.

but her agent got the proceeds, so she moved out and took possession, leaving her husband here- to look after the chickens, gather chestnuts, until such time as he could conveniently Join her. Re nt-ly he bought a tlck and went, but after -the novelty of city life wore away he pined for the quiet of his native hllla, the music of the whippoorwill, the screech owl and the tree frog. He besought hie wife Mary for funds to get back. Bne refused, but he came, hungry and foot-sore. When asked bow he came he replied: 'I rid part of the way fty miles and walked He now wants a divorce and all proper relief." Wh! a colored parade was passing throuKh the streets of Oeorgetown Mra.

Mary Cecil Cantriil waited at a corner to crofs the street. When the column halted, leaving the crossing clear, Mrs. CantrlU started across and waa pushed back George Howard, one of the colored ollieera of the day. who flourished his sword with considerable display of au thority. Mrs.

Cantriil had. the Hcious "officer of the day" arrested, and he was lined tU and costs in Police a a a Jo Mundav. the ex-actor and evanre- 11st. is circulating In Kentucky once more. but seema to be playing in bad luck.

The FleralnifsLurg Gaxctte says: "Joe Munday will be remembered here as an 'ex-actor. play-writer, etc. who delivered a lecture at the courthouse two or three weeks ago. Joe waa quite a fluent talker and he suo-ceedvd In making an impression with his audience, so much so that some eight or ten dollars waa contributed voluntarily by his hearers. But when be struck Carlisle he did not meet with so much success.

The Courier says ho failed to secure the courthouse there to lecture In, and he proceeded to drown his troubles by loading up on boose. Carlisle whisky always bad a bad reputation, and It soon landed Joe In JalL When he left there he waa a very sorrowful and blue-looking Mnnday." a a a A new bank will be formed at once at Sadievllle, Scott county. Mr. R. Fields, un til recently cashier of the Deposit Bank, of that village.

Is understood to be at the head of the new enterprise. BITS FROM THE KEWS. Big Ocean liner Lowers Its Eastern Becord. The New Tork. agents of the big liner have received a cablegram saying that the Kaiser Wllhelm.der Gross arrived at Cherbourg at 1126 this forenoon, making the passage from New Tork in flv daya seventeen hours and fifty-six minutes, and beating its previous record eastward to that port by about three hours.

The average' speed was 22.44 knots. The liner cleared the bar at Sandy Hook at 12 SO p. September 12, and the daily runs were 499. 04. SIT.

E3. 30 and E1S, making the total distance J.104 knots. New Tork tele. gram to the Chicago Tribune. a a a Big Ostrich As a Sentinel.

Napoleon, the big pugnacious leader at the ostrich farm, has earned the title of sentinel by his assiduous patrolling of the Inclosure during the night. A fine lot of pheasants were received lately at the farm, and the negroes living near by have had their eyes on them, as they think them as good aa chickens or turkeys. The other night a trio of negroes) made a raid upon the pheasant Inclosure. Napoleon did not see them till they were near the cage; then, with a sharp hiss of rage, be sushed at them with outstretched wings. The negroes ran for the fence, but Napoleon waa took quick for them, and with a kick of his powerful foot he knocked one down, crying with fright and pain as the sharp claws of Napoleon had caught his making a terrible He finally got up and over the fence.

Napoleon standing by and uttering shrill cries, as if greatly pleaaed over his victory. He is a magnificent 400-pound bird, and few care to tackle him. He patrols the inclosure at night now regularly till nearly morning, and nothing dares go Into the yard, even the employes keeping out till daylight. Hta feat haa greatly scared the negroes living In the vicinity, and none will venture near him. Jacksonville, Kla, telegram to the Chicago Chronicle.

a a a President To End Discrimination Against Schley. President McKlnley has decided that the discrimination against Rear Admiral Schley must cease. He reached this decision, it is said, after nearly aa hour's discussion with Senator Wellington and Gov. Lowndes, of and Mayor Malster and Gen. Felix Agnus, of Balti- morq, who called to protest against the assignment of Schley to the South Atlantic squadron.

Washington telegram to the Chicago Chronicle. a a a Flngree On Alger's Withdrawal. "I hope the newspapers are satisfied now they've driven Alger off the track." remarked Gov. Ptngree in a good-natured, but very sarcastic tone, when told the "news." "Do you know who is responsible for Gen. Alger's withdrawal?" he next asked.

"Why, the newspapers did it. They were all In a conspiracy to down Alger, and suppose they'll be shouting for our friend from Massachusetts, who seem to be the only person fit to represent Michigan In the United State Senate." "Why don't you run for Senator, Governor "Me? That's a great notion! I ain't got money enough. No, sir, I ain't got money enough, and you can't do that without money." "How much would coat to make a fight for Senator next year. Governor "Oh. I don't know.

Tou'll have to ask these fellows who've tried It; they've got the statistics." The Governor would not discus any other prospective opponent of McMillan, nor would he say what he thought were the "business and personal reasons" for Gen. Algeria withdrawal. Detroit telegram to the Chicago Times-Herald. a a a Great Is the Missouri Hen. State Commissioner Rixby reports that over W.OOO.oOO pounds of poultry and nearly dosen of eggs were handled by transportation companies last year, the aggregate cash return for which were The gross value of Missouri's shipments of poultry snd eggs In 18SS exceeded the value of the combined shipments of wheat, corn, oats and hay.

and the combined value of the shipments of lumber, logs, cross-ties, piling, cooperage and cordwood. St. Louis telegram to the New Tork World. a. Cornelius Vanderbilt Gave a Year To Charities.

New facts In regard to Mr. Vanderbllt's private charities, concerning which he always obrcrved the greatest secrecy, are becoming known. Senator Depew said last night that he probably dispensed a year In these benefaction. "His mail was enormous." said Mr. Depew.

"and his secretary was forced to destroy probably two-thirds of the letters which were sent to him asking for aid. A very large number remained after this sifting process and to these he gave his personal attention. Most of his charities, however, were not of that kind. He did a vast amount through clergymen who brought deserving case to him. In these cases he knew with whom be waa dealing and that his bounty would not be misapplied, lie assisted many persons whom he bad known and who for one reason or another had fallen Into reduced circumstances.

He- assisted them on a very liberal scale. In such instances he rarely gave les than and he often repeated the gift. "He did much In the way of helping truggling churches along, but in such cases he acted through the Bishop. Many persona and families whom Mr. Vanderbilt waa in the habit of aiding will now have to look elsewhere for assistance.

One of his most conspicuous qualities was fealty to men in whom he took an interest. If one of them lost his place Mr. Vanderbilt found another for him; it be waa skk. he took care of him, and he was constantly on the lookout for better places for his proteges. He gave In private charltlea not lre than a year." New Tork Herald, a a a New York's Crowded Since the crowds began to arrive it ths hotels for the Dewey celebration and the International yacht races, hotel broDrle- tors have chanirrd their minds about some things.

They did not bepln to grasp what a demand there would be for room at first, and said that while they would adhere to the rule first come first served, and let their rooms to the first person that applied for them, they would nevertheless reserve a certain amount of space for regular patrons who had not had the forethought to reserve accommodation in ad. vine. That was announced as the intention only week ago. but now It is changed. So many regular patrons have applied that all space haa been already allotted, and those that come bereavfter must take their chances, and if present indications hold, those chances, in so far a accommodations are concerned, are likely to be represented by a large and rotund cipher.

Hotel accommodation in the otty are now entirely sold. Room in all the boarding houses probably are not entirely engaged, but if they are not it is only be cause the coming crowds do not know where to send. If they did know the loc tion of reputable places there Is no doubt their accommodations would be as fully oversubscribed already as are those of the big hotela Week after next old New York- era will eeblgser throngs' eveo than Chi cago and other cities-, where national conventions are held, know, and where accommodation of any sort sell at enormous premium. New Tork Tribune. a a a Vanderbilt Inheritance Tax 2tlay Beach The amount of the legacy taxes that will be paid into the National and State treasuries by the estate cf Mr.

Vanderbilt is variously estimated. The war revenue tax on legacies to lineal issue or lineal ances tor amounting to 11.000.000 or more, is 12.23 on each flX; on legacies of the samsf amount to more remote relations, the tax varies from $4.90 for each tlW on legacies to aunts, uncles or cousins to III for each X100 on legacies to great-uncle, great-aunt or their descendants. The tax on legacies to a stranger In blood or a body politic or corporation is 15 for each $100, The State tax on legacies of JI.OOO.Vjq or more is $1 for each SIM) left to direct descendants or ancestors, and 63 for each 6190 left to collateral relations and others. Controller Coler, In his capacity of County Treasurer, collects the State tax and retains 1 per cent, ot all he collects for Jtls trouble. The total Inheritance tax to be paid out of the Vanderbilt estate has been esU mated at from 63.ao0.0u0 to ti, 000,000.

There Is some 'reason' for believing- that when the will Is offered for probate it will be found that not so much as these figures would mean is to pass under the will Itself and that Mr. Vanderbilt recently made gifts of large amounts which will not be som matters of record in the. courts. INew Tork Sun, rVTTtTTttttV Riklor POINTS ACOUT PEOPLE Miss Margaret Cox. daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. I.uke Cox. returned bom Saturday from Europe, where she has been spend ing the summer with a party of ton friends. Mr. and Mrs.

George Evans, who have been living at the Gait House for the past year, have gone to housekeeping on -Gray treet Mr. and Mrs. Jack Woodward and Mrs. Woodward's mother, Mrs, Davis, have re turned boao from Warm 8pringa, and New Tork. where they have been tot the summer.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mengel and family have returned from Transylvania, alter. spending three months in tut country. i Mr.

Lewis Johnson spent Tuesday in Versailles, the guest of Mr. Sam Wool-dridge. He went to attend the dance given by the Woodford Social Club. a a a Mrs. Rudolph Balke will actum home Monday after spending the summer in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, and win be at the Gait House again this winter.

a a a Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bryar, of Pittsburg, and Mis Hattie Jones, of New Orleans, are the guests of Mrs.

M. L. Todd, of 136 West College street a a a Mr. Scott Bullitt will leave this week for Cambridge, Mass, to take a year's course in law at Harvard. a a a Mr.

Albert Davis returned home yesterday after spending a week with Mr. and Mra Powhattan Wootdridg at Loto Wan. sea Miss Mamie Gaines, of Frankfort, was In the city yesterday, the guest of Miss Marie Louisa Taylor, of East Broadway. a a a Miss Bessie Innes. of Frankfort is the guest of the family of Prof, Almond.

a a a Mrs. Shelby Van Natta, who ha been pending several days with her daughter. Mis Mary Rebecca Tlmberlake, left Tuesday to visit relatives In Shelbyvllle. Mis Tlmberlake has recently returned from Canada and Michigan, where she has tx.en for several months. a a a Miss Lettle Rodman, of Frankfort, a niece ot Mrs.

William Cheatham. Is ill at 8t Joseph's Infirmary. a a a MIbs Georgia Ehallcross, who to one of this season's debutantes, was thrown while on a horseback ride Tuesday, and hurt her face quite badly. aaa Miss Imogen Howard, of Lebanon, reached the city yesterday to visit htr brother, Mr. Ward Howard, at 614 West Broadway.

aaa-. Mr. Worth Otter has returned home from Central Kentucky, where he lias boen on a short visit to relatives. aaa Mra Harriet E. Lewis and daughter will leave to-morrow to spend several weeks In St.

Louis. e-e a Miss Lula D. Page, of Nasshvllle, Is visiting Miss Richardson, of lo East Jacob street aaa Miss Veronica Van Hart and Mr. R. Marvin Culley were married September 1 at the country borne of the br.de's untie.

Mr. James Reynolds, near Pittsboro, Ind. The ceremony was icrforrad by the Rev. E. F.

Daugherty. of Indianapolis, This announcement will come as a surprise to the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Culley, a. a Mr.

Henry Walber has returned home from Cannelton, after a vltit of a week. aaa Mrs. James Webb, of New Tork. who ha been spending several weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

William Harrison, will not return home until the middle ot October. Mr. Ward Howard will leave next week on a Southern trip, from which he will re turn in two montha. a a a Miss Mamie Applegate is very ill of ty phoid fever at her home on Third avenue. She suffered from a mild attack of the disease in June, and went to Rockcastle to recuperate.

She has since had a relapse, but is now thought to be out of danger. 1ST. and Mrs. X. W.

Bernhelro will cele brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of their eddlng next Saturday evening at their country home in Anchorage. No formal invitations have been Issued. The train leaving First-street station on Saturday evening at 6:10 o'clock will have a separata coach for their friends. A special train will brine them back to the city at 11 o'clock that night. aaa Miss Elisabeth O.

Barbour, formerly ot Richmond. but now of New Tork. It the guest of Miss Mary Weller. of Fourth avenue. aaa.

Miss Pattle Rodman, of Crescent Hm. has been spending the week with her cousin, Mrs. Samuel H. Halley, In the absence of the tatter's parent, Mr. and Mra James P.

Helm. In New Tork. They har gone to meet Miss Ind a Helm, who wiQ reach New Tork to-day from Europe, aaa Mrs. Edward IT. James, of Eddyvfll, 1 the guest of Mr.

and Mrs, M. C. Marshall, of 1957 First street. aaa i Miss McCorcb, of Seymour. Ind, is the guest of Mis Margaret Wright aaa Mis Nina Benedict who ha boost 0 for several weeks, ha recovered.

aaa Mrs. John Grundy, of Lebanon, to the guest of her cousin, Mrs. John C. Benedict aaa Tba Rev. R.

W. CI el and and ot California, who have ha an tb guests of Mrs. Erne Gardner, -will leave to-morrow for the West Dr. and Mr. B.

Baldwin, of the navy, have recently come from New Tork to visit Mrs. Baldwin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H.

Cochran. aaa' Mlssea Mamie and Bessie Applegate ar both confined to their home with typhoid fever. They have been IU In bed tor a week. aaa Miss Nannie Duncan, of Russellville, It In the city on a short visit to Miss Edna Gilbert. .00 Mis Florence Offutt of Lexington, la In the city on a short visit to Mrs.

Henry Barker. She is on her way to Boston, where she will study this winter. aaa Mrs. Oscar McGulre. of Rosedale.

Visa, Is In the city spending a few days with Mis Lulle Baird. on Brook street aaa Mrs. E. Holland, of 1711 First street, ha gone to visit Mrs, T. G.

Martin, of Hagerstown, Md. Misses Sadie C. Doyle. May LlllenthaJ, Wllhelraina Waller, Louise Rademaker, Bertha Rademaker, Alice Rapp and Mary V. Barrett wbo compos tb P.

C. Club, will give a box party Saturday afternoon to see "The Charity Bait" aaa The Rev. Francis R. Beat tie, D. leaves Friday to attend the Seventh Council of the Alliance of the Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian system.

The council will be held at Washington next week and Dr.Beattle is one of the del, cgate from the Synod of Kentucky, aaa Mr. John T. Ewing left last week for Centre College, Danville, Mr. John Edgar Travis, of Monro Ctty, Mo, to visiting her parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Boyd Wilson, at 116 West Kentucky street. Kentuckiana At the Hotels. Gait Robert T. Qulaenberry, Danville; Maury Kemper, Lexington; Lafoa Biker.

Harrodsburg. Seelbach's P. W. Grlnatead, Lexington: Fred Btucy, J. C.

Baker. Ghent; Russell, liarrodsburg. Louisville J. D. Mlddleton and wife, Shelbyvllle; E.

J. Harris, Owensboro: W. J. Davidson, Glasgow; W. H.

Harris. Ai-lensvlUe; B. M. Craft HueyvlU. Wlllard F.

W. Augsburg. Lexington; H. A. Means, P.

C. Bailee, Oak 2rove; A. Logan Vlckers, Covington; Ben D. Rlngo. Hartford.

OP THE TOWN The Epwurth Leaaroe of Trinlrv Metho dist church will hold a special song serv. toe at Hoicombe Mission, 128 East Jeffer. son street this evening at o'clock, This is on of the most energette league In tb city, and the meeting Una evening- ii rwl i i v. Mr. tiqnja.

man 1 sure to -be aa interesting on. FrU Ih. win V. 1 V. of the Christian Endeavor Society of th ii v.

in TTrwaji cnutra ana iter, L. Powen will preach. Th puUkt ia cordial. uiihcu iu aiiena mese services. A representation ot the personages and scene from Ren Tf ur will Westminster Presbyterian church, corner of First and Ormsbr.

Fridav evenlnar a 6 o'clock. The entertainment will consist m'unirai viears ana dramatic desert p. tion from th famous novel, which giv an accurate conception of customs, men-ners and scenes in the East. William Murohv waa rnatl hv rw retires Sullivan and Hick on a charge of destroying private property. i ne prisoner is supposed to have kicked la (an siaa window of Alexander store at Third au Jefferson street.

The residence of Theodore rhw.rt. 1009 East Market street, was ransacked bv thieves vealerdav ar a im ITllillT war aa away from home at th Una DEWEY TO VISIT CHICAGO. E. H. Bacon Beceives Telegram Con ceming me jrau Ctieh.ratJ.on In the City On th Lake.

Admiral Dewey will be In Chlcaf durw big the big autumn celebration to he, given there in October. Mr, E. H. Bacon, district passenger agent of the Monon, received a telegram from the Carnival Association late yesterday afternoon announcing tlila fact The comer-stone of th big Chicago Federal building will be laid and. beside the Admiral's rreeenc.

ky and other distinguish 1 public men will attend the ceremonies. Big excursions will be run to Chicago and hundreds of Louisville people who do not go to New York to welcome Dewey will attend me i.nicago ceieoratloo. Caught Tinder Falling Wall, David Roberts, colored, waa der a falling wall yesterday morning and received Injuries which may prove fatal. Ho is a laborer and was at work on th new building now being erected at US East Market street. A section of the old wall toppled over and Roberta was caught under the debris.

His fftinw dug him out. and he waa taken to tha An showed that his right leg and several ribs were -broken. In addition to which it ia thought Sol Goldstein Bankrupt. Sot Goldstein, a member of ih. firm of Goldstein Steinberg, filed a bankruptcy oetitlon In th Clerk a ofSce yesterday.

The ItabURle consist, oi oia oeots mads by the firm nrlor tn Jnlv H'rt -n J-Ju Tof ada WPFdrtt otmem! A 83.00O Cabbfto-a rv South Bend. Telegram to the IndU ai'apons isewa William D. Shumn tWfcnty Cre of marh land In cabbage, and at present market rates bo his crop. I.