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6 WASHINGTON POST; SEPTEMBER 26, cjpal crops of the Island exceeded $100,000.000. Sugar, tobacco, $25,000,000. molasses and rum, nO.OOO; coffee, fruits and Publication Office! vegetables. 51,150,000 Pcnnsy.vaala Vienuc, near Fourteenth Street For flscal year ended June 30, 1904, the receipts from customs amounted to the total rei- enue $20,112,241, and the expenditures $17,220,558, including the sinking fund ot Subscription. bt carrier In OTasblnflten Blczanbrfa J'a ly, Sunday included, one month to 70 Supday included, one week 20 l3lly, Sunday exec-pled, one 50 Daily, Sunday exceptcd, one week 15 SE Oattl, pottage prevalo.

Sunday excepted, one year J6 oo rctily, Sunday included, one I) uly, Sunday CTcepled, one month 50 Daily, Sunday included, one month 70 Sundaj, oae year 150 Remittances should be made by drafts, checks. post office orders, registered letters, or express orders, payable to Cbc TTClasbington post Tdsabfngton, JD C. Pennsylvania Avenue, near Fourteenth Strwt New Wii OTlce, F.atlroa Building PAUL BLOCK, Chicago OOce, Unity BuiminE PAUL BLOCK, Manager A 26, 1906. Cuba and Her Resources. If Cuba, so omlerf ully endowed with natural advantages, so favorably situated for agricultural and commercial development, although periodically devastated by revolution and Indifferently fostered in time of peace, was i under the- old Spanish domination, of belns called the "Pearl of the Antilles," what might she become under an administration guaranteeing permanent peace and good government and JustifjiPS tha Investment of such capital as may bo necessary to develop the riches of nature that up to the present moment have been but half revealed.

Cuba is entirely -within the torria zone, but not so far south as to make Jta climate characteristically torrid Tho climate does not differ materially i our own Gulf States, but the rainfall is greater. Its Insularity insures moist, equable atmosphere, and the never-falling sea breezes of the afternoons and evenings tend to make the nights cool and comfortable even In the warmest months. Shaped somewhat like Long Island, 'Cuba is lone ana narrow, being about 7 JO miles in length and in width varying from 18 miles to 118 Its area oom puses about 44,000 square miles By a of comparison. It Is larger than Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Dela- ire, and New Jersey put together The Island would ma.ve almost four Mary- lands and about two West Virginias, and Is greater in the aggregate of her square miles than either Indiana, Kentucky, Maine Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Virginia Tha State of Pennsylvania has practically the same area as Cuba The Island lies 100 miles south of Key West, the most southern port of the United States; Havana Is distant from Tampa 306 miles, from New Orleans, 697 miles, and from New York, 1 227 mjles It controls the highway to the Panama Canal. Tho last census of the island, taken In 1899, put the population at 1,572,797.

Immigration has been steadily Increas- "na; the number for 1904 being 20,217. A reasonable estimate of the present population Is fixed by those best in formed at about 1,700,000 Of the tota population, 68 per cent were native whites, 8 per cent foreign whites, and 8J per cent colored, the remaining 1 per cent being assigned to Chinese and others unclassified The llgureg as to tha density of are significant They indicate a population of 113 persons to the square mile In Hav a a Province decreasing to but 8 to the square mile in Puerto Principe Hav a a therefore, is about as thickly settled as New York State, and tho last named province about as much as the State of Washington It has been estimated that i Cuba Is capable of supporting, In comfort and prosperity a population of at least 15,000,000, which would be 340 to the square mile, or less than the density of the population In Khode Island or Massachusetts. The census of 1899 found sixteen cities on the Island having a population over The chief of these Is Havana, i 235,981, Santiago, second, with 43,096, and Guinea, a suburb of Ha- at the bottom of tho list, with it 149 inhabitants. The total trade between this country and Cuba during the last flscal year amounted to J13S.743.519 During that Cuba sold to the United States sugur -valued at $60,208,148, and tobacco valued at $17,474,269, her total exports to this country being $84,979,831. of which all but about was dutiable and upon which the duty collected, according to the Department of Commerce and Labor's preliminary figures, was In the same period the United States sold to Cuba merchandise aggiegatliig $45,377,277.

The sugar crop tif 1904 was 1,040,220 tons, 1905. 1,100000 tons, and as experts claim the yield of Cuban sugar Is two and a half tons to the acre, the total number of acres devoted to sugar cane amounted to not more than 460,000 There as said to be 5,000,000 acres of the Island that might easily and quickly be turned into sugar tailons If this estimate be correct, the imagination la dazzled by the contemplation of what Cuba would be capable of doing In the sugar-producing line if advantage were taken to the full of nature's gifts The cultivated area of Cuba Is abojt 1,000,000 acres, and, according to the last census, 47 per cent and Interest on loan made for the payment' of the Cuban revolutionary army. Cuba has no currency of its own coinage The official money of the republic Is United States currency, and all taxes and public debts are payable In that! mone, except fees of registrars of property, which are payable In Spanish gold In commercial circles Spanish gold Is the basis of calculation, and in retail trade and the country, Spanish silver almost entirely is used American currency is always at a premium over Spanish gold. The 535,000,000 bond issue sold in this country at 90 1-2, advanced to 96 within thirty days after the contract was signed, and is now quoted above par. The customs revenues are piedgeu as a guaranty on this loan Rich as she Is to-day, through the prodigality of nature, the future of this island Is go.den If the United States, loth though It may be to intervene to stop civil war, is compelled to put forth a strong hand, what will the result be? If the American flag again goes up In Cuba, will It ever come down' Should it come down'' Would not Cuba make ft most desirable addition to Uncle Sam's already rich possessions 9 he is again made Ita standard taarer in another contest for oontrol of the government.

Mr. Bryan's bourbonlsm Is of the sort that makes martyrs of parties and measures Suppress "The Clansman!" The ex-Rev. Thomas Dlxon has chosf-n an unfortunate moment for a tour of the South with his somewhat incendiary melodrama, "The Clansman It Is a poor thing, at its best--as stupid and misleading as Harriet Beeeher Stowe's conflagration, known as "Uncle Tom's Cabin''--but it is especially unwelcome just now, in view of the race riots at Atlanta and the explosive condition of public feeling which those riots have produced. To carry "The Clansman" through the South at this time, particularly through Georgia, the Caro- llnas, and Alabama, would ha to conduct a propaganda of race hatred, of homicidal violence, and of social paralysis in general. We are -very glad to see that Macon, and Montgomery, Ala, have set the example of prohibiting this abominable performance within their respective Jurisdictions.

It Is an example which should ba followed by every municipal corporation in the South. The play does not possess even the merit of historic tjruth. It is as false as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and a hundred times more wicked, for It excites the passions ana prejudices of the dominant class at the expense of the defenseless minority. We can imagine no circum- siances under which its production would be useful or wholesome, since It disgusts the judicidus and the well-informed, and exerts an influence only upon the ignorant, the credulous, and the ill disposed But in the present condition of the public mind at the South It Is a firebrand, a counsel of barbarity, In fact, a crime. The Post has, more than once in the past, expressed its opinion of Mr.

Dlxon's play On those occasions the conditions were normal and we considered merely the abstract literary and dramatic merits of the production If we found It plain, mischievous claptrap then, what must wo think of it now when events have conspired to give it the qualities of a spaik in a powder house' Essentially, It belongs in the class of cheap thrillers--the kind that make the peanut galleries howl and cover nursemaids with ecstatic gooseflesh. Ordinarily, it would be dismissed by enlightened persons With a contemptuous shrug and relegated to the limbo of vulgar rigmarole. But to take it on a Southern tour at this time, to play upon the passions of ttie mob, to stimulate violence, and to feed the flames of hatred and revenge--that will be to perpetrate the most perilous assault Imaginable upon civilized society. Our Southern friends will be wise to take a lesson from Macon and Montgomery For the present at least "The Clansman" should be suppressed. "Contempt for Wealth." Congressman William Alden Smith, of Michigan, who is a candidate for the United States Senatorshlp, issues a stata- ment denying with heat that he is a millionaire The contempt for wealth Is becoming very deep among those who have it not--Philadelphia Ledger.

It is doubtful If any one has "contempt for wealth," however poor he may be. Envy of the wealthy by the less fortunate Is bv no means unusual, but theaa envious souls have more than the average respect or desire for that which excites their envy. The character" of a rich man may be, and tqo often Is, lacking In those qualities which inspire respect. The means by which great fortunes have been accumulated are, In some instances, deserving of condemnation. But the mere fact that a.

man Is rich, regardless of how he became so, Is not condemnaple, and Intelligent men do not condemn It, An honest, upright citizen may, and often, does, accumulate a large amount of prop- ertj For that he may be envied, but he is not despised. Although there has been a long and vigorous effort on the part of demagogues to set the poor against the rich, they have not succeeded In obliterating discrimination between honesty and knavery so far that "contempt for wealth" or for honest possession of it is widely prevalent But it Is not difficult to understand why William Alden Smith Indignantly denies the insinuation that he Is a millionaire He has had no opportunity for the accumulation of a million by honorable means While engnsed for a few years in the practice of the law, he did not become verv rich through big fees from corporations or from any other source. He has been in Congress for some twelve years and has bfen attentive to his duties and unsuspected of corruption. To say of such a Congressman, that he Is a millionaire Is to say that he possesses that which he gained bv Irregular If not by corrupt methods And that is a charge which an honest man naturally resents and repels. In Chicago they are trying to select a 'ury to try Cornelius Shea, of the teamsters' union, but nobody seems to be anxious to serve unless driven to It, Palma's experience may establish an unwritten law In Cuba that no President shall serve more than one term.

Mr. Bryan may be losing ground In poll- tics, but he has not been letting go of his real estate In Nebraska, Now -that Senator Tlllman is being blamed for the lynchlngs at Atlanta, it must strike the people of Springfield (Ohio and Illinois) that they overlooked a bot a few months ago. Senator Bailey appears to be in a position to appreciate the feelings of the man who was caught with the goods. The loudest talk about Mr. Heaist'jj use of money in the campaign seems to come from men who generally know how to get their share.

If Secretary Taft Is keeping a list of ars he has met. he will be abla to make a number of additions before he has heard all, the Cubans who are anxious to tell their side of the story. It would seem like rubbing It In on Mr. Odell to remind him of the old about the pitcher that goes to the wefl once too often. Ninety per cent of the troubles In the army are dufe to bad liquor, according to en.

Fred D. Grant. That leaves oply 10 per cent to lay at the door of good Iquor. It Is now more than likely that during next session of Congress Speaker Cannon will refuse to accept from Mr Gompers any advice as to how to run this country. i The new packing-house regu'ations will also prevent macerated hog snout from masquerading as toothsome potted chicken.

A String to It. Late as It is Mr. Bryan's partlaj recantation Is Interesting, and that, too, even though It has a string to It In a speech at New Orleans, acknowledging, with a tinge of for all of its apparent facetlousnass, that he had "got himself into trouble" his Madison Square deliverance, he declared that all he meant to say was that "perhaps we would have to go further than the regulation the railroads, and that the government might have to own them." We assume from this that Mr Bryan means reluctantly to intimate a lllng- ness patiently to await the experiment of Federal regulation now going on, or, rather, preparations for the Inauguration of whjch are In progress and, presumably near completion Thus Mr Bryan puts a different aspect on the doctrine to which he so impetuously committed the Democratic party under his leadership Had he been less positive in his original pronouncement, his party undoubtedly woulp 1 not have gone through the travail whlcn has been racking its nerves since his return from Europe What has come over the spirit of his dreams Is not known, unless it be that in his peregrinations among the people In various sections of the country during the past month he has learned unmistakably that for their part the are content to abide the results of the rigid enforcement of iha amended interstate-commerce law before giving their support to a propaganda for the enactment of legislation still further Increasing the A Local Question. Gov Cummins has opened his campaign in Iowa, and makes It quite plain that he. is a Republican before he Is a tariff reformer, and that he Is not a reformer at all unless he can accomplish It within the partj, from which It Is apparent that tho governor prefers Republican standpattery to Democratic tariff reform.

It Is little such gentlemen as Senator Aldrich, Speaker Cannon, and Representative Dalzell care for such reform as the governor is preaching. They will lose no sleep over It, but It Is quite likely that the reform advocated by Secretary Taft giving them a great deal of concern. Gov Cummins Is as general In his remarks as the last Republican platform, and what he says amounts to this, and only this "Where Jbe tariff is too high, lower her; where It Ig too low, higher her He does not venture to say wherein it Is too high, nor wherein it Is too low. He Is particular to say that he does not go the whole hog--that Is, he Ib opposed to general revision Such as tho wicked and unpatriotic Democrats propose. He prefers the present law to that, and he employs a deal of language to Impress that fact on the Iowa standpatters.

This country will never get tariff reform from such source. We are going to get tariff reform from no source whatever so long as prosperity holds. We doubt very much If the Republican party will be hurled from power until another period of financial panic and Industrial depression comes. Coxey's army would be champions of tariff reform than all the reformers like Gov. Cummins that could be stoocLup between the Pacific Ocean and the rising stm.

Gov Cummins is a reformer; the Hon. Eugene Foss la a reformer. One of these gentlemen would stand pat on the duties levied on what Iowa produces and revise on the products of Massachusetts, and the other would stand pat on the present schedules which protect Massachusetts and reform on the duties that oppress her. And hence it is a local question. Somebody In the crowd might ask Bryan If government control of ice-bearing streams has not proved a transparent failure.

The heavy cannonading off the New England coast comes frohi Fighting Bob Evans' battle ship squadron, which is being put in condition for repairs. As we grasp the merits of the controversy, the Alexandria mummy presents a wrinkled front to all Mayor Paff has to say against the theory that It may have lived in Alexandria some three thousand years ago. The formation of an Independence party In Manila makes jt appear that the Boston agitators have finally succeeded In making a handful of converts among the natives themselves. Jerome Is certain to have the support of the do-nothing element, whose chief enjojment Is seeing everybody who does anything roundly abused Boston bankers complain- that the islble supply of money has all been rushed to Wall street. Overlooked a large bunch, as we can testify.

Drot the drought In Maine Icemen are already marking up prices on next mer contracts Senator Smoot could not have hit upon a better substitute for the proverbial red herring to drag across his Mormon trail than a canteen of red liquor. of this was devoted to sugar produc- control by the government of distribution. and 10 per cent to tobacco. Adding the areas of cities, towns, and very large tracts for pasturage purposes, it Is found that only about 14,000,000 acres, or aoout one-half the Island, has been developed The remaining hair a a i future exploitation, and Is clilmed to be for the most part, as capable of high development as that which nas brought great riches to the people of Cnba In 1903, according to official ad- from Consul General Steinhart, SI 00,000,000 of American capital was invested In Cuba, as follows Sugar one of the greatest factors In the wealt'i production of the people At the same time the Nebraskan does not wholly abandon his main pjalti'on. He has simply modified It, In the hope thereby of calming the storm of protest that is blowing fiercely against The football tailor Is cottoning to the heavy fall trade.

Mr. Bryan says President Roosevelt favors government ownership of Railroads jUst as much as he does. Mr. Boosevelt, however, finds it much less trouble to refrain from talking about It iMr. Gompers Is undertaking a big job when he tries to make an independent I voter out of a Republican officeholder who him from every Democratic quarter.

"If for sears has had his feet In the govern- rpgulatlon proves effective," says Air. ment trough want government ownership, but I warn you that it will come If regulation fails, and that, if It does come, you may hav i to make the experiment, unless you consider now a dual plan of State and Fed- and factories, 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 i lands eral ownership of all the railroads" 8 6 0 0 0 0 0 mining property, $5.000,000, There Is here a a prophecy. Cuba Railroad 118,000,0011. I The one Is aimed at the men and party Mieet rallwavs, IS 000 000. other real charged tilth the responsibility of enfore- estate and commercial Investments, ing existing laws, and the other is In- The loss of those 600 junks In the Ho: kong typhoon Tilll not prevent members of Congress from arranging junketing trips at government expense.

A number of universities are talking of reviving football and laying In a stock of remedies for reviving players. $1.500.000 The figures for 1904, the latest obtainable, show that the of the principal products -of the island amounted to divided into classes: Sugar, including' molasses, alcohol, and rum. S5252S.J07, tobacco, $30,000,000, ncapples 51,250,000, other fruits and $2,713,300. forest products, $3260.000, skins horns and hoofs, $1,600,000, -sponges and shells, minerals, $1 44C.OOO- Ten years earlier. In 1894, one year before the outbreak the revolution, the value of the prln- tended as a forewarning to his own partj or following that he will resume h's flght for government ownership just as soon as he may consider regulation to be a failure Thus Mr.

Brian does not dHorce his purpose from his conviction. He insists upon holding his following line for a battle royal over government ownership His partial recantation, therefore seems Intended only to attain one object, and one only, which Is that he would still the troubled waters with the oil of his eloquence just long enough to retain his laaderck 1 the Democratic party until The Connecticut tobacco crop will be the greatest in the experience of the State, so consumers of "Havana" cigars need not worry over the trouble in Cuba It looks as If Mr. Odell will find that this time the can has been attached for keeps. The author of "How to Avoid Alpine Accidents" has been killed by a fall In the Alps. Like a great many authors, lie evidently neglected to read his own book In preference to paying an Increase of taxes, Hetty Green has moved from Bellows Falls thus preventing Bellows Falls from raising -the wind.

Up to date 476 of The Post's exchanges have remarked that there will be nothing left of the Cuban revolution If Mr. Taft down on it, or words to that effect. There la still time for the others to spring that Joke. The new food regulations sanction 'pygmy sausages." To live right up to law. the dealers will probably give us less for oUr money.

After making and losing a fortune on Wall street before he was vwenty-two years old, a young New Yorker commit- 1 ted suicide a few days ago. He evidently forgot that there is hopa for a fool until he is forty. This government should see that steps are taken toward keeping irom Cuba a' much Information possible concerning the way they have been behaving In Atlanta lately At Buffalo Mr. Murphy is to learn whethev he Is noj? one of the small potatoes and few in a hill. The announcement that Gen.

Treppff died a "natural death" again brings up the question as to which death is not natural in Russia now Because she carried a dog, Lilian tlus- sell was denied admittance to a Chicago hotel. Thus Lillian demonstrates to her sisters that It Is neither neMssary to diamonds nor adopt slmpl'fl3d "pc'IIng to get Into the papers. After the President feels sufficiently rested and Is ready to take up his burden again, it Is possible that Ms Cabinet will be able to get a day or two off. The Democrats are, gathering at Buffalo this week, and the sound of the whetstone Is heard in the land. They have discovered a man named Obeli at Chicago.

This Is evidently the party whose name was taken in vain when the Democrats heard Mr views on government ownership of railroads. From now until election day the country will be overrun with vociferous, leather-lunged gentlemen who fondly Imagine no one is wise ty the fact that they are patriots for revenue only. Dr. Parkhurst has returned from Europe and New Yorkers will soon be able to judge whether his vocal organs have benefited by the rest. A THREE-FIGURE DIET.

"From Puneh. Zeltlln, ot Brooklyn, win has Jnst calibrated hla 101st birthday, all who wish to become centenarians to drink plenty ot good wine, beer, and whlaky. to eat what they like, and smoke all they want to "--Dally Express For many and many a year have I tied mi self Down to a diet supremely severe; Anything nice have I always denied myself, Though my soul hampered for Syrablte cheer. Thoughts of a ruined digestion affrighted me: Visions of premature funerals blighted me. So that I shrank from whatever delighted me, Natural longing o'ermastered by fear.

Through all the four seasons I studied prodigiously Chemical values of all kinds of fare; 1 fed by a formula, followed religiously, Weighing each, dram witH a scrupulous care. Though appetite tortured me, little I heeded It, Eating when science declared that I needed It Just the right exceeded it, When r-ad Hygela a pupil so rare? But somehow It happened, the more and more rigorous Grew my adhesion to health-giving laws, I found it was steadily growing less, vigorous, Daily 151 ew nearer, I thought, to Death's jaws. Gone was my youth, with Its pristine aglllly, Serves were a bundle of irritability Driving me fast Into sheer Imbecility, ringers and toes were as skinny as claws. But hark to the voice ot the hale centenarian Preaching a gospel of sugnr and spice! No longer Til linger, a pale vegetarian. Over milk puddings of sago and rice In, future I'll data to detest what's detestable Eating Voiaciously any comestible.

Inquiring If It Is digestible- Only considering whether it's nice. His Request. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger "I'm sorry I took the horse," said the captive, "but let's compromise this' If there's goin' to be any hang-in' done', let me do it." "Tou mean suicide?" asked the leader of tho lynching party. "No Suppose you allow me to hang my head with shame and let it go at that?" Valuable Household Hints. From the Bt Joseph News-Press Never allow the cook to wear her diamond ring while kneading bread.

The stone' will spoil flavor of the most carefully prepared bread. A little Portland cement added to oatmeal while It Is boiling will give It body. Gut glass should always be polished with sand paper. Do not fail tp clean the inside of the Incandescent lamp bulb. The odor of cabbage, onions, and many other vegetables, while being cooked, Is offensive to most persons, but It can be destroyed by coating tha stove with rub- REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New Tork Press. Warm weather raises the price of Ice, hut It doein't lower the price of coal. When a girl up her mind to marry a. man hla only chance to escape It Is to die. A good way for a man to aettle down Is to have his family come homo from the summer vacation There would bo some fun In building a.

hornS if yoo bad any idea what It was (olng to coat Ton REIGNING FAMILIES END DIFFERENCES Reconciliation and the settlement of family differences appears to be the order of the day among the reigning houses of Europe. King Edward's recent visit to Emperor William at Friedrichshof, near Homberg, has served to restore friendly relations between the courts of Berlin and St. James. The Countess of Hohenfelsen. the beautiful morganatic wife of Grand Duke Paul of Russia, is now received by tha members of the Imperial family of Romanoff visiting France as a near and dear relative, and Is to be seen everywhere at official and diplomatic entertainments at Paris, as well as at the great houses of the aristocracy.

And now there comes from Munich news of the friendliest meeting there between the Grown prince and Crown Princess of Germany and the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Oyrll of Russia, whioh goes to show that the boycott instituted by the various courts of Europe against the divorced Grand Duchess of Hesse for marrying her first cousin, the Grand Duke Cyril of Russia, in de- nance of the laws of the orthodox church and of the peremptory commands of the' Czar, has been abandoned. Until two or three weeks ago royal personages went out of their way to avoid the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Cyril In order to protect themselves from ariy unpleasantness with the court of at Petersburg, and on the occasion of the great automobile racea during the summer in Germany the committee in charge of the affair felt itself compelled to request Grand Duke Cyril to refrain from taklnj? part therein, on the ground that his presence would keen away all other royal and imperial personages. All this is now at and Grand Duke Vladimir, uncle the Czar, who iad refused to hold any Intercourse with fits eldest son and tha iatter's bride since their marriage, just a year ago, has now been to pay them a visit at the beautiful chateau where they are living. On the shores of the Tegernsee, in Bavaria. The Grand Duchess Vladimir had been her son's friend throughout.

But his father. Grand puke Vladimir, although he resented the young prlnee's'treatment by the Czar, nevertheless, refused until the other day to recognize the marriage or to meet either his son or the Iatter's bride. Lord Clifford Served with Ouster. Lord Clifford of phudlelgh, who, with Lady Clifford, has been entertaining Queen Natalie of Servla 'at Ugbrooke Park, his ancestral home in Devonshire, enjoys the unique distinction In the British peerage of being the great-grandson of a cardinal. Mrs.

FitzHerbert, now shown to have been the wife of King George IV, had been twice married previously, her first husband bavins been Col. Weld, of Lulworth Castle, In Dorset, and of Stonyhurst. At his death, without Issue, the property not to his, widow, but to his brother, 'Thomas Wells, and it was the Iatter's son, a nephew, therefore, of Mrs. FitzHerbert, who eventually inherited Lulworth Castle and Stonyhurst. Losing his wife, to whom he was passionately attached and who left him with a little girl, he entered holy orders, be, came a priest, and was created a cardinal In 1831.

bestowing Stonyhurst on the Jesuits, who established there one of the most famous of their scholastic institutions. The cardinal died In 1837, almost on the same day as the demise of his aunt, Mrs. FitzHerbert. His' daughter married Lord Clifford, grandfather of the present peer. Lord Clifford Is well known to America, and In the early '70's spent much time In the West with Gen.

Custer, with whom he enjoyed several severe brushes with the Sioux. He became a Warm friend of the young officer, who has now developed into Gen, Fred Grant, and was taken by him to the White House to be entertained by President Grant, of whosa, taciturnity he still speaks with amazement. The billiard-room and the great hall at Ugbrooke Park have their walls adorned with many trophies of the chaje from America. He read for the bar, but the late Lord Chief Coleridge refused to admit him on the ground that a peer of the realm could not be allowed to practice law. Curiously enough, It was this lord chief justice's eldest son and successor, the jpjresent Lord Coleridge, Who obtained a reversal of this ruling, In order to preserve his own lucrative practice at the bar.

hla father having left all his property to his second wife. The Saxe-Altenburg Succession, The old Duke of Saxe-Altenburg attracted attention last week to the tiny principality over which he reicns by granting an amnesty of the most extensive character in honor of his eightieth birthday. He is very popular In big restricted dominions, Is respected throughout. Germany, and has occupied his throne for exactly fifty-three years. His mar- rlaged having been childless, he will be succeeded on his death, wMch cannot Ibe far distant, by his brother, Prince Maurice, who is celebrated 1 as the most utterly blase man In Europe Everything has bored and he has been in the habit of staying in bed for weeks together, not because he was ailing, but purely and simply because, to use his own Words, there was "nothing worth getting up for." Thanks to the attention accorded to his creature comforts, and to the absence of all exertion, he.

has retained, to a marvelous degree, his health in his ago, 'and remarkably young looking for his years It is just possible that when his brother dies he may waive his rights to the throne in favor of his son, on the ground that It would be "too great a bore to reign." Lord and'Lady Rothes have at length taken possession of their ancestral home, known as Leslie House, In Flfeshlre, from which'they have be.en excluded ever since the accession of the earl to the family honors owing to the faot that his aunt, on dying, in 1886, had left to her widower, the Hon. George Waldegrave Leslie, the enjoyment and use of the place for the remainder of his days. Leslie House has been In the possession of the Leslie family for many centuries. Originally formed an immense quadrangle; but three sides were destroyed by fire in 1763, and It is the fourth wing that forms the present mansion, surpassing In size most of the country seats of the old Scottish aristocracy. It stands most picturesquely perched on the summit of a hill, with terraced gardens, down to the River Levan.

Among the treasures" and family relics preserved'at Leslie House are a dagger used by Norman Leslie, master-of Hothes, In assassinating Cardinal Bethune, and the magnificent sword of state carried by the Duke of Rothes at the coronation of Charles II. There is a picture of John, Earl of Rothes, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a. magnificent portrait of Rembrandt, by himself, In the village -of Leslie, situated on the estate, Js the old church mentioned in the ballad of ''A Country Wedding," written by King Jam'es of Scotland, who describes it as "Christ's Kirk on the Green," and it was this same monarch who planted most of the grand old beeches, hundreds of years old, which are a feature of the eitate. Lord Rothes may he described as the grand bootjack to the Crown of Scotland, having inherited the queer prerogative conferred upon one of his ancestors of pulling off the sovereign's boots on the return of his Or her majesty to their apartments on the conclusion of any state function or Scotland. married to the daughter and exceedingly wealthy Thomas Bdwarda, of Prlnknash Park, Gloucestershire, and Is very good looking, a fact which many people are disposed to ascribe to the circumstance that, like the equaUy well favored Marquis of Exeter, he has a strong strain of peasant blood in hW veins, his great-grandfather having been an Illiterate laborer.

George Gwyther, by name, employed in the gardens of the twelfth Earl ot Rothes, whose daughter. Lady Henrietta Leslie, fell in love with him, and at the age of sixteen contracted a secret marriage with him, which was not revealed until she succeeded to her father's estates and honors as a peeress of the realm in tier own right MARQUISE PE FONTHNOT. HEfcE INT A most forlorn-looking vagrant who was brought up before Judge Mullowny yesterday was informed by that judicial dignitary that he had "a hangdog appearance." "You look as tt you had lost all proper self-respect," said the judge. "I know you have been in some workhouse by a certain Indescribable atmosphera about you," And then, possibly to improve the ''vagV' opinion of himself, or possibly because, as the judge added, the man didn't seem to care what happened to him, he was given thirty days. "Whatever else may ba laia at the dqor of the schoolgirl of to-day, she can't be soli to be Impractical," said a Virginia matron who has been visiting friends In city.

"My friend has a seventeen- daughter who has been spending vacation with her parents, For sophistication she la ahead of any one I know. I telt myself a child in worldly wisdom beside her. "She is as pretty aa a picture, and when she sat on the front steps in the evening admiring glances were cast In her direction every time a man passed the l((iuse; "One young fellow was evidently hard nit it got go- he -would walk up and down front of the house half the evening and almost fall off the curbstone In his efforts to. look at the alr(, Finally, asked jier 11 she had noticed, hirn and If She knew bis name. 'Know his should she replied.

I've found out his name and he lives and where he borrows his Mr. who fives In the northwest section of the city, takes sudden strong likes and dislikes when ha has been for an evening wltb. the boys," and last Saturday night he came homa particularly doped. The flr-rt person, he saw when he neared hlfl own home was a young woman with whom his wife had a dispute, and he proceeded to tell her what he thought About an, hour later the youna" woman's nance heard of the matter, and, solng to Mr. MoM-'s house, demanded an apology.

After considerable forceful argument, Mr McM. decided to make reparation to the young wqman, and going; to her door made a most profound bo-sy and said: "I have come to apologize to you. Perhaps I did use some pretty strons language, and I am very sorry for It, but I want you to distinctly understand that I don't take back a word of. It." Two little Capitol Hill girls were play- Ing out in front of their bouse'Sunday, when one of them spied a wooly caterpillar. She called to her little friend: here here Is a 1 Hallle Inspected the worm thoughtfully and then remarked, with pronounced scorni "Dat ain't no wlrrum, dat's a piller case." "I think I rather got the test of a pompous looking colored individual," said an Indiana avenue cigar store proprietor to a Post reporter yesterday.

Relating the circumstance he remarked; "A darky who it -was evident considered himself of no Utcla consequence came into my place yesterday and aSked'ms if I could change a $10 bill 'for him, I counted out change for a note of that value, and before the exchange was made tha negro man said: 'Do you know that I am accommodating you very 'How said I. 'How are you accommodating -Why by relieving you of all those small Ulfls--that's how, 1 said 'the man, whereas the faot was that I was actually putting myself to Inconvenience him a favor. "I Just pushed back that plan's JlO bill and put the small notes tack into the dra-wer, and showed the darky how much he, was accommodating me. He went out, and if he had that note changed In this neighborhood, It was somewhere else than at my 1 "Never ring for a messenger In a government building, unless you're 'on to the ropes It's dangerous This is advice given by Treasury Watchmen, aind corroborated by the testimony of two women who were recent yls- itors in Washington While sight-seeing in the Treasury building, the visitors were left for a few minutes in Treasurer Treat's room, the messenger having been called away. It Was the noon hour, and the office was While inspecting a curious picture on the mantel In the room, their curiosity was aroused, and they looked about for a rnessenger who could explain It There was none in and the bolder one of the two decided to Sumnron a messenger by means of thf bell.

What was their surprise- a few minutes later hear hurried steps in ih.a corridors. 'Several -tyatchinen, bristling' with axms, suddenly appeared on the threshold, entered, and examined the room Finding nothing suspicious, they turned to the women for an explanation. The latter, in turn, were dumfounded until- they were informed that they had sounded a special alarm they thought they were calling for a messenger. Mutual explanations and apologies were in order, and after the excitement had subsided, one of the women showed her colors by Insisting that a member of the Invading explain the photograph in question, The Presiaential Election. propi the Smyrna (Asiatic Turkey) Journal.

It is announced on authority of a telegram fjfttjn New Tork that Mr. Roosevelt will not be a candidate -lor the Presidency of the ttnlted States In 1908. Mean- A hlle, the Democrats are active, they have already chosen their candidate in the person of Mr. Bryan, who very recently vlsjted this c(ty. The Republicans have not as yet put forward apy name, they probably are holding to the that Mr.

Roosevelt will reconsider his decision. Especiallj remarkable for hostility to the President are the trusts, which have just spent Incredible sums to make Mr Roosevelt'3 uandidacv fall, in case he should be nominated, and to encourage, on the contrary, that'of Mr. Bryan, who enjoys their sympathy. Strong'influences are being brought to bear upon Mr. Roosevelt to cause him to be the candidate In 1908; Tut it Is not known whether he will, permit Himself to be Influenced Whatever may happen, the campaign which will soon begin will be interesting to watph, chiefly to see If it will show whether the trusts really have the power that is to them, and.

consequently. whether trey can Impose their will upon thp nation. Washington Post announces that if Mr. Roosevelt persists In declining to run for Ihe Presidency of the United I States, the Republicans will put forward the name of Mr Joseph Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives at Washington. This news doubted by the New York papers, for, they say, Mr Cannon is seventy years old and consequently can have neither the energy nor activity needed by the Chief Executive of tha United Atlanta and New York.

From Philadelphia The Atlanta riot is the most deplorable exhibition of race ferocity and savagery that this country Has seen for many years. Perhaps the closest analogy is the draft riot in New Tork City during the civil war, when the mob, on the pretense of opposing the draft, attacked the ne- groes wherever they were, and even carried their malignity so far as to attack and destroy an asylum for colored orphan children. PEOOBESS 07 THIS JTATIOIT. Vice' President Fairbanks' Topic at Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs, Sept.

2Ej-- The formal exercises of -Pioneer Day. the second in the Pike centennial celebration weak, were conducted In tha open air at Stratum Park, at the entrance to the famous Cheyenne Canyon. The speakers ait this meeting -were Gen. Frank Wall, and Judge Wilbur F. Stone, of Denver.

Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks was to have delivered an address later in the Grand Opera House, but the auditorium could accommodate only a small number of those who gathered to hear him, and the meeting was held in Acacia Park. There the Vica President spoke to 10,000 persons, and was given an ovation. Following an eulogy of Pike and the explorers of the West, Mr. Fairbanks said: "The century which has elapsed since the expedition which we celebrate, has given a tremedous Impulse to the cause of Republican and our Institutions, which were feeble and viewed with much distrust a century ago, have grown wonderfully In strength and In the confidence the world T-hey have successfully withstood assaults made upon them, and have Increased in strength with each attempt to overthrow them.

The perils through which we have passed have intensified the people's love for them and their willingness and purpose to guard and defend them to the -utmost We say without any spirit of vainglory that our Institutions can stand against the world without, and no disintegrating Influence within can affect their essential soundness "We hear much said of vice and corruption, much of the, subtle enemies of the State and social order, fcut the great heart the people is as sound and 1 corruptible to-day as any hour in all of our matchless history. The conscience of the people has not been seared. Pure materialism has not achieved the mastery. All of the forces which make for the Intellectual, and moral and the social advancement of the people were never more powerful and never in fuller play than thay are to-day. Honor among men was never more regarded, and dishonorable practices, either In public or private life, were never more' abhorred then they are to-day.

There has 3been upon every hand a demand that those who hold place and power shall be clean men, and that they shall consecrate themselves completely to the utmost advancement of the TO SUCCEED LTTTATTER. Cyrus Dtiray, State Committeeman, Nominated in Republican District. Representative Llttauer, of New Tork, on Saturday carried out his threat to retire from Congress, In spite of the desire of his colleagues to have him continue his service in tha House. At the Republican convention of the Twenty- fifth New "York Congressional district, comprising the counties of Saratoga, Hamilton, Warren, and Montgomery, hejd In the village of Saratoga, he nominated as his successor Cyrus Durey, the postmaster of Johnstown, In Mr. Littauer's own county.

Mr. Duray was unanimously chosen as the Republican candidate for Representative from, the district, although there had been many eager aspirants. The Gloversvllla Herald, a Democratic paper in the district, says plaintively: "Mr. Durey'has the ability and fitness '0 make a most creditable representative, and as long as the district is apparently hopelessly -Republican, it Is be ieved no better selection could have been made The candidate for Mr. Littauer's seat Is Republican State committeeman for the Congressional district, and has been Mr Littauer's right hand in polities for many years.

In, his nominating speech at Saratoga, Mr Littauer said of him: "Before I entered public life he was figlitlng at the battlements of Republicanism. During all these years he has been our leader Never once has he ted us to defeat. He'ts not a forward Individual --oust a self-possessed, quiet man, Investigating every principle before he acts." Durey is forty-two years old His father was an Englishman, his" mother of Dutch extraction, daughter of a cousin of President Van Buren. He Is president and manager a large Adirondack lumber company. LABOR'S WAE OK CAJWOW.

PEOPLE MET IN HOTEL LOBBIES. Dr. Hubert Battler, of Leipzig, Ota "VTOlard for a short time, has Just ed from India and China, whera ha gave some attention to the methods adopted In the treatment of diseases, especially tha bubonic plagne. "In Calcutta," said Dr. Battler, "the English government has adopted thorough means of fighting tha plague, and" but little of it is found there.

The population of Xndls, is not of a migratory character, and it is not. therefore, very difficult to regulate sanitation in the houses of the natives, where sanitation is vitally essential In fighting these diseases. Thjs year there was scarcely any evidence of tha plague, and wharever it was found the presence of English physicians and the prompt use of modernf methods reduced the danger 'to a minimum. It Is very hot In Calcutta, sid the hospitals there are constructed of llglit material with big windows and abundant light and ventilation. "In Canton I witnessed the methods In vogue In the Chinese hospitals where the bubonic and other dangerous diseases are treated.

There were many coses of the plague there, and this condition of things will continue so long as the medical treatment Is of the primitive character I witnessed. The hospitals are sueh ft uama only. It was ridiculous to ft medical man visiting one of these so-called Institutions, and in place of the familiar Instruments and appliances and proper medicinal paraphernalia, to see a lot little pots sitting about tin rooms containing- assortments of herbs, woioh the Chinese cure-alls. "With the exception of one or in this eountry, the German methods of maintaining the public health are better than anywhere In the world. istratlon of the laws for the promotion of health In New Tork is good, and the streets, always a menace.

Are kept clean; but so iquch cannot be sold for all tha large cities of this country. recogntas, of course, that conditions are here from those In Germany. you have a strong centralized government, measures con be enforced that would oon- rlict with the powers of the respective States over here. Tou do not permit anything that partakes of the nature of paternalism; but paternalism Is a very good thing at times, when rightly directed." Dr. Harvey Wiley, the purs-food expert-of the Agricultural Department and 'foe of tha food adulterer, said last night at the New Willard that he had returned from the meeting of the commission in New York, that was formulating' the regulations for the enforcement of the new law.

satisfied with what had been accomplished, and confident that' the law wotild be a boon to the American people. "When we first took up this subject with the food manufacturers and others, interested In this law In New Tork City," said Dr. Wiley, "the manufacturers were Inclined to be a little stubborn, but before we adjourned they looked at the case quite differently, and. acted with ua In endeavoring to reach proper conclusions upon whteh to base the regulations through which the pure-food law will be 'enforced. It did not take much time for the members of the commission to convince those interested that It intended "to do the fair and equitable thing with all concerned, and when these gentlemen became convinced of this, we got along very nicely together.

"The regulations, probably, will be formulated by the first of October. This new law Is bound to be a benefit to tha public, morally and physically. It will be beneficial morally in that it will promote honesty, and force the manufacturer to give the consumer that far which he pays. Veal will no longer be sold as choice potted turkey, for Instance. Whila the veal may be just as delicious a morsel as the other, the" marl who buys It is entitled to get that which he thinks he is getting.

The new law wilf require the manufacturer to name tha Ingredients of his products, and the use of deleterious substances for preserving or coloring Is prohibited. In this way the public health Is benefited. The pure-food law will be a Godsend to babies, for of alt classes of- persons babies have suffered most by being fed upon Impure and adulterated Samuel Gompers in Chicago Assails the Speaker in Interview. to The Washington Post. Chicago, Sept, 25-- President Samuel Gompers.

of the American Federation of Labor, came to Chicago declaring political war on Speaker Joseph Cannon and intimating that he looks with favor on the progressive alliance movement as the local political kite for organized labor. While the leader of the united labor forces would not express himsejf on the local situation, he kept close to J. D. Pierce, organizer for the Federation, wno Is a moving spirit in the alliance propaganda. The labor chief did not hesitate to attack Speaker Cannon In a caustic Interview.

Mr Gompers said he had nof decided whether he would personally Invade the Cannon district and take the stump, but left no doubt that organized labor would turn its batteries loose in an effort to defeat the Speaker for re-election. GEN. M'COOE DT HOSPITAI. "If the labor question can ever be satisfactorily settled for the Southern people," said James R. Gardner, of Charlotte.

"the cotton that Is raised in the South be manufactured there. Alr.ea.dy weffiave many large mills, and are turning out some of the finest cotto.a goods in the country, but the labor problem Is always with us. The colored man will never! make an operative In a. colton mill, and: the Northern man. skilled in the work of the loom, prefers not to come to our Southern climate.

We must divert Immigration to our part of the country. The cotton workers of Europe now naturally drift to New England, and their 5om them there This has built up the large cotton Industry of New England as much as the investment of New England capital the enterprise. In the South We have plenty of money that can I be invested, and Northern capital Is anxious to construct more mills If we can secure the labor. Some of the men Interested this business have been giving It careful study, and they believe existing conditions will soon be overcome. Tho Southern cotton crop, with Its seed, today represents- $700,000 000, and this cotton keeps almost 100,000,000 spindles going, or three-fourths of all those operated In the world With such a supply of the raw product, why should not the South build up Its cotton mills and add still more to the industrial activity that Is stirring the whole Southern country?" CaValry Commander, Suffering Hhefenatfsai, in Ciarify Ward.

Chicago, Sept up in a little ward of the Baptist Hospital witn three other patients, Gen. Edwin McCook, commander of the cavalry division in the "march, to the sea," and for eight years governor of the Territory of Colorado, is suffering the tortures of inflammatory Racked with pain and helpless, the famous commander Is dependent on the fraternal help which h's old army comrades give: but he is far from despondent over his tria's For six weeks the general has been confined to the hospital ward He is sevents three years old His right eye Is ghttes-j and his right arm useless; but he Is still buoyed up with the Indomitable courage and the fire that carried him to the- head of Sherman's cavalry in the '60 Gen. McCook is the son of Dr Jojm MoCook, a brother of former Congressman McCook, of New Tork, and a nephew of Maj Daniel McCook, who sent eight sons to the Union army, three of whom were killed, while four of them attained the rank of general Maj McCook himself was tiled In battle, by Morgan's guerrillas. Scared Both of Them. from the Law Kates When Mr.

Justice Maule was on the bench a bullying counsel was one day browbeating an elderly female witness a case before him. Having badgered her Into a state of utter soeechlessness. I the lawyer appealed to the judge to make 1 her answer his questions. "Why do you not answer, madam?" asked the judge. "Because, my lord, he scares me so," replied the trembling woman.

"So does he ma'am," said the judge Worship a Deux SVom Harper 1 Weekly i When Dean Swift was called to the living of Loracor, he inaugurated the custom of reading prayers on Wednesday and Friday. At the first Wednesday service he waited In vain for any one to appear ex- i cept bis Clerk Roger At length he be( jraij, "Dearly beloved Roger, the. Scrlp- movetri you and me In sundry places," and so proceeded to the end of the service. New Harvard Buildings Dedicated. Boston, Sept.

25 --An event of unusual interest was the dedication to-day of the magnificent new buildings of the Harvard Medical School The exercises we'e to he held on the terrace in front of the administration building, on Longwood avenue, in the Fenway. This group of beautiful white marble miuo'ings is the largest single addition to the resources of Harvard in the history of the university. Montana Democrats in Session. Butte, Sept. 25 --The State Democratic convention was called to order here to-day by former United States Senator H.

L. Frank, chairman of the State central committee. After the election of Edwin Norris, of- Beaver Head County, as temporary chairman and the appointment of the usual committees, the convention took a recess. Ambassador Tower in New York. New Tork, Sept.

25--Charlemagne Tower, American Ambassador to Germany, was a passenger on the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, -which arrived to-day from Bremen. Something to Learn. From the Philadelphia Press "Tes. Markley came In for a fortune the other day. He's actually got more money now than he knows what to do nith." "Tes, there are certain people who wrfl be anxious to meet now and 1 after that he'll know more." Crushing.

From the CMcago Daily News "I have come," thundered the deputy sheriff with the subpoenas, "to serve the papers The multimillionaire looked up from his favorite dish of cheese and wafers. "We don't need any papers," he said, blandly, "we already have a newsboy." Explained. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger i "I think," said the reporter, "that the public would l.ke to know how you managed to Hie to such a great age." "By perseverance," replied the cente- nanan. "I lest kept on livln'," True BUI from the South. From the Porto Review The magazines for September are here.

They are, as usual, entertaining and instructive, but some of those old pictures of the same old actresses are becoming a trifle monotonous-.