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lie SJnte riah DAILY AND SUNDAT. Entered veeond-claea matter July 27. 1903. at the poatoflh-e at Chicago. Illinois, under I he act of March 8.

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Waahlngion Offlce 31 Wjatt building. In a Nutshell The Republican county convention point--, with pride to: The Ity Kael Graft. The klraaa Klre Awpltaare Steal, Tkr oaaaalana Koaaary Kraad. The- Shale Roek. Swindle.

The irril mrtmy of Bae daaraiat thieves nk (Ol away nlth the aaoary. Mot lot -alkiac too hot or too heavy for Tlie Democratic views with akirm: rountv convention The I Ity Karl Ciraft, Ike kirac r'lre Aliaaee Steal, The rauanalaass r'oaadry Kraaal. The Shale Raek Saaiaalle. The arral aray of Basse alooranat thieves a ho not away with the auaaer Naltai lara the rawala oat: Forrrasl I he Inter Orran: I nirt thousand mocratic majority in Cook count on Nov. What About New York? Some days since we printed a letter from a reader asking about the political situation in New York, the state in -which tin- issues of the Regular and the Insurgent Republic)! will Ik- passed on next.

A New York Sim correspondent ha-s leeii traveling over the Republican coiiu'ie 'ui state" for several weeks, taikiui; vviMi the district ami county leailers. He has extended his in-tiiiris personally to the Republican their homes. A- the is neither for Roosevelt nr for his opponents in the contest for control, we may assume that the correspondent's instructions were t. tell the truth plainly. He has done so.

We have seldom seen political surveys whose ca mlor a nd sin-ct-rilv were so visiblv impressed upon heir What first and continuously impresses this observer in the counties that provide Republican majorities for Me.v York s(at. is that the "political plant" is "struck." The-itsiral tioiis for the ctinpatgu are not making, hands have walked out. and the publican mill is idle in September for the first time in many years." Organization for "getting out the vote" has ceased, ami those usually interested are doing nothiiig. The next thing is that the leaders of "tlie old guard" frankly admit that they have their backs to the wall that they are not righting for victory but for party control and for the restoration of party discipline. They are going to try to win at the state convention, but, win or lose there, they do not expect the party to win in November.

They are not fighting for today or tomorrow, but for such time as they regain control or are driven out of politics altogether. Thr do not say that if Roosevelt I boaten tbe slate may be aved; tbey all say the atate is lost: tbey mean to save tbe party organization in Republican regions to reiain control of tbe Legislature, and to let the storm blow over. The factional struggle in New York apears to differ from most factional struggles in that it seems to rest on such convictions as by their difference ami fixity would ordinarily make two distinct parties. For about ten years old ideas of party solidarity have been weakening. The apparently popular and increasingly successful way to preferment has been to attack party leadership and organization.

Instead of party work, self-advertisement has been the profitable investment. Of course the "boss" and the "machine" were not eliminated by this new svstem. They were expected to do the work and deliver the majority as usual, but having delivered it they were regarded as proper targets for abuse by the lxneficiary. to his own greater glory. The men who have been doing the work sip)car to have made tip their minds that either they will end this system or force it to end them.

They seem to be quite as "uncompromising as Mr. Roosevelt himself could profess to desire. Tbey are determined to fight a certain kind of politics In every form it appears and nntil it baa disappeared. All tbts Is a statement of tbeir case as ther preeeet It. but at least It bangs together.

If you accept tbe statement of "the old gnard" of its oarn case tbe thing is admirably coherent and logical. As for the other faction, queerly enough, it also predicts Republican defeat. A few Insurgents aflirm that "new leadership" would mean victory. But most of them expect defeat anyhow. In.

the typical Republican county of Genesee the burden of the talk of two-thirds of the farmers was that "the time has come- for a change" "it is time to clean bouse "I shall vote for any good These are the sort of men who two years ago proclaimed that ther would refuse to support the Republican ticket If Governor Hughes were not renominated. Today they make no conditions. They are simply convinced that "It is time there was a change" and "it is time the Republican These lifelong Republicans. of a typ- j. ..4 .1 4 jvuuij uv Atrm auua becanae they love -what i called "the old guard." On- the eontraryy the Barnes-Wadsworth-Woodruff control Is visiblv dialiked bv them.

But then so is the "new nationalism, gospel 6j 2'23'0' JjJ I I I Roosevelt. Governor liughes; many wished they could hare chance to vote for him again. But they were equally clear that Roosevelt "goes a little too far" that hia recent speeches are "too extreme." As. one put it. leaning- on his atone wall, pitchfork in hand: I have voted for Rooaevelt for every office tor wbieb be has been a candidate: bat be baa had every office the American people can give him.

and 1 think he ought to atep aside. Add to these pictures and what they show the fact that it is not the Democrats of these Republican counties that are talking' about Mayor Gaynor for (iovernor but the Republican local era. and we get an idea why no variety -k'w rk Republicans eems to expect that the Republican party is poing I to win anyhow, and why the prediction I is so fxrejy York will followithe example of Maine, and that thin is srv rn sr rt'r "another Fola-er yea Here's Lillian Russell's Great 7 K'r Chance! Lillian Russell, it is stated, wilt appear before aselect Bridie nee from the Chi-caco dressmakers convention nest Thursday Ind not lecture on the st.bjecrtaf WitdreM. but also exhibit i he method of getting in and out of these creations." We rise to surest that Lillian could irain the undying- pratitiide of the male sex in Ibis vicioitv by irivinir the exhibi tion of start? auick-chanee methods be fore the largest audience of ladies that can be assembled. She really ourht not tc confine this valuable instruction to a few jirofessiona I tlressma kers.

When we consider the joy that she I could scatter in housa ntls of homes.tbe bliss with which she could fill thousands of be a lix. the irritation, the waiting, the glove-plucking, the finiersbitii she prevent by teachinLT the ladies in general how to dress rapidly, it ecm ilmost a crime for her to neglect the -pport unit v. Think how unspeakably loielv it would lie if every woman were a master of tbe stage art of changing one's dress it. a j'rTy and returning to the spotlight with a glad smile, wit bout a race of ef- fort! "Oh. by the way.

my dear! Let's go to the hea ter tonight. You have five 'minute. to dress in. tan you make it?" That would be all the husband would have to a That naturally seems at this moment a dream too bright, too beautiful, to be true. Long experience, coupled with a ignorance of the real mysteries of the female toilet, has caused men to accept this delay in "coming down as an unavoidable custom.

I he idea hat it could tie dispensed it has- frequently i'i cu rretl. it haw no doubt been suppressed as too revolutionary to be i ned. Rut now that Lillian Russell ha ca lied attention lo the fact that a change of cost me ca be quickly effected, a nd has pi ofesj-etl a iHiugness to Uiou Just how it can be done without displacing the smile or anv other portion of the fea- res. this long-suppressed, hardly ac- 1 U.Ut coir i i some chance for a regular schedule on tl. eater, opera and-divers other nights given to public appearance, inevitably bubbles np.

Here is Ullian Russell's great chance I to enohrine herself deathlessly in the bi som of a large percentage of the meu included in tJie i.l Will she take it or will she ftolishly reject it? Where Social Ostracism Might Help. It is a real entertainment to observe how certain magazine writers and edit- i 1 nrti i ri i nnfi nui iih ii i i ii inr tir eK of snv thev need asThe basis i for a homily on the truth of any proposition that they have set out to prove true. Of such is the editor of the independent. This editor has evidently preserved in some out-of-the-way corner of his brain what President Hadley said some time ago a4xut social ostracism as a piiDishment for commercial criminals; and when the Hamilton club incident arose he saw a chance to utilize it. Whereupon he proceeded to assume that Mr.

Lorimer is everything that those who know him know he is not everything that the evidence and the sw orn verdict of a jur3" show he is not and to find in tbe Hamilton club incident a beautiful and commendable in stance of "punishment by social ostracism." "Now Mr. Lorimer had not been convicted," says this professional moralist; "but when it was proved that the Democratic votes that had elected him had been got by purchase he made scant defense. They got the money and he got the office. It was not difficult to pu two and two together and conclude that he was responsible for this damnable corruption." The fact that it hadn't been proved at all that the Democratic votes that elected him had been bought that thecxact opposite had been proved as far as the question had ever been passed on rdidn't even gLe this professional moralist panser'fleneedea that" sort of proof for literaiy and'taroral purposes, and he blithely assumed it. He goes on in the stt me virtuous style to say that the "delegation of the Ham-ilton-clib was amazed at his Mr.

Roosevelt's refusal to sit with an unconvicted Chicago was aghast. Bnt thei have been surprised? he.iipqqireswUiVannocent candor. Why, Again-the airy assumption that the gentleman was a briber because some enemy had said he was, or possibly because he was unconvicted, or because, perhaps, the jury the only body of men to whom the evidence had been presented fully and connectedly 'under oath most emphatically declared there hadn't been any bribery. It certainly beats all how these. per-sens who act themselves up as ethical advisers- to tbe -nation go on the theory that their self -imposed functions exempt them from all the ordinary obligations with respect to troth and fairness that men admit.

A butterfly Is a light and airy but not so light and airy a the careless assumptions these gentlemen make whenever the spirit mores them. It strikes us that if ostracism is really the. means of reform Professor Hadley, Mr. Roosevelt and the editor of the Independent aeem to think it is, it i THE INTER OCEAN, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 21, lOlET could bevery properly employed In the case of people -who always assume the had, even in toe face of all the facts. Now Watch the Uplifters.

The Btlsse-Denecn county convention has approved and" indorsed the littsse gang in the city not excepting Rcdleske, "Billy- Coleman Erickson, Han berg and the departed Harry Smith. That Mas to be expected. That la what everybody has known all along The big rats naturally stand by the lit tie rats who fetch and carry for them. The Republican party of Cook county, to the shame of every decent Republican and the disgust of every honest man. is now officially committed to approval of ail the crimes exposed by The Inter Pecan, proved by the Merriam commission, and corroborated by tbe Citizen' association.

It approves and indorses everything that all the pro fessed Uplifters in politics hereabouts say and say truly is "corrupt govern- Iient." Now let tbe people watch the Uplift- era. Let them keep their eyes fixed, on the City club, the Municipal Voters league, the Legislative Voters league and the Uplift press. Let the people watch the Uplifters. For before a campaign gun is fired or a wheel turned The Inter Ocean stakes its reputation for veracity upon the prediction that the Uplifters will be found, as a class, in the coming cam paign not merely excusing the Basse thieves but voting for them and pulling off their coats and working, to "vindicate" them. We have often commented on tbe irurtr alliance of professed Puritans aJid known blacklegs exists in this city.

Some people are still reluctant to believe it. Let the people generally and the doubters particularly watch the Uplifters between now and election day and they will see the Puritan-blackleg combination working shoulder to shoulder for the Busse-Deneen county ticket. atch and see! Why Mme. Cavalieri Was So Frugal. The proprietor of a well-known New York cafe sued "Sheriff Bob" ha tiler for the price of two little dinners eateu by the defendant and Mme.

Lina Cavalieri. Kre yet tbe harder fortuoe goes to the other side, if go it must, this genial host wan to his ei.lS for a little dinner on May 7. 1'JtW. and his $7.06 for the re past on Nov. 17 of the same year.

And he will have it, if there is law in tbe land. One wanders through the menu attached as exhibit with a certain interest. "If a chorus girl eats lobster, what does a prima douna eat?" Is the way th- questiou presents itself. Here is he answer: On the night of May 7. according to the bill, Mint.

Cavalieri's marvelous so prano was carrying a ballast of one cocktail, white wiue, mineral water, hors d'ocuvrtrs. consomme, filet of beef la Krnnenise. Ismb steak. French peas, spaghetti, cordial, I'ilsener beer, raw apple, i I in IK vear the rl.ur and liquid bird notes ere bandica pped ji a simjjar, jthougb j-athrrlighjer. menu.

I his imicii trie Nrvv.iorK uis-patch vouchsafes us. But nothing save the final apple is specifically mentioned Now. it is a fact easily verifiable that l'a chorus girl and a young man hose idra great dinner is to buy "wipe" which always means champagne, of course could ami do very easily and frtqiiently exceed the comparatively modest sums in the recovery of which feelinsrs nre so deeply engaged. Whence is" qtion Why this extraor. dinary frugality on tne part of a prima donna? There may be several explanations.

Hut the one which most readily presents itself is that Mme. Cavalieri. even-at that early stage, did not want Robert Winthrop hanler to spend too much of her prospective money. She possibly regartlcd him very much as the man with a reversionary interest regards the tenant for life as one -to be prevented from wasting ot injuring the value of the estate. These bills will no doubt fill "Sheriff Hob" with bitter memories.

They will be gentle reminders of the time when he nad everything his own way. at least with his private income. They will speak of the halcyon season when Mme. Lina had not vet revealed that $20-a-Iiiont h-aMowance propensity! As for the Xew York restaurant proprietor who wants his money and will not le comforted without it, he may console himself with the thought that it might have been ever ko much worse if Mnie. ''avalieri had not been so rugalij with her prospective property.

Dickens and a Self-Styled Critic. It would be worth six months of one's life to see what Impression would be made by "Pickwick Papers" if xhey bsd never been published before, but were to appear as a new book today. Doubtless tbey would find a very large audience but tbe unmaking seems rstber crude to a reader of any refinement of tast today, and rstber mild as well as crude. Contrast tae humor of "Tartsrln of for Instance, or "Tartarin on tb Alps." Perhaps tbe close approach of "Pickwick Papers" to literary vulgarity has bad much to do wltb their appeal to "tb whole world." New Tork Times Review of Books. The man who wrote these lines probably styled himself a critic.

Critics of tbe real aort are admirable folk, possessed of catholic intelligence, broad both of mind and Bat such self-styled critics lack the of thought and feeling which it takes to make a man tfuly intelligent, and. seeking notoriety, they try to win It by appearing different at any costs, by rushing into print with statements that they deem origins 1 and are mostly silly, -J this self-styled critic has'made a statement nothing less than silly when he asserts that the funmsklng of "Pickwick Papers does "seem rather crude to a reader of any refinement of taste today, and rather miid as well aa crnde A critic' stupidity conld hardly go much farther. There is not a doubt that the two Wellers, Pickwick, Jingle, Job, the- widow and the red-aosed man are personages destined alwaya to dwell in the realm of truest bnmor, to fetch tbe-bcart'a laughter, just as long as there ill be an English language in the world. And there ii nol a doubt that tbeir worth as mlrth-evokers reats upon their true-to-lien'ean. their humanity -Boca use is, "Pick wick Pa pers" is quit sure to live, even if all the rest of Dickens' masterpieces forgot -which is not probable.

We do not mean to aay that Dandet'a "Tartsrln" and hia "Lett res Jkfon Moulin" are not exquisite works of happy bnmor. Xo, They are. indeed. But while it true that tbey are different In style and manner from -the tales of Dickens their merit, in Its difference, does not detract from Both the Englishman and the Frenchman have a right to our applause, to immortality stand hand in band. There is no call for a comparison.

A qualified crltio broad of thought and broad of feeling1 understands Dickens and Dandet almost equally and pays to them the tribute utiles and cordial laughter with impartial love. It is left to self-styled critics who. forsoofh, are no critics at all to assert: "The close approach of 'Pickwick Papers to literary vulgarity baa had much to do with their appeal to the whole world. We read in the Record-Herald that when oneof its reporters carried word of the bomb explosion at Freiberg's dance hall to Maj-or Busse the mayor asked: "Where is Freiberg's dance The mayor will be asking next of a Record-Herald reporter the location of the city ball. The Ttepublican county convention "points with pride'to tbe Bunne administration.

The Democratic county convention "views with alarm the same ag gregation of thieves. We know what w-ill hsppeu in November the only thing that we are not sure aibout is the size of the Democratic majority. here, in the Btisse-Deneen platform, is the resolution reaffirming confidence in the statute of limitation? STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE. A Dry Weather Morse. Jacob Hope, the animal expert of Philadelphia.

as talklnc about animal fakers. "There was a Masayunk ansa." ha said, "bo wasted a piebald borsa. He visited a dealer np la tb Blocks aad tha dealav tbe next day produced a beautiful piebald half cream aad balf black tbst tba man bought at a stiff price. "But the Ax st time he drove his new par-chase la tba park a. rain cans np aad tbs pots washed off.

Tb bora wasn't piebald after all. "Tb rasa drov straight to lb dealer's again. 'Look at that said. Tba rala baa taken all tba spots 'Good gracious. said tb dealer, 'so It has.

There was a rubber blanket went with the animal, sir. Did I forget to give you a rubber blanket "Washington Star. A Strtklaa lllaatrolloa. A. Scottish psrsoa.

remarkabla for tb simple force of bis pulpit tyl. was enlarg ing on Sunday upon the text. Except repent shall all Hkewls pariah." "Tea. my friends." urged ho'with solemn earnestness, "aniens ye repent ye sbsll ss surety deftly Dlaclna bis left fore finger on tb wing of a bluebottle fly that nad just alighted wpoo tb reading desk tb while tb parson's right band was uplifted! "Just as surely, aa, any frieads. I Batten tbia poor By." But before tbe threatened blow descended tbe fly got away, whereupon tba minister further "Improved tbe occasion" with ready it.

exclaiming. "There's a cbaac for yet. my friends!" London Cecaa. Tkt Ptrwoas float tea of Fallow. Sir Henry-Hawkins was one presiding over a long, tedious and uninteresting, trial, aad was listening' apparently wHh great atten tion to a vary, long-winded star orb from a learned counsel.

After a wbll he mad a peacll memorandum, folded It aad sent It by tbe as her, to tb Queen's coasaal la question, who. unfolding tb paper, found these words: "Patience competition. Gold med al. Sir Henry Hawkins. Honorable men tion.

Job." Argument. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. The laaoraeoto aaat Tariff. a To the Editor. What do tb Insurgents meaa by tariff revision Do tbey kaowT Why all this bullyragging of Preaident Taft about bis so-called aurreoder aad bis Winona speech? When be said tbe present tariff bill Is Che best under tbe circamstances.

he doubtless spoke tbe truth; did aot say It Is perfect, as tb Insurgents tell us. His efforts to have a commission te lavestlgste tbe question is proof of tbst. The Insurgents sre determined to force bis hand, to make bim play, for tbe sake of the party, a lot of silly cards. He knows tbey are silly bat tbey have to be played to save these asm asinine Insurgents. Tbey are busy making; him concede some silliness tbey.

have failed to see the Urge blsck Democratic cloud poking up over tbe political bartsoa. Efforts on all sides to discredit tbe President, who ls notwithstanding, evidently safe sad (sb aad honest. Tbe Idea that a Congress could tske the scores of schedules In tbe tariff bill and revise them all In three months Is eminently absurd, and- every thinking maa, aot a professional politician, knows It. Admitting tbst many Schedules are wrong. I would as soon believe tbe who ssys tbey sre right ss the one who ssys they are wrong.

Neither of them knows: tbst's evident. Perhaps the commission will in tlma be able to throw som real llgbt.on tbe question. If tbe free traders will provide tbe funds to run-this-government without tariff, tbey will, make the first rest move toward lower or no JJrilT. Tbe law of compensation Is ss certain as the law of gravitation, and may be depended upon to equalise things, high tariff, low tariff or no tariff. J.

KEEN'E. Burlington, lows. Sept. 19. oaa Raaleal Reaaarka oa Roosevelt.

To the Editor. It Is truly refreshing to nee the flood ot letters tbst are pouring in upon Tb Inter Ocean In condemnation of that greatest of American hlowhards. Theodore RoosevelU As people continue to learn of his true tnwsrdness. so increasing, thousands will rise for bis condemnation. Not caries; on fig mo-e tor tbe man than for any other American or foreign citlsen.

I made bold some time ago to call for a "National Anti-Roosevelt League." tbst would work by every legitlmste process for tb political sequestration of Roosevelt forall Urn to com. On such as be In a century Is For tb sequestration ot Roosevelt we wsnt a full expression- of tb people. There are enough able acd fesrless writers la tbe country to silence Roosevelt on every point he raise. On of who two years sgo dropped bis pen because of fallnr to get published la th papers, now writes tbst he must take It up again, and be Is seeklosjcsp-Ital and brains to start sa antt-Rooserelt paper. A' writer aad publisher la th mlddl West and another oo tb Pacific coast art also calltng'upoa to gstber toeetber the names of all ants-Roosevelt that mar unit, aad present tb would-b dictator wltb a squarer seal than be has ever dealt out himself.

It is folly sad soplseseso-to say that Rooaevelt is th braves maa wisest fAmericana Two men In th-e country at least have shown a little backbone toward Roosevelt. Tbey wer Mayor Seld! of Milwaukee aad the poor little Aadersoa of Fargo. Both these mea showed. In their measnra, a moral coarse wMcb som In higher positional wowld do well to enralat. Roosevelt boasts of bis square deal for tb common clttsrss Why did he hot glv It.

Instead of tb physical deal, to tb Itttl Aadersoa? Her Roosevelt is parsdlotr over tb cons-try boasting of what will do with the "crooks" of every variety. What did- do NOTES 2 Now, having become accustomed te scientific welry, ara effr4 tha Imitation epigram also. la aa unusually heavy display at Powers' theater this wask, moreover, ta th fare -comedy presented by Ulllaa RusselL Tha author la Charlotte Thompson, aad bar work of nttlag a tbem to Its peculiar purpose has ba don wclL Th fabric Itself Is exasperating la Us absurd diatom aad touchy situations, hot Its brilliancy Is avr to be forgotten; for so well has th halo been adjusted to th display tha th actual gem could aot ba found aaily among th collectioa by an expert. Thr may have ba two real epigrams daring the course of all th talk and all the pert repartee. They have long sine passed Into th Umbo of forgotten things, but tha glsdsom memory of th two remains ta chr.

Of th rest of this "la Search ot a Sinner" iittl abides In mind except th story. This story deals with a wldowwbos ntter wsarlsess of th perfection ot hr formr spouse's character has become a mania. Sb decides that aly a man a ho caa boast a past can ba th paragoa'a accessor. Straightway sb starla out ta pat herself la the way of meeting this persoa by Indulging la two foolish flirtations. Onesof th objects of ber attentions follows her to the park caaloo.

and as a result of aa plod Involving th other maa and bis Nmeaia (la tha persoa of a very drank woman ot his psst) they Introduc each other, aa It wr. and th fua begins. has been led bailee that sb la a widow, but be la aot assured aa th point, so that th aext set of clrcumsUaees eaally peranad him that she la really th wife of bis friend. Th wosnaa ta search of a saving sinner seise oa this mlsunderstaad-lng and makes cspltal of It. boasting, that sb will prove bis respectability ta be only tb result of freedom frooa temptation.

When anally brought to th point where must decide either to betray bis beat frlesd or to run away, comes to his senses aad starts with tb primrose path la earnest. This brings things to a crisis, and with tb help of aa ex-prlx Bgbtar satellite, th best friend himself and. Sally, veteran at tbe matrimonial eampalga. ss th trlus deus ex machinal everything Is settled entry satlsfactioB. Th wosssa la search of a' sinner decides that sb does aot desire such a commodity after all.

aad swears tbst If ber aewly-ae-quired spouse so much as looks at another woman aba'lt die. This presumably a guarantee of eternal This plot might hsv become a Irst class problem play with the addition of a few agonies aad many tears. It has sot remained fresh aad unspoiled from tbe world la th time at its Incubation, however. Candor compels th report that there) are maay pas sages of tb dialogue that offend. Thar la aa abundance of excessively clever planning or striking dramatic situation, aad most of It Is very effective.

Ia fact It Is too effective. It hss tbst anbesltby glow of tbe stimulaat-Tb us of a catch phrase ostensibly tskea from tb creed of-aect indicated la tb piece aa "mental faddists" was turned good ac count. "All if well, all Is good; all 1 good, all Is well" a patter thai broke lata almost every climactic moment Ilk the cackle of a lonely loon la tb north era lakes. Of coarse It brought th resdy lsugh. but It was a hard laugh at a hard Inspiration.

This is mechan ics, and aotblng more. Aad tbe feeling on retains of tb piece la toto is that a very good Idea not too prudish, to be sure: a bit free aad traak. but still a good Idea has oeea spread out. pinched, mauled. elaborated, aad bolstered op for tb one purpose ot invoking tbe loud guffaw until its breadth Is too much for Its depth.

Miss Russell was her bwa charming self. Her talents sod her beauty are so aecurely THE WHIRL OF SOCIETY: Anyone who wandered unsuspectingly Into tb La Sail street station yesterday maat ba vs wondered what it was all about! Pretty girls wer running bsck aad forth, hugging other pretty girls and chattering as oelr American girls la tb late teens and early twenties caa chatter. Sometimes a girl would stop ber running aad hugging aad chattering long enough to accept grsetouety a box of candy or a bunch of Bowers proffered by som young gallsat aad at th very last. Just before th trslns pulled eat, maay of them seemed to hsve saddwaty become ssd. Really ther was bo mystery about It.

Th college folks are going back aad yesterday was tb day tb Smith girl left that Is alL Three trains over tb Lake Shore yesterday had special coaches carrying th girl, back to Northampton, snd th girls who filled tb coaches cam from Seattle aad San Francisco, from Mla-nes polls and Duluth, from Memphis aad New Orleans, and from every towa aad village la between those points or ss It seemed, at least. That was why It waa like a prematura college reunion. Among the Chicago girls who left yesterday for Smith were Miss Rebecca Smith. MlsaZullas 8vera. Miss Margarat Whit.

Miss Dorothy Schoneld. Miss Helen Johnson aed her twin sister, Mlas Ruth Johnson. Miss Gertrude Lyford Is another Chicago girl who went East a few days ago aad will be in Smith this year. Miss Mary Cameron, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

p. p. Cameron. Washington sve-sue. returned yesterday to Knoxville.

where! sb will enter upon ber senior year at St. Mary's school. Mr. and Mrs. C.

B. Stesres, t2 WIntbrop avenue, are planning ta depart soon for the Pacific coast, wber they will spend several months traveling. Mr. aad Mrs. Arthur Faulkner Viae.

C24S Winthrop avenue, will lesve tomorrow for New Tork. where they will spend thre "eekn. Mr. snd Mrs. W.

I. Earbart ot Evancton have issued Invitations for tbe marriage Wednesday evening. Sept. it. of tbeir daughter.

Miss Grace, to Joba P. Keith. Mr. and Mrs. Jsmes Bartlett and son, Mitchell Crosby Bartlett.

1904 Artor street, sre planning for a trip around th world and will leave Chicago early ta November. Miss Ruth Farwell of Lake Forest has returned from her trip East. The marrlsg of Miss Viola Barnard, daughter ot Mr. aad Mm. Harry Barnsrd.

4oa Calumet arena, Carl H. Desaauer. will be aa affair of Wednesday. Sept. tt Th ceremony will performed at tb Metropolitan club at la tb evening.

Miss Ma McCulre. daaghtr of Mr. and Mrs. C. J.

McGulre. Si Soath Hoots avenue, was married to George J. Noth yesterday at when he had the cbaac? Comparatively noth-lac. He flies trona town. to town daallag In gltUerlag genoralltisw and Is tearful of giv ing on asm so a.

aaaress st ui masy "crooks" he alludes to. I aay down with e-verythltag that oouae from RoosewelU Bvorythlnc that offers Is stoles vha oder" from aomebody. If baa scything we waat. let us. la all Jostle, find the fellow that nrst offered it aad take it as from- him with thanks.

William Barnes. publisher, or Albany. -ta aa aaaa that aareea with entirely oo this Idea. Who laet FRANCIS B. UVGBBT.

Clsrksoa, M4-. SepL to Defease Mr. BaHea. To the Editor It a eueotloa with tne whether or aot It Is of any as to ask The OF THE DRAMA. a Nsn-" i i fixed la th mind of th public that It would Idle to attempt th additloa ot aay compliment to th bouquet- As to her laterpreta-tloa of th rot at th vomai la search of a sinner.

It caa only bo said that a aerroos. extravagant rol was played aa It deoerved. Ther wer tempestuous tears and 'un bridled mirth: there wer stentorian dec lama Ions snd srtistic. suave, sed active persuasions. No oa caa quarrel with Miss Russell's tm persona ton for th reason that It seemed entirely la ayaapathy with th pcrport of the play.

Among the supporting company, Ollv Harper in the role of Bell Bovee. a vaudeville artist with tenderloin attributes, gav aa excelleat character study that (asciaatod. while It repelled with Its traak vnlgartty. It waa excellently dose. Harry C.

Brown as tb sought slnaer was well received, and deterred ly aa. Chief among the others th cast wer Joseph Tnoby as Tommy Rctigsa aad Hatti Russell aa Sally. PHILADELPHIA. Pa Sept. The Aviator." a farcical remedy by James Montgomery, was presented at the Chestaat Street opera house her toaight.

with the author ta the till rol. Its a access was st tesrted by aa the Church of Our Lady of Sorrosa. Miss Jeanio McCaire. sister of the bride, sss maid of honor aad Harry Do las wss beat man. Owiag to the recent death of a brother of th bride, ther were no gwrsts at th wed-dlag.

outside members of th fsmllj. Mr. aad Men. W. H.

Hawks aad son. Charles, aad Mrs. W. H. Hlgxa of Lockport.

N. Y- arrived ta th city yesterday and are wests at th horn of Mr. aad Mrs. J. A.

Madd in Anstln. Tbey hare com especially for th marrlsg on next Wednesday of Miss Aagela Mudd to J. T. Hawks, who is a sow of Mr. aad Mrs.

W. H. Hawks. Miss Msrcia Wither, as ugh tee of Mr. aad Mrs.

Marshall D. WHber. sTCS Madison sveaoe, departed jeslerdsr tor Aurora. N. where ehe will enter npoa her freshman year ia Weil college.

Mr. sad Mrs. Albert J. Pardridge. who have bee a out of th city aiace osriy summer, hsv returned aad opeaed their sous st 35 KuUertoa avenue.

They apent seweral weeks motoring through th East aad later were at th Moraine la Highland Park. Mrs. Elmer E. Black retamed ta New Tork yesterday after a short visit la the city. Mrs.

Black lived la Chicago for a number of years before going to New Tors. Bridge will be plsyed this sfteraoon at th Homewood Country club. There will be aa Informal dinner-da ace at tbe club Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Hunter Garsghty snd daughter. Miss Loalse. who hsve been spending several months at tbeir country place oa Indian River, hnve returned to the city snd will be at tbe Virginia through tbe winter Mlas Abbs Morgan will be the hostess at two teas this week, one Thursday and on Friday afternoon, at her studio In tbe Fine Arts building. Mr. aad Mrs.

WHIlsm R. Maaierre aad daughters. Miss Julie sad Miss Wilhelmiaa. 1507 Dear bora avenue, have returned from Harbor Point, Mich. Mrs.

Thomas Ri Lvon. 49 East Cedar street, te at tn Hotel Meuric ia Paris. On of th most important weddings of th season la Highland Park was solemnized last evening when Miss Eleanor Smoot. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth Russell Smoot. became the wtfe of Samuel Spelmaa Holmes. Th Rev. Peter Wolcott resd th service la Trinity Episcopal church ssd Ister ther was a large receptioa at th bom of the bride's parents. Miss Emma Smoot.

Ister ot the bride, was th maid of honor and the bridesmaids wer Miss Bessie Smith. Miss Helen Roberts. Mis Helea Messenger and Miss Viola Shields. Rwssell Jones was best msa aad th ushers were Wslter Egan. Fred Preston.

George A. Nerves and Max Trlmmone of Kenton. Ohio. The bride wort a gown of whit satta trimmed with old polat Her veil waa of tulle. Her sister wore Ieter Ocean tn he fstr-with th Hamilton clan or with Its preofdenl.

Mr. Batten. Nevertheless altall risk doing Taa have "published, and I admit, correctly, th rales which oacht to have governed clab and the prestdoat of a gen-Jenaea's clab sa th Roooevelt-Lo rimer lacl-dest. Bnt now comes Mr. William.

Travera la. the New Tork Sua aad show th error ot your Jadgsseat. Th Sua publishes th letter under th appropriate haadiagc Claba of Oeorfaesnsn and Claoo of Politic laaa." Mr. Trevwen- doe not sUapat th mis which ahnnld apply la th caa of gentle, knee's club as qnoted la year editorial of Moaday aaoraitag. Bat insists that those rale da aot apply to club poUttciaaa.

Ther 1 th whale eojatloa Is a hatshelL I I ervj andleac that Lang bed almost constantly thro aghast th tour acta la which the play la written. As ta the story of the play, a baddlng author named Street had written a aevel called The Aviator' aad thea being lea traded to seek a rest, foolishly decided i apoa a fashionable hotel ta th Berkshire bills, where his Identity Is Immediately dta-cevered and Is made mack of. A Joking friend who hss aceoampaalod hiss circa la 'ee th report that he Is not aaly th aathor ef th seroplaa story, bat In reality Is a tart eaoagh aviator. This enhances his popularity Immensely. A FTeachmaa arrives on bo scene wltb a couple of bamboo air wagons, sad a race between the ta ts arranged by ta faeetiews friend, otoch to the terror of the bookworm, a so baa never torn btgher ap la the sir tha a aa elevated trsis la his life.

The roKpltcatiosa aria leg from this situation and the fraalic efforts of the supposed bird -ana a keep from gwiag aloft, his nasi deciaioa to do aad the Slant Itself form the sateless of Mr. Moatswsacry's St aary. which he tells ta a parties larly brwesy wsy. Owing- to the ladUposltVoa of Mr. Edaard Abelee.

Mr. Janes Moautosnrry. author of tbs play, appeared la the title role and nead a geaaioe tit- ERIC DE LAMARTEB. pal plak marsjatsette over white satin aad the nsalds were alike ia white chiffon with garlands of piak roses. Mr.

aad Mrs, Holase will spend their honey aaoa ta tbe. South. After Dec they wUI be at baas at tl Linden aveane. Highland Park. Mr.

aad Mrs. Ralph Owen of Madisoa. who are guests at the basse of Mrs. Owea's parents. Mr.

aad Mrs, Charles H. Conover. lS2t North State street, will guests of hoBor at a dinner party ta be givea Friday evening by Mrs. Fraaklia A. Lace.

107 North Stat street- Mrs. R- H. McElae of Lake Forest returned yesterday trosn her trip to Boston. Mrs. Jsmes Hlrsch aad daaghter.

Miss Versa at (Tleaco will give a Urge receptioa oa the afteraooa of Wednesday. Sept IS. Aa Italian dinner wUI be givea by tbe Clew View club Saturday vwalsg. There will be dancing In tbe e-reaing. Miss Elisabeth Irene FarrelL daaghter at Mr.

and Mrs. Jasses C. Farrell of Lake Geneva was married ta Robert Newell Kin nalrd of Fort Wayne, last evenhan; in the Church ot th Holy Communion, la Lake Geneva. Miss Genevieve Farrell. sister of th bride, aad Miss Genevieve Mayberry- of Oconto, cousin of the bride, were her nui da of baa or.

Frederick Whltaey was best msa ssd tb ashers were George Keaaeth FarrelL Howard Mayberry of Oconto. Harry Sauthoff of Madison. and Arthur G. Bullock ot Lake Geneva, Mr. aad Mrs.

Frank Ogdea Msgie. who have been spending a Bomber of weeks ia Holderness. N. H-. will return to their home la Wlnaetka boob.

Mr. aad Mrs. William Henry Simpson bars seat out cards saaounclng tbe marriage Monday morning, of their daughter. Mis Edith Blanchard. to Reginald Henry Alford Green.

The ceremony wss performed at St. James Episcopal church and was followed by a wedding breakfast. After Dec. 15. Mr.

and Mrs. Green will be at home at 711 Waveland avenue. Mr. aad Mrs. Charles Johnston Blair of Edgewater are In New Tork to meet their son.

Milton Johnston Blair, whea he lands from his European trip. Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Powers.

Grand boulevard, are la New Tork spead a week. WILLIE DEARBORN. Th Wssaasn part of Th Saaatay later troa Is renarnVcd aa th a-rt In th CnltedL State. It eoatwlaa otnht pasjea owatrlnaatod ty tha waaat ssaaeltst wrtlera east all aaa- laseta tfcat taaooo wrrftoeo aa- CThrtatlno haw Berrlek, BarsLa. Hal Hw Matsaret B.

aaasreSor, Kate torowa. May Moore aad Klta aaaar Tne-neon. bsaaw He says tha Hamilton clab la a political clab. Tbertfar It te aot gov mod by rales te tore la g-esUetnen's dabs. New know wbar stand, tt th Hamilton clab te aot BeitnarUy a dab.

Ma nwmbers.caaaot ho held to tb re-ewtransnata of gesticanam. It th HanaUtoa clab te at primarily a gratism clan, Mr. Batten, in km official capacity a Ka neeat-dear, aeed aot he a geatleasan, nad aa each official 1 not bownd net as a gewtasa howoa gntlmsaly away as tn his nrtratv Ufa. Fhlraaaa la everybody require that yen shenld max this distinct a. CHICAGO CLCBMAX.

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