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for Delme Davlea. Its appearance is put upon them are like the improvements which have cut down the time "THE SOUL OF CROESUS." Striking Idea in a Novel of Symbolic Psychology Really Dramatic, Despite Shortcomings. Trade Mark "Eagle" Reentered. the election of Bristow from Kansas will insure him another. A radical minority of three new Senators Is not a combination which the controlling group of that body cannot easily manage.

The fact that radicalism will raise Its head there next year will be annoying rather than dangerous; but the change will make one of the Interesting elements of the Washington situation. a 'irlvak'Iy oouducted organization protective duties properly devolving upon a public department. The Eafjle 1ms been at pains to point out that a general knowledge of the Health Department's Intention to destroy all loose dogs at sight win do more than anything else to enforce upon dog owners a proper sense of responsibility for their pets. Sentiment In behalf of the tings should play no part in the ease. The safety of the public is the first concern.

Two children seriously bitten In Brooklyn yesterday by wandering curs are proof that the activity of the Health Department should be increased and extended, not restricted. timely, for together with the renewed Interest In Milton's poetry is the ter centenary celebration of his birthday at Cambridge University. Ownership," by Leonard Darwin, a series of four lectures deliv ered at Harvard last year, Id conserva tlve In dealing with the nrnhlema nre sented. The author hardly approves the words of the title. "When should labor De uirectly employed by municipalities 1 tne vital question," he says.

He urges control of municipal monoplies for the oi consumer and taxpayer and thinks the unearned increment nf value may be best captured by the issue of iiDerai, snort period franchises. (E. P. uutton J1.25.) The vigor with which Esperanto is being pushed In thia country as well as in Europe ia creating a demand for text books of the new international language. Revells report that they will issue immediately a 600-page "English Esperanto Dictionary," prepared by Joseph Rhodes.

In addition to this they are preparing two books by Edmond Prlvat, one "Esperanto at a Glance," and the 'other, Esperanto In Fifty Lessons." Mr. Prlvat is the Swiss representative of the International Society and is now In this country as ambassador of the new tongue. AN ACUTE AMERICAN CRITIC. 1 IS Broadminded Comments on Various Phases of Our Political and Literary Life by Henry D. Sedgwick.

The essays by Henry D. Sedgwick, gathered In the volume called "The New American Type" and published by Houghton, Mifflin will be welcomed by thoughtful readers who have grown tired of the obviousness of "best sellers" in fiction and of muckrakers in sociology. It la the sort of writing of which we used to get a good deal from that generation whose young authors sought to emulate Lowell as an essayist and critic, but which has been neglected since writing in this country has been conducted on a frankly commercial basis, with only incidental, or perhaps accidental, attention to Its literary quality or to considerations of art. In his essay on "The Mob Spirit In Literature," Mr. Sedgwick says: "If there were critics, men of natural gifts and educated taste, experienced In the humanities, there would be no mob; for the condition of headlessness, of unguldedness, is essential to a mob.

But there are no American critics, except Henry James, who confines himself to a consideration of foreigners. It he would turn his mind to American criticism, authoritative with literary piety and desert, he might become a disciplinary and co-ordinating force." It is Just this position of Intellectual leadership which Mr. Sedgwick shows himself qualified to fill and which in this volume he fills most acceptably, so far as the book goes. As for Mr. James.

some of us, at least, would very greatly Bier mo Dreaatn, tne lucidity, the levelheadedness, and especially the national background which underlies Mr. Serlir- wlck's book to the tormenting subtleties of Mr. James, delitrhtfiil noma nf thnap are when you are once sure that you have grasped the feeling lying back of the thought of the author. Mr. Sedgwick is a literary critic, but he is a critic of life and institutions 'as well.

It Is Just because he sees our American whole, as the evolution of a mixed race develnnine uuuer conditions witnout. historical precedent, that makes this book valuable. The departure of the race from the types of Its ancestry is suggestively set forth ip the opening essay, "The New American Type." It Is based upon some recent portraits of Americans, especially of the rich business men who "sit" to the most expensive and acutely psychological painters, In contrast to portraits of the u-ngnsn and French types of the elgh teenth century. Any thorough going consideration of American affairs must be based upon the kind of men Americans are. The point and the direction of our aeparture from the European races from which we sprang Is very finely set forth in mis essay.

Like all really good writ ing It suggests far more than it says. The acuteness of Mr. Sedgwick's- liter ary criticism is shown In hiB papers on Mrs. wnarton, "The Mob Spirit in Literature" and "Mark Twain." Those read ers who dissent from the glorification of Mrs. wnarton as a master of style and a profound artist, which Mr.

Huneker started and which has been parroted from one end of the country to the other, will reaa mr. BeagwicK analysis with com fort and enlightenment. This does not mean that the writer is not keenly appreciative of Mrs. Wharton's merits, for no one could do them more thnronih Justice than he. But this critic holds the balance even.

He Is not blind to the defects of Mrs. Wharton's stories. He points them out as clearly and as fairlv as he aoes ner strong points, thus freeing our most Driniant novelist from lndlscrimi-nating eulogy, based on a comparison of her work with that of popular story tel lers wno nave neither the aspiration nor tne capacity to become literary artists. As a crltle of our civilization Mr. Sede- wick illuminates some dark places In his Certain Aspects of America," which analyzes the effect of the triumph of American business upon our social and spiritual ideals.

His essay on "American uoiieges" and "A Gap in Education" are also finely and broadly critical and should be Bead by all fathers of bovs. Not often does the author become sarcastic, but In "The Coup d'Etat of 1961" he sets forth the possible fruits of certain recent po litical tendencies with a pen like a razor. He narrates the steps of an imaginary bloodless change from Republic to Em pire and then comments upon It thus: The truth is that Americans have al ways had an immense love of law and order and are Immensely proud of their Constitution, which has been a guide and stay in all troublous times and yet has proved sufficiently elastic to suit the Empire as well as the Republic. This elasticity of the Constitution is mainly due, not to the forefathers who framed It, but to those greater Interpreters of the last century who have realized that law is founded upon policy, and that policy must keep watchful eye upon the material prosperity of the citizens of this noble country, the freest, the most Just, the most spiritual, the most beautiful fabric of civilization ever known." That paragraph Is not typical of Mr. Sedgwick because his more usual attitude Is not ironic but sympathetic, his usual purpose not to rebuke but to com prehend; but It gives proof of the possession of high lntfjlectual powers which are now seldom devoted to American essays.

And because of the rarity of Mr. Sedgwick's mind and the completeness of his training his book is worth reading and rereading. (The New American Type; Houghton, Mifflin Co, i.ou.) ANACHRONISMS IN AKT. From the Providence Journal. The queerest thing about the new statue of General Banks will be the creased trousers, barely known when the general was living, certainly not common with veterans," says the Boston Record.

Any casual student of wartime photographs understands that even the best-dressed Americans of the sixties wore no creases In their, trousers. Indeed, long after the war, a man with such creases would have been hailed as patron of the ready-made clothing shops, because in these strops the trousers are customarily laid in crease-compelling plies. But if General Banks is forced In metal or stone to affect creased trouserB it will be ho more of an anachronism than that perpetrated by some of the latter-day artists who illustrate our American novels. No matter If the heroine Is supposed to have lived forty or fifty years ago, she wears her hair In twentieth century fashion and her gowns are in the latest mode. EFFOHT WASTED.

From Puck. Anarchist Shall we dynamite the candidate when be arrives? Chief Why should we mix ourselves up In it? The citizens are going to give him a home-coming of ocean steamers. They are inevlt able, now that the major premise of guided flight has been established. Here and in London. Some of those peculiar people who al ways find other countries better than their own are of comparing what they call the English respect for law with our alleged disposition to law lessness.

They must have read, with considerable astonishment, of the calm endurance of the women suffragists who were yesterday turned back by the secret service police from the grounds of Sagamore Hill. In fact, the entire suffragist tour of Oyster Bay and the vicinity was conducted with a decorum vastly different from the riotous demonstrations made oy the English Suffragettes In Loudon. Had the same tactics been followed at Oyster Bay as were practiced by the English agitators, the secret service men would have got their shins sound ly kicked. Perhaps some of them would even have had their ears boxed. But personal indignities would have been the least part of their ungrateful task.

Real English Suffragettes all claiming to be ladies, too would have attached themselves to some handy fence and dared the police to pry them loose. They would have shied stones into the nearest window, stamped, yelled and denounced the government, with the obvious purpose o. getting themselves into jail, where they might pose as martyrs. This sort of thing is common enough In Downing street and the vicinity of Westminister Bridge. But law reigns supreme and unchallenged in the summer capital on Long Island.

Our Suf fragettes may not be but they are neither rough nor obstreperous like their English sisters, nor wantonly cruel to an Inoffensive police. They are polite, well-bred ladies. And yesterday afternoon they proved that they knew enough to go In when it rained. One of the Candidates. The Socialist-Labor candidate for President is canvassing by proxy, his interests having been committed to the custody of August Guillhaas, a whirlwind campaigner.

In the case of this candidate, Mr. Preston, some formalities have been omitted. No notification committee has gone to the prison in which he is incarcerated, nor hos any speech of acceptance been forthcoming. Incidentally, he Is described as being more concerned about his restoration to liberty than anything else. There would be no trouble about that should he be elected he could pardon himself, presuming his eligibility to remain unchallenged.

All things considered, he would probably be willing to barter for an hour of freedom the distinction, not to say notoriety, that has overtaken him. Alter Allison in the Senate. In spite of all the efforts made during the Republican convention In Chicago to preserve the status quo In Iowa, the death of -Senator Allison has thrown the party fat in the fire there. Senator Dolllver was ambitious to be Vice President, and President Roosevelt wished to have him nominated to clinch the ticket with the radical West. The plan was abandoned, after repeated appeals to the President, on the ground that the struggle for Dolllver's seat in the Senate would disrupt the Republican party In the state.

The leading candidate for Dolllver's place would have been Governor Cummins, the author of the Iowa Idea. The Iowa idea is less pervasive but more intense than the La Follette platform in "Wisconsin. Its cornerstone is tariff reduction and Cummins' campaigns on that issue have made the stand-patters gasp. But the followers of the Cummins tariff revolt have also absorbed much of the radicalism of Roosevelt and La Follette. The prospect of the elevation of the leader of that faction to the Senate led some conservatives at Chicago to threaten to elect a Demo cratic Legislature to defeat Cummins, even at the risk of giving the state to Bryan.

To avoid that clash, Dolllver withdrew. Now Governor Cummins will become a candidate before the Legislature to be elected in November for the seat made vacant by the death of Senator Allison. Superficially, that seems to provide for precisely the factional strife which was averted at Chicago, but there are subtle differences in the situation which seem to insure the permanence of Iowa In the Republican column. First, Cummins Is very much stronger than any conservative candidate who could be named against him. Then this situation was not thrust upon the party from Washington.

Cummins' opportunity has come to him through no maneuvering of his own, and his candidacy will not provoke the personal resentment which would have been shown had Senator Dolllver been pushed upstairs to make a place for the Governor. Finally, there is Governor Cummins' friend and the Western leader of radicalism, La Follette. La Follette is credited with having defeated Senator Long of Kansas, and Insured the election of Bristow, from that state, ond lie promises to enter the Iowa campaign if Cummins needs his help. La Follette Is only nominally a Republican. He has indorsed the nomination of Taft, but has "reserved the right to criticise" the Chicago platform.

One of the unsettled questions of the campaign is whether La Follette will attack the platform In such a way as to turn the vote of his followers in Wisconsin to Bryan. Thus, If the conservatives make vigorous and effective warfare upon Cummins, there Is a possibility of retaliation upon Taft not merely In Iowa, but In Wisconsin. The course of oetion has not yet been decided upon, but the logic of thf situation points to the election of Cumiuins to the Senate without more than the traditional, fair and square party tight against him. That would insure the loyalty of the Cummins followers to Taft, but it would give La Foiictte au ally in the Senate, and 1 THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1905. This Paper has a Circulation Larger than that of any other Evening Paper of Its class in the United States.

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For cost of advertising appiy or send for rate card, or make inquiry by telephone. No. 6Mt Main. Clear the Track for the Boom. io tue it is ru mored that evidence sutlicieut to war rant the indictment of a Brooklyn of ficlal is in the possession of the Com missioners of Accounts.

The official alluded to, though not mentioned by name, Is the Borough President, and the evidence is described ns relating to a bill, the payment of which is said to have been facilitated for a reason which has appeared in print. It set forth that payment had been expe dited for and in consideration of a loan, the Borough President being the borrower. Color's contribution to the case was made at Denver, where he was asked what he had to say about it. He dismissed it as an affair of little or no consequence, characterizing the loan as an ordinary and perfectly legitimate business matter and as serting that the bill was paid in the customary course of events, that he neither retarded nor expedited settlement, and that it was an atrocity to couple the two transactions. Here are two versions, but one of which squares with the truth.

Assuming that of the Borough President to be the version which will survive at the expense of the other, there are exceptionally strong reasons why the atmosphere should be cleared with as little delay as possible. At Denver, Mr. Coler disclaimed Vice Presidential aspirations, supplement ing the disclaimer with an explanation. He is a candidate for the Governorship of the State of New York. It will not be long before the state convention meets, Xorman E.

Mack having announced that it will be held some time in September. In the interval the bill and the loan should be removed as a possible barrier to Mr. Coler's success, presuming it to have been an injustice to harness them together. Taking for granted the accuracy of this presumption, the candidate should accelerate Inquiry, lest his enemies catch him at a disadvantage when the convention meets. Mr.

Coler's attitude at Denver was one of renunciation. lie might have outstripped Kern In the race for second place on the Democratic ticket but for his gubernatorial preferences. It Is, therefore, almost susceptible of demonstration that he made a species of sacrifice worthy of being taken Into serious account by the state convention. There are few who would have done it. There are few who, being called upon to choose between the distinction Kern enjoys and a gubernatorial nomination, would have taken the course pursued by the Borough President.

Aside from the claim he has thus established, the announcement of his candidacy is of signal sigiuiitnnce. It will not be denied that any candidate from whom Mr. Murphy withholds a frown may dispense with undue exertion. Thus fortunately situated would Mr. Coler seem to be.

When questioned concerning Judge Gaynor yesterday, Mr. Murphy gave evidence of astonishment, saying; thought Coler was the man. lie has already announced himself a candidate." Clearly, Mr. Murphy realizes the futility of mentioning anybody else. Of course, the commissioners of accounts are not supposed to be influenced by political conditions.

They are under no obligations to dissipate a cloud, so called, simply because it happens to hang over a man who has renounced one nomination for another, but It is no abuse of power to put on a little steam in the Interest of one who has so much at stake. Let any one of the commissioners imngli.e himself In the place of the Borough President, with a glittering prize to be had for the asking. Let him imagine how exasperated he would be should ho lose it because of the malicious coupling of a bill and a loan. Let the Borougli President's boom have a chance for its life. Health Department Should Not Desist We hope the Health Department will continue the policy of destroying loose dogs summarily, ami without notification to their owners in cases where owners exist.

The protest of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals seems to hae been mistakenly made, although the sincerity of the society in making it cnunol for moment lie questioned. AVe need not again emphasize the peril 1o which people are subject from stray and unmuzzled dogs. The idea that the fear of rabies is nothing but tnid-summer hysteria is calculated to do profound mischief. Babies is an actual peril of which the comparative Jnfrequeucy gives no excuse for olli-Ciul indiU'eieuce, or for delegating tp In "The Soul of Croesus" Gerald Vll-Ilers-Stuart (Cupples Leon Company) has a striking idea. It would be imagined that Mr.

Vllllers-Stuart's previous experiences In Action had been in Its more popular forms, for his style has that touch of the melodramatic which is the hall-mark of those who write for the great middle classes. The plot i wildly Impossible. The psychology may hardly be called authoritative. Yet with all such minor shortcomings "The Soul of Croesus" takes its grip on the Imagination. Croesus is a young American named Vandraken, the inheritor of $200,000,000 the richest young man in the world.

Frankly materialistic, yet fearful of the personal consequences of Indulgence- of the senses, he meets a Svengall sort of fellow who offers to buy for him ft human scapegoat upon whom may be transferred the physical marks and the mental and moral effects of dissipation. Vandraken accepts the offer and Van Tarsenheim provides a young divinity student, with a poetical temperament, who is on the verrge of suicide. Vandraken plunges into the wildest excesses, but retains the fresh and unsullied looks of early youth. The scapegoat, with the money provided, finishes his education and enters holy orders. His soul 1 seared with dreams of Vandraken's orgies and his face Is seamed with the lines of the young millionaire debauchery.

The materialist thinks that his money has enabled him to defy fate. Finally ne meets the voune man who is making vi carious atonement and is shocked at the nicture of his own soul which is pre sented. He at last feels remorse and as an atonement to release his scape Boat from his fate kills himself. Vandraken is a symbol of the tenden cies of modern capitalism. He represents some generation to come when the son of the billionaire withdraws from the piling up of riches and seeks Instead to buy that which may not be bought.

As has been hinted. Mr. Vllllers-Stuart's evident belief In hla ability as a psychological expert is not entirely justi fied. And he has the melodramatic in stead of the dramatic touch. Neverthe less, the real psychological drama of the situation cannot be obliterated nor cheaDened.

It is real. It is Intense. We hope that this writer win ioitow this vein of symbolic romance. If he can but refine his style and replace comment with action there is no reason why he cannot take a high rank. He has imagi nation and the dramatlec sense.

THE OPEN COTJET. The Open Court for August opens with a sketch. "A Perfect Liar," by rrotessor rt. T. Knieht.

professor of theology in the Crane Theological School of Tufts nnilerot It. la the reDort of a speech ae llvered before the Twentieth Century Club of Boston. George C. Bartlett of New York begins "A Letter From Rome, with illustrations; A. T.

Edmunds, vegetarian Quaker of Philadelphia, offers "piffo tn VpcetnriAn Sunday Mrs. H. C. Pinnlx tries to show man as other races of nature see him; the story of the "Proohet Jesus' comes by way oi Java; the Rev. A.

Kampmeier writes on "Recent Parallels to the Pentecost Miracle." Other interesting articles. grave or gay, are in the number. BOOK NEWS MONTHLY. Edward Everett Hale has several ap oreciattve studies in the Book News Monthly for August. Dr.

Hale's son writes one of the articles. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Hlgglnson and de Wagstaff add their tributes to the author of "The Man Without a Country." AUTHORS AND BOOKS. 'Two Royal Foes," by Eva Madden, tale of the time of the wars of Na poleon, told by means of a description of the life of a wee maiden or 'i nurin- gia, Bettlna, granddaughter of an old veteran of Frederick the Great. ine little one is taken on a journey, carrying, without knowing it, papers of Importance, and her life is set In strange channels. There is considerable space given to accounts of the beauty and ten derness and royal power of Queen Louisa, who is the real heroine, and dominates the book.

It is a very partial story. told in a rather pleasing manner. (Mc- Clure's, Jl-50.) 'The Golden Ladder," by Margaret Potter, is a lurid attempt to portray modern commercialism in America. The story contrasts noble and unselfish deeds of the men and women who made the republic with the business and social aims of a time given over to a scramble to reach the highest rounds of the ladder of gold. (Harper Brothers, S1.6U.' 'David, the Giant Killer." is a collec- lectlon of stories by Emily Soils-Cohen, taken from the Bible and treated with free hand by way of embellishment.

The author has permitted herself the license of the story teller, even to the filling in of gaps by exercise of her own fancy. The stories will be welcomed by children. (Jewish Publican Society.) The Rev. Madison C. Peters Is the au thor of "The Strenuous Career." The book contains a number of chapters which the author calls "Short Steps to Success." It contains such chapters as The Ago of the Trained Man," "The Genius of Energy" and the like, all energetically treated.

(Laird Lee, $1.25.) An unusually Interesting story Is "The Wife of Narcissus," by Annulet Andrews. The wife of Narcissus is a girl of wholesome sanity, who makes the best of a marriage with a poet of passion. (Moffat, Yard $1.25.) Deborah of Tod's," Is an English story with a local flavor. Deborah Is a girl of Devon and one of the artistic suc cesses of Mrs. Henry de la PaBture.

The simple country girl, with a marked dialect, is wooed for her money ny an old and impoverished British officer and leads a sorry life in fashionable London. Her husband's death releases her from unhnnnv conditions and she Is again In her old home, to be won by a man who understood and loved her (E. P. Dutton Company, $1.25.) "Juno Jennnritv hv Inez Havnes- Gil- more (B. W.

Huebsch, $1.50.) The book describes the events of a night in Boston. It deals with a necklace of pearls and diamonds that a band of robbers had been plotting to get. Elizabeth Neff has written a very read able novel In "Altars of Mammon. A broad minded young clergyman begins his ministry in a manufacturing town and finds his church In debt and rent asundwr by dissensions. He finds himself face to face with problems, personal, religious and political.

The story shows how these are overcome by the help of the girl he loves. (F. A. Stokes, $1.50.) Sermons Which Have Won Souls," a series of stirring evangelistic sermons, by Louis Albert Banks, D.D. (Funk Wagnalls $1.40.) Dr.

Banks Is a type ot tne modern, progressive, successful preacher, whoso heart 1b done up in his work of saving souls. In his opening chapter on "The Pastor as a Personal Soul Winner," he gives an exposition of his business-like methods. This material will be of Immense suggestlveness and practical value 1 to the preacher of to-day, and will make Interesting reading for all lovers of pulpit literature. John Milton's line, "who best can suf fer best can do," is the quotation that Mrs. Caroline Atwater Mason, author of A Lily of France, The Little Green God," puts on the title page of her "Binding of the Strong," to be Issued by Revells In September.

Mrs. Mason's new book Is simply the love story of Milton. She has not departed In a single Item from the most painstaking historical (act, but bends all her narrative art to telling the story of the hopeless passion ot this great and saintly mm Hay Fever. Once again American optimism and our progressive spirit has received a cold douche from the sternly scientific attitude of Germany. Ever since the days when Mr.

Beecher recommended the White Mountains as a refuge from hay fever Americans have been trying to find a cure for that most an noying accompaniment of hot weather. There is a Hay Fever Association which publishes lists ot refuges sup posed to be safe from the scourge, Last year its members were happy in the belief that doctors had found a cause for the disturbance outside the pollen of the goldenrod and other midsummer plants. The idea was that this fever was a cousin of rheu matlsin and was caused by the pres ence of uric acid In the blood, and the discovery was proclaimed in the bul letin of the association. The advantage of. such a cause would be obvious.

The afflicted per sou might be treated at home Instead of being compelled to depart to an ex ceeding high mountain in order to wipe his weeping nose. Business need not be Interrupted to fight the nuis ance. To the man without the price of a journey to the mountains was left some other recourse, but to sneeze and wipe, wipe and sneeze. But just as emancipation from this mountain slavery was in sight, along comes a learned German and declares that the scientists of his land deny that there is any other cause for this nasal In flammation beyond the Irritation caused by the pollen of certain bloom ing plants. Therefore, any thought of any other remedy than flight is use less.

If the man with the hay fever would shut up his annoying sneezing he must first put up the price of a railroad ticket and of board at a mountain hotel. Nothing remains for the fever victims but; to "take to the woods." Dr. Cuyler did that In politics one summer with disastrous ef fect, but the conservative who dis likes Taft only less thon he detests Bryan will not find any such relief by acquiring this, malady. Nothing that blooms near a oanot dox Novem ber is capable of inflicting any more serious ailment than nausea. The hay fever victim must run, to be sure, but he cau come home in time to register and vote.

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Long before the Ananias Club was started, Emerson, an exponent ol the simple life, Bald: "Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly and lie hard." Thomas A. Edison has taken up chemistry Just in time. Let him find some thing that will give an immunity bath to" the gas used to Inflate airships, so that the lightning cannot touch it. Mr.

Loefe, of course, cannot quite spread himself to meet the demand, or he would be an ideal passenger. Hugo Mtinsterberg says in the Metropolitan Magazine: "There is hardly a doubt that many of the church cures of to-day and many of the miracle cures of the past had a hypnotic state as a pre supposition." This is so vague it excites no interest. Had this writer been interviewed for a daily newspaper, he would have asked to state what particular miracle or series of miracles he had In mind. A few names taken from the Bible and inserted at this point would have aroused the now silent defense. It Is to be hoped Mr.

Woodruff will take up this new fad, color photography. After January 1 next a picture of our Governor will reveal the natural Hughes. The candidates are waiting patiently fof the manufacturers to turn out a phonograph cylinder small enough to carry their expanded speeches on "The Right of Capital." Postal savings banks are wanted to hold "the dime that 1b burning! a hole in the pocket of the wage earlier." That is what Postmaster General Meyer says. Thus It must be that those who can't burn money are burned by It. The courts should take up the cases these wage earners and appoint ash receivers.

LYNCHINGS. Eight negroes have been lynched In ten days, one in Texas, two in Klorlda. one In Georgia and four In Kentucky. News 'Gainst Brownsville severity negroes rebelled And it's s'ure that as wormwood they saw These lynchlngs of men who are Innocent held In the eye of American law. Good Bryanlto states are the states as we know Where no trial a Darky may claim; And why against Taft should the Black strike a blow In the present political game? Though China may chuckle at Occident ways That the Christian can hardly defend, The Cotton Belt anarchists stick to their craze Which a wise trend of culture would end! J.

A. POSITIVE. From the Washington Post. The next time our flag is hoisted In Cuba it will go up to stay, and it Is likely that if the completion of the Panama Canal shall be celebrated by a world's Industrial exposition, It will be held in Havana, then th capital of a Btate of our republic. It will come to that.

Manifest destiny decreed it as early ai when George Canning, the British pre mior, acd John Qulncy Adams, the American secretary of state, evolved the Monroe Doctrine out of a threatening International situation. HEALTH. from Puck. The practice of invariably chewing everything forty-seven times before swal lowing it not only restored the rich man's health, but saved his soul as well. For one day, in the regular course of business, ho stralued at a gnat and swallowed a camel.

And the camel, having been chewed forty-seven times, was fit to pass through the rye of needle. So that the rich man was able to enter the kingdom of Scfcven, after all. No, not stung with a large stock of outing suits; sold more this year than ever before. But simply the selling season is shortening, though the wearing season is at its height. So down goes every outing suit in our stock except staples Ol 30S 275 Ml 4DO 144 $15 in $18 IMS 25 Now $12.50.

Also, 300 young men's out ing suits that were $14 to $20. Now $10. 'Twill be odd if you don't find just what you need among these 2200 odd trousers. $3-50. Rogers, Peet Company.

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THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE. To Have Greatest Capacity for Trafflo of Any Yet Built. Twenty-five years ago the first Brook-. lyn bridge gave the engineer's earliest answer to the traffic problem to which' the ferries were no longer adequate and became one of the modern wonders ot the world, says George E. Mayo in American Industries.

To-day there are four bridges built or building, each of the new ones far surpassing In size and capacity that pioneer structure, and there is, besides, the tunnel under the East River which was opened to the publio early this year. Of the bridges, the newest and the greatest in traffic capacity Is the Manhattan Bridge, which after years of delay over the plans, is now being hurried to completion to help taka the pressure off the existing avenues oi travel. The Manhattan structure stands as the latest and most advanced embodiment ot. the suspension bridge, while as a tratBu channel It possesses, or will posses when completed, the greatest capacity of any bridge yet built. That is the main purpose for which It has been designed to allow the passage of as many cas, vehicles and foot passengers as engineering skill can make room for within the limits of the approved design.

In total length over all, including approaches, from Canal street In Manhattan to Nassau street in Brooklyn, the Manhattan Bridge measures 6,855 feet (approximately one and five-sixteenths miles), as against the 7,200 feet of the. Williamsburg Bridge. Its main in 1,450 feet long and the two side spans are each 725 feet. The total length of the spans is thus 2,900 feet. The main span of the Williamsburg Bridge ia 1,600 feet, the longest suspension span in the world, and that of the old Brooklyn Bridge Is 1,595 feet.

The Manhattan cables are slung from steel towers which stand 325 feet in height above the mean high water level of the East River, 90 feet higher than the Williamsburg towers. They contain, together, 12,500 tons of steel. The steel construction begins at a point 32 feet: above water level. Below that the masonry foundation goes down to a depth of 92 feet below the river surface. If not tne longest of Ne York's bridges, the new one Is at the least the highest, for tne Driage noor at tne highest point of the center span is 143 feet abova tha river, two and one-half feet higher than the Williamsburg Bridge.

ihe snore anchorages at either end of the new bridge rest on foundations 23T feet long by 182 feet wide. Each anchor age contains 115.000 cubic yards of ma sonry ana weighs tons. BOWLES FOB TAFT. The Springfield Republican, which has twice supported Bryan, Is now for Taft. The reasons for its change are thoughtfully stated thus: "After the yeastlne comes the bread- making and for that painstaking: and careful attention and experience are needed.

The business in hand is no longer pectacular it Is of a homely sort, but necessary to the national well-being, and the permanent advantage of the people. The times call not for the agitator, but the man with patient, constructive ability. in full sympathy with the popular cause for a wide-seeing and capable handling of large things, and these often of a very delicate nature. Great as has always been our respect for Mr. Bryan his stainless character, his ability for bril liant leadership, his resolution of nature the doubt as to his capacity beyond that of a helpful propagandist has not been satisfied during the yearB of hie great prominence before the American people.

The Republican accepts Judge Taft as the best exponent of the national purpose to enlarge within the republic the dom inance of genuine democracy, and believes that he will look to that end with fixed resolution, and purpose unchanged by the blandishments of the reactionaries. The national conventions of the year ot them have registered the determination; of the American people to make special privilege subordinate to the public welfare. To that doctrine Judge Taft is pledged, no less than Mr. Bryan or Mr. Hisgen.

Beyond these two, Judge Taft seems fitted by experience and temperament to make. the popular will effective, so far as it lies within the power ot the Executive to do thh An Advocate of Calamity. Speaking in I.os Angeles last night, Alton B. Parker said: You should send to Washington a man who is in favor of turning down the trusts, with a Congress back ot him which will help him to do It. There are few industries on a large scale which do not come within the scope of this proposed bombardment.

All the great factories, or nearly all of them, together with the railroads, would be caught in the net. Probably It is no exaggeration to say that two-thirds of the business of the country would be affected by the process of turning down the trusts. An illustration of what can be accomplished by a President who runs amuck has been furnished, some of the resuiis of streuuosity being still in evidence. Mr. Pnrker does not seem to know that he is an advocate of calamity.

The Attentive Parsons. Mr. Herbert Parsons, Republican boss in the Bad Lands on the wron side of the East Kiver, has his ear to the ground. Patiently, quietly, at most clandestinely, he listens for sounds indicating the deep, undying hatred of New York County Republicans for Charles E. Hughes.

Mr. Parsons was himself the original Hughes man before the state conveu tion of 100(5, but since then he has learned the bitter truth of Lear's wrathful cry: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless Governor." He will swallow Mr. Hughes for a second term if he must, but lets it be known that he will yield only to superior force. Mr. Parsons is seeking to discover what sentiment exists In the Gover nor's favor.

To this end he is consulting with his district leaders. It is an axiom of politics that little bosses think as they think big bosses would like them to think. District leaders, aware that Mr. Parsons shares with Mr. Woodruff, and Mr.

Barnes and Mr. Ward what is vul garly called a "grouch" against the Governor, will not be slow to reflect and re-echo the sentiment In the mind of their leader. They will tell Mr. Parsons precisely what they think he would like to hear. If he is really eager to learn the sentiment of his county in regard to the Governor's renomlnation let him consult with the rank and file Republicans and let him not fail carefully to estimate the inde pendent element which is overwhelm ingly In the Governor's favor.

Be cause, if Mr. Parsons thinks his party can pick a candidate who will command as many Independent votes as the Governor he is elevating self-deception to the level of a flne art. The Burned Airship. The destruction of Count Zeppelin's airship will not seriously impede the development of aerial navigation. The predecessor of this ship has been bought by the German government, and its successor was under construc tion before the accident.

Santos Du-mont and aeronauts of other countries have constructed successful airships, so this accident will merely cause delay and not at all defeat the development of the new mode of nav igation. nd yet the feeling of disappoint ment, even of grief, with which the burning of the ship was received throughout Germany is natural. Suppose that the Clermont had been sunk during Fulton's return trip from Al bany. Would not the lamentations in New York have been loud and long, and, if the electric transmission of the news had been possible a century ago, would not the whole country have shared the grief? Fulton ould and would have built other hips, but the loss of the vessel which had proved the possibility of navigation by steam would have been felt no less keenly for the knowledge that other similar boats were possible. That is the feeling of the Germans over Zeppelin's mishap.

This particular airship had remained afloat for twelve hours. She had put Germany at the head of the new science of flying through the air, she had rewarded the long and patient belief'of her in- eutor, the sort of faith without which scientific and mechanical progress would be impossible. That the sym bol of Zeppelin and of Germany triumph should blow up in the very hour of her achievement was a cruel and at the same time highly dramatic ustanee of Injustice. But though the building of airships will go on in uermany aim eisewnere, this misfortune will have conse quences tor good, experts wno watched Zeppelin's flight declare that the German government will withdraw its test requirement of twenty- four hours in the air, as imposing al together too much strain on a light air motor. hetlier the accident was due to the effort to maintain too long a flight, as this expert thinks, is not clear as yet, but it is clear that great er precautions will be taken to pro tect airships after launching.

Gen eral Allen of our Signal Corps, who watching Baldwin's flights, says that houses for airships will have to be built before their use can uecome practicable, and he will ask for an appropriation from Congress for houses which shall shelter such ships as a dock shelters steamers. If the present machinery will not sustain an all-day flight, mechanical genius will be applied to building motors equal to th it demand. We shall have more and better airships. The great difficulty of maintaining a course' in the face of the wind has been conquered The questions of protection at anchor ami of motors adequate to the strait) I.