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1 THE JOURNAL LUCLAN SWIFT, J. S. McLAIN, MANAGER. EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION.

TERMS Payable to The Journal Printing Co. Delivered by MalL One copy, one month $0.35 One copy, three 1.00 copy, six months 2.00 One copy, one year 4.00 Saturday Eve. edition, 20 to 26 1.50 Delivered by Carrier. One copy, one week 8 cents One copy, one cents Single copy 8 Advertisers Prove Circulation. The Minneapolis Journal LEADS all Minneapolis papers in amount of advertising carried in June, 1901.

The Figures that Prove It Measurements for June, 1901. Columns 1017 and Evening issues and 5 Sundays 975 issues and 5 Sundays 871 THE ADVERTISERS GET RESULTS IN THE JOURNAL, That is why THE JOURNAL gets the most advertising. Its Circulation Goes Into the Homes. They Say it Was All Right The second section and last installment of The Journal's excursion party returned home yesterday to add their tribute of praise for the eminently satisfactory manner in which they had been cared for through the entire journey. It is exceedingly gratifying to The Journ a 1 to know that its efforts to make this excursion a success have met with the approval In every particular of those who in a sense the guests of this paper during the two week's tVip.

It is not a email undertaking to plan a trip of that extent, to provide for carriage drives, hotel accommodations, sleeping berths on ships and cars, meals enroute and produce satisfactory results everywhere. The Journal will feel fully repaid for the heavy responsibility assumed if it shall always succeed, in like ventures, in calling out as enthusiastic and generous appreciation as has been expressed by the people "did" the Buffalo exposition under its care. A Leavenworth, editor turned the hose onto an abusive actor. This isn't the first time editors have thrown cold water on actors. The Heat in Leavenworth (Leavenworth, yesterday was the center of the heat area.

The thermometer registered 108 there. To what extent thia high temperature may have been due to one of the exciting of the day in that city it would be folly to discuss, tout in a limited circle, at least, the heat endured was not all registered by the thermometer. Colonel D. R. Anthony, the veteran editor of the Leavenworth Times, was called upon by an actor named Castleberry, who declared his intention of the editor because of an article recently published criticising Mr.

Castleberry's histrionic performances. The colonel not only refused to be whipped, but he ordered the actor to leave the building, and on refusal to do so, 6eized a hose which a window washer was using and drenched the actor from head to foot. The wetting, however, did not drown the actor's ardor for a fuss and he followed the editor into his office, where the newspaper man, for the purpose of emphasizing his order to keep out, began to comb the actor's hair with the legs of a chair. Mr. Castleberry evidently was not acquainted with the man with whom he sought an encounter.

Colonel Anthony Anthony has a record. He has been shot two or three times himself, but on two or three occasions he was quicker than the other fellow. Anthony is 78 years old, but he is still a terror to evil-doers and bad actors, though the latest demonstration of his fearlessness resulted in less serious con- consequences than some previous exhibitions. He is pre-eminently "the fighting editor;" but it must be confessed that his fighting methods have been somewhat modified since he substituted a garden hose for a revolver, and an office chair for a shot gun. It looks as if the mayor really ought to promote O'Brien to a captaincy.

The Bulletin Board Offense Buffalo, realizing that the impression ahe makes upon visitors to the Pan- American exposition is unfavorably affected by the multitude of bill boards and "bulletins" which afflict that city, in common with others, has been making a determined effort to effect their regulation. In this she has failed because the appellate court has found that the city has no power to regulate advertising signs. But in consequence of the decision legislation will be sought giving municipalities the power to tax billboards and regulate their size and character. Such legislation might well be undertaken in every state; and with profit financially and artistically. The poor drawing, the gorgeously crude coloring, the entire lack of taste, the positive indecency of many of theae great signs which stretch across blocks, to say nothing of the dirty and ragged posters which disfigure the fences and walls, vacant buildings and store windows of the city deprave taste and do much to thwart the development of the love of art as public art colections and exhibitions do to encourage them.

The people ha. the right to enact legislation which will prevent the vendors of this form of advertising from making their cltits eyesores and places which visitors are glad to leave behind; they have the right to protect themselves and their homes from such noxious surroundings. A great, roughly painted, disgusting bulletin board which you cannot avoid seeing without closing your eyes ia as much of a nuisance as a pile of decaying garbage, and will soon be recognized as such by the law, with the consequence that the bulletin and poster form of advertising will be made to conform to decency and approximate good taste. Two American and Cowherd somewhat rudely treated by a street car conductor in Amsterdam. He thought they were English.

Upon discovering that they were Americans he apologized. It is less than three years since the Americans got the unretracted insults and the English the apologies. This arduous labor of being a has its redeeming features. A New Fourth of July Celebrant George Washington Emilo Aguinaldo Fama is vigorously celebrating the Fourth of July at Manila to-day. He baa laid in a big supply of bomba, cannon flre- crackers, Roman candles, and rockets and will other wise jubilate on the double celebration of the American Declaration of Independence and the launching of the new civil government under Governor Taft in eighteen or twenty provinces of the Philippine archipelago, carrying with it the enjoyment of American protection of life, liberty and property, all civil and religious privileges, self government and the boon of a well-organized system of public education.

There is no doubt that George Washington Emilio Asuinaldo Fama feels much better on this Fourth of July than he did a year ago, even if ihe was boss and dictator of the Tagal insurrectos, shifting his headquarters dally as the American advance crowded him. He has learned much during the past year. That is the reason he appears to-day as a reconstruct- Ed rebel; no longer, a rebel, but an ardent champion of the government whose forces he erstwhile proposed to drive into the sea andi annihilate. Why this change? Don Emilio discovered that his apparently devoted supporters in the United Sattes were lying to him and imposing a kind of Cardiff giant hoax upon his credulity. The glamour of the "last ditch" faded away like the gorgeous colors of a summer sunset cloud.

He discovered that he would be doubly damned by posterity if he continued to fool his own people and he found that Lincoln was correct when he said: "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but but you can't fool all the people all the time." Our American Tagals have at last come to the same conclusion, and that is the reason that we hear nothing more about Don Emilio being the "Washington of the Philippines" and about the loquacious Agoncillo and Sixto 'being apostles of liberty. It would be a good idea for the anti-imperialists to confess their sins with a miserere, to-day, and join their fellow citizens in a hearty celebration of this glorious day, made more illustrious than ever by reason of the extension of our American institutions ot two island groups in the Pacific and to a fine little isle oi the West Indian group. Most Americans ultimately yield to facts accomplished. The case of Dutch bulbs and American flour is a concrete presentation of the necessity of a new national tariff policy to fit the struggle for the world's trade. Our present tariff policy was formulated to gain and hold the home market for American manufacturers.

Now the foreign trade is the thing. We shut out $250,000 worth of Dutch bulbs because that was in line with our true policy thirty years ago, and thereby stand to lose a flour market worth $4,000,000. "Why," says- Mayor Ames, indignantly, referring to the conviction of Burke O'Brien, "he served our city as alderman from the second ward." This is the first time on record that service in the city council has been cited as a certificate of character. The Rejection of Mrs. Passmore Ida Husted Harper, who has written a "Life of Susan B.

Anthony," and conducts a woman's rights column in the New York Sun, devotes considerable space in the Sunday issue of that paper to a discussion of the action of the Minneapolis chamber of commerce in rejecting the application of Mrs. S. M. Passmore for a membership in the chamber. Referring to the idea of the eight directors who opposed Mrs.

Passmore, that they could not afford to establish a precedent for the admission of women to the chamber, however much they might esteem Mrs. Passmore personally, Miss Harper says: Of course it le pleasant for Mrs. Passmore to know that they consider her such a very nice woman, but how is that going to compensate her for the disadvantage of not having a membership on the Board of Trade? If she should go out of the grain business on account of the high opinion entertained of her by the Chamber of would it contribute to her maintenance? The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce may pass just as many resolutions as those eight men who rejected Mrs. Passmore choose to vote for, but they can no more prevent women from eventually becoming members, than they can check the water from flowing over their falls or stop up the source of the Mississippi. The undeniable tendency of the times is more and more to give women equal political, business and social privileges and rights with men.

They are now freely admitted to the practice of medicine and law, and have successfully engaged by the thousands in various kinds of business. While it is not likely that women will ever enter business and the professions in such numbers as to endanger the supremacy of men In those occupations, the woman who, from necessity, peculiar abilities or opportunities or all of these circumstances, enters a business, should have every facility and accommodation in her chosen business that its organization extends to all recognized members. It appears to The Journal that the action of the chamber of commerce In rejecting Mrs. Passmore's epplication for membership was ill-advised. It'was distinctly unfair to Mrs.

Passmore personally and the argument based on precedent is really no argument at is merely a honeyed way of concealing inherited prejudice against, -women in business, a species of moth-eaten conservatism from which so progressive a body of men as those THE MINNEAPOLIS JOUENAL. constitute the chamber of commerce should be free. Once in a great while there is an opportunity to advertise by keeping out of the newspapers. For example Minneapolis does not appear in the daily lists of "killed" and "prostrated" by heat. The rain issued no verbose proclamations but it has done more business in the way of "restricting" the "promiscuous" of fireworks than our kind, paternal, self-styled "ruler," Dr.

Ames. A Fruitless Effort During the last three years the Canadian government, and especially the provincial government of Quebec and the Catholic church of that province, have carried on a systematic work, having for its purpose the repatriation of the hundreds of thousands of French Canadians who have found homes in the United States, particularly New England. Pamphlets and newspapers have been distributed in great quantities setting forth the allurements of free farms Canada and making strong appeals to the race sentiment. People of French blood resident in the United States have been urged to return to the home's of their fathers in Canada, to live once more where the French tongue is the prevailing language and the Catholic church, their church, is supreme; and where, by virtue of their sturdiness and prolificity they may contribute to the upbuilding of a powerful French influence in America. But the effort has been against the current, it has run counter to the tendencies of the times, and is now admitted to be a failure.

Says the Montreal Witness; Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent upon this work of repatriation by the provincial government, with the full sanction of the people. But it has all been in vain or almost in vain. There has been no return at all proportionate to the enthusiasm, effort and money expended. Feeble colonies at Lake St. John and in Alberta represent the only success of the movement.

The youth of French Canada, like the ambitious and energetic youth of all North America, are seeking wider opportunities themselves. These they have found in the United States, and so great has been the attraction that they have come in such numbers as to almost overwhelm and Gallicize parts of that very New England from which the population of the United States has so largely proceeded. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that in the face of the effort to get previous emigrants to return to Quebec the young men and women continue to cross the line to face those dangers to soul and body which are so graphically portrayed in the literature of the back-to-Canada movement. "Rattlesnake Walter l. Hawley, Jim." author of "Rattlesnake jim gport ature.

of Deadman's Gulch," "Old Pap Grimes," "The Kiag of the Georgia Moonshiners" and other popular literature of the day, has been telling the Cleveland Leader how It is done. The publisher seems to be chiefly responsible for the output. He has a score of men on his staff who have hot imaginations and who can turn out yards of copy without much exertion. These publishers keep a close watch upon the daily papers for stories of sensational crimts and adventure that may serve as incidents in the fiction prepared for the small boy, and when a great event or an Incident of national interest occurs, there is an exciting race tween publishers to be the first to put upon the market a dime novel relating in some way to the is in the public mind. Within a week of Dewey's victory in Manila bay, a score of thrilling stories in which that battle was the chief incident were on the news stands.

When ther? are no particular events around which to festoon the narrative, our old friends, Alkali Ike, Gentleman Joe, Big Foot Sandy, One Eye Pete, Deadwood Dick and the Boy Detective are re-embodied and sent on their careers, trailing Indians, hanging horse thieves, rescuing kidnapped maidens, finding lost heirs, recovering lost fortunes, and in other ways helping good people out of bad scrapes and leaving bad people "clinging, weak and despairing, to a yielding twig that holds them for one thrilling moment suspended between the edge of the cliff and tho yawning, rockbound abyss a thousand feet below." Some of the necessities of the trade are thrilling incidents and climaxes for each chapter and the final triumph of virtue and the quick and hot overthrow of vice. There are five large publishing houses in New York alone producing tons of this literature weekly. The books are always highly moral. Indecency or profanity are strictly barred, though the villain is allowed "to swear under his breath." What is required is action and again action. Adventures, thrills and heroism are the sine qua nons.

It is better to let the boy read them. He will anyway. It gives him the reading habit and by and by, if he is any good, ha will graduate into something better. Guam seems to have a hoodoo. Commander Seaton Schroeder, who now holds sway in Guam's metropolis, where Leary once ruled, has stirred up a decided rumpus among the enlisted men on the island by issuing a severe order because of the theft of one barrel of whisky from the naval hospital on the island.

Men are kept in the barracks and are not allowed out after taps. There is general fear expressed in the foreign offices of Europe that the rum has been drunk. The story that the king hypnotized Speaker Henderson and gave him the post-hypnotic suggestion of an English-speaking alliance of friendship and mutual back-scratching is by the we fear. Ex- Speafter Reed would have scorned to have hobnobbed with royalty. Bryan democrats in New York threaten to bolt if Tammany puts up a gold man for mayor.

The new democracy will have to hunt men without any conviction on except the belief that it is a very present help in time of trouble. The Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri, trying to reverse the supreme court, presents the spectacle of the small tan dog trying to bark the steam roller on the highway to a standstill. The attempt to let go of the cracker after it has started to explode but before it has finished is usually unsuccessful, even though a good many of us are quicker than a mulekick. A sheepish young man In Nebraska took out a permit to marry a lady named Mutton.

As she was quite wealthy, it was a case of mint sauce. J. A. Edgerton, the populist poet, expresses a desire to die for liberty. Better wait till election time.

It's too hot to die for liberty in July. It was said before election that the mayor stood by his friends. He does, but one wishes that he would choose another variety of friend. Herbert Spencer, now over 80, has Just spoken in England. He says: "What fosters militarism makes for barbarism." The noise we can all endure with considerable pleasure Is the dropping of $20 gold pieces into our piles.

Satan Is busy in hot weather inflaming the language of mortal man. And where is our good pastorT Give the kid a chance. You were Just as big a fool when you were little. It's the guy with the gas pipe legs who I never works who feels the heat. AN UNDERGROUND RAILWAY STORY How a Threatened Uprising of Slaves Was Forestalled by the Civil War.

Denver Post. In the troubled days that preceded the civil war, the fear of an Insurrection of the slaves was an ever present terror in the south. How well founded that was few realize even today. Rev. Moses Dickson, who has been in the city this last week, could tell them.

He came to be present at the convention of the International Order of Twelve, Knights of Tabor, a beneficial society of colored people of which he is the founder and the present head. present society," says Mr. Dlckson, "was founded and named to perpetuate the memory of the twelve men who organized the Knights of Liberty. That was a secret society founded in St. Louis in 1846.

"I was born in Ohio, but when a young man I traveled through the south until I became filled with the single purpose of doing something to better the lot of my race. At St. Louia I called together eleven other young men whom I had found in different parts of the county, all of whom had the same object as my own. It was determined to organize the slaves throughout the south, drill them, and in ten years from that time strike for freedom. The organization was successful.

Every southern state except Texas and Missouri was covered by a chain of camps, where the picked men of the neighborhood met by night and drilled. At the expiration of the ten years we had 42,000 men drilled and well armed. Plans were complete for a rising; a concentration of the forces was ordered at Atlanta, Go. We expected to have nearly 200,000 men when we reached Atlanta. A day was set, but before the time came it had become apparent to the leaders that the relations between the north and' south were becoming so strained that it was decided to postpone our rising.

"I saw John Brown at Davenport just before he Btarted for Harper's Ferry, and I tried to dissuade him by telling him that the time had not yet come, but he would go. "It was in the underground railroad that our organization proved most effective. In the management of this underground railroad prominent people of both north and south were engaged. Strange as it may seem, some of the most generous supporters of the railroad were slave owners. They did not approve of the system, but they had inherited slaves and treated them so well that they had no desire to run away.

They had nothing to fear from the railroad. "Of these men, one Is still living, General Cassius Clay of Kentucky. At one time he gave me $1,000 for the railroad. Contributions came from England, too. Daniel O'Connell, Henry P.

Buxton and Lord Wilberforce contributed money, and, the two last knew AMUSEMENTS Foyer Cbat. The Pike Theater company will give four more performances of "Trilby" at the Metropolitan this week, including a popular-priced matinee on Saturday afternoon. The company has scored a hit in this production, in which all the members appear to good advantage, and the audiences have been large in spite of the torrid temperature. The play to be presented by the Pike company at the Metropolitan all next week, beginning Sunday, will be Bronson Howard's melodramatic story "The Banker's Daughter," a play that for many years held a position second to none in the American drama. Miss Jessaline Rodgers, a strong local favorite, has been specially engaged by Manager Hunt to play the leading comedy role, that of the irrepressible widow, Mrs.

Brown. CAN YOU FINISH IT? The Contributors' Club of the Atlantic gives a quasi invitation to American poets to complete the following unfinished sonnet: "For five long days and nights the driving I Fled ever onward 'fore the angry blast From out the iey 1 north; no shadow cast By sun or moon in all that time. But A new day dawns. The distant mountains show Their broad, majestic brows; the storm has passed; The sun in glory shines, and now at last, Its fury 1 o'er, the wind breathes soft and low." Just at this point the sonnet writer stopped to shoot a Jack rabbit and the muse took her flight. The Atlantic will print the best concluding six lines, aware of the' enormous distention of, its mail which must follow.

The White House Has Settled It. Buffalo Express. The last word hns been said on the subject of male shirt waists, the captain of the watch having decided to admit the wearer of one of them to the White House. The Writ of Injunction. Chicago Journal.

There is no doubt that the writ of injunction is one of the most potent as well as the most valuable remedies the law affords. Give Us One More Whack. Milwaukee Sentinel. And still, gentlemen, the fact remains undisputed that a primary election failed to purify Minneapolis politics. INSECTS THAT CARRY BAROMETERS Library Digest.

Weather prophets of a certain stamp are very fond of attempts to foretell atmospheric changes by watching the behavior of animals and insects. Some popular ideas along this line have been proved to be incorrect; yet it is by no means certain that we ought to treat all investigation of this sort with contempt. Some insects, especially, are certainly sensitive to alterations in the temperature and humidity of the air, and in some cases this mayenable an observer to detect the approach of altered conditions before they would be noticeable in the ordinary way. Some recent investigations on the "subject are described in Cosmos (Paris, May 25) by Professor A. L.

Clement, who holds the chair of agricultural entomology at the Luxembourg. He quotes M. Dumeril, professor in the Museum of Natural History, as saying in 1863: "Tree toads foretell rain by their piping, and a living hygrometer may be made by confining one of these creatures in a glass. If they are furnished with a little ladder, their ascension shows that the weather will be fine." Later Marshal Vaillant insisted on the necessity of observations of this kind in French African possessions. And yet, after all, says Professor Clement, It has been proved experimentally that the tree toad can furnish no information at all about the weather, and is inferior for this purpose to the most modest of barometers.

Recent observations have been made by the celebrated entomologist, M. J. H. Fabre, on creatures of a very different "geotrupes." It is a common belief in the country, says M. Fabre, that the geotrupes (a genus of beetles, including the dung-beetle) fly about in greater numbers in the evening, when the weather is' about to be fine.

For their work they require a warm, still atmosphere. If it rains, or is cold, they do not stir out. To test the value of this popular belief, he made careful observations of numbers of the beetles, whom he confined in cages for the purpose. He finds that they are very lively at the approach of fine weather and quiet when a storm impends, even when there is no sign of it in the sky. They seem to be influenced also by electricity in the atmosphere, and in November, 1894, M.

Fabre believes that they foretold the approach of an unusually heavy storm from the north of France. And this is not the only oase where atmospheric disturbances seem to affect insects. Says Professor Clement: A caterpillar found on pines in the south of France furnishes a remarkable example. It leaves the egg in September and lives in great numbers in thick, Bilky nests on pine trees, whose needles it eats. It passes the whole winter in these nests, going out only at night to feed on on the neighboring branches.

Now, when a barometric depression Is approaching, these worms keep at home and do not venture out on the branches, when wind, rain and snow might take them by surprise and overcome them. They are furnished with eight special organs, which appear on their backs in January. These are formed of retractile feelers, which the creatures can push out or withdraw at will. M. Fabre regards these organs as "meteorological apparatus." The geotrupes and the caterpillars are not the only insects that may be able to furnish useful weather indications.

Beea are very sensitive to atmospheric variations, and they are often to be seen, before storms that no one could foresee under ordinary conditions, flying about near the doors of their hives and refusing to leave them, although the sun is shining brightly. of the organization of the Knights of Liberty and worked with us. "When the war broke out there was a shipload of arms and ammunition in Mobile har- I bor, and another in Galveston harbor, sent I to us by Englishmen. "Once when I was in New Orleans before the war, I went down to the auction block when a sale was going on. They had just sold a woman of 32 or 33 years old to a planter 'down the river," and her daughter, a girl of 14, 'up the "I went to the depot of the underground railroad and detailed three men to arrange the escape of the mother and three more to look after the daughter.

"At 12 that night they were both in the depot. The next thing was to get them out of the city, an-d in that we were helped by the mate of the river steamboat Orinoco, who was one of us. That night we had tailors and barbers busy at the depot, and in the morning I went down to the levee with a good-looking young man and a boy. I said to the mate, "are a couple of young fellows who want to work their way up the river. Can you give them a job? 1 'Send them said the mate.

And by the time the boat sailed the city was placarded with descriptions of the runaways. "At Baton Rouge the boat was searched, but nothing was discovered. The fugitives finally reached Chatham, Ontario. The mother is still living there and I saw her not long ago. She remembered me as Blue Dick, the name by which I went in those days.

"One of the most interesting escapes that I took an active part in was one from Charleston, S. C. They boasted in Charleston that no negro could escape from that city. Indeed, the boast was city was so well guarded that no one who could not givo a perfectly satisfactory account of himself stood any chance of getting out. "To get by, we had built for a young negro who stood "willing to take any chance, however desperate, a box so contrived that a man inside could supply himself always with air.

We then stocked the box with food and water and made arrangement with the mate of one of our vessels to ship it, "This side and addressed it to Wendell Phillips, Boston. Everything worked well and the box was delivered to the consignee on the wharf at Boston with the contents in good condition. The negro was taken in charge by philanthropic men and finally was sent to Harvard. After he left college he published several books, the best known of which is 'An Autobiography of Life in Slavery and in a book still on sale at the bookstores. This young man's name was William Brown, but after his experience he called himself William Box Brown, and It is by that name that his are signed." "WHAT HIGHER EDUCATION COSTS John Gllmer Speed, writing in the current number of Alnslie's of the cost of college instruction, says: "The grounds and buildings are appraised at the productive funds at the scientific apparatus at the benefactions at while the total income of them all is $21,000,000.

That is a great greater than the $16,000,000 the poor people of the city of New York annually pay into the policy shops of the metropolis in a game in which they have no chance to win. Here is an illuminating contrast. The whole country pays $21,000,000 annually for its highest education; the metropolitan city alone puts yearly in a game that only preys on the ignorant. I fancy no college man ever played policy except In the pursuit of knowledge and by way of experiment. When ignorance is so costly, higher education cannot be very dear at twice what is now spent on it." Ohio Platform Straddles on Tariff.

Springfield Republican. The tariff plank of the Ohio republican platform is viewed as a straddle by the expansionist foreign trade advocates, who are now at swords' points with the home marketers. The president is described by one Washington correspondent as being pulled this way and hauled the other. It is quite certain, however, that Mr. McKinley sees the tariff question with a larger vision than he did ten or even four years ago.

Thie tariff war with Russia cannot fail to have an educational effect in favor of a reciprocity treaty, for the country has reached a point where tariff wars are sure to make American interests yell. Beauties of Annexation. Washing-ton. Star. Considering the superiority of this country's manufactures and facilities for agriculture, together with its commercial boldness and enterprise, perhaps the best thing for England to do is to consider the advisability of getting annexed.

In This a Compliment? Bismarck Tribune. Editor Tuttle writes so entertainingly from abroad and the Mandan Pioneer maintains such a high standard under Gilbreath's management the prolonged absence of Mr. Tuttle is entirely endurable. The Bear Garden. Atlanta Constitution.

The Austrian international menagerie has resumed its Babylonish agitation. Geotrupes (Dung Beetles) in Flight. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1901. GRAMPER'S CELEBRATION By MAY BELLEVILLE BROWN 1901, by M. B.

Brown. "Jest like this selfish generation," Gramper Van Boskirk ejaculated. mau-jacl: of 'em gallivantin' up to Waxhaw fer the Fourth, leavln' Pewee Corners empty as a meetin'-house on weekday, 'cept fer you an' me, thet's too old an' lame to go, an' Poorhouse Sally that'll hafter stay with the Smith's an' Beazlee's babies." Cappen Carter, resting his chin on the head of his cane, nodded vigorous assent. "Las' year they did as they'd orter," said he. "Hed a lawyer down frum Waxhaw to make a speech, an' yeu an' me set on the platform with the big bugs, 'count o' being ol' settlers." Gramper's chin worked with vigor for a moment, and then he spat out indignantly: "That's the curse railroads.

People's never satisfied to stay at hum. Las' year they'd hed to drive, or else go afoot, an' this year they must git up a big 'xcursion, an' go traipein' off. Indianny wus spiled the same way, an' I got up an' come to Kansas twenty year ago, an' now here's the railroad." First Pewee Corners had been but the schoolhouse, where the farmers came once a month on Sunday to hear the circuit rider preach, and where their children came to school during the winter. Then, as the land was more thickly settled, a postoffice -was established in a farmhouse at the crossroads, then a country store, to which the goods were hauled in wagons from the nearest railroad, twenty-five miles away, and last of all, the early spring and summer had brought a railroad directly to their doors, so new as yet that all the travel was by means of constimctlon trains. In the meantime a sectionhouse, blacksmith shop and two or three other buildings had been added.

This little settlement was but one of several that were strung out on the railroad from Metropolis, the bustling young city on the Great Western railway, to Waxhaw, forty miles to the west. The approaching holiday was to be a double jollification, to celebrate Independence Day and the completion of the new road. The first passenger train was to carry a load of excursionists from Metropolis to Waxhaw. The regular trains would not run for some time, as the bridges on the line were but temporary wooden affairs, and the track was not fully ballasted as yet, but for this occasion the real estate agents had seen that a large crowd was assured, and the only ones discontented with the arrangements were Gramper Van Boskirk and Cappen Carter. It was the evening of the 3d that a message from Metropolis came clicking into the little office, causing the operator to turn out with a shout that brought the men from all parts of town.

i "Every seat's taken in the excursion train," he announced, "and no more cars can be had. They've ordered the construction train to back down from Waxhaw early in the morning, and every one from here up the road is to go on that. They've two caboose 3, and will put seats in the flat cars, so we will have plenty of room." The morning of the Fourth dawned bright and hot. The roofs of the town seemed to curl up, shingle by shingle; corn blades and weeds hung limp; the hills around the horizon swam in glimmering heat waves. By 8 o'clock the construction train backed across the Pewee creek bridge, just at the edge of town, and up to the platform.

It was lavishly decorated with bright bunting and flags, and the hilarious crowd swarmed I aboard aud took noisy possession. The enj £me puffed and snorted, the children shouted: there was a rumble, a roar, a succession of a trail of smoke, and the inhabitants of Pewee Corners were gone. Gramper and Cappen sat on the edge of the platform gazing vindictively down the narrowing rails toward the disappearing train. "I s'pose they think thet no one ever hed a railroad before!" asserted Gramper. "They act es if they owned track, train an' the hull caboodle." "People ain't like they ust to be," said Cappen plaintively.

"They're light-minded f.n' onstable. They don't know who they're celebratin', but it's anythin' fer a frolic, an' farmin' may go to the dogs." "An' they're goin' to hey a whole ox, an' a Nunited States senator," ruminated Gramper in a tone of regret. The sun climber higher, and still the old men sat on the platform mourning their fate. Daily New York Letter BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL, No. 21 Park Row, New York.

A Hot Fireworks Year. July fireworks plants have been running overtime manufacturing thunder and lightning and Chinese wars, and tracing the visages of new political aspirants. Most of this year's novelties have all the thunder and flashings of war about them. The sputtering pinwheel will make way for the "submarine" torpedo, and the hesitating Roman candle will resign In of screeching serpents and noise bombs. The ingenuity of the fireworks designer has geen taxed to the uttermost, but he has measured up to his task.

Those who have "money to'burn" will never have any regrets when they see it through the creative genius of the connoisseur of colored fires transformed into rainbows, floating beacons and the essence of moonlight. The manufacturer of fireworks has well nigh reached perfection. In a day and a half the face of a distinguished American can be made 'ready to shine resplendently in mammoth proportions. The Historic Preservation Society. Much credit is due to the American Scenic and Historic Preservation society for the work accomplished during the last year.

A report on this work has Just been prepared. In It the saving of the Palisades, largely through its influence, the identification of the site of Fort Lee, the acquisition of the historic Jumel mansion by the city, the effort to save Fraunces' tavern, the Poe cottage and Hamilton grange, the prevention of the destruction of the boulevard trees, the landscape treatment of Central park, the prevention of the mutilation of the ancient Manor hall in Yonkers, the improvomentof the Stony Point battlefield, the marking of an Indian fort in the Catskills, the beautification of the grounds around the old Salem church, the necessity of preserving the ruins of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, the effort to secure the creation of a state reservation embracing Walking Glen, the perpetuation of the old names and the bestowal of appropriate new ones are some of the topics touched upon. Buffalo in Sew York City. There are now only a few more than 2,000 American buffalo in existence anywhere, and it is a matter of some satisfaction that fourteen of that number at least are safe in Bronx park. The danger to the American buffalo as he exists in the remnants of the wild herds and in collections, not so much from utter extinction as from hybridizing and from degeneration in captivity.

The conditions at Bronz favor the protection of the specimens there from both these dangers. It is an interesting circumstance that Bronx park is so attractive a place to the fowls of the air that nine -wild gf jese voluntarily joined the collection there this year, settling down in passing upon the pleasant ponds. But the large serpents which have had to live in cages feel differently about the place. They have to be fed by force to prevent them from starving themselves to death. The goosa is generally accounted foolish and the serpent wise, but here is a case in which the goose shows much better sense than the serpent.

A Tall Smokeotack. What Is said to be the second tallest s-mokestack in America has just been completed over in the old Constable Hook section of Bayonne by the Orford Copper company. It is designed to afford ample relief from noxious fumes and smoke to the long suffering residents of Staten Island and Bayouue and persons on vessels in the upper bay and the Kill yon Kull. Business men and residents along the north shore of Stateu Island have suffered many years from the dense clouds of smoke and fumes of copper smelting, refining and chemical works. Even federal The Second Seaport.

Cleveland Plain Dealer. Another victory for the American army mule. New Orleans now ranks ahead of Boston on exports, being the second exporting city of the nation. Suddenly Gramper rose stiffly to his feet, pulling Cappen up after him. yander!" he exclaimed, pointing excitedly up the road with his cane.

Above the bank of Pewee creek, just where the railroad was flung across, arose a cloud of smoke that every moment increased in volume. They hobbled down the track to tho bank and peered over. Where the great timbers of the temporary bridge crossed and recrossed, flames licked greedily at the dry, tlnderlike wood. Gramper pointed to a dry ledge of earth, far below the upper bank. Them tramps thet left town this mornin' slep' down thar las' night, an' must've built a flre fer breakfast.

See horw it's crep' frum thar all along them beams till now mighty nigh the whole thing's afire!" "Lan o' gracious!" ejaculated Cappen, all his spite at the new railroad swallowed up in the face of this calamity. "Ain't thet toe scand'lous?" Just then, from far up the eastern stretck of track, a whistle cleft the air. Grampep suddenly clutched Cappen's arm. "It's a jedginent on this perverse an' stiffnecked gen'ratlon!" he exclaimed, dramatically. "Thet bridge'll be gone by the time the 'xcursion train's In.

Pewee Corners up at Waxhaw with the bobycue, but Metropolis an' the United States senator an' brass band'll be here, an' it'll be our celebration. Hip, hip, hooray!" And the old man's cane described a triumphant circle in the air. A telegraph operator on the excursion train, finally explained the matter to Waxhaw, where a bored crowd was impatiently waiting lor the belated visitors. For a town of three hundred people cannot do much entertaining if the speakers of the day and the only brass band are fifteen miles away, on the other side of a burned-out bridge. The address of welcome was delivered, and the Coyote quartet of Waxhaw sang two or three patriotic songs, according to program.

The picnic dinner was held, but, on the whole, it was a lonesome affair, and even the barbecue failed to arouse much enthusiasm. It was well along toward evening when the construction train, with its banners drooping, slowly backed up and stopped on the opposite side of Pewee creek. The crowd climbed down the embankment to the foot bridges that were hastily improvised from the seats used in the flat cars, the narrow stream was crossed, and a dusty, dejected and tirel lot of people filed up the bank. In the grove that stretched away toward the creek from the platform were seated, in groups on the ground and on improvised seats, the excursionists from Metropolis, presenting a marked contrast to the homecomers, so comfortable and good-natured did they look. On the platform was seated a complacent resplendent brass band, the United States senator, whose name had advertised the Waxhaw celebration, several local celebrities from Metropolis, and Cappen Carter, his chin upheld by aggressive dignity, whila from the speaker's place held forth Gramper Van Boskirk, chairman of the day, who -was winding up the program by relating, in moat approved frontier style, some of his experience with the Indians and buffaloes.

As Gramper brought the exercises to a successful close, Pewee Corners realized that the impromptu occasion had been a success, and its drooping spirits rose. And when tha senator turned back for another handshake with Gramper and Cappen, the two old cronies tcok on new importance in the eyes of the people. After the train had pulled out to the music of three cheers for the senator, three more given, with a will, for the heroes who had risen to the occasion. This Gramper acknowledged in a dignified manner, adding, with some acerbity: "Now thet yeu cv seen what two superannu-ar-ated ol' men c'n do, I hope ye won't be runnin' on wil' goose chases of th' country, bufll stay ter home an' celebrate yer own town, the -way ye'd orter." 'Twus a great great day," said Cappen, as they hobbled down the road in the dusk. "Yep, yeu bet it wus," affirmed Gramper.

"I give them tramps my oldes' boots, an' thet orn'ry brown wamus thet I ust to wear at butcherin' times. 'F I'd know'd they WU3 goin' to hey thet accident under bridge I d'no but I'd done more." ties have taken a hand at protesting. Colonel Robert M. Thompson, president of the Orford Copper company had experiments made resulting in his company building this mammoth smokestack. The completed stack is 360 feet high and thirty feet square at the base.

The inside diameter of the stack at the top is ten feet, and eleven feet nine inches outside. The cost is $24,000. Work was begun last December. The first thirty feet of this smokestack is square, being built of hard brick lined with fire brick. The remainder, 330 feet, is of special radial brick.

There are eight intakes. Sickness Among Horses. Hospitals have been seriously affected In their ambulance work by the epidemic among horses. Dr. Stewart, superintendent of Bellevue, has officially announced that the ambulance work of that institution has been crippled.

Of the twenty-one horses that are used in the Bellevue hospital ambulance service, nine are suffering with the distemper and are unable- to work. Eight horses belonging to Fordham hospital, and six belonging to the Harlem hospital are out of service. Other animals are being hired to take their places. In the upper parts of the city, especially in the Bronx, the police have used patrol wagons as ambulances, but in several cases that plan has had to be given up owing to the sickness of the police horses. A Fnnny law Case.

An interesting Brooklyn couple Is engaged in the pleasant pafttime of showing their fellow creatures how easy it is for a man and his wife to be engaged in bitter Htigai tion in the courts and yet preserve their I domestic relations without friction in their I home. Alexander Russell and his wife, the principals In the action, have been five yoara married. Some time ago they bought a house, the wife putting $1,700 into the venture, while the husband paid in J4.000. The action Is by the latter to secure title to the property, which is in the wife's name. It was over a year ago that the question of title arose, and since that time two of the best known attorneys in the sister borough, representing each of the litigants, have been vainly trying to settle the case.

When called In court neither Mr. Russell nor his amiable wife could tell what the I trouble was about or why the case had not been settled within the year. Mrs. Russell said she thought the money Mr. Russell had invested was a present, while Mr.

Russell thinks the house is his. As neither party could inform the Judge of any trouble ever between them on domestic matters, and as both said they were at present living in the house happily, the Solomon on the bench adjourned the case until fall and advised them to come to a settlement. Funny things I they do in Brooklyn. An Amusing? Strike. The latest novelty in the strike Hne has come from some of the laborers on the upper division of the rapid transit subway.

These toilers laid down their picks, shovels and other professional parapherralia and walked away from their jobs on a vacation one bright sunny afternoon without as much as saying "by your leave" to their employer. They about forty in number and work on the division was brought to a standstill for several hours, until new men could be secured. The only reason given by the men for striking was that the afternoon was pretty warm and they thought the work was not so important but that they could take a few days off and then go back the first cool day. But now that the strikers are out of their jobs they have appealed to their unions to have their grievances righted and much business of conferences between the subway contractors and the union delegates is going on. N.

A. An Appreciation of Elijah. New Orleans Times-Democrat. There is no grander character In Holy Writ than the Prophet Elij-ah, tearless and tenderhearted, the dread of impious monarchs, the scourge of idolaters..