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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, liwa. HABIHSBUBO STAB-INDEPEKDENT. SEPTEMBER 1003. at the New York Fashion Show declares that SOCIALISM IN ENGLA ND. THE SUR-INDEPENDENT.

Harrisburg. Pa. "THE GLOBE This Is the Young ther verification, and Without his having afforded the officials, whose reputations he attacked, any opportunity to explain what seemed to him objectionable. The charges in question were glaring irregularities on the part of members of the Dawes commission in their dealing with Indiana in the reservations by which the "wards of the nation" were deeply wronged. Secretary Hitchcock practically admits the accusation.

He declares that an investigation has been made "as the result of which certain removals Trohi "olliee by dismissal and enforced resignation resulted." That is a little better than Payne's first response to exposures, in his department. He denounced the accusations as false, i characterized (hem as'hot air" and "stump speeches," and insinuated that the author of the charges was not free from suspicion himself. But the were proved, just the same, though none of the culprits have been brought to justice. The Indian Association ha no prejudice against the administration or any part of it. Mr.

Garrett, in his reply to -the. Secretary's letter, asserts THE "YORKSHIRE" SUIT is the newest Materials are heavily" niotfcled Cheviots, coats with concave shoulders, vests of improper height, trousers moderately, and ilat but.r1.9t least. the- Fairest of $1 0, $12.50, $15, $18, $20 Boys' School Suits, $2.50 and $3.50 Vacation days are oyer. "The bell has; rung. Young America wants tO; be arrayed in the nicest clothes.

Our suits are -made to stand the racket and wear and tear of the play ground. $3.50 Suits are $2.50. $5.00 Suits are $3.50. Knee Pants are 50 Cents. "THE GLOBE." (Copyright, 1903, by Clarence S.

Darrow.) 'London, Aug. Although there are many radicals and labor leaders in Kn-glnnd who have their doubts as to the best course to take in the present crisis of trades unionism, there is one party that has no misgivings of an sort. This is the socialist party. In good repute and ill, in victory and ilefesi whatever the crisis or the issue, this party stands steadfast and proclaims that it points the only way to the sal-wit ion of the world. The court decisions cannot claim its attention.

Chamberlain may try to bring Kngland back to protection if he will. The British soldiers may drench South Africa with blood, here 's but one redress the co-operative commonwealth will cure all ills, and nothing else can bring smallest good. The Knglish socialist-has no faith in the "labor party;" it persistently insists that to elect men labeled "labor," but who stand for no definite programme of regeneration or reform, will be of no avail. In fact any movement toward independent action but diverts the mind from the real question and sets back the cause of the workingmen. For many years the British public has heard this still small voice crying in the wilderness; they have heard its call nnd passed it bv, almost without carins what it said.

For many weary years the still small voice has raised its cry seemingly regardless of whether the great mass of men ever hears its wail. One thing can he said of the socialists: Through all the years they have been consistent, they have been faithful, they have been optimistic. Over nnd over again its leaders have gathered the little Hock together and pointed to the promised land only a few leagues away; over and over again they have set the time when the devoted band should enter in; nnd over and over ngain the day has come and the strong bars of the gate scent just as high and secure as thev have ever hwn. True it is thiit" the faithful have so often prepared their ascension robes, nnd then painfully kid them by for some future (lay, that main- of the devoted bo ffin to doubt, the "time setters" who fix the dales: hut iu spite of this thev work away doggedly, regardless of whether anything shall come in this generation or this stage of existence or not. these socialism has grown to Uo a religion, a part of their very being, and they cling to it with the devotion and fervor of, spjue ancient grandmother ho caresses tne leaven ot the old Bible by whose light she has lived so long, and by whose premises she feels that she soon must die.

If you 'ask the' Kn'L'lish" socialist the movement is urou-veRsiinr iii. Rroot Britain he will not admit that ho' is (usappointed at its growth, or rather lac.i of CTOwth. He will ninWi7 mil explain as to why he- cannot point to more votes that the party has cast, but he stoutly insists that'the future is surelv his. As a matter of fact, in the ordinary meaning 0f tile wori tllrre -s no SQ eialist party in Great Britain. They put up no candidates, they east no votes.

uiey are not counted; they live by the force of their ideas, by' their work, which in a sense is or rather assimilated with the great mass of English life. Still in spite of this -the socialists insist that their ideas are rapidly spreading in England, and this claim 'is doubtless true. A brave and persistent band of men and women have for vears hammered at the strong citadel of' fixed opin-ions, and in many ways it is easilv seen mat tins work lias borne much fruit. Trades unionism is honeycombed with socialism. At the last general convention the vote by delegates as to whether the trades unions should take up socialism was barely lost, and Mr.

McDonald, the secretary of the London trade council, assured me to-day that there was probably not a trades union in England at this time that would refuse to pass any socialist resolution presented to its body. The severe handling that trades unions have received in the courts ha. done much to bring the English workingmen to beiieve that alter all the labor Question is purely a class struggle, and that either modern industrialism must cotitrol the world or the men who work must control. They are fast coming to believ? that if they should elect their members of parliament and their judges the. law would be made and construed to- give the earth to the present generation of men and to give the products of labor to the workingnian.

for this reason they see that while the other class make the laws and construe them they must expect that they, too, will remain true to their class. All through the great trades unions are large and influential bodies of men who believe that the political movement which is already in progress in Great Britain should be a straight socialist movement, and have nothing to do with such expedients as uioor pouues." in all circles is heard the statement that soci alism means something historically and really, that "labor" means nothing, and a victory gained under its banner would leave" the common people no further on than now. In addition to the other causes that urge the workingnian to socialism, the great victory in Germany has made a profound impression. The Englishmen are asking themselves) why they should be behind in the only international movement for the elevation of the working people, and they confess their position with humility and regret. In the present and in the past England has not been wanting in great names in the socialist ranks, and the attainments -of these men, if nothing else; has given the movement a substance and respect in' England which it has IN THE WEST END.

REV. B. H. HART AT FIFTH ST. Preached the First of the Series On "Jesus Christ and r.

Rev, B. H. Hart pastor of the Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, preached to a large congregation last evening, the sermon being the lirst of a series on "'Jesus Christ and the Working the American modls.es ara In advance of their, foreign cousins In designs and general styles. No doubt that Is true for the superi ority which Is recognised In American arti sans la pecepttble In their sisters. But some thing may be due to the opportunities of American modistes.

Their customers are so much more graceful and have so much better Judgment In (electing colors and materials that the modistes have better chances. All theories have been upset. Lightning destroyed a church In one section of the country and only stunned a few people In a circus tent in another. When the Western Union Telegraph Company tackles the Pennsylvania railroad In the courts It will be a battle of the Titans. EDITORIAL SNAP-SHOTS.

It Is generally understood that the Harrisburg correspondent of the is the editor of the Harr.sburg "Telegraph?" In yesterday's edition of the Phila delphia paper that correspondent rehashes some of the silly and absurd articles which have appeared editorially in the Harrisburg organ of the Dauphin county r.ns, including such misrepresentation of the Anti-Machine moremeetf as that some of the active men In it are simply aiming "to disrupt the Republican organisation" In the county, because. In state, and national politics some of them are Democrats. It Is hardly worth while to dignify wretched tud.with a formal denial. iia StuT-lndeptndent and Its proprietor, for example, have been Independent in local polities and oa more than one occasion asserted their independence in that regard by supporting Republicans for local offices. Notably was this the case in the mayoralty contest between ex-Mayor Fritchcy nnd Mr.

Sheesley, and in the effort for the attainment of better local government in 1899 led by a prominent Republican, ex-Senator Thompson. Since the correspondent of 'the "Inquirer" goes out of his way to assign personal motives for the course pursued by the Star-In--dependent aud Its proprietor in their support of the Anti-MaShiue movement, he should take the public into his confidence to the extent of declaring whether or not he approves the doing9 of the county ring In squandering the taxes of the people and to say whether or not the common report that he has personally denounced that ring is true. Since the articles in which he attributes personal motives to the proprietor of the Star-Independent are, written In the Interest and doubtless at the instance of the leaders of the county ring, it may not be inappropriate to say that some of the agents of the ring have not been at all 'backward In coming forward with very kindly meant propositions to induco the proprietor -Of the Star-Independent to join with the alleged private Anti-Machine man who acts as correspondent of the "Inquirer" iu publicly supporting the Machine county ticket; so that if the gratification of mere personal ambition or the attainment of personal benefit could have influenced the course of this newspaper It would have fallen into line with its esteemed contemporary, the "Telegraph," and would have stood shoulder to shoulder With t-the-Torrespendetti of iha in advo cacy of the election of the local ring ticket. But this sort of attack upon individuals who are active in the Anti-Machine organization is simply an impertinence intended to divert public attention from the real object of the Anti-Machine movement- Such an assault will surely fall of its purpose. Hurrah for THE MAX AGAINST THE MACHINE.

The chairman of the Anti-Machine county committee, Charle3 H. is a staunch Republican, who would not for a moment think of doing anything calculated to "disrupt the organization" of his party. He, like the large Republican element which supports Judge Jacobs and the rest of the Anti-Machine ticket, does not regard the little cabal that claims the right to divide among its members the county offices and the spoils pertaining thereto as the legitimate "Republican organization." Hon. Robert Snodgrass, another very prominent Republican, who is active In the Anti-Machine movement, holds similar views. AtSsrney Swartz, also a well-known Republican, occupies a like position.

Hundreds of other prominent Republicans identified with the Anti-Machine movement are in the same category. Will the "Telegraph," or the Harrisburg correspondent of the Philadelphia "Inquirer," dare to say that these gentlemen are not as good "Republicans" as the Addition'and Division leaders of tue couuiy -riug? It is. said that the Ring assessor for the Sixth ward made a "mistake" in increasing the occupation tax for that ward. If It was a "mistake" it seems to have been general and not merely in isolated instances. It is rather odd that such 1 an error should have occurred in so many cases.

There are people who do not quite understand why It should be necessary for the s-'hool board to saddle the entire expense of the construction of a new school building upon the taxpayers within a period of two years. The school house must be erected, but If the board can borrow the money to pay for it, at a fair rate of interest. It would seem that it should do that, rather than add so heavy a burden to the already wearisoms load of taxes which the people have to bear. The cost of a permanent addition to the school buildings of the city ought not to be imposed upon the taxpayers so suddenly nor upon the present generation. There is a limit to the ability of the people of the city to meet such drafts upon their productive energies and the officials who Impose taxes should govern themselves accordingly.

Mchinists who are claiming the election of their ticket by all sorts of majorities, 'are simply Imitating the superstitious fellow Who whistles to keep up his courage when passing a grave-yard at night. It is quite dark with them and they are afraid of the tomb-stones they have erected (in their minds) for the places of their approaching political sepulture. Death of Mrs Mary D. P. Stutzman "Mrs.

Mary Dorothy Pool Stutzman, mother of ex-Policeman David P. Stutzman, died at the residence of her son this morning at 2 o'clock, after a brief illness from bronchial trouble and congestion of the lungs. She was 78 years old. She was the devoted mother of five children, four of whom are living. They are Messrs.

John, David P. and Mis3 Annie Stutzman, and Mrs. William H. Houston, of Tteily street. Mrs.

Stutzman was a lifelong member of the German Baptist persuasion, lived an exemplary life and died as she had lived, a consistent Christian. The funeral will take place Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and Rev. ilr. Martin, of the German Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be made in the family plot in the Harrisburg cemetery.

A Harrlaburc Lady Honored At the executive board meeting of the Baptist State convention, which met in Philadelphia, September 3, Mrs. W. R. Burrill, of Harrisburg, was one of the two delegates appointed to represent the women's missionary work at' (he -National -Baptist convention in Philadelphia, September 16 to September 21. Will Talk to Grocers W.

H. Riegel will address a number of the grocers on "Protection sf Future Credits and Collection of Bad Accounts," at 8 o'clock this evening at Dauphin hall. Is South Second street. THE BEST OF ITS KIND. Men's Store When the young fellows get to be 16 to 19 years-.

of tt age, they want to be. the swell dressers, and they want to buy their Suits at Best Store. ThatV-why the fastidious chaps "wear "Globe" Clolhes. Our stock of young men's suits is the, finest.and. most A Notch Higher Now for a fresh start on enamel beds the August sale cleared out the last of our spring stock.

You couldn't buy an old bed hero if you would. The new ones are better, not in structure, but in design nnd ornament. In fact they're the prettiest metal beds we've ever and if you like them as well as we do they'll sell on sight. A good choice in already, pruning at $4.50. More coming.

Carpets tothe front Tho finest patterns that ever came store and more I to choose from. We put the peg a notch higher each season. C. 8. WeaHley 7 N.

Market Square He spoke on "Christ, the Wav," John XIV. E. S. Dotty and Mrs. RV'Wolf rendered two duets' entithd''Whou' I Walk on tho Streets of Gold' and "Still Sweeter Kverv Da Memorial I'nitcd Brethren Church, Boas street, will celebrate Women's Mis sionary day on September 27.

Six mis sionaries on their way to Africa will be present. Their names are Mr. and Mrs. C. W.

Snvder. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Judy and Mr. and-.

Eeibel, all graduates of Otterbein Luiversity. Rally day ex ercises will he held on October 4. Rev. Dr. Leroy F.

rector of St. Paul's church and Archdeacon of the Harrisburg Archdeaconry, conducted ser vices yestcrduy in All Saint's church, Paradise, Lancaster county. Rev. John E. Hill, curate of St.

Paul's, being in the country, the services there were conducU ed by a lay reader. SHIREMANSTOWK. Special Correspondence. Shiremanstown, Sept. 7.

Mrs. Lil- lie Dietz, of Mechanicsburg, visited at the home of Mrs. II. Sunday. Miss Best, of Harrisburg, spentatur-day with her grandmother, Mrs.

Catherine Best. Mr. and Mrs. Kunkle, of Harrisburg, are spending some time with their son, Mr. George Kunkle.

Miss Sallie Youst, of Harrisburg, waa entertained Sunday by Miss Etha Bow ers. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Attieks and daughter called on frienda in Harrisburg Sunday. Miss l.ora Weber visitea mends in York, this week.

Miss Bcistline, of Harrisburg, called on triends here hursdav. Mr. John Deitz is suffering with an attack of typhoid fever. Rev. G.

of Gri'ason, spent yesterday at Uie home of W. H. Zear-ing. Mrs. Stone and Miss Minerva Stone, of Wormleysburg.

are spending several days at the home of D. x. Zimmerman. The Woman's Missionary Society, of the L. B.

church, met last evening at the home of Misses Susie and Sallie Eberlv. Mrs. John mitli, of Media nicsburg. was entertained to-day at the home of S. S.

Rupp. Miss Nellie Cloiwer, Harrisburg, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Theodore Jones. Miss Lizzie Green, of Harrisburg, spent Sunday with Miss Edith Marr. Mrs.

Elizabeth Bowman, of New Kings ton, spent Thursdav with fpiends her. Clyde Sheaffer, of Carlisle spent th past week with his grandmother Mrs. Lvdia Smith. Mr. Jacob Sites, of Newville, spent Thursday with friends here.

Mr. B. F. Daughertv, of the Lebanon Valley college, was in town Thursday; in the interest ot tue colleaa. STORE" never had with us.

Unfortunately tho socialists have for years been much divided in England, or. the political movement would doubtless be more advanced. Socialists ure very independent nnd self-contained people; they have their own views and opinions unit do not take kindly to the rule of caucus and convention. Every socialist believes that his judgment is just as good as and considerably better than that of anyone else, and he, therefore, hcis the right to had and the rest can do the. following.

The English socialists are split into factions and fragments. Years ago, in the days of its greatest one party went away under the leadership of the poet and artist, White, another followed M. II. llyndman. Although this was long ago, and the great artist has been dead for seven years, the split lias never yet healed up.

The strongest of tho socialist mimi cal leaders living to-day is probably Mr. M. XL liymiinan, a man ot great learning nnd culture, a graduate nf Cambridge, a successful business man and a person age of much influence' in Europe; besides tins he is one of the ablest speakers in England. This year he is standing for parliament on tho socialist ticket n'nd the party looks to the coming election to demonstrate that at last socialism has taken a hold on English politics in a substantial wav. Hut even in this case, with their strongest man a.

a candidate, the radicals are 'not content to live in "peace. There are many radicals and labor leaders in England who will not support llyndman, who in fact desire his defeat, although all admit that iu learning and natural ability and devotion to popular rights lie is the peer of any man in anv party in England. The socialists here, as in America, have been split over the old question of party platform. shall announce in every instance the full national programme of revolutionary socialism, and be content with this, or whether they shall declare or principles of socialism, and then in addition adopt a more immediate culling for reforms, that this or the next generation might possibly reach, is the question that lias divided tho camp, -It is safe to say that nearly all socjnlists.in England are now agreed on the latter course. Even Mr.

Hyndman, who stands tor the staunchest and most uncompromising demands, announces his lielief tdus, is the wisest qmjrse. 'The "great, vote-in '(rniany has done much to bring the socialists to this view. The German party while declaring for the full programme still were not so lar in the clouds as to refuse any temporal aid to the present generation who must bear the burden of the battle, and who feel that the living as well as the unborn worthy of--sonic consideration. Hut the socialists' activity in F'ngland is by no means confined to the political movement. The Fabyeans have long had a very strong and influential society in Great Britain.

This club is made up of able meif and women who are thoroughly informed and who are well qualified to maintain their views. They take no hand in politics as a society, but give their aid in every direction, when anything can be accomplished for their cause. This club is eminently practical. It has published and circulated much of the best literature devoted to the socialist cause. It has amongst its members such men as Sidney Webb, one of the ablest and most industrious writers nnd workers for advanced ideas; Mr.

Bernard Shaw, the essayist, play writer nnd all-round writer, ns clever man ns there is in the British empire, or anywhere else for that matter: Mr. J. IT. Holson and Mr. Samuel Ilobson.

both men of ability and learning, as well as a host -of others, whose names can scarcely be catalogued. Through these and others of their sort socialism in some form has permeated the literature of Great Britain until it is now met at every turn. In politics, in literature, in art, in business life, the socialist has made his way; the orator talks about it, the minister preaches it. the artist makes pictures, nnd the business man gives it cash this is all the business 'man lias to give. It is easy to see that socialism is much further along in England than in America; no.

one here is thought to bo "queer" because he is a socialist. There -a re several confessed socialists in parliament. There are a number of members in the National Liberal Club. They have attained eminence in all walks ot lite and command respect and consideration wherever 'they go. In another respect the English are much further advanced toward radical political change.

The farmer is a man of no consequence in England; five-sixths of her people at least are industrial workers, living in great cities and towns and in no way interested in the present order of things. Even thoe who till the soil are merely workingmen, and have no interest in the land; this is owned in great estates bv a few noble men, lor whom no one realiy cares. The strength of conservatism in Amer ica, -and in fact the world over, is in the country! with us nearly half the popula tion still live-in the country and small town, and with this greit population change is very slow. England is, really one great industrial citv, a city where the workingnian has nothing but his la oor, wnere nve-sixtns at least nave no real interest in maintaining the, present unjust division of the earth, To this class of workers who have ever toiled for some one else, to this great mass of homeless, propertyless, socialism conies with its promise of an equal heritage for all. In a world of privilege, of caste, of injustice, the offer is so strange and dazzling that the workingnian has never yet had the wit to take- lie prize.

CLAKENC'E s. darrow. Itidepfnds upon the; accidents of trade. Men and sheep itr.r.orth what they will, bring in the open market and it is usually the questions "How much he worth" -flow much can he earn?" "How much ill he pay that determine his value. It was to destroy these false, doctrines of man that Christ Jesus came trato thflwjifW.

-41c has given the world it new the value and dignity of man. His lirst precept was the offspring and likeness of fiod. He also reveals. to us the fact that he thinks of man as a being ho is capable of comnillninn with find jitii! rpllntiiifr retired engineer, of the" Pennsvlvaftia died at 0.35 o'clock on Saturday evening, at her home, 013 Cumberland street, after an illness of about eighteen months. About three luanUu wa ohe EVERY EVENING, SUNDAY EXCEPTED B.

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D. M. GIL11EHT, City Editor. JHE DAILY STAR-INDEPENDENT It 6rveJ by carrlen at 0 cents per week; by mall, 13.00 jwr year. $1.60 (or six montbi, T5 cents tor three month, payable Invariably In advance.

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Advertislns rates furnished on application. ALL BUSINESS LETTERS shoulJ be ad. dressed to Wtlraer Crow, Business Correspondence for publication should be addressed "Star-Independent." T.onr Tltitanoo Telephone S411X lulled Telepbone and Tclrgrapk Co.L Editorial Room. 246 Job Department, 586 A Business Office, 586 Mouday, September 7, 1003. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Subscribers away from home on visit vacation can have the Star-Independent sent to them by mail at the regular rate six cents a week. Before you go away leave order to have the paper sent to your address by mail. If you can not call at the office, 'phone us or send a postal card. LABOR DAY FESTIVAL Labor Day was celebrated iu this city in the usual way. That is, the banks are closed agreeably to the law making it a legal holiday and some of the industrial plants and store; v.ere closed at noon.

There was a concert at the park this afternoon and another is scheduled for to-night by the excellent Eighth Reg. iment band, and private picnics here and there afforded diversion to nianv. But the speeches" which are so important a feature of the celebration in other cities are never a part of it in this town. Labor Day is a legal holiday in nearly all the States and Territories and ought to be quite as important a. holiday as any in the calendar.

When it was first adopted its purpose was to give workingmen a needed rest. The industrial life of the country was then nnd the impression was extensively circulated that laboring men got too much work and too little vest. The idea of Labor Day was to agitate questions in the interest of labor and it may be said that some good has been achieved. That is, wages have been increased in a measure and some additional comforts have been acquired. It can hardly be said, however, that workingmen don't get rest enough now.

Between strikes and lockouts they have troublo in keeping themselves sufficiently miployed to earn enough to live on. The jierepsed expenses of living more than bsorbs the added amount of their earn-ings even if employment was as constant as when a Labor Day was first legislated into life, instead of being as fitful as. a fever. There may be improvement in the future, however, and it is to be hoped that to-day's festival ill con-' to that result. AS EXCELLKST IDEA.

An esteemed Philadelphia contemporary alleges that there are (50.000 quali-Bed voters in that city who never go to the polls. They are, as a rule, business and professional men who imagine they haven't time to go to the elections or else such as believe that giving attention to politics is vulgar. are the very worst citizens for they not only encourage hut indirectly participate in the electoral frauds which have made that city infamous. Besides, they fail to perform the most sacred duty of citizenship. Voting is a duty rather than a privilege.

The 60,000 respectable citizens of Philadelphia who fail to go to the election don't in any respect diminish the total vote cast in the city. In other words a vote is cast regularly for every man of them. Names of men of that sort are just as good for repeaters and impersonators to vote on as dead men and fictitious men whose names are improp- rly on the list of registered voters. As matter of fact it may be said that repeaters prefer to vote on the names of respectable business and nrofessinnal mm vho are absent. There is less danger of challenge than when unknown names are used.

esteemed contemporary urges the UIU11 III on the'respectable citizens, who re thus delinquent as the members of an Organization of women in New York are 'doing. It is an excellent idea and might well be adopted everywhere. As a rule, the women stand for what is wholesome in politics. Their influence would be in the right direction and if they can induce the 60.000 delinquents in Philadelphia to vote the chances are that it would be that many more votes on the right side and as many less on the wrong side. MR.

HITCHCOCK'S SE.MSITIVB.fKS8. Secretary Hitchcock, of the Tnforinr Department, Washington, shows the same vewion to publicity that Postmaster General Payne revealed when the postof-fice scandals were first publicly referred to. In the correspondence between himself and Philip C. Garrett, President of the Irjdia.n. Rights.

Association, Philadelphia, made "public this morning, he savs: "There are, however, proper and improper methods of procedure and I' think that it was notjustifiable, but discourteous to me and unfair to them, to publish broadcast to the world the material gathered by Mr. Brossius, without fur- to in of to the not the of and the time A "'profound re-jard for the But theact is that some, of the agents of the government, charged with the duty of conserving the interests of the Indians, had been' systematically, robbing them. 'and the Philadelphia "association would have been recreant to its duty if it had f-ailed to make protest in the most effective way, which is the way it adopted. There was no discourtesy to the Secretary of the Interior, unless he was a participant in the frauds which is disproved by the fact that he had already made an investigation and dismissed some of the inculpated officials. THE GREAT DIFFERENCE, A political statistician in Xew York calls public attention to the fact that in five city elections in ten years, in city, four have- been carried by Republican candidates and only one by a Democrat.

The lesson to be drawn from this fact, he continues, "is that a majority of the voters desire an honest and business administration of the city's affairs; that they lack confidence in the Democratic leadership, and that they will not be controlled by party ties in local elections." How vastly different conditions are in Philadelphia and in this community. An overwhelming majority of the voters of this county, for example, understands that the machine which controls the public affairs of the county is more conrupt than the Tammany ring ever was. Men who vote for the machine ticket wouldn't trust some of the machine leaders with the proceeds of a peanut stand on a dull day. But they are so completely. under the domination of political bigotry that they vote knowingly for corruption-ists to the prejudice of public interests.

Greater Xew York, Manhattan and Brooklyn has a Democratic majority of nearly 100.000, but in five Mayoralty elections within ten years the Republicans have won four and the Democrats one. But nothing like that happens in Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia Republican success is certain though the people are looted mercilessly and iu this county the machine is confident of its power because its leaders imagine that the people are equally illiberal and just as indifferent to official integrity. There otuiht to be an awakening. ASOTHEIl GREAT ACHIEVEMENT.

The Agricultural Department at Washington: has acquired a new distinction. It may be said of that department that eversinco the induction into office of its present chief, the Hon. James Wilson, of Iowa, it has been achieving splendid results in the. arena investigation and experimentation. It has not succeeded in growing tropical fruits for commercial purposes at the feot of the -uibil 1 uiL-, biil it, liuiy 16 cuiijC-clurvd that the reason i3 nobody has been able 'find the pole.

Other things equally surprising have been accomplished." The latest triumph of the department this direction was the in Japan, of the Wasabi plant by David Fairchild, Explorer of the Department. Mr. Fairchild; it appears, has been roaming over t'ie old world in search of "choice edibles and other food products that may be adapted to cultivation in the United States." In pursuance of this mission he discovered the Wasabi. It is something like the horseradish of this country and is used as a condiment in eating raw fish. "Without it," Mr.

Fair-child writes, "the fish would taste a3 unnatural to a diner as blue point oysters on the half-shell without horseradish would taste to the average American." Those of us who are not in the habit eating raw fish will probably never know the full measure of the boon which Mr. Fairchild has conferred on the human family by the discovery of Wasabi. But for us we are ready to take off our hat to the benefactor on faith. "A vegetable," Mr. Fairchild observes with pardonable exultation, "which has.

become the Japanese what horseradish is to Occidentals can hardly fail to attract the attention of those Americans who are seeking new and appetizing relishes." Heaven bless Fairchild. The trains are crowded with people coming back from their summer vacations. They all look The millers of this State will meet in convention at Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday. The principal business of the session is to devise means of bringing grist to the mills. No compliment can be paid to Archbishop Ryan in celebrating his golden jubilee that Is fully deserved.

As a Philadelphia contemporary states, the celebration "attests the apprecia'tion of fifty years of devoted and distinguished service." As the same paper adds, occasion deserves "more than the tribute tbs church. Archbishop Ryaa has done ss much for the betterment of the human family for the promotion of the interests of all people of this country that all denominations ought to join in honoring aim so this occasion. The riflemen at Sea Girt had a disagreeable of It last week, owing to inauspicious weather, but hops for better things this week. representative ef the Psris dressmakers suffered an attack of paralysis and two weeks ago sho was visited with another stroke, which caused her death. She was in the 74th year of her age and had been a resident of this city during her entire life.

She was a consistent member of Bethlehem Lutheran church. She is survived by a husband, three sons and four daughters. They are Frederick W. Huston, of SOU Green street; George Huston, 6f 437 Verbeke street; John B. Huston, of 1222 North Sixth street; Mrs.

John II. Koons, of York; Mrs. J. B. Manlcy.

of 1200 North Seventh street; J. B. Eisenberger, of street, and Mrs. C. W.

Poulton, of 40R Forster street. The funeral services will he. held on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the hou.se. llev. J.

Henry pastor of Bethlehem Lutheraii church, will officiate. F. II. Gregory, secretary of P. K.

K. Y. M. C. will render special music.

The interment will tcrment was made in the Harrisburg cemetery. Caroline, wife of William F. McCoy, one of the oldest machinists of the Pennsylvania railroad, died on Saturday afternoon nt 4 o'clock, at her residence, 201 Forster street, after an illness of three months of catarrh of the stomach. She had been confined to her bed about six weeks. Her age was 02 years, four months and 5 days.

Slie was a member of -Messiah Lutheran church for the past thirty years and was treasurer of the Foreign Missionary Society. She is survived by her husband, two sons and one daughter. They are Harry McCoy, 920 Grand street; Charles William McCoy, of 201 Forster street; and Mrs. Eby Painter, of 201 Forster street. The funeral services will be held to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, at Messiah Lutheran church.

Hev. Luther DeYoe, the pastor, will officiate. The interment will be made in the Harrisburg cemetery. The-fiuicral services of Nicholas Fchl, aged 08 jeaus, whose death occurred on Friday morning, took place yesterday at the house, 1333 Bartine avenue, Rev. H.

Lissp, pastor of the German Evangelical Lutheran Zinn's on-' ducted the services. The church choir rendered. selections, entitled, "Wied-ers'ehn," and Mich Gehn." Peace and Plenty lodge, No. I. O.

O. an Colonel post. No. 110, G. A.

conduowdth grave. I he ivill-bearers- were selected -'from the church council. and 'both lodges. in- terinnt' wti'S uwd'in th Harrisburg ceme tery, The funeral of Hiram Anderson, whose death occurred on last- Thursday, near Newport, took place at 12.45 o'clock veslerday afternoon at Ridge Avenue M. E.

church. Mr. Anderson was in the 6()th year of his age and was formerly a resident of West Harrisburg. During the past twelve years he lived in Philadelphia and was through baggage master between Philadelphia and Pittsburg on the Pennsylvania railroad. He was a member of Centenary M.

E. church. Forty-first and Springsarden streets, Philadelphia. He is survived by a wife and one son, William C. Anderson, 1000 Lin-dewood street, West Philadelphia.

Rev. Horace Lincoln Jacobs, pa-tor of Ridge Avenue M. E. church, conducted the funeral services, assisted by Rev. E.

G. Baker, pastor of he M. E. church of York. The interment was made in the East Harrisburg cemetery.

The pallbearers J. II. Santo, Henry Sour-bier, William L. Gardner and Joseph YanOrmer. Two floral designs' were presented by the Pennsylvania railroad men of Philadelphia two by Harrisburg friends, and one from Newport friends.

SEW! AND BRIEFS. Rev. G. W. Stevens, presiding elder of the Harrisburg district, preached on the subject "The Resurrection," yesterday morning at Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church.

At the close of the services the pastor, Rev. B. H. Hart, ad ministered the right of Baptism to eight candidates. The German Evangelical Lutheran Ziou's Church held Holy Communion ser vices last evening-.

The School of the Green Street Church of God, will chancre the hour of meeting irom. ft a. m. to 2 an and after Sunday, September 20. The gospel services under the allspices of the Pennsvlvania Railroad Young Men's Christian Association was well at tended yesterday afternoon.

J. A. Hutchison, foreman of the Pennsylvania Railroad shops, conducted the services. Man." Mr. Harfs topic last night was the Divine holiness in human lives.

He "A Man or a Sheep; Christ's Estimate of furthermore, tcachus man that he is not Man." He said in-part? "How -much, fortius wmld but for immortality, then, is a man better than a sheep? The There evrVits fcime in whk the doc-correct answer to this question depends triile of the 'dignity and value of man altogether upon our view of man. If we was more needed than it is We think of him as purely a materialistic need to karn this in order to understand creature one whose purpose is to eat the real meaning and danger of sin, and and drink then he is not much better to fully comprehend the possibilitv of than a sheep, for while he is considering loving our fellowman. This will natur-the problem of what he shall wear and ally lead us personally to God and a what he- shall put on, the sheep is con- higher life. terrtlygrazing on, troubled witl no such I in, perplexing question Or, if we" view '-Death, ant) "Fnncrala man from the commercial standpoint the Mrs. Huston, wife of John Huston, a question is still a perplexing one.

If wealth is really the measure of value, if the end of life is the accumulation of so many dollars the ma.n is no better than the sheep, lta value is fixed and certain..