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CITY OWNERSHIP.
Benefits flpaaltlnit From the System
In <Jr*nt flrltnln.
The members of the League for Po
litical Education listened to an illus
trated lectnre by J. M. Martin on the
subject, “What English City Govern
ments Do For the Citizens.” Over 200
boroughs, he said, now supply their
people with light. The first city to do
this, he said, was Birmingham, and
when it took the gasworks from the
companies it reduced the price of gas
from HO cents to 50 cents per 1,000 cu
bic feet At the same time it improved
the condition of the men who worked
before the furnaces. It supplies them
with oatmeal water, where formerly
they kept going to and from the saloons
to quench their thirst.
After Glasgow had solved the water
question, that municipality turned its
attention to gas. It, took that industry
into its own hands, reducing the price of
gas 50 per cent. Even the small city of
Lincoln, where the lecturer was born, is
now supplying its people with gaslight
at 50 cents per 1,000 feet, and has
made a profit of $50,000, although that
place is far from any coalfields.
Some English cities were already
using electric light, he said. Tin? city
of Bradford has established an electrical
plant, and last year it made a net profit
of 12 per cent, a very large margin of
profit in England. No movement that
any English municipality took up in
the way of electric light has yet proved
a failure. On several occasions no profits
were made the first year, but there was
always a satisfactory income afterward.
Brighton, which is called the queen of
watering places, has gained very much
of its prestige by the municipality’s
assuming charge of the electric light
ing, and now no place in England is
better lighted. In Shoreditch the refuse
is burned in large furnaces to generate
steam for producing electric light.
Whether such an experiment would be
successful in New York the lecturer
said he could not guesH.
Next the lecturer too.* up the subject
of street railroads, and raid that wher
ever the cities owned and operated the
lines the service was very satisfactory
and the people got cheaper fares. Back
in the seventies Glasgow* began to con
sider this matter, took possession of the
lines and leased them to a company.
This company had to pay the interest
on the money expended by the city in
securing the lines, pay a certain
amount into the sinking fund, pay a
fixed rental and keep the lines in re
pair. On the expiration of the lease the
municipality decided not to renew it
except on further conditions, one of
which was that the employees should
not work over ten hours a day. The
company refused, and also refused to
sell its rolling stock, and when the city
decided to equip the roads with new
cars the company threatened to put on
•a rival line of omnibuses. It did so,
but the citizens, appreciating the fact
that the municipality’s cars really be
longed to them, crowded into them, and
the company was compelled to with
draw* fur lack of patronage. The first
year the number of passengers increased
100 per cent, and the city made an im
mense profit. The municipality intro
duced the cheap fare system, and 1 cent
is charged fur a certain distance. This
enables many workmen and women
who formerly took cold luncheons with
them to go home and get a warm meal.
“They tell us, ” continued the lec
turer, “that we are behind you in elec
tric traction. That is true, but not un
til the last three years has it been pos
sible for our municipalities to take the
matter into their own hands. Every
where, as soon ns the old leases to-the
companies die out, the municipalities
take the business into their own hands.
“In r< gard to the telephone system, a
•iii ta’ o lias been made in England by
he pestofhees neglecting to assume
barge of it, and allowing the National
Telephone company to get the monopoly.
But here, as in other things, the canny
He. *.< of Glasgow did not allow the
company t get the best of them, and
when the r.ipany want Ito tear up
the at' ts in lay the conduits the city
cor.in II asked it wli >se the streets were.
“‘V irs,' repli and the i fiiciala of tho
company.
the c.'uucil i pli *lf you
wan t: Ti.-o of t.r.r sr.v.ts you must
pay 1 ■ * p: ice an : us proper
servit ' New York Times
(JlasKOH'a Public Seri Ice.
v•. ■>> i - ( ■ - V rred to
mAi aie .11 iv- ;v ..s ;• ji city that
1 . . . t. au-il ill si vs cl mu
nil l i cwu. i i•. Iv.* utilities
; i . . , .... .i, r.i v. ith
out t .tion.
w -n. '.nick 1 v. .--hip of
it.; . ■ ■ , p..,ni . t vnii. a\w and
r public • cut rprises.
It i tin ring tin ui suree-Miby. Both
t’ncli l 1:; plant tli. : tract rail
• . she ;vh ; 1 writes
and .. tc ! . n it.i. la. p< a. t.cuj'Ury
<'■> ’ . x i .1. The
ai; ants n) rnn.'il hi 1; nol./.ius
sui i ;.t to ;;y nil the •cf mu
nici; .... ’ i- V.- - ;• That
polh r• • Ilf ' ; .. uin Glas
gow. • ' t on one
pri . r • ta. n
Vi - ' 1 . . >. vice
X>o l; t* ] ,
’ h a* y
Vi'la. altlioujgh
it t The man
i. : .a which . . : .Jnated can
only be surmised Bnt being once ma3e
it in natural that such a startling state
ment should be widely copied.
Some foreign cities have indeed ac
complished many wonderful things in
the direction of municipal progress. It
is the misfortune of those who quote
with accurate knowledge the experi
ences of these cities as guides for Amer
ican municipalities in various particu
lar lines that they can be outdone by
those who speak without knowledge,
and therefore are liable to successful
contradiction of the wonderful achieve
ments of cities in some other parts of
the world.—Chicago Record.
Government Owernlilp.
In Switzerland the government oper
ates the railway and diligence lines
and has a telegraph system with more
miles of wire in proportion to the pop
ulation than any other country on
earth. For a telegram within Switzer
land there is a first charge, or govern
ment tax, of •)() centimes ((> cents) and
2 l j centimes (one-half cent) a word.'
Ten words cost 11 cents, but 20 words
cost only 10 cents. The maximum
charge for an 11 pound package by par
cel post is 8 cents.
The Forty I m mortn la.
By the election of M. Lavedan to oc
cupy the fauteuil left vacant by the
death of Meilhac, the French academy
has now a complete membership of 40,
a phenomenon that has not occurred
within a quarter of a century. The
members are classified by Le Figaro as
follows, although some of them might
choose a different category from the one
allotted to them:
Hommes politiques, orateurs, MM.
Emile Ollivier, Due d’Audiffret Pas
quier, Due de Broglie, Comte do Mun
de Freycinet.
Poetes, MM. Snlly-Prudhomme, De
Heredia, Francois Coppee, De Bernier.
Professeurs, MM. Mezieres, Greard,
Lavisse, Gaston Paris, Boissier.
Historiens, MM. Sorel, Albert Vandal.
Thureau-Dangin, Comte d’Hansson
ville, Melchior de Vogue, Marquis Costa
de Beauregard, Hanotanx, Henry Hous
saye.
Auteurs dramatiques, Vietorien Sar
dou, Pailleron, Legouve, Ludovic Ha
levy, Lavedan.
Romanciers, Paul Bourget, Loti,
Cherbnliez, Anatole France. Andro
Thcuriet.
Critiques, Brunetiere, Jules Le
maitre.
Jonrnalistes, Edouard Herve, Jules
Claretie.
Un prelat, Le Cardinal Perraud.
Un savant, Joseph Bertrand.
Un avocat, Ronsse.
Un statuaire, Guillaume.
No (mil, No Navy.
Camara’s voyage to the Philippines
came to an untimely end at Suez quite
as much because of the coal difficulty
as because his fleet was wanted for the
defense of the Spanish littoral. Had he ,
steamed east he would not have been
allowed by Egypt. France, Italy or Tur
key, the powers which hold the shores
of the Rhl sea, to coal on their coasts
or in their harbors. He must have
struggled as far as Colombo or Singa
pore before the rules of international
law would have allowed him to fill his
bunkers with fuel to take him to Ma
nila. His helplessness, coming so close
upon the voyages of the Deutschland
and Gefion, and of the Navarin and
Sissoi Veliki, to the far east, voyages
which would have been almost impos
sible had England closed her coaling
stations to theso rival powers, lias not
escaped notice on the continent of Eu
rope.
France, under the guidance of M.
Lockroy, is preparing to fortify and
provide with docks the chain of harbors
which link Toulon and Madagascar.
Germany is eagerly looking for points
of strategic value on the trade routes,
but I greatly fear that she will find
none. Here England is without a rival.
As her sea power has not been an ephem
eral growth, she has slowly, link by
link, forged a wonderful chain, binding
India, the Yellow sea, Australia and
the Capo to the mother country. —Har-
per's Magazine.
New N'npoloon Letter.
The historic chateau of Malmaisou is
bring restored by M. Osiris, a wealthy
Napoleon worshiper. It is liis intention
to trim it into a Nap Iconic museum
and to present it to the stato in time
for it to form one of the attractions of
the great exhibition in 1 S'oo. In repair
ing the library a very interesting find
was made in the shape of a letter from
Napol ou to J plihio, dated from the
Trianon, Aug.3, lets, reproaching
her .with not saving money. Ho advises
her to put lu-r art airs in order, not to
spend more than .{.'SO.OOO a year and to
save tlio otlier £iid,ooo. Thus in ten
yearn h* w .;! h: v • mvumahued a f.-.r
tur.e l r her g imlouil >--n. “Instead
of and ing this, however, I am told,” he
cunt ho "th it y, i a" • in debt. If
you w i:-’a to pi a--e me, take eare to fill
a fat m- g. bVhut do you suppose
would b > my opir.i u of yon if I knew
yen to l.e in and ot with an income of
B.i'"o e • from ; a yo< r?”—London
Chronicle.
the Question.
“How do you. pronounce metempey
chosis t' ‘
“I never use the word. ”—Philadel
phia North American.
AN APPEAL TO ROCKEFELLER
Th> Hl* TrM SpUr Akfd tm
Frlicbten the Telephone Trust.
John Rockefeller, giant of finance,
ablest and biggest of all American trust
spiders, listen to our wail.
In the name of that divine (Baptist)
providence which you so often quote,
we ask your help.
The other trusts are big, but they
shiver and shake before you. Yon are
small and thin and full of indigestion
and remorse. Your health is bad, your
life is bitter—but how you are feared I
No cobra gliding through the grass stirs
up such panic among timid Hindoos as
your faintest angry rustle creates among
the other trust animals.
Russell Sage said long ago, “Western
Union would drop 50 points and Wall
street would be scared to death if John
Rockefeller should merely announce his
intention of going into telegraph con
struction. ”
Rockefeller, boss of the trust spiders,
do us one favor.
Frighten the thieving, incompetent,
swindling telephone trust.
Do this, and we shall be grateful, and
we shall sincerely pray that you be ad
mitted to heaven, there to endure for
ever and ever the nameless horror of not
having even a million to your name.
The telephone service is not to be de
spised by even a billionaire. Its possi
bilities in such hands as yours are un
limited. In that monopoly alone yon
can make another billion. Make it as
you have made your Standard Oil bil
lion, and we shall bless you. Take the
wires and take the tolls. But give us
telephone service instead of slow tor
ture.
You are wise enough to know that
the way to get a billion out of Ameri
cans is to get a little out of every
American. You don’t put kerosene oil
beyond the reach of the crowd. You
will follow the same system in your
telephone deal if yon decide to swallow
that minor monopoly.
Do swallow it, we beg and implore
you. We have no hope in the legisla
ture, none in our bitter protests; but
there is much hope in you. Unlike the
legislature, you cannot be bribed. Your
price is too high, and there is fear in
your name. The laws, the lawmakers
and even the thieves of monopoly know
enough to fear you.
Help us. Our only hope is in you.
Help ns, and we’ll pray for you hard.
Praying is about all that the common,
low dow*n American citizen can now do
for himself without interfering with
any trust. We’ll pray for you 80,000,-
000 strong.—New York Evening Jour
nal.
THE DEADLY PARALLEL.
Tlie Heir to Millions ami the Thou
minda of liuiiK'ry and IlnKKrd.
Side by side the New York Evening
Journal of recent date prints a minute
descrijition of the late Vanderbilt ball
and an interview with the Hon. Joseph
H. Choate, who has just been appoint
ed minister to Great Britain by the
present prosperity puffing administra
tion. The Vanderbilt display was in
honor of one of their schoolboys, who
is heir to $50,000,000, and the mansion
shone in all its lavish magnificence.
“The guests trod upon carpets that
have felt the feet,of oriental royalty;
they dined off plate that might have
come from the wedding chest of a
princess with a fairy godmother; they
looked upon paintings the least of
which represented more than a poor
man earns in a lifetime of labor.” Tlio
gowns were the finest creations of the
best milliners, the diamonds and jewels
■were tho richest in the land. It was a
luxurious display in honor of a boy
who did nothing but inherit $50,000,-
000.
“There is something wrong in our
social system,” says the Hon. Joseph
11. Choate, corporation lawyer and pol
itician, likewise president of the New
York State Charities Aid association,
“when 03, GOO children in the state of
New York have to be supported year
after year by public charity. ”
Something wrong when one child in
herits o .aid l>3,tioo chilurc-n
inherit breathing t-p.tCw in pjornouses t
Oh, no! There’s nothing wrong! Now
adays c'.:h .... a are all born “free and
c<p: >.b" at. t esp. daily since the grand
old 1 republican party t f plutocrats and
v. tiner slaves) has ] ■ on guarding the
liborti-'S of the people and <Ming out
eve-- ]landed justice for many years. If
there be 33,600 children in New York
wht-e self respect is billed, whose very
live - an? ruined by the bitter broad of
charity, that cue plutocratic puppy
may 1 e crowned an sit 1 • trial king and
that no mey revel in lan uric, us splendor
WJ' e,lllS ieood s'atii* >1 0. Uh,!S illCi'fcUSo
a hundredfold it proves that the profit
system is tho hot thatcouid be devised
—by satan for the government of the
imps in hade.-. —Cleveland Citizen.
J USt 21 x 4 ..It'*
The coal barons a; ah at to raise
the price of coal 50 cants a ton. Do you
know what thatfii: for them? It
means over $2,0d0,0d0 ad litional profit.
In 180 t; ticre v. f■ -i.OU'hOoO tons cf
hard coal c-ensnv. and in this country.
5m.;: o is require i u -w. h< n coal goes
up ~-l, it means in a the Larons are
skinning mere ci aui > u the social
$4,000,Cv0 m tin a i.• ml \. . -t
pockets. But don . let thi-s disturb you.
! —Social Democratic Herald.
“Pitts'
Carminative
Mmrmd My Bmby’m Litm.”
**
UMAR & RANKIN DRUG CO .
I can not recommend Pitti' Car
minative too strongly. I must say,
I owe my baby’s life to It.
I earnestly ask all mothers who
have sickly or delicate children Jast
to try one bottle and see what tho
result will be. Respectfully,
Mas. LIZZIE MURRAY,
Johnson's Station, Ga.
¥¥
Pitts’ G&rmFnativc
la tso’cf by aW Orugoirntm.
PRICE, SIS CEBITS.
The Old Stone Mill.
There is one thing in Newport that
the blizzard could not stir —the old
stone mill. The fact seems to be that
this old Norseman relic grows more
solid, stolid and fixed the longer it is
exposed to the elements. Assail it ever
so furiously, from the north, from the
south, from the east or from the west,
the storms of years make no impression
on it except mayhap to press its ever
lasting foundations firmer in their bed.
Generations of Newporters come and
go, but the old stone mill goes on for
ever. Drenching rains cannot soften its
sides, heaving frosts cannot stir its
arches, freezing snows cannot split its
parts. It is indestructible.
If mutilation or destruction comes
to the old mill, it will come not from
the elements, but from the same icono
clastic hand that “for military pur
poses” is now employed in annihilating
the old historic Dumplings across the
bay.—Newport Herald.
Hawaii's Qnlcksands.
Senator Henry Waterhouse has just
had a thrilling experience in the quick
sands of Niu. He was driving in that
district with a Portuguese servant. The
senator took liis team too far makai, and
the horses went down in the sand till
only their heads and shoulders were in
sight. The rig sank till only half wheels
were in view. By his usual coolness the
senator managed, after much toil, to
get his rig, the horses, the frightened
Portuguese boy and himself out of the
dangerous place. The senator is now in
favor of having danger signals display
ed at quicksand pits.— Pacific Commer
cial Advertiser.
Against Cross Breeding.
The farmer can make money out of
any kind of cattle if he breeds them
right. Do not cross your Shorthorns
with Jerseys. You cannot expect to
raise beef cattle if you cross with the
dairy breeds. If you are breeding Short
horns, breed Shorthorns. Do not cross.
If you are breeding Jerseys, breed Jer
seys. I hear a good many farmers say
that they would not have a Jersey on
the place. I would not have the kind of
Jerseys that they had either. A few
years ago the farmers all wanted Jer
seys, and they all bought any kind of a
cow just so she was yellow, and then
they bred her to a Shorthorn bull, and
they kept on breeding until they did
not have a beef cow nor a dairy cow,
and still they say the Jerseys are no
good. The Jerseys are today the best
milk and butter cows the world has
ever produced. If a farmer is a beef
breeder, he can afford to keep a few good
Jersey cows for his milk and butter.
Do not expect to get a good Jersey cow
by crossing with your Shorthorns. Buy
a good one from s :no good Jersey
breeder. —Emmett McDonald in Breed
er’s Gazette.
Naturally.
When one finds hi: If in hot water
he experiences a decided coolness to
ward those who have got him into it. —
Boston Transcript.
FJERE is a medical lecture
j[ in a nutshell. The Kid
neys drain water and im
purities from the blood. The
Liver makes bile and helps to
drive off other waste. If these
organs work badly the body
becomes a cesspool and disease
sets in. You must get them into
healthy action or die.
g M § |J 5
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kfifUi'h&r 3
is an old and unsurpassed rem
edy for Backache, Debility,
Sleeplessness, Lost Appetite,
Foul Tongue, Palpitations and
all other symptoms of disease in
those organs. It cures as well
as prevents every serious trouble
in Kidney, Liver or Fladder.
At druggists, si.oo per bottle.
THE DFf.J.H.MCLEAN MEDICINE CO.
AT. LOUiS. MO.
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Married by Blood.
In the island cf Banquey there is
tribe of Dusuns differing wudely in lai
guage, religion and customs from otk
tribes bearing that name. Marriaj
are performed in the forest in the pre
ence of two families. There is no pti
lie gathering or feast.
The rite consists in transferring
drop of blood from a wooden knifei
the calf of the man’s leg to a simiii
cut in the woman’s leg. After marriai
the man takes the bride to her hou
where he resides in future as a men//',
of the family.
BroDKht Down by Hall.
The St. Petersburg Academy of Sfl
ence was interested recently by anti
from Professor Karpinsky describii
some peculiar hail which fell in Bussii
Poland. The grains were pear shape
and contained black granulee. Chentio
analysis showed that they consisted
iron, nickel and cobalt, and this satJ
fled Professor Karpinsky that they we
of cosmic origiu. The iron was ml
uetic, The grains, probably the debi
of meteors that had been burned inti
upper air, would have escaped detect!
had they not been inclosed in the traa
parent hail pellets, where the coats
of color quickly called attention ;
them.
Ground Cobs >is >i Food.
Question.—Are corncobs, groundai
meal, or crushed into small pieces,!
any value as a feed stuff for horses!
cattle ?
Answer. —Ground cobs are valnab
as food, particularly for cattle, as *
following table will show:
iVT'brfl
DiscstiiW
Mattel!
1 fl
JB 3)l
kP- S >■!
Corn cob 1.t>41i.9j8
Cottonseed hulls l.c I
Rice hulls 1.M4.5.8
Sweet potatoes | .!• E* I
Turnips ] .6 -id ■
Sugar beets i 1.1 iGB
Oat straw I I.OtIJH
"Wheat straw j . 8 37Jj ■
Corn silage 1.31 H
Corn and cob meal I 6
You will see from the above tuM 1 *
ground cobs are more valuable r:;i! B
number of other feed stuffs that
common use. B
The protein substances in the
table supply the material fort- B
ing of lean meat, tendons, lira"- 1 '’ 3 ®
liorus, hair, etc., and also the ■.. M flj
milk. ,|fl
Tile carbohydrates, com urn; A <?*■
heat producing substances,
starch, sugar, gums, ets.
The ether extract is the crude “W
oil dissolved out by ether in m
sis of foods.—State AgriouLM ■
partment. Bj
Why <*he Was Hired. ■
Mr. Spriggins—l fear you ’ H
a mistake, Hettie, in hirin ' ; -jfl
According to her own story.
lived in no less than ten f; - ■
town within a year. -.jfl
•% r • • rpi it g.., *. -
iiirs. sprigging—i. 11 n g||
of the inside information E■■ MjjH
able to impart about those t* - ■
—Boston Transcript. fl