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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 *7 l H CrWQ !• VI D 1 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. For sole by Winder, D. ug Cos. The World ejs* Almanac tint) S Encyclopedia S for 1899 x- a=SSS ANDsss^>j illustrated History o? the Spanish- American Wat -•* S S- S SS- S <y* SS Si READY FOR SAIR * EVERYWHERE J % JANUARY Ist, iW. * . * sss s s js s s S’ i i vrih 7 jrvt r {yi i vj-j , , of the Republic. Compiled by EDGAR STANTON MACLAY H&tcriaii of the U. 3* Navy, WT* THE STANDARD AMERICAN ANNUAL. PRICE 25 CENTS. Postpaid to any zddteu, THE WORLD, Pulitzer Building, NEW YORK, 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