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2 ■been dumped in the corner of an old room in hope less confusion, and it is only recently, after con tinued prodding by the newspapers', that the au thorities have been quickened into activity. A movement is now on foot to secure for the city the payment of this vast amount, so long overdue. On the heels of this comes a decision handed down by the supreme court to the effect that an elec tric light company has no right to discriminate in its charges against one consumer in favor of an other, notwithstanding any contract which may have been madoi by such individual consumers. The city of New York, for the past six years, has been paying between forty and fifty per cent more lor its electric lights than was paid by private individuals. During that time the amount paid Cui has reached, approximately, $9,090,0&0, so that the city has a claim for excess amounting, at least, to $3,600,000. The effort to collect this $30,000,000, which the city has slept over, will be one of the contests of the present year. < R R R Root’s Hamiltonism Rebuked. J lie centralizing tendencies of the present ad ministration, strengthened by the recent speech of Secretary Root, who was supposed to voice the sentiments ot the president, received a vigorous rebuke from Justice Harlan of the supreme court, in the course of a recent interview. He said that he served in the civil war as a colonel, and had been on the bench for twenty-nine years; that he could say now, as he had said in many judicial decisions, as was the uniform doctrine of the court, that the federal government has no powers except those delegated to it by express grant, or by neces sary implication from express grants. He thinks the federal government has all the power it needs for the purpose of accomplishing the objects for which government was established, and that any tendency to enlarge its powers by loose construc tion of the words of the constitution, ought to be restricted. The preservation of the state, he con <hides, with all their just powers, is essential to the preservation of our liberties.” R R R Death of President Cassatt. Just a month after the death of President 'Sam uel Spencer, of the 'Southern Railway, who was a victim of the bad management of his own road, President Alexander J. Cassatt, of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, passed away suddenly under cir cumstances which indicate that he, too, was, in a certain sense, the victim of a vicious system which prevailed on his own railroad. Mr. Cassatt was in Europe when the Inter-State Commerce Commis sion began to discover that certain employes, rath er high in office on the Pennsylvania system, had been accepting blocks of stock from coal mining and allied companies along the line of the system, in return for which these companies were favored with all the cars and transportation facilities they needed. The evidence was clear and conclusive. Many of the accused frankly acknowledged that they had received this stock from a source of which they were ignorant. Mr. Cassett was not in clined to believe that the charges were true at first. He hastened home from Europe, and on his return learned all the bitter truth. While the direct cause of his death was heart disease, con tracted by over exerting himself in a yacht race at Rar Harbor, his constitution had been greatly weakened by the worry and distress incident to the investigation. So it may well be accepted as a fact that he was the victim of the Pennsylvania’s iniquities. R R R The Extent of Republican Losses. Tt takes a long time to make the official count of an election and returns of the balloting last fall have only recently been officially tabulated. A Republican newspaper finds comfort in the fact that the slump in Republican strength was not so great for an off year, after all. The Republican plurality, taking the congressional districts as THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. a whole, declines from 1,668,524 in 1904 to 785,203 in 1906,•0r' more than fifty per cent, but we are asked to remember that the election iii 1904 was abnormal in a great many respects, and taking the previous off-year, 1902, for comparison, we find that the plurality was 432,956, which was considerably smaller than last fall. In other words, based on the vote of 1906,. if a presidentfePßtandidate had been running, the Republican strength in the electoral college would be 322 and the Democratic, 154, against 336, and 140, respectively, two years ago. R R R ' t Another Railroad Horror. Notwithstanding the severe lesson taught by the •tragic Mr. Spencer, followed by a similar wreck witmmten days on the same road, the crown ing railroad horror of the year came on the night before the old year expired, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, a few miles from Washington. More than fifty people lost thetir lives, and as many again sustained injuries w’hich may yet end fa tally. The cause of the accident appears to have been the same old story of an imperfect block sig nal system, although a foggy night was partially responsible. The victims of this latest wreck were of more than usual prominence, a large num ber of them living in the national capital. A thor ough investigation is to be made, with a 'view to fixing the responsibility, and definite results may yet come of it. -R R R Guggenheim For the Senate. It is now definitely decided (hat Simon Guggen heim, of Colorado, will be the next senator from that state. Mr. G-uggenheim is a man of immense wealth, but he has made it in the legitimate de velopment of mining property, rather than in the mere manipulation of stocks. His command of vast financial resources has enabled him to take advan tage of the opportunities lie saw, and this, backed by his practical knowledge of mining, has made him independently wealthy. He will be the sixth Hebrew to secure a sefet in the United States sen ate. The first was David Yulee, who represented Florida from March, 1840, to March, 1853. He was a native of the West Indies, and his name; was David Levy, by which he was known when he was elected as a member of the house of representatives in 1841. The second Hebrew in the senate was Judah P. Benjamin, one of the South’s most illustrious sons. He served from 1852 to 1857. He, too, was born in the West Indies, and repre sented the state of Lousiana. The same state was also represented in the senate by Benjamin F. Jonas, who was a native of Kentucky. Josqph -Simon was a senator from Oregon from 1898 to 1903, and Maryland is now represented by Isadore Raynor, who was chosen to sit in the upper house after having served some time in the house of representatives. R R R To Re-Count McClellan Ballots. Mr. Hearst has lost no time in accepting the offer of the new attorney-general, William S. Jackson, to consider application for a re-hearing of argu ments on Mr. Hearst’s petition for leave to bring quo warren to proceedings, to test the title of Mayor Geo. B. McClellan to the office he holds on the basis of the election of 1905. Mr. Hearst’s at torney moved in the matter before the new at torney-general had been in office twelve hours. The application reiterates substantially the alle gations made before Attorney-General Mayer. The indications are that the investigation will be car ried forward with remorseless activity. R R R Baroness Burdett-Coutts Dead. One of the notable deaths of 1906 was that of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who passed away almost with the old year. She was the widow of Thos. Coutts, the great London banker, and at the age of twenty, inherited a fortune of $9,000,000 from her grandfather. Her vast income has been almost exclusively devoted to charitable work. In the years, 1879-’SO, she gave lief of the Irish. It was in recognit splendid charities that she was created a Her name became synonymous of good deeds, and her passing away will cause sincere regret. WHEN THE COWS COME HOME. With klingle,, klangle, klingle, ’Way down the dusty dingle, The cows are coming home; Now sweet apd clear, and faint and low, The airy tinklings come and go, Like chimings from some far-off tower, Or patterings of an April shower That makes the daisies grow; Ko-klarg, ko-klarg, kodinglelingle, ’Way down the darkening dingle, The cows come slowly home; And old-time friends, and twilight plays, And starry nights, and sunny days, Come trooping up the misty ways 4 When the cows come home. " With jingle, jangle, jingle, •Soft sounds that sweetly mingle, The cows come slowly home; Malvine, and Pearl, and Florimel, De Kamp, Redrose and Gretchen Schell, Queen Bess and Sylph and Spangled Sue, Across the fields I hear her 00-00, And clang her silver bell; Go-ling, go-lang, go-lingelingle, With faint, far sounds that mingle, The cows come slowly home. And mother songs of long-gone years, And baby joys, and childish tears, And youthful hopes and youthful fears, When the cows come home. With ringle, rangle, ringle, By twos and threes and single, The cows are coming home; Through the violet air we see the town, | And summer sun down; The maple in the hazel glade Throws down the path a longer shade, And the hills are growing brown; To-ring, to-ring, to-ringleringle, By threes and fours and single, The cows are coming slowly home. The same sweet sound of wordless psalm, The same sweet June-day rest and calm, The same sweet scent of bud and balm, When the cows come home. With a tinkle, tankle, tinkle, Through fern and periwinkle, The cows are coming home; A-loitering in the checkered stream, Where the sun-rays glance and gleam, Starine, Peachbloom, Phoebe, Phyllis Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies In a drowsy dream; To-link. to-lank, to-linklelinkle, O’er the banks with buttercups a-twinkle The cows come slowly home; And up through memory’s deep ravine Come the brook’s old song and its old-time sheen, And the crescent of the silver queen When the cows come home. With a klingle, klangle, klingle, With a 100-00, and moo-00, and jingle, The cows are coming home; And over there on Morlin hill Hear the plaintive cry of the whippoorwill; The dew-drops lie on the tangled vines, And over lhe poplars Venus shines, And over the silent mill; Ko-ling, ko-lang, ko-linglelingle; With ting-a-ling and jingle The cows come slowly home; Let down the bars; let in the train Os long-gone songs, and flower and rain, For dear old times come back again, When the cows come home. ; —Agnes E. Mitchell.