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A BURST OF SONG AT DAWS.
The Bird Concert that May he Heard In
the Woodlands In the Early Morning.

the Woodlands In the Early Morning.
Night melts into gray dawn shortly after half
past 3 at this season. The suburbs at that hour
on clear mornings are filled with a strange
silence that fits we'll with the Frightening twi-
light. The meadows lie dark green. with new
come daisies and dainty thistle balls thickly
dotting the surface In clear outlines. No living
thing moves in the still morning save. per-
haps, a vagrant dog returning home from
some midnight expedition. The woodlands. an
hour earlier mere inky masses against the slowly
paling starlit sky, show a strange green In the
half light. and through holes in the daily thick
en EaS f9 Si@s. c sIss ses e.; the ne RT rsyy SKY saf 9essnd aov,
though there are soft p%eepings at odd intervals
all night long, and occasionally a catbirh will
start up at midnight and execute his full song
omitted. But between half past 3 and 1 or even
soft hute-like voices all along the woodland
front, until the whole grove seems 10 be a great
notes. Il seems as IL thousand birds ncar and
far sang together, The beginning OF one song
!; confused With the end Of smother, and though
piercing notes from those more distant. until
The ear is bewildered with multitude OF sweet
glory OF the woodthrnsh's song come
the ringing sDIrals OF a dozen veerics,
clean Tsai9 notes back and forth RISS in air, the robin
Hits from near orchard trees, and the song spar
ssbbTTub ii n The edge OF the woodland. The melo-
DIV Increases In volume as the light hroadens.
edge ~ the woodland catches the ear. aud has
his fnll say In spite OF his hundred rivals. Sum
marvellous winged activity among the birds.
Crows are moving aloft, robins are bouncing
along the grass; woodthrushes are shooting ar
rowlIko through the woodland, the whole bird
world is busy will, throat end wing, hut not
even this lively sunrise scene quite equals that
first concerted burst of song At dawn. when no
bird u visible. and the music seems mysterious
ly evoked from the woodland by some magic OF
the morning breeze,
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SHE KNEW NOW TO TRAVEL.
A SHARP Woman aad q New Guard on the
Brooklyn Elevated Railroad.

A SHARP Woman aad q New Guard on the
Brooklyn Elevate Railroad.
They had q new guard the other day on the
Brooklyn Elevated Railroad. and, as some new
guards occasionally do. he was really trying
to please the patrons OF the road. He called
out the names Of the stations, for one thing,
with painful distinctness. His speech plainly
indicated that he had como to this country
from England within a year or two. His ap-
pearance also showed that he was not to the
manor born. He wore Dundreary whiskers
Of yellowish reddish hue that no American
born citizen would have dared for a moment
to present to the gaze Of his fello " country
men. They rested on his shoulders. He had
charge Of a two,car train on the Ridgewood
branch OF the road, runninRto Fulton Ferry.
4 prim woman OF about forty.fve. dressed
severely in black. was one Of his. passengers.
The train was west Tn bound ana hsd stoppSd AZ
could hear him that passengers for the bridge
should change cars there; The woman IN
The car curved off from Lexington avenue,
and she jumped MP hastily and ran To- the door.
avenue train; The guard said I was. but that
1t bad 3renched off to go TO Fulton Ferry,
II didn't hear you call out the change she
II did call 1t out; ma'am," he replied.
She still insisted that she wanted to go to
full to call out notice Of the need to change.
She repeated that che was going to the wrong
on him. and practically wa, accusing him OF
the names OF the stations properly. The
probably fearing that ho might lose his
new Job in some way. got very. red.
Finally, to suggest a way ont of the
dilemma, the guard suggested that the
woman should remain on the car At the ferry
and go back to Navy street and then change.
She heard him with scorn. and said:
II know perfectly well where ! am. ! have
lived mere a great many years. a great many
~ fbap Won haEp know how 70 travel -
~ see you do. ma'nm." said the clustered guard
with q show of humility
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but say. mister, l amt got no left hand -
Tho darkness hid tho showmAn's em barrass-
ment.
some OF tho more Ingenious spectators in
passing before the luminous square OF glass
held up purses or handkerchief containing
metal objects,
why, Gus" exclaimed a gentle and reproach-
full voice, as the shadow OF a large wallet was
held up against tho glass, by the shadow of a
large man, you've only got a dime"
Not on yer l!:e," rotorted Gus, de rest Is In
bills, an bills don't show up in de X rAys
Don't you fret"
Move along, missis," implored the howm
Of a creature in the largest and most elaborate
OF theatre hats. who had been wIsgling her
fingers against the screen with great nlmbleness
and absorption, yer husbands waiting.
How d'yOu know | was married - she In
Quired In a peNuAsiVe and deprecating voice.
o saed yer weddin' ring, mA'am; | can snot
EN- 'Rainst do screen like within now. Move
along. please, and give de rest = chance"
"Slr,n said a solemn silhouette with . pro-
fosalonAl voice, who had been standing silently
beside the railing past which the crowd strug-
Elod one By one. +" notice 9 kind of penumbTa or
shadow against the glass. even after the hand
has bssA removed from IT, Could thsr& be. do
Sou think. a kind Of DTOtEsetsd yibEato6 q the
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ders Of their anatomy to the curiosity hunters.
Sometimes the line in waiting would stretch
down the whole side of the building where the
electrical laboratory was situated. No Coney
Island throng was ever more varied in It's
makeup. Here there would be q couple of
priests, possibly meditating a pertinent sermon
on death after q sight OF their own bones. Near
them would be a smiling and weakened old
woman, whose svoirdupois was so inconsider-
able that she really had no need OF an Y ray to
examine the bones of her hand. Just as infants
take a delight in contemplating their toes, so. it
seemed. this army Of adults were consumed with
curiosity to examine their own interior, II only
for o moment.
After a while the visitor found himself within
the gloomy portals and could dimly distinguish,
like the light at the far end Of u tunnel. q faint
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From ne Washington tteHiHJ Star,
THE secret service museum In the Treasury
DeIarNnsnt cOutinueS to be "A great attraction
remarked one OF the officials Of the SecreS
service bureau, though most Of tho articles
exhibited there are very old, tn bulk OF them
have been on exhibition for hftccn or t~snty
years, and but few new things have been added
Of late, SUI the rural visitors crowd In therS
dlly and take great interest IN looking over the
old counterfeit plates aud notes collected there;
Even more Interest Is taken IN the collection OF
photographs Of old time Cuuuterielt"rs, the most
81 whom have been dead for years The mu-
scum, however, strikes the popular fancy. and
~ particularly satisfactory 10 the large number
OF persons. young and old, who read detective
stories aud are interested In the accounts OF
crimes which appear IN the newspapers uls
actually SOC the tools OF trade OF the aEUAtaA4,
classes. and especially 0f e0qntsrfstssSS -
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radiance that seemed immeasurably distant.
Slowly the heads siihouetted against this glim-
mering square of light would give place TO new
ones. and all the time the voice OF the exhibitor
would resound with sepulchral eloquence:
"Move along. ladies and gentlemen; move
along. There's a big crowd here tonight and
we want to give everybody q show"
Occasionally he would vary these suggestions
for the acceleration OF their advance by bits Of
advice. such as:
Ladies' need not remove their gloves; the
light passes through everything but metal"
Al one period he began to shout Put up your
left hands to the screen, ladies and gentlemen,
SOS you won't have to turn around" but he was
suddenly disconnected a little BY a shadowy
figure beside him. who explained timorously:
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The girls who saw the Horoscope seemed to
be most annoyed at the hurry-up system IN use.
l. was surely u curta.lmcnt OF feminine enjoy
mert that they should be 80 unrRilnntly ordered
To be quick and give the line behind a chance.
Perhaps next season the management will make
IA douhie allowance of time for ladies', as is done
90 probably at the ticket offices on the elevated
.ailroad.
ut Is n dreadful invention, Jim" one girl re-
marked 10 her escort. II can almost imagine
that see Your skull now beneath your face,
and you don't seem half as good looking
What's the matter with my skull - Queried
Jim. in AN injured tono OF voice. II guess it's as
good AS yOurs,'
Thus the X rays were the cause Of q lovers
puaTTnl
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the Ingenious young woman was hLstIeu gently
out OF temptation's way.
As the skeleton viewers emerged at the other
end OF the booth once more into broad arc light,
their faces were n study for Ihy-iugnomtsts.
At this end there was stationed AN official in
blue aud brass. with AN obdurate Jaw. n rcso-
nant voice. and n high temper. Occasionally
little groups would collect behind him and try
to shove past into the doorway, when with much
fire and severity he would direct them to tho
other end OF the booth. where the line could be
seen stretching in silent expectation intermira-
bly, down the corridor.
Some Of those who had looked upon their own
bones had n disappointed air, as though they
had been TO look at Niagara or n Presidential
candidate. One Corpulent and sandy-hair"d
gentleman came out. loudly complaining that he
had not seen n bone In his whole baud. luig-
the power o: the \ ray could hardly be blamed
for his disappointineut.
But" said he, as though the idea was In
some degree u balm for his wounded feelings.
" eed list elm Chairman invendshuu.
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LOOKING AT THEIR BONES.
IT CROWDS AT THE FLUoRoSCOPs
AT THE ELECTRICJL SNOW.

Embarrassment OF the Snowman Erect OF
Y Rays on - wniiet-A SECONDARY Phe-
nouenon Explained High hisker's
Au,bitou - BeginpiuE OF a uu"rrei.
All day the crowd shu fled through the alsles
Of the Grand Central Palace at tho electrical
show; but In the evening the multitude grew to
stining proportions. and inpatient people. as Is
their custom. went from booth to booth, Tuning
at the delay caused by the vast throng of sight
seers. But 1t Ia poor policy to be in q hurry
among unsympathetio and lelsurely strangers.
II was only necessary to fall into their mood OF
incident wonder TO be led impcrceptibly to the
N-ray booth. where Edison's tuoroscope was
on exhibition.
The booth Itself was an impressive affair,
draped with black. From the little doorway.
which received the spectators in single file. a
reddish glow fell from a small electric lamp.
lighting up the noses of the ex pcctant sight
seers with q very bacchanalian effect. From g
till about half past 10 the light which never be-
fore "shone on land or sea d" exhibited the won-
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from the 'Htcd0o LdiIy ITtbuHe'
That Was q curious case OF Kadger'A. Ho
married the eldest daughter OF tue Bingler fam
ily, uutlivod her. married the neIt eldest out
lived her also, aud then married the youngest"
"Mhy didn't he begin with the youngest aud
marty the eldest one last 2"
wal. | suppose he naturally followed the
Hne Of least resistance"
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FFWW " VTHF F3TWW TWFTU 9F0WN
The correspondent who inquiries how many
COloncls there are in the State OF Texas cannot
bo definitely answered. CulbeTson received
about 2l5.OOO votes in 1894. but some OF them
deserted him before his Inauguration. His vote
IN 1890 will approximate the nu8ssF Of Texas
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matter with the glass. There's about twenty
thousand people has been pressing their hands
against that glass. and the phenomenon and
penumbra and all that you've been noticing Is
better not pointed out"
The black sheep among that array OF black
shadows of humanity appeared in the person "
q spirited girl. whose profile, dinly disceruible
against the gruund-glass screen of the fluoro-
scope. indicated that she was not without Mt
fractions. She could be heard talking in n loud
and musical voice far down the line, and her
vivacity increased proportiOnately rs she ap
preached tho dreaded light, which proves that
beauty is only skin deep.
slip n penny In your glove and press your
hand fiat against the glass, miss" said the
Snowman with affable authority.
Not much she exclaimed, and with q sup
pie swing raised a patent leather toe in the air
and nearly kicked the showinan'S eyeglasses
from his nose in an effort to get IL before the
light. There was u moments hesitation. and
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ray after the Intervening object has actually
liver mean them black spots on the glsss1
inquired the shuwman.
Eyes; II IL. | suppose, n phenomenon that has
not been noticed hitherto"
Ibid yer ever see a towel In n prlntin' ONCE 2"
said the Snowman as he again turned on the
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This Was written IN 1892, Another latter Is
from I. Feniuure tuupc., In II he saws:
| wish you all success with the telegraph, which
misht n, made very useful for long distances. Your
dlnlcuIty viii be Ia communicating between more
than two stations, rnr hair q dozen sparks travel.
Ing on the Same wires VIII play the d-ul with tho
REGISTERS.
Further along In this case ARE the remains Of
the battery with which the first teleRrRphiC
message was sent by the hand ~ $, +. Il.
Rcd on the racket ship Sully IA ls32. II con
taius the very first sketches he made for the
Geographic instrument, There Is u copy here.
too. ~ the hook containing tho record OF the
Rain lawsuit, and the margins are almost
covered with annotations made by Morse him
relies, which are related, In one WAY or an.
other. Ia the history ol electricity. Ons more
is worth mentioning. II 10 u composite photo
graph 81 SIX great s"ientists -FaradRy, Edison,
iIelmholtE, siemens, Kelvin, and Henry.
l. + noticeable that In the composite photo
graph the features OF Faraday are dominant,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
WHAT SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS
MEAN.

Arkansas gave the largest Demo
cratic majority in its history. Just as
the result in Vermont foretold how all
New England will go, just so the vote
in Arkansas tells how the South will
vote in November. Nearly every State
in the South will greatly increase the
Democratic majority, and it may also
be expected that no New England
States will do likewise, The September
elections settle nothing except that
free silver is strong outside of New
England, and it would be strong there
If the Democrats had not become as
sistant Republicans.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
TOM DIxoN's LATEST CAPER.

The acquaintance of Tom Dixon
have seen his latest tendencies towards
Tom Plattism with mingled feelings
of regret and "I-told-you-so." Several
years ago, in an address at Wake For
est College, Mr.. Dixon made defense
of trusts. Later he has declared that
Tom Platt was a pure and upright
statesman. God save the mark! The
logical result of such preaching has
found expression i'm his support of Nc
Kinley If trusts are good things and
if Platt is the ideal statesman, then
Mckinley ought to be President. But
Tom was evidently Disconnected when
his congregation Kissed his plutocratic
utterances and denounced his state
ments as false. The day has passed
when any man can preach in "Peo-
pies church" and be a tool of corpo-
rate greed.
The political sermon of Sunday ver-
flies private note that was sent to the
NEWS anu ODSSENtI pii AiAS ~ot1l VI @Att-
gust, as follows:
"I learned to-day from very
prominent man that at an early
date Rev. Thos. Dixon would come
into North Carolina and stump the
State for Mckinley and the gold
standard He has made a contract
to make twenty speeches, more or
less, as he finds it wise, with the
National Republican Executive
committee"
This was laid aside to await develop
ments.
Let Thomas collect his money from
Mark Hanna and come down if he
thinks paid political harangues will
have weight with North Carolina
voters.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
CARRY THE NEWS TO VERMONT

The Democratic majority in Arkan-
sas is estimated at $4,000; it may reach
$4,000. In 1883 the majority
was 27,210; in 1890 it was 21,-
0s6; in 1892 it was 40,950, and in 1894
it was 4s,724.
What made this great increase ?
Nothing but the bold advocacy of free
silver. Republicans and Populists
united in voting the Democratic ticket
to tell the world that farmers and la
tborers in all parties repudiate the gold
standard. Thousands of negro farmers
actually joined with their white neigh
bors to repudiate the gold standard.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
A VICTORY FOR REAL REFORM.

The defeat of Governor Evans for
United States Senator in South Caro-
is a man of small calibre, if not bad
man. Judge Earle won by over 5000
majority. Hei $ not ''Reformer," but
is not a member of any faction in the
party. He is able and clean, and owes
his election as much to former follow
ers of Tillman as to CONSERVATIVES"
The result shows that while Tillman
can still control South Carolina for
himself, he cannot make the people
elect a little man of smirched reputa-
ton to great office.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
AN UP-TO-DATE REPUBLICAN
SPEECH.

Fellow Citizens; | come here to-
day to take back everything | ever told
you on the money question:; | have told
you that gold recommendation would
bring disaster to the people; that the
free coinage of silver was the only door
open to a fair chance for the farmers
and laborers: that Cleveland was the
enemy of the people because he oppos-
esl silver. | come to-day to apologize to
you for all these statements. | have
wofully deceived you. Gold is the only
money for the poor man. Silver would
give him deprecated dollar. Gold
is the money of the poor man. Vote
for gold and be happy. Why have
changed my views on the money ques-
tion? Don't ask me. Ask Mark Hanna. ;"
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are trying to array them against the
rest Of the people. The Republican
platform in the State of New York
said that we ought to have business
administration, conducted by business
men, in behalf of the business interests
of the country. What do they mean by
that? DO they call the farmers bust
ness men? Oh! he simply produces
wealth. But if a man goes on the
Board of Trade and makes more in. an
hour betting on the price of what YOU
raise than you make in year. he he
comes a business man.
Those people who have attempte5
to array a few of the people against
the rest of the people and who have
insisted that the affairs of this gov
eminent should be put in the hands
of few, have called us disturbers Of
the public peace and they have called
us anarchists.
my friends, these terms simply ex-
press the contempt which they have
for the great mass of people of this
country. These names they call us
simply go to prove that they are not
willing to trust the destinies Of this
Republic in the hands of the people
who have created its wealth i'm times
of peace and who fought it's battles
in times of war.
"Show me these people who now call
us anarchists and / will show you a
class of people who, if we had war,
would never go to the front, but they
are the very people who SANDER those
who fight the battles to save their
own property"
Mr. Bryan here referred to the large.
outpouring Of his fellow citizens on
this occasion and expressed his thanks
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09

Texas is great State. The news
that now comes from that State is that
Republicans, gold Democrats, and
Populists have fused" We await to
read the denunciations which will fill
the gold papers of this ''unholy COM
bination' before making further com
ment. Under the deal the Populists
get the State ticket and four electors;
the Republicans eight electors, and the
gold standard Democrats four electors.
But the Democrats will carry Texas by
$4,000 majority, and this fusion win
help them to do it.
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CONGRESSIONAL:

First District-W. FL. LUCAS, OF
Hyde.
Second District. A. WOODARD,
of Wilson
Third District FRANK THOMP-
SON, of Onslow.
Fourth District-EDWARD w. POU.
Of Johnston.
Fifth District-W. w. KITCHIN. Of
Person.
Sixth District-JAMES A. LOCK
HART, of Arson.
Seventh District-SAMUEL j. PEN
BERTON, of Stanly county.
Eighth District-RUFUS A. DOUGH-
TON, of Allegheny county.
Ninth District--J. s. ADAMS. Of
Buncombe. s @ &a
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09

II stand on the st. Louis platform,
which demands that the present gold
standard be maintained until we can
get Acknowledgements" Senator
Pritchard. Why, then, did you write
less than three months ago that it was
your earnest purpose to secure an
American system of finance?" Explain
this in your speech at Durham to-
night.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09

Sundays New York Tribune gives a
whole page to a gold article by David
A. Wells. This is the same Mr.. Wells
that the Tribune used to call "a tariff
theorist." Now that he and the other
free traders have come over to McKin-
lev, the Tribune finds they are great
x1Sz.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
LINCOLN CONDEMNED TT.

The Republican orators never speak
Of Lincoln in connection with their
sold standard doctrine. They dare not,
fer he condemned it. Lincoln said:
THAT if the Government contracts Il
debt with a certain amount of money
in circulation, and then contracts the
money volume before the debt
was paid, it was the most
heinous crime that the Government
could commit against the people. !"
This is what the Republican party has
done, and the crime the Cleveland wing
of the Democratic party has approved.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09

Chairman MANLY will highly appre-
ciate lit if all the papers in the State
will copy the itinerary of Mr.. Bryan,
which appears in to-day's News and
Observer Let it have the widest pub
LEGATION, 80 that 100000 voters can hear
him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
SILVER PARTY IN WISCONSIN.
Over Eighty Per Cent of 1t is Made
up of Republicans.

Over Eighty Per Cent of It is Made
up of Republicans.
The chairman of the silver party in
Wisconsin writes here that 80 per cent
of the party is made up of old time
Republicans. ''We can carry this city
and State" he says. 1--WE now have
$500 Republicans pledged for Bryan
and free silver in this city (Milwaukee)
alone"
Hollis Winston, son of ex-President
George #. Winston, was admitted to
the Naval Academy yesterday. His
father was a cadet there in his youth.
There is a report here, originating
with a cabinet officer, that the Presi-
dent is offended with certain officials
who are actually supporting Bryan,
and that if they do not quit it he will
demand their resignation or remove
them from office. The three said to be
specially marked are Auditor Baldwin,
of Maryland; Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury Wike, of Illinois; and III.
c. Bell, Deputy Pension Commissioner.
They have all been very active, partic-
ularly Mr.. Bell, who makes an average
of three speeches week.