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der her infiuence." was the keynote of las address.
 Every woman in the audience was urg- cd to individual action. Every woman was urged to exert her individual in- fluence to arouse other women to bring before the individual voter the issue and the facts. She was asked to distribute copies of the campaign pamphlet through her servants, and her friends.
 The campaign committee undertook to raise funds for the distribution of thous- ands of pamphlets. When 1t is consider ed that over ten thousand dollars was raised by the women of New York, their material aid in the fight against Tam interest. But this amount was inade- quate to defray the expenses incident to the campaign work. Among the New York women who aided the League was Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who indicated her preference in the mayorality cam paign by sending a check of fifty dollars to the Municipal League, with assur- ances of her sympathy and desire to CO., operate with them in their work. This action on the part of New York's beau tiful society leader was taken as an indi- cation of her approval of the interest taken in politics by the women Of New York.
 Over fifty thousand pamphlets were dis tributed by the League in the boroughs of Manhattan and the campaign com mittee also had thousands of posters printed calling attention to this feature of the campaign They left nothing un-
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Am /uaaam Gam6ley Beats tAs Madway

August They say old Blue Horse plan- ned 1t. Others think Professor Charles Alexander Donaldson, who sees and knows all that happens on the Midway, may have evolved it ss he spieled to the passing throng, Biacl1bird Wing executed 1t. Every Indian has beauteous war bonnet. They arc tonder of feathers than an ostrich or a peacock. A mirror is better than diamond to them. The silversmith is an Indian.
 Chief Calico one evening offered him gorgeous war bonnet to put on for @ moment. while the chief saw if the feath- CTS 1uffed symmetrically. This was in Battling Clouds tepee Other Indians entered. They admired the bonnet. Blackbird was one of them. A game, was started Chief Calico made no sign, to remove the bonnet. The Navajo. noth-, ing loath to shine in such finery. wore 1t: and joined in the game. He sat opposite Blackbird. One of the silversmith's hab its is to pinch his cards. or to examine them cautiously helu close to his eyes. He pinched as usual, and every time he pinched Blackbird eyed him keenly. The Navajo began to lose. Blaclbird won. Navajo about s9o loser. He pinched, looked up suddenly and saw Blnckbird watching him. Instinctively the right hand of the Navajo went up to his fore head and touched the war bonnet. He stopped, then without word laid down his cards, showed the pot over to Black bird. took off his bonnet. laid 1t down and walked out.
 In the front of the forehead hand of the bonnet, set so 1t would reflect what ever the warriors eyes saw at close range, was a round mirror. This was the first; and last time, they beat the Ma vaio He plays bareheaded.
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FAIR WOMEN TIGHT THE TAMNiANY TIGER

exhaustless edition Of "extras' They screamed themselves hoarse.
 It is said that not even in a Presidential election have the streets of New York presented nore animated scene. That Greater Now York rose to the occasion no one who witnessed the demonstration will doubt. The victorious newspapers all over again of "Tammanys brutal rule" The foremost purpose of the cam paign was the defeat of Tammany Hall Ing frozen tiger.
 A newspaper woman that I know who Is for Tammany just because 1t Is a Democratic organization, was discussing the results with another Southern girl the night of the election.
 Seth Low was elected" said the news paper woman to the girl who had re- mained at home to hear the returns.
 well" answered the girl in her soft voice, 'I have read about 1t all in che papers. I know that Tammany and Crokerism and Shepard and the fusion set have been having high old times But I have never been positive whether it was Low whom Tammany was sup porting or Shepard"
 She was In dead earnest and when she was told that Greater New York had achieved a Republican victory she shook her head very grayely. But her next re- mark was something about the next hop at West Point, and New York politics was secondary consideration. Politics will never have a very vital hold upon all women.
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Pay i'm the Army
Result of Comparison
 With Other Nations.

schedules The French private soldier receives $1. .62 per month.
 Russian army pay is pauperism appar- ently. Their general receives only Sl3lO pay proper annually; lieutenant general, sl047; major general $777; colonel $5l5; lieutenant colonel, $4O0 downward to $270; major, s400 to $190 captain $34o to $1SO; first lieutenant S290 to $I60; second lieu tenant. s250 to $15S. Enlisted monthly pay runs from $19 for first sergeant in the guard Qnfantry) down to $1J0 for privates In the infantry.
 It will be noticed that, comparatively poor as continental official military pay is by comparison with the American, that of the enlisted strength is practically nothing. The common soldier Is taken little account of in the compilation of continental pay tables. The European common soldier, excepting those of the British army, live the life of dogs, and are but little better fed. 1t Is no won der that the common people of all the nations dread the compulsory army ser vice and that thousands emigrate to avoid it.
 It may be repeated with absolute con f1dence that the American army of ficers are the most generously paid for the work and peril and hardship they en- counter of any in the whole world Their rank pay and consideration have in- creased at a great ratio since just before the Civil war. The increase is shown in the following tabulation:
The age-herald., 1901-11-10
NOW COMES NEW LOCOMOTIVE.
Railroad Engine Expected to Beat the
 Famous 999.

From the New York Press.
 The most famous locomotive in the world is ''999" The mystic hines are easy to remember. Every child with a turn for mechanics, girl as well as boy, knows something about the giant that made the glory of the Empire State Ex- press, for nearly all the toy engines of recent years have borne the number "999' But the name Is ephemeral. No. 999 is soon to be outdone by a newcomer on the steel way-No 29S0 This splendid example of the Central Asiatic type is hauling the Empire State Express. and 1t Is expected that when fairly shaken down It will cause 999 to be forgotten. and be able to make a record of never being behind time except in an actual snow blizzard. Railroad men throughout the country are looking for a run of from 105 to 125 miles an hour.
 No. 29S0 is 63 feet 9s4 inches in length, over all, as we say in yachting circles, and the roof of her cab Is 15 feet above the rails. To fully comprehend this monster, compare her height with the ceiling of your room, which averages 10lh from the floor. Or better yet, go stand beside No. 2sSo. as l did the other day, and feel overpowered, as you are
  tached the engine alone weighs sS tons, or 176,000 pounds Her drivers are feet inches in diameter. A six-foot man could walk erect through her tires. Her firebox would accommodate a good-sized billiard table. It looks like part of the Rapid Transit tunnel
 The plaint of the British railroader is that English locomotives do not possess sufficient tractive povc,r to haul the enor- nous trains seen on American roads. The difficulty lies in the improper distri- button of the weight of the engine. By an ingenious device the weight of No. 29S0 can be shifted; the moving of lever in the cab throws 10000 pounds off the trailing wheels and upon the drivers. thus greatly increasing the grip of the latter and adding to their tractive power. The old engines were unable to pull a six-car passenger train up West Albany hill without the assistance of a helper or pusher; but No. 2sS0. when that steep grade is reached and the engi- neer shifts that 10000 ponds to the driv- ers makes times over the hill unaided. The wild ''Injun'' of the plains would have a jolly time lassoing No. 29S0. wouldn't her
The age-herald., 1901-11-10

Philpin of New York County the main issue of the campaign.
 The vicious conditions of which he gave abundance of evidence, so aroused many New York women to the impor- tance of seeking to protect young girls in the city from falling into lives of deg radiation, that 6 systematic campaign against the present administration was outlined The women of Now York armed with reports and information furnished by the Committee of Fifteen, entered heart and soul into a fight directed against a traffic known to exist in the city, a traffic that they believed was permitted through the power of Tam many They made fight not for the suppression of vice. but to "kill off the thing that permitted vice to flourish" All their efforts were against Tam many
 At the headquarters of the woman's campaign committee, the committee held in Carnegie Hall, Justice Jerome spoke to thousands of women interested in the campaign Never in New York's politi- cal history was an issue made more par amount than that upon which New York women based their arguments. In Justice Jerome's address he declared that New York must look for a betterment in the present condition of affairs to the wiser laws demanded by its women. "The soundest backbone that the American re- public can boast of is the American wom- an, who studies, who sees and who is then able to advise those who come un-
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tepements. Cooperating with the Munic- ipal League was the League for Politi- cal Education. and the Women's Auxil- iary of the Civil Service Reform Asso- citation.
 While Carnegie Hall has been the scene of mass meetings of women who were addressed by various political lead CTS. there have been hundreds of women in the audiences addressed by Mir De- pew, MT. Bourke Coctrane and other el- oquent speakers. Carnegie Hall could not hold the throngs and the crowds were kept back by phalapx of blue coats
 New Yorks streets were choked night after night and no campaign was ever characterized with such frenzied dem onstration. a tumultuous excitement that reached it's climax on election day. The returns were announced from ali the theaters and from the Madison Square Tower a binding flash of light to the northward announced the Republica n victory. This method reIr.nded one of Paul Revere's midnight ride and hanging q lantern in the belfry tower, one if by lard and two if by sea"
 Thousands of flags and banners nut tered. The automobiles and cabs ran into each other and there were miles of streets cars detained by the throngs that made Broadway inps ssable.
 At tha uptown offices of the newspapers the bulletins were i1iterspersed with ster- eoptican views and music hall verses. The usual glitter of Broadway was aug mented by the flash lights from the tops of the buildings and the flames from
The age-herald., 1901-11-10
cMlNamaMs Srihute to MLlssloNaries

Pelin. September 9.-The following doc ument contains a remarkable address de- livered by a Chinaman over the graves of the eight English missionaries killed at Hsin Chou. Shan Ssi, Mir. and Mrs. Dixon, MT. and Mrs. McCurragh, Mir. and Mrs. Underwood, Miss Renant and MT. Ennals. 1t records a courageous and noble act done at time when there could be no doubt of the danger involved in any service to foreigners; in doing as he did the man no doubt risked his life. As a tribute to fidelity and high moral con- stancy, 1t is remarkable because the an- nals of the faithful are few; but it is still more remarkable perhaps because the sentiments and convictions disclosed are so rare.
 The incident occurred shortly after the taking of Tien Tsin by the Allies. but it is improbable that the man knew of that event. The address was a protest against the entities of II Hsien and the Boxers, and similar words cost many virtuous man his head. The document as is translated Is as follows:
 An address prepared and read by Mir. Gnu, a director of studies Gin preparing Stu0en1S TOT eAaIHlndllOl), dl the Durlal of a company of missionaries in Shan Hsi.
 CT buried these missionaries at the eastern corner of the city wall, and pre- pared writing to use in offering sacri- flee to them. The missionaries were En- giish, four men and four women, one named Ma, another ri. The names of the others are not known to me. In the seventh month August, 190O at Hsin Chou I, Gnu Hung Kao, director of studies; offered sacrifice at the graves of missionaries, presenting incense, paper, wine and fruit, with the following com positlon)
 Light has passed and darkness has set in; the spirit of destruction is let loose. Though one shuts his door and dwclls within yet calamity comes to him out of the skies.
 "Cnina has been ruled by the Pure Dynasty for 300 years, and people have been born in multitudes like the budding of trees Recently the gracious gods have withdrawn. and calamities have increasz ed from north to south. Scholars from Europe have been destroyed in a single day; their bodies were left unburied for wolves and birds to devour.
 When you Undressing the deaO heard
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of the approaching calamity you fled from your homes, leading your wives and children to the fields and mountains. Who was there to care for you, to lead you out or bring you in? You were like animals enticed by promises of grass and grain, but were led treacherously into pitfalls.
 "On the fifteenth of the seventh month, when moon and stars had disappeared, only the Dipper being seen in the north, with no sound save that of the growing of cocks, you were carried out in carts to the foot of the city wall and there were killed. your bodies were thrown out in a desolate place by the side of the river Though slightly covered your hands and feet were still visible.
 "Your church was that of Jesus; My teachers were K'ung and en (Confucius and his disciple Yen). Our studies were along widely different lines, and we had no. personal relations. Yet l remember that in ancient times Cheng Cnuang saved Chang l. from calamity, and Gnu Chla showed the same regard for Chi Pu (his- torical personages who though mutual en- ernies showed kindness one to another in time of calamity. Was this kindly treatment because they were friends, or heloneed to the same family? Rather was if because of the spirit of nobility in the - nieces stone and metal. anu which mounts to the clouds of heaven. l do not dare to compare myself with these worthies of antiquity. cd mn the dirst over the graves, burFing thesa eight persons. men at the east and ,yomen at the north. The pit was seven Feet deep. l hired tn.rteen laborers to as- s,st My official position is humble one, ana my money in hand limited there fore pawned goods to secure little
 .T could not provide clothins for the hod,es nor outer cases for the collins. Eoar,ne that men or animals might ex- rosa tho bodies. I bound the collins with grass and mats that you might be ie1t s,, neace I did this in sympathy with my mrneror. F, who loves the lives of his peo- pie. - ... hod,os u,bicb von had received from your parents might remain complete. and that your sn;rits might not disturb the passing travellers. neglected ghosts are thought to work mischief upon the living). It was my desire that you might remain undisturbed in the earth until friends
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Women As PolghcaI Cambazemers.
BY JOHN p. FOLEY.

sist CTS in other citios-which are arr,icted with the leprosy of Inissovernnent, Equally with the male members of their, family they profoundly interested in making civic administration what it was intended It should be, pure, honest. incorruptible, punishirg and restraining, vice, encoura sing virtue and steadfastly devoted to the greatest good of the greatest number. The evils that prevail in nearly all the large communities of the republic are menace to our civil ization itself. They are undermining the home. filling the land with criminals and rotbinG the rising generation of their st precious inheritance, a benef1cent- government under which they may live and prosper. The women of the country cannot be indifferent to these abhorant conditions, and 1t is incumbent upon them to do all In their power to help. along the work of reformation. It is not too muck to say that women are now the most powerful and best supports of the churches of every denomination. De- prived of their zeal and activity tho great majority of congregations would languish into nearly nothing perhaps die out alto gether. Without their co-ort ration nine ty in every hundred clergymen would flnc themselves noxt to helpless. Under existing conditions women are as much reeded in the political as Tn the religious. world Their elcvating influence is re- qrired to keep the strong in the right path. to give nerve and courage to the weak and arouse the indifferent to the higher calls of duty. The old theory that women should not participate in these ignobe struggles should bs remanded to- tho lumber rooms of exploded failacies. These contests are not 'Ignobic." On the contrary, they are among tho very lofuest in which mon and women can engage. They involve the happiness or the misery Of humanity, the success or failure or institutions upon the fate of which hangs al! ths future. From every point of view the cause of purc politics is 9 hoiy one and should be sacrediy cher ished
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The surprising statem ent was recently made in a New York pal ger that the Brit Ssh army officers recei we'd higher pay than the officers of tn United States army, in refutation of prior assertion that the American offio CTS are the best paid in the world I'll ere was only a grain of truth in the sta tement; probably not q dozen officers in ithe entire British establishment draw la1 ger salaries than are known in our army. They are of ficers holding the very highest places. A British field marshars pay is s22.5Oo per nnnum and that of gen eral $146O0 neith- CT of which grades is caraed in the United States army. The pay of all other grades is far greater in the Ameri- can army, as the following table will
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TRACING SLANG PHRASES.
Some of Them go Back to ciassicat
 Greece and Rome.

From the New York Press
 A learned German philologist recently has been tracing so-called slang phrases through the labyrinth of various lang uages, and has found that many of them are of ancient and some of classical ori- gin, like the famous phrase, He's brick" As most every one knows, this originated from the reply of the King of Sparta, who. when asked where were the walls of his city. replied that Sparta had 5o0Oo soldiers, "and every man is a brick" It was once the custom in France to serve to guest who had outstaycd his welcome a cold shoulder of mutton instead of hot roast, as gentle hint to terminate his visit. Hence the ex- pression, ITO give the cold shoulder" Back in the days of Good Queen Bess'' shoemaker named Hawkins committed suicide by standing on a bucket to bring . him nearer to the convenient rafter which ; he had selected for his hanging place. Having made fast the rope he kicked the [ bucket away and so accomplished his ], purpose. Hence to kick the bucket
 In Puritan times a certain Hezekiah Merton was in the habit of baking two or three dozen apple pies every Saturday. and arranging them in the pantry with labels appropriating one or more pies for certain days. The pantry thus arranged was Sdid to pe dIple-ple OrQeT. lt was a custom of the Hungarians. in their wars with the Turks to wear a feather in their cap for each Turk they killed. Hence "a feather in his cap.' Deadhea6" is of extremely ancient origin. In Pom peii people who gained adms ssion to the theatre or the amphtheatre without pay ing their way were 'deadheads," because the check used for their admission con sisted of small ivory deeths head. Perhaps the expression was older than Pompeii, and the ivory checks were the outcome of the word and not the word of the checks. But 1t is certaint tho word was used then as 1t Is now.
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9 NOTEWORTHf 1ealure oi the
 AN recent municipal campaign in
 J~\ the city of New York was the active and earnest part borne in it by thousands of the women of the metropolis. It is truo that women have heretofore interested themselves in these contests, but, as a rule, they have be- longed to the class of newspaper notori- ety hunters who, short-haired themselves, trained with the long-haired species of the other sex. This year 1t was entirely different The home-making and the home-loving women came out of their domestic seclusion in immense numbers, openly Identifying themselves with their husbands, fathers and sons in the strug gle to effect better and purer govern mental conditions. And they represente ed all the strata in the social scale. Among them were women belong to what is called the -Four Hundred" who, under ordinary circumstances, hold themselves aloof from, in a financial point of view, their less fortunate sisters. But during the last forty days politics levelled all distinctions. The name Of an Astor was bracketed with those of persons, esti- mable, of course, in all the relations of life, but whose connection hitherto with the great real estate owning house has been limited to that of multimillionaire landlord and more or less humble tenant. The women had their own headquarters, acted entirely independent of the political organizations which they were sustain ing. and in that way rendered far more valuable service than they could have given in a subordinate capacity MT. Lows splendid vote was In a great meas uro due to their magnificent energy and the inspiration they infused into the can vaes.
 The example thus ret by the women of New York should be followed by their
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There is little doubt that the pay before the Civil war was too low, although the purchasing power of money, 1t Is urged, was greater than now, a somewhat doubtful proposition. The living require ments of an army officer now are very much more extended than they were prior to the Mexican war, but many of the so-called luxurics of 1S43 are now common staples and cheap compara- lively.
 It will be noted that the average pay has more than doubled in fifty-eight years. Furthermore, the American army officer, besides being generally better clothed, better fed and better housed, has now far greater consideration at the hands of his people than was granted him two or three generations ago. He is now a great man. He travels to and fro in the most luxurious and rapid manner, whereas sixty years ago journey was generally hardship, and officers fought shy of being ordered on journeys in those days. Such assignments are now sought after In addition to greater pay and the various personal advantages al- luded to- the American officer now re- ceives certain allowances unkonwn to the army in 1S43
 It must be admitted that our army pay schedule is liberal, yet it is far more likely to be increased than cut down. Armies are not unalloyed blessings, but they are necessary, and undoubtedly their efficiency is advanced by making it worth tho while of their units to serve. That is the principle upon which is founded an our American military legislation of the past forty years.