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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-06

THERE people who, like Brer Rabbit laying low
and keeping eye President Roosevelt Just now they
think he is a buzz that amt buzzn'
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-06

THE cup the Columbia successfully defended will not be
teaeup, might have been had Sir Thomas Upton won
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
BoBBY on PARENTS.

Tid-Bits.
Parents are things which boys have to
look after them. Most girls also have
parents. Parents consist of pas and mas
Pas talk good deal about what they are
going to do, but mostly it's mas that
make you mind
Sometimes it is different, though. Once
on vacation. His parents lived on a
farm. There was work to be done on
the farm. Work on farm always has
to be done early in the morning This
boy didn't get up. His sister goes up
to the stairway and calls:
Willie, tits beautiful morning. Rise
and list to the lark.
The boy didn't say anything. Then ma
calls:
William, it is time to get up. Your
breakfast is growing cold"
The boy kept right on, not saying any,
thing. Then his pa puts his head in the
stairway, and says he:
Coming. sirF' says the boy.
know a boy that hasn't got any par
ents. He gees in swimming whenever
he pleases. But am going to stick to
my parents. However, l don't tell them
so, cause they might get it into their
heads that 1 couldn't get along without
them. Says this boy to me:
Parents are n nuisance; they aren't
what they are ra-ked up to be-"
Says to him:
Just the same I find 'em handy to
have. Parents have their failings. or
course, like all Of us, but on the whole I
approve of EN-.
Once man says to ME:
Bobby. do you love your parentS?r
We'll. says /, I'm not a-quarreling
with EN-"
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was unsuccessful His selection as the
candidate at this time is in some meas
ure because the politicians believe that
his success will more than overbalance
his defeat, and that he is a stronger man
now than he was when he made either his
successful or his unsuccessful campaign.
OF all the candidates named through
out the months of conference and ma
nipulation Seth Low is easily the strong
est This is true, notwithstanding that
his acceptability to the Plat Republic
an machine was long open tor serious
question, and even in the light of the
possibility of the turning toward him
of Platt's heelers in the coming cam
paign. With a German associate named
on it for some prominent office, the Low
ticket will probably be acceptable to the
Germans. Mr.. Low is personally accept
able to that nationality on account of
his liberal attitude as mayor of Brook
Iyn on the liquor question. There is,
moreover, no genuine reformer In any
of the boroughs of Greater New York
who does not recognize in President Low
strong representative of practical re-
form in politics. He is no mere doc
trinaire, and one term as chief eXeeu-
tive of a great city has given him the.
knowledge and experience without which
in the event of his election he might be
the merest putty in the grasp of the
self-seeking clique which is invariably
found at the head of such movements.
Little more than this can be said in
favor of Prof. Lows. candidacy. The
movement which he is chosen to lead is
above all designed to get control of the
offices for a set of politicians who have
been shut out for many years by reason
of Tammany's control. There is no senti-
ment in the movement on the part OF
those people Indeed there is no senti-
mental consideration whatever involved
in the movement on the part of those
actively engaged in it, Yet it is a move
ment which must absolutely depend for
success on the devotion of the majority
of the voters to the purely sentimental
view OF political conduct
Tammany will enter the conflict for
control of the offices thoroughly equipped
I'M political organization and generaIshfp.
1t has control of the city government,
and in the hands of men like the Tam
many politicians that circumstance,
combined with their abiding confidence
in success, means more than half the
battle.
Seth Low may be the next mayor of
greater New York; but the probabilities
are certainly not very markedly in favor
of his success. He is reasonably GER
tain however, to compel Tammany Hall
to put forth its entire resources in order
to avoid defeat
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
A LASTING GAME.

Puck
I-hev watched EN- playfn' checkers in the
summer, fan an spring,
Bill BogEs, Yves. Jones' Newt Lane Hi
Smith an Jason Fox, jtng!
know EN- all les' like book, they're
players good an strong.
On special caSionS they've been known
t play the whui night long.
They gather at the grocery as regular as
clocks
On evenin's. in winter, an they pick 'em
out box
High enoungh t. lay the board on. Then
wise-heads begin t pore
Ger the mystic game o. checkers there
IN SllaS JohnsonS store.
The board they play on g worn so that
the squares are dim. I swami
And the checker-men, err pieces, all their
vanished beauty's gone.
Why, I'll bet a million games hey on
that faded board been played
No cricket ever made the jumps them
checker-men have made!
Year in, year out, the same sized crowd s
been gatherin' of nights,
An movfn' some, an studyin' more, till
81 put out. the lights.
The Youngsters follow In the path their
fathers trod before,
An keep that game o. checkers up in
SiIas Johnson's store.
I've known O. folks a-moviu' way, be
gone maybe fer years,
AM when they'd come back visitin' they d
say to me: ut pears
Like nothin looks jes' natural. Ais
changed at once we knew,
what they used t. do!'
You couldn't stop 1t If you'd try; it's jeS'
as much q part
Of life 'roun here as eatin'. an lots
closer t the heart!
I reckon GabrieFs trump, when blown
o. fellers playih checkers there in SilaS
Johnsons store!
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RIEL IT BE m4KoR EoWe

The selection of Seth Low as the may
crafty candidate of the anti-Tammany
combination in New York represents
the contamination of months of confer
enee and consideration Never before had
political movement been known to be
in full operation throughout the mid
summer. Yet in New York during the
process of organizing the opposition to
Tammany. political excitement has been
at white heat Indeed the strange condi-
ton has been presented to view of a
political campaign being in active opera
ton, at least on one side, before the
candidates on either side had been
chosen
Will Seth Low be the next mayor of
New York? The answer involves an at
tempt at prophecy. consideration of
the probabilities of the situation will not,
however. be amiss.
Mr.. Low was elected some years age
mayor of Brooklyn on the Republican
ticket. He afterwards became president
of the Columbia university. His suisse
alent candidacy for mayor of New York
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22

whereas, If a steam engine were made
powerful enough for very quick acceler-
alton it would be too powerful for eco
nomical working during the greater por-
tin of its running time. The concentra-
ton of power generation at a few cen.
ters leads to many economies in work.
ing expenses; coal and water are only
used at the generating station, and it
Is only there in consequence that means
for their storage aapd Ehandling have to
be provided. & lie
However distant the day may be when
we will witness the general supersession
of steam by electricity in railroad
service, it is evidently the prevailing be-
lief among railroad authorities that the
event is certain to take place during
this generation
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
THE ROMANCE OF THE HANOVER
TREASURE.
London Truth.

J1OliuOH Ii uCn.
The story of the Duke Of CumberlanFz
fortune has been just related by Herr
Won Hassen. His father George " had
narrow escape of finding himself both
kingdomless and penniless The state
treasures of Hanover were only placed i'm
safety a few hours before Prussia de-
CARED war on che excellent blind king.
Inc person who saved the financial part
was Herr Klenck, chief secretary of the
c@chequer. He had to remove 10000
Ihalers IN silver. 80. 900 crowns in gold.
worth about 30 shiIlings each: R54. 600 i'm
EhgAsn oank notes, 936 900 in Prussian
thaiers, f25O0O0 in Hanover bank notes.
ana 4l9,O0060o worth of English Dutch.
/ french and other government bonds
Inc gold crowns were packed in seven
y-hlne WINE tubs, the bonds in ten
eiiests, 1he hanover bank notes. in bales,
and the thalers in crates lined with fin
This variety in the packing was IN nro-
vent notice being taken at the railway
or the port of embarkation, where Prus-
san agents We're reported as on the
LOOKOUT These barrels and bales We're
taken by an ordinary goods train to an
outlying station, and then rapidly shifted
/ 10 Special train that was to go at full
speed to Geestemunde. 1t started at, II .2G
p. M, on June Is, 1866. But they had for
gotten to order station masters TO keen
the line lighted, and the enginemen had
TO creep along in momentary fear Of an
accident. The train was late for the
steamer that was to take the treasure
| to England. The risk of taking II ON
board -Lloyd's steamer, the Bremen,
mad to be run on the night of June II.
klenck grew gray in the two days of
suspense Prussian men-of-war were
hanging about near the mouth of the
Eide. The Bremen entered Southampton
. on June ID, and did not sight a single
Prussian vessel on the way.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
PURSUING CARTER.

Too much praise cannot be bestowed on
tional administration for the excellent
work done in the case of the embezzler.
Oberlin NJ. Carter Not only has the
embezzler been convicted and sentenced
for his crimes, but the receivers of GER
tain of the stolen moneys and the securi-
ties representing them have been pursued
with such diligence and skill that some
fair proportion at least of his stealings
will be surely recovered.
The latest information furnished
through the press of the success of the
efforts of the United States law authori-
ties to trace the stolen funds is satisfac-
tory in the extreme. The recovery of
100000 of those funds at Huntington, w.
Va, within a few days is the result Of
close and persistent pursuit of the
and confdants of Carter. That the
government has been able to recover
1850. OO0 involves in itself a high tribute
to the ability and devotion of those
whom the government has entrusted
with the work of having something like
proper amends made to the public by
this band of maIefactors.
Whatever hesitation or failure prevail
ed originally in the prosecution and pun
ishment of Carter has certainly been
fully compensated for If nothing further
were done the United States has thor
Oughly indicated in this case the repu-
tation which it now enjoys of being able
to bring to Justice those of Its servants
who may engage in undertakings Of
plumber. 1t will help along the convic-
ton that the federal official who deals
dishonesty with his public trust must
be an inordinately clever rogue if he is
not finally brought to justice. o.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
ENGLISH IN ENGLAND.

HarpeP's Magazine.
If you ask a guest at your home in
England whether he likes his meat rare,
he asks what you said. because he does
not understand you. He calls meat nn-
derdoue when 1t is not thoroughly cooked.
If you tell him you fear the asparagus is
canned he is at a loss again. because he
would have said it was timed. To ask
him to pass the powdered sugar will
again set him to wondering, for he calls
. it icing sugar, generally, though he
knows that 1t is sometime called caster
or sifted sugar. And IL you have candy
on the table you may not call 1t SO with
out betraying your foreign origin, for he
calls candy Sweets" abbreviated from
"sweetmeats," and used to designate all
preserves, buildings, pies, candies, and
jams.
TO go further along the eccentrieities
of English at the dining table. most per-
sons know, suppose, that the beet Is
called beet root. corn starch is corn
! flour, corned beef Cor a particular cut
Of it) Is called 'silversides of beef, and
napkins are servicttes.
If in a shop say. II want a paper of
pins the clerk says. THANK you. A
great many Americans in London now,
aren't there?" ooh. yes" l say; II
meant packet of pins" TO ask fer n
spool of cotton Is to set a clerk to STAR
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22

the necessity to engage in warfare. Nor
is the quarrelsome disposition evinced by
France toward Turkey, which is more
or less seriously influenced by the recent
tween Turkey and Germany. to be re-
garded as likely in any event to be pro-
NOTED by the Northern ally of France.
Looking at the present in the light of
possible military events there is not
nation in Europe, France alone excepted,
which is not actively interested in pre-
serving International peace. Every
declaration made by the young czar since
his coronation negatives any such policy.
His peace proclamation is not to be ig-
nored The assumption of any attitude
toward other nations savoring of a
belligerent spirit would be such a falsi-
fication of the pacific purposes outlined
in that proclamation as to arouse the
contempt of the civilized world.
French national pride is very much
stirred by the visit of the car. There is
much in the event to warrant the ire
mendous excitement which 1t has created
among the French people. The alliance
between Russia and France which it
now confirms beyond all possibility of
denial is great event for the French Ra-
ton. 1t secures the French position.
But, to the American mind it would pos
sess much more value were it an al
lance designed to promote the peaceful
progress OF the two nations and
addressed to the promotion of the pros
perity of the two peoples through the
development of their respective material
resources and the advancement of their
respective commercial and productive i'm
terests.
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CHINESE HORRORS.

| The CornhfH
We pause by the grave of the sister
superior who lay dying as the relief came
ln-to late for me. as she wrote. Her
one thought for days past, what can
give them to eat tomorrow? What can I
give them to eat? I mere is nothing left.''
..t Inc Door seidlers. said another sister,
they suffered so from hunger. although
they frightened their belts every day. I
tore all my letters into bits and made
them INTO cigarettes. Burned paper is
better than nothing. And they had Moth
ing TO smoke. That is so hard for a SOL
der. Then We paused by the great pit
where so many children He buried blown
up by the mine. And We think there
must be another mine over there not vet
discovered, sad the new sister SUPERIOR
there have been completely shattered at
II not, why should that housa over
the time of the explosion If there were
no mine connecting it?'' The sisters are
all great authorities upon mines and
sheffS now. They know too. which trees
leaves are poisonous, and tell how the
Chinese Christians sweIled and suffered
trying to sustain life by eating them.
/ They showed the remainder of their
school children; three among them had
before the siege lost both their feet
through footbinding. Surely you did
not sleep here. while the eannonading
was going on?" eve always moved
about with all our tail of children after
US to where they seemed to be firing
less" said the young Portuguese sister
with the luminous brown eyes. Then
came I'D an old sister of seventy-six. She.
too had survived the siege. We visited
the bishop. Did any of your Chinese
recant?" "A few. very few 'T think
1890 Christians have lost their lives"
said Mgr. Favier. 'three of our European
priests. four Chinese. and many of our
Chinese sisters. One priest hung on a
elueiffx. nailed. for three days before
he died. Mgr. Hamer they killed by cut
ting his arms and legs to the hone. filing
the cuts with petroleum and then set
ting them aIight. What saved us% Oh.
a series of miracles! Nothing. else YesL
I know people are talking about my loot
ing But my conscience is quite clear in
I the matter know what I am doing is
right. Let them talkr'
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rHB LErrERs ON PAPER MONEY

THE LETTERS ON PAPER MONEY.
New York Times.
Talking Of eounterfeiters," said an
ex-treasary official the other day, puts
me in mind of one thing that few peo-
pie outside of the treasury department
know about paper money. Many motor
ious eounterfeiters have been captured
through the lack of knowledge Of it,
Here the speaker reached down into
his pocket and fished out one-doIlar
bill. 1t was a new one, and he pointed
out a dinlfnutfve letter C on the right,
under the bills number, and another
down in the other corner.
Now he continued, Il don't sup
pose you can tell me what these SEEM
fngly unnecessary letters are on the
! United States bills, nor Wat they sig
Nifty. Well, take any one of csc bills
and tell me what the last four figures
eff it's number are
The bill was taken and the treasury
man informed that the last four figures
were $500. Almost instantly he said:
'"The letter on that bill is B." When the
bill was examined the diminutiye was
found on 1T In two places
Half a dozen other bills were similarly
tried and the ex-treasury official was
able in each case to tell what letter
would be found on the bill. The letter
was always either A. B. C, or D.
'"The explanation is simple" said the
expert in paper script. IF you divide by
four the number on any United States
treasury note, no matter what it's de-
nomination you viii, of course. have a
remainder of one, two, three. or raught
II the remainder is one, the letter on the
bill will be A; IL it is two. the letter viii
be B; If 1t is three, the letter will be c,
and If it is zero, meaning that 1t divides
evenly, the letter will be D.
This is one of the many precautions
taken by the government against ceun-
terfeiters 1t is not an infallible precau-
ton, of course, but you may be pretty
sure that If the rule does not apply the
bill is counterfeit
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LOVE.
my love

My love for thee is like ----- my love
Soul of my universe. it stands alone!
On all by poets dreamed, or prophets
shown tt
1t levies tribute. yet lacks simile.
'Tis of the elements Gods earth, the sea
And sun. 'Tis all the human heart
hath known
For lover, parent, friend, and child in
Spirit made flesh. as flesh shall spirit be.
'fis suffering supreme. whose passioned
tide
Ceaselcss beats BACK and forth from
Z joy TO pain, 81.
But GodlilSe most OF all when most belied
BY giving life crown of thornS To
gain.
Net. though it's heaven is snatched from
bells abyss,
The greatest grief would De lts heaven
60 miss.
Scribaer's.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
OLD LACE.

Fold upon fold,
Yellow as gold.
Woven by delicate fingers Of CID.
Here in it's place
Grandnrother's lace
Lies like dream of her maidehhoo5's
grace.
Fragrance of rose rN
Out of 1t flows, -s, --asr'
Leaves. of the past that it's. mesItes in
close: ..
Sweets of old days,
Lavender sprays,
All that q maid in her treasure chest
lays.
Fair as her head, $3.50
Thread over thread, .-
Sleeps the old lace that she wore when
she wed.
Beautiful day.
But fold it away.
GFandalother's lace, and the rose, and the
spray!
New Lippincott.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
THE CARS FRENCH TISIT.

In the existing condition of European
politics it requires either an active mag
nation or a close internal knowledge of
the policies of the chief nations to predi-
cate on the present visit of the Russian
ruler to France any event of immediate
International relations. Whatever the i'm
mediate object of the present visit of the
Russian emperor may be, it's effect is not
likely to be any more far-reaching than
as a confirmation of the already general
~ accepted truth that an alliance exists
between France and Russia.
The first visit of the car to France in
many of its attending circumstances tend
ed to promote the belief that Russian
politicians were not over-willing to have
undue Importance attached to it by other
nations. There is no such disposition
shown on this occasion. and there is
much in the prevailing demonstrations
to justify the belief that Russia's chief
ruler and its statesmen are entirely will
ing to commit their country in interna-
uonal affairs to the position of being the
positive ally of France What has led
up to this most recent manifestation of
Russo-Freneh friendhness is not apparent
10 the ordinary intelligent student of
passing events.
The recent pro-Gallic tendencies shown
by Italy must probably be taken into
account; but, aside from the strong pre-
sumption they create that the triple ani-
ance will ere long be brought to a close,
1t is difficult to attach any particular inn
portance to them. Nor, indeed, in any
possible Encouragement of the relations
of European nations consequent on the
breakdown of the triple alliance is the
position Of Italy to be regarded as OF
any great import.
German diplomacy and the Internal
policies of the German empire make to-
ward the conviction that the present tow
ering position of that nation Is not like
~ to be seriously affected by the
Strengthening of the bonds of union be-
tween Russia and France CT by any dis
Tuption Of the Dreihund There is moth
Ing in. tho present relations of Russia
and Germany, and there is no contin-
gency which can now be regarded Sc
fiously. which will produce friction be-
tween these two nations. Russian states
men are not mad, that they should be
suspected OF entertaining any thought Of
fighting over again the lost battles of
France Whatever Russian plans may bs
In the Balkans they cannot affect Ger
many save RS the ally, offensive and de-
fensive, Of Austria, which she is not.
nor can Russian designs either in the
Balkans ar in the East .b9 regarded as
having any interest to France save pos
sibly in connection with the Gallo I'M
friendliness toward Great Britain. 1t is
too remote, however. to seriously con-
slider Russia az cultivating France
through amy such considerations; and 1t
is equally cut Of touch with the philoso-
ply Of European political events to re-
gard Russia as seriously contemplating
any such new national entangIements
with France OF against any other nation
as would impose on her even remotely
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Wherein He Might Fail.

Denver Times
Young man said the stern parent,
do you think you will be able to sup
port my daughter In the style to which
she has been accustomed?"
NOW, this young man might have taken
advantage of a glorious opportunity to.
ring chestnut bell, but he didn't. In
/ stead he thought for moment, and then
replied:
"Well-er--I think So with one excep-
ton
"Aha! And what may the exception
be, STRIP
Il don't hink could be so Internally
stingy with the gas. -
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So far as the Monroe doctrine is con-
cerned it seems a little strange for the
Spectator to be talking about England
accepting that doctrine. England has
accepted the Monroe doctrine and with
1T has admitted our right to protest
against European encroachments upon
this hemisphere. as in the case of the
Venezuelan boundary dispute, which,
after a considerable amount of buster,
she consented to refer to an arbitration
tribunal for settlement - Minneapolis
Journal.
England accepted the Monroe doc
trine long, before the Venezuela imbrogfio
She acqu1esced in it's principles at the
time of its inception and later soIemnIy
acknowledged it's binding force as to Cen
trail America in the Clayton BuIwer
treaty. The dispute over the Venezuela
boundary had nothing to do with the
Monroe doctrine.
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one but the late president was ever car
; TONED. 1t seems that we have seen car
toons of Cleveland and Bryan, and il
we are not very much mistaken, we have
noticed somewhere cartoons of Charlie
Towne and John Lind People will get
their senses in time