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FOR Rents SUBURBAN.

FOR RENT-New six-room houses at Benniug
large back lot, fine well water: electric light.
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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-13

the shindy, but it is universally con-
ceded that Morgan and Hanna are the
leaders In the fight. It is shrewd, hard
headed business capacity against
learning, forensic ability and profess
sional training. The contest will at
tract breathless interest. Morgan per-.
haps knows more than any other living
man, but Mark is fighter from away
back.
Let Them squabble.
Democrats may well take heart from
the quarrels of the Republicans. On
the surface things are placid as duck
pond, but beneath the surface there
are storms and disturbances Of all
sorts. Representatives of agricultural
constituencies in the great and gor-
geous northwest are becoming alarmed
as to their reelection and are yoicing
their alarm in Republican caucuses, of
which there have been more held this
session, though it is only three months
old, than in any session in the last ten
years. The beet sugar men, the cane
sugar men and several other sorts of
men are at each others throats on the
Cuban question. The reciprocity advo-
Gates and the antireciprocity shouters
are wooling each other. The feeling
is growing exceedingly heated not to
say bitter, and is liable, indeed quite
likely, to burst into consuming flame
at any moment. The quicker the bet
ter for the country and the cause of
good government!
Hats off to Ex-Governor James s.
Hogg of Texas as he passes by! He
is an American worthy of his birth.
right. While in London, looking after
the interests of his oil company, ar.
rangements were made by our embas.
sador, Joseph FL. Choate, to present the
big Texan at court, but when Hogg
learned that in order to be presented
to the king he had to tog himself up
with knee breeches, sword and other
royal paraphernalia he fatty refused.
Now, if there is any American living
who has a right to be proud of his
calves 1t is Hogg. They are large, ro-
tund, amazing. If he had donned knee
breeches, he would not have been COM
PEELED to have his calves padded, as, it
is said, Mr.. Whitelaw Reid has done.
Nay, not so. Without any artificial
aids or adjuncts he would have exhib-
tied such gorgeous pair of calves to
the astonished eyes of the British beef
eaters as has not been seen at st.
James since the days of Dickens fat
boy. Hogg is indeed royalty, even su-
perfluously, endowed with calves. But
he would not don knee breeches and
long stockings even at the suggestion
Of Joe Choate. Great is Hogg! May
his tribe increase!
Nothing SO refreshing has happened
since that other eminent American re-
fused to remove his hat from his nog-
gin in the presence of Albert Edward,
prince of Wales, saying, II am as dis
tinguished in my profession as the
Prince of Wales is in his" which, be-
ing said before his historic meeting
with Pompadour Jim Corbett at New
Orleans, was absolutely true.
When great foreign actress first
gazed upon Daniel Webster, she turned
to her male escort In an ecstasy Of de-
light and exclaimed, Thank heaven, /
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-13
"A IA IA IA AA AA A
A Slip In Imperial Eti-
Quette - An American
From Texas -Consuls,
the Merit System and
the PerQuiSiteS That Go
With Party Success.
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state, out to dinner instead of leading
out Mrs. Merry, wife of the British
ambassador, which precipitated diplo-
matte complications Of a most laugh
able sort, ending in Secretary of State
Madison requesting that Mr.. Merry be
recalled, which was done. Jefferson's
conduct on that occasion gave the cue
to all the American imperialists to
abuse him and calumniate him and to
hold him up as an awful example of
bad manners; but then it must be re-
membered that Thomas Jefferson was
an untutored Democrat, who hated
royalty and all it's works even as the
devil hates holy water. He was not an
imperialist, as are Colonel Hay, Sen
ator Foraker and General Grosvenor.
Jefferson, therefore, may be excused
for violating imperial etiquette on
grounds of ignorance. Even Foraker
and Grosvenor may plead ignorance on
this occasion, but the foreign imperial
lists will hardly forgive them for sec
ond offense of this nature.
Morgan and Hanna.
There is a contest on in the senate
which is of more than passing interest
to philosophers and psychologists. 1t
is between that illustrious Democrat,
Senator John 7. Morgan of Alabama, a
great lawyer, and that conspicuous Re-
publican, Senator Marcus A Hanna,
who is not a lawyer, but who ranks
very high as business man. The bone
mian canal. Morgan champions Mica
ragua and Hanna champions Panama.
OF course others will take a hand in
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-13
OLD STAGECOACHES.
'tHE LINE THAT RAN BETWEEN KAN
sAS AND CALIFORNIA.

1t Cost 1926 For the Through Trip,
and Seats often Brought a Zig
Bonus-How One Load of Passen-
gers Amused Themselves.
The stage line between Atchison and
Piacerville, Cal, which ran daily
coaches for about five years in 1S60-65,
was the finest ever known in the stage
coach business. In equipment no sim
liar line could equal it. 1t was the
greatest stage line on the globe carry
ing passengers, mail and express.
In 1S64-65 it cost more for meals be-
tween Atchison and Denver than the
railroad fare now costs, with meals
added. The run from Atchison to
Denver is now made in something like
fifteen hours as against six days in the
s+agecoach days. At one time the fare
from Atchison to Denver was $175; the
railroad fare at present is SIS. The
quickest time ever made by stage be-
tween Atchison and Denver was four
and a half days. Ben Holiday, own
or of the line, Travelled by special
coaches from Placerville, CAL, to Atch-
ison. 1000 miles, in twelve days and
two hours, beating the regular daily
schedule five days. This feat cost Hol-
Iaday $4,000, but it was a great adj
vertisement for his line. The stages,
when crowded, carried fifteen persons,
hasides great quantities of mail and
express.
one of the coaches used on the Atch-
ison-Placerville line is now in the
Smithsonian institution at Washing
ton. After leaving Atchison it was
onerated on the Deadwood line and
was several times captured by Indians
and outlaws. Once when captured by
outlaws it carried 100000 in gold. In
this attack three guards were killed.
Ruffalo Bill heard that the old coach
had been abandoned and went after IL,
using it for years in his wild west
show. In London it carried the Prince
of Wales. and all the notables of Eu-
rome examined it with interest. On the
Fourth of July, 1895, this famous old
coach was exhibited with the wild
vvest show at Concord, N. H., where it
was made. The owners and employees
of the stagecoach factory gave the his
toric old stage a great deal of atten-
finn. and in the parade it bore this
sipn: "f863-Home Again-1S95."
Tncluding Atchison and Placerville,
there were 153 stations on the line, the
longest in existence d,913 miles,. The
fare was S225, or about II cents a mile.
THE stations were from ten to fourteen
miles apart. Some days $1,000 was
taken in at the stage office in Atchison
for fares alone. Each passenger was
allowed twenty-five pounds of baggage;
aach nound of excess cost 81, which
was the price for carrying express.
The fare to Denver during the war was
S175. or 27 cents mile per passenger.
The stages were nearly always crowd
ed, and passengers were often COM
PEELED to wait several days at Atchison
before they could be accommodated.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-13

"He could not get a house in which
to establish his office, but he found
an American merchant doing business
in Nagasakf, who said to him, You
can have these rooms above my store
So Mr.. Birch, the gentleman of whom
I am speaking, took the rooms above
that store and hoisted his flag. He was
Immediately tabooed by the whole con-
sular fraternity there and by the COM
munity. Why? Because the English
idea of affairs obtained out there, and
shopkeepers were not considered en-
tirely respectable people. Mr.. Birch
had set up his consulate in a shopkeep-
er's establishment.
"On making application at that time
to become a member Of the Nagasaki
club Mr.. Birch was blackballed. He
was not admitted to the club But /
take pleasure in saying that before
John NJ. Birch had been in that port
two years he was recognized as the
best consul there and was president of
the same club which had before black
balled him for putting his flag over a.
shop"
When we control the house again, as
we probably will do in the next con-
gress, Dinsmore will be chairman of
the committee on foreign affairs, which
is always an important committee,
sometimes the most important in the
house, and he will do honor to the posi-
tion. Arkansas and the whole country
can well afford to be proud of such
men as Hugh A. Dinsmore
ConsuIs and the Merit System.
In that same debate set forth what
l know to be my own position and
what / believe to be the Democratic
position as to civil service examina-
tions, as follows:
81 want to say, speaking for myself
and the entire Democratic party, that
we are not opposed to merit sys-
tenn. I repeat that with emphasis, so
that no idiot can go away from here
and misconstrue it that the Demo
cratic party is not opposed to merit
system based ON common sense. We
are not opposed to merit system, but
W e al OppOcC0 " liz LcnuI q III OIlCS.
1t is both undemocratic and un-Ameri-
can. | have an old fashioned idea that
when the Republicans carry the cleo
ton In this country they have a right
to the offices and when the Democrats
carry it they have right to them, and
certainly Democrats do not carry it |
often enough to form the chronic habit |!
of officeholding.
II undertake to say, without the fear |
of successful contradiction, that it is |
libel on American intelligence and on
the public school system of this coun- !
try, which we SO proudly vaunt and
which costs SO much, to say that out |
Of the 100000 men who voted for |
William ]. Bryan in 1900 you cannot |
find 100000 fit to hold these appointive
Offices under the president of the Unit !
ed States, and it is greater libel, sim |
ply because there were more of them
and not because they were more intelli- |
gent, to say that out of the 10000
Republicans who voted for William
Mckinley you cannot find 100000 fit to
hold these Offices
II say this, that when the Democrats
are in power, if you would have rule
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-13

that the appointees should be Demo
Gratis, and then that they should be
thoroughly examined, that would be
all right, and the same way when the
Republicans are in power, but here is
the objection in this consular business
to the civil service reform examination
as now conducted.
"They do not ascertain a mans fit
ness to be a consul, because the exam
nations are not about things which a
consul ought to know in order to rem
der the best service.
81 stated on the floor Of this house
once, and 1 repeat it now, that, in my
judgment, Notwithstanding there are
over 200 college graduates in this house
and proportional number in the SEN
ate, there are not thirty men in both
houses who could stand an examina-
ton for 5000 clerkship over here in
one of the departments. Why is that
true? l will tell you. 1t is true be-
cause the men who are fit to sit in the
congress of the United States have for
gotten the things that they are exam
ined on in these examinations over
there. That is the truth about it
"NIen are fit to serve in house and
senate not because they have forgotten
certain things, but because they have
learned more important things. The
latter things crowd the former out of
their minds. To undertake to examine
men for consular positions in one of
the civil service examinations as now
conducted will end in this-that you
will get lot of men just out of school
who know nothing about business,
while business knowledge is the most
necessary qualification for consul, as
it is a purely business office. Napo-
leon picked his marshals by the shape
of their noses. undertake to say that.
there is not a man on this floor who
cannot go into his own district and
pick the men who are fit to be consuls
anywhere by their business capacity,
because he knows them and under
stands what they are good for. Natu-
raj pride would compel him to select
the most competent"
Senatorial Fight In Illinois.
The chances are first rate for the
Democrats to elect a senator of the
United States from Illinois to succeed
William 3. Mason, a consummation
devoutly to be wished. Mason, Hop
kins, "Uncle Shelby NJ Cullom, young
Governor Dick Yates and other Repub-
lican bigwigs are carrying on a Kill
kenny cat fight which ought to rebound
to the good of the Democrats. In the
meantime Mr.. Dawes, who was sup
posed to be sure winner, appears to
have fallen into fnnocuous desuetude
and to have gone to the bottom of the
sea after the fashion of Mr.. McGinty.
Dawes had good job in one of the de-
partments, but concluded that he was
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-13

can now truly say that 1 have seen a
man" What her escort thought of
that this deponent saith not.
Had she lived to feast her eyes upon
the towering form of James S. Hoge
she could have truly said, 81 have seen
another man.
Barring Unpleasant Remarks.
The high handed methods of the Re
publican majority in the house is fully
illustrated by the following statement:
More than weeks debate was allow
ed on the oleomargarine bill when ev-
erything both for and against it could
have been fully stated in two days.
On the Philippine tariff bill, measure
of farreaching consequence, only two
days debate was originally permitted.
When it came back from the senate
loaded down with amendments and
Mr.. richardson, the Democratic lead
er, asked for one hour in which the
minority might briefly express its opin-
lon, it was denied him, and the Hon.
Serene e. Payne, chairman of the COM
mittee on ways and means and ex Of
fcio floor leader Of the Republicans.
with smile that was childlike and
bland, offered him thirty minutes,
which Richardson contemptuously and
scornfully refused. Then the minority
in revenge forced the house to sduan-
der twice as much time in roll calls as
Richardson had demanded for debate,
and If did r.irhf
asked, Why did the majority permit
weeks debate on the oleomargarine
bill and only two days on the Philip
pine bill? Because it did not care
what was said on the former and
dreaded what might be said on the lat
ter. It's plan is to amuse the house
with talk on nonimportant matters and
to railroad all important measures.
Dinsmore of Arkansas.
One of the ablest among the young
southern Democrats in the house is
Hugh A. Dinsmore Of Arkansas, the
ranking Democrat on the great commit
tee of foreign affairs. Dinsmore was
lucky when he came to congress nine
years ago in being assigned to com
mittee whose duties are congenial to
his tastes and in the line of his expert
ence. He had been minister to Korea
and had borne himself so we'll in that
station that the people of his district
sent him to congress and have kept
him there ever since. Able, faithful,
suave, tactful, eloquent, in the very
flower of his years, he is tower of
strength to our side of the house and
is invariably in favor of all just and
reasonable measures. Not long since,
in a rather warm debate on the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill,
he gave the following fine illustration
of the average Americans adaptability
to any situation:
"Some years ago gentleman of West
Virginia was selected to be consul at
Nagasaki, Japan. He was a parvenu,
SO to speak, in consular matters. He
had never been abroad; perhaps he
had never been out of the confines of
the state of West Virginia, unless it
may have been to come to this capital
or to go to New York On arriving at
Nagasaki he found it inconvenient to
secure proper quarters for his con
Eulate.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-13
RYE BREAD AND COFFEE.
This Is the Staple Food of working
men In Germany.

This Is the Staple Food of Working
men In Germany.
The workingman in Germany must
have coffee, and plenty of it, and a lit
tie meat. Butter is practically I'M
known to him, lard being used in it's
stead. He rarely uses milk, eggs or
white flour, and he never thinks of
buying any of the better cuts of meat.
Canned goods familiar to every Amer
lean worker, are absolutely unknown
to him.
His staple food is rye bread, which
he buys in enormous loaves. His wife
or his little girl goes to market for this
bread and brings it home clasped in
her arms unwrapped. l have seen a
little tot of towheaded girl stagger-
ing homeward with a loaf almost as
big as she was, and as she walked she
gnawed Justify at the ffinty end of the
loaf Indeed have heard it said that
the eating of this hard crusted bread
gives the German workman teeth of
unequaled excellence.
And this bread is good, thoroughly
good. The government, which super
vises everything and everybody, guards
the rye bread of the people with jeal-
GUS care. The bakers are watched,
compelled to give full weight and make
good bread l have eaten it in a num-
Der of different towns, and it was al
ways sweet to the taste and whole
some This bread is fairly cheap, cost
ing usually from 35 to so pfennigs o
to IL cents) loaf, though it, too, has
risen in price with increased demand.
Upon this great loaf the German en-
pire may be said to rest. All Germany
has grown up on it. In one form it is
the basic ration of the German army,
and many peasant can live very well
for a considerable time though he has
nothing else to eat-Outlook.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-13
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Especial Washington letter.
NHE saddest thing that has hap
pened In this world since that
illustrious Missourian Mark
Twain shed briny and copious
tears at the tomb of Adam
was the seating of the foreign dip
lomatic representatives near our i'm
perial court behind the supreme court
judges at the Mckinley memorial serv-
ices. This most calamitous situation
grew out of the unfortunate fact that
those illustrious courtiers, Senator Jo-
seph Benson Foraker and General
Charles Henry Grosvenor, both of Ohio,
who as chairmen of the senate and
house committees were charged with
getting up the programme and with
making the arrangements, were not au
fait as to their duties in matters of
imperial etiquette. In extenuation of
their grievous fault it may be pleaded
that these two able and ambitious
Buckeye statesmen are new to the i'm
perial business. They are courtiers in
the raw, so to speak, but they are as
siduous students of the new school, and
1t may be confidently predicted that, as
they are quick to learn, after a suff1-
cient time they will be able to give
pointers in imperial etiquette even to
the bedizened and bespangled repre-
sentatives of the effete monarchies of
Europe.
to- a. hot rn1 ofA%n k1o
British ambassador and dean of the
diplomatic corps, has formally expostu-
lated with Mr.. Secretary Of State Hay
as to the indignity placed upon him
and his high and mighty confreres and
that an entire hour was consumed in
consideration of the expostulation.
While it is not given to ordinary NOR
tails to know what was said by those
two imperialists it may be naturally
assumed that Colonel Hay rubbed much
salve upon the burning wounds of the
wrathful Englishman. 1t is to be sin
cerely hoped that this awkward Incl
dent will not precipitate war between
us and all the nations of Europe COM
bined. 1t is a humiliating idea to think
of our Uncle Sam falling on his knees
before the Europeans and exclaiming,
"Peccavi, peccaviv' But since we have
become imperialists and aspire to stand
well with other imperialists it may be
necessary for our uncle to perform that
un-American caper.
1t will be remembered by those who
take any interest in the history of our
early days that when Thomas Jeffer-
son was president he, for some reason
known to himself alone, took Mrs.
Dolly Madison, wife Of his secretary Of
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-13

a minister once refused to travel ON
Sunday and abandoned his place. He
did not get a chance to go until the
following Sunday, and this time he con-
cluded that, under certain circumstan-
ces, travelling on Sunday was excusa-
BILE. Sometimes passengers booked for
a certain day sold out for bonus of
from $40 to $50 and waited for later
stage.
The quickest route between New
York and San Francisco at that time
was by way of Atchison. The western
terminus of the line was changed from
st. Joseph to Atchison on completion
of the Hannibal and st. Joseph road to
this point, as Atchison was eight miles
nearer Placerville than st. Joseph. The
stage line ran a little north of west
from Atchison, crossing the Big Blue
at Marysville, 100 miles west; thence
continuing in a northwesterly course
up the north side of the Little Blue
and over the divide into the Platte val
ley; thence by way of Fort Kearney,
Plum Creek and Julesberg to Denver.
The road between Atchison and Den
yer was in the form Of a crescent.
O'Fallon's Bluff was 100 miles north of
Atchison and Denver. The easiest part
of the line was between Atchison and
Fort Kearney. The schedule time of
the stages was four and half miles
an hour. night and day. including stops.
Occasionally the drivers would make
fifteen miles an hour, and the passen-
gers thought it very fast. The express
messengers received $62.50 month,
with free meals. and were compelled
to ride beside the driver six days and
nights without rest. except as they
could sleep while the stage was In mo-
ton. They received lay over Of nine
days every three weeks. On going to
bed after a trip they frequently slept
twenty-four hours without moving.
Drivers received from $40 to SIS a
month and board. On the main line
there were 2.750 horses and mules and
100 coaches. The annual cost of oper-
ating the line was 81, ,425. 600.
The passengers were nearly all men,
and they had hard time amusing
thShAoSA'SCs A S5uJ PoAlt VI OlSAt OhNO
started from Atchison, and they sang
for two days and nights. using ribald
words to old church tunes. Finally
one man proposed collection. With
the money thus raised they bought
jug of whisky at station. Then there
were a spree and quarreling and poker
playing. One man said he had been
robbed by one of the players. and he
Insisted so strongly on a fight that the
stage was stopped and ring formed.
The two drunken men rushed at each
other, bumped each other down and
could not get up. The other men help
ed the fighters to their feet, and the
harmless battle was renewed. Finally
the driver would wait no longer. and
the stage went on, with the passengers
7uarreling ON the inside. ut last they |
engaged in general fight and then
went of into a drunken sleep.-Atchi-
son Globe.