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NO OFFICE IF YOU DON'T VOTE.
DISMAY IN NEW ORLEANS OVER
4 NEW RULE.
Several Hundred Oniceholders Who Didn't
Pay Their Poll Taxes In Danger or
Losing Their .JObs-Unexpec Re.
suits OF an Anti-NegrO Suffrage Measure

Pay Their Poll Taxes In Danger or
Losing Their Jobs-Unexpected Re.
suits OF an Anti.NegrO Suffrage Measure
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12.-The Civil Service
Board OF New Orleans has decided that
A. A. Hart. just appointed bookkeePer
Of the Sewerage and Water Board of the
city, cannot hold office because he neglected
TO vote in the Congress election last year.
The matter may 90 before the courts.
The decision will affect not only Hart,
but several hundred other city employees
who failed to vote in the Congress
election, and were ignorant of the fact that
the failure was political crime which
disqualified them for Office. The matter OF
fitness does not enter into the question.
Under the Louisiana Constitution voter,
in order to enjoy the suffrage, must pay his
poll taxes for two years in advance of an
election. Then to vote in the Presidential
election Of 1904, he must have paid his poll
tax for 1902, in that year, and his poll tax
for 1908 in 1908. II he allows Dec. 81 of any
year to pass without paying this tax for
that year he thereby disfranchises himself
for two years to come.
This provision, which was invented in
Mississippi to dissuade the negroes from
voting, has proved most effective, as there
are very few negroes so prudent as to pay
their poll taxes for two years in advance
OF an election in order to participate in 1t.
1t has hit a great many white voters also.
This has especially been the case in
Louisiana, where the provision ia q new
one. Nine -tenths OF the negroes and
nearly half the whites In Louisiana are self.
disfranchised for the Presidential election
by failure to pay poll taxes in 1902.
In the recent municipal contest at Shreve-
port. town OF 10000 persons, there were
only. q few hundred persons who could
OF so-called best citizens looked angrily
on, unable to vote because of neglect on
their part In the matter of paying their
poll taxes.
1t begins to look as though this suffrage
provision, which was intended TO reduce
the negro vote, would have the effect of
cutting down the white vote as well; and
various plans have been suggested to en-
courage the whites 10 pay their taxes and
qualify for the eleotion. The white cleo
torate has sunk to barely half what 1t ought
to be; that is, half the whites have dis
franchised themselves by the same process
that has disfranchised the negro.
The school board is publishing a list Of
the voters, 80 as to show who have neg
lected their duty; but perhaps the most
eiective means taken TO compel citixsns
to pay their poll taxes, to qualify for the
suffrage, and to vote, is that adopted by
the Civil Service Board. The notice given
bL the board that no one can hold any
offioe who does not vote promises to have
there has been rush ever since to the
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Its justices Dispose Of More Gases Than
Probably Any Court In the World.

An attach6 of the Criminal Courts whose
position is such that his words may be taken
as rejecting the opinion Of the justices OF
Special Sessions says that the work Of tha.
court has grown so much that an extension
Of II has become an absolute necessity
Special Sessions, according to this man,
tries more cases than General Sessions,
of which there are four parts, to say nothing
of the Criminal Branch Of the Supreme Cour,
which is running about half the year to re-
lieve the General Sessions.
There is probably no other court in the
world whose business approaches in volume
anywhere near that transacted by The
other day. when the present court wa
organized in 1895, it had a legacy of some
2,c0O cases OF misdemeanor undisposed Of
by its predecessor. These cases the new
Justices went at with vigor and in the cours'
of six months had brought their calendar
up to date. Since that time and Until
recently the court has managed to keep
abreast of the cases sent to it for tra from
the City Magistrates Courts,
"The Children's Branch of the court dis
posed of about 1000 juvenile delinquen'-
last year and the volume OF this business
1T is the rule Of the court to try priso
cases at once. No matter how manv. o.
these may come in, they are invariably
tried on the day of pleading or within daH
or 80 aIter. 40.
With the bail cases. however, it is dit-
ferent.
There are now being sent to the Court o'
Special Sessions for trial about 700 case
monthly. In 1902 the average was some
what less than 900, but with every recur-
rent month the volume of busines appears
to be on the increase.
at had been the Gust ON OF the justices
TO suspend the trial of bail cases during
the summer. but this year the Justices
found that there would be too great an
accumulation In the fall and so during
the entire hot spell they sat regularly or
every, court day until and sometimes
o'clock in the afternoon. whstandlnS
all this, there are now pending for trh'
upward OF 900 cases of misdemeanoi'
embracing every pe,t Y crime conceivable.
Through the Society for the Preven'loh
of Cruelty to Children this courf collect-
about s?5 600 annually in cases whore men
have failed to provide for their families,
This amount is turned int the various cNE
institutions. In addition, matter o.
SOS 900 a year il collect ed in fines. The
court il SELF aside from the cost of runnlhE
the Childreu's Part is pract ically sell s!e'
tanning
in addition o the regular business sen
in 10 them through the Magistrates courts.
the Special Sessions jus ices, a. the NJ
stance Of the Dis; rict Attorney, sit some
times as Magistrates in hundreds OF IN,
portant cases. IL frequently happens Una,
after long and trying day III the lrenef"I
Court, one Of the Justices will hold a lolS
examination as Magistrate in chamFsrs
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PATTI, WAGNER And KUNDRY.
SINGER SPRINGS A SURPRISE
ABOUT "PARSIFAL."
She Says the Temptress's Role Was Written
for Her-Rosa Sucher's Lost Hoice-A
Prima Donna OF Varied Triumphs
Buried In . Pauper's Grave In Paris.

Nine Patti made a statement that as
tonished people informed about music
on the last day of her stay In this city.
One OF her old trends visited the venerable
soprano in her rooms at the Hotel Savoy.
$50 they are going to give 'ParsifaP
here" Nine. Patt. said. "Do you know
that Wagner composed the role Of Kundry
for me1'
This was indeed a remarkable piece Of
information. Not only was her guest
in ignorance Of the fact, but 30 were all
the persons she had ever heard discuss
the subject, as we'll as the writer's OF all
the books that abe had read about 1t.
at is fact went on Nine. Patti, shat
Wagner, who very much admired my
singing and also my enunciat ion of Ger
man. told me he was going to write an
opera with Parsifai as its hero and that
the music OF the heroine would be for
me.
"A long time passed and ] heard nothing
more OF the opera. One day several years
after our conversation / received a letter
from Richard Wagner saying that he would
send to me the score Of the work, which
he hoped would sing.
1T came in time, and after had gone
through the music I saw that it was not
for me. So sent 1t back with letter
thanking him for his kindness but telling
him that did not think the part at all
suited to my voice,
Nine. Patti told the story with all gravity
and with such detail a. to make It evident
that she at all events believes IT. No
from any source, however. 80 far as Is
known.
Wagner never mentioned suoh an in
tention In any OF his works: and Il seems
thought that the music of a rle like Kun
DIV would be possible to a woman who,
like Nine Patti. had never sung anything
but Italian music and had refrnined from
attempting even the lighter roles Of the
WagneriAn repeTt ORE.
Perhaps Frau Cosima Wagner may have
heard something OF this intention, and it
would be interesting to hear from her on
the subject. 90
Perhaps Kundry, had Nine. Patti ever
sounded to Rossini the first time she sang
that aria to the composer Of III Barbiere
di Seviglia.' 1t was the first time he
had heard the great Patti sing. and he was
naturally, full Of compliments when she
Beautiful, beautiful, my child" he said.
but what was that you sang?"
Nine. Patti had selected this piece as a
special compliment to the composer, but 1t
was 30 full of trills, cadenzas. and other
ornamentation that even the composer
did not know his own offspring. Something
Of the same kind might hsys happened,
had Mime. Patti sung Kundry. ..
Lilli Lehman, who is IS, and therefore
six years younger than Nine. Patti, is con-
sidered by many persons more remarkable
She has always sung very heavy music, has
devoted hours to rehearsal, and was always
an actress as well as q singer
Then she has sung much larger repertoire
Of sonss than Nine. Patti, who has confined
herself largely to Comm Through the
Rye Robin Adair" and similar parlor
ballads. SO It is considered remarkable
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Solid Oak Bookcases, nicely fin.
ished. brass rod for curtain,
adjustable shelves, 81 inches
high, ~ inches wide. Regu-
lar price, 90; SS M
Xmas price. "O'VV
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Rosa Sucher one OF her CONTEMPORARIES,
who practically left the operatic stage
several years ago, recently made formal
farewell to her profession in Berlin, when
she sang SiegRnde in Die Walklre," at
the Royal Opera House
She was one Of the greatest of the Wag-
merriam prima donnas and Wagner called
her the ideal Isolde. Her career was short,
as her voice failed long before it should
have given out.
Her husband, Josef Sucher, was conduc
tor at the Berlin Opera House while she
sang there, and the two, after every Der
formance, we're in the habit Of going to a
cafe together for supper. There they
often remained until late. Sitting In the
smoky atmosphere is supposed to have done
much to harm her voice
Nine. Lehman always spoke with horror
OF day at Bayreuth on which she and Nine.
Sucher appeared together in "Die Wal
kare,' During the intermission between
an entire bottle Of anohovies because she
was hungry. Nine. Lehman, who was al
ready at tackled by the germs OF vegetarian
Ism at that time, could not adequately ex-
press her feelings At the imprudence OF such
$50 WV "a - ''hSoi'
1t was discovered the other day that the
grave OF Rosina st oltz in Paris was un
marked by stone and that she was in fact
buried among the city paupers. Nothing
could illustrate more graphically the con-
trast between the glories OF artists and the
oblivion that overtakes those who outliye
their day.
She was the original konora in @Fayor-
ita," and all Paris was at her fee. for the
years OF her rather short career. In Rome
she was more notorious for her splendors
on the stage than in the opera house.
During her life she was Countess Ketch-
endorf. Princess Lesignano and Duchess of
Bassano. The first title she got from Prince
Ernest of Saxe-Coburg-Goth who was one
OF her admirers and got permission from
Queen vict oria to bsstow 1t on her. II
was on his deathbed that Prince Lesignano
made her his wife.
Her triumphs on and of the stage were
Of kind impossible to-day. They are not
adapted to such prosaic age as the pres
ent.
Rosina Stoltz had fortune enough to live
In comfort until she was &c. but when she
died very little Of 1t remained. What had
not been spent In charity, had gone for good
, works She died IN August in the hotel
Viz. osto hoA oiWuyp hNeu III III f-dTls
For twenty years she had travelled alone
over Europe. always living in hot els, seeing
few persons, forgotten by the world and
taking interest only In watching from her
windows the passersby In the streets Her
grandson, who came from London for one
day, and her landlord, were the only persons
who attended her funeral.
Nine. Stolts was deeply religious, but
her body was inferred without any cere-
monies. Her great wish was to be buried
appropriately, and to that end she built
two tombs during her middle age, one at
Nice and the other in Italy. But abe is
dane glories were In q way greater than
any singer Of the present day enjoys.
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registration Office and to the City Treasurer
Office to pa y poll taxes.
1t has been practically made a crime in
New Orleans not to vote; and the indca.
tions are that the total vote OF the city and
State will be much larger in the future
than it has been since the adoption Of the
new Constitution Of 1898.
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that she should recently have sung Violeta
In "La Traviata' in Berlin and sung it very

III III ITHV1Htd TT bBfHH ana SUNG IL very
we'll
Nine. Lehman, when she made this
temperance in opera, after years OF re-
tirement, committed an unprecedented
extravaganza. She spent 81 500 for three
new costumes which. in view OF her well
known prudence in money matters aston
ished many Of her friends.
You should have done that years ago,
Lilli," said Paul Kalisch. her husba nd. .
But you never would buy handsome COS
tunes years ago That was the time to
have spent your money for dresses
All, no, it was not his wife answered
II did not need them then"
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
Stability Of the Solar System.

A question OF the highest interest is
whether or not the slight mutual i'll
iiuences of the planets will destroy
in the lapse of time the present gen
eral contiguration o, the solar system.
II is conceivable that the large planets
may collide. or that part or all OF
them may be precipitated on the sun,
or that the eccentricities OF their or.
bits may become so great that radical
changes Of seasons will result from
their varying distances. Thus, If the
eccentricity Of an orbit should b" re
duccd to one-half. the planet would be
three times more distant at apheliOn
than at perihelion. and in the former
case il would receive One-ninth as
much heat. and light as in the latter.
A rigorous mathematical answer to
the question of stability is by no
means easy.
What can be legi;imately inferred
llOm the Investigations which have
been made on this subject? Only this,
unless there are other forces involved
than those considered. the general
confguratiOn of the solar system win
remain much as it is at present for a
long time. probably tens of thousands
or even millions of years The state.
ments made in many excellent popular
books that the stability of the solar
system for all time has been proved
is entirely too strong and has abso-
mtely no logical foundation. Tn"
mathematical evidence is no better
than that furnished by geology and
biology, and such sweeping COnclus-
sions cannot be drawn from the data
furnished by any science.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
Menace the kiel Canal.

Among the German naval Strat .
Gists who are interested in the Brit
ish scheme for a new naval base IN
the Firth of Forth is Captain Revent-
low, a well-known writer on naval
affairs. In a recent article in Ber-
lin periodical he asserts that the cs-
tablishment of base and the pres
ence of a squadron in the Firth of
Forth will diminish enormously the
strategic value of the kiel canal, by
enabling Great Britain, in the event
of war with Germany to deliver sim
ultaneous attacks in the Baltic and
the North Sea.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
Turned Hose on Prisoner.

Jailer Towson, of Carthage, Mo-, has
been bothered for some time by the re
bellious conduct of the prisoners In
his charge. They have been raising
a good deal of disturbance because, as
they alleged, the prison food was not
good enough for them. Towson tried
in several ways to quiet them. but this
Kind of treatment only made them
more impudent. Then he sent for a
company OF fremen and had the hose
turned on the rowdy rogues. At first
they jeered at the 1iremen, but the lat
Ter kept a full-head stream going,
until every last one of them begged
off from further punishment and
promised to behave in future. "S'pris-
ing thing says the jailer, how them
fellers hates water either outside or
in."-Chicago Chronicle.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
Purifying Air.

The cooling and ruritication uf air
for Office buildings says Engineering
News. is most effeCtua!ly accomplish
ed by forcing the air through water
spray. The excess of water in the air
is then removed by centrifugal force.
To do this a series of tubes are pro.
vided in which spirals are so placed
as to give the air whiring motion,
causing the suspended PARTICLES of
moisture TO be thrown outward. and
thus brought into contact with the
tubes. from which the moisture flows
through perforations to a drip-pan be
low. BY providing a thermostat and
steam heating coils it is thus possible
10 have air at the same temperature
throughout the year. and not only
to have the same temperature, but the
same moisture contents A plant Of
this character was recently installed
for the Twin City Telephone com,
pany OF St Paul. MINI, by the b. +.
Sturtevant company Of Boston, Mass
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
From $1,000 Month to Jail.

Charles S. Holmes, at one time
proprietor of the Monongahela House,
Pittsburg Pa, was charged at AL
bany, n. Y. with passing bogus
check on the proprietor of the Hotel
Teneycke for $3.50, drawn on the Iron
City Trust company of Pittsburg. He
is a son of the late w. H. Holmes
and the family fortune was wiped out
ten or twelve years ago.
Holmes married the daughter of
Francis Murphy, the temperance apos-
tie, but they did not get along. and
his wife secured a divorce. Some
time ago he married again.
Holmes managed three hotels in
Chicago during the Worlds Fair at
3 salary of $1,000 per month.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
Pours Juice over the roast.


preparing the meal is apt to be over
looked, resulting in dry roast instead
of juicy one. The inventor is of the
opinion that this work of DaStinS the
meat should be done automatically.
any way so he has designed drip
ping pan with an apparatus attached
to pour the juice continuously over
the meat AS shown in the picture.
the piece of meat is suspended by
hooks between two rotary shafts. one
of which is rcvolved by a spring mo
tor Projecting at right angles from
this shaft is an arm which carries a
sort OF bowl or spoon, while directly
over the meat is perforated pipe.
To set this automatic baSting machine
to work it is only necessary to wind
the motor and place the pan in the
oven. Each revolution of the shaft
the spoon enters the trough in the
dripping pan. takes up a quantity of
the juice clevateS il to head of the
perforated pipe and discharges. The
gravy flows through the pertorations
and falls on the revolving roast, while
the spoon resumes its journey to the
bottom of the pan once more.
Lambert II. Edgar of Philadelphia
Pa, is tie inventor.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11

present railway methods. Electricity
has helped materially in grades. not
only making a great saving in the
construction Of road-beds, but in open
ing country of certain Typographical
cccentriCty which will never be avail
bination of electricity and the mono
rail system makes these much sleeper
grades and sharper curves possible.
but at the same time it practically
eliminates the danger of derailment
1t looks. therefore, as if there were a
chance that passengers might be able
70 travel with at least the same safety
as to-day, at double the rate of the
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
t|3th 931 TEE1 H4E44H14i

There is at last in sight a railway
that Will carry passengers no miles
an hour regularly. and the credit for
making it practicable belongs to Great
Britain. There have been models of
high-velocity railway trains made in
different countries and mile or two
OF track have been constructed for eX-
rerimental uses, but Mr. F. b. Behr.
an English engineer. deserves the
credit of putting the thing into prac
teal use.
The railway is to be built AT once
between Manchester and Liverpool, a
distance of 34h miles. Only through
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11

make abrupt curves possible. The
plan is to run an engine and one car
every ten minutes. and the probability
is that in time for a radius of 100
miles around a large city people can
get in and out each day to their bust
ness within an hour. Mr.. Behr has
the support of expert engineers all
over England. Many of them appeared
before the house of commons com
mittee at the time when the sanction
of the government was secured for
the building of this road, and they
testified to the safety and practicable
ity of the whole scheme.
Engineers are agreed that average
speeds of over seventy miles an hour
are impossible on the curves found
on existing railways. The construc-
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
ONE LEFT OF QUAINT SECT.
Franklin Parsons and Vine-Clsc
Ruin All That Remain

one of the interesting sights to be
seen along the Chester 0PaD pike is
the ruin of old Plummer's meeting
house. near Crum Lynne station. on
the Penns sylvania railroad.
Half a century ago the cdiice was
a prominent meeting place for the
followers OF Frederick Plummer. who
cNerted IA wonderful influence among
the countryfolk for miles around.
The totterin2 old vine clad wall is
the last vestige Of this denomination,
which began to lose its strength after
the death of Plummer. who was the
elder pastor of a Free Christian
church in philadelphia.
In the rear of the ruins is an un-
used cemetery. The only living heir
To the ground occupied by the ruins
am the cemetery is Franklin Par"ons
nt Glenolden, who is an agile mona
gruarian.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11

of Il small boat lnd"r these or similar
circumstance. Fastened to the gun
wales OF the craft on either SIDE is a
collapsiug pocket held normally in
close relationship with the sides of
the craft but in case of the boat be
ing rocked violently. either by acci
dent or design these things act OF
their own accord to prevent the cap
sizing of tn" boat As the position
of the craft is disturbed from the
proper one. the weigh, attachment on
il to expand and fill with air, and a.
soon rs this pocket touches the water
the further progress Of the boat To
destruction is arrested and the boat
prevented from filling.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
Alexander SeIkirk's Gun.

A gun belonging to Alexander Sci
kirk, the original of Defoe's Robin
son Crusoe, is shortly to be placed
in the British Museum 1t is flint
lock and bears upon the stock the
inscription, rudely carved. "A. Sell
kirk, largo, n. B., 17O1.' On the
ether side is Anna r." referring to
Queen Anne, who was then on the
throne. There is also a figure of a
seal upon a rock and under it the
word "Sealcraig," the original of Sci
kinks name
The Grit-advocate., 1903-09-11
In the Scientific World.

Radium, when brought near a dia-
mond in the dark, vii make it
sparkle Paste diamonds are not so
effected
The expenditure Incident to the
building of the acroplane which Prof.
Langley of the Smithsonian nstitu-
tion tested on the Potomac has been
600 appropriated by congress, s25.-
900 by the army board of ordnance,
and as much more from private con
tribuiionS
The production of nitric acid by
rlectrO-chcmical methods is a new
process that promises extensive
changes in our agriculture At Mag
ara experiments have been conducted
successfully in producing commercial
nitric acid by using a high tension
current in an air chamber. by whic'I
a yield of one pound of nitric acid -
obtained for every seven horse powar
hours.