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would otherwise be of no validity.
The same is true of the registrar of
the treasury. Lucius Chittenden, who
was registrar of the treasury in 1862,
holds the record for continuous signing.
A bond issue of $10,000,000 was made
necessary by the effort of Charles Fran
els Adams, our minister to England, to
prevent the delivery to the confederacy
of two ships which were building in
England, that amount being needed as
security against damages in case the
seizure of the two ships should come be-
fore the courts and the decision should
be adverse to the United States. Chit
tenien was notified on Friday noon
that he must have the bonds Eeady for
special train to New York at four'p. IN.
the following Monday. He did not leave
his desk, but slept there and ate there;
nor did he take food except in LIQUID
form After the first II hours an army
surgeon was detailed to care for his
arm He signed his name 1880 times,
and during one period of seven hours he
attached his signature 300 times-a
speed of over ten signatures a minute.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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ries shall be run.


private ownership of traffic systems he'd
been fairly tried out and proved a fail
ure in New York. The Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company, with $45,000,000 of
"watered" stock, wants to borrow part
or ALL of $150,000,000 more on new
bonds for improvements which the
stock should have paid for; but as 1t
cannot find lenders the Improvements
wait. The Metropolitan, with over $780,
100000 of water" has paid seven per
cent, because its system is the most
profitable in the world, conducted in
profligate city, where no one ever takes
account of "car-fare;" but even it is in
difficulties and has been outrageously
leased to a $30000,000 half-paid-up
holding" company, SO that little knot
of men with only SIS 900 can control
nearly 20 times that capitalization.
And the Staten Island ferries, unfortu-
nate since Erastus Wiman's sky-rocket
career as promoter" have for years
gone from bad TO worse, so that the tax
valuation of this part of the city actu-
ally decreased last year. So dependent
are hundreds of thousands of people
upon rotten corporations that the very
hard-earned money they have paid for
homes may be lost by the antics of a
ferry company that uses floating collins
for boats!
Government ownership socialism,"
Whatever it may be, the demand for 1t
has grown in the east with startling
suddenness since the coal strike--grown
tenfold at least. The owners of public
Abilities" from gas tanks to railroads,
may like it or not. This is the fact.
The Tammany leader in the board of
aldermen publicly commended the ac-
tion of the fusion sinking fund commits
sion in buying the ferry. So strong is
public sentiment that he dared not as
sumo the usual and natural attitude of
opposition.
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wells, and something remarkable.
This square" is practically three
cornered ten-acre lot. At its apex to the
south is the hideous post office, one of
the worst sins against stone ever COM
mitted by former Supervising Architect
Mullett, of the treasury department,
The city made a mistake in making I'm
Gle Sam. a, gift of this park site. 1t is
now proposed to pay heaven knows
how many millions for the botch and
tear 1t down. In the middle of the space
stands the beautiful city hall, one of the
finest buildings of the new world
placed there a century ago, at the corner
of the Bowery, or road to Peter Stuyve-
SAINTS old farm, and the "Bloomingdale
road" which is now Broadway. This
will be left in solitary grandeur. At the
side stands the old court house and a
fire engine house, both marked on any
scheme for removal Behind is "Tweed's
Court House"-for which brick enough
was paid for, though not bought, to
cover the entire ten-acre lot over 2S feet
deep with solid brick pile. This cost
$12 900, 900 and is now worth 80 cents.
The idea is to tear down the lettering
wreck-before it falls down.
In some ways it will be missed; it is
such an impressive object lesson of what
Tammany means at its worst!
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brazilian CoRce-DrInIsers.

The Brazilians drink coffee as the
Germans drink beer. A great many
cupfuls are drunk each day by the av-
erage man and woman. The coffee is
made very strong and very sweet. 1t
produces a mental exhilaration of a
more intense and lasting kind than
beer Those addicted to this habit be-
come very restless and scarcely able
to sit still or stand still even for mo-
ment. This nervousness increases I'M
til it resembles chorea or st. Vitus'
dance. The practice is very harm
full one and is doing the people of Brazil
a great deal of harm. Add to this
their inveterate habit of cigarettet
smoking, and we have an unenviable
condition of the nervous system typ
ical of the average Brazilian-Medicai
Talk.
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SGlf-impOSed labor Ndtlonal Agord.
while still in the vigor of young man
hood, with fortune gained strenuously
in the pursuit of trade. He was a sue
cessful merchant of Boston, with ideas
far beyond the usual mercantile mind,
and since he retired from business he
has given his life unreservedly to the
achievement of an idea.
He believes that Washington is des-
tined to be the most superb capital Of
the world, and he conceives that it's
architecture should be founded on the
highest of classic models. He would
turn the Potomac Flats, with all their
unsightliness, into rustic arbored ter
raced promenades, modelled after the
Nola Bella on Lake Maggiore, Italy.
He would demolish interior blocks of
wooden shacks and shanties, rotten and
ragged stables and fences and put in
their place structures of concrete and
embedded metal, overhung with Bos-
ton ivy. He would redeem all that Sec
ton south of the avenue between Penn
sylvania avenue and the Mall, and erect
there porticos and terraces, promenades
and colonnades He would turn an
other unsightly division of the city into
great historic park devoted to histor-
ical, industrial and artistic institutions
and exhibitions, with national galleries
of history and art. He would erect a
granite shaft to Lincoln to balance that
already erected to the memory Of Wash
ington.
Lastly, he would construct national
Agora, annihilating Is acres of slums
within few blocks of the white house,
with halls for the states, a grand assem-
bly, hall, rostrum, mammoth tower
the century monument of the United
States.
Smith has spent fortune building
models, securing the earth for antiques,
in order to bring his ideas home to con-
gress. His scheme would cost millions
of dollars. 1t may never materialize, in
whole or even in great part; but the
educational work he is doing deserves
gratitude and reward.
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Harriet Lane johnston lived with Buchan-
an until he died, and she was with him
first when he was secretary OF state,
then as minister to England and finally
as president of the United States.
1t was rare experience for an Amer
lean girl in those days-or in any days
for that matter-and Harriet Lane
for that was her name-liVed fully up
to it. While her uncle was minister to
England she was fascinating figure in
London society. When Buchanan was
given the degree of LII. D. at Oxford on
the same day with Alfred Tennyson,
the great demonstration of the day was
directed toward the beautiful niece OF
the American minister.
During President Buchanan's resi-
dence in the white house, Albert Ed
ward, prince of Wales, was a guest
there for five days, and in remembrance
of those days Edward VII. sent to Mrs.
Johnson last year special personal in
vitation to his coronation.
Harriet Lane was faithful to the fine
old gentleman whose official po-
sition had given her these social oppor-
tunities, and she remained with him to
his death. Then, in 1868, she married
Henry Elliott Johnston, of Baltimore,
to whom she had been engaged for a
long time. His death and the death of
her two sons after many years left her
alone in the world, and she has lived the
life Of a gentlewoman in fine old man
sion In historic quarter of the ma
tional capital ever since. The old
house contained many interesting SOU
venir sof her career and was quiet re-
treat for the declining years Of wom-
an who in her day had played bril-
liant part in the affairs of two nations.
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Telephone in the Nursery.

The telephone in the nursery has
proved a real boon to anxious moth
ers. Recently loving grandmother,
just promoted to the honors of the rela-
tionship. was awakened by her daugh-
ter's alarmed voice, by telephone: I'm
sure baby has the Group; what shall l
doo" Grandma promised to be with her
daughter in a moment, and commune
Gated with the family doctor. He in
turn requested to be put in connection
with the anxious mamma, and babe her
lift the child TO the telephone so that
he could hear it cough. The child
coughed, and the doctor at once de-
clared the ailment to be of no conse-
quence. and the disturbed family settled
once more peacefully to rest.
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ButtermiIk a Liquor Cure.

A buyer for one Of the largest imnort-
ing liquor houses in New York, who is
compelled to sample enough wine and
spirits every day to put an ordinary man
out of business, says that buttermilk is
his salvation. Il not only buy five or six
glasses a day at the dairy restaurants
or street stands" he says, "but drink
if all the time at home, instead Of tea
ar coffee. never touch beer or any
thing like that. / keep stone crock
Of buttermilk in the cellar. and let it
GET inst a little stale. 1t is better then
than if taken fresh. A man who in
sists On drinking liquor will find very
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superior in years and rank, and SO he
was chosen. Elliott was at Guantanamo
with the gallant little band of marines
which charged superior force of Span
iards and his superior officer commend
ed him in these terms:
"Capt. Elliott's cool advance up
rocky, steep mountain path under fire
for 20 minutes, without being able to
return it, and the gallantry and skill
displayed by him throughout this affair
were essential to the great success at
tanned by the expedition"
Again in the Philippines Elliott
showed his fighting quality-at Noval-
eta and elsewhere, and he received the
commentator of the officers of the
army and of the secretary Of the navy.
He was broken down by his service in
the Philippines, and he is still pretty
badly shattered in health. But he has
a chance to gain new distinctions as
head of his corps.
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the cup defenders and challengers have
grown in size alone The Reliance car
ries nearly three times as much sail
as did the old Puritan. There Is more
than a third of an acre of it, borne
aloft by a mast so towering that her
topmast must be slid down, "haused,"
in shipshape lingo, As feet and more
to permit her to pass underneath the
arch of the bridge, which is 1876 feet
above high water.
Three times as tall as the biggest
trees one will be apt to see in a days
journey; a third of an acre of canvas,
a water-line of 90 feet when she sits
up and of $50 feet when she leans
to her real sailing lines on her enor-
nous overhangs - yet the Reliance
looks at distance like child's toy
yacht, so light and graceful is she.
A mainsail five or six times as big
as any freighting schooner carries pre-
sents a tremendous surface to wind
pressure. Ordinary duck makes fair
sail for catboat. Reliance's is so
thick and strong that 1t crackles with
noise like splitting clapboards when
it is furled. Hence the extreme care
with which 1t must be dried and
stretched, lest it shall warp. The spin
maker, on the other hand, meant TO be
spread only when running dead be-
fore light wind, is great sheet of
beautiful spun silk.
All this means money; big money.
And Sir Thomas must spend even
more Is it worth his while? Yes, If
he wins.
And as to that the best British
yacht ever launched meets the best
American. 1t will be great struggle.
OWEN I,ANGDON.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Death Of Archbishop Katxer.

Most Rev. Frederic Xavier Katzer,
aged SO years. archbishop of the diocese
OF Milwaukee, died at st. Agnes sani-
tarium in Fond du Lac after a linger-
Ing illness, which had gradually worn
the patient away to mere shadow. His
ordination to the priesthood took place
in December, 1864 In 1876 he became
secretary to Bishop Kroutbauer, of
Green Bay, was made vicar general four
years later, and became bishop of Green
Bay in 1886. He was promoted to the
archdiocese of Milwaukee in 1890.
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ter to IL stories high.
On the east side and ranging from
right to left will stand the 22-story
ST. Paul building on the site of the old
Herald building and before that of
Barnum's museum; then the Park Row
building of 80 stories, the tallest office
pile in the world; then the dignifed
Times and Potter buildings of IL
stories each, and behind them the
towering % stories of the American
Tract society's home; then the Tribune
building, first of "sky-scrapers, erect
ed before the steel frame method was
devised, and thick-walled as a medi-
eval castle; then the little Sun build
ing, once Tammany hall before that
famed society moved uptown; then the
World building, S75 feet from the side
walk to the top of the dome.
Then will begin a series of munich
pal buildings that will grandly sweep
about the head of the plaza and COM
p1ete it.
First the bridge terminus, and over
it a great Office building thrown in
arcades over two narrow streets. The
main structure will be perhaps ten
stories, but just at the inner corner
will spring a mighty tower $50 feet
square and $50 feet in height-the
campanile of New York. This build
ing alone will cost 100000 and the
campanile $1,500000 besides.
Along the north side of the square,
the new Hall of Records, the most
beautiful municipal building in Amer
lea, is nearly completed, at cost of
Sc, 900, 000-about the same as the Con-
gressional library in Washington. Two
similar buildings, of which one will be
the newest new courthouse" are to
flank it ON the left and complete the
group.
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veteran ninister Dies.

best known ministers of the Methodist
Episcopal church in Wisconsin, died
at his home in Portage. Mr.. Benedict
was born near Chautauqua, N. Y. 70
years ago and came to Wisconsin in
1849. He graduated at the University
Of Wisconsin in 1856 and later was
president of Bronson collegiate insti-
tute He also served in the Forty
ninth Wisconsin regiment during the
civil war
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Landmark Burned.

In a fire which completely destroyed
the Central hotel, the largest hotel in
Fountain City, three of the male
guests were aroused from their SUM
bers just in time to escape with their
lives by jumping from second-story
windows. Isadore Putnam, colored
porter in the hotel was seriously
burned while rescuing a sick man. The
hotel was one of the landmarks of
western Wisconsin, it being built in
1850.
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State Fair Badges.

Secretary John M True, of the state
board of agriculture, has received the
badges for the several officers of the
coming state fair. They are a cross rib
bon design with a bar of white, the lat
ter being white celluloid with a brass
frame. The names of the different de-
partments are printed on the eclluloid.
The words Board of Agriculture" are
printed on each of the ribbon pendants.
Each department has different colored
ribbon.
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MILLIONS LOST.
Slump In Stocks on Wall Street
Causes Fortunes of Lead
ers to Shrink.

New York, July 27.-By conserva-
tive men in Wall street and by men
who most closely follow the trend of
affairs financial the estimate is made
that the Rockefeller family fortune has
shrunk $100,000,O00 in value under the
influence of the recent slump in securi-
ties. The apparent loss to the friends
of j. Pierpont Morgan has been great.
William C. Whitney and those who are
allied with him have suffered reverses
that have hurt
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z Bad Fire.

For three hours the plant in Racine OF
the mammoth J. I. Case Machine COM
pany, valued at So, 100000, was in danger
of total destruction, caused by an ex-
plosion in the paint shop, which oc-
cupies part of building covering near
ly block. The fire was finally brought
under control, with the loss estimated at
between $1OO, 900 and 125 900, fully in
sured. It will be rebuilt at once.
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Gain for Anti-SaIoonists.

Columbus, o., July BE. H. Cheer
ington, of the Ohio Anti-Saloon league.
has issued statement that 210 Ohio
towns have voted under the Beal law.
Of this number 131 have voted dry -
rs have voted wet" and three have
tied. In 1898 there were 800 saloons
to every 100000 people in Ohio; to-
day there are only 235.
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Ing men TO COM
mand fighting men
is shown in their
appointment of
Col. George F. Ell
lott to be COM
mandant of t h e
marine corps. Col.
Elliott is one Of the
two real fighting
heroes of the ma
rine corps. The
other is Lieut.. Col.
L. w. T. Waller,
of Chinese fame.
-1Ys - VTY11yz
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- uSu oil cApeE1-
ment as 1t is enter
ing upon with the
Staten Island fer
ries takes courage.
Three million dol
lars are to be ex-
pended in buying
up the ferry termi-
nails and boats.
The city may or
may not own the
ferries. 1t is de-
termined that fer
rieS shall be run.
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space in private buildings. 1t will
pay to build, besides gratifying the
pride of having a square of beautiful
and striking buildings.
The 650-foot campanile is not a
crazy notion, nor is it the only one
of the sort. The new station of the
New York Central-the Grand Cen
trial." remodeled for the third time in
80 years-may have a tower hundred
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10 approve docu-
ments. The treas
urer of the Unit
ed States has few
duties except those
of the most routine
character. He has
no questions of adj
ministration to de-
eide, and very lit
tie important work
of any kind to do.
but he is kept busy
all the time at
taching his sigma
and bonds which
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WV JI1O A1nCI 1CCtll
Argentine Repub-
lie, is a very good
example of t h e
pushing YOU 6
man w h o keeps
steadily in view
what he wants to
accomplish, a n d
who finally arrives.
Barrett is a good
deal under 40, but
he has managed to
keep himself pref
ty prominently be-
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SdupdhIIe THAI lell
in Venice, will be
the tower of the
new M u n i C / pal
buildings in New
Y ork when the
plans of the bridge
commissioner and
the city art COM
mission are carried
out.
T h e S e pla MS
C o m p g t e, City
Hall square will be
one of the worlds
architectural mar
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Gasoline ExnIOdes.

Fire, which started from an explosion
of can of gasoline, probably fatally
burned Harrison Bates, IL years old,
painfully hurt six other persons and de-
stroyed the building and stock of the
Appleton Shirt G Pants company, and
of the Appleton steam laundry. The
loss is $4,000
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and foresight of
Franklin w. Smith,
who for 80 years
has devoted time
and life and for
tune to a project
which he believes
W i'll vastly en-
nance the beauty
and significance of
Washington.
Mr.. Smith is an
old man now, but
he started in his
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York must pay the
governme n t for
the privilege Of
tearing down t h e
post Office.
If you add t h e
$4,000 900 was t e
of the courthouse
but junk is junk,
no matter what it
has cost; and the
city is now spend
ing nearly a mill
lion dollars a year
~
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Frnnkness.

'eNow tell me honestly" said Gazzer,
interrupting himself in the narration of
a story, "have you ever heard this be-
fore?"
eyes, I've heard it before" replied
Lysner, frankly, "but I'll acknowledge
never heard it told worse. Town
Topics.
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The weekly crop report of the Wash
ington weather bureau says for Wis
consin: Excessive rains and high winds
in southern counties damaged corn on
the lowlands and lodged oats and bar
ley. Corn behind the average. Barley
and spring wheat heading well. Oats
much rusted.
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Injunction Granted.

Judge B. F. Dunwiddie, of the circuit
court of Rock county, granted a restrain
ing injunction against the picketing at
the Berlin machine works. The injunc-
tion is very sweeping in it's nature. The
Machinists' union has been out on a
strike for nine weeks.
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grand dame who
typifed everything
that was gracious
and charming in
the w o m a n of
Washington be-
fore the war. She
was the niece of
James Buchanan,
and when a little
girl she was adopt
ed by her bachelor
uncle, having been
left an orphan with
ample fortune. She
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feet higher. 1t is seriously proposed,
but believe there is some doubt of
its erection.
The new City Hall square, however,
will be rebuilt practically as now sug-
gested. 1t will take years to do it.
The late Abram S. Hewitt once said:
1T takes ten years to do anything in
New York" But it will be done.
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little trouble If he takes plenty of but
termilk. If he wants to swear off, but
sernilk will help him. 1t is splendid
stomachic. Two quarts Of good butter
milk a day will cure any case of nerv-
Gus indigestion"
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DistiIIerY Rurned.

Terre Haute, Ind, July 27.-Fire
caused a loss of 100000 on the whisky
trust Majestic distillery, fully covered
by insurance. The house had been
grinding 5000 bushels corn daily, 1900
cattle being fed
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Americas cup.
The Shamro C k
III. alone cost halfa
million; the other
Shamrocks w er e
cheaper in proper
ton. Then there
are the tenders,
the sailors, t h Q
board bills - why
it must by the
seasons end have
been over two mill
lionsi
Few people have
,.y,aI, sJno u n uf
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The Laws Delay.

Tourists murder capital crime
here?
Gothamite- occasionally. Sometimes
a murderer dies in prison while awaiting
triaI.-Town Topics.