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The sun., 1903-10-25
The Campaign In tho Ninth.

To THE EDIToR OF THE SrN-Sir; The
decent element OF the Ninth Assembly dis
trict has gone into the campaign with as
much earnestness as was manifested two
years ago, " not more. meeting OF the
fusion forces held at Twenty seventh street
and Eighth avenue tonight to urge the elec-
tion OF j. F. Tucker for the Assembly attracted
an unusually large number of persons, and
I was impressed by the genuine enthusiasm
they showed. The arguments advanced by
the speakers clearly Indicated that tho work
of training the "stumpers" for good govern
ment has been systematic and careful, and
obviously must. therefore. be OF strong
effect. One Of the speakers, Mr.. Kingsland.
Illustrated his statements aptly and force
fully with quotations Of wisdom from THE
SUN To my mind he expressed the reason
for the existence Of an organization such as
Tammany Hall in the following Sun extract
from Mr.. Grout's speech Of acceptance two
years ago:
Tannany Hall is n mere business Investment;
1t Is not a political party. Tammany Hali Is or
panizaton for the purpose Of enabling some people
Ia make money.
Ineed hardly add that the audience received
this brief. terse. poignant characterization in
a spirit Of favor.
l am really glad our good government
campaigners fortify themselves with the
ammunition The SUN can provide. as II it
always excellent and convincing.
HENRY IVES WILSON.
TIE CHELSEA Oct. %.
The sun., 1903-10-25
Defiance Of the woman Stenosrapher-by One

To THE EDITOR OF THE Sus-Sir Commst
vas recently made In your editorial columns on IT
attitude OF certain railway officials toward tho err
pIoylng of women stsnog graphers II may Vc'
well be that the utterances OF these Eenlemcn ~ "
the I'm suitability of women 70 positions In corpor"
lions where the civil service system OF prumo'oh
exists may contain some truth; II would DC ft'.
and tedious 10 reopen discussion OF the iciau'
merits OF the sexes for posts Of responsibility euiA
ing advancement While detailed reply W the r.
marks of the railway gentlemen cannot be attem7'e
IL may not be amiss 70 point out 10 them ana
others who deal In scntlatlns generalits anen w"
woman sienographer question hat the era OF VI
stenographer OF frowsy cofurc, excessive lc"e'''
and large omnipresenl pink bows Is over II u eV'.
existed. Jocose paragraphs outlining the ATTY pc
,lGaye supposedly INDUCED IN BY stenosrsph'l
of spcrhuman keenness OF repartec are !oSihS "'''
popularity and attractive sketches depicting the '
cvrsb tender relations existing 10 busy otnI"~ -
tween aged employers and stenographers OF el'ri
r.l u...Il, ua. .uUounded leisure ceased 70 am
when woman ceaSsd 10 DO high priced novelty
business life.
In fairness 10 the views OF the railroad m'o '
may be said that the type OF stenographer - '''
auenly held up to obloquy BY them does SUI ).
yado 10 some extent . certain class Oh hNs
once Bu, the woman stenographer OF t"'G'
,yho deserves the name comes 10 business N M
unobtrus,ys attire, with head cleared OF ll saol
thoughts % coIdc, with business insr"'
cordially courteous or al least politely lmp
In her relations with her Once associate, COMO.
.,,a,,s by her painsta3lng ability that II pfum q
h. nv force OF circumstances Inconsistent T! j.
leas, deserved: and In general surrolnda h'T'
with dignity ln maintaining the struggle toft'7
ence which Is certainly her one Incentive toe e"'.
which can scarcely attract by It's congen!a.I'F
u,a,,s ont ~ A STESodhAPsss
The sun., 1903-10-25
school Training Of the Body

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Su! \
writer IN your paper OF yesterday ridicui'F
physical training In the public schools IN
general, and the two-minute setting-up eSer-
else in particular. Permit me TO sugg"-t
few points in answer
l. The largest sedentaTJ GLASS IN America
10 the student class. Five hours per day at
the desk during the growing period is enough
to account for the thin-chested anemic chit
dren too often seen IN our schools.
2 Two periods per week for exercise do
not combat the school desk posture eifer-
lively. Tho remedy must be az constant AZ
the evil to be renedied.
g. It is ths practically unanimous test
mony OF the many teachers In whose classeH
the exercise referred TO has been taken thai
the children have clearer minds. show len,
restlessness. and accomplish more work than
under former conditions.
L. These exercises merely put into cotI-
fed form what most men do who WORN at
desks G., stsnd up and stretch occasionahN
and take few deep breaths.
5. Walking between classes. ana ever
climbing stars. does not overcome the beh'
spine effect of the school desk.
a. have no desire to underestimate IN"
value of q knowledge of the location Of Tim
buctoo or Tanjin. but q vigorous erect cal
rage IL worth much Six or eight minutes
a day la but little to pay for results that IT,
auence ones carriage and health for life.
7. The city is making the fight for It's re''
life when it endeavors 10 make city school
foster instead Of break down the health OF iIr
children. The time will surely come wbfr
graduation from city schools will mea
health and capacity to do work, as much ''
II has meant intellectual training
In passing let me thank the writer for N"
delightful mixed metaphor that rare h,ro
the bookworm."
LUTHER HALsEY Quick,
Director Of Physical Training
OFFICE OF THE CITY SUPERINTENDENT O.
SCHOOLS, New York, Oct %.
The sun., 1903-10-25
Para Rubber Trees In the Orient.


II he blesses his race who causes two
blades Of grass to grow where there was
but one, 80 also the man confers lasting
benefit who widens the area in which
the most highly priced commodities may
be produced. This has been done in the
Malay peninsula, where about 800, 900
young Brazilian rubber trees are grow
ing, the progeny Of trees introduced in
1879 by the Government Of India.
The tree is the Hevea braziliensis, one
of the best varieties Of Siphonia elastica
which supply all Of the worlds finest
grade OF rubber, known in the trade as
Para. The first planting in India was a
failure, and the experiment was not re-
peated but in Ceylon and the Malay
States the seedlings developed into Wig
orous trees The Hevea at home yields
rubber In commercial quantities in about
twenty-five years from the seed. In the
Malay States it was tapped to test ts sap
in 1897, twenty-one years after planting.
II had been feared that under the East
ern conditions, which differ from those
Of the Amazon, the rubber would be Of
inferior quality. But the tests seemed
TO assure the splendid success OF the
immigrant plant. Para rubber had been
produced In the Orient. This almost
unhopsd for SUCCESS stimulated planting
over wide area. and, according to ths
rsosnt report Of Mr.. STANLEY ARDEN
scientific men say that the field available
TOR Para rubber has assuredly been ~.
tended TO the Malay States.
With American cotton thriving In Cen
The sun., 1903-10-25
A Wholesome Decision.

The efforts Of the State Superintendent
Of Elections to extend the inquisitorial
powers conferred upon his Office by the
Legislature beyond the limits defined
in the act creating it have been checked
promptly and effectively by the Supreme
Court, as all similar efforts of executive
officers to exercise powers and functions
not contemplated by the Constitution
and the statutes are checked when the
proper tribunals have an opportunity to
pass upon the questions involved. The
case before the court was that Of a lodger
In a hotel who refused to answer the
question, Are you married or single?'
when it was put to him by deputy
superintendent Of elections. The ques-
ton was asked in the course Of an exami-
nation OF the dodgers in the house, the
object OF which was to prevent any
unqualified person from registering as a
voter. The examination was held be-
fore the first day Of registration, and
the Superintendent Of Elections con-
tended that he had power to compel
an answer, even though the person
to whom the question was put had had
no opportunity to show an intention to
register
Upon the refusal Of the person to whom
the question was put TO answer, he was
arrested. charged with being guilty Of a
Inisdemeanor under Section OF the
Metropolitan Election District law He
appealed to the Supreme Court, and
NIr. Justice LEvENrRITT discharged him
from custody. In his opinion the JUS
tice says:
~Tha Legislature has not attempted nor nan Il
ronstitutlonaly attempt To direct All lnqusitlOn
merely because person who has no intention OF
registering chance, TO be an Inmate Of hotel or
lodgng souse The power Is sa incident of the
power 70 control elections and have no rellll0h
Ia non participants ny registration an Intending
Vs;cs au6jcctA himself 10 the contemplated control
but not before. While thr deputies may make
such independent investigation they sec NJ prior
% registration nui nO authority for inIerrovatiay
ia indi iyidual VINO thsy believe DM register. :
II nAy be pointed oUt In passing that the pre-.
css question objected to "a embodied In the anida
w required BY Legislative enactment where the
tight 20 rrsslrf la challenged Election law, sub,
division u I'm Is material there as testing quail
hnaiion by tending to establish residence, II "A
dinruii ~ seq why II Ia not equally material ia a
p'sln'lnary appration having the same end Ia
leu The tear expressed that permitting such 4
question would lead 10 others Ia not Iusunsd. & rs,
The sun., 1903-10-25

In Elizabeth last week an election officer
refused to complete the registration list be-
cause he had worked eight hours and the
State allowed no extra compensation for
overtime. Fifty-one voters we're left of
the list by this mans noble devotion to his
rights. As be is Democrat and the omit
ted names were those Of Republicans, the
beauty Of the eight-hour rule in politics
was illustrated In just as striking fashion
as II he had been Republican and the
ifty-one voters omitted from the list had
been Democrats.
The sun., 1903-10-25
Our Relation to the Far Eastern Inn
brOpliO.

According to a Russian correspondent
of the London Times, one of the most
disqueting features of the Far Eastern
situation, in the eyes OF st. Petersburg
statesmen, is the interest displayed by
the United States in the territorial IN
tegrity and political independence OF
China. We are told that the Nor0e
Vremyd, one of the most authoritative
of Russian journals, reflects this anxiety
in a leader, wherein it describes as one
of the most important political phenom-
ena Of the twentieth century the entrance
of the United States into the arena OK
Old World politics from the Mediterra-
mean to the Yellow Sea. There is no
ground for this anxiety, provided Russia
intends to respect those rights Of Ameri-
can citizens which our Federal Govern
ment has at all times shown itself de-
termined TO protect.
There is nothing new in the despatch
of walships to Beirut for the purpose OF
safeguarding American citizens from in
jury, or in the announcement OF our State
Department that we cannot submit to
interference with the commercial priv
ileges in Manchuria which we have ac-
quired by treaty with China. The Union
was scarcely dozen years old when our
infant navy was employed against the
Barbary States for an Identical purpose
IN Turkish waters. The defence Of our
commercial rights has once well nigh
embroiled US in war with France, and
constituted the principal motive that
impelled US to defy the naval power Of
Great Britain in the War Of lsl2-l5. 1t is
not likely that now, full grown, We would
acQuiesce in aggressions on the part
Of Russia that in our homage we would
not brook from France or England. We
have secured by the treaty recently con-
Guided with China certain rights Of COM
mercial intercourse with Manchuria, not
only at Newchwang, but at two addi-
tional ports. Mukden and Antung. That
treaty has not been ratified; much less
have the ratihcations been exchanged.
When the treaty has once been confirmed,
however it will become operative.
1t matters not by what excuse Russia
may seek to palliate her violation Of the
written promise, made to our State De-
partment. that on Oct. she would begin
the evacuation Of the three provinces
which collectively make up the region
known to Us as Manchuria. Whether
Russia goes or stays. when our CONNER
cial treaty with China shall have been
ratified the rights OF trade assured to
us in Newchwang, Mukden and Antung
will be American rights.
The sooner, therefore, that Russian
statesmen recognize the precise purport
and scope Of our interests in eastern
Asia, the better it will be for all con-
oerned We have no intention OF becom-
ing party to any contest between Rus
sia and China 30 long as our treaty rights
remain intact throughout the territory
over which the sovereignty Of the Chinese
Emperor is undisputed. We have no
intention either OF participating in q
quarrel between Russia and Japan about
Corea, 50 long as our treaty rights In the
Land of the Morning Calm are respected.
Nothing Is easier, therefore, than for
Russian statesmen to assure themselves
Of our neutrality.
The sun., 1903-10-25

tral Asia, Sumatra tobacco in Connecti-
cut, macaroni wheat in the United States.
and other products doing well in foreign
soil, the distribution Of many crops is
constantly widening. At present tho
Germans and French are determined
that we shall not monopolize the pro-
duction Of Manila hemp II they can make
it grow in their own colonies.
The sun., 1903-10-25
The Campaign Against Man.


dent Of the Chicago Woman's Club and
has been president of the National Fed
GRAFTON Of Woman's Clubs several times.
She seems to have been moved to q sort
Of remorse or pity by the rapid Fall Of
Man, which is largely due to the admir-
able cooperative efforts OF the woman's
clubs. In her speech to the Illinois
State Convention Of Woman's Clubs she
pleaded for conservative, almost a
retrogressivs policy. Are not women.
she asked. by their intense activity
weakening man In oomparisoa?' Why
lament an inevitable result? Woman
has risen, in a few brief years, from
apparent inferiority to unchallenged
superiority. You can't kick man from
the top Of twenty-story building and
stop his making the entire journey to
the ground. Mrs. HENRorIN is kind
hearted. She thinks that the dethroned
boss has fallen far enough. Virtually,
she asks that he be allowed to stay where
he is. But he can't tread air. Down
he goes and must keep on going.
Besides, he is utterly discouraged; and
Mrs. HENRoTrN adds unintentionally to
his depression. She warns him to keep
out Of the kitchen This is cruelty. not
kindness. Chicago happens to be the
place in which the women have driven
him into the kitchen. He is an unpaid
domestic servant, undertook and bottle-
washer. "Scati Get out!' cries Mrs.
HENRoTIN. Whittier? He has nowhere
to 60 He is squeezed out Of profession
after profession, trade after trade. just
as his clumsy feet are learning to be
comfortable among the pots and pans,
he gets notice to leave. The inexorable
Move on!" is Kissed at him. No won
der he is demoralized. The reaction OF
the woman's club movement promises
to be even worse for him than the action
has been.
At the very moment when Mrs. HEN
RoTIN warns him away from the kitchen
and entreats the women not to eat OF his
messes, she jabs him with two more
knives. In literature and art he has
been able to meet, and so far to overcome,
feminine competition. His seeming ad-
vocate urges his conqierors in so many
other fields to direct their attention to
art and literature. These are his last
strongholds and they are now to be
battered down.
Mrs. HENRoTIN caused some surprise
and Indignation among her hearers by
saying that there is growing tendency
among the women in clubs to care for
nothing W hich does not present spectac-
ular or sensational aspect Under the
favor Of 40 great an authority we must
deny the charge. A few years ago a
movement for the Elimination of Man
would have seemed not only sensational,
but preposterous. The world is wiser
now. There is nothing more spectacular
or sensational in the fact that Man is
running downhill than In the fact that
water is. Gravitation was sensational
once, but 1t has got over it.
A proposition made at this convention
by Mrs. SARAH TYSON RoRER is really
and inoffensively sensational. She in
sists that "a knowledge Of domestic sci
ence be made qualification Of woman!
suffrage If we had any right to give
an opinion, We might say that this
proposition looks sound.
The sun., 1903-10-25
A PTOLIAc Poet,

To THE EDITOR Oh The SuN-,SH: have q
thousand poems, written on all subjects. from q
needle 10 an anchor. In poetry. Some OF them ON
vast and sublime subjects; and many Of them on
the transactions that occur in every day ife Poets
naScitur non tt" JOHN poPk HoDNRrT
HKooELfN, Oct 23
The sun., 1903-10-25
Inc EARLIER AtatesIn en-

Henry Clay had Just drawn up his eelebrated
Compromise
TITS the lrut ph Of nay life he explained. we
give the COOK eghL nights out week and the psrlor
for her company II Shs viii stay
History, however has always confounded this
famous document WIN sons trIyality about Slate
hood.
The sun., 1903-10-25

A. abJpdaRCe Of Interesting matter Is on
by Hurpers NJgaliE Tor No'embef
setaI D. Mss Mafy Johnston IA begun, and So
of article, on carry American p ohsars "P'
Mr. FdNard y Martin has olsLsaht sh''
"WIn.,r IU ne CoUntT," Illustrated WIN /"
Able lo,ysDphlc ylrHs Nearly d0IrN
e,lt. .... ,nUu ,t0res, lpcIudiDg hfI
Mts H I p tHIrrHs Nss Van N9m' a.
(blrl,s y Eastman IIrfe are hfte!es
D. p,uf u-prur simon hss~m
otLcTs
The sun., 1903-10-25
Nj, U. 4. Bond visits Philadelphia.

Among u. Western jewellers who have On
auring tne past week was |, 3 Bond o. osets
la Nj Bond brings the news that the &C n &"
In his section vii be- only fair thls hil on q %
of u.ost unihyorsb!e season.
The sun., 1903-10-25
Tho "Rsd LiEhts."

To THs EDITOR or The SUN--.Sr: Tie Red
Lights will 60 out In Manhattan n the "Order Of
Acons" will see that the parents OF Brooklyn keep
their young men at home,
Its the guests. not the host. who arc 10 blame.
NEW YoRK, Oct IS. j. L
The sun., 1903-10-25

n our friends Tho idr0r us uth mdnu'cripfs for
publication ush TO hare rrJcCcd articles rethrhcH m"g
must IL, an cases ssnd rlr,ps for hui purDVSe
The sun., 1903-10-25

.,.,.ns.- tiSc,un- No -, Granh notei an
E,osoue No TO- Boulevard dcs CapucneS
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-06-11
Flag Day Celebration.

An effort is being made to establish
June 'I4th of each year as Flag day,
because IL was on this date that the
thirteen stars and stripes We're
adopted as the National emblem. An
other important day in the history OF
the country was the one on which
the famous family medicine, Hostel
ter's stomach Bitters, was first intro
duced' to the public. fifty years ago.
Today. it is recognized as our nation
al remedy for stomach, liver and kid.
ney complaints, because it has often
proven reliable, often effecting a
cure when other remedies have fall
ed. II your stomach is out of order
and you suffer from loss of appe-
tites, belching. heartburn, insomnia,
dyspepsia, indigestion or constipation,
you viii find few doses OF the Bit
ters viii set the stomach right and
cure these disorders. Try it and see.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-06-11


that Anybody who needs ii can have
AIS money"
KANSAS CITY. Mo. June 9.--Har-
riet Rue. "a six-year-old negro girl. re-
ceived a letter from Archie Roosevelt,
son of the president, in response TO
one written by her.
DENVER, Colo, June 9.--Members
of thecharter convention or those pre-
sumably elected by the Civic ticket
met in the city hall at noon today and
| found the council chamber locked
against them, but organized in the
| hallway.
NEW YORK. June 9.--Devotees OF
sport are displaying considerable in
| terest in the wrestling bout to take
| place tonight between Harvey Parker
and George Bothners. for the light
weight championship of the world.
| The gold-muunted belt, which is en-
blematic of the lightweight champion
| ship. and which at present is held by
Bothner, will, with the stakes. 90 10
the winner. Both men have been
training faithfully and an interesting
contest is expected to result
SHERIDAN, Wyo., June 9.-The
Sheridan Commercial club recently
| framed here has taken a violent stand
against the methods employed by the
labor union in the recent labor trou-
bles. The club membership roll con.
tains the most prominent business
men of Sheridan.
NEW YORK, June 9.-President
Baer of the Reading railway appeared
before the interstate commerce com
mission today in the investigation OF
coal carrying roads as parties to an
unlawful combine to restrict competi
| ton and maintain prices of coal. Bael
declared that the money invested in
his road so far as coal transportation
! was concerned did not earn an aver
age rate of interest. The cost oi
transportation had vastly increased,
he declared, wages alone being twelve
hundred thousand dollars greater this
year than last.
Baer evaded Commissioner Prouty's
questions II the annual report did not
show an increase of net earnings
every year in the past five years.
|
| ing 10 substantiate this assertion,
Baer said that the figures were mis-
leading.
Baer said that freight rates were
higher on coal than on ordinary mer-
chandse, because the latter was
shipped on the line, while the former
came from branches constructed to
collieries and which were a dead loss
when the collieries were exhausted.
| The decided discrepancy between the
annual report OF the Reading company
submitted to the stockholders and
that given TO stockholders, was ex-
planned by Baer by the statement that
the report to the commission included
only items required by law. while the
other was complete.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-06-11

and recollect that the secretions from
my kidneys were very distressing and
annoying, when | could not find q po-
stion in which | was comfortable des-
pite all my efforts to alter this state
OF affairs. must confess 1t Is very
hard to understand how a simple pill
could bring about such radical
change. l am pleased to make the
above statement SO that others may
profit by my experience.
For sale by all dealers. Price soc
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States.
Remember the name. Doan's, and
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Startling Evidence.
Fresh testimony in great quantity
IS constantly coming in, declaring DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
lion, Coughs and Colds to be unequal
ID A recent expression from T. J.
Mcfarland, .Bentonville, Va, serves as
Example. He writes: II had bron-
hits for three years and doctored all
he time without being benefited.
Then l began taking DR.. Kings New
Discovery and few bottles wholly
"ured me-" Equally effective In cur
ng all Lung and Throat troubles, Con-
sumption, Pneumonia and Grip. Guar
1nteed by G. e. Tiffany, Jr., Druggist
Trial bottles free, regular sizes soc
nd $100
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-06-11
His Last Hope Realized.

(From the Sentinel, Gebo, Mont)
In the first opening of Oklahoma to
settlers in 1883. the editor OF this pa
per was among the many seekers af-
ter fortune who made the big race
one fine day in April. During his
travelling about and afterwards his
camping upon his claim, he encount-
cred much bad water. which, together
with the severe heat. gave him a very
severe diarrhooea which it seemed al
most impossible to check, and along
in June the case became so bad he
expected to die. One day one OF his
neighbors brought him a small bottle
of Chamberlain's Cholic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy as last hope. A
big dose was given him while he was
rolling about on the ground In great
agony and in few minutes the dose
was repeated. The good effect of the
medicine was soon noticed and within
an hour the patient was taking his
first sound sleep for fortnight.
That one bottle worked complete
cure. and he cannot help but feel
grateful. The season for bowel dis
orders being at hand suggests this
item. For sale by all druggists.