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The Newtown bee., 1904-05-13

At this season of the year when it is really too late to purchase a stiff hat and weeks too early for the straw hat, a soft hat fills the bill in most accept able manner. The Blackman $2 soft hats come in black and all the other popular shades. They are the best that money can purchase. They are comfortable on the head and exceed ingly becoming. You can purchase a soft hat for s1. 50, $1 or 75c, and as high as $3. Then there is fine line of caps for spring and summer wear as you will find in weeks travel. Come in and look at the soft hats and spring caps. Don't fail to look at the Black man $3 shoes. The new summer Ox- lords are ready for your inspection.
 One of the greatest blessings a mod est man can wish for is a good reliable set of bowels. If you are not the happy pOssesSor of such an outfit you can greatly improve the efficiency of those you have by the judicious use of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are pleasant to take and agreeable in effect. For sale by R. H. Beers & Co.,, Newtown: Fay Tor, Curtis & Co.,, Sandy Hook; W. N. Hurd, Long Hill; Ernest Hawley, Hawleyville: A. B. Blakeman. Bots ford; D. s. Mead, Branchville.
The Newtown bee., 1904-05-13

HIGH PRICES FOR POTATOES. Those who were fortunate enough
The Newtown bee., 1904-05-13

A fierce fire over-ran hundred acres of wood and timber land on Botsford Hill, last Friday and Saturday. E E Nettleton lost l50 cords of slabs and a quantity of cord wood, and the large pile of Sdwdust is still burning. The fire is reported as having spread from a swamp fire getting beyond the un- fortunate land owner, while others credit fishermen with being reckless with pipes or matches. It was a seri- ous matter, spreading across the fields from Pootatuck brook to the highway On the hill and about mile to the north.
 B. W. Voorhees, of New Haven was in town, Wednesday, in the interest of the Mt Carmel Children's home.
 Miss Clara Wohafor of Cholfon who
The Newtown bee., 1904-05-13

Miss Clara Webster of Shelton, who Is the guest of Mrs Sarah B. Maynard
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03

In the voting spaces In front Of the names
OF candidates on other tickets, his vote
will be counted for all the candidates
on the ticket marked In the circle ex-
cept those for whose opponents on an
other ticket he has indicated his choice.
This method Of voting for the Repub-
hcan candidates for elector Of President
and Vice-Prcsiden and the Citizens
candidates for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor Is shown in the illustration
marked "B.' 1t is not the proper way to
mark the ballot for a split ticket. The
election officers in counting the vote
may fail to see the cross (X) marks in
the individual voting spaces and count
the vote for the very candidates against
whom the voter attempted to register
his objection.
The sailing directions for the voter OPP
posed to Odellism are: Make cross X)
marks in the voting spaces in front Of
the names Of the Republican candidates
for Presidential elector and in the vot-
ing spaces in front of the names of the
Citizens candidates for Governor, Lieu
tenant-Governor and Attorney General
the Hon. D. CADY HERRIcK, the Hon.
FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON and the Hon.
JOHN CUNNEEN.
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sir william VcrnOn-Harcour

By the death of Sir WILLIAM VERNON
HARooURr, the Liberal party of Great
Britain has lost the most powerful de-
batter whom it has possessed since Mr..
GLADsToNE's death. Sir WILLIAM may,
indeed, be described us having been
with possibly one exception, Mr.. JOSEPH
CHAMBERIAIN, the greatest man in Eng
lish public life during the last hundred
YEAR, who has fallen short of the Pre-
miership. There 10 no doubt that, from
some points cf view, he was more i'm
posing and potential personality than
Lord SALISBURY. who was thrice Prime
Minister.
The principal incidents in Sir WILL
LIAM's career msy be summed up 10
few words. Like Lord SALISBURY, he
wrote a good deal at one time for the
Saturday RerieT, but he first attracted
attention and gained recognition as an
authority on international law by the
letters in the Times signed "Historcus,
which discussed the Trent affair and
other international questions growing
out OF our civil war. He was Al years
old when he entered the House of Com
mons in 1898. but his efficiency in debate
soon caused him to be made Solicitor.
General by Mr.. GLADSTONE, though, as
a Low Churchman, he differed from his
chief us to the position which the Liberal
Government ought to take toward the
Public Worship bill introduced by Mr..
I)IsRAELI for the purpose of curbing
fitualistic practices. h was trench
ant and. interchangeable critic of the Bea-
cussfeld Administration, and when MIR
GLADSTONE returned to power in 1850
lie became Home Secretary II is we'll
known that at the time of the split in
the Liberal party over the Home Rule
question in 1885. when Lord HARTING-
TON, Mr.. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN and
many another veteran Liberal deserted,
Sir WILLIAM HARcoURT remained faith
full, and next to Mr.. GLADSTONE himself
had most TO do with the recovery Of
Office by the Liberals in 1892.
When Mr.. GLADSTONE resigned in
1894, Sir WILLIAM, who then, as he had
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03
Hand Clasping and Tail Twisting.

The Toronto Globe has been publish
ing letters from it's readers dealing with
the everlasting question Of American
affection for England or hostility to her.
Canadian" and Maple Leaf" and
ANGLO American and "One Who Has
Inquired" and sundry Others have ex-
pressed their views, and still the great
international problem is unsolved. Our
attitude toward England remains un-
defined
In spite of the awful uncertainty and
notwithstanding the wide prevalence of
an intense American hostility to all
things British asserted by some Of these
communications, there is still room for
hope that Uncle SAM and JOHN BULL
may continue to jog along through the
world maintaining relations which more
closely resemble those of turtle doves
than those of Kilkenny cats.
A glance at the record shows that
about 40 per cent. Of all our foreign COM
merce, with the volume of which we are
so well pleased. is carried on with coun-
tries over which the Union Jack flies
as the emblem Of British sovereignty.
There is also fair amount of social COM
mingling. The English and the Cana
dian boys and girls come over and play
with us in our back yard, and we 60 over
and play with them in theirs. We eat
together, drink together. dance to-
gether, and we meet for scientific dis
cussion. Somehow We seem to get along
very we'll, and once in a while we have
rather jolly good time together.
Naturally there are Americans who
do not like the English. and there are
others who think they do not. That
proposition may also be reversed. But
the futility of any effort to define and
determine the national attitude, the
sentiment Of the people az a mass, is
apparent
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03
The Cross (X) Marks on the Ballot.

The party emblems printed on the
official ballots in the State Of New York
are intended to aid the iliterate voters
in the population in marking their bal
lots and to enable the strict party men
to indicate their choice Of candidates
for Office with the minimum degree Of
trouble. The man who habitually marks
his ballot with single cross (X) mark
in the circle under a party emblem casts
his vote for the party, rather than for
the men who are it's candidates. Thus
the voter who on Nov. makes q cross
(X) mark in the circle beneath the en-
blem showing the eagle, the ballot box
and the pen, and places no other mark
on the ballot, will cast his vote for the
Grocery Gang in New York State, at the
head of which is BENJAMIN r. ODELL
Jr,, the first Governor of the Empire
State of whom his opponents have dared
to make formal arraignment in words
such as these:
For the ,rst time In It's history the Empire
State has q Governor whose personal integrity
rests under widespread suspicion. He has sur.
rounded himself by high ofncials and advisers
under whose mallgn influence the public revenues
of the State largely diverted to private profit"
While providing an easy and simple
method for the illiterate voter and the
hidebound party man to mark the bal
lot, the Legislature did not neglect, how
ever TO supply opportunity for those
voters who are able to read. to write, and
to think, to cast a split ballot. The
name of each candidate for office is
printed in a separate division of the bal
lot, and in front OF each name is a rec
tilinear space, known as the voting space.
The reproduction of part OF the official
ballot in another part OF this newspaper
shows these voting spaces. Ii will be
observed that none is printed in front
of the names of the candidate for Presi-
dent and Vice-President. This is be-
cause the voter does not cast his ballot
for the candidates for these offices. He
votes for the candidates for elector OF
President and Vice-President, of whom
there are thirty-nine on each ticket in
this State. Before the names of each Of
these is printed voting space.
The citizen who wishes to cast his vote
for the Republican candidates for cleo
tor of President and Vice-P President and
against the Grocery Gang should make
the cross (X) mark in the voting space
in front OF the name OF each candidate
for elector in the Republican column
and in the voting spaces in front of the
names Of the Hon. y, ChDY HRRBICH. tho
Hon. FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON and
the Hon. JOHN CUNNREN, the Citizens
candidates for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor and Attorney-General This
is the proper and legal method Of mark
ing the balio: to vote split ticket. 1t
is illustrated in the cut marked "a"
II the voter makes the legal cross CX)
mark in the circle beneath o party en-
blcn and then makes cross X) marks
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03

Here in New York, of /, 1928, 43l males of
10 years and over in 1900 the number in
gainful occupations was l,lO2,57i, while
of the 1855, 1877 females only 367 ,437 we're
30 engaged.
So far from the labor market being
ovesupplied with feminine labor, the
situation is the other way. 1t is much
easier for a woman than a man to get
employment. The demand for women
for household service exceeds the supply,
and wages in it have doubled within
a comparatively recent period. Mrs.
WAsHBURNE finds that for every 10000
immigrants landed at Castle Garden
over 100000 situations are waiting; yet
meanwhile men have entered into do
mestic service in great numbers, whereas,
outside of the slave South, there were
very few 30 engaged in this country even
less than fifty years ago
Are women suffering in their purely
feminine development because of the
extension of their sphere of activity
under the modern industrial organiza-
ton? There is no indication that such
is the case. They are certainly in q
better condition physically than they
used to be, and morally self-supporting
ability ought to be of advantage to
them. Nor do they work 30 hard as did
the women of a century ago in their
multifarious household activities.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03
The New Sphere for Women.

Mrs. MARION FOSTER WAsHBURNE, dis
cussing in the North American Reriew the
industrial expansion of women which
has marked the last quarter of a GEN.
fury, makes the true point that, while it
has brought about change in the forms
of feminine activities, IL has not been
for them any new introduction into
industry.
The complaint is made at present that
women by their large competition with
men in many activities outside of the
home are lowering the wage scale for
masculine labor and often driving it
from the field. In fact, industries which
once were distnctively feminine and
domestic have passed extensively into
masculine hands. Before factories be-
gan TO be developed in New England,
something like hundred years ago, the
household was the most active scene Of
manufacturing, and the workers there
were almost exclusively women. They
spun and wove, made cheese and butter,
soap and candles, and fashioned the gar
ments worn by the family. The factory
now does the work then performed by
wives and daughters and feminine do
nestle helpers.
Relatively 70 the population, there
were more feminine workers in the
United States century ago than there
are now, and their part in manufacture
ing production was greater then than
now. Mrs. WAsHBURNE goes into this
matter only casually, but it is Of pivotal
importance in her discussion.
When HARRIET M.ARTINEAU reported,
in 1910, that she found only seven employ
ments open to women in this country
teaching, sewing, keeping boarders,
working in cotton factories and book
binderies, at type setting and household
servioe-she neglected the large num-
Der who were still employed in domestic
manufactures. At that period, too,
dressmaking and millinery were wholly
in the hands of women In every COM
munlty women went from house to house
TO make dresses, and as tailos Of chill
dren's garments more especially.
The introduction of women to industry
ia therefore not at all novelty Of the
last generation Nor has the change
In the forms OF their LABOR brought about
a competition with men which has low
cred wages. Wages for both men and
women are higher now than ever, though
the seven employments which Miss
MARTINEAU found open to women in 1s48
have been increased to hundreds.
or the population OF the continental
United States in 1900. the males were
81, sic, AS and the females s7,l7s,i27. OF
these, 25,62o,399 males and Papa, 191
females were Of Is years or over. More
than nine-tenths of those males were
engaged in gainful occupations. but OF
the females not much more than one
fifth. Under the old system OF household
manufactures girls and women were
much more generally employed.
OF more than a hundred OF the en-
Payments in which female labor was
engaged in 1900. about three-fifths OF
the whole number employed were in
domestic service or In teaching, or in
employment which used to be classed
as distinctively feminine. Here are the
numbers in some OF the occupations TO
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03
Mr.. Davis Accepts.

The Hon. HENRY GAssAwAY DAVIS 3
observations upon some of the questions
now before the country are commend
ably brief. He plays carelessly with
figures; complains Of the extravaganza
OF the Government, but fails to say how
expenditures should be reduc d or what
taxation is necessary for the needs of
a Government economically admins
tered The value of this solemn Demo-
cratic formula lies in its vagueness. He
is sure that the army is too large and
costs too much. AS to the right size and
cost Of the army, he lets his readers burst
in ignorance.
Mr.. DAVIS @hails' the Panama Canal,
but laments "the gross offence of the
Administration against Panama. Glad
there's going to be canal; sorry the
wicked Republicans are to hav the
credit of it. He abhors imperialism, :"
hut doesn't define it.
Our venerable protectionist friend
must forgive us for saying that his
Only the other day he clasped "inc-
dental protection to his bosom. Now he
would have incidental taxation watched
heedfully. He deplores the steepness of
the tariff on steel rails. The tariff on iron
doesn't occur to him "a wise, conser-
vativs and gradual chang, in the tariff
laws must be made. No tedious de-
tails for Mr. DAVIS. He finds some
trusts "pernicious and harmful Pre-
sumably, the others are good trusts, Here
is heresy for Brother BRYAN. Mr.. DAVIS
sagaciously avoids Offering any pre-
scriptions for the bad trust .
Mr.. DAVIS has discovered that local
self-government is a good thing.
Mr.. DAVIS wanders into the vague
again when he suggests the permanent
:. establishment of arbitration as part
Of the industrial system Of the country,
upon a basis of mutual consent of all
parties to a controversy"
AS 4the race issue" would have been
"rehabilitated' by the West Virginia
Democrats this year if Mr.. DAVIS had
not deemed it inadvisable for temporary
political reasons. his remarks about it
are not impressive. He bastes @pecu-
lation. ond fraud" under the present
Administration, whacks many of the
hundred thousand Federal ofliceholders,
cotuplim ,ats Judge PARKER prettily.
Considering the ripeness of Mr.. DAVIS,
his finger of scorn pointed at the Cabi-
net officers on the stump looks almost
,cnderly juvenile
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03
Recollections or Bob IngersolI.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sir' The little
story by John Smith In Fridays SUN about the late
Robert @. Ingersoll's remark on the American
sense OF humor reminds me OF some Of the genial
Colonel's repartee on one occasion In the Supreme
Court. II was an equity case. Involving In some
way the late Edward s. Stokes, and Col. Inger-
soil. among other noted lawyers, OF counsel.
Judge Abraham r. Lawrence was on the bench.
The Colonel had been addressing the Court for some
little time when Judge Lawrence interrupted by
saying:
Colonel this Is an old case. with much repetition
It seems My term here began many years ago
and II will end before many years. hope that this
case viii end before my term does"
Ingersoll listened attentlvely and then said:
wen, your Honor. tell you, we do hate 10 psrt
with old and dear friends"
Even the dignined domeanor OF Judge Lawrence
was broken In the laughter that followed
BRooxLYN, Oct. I. o. l.. @. DrrMAhs-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03
The Worlds Baseball Championship.

Baseball enthusiasts have been sur
prised at the attitude OF President JOHN
T. BRUSH OF the New York National
club toward the idea Of a series of games
with the winners of the American League
pennant for the worlds championship.
Mr.. BRUSH has declared his opposition
to such a series, although he gives no
reason for his stand. The popular de-
mand for these games is widespread.
1t is in evidence all over the United
States
Baseball without the dollars that are
passed through the box Office windows
by the public would not be worth the
candle. Mr. BRUSH has made more than
500 900, it is said. from the games played
at the Polo Grounds this year. A ma
jority of the patrons who filled the clubs
Golfers are anxious to See MCGRAw's
champions meet the Bostons or the New
Yorks, whichever may be successful
in the American League struggle. II
McGRAw's champions are not allowed
to play, is it not natural to expect the
public to turn away from the box office
windows another year?
The subway trains will be running
to the gates OF American League Park
on Washington Heights before next
spring, when there may be greater
army of rooters for GRIFFITH's nine
than ever before. Are Mr.. BRUsHs
hands tied?
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Not q Chance to Be Lost.
From the LoufsrfIls Herald.

Only few years ago out In my State the Far
mers' Alliance and Its platform Of principles was
the chief topic OF conversation said Silas p Dun
ten OF Kansas. while the alliance was at It's
height man OF somewhat questionable character
died out IN the western part OF the State In town
ship called Waterloo.
The nearest preacher was summoned TO conduct
the services. Not knowing his subject the preacher
contened himself by making few general remarks
concerning the solemn nature Of the occasion.
Then he said he would be glad to have any OF the
company present say a word about the dead man
NO one spoke The Invitation was repeated. Again
no one spoke.
Finally an old farmer. who sat In the corner OF
the front room. rose and said:
If no one has any remarks to make about the
deceased would like 10 make few remarks about
the Alliances sub.treasury PLAN"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03
The Sole Issue.

To rescue the State government from
the man who has perverted it to serve
his own selfish and personal ends is the
object of the campaign in New York
State this year. No question of Repub-
licanism or Democracy is involved. The
platform of the Citizens candidates is
in ons word. That word is Honestly
The real platform on which the Odell
candidates appeal to the voters is also
contained in one word. That word is
i"Graftl' ...-.
The. Republican party to-day does not
govern New York State. A Republican
faction controls party and State alike,
and milks them for its own benefit. That
faction is working for its own pocket all
the time
To substitute Honesty for Graft in
the State government is the task Of the
voters. To crush Graft is the greatest
service the Republican voters can rem
der to their party.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03
beast AND WIRE.
New Diversions OF tho Animal Kingdom
In East Africa.


Tho animal Kingdom In British East Afr,o.
looks upon the 2.ieo miles Of telegraph wire
strung through that region an an innovation
TO DO utilized. The wires arouse curiositv
and stlmuists experimentation. A number or
genera and no end OF species are irving 4,
ind the adaptation OF the telegraph to Their
special purposes: and so the routine OF the
telegraph business Is more or less crowded
with Incidents OF an unusual character. soma
OF which are mentioned In the latest ofIlcis
report This speaks OF monkeys az incor.
rigible. Many of them have been shot and
thousands frightened, but they cannot get
over the idea that the wires are merely a
new facility for their athletic performances
In mid-air. They have ceased to pay much
attention to the locomotive, and even the
shrieks OF the whistle IRE not permitted 70
interfere much with the fun Of swinging Oh
the wire. Three wires are strung on the same
line OF poles for 5st miles between the Indian
Ocean and Victoria Nyanza, giving an oppor-
tunity for more complicated performances
Tho Klkuyu forest Ia mentioned as q place
where monkeys, in their evoluuons. some
times succeed In twisting the wires together.
The gentle giraffe Is also source OF an
noyance. He sometimes applies Tough mus
cular energy to the bracket on which the
wire IL fastened to twist 1t around stretching
the wire and causing II TO foul with other
wires. The hippopotamus Is also nuisance
because he rubs up against tho poles and
sometimes knocks them over.
These creatures. however. do not steal tbs
wire. Thievery was the greatest evil With
which the telegraph builders had to contend
and the evil has only recently been suppressed.
When the copper wire was stretched north
east from Victoria Nyanza through the USogs
country the natives cut out considerable
lengths OF 1t; and at one time about forty
miles Of wire were carried away and never
recovered. Passing caravans found also
that they could help themselves along tbs
way by cutting the wire and using 1t In the
barter trade. The temptation was great
and not always resisted, for wire would buy
anything the natives had to sell A great
deal Of energy was expended In stamping out
wire stealing and 1t now seems to be thing
OF the past
Flfty-nine ofices arc receiving and sending
kilograms In British East Africa and Ugsn-
da. Wires connect the seaoosst with Albert
Nyanza. where Emin Pasha was so long cut
OF from the world by the Mahdists. Tele-
phone messages are constantly being sent
between Mombasa on the coast and Estrobi.
1913 miles inland, and the telegraph businsss
last year amounted to 42.75o messageA