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Stuart NJ. Samuel, NJ. p, wrote from
London to Mr.. Goldfogle of New York:
With further reference to the letter
/ had the pleasure Of writing to you
some short while ago with regard to
the admission of Jews into Russia. I
have recently heard from one of my
friends in that country, to whom
submitted my views on the question,
that it is highly probable that a re-
Taxation in. or abolition of. these regu-
lations win take place shortly. At the
same time, think it is highly desira-
bic that the pressure at your end
should be maintained. am hopeful
that very wide sweeping reforms in the
treatment of Jews in Russia are on the
eve of PRONUNCIATION"
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interior and commerce, who considered
the petition, we're unmoved by the re-
ferences to American experience in the
matter Of TAN buildings. and have for
the time being blocked the efforts OF
those who sought a change.
While it is much too late for the exer-
else Of any such spirit OF conservatism
in American municipalities, where IN
most cases the mischief is arleady be-
yond repair, there is ample room for
future reforms. The engineering. pro-
blems as to the hight TO which build
ings can be carried with due regard to
stability Of construction, fire risk and
the safety Of the people quartered in
them may be left to the architects, in
surance experts and fire-fighters 1t is
not merelya questioned feet andinches
but Of civic art, not so much that the
limit shall be rs feet, or 125 feet as in
Boston, or $50 feet as in the case of
some skyscrapers; it concerns the pro-
position which all buildings shall bear
to the width Of the streets on which
they are placed. American cities are
already too familiar with instances of
structures of faultless design and
beautiful proportion dwarfed into in
significance by some towering CONNER
cial building. which has nothing to
commend it but its impressive hight.
And the grouping of such structures
I side by side on narrow streets, entirely
regardless of their relation to each
other or to the points from which they
are viewed, is another evil which has
unhappily come to be regarded as a
matter of necessity.
There is little prospect or hope that
American cities for many years to come
will consent to the restriction in archi-
ltectural design and size which have
made Paris so noteworthy. but Phila-
deiphia has a peculiar opportunity in
its various boulevard projects to take
a step in the right direction The mil
lions to be-expended for the condem-
nation of land, the opening of broad
avenues and the planting of trees will
ibe worse than wasted If no control Is
Exercised over the style and class of
buildings which are to be erected. 1t
will be no easy task to control by
Statute or municiple ordinance, espe-
lcially where legislation owes its origin
to interested grafters, but certain broad
principles and proportions can be laid
down to the great benefit of the city,
the boulevards and the property
owners. Such plan, with the advice
/ of skilled artists and architects, would
lend dignity and beauty to what may
very easily become something wholly
different From the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
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A FLOOD OF CRABS.

IGingular Occurrence at the Mouth Of
the Chesapeake.
Soft shell crabs are as commonplace
ito the tide water virginian as are
baked beans to the Bostonian, while
the hard shell may be got at any time
in Chesapeake Bay by means OF a
string with piece Of meat dropped
overheard and seoopnet to land the
creatures, says Alice r. Corbin, In
What to-eat. But most remarkable Is
IAN extravagance of the Atlantic that
occurs, Sc the natives say. about three
times a winter down at Cape Henry at
the mouth of the Chesapeake, The icy
Condition of the water puts the crabs
into q partially frozen and numbed
condition, and II the wind takes a GER
tain direction, there are sure to be
miles and miles oi beach covered with
masses of fat blue bodies and sprawling
limbecile pink legs that stretch up
helplessly into the air. The first crabs
coming in on the crest Of big wave
EXCITE little curiosity Then the number
steadily increases, the hundred-yard
beach at last becoming covered with
crabs, sea weed, .conch spawn, seabis-
Icuit, seahogs ana the giant king crab
with a top like the bowl Of q mandolin
land a long, thin tail like q rats stick
ling out behind. Finally the waves
themselves are no longer waves Of
water, but literally waves of crabs.
Then the little settlement of govern
lment employees and stray wood her
Units and. the darkies from back in the
desert get to work. They hitch UP their
broad two-wheeled beach carts and
work from morning till night gathering
lin the crabs, taking them to the station
seven miles away where they are ship
ped to the markets or canning factor
ies) and then coming back for more.
At nightfall the lighthouse keepers,
the weather bureau and signal men and
life savers have gone home, but the
ldarkies up toward Lynn Haven Bay
ARE still at work. Those that have no
earts content themselves with burlap
lbags thrown over the shoulder, and
many of them bring pitchforks to help
Idisentangle the great masses of sea-
weed. You can see their dark, grotes-
ique or pathetic faces plainly in the
light of their lanterns, and here, with
their carts about them on a narrow
strip of beach between the bowling
ocean that is fiinging its foam about
them and the darker land Of the
woods behind, you have a picture that
| is worthy OF, ifnot surprising, the hand
of a Dupre or a Breton. Through it all
runs the wild strain of their fantastic
melodies, mingling in with the roar Of
the surf and the cry Of the night birds
lin the woods behind.
Finally, the deluge of crabs, lasting
often for two or three days, millions of
seagulls that measure three feet from
Tip to tip-swarm down upon the coast;
1.-THE sullen buzzard, with, its savage.
beak, tears through the crabs breast
plate for the tender meat; and the hogs
that run wild about the huts Of The in
flanders make an end to this mammoth
lupheaval of the ocean which feeds SO
many"
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SOME BJG FIGURES.

Pennsylvania will go Republican this
year. She has had the Republican hab-
| it so long and so much that the only
interest is in the size of the Republican
aplurality. In 1885 McKinley's plurality
there was 295,O72, and in 1900, when the
popular interest was q. little less in
ltense, 1t was 2SS,4SS. These figures
were hailed at the time with astonish-
lment throughout the country as record
breakers. 1t was then generally beliey-
led that those pluralities represented
the maximum development of Republic
can strength in Pennsylvania. Even
1.-THE Republicans thought that in subse-
!quent presidential elections the figures
would taper off or even suddenly de-
icline to the former normal level, That,
in fact, was the substance of one of the
predictions of Colonel Guffey when he
Twas asked last summer about the effect
lof Judge Parker's nomination on the
Irallying together and reuniting Of the
States Democratic vote. But Chair
man Penrose Of the State Republican
committee is now putting out esti-
mates that Roosevelt and Fairbanks
will get a plurality of not less than
$4,000.
/ 4
AS this claim is made by those who
Ought to know, and usually do know,
we can reasonably be prepared for big
figures from Pennsylvania next week.
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THE sKYscRAPER PROBLEM.

Prussian business men and manu-
facturers are agitating for relaxa-
ton of the building regulations of the
most paternal of governments, so that
they shall no longer be restricted to
structures of moderate hight. In Berlin
no buildings may exceed "a feet verti-
cal elevation, and in this movement for
"skyscrapers" the argument is advance
ed that modern methods of steel con-
|struction insure stability and safety to
life, and that therefore, the 74-foot
limit is no longer necessary. The
Prussian ministers Of the public works,
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import an automobile instead Of pur-
chasing the domestic article. Indeed. r
says Sir Alfred. Il cannot understand
the folly of Americans importing cars
and paying such ridiculously high
prices for them, when, as everybody
knows, the larger portion of these ex-
orbitant prices goes into the pockets Of
Paris middIemen Of more than doubt
full reputation. It may be, as Barnum
said, that the American people want to
be humbugged." -~
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"A Lane 10 "A RM u.

We read about THE army Of ONCE
holders but we don't stop to think
how big an army it is. A few decades
ago the army Of 100000 Federal Of
fieeholders'' was supposed to be fac
tor Of danger in our public life, but the
army is now over twice as great.
It appears that the civil service of the
United States government comprises no
fewer than 1859 persons Of all class
aes. a tabulated list shows total Of
15O,3SS employees of the executive
branch Of the government, of whom
.25,675 are in the District of Columbia.
This does not include army or navy,
nor does it include 12O,7S6 not embraced
in the reports Of heads Of departments,
of whom all but 1910 are exempt from
civil service rules. In the 120,7S6 are
included 74,196 postmasters, 1886 en-
ployes Of non-free-delivery postoffices
and over $4,000 employees at navy yards
and stations appointed under navy
yard regulations. The average annual
salary OF government employees at
Washington is $1,O72, the average age
is Al and the average period of service
is 10 years. OF those in the depart
mental service nearly 1000 receive less
than the average salary and $4,000 get
under $72O a year.
Add to these the number of State
and municipal officeholders, and the
army would be seen to be a big one.
Few die and none resign.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other
small advertisements. one Cent Word
each insertion. Five Cents Word for
q full week
Display advertisements. per Inch, one
insertlcn, 1920; each subsequent inser-
ton. 40 cents; one week. sS'20' one
month, SO: ore year, $40.
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1t was a case Of assault and battery
During the alteration" queried the
police magistrate, did the accused
use an expletiye?" mo, your honor"
replied the prosecuting witness, "he
only used his tist"-Chicago Daily
News,
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DELIVERED BIZ CARRIERS N THE
CITY, u CENTS 4 WEEK. 80 CENTS A
MONTH, s. ron SIX MONTHS. 50 A
YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BIZ MAIL
SINGLE COPIES. CENTS.
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The elephant Of ceylon is going the
way of the American buffalo. It is
estimated that only TWO thousand ele-#
plants are left on that island.
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John Joseph Jefferson Hunter who
died the other day at Freedom, Penn,
knew how to make will. This is the
text Of the document: This is my
last will leave all my property to
my wife and make her my executrix, :"
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The Providence Journal thinks that
the three speeches which Judge Park
er is to deliver this week will be very
similar in their futility to the gyrations
of hen after her head has been cut
off.
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For state Senators.

DlsLs.
Sch whitney, of New Haven.
9-Minotte p. Chatfeld, of New Haven
10 Whitaker Of New Haven.
1l--Edward j. Maroney, Of New Haven.
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For Judge Of Probate,
LIVINGSTON w. CLEAVELAND.
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Eqro,. REPRESENTATIVES, in Congress,

For Representatives in Congress-
Dists.
1-E. Stevens Henry, of Vernon.
Nehemiah D. Sperry, Of New Haven.
S-Frank B. Brandegee, of New London
4-Ebenezer j. Hill, of NorWalk.
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For Representatives,
John Q. Tilson and Frederick +. Lehr,
of New Haven.
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IT is thought that the Panama canal
commission will procure from the Co
.lurnbia river the 10000 piles that will be
needed in the construction of the canal.
That will be equivalent to 1000, 900
feet Of timber, or equal all told to four
of the huge RATS that are built on the
Columbia river and towed to San Fran.
cisco at the rate of three each summer.
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Sir Alfred Harmsworth, who is an
expert on the subject of motor cars,
has been noting carefully the merits
and dement's Of the American machine
during his visit to this country and has
come to the. conclusion that it is an alb
raxd waste of money for Americans to
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Issued Thursdays. one Dollar Year.
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The Boston Society Of Natural His
tory is sending out leafiet calling at
tention to the danger of determination
of many interesting and beautiful wild
flowers through thoughtless and indis-
criminate picking. Those flowers which
are gathered for sale are in especial
danger, as, when they become COM
mercially valuable, they are gathered
IN great quantities. The only way Of
checking this is to refrain from buy
ing.
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Work on the new Campanile at Ven
Ice is being pushed as much as possible
and it hoped that the entire structure
will be completed by the spring of
1906 Examination of the remains of
the fallen tower proved that the bricks
had been used for various purposes at
a previous stage, in arches, fortifica-
tons, tops of walls, towers, bridges,
etc. And they were not Venetian, but
Roman, bricks.
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REPUBLICAN TICKET.

. . D..
For President,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
OF New York.
For Vice. President,
CHARLES w. FAIRBANKS,
OF Indiana.
For Presidential Electors.
At-Large.
Francis T. Maxwell, of Vernon.
Rutherford Trowbridge, of New Haven.
Harvey L. Roberts, of Winchester.
District.
Philip Corbin, of New Britain.
Frank E. Weeks, Of MiddletoWn.
Floyd Cranska, of Plainfeld.
Isaac w. Birdseye, of Bridgeport.
For Governor,
HENRY ROBERTS.
OF Hartford.
For Lieutenant Governor,
RoLLIN S. WOODRUFF,
: of New Haven.
= For Secretary of State,
i THEODORE BoDENWElN,
Of New London.
For Treasurer,
i. JAMES F. WALSH,
OF Greenwich.
!. For Comptroller,
ASAHEL w. MITCHELL,
OF woodbury..
For ative-at-Larg
GEORGE L. LILLEY,
OF Waterbury.
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Stedman For Governor.

To the Editor: When the chellSn-
ed rights of the South were tidiilPiea
under foot. and North Caroillia' Calieu
for her sons to take up arms dhu ue-
fend her, there came from onlIstidI
home in Cumberland county, q hItlVe
son Of Chatham, a bearuleoS ooy'
strong, handsome and true, e VINO
though highly educated at oul olale
University was content 10 eillcI me
ranks as a private, and Whcn me
smoke had cleared from t,is "a ~
field at Bethel, the country A,V" Iil 81.
North Carolina and his na.lEe Co4hty
had furnished a soldier dcet ~, 70
promotion Tor gallantry uDoii ' HS ~
of battle. His name WSto
Manley Stedman. God bless nun a
truer and drawer SOLDIER hat 49,
lowed Lee end Jackson anu m.l nIed ~
can be said, for those tnat so' ~ 'e
heights at Gettysburg kio" -'''' q
soldier is ,,;
North Carolina is again 80 &c, ~
her bravest wisest ana - aace
rule over her destiny III p mn,
We are proud Of the yo o bonnrad
hood of the State. and na. 1,,r sa,,a
with delight the ambition ~ &c AZ
who have aspired to pe nromotinee
well have we succeeded ~ senators
them. Two United tat ali Of tho
ten members of Congress one and
State administration save
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Something Rotten i'm Denmark.


llllStO I1eIdId.
Did the authorities know for some
time that frauds were being perpe-
trated, as suggested by the above
quotation? If so where comes the
ground for the Observers eulogy?
Are not those officers between the
devil and the deep blue sea? Has not
corruption in Federal office become
so fragrant that it cannot be longer
concealed and these officers forced 10
fight the devil or jump in the sea.
There is something rotten IN TIE
STATE of Denmark, ana as
said: IF. you cannot smell him out
in heaven maybe you can into the
other place"
John Brisben Walker writes wisely
and sensibly in the May Cosmopoli-
tan on this same subject of corruption,
and appeals to all honest citizens to
take interest enough in their govern
ment to attend political conventions
from the lowest primary up, and with
determined effort see that honest
men are put in office. There is the
remedy. Honest citizens must assert
their sovereignty if we are to main
tain 4 republic.
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PRIMARIES AND CONVENTIONS
NOT LARGELY ATTENDED,.

The people are not taking half as
much interest in the primaries and
county conventions as the candidates
and their special champions. Union
county gave Aycock 1873 votes in
1900. In 1902 the vote was quite
small there being no opposition there,
and it gave Beddingfield 1912 votes.
Ii the primaries last Saturday only
602 votes were cast, less than half the
number cast in the very light vote
of 1902.
Union votes in a regular primary
quite an effort had been made to in
terest all Democrats in the guberna-
torial contest, but the result shows
that only 602 cared enough about the
matter to take the trouble to vote.
This was particularly true in the rural
districts. This may be attributed to
two causes: 1. The primary was held
at a season when the farmers were
particularly busy planting cotton, hav-
ing been DELAYED by bad seasons
a larger participation. 2. The candi-
dates for Governor are all so accept
able that very many Democrats do not
care to express a preference. They
will take either and are not sufficiently
favorable to one candidate to cause
them to quit farm work long enough
to go to the primary election.
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cures simply by using and recommends
ing Peruna.
Mrs. Esther M. Miner, DeGraff, Ohio,
writes:
81 was terrible sufferer from female
weakness and had the headache contin-
uously. was not able to do my house
work for myself and husband. / wrote
you and described my condition as near
as possible. You recommended Peruna.
| took four bottles and was completely
cured. think Peruna wonderful
medicine. Mrs. Esther M. Miner.
Congressman Thad. NJ. Mahon, OF
Chambersburg, Pa, writes:
mtake pleasure in commencing
your PeruHa as a substantial tonic
and a good cafarrh remedy. 80.
7. M. MahOn.
If you do not receive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement Of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
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RUINED BY EXCESSIVE FREIGHT
RATES.

One Of the largest and most pros
porous shippers in North Carolina in
private letter says that he is "a
heavy shipper by all the trunk rail-
Dads in the State, but my business is
being rapidly destroyed by being COM
PEELED to pay from five to seventy
five per cent more freight than the
Published rate calls for. / sen at a
delivered price at a rate of freight
specified in bill of lading, but fire.
quently consignee pay and deduct
from the remittances heavy over
charges caused by overwhelming ship
ments.'' He goes on to specify as fol-
lows.
There is a crying need for addition
al legislation to protect the public
against the imDositions of the rail-
roads OF the State. The amount they
wrest unlawfully from shippers runs
up into the hundreds of thousands.
One railroad, for instance, frequently
adds to actual invoice weight, through
careless weighing or defective car
scales, from ten to seventy-five per
cent and collects the excess from
conSgneeS.
pers? Theoretically there is, but the
claim agent is evidently selected for
his ingenuity in delaying and throw
ing obstacles in the way of payment
OF overchargeS, with the expectation
that the shipper will eventually get
| worn out and abandon his claim, and
| TINS is generally the result A resort
| 10 the courts neceSsitates the employ
| ment OF an attorney, and involves a
| Ia
| while the defendant railroad has it's
/ salaried counsel and avails itself of
| every technicality to defeat a claim
| THE last Legislature passed a law
requiring the railroads to settle all
claims for overcharges within sixty
days after being filed, under a penalty
| of $4,000 per day for each days de-
| lay 1t is grave question whether
| this penalty applies to shipments to
| points outside of the State. 1t ought
to be settled in the interest of the
shipper by an amendment to the law,
making the penalty applicable to cases
| where shipments originate within the
State.
1.-The Supreme Court has decided, in
substance, that the receiving agent
| who has authority to issue a through
| bill OF lading, is not only the agent
of the particular company which pays
| his salary, but of all connecting lines
| If, therefore. the agent, issuing the
| bill of lading, adds to the actual
weight of the shipment, either through
neglect or improperly balanced scales
| forty or fifty per cent, which false
| weight is made the basis of the freight
I charges on all connecting lines, ought
not the initial railroad be held amen.
| able to the law imposing a penalty fol
1 oYercharges ~
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nearly all of our judges and solicitors
are yOunS men.
The State feels and those VINO
fought her battles in war feel, that 1t
is but Just and right to select as our
next Governor one from among that
class which is now fast passing away,
never to return, one who bears upon
his body the enduring scars Of battle,
and whose mind is clear and brilliant
and whose heart is kind and true
whose life is an open book, of devo-
ton to State, fidelity TO friends and
sacrifice to the Democratic party
Our minds all turn TO one--hls
name is Stedman, Tine noblest Ro-
man Of them all.
| hope the young men OF Ncrtn
Carolina will join us who followed Lee
and name from among us our choice
us your choice.
This is the last opportunity the State
will ever have of electing 4 COnfed-
crate soldier Governor and we have
in Major Stedman Il man worthy OF
us all and if made Chief Magistrate
he viii! be an honor and an ornament
to our State.
JOHN r. LANE.
Ore Hill, n. c.. May 10, 1904.
TCol. Lane is the surviving Colonel
of the famous Twenty sixth NofIh
Carolina egiment.-EdItor.