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Big Expenses in the Primary.

Mr.. Conner spent $1O,522 in the pri-
mary race, and Mr.. Smith spent, with
out securing the consolation of nom
nation, $3,357 Mr.. Compton and
Captain Kolb's expenses may carry
the total of expenses, officially ac-
knowledged, to $4,000. As the ac-
knowledged personal expenses were
but fraction of the actual expenses,
it may be best to guess" the total at
$4,000. The merchants and manufac-
turers helped Mr.. Conner, and the rail
roads Mr.. Smith, and between the two
sets of supporters a total of $4,000
was probably expended.
Mr.. Conner will serve four years
without pay. for he put all his salary
into literature and like expenditures
He will not miss the money, so long
as he has the power he has long COW
eted; but is it well to establish a pre-
cedent of extravaganza in primary
races?
The question may be answered
with a statement that the circum-
stances were peculiar and exceptional.
They were not, however. A similar
state of things will arise when the
terms of Messrs Tunstall and Russell
expire in 1906, and again when Mr..
Comer's term expires in 1908.
Heavy as the expenses were In the
Comer-Smith race, they were legiti-
mate No one was bribed No act Of
dishonesty was attempted. No dele
gates were bought. The appeal was
to the people, and no barrel was
opened. 1t was clear case of 'litera-
ture' and popular suffrage. Heavy
expenses under such circumstances
are at least defensible.
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FAXED SNAlLS.

From the New York Globe.
The snail is as sacred to Partisan as
a lobster is to a chorus girl, so there has
been pretty how-dy-do in Paris over
the discovery by the health officers that
a large part of the snails sold there are
fakes. A workman in one OF the fac
tories sued his employer for damages,
and that is how the discovery was made
The makers of snails buy up discarded
shells, clean them, and then fill them
with cats met, which has been cut into
cork-screw shape by machine invented
for the purpose. When the shell is filed
and the meat some fat is poured in, and
the trick is DONE The defense was that
these sham snails are preferred by sumo
epicures as having a finer flavor than
the escargots which feed on the vine
leaves in Burgundy.
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were carried up about % per cent,
and advance of about II per cent was
established in metals and implements.
Mr.. Wright does not strike a bal
ance that shows what the average
mans living expenses in 1903 were in
comparison with similar expenses in
1890, but 1t is safe to put the increase
at 10 per cent.
Mr.. Wright does not attempt to
say how much of this increased bur
den is due to Dingleyism, but he does
admit that the tariff is one of the
causes of the increased cost of living.
We do not see customs duties paid
but we pay them nevertheless, to-
gether with the exactions they render
possible, whenever we buy the neces-
stiles of life. So long as we cling to
we must be content to
endure higher living expenses.
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: ANToNIA DVoRAk.
From Harper's Weekly.

FROM f1arperS weekly.
Antonin Dvorak, the Bohemian COM
poser, by many ranked among the most
important of modern music-seekers' oieo
at Prague on May /. Dvorak, the son OIL
an innkeeper, was born at Muinausei'
Bohemia, in 1S41. Under the ins'ruc'ion
of the village schoolmaster ne ieaihe
something of violin playing and singing
afterwards supplementing these stuuies
nv course in organ, piano, and theory
with the organist at zlonic. his ia'hei
discouraged his musical aspirations anu
tried to make butcher OF nim' pu'
Young Dvorak persisted, and IN 1921 ms
father consented to his attending the
Prague Organ School. Five years later
he was graduated from the school, ana
too,x a nosition as violinist in the National
rbeatre orchestra, and by 1866 he had
written a string quintet and two SYM
phonies. In 1873 his setting OF patriotc
hvmn by Halek. for male chorus and or
chestra, was publicly performed, gaining
him recognition as composer OF conse-
ouence. and securing him the position of
organist in the church of st. Albert Then
followed several one-act operas, the F
major symphony, the "Stabat Mater"
the Slavonic dances commissioned by the
publisher Simrock, the "Husitska" over
true, the opera 'Dimitrije," and two
two choral works-"The Spectre's Bride"
and "St. Ludmila,' composed for the Bir-
mingham and Leeds festivals, together
with various instrumental works.
Dvorak came to America In 1892 as d.
rector of Mrs. Jeanette Thurbers Nat
ional Conservatory Of Music. His tie
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Ressemer Fans Lively.

1T have been impressed by the fact
that the baseball fever ut Bessemer is
now at its height" said a baseball en-
thusiast last night. 1.-THE Bessemer peo-
pie have inferred into the spirit OF the
game with a vim and they are the most
enthusiastic rooters you ever saw. De-
spite the fact that Bessemer has been
having a run of hard luck since the sea-
son began, the fans are still loyal and
are confident of winning the pennant.
TT is amusing to see now quickly the
smaller towns take to the professional
baseball idea AS soon as they join
league they are full of business and
everybody is interested. In fact l
think people take more interest in the
minor league games, comparatively
speaking, than they do in the Southern
league contests. The Tri-state league
seems to be a very strong organization
and 1 am glad to see that the season has
started off so auspiciously. If the pres
ent season is a success there is hardly
any doubt that next year the Tri-state
league will be on a firm financial basis
and the teams will prove good invest
ments for the towns interested"
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Livinu EXPENSES Are Hiuher.

Commissioner Wright of the bu-
reau of labor has issued a bulletin
showing the course of wholesale
prices of the necessities of life from
1890 to 1908. He employs 26O series
of quotations covering farm products,
food, clothes and clothing, fuel and
lighting, metals and implements, lum-
Der and building materials, drugs and
chemicals, house furnishing goods,
and miscellaneous. Commissioner
Wright uses wholesale prices because
they are more sensitive than retail
prices, and because retail prices gen
orally follow wholesale prices.
; There is danger of falling into a
labyrinth Of figures If one follows
Mr.. Wright's bulletin too closely, and
this danger we will endeavor to avoid
by avoiding particulars.
He shows that fifty three articles
in the food group are 6.6 per cent
higher than they were in 1890. OF the
farm products, fifty-six of the seventy
three were higher in 1903 than they
were in 1890 In the fuel and light
ing group nothing was cheaper except
matches. The Standard oil trust had
advanced prices of petroleum SO per
cent. Lumber and building materials
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THE TlBETANs.

From the New York Globe.
The Tibetans do not believe that the
British could conquer them It is a curl
Gus fact that traditions or war of some
kind are still kept alive by the Tibetans
They manufacture large quantities of
gunpowder, bows and arrows, swords,
and spears and set great store by their
physical courage They would rather be
considered robbers and thieves than
towards. One sees In Gyangtse gangs of
gigantic men humping their chests, slap
ping their thighs, and calling on the rab-
BILE to clear out of the way, as they fear
nobody. However, they quickly make
way themselves for an officer or a sepoy
belonging to the British mission
The wounded Tibetans discharged from
the English field hospital consider them
selves great heroes. and have nothing
but contempt for their comrades who ran
away. As matter of fact most of their
own wounds are in the back.
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THE SkYLARk.

By Hogg.
Bird of the wilderness,
Blithesome and cumberless,
Light be thy matin Ger moorland and leai
Emblem of happiness.
BLESSED is thy dwelling place.
Oh! to abide in the desert with thee!
Wild is thy lay and loud.
Far in the downy cloud;
Love gives it energy, love gave 1t birtn'
Where on thy dewy wing,
Where art thou journeying?
Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth
Ger fell and fountain sheen,
Ger moor and mountain green,
Ger the red streamer that heralds the day;
Over the cloudlet dim,
Over the rainbow's rim,
Musical cherub, HE, HE thee away!
Then when the cleaning comes,
Low in the heather blooms.
Sweet will thy welcome and bed Of love bel
Emblem of happiness!
Bless Is thy dwelling place!
Obi to abide in the desert with theal
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A very good piece of work, assure
fou, and merry.
--Midsummer Nights Dream.
SUFFRAGE LEGISLATION.

In an address before the American
Social Science convention, held in
Boston, r. Durham Moffat of the
New York bar discussed the suffrage
measures of the southern states.
Seven states have within a few years
adopted devices intended to avoid
the terms of the fifteenth amendment
and yet disfranchise the negro voters.
The seven states are Mississippi,
South Carolina, Louisiana, North Car
biina, Maryland, Alabama, and Vir-
ginia. The methods adopted range
sfrom educational devices to grand
'ather clauses, and some of the states
have adopted all known devices.
These attempts to disfranchse the
negro by lawful means involve the ma
ture of the ballot. 1t should not be
forgotten that the ballot is a privil-
eye, not right. Before the adoption
Of the fifteenth amendment state
Uas free to limit the ballot in any
manner, but the fifteenth amendment
says the right to vote shall not be de-
MED or abridged on account of race,
color or previous condition of seryi-
lude.
Mr.. Moffatt discusses the subject at
length, and he arrives at the conclu-
sion that the general governments
power in the premises is confined to
4 reduction in representation in con-
gress and in the electoral college
hat the federal jurisdiction does not
extend to a control over the suffrage
measures of the various states. He
reviews the Giles case involving the
validity of the suffrage article of the
Alabama constitution. This case was
dismissed by the United Supreme
court for want of jurisdiction. In the
light of all precedent Mr.. Moffat ar
rives at these conclusions:
''And now in conclusion may venture
70 express the opinion that under the
Eases as they stand today the suffrage
articles of these new constitutions do not
violate the guaranty of the fifteenth
amendment They certainly do not in
heir terms, and If impartially admin
stored, do not in result. Whether the
arbitrary and ridiculous classifcatlons
prescribed in connection with the re-
suirements for registration, mean the
. soldier clause and the grandfather
, clause may be held to be an attempted
exercise of a sovereign power which was
/ ienied TO the states by the equality
clause of the fourteenth amendment, is
1 more perplexng question. 1t is not
clear that they do not violate such pro-
5ision of the fundamental law, and GER
ainly Is not clear that they do"
Mr.. Moffat finds much in the "un-
lerstanding clause" that is objection
able, but even that clause cannot, he
thinks, ''be condemned as obnoxious
20 the fourteenth amendment, with
out a radical extension, under the fiat
power of the Supreme court, of the
hitherto recognized limitations upon
he right of federal interference; and
hat the court would so use its abso-
ute power is not to be presumed"
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From the New York Commercial
INTO a Baltimore drug store that stands
on a busy corner there walked the
1 other day man with an open watch
in his hand. He approached the proprietor
with that little smile which all men wear
who find that In some little detail they
excel their fellows.
SAY, Doc" said the man, insinuating-
ly, what's the matter with your timer
I've watched that clock in your window
for a week and 1t has been ten minutes
slow every day during that period"
'sh-h-h-hl' cautioned the drugstore
man; and like st. Nick, in THE Night Be-
fore Christmas" he laid his index finger
"astride of his nose" MY boy, that's
only one of the tricks of the trade.
"I don't tumble" rejoined the other
hopelessly.
well, l didn't expect you would came
the response from the pharmacist, as told
in a Baltimore newspaper. You're no
wiser than the rest of humanity; and II
humanity, or that large portion of it
WHICH, pdSseS lnlS corHeri tuihpieu ~
this little dodge of trade it would sim
ply be no good. But people don't catch
on, and so 1t works to perfection. Being
as you're a friend of the family, and
not likely to stand on the front streets
and shout 1t through a megaphone. I'll
just let you into the secret.
"You see, this corner is at the intersec-
ton of two very important streets; l
might even say it is at the junction of the
two great arteries of the city-that which
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Deum" and the e minor symphony
From the New World''-were first per-
formed in this country.
Dvorak was a master of coloring and
rhythmic invention, composer Of keen
poetic sensibility and imagination. His
bent was romantic, after the older man
ner of romanticism, although in such a
work as the New World Symphony
his most beautiful productiont-he ro-
manticism is admirably fresh and vital.
He was not a composer of the first order,
for he lacked in significance, in depth.
and in seriousness of subject-matter. But
he was. within his range, a musician of
individuality and sincere feeling.
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PIunoers Are Interested.

Men who place their money on the
ponies running on big race tracks in
various parts of the country are much
stirred up over the action of President
Clowry of the Western Union Telegraph
company cutting off the racing news SER
vice. said a man about town yesterday.
THE result has been to practically paral-
we the poolroom business in all parts
of the United States and large sums have
already been lost What will be the out
come for men who have been making a
good living by operating pool rooms is
rather hard to see 1t seems that the ac-
ton of Mr. Clowry is final and in that
case do not think the majority Of the
pool rooms put out of business will ever
be able to resume operations. Their only
recourse is the long distance telephone
which is practically out of the question
except for exchanges located near the
big race tracks.
mot only has the sporting fraternity
been upset by the sudden turn Of affairs,
but hundreds of telegraph operators and
others employed in the pool rooms have
been thrown out of employment and have
nothing to which they can turn their
hands. 1t is a well known fact that after
a man has worked in a turf exchange for
several years he is fit for little else.
IT understand that pool rooms III New
Orleans are making a desperate effort to
get the racing news over the wires of the
Western Union company in cipher code
but this Is very cumbersome for the OPP
orators and there is serious danger Of
some outside person getting ahead Of the
pool rooms and learning the results first.
As the Postal Telegraph company is not
equipped for handling racing news it
seems that the pool room business has
been dealt a death blow"
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TRICK WORKED ON THE
PUBLIC BY A DRUGGIST

connects the eastern and western sec
tions. and that which forms the main
highway of travel north and south. Car
lines which either pass or transfer to all
of the theatres in town go by this door.
There are several hotels within walking
distance. And the fashion of the whole
city gets in this vicinity with no great
infrequency. So the upshot of 1t all is
that a great many people have to stand
on this corner while waiting for change
of cars and many more pass here on
their way to and from various Important
places. Well. these people Will look up
at that clock which is ten minutes ear
lier than astronomical time. A good per-
centage of them will bethink them of
something which they want to purchase.
To this end not only the proper wares
of such a shop as this, but cigars to-
bacco, toilet articles, and other things
which humanity finds frequent need for
are displayed to advantage in these win
dows of ours. What is the result? The
nasserhv finds that he has a bit more
time at his disposal than he thought he
had. and that he wants something which
can be had at this emporium. He comes
in and buys that thing, and we have
made a sale which we would not have
made If we had allowed out clock to tell
the truth. Do you see the point?"
The man saw, and he feels that he has
received a valuable lesson in the ways of
shopkeepers. Also he says that in future
he will depend upon his own watch and
distrust the timepieces of all other hui
mans. but more especially of shopkeepers.
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Serum for Hay Fever.

From Harpers Weekly.
The treatment of hay fever by an anti
pollen serum has been successful in a
number Of cases, and in aslist of 2S5 patti
ents to which it he'd been given under
different circumstances and in different
recently complied in Germany.
go per cent. are reported as completely
relieved, 20 per cent. partial cures, and II
per cent. failures Hay fever rs supposed
to result from the pollen of various
plants, and the serum was prepared by
inoculating horses with this pollen. 1t
may be used in liquid or powdered form,
and is applied locally, no attempts hav-
ing been made as yet at subcutaneous in
lection. There is strong evidence to be-
lieve in the efficacy of the serum, and
in the majority of cases it was found pos
sible to relieve the patient and to shorten
materially the seizure Although 1t does
not, however, prevent a recurrence Of
the attack, 1t has great value as q
prophylactic.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Wearing of Stone stems.

Ibid you ever observe how the steps
of public buildings have been worn in
certain places by the constant passing
of pedestrians" said a gentleman of an
observant turn of mind. This is very
noticeable on the steps and the stairs of
the public buildings here, and a glance
will reveal from what direction the
greater number Of people come The deep
path worn in the stone entrance to the
courthouse on Twenty-first street in
dictate the larger percentage of people
passing that way are from the south,
and the worn stones at the Third ave-
nue. entrance evidence the fact that most
of the people entering there come from
the west of Twenty-hrst street.
quite a history is revealed in the
worn steps and stairs of the courthouse
to the man who reads sermons in stones,
or is Of an Imaginative turn of mind.
People Of every class. representatives of
every condition in life enter this build
ing and pass up the broad stairs. The
judge goes up to his court, the prisoner
is marched to the bar of Justice, and
receives sentence for his transgressions,
the young attorney hastily mounts the
steps, nervous but filled with the i'm
portance Of his first case, the young man
goes up to pay his first tax, and comes
down with the increased dignity of a full
citizenship, and tho blushing maid some
times passes in to seal a life contract.
All assist In wearing away the hard
stone. The continual passing for many
years have left enduring Impressions and
the old steps hold inviolate many an in
terestine story"
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PRODUCING GOOD RESULTS.

From the Prattville Progress.
Judge Feagin's plan of arresting and
probating hayward boys of Birmingham.
especially negro boys, is said to be pro-
ducing good results. The arrests Of
juveniles in December last We're 60 in
number and each following month show
ed decrease; In April there were nine
arrests. The plan is good one. The
way to stop the growth of crime is to
head 1t off at the start Make the boy
useful and the man is likely to be so.
Allow him to grow up in unchecked va
grancy, and he will be continual charge
upon the criminal machinery Of the state.
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cULLoM, BoNNET-EATER.

Springfield, ILL.,, correspondent New York
Suna
Senator Cullom finds 1t difficult to for
get his early agricultural habits. At Sat-
urdays session of the republican conven-
ton a woman occupying a seat on the
platform took off her hat and laid it on
table near the senator One of the or
naments on the hat was large bunch of
wheat heads.
While bordering over the numerous
roll calls the senator took his penknife
from his pocket, cut off four inches of
wheat stalks and stuck them between
his teeth. The woman rescued her hat
before the senator had chewed up the
entire ornament.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Man proposes. the girl grabs him.
It's a neat ankle that has no turning.
The less a man drinks the more money
he figures he could save if he drank more
and then cut it down.
A girl is always afraid of hurting her
first beau as if he were baby; then she
treats the others as if they were rag
dolls.
When girl is walking home carelessly
you can mostly always tell she is going
to turn off to meet somebody her mother
doesn't let CALL