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limo g.mes that i Flies First
is so difficult to stop uptown. And these
are not the kind of men toteH tales. 1t
is impossible for the police to get into a.
high-class game. No man ever entered
Canfield's who was not known to the
management or youched for by a careful
patron. When Reginald Vanderbilt
made his famous losing there he went
to great trouble to keep out of the state
until a court had ruled under the law
a man was not obliged to testify that he
had gambled. The man in whose case
that ruling was made was Lewisohn, a
broker. 1t is the instinct On the other
hand, mercantile-sfirm make it the
strongest kind of rule that no one con-
nected with them shall ever enter a
gambling house. Itis different stand
ard. The broker class takes life easily,
and has few scruples.
: There are 1,100 members of the New
York stock exchange alone. These
with their families and servants would
make village of 10000 people. The
consolidated exchange, the few hun
dreds of energetic curb brokers, the
produce exchange, the coffee exchange
for coffee has an exchange of it's own
now and has recently been made the
excuse of a silly furry in prices-must
in all employ enough men to fill, with
their families, city as large as New
ark, N. J. But the members of the big
firms do not all have personal member
ship in the stock exchange, and of
course their clerks do not. All told, the
number of people who in New York live
upon business which is. at least five
sixths speculation is simply enormous.
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low his game who haven't the FORE
thought to give themselves annuities or.
&266 000 hhnrac 90 q x,rann ,.f ir,rE m, an

low his game who haven e the FORE
thought to give themselves annuities or.
$265, 900 houses as a precaution. Then.
the leader fails and the followers are
sold out because their margins are e1-
hausted. The leaders, friends unite to
help him on his feet again, but nobody
goes about taking up collections for the
little traders who went down with him.
|I It's quite another thing if you have
real cotton to sell. In the south the
name of Sully is greeted with enthusi-
asm In Wall street it leaves bad taste
IN the mouth. Letters busted" wheat
corner some years ago was viewed in
somewhat differently contrasted light
In the country that raises wheat and in
the city that CANDLES in it without know
ing just what it is like. ..
1t frightens an old New Yorker to see
how trade gives way here to gambling.
1 nave never. seen a time when the har-
Dor was so bare of ships. The port
charges, laid in Tweed's time and never
changed, are ruinous. The captain of a
tramp steamship gets orders to take his
cargo anywhere but to New York." and
the return cargo of grain is waiting him
Wherever he goes. Newport News, Gal
weston, Baltimore, Boston, Portland, are
all gaining at the expense of the metrop-
oils. Tardily, the board of trade has
recently walked up to the need Of fighting
the railroad freight t*differentials" by
which New York has for a generation
seen other ports favored at her expense
by railroad managers who mostly live
IN New York and call themselves. pub
lic-spirited citizens. /.
The great steamship lines still use
the port, but with them the convenience
OF passenger traffic and the needs of fine,
fast, high-paying freights rule. The
cargo boats that carry the slow freight
have left the city, very largely to it's un-
progresslveness. This is the real mean
Ing OF the late-taken decision to i'm
prove the Erie canal. The city at last is
getting scared.
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used Dy the agrl- AooA''s 'oI ou''o-
cultural depart 'Ne 0''e
ment 1t was provided that it should
be situated in the Mall near the pres
ent department and the selection of
the site has been left with the secre-
tary of agriculture, who has caused a
sensation by picking ont place which
will cut off a large portion of the vista
between the Washington monument
and the capitol that. has been one of
the greatest beauties of Washington
for hundred years. If congress could
get at the, thing it would pass a law,
with little or no opposition, which
would prevent the location of the new
building in the place selected by the
secretary and would compel it to be
nsDved back hundred feet or so, thus
saving an architectural blunder which
could never be remedied But Speaker
Cannon refuses to let any bill of this
kind come up in the house and Repre-
sentative Powers, who has introduced
the bill, finds himself helpless, So do
the senators who are deeply interested
in the matter. a., ,
'.'Uncle Joe" has an aversion for ar
chitects and all their works. He is es-
pecially out-of-sorts with the scheme
of the so-called park commission,
which would fix permanently the archi-
tectural development of the city along
the lines of L'enfant, the French genius
who first laid out the map of the cap
ital. He is filled with indignation
whenever he thinks of the work OF
Architect McKim. which has made the
white house a thing of beauty, and he
is determined that so long as he has
anything to say about it the architects
shall not be given any further leeway
in the development of the city.
"Uncle Joe" is in a decided minority
numerically. in this position, but it
happens to be about the only one in
which the great majority of congress
does not gladly follow his lead so that
he is likely to have his own way about
it so long as he remains at the head
of the house.
In the meantime Secretary Wilson
will doubtless go ahead with his plan
and will erect on the Mall a magn1f-
cent public building, which will de-
stroy for all time one Of the most ex
traordinary attractions Of the capita,
from an artistic point Of view. z=*
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE
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its great Importance first under Speak
er Reed with the adoption of the new
rules of the house, under which all the
most important legislation was enacted
under special orders adopted by the
committee, of course with the speaker =
approval. Under Reed the rules COM
mittee was kept busy all the time. In
the Fifty-frst congress Cannon and
Mckinley were the majority members
of it.
When Reed came back to the speak
ership he had with him Henderson and
"DalZell. Under Henderson the other
republicans on the committee were
Dalzell and Grosvenor, and they are
now Cannon's associates, but it is no.
ticeable that these two members who.
with Henderson. were regarded as the
whole thing are not seen in the speak
er's room now nearly as often as some
of the younger members of the house
who, under the old regime, were not
highly regarded by the powers in con-
troll
Speaker Cannon is getting to lean
more and more upon Hemenway of In
diana and Tawney of Minnesota, one of
whom, now chairman of the appropria-
ton committee, was in the last con-
gress of Importance only as Cannon s
lieutenant, and the other Of whom was
regarded as Kicker" altogether out
of favor with the men in control. For
that matter. Cannon himself was out
side the breastworks and, nothing but
his powerful individuality and his po-
sition as chairman OF, the appropria-
tions. committee. which could not be
we'll taken away from him, gave him a
position of standing and influence in
the house.
AS for the committee on rules it has
had very little~to do during the present
session. 1t has hardly been necessary
to bring in a special order for the pur-
pose of putting through any measure
OF Importance, and without special or
ders the committee on rules becomes
a somewhat superfuous body. =.
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house will adopt the committees re-
port. If this happens the house will
present the case to the senate and then
will follow trial which may occupy
the senate for weeks.
The. last case of impeachment was
that of Secretary Belknap in the Grant
administration. The house of repre-
sentatives in 1876 voted to impeach
Belknap, but before the trial came to
conclusion in the senate, Belknap re-
signed from his position as secretary
of war and that was the end of it, al
though question arose as to whether
the resignation of government Official
could properly be accepted in such
circumstances.
The most famous impeachment case
is that of Andrew Johnson in the For
tieth congress, the result of which ev-
erybody is supposed to know. John-
son was impeached by the house, but
after a long trial the senate failed to
convict him, the vote standing 35 ayes
to 10 noes, one less than the two-thirds
majority required by the constitution.
The first impeachment case was that
of William Blount, United States sena-
tor from Tennessee. He was impeached
for violating the neutrality laws of the
United States in instigating the Creeks
and Cherokees to aid the British IN
conquering the Spanish territory of
western Florida. He was found guilty
and expelled on July 8, 1897, but during
the trial he was elected to the state
senate of Tennessee and chosen its
president
All other impeachment cases have
affected federal judges, as follows:
John Pickering, district Judge of New
Hampshire, 1803-04; Samuel Chase, as
sociate justice of the supreme court of
the United States, 1804-O5; James Peck,
United States district Judge for Mis-
souri,, 1826-1821; West w. Humphreys,
United States district judge for Mis-
souri,, 1861.
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The Graeco-Roman chariot in the
Metropolitan museum of art, New
York, one of the new exhibits, has ex-
cited great interest among artists and
archaeologists. Its preservation was
due to the fact that it was buried by
the ashes of Vesuvius: Many other
treasures were found in the same
neighborhood, some of which Baron
Rothschild bought and presented to
the Louvre. The chariot in question
is two-wheeled, and is perhaps, the
rarest in the world.
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London is offered monorails as a
solution Of the traffic problem Two
schemes, each costing over $4,000, 900,
have been prepared by F. B. Berhe, in
ventor of the monorall system, which
it is proposed to construct between
Manchester, Liverpool and London.
The schemes were laid before the traf-
fic commission. One consists of r.
mile overhead line, costing $500,0OO
per mile, from the Royal Oak to the
Albert and Victoria docks, via Cam
den town, with branch lines to Willes-
den, Stepney and Limehouse.
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Whales that swim about the islands
which lie off the coasts of Norway
and Finland in March and April travel
immense distances. In May they turn
up at the Azores, or even in~the Ber-
mudas, and sometimes pay visit to
the Antilles. They swim fast, for in
June they are back again off Norway.
Some of these whales have been
known to bring back evidences Of
where they have been, for harpoons of
the peculiar kind used off the coast Of
South America have been found stuck
in them.
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were even then peac'1"e1''
senators. Blackburn of Kentucky,
Hale and Frye of Maine, Money of Mis-
sissippi, Hoar of Massachusetts and
Platt of New York were members of
the house. Speaker Cannon is the only
member of the house of representatives
whose service dates back so far as the
Belknap trial. Senator Hoar, now
chairman of the judiciary committee,
was one of the managers on the part
of the house.
Should the case come before the SEN
ate great interest will be taken in the
proceedings on account of their novel
ty, if for no other reason. After the
action. by the, house a committee, ap-
pointed by the house, will proceed to
the bar of the senate and there i'm
peach Judge Swayne of high crimes
and misdemeanors- while in Office and
inform the senate that formal articles
Of impeachment will be presented: This
committee will be announced BY the
sergeant at arms, will proceed to the
area in front of the desk Of the presi-
dent of the senate. will make it's an
nouncement and will demand that the
senate take order for the appearance
of Judge Swayne to answer the ito
peachment. The senate will appoint
committee, to which the message of
the house will be referred. The house
will appoint managers to- conduct for
1t the impeachment proceedings and
these managers will proceed to the
senate where, after taking seats as
signed, one of them will read the arti-
cles of impeachment. The president OF
the senate will then dismiss them, will
set a day for trial and will give due
notice to the managers.
On the day set for trial the CHIEF
justice of the supreme court will be
brought into the senate by a commit
tee appointed for the purpose and will
there administer to the senators an
oath that they will, do impartial jus.
tice according to the laws The house
will then be formally notified that the
senate is organized for the, trial anG
the house managers will be admitted
Judge Swayne will appear st the bal
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man he was able to How w. R. Grace
finance a 100000 came ONE" YORK
900 loan for the country which he en-
tered in such a humble capacity; and
to take a commanding place in trade,
politics and finance in the other South
American countries. It was long a joke
on South street whenever rebellion
broke out in any Central Or South
American country that Grace was back
ing one side and Charles R. Flint the 9TH
er. And that was not always wholly
imaginary.
The Grace firm was a family affair
Mr. Grace's brother Michael is the head
of the. London branch, and his beautiful
daughters are famous in London society
as the "three Graces." Two sons and a
son-in-law divide the labor of directing
houses in Callao, Lima, Santiago, Para,
Conception, Valparaiso, San Francisco,
The very names breathe the romance of
:rade.
Grace's name is reminder that New
York democracy did not always trail
at Tammany's heels He was elected
mayor once by a deal with Tammany,
once against Tammany. It was while
he was mayor that William G. Whitney
was corporation counsel, the beginning
of his political career: Whitney had, in
fact, three successive careers-in law, in
politics. in business; was successful in
all, and died almost young man.
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The American missionary board,
which was organized at Bradford,
Mass, June 20, 1910. did not receive
it's charter until 1912, the year in
which it's first missionaries sailed for
1ndfn. Since that time it has COM
missioned 1884 persons-949 men and
1,435 women. The total amount Of
money received for the board from
its beginning until now is $34,431,-
25551
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OldCe came 10 New
York as a cabin
boy. He had run
a W ay from his
home near Queens
town, Ireland. His
family, who were
well-to-do, recog-
nized' the adven-
turous nature of
the boy and, got
him a place as
clerk in a firm in
Callao, Peru. Be-
fore Grace was 21
he was a partner.
Before he was an old
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Maj. Charles Gantz, of Fairfield, Ia,
is believed to be the smallest man in
the United States, if not in the world,
for he weighs but 80 pounds and is
only 1S inches in height. He is now
about So years of age. He has good
common school education, writes a
very good plain and legible hand, is a
remarkably fine business man, a good
trader, and is quite we'll to do, owning
a number of farms and much town
property. He has travelled extensive
ly, been economical and saved money.
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In the Smithsonian report on scien-
tilic work for 1902 Prof Langley re-
marks that when the bolometer was
invented, some 20 years ago, it was
able to measure temperature to about
one onehundredth-thou of a
degree. Since then the instrument
and its adjuncts have been so far i'm.
proved that temperature can now be
measured to less than one One-hun-
dredth- millionth of degree, readily
and with precision.
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In Germany, where indictments are
not made by grand juries, and where
there is no habeas corpus act, it has
some times happened that innocent
people have been confined in Jail for
many months. The imperial bundles
rat is now considering bill providing
for the awarding of damages to any
innocent person who may be forced to
serve time in Jail.
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V1gor. The diff
culties of keeping
New York free
from g a m b l i n g
are = increased. by
many circu um .
stances. There are
apt to be a hun
dred t h o u s a n d
strangers here at
any one time. The
brokers who gam
BILE all day in the
gre a t exchanges
are by common
consent the best
patrons at night of
the smaller .ganb-
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Among the many novel suggestions
made for the revival of recruiting for
the British army is one that the SOL
dier stay in barracks only a part of
the year-say two months-and the
rest of the time he reside where he
might choose, "going to his work" .ev-
cry day, like any ordinary mechanic
or laborer; also that when he had done
his work for the day he be allowed to
wear civilian clothes, just as police do.
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y l { Z Z u T IL l, dl
though several
members of that
body are familiar
with the procedure
against Secretary
Belknap through
the fact that they
were in one or the
other branches of
congress at the
time. Teller of
Colorado, Allison
of Iowa. Cockrell
of Missouri, and
Mitchell of Oregon
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Of the senate and will answer to the
articles Of impeachment by counsel,
after which the trial will proceed as in
other trials with arguments by cou1-
sci and testimony Of witnesses At the
conclusion of the trial each senator
will answer guilty or not gnilty as the
case may be. r.. ~s
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Where D'you spose passed in effectiye-
ness even on the
platform by more earnest though often
less polished men. In the practical
work OF management he has been mag
nlhcent figure-head; Platt has been, un-
I'll recently, the real power Now Platt
himself is back number. "a
That, brutally stated, is the net result
OF the new truce arranged between Platt
and Odell.. Gov. Odell says that he has
Deen repeating on an average once a
month for long time that Platt can be-
the leader" as long as he lives and
wishes the title. Odell is the chairman
OF the state committee; is the dispenser
OF patronage; is the real power.
odell is heavily built, middle-aged,
deep-chested, with powerful chin, dull
eyes, sagging cheeks. He speaks plain
~ without a sign of the oratorical
graces. Platt is an old man and rather
feeble, very slender, speaks in a rather
thin voice, has even less ability to sway
men from platform than Odell. And
ne is out of power. Odell could have pre-
vented PlaSt's reelection at the last va
cancy had he wished. It is said that he
has often regretted his good nature in
not filing Platt's place by friend of
his own. He will not run for the gov
ernorship again; and he tells his friends
that he has no desire to be- "chloro-
formed upon his retirement from Of
ice.
This 20 taken to mean that Mr.. Odell
desires the senatorship. ,
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The demand in Germany for eels is
SO large that arrangements have been
made by German firm to start an eel
ing fishery in the Nile delta. The eels
will be cleaned, salted and put into
casks there, with ice and antiseptic
formalin. 1t is expected that 10000
eels week will be shipped soon.
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There are in Korea A Roman Cath
oiic churches or chapels, with one bish.
op and 81 priests, of whom II are ma
tives. There are several houses of re-
ligious women and a seminary in
which 33 young men are preparing for
ordination. In Seoul there is a cathe-
d.ral. About $4,000 of the population
are Catholic In 1902 there were bap-
tized 5,S07 adult pagans and over t..
600 children.
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State Fair Races.

The Minnesota State Fair association
has arranged an unusually strong list
of races for the fair that begins Aug:
20 and closes Sept. 3.
On Monday there is the 2:35 class
trotting for a purse of $4,000 and the:
2:09 pacing race for 81 900. 49,.
Tuesday, the St.. Paul purse of SIS, 900
for PAGERS and the 2:45 trotting class
for purse of 81, 900. Also a. silver cup
is offered for Minnesota PAGERS driven
by owners.
Wednesday cones the 2:17 trotting
race and the 1924 pacing race for 81, 900
each. !.
Thursday the 2:1s pacing and the
1925 trotting races, both for 81, 900
purse.
Friday the Minneapolis purse of S.
600 is offered for the .2:21 trotters, and
the 2:40 pacing race for 81 1000.
Saturday the 2:12 trotting race and
the $3.50 pacing race for 81 900 and s2,
500 respectively.
On each day there will be running
races for good purses, including nov
city race.
Secretary E. w. Randall will be glad
to furnish particulars regarding en-
tries, and other information.
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been a strong fig
ure in politics. His
considerable ora
torical talent has
put him forward as
a spokesman upon
political occasions;
he. has been for
years familiar as a
speaker at nation
al conventions and
as an after-dinner
speaker is almost
as we'll known in
London as New
York. But he has
always been sur
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secretary of. agri-
culture in the not
very long list, but
there are a great
many people in
Washington who
think that as an
architect and land
scape gardener he
is a dismal failure.
The last con-
gress made an ap-
pro pri a t ion of
about three mil
lion dollars for a
new building to be
,,sed bv the agri-
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over by any means.
It is, first of all,
"a moral problem,
A. man goes into a
game in which
failure sooner or
later is almost Ger
tain, as all past
history S h o " S
While he still has
plenty of money
On paper he gives
his wife a house
worth S265 900 and
. settles upon her
other. gifts of per-
haps- half a mill
lion. He also
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be tried by the
United States SEN
ate sitting as a
court of impeach-
ment. The judi
ciary committee of
the house. has
voted to recon-
mend to the house
the impeachment
of Judge Charles
Swayne, of the
northern federal
district of Florida,
and there is little
9-1>A A1A ~
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who is now Mrs.
B e | m ont is a
freshman in. Har-
ward. Among his
classmates there
are two sons of the
present Mrs. Will
liam X. Wander
bilt. !
- Society is full of
such humorous lit
tie ironies. One
secret of it's break
ing up into little
cliques-one :rea-
son why Newport,
! for the first time in
hQ1f a .1ar<r,v,r e.
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managers of the
republican, .majori-
ty in the house.
The committee on
rules has :, fallen
into innocuous des-
uetude in. STRIKING
contrast to it's au-
tOcratic perform
,ances under the
administrations OF
Speakers r. e e d
Crisp and Hender-
son.
The committee
-~~T~ 4
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A European writer has discovered
that each city has it's own peculiar
odor. Paris is pervaded by a faint
odor of charcoal. London smells of
SCOT. The aroma of garlic greets the
new arrival at Calais. Moscow has a
perfume of it's own, cranberries of Pc
culiar pungency. St. Petersburg sug-
gests old leather boots.
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MINI ES O!T'A NEWS.
Cheese.

- 4- : 80! x : J. 7
As means Of encouraging the cheese,
industry in Minnesota the state dairy
and food. commission will begin on
May 1, a six. months cheese contest,E
Prizes will .be offered each month to
the three cheesemakers getting the.
highest scoreand at the end Of the com
test.to those making the best record
for the six months %
The. details Of the plan have not been
decided, but the cheese will probably
be scored in ST. Paul and H. E. Vro-
man, cheese expert Of the commission,
will probably have charge of the con-
test. Commissioner w. w. P. Neon
nell, will soon issue a circular. giving
instructions for sending the cheese and
further details regarding the contest.
i Five qualities will be observed in
testing the cheese. They are: flavor,
texture, salt, color and style. Regard
ing flavor Inspector Vroman says:
'Cheese should not have sharp taste,
SO as to bite the tongue, but be of a
mild, pleasant, lasting taste" Texture
is the~nextimportant quality. If cheese
crumbles too easily or sticks to the
fingers, its texture is faulty. When
cheese isput in good sty]e,' the
bandage is neatly trimmed around the
edge, there are no spots of rind and
the surface is spri7gy.