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At the time Of Lord K1TCHENER's great
victory at Omdurman the yearly revenue
Of the Sudan was only 5000 pounds Egyp-
tiAn. For 1904 il was estimated at 400 900
pounds Egyptian, but it actually reached
$4,000 pounds Egyptian. As only six
years Of peaoeable British-Egyptian govern
ment Of that great province have
elapsed, this seventy-twofold increase is
marvellous. Moreover, It has been accom-
plished, as Lord CRoMER says in his annual
report, with the adoption Of very light
system Of taxation, very easily collected
throughout the country Lord CBoMER
says further:
In oriental Administration low taxation should
be the keystone OF the political arch. II brings
general tranquility In It's train II IL an essential
preliminary 10 steady and continuous moral and
material improvement II develops revenue"
Lord CRoMER's success as the British
colonial administrator in Egypt, amid the
most trying circumstances and conditions,
lends great force TO his words. There is
a very obvious lesson for us in what he
says, in connection with our similar work
in the Philippine Islands.
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WANT POLISH BISHOPS HERE.
ArohbiShop symOn Coming From Rome
70 Make InHestiEation.

to Make InvestlgStiOn.
One hundred and fifty Polish priest 9
from all parts Of the United States will
arrive here this week to meet Archbishop
Francis Alhin symon. the Polish prelate
who IL coming here 10 investigate for the
Vatican authorities the condition Of the
Catholic Poles In the United States.
This visit is the result Of the mission
to Rome a year ago Of the Rev Wenoeslaus
Kr1skA Of Ripon, Wis, a. the representative
Of the Catholic Poles TO insist on having
Polish btshops nominated for places In
the American hierarchy. This plan has
English speaking Bishopa, and the whole
controversy will be opened anew by the
advent here Of Archbishop symon. He Is
Archbishop Of Alfalfa, residing In home
~ one Of the ofiicials OF the Olria.
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I wish that IN the last week up IN the mountains
there had been a llttle more weather like this, 10
there had been think we would have gone about
two bears better. But still, as got ten do not
think We have any right TO cOmplain.-P feEidsni
RoosEvELT's sunday speech al GlenuOod Spraes
Nevertheless, these two bears will be
regretted by Mr.. ROOSEVELT as long as he
lives. It's always the bears that get away
that weigh most.
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Dinner 70 Amhn,,ador Reid.

Afarewell dinner win be rendered TO White
law Reid American Ambassador 20 Great
Britain, by bis fellow members Of thu Re
publican Club Of the city OF New YORK o.,
Tuesday evening. May %. The dinneT
be served in the dining hall Of the new
clubhouse, In West Fortieth street.
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Friedrich Schiller

Germans throughout the world COM
memorate to-day the hundredth ami
versary of the death of their most popu-
lar and, perhaps, greatest national poet
SCHILLER for a hundred years, certainly
until the gloom Of the Scandinavian
problem play fog settled on the father
land, was the poet of the German home
In school boys and girls learned his bal
lads and lyrics by heart, and his dramas
were such az the young person might
see without detriment. GOETHE, 10 be
sure, was greater, but only men and
grown women could read him, and as
for HEINE, Germany has not forgiven
him yet.
There are better reasons, however,
why SCHILLER should appeal more
strongly to his countrymen than his
great comrade of Weimar. GOETHE s
Olympic serenity enabled him to pass
through the critical time Of the French
Revolution and Germany's humiliation
without writing a word about it. SCHIL-
LER was thoroughly human and Of his
own time; in his first prose plays he
gave expression TO the hatred Of despot-
ism and the desire for freedom that
France was to crafty later; he never
lost the feeling for nationality, and in his
last poetic dramas, "Wallenstein' and
wilhelm TELL he dealt nobly with
thorough German themes. There is
no trace Of lack Of feeling for his country
or for mankind in him, while the purity
of his ideals and the melody Of his verse
have kept him in women's hearts.
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ruomeIal Iuvfation 70 Buy IN, T.lLi.nd,

TO TIE EDITOR or The suN-.Sfr, Now that
EnFlAnd's navy has retired from South American
waters and the usefulness OF the Falkland Islands
70 her having zone, would II not be good move
on the part OF the United states 10 purchase these
islands,
Great Britain would doubtless be only too glAd
70 obiige "her greatest colony"
LONDON. April "a. WILLIAM H. Cross
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w,e mat horrid hun chased m m s-r,u1' Of
my hat what ar s0u going % do anna
Husaahi-I don't ka3g. ! caat ask ban 70
rtrn out Ard havr one on me.
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Tr,de With New zeaIsnd .

New Zealand newspapers In March oon-
tanned the following Advertisement:
Freights from New YORK 10 all New zealand ports
on all classes OF merchandise, nfteen shinlngs per
ton.
That Is the way 10 Increase American eN-
ports, as the rate IA only from one-thlrd 20
three fourths Of the varying rates charged
on shipments from British ports
There has been a most marked Increase IN
our eVports to New zealand during the past
few years. See the figures Of 1896 and 1903:
1905 G.70o, no
is7S.tS
Increase MN SbS
The wellington correspondent OF the Lon
don Times saws:
Competition between British shIpownsrs for the
carrying trade from New York 70 New Zealand ls
directly responsible for this colony's increased
trade with the United States.
In these DAYS Of apparent listlessness among
American exporters. Il Il encouraging 20 have
the oorrespondent say further:
Every advantage OF cut rates Of freight has been
taken by the energetic American manufacturer;
C. l. T. quotations have been showered over the
colony. and many American products obtained a
footing In the colony's market that otherwise would
not have done 90. In 1924 the United states Of
America occupied the position Of fourth importing
country 10 New Zealand: she now stands second
20 the mother country,
This case shows what can be done with
ships, but without ships Of our own we are
at the mercy Of foreign shipowners To-
day they are fGhting each other, cutting
ra.es, and We beneht. To- morrow, as has
happened more than once in the New Zealand
trade. they may be In accord. and we suffer.
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Mother-WhAt. a divorce alreadyt
Young Bnde-Yes. d-dessrtion. d Dick has been
away t.ten whole hourS.
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The Tlmm any Five.

In assuming that the five Tammany
Senators whose votes killed the seventy
five cent gas bill did not follow instruc-
tons from headquarters, the Boss OF the
organization remarks;
As to those senators who voted against the BILL
the people will take care Of them
Mr.. MURPHY says he urged the Tam
many Senators again and again to vote
for seventy-hve or eighty cent gas, and
instructed GRADY, the eminent Mentor
Of the delegation, to see that the measure
was supported.
Yet somehow they repudiated the So
lieitous Mr. MURPHY, ignored the pa
tent and efficient Mr.. GRADY and went
in block Of five TO PAT MCCARREN.
There must be some trouble either with
GRADY's leadership or with MURPHY's
manner of using the telephone as an
instrument of urgency.
We note that the Democratic plurali-
ties by which these Ave Tammany Sena-
tors were elected last year range from
two 10 nine thousand in their respective
districts, To be exact, the pluralities
are as follows:
M.-FIrEoERALD' ...,..'-,.................... 500
Ai.-FoLhr zoIS
NXi.-HAwKINs. s-ses
5lll.-AARTrN.. AN
N-RIoRDAH. b'l59
This shows not so much the political
strength and personal worthiness Of the
FIVE statesmen as the strength Of Tam
many in the five districts in electing the
candidates who are put up for office by
the powers that be within that powerful
organization.
Rather better, therefore, than leaving
the guilty ones to the tender mercies Of
their constituents, as Mr.. MURPHY sug-
gests, might be some special attention at
headquarters 20 their cases before the
next nominations are made in the Tenth,
Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Twen-
ty-frst Senate districts.
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Philadelphia Bulletin.1
On the points Of the barbed wire
fence little dead birds were impaled !;
an odd, cruel thing to see.
Whoever did this" shouted the
city man, deserves"
But, even as he spoke, good'Sized
shrke flew past him, with something
small and dark in its strong claws.
The shrike paused at the barbed wire
fence, and, lowering over it, suddenly
thrust out its burden at one Of the
barbs. The burden was a small dead
bird, and the shrike's vigorous thrust
spitted it securely on the fence. The
wire spike was planted deep and firm
in its small, soft breast.
There is your criminal" said the
farmer. "He is shrike, a butcher
bird, and he has modern mind. Nc
Chicagoan is reader to adopt new
ideas than he.
1.-THE shrike, since time began, has
killed small birds and impaled them
on thOrns.
"No sooner, though, did the harbed
wire fence appear than, deserving the
thorn trees, the shrike began to use
the spikes of WIRE to hang his kills on.
Thus he showed a readiness to adopt
new ideas which they who sneer at
the automobile or the motor boat
might we'll initiate. Nowadays all
shrikes use barbed wire fences for
their larders. lie would be an old
fashioned and antiQuate bird who
should stick to larder hooks Of thorn. "
The farmer laughed. Another
shrike flew up and impaled little bird.
moment later a third shrike came and
withdrew a bird.
Wonderful" said the city man
Wonderful and cruel"
"And progressive" added the farm
err.
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F., 4. AND p. BBANOR.

f., u. AND p. BBANOR.
ARRIVES.
No. 62.-From Morgant'n. 6:55A. NJ,
No. 66.-From Morgant'n. 7:50A. NJ.
No. 6Q,-Pittsburg Accom'n Loo 2. "a,
No. 2,-Pittsburg Accom'n 1920 P. M.
No. 4.-Pittsburg Accom'n 9:40P. IA.
No. H.-From Pittsb'g.... 9;40P. NJ.
DEPARTS
No. 1.-Pittsbdrg Accom'n 500 A. NJ.
No. 3.-Pittsburg Accom'n 1850 A. n.
No. H-Connellsville Ac'm 2:25 P. N,
No. 69.-For Morgantown 900 P. M.
Nos. 2, 3, 4 and g. daily except
Sunday; Nos. A and Sc Sunday only,
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RAILROADS..

DASSENGER trains Will arrive u
i and depart from Fairmont on the
following schedule on and after May
81, 1905:
WEST BOUND.
No. 7,-Chicago Express. 2:A A. N,
No. H-Wheeling Accom-
mediation. 49,. TAT a. NJ.
No. T.-Wheeling Accom-
modatlGn.".... 1907. ".
No. 6.-Wheeling & Gin
cinnati Express. 7:30 ?. d.,
No. 5.-Grafton Accom-
modatiOn....... $3.50 P NJ,
EAST BOUND.
No. 8,-New York, Balti-
more and Wash
ington Express. 1928 A. N.
No. ITERATION Accom'n 10:s1 \. u,
No. 1i.-New York, Bslti-
more and WASH
ington Express. 220 P, N.
No. 4.-Grafton Accom'n $40 P. n.
No. 6-Cumberland Ac-
commodation. TOO A. M
Nos, 6 and 5 daily except Sunday.
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Mr.. Seldom, the Premier Of New hea-
land, announced in speech recently
that Japanese would not be allowed
to come to New Zealand, and that the
colony would refuse to be dictated to
in tie matter. This is in reference to
a circular from the British colonial
office, addressed to the colonists and
demanding the repeal of laws that are
repugnant 10 the feelings Of Nations
with which Great Britain is at peace.
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stand on. There was no flourish Of
ItrumDets about it, and yet there was
40 hesitation to come to the rescue Of
those whom he thought had been uR-
Justly assailed.
Duties Of Second Assistant.
Perhaps the most responsible part
of. the duties of the second assistant
postmaster general are those which
! lave to DO with the railway mail SER
vice, How important this is can be
imagined when it is shown that there
are 1883 lines of all kinds in operation
e. ! 11,G21 clerks and officials of all
kinds in this service alone. AS OIL.
ciaily described, the entire responsible.
ity Of the second assistant postmaster
general is given as follows:
"The division of railway adjustment
prepares cases, authorizing the trans.
portation OF mails by railroads, cable
and electric roads, wagons and pneu'
matte tubes in cities, and by mail mes
sengers, the establishment Of rail.
way postal car service, and changes in
existing service, prepares orders and
instructions for the weighing Of the
mails, receives the returns and com.
putes basis OF pay therefrom, prepares
cases for the adjustment of allowances
to railroads for carrying the mails and
for postal cars, and attends to all cor
respondence relating to these mat.
tiers.
"The division of contracts prepares
all advertisements inviting proposals
for star and steamboat service, re.
ceives the proposals, prepares orders
for the award Of contracts, attends to
the execution Of contracts, prepares
cases and orders for the establish.
meut of the new service or the
changes in existing service, attends TO
all correspondence relating thereto,
and prepares statistics and reports Of
mail service required by law.
THE division OF inspection Is
charged with the examination Of
monthly and special reports Of post
masters, as to performance Of mail
serviceby contractors and carriers, the
preparation. Of cases and orders for
deductions for nonperformancG Gt
service and for the imposition Of fines
for dellnquencies Of contractors and
carriers, of authorization for payment
Ct railway postal clerks, of certifica'
lions OF service to the auditor for the
postoflCe department, and the CORE
spondence relative to nonperformance
OF contract requirements for carrying
the mails.
THE division of mail equipment Is
charged with the preparation of ad
vertisementS inviting proposals for
furnishing mail bags. mail locks and
keys, label cases, and mail bag cord
fasteners; the receipt of proposals and
the preparation of contracts therefor.
the issuing of such articles for the use
OF the service, the repairing of the
same. the keeping of records and &C
counts, and the preparation Of all cor.
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respondence incident to these duties.

| respOndence incident to these dltleS.
THE division of railway mails has
charge Of the railway service and the
railway p0stoffice clerks, prepares fer
the second assistant postmaster ger.
eral cases for the appointment, remov
al, promotion and reduction of said
clerks, conducts the correspondence
and issues the orders relative to NOV
ing the mails on railroad trains, has
charge Of the dispatch and distribu.
ton of mail matter in railway post
Office cars and postoflces and conducts
the weighing of mails when ordered.
The division of foreign mails has
charge OF all foreign postal arrange
ments Except those relating to the
money order SYSTEM, including the
repatriation of postal conventions and
the regulations for their execution, as
well as the consideration OF questions
arising under them, and conducts the
correspondence relative thereto both
with foreign governments and private
citizens. 1t also has the supervision Of
the ocean mail steamship service in
al its details, including the settle
lnent of the accounts with steamship
companies for the conveyance of mails
from the United States TO foreign
countries"
This description of the duties Of the
second assistant postmaster general
must have been taken from the stat
utCs, and it conveys but vague idea
of the responsibilities which fall to
him. Some hint is conveyed in the
suggestion that he has to arrange for
l ostal conventions with foreign gov
rrnments and for the ocean steamship
service, as no other officer of the gov.
eminent is thus given what in effect
amounts TO the negotiation of treaties
with foreign governments 1t seems
almost a usurpation Of the functions Of
the State Department, but Of course
there is the closest cooperation be-
tween the two branches of the service.
Under the second assistant is a YER
liable army of men of the highest skill
and unusual mental attainments.
There are more than 10000 postal
clerks with wonderfully developed
memories and highstrung nerves
Each of these men travels hundreds OF
miles every year in the most danger
GUS portion Of the great mail trains
which swing back and forth across
mountains and valleys and hills from
ocean to ocean. They are high-strung
and nervous, and though Of more than
average intelligence they are the
harder to control and work with. One
of their own number has admitted
their temperaments and mental attl-
tude when ne suggests, Most OF US
are cranks living and all Of us die
cranks." Last year these clerks traV-
eled in all more than 365,OOO,OOO miles.
Just to realize how far that is wrap II
around the world a few score times.
Then when you get vague idea OF
the extent OF this. bear in mind tina.
the clerks nr the service handled lasL
YER no less than 17,132 ,S40,2SO pieces
Of mail. !migne all of these, weigh
ing over n million tons, and piled into
one big pile as big as the capitol at
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brary and covering ten city blocks in
st. Louis.
Some Big Figures Given.
The responsibility in the one branch
OF the railway mail serYice'is shown
by the fact that, under the second as
slstant, the sum Of $7O,4474S2 was
paid out for the carrying of the mails
Everything is systematlzed. That is
why the government reports show the
exact number Of packages and their
weight and bulk. Not only this, but &
system of fines and penalties against
the railroads and against the railway
mail clerks Is in vogue, which is de-
signed to insure careful and safe and
rapid delivery II all that is intrusted
to the mails. Down at the PostofEice
Department they will tell you that
last year 1.531,555 errors were made
by the railway mail clerks on the road.
Then they can turn to the files and tell
you how many were made at the diff
ferent postofFlces of the country and
what the percentage was and its rela-
ton TO the increase OF business is.
They can tell you another thing in the
Office of the second assistant, and that
IS that the people of the United States
are about as careless now in addressing
their letters as they were when the
POstOfice Department began TO oper-
ate. They can show you that errors
AID 1nisdirected letters and packages
keep pace with the increased business.
In spite of all that is said and preach
ed and boosted about, in the way Of
modern business advances, improved
facilities and improved methods and
the high intelligence of the people and
Of the clerical forces at the command
of the people Of the country, last year
25,9SG, 699 pieces Of mail were misdi-
Iected. They either went astray or
had to be handled with special Consld-
Grafton ana expertness, with view
10 determining for whom they were
Intended, as the addresses did not
show.
That there has never been a ques-
ton as to Mr.. ShalIenberger's hand
ling of the mails is the more to be
made note of in view of the direct re-
lations which he bears toward the rail
roads of The country. 1t cannot be
said with truth that the railroads are
more corrupt ard constituencies than
other great aggregations of capital
handling public utility, but those
who have heard so much about rail-
road Hobbies and railroad debauchery of
legislatures and that sort of thing, sell
dom stop to think that one official OF
the government controls, with an ar
bitrary and all-pOwerful hand, millions
of revenue for the railroads and deter
mines under authority OF the statutes
what the compensation of every mail
CARRYING road of the United States
shall be in the four-year period follow
ing each experimental weighing Of the
mails.
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washington. the Congressional Ii.
brary and covering ten city blocks in
st. Louis.
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ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
Six Months, SO Cents.

THE TWICE-A.WEEK AMERICAN
is published in two issues, Tuesday
and Friday mornings, with the news
Of the week in compact shape. 1t also
contains interesting special CORE
spondence, entertaining romanCes.
good poetry, local matter of general
interest and fresh miscellany suitable
for the home circle, A carefully edit
ed Agricultural Department and full
and reliable Financial and Market
Reports are special features.
See clubbing arrangements in other
parts Of the paper
Entered at the Postofice at Baltl,
more, Md, as second-class matter.
April 10, 1904.
CHAs. G. FULTON & CO.,
FELIX AGNUs, Manager and Pub
Usher.
American once, Baltimore, Nd.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

J. M. Hartley, Hon. A. B. Fleming,
BENZ. D. Fleming, VIM. E Watson,
Jos. E. Sands.
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Lake Titicaca, the highest navlga-
BILE lake in the world, is to be tapped
for electric power to run the Peruvian
railroads and to supply a sufficient sur
plus, 1t is believed, to enable Peru to
take prominent place among the
countries.
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We shall observe the Golden Rule
and MEAT you as we would wish to
be met"
C,B, & a. B. MASON,
Prop. South Side Meat Market.
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The Peoples Bank OfFaiF-
mont.
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U, s. G. Meriheld, Jefferson street..
near Jackson, fine shoe repairing;
new work q specially. ..
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# you see it IN the West Vlrginlaa
70 50.
The Ward County independent., 1905-11-08
CONTEST NOTICE.

Department of che Interior. United States
Land Office, Minot N. D., Sept. g, 1906.
sufficient contest affidavit having been
filed in this office by Ole Norheim, contestant,
against homestead entry No. 1880, made NOV.
Ia, 1902. for sls neA na seA section 10, township
l5l n, range IS W, by John A. Jefferson. con-
testee, in Which it is alleged that said entry:
man has wholly abandoned said tract of land
for period of more than six months since
making said entry and next prior to the date
hereof; that he has wholly failed to establish
his residence upon said land or to improve, or
cultivate the same in any manner, and that
tho same remains in its natural state, wholly
abandoned and unimproved, and that said al
legged absence was not due to his employment
in the army. navy or marine corps OF the United
States as a private soldier, ofhcer, seaman or
marine, during tho war with Spain, or during
any other war in which tho United States may
be engaged.
Said parties arc hereby notified to appear,
respond and offer evidence touching said allega-
tion at 10 O'Clock a. m. on Nov. q. 1905, before
the register and receiver at the United States
hand Office in Minot, n. d.
Tho said contestant having, in, . proper All
davit, aled Sop. 25, 1905. set forth fscts
which show that after due diligence personal
service OF this notice can not b0 made, It Is
hereby ordered and directed that such notice
b given By due and proper publication.
l0li.ll.l5 &. c SAHDoRNs Register.