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The Washington times., 1905-08-20
THE HOMELESS NUT.

Kind Lady--Ts that your dog?
: Homeless Holmes-Yes, mum; he's ms
only friend.
Kind Lady-WeiI, why don't you treat
him better? He looks half starved.
Homeless $EoInes-Ye see, mum. de
poor NUT has ter eat de kind 0. grub
folks gives me er go hungry. So he
don't eat often.-Cleveland Leader.
The Washington times., 1905-08-20
Hopes Run High.

The hopes OF the Navy arc based on
three things-itS own veteran team the
weakening OF its Army rivals BY the
graduation Of stars, ana the continuance
Of the coaching Of DR.. Paul J. DashicII
the welI-known official and chairman Of
the rules committee, whose work Of last
season was as successful as could be
asked. Besides. the greatly increased
number of midshipmen in each new
class creates greater probability of
new material each season, and this is
sure TO gradually raise the standard OF
the teams work.
one thing more may be added, the
fact that the Naval Academy is i'm
preGnated with a spirit of victory from
the magnificent work OF it's teams dur
ing the spring season. The crew won all
four of its races, the nine defeated
West Point and nearly al Of its other
competitors. the fencing team won the
intercollegiate trophy. and the track
team finished the season with a clean
record of victories This has filled the
institution with enthusiasm, and there
is no doubt that it viii be communi-
Gated to the football warriors
The Navy lost several good men bv
graduation, but can ilI their places with
equally as good players. From ,the line
is Farley, left tackle; McCltnticli. center;
Goss, guard, and Whiting, end. and be-
hind the line only the place OF Wilcox.
quarter, must be filled Howard, this
seasons captain and end; Grady, tackle;
Smith guard; Spencer and Doherty.
halves, and Ghormley. full. are still at
the Academy, and Piersol, tackle;
Chambers, guard; Norton, quarter. and
q number of others are not much he
hind the men whose places they Will
take.
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* - D6"4OI tuO COV41OTt
and pleasure Of the men. One1recom-
mendation is that a band be established
at each recruiting depot. 8 Army officers
declare that the influence of,mussc will
add much to the military spirit: +, r.
It has.further been recommended that
BARRIERS be furnished at government ex-
pense, to be paid out Of the[compan or
general mess fund. There has* been
some talk of requiring soldiers who were
BARRIERS to act in that capacity at army
posts, but it is probable that they would
object to doing 80 unless they received
extra compensation. ~ = sf1st :: - tt.*
This post exchange building will be
built of brick and will be paid for out of
the appropriation for army public
buildings Of the current fiscal year. It
will have q gymnasium fitted with all
modern appliances for athletic work;
a1arge publicAall, where the entertain
ments Of the enlisted men can be held,
including their dances; 3 reading room
where will be kept the weekly ana
monthly periodicals, together With I
small library; lockers where the men
will keep their Symposium clothing:
bowling alleys and an administration
room, where the officers IN charge win
have their desks. II this building seems
to meet all the wants Of the enlisted men
1T will be duplicated At other posts and
army life will be made IS attractive -
!. is comparable with discipline and strict
discharge Of duties. SIC
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they used it with almost uncomfortable
boldness merely to exact graft. These
powers now go to the board of esti-
mate, smaller and at present more
respectable body. The aldermen are
contesting the constitutionality Of the
law clipping their powers, and they
have chosen as test cases four rather
important plans for public improve
ments. AS it takes three years to reach
case in the New York courts, the
outlook for these works is glum indeed,
unless some short cut can be devised.
The other instance: In 1899, when
Roosevelt was governor, law was
passed to tax the franchises of public
service corporations. This law has
been fought through every court up
to the Supreme court Of the United
States, though it was perfectly under
stood that it was constitutional. Are
the railroads going to pay their taxes
now? They are not; they are to begin
the whole process over again, from
the lowest court up to the highest, on
the point whether they may deduct
from the total taxation what they
have already paid in special taxes.
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war constitute tho suprsms faetor Il
naval operatio nS. 55 ~
Probably no naval ofncer a the world
watched With more intense interest
the movements 81, the Russian and Jap
anese fleets or studied more closely the
performance OF the vessels III those
fleets in the engagement st Port Arthur
and in the, Korean straits than did Adj
miral Dewey. Since his great victory
In Manila bay, seven years ago; the adj
mlral has been absolutely convinced
Of the superiority Of the battleship. and
n; he now declares that the virtual annihi-
lation Of the Russian feet in the Korean
straits was accomplished by the gun
IRE and mastery maneuvering Of Ad.
m1ral Togo's battleships. The reported
exploits of the torpedo boats the adj
mlral claims were only rendered possi-
ble by the fact that the battleships had
crippled the big vessels of the Russian
navy and left them at the mercy of the
little torpedo boats.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt has had many 4
discussion with the admiral regarding
the performance of the different types
OF vessels in the recent fight between
the Japanese and Russians. He agrees
with the admiral that the policy Of build
ing more battleships must be kept up,
especially now since Japan is likely to
become. the queen of the Pacific through
her. victory over the Russians and the
capture OF SO many Of the latter's vessels
of war. Z T'=]',| ~
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EYicted OF grating by two bar associs,''
ton commit tees and by q legislative

jYicted Of grating BY two bar assoeio
ton commit tees and by Z Legislative
committee. 4 I 5s ss4 81 sgs III
g OF offences against good taste, the
local Judiciary is prolific. Thus the
late. Judge Van Brunt was president OF
a trust company while: sitting as q
Judge. He had time every morning to
attend to- it's business before openins
court. Other judges speculate in Wall
street in local real estate, on the tips
Of men who have since come under
surveillance for criminal practices in
thigh finaAce." In 1Tweed's day the
shameless corruption in the courts OF
judges like Barnard, Cardozo and
Westbrook was one of the chief causes
of the city's almost hopeless condi.
ton. 80. ~
BY curious anomaly, the judges
in the court of appeals, the highest
court in the state, and one that has in
cluded some Of the best jurists in the
country, including such as Judge Park.
er, Folger, Bartlett and Gray, get
smaller salaries than these city judges
of a lower tribunal. And they work.
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because OF ! the
early successes of DR.. Poets crews 20
years ago.
The truth is that Columbia, though
the second university in the country in
number of members, has but q compar-
atively small number of men in it's
college department. 1t is as college
smaller than Yale or Princeton; con-
siderably smaller than Cornell Stu.
dents in art, in music, in medicine,
law, architecture, applied science; the
women in the Teachers college and in
Barnard, all coant in the grand total,
but they do not help in football and
rowing. Last fall. when the Columbia
football men met the Yale giants, the
contrast in bulk was noticeable. The
Columbians were more alert and swift
er upon their feet. But the mighty
Hogan lowered above them. tt has
been Columbia's luck to have one or
two men of transcendant ability. Such
were Morley and Weeks; the latter,
with his invention of the hurdling
trick, the most sensational star player
Of his DAY; but it is pretty hard to ask
one player to win a game, though it
has been done. !
The westerners are showingawell,
and Wisconsin has course No. 3; which
is usually called the best. .Butf good
luck. so far as preliminary conditions
go, favors the veteran Corneniant. ssSix
men in the crew will eproba bly, he
trained men from last years boats. ::
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The tipping habit is growing among
the American people, according to fig
ures of the bureau of statistics The
nations drink bill has increased dur
ing the last year so that each of the
8l,752,000 inhabitants is spending on
an average of 1888 annually for stim-
ulants. or $91.65 for each family of
five persons, which is an equivalent of
one glass Of beer a day for every one
OF the population. The use of whisky
increased from 1.01 gallons for each
person in 1896 to 1.48 gallons in 1904.
The consumption of wine in the same
period shows a gain of 100 per cent.
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meuL is TOO uuCer'
tain to warrant the government putting
so many millions into one type of YES
sci. A battleship fully armored and
equipped represents an expenditure OF
over 100000. Mr.. Hale contends that
: this expensive floating arsenal is at the
mercy of torpedo boat costing three
quarters of million dollars. He, too,
is likely to draw lessons from the Rus
sian~Japanese war, but on the side Of
the smaller vessel and in favor of going
slow in building big vessels until it, is
absolutely demonstrated that they are
the dominent factors in modern navy.
Senator Hale has never been in thor
ough accord with the enthusiasm of Mr..
Roosevelt or the subject of the navy.
It is we'll remembered that before the
breaking out of the Spanish war Mr..
Roosevelt, as assistant secretary tof the
navy, had the foresight to prepare for
thai war. Admiral Dewey freely and
frankly gives him the credit of making
it possible for the United States YES
sells to annihilate the Spaniards in the
Bay of Manila. This he did by ordering
supplies OF ammunition and coal TO
Dewey's fleet in the orient so that when
war was declared that feet was in con-
dition to leave neutral ports and seek
the enemy
Secretary of the Navy Long was alb
sent about this time, and Senator Hale,
in nosing about the departments.
learned what Mr.. Roosevelt, as acting
secretary, was doing. He learned that
Mr.. Roosevelt expected a war with
Spain, and was 50 startled that he rushed
over to the white house and secured an
audience with President Mckinley, to
whom he declared:
For goodness sake call Long back.
That crazy man over in the department
will get us into war with Spain.'
President Roosevelt often refers to
this scare of Senator Hale, and laughs
about it. He is willing to bear the
charge of being "a crazy man" in the
light of what his foresight accom-
plished in preparing the navy for the
war that was inevitable.
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The renovation of J. Pierpont Nor
gan's house at Madison avenue and
Thirty-sixth street, New York, during
the absence of the family in Europe
has brought to the surface Miss Flor.
ence Mason Rhett, household secretary
to the great financier, and one of the
highest salaried as we'll as the hardest
worked women in the United States.
Those who ought to know say her sal
airy is $4,000 a year, the same as H.
H. Rogers, the Standard Oil magnate
pays to Miss Katharine Harrison, and
$4,000 year more than Helen Gould
is said to pay Miss Elizabeth Altman
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his hand in other: crimes too nu-
merous to chronicle; he was also
known to have retained some part
of the more than q million dollars
which he had stolen. Yet he lived his
last years in quiet fiat in respect
able neighborhood, and died in his
bed
The story of the Manhattan bank
robbery is classic. It was Jimmy's
boast in those days that he never rob-
bed weak bank Certainly the Man
haitian was strong one. It took CAPT
tai and time to loot it. This was &C
complished by Hopes favorite trick of
hiring shop just behind it under COW
er of which to carry on drilling opera
tons. When the party got in, they
caught the Waterman, and, by threats
of torture, made him lead them to the
safe, after which they had more work
to break in. In the case of the First
National, Of Wilmington, Del, Hope
again hired house by the bank, and
left in it the cashier and his family
bound and gagged while the safe was
being cracked. To the South Ken
sington bank, of Philadelphia. Hope
went at night dressed as policeman
with great story, which was true, of
an impending burglary, and the news
that the police department had thought
it best to send man. Once admitted
by the Waterman, he thoughtfully hit
that muddled functionary over the
head, and the rest was easy.
The strangest thing about Hopes af-
terward admitted share in the Manhat-
tan robbery was that he was never put
in Jail for it. His son, John Hope,
still living honestly, as he had done
before, so far as any knows, decided
that his father could not endure term
in prison, confessed the crime and
went in his stead.
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Brooklyn judge sits from ten
until five; in Manhattan from half
past ten, eleven, and, in the ap-
pellate division from noon until two.
three or four. Cases are three years
behind in Manhattan, one year in
Brooklyn, freq ently not at all in the
country. Country judges get $4,000 a
year; city judges of the same grade,
1880. Country judges are designat-
ed to sit in the city to help OUT re-
ceiving the extra $4,000 5 year while
so serving. One Of the judges so select
ed by Gov. Odell, for political reasons,
vas the notorious Hooker. since CON
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News Notes.

st. Paul-Walter: Shaw. Eve years
old was drowned in the river. ".:5.a*
Manufacturing machines must be
suitable for use also at primary cleo
lions. ring. :. ~, .-.>.5E ..7fs54
New Marke.-Shakopee and local
men have bought the Bank of New
Market (private) from George F. tPor-
ter of Minneapolis and are to.convert
it into a state bank with capital OF
st Paul-W.. Jarvis resident of
Bald Eagle, was held up at Mississippi
and Nash streets, IN broad day light
St. Paul--st. Bernardo parish let
the contract for a church at Rice
and Albemarle Streets to cost about
800 900, when; completed. q .E4s&: s.
+ Hastings The body of the man,
found on i the road near 4 Highwood,
last Monday was identified as that Of
Herman Ibson, a farm laborer al
Wood bury. 81 =, = Il. 49,. 4 .*z !. .
sTyierThe annual convention OF
the Danish Evangelical Luthern
Church of America closed with 400.
delegates present, representing nearly
every state in the Union. IN Es3l
Brainered The state labor conven-:
ton closed after one Of the most inter,
esting session since the Organization
OF the federation. ..
Red WingIs the percentage 81 nm
! ruly girls ID Minnesota Increasingly
Reports Of the state board Of eontrol
indicate that It is The number OF
girls at the state training school IS iD-7
creasing. each succeeding year, while
the number Of boys remain about the.
same. 81
8 st Paul a ght With knives and
pistols, 10 which several were cut and;
bruised, took place in the Italian coli,
ony hero
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Great Britain is ctively engaged in
strengthening her coast defenses in
Western Canada by building a new
fort at EsQuimalt. B. C. The war in
the far East" has enforced the with
drawal of the entire Pacific squadron
from the Canadian coast in order to
protect English holdings along the
east coast of Asia. This left the Brit
ish waters in Puget Sound unprotected
except for fort at Esquimalt, which
was armed with guns more or less OBJ
solete. Esquimalt is situated on the
inner end of the entrance to Puget
Sound.
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Beet Sugar Factory.

Faribault.-A proposition has been
made to representatives of the Fari-
bault Commercial club by twin city
capitalists, which will probably result
in the blishment here of large
beet-sugar refinery. All that it is
necessary for the Commercial club to
do is to secure from farmers within a
radius of fifty miles from Faribault
contracts to plant 5000, acres of beets
at a price which should prove profit
able = IS ~: = /;
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The census of the Philippines, just
published, shows that the forests in
the islands, in which there are TAI
varieties of woods, are worth about
$4,000, 100000, or double those of the
states of Oregon and Washington
which are especially strong in that
particular asset. Then there are great
deposits of coal, iron and lead, and
there are many indications of gold and
silver, all of which represent wealth
of several billions more
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grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, whom
Napoleon made king Of Westphalia.
This is a great chance for the antrim
periaists. They will doubtless point
to the selection of a grandson of king
as sure proof of the imperialistic ten
denotes of Theodore Roosevelt. And
Theodore Rooseve cit will just laugh. So
will Charles J. Bonaparte, who, though
an aristocrat, is democrat in principle
and practice.
Mr.. Bonaparte does not rest his claim
to fame upon his family. He has made
his own reputation, and if the truth were
told, he is probably not proud of his roy
al ancestors. His grandfather, Jerome
Bonaparte, was under the thumb of Ma
poleon, and at the latter's command was
divorced from his American wife, the
beautiful Elizabeth Patterson, of Bal
timore. Mrs. Bonaparte, 1t is said, lies
buried in Baltimore cemetery under
stone marked Elizabeth Patterson"
She had one son, whom she named Je-
rome, and the latter had two sons, Je-
rome and Charles Joseph, the latter be-
ing the new secretary of the navy.
Charles Joseph's brother inherited roy
al tendencies. He did not become an
American citizen, but had an ambition
to regain the French throne. He. be-
came a soldier in the French army and
was known as Prince Napoleon. Charles
Joseph, however, is an American in
thought and feeling, and is a lawyer OF
great ability.
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Baroness Burdett-Coutts, of England,
who, at the age of 81, married William
Ashmead Bartlett, 80 years her junior,
lately celebrated her 91st birthday.
She is still quite strong physically, and
her mental powers appear to be as
active as ever. The baroness still! d..
reefs the affairs Of her large estate as
she did half century ago, and it is
rumored that she even contemplates
trip to the United States.
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Unless all signs fail summer travel
by rail, steamboat and ocean liner will
be heavier this year than ever before !;
this in spite Of the fact that the real
summer weather has been long while
In coming. For years past the trans
Atlantic summer travel has been
steadily growing, but this year, while
home resorts will be crowded. the
ocean voyagers will be more numer.
Gus than any other season.
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you would get a confirmatory i'm
preston from the people whom
the newspapers have interviewed
to settle the question of what
is a proper tip?" Actresses and poll
ticians in search of advertisement are
apt, when such a question is asked, to
advertise their generosity. The most
sensible replies made are those of
fashionable and wealthy young club
men, who say: Nothing at all, un-
less L get good service; then ten per
cent. of the BILL
The manager of New Yorl's most ex-
elusive restaurant is credited with an
amazing statement. 1t is that a man
will usually, after a 50-cent meal, give
the waiter 'the change Of a dollar
bill''-that is to say, as much as his
meal cost him. Two dollars for ten
dollar meal, and so down in proportion,
are the ideas of this calm potentate Of
the eating house.
One fact the discussion does develop,
There is no kind of restaurant in New
York where the tip has not made some
foothold for itself. In the quick lunch
places five cents is left for the waiter
girl, often enough to make tidy addt
ton to her weekly pay. The coffee and
sinkers man down town gets few
tips-though his wages are better thai
those of the walters in Delmonico's
and Sherry's. The Chinese waiter ex<
poets tip from stunning party
The Syrian restaurant is not tip-proof.
The best restaurants, like Delmon-
ico's, have rigid rule that the waitas
| must not betray in any act his disap-
pointment it guest gives him nothing.
But in places in. other respects good
walters become impairment it they are
not literally treated. = ~'s.< =.
| This is one of the many things that
make life in New York so expensive.
In good restaurants in Paris or Lon
don, the waiter does not expect to re-
tire with competence until after 40
years service. Ten per cent is enough
everywhere; less upon large amounts.
It is enough In, New York, but the
waiter does not always act as If no
thought so. ny 3 5' l5s s ~% n
And it is a dreadfully un-American
habit to spread over the country, as il
is doing. Whose fault, I wonder? .=7
:: 55 Il. sas =@.=. + IN . OWEN LANGDoN. 3
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The patriotic American who desires
to achieve notoriety as a mountain
climber need not go to the Alps, for
In the ascent of Mt. Hood, the loftiest
extend north and south across Oregon
and Washington for 100 miles, he will
find an ample outlet for his ambitions
Mt. Hood reaches an elevation of over
1000 feet, thus ranking among the
high peaks Of the world.
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French physicians say that epidemic

French physicians say that epidemic
cerebro-spinal meningitis, otherwise
spotted fever, is not by any means a
newly discovered disease, but has
been exhaustively studied for over 60
years. In 1887 the malady broke out
at Bayonne among two regiments Of
the line, which, being removed to 9TH
er garrisons, spread the epidemic.
Spotted fever is of short duration, and
dies down on the return of sunshine
and warmth