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but soon began to fade and In a few
months had entirely disappeared. 1t is
believed that this star was merely tenn
porary local condensation of nebulous ma
terial, the whole immense Nebula being
made up of matter, probably meteoric.
which is in constant motion and agitation.
Royal Star.
Low down in the southeast the mag
nfcent Royal Star Formalhaut, appears
for the first time this year. Ten thou
sand years ago the Persians described
this star as one of the four guardians of
heaven; two thousand years later it was
an object of worship, and still later 1t was
regarded by astrologers as. portending
emnence and power. By comparing il
with the star Vega, which is now just
west of the zenith, the observer will no.
tice striking contrast of color Formula
hut being reddish and Vega a decided
blue
conjunctions of the Moon.
on the evening of September 25th at
about a quarter before eight the moon
will pass between us and the star in
Sagitarius at D, Figs. and 3. Four days
later the moon in its eastward journey
among the stars will reach Saturn; the
center of the moon will be exactly below
the center of the planet at three minutes
after 2 clock on the morning of Septem-
Der 80 In a small telescope Saturn will
then be seen just above the upper edge
of the moons disc and the two bodies
will present beautiful spectacle Saturn
will be seen to be of a decidedly greenish
color, in striking contrast to the silvery
white color of the moon
The moon passes Saturn at least once
every month"; the passages occur on Au
gust G. September 2, September 80, October
rs, etc. but the two bodies are nearest to-
gether on September 30. To observers
near the equator. Saturn will then appear
to lust Craze the edge of the moon, while
to those in the Southern Hemisphere the
planet will be completely hidden by our
satellite.
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HEARST CAN'T WIN
IN NEW YORK STATE
Shrewd Democratic Trick Puts
Him Out of the Running
MORE HIGH FINANClERING
PhlIadeIphla's Long List of Money
MaeIstrom Victims. White House
MaJo- Domo's Romance.
Other Gossop.
MORE HIGH FINANCIERlNG
BY sEwELL HAeeARD.

New York, September S-What few
shrewd political thinkers can accomplish
in a few days, when they put their
heads together, is strikingly Illustrated
by the predlcament in which William r.
Hearst, the candidate for governor no"
finds himself. A few weeks ago the pros
poets of a Hearst victory were what the
gamblers would call a good 7 to III pet'
At the present moment 1t doesn't seem
that the saffron-hued editor and political
revolutlonist has the ghost OF snow
The chances of the man. who has prom
ised the people of the state more reforms
than could be accomplished in century,
have slipped away within fortnight.
The democrats no longer fear him, and
the republicans find the situation pro-
ductive of rare good humor. Thls Is
how it happened:
The conservative leaders OF the Demo
cratic party, the men who come to the
front in times of crisis, got together ana
formed a flying wedge into the Hearst
bulwarks They didn't care so mucn
about the success of their own party as
they did of the defeat of Hearst. Hearst
seemed In a fair way to get the indorse-
ment of the democratic convention anu
the proposition confronting them was TO
forestall him. They reasoned rightly that
there was a safe and sane element In the
party although not always demonstra-
five one that would rise against TINS
apostle of socialism il the proper leader
were put into the field to arouse them.
They went In search of the leader and
found him in the person of District At
torney Jerome.
In selecting Mr.. Jerome, they PROVIDED
for two contingencies-frst to defeat
Hearst for the nomination and, second,
to beat him if he should be nominated
bv the democrats. If Hearst should be
the democratic candidate, 1t is believed
that the district attorney has promised
to run independently. In that event the
democratic vote will be divided between
Jerome and Hearst, giving the repub-
leans the best chance to win. Under
these conditions, however, republican sue
cess would not be absolutely certain, as
Mr.. Jerome would have a slight chance
II he made any inroads at all upon tho
republican independent vote. His doing
this will depend upon the candidate the
republicans nominate. II they choose
man like Charles e. Hughes, the insnr-
ance Investigator, their candidate would
undoubtedly win against the field. But
the democratic scheme has done what 1t
was intended to do-crushed utterly any
chance that Hearst had OF being gov
ernor.
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Fifty Years After John Brown.
From Lesles Weekly.

From Leslies Weekly.
On a hill near Osawatome Kan. on
August 80 1856, John Drown and thirty
five other free-state men fought band of
400 Missouri pro-slavery raiders, and Kan
sas Is to celebrate the semi-centennial
with appropriate exercises. 1t was the
first of the important battles which were
fought between the north and the south
for the possession of Kansas
John Brown was beaten at Oswatomie
So We're Prescott Putnam and their COM
rades at Bunker Hill. Missouri's pro-
slavery raiders occupied the ground, Just
as Cages British forces did in the bat
tie eighty-one years earlier. But Bunker
Hill brought Yorktown. Like the embat-
tied farmers at Concord Bridge, Brown
and his men fired the shot heard round
the world. 1t silenced compromises and
deals between the north and south in
Congress, and started the civil war in
Kansas. which broadened into its ma
tional phase five years later at Sumter.
When John Brown and his handful of fol-
lowerers gave desperate battle to the slav-
eryites on the hill at Oswatomie they
shaped the forces which were soon to
bring Appomattox and the thirteenth
amendment out of the shadow. Kansas
is right in preparing to celebrate the
John Brown semi-centennial Oswatomie
was an important battle in the world 5
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Wildcat Finance Victims.

philadelphia is having one of its peri
odcal scandals of high finance. New
York seems as much interested In 1t as
folks directly on the scene for little else
Is talked of In Wall street This time
II was the Real Estate Trust company
that was wrecked by dishonest officers.
Since the institution closed its doors,
week or more ago, there have been some
amazing revelations. Frank X. Nipple,
the president looted the company's vaults
of every available dollar that 1t had on
hand and. facing exposure, put bullet
through his head. As has been told in
the press dispatches. Nipple is supposed
to have deceived his board of directors
by means of a double list of loans. He
Is said to have shown them a false list
with which they could find no fault,
keeping the real list In the background.
Local bankers, however, laugh at this
explanation, saying that his populations
would have been impossible without the
aid of confederates. This view seems to
have borne out for the treasurer and as
sistant treasurer of the company have
been arrested along with Adolph Segal.
a promoter to whom Nipple loaned vast
sums on almost worthless collateral.
Nipple is not the first Philadelphian
who has fallen in the maelstrom of money
making. Nipple, like many of the others.
was a devout churehman, bitter enemy
of lIquor and tobacco and immortality and
a man In whom the community placed
the highest confidence. One of the biggest
financial crashes in Philadelphia was the
failure of the keystone National Bank In
1891, which furnished the regulations of
half a dozen men, Then the public,
largely in Philadelphia. dropped 100000
900 in those two great monuments to
wild cat fnanciering. asphalt and Consol-
dated Lake Superior. In 1898 John S.
Hopkins, cashier Of the Peoples Bank
killed himself This was Mat Quays
bank. and it was while he was In con-
troll of It that he wrote the famous let
ter to a henchman that he would shake
the plum tree"
Unfortunate speculation, but without the
defalcation feature, brought about the
self-inflicted death OF FranlSling B. Cow
en-, president of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad. The assassination of
| President Garfield did not cause much
more of a sensation in the Quaker City
| than the death of Gowen. William NJ.
| Singerly, proprietor of the Philadelphia
Record, president of the Chestnut Ma
| tional Bank and the Chestnut Street
| Trust company, died under the circum-
stances that pointed Enthusiastically to sui
| eide. 1t was found after his death that
| he was In debt to the defunct Chestnut
| Street BanSto the amount of 100000 that
| he had borrowed on collateral worth
$4,000.
| Joseph G. Ditman. banker. was sup
| posed to have killed himself by drown
| ing; Benjamin Gaskill who was a thief
| and a forger, killed himself to avoid
| facing the charges, Congressman Robert
| Adams, Jr.. Joseph r. Adams lawyer
politician; John Field, merchant; ]. V. P.
! Turner, lawyer. and -. G. Rothermel a
broker. all shot themselves because of
financial troubles.
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shares become one hundred; twenty
shares are made to ready two hundred,
and so on. On the following morning
the Rochester correspondent receives a
check for the profit on the larger lots
If the market had gone the other way,
the correspondent would have reported
smaller purchases. Consider dodge like
this kept going every working day In
the year in a plant having loo offices
and you may realize how many hundreds
of thousands of dollars these thefts will
aggregate.
Lar Adams suspected at last that he
was being robbed. Proof absolute was
submitted to him on the day of the firm S
failure and he destroyed a check for
$4,000 which he had drawn to pay the
clearances of Tuesday. On Monday the
losses were $4,000, and the old man paid
these on Tuesday without a murmur
THE exposure came about In this way
former bank president who had served
a prison term for wreclSing a western
bank heard of the easy graft on the Sage
wire and made an application to the
firm for permission to take trade for
them at his former home city. This de-
faulter went at the job like a drst-class
burglar. He was accepted by the firm as
a correspondent; magnificent offices In
the financial center of a large city on
the lake front were leased. handsomely
furnished and made ready for business.
"At tho New Jersey end the operator
was ready for his part of the work. No
Joking now Wholesale grabs were to be
made; 100-share lots were to be thou
sands: 20o-share lots were to be 1000 and
so on up. Suddenly a squealer broke it.
He had been shut out. The squealer got
into communication with All Adams and
showed him how certain operators and
cheated the firm for the past two and
one-half years; he heard of the wholesale
western plot and made clear to the old
gambler that he was up against 1t.
Sage and Adams son were waiting for
the $4,000 check which the old man was
tearing up as they communicated with
him.
Gentlemen. assgnr was the greeting
he gave them.
Sage shed real tears and young Ad-
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vember 90, to enlarge few weeks later
as morning star
Planet Saturn.
The planet Saturn with its rings may
be seen in the southeast in the constella-
ton Aquarius. This is rather low down
in the sky in the early evening, but by
midnight it is exactly south. and then is
in excellent position for observation.
Those who see the arly morning sky will
notice a very brilliant object which ap-
pears in the northeast n few hours before
sunrise. This is the planet Jupiter. which
with its four bright little moons forms
a most interesting object in small tele-
scope.
Planet Uranus.
The planet Uranus is now in the Milky
Way, a little to the west and above the
star A, Fig /. This planet is usually just
visible to the naked eye. but at present
the diffused light OF the cloud of stars
which surround 1t renders it invisible ex-
cept in a small telescope. With a small
glass 1t may be found by the help of Fig
3. which is an enlarged map OF the por-
ton of Sagittarlus enclosed by the square
in Fig l. When found 1t may easily be
recognized by its steady light and its
greenish color.
This little point of light is a great world
10000 miles in diameter, which circles
slowly about the sun just as the earth
does: the path which 1t pursues is nearly
six billions of miles in length and the
majestic world occupies eighty-four years
in making the journey. Even in the most
powerful telescopes Uranus is simply a
greensh disc across which a few giant
bands are sometimes detected 1t. is
known however, that the planet is very
light; cubic foot of Uranus weighs but
one-third as much as a cubic foot of our
earth. and 1t is therefore believed that the
whole globe is in a very heated and prob
ably a vaporized condition, similar TO
that of Jupiter and Saturn. This is IN
accordance with the well known fact that
large bodies cool more slowly than small
ones. The four small planets, of which
our earth Is one, have already cooled suf-
nciently to become solid; unquestionably.
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Al Adams Bitten.

AL Adams, who went to Sing Sing for
making several million dollars out of
policy gambling, has at last met his
match. The ex-policy king met his master
or masters in Wall street in the persons
of the gentlemen who manipulated the
telegraph keys In his bucket shop. which
was run under the name of M ]. Sage
& Co. Adams had tried most every kind
of graft and had never been done. -
so when glorious reports were brought
to him of the fortunes to be made by
'bucketry' he FELL to use the gam
blers phrase 1t .ranspired later that
these splendid reports and everything
connected with the affair were framed up
to swindle him. According to an expert
this is how the trick was pulled off:
For instance. wire running from
Jersey City to Montreal takes the bust
ness of say fifteen offices situated in
the cities between the points. An agree
ment has been made. say between the
manager of the office at Rochester and
the operator of the home office to skin
the concern. The work is all done right
under the nose of the firm and its staff
of checkers.
AT the opening of an excitable mar
ket. the operator. we will say. buys or
sells for account of Rochester, ten,
twenty or fifty shares of an active stock
If the transaction shows a profit to the
Spectator cipher is added to the num-
Der of shares on the contract and ten
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7 I UNDOUBTEDLY the most striking
object now in the heavens is the

I I UNDOUBTEDLY the most striking
object now in the heavens is the
beautiful evening star Venus. This
planet is so bright that it attracts atten-
tion even in the early evening twilight.
long before the other stars of the sky be-
gin to appear. 1t may easily be found
shining out in the west soon after sunset:
during the month II will rapidly increase
In brightness so that by October 1 it
will be nearly twice as bright as at pres
sent The possessor of a small telescope
has now an excellent opportunity to OBJ
serve it change of phase. for during the
month this will take place quite rapidly.
If he will examine 1t at intervals of few
days or a week he will al once notice that
1t is changing its shape. On September
20 1t is exactly half full; after this 1t con-
tracts into a narrower and narrower cres-
cent, which by November will become the
thinnest imaginable little arc of silvery
light 1t viii then disappear altogether,
passing between us and the sun on No
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'7TO y TVT DSJS'
1t will be news to the tens of thousands
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Unclaimed British Prize Money.

From the Court Journal.
The days when prize money was looked
upon in the navy as an ordinary source
of income are recalled by notification
from the admiralty of money waiting to
be claimed-the proceeds of bounties for
the destruction of pirates and of the sale
of slave ships.
There is a sum of 5000 from the sale
of shaving vessels captured in the COS
awaiting claimants, also a goodly amount
of naval prize money and G280o bounty for
the destruction of pirates which nobody
applies for. Some of those to whom money
is due are, no doubt, still alive. but IL
they are dead they probably left descend
ants who. If the names were advertised.
would be forthcoming to substantlate their
claims.
As it Is, there Is little demand for the
money in hand. During twelve months
dealt with in the statement issued from
Whitehall under 98 have been paid out.
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of office boys In this city and their COM
rades throughout the country that the
state of New York has been paying sal
aries as high as $3.50 year to office boys
and pages at Alabany. Where the New
York office boy begins at 50 or SO week.
the state started its pay roll at Sc a
week, and increases were so rapid that
$12 and SIS a week salaries were not I'M
common.
By order Of the state civil service COM
mission these salaries are to be reduced
on the ground that it Is bad for the boys
themselves to have SO much money to
spend Nine dollars week Is hereafter
to be a boys maximum pay.
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a Major Domo's Fall.

The announcement from the White
House of the dismissal of Major Charles
L. McCawley as Major Domo has caused
lots of talk in New York society Major
McCawley has held a similar position
in the White House under the Roose-
welt regime to that held by Harry Lehr
in Mrs. Astor's ZOO" 1t is whispered
that the fall of the Major Domo is due
to his romantic marriage to the widow
of Judge John Davis of the court of
claims.
It is openly said that the President pre-
fers a single major domo at the White
House. The incoming holder of that dis
tinguished position Is Capt. Frank Mccoy
of the Third cavalry. now at Lewisport
Pa.
Major McCawley was an obscure officer
In the marine corps until little more
than four years ago, when largely
through the record and high standing of
his father, the late Colonel McCawley
of the marine corps, he was chosen aide
to the President. Since then he has
doomed high in the social armament at the
capitol
Mrs Davis is about 81 years old. Major
McCawley is many years her Junior. Their
attachment has always been a source of
much regret in Mrs. Davis family. and
It is said that Major McCawleys i'm
pending withdrawal from the White
House staff may be traced to the in
fluence of Senator Lodge and his family
The Lodges are the most intimate friends
of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt in
Washington, and Mrs. Davis only daugh-
ter Is now the wife of the senator's son.
George Cabot Lodge. 1t was a runaway
match. and friends of the family have
intimated that young Mrs. Lodge and
her mother have completely broken be-
cause of the marriage.
Fine Pay for Boys.
1t will be news to the tens of thousands
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Accounting for Il.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Its bad enough for you to come
home intoxicated" said Mrs. Lusch-
man, but why so late?"
"Wlel, you shee m dear, my frien's
foolishly sent me home by messenger
boy"
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: HEAVENS IN SEPTEMBER :
PROF. DooLITTLE
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BY PROF. DOOLlTTLE.

in the course of ages the larger planets
will become solid also. Uranus is attend
ed by four moons. These are little bodies
from 200 to 500 miles in diameter. They
are therefore much smaller than our own
moon, and are invisible except in the larg-
est telescopes
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Nebula In Andromeda.

The constellation Adromeda is now well
up from the ground in the northeast. The
observer should not fail to examine the
wonderful Nebula which may be found in
this constellation at N Fig. l. The Nebu-
la is so bright that it may be seen with
the naked eye. Through a small ltele-
scope it appears as bright central ball
which shades off into a luminous cloud.
BY exposing a Photographic plate to the
Nebula for several hours 1t Is seen that
the outlying luminous material is sepa-
rating into rings similar to the rings of
Saturn, while near by there are two small
er balls which appear to be planets just
beginning to condense. In 1885 a new star
appeared in the Nebula and near its
brightest part. This grew so bright that
it could be readily seen in an opera glass;
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Try the Gawk tor half-teW. and line
Illustrations. MeIiers<f Buiidlnn
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ans pleaded, but the old man was
through. The firms liabilities are $751;
900, it is said and the assets $11600 The
customers will receive about 30 per cent"
Evening journal., 1906-11-01
SAY OPIUM SYRUP
KILLED THE BABY
Drug Said to Have Formed
0ne-ThlFd Of Contents Of
"TeethIne" Compound

NEW YORK. Nov. 1.--Opium, which
analysis showed formed one-third Of the
contents OF a bottle of so-called teeth
ing syrup" is said to have caused the
death last Monday. Of Violet Lane.
three weeks old daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Lane. OF Kingsland avenue.
Williamsburg.
Lane, while caring for the baby last
Friday. became. worried at her inces-
SAINT crying and sent out to drug store
for a bottle OF a widely advertised
"teething' compound which was also
said to be efhcacious IN quieting chill
dren suffering from pain Of any kind.
In accordance with the directions
Lane administered ten drops to the
child, and within few moments she
became as peaceful he said as II she
never had known a pain. When THIS
sleep continued long unbroken Lane be-
came alarmed and sent for DR.. Elliott
victim OF drug poisoning. Despite the
physicians efforts the infant died.
Dr. Dorm reported the circumstances
Of the death to the Coroner. and an in
vestigation was ordered. When II was
shown that death was the result OF
drug poisoning an analysis was made
Of the medicine. It's most important in
gredient was opium.
At the inquest. which will be held
soon, the coroner will urge the Jury tc
recommend that the proper authorities
take proceedings against the manu-
facturers OF this class OF proprietary
medicine.
Evening journal., 1906-11-01
TO REPUBLICANS:

We are anxious to have every
Republican In close touch, and work
ing in harmony with the Republican
National Congressional COMMITTEES in
favor Of the election Of a Republican
Congress. s-.
The Congressional campaign must
be based on the administrative and
legislative record of the party, and,
that being 50, Theodore Roosevelt's
personality must be a central figure
and his achievements a central
thought in the campaign.
We desire to maintain the work Of
this campaign with popular subscrip-
tons Of One Dollar each from Repub-
licans. To each subscriber we will
send the Republican National Cam.
palEn Text Book and all documents
issued by the Committee.
4elp as achieve a great victory.
JAMES S. SHERMAN, Chairman.
P o. Box so6s, New York.