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wake up the day after election and
find that some totally different per-
son has won the prize. and III be
extremely mortified and absolutely
put TO it to pay my legitimate cleo
tion expenses-to say nothing of the
illegitimate ones"
So | put this possible honor from
me. Heavens. it wasn't that / did
not appreciate the honor. A man
has a right TO feel proud when mill
lions of his felIow-citizens, many of
them unable to read or write or
think, elect him to the pToudest posi-
ton in the gift of any nation. |
weighed the whole thing pro and con
and then / said, deliberately and
firmly, mo, sir, am going to get
simpler and simpler and perhaps I'll
die contented."
Fellow-citizens, there comes a
time to all of us who have an eye
on the Presidency when we must
make up our mind to give mp the
contest or else accept the inevitable
with calm steadfastness- l simply
couldn't bear to be defeated for the
Presidency. Do you suppose that |
could read in the papers that was
showed under in every State in the
Union, and then calmly take a
poem and try to sell it TO an ed
itor? No. sir, Id use back streets
for the rest of my life and write
under a pen name. Cincinnatus
hadn't been defeated for Senator
when he went back to the plow
The honor of election is great. but
the modification of defeat is greater.
Look at Horace Greeley. He
wasn't content to be the Nestor of
American journalism; he must try
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THE WATER LILY.

In Hampshire waters lightly resting
SnOw-white and pure as heavens
angels are
The Hiy lies. the dancing riSpIes
breastinS,
How like il seems 10 some new-fallen
star.
I4ow-Iving on liquid sky
Where sha6ow-clouds 90 drifting slowly
by.
Above its bed the mountain tower
Peak upon peak IN silent grandeur
Among the clouds they rise in conscious
Russed and srimIy bold: and yet at
How 'Gss Scared aud scanned their lofty
on hishest paths SIN fan the hercest
storms
But here with sunlight round it stream
Its sieep is undisturbed: no sound is
To mar the raDt. stm current OF its
save ia5pin~ water. or sweet-pipins
The paisiag air around it dned
With ruddy wine from Summers beakeT
spilled
Not for those petals glowing bushes
Such rs SuEuSe the petals OF the rose:
Nun-like il Deereth from hood Of
rushes
The queen by right DER every flower
that blows:
Earth-born. vet with the starry face
Ciasned in the loving waters close en-
Ernest McGa6ey. in National Masa-
zine.
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TO be President. Said he'd rather be
President than write.
The result was too lamentable to
jest about. ! was a mere bov at
the time. but il saved me from the
Presidency. II was the turning of
the ways. Like Rutherford B.
Hayes. ! went into the egg busi-
ness: but mike him-or maybe it
would be more accurate TO say that
like him never was President de
jure. But that is a bygone Twenty
years ago il | had said that many
people would have frothed at the
mouth M1ny people still froth at
the mouth. but the froth is apropos
of other matters. Significant name
that-froth
No, fellow countrymen. let us be
contenIsd It is not likely that over
twenty, L the outside, of those
Americans who are now living wiz
ever add luster to the Presidential
chair-or even sit in it Let The
rest OF us go about our business
with contentment, and every four
years let us elevate one of the
twenty with a good grace. and for
four years thereafter let every man
mind his own business-and see
that he has q business TO mind
and this country will stride forward
as il has not yet stridden-or is il
strode?
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HOW UNITED STATES CONSULS
STRIVE TO KEEP UP APPEARANCES

are skins and tobacco. Much Of the
tobacco used in the manufacture Of
Turkish cigarettes comes from this
port, and the consular agent is re-
qUired to examine all the invoices.
The exports to America from Salon
lea in 1903 amounted 10 81, 500 900
Great Britain has a consul general
at Saionica, and his salary IS 81 800
q year. He IS allowed $4,000 for ex-
penSes.
In the vast majority of consular
posts IL is a hard matter for the
American representative 20 main
tian an appearance in keeping with
the dignity of the nation they repre-
sent Not infrequently only an in
come from private fortune enables
our cOnsuls 10 carry on their work
in a satisfactory manner.
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course. but sometimes l wonder how
often the folks that lose 'em have
the nerve to so an ask for 'em. 1t
amt easy for a pretty girl TO go
an ask a sniggerin' clerk IL he's
got her corset. or her chemise. or
her hosiery, an have 10 describe
'em an identify 'em, perhaps with
two or three other clerks lookin'
on an GRIMM
Still, some Of 'em have their
nerve with 'em, even If they don't
like the job. l remember when 1
first went TO work for the com
paly ] was on one OF the country
runs. II was long about o'clock
one night when the last passenger
had gone, an 1 went through the
car TO see If any of EN- had left
anything behind. I found a neat
little package in one of the seats.
and out a wayside which was the
erG OF our run the motorman an
me had a look at it, II was the
prettiest pair OF corsets you ever
saw-all pink and made OF some
s'yt OF silky stuff, with lace around
1t, an ribbons an some little silk
bag-things that smelt sweet. and
silk lacings, an sort of harness
buckles an straps an things hang
in to IT. tell you, 1t was Just
bang up-an' me an the motorman
held our breaths an scarcely dared
touch the pretty thing TO wrap 1t
up again.
well, sir, the girl that owned
them wasn't takin' any chance on
losin' 'em. II was a single track out
there IN the country, and the last
car up was always the next car
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volume with that of the American
representative.
The accompanying illustration
shows the rented home Of the con-
sui The disordered condition of the
street at its entrance is typical of
the inadequate accommodations af-
forded our representative at this i'm
pOrtant post
One Of the few consular homes
owned by the United States was
swept away recently by a storm
which devastated the SocIe;y Islands.
This post was at Tahiti. The house
was a small, one-story wooden sJruc-
ture which closely rescmbled ne
gro shanty The post at Tahiti is of
more or less Importance, as many
American sailors are constantly
coming into port on vessels which
stop there for water ard provisions.
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dies as we find-just TO see what's
in 'em. And it's a mighty various
collection, l can tell you. Gener-
ally we wait till we get to the end
of the line, and then, while we're
waiting for the return trip and
the cars empty, and all. the mo-
tormen an conductors generally
opens any bundle that may be on
board, hopin' to find a laugh in It.
Sometimes we do, an sometimes
we find a lunch. Either way, it's
welcome. II it's lunch. there amt
much use turnin' it back to the
barns, for the lost and found you
know; but If it's anything OF value,
likely to be Of value, that is, by
the time the owner gets around
to calling for II, we turn It in. And
there amt many things we amt
found at one time or another on
these cars.
All sorts OF dry goods come our
way-a yard or two Of ribbon, a
piece of lace, a length OF silk,
shoes, rubbers, gloves-most any
thing. l have found undercIothes
ladies underclothes, you know;
all frills an lace an ribbons, an
things-the sort you see in the
store windows, but don't seem like
people never really wore m. They
do-at least. suppose they do, or
1 don't know why they buy 'em.
For they cost a mint o. money. I
tell you. it seems sinful that peo-
pie should pay the prices that
are marked on some OF those things
just for one pair-well, for a
chemise or a night gown, or some
thin. Why, the cost OF one OF
them things is sometimes as much
as us fellows can earn in a week.
"An' hosiery, Say, we have picked
up some stockin's in these cars
that would make your mouth
water-just luscious, they was. An
corsets! Why. you'I fall in love
with some of 'em, even without
any girl inside of 'em. They all
go TO the lost and found. of
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waitin' 10 ring the bell TO go ahead,
and wonderin' why whoever it was
didn't come aboard, a girl stuck her
head in the door an said L dor I
want TO get on, but left a package
on your car going out and ] stopped
you TO see If you had it / took IT
down from a ledge over the door
an the girl when she see II had been
opened turned all colors of the
rainbow-and / guess / turned a few
myself; you see. SIR, | was young
then-but she thanked me. an jump
ed of, an she an her lantern, an a
dog she had with her went of down
the road in the darkness, and 1 rang
up an we wcnt on.
Things / wanted TO keep? Well.
sometimes the ladies leave their
purses behind 'em, and when there's
anything in 'em but samples and
recipes, and trifies of that sort, /
amt above admittin' il would come
in handy. But il amt never been
enc "gh TO pay me &c. fee;:n' | was
a thief, never yet Nowadays the
women carry these bags, and in some
of them they seem to pack pretty
nearly everything but their dresses.
When they leave them behind we
have some fun unpackin' 'em. We
have found jewelry in them-rings
and pins and things. And now and
again rosary that some good W.
man has said her prayers on. But
| amt never felt an overwhelmin'
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my seat, Madam an looked
around. an there he was tippin' his
nat as polite as you please to a
slender, gray-haired, gentle-lookihg
womaa- 1 thank you very MUCH
says she; then as he moved aside
TO let her slip into it, but-but,
where is ito / looked. and the boy
looked, and all the people around
looked, and began TO laugh. The boy
he was shy, like many Of these
great big fellows-blushed and
looked mighty uncomfortable, but he
stood to his guns Why, II was right
there. he said. II had been, but It
wasn't; those two women had sim
ply expanded-like spOnges, you
know-and filed up the space that
boy left There had been room for
at least two women the size Of the
one he offered his place to, but there
wasn't the sign of a place now-at
least not until the car began TO tit
ter and the women realized that IL
wouldn't do, an moved up an made
room for the little woman.
And you wouldn't believe the
sort of people that try to beat their
way and save a nickel-that's more
often women than men. The men
don't insist on giving up unless
YOU ask. but if you come their
way, saying Fare, please they gen.
orally have the fare ready. or they
cant seem 10 help making some mo-
ton toward gettin' il so you spot 'em
and know that they owe you fare.
But the women can look as innocent
and unconscious as babies. They
won't lie about Though they don't
mind cheatin' the cOmpany-and
generally, il you ask 'em direct,
they'll pay.
You've heard about the man who
get on the car with five women, and
collected a nickel from each of them,
and turned it over to the conductor
for six tickets, and didn't pay a
cent himself He's generally a negro
in the story. Well, there are plenty
of him around-and they amt all
Of 'em niggers, not by a good deal.
An more than once it has hap
pened 10 me 20 have a customer drop
a dime or a quarter they were try
in TO pass me- An perhaps it went
down between the Stats in the floor
ing. an in a crowded car that amt
easy TO get out So most of US con-
ductOr's II say Never mind. I'll get
it by-and-by.' and give the passenger
the right change. Well, as I was
sayin', more than once it's happened
TO me. an l guess TO most of the
others. TO come back when the car
had thinned out a bit and find that
dime or quarter gone, and me Just
so much out
Yes. indeed. this is a Job where
you see a good many different sorts
of human nature-and most Of 'em
bad This your street, sir-ali
right" and he rang the bell. Good
night, sir; fine night; seems like
spring really might be comm az
last" And the bell rang again and
the car went cracking of into the
darkness.
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desire TO keep any Of those. At least
1t amt overwhelmed me yet.
"Just once I was tempted. Often
think things is kind o. pretty; an
I'd like to keep 'em-just for pretty
you know-things like them eorsets
l was tellin' you of, an bits Of
bright ribbon an silk. They're so
soft an so bright and shiny, and
such pretty colors. But the only
thing | ever really crayed-just
didn't want TO give up-was a pair
of little red baby shoes. l did want
them. No, sir, l ain-t got no babies
of my own. That's Just why. Me
an my wife, We amt never had
none It's been a great sorrow to
us. A baby round the house would
have made things a whole lot liyeli
er. And those little red shoes-well
they seemed 10 stand for the babies
we hadn't got They made me feel
bad, but | wanted 'em. Dam fool,
/ suppose" and he smiled sheep
ishly.
I'VE have found false teeth-of no
value except to owner; and once in
one of those handbags we found a
glass eye Often we find box Of
rouge, ano nine times out OF ten
there's powder, an little mirror an
things to make lovely woman loveIier
than the Lord ever meant her TO be.
But the women amt the only ones
not by a long shot, Though with
men il mostly runs 10 their hair.
We've had more bottles of hair dye,
and hair restoIer. Of one sort or an
other left behind by men than We
ever have by women-an' that's no
dream,
You certainly do see 2 lot of
: human nature on these cars-moTe
particularly at the rush hours. You
: wouldn't believe how hoggish people
can be about seats. So long as they
have seats themselves. nine people
: out of ten don't care whether any
one else has one or not. They just
; spread themselves over the whole
: car, and II you ask them 10 move
!, up they feel insulted
Funny thing happened here the
/ other night There was a young
! fellow on my car who often does
, ride with me, an while he's a nice
boy. truth TO tell / amt over glad
. TO see him in a crowd He's 50
big he takes up as much room as
two ordinary passengers An I've
noticed he amt given UP his seat TO
every giddy girl that plants herself
an her gay clothes in front of him.
He does give it up sometimes, but
it's nearly always 10 some quiet
elderly, tired-loOking woman. with a
, gentle face that looks like she might
be somebody's good mother. Well
: this night ! noticed this young fel-
2 low. An on each side OF him was
e big mountains of women-an' ]
S couldn't help thinkin' that those
I three took up room for six. Well
: by an by. I happened TO be in The
I car gettin' a late fare. an l heard
the young fellow say, Won't you tax,
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NOAhhStOlB Pul4l6
his bell with a
little unnecessary
force, and looking
vengefully after the two men who
had just gotten off. 81 should say;
but the world is full of 'em. Lord
if you want TO know how many
cranks there are in the world you
just wear my uniform for about a
week, and ride on this platform, and
pull this bell. tell you it's enough
to turn your hair gray. See mine;
1 been holding down this job for
goin' on five years"
He was a shrewd, smiling man,
this old conductor. His grizzled hair
was not so awfully grizzled as his
speech would indicate, and there
was a twinkle in his eye that seemed
to argue that he got some fun out of
life, even If his world was full Of
cranks. "R street. + street," and
he jerked his bell. Then as a hand
somely dressed woman got up and
hustled off, BEG pardon, ma'am. Is
that your package?"
"Oh, thank you," and she swooped
down on a parcel In the seat near
where she had been sitting, and was
out of the car before the conductor
had a chance to ask her to step
lively, please"
Now, 1 wonder" he said, eff that
really was her package, or If some
other passenger left it behind.
There's women that wouldn't steal
a pin can't resist Just sorter 'quirin'
a package. if it seems to be lyin'
round loose without an owner. You
see it gets 'em comm an goin', hits
'em in their curiosity to see what's
inside OF it-there amt no one livin'
that don't like to open bundles-and
in their human hankerin' to get
somethin'-don't much matter what
for nothin'
81 don't mind ownin' Un that us
conductors generally open sucn bun
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Everything in Nature dnd Out Of 1t Is Lost
at Least Once in the Cars, and Stocks Of
Good Manners More Completely and
Finally Than Anything Else. ~ ~

+ ~ RANKs?" said the
conductor, pulling
his bell with a
4 little unnecessary
force and looking
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the century before the last. only
twenty-six Americans have become
President-and not a single for
eigner.
Doesn't this fact put parents and
teachers in rather an unenviable po-
sition as regards sincerity? Here
we have today at least ten million
innocent children in this broad land
of ours, and nearly every one has
been told that he has a chance to
become President if he will only re-
gard his book and be a good boy and
do more right than wrong.
For my part, / think we ought to
take our children aside and tell them
frankly that they have mighty little
chance. Think of a bright boy toll
ing on at school, avoiding athletics
and burning the midnight oil and
his brain as well-for there's as
much consumption of brain us there
is Of midnight oil in these nocturnal
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down. So on the down run about
half an hour later, We got lantern
swing at us 10 stop An when
stood with any hand on the strap,
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)ME ONE with a taste for
figures was telling me the
other day that since the
formation OF the United
States somewhere back in
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LAST.

The last concrete abutment for the identification of the New Haven road from New York to Stamford was com pleted yesterday. It is at the Beast Main street bridge, Stamford.
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Boston stock Quotations.

Reported over private wires of Horn blower & Weeks. members of New York and Boston Stock Exchanges, New Haven office. S7 Center street.
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NAW YoRK SToCK MARKEr

On the New York Stock Exchange reported by Prince & Whitely. Bank CTS and Brokers, 52 Broadway New u The following are the closing prices Conn.
 ODen Hiph I o1v CIoee
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Closing Prices.

The following are the closing prices reported by Prince & Whitely. Bankers and Brokers, 25 Broadway, New York, and 15 Center street, New Haven.
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LOCAL FINANCIAL NOTES.

N. r., N. H. and H. R. R. has been neglected during the past few weeks with few sales from 194 to 196, clos ing at 195
 Holders of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad for August 29 can subscribe at par for 23 per cent. of their holdings of the new common stock Payments are 12-2S of the subscription on September 25 and 11-2S November 12 Naturally there will be consider able amounts of fractional scrip to be adjusted.
 Holders of the Chicago and North west railroad will meet October IS to authorize an increase of capital of $10O,OOO,oO0 The new, stock of the Bos- ton and Maine railroad was payable September 1.
 The New York and New Jersey Tel ephone stock is weak having declined from 1S3 to 127 Nominal quotations for it is 125 to 129
 Swift & Go. 'stock is remarkably steady at 1O4 to 104 1-2.
 Stockholders of the Greene Con. Cop per company will receive dividend of 40 cents per share on September 15.
 Parrot Mining company stockholders will receive a dividend of 25 cents per share payable September 12.
 The clearings and balances for the New Haven banks for the week ending September 1, 19o6 and for the corre- spending week of last year are furnish ed by the secretary of the New Haven clearing house as follows:
 1906. Balances. 1905,
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TENDLER-GUR1AN.
Wedding at Temple Street Synagogue
 Yesterday.

Miss Jennette Tender, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Joseph Tender of r Dag gett street, was married to Harry Gu rian, who is in the fruit business, at the Temple street synagogue yesterday at 5 o'clock. The bride was gowned in white satin. Miss Fannie Laker was brides maid, Charles Tendler best man, Samuel Tender, Harry, Israel and Frank Wetkin ushers and Isabella Ruben and Lottie Olinsky flower girls The ceremony was performed by Rabbi Freedburg of the Congregation B'nai Jacob.
 In the evening reception with danc- irg, music and refreshments was held at Music hall on Court street.
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1,S0S, 4S7,09 S66, ,306.23 2,7Ol, ,94

lioUo,to t.uV OVUpoVV'Ao AyIUAyJtA't q Decrease clearings week of 1906, $S93,- 5046S.
 Balances week of 1905, 672, ,49S.SS. Difference of balances, 306, 19215. Clearings week of 1904 $2,210,661.74 Clearings week of 1903, $1,97S 9SO.27 Clearings week of 1902 s1,4S2,5776S. Dividends soon due are: Amer. Graph. com, 1 i-4, Sept 15; books closed Sept. 1. Amer Sugar pf, l 3-4, Oct. 2: Sept i. Amer. Sugar, 8-4 Oct. 2; Sept 1, Amer. Tobacco com, 1-2, Sept. 4; Aug. 15.
 Barney & Smith, 1, Sept. 15; Sept 5. Boston & Albany, ?, Sept. 29; Sept. .. Boston & Maine R. R., 3-4, Oct. 1; Sept. 1.
 Copper Range, $15O, Oct. i; Sept T. calumet & Arizona, $3.50, Sept. 2O; Sept. 1S
 Calumet & Hecla, sso, Sept 20; Aug. IS.
 Canadian Pacific pf, 2, Oct. 1; Sept. i. Cent. Lea. pf, S-4, Sept. 1; July S1. Chicago & Ct. w pf. A, ? 1-2, Oct c. M. & St. P, com, 3 1-2 Oct 1s; Aug 29.
 childs Go. pf, 1 s-4, Sept, 10; Sept. 4 Colo. Tel, 3-4.
 Consolidated Gas, N. T., i, Sept. 15; Aug. "A.
 Del. & Hud, S-4, Sept. 15; Aug 25 Diamond Match, 3 1-2, Sept 15; Aug 31.
 Erie 1st pf, ?, Sept '; Aug. IT. Erie 2d pf, ?, Oct. g; Sept Il. General Electric, 9, Oct. 15; Sept. 15 Granby Con. Cop, 3, Sept 15; Aug. 20 Greene Con. Cop, 4. Sept. 15; Aug 25 Kansas City. Ft. Scott & Memphis pf ctfs l, Oct 1; Sept 1T. Mackay Cos. of, 1, Oct. 1; Sept. IT, Mackay Co. com, 1, Oct. 1; Sept r. National Biscuit com, l, Oct. l5 Sept 2S.
 National Enal. & stpg pf, 1 8-4, Oct 1; Sept. 10.
 National Lead, pt,, S-4, Sept. 15; Aug z4.
 National Lead, l, Oct. 1; Sept. 15 N. Y, N. H. and H. R. R, ?, Sept 30 Sept. 15.
 Parrot Silver & Copper, 25c, Sept F Aug 25.
 Railway Steel Spring pf, S-4 Sept 20; Sept. 8.
 Reading 1st pf. 2, Sept. 10; Aug. 2. Repub. Iron & Steel, pf, 3 3-4, Oct. l Sept. r.
 Rubber Goods Mfg. pf, S-4, Sept. 15 Sept 8.
 Southern Pacific com, 1-2, Oct. 1. Standard ol, ss, Sept. 15 Aug. 20. Southern Ky pf, 1-2, Oct. 1T; Sep p.
 Union Pacific pf. 2, Oct. l; Sept l5. Union Pacific com, 5, Oct. 1; Sept. Il U. S. Lea pf, 1-2, Oct. 1; Sept 10. '. s. Reduction & Refining pf, Oct. Sept 20.
 Utica & Black River, 1-2, Sept. 29 Sept, IS,
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Chicago Market.

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Consolidated Stock Exchange.
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