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Ithaca-and director Of the Loomis Insti-
tute is also furtheFing the anti-germ
fight along many lines.
IT. fact, there are so many American
names on the list of those who are help
ing . lengthen the lives Of their fellows
by doing valuable germ research WORK.
that many must go unnotieed. Or. Theo-
bald Smith, Of Harvard. who found that
the Texas fever is Transmitted by a tick
AMI Or. f. Q. Jordan, OF Chicago. who
has added much to the worlds knowledge
OF water bacteTia-such as the germ OF
typhold-are among those whose services
ha e been most valuable.
When pr Koch. OF Berlin. made his
first discoveries with regard TO tubercu-
losls-upon which the modern science %
bacterioiogy Is built-the average OF
human life was only thirty-three years
To-day, less than three decades later. the
average Is more than forty years. Why
shouldn't the multimillionaires be free
with their piledup dollars to help the
psychologists IN the anti-germ war;
Copyright 1907 by Dexter Marshsll)
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POLITICAL GOOD FEELING.
Very Little for Our Statesmen to
Quarrel About.

From the Richmond News Leader.
Present indications suggest the near ap-
proacb Of an era OF good feeling and
unity. such as neither this country nor
any other ever has known. Republicans
and Democrats are together and II looks
as II We will work together with the next
Presidential election turning on prefer
ences for party names. Apparently there
are no serious issues. Sectional questions
have been settled and sectional issues are
disposed of. Republicans a-d Democrats
alike are pledged 10 reversal Of the re-
lations between the corporations and the
people so that the corporations shall be
the servants and the people and their rep
resentatives the masters, with kindly and
liberal regard 70 the rights of property
and allowance of fair profit for honest In
vestment and faithful service We are
together IN demand for revision of the
tariff 10 a revenue basis. We hardly find
the word protection" in any recent Re
publican speeches. We are together in
respect for the guaranteed rights and con-
stitutional sovereignty of the States. We
are together against the Bryan idea. since
repudiated by Mr.. Bryan himself. OF gov
eminent ownership OF transportation.
Judging by the acts and methods, we are
together practically on the race question
Really. there is very little for Us 10 quar-
rel about,
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ROOSEVELT AND JACKSON.
Remarkable Historical Parallel BE-
tween Two Administrations.

Remarkable Historical Parallel De-
tween Two Administrations.
From the Wall Street Journal
There are a number Of remarkable par
allellisms between the administration Of
Jackson and Roosevelt Jackson made
the great feature Of his administration an
attack upon the United States bank
which. with its affiliations, constituted the
money oigarchy OF that day. The most
remarkable feature Of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration has been his attack on the
Standard Oil Company, which. with its af-
nlations. may be regarded as the money
oligarchy OF to-day. In considering this
paralleIlism, It may be we'll 10 remember
that Jackson succeeded In his purpose Of
driving out the United States bank
In his war against this great banking
institution Jackson withdrew the govern
ment deposits from H. This act neces-
sarIly produced tremendous sensation
and commotion IN the financial markets
and resulted IN depression In stocks and
many failures. II was claimed by the
/ opponents Of Jackson that the course Of
the market constituted an object lesson
Of the dangerous consequences Of his pol
/ icy TO the prosperity Of the country It
was claimed by Senator Benton and other
defenders OF Jackson that the depression
| IN the markets had been purpOsely Great
ed by Jackson's enemies for the purpose
Of defeating his policy.
! Here Is another parallellism for the en-
enies Of Roosevelt are claiming that The
! present depression In the stock market is
an object lesson Of the dangerous effects
| of his policy, while President Roosevelt
| himself. in his ProvincetOwn speech, has
| declared that the malfactors Of great
wealth. whom he has been endeavoring
10 punish. have combined 10 bring about
as much financial stress as they possibly
can in order 20 discredit the policy OF the
! government and secure a reversal Of that
! policy
Another remarkable parallellsm between
Roosevelt and Jackson Is 20 be found IN
the fact that each desired to project his
policy beyond his own term Of Office, and
each found a man 10 undertake the
achievement
For instance, Jackson, had Martin Van
Buren,, a complete follower of his pol
icy, one who made his own campaign for
the Presidency upon the Jackson platform.
and Who as President. consummated the
Jackson policy by signing the bill for the
establishment Of the independent treasury
system.
In Secretary Taft Roosevelt has found
another Martin Van Buren who has chos-
en- TO conduct his own campaign for the
Presidency upon the Roosevelt platform
and pledged 10 carry out the Roosevelt
policy.
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FEDERAL RIGHTS IMPERILED.

Significance of Legislation Gov.
Conner Is Trying to Enforce.
From the Charlotte Observer
1t seems that the Alabama Secretary
Of State only did his prescribed duty
In caneeling the Southern Railways II
cense 20 do business IN Alabama, but
the law under which he acted is another
matter We have no hesitation in de-
claring that law one of the most indie
feasible which this country has ever
known. II contemplates nothing less
than the outlawing OF any foreign
corporation which has the temerity TO
remove a suit from State courts TO Fed
eral courts. The propTiety Of the re-
moval, as where the Constitution and
laws Of the United States clearly con-
troll. would seem not 10 matter. Such
legislation can be explained only by ref
erence to popular evaporation with the
policy OF certain railroad companies, not
ably the Southern Railway, in continually
using Federal courts as d means Of fout-
ing State courts; it can be defended
neither upon this nor any other ground.
No abuse OF an inherent and absolutely
necessary right can justify total depri-
walton
But it is not the Southern Railway
which has most at stake n this matter.
II States have power. by threats OF
outlawry, TO enforce boycotts Of the
United States courts, the fate of those
courts from highest 70 lowest. IS easily
foreseen. No means would be left
whereby controversies between different
States or citizens OF States could be
arbitrated. The Supreme Court OF the
United States itself, the greatest tribunal
on earth, and bearing TO forty-hve limited
sovereignties that relation Of recognized
arbitrator which many thinkers hope viii
some day exist for independent nations
at The Hague. would be brought 20
naught- It IS clear enough that the
American Union must go 70 pieces II
such a state OF affairs were long toler-
ated- That Il viii be tolerated at all We
have no belief whatever State rights
imply the existence Of Federal rights,
and In this instance ii is only Federal
rights which appear % be involved
Whereas North Carolina recently resisted,
in legal and orderly manner, an affrOnt
by a Federal judge which would have
left her hardly any shreds OF real sOver-
eighty. Alabama wages war on the
Federal courts es such, and proposes to
outlaw ntigants who enter their portals
Federal rights are as clear in this case
as were State rights in the other.
The necessity Of self-preservati0n must
impel the general government 10 speak out
il Alabama really attempts 10 enforce
her crazy statute. and no one who re-
members that he is a citizen Of tina
United States, owing primary allegiance
thereto, as well as a citizen of a State,
could wish It 10 do otherwise. Such legis-
latiou as that under which the Southern
Railway has just been declared an out
law Is utterly prepOsterOus from any
standpoint, and the Alabama legislature,
now in session, cannot do a better thing
than set about its immediate repeal.
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Maria'S Midnight Lectures.
LECTURE NO. ?.

late II IS II Il was any one else
wanted 10 talk TO you but your long
suffering wife, you'd be glad enough
TO listen. I tell you. Mr. Roosevelt
knows what he's talking about. Why,
as I read after him he didn't leave
those shot snipe a leg TO stand on.
DR.. Long, indeed, DR.. Longbow. I
should call him. Why, he has a story
about a wolf showing a little girl the
way home. as II We was a-going 10
believe that. Why. 1 never believed II
even when 1 read II in Little Red
Riding Hood. That doctor manu be
asking Us 10 believe all about old
Mother Hubbard next
4 was mighty interested in the Mrs.
Eddy case. too. There's one woman
that stands up for the rights of the
downtrodden sex. OF course, a lot o.
men would have TO get after her and
say she didn't know enough TO take
care Of her money. but I reckon they'll
leave her alone now. I never did hold
much TO any Christian Science. Of
myself, as my mother was before me;
bu; I tell you right now, Job Shrew,
that I'm going 10 buy q copy of her
book, 'Scienc and Wealth-what.
Science and Health?-wen. I'm going
TO get it, anyway.
Il see they're fighting in the English
Parliament again over the bill pre-
scented by the deceased wife's sister.
and I hear that it's been going on now
for good many years. I don't know
who she is. but she must want to get
married mighty bad, and why the
House Of Lords won't let her Is more
than l can tell! Why don't she come
TO this country and get married? I de-
member Jane Dabney, out in Green's
burg. She was engaged to Mort
Fletcher and her sister Sue beat her
to him. All Jane did was to set down
and wait, and pretty soon Sue caught
cold going to the country fair and she
up and died. and then Jane married
Mort and there wasn't a soul to in
terfere. 1t was better for Jane. too,
because Sue had got him broke into
the family ways. so he made a pretty
good sort Of husbands husbands go.
She was his deceased wife's sister. but
no one thought o. calling her that If
they had I reckon Mort would a. licked
'em. It sounds pretty near as bad as
swearing 10 me.
No. I will not go TO sleep. not until
1 get good and ready Yes. know
you have to be at the Office at $50.
What do you suppose Mr.. Root wants
to learn to box and wrestle for at his
time of life? see he's gone into train
ing with Mr.. Muldoon down al White
Strains, and they won't let him
smoke cigarettes no more. Who ever
thought that this country had a Secre-
tary of State that would smoke Turk
ish cigarettes? I tell you, when you
put a man In one of these asylums you
find out all sorts of bad things about
them Mr.. Muldoon must be getting
20 be an old man now. I hope that
Mr.. Root won't get angry with him
because his cigarettes are taken away,
and go and hurt him!
Listen. That's little Emily call
ing Yes. It is! She waHts-a drink o.
water. Job, Job, Now you're not
asleep. you know you're not Get UP
an get Emily a drink.-Well. lay
there. then.
Coming. Emily. dearl Mamman
get you a drink"
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COMING STATE ELECTIONS.
Local Contests Which May show
How the Wind Blows.


How the Wind blows.
From Leslie's Weekly.
Massachusetts,. Rhode Island. New DER
sey Maryland. Mississippi. and Kentucky
elect governors in November, 1907, and
most of these States, as we'll as few
others. wiz choose one or both branches
of their legislatures. The contests in
Rhode Island, New Jersey. and Maryland
will be Of special interest TO the country
Rhode Island which gave a plurality Of
nearly 1900 TO President Roosevelt in
1885, has elected a Democrat to the gov
ernorship several times recently. and has
a Democratic governor now. New Jersey.
which was once called the Northern pro-
lection Of the Solid South. and which Un-
I'll 1896 was about as reliably Democratic
as South Carolina, is being claimed by
the Democrats this year. Maryland has
been a doubtful State for the past dozen
years, swinging from one party TO the
other. Mckinley carried II in 1896 and
1900. and In 1904 the division was so close
that nobody knew who had the State IN
III the official count was made. Then Il
600. Parker beat Roosevelt by only 81
votes.
These States, holding their elections so
close 20 the big national canvass, Will
show the direction and the force Of the
partisan currents When the Republicans
carried Maryland and Kentucky for gov
ernor In 1925, the country saw that the
drift was decidedly IN favor of the Repub-
leans for big canvass twelve months
later When Roswell P. Flower carried
New York for governor IN 1891 by a 1900
margin, and Horace Boise carried Iowa,
these were among the portents Of the
Democratic landslide IN 1892. which placed
Cleveland in the Presidency. Foraker
defeat at the polls for governor OF Ohio
In 1883 by George Hoadly was one Of the
indications OF that swing Of the country
away from the Republicans which was 10
defeat Blline in 1854 and send Cleveland
10 the White House for HIS first term.
Some Of tEese State elections Of 1901 may
be important as pointers of the direc-
ton in which the political wind will blow
IN Iq0S
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BALKS AT WATS0N'S RULE.
Macon Paper Throws Some side
lights on Georgia Situation.

Macon Paper Throws Some Side
lights on Georgia Situation.
From the Macon Telegraph.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Tom Watson has
used the columns OF the Atlanta C0nsu-
tuition TO announce TO the world that tbs
Populist party now holds the Democratic
party-State and national-'1n the hollow
OF SIS hand" we are not going to fall
under the daisies al the boast, and turn
our toes TO the sun. That hand" is too
small and narrow TO hold" stout-hearted
Democrats. The chicken-hearted may
fiutter and squawk but the game breed
will fly the coop. and defy the raiders.
While It is true that the State Democ-
racy was committed TO local option, We
are not going to sickle now as 10 that.
There were prohibiticnists and also local
optionists in all the parties-Democratic
Republican, and Populist. a combination
Of prohibitionists in all three parties
brought State prohibition. The party
creed on this subject disappeared before
the combination. The prohibition law
Ike it or motifs row fact. It is a fact
that is going 70 remain. al least. for a
time. The issue is a closed incident But
the fact that the party platform was dis
regarded by the legislature does not nee
essariiy call for disarmament OF the
party. There are other graver issues.
There are other and more potent reasons
for the continued existence Of the party
Of Jefferson, Jackson, Tilden, and Cleye-
land-of Colquitt Gordon. Turner. Lester.
Walsh. Howell. Grady, and Atkinson
and If all others quail before the opposi-
ton tide, now probably al its full" the
Telegraph will stand with the last man
in the last ditch for its preservation and
perpetuation.
The Telegraph did not support the can
didacy of Hon. Hoke Smith last year be-
cause IL feared the combination he was
making would produce that state OF
affairs OF which Watson now loudly
boasts. We do not believe that Mr.. Smith
saw i as plainly as we did. If he saw II
at all; and when the sharp edge wears or
of his reform" blade. as it will, we ex-
pect TO see him calling the party in this
State back from its wanderings among &
strange people in strange land.
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''Job, Job Shrew! Now, you're rot
asleep, and you know it, Tell me.
did you bring home that cough strip
Tor little Emily? or course not.
You're always forgetting your family.
Sleepy? / know you are not; you
can't be, and I an going 10 talk.
i've been reading about young
Prince Wilhelm OF Sweden. II VIII
helm means William. why can't they
say il in good, plain English7 I see
that Mrs. Fish got him to her house
at Newport, and it's q social triumph.
I don't think its SO extra. do you?
Sweden's where they make them
StandenstickeF matches that smell so
badly; and nails-those kind of nails
that bend. I suppose a lot OF these
toadying Americans own stock In
the match trust or the nail trust.
But why should such a fuss and
feathers be made over him? Papa had
a dog once named Prince, and he
wasn't q well-behaved dog. either!
kE0A GNFl ntA VI WI cAA y
speech at Coshocton, Ohio. Not
Coshocton? Columbus. Well. what's
the difference-COshocton or Column
bus7 They're both In Ohio Mr.. Taft
would make a perfectly lovely Pres
ident. I don't quite understand Just
what he's going to DO TO the railroads,
but it sounds awful enough, and
he is as stern about the trusts as
Mr. Bryan was. Mr.. Taft for Presi-
dent and Mr. Bryan for Vice President
would be a lovely combination. don't
you think so?
Il never know anything about poll
tics. That's right; abuse me 10 my
face. What If ones a Democrat and
the other a Republican; a man can
change, can't he? There was my
uncle, Calvin Snow-didn't he bet not
10 cut his hair until Mr.. Bryan was
elected. and when 1t got so long that
he began to look like Buffalo Bill
didn't he change his politics and get
his hair cut? Couldn't Mr.. Bryan do
the same-not about the hair, but
about the changing?
What do 1 care IL it is o'clock. It's
a pity can't have a little of your time
once in a while. If you thought more
OF the great issues Of the day. like 1
DO, you'd be a better citizen.
There's one thing I can't under
stand about this trouble with the
Moors. hear they're still a-sghting
and bombardlng towns and a-hunting
for his Raisouli, the man with the
wh'skers, who seducted Mr. MacLean.
AID what's Casabianca got TO DO with
it? When 1 was at school I spoke a
piece about him; only then he was a
poor boy who stood upon the burning
deck whence all but he had fled If
they've elected this man Muley Hal
ford for Sultan. don't see why he
don't begin to Suit and stop all this
nonsense. I'm sure he doesn't belong
to the Indiana Halfords-I had an
aunt who knew Lige Halford right
well when he was on til Indianapolis
Journal, and he wasn't at all the sort
o. man TO go eavorting around Fee
and Tangler and them kind o places.
You amt interested in all this for
elgn news? OF course. you say that.
But am, and am going to be heard.
IL you came home earlier we could
have the whole evenings to ourselves.
Weren't you interested, Job, in
what the President had to say about
the natuTe-fakers? Yes. know how
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when the Cabinet Meets.

From the St. Louis Post-Disratch.
The Cabinet had assembled.
''Well?' said the President
I have the honor 10 report the head
of the sugar trust in prison" said Mir.
Bonaparte.
Nothing" said Mr. Root.
Six big land thieves sent over the
road" said Mt Garfield.
Nothing" said Mr. Straus.
The wives OF four more army officers
barred FROM the campus at West Point, !"
said Mr.. Taft
Nothing, said Mr. Meyer.
The head OF the ieef trust has been
put IN a dungeon" said Mr.. Wilson
Nothing, said Mr.. Metcalf.
Il have had the eagle on our coinage
replaced with a Teddy bear" said Mr..
Cortelyou.
Rising, the President said:
"Messrs. Bonaparte, Garfield, Taft. and
Wilson, may run along Messrs. Root.
Straus. Meyer, and Metcalf viii re-
main after school thirty minutes. and
Mr.. Cortelyou gets this big red apple
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Ey FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

who was sentenced TO death under the
old English law FOR forgery Upon one
occasion when prominent Mason was
upon the bench in Cincinnati. the dlseov-
cry that a defendant was a Free Mason
caused him 10 say that a man who VIC
lated the law should be punished but a
Mason who violated il should be pun
ished both for mis- offense against the
State and the offense to Freemasonry.
TO-mOrrOW-The independent Or
der of Odd Fellows.
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From the New Bedford Standard
II you are a telegraph striker. there
is big strike; If you are a telegraph
official. there is no strike at all. If you
are neither, you don't bother much about
IL
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Deadly Germs on Street Car Straps?

Result of Examination and Analyses by the New York
Health Department Guinea Pig Killed by Germs
Found in StrapS-Window SiILS, Ratings, and Other
Places Afford Epen Better Places of Lodgment for
Dangerous Neutrality-suspicious. of Scientists
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Probably the most ancient Of the great
frsternlties is the Masonic order. It's his
tory Is traced back through the centuries,
until its origin Is lost in the mists Of an
tiquity There are writer's who contend
that il was born in the Orient. Others
hold that II was Graded in Egypt in for
gotten ages. and stil others say that the
chivalric order, the Knights Templars,
fought in the Crusades and carried Ma
sonry forward from that time By some
it is maintained that the Roman artifeers
and builders created IL, and again we hear
that It was evolved from the civil strife
in Great Britain in the fifteenth century.
The mother OF all the Masonic lodges of
the three-craft degrees was the Premier
Grand Lodge. Of England, organized in
17l7 The membership of the Masons has
always included members of the aristOc-
racies Of blood and brains. and kings have
been proud TO be its officers To-day
there are more than a million Freemasons
in the United States They are repre-
sentative Americans. and their order is a
useful factor 10 society.
nc litbL GtltItilCc 10 tt PIiNlitBt u gE
compass. square, and level, and ye plum
line" was made in 15lS, at which time the
order was used to preserve building as a
monopoly. About that time the "Cowans''
fought the Masons and finally broke their
power. Here speculative masonry, as it is
known to-day. began. The order secured
government influence, and became free of
guilds and OF laws that governed friendly
societies" In Great Britain The word
free" was introduced 10 differentiate be-
tween artisans and accepted MasOns,
who were not operatives, and the term
'Freemason'' was evolved. II is believed
that the Master MasoRs planned and con-
structed the cathedrais and other re-
llgiOus ediices OF the Middle Ages in
England. but In Importance as a guild
they lost ground, and in III what is
known as the revival took place. This
was a turning point in the career Of the
order. The Rev. James Anderson. OF
Edinburgh, a minister In charge of
Scottish Presbyterian church in London.
and John Theophilus Desaguliers.
Frenchman. who was rector Of Christ
Church. Oxford. were directed 10 compile
the history and traditions OF the order
They changed the theory Of the institu-
ton to admit all creeds and n9tDnalities.
and their regulations are use In Free
masonry to-day.
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1t is frequently stated that no Mason
was ever hanged, and that members Of
the order always fare well in courts Of
law. The idea is wholly erroneous. Few
Masons are tried in criminal courts. be-
cause few of them are criminals but IL
should be remembered that George III
himself a Mason, declined to pardon
a minister cf the Church Of England
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The danger from disease germs OF every
kind IS much less to-day than even a few
years ago. As the science Of bacteriologv
Is brought 10 higher state: as the nature
Of disease germs and the means of de-
stroying them are better understood The
control Of germ diseases will improve
from year TO year. AT the present time
more men and vastly more money are en-
gagged in fighting disease through sol
entifc research than ever before. and the
fight is being carried on in every civilized
land.
The names OF Koch. the German. and
Pasteur, the Frenchman, always will be
associated with this fight. no matter how
far beyond their furthest advances the
anti-germ contest may progress. The
Pasteur Institute in Paris is the most eff
eient and most famous center Of the anti
germ war to-day, with tho Imperial Instl-
tuts OF Infectious Diseases at Berlin a