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Cocoanuts in jamaica.

The milk in the water cocoannt IL
a food as. well as a beverages:
The cart driven through the streets
of Jamaica by the quaint old darky'
urging along his rebellious steed m
the form of a native donkey is an In
.teresting sight. One is amazed at
the d~extreus manner in, which the
vendor takes the unrtpe cocoanut
his hand and deftly cuts a hole N the
top. from which you drink the milk
Then you return the nut to the man
and with his machete he cracks it In
to. three. pieces rnd cuts a spoon
shaped silver from one side from
which you eat the white, jellyhRe
substance seraped from the inside
These are. the unrfpe cecoanuts ~
Philadelphia Record.
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it; that his broad and deep sympa-
thies made him feel a genuine sense
of oneness with all his fellow-Ameri-
cans, whatever their station or work
in life, so that to his soul they were
all Joined with him in a great broth
erly democracy of the spirit. 1t is
not given to many of us in our lives
actually to realize this attitude to the
extent that he did; but we can at
least have it before us as the goal OF
our endeavor, and by so doing we
shall pay honor better than in any
other way to the memory Of the dead
President whose services in life we
this day commemorate"
After vigorous hand-clapping e
the Presidents reference to the dis
couragement of dishonest rich men,
he stopped abruptly and demanded
that the applause cease.
wait a moment" he said. Il
don't want you to applaud this part
unless you are willing also to applaud
the part I read first, to which you
listened in silence. I want you to
understand that I will stand just as
straight for the rights of the honest
man who wins his fortune by honest
methods as I will stand against the
dishonest mar who wins a fortune by
dishonest methods
Immediately after the dedicatory
ceremonies, President Roosevelt and
party visited the interior of the tomb.
Next went the invited guests, and
then the general public, the process
sion continuing until dark.
The tomb, built at a cost of over
$500, 900, is the donation of over a
million Americans. 1t now holds the
bodies of President Mckinley and
Mrs. Mckinley and their only chill
dren, Ida and Mary, who died in In
fancy. The bodies of President and
Mrs. Mckinley are in bronze baskets
in the %sarcophagi, while the bodies
of the children are in caskets placed
in inches in the wall. The tomb is a
work of simple art, designed by H.
Van Buren, Magonigle, Of New York,
and is situated on Monument Hill, a
high and picturesque spot, close to
President McKinley's old home in
Canton.
The monument is reached by a
flight of steps fifty-eight feet in width
in four runs, with wide landings be.
tween. making a total length of 2OC
feet.
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Ncvsy GleaninGS.

New York City has 637,3SS chill
dren in schools.
Japanese miners arriving at Atm,
British Columbia, were escorted pack
to their steamer by 300 white work
Mrs. Annie Besant, world presl-
dent, advised the T~hcosophists Of
America, in convention at Chicago,
against the adoption of a moral code.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier IT,
Canada, denied the request Of the
Dominion Trades and Labor Congress
to take steps to abrogate the treaty
with japan.
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&f0O Reward O

The readers of this paper will bepleasedts
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis :.
ease shat science has been able TO cure IN al
its staI o.. and thati is Catarrh. Halls atafrf
Cure IS the only positive cure now knownts
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a cen,
stitutional disease, REQUIRES a constitutions iona
nally. acting directly upon the blosd andmfa
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
thee patient strength by building W, the, eee
stitution and assisting nature IN dong ~
work. The propriesors have so much faitb
in its curative powers that they offer Ont
Hundred Dollars for any case tnat it fails ia
cure. Send for list Of testimonials. Address
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, U.
Sold by all Druggists, T5c.
Fake Halls Family Pills for constipation
The third-cfass railroad fare OF
Russia Is less than that Of any other
country of Europe. 1t averages a
little over half a cent O mile.
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About Noted People.

Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, with
Mrs. Depew, returned from Europe.
The siamese King bought $1,000,
600 worth of diamonds and gold ana
silverware in Berlin.
Professor Albert M. Lythgoe,
Psychologist, has returned to New
York from Europe, after an absence
Of one year.
Conservatives in China have been
shocked to learn that Duke Con-
fucius," direct descendant Of the sage
CohfuGlus in the seventy-sjxth genera
tion, has Joined the uhepN movement
In the Empirs..:
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Feminine Notes.

Mrs. C. oliver Iselin inherited Slo''
obO 0 under her fathers will.
Two-thirds Of the prisoners in the
New York night courts are women.
The Countess of Warwick con
demned American women for riding
astride.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney has de-
cided leanings toward work as a
sculptures.
Frank D. Hill, consul at Amster.
dam, reports that in a great diamond
cutting factory three women are Ell,
trusted with the most delicate and
difficult part Of the processes,
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The Field Of Sports.

PENNSYLVANIA had an easy victory
at football over North Carolina.
George Bonhag, the American
champion, is taking a short rest
Contests on land and on the sea
now pale in interest before those IN
the air.
Jack" Johnson outfought Sailor"
Burke in their six round bout at
Bridgeport, Conn.
Captain C. E. Ide, of the Yale
Varsity eight, will not return to col
lege this fall. having decided to enter,
into a business enterprise in San
Francisco.
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CHEAP FARES IN CLEVELAND.

Cleveland, Ohio.-The Cleveland
Electric Railway is nov selling street
"a tickets at the rate Of seven fcr
twenty-five cents.
The announcement Of the company
saws the experiment is made to snow
the public that the company IS IN
earnest in it's effort to give the CleVe-
land public practically three n a
half-cent fare, which, 1t says "oulu
be permanent il its proposition 10 'ne
citv iS accented.
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With the Workers,

There are $4,000 members of the
International Tobacco Workers Union
in the United States.
The boot and shoe trades in Eng
land favor the abolition of overtime
and the reduction of the hours OF la
Dor.
In n year preceding November,
1906, $3,968, 1885 was paid out in
strike benefits by siXty-four interna-
tional unions.
San Francisco fCal.) BartendeIs'
Union has decided to withdraw all
cards from bars and to substitute the
working buttons.
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BIGGEST COTTON LAND DEAL.
king Cotton E1dridge, Of Missis-
sippi, Sells 5000 Acres.

HiTlhouse, Miss.-:What is regard
ed as. the biggest deal in cotton
lands in the history of the cotton
country has been recorded, whereby
rs. 900 acres Of cultivated cotton lane
have ben transferred to an English
syndicate.
E. s.. French, Chicago, engineered
the deal, whereby John w. Eldridge;
thought to be the largest individual!
cotton planter in the world, and
known as King Cotton" gave deed
to his mammoth plantation in con-
sideration Of $4,000 and assump'
ton of mortgages.
Eldridge, who was a neWsboy mere
before the war, is a relative or eX'
Japanese Ambassador Luke +
Wright, and will retire to private
life
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NEGRO sTRANGLER's STORY.

Chicago.-Richard Walton, a ne
gro. has confessed that he alone muir
iered Mrs. Lillian White Grant, by
strangling her as h lay IN oeu a
her home. Using Ponce inspectoas
Hunt as a dummy Walton illustrated
how he had tied an undervest aoout
Mrs. Grants neck and choked ner
to death.
Afterward he stole her watch and
money and fled. He was arrested
in Springfield, ILL.,, by a negro ponce
man.
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using Doan's Kidney Pills | sui
fered everything from kidney trou:
bles for a year and a half. hae
pain in the back and head, and al
most continuous In the loins and fell
weary all the time. A few doses OF
Doan's Kidney Pills brought great
relief, and l kept on taking them un'
til in a short time | was cured.
think Doan's Kidney Pills are Von',
derful,"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a boz.
Foster-Milhurn Co.. Buffalo, N. I,
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Fate Follows Powers Jury.

Thomas Hanley, aged f~ifty-eight,
a farmer, dropped dead at his home
at Paris, KY. Hanley was a member
Of the jury that found Caleb Powers
guilty of the charge of numbering
William Goebel, and is the twenty
fifth person connected with the case
to meet with accident or sudden
death.
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Visit TO the Rogers Church.

Delegates to the Religious Liberal
Congress, at Boston, visited Fair
Haven. Mass, and attended a SER
vice in the Unitarian church, which
was built by Henry H. Rogers; MIR.
Rogers, accompanied by his physi-
clan, was present.
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Fish browns Two Boys.

A big pickerel, which was hooked
by ten-year-old Clifton Davis IN Cfys,
tai Lake, at Newton, Mass, psileo
the boy and James Lane, aged eight
into the water and both were
drowned.
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a "Coney Island" at Panama.

Miss Gertrude Beck, sent by Sec
rotary Taft to investigate the condi-
ton of Panama Canal employees, re-
ported that a "Coney Island" ought
to be established for their amuse-
ment.
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Army Officers Appointed.

The War Department announced
the appointment of William +. DIV
vail to be a Major-General, vice Will
lam S. McCaskey, and w. w. Woth
erspoon to be a Brigadier-General ID
n1ace of General DuVall.
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Mysterious Pine Limo.

In the Standard Oil suit trial the
Federal examiners were unable to as
certain the ownership of a profitable
pipe line that runs from New Jersey
to Long Island through the heart Of
New York City.
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Kew West Extension Abandoned.

Henry NJ. Flagler announced that
work on the Key West extension of
the Florida East Coast Railroad
would be abandoned on January l,
1908. because of the stringency in the
money market.
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they get out or order
1t causes backache
headaches, dizziness
languoy and distress
urinary troubles
the kidneys Wel'
all these q
viii be saved you,
Mrs. S. A. Moore pro-!
pEietor of a restau'
rant at Waterville
Me-, says: Before
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Peace. q Poets Dream.

Bishop Potter declared The Hague
Conference was only a poets dream,
and that war would continue to the
end of time.
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Spain Warns Immigrants.

Warnings intended to stop the el-
oduS OF laborerS to Panama were
posted throughout Spain.
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ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
At M'K|NLEY TOMB
Tribute to Martyrsd Statesman at
Dedication of MauSoleum.
ECONOMIC LESSONS He DREW
Wrong to Hate Honest Wealth, Says
the Presidcnt-Hc lmplores His
C%ountrymcn to Discriminate
"McKinley's Attitude Should BE
OurS To-day"

Ours To-day"
Canton, Ohio. The Mckinley
m%ausoleum was dedicated in the
presence of hundreds of distinguished
Americans, Including Vice-President
Fairbanks, members of the Cabinet,
United States Senators, representa-
tives of foreign countries and fully
$4,000 pilgrims from all parts of the
United States.
President Roosevelt delivered the
principal address of the day. The
other speakers were Justice William
r. Day, who was Mckinley's Secre-
tary of State, and Governor Andrew
l.. Harris, of Ohio. James Whitcomb
Riley read a poem, president Nc
Kinley," written for the occasion.
The site of the monument is some
distance from the city of Canton, and
is inaccessible by street cars. Many
unable to procure conveyances walked
all the way, most Of them fasting
since early in the morning.
Justice Day was the first speaker.
He was followed by Governor Harris,
whose address was followed by the
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NAVAL OFFICER KILLED.
Lieut.. Purse, of Battleship Illinois,
Thrown Against Hatch Coaming.

Boston.-Wireless dispatches re-
ceived at the naveyyard, C~harlestown,
from the Atlantic fleet in Cape Cod
Bay tell Of two fatalities in the fleet
due to the storm.
Lieutenant John H. Furse, of the
battleship Illinois, was thrown
against a hatch coamings and so
badly injured that he died. On the
Minnesota a seaman was washed
overheard and drowned.
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Prediction of Senator Burkett.
Senator Burkett, OF Nebraska, pre-
dicted at Washington that President
Roosevelt will be forced to accept
denomination.
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Dyspepsia is Often Caused By Catarrh
of the Stomach-Reruna Relieves Catdrrh
Cf the Stomach and is Therefore q Remedy
for Dyspepsia. 4
Hon. M. c. Butler, q. 8. Senator
from South Carolina for two terms, I
in a letter from Washington, D. G., !
writes to to the Peruna Medicine Co, I
+ as follows: !
( ~ can recommend Pernnl for I
dyspepsia and stomach trouble. I
7 have been using your medicine !
for q short period and IfeeE very
7 much relieved. 1t Is indeed a
uonderf'uL medicine, besides a
! good tonic"
OATARRH of the stomach is the correct;
name for most cases of dyspepsia. Only
an internal catarrh remedy, such as Peru.
no, is available.
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TIRED BACKS

The kidneys have a great work &c
do in keeSing the blood pure. Wher
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countants estimated that the cost 10
Chicago, including interest ana deprcs
citation, was $1O0.06 per lanio as com.
pared with $1O2O2 Per lamp charged
by the private companies, but the cost
Of $4,000 was reached by ALLOWING
about $40 per lamp more for the value
Of water used, and for depreciation
than the accountants used In any Of
the previous years, or than they had
found necessary to tally with the
measurements Of water actually used
and the depreciation necessary to re-
duce the original cost of the plants To
their present appraised value. The
important point, however, from the
standpoint of municipal ownership is
that the cost is less per arc than the
city Is paying for similar lights from
the private company.
Next to South Norwalk the most
successful municipal electric lighting
plant has been that Of Detroit. If 1t
had been allowed to do q commercial
business, its success would have been
even greater than has been possible
with only the lighting Of streets and
public buildings,
THE only criticism Of the plant, and
that not clearly proven, has been that
1t was unduly conservative In replace
ing Its open arcs and small generate
ing units with Enclosed arcs and
larger generating units Much pro-
gress, however, has in fact been made
in this direction, and more is being
made during the present year,
Allegheny, although confined to
street lighting, and suffering from the
spells system and poor location, has
nevertheless saved enough to pay for
her plant out of the difference be-
tween her operating expenses and the
500 a year which Pittsburg has had to
pay for similar arc lights prior to
1906"
Mr.. Bemis closes with a reference
| to political and labor conditions, which
he finds, generally speaking, more fav-
orable under the municipal undertake
ings. On this subject he sums up as
follows:
''In electric light as we'll as in wateH
the municipal employees usually get as
god wages as are paid elsewhere in
their respective cities for similar work
and also usually work but eight hours,
while the employees of the private
plantsz-except in the highest paid po-
sitions-never get more, and often re-
ceive less, per day than the municipal
employees, and sometimes work nine
and ten hours instead Of eight, that is
practically universal to-day in public
employment
1.-THE Chicago and South Norwalk
plants are, and apparently always have
been, out of politics. The same is
true of Detroit plant so far as party
politics is concerned. In all munici-
pal plants trade union conditions pres
vail and the majority seem to be
members of the union, but those who
are not members Of labor organiza-
tons are freely employed. The one
exception to absence Of politics in the
electric light plants is in Allegheny but
there again as In the Wheeling gas
works and the Syracuse water works
or in the Philadelphia gas works, when
public and private management ex-
listed side by side, the same conditions
which permit the spells sytem in mun~
icipal plants being private companies
into close touch also with the spells
system, and with partys organizations
j and.city goYernmentss
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IInpartiality.


In order that the inquiry might be
thoroughly impartial it was the almost
nyariable rule, in the selection of ex-
Berts to allow, with regard to each of
5 he four public utilities within the
cope of the investigation, each of the
wo leading elements Of the commit
ee, the pros" and the "antis,' an ex-
ert of its own choice; and In the work
examining each plant, a representa-
I've of the one side worked with the
Expert of the other.
kmericaR and Foreign Plants Examined
The following American plants were
isited and examined;
Public
Wheeling, W. Va, Y
Richmond, Va.
Holyoke, Mass.
Westfield, Mass.
Private
Atlanta Gas Light Co., Atlanta, Ga.
City Gas Co.. Norfolk, Va.
United Gas Improvement Co., Phila-
plphia, Pa.
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ner. The power Of appointment at
Wheeling did not rest with the superin-
tendent, and therefore the employees did
not have the fear of discharge by him
in case they did not perform their work
properly. At Norfolk and Atlanta the
certainty of prompt discharge in case
they did not satisfy their immediate
superiors in the operation Of the plant
acted to make the men work better
and more efficiently than wae the case
at Wheeling"
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American Water Works.

Water systems operated by the mu-
inequalities in Chicago, Cleveland and
Syracuse and by private companies in
Indianapolis and New Haven, were in
vestigated. The investigating engineer
quoted by Messrs. Edgar and Clark
found that at Chicago the facilities for
developing water from the present
sources of supply are insufficient. The
sources of supply at Cleveland were
abundant. At Syracuse, q new conduit
from Lake skaneateles will be needed
in the near future, as the maximum
daily capacity is exceeded by the max
imum daily consumption, There Is, how
ever, 12O,0OO,OO0 gallons of storage. At
Indianapolis Operated by private COM
panyl there is more, satisfactory state
of affairs, the maximum capacity large
ly exceeding the maximum consump-
ton. This is true also of New Haven.
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Expert investigation.

The reports reviewed by Messrs.
1Clark and Edgar, on the one side, and
Messrs. Parsons and Bemis, on the
Bother, aggregate almost one million
words and were made to the Public
Ownership Commission of the National
Civic Federation by technical experts,
engineers, accountants and statisticians
zwho visited and thoroughly inquired
onto prevailing conditions in a large
number of public and private. enter
zprises in the United States and Great
Britain. The scope Of the inquiry in
zcluded the following subjects:
Franchises Of private corporations.
Public supervision of municipalities
History of municipal ownership.
Effect Of public and private manage
nent upon:
Political conditions.
u Conditions of labor.
: Character of service.
Price Of service.
Cost Of service.
Economy of management.
Improvement in service and methods
Financial results.
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Professor Parsons and Mr.. Bemls.

In favoring municipal ownership Pro-
fessor Parsons declares that in most
discussions of the subject too much at
tention is given to the purely financial
side of the question. Dollars and cents
are not to be neglected, he says ''but
life, liberty, justice, virtue and intelli-
gence--the whole character product and
social product of our institutions-are
of greater moment than their money
product" Taking UP financial results,
Professor Parsons gives it as his view
that the municipal plants are more eco
nomical Broadly speaking" he says,
recognizing that there are exceptions
tn all rules, the facts show that NUM-
cipal plants tend to make lower prices
to ordinary consumers than private
plants in the same country working I'M
der similar conditions, and they do not
grant electric rebates or other favors
by secret agreement with large users,
as is not infrequently the case with
the larger companies. In the compare
lively few cases where municipal sys-
TENS do not make low charges the pub
lie still gets the benefits that under
private operation go to the stockhold-
ers, for the profits of the public plants
are used to improve the service, pay
off the capital, relieve taxation or ac-
leomplish some other public purpose.
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Richmond Va, is cited by Mr.. Bemis
as city where municipal gas plant
has not only reduced prices, but has
also turned a profit into the city treas
ury. The city authorities declined, how
ever, to permit full investigation to
be made, saying that a recent inves-
tigation had been very unfair. Enough
was learned to show that the Richmond
plant was free from the spoils system
and from graft, and that the workmen
were white men who were paid nearly
twice as high wages as were the negro
laborers in the privately owned works
at Atlanta.
Mr. Bemis' review Of the Philadelphia
gas situation is in marked contrast to
that of Messrs, Edgar and Clark. Mr..
Benis also quotes DR.. Rowe as author
ity on the subject, to show that when
direct municipal operation began, De-
cember 81, 1885, the plant had been en-
tirely paid for out of profits, with the
exception Of $1,SO294S. After including
the expenses Of collection, maintenance
of street lamps, ETC., borne by other
city departments, the net cash turned
into the city treasury during the years
1SSS-1S97 inclusive was $2,937, 1885. To
this should be added the amount spent
for extensions of the works, mains an6
services, which is easily computed from
Professor Rowe's data at S4,344, 1852
This would make total of apparent
profit during the eleven years Of mu.
nicipal operation of $7,282,OS6.4S. Since
this profit was computed after includ
ing the operating expenses, and the ex
penditures for repais of eight cents t.
ten cents per LOCO feet a year, the de
probation could not have eaten up an!
large part of this apparent profit.
The pTiGA sf gas was reduced from