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New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
READY IF DRAFTED"-BRYAN
Declines to Discuss Boom of Governor john
son on Ground Of Personalities"

Kansas City. Dec. GOV. ]. Bryan in this
city to-day when asked about Democratic Presi-
Dental possibilities. and particularly as to the
probable candidacy of Governor John A. john
son Of Minnesota, said:
81 know Governor Johnson personally but
you must pardon me for not going into person
alities. could not discuss him nor any one
else as a Presidential possibility and be quoted
without being misunderstood.
-I shall not volunteer as a Democratic Presi-
Dental candidate, but if am drafted will not
desert"
MI Bryan, who is a speech making toru
that will take in Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas
arrived here to-day from Lincoln. Neb. on his
way to Wichita. Kan, where he spoke tonight
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
HUGHES IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Representative Mccall Says There Is Con-
siderable Sentiment for Him

Representative Samuel W. Mccall. OF Massaohu.
setts, called on Mayor McCielan at 'he o.'y nan
,,o.tarday He and the Mayor served at the same
time on the Ways and Means Committee. and have
been warm friends for many years. When asked
s no was leaving the City Hall yesterday If there
was much Hughes sentiment in Massachusetts. ne
said:
"yes there is considerable of 1t, but 1t is too
earIy 10 say whether IL will result in the instruc
,ion of delegates to the national convention for
Governor Hughes. Voters have not reached the
partisan stage yet"
of the financial situation the Congressman said
..The currency situation is improving little. but
think the industrial ftagnation will continue for
some time
Mr. Mccall said he assumed that the Republicans
would elect the next President although he thought
II was too early to indulge IN predictions.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
HARMON Il CANDIDATE.
Doomed for President By Michigan
1nh-Bryan Democrats.
TBy Telegraph TO The Tribune.l

IBy Telegraph The Tribune]
Detroit Dec. 20.--The conservative Democrats
of Michigan have invited Judson Harmon. OF
Cincinnati, Attorney General under President
Cleveland TO become their candidate for Presi-
dent and he has accepted They have promised
to give him the Michigan delegation, and are
working hard to keep their pledge. These facts
regarding a conference of the anti-Bryan lead
ers with MIR. Harmon when he was here yester-
day became known to-day. The conference was
secret but National Committeeman Campau,
Bryan's lieutenant, learned Of it and is fight
ing the move. After the meeting Mr.. Harmon
said he was a candidate for the Dominaton.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21

He had also served he said, physician at
the court of the Sultan of Morocco. 1t was eVi-
dent from his talk that he was a man OF re-
ffnement. education and had travelled
Recently he was suffering from jungle fever
which he had contracted in Africa. Until a
year ago he was barely able to walk with the
help of cane. Geiger was we'll related IN
South Carolina. He was born at Roswell Ga
His father at time a physician in Bal
timore. Miss Carrie Geiger is a sister SAID 10
be residing in New York. Before leaving mere
last Tuesday Geiger said he was going TO AT
lanta.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
LARCENY CHARGE AGAINST A LAWYER
Complainant Alleges He Collected SIS, 500 on
Real Estate Sale and Kept the Money.

Charged with the theft OF $4,000, Robert L.
Bright. a lawyer at No Rector street. living at
No 100 West 57th street, was locked up at Police
Headquarters last night on the complaint OF Her
man Mertens a builder. of No. 40 Union Square.
According TO the police, Mertens alleges that on
October Bright, acting an agent collected
s1s5oo in part payment of the purchase price Of
some real estate at West Arverne Long Island.
Mertens alleges further that after collecting the
money the lawyer appropriated It to his use
At Police Headquarters It said that the prop
erty was that which was formerly occupied by the
Columbia Hotel
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
OKLAHOMA CUSTER SUITS.

Chandler. Okla. Dec. 2o.-Setting forth eight spe-
cifie causes for action. Attorney General West
day Instituted suit proceedings against the
Fort Smith Western Railroad. of Arkansas and
the Sans Bois Coal Company, of Virginia, operating
mines In the McAlester fields. The Bos companies
are operating in the without license. It is
charged that the Sans Bois Coal Company is
monopoy.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
LOOKING INTO RIVER COLLISION.

Lawyers representing the family of Miss May A.
Pritchard. of No. 50 State street. Brooklyn who IL
is said. was drowned in the collision between tbs
Sound steamship Providence and the fsrryooaf
Baltic December 10. began an examination yss-
terday of witnesses OF the accident with the in
tenton of placing the responsibility Miss Prftch-
srds body found in the water. of 5ith street.
Brooklyn, the day following the collision in the
East River. AT the time witnesses differed 70
whether she pushed into the water fell
overheard.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
HUGHES CLUB AT JAMESTOWN, N. Y.
[By Telegraph to The Tribun

jamestown, n. Y. Dec. 2.-The fight to give
Presidential delegates of Western New York to
Governor Hughes was begun tonight. when
Hughes Republican club vas organized with two
hundred members. including many leading Repub-
licans of Jamestown. Assemblyman Allen pre-
sided and ex-Assemblyman j. Samuel Fowler was
elected president
An incipient Governorship boom for Frank w.
Stevens to succeed Governor Hughes was started.
and at first many wanted to name the club the
Hughes-Stev Club, but to avoid the impression
that the boom was Of Stevens's manufacture
his name was left Off 1t was apparent that all
present were for Stevens
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
MRS. LEAVlTT MAY BE DELEGATE.

Denver, Dec 2o.-f movement started by
women voters of Colorado succeeds. two women
will among the delegates to the Democratic
National Convention, and Will be Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Leavitt, eldest daughter OF William }
Bryan Mrs. Leavitt may place her father in noml-
nation Mrs. Leavitt has been resident of Denver
for five years and is president of the Jane Jeffer-
son Club. She Is now in Europe with her mother.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
CALL FOR STATE BANK REPORTS.

Clark Williams, State Superintendent of Banks.
has issued cali for statements of conditions OF
state banks and trust companies at the close of
business on Thursday. December le The reports
of these institutions will be of unusual interest at
This time in view of the recent panic, the
returns made by the national banks In response to
the call sent by the Controller Of the Currency
Tor statements Of condition as Of December ..
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
ORDERS TROOPS AWAY.
Continued from first page.

day They were 1T charge of guards ana oetec'r'eS
of the Mine Owners Association, and were taken
at once to the temporary boarding houses whicn
have been established by the mine owners at me
Combination mine. Many members Of the western
Federation Miners were gathered at the station
hut bevoud the passing of some uncompiimentary
remarks nothing occurred.
The Combination mine and mill are working to-
dav with more men under ground than on any day
since the strike declared.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
GOV HUGHES INVITED TO SPEAK.
Nav Be Guest of New Haven Young Men S
-epubliccn Club.

New Haven Dec 20 tSpecial).-Governor Charles
F. Hughes of New York has been invited to speak
at the annual dinner of the Young Mems Repub-
lican Club of this city to be held on Lincolns
Birthday, February L. He has not yet accepted. but
writes that he cndeavvring to adjust his engage
ments for that night
The Young Mems Republican Club is the largest
poltical organization Of the kind in the state con-
tanning an enrolment of two thousand voters of
this city.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
a COUNTERFEIT "eUFFAIo" NOTE.

Washington, Dec. 2o.-The Treasury Department
to-day announced the appearance of a counterfeit
$40 buffalo" United States note, detected at the
National Park Bank in New York While the gen.
appearance of the note is deceptive the lathe
work and ruling crude and broken. The note
bears the serial number z.s7S111.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
RAILROADS WIN MICHIGAN VICTORY.

Lansing, Mich. Dec. 20.-The railroads
victory in the constitute convention this after
noon. BY a vote OF ~ 70 IS the proposal to have
the revised constitution say that the fellow SER
want doctrine shall not b. valid defence In suits
for personal injury damages against railroad cor
poratioEs killed.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
CREATES NEW NATIONAL FOREST.

Washington, Dec. 2o.-President Roosevelt has
signed proclamation creating the Arkansas Ma
tonal Forest in the western central part of Ar
kansas, covering more than million 1t
will be furthest east of all of the governments
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
Blast Furnace Gas.

The amount of gas generated by
blast furnace to produce pig iron is so
enormous that if collected and utiliz-
ed for power purposes it would prove
revolutionizing in manufacturing in
dustries. Thus to produce in an ordi-
nary well equipped works $50 tons of
pig iron the blast furnace would gen.
crate 20,000,000 cubic feet of gas. To
harness this enormous amount of
waste fuel is the aim of the builders
of gas engines. Utilized for general
ing steam by burning, about 1000
horsepower could be obtained; but if
burnt directly in modern large gas
engine, the horsepower generated
would be several times as much.
Eminent engineers estimated that
even if half this volume should be
wasted or used for heating the air
blast of the furnace, there would still
be sufficient to produce between g.
900 and 1000 horsepower. Such an
enormous gas generator would thus
prove of the greatest value for ordi-
nary manufacturing purposes. Like
wise, the gases of coke ovens can be
utilized in the same way, adding
greatly to the importance of the gas
engine in its new field.-Mining
World.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

EXPERT opinion fixes the average
Il annual cost of a New York wom-
ans clothing at $685.. This is not a
large sum, but it is a figure on which
balances the thousands who do not
spend $40 and the scores who spend
$4,000. A gown for the latter costs
more than the entire expense of the
family of the former.
There are about 100 women in the
metropolis who spend $4,000 a year
each on dress, and it is not difficult
to do so if one gets the necessary
gown and accompaniment in order to
be well dressed for each of the num-
erous occasions required by social
custom. Then there are some 10000
women in the city who eacn spend
$4,000 a year, and about 5000 who
go close to $4,000.
One days shopping, not buying,
simply as an experiment, showed. how
easy these highest figures can be
reached. A furrier offered fine sable
coat for the reasonable price of
$4,000, while the milliner suggested
a fitting hat to go with it for $40, and
the bootmaker selected proper foot
wear for $12. The coat does not have
to be renewed every month. but there
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
ANENT THE HARTMAN
FISH RAILROAD CLASH

r HE fight for the control of the Hi
nois Central railroad between Stuy-
vesant Fish and E. H. Hartman re-
calls other clashes between men who
deal in railroads. Many people re-
member the bitter fight waged two
years ago by Joseph Ramsey, Jr., then
president of the Wabash, against
George ]. Gould, with the avowed pur-
pose of wrestling the system from him.
1t was hot fight while it lasted, and
many unpleasant words were said on
both sides. Yet if you were to go
into the Wabash offices you would
see among the photographs on the
wall, one enclosed in a narrow black
frame, the portraits of Mr.. Ramsey
and Mr.. Gould, placed side by side, as
though they were the best of friends.
The two portraits will probably re-
main framed together until they be-
come yellow and timeworn as the
other mementoes of the past that are
on the Wabash office walls.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
HUNDRED WOMEN SPEND
$4,000 YEARLY ON DRESS

must be other coats, and it was learn
ed that the proper complement from
opera cloak down to the smallest
jaunty street affair of fine cloth and
extensive trimming would cost trifle
of something like $4,000. Then there
should be matter of twenty-five hats.
with their decorations of fine feathers
and laces that average not more than
S55 each, and there must be more
shoes than hats that can be had from
So to $40 pair. Hats and shoes are
subject to frequent change.
This is all very well for the outside
but there must be at least score of
gowns to go with this, and gowns soon
grow old and must be frequently re-
newed.
For the other clothing, including
fans and parasols, it is difficult to get
figures, for there is such broad lati-
tude in taste, quantity and quality,
and frequent changes make purchases
of almost daily occurrence. The cost
soon runs into the thousands and
makes the total expenditure of $780,
600 a year quite easy, to say nothing
of the jewels, which are supposed to
endure for some time, subject to the
change in fashion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

cellars without light or ventilation ex-
cept such as comes from the single
entrance reached by a steep fight OF
steps from the street.
Devotees of the more fashionable
life also are taking to underground
city since some of the new hotels and
department stores have utilized the
space below the surface of their sites
with doors leading to and from the
subways.
1t is pointed out that man can
come from Chicago to New York, put
up at a hotel, visit several stores,
transact business at downtown office
building and return home without
once setting foot out of doors. This
state of affairs undoubtedly presages
the time when there will be an under
ground city extending over the whole
lower part of Manhattan Island, with
its own streets, shops and systems of
transportation. Perhaps in time a
race of real human moles will develop
in the metropolis.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
RAPID GROWTH OF NEW
YORK CITY UNDERGROUND

NEW YORK.-An investigator with
~ bent for facts of curious interest
his discovered that while the sky
scrapers of Manhattan are pushing to
greater and, greater heights, the city
underground has been growing even
more rapidly. According to his COM
putation a hundred thousand persons
carry on their daily occupations be-
meath the streets and below the wat
ers of Greater New York. Some of
these are caisson workers laying
the foundations of huge buildings,
employees of the various tunnels push
ing their way under the North and
East rivers and workmen in the sub
ways. In addition to this specialized
line of underground activity, there are
certain industries carried on almost
entirely beneath the surface. One of
these is baking, and it is stated that
nearly all the bread and pastry eaten
by New Workers is prepared below the
ground. There are thousands of small
shops on the east side that occupy
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24

This is only a slight evidence of
the rule of Wall street to stifle or
conceal its personal feelings. And
yet, beneath the surface, bankers,
railroad financiers and capitalists are
banded in hostile groups or camps
that prey on one another Even the
fair sex enters into the secret wars,
and many a social rivalry is trans
ferred from the drawing-room to. the
financial fighting grounds in Wall
and Broad street. One very aggres-
sive matron not so long ago convulsed
not alone society, but also the finan-
cial district, by making an observa-
ton that is still being repeated in
the millionaires' clubs. 1t was at the
close of the life insurance investiga-
ton, when E. H. Hartman made his
famous trip to San Francisco, just
after the earthquake. Yes" said the
matron, after having robbed the
policy holders, he's going out to San
Francisco now to rob the dead"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
QUALITIES OF WIT AND HUMoR.
Alike, Yet in Many Ways Fundament-
ally Different.

Wit and humor are such elemental
fundamental things that it has always
been found difficult to analyze them,
says a writer in The Atlantic. Upon
some points. however, those who have
essayed this puzzling task agree, for
they all hold that wit is an intel
lectual, humor an emotional, quality;
that wit is perception of resem-
blance, and humor a perception of
contrast, of discrepancy, of incongru-
ity. The incongruity is that which
arises between the ideal and the fact,
between theory and practice, between
promise and performance; and per-
haps it might be added that it is al
ways or almost always moral in
congrUity. In the case both of wit
and humor there is also pleasurable
surprise, gentle shock, which &C
companies our perception of the hith-
erto unsupported resemblance or in
congruity. A New England farmer
was once describing in the pres
ence of very humane person the
great age and debility of horse that
he formerly owned and used. You
ought to have killed him." interrupt
ed the humane person Indignantly.
Well" drawled the farmer 1--WE did
almost"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
GIVING HIM A CHANCE.
Surely Time for Hubby to Do Live
Iy Sidestep.

Mrs. Wilson's husband was often
obliged to go to New York on bust
ness, and frequently did not reach his
home until the arrival of the midnight
train. Mrs. Wilson had been in the
habit of sleeping peacefully. at these
times without fear, but number of
burglaries in the neighborhood during
one of her husbands trips to New
York had disturbed her calm.
On the night of his return Mr.. VII
son was stealing carefully up the
front stairs, as was his wont on such
occasions, so that his wife would not
be wakened, when he heard her voice,
high and strained:
81 don't know whether you are my
husband or a burglar" came the ex-
cited tones, "but l am going to be on
the safe side and shoot, so if you are
Henry you'd better get out Of the
way."-Youth's Companion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
THEIR ONLY NEED.
1t Was Not Filled but the Sergeant
Was Hero.

Lord Dundonald, commander in
chief of the Canadian militia, recently
gave dinner at Toronto to the mem
bers of the governor generals body
guard, the crack mounted troop of
Canada. Notwithstanding his lord
ships title of nobility and his high
military rank he is very democratic.
During the progress of the dinner he
made a tour of the tables, accompani-
ed by members of his staff, and wish
ing to put the men. completely at their
ease, made a few commonplace re-
marks and asked if there was any
thing they desired to have.
Now, don't be backward" he said.
IF everything is not all right Just say
So
Of course no one would think of
making a complaint to the commander
in chief at such time, but as he
asked once more if there was not
something the men desired, a sergeant
arose, saluted and said, I'VE would
like to have some oysters
The absurdity of the request, on a
red hot summers night, was so pal
pable his lordship was silenced, and
he walked quietly on, asking no more
questions. The sergeant, However, was
the hero of the evening for having
dared to speak to a real 1--we lord.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
Didn't Need cyclopedias.

The canvasser for cyclopedia
came to the home of a colonel, whose
record he had carefully studied be-
fore his visit. The colonel was es-
pecially proud of some of his sons,
so the canvasser began with:
''Those are very fine boys of yours,
colonel"
"They are" replied the colonel.
81 reckon you are ready to buy any
thing those boys want?"
81 am So" said the father of the
fine boys.
well, then, let me sell you this
cyclopedia. There's nothing will do
your sons so much good"
But the colonel looked at him
aghast. "Why, them lads of mine
don't need any cyclopedia. They ride
muleSi"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
Capacity of Munich Porter.

An English family touring in Ba-
varia, called at the world-famous Hof
brauhaus, the pride of Munich, re
Gently, writes our correspondent To
the waitress serving them the head
OF fine family in matter-offact way
simply held up his five fingers. To
the family's astonishhment the wait
ress came back with five quart pots
filled to the brim with beer. The Wis
itors bravely struggled with the beer,
but only managed to dispose of about
one quart between them. Knowing
that it would be considered an in
suit to leave beer, they called porter
and ordered him to finish it. In less
time than it takes to relate the Bava-
rian accomplished the task. Wiping
his mustache, he demanded sixpence
for the lob" and, having obtained
the money, Instantly ordered and emp.
tied another quart pot.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
CHEATED IN THE DIVIDE,
Buffled Couldn't Account for His Share
of>the Fish.

Buf1ed was on his way home from
fishing trip down by the bell buoy.
He had fine string of blackfish, so
heavy that he thought he needed
counterweight to balance them. Not
having can with him, he had dropped
in to put another weight in the mid
die, where he believed it would do
almost as much good.
"And every one of u.s." he said,
winding up his story of the days fish
ing. went away with Is fine black
fish on his string"
How many fish did you catch in
all?" some one asked.
Sixty" said Buffled; there were
four of us"
where were they?"
well, 1 was one and the two KEEL
leys was two, and Finnegan was three,
and-Finnegan, he was three, and
I'm blest if / can think who was the
other"
Then he laid down his string of fish
and began counting on the fingers of
his disengaged hand.
81 was one" he said, doubling up a
finger as he went along, and the two
Kelleys was two, and Finnegan was
three, and"
But the two Kelleys were three"
some one broke in.
do you know the two Kelleys?'
asked he, warmly.
NO"
'Well, then. how can we say the two
Kelleys was three? Go on, man;
you're drunk"
He stood thinking it over for min.
ate and then picked up his string of
fish.
I'm id" he said. of the rascals
didn't do me out of-three is in 60 20
times-out of five fishes" -Washing
ton Post.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
Bible Names for Colts.

A hostler from the Blue Grass has
just found employment in one Of the
stables of New York man. His
darby dialect is so quaint and his
stories of cole Kaintuck" so unique
no member of the household misses
an opportunity to speak to him and
have him say a word.
His employer said to him q few
days ago: 81 suppose your mas
ter down south had a good many
horses?"
Dat we did, sab, dat we did! And
my ole master had 'em all. name
Bible names. Faith, Hope and Char
ity, Bustle, Stays and Crinoline, was
all one Springs colts!"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-24
r | Ill., n
kzI=lg.9

WI ELL-MANNERED dogs are now
w permitted to pay calls in some
of the hotels which have been closed
against them. Even at the Waldorf
Astoria, where there has been for
years a stern rule that none of the
canine family may be received ex-
cept in the basement kennels, there
have been signs of leniency.
1t was only recently that a Pom
eranian of aristocratic lineage was
permitted to enter the elevator and
was escorted to the fifth floor But
this kind of license is not often
given, and no really large dogs with
we'll set jaws and impolite ways
with their teeth would be tolerated.
The Pomeranian was brought up to
the Thirty-third street entrance of
the Waldorf-Astoria in a cab by a
very prepossessing young woman.
81 would like to take my dog up
to show him to Mrs. Blank" she
said. will q be al light, do you
think?"
You will carry him." asked the
clerk. "Oh, yes" was the reply
"Boozoo is so little l can hold him on
my arm"
ut will be all right, then" replied
the clerk.
Although the hotels of the city
do not generally advertise the fact,
there has been disposition lately
to permit dogs and other animal
pets on the premises if they are well
behaved. The Hotel Savoy repre-
sents the extreme in the exclusion
policy, for none is permitted to en-
ter the portals, and not g sign to