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THE CUBAN ELECTIONS.
Continued from page one.)

Moderate Party, and for recognizing
largely, since Charles E. Magoon took
...s pace as Provisional Governor. the
leaders of the Liberal Party. For, if
as now seems probable, the Conserva-
tlves have won generally, it means that
| that party will choose the President, and
that the Liberals will be retired from
influence in Cuban affairs. The Liberals
fomented the revolution that brought
Intervention about.
The Administration here at Washing
ton hoped that the election would show
the Cuban parties pretty evenly bal
anced numerically. That would prom
Use an interesting campaign, and, on the
whole, would make for the advantage
of Independent government.
The energetic efforts toward equip
ping the island with up-to-date facili-
ties for voting and in securing an hon.
est registration have occupied the Pro-
visional Government ever since April /.
Over 5000 voting booths of modern
make were sent out from Havana to the
1,069 barrios or precincts in the island.
This in itself was an enormous task.
Wanted Real Election.
1t was sincerely hoped by the War
Department and by President Roosevelt
that the Presidential election in Cuba
become habit with parties down there
to withdraw if their campaign appears
to be hopeless or if the dominant party
conducts affairs so as to throw any
doubt on the honesty of the election.
Instead of voting, the minority party
begins to stir up strife and rebellion
The Liberals, now divided into Lib
erals and Historic Liberals, seeded in
1905, and refused to vote at the Presi-
Dental election. Having withdrawn,
they promptly busted themselves in or
ganizing the revolution that broke forth
the following year. There were two
elections under the Republic. and in
both of them all except the Moderate
Party withdrew,
The three parties that Gov. Magoon
recognized, the Conservatives, Liberals
and Historic Liberals, all put provincial
tickets afield. Provision was made for
other candidates to get upon the Off
cial ballot by petition. The voters We're
apparently Industrious in making the
most OF that opportunity, for in the
provincial elections of Aug. 1 Pinar del
Rio, Matanzas and Oriente all had an
Independent provincial ticket on the
ballot. Oriente had two. There were
independent parties in Havana Province,
which were active in advocating the
election Of their favorite candidates for
Alcalde and Municipal Councillors, but
they put no men in the running for the
provincial offices, and filled the upper
portion of their column on the official
ballot with the sentence, mo tiene can
didate," which means no nominations.
There was equal zeal in the nominal
tons for the posts of Alcalde and Coun-
cillors in the SO municipalities of the
island. The Conservatives named can
didates in all but two of these munich
palities; the Liberals in all but Is the
Historic Liberals in all but 10. There
were combinations between the two
latter parties in certain municipalities,
so that the Conservative candidates
were left unopposed in very few munic,-
palties. Twenty-one, or over a fourth
of the municipalities. lad Independent
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tickets; the cities Of, Pinar del Rio
Havana and Santiago de Cuba had two
Independent tickets each. All this was
looked upon by Gov, Magoon as ex-
ceedingly encouraging, and as giving
promise for holly contested election.
A Complete Resistfssion.
Cuba never before hadfa complete
registration of voters, or anything that
Appropriated an honest aregistration.
The Census of population, taken many
months ago, was expected to form the
basis of this registration bit proved q
disappointment This was. largely due
to the ignorance or incapacity of the
enumerators. But a., carefully drawn
| electoral law, fashioned after the best
statutes in this country. was promuI-
gated April l and great pains were
taken to get comprehensive and cor
rect voting lists. The administration of
that law began April 16, since which
time the machinery has been whirling
First, the voting lists for the 1869 Bar
rios were distributed to the various mu-
nicipal Alcaldes to be posted in public
places for inspection. About the same
time initial permanent registers
were sent to the various munich
palties. A few deys later cleo
toral boards were appointed under
a decree of Gov. Magoon and
soon SO such boards were organized
and ready for business. These in
cluded one board for each of the SO
municipalities, one provincial board for
each fthe six provinces, and also
one central board, which completed the
necessary machinery not only for cor
recting the lists of voters. but for can
vassing the returns of the municipal
and provincial elections just held and
for canvassing the returns of the Pres
idential election now in prospect. The
boards were nearly all completed by
May 1, and have had a very prominent
part in the preparations of the last three
months.
The correction of the registration
lists occupied much of the time in June.
There were many of these corrections,
but many changes asked for the mu-
nicipal boards refused to allow. The
law provided for an appeal from the
decision of these boards. Several thous-
and such appeals were taken to Audi
encias, or local magistrates. Pinar
del Rio and Matanzas furnished many
of these appeals. large portion of
which were not allowed. Santa Clara
province also had many appeals from
three municipalities, where the magis-
trates overruled the electoral boards.
The voting lists were completed by the
end of June, after there had been an
extension OF the time limit for making
corrections. Over half Of the munici-
palities reported no appeals at all. The
limit for filing nominations also ex-,
pired with the close Of June, so that
the campaign proper has been confined
to the four and a half weeks of July.
School Houses ms Polls.
For the first time In the history of
Cuba school houses have been used for
,,rfva ,la
held. AS the schools were not in ses-
sion, the use of the buildings helped
out materially, one of the difficulties
having been to find suitable locations
for the booths. In the meantime the
Barrios or Precincts were divided by
the Electoral Boards into colleges. cleo
tors assigned thereto, and collecting
Electoral Boards appointed. The equip
ment of the polling places was intrust-
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CHARLOTTESVILLE.
Continued from page two.)

Gen. Meade then let drop some remark
showing that his mind was still wayer-
ing as to the extent of ground covered
by the Third Corps. Sickles replied.
General. / have received no orders: /
nave made these dispositions to the best
of my judgment OF course. I shall he
happy to modify them according to vorr
views No said Meade: L will send
You the Fifth Corps, and you may send
FOR support from the Second Corps Z
snail need more artillery added Sickles.
Send TO the Artillery Reserve for all
YOU want replied Meade. I will direct
GSn Hunt to send you all YOU ask for,
me conference was then abruptly ter
minated by a heavy shower of shells,
probably directed at the group. and
Gen. Meade rode away off SickIes re-
ceived no further orders that day.
There is no doubt, l may venture to-
add. that Sickles's line was too much
extended for the number of troops un-
der his command. but his great aim
was to prevent the enemy getting be-
tween his flank and the Found Top
alluded to. This was worth the risk, in
his opinion, of momentarily weakening
his lines. The contest now going on
was of the most fierce and sanguinary
description. The entire Right Wing of
the enemy was concentrated on the de-
voted Third Corps, for the object OF
Lee, as he states, was to carry the
ground which SickIes occupied, and
which both Generals evidently regards
ed as of the highest Importance. While
this terrific combat was raging on our
left. Zee ordered Ewell to attack our
Right Wing and Hill to threaten our
center, both with the object. as he says
in his report. to divert reinforcements
from reaching our left, which. as we
have seen. Longstreet was directed 10
carry Well may Gen. Meade in his
report say, The Third Corps sustained
the shock most heroically' for they
fought like lions. against tremendous
odds, for nearly an hour before the
Fifth Corps. under Sykes. came up, !,
who was immediately put in position
by Gen. Sickles to the left of the Third !
Corps, and Gen. Sykes was desired to
relieve Wards Brigade and Smiths Bat
terry on the Round Top. and hold the
line from thence to Birney's left. tFirst
Division, Third Corps)- Strange to say,
this movement was not promptly car
ried out, and there was imminent dan
ger of losing the Round Top. for Long,
street was making desperate exertions
to carry it,
ITO be continued.)
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Science Notes.

An old covered bridge at Monroeyille,
o., was constructed in 1886, and is now
In almost as good condition as when
erected. 1t has two separate roadways
for teams going in opposite directions.
A party of musicians sailed from New
York recently as part of the Govern
ment's plan to furnish wholesome
amusement for the thousands of men
at work on the Panama Canal.
An excellent soft solder, good for
purposes where not much pressure is
carried, is made by adding to each
pound of lead, while melting, a tea
spoonful of common salt
Germany is experimenting to deter
mine whether or not vertical shaft of
light can be seen a greater distance
than horizontal flash, with the idea
OF so equipping its lighthouses, If such
proves TO be the case.
In Mayfeld's cave in Indiana, A.. NJ.
Banta has captured 33 species of flies,
two of them new to science, 80 species
Of other insects. and 81 species of the
spider class.
The advantages of distributing milk
in frozen form are being recognized in
Europe. Freezing-unlike scalding-
causes no alteration, and the frozen
milk can be kept unchanged for sew.
cral weeks. Cream remains diffused
throughout the liquid, while bacteria
are greatly lessened.
Within short time a Marconi wire
less station will be established on the
roof of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in
Philadelphia. SO that guests may COM
municate with their friends at sea. If
the plant works successfully, q. similar
one may be put into operation on the
roof Of the Waldorf-Astoria in New
York.
Sheets and tubes of pure iron, pro-
duced by the Cowper-Coles electrolytic
process direct from the ore at cost
of $12 per ton for power. were late in
teresting exhibits al q Royal Society
Conversations.
The lower atmosphere and the upper
atmosphere are believed by Prof. J.
Ham to be two very different gaseous
mixtures. At the earth's surface the
I composition is: Nitrogen, 1903; oxygen
20.99; argon, 0.94; carbonic acid. 0.03;
hydrogen. 0.01: neon, 0.0015; helium
| 0.0e015; krypton, 0.00010. At a height
of 20 kilometers I2.43 miles, he finds
the nitrogen incres sed to 84.34 per cent,
with 1919 of oxygen. At 100 kilome-
tiers, with probable temperature of SO
degrees below zero Cent. the hydrogen
seems increased to 99.45 per cent, with
0.453 OF helium, and only 0.09o Of nitro
gen.
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Nature has done her part in making
the task of gathering salt comparative
ly easy along the Pacific coast At
many points near San Pedro, Cal, are
large level tide lands or salt marshes
Around or on those tide lands are built
dykes about two feet in hight. With
high tide. salt water runs into these to
depth of about Is inches and the sun
partially evaporates it. This is repeat
ed day after day until several inches
of salt is deposited on the earth floor
The deposit is scraped and shoveIed
into long piles or windrows and then
dumped into cars and taken to the re-
fneries.
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ton, which Is scheduled for December.
Apparently the vote of the six Provinces
should demonstrate the relative strength
or the three leading parties about as
much as the votes of the As States in
the United States several months in
advance OF the result of n Presidential
election. 1t has been predicted for
some time in Havana that the Con-
servatives were likely to get the best
of the elections. because they seem to
be better organized. The Liberals, who
brought about the revolution which
eventuated in Intervention, are badly
divided. Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez is the
leader of the Historic Liberals, who
style themselves Miguelistas. while AL
fredo Zayas leads the Liberals. who call
themselves the Zayistas These two
men have already been nominated for
the Presidency by their respective par
ties. The Conservatives. whose recog-
nized leader is Gen. Mario Menocal.
long a resident of the United States. will
not hold their nominating convention
for some weeks. 1t is expected that
they will nominate Menocal, and not at
all unlikely that he will be elected.
Officials of the Administration are
much concerned about the attitude of
the radical Zayistas. They comprise the
element of the population most likely
to make trouble when the Cuban Gov
eminent IS once more set up. The full
returns of Saturdays election will settle
more or less definitely how much vot-
ing strength the Zayistas are able to
command. They have been reckoned
as much less numerous than the Miguel
istas, whom Gen. Gomez may lead over
into the Conservative ranks before the
Presidential campaign is over. If the
Conservatives. who We're formerly
known as Moderates, elect their can
didate for President, the Government of
Cuba will be placed again in the hands
of the party from which it was taken
when President Roosevelt interviewed.
The Australian Ballot.
The Australian ballot, by which the
Cubans are designating their wishes as
to municipal, provincial and federal Off
Gals, is in most respects like Australian
ballots in the States. The instructions
over the ballot are, of course. in Span
ish. In brief, these directions inform
the voter that he can vote the straight
ticket by putting a cross in the circle
under the party emblem, that he can
split his ticket by putting a cross in the
quadrangles opposite the names of the
candidates he favors. and that he can
vote for men whose names are not on
the ballot by writing their names in
the blank spaces made therefor. AS
there is large percentage of illiteracy
among the Cuban voters, their success
in handling the somewhat complicated
ballots promises to be interesting. A
great number of invafidated ballots is
expected. The Collecting Boards will
undoubtedly have a hard task at count
ing, and it may be several days before
accurate returns are obtainable.
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Black Foxes.

One of the most precious products of
American soil is supplied by three back
woods farms of Prince Edward Island.
These farms are devoted to rearing the
very rare black fox, and Consul John
H. Shirley, of Charlottetown, reports
that they contain 20, 25 and 80 foxes,
respectively. Priced for royal cloaks,
as it is the only fur to which gold orna-
ments can be applied, the skins sell in
London for $500 to $500 each. The
farm described is in rough, broken
woods country. and the animals are con-
fined by heavy woven-wire netting,
which reaches eight feet above the
ground and two or three below. To in
sure the best possible fur, the foxes are
not cross bred. They sleep in hollow
trees and logs the year round, are fed
chiefly on oats and milk and bread and
milk, with little meat once a day, and
are so wild that only their keeper with
food can get near them.
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temperate regions, where sleighine
lasts several weeks in each year. 1t has
a compact but powerful motor, which
operates pair of toothed wheels, which
engage the snow and propeI the vehicle
at a high rate of speed. Experiments
made with it seem to justify high ex-
pectationS of its usefulness.
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Dog Pursues Master With Stick of Dyna.
mite.

Two men who live near Standish
Mich, started out to break a log jam
in the Pine River with dynamite. They
were accompanied by dog, noted for
his ability as a retriever. When the
master of. the dog tossed the stick OF
dynamite, with lighted fuse attached,
among the logs the dog misunderstood
and brought it back. One man climbed
a tree and the other rushed into an ad-
joining field. The dog clutched the
dynamite tightly in its teeth and placed
its paws against the tree trunk. When
the dynamite exploded the dog just
naturally disappeared. Dog gone ex-
plosion," murmured the man, as he
slid down the tree trunk,
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determination Of RattIesnakes Cause Of
Worse Pests.

One of the most destructive pests
Californian grape growers have to con-
tend with is the kangaroo rat" a lit
tie animal slightly larger than a mouse
and smaller than the ordinary rat Dur
ing the early months of this year they
appeared in hundreds in the vineyards
around Ben Lomond Mountain, Cali
fornia, and fed on the young buds of
the vines. The cause of their appear
ance in such numbers is attributed to
the recent wholesale slaughter of rat
tlesnakes in that neighborhood.
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A man will die for want of air in five
minutes. for want of sleep in ten days,
for want of water in week, and for
want of food at varying periods, de-
pendent on circumstances.
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SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
Work lie Worlds Busy Brains in Discovering, nvenrg and
Creating
A Motor Sleigh.

sleigh has been devised which is
worked by gasoline motor and be-
lieved will be of the greatest service not
only in the far North, but in the more
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A DEREL1CT DESTROYER.

The Revenue Service has recently re.
ceiyed a vessel unique in the water
craft of the world. It is the Seneca
built at cost of s250,000 for the ex.
press purpose of destroying ocean dere.
licts. This work, which is very impor-
tant to the commerce of the world, has
hitherto been done mainly by warships
which are not particularly fitted for it
The Seneca is equipped with all the
latest and most effective appliances for
the work. She can keep the sea In all
weathers, and carries an unusual sup
ply of high explosives. About half of
the dereiicts which endanger naviga-
tion are lumber-laden vessels aban-
doned by their crews. 1t is hard work
to destroy these to such an extent that
their fragments will be no menace.
The work of the Seneca will be rem
dered much easier in the way of dis
covering derelicts by wireless teleg-
raphy- Every one of the Transatlantic
liners will, upon sighting a derelict,
send notification of its location when
sighted
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SEEING FROM PARIS TO ROME.

The next thing to speaking from one
city to another is an effort to see from
one place to another, and the inventors
have been working on this problem for
many years. DR.. Bell, the great tele-
phone man, has developed quite an in
genius apparatus, and a French in
Yentor, Monsieur Armengau, has i'm
proved upon this until he has device
by which he can almost see from Paris
to Rome. The apparatus has some
thing Of the idea of the moving picture
machine. and it depends upon the cleo
trical conductivity of selenium. The
machine is exceedingly complicated,
and its efficacy depends upon the exact
tuning of the sending and receiving
instruments, which in this case is more
delicate than in the transmission of
sound. Not much success has been
achieved so far in transmitting sight,
but there are number of able men at
work upon it, and they are quite hope
full Of success.
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Fairly Representative Candidates.

A fairly representative set of men
are found in the list of candidates for
the various municipal and provincial
offices, altho they are largely men OF
local reputation. The present Mayor OF
Havana, Juliode Cardenas, perhaps the
best known of all the municipal candi-
dates, ran for reelection. He is Con-
servative.
There is a difference Of opinion as to
how accurately the election will fore
cast the result of the Presidential cleo
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SUM INFER RESORTS.

ed to these Collecting Boards. The Off
cial ballots, printed on lemon-tinted
paper, were delivered to the Presidents
of these Collecting Boards.
An Election Bureau was organized at
Havana at the very outset to keep in
touch with all these preparations and
also to hold occasional conferences with
the leaders of the National parties from
time to time. This Board was presided
over by Col. Crowder. and included in
its membership Col r. l.. Billiard,
Lieut.. Edward A. Krager, and Judge
Frank Feullo, also Lieut.. Jos. K Partel-
10, Lieut.. Chas S. Donaldson and Lieut..
Charles f. Price This Board has been
pressing the various Boards to COM
plete the work assigned to them. The
telegraph service of the island has re-
Gently been organized, which enabled
the Bureau to communicate speedily
with every nook and corner of Cuba
These wires have been kept hot with
election messages. Between April 20
and July 4 the Bureau had sent almost
5000 messages on election business,
and had received over 1900 messages.
The bulk of this telcgraphing was dur
ing June, when the messages sent out
often were as many as 800 daily. Dur
ing the same period the Election Bu-
reau forwarded over 1900 pieces of
mail. 1t also looked after the ship
ments of voting booths and ballot
boxes, and made provision even for the
guard rails about the polling places and
the furniture and furnishings for the
same, as well as for the offices of the
Electoral Boards. 1t also paid out over
$4,000 for election supplies, and allot-
ted over 100000 to the various Boards
for salaries, office supplies and general
expenses. The entire cost of financing
this honest election enterprise in Cuba
was, of course, much more. The two
sums given are only items that go into
the general total The preparation and
printing of ballots, the payment of sal
aries for all the Electoral and Collect
ing Boards and great number of Incl
dental items will make the entire ex-
pense several hundreds of thousands of
dollars
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THE ATLANTIC FLEET OF THElUNIFED STATES NAVY
Qrom Official Bulletin of Bureau of Navigation)
showing the Vessels pracicing
"Gndron'
dangerous
caused the loss of H. M. Victoria"
iIctue faithfully the
be identified by numbers appended
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There is an insistence upon the old
Idea that plants excrete substance
poisonous to themselves which in time
makes the ground sick" for that par
ticular crop. The new name given i;
is soil fatigue" 1t is found that clover
and lucerne are particularly liable to
this and speedily make the ground in
duce full crops until other crops have
been rotated in their places and cleaned
the soil of the poisonous stuff.
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Gardening ON the Isthmus

The output of vegetables from the
Commission gardens at Empire, Coro-
gal and Ancop during the month OF
May was as follows:
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A death is actually reported from the
oyerpowering scent of flowers in close
room. A healthy girl at Kent, Eng
land. after sitting in room for a cou-
pie Of hours, where there were several
pots Of hyacinths IN full bloom, was
overcome, and fell into deep SLEEP
from which she never awakened. Tho
physicians say that the death was
caused by the effect of the hyacinth per-
fume upon the heart nerves.
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1t has been decided that man five
feet 10 inches high, standing at the
edge Of the water on the sea shore, will
see from two and one-half to three
miles. When the eyes are five feet
above the water level the horizon is
two and three-quarters miles distant
owing to the curvature of the earth.
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THE HRsDAY AUGUST 1905

tickets; the cities 81, Pinar del Rio
Havana and Santiago de Cuba had two
Independent tickets each. All this was
looked upon by Gov, Magoon as ex-
ceedingly encouraging, ana as giving
promise for holly contested election.
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(To be continued.)