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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. JULY" 3. 1908.

4 BUSINESS NOTICES. peramentally believes that what he has CORTELYOU IN THE SHADOW. stitution of artificial ice for natural ice will reduce the size of our Ice bills. And will the ten-cent chunk still vary In size when It Is frozen in Trad Mark "Eagle" Register. wholly upon the city.

None whatever rests upon the ferry company nor upon the purchasers of the property. There are no franchises the operation of which can be enforced. The city must make such reasonable arrangements as will Induce the owners of the ferry property to keep it in operation. The situation as it exists to-day should not have been permitted to arise. The pighcadeduess of certain officials is responsible for it.

Now the city must get out of a situation of its own making the best way it can, and that way will probably be an expensive one to the city. dent Robsevelt is not responsible for the book in any form. The book Is intimate in its tone, anecdotal in its character, and there Is maintained throughout a correct reserve as to matters that do not come within the author's province. (G. P.

Putnam's Sons, $1.25 PROBLEMS OF NUTRITION. When Horace Fletcher, a layman, advanced hfs theory of the advantages of thorough insallvatlon of food he was laughed at. To-day he Is the head of a cult of which eminent men are expositors and the adherents of which are numbered by the thousands. Among those who have found health In the adoption of the tenets of Fletcher in the practice of his doctrines is Goodwin Brown, for a number of years one of the lunacy commissioners of the State of New York. Mr.

Brown proclaims himself as of the school of Fletcher, In a book published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, entitled "Scientific Nutrition Simplified." Mr. Brown's object Is modest. In his preface he says that it Is to present (1) a popular summary of the Information necessary for the practical application of the new principles of nutrition advanced by Horace Fletcher, Professor Russell H. Chittenden, Professor Irving Fisher and other investigators, and (2) to glvo his own testimony as to the merits of the system as he discovered them In practice.

As to the second consideration he says: found will not be accepted he really mooted for inquiry only, and never at all espoused He enn distinctly remember what never happened and totally forget what did. The union of actor and of poet in uim not only enables but compels hhu to Jo this. Every morning of the time between one national nomination and another he begins life anew, like John Brougham's King Powhatan: "All things, said yesterday, forgot today. And having talked ourselves to proper dizziness, let's now debate our views of public business." Readers will pardon the alteration of a few words to what Mr. Gilbert would call the improvement of verisimilitude.

What George Eliot defined as a great facility for occasional belief Mr. Bryan Illustrates and personifies. While the Eagle cannot support Mr. Bryan, we would not underrate his possible strength with millions of unsteady or star-struck voters. The known many who resent but accept him will vote for him.

The perhaps unknown more, to whom the promise of good times spoken to the ear has been broken to the hope, may vote for him. That liability must be combated by reason, and the result be left to time. No cessation of effort can be advised. No overconfldence can be warranted. Those who just lazily or Instinctively assume that two defeats assure a third may awaken In a fool's paradise.

To the feat of concurring with hard times and lowering wage and of winning, over both, Democracy has never been equal but Republicanism may be. and. we trust, will. Because Mr. Bryan Is unsafe we oppose him.

Because he can believe or change belief at will we oppose him. Because he Is the victim of his own delusions we oppose him. Because he is convinced that whatever may win should be advocated and whatever may lose should be renounced we oppose him. Because be Is the Idol of the des perate, fanatical, credulous and visionary, and make them bis confidants and aids, oppose him. Because he Is a Populist and not a Democrat we oppose him.

To us, to do this, the duty is plain. The consequences of duty done belong not to those who do It. The consequences of duty neglected or violated or 'misconceived belong where and to whom need not be said. None of those consequences shall belong here. Interpreting the Race Track Law.

In refusing to accept as final Jus tice Bischoff's decision regarding the making of verbal bets on a horse race, acting District Attorney Elder of this county is fulfilling his obliga tions as a public official. Upon the ruling of the courts depends the ultimate application of the law passed at the extra session of the Legislature. Should the Court of Appeals sustain Justice Bishehoff, the result will be the establishment at the tracks of some thing closely approximating what is known as the English system of credit betting. Mr. Elder seeks a precise definition of the law, so that there may be no doubt as to Its future en forcement.

The case decided by Justice Blschoff was obviously a test case. The law was openly and purposely challenged. A man made a verbal wager with a companion under circumstances Insur ing his immediate arrest. It was, to all intents and purposes, a bet such as any two friends might make during a boat race, a yacht race, a card game, or an election. Justice Biscboff finds that the recent legislation, considered as a whole, in no way interferes with the right of individuals to bet, but is designed merely to abolish bookmak- lng as a business conducted in public within special reservations and au thorized by the laws of the state.

We do not believe that any court will ihdlct the constitutionality of the law. Nor do we think that approval of Justice Biscboff '8 ruling by theCourt of Appeals would result in a return to the conditions which the Legislature decreed should be abolished. The State's alliance with the gamblers has bceu ended aud cannot be restored. The bettiug ring will not be re-established. The State will not derive a revenue from the proceeds of vice.

But Individual betting will continue so long as horses run in races, just as it will continue on every other form of sport in which the competitive faculties of human beings are enlisted and by which the spirit of hazard is aroused. The Brooklyn Ferry Muddle. The authorities of the city apparently do recognize the responsibility of the city in the matter of the operation of the ferries between Manhattan and the Eastern District of this borough. Justice Kelly in his recent decision said that the same obligation rested upon the city to keep the ferries open as it did to keep opeu a street that was in public use. On the 2oth of last month, under foreclosure proceedings, the boats and other physical property of the Brooklyn Ferry Company were sold to satisfy a $6,000,000 judgment obtained by the Knickerbocker Trust Company.

Eor five of the seven ferries involved, the franchises have terminated. The ferries are yet being operated mainly because the physical property has not been delivered to the purchaser. However, that delivery will be made on the last day of the month and the present outlook is that with the delivery operation will cease. This has brought the city authorities to book. The city does not want to buy the property because It says that it has not the money available.

The Controller, the Corporation Counsel and the Commissioner of Docks and Ferries met yesterday without reaching a final determination. The suggestion which received the most favorable consideration was that the city should lease the boats, that the ferry company should operate them for the con-Mtlerution involved in being permitted to charge fares of 5 cents instead of Will Be a Member of the Down and Out Club After March 4 Next. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, July 3 George B. Cortel-you is now experiencing that "splendid isolation" which every man who passes from the national stage Is called upon to confront.

He is not yet actually a member of the Down and Out Club, but he may be said to be posted for membership. Until next March 4, or a few days thereafter, he will continue to serve as secretary of the treasury, but, aside from the duties directly connected with his'offlce, he will be very little in the public eye. barring unforeseen happenings. For the last five or six years, Mr. Cortelyou was one of the most talked about men in governmental and political affairs.

There was something that appealed to the Imagination in his rapid rise through the grades that separate the stenographer for the fourth assistant postmaster general from the next to the highest place In the President's cabinet. His association with the late President McKinley. especially at the time of the Buffalo tragedy, won for him a sort of sympathetic regard from the American people, and the public knowledge of him was Increased through his elevation to the secretaryship of the Department of Commerce and Labor and his appoint ment as chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee which managed Mr. Roosevelt's campaign. The interest of the people In his personality caused him to be pointed out wherever he went.

The acme of the public notice which came to him was reached, perhaps, when last fall he blossomed out as a full-fledged presidential candidate and sent Frank H. Hitchcock, then first assistant postmaster general, and now Taft's manager, into the Southern States for the purpose of corranng delegates in his behalf. The National Committee met at Washington to decide upon the time and place tor holding the big convention a little later, and Cortelyou was a most sought aner man. His office In the treasury building was the Mecca for many of the big men of the party, and where the big politicians gather there also do the smaller fry congregate. The "seeing Cortelyou' habit spread more and more until one day Mr.

Roosevelt laid a stone on the track of the secretary's nrenldnn- tlal ambition and ran It Into the ditch. Cortelyou declared he had "a rough deal," but the deed was done, and his dreams of the White House melted away. And so did the courtiers who had crowded his anteroom the weeks and months before. The big men in politics came and went no more, merely a banker from a rural community, now and then, with an entreaty that more of the government's funds be placed at the disposal of his Institution. When the Chicago convention approached, Cortelyou sent to the Windy City an assistant secretary of the treasury, Mr.

Coolldge, to engineer a boom for him for the Vice Presidential nomination. Coolldge was on the job well enough, no doubt, but the frost that met him on the lake front made him wish he had brought his ear mufTs along. When he spoke the name of Cortelyou the delegates responded with a look of blank-ness, which almost made Coolldge feel that they had never beard of his man before. It was Cortelyou's last desperate effort to keep In the national game, and It failed. Now Cortelyou dwells In solitary and gloomy grandeur, or words to that effect.

There is no longer ne'ed for the double-barred doors leading to his sanctum, but they remained double-barred; there Is no longer need of the prlvato enbajice through which favored ones, suA-aa. J. Plerpont Morgan, are incot-spicuously ushered, but the entrance stays, too. Mr. Cortelyou Is built up and down and through and through and wrapped round and round with secrecy and the desire for seclusion; so that these little customs, unnecessary now, because the travel to his office nowadays is not numerous or distinguished In ltg makeup, continue.

The future of Mr. Cortelyou is, of course, assured. He will do what other secretaries and assistant secretaries of the treasury have done before him. He will doubtless become the nominal head of a big financial Institution In New York which realizes the value of having on its payroll a man who has held tho pursestrlnge of the nation. This metropolitan colony is large and Is being continually augmented by short term officials from this end of the line.

What pecuniary remuneration he will receive Is problematical not less than $26,000 a year, probably. That is a comfortable sum, but the thought of grinding out the remainder of his life in private to a man who has been In the very center of the national system for so long would seem almost Intolerable. But Mr. Cortelyou will not be without distinguished company in this falling off of the persons who are naturally drawn to a bright light in national affairs. President Roosevelt, himself, is already suffering In this regard, although he probably looks upon it as a relief rather than something to be regretted.

It la expected that at Oyster Bay he will be guarded from the visits of all save the most prominent callers, but even before he left Washington the White House had been almost deserted. Up to the time of the nomination of Mr. Taft the executive office was daily thronged with callers. "Taft nominated!" came the bulletin, and Immediately tha scene shifted. Not a soul outside of the official force was at the White House at this particular moment.

Mr. Taft's quarters at the War Department were crowded to suffocation. If ever there was a clear ca3e of "the king is dead, long live the king!" here it was. And It continued. In the two days that the President remained here following Mr.

Taft's victory he had few callers, while Secretary Taft has had to literally wade through the crowd every time he quits the privacy of his office or residence. On Wednesday afternoon no less than forty persons were packed like sardines In the front parlor of his street home waiting for a chance to get 'a word with him. The house was all torn up preparatory to moving, but that didn't matter to these people bent upon seeing the Republican nominee. They sat around on everything except chairs, of which there were none, and the piano, and two or three went to the length of occupying the sills of the front windows, to the entertainment of tho passengers on passing seeing-Washington autos. It Is not' so certain that there will not be a sting in Mr.

Roosevelt's Isolation this winter. He Is not on the friendliest terms with many members of the Senate and House, and men who have through policy visited him heretofore may not feel called upon to continue the practice when little or nothing is to be gained. Thus for the first time In a good many years Mr. Roosevelt will appreciate what it means to be with an end of office In prospective. However, the President is not the kind of a man, aparently, to worry greatly over such changed conditions and tn addition he will be busy with plans for his hunting trip In Africa.

"A WEEK IN THE WHITE HOUSE" William Bayard Hale Is the author of a book entitled "A Week In the White House," In which he gives, in tho form of a narrative and character sketch, the results of a week's stay In the Lome of President Roosevelt. It Is a rather tin? usual record, showing the President as he appears at work, and in his hours of leisure. Its Intent, of course. Is to present a study of the man, as well as of the President. Incidentally, there In recounted a good deal of the way in which the machinery of the government in Its executive workings operates.

The study first appeared in the New York Times, but lg now presented in book form. Presi Serving Pieces Unusually attractive are serving pieces, Knives, forts, spoons, marked '847 ROGERS BROS. the mark that, on silver -pafe, has been the guide to quality for sixty-one years. Best tea sets, dlshts, wallers, art slamptd I ii oni is vw. SOLD BY LEADING BALERS "Silftr flat that Wears" PREPARED INSTANTLY.

Simply add boiling water, cool and serve. 10c per package at all grocers. 7 flavors. Refute all substitutes. "A LITTLE LAND AND A LIVING" Not only is there a strong tendency prevalent to-day, which Is carrying many people "back to the land," and away from tho crowded cities, but there is evidenced with It, a disposition toward making effective use of small areas.

ThU development Is born of the evolution of scientific agriculture, which has taken the direction of intensive culture, rather than the exploitation of large areas. It Is everywhere realized, that the discoveries of modern science have made possible and easy the production of much larger crops on a small area than were deemed possible, even on a much larger aCreaffe Tint VArY manw vaantt i rwn day, the tendency is toward the intense cuiuvaiion oi small farms. Much has been written to show how foaslble, and PrOfitabln thiR AVfitom to a onmnaval with the old-fashioned methods. Special ization is Decoming as dominant a note in agriculture as It is in other lines of business, and it is hAmin, evident that the man who would suc ceed, cannot risk labor and capital in the old haphazard methods. The literature of the subject is all on the side of the Intensive method.

A great deal has been written in recent years to encourage this desire for the DOISeSSiOIl Of RnimtPv kl.k the labor of the owner, with perhaps some assistance, can be made self-supporting. It Is believed by social and industrial refflrmnrs that nn effective methods for the solution of ur- oun congestion, Is the encouragement of the old racial "land hunger," and so lead men end wnman in.uji LliB UlueB, buck to the country, by encouraging the own a section or the soil. The man who has that sort of "stake in the country," is pretty apt to be a fairly good citizen. One of the most useful little volumes in this line recently published is Bolton Hall "A Little Land and a Living," which is issued from the Arcadia PreBS of New York. An earlier book by Mr.

Hall, along the same line, "Three Acres and Liberty," met with wide favor, for it wag fUll Of COmmnn Apnea and onnnil r.tt.anti William Borsodi, well known in connec tion witn settlement and socialogical work, read Mr. Hall's "Three Acres and Libertv." whlr-h nrnmnloH film tn the author a letter, which Is published as an introduction to "A Little Land and a Living." What Mr. Hall has undertaken to do in this later volume is to demonstrate how practical it is for a man to make a good living for himself and family by the tillage, according to modern methods, of a few acres. How simple these methods are, he easily demonstrates. It should be understood that "A Little Land and a Living" Is not theory; everything described has been achieved.

The whole book la intensely practical; the author shows what has been accomplished in the way of vacant lot gardening and points -Out the methods through which this style of gardening can be extended. Gardening, small fruit growing, poultry raising, horticulture, the buying of the land, the rotation of crops, methods of tillage, the garden crops that pay best-all are discussed. Nor is the essential subject of how to make a start forgotten. In a word, the book from cover to cover is full of sound sense and of encouragement for the man who wants to escape from the uncertainties of city life, with Its scant rewards, to a position where he will be his own master and where his future and that of his family is reasonably assured. The man who tills a few acres, prducing crops that sell readily in the nearest community, is relieved from the fear that he will ever be out of a reasonably paying job, or that his reward for his labor will be uncertain.

And there is abaundant room for the Workers along the lines Indicated by Mr. Bolton. A book of this sort is an absolute benefit to humanity. FOR SPORTSMEN AND HUNTERS. "In the Woods and on the Shore," by Richard D.

Ware, (L. C. Page Company, is a volume of hunting and sporting reminiscences, extending back over a goodly number of years. A considerable portion is given to caribou hunting in Newfoundland, and will be found especially Interesting by those who propose hunting in that remote section. There has always been a well-defined notion that caribou In Newfoundland made a yearly migration, first to the northern wilds, and later to the southern pasturages.

Mr. Ware Investigated this matter closely, and comes to the conclusion that while there is more or less shifting of the herds, it does not amount to a definite migration. He has had considerable experience hunting tn that island, and gives a good account of his adventures there. He does not minimize the difficulties of a hunting expedition Into the re mote Interior. Other chapters describe moose hunting in other sections, experiences with other game both In Newfoundland, and In the New Brunswick wilderness.

Other chapters are devoted to shore bird shooting on the New England coast. to wild fowl decoying, to brant shooting at Monomoy, and to sporting and fishing experiences elsewhere. A chapter ou 'Battery Shooting, recounting experi ences in various sections, will Interest lovers of that form of sport. The book is a chronicle of personal ex periences, told in a straightforward fash-Ion, which will Interest all lovers of "good hunting." The book is handsomely printed, with illustrations and decorated inside covers. One chapter, "The Black Moose," with an illustration reproduced from an original photo film, is especially interesting.

MISS HERFORD'S MONOLOGUES. IT. 1 1 tha miialnff "mdnll. nan uuu wi oLuui.a a naaf-wlna ITnrfnH hnVA ViAon IVrJUC, mi Issued In book form- by Charles Scrib-ner's Sons (1.26) and they make capital summer reading. To anyone who has leard Miss Herford in ner lnimitaoie mpersonations, the little sketches awake nw.n.

nr hat vnfliA nnd exDression. and she "speaks" them, every one. But even those who have never heard of the author will find the homeliness and wit of the monologues refreshing, and will unconsciously apply tne cnrwii. to friends and acquaintances always a 1. 1 wtlAII tilAH i ft.

little pricking in the process. A 88- i -ii Mirk. "4 cianie oeamstreon, iuw Ladv Packing." 'tPlazza Ladies," "The Country Store," and "A Professional Boarder are tne names oi mo chosen for this volume, ana reaaers win probably find the third and the last of these most self-revealing. The sketch are generously Illustrated in tint by Oliver Herford. The type Is large and there are wide margins, emphasized by border lines or tan.

AitogevaGr a. unsi and dainty little booK. THE BROOKLYN KISS. From the Rochester Post-Express Th, aitihni-itiAH nf Rrooklvn have de creed that those who kiss in public placet shall not extend the salute beyond one BAonnrf tt nnw tin tn the Brooklyn- Ites to help the "Let us Alone" movement along. I Brooklyn as it does when It Is frozen in Maine'; Much of the popular ani mosity against the Ice Trust proceeds from the fact that a twenty-pound piece of ice will weigh fifteen pounds on Monday, while on Tuesday another of supposedly the same size will weigh not more than thirteen.

The scales of justice and the Ice man should be made correspond. Revolting Against Hlgh-Priced Meat. Consumers are complaining to their butchers of the high prices charged for meat. The butchers are complain ing to the wholesale dealers. The wholesale dealers declare that the high price Is a consequence of the shortage of supply of meat on the hoof.

And all but the cattle raisers declare that they wish things were not as they are. The revolt Is widespread. Families ore taking advantage of the situation to become vegetarians and to abandon meat eating. The cults of the physical culturists, the raw-food advocates aud the Fletcher philosophers are having their day. We are becoming learned In proteids, hydrocarbons and calorifics.

Scientific nutrition is becoming a staple subject of discussion. In many families In which beef was the feature of every meal, the table bears meat at but one meal In the week. In a single section of Brooklyn alone, seventy-five of the three hundred butchers doing business there have closed their doors. In the meantime the health rate Is higher and the death rate is lower in Brooklyn than elsewhere In the great city. Whether or not there Is cause and effect in this remains to be determined.

What is clearly the fact is that the sale of meat has been greatly diminished. The physicians who have been preaching against meat consumption are having their innings. It is becoming a question in these high-priced times whether we shall not be come a community of vegetarians. The victims of gout and rheumatism are quite likely not to be a class apart as eschewers of a diet that is not strict ly limited to vegetables and fruits. In the meantime it would be Interesting to have exact data as to the comparative sales of meat now and in the times when a beefsteak was within the reach of a moderate-sized pocketbook.

All of this is far from being a disadvantage In this hot weather. The eating of meat during a time when the thermometer discovers an ambitious disposition can be dispensed with to the great good of the body. It Is when the frost comes and the snow falls that the absence of meat from the daily meal will be felt as a deprivation. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL The man who falls from the root of a building 909 feet high to the street will be inclined to the opinion, en route, that a moving sidewalk travels more than 12 miles an hour. Horse breeding on its legal side, seems to require the s'ervlces of eminent constitutional Jockeys.

The Eagle contained a recipe the other night for "Glorified Hash." Perhaps some of it would taste good to Mr. Hearst, who has gone through a political food-chopper and added glory to the remains with a cablegram. Rebates are so wicked that taxpayers will not wish to receive them for the prompt payment of taxes; indeed, they cannot, if they would. Give a word a bad meaning and the effect will be far-reaching. Mr.

Gompers will not allow any air ships to float twelve consecutive hours over this land of the free only the clouds are permitted to float overtime. The tetanus germ is about to wake up and listen for the toy pistol summoning him to a feast. David H. Wintress, the Civil War veteran who has just passed away at Patchogue after 40 years of suffering from his wounds, demonstrated the largeness of his soul in a life-long conflict. Some one friendly to Mr.

Bryan should suggest that he engage the services of the Williamsburg Boss Bakers Singing Society as a choral union to accompany htm on his speechmaking tours. At Rock-away Beach yesterday they proved they are experts at raising the dough. UNCLE SAM TOO BUSY. One fist Is throttling Cuba, and The other grips Manila; He sits on Porto Rico's strand. And nods to Honolulu; One foot stamps out a rebel band Of Panamans eccentric; The other make3 a firmer stand On mountain-ribbed Alaska; His private brand of freedom (canned) Is boomed but in Nebraska.

A quiet Fourth the world will see, So busy is our Uncle; Though powder for salutes may be Not scarce on the Pacific; Both feet, both hands, most strenuously Are used for "civilizing." Some race not fitted to be free Though full of animation; What waggery 'twould be, if we Should read the Declaration! J. A. MC CLURE'S MAGAZINE. Samuel Hopkins Adams, In the opening article in the July issue of McClure's Magazine, writes of the appalling Iobs of life due to the lack of sane methods for the protection of the health of the American public. Judge McKenrle Cleland, in a statement of his judicial experience In Chicago, shows the extraordinary success of the new plan for dealing with city criminals, which he Inaugurated in that city.

Will C. Barnes gives a vigorous character sketch of Glf-ford Pinchot, and his fight to preserve the national forests. Ellen Terry continues her record of her American impressions, and the reminiscences of Carl Schurz picture the Anal downfall of President Johnson. The fiction includes "The Heritage of Ham," a tragedy of military life in the Philippines, and "The Singer's Heart," a story of stage life by Harris Merton Lyon. Josephine Daskam Bacon contributes one of her sketches if child life, and Joseph Blethen tells a novel and striking Indian story of a new typo.

Mary Stoiv.irt Cutting's novel, "The Wayfarers." Is concluded in this FRIDAY EVBNI.VO, JULY 3. 150S. This Paper has a Circulation Larger than that of any other Evening Paper of Iti class in the United States. Its value as an Advertising Medium is apparent. Exclusive Associated Press Service.

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Man Who Begins Life Every Morning. Mr. Bryan, after graduation from college and a law school in Illinois, removed to Lincoln in Nebraski Thence he was twice chosen to Congress between 1891 and 1895. On the expiration of his second term, he became a reporter for a Democratic dally in Omaha, and "wrote Introductions" to Its account of McKInley's nomination In St. Louis, in June, 1896.

Two' weeks later, he was nominated lor President at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. There never was a more theatric transition; but it should be remembered that he was a brilliant Congressman before he became i brilliant reporter, and at the Democratic Convention, as a successful contestant for the seat of a regularly elected delegate, he made a brilliant speech for the herety of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Grover Cleveland had forced the repeal of silver coinage. The Chicago Convention denounced Cleveland and the repeal. Bryan voiced the hostility to both.

He won the praise of the Bllver mine owners and of the states vith politics controlled by them. He felso magnetically stirred a convention that felt toward Mr. Cleveland the resentment of politicians that could neither scare nor cajole that Presl-ident. The union of silver mine owners end of the noliticians whom Mr. Cleveland had affronted and defied created en opportunity for Mr.

Bryan. He used it and it used him. The most flramatic nomination in history resulted The first effect was defeat, but Mr. Bryan increased by a cubit his stature as an agitator, and in 1900 was renominated as a declaimer against "Imperial-Ism" as the sequence of a war In which he was commissioned as the Colonel of a regiment which the McKinley administration put in camp and not in the field. Mr.

Bryan was uiiHiiImousl.v renominated, but was badly beaten. After each defeat and between both he found in lecturing an occupation and a revenue. rTbls he afterward augmented by a voyage around the world with syndicated letters describing It. The sovereigns, parliaments aud nmnus adors paid honors to him mid he made a strong impression on them. lie returned to the States with enhanced fume.

We will not be misunderstood when we say that ever since he has increased his eligibility and decreased his popularity. A seeming but not an actual paradox is this. His eligibility has increased, because no man of his skill and readiness in his party lias appeared to dispute the lists with aim. Ills popularity lias decreased because his party regards him only as an inevitability. He is accepted because of the default of others, not because of an augmentation of his own strength.

The persuasion that his nomination cannot be prevented goes in thousands of minds with the conviction that he can hardly be elected, hut must be got out of the way by another nomination that (will register further and final defeat. Something more than this conclusion Of "kismet" must, however, he taken jinto account. President Iloosevelt has accomplished some or the good which environed much of the nonsense and worse that was In Mr. Bryan's prior candidacies. To the extent of tills good done by Mr.

Roosevelt, Mr. Bryan has prospered as In a degree a vindicated man. Mr. Bryan's claim of right to push as much of the rest of his programme as he has not renounced has been shrewdly urged. Not a word has he said against Mr.

Roosevelt, but only against the party that would not go the whole of Mr. Roosevelt's length. Moreover, Mr. Bryan has dropped 'some of the heresies his two defeats stamped out and others his travels refuted. He has dropped free silver if only for a while.

He has substituted eventual for Immediate equipment of the Filipinos with self-government. Which both parties say they favor, differing only as to the time whon. Mr. Bryan quarrels with the new currency law, only because it does not include some proylsious he would have to it. He dropped his demand for national seizure of the railroads to insistence on national supervision of them, and is now willing to forget that ever hinted confiscation He tem Murat Halstead, for a While a Brook-lynite.

Murat Halstead was 61 years old when he came to Brooklyn. His years before that had been spent in Ohio, relieved only by visits to Washington, to National political conventions and to the army camps, during the Civil War. Here he resided for only a year or two as the leader writer of the Standard Union, and theu he return ed to Cincinnati, as a writer at large, as a traveling observer and as the titular head of what was called a correspondence school in journalism. His last editorship was that he had here. Before that he had edited the Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial, editing both for a while after their consolidation.

The various fields In which ho worked, after leaving Brooklyn, did not add to his fame, but they gave vogue to a tempera ment which demanded unremitting expression. As a writer he disagreed in Ohio with the owners of the sheets he edited and he and they parted. The one opponent whom he mainly assailed, John R. McLean, got his stock from an uuwatched broker with whom he had placed It This ended Mr. Halstead's proprietary hold, and he was adrift.

Then followed his brief period of labor here. As editor and correspondent be bad made enmities In Republicanism. Some of the enmities were forgiven. Some were not President Harrison nominated him to be Minister to Berlin. Senator Sherman had the nomination rejected.

President McKinley, however, appointed two of Mr. Hal-stead's sons to comfortable berths and other sons worked in general journalism faithfully and well. Mr. Halstead's one idol in Ohio politics was Mr. Foraker, and that error involved him in Injurious antagonisms.

The man's feuds with Grant, Chase, Sherman (both the General and the Senator) and others should be separated from any merely personal feeling on his part. He misunderstood them and angered them. His misunderstanding of them was due to a zeal for acrid characterization of half-facts. without waiting for whole facts, and to a belief that their resentment was due to his devotion to truth. Instead of to his unconscious Instinct for instant and sensational effect.

Though he aroused resentments he harbored none, for he was sunny and optimistic. He could begin life every morning and sweep yesterdays from his mind as easily as he could dandruff from the collar of his coat. His personality was charming. His appearance was distinguished. His manners were natural and cordial.

His industry as a writer was phenomenal. His sense of topical variety, however, was defective. To him there was nothing entirely important but politics, and in politics nothing so interesting, as his experiences or as his opinion of such experiences. He was Incapable of allowing in those he attacked for more resentment than he had toward them, which, the heat of composition passed, was none at all. Shrewder men were not undercut, as he was, by schemers in the AVest and cannier men burnt none of their bridges behind them as he buoyantly and gleefully did.

In failure he was happier than some of them were In "success," and personally he was well liked by his fellow workers for his industry, open-handedness and geniality. He made a brief and not a strong impress on Brooklyn journalism, but no man had more fun out of it than he did, unless it was the group that had with him and out of him and always with good nature, as much fun as ho himself had. General journalism he understood tolerably we'll. Ohio journalism he knew down to the ground. Brooklyn Journalism he never understood at all, but It understood hiui and liked him, and will always sincerely miss him.

A formidable list of books on a showy line of subjects, such as the Philippines, stands to his credit, but they were what he called "pot boilers," aud at the Idea that they were literature, his ghost would merrily laugh to-day. The domestic relations of no man were nore loyally and affectionately maintained, and none of the many feuds which journalism and politics brought to him invaded or beclouded the love aud faith of his home life. Artificial Ice. Mr. Oler, who is head of that much-abused organization, the Ice Trust, says that the day of natural ice is passing aud that the needs of the future will be served by the artificial product.

The consumption of artificial Ice has increased enormously within the last few years, partly owing to the fact that it is easily and cheaply manufactured in or near the markets where It Is to be sold, and partly because unfavorable weather conditions hnve curtailed the supply of natural ice. Artificial ice made from the water of driven wells has a standard of purity that no natural Ice can attain. It is free from the pollution of decaying leaves and other vegetable matter, it cannot be infected by sewage, as much of our river ice now Is, and Is, therefore, free from the bacteria that produce typhoid and other diseases. The only drawhack to its general use has been the difficulty of manufacturing large quantities from one plant. The difficulty Is now removed through improvements in machinery which have Indefinitely multiplied the output.

What most of us would like to know, however, is whether the sub- in tils titty-fourth year, the originator of this book felt that he was aging rapidly, going painfully down the wrong side of the hill of life and giving up-one by one all the pleasures that had made living attractive to him. He had lost his power to work, his enjoyment of social pleasures and all his interest in intellectual pursuits. He suffered from Intense pain, which he took to be muscular rheumatism, and, at times, from a mild form of aphasia. His one object was to get done with his necessary work as rapidly as possible and go to bed. Sometimes he was so overcome with weak-, ness, dizziness and fatigue in the middle of the day that he was forced to go to bis club and He down for an hour or so before he could go on with his work.

"To-day he Is in better health than he has enjoyed since he was a boy and feels that barring accidents he should live to be a hundred. For this he has to thank the new system of diet." HIb Impulse is to give to the world for the benefit of sufferers the means of recovery in such fornl that it can be easily grasped and applied without the intervention of a third or skilled person. He holds out that "the best part of the plan is that it costs nothing to adopt It; do expensive apparatus, no consultation of specialists, no change of climate, no release from daily work." It may be said that Brown's work is divided Into two parts. The first is a lawyer-like presentation of the principles of Fletcherlsm. He summons Into court as witnesses the originator of the theory of Insallvatlon, Professor Chittenden, and Professor Fisher, who have experimented and investigated and reached conclusions; Drs.

Higglns and Soleeby and Professor Wendel, who have thought and written on the subject, through quotations from their works. Indeed, Dr. Sager, Dr. Curtis of this country, Elie Metchinikoff of Russia, Drs. Blumfield and Van Someren and Sir Michael Foster of England, Pav-noff of Russia and a host of others are called to prove the case.

When his case is proved he has established for Fletcher. Ism the dignity of a science the results of which are ascertained and of record. The second nart Is a E-nfrin tn the im plication of the principles In It is at that point that the layman may nna just what Be wants when he says: "I accept the truth as presented: now tell me how to practice it." It is in this part mat tne reader will And Just the informa. tion he desire. Dietaries are presented which give you the measurements or amounts of the proteids, the fats and the carboEydrates that are essential to the proper nutrition of the body, a week's bill ol fare in exact quantities of fool ana I kind.

One can skin the scien tific I Us and have all the advantages of the cult tn nractice. Fletcherlsm-lay1 strong hold upon mastication as tne most essential of all the requirements. The mastication of all food, liquid as well as solid, until the involuntary swallowing Impulse Is In operation Is the great requisite and the one demand on the practlcer. Nature does tne rest, if you have by mastication Drop erly insalivated your food. It Is a sort of you touch button we do the rest.

But Fletcher lays down other rules. He say3 eat only wnen you have a vigorous aope tlte. Indicated not by the gnawing of the stomach, but by the watering of the mouth. Never eat when you are hurried; nor when you are worried, angry, exhausted or unhappy. Mr.

Brown indorses these rules. The investigators have determined that the ordinary man does not require In a aay more tnan two ounces of proteids, which make tissue. Mr. Brown shows how those two ounces are to be secured and measured. The theory advanced is that the process of digestion begins with proper mas tication, in teh act of which the stomach is made ready by a provision of gastric Juice to conttnuo the work.

It Is claimed that in the practice of proper mastlca tlon the taste becomes keener, and you have enjoyment, as those who bolt their food have not. Further, it is held that what is left In the mouth from which there is no taste should be gotten rid of as you get rid of cherry pits, for instance. And this is no small point with the Fletchorltes. It Is held there Is no nutrition In this tasteless residue a.id that to swallow It is to make a waste basket of your stomach and to impose unnecessary labor on the liver and kUl-neys. Moderation and simplicity are the watchwords of the science, but you ars denied nothing that your taste craves.

The science Is well worth study and tha book of Mr. Brown may be called the primer of the science. It is a valuable contribution as a guide to practice by laymen. NEW YORK'S CROWN. Henry van Dyke's Poem on the Commencement of the College of the City of New York.

IFrom the New York 8un, June 25, 1908. Dr. Henry van Dyke of Princeton ad dressed the graduates and read a poem which, it was said, would be set to music and sung by the students. The poem, entitled "New York's Crown," follows: 01 youngest of the giant brood Of cities far renowned, Id wealth and fame thou hast outstripped Thy sisters at a bound. Thou art a mighty queen, New York, And bow wilt thou be crowned? "Bring me no glittering coronet Of palaces," she said; "Nor weaver of frowning fortress walls A helmet for my head.

But let me wear the diadem Of wisdom's towers instead." She bowed herself, she spent herself. She worked her will forsooth And set upon her island heights A citadel of truth, A house of Light, a home of Thought, A shrine of nobis Stand here, ye City College towers. And look both up and down, Remember all who wrought for you Within the tolling town. Remember all their hopes for you And be the City's crown. (It should be stated that the foregoing Is to be set to music by an eminent composer and will hereafter be the song of tho College of the City of New York.

Dr. van Dyke wrote the poem during the eommonrcment exercises over which he presided. Ed. EagleJ FOOD FOR THOUGHT. From the Indianapolis News.

Pun It ha nossihle that the steam roller at Denver-Is reversible' 3 and in being excused from paying to the city rent for the use of the docks the arrangement to continue until the meeting of the Board of Estimate next fall. Something of this kind will be done. is for the city to determine. Indeed, it is for the city to act. Responsibility is not divided.

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