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By EDWIN J. WEBSTER,
Copyright by Edwin J. Webster
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ONE MAN HURT IN EXPLOSION.
evidences of new life in this far eastern
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William T. Stead joined the nature fak-
ing class.when he said America is drifting
into the jaws of the Japanese lion.
If Grover Cleveland should come out
fo-' Bryan the thing would be practically
It has been decided by a scientist that
a hole in Arizona three-quarters-of a mile
across and 600 fest deep was made by a
meteor. He has not found the meteor,
but this does not stagger a scientist.
the presidency.
without -any muck-raking contributions?-
A Chicago judge has ruled that it is as
much the father’s business to walk the
floor with the baby as the mother’s. But
the judge’s wife had evidently made that
ruling first.
of. the west, but the true awakening of
china mav be dated from the rlav she.
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to leave the room and added that no-
body but meddling fools wanted the
pier. Neither Mr. Mann nor Boss Dor-
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Latest cure found for . cerebro spinal
meinigitis. Of course, but will they ever
find anything that’s good for rheumatism?
defense ■ of President Roosevelt .confirms
the opinion.
Exploration in ancient Egypt shows
that the new woman existed 341 B. C.,
and is therefore 2200 years old. Nothing
new in the fact or the -statement. Isn’t
she the eternal feminine?
It is now predicted that Mr. Roosevelt
will edit a magazine when he retires from
But how will it survive
Any erroneous reflections upon the stand-
ing, character or reputation of any person,
firm or corporation, which may appear in
the columns of the Tribune, will be gladly
corrected upon its being brought to the
attention of the management.
Boss Dorseu
And the Babies.
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GALVESTON TRIBUNE
(Established 1880.)
Dirigible balloons will be serviceable
hs scouts.
The New Year reception of the presi-
dent was a gorgeous affair.
Mormons have started on their way to
Europe for purposes of evangelization.
Arrests have been made in connection
with the street railway robbery in New
York.
Application for a receiver for the Sea-
board Air Line has been made at Rich-
mond. $
Charlemagne Tower comments on the
friendly relations between this country
and Germany.
New Year official receptions in France
were not held because of the death of the
minister of justice.
An attack on the American consul at
Ocos, Guatemala, is reported to have been
made by the Mexican consul.
Governor Flughes’ message to the New
York legislature dwelt upon banking
legislation and race horse gambling.
The Union Pacific finds that although
it has had an increased business, acci-
dents have been less as a result ’of the
use of safety appliances.
Although a week has passed the woman
whose nude body was found in a New Jer-
sey lake has not been identified, nor is
there any trace of her murderer.
Mosquito Indians are reported as hav-
ing risen against the Zelaya government.
The case of the members of the first
douma. are to-be carried to the highest
tribunal in Russia.
southern
court.
will not
Will Refuse to Pay More Than 80 Per
Cent of Demands.
New York, Jan. 2.—A crisis in the
rent strike is expected today when the
collectors begin their monthly rounds.
More than 6000 families have signed
the demand for lower rents and when
the collectors attempt to collect the
usual rent these families will refuse
to pay more than 80 per cent of the
amount demanded. Plans are being
made to hold a monster parade of the
rent strikers through the East Side
streets to help extend the strike to the
unfix* 4-rx-r» r» f rJ a a i ■»’ i rt
Russia wants to place a fresh loan and,
as usual, is reconnoitering the French
stocking, which seems to have no bottom.
Everybody in France is trained from the
cradle to save something as part of the
.necessary business of life.
Eastern Office:
JOHN P. SMART,
Direct Representative, 15o Nassau Street,
Room 628, New York City.
mony applied the torch which was sup-
posed to put a finish to the opium smok-
ing practice in that locality. It is said
that hundreds of old opium
greeted with shouts of joy the destruc-
. tion of the paraphernalia of the odious
JANUARY 2,
Sure, and these hot days
the babies.”
there was any person iu the city for
whom Richard Dorsey had a cordial
dislike, It was Mr. Mann. The feeling
was reciprocated. While well mean-
ing, Mr. Mann was far from tactful.
His advocacy of the claims of the east
side children in the matter of a recrea-
tion pier was such as to leave the po-
litical boss in a hot perspiration of
rage. In the end. with stronger lan-
guage than was due the sanctity of the
cloth, Dorsey requested the clergyman
A photograph has been transmitted from
Paris to Marseilles, a distance of . 700
miles, by wireless telegraphic instruments.
The wireless promises to be one of the
scientific sensations of 1908.
WATER TRANSPORTATION.
Austin Statesman.
Water transportation appears to be
a necessity to relieve the situation. The
railroads can not handle the • country’s
traffic; so it seems we must have other
transportational facilities. Double
trackage would aid the roads to handle
the freight over their respective lines,
but the roads in this state do not take
for some cause or other to the con-
struction of double trackage and hence
the necessity for water or river trans-
portation. Therefore in order to ac-
complish water transportation it be-
hooves Texas to put in congress and to
keep in congress men who can and will
secure such appropriations as are
necessary to the improvement of our
waterways.
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sharply. \
“Euless we break away from him,”
answered Collins sullenly.
“Break from the party?
thought to hear you say any such a
thing.
“Young Wendell must have put up
the job to get Dorsey in a hole,” de-
clared McMannis angrily. “And he’s
put Tom McMannis and Tim Collins in
just as bad. a one.”
“I’ll stand by you, whatever you do,”
said Tim loyally. “But as Dorsey
neither of us can get a job on a city
wagon in the Tenth ward. There’s too
many babies.”
And Tim Collins departed, cursing
the folly of Dorsey.
The extra edition of the Express had
been issued shortly after noon, and bv
3 o'clock it seemed as if most of the
men and every woman in the ward had
seen a copy of the paper.
“To think of him saying that abo^,
the babies,” said Mrs. O’Neil, the moth-'
er of the fat Johnnie. “And the poor
darlints almost perished with the heat.
‘D—n the babies.’ because they can’t
vote, is it? Oh, but I wish the women
had a vote. We’d show Mr. Dorsey
what it meant.”
And the sentiments of Mrs. O’Neil
were forcibly echoed by all the women
present.
All that afternoon the local Hench-
men of McMannis visited his saloon:
Each gloomily condemned the impru-
dence of Dorsey, and each, at first
timidly and then more boldly, suggest-
ed to McMannis that it was absolutely
necessary for the Tenth ward to rebel
against the rule of the boss. But Mc-
Mannis, bound by years of allegiance
to the organization, hesitated to de-
clare against it. Early that evening
while he was discussing the situation
with Tim Collins a message came stat-
ing that Dorsey desired to see both of
them at the organization headquarters.
The message was a little peremptory
and did not add to McMannis’ good hu-
mor. Still he and his lieutenant pre-
pared to obey. A few yards from the
saloon the Tenth ward politicians met
Mrs. O'Neil, accompanied by pretty
Mollie Grady, for whom Tim Collins
had ■'more than a faint affection.
“And did you see what Dorsey said
about the babies?” asked Mrs. O’Neil,
stopping McMannis. “You’re a good
man, Mr. McMannis, find we all like
you and know you’ve clone what you
could to get the recreation pier and
other things for the people in this
ward, but good man that you are there
are few votes you can control in the
Tenth as long as you stick by that
Dorsey.”
“Well, Mrs. O’Neil,” replied McMan-
nis, trying to placate the offended
mother, “I’m loyal to my party, but
you will find me looking out for ths
Tenth, my own ward, first.”
A moment later he was rejoined by
Tim Collins, who had stopped to speak
to brown eyed Mollie.
“I asked her if she would go to the
picnic with me,” observed Tim gloom-
ily, “and she' said. ‘Are you a Dorsey
man?’ And I says, ‘I suppose I am.’
Says she. ‘I’ll go to no picnics with a
fellow who backs up a man that curses
little babies and says they can die of
the heat.’ ”
The ward leader and his lieutenant
looked doubtfully at each other. Then
each understood. McMannis called to
Dorsey’s messenger, who had been
waiting across the street.
“You tell Mr. Dorsey,” said McMan-
nis tersely, “that Tim and I are too
busy to come now. After election
we’ll have more time.”
Dorsey and his adherents were not
men to sit quietly in the face of im-
pending defeat. They worked desper-
ately; the whole influence of the po-
lice and of city employees was thrown
in favor of the organization. Yet each
day it was evident the once invincible
boss was losing ground. The defec
tion of McMannis and the formerly
solid organization of the Tenth ward
proved a heavy blow.
On election night the result was
practically certain long before the to-
tals were known. The uptown dis-
tricts. as bad been expected, voted
against Dorsey. Then came scattering
districts slightly in his favor. Then
the result in the Tenth ward was an-
nounced. It was solLlly against the
boss. But when the districts in which
the organization was strongest. were
counted Dorsey and his adherents gave
up hope. Instead of an almostistraight
organization vote the returns In these
districts showed small majorities
which would fall far short of over-
coming the vote in the antiorganization
districts and the Tenth ward. Then
Dorsey and his lieutenants gave up the
fight and, leaving the organization
headquarters, sought a place where
they could drown their grief and make
plans for the future. Near headquar-
ters Dorsey met Harry Wendell. The
defeated leader looked at the young
lawyer with a scowl.
“You think you beat me, don’t you,”
growled the ex-boss—“you and your
reformers? Well, you didn’t,
down your crowd every time,
the babies that beat me.”
Tomorrow the first chapters of Har-
ris Dickson’s splendid southern story,
“Duke of Devil-Mt<y-Care,” will- be pub-
lished in this paper. Don’t fail to
read it.
We have long suspected that Henry
Clews was not a regular Wall Street
banker in good standing, and now his
rjriROWN-EYED Johnnie O’Neil,
I I bettor, known to his family and
I immediate friends as the “fat
■- I baby,” had wandered to the
long avenue skirting the rivqr front.
Harry Wendell, a young lawyer who
was rapidly becoming prominent in
politics, was hurrying to the meeting
of the City Reform club. He did not
notice the perspiring toddler and al-
most ran into him. The fat baby made
a frantic Effort to dodge, collided with
another pedestrian and fell to the side-
walk. It was not a bard fall, but the
fat baby’s ordinary optimism had been
undermined by the weather. Instead,
of scrambling to his feet he lay on the
pavement and sobbed in helpless mis-
ery.
Harry Wendell picked up the small
sufferer and handed him a carnation
he had been wearing. As the babe’s
feelings changed from sorrow to won-
der and then to delight his sobs grew
fainter.
“Sure, and these hot days are hard
on the babies, with never a breeze stir-
ring except along the river and the
trucks and wagons keeping them away
from there.”
Harry Wendell looked around and
saw Tom McMannis, the ward leader
and one of the strongest supporters of
Richard Dorsey, the boss whom the
City Reform club was working hard to
overthrow.
“It’s a pity they can’t get a recrea-
tion pier for this district.” observed
Harry, looking at the river front,
which had been the coveted Canaan
of the fat baby. “It would be a won-
derful comfort fof the children as well
as for older people.”
“It would that,” assented McMannis.
“I was telling Dorsey the same only
yesterday. But he didn’t seem to look
at it that way.” \
And McMannis,
after giving the
now cheered fat baby some pennies
and telling him to “run and get a bit
of candy,” strolled into the saloon
which was his political headquarters,
while Wendell hastened up the street.
On his way to the meeting Harry
Wendell’s thoughts reverted to the
ward leader from whom he had just
parted. McMannis was uneducated,
unprincipled in both public and per-
sonal life, a machine politician of the
worst type—and not a bit ashamed of
the fact. Yet McMannis was the ab-
solute ruler of the crowded Tenth
ward.
However corrupt local politics might
be, the fact must be faced that the or-
ganization, led by Dorsey, was strong,
well disciplined and could put up a
bard fight. And, while it would be for
their own good, the big foreign ele-
ment and the poorer classes generally
did not care for reform. Again and
again the City Reform club had led
campaigns against the machine and
each time either had been defeated at
the polls or after what seemed victory
found that Dorsey had again worked
his way back into power, aided by the
indifference of the good citizens who
had voted for reform. But if a break
could be made in the machine ranks, if
McMannis, whose sway in his own
ward was indisputed, could be array-
ed against the boss, then indeed some-
thing might be effected. And as he
pondered the matter Harry Wendell
saw through a glass darkly a plan
whereby a break might possibly be
made in the compact forces of the ma-
chine.
“It’s playing machine politics on my
own account,” he soliloquized, “but
McMannis is a good deal better man
at heart than Dorsey, and a recreation
pier would be a good thing for the
babies in those big Tenth ward tene-
ments, however it is obtained.”
The next day while Tom McMannis,
seated In a little room back of his bar.
was talking over the details of the
coming campaign with a few of his
favored henchmen a bartender entered
and in the confidential whisper as-
sumed by all practical politicians and
their followers announced that Harry
Wendell would like to speak to the
ward leader. McMannis nodded to his
retainers, who filed out of the room.
When Harry entered, McMannis looked
at him with complacent hostility.
“I was at the meeting of the City
Reform club yesterday.” began Harry.
“I beard there was to be one,” mur-
mured McMannis, “but I couldn’t get
the time to go.”
McMannis and Wendell, while polit-
ical opponents, were personally friend-
ly enough. The young lawyer laughed.
“I have been thinking of what you
said yesterday afternoon about a rec-
reation pier. It would be a godsend to
the babies this hot weather. Now.
can’t we combine on this point even if
we fight each other on other matters?”
The leader of the Tenth ward leaned
back in his chair, his bands in his
pockets, and looked hard at Wendell.
For reformers in general McMannis
had a deep rooted dislike. But the
recreation pier for his ward had been
one of McMannis’ heartfelt desires for
the last two years.
"What you say is right.” replied Mc-
Mannis after a moment’s thought. “I
certainly do want the pier, and, what
is more important, so do my people,
but I didn’t expect help from the City
Reform club.”
“It isn’t necessarily a political mat-
ter.” answered Harry, “and perhaps^if
both crowds combined we could force
the board of aidermen to appropriate
the money.”
“We could.” assented McMannis.
“and mighty glad would 1 be to see
the pier here whether the reformers v-r
the devil himself helned ma to scat ir.
"Black Hand” Dynamite Explosion
Wrecks New York Tenement.
By Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 2.—A dynamite bomb
believed to have been set off by mem-
bers of the "Black Hand’’ society
wrecked the entire lower floor of a five-
story tenement house on East 11th
street and caused a panic among the
occupants of the building. One man
was injured by the explosion.
At intervals the readers of newspapers
are regaled with highly colored narra-
tives usually headed “The Awakening of
China,” in which are detailed remarkable
Spain produces over three billion cork?.,
every year. Np wonder other potentates
regard Alfonso as a corker.
An electrical engineer asserts that by
the use of the'eurrent the cost of oper-
ating railroads in the United States can
be reduced $250,GOO,COO a year. That would
be a neat saving and, if made, should not
evaporate before the. stockholders ar a
land, such as the reorganization of her
army on stupendous lines, the construc-
tion of a navy which will make that
nation a maritime power of the first-
. class, or the extension of railways
- throughout the kingdom bringing China
Into commercial rivalry with the countries
lack of capital and frequently discour-
aged by lack of appreciation or by the
severest criticism. He expects criti-
cism, for- with his daily and weekly
audiences of thousands it could nardly
be expected that he should please all,
but his worries come when his motives
are misconstrued, as they often are.
But the editor who studies and works
and puts the best that is. in him into
his labors, prompted by a desire to do
the right and to be of some real good
to the world, finds a constantly
broadening field of usefulness opening
•before him that inspires him to still
greater effort. The work may,be diffi-
cult, but it has a facination about it
that tempts one forward, even through
the severest reverses.
A $35,000 fire occurred at GreenvillV ’
A Lufkin man was fatally injured
while hunting.
■ Buffalo gnats are very destructive
horses in Hardin county.
G. F. Dockery Committed suicide
Hawley and Tom Halton at Merkel.
Beaumont has settled th^ disputed
town cow question as it existed there.
A Japanese who tried to smuggle him-
self across the border at Laredo was ar-
rested.
Since the hard times began counter-
feiters have gotten busy in southwest
Texas.
An incendiary fire occurred at Grove-
ton and the owner of the building was
arrested.
Congressman Cooper has returned
Beaumont on account of the illness
his daughter.
The federal, and state grand juries are
to investigate the Woods bank matters
at San Antonio. I
Fort Worth has made a wonderful rec-
ord with its cattle market since it was
started five years ago.
Judge Gill has been appointed and ac-
cepted the position of a member of the
state penitentiary board.
Bishop Johnson says a saloon man has
as much right under the law to sell
liquor as he has to preach the gospel.
Judge Clarence Martin says that if he
should run for congress it will not be
on the Bailey issue, but on his own
record.
In a mixup at Rockdale a young man
was badly injured and the Mollie Bailey
show is held up pending the result of his
injuries.
It has been found that Congressman
Gregg’s bill does not contemplate put-
ting Jefferson county in the
district of the federal
of the tax assessors
the agricultural statistics re-
quired by law because there is no com-
pensation in it, but others will do so as a
matter of patriotism and the good of the
farmers.
EDITORS SHOULD BE STUDENTS.
Beaumont Bulletin.
A newspaper writer ought No be a
student. He ought to improve himself
every day of his life by close study,
and unless he does so, is hardly pre-
pared to deal with the live issues con-
stantly arising. Of course there are
some papers that are satisfied to be
mere purveyors of gossip, rut it should
be the ambition of the editor to be of
constant service to the homes into
which the paper goes. It requires hard
work to do this, especially where the
editor has many other duties in con-
nection with his business besides writ-
ing. The successful newspaper man is
usually a success because he works
unceasingly. There are few other avo-
cations quite so exacting. Whether in
the office, on the street, at home or
traveling, the conscientious newspaper
worker is constantly studying that he
may improve his paper and make it
more interesting or more helpful to the
ars. J-J a ix nfian hanrlinonnAd hv
begins to combat those evils which have
ever made her powerless among the na-
tions of the earth, and whether it be
England, Germany or America, it will be
found as true as It is' being learned in
China that a nation is only as powerful
as its aggregate citizenship is strong of
body and clean of life.
traffic.
China has not been blind to the direful
effects of the opium traffic fastened upon
her in 1842 and has made more or less
ineffectual efforts to rid herself of this
degrading practice but never with suf-
ficient energy to/ convey the impression
that she was in earnest, and hence the
business has grown and its practice se-
cured deeper hold upon the people
the passing years; but the scene described
in Hangchow', while it may not indicate
change in the tide of opium affairs in
China, demonstrates two significant
facts, one that a law can be enforced
when it appears to be opposed to
public sentiment, the other that man is
a slave to an injurious practice not
much because of its fascination as for
lack of will power sufficient to combat
the evil, and if granted a little help by
law or some other agency which shall
deny him the free access to that wh'ch is
harmful he gladly welcomes the change
he could not bring about of his individ-
people and has been by us of the Occident
. looked upon as a weakness far removed,
. but there are other drugs and decoctions
■ fully aS baneful in effect as is the prod-
uct of the poppy, nor is their use con-
fined altogether to nations cessed as
Follow.v-g Rev. Mr. Mann several
business and professional men promi-
nent in the community, but declared,
opponents of Dorsey, called on the po-
litical leader and advocated the claims
of the Tenth warders to the recreation
pier. The result of these maneuvers
was that the generally silent and self
contained boss was exasperated to
such a pitch of irritation that a men-
tion of the recreation pier had the
soothing effect upon him that the wav-
ing of a red flag has upon a bull. Then
Harry Wendell himself was shown in-
to the boss’ private office, and with
vVendell, unobtrusive, but keenly alert
to every detail, came Jack Whitney,
one of the reporters for the Express.
“I came to seo you about the recrea-
tion pier that seems so much needed
in the Tenth ward,” began Harry
suavely. “I think”—
But the patience of the exasperated
boss at last gave way.
“Yoti think;” he thundered. “Well,
I think there has been too much fuss
made about that pier. It won’t be
built. The babies need it! D—n the
babies anyway! They can’t vote!”
“All right,” replied Harry cheerful-
ly. “If that’s the w’ay you feel about
it, there’s no need of saying any more.”
Accompanied by the reporter, he bur- ‘
tied out of the office, for he had ob-
tained exactly the statement he want-
ed. Any modification of it would only
weaken his position.
The Express was one of the bitterest
opponents of the rule of Dorsey. In
the hall Jack Whitney looked gleeful-
ly at Harry Wendell.
“ ‘D—n the babies! They can’t
vote!’ ” murmured the-newspaper man.
“What a headline! Oh, but in a lit-
tle while Mr. Dorsey will be sorry he
spoke that way. The Express will
have an extra on the street in half an
hour. Won’t that ‘D—n the babies!’
please the Tenth ward, where there
are about a huqdred to each tene-
ment?”
“That’s all right as far as it goes,”
replied Wendell, “but we want to put
Dorsey in a position where he can’t
deny having said it. I’ll draw up an
affidavit corroborating it. Then wTe
can get affidavits from Mr. Mann and
others who talked with Dorsey this
morning. If the Express will publish
these, it will make our case stronger.”
“If the Express will publish them,”
answered the newspaper man. “If I
know how Mr. Rogers feels about Dor-
sey, I think they will be double lead-
ed, with three column headlines. You
get the affidavits, and I’ll hurry back
to the office and be writing the story.”
' ; “We’ll get out an extra,” said the
managing editor to Whitney, “but we
might as well wait and get the affida-
vits, too, so as to have a complete
story. You were the only reporter
present? Then none of the other pa-
pers can come out ahead of us.”
“And I’ll send a man pver to see Mc-
Mannis,” broke in the city editor.
“Jones, run down to McMannis’ place
and ask him if Dorsey is going to do
anything about the recreation pier.
Don’t tell him we have other inter-
views on the subject Just get him to
state. If you can. In the strongest terms
possible that Dorsey says they can’t
have the pier. Telephone in what he
says, for we want it for an extra.”
By the time Whitney had finished
writing his account of the Dorsey in-
terview the affidavits had arrived at
the Express office, and Jones had tele-
phoned in the interview, with McMan-
nis. That worthy, ignorant of the
steps which were being taken to ■ dis-
turb M/.\ Dorsey's peace of mind, had
spoken in strenuous terms. Not that
McMannis had any intention of break-
ing from the organization, but his
heart had been set on getting the rec-
reation pier, and he had brooded over
the refusal of the morning. The city
editor read the account that Whitney
had written and after marking it “dou-
ble lead” sent it to the composing room.
“It looks sensational,” observed the
city editor, "but it is a big story. I
guess when the copies of the paper be-
gin to come into the Tenth ward there
really will be a sensation.”
A few minutes later the newsboys
were calling out;
“Extra! Extra! Al# about Boss Dor-
sey an’ de babies!”
“Better send a lot of copies over to
the Tenth ward.” said the managing
editor. “I wouldn’t wonder if they
would interest McMannis.”
And the paper did interest McMan-
nis. He was sitting in his little back
room when Tim Collins, his most
trusted lieutenant, entered,
excited.
“Have you seen the Express?” be
cried, thrusting a copy of the paper at
McMannis. “Why, Dorsey must have
been crazy to say such a thing. And I
see you are quoted there too. Are you
going to break from the party?”
“What do you mean?” retorted Mc-
Mannis angrily. “What’s Dorsey been
saying, and what rot are you talking
about my breaking with the party?”
There’ll be something else broken if
you don’t take that back.”
But Tim Collins stood undaunted.
“Look for yourself.” he replied. “It’s
all over the ward. The women are wild
about it. I’d have thought it a fake
put up by the reformers if it hadn’t
been for your name and those affida-
vits. Dorsey’s killed himself in this
ward.”
McMannis was eagerly scanning the
paper.
“They’ve got what I said to that re-
porter about right, although I didn’t
think I put it so strong. And I didn’t
know they had those other interviews
and affidavits. It’s a trick of that
young Wendell to down Dorsey and to
make a break in the Tenth ward if he
can.”
“He’s done it all right, all right,”
asserted Tim Collins. “ ‘D—n the ba-
bies!’ There isn't a woman in the
ward who will give her husband any
peace until he’s promised to vote
against Dorsey. He’s gone up, and so
are we unless”—
‘•TinUss what?!’ inauired McMannis
val powers.
Opium has- long been looked upon as an
evil confined to China or the Chinese
I've been alter Dorsey about it, but be
says the city needs the moms;/ for
something else. It makes me angry to
think,” added McMannis naively, “that
just because I’ve got the Tenth ward
so that it is safe they insist all the
money ought to be spent in other
wards. It's coming election time,
though, and Dorsey won’t want to
make any enemies.”
"It's worth trying anyhow,” answer-
ed Harry. "I’ll hustle around and
bring all the pressure cn the part of
the people I know to bear on him.”
“If the other reformers were like that
boy,” declared McMannis impressively
to one of his lieutenants, "it’s more
they would do in this world.”
A week later Richard Dorsey, the
head of the organization, the recog-
nized ruler of city politics, was sitting
in his private office, a frown on his
face. For days the Express, the re-
form mouthpiece, had been printing
stories about the sufferings of the
children on the crowded east side dur-
ing the hot weather and insisting that
a recreation pier was more needed
than the new pavements in the outside
districts. But Dorsey and several of
his political adherents were financially
interested in the paving contracts.
“Stirring up all this trouble about a
lot of babies and women who don’t
vote,” thought the boss angrily. “Why
can’t people mind their own business?”
And just then Tom McMannis was an-
nounced.
McMannis had called to talk over the
political situation iu the Tenth ward.
As usual, this ward, the largest in the
city in point of population, was solidly
for the machine. Dorsey’s face bright-
ened up at the first part of bis lieuten-
ant’s discourse. Then it clouded when
McMannis said, positively:
“But it seems to me that we ought
to have that recreation pier anyway.
This hot weather is mighty hard on
the people.”
"What can I do?" replied Dorsey im-
patiently. “If the city appropriates
money for the pier it will run over the
debt limit. You know the people at
Albany, and the reformers are just
looking to catch us up on'that very
point.”
“You might let some of those new
pavements go or have them put in for
half what it is going to cost,” answer-
ed McMannis bluntly.
Dorsey looked disgusted.
“What's the use of talking that
way?” he grumbled. “You know
where the money for that deal is go-
ing. A man has to live, and so must
bls friends. Seems to me that I didn't
hear any howl from you when we put
down the east side sewer. And you
know what that cost and who got the
money. Most of it went right over to
the Tenth ward.”
This unvarnished statement of city
finances was somewhat of a facer for
McMannis.
“Well, as long as every one was get-
ting a bit of the coin I didn’t see why
I shouldn’t myself. But it’s the truth
I would give up my share to get that
pier. Sure, if you lived in the ward
and saw the hot kids and the tired wo-
men you would feel the same way
about it.”
“Maybe we can do something about
it next year,” replied Dorsey, “but just
noxv it’s- up to you to do some hard
work for the organization before elec-
tion. You're not going to let this turn
you against the party, are you?”
“Of course not,” answered McMannis
almost indignantly. "You ought to
know better than that. It will be
many a long day from now before Tom
McMannis votes against the party.
But I think it is a shame about the
pier,” he added obstinately as he left
the room.
Dorsey had not recovered from the
annoyance caused by the discussion of
the recreation pier when Rev. Alfred
Mann was ushered into the office. If
China, that nation we are pleased to
call heathen, recently observed a cere-
mony which would have done honor to
' any Christian nation and which, by- the
way, was a most severe rebuke to the
■, Christian nation that made opium the
depredation of the Chinese people. At
,, Hangchow the imperial decree closing the
opium dens had reached its time of en-
forcement and every pipe and tray that
. could be gotten together were made into
a pyramid over seven feet in height and
set on fire. Ten thousand pipes were in
the pile, they were saturated with pe-
troleum and surrounded with dry straw,
ready for the match to be applied; a
guard of soldiers kept the populace at a
distance while a mandarin with due. cere-
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