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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-27

between their front paws. It is impos- sible to do anything until the silence or the forest gives them feeling of reas- sufance, and they poke out their heads to view the situation. It is then that the hunter quietly and deXterously drops the moose over the unsuspecting projecting head, and with a quick jerk draws 1t tightly around his neck. The other end of the rope is quickly drawn over limb and poor MT. Cub is drawn from his perch, the tightening moose shutting off his wind. He is drawn up sufficiently to clear the limb upon which ne rested, and then he is lowered to the ground, kicking and souirming in mid- ar, uttering gurgling sounds from his WlGe-open mouth. The man on the ground soon has a stout leather collar aloInd his neck, and in q iiiEv he is tied to neighboring tree, where he re- covers his breath and yells all the loud CT during the repetition of the scene, attendant upon the capture of his mate.
 sometimes during this apparently barbarous but harmless mode of cap ture the mother bear, attracted by the crles or her young, will return and view the captors from a distance, looking at the men and her cubs through a clump of bushes, and answering the cries of her young as only a bear knows how, but never venturing very close, being easily scared away by the waving of the arms of the hunters and shout or tWo.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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then proceed to develop her territory in the direction of Afghanistan, and prepare herself for the supreme combat which she must inevitably have, sooner or later, with Great Britain, profiting at the same time by the latter having scattered her forces in all directions an error by which she will have weak ened herself in India. It is absolutely essential, says the writer, that Russia should fight this supreme battle on land and not on sea, encountering her ad- versary simultaneously in the north of China and at the gates of India. The Grashdanin rejects all notion of an eventual reconciliation with Great Brit ain, the inveterate enemy of Russia, and advocates an alliance with Germa- ny, in which France might be induced to join.
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in the service of the French govern ment, It is composed of duplicate re- volving cylinders and is worked in an ingenious manner. The cylinders are hollow and allow a good-sized piece of stone to be placed inside of each; the rod of the machine is attached to the motor, and the cylinder revolves rap- Idly several thousand times, They are then opened, and the fine material which has been ground off is gathered up after the stones have been washed and is weighed. In this way the ex- perience of years can be obtained in a feW hours and calculations can be made from the result as to just what extent the stones experimented with would be suitable for roads or build- ings.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-27
CAPTURING BEARS IN THE VEIL
 IOWSTONF

The National Zoo at Washington is supplied with many animals from the Yellowstone National Park, where they are caught young. The capture of the bears is attended with much excite ment The cubs caught are always found up some comparatively small tree, sleeping or resting on the branch es with their mother
 When espied by the hunters, who are unarmed, excepting for a large axe, a couple of leather collars, and sever al pieces of rope, the first thing done is to get rid of the mother bear who scented the hunters long before they saw her or her little ones. That is not a difficult nor dangerous task but a very ludicrous one, full of fun and ex- citement As usual thing, one of the hunters climbs a nearby tree, and armed with a long pole, proceeds to dislodge the mother. This he does by prodding her in the sides with the pole. The first punch or two usually causes the old bear to hug the limb of the tree upon which she rests all the tighter, and during the time she rends the air with peculiar grunt, made by protruding the lower lip several inches and forcing the air from her lungs through the half-open mouth. The cubs are not long in scenting danger, and they too grunt and growl, rolling their bead-like eyes from side to side in ter TOT, hunching their soft backs in their endeavors to cling to the tree all the more securely.
 ' A few vigorous punches in the sides soon cause the mother to shift her po- sition from limb to limb, grunting and snarling all the time at great rate. It is often the case that she will seek re- fuge on the oposite side of the tree, beyond the reach of the man with the pole. That necessitates his companion cutting pole for himself and climbing another tree on the opposite side, from which position of vantage he continues the jabbing process The bear is be- tween "the devil and the deep sea-" and after climbing from limb to limb, only to receive vigorous prods in the ribs and back, soon gives up the un- equal fight, and, with a grunt, evi- dently signal to her young to retreat, she slides down the trunk, scraping off the loose bark in the descent, until al- most to the bottom, when she gives leap, striking the ground with a thud and grunt, and goes scamper- i ing off in the forest, probably never to return, leaving her young up the tree, which at her departure rend the air with their peculiar and heart-appealing cries.
 Then comes the difficult and no less l to Sl- Af tIaa This takes time, often consuming an hour or more. but always with the same result The men arm themselves with long ropes, with slip-noose at one end, and climb neighboring trees. The capture by this time has resolved itself down to the ability of the men to throw the moose over the heads of the crying cubs. After the disappearance of their mother. the little fellows curl them selves up in ball, placing their heads
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-27
WEALTH ACcUMULATEs.

It is certainly Merry Christmas and far as it's financial condition Is con- cerned. The director of the mint an- nounces that we hold more gol1 than has ever before been possessed by any nation since records were kept. Ac- cording to his report we have S91O,000,- 900, as against $695, ,OOOO00 for Great Britain and Australia. France comes nearer to us than any power, with S8oo,- 100000. Germany has s625 5000, ,o00 Rus sia, $4So, 100000, and 'Austro- Hungary, $40 ,O00,0 This, however, is not the only obtainable evidence of our pros perity. Our exports have exceeded our imports by $615,oOoooo in the fiscal year ending June 30, and the balance continues largely in our favor Accord ing to Dun's Review for December the indications are that we shall export $7O000,000 more during the present month than we import. This is at the rate of ss40o00,00O year, but it cannot be expected that this rate will be kept up. Last December we exported more than in any previous December. But our shipments for the first three weeks of the month this year have been 25 per cent. greater than twelve months ago. Still further evidence of prosperity comes from Bradstreets re- port of the bank clearings for the last week in New York city. They aggre- gate $1,673, 100000, gain of 25 per cent. over this week year ago, of 53 per cent over 1896, of 45 per cent. over 1895, very nearly twice as large as in 1894 and 1893 and 10 per cent. larger than in this week of 1892, which up to this year was the heaviest week on record
 Wealth accumulates here and men don't seem to be decaylng very rapidly. The recent war showed that the heroic spirit was very much alive. It is great, glorious, and still comparatively free country.
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4 GREAT AND GOOD CITIZEN.

Few die and none resign, is just a little too general. All die and occasion ally one does resign. And semi-occa- sionally there is one who doesn't want office. Judge Day, president of the Peace commission, who has returned to his home in Canton, Ohio, was asked whether he had any desires which the State of Ohio could gratify. He said: If you refer to political desires have not. My only ambition is to be allow ed to pursue the practice of my profess sion" Later in the conversation he au- thorized the direct statement that under no circumstances would he be can- didate for governor.
 That Judge Day is remarkable man has been plain for some time. Two years ago he was unknown to the coun- try at large, though recognized as an able lawyer in Ohio The President took him from his law office in Canton, made him secretary of state at a time when the nation was passing through a trying period and finally sent him to Paris at the head of the commission to negotiate treaty with Spain. In both these positions Judge Day acquitted himself well. He hasn't made mistakes in action, and he hasn't made mistakes in talk. He has done the very import ant work that has been entrusted to him without revealing any hesitation or | lack of experience. Now he goes back 1 to his home in Canton to become again | "a country lawyer" and disclaims po- litical ambition. He is fine example of what a citizen of the United States
 should be, and though he may not want
 office he will probably be called to
 serve his country again. If he is he will do his duty in the same noble spir- it that has animated his course during
 the last two years.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-27
A VERY METHoDIcAL MAN

One of the most methodical men who ever lived in Washington County was native of Harrington. He was always so very particular about his dress that he would not allow himself to appear in the company of strangers without first making a complete change of clothing and attending to all the details of his toilet. Once his eccentricity in that direction caused him the loss of his house and other buildings. This was the time his horse caught fire, and his wife, after working several minutes trying to extinguish the flames, went into one of the front rooms where she found her eccentric husband with a lamp and razor before the looking glass taking a shave and putting on a clean paper collar What on airth are you doin? Amt you aware that our house is on fire," he replied, calmly "the house is on fire. I know it, and soon all the people in town will be here and who knows but therell be a few strangers in the crowd?"-Bangor Commercial
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THE EVOLUTION OF SOBRIETY.
 Dr. Archdale Read has just written pamphlet upon the temperance ques- tion, and has treated it from an evolu- tionary aspect. He allows to begin with, that characteristics acquired during the lifetime of an individual, whether it be squeezed feet among Chinese women or an elbow with a facility for being raised among other nations, can not be hereditarily transmitted to off, spring. This theory is very widely held, having been advocated by Pritchard and Galton in this country and elabor- ated by Weissman in Germany. Con- sequently, in discussing drunkenness Dr. Read has to treat of races and not of persons, and he finds that natural selection acts upon mans body chiefly by increasing the powers he possesses of withstanding the attacks of disease and the effects of poisons, under which latter heading alcohol is considered.
 It has usually been assumed that the craving for alcohol becomes stronger as one goes nor tn and the climate becomes colder the staple drink of Italy being light wine; of Germany lght beer; of England stronger beer, and of Scotland whisky; but Dr. Read says that the state of comparative ,soberness prevail ing in Southern Europe has only been arrived at by the inhabitants having passed through period when they drank more freely The. explanation given savers of the old saying that stolen fruits are sweetest, and depends upon the principle that the more abun- dant and easily obtainable alcohol is, the more sober are the people concern- ed.
 It would take long time to kill off with drink all the members of race with a tendency to imbibe too freely, together with their children and their children's children, so that the sober ones might survive to found a teetotal nation
 This is admitted by Dr. Read, for he leaves theory to advocate the practice of treating confirmed drunkards as lu- natics, and of preventing them from having descendants to perpetuate their alcoholic memories.-The London Mail.
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NOTABLE ADTTCE TO RJJSST4.

A remarkable article has just been published in the Grashdanin of St Pe- tersburg. It maintains that Russia ought to renounce the possession of Port Arthur and Talienwan, so as. in the first place, to get a free hand; sec ondly, to be rid of harbors where, in the event of a war with Great Britain.
 her ships would be caught like rats in trap; and, thirdly, to save the cost of enormous defenses. Russia ought to occupy herself chiefly with affairs in northern China, the writer says, espe- cially that part of China which borders on Russia's own possessions, and with the railroad in Manchuria. By keeping strong in that quarter Russia, argues the article, will be warning signal to the British, even in the south of China. But, in order to effect this, she must free herself from the two posts men, tioned, the possession of which weak ems her, constituting her ''heel of Achil- les,'' so to speak. It is true, the Crash danin admits, that the reiinquishing of these possessions would seem to be a confession of blunderlng, but it would be a courageous act. Russia could
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DEDUCTIONS.

she-But I never gave you any en- couragement.
 He-Yes, you did. Didn't you tell me your father was wealthy ?-Brooklyn Life.
 why do they call it the matrimonial yoke, I wonder?"
 Because there is generally calf at one end of it, I guess. .'-Cleveland Leader.
 Natural Deduction.-Tommy - Paw, what is @ bookworm?
 MT. Figg-A man who loves books.
 linen is a man who loves fish a fish worm ?"-Indianapolis Journal.
 Rich little grill got a diamond ring and a big doll and a gold necklace to- day.
 Poor little girl-That ain't nothin'. I had meat for dinner!-Jeweler's Week ly.
 ''Is that young man fond of work?"
 q guess so," answered the man with a pen behind his ear. When I give him any he doesn't make the slightest effort to get rid of ."-Washington Star
 He-Yes, she is living under an as stunned name.
 She-Horrible! What is it?
 He-The one she assumed immediate Iy after her husband married her. Syracuse Herald.
 Library assistant (to visitor who is wandering about in puzzled manner) Can help you? Are you looking for anything special?
 Visitor (absently)-No, thank you; I was only looking for my wife.-Library Journal.
 Englishman-Whatw will you take?
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DIETARY CRANKs.

Fruit Eating and Distilled Water
 Drinking and Their Results.
 A sect has lately risen which has evolved theory which is truly pom derous in the way in which it tramples down the joys of the table. The Ral- ston club has solved the mystery of ar terioselerosis. Their logic is simple. The arteries calcify; the lime-salts cause calcification; all foods except fruits and all natural waters contain lime salts; ergo eat nothing but fruit, drink nothing but distilled water. They ap- parently assume that with this one mighty brain-throb they have solved the problem of life, and that they have left men no shadow of an excuse for dying under two hundred years of age The monkey, the nearest of kin to the hairy progenitor of man, is appealed to as touching instance of plain living (we wish we could add high thinking, but though the apostles of Ralston may believe it they do not expressly say sol. The monkey, they tell us, eats only fruits, and never drinks water with his meals. Presumably the reason why he fails of the double-century mark in re spect of age Is because he does not drink distilled water The Ralstonites pause in their consideration of the anil nal kingdom with the monkey. This was unfortunate. The raven, for in- stance, lives to be one hundred years old. He lives on carrion. The next army of cranks may be induced to follow his example.
 The fruit-eating craze is possibly the most degenerate of the many recent fads. The fruit-eating and pot-bellied natives of the tropics and their next lower relatives, the apes, are truly in spring objects of imitation by civiliz- ed man; not even their outdoor and ar boreal lives them from the conse- quences of a meagre and irritant regi- men. It is truly pitiful to see the army of inconsistencies, dyspeptics and rheu- matics, starving their tissues and acid ulating their blood at the beck of a few, to put it charitably, hare brained enthusiasts. It is fair to suppose that a troop of rickety children will later
 
 rise up and call them anything but blessed.
 The fact with regard to fruit is that, although it contains little nourishment it agrees well with many people endow- ed with vigorous gastric mucosa and fairly alkaline blood. To them it brings looseness and joy. In many dyspeptic states it is the rst food-stuff to d!sa- gree, and to the ill-nourished neuras- thenic 1t is a miserable substitute for the better tissue builders. An appeal to the facts of evolution gives little com fort to the cranks of one dietary idea. Primitive man has as hunter and herdsman thrived on an animal die tary Nuts and fruits have served his turn as we'll and encouraged him to the cultivation of the cereals There is nc evidence to show that the people of any nation have become longer lived or shorter lived on account of an ex- clusively vegetable dietary, or that any | association of cranks has increased the l longevity of its members by any ex- elusive system whatever.-From The | Alienist and Neurologist
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woman plump enough to have full hips and bust Is very likely to be flat at the part of the figure now being fitted with a precision justified only by actual beauty of outline. Tn mind is one of the most admired dresses at a swell re- ception. It was the most delicate quail ity of broadcloth, biscuit color, made princess, beautiful yoke of ivory lace fitting over the bodice, the lace melt ing into the color of the broadcloth just below the bust. The yoke fitted out over the shoulder and seemed continu- ous with the lace sleeves. A shoulder strap of sable-tail went over the shoul- der another passed below the shoulder. The skirt sheath-like in front and at the side, appeared to be one with the bodice. It spread just enough to avoid drawing below the knees.
 So far the wearer's figure seemed very pretty, especially the curves of shoulders, arms and bust. But at the back! Partly because she stood awk- wardly, partly because the out-curve from the waist over the hips was much more pronounced than the curve from the waist, there was distressing flat ness. It was stuck with fancy pins at the placket, reminding of nothing but a misplaced pin cushion. The expos- ure of ugliness seemed positively im- modest the lack of grace appeared to be self lf-consciousness, and the gown, though charming in front view, was a failure.
 So be reasonable; have your gown carefully padded rather than wear this style without the natural advantage called for. This line down the back is one of the lines of beauty but don't believe you will display beauty just be- cause you permit your dress to be a sheath There are many chances for you to repeat the disastrous failure just described. FLORETTE.
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Frenchman-I will take a drop of ze

Frenchman-I will take drop of ze contradiction.
 Englishman-Contradiction! What on earth do you mean?
 Frenchman-Vell,y you put in ze Whls- key to make it strong, ze water to make it weak, ze lemon to make it sour and ze sugar to make 1t sweet. Den you say, Here's to you!' and you take it yourself,-Spare Moments.
 The sultan was in the midst of a game of parchesi, but graciously desist- ed when the diplomatic corps entered.
 ''The Christian powers" announced the ambassador solemnly, have decld- ed to act!'
 "Ah, indeed!" exclaimed his majesty, appearing much interested. T hope they will favor Constantinople with early bookings!"
 The sultan moreover inquired some what minutely into the matter of man. agement, confessing strong feeling against the theatrical trust, smacking, as it did, of espotism.-Detroit Jour- nal.
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It has been decided to establish in connection with the Midland university, Birmingham, England, a school of brewing. There will be a chair for professor of brewing, and the training will be of the fullest, both for malsters and brewers. A special brewery labor atory will be established contiguous to the university buildings.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-27

Three municipalities Chamounix, Les Honchet and St. Gervais-are fight ing in the Swiss courts for the owner- ship of the top of Mont Blanc, and the right to let concessions to spectators for the entertainment of tourists. The old maps only mark divisions on the lower part of the mountain.
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The Canadian Electrical News gives an account of new machine and pro- cess for completing natures process of turning peat into coal. The machine is very simple. The peat having been dried and reduced to powdery mass is forced through short steel tubes by fric- tion and emerges hard shining btum- nous and anthracite coal. The numer- ous peat bogs of Canada can readily be transformed into excellent fuel by this process at lower cost than coal made by natures process. The machines cost from $500 to s2,500, the latter capable of turning out three tons an hour. The cost of excayating the peat will be re- duced to a minimum by special form of dredge. A plant with a capacity of 10000 tons per annum will cost about $15,000, and it is suggested that adjacent counties unite their capital and thus diminish the cost of the peat coal to consumers.
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Some people can't be kept down. James L. Reach came to Indianapolis in 1879 with a wobbly wagon, a poor old nag, patched-up harness and $10 in money. He invested his money in po- tatoes which he peddled about the streets. Slowly but surely he began to thrive and accumulate cash. Devoting himself to the potato business in time people began to know him as the Indi- ana potato king. This was after he had cornered the potato market one season and cleared s1OO, 900. In order to handle produce he, beginning in a small way. built cold storage warehouses Last fall Mir Reach sent out agents in Indiana and other States to buy apples. The crop, when gathered, was shipped to him direct by farmers. He had 60,- 900 barrels in storage, said to have cost him an average of g a barrel. As prices now go, and "he has the bulge" on the market, MT. Reach expects to clear sf5oOOO on his apple deal.
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At the coming of age the other day of MT. Robert Hamilton Kemp, eldest son and heir of Sir Kenneth Kemp the fact came out that the Casing estate in Norfolk, England, has descended twentyone generations-in fifteen in- stances from father to son, in three from brother to brother and in two from cousin to cousin-for a period of six hundred years.