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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-26
MOULT OF BIRDS,
One Bird Green Winter Red in
 Summer.

Summer.
 MT. Witmer Stone addSess the Biological club or the University of Pennsylvania recently on the "Moult of Birds.''
 This subject, said the speaker. is one that has interested me for long time, but it seems to have been gen. orally neglected by ornithGiogists. All birds moult regularly once a year; this is a physical necessity, for the wearing of the feathers makes their replace ment an absolute requirement. if flight is to be continued. This annual or post-nuptial moult occurs at the end of the nesting season. The feathers never drop out at the same time; the process is gradual and during it's con- tinuance the bird has never more than one or two feathers missing at once. In the body, as recently discovered by Professor Dwight, the moult takes place along regular tracts. The wing feather moult begins with the inner most of the primaries, the ninth, which is moulted first; the others follow in succession outWardly. Tn the tail the first fes;t41er lost is the middle one. and, as with the wings, it is followed by the loss of the next outward one. and so on. Here MT. Stone exhibited specimens showing the various stages of wing and tail moulting. He then referred to a number of exceptions to the rule, such as that of the wood peckers, which in moulting lose the side feathers of the tail first, and, con- tinuing, said some species have addi- tional moults. like the scarlet taneger. It undergoes two moults. It is a green color in winter and a red color in sum- mer The claim has been set up by some ornithologists that this is not the result of moulting, but due to an actual change of pigment. There is, however, no evidence to sustain this view. The speaker then explained the succession of plumages from the egg to the adult, and followed with a de- tailed consideration of plumages, with the reasons for same and for exeep- tons a ''s.e .=.. .ns i- e rra nIm- Del of oitta, illustrating E..5 samarks with specimens. The subject was dis cussed by Drs. Montgomery, Calvert, Conklin and Harshherger.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-26
GIRLS INFLUENCE,
Dom estic Escides Boston Lawyers Course
 Toward Missions.

A Boston lawyer, who has for forty years been eminent in his profession and no less eminent in Christian work and ln prineeiy gifts to the cause of benevolenee, tells this story of what fixed his course of life: When he was young man he once attended a mis- sionafy meeting in Boston. One of the speakers at that meeting, plain man, said he had a girl in his domestic ser- vice at wage of less than two dollars q week, who gave a dollar every month to missions; she also hal a class of poor boys in Sunday school who never missed her from her place. And he said of her, She is the happiest kindest, tidieEs girl l ever had in my kitchen" ," The young man went home with these three broken sentences sticking in his mind: Glass in Sunday school-dol- lar month to missions-happiest girl" The first result was that he took class in Sunday school; the second was resolve that if this girl could give a dollar month to missions, he could, and would. These were the im- mediate effects of one plain girls con- secrated life. But who can count, who can imagine the sum total? That law yer was, for almost half century from this time, an Increasingly active force in every good work within hif reach.-BeSton Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-26
ANNOUNCEMENT
For M ayor.

TO the Graphic.
 You may announce me as a candl, ,to for Mayor at the ensuing April .4ion At the present time Pine a,,.as needs some one to take her out
 .l,o rut. I have done so before and o ',:a1, can do so again and start Ter - the highway to success. VI Ii. KING WHITE.
 1ro are authorized to announce MT. n c. Bell as a candidate for Mayor tho ensuing municipal election.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-26
A TRUE INCIDENT.
Pet Pigeon Recognizes Lady Benefactor
 cn the Street.


 On the top floor of one of Boston's highest apartment houses lives a lady who loves all Gods creatures. She has long been ia the habit of feeding the sparr2Ws and lfi=uJas who fly to the little balcony before her window. She net only feeds them, but takes time to get acquainted with them as well. and in consequence one pardcuia! pigeon became quite q pet, eating out of her hand, and was al- ways called by the one pet name. o4e day as the lady was passing down Park street noC far from her nome her attention Was attracted by flock of pigeons in tle street, and to her surprise one left ne others and huttered to her very eet, where she recognized her pet pif con, and as she called the familiar name it evinced every sign of pleasure and recognition possible for a pigeon. How wonderful that in all that passing throng the pigeon should recognize its benefac tor, and do you think there could ex- ISL keener pleasure than that enjoyed oy this kind woman in the simple greeting of pigeon ?-Bostop Journal.
 America as d Coal Shipper.
 having found the markets for their coals, 1t but reasonable to expect that american capital and enterprise will soon provide the ships to carry them III, and We shall expect to see many a seI-trlmmer flying the stars and stripes in the near future. Nor can we, alter careful review of the coal re- sources of the United States of the ex- oept'onal ease and cheapness with whlcn they can be mined, and of the readiness With which the very bes. coal Tn the states can be brought to 'ne seaboard, but admit that America VIII, ln the near future, be England's most active competitor in the coal trade Of the world, and, next to che Engllsh, the largest owners of ocean eoillers.'-Engineering Magazine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-26
For Alderman

The Graphic is authorized to an- nounce MT. Frank O. McGehee as a candidate for Alderman from the Third ward at the ensuing municipal election.
 We are authorized to announce Mr. Theodore Wollerman as candidate for reelection as Aldermen from the Fourth ward at the e}tsHsng munich pal election.
 We are authorized to announce MT. Gabe Meyer as candidate for reelection as Alderman from the Second ward at the ensuing munic ipal election.
 We are authorized to announce Mr. NJ. NJ. Bruce as candidate for Alder man from the Third Ward at the en- suing municipal election.
 We are authorized to announce Mr. J. E. Boyce as a candidate for re-elec tion as Alderman from the First ward at the ensuing municipal election.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-26
For City reasurer.

We are authorized to announce Mir. Hugh r Westbrook as a candidate for reelection as City Treasurer at the ensuing municipal election.
 We are authorized to announce Mr. Ed B. Houston as a candidate for City Treasurer at the ensuing municipal election.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-26
Transportation in Ancient E4.ypt.

On the way to ieAilae and the head of the cataract, saort distance south of Assoaan, We come 0pon the ancient quarries which supplied granite for the columns, statues and obelisks through out Egypt for many centuries. From illustrations in the tem@les, 1t is clear that these monuments were Goated down the river on fatboats and rafts, and then carried inland by artificial canals or dragged overland by thou- sands of slaves. In one of the tombs at BeniHassan is picture illustrating the process. The great stone is loaded upon a huge sled drawn by a multi tude of workmen. One man is en- gagged in pouring water upon the run uers to prevent friction. Another stands at the left of the statue and beats time that the men may work in unison, while overseers, provided with whips, urge the laborers to their task. -Chautauquan
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-26
Magnificent swis. Gla ciers.

As the Matterhorn is the grandest object to be seen i'll Switzerland, so also are the glaciers above Zermatt the most magnificent. In the Oberland and Chamonix the glaciers are frozen rivers and cataracts. From the Corner Grat the glaciers are vast seas of ice, with lodges of rocky beach, over which the frozen breakers are beating
 The Aletsch and the Rhone glaciers are grand, frozen torrents of immense volume, and the icefields of the Mont Blanc range are of vast extent; but 1t is from the Corner Grat, where the spectator is surrounded by frozen seas, out of which the snow peaks rise like islands, that the imagination is over powered by stupendous glacia, effects
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31

THERE is such a thing as immunity
from hazing at West Point. A young
man by the name of Schoeffe1 demon
strated this fact in ca most unique
way while in the academy. According
to Schoeffel's record, it appears that
immunity from hazing at West Point
is secured by turning the tables and
hazing the rest of the academy. That
training when he had determined to
try for West Point, just as a prize
fighter does before a battle in the ring.
He got himself into the best of physic-
al condition and mastered the manly
art of punching. When he first
reached the institution he was modest
enough to wait to be called out instead
of issuing a general challenge to the
entire United States army at his first
opportunity. When ne was called out,
however, he trimmed up the upper
c1assman who had called him out in
such a careful and conscientious way
that it became necessary for the party
OF whom it fell to uphold the time
honored custom of hazing, to make an
other attempt to haze Schoeffel. AS a
result he whipped FIVE experts in one
day, knocked out thirty of the flower
of the academy altogether and caused
the maintenance in the hospital of an
especial ward for his victims. He was
never hazed and when his brother
went to succeed him it was kindly
taken for granted that he would make
good soldier without the forma1ity
of lazinp.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31

filed and are entitled to be voted for at
the ensuing primary election; and
that the, said Clerk shall, before the
thirtieth day preceding the election,
didates to be voted for IN the county,
for whom nomination papers have
been filed, and that on or before the
twentieth day preceding any primary
election the Clerk shall prepare sam
pie official primary election ballot,
placing thereon the names of all can
didates to be voted for in any precinct
of his county, for whom nomination
papers have been duly filed.
The bill further provides that at any
primary election no person shall vote
any ticket but that of the party with
which he affi1iates, and that the vote of
any person may be challenged on the
ground that he is not a member of the
party, the ticket of which .he proposes
to vote.
AS to party organization, the bill
provides that each precinct shall elect
committee of three, the one of the
three getting the highest number of
votes to be the chairman of the pre-
cinct committee and member of the
county committee. The chairman of
each county committee becomes a
member of the State Centralscommit-
tee of his party, and the State Central
committee has in charge the election
of an executive committee. The State
Central committee a1so""e1ects the State
Presidential electors.
The bill provides for canvass of the
city and county vote on "the first
Thursday succeeding the primary cleo
ton, and of the. State on the first
Tuesday succeeding the election, by
the county chairmen of all counties
assembled at Madison. The candi-
dates for the various State offices and
for State Senate and Assembly, nom
mated by each political party, shall
meet in the Assembly chamber at
Madison on the second Wednesday
after the date on ..whichssany primary
election is held preliminary to any
general election an formulate the
State platform of their party. RS
Three distinct sets of ballots are pro-
vided for, one for the State and county
nominations, one for the city, and one,
for the national convention delegates.
Each party has it's separate ballot.
The bill is quite clear in its provis-
ions and sets FORTH the primary cleo
ton law, it's purpose and how it seeks
to accomplish it in "a manner to bring
it into public attention and under gen.
era1 discussion.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31
TEACHERS TO LOBBY.
Will Send a Committee to School Board to
Protest Against New Rules.

The teachers of the city schools have
started fight against the revision OF
the rules of the schools of Kenosha,
and on next Tuesday they wi1rsend a
committee to the meeting of the Board
of Education to protest against the
passage of the rule which will allow
the children freedom of the school
grounds during the noon hour, The
teachers are opposing the rule on &C
count of the fact that if passed it will
be necessary for one of the teachers to
remain at the building during the noon
recess.
Notwithstanding the opposition Of
the teachers, the rule is a good one,
and has found favor in the eyes Of
many of the school patrons. The OBJ
iect of the rule is to keep the boys off
the streets, and even if it should in
convenience the teachers a little the
rule should be adopted.
A hard fight is certainly on on the
new rule, and it's fate issvery much IN
doubt.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31
COMPUTATION TICKET WINS.
Railroads Refuse to Take Any Action on
Petition of Suburban Merchants

The officials of the Chicago terminal
lines met in Chicago yesterday for. the
purpose of taking some action on petit
tons recently presented by merchants
in towns about Chicago asking that
the railways prohibit the issue of com
mutation tickets. All the lines inter
ested were represented, but the officials
refused to take any action and the
Communication ticket will remain a fix
ture.
For some time the merchants have
been making complaints to the COM
panies that the commute ton ticket was
taking business away from the smaller
towns. The officials of the companies
failed TO see the matter in this light
and decided to encourage the suburban
business by the issuance of more of
the tickets.
The Kenosha merchants were not
interested in the matter this time, but
they connected with a petition pre-
scented some time ago.
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Primary Election Bill.

At last the much talked of and rather
vaguely understood Primary Election
law has been brought to condition in
which it can be fairly studied on its
merits. The Primary Election bill
has been introduced in both houses of
the Legislature and referred to the
Committee on Privileges and E1ec-
tons.
The bill, as printed in full in the
Milwaukee Sentinel of this morning,
is clear in itsl purpose to provide for
nominations by direct vote. The bill
provides first, for the abolition of the
present political caucuses and conven-
tons, and second, for the nomination
of all candidates byidirect vote of the
people, except for%the judicial, village,
township, and school district offices,
and at special elections to fill vacan-
cies.
It provides that those who wish to
become candida ties for nomination at
the primary election shall file their
nomination papers, if for State offices,
Congress, State Assembly or Senate,
with the Secretary of State;.for county
offices with the County Clerk, and for
city offices with the City Clerk. Such
| nomination paper shall state the name
of the candidate, his, residence, the
street and number, if any, and the of
| fee for which he lis a candidate, and
the party he proposes to represent, and
must be signed by at least two per
cent of the voters Of the party resid-
ing in the State or in the political
subdivision .of the State to which the
office for which he is a candidate per.
tains. The signers of nomination
paper shall represent at least one-ffth
of the precincts concerned in the
| election.
It provides that the day of the Pri'
mary election shall fall on the first
tuesday in September, and that the
lay of the Primary election and the
Monday preceding shall constitute the
registration days.
1t providess that at least five weeks
before the primary election the Secre
tary of State shall transmit to each
County Clerk list of all those whose
nomination papers have thus been
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31
Plans For The Business Have Been
Formed And VIII Build When
Conditions Are Favorable.
KELLERMAN HAS JOINED KIMBALL.
Former Kenosha Reed Maker Joins W. W.
Kimball Company. = Will Work in
Opposition to Kenosha Plants.

Quite a little has been said in the
last few months in regard to the estab-
1ishment of new brass mill in Keno
sha. This morning c. N. Frost, who
is one of the prime movers of the COM
pany, was seen and in speaking of the
matter he stated that there was little
doubt that the mill would be built
and the only thing to be considered
was the time of building.
At present the conditions in the
world ofobrass are not such as to en-
courage the building of a new plant
Mr.. Frost stated that since the break
ing of the combination of the brass
makers, the price of the product had
gone so low that it is not possible to
make brass at profit at the present
time. AS soon as these conditions i'm
prove, which will be in the spring, the
new Kenosha company will be launch
ed. An option has been taken on a
tract of land in the rear of the Badger
brass works and on this land the new
factory will be built. It is stated that
plans have been drawn for the build
ings. and that machinery has been
ordered, but these statements were not
confirmed by Mr.. Frost.
The new company will not enter the
reed business. G. H. Ke11erman, who
was formerly the leading reed maker
at the Chicago brass works will not be
in the new company, as he has cast his
lot with the w. w. Kimba11 piano
company, and will have charge of one
of the largest reed factories in the
world. The machinery for the Kimba11
plant is now being made under the
direction of Mr.. Kel1erman at the
Wells & Messier shop in this city, and
it will be delivered in few days.
The new reed factory, under Mr..
Ke11erman, will be one of the largest
concerns of the kind in the United
States. 1t will supply all the reeds
used in the manufacture of Kimba1l
organs and it is stated that it will also
seek some outside trade in competition
with the Chicago Brass works of this
city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31

but for want of space deem it more
pertinent to devote myself to the de-
mands more especially practical.
1t has been more and more inn
pressed upon those who have given
this subject serious thought, that the
we1l-being of the whole human race
demands legislation that shall recog-
nize the laws of heredity, and make
them applicable to the marriage rela-
tons in the interest of domestic life,
of society and the State.
In the light of the foregoing fact,
that conditions of health or disease in
the parents reproduce themselves in
the progeny, it is self-evident that de-
formity, degeneracy and disease
should not be thus encouraged and
propagated, but stamped out by such
laws of restrictions on marriage as
the State may enact.
The laws strictly reject an applicant
for a military academy or a soldier
entering the army if they be found,
upon rigid examination, to be in the
slightest degree unsound in physical,
moral or mental condition, and yet, If
eicted for intemperance, for con-
sumption, for cancer or for social vice
of any kind, or for debility that has
come down to him from his forefathers
for generations, he can turn from the
recruiting officer who rejected him for
one or ali of these disqualifiCations
and go to his County Clerk and procure
a license without question and form an
alliance with one equally as unfit as
himself. It is indeed monstrous re-
proach upon our enlightened civiliza-
ton that these physical wrecks are
permitted to marry and breed swarms
of wretched, diseased and degenerate
children to curse the community and
aff1ict and burden society and the
State.
What a travesty upon our age OF
progress that we should send the
healthy to be shot at, and keep and
encourage the sick and vicious to breed
and debauch and destroy.
Before any man or woman become
betrothed it would be well for them to
be taught that the law demanded of
each before marriage, a strict and
searching examination into the phys
ica1, moral and mental fitness of each
by a board of well qualified physicians
and that marriage without such GER
tifcate of examination should be lille
gal and punished as such.
Thus would vice, disease and degen~
eracy meet for the first time, and in
the only way, decided check and dis
enlargement, and by the same strin-
gency of law and wisdom and care of
selection as are exercised elsewhere.
Public health would improve, paup-
erism diminish, crime decrease and
race of men and women be born and
bred in physical, mental and moral
superiority to the surroundings of the
present generation, that should vindi-
cate the justice, the sanitary demands
and the human wisdom of such law
and which would prove at once an or
nament to the domestic relation, to
society and to the state.
Such legislation may be premature
and impo1itic and deferred, but 1t is
inevitab1e-iti is not enough for us to
erect palaces of art and places of wor-
ship and learning while millions are
born to blot our nations history.
DIR. J. 3. SPALDING.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31

Early Pioneer Settler Passed Away This
Morning at His Home on South Street

Early Pioneer Settler Passed Away This
Morning at His Home on South Street
Death has again entered the ranks
of the early settlers and early this
morning William P. Wright, who had
been a resident of this city for nearly
half century, dropped into a dream
less sleep at his home on South street.
Mr.. Wright had been an invalid for
some six years, but during the past
few weeks he failed rapidly, and his
death, while sad blow to his many
friends, was not unexpected.
Mr.. Wright was known as one of the
fixtures in Kenosha county. He was
an Eng1ishman by birth, but from his
earliest years he made his home in
America. He was born May 6, 1914,
and when he was IA years of age he
came to New York, where he became
shoemaker. In 1853 he came to Keno
sha and a short time later went into
business on Main street. He remained
in business until failing health forced
him to retire. During his life he took
an active interest in the welfare of the
city. He served his ward as d member
of the common council and was always
conscientious in the performance of
his duties.
He is survived by a widow and FIVE
children. The children are Rev. Geo.
Wright, of Easton, Pa; Mrs. Agnes
Cu11ey, wife of F. c. Cu1ley, formerly
editor of the Daily Gazette, aud Fred
Wright, of this city; Mrs. June Watt1es,
of Kansas City, and Mrs. Gallauner, Of
New York city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31
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