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The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31
CROQUET 1IT THE PITaI

l l It is well known that the capital of
 this great, glorious and still compara-
 lively free country is not as wide-awake
 and progressive as some other United
 States cities are. but 1t will surprise
 most people to read that 1t has been found necessary to bring some inhabit- ants of Washington into court because they are too enthusiastic oyer croquet.
 Such is. however, the melancholy fact. Justice Barnard in the Equity court of the District of Columbia has just de-
 cided that after II o'clock at night is an unreasonable hour for playing cro- quet and granted permanent injunc- tion restraining James Akers, Margaret games, however exciting, beyond that time. The case came up on the com- plaint of William and Margaret Marsh, who live in a house in Huntington place, adjoining the grounds of the Cro- quet club, that the defendants played their games on every secular day of the week until after Il o'clock, torches being used to light the grounds. The compiainants averred that being very sensitive to noises they were greatly annoyed by the continuance of the games to such a late hour and asked the court to stop the play, with the re- suit stated.
 It certainly does seem unreasonable to play croquet after Il o'clock at night, and many will think it unreasonable to play it until il o'clock at night It is perhaps some mitigation of the offense of the Washington croquet-fends that they are not charged with playing their game Sunday afternoons and evenings.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31
UsEEUL.

"The surest way to close New York poolrocm, remarked the Observer o1 Events and Things, lis to break it open with an axe. ."--Yonkers Statesman.
 "Freshlelgh seems to be all broken ur over his fathers death"
 "Yes, the old gentleman cut him off without a cent. nt."-Columbus (O.) State Journal.
 T see Jack Ketcham has been mar ried to Miss Goldlrox ''
 ''Yes, and I was sorry to see it.'
 Sorry? For her sake or his?"
 For mine. l wanted her."--Phila- delphia Press.
 Professor (to co-eds)-"Now, young ladies, l desire to direct your attention to one of the most remarkable of the planets, Saturn, which has two beauti- ful rings ----"
 Chorus-"How splehdidl"- Bits.
 But then the marriage service; it seems to lower one so.' How do you make that out?" Why, the man takes the woman, and the woman takes the man, for better for worse. It's so like a rummage safe, you know. ."--Brooklyn Life.
 Briggs is living in an apartment house, and the other day his uncle Silas shipped him lawnmower as a useful little present"
 But he doesn't need q lawn mower" NO, he needs a lawn more "--Cleve- land Plain Dealer.
 Tommy (studying his lesson)-''I say, pa, where does the Merriniac rise, and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31

into what sea does it empty?' Pa-"I don't know, my son. Tommy--"Yo don't know, eh? And tomorrow the teacher will lick me on account of your ignorance" "-Harlem Life.
 He-When I tell you that I have enough to support you in the style In which you have been accustomed to live, you must take my simple word for #
 She-But George, is that strictly bus mess ?'-Detrolt Free Press.
 Bridget (standing before a picture i'll Mrs. ITS sitting room)--Foine picture thot, Mrs. T.
 Il think q great deal of it." replied Mrs. T. Tt was taken of mother and me when I was two years old"
 "Shure, an niver would a thought the loike--an' which is you an which is your mither? ?"-Leslie's Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31
BIG BRITJSH W1fRSHYPS.

Britannia doesn't intend to let any
 nation get ahead of her in ruling the
 wave if she can help it. She is about
 to begin to build three new line-of- bat
 tie ships, and they are going to be mon-
 sters. Within tke last thirty years or
 SO the displacement os British armor-
 clads has risen from 10000 to 150O0
 tons, but the new vessels are to be Of no less than 1S.000 tons displacement. They will each carry an armament of four flfty-ton twelve-inch weapons of the newest type, the same number as is carried by all battleships of recent date, and ten six-inch quick-fires, in- stead Of twelve as in existing ships. The, reduction in this instance is due to the introduction of an entirely new piece, the 7.5 wire wound reech-loader, winch has been adopted because the S. inch gun is too heavy for rapid work, and need has been felt for something between the twelve-inoh and the six inch quick firer. Leading constructors and naval officers at home and abroad including Prince Henry of Prussia, the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia. Prince Louis of Battenburg, Captain Mahan, Admiral Sir J. o. Hopkins, Sir White, Sir Charles Dlllse, Rear Admiral Cervera. M, Bertin, and eth CTS, have been asked their opinions as to the six best types of battleships.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31
.------------ - -T----"---- -T--"-- ' Punis he'd and fsarduIled.

Last night my little son was sent Unkissed to bed, with angry eyes, And lips that pouted wilful-wise; This was his mothers punishment And gentler woman does not live, But yet she tarried to forgive. The childish fault, the passionate deed, They must be checked: so In the gloom He stumbled to his little room; He was too proud to weep or plead. 1 SEW his mothers eyes grow dim, In tender yearning following him. But in the silence when he slept Undrled the tears lay on his cheek, The little face seemed very meek, How piteously, perchanee, he wept Before he took to slumberland The grief he could not understand! Then tenderly his mother smoothed The fair tossed hair back from his brow And kissed the lips so passive now. But woke him not, since he was soothed, And there beside his little bed She knelt and prayed awhile instead. An. so. dear God, when at the last We lie with closed and tear-stained eyes, And lips too dumb for prayers or sighs Sorry and punished for the past, Surely Thou wilt, forgive and bless. Being pitiful for our distress?
 Boston Gazette.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31
The Mayors Veto of tho Scheme to Sell
 Park Land.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 Thanks for your editorial remarks on the Mayors veto of the vote of the Common Council to sell part of the West Rock park to the Diamond Match company of Chicago for $700. What reason there can be for thus giving away a part of our park system to a Chicago corporation am unable to un- derstand. l am told that MT. Beecher used his influence with the former own CTS to get reduced price to the city on the ten-acre tract recently purchas- ed for park purposes. If this is so, let MT. Beecher bring in his bill for the service if he is not sufficiently reward ed for it by the pleasure of conferring a public benefit and also getting fine park addition near his own dwelling. An evening paper says that the park commission agreed" that the land should be sold to MT. Beecher in con sideration of his securing reduction in the price. This is nlanifestly ab- surd. Neither the park commissioners nor MT. Beecher are so inexperienced as not to know that no such agree ment" could be made. They must have both perfectly understood that the question of selling would be for the city to decide and the most that MT. Beecher can claim Is that he expected and believed that the city would be willing to sell. But the mayor Is right when he takes the ground that 1t is neither lawful nor expedient for the city to sell off portions of our public parks whether to private individuals or to, wealthy foreign corporations. Such al violates the rights of the peo- pie in their own pleasure grounds and ought not to be sanctioned by the Court of Common Council.
 ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants, Rents. anu other small advertisements. One Cent Word each in' sertion. Five Cents Word for full "eeR tseven times).
 Display advertisements. per inch. one 'n' sevtiOp, S1.2 20: each subsequent insertion. ~ cents: one week, S3.2O. one month. sIo. ouS \ Obituary Notices. h prose or veyss. W cents per llne Notices Oi Births. Mallt ages Deaths, and Funerals, 90 ceDts eueh. Local Notices. 15 celts per line.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31

The vote of the majority was given to the Italian, Vlttoria Emanuela, and to the Mikasa of the Japanese navy, with @ displacement of 15,200. The best na- val authorities, therefore, are In favor of the larger ships. At the same time the cost of construction Is growing and has been growing for the last six years
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31
AN IMPORTANT IxpEnrMEsT.

The cotton-growers of the South and other people in other parts of the world will watch with interest the effort on the part of the great English shipping firm of Elder Dempster & Co. to ex-
 pand their trade with the west coast of
 Africa by increasing the production of
 cotton in that region. Six American
 cotton experts, with good variety of
 cottonseed, are to be sent to Lagos to
 experiment. Some cotton Is now ob-
 tained by Liverpool from West Africa.
 In 1869 as many as 19,30O bales of fairly
 good middling cotton were shipped from
 West Africa, but the exportation has
 dwindled so that in recent year but
 POT bales were received. Poor methods
 of culture are thought to be to blame for the backward state of the industry in Lagos, and the purpose now is to in- troduce scientific culture The distance from Lagos to Liverpool is somewhat greater than from the United States
 but this disadvantage Is counterbalanc- ed by the fact that between Lagos and Liverpool there are cargoes both ways. Our high tariff prevents ships coming for cotton from bringing freights this way, with the result that higher rates must be charged on the return voyage.
 The firm which will make this exper- iment will make it success if any body can. It has large capital and large experience, and Is particularly well acquainted with conditions in West Africa. But if it does succeed the cot ton of this country will still be wanted even if 1t doesn't bring ten cents a pound every year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31

This dress is of rainbow shot taffetas. The bolero, which is short. is cut ta a point in front and trimmed with nar- row black velvet The blouse is of cream mousseline de sole. The sleeves are cut by puffs of nousseine de sole The skirt 1t made with a shaped fiounce and trimmed in the style of the bolero
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31

and told the story to some Confederate friends they agreed to take steps to recover the flag if possible. Some years 'later they began a systematic effort, but the old chief had passed away, the flag had disappeared and the members Of the tribe would give no information as to it's whereabou Wa shington Evening Star
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31

V There is occasionally a steady and
 persistent human being. Fifty-three years of service in the public schools of York and Adams counties is the rec ord of John M. Wolf, of Hanover, Penn- sylyania. In that period he has been absent from his post of duty only three and one-half days
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31

A. F. Lucas, the finder of the first great oil well at Beaumont, Texas, is now worth s5OOo,OOO. A few months ago he was a poor conductor on the Georgia Central railroad. Quite a change.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31
llaL HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY l5 CENTS A WEEK, 50 GENTS MONTH, s3 FOR SIX MONTHS, SC A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31

The International Labor Office has now it's headquarters Nin Basel in Switzerland. Switzerland Is also the official home of the Red Cross Society, the International Telegraph Bureau, the Bureau for the Regulation of h. ternational Freight Tariffs, the Latin Monetary Union and the International Postal Union.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-31

She wanted the best A lawyer of Atchison, Kansas, charged woman client $50 for securing a divorce. The woman pronounced the amount exorbit- ant for a common divorce. Whereupon Solomon said that if all she wanted was a common divorce, the fee would be S95. And the judge adds that the woman not only paid over $50, but also seemed a little sorry that there was no $75 class.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-04
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Patience is the art of hoping
venargues.
The worst deluded are the self-de-
luded-Boree.
The great end of life is not knowl-
edge, but action.-Huxley.
Every man is a volume if you know
how to read him
Few maXims are true from every
point of view.-Vauvenargues.
IT'S the best of love that fairest
joys give most unrest.-Keats.
Delicacy is to the mind what fra
GRANGE is to the fruit.-Poincelot.
To see what is right and not to do
it is want of courage.-Confucius.
He who thinks his place below him
will certainly be below his place.-Sa
Vile
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails
which force truth upon our memory
Diderot.
The ink of the scholar is more sa-
cred than the blood of the martyr
Mohammed
In the division of life there is a
time present, past and to come. What
we do is short; what we shall do is
doubtful but what we have done is
certain and out of the power of for
tune.-Seneca.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-04
Maintain Falls Into Sea.

A Vancouver B. c. special runs:
The whole crest of a mountain over Il
mile in circumference slipped into
Loughborough inlet, 100 miles from
Vancouver, u few days ago.
The great slide was the result of an
earthquake and the resulting shock OF
the falling mountain top was felt for
a long distance. At this part of the
coast the mountains rise almost per-
pendicularly from the water for 700 or
800 feet. The mountain which fell
was composed of a crag which over
hung the shore, and great slice OF 1t
sheered off into the bay.
The break extended back over 800
feet from the shore. Giant trees and
rocks were swept away, as if they had
been toothpicks. Instead of crumbAng
as it fell, the huge mass of rock ana
earth turned over and flung itself far
out into the bay, forming small tidal
wave.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-04
Cruelty, Thy Name is Man

He had established her comfortably
in the sleeper. told her to be sure to
dress with sufficient warmth, and had
in turn promised to see with his own
eyes" that the dog was properly fed,
and that the plants should not suffer,
when the "all aboard period was
reached.
1t was to be her first visit to her
loved ones since she had left them to
''love, honor and obey" the villain of
this little poem without rhyme, sort of
''sweet bells tangled you see.
Furthermore, she had received her
goodbye kiss, along with some advice
as to any attention that loud-looking
drummer two seats ahead might of
fer, when she, in her turn, followed up
her parting salute with:
"Now, you'll be good boy"
Eyes; if you don't stay too long,
was his reply.-Philadelphia Record.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-04
sHEEe.EArINC PARROTS.
their Efforts to Get at the Kidneys of the
Living Animals.

A group has just been mounted in
the Smithsonian InstitutiQp which rep
resents wildly one of the most extra
ordinary instances of animal life that
have ever come under the observation
of man.
1t appears that during a recent win
ter in New Zealand the nerders of the
numerous focks of sheep in that coun-
try noticed that many of the animals
were afflicted with wounds in the
back or lOins, sometimes severe and
occasionally so much so as to prove
fatal. The cause of these wounds was
a mystery until a shepherd one day
saw a kea, or mountain parrot, cling
ing to the wool of a sheep and picking
at a sore on its flank. A close watch
was instituted and the birds were
again many times caught in the act
of wounding the sheep, the object be-
ing evidently to reach the fat sur
rounding the kidneys The origin of
the habit was subsequently revealed.
During summer the keas inhabit the
higher portions of the mountain dis
tricts, and when the severe weather
destroys. or the heavy SHOWS cover
their supply of food they descend to
lower levels where the climate is more
mild and food less scarce. During the
winter referred to they descended low
err than usual, as far, indeed, as the
plains inhabited by the sheep-raisers,
and finding their natural food scarce
are attracted by the pressed carcasses
of sheep hung upon meat gallows.
Alighting upon these they found the
flesh to their liking and particularly
the fat surrounding the kidneys.
mo other conclusion seems more
plausible" says a scientist in connec-
ton with the Smithsonian Institution,
"than that these birds possessed suf-
ficient intelligence to recognize in the
living sheep, the source of this food
supply and therefore, in the absence
of slaughtered meat they avail them
selves of the living bodies. Recent
discoveries in natural history reveal
nothing stranger or more startling
than the change of this parrot from an
vi ~ lildllN jtlitly NtSCldblt hlVN' NpLi
Ssting of honey-producing flowers,
fruits and berries, to one of fiesh-not
dead flesh merely, but the substance
of living animals. This is, indeed, q
most remarkable instance of acquired
taste"
The group in the museum of the
Smithsonian Institution represents
faithfully 4 sheep attacked by two of
of the keas, or meat-eating parrots.
The latter are mounted upon the vic
TINS back and engaged in tearing the
flesh with their powerful beaks. The
keas resemble the ordinary type of the
Mexican parrot with the exception
that they are somewhat larger and
their plumage is darker, and variegat-
ed with brown.-Washingto Times.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-04

A few champions of the American
trotter are uncomfortable because the
number of PAGERS bred in this country
has made remarkable gains in COM
parison with the total of trotters
But, after all, what's the harm? If
American breeders and buyers of fast
animals used in light harness prefer
the PAGER to the trotter, any effort to
balk their preferences will surely be
futile. Let them have their way with
out lamentations or protests. If the
PAGER in the long run does not justify
his predominance, the trotter will sure
ly come to his own again in due time,
remarks the New York Tribune.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-04

1t appears from President Eliots re-
port of last years work at Harvard
that boys enter college trihe younger
than they did a generation ago, and
few of them proportlonally are now
prepared by private tutors. The num-
Der entering from public schools is
steadily increasing. DR.. Eliot thinks
ihat the excellence Of the preparatory
schools ought still further to reduce
the average age of entrance. "There
is no good reason why nine-tenthS of
all the boys who mean to go to Harry
ard College should not be fully pre-
Jared for admission at eighteen years
of age" he says.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-04

A very successful New Yorker in an
address to young men referred to
"clergymen with the two 'verys-a
very small income and a very large
family" The small income still tries
the minister's soul-the average for
American clergymen being $S00-but
the large family is thing of the past.
The ministerial family is somewhat re-
than three extraordinarily two sons
and one daughter.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-07-02
STATE INSTITUTIONS

l.. 0. Henderson. Warden State Prison
JOS. F.. Stubbs, President State University
Dr. Patterson, Supt. Hosp Mental Discs
Jos. Joseph~, Supt, of Orphans Home
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-07-02
COUNTY DIRECTORY:

Comrnissioners--J P. Woodbury. c. +
Bray and l.. s Daueherty
Justice of the Peace II. Stone
Constable A. Grant
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-07-02

Railway Depot, U. S. Mint, Government
Building, Post Office and State Capitol
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-07-02

JUSTICES SUPREME COURT:
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-07-02

w. A. Massey, c. P, c. II. Belknap,
4. L. Fitzgerald.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-07-02

J. n Evans. w. W. Booher.
H. S. Starrett
The Florence tribune., 1901-03-16
MANY MILLIONS IN SHIPS.
Powers on Warships During the Last Year.

All over the world the building of naval vessels is going on.
 Within the past 12 months Great Britain has launched two armoTed cruisers, enc frst-class cruiser, one third-class cruiser. two torpedo boat destroyers and six other naval vessels, says the Saturday Evening Post.
 Russia has launched two battleships, three armored cruisers and two tor pedo boat destroyers.
 Germany has launched one battle ship. one armored cruiser and three torpedo boat destroyers.
 Japan has launched one armored cruiser, two torpedo boat destroyers and one torpedo gunboat.
 The United States has launched the two double-turreted hattleships Kear- sarge and Kentucky-the most power full of their kind in the world; and she has three more battleships that can be made ready for service within month if they should be needed.
 Within the year there has been sent into the water by the various powers fully hundred million dollars worth of fighting craft. and a great deal more than hundred million dollars worth is now under construction.
The Florence tribune., 1901-03-16

Col. M. W. Wambaugh and F Mere dith Jones came into town Wednesday, having driven across the country from Douglas, with their eyes open to see if there were any good routes for rail- road in the section of the country. Mir. Jones has charge of the surveying party that made the preliminary survey from Douglas to Fl Paso, and his party is camped near Bakers ranch, southeast of there. He will run line into Lords burg from some point of the line that was run from Douglas to Separ. Af- ter this line is run and the report made the matter of the selection of the northern terminus of the Nacosari road will be taken up in the New York office of Phelps, Dodge & Co. and the decision made as to where it will be Col. Wambaugh said that it was noi improbable that his office would be moved back from Bisbee to Lordsbure ir the near future.-T Lordsburg Liber. al.
The Florence tribune., 1901-03-16
APlNe ENGLAND.
The Cousins Probably Only Manifestinu a
 Family Trait.

The New York World, under the caption, 'Insuring Mir. Morgan's Life, ," says:
 A cable message to the Evening Post states that insura risks upon the life of J.. Pierpoint Morgan to the amount of s2O,O09,00O have been written for business men whose invest ments might suffer by his death. It is known that during her last years the life of Qneen Victoria was for similar reasons insured in considerable sums. For instance, those who invested heavi- ly in enterprises dependent for success upon her jubilee took this precaution, and the same causes have already led to the insuring of King Edward the VII for great amounts by men not personally related to him. But Mir. Morgan is probably the only American for whose health the British investing public betrays such tender solicitude.
 The premium paid upon Mir. Nor gan's life is said to be three per cent per month, at which rate the entire principal would be paid up in three years. This is ruinous rate.
 At his age, sixty four years, MT. Mor- gan's "expectation of life" is eleven and half years, and the correct month ly premium upon him should be less than one per cent. The higher rate is justified blythe fact that the insuring compa anies must waive medical exami- nation, while those whose plaas are de- pc ndent upon MT. Morgan's manage ment can we'll afford to pay the price demanded.
 So vast is this one mans power, so many are the interests in his hands, that his death would canse disturb ance in the stock market, even in the price of shares with which he has uoth- ing to do directly, if there are any such shares. If it be true that so large a sum as s2O, ,000, 900 is written upon Mr. Morgan's life in the manner stated, no more striking proof of his unique posi- ton in the business world .conld be ad | duced.