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The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04
The Plethoric Picnic Pie.

That the. joyous picnic season does
not bring peace and happiness to all
alike is clearly shown by composition
written on the subject by q girl in q
New York high school:
May parties will soon be ripe, and
the June walk season will follow hard
upon. The difference between a Mag
party and June walk is simple
matter of chronology. Each has Its
queen Of brief authority and Its chap
eron of absolute sway. Each has also
its hamper, which Is as deadly an enc
my to the Manhattan populace as the
frying-pan to the Kansas farm hand.
took an inventory of one of these
hampers last year, and as l was a
member Of the physiology class at the
time, 1t startled me out of sessions
growth.
when the hamper was opened the
chaperon drew forth one bag of sand
wiches and one pie; one bottle of pick
les, one pie; one sponge cake, one pie;
one roast chicken. one pie; one bottle of
lemon juice, one pie; one bag of assort-
ed cookies, one pie; one dozen dough-
nuts, one pie; one package of biscuits
and one pie. This was all, except that
there were few extra pies at the bot
tom, for the purpose, suppose, of
forestalling famine.
"The chaperon wondered after lunch.
con why the girls and boys didn't enter
into their play with as much zest as
they did when they first arrived at the
park. / didn't. | was studying natu-
raj history at the time, and only few
days before lucid explanation had
been given why the boa constructor
takes months nap after dining ON
far more digestible food than anything
| saw in Central Park that day"
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04
BIG PRICES FOR ANIMALS.
A Small Sized Fortune Needed to
Huy q Giraffe.

A Small Sized Fortune Needed to
Huy Giraffe.
Because of the difficulty of getting 1t
to America and of keeping it alive aft
er it arrives good giraffe is quoted at
$1,000.
Next to the giraffe in the aristocracy
of cost come the rhiDoceros and the
hippopotamus. worth from $4,000 to
5000 EACH If a dealer could breed
these animals. he could get rich. but
the big mammals rarely breed In cap
tivity. About the only place in America
where hlppopotami have been known
to raise their young is In the menag-
erie in Central park, New York.
A chimpanzee of size Is worth $1,000.
and when one reaches the intelligence
Of the late Mr.. Crowley. Chico or Jo-
hanna he is beyond fixed price. The
monkey Kind are most uncertain prop
erty. The animal man says they are
certain to die. But the ordinary ones
can be bought very cheaply.
One can buy nice young baby ele-
phant for $1,000 at times, but really
good animal is worth from 81, 800 to
$1,000. An elephant does not command
the maximum price because of the
beauty of his countenance, the ele-
gance of his figure, his intellectual en-
dowments or his size, but because of
sweet, sunny disposition. A mean
elephant is about the most evil of liv-
Ing things. Sooner or later he has to
be killed, usually after he has slain
two or three keepers and done more
damage than he is worth. OF two ami
mails of equally good disposition the
larger and finer commands the higher
price, of course. but the most magnifi-
cent beast with an inclination for muir
der isn't worth as much as q very com
mon one that Is trustworthy is
ordinarily so. for the sweetest tenn
pered have days when they seem in
spired of satan.-Junior Munsey.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04

find out whether any of them corre-
sponded accurately with the finger
prints "a 4ha man who 10 naw acnnsad2
The task would, think, be hopeless
one.
That finger prints may be important
in the detection of crime whenever the
criminal has left the print of his fin
gers behind him do not dispute, but
without much stronger evidence than
we now possess that no two persons
have undistinguishable finger prints
such evidence ought never to be per-
mitted to outweigh what appeared to
be tolerably satisfactory aliDi.-
knowledge.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04
HUMAN FINGER PRINTS.
There Are Possible Ora wbacks to Their
Value in Identification.


Value in Identification.
The constancy of human finger prints
has chiefly been discussed In connec-
tion with the Identification of criminals.
Assuming that the evidence Of finger
prints is to be admissible In criminal
proceedings, 1t will be not only neces-
sary to prove that in the case of the
same man the finger prints remain un-
altered, but that no two persons have
identical finger prints Where is the
evidence of this?
There are propably 1,500,000,000 men
and women on the earth. Can we sup
pose that no two of these have Identical
finger prints? Nor indeed is this all.
We may be comparing the finger prints
of living man with those of one who
has been dead for years past, and the
doctrine of heredity might lead us to
expect to find similar finger prints In
the case of parents and children and of
different children of the same parents
1t Is at all events certain that If this
finger print system were once intro
duced into our courts of justice there
would be any amount of wrangling as
to whether they were identical or only
similar-experts contradicting each
other and involving the whole subject
In confusion.
Moreover professional criminals
would probably soon find some mode of
altering their finger prints. No doubt
if the person who committed "A crime
a murder. for example-has left the i'm
print of his fingers on anything 1t may
prove an important clew, but the same
thing may be said of the imprint of his
boots or shoes. But clew is one thing
and proof is another thing.
Let me point out another difficulty. In
a country where there are large num-
ber of criminals whose finger prints are
collected. the number of these will soon
be very large. How long would 1t take
to examine this collection In order to
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04
THE LIVING MUSE.

Horace calls no more on me,
Homer in the dust-heap lies;
have found my Odyssey
In the lightness of her glee,
In the laughter Of her eyes.
Ovid's page is thumbed no more,
E'en Catullus has no choice,
There is endless, precious lore,
Such as | never knew before,
In the music of her voice.
Breath of hyssop stepped in wine,
Breath of yiolets and furze,
Wildwood roses, Grecian myrrhs,
All these perfumes do combine
In that maiden breath of hers.
Nay, look not at the skies,
Nor the sun that hillward slips.
For the day lives or it dies,
IN the laughter of her eyes.
In the music of her lips.
-Bookman.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04
Will am T. Baker,

w T. Baker joined the Chicago Board of trade
directors
Of exhibits He
ed of
side
snoqualme Falls
Board
in held
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04
City and Countrx.

New York now leads all the other
States in the predominence of its city
over its country population. OF every
100 inhabitants of the Empire State, II
live in cities and towns The percent
age of the population living in cities
and towns for the whole country is
only At.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04
Turkish Babies.

The Turkish mother loads her child
with amulets as soon as it Is born, and
small bit of mud STEPPED in hot water,
prepared by previous charms, is stuck
on it's forehead.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-04

When mother looks at her boy, it
must often occur to her to be thankful
that soap Is cheap.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
TINE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPERS IN ALABAMA
Poll Tax in Colbert.

The Tuscumbia Dispatch discusses
at length the suffrage problem, and 1t
arrives at the conclusion that the poll
tax plan is the best of ALL "If the con.
vention," says the Dispatch, should
decide on plan similar to This, every
liberty loving patriotic citizen, It mat
tiers not whether he be white or black,
will rally to its support when 1t is re-
ferred back to the people for ratiflca-
tion or rejection"
Especially will this be the case If the
people are offered at the same a good
primary election law, or rather en- as
surance of one, for the detail of pri-
mary election law cannot well be
placed in the constitution.
The Dispatch voices in a timely man.
ner the sentiments of CoIpert, and ex-
pressions from other counties would be
influential and acceptable. Beyond all
doubt the convention deserves to know
what the will of the State Is.
The Wetumpka Herald, speaking for
Gilmore County, near the center of the
State, says the poll-tax plan is "a
happy solution of the vexed question
of franchise" Other expressions would
cIaar nm Tho sifuatiou and he q p1iide
to the convention.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
Election Humbuggery.

From the Clarke County Democrat,
When the new State constitution opens
the way for "a free ballot and a fair
count" we trust that our elections will
be free and fair. We have already suf-
fered great Decentralization in this matter
and every good, patriotic citizen should
gladly seize the opportunity of returning
to honest methods. Heretofore 1t has
seemed 10 be a choice between destruc-
ton and disregard OF law. and the lat
ter was generally taken. Disregarding
one law with impunity naturally encour-
ages the disregard of other laws, weak
ems respect for all law and encourages
decentralization.
The bosses who have been managing
elections and controlling results TO suit
themselves will often be tempted TO con-
tinue the business under the new consti-
tuition. Let all our people feel that the
new constitution marks new era in le-
gal observance and that the good of the
whole country demands conformity to
law In election matters. as In all other
matters, and strive sedulously and
earnestly to redeem the country from
the loose and demoralized condition un-
der which 1t has existed for the last thir-
ty years. and 1t will be far better for all
of us. white and colored.
There is much humbuggery and clap
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
Merry Man With Mumps.

A certain prominent young man of
Birmingham much loved in society and
honored In business has been recently the
victim of the prevailing epidemic of
mumps He is on the sunset side Of thirty
and ought to have had the mumps before.
but he hadn't. A friend of his, well
known developer of the mineral district,
wrote to this mumps-sufferer this ex-
quisite letter of sympathy:
patton, Ala, May 16. 1901.
my Dear-It is nothing short of a crime
for one to laugh at the msfortunes, in
firmities or suffering of a friend, but in
strolling along the path of life we now
and then strike a case that appears so
ridiculous as to occasion mirth accom-
panied with all manner of sympathy In
my mind l can see you, with those noble
Jaws hanging down like two ends of a
sack of corn across q mules back, or, at
least, that Is the picture that has been
drawn for me by several of our mutual
friends. l had them myself, once upon
a time and know all about 1t. therefore
can sympathize with you. as do from the
very bottom of my heart; and when say
pickle, whisky sour lemonade and sher-
bet I don't mean any harm or any offense
to those little glands encased in those big
Jaws that cause all the trouble l expect
to be in town in day or so and am COM
ing straight to see you and will tell you
what to do\ for it, provided the doctors
haven't succeeded in giving you your
moneys worth. And, in the meantime,
God bless you. and hope you will soon
be we'll.
with much sympathy and lots of love,
I am, yours very truly,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22

county to put upon it the ex-convicts
OF other counties. This wrong is be-
coming unbearabie. and the represent
atives of this county should seek a
remedy, and see that 1t is adopted and
carried out.
The law is perhaps ample now If
State officials would perform their
duties with a view to justice to all, but
at present they permit contractors to
unload ex-convicts chiefly in this
county. This practice should be stop
ped. An ex-convict is not even given
a ticket to his home, but he is fur
nished with money to buy ticket, the
entire business being seemingly con-
trived to retain Lere perhaps nine
tenths of them. When the truth is
ascertained, it will doubtless be seen
that this practice, which is wholly un-
just to this county, led to the bold
murder of last SATURDAY in Pratt City.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
ENOUGH PROBLEMS AT HOME.
rom the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Though the lark of liberty is moving
out into the great ocean," there are lots
of fellows on land who are not allowed to
vote; though they have lived in their
states the requisite length of time. and
are over twenty-one years of age. They
live in the southern states, and they are
for the most part colored. The inhbi-
ton is put on the ground that these men
are unfit for the franchise, and this idea
is entertained by Republicans and DEM
ocrats both. Thirty-ive years after the
close of the civil war, and the liberation
of the slaves by an amendment to the
constitution of the United States the
serious question of what to do with the
masses of the men liberated appears to
be just taken up in earnest. There is a
sudden realization of the theory that
some measure of education ought to be
a condition of voting. The problem is
large enough without going beyond our
borders for more of it. We have a tre-
mendous school on hond already.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
TO ABOLISH LASH IN ARMY.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Paris-Among the reforms instituted in
the army by Minister of War Andre Is
the almost total abolition of the lash as
an instrument of punishment. General
Andre has recently issued a decree which
ne expects will further improve the dis
cipline of the file. BY this decree certain
punishments, particularly those known as
the "bar of Justice" the single buckle"
and the double buckle" are abolished IN
that part of the colonial army composed
of "compagnies de discipline" or civil
and military offenders. Moreover, Gener-
al Andre directs that the instruments Of
torture formerly employed shall all be
sent in and receipts obtained for them.
Only one instrument OF torture is to re-
MAN, and that more for protection than
for punishment. The man who would be
a danger to his comrades, who runs
"amuck'' and whom it is necessary to put
under restraint, may be awarded the
poucettes, or thumb rack" which fastens
This thumbs behinds his back and renders
him harmless.
But even with regard to the use of these
the orders of the Minister of War are
formal The poucettes may only be used
by the express order of the commanders
of corps and then only for the minimum
Of time judged to be absolutely necessary.
General Andre declares that discipline
must, of course, be maintained in every
army, but that experience has shown that
kindness goes very much further toward
maintaining it than either Short drills
or the double buckle"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
Bold Crime in Pratt City.

The cold-blooded murder of a rob.
bed and defenceless citizen in the early
hours Of the night, in a public and
well-lighted street of Pratt City goes
to show that crime has become bold
and almost fearless. This grievous
crime was not committed by novices.
It was the act of hardened criminals,
old hands at such jobs. Beyond rea-
sonable doubt the murderers are re-
leased convicts.
The turning loose of convicts. who
have served out their terms, at the
mines is an outrage upon this popu-
lous county. Instead of carrying them
back to the counties in which they be-
long, they are turned loose in Jeffer-
son County. and such crimes as the
one in Pratt City naturally follow.
Jefferson County does not ask any
other county to entertain its ex-con-
yicts, and It is a wrong upon this
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
Civilians for the Army.

''It looks now as If the United States
army would have to draw largely upon
the civilian class for second lieutenants,
for out of several hundred volunteers
nominated for lieutenancies nearly fifty
per cent. failed to pass the examinations, "
said an army man yesterday.
1.-The standard for the regular army
is high and applicants. for commissions
must do good deal Of studying II they
expect to pass. There are several hun
dred vacancies yet to be filled and 1t is
safe to say that quite a number of the
commissions will go to civilians. 1t was
thought at first that only volunteers
would get these lieutenants, but it
seems that sufficient allowance was not
made for lack of academic knowledge"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
Strike of Machinists.

It is plain that the famous engineers
strike of England is not to be repeated
in this country. That strike of British
machinists-fo they are called en-
gineers in that country-lasted so long
that great damage was done to many
branches of British industry. Trade
was lost that Germany and America Sc
cured and still hold. No such strike
will take place in this country. In
fact, In many manufacturing cities no
strike will occur at all, because en-
ployers have accepted the demands of
the machinists. Others doubtless will
do so, and before the present week is
ended perhaps the entire trouble will
have been adjusted and settled.
The strikers ask for a nine-hour day
without any reduction of pay. In the
government shops they already have
an eight-hour day. In other shops the
working day has been 91a hours long
The asked-for reduction is but thirty
minutes. 1t has been largely granted,
but in Cincinnati, San Francisco and a
few other cities the situation is
strained, and many shops lack skilled
workers, whose places cannot be read
lily filed. When Chicago and Cleve-
land accept nine-hour day, Cincinnati
cannot afford to mold out against it.,
and this is the case elsewhere. Too
many firms have conceded the de-
mands of the strikers to render resist
ance to them feasible anywhere. For
that reason quick and complete set
Element of the strike is more than
probable. The demand for nine-hour
day is not a wildly unreasonable de-
mand by any means. 1t is quite in
keeping with the trend of labor move
ments, and the quicker this concession
to the men is made by employers the
better for all parts of the community.
The battle is much more than half
won
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
A Miami Win Conan poyIe.

THE creator of the immortal Sherlock
Holmes will be forty-two years old to-
morrow said one-time bon viyant last
night.
IT always remember Conan Doyle's
birthday-he was born May %, 1859
mainly because its celebration one night
in Edinburg many years ago gave to me
one of the happipest experiences l ever
had. Doyle Is a doctor, and one of the
most intimate of my many beloved
friends in Scotland was his cassnate in
Edinburgh University Medical School.
Doyle wouldn't study but by sheer good
luck got his degree, and began to try to
practice medicine. My friend was a close
student, and afterwards hard-worker,
and he built up large practice before
no was thirty-three-an extraordinary
fact In foreign professional work.
Doyle couldn't, or didn't, do much
in medicine, and having much leisure he
dropped into literature, much as the late
Mr.. silas wegg dropped into poetry. 1t is
literally true that he walked up suddenly
to find himself famous, for he did not
think much of Sherlock Holmes until the
world rendered its verdict upon that
greatest of all detective stories of any
time. As a proof that Doyle was unso-
phisticated in literature, he killed Sher-
lock Holmes at the end of the book!
'sBut that Doyle birthday night in
Edinburgh was truly night with the
gods. Doyle himself was there. together
with many of his classmates and some
older men of distinction, including Hall
Game, whom I heartily dislike, and An
drew Lang, whom heartily adore. The
dinner began at o'clock-you wouldn't
be so rude to ask me when it ended?
''' No gentleman ever speaks of last
night is an axiom of good society in the
old world
1.-The spirit of that does not apply to
the Doyle dinner in Edinburgh, dozen
years ago, a dinner that never got into
the newspapers. Doyle told the drollest
stories ever heard, Andrew Lang-Robert
Louis Stevenson's Dear Andrew of the
tawny hair'-sang songs of joy and mirth;
everybody else sang songs, save only me;
1 couldn't: made two minutes speech
which brought me some fifteen tankards
of ale when l wanted none at all. Man!
there was joy there that NIGHT in Aud
Reekie when the ladies toasted Dauctor
Doyle. And here's to him He is two and
forty the rnorn's MORN"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
President John B. Knox,

The unanimous selection of Annis-
convention Is an assurance, not only
of harmony in the convention, but also
of harmonious and progressive funda-
mental law at the end of it. Mr.. Knox
stands for the future rather than the
past, and his influence will be cast in
favor of constitution that admits of
growth and progress in the State. His
selection as presiding officer marks
the turn of events. The State is now
in the hands of it's young men-of men
to whom the civil war is history-men
full of faith in the resources and pos
sibilities of Alabama
The framing of new fundamental
law properly belongs to such men, for
upon them will now rapidly fall all the
responsibilities of government. The
veterans of the war period are passing
away, full of honors, and everywhere
respected. They bore the stress of
storm bravely, and they did their work
with rare courage and patriotism. Their
successors are now at the helm, and
the election of Mr.. Knox to the presi-
dency of the constitutional convention
is a recognition of this change. Mr..
Knox is an excellent representative of
the young men of the State, and he
may be trusted to guide them in the
chair to the framing of a constitution
that they can work easily and advant-
ageously under all their lives.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-22
RuIIdlna New Rallroad.

I'VE. are getting on with our railroad
contracts as well as we could wish and
are kept extremely busy" said Charles
D. Smith of c. D. Smith & Co.. the con-
tractors who came to town from Mem
phis yesterday.
I'VE have under way three contracts
covering 126 miles of railroad; SO miles Of
single track and % miles of double track
for the Illinois Central below Memphis,
and 30 miles for the Mobile, jackson and
Kansas City. above Mobile. Walter
Smith is in charge Of the work for the
Illinois Central"