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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12
 GUESS NOT.


 Some of those western professors have active minds, so active that they are as uneasy as the Athenians were if they cant say some new thing. It :s now solemnly stated that 6 people superior in intelligence to those of the earth in- habit the planet Mars is a conclusion that will be set forth by Professor G. W. Hough, head of the department of astronomy Of Northwestern University, in 8 report which he is compiling of his summers observations from the Dear born Observatory. He asserts this as a probability based on recent discoveries and adds that of course it can never be esta blished positively.
 Of course not. And how preposterous it is for an inhabitant of this great, glorious and comparatively free country to even guess that there may be any, where in the universe people who are superior to the people of the United States Perish the guess. There can be no people anywhere better than our best people, the kind we in New Haven are, for instance.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12
ANNUITHS

Prof. c. S. Grimes of Evanston, Ill.,, now o4 years of age, carried a policy of s5,ooo for many years and when he reached theadVanced age of 7ohe despaired of its ever becoming a claim, so he compromised with the company on the basis of an annuity of s4Ioper year for the rest of his life. During the past 24 years he has received his annual payments with regular ity and great equanimity of mind and, having already drawn $o,S4o, he has come to the conclusion that he has found the elixir of life in ari Annuity,
 .n ~At age 70, s1,ooo deposited in The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York will yield ar annuity of SI34.77 for life.
 This great corporation is the most wealthy moneyed institution in the world and more than SIo, ,ooo, 900 in claims has been paid in this state through the under. signed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12
4, MISSOURI CASE.

Solomon ought to be alive and hold ing court in Springfield, Missouri There is a case there which would give him
 an opportunity to add to the reputation
 he made when he decided the celebrated
 baby case. In the Springfield case a Mrs. Evans, who claims she is from Dallas, Texas, went to the home of
 Mrs. Maggie Clements few days ago. A fifteen-year-o girl named Pearl Crume, who lives with Mrs. Clements, opened the door. Mrs Evans instantly threw her arms around the scared girls neck, and exclaiming, "Oh, this is my long-lost daughter" began to weep vio- lently. The scene attracted the other people in the house. The girl protested that she did not know the woman, and had never seen her before. The chief of police was called, and to him Mrs.
 Evans told her story. She says her first husband was man named Crume.
 He left her, she asserts, when Pearl was two and half years old, taking away her two children, one of whom died Mrs. Evans says she has been hunting almost ever since for her daughter
 Pearl, and learned only short time ago where she was. The girl admits that she is the Pearl Crume in ques- ton, but tells widely different story.
 She says she was not born in Dallas, as
 Mrs. Evans asserts, but in Aurora, Illi-
 nois. She knows nothing about. her father or mother. Mrs. Clements claims that Pearl was taken to raise by her daughter, Mrs Benzen, when she PearD was ten years old This was in
 Aurora. She asserts that instead of
 Crume leaving his wife, his wife left
 him. She denounces Mrs. Evans as an
 impostor, and asserts that the real Mrs.
 Crume was hanged in Texas several
 years ago for killing a man. She says
 Crume himself is now living in Car
 thage. One of the singular features of
 the case is the motive Mrs. Benzen as-
 cribes for Mrs Evans attempt to get
 the girl. She says that she (Mrs. Ben-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12

The following named States and terri tories in 1900 did not contain any city with a population of 250Oo or more: Arizona, Idaho, Indian territory, Mis- sissippi, Nevada, New Mexico. North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12
CANT REPUDIATE.

In many places there are debt limits. l They had one in Beatrice, Nebraska, but it didn't seem to limit them. They issued bonds to the amount of S115,00O more than they had any legal right to-. On the bonds there was statement that they were issued in full compli- ance with the law. John W. Edminson became the owner of some of these bonds without knowledge that they were excessive. The city attempted to repudiate them, and MT. Edminson at tempted to teach the city lesson in common honesty. He has had some en- couragement so far. United States Cir cult Judge Sanborn has held that the declaration of the city officials and on
 the face of the bonds that they had
 been issued in accordance with law had the effect of an estoppel on the attempt of the city to resist the collection of the
 evidences of debt in the hands of an innocent purchaser.
 This Is just. If city breaks the law and issues more bonds than it has a
 right to and people are fooled into buy ing them the innocent buyers should
 not be punished. The city which breaks
 the law and does the cheating should
 be the one to suffer. It is to be hoped that Judge Sanborns decision will be
 sustained, and that justice in this case will also be found to be law.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12

zen) and her husband quarrelled and separated over Pearl, and that he boasted he would make the girl his sec- ond wife. Her theory is that Mrs. Evans is an accomplice of Berzen. in an attempt to get control of the girl.
 Truth is sometimes stranger than fic- tion. and if the truth in this case could be made to appear it might be strange.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12
4 aooD FIRE WITHOUT HARD COAL

4 GOOD FIRE WITHOUT HARD CO<4 l.
 The commissioners of the District of Columbia have done something which entities them to notice and perhaps to init tation. They say they have solved the coal problem in a way that will make them independent of the coal bar ons during the coming winter. Experi- ments have been made in the public schools of burning coke and soft coal in alternate layers as substitute for anthracite coal. The trials were entire ly successful, and the commissioners have consequently made arrangements to secure one thousand tons of soft coal and one thousand tons of coke with which to stock the public schools. By firing the furnaces with first layer of coke. then a layer of bituminous coal and then top layer of coke, fine fire is secured, and one which enits but minimum of smoke.
 Perhaps the coal strike will end some- time, but even if it does it may be use full to know how to use soft coal and coke so as to make good fire with little smoke.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12
Those Green Gage PlQlls

and some other kinds are here. The dis- ,tribution will take place this morning About 50 baskets PEACHES are on sale that are hot windfais or water.soaked Twenty-Five baskets BARTLETT PEARS can be had if called for soon. We are doing business this fall for the benefit of the public.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12

Iowa has a law which provides for the confining of habitual drunkards in insane asylums. It is popularly known as athe old toper law" and it's enforce nnent is reported to be having won- derfuI effect. Many men who for years cIung to the habit of getting drunk reg ularly have reformed and become more or less useful as citizens.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12
ADVERTISING RATEe.

Situations, Wants. Rents. ana other small advertisements. Oae Gent Word each in- sertion. Five Cents Word for full week sssyen riinesl.
 Display advertisements. per inch' one 'a1 so sargi0ai, Si. 30. each subsequent insertion, 1o cenTs: one week, 3.20; one month. $1o: ohS Fssr. SA4 tx cents Der line. Nct.ces of Births. MaE,s ages. DssGhs. and Funerals. 60 cents escR' LUca. Notices, 1k per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited TO th1's ha own immediate business (ali matter 10 De nnabjectlsnabie), and their contracts do uo' include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12

The pistol-carrying habit has assum- cd such proportions in Memphis that Judge Moss of the local court has in- structed the grand jury to inquire what can be done to cope with the evil. The Commercial Appeal notes in that con- nection that probably one man in six on the street carries a pistol. The habit has grown especially among the negroes, who have laid aside the razor and taken up the pistol.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12

England has decided to employ cnlrop- odists in the army. They are to rank not above sergeant, and to perform the duties of enlisted men, but will receive extra pay of sixpence day for six days in the week for cutting corns.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12

A wooden chimney stack 16O feet high is in operation at Mapimi, in the prov ince of Durango, Mexico, The interior 5 is lined with corrugated iron, and there are platforms at intervals to throw water on the wood if it catches fire.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12

A rope manufacturing company or Brooklyn recently made a rope 17'7Oo feet in length, or over three miles, without a break, and weighing 2203O pounds. It is for use in bituminous coal mine. It was made of forty-tWo strands of crucible cast steel.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-12-11
s.,syCr.tnE Iron,

Foreign iron and steel are coming
into this country in shiploads. Amer
lean mills are working to the limit OF
their capacity, and every mill hand In
condition to work is fully employed at
higher wages than are paid in any
other country in the world. Yet the
American mills cannot supply the de-
mands Of the home market for their
products.
The foreign mills are working their
hands longer hours and at less wages
than our own, SO that they are able to
carry the goods across the ocean and
pay the duties levied on such importa-
tions and yet find profit In the busl-
ness.
This is one Of the Industries assailed
by opponents Of the tariff and concern
ing which the cry Is raised that the
"infant industry" ought to be made to
shift for itself by removing the tariff
which shields it. If foreign mills can
now enter the American market, the
stimulus afforded them by an easier
entrance would be such as to speedily
ruin the American market for our own
workmen.
The argument for tariff revision is
hardly sounder I'm most other direc-
tions than in this one.-Buffalo News.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-12-11
DeiaSfye.

Free trade as Il remedy for trusts is
delusiye. as Is proved by the expert
ence of Britain, which is ''plastered all
over with trusts" as Mr.. Blaine said a
dozen years ago-and his words are
even truor now. Free trade as q rem
edy for trusts is delusive. moreover,
because some of the largest and richest
American combines" already have
free trade in their product. And, final
ly, free trade as a remedy for the trust
evi! Is delusive because. in the guise of
encouraging competition, it would
really destroy that competition-whicll
is most important and desirable-that
is the competition of relatively young
but ambitious independent American
producers.
1t is pity that the Idaho Republic
ans had not thought little more on
this trust question before their foolish
platform was adopted. But Idaho and
the other far western states generally
are susceptible to enlightenment. They
have been won over to sound views Oil
the question of the currency. They can
be won over to sound views Of the tariff
and the trust problem also. They
only need to be set to thinking
ton Journal
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-12-11
Three Reasons,

Wire nails, axle grease and alarm
clocks are three things which the Dem
ocrats say they have discovered that
are sold in European markets by
American manufacturers at prices low
or than the manufacturers will sell
them in this country. Here, then, are
three reasons that Democrats have put
up why their party should be restored
to power that they may repeal the tar
if'. But then, let's see. Here are three
reasons why we don't want the Dems
to try it. They are the Coycy army, the
idle factories and the free souphouses.
Mr.. Democrat, you may prefer to live
on cheap axle grease and free soup, but
we don't need the combination In our
business Morayian Falls (N o. Vel
low Jacket.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-12-11
A BIG GUN SALE.

A rare chance to get Syracuse
Hamerless II guage double barrel
Shot Gun for 19. 80; they are always
sold for $500.
A Winchester "Take Down"
pattern 1897 model II guage Re
peating Shot Gun s19.75, formerly
sold at $3.50.
Eclipse $15 Gun for 11.50.
$50 Z" $50.
You can't afford to miss such a
chance if you need a gun at all.
Compare prices for the same ar
ticle with any gun dealer and you
will buy of us.
WIELAND s. KEssLER,
Nordmont, Pa.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-12-11

The way to smash the trusts is to
elect Democratic president OH free
trade platform. Then you will have a
return of Grover Cleveland souphouses
no work for workingmen and no
trusts-no combinations Of capital to
move the hands Of toil.-Buffalo News
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-12-11
Protection Sentiment Gaining

Time was when our free trade phi
losophers of the east cherished the idea
that the west would break away from
New England. New York and Penn
sylvania on this issue They tried
their best to convince the western
farmers that they had no Interest
whatever in the protective system.
But this hope has proved delusive.
Michigan and Nebraska are as stalwart
in their prOtectionism as Massachu-
sets. And even the south, long the
free trade stronghold in America, now
show signs of returning to the eco
nomic faith Of Washington and Jeffer.
eon.-Boston Journal.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-12-11
Insurance Notice.

The Goth annual meeting of the Farm,
ers and Mechanics Home Mutual Fire
Insurance Company of Sullivan County
will be held at the Office of the company
in the Borough Of Forksville, on Satur-
day, the Sd day of January 1908 at l0
o'clock a. m. for the purpose of electng
a board of directors and other officers for
the ensuing year and the transaction OF
such other business as may properly come
before the meeting.
The auditors will meet at the office OF
the secretary. on January % to settle the
accounts of the company,
Forksville, Dec. lst, 1902.
NJ. r. BLACK, President.
r. ID. LANCASTER, Sec'y
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-12-11
No Longer.

Prosperity will last as long as pro-
lection lasts, and no longer Moravian
Falls IN. c. Patriot.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-12-11

Lace curtains at Holcomb &
Lauer's.
The gold leaf., 1902-07-03
A Boston Man on Expositions.

A Boston publisher, Robt. A. Reid,
returning to his home from the Char
lesion Exposition, met the remark OF
an acquaintance that the Exposition
was failure by saying:
lone might as well says the schools
of Boston are failures because they
return no money revenues. 1t is a
mistake to regard expositions in any
other light than vast educational en-
terprises for the uplifting of the great
mass of people, the returns from
which are many fold in better
knowledge of one another and of the
progress of the world at large. There
is no other way to reach the people,
old and young, who have finished
their school day. and whose means OF
observation are circumscribed by the
usual business and domestic environ
ments. The Charleston Exposition
was great success. If the world
has not found Charleston the people
sof Charleston have found where they
stand with reference to the world and
great good is being realized and must
/ follow for years to come to the city
and the State as the result of theii
exposition effort and outlay"
The gold leaf., 1902-07-03
JUDGE CLARK OR COLONEL BEASLEY,
Was the Judge or the Colonel the
Younger Confederate Lieutenant.
Colonel
Elizabeth City Economist.

Elizabeth Clty economist.
The Edenton Bell Battery" Chap
ter of the Daughters of the Confeder-
acy, recently requested Col. W. +.
Beasley to furnish the Chapter with
his portrait as Lieutenant-Colonel in
the Confederate army, for the pur-
pose of placing it in the North Caro-
lima room of the COnfederatem museum,
Richmond, Va, as representing the
Youngest Lieutenant-COlonel from
North Carolina.
1t appears that the presentation OF
this portrait is delayed by reason OF
the statement published by Judge
Walter Clark in his history of North
Carolina regiments to the effect that
he was Lieutenant-ColOnel of the 10th
North Carolina Troops.
Colonel Beasley denies that Judge
Clark was ever a Lieutenant-COlOnel
in the Confederate service, but says
if he was, he is entitled to the distinc-
ton of having been the Youngest
Lientenant-COlon
This is a matter of history, it should
be cleared up and all doubt be dis
PEELED, the old soldiers are interested,
and desire that full and complete JUS
tice shall be meted out to those whose
conduct in the Civil war is a heritage
of honor and renown Now let Col.
Beasley and Judge Clark publish the
dates OF their commissions and make
good their respective claims if they
can Speak out gentlemen, we want
to know the truth.
The gold leaf., 1902-07-03
Outrageous Treatment of Negroes at
the North.

Charlotte Observer
The South is the safest place for the
negro. 1t is here only that he is
thoroughly understood and appre-
ciatel and where he finds his truest
friends among the whites. This fact
is again emphasized by cruel treat
ment Of negroes in Illinois and lndi-
ana. The Associated Press reports Of
recent days have been telling us Of
outrages upon negroes in Eldorado,
Saline county, H., where, Just upon
the eve of the commencement eXer-
cises of a normal and industrial insti-
tute for coloreh pupils, the white
people in the neighborhood under
took by violence and lawlessness to
break up the school. by injuring the
buildings, destroying the crops, and
driving the teachers and pupils from
the neighborhood. At the same time
the pastor of the African Methodist
church in the town was threatened
wit death if he did not leave within
tweuty y-fOur hours. This is done, too,
| in the State of Abraham Lincoln, who
signed the emancipation proclama-
tinnt 1t is enough to make him turn
over in his grave. The Chicago
Tribune calls upon the Governor to
interfere in the matter and says:
If an outrage like that at Eldorado
is allowed to 60 unpunished, it will
| be apparent that there are some sec
tions of Illinois where the negro,
honestly trying to better his condi-
| ton. is exposed to worse treatment
than if were domiciled in any Of the
| States South of the Ohio.
The States South Of the Ohio"
may visit terrible vengeance upon
the negro when guilty of shocking
crime, bat he is never interfered with
| in his endeavor to get an education.
| Indeed, it is one of the crowning
glories of the Southern States that as
they struggled upon their feet after
the poverty that followed the Civil
war, they spent thousands OF dollars
upon the education of the children OF
their former slaves, being not less
generous to these than to their own
children.
From different parts of Indiana
likewise come reports of cruel treat
ment of negroes. In Orange county,
in the Southern part of the State, are
two noted health resorts. From
these the negro hotel walters have
been. driven away and threatened
with death if they attempted to re-
turn. II the Northeastern part OF
the Stale is the town Of Decatur,
into which some negroes recently
yentured rs domestic servants, but
were driven out by white moi
which forced their employers 'f
promise never again to hire nr"r''
These incidents are significant. The
negro's home is in the South.
The gold leaf., 1902-07-03
Keeping congressman.
Greenville Reflector

Greenville Reflector.
The following clipped from an edi-
torial in the Philadelphia Inquirer OF
the 18th inst, is of general applica-
ton. 1t says:
The Congressional district COM
posed of Montgomery and Bucks
counties has nominated /. p. Wanger
for the sixth time. The district is
to be congratulated on it's common
sense. The proper way to handle
this Congressional business is to re-
tain a representative when he is alive
to the interests of the country and
the State.n
The tendency in the North and
West is for the retention of a repre-
sentative in Congress when, as the
Inquirer suggests, ''he is alive to the
interests of the country and the
State OF course they drop one
quickly enough if he proves not to be
alive to his duties, but they prefer to
hold on to the right man when they
get him.
Speaking further in the same edi-
torial of the rotation in office that
often prevails to considerable extent,
the Inquirer also says las soon as a
representative is we'll broken in he
must step aside for some raw recruit
from neighboring county. This is
a most mischievous plan and is totally
opposed to progress. 1t tends. of
course, to weaken the delegation.
When Congressman attends faith
fully to his duties and is in position
to be of much service to his district,
it is an unwise policy to change him,
for no other reason than that he has
had it term or two. and put in a
new, inexperienced man. This policy
of frequent changes has kept the
South from reaching the prominence
through her Congressman that she
ought to have. Get good Congress-
man and keep him as long as he does
good work.
The gold leaf., 1902-07-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Wayne County Advertiser.

In private business compete; in
public matters cooperate" The sue
cess of all private ventures and the
prosperity Of all communities is
based upon the intelligent applica-
tion of the foregoing principle.
Competition is the life of trade
when competition is legitimate, open
and above board. 1t brings out the
energies and directs the ambitions of
our merchants, farmers and manu-
facturers; it leads to the more care
full selection and buying of merchan-
disc; it prompts the farmer to i'm
prove his stock and enlarge the varie-
ties of his produce; it compels the
manufacturer to seek new outlets for
his wares and improve the method
of creating. All advancement in pri
vate business is the result of legiti-
mate competition, which means the
spirit to advance ones interests and
not the inclination to push a compel
itor down hill.
Paradoxical as it may seem, COM
petition is the surprising of your
neighbor in the marts of trade by
conscientious means, and not forcing
your friends to the rear by question
able methods, misrepresentation
and dishonest scheming.
The advancement Of matters Of a
public nature such as building
schools, maintaining churches or the
organizing of a manufacturing enter
prise, calls for the cooperation OF
the men who are competitors in their
private business. The men who
compete honestly and conscientiously
with their neighbors are the men the
community can depend upon to CO.
operate when the united efforts of all
are required to promote the welfare
of the community, and at the same
time will make any one else hustle to
keep up with them in the competition
for business of an individual charac-
ter.
1t is the small-born man, selfish,
unscrupulous and grasping, who dis
parages his ne eighbors, mistakes op.
position for competition and who will
never cooperate to advance the wei
fare of the community which he bur
dens.