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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
When tne Babe. lad ronsIlItis.

 When the babes had tonsilitls, Lord, but what 2. time! The father If all poets could not tell II h"iI ill rhyme. It was hustle for the doctor at r o'clock at night, And scurry to the drug store before the mornings light.
 ats,
 Prescriptions next in half an hour, don't be ]. minute late. And don't forget tne powders, and the iron for the blood. And peptOuOidS at eating time to take the place of food. And when the daringS walked and cried, twas papa walk the floor, With twenty pounds on one arm. on the other fifty more, And keep the house warm all the tlme' dHu don't get in q draught, And don't mix u9 the medicines. why didn't l go daft? With baby 5 pills at :, and 'tother one at & Prescriptions then in half all houf' doh be a minute late. And don't forget thc powders, and the iron for the blood. And peptOnOids at eating-time to take lAe place of food. The doctor brought them through all right and thank the Lord for that, And both are strong and rosy now and Doth are getting fat. He showed most wOndrous skill, thinK, as doctors often do, But what marvel most at Is that wire ahu With baby's pills at |, and 'tother ones at $. ,. Prescriptions then in half an hour, don't be minute late. ,.. And don'F forpet fine poWdCrs, and the iron for the blood. And peptOnOids ut eating-time to take the place of food.
 Buffalo Express.
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SEASOEABL r.

Protessor MOrandmOre-''The books of the eChaldeans were written on bricks Sporter Gin a still, small voice)-"They must have been hard reading. ward Lampoon.
 Customer-"I want fifteen yards of netting" Clerk-"For mosquitoes?" Customer-"Naw, y idiot! F0r myself. Tn mosquitoes have got enough com forts already. Baltimore News.
 Times Have Changed-The Prodigal The father in the Bible story, dad. killed the fatted calf for his son." The Old Man-"Yep; but he wasn't up against no Beef Trust, I reckon. .''- Judge.
 Advocate Printer-What is the matter now?
 Ditto Editor-Why, in my story de- and the typesetter set it up awful mess. ."-Harvard Lampoon.
 Newitt-''The man who can't take a little good advice has nobody to blame for his trouble but himself" Sharpe ''Oh, don't know, he's usually burden ed with lot of friends who can't give it. t."-Philadelphia Press.
 Successful Candidate-"I shan't for get the promises in virtue of which have been elected Political Manager That's right. Bear them in mind With little brushing up they'll prob ably elect you again. Puck.
 Accidental. - "Wotd that tenderfoot thet came here last week die of?" asked Terror Ike of Stony Gulch. Throat trouble. Tn boys was playing throwin rope over limb an he got his head caught in tn ose."-Baltimore News.
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through the wilderness, in spite of the fact that to keep it often entailed fort. He carried it in his pocket. wrapped in a silk pocket handker- chief. and whenever he stopped for refreshment, he unbound the prisoner and allowed her to feed in comfort. Every time he started after halt, he had had fight with the parrot be- fore he could get her back into the handkerchief, and several times she cut his fingers very severely with her powerful bill Sometimes, while he was swimming dangerous creek, or wad- ing for miles through a morass, the paroquet would escape, and, weary as he was he had to pursue and capture it. Several times he was sorely tempt ed to let it go. but he persisted and finally brought it to New Orleans.
 Some time before, on arriving at a friends house not far from Natchez, he placed the paroquet ill a cage and hung 1t under the piazza, where by its screams it soon attracted many others of it's kind. Wilson shot at and slight ly wounded one of the wild birds, and on it's being put in the cage, the tame one expressed the greatest pleasure, creeping close to it and chattering to it in low tone, as though sympa- thizing with it, meanwhile rubbing it's head gently with her bill, At night the paroquet nestled close to one an- other, the bill of one buried in the plumage of the other. When the wounded one died, the other was in- consolable, but soon after Wilson placed a piece of looking glass in the cage and as soon as she saw her own image all her former fondness return ed She was quite deceived and could scarcely leave the glass for a moment, and when night came on, she laid her 1 head against the reflected image. and
 went to sleep, at peace with the world.
 EARNEST HAROLD BAYNEs.
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ADRIFT ON FLOATING ICE.


 Cast away on 8 cake of floating ice, drifting toward the frozen sea, beyond the sight of land, enduring intense cold, finally coming in contact with an icy pack that permitted him to travel by leaping from one piece of ice to anoth- CT, and after three days and two nights of vigil and dangerous travelling over fields of floating ice, reaching the Dio- mede islands, where he sleps under the shelter of rock, is the experience of a Cape Prince of Wales native.
 When Judge Wickersham and Louis Lane were at Cape Prince of Wales, in January. an Eskimo seal hunter by the name of NetaXite was lost in a fioe Nothing was heard of him for weeks. One day, the 1st of March, he surprised the village of Kingegan, and brought joy to the hearts of his relatives, by returning. He was accompanied by na- tives from the Diomedes and looking fine. They had walked over from the Diomedes. Netaxites sister was glad to see him, but she did not fall on his neck and weep. She just smiled, but there was a wonderful light of happi- ness in her eyes.
 When Netaxite, In quest of seals, discovered that he had floated away from the ice pack, and was being car- ried northwest by one of those currents that are rivers between shores of ice, he could do nothing but wait for his precarious ice raft to carry him to the pack. It was then eight or nine feet in diameter, upon which he was af1oat, and it was a long time before he could leave it. He drifted from view, and finally the high ridge back of the vil- lage faded, and in the dreary perspec- tive there was nothing but water and ice.
 The next day he reached the ice pack and began his journey to the Diomedes. He found smooth foes and travelled rapidly. When night came he was forced to stop, as the going was too dangerous to be attempted after dark. He had had no sleep since he began his perilous trip, and he did not dare to sleep. Weary and droWsy he began another night of waiting. When day dawned he started again, but in his exhausted condition he was compelled to travel slowly. As evening ap- preached he saw an island, the little Diomedes and succeeded 1n reaching 1t before darkness came on.
 He found a sheltered spot beneath a rock and slept. Next morning he pro- ceeded to walk around the southern end of the island to the settlement, which was probably fifteen miles dis tant, The shore ice clinging to the steep base of the island is very narrow and rugged, and as this was his fourth day out since he left his home to go hunting, his suffering in his weakened condition must have been intense. When he left home he had some dried apples in his pocket, and these he had eaten the first day. His toes and one of his feet were slightly frozen. When he reached the settlement he found friends and relatives, and received the best of care. He said:
 Il was all right then, but l could not sleep for thinking about my people grieving for me. l saw one white bear,
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but did not try to kill it. The ice is smooth and two Diomede natives have gone to East Cape"
 A big dance was given in the village at Cape Prince of Wales in honor of Netaxites safe return, and he and his relatives distributed presents to the people.-Nome Correspondence to the Seattle Post -Intelligeicer.
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 Obituary NULlces. In prose or verse. 19 cents per line. Notices ef Births. Mar.I ages. Deaths. and Funerals. 50 cents eaca' Loea. Notices, h per line.
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The Chicago Tribune says that in the northern part of Illinois there is an evangelist going about from church to church on these terms: Forty dollars a week and fifty conversions guaran- teed or money refunded
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de Sagan the disqualification will prob ably not seriously affect him. We do hope he won't take it into his head to slap the Prince who cannot now slap hack
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Firefies are sold nightly by peddlers in crowded quarters of Tokyo and other Japanese cities. The number of firefy dealers in Tokyo is estimated at more than forty. The insects sell for 3 rin apiece, rim being equal in value to the twentieth part of cent.
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Mrs. Helen Clarke Balmer, of Chi cago, is probably the first woman who was ever graduated from university in the same year with her son. Mrs. Balmer has just completed three-year course in literature at the Northwest ern university, while her eldest son, Edwin c. Balmer, took the full course, completing it in three years Smart mother, smart son.
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A will written in Armenian, the Eng fish translation annexed, was recently admitted to probate in Worcester. Mass. 8"If it is possible" wrote the testator, .I desire that all my children embrace the American government and the city of Worcester as their city. My daugh- ters must submit to whatever fate leads them, but I want my sons to live in Worcester. This is the twentieth year I have lived here and cared for my family by laboring for small wages. l desire that my name remain in Worces- ter forever"
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x Heavy circus wagons at Atchison, Kansas, recently did $1,000 worth of damage to the brick pavement tra- versed from the station to the grounds, the pavement in question being made of one course of brick on sand. When asked to pay for the damage they had done, the circus people said: We were licensed to perform in this city by your officials. When a city opens a street to public traffic the presumption is that it will bear circus wagons or any thing else on wheels that is not unus- ual in this country. We drive on pave rnents in most cities without inturing them particle. It is not our fault if your pavement is weaker than it ought to be-"
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don't know whether he is dead or not, but I do know this: They buried him a month ago on suspicion
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\ The English papers are telling this story of an incident in a revision court:
 A certain person who figured on the register was objected to by one of the agents, on the ground that he was dead. The revising barrister declined to accept the assurance, however, and demanded conclusive testimony on the point Thereupon the agent of the other side rose and gave corroborativ evidence as to the decease of the gen. tlenan in question. And pray, sir, how do you know the mans dead?" de-
 manded the barrister Well" was the reply, T don't know. It's very difficult to prove" 'As I suspected" returned the irate barrister. You don't know whether he's dead or not" The bar srister glanced triumphantly around the court. His expression gradually under went a change as the witness coolly continued: T was saying, sir, that I
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The British are as good at building up as at tearing down. The govern rnent has decided to select a number of prominent Boer farmers and to send them to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in order to study modern scientific methods of agriculture. The first party, which will comprise a large landed proprietor of the Orange river district named Wooste, with his wife and two others. will probably start this week for Canada, returning by way of Australia. The second party will be and will start from Ceylon.
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Two farmers near Princeton, Indiana, after suffering depredations, recently caught ten white men in their melon patches. Although rounded up and cor nered right among the vines, the ten men all denied that they had eaten of the fruit. To test this assertion the melon growers marched the defendants to the nearest drug store and required each of them to take a dose of ipecac. The quick result was that five of the crowd produced watermelon in great abundance and thus furnished the evil dence by which they were convicted in the local court.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-07

phine to Mrs. Davis. The old woman
partially recovered, but before she was
well enough to leave for her home at
Cataumet Miss Toppan was melted to
try again, and this time death followed
the injection of diluted morphine and
atropine.
First she spoke Of recent cases, those
Of whose deaths Judge Bixby had read
in the newspapers. These were the
deaths of Mrs. A. 0. Brigham, daughter
Of Mrs. Toppan, the woman who had
taken her from n insane asylum; Miss
Florence N. Calkins, the housekeeper;
Mrs. Edna H. Bannister. sister of Mrs.
Brigham; Miss Myra Connors, of the
Episcopal theological school at Cam
bridge, the woman who had given her
employment at the institution hospi-
tai and who had giver her summers
outing at the marine biological station
at Woods Hole, and Mrs. McNear, of
Watertown, who had befriended Miss
Toppan in many ways.
She went back over the preceding
years and mentioned the names of
the others whose lives had been put
in her professional keeping by doctors,
but which trust she had violated.
The lawyer said: "Miss Toppan,
you must be insane"
"Insane?" Shit repeated. "How can
! be insane? When killed those peo-
rle | knew that was doing wrong.
vas perfectly conscious that what I
was doing was not right. Inever, at
any time, failed to realize what | was
doing.
Nov, how can person be insane
who realizes what she is doing. and
who is conscious of the fact that she
is not doing right? Insanity is com.
plrte lack of any feeling of responsible
ity, isn't it?'
Yes" said the lawyer, chat is so.
Blu. you have no remorse, have you?"
NO" declared the nurse. Il have
absolutely no remorse. ] have never
felt sorry for what have done. Even
when I poisoned my dearest friends,
as the Davises were, did not fee! any
regret afterward. do not feel any
remorse now. l have thought it all
over, and cannot detect the slightes!
bit Of sorrow over what ! have done"
Upon successive visits of her counsel
Miss 1oppan added details to the mar
rative of crime She supplied no ad-
ditionaI names.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-07
EXAMPLE FOR BOYS,
tits Found in the Career Of Prof.
S. P. Brooks.
Rose from Section Hand on Railroad
to College President by His own
EndeayOrs and Commend
able Ambition.

From the position of section hand
on a railroad, where he worked with
a spade, earning IS cents day, to the
head of an educational institution of
unquestioned standing, is the novel
rise made by S. P. Brooks, who has
just been elected to the presidency of
Baylor university at Waco, Tex.
Early in his life, while he was toll
ing early and late on the roadbed of the
mind that he was not cut out for a
section hand and set out to fit him.
self for something better. It never
occurred to him that his efforts would
result any other way than successfully,
and with this confidence and determin-
alton he set out to make the most of his
limited opportunities. He is now As
years old, and the predominating
ambition of his life was realized when
he was selected to preside over Bay
Tor university. 1t was there that he
first attended college, and it was large
ly through the influence of the faculty
that he was enabled to continue the
course and complete his education.
Less than 20 years ago Brooks was
a member of a section gang and, as
might be expected when his subsequent
career is taken into account, he was
one of the best "hands" on the road.
Whatever he undertook he did we'll.
With his foreman he was popular.
He was upright, Industrious, honest
and conscientious in his work, yet he
was not liked by the other hands be-
cause he saved his small earnings and
engaged in no pastimes of question
able propriety. During the noon hour,
when his fellow-workmen were swap
ping yarns or playing cards, young
Brooks usually sought shady spot
under some friendly tree, and here
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-07
Something New in Tools.

A cricket club of Englishmen In
Valparaiso, Chill, sent to England for
large consignment Of bats and a
few stumps. On arrival they were
liable to a duty Of 30 Per cent, but
it occurred to the captain, who had
had a good deal of experience in Gus
tom house business, that it would
be a good move to enter the goods
as agricultural implements, which
were allowed to enter free Of duty.
This was done and it was pointed
out to the custom house official who
examined the goods that with the
end of the stump and the aid of the
fat of the bat hole WAS made in
the ground in which seed was placed.
This explanation was considered st
isfactory.
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parents intended him for the church.
He has been village physician. and
a schoolmaster. During his political
career he made a speciality of public
education, and in the shortlived rad
ical ministry of NJ. Leon Bourgeois
in 1895 he was minister of that de-
partment. NJ. Combes is a personal
friend of President Loubet, and also
of NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau, who first
suggested his name as the man most
likely to succeed in forming cab
met representing the radical major
ity of the new parliament. M.
Combes set about his task with
Characteristic energy. He jumped into
a cab, and, accompanied by his son,
spent the day driving about ringing
the door bells of radical leaders, and
comforting with such men as NM.
Bourgeois, Sarrien. Vale. Trouillot.
Delcasse and Gen. Andre.
In the formation of his cabinet,
which was effected in the unprece-
denied period of 4S hours, M. Cornbes
followed on all essential points the
advice of NJ. Waldeck-Rousseau. NJ.
Combes is not brilliant orator. but
has logical, businesslike way of
stating case that carries with it
sympathy and conviction. He is by
no means an ambitious man, and in
the Hobbies of the chamber it is
whispered that NJ. Rouvier, to whom
he entrusted the portfolio of finance,
will soon supplant him as prime min
lister. NJ. Combes is an out-and-out
radical and anti-clerical, and pro-
poses to deal Immediately with the
questions of state monopoly of edu-
cation and the repeal of the Falloux
law so favorable to the religious or
ders.
NJ. Combes, physically, is the small
est member Of the cabinet. He lives
modestly, near the senate house. He
is president of the democratic group
in the senate. The positions he has
held-chairman of the committee of
the law of associations and reporter
of the bill on secondary education
marked him out for the premiership.
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wyDmins's Vanishing Town.

In short time the town of Car
non, Wyo., once lively little city of
hearty 1000 population, will disap-
pear from the map. It's days of
prosperity are over. The Union Pa
sific railroad which owned the land
End operated the coal mines there,
The sole subsistence of the town, has
declared the mines exha listed. The
railroad tracks will be moved and
Carbon will remain six miles from
the main line of the road, deserted
village in desolate country beside
a lot of abandoned holes.
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KILLED THIRTY ONE.
Many Startling Crimes Committed
by Jane Toppan.
Administered Morphine and Afro
pine to Her Instrumentation to
Stay and Burn Developed
in Childhood.

Not since the days of Lucretia Bor-
gia and the other subtle prisoners
of the middle ages has there been
a known equal to- Miss Jane Toppan,
who has been locked up in the Taun-
ton, Mass, insane asylum for poison
ing Mrs. Mary D. Gibbs at Cataumet,
Mass, last August. BY her own con-
fession the nurse has killed 81 sick peo-
pie who were under her care during the
past ten years. Some she murdered
by giving morphine and atrephine, and
others with poisons she cannot re-
member, and when not gratifying her
passion by killing people She set fire
in the houses where she was a guest,
or was employed in a professional
capacity. ..
When Judge Bixpy, Miss Toppan's
senior counsel, first visited her she
told him her dreadful story without
eliminating the revolving details, and
named 81 pc ople whom she had killed
by administering poison. She seemed
to gloat over her success in hiding
from the physicians the true causes
of death in these instances, and then
she wanted to know Of the lawyer how
she could be insane when she knew
she was doing wrong every time she
killed any one.
Miss Toppan began her revelation to
Judge Bixby by admitting at once that
she had poisoned Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Cor
don and Alden p Davis, just as the
three indictments against her charged.
Doses of morphine and atropine were
used, she said.
Then she told how Mrs. Davis had
called upon her at Cambridge last
June to collect note. She said that
she was seized with paroxysm to
kill, a recurrence of the oft-repeated
influence. In this state she gave NOR