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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-19

Some time ago a Chicago newspaper started a controversy as to the oldest living triplets in existence. Numerous claims were brought forth which ended in finding triplets in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, whose age was fifty-one years. New England how ever, has now found triplets who are seventy-nine years old, who are proba- bly, the oldest triplets living, They are sisters and are residents of Massachu- setts and Maine. Their names are Mrs Martha Hagar of Somerville, Mrs Sarah Fossett and Mrs Mary Fossett, both of North Union, Maine. The maid en name of the triplets was Townsend. The family numbered thirteen mem- bers. Of this number there were two pairs of twins and the sister triplets. The three sisters are in excellent health.
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District of New Haven. ss. Probate Court.
 February IS, 1902. ESTATE of AUGUSTUS c. WILCOX, late of New Haven, in said District, de- ceased.
 The Administrator having represented said estate to be insolvent, this Court has appointed John Hillard and Burton Mans field, both of New Haven, disinterested per- sons, commissioners to receive and decide upon the claims of the creditors of said deceased against said estate. By order of Court,
 ALBERT +. WELLES, Clerk The said commissioners will meet at the office oe Burton Mansfield, 179 Church Street, New Haven. Connecticut, on the 24th day of February, 1902. and on the 3rd day of March, 1902. at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days. for the pur- pose of attending on the business of said appointments "
 S. D. CRUTTENDEN,
 Administrator
 By J. H.
 BURTON MANSFIELD,
 By J. H.
 JOHN BILLIARD, ifs St Commissioners. sssry;1JsysFv S..,I.y >y \. T~7Y -yS%TN
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It costs the government Of Italy about s20, 900 year to keep up the Coll scum. Fifty or sixty masons are Kept at work all the while repairing breaks and cracks for fear of endangering the lives of tourists, who constantly Vlslt the place. They are working qhoer 'he direction of an architect and engineer employed by the Minister of Public h. struction.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-19

An account has been published in Berlin of the average number of letters daily received by European sover- eigns. The Pope breaks the record, as his daily average of letters and papers reaches the enormous number of 22, 900 to 23,000. Thirty y-tive secretaries are kept fully employed with His Holiness correspondence. King Edward must find his daily quota of one thousand letters and three thousand newspapers a heavy tax on his attention. The Czar and the German Emperor receive from six hundred to seven hundred a day; the Emperor likes to answer many himself The King of Italy gets five hundred and the young Queen of Holland struggles under the daily bur den of between one hundred and one hundred and fifty letters.
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No man in Vermont, said Senator Hoar during a speech in the senate the other day, lis allowed to vote unless he has made $5,00o trading horses with Massachusetts people" And we all vote" retorted Senator Proctor.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITH 15 CENTS WEEK, 50 CENTS MONTH, $3 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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There is real smallpox scare ih Iowa. In several cities they have cios- ed all the schools, churches and thea- tres. and have prohibited all public gatherings for fear of further conta- zion. Whole towns are quarantined' and the State board of health threat ems to put cordon around the State capital unless more vigorous measures are taken to grapple with the disease there.
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There are too many prairie dogs in tural college is supplying poison to kill them with. One county in the western part of the State has ordered a hundred half-gallon cans, each of which is sup posed to contain enough poison to de- stroy a thousand prairie-dog families. Yet so numerous are the animals, it is said, that the destruction of hundred thousand families would scarcely have ton of that particular section of Kan sas.
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With money they earned themselves two brothers, Jung John and Jung Fine, Chinese, have paid for course ot ln- struction in the Academy of the f1ne Arts in Philadelphia. They presented themselves for enrolment in the class formed on February 3, and since then have applied themselves diligently to their studies, making rapid progress. The brothers are the first Chinamen to study in the academy, and so far as is known. they are the first to seek such instruction in Philadelphia.
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The trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have just awarded the contract for the proposed new medical laboratories, which will cost $6oo,ooo, and will form one of the most import ant additions ever made to the facili- ties of the university. The study or the plans has covered all the scientific medical laboratories, both in Europe and in this country, and the building will be wholly fireproof Its front on Hamilton Walk will be $40 feet and the depth of it's western wing 19O feet
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THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18

showing that trade is not as sluggish
as has been reported. The bears
on their part contend that the
movement is good indication Of
the size of the crop and that there
is more cotton to come forward for
the rest of the season than was the
case last year.
In this contention over the move
ment one very important fact seems
to be lost sight Of, namely the fact
that with reviving trade a crop even
as large as 10, 100000 bales ought
to be easily disposed of at prices as
high as any that have prevailed SO
far this season. On the poor trade
theory spinners have long followed
a hand to mouth policy, hence 1t is
not unreasonable TO suppose that as
soon as the demand becomes brisk
in the cotton goods trade, tn ere will
be a scramble to secure adequate
stocks. Good trade is better
stimulent to prices than a short
crop, although spectators will cling
to the short crop idea as the most
promising influence.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18
imperialism,

Extract from an address made bv
Robert G. Ingerso!|:
"A little while ag" l stood by
the grave Of the Old Napoleon-a
magnificent tomb Of gilt and gold,
fit almost for a dead deity-and
gaz~d upon the sarcophagns Of
black Egyptian marble, where rest
at least the ashes OF that restless
man L leaned over the ba'ustrade
and thought about The career Of The
greatest soldier Of the m odern world.
II saw him walking upon the
banks of the Seine, contemplating
suicide. l saw him at Toulon-I
saw Inn putting down the mob in
the streets Of Parls-I saw him a,
the head Of the army in Italy-I
saw him crossing the bridge of Loi,
with the tri color in his hand-I
saw him in Egypt in the sha dow of
The P,ramlds-I saw hin: conquer
the Alps and m,ngle the eagles of
France with the eagles Of the c'ags
l Saw him al Marengo-at Ulm and
Austeritz. l saw him in Russia,
Where the infantry Of The snow and
the cavalry of the wild blast scat
tered his legl''ns like winters
wi,her-d leaves. l saw him at
Leipsic IN defeat aud dlsaste
driven by million baynnets back
upon Parls-clutched like Wild
beast--b anisheh to Elba. I saw
him escape and retake an EN- pre- u,
the force Of his genius. ! saw him
upon the frightful field of Waterloo,
y here Chance and Fate combined |
20 wreck the fortunes Of their former |,
king. Aud | saw him at St Helena,
with his hands crossed behind him,
gazing out upon the sad and solemn
sea.
Il thought of the orphans and
widows he had made-of the tears
hat had been shed for his glnty,
and of the only woman WHO ever
wed him, pushed from his heart
,, the col hand of ambit on. And
sad l would rather have been a
french peasant and worn wooden
hoes. [ would rather have lived in
| hut with a vine growing over the
toor, and the grapes growing pur
lie III the RAYS of the autumn sun
would Gather have been tina: poor
'easan, with M loving wife by myI
'de, knitting as the day died out of
he sky--with my children upon nv
nee and their arms about me.
would rather have been that man
nd gone down to the tongueless
Hence of the dreamless dust than
ave been that imperial ,mpersona-
ion OF force and murder"
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18
Subsidy Bill Losing Strength.

| New orleans State
The supporters of the ship subsidy bill
expect to have the measure reported favor
ably to the Senate within the next two
| weeks, and perhaps sooner, but they not
| SO confident they were of securing votes
enough TO pass the measure at the present
session of Congress. The truth is the ship
subsidy scheme has been steadily losing
| strength instead of gaining it; this fact has
become more evident since the meeting of
Congress, and it looks now like the raid
upon the treasury would be defeated. The
Washington correspondent quotes member
of the Senate committee commerce
saying that the subsidy bill cannot pass.
The Senator declared that even if the bill
were to get through the Senate it could
pass the House with majority of the
mttec on rules of that body opposed to it.
Senators Hanna and Frye, he said, have
ceived assurances that Speaker Henderson
will vote with tn. Democratic members of
the committee on rules agains, any PROPOSE
ton to frame a rule for the bill.
In view of these facts it is evident that
the ship subsidy scheme is doomed, for the
Senate is divided the bill, with the
chances of majority against it. In the
House the outlook for the bill i: even less
favorable, because a large majority of votes |
for it would be required TO overcome the |
determined opposition of Speaker Hender-
son. BY exercising his authority
officio chairman Of the committee on rules, |
the Speaker always has the power to keep
from consi deration any measure that IS not
backed by an overwhelming majority of the
House.
The advocates of the subsidy bill do not
claim any great majority for it in the House,
and some of them frank enough 70 ad-
nit that they are making hopeless fight at
his CONGRESS, because they have not been
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18

able to secure for it the support of the r.
publican newspapers. Senator Frye
pected t" get new recruits for the bill when
he introduced a substitute which elimnat ed
some of the provisions of the original bill,
but the ubiquitous principle of aking money
GU, of the national treasury to enr,ch few
shipbuillers and shipnwners and thus pave
the way for the organization of Il gigantic
shipping trust, is maintained in the new bill {,
This fact has arrayed against it an,agn-
that means its defeat
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18
NEGRO ACTORS

The last issue of the Baton Roug.
A3v0eafe contains some very peril
nent remarks anent negro theatrica
companies. The comments of ou1
contemporary were elected by re.
cent performance of Billy kersands
aggregation before an audience OF
cultured Baton Rougeans. The Id
vocafr is right. A decent regard fol-
the pr"prieties should cause white
people to keep away from the vulgar
exhibitions Of negroes who have alb
solutely no business to appear on
the stage Of a theater patronized by
the Caucasian race. Only a few
weeks ago Southern newspapers very
properly censureG the president of
the United States because he dined
with negro of education and good
manners. The criticisms could not
have been too severe, but while we
are throwing stones at the chief ex-
ecutive we should not engage in
building glass house for ourselves,
as the missiles may come back to US.
1t is questionable if it is more rep
rehensible for a white man to eat at
the same table with a negro of known
culture than it is for Southern gen
tlenan to take his wife and daughter
to listen to the very Objectionable
jokes Of coarse negro whose only
are an abnormal pair of
jawbones and large mouth. The
spectacle of an illiterate
darkey entertaining white people of
refine ment should not be tolerated
in this country. The A1voeafe very
says that "negro theaters
are for negro actors>and white the
aters for white actors" The Aauo
rate continues:
eff there is one question upon which the |
South stands absolutely solid and united, it
S the negro question. Not only our great
hinkers and writers, but our humblest citi- |
ems, have well-de6ned and wholesome views |
IN this subject. Their views are not harm
ul, injurious or unjust to the negro, but by
eason of the peculiar and paramount ethical
nd sociological Questions involved, - are
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18

Two or three days before Webre.
the coi"red naval officer at New
Orleans, was dead, Republican
politicians of the Lily White per
suasion were out hustIing for the
job. TIE newspapers had reported
Webre's death and before verifying
the report several applicants for the
Office entered upon an active cam
paisn for the position which is said
to be among the best within the gift
of the president. Politics is getting
to be rather gruesome business if
an Office holder is not allowed to
die before the scramble is begun by
his would be successors.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18
PARTY DISCIPLINE.

Nothing has SO demoral;zed the
Democratic party IN recent years
than lack of discipline. TIE Demo
cratic minority in Congress seems
to have been peculiarly afflicted
with q lamentable indifference to
the rules which ordinarily govern
political parties. During the Cleve.
land administration the elements of
discord began to make them selves
felt. The party had gone before
the American people ON the issue Of
d tariff for revenue only and had
won glorious victory over the adj
voca'es of protection, but when the
time and opportunity came to carry
out the pledges of the party, the re-
personalities of special interests,
clothed in the garb of Democracy,
So emasculated the Wilson tariff bill
that IT'S father would not recognize
it even as a putatlve child. The
poor thing ran the gauntlet of con
gressionaI guerrilas and was SO dis
figured bv what Mr.. Cleveland
termed the communism of pelf"
in the Senate that when the breath
of life was blown into its deformed
nos tril> i, was so hideous a legisla-
tive freak tn Il neither of the politi-
cal parties was willing to claim It as
in Congress maintained a whole
some discipline under the leader
ship Of Nr. Wilson or some other
bralny man, it would have been in
splendid shape for the presidential
campaign which followed But
the leaders continued to quarrel and
the results were Of the most disas-
trous to the party.
The Democratic party can never
expect to win without discipline,
and it seems to us that it is the duty
of Democratic senators and Con-
gressmen to map OUT policy and
insist upon an answering adherence
on the part Of the members of the
party If each Congressman is per-
mitted to GO over to the enemy on
the ground that some particular IN
dustry IN his district is threatened or |
in the hope of securing federal ap-
polntrnen,s for his friends, no sort
Of organic alton is possible. Be.
cause a representative labels him.
self ''Democrat" and votes the
ticket it does not follow
that he is Democrat Surely the
Democratic party stands for some
hing besides the Offices.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18

forced to take strong and extreme positions
and stand like bulwarks Of stone against
every shadow and suspicion of encroachment
upon the line of demarkation between the
races.
''Social and intellectual pleasures aud all
the pastimes we enjoy must he absolutely
and entirely separate and apart from joint
participation of the races. Assuming that
the entertainment offered was of the highest
order, we hold that we are inconsistent and
absolutely cuIpable in turning our play house
over to the negroes and placing them as our
entertainers and ourselves guests.
''The stage and dressing rooms, the seen.
mimic DIR awing-rooms and Landscapes that
our ladies and children occupy are no, fit
and proper things for even the temporary
use of a party of negro men. 1t is a desc
Grafton of such things and ..~lower,ng of the
standard of our ideals when do such
things.
''Think of the exalta,ion of our ideals in
the facial contortions and idiotic prattle of
Billy Kersands!
ut seems a travesty upon decent propriety
that the rusty and faded antics, the harsh
and horrid nightmare of sounds and the re-
Pulsive cOuntenance OF such a crea ture could
be set up as program of entertainment for
ladies and gentlemen.
''There is not one shadow of excuse about
the whole thing. There was not one single
ray of intellectual enjoyment. There was
not single note of melody from a single
throat. and save and excepting the ventrilo-
quism and the contortions of the homeless
negro, there was nothing on the program
worthy of moments notice.
s'But its worthiness or unworthiness from
an artistic standpoint is not 10 be considered.
The question is, Can we afford to give our
playhouse and its belongings over to a COM
pany of negroes and make them our enter
tainers and be their guests ? We think not,
if we expect to hold to the high ideals that
separate us on all lines of social and per-
sonal association
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18

Prof. Lombard, instructor of
physiology in the University of
Michigan, believes that he has To-
Gated the dwelling place of the soul
in the spinal column There is
nothing particularly startling in this
discovery, but what jars our emo
tons is the additional information
that the learned professor ar
rived at that conclusion after many
months Of experiments with frogs
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18
The Cotton Situation.

New Orleans Picayune.
Although we are now we'll in the
fifth month of the current cotton
season, and as much as seven mi
lion bales Of the crop have COM
into sight, there still exists almost as
much uncertainty as to the actual
yield as was the case Two months
ago. 1t is true that the estimates
from 10, 10000 to 11,25o,ooo
bales, which found considerable
favor at an earlier date, lave no
adherents now worth mentioning,
but there is still full million bales
between the low and high estimates
that are still regarded with favor
A man who believed in $500, 900
bales would have been considered a
bull some time back, whereas that
is Low the favorite figure with the
bears.
Up to Friday there had come into
sight 7,o83,9o7 bales of cotton,
which is 100000 bales in round
figures more than had been marketed
up to the same date last season.
Should receipts from now on to the
end of the season be practically the
same as last year, the crop would
be in the neighborhoodo of o, 600, 900
bales. Unfortunately for students
OF statistics, there are no means of
what receipts will be dur
ing the balance Of the season. The
percentage of the crop marketed up
to any given date alb out this period
of the season has varied widely in
different years. Thus. for instance,
the per cent. marketed up to Jan
uary I, has ranged all the way from
Sc II per cent. up to IS per Cent.
This leaves SO wide margin of pos
'ibility that the movement from
aow on is as much IN doubt as it
las been at any earlier period of
he season.
With the movement so uncertain
/ guide, operators in cotton must
ely on the reports from the coun-
ry. These reports, if carefully
ligested, ought to afford some
'asis for an opinion, but no such
opinion can be regarded as in
The cotton belt is a very
arge exPanse Of territory; and,
'hile reports from those sections
there the crop has been disappoint-
ag may be abundant, there may be !
title information to be had from
istricts where crops have been
God. 1t is, therefore, not surprls-
~ that there should be differences
t opinion as to the outturn of the
rop, the character Of trade and the
lture of prices.
The bulls, or those who believe
lat prices will advance, contend
lat the present heavy movement is ,
he to abnormal causes; hence it f
i'll dwindle materially in the very |
ear future. They point out that
-spite the fact that the movement
large, visible stocks increase but
owly, while American stocks are. :
!, larger than . syear ago, thus /,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18
Reflections of a Bachelor

New York Press.
Some men don't mind being insnlted if it
doesn't cost them anything.
A man can't gain years after thirty as fast
as a woman can lose then
The way to get the reputation of being a
thinker is to keep your mouth shut.
No woman is ever a complete failure; it
takes man to be complete in anything he
does.
The size of a woman's shoe depends on
whether she Is wearing it for an afternoon
walk to sit in a chair and show off,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18
Isn't our excellent brother, Ro,

Isn't our excellent brother, Roy
Of the St. Bernard Voice, slightly
mistaken in including Webster
among the ''illustrious statesmen
who founded and advocated the
principles of the Democratic party"
Why not Henry Clay? And then
our protective Democrats will quote
high authority to sustain their pecu-
liar braid of Democracy.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18

The president has recognized the
Lily Whites in the appointment of
postmasters at New Iberia and Ma
poleonville. A hard fight is now
being made for the naval Office at
New Orleans which was recently
made vacant by the death of John
WebYe, q negro.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18

The Thibodaux Sentinel rem rks
that the people are entitled t. crest
from political excitement" We
are quite sure there is no desire on
the part of the politicians to disturb
them in the least. If It Is rest they
want they will have il.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18

1t is proposed to increase the pay
of United States judges, members
of the cabinets, senators and repre-
sentatives. The first Congress paid
its members So day and 80 cents
mileage. 1t was increased in 1905
to 81 a day. In 1875 salary of
$1,000 was fixed, but it caused such
a protest from the people that two
years later it was reduced to 81, 900.
In 1855 Congress passed an act
paying each member $4,000 a year.
We believed it was during the Grant
administration that the annual salary
of senator's and representatives was
raised to the present figures, $1,000.
1t is contended that the cost of
living has increased and our states
men should be more amply pro
vided with funds to keep up with
the procession at Washington. If
Federal representatives want to live
in style they should not expect the
people to bear the burden. There
is no reason why the cost of living
should be more than it used to be.
The great army of wage earners live
with less money to-day than they
did years ago. It is argued that
big salaries must be paid liz order
to secure the services of men of
ability. but ehat argument does not
seem sound if we consider the class
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-18

Dick Croker says that the Demo
Gratis should fight for principle and
not for patronage. If Mark Hanna
will only proclaim himself against
hoodlerism and Tom Plat for hon.
est government, things will be in
good shape for the millennium.