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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-03
4 BIC PROMISE.

For some time MT. F. x. schoon- maker, situated on the top of Pike's Peak, has been trying to draw eIectri- cal energy from the air above in such a way that it can be made valuable for practical uses on earth. Now he comes forward to say that he has already made progress enough to warrant the assertion that success will ultimately be attained.
 There was KeeIy motor, and there was scheme for extracting gold from sea-water. Both were promising, and those who invested in them got their dividends in promises. Mir Schoon- makers scheme seems preposterously promising, but after what has hap pened in the way of wireless telegraphy, etc., it wont do to be too doubtful about any new idea. If Mir. Schoonmaker, or anybody else. does succeed in tapping the great store of electrical energy and making 1t useful as power there will be even greater doings in the world than there have been. Perhaps by and by nobody will have to work except a few who will find pleasure in attending some interesting machinery.
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their country, who go to school. as ii
 were. to the great men in the nation
 who are attached to their persons in a confidential capacity, and who, while
 they are keen and impressiDnable, sec close and at first hand how great af- fairs are conducted. 4 very large number, almost. in 1e7d. a na:GrIty of our leading statesman throughout the
 l2sS hundred years have ar one lime or arohher served an apprenticeship iIi stateFmanship as private secretaries.
 It is very. rare to find such 6 case in America. Indeed, for the moment we can only think of MT. Hay. Yet we cannot doubt that Mir. Hay would ad- init that he owed immense benefits to his early association with MT. Lincoln. In our view, then, it is a, great waste of opportunities that Mir. Roosevelt, MT. Hay and the other leading statesmen should not collect around them young men, chosen often, though not, of course, exclusively, from the wealthy classes, who for a year or two should see at their sides something of public life. Such young men would not neces- sarily remain in public life. Most of them would go into, or back to, busi- ness or the bar or private life. If, how- ever, in later life, they were called on to serve the state as snators, as mem bers of the administration, as judges, as ambassadors or ministers, as state oernors or as servants of the republic in the Philippines, they would find their early training and acquaintance with affairs of the utmost help. We cannot, indeed, imagine more stimulating or useful training for young man of abil- ity and ambition than to be attached, for example, to MT. Roosevelt, and to learn in so noble school the, work of government at first hand. Yet, unless we are mistaken, there is no such school of public service open in the White House. It is a great pity, and if: it did not appear to savor of in1pertinence in an English newspaper, we should like to suggest that the want is one which ought to be met without delay.--spec- tator. ,..
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greatly the problem of famine relief. There is some tendency to greater di- versity of occupation in India, while the demand for laborers in mills. mines, etc, is greater than the supply, so that wages have tended upwards. There are no indications of increasing pover- ty; indeed, the growth in salt and ex- else revenue, trade, railroad and postal receipts, savings bank deposits. mill in- dustries, etc., points in the opposite di- rection. The prediction is officially made that India is on the eve of a period of great material development.
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:IYrEMPEnArE TEMpERANCn

There has been some incorporate temperance work in this country. Many of the States have been induced by temperance agitasoss to include in the curriculums of their public schools a system of so-called temperance instruc- tion. Certain text books have been adopted, and the teachers are required to instruct the pupils along the lines laid down in them. A committee of the Pennsylvania Medical Society has dur ing the past four years been conducting an investigation into the character of these text books. It has examined fifty-four of them, out of which num- Der it has found "a few" tha. are "sane and good'': but the vast major ity of them are faulty, misleading and untrue. The report of the committee says in part: we are sorry to be com pelled to say that the books supervised by the woman's Christian Temperance Union committee are the most repre- hensible."
 Just wait minute and see what will happen. The committee of the Penn sylvania Medical Society will doubtless be given to understand that it doesn't know much and doesn't amount to much anyway.
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Lines by an iaaomn fac.

Addressed to the expedition that has T, gently started in pursuit of the germ ( sleeping sickness.l
 Men of Science, you that dare Beard the microbe in his lair, Tracking through the jungly thickness Aries germ of Sleeping Sickness, Hear, oh, hear, my parting plea. Send microbe home to me! By the COngo's turbid flood When you drag him from the mud, Interrupt his nightly romp Through the dank and matted swamp, Try and capture two or three Soporific germs for me.
 Though your early tolls be vain, Noble fellows, try again! Keep it up for goodness sake; Think of one who lies awake, Crying out across the sea, Send a micrObe home to me! am one who vainly woes Morpheus of the baffling snOoze; l have counted scores of sheep, Quaffed narcotics, long and deep; Sleeping Sickness ought to be Just the very thing for me. When at last the happy day Brings you thirsting to the fray, When you leap upon the foe, Bottling hundreds as you go, Send some spare ones, duty frees Home by parcel post to me. would sleep till were sick Gladly, if I knew the trick; But, until you send some germs, Sleep and I are not on terms; Men of Science, hear my plea, Send microbe home to me!
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GREAT TUT FI nsrIss GREATNESS.

1 The good old hymn continuously
 warns us that this world is all tieeting show. but there are some things that seem real in it. For instance who could | imagine when looking on the college
 athlete in all his glory that he isn't like ly to be big man forevermore" Yet 1 in the Atlantic sor October there is a study of college rank and distinction I in life" by A. L. Lowell. which shows that the tremendous popularity and re- nown of the college athlete have no sure sequel of distinction after college days
 are over. For the period between 1861
 and 1877. before rowing was severed from scholarship, the captains of crews
 rank with the bes. scholars in gaining
 admission to Who's Who" but the
 baseball 1nagnates of recent date are mot in it," and the same is to be said of football teams. Of the baseball cap- tains from 1874 to the present time not
 one has won distinction. Since 1889, savs Mr. Lowell. "the scholars have ceased to play ball. or the nine have ceased to study" with the result that they do not get into Who's Who" If
 the athletes" says the writer. do not distinguish themselves in later life it would seem that a principle of selection
 must be at work in the case of the nine
 and the eleven which eliminates men
 of intellectual abilities and tastes. The
 time that one must devote to such
 sports Is greater than in the case of the
 crew, and this apparently discourages
 men who have other interests"
 Well. the college athlete can say to
 himself that if he isn't likely to conn.,
 mand the applause of listening senates
 or do some other big thing like that, he lis truly great while he lasts. And
 some folks are never great in any way,
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TAMMANY's MCCLELLAN.
A Nice Young Man in Not at All Mic ...:.,.., ..g.. Company.

A 4NASS 1SoiAso GAoit AiAe e4tOt ~ <AAA @NASS :.,., Company.
 He is a typical child of fortune, the favorite and "pet'' of everybody, He Is young, handsome, cleYer-but not too clever--rich by marriage, educated. popular and so far as anybody knows clean and honest. that is if any man can be honest who is an astute member of Tanlmany and a, beneficiary of the political methods. Washington knows Mcclellan pretty well, as he has been Tammany member of Congress for eight years, but there is one side of the colonel's life that Tamn1any does not know about or if it does. shuts its eyes to the fact. It has long been a tradition that the minute man made by Tam many aspires to social distinction, es- pecialy among 'the 40O,'' that man is doomed to have his wings cut. Under this rule Mcclellan is in danger of clip ping, but it may be that the tradition is to be honored in the breach and not in the observance of those now in con- trol of the great political machine. It is a well known fact that the former pet, of. Tammany, Bourke Cochran, was driven out of the organization by Richard Croker because he reached a social plane by his popularity as an orator when in Congress. Cochran was for several years the idol of Tamrnany, and when the bosses put him up to speak at a political convention or other public meeting, the rank and file would applaud vociferously in q blind, enthu- siasm which showed the strength of their devotion. When he was at the zenith of his fame as a Tammany god the word suddenly went forth from the Boss to break Cochran, ? and he was duly ''broke." At that time he was a
 member of Congress, living in a. fine
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posal of the will. And this is combined with a multiplicity of synchronous recollections of tinnbre, tempo, express sion, etc. The mystery is at present past the hinting of any explanation, and this fact is as beautiful as it is appalling. It shows us how far we are from any real science of psychology"
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ExERCTS E.

Your conclusion is wrong," said MT Mcbride to his wife. T can't imagine how you reached it.''
 Well. I jumped at it." she exclaim- ed,
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ADVERTISING RATES.

ADVERTISING hAIHh-
 Situations. Wants. Rents. and other sman advertisements. One Cent Word each m kerrio1. Five Cents Word for fuE Weex secSion, sf.20: each suDSeuuent insertion. 4O ceDts: one week, s3.2O; one month. slo; one year. Sz1
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 Yearly advertisers are limited to tneit own immediate business tRil matter to pc Include Wants, To Let. For Sale etc.
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Ernest Buch, a waiter, of Duluth, has fallen heir to $23,OOO left him by rela- tive in Germany. but cannot return to that country to claim the inheritance because he once told a funny story about the Kaiser. That was some eight years ago. when Buch was an army lieutenant, He told the story at mess dinner and brother officer advised him to flee at once, otherwise he would be called to account for lese majeste. Buch left immediately for this country, thereby escaping punishment but he aggravated his original offense by de- sertion. Hence he vii! not return to his native land until assured of royal forgiveness.
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The editor of the Lagrange (South Carolina) Sentinel apologizes thus man. fully: "No doubt our readers are won dering why they have not received the Sentinel during the last three weeks. We will now explain. On account of drunkenness and carelessness on the part of our foreman while we were out of town our press was broken, so that we had to send the parts to Baltimore for repairs. It has taken three weeks to get them back and get in shape to do any printing. For this reason we sim ply could not send out the paper. We regret it very much, but it was a mat ter that we could not help. We now have new printer, and have the press repaired, and hope to visit our readers regularly hereafter. Bear with us and excuse us for these mishaps, for you do not know of the many worries and troubles of a man who runs paper."
 The newspapers are telling of the re- markable feat of a postal clerk who, in a civil service examination, did not make a single error in properly sorting forty-two thousand test postal cards, each representing postoffice in a cer- tain territory assigned. This was done at the rate of thirty-three and one- half cards a minute. Far more note worthy" thinks American Medicine, "is the memory of an expert piano player, who will play an entire seasons con- certs without a note of printed music before him. His memory is so perfect that hundreds Of thousands of notes must be at the orderly and instant dis
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Berlin lays claim to the distinction of having the champion truant of the world. He is a boy of 10. Nothing could make him attend school. and it finally became necessary to send him thither each day in charge of police man. This lasted for a week or so, and then he began to run away from home at night so that the policeman could not find him in the morning. To stop this practice. he was locked up. One night he jumped through the window in the room where he was confined and landed in the street. thirty feet below, with his skull and most of his ribs broken. ..
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A corporation has. been organized by Russian and German merchants, in- cluding the Japanese consul at St. Pe- tersburg, for the importation of siberi- na meat into Germany. Special cold storage trucks will carry the carcasses across Russia to Alexandrowo, on the German frontier.
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SPECIAL RAIN.COATS.
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The opportunity offered the public to purchase rain-coats at a trihe above actual cost at our store resulted in a crowd of buyers. The stock began to go;. we sent for more. they are here.
 For the balance of this week the 8 days price will continue, viz: kkhkk
 Ladies' Coats. Regular Price Days Price S220O to $30.00 .S12.00 to S1S.0O Sl5.Oo to S2O.O0 s10.O0 to s15.oe
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 Mems Coats. Regular Price 3Days' Price s25.00 to $S0.00 s2oo0 $1S.o0 to $22.OO s15.0o
 N. B. Don't forget our special offer of low prices On Fur Repair Work for this week.
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Mayor Harrison is going to help his beloved Chicago if he can. He declares that the city is full of graft" and the heads Of departments admit that he is right and deplore their powerlessness to prevent 1t. But the mayor proposes to begin his campaign for political purity and show them how it can be done. f. he says, T could fire all the men I suspect of grating they would be Jumping out of every window in the City Hall. This hall is full of graft big and little-you know it and can't prove if. I've got eighteen months left. and III get some of them yet"
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X The Russian author w. Mirski re- gently visited Count Tolstoy at Yas- maya Polyana, and was surprised to firs66e no tsaees. Of fatigue and decrepi- Jude, although his host had just passed his seyenty-fsth birthday and had en- dured a long illness. He is as viva cious. as witty. and sarcastic as ever, and talks so fast that it is difficult to follow him, He denounced modern lit- erature. and especially the newspapers, which try.to magnify every event into a Dreyfus affair and discover a genius in every new author. 'In our time," he said. 1t was different. Neither Tur- genieff nor was treated that way"
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Ladies' Coats.
Mems Coats.

Regular Price 3 Days Price s25.00 to $sO.00 s20.ofl $1S.oo to $22.OO s15.0o
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COMMITTEE NAMED
FOR TRE HISTORICAL WORK or
UNITED SONS CONFEDERATE
VETERANS.
ReV'=N,=D Backner Appointed Chap.
lain Geneeat on Staff of Connman.
der in Chief.
NEW ME- EABERs ADDED TO CAMP
der=n Chief.

An enthusiastic meeting of the Sons
Of Confederate Veterans was held At
the courthouse last night. and steps
were taken for the reorganization OF
the state camps
). M. Taylor and H p. Ingram were
elected 10 membership in the oreaniza
ton and the fourth Monday night in
each month was set apart as the reau-
Tar meeting night. All meetings will
be held i'll the county treasurers Office
on these dates.
The following general order No. g
was read from w Mel. Fayssoux.
commandments u. S. G.. ", of New
Orleans:
1t gives the commander-in-ch
pleasure at this time to announce the
appointment of the following commit
tees and to inform the confederation
that Immediately upon receiving the
necessary names to fill the vacancies
on the other committees they will also
be announced:
Historical ommittee-Thomas M.
Owen, Montgomery, Ala; E. p. Cox.
Richmond, Va; p II. Nell. Clemson
College, S. c.; w. F. Fleming, Nor
canton, w. Va; d. Rowland, Jackson.
Miss; e. p. Thompson, Jr., Frankfort,
Ky; w. A. Collier, Jr., Memphis.
Tenn; w. r.. Jones, Elberton, Ca;
r. B. Haughton, st. Louis, Mo-: n. D.
Wade, Waco, Texas; Rev. J. NJ Goss.
Vinita, I. T.; d. w. Fletcher, Jackson
vile, Fla; W. H. Mcclellan, New Or
lenas, La; Prof d. e. Thomas, Con.
way, Ark; l.. S. Boyd, Washington, d.
c.; J. M. Garnett, Baltimore, Md NJ.
d. Haywood Raleigh, N. C.
A committee to cooperate with the
Confederate Veterans for the purpose
of bringing the veterans and sons into
closer touch, was also appointed. Mr..
f. N .Iulian, Of TtHfseeHffbeist, Ark, is the
Arkansas member of this committee.
Rev. w. D. Buckner was also noti-
| fed of his appointment as chaplain
| general upon the staff of the comman-
| der-in-chief.
The local organization will at once
| begin the movement of reorganiZing
the state convention of Sons of Veter-
ans, and it is expected that state
meeting will be held next spring.
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JACOBSON INDICTED
CHARGED WITH SENDING MAT
TER UNAVAILABLE IN THE
MAILS.
If Convicted May Be Fined $1,000 or
Sent to Prison For a Term
Of Five Years.
RESULT OF CARD TO MR.. GRAY

Charles Jacobson, who is Gov. Davis
private secretary, was indicted by the
United States grand jury on Tuesday,
on charge of violating the federal
statutes in mailing a postal card on
which was written certain epithets,
terms and language of libelous, sour
rilous and defamatory character" The
postal card which figures in the case
was addressed and mailed to Wickliffe
Gray, of the Fort Smith News Record
who had sent to Jacobson a marked
copy of that paper containing a criti
cism of Gov. Davis.
The offense with which Mr. Jacobson
is charged is defined in the federal act
of September 26, 1888, page 621, vol
ume 1, supplement. The penalty for
violation is fine not to exceed $4,000
or Imprisonment not to exceed five
years, or both.t in the discretion of the
court.
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Damage Suit Dismissed.

The case of Jack Wormser against
J. F. Culpepper was dismissed in the
circuit court this morning on motion OF
the attorney for the plaintiff. Worm
ser sued for 81 900 for damages for an
alleged assault upon him while con-
fined in the calaboose during the term
of Mr. Culpepper as chief of police.
Mr.. Culpepper was fined 81 and costs
in a Justice of the peace court.
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roratiGn or any Of lis officers. man
ag"rs. servants or agents i'm charge of
It's engines or cars, vioiatinS HE provI-
eions Of his ordinance shall be guilty
OF a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum n0j
exceeding twenty-five dollar, f0r Zach
offence.
The general Interpretation of the
foregoing is that il is fba=dH{y Of
the. chief Of police to order the arrest
cf the men i'll charge uf the rains
which block the streets many times a
day for more than three minutes, and
Judge Toney says he will very prompt
ly try all such cases that come before
him.
Many complaints have been made
about this blocking o. iraflie along the
busiest streets Of the city. and many
people aFe glad that the ordinance
reads as il does. 1t. is nov up to the
police 20 see that il is enforced. The
officials at the Cotton Belt aud the
iron Mountain depots say they are not
responsible for such Dlockades and that
ali switchmen have positive orders
against it,
One Or two arrests would settle the
matter for all time to come.
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Frey.Hodqe.

A marriage license was issued this
morning to John Donel Frey, of this
city, and Miss Katherine Hodge, of
Waco, Texas. Mr.. Frey left on the
morning train for Waco, where he will
be married tomorrow. The prospect
i've groom is the day ticket agent at
the Iron Mountain depot, and the bride
is one of the society bellies Of Waco.
After a wedding trip to points of in
terest in the south Mr. and Mrs. Frey
will make their future home in this
city.
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BLOCKING STREETS
BY RAILWAY TRAINS PROHIBITED
FOR MORE THAN THREE
MINUTES.
Law Is Violated Almost Every Day and
Several Times Zach
UP TO POLICE TO ENFORCE IT

The statement made in The Gnaph e
last Sunday that there was an o9dl
nance regulating the blocka linz Of
the city streets by freight and passen-
ger trains was incorrect III the point
that it stated that the trains could not
block the streets for more than ten
minutes.
Before printing the article Toe
Graphic made inquiry and was told
that there WAS such an ordinance. but
great difficulty was experienced in find
ing it in the city digest The digest
of the city statutes is very old one
and many Of the ordinances passed in
recent years are not in it.
City attorney. police judge, council
men, all said that there was an ordi
nance to that effect, and the general
impression prevailed that such was the
case. After searching over the pro
ceedings Of the city council for the last
two years the following ordinance was
found and throws new light On the
subject:
No. 564. Hereafter it shall be I'D
lawful for any railway company or cor
pration whose track crosses Main
Pine and Chestnut streets in this cit!
to block or obstruct the free passay,
along any of said streets by suffering
Or permitting any of it's engines Or car!
to stand thereon any longer than thre,
minutes.
Any such railway co1npa1v or cor
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MOTHERS MEETINGS.
To Be Held BY kindergarten Director
Sixth and Chestnut School.

At $3.50 p. M, Thursday, October ~
Miss M. T. Allen, kindergarten dl-
rector in Miss Callie Jones private
school, will hold one of a series OF
mothers meetings. The meetings VIII
he held in the assembly hall OF the
school, and all the friends of the school
who feel an interest in Kindergarten
and primary work are cordially invited
to be present The teachers urgeh.is
desire the presence of every mother
who has a child in any department OF
this school.
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Wedding Announcement.

Cards have been issued announcing
the wedding of Miss Mabel Talbot, OF
Tavarkana. to Mr.. Albert W. Scruggs,
of this city. the ceremony to take place
at the First Presbyterian church IN
Texarkana. Wednesday evening, NO
vember II, 1908. The bride is member
of one of the prominent families OF
Texarkana. Mr.. Scruggs is connected
with the ]. A. Perdue cotton exchange
at this place.
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What to Give Up.

Poor Balfour, He is now being
reminded of the Scotch clergyman
who was disturbed after learning golf
by the temptation to profanity which
the game notoriously provokes. "It's
no good" said the minister. "I'll have
to give it up What! Give up
golf! "No, no, man. Give up the
ministry! Boston Herald.
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Firemen's Ball.

Aetna lodge, No. 163, Brothe:h"od
Of Locomotive Firemen, will give their
fifteenth annual ball the latter part of
next January. Mr.. r. !. Redding is
general chairman of the arrangements
committee.