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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26
SOUARE AND FAIR.

The welI-named Reliance won again yesterday in a contest in which there were no accidents to detract from the completeness of the victory. Both boats were handled in the best possible way. and the Reliance showed herself to be what Lord Shaftesbury called jolly well the best boat" Sir Thomas, though cast down. is not yet wholly dismayed, and he figures that if he makes as much gain in the next race as he did yesterday over the first one he will win the third race. Many would be glad to see him do it, but those who are managing the Reliance will feel that it is necessary to prevent him from doing it. and it is difficult to see that there can be any kind of wind or water that will enable him to do it.
 The eagle isn't screaming much, be- cause it wouldn't be polite to the dis tinguished foreign visitors. But there is much quiet joy over the fact that the United States can beat all creation in yacht-building and yacht-sailing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26
4 GOOD DEED.

There are many good deeds in this naughty world, and they shine. One of them is being done in Astoria, New. York. John Bartley, bricklayer of that place, has eleven children, and he has had much difficulty in finding places in which he and his wife and children could be allowed to live. For years he had been saving to buy a lot and build himself home, and few weeks ago he was telling the story of his many shifts to hide his eleven chil- dren from house agents, when some of his fellow-workmen asked him why he did not build. Bartley explained that he did not have enough money. He told how much he had, and the men set to figuring. The result was that Bart ley bought lot and purchased mate rial. The cellar was dug, and week ago last Saturday afternoon forty members of Bartleys union set to work. By the next night they had run the walls up to the second floor. A number of framers lent their aid to get in the beams. During the week Bartley work ed about the place, and last Saturday noon the bricklayers went to work again. The walls were run up rapidly, and the men were working hard on Sunday when they were stopped by the unsympathetic police, but next Satur- day afternoon the bricklayers will com- plete their. work and Bartley will soon have good house in which to keep himself, his wife and his eleven chill dren.
 This is cheering incident. There ought to be more such incidents, but people are kept pretty busy nowadays in looking out for themselves.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26
POLITICS, AND H KFORM..

While President Roosevelt is devoting a part of his summer vacation to con- ferences with leading Republicans from different parts of the country in regard to proposed financial legislation. some of the old time leaders of the Senate are getting ready to oppose any and all tinkering with the financial system of the country. They believe in the old proverb of leaving well enough alone. These senators think that a session of congress, held just before g. national campaign, had better be short and sweet. and that big problems like the tariff and finance had better be deferred until the Presidential campaign is over. Senator Matthew Stanley Quay is one of these. In a talk with the Washing ton correspondent os the Brooklyn Eagle Senator Quay thus said: The Democratic opposition is alert and &C., tive. It is eager to make trouble and to prolong the session for political pur- poses. It is looking for capital, and do not see why the Republicans should make capital for the Democrats. Con- gress should be called together at the regular time. and after considering those matters that are of imperative importance it should adjourn. Under any circumstances there will be great difficulty in passing any kind of a fi- nancial bill. Of course. simple reso- lution providing that the customs re- ceipts shall be deposited in the national banks might get through. But any financial bill will be certain to cause debate from the opposition and might lead to all sorts of hold-ups. Personally, I am opposed to an extra session of congress and do not think that the time is ripe for remedial financial legislation.
 It will be interesting to watch the contest between politics and reform in this important matter. It is almost too much to expect that reform will be very conspicuous this fall.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26
Horse Ys, Auto.

Dick and his girls just left us; that's them,
 nigh out of sight, wish him luck, for it's surely a royal
 Sparkin' night. From our double gate to the courthouse Is fourteen mile, exact A tWo-hour drive, we call 1t, when roads are good and packed; But that auto rig contraption of his scoots
 up and down. And he says 1t cuts the distance in half
 'twfxt here and town! We'll, mebbe it does: but seems like he's
 goin' at things wrong On a night like this he ought to contrive at
 twice as long 'Tis part of the age, however, an age of
 rush and run. When unless you're fairly jumpin' you can't
 be havin fun. When a couple must sake their ridin at gal
 Top speed or more, With q choo! cboo! choo! behind them, and
 nothin' at all before,, In rig that cant be trusted to mind a
 crooked road, And right in the midst of matters is liable
 to explode; .. I reckon that one feels clever to make the
 doin' whirl. But days when l was a-sparkin' the main
 point was the girl! When was a-courtin' Marthy hitched up
 old white Pete. Ana me enly tnlng aSkeQ Hiln was GHaL he'd keep his feet. I wasn't obliged to guide him; he did the
 turnin' out. And he rounded all the corners at mile =an
 hour, about. When Marthy was snug beside me that old
 horse seem.d to know The likeliest, shaded stretches, where he
 had best go slow Why, grass and the trees and bushes along
 the way he cropped! Slow! Well, on a few occasions we warn t
 aware he'd stopped! That was the style of ridin' when was
 courtin'-see? Nothin' to watch but Marthy. and both
 hands, bless you, free, With old Pete joggin, grazin' and cockin' Back at the seat but sayin, "Don't mind;
 it's only fly" I spicion there's fun in 'courtin' at even
 breakneck pace: And Dick is the boy to do it-I've read 1t In But courtin' by rapid transit don't pear to
 me so sweet As the rambiy. ambly courtin' of Marthy
 and me and Pete.
 --Lippincott's Magazine.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26
DOG AND PARROT AS PALS"

DOG AND PARROT AS PALS"
 That reminds me of very clever compact which has been entered in be- tween a dog and parrot out in my neighborhood." said a man who had listened to the story about the news paper dog, land I doubt If you could find more forcible evidence of the dogs and the parrots intelligence than in the compact I have in mind. They seem to have established perfect understanding of each other, and they seem to have developed some sort of idea of the constructural relation, as we say in the law. How they went about the matter, I do not know. I only know that the results are achieved quite as satisfactory as if the dog and parrot in question were human beings and capable of all the processes of seasoning. The parrots cage is in the back yard. It is close to the ground where the dog can reach the sliding door by rearing up on his hind legs. Between the back yard and the front yard there is a gate with latch on the side toward the front part of the house. As a rule, the dog and the parrot are kept in the back yard, and the little gate which crosses the alley way and opens into the front yard is generally kept latched. A little while ago the dog and the parrot were found out in the front yard together. The man of the house was not @ little perplexed to know how they had managed to get out into the front yard. He made up his mind to watch them for the purpose of seeing how they overcame the difficulty. The first thing that attracted his at- tention was the call of. the parrot. Promptly the dog, who understood the language, responded. He walked over to the parrots cage, used his nose to root the slide door up, and let the bird
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

fin that line than the dressmakers who work in soft fabrics and value the scheme of color and contrast more than the square set of the garment. We have no business apeing the men, any way" concluded the speaker. How ever, it was the general conclusion that for frst-cIass tailor-made cos tumes it was necessary to go to a man dressmaker. And this conclusion led to more discourse about the superiority of men in other fields of domestic, profess sionaI and industrial life. It was ad- mitted that men made better cooks. even though cooking is commonly re- garded as distinctiveIy female employ ment. The most of the women present confessed their preference for the man doctor, the man dentist, and the man clerk in the store. Indeed, before the seance was concluded, it was pretty well admitted that man excelled woman in all the employments. requiring skill, judgment, muscle and steadfastness. But" said one old dowager belliger- ently, lit cannot be denied that women excel men in artistic taste. We may not have the brain to wrestle with heavy philosophy. and we are short on the sordid side of accumulated wis dom: but in art, in music, in literature in all the more subtle and sublimated phases of intellect and soul-we are su- perior."
 Of course. now and forevermore. Skill to do things well is no sign of superiority. Woman is superior to man because she is, and that's all there is to it and all there ever will be to it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26
WOMAN IS MAYS SUPERIOR.

There is much mental activity in Kansas, and of course the Kansas women have their full share of it. It incites them to talk about things, and the other day at a meeting of Kansas club women a wideawake spinster started an interesting discussion by asking this question:: "Why is it that we must go to men tailors for our best looking street gowns? Is it the fact that we women don't know how to make our own clothes?" It was main tained by some of the women who talk ed on the question that the reason women dressmakers could not equal the man gownmaker was because they lacked the practice and the training. "Men cannot excel women in making the more delicate kinds of woman ap- parel,'' said one. If we ape the men with stiff untrimmed costumes. we may expect to find the tailors more proficient
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

out. The dog then let the door fall back to. its place. The parrot flew over to the side gate. and the dog trotted across the yard in the same direction. In a few second the parrot was busy with the latch. Using his back he raised the latch, and the dog pushed the side gate open with his nose. Shortly they were both out in the front yard. Now what do you think of that? If that isn't intelligence, what is it? It seems to me to be intelligence of very high order. and I am willing to put this dog and this parrot bird against any, thing you can scrape up, for anything less complex than a combination lock of the most improved kind wouldn't count with them. m."-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26
ADOPTED.

Constance-I wonder how Nancy came to marry Harry Riddle?
 Imogene-Why, haven't you heard He is immoderately fond of auto riding, and he carries large accident policy Boston Transcript.
 ''Now that we're all through, dear, ' said Mrs. Newliwed, T want to tell you a little secret. I prepared this dinner all myself! What do you think of it?''
 Well, love-" replied the great brute "the watermelon was very fair. Phil adelphia Press.
 Henry" whispered the bride of two hours, you don't regret marrying me even yet?"
 "Nc, darling" replied Henry. 'Not even yeti" The train sped on, and she was happy for another five minutes Chicago Tribune.
 Here's a story" said Mrs. Henpeck, about man marrying a girl who ran over him with her automobile"
 What was the natter humbly asked Mr. Henpeck, did she have him so badly crippled that he couldn't get away ?"-Chicago Record Herald.
 Nisby Eastsyde haughtily)-Youse people kin gaze on me wit awe for a few minutes, but really can't hold a flandshakin' reception; I'm just after havin' spin in an auterrnobile.
 Mayme Mulligan-G'wan and cook anudder pill. De perlice department ain't adopted automobiles yit.-Puck.
 Colonel Shott-I told the judge your position in regard tu lynching, suh, and he said your argument was un- sound, the major premise being bad.'
 Colonel Ropes-Who's bad? I don't know him, suh. Thah's no such pus- son in this neighborhood, suh. He must have meant Major Prentis.-Ex- change,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26
FARMERS AFTER DEER.
Great Damage Done by the Animals in
 Cornfields of the Northwest.

Cornfields of the Northwest.
 This is the season when the farmer of the northwest grabs his rife and goes out to break the game law with pride in his heart and desire that he had a game warden tied somewhere so that he could shoot between his toes. The farmer is after deer now, and he is af- ter the deer because the deer are after his corn.
 Scattered through the woods in the Superior country are many small farms that have been cleared within ten years past. There has been a considerable though quiet immigrat ton to that re- zion, and a majority of the immigrants have been men of agriculture. The deer is to them very serious animal, They regard him as a periol, and, out side of liking to eat him, shoot at him as a duty.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

Sarcophagi for Czar Alexander IT.. and his wife, Maria Alexandrowna, are nearly ready after being in the work mems hands for twelve years. The Czar,s sarcophagus is cut out of an enormous block of green jasper from Siberia; the Czarina's from a block of pink rhodonite from the Ural Noun tains.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

In the opinion of the San Francisco Call, the Pennsylvania millionaire who paid s2,0O0 for a special train to convey him to the Jeffries-C Corbett fight is an ass. And no dissenting opinion has yet been delivered.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

Queer things happen. A North Da- kota farmer who went to Minneapolis carried $100 under his hatband. In a restaurant another patron changed hats with him. but after two days the loser found the other man and swapped back and found his money undisturbed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

Gothenburg, in Germany, has a So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals which has of late extended its protection over domestic fowls for merly beheaded in rude manner with a cleaver in the market place. Now they are decapitated with new, bright red guillotine, working smoothly and swiftly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

London Good Words calls attention to the remarkable progress the Irish language is making year by year in Ireland. This revival is the work of the Gaelic League, in propagating the teaching Of Gaelic in the schools of the country and instituting night classes in many parts, often attended by adults who desire to perfect themselves in the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

Wall street is going to observe Labor Day. Very polite and consistent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

Sir Samuel Lewis. negro. died the other day at Regents park, London. He was born in Sierra. Leone, educated at the Freetown grammar school and then In England at the Wesley college, Shelf field, and London university, was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, and. returning home. entered on a legal practice of constant success. and for more than twenty years was a member of the legislative council of Sierra Le- one. He was elected mayor of Free town, the capital, eight years ago, and was then knighted--the first man of en- tirely African descent to receive knight hood
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

According to report of the admiris- tration of Rounianian railroads. 342 To- cornotives out of a total of 4S2 are de-. signed to be fired either with residue of petroleum or with brown coal; sev- enteeen locomotives use residue of pe- troleun exclusively. The Society of Petroleum Producers has now request ed the management of the Roumanian railways to change all the locomotives into burners of petroleum residue and to introduce this fuel into the railroad shops.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

George F. Isley, 45 years old, has been lodged in the insane asylum at St. Joseph, Missouri, on his own request. His case is singular His father and two sisters are insane, and he had thought for years that he would ulti-
 mately become 50. Not wishing to be g. charge upon the public when that time came, he worked hard to get compet- ency. He had felt for several weeks that his time had about arrived. He concluded last week that it had come, and went before the probate judge and asked to be adjudged insane. He ap- peared as sane as anybody, but a cura- tor was appointed to take care of his property, which is worth about $15,OO0, and he was turned over to the sheriff.
 A London newspaper thus voices 8 1ong-felt want: Where may a man grow beard in peace and quietness |? That is to say, where can he spend this six weeks of crisis? No man, of course, : can pass from the shaven to the beard ed chin in London unless he take to his bed with typhoid fever. A writer whose signat ture is familiar to our read CTS propounds this question. He re- quires a certain amount of amusement; but he does not wish to create a riot or even to be warned from the hotel as an undesirable. There should be en- terprising water places, rising, but not yet risen, which might do we'll by ad- vertising themselves as the places in which to grow a beard. There are many men who go on shaving because when at work they are we'll and when on holiday they are under observation. Why not colony of beard growers?
Amador ledger., 1903-12-18
The Independent Cat.

There is nothing 1 admire in a cat
SO much as her absolute independ-
ence," said man as he watched big
Angora sweep haughtily around the
room. "You are bound to treat cat
kindly. If you abuse her or ill treat
her she cares nothing more for you
Now, dog will lick the hand that
beats him, but cat will have only the
utmost contempt for you. This tenden-
cy Of dog to love its master even aft
er it has been kicked may appeal to
some, but 1 like the cats high, proud
spirit better. This independent spirit
of the cat crops out in many ways.
You may slap her for stealing milk.
but the next time she gets a chance
she will steal milk. She will appro-
pirate the best chair in the room and
endure with supercilious air your po-
lite hints or stern commands to her to
get down. But she will never bulge
until the spirit moves her or you re-
move her by force. If she is crazy to
get in the window and you open it for
her, she takes her time, stops to sniff
BIT and does not allow you to think
for one instant that she was at all con-
cerned over the opening of that win
dow. They are beautiful animals, and
they know 1t, and If you don't like
them they don't care q hang."-New
York Times.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-18
London. whistles

A boy was charged at London DO
lice court the other day with blowing
a whistle in such a way as to cause
three policemen to come toward him.
The fact that such a thing is possible
suggests the questions: How do the
police distinguish between a cab whis-
tie and a police whistle? What is there
to prevent any one from blowing a
whistle in such way as to call a po-
liceman?
A representative of the Graphic who
put these questions to a high official
of the city police learned that in the
matter of attending to whistles, as with
his many other duties, the policeman
uses his discretion. Any shrill whistle
will attract a policeman, but such a
whistle blown at night outside res
taurant or any place where people con-
gregate and cabs are wanted would not
bring policeman to the whistler. The
same whistle blown in precisely the
same way in the middle of the city at
midday would bring a policeman on
the scene at once.-London Graphic.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-18
The First Lexicographer.

DR.. Johnson, even if we except his
predecessor, Bailey, was not the father
of photographers. In a volume issued
by the historical manuscripts commits
sion on manuscripts In the Welsh Ian
guage it is stated that the idea of illus
trating the meaning and correct use of
words by actual quotations from the
literature of a living language seems to
have been first put in practice by Grif-
fifth Hiraethog, the herald bard. of
Wales, who died in 1864. 1t was not
till the days Of DR.. Johnson, 200 years
later, that a similar idea took root in
English soil. An abbreviated copy of
Griffith Hiraethog's Welsh Dictionary
was made by his pupil, William Llyn,
between 1867 and 1873 and is now in
the free library at Cardiff.-London
Globe,
Amador ledger., 1903-12-18
Lakes of BIood.

The name Lake of Blood or its equiv
alent has been given to places as far
apart as England and South America.
"Sanguelac'-i. e., the Lake of Blood
was the name given by the victo-
rious Normans to the battlefield at Hast
ings, where the Saxons were over
thrown and slain with terrible carnage.
For similar reason Lake Trasimene
has borne the name "Sanginetto" be-
cause its waters were REDEEMED during
the second Punic war by the blood Of
some $4,000 Romans who fell before
the troops of Hannibal.
Yet another Lake of Blood, called
also "Yaguar Cocha," is situated in
the state of Ecuador 1t is one of
series of lakes formed by the extinct
craters of volcanoes on the towering
heights of the Andes range of noun
tains
Amador ledger., 1903-12-18
Growth of the Human Heart,

A scientific analysis of the growth of
the human heart demonstrates the fact
that the increase is greatest and most
rapid during the first and second years
of life, its bulk at the end of the sec
Ond year being exactly double what it
originally was. Between the second
and seventh years it is, again doubled
in size. A slower rate of growth then
sets in and continues during the period
of maturity of other portions of the
body. After the fifteenth year up to
the fiftieth the annual growth of the
heart is about .061 of cubic inch,
the increase ceasing about the fiftieth
year.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-18
Walt whitman ms a Journalist.


Walt Whitman was not much of
His employers called it laziness. He
was concerned with permanences. The
nearer to nature, the more repose.
Trees and hills do not dance except
for urging Whitman, elemental, strong,
placid, bovine, did not urge them.
In the Brooklyn Eagle Office Whit
man is clearer memory than in the
sffice of its contemporary. Yet it is
oddly hard to secure facts. There is
general and joking reference to his
serenity as idleness. He was not a
typical newspaper man, for he was not
to be pressed or hurried, and in our
day of precision and speed he would
have been impossible. He never felt
that stress from which the veriest bo-
hemian suffers He did not want mon
ey enough to work hard for it. One of
the coterie of writer's and actors which
used to squander its much wit and lit
tie wealth at Pfaff's tells me that of
the whole party Whitman was the only
one who was never tipsy and never
"broke." He always had a market
somewhere for fugitive writings. Edi-
tors were friendly to him. He drank
his beer With the FEST, but its effect
was to make him thoughtful. even sad,
while the others were merry. Accord
ing to that narrator he was an easy
borrower, though II. does not appear
that he asked for large amounts or
made needless delays in his repay
ments.-Charles M. Skinner in Attain
tic.