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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03
lNI'E RENTINE. IF YRNE.

It is evident that the United States will need all it's smartness to keep up with the procession of the Powers. The latest is that England, our great, good and loved friend, has been trying to get control of the rich Yangtze- -Kiang val
 ley in China. This information was brought to Washington by an Ameri- can naval officer. The commander of the British Asiatic squadron, it is al~ legged, proposed to the Viceroy of the provinces embraced in the Yangtze- Kiang valley to authorize the govern ment of Great Britain to occupy the forts which command the Yangtze- Kiang river and to maintain British fleet at Chin -kiang. These proposals, which were submitted last November, according to the report, came to the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03
EXTERMENATORS.

The Brooklyn Eagle often has inter- esting and important political news. It now announces that William J. Bryan's defiance to the East, expressed in inter- views and speeches while he was tour ing New York, New Jersey and Mary land last week, is to be met in warlike fashion by the "reorganizers" of the Democratic party. Those Democrats who oppose Bryan and who advocate the reconstruction of Democracy with Bryanism expunged are about to carry that issue into the South and West. One of the principal battlegrounds will be the State of Nebraska, where MT. Bryan still retains, not1inally at least. the control of the machinery of his par ty. It is proposed to crush Mr. Bryan's influence in his own State and to pre- vent at all costs his control of the Nebraska delegation to the next Dem ocratic national. convent ion. Recent developments have convinced the Dem ocratic leaders of the East, nearly all of whom are classed as reorganizers, that this plan is not only essential, but feasible It had been conceded even be- fore MT. Bryan's latest invasion of the enemy's country that heroic measures were likely to be necessary before har- mony and stability could be restored to the party. Since he has again spoken and proclaimed his resolution not to yield either his principles or his leader ship, the last chance for amicable ad- justment has admittedly disappeared. All the important leaders of Democratic thought and the masters of the party machinery in the East are now agreed that the future of the Democratic par ty can only be assured by the extermin- ation of Bryan as political quantity. That undertaking is approached with entire confidence by the leaders of the reorganization movement, who hold, in addition to their vast fund of experi- ence and wisdom in party management, financial and kindred resources so vast as to be almost incalculable in their influence on political events.
 And so forth and so on. Brother Bryan evidently intends to do some ex- terminating himself, and there are in- dications of high old time. The high CT the merrier, and the better for the country.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03
Al the Gates of Night,

There are two gates that guard the Night The one where shadows creep, And lullabies come grooming low,
 Full-throated, soft and deep; Where twilight reaches forth her arms
 To all by Day oppressed, And lulls them into happiness,
 Serene upon her breast. And from that gate. all dark and cool,
 The night road stretches far, By palaces of sweet content,
 Where many dreamings are; Where blind may see and dumb may speak And sad ones laugh and sing; Where hungered ones may drink and eat, The pauper be king. All through the Night the good road goes,
 0 CT valley, plain and steep; Along its sides, in grandeur, rise
 The cftadels of sleep. And many things there be that soothe
 And comfort us and bless But best of all the blossoms fair
 Of rich forgetfulness. The other gate that guards the Night
 The one that ends the way Has trumpeters that loudly call
 Us forth into the day. And though we fear the foes of Day
 With bitterness and dread, We know that through the weary hours
 The first gate Is ahead.
 '-W. D. Nesbit in Baltimore American.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03
EARLY ROMAN PANTHEIsM.

Analysis of Roman funeral rites and of the archaic formulae therein pre- served even as late as the republican epoch, and inquiry into the origin of the objects which formed the essence of early Roman home life, are beginning to open vaster horizons to our view, and to disclose the religious idea of the Italic folk who founded Rome. Their pantheism afforded them the consola- tion of regarding the departed spirits of their dead as vital energies reabsorbed by the Spirit Universal-a spirit all pervading and everywhere operative in natural phenomena and in the efforts of new generations to come to the birth. Roman children burned offerings to the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03
PR EFERRED.

Jim-Money makes the man.
 Jam-Granted; but man makes the money.-Baltimore Herald.
 Old inhabitant-I can remember when hogs ran loose on Broadway.
 Young inhabitant-They ride on the cars now.-Puck.
 we are going to throw these eggs at the tragedian.''
 How ola are they?"
 About six weeks.''
 "H'm! It's pity to spoil such good Daily News
 Prown-What we call baggage the English call luggage. Which word do you think the more appropriate?
 White-Considering how trunks are treated by the railroad men, I should say the right word is ehuckage.-Bos- ton Transcript.
 MT. Bacon-I see they will not put a picture of any artist in the Louvre in Paris until he has been dead ten years, Mrs. Bacon-What's to prevent an ar tist from lying about it and saying he's been dead ten years when it's only f1ve?-Yonkers Statesman.
 Ida--So you belong to an anti-swear- ing league? Have you accomplished much good?
 May-Yes, indeed. Why, we have persuaded some of the South Water street teamsters to say, "Oh, fudge" when their teams tangle up.-Chicago News.
 Physician-The truth can no longer be hidden, madam. am obliged to tell you that your little son is-er-weak- minded. That is-well, it must be said he is an idiot.
 Mrs. Highupp-How fortunate it is that we are rich. No one will ever mo- tice it.-New York Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each h. sertion. Five Cents Word for full week tseYen times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one in- sertion, S1.20; each subsequent insertion, 40 cents; one week, $s.2O; one month, S10; one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, b cents per line. Notices of Births. Marri- ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 50 cents each. Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (a:l matter to be unobjeteionable), and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

knowledge of a German consul sta- toned near the yiceroy's official resi- dence. He promptly informed his gov- ernment, which has now persuaded the Viceroy to give assurances to Germany that he will take no action contemplat- ing the alienation of Chinese territory to Great Britain. Thus, it would ap- pear, the alleged plans of the British government to establish protectOrate over one of the richest portions of the Chinese empire have been cheekmated temporarily. But the American officer who brought this important informa- ton to Washington is quoted as au- thority for the further statement that the British government has not with drawn the proposals of it's naval com mander. The inference is that John Bull intends, if possible, to acquire ter ritorial rights in the Yangtze-Kiang valley, if he can do this without risk ing dangerous complications.
 If this is true. or is going to be true, of course the United States will have to have a policy about it. It is re- membered that in note to the Powers two years ago Secretary Hay made this definite statement in respect to the attitude of the United States toward China: Our policy is to preserve Chi nese territorial and administrative en- tity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and interna- tional law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Em- pire.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03
THE SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST.

THE SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST.
 When the new settler crosses the Rockies, the altitude, or the rarifiefd atmosphere. or some vapor of the west yet unnamed by science, seems 10 ell- dow him with the roseate vision, so that ever afterward all that he beholds is good and beautiful-and bigger than anywhere else. There is something re- freshing and edifying in the way the northwesterner shows off his town to the stranger; his boundless admiration for the new Episcopal church; his pride in the paving of Main street; his broth erly interest in the development of the First National bank; the imagination with which he prophecies the glorious future of the place, and exhibits the acres and acres of desert and hillside which the town is presently to populate. It is an adamantine visitor indeed who goes away without taking 8 deed or two for hopeful corner lots in the resi- dential district.-Century Magazine.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

Lares. and. the gods propitious. sum- moned their parents to the evening meal; Roman brides placed a coin on the fire of the nuptial hearth; and Ro- man families laid aside their mourning whenever a child was born 10 the household. Much of the value of the recent work in the Forum consists in the light it throws on the inner nature of the great people who so long ruled the ancient world, and who in house hold, temple and burying ground had ever present a deep sense of the unbro- ken harmony and unity underlying the ceaseless transformation of the univer- sal energy.-Giacono Boni in Harper's Magazine.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03
roo MUCH CONGRESS.

Yesterday the President issued a proclamation calling an extraordinary session of the senate to begin on Thursday of this week. the day after the end of the Fifty-seventh congress. It is possible that both branches of the Fifty-eighth congress will have to be ton is that the Democrats want to bring this about. The Democrats, who claim to be the real friends of the people, solemnly say that an extra session is needed because the Republicans have failed to enact in the numerous remedies that have been applied to the trust evil anything of potency. The people of the country are demanding more, and con- gress should be called to take up the question when there is ample time for its thorough consideration. Another reason why the Democrats want an ex- tra session is the necessity they see for revision of the tariff schedules.
 It is to be hoped that the President will not be forced to call the Fifty eighth congress together. The people have had enough of congress for awhile, and it is evident that the members now squabbling in the national capitol have had enough of each other. It is aston ishing that congress can't behave better that it has been and is doing. It should have noticed and followed the example of the Connecticut legislature, which is quiet, courteous and efficient.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

pr. Sarah Barney of Franklin, New Hampshire, had consumptive woman patient whom she was anxious to cure. So she employed her to drive her car- riage, thereby securing an excellent coachwoman and effecting, by the out door life, complete cure of the dis ease.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

Bishop J. W. Hamilton told some young Methodists at San Francisco last week that he saw no harm in mixed marriages, white and negro or white and Chinese, and as a pastor in Brook lyn he had often solemnized them. Such unions are illustrative of the sweeping away of caste lines which should occur in the church." he said.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

The Watts bill, which has passed both houses in North Carolina, permits the manufacture and sale of liquor only in incorporated towns, which may vote on the question of dispensary, prohibi- tion or license. In the final debate on this measure strong efforts were made to have it amended so as to give local option to unincorporated towns. One amendment set the limit of population at 200, and another at 300, but both were defeated.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

Professor Cunningham who has been appointed to succeed and serve under his old teacher, Sir William Turner, in the chair of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, is the greatest authority upon giants. He is at present occupied in elaborating the proofs of his belief that a giant is a morbid phenomenon. A man or woman who is more than six feet five inches, or, at the outside, six feet six inches, cannot be regarded as merely abnormal, the professor thinks. He has shown that the mental charac- teristics of giants-easy good nature sloth and poor intelligence-are those shown by victims of rare disease of overgrowtb called acromegaly. This is due to enlargement of an appendage of the brain, and Professor Cunningham has personally examined every giant skeleton in the British and Continental museums, and found that the little cav ity in the skull corresponding to this part of the brain is enlarged in all of them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

4 joint annuity can be taken which will protect the last survivor -and the cost is not greatly increased,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

The will of the late Archbishop of Canterbury indicates that the day when bishops used to amass huge for tunes is past. Dr. Temple left only G18,oo0, a sum which represents but slightly more than his income as arch bishop for one year. There is certainly no other profession in England other than the church in which 8 man of Dr. Temples ability, who worked like slave for nearly sixty years, would have made so little money. His prede- cessor, Archbishop Benson, left almost twice as much, viz, e35,000, which, oddly enough, is also the sum left by Archbishop Tait. The largest fortune left by any bishop of late years was the e72,O0o which Dr. Walsham How beaueathed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

One of the youngest looking old men < in the English House of Commons is Sir John Gorst. He is now getting on to seventy, but he has brisk step, his complexion is ruddy and he speaks with the same brightness, self-possession and acidity which he displayed in the eighties. He attributes his extraordi- has for years followed the advice given him by the late Sir Andrew Clark, the celebrated physician, and has, under all circumstances, remained nine hours of every twenty-four in bed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03

There are generous women in Kansas. Recently, at Ernporia, James Higgins, a brakeman, secured a judgment of S25,00o from the Santa Fe for the loss of both legs. Just before the rendering of this judgment his wife had begun suit for divorce. In this suit she did not ask for alimony. Since the hus- band secured his judgment the friends of the wife have been urging her to amend her divorce petition and ask for q share of the spells. This she refuses to do, saying: I'm glad Jim got the verdict. He's poor, and I hope he gets every cent of the money. don't want any of it.' Yet Mrs. Higgins is poor herself and has to work for living.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-03
4 WAY TO MCveaSe gOur kcome
 FOR LIFE
FOR LIFE.

Many persons of advanced ages find their incomes reduced on account of the present low rates of interest-Savings Banks will pay 4 per cent. on SI.ooo but only 3H per cent. on larger sums.
 One IZomsGnG Dol2ars used to purchase an annuity will yield the following Lncoases foy Ltfe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-06

contracted with Mr.. William w. Kinder fer
the erection of summer home at Washing
ton Grove. The building will be after the
cottage style, one and half stories, with
ten rooms. and will cost about 81 600. Work
has been commenced and the cottage is
expected to be completed by spring, when
Mr.. Rynex and his family will occupy it.
Aubrey Council. No. 143, Junior Order OF
American Mechanics, has selected the FOL
lowing corps Of officers for the term: Coun-
ctllor, John F. Boyer; vice councillor, l.. W..
Pearce; recording secretary, r. Lee Young;
financial secretary. John w. Hager; treas
urer. James NJ. Mount; chaplain, A NC
Kendree Bowman; conductor, Clarence Hill
ton; warden, w. E. Warthen; sentinel, N. e.
Sheckles; outside sentinel r. G.. Poole; dele
gate to the Maryland state council, Wlillam
E. Warthen; delegate to the death beneht
association. James NJ. Mount.o
Capt. D. G. Mead of Fauquiers county, va,
is the guest Of Mrs. E. NJ. Hinkley Tor
few days
Constable Thomas Small was successful in
the search for the colbred man, James
Mackall Of the vicinity of Ounce orchard,
suspected of the larcenyepf an, oVercoat and
other apparel from Mr.. Richard H. Mills on
last Sunday morning. When run down.
Mackall produced the clothse and claimed
he thought they were lost along the road
side. where he found them.
About thirty members of the Epworth
League Of Epworth NJ. E. Church were en-
tertained last night by NE. =. E. kanode.
ride. After the business was transacted a
program was given by the department OF
literary work. Mr.. David F. virts presiding.
A bountiful repast was served by the host
ess of the evening.
Mr. William A. Hughes OF Germantown
has entered voluntary plea IN Dankruptcy
in the United States court for the District
of Maryland. at Frederick, for the benent
of his creditors. Mr.. Edward Y. Colds
borough Of that city named as the ref
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amount received. This provision was mod
flied so as to allow the creditor to retain
the money received unless the previous pay
ment was fraudulent.
The change is in conformity with a de-
olson of the Supreme Court
Another amendment provides four new
objections to a discharge. intended to pre-
vent persons from going through bank
ruptcy, the most important of which are
the giving of a false mercantile statement
or the making of a fraudulent transfer of
property. The bill also provides that 1t
shall be an objecton to q discharge If a
voluntary bankrupt seeks to go through
bankruptcy more than once in six years.
Another amendment provides that the ap-
polntrnent of a receiver for corporation
which is insolvent is an act of bankruptcy
emitting the creditors to choose their own
trustee. Another important change Is one
which gives the federal courts concurrent
jurisdiction of suits to recover property
which has been fraudulently transferred
Other amendments allow the wives Of
bankrupts to testify In the proceedings; pro-
vide for an increase of the fees of referees
and trustees to an average of about 30
per cent over the fees allowed by the pres
ent law, and prohibit the courts from al
lowing greater fees than the law permits
in any case, and add to the list Of debts
from which a bankrupt cannot be relieved
by a discharge from bankruptcy. The new
list includes debts to wife and children and
alimony. The list of corporations which
may go into bankruptcy Is increased by
adding mining corporations
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Anacostia and Vicinity.

Residents Of East Washington Heights,
including the section of the District ada
cent to Good Hope, are awaiting with much
interest the action Of those controlling the
corporation known as the East Washington
Heights Railway Company, which has been
granted charter for the construction of a
trolley road through that locality.
Desk Sergeant Schrader. who performs
night duty at the Anacostia police station,
is on leave, and his place Is being filled by
Policeman H. T.. Walsh of the Georgetown
precinct.
DR.. w. Lee White OF Twining City is con-
fined to bed by a severe Illness
A. O. Brady has purchased from Henry
Johnson premises No. 30 Adams street,
Anacostia.
j. o. Brady. father Of A. o. Brady of An
acostia, is Ill at his home near Forestville,
Prince Georges county. Md.
The high winds of Wednesday night ex-
tinguished almost every gas and naphtha
lamp in Anacostia and vicinity. The police
report yesterday showed that the country
roads and even some Of the streets here
were In total darkness nearly all night.
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ANOTHER ENDORSEMENT.
East End Citizens Declare in Favor Of
Federal Loan Bill.

AT meeting of the East End Suburban
Citizens Association, held at Northeast
Temple last evening, a resolution strongly
indorsing the proposed so 90 900 loan was
adopted by practically unanimous vote.
There was large attendance OF mem
bers and some visitors when President VIM
H Ernest called the meeting TO order. The
chairman of the executive committee re-
ported that Major Sylvester had provided
a remedy for the parking of cars on the
street at the intersection of 18th and II
streets northeast and had promised to find
an officer. If possible, to take the place of
Officer Markward, who rendered such faith
full service at the tollsate for number of
years. He also reported that the Engineer
Commissioner had caused the dangerous
manholes along Bladensburg road to be re-
paired. and had promised that the IS 900
appropriated for the Improvement of said
highway would be spent as soon as the
weather would permit. He also reported
there was no chance of getting electric
lights along Bladensburg road or on any of
the other highways the association desired
to be so lighted
letter from the Engineer Commissioner
stating the grade OF the boundary sewer is
80 high that the section of the city lying
south of Benning road and east of nth
street cannot be effectively drained by that
sewer was read. and the secretary was In
structed to notify the Commissioner there
must be a mistake. as the grade of Ben
ming road is something like fifteen feet
above the bottom OF the mouth of said
sewer.
President Ernest named his committees
for the ensuing term. as follows:
Executive committee-Wm f. Ernest,
Chas. r. Talbert. Robert Bowdler ]. III.
EurPert. j.. M. Burns. j. NJ Wood and r.
r D!ttoe
Committee on streets. roads and bridges
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]. NJ. Burns ]. A. Rupert, A. NJ. Holmes

]. NJ. Burns, ]. A. Rupert, A M. Holmes,
w. B. Palmer and Geo. H. Pollock
Committee on police, fire and lights
Chas. r. Talbert, A. F. Souder, j. A. Rup-
pert, Hugh A. Kane and r. +. Dittoe.
Committee on railroads.&c.. E. Dittoe,
Santus Auth, Josiah Willard, w. S. Clark
and S. A. Coombs.
Committee sanitation-Robert Bowd-
ler DR.. l.. d. Walter, w. B. Osborn, Jerry
witt and G.. Phelps.
Committee on street eXtension-J. H. Rup-
pert. B. L. Palmer, Vim. G. Dunno, Santus
Auth and l.. Luchs
Committee on manufactories-J M Wood,
w. G. Dunno, n. Auth, DR.. l.. d. Walter
and w. b. Palmer.
The association went on record in advo-
cacy of the proposition to increase the
membership of the board of District Com
missioners to five, one to be appointed from
each of the four sections of the city, in ad-
dition to an Engineer Commissioner 1t
was the sense of the meeting that by such
an arrangement each section would be look
| ed out for by its representative, who would
| be able to initiate and prosecute measures
| for the relief of the people of his particular
| section or oppose measures inimical to their
| interests.
The association then passed series OF
| strong resolutions condemning the action
| Of certain dealers in charging exorbitant
| prices for fuel, and copy of the same was
J ordered forwarded to the committees of
| Congress. A committee of three was APP
pointed to wait on the conference commit
| tees of the Senate and House In reference
| to certain railroad matters.