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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28
q CHEAT CHANG E.

Not long ago almost everybody was scared by the trusts. Under the foster ing care of New Jersey and the promot- CTS they increased and flourished until it seemed as if they were about to take possession of the earth, which really belongs to the meek. They did things more marvellous than the magician does when he takes cartload of stuff out of an empty hat. They took prop critics that weren't worth anything and by combining them made them so valu- able that people tumbled over each other to get chance to buy the ''secur- ities'' which represented the capitaliza- tion of nothing, or less. They dorninat- ed the markets, and they seemed about to overwhelm all who were not mana
 gers of or stockholders in them.
 Where now are many of those men acing trusts? In bankruptcy and strug-
 gling to maintain a precarious exist ence. And the people who are most afraid of them are those who own stock 1 in them and didn't know enough to sell it when the tulip craze was on. Verify this is a world of change. All things flow and fuctuate, Now contract and now diIate.n
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

to see your wife this morning. Do you think I'll find her at home2"
 Sure of it,'' replied the man. There's a new family moving their household effects into the house next door to-day. ' Philadelphia Press
 Casey-o'Rafferty is a sick mahn. He has heart complaint an consoomp- ton.
 Murphy-Sure. consoomption's bad disease.
 Casey-It is thot same; but it's slow. He'n die av the heart throuble a year afore he'll die av the Ioong throuble.- Kansas City Journal.
 Emerson Johnson liter the eolIection) Il am glad ter see dat de congregation am contributin' mo literally dan fo' some weeks past. In de collection ter day am five white vest buttons dat looks like real pearl. Dis gratifyin' in- crease Ober the usual brass trouser but tons an bone collar buttons ugurs well fo' de future ob dis society.-Judge.
 She's very studious," said one wo- man.
 Yes" answered the other. sA.
 And doesn't seem to care for gossip ing in the least. -.-g =ss
 "oh, don't know about that" an- swered the other, with sniff; ''she merely prefers to talk about Helen of Troy and Romeo and Juliet to paying attention to what is going on in her own neighborhood." ."-Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28
JNrEn EsrIsG RAILROAD PLAN.

These are not very good times to talk about new railroads. but it is interest ing to notice that Secretary Hitchcock has been asked to approve the plan to contruct railroad under Boring Strait to connect with the Siberian railroad The projectors of the road are French and Russian capitalists, and with them are certain American bankers. The application for right of way through Alaska will undoubtedly be followed by an application to congress for a land grant through the territory, conditioned after the Northern Pacific grant. The petition is probably forerunner to a request to the United States to neu- tralize Bering Strait, so that in the event of war no advantage would be given to the enemies of Russia. Rus- sian officers demand this as condition of the Russian government giving fur ther support to the road or confirming the concessions of land heretofore granted. The petition sets forth that the route is along certain portions of the Pacific Coast to Juneau, and thence in a westerly direction to the most westerly point of Alaska, extending to the Boring Sea. It lis the purpose to con-
 
 struct tunnel from that point under Boring. Strait to the Siberian mainland. Promise is made to file a map later, disclosing the exact course which the proposed road shall take, particularly across the territory of Alaska.
 This is a fine scheme and one that deserves support. Let us hope that when it materializes it will not be over- capitalized.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

When was young-as every one agreed And when my gladsone heart no burden G carried. ' I had a very near escape indeed
 Of getting married. My income was diminutiye, it's true, Yet that was but a small consideration. I met my love and fell victim to
 Her fascination. The day arrived when resolved to try If my persuasive eloquence could win her, For to her fathers house, one evening I
 Was asked to dinner Although took some other female down, l did not mind at all, for was able To watch my fair adored one smile or frown
 Across the table. Now half way through the dinner we had And pit-a-pat my frenzied heart was beat When suddenly chanced to notice what
 My love was eating. Asparagus. that coy. elusive thing. She swallowed with an energy most fran Although it may be very nourlshing,
 It's not romanticl. The nodding heads, when lifted from her Toward her ruby lips she started thrust
 in:. The scene that followed don't hesitate
 To call disgusting felt that I must gaze at her, perforce; Ahi how the recollection of 1t fingers! The melted butter ran It's wayward course
 Along her fingers. She even smacked her lips, devoid of shame; But. as the pile of heads before her
 dwindled. Within my heart there hickered out the flame
 That love had klndied. The mad, delicious moments of the past < For once and all were absolutely ended. left the house much sooner, at the last,
 Than I intended. Young men, if any maidens you adore, Be guided by sensible suggestion, And watch them eat asparagus before
 s --puncli
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28


 Some twenty-five years ago the Gen. tury Magazine published an article on Monsters" in which a very entertain ing account was given of the old trade in Japanese mermaids. Yet for all this enlightenment, Mir. Hancock is every now and then astonished, not to say amused, at the talk and arguments of people, who. apparently intelligent. stand before this humbug, believing it to be real, positive that it is the dried corpse of an actual mermaid, and ready to back their credulity with nancy. More than once Mir. Hancock. in order to prevent such people from losing money, has been obliged to forestall and interrupt wagers and betting. tell ing the credulous that the object in the case is fake.-Washingto Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28
SADNESS S IN 0REGON.

That is a hard wipe which the refer .endum has got away out in Oregon. The Oregon referendum law has been declared illegal by the Circuit court on account of the manner of it's passage, But there is still faith. Thus saith the Portland Oregonian: For it's advocacy of the amendment in 1898 the oregonian has no disposition or occasion now to apologize. The fact remains, now as then, that such an instrument of the popular will would inevitably act as a deterrent upon corrupt legislation. It would be an anchor when both governor and legislature failed The merits of the case are not affected, either by the combination of politics which brought the amendment its effective support or by the fact that its first invocation was in behalf of unworthy and discreditable purposes. But in practice this venge- ful trinity of loot labor and lunacy has stabbed the referendum to death for all future time. They tried to put it in su- preme power, but with such faultless inaccuracy that it can never recover from their attentions. @
 Sad. When the stock market col- lapses and the referendum fails there is indeed a bad state of things.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each ID. serrlon. Five Gents Word for full week
 Dispiay advertisements. per inch. one ID. sertion, S1.20: each subseduent insertion ~ ceDrs: one week. S3.20: one month, SlO; one year. so.
 Obituary Notices. Tn prose or verse. 10 centp per line. Notices of Births. Marri- Rgss, Deaths. and Funeral. 50 cents eaen. Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tnelt own immediate business fa.i matter to De unoDjetcionabiej, and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

cohoIic liquors in the tropics with im- pupity: the safest plan, the doctor says, IS to let them entirely alone.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28
AFTER.

Ethel-Yes! The poor chap has lost his money, but not his friends!
 Edith-Ah That is what you might call a double misfortune!-Puck.
 "Ah! Good morning, MT. Wrubber," said Mrs. Gaddie. T meant to run up
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

There are some good Democrats in the Philippines. Miss Ethelle Ellis of War; rensburg, Missouri, who has returned from long stay in the Philippines. says: Every town has it's patron saint, whom the inhabitants pray to and wor- ship every day. remember one place I visited seeing Grover Cleveland's pie ture on the wall and the occupants wor- shipping it.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

There are some very sensible negroes. At a negro Methodist conference in Madison, Georgia. the other day this was adopted: We commend the south ern white man because he refuses to let negroes drink at his founts, eat in his cafes and sleep in his hotels, for the following reasons: It forces the negro to build his own resorts, teaches him business and turns flood of money to negro vaults and bank accounts. It gives his boy and girl work, and estab-. fishes thrift, industry and economy.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

In Sioux county, Nebraska, man holds the office of school director and likewise a trusteeship of the district school in South Dakota county. just across the State line. He claims to be entitled to both offices. and cannot be dispossessed of either. His home is built on the State line, and when he goes to bed his head is in one State and his feet in the other, so that he is legal- ly a resident of both. He votes at the school elections held in both districts, and claims that he is entitled to do 50, and thus far no law has been found that can reach his case.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28
Verses vegeiarian,

When was young-as every one agreed And when my gladsome heart no burden carried. ,.4 t had a very near escape indeed
 Of getting married. @.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

Dr. Charles F. Hartford, of the Brit ish Church Missionary Society, has
 been watching the effects of tropical climates upon himself and other white men long time. He does not lencour- age persons under twenty-five or oyer forty to go to the tropics. He advises persons whose bowels, flyers, nerves and teeth are not in good order to stay away. Also persons who are fussy about what they eat. or VII, do not sleep well nights, or who have any natural bent toward depression and
 melancholia. The sounder both body and mind are, the better. Slight val vular disease of the heart is not neces- sarily, of itself, a disqualification for the tropics. Slight chronic bronchitis is likely to be relieved by the hotter climate. White men cannot drink al-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

Jerry Gleason, the oldest taxpayer in Ohio and perhaps in the country. is a
 resident of Monroe township, Knox county. Jerry is 1O9 years old, but one day last week he walked from his home to Mount Vernon and paid his taxes, making the return trip on foot also. For years he has refused to sleep in Q bed, choosing to take his nightly rest ill chair He was a warm personal friend of Andrew Jackson. MT. Gleason works on his farm regularly, has never been i'll day in his life and does net look his age by third of century. $
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

A curious story is going the rounds about the cunning of the Japanese.
 Great insurance companies have sent agents broadcast over the islands of tie Land o~ the Rising Sun to write ro.icies. In no other country on the globe is the work of the insurance SO licitors so easy. Tn one month s10.0OO,- 900 of life insurance has been placed by one New York company. Every measly little dwarf os Jap wants to insure An agent has just discovered that in medical examinations he has been badly duped, one healthy Jap standing the test for many hundreds of his fellow countrymen. As all Japs look alike the doctors did not detect the fraud until about $5,O0O,OOO in poli- cies had been written. -'>: K.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-28

Though the King of Spain is fond of hunting, he refrains from shooting, even in his private grounds, during the closed season. He spends much of his time on horseback, and is known as an indefatigable rider. His first horse was pony only trifle over a yard high, which the city of Burgos gave him at the age of seven. As he grew he chose larger horses, and his favorite animals now are two English horses presented to him by his mother last year, when he ascended the throne. Another of his favorites is a present from the mayor of Buenos Ayres. The king is not delicate youth. as he has been repre- sented, but quite robust.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-27

British commercial congress at Mon
treal adopted resolutions favoring pref
erential treatment of colonies in trade,
treaties and emigration.
The massacre of all Christians at
Uskub has been planned by Musselmen.
At Helsingfors, Finland, the upper
deck of a vessel collapsed and 40 persons
were drowned
The Colombian senate has rejected
the Panama canal treaty. DR.. Herran,
the Colombian minister in Washing
ton. believes the action is not final.
Turkey has called out $4,000 addi-
tional troops to suppress the insurrec-
ton in Macedonia.
Twenty thousand dollars have been
given by Pope Plus for distribution
among the poor in Rome.
The river near Monastir, Macedonia,
was full Of mutilated bodies of women
and children, murdered by the Bashi Ba-
zouks.
Minister Conger in Pekin obtained
Prince Ching's promise to sign on Octo-
Der 8 treaty with the United States
making Mukden and Tatung Tao open
ports.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-27
Cattle at the Fair.


Livestock exhibitions of National
Importance have come to be a regular
part of the Minnesota State Fair. For
three years there have been successful
shows of this class. If this years show
did no more than merely duplicate
that of last no more would need be said
of it to induce multiudes to go and see
it. But everything indicates that the
forthcoming show will excel all pre-
decessors. The National Shorthorn
and Hereford Associations will again
make the Minnesota fair the only state
fair for the exhibition of the choicest
animals of these breeds under the di-
rect auspices of the associations. And
itris possible that other breeds will be
represented in similarly conspicuous
manner. Al all events, it is known
that all breeds will be represented by
many and most excellent herds and in
dividuals. Public sales of cattle will
be held, as last year, giving prospec-
tive buyers splended opportunity to
combine business with pleasure; pro-
fitable business with wholesome, in
structive pleasure. This fair has now
become too prominent, too much of
national affair, to make the showing
of ordinary specimens OF cattle. or
Offering them for sale, desirable or
profitable to their owners, hence a
very high class exhibit may be expect
ed. The fair opens this year Monday,
Aug. 31st and closes Sept. 5th.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-27
Cannot Prove Impurities.

The state dairy and food depart
ment has decided to abandon the pro-
secution of dealers who handle impure
maple sugar until the department can
prove the impurity of product.
This is result of test made by a
st. Paul wholesale firm, which sent
number of samples to the department
and asked an analysis.
The chemists were unable to esti-
mate the exact amount of maple and
cane sugar used in the doctored sam
Piles and the department has decided
that until it can do better work an
alyzing samples it cannot maintain a
case in court.
The officials claim an unfair advan-
tage was taken Of the department and
that the samples were cleverly doc
tored.
The commission is determined to con-
duct series of tests to determine the
exact standard of maple sugar and un-
til such standard had been determined
they would admit the sale of maple
syrup which did not contain more than
half cane sugar.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-27
PERsoNAL AND poL1r1CAL.

Financial legislation and other work
of the proposed extraordinary session
of congress were discussed at Oyster
Bay by the president with several Of
his callers.
Nebraska republicans in state conven-
tion commend the administration of
President Roosevelt and favor his re-
nomination, suggest John L. Webster,
of Omaha, as their candidate for vice
president, and nominated J. B. Barnes
for justice of the supreme court.
Noah Brooks, well known author of
Juvenile stories, died at his home in Pasa-
deRa, CAL, aged 70 years.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-27

Mrs. p. Conlin, 50 Green
Geld Avenue, Carbondale,
Pa, says: II suffered with
backache, and, despite tho
lse Of medicines, I could not
xet rid of it. IiUds compelled
10 use a crutch for eight
months, and o part Of the
time was unable to walk at
all. I fairly screamed il l
attempted to lift my feet
from the floor, and, finally,
l lost control Of my limbs
through weakness, as ! could
neither bend nor, straighten
up to my full height, and il
ever q woman wasin 9 serious
condition, I was. My hus-
band went to Kelly's drug
store and brought home Q
box Of Doan's Pills. / felt
easier in q few days, and,
continuing the treatment, I
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-27
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. Miles has accepted the presiden-
cy of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
association.
efeller ahead of J. Pierpont Morgan as
the worlds greatest financier.
| A monster cheese weighing two tons
will be manufactured in New York state
and sent to the ST. Louis exposition
next spring.
The commission appointed to select
q sculptor to design a statue of Gen.
Mcclellan, to be erected in Washing
ton, has chosen Frederic MacMonnies,
of New York
| Jacob S. Johnson, of Fair Haven,
Mass, is the only surviving member Of
Peary's famous expedition to Japan,
which opened the ports of that country
to foreigners.
Charles G. Emery, wealthy tobacco
dealer, of New York, has purchased
Grand View park, an island in the St.
Lawrence river, 20 acres in extent,
which will be turned into free sani-
tarium for poor children.
Dave Tohee, only brother of the late
murdered chief of the Iowa Indians, has
been elected to the chieftainship of the
tribe in Oklahoma.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
carried 200 tons weight Of trunks with
| them during their visit to Ireland.
! Capt. Henry Hash, of Boston, is the
Hast surviving officer of the militia COM
Dory fhot no rtioinafed in tho fau1ou
I''Aroostook war"
l.. O. Emerson, composer of "a Life
on the Ocean Wave" "The Ivy Green"
and other songs. celebrated his SD
birthday at Boston.
The supreme court of North Carolina
has affirmed a lower courts award Of
$3.50 to Henry F. Seawell, who was
struck by 15 bad eggs while campaign
ling in 1900.
The corner stone Of the Davis-Elkins
Presbyterian college, to which former
limited States Senators Elkins and Da-
| Wis contributed upwards of s100, ,000, was
Ilaid at Elkins, w. Va.
Miss Mary B. Bixby, of Pasadena,
Cal, has discovered the first commits
ision issued to a lighthouse keeper in
lthis country George Washington
lsigned the document appointing Joseph
iGreenleaf at Portland Head, Me.
Young German engineers are urged
lby Privy Councillor Luig, recently re-
turned from an American toar, TO visit
the United States and see improved fac
tory arrangements,
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-27
FOREIGN.

The state department has been in
formed by Ambassador Choate that the
first meeting Of the Alaskan boundary
commission will be held at II o'clock on
September 3 in the British foreign Of
flee.
The British parliament closed until
November with the usual speech from
the king Session was notable for the
passage of the Irish land bill and for
the stir caused by Chamberlain's pref
erential tariff proposals.
Veterans Of the army of the Philip
pines celebrated occupation day in Ma
Mia with parade.
Russia ordered war ships to sail for
Turkish waters to enforce demands
made by the car for the killing of the
consul of Monastir.
A court-martial held at Monastir
condemned the gendarme, Hahn, to
death for the murder of M Rostkovski,
the Russian consul at Monastir. The
sentence was Immediately carried out.
Russia, it is said, proposes to have
an army of SOC, 600 men in the far east,
to be used in the event Of trouble with
Japan.
The Bulgarian government has pre-
sented to the powers memorandum
giving details of murders, torture and
fncendiarism by Turkish soldiers and
officers in Macedonia.
The German government will ask the
reichstag to increase the standing army
from about COS, GOO to 647, ,000 men.
pertinent at Brest, one bombarding an
other with live shells, which strike
harmlessly.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-27
LATER.

Ten thousand members OF the G. A. II.
lparaded at the San Francisco encamp-
ment In the evening camp fires were
held.
| The Citizens National and Savings
bank Of Beaumont, Tex, has been closed
! by the examiner.
| A national convention of farmers will
be held in Chicago on September to
| form a combination to maintain prices
and regulate distribution.
Henry. G. We'll, leader of Wall street
exchange to A. M. Burden for $50 900.
| 1t is believed that the Colombian con-
gress will SO legislate with reference to
the canal as to make possible the rat1fl-
cation at an early date of a new treaty.
! The Wabash Qnd) Bridge and Iron
company has assigned with liabilities es-
timated at 100000
The collections of internal revenue for
the month Of July last were $22 2,168, ,48O,
a decrease compared with July, 1902, of
|$111 ,291.
Dan Patch broke the worlds record for
PAGERS by pacing mile in 1859 at
Brighton Beach, N. Y.
The fence about the Fort Belknap In
dian reservation in Montana, which is
40 miles long and 60 miles wide, has been
finished after years of work.
| The grand jury in Washington re-
sumed its inquiry into the affairs of the
post Office department. /.
The Mason & Hamlin company, of Bos-
ton, one of the oldest piano and organ
houses in the country, has assigned, with
liabilities estimated at $1,000.000.
Sixteen more bodies of victims of the
recent mine explosion at Hanna, Wyo.,
have been recovered.
At Oyster Bay, N. Y. questions of ma
ltional concern were discussed by the
president with several callers.
William Koenig and Mrs. Anna Koe-
Inig were married at David City, being
the first known instance in Nebraska of
a man marrying his stepmother.
Pope Leo's f1sherman's ring, supposed
Ito have been stolen, was found on his
writing table.
At the fourth annual convention in
Nashville, Tenn, Of the National Negro
business Mems league, Booker T. Wash
lington was reelected president.
The leading European powers are ne
|gotiating with view to joint naval
demon stratfon against Turkey.
Henry Melville, a Waukegan Ul1)
farmer, and Margaret Brown, of Louis
willie, KY. both 70 years old, were remar-
lried in the latter city after divorce A.
wears ago.
The Tomahawk., 1903-08-27
The School Fund.

The Minnesota permanent school
fund has reached the SIS, 900, 900 mark.
No other state except Texas has so
large fund, and state officials esti-
mate that it will not be long before
Minnesota will lead them all. Of this
fund approximately se,ooo,ooo is un-
paid principal on land contracts, and of
the remaining $4,000, 900, SIS, 200, 900 is
invested in interest-bearing bonds
The average rate of interest is per
cent. Estimates of the amount that the
fund will ultimately reach when all
the lands are sold are put at higher
figures by each succeeding state audi
tor. 1t seems that the human mind is
incapable of appreciating the wealth
of Minnesota's resources. Former
State Auditor w. w. Braden created
quite sensation when he stated that
the fund would ultimately reach $20,-
OOO, 900. State treasury officials put
the figure at $40, 900, 900.