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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-09
RIISSEITr u. VERRER.

Russell D. Nebber, nineteen years Of age,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Vebber, of
96 Ward street, died yesterday afternoon.
He had been suffering from pulmonary
trouble since last April. He was member
of the clerical force Of the New Haven
Clock Co., where he was much esteemed by
his employers and his associates. The fun
eral will be held from the home of his par
ents Wednesday, and it will be private. Rev.
Dr. Edwin S. Lines of st. Paurs church
will officiate. Beecher s; Bennett will have
charge of the arrangements.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-09

What you pay for extracts is important,
but what you get for your money is ten
times more important. Burpett's Vanilla
costs more because worth more. .+->
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-09
, sAHARET COMING TO POLTs.
Most Beautiful Woman in the World
ROYAL FaVorite

A Royal Favorite.
Saharet, the sensation of the Anna
Held company and considered the
f1andsomest dancer in the world, has
become the newest star in vaudeville,
She is to visit this city next week. She
was the rage in Paris, Berlin, London,
and made tremendous hit with Anna
Held in 1.-THE Little Duchess" Saharet
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The Valley of the Years.

We tread narrow valley where Joy
roses all abloom
Are mingled with the nightshade of
black misery and gloom;
Some wander onward gayly; others move
with bitter tears.
Each marking his own pathway through
the Valley of the Years.
Sometimes the sky is clouded and we
grope along the way
With anxious lamentation and longing
for the day;
But always moving DER the path
that leads alone
On to the mystic mountains of Eternity
Unknown
Some turn aside and wander for few
brief, idle hours,
And hope to find forgetfulness among the
lotus flowers:
But always comes the waking-and yet
palmer still appears
The pathway to the Mountain through
the Valley of the Years.
The monarch of a nation and the sacre-
dotal king
Upon more lowly travellers their sneering
glances fling,
Then draw their cloaks around them and
pass on to tread alone
The misty, mystic mountains of Eternity
Unknown. 4.
Behind them. shrieking, singing loud a
Bacchanalian song,
A band of ribald jewellers goes stumbling
1y along;
An evil thing polluting every tender thing
it hears.
Goes onward to damnation through the
Valley of the Years.
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Young Mans Rise and Fall.

He got the huzzahs at both ends of
the flight, and reaped the plunks
thereby. He received the merry shout
when he went up and he was smother
ed by the loud acclaim when he came
down. The vociferous plaudits were
mingled with the soothing rustic of
the long green and the dazzling clink
of the yellow boys at either end of
the route, and he always got his gate
receipts, whether the thing PANIED
out good for the managers of the fair
or not.
He might have dragged along
through life hoeing corn, tossing
clover to the knee or chopping the
fine cut for the toothless nag-but he
aspired to go up as well as come
down. Last week he went up-and
then he came down.
Pop said a mighty fine farm hand
was lost when they pried William
Henry Stubb's form from the daisies.
The good folks who had paid their
coin to see a fool human being try
to soar like bird and drop like a
chunk of lead because something fail
ed to work all smoothly and properly
d. I'VE home in the cleaning with the
idea that man though born tOoth1ess
was not destined to wear wings and
hy-that is, not always, or at least
not until his time comes.
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The Destiny of Human Souls.

sonap1e people will accept this: TIE
souls of the wicked are condemned to
pass into animals and to stay there
until they have discovered prospective
tenants worse than themselves
This theory explains everything. The
liars inhabit fish, the tricksters horses
and those given to butting in become
goats. In the attempt to end their
tenancy by finding suitable success
sors the evif spirits resort to tempta-
ton, with, alas! unfailing success. The
halfpound trout dropping on the
hoop flaps his tail in ecstatic certain
ty that the angler will proclaim him a
five-pounder at least And the look of
human anticipation on the face of a
goat about to knock some unsuspecting
person into barbed-wire fence can
only proceed from the knowledge that
the resultant explosion will lower an
other soul into the mire as a stepping
stone for himself.
The theory is irrefutab1e and its
general acceptance would help the
world to higher plane.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-28

Mark Norris was one OF the poor
but brilliant country editors OF this
great land of free press and free
speech. At the time this story begins,
the goddess of fortune seemed to
have a grudge against him, but now
he can snap his fingers at the tickle
dame. When he made the discovery
of his life he was trying to run
little four-page newspaper down at
Cranberry Corners and at the same
time keep the poor-house and the
sheriff at a comfortable distance. He
could not depend on local advertisers
and was consequently open to the
Establishments of the patent medicine
advertiser who occasionally con-
tracted for ten dollars worth of space
at five dollars, payable in merchan-
disc"
One Saturday afternoon Norris sat
disconsolately in his little, dingy of
flee. He had just three dollars in his
pocket, his help to pay off, a draft to
meet for blank paper, and a few bot
ties of patent medicines stored on top
of his desk. The latter he nd not re-
gard as materially adding to his as
sets, and at that moment the future
looked pretty dark to the struggling
mOlQer OF PUBIC opinion
While deeply absorbed in thought
he took down the bottles and placed
them side by side on his desk. He
did this mechanically. without a
thought of the result. He took the
cork out of one of the bottles and
tasted the preparation: it was bitter.
The second had a sort of sweetish
taste, with a disposition to linger. The
third was sharp and fiery.
But what had happened?
The instant he had tasted the con-
tents of the third bottle, he was
changed mani He arose to his feet
feeling that some great change had
taken place in him. He put on his
hat. walked boldly down street and
made straight for the bank. He
walked in without hesitation. The
banker reached for the usually much
dreaded draft the instant Norris en-
tered, but paused with hand in mid
air when he caught sight of the face
of the usually cringing editor. Nor
ris walked up'to the counter, saying:
I'll take five hundred dollars in cash
now, and pay you when nv ship
comes in, or when my subscribers
butcher, or sell their tobacco. You
may pay that draft and charge it to
my account-to-be." He actually
laughed when he said this.
The banker looked Norris in the
eve for few seconds, counted out the
five hundred dollars and handed the
roll of bills through the wicket with
an apparently free will. Norris thrust
the money into his pocket, turned on
his heel, and passed out.
He returned to his office; the medi-
cine bottles were where he had left
them, but he did not heed them. He
strobe into the composing-room and
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The scented pet of Fashion id1es listless
through a field
Where flowers of every hue a perfume to
his senses yield;
And yet his dainty feet at last must ven-
ture out alone
Across the awful mountains of Eternity
Unknown.
The sound of choral singing thunders
loudly in my ears,
Where earnest, patient toilers tread the
Valley of the Years;
The music of their marching is a mighty
organ tone
That rea cheS Ger the mountains to Eter-
nifty Unknown.
Faith, hand in hand with Patience shows
each striving one the way;
Repentance calls to Virtue when the
stumbling foot would stray;
Sometimes the path is watered with COM
mingled blood and tears.
Yet straight the pilgrims press on
through the Valley of the Years.
And many, bent and broken with their
loads of grief and pain,
Toll forward down the valley through q
dark and chilling rain
Toll forward with hope song ever bat
thing with a groan,
While Faith leads DER the mountains to
Eternity Unknown.
We tread a narrow valley where a mil
lion million feet
Pour onward like a torrent with a steady
rhythmic beat;
Yet every foot must fashion out a path
way of it's own
On to the mystic mountains of Eternity
Unknown.
Lowell o. Reese, in San Francisco Bull
letin-
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Are the bodies of animals Inhabited
by the souls of human villains dead
and gone? Don't sneer too hastily at
the question, for if it should be an
swered finally in the negative science
is at a loss to account for the utter
cepravity of the animals 1t is ap-
parent to the dullest observer that
dumb beasts exercise a malign in
f1uence over man Think of the temp
ers ruined by cows that have kicked
over half-fi1led pals of milk Think
of the regulations for truth that have
been destroyed by trout Think OF
the honesty that has been turned into
deceit by the horse, SO that they who
trade in that animal are by-words
among their less sorely tempted breth-
rem. Think of the indefinite prolonga-
ton of this list that might be made
and then consider II animals are or
are not animated by the souls OF hui
man wretches that have passed away
Some such theory must be accepted
/ nd 1t Is not open to- doubt that rea-
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Bertrand Edward had mfsconducted
himself gravely, SO gravely his father
felt it to be his duty as parent to
administer corporal punishment He
administered it accordingly and Der
trand Edward smarted-not only ply
sically, but mentally-for he was not
used to that form of correction
First of all, Bertrand Edward went
up to the nursery and howled vocifer-
ously- That proceeding usually
brought his mother to soothe him
with gentle NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
honey coohes-but this time his
mother seemed deaf to his cries.
Downstairs his father was impressing
her with the necessity of ignoring the
walls of her offspring and thus max
ing him sensible of his iniQuity. This
the fearful mother eventually prom
ised faithfully to do.
Upstairs Bertrand Edwards yells
gradually became less frequent and
the intervening silence more profound.
At such times he tirtoed to the stair
case and listened. He heard his moth
er's voice. but she was seemingly
talking to the cook about domestic
concerns. He heard her say: '.And
we will have the tartar sauce with the
whitefish for lunch, Mary"
1t was evident that she was thor
oughly heartless. Bertrand Edwards
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an opposite direction. The third was
quickly disposed of in the manner OF
its predecessors. No one had the Sc
cret of the Wine of Wealth" now,
and he did not need it, as his system
had been surcharged for lifetime.
He went slowly back to town, and
the next day sold out his newspaper
interests to an aspiring young man
who had just inherited fortune, and
who thought that the pubic awaited
with feverish anxiety his advent into
the newspaper arena
He Immediately moved east and
took up the business OF forming
trusts and corners as sort of recre-
alton With all his wealth, however.
Mr.. Norris still has a warm spot in
his heart for the patent medicine adj
vertiser.
You will not find the name of Mark
Norris spelled just that way in the
directory. The wine of Wealth" and
the solicitation of his wife have
changed that SO much that an old
friend would hardly recognize it 1t
is now Marcus Norrisse.
A few years ago at a dinner party
Mr.. Norisse told the story of his dis
covery and the loss of the formula of
the "Wine of Wealth"
Although tons of patent medicines
have been consumed since Mr.. Nor
risse tossed the three empty bottles
over the cliff. no one has been able to
re-discover the coveted formula
Those searching for the great reju-
venator do not take the right prepar-
ations; take them backwards. if they
do hit the right ones; begin in the
middle, or effect some other combina
ton that fails.
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indignation became too deep for cry
ing. WELL" he thought. TN just stay
up here until she does come. expect
I'll starve to death, but l don't care
I'll be glad of it. Maybe they'll be
sorry when they come up and find me
dead"
Time passed and the pangs OF hung
err assailed him, but he had a pref
ty stubborn will of his own. Slowly
the afternoon dragged along and the
shades of evening began to fall At
last there came to him the sound of
plates and knives and forks, and he
knew that the family were sitting
down to dinner.
Then he weakened and went down
stairs.
The family were at table, as he had
supposed, but nobody took. any par
ticular notice of him. 1t was embar-
RAISING. When the maid had served
him his parents began a conversation
in quite a matter-of-course way, and
without any reference to his protract-
ed absence.
Bertrand Edward felt that some
thing had to be done to break the ice.
Looking down by his chair he saw
Toozelums, the cat, demurely making
her toilet
WELL said Bertrand Edward, in
his incest and most polite tones, 81
see you have the same cat here still. -
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-28

Poverty may be handicap to some
young men who are born with the
shadow of the hoe and the skeleton
like form of the hay fork before them,
but to William Henry Stubs it is
nothing more than an inspiration.
soul absorbing desire to reach the
higher attachments of life as well as
the lowly scudi.
He acquired early a reputation as
a rising young man when he offered to
go up in the balloon at the country
fair in place of Monsieur Dago Scarf
buss, who had been hitting the rural
istic hard cider all forenoon and was
not acquainted with the bird-in con-
sequence of which Monsieur had gone
into retirement for the rest of the day.
William Henry rose with an adagio
movement that was the very poetry
of action
After that Williams life was a
dream, and he forgot to notice his
former comrades He. became both
success in the lofty art of raising as
we'll as falling. He scared up in a
balloon and came down in large
parachute; he made bags of mon, and
was the envy of all who came in con-
tact with him. Few young men OF
10 ever reached such high attitudes
of fame or sunk to such depths OF
glory.
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A WONDER OF ELECTRICITY.

Wet Commuter Finds a Use for Incan-
descent Bulbs and Is Made Happy.
Il was caught in the deluge the
umbrella arrived at my Office thor
oughly soaked from my knees down.
said sad-eyed suburbanite who was
recounting the joys of country life. 81
knew that to sit at my desk all day
with wet feet and legs meant a severe
cold or worse, and I was in a wretched
state.
81 sat with the cold, wet things MAX
ing me more and more miserable,
when suddenly had an idea. In my
office are number of swinging mean
only. Loosening the surplus wire to
give the lights more play and remov-
ing the light shades, 1 turned on the
current and, resting my legs on a
chair, pushed a light up each leg of
my trousers to a point between the
knee and ankle.
THE heat from the lights was just
the right quantity, and in about half a
minute my legs began to feel a warm
glow that was delightful, and the
steam rose in miniature clouds.
I'm half an hour both legs of my
trousers were thoroughly dry. Then
and they were dry in no time. The
job was finished by putting the lights
in my shoes, and I had dry shoes in
a little over an hour."-New York
Sun.
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IN CONFLICT WITH WEBSTER.
University Professor 'fMixed'' in SPELL
inc of SimpIe Word

University Professor "Mixed" in SPELL
ing of Simple Word.
They tell story out at Evanston
on one of the professors of North
western university that the professor
himself declares has got far past the
point where it is any longer joke
This professor is a teacher of English,
the head of a department, and if there
is any one thing he demands of his
students it is that they shall know
how to spell the words they use.
Not long ago a difficulty arose in
Evanston, during the settlement of
which this professor deemed it his
duty to write letter to one of the To-
cal papers correctly setting forth the
facts in the case. In his letter he de-
sired to use the word "exonerate."
When he handed the letter to the sub
urban editor that gentleman said:
Professor, it seems to me that you
have misspelled one word
Impossible" said the professor in
dismay. 'Impossiblei You are quite
mistaken"
well, here it isl said the editor
you have spelled exonerate e-x-h-o-n-
crate. That is not right"
The professor laughed. isn't
liSHI! nd, Ia, Ia! mat ike you
newspaper men. 1 refer you to Web
ster''
But 1 am sure Webster has it e-x-
o-n-e-r-a-t-e."
Then Webster cannot be right, but
Webster has it my way. Can't you
see how it is: Elk spells ex- meaning
without, and honor spells honor
without honor. There you have it,
But exonerate doesn't mean with
out honor. 1t means, literally, to I'M
load, to exculpate.'
ooh, well, print it any way you want
it, said the professor, GROSSLY. Its
your paper, and 1 haven't any right
to say what 1 shall write, + suppose"
And the professor walked out. still
contending that he was right.-Chica-
go Inter Ocean.
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Fortunes "No."

Fortune is lady. with lady's whims and
wiles:
There is glory in her favor and enchant-
ment in her smiles;
She may turn her back tomorrow,
though her mood is kind to-day
She may turn from love to hatred in a
tickle womans way.
Fortune is a lady; she may frown him
who tries
Through the fairest means to WOO her,
to find favor in her eyes,
And bestow her choicest blessings on
some undeserving one
Who neglects to give her credit, and in
suits ner just for fun
Fortune is a lady with a willful Iady's
right
To be petulant or merry. to exhibit love
spite,
And the man is blest who brave1y has
the heart to take her SO,
yyhe declines to think she means 1t whom
he hears her murmur NO.
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Mosouitoes and MaIarIa.


In view of the recent attempts made
in New Jersey to destroy the mosqui-
toes by the use of petroleum on the
standing water of the 1owIands, and
also on account of the experiments
made by experts in Cuba to show
that mosquitoes carried malarial and
fever germs, the report of Major Pen
ton, principal medical officer of the
Soudan, is of especial interest. Only
a short time ago mosquitoes were SO
thick in his locality that the use of
nets to ward on the pests was a neces-
sity, but now these can be dispensed
with almost entirely. Several marshy
swamps surrounding the town have
been filled up by gangs of workmen,
thus leaving no breeding place for the
insects. With their disappearance
there has also been a marked de-
crease in malarial fever, all the medi-
cal officers of the district agreeing
that this has been the healthiest year
on record, and it is probable that
when the work has been completed
malaria will have disappeared from
the region altogether.
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Inflated Tubes Surround Edges.
az the medicine taken internally. This
bathing apparatus consists of a water
proof sheet, with surrounding air
tight tube, which can be inflated to
form a raised wall around the edges
OF the sheet high enough to contain
considerable amount of water. When
the tubes are debated it is compare
lively easy task to roll or lift the pa
tient onto the sheet, as the tubes lie
nat on the bed. After the imitation is
completed the water can be poured
in, or line of hose can be connected
with the hot water faucet in the bath
room or washbowl to fill the tub" to
the desired height. After the bath the
water is drained OH through short
section of hose beneath the pneumatic
tubing.
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his eye. The order was paid for in
cold cash.
The next week was an eventful one
in the office of the Clarion. Cleaners,
carpenters and painters renovated the
place.
The way Norris added to. his sub
scription list and advertising patron
age would have made a competitor
turn green with envy, had there been
one at Cranberry Corners. He met
Lowenstein, the clothier, and asked
for a page of advertising. The old
man made a move to protest, but
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Turned on his heel, and passed out.
caught a CLINT from the eye of the
thriving editor, and Immediately
changed his attitude. He invited him
into his store, wrote out a check for
a quarters advertising in advance, be-
sides presenting him with a necktie
and a pair of suspenders.
1t seemed that when Norris want
ed anything, all that he had to do was
to ask for it. A half days pleasure
ride into the country added hun
dred subscribers to his list.
Matters went on this way for a
year. Norris paid back the money he
had secured on the day of his trans
formation, and was getting ready to
brick structure. The morning the
moving commenced he came to his
Office in a carriage, and stood about.
deeply interested in the removal of
his old associates. By and by, the
workmen carried out a box of patent
medicine bottles which had been
stored away at the time of the reno
vation, year before. That wonder
full eye of Norris fell on three of the
bottles, the seals of which were brok-
en-. He picked them out of the rub
bish pile and looked them over care
fully. They still held part of the
LIQUIDS they had contained when he
first investigated them. He looked
at the labels and it then dawned on
his mind for the first time that the
admixture of the drugs had wrought
the great change in his financial con-
dition and material happiness. He
shuddered to think what might have
been the result had he by accident re-
versed the order of taking, or had
not tempered with the bottles at all.
Clearly, it was a case of the greatest
luck.
His first impulse was to have the
contents of each bottle analysed by
different chemists, secretly ascertain
ing the Ingredients of each, and go
down in history renowned as the dis
coverer of the Wine of Wealth." a
medicine which would make million
aires of men in a day. On second
thought he concluded that he would
consider the matter further before
acting, whereupon he thrust the
three bottles into his pocket and
went out for an hours pleasure with
his auto That hour was spent in
debating the question of whether or
not he would go into the manufacture
of the Wine of Wealth" as a bust
ness, and make this a land of million
aires, or keep the secret to himself.
The decision was against making
millionaires of the populace. On a
little eminence overlooking Gran
berry Corners, Mr. Norris stopped his
auto, took the bottles from his peck
ct and carefully selected No. l. He
drank the liquid to the very dregs,
then flung the empty bottle over the
precipice, where the broken glass rat
tied among the boulders as the pieces
scattered The contents of No. fol
lowed the first The empty bottle
clattered down the side of the hill In
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attack of apoplexy by displaying the
roll of bills and paying that faithful
emp1oye in full to date
He then walked back to his Office.
cleared the desk of the bottles, after
labelling them 81, 2. 81 in the order
in which he had broken the seals He
did this without any forethought of
the future. 1t was his habit to mark
articles when putting them away
Then he went to work with a vigor
he had not known for years. At clos
ing-up time he started for home, or
dering a generous supply of provisions
at the nearest grocery store. His or
der was filed with alacritys after the