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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-11
Il DESCOTERF

It is interesting, If not profitable, to
as others see US if they will kindly tell
us how they see Us. For some time
thousands of the good farmers of the
West and Northwest have been migrat-
ing into northwestern Canada. 1t has
been supposed by those who think the
United States Is a pretty good place to
live in that these farmers have left it,
not on account Of its lack of freedom
and other things that the American
Eagle stands and screams for, but be-
I'cause they thought they could make
money easier and faster on the Cana
dian lands than on the lands they have
left. But the Saturday Review, which
always knows more about the United
States than those who live in it, has
another explanation for the migration.
1t says that the real motive back of it
is the enjoyment that people find in es-
Gaping from the illiberal character Of
the institutions on this side Of the Dor
der.
The Review has made a very inter-
esting and important discovery. 1t
doesn't tell US how it made it, but it
doesn't need to. 1t has made SO many
discoveries about the way things go in
this country that one more will not ex-
cite any surprise or doubt. 1t will con-
tinue to make others. Meanwhile the
illiberal character Of our institutions
will continue to attract from other
countries, including countries blessed
with the liberal English institutions
immigrants enough to take the place Of
those who have gone to Canada to es-
cape our illiberal institutions.
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meal a day, and died in their thou
sands and millions upon the first stress
of scarcity, despite the efforts of a
benevolent government to save them.
Nor could an explanation of Indian
poverty be found in the increase of
the population or the spendthrift habits
of the people. The census returns of
1901 disclosed the fact that practically
there had been no increase of popula-
ton, and that the increase in certain
areas had been counterbalanced by de-
crease in other parts of the country.
The remedial measures which should
be adopted in view of the retrogression
of the country might be summarized
as follows: The revival of old indus
tries and the creation of new ones; the
moderate assessment of the land tax;
the remission of taxes which pressed
heavily upon the poor. He had heard
a great deal, he said, about India be-
ing the most lightly taxed country in
the world. Let them turn to the tes-
timony of figures. The pressure of
| taxation on the income of an English
man was only 6 per cent, against 1872
per cent. in the case of the native of
India. These figures were sufficient to
dispose Of the theory of light taxation.
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NOT READY FOR n.

It is announced that the friends Of
the metric system bill now before con-
gress have decided not to press 1t fur
Their during the present session, feeling
that the people are not yet eager enough
for the adoption of the system. One of
the things that has aided the advocates
of the bill in reaching this decision Is
the fact that societies Of engineers,
whose members are much interested in
such measures, have pronounced
against the proposal to make the use of
the metric system compulsory after
certain date. Engineers protest that
the compulsory use Of the metric sys-
tenn means the infection Of vast ex-
pense on the manufacturing industries
and on the people, who will be unable
to make articles shaped by reference to
the inch fit with new articles shaped
! by reference to the centimeter. Screw
threads would differ in the two systems
81 LldL lepdlES COuIu liOI DS flduG ny
adapting a new part to an old machine
Present tools would become untitled
for use in many operations. Numbers"
of wires and other articles would have
to be changed. Old books of reference,
old patterns, old records and old litera-
ture would become difficult to handle.
The inconvenience suffered by retailers
and their customers would be so great
that they ought not without very solid
reason to be called upon to endure it.
| There is weight in this protest The
huse Of the metric system is all right in
theory, but it appears that confusion of
standards has been the result Of the at
tempt to introduce it in France, Ger
many and other countries. 1t was
stated in a paper read recently at a
| meeting of engineers that in both Of
these countries the old measures are
still in use, being preferred in the sew
eral industries by the workmen. In
both Germany and France the old and
the new system exist side by side, and
English measures along with them in
| certain lines Of business in which the
| English have been leaders.
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Wantanno-Has Blowhard really
been abroad?
DuZno-Has he? I should rather
guess not. Why he doesn't know a.
French shilling from Latin quarter
Exchange.
Mrs. Frankfort-Aunt Clara says I'm
Gle John never tried to deceive her.
Mr.. Frankfort guess that's so, all
right. Uncle John says there are some
persons you can make believe anything
you want to without trying.--Boston
Transcript.
There was once a miserable debtor
Who sat down to write long lebtor.
When he picked UP the ink,
His heart it did sink,
For he spilled some all over his sweb-
tor.
Wesleyan Literary Monthly.
Bacon--That Jersey friend of yours
is happy man.
Egbert-How so?
'Oh, I believe he's introduced a red
mud out there that harmonizes with
the carpets, and he's never blamed for
Yonkers Statesman.
The Aunt Ceiling the story of the
Sleeping Beauty)-What do you think
did the Prince give the Kings daughter
to wake her? Well, how does your
mamma wake you up? What does she
give you in the morning?
Elsie-A spoonful of cod-liver Oil,
Auntie.-Brooklyn Life.
do you want war;" asked the prime
minister.
Certainly not" answered the king.
Then why do you assume such de-
faint and bellicose attitude?"
Because I have reason to suspect
that the other country is even more
averse to war than am" -Washington
Star.
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or ALE. GOLD.

All is not gold that glitters, and when
there is much glitter there may be
much that is not gold. Mr.. Secundra
Bannerjee forcibly reminded the Indian
National Congress that there was an
other side to the glittering picture af-
forded by the coronation Durbar. He
said that the people of India were not
longer children. to be dazzled by a mere
pageant, but hoped for some substan-
tial concession as a mark of the favor
of their sovereign. They had been told,
he said, that familles we're due to
drought. Other countries suffered from
drought, but did not suffer from FAM
inc. Destitution was the root cause or
Indian famine. The people We're abso-
lutely resourceless, sunk III the deep
est depths of poverty, living from hand
to mouth, often starving upon one
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PARIS UNIVERSITIES.

Artistic Beauty of the French "Confer-
ence"-Wholesome Outcome of the
Dreyfus Affair.
Several Of my most interesting eve
nings In Paris were passed attending
lectures at what are known as ''popu-
lar universities" Two of these lee
tures-one by Prof. Charles Glide, the
world-known economist, the other by
Antole France, the greatest living
fascinating have ever heard. The
French conference is a species of
lecture which is absolutely unique, In
its artistic beauty, subtle humor, and
sparkling wit. To my mind 1t is a
higher form of art than the theater.
This popular university" movement is
one of the most remarkable manifesto
tions yet seen of the spirit of the goth
century. 1t Is at bottom a religious
movement. Scientific French agnosti-
cism is becoming constructive, is trying
to develop T. religion. It has discovered
that the cold truth of science is power
less except as warmed into life by the
frame of passionate altruism-that
the scientific spirit and the Christ spirit
are fundamentally and eternally ne
cessary each to the other. This move
ment has spread very rapidly, having q
center in every ward in Paris and its
environs, and not a few springing up
on all sides in the provinces. It is a
recognition by the ''intellectuals," the
brains Of France, that unless they
understand and are understood by the
Drawn and sinew of a nation, they are
abnormal, impractical, and impotent
1t is a recognition by the workingmen
that intelligence, when not prostituted
to plutocratic. aristocratic or clerical
influence, is their best friend and CO.
worker in the solution of the grinding
problems of civilization. A solidarity
of interests is seen to extend through
all classes of society, except the preda-
tory and parasitic ones. Philosophy,
economies, literature, natural science,
hygiene, music, art are all taught to
classes of grimy workingmen by the
greatest professors, artists, and writers
of France.
This movement, like much that is best
in French life to-day, is the outcome of
the Dreyfus affair. This moral crisis
through which France passed, and
passed SUCCESSFULLY. has been of
measureless value. The struggle was
so intense, the excitement arose to such
a white heat, that French thought and
life were reduced to a state of chemical
solution. When they recrystallized,
new forms, new alignments, appeared,
a transformation had been wrought.
French politics furnishes one of the
most striking examples of this. Be-
fore the Affair French political par
ties were a hopeless tumble of progress
twists, radicals, radical socialists, revo-
lutionary socialists, plain and uncom-
promising socialists, Allemanists,
Quesdists, Blanquists, nationalist,
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anti-Semities. rallies. revisionists
royalists, Boiiapartists, clericalists and
independents. From this chaos have
emerged two considerations of groups.
On one side are found those who believe
in defending the free institutions their
farthers died to found, and who believe
in still further progress. This includes
most of the socialists and radicals as
well as what We call the conserva-
tives. On the other side are the Bona
partists and r0yallists, who are trying
to overthrow the republic, the clerical
! lists, who are trying to overthrow reli-
gious freedom and nOn-sectarian edu-
cation, and most of the millionaires,
who blindly fight all progress on gener-
al principles.
had the privilege of watching the
first desperate battle between these
rival hosts. 1t was the fiercest political
contest France has seen since the birth
! throes of the present republic. The
reactionaries had an unlimited slush
fund and bought every purchasable
| vote, prostituted every mercenary-
newspaper or magazine, enlisted the
services of every unprincipled SPELL
| binder, and yet were so thoroughly
| beaten that friends of progress all over
| the world lifted up their voices in
| thanksgiving. 1t was the most splen-
did victory for reform that the world
has seen for several decades. The best
campaign speeches I heard were by M
Labor, the brave defender of Dreyfus
and editor of the Grand Review" and
by Jean Jaures, the leader of the mod
crate, parliamentary socialists, editor of
a socialist daily paper, and the most
eloquent man to-day in French political
life. Before entering politics, he was a
college professor. He is perfect mag
netic battery-rousing to a high pitch of
enthusiasm, by sheer force of personal-
ty, friend of mine who didn't UNDER
stand word of French, and fairly set
ting on fire his audience of twenty
| thousand Frenchmen. He brushes his
opponents beneath an avalanche Of
facts, leads his auditors on to high and
ever higher ideals by series of word
pictures, touches the deepest chords Of
the human heart by the play of his po-
etc fancy around the fundamental pro-
| blems of life and death, and then
sounds the wild charge of battle and
fires his hearers with invincible devo-
ton to the cause by sublime appeal
to the passions of patriotism, self-inter-
est, and family love. How envied the
French their clarified political atmos-
phere-the simplicity of the situation!
1t is probably too delightful to last, but
it is certainly the commencement ola
new and brighter epoch in French pol
itics.-Carl S. Vrooman in the Outlook.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

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Obituary Notices, In prose or verse, ID
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Local Notices, 10 cents per line.
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AltMatnll.

Beware cried Age; lyon Turing dowery
way
Let not thy young feet press.
So once to me It's colors glowed.
"Tis all enchantment: farther out, the road
Winds through a wilderness
Unheeding Youth passed on; magician Love
Looked down with O rare smile.
To him then Age cried out In tones Of pain
Have pity. and deceive Me once again,
Just for little WHILE
William Hurd Hillyer in Munsey's.
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There are more ways than one to skin
cats and people. It is reported from
st. Paul that the Standard Oil trust, on
losing a local suit for damages to the
amount of 900 on account of injuries
caused by gasoline, at once advanced
the price, and in nine days collected
from the local public enough extra to
pay all the costs.
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Judge Dick, of Columbus, Ohio, has
discharged Eva Earle, woman who
was prosecuted for accepting a fee to
He declared that any invalid had the
right to hire another to pray for him if
he wished to do so.
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It is related that when a bald-headed
Boston man inquired of an acquaint-
ance what he should represent at a
masquerade ball, he was advised to
sugar-coat his pate and promenade as
a pill.
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A mourning Missouri widow has just
put up a handsome tombstone to her
late husband, bearing the inscription:
REST in peace-until we meet again"
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The provinces Of southern Italy are
in a condition of utter wretchedness
The emigration from the Neapolitan
provinces reached 1884 in 1902, near
ly twenty out of every thousand of the
population. AS Baron Lonnino graph
cally puts it: 1.-THE agriculture is per-
fishing, the country is being depopu-
lated, and prosperity is being crushed.
The only thing which swells and pros
pers is the understanding octopus of
usury."
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1t is said that President Mckinley
never showed any particular fondness
for the carnation until some girls at
tending the Lake Erie college, at
gainesville, Ohio, elected him an hon.
orary member of their class, and pinned
their class flower in his buttonhole.
The incident occurred on November 10,
1888, while the president then COVER
nor, was in gainesville, guest Of the
Garfield Club. He devoted no little
time to the college girls, who had hon.
ored him, and his attitude thereafter
showed that he appreciated their ad-
ri1iration. He often remembered and
was remembered by them thereafter.
Mrs. Mckinley also took great interest
in the class and its insignia, and was
accustomed to provide bunch Of car
nations for her husbands room each
morning. The first reunion Of the class
took place when Mckinley was nomi-
mated for the presidency, and the class
sent him congratularory telegram.
He visited the college several times,
and was member Of its board of trus-
tees.
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Senator Wark, who is a member Of
the Canadian parliament and who ex-
poets this year to attend to his legisla-
tive duties, as he has annually for over
half a century, is probably the oldest
hundredth year and has been one OF
the legislators for the province of New
Brunswick for upward of sixty years.
He was an old man when the provinces
were confederated into the Dominion.
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A telescope ladder capable Of being
extended to a length of s. feet and
worked by means of compressed air
was tested recently in Pittsburg. The
ladder can be directed at a particular
window in a burning building; a fire.
man dashed to the end of the ladder is
shot up with it, and rescued persons
need not Chamber down, as the ladder
can be quickly lowered with them on
il.
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State and city governments are CO.
operating for the work Of raising the
grade of Galveston Texas, thus giving
additional security against any future
disaster from the sea. The bill appro-
priating all the State taxes collected
in Galveston county Except school
taxes) for fifteen years has become law.
This money will assist the city in the
issuance of bonds. The chairman of
the Finance committee of the Board of
city Commissioners reported the other
night that about $4,000 is now on hand
for grading and raising funds.
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Strawberries.

There are lot Of them here this morn
ing, and prices are very low for this season
Of the year.
1t is unnecessary to mention our fine
grade of FLORIDA ORANGES and GRAPE
FRUIT. They sell themselves.
There are PEARS. and GRAPES. and
PINEAPPLES, and TANGERINES, and
SWEET APPLES, and various other fruits
the best OF their kind.
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Wednesday Is The Last Day

Of the Stuttgarer Underwear Sale. Twill be your only
chance this year buy this famous Atwood sanitary Under
wear at reduction Of rs percent. Mems, Womens.
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The Beautiful New Spring Challies.

SOME shown in one of big windows. Quaint charm
ing Chaes to be popular than ever this Spring
and Summer because of the revival of the fashions Of $780,
Scores of novel patterns From IS cents 10 eS cents
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Gasoline and Steam ENGINES
MONEY WANTED.

Boilers. steam pumps. steam. gas and water sup
plies sawuilI machinery. betting hose, etc.
FAIRBANKS. MORSE & CO.. st. Louis.
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DON'T WASTE 500

When you can save that much by buying your
piano from the manufacturer direct. I'VE make
all our own goods and give you the benefit. Call
and elegant assortment and astonish-
ingly low prices BRADBURY Piano warerooms,
F. 6. Smith, mfr. lol2 Olive st. A E. Whita
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By Telegraph.

a. Grand T9 r IL June a-chester down =.
rett In and out from Sc. Louis. xndsr.an 60fnr
s "a 1ocry: Echo doing railroad Chester ID
weather CLOUDY and warm. with rsaH
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$4,000 over. to invest in equities in ST. Louis
real estate, to be managed by local landlord
can accept 500 over: will show about 10 per
cent net earnings. Z 2S5. Republic.
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River Forecast.
The Missouri has begun to fall at Kansas
City. Boonville reports a rise Of ~ feet in the
past "a hours which brings the stage to Is feet.
1t will rise to near q feet there tonight and
commence to fall Thursday. The rise a. Her
mann will be rapid during the next Is hours;
passing the 2s-foot stage during Thursday. Tho
Mississippi in the 81. Louis district will rise
feet at Hannibal in the past "a hours At 81.
Louis the rise will continue rapid during the
Thursday morning and "a by Friday.
age from 5 stage Saturday or Sunday are Id.
yised.
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TRIBE OF BEN HuR.

EUREKA COURT NO. S. T. B. H. MEETS ON
the first and third Thursdays of each month al
Fraternai building Eleventh and Franklin ave-
nue.. All visitors cordially invited; Ey order.
Attest: z. c. LAWN. Scribe. No. COS Cas- ave.
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DOCTOR ANNIE NEWLAND.

ronfnements. sic: trained nursing: elegant &C.
s--mmodatons: free homes for infants II desired;
ladies treated for 50 treatment guaranteed); reg
ulator. 81 only. private. reliable. secluded, IL
censed home. where you are well treated and
your care guaranteed: private diseases a special
ty. 233lA Olive st.
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TO paint your floor right Gnnitoid floor pain,
will DO Y Ask your dealer. or Grote Paint Co,
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Departures To-Day
River Rialto Brevftie,.


Because she could not pass beneath the Ner-
chants, bridge. the steamer Belle Of Calhoun
yesterday and her crew discharged. The asents
OF the boat announce that they viii endeavor 10
afternoon. '.
rardcau that the chester broke her shaft yester-
day morning she was entering the hsrbor.
towboa, her aid and she viii S. sos sea
back to St; Louis for repairs. Captain Terry
TO obtain another boat in her place and that Inc
cident Nv -"
The Peters Lee i. due this morning from
Memphis and will go out on the return Tomorrow
booked a large cabin register for the trip.
The Columbia will be in this morning from
noon on the return she PROBABLY m vi, hhe IA ,
only boat going South which viii depart today.
Of the Lee Lin have thu.
Captain Sims 70, a race to Memphis and return
ernoon for the Missouri River taking up heavy
cargo
The Bald Eagle departed for Peoria yesterday
large freight.
The excursion steamer corwin H Spencer
the flooded district.
Captain Sam Coffin OF Louisville KY, was \
visitor along the Levee yesterday.
The harbor boat has been busy during tho
nigh water keeping the wharfooats to the bank
1t is believed by many rivermen that II the
river reaches % feet several Of the steamer
now plying the upper river will have to Suspend
navigation because OF the bridges
BY Telegraph.
REPUBLIC SPECIALS.
Pittsburg. Pa, June 3.-River a.; rising
Cloudy and warm
Wheeling. w. Va. June driver L.; feet. fall
ing. Clear and warm.
Cincinnati o.. June a-River rising. ISL feat
Clear and warmer.
Evansville. Ind. June a-River lax. rts,p,.
Clear. s'
Crystal City Mo-. June 3-The ,su~. r..d.
al and rising. Boats down: General CASEY 4
p m: Chester. m: Columbia, 7:sO D. m.
General Casey up. 12:3s D. m. Weather cloudy
and COOL N'"10S
burlington. Ia. June 3.-The river In n ,... q
Inches above low-water mark. a rise Of TX incheS
since last report. Weather cIeartne 49, :
heavy rainstorm. The EloIse in ana ons Srnr,
keokuk. The Percy Swain In port AioA'
warsaw. ILL.,. June 3.-Gauge reads NJ I. ia.
OF 3 In past twenty-four hours WeStb::re caoi
and raining Young in and out MscSenxie ~
districts irotn Hoooeo
TicksburE. Miss. June 3-The r,p,. ,..A.,
raining. ~enef cool sao
Grand Tower. H.. June a-che,t., 49, :.
S:R a. m Cape Grardeau down A. = N 49,
rett In and out from st. Louis xnder.an 66tns
railroad today. Echo doing railroad chestsr m
AZ m; Inc gauge reads q feet md fisaIS
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River and Business.
Harbor gauges yesterday evening marked u.s.
feet. indicating rise OF is foot In "a hours
Business along the Levee yesterday was mod
crate.
Weather unsettled.