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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31
NOT ALL PIE.

Municipal ownership of public utilities isn't all pie. The managers of the Hol- yoke (Massachusetts) municipal gas and. electric light departments have made a statement after six months of service which shows a deficit of $14,2SS There have been extensions made to the plant costing $14,1S7. Manager Snow complains of the exacting condi- tions of the law which requires the steady payment of the bonds and a charging off annually of 5 per cent. for depreciation, He says what this depre- citation charge is purely a matter of bookkeeping, it will necessarily cause the plant to make a poor showing; but this depreciation charge. will decrease each year, and also the interest pay ments, as the bonds are paid. So that while for the first two years, probably, the plants will not make favorable showing. and the end of that time the balance. including the depreciation charge. should commence to be on the right side. Manager Snow says that there can be no reduction in the price of gas or electricity. and ends with this significant averment: Tt will be seen, however, that the most careful financial management is necessary in order that these plants will not be great burden to the taxpayers"
 management in private companies to produce profits. The trouble with pulp lie management is that it is not likely to be very careful.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31
 TUMUE

First class in Geography, stand up. What is the capital of the Common wealth of Australia? Don't know? Why, Tunaut, of course. Tumut is the
 pretty name of the place selected by the commissioners appointed by the Commonwealth of Australia to select a. site for federal capital It is a little township of thirteen hundred inhabi- tants in the center of fertile and high ly cultivated plain. Formerly Tumut was gold-digging center, but the allu- vial mines have been washed out and the mining industry has drifted twenty miles west to -Adelong. Tumut's eli.
 mate is excellent, and the agricultural products of the surrounding country are of a most varied character and abun- dant. A correspondent of the London Telegraph describes the town as pie turesque little "one -horse" place. It lies spread over a hillside it's long main SeASSL LohAiASo eNaOAiSo %AtS olOpC L4Olll L1iC bush" covered hilltop to the winding river below. The majority of the houses are one-storied, weather-board cot tages, with narrow verandas along their street frontage. The better-class build ings are of brick, of the ordinary bum galow type, with deep verandas on 'every side. Only in the central part of the town do we find two-storied houses;
 the banks, four in number, the hotels, ten in all, and the stores are the only buildings that soar higher than the or dinary single-story level. Such is the spot at which the central government of Australia is to be accommodated. It is isolated and healthful, and without commerce or railroads. The nearest railroad is twenty miles off. But it has the advantage of being equi-distant from Sydney and Melbourne, and from Adelaide and Brisbane, which are, how
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

No fewer than fourteen new monu- n1ents are soon to be added to Berlin's park, the Thiergarten. Among the men to be commenlorated are Moltke, Roon, Wagner, Haydn-M Mozart Beethoven Gone nonument), Helmholtz, Zeller, Blumen- thai. When these are completed the Thiergarten will have 15O monuments, 96 of them in the Siegesalle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31
MORJ,.

"Too bad they can't train cats to un- derstand baseball" remarked the fat fan to his neighbor on the bleachers. They'd make ideal umpires-one life for each inning. "-Exchange
 She-Do you love me as much when you are away from me?
 He (fervently)-I love you more, dar- ling.
 She (sighing)-I wish could be with you then.-Life.
 Mrs. Henpeck (hearing rumpus)- You Charles, I'd like to know what you are up to now.
 MT. Henpeck (feebly)--I suppose, my dear, can fall down the cellar stairs if want to.-Tid-Bits,
 "Is your son going back to college?"
 "Yes," answered Farmer Corntossol.
 Doesn't he know enough?" t..
 "Yes; he's got book learnin', but from the way he's been helpin' around the place this summer reckon he needs a few more athletics. s."-Washington Star.
 q am afraid" said the very wealthy young woman to the titled wooer, that our ideals differ.''
 Tn what way?"
 q should like to be loved for my own sake, while you expect to be loved for the sake of your family" Washington Star. .s.
 Remember" said the serious man, that money is not the only thing to be striven for in this life"
 Maybe not," answered Senator Sorg- Ia,,,,, |, xuyi1r No 1nt nf it is, and I am not egotist enough to try to set any new fashions. Wash ington Star.
 MT. Nozzleton," she said, If you try to hug and kiss me again shall call papa --s'.
 Where is your father?" he asked. He's the Yellowstone Park and will be beyond mail or telegraphie commit nication for three weeks. ."-Chicago Record Herald. Z, t.1 :Patsy--Mom, won't yer gimme me candy, now? @~~
 Mrs. Casey-Didn't oi tell ye oi wouldn' give ye amy at ali if ye didn't kape still?
 Patsy-Yes, m, but n --.
 Mrs. Casey-WelI. the longer ye kape still the sooner yell get it.-Philadel- phia Press.
 Esther-Yes; MT. Sweetser was quite taken with Millie, but she thought sine never could live happily with him, he was so eccentric.
 Martha-Eccentric?
 Esther-Yes; he went fishing the oth- CT day, and when she asked him about his luck he said he only caught one or two little ones.-Beston Transcript.
 Landlady-rll have to request you to pay in advance, MT. Shortleigh.
 Shortleigh-Why, ain't my trunk good for weeks board?
 Landlady-No; it looks like one of those emotional trunks.
 Shortleigh-Emotiona
 Landlady-Yes; one that is easily moved.-Chicago Daily News.
 Peters-Her marriage is like TO- nance.
 Parr-So?
 Peters-Yes; she eloped with her fathers chauffeur. The automobile blew up and killed him before they got to the minister The man who rescued her from the wreck proposed to her on the way home, and was accepted. They were married yesterday. Baltimore American.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

means fair, entered. The man and the maid stood far enough apart now, but . there on the back of his coat were those two white arms and hands. The wo- man took up a rolling pin. 'Ready?" she asked.
 Let her go,'' said the photographer.
 The woman brought down the rolling pin on the mans head and at the same time a picture of the blow was made. It was a genuine blow-a blow that hurt. "Ouch!" the man said, and he looked at the woman vindictively. She now took up a bucket of water that stood at hand. "Ready?' she asked.
 All ready" said the photographer. She hurled the. water over the man. It went in his mouth and up his nose. It drenched him thoroughly. He grunt- ed at the shock. Another picture. Finally the woman took the bag of flour that stood on the table and threw this on the man. The photographer, the woman and the pretty girl laughed heartily, but the elderly man smiled in a rueful manner. "This,'' he said, the last picture hay- ing been taken, lis strenuous posing for fair. I've earned my money here. all right, all right" <.-..
 That's what you have," said the pho- tographer.s .'Now, hurry into the bath room and bathe before the flour and water form crust on you" s5 ..
 The photographer then handed to each of these three persons a greenbacls and the episode was ended. .-.s What meaning" farmer from the interior would have asked. "does this strange episode have Why were these strange pictures made? Why did you put our middle-aged friend in the full dress evening suit to such atrocious suf- fering?"
 The photographer would have an- swered?
 Why, you see, we are illustrating a comic song. It is a song about a man that makes love to maid servant and gets caught by his wife. She beats him. These pictures I have taken illustrate lines in the song. The pictures will be thrown on screen in darkened thea ter, and man and woman will stand alongside of the screen and sing the song, the pictures changing as the song goes on, each line being illustrated with an appropriate more than life-size pho- tograph." a --.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31
SONG PICTURE POSING.

A New Vocation That Owes its Exis-
 tence to the Theater.
 A pretty girl stood beside a kitchen table in a room with a ceiling of glass. Her sleeves were tucked back over her white arms and she wore the short skirt and high-heeled shoes of the maid of the theater, says the Philadelphia Rec- ord.
 "Rea,dy?" she asked.
 From a corner man behind came- "a answered Ready" She buried her hands in a pan of dough that was on the table before her and the man pho- tographed her in that attitude. Now, there came from dressing room a gen. tleman of middle age in evening clothes. He posed himself beside the busy girl. He sat on the table bending over her, very friendly. "Ready?" he said.
 "All ready" the photographer an- swered
 A picture was llldue OI tIle pretty maid and the friendly middle-aged gen. tleman in evening dress who sat beside her while she worked.
 Then the gentleman, takinb hold of the maids chin gently turned her pret- ty face up to his. He looked down upon her roguishly, tenderly. Ready" he asked. A third picture was made. Now the elderly man took the beautiful girl in his arms. He placed his lips on hers. He said Ready" this time in somewhat muff1ed voice, and when he detached himself after the picture had been taken from the entwining maid the prints of her iour-covered hands and arms stood out with amazing dis tinctness on the back of his black coat.
 A woman, middle-aged and by no
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31
The New Baby.

Yes, I've got a little brother, Never asked to have him, nuther,
 But he's here. They just went away and bought him, And last week the doctor brought him,
 Weren't that GueerE When 1 heard the news from Molly, Why, thought at first twas jolly,
 Cause you see. I s'pOsed 1 could go and get him, And then mamma, course, would let nlm
 Play with me. But when once looked at him, Why" says, Great Snakes, is that him
 Just that mite? They said, "Yes," and Ain't he cunning !: And thought they must be funnin'-
 He's a sight. He's so small it's just amazin'. And you'd think that he was blazip1
 He's so red. And his nose is like a berry, And he's bald as Uncle Jerry
 On his head. Why, he isn't worth brick, All he does is cry and kick,
 He can't stop. Won't sit up, you can't arrange nm I don't see why pa don't change him
 At the shop. Now, we've got to dress and feed him, And We really didn't need him
 More'n frog; Why'd they buy baby brother When they know I'd good deal ruther
 Kansas Farmer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants, Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each tn. serrlon. Five Cents Word for full week
 Display advertisements. per inch. one in' sertion. s1.2O: each subsequent insertion, 40 cents: one week, s3.20: one, month. S1O; one year. s40
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. 10 cenrD per line, Notices of Births. Marri' ages, Deaths., and Funeral. 50 cents each. Local Notices. 15 cents per Ene.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thels own immediate business ta.I matter to be unoDjetcionahiej, and their contracts do nor iuclude Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31
EMPEROR WILLIAM'S TRAINING.


 Emperor William and Theodore Roosevelt are sometimes said to be much alike in their strenuousness. The Emperor has just paid a graceful and doubtless just tribute to the tutors who taught him how to work and made him work, The very earnest and constant preparation that I received, said the Emperor in a speech at the banquet given by him at Cassel. made me ca- pablo of putting on my shoulders the burden Of work which is becoming heavier from day to day. Although my teachers were aware of the responsibil- ities they had undertaken, and utilized every hour and minute to prepare me for my high calling, none of them had a clear provision of what an immense burden of labor, and what depressing weight he has to carry who is responsi- ble for 5S.000,0OO of Germans. Not for 8 moment do I regret the studies at that time thought severe. and I may truly say that work. and the life of work, have become my second nature" This ought to encourage the young men in the United States who are now under tutors being fitted to be sover- eigns. Perhaps the time will come when they can look back and see how much their dear teachers did for them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

The proposition to erect a monument to Henri Taine at vouziers has brought out some opposition, based on political hostility, notably from M. A. Aulard,
 rofessor in the Sorbonne, who accuses Taine of inaccuracy ill his history of the French revolution. M. 1Aulard goes so far as to say that Taine> was no histo- rian at all and that his Recommendation was So fantastic and erroneous that those who are authorities on the matter have long since dismissed his historical work as negligible. '
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

The leading professors of political economy in Great Britain, such men as Bastable, Cannan, Marshall, Nichol- son and Courtney, have united in a public protest against the Chamberlain policy of protection, because protection involves ''the loss of purity in politics. the unfair advantage given to those who wield the powers of jobbery and corruption, unjust distribution of wealth. and the growth of sinister in- terests." .,-& .~.s
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

ever, about four hundred miles farther off than the two first mentioned.
 Probably Tumut will be more by and by. It is well situated, and as the cap ital it will be respected and, let us hope, reSDecta hla
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

Bennett tSheaIey bought transportation from the South Carolina and Georgia Railway company. When the train on which he was passenger came to a halt at his station he left his seat in the car and was about to step off upon the station platform. Just then the train started ahead-"with jerk" he says. He was taken unawares, lost his balance, fell, and was badly hurt. He sued the company for $1O,O00. The jury found for the company, and Shea ley appealed. The Supreme court of the State affirms the judgment of the court below. 'The law" it says, 'does not impose upon the carrier, after stop- ping reasonable time for passengers to disembark, the duty of ascertaining before moving it's train, whether pass enger is in the act of alighting, or. in a perilous position, by inspecting the plat forms of the coaches or doing some other act reasonably necessary to as- certain or know whether passenger is about to disembark."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

A correspondent of Brooklyn paper from Islip says it this way: "The stork called at the Presbyterian Manse yes- terday afternoon and left package for which the Rev. and Mrs. Fish have been waiting for some years. They are rejoicing in a son.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

The comparative freedom from being obliged to engage in industrial pursuits which is enjoyed by the women of the United States is we'll known, but figures recently gathered show it in a forcible way. In Germany 25 per cent. of the self-supporting female population is employed and in England the percent age is 27. In most of the other civilized countries the female population, on &C., count of unfavorable economic condi- tions, has to contribute to large de- gree to the support of the families. In Italy the percentage is 40, while. in Aus tria it is 47. In the United States the percentage is 14.9, the lowest in any civilized country whose statistics are known. ~
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

The other day at Ostend a penny was offered by a lady to a man who res cued her from drowning and on his re- fusing this she offered him sixpence.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31

Female suffrage is in rather anoma- lous position in Australia. It is the law all over the commonwealth, so far as federal elections are concerned. But some of the constituent States have not yet sanctioned the woman voter in State elections. In South Australia fe- male suffrage has been in operation for some time. A member of the common wealth parliament, anxious to ascertain the best mode of approaching the wo- men voters in his constituency, sought the advice of an experienced South Aus traIian legislator. How do you please them? Do you kiss the baby?" he ask ed. No, sir." was the candid reply;
 i've kiss the elector.' +
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-09
1t Is Wrong Again.

The New Orleans Picavune now ad.
mits that the supporters of the Chicago
and Kansas City platforms only asked
for the reinstatement of the law which
Andrew Jackson signed, but it at.
tempts to dodge the issue by complain
ing that conditions are different. 1t
says:
To-day silver is worth per ounce In
London, the greatest silver market Of
the world, about so cents, so that our
silver dollar would be worth about 3S
cents. II we had the free coinage Of
silver, anybody could 60 into the mar
ket and buy silver at, say so cents an
ounce, and have it coined and pay it
out at the rate OF 129 cents an ounce.
The position taken by the Picayune
is absurd. 1t is strange that man
who has intelligence enough TO oc-
cupy a position on the editorial staff
OF any paper should be guilty Of so
ridiculous statement. Why should
any man sell his silver at 80 cents an
ounce and let another man make the
profit on itp We do not sell hogs or
corn, cotton or cattle, in that way.
The moment that prices 60 up in
New York 1t goes up all over the
country, and SO when man can 60 to
the mint and coin an ounce OF silver
into $l.29 he will not sell it to the
editor of the Picayune for 30 cents or
anything less than $1.29.
The argum ent Of the Pcayune re.
calls the story told by Ignatius Dom
nelly. 1t ran like this: Two men
were discussing The money question in
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-09
History Distorted.

A Kansas reader of the C01llna011er
quotes magazine writer as saying
that the gold standard was adopted by
the United States in 1884 under the
leadership of Andrew jackson and
Thomas Benton. 1t is strange that
any one could be 80 ignorant of history
or 80 deyoid of conscience as to make
such an assertion. The law Of 1884
merely reduced the size of the gold
dollar, 80 as to make it weigh one
sixteenth as much as the silver dollar,
it having weighed one-ffteenth as
much from 1892 down to that year.
Free and unlimited coinage at the
ratio of 16 to continued to 1873, and
every holder Of gold and silver bullion
could have his bullion converted into
unlimited legal tender money at the
established ratio. Prior to 1884 the
gold dollar was undervalued at the
mint, and was therefore at a premium.
Between 1884 and 1873 the silver dol
lar was undervalued at the mint, and
therefore at premium.
When in 1896 and 1900 the gold
standard advocates declared that the
gold standard was adopted in 1884 the
advocates of bimetallism answered
them conclusiyely by Offering to ac-
cept as settlement OF the question,
the very law which jackson signed,
but as that law provided for the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver at the ratio OF 16 TO l, without
waiting for the aid or consent OF any
other nation, it was of course not ac-
ceptable to the gold.bugs. All that
bimetallists ask for to-day is the re-
enactment Of the very law of 1884 to
which Andrew jackson affixed his
signature. Tile Conlmoner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-09

posed that DR.. Barton's opinion the
men who bid fair to become a charge
upon the community are not those who
receive the education of the college
class and lecture room, but men who 60
to college for other purposes and
neglect this essential.
There is grave danger not only that
such men are failing to fit themselves
for successful careers, but that they
are bringing into disrepute the insti-
tutions that give them certificates OF
scholarship which they have not
earned.
The chief fault does not lie with the
young men. Many of them are in
college because they are sent there.
They have little or no idea of useful
career. They are there to get the
maximum of fun with the minimum of
work.
The true purpose of college edu-
cation would be to change all this-to
plant in the young man the seeds OF
ambition and to develop in him habits
of industry and continuity OF purpose.
If the college fails to do this and,
instead, turns out men no better de-
veloped than they would have been
had the same time been spent in the
bayfield,, the fault is not with the
college management that for the sake
of the name of turning out large
classes or in the hope of getting large
endowments from rich fathers OF
diploma bearers, certifes to the
scholarship Of young men who do not
deserve so much as high school
diploma.
1t is not the really educated man
who is in danger OF becoming burden
on the community, but the man who
has come out of college uneducated
and who is deceived by his diploma
into the supposition that he is fitted
for intellectual pursuits, when in fact
he has only been fitted for the bayfield,.
81. Louis World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-09

sleeping car, and as they talked
others came up and asked questions.
Finally one man asked the silver man
if he thought it was right for the gov
ernment to pass law that would en-
able person to buy silver for 30 cents
and coin it into dollar and make the
difference 0he same argument ad-
vanced by the PicayHne). Tho silver
man explained that under free coinage
any man in the world could take an
ounce of silver to the mint and con-
vert it into 81 20, and then asked if,
under such law, anybody in the car
would sell an ounce Of silver for less
than 81 29 and let some other person
make the profit. There was silence
for a moment, and then voice in a
remote corner said: 81 would" The
silver man went to see from what
source the voice came, and found that
it came from young man that was
sitting by his mother, ard the mother
said: Don't pay any attention to the
boy. He is an idiot, and | am taking
him to the asylum"
If the editor of the Picayune would
not sell his silver for less than its
market value, why does he suppose
any one else would and If nobody
would sell his silver for less than it
was worth at the mint, how could any
body buy an ounce for 80 cents and
coin it into ST. 20?
The trouble is that the editor of the
Picayune, like other goldites who dis
cuss the question without understand
ing it, talks about buying silver be-
fore free coinage law passes and then
talks about coming it after the free
coinage law passes, without consider
ing the influence of law.created de-
mand upon the price of silver. The
Conamoner.