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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30
The New old Mother Hubbard.

Inc New old Mother Hubbard. Old Mother Hubbard. she went to the cup
 To fetch her poor dog a bone.
 But when she got there the euppeafa tehIg
 contained remnants of cold shredded
 and Peanutsl.
 And so the poor dog had none.
 She went to the bakers to buy him some But when she iiisI came back it is unnecessarily 10 state after the preceding verse tkatl
 The poor dog lay dead. She went to the joiner's to buy him coffin. (her next door neighbor, Christian Scientist, having heard her unneees, sary lamentatiOn. in the meantime haI come in, and, seeing the poor animal prone on the floor, had read eXtfacls 70 him from Mrs. EddT's latest book on the influence of mind over matter, with the natural result thatJ When she came back
 The dog was a-laughin'. She went to the barheF's to buy him wig. ! But when she came back lhe, hating plehesui ptA. U up q copy of '"The Cult Of Beanty- had found that by massagihg the mus cleS of the scalp of your head TOT tWenss ty minutes every two hours and a hait
 you VIII produce not only g tS saale1 eSnbsr. Sg: ance of his ioy)
 Was dancing jig. The dame made q courtesy. The dog made bow; The dame said, Your servant Ca term which this faithful servant of man: pc ing a member of several trades unions, took exception to as an obsolete term, so after taking brief resume of his principles and convictions, and having dwelt on the fact that, though ne ndn devoted all the hours of his day which were not claimed by his rest cure to q develop -yOur-muscle eat less, beauty for, IT, us-all-strenuous-life, he had been, SUI was. and always would be plan, good-hearted- street car-riding- common oy-garden dog, and could never hope 10 he the editor of q ladies paper. or an advertisement for any ones eonPieeAiOiaI ,PEhe aI,a | soap, with sigh of profound reiiet anu happy resignation), The dog said ''Bow-wow." ,..
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30
ADDITIONS.
Life.

Customer-"I've found out that the gallon of whiskey you sold me is doctor ed" Dealer-"'Um-well, you. said you wanted it for medical use.' .'-New York Weekly.
 "She has such a Christian spirit it actually pains her to talk scandal.
 ,''Yes, but it gives so much pleasure to her friends she undergoes the suffering as a Christian duty."-Judge.
 A Slash from Romance-"His keen gray eye fell upon her finely chiseled lips and clear-cut brow, while the blood springing to her cheeks, showed how deep had been the wound which he had inflicted. d."-Chicago Tribune. 1. She-"What are these magazine guns the papers tell about so often?" He Probably it's some gun powerful enough to send projectile through the advertising portion of the average mag azine. ."-Chicago Daily News.
 Mrs. Caudle-I think there's man down stairs. E .......s..
 MT. Caudle--I thought heard some one. Suppose you go down and ask him what he wants. Even a burglar would mt strike woman, you know,-Boston Transcript.
 That Will elp.-Jolkley- is your first visit to our flat, eh? It is rather small, but the agent is going to enlarge it bit.
 Poikley-Is it possible?
 Jolyley-oh, yes, it's possible. He pro- poses to scrape the paper off the walls and merely paint them.-Philadelphia Press. -,--}.s
 Mamma, why do landladies object to children?" 4 .~4. .'E5 .y*-
 Mother-'I'm sure don't know, but go and see what baby is crying about. and tell Johnny to stop throwing things at people in the street and make George and Kate cease fighting, and tell Dick if he doesn't stop blowing that tin trum- pet I'll take 1t away from him. ."-Tit- Bits.
 Family Doctor-"I hope, my dear lady. that you are all the better for your long holiday and thorough change of air."
 The Patient-"It has done me all, the good in the world, my dear doctor. I ,
 am a different being: in fact, quite another woman!'
 Sharp Child-"oh, mamma! How pleased papa will be when he hears thisi-Punch.
 MT. Jones-"oh. yes: I met Dick Bachelor and told him all about the baby.'' Mrs. Jones-"Did he listen pa- tiently?" MT. Jones-''Very, he listen- ed so patiently that I was afraid at first he wanted to borrow money. ''-- Puck.
 MT. Pneer was looking over his small change.
 Some contemptible scoundrel, I see, |" he said, "has passed slug on me for a nickel. Like as not 1t will take me a week to work it on somebody else. e.'-- l Chicago Tribune. @#..
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

well. She exercises the statesmanship necessary to maintain a Weil-Ordered and cultured home on small income a home constantly under inspection by the whole parish. She sets fashion in becoming dress which tones up the taste of many of her parishiOners whose husbands incomes are two or three times as large as the ministers salary. She is the pastor and the actual head of the too numerous wOmen's and chil- rden's organizations in the church, and she manages to keep most of the jeal- ousies Of their leaders from coming to the surface. She listens sympathetical- ly to the condolences Of the young wo- men of the congregation, and the small wedding fees which occasionally fall into her lap are meagre wages for all the time and thought she has given and the teas she has served to bring about these wedding services which her neighbors may laugh at, but which are the most delicate and valuable of all ministries when they issue in happy homes.
 She knows the pains, the joys, and the sorrows of motherhood, and she has strengthened the courage of many a shrinking wife faltering on the thresh- old of an unknown realm. When she has closed the eyes of the darling of her heart in the last sleep she goes out to cheer weary watchers by sick beds, and to give her silent sympathy to mourners who will not be comforted.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30
4 coon OUTDOOR.

The New York Journal of Commerce, which has been looking over the indus trial field for next year, finds the out look good, various big enterprises being in the works. Among the great engi- neering enterprises already begun and to be energettcally pushed in 1904 is the Pennsylvania tunnel under the Hudson and East rivers and in the city of New York. This calls for large quantities of iron and steel and will employ many thousands for a long time. The New York Central railroad also has exten- sive works in prospect, provision for which will keep many industries in ac- tive operation. The. enlargement of the Erie canal at cost of $101, 100000 has been approved by the popular vote of the State of New York. The eonstrue- tion of a one-thousand-ton barge canal from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic seaboard cannot but give an impetus
 IO puSllGoS 1ls JHc LidNStStu. HI various other States, North and South,
 companies controlling great railroad
 systems have a large volume of work
 in contemplation. The execution of it
 has been deferred on account of the
 past tight condition of the money mar
 lzet and the high cost of. labor and ma teria1, but these obstacles have been re-
 moved in part, with the result of bring
 ing again to the front needed improve
 ments which cannot be indefinitely
 postponed. The enormous traffic de-
 velopments of recent years have creat-
 ed pressing demand for large locomo-
 tives, stronger bridges, improved road
 bed and better cars. To save operating
 expenses it is now the ambition of every railroad to reduce distances, gra-
 dients and eurvatures--virtually creat- ing new lines. The realization of this
 ambition promises to be very consider
 ably advanced in the coming year. In Canada new transcontinental railroad is in preparation. The Grand Trunk
 Pacific Railway Company is about to enter upon the construction of four thousand miles of railroad from Hali-
 fax to Port Simpson, following the great divide that separates the basin of the St. Lawrence from that of Hud- son Bay. Vast areas of wheat land. timber and mines are to be opened to population and trade. The Panama canal is a task to be undertaken in the near future, creating demand for en- gineers, for machinery, for materials, for skilled labor and for unskilled labor, not only on the isthmus, but in various parts of the United States.
 So with good crops next year may not
 be the usually flat presidential year. Verify, this is a fortunate country, and it can and does do pretty much as it pleases.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30
ANGELS IN THE FLESH.

 A Religious Editors Tribute to the
 Wives of Ministers.
 Whoever is searching for angels in human forms will get larger results from ministers homes than from any otehr sort of place on this earth. There he will find unselfish ambition at it's highest, self-sacrifice the least conscious and the noblest, faith steady under the severest tests, says the Congregational ist. He will find.women accustomed in girlhood to fashionable society and fa- miliar with it's pleasures, educated in the best schools, with cultivated tastes to enjoy art, literature, and travel. put ting aside without complaint their de- sires for those things and devoting themselves to the care of their house. holds, the interests of the parish, the work of their husbands.
 '"rhe minister's wife shows the edu- cated middle class poor how to live
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30
4 cRIcAeo INCIDENT.

A wise ancient said, Count no man happy until he is dead, and an equally wise ancient might have said. Count no mans reputation secure until he is dead. They have, it appears, made little mistake about a man in Chicago which a wise ancient might not have made, and which excessively modern Chicago will not be likely to make again. \ fashion has obtained in that city of naming schooihouses in honor of living men. But it has happened, unfOrtu- nateIy. that one of the schools was named after a leading banker who is now doing time 'n prison for conduct Of which the laws do not approve. Therefore. it became necessary, in the interest of virtue, to give this particu- lar schooIhouse a rev name forthwith. and i. has been rechristened the Her bert Spencer school.
 Herbert Spencer is dead, and his fame is such and so secure that Chicago seems to have done a safe thing in nam ing one of her schools after him. To be sure. his works are not yet looked on with entire approval by all who are re- ligious, but We do not think the Chica-
 go school will be hurt by having his name. And perhaps it may be seen by
 and by that Herbert Spencer has done
 much for religion in trying to help men
 see and understand their real relations | to the universe.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

The secret of the inexhaustible fertil- ity of the Nile valley, which has long been credited to the annual deposit of silt from the overfiowing of the river, has been discovered by MT. Fairchild, agricultural explorer of the United States government, to be nitrifying powers of the plant berseen. Berseem is a species of trifolium, which has the power not only to consume saline and alkaline properties in the land, but also enrich it with nitrates. Something of a composite of alfalfa and clover it is in every way more delicate in flavor and succulence than either.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

Ex-Provost Clark, of Paisley, Eng land. has been relating the origin of cotton sewing thread, which was first used in that town in the weaving of s.heddles' as a substitute for silk, which was stopped by Napoleon in 1903, when he seized Hamburg. Mir. Clark's grand father and his brother then bethought them of cotton, which worked so smoothly that Mir. Clark's father, then a youth, took to recommending it to wo- men instead of linen, then mostly used. Originally it was sold in hanks or skeins. These the women had to wind into little balls, as they do cut of wool at the present day. Wishing to conven- fence them. young Clark on selling a skein of thread would sit down on a pirn wheel and wind the thread on a bobbin, for which he charged halfpen- ny. This halfpenny was refunded when the empty bohbin was returned. Such was the beginning of cotton thread.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

Apropos of recent revelations as to corruption in federal office, Washing ton man tells story of how General w. F. ("Baldy'') Smith fought a temp tation in Civil War days. The veteran iVermonter was stationed in a Southern State and was ordered to prevent any cotton shipments through his lines. This meant vast loss to the planters, some of whom quietly gave him to understand that he would lose nothing" by relax ing his vigilance. Smith indignantly got rid of them and wrote to Washing ton asking to be relieved from that location. The planters finally came down to specific offers, their last bid being s15o,0o0. The general had sent to Washington full details regarding these interviews and when the planters of- fered the sum mentioned he wired to 'Washingtor: Must be transferred to some other command at once. They are getting too near my figure
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

During the last year fifty: thousand cases of sickness occurred in the bar racks of the French army. There were 3, 800 deaths and 1900 men were dis charged because of physical disabilities
 This rate is said to be due to the un- satisfactory state of the barracks ifi which the men live. According to the medical reports. only very small part of the barracks had a proper allow ance of air. Tuberculosis and typhoid are increasing with alarming rapidity. It is noteworthy fact that the French army has only 1,5Oo doctors while the German army has 5000. @
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30
ASp RRATIOS IN KALAMAZOO.

There are those who don't expect much but celery to come out of Kala- mazoo, but it wants to be noticed that
 Kalamazoo has it's aspirations and its
 efforts, as we'll as other places more
 romantically named. The latest illus
 tration of this grand and hopeful truth
 is the fact that Kalamazoo reports the construction of successful flying ma
 chine. A trial of the model was made
 in the presence of witnesses in the fac tory of the Michigan Novelty company.
 The machine, which is three feet long, raised itself from the floor and flew a
 distance of eighty feet. It is the in- vention of James Douglas, who has
 been at work on it for long time. A
 company will be formed and a ma chine built at a cost of $5,000 to enter the competition at the St. Louis exposi- ton. The body of the machine con- l sists of three cigar shaped bodies made
 of sheet steel and joined by a rod. In
 the center body is a turbine gasolene engine. The steering apparatus pro-
 jects from the other bodies, and is mod
 eied after the tail of a bird. 1 If Kalamazoo has done what she thinks she has she is ahead of even the lcapital of this great, glorious and still comparatively free country. But it will
 be we'll to wait awhile before going the
 whole figure on fKalamazoos flying
 machine. Let it, however. be gladly re-
 corded that Kalamazoo is at least try I ing to fly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

She holds her queenly way in poverty. trial, and not seldom under unkind and unjust criticism, and as she grows older a light radiates from her patient face which moves discerning friends who otherwise would pity her to say: Yer fly, she has her reward-New York Mail and Express.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

A writer. tells of seeing a number of Indians at Panama, each of them bound with rawhide lariats, and guard ed by soldier. Are those brigands you've caught?" he asked the Colom- bian officer in charge "No, senor," l" was the reply, ''they are volunteers for the army"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

District Attorney Jerome has begun 8 systematic campaign to influence the country districts of the State toward altering the excise law of New York city. He will send brochure broadcast into the smaller cities, towns and farm ing sections, hoping that voters will be led to understand that the city needs different treatment from what it has heretofore received.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

These are stirring times. One of the latest alarming reports is that the Boudelzwarts of Great Uamaaualand are in arms.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30
THE WEEkLK JOURHAL. y..-.d Tharsd.ys, One Dollar a Yea
AnvERrIsING RATES.

advertisements. One Cent Word each in' sertion: Five Gents a Word for full week.
 Display advertisements per inch. one ID, sertion, s120; each subsequent lnses.ion. ~ cents: one week. s3 20: one month. Sl0; one
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

Blade--I thought Gadding's promo tion to be brigadier general was a sure thing Grass-"It was. But the presi- dent found out he was graduate of West Point. .''--Life.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-30

have been revenue officer for 25 or 30 years, says Georgia man, ''and I have seen all kinds of service. under all kinds of circumstances, and I don't believe 'blockading' or illicit distilling will ever be stopped. The reason for my belief (and am not the only one)
 is simply this: There is such a large profit in the business that the tenpta- ton is too great" ., '..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-18
help chant the evening psalm of the Can't

help chant the evening psalm of the Caml-
sards.
But the elements of greatness in Yvette
always told her to make the best of the
one side and Catinat on the other, Billy.
Marshall bringing up the rear. she offered
a striking picture of Puritan maiden, go
ing meekly homeward after some deed OF
noble self-immolati0n which, like that OF
Miriam. the sister Of Moses. would render
her name famous forever among her
people.
the party which had been sent to intercept
the English ships came home. Yet it is, in
deed more than likely that, had Yvette
succeeded in her first mission, the embassy
might never have returned at all.
But at all events return 1T did, though
not. in the opinion of those that took part
in it, wholly successful.
The Camisards and Cavalier. their chief.
had expected that the allies would send
something more than arms and munitions
of war-though as Maurice himself thought.
not altogether with reason. They had >ex.
pected troops also.
So when Cavalier returned he found the
whole town and defenses of La Cavalerie
in such complete and admirable order that
many things, such as the certifying Of the
municadons toward the Dourbie, had
been thought of and carried out for the
first time Nevertheless not word OF
praise or compliment did Cavalier utter.
even withdrawing the guard about the
cradlepost, the cables of which connected
the Larzac with Saint Veran, with the
afterward wrecked and useless, the great
OVERLOOKING stays cut, and the whole
wonderful erection lying over on itsc side.
Catinat alone continued to show friendli-
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Is He'll Being Neglected.
From Harper's Weekly.

. rom harper $ eekly.
Bishop Huntington of central New York
feels that hell is being unduly neglected by
the clergy. In a mid-Lenten sermon in
Syracuse on March % he expressed his con-
viction that there was a place for hell, and
that 1t was there, and that self-induIgent
persons whose habits and conduct were not
good would some day have a painful per-
sonal experience Of it. He'll has at times
been much overdone. 1t has been described
as hotter and more continuous than the
human imagination can endure, and over
much freedom has been used in foreca sting
It's population. No hell that contains un-
papuZed Infants or persons who died cas-
TALLY and unintentionally unregenerate will
WASH IN these times An eternity of hell
as consequence of misconduct of limited
continuance also seems to modern minds an
improbable dispensation. But the idea that
ev1l-doers who manage to avoid punish
ment In this life are going to get off alto
gether does not commend itself TO the
average observers sense of fitness. Almost
every one believes in God, and every INTEL
ngent believer in God must believe in eter-
nal justice. Somewhere, somehow the odds
come even. and all crops are harvested.
without hell, or its equivalent, we average
observers cannot see how final Justice ia
going to be done. A good deal of the time
the way OF the tranSgreSSor is hard in this
life, but some transgressors play their
game so ably to elude all obvious penal
time as long they live. The religious
mind is confident that there must be ap-
pliances somewhere for getting even with
these persons
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ness. From the rough, hard man, from
whom nothing had been expected most was
forthcoming
1t was soon evident that Patrick Well
wood and his young countryman. Maurice
Ratth, could not long continue in comfort
at La Cavalerie. For one thing, al COM
munication. save that of the daily display
of IAN welP' flags was cut off with Saint
Veran by the destruction of the cradle on
the Dourbie side
And by this very misfortune the heart of
the young man and the heart Of the old
grew closer to each other.
One evening the confession came nat
urally. t.r
Il am Raith of the commander-in-chief.s
staff. sir, here upon his grace's own bust
ness!" said one ...s-l
And I, by the act Of an overruling Provi-
dence. am Patrick WILDWOOD some time
chaplain to Ardmillan's regiment! respond
ed the other.
Il knew you from the moment set eyes
upon you," said Maurice with glow of
boyish triumph. You see, you never at
tempted any disguise, and then-your
daughter"
What of my daughter, sir?" said the
old man, with the first touch Of chill in
his tone.
WELL" explained Maurice, boldly. "you
could not expect to hide her light under a
bushel, even in La Cavalerie. There is no
one so beautiful as she is!''
The old pastor looked straight at the man
before him.
May L inquire OF you III you have con-
veyed any of these fancies to my daughter
herself?' he said.
Maurice smiled. the clear-hearted. glad
smile OF the man ready to count all well
lost for love.
Frankly, she would not let me-" he said
otherwise the information has been at
the disposition of the lady any time these
many weeks!'
The old man sighed and rested his hand
upon his brow
Frances has been to me truly as an an
pie of gold in a basket of silver" he muir
INJURED. True is it, she hath not to the
full her mothers beauty
Maurice gave vent to a sudden, inyolun-
tary cry. Patrick Wildwood smiled a little
compassionately.
mo" he said, mot though, save herself.
these eyes Of mine have never seen aueht
like her. Yet her mother was a fairer-yea.
fair as Eve. the wife of Adam in Paradise.
ere the coming of the Evil One
He paused as If contemplating in the fire.
light sweet, far-off happiness
So thus naturally things cleared them
selves between the two men. But Maurice
Raith had yet to make his peace with
Flower o'the-Corn.
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her too much honor. and, as If to change
the subject, she touched the red uniform Of
Maurice with her forefinger.
Whence came this pretty thing?" she
cried archly. like a child that finds a toy.
We'll suppose it does not become me to
ask, for it has served our purpose well
enough this time
Indeed said Maurice, looking at him
self in establishment in the morning light,
after the excitement of the stalk and chase
had ended. Indeed I know as little as
yourself whence it came or how l came to
have it upon me!'
Yvette smiled subtly.
"Or less!" she murmured, unheard of the
young man. Then she added In louder
tone. "Methinks the place Is even yet I'M
safe-let us go home!"
And they walked back together, but La
Cavalerie was not the home at which
Yvette had meant to take her rest that
night, nor they the courtiers who were to
do her homage. Nevertheless, like child
that will sleep anywhere, she accepted Cat
mat and Maurice, since no better might be,
even complimenting the latter on his uni
form and how well he looked in it.
1T becomes you better than anything
ever saw you wear!" she said. Then the
moment after, And / think she would like
1t, tOOi'