The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-08

own immediate business fall matter to pc unoDjetclonabiej, and their contracts do not inclade Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
 Dr. Wiley, chemist for the depart ment of agriculture at Washington, says people should eat more bread and butter.
 Within twenty years about half mill lion divorces have been granted in the United States, and three times that number of children consequently de- prived Of their natural homes.
 Bank consolidation seems to have worked well in Boston. Five years ago there were flfty-seven national banks in Boston with stock capital of $49,- e50,0o0 on which an average dividend of 2.3 per cent. was paid, There are now thirty-seven national banks, with a capital of $Ss. .soO,OoO. which pays 6 per cent.
 Clark Howell of Atlanta was asked by a northern man if 1t were true that the negro in the South abstains from voting because he fears bodily harm. Mot exactly said Howell. Tt is rather because he knows that on the whole his life will be longer and freer from care if he refrains from the ballot box habit entirely"
 The fourth anniversary of the death of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, which falls on July 21, will be observed with memorial services in various parts of the country. The most important and largest service of this kind will be held by the Ingersoll Memorial Association of Chicago, which for some time has been behind a movement to erect an imposing monument to Colonel Inger- soil. It is likely that the monument will be erected either at Peoria or Chi cago.
 
 Is is said that Herbert Gladstone is still occasionally greeted by the historic nickname which he bore so cheerfu1ly at Eton. When his father added two-pence to the income tax about thirty-five years ago Herbert. who was then 8 diminutive lower-form boy. was s promptly christened 'Tuppence," a name which clung to him through the remainder of his school days. MT. Clad stone is sho2tish. broad-shouldered man of great physical strength and with the complexion of spaniard. He is an enthusiastic lover of golf.
 Tn England and Wales there are 16.- 799 ,230 females and 15, ,T2S,613 males. The records show that the number of wo- men has been steadily rising above the number of men. The present excess of women is not, therefore, due altogether to immediate causes, though of course the recent war and the tendency of young men to emigrate has had notice able effect. The statistics also show that the number of women who are finding employment in positions former s iy occupied entirely by men is increas- ing. Even the heavy metal trades have about 60,000 female workers, some of whom are bIacksmiths and strikers.
 Conditions in the poultry yards north of this city, says the Stamford Advo- < cate, "are such as to indicate that the union hens may go on strike unless William Jones of High Ridge dis charges Black Minorca that has late- ly been setting the union scale at de- fiance by laying two eggs per day. It is well known that the latest scale signed between the boss poultry raisers and the egg producing department of Its coop force called for not more than one egg per day per hen. The Jones Minorca has been setting contracts and precedents at defiance, and all the other hens are cackling in an ominous E; way
 Senator Money and Governor Longine are making active oratorical campaigns for the Mississippi senatorship. The two candidates engaged in debate at Greenwood the other day, in which the race question was predominant, each challenging the other as to his attitude toward negroes in office. Senator Money replied to the charge that he had voted for the confirmation of negro appoint naents because he belonged to the f11i- nority of the senate, and it was useless to object. The governor defended him. self against the charge of having ap- pointed a negro notary public at yicks- bury by saying that at the time he did