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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25
C.4REEUk HORR.

The United States may be a little
slow about paying some of its honest
debts, but it sometimes pays some of
them. John G. Rose, who was a gun
ner's mate in the navy, tried for nearly
twenty years to get an $500 appropria-
ton through congress for difference in
pay which he claimed was due him.
When he was fifty he began working
for his money, and one body would
pass his bill only to have the other re-
ject it. During the last session the bill
was passed in the house. and. one Of
the senators having become interested
in the old man, the bill was at last re-
ported favorably in the senate, and
Rose was assured that he would get
his money. He went to his home happy
in the thought that his long wait was
at last to bear fruit, but the next day
he dropped dead.
Those who have notion that the
United States can be easily worked by
INSCRIPTIONS seekers after pensions.
fat contracts. etc, should ponder this
incident Surely government that is
so careful about paying $500 to a man
who has a real claim that it thinks for
twenty years before paying wouldn't
give thousands or millions of dollars to
people whose only claim is their need
of the money.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25
LONDON's REARING.

Questions of Empire, Education And
Arts in the February Monthlies-Mil-
lions for Red Tape Defence.
For the average reader who may have
ceased to take absorbing interest inmil-
itary reform after the passing of his hot
fit it is well to particularize. The War
Office ideal of strategy gives us, in
addition to recruits and -effectives,
100000 men forhome garrisons; 100000
men, more or less, for the defence Of
London, and a home field army of $780,
600 men; with $4,000 white troops for
India and 10000 for the colonial garri-
sons. We must, therefore. carry for
ward total os half million men at
least committed, by the nature of their
functions and the law of their recruit
ing, to a task which is nothing more or
less than sinecure unless our navy is
driven from the seas. These num-
bers," said Mr.. Brodrick to the colonial
premiers, ARE certainly not deemed too
large by our military advisers, in view
of the possibility of our at any time
losing the command of the sea-" The
veil is lifted and the murder is out.
No words could express more naively
the entire absence of comprehension of
the real problem that confronts "our
military advisers" The statement
quoted is in direct conflict with the
Duke of Devonshire's famous declara-
ton of 1S96-'"The maintenance of sea
supremacy has been assumed as the
basis of the system of imperial defence
against attacks from over the sea-"
The high augurs are not in unison; we
are back in the old, extravagant and
compartments
The question which all those who in
terest themselves in great problems Of
national defence are asking is this:
How comes it that after Mahan, Co
lomb, Thursfield, Laughton and all the
series of brilliant writer's on naval
strategy have laid down for us in let
ters of gold the plain and incontrovert-
ible principles of national strategy.
how comes it that our war office should
continue to both preach and, to our
heavy cost, practice theory of war
which is the exact antithesis instead of
the corollary of our naval policy? Butt
tonhole one of those solemn old gentle
men in Pail Mali whose daily existence
has only three fixed points-the office,
the luncheon room at the Rag, and their
West Kensington fireside-stop them
and ask them why they ask us to pay
for six hundred and forty thousand
men, mostly organized, to do nothing at
home; ask them when last England was
invaded, and why; ask them who is 60
ing to invade us, and how; ask them
when last British battery on the
coast fired shot in anger; ask them
when for. in the interior of England
or Scotland was ever of service to man
or beast. Ask them-and they will not
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25
THE OLD CIRcrs SNOWMAN.

Every one who ever saw a country
circus remembers the stout gentleman
with the high silk hat and the diamond
stud vino was forever dashing about
the circus grounds in a top-buggy. He
belonged to type now almost extinct,
and his title has passed away in this
day of specialists. He was not a man
ager or an impressariO or a theatrical
magnate-he was q Snowman and
his trade was the show business"
For nearly half the year he followed
the white tents. Every morning he
was up at break of day, harnessed his
own horse. had the tents pitched, the
ring made, and saw that the horses
were groomed and the cages cleaned
for the morning street parade. Incl
dentally, he usually had a wrangle with
the mayor over the price he was to
pay for the license, and quelled several
riots between the town toughs and their
love affairs, and he was of iecessity
mixed up in all of them. If we except
the grand-opera singers, there is no
class so difficult to handle as circus
people. They lead a life of their own
apart from the rest of the world, and it
is life ever full of variety, excitement,
dramatic incident and real human in
terest.
Charles H. Day is the last of the ia
nous ''showmen," and it is the data he
picked up in his twenty-five years in
the business that make his stories of
circus life SO interesting to-day. Incl
dentally. he managed theatrical attrac-
lions, which varied from the old-time
minstrelsy of w. S. Cleveland to the
great Laura Keene.
In the famous battle for supremacy
between the Barnum and Forepaugh
shows, which was fought out on the
bill-boards. Mr.. Day in describing the
Forepaugh circus combined adjectives
in a manner which at the time gave
him name akin to some Of the best
comic writer's of to-day. Mr.. Day,
however, regards his greatest success
not as a word-painter, but as the Gre
ator of the Ten Thousand Dollar
Beauty" idea. The fortunate lady who
was supposed to have won the prize
was really not very beautiful, and
looked most uncomfortable as she was
paraded through the streets perched
high on an elephants back, but as an
advertisement she was sensational
success and played a most important
part in the classic war Of the circuses.
Golfers Weekly.
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awe Schools.

put my heart to school
In the world where men grow wise.
GO out" said, land learn the rule;
Come back when you win the prize
My heart came back again.
And where is the price, cried.
1.-The rule was false and the prize was pain,
And the teachers name was Pride
put my heart to school
IN the woods where wild birds sing,
In the field where flowers spring,
Where brooks run cool and clear.
And the blue of heaven Is near.
Go out" | said, you are only fool,
But perhaps they can teach you here
'And why do You stay so long,
My heart, and where do you roam?'
The answer came, with a laugh ami a song,
Il find this school is home.''
Henry Van Dyke.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

fashionable adjunct of European COS
tune in the twentieth century. though
it might have been so thirty years ago.
The wearing Of silk hat with a lin1o-
no is, says the Advertiser, the outward
and visible sign of a certain intelIectu-
al inaptitudeD
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

A great piece of engineering has been
done by the municipality of Paris,
which will keep the place de rOpera
closed for nearly a year, and when it
is reopened, it will have beneath it an
underground metropolitan railroad sta
ton of three floors, where three several
lines will intersect on the different lev
els. Metallic flooring will separate the
three lines, and will support the, road
way. The lowest line is 81 metres deep,
but as water is reached at a depth of
ten metres, large part of the work
will be done by means of compressed
air compartments.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

every morning when I go out to my
hencoop,' wrote woman in New
Hampshire to the poultry expert of the
Department of Agriculture, Il find that
three or. four of the hens have turned
over on their backs, legs curled up,
never to rise again. Please tell me
what is the matter with them" 1t is
related that the poultry expert thought
long and earnestly Then, Selling a
pen. he wrote: Dear Madam-Your
hens are dead"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
Advertisements, One Cent a Word each In
(seyen times).
Display advertisements. per inch, one in
sertiOn, $1.20; each subsequent insertion, 10
cents; one week, $500; one month, $40; one
year, $40.
Obituary Notices, In prose or verse, Is
cents per line. Notices of Births, Marri-
ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 80 cents each.
Local. Notices, 10 cents per line.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

The most widely separated points be-
tween which a telegram can be sent are
British Columbia and New Zealand. A
telegram sent from one to the other
would make nearly a circuit of the
globe, and would traverse over 10000
miles in doing so.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

A Denver minister told his hearers
that Mormonism was perhaps prefera-
Bile, from a moral standpoint, to di-
vorce. LAS between a system" he said,
(which shows a man to have three or
four ex-wives Or a woman three or four
ex-husbands, and a system which al
lows man to have his plural wives all
at once, there is little to choose. 1 am
not sure but that the odds are on the
side of the Mormon"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

A disappointed pension seeker, who
claims to have served his ungrateful
country nobly, wrote thus to Secretary
Hitchcock: 1.-THE rejection of my claim
reminds me that when a small boy a
circus came to town. got the job of
carrying water to the elephant in order
TO earn my way into the big tent I
pumped over half the wells in the
neighborhood dry, got myself soaked
with water, and poured enough into
the india rubber brute to float the
Olympia. When got through the cir
Gus was over"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

In Russia the holy synod has Or
iaained that February 10 (old style,
March new style), the anniversary Of
the emancipation of the peasants, who
to the number of 23,OOO,OOo were liber-
ated by Alexander II. in 1861, shall
hereafter be celebrated in the orthodox
churches by elaborate thanksgiving
services instead of by single. requiem
mass. This is regarded as highly i'm
portant action, particularly in view Of
the present prominence of the peasant
question.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25
COMPRESSED AIR
Carpet Cleaning Works
No. fo6 Court Straas,

Carpets called for and delivered.
Carpets cleaned and laid, also made over;
Ia fact, everything done In the Carpet line.
All work satisfactorily and promptly Zone,
Telephone call, 1922. Give us cali.
my10 WIN. r.. KNAPP & CO.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

The Japan Weekly Advertiser has
something to say about the aping of
western customs by the Japanese, and
takes for its text the foreign clothes
seen on citizens of the Flowery Empire.
1t says: Men of fair status are fire.
quently to be seen wearing silk hats of
antediluvian pattern, with ordinary
native costume down to geta and zori,
AS for the hats, where the blocks come
from is a mystery, but the fact re-
mains that a Bowery or Whitechapel
tough would be ashamed to go abroad
In some of the abortions masquerading
as 'hewlers' and toppers,' which are as
eonmon as persimmons in Japan. Here
Is a. case where the natives cannot ex-
cuse themselves on the ground that
they have no model to go by. A glance
at the first foreigner should be suffi-
cient to teach them that hard hat
worn over the ears, and measuring
scarcely more than two inches in height
from the brim to the crown, is not
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

Tell you. because they DO not know. and
neither does any one else-Blackwood'
Magazine.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25

Signor Luigi Manara, wealthy citi-
zen of Bologna, having quarreled with
his son, determined that at his death
the young man should inherit nothing
from him. Accordingly he sold all his
property and received the proceeds,
which amounted to more than 5000 900
in paper money. This he placed on a
bed and then lay down and set fire to it.
His valet found him next morning burn
ed to death. The 100000 in notes had
been reduced to ashes, and thus the son
will be penniless unless the numbers Of
the notes can be traced.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-25
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-09-09
tone. You arc not on the deck of your

tone. you are not on the deck of Your
ship now. sir"
ooh, nul l not? Boat alloy, there!
Pricci' cried O'Neill, waving his hand.
A few strokes brought the whaleboat
to the shore again. The crew were
eager to take n hand in the fray.
"Cockswaln, come here!' said the of
ticer.
"Ayc, aye, sir" replied the sailor.
And while the other two stood wonder
ing the veteran seaman rolled up 10
them and sulutcd his lieutenant with Il
sea scrapc. want us TO take a hand
I'm this we're little scrimmage, yer hon
orr"
mo. Take this lady and her maid TO
that clump of rocks yonder."
That's easy; faint no tightin' ut all,
that. Come along, yer icddyship," said
the old man in great disappointment
as the boat showed Off again.
"You monstcr.' cried Elizabeth,
stamping her foot on the sand. You
are IL pirate after air.
"As YOU say, madam. Stop, sir.'
said O'Ncill to Coventry, who made Il
movc TO approach the sailor. MY
man will do no harm 10 her ladyship,
and YOU have other matters to attend
to unless YOU wish to shelter yourself
behind IL woman's pctticoats."
Coventry had been playing for more
time, but this was more than lie could
stand. II think you have said enough.
sir, and if YOU are ready" he s;tid, 1--WE
will talk in another fashion"
at your service said the Irishman
cOmpoScdlv. Two swords flashed in
the air simultaneously and rang
against each other with deadly purpose
n moment after. Both men were mas
tors of the weapon. Coventry Il
been thoroughly trained In Shc more
direct English school, Willie ONcill
was n master of all the graceful tricks
of the subtle fence of France II Italy.
1t was as pretty n play, parry ana
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-09-09

sad, sh@ was joyous, in different moods.
Days, years cvcn. could not exhaust
The charms of her infinite variety,
t:uu.,h Far Gown beneath the surface
ri her "d;Ur& were the quiet dccps of
coE%ta@cy and dcvotion-what plummct
coUid sound them, who should discover
item: There was about her that
indetinnble mir of one born for homage
ANA command which speaks of general
tiona 10 whom have been accorded hon.
or II Place unuucStioncd.
1T was not IL long row to the land,
ana as they approached the rugged
coast the young lieutenant eagerly
canned the shore for II landing place.
Steering around II little promontory
which hid them from the Ranger he
discovered a stretch of sandy beach
under It's lee, and the boat was sent i'm
It's direction until the keel grated OH the
soft sand. 1t was Il lonely spot, n little
stretch of sand ending inland, and OH
one side in prcclpitous rocks over
which Il wandering pathway struggled
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-09-09
Augustus Opportunity.

Under the direction of it's new own
ers, Messrs. Cabaniss and Loyless, the
Augusta Chronicle has become one of
the best morning papers in this part of
the country. In it Augusta has what
Augusta has not had in years, q first
rate morning paper, creditable to a
city of Augustus rank. 1t is not con-
ceivable that Augusta will fail to lib
orally support such a paper, for fail
ure, in spite of a large population
would mean that Augusta had scarcely
passed the village stage.
The most serious obstacle i'm the way
OF Tho Chronicle is the railway sched-
ules. The territory Of the Charleston
and Western Carolina Railway is the re-
gion by odds richer than any other nat
urally tributary to Augusta and this the
business men of Augusta have never
duly appreciated The circulation of
The Chronicle would be worth more
than any agency in developing u large
business in Augusta with Piedmont
Carolina but a considerable circulation
cannot be built with the present rail-
way schedules. The Charleston News
and Courier leaves Charleston at 1920
a. M. for the Up-Country: The Chroni-
Gle leaves Augusta at about 10 A. M.
If The Chronicle could leave Augusta
at 5 a. M. it would be placed in Spar
tanburg and Greenville by 10, in Lau-
rens and Anderson by $40 and in
Greenwood still earlier. This would
make The Chronicle universally read
in this section and nothing else could
bring Carolina people into close rela-
tionship with Augusta merchants and
business men At this distance, Ii
seems that Augustus paper and Aug
usta's merchants would %inaugurate an
effort never'to end or relax until Aug
tsta had gained possession of its own.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-09-09
SPREAD THE NEWS.
Laurens Citizens Assist
ing i'm the Good Work.

Day by day and hour by hour the
Little Conqueror" becomes better
known and more respected by the pub
lie. Nothing in modern times has
reached the high pinnacle OF popular
favor in so short a time: people talk
about and they have reason to. They
tell their experience for the good Of
their fellow beings and through graft
tude. To publish their expressions is
to show you that hat the same exper-
fence awaits you.
w. H.. Smith, grocer, at S25 Wash
ington St., Columbia, S. O., residing at
1913 Washington ST., says: 81 had
whooping cough when l was five years
old, strained myself coughing and
have never been we'll since and have
always had kidney and bladder trou-
BILE, sometimes much more severe than
at Others. This year l had a spell of
typhoid fever and lay in bed three
months. | had such pains in my kid
neys that every breath / drew cut to
the quick. 1t felt like a knife being
thrust in right through the bladder. [
had a doctor examine me and he gave
me medicine but 1t did not do any
good. | tried proprietary medicines
and used plasters and rubbed my back
with a dozen different liniments but
nothing relieved the pain. This has
been my condition for forty years and
it bothered me at night SO that | could
not get a nights rest. The secretions
many a time were almost like blood.
Remedies that helped other people
would not help me at all, and | never
monials OF people who had used Doan's
Kidney Pills and had been cured by
them and l began taking them. The
in my bladder has disap-
peared, | do not have to get up at all
during the night and | feel better in
every way. The soreness in my blad
der has disappeared, | do not have to
get up at all during the night and L
feel better in every way. l have used
two boxes OF the pills and have had no
pains since taking them. The treat
ment has made me feel so much better
that | know that 1t is a wonderful
remedy"
Just such emphatic proof Is given by
Laurens people. Ask the Palmetto
Drug Co. to let their customers report.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Ilburn Co., Buffalo, N.
V, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name Doan's and take
no substitute.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-09-09
Up.Country and Low Country.

Occasionally even IN these latter
days, one hears from politicians whose
selfish ends theory suits, mention of the
up Country and Low Country, in a
political sense. South Carolina, may
Def as the headlines of q Columbia pa
per insist, u proud" state but no
stretch of the Imagination will make it
a big state. The territory is not large
enough to leave excuse for the people
to be divided by geographical lines and
predetermined men have little tolera-
ton for the suggestion of voting for or
against candidates according to their
places of residence. In Mr.. G.. Nj.
Pinckney's book, The Life of John c..
Calhoun, the folly of this so-called di-
vision, while not in words or by any de-
sign of the author, is none the less
strongly brought out. 1t is empha-
sized by the facts of Mr.. Calhoun's life
and death.
Mr.. Calhoun was the states, the
South's and perhaps the country's
clearest thinker and most profound
pootiSious ny ollSCopiy Oii II NlRi Cob-
cation ESQ far as the latter was gained
in South Carolina he was an "Up-Coun-
tryman." His people were Scotch
Irish, just as most of the people of the
Piedmont are. Nevertheless, his bosom
friend and political associate was that
eminent Charleston man. William
Lowndes. n South Carolinian whose
elevation to the presidency was eX-
pccted by political leaders throughout
the country. In those days, when the
state was gloriticd by the citizenship of
such men, how small, how puerile
would 1t have been to speak of either
Calhoun or Lowndes as other than
"South Carolinians2" How either of
them would have shamed the utter
ance of such a distinction.
When MI. Calhoun's labors of love
for his country and state were ended,
the people of Charleston begged the
honor of giving to his body it's last
resting place. Nowhere were the mani
festations of sorrow more sincere and
striking. In st. Philips old church
yard, the great Carolinian, native to
the red-hills of the Up-Country, sleeps
and nearby lies his friend and fellow
patriot, Lowndes. In his life, South
Carolina was one in sustaining Calhoun
and as long as his memory is honored
there should be no room for two peo-
pies in our state.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-09-09

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