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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21
DRAWBACKS TO LIFE IN cHICA 60

All is not pie in Chicago in spite of the fact that at the present rate of decrease the death-rate there will soon be down to below zero. They are hav- ing a little investigation there, and several things have been discovered. For instance. there is the case of the bridgetenders, whose salaries aggregate $100,000 8 year and many of whom are practically useless. several of them drawing pay for tending structures which have not been turned in years. Following on the heels Of numerous evil dences that Chicago is failing to secure its full revenue from license fees comes the discovery that $50,OOO annually might be saved were the forty "spe- cially detailed" policemen who have been collecting license fees from saloon, pawnbroking, amusement and other es- tablshnents to be sent back to their beats and the collecting conducted on business basis. In addition to these and numerous other evidences of mu- nicipal thristlessness come the revela- tions as to the prodigious proportions to which the personal-injury claim business has grown in Chicago. This last abuse is especially noteworthy both on account of the amount involved and because of the variety of ways in which it works to the harm of the city. The local government now owes $4,00O, ,000 In unpaid Judgments in damage suits, these Judgments drawing per cent, or $200,0OO per anrlun1. The prosecution of damage claims, in fact, has become an organized industry in which lawyers with political backing. aided by more or less honest claimants and their more or less honest witnesses, contrive to mulct the city because of it's failure to maintain proper repairs upon it's side walks.
 No wonder Chicago is poor. sys- tematic pillaging if carried on exten- sively enough will keep any city poor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21
ANOTHER sruR IN KANSAS.

Even when it isn't lively anywhere else it is lively in Kansas. There's al- ways something doing there. Just now the scene of action is Fort Scott The ether day in the morning MT. and Mrs. Walter Bum of that place kissed each other affectionately and MT. Bunn went whistling to his work. When he re- turned at night he found his house empty. His wife had taken all her be- longings, and gone home to mother. No quarrel had ever been had in the family, save for the reason that Mrs. Bum per- sisted in taking in washing in order to help pay the family expenses. Mir. Bum objected to his wife doing this kind of work. She declared that she would work if she wanted to. He for bade her doing any more of it. She left him and refuses to return unless he will consent to her taking in washing. Mir. Bum will doubtless soon give in, as he ought to. He is all wrong, as men who oppose their wives always are. He ought to be glad that his wife wants to work. and he should make himself as useful as he can in going after and car rying back the clothes that she will wash. Mrs. Bunn is all right, and she will be es usesui in taking in washing as if she had taken to writing and reading papers on Home Duties." etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21
The House Where Was Born.

Round the little old deserted house the
 noisome weeds are growing, And the wind unhindered wanders through
 the broken eastern door; Every rafter. beam and sash the finger
 marks Of Time Is showing, And Decay is running riot OCT the rub
 bish covered floor. s. Here rotting pillar staggers; there an aged Over yonder sags the mantelpiece, deject-
 ed and forlOrn:
 There is helplessness pathetic and the voice of Old Age calling. ..n From each cfumbling bit of mortar In the
 house where l was born. Here before the ancient fireplace, where the
 dust of years Is lying,
 first saw the future pictured as I watch
 ed the embers glow; Here l Lay i'll boyish dreaming, while the
 shadows, fitting, flying,
 Were hundred ghosts of fancy as they
 wandered to and fro; ;, ,..e., ...... : Little knew l of the universe which spread
 itself around me: ..,s .... In a canopy of azure and sea of waving
 corn; .y. vu -:#s All my world was on the hearthstone where
 my childhood dreaming found me: l was king-and my dominion was the
 house where was born. They were happy days-God rest them!-for my feet had ne'er been straying
 Where the soul is bruised and broken by
 the brambles of turmoil; a.,. ..- Ne'er the long years of anxiety my temples had been graying, .>.~.. .1 :. Nor my weary form bowed earthward
 meath the heavy hand of toll; .. Earth was then a wonder palace. From the eastern window gazing, r.,. l beheld the new moon hanging like a shining silver horn; 5i And far down upon the heavens bright the evening star was blazing; , 4@ Both were shining, just to please me, OCT
 the house where was born. have passed from it forever. All the won.
 der and the glamour l s. Of the little eastern window from the
 world have worn away, I have seen its disappointment; I have heard its empty clamor; -..-,. :. And the house once thought wonderful. how pitiful to-dayi But who knows Perhaps eternity may bring a realizing s A.. s s y Of the things my fancy painted over chfldhood's early morn;
 And mayhap, the gift of prophecy was, af- ter all, arising In my heart when I lay dreaming in the
 house where I was born.
 Lowell Otus Reese, in Leslie's Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21
EVIDENT.

Bessie-Lets play we're married.
 Johnny-No. I shan't; you're bigger'r me, and. besides, mamma told me mustn't figflt.-Houston Post.
 Historian-Why have the Quakers so nearly disappeared?
 Observer-The girls married outsiders who would buy them pretty bonnets, and the boys married girls who wore pretty bonnets.-New York Weekly
 Church -- That new doctor down the block is the limit.
 Flatbush-What did he do?
 "why, I called on him to see if could borrow his lawn mower, and he charged me $1 for a call. ."-Yonkers Statesman.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21
DRINKING AND TALKING

Men continue to drink alcoholic drinks. and the discussion of their value goes on. American Medicine combats the view of Professor Atwater that al- cohol has nutritive value in any prac- tical sense. It is conceded that a small quantity of alcohol is oxidized in the body. This may be true without justi- flying the placing of alcohol among use- ful foodstuffs. According to Herr Kiihne. the oxidation of substance in the body does not prove that it's effect is useful. Faust holds that morphine, like alcohol, may be oxidized in the body in increasing quantities" but no one contends on this account for the use of morphine as an article of diet. The Professors ontention that alcohol in small quantity can be substituted for carbohydrates and fats is not admitted. The important action of alcohol when taken with other food is indirect, mod flying, as it does, "the metabolic pro- cesses of the body" Professor Atwater argues that alcohol has an indirect drug action on the nervous system, as well as direct action as food, but errs. saws American Medicine, in as- suming that the food benefit can be ob- tained without the nervous injury. Horseley is cited as "a .neurologist of quite the first rank" who maintains that "alcohol, even in small amounts with meals, is injurious to the nervous system" Our medical contemporary does not even 'concede that alcohol is, as Professor Atwater. thinks he has proved, probable source of muscular energy. The conclusion reached is that Michael Foster, the eminent physiolo- gist, is about right when he says that mo distinct physioiogic dicta concern ing the usefulness or the opposite of alcohol as an article of diet can at pres- ent be enunciated. Any physiologic opinion which may be given is of less value than the. teachings of general ex- perience."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

VoliInar, Heine. Braun. and Bernstein have departed very widely from the rigid dogmatism os Herr Rebel and Herr Singer and other disciples of Karl Marx. North and South Germany diff fer in their Socialism as in their Con- servatism or Liberalism, and this diff ference furnishes a further cause of di- vision. The Bavarian Socialists, of whom Herr Von Vollmar is the leader, are comparatively indifferent to some of the evils, such as miltarism and bureaucracy, which in Prussia are such vital questions, and they do not share in the tragic view Of politics which is common in North Germany. The pres ent crisis in the fortunes of the Social Democracy was brought about by the determination of Herr Bebel and his im- mediate following to suppress all inde- might tend to make it party of social and political reform rather than a par ty of revolution. The vote which Herr Bebel secured at the Leipzig congress last month against the so-called 'Te- visionfsts" is not, however, the sole cause of the trouble. Ill feeling has been fostered by the violent language with which the opposing orators have been belaboring each other. On some occasions the factions have almost come to blows, as was the case at mass meeting held the other day in Berlin. Indeed, there seems to be some proba- bility that the party will be split into two if not more divisions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

"She is a wonderful woman!" said one member of the theatrical company as the star responded to curtain call.
 ''I should say so," answered the jeal- pus rival. Anybody with as little tal- cit as she has who could convince so many people she can act must be clev- er!"-Washington Star.
 Mrs. Planebuddy-My husband want ed me to have my picture, taken, but told him I didn't have a dress nice enough for the purpose.
 Mrs. Naybor-And is he going to buy you one?
 Mrs. Planebuddy-Oh, no, but the ser- want girl overheard me and she offered to lend me one of hers.-Philadeiphia Ledger.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21
GERMAN SOCIALISTS QUARREL.

It is often found that reformers can't carry on reform without quarreling with each other. According: to the Ser lin correspondent of the London Times, the quarrels between the different groups of the German Social Democrats are becoming more and more bitter. The younger generation of leaders, like
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 October 19, 1903. ESTATE OF SUSAN DWELL. late of New Haven, in said District, deceased. The Court of Probate for the District of New Haven hath limited and appointed six months from the date hereof for the cred. itors of said deceased to bring in their claims against said estate. Those who neg lect to exhibit their claims within said time will be debarred.
 All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 GEORGE P. FISHER,
 o2o St Administrator.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

We have a rival in feeding the porld.'' Argentina has within few Fears forged to the front as a great producer of beef and mutton. The practically wild cattle of the pampas, which corresponded probably to the old Texas steer, have been replaced by well bred strains, and the Argentina mutton $ also derived from good breeds. A recent official report states that while n 1895 it was difficult to get 4O,0OO steers in all Argentina fit for the exact- ng foreign markets, last year the num- per had increased to 250,0OO. Argentina exports of beef and mutton, it is stated, will continue to go up by leaps and
 punds, and it is not unreasonable to
 lelieve that by the end of the present
 lecade Argentina will be able to export aot less than 10,00o000 hundredweight ,f beef and 5,0oO,o0o hundredweight of mutton. It is stated that the blowing Own of the pampas grass, and the
 eeding of vast areas to alfalfa have
 Asulted in vast increase in Argentina S saeat-produeing capacity. .,.,.i
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

Of Germany's 5S,25O.OOO people just under 52,OOO.0OO speak German only, B. 10000 speak Polish. 140,00O Danish on- iy. 100000 French. 100000 Dutch, 5S,OOO Czech and Russian. Wendish. Masu- rlan, Kassubian, Moravian and other languages each have a considerable number of adherents.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

Within a year more than two thou sand skilled workmen have left the French silk factories of Roubaix and Turcoing for the United States.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

pr. Woodbury. New York's Street Cleaning Commissioner, at a recent in- spection read to the laborers in his de- partment the. civil service law, ex- blaming that 'it means among other things that you can't sweep the streets with politics" end that "every one of you has an inalienable right to vote for whom he pleases and no one os you to hold your job has to pay to any politi- cal organization one solitary doilar.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21
COMPRESSED AIR Carpet Cleaning Works, No. Io6 Court Street,

Carpets called for and delivered.
 Carpets cleaned and laid, also made over: in fact, everything done in the Carpet line. All work satisfactorily and promptly done. Telephone call, 1SS2-2. Give us a call , ny1O VIM, E. KNAPP q CN
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

A war against malaria and mosqui- toes is to be fought out in tropical Africa. pr. Dutton, in report to the Liverpool school of tropical medicine, states that eighty per cent. of native ;llildren examined in British Gambia showed the malaria parasite in the blood, and that the capability of infec- ton by Europeans continues during the rainy season, the time of mosquitoes. The breeding places of the insects in- rlude wells, canoes, boats, lighters, barrels, tubs and various disused household utensils and grass-clogged street trenches. Bathurst, the. capital M the colony, offers an unusual field tor a test of extermination plans, as he land to be dealt with has an area ,f only square mile, and is isolated py a broad expanse of sea water, while rain occurs in only four months ,f the year. The removal of breeding places, now several months in prog :ess, is aided by a, grant of two hun fred pounds a year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

In one Of the chief matchmaking es- tablishments in Zurich there is to be seen a remarkable curiosity in the way of watch or clock making. The tinepiece is in the form of a ball, which moves inperceptibly down an Inclined surface, without rolling. The length of this inclined surface, which is sixteen inches long, is accomplished from top to bottom in twenty-four hours. Then the ''ball' only needs lift ing to the top again. This extraordi- nary timepiece has no spring, and therefore needs no winding. The thands'' are kept in motion by the slid- ing along an inclined plane.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

A writer in the Frankfurter Zeitung asserts that Mime. Janauschek did not, as is almost universally believed, serve as model for the famous picture on the Frankfurt thaler. The mint warden, August von Nordheim, always declared that the portrait was a pure creation of his imagination. He often spoke of the irrepressibie Janauschels legend and said that beside that actress thirteen other women had been mentioned as ,-iAAringn been the originals of the picture in question.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

Judge Reagan. postmaster-general of
 the Confederacy, now very old man, Is prey to fears about the country. Texas should never be divided" he says. "The American republic is doomed. The dissolution of this Union of states is sure to come. in my opin- ion. and be succeeded by monarchy. We are rapidly drifting toward a alon- archical form of government. I want Texas 10 be big enough to stand alone. to once more be the republic of Texas"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-21

aHE HEEkLY JOURRAL. sssusd Tharsdsys. One Dollar a Year
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16
NEW FOSSILS At MUSEUM.
The Collections of american Rhinoc-
crosses and Horses.

A great change has lately been wrought in the
hall of fossil mammals at the American Museum
of Natural History. The hall has been redec-
grated, and the exhibits have been rearranged
in a way to facilitate the examination of various
phases Of the evolution of some of the better
known species. Another important feature Of
the change is the elimination from the han of
all The reptile fossils the mixture of which with
the mammals has always been more or less
confusing to the ordinary observer. Professor
Osborn and his assistants have devoted the most
careful study to the new grouping and believe
it the best arrangement of a fossil collection to
be found in any museum. The reptile fossils,
which constitute, with the drawings and models,
one of the most SNOWY collections in the mu-
scum, are to be similarly rearranged in the east
wing on the same floor. This department will
be thrown open to the public some time this
fall.
The great group of Titanotheres, gigantic
hoofed quadrupeds remotely related to the
tapirs and rhinoceroses, occupies nearly a third
of the space at the west end of the south half.
This group has long been a special study of
Professor Osborn, and he is preparing for
the report Of the Geological Survey of the
United States an important monograph on the
subject. The fossils are accompanied by col
ored drawings and models by Charles r. Knight.
illustrating the theories now held regarding the
family of ungulates.
1t may be a great surprise to most of The
Tribune's readers to be told that rhinoceroses
once natives of North America. The cen
trail alcove the south side of the hall is
devoted to American rhinoceroses almost wholly.
There are no less than five complete petri1ed
skeletons of American rhinoceroses, represent
ing four varieties of the species which flourished
in North America until the close of the Miocene
period. One Of these was the pair horned
rhirocerOs, the fossil of which in high relief is
shown a fine panel. This skeleton faces one
of the earlier amphibous rhinoceroses (Amyn-
odOn), and directly opposite is a complete slIele-
ton of the short limbed rhinoceros, which had
a small horn at the tip of its snout In addition
there are shown the well preserved fossil remains
of a long limbed rhinoceros closely resembling
the Etruscan rhinoceros of Europe. fossils of
which have been found in Northern Italy. In
this alcove is also shown the skull Of the large
white rhinoceros OF Africa, now almost extinct,
recently procured for the museum by ]. Pier
pont Morgan. 1t Is a perfectly preserved speci-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16

it is customary for the collectors to kneel while
he offers short prayer. Never thinking that
the custom might be different in the New-York
church, handed him my plate and dropped to
my knees I did not even look to see whether
my fellow collector also kneeling. When
the choir began to smoker I squinted to my left,
but not a thing could 1 see of the other fellow.
He had resumed his seat and I had to march
down the aisle in lonely state when the prayer
was finished. You can be sure of one thing
though gave that sexton wide berth the
day of the wedding
The oasis., 1903-10-24

the land within the limits of the
 proposed reservoir which expires
 on Oct. 20. Mr. Arthur P. Davis,
 of the general survey. who is in Ari-
 zona. has been notified of the secre-
 tary's action and he will supply
 data for advertising for bids The
 buildings to be erected will be of d cheap character, but the machinery will be of the best. The cement plant must be in operation before work can begin on the power canal, which is to be constructed before work on the dam itself is begun.
 Republican: For years the con struction of brewery for Phoenix or Prescott has been under desul- tory discussion by people who thought there should be money in such an enterprise, and on two or three occasions it has looked as if a beer factory would be installed in Phoenix. It seems that Prescott is to have the first brewery, however Rupert Maxgut returned Sat urday night, or rather Sunday from his trip to Milwau- kee. where he went in the interests of tNe new company organized to install a brewery in Prescott" says the Herald, He returns with all his plans complete for the install- ltion of the brewery in the near future.
The oasis., 1903-10-24
ARIZONA NEWS.

Prospector: Jas. Herick has dis
 covered deposit of clay near Fair
 bank, which is said to be one ot
 the finest quality of brick clays to
 be found in this section of the country. He has taken sample to Bisbee, and will try to interest parties there to take hold of it and
 open up a brick yard.
 Prospector: D. T. Bartholdi. of
 Jerome, Arizona, was arrested here
 to-day by secret service agents for calling on local Photographers in an endeavor to get them to make what he claimed was stock certiti- cates for mining company. In the center of the certificate was a facsimile of a fifty kroner note which was to be printed on the face and back of the certificates. Bart holdi says he is doing this for other people but had forgotten their names. The secret service agents believe the certificates were to be printed and that the counterfeit note in the center could be cut out.
 Bulletine: w. H. Lausteunan. who was considered the leader of the miners strike at Morenci last spring, was convicted yesterday ill district court of the offense of riot ing. This was a test case and as the prosecution was successful, the trial of thirteen other strikers will follow. The district attorney was assisted in the prosecution by E. J. Edwards of this place and Judge Kibbey of Phoenix. Attorne s Lane and Hunch appeared for the defendant. Sentence has not yet been passed, but it is probable that one year in the penitentiary will be the punishment assessed. A special venire of seyenty-fve jury men to try the cases has been summoned.
 Star: The Chamber of Com merce of the City of Tucson and the Board of Supervisors of Pima County have concluded, with the help of the merchants of Tucson, to open a roau from this city to Orc Blanco. The Chamber of Com merce will secure the services of d competent civil engineer, Q road contractor and a freighter, men qualified to speak intelligently in the matter, after having investi- gated in trip from that city to Gro Blanco. The selection of the men who are to make a trip of observation will be made at once. The road will be constructed via the Twin Buttes camp. After the Orc Blanco route is taken care of the Chamber of Commerce will bring the Silver Bell road to the notice of the Board of Supervisors, and as soon as possible thereafter they will settle down to improving that route, and also cutting it to thirty miles or less in length.
 Republicans: The last vestige of doubt of the building of the Tonto reservoir was removed today when the secretary of the interior issued an order to the director of the gen eral survey to make contracts for the necessary preliminary work at the dam site which will cost in the neighborhood of Sl00,000. These contracts which will be awarded at the earliest possible moment will cover the construction of an up-to date cement Dlant. a temporary
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-07-30
Senator TIIlman Kissed.

Senator Tillman, OF South Carolina,
was Kissed in bis Joint debate on the ne.
gro problem with Senator Burton; OF
Kansas, at the Monona Lake Assembly =.
at Madison. Wis. Mr.. Tillman, in reply
to Senator Burtons statement that the
black man was the only one who could
look the white man in the face and live
said: "Yes; but il he ever looks him In
the face in the South and aspires to gov
ern him or be his social equal, he will be
met wifi the shotgun and bsyonet
Senator Tillman's contention was that
the fifteenth amendment must be wiped
ont. Senator Burton followed Tillman
with sn argument centering around the
one point OF equality before the law, his
contention being that the southern
States or any State might make high
standing for voting, either property or
educational qualification, or both; but
when the standard was once made 1t
should apply with equal and exact GER
tainty to both races.