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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-01
FREDERICK McKERNEss DIS
 CHARGED.
DIS

Judge Tyner in the city court yester- day discharged Frederick McKerness, business agent of Carpenters union, No. 79, who was tried last week for in- limitation. The evidence of George E.. Dudley, of Winthrop avenue, was not corroborated either by E. |. Hine, the builder of Asylum street, or by Mr. Burke, who was on the scaffolding with Dudley when it is alleged that McKer- ness threatened Dudley.
 MT. Hine testified that he did not dis charge Dudley.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-01
IN AND ABOUT THE COURTS
FREDERICK M'KERNEss DIS
 CHARGED IN oITY COURT.
Robert T. msrwIn oa.s-as..lon Of Re- sponsibility Of Agens'. Principal James Elnnsy of eresnwleh Again.t Greenwich In.urance Company.

The late Robert T. Merwin, the real estate agent. was an agent for the Win chester family and others, and was the contention in the superior court yester- day in case Judge Shumway heard. The case is docketed as the Union Trust Company vs. William F. McKeon ct al. McKeon died recently and his executor is James F. Donahue.
 The Union Trust Company is trying to foreclose mortgage held against property belonging to the McKeon es- tate, located at James and WoIcott streets. On March 6, 1886, McKeon mortgaged this property for three tho1- sand dollars to Thomas G. Bennett, trustee for Oliver Winchester Dye. The mortgage was subsequently, and consec- Iutively assigned to Jane B. Winchester. Luzon B. Morris and the Union Trust Company, the last named4th pIaintifr 1 in this case.
 | The plaintiff says that part of payment on the mortgage has been made to the persons who havesheld the mortgage note or to any agent of these persons z
 On the other hand the defense znai1- tains that McKeon paitl to Robert T. Merwin on March 10, 1ss2. the sum of one thousand dollars on the anortsage note and on July IS, 1898, paid to said Merwin s1 400 more on the note. The defense also says that on October 10. 1900, Attorney T. F. Callahan. as agent for McKeon, rendered ss5O to the holder of the note to balance the account and that the tender was refused.
 The defense admits the note, but claims that it has no value. They also lallege that Robert T. Merwin was the duly authorized agent of the holder to the note, and that the payments to him lshould be recognized by the courts. I The defense were prepared to produce in court Mir MerWin's books showing the payments made by MT. McKeon as alleged
 John K. Beach and John w. Bristol appeared as counsel for the plaintiff and Ex-Judge Robertson and T. F. Cal- llahan for the defendant
 The only question here before us is las to whether MT. Merwin was agent for the parties, said Judge Robertson.
 You will admit that the money was Epaid to him as we allege.''
 MT. Bristol said there was no doubt Iabout the payment of the sums stated. < The plaintiff claims that MT. Merwin Twas not an agent for the holders of the lnote. and that they have never received lany money on those notes from any
 body.
 Ex-Judge Robertson called as wit lnesses in the case President Bennett, lof the Winchester Arms Company, @ Daniel H. Veader, who has responsi- ( ble position In the office of the company,
 MT. Mattoon, son-in-law of the late MT.
 Merwin, and Thomas B. Cooper, the lat tter's bookkeeper
 . The estate of Robert T. Merwin, ac- |ording to the records of the probate Icourt, has greater liabilities than as Isets, although it has never been repre-
 sented as insolvent The assets amount !. Ito $36,000 according to the inventory.
 The liabilities are given as $39. 1000. The lease was concluded at about five o'clock land the court took the papers. reserving decision.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-01
OLIVER BRYAN.

Oliver Bryan. a former resident of this city. died Tuesday in New York city MT. Bryan was one of the old commission merchants on South street, New York. A widow and six children survive him.
 The funeral will be held at Holy Trim itv church. New Tory city, this morn ing. e#t
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15
AMhRITED yRIBUTE.

That was hearty and fully merited tribute which was paid at Music Hall last evening to the life and work of Philo s. Bennett. MT. Bennett was a truly honest and honorable man. He was diligent in business. and he won the large success which his diligence and his ability entitled him to. He made many friends because he showed himself friendly to many. He was high-minded and warm-hearted, con- slderate, generous and tactful in all his relations with his fellow men. He had an uncommon degree of public spirit, and was deeply and steadily interested in all that concerned the good and the progress of his city, his State and his country. His character and his talents won him the respect and the apprecia- ton of all who knew him, and his kind ness endeared him to many whose life it cheered. Those who mourn him have consolation in the nobility and the use- fulness os his career.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15
ARRiYED.

St. Peter = What did you do on earth?" '.. ,~
 Gambler = well. I-er-keot a dive. but ="
 St. Peter-"Take one ."-Philadel- phia Press.
 Things are wrong." remarked the Observer of Events and Things. when a reputable physician has to pay money for certificate to practice. and a 14- year-old girl with a plano doesn't. " Yonkers Statesman.
 .'Is this 3 good place for trout?" in quired the angler who had just arrived.
 Tt semes to be-" replied the other, who had been fishing there patiently for hours. '"Theyldon't appear to be disposed to leave it." = Philadelphia Ledger.
 Have you everything for the auto mobile?" asked the stranger, entering the store. "Yes, sir" replied the clerk. Well, give me four yards of court plas- ter, six gallons of arnica. a bundle of cotton batting andg half a dozen copies os First Aid to the Injured. i"-Y Yon- kers Statesman.
 j Mrs. Uoiohn--"Did you notice that Mrs. Highmore has taken the presiden- cy of the Intellectual Advancement club? She'll find it an elephant on her hands," Mrs. Nexdore = Well. her hands are big enough to manage any thing, goodness knows, "-C Chicago Tri- bune. ' gt- k This" said the young benedict. who was just realizing that he had caught a Tartar. lis what call real married life" y. t
 I'm glad you're satisfied with some- thing" she snapped.
 "Oh. I'm not: merely meant to in form you that it is not ideal."-Phiia- delphia Public Ledger. '
 Achilles was dragging Hector around the walls Of Troy. "Is it strenuous enough for you?" he inquired at the finish of the first round. First rate replied the Trojan with fine sarcasm. Feels just like trying to climb over the end hog on a street car" Smilingly the hero went on the third lap. realizing that his tribulations might be worse.--- New York Sun.
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this stealthy gait, and breaking into rapid one, leaped lightly along toward a small pine tree which stood alone in the clearing. Up the trunk she went proceeding by little jumps, until she reached the branches, and then, for the first time, I noticed an old birds nest amongst the twigs. To this nest she went, and disappeared through g. hole in the side. I waited for about half an hour, and she did not come out, went to see what she was doing. climbed up the tree to the old birds nest, which as I expected, was roofed over with cedar bark which had been cut up very fine, doubtless by the teeth of the mouse. I poked the little structure with my finger; the roof heaved for a. moment, as though a struggle were going on inside, and out popped the mouse, with four little ones hanging to her nipples. She passed quite close to my face, and down the trunk to the ground. where she disappeared under some cordwood which had been piled in the clearing. I came down. feeling rather ashamed of myself for disturbing the lady, and went back to my seat on the log and waited. ~...o..r Z
 Next to hustling there is nothing in the world like waiting; everything in the woods will come to you if you will only wait long enough. So 1t was in this case. In the course of an hour or two, out from the wood-pile came the little mother mouse, dragging her babies along over the ground. They were blind and all naked, but they knew enough to hold on tight to mother when she considered it necessary to take them out. Back to the tree she went and up the trunk she started, but she had not gone more than two feet when an accident hapened. One of the young sters lost his grip and fell. His mother paid not the slightest attention, but continued on her way, slowly dragging the other babies up the tree toward the nest. At last it was reached, and the whole party was lost to view. Had the mother forgotten the unfortunate one? Yes, No, she hadn't, either, for out she popped again. and, running down the trunk as spry as cricket. she picked up the helpless infant in her teeth, and skipped up the tree to the nest with him as easily as she might have done with a hickory nut. -, .. rss.s...
 ERNEST HAROLD BAYNEs.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15
JADE OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY.
How the Missing Treasure was Run to
 Earth in California. .l.-

How the Missing Treasure was Run to
 Earth in California. l,.
 With the assistance of the state and treasury departments at Washington, the Chinese minister, Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, has at last succeeded in locating in this country part of the Imperial Jade" which, during the oc- cupancy of Pekin in 1900 by American and European troops, among other arr ticles of value belonging to the Chinese imperial court, was stolen from the Forbidden City. Some time ago the state department received information from party in Syracuse, N. r., to the effect that the whereabouts of the I'm perial jade" could be ascertained if communication were had with a curio dealer living in Campbell, Cal. The letter also stated that this dealer was in possession of great quantity of oth- CT articles which he had secured in the Forbidden City of the Chinese emperors. The state department in its endeavors to regain possession for the Chinese OL tAte NlthSiSs at once requested the treasury depart ment to assist In the search and help to recover the jade, or at least to locate its owner and hiding place. The secretary of the treasury intrusted the matter to some of his cleverest secret service men, who immediately set out, for Campbell, the residence of the dealer, to be told upon arrival at that little town that the man had removed to San Francisco about three months ago.
 While at Campbell the agents of the treasury and state departments gath cred as much information about the dealer and his antecedents as they thought would be of value to them They discovered that the man had beer a camp follower with the American army in China and that he had often been in the Forbidden City during the occupancy of Pekin. It was also stated that the man had brought home with him upon his return from his Chinese expedition a couple of wagon loads oi miscellaneous articles of more or less value. After having exhausted al sources of information and having sat isfied themselves that they were on ths
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

was composed of large beads of jade. The origin of jade is not very well known. So much of it as is imported from the east is. either in the shape of rolled pebbles of moderate size, or of articles more or less skilfully and rich ly wrought, such as vases, armlets and the handles of daggers and sabers. Their rarity, and the fact that they came. from remote regions, give them an inordinate value in the eyes of bric-. a-brac hunters and amateurs of curios- ities, who pay very dearly for them; and, accordingly, they are only to be of wealthy individuals s.-Pittsburg Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15
4 HIAWATHA WOOING.

Society circles in Hiawatha, Kansas, are discussing an interesting case. A handsome Hiawatha young man has been persistent in his attentions to a charming Hiawatha girl, in spite of the girls persistent snubs. A jeweler had in his store a very lovely chafing dish that the young lady longed for and had been overheard to express her yearning for. One day youngster brought her her hearts desire with a sweet-scented note from the despised beau. She called mother and explained the situation and mother said, "Yes, if he's idiot enough to send it, why keep it." So the beautiful dish became an ornament of the home and the admira- ton of the girls friends. And it's donor called regularly and was regularly re- jected. But the most patient tire and so did the beau become weary of his treatment. When he was tired out he
 !
 sent a bill to the girls papa for one chafing dish SIP, three buggy rides (which was all he could get her to take in a year. though he had hired many rigs), and about forty ice cream sodas. Papa opened his mail at the ta- ble and said, Why, why. what does this mean?"
 They are asking in Hiawatha wheth- CT the girl will send back the chafing dish, pay the bill or accept the young man. Perhaps she will keep the chaf- ing dish, refuse to pay the bill and con- tinue to reject the young man. That would be thorough and, we suppose, legal. @ s...s.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15
AnYERTIsING RArEs

Situations. Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each sn- sertioD. Five Gents a Word for ful. week
 Display advertisements, per inch. one ID, sertion. S1.20: each subsequent insertion. ~ cents; one n eek. SS.20; one month, $1O; one year. s4l t,,''.z .,...- ..- ,s-.4
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. l6 cents per line. Notices of Births. Marft- ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 50 cents e0eh Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to theis own immediate business iasl matter to oe unoDjetcionablej, and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15
4 SURPRYsING GOYERNOR.

Governor Pennypacker of Pennsylva- mia has surprised those who thought that because he was a Quay man he wouldn't make a good governor. He has, it appears, stood on the side of upright government and has interposed his will against many corrupt schemes embod- jed in proposed legislation that failed to secure the approval that the influences responsible for his election took for granted he would give. These measures included much jobbery and many things desired by the corporate interests so powerful in Pennsylvana---things oppos- ed to the public welfare. His vetoes of bills passed by the legislature at it's re- cent session showed his quality. There were ninety-two of these vetoes in all-- twenty-nine transmitted to the legisla- ture while in session and sixty-three such messages filed within thirty days after adjournment. These veto mes- sages are pronounced full of sense and consideration of sound public policy; moreover, they are not lacking in hu- mor." In vetoing bill authorizing any railroad corporation to convey "part or parts of it's railroads to any other company, he remarked: 'There is no at- tempt to deane what shall constitute part There was once man who was cut into pieces. One piece consisted of a fragment of his finger-nail, the other Ipiece was the rest of his body" The
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15
MkxIC0,

Mexico under President Diaz has been a very different Mexico from the Mexico that existed before his time. So differ lent and so much better that it might be well for Mexico and outsiders interested there if he could live on and be Presi- dent indefinitely. But he can't, and the time is not far distant when he will give way to another. It has been supposed that he would retire at the end of his present term, but he isn't going to, and the explanation of his consent to accept another term indicates some of the dan- gers to which Mexico is still subject. In the event of President Diaz's retire. ment it was understood that Liman- tour, the Secretary of Finance, would succeed him, to be followed in turn by
 Reyes, the Secretary of War. But we fare now told that the latter broke away from this arrangement and announced that if Diaz withdrew he would contest | the election. Thereupon the more con-
 servative Mexicans. fearful of politi- cal contest for the presidency to which Ethey have become unused through many successive re-elections of Diaz unoppos- ed, persuaded the venerable leader to accept another election.
 Perhaps under Diaz Mexico has learn- I
 ed not to be revolutionary and shifty
 country. Time will tell, but it must be
 admitted that there is reason to fear
 trouble when the present arrangement
 breaks up, which must be before long.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

Exports of breadstuffs through the port of Boston in July amounted only to s24s.177 against s7O7,3t5 in the same month last year. But New York's sim liar exports increased from $2,16S.124 to ss.54s, ,oO5.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

had an appeal to the director of the asylum ordering him to discharge Prince Svetshin immediately.
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governor appears to have been guided in his actions by neither political nor personal influences. within the same week he vetoed bills, one backed by a personal friend, one by the most power full corporation in the state, and one by strong political influences" One of the bills vetoed embodied contemplated job bery that would have enabled private corporations to operate sewerage sys- tems for towns, and the governor said: 1.-The tendency of corporations to secure control of public works, with view to anticipated profits, and the easy-going disposition of the representatives of municipalities to permit such control to be secured, ought not to be encouraged or extended" ,.
 This seems much like gathering figs of thistles. Pennsylvania is looking up.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

At Amsterdam from September to will be held a congress of persons who, while believing in religion, owe allegi- ance to none of the existing religious bodies. Many Dutch university profess sors are furthering the cause of the congress. -... -..
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

UHcI0 Hohry oh the Fhssihs or fho
 Horse. Every little while they tell us that the horse has got to go; First the trolley was invented cause the horses went so slow. ..-s. !. -s.- And they told us that we'd better not keep raisin' colts no more; When the street cars got to noting that the horses pulled before ....,-.-., thought 1t was all over for old Fan and Doll and Kit, @ s'posed the horse was up and done for,
 But =
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

It is reported that a Chicago judge has decided that an umbrella which is left alone. without any distinguishing mark upon it, is common property, and that the appropriation of 1t is not lar- ceny. That seems to be the general
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a,n't

vt! When people git to flying in the air I s'pose they'll say, . < < As we long have been a-sayin', that the
 horse had his day. ...s. . . ! A ..,@s And s'pose that some old feller just about
 like nell stand. .5 ,s ..,.,. ..s.53 Where it's safe. and watch the horses haul
 in stun across the land; .g And he'll mebby think as l do, while the crows above him fit. "Oh, they say the horse is done for,
 But
 ... ain't tesy s.7 t went
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

Apropos of the humorous reference to the somnolence of judges made by James M. Beck, formerly Assistant At- torney-G General of the United States, at the dinner of the Hardwicke Society in
 London. an English paper recalls that during the protracted sessions of the Parnell Commission Justice Day habit ually sat with closed eyes. It was com- nonly supposed that his lordship was sleeping, and the late Sir Frank Lock- wood, observing that the learned judge was very much awakened by little tiff between the president and Sir Charles Russell, exclaimed quite audibly, "This is the dawn of Day!"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

King Edward has issued public let ter thanking the newspaper men who accompanied him and the queen on their Irish tour for their excellent ac- counts of what took place, and express ing appreciation of the tactful and un- ostentatious way in which they carried out their difficult work. This is said to be the first time that an English sov- ereign has publicly recognized press &C., counts of royal doings.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

When the bike craze first got started people As you probably remember, that the horse
 had saw his day..
 People put away their. buggies and went
 kitin' round on wheels; L...,. There were lots and lots of horses didn't
 even earn their meals. .. s:. l used to stand and watch 'eIn with their
 boomers as they'd fit, And l thought the horse was goin',
 Rnt ----
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Then they got the horseless carriage, and
 they said the horse was done. s.ss.s And the story's been repeated twenty times
 by Edison; -rsr g ..-y. Every time he gets another of his batteries X. to go .s ..,.r-. ... 7 ss-...z ..t s He comes whoopin' out to tell us that the
 horse don't stand a show. 2 B. r s, And you'd think to see these chauffeurs, ., as they go a-chauthn' It
 Was good-by to Mir. Dobbin. 8ut, ~
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

According to the Glasgow Herald, the crop prospects throughout Scotland two weeks ago presented c sorry contrast to the great yield of wheat and other cereals reported from various sections of the United States. It says that the outlook in Scotland is the gloomiest known for years. In the most exten- sively cultivated crops the deficiency ranges from 10 per cent. to 25 per cent. During the coming winter, with an in- sufficient supply of fodder for the feed ing of stock, fewer cattle will be kept and fattened, and when the results of the poor crops are fully ascertained it will be found that the farmers of Scot land are poorer to the extent of from two to three millions of pounds.
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German newspapers record the death of the Russian Prince Svetshin, who had been for forty years an inmate of an insane asylum at Werneck. He be- gan his career as an army officer and diplomat, when his mind became cloud ed in 1863. He was harmless and was allowed to do whatever he pleased at the Werneck asylum. He was fond of playing chess, and liked to give pres ents to children. But his principal amusement was the editing of a news paper, the Journal Populaire, which he had printed at Burzburg, and which contained a confused account of real and imagined events. Each number
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

It is said that a pianist has to culti- vate the eye so as to see fifteen hundred signs in one minute. the fingers to make two thousand movements and the brain to understand all these signs, as we'll as direct all these movements. In playing Weber's "Moto Perpetuo" a pianist has to read 4,541 notes in less than four min ntes, or about nineteen second, but the eye can receive only about ten con- secutive impressions a second. So that in quick music 1t seems that a player does not see every note singly, but in groups, probably a bar or more at one view.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-15

Miss Marion H. Brazier has been in-. trusted with the formidable task of making a collection of thousands of photographs of descendants of colonial and Revolutionary men and women for the St. Louis Fair. These will adorn the long room of Independence Hall Gin -.facssinaile), and will prove valuable exhibit, as each picture will be accom- panied by brief sketch of an ancestor. After the fair they will be placed in the Congressional Library in Washington. :