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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11
ALMOST,

t'He loves his home. doesn't he?" "Why. yes. It is almost as sacred to him as his club.
 Husband - "A penny for your thoughts, Flora" Wife-''I was think ing of a $15 hat. ."-Detroit Free Press.
 Little boy. does your mother know you spend your money playing craps?" Well. I guess yes. It's de way sup Forts de fambly.' Life.
 Patience-"Did you say she came from fighting stock?" Patrice-"Yes; her mother and father were both mem- bers os church choirs in their early days. s."-Yonkers Statesman.
 Carrie-''You don't tell me what you think Of my singing. Is that gentle manly?" Frank-"Perhaps it is be- cause am g. gentleman that I don t tell you. ."-Boston Transcript.
 "Woman, lovely woman" sang the poet, Eden was empty before you came" True true." sighed the shade of Adam, but it was even more empty a little while after Punch Bowl.
 Miss Woodbv Really. you don't tIIiLh lII1L u CULiSluS9 LUZ d llllIlutc et proposal from him, do you?" Miss Newitt-"Oh, no. Of course you would mt take that long" Press.
 He has been mentioned as candi- date for office very frequently" "Yes, :" answered Farmer Corntosse1; "the only trouble is that everytime anybody men tions him, the other fellers laugh."- Washington Star.
 Teacher-"Johnny, what are you go- ing to name the twins at your house?" Johnny-"Anthracite and Bituminous, I thin." Teacher-"Aren't they rather strange names?" Johnny-"No, ma am; guess not. I heard pop telling the man next door that he now had habies to burn. n."-Philadelphia Telegraph.
 Doctor" said the shrewd looking man. "how many feet of gas does it take to kill man?'' That's rather a queer question" said the doctor. "Why do you wish to know?'' "One of the guests of my hotel used enough of it to kill hirnsels, and want to send in a proper bill to his executors. ."-Phila- delplia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11
AMERICA DRAWS EUROPEANS.
Immigration for Early Spring Month
 Breaks All Records,

Immigration for Early Spring Month
 Breaks All Records.
 The imnigra ton for April, judging from the figures at this writing access sible, will have broken the record of any month of any year. Most of our new friends come from that part of Italy where the ways of justice are tor tuous and dark. The Mafia, or private vengeance society, seems to have been transported in full fiorescence to New York, where it is dealing with our Ital- ian citizens in true Sicilian fashion. Americans of longer residence object to having death distributed by secret societies, and we shall do what we are able to eXterminate these bands of as- sassins. The semi official Italian dag ger is picturesque bit of foreign col or, but it does not agree with the hab- it's and customs of the United States. The leading Italian paper in this coun- try estimates that if the immigration tide continues to rise at it's present rate, the Germanio races will lose their domination in this country in about twenty years, and it urges the Ital- fans not to forget their language, which will hold them together and bring glory to old Italy, when her sons rule under the stars and stripes. We rather expect English to be the lan- guage officially spoken here for some years to come, and even expect Ameri- can civilization to keep it's present as-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11
Instinct.

They ehrfstened him Reginald Percy dc We're; They dressed him in ruffies and curled his back hair; His mother declared him her own precious dear, And forbade him to play with the boys around there. Which was more than poor Reginald Percy could bear. So he went out one day, curls and rufies and all. And strayed where the rudest of boys con- gregate. Soon Reglnald's ire, though his body was Increased to proportions remarkably And he issued challenge, regardless of Now, Reglnald's eye has turned blacker than jet. But he isn't complaining, which seems rather queer Till you learn that the other boys eyes blacEeP vet; And there isn't 6 happier youth, far or near. Than this dirty faced Reginald Percy de We're.
 Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11
4 TALE OF TR0 CITIES. :.

The Bridgeport Standard takes notice of what has been going on in New Ha- ven lately and thus saith: This is un- doubtedly all right and New Haven has been making the road of her progress smoke with the speed of her passage. but. all the same. we opine that when the Old Home Week of Bridgeport is pulled off, with a procession every day, a band on every four corners. a mass meeting every fifteen minutes, hot-air exhibitions in continuous performance and a. prize in every package, the mat ter of hustle" and 'go" will be practic- ally settled and a rate established that will be a record for the balance of the century.
 We are willing to admit that the Standard is right and appropriate in predicting large and lively circus for Bridgeport. but we shall have to re- spectfully remind the Standard that circuses are not Conferences" Con gresses" and such like dignified things. New Haven will cheerfully give Bridge port due credit for whatever "hot air exhibitions" she may give. and for whatever noise she may make. Mean while New Hayeners will continue to walk across their historic Green in the approved way and not wish or seek to establish a circus reputation. Confer ences and Congresses are about our size
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11
CHILD LABOR IN THE SOUTH

There are at least two sides to many questions. For instance, the southern child labor question, which is just now attracting attention. Inquiries made at Columbia, South Carolina, by August Kohn for the Charleston News and Courier bring out the fact that employ ment in the cotton mills is often a blessing for poor families in the cotton States, giving them cash income and means of progress to which they had been strangers. The census classes a boy of sixteen as "child," fact which must be kept in mind in discussing ''child labor" in the South. MT. Kohn found at work in a factory at Columbia family of seven persons, which receiv- ed an aggregate income of $4.77 a day. or SS60 8 year, the father employed
 outside" receiving $1 day, and a boy, who got the lowest wage, receiving 40 cents. Another family of six persons got in the aggregate $6.15 a day. The father received $1.75 a day for weaving, while girl and boy, weavers, got 75 cents each day. The average family income was $4.5O day, the services rendered by the different members va- rying greatly in value. Tn a typical mill there were 231 men, 127 women and eighty-six "children"-includine persons fourteen and fifteen years old. No children were employed in the weav- ing room. Children did light work in the spinning room and spooling room, their wages running from 25 cents to 60 cents day, according to experience and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent a Word each in- Eertion. Five Gents Word for full week lseVen tImesl.
 Display advertisements, per Inch, ore In: sertiol, S1.20; each subsequent insertion, 4O ceDts: one week, $3.20; one month, S10; one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse. 15 cento per line. Notices of Births. Marcl" ages. Deaths. and Funeral. 50 cents each Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11
CAN THEY LIFE WITHOUT US {?

Are We not always going to continue to feed the world" and can the world get along without being fed by us? That is queer talk which comes from Berlin that it is fallacious to believe that Germany cannot obtain its food supplies from other countries, and that it is helplessly dependent upon the sur plus grains, cotton, oils and other products of the United States. And still queerer is the talk that the records of Russian, Austrian and German trade show remarkable advances on the part of Russia in supplying Ger many with food products, while the United States is being steadily crowd ed away from the position once held as the country from which Germany got most of it's food supply. Austria, too is heavily increasing grain shipments into Germany; and both Russian and Austrian oils are competing more or less successfully already with the American. Furthermore, experiments on a large scale are now in progress in Gerrnany's African colonies with the object of growing cotton there to sup ply German needs that have hitherto been exclusively filled by the exports from our southern States.
 It has been the talk in this country that however much inconvenience Ger many might cause us by adverse tariff legislation exclusion of American pro- ducts from the German markets would prove impossible because of the hard ship which that would bring upon the Germans themselves. Can it be that this talk has been through the hat?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

From numerous applicants the town council os Cardiff. Wales, has selected Sarah Ameria Roberts, domestic ser want, as the recipient of the Butte mar riage dowry. The fund for this doWry was left by the marquis of Butte in 1897 to commemorate his silver wedding and consists of $5,OOO, the yearly proceeds of which are given to some poor girl or girls unable to get married for the want of money. The recipient, who was left an orphan in infancy. after her mar riage went to the town hall with her husband to be reminded by the mayor of the origin of the dowry. and in &C., cordance with the terms of the gift the mayor read to them the first eleven verses of the second chapter of the gos- pei of St. John, descriptive of the mar riage feast at Cana, where water was n1iraculouslv turned into wine. The dowry, about $200, was then handed to the bride.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

George M. Gould, the eminent oculist of Philadelphia, in Biographical Clinics proves, to his own satisfaction, that De Quincey's opium habit, Carlyle's poign- ant complaint and Browning's vertigo were due to eye strain from slight squint. The doctor advises that print ing be on black paper with white ink and doing away with gilt picture frames.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

I, A. B., declare my engagement to c. D., spinster, of this town, to be at an end by reason of her pawning the engagement ring" is from the personal column of a German newspaper.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

The Hartford Telegram thinks that in the case of Thayer, the Massachu- setts forger, who died recently with $475,000 life insurance, it may be truth fully said the loss was fully covered by insurance.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

Tn the ancient Spanish city of Murcia there has just been carried out the an- nua1 ceremony of almost grotesque splendor known as the burial of the sardine." Just what symbolism there may be in the festival does not ap- pear. There was splendid cavalcade of horsemen; giants represented Flu rope, Asia and Africa, thus show ing that the ceremony dates from be- fore the discovery of America; chariots of strange characters from remote countries, with one to represent his satanic majesty; mounted fish, croco- diles and all manner of monsters, and, finally, the "sardine,' resplendent as Venus at the bottom of the sea. On the borders of the city the "burying' took place, followed at night by the apotheosis, when the sardine figured as floating in sea of flaming light.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-11

Seven hundred and thirty-seven of the building and loan associations of Ohio show average assets of $146,000, or grand total of $11O, ,257. being within very few million of assets of the Pennsylvania associations. The 1,2OO associations of Pennsylvania have as- sets of $113. 100000, an average of about $94000. Ohio associations are competi- tors of the savings banks. however, as $27021, ,437 of their assets is in deposits and interest," and $24,522, ,5OS in paid-up stock, while the Pennsylvania associa- tions do not issue this class of shares. and are prevented by law from taking deposits on the savings bank plan. The Ohio associations increased their assets s5,576,o5O last year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-01
What 1t Meant.

The Germans cannot get rid of the
idea that it is honorable to bear I'M
slightly scars on their faces, telling OF
duels fought. Their emperor recog-
nizes the absurdity of this and fre-
quently tries to put stop to the
practice, having issued an order on
one occasion directing the punishment
of any officer duelling without his con
sent
Not long afterward, consent was
asked by an officer of high rank, and
graciously granted, on condition that
his majesty should be notified Of the
time and place OF the meeting.
When the duellists arrived on the
ground they found the emperor there
before them, and seated near a newly
erected gibbet. The challenger asked
the meaning of this, and was
astonished when the emperor grayely
replied:
1T means sir, that l intend to wit
ness your LATHE until one Of you has
killed the other, and then l will hang
the survivor for murder
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-01
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
VENEZUELAN.

London newspapers now declare
the Monroe doctrine was backed by
Canning at the time 1t was pro
mulgated.
president Roosevelt's administra'
tion has a series Of difficult probiems'
Members Of congress are deluged
with protests against his acting as
Venezuelan arbitrator.
British public still hopes President
Roosevelt will act as arbitrator al
though the validity Of American OBJ
iections is recognized. More friendly
sentiment is show toward the kaiser
Germany will allow the Hague
Deace court to arbitrate If President
Roosevelt refuses to act and Great
Britain consents. Once announce
ment was made unollicalIy at HerIlh'
The responsibility for quick settle
ment now rests with England,
President Roosevelt's acceptance or
refusal to act as arbitrator hinges on
the restrictions imposed on aim by
the European powers; anxiety for an
early seIuemont is increasing be
cause of threatened complications
The allies already at odds.
In an interview Lopez BaraIt,
Venezuelan m nster Of foreign affairs,
said he had not been informed OF Il
declaration Of war by Great Britain.
81 am greatly surprise at news that
such Il step has been taken, sald
Baralt. 81 had believed the matter
was approaching a settlement"
No confirmation could be obtained
of the report coming from Caracas
that the proposition had been made
to President Castro that all pending
differences between Venezuela ana
the huropena governments having
elaine against her be submitted to
arbitration of The hague tribunal
The president has reached no de.
olson In regard to the invitation OF
the powers that he arbtirate the
Venezuelan matter. 1t Is possible
that his decision viii not be forth,
coming for several days Cores
pondence nv being exchanged dairy
botween the state department and the
foreign officers with reference to the
invitation Secretary Hay early TO-.
day held n brief conference with the
president Of Venezuelan situation.
President Castro, says a Caracas
dispatch, has toegraphcd from La
Victoria his acceptance Of the pro
posal to submit all pending DIFF,
ferences to the arbitration Of The
Hague tribunal, subject TO certain
conditions which include cessation
of tho blockade and the return to
Venezuela Of the feet seized by the
allied powers. President Castro's ne
ccptance has been transmitted to ,Ae
Washington government from which
the proposal omnated,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-01
EOR EIGN.


Howard Ellis, former United States
consul to Holland, dropped dead on
Broadway.
Joseph L. Mckinney, treasurer of
the National Lead company of New
York died of pneumonia.
Nate Salisbury, controlling partner
in Buffalo Bill's wild west show, died
at his home in Long Branch, aged 81.
At Danville, H., James Kildee, aged
1902 years and supposed to have been
the oldest resident of the state, died
Of old age.
Lord Willoughby de Broke died on
the Peninsular & Oriental steamer
Australia near Alden, Dec. 9, and was
buried at Sea.
James Leeming of New York general
freight agent Of the Erie division of
the Erie railroad, died at Buffalo. He
was born in Brantford, Ont, in 1857
At Chicago, Captain Alexander Han
gen, during the SpanishAmerican war
commander of the transport Seguran-
ca. running between Tampa and San
tiago, died, aged 55.
julius fischer, county attorney, and
one of the most prominent republican
politicians in Iowa, died from a compli-
cation of troubles aggravated by active
participation in the last campaign.
Former Isparachcr Creek In
dian. died suddenly at Okmulgco, |.
r., aged 90 He was prominent III
Creek affairs three score years ago
and connected with every treaty of i'm
pOrtance between the United States
and Indians during that time.
At 81. Francis hospital. Chicago,
Marcellus \. Morse died of tubercu-
losis at the age Of 6S. He was we'll
known business man of Chicago, hav-
ing been a resident of that city since
1871 at which time he came there
after successful operations in the
Pennsylvania oil fields.
Colonel Henry Clay Lockwood is
dead in Bellevue hospital, New York,
after short illness. He was SO years
old. Colonel Lockwood was the author
Of The Abolition of the Presidency"
in which he advocated a plural eXecu-
tive to be known as the executive
council. which should be chosen in
Joint session by the two houses of con-
gross. and several other works.
George w. Thatcher, Utah pioneer
and for years prominent in political
and church affairs. is dead at his home
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-01

organization and he Immediate ap.
piled to his former employers to re.
employ him. His request was ac-
ceded to and he was put to work.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad hospital at Albuquerque,
n. NJ, has been destroyed by fire.
One of the patients, whose name was
not learned, died form exposure and
fright. The railroad company had
Just completed an addition costing
$4,000 to the main building and this
addition had been occupied only a
month. The total loss amounts to
$4,000.
Mrs. George A. Graves Of Ogden,
Utah, has just received a check from
the United States government for
$3.50 in settlement of a claim that had
been pending 1O5 years. The claim
was for the capture and destruction
by the French, about the year 1898,
Of a schooner belonging to Captain
Robert Patton of Gardiner, Me. The
claim was for $3.50 and there are
seven heirs.
The strike Of the Illinois Central
railroad freight handlers at New
Orleans was declared off and the
men will go back to work on the old
conditions, but without discrimina-
ton. They were received 16 cents
an hour for a ten-hour day and %
cents for all overtime. They struck
for 20 cents an hour for a ten-hour
day, 80 cents overtime and 40 cents
an hour for Sundays and holidays.
The recent fall of snow has aided
materially in hurrying the work of
hauling logs. e. S. Hammond, who
has the contract for logging the Starr
timber for the Wisconsin Oak Lum-
Der company, expects to bank H.,
100000 feet this winter. The Nc
Donough Sawmill company will start
It's mill Jan. / G. M. Stevens is erect
ing a sawmlll and expects to manu-
facture 100000 feet Of hardwood
the coming season. j. w Mullen ex-
poets to log and saw 100000 feet,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-01
Cameras in War.

To France probably belongs the
credit of using the camera for war
purposes in a most satisfactory man
ner at a time when it was of the
utmost Importance. When Paris was
besieged communication with the out
side world was only by means of
balloons and carrier pigeons and
messages were photographed on
small films which could be
attached to the feathers Of
the birds, and in this way single
bird could carry thousands of words.
Likewise the aeronauts who lowered
over Paris used the camera for photo
graphing the different positions of the
Prussians. These photographs were
the first ever taken of an invading
army from a balloon. PrOfiting Ly this
experience, the French army and navy
have increased their carrier pigeon
and balloon service. Several hundred
officers in the French army are eX-
pert photographers and every ell
sineering corps carries with it com
plete Photographic outfits.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-01
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dont Il lho la'lor r'n'bns'
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o'ew sue open wiz" n'',ob,yI u ad,' ,oo
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ana hl'heIs uoa oo'N opened !" Nc"
YORK.
John u. Rockefeller Win build Il
new Bryn MaWr college hall himself.
instead OF giving $2oO,0O0 con.
duonally,
Potter NcreEin, Dukhobor leader
recently released from Siboria, ar.
rived at Wtmpog en- route to Douk-
hobor colony.
Near Trinidad Cal, SIX men wore
killed i'm uotEht wreck ON the
Colorado g. Southern The dead are
an ulumon
Isaac Horny Suatton, gon Of the
Colorado mining mihcnaira. was mar.
riod to Misa Josephine \. IArabrc at
Oshkosh. Wis,
A gasoline tant explosion in Hot
Springs, Ark, injured fifty mon and
roya; yo5, 900 cash was blown I'M but
nearly all recovered.
George Bundahl, IS years old, of
Crookstou, Mimi, shot and killed
Caroline A. Moon, aged 10 years, and
committed suicide.
Winchester mll owners of ~. OOC
acre tract along Illinois river will
organize drainage district and built
lovocs TO protect II
A freight wreck ON the Chicago 4
Alton at Macoupin tied up traffic nj
Bloomingtou and St Louis. The prop
erty loss is extensive. No ono wa,
seriously hurt.
j. u. Morgan Is sued for $3.50 b,
tenants of his Park avenue Hat build
ing. who claim they wcrc forced I,
spend that sum for coal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-01

first band of Mormon pioneers. In
the early days of the state Mr.. Thatch-
er was one of the famous pony eA-
press riders the later was identified
with many public enterprises. Mr..
Thatcher was a delegate to the ma
tional democratic convention in Kan
sas City in 1900.