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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
WHAT CAN BE DONE.

There is no doubt that most of the heavy fire losses with which this coun- try is afflicted can be prevented. Mir. Edward Atkinson, who has made a study of Misrepresentation, points out that the elements of prime importance in the science of prevention are thorough inspection by experts, the removal of causes of danger and the establishment of apparatus for quickly extinguishing the unavoidable fires. He cites the ex- perience of the town of Salem, in North Carolina, as proof of this theory. Sa- lem has fire ordinance providing for inspection of buildings in order to re- move dangerous heating appliances. This system of inspection has been in practice for 127 years, and the statistics show the results. The people of the
 town appreciate it's benefits, and all CO., operate in the enforcement of the ordi- nance. MT. A. W. McAlisler, manager of North Carolina fire insurance com pany, in a speech which MT. Atkinson quotes, says that the inspections are made in the most thorough manner
 misplaced ashes, defective fues and
 unsafe stovepipes being ferreted out re- lentlessly. These inspections, he says,
 are in themselves kind of education
 and the result is that every native citi-
 zen of Salem is thoroughly posted as to the rules of standard construction and
 for the prevention of fires. As conse- quence Salem has a most remarka ble
 fire record. The town has population
 of 3,7O0, is 137 years old, and during all
 those years has not only never had a confiagration, but has never had dis astrous fire. It has never in it's history had fire where the loss exceeded $750. There was only one dwelling burned in
 one hundred years dating from 1776, and there never was but one fire which got beyond the building in which it
 originated. On that occasion two build ings were burned, each worth $250. During the first 127 years of the towns 1 history the total loss of property by fire
 was less than $20OO
 1 If this can be done in Salem why noy elsewhere? And isn't it worth while to do it?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

nence. The elephant teaches us how to be calm in diversity. The hippopota- mus teaches us repose. The shy little rabbit teaches us how to die without a murmur. The antelope teaches us the fOolishness of idle curiosity. The hop toad teaches us the evils Of gluttony. The ant teaches us industry and wis dom in council. The hen teaches us to go in out of the wet (yet I have seen fool hens which did not know the diff ference between sunshine and rain). Some men might learn of hogs how to be gentlemen.-NeW York Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
DRUG DEPARTMENT.

Such as physicians will recommend, know ing their prescriptions will be properly pre- pared as directed, and drug store where every one will feel that he can get just what is called for in the line of Medicines and Invalid supplies of every description; get it promptly, and at the right price.
 Having the patronage of physicians of all schools of practice our stock includes probably larger variety of remedies than any other store in the state, and with a spacious laboratory and store room (recently enlsrged) you can nowhere be better served.
 We solicit your orders for anything you need, either In person, by mail or by tele- phone.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
Captive im London Irnxym,

There comes ghostly space 'Twixt midnight and the dawn, When from the heart Of London Town The tides of life are drawn. What time, when Spring Is due, The captives duugeoned deep Beneath the stones of London Town Grow troubled in their sleep. And wake-lnint, mallow, dock, Brambles in bondage sore, And grasses shut in London Town thousand years or more. Yet though beneath the stones They starve. and overhead The countless feet pace London Town Of men who hold them dead. Like Samson, blind and scnrned, In pain their time they bide To siRZe the roots of London Town. And tumble down it's D ride. Now we'll by proof and sign, By men unhGard, unseen, They know that far from London Town The woods once more are green. But theirs is still to wait, Deaf to the myriad hum, Beneath the stones of London Town A Spring that needs must come.
 W. G, Hole.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
THE EEEKLY JOURYAE. Issusd ThnrEdsys, One Dollar a Year.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each h. sertion. Five Gents Word for full week (seven timesl.
 Display advertisements. per inch, ore in. EeTtion, S1.20; each subsequent insertion, 41 cents; one V eek, $3.20; one month, $10; one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, b cents per line. Notices of Births, Marri- ages, Deaths. and Funeral, 50 cents each. Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (a.l matter to be unObjetciOnable), and their contracts do not include Wants. To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
EDUCATION APPRKCFA7ED.

The following interesting advertise ment appears in a New York paper: Wanted in the office of a large fire in surance company bright boy, we'll ed- ucated. college graduate preferred; $SO per month";
 We print this for the encouragement of all bright boys. and especially for the encouragement of the bright boys who are going to graduate" at Yale lookout for something good. The 'col- lege graduate preferred" part of the advertisement indicates what an edu- cation can do for a bright boy in the way of gaining him a start in life. The college graduates will have a decided advantage in the sharp competition for the place which this advertisement of fers, and some college graduate will doubtless succeed in getting it. Then if he is bright enough and industrious enough and persistent enough he can go on and on until he reaches the roomy and sparsely inhabited top. To be sure, thirty dollars a month doesn't seem princely to a young man who knows that his education has made him super for, but it isn't to be sneezed at if it is needed. We hope the college graduate who gets this place will go through the storied path to success and in thirty or forty years from now be able to brag from the top about his performances at the bottom.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
SAFE.

Pat-Bedad! It's confusin' the way the strates are unnoombered.
 Mke-Yis; they might at taste put signs up sayin' what street it ain't.- Puck.
 How do you like this young plan. ist?"
 T think she is good Christian Yes; her right hand does not know what her left hand does."-Le Figaro Paris.
 Mr. Howell-What' all the scream ing in the parlor?
 Mrs. Howell-Carrie is singing till Charley comes, just to kill time.
 MT. Howell-Time seems to die hard Boston Herald.
 "Ill never speak to them again."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

Husband-I don't know, unless it Is some new kind Of breakfast food
 Wife-What makes you think 1t Is breakfast food?
 Husband-About everything is. you know.-BostOn Transcript.
 T think the great trouble with the American people" said the young man as he took the girl around the corner to the restaurant after the play, lis that they eat too much"
 Do yOu?'' she answered. Let me see. An! Here it is. I can lend you a dollar if you're short. Chicago Rec ord-Herald.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
GAINING ON I7.

We are getting pretty independent of foreign countries in the matter of gold and "securities' in which to invest gold
 but we still have to import most of the precious stones into which we put sur plus wealth. Of course the United States ought to produce it's owr precious stones. and perhaps it will by and by. It is already producing more of them t&an it did. The total value of the native precious stones in 190t
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

At a recent test in Germany of the Pollak-Virag system of telegraphy a speed of 50,O00 words an hour was at tained. In transmitting, this syatem, like other fast systems, uses a strip of paper previously punched with holes representing dots and dashes. The method of receiving. The incoming electric impulses cause a thin strip of metal, resembling telephone dia- phragrn, to vibrate and thus move a tiny mirror attached thereto. A slen- der beam of light from an incandescent lamp falls upon the mirror, and is re- fected thence to a strip of photograph ically sensitive paper, which is steadily
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

unrolled by eIoekwork when messages come. Chemicals for development" being applied. the paper exhibits a con- tinuous dark line. with upward projec- tions for dashes and downward ones for dots The message must then be de- ciphered and the translation must be written out.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer de- plores the neglect of congress to grant representation to Alaska by territorial delegate. f"There are no more difficult ties in the way of holding an election in Alaska" it says, "than were en- countered in holding elections in every one of the Territories at the time they mere originally organized. During six months of the year it is as easy to reach Washington city from the in- terior of Alaska to-day as it was to reach Washington city from Tennessee at the time that State was admitted in- to the Union. In addition to this, Alaska is peopled by nearly one hun dred thousand American citizens of the very best type which the country af- lords. They are infinitely better quail fled to exercise all of the privileges of self-government than the foreign-born people who really dominate and con- trol the political life of the great cities of the East.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
LEARN FROM THE ANIMALS.

Learn of the animals. The horse teaches us to be silent under punish ment and patient in suffering. From the lion we learn bravado. From the cat we learn to prowl at night. From the dog we learn how to be faithful to q friend. The camel teaches us absti-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITV 1sCEETs 4 WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, t8ToR SIX MONTHS, Ss A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS DT NAH.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

The Greek Archaeological Society has decided to restore the Doric temple of Jupiter, at Nemea, situated near the haunt of the famous Nemean lion, the staying of which formed one of the feats of Hercules. The edifice was overthrown by a succession of earth qukaes, and only three columns are now standing; but the fallen shafts that lie round the temple are so little injured that it is believed that it will be possible to re-erect them and the fallen entablature without much diffi- culty or expense, and without having recourse to new material. As soon as the ground around the temple has been cleared of the litter of fragments that now incumber it, the Greek govern ment, which has hitherto been inac- cessible, and intends to begin excava- lions on the spot, hopes to make valu- able discoveries.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

According to Secretary Moody's re- port, S9 per cent. of the bluejaclzets of our navy are citizens of the United States and 76 per cent. are native born. "A few years ago the majority of them were foreigners-principally Scandina- yians. At the outbreak of the war with Spain many Continental newspapers prophesied that the aliens would desert, leaving the ships dangerously shorthanded, but they proved loyal to a man.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

It is asserted that as result of the Introduction of the Bertillon system by the Zurich police the town has practi- cally cleared out all its bad characters. Even tramps give the place wide berth, for as soon as person is arrest ed he is photographed and his meas urements taken, even if the charge is not serious. Of late the police have had so little to do that there is talk of reducing the number of the force. So few crimes are committed in the town that Zurich is considered to be the most moral town in Switzerland.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05

Many people are aware of the power of egg shells to resist external pressure on the ends, but not many would credit the results of tests recently made. Eight ordinary hens eggs were submit ted to pressure applied externally all over the surface of the shell and the breaking pressure varied between 400 pounds and 675 pounds per square inch. With the stresses applied internally to twelve eggs, these gave way at pres sures varying between thirty-two pounds and sixty-five pounds per square inch. The pressure required to crush the eggs varied between forty pounds and seventy-five pounds. The average thickness of the shells was 13-1,O00 inch.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
EEE HAVEN. CONN.

THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co
 OFFICE 800 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-05
We sell
 No Cigars, Soda Water, or Candy,

But cater to the wants of physicians, nurses and their patients. In a word, we endeaYor to make our
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-07
ROOSEVELT DECLINES TO ACT
 AND BOWEN WINS 4 VICTORY
BRITISH AMBASSADOR
 RECEIVES A CALL DOWN

Washington, February 6-Conhrmation of the London dispatch of yesterday to the effect that MT. Bowen and the Brit ish ambassador, at their interview Mon day, had a somewhat heated argument, was obtained here today.
 Indeed, 1t is stated that should the character of the cablegrams that the British ambassador has been sending to his government regarding the attitude ot Minister Bowen become public the coun- try would be furnished with sensational diplomatic incidents. It is the opinion of the Venezuelan negotiators other than the British ambassador that the latter is directly responsible for the direct break ing off of negotiations with MT. Bowen.
 The British ambassadors conduct has resulted in several important details of the momentous conference of Monday last leaking out, and these are now substan- tiated by the other negotiators present. It seems that when the British ambassa- dor, who took the lead at this conference had finished reading the cablegram of Lord Lansdowne containing his last proposition for 20 and 10 per cent divis- ion of the custom receipts of Porto Ca-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-07
Says That Notwithstanding Other Presidents Have Appointed More Negroes Than Roosevelt Great 0ucry is Raised
 Against Him-lhinks Lines Too Closely Drawn

the right of suffrage. A curious situa- tion has been witnessed in. the last year in President Roosevelt appointing fewer blacks than President Mckinley and no outcry was heard under Mckinley Now outcry Is heard in the south about Presi- dent Roosevelts policy of appointing black men to office in the south. Under previous Presidents, Mckinley, Cleveland, Harrison, and back to Hayes time, more negroes were appointed to office and nothing was said.
 "A black man attended an official recep- ton In Washington at the White House a short time ago. The black man, as an official of the government, had always at- tended these receptions. Yet the Invita- ton of the President to these men were signals for an outcry of a thousand pa pers in the south that the whites were being insulted.
 ''I don't want to argue this question. l am only showing that we have to facei a change of feelings in the south where the black man is denied the right to aspire to the highest there is in American citi- zenshfp This right to aspire to the high est dignity, which was formerly unques- toned is now questioned In short time the white man will succeed in ex- cudinE the black man from all offices in the southern states
 We can never throw off the responst- bility that rests on our people for the welfare of these black people that we held in slavery for so many generations.
 Now that the first attempt has failed, the question is what to do, and 1t shouldi take the greatest thought of the greates ! minds of the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-07

bello and LaGuayra between the allies and the other claimant nations respec- lively, MT. Bowden at once remarked in emphatic tones that the proposition was but another scheme to trick Venezuela into abetting an alliance against her for six years and probably longer. He added that he would not consent to any scheme for continuing the triple alliance one day longer than he was forced to. A diplo- mat stated afterwards
 Tt was MT. Bowen. who exploded the bombshell the moment the proposition was made" Charges that Great Britain was endeavoring secretly to continue her alliance with Germany were resented by the British ambassador. though he show ed no ill-feeling at the conference. After the conference 1t Is said he sent cable grame to London stating that he was dis pleased with the conduct of MT. Bowen, and that if 1t were left to him to decide he would not continue negotiations with him.
 Another feature of the last twenty-four hours has been the receipts of an ex- ceedingly tart cablegram from Lord Lansdowne at the British embassy The cablegram, it is stated. went so far as to remind the British ambassador that he was here to obey orders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-07

EW YORK, February 6.-Secretary N of War Enhu Root discussed the l negro question and labor unions tonight at the fortieth anniversary of the Union League club, which was celebrated by banquet to the men who have been members since 1863. Fifteen of these members were present tonight. There were $50 other members of the club present. letter of regret was received from President Roosevelt. Secretary Root was chairman. He congratulated the veterans of the club upon having woven a thread in fabric of the great life of this country"
 There are some labor organizations which fight against the better man doing more work than the poor man, and which hold down the competent man to the level of the incompetent and stupid. do not declare war against labor organizations; I believe in them. The loborer is en- titled to organize to get his own demand.
 After the civil war the great question was what shall we do with the black man?' and the answer was give him citizenship. equal rights and he will rise Three amendments were added to the constitution and l fear we shall have to face the conclusion that the experiment has failed.
 "The suffrage has been taken away from the negro and in many of the south ern states the blackman no longer has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-07
NEW DEPARTMENT
 BILL NEARLY READY
coNFEREEs ON COMMERCE BILL ADJOURN WHEN ON THE VERGE OF REACHING AN AGREEMENT. WILL FINISH WORK TODAY.

Washington February 6.-The conferees of the senate and the house ~on- the de- pertinent of the commerce bill approached an agreement on the bill today but ad- tourned to meet tomorrow without en- tirely finishing their work. They were in session about three hours, the greater part of the time being spent in an effort to adjust the differences on the question as to whether the President should be given power to transfer the interstate commerce commission to the proposed department, as provided by the house bill. Considerable feeling was manifest today over the matter and the controversy De- came so animated at times that the voices of the conferees could be plainly heard in the adjoining corridors When the meeting began the trust provision of the Dill was taken up immediately. No time was lost in reaching an agreement on that point. The differences were adjusted by the acceptance of the Nelson amend ment, with portion of the house pro- vision added
 The conferees then sought to come to an understanding on the question of transferring the interstate commerce commission to the new department. The bill as passed by the house authorizes the President to transfer to the pro- posed department "the whole or any part of any office, bureau, division or other branch of the public service engaged in statistical or scientific work or the inter- state commerce commission
 The senate conferees moved to strike out the words referring to the commission and after some objections the representa- tives of the house assented.
 It was then suggested that the trans fer of the commission might be &C., complished under the general authority given to transfer bureaus engaged in statistical work. An effort was made so as to amend the language of the pro- vision as to prevent and even prohibit that result. At this point the meeting came to a close. The members of the house refused point blank for time to consider any further bills and 1t looked for time as If 1t would be necessary to bring the conference to a close and port deadlock. Further parlying pro- duced more conciliatory spirit, and the meeting at last adjourned with an un- derstanding to meet again tomorrow. Hope was expressed that an agreement would be finally reached then. The ef- fort of the senate conferees now Is to limit the transfer to bureaus engaged exclusively" in statistical work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-07
ANOTHER ROAD TO FRISCO.
indications Point to Building of Trans
 continental.

San Francisco. February s6-There are indications that San Francisco Is to have another transcontinental railroad. The new road which the San Francisco Ter minal Railway and Ferry company pro- poses to build will run from Oakland to Roville. From that point it will follow branches of the Feather river over to Purdy on the state line and then across northern Nevada and Utah to connect with one of the four big eastern lines. The incorporators of the company are local men, but there is a. widespread be- lief that the Gould interests are behind the enterprise. The terminal company IS incorporated for $6,00o'0o0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-07
ILLINOIS IN WAY
 OF AN AGREEMENT
QUESTION OF DETRIMENTAL BE- TWEEN MACHINE AND PICK
 MINED COAL IS OBSTACLE OVER
 WHICH MINERS SCALE HANGS.

Indianapolis. Ind.s Februafy s.-Tne sub committee of the scale committee of miners and operators was in session all day. but reached no agreement. The question of the differential between ma chine and pick-mined coal is still the ob- ctacle in the way of an agreement.
 Illinois Is the district now that is pre- venting an agreement. Tt now has the seven cent differential and the miners say they never will relinquish 1t. The operators are still standing firmly against the narrowing of the differential and as no agreement was reached tonight, 1t is not expected there will be one reached this week.
 The Indiana operators and miners have got together on the dispute over the shot-firing bill, and If the Illinois dele gates from the miners would agree to a change in differential. the scale would soon be signed. Both sides claim that there will yet be an amicable settlement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-07
"GAS" ADDIckS MAY HAVE
 SOMETHING UP HIS SLEEVE
One of the Republican Leaders Says His Withdrawal Was Not Made in Good Faith-Backers Refuse to Drop Addlcks
 Until Regular Caucus is 1ed-Democras Busy

regulars then retired and Union Republi- can committeeman Connor and Townsend submitted the final proposition of the Addicks men as follows:
 We will stand or fall by the vote of the ajority rule"
 Both sides finally agreed to allow nego- tiations to remain open for few days as it was then time to take a ballot for United States senator.
 State Chairman Alec, the Addicks lead CT, said after the baloting: Our offer still stands out of courtesy to our repub- lican associates. MT. Addicks, of course, is our candidate until another caucus is held. He simply withdrew in the inter- est of harmony, but we refuse to change from him until there is a caucus of all the republican members"