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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20
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Fred-Did you hang up your stocking
on Christmas eve?
Joe (sadly)-No; l hung up my over
coat.-Chicago News.
Ruth-Mr. Jenkins has such an air of
culture, hasn't he?
Tom jealous)-Hum-yes, agricul-
ture.-Kansas City Journal.
They say you're making plenty of
money in the stock market"
Yes. / never fail"
Really? You get straight tips, eh?"
Not much. / sell them "-Philadel-
phia Press.
He-I kind o. think I've seen you be-
fore. Amt you a shop girl at Bar
gents?
She-Sir! I'm a saleslady.
He-Thats so? I'm the elevator gem
tleman at the same place -Philadelphia
Press.
City friend-In this house occurred
New Yorks most famous murder mys-
terry.
Country cousin-Indeed? Which do
you mean?
City friend-The one the police solv-
ed.-Judge.
did you turn over a new leaf on the
first day of the new year," asked the
fair maid.
Sure" replied the young man in the
case, but I was so nervous | got sew
eral large blots on it before night
Chicago News.
There's something wrong about
Christmas. I can't understand it."
What is ,it?"
Why, everybody gives away more
than he gets, and nobody gets as much
as he gives away Where does all the
other go to ?'-Knoxvilie Sentinel.
Well" remarks Gladys, Il suppose
you are all through your holiday wor-
res aren't your
Yes" replies Nanettc. Il exchang-
ed my last nistit present this morning,
and have settled down to enjoy my
self. "-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
There are few great actors left"
said the man who takes melancholy
view of things.
"On the contrary" answered Mr.
Stormington Barnes. with touch Of
asperity. great actors are, to my per-
sonal knowledge getting left every sea-
son. washington Star.
She Furnished Bulletins THEIR
marriage was surprise, wasn't it?'
well, his friends were surprised, but
l believe her friends were expecting it. !"
Brooklyn Life.
Mrs Flanagan--I want pair of
shoes for my boy.
salesman-French kid ma am?
mo. sir. Irish kid ."-Schoo!master
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

doesn't move from its original place 1t
will BE- found in time. Perhaps Robert
f. Peary's plan for finding it will be
the one that will work, II is certainly
Well constructed. He would have a
strongly built ship of maximum power;
minimum party. utilizing the Eskimos
exclusively for the rank and file: the
establishment Of a permanent station or
sub-base at Sabine; the formation Of a
chain of caches from Sabine to Heckla;
TIL. esta bIishmant of a main base some
where on the North Grinnel Land coast:
forcing The ship to winter quarters
there: the redistribution of the entire
tribe Of Whale Sound Eskimos, taking
the picked men of the tribe on the ship.
and distributing the others in a series
Of settlements along the GrInnell Land
coast, with the rear on the perennial
walrus grounds at Sonntag bay and the
head Of certain summer navigation at
Sabine, and the van at Heckla and,
finally. an advance in the earliest re-
turning light of February, from Heckla
northward over the polar pack, with a
small, light pioneer party. followed by a
large, heavy main party, from which at
intervals two or three sledges would
drop out and return. until on the last
stage but two or three sledges would be
left.
With money enough and the right
men 4 seems possible to carry out this
plan. The United States ought to have
the North Pole. 1t would go well in
political speeches and other oratorical
efforts
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20
MANX CATS IN NEW JERSEY.
Were shirwreclSed and the Breed i
Now Wild.

Were ShipwreclIed and the Breed is
Now Wild.
Point Pleasant, N. j., according to the
Philadelphia Ledger. can claim true
distinction because of its cats which are
tailless. They are direct descendants
of the famous Manx cats and so far as
known the only naturalized specimens
of the breed in this country. over half
/ a century ago the emierant ship Ayr
shire came ashore one January off
Suuan Beach, some few miles south of
the inlet In q severe gale and snow
storm She had two hundred and one
passengers on board of whom, thanks
to the efforts of the life-saVing crew,
one only was lost, it being the first oc-
casion on which the car life-saVing APP
paratus was used on the New Jersey
coast. Among the four-footed survi-
vors of the wreck were some ManX
i cats belonging to the sailors. These
pussies chung tooth and nail to the
floating timbers and after losing seven
of their nine lives in the surf struck
the Jersey shore with the remaining two
/ sui ltlt IIGIl anu HidAlc lrt tllG II AGAlN~
" shelter of the pine woods. Whether
they had sufficient taste of salt water
to cure them of roaming fer the remain
! der Of their natural lives. or whether
the green wooded banks Of the Manas-
guam, the sea and the pines reminded
them pleasantly Of their own little is
land across the ocean, is not known.
At all events they. settled down right
where they landed; took to the woods
and fiourished like pine islanders born
and bred. They took kindly to fish and
small game that the woods afford, eX-
changed civilized sickness for freedom,
grew thick fur to protect them from the
northern winters and retained as a re-
minder of their former life only their
chief national characteristic. the short
tail, which marks the true bred ManX
cat the world over.
NaturaIists say that it takes only
three generations for the domestic cat
TO lapse hack to the wild state. These
four-footed Jersey colonists came to re-
semble wild cats in everything except
size and this important question Of
tails, a fashion which pride of face pre-
served intact They became us wary In
their habits and savage in their dispO
sition as their cousins Of the remote
backwoods. But the race is now, to a
certain extent, dying out. They have
been shot and trapped, chiefly by irate
chicken owners who took no interest in
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20
IMPORTANT ~ yRTE.

1t appears that young Mr.. Rocket 4, ar
lis ber,l telling his Sunday schoo. class
that when the rich man was advised to
sell all he had and give the money to
the poor If he would enter the Kingdom
of Heaven the meaning was that he
should sell only that portion of his
wealth that stood between him and sal
Walton"
This is an interesting explanation.
and it is important if true. Mark says
that Jesus said to one who asked what
he should do that he might inherit eter-
nal life: Go thy way, sell whatsoever
thou hast and give to the poor, and
thou shalt have treasure in Heaven;
and come take up the cross, and follow
Me-" This reply made the inquirer sad
and he went away grieved; for he had
great possessions" Brother Rockefeller
has great possessions. and he feels that
it wouldn't do in these times for him to
sell them all and give to the poor. He
has decided that he can inherit eternal
life without being poor in this world.
and he has made very ingenious in
depreciation of what seems to many to
be a plain direction. But if his inter-
probation should happen to be correct
how surprised he would be to find that
he had not sold enough of his vast pos
sessions to entitle him to the inheri-
lance which he desires. We sincerely
hope that he will not make this sad
discovery. He Is a good young man,
and he thinks he has found way to
be rich and yet enter the Kingdom of
Heaven.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

She swept the floors for exercise
And scrubbed them to a snowy white
That dazzled the heholder's eyes;
Her pots and pans We're always bright,
In all things careful was her work,
Her silver never showed Il shade,
No daily duty did she shrk--
The buXOm 0ld-time ScrNi ing maid,
She rose before the break of day
And got the Mondays washing out,
Meanwhile the breakfast did not stay
She cooked that, too: beyond Il doubt
Her cooking never made one Ill
1t was Of quite the finest grade
Some modern chefs have not the skill
that sweet Oldtime serving maid,
She ironed linen fau!tlessly,
She busted with a dainty touch.
No sutton came her kitchen nigh
She never would encourage such.
She did not CAD, she did not waste;
Small were the wages she was paid
Though swift, she showed no signs OF haste
This buXom old-time serving maid.
Withai her dress was clean and neat.
Her face was ever fair to see;
Her voice was low, her temper sweet
AS any serving maids could be.
But, ali! she died long, long ago,
And we shall never, I'm afraid,
Find such another here below
AS that good old-tme serving maid.
Chicago News.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20
THE COCAINE. HABIT.
Its Growth Marked-Many Evils At
trbuted to It,

It's Growth Marked-Many Evils At
tributed to It.
Even the most casual of newspaper
readers must have noticed how many
have been the cases of cocaine poison
ing during the last few years. Either
the drug has been prescribed in the
first instance by a physician or-what
is more common--has been an ingredi-
ent in some patent medicine to relieve
nerve pain. It's value as local anaes-
thetic and its immediate tonic effect
upon the nervous system are so marked
that the patient grows more and more
to depend on it for relief; the cocaine
habit in induced. and the victim soon
becomes a physical and mental wreck.
The dangers attaching to the indis-
criminate use of this alkaloid of the
coca plant, its fascination for neurotic
subjects, are now we'll recognized
among physicians of repute, but it
forms a too frequent constituent in
many popular medicines, for it is a.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20
A FOHL FNFFDEL.

The Bible may not be so generally re-
used to be, but it is still looked upon
by many as valuable. Those whoa so
look upon it will be encouraged by the
decision of Judge Hazen, at Topeka, in
what is known as 1.-The Bible CASE In
Topeka the teachers Of the public school
read from the Bible as we'll as from the
poets or story writer's in the opening
morning exercises This custom was
assailed in the courts by an infidel of
the town, who declared that he wanted
no religious instruction for his children
The decision of Judge Hazen was to the
effect that reading from the Bible as a
literary or oratorical exercise could not
be considered as in viola ton of the pro-
hibition in the constit ution against es-
tablishing religious dognas or creeds
The mere fact that the Bible was the
basis of religious system did not
taboo it as valuable adjunct to lib
eral education. The narrow view taken
by the prosecution would bar from our
schools and colleges much of the best
that has ever been known In literature
Homer, for example, who taught poly
theism; or the Latin authors who rang
ed from this to atheism; or the works
Of Buddha, Confucius, Mabomet. and
the next to endless chain of doctrnari-
ans whose literary product must be
studied by every eager scholar. The
constitution never contemplated an
avoidance Of religion along educational
lines. 1t pledged the American people
simply that no religion would ever be
forced upon them by the powers of the
government, and that belief in creed or
dogma would never be made requisite
to any Of the rights of citizenship.
This is good sense, and it is to be
hoped that it is good law. A fool inf
dels children ought not to be deprived
Of the educational benefit of the Bible
just because their father happens to be
fool inhdel
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started in. saying that reminded him
Of something, ard tod ove7 again IT,
same story that the company ha3 jus;
listened TO, Mr., Hears teI.::.5 vas
naturally q great success. For ~,ery
one realized at once :hat he had ben
thinking Of other matters when the
story was being told the lirs: time. but
lad caught barely enough Of the thing
T., - r.-s:tnded o. tbs anec1o,e as it
lay i'll tn 9ecesses of his oWa mind.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

the study of natural history and the
spread of summer cottages and advent
of new inhabitants has helped to drive
them further back into the forests,
their adopted wilds. In other locall-
ties of the same region the cats allowed
themselves to be domesticated, and now
all graduations Of tail may be OBJ
served. One or two kittens in every
sixth or seventh generation revert to
the old type, much to the distress of
their long tailed mother
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20
CAN We OTERDO N?

Is it possible that in our eagerness to
have the biggest we are making some
things too big? The Japan Mail, a
Yokohama newspaper. thinks that Mr..
j. J. Hills freight steamers now build
ing at New London for the Pacific
trade are too big. 1t says: How
they are to fill up with cargo is a mys-
terry. So far as Japan is concerned, a
special organization for collecting car
go would be essential, unless it is in
contemplation to keep the steamers
waiting for weeks, perhaps months, and
even to send them from port to port
seeking" The Portland Oregonian, no.
ticing the reports that the seven-mast-
ed schooner, Thomas w. Lawson, is
unable to load in most of our harbors,
because of her great draught, says:
THE same objections noted by the ia
pan paper are In force to an even
greater degree on this side of the Pa
cific, and neither the Hill liners nor
the big schooner Lawson is adapted to
any trade on the Pacific"
Perhaps by and by somebody will say
that the capital Of the United States
Steel corporation is too big, and it
may possibly be discovered that some
Of the heads which are now proudly
big
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small
advertisements, Que Cent Word each w
seFtIoI4. Five Cenrs q Word for ruli week
lsev3n umes5.
Display advertisements. per inch. one 10,
seTt:cn, S1.20; eacn subsequent Insertion, ~
cents: one week, So 90: one month. $40; one
ceLts pee line. Notices Of Births, Marri-
ages Deaths, and Funerals, 80 cents each.
Local Notices. 10 cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
ewn Immediate business (all matter TO ne
IInobjectiOnable), and their contracts do NOT
Include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

The Farmers Improvement Society
of Texas, which recently held its sew
enth annual convention, is composed of
5000 negro farmers, who now own $4,000
acres of land, 5000 head of cattle and
1000 horses and mules. Its principal
objects are the eradication of the crop
mortgage system and the introduction
of improved methods Of farming.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20
4 WELL C0AAtRUCYFH PL4y.

1t begins to look as if the North Pole,
in despair at not being discovered. was
moving down where it could be plainly
seen. 1t seems to be already making
itself felt. But if it hasn't moved and
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

The cheering fact that the very finest
Egyptian cigarettes are manufactured
in this country is brought out by the
latest heavy transaction reported in the
tobacco trade.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

Chesbro, the star pitcher of the New
York American league club this year,
is to receive $4,000 for the season, and
only pitch two games week. This
beats writing poetry.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

A recently appointed second lieuten-
ant in the army on his first public ap-
pearance at one of the Presidents re-
ceptions had some difficulty with his
sword and tripped over it several times
while he was in line. 1t got between
his legs and dangled about in a most
perplexing way. Young man." said
manner. that thing you are wearing is
sword, not a hurdle"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

Lord Raglan Governor of the Isle of
Man, is also something else. He is
president of both houses of the island
Parliament, he can initiate laws and
taxation, he is Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, President Of the Government
Board, Chief Justice of the Courts, ad-
mits members to the bar. Is head of
the military forces and police, beside
being connmandant of the prisons. In
fact, he is invested with such multi
form authority that he may be regard
ed as an absolute monarch, So far,
however. his lordship has been wise
ruler.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

At Columbia, Pennsylvania, H, NJ.
Hi1legas applied to Judge Lands for
an injunction to restrain his neighbor
Peter Rainhart from keeping game
cocks. His case was that they crowed
in the early morning and broke up his
sleep. There are numberless noises
and Inconvenience which are not con-
ducive to perfect rest said Judge
Lands, denying the petition, "but all
these are the music of the night, and,
while silently bearing with them. we
must at times close our windows"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

King Oscar contributes an article to
the Christmas publication of the Swed-
ish Authors Union, in which he dis
cusses his own writings in fiction and
poetry. He states that he loved verse
from childhood, and that as a member
of the royal navy he was inspired to
attempt to produce it. His majesty
adds that, while the sailing ships of
fifty years ago embody more poetry
than do the modern steamers, the life
Of the seaman has the greatest attrac-
ton for him, and the sea always gave
him poetic inspiration. He says he
used to be very proud of his lyrical
productions, but now finds they cannot
be considered first class.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

Is Collarettes, all different styles, furs
and trimmings, $500, $500; now 800
to $4,000.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

The New York Evening Post over
heard a Harvard man talking seriously
to his little boy, who is three years old,
and remarkable for physical develop
ment, in this fashion: MY boy, you
want to remember that in about 1919
you will be a candidate for centre on
the eleven, and ought to make it, Be
careful that you never teach anybody
to do anything for money or it's equiva-
lent, and never play marbles for keeps
or run races for candy. 1t might in
jure your athletic standing when you
are young man. Never take anything
for holding a horse, and be sure that
YOU don't take pennies for running err
rands for your mamma. The latter
should be especially avoided, as it
would surely be ruled upon by the ath-
letic committee as having taken part
in athletic exercises for money"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-20

Senator Hoar's absent minded ex-
plot the other day Of securing the
ge by the senate Of a measure
that had already become a law recalls,
says the Springfield Republican, a
story of the senator which is sometimes
told. He was at a private dinner at
tended by number Of public men and
citizens One of the guests had just
finished all anecdote, and the laugh
had scarcely subsidized when Mr.. Hoar
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-03-13

her alone at such a time. The aloof-
ness Of the mans mentality appalled,
her. Then some one from behind her |
jostled against her chair and she fell
forward, catching the back OF the seat
in front She crouched there be-
tween the chairs to keep from
being trampled on, and lay very
quietly while the place became black
with smoke.
Presently the noise subsided some
what Her head felt dizzy. She straight
ened up with difficulty and peered
through the smoke. /
The place was quite deserted. Pres
emily she saw two men talking excit-
edly midway up the aisle. Halle
staggered toward them. Simultaneous
ly they saw her, and both uttered her
name and sprang toward her. One of
| them was Carl. She saw him only and
| reached out her hand to him, calling
| his name as she had done that day at
the car. For moment they clung to
each other like children; and ignor.
| ing the other man. the danger of their
ituation-everything, their lips met,
which sealed the sudden reconcilia-
ton. A fireman was calling to them
roughly. The other man had disap-
peared.
| AS they stepped into carriage some
| distance from the line of engines sur.
rounding the theater, Halle broke the
silence for the first time.
HE was Rheicard; you were talle'
ing with Ernest Rheicard."
II found him searching for you as
was doing" said Carl. "In heavens
name, how came he to leave you?"
How came you to know l was in
tho theater?"
81 had been watching you from the
back of our box all evening. Halle,
you were going to marry that man.
saw it in his face and in yours. Tell
me, were you-could you be guilty Of
that?"
She did not answer. Carl put his
head out of the window and gave some
directions to the driver.
where are we going?" she asked
helplessly. He drew her toward him
tenderly. ITO priest, Halle. | al.
ways meant it so, only / didn't quite
know it. You see l was so satisfied
just to have you with me in the old
days that did not think it possible l
could lose you. Are you satisfied to
go, dear?"
He reached out and turned her face
to the light, dropping his hands limp
ly as he did so, with an exclamation
half of awe, half of alteration; for in
that moment the woman came to full
, realization of the greatness of her
love; her face had caught something
, of the supernal, and the man fell back
abashed at it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-03-13
THE GREAT WEST POINT LAUNDRY.
Kept Busy Washing the Trousers of tho
Noble Cadets.

Kept Busy Washing the Trousers of tho
Noble Cadets.
West Point bobs up again with an.
other serious problem. 1t is all be-
cause the present laundry facilities at
the old academy are not extensive
enough. They need more manglers
and ball-bearing ringers and auto
matte pressers. The cadets are each
allowed two pairs of white duck trou-
sers per day and there are 600 cadets.
Each cadet is expected to wear both
pairs-not at the same time, of course
and this, as an ordinary mathema-
tician can prove, amounts to 1900
pairs per day, or s,400 pairs in the
week.
This may seem to the man who has
his trousers pressed while-you-wait
like needlessly large number. But
the cadets are expected to keep their
neither garments in spick-and-span
condition, and men who have worn
white trousers know that they are
constant care. In winter there Is
sloppy and spattery weather to con-
possibility of reclining on mossy
banks whose colors rub off, or Of sit
ting down in picnic pie. Anyway,
the cadets manage to keep the acad-
emy laundry running overtime all the
week round, and the authorities want
congress to make an appropriation for
more machinery, and to do it right
| away; because if one of the present
self-propelling scrubbers and ironers
| should break down it is grievously
| feared that the trousers allowance for
each cadet might drop to one and one
half pairs day, and then-well, the
academy might just as well shut up
shop.
At the same time it would be wise
| to keep this proposed legislation from
the sight OF the president. There Is
no doubt that his remedy for the con-
| gested laundry would be: Dress them
| in khahi and give them two suits a
week."-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.