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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12
TNTERR UPII0E&.

Do you keep burnt-leather goods?"
 "No'm-you will find them down on the next block; there's fire sale there."-Leslies Weekly. ,'~
 samuel-Major Thompson entered the army late and advanced rapidly.
 Simon-well, you see he had been url- der such remarkably good discipline at home.-Detroit Free Press.
 Do you know anything about fiirt- ing?" .. ;.
 "No,'' he replied sadly. "I thought I did, but when I tried 1t hanged if the girl didn't marry me."-chicago Post.
 T noticed the bellboys at the hotel are invariably called Buttons Won der why that is?"
 Probably because they're off when you need 'em most. t."-Philadelph Ledger.
 The ilusband-What! You don't mean to say those furs were $500? t.~
 "Yes; but I'm going to be very careful of them. Tn fact, ordered another set for only $1O0, so as to keep these for best. life. -
 DO you think you are giving your city a good governnent?" asked the earnest man. .t .S.%. s.
 Well" answered MT. De Graft, after some deliberation, fits as good as mon- ey can uy."-washinEton Star.
 Patron--I suppose the leading lady is very happy after getting all those bou- quets.
 Usher-oh, no. She only got five.
 Patron-Gracfous! Isn't that enough? ? Usher-No; she paid for six, believe Philadelphia Press.
 You say you saw my sister at a re- cent wedding?" ..uaA
 "eYs. It wasn't very long ago"
 But don't remember that she men, toned you"
 "Very likely. was only the groom" /" Plain Dealer.
 Do you take this woman for better or worse?" began the clergyman, but before he could proceed further he was interrupted.
 Its too early to tell yet" answered the groom; you'll have to give me time, sir."-Boston Post.
 Well, Tommy, how are you getting on at school?"
 First rate. I ain't doing so well as some of the other boys, though I can stand on my head; but have to put my feet against the wall. I want to do it without the wall at all!"-Punch.
 How old are you?" the school teach- CT asked the new student.
 "Six years old," lisped the little one.
 When were you six?" asked the teacher.
 "The day our hired girl came" said the little one, conclusively.--Pitt Dispatch. -'
 Teacher-Can any boy tell me what it was that induced Captain Kidd to turn pirate?"
 Smart youth-From what dad said. t'other day, guess it was because they didn't know anything about freezeouts and blind pool in Kidd's time.-Boston Transcript.
 Dealer-Here' a machine I can con- scientiously recommend. It is positive ly noiseless and odorless.
 tomobilist-What! A machine that makes no noise and does not scent the atmosphere? What would 1t be good for? We might ride it all day and not attract attention.-Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

when I looked down into the crater. at the slippery, slimy sides, with their velvet bloom of sulphur, I saw where the fathers of the church and the early painters got their ideas of hell, Marcus Aurelius my guide, bibulous muscular, with q grip of iron, found point from which when the wind lifted the veil of thick. white smoke, could see the flood at the bottom surge, seeth, toss up from it's depth big, red-hot stones, which dropped back again while the mountain roared and scolded.N It was an ave- some day.
 vesuvius has given me not only new understanding of the poetry and religion of Italy, but of the Italian character, which 1t has had a share in forming. On our way down we ran over soldier, the front wheel of our carriage passing across his leg. We were three people; it must have hurt him, but he got up and walked of cursing us vehemently. wish the Abyssinians might find the Italian sol- diers equally invincible in Africa From Lippincott's.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

and it's regimentaI coIors, as well as those carried at the battle of Solferino, were great features of to-day's review. Two regiments of Alpine Chasseurs took part for the first time in review at Vincennes-also a delicate attention to the sister nation on the southern slopes of the Alps.
 Apart from these special features, the review included a number of crack regi- ments and picked companies which may talrly be regarded as representing the cream of the French army. Both nlili- tary men and civilians accustomed to military ceremonies of this kind were agreed in their admiration of the fault less working of the manoeuvres to-day, notwithstanding the sodden ground and the unfavorable weather. The excel fence of the marching attracted atten- tion, for while the wooden stiffness of the Prussian troops on parade was avoided, there was a perfection ofalign- ment, combined with a lightness of tread, which spoke volumes for the marching capacity of those French regi- ments. Even the Zouaves, whose or dinary marching is sometimes accom- panied by a certain amount of ir- irregularity, kept to-day in presence of the soldier sovereign in a manner that was scarcely surpassed by the artillery and engineer students of the Ecole de Versailles, who were to-day giventhe place of honor at the head of the foot soldiers.
 The cavalry on this occasion were a good second to the crack infantry regi- ments. They made a brilliant display in two successive charges, first by brig ades past the royal stand and the high ly picturesque but motley group of the foreign military attaches, and after wards in extended line towards the president and his illustrious guests. The artillery, less striking to the eye than the two other arms of the service, was nevertheless the object, if possible, of still more hearty reception on the part of the large and representative gathering which witnessed the review. 1t was evident that all the Frenchmen present were proud and glad to think that France has at the present moment the best guns in Europe . served by a body of men whose technical skill and traditional valor may safely be reck- oned upon to give full effect to their su- periorlty. It was an additional pleas llre to observe the precision with which the batteries kept their place and dis tance at a quick trot.--Paris Correspon- dence of the London Times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12
A ETC PRonLr1r soIYED,.

We are carrying our. part of the white mans burden bravely, and we are doing very we'll with some of the "prob- lems" connected with the burden. The talk now is that one of the most troublesome of those problems, namely, the adjustment of the claims of the friars for their extensive property hold ings in the Philippines, is about to be settled. The main obstacle to a settlement appears to have been an is- sue between the papal delegate and the religious orders as to the proportion of the purchase money to be paid by the insular government that was to be turned over to Rome. The friars nat urally desired to receive the major part of the allotment, and when they learned that the Church insisted upon a certain sum. they sought to make good their own proportion by increasing the sum total of the price demanded for the lands. This ran the total up to about $14,G00,000, 8 sum entirely beyond any figure which the insular government was willing to consider. Realizing that with Governor Taft's departure the chances of a settlement would become more remote. and suffering from the deprivation of their lands without com pensation. month after month, the Church authorities have, it is learned. brought pressure to bear on the friars, with the result that the in- sular government expects to be able to acquire their entire holdings in the Philippines for sum approximating $e,OOo,oo0 before Governor Taft sails for home December 2S.
 Good work. Six million dollars isn't much. and the real estate is undoubt- edly valuable.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12
SOME AGIrATED PosTMA STEERS.

SOME AG(TATED POS1MASTFRS.
 Some of the postmasters of this great, glorious and comparatively honest country are asking themselves if the government postal business is actually to be done on business principles and according to law. The reason for their agitation is in the fact that they have been notified by Postmaster General Payne that they must make up deficits charged to their accoSpts, representing the salaries paid by irregular methods to employees in their respective offices, running back in some cases for a num- Der of years. For instance, Postmaster Warfield of Baltimore has been held up for s5,1e0, being the sum paid by his office to an employe who for a. number of years failed to perform single days labor in the Baltimore office. The man in question spent his time in Washing ton, and Postmaster Warfield says he was under the impression all the time that the man was working in the Post office department. It is not even known that he was engaged at the de- partment. and one story is that he was drawing still another salary as clerk to a Maryland member of Congress.
 The determination of the departmentto levy on the postmasters for the amount of salaries paid by them to employees on detached service came like bonb- shell to a dozen or more officials under whose administration the Irregularities have occurred. They are sorry that Reform should happen to strike them and strike them so hard. And when you come to think of it Reform is queer. s@s '... l..
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12
ADVERTISING RATEa

Situations. Wants. Rents. ana other small advertisements. One Cent Word eAch ln' serIlon. Five Gents Word for fnE Week
 Lispiay advertisements. per inch. one in- ferticn. $1.20: each suDseauent insertion ~ eents: one Heek, S3.20; one month, SlO; one year. Ss6
 Obituary Notices. Tn prose or verse. ID cenfs per line. Notices of Births, MarEl- sgss, Deaths. and Funeral. 50 censs eaen Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tneit own immediate business (a.l matter to be unoDjetcIonahlej, and their contracts do not inclade Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12
Suits, Skirts, Wraps.
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Tv " Tailor-made Suits of smooth faced and rough Cheviot, long coat with lap or plain seams, satin lined walking length skirt. $12 10 25 { Velvet, Suits, made with new long coats, plain seams. modest effects in trimmings. silk-lined.
 S25 to $35 Dress skirts of black Voile and Cheviot, latest style cut. $8 to SIS .. %I++
 w raps for evening wear. made from a variety of materials, silk and fur lined. SIS to $l00
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 INCORPORATED. J EATERS a FURRIERS State St., Cor. Chapel.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

Bishop Rastarick, missionary bishop of Honolulu, thus tells of his first sight of volcano in the Hawaiian Islands: "A friend took me to the foot of an i'm mense mountain, and, lifting his hand ilnpressively, exclaimed, That crater is 4O,013 years old I didn't mean to doubt him, but naturally I asked: Why the 1S?' Oh said my friend, I've been here that long. It was 40,000 when came.'"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12
A M saffeza > GDf Healfh

There IS a quality in Royal Baking Powder which makes the food more digestible and wholesome: This peculiarity of Royal has been noted by physicians, and they accord lngly endorse and recom- mend 1t.
 ROYAL CO, NEW YORK.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

Spain Is pretty comfortable, thanks to our benevolence and beneficence. Instead of squandering a lot of money or It's colonies it is now saving large sums and is able to get along without borrowing 10 make up deficits.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

In order to prevent the extinction of the chamois in the Swiss Alps law has been passed in Grisonos, Switzer- land, prohibiting the shooting of cha mois on the mountains. A real chamois skin is now worth fifty dollars.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

It isn't any great shakes to be a Daughter of the Revolution in Pan- anna.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

The Rev. Archibald McLaurin, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, was the best wrestler in Colgate University when he was there and nowadays gives frequent demonstrations of muscular Christian ity. He is now champion wrestler of his town, having thrown all members of his congregation who have tested his strength and agility. MT. Me Laurin is 5 feet inches tall and weighs i50 pounds. He has established gym nasium in connection with his church and is now busy drilling football team which he has organized. Many of the boys are unable to get out for prac- tice in the daytime, so they run through signals in the lecture room af- ter prayer meeting. Considerable blood has been spilled through contact with pillars and other things and the dom- inie has received his knocks with the rest of the boys.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

James M. Barrie, the novelist, has no patience with reporters who try to pry into his private affairs. On one occa- sion he was asked to pen short auto- biography. At first he refused, and then, when the reporter began to coax him, he stopped him, took his pen and wrote as follows: "on arrival in Lon- don it was Mir. Barrie's first object to make a collection of choice cigars. Though the author of My Lady Nico- tine does not himself smoke, his pet grocer's message boy does. MT. Bar rie's pet animal is the whale. He feeds it on ripe chestnuts.' D
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

United States Consul Kenneday, of Para, Brazil, reports great falling off in rubber exports. He says: The one feature of the situation which is really worrying the rubber men is the rapid destruction of the rubber forests in the very region where the best rubber is found. The number of men who have gene into the rubber belts this year passes all records and all expectations, and they are still going in great num- bers. These men have heard of the high prices rubber is now commanding. They are eager for gain, and many of them, as well as the owners of estates, are anxious to retrieve the losses of last season. It is therefore to be expected that the destruction of the rubber for ests this year will be beyond all prece- dent-enormous and irreparable.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

Monday morning about fifty Philadel- phia preachers and church workers called on Mayor Weaver, thanked him for his enforcement of the Sunday law the public parks last summer, handed him list of 300 worldly Phila- delphians who are selling meat, milk, groceries, soda water. cigars, etc., on Sunday, and asked him to order prose- cutions. T appreciate what you say, and am going to keep the city Chris tian one" said Mayor John Weaver. T take pleasure in learning that 1t is now the most Christian city in the country" <
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-12

It is pleasing to read that General Maxine Gomez is to receive a testimo- nial of $5O,OoO in cash, to be paid out of the surplus in the Cuban treasury, as token of gratitude and respect to the man who was commander-in-chief of the liberating army. The resolution providing this appropriation has ai- ready passed the Cuban senate and will soon pass the house.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-09-03
THE LEISURE CLASS.

The leisure class is the fruitage Of ma
terial prosperity. 1t comprises two
species, namely, the smart Get and the
hoboes.
These species differ genus plus diff.
ferentia giving us the scholastic defini'
ton OF species) both accidentally and
essentially; accidentally, in that the
smart set always have money to burn ;
essentially. in that hoboes sometimes
have sense of humor.
The smart set are tie successes, the
hoboes the failures, OF our civilization.
Our civilization is remarkable in that its
successes and its failures are equally
good for nothing.
However. we are not money-mad !:
merely money-drunken in the morning,
we shall be sober.-Liie.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-09-03

Figures that are almost startling are
given by X. q. Dun & Co. in an estimate
of the actual wholesale cost OF a years
supplies OF all the necessaries of life for
n single individual for each year from
1860 to 1898. According to this estimate
the price for 1903 would be 500 As, while in
1902 it was SOL 9l-showing decrease in
the cost during the past year. For 1897,
the lowest year in the record, the esti-
mate was $72 45-showing an increase OF
a little more than one.third in the last
six years. But for the entire period
from 1860 to 1884, with the exception of
1873 and 1879, the cost Of Lying is rated
higher than it is this year.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-09-03

A substance known as "weod silk" is
the latest invention OF an Englishman.
Consul Johlf E. Kehl, at Stettin, recently
sent an interesting report on the subject
to the state department. The Washing
ton correspondent for the Chicago
Chronicle gives the report that came
from Consul Kehl, who, in describing
the new invention, said: THE sample
shown me was very soft and OF a cream
color. Each thread is made up Of
eighteen single strands. A single strand
is hardly perceptible to the naked eye.
As to relative strength OF real silk
thread and this imitation the real silk is
two-thiri= stronger. 1t is said to take
coloring or dyeing readily and when
woven into pieces has the appearance OF
real silk. Wood silk seems to have q
great demand. l was told that within
the last ten days the price jumped from
$3.50 to ST 81 per POUND. How this new
artificial article compares with the genu.
inc, in the way OF wear and price, am
unable 10 say. Ii is impossible TO get
information here as to the process Of
manufacture, excepting that no particu.
lar kind OF wood is required and that the
pulp undergoes 4 chemical process and
Is pressed through very fine tubes by
hydraulic pressure, forming the single
strands which go to make UP the
thread"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-09-03
MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.

Gen. James B. Weaver recently wrote
"The Public" Chicago, his opinion OF
the action of the populist committee at
Denver. Gen. Weaver eaid in part:
81 observe the recent action of the
populi.t committee at Denver does not
meet your approval. heartily concur
with YOU. While have great respect
for the gentlemen present, l think the
meeting and action taken premature and
calculated to do harm. Iso telegraphed,
in substance, to the secretary at the
time. While democrats who adhere to
the Kansas City platform are not popu-
lists, yet they are truly democratic in
spirit. sincere in purpose, formidable in
numbers and organization, and repre-
sent all the reforms which the people
are likely to accept during this genera
ton. Hence it i. our duty to act with
them, unless future events and plain
duty impel different course. When
brazen imperialists ard organized pla.
tocracy, which is imperialism in bust
ness. aided by their powerful weapon.
the subsidized press, are moving in solid
phalsnx to CAPTURE the democratic or.
ganization, which is now out Of their
hands. patriots should not fall apart, hut
stand together like heroes upon line of
battle. He who leads a column away
from us OH such an occasion defeats the
very object he claims to have in view.
The enemy will laugh at our factions,
but he trenb!es before a united people.
Again, in the great race before us, it is
idle to expect our horse to win if We cut
his hamstring before starting"
Gen. Weaver's record for devotion to
principle in preference to party, to-
gether with his most distinguished ser.
vice AS a radical leader in American
politics, should bespeak for his opinion
the interest, respect and consideration
of democratic men OF all parties, factions
and organizations.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-09-03

Apropos OF the talk abo 1t the person.
atty of the teacher, the following words
by Tolstoy, quoted from foreign PERI
odical by World Wide (MontreaD, may
well he taken to heart by teachers. par
ents and all of us: "Modern education
is really the science OF how. living badly,
one might have good influence on chill.
dren. Education appears complex and
difficult matter only 80 long as we try,
while neglecting to improve our own
natures. to educate and tuild up the ma.
lures of others. Once we realize that we
can educate others only through edu-
eating ourselves, the great difficulties
vanish. and the question becomes simple.
Education is life. To know how to live
is to know h,w to educate" Perhaps,
too, the words may bear larger appli.
cation-to benevolent nations engaged
in educating the rest of the world.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-09-03
CUMMINS ON THE CURRENCY

Governor Cummins made a speech be.
fore the Bankers association at Daven-
port, Iowa, recently in which he made
some remarkable confessions.
He declared that the "present system
of furnishing currency with which to
do business already vast and constantly
growing is inadequate is beyond con-
troversy. You know and l know
that Il reform in the laws touching cur
ency is one OF the things so necessary
that the tortured body of busi,.ess at
tests it in the agony OF its movements"
The governor don't advocate any par
ticular policy for relieving the tortured
body OF business" but in a very timid
way speaks of the Fowler bill or one OF
milar scope.
1t appears very remarkable that a
man who has for years been engaged
with his party in overthrowing the con.
stitutional policy of the government and
building upon its ruins bank system
of currency especially designed to give
corporations the full control OF the issu
ance and regulation of the currency has
only, after all these years OF speculation
and legalized robbery OF the people, just
discovered that the system is "inade
puate."
Such talk As this will disturb "couii-
ence" and the governor don't appear to
realize that our financial system is
confidence" game through out.
The gold basis is a delusion and a
fraud and nobody knows it better than
Governor Cummins.
The whole fabric is based on govern
ment bonds and bank credit, and the
scheme now is to extend and expand
this bank credit by making corporation
stocks aid bonds bank asset on which
they can issue more promissory notes to
draw interest from people who are
compelled to borrow them from the
banks to do business on.
No currency based on such policy is
sound or sensible. No currency that is
owned and controlled by corpora tons is
sound or a safe currency, only to the
extent that the government backs it. Ii
the government must back it, then the
government should issue and control it,
not in the interests OF the bank but in
the interests OF the whole people.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-09-03
BARRIERS TO COMPETITION

In a speech delivered at Creston, Ia,
August 10, Congressman Hepburn, said
''What are protective duties other than
barriers TO free competition? When we
agree to 4 tariff: schedule imposing duties
upon our foreign competitor, we say to
him, We do not rely upon your compe.i
ton 10 secure diminishing cost for our
necessaries OF lie. but We propose 10
give our own people our entire market
and then rely upou their comp ti,ion.
one with another 10 secure the just and
fair price.
Il is no; Difficult, for the intelligent
man to understand that the republican
party has built IN Al our ports these
"harriers to free competition. But !,
does no; provide among our own people
"competition one with another. 70 Sc.
cure I JUS; and fair price"
The republican party builds up bar
riers 10 free competition" at our ports
and then fosters the trust system where.
by free competition is destroyed at
home; lie whole tendency Of the repub.
Lean policies being to benet. the few 4;
the expense OF the many.