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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

Especial Correspondence of the Journal and Courier)
 Valparaiso, Chili, Nov. g, 1903.
 Being on the western side of South America, it is an easy matter to visit Juan Fernandez--the island known to the world as Robinson Crusoes"--for 1t lies only about four hundred miles from Valparaiso sailing straight toward sunset. Or rather, it is easy whenever somebody succeeds in drumming up an excursion party, large enough to pay fir chartering an especial steamer; oth- erwise one might as well dream of going on foot to Polynesia, as there is no regular communication between the main land and this isolated Chilian possession. There is a picnic two or three times year to Juan Fernandez more for the purpose of shooting goats and seal and fishing for cod and lobs- ters than for visiting the haunts of the Ancient Mariner, for the memory of that worthy is not held in much vene- ration near the scene of his adventures.
 Since so many of the heroes of our earlier days have lamentably turned out to be myths-sirlce it has been proved that William Tell did not shoot an apple from his sons head, nor Barbara Fritchie f1irt flag in the face of Stone wall Jackson's men, and since in the broad light of nowadays even Santa Claus. is doubted, and the whale that swallowed Jonal1--I am delighted to be able to declare that there really was a tRobinson Crusoe,' (though, as every body known, that was not his true rlame), and that he lived on the island, almost exactly as described in the sto- ry, just two hundred years ago. But local traditions of the affair differ greatly from the account with which we are familiar.
 It seems that in the year 17O4 a Scetchnan named Alexander Seleraig, (now commonly called Selkirk), multi 1lied on board the Spanish bark Cinque Ports, and was given the choice of be- ing hanged at the yard-arm or put ashore alone on an uninhabited island. He chose the latter alternative, because it offered some hope of life; but when landed on the messy rocks of Juan Fer nandez, with his sailors kit and small supply of provisions, the desolation of the place so weighed upon him that he begged with tears to be taken back and hanged, rather than remain-a solitary human speck surrounded by wild waste of water.
 A few days afterward he discovered an Indian on the island, who had come down some years before from the Mo- squito coast of Central America, on the pirate Danthere; and who, having gone ashore to hunt got lost and was aban- 6oned by his companions. This was the man Friday" whom Daniel DeFoe inn rnortalized.
 After Selkirk had lived on Fernandez four years and four months he was res- cued by an English ship and taken to Southampton, where he told his story with some judicious omissions and ex- aggerations; and so it came to DeFoe' ears, and finally into print. The book was not published until more than ten years after Selkirk's return to England and it is< asserted that the author of Robinson, Crusoe'' never saw his hero nor held any communication with him, but that he picked up the narrative by bits here and there, mainly from news
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LOCAL STOCK DONATIONS.

Furnished by Kimberly, Root & Day, Bank CTS and Brokers. 1S3 Orange Street.
 BANK STOCKS.
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PREVENTS SMALLPOX.

Alabastfne will not cure smallpox
and other contagious diseases. once
they have fastened their deadly grip
upon their victims. 1t will do much,
however, toward preventing their
spread.
1t is q well recognized fact that Ger.
tain wall coatings do much to harbor
disease germs and propagate same;
that of all coverings wall paper Is
the most likely to hold the germs OF
disease for months and years
There are well authenticated cases
where smallpox, scarlet fever and other
germs have lain dormant for years.
and have attacked persons afterward
when the paper was removed.
Kalsomines stuck on the wall with
than wall paper with its vegetable
paste.
Alabastine is recommended gener-
ally by sanitarians. as a coating for
walls in any style of work, as it Isl
perfectly sanitary, is in the nature of
a disinfectant, presents a perfectly
hard surface, is manufactured from
a cement base. and does not furnish a
Judgment ground for disease germs.
Years ago these matters received
but little attention, but modern scien-
lists becoming appalled, at the spread
Of the dread disease, smallpox, and
the difficulty in stamping it out, have
gone to investigating causes, and I'M
hesitatingly say that improper wall
coatings have very much to do with
this.
Alabastine is recommended to be
used on all infected walls, to destroy
germs and to get walls once more in
a healthy condition
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-31
FAVORS NATIONAL CONTROL
OF COAL MINES AND ROADS

Congressman John ]. jenkins, the
chairman of the house judiciary COM
mittee, who introduced the resolution
favoring government seizure of the
coal mines and coal railroads, repre-
sents the Tenth district of Wisconsin,
and has been continuously a member
of congress since 1895. He lives at
Chippewa Falls, Wis, and was a for
mer county judge. He has been a Re
publican since the civil war
One of the most radical propositions
yet made to settle the coal problem
was offered in the house of representa-
tiyes JAN IA, and it came from a
source which seemed to entitle it to
instant recognition. Representative
jenkins of Wisconsin, who is no tyro
in legislation, but who, on the con-
trary, is chairman of the judiciary
committee of the house, and who from
that fact is presumed to be good con-
stitutional lawyer, offered a resolution
which provides in brief that the gov
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this declaration is not open to Ia
Quiry by the courts
1T is not the price of coal that Gre
ates the exigency, but the fact that
the people cannot obtain it, and that
conditions are growing worse daily
Hence. it becomes the duty of the gov
deal with the many perplexing ques-
eminent to exercise this attribute of
sovereignty and relieve the distress
not by buying coal for the people, but
by providing that they can buy it.
This is the first time in history this
nation could justly exercise that right
of control. Unquestionably the power
exists, as certainly as the exigency is
present.
I'VE cannot sit here idly and listen
to the cries of pain and suffering from
all parts of the country without doing
something that will promptly bring
substantial relief. The powerful mo-
nopolies sapping the life blood of the
people to add to their wealth must al
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low conscience to control them, or in a
short time a suffering people will be
aroused so that no power will control
them, for they are not going to suffer
longer and submit to this continual
robbery. They know that the coal
question is but an index to what is
coming.
The greed of the monopolies is so
great they overlook everything but the
acquisition of wealth at the expense
and suffering of nation of people Let
the monopolies treat the people as fair
ly as they do the almighty dollar, and
there will be no complaint.
1T is to be regretted that in an in
teiligent ration like this controlled by
Christian influences, where the people
are the government, such a radical ex-
ercise of power is even deemed neces-
sary. 1t is not a step in the direction
of government ownership, it can only
be justified by the exlgency of the stu
alton; and it can only remain in force
until the cause for the condition is re-
moved
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Claims to Have the Biggest Mills.

Claims to Have the Biggest Mills
So far as statistics In regard to cot
ton manufacturing plants have been
published, Manchester people have
the satisfaction of knowing that the
largest cotton mill building in the
world Is that recently built by the
Manchester Print Works and cover.
Ing with its two wings a remarkable
area Statistics, too. show that the
big No. IL mill of the Amoskeag Man.
ufacturing company. on the west side
of the river, is the largest mill exclu-
sively devoted to cotton cloth manu-
featuring In the world. That is. no
portion Of the No. IL mill is used for
storehouse purposes; it is entirely
devoted to the making of CLOTH
Manchester On. H.) Union.
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1902, RECORD BREAKER.
Extraordinary Showing of Prosperity
for the Year just Closed

Extraordinary Showing of Prosperity
for the Year just Closed.
With this, our last number of the
year 1902, we would briefly call at
tention to the years record of I'M
paralleled progress and prosperity. In
spite of the great coal strike, the
result of which is still serious. we
have passed through a year of bust
ness activity, of commercial expan-
sion, of trade movements and both
individual and national success in
production and earnings and conse-
quent enjoyment of the necessaries
and comforts and luxuries of life, such
as was never before known
Our almost record breaking crops
will all be marketed at good prices
Our iron and steel production has
been the largest in our history. our
pig iron output reaching $4,000 900
tons, almost three times that or 1894
Our railway earnings have surpass-
ed all previous years Our bank
clearings have again broken the rec
ord.
Our postal. insurance telegraph and
telephone business have been larger
than ever before.
Our imports for the first time in our
AiiSeoiJ Will appi OAiHdte Sl,UUU,O OO-
0cO. while our exports, though not
quite equal to one or two preceding
years, owing to the failure of last
years corn crop and the extraordi-
nary home demand for manufactures
are yet most satisfactory
We have earned more, lived bet
ter and saved more than ever before
in our history.
1t has been the merriest Christmas
and will be the happiest New Year
that was ever enjoyed by any people
on earth.
Not all are quite happy, for the mil
lennium has not yet come The hand
full of antis are discouraged and dis
heartened. while the tariff smashers
see no hopes of a naturalization of
their ideas" And yet even these NAL
contents and pessimists know that
they are better off in every material
way than they ever were before
1t is the fifth full successive year
that we have enjoyed this constantly
increasing prosperity. Ii dates from
the going into operation of the Ding
ley tariff law. With every Iaborer
employed full time at larger and
larger wages. has come increased de-
mands for our varied products, even
greater than can be supplied or trans
ported.
What a tariff lesson it is, to be
surei No need to read Adam Smith
or John Stuart Mill. No need of tar
In commissions or hearings before the
Ways and Means committee. or COM
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both seize and operate net only the
eminent of the United States shall
coal mines but the transportation COM
panies which carry the product, and
in this way distribute coal to the peo-
pie
Such a proposition coming from an
obscure member of the house would
not haze attracted any more attention
than dozens of others quite as radical
But a bill of this kind offered by the
chairman of the judiciary committee
acted upon the members of the house
like a dash of cold water. and seemed
to bring them to a realization Of the
fact that the country has reached a
condition where ordinary constitution
al methods must be succeeded by ex-
traordinary and almost socialistic ex-
pedients.
Mr.. Jenkins did not offer his resolu-
ton in an idle moment, but after care
fully thinking it out. He is undoubt-
eddy a good lawyer. and his position a
the head of the great committee which
is even now formulating the antitrust
legislation entities him to more than
the usual credit for mis- actions.
That his proposition is radical in
the extreme everyone must concede,
but it is also apparent that nothing
but the presence of great crisis could
have induced him to father such
proposition. Mr. Jenkins has previous
ly gone on record as asserting that
the government could not regulate~the
trusSs without constitutional amend
ment.
Not only does Mr.. Jenkins assume
complete responsibility for his actions,
but he justifies them py the gravity
OF the crisis which the country is now
facing, He does net propose to sup
ply the county with free coal but he
does believe that the time has come
when, to prevent widespread famine
and hardship, it has become necessary
for the United States government as
an act of supreme sovereignty to give
the people an opportunity to provide
themselves with coal at fair price.
What he is after is merely to use the
power of the national government to
see that all the coal possible to be
mined is mined, and thereupon also
to see that it is distributed on an
equitable basis to all sections and all
classes in the country
For some time we have been call
ing attention to a want of power on
the part of the federal government to
lions confronting our people, said
Representative Jenkins. in discussing
his proposition. by this resolution I
am calling attention to a power that
believe exists and should be developed
1t is one of the sovereign inherent
rights of the government The situa-
ton is not as favorable for the exer-
else of that power as during last Sep
TENDER, but conditions are much
worse Coal is a necessary of life.
The people cannot obtain it and are
suffering greatly for the want of it
Therefore, it is within the power of
congress in such case to declare that
an exigency has arisen for the exercise
of the power of eminent domain, and
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,rcial conventions or lengthy es

mercial conventions or lengthy IS
says.
Each mans bank book tells the
whole story, and there never before
were so many bank books with such
large balances as now Never before
were so many millions sent home to
the old countries by those who have
come to make their home hefe in this
land of work and wages This very
fact alone disproves the statements
that cost of living has increased more
than wages. Millions upon millions
of increased wages have been granted
during the last two months, added to
the many increases of recent years.
And happily for all, we have decided
to let well enough alone for two or
three years at the leaSt--American
Economist.
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MUST BE NATIONAL
GENUINE PROTECTION is THAT
OR 1T is NOTHING.
The Doctrine Is One of Broad and
General Application and Must Not
Be Made an instrument of Favorit-
ism to Special Sections or Interests.

The article Protection a National
Doctrine" in "Gunton's Magazine" for
December, is worthy of thoughtful
perusal by all who are in search OF
information and argument relative to
protection, its aims, its scope and its
effects upon the material prosperity
OF the people of this country In this
presentment of the subject Prof. Gun
ton has completely succeeded in ders-
onstrating alike the fallacy and the
folly of considering protection as an
instrument of favoritism to special
sections or interests. The doctrine,
he urges, must be one of broad and
general application to the nation as
a whole, to all industries, all inter-
ests. 1t is either that or it is nothing
1t will fail and deserves to fail. Ex-
actly in point is the extract from
recent address by Gen. William F.
Draper, the head of the great textile
machinery plant at Hopedale, Mass,
a distinguished business man, n cap
tain Of industry, clear thinker and
forceful writer on economic subjects.
Well and truly Gen. Draper declares:
when the Republican party ceases
to be a Protectionist party, it will be
people wish to try another free trade
experiment the Democratic party is
the proper one to conduct it,
And it will be so. Just as surely as
the Republican party deserts the bed
rock of its economic faith, just as
surely as it proceeds to undermine
protection, either through special
tariff legislation at the behest of GER
kafr al.
for free raw materials, or through
system of swapping trade privileges
whereby one industry is arrayed
against another industry and a large
degree of foreign competition is bar
gained for, just SO surely will the Re
publican party ride to a fall No
political party can retain public con-
fdence for any length of time after it
has begun to exhibit the worst of all
party misunderstanding Of distrust in
the soundness of its own cardinal
faith.
Against the folly and the fallacy of
free raw materials and special treat
les Prof. Gunton's guns are double
shotted and accurately trained. New
England small talk and selfishness
come in for some effective broadsides,
and SO does the shortsighted and
short witted policy of forcing our
products upon other countries by
means of special trade privileges in
stead of on the sound and lasting
basis of superior excellence or great
er cheapness, while at the same time
showing gross favoritism and unfair
ness toward certain industries select
ed for slaughter in order that certain
other industries may have an unjust
advantage.
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Our Trade With Cub.

Imports into Cuba from the United
States for the first half of 1902 were
IL per cent less than for the same
period three years ago.. while those
from Spain actually decreased. show
ing that SO far Cuba's liberation has
been an injury to this country and a
help to Spain Still Cuba sent us IA
per cent of all her exports and bought
from US A per cent of all the goods
she imported.
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Mistaken Economy.

To save train fare three italian
women set out to walk across a noun
tain pass between the Engadine and
LON hardy. They were overtaken by
a snowstorm and one of the women
persisted. This is the seventy eighth
accident of the kind This season
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, of O.ntnents for Catarrh Tha
Contain Mercury.

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles SHOULD never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians as the
damage they will do is tenfold TO the good you
can possibly derive from them Halls Catarrh
Cure. manufactured by F. j. Cheney s. Co..
Toledo O., contains no mercury. and is taken
internally acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine.
II is taken internally, and made in Toledo Ohio.
by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold
by Druggists. price 75c per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best
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Southwest Mineral Product.

For the year 1901 the mineral pro-
ducts of the southwest were valued at
$70,000,0 900. 1t is estimated bv the
Southwest Miners association various
businesses connected with the mining
industry have grown 300 per cent dur
ing the past two years.
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Honor for Porto Rican.

Felipe Guasp Vergera of San Juan
is the first Porto Rican to receive an
appointment in the government SER
vice at Washin gton. He was edu-
Gated at the National University in
Madrid, and in the civil service ex-
animation made the remarkably high
average of 80.
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HimIa's SWIMMING Brides.

Girls inhabiting the island of Him
Ia, near Rhodes, are not allowed to
marry until they have brought up q
specified number of sponges, each
taken from a certain depth. The peo-
pie of the island earn their living by
the sponge fishery.
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MRS. cox GAINS SUPPORT.

Business Men of Indianola Laud Negro
Postmistress for Efficiency.
Mrs. Minnie NJ. Cox, the negro post
mistress of Indianola. Miss. has oc-
cupied the office six years and her
efficiency has never been questioned.
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The Dubuque Telegraph, Democrat
ic. thanks Mr.. Cummins for his inter.
probation of the idea" for the reason
that there will now be no further ex.
cuse 4sfor any high protection Iowa
newspapers which may hereafter at
Arm that 1t does not imply that the
tariff now affords shelter to monopoly
Sioux City Journal
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Guarding MckinIey's Tomb.

Eight officers and thirty privates of
the Third United States infantry have
been detailed to act as guard at the.
tomb of President Mckinley at Cantc
to relieve the detachme t that ha
been ON duty there I'M e - tine
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The sole objection was because she
was colored- Her action in resigning
when she learned that strong minor
ity of taxpayers voted for her resigna-
ton won her much sympathy. Many
leading business men, lawyers and
other prominent citizens of Indianols
have turned to her support.
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Superior quality and extra quantity
must win. This is why Defiance Starch
is taking the place of all others.
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Stealing a march isn't larceny an
more than firing a servant is arson.
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A guilty conscience seldom goes so
far as to return a borrowed umbrella.
The average boy outgrows his trou.
sers faster than he does his deviltry.
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Try me just once and 1 am sure t,
come again. Defiance Starch.
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ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS
Use Red Cross Ball Blue. 1t makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. ALI grocers
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It is hard to convince a woman
that she SHORES.
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THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED n

will use no other. Defiance Cold Water
Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quail
ity-16 OF. for 10 cents. Other brands
contain only II
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Stops the Cough and
Works Off the Cold
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c
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The strenuous minister dispenses re-
| ligion by the pound.
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Tell your troubles to other people
before they have a chance to tell yor
theirs.
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Miss NTenard cured after doc
tors failed to help her.
Lydia E. Pinkham'S Vege-
table Compound cured me after
doctors had failed, and I want
other girls to know about it. Dur
ing menstruation I suffered most
intense pain low in the abdomen
and in my limbs. At other times 1
had a heavy, depressed feeling
which made my work seem twice
as hard, and I grew pale and thin
The medicine the doctor gave me
did not do me one bit of good, and
was thoroughly discouraged: The
doctor wanted me to stop work, but,
of course, I could not do that. l
finally began to take Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and felt better after taking the first
bottle, and after taking six bottles
was entirely cured, and am now
in perfect health, and 1 am so CRATE
full for MISS GEoRGIE MENARD,
537 E. 152nd St., New York City. -
$4,000 forfeit If original of dboUe letter PROBING
oenuineness cannot be produced.
lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound cures female ills when
all other means have failed