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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31

ond in the ninth inning with all the
cushions full.
Playing out in one Of the gardens
i.n't half bad either. II makes YOU
feel mighty good to make a long
chase after a line drive aud yank il.
down or run in and grab one labeled
safe and tos, it into the diamond
again.
"lou have TO keep your eyes open
for anything from a daily cutter to
scrccchcr To the ropes and YOU can't
have amy glass in your arm or YOU
cant hope to head the runner of at
the tally cushion.
"Thc Giants are pretty well fixed,
! guess. They ought to be- able to
put up the rag here next year. The
rag: oh, that's the pcnnant. When
YOU get that you're the champs.
But the umpirc's going to call or.
der now You just keep your eyes
open and you'll scc n real game. You
Thought that was the game they we're
iu,t playing? Get out. MOI on the
Level: oh, mamma, they we're only
getting limbcrcd up. This isn't mar.
bles. lI-i-i-i.i.i-t 'cr out, old man.
Say. are you catching onI'
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31
INITIATIVE AND ENTERPRISE.
Gives the American the Lead Over Hi;
British Cousin.

When the Egyptian government
placed a large orccr for railwa!
bridges of exceptional Size in the
United State. British maker, Of such
goods cxcu,cG their backwardnc., in
allowing the businc,, to lip out OF
their hands on the ground that GER
tain American firm. happened to
have the very thing required in
stock. The same excavation wa
pleaded when American locomotives
were preferred to English when De-
casion arose to increase at once the
rolling stock Of some Burmese rail
WAYS. But two new orders, says the
London Globe, have lately been sent
across the Atlantic which surely
ought to have come within the com.
pass Of British achievement. In on,
instance, a gigantic American dredg
err will shortly be seen scooping oul
the bed of the Thames TO an in.
creased depth Of four feet. In tn,
other a dozen motor omnibuscs Of
American design and manufacture
threaten to add to the existing con
g%e.tion of traffic in London streets
II must certainly crcateanidodamonl
foreigners that John Bull, Of old the
sclf-hclpful, j. getting played out
when he find. himself constrained tC
invite American assistance in ,ucl
purely domestic matters, II wa. no
to be expected, Of course, that any
such British firms would keep ir
stock such out-of-the way goods
But their American competitors
we're, it i, said, similarly circum.
stanccd when the demand first arose
The difference was that lheya a oDct
addressed their minds and enc,g.e,
10 supplying tic required articles,
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31

ends behind YOU.
Yet character has frccr scope here than with us. and a man wants
TO succeed here he can succeed. think YOU are kinder TO an asprant
than we are. You are always sorry for the man who has bad luck and
YOU start him on again. That is not so in England.
You feel a ~jusifablc pride. no doubt. in the opulcncc Of the re-
sources of your country. but this very confidence seems to engcndcr a
,upcrfcaiy Of temperament.
America possesses a perfectly marvellous power OF aSsiniating for.
,gners and making them into patriotic Americans. This city is largely
composed OF people from the old world. How YOU Ito all this is a mys-
terry to me. but the facts are all here. \ country that can do this can
well afford to be optimistic about the future.
Your women and children are charming. The cultured American
woman has solved the problem Of being intellectual without ccasing &c
DC feminine. and YOU may well be proud Of her.
1t may seem an unwarrantablc jump to speak in the same brcal
lbou, women and street cars and street crowds, but there is some JUST
fcation for the association of ideas.
The American woman can travel without being insutcd. and per
haps il is she who makes travelling SO delightful here. I'm American
crowd is neither noisy nor dangcrous-uncss it has got a huctnng mat.
ter on hand. The women mix freely with the men. At home a Hyde
Park or Trafalgar square crowd is mostly composed OF men, and men
whose temper is not OF the best. either.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31
THE OCEANS BED.
What Scientists Find in the Sea on
the Cornwall Coast.

Along the British coast Of Corn.
wall, at low tide. wide area, Of peat
are exposed. in which are found.part-
~ cirhonilcd, the remain, Of a sub.
merged forest and swamp. say. Mines
and Minerals. Trunk, Of oak tree,
and acorn, are dug mp. mingled with
bone. and horn, Of deer. aud the re-.
mains Of the great prehistoric elk.
and with them are found relics Of a
later date IN the ancient British
weapons and Roman coins and i'm.
plcmcnt-. Here j. coal bed IN proc
49, Of formation, of consolidation.
and Of carbonization. The basin Of
the ocean is general dumping place
for the river, Of the land, hence in
SOME regions vast quantities of ter
rcstrlal vegetation are bound, by
dredging, to be strcwn over the sea
bottom, even to depths Of 200 faith.
IN. and at distances of several miles
from land. In dredging in the At
lantic and Pacific ocean. Agassiz
found that hardly a single haul Of
the drcdgc failed to bring up much
vegetable matter, such as logs,
branches, lwigs, seeds, lcavcs and
fruit. In the peat beds We have men
toned into which probably ran some
Of the ancient rivers Of Cornwall,
considerable stream tin is sometimes
found, and instances are on record Of
the horns Of deer having been found
replaced by tin ore.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31
NEW EPOCH IN SCIENCE.
May Result from Discovery Of Ra-
dium, Thorium and Uranium.

The recent epoch-making discov-
cries in science are being rapidly de.
veloped. Investigations by NJ. Curie,
the French physicist, Sir W. Thorn
con, Prof. Rutherford, Prof. Sir vii.
liam Crookcs. and Prof. Sir Oliver
Lodge have carried us entirely into
an unknown region of physics and
chemistry where all analogies fail
and all accepted views Of the nature
Of matter offer no assistance.
\ study'of the r~adioactivity Of the
three new elements, radium. thori-
um and uranium. SAYS the Chicago
Inter Ocean, shows that three kinds
of rays are emitted. One kind con-
sists Of radially projected atoms Of
matter which are thrown into space
al the trcmcndou. .pcod Of 10000
miles per second. These PARTICLES
emitted by radium are 1000 times
more massive than the negative cleo .
irons. which are also thrown Off at a
similar speed. and which have long
been known under the name Of radi.
ant matter. They are positively in.
stead Of negatively charged. and
moving faster than the fastest flying
star, are the most rapid moving mat
ter known.
Thi' property Of %radioactiyity has
placed a new weapon in the hands Of
the chemical analyst a, superior in
dclicacy TO the existing method. a.
those Of s%pcctro.copy were when in
PRODUCED ~ years ago. Matter in
quantities invisible under the micro.
scope. unwcishablc and beyond the
detection even Of the spcctroscope
may now be- quantitatiycly invcsti-.
gated. Every experiment yet made
bears out the theory Of the disinte.
grafton of the original elements into
new elements.
A. an explanation Of thi. newly
discovered quality Of %mdioac,iyity it
i. found that the process. continues
without reference to any interfcr.
cnceby ordinary physical or chemical
forces. The transmutation Of ele.
mcnt. is still beyond the power Of
the chemist, yet it i. conclusiyciy
proved to be proceeding .pontane'
ously throughout the universe. II
science should one dry learn how to
control or influence this process the
power which would accruc TO man
would be- something beyond the CO.
pacity of the Imagination to con
ppiyo
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31
TIPS FOR A BRITISHER.
Game of Baseball as Explained by a
Young American.

lie va. an Englishman and he had
been sent with u young American to
the baseball grounds to learn the ma
tional game.
Just listen to the youngstcr," was
the advice be- got. say, the New York
sun, when he started for the ground.
You'll soon catch on"
SAY" began Jimmy when they
had got settled on the b!eachcrs
and Jimmy made a successful long
distance connection with the peanut
man, "thc Giants are putting up Il
great game and we're likely 10 see
something doing every minute.
Wonder who's going To he On the
LAB to-day. (Asidc to the man with
the score card on the lcfD Who
down to do thetwirlingI McGinniiy!
Thanks"
What do YOU mcan:" asked the
British visitor.
"oh," replied Jimmy. II wa. find.
ing out who va. going to put EN-
oyer the plate. oh. ! forgot You
weren't on. | wa asking who va
going TO pitch
"lc.. the pitcher. he, something
like the bowler. ! guess. You see,
he's the fellow who slams the ball up
to the batter and the batter be- tric,
to punch the .phcrc out OF the Dot .o
u. TO makothc circuit -l he "trip
get run iu. ! mean.
oh yo.. the batter Decent AWAY.
connect. But McGinnity i. the hos
that can make the hc.t Of 'cm fun
strike 'cm out. Strike out: That
putting three good one over the
plate without the batter doing any
business.
I'D rather be- a pitcher than any
body else. It. great fun to do the
twirling and put the bender. around
the batter and then toss up easy pill.
that fol the .luggcr,. and then when
the scorer /. putting up the goose
egg walk mp to the grand .tand and
take tug At your cap NJ If you didn't
care about any applause.
at. a great thing to be- A curve
artist, | tell YOU .Jl.t let me opcr
ate from the middle and Tm|allright.
"pitcbipg ism, co.y ,bopgb vye
sen many a dcw.dron ]oncrotor b,n.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31

a fine. mechanical contrivancc, the ease and perfection with which ii
works depends upon the fact that the cogwhecs have their different pro.
portions. On this occasion they were all identical in size. highly pol
Shcd, and well made. but not adapted to the same machinery.
Seeing a hitch during the rehearsal in one OF the important scenes
vcntured. in my official capacity, to make a suggestion to one Of the
Old actors. lie regarded me with a cold. stony gaze, as though had
been at a great diStauce-which was, both in age and in experience
and he gave me To understand that there was bit one way 10 settle the
matter. and that was his way. OF course, as the company did not com.
prise the one regularly under my management, fct that il would be be.
coming in me to yield, which did. not, however. without protesting that,
the position took was the proper and only one under the circumstances.
and when saw the scene fail and virtually go to pieces at night. con-
ics that felt some satisfaction in the knowledge tina, my judgment had
been correct. In fact, the whole entertainment. while it had been a
financial success. was an artistic failure. People wondered how SO many
great actors could make a performance go OFF so tamcly.
Harmony is the most important element in n work OF art. In this
instance each piece of mosaic was perfect in form and beautiful in color.
but when fitted together they matched badly, and the effect was crude.
An actor who has been for years the main attraction in his plays. and on
an occasions the central and conspicuous figure NJ the entertainment,
can scarcely be expected to adapt himself at once to being grouped with
others in one picture; having So long performed the sole, it is dihicalt
to accompany the air.
\ play is like a picture; the actors are the colors. and they must
blend with one another 4 a perfect work is TO be produced. Should they
fail to agree as to the value and distribution OF their talents, then.
though they be ever so great, they must submit their case to the care and
guidance OF a master hand.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31
The Amnigrution Problem
BY HON. SHELBY M. CULLC
United States senator from Illinois,

Our country is filling up with people from all other
countries, perhaps more rapidly than it is wise to allow
unless greater care shall be taken inthe quality OF the
So far they've been absorbed, and have been
of service in the upbuilding of the country. Millions
of foreigners come to america utterly ignorant of Our
language, OF our system OF government, OF our consti-
tuition. and yet. after a brief residence here, they are
given the right to vote, with a voice in the government
of the nation.
Many OF them know as little about Our national
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31
Asleep for Twenty Years.

Paris papers contain accounts Of
the awakening Of a young woman be-
longing to Tonnelles, near Quentin,
who had been living in a trance for
over 20 years. She is bright and ac-
tive and in good health.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31

Every effort Is not crowned with
success and many Of them do not de-
serve TO be.-Chicago Journal.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31
Impressions Of AMe,7canS
BY REV. r. j. CAMPBELL,
Noted English Evangelist. Now in rhi. County.

Americans seem TO be under the tyranny Of the
dollar. 1t seems to me a menace to your wcll-bcing
that charges of corruption should he made so fire.
qucntly against your public men. You also have an
evident lack OF reverence for the law. There is but
little solcmnity in the atmosphere OF your courts OF
law and little reverence for the findings OF your
judges.
The conditions of your ordinary working life
are perhaps unfavorable to the development OF the
highest type OF character. You are. YOU know. in
such an amazing hurry. You leave SO many ragged
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31
WbY I'LL Star" Casts Fail
BY JOSEPH JEFFERSON,
I'm this article ~
IT. Jefferson fefsts TO the staging oi an All star ~pt5iucuon given
under his management IN 1855 AZ Baltimore.

REMEMBER that during the rehearsal Of the School for
Scandal was impressed with the idea that the per-
Torrance would not go well.
1t is always a difficult matter to bring q company OF
great artists together for a night and have them act in
unison with each other no, from any H. feeling. but IRON
the fact that they are not accustomed To play together. In
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-07-31

constitution as The Russian soldier who thought The Constitution was
woman and the wife OF one of their grand dukes. But If our countr
continues to prosper and keep up the present movement in great enter
priscs in all departments of industry. on the land and on the sea, 1t
apparcnt. that we have no men or women to spare.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
uoRE oHIEAmEx WANTED.

South Africa isn't the only place where the ''teeming'' Chinsmen are in demand. Arrangements have. it is said, been made by the China Commer- cial Steamship Company with Mexico for the free entry at 8lanzanillo of all the Chinese the steamers may bring from the Orient. It is estimated that under this agreement about 1000 Chi nese immigrants month will be land ed by the company in Mexico. About 2,sO0 have already landed and are at work on plantations south of the city Of Mexico. There is said to be large demand for Chinese Iaborers on the plantations and in the mines of Mexico at good wages.
 Of course there is a possibility in the free entrance of Chinese to Mexico that the business of smuggling the Orientals into the United States in defiance Of thes law will get big boom. The over the-border smuggling enterprise still keeps our government agents busy on the northern frontier. With twelve thousand Chinese or more year land ing in Mexico without restriction, it will be odd if a few of them do not manage to slip over the line witheat getting caught.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22

itics and outside news may have place
 in their columns, too. but merely in an
 incidental way. It is the local record
 that gives them interest and character and makes them valuable and delight ful. In community where everybody
 knows everybody else there is a natural and perfectly proper interest in know ing that Uncle Jake" Snyder is having his barn painted, that Sam" Sweeney lis having trouble with his eyes, that Farmer Johnson has raised the biggest tomatoes ever seen in the region, that John Jones visited his best girl' on Sunday night, and so on, and so on, and
 so on. It is not love of trivial detail or petty gossip, but an outgrowth of enigh- borly and kindly feeling that calls for a recital of these things. To an outsider the personal comments may at times seem overly familiar, but, with the free giVe-and-take of a small communal ty, they are not so considered by the persons concerned, but are regarded rather as family pleasantries. It is through these papers, indeed, that glimpses are to be had of the best fa1n- fly life of the country, the dinners, the picnics, the reunions, the gayeties, as well as the more serious phases. The relations of the people to each other are discernible. One who reads between the lines of these brief records of local hap penings and doings can see the simpllc- ity, the open hearted hospitality, the kindllness of the men and women who are mentioned from time to time; tlieir pursuits, their ambitions. and, alas! also, their sorrows. are made clear.
 Many man long resident of a city
 takes regularly the little paper rub lished in his old home and reads it ea- gerly, thus keeping in touch with his former associates; but even the stragl- ger of sympathetic mind and q degree of insight finds charm in such papers that more pretentious sheets cafnot possess. They bring him into close re- lations with the people who, above all others, are representative Americans, and who make the country what itiis.- Indianapolis Journal
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
CHANG ES.

First Boy-I don't like Caesar. Second Boy--Why?
 First Boy-Too much Gaul.--Walking Leaf.
 He's a mercenary wretch" What makes you think so??"
 "He married Miss Goldie RoX, and I
 was trying to get her myself. "-Chi-
 eago Evening Post Father--I don't think your fiance
 knows the value of dollar. paughter-Well, he'll know the value of ninety-eight cents when he gets my 1 Christmas present.-Judge. Maudie-Aunt, do you think Bertie
 Coldcash did right to smile at me so often in church? Aunt-Where did Bertie sit? 1 Maudie-Up in the gallery just back
 of us.-Chicago Daily News, MT. Pneer was looking over his small change. Some contemptible scoundrel,
 see," he said, "has passed slug on
 me for a nickel. Like as not it will l take me 8 week to work it off on some
 body else. ."-Chicago Tribune.
 In 195O-First Harlemitef (bitterly)-
 We were almost nine seconds getting | downtown this morning. | Second Hariemite (sarcastically)--I hope my grandson may live long enough
 to see rapid transit in New York; | Pucl:.
 "We will never give up," said the South American military leader. kt.A 1 practical man. And after a moment of reflection the
 military leader candidly replied: Amy
 thing we can get our hands on."--
 Washington Star. Janet was quite i'll one day: Feb-rile troubles came her way. Mar.tyrlike she lay in bed Anf-oned nurses softly sped. Maybe said the leech. judicial, 'tJHn-wet would be beneficial" Jul-eps, too. though freely tried, Aug-ured i'll. for Janet died. Sep-ulchre was sadly made. 0ct-aves peaiea and prayers were said. Nov-ices with many tear Carolyn Wells, in Life. i MT. Nolan had received a. long tongue flashing from Mir Quigley, and his friends were urging on him the wisdom of vindieating his honor by a prompt use of his fists.
 "But he's more than me equal" said 1 MT. Nolan, dubiously, land look at the l size of him."
 Sure, and you don't want folks to be saying Terry Nolan is a coward?" de-
 nanded reproachful friend. Well, dunno" and MT. Nolan gaz- i ed mournfuliy about him. 'Td rather
 that than to have them saying day af- | ther tomorrow, How natural Terry
 looks!' "-Youth's Companion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
NOT CHEERING.

It is not cheering to read that the great work supposed to have been ac- complished by District Attorney Folk in bringing St. Louis booders to justice appears likely to be wholly undone by the Supreme court, of the State on tech- nicalities. He secured the conviction in the lower courts of some twenty public officials upon charge of bribery. These men were sentenced, but none has ever been imprisoned, they having appealed and obtained their liberty under bonds. Some of these sentences were imposed l more than two years ago. Perhaps the
 most important of all the cases was that of Colonel Edward Butler, boss of the St. Louis Democratic party, found guilty of attempted bribery and sen- fenced to three years in the peniten- tiary. The specific charge was that he had offered Dr. Chapman, a member of the board of health, $2,5Oo for his in- utscttGS HI 5StuLtA6 loA ioutiCl ~ SeI Du5c
 removal contract. The case was tried
 at Buffers request in an interior coun- ty of the State. The Supreme court
 has now dismissed the case, holding that the board of health had no author ity to let the garbage contract, the pow CT belonging to another board. 'I'he board of health having no authority
 says the court, "to award this contract, the defendant could not bribe members to do something which they had no au- thority to do''
 And yet it is probable that there is punishment, somewhere and somehow, for such criminals.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22

neither can We ignore his service. We must rise by ourselves: we must exc cute judgment in righteousness; we must educate not only ourselves. but see to it that the negro has an Oppor- tunity for education. As a white man am afraid of but one thing for my race, and that is that we shall become afraid to give the negro a fair chance. The first duty of every man is to de- velop himself to the uttermost. and the only limitation upon this duty is that he shall take pains to see that in his own development he does no injustice to those beneath him. This is true of races as well as of individuals. Con- sldered properly, it is not limitation, but condition of development.
 This is complete and comprehensive. It could hardly be better said.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
REMARKS BY GOVERNOR AYCocK

REMARKS BT GOVERNOR AYCOCR.
 Governor Charles R. Aycock of North Carolina declares that the solution of the race problem in the South has been found through disfranchisement of the negro and the recognition by both races of the essential superiority of the white race. Concerning the future he says:
 After that let him alone; quit writing about him, quit talking about him, quit making him "the white mans burden,'' let him tote his own skillet" quit cod ding him, let him learn that no man, no race, ever got anything worth the having that he did not himself earn;
 that character is the outcome of sacri- flee and worth is the result of toll; that whatever his future may be, the pres- ent has in it for him nothing that is not the product of industry, thrift, obedi- ence to law, and uprightness; that he cannot, by resolution of council or league, accomplish anything; that he can do much by work; that violence may gratify his passions, but it cannot accomplish his ambition; that he may eat rarely of the cooking of equality, but he will always find, when he does, that there is death in the pot. We owe an obligation Ito the man in black D We brought him here. He served us we'll. He is patient and teachable. We owe him gratitude. Above all, we owe him justice. We cannot forget his fidelity. and we ought not to magnify his faults. We cannot change his color,