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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-09

the wreck. as it were. You might look at the smash-up ard think it perfectly gorgeous because to- you every car on the train seems as if knocked to smithereens. After all, judgements of this kind all depend upon a point of view. But 10 a trained wrecker and his men, all from the repair shops and used to putting together and taking apart every sort of a railway contriV- ance; much that is valuable will apear. Here car roef, intact and even un- scratched, sticks invitingly out of the wreekage. This can be hauled back to the shops and used as if it were brand new one. There whole side of a box car awaits only transportation to be used over again. Even bent and broken and twisted trucks, scrap iron you likely would call them, are valuable, when scanned by. the eye of an expert, and so on. Many thousands of dollars worth of things are saved in this way every year by a well experienced crew.
 ''Wreeks. scarce? We fellows wish
 --ss. Continued, on Fifth Page.)
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The Hag-Carpet.

We've got a nice rag carpet in the sitting
 room, brand new.
 All of us cut and sewed the rags; and pa,
 be pricked his thumb, For the evenings pa and Joe and Marcus,
 they'd sew. too,
 And we reeIed some off and coIored lem;
 and made great balls of some; And We took 'em to the weaver. and she
 wOye 'em in her loom. And now we've got rag carpet In the sit-
 ting-rOOm. We like to go and look at it. and walk
 across the floor,
 And count the stripes and talk about 'em;
 cause we know 'em all. The pink one is Jen's old pink dress and my
 pink DinafOre, .s.. ..... And the brown one with little specks,
 that's Dilfs old wooden shawl, And the green ones mas silk cape went
 and stole, long time ago, And run away clear up to Daseomb's mill,
 and scared 'em so. And there's dress of Marcus when he was
 two years old
 And tumbled in the cistern; and the first
 jacket he had: And the figured gown ma made TOT Joe
 when he caught such cold And most had the lung fever. And the
 blue and yellow plaid That Dill earned wedding strawberries for
 grandpa, Saturdays; And that old blue stripe we all wore, made
 over different ways. And ma, she says it's prettier'n the carpets
 in the store. fla -..-5.. And just about the handsomest III toWn' She's not much doubt; 5. And pa, he says he's paid first rate Tor
 pricking his thumb sore.. For, pa says its reg'lar family history
 all spread out. g-.s .,s. And twas carpet rags and mem'ries that
 got wove up in the. loom And cut in stripes and sewed, and put down
 in the sitting-room. ss ..s,s2-- ,,r.. Emma A. Opper in Hafper's Young feo' ple, . .---' -..
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THE wRECKING TRAIN.
Things Happen When the Big Whistle

Things Happen When the Big Whistle
 Blows-The Makeup of the Train.
 We give them a clear track and 70 or a T5-mile-an-hou engine and the wrecking master does the rest" said the yardmaster, Knocking the ashes out of his pipe and leaning comfortably in his old revolving chair. "All the wreck master knows is that at such a point on the road such and such train, with so and so many cars, has been smashed. It's his business to get the place fast as steam can carry him to clear the main line quick as Providence will let him. See that siren sticking up just over the roof of the engine-house next to the re- pair shop? When that begins to bray and squeal and screech three long un- earthly toots there is trouble somewhere up the line. Ever hear one of those new-fangled whistles? You'd never know it was turned on by the hand of man. At night it would make your skin creep the first time you heard it for miles around, and that's what it's there for-to collect the wrecking crew on a run.
 Whenever there's repair shop along the line there you're sure to find a wrecking train. The crews are picked men from the shops, for a reason I'll tell you presently: It's a hard life they lead and a strenuous one, but they get paid we'll and they like the work, just as I've yet to see the first man in a city fire department who is not In love with the excitement and uncertainty of his job. In time the strain on the wrecker tells. While the work lasts it is heart breaking, and men age under it, and after 10-years' service on the crew are rarely fit to continue in that part of the sservice. Every member of the crew has to live within hearing distance and run ming distance of the wrecking train. During the daytime the men are at work in the repair shops, and if any, thing happens they have merely to jump aboard while an engine is made fast and starts on mad race for the scene of the trouble. But at highland most wrecks happen nights-the men must be prepared to turable out of bed, to run through wind and weather from "A to 36 hours without a break.
 "A wrecking crew consists of 16 or IS men which is exclusive of conductor pair of breakmen and the two men in the engine. The wrecking train consists of only four cars. Everything that would add to the weight of the train without being absolutely necessary is left behind. The first car is the one in which the wrecking crew travels. In this part of the country this car is not so important; but on the long stretches of road in the West the car is fitted up completely for the living accommoda- tlons Of the men. The car is painted red, and, in general, is a huge caboose. In the front of it the kitchen is located. A cook accompanies every wrecking crew on the modern railroads. just as the cook accompanies our long-distance palace trains. Everything of the best is chosen for the wrecking crews meals
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VALUE OF 4 LAwYER,s TIME.

What is lawyers time worth? More than he gets for it sometimes, and less than he gets for it sometimes. The ap- pellate term of the New York Supreme court has just considered this question, and it's decision is interesting and im- portant. The case involved the dam ages sustained by a passenger whose train was delayed by a railroad acci- dent. The plaintiff was lawyer named Elmer E. Cooley, who, while returning from Philadelphia to New York, was 'held up'' by wreck, and reached New York six hours after schedule time. During those six hours case in which Mir. Cooley was counsel was dismissed because he was unable to appear in court. evidently to his cost. The court decided that MT. Cooley could recover compensatory, and not exceptional damages. Had he expected to recover the latter he was under obligation to in- form the railroad company of the cir cumstances which made his presence in New York specially important MT. Cooley's damages, Justice Giegerich said. would be the value of his time for the period covered by the delay, which is to be measured. not by the largest sums he has earned for such time, nor by the smallest. but by an average of what he has earned for at least a year immediately preceding the time of the oecurrence.''
 This is perhaps as fair a ruling as could be made. but it probably wont have any great influence on the charges of lawyers for their time.
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4 NEW BRITISH NApAE NOTION.

, Britannia must continue to rule the wave at any cost. Just now she is dis turbed by the idea that her navy would be in a bad way for coal if a war broke out between her and any other strong sea power. It is advised, therefore, that a special class of colliers be creat- ed that could be used as tenders to bat tleships and cruisers whenever a fleet was obliged to operate at any distance from it's coaling supply station. The type of vessel proposed is to be of ap- proximately these dimensions: Length, $50 feet; beam. 66 feet; draught of wa ter, 27 feet when carrying 10000 tons of coal Such vessels could be used through the Suez canal, and could carry sufficient supply of coal to recoal quite number of ships. The most sur prising thing about these new colliers, however, is the fact that they are to be designed for a speed of from seventeen to eighteen knots-that is, even when the fleet of battleships were travelling at their best rate the colliers could keep in touch with them instead of tagging far behind or else reducing to ten or twelve knots the speed that could be made by the squadron. It is estimated that one of these craft could be built and be equipped with the latest devices for transferring coal at sea for about s1,S5Q000. Therefore, four of these coal
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carriers could be built for the cost of one first class battleship. and it is be- lieved that four ships that could keep several battieships going would be worth much more than one bauIeship that might not be able to go just when her going was most needed.
 This seems to be a reasonable idea. Possibly the next new naval notion will be that of tenders to the tenders.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-09
ATTACK ON NEW ENGLAND DEVILS

ATTACK ON NEW ENGLAND DEVILS.
 That is cheering news that comes from the north. The north is Maine and the news is that the devils which infest New England are to be driven out. A beginning has been made in the town of Shiloh in Maine. It appears that that unfortunate town possessed, or was possessed by, devil. An ex- pert on denonology tackled the devil of Shiloh and routed him, horns, hoofs and tail. Encouraged by this great vic tory the expert and his lieutenants have decided to extend the movement to the entire New England States. They have organized what they call devil drives and they will keep driv- ing until there are no devils in New England. They figure that the good work can all be done in a month. The leader in this crusade defiantly asserts that The will meet the devil in any place in the world and fight him to the end.". Should the arch-demon take to sea, this enemy of the tribe of Satan declares that he twill get boat and follow him."
 Success to the devil drivers and peace to New England. Fortunately the ser vices of the devil-drivers are not need ed in New Haven. but the good folks here will be glad to see such places as Hartford and Bridgeport helped.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent | Word each h. sertlon. Five Gents Word for full week lReYeu timesl.
 Display advertisements. per Inch. one ins sertion, S1.20; each subsequent insertion, sV cents; one N eek. $S20; one month, $lo' one year. sc
 Obituary Notices. h prose or verse. 10 cents per line. Notices of Births. Martt' ages, Deaths, and Funeral. go cents eaen. Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 own immediate business tasl matter to be unoDjetcionabie). and their contracts do nor IpeiIde Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc. $
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Professor Franz Wirchoff of the Uni- yersity of Vienna has been charged by the Vienna Academy of Science to visit all the public and private galleries of Europe to discover how many genuine works of Raphael they contain. The professor, who is an expert, declares that of the pictures and drawings att tributed to Raphael not more than one hundred and fifty are genuine, the rest being either limitations or works of his pupils.
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articles on which they are imposed, be- cause chiefly they are things which we can't produce in quantity at home"
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The wonderful target practice of the British navy. 4a per cent. hits (which has since been beaten two points by our Atlantic squadron in it's quarterly practical, is said to be largely credita- ble to a mechanical contrivance invent ed by Captain Scott, of the English navy. called a "dotter,' by which a small paper target drawn to a scale is caused to move in front of gun with a combined vertical and horizontal movement. While the target is in mo- ton the gun pointer Jendeavors to train the gun so as to keep the cross wires of his telescope on the target. When ever the cross wires are lon" an elec- tric connection causes pencil to make a dot on the target, the dot represent ing a real shot on @ real target at 1000 yards. Thus the men are accustomed to train the guns under the disturbing conditions of a ship in a seaway.
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This is world of change. When the question of taking under its care Charles F. Shaw, graduate of Union Theological Seminary, came up before the Brooklyn Presbytery, MT. Shaw was questioned closely as to his belief about the duration of eternal punish ment. Because he admitted that he was not sure as to that duration, two members of the Presbytery opposed his indorsement. It turned out on a vote that they were the only two. :,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-09

Now that the American invasion of foreign markets has largely ceased, says the. Philadelphia Ledger, land it has done so ill part because our manu- fractures were burdened by duties on raw materials, it is plain enough who pays this form of tax. Almost the en- tire Oo,ooooo0 of raw stuffs go into ar ticles which are consumed at home-for we are now exporting only manufact- ures whose materials are from our own mines, forests and fields-and the du- ties on them are burdensome and un- natural charges on the cost of living, paid by every householder in the land. They increase the cost of thousand necessities, articles of daily consump- ton, and it is no longer even pretended that they .have any protecting efficacy. It Is, of course, idle to dream of their fostering the production at home of the
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Red tape is now not being cut on the beautiful blue Danube. Some two months ago the Prefect of silistria placed on board one of the Danube Navigation Conpany's steamers two women with passports for Rustehuk. The police there, however, without as- signing reasons, refused to allow them xo land. So did the police of every other river port touched at, whether Rumanian or Bulgarian. This has been going on for two months, the women remaining on board at the com pany,s expense. Finally they took their costly passengers back to silis- tria, but the Prefect absolutely refused to let them land. "The company took them on board. It must get rid of them if 1t can" was all the explanation he would give
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The Pullman company has made a demand on F. F. Woolston of Denver for s20O damages to the sleeper in which he recently made his bridal trip. It seems that the car was captured by Woolston's friends and decorated in a unique manner. Mems and women's shoes and old horseshoes and banners and things were nailed to the windows of the Pullman sleeper, inside and out. Nails were driven into the car with as much abandon as if it had been picket fence. When the sleeper got back to Denver from Ogden it is said that it looked as if it had been the target for a Gatling gun. It was taken out of ser vice and put in the shops, and now the Pullman company is trying to make Woolston pay for the repairs. =
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-09-11


l venture to say that do not believe
the study of Greek would suffer if it
were made voluntary. When Bishop
Thirlwall was told that at Cambridge,
of which he was so illustrious an orna-
ment, the choice lay between compul
sorry religion and no religion at all, he
replied, THE distinction is too subtle
for my mental grasp" 1t is no doubt
true that Greek has been well and eff
fectively taught to unwilling pupils,
but it may also be true that the amount
of Greek acquired by passman at Ok
ford or a passman at Cambridge is not
worth the time bestowed upon the ac-
QUESTION. on the other hand, the re
moval Of compulsion would not leave
Greek to stand upon its own merits
and the disinterested enthusiasm of
heaven born students. 1t would still
lead to posts of honor and emolument
even in this world. There would still
be classical scholarships and classical
fellowships and similar incentives to
those who had not the sacred thirst of
Browning's grammarian. Latin. like
French, is a necessity; Greek, like Ger
man, Is a luxury. - Herbert Paul In
Nineteenth Century.
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The Loi Katong.

The princes and greater magnates Of
Siam prepare a long toy boat with gilt
Prov and ornamented stern and cross
benches all complete, and sometimes a
pinnacled dome incrusted with gold
tinsel and paste jewels. On the bench
es are placed well dressed dolls in the
uniform Of the owner armed with MIN
ic paddles. Instead of the humble Ia
per large candelabra are fixed up, blaz-
ing with waxlights and showing off
the splendor of the ship and its crew.
Such "katong' as these are launched
In the royal presence at one of the pal
ace landings and float along between
line of guard ships flaring with OIL
lamps, amid the discharge of rockets
and fireballs and with limelights shin
ing upon them from some gunboat or
royal yacht.
The floating of these boats for the
word loi means to float is not really
''to the dead" but only in honor of
them, for after short journey they
are recaptured and restored to their
princely owners. But they add an i'm
posing feature to the nights display
and doubtless yield to their proprietors
and to all who have hand in the bust
ness a comfortable conviction that by
the whole proceeding they have made
merit" as good Buddhists. 1t is rath-
err strange coincidence Of it is a eoinci-
dence at alb that the date of the Loi
Katong corresponds nearly in all years
with the old Catholic fete connected
with the jour DIES morts.-London Sat
urday Review.
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Cheerful Religion.

DO you think that religion is some
mournfu thing leading to dullness and
gloom and always Interfering with our
pleasures and spelling the cup of lifef
There's the mistake that has kept back
many man! All, gloomy religion Is
not Gods religion! Jesus came to give
life and light and JOY and peace. He
showed this from the very first, and
He bore witness to il to the very last.
He placed the fact that He sympa-
thized with all innocent and pure en-
joyments In the very forefront of His
teaching and drove it home to our
minds by the first miracle that He
wrought in Cana of Galilee.-Church-
man
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A mother in bitter grief, being over
her dying child, was trying to soothe II
by talking about heaven. She spoke of
the glory there, of the brightness glow
ing all around. Of the shining counte-
nances of the holy angels; but present
~ little voice stopped her saying, 81
should not like to be there, mother,
for the light hurts my eyes. Then she
changed the subject of her description
and spoke of the songs above. of the
harpers harping on their golden harps,
of the voices as the sound of many
waters, of the new song which they
sang before the throne; but the child
said, Mother, cannot bear any
noise Grieved and disappointed at
her failure to speak words of comfort,
she took the little one from Its restless
bed and infolded 1t in her arms with
all the tenderness of a mothers love.
Then. as the little sufferer lay there,
near to all 1t loved best in the world.
this whisper came; Mother, If heaven
is like this, may Jesus take me there
-Archdeacon Sinclair
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new feeling now Juggling through the
crust of her nature was not at all I'M
pleasant
Mrs. Smithers pulled the bell near
the bed, and presently Jane appeared.
"Take these children downstairs,
Jane" said Mrs. Smithers, and there
was in her voice something that made
Jane stare open mouthed at her, "and
fill them up on your famous seed
cakes, she went on. I'm going to get
up and dress They have cured my
neuralgia You have the surrey
brought around In half an hour. I'm
going to see about adopting a child"
Jane, stricken dumb with astonish-
ment and perfectly sure that her mis-
tress had suddenly gone crazy, man
aged, however, to carry out her or
ders. The people in the village were
presently entertained by the spectacle
of a surrey packed full Of chattering,
laughing Thurstons, with Mrs. Smith
ers towering up in their midst and
driving with reckless abandon.
At a small house in the far end of the
LDWu Llle htN. MI 4 HUI SlOh was DuSJ
making arrangements for the burial OF
the child's mother when Mrs. Smith
ers and the children came in.
The child was asleep in Mrs. Davis
arms. Mrs. Smithers stopped and took
it up gently. 1t sighed, little sobbing
sigh, half opened its eyes and with
gurgle of content nestled down again
against her shoulder.
At that moment Mrs. Smithers was
so happy that she would not have ex-
changed places with any living being
She put her purse in her astonished
rector's hands.
Il viii pay all the expenses Of the
burial" she said, "and will take the
baby"
"She wasn't at all too poor, daddy,
you see" said Dummy Dee.
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They stood at her door, and there
seemed to be some constraint between
them
He was q trihe older than she, and
she had the advantage of him in looks
too
In his eyes there was supplication,
and In hers there were disdain, scorn,
rejection.
IF ! might" be began.
mo, sir" she interrupted. ut is to-
tally unnecessary"
But
81 do not wish to hear you"
zone word"
Not one, sir"
"Well, if you WON'T
81 want nothing you can offer me-"
But r.
"Once for all, tell you I want no
tinware today"
She shut the door and went in, and
the peddler went on to the next house.
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Poor Mrs.
Smithers and the
ThurstOns
By /. z. CHITTENDEN
!. -. ~ ~. 60. -. - -: - .. =.

The Thurstons were out in the hay
loft rehearsing a scene from "Blue-
beard" Suddenly Molly exclaimed,
"Here comes fatherp'
And quite as if that was his cue to
appear the Rev Frank Tburston's
head appeared in the doorway
Children" he said, Il wish you
would so and see how poor Mrs. Smith
ers is today. l have to go In the other
direction. There is a poor woman who
came to town last night very i'll. with a
young child. She died before morning
and left word for the English priest to
find a good home for her child She
went to the Davis family, who had
known her in the old country, but they
are too poor and have too many of
their own to keep the child. So must
attend TO the matter at once"
"Oh, couldn't we take the child, dad
dy?' said Polly.
I'm afraid not" said the Rev.
Thurston, for the same reason that
the Davises can't. But don't forget to
see how poor Mrs. Smithers Is"
I'VE won't Wen all 60" said Molly.
So the busy parson went his way, and
his six olive branches soon started up
the road toward Mrs. Smithers':
Il suppose the reason daddy wants
to know how poor Mrs Smithers is is
because he wants to know if she can
afford to take the poor little child"
said Dummy Dee after a season of
thought
"Why, of course" said Polly, stop
ping to kiss him. You dear child to
think about that! I've been worrying
about it myself but that's the very
place, that great, big, clean. shiny
house, and just Mrs Smithers in 1t. Of
course"
"Hushw said Molly. Here we are.
Won't that dear little orphan have
beautiful times playing In the yard?"
she continued, gazing around the inn
maeulate lawn, that looked as though
it had been washed and ironed, it was
so smooth.
Then they trooped up the steps and
rang the bell.
a very cross and somewhat elderly
looking woman opened the door little