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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31
The snnerlor cIaima of Endle.

Little Eddie Murchison
 He is always ready Is a very boastful one TO declare no other lad In the world has ever had Half the gifts that he enjoys. When he speaks concerning boys He is strong for Eddie. Proudly he declared one day Boosting unto Tommy Gray:
 Il got more things on my tree Than you ever had I'll bet; I've a steamboat and set Of these stone blocks, and I ct Candy till I taste it yet-
 Don't you wish that you was me?' Little Tommy had a few Bumps of self-approvaI, too.
 Eddie couldn't catch him Ready to admit that he Hadn't all things that could be Gathered from Il Christmas tree- Eddie fibbed, but easily
 Tommy Gray could match him. There they stood. and there they lied, Each consumed with foolish pride, But the Gray boy had to quit When proud Eddie said! "One day, While my parents was away had something that bet You cant have--or aiTi't had yet Cause I-cause l had fit!'
 -S. D. Riser.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

So dangerous is the knowledge of the science to a man without good princi- pies that we win not teach him. Every Japanese policeman is skilled at jiu-
 jitsu. and through it is not only able to attack a man, but to defend himself and give aid to the injured in the ab- .sence of a doctor. There are 1sO move ments in the science. ana when a man knows all Of them he is prepared for any emergency. I have heard jiu-jitsu called wrestling, but it is nothing of the kind, wrestlers in Japan are not all lowed to use it either by wrestling rules or by ifu-iitsu rules. and very few of them know anything about the
 science. ..s.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31
SOT E iMf,RE SSliTE F4CYs

Perhaps it isn't always wise to be looking for snarks, but there is food for thought in some facts and figures pre- scented by the Insurance Press. It makes an estimate of the maximum loss which could ensue in any one of 235 cities from the burning of a single bus iness block. The schedule is thoroughly representative, because it includes ev- cry State in the Union and at least two Territories. In small places the values range from S3oO0o0 to $1,00O,OOO, and in larger ones they run far beyond the latter figures. In Baltimore, for in- stance, there is still standing block in which the building and contents to- gether are put at $3,O0O,0O0. The high est estimates for Boston and St. Louis are $7.000,oO0, and for Chicago, Philadel- phia and Newark $8,0OO,oOO It is be- lieved that New York contains several blocks the destruction of one of which would involve a sacrifice Of $1O,OO0,0OO or more, while in a solitary case the loss might reach $25,oOO,0O0.
 . Of course one of the morals of this is that such valuable buildings should be fireproof, if there is any such thing
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31
N. IaisM Y U i I... Ii.

$
 New York harbor is so important that anything which affects it affects the world. Professor Lewis M. Haupt says that the action of the ocean currents off the mouth Of the harbor is gradually closing the channel to ships of heavy draft. He says that two sandbars are forming on either side of the main channel one approaching from the Long Island shore and the other from the Jersey coast. The former, he says, lis proceeding westward at the rate of 260 feet year, The latter is traveIing eastward at a lesser but still respect able speed, and is annually accumulat- ing about 5OO,OOO cubic yards of sand and silt.
 The government of the United States has made large provision for the dredg- ing of Ambrose channel. Much money has go far been spent in making that avenue of ingress and egress suitable to the needs of a great and growing ocean commerce. More money by many mill lions will be spent before the dredging operations will be complete according to the plans of the government engineers. If the conditions described by Professor Haupt and others of like opinion really exist it Is clear that the government is wasting millions in endeavoring to dig a channel which a conspiracy of cur rents is gradually rendering useless. The building of jetties to defect these currents has been seriously proposed. The Federal authorities in charge of the dredging work scoff at this plan. They say setties are not required, that the flliBg in is inconsequential and will in no way affect the improvement now in progress. NY
 Time will tell who is right in this matter, hl!t 1t really seems that there is no need of waiting a long time to find #out.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31
44I

My husband is the must unselfish of men, exclaimed Mrs Youngwife, I gave him a whole box Of cigars, and he enly smoked one and gave all the rest away. washington Life.
 Jockley-Talk about your eavesdrop- pers; that's the coolest one ever saw. Coakley- Who is that?
 Jockley An icicle. Philadelphia Ledger.
 70! yes. I know him very well, but he doesn't know me.
 Why, 1 thought he was relative of yours
 50 lie is, but he's a rich one. Phil adelphia Press.
 Boarder (warmly) Oh. know every enc of the tricks of your trade. Do you think have lived in boarding houses twenty years for nothing?
 Landlady (frigidls) Fl shouldn't be at all surprised. New Yorker.
 Wife--I am going to give a 5 o'clock tea one evening next week.
 Husband ladies only, suppose? Wife-Of course.
 Husband Then why not be consistent and mark it down to 4:57?-C Chicago News s,4 KIN Teacher Johnny, write on this black board the sentence Two heads are bet ter than one.' Now, Johnny, do you believe that?
 Johnny. Yes'm. Cause then you kin get job In dime museum and make lots of money. - Youth.
 The portrait painter-I'n glad to hear you admire my work, Mir. Porkhanl. Have you ever been done in oil?
 MT. Porkham-Not on your life. Whenever them Standard guys floats anything your Uncle Hiram done a cork vest and then keeps of. Puck. The Sanitary Instinct. Modern moth- er--Why, child alive, what are you talk ing off that dolly's clothes TOT!
 Modern child-I'm going to zamine her to see if she's been vaccinated. can't have Ter spreadin' 'tagion among my other dollies Baltimore American. The little sister What was that you played then, Effie?
 The larger one-That was a cradle song, my pet. The little sister We'll, can't you play a wagtime cwadle song? That one al- most made me go to sleep. Puck. Are you going to entertain this win ter?''
 We'll answered Mir. Cumrox, mother and the girls will have a lot of people at the house, as usual. But I never can tell whether they are being entertained or bored. Washington l Star.
 Cholly-It was the first time I'd met Crabbe, mind you, and he actually call ed me fool. Hadn't been talking to him ten minutes, don't you know. What sort of fellah is he, anyway? Miss Peppery-Well, he's awfully slow, for one thing. Catholic Standard and Times. Hixon--I wonder what caused Jaw Ekins to become such pronounced 1 misanthrope. Dixon-Lack of appreciation, I be- lieve. He claims that he never got what he deserved at the hands of his fellow men. | Hixon-Huh! I should think that ought to make him rejoice.- Chicago Daily News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

The London County Council has given notice of the proposed passage of an ordinance that bread shall not be sold otherwise than by weight, and that it sail be weighed in the presence of the purchaser. Also that every cart or oth. CT vehicle used for distributing bread shall carry weights and scales, which an inspector may test at any time.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31
ADVERTISING RATES.

situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent a Word each insertion. Five Cents word for full week.
 Display advertisements. Ter Inch. one insertion. s1.2O: each subsequent inser- fion. 90 cents; one week, s3-2o; one month. sio: one year. $40.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

as . areproot building. and if there Is not they should be as near freproof as possible The big fire losses are making people thoughtful When they make them thoroughly careful they won't be as large.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

According to the Lahore Tribune, the United States army of the future will include a command of Japanese, not made up from the armies or the Mikado now fighting in the Far East, but en- rolled from Japanese citizens in the Sandwich Islands.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31
THE NEW HAVEN SAVINGS BANK.

THE NEW HAVEN SAVINGS BANK. The se1ni-annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the New Haven Savings Bank will be held at the Bank ing House in New Haven on Saturday, the 31st day of December, 1904, at three o'clock, ?, nl., for the purpose of declaring senni-annual dividend, ap- pointing auditors and for doing afiy other business proper to be done at said meeting
 w HENRY D. WHITE. Clerk. New Haven, December 24, 1904.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

An old yew tree stands in the church. yard at Fortingal, in Pertshire, which De Candolle, nearly century ago, proved to the satisfaction of botanists to be twenty-five centuries old, and am other is still standing at Hedsor, in Buclas, which is s,24o years old. How De Candolle arrived at an apparently correct estimate of the enormous age of these living trees is a simple thing, and the principle is doubtless we'll known to-day to all. The yew, like most other trees. adds one line, about the tenth of an inch, to it's circunfer- ence each year. But the oldest living thing in the world to-day, so far as known, is a cypress tree in Chapulte- pee, Mexico, that is 6.26O years old.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

One of London's most celebrated lit erary landmarks is soon to be demol- ished. The famous house at Highgate where, as a resident in the household of James Gilman, the surgeon, Ccle- ridge received the homage of the intel lectual world of three generations ago, is to be pulled down in the course of the next few months and it's place taken by a more modern structure. The house, No. 3. The Grove is substantially as it was in Coleridge's time. A new gable has been built which has closed up the end window of the room in which he died, but otherwise the house remains unaltered.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

Tn recent speech the Spanish Sen ator Montero Rios declared that the Philippine Islands had been ruined by six thousand monks. In 1884 nearly all of the monks i'm Spain were assassinat- ed on one day. To-day their number again exceeds fifty thousand and is growing rapidly. They give the chill dren mediaeval education and com pete in many brances of industry with the populace, which is becoming so in censed, the Senator said, that he did not feel sure that the tragedy of 1894 might not some day be repeated.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

An interesting piece of news was laid before the last meeting of the French Academy of Science. One of the great enemies of the ordinary potato is a wet summer, which lowers the vitality of the potato and enfeebles it's resist ance to the germs of disease, which are always waiting for an opportunity of feeding upon it's plants. M Labergerie, a well known agriculturalist of the de- partment of Vienne, in central France has been working for some time, by judicious selection, to produce a damp proof potato. With the aid of a wild Uruguayan variety as the parent stock, he has succeeded in raising a potato whic fourishes best in wet soil, where it's yield is about six times that of the ordinary variety.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

The science of jiu-jitsu is one of tricks, says a Japanese expert Tn Ja- pan boys begin to study 1t in the gram- mar schools and continue it through their college courses. But only those who are known to be thoroughly good at heart are allowed to learn those tricks by which man can be killed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

raE wEEkLn soURNAL. uedThursdays one DOliara Ysar.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-31

Edward Ray, of North Carolina, to- tally blind and very poor, is making heroic efforts. to secure a masters de- gree from Harvard university. After completing a four years course in the University of North Carolina, outstrip- ping all his classmates, he spent a year as tutor. It is with the money earned !. in this way that he is endeavoring to win his way at Harvard. His chief difficulty is the use of the text books prescribed for his courses. He has not enough money to have these transcrib- ed into the raised alphabet, so he has to hire student to read to him.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-02-13
Wear. Her Hair short Now.

As she stepped bareheaded into the
elevator in n Broadway business build
ing all the men in the car admired her
wealth of chestnut hair. II lowered in
n pompadour tier. built up mansard
fashion. above her rosy little cheeks.
But II glistened suspiciously. There
was n smell of brilliantine. benZine or
something like that. One of those men
who cannot go around without cigar
blazing as fiercely as the one that vii
liam Gillette used in the famous dark
scene of Sherlock Holmes" got in nj
the eighth floor and crowded his way
behind the girl. Somehow or other the
cigar and the hair came together and
at once got busy. The pompadour liz.
Zled. sputtered and siZzled like pin
wheel. One man put his hat on il. the
elevator man stopped the car. and the
shrieking girl was hustled into the ha II
with badly damaged silk tile sur.
mounting her neat wash blouse The
fire was out In five seconds. without the
assistance of hand grcnades. The man
with the cigar said he was sorry and
asked II there was anything he could
do
Sorry shouted the girl. DO. What
can you do? You foolr'-New York
Press.
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The Deans Delicacy.

DR. Pigou. the dean Of Bristol. had
been pointing out the openings in
church work TO an audience of clerics
and lay women of devoted lives. In
getting down TO specific cases. as he
cOnfesscs I'm his book. odds and
Ends" he said:
Next TO opportunity we think of the
Naturally our thoughts turn TO widows
who are widows indeed whom God
has taken aside from the world by sor.
row for life OF devotion to his serv-
ice"
The dean paused. He was thinking
secondly Of unmarried women. Why
nc did not say unmarried women he
cannot understand. He thinks he may
have been nervous about using the old
fashioned word spinster. so he said:
Next we think Of those women
whose prospects OF marriage are slowly
fading
There was an instant roar Of laugh
ter. in which the archbishop and some
Of the married lay women joined. The
discounted dean deprecated the un
seemly mcrriment as best he could
But he did not mend matters greatly
for he went on:
MANY Of whom have in my minds
eye
There was another burst of laughter
and Dean Pigou went hurriedly on tc
"thirdlv"
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-02-13
4 Question of "Nerve."

The hotel barber shop has its little
joke aS we'll aS any other part of the
hu,lse.
In the toiisorial establishment of one
OF the downtown obstetrics the other
day n drummer who knew all the doe
tors was being operated upon. Near 10y
a swell barber shop had been set up in
business. with plate mirrors. mahog
any furniture and the like. and was
making n great splash for business.
"How's the new barber shop getting
on next door," asked the drummer o:
one Of the BARRIERS.
'Oh. $3.50" was the reply. How
ever. we manage 10 keep nj work" lie
added. just TO show that though there
may be buffers in competition is the
life of trade.
Il suppose you do get few still who
don't see the other place" remarked the
drummer.
BY this time the barber was sarcas-
tic.
Yes. indeed" he said. They wan
der in here occasionally few like
yourself. you know-and suppose aft
er they get in they don't have nerve
enough 10 go out
Not at all. said the drummer Il
think it's nerve that keeps them in
And the laugh was on the house-De-
troit Free Press.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-02-13

fully avoided the Dennlson cottage in
his walks along the shore Every after
noon. however. ~ he sat on the piazza
of the casino he Saw Helen DcnniSon
and Hammcit dash 10y in an automo
bile. which very probably accounts for
Mr. Thomas Morley t;i:,y's prnncnc>s
Ia knock about the hay in his cath"at.
carrying full sail in double reef
breeze
Early one rvcnin. Gray was crossing
the lawn Of the casino when lie heard
n mighty yplping and ki-yi-ing in the
road He turned back Ia find Billy and
a brindle bull terrier hard ut il. With
judicious kicks he managed 10 get them
apart: then his heart came into his
throat. for attached 10 Billy's collar
was bit of violet envelope. Gray
snatched il eagerly. II had been sadly
mutilated in the fray. but few words
in one corner of the paper were still
legible. II was just trying TO make
you jealous he read. and in another
place he made out. I'm lonesome for
you. you foolish
Miss Helen Dennison. sitting on the
broad veranda of the cottage. saw n
strange outfit trotting sedately across
the lawn. II was Billy. wreath Of
oak leaves about his neck and tied tn
his tail small silk flag. which fiut-
tered bravcly in the breeze. Prominent
on the oak wreath was an envelope ad-
dressed 10 herself:
Ny Dear Heien-she read and laughed
softly-I received but the merest fraE-
ments Of your note. for Billy tried con
illusions with n hull terrier with disas-
trous results. Nevertheless enough re-
manned To give me considerable cnlighten-
ment. Billy's appearance when he reaches
you-if ne doesn't get into other Difficult
ties on the ways the result of my poor
attempt to express my state Of mind.
We'd better make 10 early fall and spend
our honeymoon In the Berkshires.
And Mr. Thomas Morley Gray. who
STROBE up the gravel walk at that mo-
ment. behcld Billy struggling from the
embrace of young woman. who
blushed furiously as she saw him
standing there
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A Stnr, nf Mhi.tIcr

One day Whistler entered the atelier
of his class in Paris aud found that n
red background had been arranged be-
hind the model. NJ once he directed
somethin: of u duiior tone To- be Suhsti-
tuted. and he S,.rapc,i the rel paint off
the canvas of one al the pupils. putting
I'm its place another background. But
the red would show through. lie scrap
ed. studied and worked laboriously 10
get something that pleased him. The
rest of the class surrounded the easel
and eagerly watched the master. He
looked up finally AMI said Il suppose
You know what | am trying 10 do?''
"Oh. yes. sir they all chor'IScd. We'll
it's more than | do lie replied grimly
and left the place
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MESSENGER
CANIENSIS
BY Barry Pain
BY Barry Pain
Copyright. is,s. by I. C. Mcclure

II was close and sultry. No breath Of
air stirred the pines. and the mullen
stalks beside the roadway were dropped
fiat to earth. Even the drone of the To-
susts seemed faint and dispirifed, and
the occasional cry of blue jay in the
woods was far more in the nature Of a
protest than anything else.
On the top rider of the rickety rail
fence beside the road sat Mr. Thomas
Morley Gray. smoking very methodic-
ally. as he did all things. an ancient
brier pipe. \ huge pine shaded his
perch. hut for all that Mr.. Gray was
pcrspiring and evidently III at ease.
Every few minutes he looked at his
watch. and every time he did this he
gruntcd disgustedly and uttered an ex-
pletive under his breath.
When an hour had passed-a long.
dragging hour during which he had
alternately famed himself with his hat
and wagcd unequal combat with the
mosquitoes. which despite the smoke
had declared hostilities. Gray put on
his hat with n determined air and slid
down from the fence. As he did so he
saw n cloud of dust moving along the
roadway in his direction Then out OF
the dust cloud emerged a yellow dog.
trotting along heavily. with his tongue
lolling from his mouth.
At the sight of the man the dog gave
vent 10 n series Of joyful banks. He
came the remaining distance in long
bounds. and when he reached the man
he stood before him. his tail in violent
motion
BILLY" said Gray. stopping to pat
the painting beast-''good old Billy!
What what tho He broke of sud
denly in surprise. for tied TO the dogs
collar was violet envelope Of small
dimensions. and the superscription on
II was his own name. Gray snatched
the envelope and tore II open.
Dear old Tommy" he read.
''Humph"' he interpolated. 81 know
these dear old Tommies'-trouble." He
again turned to the note
I can't read Chaucer beneath the big
pine tree with you this afternoon because
I'm going out automobiling with Mr. Ben
nett Excuse haste and brevity. but he n
waiting for mo now. ! shall show Billy
your golf clubs here and tell him to find
you. which I'm sure he'll do. Now. don't
he angry and make me call you Tommy
Green Eyes again. Trusting Billy may
find Won soon HELEN
Mr.. Gray surveyed the cloudless sky
for several tumultuous moments.
Now. wouldn't that he hogan.
The sentence died in an inane gurgle,
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What Puzzled Him.

A well known cluhman entered u p0-
lice station and said Ia tile sergeant. Il
that burglar ynu arrested for breaking
into my house la>l night" Sergeant
don't know that | can allow yon I'M
less you first tell mc what you want 70
see him about Mr. Cluhman oh
there's nnihin. secret about it, just
wanted Ia find oui how hr got into my
house 81 easily: is more than | can tlo
at night Kansas city Independent.
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daily except saturday and SUNDAY.
II saturday only.
Id and Daily except sunday
No. i gets connection at Berlin from d. NJ 4
V. train No. 49, north. aud connects at Salisbury
at y. Y. 4. " y. Junction with y Y T.. x y
train M. ~. north.
Junction with \. Y. =. < y. train No ~, south
aud at Berlin with u. ". Il Y. train NJ. -,
south.
No. gets connection al Y. Y. T. n Y Junction
from Y. y I ~ y. train M. II north
M. ?comaect> at y. Y. T.. ~ y. junction with
y. Y T.. " y. train No. 81 north
Connection made with steamer lines at Easton
Vienna and Salisbury.
WILLARD THOMSON, zen Manager
I MURDOCH. 4. i. BENJAMIN
Pass. Agent. >u,i & Div. Pass Agt