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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-11
rNDEMocRATIc DEMOCRATS.

UNDEMOCRATIC DEMOCRATS. The federal constitution gave each state an equal representation in the national senate to preserve the individ- ual importance of the several common wealths. Now the democratic senators propose to merge their states individ- uality into the will of majority. The people of Missouri may be vitally inter- ested in a pending measure of national legislation and may expect their sena- tors to vote in their behalf, but the democratic senators from the east and south may support different policy in the caucus and Senators Cockrell and Stone will have to vote as New York and Georgia desire and not as their constituents demand.
 To make this condition worse the cau- GUS rule is to be adopted for partisan ends. That is, the autonomy of the states in national affairs is to be sub- ordinated to the will of political bosses. If an astute politician like Senator Cor man can harass an opposing adminis- tration to further some personal ambi- tion. public policy must give way to partisan schemes.
 It is not surprising that the caucus rule should have been supported by Senator Stone of Missouri, who was new to the dignity Of the state and fresh from the activity of machine politics; but it is surprising that a majority Of i the democratic senators should have , voted for the rule. There has not been
 any other course pursued which was
 more distinctly federal in it's tendency, and more destructive of States rights
 than that which would make the repre- sentatives of one state subordinate to
 the representatives of a majority of the
 states. A majority must rule in legisla- tion, of course, but not in the responsi- bility ofor vote on legislation. Kan l sas City Times.
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THE LITERARY WORLD.

The Literary World has this to say about Professor J. M Hoppin's Great Epochs in Art History, now published in it's second edition:
 Professor Hoppin's lectures and es- says on art have won the approval of a wide circle. Tn the preface of this new edition Of Great Epochs in Art His | tory he disclaims any eagerness to ex- ploit new things, preferring to bring out new beauty in old things that the world has consented to call beautiful.' In this he has been successful, for his viewpoint, necessarily different from that of many art critics enables him to throw a new light upon some we'll known figures. In the longest essay on
 Italian Religious Paintings he andy zes the spirit and achievements of the period in a way perculiarly his own, lacking the perfervid adulation of the devotee and the cold calculation of the scientist. In his estimate of Benozzo Gozzoli he is perhaps most enthusiastic,
 although his treatment of all is synpa- thetic as well as just In A Post
 Pheidian Greek Sculptor he holds brief from Skopas, and makes a strong presentment of his clients case, his in troduction being fine summary of Greek idealism. French Gothic Archi- lecture is a study of peculiar character
 istics os the flower Of Gothic art. In
 his consideration of the classicism of
 Christian art, the writer speaks opti- mistically of the future of American art An artistic life, such as was once in
 free Greece and republican Italy, may 1 possibly be seen again in the Mediter-
 ranean cline of our Pacific slope, where there is mental saneness and the joy of life. Such tribute to the west from
 one who has for more than a score of years filed a chair at Yale is praise
 worthy of note. It is refreshing to find
 a man who is student of the elder art
 who yet can see hope in this new coun- try's future. The book is well indexed
 and has number of excellent illustra- tions.'
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WHALLEY AVENUE SPEEDWAY.

Exciting Brushes-Call for Speedway
 on Gffe Street
 The speedway in Whalley avenue was a lively place yesterday afternoon and on Saturday afternoon. About 200 horsemen were out in sleighs to enjoy the sleghing. Among the drivers were many who were behind speedy horses who have made good marks on the race track.
 The most exciting events were a ceu- pie of brushes between E. A. Hart, driving Sherman Chief, pr. Reilly, driv- ing Quick Silver, and James Nesbit, back of Amber Wilkes.
 Quite number of our well known business men have united in a move ment to have a speedway on Goffe street. They feel that Whalley avenue is not a proper spot for a speedway, in- asmuch as it is used, in part, by the trolley cars and it is also used a great deal for heavy carting. such cars being unable to give the right of way quickly and rendering accidents liable to occur at any moment.
 On Goffe street there is very little heavy carting and no trolley tracks. There is also clear roadway for nearly a mile which is all that is required for lively brushes.
 A meeting will be held probably to- night to try and influence those who are now using Whaley avenue to come in with them and assist in fixing the street for speedway purposes, and they cite as an example the accident which occurled on last Saturday, when Nicho- las Hubinger's team and another team collided, to show the need of a proper place where speed can be made.
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WALLINGFoRD.


 The basketball game between the olympias of Branford and the high school team in the armory Saturday re- suited in a victory for wallingford by a score of ss to B. The game was at times inclined to be little rough and quite number of fouls were called on each side. The Branfords made more points on fouls than they did from the floor. The attendance was rather small.
 R. Wallace & Sons factories start up this morning. The flatware department at the Wat rous company factory will start this morning; the hollow ware department next week Monday.
 The Hodgetts box factory will start up this morning.
 The Hallenbeck factory will start Thursday morning
 The Simpson nickel shop will start up this morning and Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co, Wednesday.
 The annual masquerade ball of the Eintracth Singing society will be held in Leighton's hall Monday evening, February 15.
 The Wallingfords will play the third game of the series with the Mohawks in Meriden on Tuesday evening. The Wallingford lineup will be Bolton, right forward; Wallace, left forward; i; La Monde, center; Dray, right guard; Lane, left guard.
 Perry H. Stone, sation master at the Air Line station in East Wallingford, was reported as critically ill Saturday with congestion of the brain. He is about twenty-two years of age and be- longs in East Haven. Dr. Russell, who is in attendance, stated Saturday that his chances of recovering were very sight.
 The annual meeting of the M. E. La dies Aid society will be held Wednes- day afternoon at o'clock. A supper will be served at 6:30.
 Railroad ties for the Wallingford Tramway company are being got out and it is expected to begin putting the same in position between here and Montowese as soon as the weather and ground will permit in the spring.
 Chief Engineer McCune had the hy- drants about the borough all shovelled out as soon as the snow storm was over.
 The average attendance at the night school for the past week has been sixty eight.
 Charles N. Leville. the six-year-o son of Napoleon Leville, died Saturday. Funeral to-day. Miss Mabel Fowler returned Saturday i to the Howard seminary at West Bridgewater, Mass. Rev. J. E. Wildman officiated at the funeral of Ovid B. Warner Saturday afternoon.
 Noel and Albert Parr spent Sunday in Springfield, Mass. MT. and Mrs. Morton Judd left here Saturday for Dalton, Ga.
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citab1e temperament. At the last analy sis cause lies in the mind; that is, the stammerer stanamers because he fears he will stammer and thus make hin- self ridiculous.
 "Stammering is due to self-conscious- ness. and it has been ny experience that women seldom suffer from self consciousness. Social success Is more necessary to their happiness than it is to men's and if as girls they have a tendency to shyness or timidity they set about overcoming it at an early age, and concentrate their attention upon doing so until they succeed.
 T do not mean to say that all women are totally void of se1f-consciousnes It is curious, however, that if they have | a tendency to shyness or imidity that is so deeply roted as to make it difficult to overcome, their confusion most often manifests itself in blushing rather than stanmering. I have known girls who were victims of the bluslling habit, and I discovered that they blushed for the same reason that stammereed-fea of doing so. '-Denver Post.
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Some year ago, when I was engaged in certain prospecting operations in the highlands of Pahang, on the borders of that state with Perak, had occasion to make somewhat lengthy stay at a place called Kampar, on the Tue river, one of the tributaries of the Betok, in it's turn tributary of the Jeiai, the principal feeder of the Pahang river. I selected this spot because it had already been cleared of large trees and had only recently been in occupation as a Sakai settlement from the remains of which we reared our unpretentious little camp. The Sakais, however, strongly advised us to go elsewhere, alleging that this place was haunted by elephant ghosts, and that they had been the di- rect cause of number of deaths, prin- cipally among their children, whose re- mains lie buried there.
 s'It is necessary to explain that at the back of this place, not fifty yards away is to be seen one of those pecul- far muddy pools which animals of all
 kinds frequent for their saline proper ties, this peculiar one being known as the Kubank Gajah Hantu (the mud pool of the ghostly elephants) These salt lakes are also known as genuts in Malay. When the Sakais refer to this place it is usually with bated breath and mysterious and awesome gesture. These men declared that almost nightly elephants are seen and heard breaking twigs and branches and wallowing in this mud pool, and yet in the morning not a vistage of their spoor can be seen anywhere. Of this am certain: The prints of deer and pigs were always
 plentiful and fresh, but no elephants could have been within miles of the place during my residence in that To- cality. My mandor's wife, an oldish
 person, who always followed her hus-
 band in his journeys, doing the cooking for my followers, declared that the first night we slept there she and all my men
 heard continued, long, drawn walls, like a long wee-e-e-o, which went on with out intermission until almost daylight
 This noise, they said, came from those Sakai children buried there.
 This account is interesting from an ethnological standpoint, is 50 far as it illustrates the beliefs and superstitions of a race of very primitive people. A. | for the number of children dying at a time, this would seem only natural 'when it is remembered that an epidemic of measles was then and had been for
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-11
SCHOOL GOVERNMENT.
Proposal for a State Law Modelled of
 an Anti-Politics System.

Proposal for State Law Modelled on
 an Anti-Politics System.
 The action of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce in recom- Intending a new school code for the state, if approved by the members of the Cuyahago delegation in the general assembly, should have powerful inf1u- |ence is shaping the new law that is to be enacted for the government of the schools of Ohio.
 In broad way the code proposed by the Chamber of Commerce should meet with the approval of all who have the welfare of the schools at heart. Tn some details it may be changed but the gen. |eral plan could hardly be improved up- on.
 In the first place, this proposed code provides for a small board of education. to consist of five members, to be elected at large. The legislative authority will be vested in this board. The executive authority will be vested in a school di- rector to be elected at large. The direc- tor will appoint the superintendent, who will have the sole power to appoint or discharge the teachers that may be authorized by action of the board. The other employees of the school will be ap- pointed by the director. The superinten- dent of education is to hold his office during good behavior, but he may be re- moved by the director when the cause is specified in writing and communicate ed to the board.
 Tn brief this plan follows the present school law of Cleveland in it's essentials, and the sole purpose is to separate the legislative executive and educational functions of the various officials in control of the schools, and, what is more important, to divorce the teaching force from politics.
 Of course. it would be too much to ask, perhaps, if demand should be made upon the general assembly for the approval of the Cleveland plan had mot that plan been thoroughly tried, but, inasmuch as it has been given the approval of educators throughout the state, as well as in the country at large there is no reason to doubt that it will receive favorable consideration at the hands of the general assembly, It is to be hoped that the opportunity | to give the schools of the state a com- prehensive system of government, and lone that will last for years without
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-11
Items From The Mems Sale.

The 75c domet flannel and white cotton night shirts at 58s.
 Mems $l.25 and $l pajamas at 8Sc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-11
Items From The Mems Sale.

Mems Ably collars, the latest styles. Sale price, 455e # dog. Mems Ably cuffs. link or soli. taire. Sale price. He pair. 63c 1z dog. pairs.
 White unlaundered shirts, as good as the average at 75c. Sizes 12 to IS. Sale price, 42c: $2.50 # dog White unlaundered shirts or which our regular challenge nrice is 75c. Sizes l4 to IS. Salt price. 58c; $3.5o 1s dog.
 White unlaundered shirts, frs class Sl value. Sizes IA to Is Sale price, 75c each; $4.25 # doz
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Wooden Ware.

9-inch pie plates, 2c.
 10-inch pie plates, Sc.
 l pound coffee or tea canisters, 10c value, at Sc; pound canister, 15c value, al l0-.
 Fancy Jap. cuspadores, 10c value, at Sc. S-qt, bread raiser, covered, 35c value, at 2Oc.
 91-2 inch Acme fry pans, 1sc value. at Sc.
 l0-inch Acme fry pans, IS value at 10; Japanned foot tubes, 2sc value at l5c. Cake turner's, 3c.
 Qt measuring cups, Sc.
 Rotary flour sifters, 10c value,, at Sc. Brick loaf bread pans, loc value, at &c., 8-qt. galvanized water pails, IS va ue, at 10c.
 8-qt. stove rails, 15c value, at Sc. l0-qt. stove pails, lSc value at 10c, Fancy Japanned bread boxes, 45c value. Sale price, 2oc,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-11

S ulfllCQ t0 4OA@A AS 4~SA t@- ioll-baby and every adult who likes :o dress dolls is invited to submit her best work, for our Annual Dol Show.
 We will begin to receive entries on Monday, Jan. IS. Entries posi- lively close on Friday, the 22d
 The exhibition will open on Mon day the 18th and close on Saturday tn 30tt.
 Souvenirs, will be given to each exhibitor. and the following prizes will be awarded
 FOR THE BEST DRESSED DOLLS IN STREET OR EVENING COSTUME First Prize, SIS. Second Prize, slo. Third Prize, $5. Fourth Prize, $5. GLASS B. FOR THE BEST DRESSED
 DOLL IN CHARACTER OR
 MASQUERADE COSTUME.
 First Prize, $lo. Second Prize, $.
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GHOSTS OF ELEPHANTS.

A Superstition of the Natives of an
 Asiatic Region.
 In the last number of the journal of the Straits branch of the Royal Asiatic society there appears an Interesting ar- ticle from the pen of A. D. Machadc on the supposed evil influence of ghosts He says.
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amendment. will not be neglected No mistake should be made by the law makers at this time. Cleveland Leader.
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The $l.50 pajamas. at $1.
 The $2. so paiamas at $1.75.

The $l.50 pajamas at $l.
 The $2.50 pajamas at $1.75.
 Our matchless 75c laundcrcd shirts grill be sold during this sale at 58c each. $3.55oo s 50 one half dozen. Siz.s 12 1-2 to IS. Our natch.css $1 laundercd shirts will be roid during this sale at 84c eachy $5 one-half doz. Sizes IA to 181s.
 All the 2sc fancy neckwcar dur] | ng this sale will be marked at 15c. About 500 men's silk and satin 4 in-hands. the soc quality at 25c.
 All the Sl. 50 and $2 English squares at 88c.
 All our $l 4-in-hands at 65c.
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some time raging. Singapore Straits Budget.
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Wooden Ware.

Sanitary 20th Century Broom, soc value, Sale price, 19c,
 New, smokeless oil heater, $4.50 val ue Sale price $3,
 IA cakes laundry soap, 2Sc. Pride of the Kitchen, Sc.
 Iron shine stove polish, 3c.
 Oval willow clothes basket; 6oc value. Sale price, 29c ei
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11
Wheat Seeding.

The preparation of the land for
the wheat crop is work that will call
for constant attention this month. In
deed, to secure the best results this
work should. as we stated in our last
issue, have commenced in August.
During that month the land was IN
most sections of the South in fine
condition for blowing and working,
and if advantage was taken of this
as it ought to have been. the land
will now be getting into good order for
producing good results next year. The
importance of a perfect preparation
of the soil for the wheat crop is not
half appreciated as it ought to be.
Men who will carefully pillow and
work land for the corn crop and who
will then cultivate that crop four or
five times during it's period of growth
will seed wheat on land that has
been only once plowed and once har-
rowed and will then complain if the
crop is not good one. They en-
tirely overlook the fact that the whole
cultivation Of the wheat crop must
be done before the seed is soWn, ex-
cept possibly light narrowing in the
spring and this too often is neglected.
The perfect preparation of the land
before seeding is much more import
ant in the final results than any fer
tilizer which may be applied to the
crop, for unless the land is finely pre-
pared very much of the fertilizer will
never help the crop at all, but be
washed out of the soil by the winter
and spring rains. TO be of help to the
crop the fertilizer must be closely as
simulated with the soil. so that it shall
permeate every part of it, and this
can only be possible if the soil be
finely broken and thoroughly mixed.
The value OF cultivation in securing a
heavy yield of wheat is illustrated by
the success which followed the old
fashioned method of seeding on a
summer fallow. We have seen crops
of 40 bushels to the acre produced
after a summer falloW without the
help of any fertilizer on land which.
if not plowed until the fall, would
not produce 25 bushels to the acre,
even with fertilizer. In the former
case the land was first plowed in the
spring. then narrowed, rolled and
reharrowed and allowed to stand for
ten DAVIS or a fortnight. 1t was then
reharrowed. rolled ana narrowed
again. After standing another ten
days or a fortnight the narrowing ard
rolling was again repeated, ana later
it would be cross ploughed and har-
rowed and rolled repeatedly at inter
walls until October. When seeded the
subsurface would be compact. but
open enough to be permeated by the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11

Clean out all barns, sheds, outbuild-
ings and pens and put the manurei on
to thin places on the farm. Brush
down all the dust, cobwebs and trash
and use the lime wash brush freely
in all places where live stock is to be
housed. Lime is a great disinfectant,
sweetener and destroyer of germs, and
its use will largely help to keep stock
in a healthy condition through the
winter. Where. buildings are in need
of repairs, have these attended to at
once. 1t is worse than useless to take
stock up out of the pastures and put
them into buildings where they cannot
be kept dry and warm. They are
better out of doors altogether than
housed in wet, drafty buildings. Hava
the outside of the buildings either
lime washed or painted. In our July
issue, on page 466, we published a
receipt for making whitewash for out
side use which will be found almost
as durable as paint. IF we could but
persuade Southern farmers to spend
"a little money in paint every year and
apply the same to their houses and
barns they would enhance their value
by many times the cost of the paint
in the eyes of prospective purchasers
and would make them much more
homelike and attractive to those living
in or using them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11

Keep the ploWs at work breaking
land intended to be cropped next year
Pillow deep and bring up some of the
soil which has not been exhausted
of it's plant food. There is no risk in
doing this at this time of the year, as
the sun and air will have plenty of
time to act upon this new soil and
make it fit for the support of plants
before the time for seeding comes
round. There is plant food in abund-
ance in nearly all subsoils for the
profitable growth of large crops for
years to come. 1t only requires to be
made available by the action Of the
sun and atmosphere and some lime.
Subsoiling should also be done where
the subsoil is a good one, or where
there is a hard pan underlying the
surface soil. This will add to the
feeding, ground of the crop and serve
to catch and retain the rain as it
falls for the service Of the crop. With
a deeply broken subsoil, crops will
not suffer even in a dry season for a
long time. When it is realized as it
ought to be that crops can only utilize
the food in the soil when in a state of
solution in water the Importance of
saving all the moisture possible be-
comes apparent. No crop takes its
food in a solid condition. Therefore,
however abundant this food may be in
the soil it cannot help to grow the
crop until dissolved in water. Make
the soil and subsoil loose and perme-
able, by the rain and then these will
hold it like a sponge holds water, and
the roots of the plants will suck it out
as they call for 1t.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11

Pastures never looked better and
live stock are in fine condition gener-
ally. There is every prospect now
that there will be an abundance of
feed to the end of the season, as 1T
will take a long drouth in the fall to
check the growth.
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,blv. 1T is also a crop easily spoiled
n the curing, and if pulled at the best
time for making good fodder mater
ally INJURIES the yield of corn from the
.rop. In numerous experiments made
n the South, it has been dem0nstrated
that the loss of yield in the corn made
the fodder very costly feed. Inc
blades can be saved just as we'll by
cutting the corn at the root ana set
ding UP in shocks to cure, in TINS way
saving both stalk and blades ana MOI
reducing the yield of corn. Cut Whel
the corn is glazed ana depted. aha
It will not shrink in the curing, .anC
the stalks with the blades on then
make excellent rough feed.
In this issue will be found an ar
ticle on the preparation for and seed
ing of the wheat cro2, to which we
invite attention.
With the large amount of moisture
n the land, and the warmth OIL inc
weather, weeds Will grow fast on al.
stubble fields and newly falloWed
land. See that these weeds are cut
off with the mower before they bloom
md make seed. They rob the land Oh
fertility ana moisture, for which the!
make no return except in providing
work for another year in killing them
Leave the weeds as cut as q mulch,
# not so heavy as to smother out the
clover or grass where the stubble has
oeen seeded with these crops. If q
very heavy cutting of weeds is made
they may be cured and saved for feed.
Whilst not very valuable for this pur-
pose, yet sheep and young stock will
pick them over. and get some good
from them. On newly ploWed land
the weeds as they germihate should
be killed by narrowing the land when
the sun is shining and thus a fresh
lot of seeds will be brought near
enough to the top to terminate and
be killed in like manner. In this way
a piece of land may soon be cleared OF
weeds.