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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08
PROGRESS IN 4 UsrRALIA.

The world is moving fast in some parts Of the other side of it. For in- stance, in Australia, where they have la new labor government. MT. Wat son, the head of the government, has outlined the programme of his admin istration. He proposes to retain the general principles of the existing Ar bitration bill, with additional clauses extending it's operation to railroad employees of the common-
 wealth and clerks. The arbitration court will consist of a judge and tech- nical assessors, but counsel will be ex- cluded unless demanded by both sides.
 Economy is the motive of this rule.
 A bill is to be introduced for the ap- pointment of a high commissioner in
 London, whose duty it will be to give
 popular expression to Australian sen- |timents and aspirations, and to remove misapprehensions as to the motives and tendencies of Australian legislation" :"
 The government proposes also to deal with the evil of fraudulent trade marks, and take other measures in the
 interest of commercial morality, which is said to be at low ebb. MT. Wat |son also pledges his administration to introduce Federal old age pensions, to establish State control over the tobacco trade, abolishing the present monopoly, land to pass a banking bill, enforcing the Canadian provision compelling the banks to hold 40 per cent. of their cash reserve in government notes.
 Quite 8 programme, but as everybody can't be made good, rich and happy by
 law MT. Watson will probably be dis appointed in the working of some of
 the items of his programme.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

WOMAN IN THE MIDDLE WEST. The social picture of the middle west. as whole. presents the sexes occupy ing different intellectual and moral
 planes. There the woman is indisput- ably the mistress in all that makes for culture-eulture in letters and in art; the man is king in his own active realm. Each is most differential to the other in that others sphere. The books
 on the shelves, the pictures on the wall.
 are of the wonan's choice or selection.
 The man speaks of her library or artis- tic tastes, usually of both combined, with the reverence that is due to her superior intellectual and spiritual gifts and requirements. She is the hostess, and the host stands appropriately be- hind her. She is the instructed, and
 leads the intellectual movement of her town. The book club, the Dante club, the entertainer of the featuring or the travelling lion, is the woman. Often the clergyman assists; but she, through her Influence over the surrender of man, has selected her clergyman. and on her
 he must count for the success of him self and of his work. She is, indeed.
 generous and gracious, and welcomes with joy every man who strays from
 business into the company of books and pictures, into homes which she has
 made. They call their houses homes oftener than the East, and these homes bespeak the finer taste of the woman. Her education is likely to be more yirile than that of her eastern sisters, because it is acquired at schools and colleges where co-education of the sexes is the rule. Her domination in the home and her primacy in the high CT life, as we are inclined to call it, are seen not only in the more obvious social affairs, but in the element of seriousness which marks most life in this midway of the country.
 AS the man pays her high respect by recognizing her superiority in the king fdom of taste, of feeling, of the imagina- tion, of the knowledge which comes from books, she returns her deference by venerating him as the active rules of the world of affairs. This attitude was well expressed by young woman student in one of the great co-edpca- tion universities of the west. She was
 asked to write her view of Thomas Jeff ferson. and this was her response: Thomas Jefferson was tin1id and sly,
 but lovely in his family She could judge him as one of the world of
 men," because she was not of his fam lily; if she had been, the last part of i her description alone would have suf- | lficed.-Henry Loomis Nelson, IL. D., in
 Harper's.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08
SOME SIGNS OF COOLING 1ovE.

There is much human nature in Kan sas and therefore much love. Occasion ally, however, love there grows cold.
 Mfr. J. F. Lee of Hutchinson is afraid
 that Mrs. Lees love for him has grown cold. He has brought suit for divorce, and in his petition he mentions that
 Mrs. Lee goes riding with MT. Kis- sick and remains out till after md night, and that he has proof that her relations with the osculatory gentle man are more than they ought to be. He says that she refuses to cook his meals. He says that he has to do the housekeeping and take care of the chil- dren. He says that she has threatened to. cut his throat while asleep. He says she told him frequently that she Intended to shoot him full of holes, And he closes with the statement that he is becoming convinced that she nc longer loves him as she used to.
 Some people might think that the evidence presented by MT. Lee is a rather slight foundation for his state-
 ment that he is becoming convinced that his wife doesn't love him as she used to, but some people may not be as acute as Mr. Lee is in perceiv- the turn of the tide of love.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08
KoREA's CAPITAL CITY.

Seoul is a walled city of nearly a quarter of million inhabitants, about l a third of whom live in extensive ex- tra mural suburbs The wall is pierced by eight gateways of massive stone, each with a pagoda-shaped tower of one or two stories above it. The near the west gate, 'sThe Gate of Bright l Amiability," and it is by this portal that almost every visitor enters the cap | ital of the Hermit Kingdom. The name of the city, by the way, is pronounced precisely as we would pronounce the fe- male pig with an added-that is Sowl. l have never heard a Korean pro- nounce the name in any other way. The word means capital nothing more; but if there is small beauty or originality about the name of the city, there certainly is about it's location, for anything more strikingly picturesque than the site of the Korean metropolis would indeed be difficult to find The city stands in little valley almost
 surrounded by rugged, corrugated
 peaks. High along the top of this mountain ridge runs the city wall. Deep into the gullies 1t dips, rising now
 and again to scale the steepest slopes
 and crown the summits of the loftiest pinnacles Inclosed within this snake like barrier is such a strange contrast
 between wretched novels and splendid tpaloces, purposeless loafers and hurry ling crowds, broad streets and laby- rinthine alleys, spotless cleanliness and
 unspeakable filth, as I doubt could be
 equalled elsewhere on earth.
 l Along several of the main streets are trolley lines, and every few minutes a
 modern American electric car whirls
 past us well patronized with Koreans, both men and women.
 1 Seoul of the past is fast becoming ex- 1 tinct. A modern red brick building, i headquarters of the American Electri- cal company, rises in the center of the town, and from it's tower stately
 churches and legation buildings can be
 seen towering above the squat houses
 of the natives.-Harper's Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08
4 SOLEMN FACT.

The poor are certainly growing poorer now. They have felt cheered and supported hitherto by the fact that their per capita" was steadily increas- ling. but now they are compelled to face a decrease in it, and they will be cor |respondingly low in spirits. The treas Ury statement for the month of May shows a sharp drop in the governments s estimate of the amount of money in cir culation. The figures for May 1 were I$2, ,532. .645, 1S5, the highest total ever re- corded in our history. The figures for the first day of June are $23, 3,OOO.OOO less lthan those for the first day of May. This reduces the estimate of the circu- lation per capita from $31.02 on May 1 to s3069 on June 1. During the month lof May there was a decrease in the amount of gold coin and gold certifi- cates in circulation. Standard silver dollars, silver certificates, treasury notes, United States notes and subsidi- ary silver also all show decreases for
 the month. There was an advance, however, of almost s9.OOO,OOO in the
 amount of national bank notes, both in the treasury and in the circulation.
 Just as the "per capita" begins to
 decrease the heat begins to increase. Of course an increase in heat may not really make up for a decrease in the ''per capita" but an increase is an in- orao-a
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08
AN AMERICAN TEACHING THE CHAR


 An American is teaching the czar John Rosene has obtained mining con- sessions in Siberia capitalized at s5,- 000,0O0 Three years ago he was en- gagged in a small way in the Pacific coast trade When man takes $S0 into Siberia and comes back after three months work with s1,00O you get inter- ested," he says. This experience of a Nome gold mine aroused him to Asiat- ic possibilities.
 | He learned that concessions for min ing in Siberia, financed by Russian and English capital. had lapsed through the displeasure of the czar at speculation with the concerns stocks. l q will get half that stock and the re- Inewal of the concession said John Ro- sene.
 He got them. The London holders were anxious to unload worthless [stocks. and they were cheap. Then he Iwent back to Seattle and organized the Northwestern Commercial company. In q few weeks word came from St. Pet Iersburg that the concession hade been revived by the czar. John Rosene hastened to the Russian capital, had personal interviews with the czar, was lgiven free hand in several kinds of commercial operations. These included taking American miners into Siberia, to mine, to use timber, to fish, to take furs and to operate between Seattle and Siberia with trading vessels. Within a month fha Nort huautaT,, cj berian company was organized, capital ized at $5,O0O,00O and purchased the three Pacific liners recently operated from Puget sound to the Orient by the Northern Pacific railroad. Their ships Twill probably sail under the flag of the Northwestern Siberia company as Rus sian transports. Who can tell? The ramifications of American enterprise run to unexpected places.-The Worlds Work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08
RADTCAL ACTION IN TRANCE.

The French government is doing some pretty radical things nowadays. It has lately practically suppressed all pri- vately organized employment agencies. The prescribed concerns include those created by municipalities, syndicates of workingmen or employers, or both; labor exchanges, farmers exchanges, mutual aid societies and similarly con- stituted associations. Collection of fees by these agencies is forbidden and di- rector or employe who transgresses this law renders himself liable to severe punishment. The only exceptions noted in the prescription of the new law are theatrical and operatic agencies, and agencies for circuses and music halls
 Instead of the private employment agencies heretofore allowed, register setting forth the offers and demands for work and for situations is to be
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08
Do Ton Fear the winds

Do you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them. Be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, Go wade like the crane; The palms of your hands will thicken, The skin of your face will tan fouIl grow ragged and weary and
 SWarthy, But you'll walk like man!
 -Hamlin Garland.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

man who Is without work in Germany finds no inducement to remain idle. A
 paternal government sets him to such hard work that the would-be unem- ployed finds it decidedly to his interest
 to seek some other employment as soon as possible.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

France follows Austria's example in preparing to make greater use of tor pedo boat destroyers in war. The sum of five and quarter million dollars will be used to build the little enemies of giant battleships. This should pro- vide the French navy with twenty or thirty of the speediest of the flyers, capable of attacking larger craft or dropping contact mines.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, SS FOR SIX MONTHS. s6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES, 2 CENTS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08
AnvERrIsING RATEs.

Situations. Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each insertion. Five Cents Word for a full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch, one insertion, S1.20; each subsequent inser- tion, 40 cents; one week, $3.20; one month, s10; one year, $40.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

A collection of pearls taken from the waters of Iowa and valued at more than s5O,OOO is exhibited in the Iowa building at the worlds fair.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

To-day the lot of the laboring man in Germany is in many respects bet ter than that of ours, writes Poultney Bigelow in the National Magazine. The German state recognizes the right of every man to live-we do not. When the German laborer becomes old or fee ble. the state pensions him honorably. In Germany the laboring man can ride on the electric cars for two cents-we pay five. German cities have public baths, public laundry establishments, big parks, free concerts and many oth- CT features which soften poverty-al- though they may not remove it. The corollary to this is that the Emperor
 permits no tramDs to terrorize his highways. The police is organized for rural patrol as well as city work, and every loafer is stopped and made to give an account of himself. In Eng land vagraney has been a public nui- sance for generations; with us it has become of late years almost a public danger. Germany has no tramps. The
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

Oscar King Davis, the New York Herald's correspondent with General Kurokis army, tells how, after the fighting on the Yalu river, the Japan ese commander opened up a school room with maps, where General Fujii and other officers delivered to the foreign correspondents protracted lecture upon the strategy and tactics employ- ed in the fight for the Yalu river. Their expositions and comments gave an im- pression of studious and minute prepa- ration long antedating the outbreak of the war.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

THE TRAVELLING HABIT.
 The entirely new feature which the jnteruban roads have introduced into
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08


 Grant Allen saysthat Herbert Spen- cer had a passion for generalization. If you remarked it was fine day, Spencer would answer: "Yes, anti-cyclonic con- ditions like those of yesterday seldom break up without warning of the advent of a depression from westward" If you observed that Mrs Jones was pretty woman, Spencer would reply: Her fa- ther was a west Highlander and her mother was an Irishwoman and inter- marriage between Hiighlanders and Irish almost always produces physically handsome, but Intellectually inferior, children"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

In nearly thirty thousand cases in the records of organized charity in New York, in only IA per cent. of the Ital- ian cases was intemperance the cause. Tn the case of other nationalities, the per cent. ranged from 20 in the German cases to 3S in the Irish cases, between these being American cases A and Eng fish cases 25 per cent. It is shown, how ever, that the change from the stone cottage in the open fields of Italy to the dark unventilated tenement of New York is very destructive to the health of the Italian immigrants, pulmonary tuberculosis having developed to a startling degree, the mortality from this disease being greater among the second than among the first generation. There were, at the time of this report, 382,775 Italians in New York city, and all though nearly half of them are Hitter ate, they are called '.the most valuable additions to our population"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

cumnor hall in Warwickshire, the country seat of the Earl of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth's favorite courier, where Amy Robsart, the earps wife, was murdered by Leicester's varlets in order that the queen and he might mar. ", recently became the subject of Q queer suit. The Earl of Abingdon sold the estate to Scott Hall, who now wants to get rid of the bargain on the aston ishing ground that the ghost of Amy Ropsart doesn't walk, whereas that was one of the principal expectations he had in buying Cumnor. But the judge decided in effect that there was no pos- sible way of coercing a ghost, and that Scott Hall would have to keep Cumnor hall.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-08

THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays. One Dollar a Year.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-27
Benefit for St. Brendan's.

The exchequer of ST Brendan's
booth was considerably increased as
the result of the musicale given last
night at the home of Mrs. Catherine
Dugan, 526 Harrison street. Early in
the evening many of the residents OF
the parish assembled and by O'Clock
the house was filled to overfiowing
Full dress suits and handsome gowns
lent a pleasant charm to the event
The following programme was thor
oughly enjoyed:
w. J. Hynes humorous selections: Harry
Wood Brown barytone solo. selected; Robert
Mitchell monologue; Miss Grace Muller violin
solo: Frank w Thompson, bass solo; selected
Mr. o. Connor reel and Jig Irish dancer: Miss
McHugh. Soprano Miss Camille Blye recita-
tion; Garden City Quartet; Mr.. Mcbride bass
solo: dancing.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-27
SCHOOL CHIEFS
IN CONFERENCE
Exhibits by Pupils in City's
Building at st. Louis Are
Theme for Some Discussion
ADOPT SUITABLE PLAN
Assurance Is Given That i'm
Educational Line There Is
Enough Ready for Display

a<ioUs schools having been selected
by the general san Francisco commit
ace 10 make an educational display in
behalf OF this city at St. Louis. an i'm
portant meeting OF principals Of these
schools was held yesterday afternoon
with the finance committee for the San
FRANCISCO exhibit at ST. Louis The
purpose Of the gathering was 10 gem
orally discuss the situation and to
agree upon a general color scheme of
installation Of exhibits, so that har-
moniOus effect might be produced The
schools represented at the conference
are the Humboldt Evening School, the
Douglass Primary School, the Hamil-
ton Grammar. the Lick School the CAL
ifornia School of Design and the Lowell
High School.
There Will be a general display Of
school work, school photographs. etc,
Illustrative OF the educational system
of the State OF California as a whole
in the education building at St Louis.
For this reason the general committee
found IL advisable not 10 duplicate in
the space that is available for exhibits
in the San Francisco building. conse-
Quently schools that are types were
selected. The technical education, in
which San Francisco has more insti-
tutiOns engaged than any city west Of
Chicago; viii make A strong feature
Of the San Francisco display. In addi-
tiOn 10 the school principals that We're
present at the conference yesterday
afternoon Miss Kathryn Ball was in
attendance TO represent drawing in the
public schools.
Various suggestions were made and
adopted. The school principals prom
ised that the school exhibit would be
ample to do credit TO the city. The
general color scheme will now be care
fully worked out. a general understand
ing having been reached with the school
principals.
Among the prominent educators in
z-ited TO the conference were:
Principal Taafe. Frank Roberts and c. :.
Henry OF the Humboldt Night School: Miss
krthryn Ball. Miss Winifred Tarpey. principal
ot the Douglass Primary School. Principal H.
E KeH0gE Of the Hamilton Grammar School,
Principal .Cfeorge Merrill OF the Lick and Wiz
meriing schools Captain Fletcher Of the Cali
fornia School 81 Design and Principal Frank
Morton Of the Lowell High School
Others were also present and took
part in the conference.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-27
MUST STRICTLY
OBEY THE LAW
State Superintendent Says
Parents Signatures Are
Required i'm School Census
CAN AFFORD NO RELIEF
Board of Education Fears
Revenue Based on Number
of Pupils Will Diminish

The Board of Education fears that
the revenue received from the State,
based on the number of children of
school age, as found by the census
marshals, will be materially decreased
as the result of a communication re-
ceived yesterday from State Superin-
tendent of Schools Kirk.
The board had requested Kirk for
permission to ignore the law compell-
ing the securing Of the signatures OF
parents or guardians when they testi-
fed as to the number of children un-
der their control. Kirk in his reply
stated that he had no authority to
grant the desired permission, and that
the law must be obeyed to the letter.
The Board of Education had ex-
planned to Kirk that the law had re-
duced the daily taking Of names from
about $500 last year to less than 1000
this year AS the school census, ac-
cording to law, must be taken between
April Is and April 80, it follows that
the total will fall far short of the
number taken last year, when 1t was
in excess of 10000.
Relative to the extension of time
asked for by the Board of Education
states that his Office does not require
the returns until July 1. The board,
however, deems this small comfort in
the premises, as the law on the point
is explicit that the census must be
completed by April 30.
The Importance of the matter to the
schools is apparent when it is known
that the State pays So to the local
IiI Af
age. Last year the sum realized was
more than SS10 900 on census Of 10000.
The refusal of some parents and
guardians to give their signatures null
lilies the census so far as their children
are concerned, and the delay in secur-
ing signatures will mean the loss of
at least 10000 names and a consequent
reduction in the revenue of $4,000.
There remain but four days more to
take the census, and the board makes
a last appeal to parents to furnish
their signatures on request of the CEN
Sus marshalS.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-27
GRAPE-NUTS.
CALI!
IT COMES.

Every first-class hotel has
Grape-Nuts in the kitchen for
guests that WILL HAVE IT.
1t is sometimes left off the
menii, for it costs something, and
the proprietor had rather serve
some less known food that is
given to him free for the privilege
Of being named on the menu.
However, if one likes Grape
Nuts predigested food and values
the feeling OF strong. vigorous life
that comes with It's use, call and
it comes.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-27
No Substitute

Not even the best raw cream, equals Pho
neer Brand Evaporated Cream for tea.
coffee. chocolate, cereals and general
household cooking. II is the result of for
ty-ive years experience in the growing
buying. handling and preserving Of milk
by Bcrden's Condensed Milk Co.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-27
SONS: DIFFERENCES DID NOT
CAUSE MOTHERS DEATH
Frederick W. LawtOn Admits That
He Wholly Misunderstood His
BrOrher's Position

In yesterdays newspaper accounts
Of the death Of Mrs. Franklin Lawton
one Of the causes OF the unfortunate
womans untimely taking of was said
to have been a letter from her son,
Frederick, to his brother, Louis. Fur
JhermOre, il was stated that quarrels
between the brothers hastened their
mothers death. The following letter
from Frederick ". Lawton puts the
case in another light:
SAN FRANCISCO. April 26. 1904.
Editor Call: In regard 10 the letter pub
lislled in Tuesdays Call from 20 my
brother Louis l.. Lawton, ] wish 70 state
that i was en- irely misinformed as 10 the
particulars and wish 10 retract anything
may have said against him al that time.
/ also wish 70 say that our misunderstand-
ing was a. no possible way the cause Of our
mothers death. FREDK ". LAWTON.