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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
sPTDER BITES.

-4t They Are Said to Be Far Less Dan-
 gerous Than Is Supposed.
 When in doubt charge 1t to a spider. That slight creature has been held re- sponsible for deaths and illnesses wherewith she had nothing more to do than the United States has to do with brigandage in Morocco. Yetthe familiar newspaper announcement, Killed by spider Is before us again, and we read how the suffering Mrs. Wilson of Knoxville died in 24 hours as a result of spider bite, her body being swol- len to twice its normal size before she resigned conseiousness. If We are to believe the chronological authorities in Washington who are paid by the Government to know, we have only one kind of spider that is really poisonous enough to hurt. and that Is a little, fellow marked with red and black and not all black, as the Knoxville alarInists declare Until last year the total num- Der of deaths traceable to spider bites in this country was one. Possibly 1t may now be enlarged to two.
 We cling to our superstitions, and that of the deadliness of spider venom is one of them. A spider has enough of this acrid chemical to kill a fly when the web is not strong enough to hold it, but the human subject has on various occasions without knowing it-been subject to her sur gery without other result than an ir- ritation considerably less than is in- fiicted by mosquito. When death re- suits from so slight a cause it does not signify that the spider is dangerous. It means that the subject was in so peril ous a condition of health that a pin scratch would have served as well to end life as the spider's trifiing wound has done. Not many years ago the tarantula was regarded as sure and sudden death. The southwestern miner who turned in without his boots. and who found that half dozen of these giant spiders had not into bed before him made his will on becoming cognizant of this fact. Now he merely brushes them off. uses litle language and goes to sleep again. Even the rattlesnake has his apologists. And 1t is well to know these facts. not merely because some useful animals to live who are doing their share to rid us of insect pests. but because we can amble about the world with freer mind than our fathers could who suspected death in every moving form to which they were not accustomed. The spider has killed, we will say. two out of the many millions of human creatures that have inhabited this country. and has destroyed uncounted hosts of flies and mosquitoes, bearers of germs which, but for their interference, might have poisoned 100000 of us. Observe the spider, then with equanimity. She will not harm to hurt.--Brooklyn Eagle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
AFrEn somE FRAUps.

The PostofHee department of this great. glorious and still comparatively free country has much to do with love and marriage, but it is little particu- lar about the way it handles those dan gerous explosives. So it is moving against certain agencies whose aim is to induce men and women to marry and incidentally also to make a little money. Investigation of certain matri- moniaI agencies proves that there are still lot Of people in the cc-ntry who belieye.a wealthy widow. young and beautiful heiress, or a titled foreigner may be secured for life partner by paying a dollar to marriage broker. The game of guaranteeing to provide, at reduced rates. rich husbands and wives is profitable one. as shown by an examination of the operations of cer- tain matrimonial agencies. The postal authorities believe that most of these concerns are operating along fraudulent lines and are barring them from use of the mails as fast as proper evidence is secured. A case recently concluded is typical. A Boston agency advertised throughout the country to give cards of introduction to a young and beautiful girl, graduate of Wellesley college and the owner of s75.OOO in her own right. The introduction and good send off could be had for a dollar. The in- spectors investigated this case and found that the rich and beautiful heir ess was a weak minded. homely girl, without penny in the world.
 Of course there should be no fraud in love and marriage. and if the Postoffice department can discover any it is its duty not to help it along.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
THE aURMARINES.

The French who believe in submarine boats, are going to have a large fleet of them, and if they turn out to be useful the other nations will have to initiate France. The matter is being talked over in Germany, and while there is an undeniabIe growth of sentiment in Ger- many in favor of submarines there is at the same time a strong feeling against the addition of any considerable num- ber of vessels of that type to the i'm perial navy. The leaders of this oppo- sition maintain that the submarine is still in the experimental stage and that the tests made so far do not prove con- culsiyely the great advantages claimed for it. The advantage of cheapness claimed for these boats is regardeJ as apparent rather than real, because of the numbers which would be needed. It is maintained that the cost of a modern submarine by the time 1t is completed and all the tests are made amounts in round numbers to $125,OOO, and that for the defence of New York, for instance. fifty boats of the Holland type would be necessary, which would involve an expenditure of some six and quarter millions. Furthermore, it is argued that for defence of it's extensive Ecoast line and it's outlying possessions the United States would require at least five hundred of these vessels. Hence it is claimed that they cannot be regarded as cheap.
 As the United States can afford to have submarines when it wants them perhaps 1t will not lose anything by waiting awhile to see how they work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
The Norsk Philosopher.

Vat for should dis spirit of mortal ben
 proud? Man walk round minute and talk pur-
 ty loud, Den doctor skoi coming and say. "Ay
 can't saVe And man have to talk running yump in
 to grave. To-day dis har mortal swelling around; His head ban so light that his feet ant
 touch ground; To-moErow h hs light with his face in And hustle Iak hal to get gude help
 ing hand. Ay see lots of faIlers who tenk dey ban xu see dem yourself ef yu open yure
 eyes; Dey tai about the gold dey skol mak-
 ing some dave. And yump ven the vashvoman come for
 her pay. Desc har millionaires who give libraries Ay tenk del skol get yolly bump some
 fine day. And maybe dey look for some gude
 friend, ay tenk, To talk dem round corner and buy lit
 tie drenk. Az tai you, dear trends, purity sune we So ay tenk, ye ben suckers for getting
 sWelled head. It ant wery far from Prince Albert to
 shroud; Vat for should dis spirit of mortal be
 Milwaukee Sentinel.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

.of good character. who will undertake ito raise. educate and discipline them and report monthly. Within three months Judge Feagin has thus rescued twenty-three boys from association with hardened criminals. The judge has. besides, inaugurated a probation system, with the cooperation of intel ligent negroes, with the result that he has one hundred. and seYenty-fiye boys under his care.
 No well-disposed person, north or south, will find fault with this attempt to solve one branch of the negro prob lem. A great many in the South feel that the problem Is being tackled wrong. ''They are making the negro drunk" says the Manufacturers Rec ord, with the idea of social equality, drunk with the belief that a little book learning will emancipate him from the need of work and sobriety. and are thus dooming him to ruin. The South wants to save the negro; it wants to educate
 him into honesty and sobriety and steady work; it wants to fit him to make faithful worker in the field and in the factory. and 1t gives to him every possible avenue of profitable employ ment as a worker for others or for him self; but its efforts are being largely enumerated by the well-meaning but ill-advised efforts of outside people who know absolutely nothing about the sit uation," The Record heartily comments Judge Feagin's work. as everybody who knows about it must.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
3IME TO WARE UP.

People, even smart ones like United States folks, are thoughtless and slow to learn. But they are beginning to think about the enormous fire losses and are willing to learn how to de- crease them. Commissioner Hest of Wisconsin puts some of the facts forc- ibly. He points out that the waste by fire during the twenty five years ended December S1 last have averaged $13O,- 0OO,0 a year. If conditions remain normal during the fraction of 1904 yet remaining -that is to say, if no other serious confagration occurs-the fire bill for this year cannot be less than $500 ,000, 900, tax rate equal to S-100ths of the national wealth. When it is re- membered that this immense sum is absolutely wiped out of existence, eter- nalIy removed from the use of man. kind, the seriousness of the problem which confronts us may be appreciated. What are a few of the common equiv alents of this vast sum? It equals one- fourth of all the bullion held in the United States; 1t is more than twice the value, calculating at $50 a bale, of all the cotton produced by Texas and Indian Territory, the greatest cotton country in the world, during the season of 1902-lsO3; it is. the value of three fffths of all the cotton, in the world on September 1, 1903; 1t is, at $1 a bushel, the value of one-half the wheat crop of 1902 in the United States; it is the labor of half-million of men for a year at $50 month each; the phy- sical energy, and all that that means, for a year, of about one-fortieth of the nations workers. ..
 About time to wake up, isn't it? Much of this vast annual loss is pre- ventable. Isn't it both wasteful and foolish not to prevent it?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
SURFACE.

Under the Surface They were watching Judge Parker in swimming. There seems to be more to him" they said, than appears on the surface. - Cleveland Leader.
 Ethei-What makes you look so pleased?
 Edith-0h! Jack says I'm the first girl he ever proposed to on his automo- bile. Detroit Free Press.
 think if I were to steal just one little kiss?
 She What would you think of a burglar who had chance to spiwe $10O and took only a dime? Chicago News
 Needed a Day Off First busy Amer ican Committing now. are you? How do you like the place you're living in?
 Second busy American We'll, you see, haven't spent a Sunday there yet and it's pretty hard to judge a place in the dark.-Life.
 sprockett-I notice your 'cyclometer is broken. Why don't you have it fixed?
 Handle bars-It is better for my com science to leave 1t broken. don't know, you see, how big lie I'm telling when I tell how many miles have ridden Boston Transcript. Important Query Impatient young lman-N Nellie, how IS our romance yours and mine going to end? <
 Nellie tsuddenly apprehensive) Why, Godfrey, you don't want to skip to the last chapter yet. do you Bangor News.
 Comparison What would you
 An Idiot Trap. Wandering over Sal isbury Plain on Whit Monday, a core spondent came across a large stone in scribed: Turn me over." After much difficulty he succeeded in turning it over, and found on the under side of the stone the words: Now turn me back again so that I can catch some other idiot. ''-Tit- Bits. Customer-Why doesn't that spinster, Miss Brown, deal at your shop any more?
 Draper-one of my clerks insulted her.
 Customer-How? Draper-She overheard him telling some one that she was our oldest cus- toner. Glasgow Evening Times. Old Mother Hubbard she went and she rubbered To get her poor dog a bone; When she got there the cupboard was bare
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

DISTRICT OF NEW HAVEN. ss. Pro- ESTATE OF JOSEPH t. Wi WH1TTEI- TIE;
 SEY, late of New Haven, in said dis trfct, deceased.
 Pursuant to an order from the Court Of Probate for said district, there will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on the 2d day of August, A. D. 1904 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon (un- less previously disposed of at private sale). the following real estate of said deceased situated in the town os Wa terbury, viz: That certain piece of land situated in Waterbury, New Haven County, State of Connecticut, on Colum- bia Heights, so-called. Bounded nor therly on Roseland Ave, easteriv on Gloves Terrace, southerly on land of George Fl. Cloves, and westerly on North Willow Street. Being lots No. 61-2-3-4 and as shown on map, of Section ., Columbia Heights. Said map Is recorded in Waterbury Land Records, Volume 14S, page i47.
 Sale to take place on the premises in said Waterbury. Terms made known at time of sale.
 SARAH SCovILL wHITTELsEv,
 MARY ELIZABETH WHTTTEESEy,
 52l-3t Executrices.S
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
GOOD WORK FOR NEGROES.

Here and there good and wise people are doing good and wise things for the negro. Judge Feagin, of Birmingham, Alabama, IS making an effort to save untrained colored boys from the vicious life they seem destined to by offering them, when convicted of serious of fense, the choice of the chain-gang or of being bound out to a negro farmer
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

Kuropatkin will be only 56 years old next month. He is an inspiring figure, trusted because he has never been afraid. Five years ago Kuropatkin was warned that the great powder magazine at St. Petersburg was to be blown up within twenty -four hours and the mag azine at Toulon. too. Toulon was out side his sphere. but Kuropatkin, who received the warning while in bed, rose and went at once to the St. Petersburg magazine stores. Calling together off, cers and men. he inspected the stores,
 declared the inspection satisfactory and gave every man three days leave as a token of his pleasure. Other guards and sappers were summoned, rampant was dug around the magazine and before night 1t was certain that any danger that had existed had been. averted. Nothing happened, but the next morn ing the powder magazine in TouIon was blown up. ~
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

Booker T. Washington. of the Tuske- gee Institute. has been recently elected m honorary member of the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa. He is the arst o. his race to have been thus honored. The degree Of master of arts was conferred upon him by Harvard in 1893.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
Rain Goats

New lot of Gloria Silk long coats, wa ter proof and dust proof. The very latest creations on the market. Worth ss5.OO each.
 Yours at s2O. Other rain coats, from our regular stock, comprising long and three quar- ter length coats with military cape or box plaits.
 Worth 5000, at $12. Worth $22.5o, at $1S.50. Worth $25.O0, at sl5oO.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

Grateful to the United States for the friendship that exists between this country and China and for the protec- tion this country has given the Celes- tial empire in diplomatic way, Chang Vow Tong; former secretary to the chi- nese Imperial Commission to the worlds fair. has published volume of poems that Is both tribute to American gen. erosity and descriptive of the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
Yours at s2O.
Covert Goats

Fifteen coats. the balance of our spring stock. They will be just as fash- ionabie next fall as they were this spring. All cf them are finely made of Imported Woronlbo Covert, silk or sat in lined. All of them actually cost to make more than SIS each. and are worth from SEQ to sSO. They all go, this week at
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
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Chapel Street, Corner State

Summer opportunities are now offered to purchase special garments for women and misses that have never been equalled Tn this city We have been selling during the past two weeks all our Spring and Summer Gar ments at sacrifice prices to make room for This week our buyer went to New York to order Fall Suits and Garments and received offers to buy Summer Suits and Wraps at such low figures that he couldn't help buying them. They are here at these prices
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
Taffeta Suits $1o, $12
 and $16

A few suits at each price. They rep resent the best-made suits we have had this season. Elegantly tailored, every one different and worth double what is asked for them.
 Your suits at s1o, s12 and $15.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
Silk Suits in T affetas
 $S.6O Each.

Thirty suits made of the best quality of material. Plain and striped silks. finely made in latest fashion. Worth from s1s.Oo to s25.OO.
 Your suits at Ss.50.
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silk Suits S6. 50 Each.

Twenty suits made Of best quality. foulards, newest style cut and very latest patterns in material Workman ship of the best. Each one different and worth not a cent less than s15,OO.
 Yours for ss.5o.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
Tailored Stocks
LOT No. i.

LOT NO. i. Ten dozen stocks, made of fine linen and lace insertion, having been selling from 50 cents to S1.OO.
 Now 25c each. LOT NO. 2. Ten dozen stocks. made of plain lin en, lace, drawn work and Irish linen. Have been selling from 75 cents to s1.25.
 Now 50c each.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

Teacher-Have you any excuse for being tardy this morning, Willie? Willie My ma says it isn't good form so be on hand right on the hour. And yuess me knows lot about such
 gs.-Boston Transcript.
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And So she sent ont for one.

-7 -lls eE7l1t ? 1.-- - She sent to the store, but they had no more,
 For the butchers were all on strike. She said, T will risk 1t and buy a dog biscuit.n And that is the true story of how Mother Hubbard dog became a vege- tarian. ,
 Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
ss.5O to S12.
Linen Suits

Thirty suits. made of fine Butchers Linen and Irish Linen, some plain oth- CTS neatly trimmed with Just dash of color" Colors mostly blue, white and natural linen from SIP to $2O. Your suits now at
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25
Mohair Busters. '

Thirty garments, made of fine quality Mohair cut in up-to-date style. Just the thing to wear on trip. or driving. or automobiling. Regularly worth s15.Oo.
 Your coats for $5 to s7.
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silkCoats

Fifteen elegant Pongee long coats. finely tailored and neatly trimmed. with mild colors Every one worth $25.0O. They are yours at
 5000 and s12OO.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

The Swiss government has sensibly decided to no longer permit parents to burden their offspring with fantastic names. This law has just been exer- cised at St. Gall with regard to two children. one os whom was baptized May |" while the other had been named by its Italian progenitors Ri beIio.' rebel or revolutionary. The names were condemned and the chill dren nave been legally baptized
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

Revenue from passenger traffic on the railroads yield s1oO5o mile in the United Kingdom. s5.s6O in Belgium, s5,- 900 in France, s4.4O5 in Germany. and s2,219 in the United States, and this not withstanding the fact that the average charge for carrying passengers is high- CT here than elsewhere, running in some countries as low as three- quarters of a cent a mile compared with over two cents in our country. But with us pas. senger traffic is a minor consideration. American roads derive from that source only 22.12 per cent. of their total reve- nue. while in Great Britain it forms 43.36 per cent. and in Germany 2S.91 per cent Because of greater density of population the European roads make the better showing in passenger traffic; but in the transportation of freight no country equals ours.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

Congressman Hogg acknowledges that parts of his district, the Second Colorado, are terribly rough and dreary. He even tells a story to prove it. A stranger was travelling in that part of the West and stopped one night at the unpromising hotel which was the best to be found in certain little town. For supper wild duck was set before him and he asked the waiter: Was this bird shot on the wing?" The wait CT said he guessed it was. And some body shot it. said the traveller, be cause it was trying to get out of this godforsaken region. We'll. I sympa- thize with the ducks misfortune, but admire its judgment"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-25

The largest coil of rope ever seen on the Pacific coast was towline for a big raft of piling lowed recently from Portland to San Francisco. The huge coil contained 15O fathoms of cable four and three-quarter inches in diameter, weighed little over three tons and cost in the neighborhood ofsS1,OOO. It needed to be stout and strong and per- feet in every fibre. as the raft lowed contained S5O,OoO lineal feet of piling, equal to S.5OO,ooO feet, lumber measure.
 According to the address of Dr. Law renee before, the divinity department of the University of Chicago, sermons must be featured" just as much as news articles if the preacher is in his way to be as successful as the preacher in his. The preacher in this rush ing, sensation-loving age" says the doctor, lis justified in coloring and ex- aggerating for the sake of attracting his audience and keeping them keenly interested. think the people always make allowance for the exaggeration after the sermon, and so no harm is done"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-11-16
LITERARY NOTE.

Messrs. A. C. McClurg q Co an
uounce that about Dec / they VIII
publish. under the title. "The Illini:
Y Story of the Prairies," a remark
bile volume by the Hon. Clark T.
carr. late U, s. minister to Denmark
presenting in narrative form a rem
niscent and historical account of the
authors life in Illinois from 1860 to
The civil war. and of the many ia.
nous men and important events he
has been connected with.
Living in Illinois for over a half
century. and during all that period
identified more or less intimately
with public affairs and public men.
especially those Of the Republican
party. Colonel Cars studies have
been made and his material collected
chiefly at irsthand, and his accounts
have the yeracity OF an eyewitness.
His character-sketches OF the famous
sons OF Illinois are most Illuminating.
and must be taken as authoritative
cNFN AhbNAh abAAE NtW lNRtl pi CtdA lNiAN
are given Of their characters and mo-
tiyes. A thread of romance running
through the work adds greatly to It's
charm-its skillfuny-constructed web
forming the background of a vivid
drama Of which the great state of II.
linois is the stage on which the heroic
figures of her greatest sons appear
as leading characters. Lincoln.
Grant. Douglas Logan, Oglesby.
Yates. Trumbull. Palmer ana a score
Of others. All nSire in a work which is
at once a rouancc. a drama. and tho
pic Of a mighty state The volume
will be a large octave Of about 500
pages, will contain twenty full-pagc
portraits. and will he handsomely
printed and bound
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-11-16

In 1879 right aftcr tho disastrous
defeat OF the Democratic party, some
friends met in the Office OF that great
old Roman Alien G. Thurman OF Ohio
10 talk over the prospects of the Par
ty," said Mr.. $. b. Lyle of Cincinnati.
at the Ehbitt House. Most OF those
present took a very gloomy Wow Of
the situation which. indeed. seemed
hopeless. some ycniureI 90 say that
th2 Democracy might as wen disband,
as there seemed 10 be M reason for
IFS continuing nominal existence.
AflGr listening to these pnssimistie
utierances Mi Thurman. with Il
smile and a hearty ring in his voice,
rose 10 his full height and remarked.
" Gentlemen, ! have listened to all
you have said, and want TO tell you
that this is too small room in which
to kin and bury the Democratic par.
".
His hearers seemed 10 be ashamed
OF their utterancas, and there was an
end OF the doleful talk. The next year
Riso.np' William Alien was chosen
Is the Democratic governor OF Ohio. :"
Washington Post,