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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-25

go to St. Louis. In the morning the weather was almost summery, but in few hours after leaving Chicago Q change occurred. 4 raging snow-storm commenced, which developed into. blizzard, and by the time we reached Alton the train was stalled in the snow, and we had to stop at Alton over night. During the night the mercury sank to twenty-four below zero. The hotel was crowded, and another man occupied the same bed. Neither of Us took off any of our clothing, even keeping on our boots. We kept on our fur mittens all night in bed, and though there was a coal fire burning in our room it was un- comfortably cold. That was the coldest night we ever experienced in this lati- tude. At the close of the next day we arrived at St. Louis, We crossed the river on the ice. The mercury marked twenty below at St. Louis.
 We were on our way to New Orleans, and we tarried at St. Louis four or five days. The weather soon moderated, and we had to walk across the Missip- Ipi river at extreme eril, as no guide
 would consent to run the hazard. Af- ter we reached the cars we were off for
 Cairo, Illinois. When we got down to
 Cairo we found it to be the biggest mudhole in this country. In a day or lmore we got off for New Orleans on a steamboat, and there could not have
 been happier man alive than the wri- ter when he put his feet on the deck of the steamboat. There was no suffering, as the cabins were warm. The only
 thing the passengers feared was shot
 and shell from the rebel hands along the
 river. Fortunately our steamer passed
 all the dangerous points without being fired into, and we arrived at Newo Or
 leans in more comfort than seemed pos sible when we left Cairo. Vicksburg
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KAREN.

Harbin is apparently going to figure largely in the war talk. It is nearly in the center of the province of Man. churia. It has been called the Moscow of Asia" It has been built up by Rus sia especially to be the central mart of trade in the east. Consul Miller says it's building is one of the greatest achieve ments in city building that the world has ever witnessed. It first assumed importance only four years ago. In 1901 it's population had increased to 12,0OO. which became 10000 in 1902, 44.OOO in May. 1903, and 6OOOO in October last. exclusive of soldiers. None but Rus sians and Chinese are permitted to hold land. erect buildings, or engage in per- manent business. and all the territory Cor miles around has been so secured that it is impossible for foreigners to do any profitable business. or to secure even foothold.
 Now the question is will Russia ever have to really evacuate Harhin?
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4 PRETTY PLAIN CASE.

Arthur Chamberlain, Joseph Cham bsrlains hrusher. has at various times tried to teach the distinguished states man something about preferential tar ifs and he has just made another at tempt. 'Tubes, Limited" is the abbre-' viated name of the corporation having the largest output of steel tubing in Great Britain. Arthur Chamberlain, brother of Joseph Chamberlain, is chairman of this company. and at the annual meeting had one or two observa- tions to make which are of interest He pointed out that their material was steel. and the whole of that steel came from abroad. The English steel mak- CTS, without exception, had refused even to quote, and the company had given up asking them. If they were to have a duty of ten per cent. on the steel billets which they bought. it would, with the waste, amount altogether to about thir- ty shillings a ton on every ton of finished tubes that they sold. The increased price of food would reduce the ef1icien- cy of their workmen, who needed to be f in good fettle" for the kind of labor they had to perform, and if their eff cheney were reduced the company would have to reduce their wages. Moreover,
 they did not do a penny of business with the colonies, and, therefore, pro-
 lection would be most disastrous from their point of view; in fact, he believed it would be the last straw that would break the cameps back.
 This seems to be pretty plain case,
 but probably Joseph Chamberlain would say that if Tubes, Lirnited,'' couldn't
 stand a preferential tariff it ought to fall.
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DISAPPEARING.

Miss Armstrong (who has foozled the ball six times with various clubs)-"And wich of the sticks am to use now?'
 Weary Caddie-"Gie it a bit knock wi the gr-Punch.
 You should have cut off every ave- nue of escape said the sergeant at the desk We did so," replied the patrol man; but the fellow got away by going down a side street. "-Yonkers States man.
 "Bliggins is very opinionated. He thinks that nobody can teach him any, thing
 Well answered Miss Cayenne quiet ly. T guess he is about right. Wash ington Star.
 Tess-"Why. Miss Uppisch's grand mother was merely a servant girl. was mt she?"
 -"Oh, no, indeed; Miss Uppisch says she was household specialist. "-- Philadelphia Press.
 Kate-"C Charley and Bessie are very fond of each other.'
 Bertha Rather say they are both very fond of Charley. It is a case of two souls with but a single thought, you know. Boston Transcript.
 Ethel-"Why were you in such hur- ry about proposing to Jack Poorman?" Maude-"WelL you see. I got a tip that his wealthy aunt. who is very sick. had remembered him in her will to the extent of half a million. "-Chicago News.
 Hale the milk you leave in the pail every morning disappears" protested the female customer 'You ought to have a waterproof pail" said the milk man. 'Oh." returned the woman, it isn't the water that leaks out Chicago News.
 Little Margie had been to the dentists to have a tooth extracted. and this is how she explained the proceedings: The man grabbed hold with a pair ol big tongs and pulled his best, and just before it killed me the tooth came out, Chicago News. The Urbanite (visiting the suburban lite)-"A mile and a half to the station! Great Caesar! How can you make a train after a heavy snowstorm?'
 The Suburbanite (smilingly)-"E Easily my boy; the train is sure to be an hour late!''-Puck.
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FRANCE. AND RUSSIA.

The Paris Gaulois publishes an intar- esting communication from an officer who was on the staff of General de Boisdeffre when the latter was negoti- atlng the military terms of the Franco Russian agreement. This officer says that the generals purpose was to con- elude with Russia military conven- ton directed exclusively against the Triple Alliance. He did not contem- plate for moment war with England
 He thought that the question of Alsace- Lorraine was pending. and that there fore it was important to protect France against aggression on the part of Ger many or Italy, and that as between the chances of war with Germany or with England it was necessary and patriotic to select Germany as the eventual en- emy, disregarding the English peril. After a lively discussion these views were adopted by General Obrutcheff. and in September, 1892, the two officers signed the military convention, which was directed solely against the Triple Alliance. The same authority asserts that the original convention contained 10 stipulation providing for the inter- vention of France in the Far East, but he has heard that an addition to it was accepted later by M. Delcasse. Ac-
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had surrendered the previous Fourth of July, and the great river was open to the Gulf.
 We tarried there for the most of the winter. Bituminous coal was twenty four dollars a ton at New Orleans. The weather was so cold that some fire eve " day was needed. Fortunately the writer had relative who was an off, eer in the army, and used to walk to his office every morning to warm himself with government coal.
 After remaining in New Orleans until March we concluded to visit Cuba, which was our original destination We were two weeks on the island, visiting Havana, Matanzas and Cardenas. Of course it was very hot there under tropical sun, and in two weeks we were pleased to leave Havana for New York. We arrived there in the midst of snow-storm, and we can add with truth that the climate of New York was more agreeable to us than the burning cli- mate of Cuba. Ever since that time we have concluded that our northern cli- mate for a years residence is more healthful and more agreeable than a years residence in the West Indies.
 At that time Havana was very much overrun with visitors from the north ern states, and good accommodations were scarce and expensive. Tn order to increase their business the hotels ad- vertised that they would furnish their guests with ice water to drink free of e11 1,oA &1,o iard was insolent to Americans, because he believed the United States was going to pieces. Appomattox had not been won by Grant, and therefore our coun- try's future hung in the balance.
 No one could leave the island in those days without paying two dollars for a passport, and the Spaniards were such robbers that though they paid cut oi1r
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1hI.,Lsdawn bod panedlI.

Thistledown is full of grace, Two dark eyes light up her face: Tripping tongue that laughs and sings Much discomfort oft it brings. But we love dear Thistled0wn, Never on her long We fr0wn, For our winsOme one is weighted With the seed of good and freighted With the presage of some glory, Which will enter her life's story. Daffodil is tall and slender, Her dark eyes are grave and tender: Shining curls of raven hue Shade the face that witches you. Broad low brow, with thought is grayen Less of earth and more of heaven, But her stately ways and slow Change to match the sport and glow Of Thistledown; thus hand in hand They froic through dear ehildhood's land.
 Keith Saint John.
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five-cent silver pieces for a sixpence, yet when we came to pay for our pass ports we had to pay sixpence instead of five cents. We said aloud to the guide who was with us, with our usual frank ness, that this was damnable. The guide nudged us and said, Be careful;
 this is the office of the captain-genera of Cuba!" We then clearly understood what kind of a government Spanish tyranny had forced upon Cuba. Cheat ing on passports was common, and the duty levied on Amaerican flour being
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eleven dollars barrel, visitors could understand somewhat how the people were robbed by Spanish officials, Beef cattle could not be slaughtered without first paying twelve dollars duty to the captain-general. He had right to steal just what he pleased. provided he made up from other taxes the tribute Spain annually demanded. Our short experience in Cuba convinced us that Cuba was as badly governed as any country in the world. Milwaukee Wis consin.
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HOW THE NEGRO MUST RISE.

HOW THE NEGRO MUST RISE.
 The negro must eventually rise in the commercial world, if at all by following the same methods employed by white men who succeed He must be able not only to pursue the ordinary occupations of common labor, but to reach outward and upward through all the various oc- equations of life, from the menial to the most important, if his race would make substantial and enduring progress. In nearly every community in the south the negro is engaged in some kind of business. The capital employed is, i'll most cases, small and the brSiness con- ducted rather unpretentious, for the most part; but there are in the more populous cities larger and more mpof- tant business projects well established and efficiently conducted by colored men. There is scarcely an important community in the south in which one will not find colored men successfully conducting grocery stores, drug stores, meat and vegetable markets, undertak- ing establishments, real estate offices, tailoring establishments, brick yards and other such business; and, as the tx ception rather than the rule, will be found, in large city, a dry goods and gents furnishing store, or banking institution. The professions of medi- cine, law and dentistry are well repre- sented by young men who have been trained in the various colleges of the country.--Leslie's Weekly.
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zHE YEEkLY JOURNAL. issusd Thursd.y., One Dollar rsai
AnvERrIs1NG RATEs.

Situations, Wants. Rents and other small serfion- Five Gents Word for a full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch, one m, Io sertion. $1 20; each subsequent insertion, 4O cents; one week, S320; one month, slOi one year, $40. x
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, b cents per line Notices of Births, Marri- ages. Deaths. and Funeral. 50 cents each Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thelr own immediate business Gall matter to be unobjectionable), and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
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cording to this, he says. France would have to provide both military and na- val contingent if Russia, being engag- ed in war. were to be attacked by a third power "even in the Far East" Nor need the third power necessarily be European. The obligation would hold good if China, or even Corea, sided with Japan.
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A COLD WINTER.

A Wisconsin Mans Reeolleetions of
 that of 1s63-4.
 No person lives beyond the age of seventy without having vivid recollecc- tions of cold winters. One of the fiercest in our memory was the winter of '6S and 's4. The winter had been very mild up to and beyond Christmas. The writer was on the train from Chica-
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Why don't you make your husband promise not to try to pick winners on the race track?
 T had thought of it. answered young Mrs. Torkins, but I decided not to do so. He has enough bad luck to bother him without worrying over broken promises. Washington Star.
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Rev. Carl Goedel has resigned the rectorship of the Mary J. Drexel Home, a Philadelphia charity. He explains that after ten years in the United States he finds himself still "a self-conscious, convinced Prussian and German and that in his view of the matter who ever does not want to become all Amer ican does not belong permanently in this country"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-25

A bill before the Virginia legislature gives the conductors of Pullman cars the right to exclude any and all passen- gers "who in their Judgment should not be allowed to ride" It is believed that if this bill. becomes a law the conduc- tors judgment will be against ne- groes.
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The extensive use of celluloid has led the London manufacturers to offer S5o,- 900 for substitute for camphor. which is one of the main ingredients, and is growing more scarcer and more ex- pensive.
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Spain doesn't seem to be prejudiced against trading with us. The United States consul at Valencia reports an in- creasing demand for American agricnl- tural machines, wrought iron and steel mineral wax and other things. He writes: Notions of every description ice cream freezers. and United States rubber overshoes are visible every where. With regard to rubber over shoes, although looked upon as outland- ish curiosities when first introduced here a couple of years ago, they are now in universal use and considered in- dispensable. In general imports the only important increase occurs in fer tiizers of all kinds, particularly sul, phate of ammonia, superphosphates, nitrate of soda, and sulphate and chlor- ate of potash,
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DELIVERED BY CARH1ERs IN THE Cfrr ltCEKrs WEEK, 50 CENTS MONTH. s;soB SIX MONTHS, SC YEAR TIE SAME TERMS BY MAT.
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The largest grapevine in the world is growing in the Carpinteria Valley, twelve miles east of Santa Barbara, California, and is called La Para Grande. It was started from cutting sixty-one years ago by a young Span- ish woman, Dona Ayala. It is eight feet four inches in circumference at its base, and one of it's horizontal branches measures more than three feet in cir cumference. The trellis covers about a third of an acre, and sixty heavy posts support it. The vine produces as many as five thousand punches annually, at a conservative estimate, and in good years many clusters measure twelve to fifteen inches in length and weigh six to eight pounds. Its owner estimates that in 1895 the vine yielded ten tons of grapes.
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Daniel Osiris. a French philanthropy ist, has acquired certain parts of the field of Waterloo for the purpose of erecting monument to the thirty thousand French soldiers who fell in the battle. These soldiers were hastily buried near Plancenoit after the defeat of Napoleon. but till now the place of interment has lacked memorial. The project of M. Osiris must not be con- founded with that of the military soci- ety La sabretache. which has also un- dertaken to mark by monument erected at Waterloo the place where so much French blood was she'd
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Mir. Shafroth of Colorado is not the first Democrat who refused to accept 8 seat in congress because he believed his election had been tinged with fraud. When J. c. c. Black of the Tenth Geor- gia district ran against Thomas E. Watson he was elected by good ma jority, but it was charged that there was much irregular voting in Richmond county. When MT. Black uearned of this he forwarded his resignation to the governor, who ordered new election. MT. Black was chosen again. MT. Sha- froth. by the way, was champion chess player of the house while there, being one of those who took part in the game by cable between the house of repre- sentatives and the British house of commons.
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We Purchased at 4OC. on the Dollar
 You Get the Benefit.

Our advertised sale of the stock pur- chased from Kaufman & Oberleder of New York is on. A few items from the stock follow:
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-08-20

tuition aud magnificent manhood. and
yet temperate in HE actions and dleni.
fled In bis domoanor n "a not the ora.
tor or the man OF letters bat the man
.of reserve force. of sound Judgment.
.of conservative method and staadinoaa
on purpose whom the people have call.
cd 10 che Office OF the presidency.
Notably in che contests between Iof.
forson and Burr Jackson and CLAY.
Lincoln and DounIas8. Grant and
Cleveland and blaine.
Dire predictions were made hy our
political opponents of what would hap.
pen az tho &C. Louis convention but
they misludged che temper Of the
party and che peoplo while there bad
been differences 90 preceding cam.
pnigns. set ut So Louis they were all
hafmonIECd and common ground
was fo,,hd upon which ail could stand
and dD battle for democratic urInci.
plies a platform was adopted by un.
animous vote. embracing che issues
of the day and presenting to the PEG.
pie "a declaration of principles which
IN che language o. me tlmca. ls sane.
aafo and sound
With O. candidate whose poraonalife
appeals io the good sense and sound
iudemDnt of tho American people. Z
p'atform whose principles are Tor tha
good lo the greatest number.
aud "a reunited party. earnest Tor tha
restoration of good and economical
government wD should succeed aui
The principles of democracy again 400.
umnh
beg my countrymon. as they yalua
their liberty t0 Euard with great caro-
Che sacred rlshf of local soif govern.
mont and io watch with n Jealous eva
Che tendency of ibo times 90 central.
itr power in che hands OF the fow.
Mr Chairman. II ls an added pioas.
urc to receive this notification nd yonr
hands You have boon COM. rvatipe
aud courageous as lead of our PARTY I'm
iNr house 1I representative uosI.
i'1u which fcU mon hhr. filled with
Che signal ability fhaf you have dis.
played o. wHI uo ms pleasure ANA
duty H' R tw. NOT nr honpo to ae.
cont more formally Boz writing tbo
nomination which you have touderet
in such graceful aul complimentary
terms and to Eiyo my views r1nt
some of che Important questions rog.
commanilnF thc attention uf ua
country.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-08-20
DAVIS IS NOTIFIED

white su'nphur Springs. W. Va.
August o. Henry Oasaaway Davis
was formally notified to-day that ho u
the nominee of the democratic party
for Che vice presidency. Davis ac-
copJod enc nomination with a bricf
speech reviewing the political silua.
th,n oeho.nF che sentiments of Judge
Parker 0u money question aud expires
a.nr determination to bo successful
in Che campaign. Representative John
Sharp Williams of Mississippi chair.
man of tho notification committee Io.
iIyDrDl ihc notification address
THO mU.,s sore hriI 01 IHD
itRn ol Ue white sulphur SPRINGS
h1.o. n Ono presence 0f hundreds off
.l'husIasIie democrats Tbc rercm0n.
..s were m5rtoi with tbs utmost sim.
I.Ic.ly
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-08-20
Deeds Recorded.

Tho following roal gstufo transfers
have boon recorded ln tho county
clerks office.
Clara J. Balirl1go and husband 90
g. Giomi, lots % ana iC. block s. +.
Armiio Otoro addition. Consldora.
ton. $500
@. n Marion and wife Co Marrar.t
soiiomrldgo lui 3 block o. Lewis and
aimonis addition COMMUNICATION. gi.
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-08-20
Davis speech Of Acceptance.

Mr Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention: THE official notification
which you bring OF my nomination foi
the y.co presidency of the United
states by tho national democracy
gives me "a feeling of the s.ncoresl
gratitude 90 my party for the honor
conferred AZ the Same time. % bring.
20 me a deep sense OF my rosponal
bility % my party as a candidate. and
10 my country in case of my election
"A Spirit of determination 90 succeed
in the campaign before us appears "a
porvade tho rank and nlo OF our party
in am sections oft the country OF that