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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

royalty of Pechill. Tribes assist her
 there which have more or less a habit
 of fighting, and both France and Rus
 sia have been compelled from time to
 time to acknowledge defeat in contests
 with Chinese "brigands' and mountain |eers. Our readers will remember the re- recession of Kuldja, and the terrible
 lesson read to the people of Kashgar. If Russia were driven fairly back into Central Asia, out of which she is now emerging, the position of Japan would be very imposing, and evenformidable one, for she would have at least ten years within which to organize the end less masses of China, who include, we repeat for the hundredth time at least,
 an enormous minority of men capable of being made into good soldiers. It was not a European army which was be- hind Gordon. If the yellow power, thus victorious, can fill the district it occu- Ipies with immigrants receiving their land on condition of serving in the mili- tia the next Russian advance will be terribly difficult affair, for she will have to advance over tribes penetrated with the conviction, now absent, that the Chinese emperor can protect hem. That emperor, it must be remembered, too, may be a man with ideas and aspira- tions widely different from those which now prevail in the imperial palace.
 This result, it will be argued, must be beneficial to Great Britain, the pressure upon India in the northwest, which is one main cause of our military expen- allure, being thus relaxed. It may be beneficial, and it also may not. The
 ambition of Russia, if curbed in the far east, will be directed with even
 greater concentration toward western
 Asia, and India may be menaced through Persia or through Turkey as easily as through the khanates of Tur-
 kestan. Moreover, the old historic les
 son that Asia, though yielding to every
 European attack, in the end survives them all, which has been repeated cer-
 tainly four times since the days of AL
 exander, may be taught to the world afresh. Asia has a conity of it's own,
 and throughout the vast continent there
 will be an exultant feeling that awhite land Christian power has been driven
 back by one native to the continent, and
 that a new era is athan d.--London
 Spectator.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29
ASIA AND EUROPE.
Japan. Defeating Russia. May be Mis-
 tress Of the Orient.

Japan. Defeating Russia, May be Mis-
 tress Of the Orient.
 A good many persons among us, and at least one or two journals, seem anx- ious that the government should act with much greater precipitation in the Russo-Japanese affair; should, that is, declare war on Russia whenever Japan does. Otherwise, they think, we may have to do it just when Japan is too ex- hausted to be an effective ally. We are wholly unable to concur in that opinion, and regard the agitation in itssfavor as entirely mischievous If we must fight for cause which, except through the operation of treaties, is none of ours, we must fight rather than break our word; but we may at least wait till the obli- gation is obvious or the necessity past all question, more especially as we have already done Japan a most important service in neutralizing France That discussion, however, may wait, for Par liament is not sitting, and the govern ment is not likely to declare war until Parliament has signified in some way or other it's approval. The local war. moreover, is not yet officially declared.
 Our object to-day, therefore, is rather to point out what may prove to be the historic importance of Japanese sue cess. If they clear Russia from the seas, they will undoubtedly control the policy of Peking; and with the Chinese as allies, they may destroy great part of the trans-Siberian railway, and give Russia the most distinct setback she has received for the last two hundred years. The Crimean war exhausted her, but did not set her back at all. It is the custom to regard China as a neg ligible quantity in war, but China is not so weak on the frontiers as in the vice.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29
SAD. BUT NorB4D.

Of course girls vanity isn't half as obstreperous and harmful as boys van ity. and because it isn't it is felt that when a girls vanity does make trouble notice must be taken of it. It is re- lated that the vanity of his pretty and vivacious daughter has been the indi- rect cause of Rev. N. R. Pittman re- signing as pastor of the Savannah Ave- nue Baptist church at St. Joseph, Mis- souri. Miss Maysie, Rev. NIT. Pittman's daughter. was going to be married to Lawyer Pugh, of Kansas City. Her fathers church was not big or hand some one. and she asked to have her wedding celebrated in the First Baptist church, which is the largest and most pretentious specimen of sacred archi- lecture in St. Joseph. Rev. MT. Pitt man consented, and the wedding took place in the big church in a blaze of glory and congratulations. Then Rev. Mir. Pittman's members began saying things. The longer they thought of the slight they considered they had suffered the more they said. At last his pulpit grew distinctly uncomfortable for the minister and he quit it.
 Of course nobody could have foreseen this sad outcome of Maysie's desire to have things done up brown, and so she can't fairly be blamed. But on her fathers account it is too bad that she didn't want a quiet home wedding, or a nice respectable elopement.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29
The Ersnlss c.

l read of the ermine to-day, Of the ermine who will not step
 By the feint of a step in the mire; The creature who will not stain
 Her garment of wild white fire. Of the dumb, flying. soulless thing (So we with our souls dare to say), The thing of sense and of sod That will not, that will not detile
 The nature she took from her God. And we with the souls that we have, Go cheering the hunters on
 To a prey with that pleading eye, She cannot go into the mud!
 She can stay like the snow, and diei The hunters came leaping on; She turns like hart at bay
 They do with her as they will. 0 thou who thinkest on thisl
 Stand like a star and be still. When the soil Oozes under thy feet. Better, ah! better to die Than to take one step in the mire. Oh blessed to die or to live,
 With garments of holy fire!
 Elizabeth Stuart Phelp
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29
NOT AN UNMf7IGATED coon.

Kansas City is not yet, we believe, blessed by the initiative and referen- dunn. but it is loaded with municipal ownership of public utilities. And it is grooming. It is pointed out that the Kansas City water works department began the fiscal year with balance of $76,97511. Since then it has received ten months collections of, water rents,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29
AnvrRTTsINC RATFS.

Situations, Wants. Rents and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each in- sertion. Five Cents a Word for full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch, one m serti0n, $1.20; each subsequent insertion, 4O cents; one week, $3.20; one month, SID; one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, D cents ner line Notices of Births, Marrl- ages. Deaths. and Funeral. 50 cents each Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 own Immediate business tall matter to be unobjectionable), and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

that the insured should not be pro- tected against any accident due to voluntary exposure to unnecessary danger" The court held that steeple- chasing was such exposure, although Smith was only an amateur. and not a professional.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

Colombia. exclusive of Panama. is as large as the two States of California and Texas combined Three high moun- tain ranges cross the republic from north to south, making high tablelands between, where the days the year round are scarcely hotter than those of a tenn perate zone.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

Russians like vodka. There are eight vodka distilleries in the new town of Harbin, the center of Russian industrial and commercial developments in Man churia, and the inhabitants drink vast quantities of the product. Forty-six thousand men are in Harbin At least 40,000 drink vodka. The daily consump- tion is 5000 gallons, or about three fifths of pint each. That would make for every man about five good drams- nothing at all, but for the fact that vodka is about 145 proof; that is, in { nh 100 gallons there are 72 1-2 gallons
 ure alcohol. Vodka is as strong as livowitz, three drinks of which will ,ck a man silly. For comparison,
 of the American whisky sold over
 r is from 90 to 93 proof. It is a
 able fact that all the bottles for
 manufactured in Harbin are im-
 from Japan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

Supreme court of Massachusetts nded down an opinion defining chasing as a voluntary ex- to unnecessary danger" and up- { the right of an insurance com to cancel an accident policy is- .o Harry w. Smith, of Grafton. known sportsman, upon learn at he engaged in steeple-chase The case grew out of a suit
 in the lower court by Mir.
 recover a policy, which he
 ad been surrendered without
 edge by his clerk upon the
 the insurance company. A
 the company in the superior
 Sustained. The policy was
 the Aetna Life and provided
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

Chicago is on the way up. Chicago women of wealth and social influence have now opened a cat and dog para dise,'' where animals af1iicetd with dis ease are to receive treatment from resident veterinarian, where the lost will be found and all the comforts, with such luxuries as appeal to the canine and feline taste, are to be supplied.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

more than right to put in something in- stead that he did have.-Boston Tran script.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

Dr. Marcus E. Peterson of Brooklyn had a hurry call the other night, and took short cut across an old cemetery to save time. He fell head foremost into an empty grave, and might have died from exposure but for his dog, which jumped into the grave and licked his masters face and shook him till he revived him. The people of the neigh borhood think the cemetery is haunted, and number of people returning from a social affair and who, hearing the dog howl, looked over the fence, thought they had certainly surprised a ghost when they saw a form rise out of the grave and walk across the lot followed by the dog.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

DELIVERED BY CARRIERs Is TEE CITr ltCErTs A WEEK, 50 CEsrs A MONTH. tiSoR SIX MONTHS, SC A YEAR THE SAME TEKNs BY MAIL
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

The constitution of Panama calls the citizens of the republic ''Panamans."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29
TAe Mnn Wh0 Shnpes

and especially that man who slaves daily is sure to be mighty particular about the razor he slaves with nothing can be too good. It's the same here-quality alone is considered and our quality and assortment can hardly be equalled.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

It is said that the Sultan of Turkey never sleeps two consecutive nights in the same room, so great is his fear of assassination. In the palace are number of bullet proof rooms, all of which are furnished as sleeping cham bers. Only few minutes before re- tiring to rest the sultan announces in which room he intends to spend the night, so that all the rooms have to be constantly prepared for his reception.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29
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~fo' Asa4s sori Or '' Informal Opening of Spring Dress Goods And Silks Monday.

BeasstjtssI Persian SiciIIian Mokaivs. They're the last word in Mohairs and this serviceable fabric is going 10 sake first place in wool stuffS this season.
 Jacquard striped Mohairs are new too. And among the lower priced ones, as low as soc yard, there are stunning new weaves. Widths range from B to 54 inches and the prices from soc to $i.75 Yard.
 A Special Bargain.
 Al-wool 56 inch Scotch Pepper and Salt mixtures, tremendously stylish for tailor gowns, worth sl. 69cts Yard
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

1aA wKEKLx JOURNAL Irsusa Thursdsys. ons Dollar . Year
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

Since October 1, 1903, the Bavarian State railroads have discontinued first class passenger coaches on all except international limited trains. In 1901 on- ly 5S per cent. of the total number of passengers travelled first class; in 1902 the number was only 49 per cent. The utilization of first-class passenger seat ing capacity was 10.35 per cent. in 1902, and S.S4 per. cent. in 1901. The percen- tages for ordinary passenger trains alone were lower still. The relative in- significance of frst-class traffic, to- gether with the accompanying waste of seating capacity, led to the abolition of the first-class. which, it is believed, will be followed by other German railroad administrations.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29
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Skirt-eCaist Sssit Tat1eta.

Are among the newest They'r There's of mixture pattern. It comes servceab in brown and blue and green effects and its in wool acty the of thing be charming in shirt Jacqua waist gowns 75cts to $1 And ar
 The Hyi,1ted SiLks soc var
 Widths This means countless coors and patterns prices fri in Printed Peaud ude-soieS, Printed Satin Liber- - ty Printed Satin Fouards and Printed China Silks. One of the big windows display Auu fragment of our Spring show. ,r;S,s. rn,m It's fascinating show truly and well worth ,,,su' % special visit 10 Gamble Desmonds. 39c to $l I'd eo
 The WezUest Voiles
 are softer and clinginger and more ractabe than eyer---Chiffon Voes, the buyer calls them. Then there are silk and wool seeded Voiles, they're sx.ssm@y handsome. Prices from 50cts to Sl5 Nuns Veilings rsay belong under this head although the 1904 Veings are closer and finer than ever. 38 to 45 inches wide with prices ranging from soc to $i Yard
 4 Nsso Tailor Gown StaI. Panne Cloth to take the place of broadcoth here's the softest ic enable stuff It's exqusiely usrous and much finer and lighter weight than the material we've seen and known as Panne Goth.
 All :hc plh.n coors that are smart, 52 inches wide.
 SIPS Yard foss1o s se4Ss selesSss siBsB bz eeSsg; ess9s;
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

Panama has an army, but only half of it is standing. The other three sol- diers are permitted to sit down,-Cleve- land Plain Dealer.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23
Agricultural A Notes.

1t is claimed that artificial irriga-
ton in the east is profitable about two
years out of three and that many mar
ket gardeners find it profitable to ivri-
gate every year.
Celery for winter keeping should be
packed while quite green in dry earth
or sand and stored in Il dark. cool Gel
lar.
To keep down the brown rot of the
peach, destroy the mummied fruit
hanging on the trees in autumn or
winter.
Nothing equals good sound grain for
feeding growing fowls 1t is a mis-
take to think that musty. shriveled
or inferior grain of any kind is just as
good.
A cabbage grower of much expert
ence says. Take the cabbages up
with the roots on and store in we'll
ventilated cellars, where they will koep
till midwinter"
Lift some parsley plants and set
them i'm a box filled with good soil and
place it in a light cellar or under a
shed
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23
Girls and the Old schools.

A ruling for New Haven school
made in 1854 reads, And all girls be
excluded as improper and inconsistent
with such a grammar school as ye law
injoins and is the designe Of this set
tlement." One Benjamin Nudge, a
New England schoolmaster of many
years service, has left the following
interesting memorandum: ''In all my
school days. which ended in 1901.
never saw but three females in public
schools in my life and they were only
in the afternoon to learn to write. .
that the girls were permitted not only
to the writing lessons, but they We're
also privileged to attend the general
annual catechiSing.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23

she will never look beautiful The feelings
of nervousness, the befogged mind, the
ill-temper, the pale and wrinkled face, all
result from those disorders peculiar to
women and the only way to effect their cure
is to strike at the source of the difficulty
There is every reason why she should write
some great specialist, one who has made the
diseases of women a specially for a third of
a century like DR.. r. V. Pierce, founder of
the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
of Buffalo, N. Y. All correspondence is
held sacTedly confidential, and he gives his
advice free and without charge
During long period of practice, Doctor
Pierce found that prescription made up
entirely of roots and herbs, without the
use of alcohol, cured ninety-eight per cent.
of such cases. After using this remedy for
many years in his private practice he put
it up in form that can be had at any store
where medicines are handled.
In many cases DR.. R. V. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription will fit the needs and put the
body in healthy condition.
So sure of it is DR.. Pierce, he offers a
reward of $500 for women who cannot be
cured of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness
Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb. All he
asks is a fair and reasonable trial of his
means of cure.
Don't allow the dealer to insult your
intelligence by offering you cheap sub
stitute.
Send 81 one-cent stamps to pay expense
of mailing and get DR.. Pierce's Medical
Adviser in paper covers, free. Address
DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
DR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the most
desirable laxative for delicate women.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23

Has the New York World left the
Democratic party and ceased to be it's
leading organ? 1t says editorially that
''The American people will never ac-
cept the dictum that negro scholar
is the inferior of a white ignoramus,
that negro gentleman is the inferior
of a white blackguard, that mans IT,
tie to consideration rests on the color
of his skin, and not on his character
and his achievements. The World
hopes that this lesson has finally been
thoroughly learned"
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23

The shoemaker, Douglas, who has
pocketed Massachusetts,, and given
the Republicans double welt, is said
by Senator Lodge to be comparatively
unknown. This means that he is not
a bon vivant; that he doesn't belong to
the Somerset Club; that he isn't in the
Back Bay set; that he doesn't live on
Beacon Street; that his ancestors did
not come over in the Mayfower, or
burn witches; that he is not a graduate
Of Harvard or an orator of Fapeuil
Hall, and that he doesn't worship the
sacred Goldfish. He is merely an un-
common common man.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23

Witnln, says Or.
R. V. Pierce, of
Buffalo, N. Y, the
specialist in
women's diseases.
Further, to be hap
py and beautiful
one must naturally
have good health.
Now, if a woman
has dragging down
feelings, together
with constantly re-
turning pains and
aches, a too great
drain upon her vi
talitv and strength
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23
ChamberIain's Cough Remedy Is Pleasant
to Take.

The finest vuallty of granulated loaf
sugar Is used in the manufacture of
Chamberlain Cough Remedy, and
the roots used in lis preparation give it
a flavor similar to maple syrup, making
it quite pleasant to take. Mr.. W. L.
Roderick, of Poolesvllle, Md, in
speaking of this remedy says; 81 have
used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
with my children several years and
can truthfully say it is the best prepar-
alton of the kind 1 know of. The chill
dren like to take it and 1t has no in
iurious after effect. For sale by all
druggists.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23
OUPED'S MIRROR.

"The beauty of woman's face or figure
u but the external sign of the good health
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23
Poet or Organ Grinder.

81 sometimes feel" bitterly confided
the wife of the great poet to her sis
ter, that would have been happier
with an organ grinder. Then we could
at least pass the hat around unabash-
ed The pride that goes with great
gifts too often walks rand in hand
with starvation TO satisfy an ordinary
woman. New Orleans Times-Demo
o~ot
Smyrna times., 1904-11-23
FOR RENT.

Eagle Hall of Union Castle. 10. II, X G. E.,
will be rented for Lodges or any organization on
Tuesday Wednesday or Friday evenings. Water
Light, Heat and Janitor furnished. S250 per
month. Apply to
GEO. NJ ROSE.
BENZ. TURNER, Trustees.
1896 JOHN INMAN,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-17

constitute code of social ethics that might be impressed to advantage upon many communities other than those of South Carolina or of the Southern states generally. The central purpose of the league is to suppress lynching, to enforce the law concerning the carrying of concealed weapons, and to subject men who have committed homicide ito civic disqualiflcations Major Hammond also incorporated in his Law and Order League platform a plank favoring the abolition of capital punishment; but that Is a collateral suggestion.
 Major Hammond gave statistics to show that lynchings. ready-weapons killings and immunity for the murders are particularly frequent in South Carolina. They put the number of homicides from July 1 to September 30 of the present year at 54, besides 6S other assaults with intent to kill The annual report of the attorney general for 1902, which does not differ 1nateri- ally from that of some years preceding, enumerates 2,404 cases of crime as tried and disposed of in 1902. This is only an approximate statment of the crimes committed, there being many cases where, for different reasons, there was no prosecution or examination made by { the courts. One-half of the accused were pronounced innocent by the courts. Many more than half of those charged with murder and assault with | intent to kill were declared not guilty
 Major Hammond's reference to "the usual crime" as the offense is termed for which negroes are so often lynched in the South, was so widely at variance with the usual assumption of those who treat of the race question in the South that we give 1t in his own words:--
 This crime, was unknown before the war, it was unknown during the war, and it was unknown after the war un- till the politicians discovered it and recommended lxnchtrg as remedy l for 1t. No single case has ever occurred in my neighborhood.
 'Of the 2,s75 lynchings recorded as occurring in recent years in the United States-10U of them, regret profound- ly to say, in Carolina only 19 in every i 100 were for this offence The other s1 cases arose from 56 different causes, ranging from murder all the way down to personal unpopularity'
 The members of the Aiken county Law and Order League pledge them-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-17
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Hyperion Theater.

Edna Hopper, who for sever- al seasons past has occupied an envia- ble position in the first ranks of mu- sical comedyg among the younger actresses is to be seen at the Hyperion theater newt Monday, December 19, making her debut ats a star under the direction of Frank Mckee in a comedy of English authorship "A Country Mouse" from the pen of Arthur Law, one of the most brilliant of later day writers. Miss Hopper will be supported by Edgar Norton, who plays an old roue, the Duke of St. Kits. Paul Mo Allister, who will be the country mouse's London lover; Paul Everton, who is cast as the unhappy brewer who. snubbed by the aristocracy, finds comfort in smoking cigar with the old butler; Kathryne Browne, who plays Lady Sylvia and others of a well chosen cast.