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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-15

shaw was drawn by two men, tandem
wise, the usual fashion when long dis
tances have to be covered. The leaders
In each went, through the whole dis
lance, while the wheelers, so to speak,
were changed half way. The road was
over a great part Of the distance little
better than a mountain track, and 1t
was raining most OF the time, but there
was never break in our progress ex-
cept to allow the coolies to take or put
on their clothes. They prefer running
in nothing but a lioncloth, and do so
whenever they get safely beyond the eye
of the police, who have orders strictly
to administer the law against nudity.
The fare paid for this prolonged
Journey was, IL I remember rightly,
about shillings for each rickshaw, the
extra shilling being gratuity thrown
In for good service. / know
that 1t purchased so many blessings on
my honorable head as cannot vet be
quite exhausted. And having made our
farewells at the railway station the
coolies started back at once for their
own villag Mall.
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valued at $1,000. II turned out that
the coaehman was the robber. He was
convicted. and goods to the amount Of
$500 were recovered. Now. who should
bear sthe loss Of the rest? The judge
decided that the coachman's master
should pay. The driver. it is true, was
not ''acting within the scope Of his au-
thority" and his enterprise was his own,
but the master had guaranteed Jim
'pliedly) that his servant should not be
negligent in looking after the carriage,
and the coachman's act did not cease
to be negligent because it was also fell
|onious."
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SMALLER BRlT0ES

Great Britain's navy isn't big enough,
but it is growing, and may in two or
three thousand years be of the right
size. But while her navy is growing
bigger her people seem to be growing
smaller. A royal commission appointed
for the purpose has made an investiga-
ton of the physical condition Of the
people of that country, and facts and
figures taken from the report published
show a gloomy state of affairs. In
England marriages are decreasing and
the birth rate is on the decline. In 1851
the birth rate was 35.per 1000, in 1891 it
was S157, in. 1897 it had dropped to 1917,
and in 1903 it was. but 2S.5 per 1000. The
number of soldiers below five feet five
inches in height has increased by near
ly 100 per cent. in the last fifteen years,
and the number of those measuring
less than thirty-three inches around
the chest has increased from II per
1000 in 1883 to 20 per 1000 in 1903. In
1874 only 1859 soldiers in 1000 weighed
less than 100 pounds, while the proper
ton in 1900 was So1 in 1000.
In Ireland conditions are even worse.
The report shows that in the last fifty
three years more than 100000 Irish cit
liens have left that country for Amer
lea or other shores. The brain and
Drawn Of Ireland, says the report. have
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-15
MORE CHEER COMING.

It appears that since the issue of
his cheering bulletin on the Cost of
Living, Labor Commissioners Wright
has been subjected to a bombardment
of letters from indignant housewives,
workers and others who do not agree
with his conclusions that some food ne
cessities are cheaper and wages higher
than in the ten-year period from 1890
to 1900. Some lively Illustrations to
prove the faIlacy Of the claims Of the
government statisticians have been
presented for Colonel Wright's consid-
Grafton. These protests have not dis
Outraged him.. however. and he an
nounces that IN the course of few
more months his men will start out on
another inquiry OF the same kind to
cover the current year Sometime
along in June next Colonel Wright will
try to give scientific demonstration
Of the fact that prices Of food products
have dropped still lower.
Good. Meanwhile people can continue
to believe that they are better off than
they ever have been, and the Repub-
lican campaign orators can say with
truth that even IL there does happen
to be any mistake in Commissioner
wright's figures the election of DEM
ocratio President wont decrease the
cost Of living ana will decrease work
and wages.
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JAPAN HUMAN HORSES.
Rickshaw Men Travel 40 Miles in Six
Hours.

dFNi ~ 4nAlGS III Ola
Hours.
The feat Of which the Japanese rick
shawmen are capable are almost in
credible. / remember some years ago
being driven ashore in a yacht in the
Inland sea during typhoon. 1t was
beyond the treaty limits which then ex-
listed, and foreigners were not allowed
to travel outside those limits without
special passports, But the Mayor of the
nearest fishing village was kindness IT.
self. He promised to supply the best
rickshawmen which the neighborhood
could produce, so as to take us to rail-
way station some 40 miles away. And
he kept his word, for the distance was
covered IN less than six hours, includ-
ing hart for refreshments. Each rick
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THE HEAT or 4 Bra FIRE.


Those who have seen big fire know
in a general way that it is pretty warm,
but Mr.. j. R. Freeman gave the Ma
ticnaI Board of Fire Underwriters the
other day some accurate information
concerning the heat Of the Baltimore
fire. Examination of the "fireproof''
buildings disclosed the fact that steel
beams were in general not heated above
dull red. Sometimes the heat was a
little more than that, where fuel and
air currents were favorable, very rare
ly reaching the fusing point Of the most
fusible cast iron, and then only on ex-
posed corners and over areas OF a few
inches. Not more than per cent. Of
the brass was melted though exposed
to the full heat in the rooms where ev-
erything was burned. In some rooms,
however, where filing cases and the like
made a quick hot fire, the fusion was
general, indicating a heat Of 1900 de-
grees Fair. There were found some
soft cast brass hinges which had melt
ed at 1850 degrees. From observation
at many points about the fireproof
buildings it appears, says Mr.. Free
man, that the extreme heat seldom ex-
ceeded 1000 to 1890 degrees, and was
commonly less, and as one lesson from
the Baltimore fire he would say that
100 degrees Fahrenheit maintained for
one hour is fair general standard for
the testing furnace of an underwriters
laboratory, with about 200 degrees as
the extreme limit over small areas and
for short time. Another feature which
very distinctly marked the extreme
temperature reached was the melting of
the window glass. Throughout the hot
test rooms Of most Of the fireproof
buildings the window glass had soften
ed enough to bend. In only compare
lively few cases had it melted suffi-
GENTLY to run freely.
Mr.. Freeman discusses at some length
the question of f1reproof shutters, and
concludes that they are worthless when
they consist of wood covered with very
thin tin plate. The standard UNDER
writer shutter Of wood covered with tin,
he says, did not give very good ac-
count Of itself in the Baltimore fire,
and he thinks 1t can be said without
fear Of serious contradiction that the
endurance Of the ordinary underwrit-
ers' shutter of tin clad wood is limited
to not more than about half an hours
endurance of a temperature Of 1880 de-
grees. The ordinary underwriters fire.
shutter depends for its strength and its
resistance upon its thin covering of
very soft, mild steel coated with tin.
This covering material has sufficient
power of resistance to withstand the
fiercest heat of a great contagration,
but we need to find some better mater
ial than pine wood to fill 1t with. He
also made careful examinations Of cop
per in Hastings, corniees, etc, to see II
it had melted. In few small spots in
rare instances fusion had begun, but in
general he found It had ample resist
ance to fusion, so that it can prudently
be used for covering fire-shutters,
where something more ornamental or
weather-proof than timed plate is de-
|sired and expense is no bar.
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MY Iaady,s Cake.
D light of glory fingers

No light of glory fingers
Around the name | bear;
Sweet Fame's fantastic fingers
Wreathe me no laurels fair;
Love, no devoted hand shall trace
In monumental stone
The fact that 1t was mine to face
Your first baked all alone.
Let worlds with wide-eyed wonder
The deeds of heroes greet,
My modest head shall under
It's bushel still retreat,
Yet oft l thrill with secret pride,
Which time can ne'er dethrone,
Recalling how I once defied
Your first baked all alone.
Punch.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-15

Some jobs are dangerous. OF the
thirty-eight sultans who have ruled the
Ottoman Empire since the conquest of
Constantinople by the Turks. thirty
four have died violent deaths.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-15

The Alabama Penny Savings Bank at
Montgomery has started upon new
boulding. 1t is the only banking insti-
tuition in that State controlled exclu-
sively by negroes.
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BIZ CARRIERS IN THE
CITY. II CENTS A WEEK, 80 CENTS A
MONTH, s. FOR SIX MONTHS. 50 A
YEAR. THE SAME TERMS By MAIL
SINGLE COPIES. 2 CENTS.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants, Rents. and other
small advertisements, One Cent Mor1
e full week. sa-ers.+. ssas ss.
Display advertisements. per Inch, one
insertion, s1.20: each subsequent 1nser-
ton, 40 cents; one week, sS.2Os one
month, SO; one year, $40.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-15

Under the direction of the Bank of
Germany, in Berlin, an effort has been
successful to control the petroleum
trade of Germany by the acquisition Of
the oil fields of Roumania and Galicia'
and those situated in Germany, partic-
ularly in the territory of Hanover. The
Bank of Germany is assisted in this en-
terprise by other Berlin financial insti-
tutions and by Hamburg merchants.
Every obstacle has been raised against
the successful working on German soil
Of the Standard Oil company, which,
notwithstanding the fact that it has a
special organization for Germany, it is
intended to combat by this new finan-
cial combination.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-15

A granite monument has been erected
in Evergreen cemetery, Portland,
Maine, over the grave of ex-Speaker
Thomas Bracket Reed. The monument
is cut from white Hallowell granite
and rests ON broad base stone of the
same material in the form of a parallel
ogram. The monument itself, which is
about ten feet high, tapers slightly as
ii rises, and its rugged simplicity is re-
lieyed only on the side bearing the in
scription. There is carved in relief a
laurel wreath, after a design Of st.
Gaudens, as seen upon the Shaw memo
rial in Boston. Beneath the wreath is
this inscription: "Thomas Bracket
Reed, 1S39-1sO2. His Record is With the
Faithful, the Brave and the True of All
Nations and All Ages"
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EXPLANATORY.

A Question of Heft.--"Do you think
his words have any weight?".
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A London News correspondent, who
left the East because the Japanese
would not allow him to go where he
could see any of the war, tells of an
American correspondent who professed
to have hobby for butterflies and was
dressed and equipped for the part. He
says that he knew this correspondent in
another part of the world where he
posed as stamp collector. In the East
he chased butterfly with his net, until
it brought him right up against one of
the new disappearing guns which the
Japanese keep so carefully concealed
and which all the correspondents had
been trying to see. AS result of his
daring devotion to insect study, the
Japanese shipped him next day to
Shanghai.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-15

There will soon be a great gathering
of the Bulow family in Berlin. The
chief of the clan is Chancellor of the
German Empire, and there are no few
er than eighty other persons of his
house and name who hold officer under
the state. one of them. indeed, is to be
found in every government department
from the Foreign Office down to the po-
lice station at Aix-la-C hapelle, and,
what is more, they are all Of one blood,
ana claim the right to bear the arms of
baron. When all the Bulows connect
ed with the government service come
up to Berlin with their wives and fam
lilies there will be four hundred and
seventy of them. The whole group is
then to be photographed.
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Some time ago a Chicago paper print
ed in its news columns the announces
nlent that Julius Caesar had been as
sassinated BY a man named Brutus;
that a feud had broken out between the
houses Of Capuletti and Montague, and
other similar nonsense. This article
was copied by many European journals,
including the leading newspaper in
Helsingfors, whereupon the editor was
punished by being forbidden to issue a
Sunday supplement for a whole month.
The city authorities. whose strong
point does not seem to be sense of
humor, gave as the reason that the
paragraph about Caesar might be TAX
en- as an allusion to the recent assassi-
nation Of Dictator General Bobrikoff of
Finland.
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THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB
LIsHED In CONNECTICUT.
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In England drummer employed by a
siIyersnith hired a horse and brougham
with a coachman, by the week, to take
him and his samples about. One day,
returning from luncheon, he found car
riage ard coachman gone. The latter
soon appeared, and said he had been
robbed of his carriage and its contents,
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Issued Thursdays. One Dollar Year.
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Hurrah for the two
Toms--Tom Watson and
Tom Tibbles-by sending
in a club OF campaign sub
scriptions--Seven for a
dollar.
"Economic Detefmlnism."

A prominent populist, who has done
great service for the cause of popul-
ism, expresses himself thus in re-
cent letter to The Independent:
Editor Independent: | have your
letter of recent date, and note what
you say about being SO busy. / have
no doubt of it. | used to be that way
myself when | was saving the coun-
try | thought then that if | stopped
a moment cog would slip, and the
old thing wabble back in the rut.
gave the best years of my life to the
work before | learned that hungry
stomach was a stronger incentive to
action than all the appeals to reason
that could be brought to bear. | have
about come to the conclusion that
nine-tenths of the men for whose well
fare you are laboring think with their
stomachs, and imagine that God made
their heads on purpose to hang their
hats on.
Now, | don't want you to think that
| am pesSimist, as I am altogether
the opposite of that, and see in the
signs of the times much to hope for
The people are coming rapidly to pub
lie ownership of the public utilities
We spread the leaven and the logic Of
events is doing the rest. And the
| work should go on.
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The New Revenue Law.

Editor Independent: Now after
waiting long time for the state board
to give the railroads what they were
asking, we can see how the farmer is
imposed upon as usual.
We farmers here in Hamilton and
Polk counties are assessed on our land
$50 per cent above the assessment last
year | see by my late paper that the
increase on assessment on railroads
is less than one-third the increase
with us clod-hoppers. One of the
board said that we farmers were the
worst tax-dodgers of any. The gen.
tleman knew when he made the state
ment that it was absolutely false.
A farmer cannot hide his land, and
more than four-fifths of our tax is on
real estate. Mr.. Henderson stated be-
fore the board that the railroads
should not be assessed as high for
years when poor crops or drouth oc-
Cured as for years of plenty. We
farmers have never had any remit
lance of taxes for any year, no matter
whether we had drouth or hail. We
farmers had to pay the tariff no mat
ter what the condition.
There is no fair method of levying
taxes except on incomes as | see it,
| may be an ignoramus of the first
water and Justice Shiras second
Solomon with Paul's eye-openers. The
scales may have fallen from Judge
Shiras' eyes. but If | had been in his
place. | am sure people would have
said had an Itching palm and be-
lieve they would have told the truth.
The professional men pay but very
little tax. for they receive a large in
come from fees or salaries and pay nc
tax on H. We farmers have an In
come from our farms which is moi
taxed. but our farms. the source Of our
income. Is taxed every year whether
there Is an income or not,
III an attorney or physician receives
yearly income of 81 500 from his
practice why not pay as much tax a
do II my income Is 81 500 per year
from my farmf
Must pay heavy tax on receipts
from a good deal of MUSCLE aud llt
tie brain. and the professional mar
pay nothing for receipts from llttis
muscle and lots ~ hralng Which II
the most important commodity IN ths
eyes Of the government
The farmers will "vnte 'er straight
lust a. In The past for they have -
Deemed the state from rcpudiation
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Dropsy Treated Freel
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Dropsy is a terrible disease in its
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The unfortunate patient slowly
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St. Louis and Return
WABASH RAILROAD
ga. SO

Sold July II, IS and rs, good return
ing Z days from date OF sale. GORE
spondingly low rate applies from your
station. The Wabash is the only line
that lands passengers at main entrance
of the Worlds Fair grounds. All
agents can sell you through ticket ana
route you via the Wabash; insist on
the agent doing so.
TRAIN SCHEDULE: Leave Omaha
union station 7:45 a. M; Councii
Bluffs s a. M; arrive Worlds FAR
station 1885 p. M; ST. Louis union sta
ton 1850 p. IN. Leave Omaha $3.50 p.
M: Council Bluffs GAS p. M; arrive
Worlds Fair station Z a. m; ST. Louis
union station 7:15 a. M, daily.
Greatly reduced rates on sale dur
ing the summer months to many
points in the east and southeast. For
all information call at Wabash city
Office. 1901 Farnam ST., or address,
HARRY Il. MOORES,
G.. A. p. d., Wabash K. X.
Omaha, Neb.
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per cent; country banks that is, in
towns) Is per cent. But country
banks may deposit of this Is in some
other bank Ito be approved" by the
comptroller of the currency and keep
but in actual cash in the vault. City
banks in turn may deposit Is of their
rs per cent in reserve banks, while
in the central reserve cities New
York, Chicago and st. Louis) the full
rs per cent reserve must be kept on
hand in cash in the vaults. The gov
eminent does not stand as security for
such deposits, but oversees them.
The stockholders claims against
the corporation would come in last.
Without violating any criminal law,
the bank might make bad loans or
might buy poor bonds and securities.
1t is impossible to eliminate the per-
sonality of men in such business
There are bankers and bankers As
sociate Editor.)
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Rosebud Excursion Rates.

Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
agents will sell special excursion tiki
cts daily from July l to July Is at
one and one-third fare Tor round trip
to bonesteel. Fairfax and Yankton,
account opening for settlement OF IN.
a,:c,.eo lands in Rosebud Indian
Agency, South Dakota. Passengers
may return on any date up to August
81. 1904. Rate, Lincoln to Bonesteel
and return. on sale daily July / o
%. $3.50; Lincoln to Fairfax, s. D.,
and return. 1910. Return limit Aug
ust 81. A two-cent stamp will Dring
YOU full information regarding the
registration r. w. McGinnis. Gen
eral Agent, Lincoln, NIB City oiitG.
1904 q ST.
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and life is too short to try some new
scheme.
The taxes won't be paid until after
election. and the kicking will be over
before the next election. And you
will just waste time trying to find
votes to defeat the redeemers, II you
do go to Springfield.
M. M. HALLECK.
Clarks. Neb. r. l.
POSSIBLY Mr.. Halleck never heard
Of
"The old man who said. Why
Can't | put my own shin in my eye!
If I'd put my mind to it,
I'm sure | could do it;
For no one can tell till they try!'
Maybe Mr.. Halleck is right. Maybe
we will waste time trying to md
votes to defeat the redeemers'
we'll try just the same. Well go to
Springfield just the same. 1t may be
another case Of sticking ones shin in
ones eye, but
Well put our minds to 1t
And we're sure we can do 1t;
For pops cannot tell till they try.
Associate Editor.)