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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14
4HE DIsrn Ess N IRELanD

It is cheering to read that Ireland is not as distressful as the first reports indicated. There is, it is now said, nothing like the distress, or the condi- tions productive of distress, which pre- vailed in 1S47, or even in the less severe experiences Of 1879. Then the failure of the potato crop was general. Now the crop failure is. confined to the west coast, and is due to tremendous rain- storm, which also flooded and made un- available the peats on which the peas- ants depend for fuel. Even there the potato crop is not wholly a failure ex- cept in spots, but as the people are mis- erably poor and close to starvation in the best of years the partial crop de- struction will cause great suffering. Meantime the landlords, it is said, are blocking the way to government pur- chase of land at reasonable prices for distribution on the installment plan, and in the affected districts are promptly resorting to evictions. Land- lords are securing wholesale eviction notices; in some cases for arrears of rent carried over from year to year since the last famine. On the Aran Islands. where the people really made the land by strewing soil on the bare rocks, and where they chiefly live by fishing, upward of one hundred and fifty families are under notice to quit. Among these eyicting landlords is said to be the very wealthy Lord Ardilaun.
 Perhaps Ireland will never. be really happy, but she has had quite. rest, and this new misfortune may not hurt her seriously. ...+t ".S
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14
The Man shopper.
EBY WIT wH-TM-N.l

am the man shopper. am one among q million souls, and yet am million souls iii one. stride hither and thither, looking for something to give Lizzie, and for the talking doll for my sisters cousins niece. have in my vest pocket the list. Mine is one of a million vest pockets, and mine is million vest pockets in one.
 must find pearl-hantIed opera glasses for Cousin Jennie eff l can get anything decent for $3.S9) must get hundred other things--fOr this is the season of joy and glad ness.
 am the man shopper. feel that my heart is big within me. l unbutton my vest to give 1t room.
 say my heart is big, and unbutt0n my vest. and a Kind Old Lady warns me that am tempting the pneumony.
 without Kind Old Ladies, (Con- found it, madam, you may be kind, but your umbrella has jabbed me in the short ribs.) asked the man in wondrous apparel at the door to direct me to the novelty counter. I am gone, but he is still telling me how to so there.
 I shall follow the crowd. I am the crowd. am embodied gladness. I am the ebullient soul of all these that seek pledges of affec- tion for friends and kindred am the man shopper. I wonder what friends and kindred would do without us. I see man with a game eye and a striped cravat. He is buying a silver flask. He is happy. He is kicking about his change. see a man in a frock coat and a white tie-a pastor. He is spotting the slipper counter and looking for members of his flock. I. am bumped into by a cash boy; l am scolded by d woman with a pom padour and trusting child Tor stepping on to her dress. I am the man shopper. . I hear hundred gay girls giggle about what they will get for him. l also hear them gurgle about what he ought to get for them. am nained. I have leaned against some holly. I am told by another floorwalker how to go to the nov city counter. I tell him how to go somewhere else. l am asked by seven hundred people if I have been waited on. am full of the fierce joy of being in, and among, and up, and through, and altogether and utterly of the great mass of humanity feel Tiny Timmifed, and all the world may hang up it's stocking. | am the For the last time, sir, GET OFF MY FEETi
 Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14
POOK RUSSIAN OFFICERS.

Not little was said about the poor quality of the English officers ill the
 Boer war, but there was no such talk about them as there is about the Rus- sian officers An Italian correspondent who has been at the front with the Russians fully confirms all that has been written about the incompetence of q larga proportion of the officers on that side. He says that they are a mixed lot; they represent all races that
 exist ill Rugsia, all religions except the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

1Do you place any reliance on the weather predictions? Yes, answered Farmer Corntossel. T allus give 'em credit fer one thing. The weather men tioned is always produced sooner or later, although the dates aren't always strictly accurate. Washington Star.
 She was magnificent in ball attire. By what right, sir, do you tell me I shall not wear this gown?" she demand ed, with flashing eyes. Before we were married, your old father asked me if I could keep you in clothes, and I assured him I could, replied he, and met her look of high defiance with a look of steady determinations Puck.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

well, maybe she thinks music is the breakfast food of love. Puck.
 Son-"Papa, what is a philosopher2 Father-"A philosopher, my boy, is a man who will pay his car fare, forget ting that he has a transfer in his pock- ct, and not get mad when he discovers it afterwards. Pluck.
 This said the manufacturer of toys, lis our latest novelty. Clever, isn't 1t ?'' ''Yes. replied the transient customer. ''but you can't hold a candle to our goods Are you in the toy business2 2'' ..No. We make gunpowder. Philadel- phia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

records in the Esquimau tongue. He gathered his charges all around him in the little meeting house, and started the machine agoing. EverbOdy was certainly puzzled. At last a smile broke in upon the face of one. Canned white man." he said. in glee.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14
ADVERTISING RATES.

situatious. Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each insertion. Five Cents word for . full week.
 Display advertisements. Ter inch, one insertion. Sl.20; each subsequent inser- ton. 70 cents; one week. ss.2o; one month. s10: one year. $40.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

The Vienna police are about to exper' iment with a photograph in taking a prisoners answers to questions asked in the preliminary examination, so that when the actual trial takes place there will be no dispute as to what he said.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

The women dancers of Paris have now joined the ranks of the trade unionists and accommodation has been allotted them at the Labor Exchange.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

E. J. Brand, of London, has conveyed to trustees ssO,OOo, the interest of which is to provide small weekly pensions to worthy poor in the Seven Dials" dis trict, blankets for them and an annual dinner at Christmas for fifty of the poorest. Also there is to be a5sermon every year in the parish church on the evils of betting and gambling.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY. 12 CENTS 1 WEEK. 50 CENTS 4 MONTE. ga FOR SIX MONTHS. ss 4 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL SINGLE COPIES. ? CENTS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

Three hundred ex-pupils have invited ex-Principal John D. Robinson to eat dinner with them at the Hotel Astor, New York city, Thursday evening. He has just retired after f1fty-seven years of teaching in the schools. T was born in the Bowery, opposite Delaney street" says the fine old man. You can judge the size of the city at that time when I tell you that as a boy I used to pick cherries and apples in a field where the Academy of Music now stands, in Fourteenth street. Why, I used to go hunting in this West Side section. The game was plentiful, too. Tn 1S4S, when I became a teacher, the pay was $50 per annum, There were no janitors in those days, and the teachers had to look out after the cleaning of the school rooms, the lighting of fires and similar work. The public schools were then managed by the Public School So- ciety, composed of Quakers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

Mime. Catherine Tolstoi is regarded by many as the. most beautiful young woman now in the British metropolis. She was widowed two years ago. Her husband, a captain in the Russian army, died of consumption and left her 2 very extensive estate. The cream of England's gilded youth are said to be at her feet, both on account of her physical charms and the fortune she will bring as bridal dowry. It is reported; how ever, that she has refused the hands of dukes and barons and will soon marry a plain London barrister without title or shekels.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

A prominent missionary bishop of the Episcopal church, according to the Washington Star, was in the habit of introducing among the Esquimaus, who were. his special charges, many things to amuse or interest them, in order that he might gain their attention to his preaching. It happened, however,
 that in spite of the various ingenious inventions which he placed before them these sons of the Arctic regions contin' ued to be impressed by the white mans canned food more than anything else he brought with him. Being unwilling to eat the blubber and drink the oil of the Esquimaus, the white man always came with many cans of meat and vegetables. One day the bishop above referred to decided to spring a genuine surprise on the natives. He had with him on this trip talking machine, with
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

Ana .sEEAL1 JOURNAL. issued Thursdays. One DoIIara Year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

After series of experiments covering ten years, Luther Bur'ank of California has produced a spineless cactus, which is said to be half as nutritious as alfal- ia and will yield more forage to the acre. The creation of a spineless cac- tus is of great importance. The plant will grow luxuriantly on the driest des- ert.. In this and other countries its leaves and fruit are food for man and beast, and 1t may mean to some dis tricts more than the introduction of the potato meant to Europe.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14

That the present session of congress will do little besides the perfunctory work required of it, is the belief of the Philadelphia Ledger, which says that the committees and the speaker are discouraged from any serious attempt at constructive legislation, not only by the shortness of the time, but by the feeling of futility of undertaking great things which the new congress. with many new men in it. and with commit tees newly formed, will carry on or snuff out"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-06-02
SUCKER STATE SENSATION
Her Soldier Sons. the Aurora Zou-
aves--POpular Military Company.

To the great central western Suck
err state belongs the credit of having
given to the world two OF its most re-
markable military sensations. The
first of these was the famous Chicago
Iouayes, organized and commanded
by Captain Elmer u. Ellsworth Il
short time prior to the breaking out of
the great war of the rebellion. in the
early days of which it's commander
was shot dead at Alexandria, Va,
while hauling down confederate flag
Haunting over the Marshall house.
Many veterans Of both the blue and
gray will recall the enthusiasm it evok-
ed while making tour Of the country.
The second and similar, though even
much superior, feature is the Aurona
Zouaves, organized by Captain A. H.
Tarble, in the city from which the
company takes it's name, and whose
marvellous efficiency will form one OF
the leading attractions under the big
tents of the Forepaugh and Sells
Brothers Great Show of Greatest Fea-
lures on June 1t, in connection with
other huge and historic warlike dis
plays. Having conclusively demon
strated their superiority over anything
OF the kind sOld Glory could boast Of
this huge, red-legged centipede, whose
celebrity and precision have astounded
the military world" made a European
tour to return crowned with victorious
laurels bestowed by royal hands. The
management of the show named Sc
cured them for its season in Madison
Square Garden. New York, where they
created genuine furore. The Times
of that city says of them: Their evo-
lutions are so varied and quickly
changing that all attempts to follow
in description is absolutely futile. The
manual is performed with clock work
like order; they tread as. softly and
quickly as cats.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-06-02

The Japanese soldiers at the present
moment are surprised at their own
success, says a writer in Golfers.
They have inflicted crushing blow to
Russian prestige, and demonstrated
their ability to meet the soldiers of
Europe on equal terms and defeat
them. They can scarcely yet explain
to themselves why the enemy were APP
parently SO unprepared. Notwithstand-
ing the citation of victory. there is little
celebration by the Japanese. They
proceed quietly about their work, keep
ing their own counsel. The kindness
with which the Japanese treated the
captured Russians, who were brought
back to Antung, is noticeable and Pc
culiarly interesting. / saw the guards
yesterday talking and laughing with
their prisoners, and little brown men
teaching gymnastic exercises to big
Russians head and shoulders taller than
themselves, says a correspondent in
writing about the war. The Russian
wounded received from the Japanese
here in Antung the same treatment ac-
corded to their own wounded men.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-06-02
NfANIACS OF MONEY
MONEYS ROMANCE

1t is the theory Of Europe that
Americans are maniacs of money, Eu-
ropean conservatism draws money
line beyond which it will not 60
When any man of Europe has Il pro-
poSal of business too big for the Etl-
ropean woodworking it's self.im
posed half-nuzzle of conservatism
that promoter aud his proposal head
for America. ** Mankind does
not change; its methods change. and
trade lans still its Kids and Black
boards. Present commerce has its pi-
rates and its piracies, only the bucca-
neers of now do not launch ships but
stock companies, while Wall and Broad
streets are their Spanish main They
do not. like Francis Drake. lay off and
on ut the Isthmns to stop plate ships:
they seek their galleons in the Stock
exchange.
1t was fomance-for money-making
has its romances--and the adventurous
uncertainty of the thing. the pushing
into the unknown, which formed the
lure. Have you ever considered that
nine of ten among those who went with
De Soto and Balboa and Coronado and
Cortez and Pizarro. if asked by some
quiet neighbor, would have refused
him the loan of 500 unless secured by
uVe-IOtd the value! And YET The laSt
man jack would peril life and fortune
blindly in a voyage to worlds I'M
known, for profits guessed at, against
dangers neither to be counted nor for
seen.
There IRE men. reckoned shrewd in
business, whose shrewdness can be ov-
ercome by ciphers. 1t is as though
they were wise up to seven figures. Mr.
Harley was of these; he had ais boun-
daries. His instincts were solvent, his
policies sound, his suspicious full of
life and courage so that you went no
higher than nine millions Burdened
beyond that, his imagination would
break down, and since his instincts,
his policies and his suspicious rested
wholly upon his Imagination, when the
latter fell. the others must of need go
with it. There is a depth to money
just as there is to a lake; when you led
Mr. Harley in beyond the nine million
| dollar mark he began to DROWN
From Alfred Henry Lewis serial THE
President in the Illustrated Sporting
| News.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-06-02
WATCHING DARK RECESSEs,

Every nation leads double life.
Even our own honest republic is hon
ey combed with dark recesses of poll
cy and what is rightly called state
craft Our frank president is supple
mented by Mr.. Hay, and as well, by
John e. Wilkie. our chief or secret ser
vice, who wears, quite properly dark
air OF mystery as he goes about the
world. We have not invented espion-
age. and / do not know that we have
perfected it. but where ether spies go
our list-footed gentlemen go also, and
there is in Washington tolerably
complete knowledge of the doings in
the underworld Of international espion-
age. whether it be political or diplo-
matics or military. this by reason of
its central position and the neutrality
OF Belgium. The secret service of
France has always been singularly
good. as it has need to be. OF recent
years, however. the service has been
badly dislocated. Both England and
Germany have outmaneuvered it time
and again. A few years ago strang-
err in Paris might have seen whole
city boiling with patriotism and hiss
ing an alien king n the streets. What
interest had the Parisians in crying
"A bas lie roi Uhlan!'' as he Of Spain
passed? None in the world. The
German embassy had. however, at
that moment. an interest In creating a
diplomatic Incident and so it dis
tributed money to the servile press OF
Paris, lOosed its many agents in the
streets, and organized the manifesto
ton" This is single, slight illustration
OF the utility-t1e morality is another
question,-of a secret service which
has TO do with more than snugglers
and coiners and such simple folks.
One can notsliv for many years in
Europe, and study what are ironically
called public affairs without cut
ting many of these dark trials. In
ternational espionage is a huge and
complicated system. That part which
has to do with politics is by far the
most important. In France, at all
events. under the popular tumult OF
many o noisy election, the willy work
of England or Germany has been dis
covered. Three years ago ], was told
by one who was informed that the
French government knew and was
watching the following foreign agents,
two hundred and seventy-four Ger
mans. eighteen Austrians, seventy
one Italians. eleven Spaniards. seven
ty Englishmen and thirty-three Rus
slams. and Poles. with fair compile
ment of Americans. Dutch and Swedes'
Through so finely reticulated net
work of observation hardly the small
est minnow Of fact can escape,
Nothing takes place in Europe, be
lieve-no statesman takes snuff. no
king sneezes-but it is known within
twenty-four hours to every state
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-06-02
HOW LENSES ARE MADE.


When popular camera was first
under consideration, Ii became necess
sary to secure a good lens at popu-
lar price, This was possible only by
the devising and making of special ma
cl1inery and tools, and by buying the
raw glass and manufacturing in large
quantities. Lens glass, as all the
world knows. or will after this story is
published is made principally in Ger
many. France and England. Brought
to the manufacturer in small SLABS, II
is cut by revolving saws into the Dill
ferent sizes and then subjected to a
series OF grindings and poliShings that
must eventually enable the tester to
fit the lens over ali absolute form OF
the shape and size required, so perfect-
Nv that a deviation of one two-mlllIonfh
Of an inch is Instantly detected. The
cement used for building up lenses
from single glasses is a preparation SO
delicate that it cannot alter this per-
lection. The making of lenses IoE
Photographic work has now become an
immense industry, and III many cases
the shutters are also made In conJuhe-
/ ton. Highest skill is employed to per
feet this first requisite of the appafa-
tiis but careful as these makers are
to prove their work, the lenses are also
always thoroughly tested by the cam,
era experts. This does not mean that
they are subjected to anything like the
different tents the amateur will apply
later on; but they are ascertained to DC
of correct finish foc1s and mount, and
tile focal scale is tested by objects al
the stated distances: the finder j.
brought into alignment, and then the
camera needs only the final touching
up of rubbed spots TO be ready for the
market.-W. b. Ashley in May Outing
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-06-02

found q copy Of the Commoner The
editorial comment was too much for
the intelligent beast Hinc lila la
crima.- Bridgeport Telegram.
The boom for Judge Parker, il not
in a state Of arrested development, Is
not proceeding with much display of
acquired momentum. The most that
can be said is that in the matter OF In
structed delegates he leads his near
est competitor. Mr. William e. Hearst.
New York Sun.
With such soil. with such a climate,
with the possibilities of her planta-
tons. with the amazing range of the
products which she can raise with
profit with the valuable ores in GER
tain parts Of her territory, and with
the manufactures which she may build
up, Cuba has a future Of radiant prom
ise.-New York Tribune.
One well known manager of the Con-
necticut State Baseball league is quot
ed as saying that next year the league
will be made up of strictly Connect
cut cities. It would seem that with
the increased salary limit, which Is
not conscientiously observed by many
| OF the arrangements. that the league
had bitten off this year more than it
can chew.--N Record.
The young daughter of a prominent
New York financier. who had passed
most of her years either in the city or
at the large summer resorts, recently
paid her first visit to a real country
home. She was anxious to show that
| she was not altogether ignorant of ru-
| raj conditions. and when a dish OF
honey was set before her on the
breakfast table, she saw her opportun-
| ity. "Ah." she observed, carelessly.
II see you keep a bee. -Harper's
Weekly.
| man who was wanted by the po-
lice had been photographed IN six diff
ferent positions, and the pitcures were
duly circulated among the police. The
chief of one OF departments wrote
to headquarters a few days after the
set Of portraits had been issued as
follows: ''Sir:: duly received the por.
traits of the six miscreants whose cap
ture is desired. l have arrested i've
of them, and the sixth is under obser
walton and will be secured shortly
London Tit-Bits.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-06-02

The recent successes of the Japanese
arms are beginning to awaken the at
tention of Europe to the grave danger
which would threaten it if these sue
cesses should prove to be the forerun-
ner Of Russia's ultimate defeat, says
an exchange. Even in England, where
Japan has most ardent friends. the
question is beginning to be asked,
What would be the result If Japan
should dominate the east? The special
London correspondent of the New York
Sun, referring to the anxiety the Eng
lish are commencing to manifest on
this subject, says .'They see a great
menace to the rest of the world iii
Japan's complete domination of Asia,
which will be the natural outcome of
Russia's defeat. They believe it will
be impossible to avoid similar military
growth of China under Japanese tute-
lage, and this view has been strongly
urged upon the attention of the British
public within the last few days. From
this dispatch it will be seen that the
yellow peril" is receiving more atten-
ton than 1t did three months ago.
Russia is still confident of issuing from
the war a victor. But If this conf
dence be not justified by events, Japan
will become grave menace to Eu-
rope. Flushed with success, she will
attempt to dominate all Asia, which
means that she will antagonize Eu-
ropean interests in that part of the
world