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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

"A Sure Way.--.What was it Franklin
said2 If you'd have a thing well done
'" Tell your cook you like il rare, Z
interrupted subbubs. Philadelphia
Press.
Jimson-"Did you hear that new song
at the circle last night?" Samson Yes,
was there Jimson-'Is 1t true that
| 1t electrified the audience?" Samson
1T certainly shocked them. New
Yorker.
Shinestand Customer why do you
charge only d nickel for al shine, my
llad?" Shinestand Kid-"So that TIN
guy wild only a dime t spend will have
a nickel left fer a tip see ?'B Baltimore
American.
Father said the small boy, what
| is an inyestigation?'' AN investiga-
ton, my son, isusually an effort to To-
cate the responsibility for a disaster
after it's too late to make any differ
ence. Washington Star
"Has your mother finally consented
to your marriage with Dick?''
She dotes on him just because she
pities him. don't for minute think
thai he is as short sighted as be pre-
tends to be. but he rushed in Sunday
evening. kissed mother twice and apol-
ogized beautifully by telling her that he
thought he was kissing me. Detroit
Free Press.
Real Fiction. Dear mel" exclaimed
AIyrtilla, as she returned from the book
shops. summer fiction is so very ex-
pensive." 7 get all the summer nc
ton can read, replied the wise young
raan. land 1t costs me only a quarter 4
"Gracious! How is it possible ~ ooh,
write twenty-five postal cards to the
same number OF beach and mountain
resorts, requesting them to send me
their descriptive booklets. Chicago
Daily News.
Hogan calling on net door neighbor)
--"I suppose we've heard TIL illigant.
classical music that's bin iinpnatin
frum me residence for tn pasht wake or
so? We got wan av thin mechanical
lpianny-players on thrile.''
Clancy (fiereely)-"on thrile. is it?
Glory be! l only visit I wors TIL
judgew
Heat what time in girls life
should she be engaged?" she'Just
before she is married. /" = Yonkers
Statesman.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

kitchen door opens at the right, the
front door opens at the left.
Here was a chance TO test the little
bears knowledge OF doors. 50, when
saw that he vas very anxious to enter
the house. I latched the kitchen door,
and let him go around to the front. It
was at once evident that he had had no
experience with doors which opened at
the left, for he devoted all his energies
to the righthand side, and for many
minutes worked hard at the crack close
to the springs and hinges. After he had
given il up as a bad job, I brought him
back, and opened the door just an inch
or two. In moment he inserted his
nose, and ever since he has been able to
open that door as easily as the other
one. -
The morning after his arrival, took
him out for a walk, and he followed me
like dog, making frequent ex-
cursions into the woods and the long
grass which hordered the road. Every
now and then he, would dash up some
big tree, with surprising agility. Where
there were no branches, he advanced
up the trunk by leaps, with fore paws
spread wide apart, and with hind paws
near together. He always came down
backwards, and with considerable
caution, often looking below, either to
see where he was going, or to find out
how far he was from the ground. He
was most inquisitfve, examining every
thing we came to. from flowers and
stones to old farmhouses. which he
would enter with an air which he sug-
gested condescension.
By and by we came to large stone
watering trough, into which clear wa
ter bubbles from spring. of course
the little bear had to examine that so
up the side he went, and, after taking
lap or two of the water, he delibe-
rately slid right into it, and swan from
end TO end of the trough and back
again. Then he descended to the road
and galloped along as before. Present.
ly a counuyman, driving to work,
turned his horse toward the trough
that it might drink. But the horse, all
though very thirsty, would not come
near. So the trough had to be emptied
and cleaned and filled again, after
which the horse came up and drank as
usual. Several horses have at different
times, evinced marked dislike to.
either the sight or odor Of the little
bear. though other horses will let him
play around their feet without SO much
as raising their heads.
ERNES HAROLD BAYNES.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

ing about to be erected. for these pieces
of gold and silver and bronze are the
latter-day equivalents OF the human
beings that would once have been
inundated there and there immured.
They constitute the ransom for blood
that by rights should be shed, but is
not. This latter terrible use was at
one time wesI-nigh universal and traces
of 1t survive almost everywhere. In
many parts OF Europe, for instance,
when the hole is dug to receive this
same foundation stone the masons will
entice to the spot some stranger. Then,
while one engages him in conversation.
another will creep up behind and meas
ure his shadow, the measure stick be-
ing afterward buried and mortar
stamped down on top of it. Or they
prepare tiny coffin, inside of which is
a doll, for use in the same way. or rude
images of babies in swaddling clothes
are similarly immured.
And in not a few out-of-the-way
parts Of the world, whose inhabitants
stand physically about where we did
twenty centuries ago, the original GUS
tom still prevails in all its primitive
hideousness. Only last year. at Mos
dok, in the Caucasus, three builders
were arrested for kidnapping and muir
dering lad. whose body they after
ward built into the foundations of a
tower they were erecting. In 1865 two
children, boy and girl, were similar
ly consigned to a living grave by some
laborers working on a blockhouse at
Duga, at Asiatic Turkey.
A house that was being built at Sou
tart became shaky. A wise man."
whose advice was sought, decreed that
the defect would increase unless a hui
man victim were walled into the foun-
dations. So the three brothers who
were working at it agreed among them
selves to immediate and immune the first
OF their wives who came to the place to
bring them food. Similar instances
might be multiplied indefinitely. In
1885, when Noteworthy Church in Dew
onshire. England. was being restored, a
skeleton with a mass Of mortar plaster.
ed over the mouth was found imbedded
in an angle of the building. That the
Castle Of Leibenstein might stand i'm,
pregnable. a child was bought for the
hard cash from its peasant mother and
walled into the donjon tower. Al roll
was given the little one to eat while
the masons were at work and the UNI
natural parent stood by to quiet it in
case it cried out. Mother, can see.
you," laughed the child when the wall
was breast high. Mother, I see a lit
tie Of you STILL" Then, wailingly:
Mother, I see nothing of you now
In the museum at Algiers is a plaster
cast Of the mold left by the body of one
Geronimo, who was built into a block
of concrete in. the angle Of the fort in
the sixteenth century. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02
4 NoRwIoH MANS NorIoN OF FUv

a NORWICH MANS NOTION of FUN
There are some people who can get
a lot Of fun out of things that most
people wouldn't like for steady diet.
"A Norwich (Connecticut) man has been
enjoying himself some this summer,
and he wants more. Therefore he COM
plains because the graduation exercises
in the various district schools of the
town come on the same date. If they
took place on different days, he argues
that person could rotate and take
them all In.
This Norwich man knows what he
wants. and he probably wouldn't care
to go to baseball game every after
noon, as some who think they know what
real fun is would. It's all matter of
taste. and there is no disputing about
taste. There are people who don't feel
really contented except at funeral.
Others joy in the Chautauqua meetings,
and still others will play bridge whist
until the cows come home, or even until
they (the cowsl are driven out in the
morning. We haven't heard of anybody
who would like to go to a postponed
boat-race every day, but there may
even be such. Many men of many
minds, and also many women.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02
MoREzRouBIE FoE rHE GERMANS

More trouble for the Germans in their
colonies. The Germans are, 1t is said,
deriving less satisfaction than they
hoped for from their possession of
Samoa. The small landed proprietors
there, finding that residence on the
islands is becoming more and more UNI
profitable, are beginning to sell their
property and emigrate to the United
States. The heavy cost of freight,
coupled with the ten per cent, import
duty, is very serious matter to the
smaller business people, In addition
to this, it appears that cases of drunk
|enness among the white, settlers have.
excited the contempt Of the natives,
who no longer entertain their former
respect for the Europeans. The Ger,
man colonial society is endeavoring to
induce Count Won Buelow to take steps
towards obtaining from England and
the United States the sum of half a
million marks, awarded by the King of
Sweden and Norway, as compensation
for the damage done to Apia and to
the property of German colonists there,
by English and American guns, in
March, 1899. Some Of the poorer coll
onists, it is reported. have been almost
ruined by the ron-payment Of the
promised compensation, and petition
has just been forwarded by the Ger
man governor of, Samoa, directing the
attention of Count Won Buelow to the
unfortunate condition of the German
settlers.
Being world-power costs money and
other things, and doesn't always pay.
But as our campaign orators will I'M
doubtedly remark this fall, the United
ates can do the trick.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

This seems to be a good year for
farmers boys. Warren Ellis Schultz, of
Cornell 1905, who has won Rhodes
scholarship and will be off for Oxford
University presently. is a farmers boy,
captain-elect of the Cornell track team.
and the best cross-country runner Of
his time in the American college world.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL,
Issued Thursdays. one Dollar Year.
ADYERTIsING RAVES.

Situations. Wants. Rents and other
email advertisements, One Cent a Word
each insertion. Five Cents Word for
a full week.
Display advertisements, per inch, one
insertion. $1.20; each subsequent inser-
ton. 40 cents; one week, $3.20i one
month, $40; one year, $40.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

when you will build boat that win
take me across the Atlantic in two or
three days. will cross it." Thus spoke
Emperor William to an American guest
at Kiel, and possibly his bluff will be
called.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02
COINS IN CONFESSIONS.

Origin of a Custom RigidIy Observed
for Many Centuries.
. Very terrible in its sinister signif-
canoe is the custom Of putting coins
under the foundation stone Of build
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

DELIVERED By CARRIERS IN THE
CITY. u CENTS A WEEK, so CENTS A
MONTH. So FOR SIX MONTHS. So A
YEAR. THE SAME TERMS By NAH.
SINGLE COPIES. 2 CENTS.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

The Boston Advertiser gives some in
teresting facts in regard to the great
forest which the State of Massachusetts,
is planting on the 5000 acres of land
adjacent to the basin of the great res
.ervoir which IS to be filled with water
when the Massachusetts dam of the
Metropolitan water system, in the town
of Clinton. shall be completed. Some
125O,O0O trees have already been set out
and 100000 more are to be planted.
An important fact is that the cost of
these 100000 trees up to the present
time is only $1,000. The work has been
going on for five years, and twenty
years hence it will be possible to cut
some of the timber and sell it. There
is prospect that a large income will
be obtained from this source.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

An anti-trading stamp bill was passed
by the legislature of Massachusetts, and
signed by the governor and viii go into
effect on December LIST next. It inn
poses a tax Of per cent. upon all stamp
transactions. and the expectation with
those who procure its passage is that
the trader can not afford to buy the
stamps and pay the tax too. The law
will be tested as to its constitutionality.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

Charles H. Deuel. formerly commits
sioner Of patents. who has been select
ed for assistant treasurer of the Re
publican national committee. and who
has something of a reputation as a
prophet. has risked it again. He says:
Roosevelt will receive just about 81
electoral votes to 1863 cast for the Dem
ocratic candidate. / struck it mighty
close when predicted the number of
votes that President Mckinley would
receive both in 1896 and 1900. know
that General Grosvenor will pardon me
for breaking into his prediction baili-
wick, but the temptation is really too
great to withstand
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

Kuropatkin IT await the Japanese
advance with confidence" The Gar
"But why waltz" Kuropatkir How
otherwise can show my confidence ?"--
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

There is a Baptist church in Santa
Rosa. California, holding two hundred
people, which is built entirely Of timber
sawed out of a single redwood tree.
Timbers. weather boarding and inner
lining are all of wood, there being no
plaster. bricks or mortar about it. Wrhe
roofing, too. is made Of shingles sawed
from the same tree and after It was all
finished there were 10000 shingles left.
A sister tree to the above furnished em-
ployment for two years to two hard
working men, who reduced it to shin
giles.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

Lady Eleanor Wickham, the London
society leader. has a nice little way Of
wearing grass snakes for bracelets. She
entices the reptiles to Irvine themselves
around her wrist, then she plunges her
hands and arms into icy cold water for
a few moments, with the result that the
serpents become torpid and remain in a
more or less comatose state for some
hours. Thus she is able to preside at
afternoon tea with her arms covered
with living snake bracelets. Lady
Eleanor also possesses splendid col
lection of Indian and other toads.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02

1t is said that congressman and SEN
ators an over the United States will
watch closely the election returns from
the Seventh Kansas district this fall.
1t will be a test case as to what gov
eminent garden seeds will do for a
man. Besides his regular apportion-
mens Of twelve thousand packages,
Congressman Murdoch has talked 9TH
81 congressman out Of ten thousand
packages Senator Long and Congress-
man-at-Large Scott have also distrib-
uted part of their apportionment in the
district. Each one Of these packages
contains five smaller packages.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-02
TRIALS.

A Sure Way What was it Franklin
said2 If you'd have thing well done
- /" Tell your cook you like ii rare,
interrupted Subbubs. Philadelphia
Press.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-12-15
ELOPERS ARE FOOLED
justice MCCo,renand Judge SIos.
son Prevent Marriage on
Monday Afternoon.
RACINE COUPLE TOO YOUNG.

Two children from Racine had
rude awakening from loves young
dream Monday afternoon when they
came to Kenosha with the intention
of giving their friends in the Belle
City a surprise which would take
them off their feet.
During the morning the boy, who
had planned to play the leading role
as the groom, te1ephoned to Justice
McCarron and made arrangements
for very quiet wedding in Kenosha,
and intimated that the parents of the
young woman who was to enact the
other stellar role in comedy would be
greatly surprised. The justice in
formed the youth that if there was no
legal impeachment to the marriage he
would perform the ceremony, and the
couple came to Kenosha on the noon
train all logged out in their wedding
clothes and ready to assume the res
possibilities of married life. They
went at once to the office of the JUS
tice and the young woman informed
Mr.. McCarron that she was Is years
of age. The justice gave them
letter Of introduction to the county
judge and sent them to get an order
for the marriage.
The judge was not exactly satisfied
with the appearance of the bride and
began a series of questions which
revealed the fact that she would not
be eighteen until next April. Plead
ings were in vain and even the ad-
mission that the couple had e1oped
failed to move the heart of Judge
Slosson and he refused absolutely to
issue an order for the marriage. The
boy and girl returned to Racine crest
fallen later in the afternoon and the
intended surprise will be held open
until next spring.
The groom when he discovered that
he could not secure the order refused
to give his name or that of his in
tended bride.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-12-15
RURAL PARCEL POST
Parcels May Be Carried on Rural
Routes for Local Merchants
at Three Cents a Pound
PRIVILEGES FOR THE FARMER

If the communications of the post
master general are approved by con-
gress the patrons of the rural free de-
livery routes throughout the country
are to have the benefit of a parcel
post service, which will be of great
the local merchants as we'll. The idea
of the postmaster general seems to
have been to devise a system which
would shut out the great mail order
houses and still give the farmer the
benefit of parcels post and he seems
to have gotten it. The recommends
ton of the postmaster general is as,
follows:
''With the establishment of rural
mail delivery, and the increasing ex-
tension of rural telephone service by
private interests, there has grown up
demand by the patrons of the rural
service for the delivery of small pack
ages of merchandise, such as food
stuffs, tobacco, dry goods, drugs, etc.,
on an order to the local mer chant by
The value of these packages of mer-
chandise is usually small and the
present rate of postage of cent per
ounce is practically prohibitive. The
patron or merchant cannot afford to
pay 10 cents for the delivery of
pound of coffee or tobacco, or similar
article, but if special rate were es-
tab1ished on such matter from the
distributing office for delivery to any
patron on the rural routes from that
office it would be great convenience
to the patrons and become source of
revenue to the department.
sit is therefore recommended for
the consideration of congress that
rate of 3 cents per pound, or any frac-
tional part thereof, be authorized for
packages of books or merchandise,
not exceeding pounds, mailed at the
distributing postoffice of any rural
free delivery route for delivery to a
patron on said route. This rate should
apply only to packages deposited at
the local postoffice for delivery to pa
irons on routes emanating from that
Office and not to mail transmitted from
one Office TO another. The rate of
cents per pound would be ample re-
Enumeration for the department, be-
cause there is no expense for railway
transportation, and the system by
which these packages are to be de1iv-
cred is already established, and such
delivery would entail no additional
expense upon the department A
special stamp could be provided for
this class of mail natter
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-12-15
Initial Step Taken to Form Com
pany to Build Line From Ke-
nosha to Lake Geneva.
TO HAVE CAPITAL OF $25, 600
Papers for the Incorporation of the
Company Will Be Filed at Madi-
son Within a Few Days-The
Name Not Yet Selected.

The initial steps are being taken
for the formation of a company to be
IN charge of the building of the pro-
posed electric railway between here
and Lake Geneva, and the articles of
incorporation for the company will be
filed with the secretary of state be-
fore the end of the present year.
The papers for the incorporation of
the company are now being drawn by
Attorney James Cavanagh, and it is
reported that the incorporators will all
be residents of Kenosha who have
consented to take an interest in the
project. The name of the company
has not as yet been selected, but it
will probably be known as "The Ke-
nosha and Lake Geneva Electric Rail
way Company" The company will
have nominal capital stock of
$4,000.
The articles of incorporation will
show that the company is organized
under the state laws for the purpose
of doing a general railway business in
the state of Wisconsin, and it's pre-
negatives will be the. carrying of pas
sengers and freight between the diff
ferent cities within the limits of the
state. The working area of the COM
pany will not be limited to the few
counties in the southern part of the
state, but the company will have the
right to work in any part of Wiscon-
sin.
The incorporation of the company
in Wisconsin was at first not re-
garded as necessary but under the
state law franchise could not be
granted to individuals and It is
thought that the plan to incorporate
in this state was made in order to Sc
cure the right to ask for a franchise
from the city council of Kenosha It
will be remembered that the supreme
court of the state declared one fran
chise granted by the city council of
Kenosha void on account of the fact
that the franchise had been asked for
by an individual and not by a COM
pany organized under the provisions
of the law in Wisconsin.
In speaking of the matter this morn
ing Mr.. Cavanagh stated that he did
not know at the present time just
who would be named as the incorpor-
ators of the proposed company but
that there were several men who
were ready to serve in this capacity.
The formation of the company is
being rushed with all possible speed
in order to make it possible to secure
the franchise rights as soon as posi-
bic. There seems to be any amount
of capital behind the proposed scheme
and the Kenosha men interested in
the deal state that there is no doubt
but that the road will be built during
the coming year.
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FEAR AN EPIDEMIC
Rapid Spread of Diphtheria in the
City Causes Apprehension
Among Physicians.
FIFTEEN CASES REPORTED.

The rapid spread of the dread dis
ease d1phtheria in the city has caused
apprehension among the physicians
and this feeling of fear has spread to
such an extent that the police officers
have been ordered to see to it that the
quarantine laws are strictly enforced.
Ten days ago there was not a case
OF the disease in the city and this
morning Sergeant Newhouse of the
police force states that more than if
teen houses have been quarantined
and new cases are being reported
daily. Since Monday three new cases
have been reported.
Added to the cases ia the city it is
stated that there are several cases in
the county just outside of the limits
of the city.
One of the physicians in speaking
of the matter this morning stated
that he had discovered two cases last
night in which the parents of the
children seized with the dread disease
had been too poor to seek medical aid.
For this reason these two cases had
not been reported to the health officer
and no quarantine had been estab-
lished. 1t is not thought that there
are many cases of this sort in the city
and the large percent of the cases
have been reported promptly to the
health officer and the houses have
been properly quarantined.
One of the physicians stated this
morning that it seemed that the ma ior-
ity of the cases of the disease had or
iginated in the Frank school and that
scarcely case had been reported
from any other schools in the city. It
is thought that the coming of the
cold weather will aid materially in
preventing further spread of the
disease