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Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
MoccAsINs FOR SOLDIERS.
Inquiries Made by Representatives of Powers at War for "Bangor's
 Golden Slippers"

Inquiries have been received in Bangor, Me-, from persons sup posed to represent either the Rus- sian or the Japanese government concerning prices for moccasins in large quantities and the earli' est date of delivery at Atlantic or Pacific ports. It is supposed that the moccasins are wanted for sol diers campaigning in Manchuria. For that purpose they would be eminently suitable, says the New York Sun.
 The moccasin is the fayorite footwear of the lumbermen of Maine, and was first made in Ban. gor in 1851. At first only one or two styles were made, but now moccasins are manufactured in great variety, ranging from slip pers for women and children soft as kid and embroidered with beads-to the stout boots and lar. rigans of the Penobscot lumber men.
 Much of the sewing is still done by hand, being let out by the piece to French Canadian families in the neighborhood of Bangor. All moccasins are made of a specially prepared leather, rendered a gold en yellow by peculiar process of tanning.
 The common moccasin is not proof against water, but it has room for several pairs of stock ings, and that is a strong point in its favor. For keeping the feet warm and dry in cold weather the moccasin has no equal.
 The greater part of the mocca sin leather still comes from the place of it's origin, Pawtucket, R, l., although a considerable quantity is tanned in Bangor Some years ago Bangor men es tablished factories at Red Wing Minn., and Racine, Wis.
 The dainty bath slippers, which are not really moccasins, but are made from soft elk skin, are in greatdemand at home and abroad aid are especially favored by the ladies of Japan, to which country ! Bangor sends large quantities. Ii now seems likely that "Bangor's golden slippers" as moccasins are called. may be worn by the con tlnding armies in Manchuria.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
WON BY ORDINARY TALK,
Lack of Arm Gestures and Conversa-
 tional Tone Wins Heart of Doubtful Maiden.

Congressman William H. Jackson, of Maryland, was engrossed in discussing with number of colleagues the deca- dence of oratory, says the New York Her. aid. Sane people are not emotional" !" declared the congressman, "and the con- versationai delivery of speech carries as much weight with an intelligent audience as does the effort of declaim- CT who indulges in brilliant periods with an arm-swinging accompaniment"
 You are right" said a listener, land your statement reminds me of young lady who had two suitors. Both men had about the same advantages and prospects, but gossip declared that the girl would decide in favor of the man who was lawyer, for he knew better how to present and win his case. Cos sipe erred; the lawyer was rejected. Later it was learned from friend in whom the betrothed had confided her reason for her choice
 Harry is convincing. but John is just as convincing and does not have to move his arms every time he wants to say something.'"
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07

TpTT Write to us for. Free Trial Pain Pills, the New Scientific Remedy for Pain. Also Symptom Blank. Our Specialist will diagnose your case tell free. DIR. MILES MEDICAL CO, LABORATORIES. ELKIIART. IND.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
BIG PROFIT IN PENTHOUSE
Average New York Seashore Resort Receives Nearly $2,OOO Day
 for Rooms Alone.

If you doubt that the nickel and quar- ter business doesn't pay, consider the money-making propensities of the aver age seashore bathhouse around New York, and make over your opinion. A representative bathing pavilion has 1,5O0 bath compartments. It costs 20 cents to rent one. On a medium hot summers day some $500 are derived from renting these rooms, for the com partments. are used in the course of tho day by about 4,00O persons. Bathing suits rent for 25 cents each. There would be 5000 of them for such a pavil- ion, which means $1,000 a day If half of them are rented once: and 1t is fair to assume that three-fourths of the 4,000 bathers pay five cents for the use of a comb and brush-$150. A total of near ly $2,OO0, to say nothing Of the proceeds from restaurant, bar, barber shop and indoor baths.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
JAPAN'S FIRST lRONcLAD
Hlr Crew Made a Brave Start, But Couldn't Stop Her Till Fires
 Went Out.

That the role of Japan as mar. itime power is a new one is brought strongly to our notice by recalling the quite we'll authen. ticated story of the first adven. ture of the first Japanese iron clad, says Country Life.
 She was built in England. While she was building her crew were also in England, practicing, in other ironclads how to drive her. When she was finished the Japanese seamen took possession of her, bravely maintaining that they were fully equal to the task of starting her.
 And that, to be sure, they were, for she steamed out finely. The trouble only began when she came back to port again. Then, when they wanted to slow her down and stop her, they were unable to do SO.
 They had to put her out to sea again and go on ,steaming her about till her fires went out, her engines stopped for want of steam, and she could be lowed in.
 From this to having the best mentally-equipped crews, perhaps, of any nation seems a long step, but it has been a very rapid one.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
BIG BEE RANCH IN FRISCO
Public School Principal of Coast City Harvests a Third of a Ton
 of Honey Q Season.

There is bee ranch with more thar ] 1,000,0 900 bees in the heart of one of the densest residence districts of San Fran cisco. It is owned by Philip Prior, prin- cipal of a public school, and is in the little back yard of his home. For ten years he has kept his bees there, has harvested about third of ton of honey each season and has been at no expense for food for his interesting and industrious pets. Although it is a dis tance of two and one-half miles from the Prior bee ranch to Golden Gate park, the bees make the trip there, collect loads of honey and get back to the hive in two minutes, making bullet-like flight at the surprising rate of 150 miles an hour. MT. Prior has demonstrated this by having an observer watch cer- tain bee-favored places in the park and exactly timing the arrival there of bees he purposely sprinkled with flour aa they issued from hive. He has also kept time on the absence of the whitened bees.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
ASPARAGUS HAS A LINEAGE
teem Many Years Before Christ.

Of all food plants there is none which has been so long known or been pos sessed of so distinguished lineage as the asparagus. Its records reach back almost to the beginning of authentic his tory, and 1t is mentioned by the comic poet Cratinus, who died about 425 B. c. Tle Romans held the vegetable in high esteem. The elder Cato wrote a work which is still extant, "De re Rustica." ," and it treats at length of the virtues and proper cultivation of asparagus. Pliny, in his natural history, written about 50 A. D., has much to say about it. He feelingly observes: "Of all the products of your garden your chief care should be asparagus" and he devotes several chapters to its many good qualities and the best methods of raising it. He as- serts that the soil about Ravenna vas 50 favorable to its production that three heads grown in that district had been known to weigh a Roman pound. This pound seems to have been about equal to Il ounces in our day, so 1t would ap- parently have taken four of the stalks to have reached a pound of our weight. The asparagus being essentially a southern plant, 1t Is possible that the stock growing in Italy was of more vigorous growth than that of our north- ern cline. It is found all around the shores of the Mediterranean and branches off into four or five distinct species besides the one ordinarily used for edible purposes.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
Timber for Cigar-Boxes.

Practically all the timber used for cigarboxes comes from Cuba.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
SPECIAL RATES


 Account of Christmas and New Years holidays via the Irsn Mountain route. Dates of sale Dec. "A, 25 and 31,. and Jan 1. Ticketslwill be sold to all points on the Iron Mountain and will be good for return up to and in- cluding January 4. Rate will be one fare plus 50 cents, one fare and one-third to apply where latter basis makes less, adding sufficient to make rate end in 0 or 5. Minimum selling rate of 50 cents will be observed.
 btd THoS. H. REAMEY, Agt.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
Italy's Emigrants.

Tn the past 30 years Italy has sent more than 100000 persons to the United States, says the Worlds Work. A number of these have returned in the course of time, taking with them care- fully hoarded savings. A very large majority have remained in the United States.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
NIX OF NEWPORT

|s the accounts of depositors who desire Accommodations of a first-class, we'll oped and reliable banking house.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
Japs Drink Much Water.

A gallon of water a day is drunk by every Japanese who practices, as nearly all do, the gymnastics known as jiujitsu.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
Insect Senses.

S0A0C0s
 Naturalists have decided that many insects have senses which human beings lack. That of loca. tion, shown by the wasp, for in. stance, is remarkable. One spe. cies builds it's nest in a sandbank that is only a part of several acres of such soil, and when it leaves in search of food it covers the nest so carefully that no ordinary eye could discover its location. That is to say it is just like all the sur. rounding location, and yet the wasp flies back to it without hes itation and finds it without mak- ing a mistake. There is another wasp tfat unerringly locates the eggs of the mason bee under a thick layer of sun-baked clay, and deposits her eggs in the same cells that her young may have food when they are matched.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
Cuha,s Foundation.

The population of Cuba is now over 1885 ,000, which is an increase of more lan ten per cent. since 1900.
Newport daily independent., 1905-01-07
Headache
Can be Cured with Dr.. Miles Anti
 Pain Pills.

If your nerves are subject to disturb ances, such as Headaches, Neuralgia, Backache Rheumatism, Menstrual Pains, Sleeplessness, etc., their JarrinS and jangling can be quickly ended with a Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pill.
 Dr. Miles Anti Pain P.Is are pleas ant little pink tablets, which do not act on the bowels, nor do they have any disagreeable weakening or hablt-form- ing effect on the system.
 They are the result of the latest scien- tiac knowledge on the subject of Pain. and bring relief safely and quickly to the greatest sufferer.
 You should always keep a box of Dr.. Miles Anti Pain Pills in the house. since you never know when pain may attack you, and it is wrong to suffer when yh'ir suffering can be so quickly reli' we'd
 Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills eontain no opium, chloral, cocaine, morphine, or similar drugs, and are sold by druggists under a guarantee to relieve you, or pay your money back.
 By relieving Pain, Dr. Miles Anti Pain Pills shorten suffering, and length en life. 25 cents. Never sold in bulk.
 q have used Dr. Miles -Anti-Pain Pills when troubled with headache, and find that one pill infallibly, effects relief in g Nerve and Liver Pills when necessary. I am considerably afflicted with neural. gia of the head and find these pills or much benefit to me. They are all that GATE, 21s Oakland St., San Antonio,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21
soME Is c0uKAakm ENr.

They do some things pretty well in
Windham county in this State. For in
stance, the Windham county Jail pays
for itself. This achievement. so differ
ent from that in most counties, is said
to be due to the fact that the prisoners
are employed at farm labor. Now it
seems that Litch1eld county is to try
the same method. The change from the
other work which used to be carried on
there is not due to deliberate search for
an improved method, but to the fact
that the other work is not to be had.
and the knowledge that idleness is the
very worst thing for prisoners. They
are having taste of that now, and the
officials have seen enough of it. Mean
time land has been engaged and work
on it will begin as soon as spring opens.
This is encouraging. We should like
to see all the bad men in the State, that
is. those who have been so foolishly bad
that they have been caught and put in
Jail. made to work out of doors, either
in making good roads or raising good
farm produce. 1t would be good
thing for the bad men, and we can't see
how it would injure honest organized
labor. We should also like to see many
of the less respectable drunkards Of the
State collected together on a farm and
made to support themselves by the
sweat of their brows. Better things
can be done with bad men and drunk
ards than are done now in Connecticut.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21
Jiu-Jitsu.

| ~1o~eseee
| / am the -s5ss .- e.. 81, -.
New - Il
| Fad called jiu- &s3' 49,
| Jitsu. g.. T.
wouldn't that CONCEAL :vt .~ 81
| You--eh? ,. @
They say that il
DR.. Mary Walker knew me well
| Enough she could 43i 81 x aazs,5 g 3.
Lick Jim Jeffries, with one hand in
| Her trousers pocket.
/ All you have to do.
| According to the pipe Ia 35 nv. ::
| Dreams promulgated about me, ..=.
| Is to have free use of d thumb
Or two, and you could
fPut Yusef the Turrible Turk
| Out of commission in q A5% h~..
| Two shakes. sr 81.
The supposition is, of
Course, that Yusef himself H.
Would be standing -..4
Watching while you gently took his
Forty-inch leg between
Your thumb and finger and
Broke the bones. %H
OF course Jeffries or Yusef "a 81:
Or whoever else the innocent victim
might
Be would be very much shocked and
Embarrassed by this easy
And ludicrous defeat, The task of
Rolling q cigarette or
Pushing little chickens
Into the babbling brook
Is nara nlanual ldnQf ana
Overexertion compared with what
They say of the ease with
Which any one-1unged dwarf could
Have licked John L.. ,....E
Sullivan in his palmiest
Days if I had been known at
The time.
claim that it was not a
Sling, but a jiu- "a ;..,,#-Ls,
Jitsu hold with which David
Killed Goliath. and that the reason
| The King James version didn't
Say so was that the COM
Pliers didn't know how TO spell
My name. Ss sfIE@ X
| If I were man would go aro{tnd
Selling gold-bricks to the !,
People who believe all that is
Written about me. I would
Also like to state
| That Sampson overthrow those
Temple pillars with jiu-jitsu, and
That the thing with which he
Killed all those Philistines was
Me instead of a jaW-bone,
| am the whole thing. s#
Impossibilities are among
My easiest tasks.
l am iiu- ~. 't4
Jit- go
| SUI
Baltimore American.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21
THE p.y.PoLIsH PARTY.

Russia has SO many problems that
she might have hard work to keep track
of them if they didn't have way Of
forcing themselves on her earnest atten-
ton. For instanfe. the leaders of the
Polish National party have issued a
manifesto declariIn that, while Polish
Nationalist should cooperate with the
Russian Opposition, they must re-
member that their objects are distinct
from those of the Russian reformers.
They say that for them all changes in
the existing order of the State are sig
nificant only so far as they furnish a
legal basis for the prosecution of their
national work, and provide Poland with
an assurance of the separate existence
which is necessary to her. They are
convinced that an empire of such vast
extent as Russia, if governed according
to law, cannot be organized on any 9th,
er basis than wide decentralization and
the autonomy of its component parts.
The Russian journal Russ warns the
Pan-Polish party that in refusing to co.
operate with Russia in any constructive
work for the welfare of the empire they
are making serious mistake, and do
not understand the attitude of the Rus
sian people towards this question. at
appears to u.s." says the Russ, that in
this matter all true Russians who re-
fleet seriously upon the problems which
Russia has, ito solve are all, without dis
tinction of party, in complete accord.
They will never reconcile themselves to
any political decentralization or to the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the empire into parts
which shall be autonomous in the po,
litical sense" The Russ admits that
the views held by the Pan-Polish par
ty are not surprising, "but," it adds,
"our life will not always be as station
airy as that of the Chinese. The mo-
ment will come when we shall move for
ward, when we shall advance with
giant strides, and then new and wide
horizons will open before the Poles as
we'll as before ourselves" j,
The Polish Nationalist have hung on
well, but theirs looks like a lost cause
Still, it is well to remember that this is
a world of change. s.lf'}f
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21

rate per thousand of the population of
Berlin was IS; from 1851 to 1885, So;
from 1856 to 1880. "a; from 1891 to 1895.
81; and from 1896 to 1900. IS. The birth
rate at Bresiau decreased from 4S in
1875 to Sc in 1900, and at Krefeld from
46 to 30 during the same period. There
has been a similar dininution in the
birth-rate of nineteen other Prussian
towns. while no increase of the birth
rate in any Prussian town is recorded.
1t is noteworthy, however, that, while
the birth-rate has decreased. the mar
riage rate in all the Prussian towns is
still as high as it was thirty years, ago
and in some cases is higher than at any
time since 1875.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21
SYSTEMATIC.

III
It's all up with mel" grasped the
man on the trap. ILL.,
Wrong again" replied the sheriff.
Jerking the lever; it's all down with
you. - Houston Post.
Now" said the inquisitive bachelor,
Il want to ask you a question. Do you
think IN the marriage state
No, replied Henpeck, promptly, II
amt allowed Philadelphia Press.
Improving. Shell think I've been
quite economical
3 Her husband-Do you?
She Certainly. I'm sure we haven't
run in debt half as much as last month.
Brooklyn Life.
oh, George" exclaimed Esmeralda,
your face is so rough-and rugged in
Its, honesty Of purpose" ...
Puzzle. Find out where Miss Esmer-
alda's younger sister entered the parlor.
Chicago Tribune. :, ...5.2
OF Course.-'I want some man to fig
ure out how much electricity it is going
to take to run my mill. Whom would
you recommend"
One of those lightning calculators,
Of course!"-New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat. sA. III.
fE u
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21
HOW WINTER BIRDS PROTECT THE
ORCHARDS.

The intelligent agriculturist no'long
er allows prejudice and superstition to
interfere with his interests; he desires
in all cases to act from knowledge and
reason, based either on his personal OBJ
servation or on the experience of some
one whose authority he knows to be
reliable. There was a time, an not so
very long ago, either when many be-
lieved that an inoffensive lady, whom
from some lack of reason, they had de-
cided to term witch" could cause
their cattle to become diseased and die
by merely looking at them. This SUI
perstition passed away and its place
was taken by others, among them the
idea that many of the birds, particular
ly the birds of prey, were the enemies
of the agriculturist. This superstition
was handed down from father to son,
and even to-day there are farmers who
believe they are acting for their own
interest by shooting every hawk and
owl they see. Others. still more be-
hind the times, shoot robins and other
song birds, because they take few
berries or grapes. The intelligent
farmer. however no longer goes by
guess-work, and refuses to act because
they say that such thing is SO. If
the birds which frequent his farm are
real menace to his business he wants
to know it, and he takes the trouble 10
find out. If they are doing his farm
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21
IN III PROSPERfN6 YOUTH.

The railroads have helped the new
South to prosper, and the prosperous
new South has, helped the railroads to
prosper. 1t is interesting to notice that
in the year just ended the South has
been the scene of exceptional activity
in railroad construction, having built
2,420 miles Of new railroad. In the
present year building will be, it is
thought. on a. much larger scale, the
total aggregating as many as 1850
miles. Texas and Missouri lead, each
having about $50 miles of new line
while Virginia leads in number of miles
Of new second track, The Southern
Railways so miles of second track be-
tween Alexandria and Orange form an
important part Of the improvement in
progress on that lipe. Arkansas, in
1904, added 1913 miles Of new railroad,
Georgia 1885,. Indian Territory 152 miles,
Mississippi 179, West Virginia 1879, Ala
bama 1876 and Tennessee 100, while Vir-
gfnia added 81 and North Carolina SO
miles. The projected mileage for 1905
is largest in Texas, but Georgia, Indian
Territory, Arkansas, Florida, North
Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and
West Virginia have each over 200 miles
of new road in prospect. while Virginia,
Tennessee and Oklahoma have each
about one hundred miles in hand. Ma
ryland is credited with rs miles in 1904
and IS miles in 1905.
And while new railroad is being built
in the South, existing railroad is being
much improved. Tracks are being i'm
proved in grade, curves are being re-
moved. steel bridges are replacing
wooden ones. costly terminals are under
construction, wayside stations are being
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21

Jules Verne, at the age of nearly
three score years and ten, is still pour
ing forth fantastic wonder tales for
French boys, his fiftieth published
book having just been issued unded the
title lie Voyage Extraordinaire." This
seems just as wild and impossible as
some OF the stories which went before,
but Mr.. Verne has seen so many of his
semi-scientific literary inaginings bear
fruit in sober reality that it will not
do to be too skeptical or contemptu-
Gus.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21
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