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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

Have you decided where you will spend the summer?"
 Mo-" answered Mfr. Ksptdown. I'm going to let my wife decide this year. She. used to wake me up in the dead of the night last summer to remind me that l picked the placs out. De troit Tribune.
 Robinson Crusoe had just discovered the footprints.
 "Hurrah!" he exclaimed, II shall ad- vertise this as a summer resort where men actually come on Friday"
 Feeling his fortune was made, he re- connoitered with a light heart.-New York Sun.
 A soft answer seldom turneth away ft-Philadelphia Record.
 Have you noticed that a new $20 greenback has been put into circula- tion?-Rochester Democrat and Chron- icle.
 Johnny Jinks-"Gxe! How'd you hurt your hand? Bobby Wabbles-"I had a giant cracker and I don't know whether I held on to it too long, or didn't let go quick enough. Puck.
 Tess-"Isn't your new gown finished yet?" -"Gracious! No. The dressmaker's work on it was only completed last Saturday" Tess-"But if the drsssmakers through, what else?" Jess-''O, all my friends have to criticise it yet."-Philadelphia Press.
 Mrs. Hobbs-"Why are you so down on Mrs. Flipper?' Mrs. Nobbs-"Be- cause she calls a vase a 'vawse' B Mrs. Hobbs-"But can't you excuse. a little thing like that?" Mrs. Nobhs- Not in a woman whose husband s salary is $25 a week. Louisville Courier Journal.
 A traveller who passed through q small English town noticed a post on which was marked the height to which the river had risen during a rsoenr flood. Do you mean to say" he asked native. that the river rose as high as that in 19-?" "Oh. mo-" replied the native; but the village children used to rub off ths original mark. so the mayor ordered it to be put higher up, so as to be out O. their reach. liar per's Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12
CHANGES IN CHINA.

China is waking up. One of the evil dences is 6 change in the laws relat- ing to capital punishment. The edict making the change says: Now that the laws are being revised, we decree that henceforth the severest form of pun ishrnent for capital offences shall be immediate decapitation. The three forms of punishment known as dis rnemberment, exposure Of the head and beheading the corpse are hereby abol- ished forever. The sentences of dis memberment and exposure of the hsad, provided for in the present laws, are hereby changed to inmediats decapita- tion. Crimes to be punished by imme- dtate decapitation shall be punished by immediate strangling; those punished by immediate struggling shall receive sentences of strangling after the au- turnn assize, provided the investigation at the autumn assize shall show the facts to be ass alleged. Sentences to decapitation after the autumn assize by immediate strangling shall receive autumn assize, and criminals sentenced to strangulation after the autumn as- size are still to be allowed an investi- gation at the said assize, and to have sentence carried out or commuted as the facts shall show. AS to the pro visions for the punishment of accesso- ries in crime, while punishment is still to be inflicted, according to the circum- stances of the case, such persons are entirely relieved from the penalty of branding, which is hereby abolished.
 These reforms are followed by an edict abolishing the torture of persons 10 get evidence. The changes are cheering in their indication of the inn provemsnt of things in China.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12
THE ETHER.

Certainly. though no sane person doubts the existence of the ether, we are sorely troubled when we are ask ed to describe it for we are almost forced to give it properties incompa- tible with ono another. This you will see wheR l enumerate all the func- tions which this utterly mysterious entity discharges It conveys the force of gravitation. It has the power Of vibrating from side to side, and these vibrations, according as they are fast or slow, have the most varied re- suits upon us. They all travel along at the same speed, which is that of light -lS6,000 miles a second,-but the waves may oscillate from side to side as they go, either two or three times minute tor less), or even million times minute ter more). When the waves are very slow We call them electric waves. When they are a little faster we call them Hertzian waves, and telegraph across oceans with them. When lt-
 tie faster We call them Blondlot rays a new discovery which almost needs an article to itself. A little faster, they are called heat rays, or radiant heat. A little faster, they are called red light, then yellow. and so on to violet. Then they become invisible again, as they were before, and we call them ultraviolet light. Then, little fas- ter, we call them Becqueral rays. and the fastest we know yet We call Roent- gen rays. have missed out more than have named. and there are many gaps yet to fill, but you will agree with me that the entity whose vibra- tions cause electricity. heat, light and Roentgen rays besides conveying the force of gravitation, must be a very remarkable substance. And more than that, it is supposed that all ponderable matter is really made out of the ether. By penderable matter we mean matter which is subject to gravitation and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12
THE GREAT CANAL PROBLEM.

It is already evident that the United States is going to have more trouble and expense in digging it's canal than it expected, but its heart is light and gay, and 50 it doesn't care for little extra trouble. The control of the Chagres river and it's diversion into new course is the great Panama canal problem. The plans of the French en- gineers contemplated dam of eighty five feet level and a diversion of course to the Pacific, at the enormous cost of $S6.0O O,OOO. American engineers have doubted whsther the canal would be adequately protected if these French plans were executed. Something more than control is wanted. Thers must be a storage of water for the use of the canal in the dry season. Within the past year new surveys have been completed by American engineers and the announcement is now made that the floods can be controlled and stor- age of water secured by a dam at an elevation of 1855 feet.
 It follows, of course, that a holder which is to resist the weight and the power thereof of at least 1S0 feet depth of water must be of Gibraltar-like con- struction. Therefore, credullty is strained when an attempt is made to accept tha accompanying statement that the new plan can be executed at an approximate saving of $27,0O0,OO0 from the French estimate. But per- haps the United States will be found to be as grsat in economy as it is in philanthropy and efficiency.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12
Archimedes Honored.

I've got sorry case of blues, Because the worlds reward is slow. In Sicily, at Syracuse,
 They've raised a statue. don't you
 know. This year of nineteen hundred five, Of Archimedes (sakes aliveO, Who died two thousand years ago.  Old Archimedes was a man
 Of many most astounding partsi He could the vasty heavens span By means of mathematic arts; And he devised a forceful screw Whereby the earth an inch or two Gle claimed) he moved by fits and
 starts. No doubt most of us living now Could move the world, with half a
 show, But where's the profit, anyhow, If we to cold oblivion go Like Archimedes (such shamcD And ere we reach the Hall of Fame Must wait two thousand years or SO?
 Portland Oregonian.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

eyes shut, to toss the turtle into the grass. Lo, and behold! there was noth- ing there, and, wonder of wonders, the road was smooth! At breakfast MT. Johnson was taikative. He had much to say about the courage and patience of dumb animals, and what lessons they set sor the example of men and women, but he is still curious about the home of his disturber of night Boston Herald,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

therefore has weight. The ether itself, which conveys the gravitation. is con- ceived of as being without weight.
 Tt comes to this, then. that in the ether modern science recognizes the most profound O. all it's problems. ex- cept that of consciousness. By gravita- ton 1t makes the universe one, by its movements it makes the universe alive, and it is the stuff of which the material universe Is made.-C. w. Saleeby in Harper's
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12
PATIENT, INDEED.

The old colored deacon accosted the parson on the roadside.
 "Pahson," he began, "Ah want to ask yo' a question. Who was de most patient man on earf?''
 Why, bruddah," responded the par son. "Job was, ob case"
 No, sah! An yo' Noah was"
 "En how do yo' make dat out?"
 Why, Noah had two skeeters on de ark en carried rem around fuh forty days en nights. Eff he could resist slappin' ct dem all dat time he was de most patient man on earf. Chicago Daily News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12
MADE.

Jack-"Dora, how much longer have got to waltz"
 Dora-"Why, Jack, we've been en- gagged only three weeks! When we are having such a happy time why do you want to cut it short and g2t mar ried d?''-Chicago Tribune.
 Eff had my life to live over again, would do very differently sighed the repentant man, gloomily
 "So would IT" chirped Cheerup. i've let more good things get by me than you could shake stick at."-De- troit Free Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12
Experienced automobilists believe

Experienced automobilists believe that the Massachusetts law, which in- tersects the best roads with wide but well-made gutters at unexpected in- tervals, will do more to stop excessive speeding than fine or Imprisonment vigorously enforced. The carriage or safety=run machine crosses such a gut ter easily. But the machine run at top speed is likely to come to exceeding grief.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

S. |. Joshi writes from Columbia uni- versity and is vouched for by the Sun as an educated Hindu. He reports that the sometimes predicted solidarity of race feeling in Asia does not exist, and that there's no "Mikado worship" in
 India, though the events of this year have Enlightened India's respect for Japan in limited sense.' With re- gard to the future of his own country, MT. Joshi says: What we in India are resoluteIy and rightfully demanding to- day Is to be given the same privileges of colonial self government that have already been secured by Canada and
 Australia. These granted, England will have a warm place in the heart of India. The present administration is progressively extravagant, thereby in- volving increasing taxation, from share In the regulation of which the educated classes are debarred, and un- der which the masses suffer hopelessly."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12
ADvERTIsINo RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each insertion, Five Cents word Tor 6 full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch. one insertion, sI.2o; each subsel luent inser- tion. 40 cents; one weex, sS.20; one month. s10; one year, s4A
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

4 Canadian teacher fell heir to an English estate Of e2O,OOO. In the law yer's office the clerks made bets as to how she would take it. One thought she would scream, two were of the opin- ion that she would burst into tears, two others favored mysteries. Her reply to the messenger was disconcerting: T shall finish my monthly report, hear these spelling errors, whip two boys and be at your office in forty minutes"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY. F GENTS A WEEK. 50 GENTS A MONTH, ss FOR SIX MONTHS. ss A YEAR THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL SINGLE COPIES. CENTS
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

Cadetships in the Japanese navy are open to every subject in the empire, as are also commissions in the army and gli the civil appointments under the government There is no system of domination and the successful candi- Hates are chosen entirely by competi- tive examination. The naval exploits Huring the present war have naturally given a strong impetus to the eager hess of high-spirited youths to enter khe service which has won such glory for their country, and the applications Tor naval eadetships during the present year already far exceed in number those of any preceding entire year. In pne district of the four in which they nre received they already amount to over 9,7oo as against 5000 in 1903 and $500 in 1904.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

THE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursdays, One Dollar a Year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

A new sounding device has been in- vented by Norwegian for the use of ships. A sound-wave is sent to the bottom, in relatively shallow water, and is received by another part of the apparatus on its reflection back to the vessel. From the known velocity of sound in water, the depth is at once Ascertained. The apparatus makes a continuous record, and may be so con- structed as to give an alarm when the water shadows to a certain depth.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

The Herald and Presbyter furnishes some interesting facts in regard to Japan's great generals and admirals. Admiral Togo, it says, is a member of the Presbyterian church. Vice Admiral Priu Is a Presbyterian elder, and so also was General Serrata, who com- nianded the Japanese forces in the war with China. Up to the time of the lat ter's death he was president of the To- kio young Mems Christian association. Even these names do not exhaust the list Of eminent Japanese Presbyterians, as Generals Kuroki and Oku are both members of that church, and Field Mar shal Oyama is said to be either a Pres byterlan or Congregationalist'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

William Waldorf Astor is preparing to put up the largest and most magni- acent apartment house in New York. It will occupy the entire block from Broadway to West End avenue and from seventy-eighth to seventy-ninth Streets. The estimated cost is $2,500,0O0. One of MT Astor's agents estimated an average rental of s3,50O for each apart merlt. With fourteen apartments on floor and sixteen floors he should have 224 suits of apartments, which, at an average rental of $S,500, should bring in an annual total of $7S4,oOO.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

TEE OLDEST DAIEY PAPER PUB-
 LIsHED IN CONNECTICUT.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-12

Mo- 1O4 White Mountain Refriger- ator, holds 100 lbs, ice: 45 inches high; 21 inches deep; 33 inches long, regular price $14. Sale price $10.50.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-18

Should one sleep soon after meals?
This is a question which American
Medicine answers by saying that If one
has eaten heartily OF heavy food he
will best not sleep for two or three
hours after eating. An old English
saw runs, AFTER dinner sit awhile;
after supper walk n mile" this being
much like the older Latin saying, Post.
cpulas stabis vel passus mile mcnbis."
In Italy, where meals are lighter than
in the north Of Europe, the saying pre-.
walls, "Thc supperless man losses MI
night" but Anglo-SaSOns think diges.
ton halts during sleep. Much, howev-
or, depends, our medical contemporary
thinks, on the kind Of food eaten be-
fore sleeping. The aged MN digests
with difficulty, which, fret is expressed
in the Spanish provcrb, "Who steals an
old mans supper does him no wrong"
But habit has much to do with the
question OF safety in eating on retiring
or not long before Baltimore Sun.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-18
BEEF IT ST WRITE a
LETTER RS OF! DENIAL.
Nearly Every Member of Congress
Gets a Communication Saying
III There lsSno$ Combination.


WASHING Tos So! y q 9. Jan
Since II has become eonyi That
.tlesD Department Of sJusti has oBtainv
cd information that IL siolatiiiis
Judge Groascllp's siniunotl on. tho beef
trust has begun to flood Congreas
with letters deny Ing that u Is doing
anything oflthe$sort.
Nearly every memb er Of Congress
has received Ia letter signed oy Ets
ward Swift, Of Chicago noting d re-
cent statement q the president ~
Swift & Company that there u ai,
solutely no conspiracy OF combine
ton to control either The purchase
ofliye3 stock orssales " meat al pack
ing house products on The Iother
hand, the packing ndustry IS sub
ject to the seyerest kind 81 Compel
lion both In buying and selling, and
The per cent ofsproflt u on sales in the
packing house Industry iss1ess thansin
ether lines OF business. J.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-18

The fashion Of men wearing NUTS
was imported from France or Holland
in the days Of the Merry Monarch.
They were usually slung round the
neck by Il silk ribbon, as may be seen
in old prints.
In ballad describing the fair upon
;he Thames during the great frost OF
16s3.a mention is made Of
A spark of the Bar with his cane and
his nun. ~ =
Pepys, In his diary, under date Nov.
80, 1GGe. says: This day first did
wear muffc, being my wlfcs last
years muffc, and now have bought
her new one. This serves me very
well.' II ~.
In Hogarth's picture Of 'The WON.
an Swearing the Child" the husband
Is shown with mum fastened by a
hook to his girdle, and in Taste In
High Life" the beau carries a large
muG.-1.ondoa Times.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-18
The Monkey ana the p,oo,s,

A story is told of an eminent natural.
list q forget his nance who was hoping
TO develop the intelligence Of a mon.
key to whose education he was dcvot-
ing himself. One day he saw with de-.
light that the monkey was sitting at
the other cnd Of the room turning over
the leaves OF a valuable book on en-.
tomology and looking at the plates with
apparent interest. But on going nearer
he saw, with dismay. that the monkey
was turning over the plates in order
that when he came to a particularly
large beetle or butterfly he might pick
1t out and eat It. AS the paper could
not have had nice taste, i think he
may have, been actua ted RI Their by the
fun Of the thing than by a, mere de-
PRAYED appetite. Perhaps no was VERT.
flying the like method Of learning among long
the philosophers Of sIaputa.-London
Spectator. lSs
W Try Big aEssle,s famous chicken
stew at Murphyls. u
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-18
For Sale.

Lot on Cherry avenue one block
from Jackson street, containing a
three room house, and foundation
costing 100000, on which a business
house or large dwelling could be
erected. VIII be sold cheap For
further particulars inquire at this
Office.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-18
BANDS: y. u WEN,


d ehey4 re u d setat Deal 81 d n isaisse
4 IN The fsanit GireIe. \
The han asorne nians a ii inistak 4, sacsl
cUgllng 10 q ggrie u person whoi
feels herself sqpali fled 10 speak out III;
meeting on this sub eet. sheshos been
Investigating him sSarious roles, and
declares that as $asl lover he Is Sunsatis,
factory, as a husband II failure and as
a brother nuisance. Tho hancec OF
a good looking nian has to pay dearly.
for her capture of Ean Adonis. She
lives In a. state of perpetual siege
against a!host of fair; rivals anu has to
run the gantlct Of such remarks as:
II wonder whatsthat handsome Mr..
Jones can see In that Enid Smith,"
and Isn't it funny how good looking
men always marry such plain wives ~
Her troubles are .all augmented when
she becomes a young mutron. She has
to stoically endure her husbands Airta.
tons with other women--who will
hatter him II she will not--Tand to smile
amiably when Mrs. Robinson praises
Jack and Muriel, "such pretty children,
so like their, fathcr! Last, but not
least, she must skimp her wardrobe,
while her attractive husband spends
on his ties and socks what tho ugly
man would have concentrated cheer
fully on his wife's fur cont.
AS brother the handsome man is
certainly not nm unmixed blessing.
From the first moment he opens his
beautiful eyes he is the idol Of an
adorng mother, who displays to his
moral shortcomings more than beetle.
Ike obtuseSess. AS lie grows older
she pnllatcy his love for pleasure and
his disinclinntion for work by the ex.
cusc: lack Is so good looking no IL
sure to marry mn lieiress II he goes In.
to society" Y
The sister Of the handsome man Is
only asked to parties where the hostess
dare not ask him without her, and she
Is ordered to be civil to MI sorts OF
people who hetcst her, but admire Jack.
Then the handsome brother is gcner-
ally womans man, which means that
Jack will not bring men friends home
to fall in love with his sister. If tho
modern girl could have her choice in
such u matter she would plump un.
reservediy for 4 plain, good naturcd,
ordinary brother, who would content.
cdly ncccpt the back seat allotted by
twentieth century women TO tho mere
man.
Troublesome though the handsome
brother undoubtedly is, it is probable
that in spite OF all her protcstatfons
her roya! highncss. woman. will con.
tinuc TO admire and marry him. The
handsome man Of today certainly com
parcs ravorably with the pretty man
of fifty years ago. That popular hero
was narrow chcsted, puny and pink AMI
white. while black whiskcrs inevitably
adorned his thin cheeks.
Today the handsome mnn Is stalwnrt,
well set up and muscular, for mere
beauty of feature will count for very
little. He may not be industrious, but
he Is wise enough to play football and
golf and is, by the way, almost as con.
cclted of. his proves in these directions
as Of his classic nose and chin and
"beautiful' eyts.-Pl,lladclpllla lnqulr-
err. siii
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-18
4 Z ~ ! y
MEN AND NV MEN.


Nlascagnl will write Id new opers
shortly, taking as his theme the story
Of Beatrice Cenci, ~ slgnorS fatadi
vii. write the Slibretto ID, 4
Albert, NJ. adshaW I racently reap
pointed postmaster I'M lakewood NJ Z
j., has probably the richest bonds
men Of any postmaster III the cpnn.
thy. George w. Gould heads the list
Of securities and another mlllionaiss
on the list Is Samuel rs. Beard
Ex;Gov. Morrill,. oil Kansas, has
Just begun his thirty :secondS term as Z
superintendent Of thes congregat ionili
Sunday school in tIiaWatha. Z
George L; Rouse, speaker ofs the Nc
braska House Of Representatives. b
the first farmer elevated Hi that; 20
sitlon since the early days of the
State. Il w
80 ~
Rev. XIV. ,Nottrott the american
missionary who for i years. Inns beep
laboring in Central Afrl Cd Waiting
this country. He @orl among NE
people Of the satnaaiae ems Scot He
viii not return until SsIate iaS the a,inas
mcr BIB & 4 SsE5$
H Countess Raben tl4eye tau, Nlfe d
Tie new minister of foretgn aifairs
OF the Danish government Is IN
American born, and ill$hea the le,ids
lug hostess on the Z occasion sof che
State affairs at the Danish ministry.
Her maiden name Was Moulto md
her mother, formerly a Boston singer.
is now5the wife ~ the Danish s,tnias
ter IN Berlln, II Hagermanr.
i.ildenrone. I'M :
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-18
For Sale.

General store in new mining town.
Stock will invoice $4,000. A good
discount will be given. Inquire at
this office.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-18

Our imported Japan and hand paint.
ed ware, German and ilayiland china.
ware. are Xmas presents that are
stylish and sensible. At easy prices
at ]. i. Halls Hardware, I
4! Kead the west yirg1nian. II nas
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