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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
ODD DowRIEs FOR BRIDES.

One Received Her Weight in Soap
 Another Her Weight in Chocolate.
 A rather valuable wife in the pre- sent state of the soap trade must be the lady whom M. Le Blanc, a Pari- sian, has just married The fair bride, who was the daughter of a hairdres- ser in a large way of business, not only received from her father hand some dot in money, but her own weigh in the best toilet soap. As she weigh ed close on 140 pounds the couple will posses sufficient soap to last the for some years to come.
 When asked by his prospective father-in-law, a flourishing West End tobacconist, to name the present he would like to receive on his wedding day the young man suggested few boxes of cigars as being of more use than the usual gifts presented on such occasions. Very we'll; you shall have my daughters weight in cigars" said the other. He was as good as his word. On the day before that fixed for the ceremony he had the bride weighed, and that same evening for warded to his future son-in-law some dozens of boxes of cigars, weighing in the aggregate 12S pounds,
 Mile. Marie Brie, the niece of a Marseilles confectioner, received from her uncle on her marriage, three years ago, an equally eccentric gift In the form of her own weight in chocolate. Perhaps the worthy patissier had in mind when making the present the custom which prevails in Peru. There on the marriage morn the bride is accurately weighed, and after the ceremony the bridegroom is presented by his wife's relatives with her weight in sugar.
 A Yorkshire coal merchants present to his daughter on her marriage was to be regulated by her weight, for every pound of which she was to be the recipient of ton of best Wall send. His intention, which was com municated to her on the day she be- came engaged, stirred her, as she was a young woman of most frugal mind, to emulate the fat women of the fairs, so that during the six months her engagement lasted her value went up ten tons. Doubtless she would have made further inroads into her fathers store had not that worthy merchant married her off at a loss of only 172 tons.
 The father of a girl living in the town of Koniggratz offered to pre- sent any one who should become her husband her weight in silver currency. As the day was well favored and of a build, although not exceptionally stout, promised an amount ample to make a good start in business, more than one claimant appeared.
 The most eligible was at length se- leeted, and the wedding duly solemn
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
ONE WHISTLE FOR A TOWN.
Costs a Dollar to Blow-Can Be Heard
 for Ten Miles.

Costs Dollar to Blow-Can Be Heard
 for Ten Miles. East St. Louis now has the biggest steam whistle in the world. It is a re- markabe triple machine with three voices-a three chime whistler, whose capacity for the annihilation of peace is extraordinary. This whistle blows a ten mile blast at half steam, and with favorable wind has a disturbing power of twenty miles, It costs dol lar every time it is blown. But this great whistle is not all noise. It is an idea in economy, noise combine. Almost all the little noises, yelps, toots and whines of smaller mechanical threats in East St. Louis are now dumb. The giant whistle trust whistles for them The independent whistles have to whistle off time to be heard.
 Within the range of this whistle are said to be 100000 people who tell time by it.
 This remarkable whistle has been installed by the East St. Louis and Suburban Electric Railway Company at the Belt power house, State and Twentieth streets, where the com pany's machine shops and car barns located,
 The greatest modern siren comprises three whistles. The largest is almost six feet in height, and nearly as big around as a man. On each side of the main one is a smaller whistle. The three units combine to make one noise, with which even Babanne, miles away, across the Mississippi River, in the west end of St. Louis, is well ac- quainted.
 This big triple whistler was also set up at the railway company's electrical generating station as feature. It is connected with an electric clock, which is regulated by the Govern ment standard time sent out from Washington on the dropping of ball at exactly noon each day.
 The electric clock which connects with the whistle is guaranteed not to vary five seconds in time a year, and the clocks record to date Is satlsfac- tory. Almost every man looks at his watch when the first blast is sounded by the big whistfa at ' o'clock in the morning. Almost every housewife in East St. Louis glances at her mantel timepiece when the siren woos noon the second blast of the day. The third blast is an hour later, and the last it at in the evening. From the St. Louis Post7Dlspatch.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
BLACK BEAR sTARTLEs
Thomaston Residents.

Whatever doubt may have existed in the minds of the skeLtical regarding the reality of the large black bear which it was claimed a few months ago had been seen by several persons a short distance north of Thomast9n has changed into rather serious belief within the past few days, as last Fri day evening an animal, answering per- fectly the description of the bear, frigtened a horse owned and driven by frightened a horse owned and driven by the haunted house on the Waterbury road, and followed the horse half a mile before it was lost sight of. Ac- companying MT. Bradstreet was Flu gene Dewey, clerk at the A. M. Flint, Company's clothing store, and both young men are Iositive that the anil nal was a bear.
 When first noticed it was in an erect position in the brush at the side of the road. The horse stopped complete ly snorted and, shying to the opposite side of the road. started on a wild run. pursued by the unweIcome intruder. It is probable that hunting party will be organized to go in search of the beast.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
TIRED oTrT BY RoosEvELT.

The Eagle earnestly requests the President, in the language of the late S. S. Cox, thoroughly to reverse him. self, and to act accordingly" Instead of sending in a 25-cOlumn message, let him cut it down to five. Instead of following that 25-column message with seven supplemental special mes sages, in four consecutive days, we entreat him to reduce the number at least a third In short let the Presi- dent stop thinking awhile. Let him devote himself, if he will, to the purely unintellectual form of energy known as exercise" whether that en- ergy be worked out on horseback or afoot, or at croquet, or at tennis, or at handball.
 Let him give to his mind a rest If possible, let him sleep three hours a day, for three successive days, and or der the execution, the summary exc cution, of any one who dares to broach to him a topic suggest such a nuisance to him as a duty, or worry him with that Satanic form of temp tation known as opportunity" The country is not tired of the President, but he Is giving to the country that tired feeling" which an excess of suggestion invariably implants, and which a swiftness of recommendation, from external sources, effects in those who become it's victims by, becoming its auditors or it's Brooklyn Eagle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21

things suited to It's baseness, fatuoliw 1afces, suggestive comedies, suited only to amuse the vulgar or the CO., rrupt
 Who can wonder that the drama as serious art form Ianguishes under such restriction? To the English the Bible is the book of books, the store house of incidents and characters { which have power to stir their deepesf emotions as no other characters or inf cidents can. The English theatre ih not allowed to present them The EnL glish are, at bottom, a solemn people. They enjoy sermons, They like their art with a purpose. Their Prime Minister found time to review "Ro- bert Elsmere." They themselves found time to read it. The censorship says to the manager: You shall not pre- sent plays of serious moral interest dealing with serious moral problems.p During the last few years, among other plays, the censor has refused to license Ghosts" by Ibsen; Les Trois Files de M. Dupont" and Ma ternite' Gin English) by M. Brieux, and MT. Bernard shaw's Mrs War ren's Profession Of these, Ghosts deals with quite portentous gravity with the visiting of the sins of the fathers upon the children. The two plays of M. Brieux are far more mor- al and improving than most sermons. Mrs. Warren is a courageous state- ment of terrible social problem, and has just been pronounced by an American tribunal to be perfectly suitable for public performance even in the blameless atmosphere of the United States. Yet these and similar plays can only be given in London in a quasi-furtive manner by institutions like the Stage Society in the private theatre of the National Sporting C1ubi St. John Rankin, in The Fortnightly Review.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
THE NAVY AS INSURANCE.

It's the Only Means for Protecting
 Our Immense Interests.
 International relations as now found in the world are still in the condi- tions that existed before the modern advance in law and order that has taken place within the civilized na- tions. There is no form of interna- ttonal police to maintain law and or der and protect the rights of nations There is no form of international judiciary to issue injunctions to re- strain the strong who may be bent on exploiting the weak. There Is no in- ternational organization for peace which could substitute trial by jus tice for trial by war. There is no agreement for compulsory investi- gation or even tentative compulsory arbitration.
 All these agencies of peace and justice are most desirable, and the United States should take the lead in developing and promoting them. But as the world exists to-day each nation must provide for its own de- fence. To neglect this Is to rush into the fact of the most fundamental God-given law for perpetuating life, the law of self-preservation It is clear that England Is not going to protect the United States; Germany is not; Japan is not; no other nation is going to protect us. We must pro- tect ouselves.
 The degree of our exposure is far greater than the public or Congress seem to have any conception of, judg- ing from legislative results. We have 17,O0O miles of coast line, with bays, harbors, navigable rivers and lakes, all accessible from the sea, such as do not exist in any other nation or com bination of nations. To-day we have 20,000000 American citizens living and doing business within gunshot of the water More American citizens are citizens on all the coasts, bays, har- bors, and navigable rivers of the en- tire continent of Europe combined, and, leaving out the one city of Lon don, we have twice as many on the seaboard as all Europe combined,
 It is vain to look to forts, mines, and torpedoes. These are valuable and important for a third line of defense, but that did not stop Nelson at Cop enhagen, Farragut at Mobile, or Dewy at Manila Bay. They cannot stop a determined commander of a great fleet, Our navy is the only effective effective for all coastwise property. Protection, or in business terms, in- surance for all this property would alone warrant and demand the larg- est navy in the world.
 But the necessity for protection is not limited to coastwise cities. While only a part of our products go abroad, It is this part that, keeps the values high, determining the price. We have $LoOO,000,00O in American export pro- perty, such as cotton, food stuffs, and manufactured articles, belonging large " to those living inland. More American property is on the high seas than is hoated by any other nation. It Is selt-evident that our navy is the only available insurance for this property, and such insurance alone logically
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
MELLEN CHOSEN PRESIDENT
Continued from Sixth Page.)

ways in Connecticut all but eight, holding comparatively small proper ties, have now been acquired by the New Haven company. It will absolute ny control practically all surface trac- tlon in Connecticut and Rhode Island and is protected against any electric competition of through lines between Boston and New York. It is under stood that such competition was threatened not many months ago by a plan which involved the securing of the possession of the lines In Rhode Island and in southern Massachusetts, including those at New Bedford and Fall River, and which it was thought might eventually come into physical relation with new electric road which is being built from New York city to the Connecticut line.
 The immensity of the deal and the care which was necessary to pass the papers of so many constituent con- panies involved great labor on the part of the lawyers, and when this was done, the boards of directors of the corporations gave formal ratification of the deal and its official announce
 neat is now made.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21

The mucous coating of the stomach and intestines has lost it's power Of secreting the gastric juice Gan impor- tant factor in digestion) the muscles of the middle coating are correspond ingly lifeless in grinding up the food, and as a result, the food lies in your stomach fermenting, poisoning the blood, irritating the nerves and break ing down the system.
 Something must be done to arouse the digestive organs to action. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets alone have been found capable of digestlng the food for the unhealthy stomach. They contain diastase pepsin and other digestive agents which the stomach itself pos sesses when in health. These agents digest the food in the stomach and give the stomach chance to rest and regain it's normal powers.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21

ized, Then came the most important function-the weighing of the bride, who to her husbands delight was found to weigh 155 pounds, or 13,50o kronen, an equivalent to e562 los,
 So much did he admire stout men that MT. Bait, a tradesman who pro spered exceedingly at Brighton under the Regency, promised his only daughter that her dowry should con- sist of the equivalent in gold to the excess of her husbands bodily weight over hers. She at once threw over 1ancc, a mere stem of man, and af- ter due consideration made so wise a choice that, although she herself weighed upward of 12 stone, she found herself on her marriage morn richer by no less than 4,OOO guineas.-From Tit-Bits.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
BRITISH CENSORSHIP OF THE
 DRAMA.

DRAMA
 The censorship of plays was not ori- ginally invented in the interests of the unco' guid. It has only been pres verted to that use. It was instituted to prevent dramatists from exposing the corruption of Sir Robert Walpole's administration. Its purpose in fact, was political, not moral and it still, at rare intervals, exerts itself in politi- cal matter. A dozen or more years ago it intervened to secure the alteration of comic song which was held to be offensive to the late Lord Randolph Churchill. More recently 1t insisted on changing the title of play which wounded the susceptibilities of the Sultan of Turkey. But it's action III this department has hitherto been toll erated harmless. The main pre- occupation of the censorship to-day is with faith and morals. No modern play dealing with a Biblical subject or containing Biblical characters may be publicly performed on the English stage. The censor will not allow it. ALu lutT6 ID 9 ioA S0 anu llllIilSuSely important department of morals with which the English dramatist may not deal either. The censor will not allow it. The historic attitude of Puritanism toward the stage reasserts itself here in it's baldest and crudest form. The theatre is one of the devils strong holds It would be preposterous to per init it TO concern itself with serious matters of faith or morality. It would be impious to do so. Let it keep to the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
calls for the largest navy in u

calls for the largest navy in the world.
 America is rapidly becoming the producing nation of the world. pro- excessively producing more and more in excess of our own consumption. Foreign markets are rapidly becom- ing more vital to American property than to the property of any other nation. The greatest of all the future markets of the world, China, is now undeveloped land, Where a nations commerce has no guarantee against boycotts or other determinations that could be brought about by the influence or dietation of a rival power. Our rights in the for eign markets of the world, the mar kets beyond the seas, must look to our navy alone, and, as insurance, call for the largest navy in the world.
 Our castwise population, instead of becoming panic stricken on the ap- proach of war, should adopt the ra- tional policy of providing insurance in advance; our insland population, instead of waiting for their products to be blockaded in our harhors or de- stroyed on the high seas, should join the coastwise people In providing in surance in advance All producers in America should not wait for the call amity of destruction of our standing and our commerce in foreign markets, but should join in carrying the only rational insurance.
 Our Congress, the servants and guardians of the nations interests, should not wait until it is too late, but by rational and consecutive, ample programme, provide the nation with its only insurance, a large navy.-F'rom the Washington Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
WhyTake
 Business Home?
Are Your Nerves Constantly Strained
 With Groundless Worries?

The cause of this tense condition is in your stomach. Your food does not digest properly Nine-tenths of all dyspepsia and indigestion is of the nervous type and the only certain cure is to right the cause Tonics, brain foods, bltters, etc, are mere tempo rory stimulants Your stomach and small intestines have become deranged by improper selection of foods, imper- feet mastlcation and irregularity both as to time and amount of eating.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
FROM A TOMATO CAN.


 Arose the Great RumLus Over the
 Japanese--A Disappointed Here.
 The boy who threw tomato can and thereby created an international muddle has been found He is Sidney Marks, formerly a special delivery pos tai messenger, but now, as one result of his action in interfering in the Oomity of nations, reduced to the more humble place of a plasterer's aIren- tice.
 Sidney threw tin can which knocked the silk hat from the head of Professor Omori That incident came to the knowledge of President Roose- welt, and it is understood here, was the circumstance which decided him to let the Japanese paragraphs in his IT ressages stand against the protests of many of his advisers.
 Professor Omori, who is one of the
 most distinguished seismologists, was studying earthquake results near the San Francisco postoffice when a tomato can, aimed with obnoxious ac- curacy, knocked his hat off.
 It was known that the can was thrown by one of number of boys in the emIloy of the postoffice
 The postoff1ce superintendent caled the boys together and ordered them to tell who was the culprit Each pro- fessed absolute ignorance of the affair.
 The superintendent then adopted more subtle means of getting the truth. He told the boys to write the name of he offender on slips of 1aper, which were deposited in hat. With complete unanimity the boys named Marks, He saw what was coming and wrote his own name on the slip which had been handed him.
 Thereupon, for throwing the can, he "goot the can" In other words, he was bounced
 Sidney's own account of the incident is interesting, not only as history of the apanece-American trouble. but also because it furnishes material for philologists who are interested in the comparative slang of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. By way of an explana- tory preface, it should be set forth that "skippie" Is an epithet aplied to Japanese here, Sidney says;
 Tt was this way: There was a bunch of us behind the Iostoff1ce when one of the gang yells:
 Pipe the skippie under the dicer! Let's soak inn.
 "We let loose for fair, me to be the how T bo1Ipoa5 nff 1,i sky-piece. He was sure sore.
 But we sent him down an alley after the naughty boy who did him wrong. I guess the naughty boy thing didn't go with the skipple, cause MT. Fiske called us up and give us chance to tell who did it.
 Say, the way the gang came through at first was great-nothin' doIn.'
 'There MT. Fiske, he ses each kid must write the name of the one who bumIed the skippie on a piece of pa per and put it In hat
 Now, the right-up was for no name. See? But I 'spects a couple of candy boys is gettin' cold feet, and it's me Johnny Wise that I'm for the throw down. I suppose the bet with my own signature on my IaDer, See?
 "Say, do you know what was in that hat? Little Shiney was a redhot favorite with every vote. That guess I laid on the candy boys fet saved my reputation. I was due for the can, anyhow
 Say, didn't the president put me name in is message after I done something to give him chance to talk? No? That's pretty punk, aint it?'-san Francisco Special Chicago Tribune
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
Choice Christmas Gifts for Men.
WHOM SHOULD WE REMEMBER?

Remembe-h Old Folks this may their Xma-nak happes Remembe-h Poor the few N Remember-he Servants who have
 Remembe- Letter Carriers the Policemen Remembehat of utility
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
WHERE JEWELLERS GET GOLD.
Sources From Which Come Material
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Sources From Which Come Material
 Used in Their Work.
 Refineries, old jewelry and banks are inc sources from which the jewellers draw their gold supply. From the re- finer the gold comes to the factory in the form of buttons or granules. The refineries take the waste of the jewell " shops and the sweepings, and by burning off the material portions and proper treatment of the residue re- cover the gold that otherwise would have been lost. That this saving of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21

Engine company 1 was called to Ab- ner Hendee's storehouse yesterday to eXtinguish some smouldering straw. This was left over from the fire of the day before.
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