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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-13
In Vacation Time.

There's hole in his hat with the hair
 sticking through, And toe that peeps out from hole in
 his shoe: There's a patch In his trousers, darn
 in his hose. And a freckle that tilts on the bridge of
 his nose: But, oh, iL his heart there's the glim-
 mer and shine Of a sun that I wish could be shining
 in mine. There's a smudge on his face that is
 dusty and dark, But song in his heart like the song of
 the lark; There's rent in his coat where the
 lining shows through, But the whistle he tunes to the wild
 bird rings true; And, oh. in his heart, with a sparkle
 like wine. Is gladness I wish could be sparkling
 in mine. There's an imp in his hair that may
 keep it awry, But twinkle so rare in the blue of his
 eye; There's an uneven slant of his trousers
 made fast With d nail through their tops, for a
 button won't last; But deep in his heart lies a spring cool
 and fine Of good cheer that I wish could be bub-
 bling in mine There is tan on his cheeks where the
 flush of health gloWs And the skin has all peeled from the tip
 of his nose; His pockets are bulged with tops, mar
 bles and strings, With jackknives and other unaccount-
 able things; But the brooks and the woods bring a
 music divine To his ears that I wish they were bring
 ing to mine.
 U. w, Foley in New York Times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-13
LOUISIANA EFFORT.

T. Spence Smith, 8 member of the Louisiana legislature, feels that he ought to do something to justify his election and SD he has invented and in- tfoduced 8 bill which provides that it shah be unlawful for any young man to attempt to court any young woman before he is twenty-four years of age. Before making such attempt he shall inform the parents or guardian of the woman he proposes to court of his in- tention to do so. He shall also make affidavit before justice of the peace that his courtship will be in good faith and for the purpose of trying to con- vince the young woman that 1t will be profitable for her to marry him. It shall be unlawful for widowers over the age of forty to attempt to court any woman under the age of eighteen be- yond the confines of the parish of their residence.
 It is hardly probable that this bill will become a law, and yet it can be defended by those who are not young, who are not afraid of race suicide, and who believe that widowers over forty should take wives somewhere near their own size and age. But love will con- tjnue to be love in Louisiana, and MT. Smith will find that he is either far ahead or far behind the times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-13

stone and then held against buflng wheel. On'some hoes the shank is bronzed with a brush, but this is not until after the handles have been put in place. -Philidelphia Record.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-13
CRIME IN 4 USTRAITA.

There is something to talk about all over the world. An assertion has been going the rounds in the English press recently to the effect that crime has in- creased greatly in Australia since the abolition of State aid to the denomina- tional schools. The truth of this is ve- hemently denied by MT. T. A. Coghlan
 a well-known statistician, who quotes official figures in support of his posi- tion. He says that he has combined the returns relating to New South
 Wales and those of Victoria for the past thirty years; and the results thus obtained give a very fair idea of the course of crime throughout Australia during the period indicated. The num- Der of persons apprehended gives a rough test of crime generally; the num- Der of persons committed for trial by jury gives an idea of the prevalence of serious crime; and the average num- her of persons in jail shows the tax placed upon the community by its criminal population. Taking these in
 their order he shows that during the
 last thirty years the apprehenstons per e1O, 900 of the population were as follows: 1878, sSO; 1880, SS2; 1896, 847; 1900, 254; 1904, 242. Therefore, the number of persons arrested declined during pe- riod of about thirty years from 3S2 in 1J,OOO to 242, or by considerably more than one-third, the greater part of the improvement having taken place since the year 1890. An equally marked im- provement, he says is found in the av- craze number of persons committed to
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ADyERr1srNe RATn.

Situations. wanta Rents. and other au1all advertisements. Ono Cont "oFo sach insertion. Five Cents Word TOT sun week.
 Display advsrtisoments. per inch one enaeESi0m. 5Ia0 each subsequent 4nser- gtons 40 cenSns one weeg. Ss.aOi one months siVs ono ysars sA0,
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1Tilhonaire-The dealer sold me this ''old master" very cheap.
 Friend-Because he knew you, I sup pose?
 Mllionaire-Gad, no! Because he didn't.-Judge.
 What makes you so sure Bliggins is & college man? He never quotes from the classics"
 NO. But he knows every technical ity that pertains to athletics. ."-Wash- ington Star.
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Some of our little brown sisters ap- pear to be fast getting civilized. A Filipino girl carried off the honors at the Drexel institute graduation, Phil- adelphia
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-13

A cabIegram sent to William Jen- nings Bryan at Dresden came back en- dorsed, ''undelivered, party not known" :" Such Is fame.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-13

More than thirty enlisted men of the army will be placed under instruction at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in the next two months, in preparation for their final examination for appointment assecond lieutenants in the army. These candidates will have to their credit the commissions which remain vacant after the appointment of the graduates of the Military Academy later this month. It is within the power of the Secretary of War to divide the remaining vacancies between the qualified enlisted men and such civilians as he may select from a list of several hundred applications from that source. There is great Inter- est, the military authorities find, in these appointments, and the eiv- ilians are shoWin great de- sire to enter the army at a time when promotion to higher grades threatens to be more impeded than ever before. This process of stagnation is a veritable problem which army officers have undertaken to solve, the most for- midable of the measures of relief be- ing a system of elimination devised by General William Crozier, the chief of ordnance of the army.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-13

This Is world of change. Motor boats of all kinds are beconlins more and more numerous on the Venetian canals, threatening to displace the old time gondoaa. The gondoliers are much disturbed. In dispute between two of them and two electric launch men the latter were stabbed, one fatally.
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DELIVERED RY CARRIERS IN THE CrTY, la GENTS A WEEK. 50 GENTS A MoNrH. ss FOR BLK MONTHS. 50 A YEAR. THH SAME TERMS BY EsArxA grN0H.n COPIES, 2 CENrA-
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Justice isn't always slow. May 8 flsree road agents held up & Canadian Pacific train near Kamloops, British Columbia, May IA there were caught; May 19 they were held for the action of the grand jury by the examining magistrate: May 2S they were indicted; May % they were put on trial; May 30 socialist juror forced disagreement; May s1 they were put on trial again, and June they went to the peniten- tiary. Two of them are in for life, and the third for twenty-five years.
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rmm OLDEST DAILY PAPER pUB-
 EIsHnD IN CONNECTICUT. -,
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The civil service commission has completed the compilation of statistics relative to old age in the departmental service in Washington. The commis- sion has found among other things, that there are 94S employees between the ages of 65 and 70, that they per- form s1.7 per cent. of the proper amount of work, that they draw an av- craze salary of $1,253, and that the sal ary adjusted to the work performed would be $1,024. Similarly, the employees from 70 to 75 number 4S5, perform 7S,4 per cent. of their work, receive $1,22O and earn $956, while those over 75 num- her 21S, perform 72.1 per cent. of their work, draw $1,166 and earn $841. The total salaries of all 65 and over amount to $1,973y58050. Were these salaries ad- 1usted to the amount of work perform ed the total would be $1,57o,00O.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-13

TMH WEEKLY JOURNAL RsnwaA TAursdays, One nollaR a YcaRs
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At a ''psychometric lecture" in Lon don something of real value was brought out. A man always sober sud- denly became confirmed drunkard. There was no apparent reason. Then a psychometric expert was called in, dis covered that there was something un- canny about the chair in which the fallen man habitually sat, and eventually found that he bought it at a sale, and that it had been the property of publican who died of drink! The chair was burned accordingly, and the man became a teetotaller again
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-09-28

marvel, considering its remoteness
from the nearest base of supplies; the
Rajah laid aside his mask of fierce
ness and bC2med hospitality; Mrs
Carteret was innocuously gracious;
Bessie of the fiaxen hair and the Rev.
erend William Calvert came in har-
moniously on the cheerful refrain;
and Virginia-but il was Virginia woo
filled all hor IONS for Winton.
Knowing no more than any serious
minded man the latest social niceties
of a dinner party, and caring still less
for them, he monopoliZed her shame
lessly from the moment of greeting.
In the interval of plate laying he ma
neuvered skillfully TO obtain posses
sion of the tete-atete chair. and with
that convenient piece of furniture for
an aid he managed to keep Virginia
wholly to himself un dinner was
announced. /.
For another man the informal table
gathering might have been easily pro-
hibitive of confidence a deux, even
with a Virginia Careteret to help, but
Winton was far above the trammel-
ings of time and place. All attempts
on the part oI his host, Mrs. Martha.
Adams, or the Reverend Billy to en-
tangle him in the general table talk
failed signally. He had eyes and ears
only for the sweet-faced, low-voiced
young woman beside him, and some
of his replies to the others were ir-
relevant enough to send smile
around the board.
How very absent-minded Mr.. Win
ton seems to be this evening"" muir
INJURED Bessie from her niche between
Adams ana the Reverend Billy at the
farther end OF the table. "He isn't
quite at his best, is he, Mr.. Adams?"
mo, indeed" said the technologian,
matching her undertone. very far
from it. lie has been lit off all day;
touch of mountain fever, I'm afraid. .
But he doesn't look at all ill.," OBJ
jected Miss Bessie. II should say he
is a perfect picture of rude health"
you can't tell anything about him
by his looks" rejoined Adams, g;ibly
Absolute mask-that face Of his
But between us, don't you know,
think h, must be going to have q
fever. Struck him all at oHe about
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-09-28

She smiled approval. You are do
ing better-much better With a little
practice-you are sadly out of practice,
aren't you'll do believe you could
pay one pretty compliment"
Winton rose manTully to his cppor-
tunity.
mo one could pay you compliments,
Miss Virginia. 1t would De utterly i'm
possible"
why? '>cause my chief delight in
life Is to catch a man napping?"
"Oh, no. Because the prettiest
things that could be said of you would
be only an awkward mirroring OF the
truth"
Dear mellow fnel" she applaud
ed. 81 am afraid you have been read.
ing Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His
Son'-very recently. Confess, now;
haven't your"
Winton laughed.
You do Lord Chesterfield a very
great injustice; cribbed that from
The Indiscretions of a Warehouses -
he retorted
Here was another new experience
for Miss Virginia Oarteret: To have
the trodden worm turn: to be paid
back in her own coin. She liked him
rather better for It; and, liking him,
proceeded to punish him, woman wise.
The coffee was served, and Mrs. Car
teret was rising. Whereupon Miss
Virginia handed her cup to the techno-
Logan, and so had him for her COM
panion in the tete-a-tete chair, leav-
ing Winton to shift for himself.
The shifting process carried him
over to the Rajah and the Reverend
Billy, to a small table in a corner of
the compartment, and the enjoyment
of a mild cigar and such desultory
racketing of the ball of conversation
as three men, each more or less in
tent upon his own concerns, may keep
up.
Later, when Calvert had been elm
mated by Miss Bessie, Winton looked
TO see the true inwardness of the din
ner-bidding made manifest by his host.
That Mr. Somerville Darrah had an
ak to grind in the right-of-way mattel
he did not doubt; this notwithstsnd-
I ing his word TO Adams defensive OF
the Rajah's probable motive.
CTo 4E CoNTINUED)
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"Ye gods and little minnows!-
worse and more of 1t! You don't
mean that you are going to accept"
said Adams. aghast.
Certainly; and so are you. We
shall have quite enough Of Mr.. Man
talini's 'demnition grind up here in
this Godforsaken wilderness without
scamping our one little chance to for
get IL for a few social minutes"
There was no more TO be said, and
the technologian held his peace while
Winton scrubbed line of acceptance
on leaf of his notebook and sent 1t
across to the Rosemary by the hand
of the water boy But in the evening,
as they were setting out from the con-
struction camp to walk up the track to
Argentine, he made a final effort to
call halt.
Jack, this is worse than idiotic,"
he protested. There is that consign-
ment of steel you were wiring about
to-day; one of us ought to go down
to the Junction to see If 1t is ready to
be showed to the front"
Bother the STEEL" was the impa-
tient rejojinder "Drayton wired it
would be there, didn't he? Come on,
we shall be late"
Whom me gods would destroy they
first make MAJ" quoted Adams under
his breath; but he mac no more diff
culties.
Their reception at the steps of the
Rosemary was a generol 6 proof of the
aptness of that E>lrism which sum-
up the status post bellum in the terse
phrase: After war, peace" Mr.. OAR
rah met them; was evidently saiting
for them; and was as heartily hos
pitable as a master of men can be
when he puts his entire mind to it.
Come in, gentlemen; come in and
be at home"-this with a hand for
each. Virginia allowed you wouldn't
faveh us, but assured her she didn't
rightly know men of the world told
her thai a picayune business affair IN
when we are all acting as corpora
ton proxies needn't spell out anything
like a blood feud between gentlemen.
Straight ahead, Misteh Winton; afteh
you, Misteh Adams"
Such was the suspicious beginning
of an evening which Winton thought
worthy TO be marked in his calendar
with white stone.
The dinner was a astronomical
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-09-28

three O'Clock this afternoon, and am
sure he hasn't been quite right in his
head since"
why, how dreadful" said Bessie.
sympatheticaIly And | suppose there
isn't a doctor to be had anywhere in
these terrible mounta As."
But upon this point Adams reas-
sured her promptly.
"Oh, yes, there is; Winton has al
ready had his preliminary consulta-
ton and is, as you may say, in the
way of icing prescribed for. And III
see to 1t that he takes his medicine
before he turns in tonight. You may
trust me for that"
Thus Mr.. Morton p. Adams, in
irony far too subtle for the flaxen-
haired Bessie. But Winton's replies
were not specially irrelevant when Vir-
ginia evoked them. On the contrary,
he was finding her sallies keenly pro-
vocative of what wit and readiness
there was in him.
IL believe your chief delight In life
is TO catch man mapping" he
laughed, when she had succeeded in
demonstrating, for the third time In
as many minutes, how inadequate a
mans wit is to cope with woman's.
81 do enjoy it," she confessed, with
the brown eyes confirming the adj
mission. What woman does not?
Isn't your rams attitude towards us
one of thinly yelled contempt at the
very best? For instances you said
just now that while no woman could
do without a man, the reverse was
true of the man.
II didn't know | said anything like
that. If | did, it was heresy."
NO; il was one of those little lapses
into sincerity which a man permits
himself on rare occasions, when he
isn't fiattering. You really believe it,
you know you do"
do |? 1t wouldn't be polite to con-
tradict you. But what | said, or tried
to say, was that a man could exist,
as Adams and | are existing at pres
ent, without feminine oversight"
But what you meant was the 9TH
err" she insisted-"that we are not
necessary to you, while you are neces-
sary to u.s.. Then, reverting to the
matter of mere existence: Gould you
keep it up indefinitely, Mr.. Winton."
Isn't our being here this evening
proof positive to the contrary?"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-09-28

Ostrich farming in the United States
is really only in its infancy. 1t has
been only % years since the first
American ostrich farm was started
The early attempts met with varying
degrees of success. The pioneer
breeders in this country had TO get
most of their knowledge from their
own experience. In fact, more than
half the ostriches now in the United
States are the progeny of a single
pair owned in Arizona in 1891. Great
progress has been made in the last
five years, and there are now 1900
ostriches on farms in the United
States. OF these. 1,54O Including
remainder in California, Florida and
Arkansas.
Where good alfalfa pasture has been
available the birds bred in America
have grown larger than those first i'm
ported. A full-grown fat ostrich will
weigh from 375 to $50 pounds. He
will stand eight feet high, but can
easily reach to 10 or IL feet.
Ostriches thrive best in warm, dry
climate, but can be grown in any of
the southern states and territories in
this country. In a moist climate they
should have protection from cold and
rain.
Salt River valley, Arizona, is
thought by many to be the best loca-
ton. in the United States for ostrich
farming. Climatic conditions are IA
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-09-28
JAPAN TAKES TO NEWSPAPERS.
Most All Of the Younger Generation
10 Able to Read.

In Japan there were already In 1909
1923 newspapers. dailies and others,
the highest circulation OF any one pa
per reaching about quarter OF mil
lion, says the Worlds Work. Among
the lower classes one paper is read,
as far as l have been able to observe,
by five or six persons. A very few OF
the older people cannot read, but all
the younger generation can.
Tn most eager interest is taken not
only in stirring public events but in
administrative measures, such as the
very recent naturalization of the rail-
ways. Every newspaper posts its
daily issue in the street, and all day
long groups of readers, too poor to
buy copy, replace each other TO scan
the news of the day. Discussion runs
high among people who are far below
the voters level, though every male
over 25 years of age and paying a di-
rect tax of ten yen five dollars) is en-
titled to vote The rights of discus
sion, public assembly and publication
are as full and as fully taken advan'
tage of as in England.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-09-28
PRAISE OF THE BAKED POTATO.
OF All Known Varieties the Finest,
Declares Writer.

There are said 10 be LAS different
so far discovered, is the baked pota-
to. OF course, the potato grows down
in the chambers of the earth, away
from the sunshine, the jolly zephyrs
and the songs of the birds. 1t is
down there among the worms and the
creatures of the dark, where the cold
rains huddle about it, says the Column
bus Journal.
But although it's environment is
dismal, and it holds no communion
with the lovely visions of the air, dear
old mother Nature takes good care of
it, and suffuses its humble being with
many happy qualities, through the
mystic chemistry of the soil, which
burst in all the exuberance of flow
er, when gently baked and broken
open by a loving hand.
Then, that snowy bosom-like ten
derness exudes an aroma as delicate
as a lilys, nd whets the appetite like
a aiSh OF ambrosia. One wonders how
=: can be so, that this soggy tuber
develops itself into a concretion OF
creamy spray. when submitted to the
friendly heat of the oven. But there
il is spread out in raptures on the
plate, and anointed with butter and
sprinkled with salt, the fairest dish of
health and virtue and loving kindness
in all the menus of delight.
There are mashed potatoes, fried
potatoes, boiled potatoes, creamed POI
tatoes, Saratoga chips and divers 9TH
er sorts of greasy, watery, woody
connections of the humble tuber, but
nowhere resides the brooding tender
ness of its loving mother as when
baked to the turn of an autumn leaf
and breaking into a smile before you.
But one must not bake a potato clum-
silly, dumping il into any kind of an
old oven. and giving il no care. no pa
thence, no kindly touch. Give IL these,
and of the LAS different kinds of POI
tato you will love the baked the best.
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sary, because the ostrich can kick or
strike very hard. but it always strikes
out in front and never behind, so that
the plucker is perfectly safe if he
stands in the rear.
Nothing is positively known as to
how long an ostrich will live. Some
writer's claim that 1t will live 100
years. Ostriches which are known to
have been in captivity for 40 years
are still breeding and producing feath-
ers. 1t is the experience of Arizona
farmers that among birds having good
nutritious green feed deaths seldom
occur except as the result of accident.
A dog or other small animal will some
times brighten ostriches and cause
then to run into the fence, which may
result in a broken leg. When this
happens the bird may as we'll be
killed, as few If any ever recover
from such an injury.
The question most frequently asked
by visitors to an ostrich farm Is:
What is an ostrich WORTH" The
somewhat curt reply usually given is:
Inc DlTuS are not Ior sdle dI any
price" The day has not yet arrived
when the American grower is ready
to part with his birds as the grower
of other animals does. The value OF
the ostrich has only begun to be APP
preciated. Practically the only in
ducement that will bring an ostrich
farmer to the point where he will sell
birds is lack of available pasture for
them. Ostrich farmers may name the