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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
Prohibition and Liquor Statistics.
(The Philadelphia Record.)

(Ine Pnllauelpnld NSCoFuD
 It is stated by Prohibitiorist leaders that the territory which is dry" now includes fully one-third of the entire population of the United States. The number of people living under prohib- itory laws is estimated at thirty-t three million, or more than ten times the number thus protected against them selves a quarter of century ago. One would imagine that the expected bene- ficent effects would be shown in cor responding falling off of the consump- tion of fermented and distilled alco- internal revenue collectors show no such effect The tax receipts from whiskey withdrawn from bond for con- sumption continue to mount from year to year, and the output of the brewers of malt liquors continues to increase. Nor is this increase merely proportion Ate to the growth of population; on the contrary, the per capita consump- tion in 1906 Ca little more than twenty two and one-half gallons) was nearly twice the per capita consumed twenty years ago,
 How are these statistical facts to be reconciled with the claim that the ex- tension of prohibitory Legislation has the effect of diminishing indulgence in stimulants? To assert that the sixty million people living in the territory where the sale of liquor is licensed consume all of the two billion gallons, or thereabouts, which the country an- nually produces would be to maintain an absurdlty, and, moreover, 1t would be demonStrably untrue.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
The Learned Woman.

When I married my wife she had
 studied stenography, Got that down solid, then took up
 photography, Mastered that science and started
 geography, All in the course of year. She presently took up course of Followed that up with touch of my
 thology. Got degree in the line of zoology. Still her great mind remained clear. So she took in a course of the theory
 of writing, Some lessons and points on the subject
 Of fighting, A long course of use-building, heat
 ing, and lighting, For over her classmates she'd soar. So she entered the subject of steam Took also instruction in church educa-
 tion, And mastered the study of impersona-
 ton,
 And stili she was longing for more. Next she tackled the latest great fad Dress reform institutes taught her
 simplicity; Sought the best way to encourage felic-
 ity.
 Oh, she's as smart as book. She at last ended up with course of
 phonetics Gave a little attention and time to
 athletics; The rest of her time she then gave to
 nlagnetics, And now she is learning to cook
 -Tit-Bits
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

Doctor, I know what Ananias did for "a living now-Illustrated Bits.
 Young man. hailed the walking delegate, "do you believe in unions ?'' You bet I do," replied the youne man in the black suit and white tie, Glad to hear it. On your way to work, suppose?" "No, on my way to get married. ."-Chicago Daily News.
 Our club is going to give a. big en- tertainment next month"
 Yes. so I heard. Do you think fl will be success?"
 Sure to be. We've arranged it ST that every member is chairman ot some committee or other S"-Philadel- phia Press.
 First Youth--"My papa put man. sard roof on our house." Second Ditto (proudly My papa put mortgage on ours" First-'I don't care. sheard my papa say he was insured i, SeGond (still more proudly)-"Huh, l hoard papa say he was insolvent.' Baltimore American,
 Priscper--"M Mandy, An doan under stan how you got de nerve ter stan thar an'N tell de jedge that I didn't suppo't yo'"
 Mandy- Goge, in what pertickulai did yo' evef suppo't me? Tell me dat.
 Prisoner Well, Mandy, didn't I allus go an let de washin' fo' yo ter do, an didn't | allus deliver it ter de white folks after yo' got 1t done ?"-- Detroit Free Press
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
PRETTY FAIR, BUE--

Missouri doesn't want to brag. She never does that But she modestly and firmly points out that she has twenty three State institutions; has never had a general crop failure; is the leading clover State in the Union; has the largest acreage of bluegrass of any State; has the largest permanent school fund in the United States; raises one-tenth of all the corn in the world; produces 80 per cent. of all the zinc mined in the world; has one-third more apple trees than any other State; her farm land has advanced forty per cent. in the last four years; has the largest yield of cotton per acre of any State in the Union; has the lowest rate of taxation of any State.
 Pretty fair, for modern State. But without wishing to take the wind en- tirely out of Missouri we will incl dentally mention that she hasn't Yale University and its football team.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

Federal Supreme court on the grounds that the law provided that consolida- ton should be effective on approval by a majority of all the votes cast but that the two cities could not be united over the adverse vote of Allegheny, that the increased taxation which would result from the consolidation would increase the taxes in Allegheny, and would in effect work taking of the property of it's citizens without aue process of law. The final decision it appears is adverse to these claims.
 Just now Greater Pittsburg is dis turbed by the financial situation, but she will soon get over that and feel and be as big as she really is. It is fig ured that the population of Greater Pittsburg is about 55O,O00.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

task rather than to lose the responsi- bility somewhere in the vast federal machine. Weak and disappointing as the existing instruments may be, they are safer as a plain proposition in the hands of ones immediate neighbors than in the hands of men who are strangers in all but the one sense that they too are members of the great American brotherhood.
 No matter how impressive the speech is which advocates the propos- ed changes Dean Rogers remains un- convinced. T am not ready" he says, ''to help pull down the pillars of the temple of government m order that we may begin to establish new constitu- ton founded on different principles" These are the words of common pru- idence and they must more and more carry conviction to sober-minded stud ents of our political experiment. They will have performed an inamense func- tion if they revive interest in the old instruments of government and in- crease popular scrutiny of the men who seek to serve their fellows in pub lie office. This accomplished we shall know better than we now know, or than anyone knows as yet, just exactly what the changes, notifications and enlargements are which we are told must be made to save our political hides.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
GRE4TER PITTSBURG.

According to the Supreme court of
 the United States, and also according
 to other important and impressive
 facts, there is now Greater Pitts
 burg. The 'act to unite Pittsburg, Al legheny City and number of smaller towns into Greater Pittsburg, passed
 by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1905, provided that if in joint vote in the districts affected a majority fla ,vored the consolidation it should be made. The vote in Pittsburg was 31,- I117 for consolidation and 5,936 against, while in Allegheny it stood 6,747 for and 12,377 against, total of S7,S6S votes in the affirmative and IT, 71S against, or a majority of 20,151 for greater Pittsburg, Allegheny fought the bill through the State courts and brought the case to the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
DIFFERING AND PROMISING.

The fall in prices hasn't yet reached the cost of common living, so far as the common flyers have been able to notice, but it is cheering and promis- ing that 1t has struck the price of radium. Not long ago radium was cost ing about $S,OoO, 900 an ounce, and though of course, even at that price it was within the reach of Rockefeller, Morgan and a few others, the ordin- ary man couldn't afford it. He can't now, but the fact that the price has fallen from $3,000,000 an ounce to s1, 000,0 an ounce indicates that ra- dium has fallen just about as much as good securities" have. So its fall can be taken as indicating a general tendency which may in time spread to corned beef, storage eggs and the oth- CT pure and good foods which the or dinary man has to buy. There is no in- dication that there ever was radlum trust, but if there has been it has been badly hurt, as several other trusts have lately been.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
SOLVENT AND HUMANE.

Confidence is being restored. It is evident that John D. Rockefeller has come through the panic in fair shape, and it is also evident that he means to do the human race more good. The announcement is made that he has just given $2,6O0,OOO to the Rockefel- Ter Institute for Medical Research, to be used in any way the directors see fit. This latest gift makes total of $3, ,S00,000 donated by MT. Rockefeller to the institute. It has been entirely supported by him since the day it opened. He gave the ground upon which the institute stands in New York on Avenue A, between Sixty-fourth and Sixty-seventh streets, and provid- ed the funds to erect the laboratory and other buildings. The idea of estab- fishing the institute, which is pattern ed after the Pasteur Institute in Paris came to MT. Rockefeller after the death of his grandson, Jack" McCor- mick, in Chicago. MT, Rockefeller wanted some place in whict medical men of the highest rank
 might study diseases and if possible
 evolve cures that would be of benefit
 to humanity.
 It is hard to tell how to give money
 to help humanity, but it seems entirely reasonable to suppose that the Rocke.
 feller Institute for Medical Researcl
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Bad Boy.
lPhiladelnhia Record. )

tPhiIadelph1a Kecofd.J
 But all the harm the President has done the country-and it is great deal lis due to this notion of his that if he does not like anything it must be changed. Custom, usage, common con- sent, ancient history, mean nothing to him. There is story told of an Ameri- can in Europe to whom guide in a cathedral was pointing out lamp which had been burning for seven cen turies Never out in all that timer? the guide. "Well, it's~out now" said the Yankee, blowing it out, That IS precisely the attitude of Theodore Roosevelt
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
ELASTIC.

"Ef Satan wus once in heaven, how come he didn't stay dar?"
 He couldn't stan prosperity-po' devil!''-Atlanta Constitution.
 Mrs. Jiggers-"Mere talent is so of ten mistaken for genius"
 MT. Jaggers-"It always is, by the man who has it.''-Cleveland Leader.
 The Dentist-Now, open wide your mouth and I won't hurt you a bit
 The Patient (after the extraction)-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

Those who think United States heir- esses don't get much for their money are respectfully invited to contemplate the fact that one of them is going to become the wife of Emanuel Theo- dore Bernard Marie dAlbert de Luynes d'Ailly Due de Chaulnes ct de Pecquiny and Marquis d'Angeau.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
Our New Eagle.
(The Hyannis Patriot. }

IIHe HyanHIS FdlIIUt,T
 One ot the few survivors of the twen- ty who founded the Boston Art Club ir 1854 thus criticises our new eagle:
 Can 1t be possible for any respecta- ble eagle, or other fowl, to travel witt his left wing outside his left leg and his right wing between his legs, GOV ering the right leg, as St, Gaudens has shown his idea of our national birdT
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

United States queens will perhaps feel better about their lofty rank when they read that the Queen of Italy is also having trouble in keeping her servants.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

We don't want to say anything that will tend to start another panic, but we do feel 1t our duty to warn the people against getting into the habit of taking methylbenzoinethoxeth- ytetraphydro opridinecarbonylate
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

will be useful. It surely will if the right men do its work, and there are many good men for such work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

Peter Murray of Buena Vista, Penn sylvania, is now f1fty-seven, but this fall he decided that he would get a college education. He Is now a stud ent at Jefferson academy at Washing ton, Pennsylvania. He was too poor to go to school when he was young.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

President Roosevelt continues to be "a striking personality" but he isn't striking some things as much as he was.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
AboNinar1s "TAe Queen of Ta6Ae WateHS"

different departments working in partial control of the same field, in- cluding officers of the army and navy, the Interior department and Treasury department of agriculture, the work could be improved as well as sys- tematlzed by combining the work in one distinct bureau.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
SAYINGS AND DoINas.

About three thousand clerks have been working for several months at the census bureau in order to find out that 100000 people asked for legal separation during the last ten years.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

During the 127 days that the peace conference at The Hague lasted, the delegates had BIT dinners given in their honor. These dinners cost all together $52S,6OO, the most expensive being those given by Senor Barbosa of Brazil, who on several occasions spent in flowers alone from $1,6O0 to $2,0O0. The general expenses sustained by the governments amounted to $2,970,000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

different departments working in partial control of the same field, in- cluding officers of the army and navy, the Interior department and Treasury department of agriculture, the work could be improved as well as sys- tematized by combining the work in one distinct bureau.
 This is the way Siamese newspa- per modestly tells about itself: "The news of English we tell the latest. Writ in perfectly style and most ear Hest Do murder git commit, we hear of and tell it. Do mighty chief die, we publish it, and in borders of sombre, Staff has each one been col lege, and write like the Ripping and the Dickens. We circle every town and extortionate not for advertise ments. Buy it. Buy it. Tell each of you it's greatness for good. Ready on Friday Number one.'
 The Portland Oregonian doesn't deeply sympathize with Bishop-elect Paddock's ingenious delight at the prospect of dressing like cattle man and making his episcopal visitations on horseback. He will find after he arrives, says the contemporary, that | it will not be necessary to wear the Jim Carstens cattle outfit while he is on his missionary work Mighty lit tie riding will he do among Indians. When he holds services at The Dalles, Pendleton, La Grande, Baker City, Union City, Prineville, Ontario and Burns, he will dress just as he does when he enters Broadway pulpit Eastern Oregon isn't like the widest lwilds of Wyoming"
 The death of Bugs" Raymond who was killed by street car in Chi. cago the other day, has caused sad ness in Charleston, South Carolina which is thus expressed by tht ICharleston News and Courier: Bugs was the greatest pitcher ever seen or the Southern diamond. He helped Charleston to win the pennant las summer. He was queer sort o genius, but nearly everybody likec Ihim, and thousands of fans went ou to see him in the box. They will re gret that he came to so untimely al end He was expected to play mex season in one of the big leagues, ant lit is certain that he would have mad
 a new mark had he been spared fo this work. But probably Bugs" nigh
 have failed and that would have beei worse than being run over by stree
 car. While his death is to be re
 gretted, there is some sort of consol ation in the thought that he die' when his star was in the ascendant
 Better that than to have waited untj Ithe fans on the grand stand an
 bleachers and in the box seats ha
 Host interest in him and his brillian
 work on the firing line. Goodbye
 Plugs" and pleasant sleep after you Istrenuous life.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25

President Garfield, of Williams, is a strong advocate of the movement to create a new Federal bureau, to be known as the bureau of public health. He thinks that with so many
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-01
FIRST DIVISION
Of OIL KINGS
GIFT TO COLLEGES

New York, March 27.-The first
distribution by the General Education
board since it received John D.
Rockefeller's contribution of $32,000,-
900 was made yesterday when condi-
tional gifts totaling $625,O0O were
made as follows:
Yale university, 100000.
Princeton university, 100000.
Bowdoin college, Brunswick, Maine,
$4,000
Colorado college, Colorado Springs,
$4,000
Millsaps college, Jackson, Miss,
$4,000
After making these appropriations
the board voted to give $4,000 to col
ored schools, the names OF which
we're rot made public.
AS a condition of the above gifts
Yale and Princeton are each to raise
50, 000,0 900; Colorado college $500, 0GO;
Bowdoin $25O,0OO, and MiIlsaps $780,
900.
These subscriptions were decided
upon after the board had considered
applications from about 400 institu-
lions. Further distributions will be
made before long.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-01
RISING OF PEASANTS ASSUMES
PROPORTIONS OF L.VlL WAR.
CAPITAL FEARS ATTAC K
Sixty Men Were Killed and 800
Wounded at Alexandria Before
Troops Succeeded in Dispensing
Rioters-RoyaI Palace Strongly
Protected by Soldiers.

Vienna, March 27-The risiAg of
the peasants in Roumania is assum-
ing the proportions of civil war
The movement is directed not only
against the Jews but also against the
Christian land owners. Trouble now
extends from one end of Rou-nania
to another, and even the capital city,
Bucharest, is in fear of an attack.
Reports OF sanguinary encounters
are received constantly, and each
day shows the disorders to be more
deep seated and far reaching and the
situation more serious.
There was sanguinary fghting in
the streets of Peterson when 1000
peasants entered the city and sacked
and destroyed many buildings, in
Guiding the palace of Prince Stirby
In the districts of Teleorman and
Vladshica % landed proprietors have
been killed and AZ villages burned.
Many Killed and Wounded
Probably the most serious engage
ment occurred at Alexandria, so miles
from Bucharest, wnere 60 men were
killed and 300 wounded before the
troops succeeded in dispensing the
rioters.
-Four thousand peasants are march
ing on Bucharest The artillery
has been instructed to use sharpneI
to prevent the revolving peasants
from invading the city.
The movement has extended
through the entire province of Wal
-achia, and almost every hour brings
a report of more Or less bloody en-
counter between lne soldiery and the
peasants in some fresh locality. In
the district of Zimminca a number
of fire arms have been plundered and
it is reported that the towns of
Zimminca and Zarat have been de-
vastated. The town of IvUhi, In
Moldavia, has been pillaged.
The district of Alexandria is said
to be in full uproarl
The latest reports declare that
GluZgevO, on the Danube, and 80
miles south of Bucharest is in
state of indescribable panic
Advance on Bucharest Continues.
Vienna, March PA dispatch re-
ceived here from the frontier of R0u-
mania says that the advance of the
riotous peasants on Bucharest cOnt:1i-
ues. Up to the present tine il has
been found Impossible to divert them.
There is great alarm in the Roumaa-
ian capital
The garrisons in IS of the fors
forming the defense of the city have
been increased, and the royal palace,
where King Carol and Queen Carmen
Sylvia reside, is strongly protected 5%
soldiers.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-01
ENDS BITTER FIGHT.
Nebraska SoIons Increase Annual AS
sessment of Railroads.

Omaha, Neb., March 27-The pas
sage by the Nebraska legislature yes
terday of bill for the taxation of
railroad property in cities and villages
for local purposes on the same basis
on which other property is taxed,
marks hte end of the fight that began
in the legislature in 1901 and has
been waged with bitter spirit in every
succeeding session.
The bill will increase the annual
assessment Of railroads in Nebraska
upwards of 100000, on the present
property, to say nothing of the vast
improvements now being made. Here
tofore the railroads have been taxed
in Nebraska on track mileage only,
shops, depots and other terminal
property almost entirely escaping tax
alton The bill went to the governor
and will be signed by him.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-01
Madison, March q.

Madison, harCA II.
That the candidates for the United
States senate to succeed John c..
Spooner are entirely friendly to each
other was demonstrated yesterday
when they met together in the rooms
of Isaac Stephenson in the Park
hotel. While they would not give out
anything that developed at the con-
ference, it was apparent that they en-
tertained the best and most cordial
feeling one for the other, and there
certainly is no bitterness as yet in the
present complicated canvass for the
senatorship.
What was discussed at the con-
ference and what, if any, agreement
or conclusion was arrived at it is
not known. All those who attended
the conference evidently we're pledged
to absolute secrecy, for no intima-
ton of what occurred has escaped.
Those present were Isaac Stephen
son and John H. Puelicher of Milwau-
kee, representing Mr.. Stephenson;
former Senator Hatten and his man
ager, Senator A W. Sanborn; Irvine
L. Lenroot and Speaker Herman l..
Ekern; Congressman H. A. Cooper
and c. G. Cuttings of Racine, and Sen
ator Thomas Morris of La Crosse, rep
resenting Congressman John ]. Esch.
Mr.. Esch was the only candidate not
present
The conference was conceived and
called in mystery. 1t was while the
senate chamber was filled to over
flowing with those who had been at
tracted by the fiery discussion over
the Milwaukee school board bin, that
John H. Puelicher, manager Of Mr..
StephensOns campaign, called the
candidates and the managers of the
various campaigns together at the
Park hotel, The school board hearing
went on in all it's fury, for the ora
tory was noisy and the argument
heated, and the opportunity for hold
ing conference appealed to Mr..
Puelicher. One by one the candidates
and their managers sauntered leisure
" over to the Park hotel and up to
MIR. Stephenson's rooms. When it
came time for the members to re
turn to their respective headquarters,
they sauntered down stairs and
through the hotel lobby, one at time
and without any indication OF there
having been a conference.
1t is said that the candidates con-
sidered the question of time for hold
ing the election, and it is also said
that Mr.. Stephenson called attention
to the fact that he desires only the
short term and will not be a candi-
date for reelection, and suggested that
the time might come when all the
other candidates might unite upon to
end a long contest.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-01
MEXICO ASKED
TO INTERVENE

Mexico City March 27.-Mexico has
been asked to intervene in the pres
ent troubles in Central America by
Salvador. DR.. Baltazar Estupinian,
minister to Mexico from that county,
had long conference with President
Diaz yesterday afternoon and at its
conclusion sent a dispatch to Ambas-
sador Creel at Washington. The
contents of the message were not
made public, but it was thought that
the ambassador was instructed to say
to the United States that Mexico was
ready to join the northern republic il
demanding that hostilities cease.