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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-03

in the club library, when the Bostoni- an chaneed to ask:
 By the way, what do you think of the Origin of species?' "
 Never read it." was the reply of the man from Chicago. Tn fact, old man, I am not. in the least interested in financial subjects. Success NIaga- zine.
 Mrs. Piecrust's cookbook is so popular-the fourth edition has been sold out"
 Then, I suppose, 1t will soon be dramatized, ,"-Fllegende Blatter.
 Yeast-"It is difficult to tell the walters from gentlemen diners at fashionable restaurants now'' Grim sonbeak-"Well, if you happened to search em when they went out you could tell the difference. The wait CTS would have the money in their clothes "-Y onkers Statesman.
 Say" asked the house sergeant, what was the complaint that Boston woman made agin her husband? Drunkenness? ?"
 Search me-" replied the patrol man. She said he was addicted to continuous alcoholic obfuscation.' "-- Philadelphia Press.
 "The man I marry" said the girl, must be a little lower than the an- gels"
 Well, what's the matter with me?" queried the young man, as he dropped on his knees at her feet. You see, I'm little lower than one of them. ."-Pick-Me
 Cactus Calvin-Strike anything rich on yer prospectin trip, Alky?
 Alkali Isaac-You bet yer life I did (hic).
 Cactus Calvin-Eow does the assay run?
 Alkali Isaac-oh, bout ninety-nine pcent alcohol.-Illustfated Bits.
 The young woman in the grand stand demurred.
 "A few moments ago." she said, styou remarked that these two clubs split even in their last two games, Just now you observed that it was an even break. The two statements are irrecon- cilable If it Is split it cannot be a break"
 You've got the dead wood on mel" gasped the young man, mentally re- solving to reconstruct his baseball vo- cabulary before springing it on Bos- ton girl again.-Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-03
ENGLAND ENCOURAGED.

Securities" seem to be about as in- secure in England as they are in this country, while the industrial and commercial conditions seem to con- tinue sound, as they do here. At the end of three years of continuous growth, Great Brltain's foreign trade continues to give evidence of great vi- tality. The expansion in these years is represented in figures by $585,O 900, or 40 per cent. The net imports have increased by IA per cent, and the greater part of the expansion has therefore been in the export trade. The unfayorable balance, so-called, or the excess of imports over exports, has been diminished by $250,000,OO0, and this in spite of the fact that since 1904 a great deal of British capital has been invested abroad, according to leading financial organs, and larger revenue is now being brought into the country in the form of divi- dends, interest and profits. It is inter- esting to note that the increase in ex- ports is mainly due to the larger de- mand of foreign countries for Brit ish products, manufactured or partly manufactured, The trade with Cana
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da, Australasia, India and other colo nies is encouragingly progressive, but nearly four-ffths of the gain in ex- ports must be credited to Europe and the United States, This country, for example, bought during the first six months of the current year over $S1, ,OOO, 900 worth of goods, as con- trasted with a total of about $56,000,- 900 for the corresponding months of '1905. In fact, Great Britain has in- creased her exports to every country in the world except Japan, the Phil ippines and South Africa.
 So in spite of the fact that money is pretty tight in England and specu- lation pretty sober the English think we'll of the general condition and prospects of their beloved country. Good luck to them, and more power to them to. buy what they need from their beloved and trading cousins in this country.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-03
THE APPROACH OF SCHOOL.

In another week the public schools will be opened and the work renewed of teaching Young America how to shoot with the tools of education. The city of New Haven through it's agents has been busy all summer renovating school buildings and providing new CT equipment all along the line. It has all been generously planned and generously executed, in keeping with the spirit which has moved New Ha- ven since It's first assumption of re- sponsibility in the matter of educat- ing the children of it's residents
 Two months have elapsed since the lively discussion of the teachers sal aries. The teachers themselves have been resting from their labors prepar- atory to picking up again their old tasks. They are now returning to the city hopeful that justice will be done them and that the antagonisms which were provoked before they left for their vacations have given way to a more sympathetic state of mind on the part of the board of education. It is just as much of a fact to-day as it was then that the salaries asked for by the teachers are no larger than a city the size of New Haven should pay The grand list warrants 1t, good judg- ment justifies it and common justice demands it. It is possible that the board of education felt bit irritable at what may have appeared to it's members the driving force of persist ency, a not unhuman state of mind when all things are considered, but af- ter summer season of rest and recre- ation they ought to be able to realize better than they did in the late spring that the teachers are asking for fair compensation, not in the spirit of money grabbers but in the great need which confronts them in the common battle of existance. With them the la borer is worthy of his hire.
 In the case of The Journal and Courier continued reflection has in- creased it's faith in the justice of the teachers demands All of the consid- erations which led it originally to champion their cause have been strengthened. There has been no let up in the demands made of them since the summer set in. They are to-day, as then, confronted by the calculating market for the supplies of life and they are now, as then, compelled by the conditions Of their vocation to keep high the standards of associa- Ion. There have been no new condi-
 as from any point of view which
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RECENTLY

Magnate-"Every dollar I have was made honestly" Dyer--"By whom ?" Life.
 Gan rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven?" "Yes," answered wise old Parson Brodhead, but not on y."--Louisvill Courier Journal
 Didn't you win anything in your suit for damages ?" No" Why didn't you engage 8 bright lawyer to take your part?" q did, but he took my all. ll."-Philadelphia Press.
 Timid Child (who has just been as- sured of the company of the angels in the dark)-"Ye-es. But, mummy, couldn't you have the angels, and leave me the candle ?'-Puhch.
 The lady-"My husband is particu- larly liable to seasickness, captain. Could you tell him what to do in case of an attack?" The captain--"Ta necessary, mum. He'll do it"--Judge.
 A prominent Bostonian recently put up" at his club a Chicago man bearing letters of introduction from a common friend.
 After dinner the two were lounging
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will justify the board of education in obstinately sticking to its own compro- mise schedules. The general public has found numerous ways in which to ex- press it's sympathy with the teachers, and since the money which will be needed to meet the increased expense must come from the pockets of the people their approval of it should weigh heavily with the administrators of the schools.
 It is true that the school commits sioners give valuable time to the con- duct of the schools without compensa- tion and on that account should be held in kindly esteem, but they should not for a moment lose sight of the fact that they are the servants of the public and bound either to bow to the popular will or retire from of fee. If ever thing was made evident by the sources which make steadily for public opinion, it is the fact that the teachers have the support of the taxpayers In their request. We sincere ly hope to learn that with the depar- ture of the vacation season has come the sympathy which is alone needed to provoke the statement that the teachers will get what they ask and without further controversy It is no light responsibility which rests on the shoulders of the school commission CTS. We shall watch and see how they bear it.
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PLEASING PATERNALTsE.

The kind of paternalism which Congressman Charles A,-Davis wants to see established by the passage of his bill providing for the distribution to the various States of the Union of $S,000, 900 for the teaching of agri- culture, manual training and home economics in the high schools and the primary grades will probably not be much resented by the people. Tn defense of his measure Congressman Davis points out that Federal appro- priations, turning over to the States funds for agricultural and mechani- cal colleges and for state experiment stations have been means of de- centrali2ing and building up local institutions of which the States are very proud. Because it will carry a relatively large sum of money to be administered by the States, this bill will do even more to magnify self government than has the system of State colleges and experiment sta- tions. The peculiar reason for rais- ing money for the purpose of this bill is that the Federal government can initiate in every, district in each State popular education relating to the in- dustries and home making, encour- aging the States to do far more for themselves than they will do without this fund. It is not interference with States, 1t is not merely aid to the States; it is cooperation with the States; they are to manage the new enterprises. It Is not new law in form, principle or object, It is merely an- other supplement to the Land Grant Act of 1862, which established State education and research In agriculture and in the mechanic acts.
 This Is good reasoning. When, by the aid of the State and the Federal governments, our schools and roads are just what they should be the sit uation will be much improved.
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A Nrienh.

He's got an awful stubby tail,
 Most times he's full of fleas; His ear Is all topped over and He's full of dog disease; He can't go in the kitchen cause He makes such tracks, you see, But l cant help but like him, for He is so fond of me- He's all chewed up from fighting which A dog was made to do; He smells some when it's rainy, but His heart is good an true. And if l go inside he waits, All morning, If need be Until I'm through, which shows that he Is awful fond of me. He ain't very fancy dog, Nor very much for looks; I never saw a dog like him In any of my books; Sometimes he gets the mango until His hair comes off, but he Don't seem to care for beauty If I let him follow me. I only need to pet him and He wags his tail and barks, And me and him together go
 On lots of jolly larks. Sometimes he chases chickens or A tomcat up tree, But I don't never whip him, cause He is so fond of me. I don't know where I got him, but He must have been growed up Before l can remember, for
 He never was a pup; And maybe folks don't like him when Their cats go up tree; But can't help but like him when I know he's fond of me.
 New York Times.
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A GAMR PLACE.

As the District of Columbia, that interesting and important plot of six ty-four square miles which contains Washington, is gamy place and much visited by hunters, it has been thought necessary to protect the game there. So the hunting of the deer, the pheasant, the wild turkey, the reedbird, the snipe, and the duck Is restrained by the iron hand of the law during specified and well-defned periods. Prairie chickens, brant and marsh blackbirds are also amply looked after
 Good work. And though the Wash ington Herald suggests that there should also be a close season for the alligators, the walruses, the giraffes and the elephants, it is not probable that 1t is really needed, or sharp seeing and far-seeing congress would have provided one. We also notice with pleasure that the Boojum Shark can be hunted at any time in the Dis trict, end there will doubtless be some great hunting of it this winter.
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THE cHANCE OF HIS LITE,

The English sparrow has had more | chances to ''come out strong than
 Mark Tapley had, and he has im- proved them as we'll as Mark did his chances. Now the chance of his life,
 at least of his life in this country, seems to be before him. Dr. c, Hart
 Merriam, of the Department of Agri- culture, has prepared a consensus of reports from many sources, contain ing evidence for and against the spar row. These reports are 16S in favor of the bird, S37 against and 43 neutral
 These reports contain also a list of the native birds that have been more or less molested by the pugnacious little sparrow, and they include the wren, bluebird, martin, kingbird, horned lark, hermit and wood thrush es, mockingbird, purple grackle, mea- dowlark, and many woodpeckers.
 This IS a formidable indictment, but of course the plucky and persistent little bird wont care anything more about this indictment than he has cared about the other indictments. But if they really put the law in &C., ton against him he will have to be lively to avoid the poison, the nets and the shotguns that will be directed against him. It is certain that he is either born little devil, or much maligned benefactor. He has his friends, and they will not accord with the weighty indictment of him made
 by the weighty Department of Agri- culture.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-03
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THE WOMEN OF WooDMoNz.

Without any illusions whatever with regard to the comparative qualifica- lions of the two candidates for warden at the recent election at Woodmont, The Journal and Courier desires to lift it's chapeau in honor of the wo- men voters of that stirring little bor- ough. If there is 8 man within reach of this newspaper who fails to realize that 1t is his manifest duty to congratu- late that determined bunch of voters, who are as charming personally as they are overpowering politically, off goes his name from our subscription books. He can't read this newspaper. We'll have none of him.
 The women of Woodmont know what they want, they know how to go to work to get what they want and they do not propose to have mere man, that insignificant and lower an- final, gum the cards in the game. Snappy work indeed that which led them as one woman to turn to account their automobiles and their carriages to elect their choice to the warden ship. A similar spirit among the men of the State and what a common wealth would be ours. Ought we not to benefit by the lesson these gentle warriors have taught us? Ought we not to send our sons to sit at their feet and learn the gentle art of self government?
 Again and once more we lift our chapeau to the women fighters of Woodmont. They are incompatible. What chance has susceptible man among them got? He is lost the mo- ment his feet reach the border of the borough. Gee, but they are great.
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OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Exit "Bnrs."
(charleston News and coupi

Charleston News and Coupier)
 Bugs" will never pitch another game in the South Atlantic League, but the game will go on just the same, and as if he had never been, Besides, Paige Is developing remarkable genius in the box The boys call him Mabel" by way of encouragement and to show that they are of the true histrionic tenn perament. He Is not as much of a clown as Bugs" but he pitches won derful ball, and when he goes there will be better man to take his place. Not even a baseball pitcher really counts for very much in this world and, as some of us suspect, will not have any standing at all in the world to come.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-03

It isn't as hard to steal an elephant as 1t might seem to some. According to one of the British consuls in Siam the teak industry there is most seri- ously interfered with by the incessant thefts of timber elephants. One of the consurs four transport elephants, the property of his majesty's govern ment, was stolen while grazing near Chiengmai in October last, and has not yet been recovered. Out of nine ty-nine elephants reported stolen, fifty were taken from the Salween district, and in nearly every case when the thieves get away with an elephant they take it into that district and keep it there until the brand has been re- moved before taking it across the Sal ween for sale in British territory,
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4 DAMPER.

There was a great deal of fun spoiled or damaged yesterday by the rain, and a great deal of money pre- vented from circulating as it was ex- pected to circulate. But the weather is not yet organized" at least not on the basis that Labor is, and so it rained, regardless of the feelings of paraders and pleasure-seekers. Such is life so often that perhaps it is not wise to expect good days when they are most wanted. We haven't had rain when it was most wanted and yesterday it came just when it wasn't wanted
 We'll, Labor day being over, let US to work, as usual The dignity of labor is real, even though it isn't much felt by those most entitled to feel it. They are just a little too busy and little too tired to feel it, but there's a good time coming.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-03

In Belgium girls are expected to give five weeks of each school year to learning housework. The girl is re- quired to know not only how to cook a dinner, but to clean up and care for a kitchen, do marketing, wash and iron.
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Some startling figures of compari- son have been made to show the great cost of English paupers. The English poor law foots up an eX- pense of more than $75,O0O,0O0 a year, which is as great as the entire annual expenditure of the kingdom of Holland, almost as much as that of Australia and New Zealand combined
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Marriage is freer in England than it used to be, but though an English man can now marry his deceased wife's sister he cannot marry his widows sister
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SAYINGS AND DoINGS.

A church for all denominations is to be founded in Constantinople. The sermon and services will be conduct ed in Esperanto.
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They do queer things in Kansas. For instance, in Topeka a ball player has been sent to jail just because he punched the umpire.
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They say the new ten-dollar bill is very pretty. Have you been able to hold one long enough to get a good look at it?
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The new parliament elected for the first time under universal suffrage held it's preliminary sitting the other day in Vienna for the members to be sworn in. Eight different languages were used by the deputies in taking the oath. The members wore but tonholes" to denote the parties to which they belonged. Thus the Chris tan Socialists had white carnations, the Social Democrats red carna- tions and the pan-G Germans had corn flowers. The Social Democrats did not join in the cheers for the emperor, but showed their respect for his ma jesty by standing up when cheers were called.
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A German scientist claims that he can photograph wholly invisible ob- jects by a wholly invisible light. Are the photographs also invisible?
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What has been sadly called the New York shock market will resume shocking to-day.
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A colored preacher had only small share of this worlds goods and, as his salary was not forthcoming on several occasions, became exasperat- ed. At his morning service he spoke to his church members in this way: "Bredren and sistern, things is not as they should be. You must not 'spect I can preach on uth to you an boa'd in heben."
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and equal to the whole public ex- penditure of Denmark, Greece and Norway.
 In accordance with instructions from the Viceroy at Ranking the Jap anese are intending to train Chinese printers in order that a printing es- tablishment may be started at Shang- hai. The capital required will be 100000 taels, and the Viceroy himself will assist with his personal contribu- tion.
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A novel feature of the fifteenth na- tional irrigation congress, which will be opened in Sacramento, California, on September T. will be the singing of the Irrigation Ode" by the Mormon Tabernacle choir, The choir which is composed of two hundred trained voices, is rarely heard outside of the great Mormon tabernacles at Ogden and Salt Lake City. The singers will be taken to the congress by the Utah delegation, and their attendance will be an expression of the enthusiasm of the people of that State for the irri- gation movement. An expenditure of $10,000 Is involved
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-08-31
CUSTER CITY. SOUTH DAKOTA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 81 1907

let us go up to the mountain of the
Lords house, where we will learn of his
ways and walk in his paths" I did SO
by climbing high mountain in the out
skirts of the village, but 10 when l got
up there couldn't see the town at all.
1t was uncovered in grove of cotton
wood trees, thirty-fve years of age and
(as judge 40 feet high, SO the houses
were invisible. OF course these trees af-
ford welcome shade on hot sunshiny
day, but enough is enough, and more
than that is too much, and my verdict
was too much cottonwood. If l were
young man starting to build and adorn
home on the raw prairie, would plant
no trees but apple trees. They do not
overtop and conceal the buildings. They
are profitable as well as ornamental, and
when fully grown are the shade tree
par excellence" But my time is up.
Accept of my best wishes for your health
and prosperity, and tender my regards
to your family and to all my friends.
Yours sincerely,
G. w. ROBBINS.