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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05
AN INTERESTING SITUATION.

For going to Chicago as witness John D. Rockefeller received a check for $73.95. This Is settlement in full It appears, however, that he made a mistake, not in his own favor, when he estimated his mileage, but for which miscalculation he would have received $10S5 more. It also appears that the deputy marshal who paid him, aware of the error, made no ef- fort to correct it. On the contrary, he declared it was mot the business of the government to pay the witness more than ne claimed"
 If this is true statement of facts, as it appears to be, the United States doesn't stand in a very good light in this transaction. It shouldn't have taken any advantage of MT. Rocke~ feller's mistake. It should have paid him right whether his "claim" was right or not. The law says what the witness fee shall be, and of course it is properly no more and no less than that, If the United States hasn't paid MT. Rockefeller enough it is not in a much better position than it says MT, Rockefeller Is in because he didn't pay the railroads enough.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05
NO DIsTURBANCE.

The Assae;ated py+as has reported that in a hearing before the isa:iraad commissions rs it "was shown" that Bridgeport was the second city in the State. And when this was shown to the Hartford Courant the effect was as follows: If this does not seriously disturbe the equanimity of our five es- tened contemporaries in New Haven, then we shall be surprised. We had supposed that, while every connecti- cut citizen puts the Capital City first, it was agreed that New Haven came in an easy second"
 No disturbance in equanimity pr anything else here. If anybody las shown" that Bridgeport is the sec ond city in the State the "gall'' of it is only equalled by that of the Hart ford claim to be the first Hnnors are pretty even between Bridgeport and Hartford, and there Is no reason why New Haven should not continue equanimous while Bridgeport and Hartford continue gallous and gallus.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Connecticut's self-Examinatlon.
 IBoston Tran scrint !

(B0Ston ICanScript)
 What's the matter with Connecticut? The New Haven Journal and Courier assumes that something is, and those in a position to know do not appear disposed to challenge the assumption. To obtain light on the question 1t has addressed circular letter to the mem- bers of the last Legislature and has just published It's first installment of re- plies. The session that recently closed was very unsatisfactory to the people of the State, and individually 1t appears to have been unsatisfactory to the members themselves, or at least to many of the more prominent among them. The questions which the Jour- nal and Courier has sent abroad are whether a return to annual sessions held under a time limit is desirable, and also whether special legislation should be prohibited.
 Ten senators have returned replies and of these seven favor annual ses- sions. Opinions on special legislation are not so definitely divided. That seems to be regarded as a corrupting influence Some would forbid 1t alto gether, while others favor Public Utilities Commission, which, it is be- lieved, would take in hand measures of that class and thereby put the lobby and it's demoralizing intluenes to dency of the time appears to be to take from legislative bodies, municipal and otherwise, much of the responsibility as well as the. burdens which they now carry and place them upon bodies or ganized to deal with a particular class of measures. Power that the New York aldermen abused was given to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and that Is now largely taken over by the Public Utilities Commission.
 But perhaps the feature of the re- sponses that is most significant is the implied discredit to the biennial sAs- sion The commission Idea appeals to some of the leading legislators, and very likely 1t would work marked inn provement in the public servicei but it would be somewhat of an experiment. On the other hand, the State has tried unlimited biennial sessions and the re-, suits have not been inspiring, If they have not been responsible for more un- profitable legislation than usual they have yet been coincident with 1t, and the latest session was about the long est and the worst in the States history. The false basis of representation might have been mentioned as demoralizing factor in legislation, but that Is rather little matter for elective officehold- CTS in Connecticut to touch upon.
 Coincldent with a somewhat reaction ary Legislature, the State has this year a progressive governor. He has made recommendations that were for public benefit, but the Assembly has been It is probable that the people like the stand he has taken, and in an annual
 election they might give effect to that popular feeling, but in two years time they forget who has betrayed them and settle back into perfunctory obe-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05
ADMITTED.

Church-Have you read the stock list to-day? Gothem--Yes; just waded through 1t! -Yonkers Statesman. ''Mr. Nervey," said the girls father, It. seems to me you sit up entirely too late with my daughter" Don't worry about that, sir" re- piled Nervey. q never require much sleep. "-Philadelphia Press.
 "who won that long distance walk ing fnatch?' "spriggins.' He did? Who was his trainer?" His ten-qi1onfhs-old Chicago Record-Herala.
 This is a Georgia youngsters idea of it: "rhe thunder is Nav readin' a lec- ture to Paw, and the lightnin' is Paw tryin' to git away from it."-Atlanta | Constitution. Mistress-Tou may do my hair, now. Felicie.
 t'Yes, ma'am, which color will you wear to-day?" Black I'm going to a funeral."-- Nos Loiars.
 she-I see in Germany sound-proof building blocks are made of a mixture of gypsum with sawdust, coke, dust or ashes. He-Why, the combination sounds just like a breakfast food!4Yo Yonkers Statesmen.
 But what will you do" asked his confidential friend 'df they inprison your"
 If they threaten to do that" an- swered the financial magnate, with frown, I'll send orders to my agents to start the biggest panic this country lever saw!"-Chicago Tribune. Wife (scornfully oh, I've no doubt you were at your literary club reciting poetry til this hour of the night. And, pray, what were you reciting?
 Husband (reminiscently)- think
 wash something bout Chips that Fash in the Night Baltimore Amer ican.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05
SOME REAL REFORM.

Commercial travellers are real re- formers. They understand how to re- form and they have the energy and the will to push reform to success. Owing largely to their efforts sheets on hotel beds in Texas and other queer States are long enough so that a sleeper's feet need not stick out Now the commercial travellers of Kan sas, acting through their State organ lzation, have resolved to inaugurate a campaign to get improved food and sanitary conditions in the Kansas ho- tels, A grievance committee has been appointed which will receive the re- ports of unsanitary conditions in ho- tels and lay the same before the State board of health.
 Success to this reform, which is of a kind that might well be spread through many States. Commercial travellers know what hotels ought to be and what they are not. Connec- ticut may not offer a promising field for their efforts in this line, but there are many States, especially in the West and South, that do.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

to be bestowed by each party. We speak of them not to call their per sonal influence into question or their right to aspire to the mayoralty of one of the best known cities in the world. We are simply reminded by the Cleveland experience that another city very much like it in it's general character is apparently going to have an election in which the sole issue is for one man or set of men to beat the other man or set of men at the polls. Is it possible that New Haven is so unique among the cities of the country that we have no issues of our own to work out? Ought we not to ask the aspirants what they represent and
 what they intend to do with us when
 we give them power? It would cer- tainly seem so. Men who want to serve their fellow citizens must have some reason for doing so. What is it?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05
Am Encounter.

Who cares for the burden, the night
 and the rain And the steep, long. lonesope road, When at last through the darkness a
 light shines plain, When a voice calls hall and friend
 draws rein, With an arm for the stubborn load? Though his way He over the prairies And mine up the sunrise hill, Though no more in my path may his
 light be seen, And I never may travel the leagues
 between, His succor aids me still. For life Is the chance of friend or
 two
 This side of the journeys goal; Though the world be a desert the long
 night through, Yet the gay flowers bloom and the sky
 grows blue When soul salutes soul.
 Harriet Monroe
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05
THE xEw STATEHOOD TALK.

It having been settled, much to the joy of Arizona, and some to the joy of New Mexico, that the attempt to hitch Arizona and New Mexico in in- harmonious statehod is not to be fur ther pressed talk has Immediately arisen that Arizona and Nevada would go well together. Such union would bring to pass a State with an area of 222,760 square miles, or 68,000 more than California, and behind Texas di- mensions by 50,0Oo. Arizona claims 122, 900 inhabitants; Nevada's popula- ton, increased by recent mining de- velopments, may be somewhere be- tween 50.OOo and 60,ooO In 1900 1t was but little more than 42,o00.
 If this talk is serious in Washing ton, where 1t is chiefly made it may not in the end mean much more than the talk of joining Arizona and New Mexico did. The constitution allows new States to be formed only with the consent of the legislatures of those concerned as we'll as of the con- gress, and it is possible that neither Arizona nor Nevada would care to join To some who are well acquaint- ed. with the situation, especially in Arizona, it seems wise to give the statehood matter rest for awhile.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL COURIER THURSDAY SEPTEMBER so7

Horseshoe Fall of Niagara presents an unbroksn crest, while the edge of the Victoria is divided by numerous isl- ands into stretches which nowhere ex- ceed six hundred feet,
 It is est.mated that there is power enough in the 2ambesi to run all the industries that will be established in South Africa for centuries to come. The modern wonder-workers wilt soon be ,isins some of 1t.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

dience to their political taskmasters. Connectfcut's experience is certainly no encouragement to Massachusetts to adopt the policy of biennial sessions. Events move too rapidly these days to justify a two-years' walt between ad- iustments.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05
SAYINGS AND DoTNGS.

The New York World figures that John D. Rockefeller has made public gifts up to the present of $1o2,O55, 900. Of this amount, S44.00o,OOO has been given to the general and Southern education boards, $22,OOO,0oO to the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

Delays are not always dangerous to all concerned. A New York woman was so impressed with Georgia baby when delayed at railroad junction that she sent the child $S0.000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

A company of English recruits was taken out on rife range for bit of target practice. The sergeant in com mand turned them loose at five hup- dred yards and none hit the target. Then he tried them at two hundred yards with the same result. At one hundred yards they were no better. So in disgust he ordered them to fix bay onets and charge.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

Glass telephone and telegraph poles are the invention of German archi- tect and 8 factory has been built for the making of the poles. The price is to be about $6 each.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

The New York children who have been in the Summer schools have learned to tie twenty-nine distinct knots, which is not bad.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

The old Empress Dowager of China seems to be some strenuous too. She has given an order to a Seattle trapper for two grizzly bears and four wildcats.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

A scientist has figured that the average mosquito lives only three days. This figuring seems to omit the nights, when the average mosquito lives the most.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

University of Chicago, s15.oO0. 900 to church and mission work, and $2,- 0o0,o0O to the Rockefeller institute.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

A Cincinnati judge has solemnly declared that automobiles are perish able Those who own them will not file a dissenting opinion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

The crescent-ahaped sand dunes which move in thousands across the desert of Aslay, near La Joya. Peru, have been investigated by Astronomer s. I. Bailey. who found the points of a crescent to be 160 feet apart while the convex side measured ATT feet and the greatest width was more than 100 feet. The estimated weight was 5000 tons, yet 1t was carried 125 feet year by the prevailing south winds.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

The War department is making a determined effort to break up the practice, which seems to prevail large- ly in Boston, of selling soldiers cloth ing. The offenders are mostly enlist ed men of the coast artillery who are on duty at the forts in the neighbor- hood of that city. Instructions have been given to keep close watch for evidences of traffic of this kind, to the end that people who obtain parts of the uniform and offer them for sale shall be brought into the courts. Transactions of this sort are illegal, and, of course the soldier can always be punished for thus disposing of the uniform, notwithstanding the fact that the clothing really belongs to him as being part of the allowance given by law. The government has been able to trace and stop such traffic in other places, and it is believed no diff flculty will be encountered in discour- aging the business in Boston
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

In 1890 the output of the twenty seven establishments engaged in the manufacture of wheels" was valued at $2.6sS,326. Soon after that came the pneumatic tire and the popular craze. The census of 1906 reported 312 manufacturers, with a product valued at sS1,915,9Os. In 1900 the industry gave employment to nearly 10000 wage and salary earners in the department of production alone. It paid $10,O00,00O in wages and salaries and bought nearly $17,000,00O worth of materials. Within the next five years it fell off nearly eighty.flve per cent,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

EScnIeot A more IIIey Ilslhe IIIeII IesIlI15 Vl wholesale the sooner they will obtain what t
 's very p0pssh." That is sound doctrine.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1907-10-26
Locust Creek Items

The spelling school at the Locust
Creek school Friday was we'll at
tended.
! Mrs. W. A. Balloon and Mrs.
w. W. Hoskins were in Brookfeld
Wednesday.
Mrs. L. Eichman is visiting Mrs.
L. B. Standby in Laclede few
days this week.
Mrs. Gideon Wright and two
children spent Wednesday with
Mrs. e. J. Watson.
Mrs. Jane Lewis, mother of j. @.
Lewis, who has spent the summer
here, returned to her home in In
diana Sunday.
The school had a recess Thurs
day and Friday while TIE teacher
Ii. III. IOOthaker attended the aSSO-
citation at Marceline.
Mr.. and Mrs w. A. Balcom
spent Sunday with I. FL. Clough
and wife near Forker. Mrs.
Clough's health has been quite
poor for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Haney and
Mr.. and Mrs. Callahan and two
of Marceline, and G. M.
Warren and family and Scott War
rem and mother, of near Meadville,
spent Sunday with E. j. Watson
and family.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1907-10-26
F0rker Hens
Forker ltems
p. Zeigler was in Forker Friday.
j. al Boomer was a Sumner Wis

p. Zeigler was in Forker Friday
j. A. Boomer was Sumner Wis
itor Thursday.
George Bemrose was a Forke
visitor Wednesday.
! Mrs. Shore returned to her hom,
| in Luray Wednesday.
/ Mrs. Claire Thomas is visiting
her sister at Brookfield.
Miss Vina Clough was Brook.
field visitor Wednesday.
M. r. Clay shipped a car of hogs
from Forker Wednesday.
M. E. Bushnell shipped a car Of
hogs from Forker Friday.
Mrs. Ell. e. Foster made busi-
ness trip to Sumner Tuesday.
Mrs. A. T. Sullivan left for her
home in Glendive, Montana, Thurs
day.
Miss Lilra Gibson is visiting at
the home of her aunt, Mrs. O. [.
Fay.
Hopper & Waterson, Of Sumner,
loaded three cars of grain here
Monday.
Rev. Scarboro filled his appoint
ment here Sunday morning and
evening.
Ell. E. Foster, who has spent the
in Colorado, returned home
yesterday.
E. K. Stuttsman is visiting at
the home of his brother, G. T. |
Mrs. J. E. Test and daughter
Gladys and Genevieve Facto were
Sumner visitors Wednesday.
Mrs. w S. Waggoner and
daughters, Of Meadville, visited at
;he home Of E. w. Pease Thursday.
G. T.. and q. K. Stuttsman, O.
:. Fay, E. X. and Roy Welsh, G..
}. Boomer and John Byrd attend
ID the meeting of the Modern
Noodmen in Laclede Wednesday
hight.
A halloween party will be given
~ the girls Of the Christian church
t the home of M. f. Andrews Oc-
ober 81. Everyone, both old and
'oung, is cordially invited. Re-
reshments will be served at 7:30.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1907-10-26

The man who loses his temper
is not always in the wrong, but, to
the onlooker, he always appears to
be wrong.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1907-10-26
LOCAL DoINGs ABOUT TOWN.
Pungent Paragraphs Picked up by Our Perau-
buIating Pencil Pusher.

Inc puDllc ScnOOlS OF GnlS county
took vacation Thursday and Fri
day while the teachers attended the
association at Marceline.
H. G. Carothers new residence
in north part Of town is nearing
completion. It is going to be one
Of the prettiest homes in town.
We need copy of THE BLADE
of September Z, 1907, and will pay
10 cents to anyone bringing or
sending copy of that number to
Z, this office.
Attention is directed to the ad.
of L. W. Rummell in THE BLADE
today. Mr.. Rummell has one of
the largest stocks of clothing and
footwear in the county and will be
pleased to have people of this vicin-
ity- call on him when in Brookfeld.
Train service on the Burlington
has become a farce so far as time
schedule in concerned. 1t used to
be subject of comment should a
train be a few minutes late, so rare
was such a thing. Now it is not
only subject of comment but of
real astonishment when mail
train happens to come along on
time.
Laclede lodge Knights and Ladies
of Security at the last regular
meeting installed the following offic-
ers, the Brookfeld team having
charge of the installation services:
j. W. Haight, president; Miss
Eta L. Dye, first president;
Mrs. Lucy Wood, second vice
president; Mrs. l.. B. Haley,
prelate; Miss Mary F. Dye, con-
ductress; Mrs. Rosa Haight, secre-
tary; Ell. III. Benjamin, fnancier;
Tom K. Willard, sentinel; Oliver
Dye, guard; Miss Anna Brooker,
It is more fun to see man read
a puff on himself in a newspaper than
to see fat man slip on a banana
peel. The narrow minded man
reads it over seven or eight times,
and then goes around to appropri- j
ate what copies he can. The kind {
hearted man goes around to the Of {
6ce and pays what he owes. The t
successful business man who adj Y
vertises regularly and makes money i
by it, Immediately starts out to find
The editor and the two walk silent
y down the street and the business
nan takes sugar in his and they a
Doth eat Glove or two and life is y
'weeter and peace settles down on g
heir hearts for moments. Such is
he experience of a mustard seed c
hat falls on different ground.
There are times when purse
trings are tightened when there is
proposition of a public nature t
alling for contributions. Men |;
Will talk of their past contributions, G
f the failure of this and the other b
roject, and will refuse to pay "
money for further plans which they I
ay will not bring money to their a
ockets. There are some of these n
len to be found in every commu- p
ity, just as there are small pota- p
pes in every hill. But when this n
Dndition becomes general, when m
len to whom the community has tt
ght to look for a slight return a
'r the benefit and the prosperity cl
hich they enjoyed, refuse thus to L
ischarge one of their plainest du- OIL
es and when the number of such NJ
en- becomes so great as to threat 81
/ the success of movements in the th
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1907-10-26
TOWN AND COUNTRY IN BRIEF.
Local Events Of The Past Week Recorded For
Busy Blade Readers.

Miss Florence Ormsby is he1
from Hale visiting relatives.
A. j. Linn is here from Corning
Iowa, looking after his farm sout
of town.
See those single and double driv
ing harnesss that Messner is max
ing a special low price on thi
month.
The BLADE and the Daily Globe
Democrat to rural route patrons al
$3.50 per year. This offer is gooc
for a limited time only.
G. Fl. Gable bought power
corn shelter and took it out to his
farm northwest Of town this week.
1t will be operated by gasoline
engine.
Am rather overstocked on single
and double driving harness. Spec
ial prices are being made to sell
them out and make room for other
goods. A. Messner.
A granitoid walk was put down
in front Of J. D. Bryant's business
house yesterday. Other property
owners along the block should join
in and keep the good work going.
The farm residence Of w. S.
Goslin, north of Laclede, was re-
moved to it's new location near
the main roadlast week. J. A.
Shoup, of Meadville, did the work.
If you wish to buy, sell or ex-
change your farm or city property
call and see me as | am still in the
real estate business; also write
fire insurance. Office in with 0.
F. Libby's law office. w. S. Saw
age.
A good sized crowd attended the
Standly-Leech sale last Tuesday
and things sold reasonably we'll.
Mr.. Leech will shortly move to
town to reside until next spring
when he will remove to North Da-
kota.
Mrs. G. L. Moulton, after a
pleasant visit with friends here, re-
turned to her home in Burlington,
Iowa, Thursday While here Mrs.
Moulton had some dental work
done by DIR. Fawcette with which
she is more than pleased.
County Commissioner Sipple and
the following teachers from here
the teachers association
at Marceline this week: Misses
Daisy Rankin, Cassie Heath, Nellie
Barber, Jean Jardine and Rose
Trippeer and E. E. Toothaker.
On account Of the establishment
If rural free delivery, Walter Lib
BY writes to have the address of ,
MS BLADE changed from Sedalia,
Okla, to Cheyenne, Okla.,- route
TWO. Mr.. Libby says he and fam ]
ly are well and very busy taking /
,are of their cotton crop. 9
J. G. jackson, son-in-law of Mr..
md Mrs. S. NJ. Wroe, of Laclede, 9
Who has been conductor On the L
Burlington out of Sheridan, Wyo- c
ming, has resigned that position
nd bought the news stand and $
Iovelty store located in the post a
flee building at Sheridan. c
Wilmer L. Welsh has just re- p
urned from Kansas City, where he
urchased Duroc Jersey prize N
inner, Sharon Wonder (40631l 81
ho won first prize at the Kansas y
ate fair this fall, and weighed re
80 pounds at II months old. Mr.. 81
Telsh is the largest breeder of .,