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The daily sentinel., 1907-03-28

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The daily sentinel., 1907-03-28
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The daily sentinel., 1907-03-28

the matter should be settled at once
but did not recommend any special
amount that it would fix as a salts
factory settlement. Chairman Davies
thought it would be cheaper to set
tie than to fight the matter out any
further in the eourfs
The daily sentinel., 1907-03-28
From The Light Companies

Navor Bunting suggested to coun-
oil that a resolution be passed before
this council adjourned sine die pro
viding that the per cent of the gross
receints of the electric light company
10 be paid to the city each year shall
he devoted to the care of the city
marks. The 3 per cent would doubt
less amount to at least $1,000 an
nually and Mayor Bunting stated
that if this money was devoted to the
care and Improvement OF the city
marks they could be greatly beautlhed
and made attractive and comfortable
AS they should be- Also the IN
come to be received through the gas
franchise should also be turned IN
m the same special fund.
Mayor Bunting's suggestion seem
ed to and hearty endorsement among
the aldermen and the citizens pres
ent. The matter will probably be
taken up at the next and last regular
Alderman o'Boyle also had ex-
plained to him the provision OF the
Gas company's franchise providing
a certain income to the city.
auditing to BE Done.
The finance committee was en-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
The Much Abused Shark.

The sharks of the oceans are the most abused and most hated of all creatures. There are more absurd stories concerning their ferocity, more ridiculous nonsense about the contents of their bellies, than would fill large volume. And, strangest of all, the worst stories about them are told by seamen, told as truth, and the credulous landsman has nothing but to believe. The late MT. liar mann Oelrichs, millionaire sportsman, ,once offered $1,000 for an authentic case of any one being killed and eat en by 8 man n-eater"--and no one has yet been able to get the money. have myself offered several times to duplicate the reward, but met upon each occasion with such showers of authentic" cases-none of which were proved-that I gave the matter no further consideration, One of the few seamen who ever told the truth about pelagic sharks happens to be MT. Frank Bullen, author of many stories of whaling, etc, and his de- scription of the hordes which infect the whaling grounds are as near as possible to what have seen myself.
 That 8 shark will not attack a man in the water is manifestly too much to say for at certain seasons vast hordes of schools of these pests or rather scavehgers will strike at all most anything that is dropped into the sea. These littorals are fierce from hunger and a small fish which man could easily pick up and whirl about his head---a common way of killing a shark along the southern coast-will strike savagely, probably at man or any other living body which offers something in the way of food. So also will the bonito, or one of the mackeral tribe.-T. Jenkins Hains, in the Technical World.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
IRELAND,s STRIFE,

It may be natural for one who has been looking on in Belfast at the arm ed camps and battles under cover of darkness to exaggerate the militant aspect of Armagh's cathedrals, yet here is evidence that as Ireland even in direct poverty is ever too poor to make sacrifices for religion, so, also, in its most tranquil moments 1t Is ever abnormally controversial and combat i've and eager to accept every chal- lenge. It is this intensity of religious feeling that stimulates intolerance and makes 1t doubtful if the two Irelands, Protestant and Catholic, Loyalist and Nationalist, can ever be brought into harmonious relations. One compromise follows another, but the old-time an- tagonism survives, and is constantly breaking out afresh. The Unionists es- tablished the local councils, sanctioned d COSCly SCuSIiS Oi ldllu puFClldSSi anu appointed Roman Catholic and sympathizer with home rule permanent secretary for Ireland and the Liberals, in their turn, have proposed a close approach to self-government, are try ing to enact an evicted tenants bill, and are committed to a scheme of un- iversity reform. These measures and policies ought to have done much to tranquilize the island to soften the as- perities of faction politics, yet Irish men are ready at a moments notice to become offensive partisans and to rally their forces in hostile camps. It Is the land of irrepressible political and religious feuds. When vacillating trimmers and over-sangulne optimists are crying "Peace!" there are sudden outbursts of sectional feeling over triv- ial incidents or irrelevant issues like picketing in labor strike or the em- ployment- of constables and soldiers in populous Nationalist district. The militant factions, like the rival Armagh oathedrals, stand on guard and grimly challenge each other,--L N. Ford in New York Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
Bathing in Great Salt Lake.

Bathing in Great Salt Lake is an unique experience.
 Flights of steps lead down into the water from the interminable platform along which the bathhouses are situ- ated. The water is quite shallow at first, and you find a rare enjoyment for time in wriggling your toes about in the salt that forms the bot tom in place of accustomed sand. You are obliged to wade out some distance before you experience the peculiar buoyancy of the lake. First, you feel your feet trying to swim out from under you. You find 1t more and difficult to walk. You begin to float in spite of yourself. Then you realize you are non-sinkable. You can't sink if you want to. Throw yourself on your back or sit down or try to swim and you bob about like rocking chair in 8 freshet. You feel as though you had been turned to cork. You can't help looking at the phenomenon subjectively. You don't see that there lS dIlylllluS p6CuildI dDOuI IIle WdJer. It looks and feels like any other bath ing water-until you get some of it in your eyes or in your mouth. Then you wish you hadn't come. Ocean water Is sweet in comparison. In fact the chemists tell us 1t is eight times Jess salty.
 You can't drown in the lake by sinking, but you can be suffocated to death, which is just about as uncom- fortable and undesirable. We found signs everywhere warning us against being too talkative or too frolicsome In the water.
 When we came out we brought with us large deposits of salt on our skin. As the water evaporated we found ourselves covered with white crystals. Only a strong shower bath of fresh water or a good clothes brush can put you into fit condition to dress.--The Travel Magazine.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
Changes in 1ondon's East End.

How the old East end has changed to one who goes back to it after the years! Always it Is drab, and the mean streets stretch away, many miles long. Always the low squalid houses cluster round the dirty Tagged squares, and out of the desolation hideous piles of model buildings uplift their prison walls But how it has changed! And how, at every point, ones knowledge is confused by 8 new population in the ancient streets, by the vanishment of old haunts of riot and misery. Down Radcliffe highway the drunken sailormen swung in bygone days, bowling; now the suave gesticulating Orient chaffers there. The hooligan is almost an alien in Whitechapel For Whitechapel is the Ghetto; it Is strip torn from red Russia Wherein is the great change? Tn this: A proletariat of inferior quality not at all tum- ultuous-fills the mean streets. The true natives of the slums of the East have not wholly gone. Still one may see and have speech with the wicked, crawling little Englishmen, but there is less and less room for them. They swim, gasping in the alien flood. And the poor workmen, grown poorer, have sunk deeper. From Poland and Galicia and Russia the new proletariat has filtered in, filling the hooks and crannies of the slums. They have many virtues, these eastern. Jews; they are sober; they are thrifty; they are money-wise, and, banded together by an unreleasing freemasonry of race and religion, they have had little diff ficulty in supplanting the native East enders, who were brawlers, drunk ards, wasters, inefficient competitors. You shall go down into Whitechap- el where the only gentiles are those who light the fires and turn the wheels for Israel. And in Mile End
 Old Town, where there are 66,000 in- habitants, you will find only one Eng lishman out of six. A notable change. None of the grim and turbulent mem
 ories of the "Jack-the-R Ripper" pe-
 riod will fit into the present-day scheme of things. A grayer world, not so striped with blood; grayer sea of poverty, through which the sharks swim lazily, and philanthropy
 a fat white bulk, floats on the scum,--
 Vance Thompson in Outing Magazine
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
ToKIo's sLUNIs.

Tokio has slums whose poverty reaches the last depth of human de- gradation, Below the cellars of Paris the alleys of London, and the crowded slums of the New York East Side, the Japanese capital reveals lower gulf It is a region that no ray lights. Your mouldy man of Paris and your "hooli- gan" of London do have at times fierce joys and moments of acid pleas ure, but the microscopic intensity of the distress in the Shitaya quarter of Tokio bars out all hope. Tolsio has far too many poor people, and their disposition is pressing problem. Thousands are shipped to Corea and Frmosa, but the pressure steadily in- creases, owing to the constant mil grafton of ambitious Japanese from the provinces to the capital city.
 Japan carefully avoid all public ref erences to these great sores on it's body polite. Their existence is hid den from the foreign visitor. Rarely does 8 tourist see the slums, and specialists studying the city for precise information are sedulously kept out of the poorest quarters Japan is so skilfully press-agented that the ex- istence of these miserable purlieus is not even suspected by the average student of conditions. It is a journal istic rule in Japan not to say anything that betrays weakness in the life of the people, and it is a rule generally observed. But there are writers in
 Japan who think that in adopting the civilization of the Occident the repub- | lican form of government should also have been imported, and these give the ministry trouble at times by tell ing plain, unpalatable truths. The
 "Kokumin" newspaper detailed rep
 resentative to live the life of the
 lowest and poorest in Tolio, and his
 articles dealing with life in the Shita-
 va district created an immense sensa-
 ton. When translated into English
 in pamphlet form the government
 promptly bought up the entire edition
 and destroyed the plates.-Walter J.
 Kingsley, in the Worlds Work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
The Outlook as to Lumber.

Lumber is bound to go higher in price. Maine was reported a short time ago as so badly flooded with lumber that the saw-mflls were being shut down to wait for a rise in prices. Farmers of the potato counties have been down to the East Maine fair at Bangor to find thousands of potato diggers, expecting that 1t wolud be easy because the saw-mills were idle. They found the laborers all working, and the mills turning out lumber as usual. Reports have reached Worcester from Maine that the people have neg lected making repairs to their houses this summer because the prices of lumber have been SO high that they could not afford 1t. Now comes the news from the Northwest that nearly all the big numbering operations have been stopped because it is useless to cut the trees and put the logs into the rivers and bays for the teredos or ship worm to spoil. Millions of logs have been entirely spoiled by the peculiar boring of these worms. They start in parallel with the bark and continue to bore until they have filled the whole log with tunnels. It is reported as a curiosity that though these worms are all working at the same time and bor- ing promiscuously through the logs, they never run one tunnel into another, but sometimes they come so close to- gether that mere films of wood are be- tween them. The stopping of work in the Puget sound lumber district is no small matter, as there are many com gets out more year than all New England lumbermen. That company has lost 16,000000 feet of timber in the past few months through the activity of the teredos. The government experts have been for years trying to find means for the destruction of these tim ber-destroying worms that operate generally on the Pacific coast, but have accomplished nothing. They are still at work, but the worms have bored more logs this season than ever before. That is the reason why the operations have been suspended indefinitely, and that will make the prices of lumber higher. Worcester Telegram.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
Pocahontas in London.

Shakespeare was yet alive and in more or less active work while this strange procession, which I have described, of natives of Virginia, Gui- ana and New England, defiled through English ports. Of most of them the dramatist doubtless caught glimpse. But it was just after his death that the most imposing of Virginian visit ors reached London. Pocahontas, the young daughter of the chief Pow .hatan, had conceived as child TO- mantle attachment for the English settlers, and had Git was alleged) pro- tected more than one of them from the murderous designs of her kindred. At length she joined the newcomers as willing hostage and in 1913, when not more than eighteen years old, she boldly defled all Indian and English conventions by marrying an English settler Immediately afterward she assepted Christianity and expressed anxiety to visit her husbands Chris tian country. Accordingly, in the summer of 1916 she arrived in the E1uSllSIl CeiPlldl WlIn Her HuSpdHu, dil Infant son, her brother Tamacoma and some native women attendants.
 A splendid reception was accorded the Virginian princess. State and church combined to do her honor. James received her and her brother at court. They attended perform ance at Whitehall of a Twelfth Night masque by Ben Jonson (January 6, 1617) of which they spoke with ap- proval. The Bishop of London en- tertained her with festival pomp" The princess portrait was painted and engraved by distinguished artists. Her dignitled bearing was generally com mended, although hints are given by Ben Jonson that the princess was oc- casionally seen, to the dismay of her hosts, to enter tavern doors. Her en- tertainment, at any rate, seems to have. been thoroughly congenial to her and she was reluctant to shorten her visit. At the end of ten months, how ever, she travelled to Gravesend with a view to authorization for her natMe land. But while tarrying at the poTt, to the general grief, she fell i'll and died. The parish register of Grave |send describes her as "of Virginia, a lady born. Sidney Lee in ScribnerIs
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
LOOKING 10 THE FUTURE.
CITY BEAUTIFUL IDEA
Wilmington and Chester, Pa., Ready to Cooperate for
 it's Furtherance.

The joint meeting of the citizens of the flourishing cities of Wilmington and Chester in furtherance of the city beautiful is a new idea in civic advancement. These cities are neigh boring communities, and while it is improbable that the hope expressed by one of the speakers at the meeting, that they may some day constitute practically one great city, will be real ized by the present generation, they can develop the city beautiful along the same lines. Cities have their trade rivalries, but they readily find common ground in seeking to make all towns more habitable. The loca- tion of parks to meet the demands of the future, street cleaning, pure wa ter, disposal of sewage, artistic munic- ipal buildings, the shading of resi- dental streets, are matters in which all municipalities should be deeply in terested.
 The establishment of parks is likely to be neglected by the minor munich palities. With respect to these inn portant features of civic improvement, posterity is too often permitted to care for itself. The constant growth of town should be in the contempla- tion of its citizens, and open spaces can be secured at comparatively lit- tie expense before the place has de- veloped into a larg city. In planning Philadelphia, Penn, made provision for number of small parks, It is re- gretted now that many more breath ing spaces were not reserved when the city was young, It is regrettable, also, that the old streets were not laid out on more ample plan. Every street in the residential districts of cit ies should have in some sense a park like appearance.
 Bishop Coleman, in his address at the Wilmington meeting, declared that work for the city beautiful should be carried along from generation to gen. eration, and by impressing the subject
 on the children the time will come when it will be almost impossible to
 have a city that will not be beautiful. Investment In the city beautiful is sure to be remuneratve in the long run on the finacial side, and it is cer- tain to yield rich dividend in com fort health and pleasure. Every town has possibilities in this direction lying unimproved. Even in quarters given over to manufactures 1t is possi- ble to introduce elemnts of beauty. 1t is not necessary that manufact- uring town should be repellent as a place of residence. There are cer- tain factories set in an attractive en- vironment of lawns, flowers and vines. A great deal can be done in towns where the present conditions are not very inviting to give them the aspect of the city l.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
SENTATIVE YEARS A SOLDIER.

Sergeant Major Robert Elliott, of Ootavia street, Battersea, who claims the longest continuous service of any man still serving in the army, has been the recipient of the Royal Vic torian medal. Sergeant Major Eli ott's service extends as far back as January 1S42. In letter written by order of the King to Lord Allendale, the captain of the Kings Bodyguard and Yeoman of the Guard, forward ing the medal, it Is stated; The King Is glad to have this opportunity o f conferring the medal upon him not only on account of his distinguished military service, but because also he occupied the position of sergeant ma tor of the Yeomen of the Guard on the occasion of his majesty's inspec- ton of that body"
 Sergeant Major Elliott is now in his eighty-flrst year, but looks quite twenty years younger. He was only fifteen when he joined the Second Battalion of the Royal Regiment, and only four months later he was sent off to North America,
 At the recent inspection the King had lengthy chat with the veteran. The Prince of Wales asked him, 'When did you join the army ?" "When your royal 'father has two months and two days old" was his reply. q must tell him that" said the Prince, with a laugh.
 Sergeant Major Elliott still does his turn of duty. He points with pride to a grandfather who died at 106 years of age and an aunt who lived until 104.-London Daily Mail.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
FINDING oF THE HOLY GRAIL?

The strange story of the finding of the Holy Grail the sensation of some excited London newspapers, rests for it's historical foundation on the as- sumption that the sacred vessel exist ed at Glastonbury some time in the Middle Ages. It is extremely difficult of course to prove negative, but there is every reason to believe that no one ever supposed it to have been there after the days of King Arthur.
 The "Morte d'Arthur," which, be it remembered, was printed when the monks were still at Glastonbury, is conclusive as to the fifteenth century's belief as to the end of the holy ves- sel covered with red samite." After he has told of Sir Galahad's death,
 Mallory continues: ALSO the two fel- lows saw come from heaven an hand, but they saw not the body, and then it came right to the vessel and took it -and so bear 1t up to heaven. Since
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
AUTOGRAPH SHARKS.
Ingenious Methods Used to Elicit Let
 ters from Noted Men.

No one is better posted in ruses to which collectors resort in order to se- cure autographs from living celebri- ties than a certain London dealer. There is not enough profit in their sale to encourage any number of people in this country to secure autographs for the purpose of disposing of them to the dealer, but writing to celebrities and selling their replies to the dealer in question is a means of livelihood to no small number.
 No one, perhaps, has outwitted in cleverness the methods of General Cist whose collection, sold after his death, brought one of the highest prices of any sale in the world. Cist was a skilful penman and born let ter writer. He wrote in such a way that he rarely failed to elicit lengthy and interesting replies He would write to statesman, saying that a party had applied to him for employ ment and given the statesman as ref erence. "Was so-and-So ever in your employ as private secretary?" he would write. Cist was a recluse, hermit He was estranged from his family. His last days were passed in America in a room filtered with books and papers of rarest value, secured through the most ingenious ruses.
 The cleverest modern autograph collector, whose methods became known to dealers, was the late Benja- min Austin, a resident of the United States. He organized a literary soci- ety in his imagination, to which he elected as honorary members, all the distinguished men and women of Europe and America. When notified of their election, they naturally re- piled, thanking him for the honor conferred. In this way he secured much excellent material Doubtless he made the collection with view to it's subsequent monetary value. After his death his widow sold it, but values had decreased and it did not bring anything near the price that might reasonably have been expected Lon don Tit-Bits.