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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23
Playing Politics.
(New York Times.)

tNeW IOfk 1lIll6SsJ
 There is further occasion for uneasi- ness in the fact that national presi- dential contest is approaching. Mir. Roosevelt is a politician. He knows that he has the people behind him" in the policies he is executing. In their present temper they would applaud and approve even more radical poli- cies, we doubt not. Is 1t reasonable to suppose that he will now take the 5ack-track when by pressing on he may make more certain the triumph of his party next year? How little he concerns himself about the disaster and ruin he threatens to bring upon he business community appears from his amazing hypothesis that recent violent declines in security values may have been caused by Certain male factors of great wealth who have combined ''to bring about as much fnancial stress as they possibly can
 n order to discredit the policy of the government, and thereby to secure Q reversal of that policy" That the scorpion stings itself to death may possibly be a fabla but 1t Is certainly 1uly from mind in which fables find 7asy lodgment that such 3 theory of the behavior of rich rascals in adver- 7ity could issue. And upon such 8
 mind a slump in stocks even Q slump in business, which in measure has already come. would have little warning or deterrent effect
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23
IA new cotton worm has appeared to ravage the plantations. It will also rav- age the bears in the cotton market.
GREAT DAYS FoR NrwARK.

Newark, New Jersey, doesn't expect to immediately absorb Greater New York, but she is feeling about as big as orange, Connecticut, will feel for a little while after becoming a city, if she becomes one. And Newark has good reasons for swelling with pride and hope. work began this week on the dredging of the channel of the Passaic and Newark Bay to the depth of twen- ty-one feet at high tide and sixteen feet at low tide, and with an average width of three hundred feet to the Erie railroad bridge, at Fourth avenue, and above that point 200 feet to the Greenwood Lake bridge. The contract for this great work, now begun, calls for it's completion in three years. The channel will be eleven miles long and will have minimum depth at low tide of sixteen feet. In three years time large ocean steamships will be able to load and unload their cargoes at the Newark wharves. This will make Newark a seaport independent of New York.
 The material excavated in the making of this channel will be used in filling tract of the meadows between the Passaic and Hackensack rivers at a point where they run into Newark Bay this Is to say, practically, across the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23
Intlirecticn,

Fair are the flowers and the children,
 but thelr subtle suggestion is
 fairer;
 Rare is the roseburst of dawn. but
 the secret that clasps it is rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the
 strain that precedes 1t is sweeter; And never was poem yet writ, but the
 meaning outmastered the meter. Never daisy that grows, but a mys-
 tery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but majes-
 ty scepters the flowing; Never a Shakespeare that scared, but
 a stronger than he did enfold
 him;
 Nor never a prophet foretells, but a
 mightier seer hath foretold him. Back of the canvas that throbs, the
 painter Is hinted and hidden; Into the statue that breathes, the soul
 of the sculptor is bidden; Under the joy that is felt lie the in-
 finite issues of feeling; Browning the glory revealed is the
 glory that crowns the revealing. Great are tine symbols of being. but that which is symboled is greater;
 Vast tho create and beheld, but vastel the inward creator; Back of the sound broods the silence back of the gift stands the giv' ing;
 Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving Space is as nothing to spirit, the deeC | is outdone by the doing; | The heart of the wooer Is warm, bu warmer the heart of the wooing | And up from the pits where thes' | shiver, and up from the height ! where those shine, l Twin voices and shadows swim star | ward, and the essence of life 1 ! divine.
 Richard Realf
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23
CONSTRUCTIONS.

Bill-"Did you say he has horse sense?"
 Jill-''No; why, he hasn't even got mule sense. I never knew him to kick in his life!"-Yonkers Statesman. q see Tompkins has returned from his vacation
 "Yes."
 'sHcw long was he gone?"
 Three sets of skin on his nose."-- Milwaukee Sentinel. Oh, why is the young wife weeping? Is she weary of washing and sweeping Oh, no! It's not that, But just that her flat Is too dark for light housekeeping. --fIarper's Weekly.
 You can't paint the lily" declared the rose.
 Maybe not" responded the aster. But have you noticed?' Noticed what?" "The lily pads. Washington Her. ald. 'I say. mamma" asked little Tom my, "do fairy tales always begin with Once upon a timer" NO, dear, not always" replied mann ma; they sometimes begin with My lcye, I have been detained at the office again tonight. "--Glasgow News. Kadley-see here, Borroughs, you want to be civil to me. loaned you 6 dollar the other day; remember that and remember that you still owe 1t to me. BorroughsI assure you, Kadley, I expect to remember that as long as 1 live--Philadelphia Press.
 ''Go out and arrest that man with ] the motor car for speeding" said the rural magistrate.
 But" answered the constable, This car has broken down and he's trying to fix it."
 Then so out and arrest him for ob- structing the highway. Washington Star.
 They were making ice cream for the children's party.
 Sis" said Tommy, you're turning the handle of the freezer the wrong way"
 What difference will that make?'' asked his sister"
 "Huhl Don't you know? It won't make ice cream at all. It'll be boiled crstard. Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23
SCARCE TIMES.

The horse continues to be vain thing for safety, but he is still useful and still relied on to snuff the battle
 afar off and say Hal Ha! It appears, however, that the horses of the United States government which are relied on
 to snuff the battle have not only de- teriorated in quality but have in
 creased in price, just as most other things which have to be bought have lately done. The question of the re-
 mount supplies for cavalry and fleld artillery will soon become source of
 embarrassment to the service. Gen Ieral A. w. Greedy says that during the last year cavalry horses furnished his division have varied in price from 1925 to $174, while twelve years ago
 horses of equal or superior grade could De purchased at prices ranging from $75 to s110. He says that con- ditions look to a continuance of limit
 ed supply and increasing prices, so
 that from the point of view of ex-
 pense alone the question of providing remounts is of more than passing in- terest.
 These are scarce times. Not horses
 enough, not clans enough, not lob
 sters enough, not trees enough not
 rain enough and not money enough. There will evidently have to be new
 deal as we'll as square deal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Bela Lyon Pratt.
 noe+on Hara1d !

Since the death of Augustus St. Gaudens, not few people are look ing to see his successor in Bella Lyon Pratt. who though now living in Bos- ron. is claimed by Connecticut. Pratt s best work thus far is probably the "Andersonville Prison Boy" It pre- sents tall and noble youth standing erect with undaunted eyes and an air of martyrdom. It was lately said by Charles Eliot Norton of this work that it might well stand with St. Gaudens' Col. Shaw, as belonging to the same class. Connecticut is to set up this statue at Andersonville.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

Some people know how to point a moral. This will teach you never to believe your friends" wrote Mme. Cor nellus Plas of San Francisco, Califor- nia, to her husband after she had eloped with hls best friend.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

The latest scientific" statement is that fat legs are indicative of brain power. No scientist has yet discovered that fat heads are indicative of brain power.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

The United States has shown it's pow CT by conquering the Pulajanes, but the Maryjanes are still unconquered and unafrafd.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23
s4YTNas AND poTNes.

seId Back, Jr., son of the richest
 Chinese merchant in Portland, Ore
 gon, has been admitted to practice at the bar of the federal district and circuit courts This is believed to be the first incident of the kind in this country. The new lawyer is twenty six years old, native of Portland and a graduate of the Oregon law school
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

The dreaded tsetse fly of Africa is supposed to breed in the banana plan tations. As the banana is the staple food of the country the plantations cannot be destroyed and it is pro posed to introduce the jungle fowl to exterminate the flies, beginning the experiment on the fly-infested deserted island of Kimmi, in the Victoria Ny Ianza.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

Jersey justice still prevails. six year-oId child was fined $2 in the po- lice court at Trenton the other day be- cause 1t stole cents worth of kind ling wood
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

Fan baths are the latest remedy used by the Boston City Hospital phy- |sicians in the treatment of typhoid Ifever. Heretofore the ice plunge was used, and a patient whose tempera- |ture had reached the danger point
 was soused in bathtub filled with
 broken ice until his teeth rattled. This treatment after time was found to
 be too heroic, as the shock was too Esevere and pneumonia sometimes de- veloped. Then ice water sponge baths
 were substituted, but the fan baths,
 the doctors declare, are just the
 thing. The patient is sponged of with ice water first, then a sheet that
 has been soaked in ice water is wrap ped about the body and more ice wa
 ter is sprinkled on the sheet. The Icurrent of an electric fan is then turned on him so that he is chilled by the rapid evaporation caused by the breeze. Recent experiments have proved this measure highly success lful.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

It can't be that the animals have noticed the talk about race suicide,
 but COW belonging to John H. Me Clintock of Lexington, Kentucky, gave birth to five perfectly formed calves.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS A WEEK, 50 GENTS A MONTH. $8 FOR SIX MONTHS. ss A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES. 2 GENTS,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

Fifty thousand dollars is needed to pay certain government expenses in Guam, and the request has been made that the money be sent in paper form, mot in coin. The natives, it has been found. on receiving money in coin
 bury 1t and go without the necessities of life, while having, in some in- stances, a goodly pot of treasure se- Icurely buried in the ground. They do not thus value paper money and It is hoped that the natives will now |expend their wages, keep money in circulation and at the same time im- prove their mode of living.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

Lord Lyveden, who now sits in the
 British House of Lords, has had a varied and interesting career. He
 was a member of the London fire bri- |gade at one tine has been a sailor before the mast, and hall keeper at the Chelsea town hall. He served as a mounted trooper in South Africa, and soon afterward came into the ti- tle
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

An appeal is being made in Eng
 land for funds to undertake the great
 task of excavating the ruins of Mem phis, Egypt. It is expected that Eng land will now do for Memphis what the French government has done for
 Eelphi and the Germans for Olympia. The sites of the four great temples are plainly marked, so that exploration can begin at once. This mass of ruins covers 100 acres. as much as the whole of the site at Karnak, and it is estimated that $15,000 will be needed annually for fifteen years to accom- plish the work Important material lis believed to lie within a few yards .of the surface, so that results should be reached promptly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23

Four of them were born alive, but the fifth was dead. This remarkable COW has the startling record of hav- ing given birth to sixteen calves in six years, having triplets twice, twins twice.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22

Ho.u Mr.. Bro,Dn Got the
Worst of 7lvo Bar
gains.
TRIED MAlL-ORDER METHODS
Thought He Was Saving Money, But
Will Not Try the Same Thing
Second Thanksgiving at
Home Pays.

copyrighted, 1906, by Alfred C. Clark
Mr.. Brown, a farmer living In
Boone county, Mo-, decided to buy a
spring wagon. The next time he was
in town he went to the local dealer
to see what he had in stock. One
wagon that suited him was offered to
him at SIS. He thought he would
take it, but before ordering he looked
over a mail order vehicle catalogue.
Here he saw described a wagon which,
as far as description went, was the
same as the one he saw in the DEAL
er's store room. In fact, the descrip-
ton was written in such a convinc-
ing manner and all of the good points
OF the mail order vehicle were brought
out so thoroughly that it appeared to
be superior to the other one. And the
price was only $67.45. Mr.. Brown
thought of the saving of $7.55 which
represented several days of hard work.
The more he thought about it the
more he wanted to save that amount
and in the end the Chicago mail or
der concern got his check.
When the wagon finally arrived,
with freight bill of $3.50, he rode to
town with his son and spent half a
day putting it together. He had to
buy screw driver and some oil and
sand paper and few bolts to replace
some that had been lost in shipment.
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the fact that they are making their
community poorer, reducing the per
capita Of wealth, and dwarflng local
business. only to enrich a concern al
ready rich enough to buy several
counties. An extra thousand dollars
in any community will mean, during
the year, many thousands of dollars in
business transacted and increased in
come for practically every one in the
community. Often the amount sent
to the mail order houses is more than
enough to turn the balance the other
way and business depression exists
where prosperity would prevail under
normal conditions. Even If the coun-
try purchaser was able to save snug
sum by ordering his supplies from a
mail order house, the loss to the COM
munity would be greater than the gain
for himself. 1t is needless to point
out that as the amount of the mail or
der business from any community in
creases the amount of loss to the COM
munity also increases, until it is only
question of time until the individual
loss caused by the general depression
of business will exceed the individual
saving.
In fact if everyone in the commun-
ity bought from the mail order houses,
local markets would disappear and
the farmer would be compelled to sell
as we'll as buy from the catalogue
concerns. The rural districts would
be devoid of business activity while
the wealth of the country would be
centered in one or two points. Buy
ing by mail may be attractive, but the
most pronounced mail order ffend
must look with apprehension on any
condition whereby he would be COM
PEELED to depned on the mail order
man for market for his products.
But the idea of saving on individual
purchases is, to a great extent, a
fallacy. In spite of his boosted ability
to buy in large quantities, he is not
able to buy for much less than the
country merchant. Competition in all
manufactured products is too keen for
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that. And the small saving he is able
to make by large purchases is more
than Offset by his larger expenses.
These expenses must come out of the
purchaser so the mail order man is
compelled to make larger profit than
the local dealer. It costs him more to
market his goods. He must maintain
large and expensive Office force and
he must advertise. AS an example
of what the mail order man expects
to make out of his customers, a letter
written by prominent mail order
man might be quoted. Writing to
magazine he said: advertising in
your publication cost us II cents an
inquiry and we made sales at cost
of only Sc cents each for advertising.
This is about half of our regular cost"
This man was selling "A complete out
fit of clothes for $685." He was will
ing to pay dollar for each sale the
advertising brought him. Ask your
local dealer how long he could keep
the sheriff away from his doors If he
took dollar out of every ten dollar
sale.
You can't buy the same class of
goods any cheaper from the catalogue
houses than from the local dealer,
though one may think he can after
reading the catalogues. The differ
ence comes in the quality of the goods.
There is particular class of goods
known as mail order goods" This
trade term is applied to cheap but
SNOWY goods and novelties which can
be sold at large profit. 1t means
much the same thing as "street fakir
goods and, as is the case with street
fakir goods, mail order goods are not
handled by the regular jobbers and
wholesalers. They cannot afford to
handle them because their customers
want better merchandise. The street
fakir duplicates, in appearance, the
jewelry carried, by first class jew
elry house and makes large profits.
The catalogue merchant does the
same thing but does it on a larger
scale and much more cleverly.
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All of these cost him IS cents. He
was not experienced at putting spring
wagons together and he didn't do a
very good job of it, for one of the
seats refused to sit in the right place
and he had to get local blacksmith
to help him fix it. This cost him
another half dollar and delayed him
so much that he and the boy had to
so to the hotel for their dinners; an
additional expense of 70 cents. So
before he got his team hitched to the
wagon it cost him $3.50, allowing him
a saving of $1.10, which was very
stingy pay for the time he had lost.
Of the amount he spent for the wagon,
only $1.95 remained in Boone county.
The railroads and the mail order
house got the rest of it.
In the meantime his neighbor, Mr..
Jones, bought the SIS wagon from the
local dealer, who made profit of
SIG on the sale. AS the vehicle was
already assembled and there were no
extra parts or tools to buy, the amount
paid for the wagon represented all of
the cost to Mr.. Jones. The dealer
spent the SIG profit for new sign on
his building; the sign painter hired a
carpenter to repair the roof on his
house; the carpenter paid his bill at
the butchers and the butcher bought
a hog from Mr.. Jones. And so the
SIG kept going in the county until a
e. &h4 @r14 hol
hold of It. He sent it to Chicago and
it never came back.
But this wasn't the last of the two
purchases. A few weeks after the
two wagons were bought, Mr.. Browns
boy and Mr.. Jones' boy, driving the
new vehicles, met on the country road.
They drove too close to each other
and a smash-up resulted. The weak
est part of each wagon gave way; an
axle on the mail order product was
broken and a doubletree on the other
was smashed. Both breaks were plain
" because of defective construction.
Mr.. Jones took his broken doubletree
to town the next day and the dealer
gave him a new one. Mr.. Brown at
tempted to explain to the Chicago firm
that the axle would not have broken
if it had not been defective and
coupled this explanation with re-
quest for a new part, but after several
weeks of correspondence with the
piece as far away as at the begin
ming, he gave it up and bought the
axle himself. This experience told
Mr.. Brown why he should trade with
home merchants instead Of patroniz-
ing the mail order, houses. i =.@
In Boone county and in every other
county there are many who send thou
sands of dollars out of the county
every year, without ever considering
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her and berth At
switchboard
suggested that the blind it.
put in and it has ten trunk 40 extensions
kees lectures after Miss Keller
telephone had taken
delighted with
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22
To Domesticate a Cat.

It is said that an unfailing remedy
for a cat that will not accustom itself
to a new home is. to grease it's feet
thoroughly with butter and put it
down the cellar. When it has licked
its feet clean it will be. thoroughly
domiciled and will cause no further
trouble by running away. ~. l.
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Hls bitter
lastngy, necessarily
He before daylight
blight
matter what fight he have handhe
his
Without exception he undoubtedly
public life
occupedhe
States
Re health.
heard in
fighting
licked" his playmates
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tnued without starting lynchng
After they had returned to the Democratic
dining
of dining with said of them land
if it the capitol"
ut thing Senator Tlman
there
doing"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22

Just now Senator Joseph Benson Foraker of
Ohio is one of the most prominent public men
standing in the national limeght Two causes
one carefully planned, the other accidental-bring
Foraker we'll into the proem of the political story
of the country.
First he is candidate for the Republican
nomination for president in 1908; second, he is
the self-avowed antagonist of the present incum-
bent of the White House and all his works.
In both these situations Foraker stands out
primarily fighter. And as fighter the char
acteristics of the man and the methods of the
man appeal to all dabblers in the picturesque
chronology of the day.
Foraker is one of the men in the senate who
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22

Southerners are indignant because the other
day for the first time in the memory of members
of congress negroes have been served at the
house Of representatives restaurant.
While several southern men were dining in
the portion reserved for members and their guests
negro accompanied by white woman entered
took seats at an adjoining table and ordered food
as cody as though they had no idea of the prece-
dents they were smashing.
The negro walters served them with alacrity.
Adamson, of Georgia; Randel1, of Louisiana; Tay-
lor, of Alabama, and few other southerners were
dining in the same room.
Representative Weeks, of Massachusetts, and
Gardner of Michigan, at adjoining table, waited
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the
and the the
nothing the diplomatic
judicial officers of the District of Columbia
The commission the list that the
This matter of the society,"
limit calls high official rank Calls
the commission
of the enmity developing resulted the resignation
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22
Marriage DAYS in Italy

In Italy Sunday is usually selected
for the marriage of those persons who
have never beer married before. 4
Widows, however, in accordance with
an old custom, usually choose Satul-
day. K. *.a a .ss e, III : ;, 8 .=s>. ls
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-02-22

1T don't take any $4,000
what O water Mr. Lamb insisted
.AS
only Fenchmen of Ken
lucky and I'm opposed raising
must
We horned
I've eaten frog
worth said. ;
WELL I wouldn't o Texasin interrupted.
majority of
This biologist
assistant
together with