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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
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There has been an International Congress of Psychiatry at Amster- dam, and with many and long words it has attacked the popular notion that the only child and the child of youthful parents have an advantage over others in point of mental abil- |ity. Facts have been gathered which tend to uphold just the opposite view. It is shown that Coleridge was the youngest of thirteen children, that James Fenimore Cooper came elev- enth in a family of twelve, that Wash ington Irving was the eleventh, Na- poleon the eighth, Daniel Webster the seventh, Benjamin Franklin the seventeenth, Rembrandt the last of six, Rubens the last of seven, Wag- ner the last of seven, Mozart the last of seven, and Schubert the last but one in family of fourteen. Horace Walpole was one of nineteen children John Marshall one of fifteen, Peter the Great one of fourteen, Alfred Tennyson one of twelve. Lord Nelson one of eleven, while George Washing ton, Thomas Carlyle and Oliver Crom- well each came of families of ten. The ancestors of Grover Cleveland fol
 many generations had families oftter and eleven children, and one ancestor
 had thirteen children.
 f This is encouraging to those wht
 are opposing race-suicide. Perhaps
 children in big families are smar
 because they have to be.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
A Secular Tribute.
tThe Universalist Leader.)

CThe UniVerSallst beauerJ
 In connection with the State conven- tion of Universalists, recently held in Hartford, Conn.,, there appeared an edi- torial in The New Haven Journal and Courier, which for grasp and fairness deserves the appreciation of any stud ent of religion. It is not often that the secular rress aevotes so much space and exercises so much sane thinking along religious lines, and 1t is gratify- ing to note that the real Journalistic Instinct, which really deals with ques- tions of interest instead of simply sket2hing them, is not wholly dead.
 Not little of the struggle of the Universalist Church during the century and a quarter of It's existence has been for just recognition; to be ignored or soorned has been too often the fate of our seriously minded men; to be con sidered the exception. To-day the Universalist Church is recognized among religious bodies as part of the great Christian Church, and while more gracious treatment is often desirable, Universalists are coming into their own perhaps as fast as deserved.
 This discriminating word from the secular press is worthy of reproduction, not because of self gratification,\ but because of it's educational value to readers of other sects, who may see the source of their own theological heal ing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
AN ALLEVIATOR.

There is usually, not to say always, something to alleviate even the most gloomy situation. This time it is the fact that good many people have recently been relieved from worry over the price of diamonds. It is an nounced that the price of the beau ties is to be raised, but what of that? |? There was once man so poor that he said if steamboats were selling for a cent apiece he couldn't buy a gang plank. What difference will the price of diamonds make to many who have been through the financial mill and count themselves lucky to have es- capped with enough to buy bread and oleomargarine with?
 It is a good time to put up the price of diamonds. It will also be a good plan for thos> who have diamonds to sell not to raise the price above the price of meat. There are some who, If they have to take their choice be- tween diamonds and meat, will choose the meat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL 9o7

care is being taken to have the work done on a strictly scientific basis, without reference to the ultimate pur- poses of the league itself. Scholar ships are to be founded for research work, and the incumbents will report to men of acknowledged medical and scientific position, who will direct the studies. The preliminary program of the investigation includes tests as to the action of varying doses of alcohol upon the capacity of individuals for muscular and also for mental work; comparisons of the value of intellec- tual work done under alcoholic stim- ulus and without it, and tests of the action of alcohol upon the powers of the body to resist disease, as shown by the opsonic index of the blood, and in other ways. The tests are to be made primarily with pure ethyl alcohol and then with various alcoholic beverages in the forms in which they are com monly used, and it is hoped that standards of comparison as between these different beverages can be es- tablished.
 Meanwhile the private and unsci- entific investigation of the effects of alcohol will continue, and perhaps it would continue if the scientific in- vestigators should find that alcohol is too poisonous to be wisely used.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

erected for class room purposes only Neighborhood conditions demand at- tention too.
 The idea of larger use for school buildings has secured the approval of expert teachers everywhere. The fearful loss in conf1ning these build ings to class room instruction is be- ing realized and it is to overcome it by making them cater to the needs of both the children and their unassim- Hated parents that the movement is being encouraged everywhere. A bet ter judge in fact of the needs of the Wooster district than the Board of Education will be found in the offices of the factories located in that sec ton of the city. The managers of them see what the modern school building can accomplish in increasing the ef- flciency of the labor employed and have been led to appreciate from that the profound motives pf the ca- ucational experts who base everything upon decent and intelligent citizen ship. It is 2 pity that through what must be considered lack of under standing on the part of the majority of the school board the admirable work of the committee on school buildings has been weakened by in- ternal dissension. tI
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
PREVENTIVE.

What is there on your hat that makes you so proud of it?" "The eyes of all the other women. ."-Cleveland Leader.
 Alice-"Are you sure he is a college man?" Maud-"Why, yes; what made you doubt it?" Aliee-"Why, he nev- CT uses gW--Somervill Journal.
 Justin, there's a man down here with bill," called Mrs. Wyss to her husband. Gee whiz! let's go down and see him, Pop" exclaimed young Austin Wyss excitedly. He must be a bird "-The Circle
 They do not ask me how got 1t,
 Or where got it,
 Because, dod rot it, The fates to me failed to allot 1t.
 1 haven't got 1t.
 Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Friend-"Say, that's fine mirror you've hung up in your shop. Why -" Butcher-"Yes, I've done 1t SC
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

that the pretty servants wouldn't look too closely at my weighing!"- Trans lated for Transatlantic Tales. IN CAPITALS I LIKE TO ROAM SEE GREAT MEN FACE TO
 FACE
 BUT ME THEY FAIL TO SEE AT
 ALI4-4
 i'm but lower easel
 Puck.
 Bacon-"saw you with strange lady yesterday" Egbert-"Yes l" Bacon--"Who was she?" Egbert- My wife" Bacon"But, thought 1t was a strange lady?" Egbert-"so it was. I'd have you know my wife's very strange "-Yonkers Statesman.
 When I met Mabel to-day I had my new fall gown on. Of course" said Miss Dowd, T expected her to say something about 1t, but she pre- tended not to have seen it.'
 Yes" replied Miss Pert, she's an awfully oonsiderate and tender-heart- ed girl. Philadelphia Record.
 Judge--Your wife wishes to have a separation from you because you hid from her the fact that you had been five years in prison before you were engaged.
 Well, ] gave her very strong hint about it. In my advertisement I put, Young man, very tired of being alone, wishes to marry "-Fllegende Blat- ter.
 A traveller tells of two old entries that he saw in the visitors book of a fashionable resort on the Rhine. A few years ago one of the Paris mem- bers of the Rothschild family had registered as follows; R. de Paris" It so chanced that the next visitor to in- scribe his name in the book was Bar on oppenheim, the banker of Cologne, and he wrote his name beneth Roth schilds in this wise: 70, de Cologne D Chicago News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
An Empty Nest.
d deserted nest

find an old deserted nest,
 Half hidden in the underbrush; A withered leaf, in phantom jest,
 Has nestled in 1t like a thrush With weary, palpitating breast. muse as one in sad surprise
 Who seeks his childhoods home once
 more,
 And finds 1t in strange disguise
 Of vacant rooms and naked floor, With sudden tear drops in his eyes. An empty nest! It used to bear
 A happy burden, when the breeze Of summer rocked 1t, and q pair
 of merry tattlers told the trees What treasures they had hidden there. But Fancy fitting through the gleams
 Of youths sunshiny atmosphere, Has fallen In the past, and seems,
 Like this poor leaflet nestled here A phantom guest of empty dreams. James Whitcomb Riley, in Morning"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
NOT EvEN REIfABLY LATE.

AS everything can happen in this curious world, it Is not surprising that a train has been wrecked on a vest ern railroad because it happened for once to be on time. As 1t wasn't in the habit of being on time and was in the habit of not being on time, those who were repairing the track thought they could rely on it to not be on time that time. But 1t was. Nobody had taken the trouble to set the proper signals. The section gang, taken by surprise, had barely an opportunity to escape as the train dashed around the curve" and dashed into the ditch,
 One of the morals of this incident seems to be that you cannot really re- ly on unpunctuality. And when punc- tual people have learned that they cannot rely on unpunctual people and unpunctual trains continuing to be consistently unpunctual they will feel still more confused and irritated.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
4 CHANGE FOR MORAL HUNTING.

There has been some talk that af- ter it is definitely settled that Pres ident Roosevelt is through being President he may go to Africa to hunt big game If he does perhaps he will be benefactor as we'll as a hunter for it is now argued that all the big game in Central Africa must be eXterrninated before an end can be put to the sleeping The tsetse-fly is admitted to be the car rier of sleeping-sickness among hu- Iman beings and tsetse-siokness among domestic animals-dlseases which cause terrible mortality among the natives, and render stock-raising an absolute impossibility. The only way to, combat the evil, it is asserted, is to lessen the tsetse-infected areas, and this can only be done by settlement, cultivation, the destruction of the bush, and the driving out or killing of the big game. As a matter of com mercial policy, as well as in the in- terests of humanity, big game must be sacrificed. There is no doubt, it is said, that the opening up and settle ment of the country was inevitably tending to the extermination of the llarger game, but the natural process has been arrested by the action ol the administration in limiting tho number of animals allowed to be Ishot by European sportsmen, by tho tprohibition of native hunting withou
 a license, and by the preservation o, such species as the eland and tho
 buffalo-two of the worst offender, as regards tsetse in the whole list
 The abolition of the tsetse-fly is
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
GOOD MATERIAL AT HOME.

Iron ore Is being used as material for roads in the iron region of Min nesota, and it is said to be as cheap as gravel there and to give splendid results. Not long ago it was announced that gold ore had been used for road material in Colorado.
 Where iron ore is plenty it can be well used for road material, and pos sibly there are places where gold ore could be economically used. Which leads to the mention of the fact that the late Joseph B. Sargent when he was mayor of New Haven persistent- ly called attention to the fact that New Haven had plenty of good road material right at It's door and needn't try extensive and expensive expert ments with fancy pavements and fancy prices. The same condition ex, ists now, and New Haven needn' look with envy on iron ore pavements or even gold ore pavements. TraI rock pavements are pretty good pave ments.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
FooD OR POISON AG41Yq

By and by if the scientists and the alcohol hold out we may have some accurate and useful knowledge as to
 whether alcohol is a food or poison. Something in that direction was achieved by the late Professor At water of Middletown in this State, and now there is going to be some inves- Itigating done in England. The funds
 for the work are being gathered by the National Temperance League, but
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06


 That we have in the so-callel cold wave, or sudden drop of temperature accompanying a down-rush of cool air. something that clearly difterenti- ates American from European wealth CT, and may account for certain tenn peramental differences in the inhab- itants of the two continents, is as- serted by Gilbert 1T. Grosvonor in the Century Magazine. MT. Grosvenor asserts that no other Jand has cold waves like ours, and ne ascribes to these extraordinary changes of tenn perature what he calls our keen, alert mind" and fin ,ossant, unremit- ting energy" The cold wave, accord ing to Mir. Grosvenor, stirs up the sluggish immigrant and sends him UT to the top of the ladder In earlier days 1t fed and famed the spirit tha fired our fathers to cross the Atlantic The cold wave, the writer goes on tc explain, originates miles above oui heads, usually over the Rocky noun tain plateau, whence mass of bitter lly cold air rushes down as through great funnel, spreading over the Mis- sissipi valley and the Atlantic States New waves" of this kind follow eacf other regularly like the breakers or 2 seashore.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
A Full Hand.

(AcCording to reliable works of reference, the I'great American game" consists of a pair and three of a kind. We have that particular deal in underwear. MakeS-a pair of English and three Americans. Allen, SoIIy G Co. and Cartwright & War ner stand at the top across the water, while here, beside our own linen mesh which is wear, ing and pleasing so we'll, we have the American Hosiery and Dr. Jaeger products.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
OUR CONTEMPORARIES
How It started,
(The Wall Street Journal.

(The Wall Street Journal)
 Great disasters sometimes start from most Insignificant hapenings, al- though the fundamental causes back of these happenings may be far-reach- ing. For instance, the Chicago ire lighted lamp It may not be out of the way to say that4 the conflagration in Wall street last week was started by bovine operator attempting to get up an impossible corner in copper stock.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

The Royal Northwest Mounted Po- lice, after two years work, have cut an eight-foot trail from Peace river through the Rocky mountains to the Yukon, giving a route from Edmon- ton to Dawson entirely over Canadian territory. Colonel White, controller of the Mounted Police, has received a telegram announcing triumphant ar rival at the Pacific coast, after a seven hundred mile ride on the trail from Edmonton. The trail has been built to Hazleton, where 1t joins the trail along the Yukon telegraph line, and thus continues to Dawson. Besides af- fording access to a hitherto inaccessi- ble portion of the country, 1t will be useful in the transportation of pris- ,oners. who would be able to take ad- vantage of territorial law immediate ly if transported over the usual route of travellers, which crosses American territory.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

There are still those who would gild gold and paint the lily. One of them rises to ask, How do you pro- nounce pumpkin pie?"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

good moral motive for a hunter of big game to have, even if the tsetse- fly and the game wouldn't appreciate it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

The Virginia man who wants to swap parrot for photograph seems to have about the same idea of values that Wall street has.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

Those who are unwilling pupils in the Wall street school of experience were very glad of the holiday yes terday.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

The College of Eastern Languages in Berlin has engaged four educated Chinese to teach Mandarin. For six hours a week each gets monthly salary of $357
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

All the czars of Russia have been crowned in the Kremlin in Moscow, the treasury of which contains the most historic jewels and the choicest plate now owned by the Russian
 crown. There is $6OO,OOO,OOO worth of gold, silver and precious stones in that treasury. Among the more notable items are basins of gold as big as a small bathtub, and two card tables built entirely of solid silver.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06
S4YINGS IND DOING s.

It will require S81,641,323 to run the public schools of New York city for the year just beginning,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

To the poor Indian Utes! They must now work or starve, which brings them in line with many of the pale faces.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

has just died at Darlinghurst, New South Wales. She was Mrs. Catherine Drummer, the widow of a Waterloo veteran, and was ninety eight years old.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

The last friend of Byron, the poet.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01
WHERE APPLES ARE GROWN.
North America the Great Producing
 Region of the World.

The area Of the world devoted to apple raising In the northern hemi. sphere extends from Scandinavia on the north to the mountain regions of North Carolina and Tennessee on the south. In the southern hemisphere apples are raised in New Zealand and Tasmania but little success has been obtained Tn Australia, Africa or South America. North America Is the great apple producing region of the world and New York leads all the other states in the quantity grown, although there are many choice varieties pro, duced in other states, particularly Missouri. Oregon and Washington The soil and climate conditions must combine to produce the finest fruit. The annual aggregate product of the world Is estimated at 100000 900 bar rels. but not all of this is gathered, for In seasons when the production is plentiful large quantities are fed to cattle or allowed to rot on the ground. and every season millions od bushels Of the less choice varieties and the poorer fruit from the best trees are turned into cider, which is used as a beverage and for making vinegar and apple brandy.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01
HEALTH AND SPIRITS
Are Restored by pr. Williams Pink Pills ia Cases of Debility and
 Despondency.

General debility is caused by men tal or physical oyerwork with Imper feet assimilation of nourisnment, oI by some acute disease from whic1 eAe vital forces have been prostrated and the entire organism weakened sc IS not to easily rally. To restore health it is necessary that the blood ahould be purified and made new.
 The case of Mrs. E. Nj. Spears, Of a2 Mt Pleasant street, Athol, Mass. ss a common one and is given here in order that others may be benefited by her experience. She says: II had been Sick for a year from indigestion and general debility brought on by over. work and worry. l mad tried many remedies. but found no relief. suf sered from swelling of tle limbs. loss pf appetite and dizzy spells, which be came so severe towards night, that sometimes fainted away. l was bil. Sous and my hands aud arms would go 10 sleep for an hour or two at a 1ine. was so sleepy all the time shat l could hardly keep awake. aAd frequent cramps In my limbs and severe pains at the base of my head and in my back. My blood was im. poyerished. l was afraid 10 give up and go to bed fearing that I would AsYer get we'll.
 About this time pr. Williams Pink Pills were recommended to me 2y a friend in South Vernon, Vt. selt better soon after beginning the treatment and continued until I was entirely cured. I consider Dr. VII. Hams Pink Pills a grand medicine for weak women"
 Dr. Williams Pink Pills are sole ey all druggists. or sent. postpaid. on receipt of price 50 cents per box. siI soxes s2.5o, by the Dr. Williams Medi sale Company. Schenectady, N. Y.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01

TsAERE are host of petty ailments l which are the direct result of the
 weather.
 This is more true of the excessive heat of summer and the intense cold of winter, but Is partly true of all seasons of the year.
 Whether 1t be a cold or a cough, catairh of the head or bowl complaint, whether the liver be affected or the kidneys, the cause is very liable to De the same
 The weather slightly deranges the hucous membranes of the organs and ,he result is some functional disease PerUna has become standby in Thousands Of homes for minor sH- menfs Of fhis sort. Ask Your Druggist for Free PerunA
 Almanac for 1907.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01

ter it's passage" They construed the Ian suaGe as meaning that fhe bill would be in effect for only sixty days after its pas sage. that at tho expiration of the sixty days there would be no 2-cent rate bill on the statute books \ substitute amend meut by Mr. Run to the effect that he hll should be in force after April 1, 1907. was adopted after q debate that kept the house IT session until nearly o'clock.
 During the days session the House ator. under resolution offered earlier in the day by MT Ruff. Representative Finley placed in nomination eX-Gov. Jeff Davis and the nomination was seconded by Mr. Meade. Mr. Carlton nominated John L Worthington of Boone county. lpnu Toll call eighty eight members vot- cd fur Gov. Davis. one member for Clifton H. BrrCkinridge while Mr. Warrington received the complimentary vote of the four Republican members
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01
UNEQUAL HUMAN EYES.

Many persons who think their sight perfect have q greater visual power in one eye than the other With regard to the respective power of the right and left eye a well-known opti- elan finds that a person occupied in writing all day has, as rule, stronger vision in the left. Writing with the right hand, and his left arm resting on the table, his left eye is nearer his work, and its vision is more concen- Tated. This expert says our race will
 never become SO shortsighted as the German whilst outdoor athletic games arc encouraged ia our public schools.