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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07
Paderewski.

Paderewsd is a living and a dis tinguished refutation of the very com lnonly held belief that musician can be only a musician and nothing else, When one considers the amount of work necessary to prepare a musician for a successful career, it is astonish- ing that one can know anything or have any interests outside of his art. After the long dreary years of drill the viTtuoso must not only perform but must spend hours each day in pre- pairing to perform, so that in no art or profession is a man so tied down to his work as in music
 Consequently, it is true that many m ;r ans, many great musicians, per haps the great majority have little interest n anything outside of the art they practice, but now and then man is found and it is almost inevitably true that he is a master of his art.
 Pederewsld is announced to appear at the Hyperion Tuesday December 10.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07
NEW JERSEY AT NORFOLK.
Joins Louisiana in Hampton Roads
 After Encountcrlng storm,

, Norfolk, Va, Dec 6.--The battleship Louisiana, th6rfrst of the Pacifle- e-bound Atlantic fleet to arrive in Hampton Roads. was joined to-day by the battle ship New Jersey from Boston, wnich was caught in the severe coast storm, but passed Cape Henry, inward-bound, at 91b o'clock this morning
 The high winds on the coast have subsided, and the weather at the Vir- glnia capes was to-day beautifully clear with smooth seas and a north wind of only ten miles an hour. Other battle ships now on their way to Hampton Roads are expected to pass In to-day and tonight.
 The next battleships expected are the Kansas, from Delaware breakwateri Admiral Evans flagship, the Connecti- cut and the Rhode Island from New York; the Missouri and Illinois from Boston, and the Kearsarge from League Island.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07

Rooney, assisted by pretty Marion Bent with their tuneful speciality, sgrhe Bus Bell Boy" are to be a leading feature Q the olio Pat Rooney is a clever favor ite at this theater and his re-appear lance here should be the signal for
 most enthusiastic welcome.
 Waterbury Bros and Penney in thei musical number, Bernar and hts mari onettes, being theater within a thea ter, and the wonderful workings of hi
 wooden people This act has been sensation throughout Europe, where attracted lots of attention, being con
 sidered the very acme of perfection a lregards detail of working and from q amusenentst standpoint Laveen and Crof as Roman sports and pastimes will oi 1 fer something out of the usual run C vaudeville acts, and Arthur Whitelav Ithe Irish humorist, and Miss Josephin
 Ainsly, the dainty singer, will offer th newest song numbers.
 f The elettr6gfapi will have the Bar
 dit, and Whose Flat g1s It? as the ciol ling numbers to what promises to be or of the best bills of the, season. I Seats are now selling for the entil
 week and the sale indicates recoi l breaker for attendance.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07
BooK ANp GAvE1 ELECTIONS.

The Yale Law School society of Book and Gavel, announces the elec- ton of the following mem
 Arthur Woodburne Chambers of New Haven, John Donald McGregor of Newark, Edwin Thomas Noel of Nashville, Oscar French Noel of Nash vile, Nelson oleott, 2d,, of New York city, William Rush Smith, jr., of Lexington, Ky., Arthur Lee Stone of Concord, N H., Charles Kenneth Wynne of New Haven.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07
eThe Hypocrites,"

Charles Frohman will bring "The Hypocrites," Henry Arthur Jones' suc- cess, for return engagement next month in this city. "The Hypocrltes is said to be fully the equal of any other of the numerous achievements Of this playwright, The plot and dia- logue are of a superior kind and the characters are lifelike and impressive The cast is headed by Jessie Millward and Richard Bennett and the remain der of the company is made up of an unusually large assemblage of dra- matic artists.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07
FEET FROZEN.

Two Men Sleep in Barn With
 Serious Results.
 Norfolk, Dec. Civilian Roberts and Abraham Foote, colored, were found at the Deacon Grant place about four miles from here yesterday, both having their feet frozen. The two men started to walk from Winsted to this place day before yesterday, and as they reached the Grant place they went into the barn to spend the night, and when they awakened they found that their feet were frozen. Roberts managed to get to the house and start @ fire, dragging hls companion there to thaw out. They were both taken to the hospital, where it was found nee essary to amputate both of Foote's feet.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07
''The Road to Yesterday"

A decided dramatic novelty is "The Road to Yesterday" with Minnie Du- pree as the featured member of the cast, which returns to the Hyperion theater for one night, Monday, Decem- Der 9. The peculiarity of the title has It's significance in the central idea of the play which concerns the reincarna- ton of souls or belief that human lives are relived by the same indi- viduals in different guises throughout the centureis.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07
The Rays Tonight.

The New Haven theater was packed again last night to see Johnny and Emma Ray in their new play King Casey" The role in which Mir. Ray appears fits him like the proverbial glove, and Mrs. Ray is equally advant- ageously cast as Goldie Mine, the Wes- tern heiress. There is young and well drilled chorus who do good work The performance will be given again to-day. Matinee and night There is a large advance and packed houses are certainty,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07
HAsTu,Y FLND FROM FTRE.

Providence R. L, Dec 6.--A matph thrown into bunch of excelsior in the storerooms of the Underwood Type writer company, in the Barstow block. 47 Weybosset street, to-day, started a fire which forced all the occupants of that building and the Reynolds block adjoining to flee to the street. Two women were slightly burned, and sew eral had narrow escapes from injury some being brought down on ladders by lremen, The property loss is estimated st S2A.009.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07
Dora Thorne.a


 Dora Thorne' will be presented at the New Haven theater on December 12, 1S, II, with matinee Saturday, by a company of we'll known players with special scenery in new and novel eff fleets. "A natural story of pathos and smiles so that the audience is held by the charm of reality, and tears and laugh CT are mingled freely. While this mel- odrahta is of sensational nature and contains, all the thrilling climaxes and hear breadth escapes or the heroine from the villain and all the exciting situations that sanguine mind could conceive, there is a vein of sympathy running through it, making 1t a play of the deepest heart interest,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07

Eugene Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, is rivaling William Waldorf Astor in becoming the largest owner of historic castles in Great Britain He has al- ready acquired Kylmore and Kimbol- ton castles, and is now negotiating for the purchase of Tanderagee castle and of Brampton House, the last of the historic Manchester estate.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07

When Hamlin Garland has finished a novel he likes to strike out into the real country and rough 1t for while. When the last proof of Money Magic" had been turned over to the publishers he made a trail for the wilds of Wy oming, where he is now on ranch.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07

ton, has utilized to the utmost. No expense has been spared to insure ab solute accuracy of the minutest de- tails, and this painstaking forethought guarantees d cast calculated to ade- quately represent the dramas thrilling human interest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-07

PETTIBONE JURY COMPLETED
 Boise, Idaho, Dec. 6.-7The jury hear the case against George Al Pet bone charged with the murder of e Governor Steunenberg was complet late to-day .s..,
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
Kaiser Wants to See Taft.

Emperor William will see Secretary
Taft in Osborne house, Isle of Wight,
during the formers visit TO England.
A message conveying this wish was
sent through the German embassy at
Washington. Taft also will seek an
audience Of King Edward, as to visit
the German emperor on British soil
without visiting the king might be re.
garded as discourteous.
So much has been said about Mr.
Taft planning to see the emperor that
some of the other governments have
seemingly become curious as to what
is up, il anything. Ambassadors
Bryce and Jusserand, it is said, al.
ready have made Inquiries in Wash
ington, and it is asserted that there is
a feeling at the foreign offices of Lon
don and Paris that Mr.. Taft would
be sighting King Edward and Presi-
dent Fallieres If he does not ask to
see them on his way home, or IL he
stopped only in st. Petersburg and
Berlin.
While there, Secretary Taft will be
given dinner by Ambassador Tower,
at which he will meet Chancellor Won
Buelow, Gen. Won Moltke and Foreign
Secretary Won Schoen. On the Isle
of Wight the kaiser will give a dinner
or luncheon in his honor.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15

EDNA BRASS, AFTER TWENTY
ONE YEARS IN PRISON,
is PAROLED.
RELATIVES TO TAKE HER
Pleaded Guilty With Hired Man
Crafts, Her Paramour, When
Charged With Murder of Her Hus'
band.
After the Weary Years.

Word was conveyed Thursday to
Mrs. Edna M. Brass, who has served
FL years of life sentence in the De-
troit house of correction, for the MUIR
der Of her husband in Missaukee
county in 1886, that Gov. Warner had
committed her sentence to 80 years,
which, with good time, permits her
release Friday An uncle is coming
from California to take her to that
state. Mrs. Brass is a frail little wo-
man. when | came in here 81 years
ago I weighed lis pounds" she said.
Today she weighs about 80 pounds.
And this in spite of the most regular
mode of living, regular and good meals
and with no material worry, except
the desire for freedom.
The woman was charged jointly with
James Craft with the murder of her
husband, Miles Brass. Crafts, who
was hired man, is serving a life
sentence at Jackson for the crime.
Both pleaded guilty.
1t developed in the investigation
that Crafts and the woman had been
living under improper relations, and
that Crafts eXerted an unusual control
over her. She was of weak physical
force and not strong mentally, and
the pardon board found the universal
opinion that Crafts was the party who
engineered and perpetuated the crime.
After Brass was murdered his body
was buried in a root cellar. His alb
sence aroused suspicion, and, as Crafts
and Mrs. Brass were living together,
an investigation was started. Search
ers had about abandoned their quest
for the missing man. when, while dig
ging in the root cellar, they discovered
the protruding head of the victim
who had been buried deeply in the
earth. 1t is believed that Crafts.
Drained Brass with a fiat iron while
he slept.
The pardon board believes Mrs
Brass story, that she did not partici-
pate in the killing and did not know
that Crafts intended to commit muir
der. She admits, however, that she
knew Crafts was intending to chastise
him severely. The trial court, the
prosecuting attorney who tried the
case, many citizens and Superintend
ent Mcdonald, of the house of correc
/ ton, all recommended clemency.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
Baby Bear PLAYING Possunn.

This tale teaches us not to tamper
with dead bears, says the New York
American.
When the two little Alaskan cubs
that e. Fl. Hartman donated arrived
at the Bronx zoo recently. both were
suffering from gastriosis. DIR. W. Reed
Blair fed the cubs on peptonized
milk and lime water all night and
all day, but despite the treatment the
female cub stiffened-to all appear
ances dead.
Keepers summoned DR.. Blair again
and all bent over the stricken ami.
NAL Suddenly the dead" bear jump
ed to its feet, hit DR.. Blair blow
with it's paw that sent him Keeling,
attacked all the other keepers at the
same time and cleared the cage in
less than a minute.
Nobody was badly hurt. The cub
is still sick, but DR.. Blair is certain
she will recover.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
ENDS BIG HOLDINGS
EFFECT OF RULING BY INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT.
Oregon Journal Welcomes II as Her.
aiding the Day Of Small Farms
and crowding Out the
"Wheat Kings"

There will hardly be any widespread
sorrow over the new ruling of the
interior department, which compels
the farmers who lease Indian lands
to dwell on them, says the Portland
Oregonian. 1t will have the effect OF
reducing the acreage held by wheat
kings and of increasing the number
of small farmers, an advantage too
obvious to require explanation. AS
stated in Pendleton dispatch in the
Oregonian, the importance of this
ruling may be realized when it is UNI
derstood that there are men living in
the city of Pendleton who are farm
ing as high as 5000 acres, upon which
there is not single house. 1t will
mean the cutting up of the big hold
ings into smaller holdings and the in
vasion of the reservation by more
humble class of growers and the
crowding out of the big wheat kings"
The present season has offered an
excellent illustration of the advant-
ages of farming on a small scale as
compared with what is generally
known as bonanza farming" Prac-
tically all of the damage suffered by
the wet weather in the interior wheat
fields was on the big farms, where the
scarcity of labor made it impossible
properly to handle the crop when it
was ready. In nearly every case the
small wheat grower who was farming
about 100 acres and could work it
hD1, Ir1 In nc
Gaping injury 1t will be a great many
years before diversified farming will
supplant wheat growing in many To-
calities in Oregon. Washington and
Idaho, but a limitation on the size of
the wheat fields will be of great bene-
fit to the country. In the case OF
Umatilla county it will result in a
large increase in the population, some
thing which has not been noticeable
for a long time. In fact, there are
some townships in the county where
the steadily increasing absorption of
small farms by the great wheat grow
ers has resulted in decrease in popu-
lation at a time when all other por-
tions of the northwest, outside of the
wheat districts, were showing sub
stantial gains.
/ In the Willamette Valley. which 80
years ago was producing nearly all of
the wheat grown in Oregon, diversified
| farming has reached a stage where
not infrequently ten families are found
on a single quarter section that was
once devoted to wheat growing and
each of the ten farmers is making
more money out Of his small farm
/ than the farmer wheat growers made
out of the entire quarter section when
| it was devoted to wheat growing.
What the Pacific northwest needs is
more permanent residents to take the
place of that wandering army which
drifts in at harvest time and drifts out
again when harvest is over. The rul-
ing of the department will work a
hardship only on the big wheat kings,
most of whom have done well enough
out of the industry to live quite COM
fortably on 100 acres for the remain
der Of their lives.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
LOTS OF CASH.
New York Banks Now Able to Help /
Crop Moving.

New YORK Banks NOW Able to Help
Crop Moving.
Practically all the New York banks
now are sending cash into the south
and west to facilitate the movement
of crops. One large institution with
several thousand correspondents, has
sent one-quarter of its resources to
help move the cotton crop.
Talking with a treasury official in
Washington a number of bankers as.
sured him that the financial situation
is very noticeably improved. The
money stringency is gradually relax
ing. The demand on the part of the
banks for additional circulation con-
tinues undated and the amounts al
ready shipped from Washington hav-
ing a marked influence in relieving the
present stringency.
The fact that practically S60,000.OO
in currency disappeared from the New
York banks within a week is consid-
cred sufficient evidence that the New
York banks are doing their best to
meet the great demands upon them.
While the treasury department has
not decided as yet to undertake any
criminal prosecutions in connection
with the original causes of the money
trouble, it is declared that the two
men they are said to be investigating
especially were officers, one in each,
of the Mercantile and National Bank
of America.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
SAN FRANCISCO HAS
BUBON|C PLAGUE
MORE THAN HALF OF THE PA
TENTS DlED-sEATTLE ALSO
HAS SEVERAL CASES.
DISEASE is SPREADING
Plague Twice Wrought Havoc in Eu
rope-kiIIed One Million People in
Europe-Fears of Spread to Eastern
Cities.

The bubonic plague, which was dis.
covered in San Francisco's Chinatown
two months ago, has spread so that
at the last formal report there were
73 cases, 81 deaths, II recoveries. Al
Seattle there were halt a dozen fatal
cases.
The San Francisco officials found
themselves unable to cope with the
situation, and asked the aid of the
United States government. They now
find it difficult to pay the 100000 a
month necessary to do the city's share
of the work, and they want the govern
ment to finance that, too.
Though only meager reports have
ben sent out from San Francisco, IL
is known that he California authori-
ties have been greatly agitated. 1t is
feared that the epidemic will spread
to cities farther east. For this reason
it is contended that the United States
government is directly interested and
ought to lend it's aid.
The Bubonic Plague.
The Oriental, Levantine or bubonic
plague exists in two principal forms
the mild plague and the severe cpl
demic plague. 1t is the latter that
is so virulently fatal 1t flourishes
most readily in warm, moist climates
outside of the tropics, spreading
through conditions of poverty, dirt, or
bad sanitation. The bacteria are now
believed to be carried by the common
rat, thus accounting for its immense
snread
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
shrlnkane Of Swiss Glaciers

Remarkable shrinkages have been
going on among the Swiss glaciers. es.
pecially in the last two or three years
The great Rhone glacier, one of the
sights of Switzerland-at least it used
to be-has lost in the last two years
no less than $3.50 square feet and
others have been shortened by any.
where from 20 feet to 40 feet. Among
GO instances SO recessions were dis
covered, one glacier remained sta
tionary, and nine had slightly in
creased. The conspicuous gain was
made by the Elger glacier, which
heightened itself ia feet last year
but observers say that these increases
are not permanent
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
The Bancroft Mnrder-

Justice of the Peace Conrad Frye
impaneled a jury and, after viewing
the bodies of Arthur Rogers, the Ban
croft farmer who cut his wife's throat
and then his own during a fit of in
sanity, decided that the crime was
committed by Rogers and that an in
quest was not necessary. The house
disclosed that a terrible struggle had
taken place before Rogers succeeded
in accomplishing the murder. Blood
was spattered over several of the
rooms, indicating that the wife had
fled from him only to be caught again.
After killing her Rogers went TO the
grindstone to sharpen the razor for
cutting his own throat. Blood was
found on the grindstone and on the
path leading to it from the house.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
Rescued by Yellow Jackets.

A coyote, hard pressed by a pack of
hounds in the northern part of Clarke
county. along the north bank of Lewis
river, ran into yellow jackets nest
according to the Seattle Times. When
the hounds reached the spot the angry
yellow jackets attacked them so fierce
ly that they turned tail and gave UT
the chase.
The hunting party IN charge of the
hounds was composed Of Harry, Edwin
and James Rowland and II. Webb. ali
Of Lewisville. They had wounded the
coyote and were sure of their quarry,
when the latter loosed the yellow Jack.
cts on them. 1t was heroic treatment,
but the coyote thereby made good his
escape.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
A Gruesome Exhibit.

During the recent session OF the
pardon board Nancy Flood, of Grand
Rapids, who is serving a life sentence
in the Detroit house of correction for
the murder of farm hand tried again
to secure a pardon. At infinite pains
and with not little skill Mrs. Flood
has prepared a miniature of her home
where the shooting occurred, showing
every detail Of the tragedy, even to
the body of the victim with the top of
his head blown off and the gun lying
on the floor. Even the blood stains on
the wall were reproduced.
A member of the board said it was
the most gruesome exhibit that ever
came under his notice 1t is believed
to be unlikely that the board will
recommend the pardon of the woman
for the present.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
As a result of the Purity coner,

As result OF the Purity congress
which adjourned in Battle Creek We'd
nesday, there will be an organization
formed to prify that city.
The supreme court has decided that
Mrs. Helen Brachvogel, of Muskegon,
may not assign her income from an es.
tate of $4,000, which was placed in
her hands by the late Charles II.
hackley.
A rabid dog snapped az County
Poor Commissioner Gordon, OF Muske
gon, and though his trousers we're
torn, a roll of bills in HIS pocket
stopped the animals teeth before II
reached the skin
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15

OF the l6 criminal cases on the dock
ct at Marshall, IL are for alleged vio-
lations of the liquor law, the complain.
ing witness being Sheriff Graham, who
has been pursuing a vigorous crusade
against blind pigs and houses of i'll
fame.
Letters from a brother in Cedar
Springs and a sister in Chatham, Ont.
from whom she had not heard in 30
years. have been received by Mrs.
Rem Billiard, of Allegan, and a reunion
will be held Thanksgiving.
The Pere Marquette has satisfactor-
lily settled 35 claims which resulted
from the practical destruction of Kent
City in April from locomotive sparks,
and the suits in the Grand Rapids fed.
eral court have been withdrawn.
The Grand Trunk bought the CITY
Inn property. at Kalamazoo, Just op
posite the G. r. & l. depot as a depot
site and has obtained right of way
into the city.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
No Pardon for Hinnins.

John Higgins, convicted of murder
ing Lafayette Ladd, an Adrian mer-
chant, while burglarizing the latter's
home in 1898, was refused a pardon
by the board. Higgins was arrested
several days after the murder and
tried to prove an alibi. Previous to
his conviction while in prison he
wrote and read to his fellow prison
ers a story called, "A Life for a Life 4"
Attorney General Bird, who was then
prosecuting attorney of Lenawee coun-
ty. said recently that the crime was
cold-blooded and atrocious.