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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursdays, one Dollar n Year
SOME COSTLY INDExING.

Loyalty to one's profession and loy- atty to ones friends are both natural and usually commendable. Both were demonstrated at the hearing before the Appropriation committee, where MT. Gum and MT. Hayes appeared in fa- vor of House Bill Ill, "an act making an appropriation to defray the ex- penses of indexing the General Stat utes and public acts, and providing for an appropriation of s5.OOO."
 This refers to the work being done by Harold Durant, of Waterbury the competent person selected two years ago in accordance with bill passed July 9th, 1905, which reads, That the Judiciary committee of the present ses- sion of the General Assembly be and hereby is empowered and directed to appoint competent person, who shall receive reasonable sum as compensa- ton, to be fixed by the Comptroller, and whose duty it shall be to make a thorough and complete index of the full Statute revision of 1902, and also of the public acts of 1903, 1905 and 1g07."
 That this sum of $5,O0o would seem to be ample would apear when we con- sider that the number of pages cover ed by said acts will amount to about 1850, The sum of $5,OO0 for this work would equal a payment of $2.70 for each page indexed The Revision of 1888 shows an average of IS items for each page. The Revision of 1902 Gas per present index) shows 30 items for each page. This would show remuneration of from nine cents to seventeen cents for each and every item of in dexing called for
 It would certainly seem as if four pages per hour would not be excess sive resulting, if so. in say, S10 per hour at least $50 to $6O per day for the work.
 In our mind there Is greater criti- cism of this excessive allowance than the mere payment of the money-that is the premium it puts on delay. On the line stated, the work should be done in three months If the allow ance was s1,O00 the work could, and we believe would be done in that time, but with figure of $5,ooO there is en- couraged a delay commensurate with the payment and not with the work.
 As per statement in the preface of the Revision of 1902, every section has been revised and approved by each of the six members of the committee, from which it would appear that S5,00( was rather a popular figure associated with revision work, 1t being recalled that $S0,O0o was the cost of the reyis- ion, the indexing of which is so poor that 1t has now to be done a second time.
 What was the "sum fixed''? If fixed why is 1t now the subject of a hear ing? Does this bin seek to boost the .'sum fixed?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20
A Publication of High Purpose.
(Waterbury Amerioanl

The latest number of Publicity is larger than those that preceded it, the increase in size being made necessary by the number of interesting subjects to be discussed There is running account of what is called The Great Trolley Consolidated Fight" with the Morris Cove charter at the bottom of 1t. Among other matters before the legis- lature which are discussed are the banking Legislation, permanency of clerkships, the New Haven systems merger, the direct primary, bond proposition, relating to the plan for financing the East Haven Morris Cove trolley, the demurrage law, criticism of the Governor in both houses, auditors expenses, trial by jury, a possible scan dal over the Town Deposit Fund, Sem ator Chases satisfactory resolution and exhaustive speech on gratuities, the ar ssenal and armory proposition in Hart ford, good roads, the powers of the Railroad Commission, judges salaries and expenses, and page of Corridor Notes' which seerns to cover every thing else not discussed at length. It is an informing number of publica- tion whose high purpose Is joined with good sense good temper and convInc- ing style.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20
SENATOR STEPHENSON.

Old men for counsel. Isaac Stephen son has been chosen by the Wisconsin legislature to succeed MT. spooner in the United States Senate. He is seven ty-eight years old, but is still vigorous. He has had one of the wonderful ca- reers in which this country abounds. He was born in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, came over the bor- der and settled in Maine, and went at last to Wisconsin, where he "began life" under the most modest monetary conditions. By industry and shrewd ability, however, he made his way to the front in the lumber business, and is now one of the rich men of the State. He Is said to be not only in favor of federal income and inher- itance tax, closer regula ton of railroads, stricter antitrust legislation, popular election of senators, and 50 on, but he wants an overhauling and reduction of the Dingley tariff.
 MT. Spooner left the Senate in order to get rich, or at least, to get some money, and is succeeded by rich man.
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JOURNAL COURIER MONDAY MAY 70

fit to the country" Sir William says. Twill be immense" The value of the cotton crop in the area reclaimed will alone amount to from s8,5oO,oOo to e4,ooO,OOO year.
 Ruins don't and wont amount to much in the face of these facts. Look how the grass grows green on the site of New Haven's old State House.
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that the peace movement is going to
 prevail 1t will be well enough to keep as near the head of the warlike pro- cession as possible.
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Great Is the English language. The New York legislators are talking of winding up the sessions work and get ting away from Albany at the end of this week. The Connecticut legisla- tors seem to be winding up the ses- sion's work and getting it ready to go 8 little.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20
1ErrrRs rnoM rHn pEopLE.
The Consolidated Trolley Service Criti-
 cised.

Ciscus
 To the Editor of The Journal and
 Courier;
 wish to congratulate your newspa- per for it's fearless, impartial and just attitude towards the matters which are uppermost in mems minds these days In particular, I wish to con- gratulate you upon merited criticism of the Consolidated Railway management in recent issue. have no doubt will be improved, but nevertheless l do yearn for a revival of the old days of the New Haven Street Railway com pany, when managed by MT. Dodge. It was necessary for me yesterday to visit the neighboring city of Waterbury on business. I took the trolley. From New Haven to where the crews change cars near Mt, Carmel all went well. There We were delayed several minutes while the mencarried on sprightly con versation We arrived late at the next next switch, where we found an inbound car awaiting us. More conversation be- tween the men. At Cheshire we were delayed a time longer to make connec-. tfons, which were finally not made. We crept on to Waterbury with the motor man frequently consulting his watch, in order not to beat the schedule. It was evident that the trip from New Haven to Waterbury could be made much faster and with less irrita- ton than 1t is. now made. The schedule problem, which has been so intelligent | ly solved on the steam railroad, ought at once to be as lntelligently solved on the trolley railway, even if douh'e- tracking becomes necessary. As mat ters stand to-day, an automobile can easily beat the trolley to Waterbury by full half hour, That confounds and confuses.
 A CONSTANT READER. | New Haven, May 19, 1907.
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Pittsburg has suffered much from water lately. The river flood cost her millions, and 1t is figured that in the recent squeeze-out of water in wall street her rich men lost about $S0,OOO,- 0OO
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20

What queer and preposterous mo- ton it is that ex-sheriff Durham, who is going to live in New Haven, will continue to take an interest in politics.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20

This is the day to say "Banzai.' If you say it often enough you may say 1t appropriately once,
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EGmratarm.

MIR. FREDERICK WELD will engage
 the services of limited number Of good singers for a corus choir. Voices
 tried at l39 Orange St
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General Anson Mills, owner of sev- eral valuable buildings in Washington. is one of the wealthiest military men Tn the country, and his fortune is rap- idly increasing. General Mills, who retired from the army several years ago. made his wealth by inventing a machine which manufactures the car- fridge belt that is now used by most of the armies throughout the world. The machine is a simple device, but Its in- Yention has resulted in completely revoiutionizing the form of the car- fridge belt.
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burEldTy SeeillS tO pS HlOl0 AiShy than is commonly thought. A Nebras- ka woman captured burglar and mar rled him.
 Hope spring eternal. A New York model says there are at least sixty-seven men in the city who are working on perpetual motion machines.
 The Russian Douma doesn't seem likely to do much. So far it has pass ed one bill, and the Council of the Elm pire promptly killed that.
 President schurman of Cornell has found it necessary to deny that women students are not well treated there. He promises to correct any condition which might lead to a contrary belief.
 The Rev. Fr. Bernard Vaughan, in opening a bazaar at Liverpool the other day in aid of a charitable so- ciety, ridiculed the assertion that all poverty was caused by drink. He said: Ut is all fudge and nonense and blith- ering idiocy. The real reason that drink upsets the poor is because they have no food to take with It."
 After careful study of the problem of protecting the superb highways of France from destruction by autono- piles, the French ministry of public works has found nothing better than the coal tar treatment. The initial ex- pense is large, but it is believed that it will prove an economy in the end, and several stretches of road are be- ing experimentally treated.
 Minnesota is about to establish a hospital farm for inebriates. Two per cent. of moneys received from liquor licenses, yielding probably S70,000 a year, will be spent in carrying it on. Victims of intemperance may enter voluntarily or may be sent there by the courts to be treated with fresh air, good food and as much work as is good for them until they are fit to be discharged.
 The "haystack hat" is all the rage ir London. A millinery expert tells how it Is achieved. In the first place, he says, the hair must be dressed as high as possible. A thick pad must be pin ned on the crown of the head, and over this the hair must be rolled. It must then be arranged in quantities of small curls, rising in a pyramid form. The
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20

The Prince of Wales has had one more added to his long list of academ- ic honors, the University of Glasgow having conferred upon him the degree or LL. D, The prince possesses the right to wear a larger assortment of university hoods and gowns than any other Englishman of our time. Apart rom ms diplomas from the great seats ol learning in England and Wales, he IS an IL D. of Melbourne, Tasmania, montreal, Toronto and Kingston.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20
AbohJnaryb lhe Qween V Ta6le W1aters"

nat ,, must be lightly poised on this erec-. t 1Ion ana secured by two long hatpins. me hair must then be loosened in front and pinned up to the brim of the hat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20

The Russian Douma doesn't seem likely to do much. So far it has pass ed one bill, and the Council of the Elm pire promptly killed that.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20

President schurman of Cornell has found 1t necessary to deny that women students are not well treated there. He promises to correct any condition which might lead to contrary belief.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20

Hope spring eternal A New York matchmaker says there are at least sixty-seven men in the city who are working on perpetual motion machines.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20

Burglary seems to be more risky than is commonly thought. A Nebras- ka woman captured burglar and mar ried him.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20
MIXED,

"John, why are you raising the win dow? Don't you know I will be un- able to speak above whisper by morn-
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SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

New Haven, May 19, 19o7
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-04-11
He GIVES SIX. MILLION
CARNEGIE SENDS PITTSBURG IN
STITUTE BIG PRESENT.
Only Restriction Is That No "Old Mas
tiers" Be urchased-Trustees 9th
erwise Free to Spend.

PITTSBURG. Pa, April 6.-Andrew
Carnegie has notified the president of
the board of trustees of the Pittsburg
Carnegie institute that he is sending
them $6,0O0.00O. Of this amount 5,OO0,
600 is in United States Steel corporation
per cent. bonds and 81 100000 in cash.
The cash is to be used in erecting more
technical school buildings. The bonds
are an endowment. One million dollars
is added to the endowment of So 100000
already given to the schools and the
other $4,00U,O0O added to the institutes
present 100000 endowment. Alto
gether the institute trustees, who also
control the technical schools, will have
an annual income of $450,000.
Mr.. Carnegie announced his gift in
letter in which he expressed the wish
that the income of $450,000 per annum
be applied by the trustees as they deem
best to support the technical schools art
department, museum, music hall, libra
RAMS school, and such other classes and
schools as may be established in connec-
ton Herewith.
He says the art department should not
purchase cold masters"
WATERLOO, Ia, April 6. Antip-
athy to Andrew Carnegie's donation TO
Waterloo's public library is believed to
have inspired acts of vandalism commit
ted on the west side building to the
amount of thousands of dollars.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-04-11
OLD STYLE CLOCKS SIMPLE.


Still Manufactured and Sold by
Dealers and in Good Demand.
Conspicuous by their simplicity or
their quaintness or both among the
many sample clocks Of more modern
designs shown in the salesroOms of
clOckmanufactur concern were
few of the old styles. There were old
time, so-called Gothic clocks, once
favorite style; not a very big clock and
with the top not fiat but carried up to
a ridge line like sharp-pOinted roof,
with the gable end to the front, and
having as it's base, on either side, at
the top Of the body of the clock, little
spire, the lower section Of the door of
the clock, below the dial, painted with
some sort of design
There were cottage clocks, these
smaller than the Gothics, and like ali
these Old-time clocks are simple, and
trim looking, with upright, square-cor-
nered cases.
And then there were bigger clocks,
larger than the cottage clocks and larg-
err than the Gothics, clocks with their
long door deeply recessed within wide
bordering holding, tall, square, cor
nered prim-loOking and yet engaging
clocks, suc44 as once, made of mahogany
or mahogany veneer, stood on many
and many a mantelpiece, clocks with
big dials and long hands and with a
SOnOrous tick.
Among these large clocks there were
some with cases less severe in design
and finished, with some OrnamentatiOn
about them and gilded half-columns,
one on either side Of the case, in front,
clocks such as once adorned the shelf
of many an old-time parlor.
These old-style clocks were not old
clocks, but new clocks. Such as are
still manufactured and sold.
Clocks are now made of many ma
terials as to their cases and in innum-
cradle styles" said the salesman, land
we are adding new styles all the time,
and the great majority Of people buy
these clocks of later designs. But we
still continue to sell clocks of a few of
those once familiar old styles. Some
of these old-style clocks we make with
modern spring improvements within
their old-time cases and others of them
we still make with the old-time clocA-
weights.
"Of all these new old-style clocks
comparatively few are sold in the city.
They go mostly to smaller towns and
to the country. But it would not do to
say that they are bought by old-time
people cIinging to old-time ways and
styles. They may find such buyers but
other buyers anywhere may fancy them
for their quaintness or for old-time as
sociations."
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had written to his aunt that morning.
He was in a terrible predicament. Two
years back he had committed forgery out
in Africa he had cleverly escaped de-
lection, and had come to England, think
ing all danger gone. .Unluckily for him,
his movements and real name had been
discovered he had been tracked. If the
money were not forthcoming in the next
twenty-four hours he would be handed
over to justice.
Audrey, what can I do? What can
I do? I cannot sit here and know that
he, the boy have loved is condemned
to felon's cell. He has been my joy,
my one delight, and Gus refuses to let
me help him"
Audrey felt her heart beginning to
beat with sense of pain and apprehen-
sion. The very mention of this mans
name fell like a black shadow on her
heart. She trembled as she recalled all
the evil his cold-blooded treachery had
worked between herself and Jack; the
memory of his passionate love words
raised a blush of shame to her face even
now, but she put her own feelings on
one side to minister to Mrs Thorngate's
sorrow.
''Will you let me take this off your
shoulders?" she asked. Hush Not a
word. We are friends, are we not? Rest,
and be at peace, for, by Gods will, l will
save him from what you fear!'
Ito be continued.l
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-04-11
BUILD NEW JAMES OWN
WORKMEN TURN CHAOS INTO OR
DER FOR EXPOSITION.
Like Magic Stately Buildings Are Rising
from Debris Of Preliminary Prep
aration-Fair Three Weeks Off

NORFOLK, Va, April 6-Scenes are
being enacted in the shaping up of the
grounds at the jamestown exposition
that are little short of magic. With the
opening of the great fair less than three
weeks off, the enormous force of work
men, representing every craft, is working
like beavers but with steady and we'll
directed purpose to the end of making
the exposition present a completed APP
pearance before the opening day.
From now on the transformation OF
the grounds will be marvellous. Tons OF
debris, scores Of unslghtly shantles, tenn
porary bridges, and murky pools that
now disfgure the beautiful main picture
are soon to disappear, and in their place
there will be greensWard, Towering beds,
spacious walks and brightly colored
booths.
The management has been handicapped
from the start by the lack of adequate
transportation and terminal facilities.
Building material was held up in the
early stages of the construction work
and through the same cause delay is now
being experienced in handling and plac-
ing the exhibits that are arriving IN vast
number. Heroic efforts are being made
to remedy the matter and it is hoped to
overcome all obstacles within few days.
The main exhibition palaces are prac-
tically complete and the same may be
said of the majority of the state build
ings and smaller structures that adorn
the grounds. Buildings that week ago
were surrounded by seaffoldiings and o a
maze of rude planks, giving them a most
unfinished appearance, are rapidly being
stripped of these reminders of the period
President Roosevelt is to be the fea-
ture of the opening day of the exposition.
The opening exercises, which take place
Friday, April 26, will begin at sunrise
by salute of three hundred guns. The
President will reach the grounds at l;SO
o'clock, after passing on the MayhoWeIE
American warships in Hampton Roads
The speech making feature Of the pro
gramme will begin at once. An ,iinyoca-
ton by Right Rev. Alfred Maagill Ran
dolph and brief address BY +b larry st.
ton company, will precede the Presi-
dents remarks. When the President has
concluded he will press 8, gold button on
and Immediately the machinery OF the
great show will be in motion.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-04-11
EX-SENATOR CLARK
PLUNGED IN RIVER.
Millionaire Copper Man Has Narrow
Escape from Death-Rescuer Was
lust in Time.

TRINIDAD, Colo, April 6.--While
former United States Senator William A.
Clark of Montana was crossing a river
twenty miles west Of Trinidad yesterday,
his carriage broke through the ice and
was upset. The senator was thrown into
the stream, but was rescued by other
members of the party as he was being
carried beneath the ice.
Mr. Clark is confined to his bed in his
private cat today in the care of a physi-
elan. He has a severe cold, but no seri-
Gus results are expected.
The senator was hurriedly taken to
ranch five miles away. When he ar
rived there his clothing had frozen. After
being furnished with dry clothing the
party proceeded to Weston eight miles
distant, where the senator's private car
was waiting. The senator, who is ac-
companied by his wife and daughter,
will resume his trip to Los Angeles.
Mr.. Clark was on a tour of inspection
of his coal properties when the accident
happened.
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FINDS PLANT HAS NERVES.
Scientist Discovers Kinshfp in Sen
:44waraSs IN Animals.

Scientist Discovers Kinshfp in SEN
sitiveness to Animals.
Most persons have heard Of the sen
sitive plant which shrinks from rough
handling and expands under gentle
treatment, but the scientific truth thaF
all plants are sensitive, that they have
q nervous organization like that OF the
lower animals, will be news to many.
This truth was first proclaimed by
Professor J. C. Bose. Previously phys
i0logists had attributed apparent evil
dences of sensation in plants to dis
turbance of the equilibrium of the wa
fer in their tissues. Now they know
that plants have really nervous or
ganization and respond in that way to
outside influences.
Professor Bose regards the plants as
a machine, complex, capable Of delicate
response to external misunderstanding
movements and with the power of hold
ing back part Of the energy resulting
from the stimulus shock. The eXter-
nal stimulus induces expansion.
The interaction Of this contraction
and expansion is found to account for
the various phenomena characteristic
of life. Not the least important part OF
this conclusion would seem to be that
it brings into close relationship phe-
nomena between which no connection
could be previously detected. He finds
no exception to the rule that response
is always by concavity of the more ex-
cited side Of an organ.
The rhythmic activity Of the plant It's
sue is measured by the rate Of forward
propulsion of water due to contractile
response The transmission Of excita-
ton is detected by various methods CIV
ing results in entire agreement 1t Is
curious to find that the so-called sensi-
tice plants are in some respects less
sensitive than their fellows which were
supposed to be insensitive.
Among the most interesting of the ex-
periments are those dealing with the
action of drugs upon the mechanical
response of the plant. 1t is not, of
course, a surprise to learn that the i'm
mediate effect Of exposure to the tnt1u-
ence Of vapor of alcohol is, as a rule,
one Of exaltation.
There are, however, individual cases
in which a state of depression is In
duced from the moment Of exposure.
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willin. to Take a Chance.

Some years ago an Irishman right
from the old country secured a Job
cutting ice on a pond. The foreman
gave Pat an ice saw (ice in those days
was cut by hand) and told him to go
to the pond and go to work cutting Ice.
Now. Pat had seen a cross-cut saw that
is used in cutting logs that requires
man on either end, and as the saw the
foreman gave him resembled the cross
cut he had seen he supposed it required
two men to work it, so, seeing another
man standing near when he was to
commence cutting, he said: Say,
friend, I'll toss up a cent to see who
goes below"