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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23
BAYS OF LIGHT.

These are dark days, but there are
rays of light, and perhaps we shall be
able ito get along, even If the dark
ness doesn't wholly lift One benefac-
tor is showing us how to live on pea
nuts. He has done it himself for sixty
days, and believes he could live for
ever so. Other benefactors say we do
not need meat, and they show that
they don't by going cheerfully and
cheaply without it. OthersAshow how,
by chewing much, we can save much.
One says, and proves it, that it isn't
necessary to wear hat. Another goes
barefooted and improves his health by
SO doing. Still another doesn't believe
/ in a heated house, and so forth and
so on.
1t begins to look as If we could live
without anything, or much of any
thing So, if the times get harder we
can take advantage of the discoveries
that have been made, and by going
without eating, clothes or artificial
heat we can be able to hang on until
the good times come again.
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alive to-day and member Of the sem
ate, as he would be, these words Of
Mr.. spooner would fit his own views:
ut (the law ought to be amended;
in the interest of the people it ought
to be amended, but If the price Of
such an amendment is to be a federal
license law the business interests of
the United States better let the sher-
man act alone"
Thus in a few terse sentences Mr..
Spooner has drawn from the past its
lesson and applied it to the present
land the future. He would warn the
people against permitting their gov
eminent to put the commerce of the
country into a straight Jacket "to be
frightened or loosened as some one at
Washington may think best" He
asks that the channels of commerce
be kept free, allowing no one, corpor-
atoms by contract in unreasonable re-
straint of trade, or any other power,
to obstruct the free transit Of pro-
ducts and commodities from State to
State not only innocuous in their ma
ture but necessary to the people," This
is an appeal based upon the finest un-
Outstanding of the principles which
prevail in free country and would
reinforce the admirable doctrine that
the cure for the ills Of democracy is
more democracy" May this kind OF
talk become popular.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23
A LARGE INTER EST.

1t came out at the annual meeting
Of the Amateur Athletic Union in New
York that 2,441,51S persons were en-
gagged In organized athletics in some
form during the past year. This does
not include the professionals or the
patrons of the public gymnasiums. Nor
does it include the children. So per-
haps about tenth of the whole pop
ulation of this great and powerful
country is persistent1y and more or
less systematically athletic"
This is very important and signif1-
cant Some of its importance and sig
nificance may be perceived at Cam
bridge to-day Preparations have been
made by Yale to show Harvard what
there is in one branch of athletics, and
unless the plan fails Harvard will be
able to learn something. We hasten to
add that there is no assumption that
Yale can't learn anything about ath-
letics. She can. She did last Saturday
in the first half of the game. She
will be equally ready to learn if she
supposedly finds that Harvard can
teach
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
The south Has the Decision.
fThe Indianapolis News.)

(The Indianapolis NeWs)
Tennessee Democrats in convention
at Nashville yesterday, began a move
ment for the nomination for the presi-
dency Of some Southern man. They
declared that conditions have made
candidates from the East no longer
available and that the choice Of a
Southern man would emphasize the
unity Of the nation. The latter state
ment, we believe, is true; this move
ment has indeed been slow in respond
ing to expressions in the North that
II ought to be made. The South has
still felt more keenly than the North
that a Southern man would encounter
prejudice at the North. But IL man
Of recognized fitness for the great Office
we've nominated, any such lingering
prejGdice, we believe, would not stand
\ The discussion OF a campaign IL the
party OF the other part" were unwise
enough to appeal to it. Whether any
thing comes now or not of this sug-
gestion it is to be noted that the South
has the decision in it's hands. Mr..
Bryan cannot be nominated if the
southern States say no
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23
THE INSPECTION.

There are two kinds Of inspection
when ''the finest" in New Haven come
forth to be inspected One the critical
kind, done by those whose work it is
to ind fault enough to keep things at
the top-notch in the department, and
the other the admiring and approving
kind, done by the people, who like to
see the parade Of their favorites and
protectors. The critical kind was
doubtless thoroughly done yesterday.
and the admiring and approving kind
surely was. With its new chief, APP
pointed, not as a politician, but be-
cause he was good policeman, and
with such good material as there is. in
the ranks, the New Haven police force
gives pleasing promise Of continuing
to grow in efficiency.
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Merchant-"Yes we are in need Of
porter, Where were you employed
last?"
Applicant-'Tn bank, sir
Merchant-"Did you clean it out?"
Apphcant-"No, sir, The cashier did
that. lid Bits.
O'Brien-'Tis quare thing about a
cousin o mine. He has great habit
o. walkin' in his sleep.
O'Toole--Ye don't tell me? Can't no
be cured of 1t, at all?
OBrien--Cured Of 1T? Shure, it's the
maxim Of him; he's in the police
forcc.-Illustrated Bits.
What has become of that 'Hodcar-
rier's Delight you used to have such
a run on 2"
The hodcarriers are smoking per-
fectos these days" answered the to-
bacconist, 80 I've renamed the old
brand. call 1t Pride of Wall Street
now Louisville Courier Journal.
Womens ideas Of pretty figure"
vary. A thin woman usually says Of
a woman as thin as herself that she
has beautiful figure, and fat
woman always says Of a woman as
fat as herself that she has a magni-
ficent figure. You can't tell how it
is; opinions differ--Atchison Globe.
Mr., B. is very proud of his ancient
lineage and never let's slip an oppor-
tunity to boast of it. AT dinner
where he had been unusually rampant
on this subject fellow guest quoted
him by rennarklng "If you climb
much further up your family tree, you
will come face to face with the mon
key. "-Lippincotts
Miss D-Angeiina, why don't you
marry Lieut. Y?
Miss Artist, because he has no
brains and he can't ride, dance, on
play tennis. What could we do with
him?
Miss D.--But he swims beautifully.
Miss A.--Oh, yes But one can't
keep ones husband in an aquarium,
you know.--London Tit-Bits
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A Prevailing Tendency.
lMatorhnrv AmerIoan.l

(WatCrbury Americana
An order by the Board of Education
Of the city Of New York, that no song
or carol containing mention OF christ
or Christmas shall be sung in the pub
lie schools hereafter is only another
step in the road on which we have
travelled so FAR toward complete exclu
sion Of religion from our public system
of education But it is surprising
and startling thing, nevertheless. Pro-
test is said to have been made by
Jews of influential character, and 1t
was so logical and consistent with our
general policy as to command attention
and finally secure. action. First, In or
der that their children might escape
Protestant teachir 6, and then that
they might secure any religious teach
ing at all the Roman Catholics have
taken their children In great num-
bers out of the public schools and
put them into sectarian schools. The
Jews have gone to work in little
different way to accomplish the same
end. that IS, to relieve their children
from offensive religious influence. They
are not likely now to seek for them
peculiar Jewish instruction in private
Jewish schools The public schools
Will be satisfactory to them as they
are not to extreme Roman Catholics.
There have been symptoms for some
time Of the increasing numbers of
Jewish children in the public schools
of New York and of the growing in
huence Of Jews in this as in other de-
partments Of American life. Much
as it will shock a great many good
i and reasonable people to have the
songs and carols, which have been
! looked upon as so sweet innocent, de-
| lightful and salutary, forbidden in the
/ schools, il must be admitted that the
/ action taken is inevitable and exactly
! in line with prevailing tendencies 1t
may be added that the school books
arc now being carefully revised to ELI
inmate from them. SO far as possible
| all references to matters Of religion.
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THE WHITE HAND.

There are places where they don't
believe there is such thing as 'the
Black Hand" but Chicago is not one of
them. 1t is notorious there that little
groups of blackmailers have operated
for years under the Black Hand name
Innocent Italians have been terrorized,
and small dealers have had to pay
tribute for immunity from persecu-
ton. Even respected and influential
merchants, physicians and bankers in
the italian community have often
been annoyed and threatened These
criminal operations can best be check
ed by the Italians themselves, and it
is both enlightened and patriotic of
Chicago Italians to have organized a
White Hand society to put a quietus
upon the black" activities of ex-con-
victs, rufTians and miscreants who
bring reproach on the orderly and in
dustrious Italian colonies of the
great cities. Already several leading
Sicilian and Italian societies in Chica-
go have Joined the White Hand, and
others are expected to do so in the
near future. The movement has receiv-
ed the warm approval of the Italian
chamber of commerce and of the
italian weekly, and the campaign that
is to be opened at once will lack Meth
er moral nor material support The
White Hand will employ detectives on
Its own account and place its inform
alton at the disposal of the police de-
lpartment 1t will seek information in
Italy and Sicily, and if any former
terminals or fugitives from justice
have illegally obtained admission to
the United States the immigration Of
fcials will. be armed with the data ne
cessary to secure the deportation of
lsuch characters.
Ta4s IL q RrasaisitasS aaavas sLAda tsNs
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23
4 MODEM WONDER.

When Bagdad was the center Of
the Arabian Nights it was in a Won
derful region. It is going to be in a
still more wonderful region as the cen
ter of Arabian Days It is planned to
irrigate the arid land all around it,
Mesopotamia was once a garden spot
watered by irrigation from the Eu-
pirates and Tigris, But the canals
have fallen into ruin, partly, perhaps,
because of wars, causing neglect of the
canals, partly because the forests we're
cut off, causing the water supply to
fall and partly as some say because
alkali accumulated in the soil, as In
some irrigated regions of the western
States. But modern influences are at
work. 1t is said that Sir William Will
cocks, an engineering and irrigation
expert, is seeking to bring back the re-
gions to cultivation His two principal
projects are estimated to cost respec-
lively $40, 100000 and $17oO0,o0O, his
calculations showing probable return
on the outlay Of from 16 to 10 per
cent as%
Surely these are great days What
a world It will be when it is irrigated
where 1t is too wet and drained where
IT is too dry There are some big for
tunes now, but perhaps they will by
and by seem as small as the big for
tunes of fifty years ago seem to-day, OF
did seem before they were drained.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

BLUE denimed lad with a busted toe,
why do you smile at this old world SO?
Little brown boy with a sun-burned
Out al the crown where your cowlick
blows
Raggedy lad, with o coat Of tan,
What makes you happy? Come, little
man!
'Is it the brook with its babbling fow,
Brook that has bass in It's undertow?
Is IL your boat or your dog or kite?
Is 1t the pond lilies floating white? 4
Is 1t the strawberries on the hill?
Is 1t the swimming pool by the mill?
rs it the wood with its creatures
queer?
Is 1t the sky that is blue and clear?
Is 1t, oh blue dsuimed lad the bee
Leading away on an ether sea?
Is it, my boy Just the soulful lad
Throbbing within you that makes you
glad?
"Ah ragged lad, with a busted toe,
Tell me your secret--I long to know,
| Tell me your secret that I may quaff
Deep at the font that has made you
Taught
Show me the spring of your guileless
joy;
Let me again be the barefoot boy"
Blue denimed lad, with the busted toe
Pondered moment ought to know
"Tige's got chipmunk high up tree!
Puss hez got kittens! Would you come
see?
go to school, but they amt none
| now
Jimmie and me is bringing tn cow"
Tragedy boy, with the busted toe,
Are these the reasons your laugh rings
SO?
Mere bagatelles in the worldly plan
Fate has in store for the ife Of nan -
"Ain't YOU quito happy?" he llsped.
That's bad
IF you were younger you might be
glad"
Little old man with the longing heart,
once in a life comes the boyish part
! Once in span comes the boyish tan,
| And tie busted toe of the little man!
Only the cheer Of the afterglow
Ciings to the man in life's ebb and
flow!
Cincinnati Enquirer
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

It is said that eleven dances COM
posed by Beethoven have recently
been found at Leipsic. They are soon
to be published for the first time. All
were composed for little musical So
ciety near Vienna, and are orchestral
ed for seven pieces.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

Thirty-four hunters have been kill
ed and sixty-seyen wounded so far
this year That may not be enough
to make dog laugh, but bear, a
fox or rabbit might find it funny.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23
SAYINGS IND DOTNGS

Investigation has revealed that from
fifteen to twenty per cent. of the pu-
pills in the Boston public schools need
glasses, and that a large percentage of
these are among the very poor.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

Professor Joseph Pache, director of
the Baltimore Oratorio Society, has
received the decoration of the Order
of the Red Eagle of the fourth class
from Emperor William of Germany
as mark of recognition for his SER
vices in fostering the study of Ger
man music in foreign land.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

The Cleveland Cliffs Company, the
greatest land owner in Michigan, is
planning to undertake in the northern
part of that State the greatest refOr-
estation project ever attempted in the
United States, The company has
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

A scientist announces that Mars is
slowly drying up" Which Is where
Mars differs from some Of the takers
Of the United States.
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adopted a settled programme for the
reforestation OF its cut-over and burn
ed lands, hundreds Of thousands of
acres being involved.
There is an old curiosity shop in
London which makes a specially of
heather deities. Ali kinds of images,
small and large. handsome, hideous
and grotesque, are on view You can
choose an antique Aztec god from
Mexico, carved in heavy stone and
hideous enough to scare a burglar;
you can purchase a marble deity from
Mandalay, wooden atrocity from the
Ju-Ju land Of West Africa, or a gilt
joss from a Chinese temple.
A reporter was congratulating Mar
conf at Sidney, N s., upon his sue
cess with transatlantic wireless tele-
graphy But, SIR" said the reporter,
they tell me you are working so hard
that you sleep only four hours a
night?" Yes, that is true" said the
inventor. mo wonder you are getting
thin" the reporter observed. II am
NOT like the Italian admiral Libertini,
then" said Marconi. "Libertini had
won many battles and great renown
and at a ball given in his honor one
woman said to another; But how
frigAtfully fat our dear admiral is get
ting. Yes, said the second, isn't it
fortunate? Otherwise he wouldn't be
able to wear all his medals
or the Arabs pride traveller
writes: 'He is proud of his own blood
and of his mares blood for it's own
sake. He will show you broken
down little crock and inform you,
with perfect truth, that she is Of the
best blood in the Jazirah; he will also
show a fine stallion Of his own and tell
! you he is a 'gdish' or underlined ami
\ mall and there is no doubt it Is the
bad thoroughbred he admires and
prefers to the flnest-made breed
AS regards his shaykh and tribal lead
err, he discriminates in an equal de-
gree between the clever warrior, as
tute diplomatist and good business
man Of low extraction and the shayllf
Of high lineage, who may be a miser.
able epileptical creature, and always
to the disadvantage of the low-borr
man"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

Seven physicians have been elected
mayors in New Jersey. Was New
Jersey in such bad way as that
would indicate?
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

White Hand is an excellent name for
it. Success to the White Hand, wher-
ever it works.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

If you want to test the power Of
suggestion etc, just imagine that
you have turkey when Thanksgiving
day comes.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-11-23

adopted a settled programme for the
reforestation OF its cut-over and burn
ed lands, hundreds Of thousands of
acres being involved.
The daily sentinel., 1907-09-11
And He Forgot,

There were the usual exercises to
mark the termination of the school
year" said the Senator the other day
in telling the story, land quite a
multitude of people had assembled
for the occasion. most of them COM
in to Bethany in wheeled vehicles.
of some sort or another, and bring
ing lunch baskets with them. Ny
own part in the affair consisted of
recitatlons-a Latin ode of Horace.
a bit of Greek. and, to wind up with.
that famous bit of defamation which
concludes with the words Sink or
swim, live or die, survive or per-
ish. give my heart and hand to this
vote,'
"Wen. I got along all right until
I was called upon to- do the Sink or
swim" Then I broke down entirely.
After the first half dozen sentences
/ couldn't remember another word;
nv mind was a blank. There was
nothing for me to do but retire from
the platform in shame-my school
career thus ending in failure of n
kind most painful"
The daily sentinel., 1907-09-11
A Tall Man.

Like most of his fellow legislators
-congressmen, whether senators or
representatives, average two inches
taller and weigh fifteen pounds more
than ordinary men-Tillman is of
commanding stature. Fully six feet
in height, he is made to look taller
than he really is by the altitude of
his square and massive shoulders
His face, too, is of massive contour,
with heavy features and a great iowl:
and, though he has only one eye, It
is a piercer. Always extremely ap-
proachable. he hedges himself behln
no barrier of dignity. He likes to
do kindly things for people and 1t is
said that even his youngest children
know all about his business affairs
1t is a man without concealments.
Usually, when he is not on the floor
of the senate. he Is found in the room
of the Committee of thte Five Civiliz-
ed Tribes, which adjoins the senate
library. II Is small committee room,
but with pleasant window. at which
in a sort of recess. he does his work,
debating letters to his secretary, or
what not The window loogs north
ward toward the Washington monu-
ment, and the view Is an agreeable
one.
The senator lives. when in Wash
ington, at the Colonial hotel, on the
corner of H and Fifteenth streets.
with his wife and two daughters
Leona and Sallle May-the former a
young lady grown, and the latter
little girl. Another daughter, Soph-
ie. is at school at Hollins. Va. There
are two sons, the elder of whom.
Benjamin r. jr5 Is twenty-eight
years of age. studying law at Charles
ton
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Died Wllh Their Roots on.

The senator's wife has always been
his most Intimate companion and ad-
wiser. To his mother and to her. he
says, he owes pretty nearly every
thing he has accomplished in life. He
himself. was the youngest of eleven
children, of whom seven We're sons
His eldest brother was killed in the
Mexican war; two others were killed
in South Carolina, another in Flori-
da, and yet another in the fighting
around Atlanta. All died with their
boots on" as the phrase is, except
BENJAMIN and one other.
Senator Tillman. some wag has re-
marked, would have been deemed
more properly fit to act as chairman
of a committee of Five Savage Tribes
when he first came TO the senate; and
his present appointment should there
fore be regarded as promotion.
This. however. is only in joke. His
peaceful behavior since he came to
Washington, seven years ago has
known only one interrution-the
fight aforesaid with Mr.. McLaurin.
The daily sentinel., 1907-09-11
..Tillnnnism" :"


That is to say. there was no whole
sale slaughter. There were riots. and
a few men We're killed incidentally:
but thanksgiving has always been con-
sidered venial offense in South Caro-
lima, and the section in which TIL
man lived has not record remark
able for peacefulness. Judge Mackey
well known old time resident (now
of Washington, says that he went to
the Mexican war, ito get out of dan
ger in Edgefield county" and the
district was notorious for bloodshed
in Reconstruction days. But in the
end Tillman won. and the movement
which he had started carried him into
the governors chair in 1890. This
was the first political office, by the
way, that he ever held, and from II, ),
after serving two terms, he came to-
the senate of the United States. His
third term in the senate began March
4th of the present year.
1t is related, by the way, that dur
ing his incumbency of the governor
ship a visitor, going to see him at
his official residence. beheld a man
lying on the floor of the portico
near the front door, reading a book
The man did not look up. and so the
visitor rang the door bell over his
head. Presently when the servant
came, he asked to see the govern
or, and the menial, white-haired
old darkey, exclaimed in surprise:
Law! why don't you know Mars
Tillman? OATS him on de 10"
The success of "Tillmanism' In
South Carolina signified. in the up
shot of IL. the adoption of new con-
stitution, which incidentally elimin-
ated the negro as voting factor:
the regulation of the liquor traffic by
/ putting it under control by the state:
the bringing to terms of the rail-
roads which were compelled to pay
their taxes. and, last but not least.
the establishment of a college for
the technical education of the sons of
| farmers.
So extreme a bitterness was stirred
! up in the strife political and social
in South Carolina that Tillman was
necessarily obliged to bear the brunt
of a great deal of obloquy He was
condemned as person devoid of any
attributes that could entitle him to
respect-a foul--mouthed and trucu-
/ lent demagogue in short. When he
came to the Senate it was felt by the
country at large that he was much
more likely to disgrace that honor
able and dignified body-than to do it
credit Nevertheless, barring one lit
tie episode. he has certainly disap-
pointed expectations in this regard.
AS for the episode in question, of
which more will be said presently
namely, his fight with his colleague
McLaurin on the floor of the Senate
| 1t must be admitted that he was goad-
ed into doing what he did. And, on
the whole, the opinions he has earned
in Washington, and the estimates
! formed of his abilities by his fellow
statesmen in the Upper House, are
decidedly favorable.