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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
4 GOOD o1D FAMILY.

When a man arose in a London theater and said "John Smith, your house is on f1re!" one hundred and fifty John Smiths arose, each anxious to know if 1t was his house. In the latest directory of the borough of Manhattan there, are thirty-seven solid columns of Smiths, and in the latest directory of New Haven there are more than twelve solid columns of Smiths.
 Whats the matter with the Smiths :? They're all right, and always have been. It is claimed by some of the studious members of the family that Adams last name was Smith, and very likely it was. Anyhow, when he went to work he had to be so many kinds of a Smith that the claim looks reasonable. And ever since his day the Smiths have had big place on the pages of history as well as on the pages of directories. The family has hung on and waxed through all the centuries, and there are no signs that it is ever going to wane. Pocahontas was shrewd when she managed to get herself mentioned with the Smith family. She is now celebrated and will be as long as John Smith is. Moral: If you are not Smith, marry one
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
THE oytRBURDENED rorER.

The voters of the city of New Ha- ven will next month be asked to elect a city ticket containing some thirty odd names It is municipal year in the beautiful city of New Haven. We are to have a new mayor and such other new officers as the public will directs.
 There has been much talk in the State that direct primary nominat- ing law would add materially to the political health of the people. A bill was introduced in the General As sembly early in the winter providing for such a Jaw, but 1t was referred to the next legislature, largely owing to the inexperience of the members with Ilegislation of that character. The pro- motors of the bill themselves admit ted that they found it difficult to ap- ply the principle of the bill to State which burdens it's voters with the number of offices to be filled.
 Which reminds us. Why should the voters of the city of New Haven be asked to elect lot of officers every two years whose labor is purely cler- teal? Why, for example, should they be bothered with the election of city clerk, a tax collector, registrar oi vital statistics, a city treasurer or 2 city sheriff so long as those who oc' cupy the offices do their duty? Who is benefited by all this noise in the market place? Surely not the citizens whose one interest is that the work of the city be efficiently done by honest men.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
READY.

If a girls father doesn't trust you it's a sign she does.-New York Press.
 Dis world" said Uncle Eben, was made foh all kinds of people. Dem dat wants to enjoy deirse'fs has plenty of opportunity an dem dat wants to kick has plenty of excuse. ."-Washington Star.
 Miss Longslnce-'I have never yet met the man wanted to marry" Mrs. Chillicon-Ke Kearney-"No? Tell me his name, dear, and I'll manage to have you meet him some day" Chicago Tribune,
 "An old friend bumped into me to- day"
 Didn't you bump into him as well?"
 No; he had the auto."-LOuisville Courier-Journal.
 "So your wife and daughter have learned to speak French" said. the old friend T don't know" answered MT. Cumrox. whether what they are talking is French or not; but they have got on far enough so that you can be sure it isn't English. Wash ington Star.
 "Yes," said the Chicago girl, she's pretty cultured and kind of swell. She's in right in our town"
 "But,n said the Boston girl, dis dainfully, "her forefathers?" ?" 70! don't make it worse than it really is. She's only had three."- Philadelphia Press. Wife-I don't know where that child gets his vile temper from--not ] from me, I'm sure. { Husband (sadly)-No, my dear; you certainly haven't lost any of yours t-Bits.
 Bertha (reading3 seems that ev- cry name has meaning, dear. Ger aid means strong and Donald means proud" Henry means Gertie (interrupting)-Henry means business. Ha said so last night.--Ally sloper
 ''Why do you insist on having your daughter learn to play the piano?"
 Because" answered the kind fath- CT, "she may have to live in an apart ment house some day. and want her to be able to hold her own in the noise competition. ."-Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
How a Dog Keeps Cool.
(Youth's Companion,)

Prof. D. L. Trouessart, of the Paris Museum of Natural History, In recent lecture on animal heat remarked that the dog, whose respirations in repose number only twenty-five or thirty a minute, may in running acquire rate of respiration as high as $50 a minute The effect of this acceleration favors the dissipation of animal heat by evap- oration from the pulmonary vesicles. The dog perspires very little, or not at all, by the skin, pulmonary taking the place of eutaneous transpiration. It is this fact which enables the dog to pursue it's game so long and persist ently. Animals of the cat family, on the other hand, do not possess this peculiarity and for that reason tigers, partners and lions lie in wait for their prey, but do not pursue it over, long distances. The bird possesses pulmon- ary transpiration in a very high de- gree.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
CHANGE FOR MODERN FATHERS

CHANGE FOR MODERN PATTERN.
 The modern. mother has been get ting some of the attention she merits, but the modern father has been neg Iected by almost everybody except his wife and children. Now in Germany, where they study everything, they are studying him a little. One studioos German believes that the modern father is too busy with the days work, preoccupied with social matters, or too careful of his own enjoyment to act, as the fathers of old did, as the educator friend. and ideal of their children. He points out that the num- Der of fathers that are able to satisfy their children's thirst for information Is steadily decreasing; that even when father is willing to devote his leisure to his childrens interests, few of them are capable of coping with the situa- tion. He points out, too, how profit !
 able it might be for. father, as well as son, if the old relations between par ent and child could be resumed, if they could be companions in their walks, Kindred in their habits, and stimulate each other to thought and high ideals. The school teaches much, but nothing can quite take the place of that edu- cation of the boy which is an out growth of his fathers experience, no matter how humdrum and lacking in the heroic those experiences may have been.
 It is said that the way SolomonNbe- came so wise was by looking in the dictionary to find answers to the Aconundrums propounded to him by the children of his eight hundred wives. It is doubtless true that the
 modern father might be wiser and
 more fatherly than he is if he had the
 time and the inclination to realize the Importance of it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
No Mntter.

We have no real bards to-day, or so the wise men VOW; We have no literature, they say, nor any music now. We have no wines, we have no beers; no shoes, no hats, no food. But keep your nerve, for it appears we've something just as good. We have no homes, it comes to pass, as you must know full well; And higher critics have, alas deprived us of our hell. We have no light, we have no air; we have no noble blood. But bear up, friends, and don't despair. We've something just as good.
 Washington Herald.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
\ Dilemma.

By strict economy from day to day Throughout the winter time, per-
 chance I'll save Enough that I may journey far away In summer to the hills or briny wave. But winter, too, the purse severely
 tries,
 With bridge and suppers, theaters
 and teas. If through the summer I economize may have cash to spare for things
 like these. But here's the question which doth
 sore annoy
 Which all my life hath annually pur-
 sued Which halt of the twelve months shall And which Five up to hermit soli- Washington Stars
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

Falls power, though, is not allowed to squander itself in the air or on the landscape. It is harnessed. It keeps factories going. It produces wealth. Cannot some genius devise a way to harness the chewing jaws of mankind and capture their energy for the pro- ductlon- rather than the reduction of wealth?
 A happy thought, When some gen. jus has managed to harness the chew ing jaws of mankind, perhaps he will turn his attention to the collection and distribution of the now wasted hot air.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
NOT QUITE PERFECT.

There's always a fly in the oint- ment, and those who supposed they had induced the legislature of Georgia to pass a perfect prohibition law now know better. At the time of its enact ment the prohibitionlsts rejoiced that their law would absolutely prevent the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages in that State, but we are told that in the course of amending
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
Governor Hughes and the Presidency
 (New York World.)

Mir Hughes is already doing a work of permanent national importance. He
 should complete 1t. If any man Is in- dispensable to the cause of good State government in the United States at the
 present time that man Is Charles E.
 Hughes.
 had four years more of MT. Hughes at Albany there will be time enough to talk about promoting him to the Presi- dency If Mir Hughes should eventual lv become President of the United
 States we venture to predict that it will be because the people of the United States appreciate his eminent quaIifi- cations for that great office and not be- cause a coterie of Republican bosses
 are determined to get him out of their way.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
A Good Sign.
Martford Courant. )

It Is an off time to talk politics, and yet there Is a lot of politics being talked, On the whole this is a good sign. The trouble with our scheme of government Is that we do not talk politics enough. The recent Legis- lature gave cause enough for this line of discussion. The esteemed New Ha- ven Journal and Courier" has taken it up and gone into the interview busi- ness through the State In way to de- yelop the public mind and stimulate further talk; and now along comes another Publicity" quoted yesterday, bristling with revolutionary and by no means unattractive suggestions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

The Filipinos have a secret society entitled the Kataastaasan Kagalang- galang Katipunan. Is the grand su- nreme test the ability to spell and pronounce the name of the society?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

Louis Glass, the telephone magnate, has been sentenced to five years in prison for corrupting San Francisco city official. But GIass has not yet been put in.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

Tn France the bill of physician cannot be collected if more than two years old. Tn this country many such bills of any age can't be col lected,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

Czar Nicholas is said to know ab- solutely nothing of the conditions in his disordered empire. Just little more ignorant than his advisers?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

Bishop Partridge, of Kioto, Japan, is strong advocate of having parks, museums and the like, as we'll as churches, open on Sunday for the use of the "poor and those that need rest, especially day of physical rest, a change of environment and a fitting of the mind for higher sphere"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

From one bush this year Robert Bowker, of Winslow, Maine, has plucked 1921 roses, while he figures that passing people have taken enough to make the total an even D. | 900.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

The town of Faleide, Norway, earns money enough by its forests, which are scientifically cut and marketed, to pay all the expenses of the town and there is no taxation. Lumber and wood to the value of $5,0OO,OoO have been sold during the last thirty years, and the forests have been so skilifully replanted that that rate of income is permanently secured,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
SAYINGS AND DOINes.

switzerland's greatest industry, the entertaining of tourists, has been of- ficially computed to bring $2S,0O0, 900 a year, $7,O0O,O 900 more than the pub lie revenue of the whole confederacy.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

Dean Lucy Sprague of the Univer- sity of California spoke these winged words to her girls the other day; I note marked spirit of discourtesy among girl students, not alone in their intercourse with each other, but to .outsiders also. It is common to hear girls speak disrespectfully of their instructor as that feller" This should not be. An old lady of seventy came to me recently complaining of pranks l.played upon her by girl students. This is discourtesy of most reprehensible sort, A practice which I believe should be drowned upon is that of se- ,cret marriages at college. A girl may Iconsider 1t her business alone if she chooses to marry secretly, but she is mistaken. It is the worlds business also. I consider such marriages dis graceful.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

On Monday hear the eager children sing: Oh how I love my teacher dear, How glad I am school-time is here.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

Japan's plan for the management of the timber lands of Corea is to estab- llish in the next five or six years nine model forests in the neighborhood of the cities of Seoul Pingyang and Taiku. The capital for this enterprise is about s60O,oOO, one-half of which is to be furnished by the Corean gov ernment Private enterprise for the development of forest areas will be encouraged, and Corean school of agriculture and forestry, to furnish the necessary trained experts for the management of these national forests has already been established.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07

Camp Meeting John" Allen, the grandfather of Mime. Nordica, was for many years a picturesque figure among the Methodist ministers in the State of Maine. He was good deal of a wag. At one time, having gone to Lewiston to attend quarterly meeting, he was approached in the street by several young men. Camp Meeting John" said the spokesman,
 ''who was the devils grandmother ?" "The devils grandmother, replied the old man in the quick, sharp tone so characteristic of his speech, the devils grandmother--ho do you ex- pect me to keep your family record 2"
The Washington herald., 1907-05-06
TRIP TO Penn A FIXTURE
All-High School Team VIII Go
Again Next Year.
Local Boys Made Most Favorable
Impression at Philadelphia on
Friday AzSt Saturday.

The trip Of an all-high school team TO
Philadelphia as guests Of the University
Of Pennsylvania, which was inaugurated
on Saturday. is 10 become a feature of
the local scholastic baseball season. The
impression made by the Washington boys
was most favorable. and after the game
Coach SpFigman was notified that he
could select a date for game next year.
Saturday s game was arranged less than
a month ago. and. as the Penn freshman
schedule was filled. It was necessary TO
accept May as the only Saturday avail
able As the high school series is only
starting, it was especially difficult 10
choose the team. SO next years game
viii be played later. the hrst Saturday in
June being the most probable date.
The trip Of the team 10 Philadelphia
was most successful. During their stay
at the University the players were the
guests Of the undergraduates. who
showed them every courtesy and on
Saturday the whole squad Witnessed the
Princeton-Penn game. Thirteen players
in charge Of Mr.. Matthews, Of the West
ern High School faculty, and Coach
SpTigman, made the trip.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-06
LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
Chevy Chase Club Arranges for It's
Annual Matches.

The annual handicap lawn tennis tour
nament of the Chevy Chase Club will be
held on the club courts. commencing sat
urday. May Is. and continuing the sue
ceeding days, Sundays excepted, until
the conclusion of the tournament
The events viii be; Ladies' singles.
mems singles. mems doubles and mixed
doubles, with first and second prizes in
each. event All entries must be made in
writing and addressed to the Tennis Com
mittee, Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase,
Md. on or before Wednesday May Is, and
should be accompanied by the entrance
fee which s 81 in singles and g for each
pair In doubles The committee reserves
the right TO cancel any Of the above
events where there are not 6 sufficient
number OF entries to warrant Offering
prizes. Drawings and handicaps will be
posted on the club bulletin board on the
morning Of Friday, May Il. Rules OF the
United States Lawn Tennis Association
viii govern all play.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-06
sTANDfNq on THE TEAMS.
PRACTICE FOR CADET GAME.
Middies Bead Energies to Prepara-
tion for West Point Trip.

Special 70 rhe Washington Herald
Annapolis Nd. May 5.-This week viii
mark the close of local baseball games
for the midshipmen's team. The follow
ing week Will be devoted 10 hard practice
In preparation for the final games of the
season with the West Point cadets. May Is
This year the big game viii be played
at West Point. last years game having
been played here. The games remaining
to be played by Navy are: Wednesday
University Of Pennsylvania: Thursday
Washington and Lee University, and Sat
urday, Dickinson College
This week will be another one fdf va
riety in athletics In Annapolis. In ad-
ditlon to the three baseball games at the
Academy. the following events are
scheduled
Friday, baseball. St. Johns College
against Franklin and Marshall College;
Saturday. boat race, Navy first crew and
Columbia varsity, Of New York; dual
track meet, Midshipmen against Carlisle
Indians; dual rife shoot, Mildly rihemen
and the officers of the National Guard
District Of Columbia. II viii be the first
time that the Alddies have met the Red.
skins on the field and track, and much
interest is being taken in the coming
competition.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-06
DO NOT LIKE PURE WHISKY.
John Wedderburn says People Pre-
fer Compounds.

John Wedderburn. the local liquor deal
er. does not agree with the Baltimore and
Boston whisky men who are sighting
Attorney General Bonaparte's famous
classification of strong beverages.
THE law is not aimed at any one in
dlvidual," said Mr.. Wedderburn, but is
for the benefit Of the public so they may
know what they are entitled TO know
about the liquor business. 1 Can see no
objection to the word compound Ii IS
the same whisky the public mas always
drunk under the name blend ard she
word blend has always been improperly
used: therefore, the correction Of the us8
Of these words can certainly do no harm.
Strange as IL may seem. the people do
not like real whisky They have never
been accustomed 70 getting - They
have been drinking cocktails under the
name of whisky and it will be some time
before they get accustomed 70 the taste
of real whisky.
Compound whisky is undoubtedly puTer
than straight whisky and tastes much
better. The price viii go down on :hese
whiskies and 90 up on straight WHISTLES.
as they have been dOing Tor the past SIX
months. and the public viii continue ID
drink compounds They iike them better
than straight whisky.
Every one is benefted-the distiller. the
rectifier. and the public. All misrepre-
sentations are bound to be cut out. and,
through the law just passed. all tho PeC-
pie can be educated on the liquor question
who have. heretofore. remained in dense
ignorance.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-06
MARQUETTE LEAGUE OPENS
Trinity Plays st. Martins This Aft
ernOOn at Olympic Park.
Officials Finish All Preparations for
the First Game of the Season.
Outlook Is Encouraging.

Last nights meeting Of the board of di-
rectors Of the Marquette League was de
voted to the consideration Of unfinished
business in preparation for the opening
game to-day when Trinity meets ST Mar
TINS
The contracts of the diffe4ent players
We're called FOR from the managers OF the
two teams chat play tomorrow. but, as
Manager Dove. of Trinity. expected To
sign several more men before to-day's
game, the other managers decided TO al
low him 10 retain his contracts until the
game begins. All the other managers will
have 10 have their contracts in before
their first games. after which no new man
may be played within one week after the
signing OF his contract. The question as
to the eligibility of players who have
played in other leagues came up, and it
was decided to enforce the clause in the
constitution which directs that no player
who, after contracting with a manager of
a Marquette League cluh. and playing
championship game with his club, plays
with another league, except Depart
mental. IS eligible to play again with any
club in the league. This does not affect
a player VINO, while under contract to
the Marquette League. plays with another
league, providing lac has played in none
Of the championship games of the Mar
quette. The clause in the constitution
covering the eligibility of players also di-
reefs that no man, after signing with one
manager Of the Marquette League. can
jump his contract 20 play with another
manager in the same league.
The committee on 5ackstoDs reported
that the backstop for the grounds at
North Capitol and / streets is in the pro
cess of construction and that the grounds
in Georgetown. where the opening game
is TO be played, needs no backstop other
than wire netting. as there Is a twelve
foot embankment partially surrounding
the grounds.
The teams that meet to-day for the
opening game viii be picked from the
following men:
Trinity BuTch and Brewster. caichers; Graf.
Michael, and Donaldson, pitchers; B. Sebastian
first base Z. Sebastian and Blair second base
BuscheT shCrtstop; Harris, third base; Turney and
Dove, right field; Chisholm, center field; MeNnch,
left field.
St Mauin's-Baegltt and CamaleF. eatchers: B.
GallRghU. Lee HilleaTy. and Lee Cook pitchers;
Goodman first base; D0ndeTO and Chaplin second
base Mess. third base; Zanneli, shoTtstop; SheF-
man. cCnteT field; Brennan. left field: Dugan right
field.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-06
CALL OFF YALE-NAvY RACE.
Els Crew Returns Home as Fac
uity Refuses TO PrOIOng Stay.

5pcciai 20 The Washington HeITld
Annapolis. Md. May 5,-The Yale-Navy
boat race. postponed from Saturday until
Monday because of winds. has been called
of entirely by Yale. and the Eli squad
left Annapolis for New Haven this after
noon. Although the Yale men were will
Ing to remain over and row the race at
10 o'clock tomorrow morning, II was
thought that they would encounter some
difficulty in obtaining permission 10 do
so. This developed to-day when the Yale
faculty wired, dlsallowing the request
The Middies are much disappointed be-
cause the race has been Cancelled. as Il
had been looked forward TO with more
interest than any other race that was
ever rowed here. This was largely due
to the fact that the Yale crew contem-
plates abandoning its annual trip to An
napolis, owing to the distance Of the
journey, and each crew was very anxious
90 win the fiaal event
Il is reported that the ..iiddies had
raised a pool aggTegating 5000 10 wager
on the race, but there was very little
Yale money in sight