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The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
THE DRIFT OF OPINION.

The drift of opinion toward fed- eral regulation of great corporations
 is shown clearly by the address of George w. Perkins of the firm of ]. r, Morgan X Co, before students at Columbia University on last Friday evening. He is reported as saving that the corporation is tho outgrowth of natural conditions, and he speaks truly. The large corporation was in- evitable The industrial demands be- came such in growing country as to necessitatc merging of competing capitals into cooperative capital, op- erating in some special industrial field The coming of the corporation is strictly in accord with economic evo- lution lt has been found that CO., operation is a more economical and efficient industrial principle than com petition The latter engenders waste and strife Prom every point of view" says MT Perkins, the cooper ation is to he preferred. It is more humane, more uplifting and. with proper supervision, must provide a more orderly conduct of business freer from failure and abuse. guaran- teeing better wages and more steady employment to labor, with moro favorable average price to the con sumer" Therefore Mir Perkins be- lieves the federal government should regulate the giant corporations in fair ness to all
 That it is possible to break mp CO., operating corporations into competing parts Mir Perkins does not believe. The day of competition is past Ten years ago it is doubtful that a repre- sentative of an industrial power would have said as much, but to-day it is be- ing recognized on every hand that new industrial order is appearing While the corporations in charge of various industrial fields of operation arc eXalting cooperation as a prin- ciple. it is 10 be noticed that labor un- ions also are in the possession and use of this principle. and instinctively labor and capital arc looking to the national government mainly to do something.
 With tho idea of MT Perkins that the time has come for transforma- tion of competing capital into co-op- eratiye capital the philosophy of so- cialism is in accord Mir. Perkins in effect eonfesses to the inabilit1of cor poration management of great indus tries to proceed much longer along the accustomed lines and the need of q regulating power that will protect it
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
Ministers md Churches.
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 What ails tho minlsters?' asks tho Amherst Record in commenting on the very short pastorates that prevail in that town They come and go so fast in Amherst that tho local paper can hardly keep track of them. And it repeats the declaration that the town has more churches than 1t needs, or can adequately support. That seems to be the situation in many To- cal towns, Athol included Four min isters in Amherst have left town with in a year. after very short service, Tho trouble would seem to be- not with the ministers, but with the people them selves They demand too many forms of religion The seeker after religious truth. he who would worship God in all earnestness and sincerity ought not to mind so much the forms and meth ods by which it is done. Nearly all the evangelical churcnes worship in practically the same way. and the slight difference in creeds does not justify SO many different organizations The story of overchurched towns is becoming a frequent and perplexing one all over New England
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
HIGH AND LOW.

MT. Charles w. Morse the high and hifalutin financier, is on his way back to this country to face the music. !" The music wont be quite as sweet and harmonious as it was in the days when ils big speculations made him seem to he big man to other people ana possibly to himself Now there may be some who are poor enough to do him nonor. but if there are they are not conspicuous and will probably not bt at the dock to welcome him when he comes home
 It is said that Morse was at one time worth ssO,ooooOO and perhaps that might as well he said as anything de doesn't appear to he worth much now He has lost his money and also lis good name, so he Is poor indeed His case includes lot of morals, :" which arc impressive. even If they are late in appearing These are good days for morals, They have some chance )f being noticed now. Of course the.
 we're just as we'll worth notice Ion. ago, but people were too rich and too busy to pay any attention to them Now they are neither too rich nor too )usy 10 understand that all that gilt ters is not gold, and that even gold nay take a notion to change it's plact If glittering.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10

Value of the Old Testament" It is not enough for a Sunday-school teacher to be consecrated and earnest. There must be Knowledge and ability to teach in addition The devotion and sacrifice of many teacher in his de- sire to develop the spiritual life of his pupils are sometimes mis-spent for the want of a thorough scientific svs tenn. It is not always the message of life for the present age, or what is life, that is presented. Much truth that is crying to he heard is made to yield to the search for something that bears on some preconceived series of theological concepts. or some peculiar lenominaticnal tenets The demand of the time is for a free soul with d free Bible. Truth may be trusted to make its own way.
 In the larger Sunday-school works now contemplated something of the laboratory method may be employed to advantage. Tasks of a practical kind may be given to children. If lesson is on kindness, mercy, or peace making, a child may be urged to ob- serve some act during the week in application of the lesson, or to/report on some worthy act of the child's own, that he may be shown that he knows not mercy until he has eXperi- enced 1t, It is not enough to talk about the truths of lesson and then forget what manner of lesson it was. The impression is. to he made that the lesson is worth while working out and demonstrating practically. There are great possibilities and a wide field before the Religious Educational Federation. May its work extend to many places.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
CONSTITUTIONAL.

Fur hiven's sakei Don't shoot. Casey; ye forgot to load yer gun. Be gorry, ol must. Pat; tn dom burd won't wait"-Life
 "l like to go to church" "Why?'' Well. it's comforting to sec man keep hundred women or so quiet for an hour. Bohemian.
 Ascum-"Did you actually have tho nerve to propose to that Boston girl?' Yerner-"Nes, I told her my heart beat wildly for her alone and" Ascum- She didn't believe your Werner No, she reached over and felt my pulse. - Philadelphia Press.
 Miss Tnland-"You certainly have a charming country place here, and of course you have given 1t some pretty name?" Mir. Bondholder-"Oh, yes! Mrs. Bondholder calls 1t Jdlemoment- by the-Sea' but I call it by it's right name, 'Moneysunk.' Judge.
 The earth. remarked the professor. pursues it's mighty pathway through space without Interruption and on what you might call schedule time. Which" remarked Mr Dustin StaN with confident emphasis, goes tn show what a good thing perpetual Iran chise is.''-W Washington Star.
 Editor-I'n pay you good money for the right kind of story.
 Author-But when will you publish it?
 Editor-I shant publish it at all; want 1t to tell my wife hwen I go home late from the club.-Chicago News.
 'Good-by. Melindy. said Uncle Hi- ram. about 10 start on journey to New York city "Good-by. Hiram re- turned Aunt Melindy. An don't you fergit fer bring me hack recein fer
 .l-t, Drs,I city people are goin so crazy over.r- Judge.
 ~lara-"rn give you conundrum. Why is man like d carpet?'
 Tom-"I give it up.
 Clars-"W We'll. he's no sooner down than people walk over him.
 Tom-sOh pshaw. Man is totally
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
ENCOURAGING TREES.

If Mas:4 i.etts is going to keep the gypsy L.ath she must give it enough to cat, A bill has just been in- troduced in the Massachusetts legisla ture exempting plantations of trees from taxation provided they conform to certain prescribed conditions, and the bill seems likely to become q law, Land planted to trees of any variety approved by the State forester, and planted with not fewer than six hum dred trees to the acre with as many more of natural growth, is to be eX- empt from taxation for a period of ten years after the trees have grown to the height of two feet on an aver age, If has been a frequent complaint m the part of landowners wno woul like 10 cooperate in the work of re- forestation. that the tribute they were obliged to pay upon these enterprises that made no return for number of years was too great a Encouragement, and Massachusetts seems disposed to recognize the reasonabeness of this complaint. So perhaps the trees In that State will at least keep even with the gypsy moth that feeds on their leaves.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
ouR CONTEMPORARIES.
rrinces.c. 4. Wage Banners.
tFrom Tit-Bits.)

In these days of democracy and un- conventionality it is perhaps not very surprising to learn that the Duke Frederick of Schleswig- -Holstein, hold ing to the belief that every girl should be able to earn her own living in case of emergency, has caused his daughters to be trained in various occupations. Princess Victoria Adelaide, who mar ried the Duke of Saxe- -Coburg- Gotha holds the diploma of the Royal School of Cookery in Berlin. Princess Alex andra Victoria Is q skilled painter oi miniatures, Princess Adelaide has "a certificate for Kindergarten teaching and Princess Caroline Matilda is an eX- pert typist and writer of shorthand.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
\ CURIOUS SUGGESTION.

That is curious suggestion made by Frederick r. Fish. formerly prcsi- dent of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. who recommends the spportionment of l5O municipal advisers in Boston. He would divide the city into fifty precincts and have three advisers in each of them. The advisers, who would he elective off cials. would be expected to keep their eyes wide open, to make suggestions
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10

unlike carpet, for the more dust he has, the less likely he is to get the shake. e.'--Tllustrated Bits.
 There have been times" said the actor manager. when I have shed real tears" 'Ah, when you have been in great sympathy with the part you were playing" suggested tho mat inee girl No. when I have had my own money in the show, replied the actor manager, with tinge of sad remembrance in his tone.-Philadel- phia Record.
 Now, all we want from you Is a straight story said the lawyer. Sir" retorted ihe witness, perhaps you are not aware that l am prominent poli- tlcian in this community, and your in sinuaticu constitutes an affront." Par don me" rejoined the lawyer. No of fence intended. Just tell as near a straight story as you can.'-Philadel- phi9 Public Ledger
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
SAYINGS AND D0INGs.

According to the latest report of the United States Civil Service commission. the number of officers and employees now under civil service regulations is approximately ss7 ,o0o.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10

Things continue to be mixed, Boozy, West Virginia, is a no-license town, and resolution has been in troduced in the Virginia legislature to impeach Judge Blackstone.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10

4 young man from Myscre tIndial who came to this country and took complete course in electrical engi- neerins has gone back home to take
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10

The Houston Post announces that Texas rats are frequently mistaken for 'possums, Texas hunger must be pret- ty savage.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10

An heir 10 fortune of S1,OO0. GOO has become a messenger boy. Wants to make the money go fast, does he?
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10

\ Mexican judge has sentenced a woman to six months of silence, and his action seems likely to make a lot of talk,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10
an appointment under the government 1t SSS.55 month.

ar an appointment under the government at SsS.53 a month.
 me second Congregational church at Falmouth, Mass, built in 1921. was turned end for end twenty years later 10 get bequest of s10.u00 left by a nlelnoef who did not like the way the church stood, and a monument has now been erected with an inscription stating these facts.
 me dowager empress of China has issued an ediet giving the servants of the imperial palace three months in which to abandon opium smoking Any one caught using the drug after that date is to receive one hundred strokes Win an iron rod, which will probably ! satisfy them,
 General Mario Menocal, one of the three prominent candidates for president or Cuba. was educated in the United states and two of his relatives served as officers in the American navy. He is about forty years old and at the pres ent time Is manager of a big sugar est tate ar Chaparra. owned by American Interests He acted as mediator, but without success. in the uprising against the Palma government,
 In the columns of the London Times dispute continues to he waged stoutly in regard to the language com monly used by men of science. The chief point insisted upon is that there is not in science any truth so abstract that 1t cannot he expressed in plain and clear English. The man of science who takes refuge in technical terms such as zygotes and gametes, sporo- zocites and gametocytes is, corre- sponde2ts allege. really confessng to lack of education.
 According to an English trade jour l nal a certain safety-razor company of | the United States is about to erect d factory at Leicester. The company has 1 decided upon this step in order to con 1 form with the new English patent law, which stipulates that certa in propor- | ton of patented articles must be pro duced in that country, The makers are importing their patented machin- cry from the United States for manu- | featuring the razors, but will employ British labor
 A Frenchman. Raphael Dubois, re- ports to the Academy of Sciences the results of experiments With phos- 1 phorescent animalculae in producing an illumination useful to man. By cul- 1 tivating in suitable media large mum Der of micro organisms capable of emitting light NJ. Dubois succeeded in l Illuminating a room with a degree of intensity about equal to that of moon | light No radiation of heat appears to attend the production of this physiolog- | ical light
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-10

The explanation that the s9,000,0 treasury deficit for January is due to larger expenditures and smaller re- ceipts looks plausible.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-26
FIRE AND CASUALTY.

At Grand Rapids the home Of
Joseph Gaiganski was burned recently.
The loss is estimated at $1,000; insur-
Rnce 500.
William Freeman of Ladysmith, d
teamster, was struck by logs that fell
from a loaded car. The right leg is
broken at the knee joint and the left
above the knee.
Frank F. Fitzsimncns, aged 81
years, was fatally injured at Elkhart,
Ind, when he was run down by train.
One Of his legs was so badly mangled
that it will be necessary to amputate
it.
The lives Of sixty persons in a New
York tenement house were endangered
by what is believed to have been an
attempt of an incendiary to burn the
building. Joseph Laschinsky was ar
rested.
Fire destroyed the coke washer,
tipple, engine house and chemical lab
oratOry of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company's mine at Sopris, entailing a
loss of S150,000 and throwing wv men
out of employment.
The Jefferson street public school
Little Falls, N. Y. was damaged by fire
to the extent Of $4,000. The fire
started in the furnace room just
before the hour at which the pupils
usually enter the building.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-26

ination of John McCourt to be attor-
ney for Oregon.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
John P. Edwards, has accepted the
receiyership of the New Amsterdam
National bank of New York.
The senate passed a bill by which
100000 acres of arid land belonging
to the public domain will be turned
over to Idaho for use under the Carey
act.
The claim of the countess Of Buena
Vista against Maj. Gen. Brooke for
$25O,0O0 damages on account of his
revocation while governor of Cuba of
her license to slaughter all the cattle
for Havana was decided by the SUI
preme court against the countess.
The house subcommittee on fortif-
cations reported the fortif1cation ap.
preparation bill with estimates sIashed
from $38,443,845 to $8,210611, on &C
count of the desire Of the committee
to avoid giving ground for the i'm,
preston that the United States is pre-.
pairing for war with Japan. Most of
the appropriation is for Hawaii and
the Philippines. The bill was favor.
ably reported.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-26
DECIDES AGAINST
WISCONSIN LIFE
JUDGE STEVENS ORDERS THAT
SURRENDER VALUE BE PAID
TO C, M. billiard,
Madison, March %.

In the case of G. M. billiard against
the Wisconsin Life Insurance COM
pany Judge Stevens of the circuit
court yesterday decided for the de-
PENDANT Mr.. billiard held policy of
$1,000 in the company and the court
found that December 5, 1906, he duly
served upon the defendant a written
notice that he desired to surrender
his policy and that he demanded pay
ment in the sum of $16209, the sur
render value provided for in the
policy.
The insurance company declared
that Mr.. HiIIiard was not entitled to
the money but the court held that
the plaintiffs rights were determined
by the contract which he entered in
to with the company when he TOOK out
the policy.
Judge Stevens ordered judgment
to be entered as prayed for by the
plaintiff and that the latter also re-
ceive six per cent interest from April
%, 1907, up to the time of the pay
ment of the judgment.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-26
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Notices of a 10 per cent reduction
in the wages of / 400 operatives were
posted in the Lyman, Mass, cotton
mills.
Announcement was made by the
Pittsburg Plate Glass company of an
average reduction of Is per cent in the
price of plate glass.
Frank Rallies of Beloit secured a
verdict for $4,000 against the Thomson
& Sons Manufacturing company OF
Beloit in suit for $4,000 for dam
ages.
The plaster Quarries of the Albert
Manufacturing company in Hillsboro,
n. B. have suspended for two months.
Three hundred are thrown out of en-
pIoyment.
a 10 per cent reduction in wages
was made at the cotton mills of the
Shetucket company and the Falls com
pany, affecting 1900 hands at Nor
wich, Conn.
Members Of the Chicago mining and
stock exchange decided to cease
business and divide the funds remain
ing in the treasury. The exchange
commenced operations a year ago.
Two hundred brewery bottlers and
helpers were discharged from the var
fous breweries in St. Louis because
they refused to load wagons for men
hired to supplant the 400 drivers on
strike.
The Alice rubber shoe mill and the
NillvilIe rubber boot mill of the
United States Rubber company at
Woonsocket, R. L, closed for an in
definite period. One thousand two
employees are affected.
Ten of the twenty hor mills of the
American Sheet and Tin Plate COM
pany at South Sharon. Penn. were
placed in operation. affording employ
ment to 600. The Sharon hoop mill
also resumed employing 1000.
Notices were posted in the Winni-
pauk mills of Lounsbury & Bissejl
company, feltmakers, Norwalk, Conn,
that work would be resumed on full
time Of six days week. commencing
Monday Two hundred men are bene-
fitted
An appeal will be taken to the
United States Supreme court in the
suits brought by the government
against the Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern railway for failure 20
care properly for stock in transit, not
ice to that effect being given on Sal
urday.
Robert Verne Baker. district attoC-
ney of Kenosha county. has started an
action for conspiracy against men who
have been the leaders IN he strike az
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-26
SUICIDES AND MURDERS.

Aired ]. Thornley,, sub-foreman in
one Of the departments Of the Fore
River Shipbuilding company, at Quincy,
Mass, blew out his brains.
James R Harrison and Mrs. Ora
Ferguson Harrison of Dyers burg,
Tenn, are both dead by their own
hands. They were married two weeks
ago.
After having been estranged through
a quarrel, Miss Kate Trainer met
Samuel Roberts, her sweetheart, and
failing to effect a reconciliation she
shot him dead at Xenia, III.
William Carton, an elderly resident
of Fort William, Ont, quarreled with
his wife, and pulling out a revolver
shot her through the head He then
shot himself dead Mrs. Carton will
die
Frank Kito, a Japanese cook, in
New York fired five bullets into the
BODY OF Mrs. Lizzie Hulz, Is, who had
spurned his love. Kito then drank
carbolic acid and died Mrs. Hull
will recover
Charles Weidman of Chicago, shot
himself after an attempt to murder
Mrs. Minnie Heiss in the hallway OF
her residence. He was taken to a hos
pital where he died shortly afterward.
Mrs. Heiss probably Will die.
Angered because OF a scolding for
not having sought employment,
Matthew Kraschefsky, aged II years,
of Wilmington, Del. deliberately shot
sky, at their home
Dependency because of his trans
fer from one substatiOn to another in
Washington, D. c., William A Ridgly,
for twenty years assistant supRrjnten-
dent Of letter carriers, jumped to his
death from the fourth story Of his
home.
Israel Seguin of Eau Claire county
was found on the front porch with
bullet wound in his forehead Nearby
lay a revolver. He expired an hour
later. 1t is thought Mr.. Seguin may
have committed the act in a fit of
dependency. He was 76 years of
age.
George Bentz, aged 48 years, OF
BOlds Station, Frederick county, Md,
fired two shots from a revolver into
the temple of his wife and then turned
the weapon upon himself and sent a
bullet into his right temple. Both
died in a few minutes. Mrs. Bentz
was 35 wears of age.
Margaretta Borden, of Trenton,
n: Y, Is year old daughter of Harry
L. Borden, shot herself in the heart as
the result of grief. Three causes are
assigned for her act-the objection OF
her father to a young man who had
been calling upon her, worry because
her mother was dying of consumption,
and disappointment over the placing
of her sisters in charge of her uncle,
forcing her to attend to the household
duties.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-03-26
POLITICAL.

l. I. Roe, several times mayor OF
Stanley, has again been invited 70
stand for election.
NJ. c. Hyman twice mayor of TOma-
NJ. c, Hyman, twice mayor of Toma-
a candidate for another term.
Gov. John JOhnsons candidacy for
the democratic presidential nomina-
ton is declared to be soon forthcoIn-
ing.
Three candidates are in the field for
office of mayor of Menomonie; A. H.
Johnson, the incumbent, D. A. Bower
man and John R. Mathews.
President Wilson of Princeton uni
versity addressed the Commercial
club, of Chicago advocating more reign
of law and less of government commits
sioDs.
Nomination papers for c. J. Angus
tin, Taft candidate for presidential
delegate. in the Eleventh congress
sional district, have been circulated
and many times the required number
of signers secured. Sentiment in IA
vor of Taft appears to be decidedly on
the increase especially since the re
suits of the Nebraska and Oklahoma
state conventions.
The following city ticket was put
up at the democratic massmeeting a
Waukesha; Mayor Col. NJ. ". Glenn;
city clerk, Thomas F. Lyman; control
Ter, John Brehn; assessors, Edward E.
Walsh, c. A. Bergeler; treasurer, John
J. Harmon.
Despite opinions of Attorneys P. H.
Martin of Green Bay and L J. Nash O.
Kewaunee that the proceedings on the
special election at Kewaunee to in
stall another special election May 19
on the question of issuing $4,000
bonds to install a municipal light
plant.
The candidates for mayor OF Eau