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The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
The Proposed Act.
(Boston Transcript

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The terms of the proposed act are
needlcssly numliating to the New Ha-
ven railroad The making Of penal
statute Of II seems an unnecessary at
front The provision In reference to
voting the stock until July /. 1910 is
peculiarly Objectionable In terms to the
New Haven road, since It places the
authority absolutely with Messrs. Hall.
White and Bishop, Instead of leaving It
with the owners Of the stock their acts
to be definitely approved In writing by
the railroad commission, which would
appear to be safeguard enough No
comprehensive plan for improving the
Boston q Maine can be considered so
long as this condition Of tutelage re-
mains, and that sense the present legi5-
lalion is TO be particularly regretted.
The bin as II comes out of the com
mittee constitutes 4 substantial victory
for the anti mergerites II puts tho
onus Of securing al Affirmative action upon
the New Haven road, which must be
gin anew its campaign of education, or
what would be better, must decide TO
make some definite agreement with the
state as 70 improvements In the trans
portation situation which II would
bring to pass IL permitted to hold the
Boston 4 Maine.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

the real facts are, and the newspapers
which are making the loudest protest
against the paper combination would
make a heater appearance II they APP
piled to the courts Instead Of to con-
gress. That course would at least rid
them Of most unpleasant suggestion
as to the unselnshness of their conduct
The attitude Of The Morning Journal
Courier in this connection is funda-
mental and unchanging, II has declined
70 give aid and encouragement to the
movement to have the duty on wood
pulp and paper removed unless the
duty on other materials Of commerce
were to be considered and removed at
the same time. Firm In our belief that
the entire tariff schedule is combna-
ton Of greed and selfshness, we are
In no mood to use the power OF the
press for strictly home consumption. Of
course the duty should be removed
from wood pulp and print paper but so
should the duty be removed from the
raw materials which enter into the in
dustrial life Of New England and de-
termine its commercial prosperity
When the newspapers Of the country
are ready to back a general revision OF
the tariff they will find us by their
side. Until then we have no use for the
movement to benefit newspapers ex-
clusively,
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

which our contemporary at the head
of sloop navigation breads the day
when the company will be known
legally everywhere as The New Ea-
ven road We cannot believe that
day Is far distant for already in the
parlance OF mankind it Is Invariably
used 70 Identify the property. Doubt
less the learned editor of the Courant
himself uses the expression except
when he has occasion to refer to 1t In
the columns Of his excellent ncWspa-
per. When IN New York, for ex-
ample, or Boston he directs the driver
OF the cab, If he happens to travel in
that luxurious manner, or the condue-
tor Of the trolley car IL that Is his
mode Of street travel to land him at
the New Haven station, II he should
undertake to order the agent to leave
him at the station of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad he
would find himself there before he
could give utterance to 50 tedious a
form Of speech.
Wherever public agents have occa-
sion to refer to the Connecticut Rail
road company the expression always
used Is the familiar one-The New
Haven road. 1t Is an expression which
comes readily to the minds and
mouths of children, who as they grow
In stature and wisdom learn to like Il
and finally decline to use any other,
II the editor of the Courant will turn
to the files of his newspaper he will
find in the account It published of the
fool action brought against the New
haven railroad by the federal admin
| istration that every mention to the
property was made In the way herein
stated. He must, too. become person
ally reconciled to this means OF ldon.
tification, because 1t is certain sooner
Or later to be formally adopted by the
management, following In the foot.
steps of a convinced public. What
has been popularly decided will never
be cast aside.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
The watch Relow--,lcmorial Day 1908.

Bring blossom ror the sailor dead
Who sleep In ocean graves,
Bring fragrant lilies, pale and pure,
TO lioat uaon the waves
And deWy purple lilacs, too,
From many a cottage home,
And starry daisies, white and gold,
10 mingle with the foam
a hundred years Of heroes lie
Beneath the seething brine,
Brave men who yielded up their lives
For Freedoms sake divine
From Jones, the Iashlng privateer
To Evans and his tars,
They died in peace as we'll as war
To servethe stripes and stars
Their monuments are coral reefs,
Their shrouds the shifting sand,
They're scattered many fathom deer
And miles away from land
No call to quarters, loud and clear,
Across the billows blue
Can summon from their long repose
The nayy's silent crew.
So let us to the rolling sea
Consign a wreath to-day,
A tribute to our mariners
Beneath the silver spray.
Fer while the angry tempests roar
And whip the waves to snow,
The nation never will for get
The gallant watch below.
--Leslie's.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

Adjutant General Cole has discover
ed that the practice has been for the
national guardsmen, when shooting
to the ranges, to use only certain
rifles of known accuracy and he has
ordered an end of It The suggestion
Of the men shooting in this manner
while In actual service is so ridicu-
lous that It seems absurd that they
should have ever tried to raise their
company standing at the ranges by
any such means.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
TIE VICE PRESIDENCY.

AT this late stage in the career Of the
days before the national conventions,
when opinion has narrowed down to
two well-defined channels, one for Taft
and the other for Bryan, It seems sur
prising that the two parties are 30
much at sea over the question of who
the ice-presidential candidates shall
be. Yet such condition of affairs is
no new situation. II comes quadrenni-
ally, as often as the presidential cleo
tons. Presidential candidates may be
prophecied with reasonable certainty
but the selection of their running
mates is left quite generally for the
eleventh hour choice Of the conven-
tions. But why so much less stress
should be laid upon the second in COM
mand, when only the death of one man,
whose life is all the while endangered
from thousand different causes,
stands between him and the White
House. where he would be the official
head Of this great county, 1t is difficult
to see.
As between Taft and Roosevelt and
Hughes, the first mentioned seems
more of a certainty, IL anything, than
the Democratic candidate as between
Bryan and Johnson yet what an un-
certainty is there as to who will be
Mr. Taft's running-mate. Harpers
Weekly respectfully suggests" Win
throp Crane of Massachusetts, "a good
man and able. a capable director a
vote-getter strong where strength will
be required" 1t is said the New York
congressional delegation will make a
strong effort to name Representative
| Sherman for vice-president, IL Hughes
fails Of nomination as President. 1t is
| rumored that the Pennsylvania dele
| cation and Speaker Cannon would
| favor this move. too. Ex-Governor
Franklin Murphy of New Jersey is
mentioned by many of the RESPONSE
Bile Republican chiefs. Among the Taft
forces Senator Dolliver Of Iowa is fav-
ored as the running mate of the secre-
| tary of war. In some quarters it Is
said that 1t will be he who will pre-
sent the name Of the secretary to the
convention at Chicago, although those
| higher up say Representative Burton.
of Ohio, will be the man to do this.
There Is always the possibility that
Fairbanks will again consent to run as
e-president, in spite of his em-
phatic refusal to be considered, and
there are any number Of other candi-
dates, to say nothing of the even
greater uncertainty on this question In
the Democratic camp.
the time will come when the office
OF vice-president will be looked upon
with greater respect shan it is today
That IL should be- there can be no
doubt. The question Of who will be
the second in command at Washington,
and quite possibly the head Of the ma
ton, as has happened a number of
times is too important to be left till
Just prior to the conclusion of the con-
ventions, when the delegates are worn
out with the fight over the presiden-
tial candidat rs and look about them
for the man most handy. For months
PRIOR to the convention the country
should know just what men are avail
able and who are considered that their
fine points may be considered. The
trouble seems to be not 50 much with
the party organizations as with TIL,
pubic's estimation of the office The
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
TO-DAY'S HEROES.

There is no day in the whole cata-
logue Of national holidays Of all coun-
tries not even our own Glorious
Fourth, that should mean more 20 us
than Memorial Day The Fourth is
at best, Of the shadowy past; per.
haps its celebration in these days Is
more wonderful for the very fact that
its enthusiasms are not of this gener-
alton, but are reflected to-day with no
less ardor from the days of our fore
fathers. But. as long as there are
war veterans alive, Memorial Day will
continue to be a vital and a personal
matter to every citizen. From their
own lips we can continue to hear their
own story of what the day means 20
them. Our respect for their wishes
guarantees the continuance of Memoir
ial Day, even did their patriotism
count for nothing.
But the day is coming-is fast APP
proaching-when there will not he
one Of them left, whom we may honor
in life. Not few of us will live to
see that day When 1t comes Memoir
ial Day may be classed with the
Fourth as day which reflects with no
dimnution of the light of true patri-
otism the enthusiasms of day since
passed. A writer in Leslie's describes
what may be expected on the day
when the body of the last of these
Civil War heroes is laid at rest. This
nation will halt its business and It's
pleasures, he says, "as 1t did on tine
day of the funeral of the great and
widely-lamented statesman, President
McKinlty, and with reverend, uncover
ed head and tear-stained faces a hun
dred million people of the United
States of America will stand-as a
hundred thousand people of your
Northern city Of New York stood a
little while ago along Broadway and
Fifth avenue while the body of our
mutual friend, that little Southern
hero, General Joe" Wheeler. wrapped
at last in the stars and stripes" was
given It's final sad tribute of honor
and respect-and when the stranger
within our gates shall ask what It all
means, he shall learn that the last vet
eran of the Civil War--and it will
matter little then whether that voter
an was a general or private, whether
he wore the blue or the gray--the
stranger shall learn that the last here
of the Civil War has passed away
This year sees great decrease II
the number Of these brave men who
fought to save the union. AT the rate
Of from 5000 to 5000 a year theii
ranks are being thinned more surel,
by the scythe of the Grim Reaper
than they were by confederate guns a
Bull Run. In proportion as they az
less, do they individually deserve TIL,
highest honors and tributes that cal
be paid them. 1t Is not much to asl
that on this one day of the year al
should make every sacrifice to homo
those who, in their turn, sacrifice,
much for the union.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
CIIartford Times.)

NTIdTITUTW TTlneS,J
Our New Haven contemporary. the
Jonrnal-Courier suggests that Mr. LII
10y has offended the house, and II Con
necticut should disregard that awful
fact and nominate and elect him gov
ernor. congress would punish the state
BY refusing appropriations Cor pubic
buildings. harbor and river improve
mepts, and 50 on, If that Is true. It Is
the strongest indication yet offered that
the Lilley Inquiry had Foundation. and
that i was not pushed as II should
have been by the committee that was
Anp0Inted to do the work.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

Now 1t Is Anna Held, the actress,
who comes forward with an explana-
ton of the recent panic, She says II
was due TO the extravaganza Of Amer
lean women who demand too much OF
their husbands. And yet she was the
actress who was reported as taking
milk baths. That may have been all
a press agent story, but she did not
try to deny It She saw there were
advantages for her IN appearing to be
eXtravagant, even If she was not The
same IS the case Of many apparently
eXtravaeant American women.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

The congressional policy of do
something, no matter what" in regard
to the currency might be all right, if
the bankers and the country general
ly were willing to accept anything, no
matter what, but they are not.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

Bottled grapejuice made into a jelly
with gelatin and served very cold is
the invention OF girl who has elder
~ invelds TO consider, and II has met
with the warm approval of the family
physician. The Jelly is refreshing and
Is said to contain modlcum OF nutri-
ton.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

The weather man says there will be
showers to-day, Why he should Sc
lect such a general holiday for a
downpour Is uncertain. If only he
can wait until after Old Eli has
trounced the tiger at the ball field,
there may be some tolerating It,
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

tBoston Trnnscrtpt)
This roller skate craze" which has
struck the children Of Hartford. If it
means that the streets and sidewalks
are SO smooth that the young people
can glide to school over them. Is i
great advertisement for the city.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

Mrs. Annie McElroy Brett. Western
Texas woman promoter. Is the tele-
phone queen OF the Southwest, She is
Telephone and Telegraph company, and
president and general manager Of the
Brett Construction, Telephone and Tel
egraph company. These companies rep
resentlng more than 100000. were or
ganizcd by her
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

Irrigation is now making things grow
on about $4,000 acres in northern Peru
and on about $4,000 acres In Southern
Peru.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

sir" announced the private secre-
tary, opportunity knocks at your
door"
Throw something at her" ordered
the great magnate Everybody knows
I'm trying to die poor"
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

20 Lord" prayed the Yale chaplain
at the morning exercise, we are poor.
dress Thee, confirmed as we are In evil
and unrighteous Ways
Say. Billie" whispered one fresh
man to another between his fingers,
what does the Revvy think we are,
anyhow bunch Of Harvard menu
Life.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

what was the saddest blow Of your
political career?'
why" answered Congressman Way
back, Il once gave my autograph TO
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

Here are some good jokes. It may
amuse you TO read them
No responded the press humorist
1T will only irritate me to think tha'
| don't think of EN- myself"
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
IN THE FUNNY VEIN.

THAT comes of counting an athlete
girl"
Whats gone wrong"
Yesterday she met me by the garden
wall and threw me over,
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

They're teaching Johnny at school, !
said Mrs, Crouch, ito sew and cook z
Well. he'll find these accomplish
ments very useful declared Mr.
Crouch, when he grows up and mar.
ries"
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

And what" asked the Sunday school
teacher. rs your Manner
Arthur Henry Brown William Green
Joyce Brown Corwin."
Gracious! How did your parents
ever happen to give you all those
names?'
"They didn't give. all of them. My
step parents helped"
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

why are you complaining so much
about the wet weather? Have you a
garden?"
NO, but I have chickens, and they
are starving owing to the inability Of
my neighbors to get any planting
done"
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

The romantic story Of the picture
purchased at a London auction, which
an expert examination proved to be
painted over a Rembrandt worth s40,-
600, is curlousiy reminiscent of the dis
oovery of Correggio under similar cir
cumstances. good many years ago
two picture restorers, Lovera and Hun
terspergh, bought at an art sale in
Rome a number of old pictures In order
to provide themselves with canvases for
repa inting In the division OF the spoils
Hunterspergh received an Indifferent
picture Of flowers, on which he painted
a study OF head. This picture he Of
tered to Lovera, who on close examina-
ton found that the new ground scaled
off, and that underneath were traces OF
a figure painted In a style that denot-
ed the hand of a master Replacing the
scale, and concealing his discovery. he
purchased the picture for little more
than the value Of the canvas. Remov-
ing the two grounds he disclosed an
exceedingly clever painting by Core
go, which he sold to the Earl of Brls-
toll for $500.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Inf nernnni
How About New Haven.

(Boston Transcrlpt.)
X, stands for Taft Regnant.
The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30

egraph company. These companies rep
resentng more than 100000. were or
ganizcd by her
OF the Cuban estates actually pro-
ducing sugar made In mills OF their
own, "a belong to Cubans, as to Euro
pcans and SO to Americans. The
American mills are OF the most modern
and efficient construction writes Con-
sui General Rodgers, while many of
the mills credited 10 Cubans are OF OBJ
soieto type and barely able to produce
sugar at even nigh cost, The Euro
pean mills generally occupy the middle
ground as far as value Is concerned
----
The record of the fact that NUTS
were once worn by more men than
women in Paris suggests the old In
genious definition Of a nun as soft
thing that holds lady's hand without
seeing IT," "MuT" appears to have
come to us from German, in which Ian
guage. curiously, "muff" means not only
a hand comforter. but also a sulky per-
son or growing dog. These seem.
however, to be two different words. Was
our own metaphorlcal ''muff" an allu-
sion TO the effeminacy OF muff wearers
or simply an In intlmation that the per-
son was distinctly "soft?'
The socialist party has gained an i'm
portant recruit in the person of Alfred
Dreyfus. says a writer In the Interpar-
llamentary Review Of Rome. In the
first place. however, Dreyfus wanted
the fact made clear that his visit to
Rome and his interview with Born
sterne Bjornson had nothing TO do with
efforts on his part toward further vim
dlcation Il am perfectly happy at the
outcome and feel that ] have received
all that justly could be done for me.
said he. In answer to the request for
hts views on race hatred. of which he
was conspicuous victim, Dreyfus said:
II am convinced that the human family
Is progressing toward a better future
and that the time VIII come when there
win be no more race hatred" He spoke
Of his studies In socialism and said;
"One who has suffered as much as |,
and who has received as many evil
dences of human kindness, must see a
future with social solidarity trium-
| plant"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-28
DON'T KICK THE KICKER.
This is defense of the "kicker."

This is defense of the ''kicker''
The who kicks is the true descendant Of who
laid the foundations of our free republic They kicked
against monarcha institutions, and they made their kick
good The Puritans kicked. They objected to having
their religion handed out to them by the yard at much
per yard. They wanted to manage their religious bust
themselves. And they made their kick good George
Washington kicker He objected to taxation with
out representation and with the ragged soldiers of the
Continental army he made his kick good. Long before
that the English people kicked being shut up in jas
without hearing and they kicked until King John
obliged to yield the Magma Chara. The writ of habeas
corpus and trial by jury the results of kicksvigor
ous well planted kicks at the vested interests of those
days And these things glad to have. In
France Rousseau kicked against the theory that govern
ment could properly be conducted by classes and by
of special favors; Danon kicked against the injustice Of
the regime of which the Bastie and Louis VII typ-
cal The popuace of France kicked against the centuries
of oppression which had ground them under foot and they
emphasized their kick with the mob and the gullotine
AS nation France kicked against the concert of nations
which combined to stamp out the theory of peoples gov
eminent, and under the genius of Napoleon the nation
Qade good its kick against the greatest armies and
arcs of all the then known civilized world And the in
stituton of popular government and individual liberty
perpetuated
of the and live wood under the dead bark which scales
off and becomes empty shell of what The principle
of life is the principle of protest 1t is the activity Of
bition and of effort.
Don't be down the kicker merely because he kicks.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-04-28
CHAPTER VIII
(COntinued)

Directly I had installed mother
into a. snug place IN the music
room and set Fanshawe to un
pack, l made inquiries for the dog
Dog, miss?" said a passing
steward. 'Is he passenger
Then the butcher will have him
safe. If not, guess he is made into
sausages by this time; for the chief
officers bound to have him
hanged
II have paid for the dogs ticket
and perhaps you will be good
enough to direct me to the butch
err l said sharply. 81 wish to see
that the dog is made comfortable. u
He'll be that, miss, sure
enough, if he's peaceably disposed
Otherways, Sam McKillop has a
heavy hand with the ropes end.
Full of misgivings for Roy,
whose cross-grained nature seemed
likely to get him into trouble,
went in all haste to the far stern,
picking my way among all sorts of
dirt, till someone produced Sam
McKillop," a big, burly man, with
rough black beard and great bare,
hairy arms.
That's me. Who wants Sam
McKillop? Will it be you, menu"
ITS about my dog, Mr.. McKil-
lop, said sweetly. "a golden
collie; answer to the name of
Roy"
Il mind him. But did We say
you, mem? | was thinking anither
person owned him-him as brOcht
him to me.
Hes yonder, in the hutch
under the blkhead; snug in his
straw, and making the best OF
a lesson to mair contrary Chris
tians."
l followed the indication, and
there was Roy lying at ease in his
rude kennel; his beautiful head
rested on his fore paws, and he
looked perfectly contented and
happy. At my approach he barely
lifted his large, sleepy eyes, but
there was something like a wink of
recognition in them, accompanied
by a rustic in the straw from the
wagging of his ponderous tail.
This complete change in his de-
meanOr was pleasant surprise.
did not seek to explain it to my
self, but speaking a few words of
encouragement, | left him. More
pressing matters called me aft. The
steamer was already beyond the
shelter of the land and the sea had
risen under fast freshening sum.
mer gale.
l was not sorry to get back to
my berth, and soon had no further
concern with mundane affairs, or
the passage of time. My only