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The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02
FOR THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE.

The New Thought, Christian Sci ence, and Christian Psychology are making most encouraging progress We say encouraging, for by whatever name it is called the animating idea of all three is much the same, and is and always has heen good. One of the most interesting announcements recently made is that Bishop Samuel Fallows, of the Reformed Episcopal church, will institute at his own church. St. Pauls,, Chicago, the cure of bodies as we'll as souls. In this he | is following the example of Ernman- uel Protestant Episcopal church. Boston, which has already prosecuted similar work with some success What is aimed at in such work is clearly and strongly set forth by the Rev. Dr Samuel McComb, of Emmanuel church, Boston The aim is simply to bring peace to the conscience, to kin de hope, to create faith and to dispel all that is evil. injurious, sad inhar- monious in the patients life and mind. The sick in mind and body can do much for themselves. but of ten they must be helped to gain self control, to draw from their own well, and they must be taught how to manipulate their mental and mora resources with a view to perfect health. Often man can carry hi' self-treatment up to a certain point but beyond that he cannot go Hi will power fails, he loses his grip anC becomes discouraged Then wis, and sympathetic physician of minc or body must intervene to do for tn, patient what he cannot do for him self, and to prevent the latter's ef forts from being lost All this labo is done mainly by personal dealinI with the patient. He is encouraged t
 trust the constitution of his own be ing, to utilize its mysterious force for his well-being. Then ideals of in her calm, of spiritual boise, of free dom from black care and harassin worries arc consistently kept befor l. the mind until its subconscious actiy , fly has been stirred and the wished
 for trend of thought secured. | many, perhaps the majority, of case , under care, the real root of tn
 mischief is moral fault
 When it is added that at Emmanu, church the suggestion cure is chief
 applied to functional nervous disol
 ders dyspepsia, neurasthenia, dru
 and liquor habits, hysteria and lib
 ills, and that no one receives trea
 ment unless competent physicia
 so advises, the sensible and usef,
 character of the work appears
 looks as if better times were ahea
 fof many people who have not know how to keep we'll or get well
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02
ANOTHER ATTEMPT.

When people are fully protected by law against their own carelessness and mental lapses, there may not be as many accidents" as there are now. An interesting attempt to protect them is seen in the bill which has been prepared by Coroner Hamburger of New York city for introduction in- to the New York legislature. It pro- vides that stopcocls on gas fixtures shall be not less than foot apart when there are two on a pipe Al present the ordinary fixture is so con-
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02
Bill

When ha gets his Sunday shave, Hair all slIe1ed an parted down On his forrid in a wave. Bills the sweetest thing in towE. Takf him with the week day crop, Face all grimy, hair mop, He looks mighty tough, and still
 It's Bill. See him in his Sunday rags Cuffs an collar shiny white, I'm not makin' any braSs He's a darlia though, all right. Take him In his week day drds, Overalls that need the suds. Flannel shirt; he's fierce-but still
 Its S.!i Sundays Bill looks mighty fine, Weekdays. though. he's not SO gay That's all right, too, Him for mine, He's my feller every day. Git below the dirt an grime There's man there, every tirae. May not look so sweet, but still
 It's Bill
 Chicago News.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02
Our English Tongue.
fThe Boston Transcript.

lThe Boston Transcript)
 Tn his talk before the Brown Club of New Bedford last night, President Faunce said there was mo course in the world SO practical for boy who is to enter college as the fundamental drill in at least one ancient language, in one modern language in mathe- matics, and-most important of all--in the use of our English tongue" We are glad he put the emphasis where it be- longed The man who Is master of English possesses an unrivalled accom- plishment, and the ancient languages are principally valuable as keys and props to 1t, though some who have handled it most effectively have known small Latin and less Greek
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02
ElEhtlng Itself.
(The .Phlladelphia Record. )

(The Philadelphia RecordD
 Trade is not booming as it did before the panic. This can be seen with half an eye. It would be folly to deny it.. On the other hand, it would be quite as foolish to insist that the setback has stopped the wheels. There is no longer a roaring, needless. onward rush; but there is steady volume If wholesale and retail transactions that will compare favorably with the busi- ness of soberer years when the tide of prosperity was no' ir so large part made up of speculative foam. There The business of the country is righting itself as fast as could ne eXpected and facing the new situation with courage and confidence.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02
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 I24 Years Young

TN spite of the fact that this little \ business of ours is nearing the
 first quarter on its second cen tury we feel that we are still in the running with the four-year-olds. Times and methods have changed since Titus Street opened his little hardware shop on this spot in I7S4 and though we have never lost sight of the old business methods which were good we have adopted such new ones as are also good.
 We trust that this policy will still commend itself to our friends -the New Haven public-and to them we extend our best wishes for 4 Happy New Year 5JAsJ'AafbBasscttb&' 7sAGAAPEL ST. 32o STATE ST.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02

age containing needles and thread, pins; buttons and thingsl. two towels, oiack shoe polish, fusset shoe polish, cake of soap.
 Germany is fast becoming nation of sportsnen. According to statistics just isued the properly registered sporting ciubs or various denominations within the empire have an aggregate mem bership this year of 410,dou-
 The working class mother continual " kept from church by the necessity Of preparing the Sunday dinner. seems likely to have the problem solved in one town of Lancashire. England. by the serving of a simple, ready cooked meal from a central kitchen.
 It is said that practically all the weeping willows in New Zealand are products Of the supply which John Tinline, who passed away short time ago at a ripe age, carried away with him from Napoleon's grave nearly six ty years ago. MT. Tinline, who was one of the early pioneers of New Zea- land, kept them alive on the voyage by sticking them into pctatoesf
 So great is the fear of the new wom- an in China that native writer of wide influence was publicly logged the other day for intoxicating Western ideas of independence among women In Canton the police are enforcing an order prohibiting women from being served in tea houses and restaurants even when attended by men. The offiei- als declare themselves 10 check the movement and prevent any and every show of female independence
 The naval experts are giving special attention to inc matter of defence against torpedo attack, With the in. creased range of tofpedoes and the greater violence of the explosion O which they are capable. it Is realized that there must be unusual precaution against effective attack by that forn of projectile. One suggestion whlcl finds much favor ir the Navy depart ment is that the ships shall carry al additional hull a new outer skin through which the iorpedoes mus penetrate and so be delayed in transi before reaching the yitals of the shiI lThis means an increase in the beam . vessels Of war. which dimension ha grown about twenty feet in less tha that many years.
 The stork visited the home of
 journeyman carpenter in Vienna a fe-
 weeks ago for the sixteenth tim,
 bringing 10 the family the tenth bo.
 A fellow workman who was detained d
 home and could not bring his congratu
 lations wrote to his friend Dear Pep
 Once upon q time, when we thoug!
 that only the first born would bring th
 parents joy. a sixteenth would hay
 been misfortune But now 1t is di
 terent The English woman has di!
 covered that genius ccmes with u
 later children. Tell your wife tn;
 Balzac was he third. George Eliot u
 fourth, Napoleon the eighth, Benjam
 Franklin the seventeenth. and tn
 Rembrandt, Rubens. Reynolds. Wagne
 Schumann, Schubert and a whole lot
 other great ones were the youngest
 one of the youngest in large families know all this because when last wee , our twelfth came some one sent ov,
 the list Our first boys are carpente -the babies may be Napoleons
 Wagners
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02
OUR CONTEMPORARIES
Mrs. steven. Exagseratcs.
Gife

President Stevens of the w c. T T. says that undoubtedly more false state ments are made in the endeavor to show that prohibition in Maine Is a failure than are made in connection with any other subject in any locality on the face of tho globe. Tut tut, We guess Mrs, Stevens has not heard all the statements made in the locality a, the southern extremity of Maphattar Island to show that President Roose. welt was the exclusive author of the recent panic.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

Here is what recruits will start army life with, according tc an order by Gen. Bell: Razor. shaving brush, hair brush. comb, shoe brush. whisk broom
 toothbrush, housewife Ca neat pack
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02

A sheet of flame S25.0 miles long recently shot out from the sun. It will be Summer here by and by.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02

Fresh air is a good thing for the grip. but it doesn't taste bad enough to suit some.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02

The wages of sin will not he cut down this year
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02

It is the second day of January. Don't forget those good resolutions.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02

age containing needles and thread, pins. buttons and thingsl. two towels, black shoe polish, russet shoe polish, cake Of soap.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02

Germany is fast becoming nation Of sportsnlen. According to statistics just isued the properly registered sporting clubs of various denominations within the empire have an aggregate mem bership this year of 47O,d0U
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-02

The working class mother continual ly kept from church by the necessity Of preparing the Sunday dinner. seems likely to have the problem solved in one town of Lancashire. England. by the serving of a simple, ready cooked meal from a central kitchen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
OBITUARY NOTES.

THE REV. LAWRENCE c. NJ. CARROLL, pas
tor Of st. Patricks Roman Catholic Church. at
Bramhall and Ocean avenues Jersey City died at
Il yesterday in St. Vincents Hospital. Man
haitian. from rheumatism. He was born In Newark,
May 8. 1854, and educated in the parochial
schools of St Johns and st. Patrick's parishes,
Newark at St. Charles's College, Maryland, and at
Seton Hall College, South Orange. from which ne
was graduated 1875. He ordained to the priest
hood in ST. Patrick's Cathedral. Newark. June l.
1879. and served curate at st. Johns orange
and at St Mary's in Jersey City. In August 1872
on his return from Rome. he was assigned to the
pastorate of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
South Orange. He succeeded the late Father Hen
messy as pastor of St. Patrick's Church in 1896
LAMBERT SPEER, seventy-nine years old, who
was interested in the building of the Caldwell Rail-
way which is now the Erie died suddenly yester-
dav at his home in Bloomfield avenue, Caldwell
\ J. He was in the real estate business and was
an important factor in the growth OF the town OF
Caldwell He conducted hotel in Pine Brook Tor
twenty years His wife and five children survive
him.
FERDINAND A. HOYT is dead at his home IN
Fishkill Landing. \. V, at the age of seventy
three years. He prominent Mason and
Democrat For twenty years he represented the
Northwestern Life Insurance Company OF MIL
waukee as agent in the Hudson Valley He Will
be buried at Brewster tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
JEROME DELvEs INTO UNION ABUSES
Scents Evidence of Alleged Extortion in
Building Trades Circles.

The indictment Of Charles Murphy. Of the firm Of
Keefe & Murphy. plumbers. for attempted extor-
don mas led District Attorney jerome TO begin an
Investigation into building trades conditions in this
city 70 learn whether II is possible for the wide
snread extortion that has been at times rumored
"a exist Mr. Jerome said. however. that the in
vestigatior had nothing to DO with the immediate
ends Of the Murphy case
Nj Jerome has been interviewing members Of
the Journeynen Plumbers Union and the Master
Plumbers Association. Yesterday morning he
talked with eight representatives Of the latter
ganization Mr.. Jerome says he found that there
is a very considerable amount Of fraud in the
building trades and that he has learned Of nuuer-
Gus instances where buildings are erected on
loans made through a dummy posing as the
builder and then by collision the loans fore
closed the whole thing being merely an attempt TO
defraud plumbers. masons and others. They are
thus in a measure legally defrauded Of money
rightly belonging to them. Mr. Jerome says
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
THINKS IT'S HIS WIFE.
Staten Island Pole Claims Body OF
Mattress Murder Victim.

shortly after midnight this morning Frank Las
casky a Pole living in McKeown street, Stapieton'
Staten Island, walked into the Stapeton police sta
ton and told Captain Linden that the woman
whose body was found in the bonfire in Williams
burg several days ago his wife. LascaskS
said that he had not seen the body. but the oe
scriptions he had read in the newspapers LED MN
to believe that it was that of his wife.
Captain Linden called up the Greenpoint avenue
station. Williamsburg. and got description OF the
woman Lascasky says that the clothing CORE
sponds with that worn by his wife when ne iast
saw her and also says that his wife lacked one oi
her upper teeth. did the dead woman
About seven months ago. Lascasky says MS
wife came from Russia. and three months later
eloped with a Pole known only as John. since
then Iascasky has not heard from her Ten Gays
ago the other man, John. returned 10 oiapie.oN'
and when Lascasky wanted to know what ne had
done with his wife he said that ne hao lel' iie "
Perth Amboy
C,aptaip Linden sent Lieutenant Cahlane and De-
tective O'Banon out TO arrest john after Whlch
they will go to Williamsburg with LascasAy 10
identify the body.
John - the Pole named by Iaskasky. was ar
rested shortly after midnight. He SAID MS name
was Krokowski He admitted eloplng with inc
woman. but said he had left her in Perth Amooy.
Following advices from Detroit that the de-
scription of the woman founo muroeIeu anu
burned in a mattress in lot in Greenpolnt an
suered the description of Annie HeriVal, OF that
c;tv urho left her brother-n-law's home there
on July q to come to New York to take steamer
for southampton the police of this city are at
work investigating
According to her relatives the woman first ar
rived in this country on July and went to
Detroit On her way to this country she
formed the acquaintance of C F. Swensen hre-
man Of No ia Chambers street. this city, who
paid her some attention The girl left Detroit 10
go back TO England. but did not sail on the Gay
intended and nothing has been heard from her
Swenson went to Police Headquarters yester-
dav and said that met the girl when he was re-
turning to this country after trip 10 his home,
and that he corresponded with her. but did not see
her after leaving her on the pier on landing in
New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
NEWARK SHOOTING MYSTERY GROWS.
Woman Who Says She Killed Man to Save
Home Held-Husband Rearrested

Carrnine Amore the Newark grocer arrested on
suspicion for the murder of Michael Martella, who
was shot to death at No Is Drift street, that city,
on Wednesday night and released when his wife,
Josephine told the police she killed Martella, was
rearrested last night. and will arragned to-day.
Mrs. Amore committed without bail under a
similar charge yesterday after telling remarkable
story OF what led to the murder of Martea. The
police satisfied with Amore's story and
inclined the belief they said, that he knew
more about the killing than was indicated in the
nothing Of the shooting, but admitted finding the
revolver.
Some letters couched in endearing terms from
Mrs. Amorc found the dead caused the
turn in the Mrs. -AmOre in her alleged
confession said she slew Martela because he re-
peatedly tried TO have her forsake her husband
and home for him.
across the hall from the Amore apartments. In
Mrs. AnOre's home the police found letters written
by her which indicate that she feared for her own
safety. and in them she explained writing them to
set her right before her husband and the public in
the event Martella carrying out alleged threat
to kill II she did yield TO his demands.
The new evidence, the police say, shows afec-
tionate relations between Mrs Amore and the man
she claims TO have slain.
In rearresting Arnore the detectives asserted the
belief the woman's alleged confession was
made with the thought that she would escape pun
ishment and at the same time her husband
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
THREE NEAR DROWNING
Rescuers Dragged Do7on by S5olm
mers I'm GraUesend Bay.

Two persons narrowly escaped drowning yester-
day afternoon while trying to Charles Reiners.
of Huntington Penn. who came to Bath Beach TO
spend his ton
With his cousin, Albert NJ ReIners. who Is en-
poyed in the Tax Department in Brooklyn. ana
lives at No 107 Vernon avenue. Brooklyn, the
two went in bathing off Captains Pier. at Bay 2lst
street Bath Beach They started to swim from
Norton's Point and when about two hundred yards
from Bay 21st street Charles Reiners was seized
with cramps
Albert only short distance away at the
time and grabbed his cousin Both went down.
and were going down for the second time when
Patroman George Cabger, of the Bath Beach sta
ton who was swimming by. got to the two
men.
AS he reached them both the Reners made
unge for him. and succeeded in getting Cabger
about the neck There were many persons IN
swimming at the time. and their cries attracted
Bernard TuthilI a lifeguard. and Frank Steven
son, of No 1864 Bay oath street AS they reached
the spot Cabger had managed to free himself and
between them they brought the two Reners, who
were unconscious. TO safety
An ambulance from the Coney Island Hospital
was summoned. and 1t was fully half an hour De-
fore Charles Reiner brought around
About the same time Patrolman John Kren1me-
lien of the Fort Hamilton station heard cries and
discovered May Hart. of No 165 Cooper street
BROOKLYN struggling hard to keep afoat Without
removing any of his clothing, he Jumped In and
brought her to safety.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
ARREST ALLEGED SLAYER
Dismembered Body Found in CHI
caro- RiUer Identified as Greek Boy.

Chicago Aug 6-Foowing the Identification OF
the fragments of boys body found in Mud Lake
and adjacent ponds and waterways as that Of Tuffa
Shisshen. a Syrian, the police arrested Joseph
Hasson tonight on suspicion of being the muir
derer of the boy. In Hasson's room the police
found a bloodstaned garment, several bloodstafned
saws and an axe The body gave every indication
of having been dismembered with such fnstru-
ments
Boys swimming in Pellets Pond to-day, nan d
mile from the waters where the other dismenn-
bered parts of the body found, discovered
the head making 1t possible to restore the "hoie
body.
the description tailed with that of Tufa Shisheln
whose disappearance from his home, NO Jonn
street last Sunday night, had been reported py
the lads father Samuel Shishein. First the snlrt
which the boy had worn and then the body Itself
were identified by members of the Shishein family
the mother fainting.
After an interview with the boys father search
was begun for one Stephen Combracitz, former
roomer at the Shshen home. Shishein said tnae
his lodger left the house Saturday, the day preceo
ing Trlfas disappearance, ostensibly to go TO
Racine. Wis.
While the Identification of the slain boy leaves
little chance that he one of the government
witnesses in recent padrone or Greek white slave
cases as at first suspected the federal authorities
have not ceased their investigation TO learn IL any
of the witnesses missing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
EXPLOSION KILLS TWO
Third Man Severely Injured at
albany Gas Plant.

alhanv Aug e-Two men are dead and one Is
severely injured as result of series of explosions
this morning in the plant of the Auto Gas COM
rsny in the north end Of Albany The dead are
John Malone Of Albany. and William Fort a IA
borer Of watervliet John B. Harrison. OF NIL
waukee manager OF the plant is the one VINO is
badly hurt James J. Kelly, a fireman OF steamer
2 was cut on the neck; he will recover
The plant Of the Auto Gas Company was coiI'-
rle,elv wrecked About twenty buildings in the
immediate neighborhood were damaged oy t'e
force Of the explosion The estimated damage
the buildings is about s35.elo The nearest DIVER
house TO the plant badly wrecked Inc rear
of this building caught fire and was Destroyer Inc
occupants narrowly escaped being killed
Fort. WHO was working the lawn next TO the
n,a,t was hurled against the side wall OF the
building Malone who had been working In the
rIace only week was found with his head blown
nearly off Harrison blown about a hundred
feet He was removed to St Peters Hospital
where II was said that he might recover HIS right
leg was blown off. his body was badly burned and
his ear drum was shattered.
The Auto Gas Company, il is understood IS con-
trolled by the Avery Portable Lighting Company,
OF Milwaukee manufacturers of auto gas the
cause Of the explosion is unknown
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
tom" SHARKEY DUPED.
Paid $50 for an Advertisement to Glib
Stranger, Who Was Later Arrested.

Joseph Casey. twenty-eight years old of No. 413
Henry street. locked up in Police Headquar-
tiers last night as a suspicious nerson- Some time
ago a glib stranger went to "Gom" Sharkey's
saloon in East 18th street. and said he was the
representative of Under Sheriff John Gilchrist who
he said was going to give monster picnic He
told Sharkey that would good thing for him
10 advertise in the programme. Sharkey thought
So too and gave the stranger $50.
A few days ago Sharkey got suspicious ana
started an Investigation Gichrist assured him that
he was not going to give any picnic Sharkey's
manager called at Police Headquarters on Wednes-
dav and picked out a picture of a man who ne
said. had got the money. The picture was casey
and Is No 1851 in the gallery.
When Casey was taken to headquarters anu
searched a lot of stationery in which he was de-
scrihed as the business manager of the picnic 10
be given by the Associated Bartenders OF Ne"
York was found. and also authority to solicit ad-
,.ertisernents for the AFFAIR.