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The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

Mrs. May J. Ford of li4 Valley street, celebrated her S0th birthday, Monday. and was made very happy by havins her niece and friends from New York there to spend the day with her. Her sister, Mrs. George Chatfeld was also among the guests
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17
HE RLEM DIT THE GAS

shelton, Jan. l6.-An elderly man whose sister Is Mrs. Billie E. Williams of Huntington Center, blew out the gas in a room he had engaged for the night at a local hotel and his body was found to-da-
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17
NEW LIGHTS INSTALLED

, Town Clerk Whitaker has taken out the gas fixtures in his office and in- stalled electric lights He will add 2 new desk to the furniture when he gets the new clerk the board of finance has allowed ainL
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17
Furniture
 '.N Chances.

Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, etc. Everything for house. keeping at a discount of 20 to 30 per cent. .-one fifth to one half off the price.
 Solid Mahogany China Closet S45.00, less 40 per cent. dis count; net price $27.00, Ex- tension Table to match reduced from $35.O0 to $21.00.
 Serving Table S22.50; net price $13.50.
 Weathered Oak Sets.
 Extension Table $12.o0, Buffet $20.o0, China Closet $500; a discount of 40 per cent. leaves table $7.20, buffet $12.00, china closet S10.80, or $30.O0 for a $50.00 set.
 Dining Chairs to match, $2; 40 per cent. discount, S1.20 net.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17
NR. C0DDINGT0N TO LEAVE
Change in Superintcndcncy at Hospital
 in Near Future.

James R. Coddington, superinten- lent of the New Haven hospital, has inder consideration an offer from an- ,ther institution and will before log
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17
TYPOS REGULAR MEETING

The regular meeting of New Haven graphical union. No 47 will be Eelu in Trades Council hall, room 24, Insurance building, Sunday afternoon, January 19. 1908,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

Mrs William Lanahan. Mrs N. J. Carroll, Miss M Claire Brown of Bal tlmore, are stopping at the New Haven house.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

Mrs. M. C. Martin of Waterbury. has returned 10 her home after three weeks visit with her mother Mrs. Boye of Kimberly avenue
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

Mrs Thomas Wilson of Bridgeport, has returned home from very pleas ant few days visit with friends in this city.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
StarIn's N.Y.&N.H.LIns

DAILY ENCEkr SATURDAY. PASSENGER AND EfSk1AGHr SilHvICA Leaves New Haven s.vV D. m., Star.u Pier, foot of Brown Street. Leave New York 500 ?. m.. Cortland Street Pier No. lS, x. k. Fsr: SC. excursi.S tickets Si.26. Rooms e1 rake ChaL A btresa cars to Brewery street.
 c. H. FISHER. AecaA New Haven. Conn
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

Frank Rice, assistant superintendent of mails for this district. with an of flee in Boston. was in this city, We'd nesday.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

Miss Rose Skifflngton is spending . few days with Washington D. C., friends in New York city
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

William Fuller of University place spent yesterday in Providence, R. I.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

Miss Rhea Ginsberg of Pearl street, has returned from a two weeks visit with the Misses Pintus of Hartford
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

turned from q visit with relatives in New York city.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

Miss Grace Kendall of this city, is the guest of Mir. and Mrs Fred Davis of Bridgeport.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

Mir Albert Goodman of 226 Crowr street, has removed to Hartford.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17
PERSONAL NOTES.

George Rurnes of Bridgeport, is spending few days with his parents n this city.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17

MT and Mrs. J. R. Lyons of Water bury. are visiting friends in this city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
GREATEST PORT IN THE WORLD.
New York Has Four Hundred and
Four Miles of Docks

New York Has Four Hundred and
Four Miles of Docks.
The New Broadway Magazine gives
some very interesting data regarding
the shipments to and from New York
the greatest port in the world More
than twice as many vessels clear the
port Of London, to be sure, says the
New Broadway-One every fourteen
minutes as against one every half-hOur
for New YOrk-but the average cargo
value is only $47, 242, whereas that of
New York is $92,3O7 In point of ton
mage, New York exceeds Lendon by
100000. This is due to a difference
in the character of the ports that must
be borne in mind in comparing them
London is England's one commercial
center and, aside from Liverpool its
only great place of export and import
On the other hand, New York is not
the commercial center of America
When the manufacturer of shoes in
Boston sends his goods to Baltimore, be
either sends them by rail or by vessel
direct, without entering New York. If
he wants to send his goods to France
or Germany, he sends them from the
port of Boston.
That is, the chief ports OF the At
lantic sea coast, New Orleans, Charles
ton, Mobile, Norfolk, Philadelphia and
Boston, engage a coastwise and foreign
trade in entire independence of New
York. Less than Is per cent of New
YOrk's tonnage is represented in coast
wise trade, whereas fully 80 per cent
words, of LondOn'S commerce, amount
ing to $1,370,OO0,0OO annually, only
$685., 100000 represents foreign trade,
whereas of New YOrk's 81 100000, OOO
annual commerce $S64OOO,OOO repre-
sents foreign trade, or an actual excess
over London of $179,O00,OOO.
To accommodate this enormous trade
New York has 404 miles of improved
water frontage; that is, 404 miles of
docks. This is half the distance be-
tween New York and Chicago. Lon
don has less than 200 miles of similar
water frontage. Liverpool has less
than 100 miles, while Hamburg, Ant
werp, Rotterdam or Havre has each
less than Liverpool. Practically all the
available water frontage of these for
eign ports has been absorbed by their
docks, while New York has improved
only a little over one-half of it's avail
able shore. When all the available
coast line is improved, as it must be
rapidly, it will measure nearly as many
miles as lie between the Atlantic sea.
board and the Mississippi river.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
rho Always ObIiging ONCE Boy

There was an incident which hap
pened last summer which gives some
faint idea of the mystery of a theatre
cal managers suite of Offices. A news
paper man who had an appointment
with the manager, but not time to
waste over the Office boy, hastily en-
tered the reception room.
Are you ready to go out to lunch? p
he called to the manager through the
transom of the private Office.
"Yes," came the answer, I'll be out
In a moment
Then the visitor turned to the office
boy and said in the way of satire
Gould you tell me if your boss is in?''
well, really" said the boy, with
out any sign of emotion, II couldn't say
positively, but my impression is that
he went down to the seaShore about
noontime Charles Belmont Davis. In
Outing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
Joys of a Collector.

Collecting will always have its ro-
mances. l know of one that occurred
at the sale at ChriStie's of the effects
of the late Sir Henry Irving Some
one knew had been to see the collec-
ton before the sale. He came across
a portrait with which he was familiar
because he had seen it thirty years
before On consulting his catalogue he
discovered that the portrait was de
scribed as being that Of a man I'M
known, and, further, the artist was
also unknown. Now, he knew that the
portrait was that of a famous actor by
a famous English painter. He longed
go at too high price. He went to the
auction with very little hope. The
Whistler and the Sargent were sold,
and then it was the turn Of this pic
ture. Nobody recognized it. Finally
he had to start the bidding himself
and this he did. Only one man bid
against him, but he soon stopped, dis
couraged, and then the picture was
knocked down to the man who had
never expected to get it. He hurried
to the desk to pay the small amount
and to carry off his prize. do you
happen to know anything about that
portrait?" the auctioneer asked him as
a porter took it down to a cab. 81
know it very WELL" said the new own
er, conscious that it was now safely
his property. ut is a portrait of Buck
stone, the actor, by Daniel Maclise.
There is an engraving Of it in the Mac
lise portrait gallery"-NIrs John Lane,
in Pearson's Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
TOOK TOO MANY MATCHES
This Druggist Bought an Automatic
Machine, but Soon Smashed 1t.
noooI,

This Druggist Bought an Automatic
Machine, but Soon Smashed 1t.
"Ain't 1t a peach?"
The drugstore clerk stepped back a
few feet and looked at a small metal
contrivance that rested on the glass Of
the cigar case says the Kansas City
Times. It was about the size Of q Gle
gar box and contained a small ferris
wheel" arrangement. When a spring
was touched this wheel slowly turned
and caused a match to drop out.
"You see, we haven't any cigar light
er here" the drug clerk explained,
'and SO we used to have box Of
matches on the counter. But our Gus
toners took too many matches. Every
one took three or four and In these
days a person has to be economical"
"How much did 1t cost2" asked the
lnQuisitive visitor.
"only SIS and it's cheap at twice the
money. Just think of the matches It
will save. Each man who wants light,
will press the spring, get one match
and then"
A customer had entered the store.
whats the racket" he asked as he
bit the end off a cigar and looked at
the new mateh-saving contrivance.
Something new, hey" And he press
ed the spring and a match dropped out,
"That's great business, amt it?"
asked the customer and once more
pressed the spring. And he kept press
ing it just ito see the wheels go round"
When he left the store he had pocket
full Of matches, obtained just through
curiosity. Before that machine was
put there, the customer would have felt
mean, probably If he had taken more
than four matches, but as it was he
was very well satisfied.
Another customer entered, saw the
new contrivance, pushed and repushed
the spring and left with handful Of
matches. More men followed and the
machine became empty. The clerk fill
ed it up again. After it had been emp
tied twice again by persons who just
wanted ito see it work." the clerk
grabbed pencil and paper.
Lets see," he grunted aEgrily.
''That machine cost me So and 1t has
used up three boxes Of matches In six
hours. For So could have bought
million matches, enough to last a year
at the way they used to go. But this
machine would use a million month. 4"
Then the clerk took the machine and
ran to the rear Of the store. A little
later was heard chopping, crashing
sound and then-silence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
NON0o00~

Japan's Emperor has thirty resi-
dences, each a model of comfort.
Gloves were first seen in England
during the reign Of Edward II.
Spanish olives yield from 20 to "a
per cell Of their weight In oil.
A Paris insurance company refuses
risks on men who dye their hair.
France is responsible for the game Of
billiards. Devigne invented it in 1872.
No wine may hereafter be sold in
Spain on Sundays, and the inns must
be closed on week days at midnight.
The imports to this country of trop-
icaI and subtropical products will
amount this year to at least $600,O0O,-
600.
Tourists complain that Japan is get
ting to be the most expensive Of all
countries to travel in. Everybody con-
siders foreigners legitimate prey.
The Missionaries Literature AssocIa-
ton of England, now in its fourteenth
year, has sent over 100000 periodicals
to the foreign field in that time.
The Bible has been translated into
400 languages. Two men spent twenty
years learning the Tahitian language,
and twenty more translating the Bible
into it.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt has given his
check for $4,000 to st. Mary's Protest
ant Episcopal schurch, in Portsmouth,
r. l., near his Oakdale farm. Half is
for the endowment fund and the other
half is to be used for any purpose the
officials deem necessary.
Captain Watt, Of the Lusitania, is
not noted for affableness. He maintains
that the captains place is on the
bridge, not in the saloon, and he be-
Iieves that he best serves his passen-
gers interest by insuring their safety
rather than by looking after their en-
tertainment-
When in the lottery for seats in the
House of Representatives at the open
ing session. J. Adam Bede of Mime
scta, known as the wit of the House,
drew No. %, there was a storm of ap-
plause that indicated that the members
as we'll as the galleries liked the joke.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
RURAL WATER SUPPLY.
Little Attention Paid to This Subject
Outside the Cities.

Little Attention Paid to This Subject
Outside the Cities.
When such great sums of money are
being expended by city governments
that the inhabitants Of towns may
have a sanitary water supply 1t seems
strange that the supply in rural towns
| should receive little or no attention,
says the New York Herald. This latter
population may seem relatively insig
nifcant, but according to the last
census it comprises about 100000
souls. This means that that 10000
600 people are drinking the water most
available without a thought of it's san
itary condition.
These various sources Of supply,
whether wells, springs or small streams
are similarly unreliable for furnishing
drinking water. The statistics of NOR
tally In the country are very indefin-
lite, but even these show that the rural
population Is not as free from illness as
| it should be. And though everywhere
the rural death rate is lower than the
urban death rate, yet the lowering in
the country has not been as great as
in the city. An examination Of typhoid
| statistics shows that the death rate Of
other diseases is generally lower in the
country than in the city, but the prev
alence Of typhoid is almost equal to, If
not greater, in the rural districts than
in the cities.
Several instances have been reported
which show the rural typhoid rate to
be ten times greater than the urban
rate for the same district. To particu-
lariZe, a certain district in central
Pennsylvania proves this fact. 1t is
made up Of rural population with 100
inhabitants to the square mile 1t is a
region Of fine farms, wild mountains
and woods, country residences and pic
mic groves. And In this valley there
has been as much typhoid fever as in
the city Of Philadelphia.
Sad as this condition is, there seems
to be no remedy for it. The sources
of a city water supply are few and the
city government easily controls the con-
ditiOns affecting it. But what can be
done when the sources Of supply are
numbered by the thousands? A mint
OF money and an army Of chemists
would not be sufficient to give the same
care to the country supply that is given
to that of the city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22

To older graduates Of American col
Ieges, and to most adults who have rot
been to college, the solemnity of the IN
dergraduate youngster is naively funny.
One college paper, in such bitter style
as might be appropriate to some mighty
moral or political issue, chastises the
entire undergraduate body for not turn
ing out to cheer the football team at
practice. AL other practice, say at pen
manship or the piano, can be carried on
BIZ the practicers with the requisite
tools. Football, apparently, cannot be
learned except in presence of a mob.
Another college paper gravely protests
against the freshmen's increasing habit
OF walking on the prohibited side Of a
certain street, and declares college Gus
toms to be a sacred tradition, to be rev.
erently observed by each young batch
Of collegianS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22

By some curious trait in human ma
ture history has become associated far
more closely with military achieve
ments and political changes than with
the progress of agriculture, manufac-
lures, transportation and trade. This
Is almost an exact reversal Of the nat
ural order, for history is but the story
Of peoples, times and places; and the
real story, the fundamental history, Of
any time is far more the record Of It's
effort to make a living, and its success
or failure In that effort, than 1t is
the story of the wars and laws to which
the effort has given birth. The United
States Crop Reporter prints some fig
ures concerning the export of certain
articles Of food and clothing. The fig
ures cover a period Of twenty-three
years and deal with wheat, corn, wheat
flour and cotton. In 1884 more than half
the cotton and wheat exported from
the United States, more than three
quarters of the wheat flour and just
about three-Quarters Of the corn, was
SuIppCO l1Ol1l AlldtAllC COdbI pOIlS 1Le1oI
year the same ports shipped only a
third of the cotton and wheat, little
more than half the wheat -four, and
five-eighths of the corn. What these
ports lost. the Gulf and Pacific coast
ports gained. But there has been no
regular progression on one side or
retrogression ON the other The table
of figures, on the other hand, shows
constant fluctuations, due to conditions
and events which are often hard to de
termine, but which are the real heart
and romance of history. The war in
South Africa and the more recent war
between Russia and Japan; the failure
of cotton crop in Egypt; on unusually
good wheat year in Argentina; the
opening Of new territory to cultivation
in British America the extension of
railroads and the establishment of new
steamship lines; the invention of Inn
proved agricultural machinery-all
these causes may have contributed to
effect these changes, the record of
which is always suggestive to the imag-
NATIVE mind.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22

After paying his bill he said to the
landlord: 1--WE had the best dinner
in the country"
The Landlord-Except the mayor.
The Stranger-EXcept nothingl
AS result the tourist was called be-
fore the magistrate and fined f1O for
his breaking of the laws of the place.
When the man had paid his fine be
looked around him and said, slowly:
I'm the biggest fool in the town, ex-
cept the mayor"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
DOGS ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
French Army Urged to Use Them to
Retrieve the Wounded.

Retrieve the Wounded.
Gince dogs have proved to be such
able assistants to the Paris police corps
why shouldn't they be trained to rein
force the hospital and ambulance serv-
Ice of the French army? The advan-
tages Of this innovation have been set
forth at some length by DR.. BichelOnne
and Capt. Toilet in volume which has
just been published, says a Paris dis
patch in the New York Sun. 1t is en-
titled the DOG as an Aid to the SAM
tary Corps"
That dogs should be taught to seek
out the wounded on the battlefield is no
new idea. The experiment was tried
with success at the time Of the BOer
war, and at the battle of Chaho in the
conflict in the far east three dogs sent
out by the German alliance discovered
twenty-three soldiers who had been
given up for lost.
In 1890, by the order Of the German
war minister, two dogs were added to
the sanitary corps Of one Of the crack
regiments Since then clubs for the
training of dogs in war time have been
formed in Dresden, Cologne, COburg,
Aix-la-C hapelle and Neuwied. Similar
societies have been organized in HOl-
land, Sweden and Italy. In fact all Of
the European countries have turned
their attention to the subject at one
time or other, except France.
DR.. Bichelonne and Capt. Toilet urge
the military authorities to repair this
omission. There are many good breeds
Of dogs in France which would take
easily to the military training.
1t is an undisputed fact, these au-
thors say, that after an engagement
there are many wounded and dying
who are overlooked by the nurses and
litter carriers. A case in point Is
quoted. At the battle of Rezonville-
Gravelotte in 1870 two injured soldiers
lay for three days in a ravine. The
ground had been gone over many times
by the ambulance service and yet they
had not been found. In instances like
this the usefulness of dogs as scouts
is unQuestiOned
1t is a wonder that European armies
have not awakened long before this
last decade to the Importance of dogs
as practical helpers in war time, the
authors think. On the battlefield the
role Of these canine assistants would be
very much the same as that of the st.
Bernard dogs-and they have been res
cuing snowbound travellers for several
centuries
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
Old Favorites
IeGeGeeeeeeeeeeEeGEeEEEGa
oh! Dem Golden slippers.

Oh! Dem Golden slippers.
Oh, my golden slippers am laid away,
'Kase l don't 'spect to wear 'em till my
weddin day,
An my lOng-tailed coat dat / loved so
well,
I will wear up in de chariot in de morn;
An my long white robe, dat bought last
June,
Iii gwine to git changed 'kase it fits too
soon,
An de ole gray horse dat used to drive,
will hitch up to de chariot in de morn.
CHORUS.
Oh, dem golden slippers! Oh dem golden
slippers
Golden slippers I'm gwine to wear, be-
kase dey look so neat!
Oh, dem golden slippers Oh, dem golden
slippers
Golden slippers Use gwine to wear, to
walk de golden street!
Oh, my ole banjo hangs on de wall,
'Kase it amt been tuned since way last
fall,
But de darks all say we will hab good
time,
When we ride up in de chariot In the
morn;
Oars ole brudder Ben and sister Luce,
Dey will telegraph de news to Uncle
Bacco Juice.
What great camp meetin' dar will be
dat day,
When we ride up in de chariot in de
morn.-ChOrus.
So, it's good-by, children, viii have to
go
Whar de rain don't fall or de wind don't
blow,
An yer ulster coats, why, yer will not
need,
When yer ride up in de chariot in de
morn;
But yer golden slippers must be nice and
clean
An yer age must be just sweet sixteen,
An yer white kid gloves yer will have to
wear,
When yer ride up in de chariot in de
morn.-ChOrus.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22

King Oscar of Sweden was celebrated
among royalties as a scholar, historian,
poet end patron OF the arts. He was
loved and respected by his people and
is now sincerely mOurned by them. Pos
sibly he was all the better ruler because
he was not designated from the first for
the throne When such an event as his
succession seemed altogether unlikely
he received a discipline that was of
great value to him. His history is in
teresting also because this monarch Of
more than average merit had no long
line of kings behind him. The founder
of his house was a successful geenral
two generations back, a man who was
born in a humble home and who rose
bv his own talents and virtues. Appar-
emily royalty from such a source need
fear no comparison with families that
boast a royal inheritance through the
centuries. King Oscars death occurs in
q time of profound peace, his own cOun-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
Queer Ant Wings.

In the Complies Rendus'' Mr.. Charles
Janet has an interesting note on the
muscular apparatus of the wings of
the queen ant. Although the wings
are only used once in a lifetime of per-
haps ten years, this apparatus is the
biggest organ in the body After fer
tilization the wings are cast aside and
the muscles disappear, being replaced
by little columns of adipose tissue.
The disappearance of the muscles has
been attributed to phagocytOsis-tha
is, the absorbing of the tissues by leu
cocytes. Janet, however, shows that
there is no phagocytosis, but that the
material Of the muscles goes to enrich
the blood.-London Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22

All the colleges report an increase Of
students. Dartmouth, for example, one
Of the most vigorous educational insti-
tutiOns In the East, has had to turn
away nearly a hundred applicants who
have qualified for entrance. Our many
colleges, almost all richly endowed, yet
prove inadequate to the pressing throng
OF youths seeking an education. There
Is no better sign than this OF the vital
Ity Of our country.