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Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31

As result of the investigations of the sur
geons of the United States Marine Hospital
Service, at Washington, the theory that col
or-blindness is hereditary is changing to a
belief that it may also be acquired It is
found to be symptom of some diseases of
the brain and optic nerve, and it is recon-
mended that pilots and engineers, after any
exhausting disease, such as typhoid fever, be
tested as to their perception of color before
again resuming their duties. Injuries about
the head may, it is said, produce partial COL
or blindness, and the same effect is sometimes
produced by the over-use of alcohol and to-
baoco. The Treasury department has not
yet accepted these theories in its examina-
ton of pilots. but Secretary Window says
he viii order examinations repeated when
ever it Is proven necessary or desirable.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31
goilrnal alto Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
CARRINGTON & CO.,
NO. 400 State Street, Courier Building.
JOHN B. oARRISaToN.
EDWARD t. oARRINeToN. JOHN B. oARR1NeToN JR.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31

A large reduction In the force of employees
in the census bureau will, it is said, be effect
ed within q short time. Up to this time the
work has been pressed forward with great
vigor and efficiency, and is advanced to that
stage when reduction of force is practica
ble. 1t is also necessary on account of the
exhaustion of the appropriation at present
available The force retained will consist OF
picked men and women selected on account
of their proved efficiency in the work. Prob.
ably there is in no other bureau of the gov.
ernment an equal force doing an equal
amount of equally excellent work. This il
owing to the fact that the employees have
been chosen with special regard to thei,
training and fitness for the work required
rather than on political grounds.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31

The question arises at Stanleytown, Lou
isiana, whether man named Barnard died
by murder or suicide. He wanted to die,
and chose drowning as the means, but lacked
the courage to jump into the water. He
therefore hired negro for $40 to let him
down into a well, first giving him written
statement of the facts to use for defence
in case of prosecution.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31

Rev. A. D. Mayo, who has been looking
over New Orleans and Louisiana, writes to
the Christian Register that ''within five years
the progressive white men of all parties will
uuite with the colored voters to rescue the
State and city from the clique of imbeeile
political implacables that now controls it, and
establish government under which free Ia
bor, free suffrage and the free school will be
defended against all their foes" This seems
like bold prediction, but stranger things
have happened.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31

day at Chalmette, Louisiana, in the blending
of ex-Confederate organizations With the
Grand Army of the Republic at the decora,
ton of the soldiers graves.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31

Senator Sessions of the New York Legisla-
ture says of Conkling, with more force than
elegance :'sWe've got the hog hook into him,
and are drawing him towards the hot water.
That's what's the matter,
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Those who send US communications for
publication should remember to sign their
names We cannot, in justice to ourselves
and our readers, publish anonymous commu-
nications.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31

sons were killed and sc injured. In 3S of
the 63 accidents, or so per cent. of them, no.
body was hurt. Hence comes the conclu-
sion that while the chance of an accident is
infnitesimal, the chance that when it does
come it will hurt any one at all is less than
an even one. Carelessness at switches caused
10 per cent. of all the accidents. The
weather caused about the same num-
ber There were 16 collisions, of which
13 were rear collisions, to which double track
roads are as liable as single tracks. For the
year ending with April we had l 1854 accidents,
killing 385 and injuring 1873 persons The
deaths were double those in the year end
ing April, 1880; the injuries nearly three
times as great the accidents fifty per cent.
greater.
+ The new English libel law on its passage
through the House of Commons makes. an
important addition to privileged reports by
relieving newspapers from responsibility for
reporting what is said at public meeting.
The Springfield Republican well says of this +:
''There is no sound reason why this should
not be the case everywhere. A man ibeled
~ ONS~~~~~ANSo
against his assailant; but he ought not to be
able to hold newspaper responsible for
printing the news pure and simple, which a
good newspaper does with no more animus
one way or the other than mirror in a shop
window has in rejecting those who pass on
the street." The new English measure also
requires the registry of all newspaper pro-
prietors. law which can be easily evaded,
unless all liens and mortgages on newspapers
are also registered, but which is right in
principle. Criminal prosecutions for libel
are to be forbidden, except with the. consent
of the attorney general
An extensive and novel form of landlord
ism has been established in Iowa. Mr..
Close, representing some English capitalists,
bought 10 900 acres Of land, divided it into
farms of 16O acres each, brought tenants
from England, and now has it all under TIL
Itge. ''Our system Mr.. Close says, is not
to hold virgin land on the chance of a rise in
value, but, by building houses and ploughing
the sod, to improve the property we buy and
make it productive of income, wherein we
conceive lies the distinction between@egiti
mate business and speculation in lallgs. Each
100 acres is let, as a rule to one tenant. who
provides labor and machinery, paying us
rent for wheat lands in kind, on the half
share system, and for Indian corn lands at
about 50 per acre. The tenants own labor,
with one assistant, usually a son, is enough,
except at harvest time, to cultivate 160 acres,
if divided between wheat and Indian corn.
Thus our laborers are directly interested in
the yield, and we think we combine the
economy of large holdings with the efficiency
and productiveness of small. In 1880 and
for 1881 we could have let our farms twice
over. Every forty farms, or thereabouts,
are placed under the superintendent of
steward, who is controlled directly by our
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-31

According to the Raizroad Gdzette, there
were in this country in the month of
April SO railroad accidents, by which % per-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21
A Small Heroine.

Children four years old are not, as a
rule, competent to be left alone with
"the baby" Is there one in thou
sand OF such wee nurses that could
have done as we'll as the little Dakota
girl did? It is story of the Western
floods. told in the Cincinnati CONNER
cidl:
She was little girl only four years
old, and was left alone with baby q
year old while the mother went ont fol-
days work. While the good old
auntie was busy over soapsuds. she
heard some boys shouting
"The Dakota is out Of its banksl'
She started barehaaded toward hel
dwelling, and saw the water whiyline
around it five or six feet deep. The
poor old woman was frantic, and q
member of the life-saving crew took
her in and ferried her to the door.
There was not u sound; the poor little
ones must have drowned. The mothers
cries brought a curly head to the
window.
Here we is, nanny; l fetched sissy
up in the loft. cause there is watel
down there"
Then the baby was lifted up by the
small arms to see nanny. and in a few
minutes both the little folks were enjoy.
ing their first ride in boat.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21
A Street Incident.

One is inclined to give more credit to
the kind -heartedness that runs to the
aid of distressed beast than when the
same quality is exhibited towards hu.
man beings, because it implies not
only the right feeling towards ones
fellow-men, but enough of it to spare.
A city lawyer was one morning walking
up long hill, when he saw an old
broken down horse vainly endcavoring
to drag heavy load of bricks up the
ascent.
The lash OF the driver failed to make
the poor creature do what was impos.
sible. On the footpath were PARTY OF
young men going to their several oc.
cupations of clerks and shopmen-
light hearted fellows.
They no sooner caught sight OF the
horse in its distress than they darted
Off to the rescue, and half dragged and
half carried the cart to the top of the
hill, where the diificnlty was over.
The poor old horse seemed gratefully
to understand what was done for his
help. The gentleman who witnessed
the scene, stranger as he was to the
young men, could not help shaking
hands all round with them in the com
mon brotherhood of Humanity
Visitor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21
A Russian Story.

Our ancestor u! their you'll! pUrcd
over The stOrY cE tie exiles of Siberia,
ana generation after generation breath
lessly followed the devoted daughter
Elizabeth through ihe horrors Of her
terrible journey, which was no less
thrilling because they knew it was mol
! ttue.
( The young woman on whose adyen-
lures the history of Elizabeth was
founded, really walked but small part
of the way, and found poserful friends
at the end Of her Journey. who received
and protected her to the end of hei
! life.
1t has been left to oar own day &c
realize in actual fact this Oil tragedy
of the escape from Siberia. The late
foreign newspapers brie fly allude tc
the return from exile OF NJ. Mok,ievitch
a Russian Socialist; but from othel
sources We gain the details.
This young man is about thirty-three
years CT age, of good birth and educa
ton, the son of Il Slav gentleman, oi
large estate, who is loyal to the Gar
Young Mokrieyitch, however, became
d Socialist at college, and began to
make prosolytes by issuing pamphlet
lie was arrested and sentenced to
fourteen years penal ser,itude in the
mines at Siberia. In July, 1879, he
was sent With other prisoners to Mini
Novgorod by boat. to proceed i'll chains
Mokrievi:ch and another comrade
soon after 20 gang took up its weary
march. hir, / two ordinary convicts to
exchange clothes with them. The con
victs' senteuce WAS for life, hence they
we're the gamers by the bargain; but
as they were not so closely watched as
political prisoners, the Socialists bought
with perpetual exile better chance oi
escape.
At length they did escape. One
died Of hunger in the snow. NJ. Mok.
rievitch WAS pursued by Bouryats sent
after him-a barbaric tribe, with the
keen scent and brutal instincts oil
blood hounds. They followed hin
seven hundred miles through the terri
ble wastes of the Chinese frontier
through the SHOWS of winter.
His journey began in November
1879. and only ended May. 1881, when
he reached Switzerland, after having
travelled four thousand miles on foot
Excepting one. IL is stated this is the
only State prisoner that ever escaped
from Siberia.
When We compare this true story,
on one hand, with that of the Gar, @
prisoner for months in his palace al
Peterhof. fearing assassination at every
hand, We have two black lines which
may serve as frame to the picture oi
| Russia.
1t is worth while for our boys to look
attentively on it. 1t should teach
them the value of the name of an
American citizen Youths Compan.
| ion
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21
The Value OF Scraps.

Few people appreciate the value of
little and apparently insignificant
things. In some foreign countries the
litter of domestic animals is carefully
collected and sold to farmers. Not o
few people make living gathering
fertilizers in this way.
In the shops of jewellers and others
where articles are manufactured of gold
and silver great care is taken to pre-
vent the waste OF the precious metal.
Every particle of filing, scraping or
grinding is preserved for the assayer.
The wheels upon which gold and silver
have been polished, when worn out.
are burned. and the fire develops par
ticles Of the precious metals which
could not be seen by the naked eye.
Even the sWeepings, after great care
has been taken to pick up every bit of
metal that may have fallen on the floor,
ale preserved. and in New York City
sCii lOI Wv OdiISl. IL 10 Chi& uiuteu
that when jewelers. shop floor is to
be renewed the dirt accumulated in the
crevices will more than lay the cost
of the new floor.
1t is said that the receipts from the
sale OF the refuse Of starch mills, which
is used by farmers ss feed for hogs and
other stock, constitute q large part of
the profits. snd that if this refuse could
not he sold some mills would be COM
PEELED to stop or be run at loss.
The paper " trimmings" of large
printing cflice like the Harpers or
Appletons, ale worth thousands OF
dollars q year.
Lumbermen have found uses for
Gearly every part of tree, and scraps
that few years ago accumulated 80
rapidly as to be q source of incOnven-
ience and consequently expense, are
now sold for good price and are in
great demand.- Cincinnati CONNER
cial.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21
Hawkeye Editorial Dots.

The Chinese giant Las to have his
liver pad made in q sail loft.
The tale of the new comet would
last the New York Ledger just about q
year.
"That's tough on the OYSTER" the
jelly fish said, looking at the bivslve's
shell. "And you have a mighty soft
thing of it," replied the oyster.
Emerson says we are wiser than we
know" Don't know about that, but
we have money to bet that some men
aren't half 90 wise as they think.
The sea serpent is advertised to ap-
pear in st. Andrews bay this summer.
He has new set of teeth, double rows
of buttons over his eyes, higher barbes
all along his back and wears bright.
er colors, but it is the same old tail,
scaly as ever.
Physicians say the hahitusl use OF
cider will produce insanity. And collie,
too. D)nt you forget that. You may
escape insanity, but there are other ills
to which humanity is heir. on which
halfa gallon of cider, just a leetle turned,
has the dead wood every time.
Rosetti, in the atlantic Monthly, dis
cusses the question. Are poets happy
or unhappy il ma.riage?" Oh. so far
as that goes, they are happy enough
with their wives; it's the editors that
gall the poets. I'VE" are the fellows
who kill them off and keep down the
breed. Bless your soul Kosetti, FIVE
wives cah't worry and wear out poet
one-half so easily as can one editor,
who understands his business.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21
Hir. Blame at Home.

The L0ndon IFpii las saded TO its
series OF" Celebrities at Home "a sketch
of Mr.. Blaine, from which, Though it
contains notbiag very new. the follow
Biaine's hou 'e is ipcontes,ab!y tue most
popular in Washington. On Wednes-
day afternoon-the day III " .shin ,ton
when, during the session Of Congress,
the wives Of .Calinat M4nis!ers and
those of foreign Ambassadors receive
there is no house 10 the American cap
ital SO crowded. Whatever the wea' h.r.
however thin the attendance in otLe,
drawing-roums, there is always thrcDe
at Mr.. Biaine's. Nor is this due to the
importance of his present position Us
Secretary Of State. 1t was the same
when be ~as In Congress, whether a.
member Oh Speaker Of the House.; it
wes the same when ne was in the Senate
it would he the same if MIR. Blaine were
not in politics. People go there because
they like Mr.. Blaine and all his family,
which consists of his intellectual and
lady-!ike wife: kinswoNan of brilliant
reputation i'll American letters, who
uses the nom de plume of G lil Ell anil
ton.' and six fine and promising chill
dren. In the examination of the
drawing-rooms at Mr.. Blaine's we find,
among other valuable poss essions. one
very interesting picture-a large canvas
by Sir Peter Lsly. representing Charles
II. and his Court. 1t is signed, with
the date 1868. 1t vas painted by Sir
Peter for Lord Baltimore, and was
bought by Mr.. Blaine for q sum of
comparative unimportancs at the sale
OF ths Calvert estate. Riverdale. Nd.
few years ago. There is not an art
gallery in Europe, public or private.
which would not be enriched by this
large historical picture, full of por-
traits, and executed in Lely's most
delicate and yet most animated style.
Near at hand, on q pedestal, stands q
foe life-size bust of Mr.. Blaine, as good
likeness Of the statesman as could
perhaps be obtained in this form of o
man, the charm of whose features lies
principally in their mobility ani EVER
changing play. Portraits Of men OF
letters abound here. Dickens. Thack.
cray. Disraeli. Washington Irving
Hawthorne and many others, gaze down
from the walls. principally in the last
OF the suite of drawing-rooms-the one
in which the Premier sits of morning
before going to the Department Of
State, examining such letters as inper,
atively demand his attention at home.
Routine correspondence is carried on
by secretaries in q vast room at the top
OF the house aud is an enormous and
never-ceasing task"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21
Liberal Advertising Paws.

There are still few people, here aud
there. who are not clear in their own
clinds that newspaper advertising pays.
Probably they have never tried it, save,
perhaps, IN half-hearted way. In
advertising. as in everything else, the
old maxim applies. what is worth
dcing at all is worth doing WE'LL" II
sou want large profits, advertise large
iy. Lst yourself he known and heard
from. Some of the most successful
business men have acquired their for
tunes by intelligent use of the news.
paper columns. Said one of them to q
friend about to start in business, Pay
as much for advertising as you do for
rent and you will succeed" There is
more in this than would occur to some
at first thought.
Take the case of a merchant. His
rent, clerk hire, insurance and other
expenses, are nearly as much upon
sales Of. say, $25 900 per annum as
upon sales of double that amount
The sagacious merchant appreciates
this, and he concludes that it will pay
a big profit to make the extra sales Of
$25 600, and so he calls to his aid that
powerful leverage. the press, and the
people in after years talk OF his "good
luck in amassing wealth. The "luck y
lay in bis liberal advertising and is
represented by his advertising bills.
The business man who desires to sue
ceed will do we'll to study the methods
and heed the counsel of some of the
worlds heaviest advertisers.-IB Burling-
ton Hawkeye.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21
Detroit Currency.

There are places in the Gulf of
Mexico six miles deep. Good spots to
hide a jack-knife.
There are 1000 commercial drum
mers in the United States-the largest
brass band on record.
The Eimi'a Free Press Can lie both
hands behind its back and suggest
fifty-tive subjects of reform.
Chicago hes advanced the price of
restaurant pie twenty-five per cent to
follow the rise in scrap-iron.
The best way to get rid of malaria at
the capital is to move the capital to
some healthy spot like Detroit.
The Boston Post advises: Yes;
always sympathizs with the under dog
in fight. but let your money on the
other.
Joliet prison holds sixteen men who
are related to each other, three being
brothers; Good place for family re-
union.
Maude Granger never caught fish
until last week, and the first one she
hooked she frightened to death with
her shrieks of delight.
There are six different ways of get
ting into hammock, and only one way
to roll out. Seems as if things ought
to be evenel up little.
One reason why the Government
hangs to the registered letter system is
to keep all money letters together for
the convenience of robbers.
A New York girl has case in which
she displays rings received from her
captives in matrimonial engagements.
Sort of war hoops, as it were.
It is only in Rochester that lightning
Can rip the frame off mirror and not
crack the glass. Even lightning re-
spects the reflection of homely wom-
en-.
A Kansas doctors manuscript con-
tains such words as smallpox"
"skarlit feaver and rumatis," and
yet he charges 81 for looking at sick
mans tongue.
An Eastern dress reform association
enables a stockholder 10 get calico
dress made up in plain style for 81, and
the project must be set down as a grand
success.
An Indianapolis grocer discharged
one of his clerks for refusing to spell
sugar with an 3d. but the clerk at
once secured plcca in bookstore by
saying def " for deaf"
In Flint, Mich, there is piano that
was built in 1910. 1t is still capable of
putting the next door neighbor into
spasms when the right girl is present
to do the neutrality-suspicious.
nal.
The San Antonio people complain of
little fishes in the water mains. They
can't expect the Water Works Com
pany to furnish them with whales 120
feet long for dollar u month Texas
Siftipgs.
According 10 the code established for
the behavior of Washington doctors,
one physician must not call another q
sneak and liar. We do not see how
any true american can submit to be
thus hampered.
The Frerch heel has had its day in
the East aud is no longer tho style.
Its mission was to make the gentle sex
strike gait between the hop of a
rabbit and the waddle of o goose, and
it succeeded in the undertaking.
Conscience What is conscience?
Well, when you see the Assessor COM
ing around to survey your personal
property and you slip your gold watch
into your costtail pocket and feel as
mean as an Arab about it; that's con-
science-a wee bit of it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21

He STOPPED HIS PAPER.-Thcre are
some oddities in newspaper life which
are illustrative Of character. Years ago
friend and gentleman, and also lib
eral advertiser, came in and Indignantly
stopped his paper. 1t was no personal
matter. He wanted us to be more
vehemently republican. He paid up
his account, which was not large, for
he was square customer. and marched
off, his name disappearing from our
books, except as an advertiser. The
other day, after years of friendly feel
ing, he was asked what he did when he
stopped his paper. and the answer came,
" Went down to Mulligan's the same
afternoon and ordered it from him."
1t is impossible for earnest men to
avoid these sudden ebullitions CT hot
opinion. - Newark Advertiser.