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Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-09
ARE DOGS INTELLIGENT.
Stories About Dogs Which Have Shown Character and Intellect.

From the Spectator.
 Who can deny both imagination and pur- pose to creature who, when she sees her master preparing for journey, deliberately brings out her puppies and piles them on his baegage-as correspondent of ours bore witness only last week-in order to intimate her intention to accompany him without leaving her children behind! It is childish to impute an act of this kind to blind asso- citation. No creature without voice could have indicated deliberate intention and fore thought more distinctly. Or take the story of that poodle who, having opened pigeon pie and abstracted pigeon, thought to con-
 ceal the theft by filling up the ohasm in the l crust with bit of inky sponge which the owner of the house kept in Q glass on his l writing table to wipe his pens with,
 | There you see very clearly both the amount | of imagination possessed by the dog and its | defects. He knew that the way into the pie was not open before his depredations took 1 place, and supposed that if it could but be l stopped up again in any fashion the discov- cry of the theft would not be made. It did l not occur to him that a piece of the tnky sponge would not be ss good stop gap for hls purpose as piece of crust. He knew
 that the hole which he made must be filled if his offense was not to be discovered; he
 did not know but what one way of filling ii
 would be as good as another. He had not l the discrimination that 8 human thief would
 have had. But he showed discrimination
 and deliberate purpose. Again, here is the story of more effective purpose, equally de-
 liberately carried out, and one which seeni
 to show sympathy in the dog for a, stranger
 of his own species, which is much rarer il ] dogs than is sympathy for men:
 "A large we'll fed dog was observed, on very rainy day, sitting under shelter in hi
 own den in the yard of country house, ans watching strange dog who was standinl drenched through in miserable plight. Af ter thinking about 1t for some time, the bi , dog suddenly sprang up crossed the yard jnnped as he was accustomed st the latch c e wood house till 1t opened, and then, leal { jag the dooz open for ths vet dog to entel
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to his own abode and rolled himsell

returned to his own abode and rolled himseli up in the peace of mems conscia recti" Or again, there is the famous story of Cow psris dog, Beau who, after watching his master try in vain to hook @ water lily from the Ouso with his stick on their return from brought back the same water lily in his mouth and dropped it the poets feet. That any human being with sense in his head should doubt that Beau grasped his mas- ter's object in trying to hook the water lily, retained clear hold of that object during the walk, and then effected it for him on his return by the help of . much more effective instrument than stick stretched out from the bank, is to us hardly credible.
 An ''idiot or an imbecile" might have sup posed that Cowper was going through suc- cession of unmeaning gestures with his walk ing stick which had no object beyond them selves. "Beau" was capable of so much sympathy and had so much of his masters intelligence that he clearly understood his masters wish, saw that he had been unable to realize it, and understood that he could easily do for him what the poet could not manage for himself. There was 8 moderate degree of inference, imagination and delib- crate pain all included in that performance, and great deal of sympathy and loyalty as well. How in the world anybody can imagine that it raises the place of man in the world to ignore such obvious community of nature as there was in such that between "Beau" and his master we cannot in the least understand.
 The more clearly it can bs shown that in creatures which are much below man in range of nature and intellect there is much of which man himself might be proud, the more right surely we shall have to believe that man himself is but feeble imitation of beings much greater and nobler than him- self. If the dog would never have been what the dog is but for man to teach and lure him on, so man would never have been what he is but for spiritual beings higher than man to teach and lure him on. It is not the miserable material of the lower rungs in the ladder, but their existence and their close relation to the higher rungs, which leads most clearly to the conviction that the higher steps still ranging up into invisible world, where We can see only by mixture of reasoning and faith
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at certain corners, wide apart, stand lamp posts, whereon burn kerosene lamps to light the belated citizen to his door. One of the
 most characteristic of street sights is the long lines of ponies that almost continually come and go, bringing loads of dried fish and carrying back the necessaries of life, and al most all of life's necessary demands in Ice land must be supplied from without. Even the wood with which the houses are framed comes from Norway and must be taken into the interior on the backs of horses. A frequent sight is a procession of ponies, each with board on either side, fastened at one end to the pack saddle, while the other end is left to trail and bump along the uneven road.
 On pleasant mornings another kind of pro- cession is often seen. It is composed of women and girls, each with a wooden tub, and all going to the warm springs to do the household waBhing. The water can be had ut all temperatures, from boiling hot, where 1t bubbles up out of the earth, to tepid, farther down the little stream formed from the overflow. Dipping up 8 tubfu1 of hot water, the washerwoman puts her washing to soak, and then selects convenient place up- on the bank near the waters edge, where she knesls and rubs and wrings piece by Mioc6
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THEmRTRoPLIsOF ICELAND.
A Little Trading City i'm the Farawa1 NOthern Island.

William H. Carpenter in the October Atlantic
 Reykjavik, poor little metropolis of 2,OOO inhabitants, has, nevertheless, it's sights and sounds Its houses, with but few exceptions of wood, consist usually of 8 single story, but in isolated instances rise to the dignity of two. Through the town runs wide and tolerable straight street, on which live sever al of the dignitaries of the island-the Bish- op. the Governor, the Chief Justice and oth- CT members of the government. Upon one side. surrounded by wooden palings. is the uublic square, in the center of which stands a bronze statue of Thorwandsen, presented ! by the Danish Government to the native country of the sculptor.
 At the farther end is the little cathedral which contains 8 marble font by the artist | himself Around the different sides of the | square are grouped the new parliament house ' the post office aud school for girls, which l draws it's pupils from all parts of the coun | try. One of the most imposing buildings oi | the capital is the jail, and two of the mos | awe inspiring of her citizens are the police. l men, who in turn patrol the streets in fell hemets and uniform.
 It was not discovered, however, that thsy ever arrested anybody, because nobody eve so far forgot himself as to warrant arrest
 The jail consequently is always empty,
 fact that can be but imperfectly understoot
 when one seees it's manifest superiority t | all other dwellings. One of the policeme
 exercises, in addition to his function of gaur
 dian of the public veal, that of Hbrarisr the Icelandic Literary Society, wbio'
 abolished as long ago as 1816 ] lished many works. Fl"
 and has written o4
 i, The strea'-
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N w HAVEN CONN. TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 9, 1888

that was agitating his little mind. The re- suit was that he was nearly drowned. Taken out of the water, his first spluttering effort at articulation appeared in the sentence: "l ain't no kind of Jesus p
 Reform continues to march on. Mr. J. L.. Ellery of Rock Island, Illinois, writes to the Indianapolis Journal: 'My sister, the widow of wounded officer of volunteers, who served faithfully during the war of the rebellion, had employed herself and two daughters at one of our large arsenals until about six months ago, when they were called before the commanding officer and told that they could not have any more work from the ord nance department. When my sister asked the reason he informed her that he had learn cans, Are we discharged for that reason onlyP she asked. Hereplied: It is perhaps improper for me to reply to that question; can only say that I am complying with con- fdential instructions received from the chief of ordnance When MT. Ellery indignant ly demanded the authority for his sisters dismissal the famous circular of Secretary
 w SIOWh4A5AACA0 GAA2OASOIS VI SAocSo- chusetts was shown him.
 Isidore, the Grand Rabbi of France, who has just died at the age of seventy five years, studied Jewish theology at the Rabbinieal school of Metz, and first exercised his min- istry at Phslsburg, where he was too liberal for his congregation, and gave deep offence by refusing to receive on the tables of the law the oath more Judaioo. An attempt was made to turn him out, but he took the affair before the Court of Cessation, where his CO., religionist Cremieux defended him and gained his appeal. Isidore was against mar row Judaism, and, unlike most Alsatian rab- bis, did not discourage mixed marriages. M. Cremieux's influence obtained for him the function of Grand Rabbi of the Central Con- sistory of France. He showed organizing talent and practical benevolence in the chan nels into which he turned Jewish fraternal charity, and he rather dwelt on high morality than on the observance of rites. His ser- mons were eloquent, and showed him man of thought, feeling and conviction. He was truly kind, never forgot face or name, and had pleasant way of showing poor Jews that he remembered them and was interested in their welfare.
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TuesdaY. October 9,. less.
RANKRUPTOY IN ENGLAND.

England has an inspector general of bank ruptcy, and he has just made very interest ing report. It covers period of three years. During that time there has, it appears, been a growing tendency in England to go into in solvency on the part of those engaged in a number of businesses. For instance, there has been 8 steady increase in the number of saloon and hotel keepers in England who have become insolvent, showing that, while the profits of the distillsrs and brewers may be large, the competition in the business tends to make it anything bat profitable to retailers, for in the last three years these ss- loon and hotel keepers have invariably pre- scented the largest number of failures in any of the trades. The builders have been. .almest as unfortunate ss the saloon and hotel keep CTS. One case is given of 8 London builder whose liabilities were $280, 900 with no assets whatsoever, and in another instance the lia- bilities went far over s, ,O00, 900 while the As- sets were put up at about $45, 900. Still another builder had liabilities amounting to $1, ,250, 900 and assets which realized only $3, 900. The inspector-genersl states that it is evident that there has been large amount of speculative building conducted chiefly up- on borrowed money and characterised in some cases by extreme recklessness. Build- ings, chiefly dwelling houses, have been erected without any real demand and have either been realized on at loss or held in the face of constant depreciation in value.
 The inspector-general complains about the gradual decrease of assets in bankruptcy when compared with liability and asserts that this is due to culpable recklessness on tht part of debtors, who, realizing that they ar' I insoIvent, resort to all sorts of attempts t ! save themselves rather than face the expos
 ure and publicity incidental to bsnkruptcl proceedings. He recommends that the pres
 ent act be amended so that 1t will provid that debtor shall not be entitled to a dis charge from bankruptcy unless his estate ha yielded, or might with reasonable case hav
 yielded, sufficient to pay a dividend to tn
 creditors of 10 per cent, unless the court i
 satisfied that the debtors failure has arisel from circumstances for which he could no justly be held accountable.
 Of course no law can make men honest
 but there is little doubt that the English lav
 concerning bankruptcy is none too severe.
 the recommendation of the inspector-geners
 is adopted it will be interesting to see how
 werks, and the people of this country ma
 learn something from it.
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A girl who will probably be able to hold her own in the struggle of life has come to light in Mississippi. Somebody gave her five cents. With it she bought yard of calico and made it into sun bonnet, which she sold for forty. cents. She invested the forty cents in calico, made more bonnets, sold them, reinvested, made other other garments, and pretty soon had $10. She put this money into potatoes, planted them, paid for the cultivation, harvesting and marketing of her crop and made clear profit of $40.
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All the children are not dead. little fellow in Medford. Massachusetts, four years old, came home from Sunday school the other day swelling with the information that
 Jesus had walked upon the water. It made such an impression upon his imagination that he could not be content till he had tried to do the same thing. Secretly he went to the bathroom of the family, filled the bath- tub with water, and attempted the tsas
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

''It is, at any rate, 6 contest between pro- teotion and something that is not protec- tion," is the way the London News concisely puts the question at issue in the presidential campaign this year.
 4 public school teacher of Milwaukee has in her note book the following composition on Girls, !" written by boy: Girls are very stuck up and dignifed in their manner and behaveyouor. They make fun of boys, and then turn round and love them. don't belave they ever killed cat or anything. They look out every nite and say: Oh, ain't the moon lovelyl' Thir is one thing have not told, and that is they always now their lessons bettern boys"
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that was agitating his little mind. The re- suit was that he was nearly drowned. Taken out of the water, his first spluttering effort at articulation appeared in the sentence: "I ain't no kind of Jesus !''
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57IedxIaI.
ELY'S CREAM BALM
R
Dr. E. ". Cummings,

agreeable. Price 50 cents at Druggists'; by mail registered, 60 cents. ELY BROS., 56 Warren St. York. n1R end&rx
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The sugar trust is doing well enough for its members. It has so far within the year de- elared five 9 per cent. dividends on $5e,- GOO, 900 capitalization. It is we'll known that this capitalization represents more than double the actual value of the property in- vested in the business. Indeed, those who claim to be conversant with the matter place the total investment at hardly $15, ,o00, 900, leaving $35, ,e00. 900 to represent water. This total dividend of 10 per cent. would there fore represent an actual dividend or return oi about 30 per cent. on the investment.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
CITY COLORED SCHOt OIL.
Close of the Session.

The City School had its Closing
exercises this week. Miss. Susie p.
Mastin exhibited her rare taste in
having the school room handsomely
decorated with evergree.s. flIorals
and pictures and the exerci les attra,
cted many visitors during the week.
Rev. b. n. Brown delivered an
interesting opening addre IS to the
little fo'ks Tuesday morning.
Wednesday Mr.. III. G Bintor
delighted and instructed the pupils
with one of his best efforts of oratory
Prof j. A. B. Lovett spoke to them
Thursday morning, and after the
exercises in the afternoon Messrs.
Patrick Perkins, Francis Davis, Prof
Council and Aid. Ga>t,n.
Golham Powers, captured the prize
as the best speller in the I bird g ade
spelling match, Tuesday; Mary ELLA
Clemens took the prize against all
competitors in the Second grade
spelling match. Wednesday: while
Pearl A. Binford came off with the
laurels Of the victor in the First
grade match Thursday.
The prze useful books, were
awarded to the above pupils and the
following at the conclusion of the
examination: Mary Sue True, Jessie
Scott and Lula Tivis, regularity and
punctuallty in attendance.
The annual Concert at the Opera
House Thursday night attracted a
full house, and the little TO ks sue
ceeded in their efforts to please by
rendering their programme in such
a manner as to gain the applause
and attention Of the large audience
to the c'osing piece, Good bye"
We will publish the programme
next week.
A subscription was opened for the
purpose of buying lot fer Colored
School, with fair prospects Of secur-
ing the necessary amount in a short
time.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
PLATFORM OF THE RErUB
LICAN PARTY OF
ALABAMA.

Resolved, That while we deprecate
all sectional issues and wish for har-
mCny between all the citizens of our
great county, we demand as the legal
and constitutional right Of the peo-
pie that the exercise of the right of
suffrage shall be free and untram>
melled and that the ballots shall be
counted and returned as cast in all
elections Of the republic; and to
help secure this end we favor a nat
ional law to regulate the election Of
members of congress and president
ial electors, and demand that the
election laws Of Alabama be so
framed as to hinder fraud and not to
eacourage it.
Resolved, That we condemn Pres
ident Cleveland's tariff message and
the Mills bill as tending toward free
trade and to the destruction of
American industries and to the deg
radiation of American labor to the
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
Neisshborhoea News and Gosss'f
Keep your garden clean.

Keep your garden clean.
Our Decatu letter came in toe
late for this issue
Call up and subscribe to The lot
for city colored Shool.
Mr.. He Try Fack'er is adding
the finishing touches to an elegant
new cottage on Pulaski Street.
MIR. Monroe Weeden is now
comfortabl established in his rsi-
dence after removal for the Tenn
Il COOsa road.
The game f base ball between
the Huntsville and Decatur boys at
Decatur last Saturday was won by
tn elatter club Score II to IA.
We regret to announce the
death Of MIR. E. bert E. Jones, a
prominent educator of Limestone
county, He died at his residence t
Greenbrier Tuesday last, leaving a
wife and large family ofchildl EN- to
lament his death
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09

their moral and political influence to
eradicate the sin from our land, and
that their efforts are being richly re-
warded and the localities in which
they live are rapidly growing in pop
ulation and wealth.
Be it futher resolved, That it Is
the duty Of this convention to say to
the people of the world. that Alaba>
ma is well governed, law abiding
and progressive State, and that our
ndit'on both morally and financial
ly is second to no state in the union,
and that vigorous and healthy
moral sentiment enforces laws
and carefully protects all citizens
like in life. liberty and property and
that there is no violence or careless
ness Of any charcter that is not quick
ly suppressed, AID that no stranger is
interfered with on acco1nt of his DO;
litical connection, and that all par
ii alike extend the full and warm
hand Of generous southern hospitali-
ity to the northern people who come
among US, and that here with US they
are as safe and free from all harm as
in their own native states.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
PERSONAL.

Rev. Alfred Barnett is at home
Mr.. VIM. Riley has returned from
Birmingham.
Capt. Cash Mosby was in the city
this week.
Mrs. j. Holland was up from
Decatur this week on a visit.
MIR. and Mrs. Percy Beckwirth are
up from Montgomery on bridal
tour.
Mrs. David Hall has been the
guest Of Mrs. H. G. Binford this
week.
Mayor Mastin as been spending
the week in st. Loui, for lecrea
ton.
Miss. Julia Turner is back from
! short visit to friends in Nashyil e
Rev. A. w. Mckinney and Mr.
w. G. Allen are back from attend
ing the NJ. E. General Conference
at New York.
Mr.. Sol Schiffman will make his an
nual pilgrimage to Waukesha Spring
| Wisconsin, about the Goth of June He
will be accompanied this year by Mr.. j
Klaus.
Misses Eliza Lee McCauly, Hattie
Belle Beasley, Maria L. Clay and
Cla,a A McCauly returned yester-
day from Atlanta, where they have
been attending Clark University.
Mr.. w. E. Newby and Miss Matte
S Eldridge will open the Early
Prospect Sunday school at Reeble
Hill the first Sabbath in July. All
citizens of that vicinity are earnestly
invited to be out on that occasion
and assist in the work.
Miss Bette Bentley, the accomp'
lished and charming grand daught e1
of our well known citizen, Mr. Frank
Bentley, graduated from the Latin
English course of the Fremont, O..
High school Thursday night last,
with honors. The subject of hel
graduating essay was "Luck, 0,
Labor? Social circles are gay with
the anticipation Of her return
home.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
Officers Masonic Court.

Officers Of the Ladies' Masonic,
Court;
Most ancient, Francis A. Binford.
Most Worshipful, Joshua, MI
William Tevis;
Sec. Mrs, Lucy D Pope.
Treas Mrs Thomas Mcdonald
Inner door keeper, Mrs S. j. B.
Carter;
Outer door keeper, Mrs Reuben
Fain;
Conductors Mrs Amanda Tivis
and Mrs Mary Carter.
Advisors Messrs Lucian Belts and
William Tivis.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
The State Normal School.

Prof. VIM. H. Council at a recent
meeting of the Board Of Commiss
toner's Of the State Normal and In
dustrial school, was restored to the
position Of Principal Of that institu-
ton for the next session.
The Huntsville Mercury state.
that this action of the Board was
taken at the instance Of strong petit
tons Of leading white citizens Of
this city and other portions of the
state; numerously signed also by
co,ored teachers Of this and other
counties.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09

Republican county convention n
to-day.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
HADEN.

Haden. Ala, June 2, 49,.
Rain in abundance.
Farmers are in good cheer.
Crops are N a promi ing con-
dition.
Mr.. Reuben Pickens, worthy
farmer, died here May %, 'ss, leav-
ing a wife and five children to mouln
his loss.
8. b. H.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
Huntsville Precinct DelegatiO n

The Republicans of this Precinct
met in convention at the county
Court House Wednesday night fol
the purpose Of selecting delegates to
the County Convention to day
Mr.. Chas r. Donegan was elected
Chairman and Mr.. Il. G Binford.
Sec.
Delegates we're selected as follows.
DELEGATES. ALTERNATE,
Chas. P. Lane, L. NJ. Peevy,
G. r. Donegan, Chas. Robinson.
j. j. Smith, j. G. Hobbs,
II. {. Binford, Hayes Bradley
Neal Martin, Dick Rumage,
I. w. Townseud,J. H. Burrell,
L. McCloud, Beverly Wseden,
w NJ Brandon, Harrison Dox,
j NJ. Gross, Sydney Psntecost,
DR.. B f Scrgu g., Chas. Stevenson,