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Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11
Thursday, April M, 1889.
THE GENERAL COURT.

Several notable things have been done in the legislature which is dragging it's slow length along at Hartford. The legislature has never relinquished it's right to pass upon questions of divorce. The judiciary com- mittee has found peculiar case where no remedy can be had in the courts under exist ing law, and one which, in it's judgment, warrants legislative interference. This is the case of MT. Beard, of Milford, whose wife has been for seven years or more incurably insane, and the committee has favorably re- ported resolution granting to the petitioner full release from his marital bonds.
 Coupled with this report favorable to a single petitioner, the committee hands in an adverse report on bill amending the divorce law by providing that incurab1e insanity shall be in all cases ground for divorce equally with adultery, habitual cruelty, and other violations of the nuptial pledges. Sen- ator Hall, chairman of the judiciary cons mittee, says that the committee could not agree that it would be wise to make insanity ground for divorce, leaving the decision in each case to the courts, but that it would be better to leave the law unchanged, and per init specially aggrieved parties to come to the legislature for relief.
 It is difficult to see how anything is to be gained by encouraging the bringing of di- vorcs cases before the legislature. The proper place for them is in the courts. The Hartford Times puts the matter sensibly and forcibly when it says: The legislature to- z 1y has enough, and too much, of other more legitimate business to engage it's att tention. It has created courts of law, in which various offenses and high crimes can be tried judicislly-and great deal better tried than they can be by the legislature. Criminal lawyers, keen to all chances to "work up" cast which the courts have al- ready decided adversely, are sometimes ready to appeal to the legislat ure as a last resort-trusting to the power of one-sided speech making which looks more to arousing "sympathy" than to the legal bearings or even the true merits of the facts in the case. The time of the judiciary committee, and of the legislature, is crowded with pressing matters more fitting for legislative action. In the Swift affair we have just had an il- lustration of the evils resulting from the ex- ercise by the legislature of powers which should be left with the ordinary tribunals of iuafica
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11
LOST,

The office which seeks the man in these | times has good chance to get lost in the l crowd.-Puck.
 A minister one day said in his pulpit, eve pursue a shadow-the bubble bursts and I leaves ashes in our hands. ."-American He- brew.
 The man who monopolizes two seats in a l railroad may be called pig in clover, and the puzzle is how to kick him out when l he is bigger than you are. ."-New York Tri- bune.
 Teacher-"What was there remarkable l about the battle of Lookouta" Little Dick | Cat the foot of. the class)-"It caused bangs l on the brow of the mountain. n."-Binghamton Republican.
 his intention to shoot at clay pigeon, life in- l surance agents fall over each other in the ef- | fort to write policy on the pigeons Hfe.- Detroit Free Press. Not so Funny.-Editor Hooking at joks)- "That's' funny" Contributor-"Yes,
 thought so." Editor-'I don't mean that. l It's funny that you should think such a l thing as that funny. ."-Puck. | On the Hunt.-"But, doctor, why didn't I you kill that snipe? He came just right for you" "But, my dear fellow, he flew zig | gag, and had no sooner fired zig than he
 was zag."-FliegendeB Blstter. A Hays City (Kan.) paper prints the fol- | lowing remarkable card of thanks: "Mr. and | Mrs. Garland wish to express their thanks | to the friends and neighbors who so kindly l assisted at the burning of their hotel last | Monday morning. ."-Kansas City Star. Not Long to Wait.-''I have only a mos \ ment to spare." said the visiter at the White House. ''Is the President engsged?" "Yes, {" l answered the official, Ca gentleman from H. linois has just gone in to see him." "I will wait," said the visitor, taking a seat.-Chi- cago Tribune.
 Teacher-Who was the first mani l Pupil-Adam. 1 "Who was the second mani? "Adam."
 '.How do you make that outt" t'Because he got married, and pa says that | always makes another man of @ feilow"- | Dansville Breeze. 1 MT. Gutehardt to little Ethel, years old) -'sWho was the gentleman who patted you 1 in-law" Mir. Gutshardt-tWhata A little l girl like you have father-in-lawl You must | be mistaken" Ethel-"Well, he used to be my regular father, but mamma got divorce from him."-Detroit Free Press. | A Good Shot-At German target festival the Grand Duke is requested to shoot at the target, to which he replied: "Gentlemen,
 I'm afraid if l shoot I'll be laughed at as a l bad shot," Friend-"Don't let that bother your royal highness. The marker has got his instructions. He knows what he has to | do."-From the German, in Texas Siftings.
 Tapeyard-"Who is that stunning girl you raised your hat toa"
 Ribbonley-"M Goldie Bullion"
 Tapeyard (timidly)-"She didn't return your courtesy. Perhaps she didn't know you."
 Ribbonley (bitterly)-"No! she does not
 know me now; but when I am the only
 young man at Ocean Foam next summer she will not only know me but pine for me in
 vain. Howell Citizen.
 | A bold: d:cattle thief in Mo, l Was surrounded and fought like 6 fo.
 But he found not friend And soon came to his end Without either counsel or jo. | Time.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11
NO. 36

buck he shouted at the top of his voice, "You1l be off" and when the sergeant fell he yelled as loudly as his laughter would let him, "There; knew you'd be off"
 I never saw western Australian horse buck like those ridden by the cowboys at Buffalo Bills.
 The horses were wonderful stayers, and not being coddled as horses are in Eng land, were free from the diseases produced by hot, ill-ventilated and badly drained stables. A man, riding with his valise fifteen or sixteen stone, would think noth- ing of riding a hundred miles in two days on the same horse, resting one day and ri ding back in two more.
 They had wonderful power, if they got loose, of finding their way back to the runs on which they were bred, and this gave horse-owners great chance of recovering lost horses. On two occasions horses of my own got away in the bush, and knowing where they had been bred, recovered them without difficulty. The custom was to put notice in the papers describing the animal. stating where he was bred and offering the usual fee, two guineas, for his return.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11
AustraIian Horses.

Lieutenant General Henry wray, c. RI G., in
 London Society,"
 Many of the horses bucked badly, and the conclusion I came to was that buckjumping was almost, if not quite, due to bad break ing I had often heard that some stock were more likely than others to turn out buck kjumpers, and with the light since thrown upon 'theredity," have no doubt this was true, but as no more trouble was taken to break this stock than was taken with other horses, did not believe it at the time Breaking" which might more cor reetly have been called 'tspoiling," consisted of driving horse into narrow stall in the corner of the stock yard, putting bit in his mouth, surcingle round his body, fasten- ing the reins to the sureingle, and turning him loose in the stook-yard, which was GOV cred with at least foot of straw. The first effort of the horse was to break the surcin- gle by blowing himself out, and the next to get rid of it by bucking. l never saw a horse succeed in doing either. Having had experience of two bad buokjumping falls, fortunately in soft places, I decided to buy unbroken horses from the herd. In all backjumped, though one of them was bad tempered and had trick of kicking high when going fast.
 Many people, especially if not long from England, thought little of buekjumping, and I had an amusing experience of this. When got my second fall from the same horse determined to get rid of him, and rendered him to the government for the police, oi course saying why I did so. It happened I that three or four days afterwards some con victs escaped, and the sergeant of police, | who had been horse artillerymsn, and had ! only lately arrived from England, came to my cottage with 6 private of police, one horse and two saddles, etc.. asking me to lei him have the horse to go after the runaways I consented, but advised him to give my horse good burst down the sandy road with l the other horse before mounting him, or he l would probably get fall, which advice he was too proud to take. He mounted, never got his right stirrup, and after five or siz jumps came off with a thud. The scrut was very wet, so I did not at first go tt see if he was hurt, but he lay there s, long that at last I went and found hin just recovering his wind. He called tn
 horse an "ungainly" brute. but mounte,
 him again and got away all right the sec
 ond time. The delight of the private 8
 his sergeant's fall was sight to see, fo
 he had been anxious to try the new mour
 himself, and the sergeant had told him
 hold his tongue. When the horse began
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11

the late unpleasantness as "the Rebellion. Y This so exasperated the Hon. Washington Dessan that he has stepped his paper,' of which the News remarks with resignation: 'tWe cannot rebel at this, though regretting the cause of the offense." The News ex- plains that the obnoxious word is never used in original matter prepared for it's columns and is not knowingly allowed to appear in the paper at all, but that all south- ern newspapers are not SO scrupulous. The News further says: "We do not consider the late war between tine States in any sense rebellion It was grand and noble strug- gle for right, country, principle and liberty in which justice did not triumph and truth did not prevail"
 King Milan had good reasons for wanting to get out of Belgrave. He was as much a martyr to the dread of assassination as the Czar of Russia. It is told that he slept in a room with double doors, iron-cased, which he locked himself and bolted from the in- side. A powerful mastiff slept at the foot of his bed, and he kept loaded revolver on the table. There was no chimney-place in the room, lest dynamite should be dropped down it; and no coal was burned in any room which he occupied because he once saw a murderous Nihilist engine which looked outwardly like a lump of coal. He was so afraid of poison that he always had the wine he drank uncorked before him. His coffee was always made in his presence with 8 spirit of wine apparatus, and he would never, when eating alone, touch made dish, but enly plain toast or boiled egg for there is no putting poison into an egg. Suspicious of bread, he ate brown-bread bis cults of English make, of which there was always a tinful in his study.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11

dust WAS blown into my neck instead of my face. The whole country was terribly bare of trees, and the drouth was terrible. When I reached Avignon l determined to make & short excursion to the fountain of Vaucluse, which Petrarch had made so interesting. I found that the stream had shrunk to noth- ing, and that the only water to be seen was a small pond at the bottom of the opening in the hillside, where it had it's origin.
 The most striking illustration, however, of the terrible sterility caused by the devasta- ting hand of man was that one day, beside the road, I saw a man picking some half withered leaves from dust-powdered tree, and throwing them on sheet spread on the ground. Seeing from the shape of the leaf that it was mulberry tree, I said:
 "Arevou gathering those leaves for the silkworms?''
 ooh, no, Monsieur" said he, 'I am saving them for our poor sheep that are dying of hunger and thirst"
 This pitifu1 picture confirms all that you have said of the desolation caused in this once fair and fertile land by the ruthless de- vastation of it's trees.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11
vol. LVII.
9r,J 8nnds.
Howe & StGtsOD

Every lady who intends to buy a Black Sateen Dress this season should inspect our Fast Black Melanies Sateens. We have just received our second large invoice of these goods in plain black and black ground with white figures, comprising the newest patterns and most elegant designs ever seen upon any counter. These Sateens are warranted not to fade in laundry or discolor by precipitation or ac- , ids. Prices are soc and 37Hc per yard. Please note display this week in our window of the most desirable Sateens produced.
 Another importation just in of the Hermsdorf's 2 thread war ranted fast black Ladies Hose at 25c per pair.
 Lace Counter-4 specials in all silk AZ inch Black Chantilly Flounces at $1.3o, 1.oe, I.75 and $2 per yard. specials in all silk AZ inch Black Guipure Flounces at o8c and $1:25 yard.
 Special drive in fine AZ inch Hamburg Flounces at $I.oo yd. Don't forget to examine the above and many other bargains in this department.
 Dress Goods-In this depart ment we have just received ex- tra values at soc and 75c yard. Also elegant styles in Pattern Dresses at $ro, I2.oo and I7.oo each. Stylish and serviceable Dress Goods at 12Hc, 25c, 2oc and 33c per yard, in great assort- ment. Examine our all wool 46 inch Black Henriettas at 65c, 75, $1 and SIPS per yard.
 Silks-Elegant styles Fancy Silks, to match Wool Dress Goods, just received, from 75c to $3.5o per yard. We make a speciality of Black and White Silks; prices from 57c yard up.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11
What Ignorance and Vandalism ma

What ignorance ana Van00116m may
 do.
 From Medical Classics
 Some forty years ago, when in the Adiron- dack woods, examined the ground nnder the trees and found 1t for about two feet in depth composed of sticks, twigs, leaves and moss, thus making a huge sponge to hold a large amount of water for the use of the sur rounding trees.
 Beside this testimony to the correctness of your views can also certify to the unfort- unate condition of Provence" to which you refer.
 Having heard and read much about ssthe sunny land of Provence," determined to try therein pedestrian tour. The strong wind from the north, called "La Bise, J which is equivalent to 'tthe Mortimer" of our Southern States, was blowing strongly al the time. and driving before it clouds of dust for they told me there had been no rain in that part for five months. Fortunately I was going south, so that the
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11

The Macon (Georgia) Evening News has lost subscriber. It happened to allude to
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-21
The Delicious Mangosteen.

Travellers in Java have filled pages
and columns with rhapsodies over the
mangosteen, and all unite in extolling
it as the supreme delight of the
tropics. The mangosteen appears to
one as hard, round fruit the size of
peach. Its hard outer shell or rind
is of the same color and thickness as a
green walnut, but in this brown husk
lie six or eight segments of creamy
white pulp. The little segments are
easily separated, and, transferred to
the mouth, melt away, the pulp being
as soft and fine as custard. The
mangosteen's delicate pulp tastes, as
ali its eulogists say, like Strawberries,
peaches, bananas, and oranges all at
once; a slight tartness is vailed in these
delicious flavors, and it is never cloy-
ingly sweet. Taken just as it comes
from the ice-box the mangosteen is an
epicure's dream realized, and the
more's the pity that it only grows in
far-away places and deadly climates,
and does not bear transportation. The
hard rind looks unchanged for weeks,
but the delicate pulp melts away, and.
the driest and coolest refrigerator
chambers can not keep the heart of the
mangosteen from quickly spoiling.-
San Francisco Paragraph.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-21
A Warning to Girls.

81 read" said a bright young mar
ried woman, that there is now a way
of removing hairs from a woman's lip
by the use of electricity. That is not
new, and L want to sound a note OF
warning to any woman who may be
tempted to use it. l have a very dear
friend who was classmate of mine in
college. She was real pretty girl,
but she was greatly annoyed at the
fact that a few hairs were growing on
her chin and upper lip. They really
did not look bad, more like the down
on a beautiful peach than any thing
else, but they were eyesores to her.
She tried every thing to get rid of them,
and finally was persuaded to try
electricity. An experienced physician
performed the operation, and left her
face as smooth as billiard ball.
six weeks later the hairs returned.
greatly increased in size and several
shades darker. This time they really
did look bad, and the poor girl was
almost wild. She has never been able
to do any thing with them since, and,
unless she clips them every day-a
very tiresome operation, her face looks
as though she was really growing a
beard. The best way for a woman is
to leave her face alone. She only
spoils it by tampering. "-Hairdresse
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-21
Carried Proofs with Them.

Two ex-Confederates who applied for
allowance under the Maimed-Soldier
act yesterday showed strong proof that
they were badly hurt during the war
About two o'clock Mr.. Lucius Maxwell
walked in and taking from his pocket
an old Confederate passport slowly I'M
wound it and laid before ColonefTip
Harrison six pieces of his skull. Mr..
Maxwell was a member of the Forty
second Georgia Regiment, and received
terrible wound in the head in one of
the battles around Atlanta in July,
1864. About four o'clock Mr.. Josephus
Riden came in and took from his pocket
book a piece of his own skull which he
had preserved all these years. Mr.
Riden was a member of the Thirty
fourth Georgia Regiment, and was shot
in the top of his head at the battle of
Jonesboro. To this day these I'M
fortunate veterans still suffer from the
effects of their dangerous wounds, and
have never been able to do steady work
since they were received. 1t is hardly
necessary to add that the applications
of both were promptly allowed. AT
lanta Constitution.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-21
RANDOM SHOTS.

GARDENER BARBER, now living at
Worthwhile, Mich, is 102 years old. He
served fourteen months in the One
Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio.
DURING the Grand Army of the Re
public year ended March 81, 1888, 4, 4SS
comrades died, an increase of 1,O27
over the previous year-a death-rate
exceeding twelve per day.
THE soldiers and sailors homes all
over the country seem to be sadly over
crowded. Recent figures show, for in
stance, that at Bath there were l, 14S
inmates; at Leavenworth, 1891; at
Hampton. 1902.
ELvIN A. EsTY, of Lyndon, She
boygan County. Wis, enlisted April %,
1861, and received his discharge in
June, 1866. He served as a member of
Company C, Fourth Wisconsin. Who
can show longer record?
The twenty-third encampment of the
Department of Wisconsin adopted a
uniform consisting of "a black soft hat
with gold cord. blue fatigue coat,
single-breasted, with four brass buttons
and two on each sleeve. vest same, with
dark pantaloons.
The custom of tolling the bells of
steamboats, while passing Grants grave
on the Hudson river has been adopted
by a few boats, in imitation of the GUS
tom among steamboat men on the Poto-
mac when passing Washington's grave
at Mount Vernon.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-21
PRIVATE HAMLlN.
How the Vice-President of the United
States Served as a Common Soldier.

How the Vice-President of the United
States Served as a Common Soldier.
did you ever know" asked gentle
man at the Union League Club BAN
quet, ''that Hannibal Hamlin once
served this Government in a dual
capacity, holding a position near the
top of the ladder and another near the
bottom at one and the same timer"
The reporter admitted that he had
never heard of the incident.
well, he did," said the club man.
''While he was Vice-President of the
United States he served for a time as a
private in the volunteer army. Queer
idea, wasn't it? I'll tell you how it
happened.
You see, he was an honorary men,
Der of a little company of militia in
Bangor, Me-, and when Lincoln issued
his call for troops it promptly respond
ed and came to Washington. There it
was ordered to the navy yard to do
guard duty, and to the surprise OF
every one Mr.. Hamlin announced his
intention to 60 with it. The officers
rather rebelled at the idea of having a
Vice-President under them, but Mr..
Hamlin was determined.
why not? he asked. If I'm a
good enough man to be an honorary
member of the company l guess I'm
good enough to be private
''And he shouldered a gun and went
with them. Well. at the navy yard
there were, of course, more complica-
tions. The officers decided that it
would not do to put the distinguished
private on guard duty, but he objected
again, and pertinently inquired:
What am l here for-to look
prettyg
''And the result was that he marched
up and down as a sentinel in his regu-
lar turn. Odd, wasn't it? Imagine the
Vice-President of the United States re-
ceiving orders from a sergeant of mi
litia company.
Then when the company was mus
tered out he was offered the regular
pay of private for the time he was at
the navy yard, but he declined to ac-
cept it.
" Why? he was asked. You served
with the rest of US
d" Well he said, 4 don't think it's
right for man to draw pay twice from
the Government and, taking all things
into consideration, | believe I'd rather
draw the Vice-President's salary"
Chicago Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-21
WAR HANOKERCHIEFS,

Something About Those Issued by the
French War Office.
The ancient custom of illustrated
pocket handkerchiefs for the amuse-
ment and instruction of children has
been seriously emulated by the French
War Office for the benefit of the ma
tional army. The cotton handker-
chiefs provided for the French soldiers
are now decorated with special texts
and cuts for the technical and sanitary
instruction of the wearers. The
center is occupied with the Cross of
the Legion of Honor upon a red back
ground. and the inscription under
meath it, HORneur ct Patrie. Around
this central point are grouped a circle
of medallions, containing representa-
tions of officers of all grades, from the
modest sub-lieutenant to the proud
commandant of a corps d'armee. The
different uniforms are pictured so dis
tinctly that the French private can
tell at a glance to what grade any
officer 'whome he sees may have
attained. The special pocket handker-
chief prepared for the infantry soldier
has exact drawing of the arms used
by him, with explanations of their
mechanism. The borders of the hand
kerchiefs are hemmed in with frame
work of the national colors, and within
the framework are printed a number of
sanitary precepts to be observed on
march and during campaign
Christian at Work.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-21
Waving the Rebel Flag.

Those who charge the Republi can
party with sectionalism should read
the speech delivered by General Ross
er at the reunion of Confederate SOL
diers at Baltimore. If a gathering Of
Union soldiers were held in a South
ern city at which Confederates should
be assailed and the victory of the
Union forces over them sneeringly
thrust into their faces the diners would
hardly escape lynch law or a pot Of
tar and feathers. Yet in the city of
Baltimore. almost within sight of the
National capital, rebel soldier taunt-
ed the Union veterans, insulted Gener-
al Sherman, the only surviving Union
General OF great renown, and glorifed
the cause of the Confederacy as one
emitting every rebel soldier ''to wear
a patriots immortal crownr' Talk of
sectionalism and the waving of the
bloody shirt at the North! What is Il
all as compared with the infamous,
reasonable and insulting language
that was flung into the teeth of the
patriotic North by Southern brigs-
der. Albany On. ~ Journal