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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09

Days" and 1.-The Old Garden"
so me, what profits 1t to put
An idle casey II death were seen
At first death. love had not been,
Or been in narrowest working shut"
i'm Memoriam.
Boston and New York; Houghton, Mif-
fin & Co., 10 mo-, 429 pages. Price
S1.25.) Those who have read "John
Ward, Preacher" will be likely 10 desire
to read any book by the same writer, and
will find much in 'Sidney" to remind
them of Mrs Deland's chief work. But
this is q story of young girl who learns
the great meaning of life; in seeing di-
vine purpose, and who comes ont into the
knowledge of the existence of God,
though her own father, because he had
deeply sorrowed at the death of her moth
er, had made great effort to teach her the
dogma of an impersonal force. The incl
dents of the story are somewhat improba-
BILE. but none the less attractive to the
reader, who is led on to the close, hoping
that the heroine would find happiness at
last Instead she found blessedness. She
| emerged from the darkness of unbelief
| into the light of Christian faith, which
says, 'There is a God, and he is a father
and friend" Aunt Sally shows strength
| in weakness, and her brother shows weak
ness in strength, because of their differing
beliefs. The book is unique and interest
ing.
'sBattle Fields and Camp Fires" mar
rstive of the principal military operations
| of the civil war from the removal of Nc
Clellan to the accession of Grant QS62-
| 1863, by Willis j. Abbot, author of ''Blu,
Jackets of '61," "Blue Jackets of 1912,
.'Blue Jackets of '76" and "Battle Field:
of 81" Illustrated by w. G. Jackson
CNew York; Dodd, Mead & Co., larg
quarto, 349 pages.) A book which tn
publishers have made outwardly attractive
and into whose pages the author has in
fused the spirit of patriotism as he ha
wildly depicted the civil war. As tn
child of the present generation res.as it h
will understand better what the war vete
ran means when he talks of the picket
guard, the campfire, the charge and tn
enemy. Only as the stories of the lat
war are told and retold can coming gene
rations comprehend the -valor of thos
who loved liberty well enough to free tn
slave, and priced union SO much that the.
risked life in its behalf. No wonder tha
each Decoration day finds flowers upol
the graves of those who said in action a
well as speech:
sStand by the flag, all doubt and treason scorr
ing,
Believe with courage firm ana faith sublime,
That IL will float until the eternal morning
Pales, with its glories, all the lights of time
The sons of patriots deserve such book
when the HOLIDAYS come.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09
No. 2o4

surface of small squares, one hundred and
forty-four of them TO one square inch
Those squares look like, and are in real
ity, so many pegs. Where the pattern is
desired to show the pegs are left standing,
those on the portion of the surface which
is not TO be printed from being cut away.
The styles in pattern change twice q year.
Some are designad in Utica and Others
come from Philadelphia and New York.
Some patterns containing many colors re-
Quire from twenty-five to thirty blocks,
and consequently that number of impress
sions, to reproduce the design. Rug pat
terms are the most difficult TO make, as 1t
requires different blocks for the corners,
sides and the center. The printing is
done on the top floor, so that the oilclofh
can hang for n distance of fifty feet 10
dry. Each printer has table with eight
pads, on which he smears his colors.
Pressing a block 10 the pad containing the
required color, he transfers it TO the sur
face of the cloth, using hand pressure
only. Having done this with every block,
as each transfers but one color, and con-
sequently but a small portion of the com
plete design, he has finished about four
feet square of printing, and goes about re-
peating the operation on another portion
of cloth, and SO on. Two men generally
work at table, and can turn out from one
hundred to one hundred and hfty square
yards of oilclOth a day when printing sew
en- or eight-color patterns. The paint
used is similar to the ordinary house paint.
When the printing is completed another
block is pressed on, which gives the en-
bossed surface, of which thsre are two
kinds, pin and line finish The wet cloth
then hangs from the loft week, when by
an ingenious mechanism It Is transferred
to the drying room, where for another
week it remains in a temperature of on,
hundred and thirty degrees. The door bC
this dry-room is fifty feet high, allowing
the length of Oilcloth to be passed through
without rolling OF bending Coming out
4 it is vanished, three men, with the aid oi
q machine, vanishing six Thousand yard
| day. Next it is trimmed and the clofi
| Is ready to be shipped.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09
A Crazy Barber and His Razor

from 11e LtWGsboD JDufnalA
Speaking of insane persons, it may be
said that John B. Redman, of Ellsworth,
once democratic candidate for governor,
had most thrilling experience. In that
city resided barber, good fellow and
general favorite, who few years ago was
taken insane He was confined for time
in an asylum, but after awhile was pro-
nounced sane and liberated. He at once
returned to Ellsworth and to his former
business. Mr.. Redman shaved there and
one day he went in and took his usual
seat. The lather was applied to the well
rounded throat and ruddy face of the rO-
tund customer, and then the barber taking
out keen razor gave professional touch
along the strap, felt along the edge, and
propounded the startling question:
"Mr. Redmsn, would you, as a lawyer,
say it would be wrong for me to cut your
throat If was sure God ordered its'
Mr.. Redman knew all about the former
misfortune of the tonsorial artist, and
knew he was in a very dangerous position.
Physically he was able to throw his com
panion out of the shop, but seated as he
was in chair, with his hands under an
ample apron, and feet well elevated upon
stool, he realized that any sudden move
might result disastrously, especially as the
razor was now open and quite close to his
shirt collar. He made up his mind in an
instant, and instead of answering the
question put one. Directly in front of
him was a large mirror and behind him
was window. Looking into the mirror
there was reflected the opposite side of the
street, and as the reflection of citizen
| who was passing could be seen, Mr.. Red
man coolly said:
Hold on a second. Is not that Mr..
II Blank across the ways
The barber went at once to the window
to see who had passed, and with a great
1 deal of alacrity Mr.. Redman got ont oi
| that chair. With one motion he brought
the apron across his face, removing the
lather.
excuse me-" he said, 81 want TO see
him. =" and grasping his coat and hat, goi
out of that shop. He thinks he had q
narrow escape.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09
THE NE1;RO,S FRIENp.

In his inaugural address Governor Till
man of South Carolina surprised people.
He was not supposed to be friend to the
negro. On the contrary, it was generally
believed that he had been ready to act
against the negro when political plans
made it expedient to keep the negro from
voting any but the Democratic ticket.
But Mr.. Tillman is now governor, and
while he does not profess to believe that
the mass of negroes are at present fit to
vote, and he rejoices that they did not try
to vote in South Carolina at the recent
election, he does not think it necessary to
have them killed without process of law.
He said: Can not pledge, in your be-
half, that we white men of South Carolina
stand ready and willing to listen kindly to
all complaints, to grant all just rights and
safe privileges TO these colored people,
that they shall have equal protection
under the law and a guarantee of fair
treatment at our handsl That the
colored people have grievances 1t is idle
to deny. That the memory of the wrongs
and insults heaped upon the whites
by the blacks during the eight
years rule has provoked retaliation and
often injustice, is true. 1t was natural
and inevitable. But we owe it to our
selves as Christian people, We owe it to
the good name of our State, which has
been blackened thereby and its prosperity
retarded, that these things should be
stopped. Wewhites have absolute control
of the State government and we intend to
retain it. With ell the machinery
of the law in our hands, with every de-
partment of the government-executive
legislative and iudicial-held by white
men, with white juries, white solicitors,
white sheriffs, it is simply infamous thai
resort should be had to lynch law, and
that prisoners should be murdered because
the people have grown weary of the law'i
delay and of its inefficient administration
Negroes have nearly always been the vic
Tins, and the confession is blot on oul
civilization. Let us see to it that tn,
finger of scorn be no more pointed at oul
State by reason of this deplorable condi
| ton of affairs.
This is good beginning. If Governo
Tillman will act in accordance with thi
talk he can do good deal to improv
South Cardinals reputation.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09

In addition to this the reverend gentleman
has prepared twenty-seven medical and
surgical books. I
The Quebec law which provides that
every father of twelve or more living chill
dren shall receive from the government q
grant of 100 acres of land for each child
above that minimum number, is being
quite extensively availed of. The total
number of fathers who have applied for
the bounty up to date is about one thou
sand, nearly all of whom are French Cana
dians. Among them is one with twenty
three children, four with eighteen, six
with seventeen, one with sixteen, twenty
seven with fifteen, forty-five with fourteen,
twenty-seven with thirteen and the balance
with twelve.
The most curious drawbridge in the
world is in st. Anne's bay, Island of Cura-
Goa. 1t is a pontoon bridge, and one of
the pontoons is a steamer built in Camden,
Me. 1t is scow forty feet long, twelve
wide and seven deep. There is a single
shaft that runs clear through the boat and
has q screw propeller on each end. The
shaft is turned by two steam engines
When the draw is to be opened the captain
of the steam pontoon casts off the lines
gives toot on the whistle and sets the
propellers a-whirling, and thereupon hal
the bridge swings around far enough t.
let the coming ship pass through. Ther
the wheel is reversed and the gap is closed
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09
-COMMUNICATIONS.
The Death of MRS. wilcox.

The Death of Mrs. wilcox.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
am sure you will not refuse to correct
the account printed in this mornings
COURIER in regard to the death of Mrs.
Charlotte Wilcox. The differences to
be drawn from that statement are
most unjust to Mrs. Wilcox, and most dis
tressing to her friends. As the person to
whom she addressed her farewell letter
beg to say word of simple justice in her
behalf.
There is no evidence whatever, that the
rash act with which her life closed was
contemplated more than three or fouI
hours before it was done.
She had prepared no shroud ,as reported.
but had spread out upon a chair the cloth
ing and the simple black cashmere dress in
which she desired to be laid out.
Her life had been one of extraordinary
struggles and tragedy throughout. She
had, however, preserved her singularly
cheerful disposition until after the death
of her late husband. She cared for him
devotedly through the six months of his
painful illness, and after his death she
strove by dressmaking and by taking
her to keep the little home they had pre-
pared for their old age.
About two months ago occurred the
shocking deaths of the two civil engineers
| at Mantle One of them boarded with
| her; the other was a frequent visitor al
| her home. She was called upon to com
municate with the families of the young
| men concerning the tragedy and was
| obliged to repeat many times the horrible
| details of the accident.
This extra strain coming upon her wher
she was already debilitated by long nurs
ing, anxiety and overwork, was probably
the most potent factor in undermining hel
reason. The crisis was undoubtedly
reached when she thought the vision o.
approaching insanity came to her th'
night before her death. 1t is not for m'
| to condemn her, but to see to it more re
| lgiously, than ever before that we miss NJ
| opportunity to help the weak and down
hearted, that other catastrophies of thi
kind may be avoided and to be more deyout
ly thankful each day for the great gift O
unimpaired reasons which is vouchsafed us
| +. B. s.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09
CROOKED.

Birds of feather generally flock togeth-
er, but geese and ducks are found in divers
places.-Chicago Post.
A policeman is not necessarily a shep-
herd because he takes a crook along with
him.-Texas Siftings.
"Why-hellowl You are the last per
son expected to meet" ssWeIl, / am the
last person you have met Smith, Gray
& Co.. Monthly.
An Ideal Wife-Dear child, the dinner
to-day is absolutely uneatable. We'll, sure
ly, Charles, you did not marry me for the
sake of eating. Blatter.
In Barracks-sTh first thing you ought
| to do, recruit, when you get bundle OF
good things from home, is to feel gratitude
toward your sergeant. ."-Fliegende Blat
| ter.
Doubtful Conclusion. ''Father, to-day
nv master thinks more of me than he did.
CHOW so?" 'sWhy, the other apprentices
| has been caught stealing. g."-Fhegend'
| Blatter.
| Patron docking over restaurant bill o.
fare)-Well, don't care for beef, mutton
/ pork, veal, or any of these things to-day
| Haven't you any games Waiter-Yes, sab
clams.-Good News.
| A Rara Avis-Mrs. De Fadd-What al
eccentric person Mrs. Homebody is! Mrs
| Demania-Isn't she the oldest creature
She isn't making q collection of anything
New York Weekly.
The head waiter-Isn' yo' gwine I'll
me. sab? Mr.. Haybern-Lord, mol
won't touch yer. You amt been very ten
tive, but I don't lay it up agin yer 'noug
t. lay hands on yer.-Judge.
| he HeMisunderstood-Jaysmith-Can 70
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09
How II Is Done in Birmingham.


Birmingham, England, is cited by q
leading American magazine as the best
governed city in the world. It makes and
sells its own gas at fifty cents per 1000
feet, after which there is a net profit
yielded of over $50, 900 a year. The plan
and right to manufacture were purchased
from two private corporations who had
given far less satisfactory service.
The water service was also bought by
compulsory agreement from a private
company and the service made far better
than before; but the scale of prices for
water has been carefully kept down to cost,
all profits being applied either to the i'm
provement of the supply or reduction of
rates.
The city builds the street railways in
order to keep control of the streets. II
then rents them to chartered companies al
figure representing little more than inter.
est on the cost.
Every undertaking lowers the cost to the
people of the necessaries of life, either wa.
ter, light or transit, and as a result the
citizens of Birmingham get more than theil
share of the comforts of life with a yery
light outlay.
Meanwhile the corporation is accumulat
ing vast landed ownerships that are con
tinually increasing in value and will ena
BILE it to acquire still more of the public
interests of the future. Its pay roll in.
cludes 1000 men already, and it is said Il
have reached a nearer realization of uni.
versal cooperation than any other city IL
the world.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09

oblige me with a ten dollar billl Gargoyle
The obligation is yours. Jaysmith
(pleased)-You fatter me. Gargoyle-You
misunderstood. You oblige me to refuse.
West Shore.
"Why are We all so solemn and stillF'
asked grandpa. "We are waiting for the
usual Thanksgiving stories," said papa
'Well, /" said grandpa, "for the sake of
variety guess / won't tell 'em this year. -
-Harper's Bazar.
Aunt Polly-Come heah, chile, an tole
yo' ole nanny de tex wat de preacher
TOXIN to- his disclose dis mo'nin'. Master
George disremember exactly, NANNY,
but it ended 'sMany am cold, but few am
frozen. en."-Harper's Bazaar.
Gazzam CreadingleJean Jacque Yer
saillss, a noted Frenchman, is dead, at the
age of 107. Larkin-He must have been
engaged in a very healthful profession to
have lived so long. Gazzan-He was O
| duelist.-New York Sun.
Little Ethel fad sent back her plate for
/ turkey three times and had been helped
bountifully to all other good things that
make O big Thanksgiving dinner. She
was looking rather sadly at an unfinished
dish of ice cream. 'swhat's the matter
Ethelf' said Uncle Jack; ''you lool
mournful-" ''That is the NATTER Was tbs
reply. 81 am more'n full" And Ethe
doesn't know Why everybody laughed
Buffalo Express.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09
Notice..
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL
IS PUBLISHED
EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
One Dollar per Year, un Advance.)
Single Copies cents.
THE ATTAoK ON THE RAoTLLT.

AIAACRA ON
Professor Koch's discovery has set every
body hoping that the time is at hand when
the little devils, known as bacilli, that
make diseases are to be cast out. 1t is
believed that Professor Koch has discov-
cred specific for destroying the bacillis
in tuberculosis. 1t is known that other
bacilli are prowling about, and the idea is
that with enough hard and scientific work
something may be found which will de-
stroy them.
The prospect is pleasing one, and is of
that kind which is most attractive to hui
man beings. "All that man hath will he
give for his life," and very many men
are always anxious about their health. If
they can know that consumption, cancer
and other diseases which are connected
with bacilli can be cured they will moi
have SO much to worry about.
But it is perhaps well not to
be too hopeful yet concerning the new and
the promised cures. If they turn out to
be what the most enthusiastic believers in
them expect they will make the world 6
much more cheerful place than it now is
1t will, however, take long time to dem
onstrate the real significance and success
of the contest which science is now wagine
with the bacilli. 1t may be that the little
imps may hold their own more persistently
than it is now supposed they will be able
to. And there may be some hitch in the
arrangements made for their conquest
Only little while ago we were told by ont
of the most celebrated physicians in thu
world, that he had found something t.
make the old younger. But the elixir die
not work, and has now gone into more o.
less innocuous desuetude. The attack o,
the bacili seems to be of different char
acter, but it ia hest for the human rae,
not to crow before it is out of the woods
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09
9r1y Gnntls.
Howe & StGtSOl.
LAST AND BEST!

MONDAY, Dec S.-Ve open
our Santa Claus Room with its
final exhibition of Xmas wares
("Pity it's, It's true" Aren't ou
sorry? We arc. You sill
here find a better ass. .rtment,
than eser before # things,
both useful, Ornamental ard
reasonable in price, and less
gimcra X stuff shat casts rnnch
money and LASTS but an hour
We are bound to have this
Xmas Sale a pleasant memory
for all purchasers, and have
made special exertions to this
end. We have been very for
tunate in closing out balance
this years largest importation
of French and German Dolls,
at a ridiculous'y low price, for
the express purpose of offering
unheard-of values in fine, high
grade Dolls at soc, o5, $I.oo.
$I.I5, las, $50, 2.25 and 3,o8
each. Don't buy a Doll until
you have seen these beauties.
We also have the exclusive
sale of a magnificent line of
the much sought for Indian
Baskets, made for us by a tribe
of Indians not on the warpath.
These baskets are very useful
and durable and fairly blaze in
their brilliant colorings. They
comprise small Fancy Baskets,
Work Baskets, etc, up to
hampers, and prices range from
sc to $2.oo each. Japanese
Baskets and German Baskets,
all styles and grades. A full
line of Mclaughlin Bros
Games, the best of all game
makers. We buy direct from
the best Woodenware manu-
facturers in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts,. Children's
| Desks, Chairs, Shelves, Wag-
ons, Carts, ETC., etc. Dolls
Bureaus, Doll Chairs, Tables,
Wash Sets, ETC., etc, all of
which are to be sold at the
lowest popular prices.
Framed Pictures. including
some genuine water colors, at
specially attractive prices.
Please remember that we
open Monday, December Sth,
our Xmas Room for the last
and best Exposition.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09

Money has been rather tight in Yale col
lege, but the stringency will be somewhat
relieved by the very generous bequest
which has just been brought to public
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09

When a woman wants divorce she can
generally discover sufficient cause. A
Brooklyn woman wants to have her hus-
band taken away from her because he al
lowed his sisters to make up faces at her.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09

The Reading railroad company is using
a mixture of tar, dirt and hard coal for
fuel. The holders of securities" will ap-
preciate this measure of economy.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09

People can get ahead in England if they
have it in them. Lloyd George, a new
member of the English House of Com
mons, is the son of village cobbler. He
was educated by his uncle, self-made
man, and at the age of fifteen took to out
door preaching, which has made him quite
an orator
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09

Another great fall in prices in Wall
street yesterday, with some recovery.
The lambs who thought that the phrase
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb
was in the bible are much disappointed to
find that it is not. They do not now think
that this wind is tempered by anybody or
anvthinp
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Our exports are increasing. Somewhat
conspicuous among them is horsefesh.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
ANY person desiring to buy BREAD
without the addition of CORN
FLOUR or any other adulteration
can do so by asking their grocer for
q q THOMPSON q co.'s goods.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Sidney" by Margaret Deland. author
of "John Ward, Preacher" ''Florida
Daysn and ssThe Old Garden"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-09

Faith without works is dead. DR.. Kerr,
medical missionary of the Presbyterian
board at Canton, has treated 500, 900 cases
in the past thirty-six years and has trained
100 medical assistants, mostly Chinese.
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:. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, ]
9nmrma1 and Courier.

The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
Iished in Connecticut.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 15
CENTS A WEEK, so CENTS MONTH, So
FOR SIX MONTHS, Sc YEAR. THE
SAME TEPHss nv Mar
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80 me, what profits It to put
An idle casey II death were seen
AT first as death. love had not been,
Or been in narrowest working shut"