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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04
AN OBJECT LESSON.

AN Obj ECI LESSONs
If reciprocity" can be made to work as
well with other countries as it has with
the Sandwich Islands the more of it we
have and the sooner we have it the better
The reciprocity treaty with these islands
went into effect in 1876 1t is not treaty
of absolute and entire reciprocity, but pro-
vides for the free admission into our ports
of certain products of the Sandwich
Islands, mainly, of course, sugar, in re-
turn for the free admission into sthe Ha-
waiian ports of some specified products of
our own country The bulk of Hawaiian
products comes to us free of duty, but a
considerable number of our exports are
taxed in Hawaii. Since the treaty went
into effect our exports to Hawaii have in
creased from a value of S769,S a
year to value of s3,575, ,661, our i'm
ports from there form value of 81 &c.,
6S1 to value of $12,847, ,740, and the
value Of our total trade with the islands
has grown, under reciprocity, from s2,-
146, 343, to s16,223, ,401. We get to-day,
according to gentleman who was thirteen
years our vice consul general at Honolulu,
fully 81 per cent. of the Hawaiians' total
trade, and, a fact that is also of much sig
nifcance, nine -tenths of the bottoms en-
gagged in the Hawaiian carrying trade are
owned by American capital.
No wonder the people of the Pacific coast
are heartily in favor of more reciprocity.
Reciprocity has increased our trade with
Hawaii more than $50 per cent. in four
teen years and given us practical control
of the Hawaiian market. Perhaps it would
work just as well with the South Ameri-
can countries
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NO. 1S3.
with himself all the timer-Hsrper's B.-

with himself all the time."-Harper's Ba-
zar.
A German figure. Can't You suggest Q
German figure for usi i have TO lead
German tonight" sswhat is the matter
with ZweiF-New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser
Husband, married to rich wife-Riches
do not always bring happiness Wife, mar
ried to a poor husband-No, they often
bring poverty. They brought you, you
know.-Yonkers Statesman.
No Responsibilities you are married,
Jacks I am, Jim. / hope you considered
the matter well. Ii is a serious matter as
suming the responsibilities involved in
marriage. You're wrong, my friend
have no responsibility at all now. Ny
wife's the boss.-Boston Courier.
Harry-Dearest, love you better and
better every moment. and i long for the
time to come when you shall be my own
dear wife. Dearest-Oh, well, Harry,
there's plenty of time, and as You say your
loves increasing all the time, il would be
foolish to marry before il becomes wholly
npe.-Boston Transcript.
A Private Utterance.-Geman hotel
keeper-Hist. The great Bismarck was here
half an hour ago. Reporter-Ahi Did he
say anything to you of an official natures
German hotel-keeper-No; his utterance
was merely that of a private gentleman
Reporter-Tell me what he said. German
hotel-keeper-Two beers.-Judge.
John-Patience has ceased to be virtue
with me now. 1 refer TO my neighbOr
Crusty's conduct.
Jackie isn't very neighbOrly sort of
person, is hes
John-His conduct has become intOler-
| able He built a ten-foot fence between
his house and mine / was willing to over
look that, but now he has increased the
height of the fence to fifteen feet, and that
/ can't overloOk--Harper's Bazaar.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04
GROWING IN'GRACE.

Probably nine out of ten people think, if
they think about it Mt all, that the Devil is
gaining on the Church in this country.
But like many other carelessly adopted
notions this is not founded on facts The
Independent has done good service in col
lecting and setting in order facts which
show how far wrong this notion is. 1t ap-
pears that there are in the United States
ISL ,261 churches of all denominations. 103,
300 ministers and nearly % 900, 900 mem
bers. During the year there has been an
increase of $500 churches, nearly 1900
ministers and nearly 1890, 900 members.
The most numerous denomination is the
Roman Catholic, with it's $500 churches,
$500 priests, etc., and S,217, 900 popula-
ton, of whom 4,616,0 900 are estimated to
be communicates. Then come the Metho-
dists, with, in round figures, 1850, 600
Presbyterians, 1,229, 900; Lutherans, L.
0S6, 900; Congregationalists, 49l 900, and
Episcopalians, 10000.
The increase in the Catholic population
during the year was 42l 700. The esti
mated gain in Catholic COMMITMENTS was
over 23s, 900. The growth of Protestant
membership was 66s, 900. The Methodist'
gained more than a56,00O, the Baptist,
more than $4,000, the Lutherans 9S, 900
the Presbyterians nearly 5000, the Con
gregationalists more than 10000 and thu
Episcopalians about $500. The accession
of new members was even larger thar
these figures, since in every denomination
| there We're deaths of members who's
places We're filed by new acquisi
tions. The number of deaths in the Meth
| odist Episcopal body, for example, was re
ported at %, 800.
This is encouraging, even if some of tn
churches are closed during the summer
1t is evident that this part of the worl
isn't sinking into heathenism.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04

ty, he has made large fortune. AS he
mark, and his rudely scrawled x is on
great many bank checks and other docu-
ments involving large financial transac-
TONS Rich beyond all the accidents of
fortune, Mr.. Robinson now feels at the age
of thirty-five that he can afford to spend q
little time in acquiring a few of the more
important rudiments of education. He
doesn't want to become learned; he wants
merely to learn how to read and write.
He is now in Kansas City poring over his
alphabet and well started toward the ac-
QUESTION of those accomplishments.
K. Osaka, merchant, of Toxic, Japan,
now in Chicago, has been telling the re-
porters that Japan will experience nothing
but prosperity this year, because ''the
king of good luck has appeared on our
shores, and his capture is worth more than
million yens." The liking of good luck"
is strange fish known among the japanese
as fuku-tai, and fifty years ago, when last
seen in Japan, great feast was held in its
honor and prosperity followed. A grand
jollifcation was INDUCED in this time, and
so far the good luck has increased. The
fish was purchased by one of the richest
men in Japan, and it will be placed on ex-
hibition at the national fair now being held
at Toxic. 1t is described as six feet in
length, its body bright red color with lit
tie polka dots over it, and it has long,
flowing golden beard two feet in length
as fine as silk Two or three weeks age
the Japs were talking of hard times com
ing because there was fruit on the bull
| rushes or something of that sort.
| Prominent southern newspapers are say
ing what they ought to say about the re
cent cowardly murder of the Republican
politician, F.. NJ B. Cook, in Jaspel
county, Mississippi. sit was a black deet
that admits of no amelioration," says tn
Birmingham (Alabama Age-Herald, whicl
calls for the hunting down and hanging o
the murderers. SIT is assassination pur
and simple, there is nothing chivalrou
about it, says the Mobile (Alabamal Regis
ter. ''It is unfortunate that a few lawles
and reckless men can do so much harm t.
the South. But the communities il
which such men live could check thei
violent propensities by holding them to
strict account for every lawless and Grim
inal act. That is what is needed in goo,
many southern localities" The Charles
ton South Carolina) News and Courier i
similarly outspoken and emphatic. eth
duty of the white governor and whit
people of Mississippi" it says, ''as it is tn
duty of the white governors and whit
people of all the other southern States, il
to hunt the murderers down and to punisl
them with death"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04
wATERED.
watered silk-An umbrella.-pucls.

watered silk-An umbrella.-Puck.
A Chicago plumber has failed. He took
ice.-Yonkers Statesman.
Many house, otherwise straight, has a
stoop to it.-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
Toothache'is the name of a Pigeon In
dian chief He is howier.-New York
Journal.
Not all men are liars, but it won't do to
believe the man that insists that he is not.
-Munsey's Weekly.
Miss Laura-Do you warrant these cor
setsl Clerk-Usually. Er-you are not
engaged are youa-Terre Haute Express.
She-How do you manage to think
among all the noise in the Stock Ex-
changel He-We don't think.-Chatter.
"why is it life doesn't pay better, For.
esteri" 81 don't know, Lancaster; per
haps it is because life is short. New
York World.
See the girl. She is hoe-ing in the gar
den. How many hoes has the girl. Tn
girl has three hoes, but two of them ar
striped hose.-Life
Lets cross over: here comes Bunker
| He's the sleepiest man 1 ever met. ''Yo
can't blame him. Remember that he
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04

etson.
Reductions.

The remainder of our best
quality Scotch and American
Dress Ginghams at loc per yard
to close; no styles reserved.
22--only--Fancy Parasols at
$500 each. These shades were
selling for $3.50, 400, $50 and
$500. They are all this sea-
sons goods, and the styles are
excellent. Black Sun Umbrellas
are marked down for our August
Sale.
: Ladies Bathing Suits marked
down to $500, formerly sold for
$3.25. The Flannel would cost
by the yard more than our price
for the suit.
Ladies' Blouses and Shirts
reduced to $l.5o, 400 and 900;
former prices were $500, 900
and $500.
500 yards Shirting and Shirt
Waist Cambrics; best quality,
36 inches wide, exclusive pat
terms, at twelve and half cents
per yard.
Brown Shsseng, full two and
a quartezsgards wide, at l7c;
full two and half yards wide,
at 1oc per yard.
Splendid heavy GO inch
Bleached Damask at 68c per
yard.
Bleached Linen Cloths, 1914
long, blue and red borders, at
$l.oo each.
Ladies' Black Lisle Hose,
drop stitch, at twenty-five cents
per pair. Also a large line of
the best twenty-five Fast Black
Cotton Hose.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

If the Chicago spectators are to be be-
lieved there will be little wheat and no corn
to speak Of in this country this year. But
they don't always tell the truth.
Tolstoi's latest book has received u valu-
able advertisement in its exclusion from
the mails in this country. What there is in
it to entitle it to this distinction is not ap-
parent Hundreds of much nastier books
are going about in this country freely.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04

IF you wish first-class Shingle Roof, use Cy-
= press, cheap as pine and far more durable.
and cheaper than Shingles of random width and
make a very handsome appearance on the roof.
APPS d&w H W. STOWE, 371 Chapel st.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04
Competition Versus MISREPRESENTATION.

TTNHE first is honorable, honest and healthy
l. stimulus to business. The latter is neither,
and while seeking to undermine it destroys all
confidence and business. Thirty-six years. prac-
tical experience in the manufacture and sale of
Fire Proof Safes, Locks, Etc.
Has provided us with a stock Of information
worthy of confidence. All parties contemplating
the purchase of either FIRE or BURGLAR
PROOF protection may. avail themselves of this
information Free of Cost, and at the same time
examine our large assortment of Safes etc,
running the risk of being persistently ''bored"
thereafter. Our Prices Are as Low as the Low
est Quality considered), and all we ask is the
privilege Of Showing Our Goods, Naming Prices,
and fair treatment at the hands of intending
purchasers who consider quality as well as price.
($2O upwards. We beg to refer to a few very
recent sales
THOMPSON & CO.,
273 and 275 State Street, Cor. Wooster st.
Yale National Bank.
Merchants National Bank.
City Bank.
winchester Repeating Arms Co.
Wallace B. Fem & Co.
Butler & Tyler.
Benedict, Downes & Co.
City of New Haven for Board of Health
Town of New Haven for Registrar of Vital Sta
tistics.
Holcomb Bros. g. Co.
Yale Gas Stove Co.
NJ. Schewd.
Shelton Co, Birmingham
City Of Waterbury.
The E. Read Goodrich Mfg Co
The Lyon Billiard Co., Meriden.
Town of Watertown.
B. H. Mattoon, Watertown.
Federal Lodge, F. & A. NJ, Watertown.
Town of Belchertown Mass. my23
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04

The owners of all cabs in Paris have
been notified to supply their vehicles with
counters before April next. The counter
is to indicate at every moment the distance
travelled, the hour and the amount due.
When the cab is in motion the fare will in
crease in proportion to the distance gone
over, and when the vehicle is standing still
it will rise as if the cab were travelling
eight kilometers an hour.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04

Pills and advertising make good COM
bination if both are effective. The ac-
counts of pill-maker who has just died
in England show that he has been spend
ing 5000, 1000 year for advertising. His
heirs, however, are finding no particular
fault with this extravaganza, as he leaves
an estate valued at S25, 100000.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-04
The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
lished in Connecticut.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, IS CENTS A
WEEK, so CENTS A MONTH, 50 FOR Six MONTHS,
So A YEAR THE SANE TERMS BY MAIL.
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it will rise as if the cab were travelling
eight kilometers an hour.
concession has been granted to COM
pany in Dresden to establish cable lines
from the coal mines to more than hun
dred and fifty towns and cities in Saxony,
including Dresden, for transmitting cleo
trio light and power. At the mines coal is
cheap and land for the necessary buildings
does not cost much Electricity can there
fore be generated at less cost than in the
cities, where rents and other expenses are
high and the transportation of coal from
the mines is an important element in its
cost. The cables will be expensive, of
course, and some of the electricity will be
lost on the way, but on the whole the ex-
pectation of the company that money can
be made or saved by burning the coal at
the mines, and using many miles distant
the light and power derived from it, seems
reasonable. -5.-..
James Robertson is self-made man, ano
he is now about to put on the finishing
touches His home is at Phoenix, Arizona
where, by fortunate Investments in mine
and the exercise of shrewd business sagaci
The National tribune., 1890-06-26

VI y
hotel, the Central, was the headquarters of
the /. ID. BIS illicit diamond buyers), and
| utilized this coincidence to perfect myself in
the knowledge of how to evade the law against
this crime. The laws are more than strict
they are dcspotic No sentence for acouvicted
l. ID. b. is less than five years. and generally
reaches double that time. You may aud wilI
no doubt, be astonished that despite the rigOr-
Gus sentences imposed, this practice still -four
ishes; but when l inform you that the esti-
mated value of tho diamonds stolen last year
amounted to nearly 1900, 600, you will at once
comprehend the Importance of this industry.
Before going any further, l must ex plain the
methods employed in obtaining the illicit
stones. which, by-the-by, are usually the best
found in the mine We will suppose, for ar
gument's sake, that I am an ]. ID. y. will get
a black boy in whom / have confidence and
obtain employment for him in one of the
mines. He will sign for, say, three months,
during which time I will not sec him again, as
no Kafr is permitted to leave the company in
closure or compound "a long as he is in their
employ. Now, this boy is put to work in one
OF the levels, hundreds Of feet beneath the
surface, under the supervision of white man,
whose duty it is to keep him at work and to
prevent him from concealing any diamonds
Both of these duties are difficult to fulfill as
Kaiir never works when not watched, and as
he is as sharp if not sharper. than Bret
Harte's proverbal Chinaman. his methods Of
concealing stones are many and varied. and il
is, despite the rigid scrutiny to which they are
submitted, an utter impossibility to prevent
the loss of stones. My boy has worked hard
whole month, and by his good behavior has
lulled the suspicious of his overseer or "boss,"
who, thinking him honest, takes his case, read
ing or sleeping. Ny boy, finding the desired
opportunity, takes stone OF, say, three carats,
The National tribune., 1890-06-26
WAITED TO DIE.
Experience OF a Soldier Who Thought Ban Had
Gone Through Him.
TRnslo-, Hill


At was wounded three times during the war"
said Maj. l.. with merry twinkle in his fns
brown eye, to New York Tribune reporter,
"ouee fatally, but you see am still an inhab-
liant OF this beautiful earth"
Perhaps" suggested one OF his listeners,
"you were like the man of whom the country
newspaper man wrote; The ball entered his
lett side, inAicting mortal wound With
good care be Will be able to pull through all
right"
That's just where the ball did enter" re-
piled the grIzZied veteran eheerfully. was
in the Shenandoah Valley with Sheridan, and
we were having lively little time OF it, a
regular hare-aud-hOuuds race all the time, it
seemed. Wewere chasing Mr. Johnny Rebel
out of the country, and in one OF our charges
[ suddenly stopped short, feeling as if 4 red
hot sword had been thrust through me. / was
wounded. badly, too. The bali had entered
my left side and had passed clean through my
body, leaving fierce, burning trail.
Well 1 said 10 myself, Abe L., this
time you are dead man. No man can live
when bullet has plowed its way through his
yitals.'
u staggered out of the line. The fighting
business was so brisk just then that wounded
men were looking out for themselves. I man
aged to get to log aud sat down on i5 to wait
until should die. The pain was SO fearful
that / could barely move my limbs. It seemed
TO p1ralyze my nervous and muscular force. As
I sat there watching the men scampering along,
one of my old comrades passed me.
"'What's the matter, Abe2 he cried. Hit?
"'Theyve done me this time l answered.
40 Hope not he turned to yell back as he
ran. One doesn't expect delicate attention as
such times.
"WeIl, l waited to die until finally said TO
myself If this is dying il isn't so bad after all
81 unbuckled my belt to ease the pain, and
thought that | would like TO see what deadly
wound looked like. i took look and there
was no wound there. IcOnld not believe my
eyes. | knew / had been hit, for / could feel
where the ball had come out in my back 1
put my hand around there TO touch the hole,
and could not find it. There was not sign OF
a wound in my side not mark on the skin.
It took me not more than so seconds to buckle
my belt around me and make run for my
company / caught il in 20 minutes.
a. HoW's this2' two or three Of the boys
painted. we thought you were killed
"'Well you see L am not / said, falling into
the ranks
al had been hit by a spent ball, and that
night when examined my side found black
and blue spot on it as big as my cap. didn't
mind il in the least. A man who suddenly
RECEIVERS from a mortal wound feels pretty
cheerful"
The National tribune., 1890-06-26
OHIO,
Historic Valley Forge.

On Friday, jane -, under the auspices Of
the Patriotic Order Sons Of America, the ami
yersaTy OF the evacuation of Valley Forge by
WashingtOn's army was celebrated in a fitting
manner. Large delegations of the Patriotic
Order Sons Of America arrived at historic Val
ley Forge early in the forenoon, accompanied
by thousands Of other visitors, including hum
dreds Of school children, who had been given
holiday for the patriotic celebration. In Nor
ristOwn, Pa and surrounding towns business
was partially suspended. BY 10 o'clock thou
sands Of persons surrounded Washington's head
quarters, now owned by the Valley Forge Cen
tennih Memorial Association. The exercises
at the headquarters consisted of addresses rec
itations, music by the pupils of the Norristown
public schools, the reading of two prize essays
on Valley Forge, written by Anna p. Dugan
aud William Q. Rittenhouse, who received gold
and silver medals, respectively.
The National tribune., 1890-06-26
The Old Marching stem.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: | notice In
your excellent story, Tracy Tremmel" that
in Letter VIII, you make Tracy write that
1--WE must all take n step just % inches long
and 60 of them to the minute, etc. / presume
much of what you write of this kind will be
taken as authority, and remembered by our
sons and daughters. Now | write to say. hav-
Ing been an intantryman and taken consider
ablo interest in this matter of steps, L think
you will find that a 2S. inch step was 30 to
the minute; Il 30,inch step was 100 to the min
ute, and from l3 to SO inches was 100 to the
minute and upward. In marching on the
Plains we used TO get our distance by this
kind of count. For instance, 90 steps in u min.
ute, by a well-dIiled regiment indicated the
length of the step as % inches aud the regi.
ment was marching two aud seventeen. forty.
fourth miles an hour; 100 steps to tho minute
indicated 80 inches to the step, and the regi-
ment was marching two aud thirty-seven- forty
fourth miles an hour OF course regiments
did not always nor often step Just so many
steps a minute, but the length of the SOP was
always exactly proportioned to the rate and
any careful infantryman could tell how fast
we were going.
| have seen cavalry officers walking to meas.
ure rate of marching A cavalryman can, after
using horse a short time, get his rate by his
step as we'll as he can his own. / write this. to
show my appreciation of your story and my
belief that all that you story tellers say of
such things as here spoken of is taken as exact
fact and treasured as knowledge by our boys
and girls-Tnos. A. POLLOK, Miamisburg, o.
The National tribune., 1890-06-26

Ellsworth Circle, No. 2, Ladies of the GAR,
Oklahoma, has been organized with 81 charter
members; Lou E. Christy, President.
On Memorial Day. Kingfsher Pest, No AT
GAR, and Ellsworth Circle, No 2, jointly OBJ
served the day with beautiful and impressive
services There were graves of veterans TO deco
rate but monument 60 To Our Unknown Dead j"
was garlanded with lovely wild flowers. Kate b.
Sberwood's beautiful poem, Memorial of the
Flowers given by i2 little girls. each recitng
one verse and presenting her tribute Your cor
respondent added stanza for Oklahoma, which
was beautifully reeited by sweet little prodigy Of
six years.-Allie Hopkins Secretary.
Hancock Circle No. o. WilkesBarrc, Pa, reports
that in three years of organization they have raised
and expended about 500 besides clothing and pro-
visions. Present membership 10