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Thoughts of Jefferson.

NEVER suffered d political to become
a personal difference.
MUST ever believe that religion sub
stantially good which produces an honest
life.
LAWS and institutions must go hand
in hand with the progress of the human
mind.
STABLE ownership is the gift of social
law, and is given late in the progress of
society
IT is error alone which needs the sup
port of government. Truth can stand
by itself
No MAN will ever bring out of the
Presidency the reputation which carries
him into it,
BIGoTRY is the disease of ignorance, Of
morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free
and buoyant.
AN equilibrium of agriculture, manu-
facture, and commerce is essential to our
independence.
WE owe a debt of gratitude to France,
justice to England, goodwill to all, sub
servience to none.
WERE we directed from Washington
when to SOW and when to reap, we
should soon want bread.
A NAVAL force can never endanger
our liberties nor occasion bloodshod; a
land force would do both
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Food, Beauty, and Morality.

Professor f. t. Miles, of the Uni
versity of Maryland, delivered lee
ture to large audience of young men
recently on Food and Digestion. In
the course of his lecture Professor
Miles, in speaking of the effects of an
insufficient quantity Of food, said:
"The fat disappears first, then the
muscles waste away, and finally the
bones come through the skin. The
brain, the spinal cord, and the nerves
are nourished to the last Like king
in beleaguered city to whom his loyal
subjects give up their food, the nobler
organs are longest nourished. Il
starvation there is not simple hunger
Of the stomach but hunger of the whole
body. It is not strange that when
hunger presses on people they will do
strange things. It produces insanity,
and they have been driven to eating
what has been called strange flesh >
that is, to cannibalism. There are
millions of people who have not enough
to eat. It is at the bottom of anarchy.
The police may give them loaf Of
bread, but the whole body is ill-nour-
ished, and a restless feeling results.
Not much can be done with the grown
up people of the criminal classes, but
the child criminal comes first. The
criminal classes are called dirty, lazy.
and ugly. Of course they are. They
are dirty because they have no spare
heat to let go; lazy, because the mus
Giles are weak, and nature tells them
to keep still when hungry. You would
be astonished to know how much Of
the beauty of the fairest woman is
made up fat. The criminal classes are
ugly because they have no fat. How
could a child whose muscles and ner-
vous system have been partly starved
be expected to have all the sympathies
and instincts of higher class of So
ciety? An everyday Sabbath school,
with breakfast before the lesson,
would be capital thing for poor chill
dren. Some say the poor themselves
are TO blame for their condition by liv
ing too luxuriously. One of the most
intense cravings Of the Greeley Arctic
party was for sweetmeats. Tea and
coffee do more good than harm. They
stimulate not only the brain but the
activities of the whole body. There
will be a great mission to the poor
some day to see that they get enough
of good food. p Baltimore San.
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WISCONSIN SOLONS.

In the Senate, on the 25th, bill provid-
ing that court officers in committing depend
pnt children shall take into consideration
their former religious training, and that no
child shall be removed from a private insti-
tuition or orphan asylum to a State school
for dependent children without the consent
of the officers OF the institution, came up
as a special order. Amendments offered
permit the State Board of Charities and
Reform to authorize the removal of chill
dren when in its Judgment such action Is
advisable, and provided for the payment
of So a week by the county for each
child sent by it to a separate school The
amendments were adopted. An amendment
to section 1, providing that where a child
has no parents or guardian it should be
committed TO the State School at Sparta
was agreed to. Debate on the bill was not
finished. Acts fOrbidding the employment
of children under the age of 10 years in
factories and places of amusement, and Civ
ing jurors in Justice courts cents per mile
for travel to and from the place of trial,
were among the bills concurred in. The As
sembly passed bills imposing penalty for
trespass in pursuit of game or fish; to pre-
vent selling OF narcotics to minors; to regu-
late the booming of logs at Beef Slough.
TIE Senate on the Goth passed bill for
the commitment of dependent children to
the State school at Sparta. A large num-
Der OF bills, mostly of local character, were
cOncurroQ IN. Inc Assembly Was the scene
of a sharp debate over the indefinite post
ponement of the bill reducing railway pas
senger fares to cents per mile. Speaker
Protein Keogh forced the recommendation
of the committee to a vote. An appeal
was taken and action reconsidered.
THERE was a tilt in the Assembly on the
9th over the bills to drain the land contigu-
Gus to Muskegon and Wind Lakes, in Wau-
kesha and Racine Counties. Mr.. Williams, of
Milwaukee, made extended remarks, claim
ing that the bills embraced gigantic job
and that by them it was sought to turn
over 5000 acres of land underlying Mus
kego Lake to a private individual,
when the State or United States was ec-
titled thereto. Mr.. Dodge, of Racine,
replied by saying that one of the bills
simply provided for a commission in per-
petuity to have charge of a drain
running from Muskego Lake to Fox River,
a distance of thirteen miles, which had
cost the farmers of these counties $4,000 to
build. There was absolutely nothing to
show to whom the drain belonged or moth
ing to prevent any person from controlling
parts of it. The second bill he said was in
PRODUCED after the first bill and gave James
Reynolds certain land provided he paid the
expenses of drainage. With this explana-
tion the obj ,tions to the first bill were
withdrawn, aud the bill passed to third
Taa0iOO
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stories had been told of the bravery Of
the man who stands beside the throt-
tie. There had been other talk, too,
hedging on lurid adventures on the
road, dark nights, men on the track,
sharp curves, falling bridges, and SO
forth. The man went on:
II have no exciting stories to tell !;
rather 1 would speak of the eccen-
tricities of the engine. AS / said, an
engine has it's peculiarities, just the
same as human beings. No two en-
gines are alike. To know an engine
one has to be right on her all the time
It is true that they are all made the
same, but. there are small mechanical
differences that cause them to run
very differently the one from the
other. It is hard to explain the idea
I have in mind, but guess you grasp
my thought. For instance, some en-
gines Will run along all right for a
month or SO, and then suddenly, ap-
parently for no cause, they will become
cranky and begin to act badly. They
will start and stop with a jerk, sway
violently from side to side, and alto
gether behave in strange and mys-
FERROUS fashion. AS said, there is no
explaining it, but any old engineer
will vouch for the truth of my story
Free Press.
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increased volume in his successors ad-
ministration. Many of the individu al
gifts ranged high in the thousands and
several were over 500, 900 each. To at
tempt list of even the most munificent
gifts to the college is on side the limits
of this sketch. A marked feature of
President Porter's work was the large
increase in the number Of elective
studies.
The architectural additions of the
Porter Presidency were: 1S74-76, the
BatteIl Chapel: 1682-83, the Sloane La
boratory; 1S85-86, Lawrence College and
Dwight Hall, also the Peabody Museum
of Natural History. During these years
the Observatory, the West Divinity Hall,
and the Bacon Memorial Library were
also erected. In 1856, Professor Timothy
Dwight, grandson of the former Presi-
dent, was elected to that position, which
he now holds The name Of the institu-
ton has been changed, to conform with
the growth and scope of the school, from
college" to university.
The principal buildings completed
since President Porter came into office
are the magnificent new Chittenden
Library, the Osborn Hall, for lectures
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Balloon Voyage to the North Pole.

The two daring aeronauts who pro-
pose to make journey to the north
pole are meeting with many discour
agements. The French society of
aerial navigation have pronounced
unanimously against it, At a recent
meeting of the society 10 Paris, the
President, M. Mage, editor of Cosmos,
made al address which was quite dis
heartening to the projectors of the en-
terprise He advised them to make
better use Of their energy and devotion
to science than to attempt to reach the
north pole by balloon. M. Mage said
it was impossible to believe the gentle
would succeed. All our information
about the prevailing winds in the polar
regions indicates that each extremity
of the earth's axis is region of circu-
lar wind currents. There is little pros
pect that the wind would carry balloon
travellers to their destination. Then,
even in summer very low tempera
ture prevails, heavy falls of snow are
FREQUENT, and it is difficult to believe
balloon could remain in midair while
heavily weighted with snow. Frost
upon the ropes and other parts of the
rigging WOu1O make tn0 management
of the balloon extremely difficult, if not
impossible The land or water surface
would for days at time be obscured
by heavy mists. The compass would
be useless, and the voyagers would
have to try to direct their movements
by the stars, an art in which balloon
travellers are not proficient. M. Mage's
remarks were Endorsed by the entire
society.
NJ. Hermite, who, with M. Besancon,
projected this daring voyage, said in
reply that he and his comrade intended
next summer to go to Spitzbergen and
launch pilot balloons for the purpose
of learning all they could at that point
of the direction of the prevailing
winds. If the result of these expert
ments is favorable they will return to
France and prepare to make their
polar voyage in 1892. If the results
are unfavorable they will renounce the
expedition. He did not believe that
the difficulties in the way of balloon
travelling were so great as the Presi-
dent believed.
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President Stiles died May 10, 1795, and
Rev Timothy Dwight, former tutor in
the college, was Immediately elected to
succeed him.
President Dwight's administration was
the most prosperous that the college had
enjoyed. He raised it from sectional TO
national Importance and patronage. lie
was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards,
the famous divine, and possessed many
of his great ancestors characteristics
and much Of his eloquence.
For this reason he filed the divinity
chair as we'll as the Presidency. He
added many new departments to the
work OF the college, notably those OF law
and medicine The increase of students
resulting from these added attractions
necessitated new buildings, and in 1902
the present North Middle College and
Lyceum were erected, and also new
residence for the President. President
Dwight died in January, 1917.
Professor jeremiah Day was then
elected President. He was conservative,
systematic and persistent, and the col
lege made steady and vigorous advance
ment under his administration, and
various important branches of study
were added to the course.
The buildings erected during MS OH
cial career were: In 1919, a large dim
ing-hall, in the center of College Square;
in l820-21, North College, and later
chapel; in 1831-32, the Trumbull Art
Gallery, now the Treasury Building; and
in 1843 the stately sandstone Library
Building. Dr. Alfred E. Perkins, of
New York. a Yale graduate of 1880, do
mated $40, 900 to the permanent library
fund, which still remains the largest in
dividual gift to that department of the
college. President Day resigned in 1916,
and was succeeded by Prof Theodore
Dwight Woolsey.
President Woolsey, during the twenty
five years of his administration, made
his wonderful executive powers felt in
every department of the college. The
progress of the college in those years
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was phenomenal and unprecedented, and
its forward strides brought to its re-
sources numerous gifts and requests
from wealthy friends of the institution,
both in England and America.
The buildings erected as a consequence
at these donations were as follows:
In 1928, Alumni Hall; in 16e9-71.
Farnham College and Durfee College; in
1896, the School Of Fine Arts; in
1859, the Gymnasium; in 1869-70. the
East Divinity Hall and the Trowbridge
Library Building; in 1871, the Marquand
Chapel; in 1859, the New Medical Col
lege; in 1869, the North Sheffield Hall.
Mr.. Sheffield also purchased the old
Medical School, remodeled it, and pre-
sented it to the college.
The Legislature passed an act substi-
tuting six graduates of the college in
the place of the six senior State Sena-
tors as members of the Board Of Man
ayers.
Professor Noah Porter was elected
President on the resignation of Profess
sor Woolsey, in 1870. The rich gi is which
had begun to pour in upon the college
under President Woo.sey continued in
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Learning Social Diplomacy.

One of the secretaries of the Chinese
Embassy in Washington has shown
himself apt in the art OF compliment.
He was introduced to a lady who,
among other questions, asked him :
what virtue do you most highly prize
in your woman?" "The virtue Of do
mesticity," was the reply. "Then you
do not like your women to move in So
ciety much?" she questioned. "Not
at all. Our law even recognizes it as q
cause for divorce when woman-par-
don me, madam-is inquisitive and
talkative." "Then should be in dan
ger Of being divorced if I lived in
China?" smilingly asked the lady.
"The very day that my country would
have the luck to possess a womanly
being like you" replied the gallant
son of the heavenly realm, every
cause of divorce would be removed
from the world.
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That Honesty is the best policy"
even when you are on the brink of a
failure, is forcibly illustrated in a cele-
brated case. When the members of
the great house of Barring Bros. saw
utter ruin staring them in the face not
a man tried to dodge his liabilities.
Each member of the firm put his pri-
vate estate into the fund with which to
meet the firms liabilities. Lord
Ravelstoke turned in the half million
dollar mansion he was building in
Mayfair Mr.. Hodgson, the silent
partner, gave up a magnificent place
in Kent where his family had lived for
three generations. Mr.. Stewart, an
other partner, had bought palace in
the West End, and was spending $3.50,
600 in decorating and finishing it. He
sold it out to Mrs. Mackay, and the
money went to help out the firm. Mr..
Midway, another partner, rented his
estate in Kent for three years. There
was no taking to the boats. The Off
GERS bumped themselves to save the
ship at any cost of cargo or personal
effects; and that was one reason why
they were able to get $75,000,000 from
the Bank of England to pull them
through
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red plush and dotted with gold nails

red plush and dotted with gold nails !;
the escutcheon representing the arms
or crest of the owner is attached to the
gibbet with two brass chains.
The other screen is made of white
gilt wood holding huge grandmother's
workbag, set off with a torsade of
loops and ends of ribbed ribbon striped
with satin. The mouth of the bag is
edged with gold lace and lined with
plain silk The broad ribbon by which
it is hung to the side posts is either in
embossed silk or embroidered webbing,
according to the material employed for
the circular receptacle.
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TEMPERANCE is a virtue which casts
the truest luster upon the person it is
lodged in, and has the most general
influence upon all other particular
virtues of any that the soul Of man is
capable of; indeed, so general that
there is hardly any noble quality or
endowment of the mind but must own
temperance either for it's parent or its
nurse; it is the greatest strengthener
and clearer of reason, and the best
preparer of it for religion, the sister OF
prudence, and the handmade Of de-
votion.
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located at HOllingWorth.
Upon Rev. Persons death, in 1907,
Rev. Samuel Andrew, Of Milford, was
elected rector He was, however, rector
in name only, as the duties of that Of
fee were performed by two young teach
ers, at Saybrook. This Arrangement
lasted for some seven years, during
which the school made little or no prog
ress.
A fresh impetus of interest in the
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and recitatfons, the Kent Laboratory,
and the Gymnasium.
A suggestion Of the extent OF
the patronage of the university
nav be had from the fact that its
Income for the year ending July 81,
1889, from its theological, scientific, law,
medicine and art departments was $780,
649.61, while its expenses for like
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college was given by
the donation of a Ii
brary, of some one
thousand volumes, in
1715. They were the
gifts of several gen
tlemen of England,
among the most nOta-
Bile of whom were Sir
Isaac Newton, Rich
ard Steele, and Elihu
Yale, for whom the
r. L -. I
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period were S2,185.53 less than that
amount The number of names in the
college directory, for 1890, was 1900
In scholarship Yale is excelled by no
American college or university. 1t also
leads in athletic sports. America may
well be proud Of her Yale.
FORREST CRIssEY
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m c a ger financial
provision for the
entire expenses of
the college would
not permit Rev.
PiersOn to resign
his pastoral charge
at Killingworth,
and d erVeo tie his
w h lie til m G to
tie a C h n g. IL e
therefore divided
his attention be-
tween his minis
terial and educa-
tiOnal labors. Tn
der tn G 5 e condi-
EionS the S c h o oil
WAS nOmin V
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Tradition relates that on TINS OccasIOh'
each of these earnest men brought a
number of his choicestvolumes and gave
them "for the foundation of "a college III
this colony" The Colonial Legislature,
in October, 17Ol, granted charter for
"a collegiate school,"
Rev. Pierson was chosen as "Rector,
and the-schoOl opened in the town Of Old
Saybrook, in March, 17O2, with Jacob
Hemnway, as its first pupil. The reve-
nues of the college were $50 a year,
granted by the Colonial Legislature. This
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TWO NOVEL FIRE-sCREENs.

A Brooklyn Young Lady's Recent Addi-
tions to Her Boudoir Ornaments.
Two novel and pretty ire-screens
were recently sent to Miss Hewer, of
Brooklyn, from friends in England.
The sign-like screen is covered with
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-02
just Like Human Beings.

"Just like human beings"
The remark was made by an old en-
gineer, and referred to the difference
between locomotives. There had been
some talk of the road, and some wild
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-02
ABOUT YALE COLLEGE.
ONE OF AMERICAS LEADING
UNIVERSITIES.

History OF It's Founding and Founders
Early Struggles for Existence-The Col
lege Now Has a Substantial Annual In
.corne-StuHent Life, Etc.
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ALE is the university
Iof the people. 1t has
been distinctively cos
mopolitan from it S
foundation, when, in
1901, Rev. j a m e S
Pferpont, of New Ha-
ven, and Rev. Abraham
Pier son, of Killing
worth-both Harvard
graduates-cal IL e d a
meeting of ministers,
at Branford. to consid-
,er the estabIishment.of
a Connecticut college.
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The whippings man receives on
the outside never hurt him as much as
the whippings he receives on the in
side.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-09
KILLED ON THE ERIE.
A Broken Wheel Causes a Fatal
Collision at Ridgewood.
specia. to the jersey oitv Ne,os.

Special TO the JERSEY CttV NetUs.
RIDGEWooD, Oct. 9-One trainman was
killed and TWO others were seriously in
jured In smashup on the Erie Rail way
at this place about four O'Clock this
morning. The man who was killed was
John Tibbetts, a fireman, and the injured
and James Pauling. a brakeman. Many
passengers were badly shaken up DuG
none WAS hurt.
The accident occurred about 200 yards
west of the Ridgewood station.
A freight train, drawn by engine 257. in
charge of Conductor Corwin and Engi-
neer O'Brien, was derailed aJ this point
by broken wheel. This train was run.
ming at rapid rate, and the breaking of
the axle had serious effect The cars
were all mixed up. 1t was very dark.
Before there was time to send out
danger signals. extra train No. 409, which
was carrying trainmen from Paterson to
Waldwick, four miles from Ridgewood,
came along at top speed. Engineer
Frank Blocker and John I1bbetts were in
the cab.
The engine crashed into the pile of
freight cars on the track. The engine of
the special train ploughed its way fully
thirty feet into tue wreck.
The engine was thrown crosswise on
UUG LTdCk Uy bU6 COlllS5lOu, OuU ulSk AOu
turn over. 1t is virtually wreck. The
cab was knocked to pieces. The head
light and smokestack were knocked off
and great dents were knocked in the
boiler.
Engineer Blocker was thrown over up
on the freight cars by the force of the
collision, while Fireman Tibbetts was
jammed up in the debris of the cab. His
leg was broken and he was severely
scalded. He died in few moments.
Blocker got thorough shaking up and
was badly burned.
The passengers of the special all of
whom were Erie Railroad employees, were
thrown from their seats by the collision,
but no one was hurt. They all set to
work to remove the wreckage.
1t was discovered that Brakeman
James Pauling of the freight train was
also injured. He was riding on top Of
the freight car under which the wheel
broke. He was thrown off aud badly
bruised.
Word was Immediately sent to Pater-
son, and a wrecking train was sent out.
Danger signals were sent out in both
directions and all trains were tagged.
Both tracks were so blocked by the
double wreck that all travel was impos-
sibIe. Train after train came from the
West and were halted. Ihere was soon
long string of them.
Trains were quickly made up and run
from the Jersey City depot to Ridge
wood, where passengers were taken or
all incoming trains from the West, and
transferred. The local trains were then
run back to Jersey City, picking up com
muters on the way.
A large force OF men was put to work
to clear away tine wreck, which they ac-
complished about noon.
The railroad officials say that no one
seems to blame for the accident. 1t was
not due to the carelessness of any one.
It was impossible for the trainmen of the
wrecked freight train to warn the special
of the smashup, for the accident occurred
only few seconds before the special
came along.