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Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29

Few who ply the quill for living suc-
cesd in feathering thei. nssts Kate Fields
Washington.
my son, If you want to be independent
of your uEcle, don't b. too fresh with your
ante "-Elmira Gazette
'Do make a fool OF myself very Otter,
Miss LovelyT' he ssksd. "Oh, no." che
replied sweeily, mot of;en-ohIy it seems
to lsst"-Truih.
Muggin.-I DcveT knew + man 10 take so
much interest in his hnvipsgs a. Closefst
Bugginc-WkR: is LeI NGesins-A money
lender -Ph:!a1slph'A Record.
A complaint of a four-year-oid: 'Oh.
aunty! jus: went to touch a little chIcky
and tbs old hem growIed At me- and bit me
with her ncssT'-BostoR Courier.
BluJter-Do you nsan to say that am
lisri Biister-I hope that could not do
so Cngentlemsnly thing But see YOU
catch my idea--BoEton Transcript.
Mics Softiy (who hes been attending a
course of lec,urssl-oa, professor, saw
such funny old tCssl In ;he museum TO-
day. thought Of you at oncs.-Vogus.
'Is Miss Fosd!ck stili president of your
Society for ths Suppression of Slang, Miss
Skiddsf mo; she got too fresh and we
turned her down. ."-Retsiler and Jobber
''You ought to be very proud of your
wife. She is brilliant tslker" You're
right there" why, could listen TO her
all night" Il often do."-Tsxss SIftipgs.
"Poor jack He never could spell, and IL
ruined him" "HoEF1 he wrote @ verse
to an heiress he was in love with, and he
wrote bony for bonny ."-Hsrpsr's Bszar
Mr.. Boweris-Say, gimme a cloea hair
cut. Barber-HoT closet ssClosa TO de
head" Training for a prize ishtF'
'tNaw. Coin TO get married. New York
Weekly.
"Aiss Parker-Maud-rilI you marry
met Let me be your protector through
life, your -" "Thsnks, Mr. Jones, bat
1 must decline. 1 sm not protectionist.
When l marry 1t will be on the revenue
basis entirely. ."-HarpeI's Bszsr.
Msry's mother one day gave her a cent
to buy come candy. AS the little girl vent
down the street she discovered q bsggar
boy on the front steps of a neighbor's
house. She was FIVE years old and cent
seemed to her good deal of money. She
looked hrst at the boy and then at her
cent. Finally, with smile, she stepped
up to tbs forlorn child and ssid: Here.
little boy, take this cent and go and buy
yourself q suit of clothes and some dinner" ."
-Youth'E ComDRnion
Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29
why are Women Afraid OF Mice.

As woman, aud, trust, brave one, q
lover of animals aud student of natural
history, l ask the vexed question In all
seriousness Why are women afraid Of
inject Why should the sigh; Il had almost
written the DaAe) of tiny, harmless,
graceful little creature strike terror into
the stoutest hearts that best In feminine
bresstsi Echo answers, "Whyr
The fear of mice is a hereditary curse, an
inherited weakness, a fatal foe. which IL is
useless to combat, foolish dreRd of which
we ought to feel heartily ashamed, and yet
it Is q zeal and formidable terror. It is
never assumed. 1t may be exaggerated by
al of Mysteries or s succession of piercing
screams, but the genuine peure q fair fire.
mir is there all tbs same sad wbyl
remember once reading O story GboutA
coterie of strong minded women who gave
q series of lectures upoa female virtues ia
an old country town assembly room. One
of their number was chosen to deliver the
lecture upon vslor and selected for her sub
iect the history of Joan of Arc But when
the evening arrived and she was discours-
ing upon the valor of her sex In general, 8
mouse ran across the platform and the lee
turer and her strong minded sisters jumped
on their chairs olutchipg their petticoats In
q manner not altogether picturesque. But
maintain that the fear of mice has moth
ing whatever to do with the lack of real
bravery, and that Joan OF Arc would prob
ably have clutched her pstticoats in pre-
cisely the same manner.
A mouse In the chamber of MArat would,
believe, have dsteTred Charlotte Corday
from her dread purpose; and the tail Of one
popping opportunely from the carving of
Tuillia's chariot would have prevented her
from driving over her fathers corpse; and
could cite many instances In which mice
might have changed the history of the
world. Who can doubt that Cleopatra and
the other swsrthy Egyptian beauties held
the cat sacred in special vsnerAfion on &C
count of the part he plsys d in Kidding them
of their pet Aversioni Every one knows
that If cat has q weakness, it is for q
plump, well mstured mouse, and puss
has, perhaps, for this reason earned the
affection, because the grstitude, of our sex.
The story of prisoner who was cheered
in captivity by mouse is familiar to us all
but the prisoner was 9 man. Equally
familiar is the fable of the grateful mouse
which gnawed the net but again the prison.
er is said to be lion, not a lioness. I be-
lisve there Is mutual sntipsthy between
them.
Meet women have experieBced the senss-
| ton You are sitting alone reading, play
| ing, writing, painting or working. Suddenly
| you instiuotively feel a sensation of horror
| of some evil influence that Is present, but
Is yet unseen.
You lift your eyes. You behold gliding
over the carpet toward you without noise,
Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29

Few who ply the quill for living suc-
ceed in featheriog the!. nssts Kate Fields
Washington.
Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29
'sUe.s,


From the New York suu1
To a simple proposition
Your sttentionr invite;
can do whatever went 20,
And whatever do Is right
Chorus OF Organs: He can do whatever b,
wants TO,
AMI whatever he does is right.
lam the Constitution,
Aud, therefore. Congress. too;
have all the rights and all the powers
And whatever want do.
Chorus OF Organs: He has all the rights and all
the powers.
And does what he wants to do.
Nv Ministers nv Commissioner
send TO isles of the seA;
To pull down things and to set up kings
Just as seems good TO me.
In the islands Of the sea
No books of international law
You'll find upon my shelf:
am the law that knows no iiAw,
make law and war myself
Chorus or Organs: lie Is the law that knows no
naw.
he makes law and war himself.
For presidents and authorities
1 do not give a d.
have them al and more At my call
By looking inside OF me
Chorus of Organs; He hss them all and more a,
For the source Of GIl Is He
I'm comprehetsIvely Paramount
In this and In foreign lands;
cannot stop and VIII not drop
With the universe on my hands.
Chorus OF Organs: He cannot stop and he will
With the universe On his hands.
1, the people Of the Uzited States.
Am perfectly content.
And to save mistake. ne remark I make.
an the Government.
Chorus OF Organs: To save mistake, one remark
we make:
He fs the Isnxsrnu,e-fs
Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29
No. 2S5

apparently without the trouble of walking,
mouse. 1t stops; 1t fascinates you. You
drop your book, your music, your brush,
your needle, whstever 1t may be, but you
make no other sound. You feel your blood
freezs and your hands slowly paraIyzs. your
heart stops beating, your breath oeases, a
cold chill creeps over you.
In your Imagination You feel the soft
touch of an army of mice running races
over your face and hands and making rests
In your back hair. Yo9 start to your feet
and then-well, women take these things
go differently.
Are women afraid of mice simply because
III Is born in themi There is no reason why
we should be afraid of them, but the fact
remains that we are, and have long since
resigned myself to the fact as sn evil for
which there is no remedy.
Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29

who make the invoices. The evils which
flow from sd vslorem rates are 80 great and
so manifest that this plan of collecting du-
ties has no advocates but professional and
consigners.
This ia good reasoning, but with Cleve-
land as President there is no need of any
reasoning whatever. He approves ad val
orem duties, and therefore they are the
very best kind.
Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29

The New Hampshire Experiment farm
finds that milk from the best COWS costs
II cents quart; from their poorest, n
cents, as 1t costs just as much to feed the
smaller producer
Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29

The international boundary line between
the United States and the republic Of Mex
leo is marked bypyramids of stones placed
at irregular distances along the line all the
way from the Rio Grsnde to the Pacific
ocean. Wherever 1t was found practicable
to do SO these pyramids were built on
prominent peaks, at road crossings, fords,
etc. The line was not surveyed, as is the
custom, the location of the monuments be-
ing based on astronomical calculations and
Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29

A suit over the ownership of seven hun
dred canary birds has made trouble for q
justice in Hoboken. Pending a decision
the birds remain in his Office. 1t is q small
room and they take up most of the space
in it, besides which their singing interferes
with his bueiness. The birds and the JUS
tice are waiting for sction By the Supreme
onurt
Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-29
FASHION NOTES.
A New Jacket Kaect.

The front of very dressy accessory for
q plain dark dreas Is sketohed below, and
can best be called a jacket Hchu. This
model is made of cream colored tulle lace
Elk and sixteen inches wide that formed
the standing collar and the jacket parts.
On each side is a shoulder strap five inches
long and one inch wide that holds q band
of tulle one inoh wide meant to epcircle
the armhols. The latter as well as the
shoulder straps serve as skeleton founda.
ton, to which the folded draped lace Ia
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-13
"LIGHTs AND SHADOWS OF THE OLD
CAMP FIRES"
BY ONE OF THE GOLD VETS. !"

Old sopgs used to have peculiarly
touching effect at night after battle. As
| darkness came on, some of our boys
would begin 10 sing one of the Union
songs, and soon from away off across the
line of camp fires and pickets, where we
knew the enemy were, we would have
Dixey or some other Confederate song
waited back on the breeze, but presently
it would all be broken up by some soldier
striking up "Home Sweet Home Both
sides used to join in that in unison, as
every mothers son remembered his good
old home.
General Granger, at the battle of Chick
amaugs, had plenty OF veterans, but he
sent three green regiments to make the
charge which accomplished its object,
although at tremendous loss. When ask
ed for the reason for the selection, he re-
piled; ''That veteran troops, who fully
understood the situation and the risks
that they were running, would not press
home hopeless assault, but the raw re-
crnt would go headlong forward, because
they did not know their danger" The
event proved that his judgment was well
founded
Mr.. Reeves, a veteran OF Company |,
llSth Illinois Volunteers, has constructed
a very curious cabinet by the aid of a
common jack knife, and it represents over
1000 different pieces of wood and almost
every article of camp life. There are few
pieces of wood from the oak tree under
which Grant and Pemberton settled terms
at Vicksburg and pieces Of wood from
the apple tree at Appomattox, where the
surrender of General Lee took place.
There is laural wood from Tennessee; iron
and redwood from California. His pad
lock is composed Of ten pieces Of Usage
aud apple tree. Upon opening the doors
OF the cabinet, you see the portrait OF
Genl. Logan in one corner, and in the
other the portrait of Mr.. Reeves, himself.
On the bottom, under his portrait, are
carved figures of the Texas steer and
hog, representing army meat, aud another
of a horse all ssddled and bridled. In the
panel are accurate carvings Of shovel,
spoon, butcher knife, coffee pot. bayonet,
cap box, cartridge, and cartridge box, axe,
scissors, needle and thread, bean kettles.
haversack, boot jack, tin cup, plate, knife,
fork, spade, hammer, sword, comb, gun,
wrench, frying pan, musket, wormer,
finger ring, pipe, bareback, revolver, bi
bic, mess chest, hymn book, and seven
up-deck. The cabinet is Ave feet high
and two and one half feet broad. The
piece OF carving is said to be veritable
wonder by experts who have examined
1t, and 1t required twelve months steady
work to make II.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-13


With reference 10 the Beard of Health.
What have they done the past year and
what disposition have they made of the
two hundred dollars appropriated by the
council for their usea This is question
that interests the tax payers. Is the Board
responsible TO no one but themselves If
so, it is loose way of expanding the pub
lies money. and is liable to gross abuse.
There have been instances where the
Board has ordered nuisance abated and
paid for doing it out of the city's funds
to the amount of forty dollars, when the
party was fully able to bear the expense
himself.
The various departments of the city
council report from time TO time detailed
account of the city's expenditures for the
Information of the public, so that the peo-
Pile may see whether the public moneys
are expended judiciously or rot. The
same thing should be required Of the
Board Of Health, so that the tax payers
may know what the 5000 is expended for
without regard to exigencies. To CLAY all
suspicion of wrong doing, the Board of
Health owe it to themselves to give to the
public o detailed account of how this
money is expended from year to year.
CITIZEN.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-13

The Titusvlle correspondent of the
Hopes0eU Herald says On Thanksgiv-
ing day well dressed stranger stopped at
Atkinson's hotel in this village and en-
gagged supper and breakfast for nine men,
when he said were engaged in putting up
a telegraph line from San Francisco to
Philadelphia. He said they were travel
ing on special car which was then on the
siding at Washington's Crossing, and
would be here about 6 o'clock in the even
ing, and that they all would seep In the
car except Que old gentleman who would
want room with fire in IT,, and was
very particular about his accommoda-
tons. After getting his dinner and all he
wanted to drink and smoke, the stranger
told Mrs. Atkinson 10 keep account
of his dinner, etc., rs the bill would all be
paid together in the morning. He then
went out saying he would be back about
the time The rest of the party got there,
and We presume he will, as none of them
have ever been seen or heard tell of since.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-13

Quite some discussion has been caus
ed, the Democrat. A dvertiser says, by the
action of the Board OF School Trustees in
suspending May Warne from the Reading
Academy in Pennington, for an indefinite
period. 1t appears that the young Miss
in question remained away from school
half day every other week in order to
take music lesson, and the Board some
time since passed resolution prohibiting
pupils from taking lessons of any kind
outside of and during school hours, and
claims that its action is in accordance
with the law of this State. 1t was there
fore in carrying out this resolution that
Miss May was suspended. Mr.. Warne, the
child's father, claims that he has perfect
right TO keeph child home and to this end
has consulted counsel and will. he says,
make test case of It, The Trustees say
that their action is not an innovation that
many schools throughout the State have a
similar rule in force and that its business
has never yet been questioned. 1t is an
interesting qaestion and its final adjudica-
ton will be awaited with much interest,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-13
Doyiesiopn Democrat. tn ftsf.
CoLORED FOUNDING.

A Party of DoyIsstown Men Pick Up n Lit
tie Negro waif In Lambertville.-The
Infant Brought to Doylestown.
Clerk OF the Sessions Beatty Scbermer
horn, Protronotary William Stackhouse,
Recorder Isaac O'Connell and Landlord
Daniel Mclaughlin constituted driving
party t. Lambertville and New Hope
yesterday.
During their trip an incident, pathetic
In some OF its details, occurred. While
driving through Lambertville, seated iu
their comfortable carriage, and wrapped
IN warm robes, they discovered little
negro baby, clad in a thin cotton slip, and
apparently without parents or home. -,
'sBoys, I'll bet that child is an orphan,
or nobody would allow 1t to be about
with nothing but that slip on" said Pro.
tbonotary Stackhouse. The tears almost
eoursed down Clerk Shermerhorn's
checks. at the thought of the forlorn
condition of the child, exposed to the
wintry blast.
"I'm good Democrat" said Recorder
O'Connell, land the colored folks usually
vote the Republican ticket, but I'm not
partisan when it comes 10 helpless in
fancy"
"rhat's the proper spirit, lets take II
home with US" said Mr.. Stackhouse.
"You bet, that's what we'll do" echoed
Landlord Mclaughlin, and II that baby
hasn't any home, why there's nothing
the matter with the Fountain House.
The suggestion was no sooner made
than il was carried into effect, and the
little African mite, whose age it was i'm
possible TO determine, was soon wrapped
10 the folds of the Prothonotary's warm
coat. When the little black girl arrived
at the Fountain House there was an up
roar. Everybody crowded around to see
her. Samuel Steckel took the baby In
his arms and squeezed her SO hard she
commenced to cry.
s.I'li bet she has African blood in her
veins, said Charles Zenneck, taking the
baby whioI, made her cry again. 'See
here, . said Prothonotary Stackhouse, I'll
you fellows are going to tease or insult
this little baby. I'll take 1t back to the
Lambertville Rubber Works, where II
was made"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-13
The Tariff stIn a Party Football.

The popular reaction can but affect ser.
iously the deliberations of Congress. The
hard times have been attributed in large
part to uncertainty about the tariff; aud
many workingmen who In 1890 and again
in 1892 voted against "McKinleyism,
are now suspecting that 1t was those very
votes that preciptated the panic, stopped
the factories and threw them out of en-
ployment So they are ready to try the
experiment Of voting the other way. The
moral Of 1t all Ia that the tariff should
not be the football of party politics. Once
adopted, tariff measure ought by gener-
al consent to remain on the statute books
for a period of years. The business of
the country can survive any policy from
the highest protection to absolute free
trade, If only It can have some assurance
OF a consistent maintenance OF the policy
when once declared. 1t would be well II
business men would agree to drop their
controversial theories on the subject Of
tariffs, and do everything in their power
TO induce Congress to deal with the ques-
ton on its practical merits. The present
Congress will be greatly tempted TO pass
political rather than business tariff
bill. AT the end OF the session the men,
bers OF the House must 60 home aud face
the Congressional campaign OF 1894 and
the tar II bids fair for n year 10 come TO
be more than ever strictly party issue.
This 10 unfortunate for the country
From "7he Progress of the World" in
the December Review Of RevietOs.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-13
For The RECORD.

External Vigilance is the price OF Lib
erty,n was fully demonstrated by the
armies aud navy of this republic, from
1861 to 1865. 1t is just as necessary,
since the war, as then, that those who
survive the struggle should be constantly
'son guard" as the enemy are now mass
ing in our 'front.' Think for moment OF
the cruel ingrattude of delaying and de-
nying by delay the pensions of these men!
Think of what all these poor broken ones
must have suffered in the years that the
Pension Bureau has been pottering over
their claims.
Those people who express surprise at
the size OF the pension roll forget the i'm
mense magnitude of the struggle for ma
tional salvation; they forget that 1t rep
resents the bodily disabilities incurred in
the longest, and bloodiest war in modern
history. They forget that over 1000, 900
men fought four long years, during which
time the rifle aud cannon were not silent
a single day; more than 2, 600 battles took
place, many of them the bloodiest ever
known; that 125, 900 men were shot dead;
that $40, 900 died from disease by the
hardships of soldier life; and nearly
500, 900 were more or less severely
wounded by the missiles Of the enemy.
They forget that there was more hard
fighting done and more lives lost than In
all of the armies of Europe pat together
In tue last rs years. II they would re-
member these things, they would be as
tonished that the pension roll is not much
larger than 1t is. Proportioned to the
number of men, and the amount OF fight
ing done by them, the pension-roll of the
United States is really much smaller than
that of any nation in Europe.
Every hour of sunlight all over this
broad land hears the bells somewhere
solemnly telling of the departure from
earth of some gallant veteran that once
nobly encountered the storm OF battle.
100 day, 700 a week, $500 month,
SO, 900 year, is fair estimate Of the
mortality among the men who 30 years
ago, were marching with Sherman through
Georgia, or with Grant, Meade, Sheridan,
and Hancock, over the war.swept plains
of Virginia.
Look upon the picture we have pre-
sented. What bitter shame 1t is that
there are over 700, 600 claims unsettled in
the Pension Bureau. Think OF the snail
like pace with which the Pension Bureau
crawls around Shall this maltreatment
OF the nations bravest continue 2 Shall
disease, want, and death against the vet
Grams of tho Union be suffered 10 60 on
until these enemies OF the Union Veterans
gain complete triumph
Comrades they are now massing in our
front and trying to turn our TANKS, and
1t behooves us TO be on the alert, and
ready to receive them at every point, and
make as gallant fight as possible. and
let every veteran and friend OF veterans
unite In determined demand that the
pension laws shall be promptly executed,
by giving pension at once 10 every man
and woman entitled to the same, and let
US have II done. VETERAN.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-13

E. Tittensor, mouldmaker of Trenton,
has been under the hands OF the surgeon
and the change has been physical one.
To be more definite, he has parted com
pany with the nose that nature gave him
some sixty odd years ago, aud now wears
a nose OF an artificial character. formed
BY the hands CT the surgeon, Dr. White.
For long time Mr.. Tittensor's nose oaus
ed him uneasinesss, by reason OF unheal-
thy formations that had come upon ii. A
physician advised him to have an opera
ton performed, t, which he consented,
aud the disfgured member was cut off.
A new nose was formed from flesh taken
from the patients forehead, and, not.
withstanding his advanced years, 1t healed
rapidly, aud he has now ertirely recovered
from the effects OF the operation. He has
gained 10 flesh. The operation is one but
rarely performed, and 1t is not often that
1t is so successful as In this case. Pot
ters' Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-12-13

Court opened yesterday Tuesday at IL
A. NJ, Judge Albeit having arrived late.
The Judge gave a brief charge to the
grand jury, and they were sent out.
No cases appeared to be ready for trial
aud they were therefore put off for the
term. The Judge expressed his opinion
that the trial of the cases by a jury sum
moned as above stated would be perfectly
legal. After less than an hours session
the court adjourned for the term.
1hs.indictments will! be tried on Janu.
ary Sd,