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The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27
THE PRICE OF LIBERTY,

III T. ThlCI UT LII D ENIIs
 The grand and noble work of natur- alizing foreigners and making voters is now going on in this and other cities and in some of the cities the solemnity and importance of the work are lost sight of in the eagerness for party advantage. Of course there is nothing of this kind in New Haven but a student of such. matters might find something to interest him in Bridgeport And while new citizens are being made many old citizens are re- nouncing their political privileges and becoming dsgusted with the situation, What is the matter with the country? asked General W. H. L. Barnes in San Francisco the other day. What is the cause of the sadness, the unrest the fear from one end of this blessed land to the other? What is the matter with the American people? And he ansWred his questions as follows: The difficulty is that We don't love our country half we'll enough We do not deserve the blessings we enjoy. We seem unwilling to exercise that duty without which the institutions of this country neither can be preserved for ourselves nor transmitted to our pos- terity. How many of our best men re- fuse to have anything to do with poli- tics. Merchantsp bankers, thinkers clergymen will not mix in politics. I know in my small aceuaintance hun dreds of men who never vote. pre- sume know thousands who never
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27

Dr. Heinrich Hensoldt. the only white man who ever met or conversed with tho Dalai Lama of Thibet. Is now visiting in Chicago. He says he went to Thibet a confirmed materialist but after witnessing the wonderful feats of the adopts. such as the miracles of the mango tree. the rope and the bas- ket he has been forced to believe in n spiritual force. He says: Many of the wonderful miracles performed by ihe adopts I believe can be explained in the terms of what we call hypnotism the power of mind over mind. What we know of hypnotism is yet limited, but in the case of the Hindoos the power Is developed to a remarkable degree. Now, I don't believe that a rishi made a mango tree grow In three minutes but do believe that his power over the minds of the spectators was so great that they all thought that the tree was real. In fact, l go further. I believe with Schopenhauer that what we know of the material world Is only the creation of the brain. Mind Is all and in all"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27
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Rishop William Boyd Carpenter, Of Ripon, England, is the court preacher. A story is told of him that when he was asked how he managed to address so exalted a parsonage as the sovereign and yet maintain his composure he re- piled that he never addressed her at all. He knew there would be present the Oueen. the princes, the household, the servants, down to the scullery-maid. "And," said the bishop, "I preach to the scul,erv-maid and the Queen under stands me-"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27
FASHION NOTES.
Odd stuffs for House Wear.

odu sums TOT House W ear.
 The fancy bodice will hold It's own for house use, and Japanese silks of most pronounced design and rich and unique coloring are now used. The cut of such bodices Is more simple than when plain CT goods are employed, so that the ef- feet of the design In the silk may have full value. One of Japanese silk with a rich green ground shadowed with orange and showing lines of gold. has over 1t great scrolls of black. It is made to belt outside the skirt, being cut at the hips and longer front and back. The sleeves are great puffs to the elbow, and there finish with a fall of black net. The collar turns back from the throat and is he'd by rough gold buckle, matching the dull rough gold of the belt, over which the bodice hangs in conventional and calculated folds quite unlike the blouse fullness. The scrolls in the silk appear with startling conspicuousness on either side of the front and there is a melee of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27

away somewhere and begin life anew. It read;
 ITO Shanghai with your cats. Its cots. cotA. eotsr' asfi r. ..,i -.
 To complete the story 1t is only fair to state that Mir. Johnson writes a notoriously bad hand. and those in- terested here say the operator must have mistaken cots for cats.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27

The latest commercials that have heen detected are a photographic s5 note on the First National of Gin cinnati, series of 1892, bank number s,969; photographic $1O silver certifi- cate of the series of 1891, check letter c, The latter is well executed and is printed from an etched plate on ex- cellent paper containing the distribu- +,on of silk threads to be found in the original Its seal is the glaring defect. It is the eight-scallop one, used only on national bank notes, and is one-quarter of an inch larger in diameter than the one used on the genuine issue, which has twelve scallops.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27

Chicago has thirty-thousand resi- dents to pay the income tax. and the government will reap an annual re'e- nue from them of nearly s2,OOO, 900 if the fax is fully collected. There are said to he 29 men in the city worth above So'- ooo 900 each, Al worth s2, 900, 900 each. and 137 plain millionaires.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27
Notice.

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27

An institution of Washington is a book club, winch is now fifteen years old. It has twenty-five members, each of whom pays s4 year, thus furnish ing s1oo, which sum is slightly increas- ed by fines, and in other ways. The ob- 3ect is to bu;' and circulate new books
 Each book contains list of the mem- bers, and the memo. andum of the time it may be retained. From the first if passes to the second, and so on to the last, who has the option of buying if at half of what the club paid. If he does hot care to buy, the privilege reverts to the one next preceding, and so on. The books are bought subject to the trade discount, 50 that the price paid by the purchaser is very small in proportion to the retail price of the volume. The
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club is largely made up of scientific men. and some of the books are costly. but in the fifteen years Of its existence it has disposed of about LOO volumes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET

REPUBLlCAN STATE TICKET.
 FOR GOVERNOR, n. VINCENT COFFIN, of Middletown. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, LOREN A. COOK, of Barkhamsted.
 FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, WILLIAM c. MOWRi, of Norwich'
 FOR TREASURER, GEORGE W. HODGE, of Windsor.
 FOR COMPTROLLER, prSJANIN F. MEAD, of New Canaan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27

Professor Garner says he will return to Africa next year to pursue his stuo- ies in monkey talk. This year ne mas been attending political conventions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27

The French Academy of Medicine has taken up the question of the healthful- ness of bicycling, and at recent meet ing decided to investigate the subject thoroughly. Besides number of sud den deaths from heart disease ascribed to the practice, cases were reported of tuberculosis being reawakened by cycling, and of vertebral disease. The Academy resolved unanimously that till the results of the inquiry are known tthe use of the bicyclette (safety) should be permitted only after careful medical examination of the individual" Paris papers irreverently translate this "a louis a visit, if you please"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-27

It is generally supposed that the designation of the streets in Washing ton by numbers and letters makes per- fectly clear in what part of the city any given address can be found. Yet Washington is beginning to be as badly off as London in respect of duplicate street names. Five King streets or places, eight Madison streets or al ieys. seven thoroughfares named after Grant, six after Lincoln, six after Jackson, six after Washington, five after Pierce and many duplicates of small streets named after residents of local note. besides six Prospects, eight Pleasant thoroughfares and six ''T'' streets or alleys and about one hundred duplicates of other names, fair or foul.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-05
One Lesson Ahead.

One Lesson Ahead.
drank and chatted. The fencing order
was never limited at. though 1 saw that
they knew all about it.
/ entered the coloners tent. saluted,
and declined the pipe he proffered me.
''Sit down. lieutenant. sit down. I've
just been thinking whom to put into
the cOurt-martial."
"What court-martial, coloncl:'
"Why yours-tO try you for threaten
ing personal violence to brother off
ccr." Then slowly softening his shrewd
old face into smile he added: "Well,
well; we'll overlook it for once, but
don't let it happen again."
''Not if a man ridicules me in pub
lic"
NO, not when you made the first
mistake"
WAS the fencing order a mistake?
dave we any right to destroy a mans
property-maybe ruin him-a union
man likely, and very possibly driven
into rebellion by just such injustice?'
"Weu, war is heap of injustice
from A to lizard, and the soldier him.
self is the worst cheated of the lot.
What's few rails after all?'
"a few rails? Why a man is liable
to lose every rail on his farm between
dark and daylight"
"Suppose he does; what are rails
worth?'
20, dollar hundred, laid up in
fence"
"Well, now here we are say. 10000
men, needing. say, rail apiece for
campfires. That 500. Wouldn't your
folks give 500 tonight to have you
safe at home instead of marching to
battle"
Maybe $1O0. Maybe $1,000
Call it $1,000 for you and call it
500 for the average; that's $1,000
600 that the folks at home are contri-
buting to the country. Now, this
farmer is either a rebel or a Union
list. If he's rebel his rails ought
to be burnt and he too. If he's a
Unionist he gives his 500 to the cause
and ought to be glad of it,
could not gainsay it, and he went
on:
"Takc it another way: If they obey
ed the order, which they didn't, our
10000 men lost tonight an hour
apiece of needed rest and refreshment
through your rail-saving move. That's
1000 days work imposed on men who
already had all the work that was
good for them, and more-volunteers
who have taken their lives in their
hands to save the Union. And in or
der that some man, rebel or patriot,
can 60 on with his business just as
If there were no war"
Colonel, was fool"
Lieutenant, you weren't the only
fool. nor the biggest-and neither of
you ever served in the ranks or you'd
have learned some things that aren't
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-05
Steam Tree Telling.

Tree-felling by means other than
manual labor has been an engaging
subject to many inventors, and for
some time past more or less interest
Ing array of appliances designed to &C.
complish it has been paraded before the
readers of mechanical journals. One
Of the more recent of these machines,
brought out in England by Allen Ran
some, of Chelsea, reminds one very
much, in appearance, Of the now famil-
lar rock drill, the drill proper, of course
being supplanted by a reciprocating
saw blade, substantially in the manner
shown in the accompanying sketch.
The piston to which the saw blade Is
attached works in a cylinder of small
diameter but rather long stroke, pi-
votally supported on pair Of wheels,
so that the whole arrangement is readi-
ly portable. Steam is intended to be
supplied to the machine from porta-
BILE boiler through long steam hose
so that the boiler can remain in one
place until the machine has fe!led all
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-05

of the marching men looked like those
Of so many African cannibals tattooed
in stripes and wrinkles.
rode with the rcarlnost file of my
own regiment; and as exhausted men
fell back 1 took their muskets and
hung them by their Slings across my
horse until lie looked iron-clad; and
when the owners looked refreshed they
reclaimed their pieces one by one. AZ
tor all. when night fell and camp was
pitched, a good many strasglers were
miles in the rear After hating awhile
at general headquarters l rode over to
my regiment to dismount in Il tired
sullly group of my old friends. l was
still messing with them.
Hello, boys! Got through supper al
ready?'
No answer. I passed on to the ten
rows Of company tents-all quiet,
many of the men already asleep on the
ground. AS walked around observ-
cd a weary procession of men approach
ing with armfuls Of fresh chopped
wood. They flung it down and soon
some poor struggling fires lit up the
gloom. The wood, being green pro-
sluccd more smoke than heat. After a
time coffee and bareback We're served
at our mess and we drew around as
usual. but noticed that was out Of
favor. Anything 1 said was answered
in monoSyllables. At last Il brother
lieutenant broke out:
Lieutenant, I've heard you called
the best fcncer in the army
"Who. 1? Why, that's nonsense.
Thc"c are Wcst-Pointers here who did
mosa fencing at the academy than we
ou;s:,!cis could accomplish while the
war lasts"
An unexpected smile and chuckle
greeted this modest reply, and it grew
into general laugh that brought the
blood to ny temples.
''Thcy did some fencing, but think
how much you have saved"
Then the wretched joke flashed
across me. had my coffee can in my
hand-should pitch its contents in
his face? No; was too much of a gen.
tlcnan for that, so retorted with my
tongue instead.
''Lieuten2n., I'm not much with the
foils. hut / can handle with my bare
hands any man here who insults me
right here and now"
Gentlemen" said the colonel, who
ever wants to fight here must begin
NlIu tllC. ASul, stuN1SS W WuAI a
few days and he'll get his bellyful Of
fight without bothering his friends.
Lie',tenant(turning to mel, you are not
reporting to me just now; but I'd like
to sec you in my tent presently"
[ bowed and turned away, tired,
sore-hcar5ed. and hungry. walked
down to Where the men We're eating,
anu pausing at the mess Of my own
company. said:
Boys. any of you got a bite and
sup to spare?"
No one answered for full half min
ute-an interval that seemed to me an
hour. Then one spoke up:
why. hello, lieutenant! didn't hear
We when We spoke. Here. set an eat
all We mind ter. Why, boys, eff the
lieutenant hadn't have taken my mus
ket on his crupper about a hundred
miles back-shortly, after noon-Td
have given UP then an thar"
So sQuatted down and VIC ate and
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-05
A TWO-MINUTE GAIT.

A Sporting Writer Who Doesn't
Think Nancy Hanks Record Will
Stand Long.
The ultimate speed of the trotter has
not yet been reached, says the Drovers'
Journal. How fast he will cover mile
after fully developed is a matter Of con-
lecture, but many observing horsemen
predict that 200 is within the limits
Of his powers. There has been an an
nual reduction of records until last sea-
son by the trotter when 2:O5 IA was
registered as the fastest performance
of the year, by Dircctum. and the PAGER
Flying Jib reeled off ae mile in 2:04 at
the Washington Park meet. The rec
ord, 2:O4 of Nancy Hanks was not over
thrown and she still reigns the peerless
queen of the trotting world, her dow
ager competitors having been Sunol,
Maud S. and Goldsmith Maid. The sea-
the reduction of records, the kingdom
Of time having been invaded from all
quarters. Sunors champion record,
S.Oo Ii, WAS lOWeIeu ny Ilclullu, SsVs-
3-4, Stamboul, 2:O7 ~, and Nancy
Hanks closing the season. with her SEN
sational mile in 2:04. 1t is evident that
the development OF speed has not
reached it's ultimatum, Kremlin, 2:O7,
has stepped quarters in OBS IA, and
Directum has frequently gone half in
100, rate of speed that indicates the
possibility of the 200 trotter. The phe-
nomenal reduction of records is due
to scientific breeding. better system
of training, the pneumatic tire sulky
and improved tracks. The harness
racer is short-bred horse compared to
the thoroughbreds, but by judicious Sc
lections and development he is being
rapidly brought to state of perfection,
the younger contingent showing great
Improvement and rapid invasion Of the
dominion Of time. There is limit to
all material things and the rate Of
speed of the trotter is circumscribed by
the strength of his machinery, or driv-
ing power. The tension is great in ra-
pid action, and the animal breaks down
when forced to pass his extreme ability.
The quality of the organization has
much to do with the capacity of the in
dividual, and when the finest compost
ton is reached and the action is fric-
tionless it only requires complete devel-
opment with improved appliances to
reach the climax of harness records.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-05

taught ut West Point. War turns
everything upside down. Robbery be-
comes justice, waste becomes true
economy, cruelty becomes true kind
ness, dishonesty is the best policy, and
reasonable common sense it-folly."
"Shall 1 try to have the order, with
drawn?"
20, no. Let it die natural asktlE
We may be in the deep woods to-
morrow night and come upon the en-
envy next day. But one thing you may
do, and that Is to make yourself square
again with our boys. You ought to
be able to stand little chaR without
getting mad"
"Should apologize?"
"Wcll-after fashion, yes. Turn
it off with joke somehow. You're
just the kind of man to do that
kind of thing up just right"
AS l thankfully wrung his hand,
IL thought struck me; new joke on
the same line with the old. My COM
rades were sitting and lying IN the
starlit darkness outside, their places
being best marked by the glow Of
their pipes. l said to them:
size-especially to you =, lieutenant.
The colonel just told me 1 ought to
stand chaff without losing my temper;
but l know what he meant. He should
have said ought to learn to take
little railing without taking otfense."
A loud outlaw followed and gen
eral handshake made all right again.
We never had another tiff, and al
though we saw many n day without
any supper at all there never was one
belatcd by too tender consideration
for fencc-rails.
Can it be almost thirty-three years
ago? SO says the almanac, and so
says the diminishing array ut our an
nual reunions Only nine of us last
time out of our old thirty-three. Twen-
ty-four gone, whose graves somebody
will decorate, as hope somebody
else will do for mine in its turn.
Joseph kirkland.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-05
THE FlRST-EDITlON MANIA.
Sales OF Copies of Dickens, Thack.
cray and Charles Lever,

Sales OF Copies of Dickens, Thack.
cray and Charles Lever.
II a copy Of "Oliver Twist" possesses
the cancelled and the substituted plate
OF Rose Maybe and Oliver" the result,
when it comes to selling, will be very
different from what it would be with.
out that poor plate. says the Fortnight.
~ Reviews "The Memoirs of Joseph
Grimaldi," edited by Boz. is quite
different book in the eyes Of a collec'
tor when the plate Of the 'Last Song
Is with the pantomimic figures around
the etching. So also is the case Of
Martin 'Chuzzlewit," Of which the
more valuable copies of the first edl'
ton have the transposed f in the re-
ward on the engraved title
The first edition Of "Pickwick," is OF
very little account unless it possesses
the Buss plates, which were Cancelled,
and which, it may be added are worth
less: While on the subject Of "Plck'
wick" one of the many startling exam
pies Of the drop in the first edition
OF this immortal work, in the orig nal
twenty numbers OF parts, with the two
Buss plates in the. third part, Dickens
address in the tenth and fifteenth parts
and the printed covers, as well as the
advertisements, sold in the late +. a:
Marshall's library for 81 pounds .
shillings, but this identical copy only
fetched p pounds 10 shillings when
1t again came into the market last year:
The remarkable fact about these first
editions of Dickens and Thackeray, as
well as of Charles Lever, Ainswortn
and all the others of contemporary
note. is their extreme commences,
there is nothing rare about them, TOT
probably fifty examples Of every ons
could be purchased in London within
days walk. There are few exceptions,
but these exceptions are of the most
worthless nature.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-05
Metallic Fastener.


envelope so that the latter can not be
opened or it's contents tempered with
without injury thereto. 1t has been
recently patented. Fig. shows the ap-
plication Of the Improvement. and Fig.
2 one of the fastening plates, Fig. 8
representing another form Of such
plates, which are preferably made of
aluminium or some light metal. Each
plate has series Of prongs stuck up
and bent in a reverse direction, the
prongs at the outer edge projecting
downward and an inner series Project
ing upward, while there are grooves in
side of each series Of prongs. The
prongs preferably have serrated edges
and the plates are usually employed
in sets or pairs, two plates being Camp
ed together, but having their prongs
and grooves so arranged as to be alter
nately disposed when laid together.
The inner plate is first secured by its
prongs to the letter, and the letter with
the outer prongs projecting is inserted
in the envelope, to the rear side OF
which the prongs are clamped. The
flap is then folded down, the other
plate laid over the folded edge and in
register with the inner plate, the stamp
forced over the center outwardly pro-
jecting prongs, and the whole COM
pactly pressed together in any suita-
BILE hand press. The plates thus used
do not mar the face Of the envelope,
and the use of sealing wax. gum, etc.,
may be dispensed with.-Philadedph
Record.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-05
Good News for Baldhended Men.

Thirteen miles southeast of San Die
go, Cal, is the location Of spring
whose waters have the wonderful DC W.
er of restoring the hair to bald scalps.
We cannot give Il detailed history of
the spring, its discoveries and the re-
markable ''cures" it has wrought in
an article suited to this department,
therefore VIC will simply quote a state
ment made concerning 1t by the Cali
fornia bourd Of health: I'VE must &C.
knowledge that this water. from the
evidence that has been brought. before
lis, has made hair grow on scalps that
were entirely bald. OF this we
have had several examples on D.. ..sons
whom we have known for number
Of years, and who, until after they
had used the waters of this spring,
had given up all hope of ever again
having a full head Of hair.-St. Louis
Republic.