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The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16
4 DELICATE MATTER,

In his memorable and futile letter to Representative Wilson President Cleve- land solemnly announced that the sugar business was a delicate matter, and then as solemnly proceeded to advise the doing of that which would please if not satisfy the Sugar trust. Con- gress has followed his advice, and the Sugar trust is all right unless the pres- ident goes back on it and vetoes the bill.
 The sugar business is indeed deli cate matter, and the people will soon be able to sec just how delicate 1t is. For instance, there will be no revenue from sugar yet awhile. The trust has been piling the raw material into the country in anticipation of what has happened. and there is an immense stock here. The importations at the port of Boston alone during the three months of May, June and July amount ed to 1S6,7O0,OOo pounds, round figures, against 6S9oO,OOo pounds during the I same months last year. The increase was IF, ,S0O,O0O pounds, and the importa- tons for the three months this year were 2.7 times as great as they were for the same time last year. And in ad- dition to the importations already made 1t is said that the trust has between eighty and hundred ships on the wa ter, loaded with crude sugar. It's bill passed before they could get in, but it is believed that the predicted delay of the president in holding the bill the full ten days will be sufficient to enable these ships to get in In time to escape the duty. This will. of course, put @ very large sum of money in the pockets of the trust at the expense of the treas- ury department. There are rumors afloat that certain gentlemen who are urging the president to stand on his dig nity and rsbuke the German combina. ton by holding the bill the full consti- tutional limit have the above fact in mind as well, nItIs figured out that the trust will make at least $so.ooo. 900 out
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16
UP SPOKE THE CAPT.'S PARROT
An Opportune Remark of the Bird Evok ed the Takinn Hid.

An opportune Remark of tho Bird Evoked
 the Taking Hid.
 lFrom tho Chicago Daily Tribune.l
 Going! going! for, the third and last time, gentlemen! Are you all done? Sold! Sold to the colonel for $450. It was good price. gentlemen, and we'll alr have a bowl" 1T
 These were the closing words of an auctioneer at the sale of parrot in the apartments where the bird had been conspicuous figure for years. He be. longed to a man about town whose best known name is Captain" It seems an enormous sum to be paid for parrot, but this Is no ordinary bird. and the purchaser thinks he has bargain. The captain has 8 reputation for being one of the best entertainers in the city, and his apartments have been the scene of many merry gathering of the good fellows" of his long list of aoQuaint. ances. They have also been the ren. dezvous of select coterie who have gathered there many titnes to play draw poker. The parrot occupied promt- nent place in the card room, and whsn a game was in progress and . play- er" passed 'oor dropped out As usually gave some moments to convers sation with him, and 1t is reasonable 10 believe true his statements that ne has vocabulary that isa wonder" Y Some time ago the 'Cap" announced he was going to desert the ranks Of the
 'undomesticated" and join the ranks Of the "benedicts."' He alip srnounced that he would desert his 'dld qusrtsrs. and l4hat 1S-Anx ns thA aaassA ytAA-> A~~s@
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16
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were familiar in them particularly de- sired any object contained in the room in the way of memoir or for a more practical reason he might obtain the same by making known his wants, At this announcement there was gen eral request for the parrot. Everybody wanted him. The requests became so numerous and decided that the cap
 with the underlying strength of stocks.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16
HARD.

Many do a heap of hard climbing in search Of easy grades. Chicago Her aid. 7. .rssA.B '
 The lawyer who worked like horse was engaged in drawing U conveyance, --Boston Commercial BulletiDs
 Mrs. Grogg-You have bes6 a ,naughty boy, and l shall have to tell your papa. Johnny--H'm! Just like a woman! Can t keep a ecret!-Roston Transcrint.
 "what a beautiful bouqhett Is 1t in, tended for me or my slster?s Orderly -'"rAA uautAna.nA talA JneA ta hand it
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16
Vandalism In the Quaker City. From the Philadelphia ReCord.l

From the Philadelphia Record.l The mischievous conduct bf boys in changing honeysuckle vine from the front of one residence to that of another on Knox street. between Lehman and Rittenhouse, Germantown, caused a great deal of misunderstanding.
 The head of one of the families had experienced much difficulty locating his own house when he returned from the lodge" as the two dozen brick houses in the row are all alike. To obviate his difficulties he planted the vine along the front iron railing of his home. The boys. learning of his plans. removed the plant four doors away and awaited de- velopments. After waiting for nearly two hours along came their victim, like yacht fin heavy sea. He observed his vine on the fence, pulled out his latch key. located the keyhole, opened the door and entered. Back in the kitchen he beheld man and woman together, and. believing the woman to be his wife. showered blows on her companion. Cries of murder" and police" soon brought an officer and some of the neighbors, and both of the men were placed under arrest.
 In the morning the case was explain ed satisfactorily to all concerned, and the two men were released from cus- tody. The vine has since been con- sumed by flames in order to prevent future mistakes of the same sort.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16

An Ingenious inventor. of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, has devised a clothes gringer which is operated by electricity. It works automatically, and when the last piece Is squeezed out a bell rings and the wash tub is turned over and emptied,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16
A MOTHERS DUTY
TOWARDS HER DAUGHTERS.
Suggestions Which May Help to Avoid
 Many Dangers.

OFFICIAL TO OUR LADY READERs.l
 Less than twenty years ago even the medical profession secuted the idea that
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16
F.iSHION NOTES.
With Odd Collar and Belt.


 Printed muslins are made up charm ingly with cambric In solid color to match the print. The cambric Is then covered with wash blond net and rib bon is added profusely. Printed lawns and sprigged muslins aresornamansed by many yards of ribbon, favorite er- rangement being to pass the ribbon from the waist line in front over the shoulders to the waist line in the back A cascade bow. falls from the ribbon belt at the back to almost the hem. Epaulettes of lace are sometimes put on under the ribbon at the shoulders, but there is a decided tendency toward simply trimmed sleeves nows days, es-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16

Recently, says a report from Turin, a major of the Piemonte Reale regi- ment, marching with his battalion, met the Princess Letitia, the widow of the late Duke of Aosta, on 8 bicycle, ac- oompanied by some friends. The major, who did not recognize the princess, neither stopped his men nor saluted, and was immediately, reported to head quarters, placed under arrest, and ed to explain. He pleaded that he could never have imagined that her High ness would run about in public on bi- cycle. His case was reported by the corps commandant to the minister of war and by him to King Humbert, who was intensely annoyed and ordered the major to be released at once.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16
Notice.

We cannot accept anonymous or return re- leoted communications. In all dasee the name of tho writer will he required, not for puphea- lion. but as guarantee Of good faith.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16

Cleveland has the bill, says tho dis- patches. So he has. So hs has. Ana ,e has it whore the chicken had the axe.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16

'oung girls could uffer from the misery of uterus roubles.
 That form of disease, it was
 claimed,c only to mar =, ried women. ;; 7: When Lydia
 E. Pinkham
 first sent the news of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16

Can Cleveland hesitate? the Register asks. Perhaps 50, until an the sugar sh,ps have reached port.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16

If the president doesn't veto the Cor man bill 1t will be wise for those who have incomes to begin figuring. It is thc opinion of the members of the ways md means committee that the income )ax will become operative next Janu- lry, and the tax that will then be levied will be upon Incomes earned since Jan- uary l, 1894. This opinion Is based upon that clause of the bill which pro- vides that from and after the lst of January, 1895, and until the 1st day of vanuary, 1900, there shall be assessed, levied, collected and paid annually a Yax of , per oentum on the amount of Income above e4,0O0 upon the gains, profits and income received in the pre-. peding calendar year by every citizen pf the United States.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16

It Is hard to completely defeat. determined young woman. A young woman of Foreman, North Dakota, gets the best of those who voted against her in recent city election by marrying her successful competitor for the responsible position which she lost at the polls. She has the offices end the power even if she hasn't the office.
 Pennsylvania Dutch is the language commonly spoken in Lehigh county Pennsylvania. Recently the sheriff conducted sale in this language, and how the original owner of the property declares that it was sacrificed by the sale being so made. She has brought suit against the sheriff, and should she win there will be a revolution in Judicial procedure in that county, where no other language is employed in the court house, and whose writs and deeds are still made out in Pennsylvan- la Dutch. The present sheriff is said to know no other language.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16

According to a recent dispatch from St. Petersburg, the wild camel has been discovered in large numbers in that portion of Asia which lies between Lobnor and Sajuy. This will dispose of the doubts that have hitherto pre- vailed on the question as to whether the ship of the desert" really exists In an untamed condition. From time immemorial two species of tame camel have been in use, namely, that known as the dromeda1y, with only one hump, and found in India, Arabia, and Africa, while the one with two humps Is met with in Central Asia, Persia, and the south of Russia. Both species figure In the sculptures of Assyria, and the mentioned in the oldest books of the Bible. but always as domestic animals, and no trace exists of their being drafted from their savage state Into civilized life. Indeed, 1t has gen. orally been supposed that the camel never existed otherwise than as & beast of burden, and the few specimens of wild dromedaries which have hitherto been secured by travellers and hunters have been regarded as merely some of the domestic species that had reverted to the freedom Of barbarism.
The Press., 1894-02-08
JUSTICE AVENGES HER SEX.

Justice in Connecticut is woman, and she indignantly resents any slight shown to her sex. That is why Miss Alice B.
 Watrous, a comedy and amorous school ma 'am of Colchester, got $750 verdict for breach of promise against Roswell Chamberlain, farmer. After a court ship of two years Chamberlain told her that he could not afford to marry her,
 because he "needed all his money to buy fertilizer with" Is it any wonder that the goddess took the bandage from her eyes for moment that she might see the man who preferred fertilizer to pretty girl, who would rather have bone dust than bones clothed in flesh and blood, and who spurned the joys of wedlock for the delights of a big crop. of potatoes The state would have been eisgraced for ever had such a slight gone unavenged. The unsentimental farmer must pay the verdict, whether; ..he ever gets any more fertili4er or not. The shame of the com monwealth must be wiped out. Cham berlain's defense that the girl did the theft of the sparkling" is not valid, and ii is not natural either. Girls assist in the process. and they occasionally take the initiative, but no courtship proceeds to ar
 engagement to marry without some active
The Press., 1894-02-08
Work on the part of the man. A Michi- gan poet understood the process when he | dxI

Work on the part of the man. A Michi- gan poet understood the process when he wrote this idyl
 She was wary and willy
 And kissed him quite slyly,
 Then laughed in murmur of glee.
 They say the velocity
 Of his reciprocity
 Was really refreshing to see.
 Men are the same in Connecticut as they are in Michigan. Miss Watrous wrote love letters to MT. Chamberlain and he wrote love letters to her. The two swung on the front gate in the light of the moon, and said many things which would sound silly if heard by disinter- ested person, but which to them were the profoundest wisdom. The young woman went to the farmhouse in which she ex- pected to live and superintended the paint ing and papering of the interior, and Chamberlain did not object. He was not thinking of his crops then. Fortunately for him and for men like him he has learned that @ man cannot have such ex- ecrable taste as to prefer fertilizer to a Connecticut girl without suffering for it. -Br0oklyn DGiIy Eagle.
The Press., 1894-02-08

Tom Reed, of Maine, in his great speech against the Wilson bill Thursday said, af- ter showing the great rise in wages since 1860: ''The truth is, that this very ques- tion of rising wages is what makes good many men free traders. People with fix ed incomes think that anything which raises wages is inimical to them, and manufacturers who have foreign markets are naturally anxious to have wages on the foreign standard. confess to you that this question of wages is to me the vital question. To insure our growth in civilization and wealth, we must not only have wages as high as they are now, but constantly and steadily increasing. This desire of mine for constantly increasing wages does not have it's desire in love for the individual, but in love for the whole nation."
 The 339 convicts at the Wethersfield state prison were entertained on rWednes- day, January 31, with the annual Dorsey dinner. Years ago MT. Dorsey of. Rhode Island, formerly an inmate of the prison, left fund with the warden for the pur- pose of furnishing turkey dinner to the convicts annually on his birthday. This fund, which has been invested by the state treasurer, now yields an annual in come of $1O0. The dinner consisted of roast turkey, 305 pounds, mashed pota- toes and turnips, onions, etc. In addition each prisoner received a half mince pie, three and one-half ounces of butter, the same quantity of cheese, pint of coffee, two oranges and two crullers. The con- victs much enjoyed the feast, and there were no unpleasant consequences beyond few attacks of indigestion caused by the liberal diet.
The Press., 1894-02-08
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WHY HE EREMAINED.-1he members of the Independent Order of Enthusiastic Goo1 Fellows were operating on MT. Tim berwheel few weeks ago, putting him through the operations supposed to be nee assary to convert an ordinary citizen into an Enthusiastic Good Fellow. They were almost through with the initiation, when some kind of an explosion in the store over which the hall was situated blew the building into the middle of the street and interfere with the ceremo- nies.
 Ready hands set to work and extricated the people from the debris. Fortunately no one was hurt very much, but after a census had been taken MT. Timberwheel was found to be missing. A search was instituted, and before long he was found in an adjoining yard, where the force of the explosion had landed him. He sat in lodge-room chair and his eyes were still blind-folded.
 "Why on earth didn't you take that thing off your eyes and get out of the chair when the explosion occurred ?" ask ed.one of the Enthusiastic Good Fellows,
 Explosion p calculated Timberwheel. II thought that was part of the initial tion.'
 Vick's Floral Guide for 1894 is a beau ty. It is work of art, a feast for the senses. The covers contain beautiful il- lustrations of novelties in a suit of gold and are printed in eight different colors besides black. Colored plates of chrys- anthemums, poppies and vegetables. On the front cover is a very exquisite bunch of Vick's new white branching aster, and on the back is the new double anemone 112 pages filled with many new novelties of value, as well as all the old leading va- rieties of flowers and vegetables. We advise our friends who intend doing any thing in the garded this year to consult Wick before starting operations. Send ten cents to James Vick's Sons, Roches- ter, N. Y, for Vick's Guide; it cost noth- ing, as you can deduct the ten cents from first order. It certainly will pay you.
The Press., 1894-02-08
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.

A letter from Alice Palmer, the fifth round the-world missionary sent out by the Worlds Woman's Christian Union, gives news of new unions formed in South Africa, some of them receiving their first impetus from Mrs. Leavitt, the first w. c. T. U. missionary for the world at large. Churches, ministers, associations and Good Templars sympathize and act ively cooperate; Demorest medal con- tests stir up the wine farming population The report of the fourth annual conven- tion of Cape Colony makes us sure that ''there are bands of ribbon white, around the world, around the world," and the daring of the W. c. T. U. women in start | ing every much alive monthly paper leads us to believe that America does not monopolize all the enterprsing women yet. ...
 The late Hon. George R. Rogers, one of New London's most public spirited and enterprising citizens, among large dona- tions to his church and various societies, bequeathed three thousand dollars to the National w. c. T. U., and two thousand to the w. c. T. U. of Conn. A fow years ago MT. Bartlett of Guilford, Conn.,, gave l five thousand dollars to the National, the ''nutmeg state" thus taking the lead of all others in gifts of this kind.
 Connecticut pays $2.97 per capita for public school, and $15.88 per capita for liquor. Thirteen dollars more per head for that which only destroys than we pay for that which builds up. How much longer shall we continue this suicidal process ?-A. H. Wyntt. New Jersey w. c. T. U., assisted by Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, are preparing sci entific temperance instruction bill to pre- sent to their legislature. In addition to this they are working for the appointment of police matrons in cities, an amendment to the cigarette law, and law against impure literature.
 License and no-license presents the fol- lowing contrast in Pittsf1eld, Mass. Un- der license there were five hundred and two arrests for drunkenness and assault | in six montht. During the same length of time under no-lieense there were one hundred and ninety arrests.
 It is arranged that in May or June there will be appropriate ceremonies in connec- tion with the unveiling of the statue, when willard Fountain, the memorial of tenn perance boys and girls the world around to the Columbian exposition city, will be- gin it's pure and blessed mission. The children of the world raised about $25OO for this fountain.
 The Y. W. c. T. U. of Providence, R. l., sustains tea room, which is largely patronized; has library of seven hun- dl ed volumes; a Summer Rest Cottage for working girls completed and well fur nished; and an ice water fountain ready for use on the great bridge this season.
 "Vote for principle, vote for right, and you need not fear the consequences. Those votes only are lost which are giv- en for men in violation of principle. '- | HhSof ,,ofsco <Tbooo
The Press., 1894-02-08

The anarchists constitute one of {, C serious problems with which modern sC- ciety has to deal. It is not supposed that they are very numerous, but they are dis tributed through different countries. They evidently communicate with each otb' r and contrive plots for overthrowing social order. Just now they are active in Spain, France and Sicily. They are heard tf throwing deadly bombs one day, and bold ly attempting to assassinate some pron l. nent officer on another day. If hard pressed in one country they escape to ,n- other. They risk freely their own lives to execute their plots. Punishment docs not intimidate them. It is difficult for one government to suppress them. ] would seem as if all governments mu | combine to root them out by drast : measures
The Press., 1894-02-08

THE PALMETTO STIoK.-A venerable gentleman, in shiny broadcloth, high stock and black silk cravat stood looking at the names on the tablet in the transcept of Memorial hall at Harvard college. His spectacles seem ed to trouble him much, for he took them off frequently, rubbed them carefully and then adjusted them again, only to remove them a moment later.
 As approached him noticed that his face wore a strange, hard expression that quite belied his gentle manner. I inquired if there was any name he was looking for in particular; perhaps I could help him find it.
 He turned upon me rapid glance and answered shortly, "No."
 'I beg your pardon" began, q thought
 ''Yes, yes, know" he interrupted in 8 harsh voice. "You thought that I had a son who went here to college, and who who was killed in the war. We'll, had. But his name you will not find here."
 The old man turned abruptly and walk ed toward the door, gently tapping the tiles with his ivory handled walking stick as he went. He stood for a moment in the doorway, gazing up and down the dusty street. And I, coming up behind him, saw that the cane that he leaned up- on was palmetto wood.-BostOn Courier.
 A guard tells good story on a lady who was visiting well-known Chicago lady, and who was being shown by her through the fisheries building. She was in the salt water section of the aquarium in the very thickest of the pushing, jost- ling, crowding mob that constantly gazed upon the caged denizens of the deep Pushing her way toward the tank wherp the toad fishes disported themselves, she suddenly exclaimed:
 "Do look at that great long fish squirt ing water out of it's nose! Isn't 1t won- derful!"
 The long fish referred to was a lead water-p1pe leading from the top to the bottom of the section through which wa sent constant stream of salt water whicl, came out in sprays through a number oI little holes in the end of the pipe.
 But she wasn't the only person who wOs deceived by these pipes that sprayed ga! water in the various sections. Occasion ally countryman would be heard to eA claim:
 "Gee wiz! look at that long eel nev CT saw an eel squirt water like that be forel"