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The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-25

bled you to-day result of special meet ing of the Royal Yacht Squadron; con- clude challenge now definitely settled.
 GRANT, Cowes.
 Subsequently, Lord Dunraven having expressed at the meeting his strong feeling that something ought to be done to prevent the necessity of the long correspondence and to meet in advance the difficulties which had arisen in 1889 and 1894, a committee, consisting of the flag officers of the squadron, Sir Allen Young (who, with Mir. J. Mulholland and Sir Charles Barring, was on the special committee of 18S9), Sir Charles Hall, and MT. Justice Bruce, was ap- pointed to deal with any questions which might arise.
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rhe Lnnd of storr nooks.

At evening when the lamp Is lit. Around the fire my parents sit; They sit at home and talk and sing And do not play at anything. Now with my little gum I crawl All in the dark along the wall. And follow around the forest track Away behind the sofa back. There, in the night, where none can spy All in my hunters camp lie, And play at books that have read Till it is time to go to bed. These are the hills, these are the woods These are the starry solitudes; And there the river by whose brink The roaring lion comes to drink. I see the others far away, As if in fire-lit camp they lay, And like to an Indian scout, Around their party prowl about. So, when my nurse comes in for me, Home I return across the sea, And go to bed with backward looks At my dear land of story books.
 Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Dr, Henry Gannett, chief topographer of the Geological Survey. has been studying the migrations of Americans within the United States, and the statistics collected by him furnish inter esting reading. He first draws atten- tion, as throwing light on his subject, to the fact that the United States is nearly as large as the whole of Europe, and that some of it's countries are not as large as our great states. He finds that 2500,00O people in Europe are liv- ing in countries other than those in which they were born, whereas in the United States Il, 800, 900 persons, accord ing to the last census. had migrated from the states of their birth. He shows that the volume of native migra- ton exceeds the foreign immigration by 2,250.000 a fact most remarkable in it. self. "Of the natives of Maine" says Dr. Gannett, nearly one-third have left the state, while in exchange she has re- ceived very few native immigrants New Hampshire has sent out even larger proportion, but their places have been taken in much large proportion by contributions from other states. Two thirds of those born in Vermont are scattered in other states. and she has received comparatively few to take their places.
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FASHION NOTES.
Do You See That slopeq


 After so long a period of dressing so as to increase the shoulder width, a dress like that shown below is sure to seem unhandsome, but 1t should be re- membered that styles change constant Iy and that when one mode hangs on tenaciously, it's very stubbornness makes it all the more likely that it's successor will differ widely from it. Read between the lines of fashion s history and thus you'll learn that it Is part of the designers art to make each new style quite unlike those that came before. Hand in hand with the willy creators of modes go the women of wealth, who are pleased with that which is entirely different from what other women wear, so startling oddi- ty like this is rendered possible just be- cause of it's unusualness. It may seem ugly now, but consider it's materi- als and bear in mind that the time is now ripe for some radical change in
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sleeves. It is in cloth of the fashiona- ble bluet shade and is trimmed with velvet of the same hue and with sable. It's godet pleated skirt is bordered with velvet which Is surmounted with a fur band. The waist has back and front of one piece and Is fitted by pleats laid at the waist. Belt and standing collar are of velvet. Already there have been offered gowns of the same general shoulder outline, but these sleeves are a complete departure. They are set off by deep caps of cloth finished with bands of fur and two pinl1ed ruffles of the dress goods. To add q little width at the neck, the collar has a bow at the back, whose ends stand out as indica- ted.
 Quite as odd as this costume was the case of the new umbrella it's wearer carried It was in plaid and and en- tirely new fancy The umbrella itself IS black end of close, fine silk. the cov- CT being the only touch of color, unless the handle be a ball of agate in one of the prominent hues of the plaid. The fashionable woman's passion for har- monies is so great that she will be tempted to have her gown lined with plaid to match the cover of her um- brella, when she'll deem herself an out right plaid symphony. FLORETTE.
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JOHN ADr.

John Adt, who died yesterday, was man of much strength of mind and character. He was successful as a bus mess man, but, in his later days at least, his thought was not wholly given to business. He was deeply interested in social problems. He was intensely patriotic. He was energetically opposed to anything that appeared to him to be dangerous to freedom of thought and action, and he would sometimes take a very original way of making his oppo- sition felt. He never hesitated to say what he thought, and though his plain speaking was not always relished by those to whom it was addressed they recognized his entire sincerity and de- sire for the general good. He had lived a long, active and useful life, and he will be greatly missed by many who ad- mired his sturdy independence and re spected his firm and persistent adher- ence to what he considered to be his d11tV
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Advertising Rates.

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 Obituary notices, in prose or verse. i5 cents per line. Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cents each. Local notices, l5 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited 10 their own tonabe), and their contracts do not include Wants To Let, For Sale, etc.
 Discounts-On two inches or more one month and over, 10per cent; on four inches or more, one month and over, l5 per cent.
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A decision of much importance to all who consign goods to merchants to be sold on commission while retaining the proprietary interest, has just been rem dered in the United States court at Chicago by Judge Grosscup. A retailer of gentlemen's furnishing goods was closed up on an execution, and the United States marshal was ordered to sell the stock A manufacturing firm applied for an order exempting their goods from sale, on the ground that several years before the merchant and firm had made contract under which the latter was to keep him supplied with full stock of the collars and cuffs. and he was to report his sales and settle for them monthly. Counsel for the other creditors opposed this pe- fition on the ground that the contract was clearly against publis policy be- cause it gave the consignee an appear ance of ownership and consequently credit he could not otherwise have ob- tained. Judge Grosscup sustained the firms bill for want of equity. This de- cision will affect many classes of man ufacturers, especially those of musical and agricultural instrumentss most of whom sell largely on this system,
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An instructive verdict has just been rendered in the New York courts. The plaintiff in the case hired a tenement of the defendant which proved to be in B bad sanitary condition, in consequence of which condition the plaintiff lost two of his children. He brought. suit for damages against the landlord ahd re- covered $2, 1000.
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A Friend-If you love her, old fellow why don't you marry her? Bachelor Doctor-Marry her? Why. she is one of my best patients.-Life
 Figg-They say that Badwun is quite i'll. Do his friends have grave fears about him? FIogg-I think their fears extend beyond the grave.-Boston Tran script.
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A bill just introduced in the Penn Hylvania legislature provides that the State of Pennsylvania shall give to every public school pupil within its borders a $1 legislative handbook.
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A young woman has applied for the place of public executioner. now va cant at Vienna. She states that she is 2S years old. strong and good looking, and pleads that 1t will be more hu- mane to the criminal to see, in his last moments. a charming woman rather than the hideous being hitherto em- ployed.
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The house of lords has ruled that a man is at liberty to prune trees which overhang his estates from a neighbor- Ing estate.
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Notice.

Wecannot accept anonymous or return re- jected communications. In all cases the name of the writer will be required, not for publica- ton. but as @ guarantee of good faith.
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In accepting the nomination for mayor of Philadelphia, ex-Governor Pattison calls attention to the remarka- bIe increase in the expenditures of that municipality within the past few years. Those for the year 1894 were Ss2, ,19O,O0O an average per capita for each voter of over $15O. For the year 1887, the first year under the new char ter, they were $17,68S,3O4 For this enormous increase ex-Governor Patti son says no adequate return has been received. Improvident contracts have been made, lavish salaries have re- warded placemen holding sinecures, and municipal officers have betrayed their trust to the loss of millions of the public moneys. Ex-Governor Pattison
 says that under Philadelphia's char ter the mayor has ample power to stop
 this waste, if he is disposed to do so,
 and he promises to do it if he is elected.
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Silk Waists !!

China and Wash Silks, ! most of them have the big sleeves. but they are last seasons. Not one of them withl less than three yards of silks worth 75c a yd.--your choice from
 St.3S to S2.5O each
 West Store. Second Floor. Front
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In the course of a lecture in Roches- ter the other night, Professor J. H. Gilmore related the following anecdote of Nathaniel Hawthorne: It was my privilege to meet Hawthorne at the White Mountains. He was there with Pierce and Loring and Spofford, and I saw considerable of him. shall never forget the whimsical appearance of the man as Pierce was trying to get him to go into theparlor of the hotel. EIe was quite averse to it. One day W. were looking at a pet fawn. He said: 'Do you know that every animal pf the deer kind is naturally fond of tobacco?" I was taken all aback, be- cause I had been taught that only man and acertain loathsome green worm, the yilest thing the Creator ever made, would touch tobacco. To illustrate the matter to me he put his hand into his pocket, for he not only smoked but chewed, took out piece of tobacco and handed 1t to the lawn, and she ate it down as though she liked it, and while I was waiting to see her fall down dead she was nosing around HIawthorne's pocket for some more tobacco.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-07
HONEST.

A man may be as honest as the day 1 is long, and still do a great deal of
 mischief during the nlght--Texas Sift-
 ings.
 Air you a-goin' out to the literary to- night ?" Don't know Whats up?"
 "Shakespeare an 'possum. Atlanta
 Contsitution
 l Blobbs--Do you think the average
 man is as stupid before he marries as he is afterwards? Cynicus- Certainly, or he wouldn't get married-Philadel- | phia Record.
 | Mrs. De Style-I like this dress, but 1t doesn't match my complexion Mrs. | Van Snappy-O, that's but trifle; you can alter your complexion to suit Harper's Drawer
 Minister-So you say you saw some boys out fishing on Sunday, Robbie I hope you did something to discourage them. Bobby-Oh, yes, sir, I stole their bait-Harlem Life.
 Willie slimson-Mamma says she feels so sorry for you. Mrs Winter bloom-Why, Willie? Willie-Because you are going to have your reception the same day as hers.-Harper's Ba2ar.
 There's some satisfaction in being kodak fend" unused the amateur photographer, as he sent a bundle of pictures to a friend. At least, man can express his own ews."-Philadel- phia Record.
 Tanglefoot-Oh isn't this waltz divine? Miss Smilax-Well, perhaps it is divine; but it happens to be a polka instead of a waltz and the sooner your feet are acquainted with the fact the better we are likely to get along-Tlt- Bits.
 An actress appearing in Johnstown Pa, recently, was referred to by the local press as a favorite in that city The paper remarked, "She appeared here just before the flood" The actress has erased Johnstown from her map Dramatic Mirror
 q guess we're going to lose another customer" said the milkman to his employer. "The woman that began talk ing milk of me last month says that she doesn't want any more" What's the matter? Anything wrong with the milk?" "Yes, She says that it's gritty. If you can't be honest and use a first class quality of chalk I'm dinged if I don't resign."-W Washington Star
 The opera struck Chicago again this season, and Colonel Spareribs felt it incumbent upon him to sustain his social position by going to see the per formance. How did you like Faust?' :" asked an acquaintance on change the next morning The colonel sniffed con- "Oh, it's the same old thing" he said. They're dead slow
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THE ORANGE BoUNDARr LINE

Acorrespondentw who evidently believes
 that New Haven should hold on persist
 ently to what she has and get what
 more she can writes to us concerning
 the proposed change in the boundary | line between New Haven and the town Of Orange, and he asks us to oppose the request of Orange that the line be changed. We should perhaps be willing
 to oblige him if we did not think that the request of Orange is, considering all
 the circumstances, entirely reasonable.
 The matter appears to us to be one
 where natural gelfishness is opposed
 to what Brother Case so impressively calls natural justice. It Is a matter of comparatively small importance to New Haven, but it is of much importance to Orange, and it strikes us that New Haven can afford to be just and neigh borly in 1t, The bridge is used by a thousand New Haveners where it is used by one resident of Orange. It is true that 1t helps the people of Orange to participate in the beauty and the culture of New Haven and is therefore of great benefit to them, but it helps the people of New Haven to find rest and recreation at Savin Rock, and the people of New Haven need the rest and recreation they find at Savin Rock even more than the people of Orange need the beauty and culture they find in New Haven. The bridge therefore being more necessary to the people of New Haven than 1t is to the people of Orange and being used by many more of the former than of the latter, there is nothing unreasonable in the idea that the people of New Haven should here after pay their fair share of what 1t costs to maintain 1t, If it isn't taken by the State. It would be a grace full and a just act for New Haven to agree without protest to the proposed change. It isn't just right for big place like New Haven, which may soon be consolidated and have a new charter, to try to Trough it" on place like Orange, which has only Savin Rock and new town court.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-07

A correspondent writing to a South African journal tells what he says is the true story of the death of the great Matabele chief, Lobengula; Lobengula, suffering from smallpox, worn out by his long flight, disappointed in his hopes of peace, and although broken down by the loss of his country, his power and possessions, came to a halt at last among the mountains north of the Shangani river. Here he begged his witch doctor to give him poison with which to end his life, but the man refused. The despairing chief went up hill to the foot of crag which tops 1t, and, sitting there, he gazed for a long time at the sun as it slowly sank toward the west Then, descending, he again demanded poison of his doctor, and insisted till finally 1t was given to him. Once more ascending the slope, he seated himself against the krantz, took the poison and gazed at the set  ting sun, stolidly awaiting the death which presently put an end to his suf- ferings and his blood-stained life. There Is something pathetic and grand in the picture. It is the best scene of the great epic, the conquest of Matabele- land. His followers found him seated there in death, and. piling stones and rocks about him, they left him. Wheth- CT he was placed in his royal chair. flanked by guns and covered over with his blankets and other possessions, as described in "The South African Re- view" know not. All this may be true, and also that strong palisade of tree trunks was planted around the spot, but give the story as I heard 1t, and believe that, as 1t emanates from Mir. Dawson, it is the correct one.
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bers, S5,OO0,OOO. not in luxuries and or namentation, but in improvement-that is, in constructing barns, building roads, draining, planting trees, building walls and other work of this character. During all this time we have not re- ceived in return more than $25O,0OO, and since 1878 we have not received over $115,0 or in the neighborhood of l-2 per cent on the capital we have ex- pended" The agent of Colonel Corn wallis West stated that since 1868 he had spent on an estate of 1O,5OO acres $175,OOO in new construction, drainage, etc, and that since that time the in- come had steadily decreased.
 It is evident that'the English landed aristocracy can't be very big or feel very big if it is reduced to poverty by such changes as have been taking place for the last thirty years.
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other poems that appeared in the guar | terly in 1921, the writer complains that the predominating characteristic of MT. Shelley's poetry is its frequent and total want of meaning, and declares his in- ability to discover the "object" of the poem called "A Sensitive Plant" He is astonished at the fact that such vol ume should meet with readers and ad- mirers, until he recollects the numerous congregations which the incoherencies if the itinerant Methodist preacher at tract, and concludes: "Poetical power can only be shown by writing good po- etry, and this MT. Shelley has not yet done. Take away from him the unintelligible, the confused, the incoher- ent, the bombastic, the affected, the ex- travagant, the hideously gorgeous, and 'Prometheus' and the poems which ac- company it will sink at once into noth- ingness."
 Tennyson's volume of poems which appeared in 1883 met with the usual re- ception from the critics, whose custom 1t was to "heave half brick at the poetical stranger. The Quarterly, in- corrigible as ever though protesting to be warned by former mishaps, begins
 
 in a tone of labored sarcasm: We glad ly seize the opportunity of introducing to the notice of our more sequestered readers a prodigy of genius-another and brighter star of that galaxy or milky way of poetry of which the la- mented Keats was the harbinger; and let us take this occasion to sing our palinode on the subject of Endymion.' We certainly did not discover in that poem the same degree of merit that it's more clear-sighted and prophetic ad- mirers did. Warned by our former mlshaps, wiser by experience, and improved, we hope in taste. we have to offer to MT Tennyson our trib- ute of unmingled praise" This tribute consists of several pages of critical horseplay at the expense of such poems as the "Hesperides," Oenone," and the "Dream of Fair Women. "-Cornhill.
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leg than the other. This is one of the reasons why English skaters fare badly abroad as naturally man does best at the method he is most accustomed to.
 There has been considerable altera- ton in the setting of the skate of late years, although the racing blade has not greatly altered in shape. Instead of the blade being placed along the middle of the foot, it is fixed upon the ball of the right toe, as the striking power is more powerful there. The long, turned-up blade, from sixteen to eighteen inches is commonly used, but blades of different widths are used, in accordance with the hardness of the ice, a broad blade being used when the ice is soft, but narrow one, only the six teenth of an inch, is used when the sur face is very hard. Tn Fenland the run her skate is always used as very little figure skating is attempted. Every Fenman wants to "get," and he gets once took a pair of Acme skates on the Lincolnshire wash, and the remark of one of the crowd made him almost blush for his singularity. Look at those something rum pattens that fools got" greeted his ears. Patten is Fen for skate. Fenmen prefer to skate in thick trousers, rolled up to form big roll under the knee, which they say the leg at turning.
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The ola Criticism.

With the poems of the youthful Byron the Edinburgh reviewer made fine sport. little dreaming that he had caught Tartar in the presumably fool l ish young lordling. In cutting up the | Hours of Idleness," the critic was bet | ter justified than upon other occasions | when he used the knife; still, it is just as well that Byron did not take to heart the advice to forthwith abandon poetry and turn his talents and opportunities to better account. The sting contained in the remark that 'the poesy of this young lord belongs to the class which neither the gods nor men are said to permit, was returned with interest in the lines:
 A man must serve his time to every
 trade
 Save censure; critics are all ready
 made
 And again;
 Believe woman or an epitaph
 Or any other thing that's false before You trust in critics, who themselves are
 sore.
 The appearance of a volume of poems by Wordsworth in 1907 was the signal for 8 savage onslaught in the Edin burgh. The peculiarties of dietion of the disciples of the new school of po- etry were enough, in the critics opinion, to render them ridiculous; but MT. Wordsworth, he added, really seems anxious to court this literary martyr dom by advice still more infallible-we mean that of connecting his most lofty, tender. or impassioned conceptions with objects and incidents which the greater part of his readers will probably persist minimizing low, silly, or uninteresting" After denying to Wordsworth any pre- tensions to elegance, dignity, or correct ness of versifcation, the reviewer con cludes with the following insignificant passage: We venture to hope that there is now an end to this folly, and that, like other follies, it will be found to have cured itself by the extrava- gance resulting from it's its unbridled indulgence, and we think there is reason to hope that the lamentable consequences which have resulted from Mir. Wordsworth's open violation of the established laws of poetry will operate as a wholesome warning to those who might otherwise have been seduced by his example and be the the means of restoring to that ancient and venerable code It's due honor and authority"
 Immortality apart, the reviewers ap- pear to have been totally unable to comprehend Shelley's poetry, the beau ties of which seemed to them but the .faIrs y,f, lao, tl critique on "Prometheus Unbound" and