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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24
SOME ROOD FOR THOUGHT.

Two remarkable declarations by two
remarkable people have just been
made They are both very interesting
and they furnish food for thought.
One of them is by Herbert Spencer,
who has just brought to an end his
great Synthetic Philosophy" The
concluding paragraph in the introduce
ton to the last volume is as follows:
On looking back over the six and thirty
years which have passed since the
Synthetic Philosophy was commenced,
1 am surprised at my audacity in I'M
dertaking it, and still more surprised
at it's completion. In 1860 my small re
sources had been nearly all frittered
away in writing and publishing books
which did not repay their expenses;
and 1 was suffering under chronic
disorder, caused by over-tax of brain
in 1855, which, wholly disabling me for
IS months, thereafter limited my work
to three hours a day, and usually to
less. How insane my project must
have seemed to on-lookers, may be
judged from the fact that before the
first chapter of the first volume was
finished, one of my nervous break
downs obliged me to desist. But i'm
prudent courses do not always fail.
Sometimes a forlorn hope is justified by
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24
PooI-sgLlING IN MISSOURI.

A decision which has just been made
by the Supreme court of Missouri has
interest for some in Connecticut who
are willing to have pool selling in city
rooms under the ban of the law but
would like to see pool-selling at race
tracks permitted. The attempt in Mis-
souri, to drive the pool rooms out of
the cities has failed because the law to
that purpose made the mistake, ac-
cording to a decision of the Supreme
court, of seeking to establish distinc-
ton between those who sell pools in
city rooms and the pool sellers on race
tracks. This the court declares to be
special legislation, and of vicious
type, too, as it renders the bookseller
within the race-course enclosure i'm
mune from punishment, while another
portion of the same genus book-maker
bookseller, or lot monger, who pursues
his avocation outside of the sacred pre-
doomed, for doing the very same things,
to fine or Imprisonment or both
This seems to be a sensible and con-
sistent decision. 1t is said that one eff
feet of it may be the closing of Mis-
souri, race-courses, whose owners say
that the business will not be profitable
if they have to divide the pool selling
with outsiders.
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MAssAcH UsErrs, COOP ROADS.

Connecticut will have to be wide
awake, or neighbor Massachusetts will
get ahead of her in the matter of good
roads. The Massachusetts commission
will ask for 100000 from the legislature
of 1897 and such is the state of public
feeling that 1t is probable that the APP
preparation will be cheerfully made.
The system has become so popular that
at the end of the third season of the
commissions work not over fifteen per
cent. of the petitions for macadamized
sections have been acted upon. There
is not State money enough. The total
of petitions to date is about $50. The
civil engineer of the commission re-
ports condition of public feeling sim
liar to that which prevails in this State.
He says the commissioners receive let
tiers from people all over the State
where the State roads have been con-
structed saying that they are satisfied
that the new roads are far more eco
nomical than the old style of country
roads, and asking for extension of ma
cadam road in their locality as rapidly
as possible. For instance, it is said
that the State highway from Hadley
into Northampton (the next place to
Hadley and the county seat, where the
farmers carry much produce), is such a
| benefit to the farmers that the load
which required three horses for hauling
can be as easily hauled by two on the
| State road, and that it is the practice
of some farmers, as soon as they reach
| the State road with their load, to de-
| tach the third horse and put him up
at some convenient barn and go on to
Northampton, some three miles fur
| ther with only two.
| BY and by there will be good roads
! all over New England. Connecticut
must do her full part in the great i'm
provement.
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the event. Though, along with other
deterrents, many relapses, now lasting
for weeks, now for months, and once
for years, often made. me despair of
reaching the end, yet at length the
end is reached. Doubtless in earlier
days some exultation would have re-
suited; but as age creeps on, feelings
weaken, and now my chief pleasure is
in my emancipation. Still there is sat
isfaction in the consciousness that
losses, discouragement and shattered
health have not prevented me from full
filing the purpose of my life,
This from man who has been en-
gagged in teaching the world, and who
has right to congratulate himself on
the fact that he has done a great work.
The other declaration is by Sarah
in thrilling and amusing people. She
says: For twenty-nine years / have
peell ldNiSIlnS Oli the pupllS tiie NApA O.
tons of my soul, the beatings of my
heart, and. the tears of my eyes.
have played 1l2 parts, /
have created 3S personifications, of
which 16 are the works of poets. l.
have struggled as no other human be-
ing has struggled. Being Of an indie
pendent nature and hating falsehood,
l have made relentless enemies. Those
L have deigned to combat l have van
quished and pardoned; they have be-
come my friends. The mud thrown at
me by the others fell in dust, dried by
the ardent heat of my faith and my
will l have desired, and desired ar
| IDENTIFY to reach the summit Of art. /
am not yet there. There remain to me
fewer years than l have already lived.
But what does it matter? Each step
brings me nearer the realization of my
| dream. The hours which have fled,
carrying my youth with them, have
left me my courage and my gayety, for
my aim is always the same, and to-
ward it am marching, have crossed
oceans carrying my dream of art with
me, and the genius of my nation has
| triumphed. have implanted the
French tongue in the heart of foreign
literature, and that is what / am
proudest of. If some surly people con-
slider that the fete offered me is out
of proportion to my talents, tell them
l am the struggling exponent of an
art full of passion and grandeur, a
great moralizing art. / am the faith
full priestess of poetry. Tell them, my
| friend, that French gallantry was never
1 more strikingly manifested than on the
present occasion, when seeking to
honor the drama and to raise it's in
terpreter to the level of other creative
artists, it has chosen to do so in the
person of a woman.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preach
er, vanity of vanities All is vanity.
| What profit hath man of all his labor
which he taketh under the sun?'
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Jones'" Brown is very careful about
his children, isn't hep" Jenkins--"Yes
he's trying to bring them up IN the way
he should have gone. Puck,
HE ew-Brown-'Do you believe
in civil service REFORM" Jones (whc
has failed to pass an eXaminatiom-'l
do. The questions should be made cas-
ier"-Puck
On the Veranda. goes Mrs
Chatwicks. What does she come tc
Florida for?" She wants to get rid OF
her rheumatism" But why does she
bring her three daughters along?
"Oh. she wants to get rid of them, too.
Truth
In Training -"Who occupies the next
room?"
That's a young man who is study
ing to be prize fighter
+, Whats he doing now?"
Talking to himself cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Amiable Mother-"Here, Tommy, is
some nice castor oil with orange in it.
Doctor (playfully) remember
don't give it all to Tommy; leave some
for me"
Tommy (who has had some before)-
Doctors nice man, ma; give 1t all t.
the doctor. Household Words.
At the Bloostocking Club Miss FIT:
Yes, it is actually true that moderr
husbands treat their wives like dogs.
Miss Gritts-"Indeed! In what re
spect?"
Miss Fitts-"Well the husband:
make their wives sit up for them. don
they?"-New York Evening Journal
Man." said the youngest member o
the Corner Grocery Entertainment so
ciety. man is much like a carpet. Al
soon as he is down he gets walked on.
And again, fastened to say the Cum
minsville sage, che is unlike the articl'
in question; for the more dust he hal
the less likely is he to get the shake. =
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Sunday school teacher (who has tolC
one of the new boys the beautiful stor!
of Christmas and hopes she has mad
an impression)-'I am glad to see you
so attentive, Jamie. Do you under
stand it now? Is there any question
you would like to ask me?" New boy
''Yes'm. Dye reckon Goliath could a
licked Jim Corbett ?"-Chicago Tribune
Mistress Teprovingly) Bridget
breakfast is very late this morning
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES a.
A Well Known Gentleman.


The well known gentleman who says
he would not take one thousand dollars
for what he and his family have gained
from that pure food, Seal Boefgrain,
states that besides the remarkable eff
feet it has had upon his little two
year-old girl, as he has seen with his
own eyes, all of his children have been
greatly benefited by it. They are
healthy and strong, their flesh is firm
and clear; no pimples or blotches
They are well, thoroughly well. He says,
too, that he himself never felt better in
his life. He has had a weak stomach
for years, and has suffered torment
from it. Now he hardly ever thinks of
his stomach. The entire family, as A
rule. eat nothing else for breakfast but
BOefgrain, and a little bread and cof-
fee, using it one morning in the form
of breakfast gems and mush and then
as pancakes and mush How the chill
dren do eat those pancakesI This
breakfast does not cost to exceed three
cents for every person, and this gentle
man says that he works until his usual
noon meal with much vigor and vitality
and without sense of lack or desire for
food. He finds, too, that his dinner
now digests readily. In former days
food eaten at noon would lie heavily
upon his stomach. He was usually
sleepy and dull; could not work or
think for two or three hours.
Seal Boefgrain is sold by grocers.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

England is to have another public
trial of motor carriages next May, and
the conditions imposed by the London
Engineer, which has control of the
tests, are exceptionally sensible. High
speed is not one of the objects sought.
Credit will not be given for speed in
excess of ten miles an hour. The
points on which awards will be made
Jnelude distances run without renew
ing supplies, freedom from stops for
repairs, absence of vibration and odors
of benzine, ease of starting, speed up
to ten miles an hour and hill climbing,
steering gear and brakes, weight,
workmanship, first cost and cost of
working, and general efficiency. The
probability is that the liberal prizes for
vehicles carrying passengers and six
hundred pounds to a ton of freight will
bring better results than the premiums
for the winners of races.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

noticed last night that you had COM
pany in the kitchen and twas u o'clock
when you went to bed
Bridget-"Yis, mum; I knowed you
was awake, fur 1 heard We movin'
around; an / said to meself y'd made
Shape this mornin', and 7 wouldn't dis
toerb we wild an early breakfast, num- "
New York Weekly
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basque. The high stock collar was cut
in one with the Jacket and the pointed
braid used on the remainder. The Nile
green silk and the shape of the vest
constituted the top note of this rig,
though they were harmonious part
rather than dominant feature.
FLORETTE
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24
AnvERrIsING RATES.

Rituations Wants. Rents, and other small
sdvertisements. One Cent Word each IN
sertIon. Five Cents Word for full week
tseven tlmesl -, ono In.
Display Advertisements-Per men, ont an
sertion, S12O; each subsequent ln s% s1n
40 cents; one week, $500; one month"; @Ao'
one year, $40. orso IL
Obituary Notices, in prose or verse rise ge 10
cents per line. Notices of Blrths, Nm '6cai
Deaths and Funerals. so cents each' A1oN"'
notices Is cents per line. .ho;,. own
Yearly advertisers are limited to tne h nm nm.
immediate business (all matter 10 u vi In.
objectionable, and their contracts 10 ho' 49,
clude Wants, To Let, For Sale, ETC. ono
Discounts--On two inches or mo.ts, c he's
month and over, 10 per cent; on Tour N.Y.
or more, one month and over, 10 per Cent
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

Is gas a. mineral? Three judges of
the United States court of appeals at
New York are now sitting upon this
question. The Buffalo natural gas fuel
company pipes gas into Buffalo from
natural gas wells in the province of
Ontario, Can. The customs collector at
Buffalo levied a 10 per cent. duty on
the gas, bringing 1t under the tariff
provision that call raw or unmanu-
featured articles not enumerated in
this act shall pay a duty of 10 per
cent" The gas company, however,
claims that gas Is a mineral and ex-
empt from duty under a tariff provi-
sion relating to minerals, crude or not
advanced in value or condition by re-
filming or grinding etc. The board of
general appraisers has sustained the
gas company's contention, and now the
question comes before the court of ap-
peals. Chemists, biologists and others
have been appealed to, and their opin-
ions differ.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24
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FASHION NOTES
what Good Judgment Accompanies


There should be a law against any
woman who in these days is not pretty
to look at, Fashion was never so ia
vorable to the unhandsome. Anyone
who will invest judieiously the money
she has, be it much or little, can be
attractive, and just now she who has
done this is the despair of the other
women. The woman whose purchases
have been made on the hit and miss
plan, gowned though she may be in
rich apparel, is simply swamped out of
sight by the first damsel of the other
sort who overhauls her. And what Is
it that sends this lucky girl ahead with
stiff pennaDt in the breeze? As like as
not it's one kink of audacity; the sin
gle flash of the diamond, the fire spark
in the opal, the top note of the aria,
and the aggravtaing part of it all is
that she accomplishes the fash the
spark and the top note without bother
ing about all the rest of it.
She sweeps down the aisle of the
theater and you get the impression of
stunning get up. If you get your
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

breath and a chance to inspect her, as
like as not the rig resolves itself into
plain skirt, silk crinkling of course a
simple bodice, and here's your high
light-a bewildering collar; here's your
spark-a flash of color, tinsel and fluff
down the front; here's your top note
"a perfect hat; and the wretched other
woman realizes that her own gown,
much more expensive and solid, is all to
no purpose.
Outside the theater the same good
judgment will have like results, and the
simple promenade dress that is put to-
gether in good taste will surpass the
rig of thrice its cost that has not had
as skiIlful treatment. That brings us
to the gown of this picture, which,
without being elaborate, was stunning
ly effective. 1t was violet colored
broadcloth, its fitted Jacket bodice
opening to show a fitted vest embroid-
cred with Nile green silk. The fronts
were finished with black military braid
with buttons to match, the braid also
running around the edge of the short
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

They say Massachusetts is decaylng,
+, but the 1,472 twins and q triplets re-
corded as having been born in the State
last year don't indicate it.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

District of New Haven, SIS. Probate Court,
December q. 1896.
ESTATE OF CHARLES S. REDFIELD,
late of Orange, in said district, de-
ceased.
The Court of Probate for the District of
New Haven hath limited and allowed six
months from the date hereof for the cred
itors of said estate TO exhibit their claims
for settlement. Those who neglect to pre-
sent their accounts properly attested within
said time will be debarred a recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate are request
ed to make immediate payment to
MARY E. REDFIELD.
d22 st Administrative.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

In Norway, where a .broken-winded
horse is never seen and where the
heaves are almost unknown, they al
ways put water within reach of a
horse whenever the animal is fed. Says
O. man who took note of the effect of
this manner of feeding: 1T IS inter
esting to observe that the animals take
a sip of the water between the mouth
fuls of food, just as any rational being
would do il feeding upon such dry
things as are usually set before horses. =
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

Complaint is made that there is a
deterioration in Sarah Bernhardt's art
as the result of too many foreign tours.
The London Daily News says that she
has become very unequal to her work,
and that when you are fortunate you
hear her as in her great day; when you
are not she will gable through her
task as though in a hurry to be off to
bed. 1t is the penalty she has had to
pay for starring all through the States
and all over Europe, with the sole ex-
ception among the great state of Prus-
STA. At the Francois she played but
two or three nights a week, and she
was expected to devote the rest Of her
time to study and repose. In her stroll
ing career she played only less otter
thar the leading lady at booth In a
fair
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

F. NJ. BROWN & COMPANY.

TO avoid disappointment order your goods so
they may be sent Thursday as early as possible
Our delivery force knows how to keep mum
about Santa Claus.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

A notice has been sent to the army
and navy officials that on and after
July 4, 1897, the American flag will have
forty-five stars. An order has also
been issued to the custodiaps of public
buildings to begin at once to put the
additional stars in all old flags or Sc
the order. There will be six rows of
stars. The first, third and fifth rows
will have eight stars each, and the Sec
ond, fourth and sixth seven stars each.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-24

Angered at the attendance of the
young women school teachers of the
place at the meetings Of a dancing
club, the School Board of Usage City,
Kansas passed a resolution forbidding
further Indulgence in such gayety, on
the ground that the influence upon the
pupils would not be good. The town
arose and asserted itself The Knights
of Pythias stood up for the teachers,
and a business mems meeting was held,
at which resolution was passed that
the members of the School Board be
instructed to refrain from the use of
tobacco, as good results to the pupils
could not be accomplished while such
a practice was INDUCED in.
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Prices: is cents and rs cents per bottle.
or AL DRUGGISTS AND MINERAL WATER DEALERS
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Mayor Baxter of Port d, Me-, has
been unanimously renoL~ lated for n
fourth term by the Republicans.
Miss Helen NJ. Gould has given Welles-
ley college u $1,000 scholarship in memory
of her mother, Helen Miller Gould.
Ambrose Cotter, 90 years old, And a man
identified rs Frederick Ford, aged 20, were
found dead in their rooms az Boston.
The Dartmouth students have passed
resolutions condemning morning as q
clumsy, uugenticmanly and unbecoming
practice.
James Anderson. 81 years old, for many
years station agent 81 the Lowell Street
station at Wakefield, Mass, died from
heart failure.
Tho restaurant Of A. w. bennett 6 Co,
Now York, WINS entered by burg ., and
five safes were broken into. About $500
in cash was taken.
Tho sash md blind shop of the O.. ID.
Morse Manufacturing company OF Mill
bury, Mass, was totally destroyed by fire.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
Sir Edward Clarke, @. c., the distin-
guishcd~crimlusl advocate, has been re-
tained for the defense OF DIR. Jameson
upon his trial IN England.
Representative Kelihcr has introduced q
bin I'm the Massachusetts legislature for a
8.ccnt fare on the limos OF the West
End Street Railway company.
Tho subcommittee on hall Of the r..
publican committee decided TO accept the
proposition made by the local committee
OF st. Louis 20 erect a substantial convsn.
ton auditorium.
Rev. NJ. Gill, cure OF tho Church Of
Notro Dame at Granny, Que, has been
committed TO prison for refusing to dis
close the secrets uf tho confessional, I'm "A
suit 40 law in which he was called rs wit.
ness.
a Cape Town dispatch says that Major
Nidley and several Hussar officers havo
left Accommodating Natal, for Rhodcsia,
it Is understood. 90 assume command of
the Chartered south African c%ompauy's
police.
Representatives OF tho United States
Sugar Refining company have under con
sidoratlon plans Tor purchasing a South
Boston site FOR the erection OF . 100000
refinery, to employ 600 persons, the build
ing 90 be ready sept l.
Secretary Herbert has submitted to con.
gross an estimate for an appropriation Of
$4,000 FOR tho purpose of enabling the
navy department 90 test methods Of throw
ing high explosives from guns on board
ships with high velocitics.
An Important step In the consolidation
Of the New York, New Haven aud Hart
ford and New England railroads was
made when tho New England depot at
Hartford was closed and the business
.ranste>od to the Uuion station,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-17
INTERPRETATION

Among the bills coming before the Leg
i~slature ut the present session is the one
that has been advocated so long by Sam
uel Darling OF Providence for the repeal
of the compulsory vaccination law. In
this matter the people OF the state have
had prolonged evidence OF MIR. Darling's
wholly unselfish desire to benefit his fell
low citizens. Having made an exhaustive
study of the principles OF vaccination
and come to the conclusion that TO COM
pel vaccination by law is an injustice,
and In a way criminal, by the introduce
ton into the system of diseases fully as
much to be dreaded as smallpox,
Mr.. Darling has expended thou
sands of dollars in making his conviction
known to the public and in supplement-
ing them with testimony OF authorities
at which the medical profession oannot
afford to sheer.
Mr.. Darling's bill is a fair one. 1t
does not call for the prohibition OF vac
cination, dangerous as he believes The
practice to be. 1t is not the proposition
OF a fanatic who insists that everybody
shall do as he wishes them to do. 1t
does not say that one shall not be vac
cinated il he wishes to be; but it says that
the State shall not compel the people
who are convinced that vaccination is a
dangerous practice to submit to 1t. That
Mr.. Darling has awakened a deep interest
in the question among the people OF he
State is evident and the facts that he has
placed before them have received a con-
sheraton that will sooner or later show
results. -Pawtuxet Valley Daily Times.