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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-14
NINETY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR.


The Embarrassing Failure OF Magi
clans Elaborate Trick.
tFrom the Memphis Commercial Appeal9
Carl Hertz, the illusionist. was talk
ing Of some of the accidents that some
times spoil the art of the conJurer.
1T was in Nashville" he said, that
/ experienced a real knockdown blow
/ was performing the well known trick
of passing a marked coin into the CEN
ter of an uncut orange; at least that's
what a good many people thought /
was doingI used a silver dollar, and
emphasized the trick by passing the
coin into the pocket of some boy whom
1 had enticed on the stage.
II will openly confess that the boy
had to be confederate, and that the
marked dollar had it's fellow in one
previously prepared by me. One night
as was entering the theater I looked
around for a likely youth to aid me in
my double dealing. L picked out a boy
and promised to pass him in il he
would follow my instructions.
'I am a conjurer, I said. I want
YOU to put this dollar in your right
hand trousers pocket. I'll get you a
seat IN the Iroht row. WiieAi : aoh y y
somebody to come on the stage, you
must come Then I will ask you to
produce the dollar
THE boy promised everything, ana
after making arrangements lor nm a.
the door left him. When was ready
for the dollar trick, saw my young
confederate slttlIlg open ihoullieu -
the front row. I had prevailed upon
another member OF the audience 10
lend me dollar marked exactiy as
was that | mad given TO tne BOY.
Il passed that borrowed ooilar INTO
the orange, cut the frult open, ana out
dropped the coin. linen went on:
" And now, LADIES ana gentlemen
| Will perform SUN iiiole uiiiiouit
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ATTEMPTS.

Agatha--Charley is tickled with his
new mustache, isn't he?
Mary-Yes, but with a sly blush)
not half as much as I am Clairmont
Eagle.
Tommy, you didn't come to school
yesterday afternoon" Nom, there
wuz a circus in town, an paw an nav,
an Aunt Caddie, an Uncle Tom, an
Cousin Bob all wanted to take me- .
Chicago Record.
Lawyer-What is your gross income?
Witness-I have no gross income.
Lawyer-No income at all?
Witness-No gross income. I have a
net income. I'm in the fish business
New York Herald.
Little Mrs Justwed-And, do you
know, my husband never even thinks
of going for a scuttle of coal without
first kissing me.
Old Mrs. Hornbeak-In about two
years, my dear, you may consider your
self lucky if he get the coal.-Puck.
PROFESSIONALISM has become of Tom
Appleton? Wasn't he studying with
the class last year?
"Ah, yes; Appleton-poor fellow! A
fine student, but absent minded in the
use of chemicals--very. That discolor-
alton on the ceiling-notice it?''
Yes"
That's Appleton. "-Pearson's Week
ly.
Talk of presence of mind" said
Fogg;; did I ever tell you of Pullyhard
the dentist? No? Well he was down
in Florida, and, falling into the river
one of the biggest alligators you ever
saw made for him. In an instant poor
Pullyhard was in the reptiles jaws
and in another moment the life would
have been crushed out of him. But
when Pullyhard saw the creatures
teeth, he pulled out a probe he al
ways carries with him, and pressing
it into the gators gums, he asked
DO you feel that?' OF course the rep
tile screamed with pain, and of course
he spat Pullyhard out as quick as he
would a hot potato"
YES" said Bass, after Illuminating
upon the story, but 1 shouldn't cal
that presence of mind, but a slavist
devotion to ones profession.
That's what 1 always contended'
replied Fogg, but Puliyhard would
have it that it was presence of mind
Boston Transcript.
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A BIG DRINK BILL,

What has come to be called "the
Great Britain and Ireland is an inn
pressive affair. The last one is even
more impressive than usual. The peo-
pie who pay it number $780, 600, and
the total cost of their wine, beer and
alcoholic liquors, divided by this sum,
shows an average expenditure Of $1S.1S
per annum for every man, woman and
child in the realm. Contrary to the
general impression, the English drink
more than the Scotch, and the Irish
less than either. The ratio of the Eng
lish expenditure for drink is S194O, the
Scotch $14.70 and the Irish $1312 per
head per annum. These at least were
the figures of 1895, which seems to be
considered banner year in drink an
nals-a circumstance which inquirers
of the temperance persuasion attribute
to the occurrence Of the parliamentary
elections. The entire drink bill of the
kingdom for last year reached the
great total of s712,070,0 Of this
amount s2OS, $780, 900 went for spirituous
liquors, mostly whiskey and gin; $685.,
600 900 for wines; $4S5, OOO,O0 for beer,
ale and porter, and $500, 900 for cider
and other beverages.
There is a crufnb of comfort in the
fact that large as the expenditure for
| drink in England is the general aver
age of liquor consumption in England
| tends to decrease. In the ten years,
| 1861-70, the consumption of beverage
of the spirituous class was 0941 gallon
per head of the population per annum;
in the following ten years it rose to
| 1.190 gallons, falling again during the
ten years ending with 1890 to O9SS gall
| lon. So with wines, the consumption
for the first period was 0.42O, for the
second 0542, and for the third 0.3SS gal
lon per head per annum. OF malt liq-
uors the average annual consumption
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CAJCHING "C4P' NELSON.
How "a Moonshiner Got Part of the Re
ward offered for His Capture.

How a Moonshiner Got Part of the Re-
ward Offered for His Capture.
From the Washington Evening Starr
"Cap" Nelson is moonshiner whose
stills in Clinton county, KY, have
never been found. The revenue OIL
GERS have endeavored for years to
catch him, but the nearest they ever
succeeded was about two years ago,
the details of which raid were told by
Thad Arnold one of the deputies who
accompanied the posse.
eve left Point Burnside" he said,
"and stopped the first night in Month
cello, starting early next morning for
Boston mountain, near which Nelson
was known to live. AS we rode up the
narrow bride path, that is the easiest
way to the top of the mountain, a
mountaineer met us.
=" 'Howdy, strangers he said.
"'Howdy,' we answered.
"Going to Albany he inquired.
Yes
"'Wal1. I reckon I kin do yo'uns
some good an make an homes dollar,
he remarked. One of yo' all jess git
down an come hyar.'
our 1eCuGI ulSIIlOuultu, EtiIu IilC
man said, cautiously:
"'Thar's a Teller named Cap Nelson
hyar, an thar's rewards fur him. Eff
yo' all will bring some men hyar, I'll
up halves
| After a little sparring deal was
made with the fellow. who took us to
house for supper, where he said Mel
son had an engagement to come that
night. We watched the informer care
fully and kept our weapons ready for
use.
"'Yo'uns all go up yander in the loft
/ an keep a sharp lookout. When he
| comes, jump right down an capter i'm
student. Take me too, for my hide
wouldn' be worth shucks eff they he'd
any lice he war given away
1--WE were a little suspicious, but
kept close watch upon the man. He
was not out of our sight. except when
he went to feed the horses.
about the time it grew dark there
were sounds of horses hoofs and our
spy whispered up in the loft: He'll
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F4lSHION NOTES.
A Navy Menns of RIending.

The wee muffs that appeared with
some of the newest and prettiest East
err bonnets were no more than punches
of lace and ribbon with knots of flow
ers caught therein, and We're rather
confession to my lady's awkwardness
in disposing of her hands than need
ed convenience. Now and then the lit
tie affairs had an artistic value, as
when they served as a bit of dainty
delicacy and color to harmonize cor
responding hat or bonnet with an 9TH
erwise plain or demure dress. good
many of the stylish spring hats sorely
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Situations, Wants, Rents and other small
advertisements, one Cent Word each in
sertlon. Five cents word for full week
(seven times.)
Display Advertisements--Pe inch, one in
scrtion, Sl20; each subsequent insertion, 40
cents; one week. $3.50; one month, $40; one
year, $40.
Obituary notices, in prose or verse, 10 cents
per line. Notices OF Births, Marriages, Deaths
and Funerals, 50 cents each. Local notices,
10 cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their own
immedite business (all matter to be unoo-
iectionable), and their contracts do not in
clude Wants, 10 Let. For Sale, etc.
Discounts-On two inches or more one
month and over, 10 per cent; on four incnes
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ride up an Til go out an see i'm an
stop i'm, When yo' all hear three pis-
toll shots yo' kin know it's i'm. Git
yo' critters and surroun' i'm
I'VE started after the horses, the
pistol shots We're heard as we reached
the log stable. The horses We're gone,
the lights We're out in the cabin, and
when we got back it was deserted.
We finally got into the house and
loosely scrawled on a piece of brown
paper was written: 81 told yo' all I'd
show you Cap Nelson for half the
$1,000. You all ct supper with him, but
he don't live here as a general thing.
He took the horses for half what you
owe him for showing himself, and the
rest can be sent to him at Monticello
1T was the last trace we could find
of him, and we walked thirty miles to
town, expecting to be shot at"
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Barbarous Treatment of Animals by Their
Trainers.

Trainers.
Herr X is an Austrian, with nearly a
dozen performing hounds. On the
night of his first performance in Lon
don they were brought upon the stage
by attendants, closely muzzled. Be-
fore the curtain rose Herr x went to
each dog and half stunned it with a
loaded stick. He then gave orders for
the muzzles to be taken off and went
through his turn, Iashing the dazed an
imals freely with a long whip of hide
and wire. Immediately after the cur
tain fell the animals were muzzled and
led away. The stage-manager called
Herr X to him and said that such a
treatment was infamous and must not
be repeated. The Austrian went into a
violent passion and said that he only
did in London what he did abroad, and
that it was no concern of anybodys.
Finding that he would not be allowed
to persist, in spite of his buster, he
went through future performances
with the muzzles on his dogs.
At another theater of varieties, whose
management is of the very best, a for
eigner and his wife came with a dog
show. Nothing was noticed on the
first night, and the proprietor left with
his animals, saying he would come to
rehearse on the following morning. At
about half-past eleven on the succeed
ing day he rushed into the managers
office a sorry spectacle. His coat was
torn, his linen disarranged, and one of
his eyes was as black without as with
in. He hurriedly explained to the star
tied manager that while quietly re-
hearsing some ruffians he had never
seen before set upon and mauled him.
At his request the representative of the
house accompanied him to the stage,
and there found the dogs covering in d
corner, and the wife of the owner
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KENTUCKY HORSE SW4PPERS,
The Ethics of an Industry That Has
Thrived in Peculiar Way.
tFrom the COulier-Journal.)

IFTOTH IUb IOUI ItF-JUUTIlaIsJ
Danville KY, March 13.-Some one
wants the legislature to wipe out
Jockey Row. and forbid the horse
swappers the privilege of the highway.
When this is done one of the features
of the old-fashioned County Court day
will have been obliterated, and a large
and enterprising class of Kentuckians
will have been deprived of their rights
and liberties.
In every well regulated Kentucky
town is set apart a portion of some
street, usually a back one, which is
known to all as Jockey Row." and
there on County Court days the horse
snapper. or Jockey as he is more
Familiarity known, operates.
The genuine. professional jockey is
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Il make my purchases
at The George H. Ford
Company, because it is
educating.
Think this is a funny
thing to say ? Perhaps it
is, but it is true. | used
to 60 about shopping, but
do not indulge in it any
more. 1t is too expens-
i've in the end. | may be
tempted to purchase
something at a price, but
not to my taste. There
is so much in the market
lacking in good taste that
an ordinary article in an
ordinary place seems bet
ter than it really is. Then
I see at The George Fl.
Ford Company articles
always in good taste, as is
everything else in the
store. Good taste seems
woven into the very warp
and wool of the estab-
lishment, SO don't think it
funny when | say it edu-
Gates my TASTE
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need this connecting link to attach
their conglomerated brilliancy to the
more sedate dress below Even the
small hats take on surprising develop
ments. Mixed straw turbans seem no
more than a little picket fence of straw
set about the brow with a bush of wild
roses rearing fiaunt of branches just
over the temple, beyond the face, The
hat of this sketch was trimmed with a
collection of velvet bloom and foliage,
the like of which nature never at
tempted, yet it was considered a fine
piece of work by it's designer. It's low
crown of green velvet was embroi-
dered with jet, and the fluffy brim of
black chiffnn was puffed out into ro-
settles here and there. Large pink vel
vet leaves trimmed sides and front,
and in addition large purple orchid
rose in aigrette fashion on the left side.
Pokes are in favor, making some
wearers look delightfully."- quaint and
turning others into frights. If you can
wear a poke and look pretty, do so.
Then that horrid "best friend" will try
it, too, and look like a gawk. The
band effect still prevails for bonnets
and at each end of the band rises an
amazing demonstration in the way of
plumes, ribbon or flowers. Though
plumes have given away almost alto
gether to flowers, their effect is often
produced by towering punches of bios
SONS. Lilacs serve this purpose, and
in soft lilac color on a wide brimmed
green straw nat, all open and glossy in
weave with relief of dark leaves the
effect is charming. FLORETTE.
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policemen, Hitherto this service has
been compulsory and the pay INSULT
Client to attract volunteers, The SER
vice now has been made voluntary, the
pay raised. and the number of gaffirs
reduced in order not to increase the
burden on the people
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The trolley car and the bicycle are
credited with being mainly responsible
for the remarkable fact, stated in the
Department of Agriculture reports,
that the value of the horses and mules
in this country decreased by almost
one-half between 1892 and the end of
last year. The aggregate decline in
the value of horses is put down at $780,
900, 900 and of mules at $SO00O,0O0
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for the first period was 27,S5, for the
second 31.55, and for the third 27,77 gal
Ions per head, The most potent in
.huences in diminishing the consumption
of liquor in England are scarcity of
work and low wages,
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Harold Frederic confidently aff1rms,
on the authority of the London matters,
that the high silk hat is on the rapid
decline in England. Its sales are every
where diminishing and the end of its
autocratic sway approaches.
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This county knows good thing when
it sees it. There are here LAO electric
street railroads, aggregating 14S5o
miles, as against Iii such lines meas
uring 500 miles in Europe.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-14

The result of English rule in Egypt
is seen in the wonderful improvement
in those parts of the judicial and civil
administration intrusted to natives.
The biennial report of Sir John Scott,
judicial adviser to the Khedive, shows
a great increase of work in the native
tribunals, especially in the summary
courts, of which forty have been es-
tablished throughout the country. 1t is
significant that 80 per cent. of the de-
cisions were confirmed on appeal. This
is considered very satisfactory, as the
summary courts contain no European
element and are supplied from the Egyp-
tan School of Law, which for five
years has worked very satisfactorily.
Under the direction of Mr. ]. F. Gorst,
a far-reaching change has been begun
in the ministry of the interior by the
reorganization of the gafirs, OF village
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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
publication, but as guarantee OF good faith.
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What can be done is shown by the
fact that an Iowa veteran who served
four years in the army of the Union
has just been pardoned out of the
Fort Madison penitentiary where he
has spent sixteen years for the alleged
murder of travelling man in Clinton.
A negro recently on his death bed con-
fessed that he and the wife of the
convicted man were the guilty parties
and that Slowey, the pardoned pris-
oner, was trying to restore the muir
dered man when detected.
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daughters or girls" a sealskin sack
next winter will be interested in know
ing that from present indications this
years sealing catch off the Pacific
coast will be the smallest on record
and will practically be a dismal failure.
Coast sealing is prohibited after April
so. The reports brought to Victoria up
to the end of March show that the
schooners of the sealing fleet had up to
that time taken fewer seals than in
any previous season, and there are
fewer seals in the coast waters than in
many years.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-14

The Invalid Aid Society of Boston has
had introduced into congress bill
looking to the cession of the abandoned
Fort Stanton reservation in New Mex
leo to the American Invalid Aid Society
of Boston, and made strong state
ment in its behalf. The death rate Of
consumption in New England is TWEEN
ty-five in every hundred, but it grows
less as one moves westward, until he
reaches New Mexico, where the rate is
three in one hundred This society is
an organization supported by private
individuals who believe that it is wor-
thy object to transfer the victims of
pulmonary disease from the Atlantic
coast to the Rocky Mountains, and
that it is within the power of congress
to furnish it certain facilities for the
curing of this disease in our northern
ATTITUDES.
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Professor Virchow, of Berlin, says
that in the diphtheria cases in the En-
peror and Empress Frederick Hospital
for Children the serum treatment has
been generally adopted, and with brill
liant success. for whereas the percen-
tage of deaths from this terrible dis
ease was 1888 in the years 1891, 1892 and
1893, it was only 27S in 1884, and 11.2 in
1895. The number of diphtheria cases
treated in the hospital in 1895 was 538
Prophylactic injections were admins
tered to AGO children, of whom eighteen
afterward caught the disease, but only
in a slight form. The treatment of
scarlet fever by serum was much less
successful. OF the 3O6 patients receiy-
ed, ISL per cent. died.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
Big Odds on Mckinley.

The campaign has reached the bet
ting stage. At the big uptown hotels
where the politicians gather these
nights all sorts of betting propositions
may be heard. The sporting fraternity
is still holding off and the wagcrs
made SO far have been between politi-
clans. Republicans appear to have
the most money, but SO far they've
been willicg to place il on what the
sporting R,en call ''cinch" basis.
George H. Randolph. of Detroit,
placed iRthe hands ofCol. John Webb,
at the Filth Avenue Hotel to-day. for
feits for bets against n. G. Hauser,
of Bosten. $500 to $500 that Mckinley
would carry the State of New York by
250,000 majority. The Boston msn
came ERD with his forfeit money.
Col Fl. L. Swor1s, Sergeat-at-as-1s
OF the National Republican c Committee,
has thousands of dollars at his dis
posal to bet or Mckinley, but has
not iss-en able TO place a cent or it.
He hns failed to find any person will
ling ~ bet large amounts on the sue
cess of the Demtcratic tic;S.t, save at
great odds. Ten to one IS the usual
lirait New YOdx Cores Phil
aGeiphia Press
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
Crown and Cross.

If labor has been crucified in recent
years, it is labor that has done 1t! If
a crown of thorns has been placed
upon its brow, it is the hand of labor
that has woven and placed it there.
The metaphorical figure of a gold
cross, although fanciful and stimula-
tive to the imagination, is not war
ranted by any analogy or semblance
of realty. 1t finds its closest anti
type in Chinese idea that there is
something supernatural behind every
evil in the nature of dragon, that
can only be scared away by loud hall
looing and the beating of tomtoms.
Its poppy any analogy or semblance
of a reality, fortifies the remark of
that prince of showmen, the late 2. T.
Barnum, that ''the American people
like nothing better than to be adroitly
humbugged. If labor, typiied by
all the material forces of nature as
it should bel, is giant, and has been
crucifed. the cross upon which IL has
been extended must be also gigantic.
Consider the materials that have en-
tered into its construction. For the
foundation, take first the Bessemer
steel rail, which, reduced in price
from $15S ton in 1868 to SlS in 1895
has mainly enabled the Pennsylvania
D. ilrnad n fo rodura ito ooSt nf tropu
porting freight from 3. 76c a ton per
mile to about one-half cent a mile,
thereby greatly helping to increase
and cheaper the area of Land avail
able for agricultural production and
competition. On this place blocks of
granite and marble cutwith machinery,
almost as readily and cheaply as
wood is cut by knife, thereby econ
omizing more labor. For the super
structure place agricultural almachinery,
which has made the labor of one man
on the great wheat fields of Dakota
equal to 5000 bushels of wheat; then
the machinery for excavating soil and
blasting rock, which has displaced
more than 30 per cent of the former
labor: then the machinery for the
manufacture of boots and shoes, which
has displaced labor in important de-
partments to the extent of so per cent:
then the improved cotton machinery,
by which the labor of one man can
fully clothe 1000 Cinnamon; then the
sewing machine. the steam drill, the
typesetting machine, which has thrown
thousands of printers out of their ac-
customed vocation; then the machinery
for the manufacture of wall paper,
where the displacement of labor in
proportion to production is stated to
have been in the ratio of 100 men to
one man.-David n. Wells.