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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

The interesting point has been estab-
the State can proceed to collect the
amount Of an evaded liquor license
even after the delinquent dealer has re-
tired from business. This position is
counter to that held by courts in sew
not primarily tax, but is an en-
forced contribution to meet the expense
the business. In Alabama the phrase
ology Of the license law led naturally
to the decision. The law there declares
that for the license required there shall
be paid, 'ffor the use of the State, the
defence was that the State could not
recover the license money upon civil
for its payment, and that the time had
elapsed in which a criminal prosecution
out a license. But, having decided that
the license was a tax, the court saw its
way clear to a trial of the case upon
it's merits. In taxation, the court said,
there is no element of contract. 1t was
pointed out that in the assessment of
real estate the owner is not consulted,
and yet in the Alabama practice the
action Of debt is a common remedy for
| the collection of taxes. On the point
| that prosecution, If any, should be
criminal the court said that the posi-
| ton would have been well taken if the
| prosecution was for the recovery of
| the penalty for failure to take out a
| license, which was three times the
amount Of the license. Being for the
recovery of the license amount, it was
suit for the collection Of the tax,
and was therefore a valid proceeding.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01
CHARTER REVISION.

The special committee on charter re-
vision made a good and fair start last
evening, and the great work will soon
be under Roadway, And there is
reason to believe that this time it win
go on to a more or less satisfactory
conclusion, There has been a large and
definite change of opinion concerning
charter revision during the last two
years, and 1t has become plainly mani
fest lately This year many of those
who We're formerly most earnest and
efficient In opposing a change will be
found equally earnest and efficient in
favoring one. They have become so
thoroughly convinced of the made
quacy and harmfulness of the present
system that they are eager to help
change It,
1t is to be hoped that the needed work
will be done without undue selhshness
and narrowness. Good government is
what all good citizens want. The new
charter should be prepared without par
tisanship or trickery of any kind, and
all concerned should make an honest
effort to do a good thing for the city.
| A new charter can't be made every
day or every year, and when one is
made it should be made as near right
as possible.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01
"AItruisIn.''


To the Editor OF the JOURNAL AND COURIER
The course of Sunday evening lee
lures in the United church has opened
very auspiciously. The first lecture
was delivered Sunday evening, Novem-
Der %, by Rev. DR.. Munger, the pastor
of the church, and the second in the
course was delivered last Sunday eve
ming by Rev. DR.. C. A. Briggs, the ce1e-
brated professor in Union Theological
seminary, N. Y.
Both lectures We're of an exceeding
ly high order.
DR. Munger's theme was, 1.-THE SUI
preme Law Of Society,"" This he de-
clared to be altruism. The address
was grand in conception, profound in
thought, and highly ornate in style.
The lecturer might have served his
hearers, as a whole, a little better, per-
haps, il he had told them exactly what
he meant by 'altruism." The word
was new to many, and it's frequent use
by the speaker made his profound adj
dress "bottomless" to some of them.
They may have thought that, like the
tx rays" altruism Is some sort of a
newly discovered, mysterious force in
nature which is destined to play havoc
with many things, especially with ex-
listing religious opinions and formulat-
ed creeds But however that may be,
the doctor would certainly have help
ed many of his hearers very much by
telling them in some simple way just
what the word altruism really means,
even if he had done nothing more than
to say that it is an Anglicized Latin
word which means exactly the opposite
of "Egotism," another Anglicized Latin
word, but a much more familiar one.
A flash of light on this point, such as
DIR. Munger knows SO well how to cast,
would have enhanced the practical val
ue of the lecture very much to many;
for then they would have felt more or
less at home among the grand thoughts
with which the lecture abounded;
for the old Bible, with which
every member of the congre-
cation was probably more or less ac-
quainted, has a great deal to say about
the real thought Embedded in the word
"altruism;" although it gives no place
to the word itself For example, st.
Paul referred to the very heart of its
meaning when he wrote that familiar
verse, Bear We one another's burdens,
and so fulfill the law of Christ" SO
did Jesus himself when he said, as re
ported by St. John, Greater love hath
no man than this, that a man lay down
his life for his friends" And St. John
more than exhausted the largest mean
ing which any modern philosopher has
| been able to press into this word altru-
ism when he wrote concerning the Gre
ator and Ruler of the universe, God
| is love" And again, God so loved the
world that he gave His only begotten
Son that whatsoever believeth in him
might not perish, but have eternal life. -
| The word has its advantages, no doubt,
| but 1t is a new one on the platform and
in the pulpit, and is still novelty even
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in literature. 1t has a somewhat POM
pous sound, and it mystifies the aver
age hearer. 1t explains nothing, how
ever, that may not be explained by
more familiar terms. Its carrying ca
pacity as vehicle for the conveyance
of thoughts is much inferior to that
of our old, familiar, comprehensive,
strong, wonderful word, love"
AS for THE Supreme Law of Socie-
ty" a better definition Of 1T than that
given nearly nineteen centuries ago by
the man from Nazareth, has not yet
been made public, viz: Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind And thou shalt love thy
neighbor ss myself.
When mankind arrive at that stage
in their development or evolution, when
they manage their persons, their homes,
their business and thier politics accord
ing to this supreme law, their feet will
be treading "a new earth and they will
be clasping in their hands the title deed
to a new heaven" It. e. D.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01
FlISHIoN NOTES.


There seems to be no end to the neck
effects fashion aocomplishes these days,
The idea seems to be so surrounded
and "set" the face that anything so un-
interesting as the fact that the head
grows on a neck and does not come out
OF foam of lace, or rise from sprays Of
velvet that are like the calix of flow
er, or bend above soft plumes and
shrouding lace and fluttering ribbon,
shall be lost sight Of, The points of the
high close collar are now wired, that
they may curve closely under the chin
and to each side of the face. A new
effect in this direction is shown in this
picture, an effect that harmonizes
piquantly with the arrangement of
wings on the hat This arrangement
sets the wings UP with their points ra-
dating from a center made beautiful
by a rich buckle. A mere curve Of brim
is all that shows of the hat itself.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

Regardless of Expense.-"Pa, what Is
a downtrodden farmer?" Hes an ar
istocrat who has real cream in his cof-
fee. Chicago Record.
Helen-"Are you sure God will for
give me for slapping sister if ask him,
mamma?" Certainly, dear"
Helen (rehectively)- l wish I
had slapped her harder. Life.
Mrs. Mudger always makes her hus-
band spend q week with his mother
every year. "Why?' "She says he
doesn't complain of her cooking for
months after his return, Chicago
Record.
In Marienbad-"S here, waiter, why
is the mirror hung SO low in my bed
hoom?' 1.-THE proprietor ordered it, sir.
He says that all people want to see is
whether their waists are growing
smaller. '-F'liegende Blatter.
Jacks mamma-"There were three
slices of cake in the pantry, Jack, and
now there are only two. How does
that happen?" Jack-'It was SO dark
in there, mamma, that / didn't see the
third ne."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ana HOW, lllle CulluIeity SalI lAe
Sunday school superintendent, ''if you
are good children some day you may
wear a golden crown" Paws got one
on his tooth now" chirped the smallest
and newest boy indianapolis jour
nal.
Gabe Snodgrass recently applied to
| the Rev. Whangdoodle Baxter of the
Blue Light tabernacle for some pecuni-
airy assistance. II jes kahn do hit, re-
piled Parson Baxter; Il has to sport
my pore ole mudder." But yer pore ole
| mudder says yer don do muffin fer
her" well den, eff DON do muffin
| fer my pore ole mudder, whut's de use
| oh an outsider like you tryin' to make
| me shell out ?"-Texas Sitter
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01
PROJECTION FOR LANES.

The new German law dealing with
Investing and specializing is an at
tempt to do what many have thought
ought to be done in this country. Its
terest.
The new law has some apparently
good provisions in it for the benefit of
lambs" 1t provides that no stock ex-
change or bourse can be established ex-
| ment, and all its operations must be
carried on under the supervision Of a
government commissioner. The bank
ruptcy of a member must exclude him
| for six months, If not permanently,
| from the privileges of membership. To
secure the listing of any stock SO that
| it may be publicly traded in, the firm
| or company must do business for a
| year, and publish It's first years ball
ance sheet No company can acquire a
status on the exchange without pub
| fishing a prospectus, and the signers of
| the prospectus are held legally liable
| for the correctness Of the statements in
1t, and may be compelled to make good
any losses incurred by those who are
induced by the prospectus to buy the
stock The signers are also subject to
criminal prosecution for any fragrant
misstatements.
This ought to make both investment
/ and speculation somewhat safer in Ger
many than they have been. In addi-
ton to this the law prohibits all deal
| ing in futures. unless the parties to the
transaction are entered in the stock ex-
| change register, and this entry costs
$3.50 for the original fee, with an an
nual payment of s5.95 afterward. Thus
any person wishing to speculate must
begin by paying considerable sum of
money to the government, and making
public record of the fact, for the regis
| Ter Is TO DS KEEP open lcI PuplAS 1AopeC-
tion The entries are also to be pub
lished In the Imperial Gazette and in
the local official papers, and for this
also there is a fee to be paid. Any
transactions by persons not thus re-
| corded are to be treated as gambling
debts, and are not protected by law.
| Dealing in futures in grain and mill
products or in the stocks of mining and
manufacturing companies is entirely
forbidden. Another provision of the
new law provides a penalty of impris-
onment and fine not exceeding s., $40
for any person who for his own pur-
pose induces inexperienced persons to
speculate on the exchange in articles
that are outside of their sphere of bust
ness.
1t is difficult to see how any more
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

With the dininution of the sleeve
the skirt mas dropped and narrowed,
and the correct skirt of the moment,
though it may be plain or trimmed,
must be cut according to the bell pat
tern of some seasons ago, though not
quite so long at the back nor so cling
ingly anywhere as was the style when
we gave it up. There has also been a
distinct reaction from the baggy style
of bodice and front, not that the blouse
bodice is no longer worn, but women
with handsome figures are glad to wear
again the perfectly fitting effects that
do them justice. Many such bodices
are turned out of brilliant silks, the de-
signs being so perfectly matched that
the fastening of the bodice does not
show
over such bodice is worn one Of the
seasons jaunty bolero Jackets, match
ing the skirt in material and color.
These Jackets have the air Of coming
off," but many are permanent, and in
some cases the bolero effect is carried
out in front, the back being solid and
even taking on a princess effect by
drawing up the bodice a. portion of the
top OF the skirt. The bolero front is
generally becoming, but the bolero back
is not. Sleeves are finished with funnel
cuffs, though at the top they may be
tight, after the English coat sleeve of
last season, with no stiffening. Plaided
silk and military blue cloth were the
materials in which this costume was
sketched FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01
ADYERTIsING RATEs.

Situations. Wants Rents, and other small
advertisements, One Cent Word each m
Sertion. Five Gents Word for full week
tseyen times). t.,
Display Advertlsements-Per inch, one IN
sertion, $780, each subsequent lnsefI 10 a.
40 cents; one week, $500; one MONTH Slo'
one year, $40 -
Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, 10
cents per line Notices Of Births. Marriages;
Deaths and Funerals, so cents each. Local
notices Is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their own
immediate business (ail matter TO De qn-
Dbjectonable), and their contracts DO not in-
clude Wants, To Let For Sale, etc.
Discounts-On two inches OF more, one
month and over, 10 per cent; on four inches
or more one month and over, 10 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

/ Saw a boy a day or two
since-delicate little fellow.
Knew by his look that he was
| i11-nourished; food did not di-
gest; blood was thin; some
thing the matter.
Thought if he was our boy
we would give A HUNDRED
DOLLARS to know of the
wonderful virtues of the pure
food Seal Boefgrain.
Perhaps this boy was YOUR
BOY.
Seal Boefgrain is an extract
of grain; a pure food, no
chemicals. Most easily di-
gested food that can be OBJ
tanned. Almost entirely pro-
tein or fiesh-forfning sub
stance; and this-as Prof. At
water of Wesleyan University
states in his great food inves-
| LEGATIONS makes muscle and
sinew and is the basis of
blood, bone and brain.
SOLD BY GR0CERS.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

Paris has it's first automobile cab. 1t
is a closed coupe, with petroleum for
the motive power, and charges only the
regular tariff of two francs an hour.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

The Boston board Of health has de-
fined splitting in the street cars as a
nuisance. and now everyone who indul-
ges in this disgusting practice can be
fined hundred dollars if detected.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

"A Pennsylvania court has discharged
a. man accused of calling another man
a mugwump, with the remark that the
designation is rather complimentary
than otherwise.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

can be done for lambs" but in spite
of it all they win perhaps manage to
get sheared.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

Only seven peers have been chosen as
mayors in England this year, while
eleven were elected last year. The
Duke Of Norfolk, postmaster general, is
reelected at Sheffield. and the Earl of
Dudley, secretary of the board Of trade,
at Dudley. The other mayors are the
Earl of Warwick at Warwick, the Mar
quis Of Zetland at Richmond in York
shire, Lord Llangattock at Monmouth,
and Lord Winborne at Poole
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

Johann Orth, the lost Austrian arch
duke, has been declared dead by the
Cantonal court of st. Gallen, which
has ordered the Bank of st. Gallen to
pay at once million francs deposited
in it by the archduke, to the relatives
of his wife, Ludmilla Strubel, for whom
he gave up his rank and who disap-
peared with him. The bank claimed
the right to, keep the money for thirty
years after the disappearance. Another
million francs, deposited in the Fret
burg bank, was paid over on demand.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

A society for the study Of mushrooms
has been organized in Philadelphia. 1t
will meet every two weeks, and men,
bers will read papers on such topics as
Mushrooms That Have Helped Me"
The organizers say that there are about
235 edible kinds of mushrooms to be
found around Philadelphia, and that
tons Of the delicious food go to waste,
simply because people have a horror of
what are known as toadstools, only
four kinds of which are really poison
GUS
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

A New York physician who has a
large office practice has adopted a
simple but effective plan for the enter
tain,nent of his patients while they are
waiting. He has provided half a dozen
ingenious puzzles, which are strewn
carelessly around on the tables and on
the mantel in the waiting ROOM FIRE.
Quently there will be a score Of persons
in the room, and for some of them,
especially the nervous ones, the waits
would be very fatiguing if it were not
for the puzzles
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01

A curious point has been submitted
to the Derbyshire Football association
for decision. 1t is as to whether arti-
fetal limbs are to be permitted in the
play 1t geems that the Buxton Foot
ball club had several members of its
team severely injured in consequence
of a member of the Matlock eleven
having played with an artificial arm.
1t was reported that in Derbyshire
alone there are a number Of football
players who, owing to the loss of an
arm, use artificial limbs. They are
described as regular terrors" ON the
football field, since when once they get
son" to the ball they swing their dunn
my arms around with such force as to
either fracture skulls or cause concus-
sion of the brain. 1t has now been de-
fetal limbs are henceforth to be barred
in all football games.
From the report just made to the As
ISOLATED Charities of Boston on the
Farmers Fruit Offerings" it appears
that this new form of benefcence has
resulted in distributing among the city's
poor, since October 8, when the plan
went into operation, exactly 4,816 bush
els of apples, besides a considerable
quantity of potatoes and other vege-
tables. The fruit was divided among
k3,7S6 persons, and the direct expense
incurred amounted to only S434. The
apples were given by farmers living in
the region around Boston, the railroads
provided free transportation, and the
managers of the enterprise were allow
ed to use a wharf free of cost as q
place of storage and distribution. It is
said that by thus supplying with fruit
q part of the population that has hith-
er to been able to get little or no such
food the death rate of the city has
been Iessened to marked degree.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-07
THINKS ILLINOIS Is SAFE
w. f. Mason of Chicago Does Not Think
the Pops Have a Shadow of a Show.

Chicago, Aug. 6.--Hon. William E
Mason is home from an extensive out
ing in the state. making Republican
speeches nightly. Said he yesterday to
"a reporter:
Yes, L have been in southern Illinois,
and / have noticed some interviews In
some Of the morning papers with Dem
ocratic managers who say they are 60
fng TO carry Illinois, but / could not help
smiling that they had begun so early on
their graveyard whistle. i have been at
work since the national convention ev-
cry day. having spoken in the extreme
northern end OF the state and in the eX-
IRENE southern end of the state.
I'm the northern end Of the state ev-
ervone comedies that We will have our
usual Republican majorities. l know
better: 1 know we will have an unusu-
ally large Republican majority. l get
at the facts when ] go into a county by
talking 10 al kinds of people, and the
number that We lose on account OF
standing by the presen tgold standard
Is very much over-estimated. You go
into one county where our boys have
made a very careful canvass and find
that they are going to lose from five 10
ten votes, but that they are going to
gain from twenty-five to fifty votes that
they know of out of the sound money
Democrats. They know what they are
talking about from their canvass in their
own county. But in the next breath
they VIII tell You that in the adjoining
county we are IN great trouble on ac-
count of losing many on account of III a
free silver Republicans. When I go into
the next county l learn that they are
all right there. but that they are in great
danger in the next county.
Last week when 1 started for south
ern Illinois ii was generally reported
That the whole Republican organization
was going all 10 pieces in southern ILL
noi,s. / visited East week six of the ex-
trecne southern counties. and we will
carry IN every one of the counties a
larger Repu blican vote than We did two
years ago. Tanner is popular there. and
Rose. who is nominated for secretary Of
state. is the most popular man ~ that
section OF the country. Indeed. all par
ties seem 10 be for him. and Il added
strength to the party in southern Illinois
when he was put on the ticket. He IS
campaigning every day and IS a first
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-07
AS VIEWED FROM THE SOUTH
The Chances for the Republicans to Dc
something This Year.

Fort Smith, Ark, Aug. e.-While
Senator Jones cannot be called a pro-
phet without honor in his own country
IL is a fact that his performances at st.
Louis have not universally commended
themselves TO the people whom he rep
resentS in congress. Sound money
Democrats are not wholly lacking in
Arkansas though scarcer than one
might wish. But even the Silver DEM
ocrats feel a little sore over the way the
senator Frustrated himself before a
class or people who are regarded here
as little better than the scum OF the
earth Some of them, moreover, COM
plain that, after making all this exhi-
ton or himself, he permitted his enc
mics to flank him 10y nominating such
man as Watson for vice president
Had weaker candidate been named
there might have been some hope. they
say, or success for the trick which was
played at the last moment, OF giving
the national committee plenary powers
TO act for the convention when the lar
ter was out Of session. Watson will
not, they fear. psrmit himself 10 be Gus
ted from the ticket without a fight and
10 precipitate fight would BE fatal
Tor It would stir up anew the bad
blood waicn existed at the beginning Of
the convention and which settled itsaif
10 some degree before the close Wat
son ia too strong TO be cajoled. too
courageous or self-reliant 20 BE- fright
ened, and too much in earnest 70 be
oought on. Just how he can be haa-
died so as 10 get him out OF the way BE-
fore e'ection day is therefore a troub-
lesome question
The scheme OF fusion electoral tick
ct n any part OF the south Is pro-
nounced absurd. II may work IN the
middle west, tne southern Democrats
ADMIT; but they simply scout the idea
tnat Jones or any one else can bring
soout a union where Pupuiism is a real
and distinct party. Already news has
reached Arkansas OF preparations II
progress II various parts O. The south
Tor coalition between he Popaiists
and the Republicans on their state t.cs-
cts, and X the result % this should -
pretty general cut OF the presidential
ticket. i would surprise TO one
The impression prevails here that
the only fighting ground the Rsp151i-
cans vii have n the souta viii b Ken
lucky. Tenneszee. North Carolina. Ms
sour and louisiana ard thai n these
states sasrs Is a fair chsnc% OF Dong
something. West Virginia Is lex out
Of Ssis U.s.. beng no longer CONSIDERS
a fail-esdgsd southern state Il C<o--