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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04
600 if he could wipe the whole affair off

900 if he could wipe the whole affair off
the slate.
Scr"ggs and Langhorn went to London
to dispose Of the European rights for the
manufacture Of the arithmometer, a cal
culating machine. The sale was made to
English capitalists, and Scruggs, as pres
ldent and treasurer Of the company, sign
cd the contracts and received S2OO,OOO
Having completed his business. he
bought few waches rings and pins Id
present to relatives and employees. He
was told that it is customary for Ameri-
cans 10 bring in articles Tor their own
use or intended for presents without de-
Caring them and paying duty as on arti-
cies intended for sale. The penalty for
smuggling may be anything from light
fine to Il fine Of 5000 and imprisonment
iOr two years
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04
OF Course Not.

Clara-I suppose the brightest mo-
ment in your life was when Jack pro-
posed?
Cora-Brightest? There wasn't d
particle of light in the room!-T TonI1ers,
Statesman.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04
WhY She rncE Him.

Mother-Why did you accept Charlie
from among all the young men who
have paid you attention?
Daughter-Because he was the only
one that had the good taste to propose.
Detroit Free Press.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04

X. W. Stewart, q merchant Of Lindale.
Tex. was recently cnticed from his home
by a negro and murdered. Edward Jones.
negro, was arrested and in a confession
implicated VIII Jones, white man. Jones
was placed in jail. Shortly after l o'clock
in the morning a mob appeared at the
county jail at Tyler. broke in the doors
and shot Jones 80 death. They refused to
kill the negro who Killed Stewart.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04
HELD FOR SMUGGLING.
Millionaire Dry Goods Merchant of
ST. Louis Is Accused.

Richard II. Scruggs, the millionaire dry
Eoo's merchant who YES arrested in New
York Saturday tor smuggling ;e.esy and
fine laces, is one OF the most eminent and
respected citizens Of s.. Louis He and
Edwa-d G. La1ghorn, general manager
of the American Artrb-uometsr Company,
wao were passengers oa the Auer;can
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04
a Troubled Man,

ia rather be most any man
IN hstory's class or fame's bright bands
Than Atlas, for he always had
4 world of trouble on his hands.
Cincinnati Tribune
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04

John Wolff, who had been scolded by
the foreman, drowned himself in a vat
Of beer at the Mocrlcin brewery in, Gin
cipnatj, Ohio.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04

man tell them that he is fond of his
wife
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04
G. 4. Z. s PROUD YEAR,
The oRGlNiZATlCH Is THIRTY.
ONE YEARS OLD.

first Conceived in Illinois, the Order
Has Had 5000 Posts with Mem
bership of Over Half Million
Death Making Inroads
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-04
A Famous Society.

LIMOS g rl,e
5-rtdp.aJ.e III tise
GgEd Aray %
taa Republicans
he home oS IL.
GTst pos oTgaZiz-
ed-w-z-es J. 4
W&uezs Il the
acags Tines
Herald brt Wis
COZ b-eA= 81
honor egua. 20 i Il
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14
 FLORIDA'S HELPFUL SPIDER.

He is Assisting to Clear the Big St.
 Johns River of the Blockade or
 Hyacinths a
 Prof. H. J. Webber, expert appointed by the Agricultural Department last year to investigate the pest or the water hyacinths, which are fast blockadlnS the St. Johns and other rivers or the State. arrived in the city from Eustls yesterday.
 Prof. Webber has faith in the des- tructiyeness of the red spider which has been ravaging the leaves of the plant To examine more closely the work of this insect he gathered plants Tn Lake Monroe and placed them in ponds m his own yard. The spider he says, IS not quite so large as the head or pin, and is a new species, according ID Pro1 l.. o. Howard, chief of the entomologi- cal division of the Department or Agriculture, to whom were sent specl- mems. The little fellow multiplies with exceeding great rapidity, weayes his web from leaf to leaf, raises his numer- ous family, and attacks the leaves, de- youring them almost completely.
  while, says the professor, but II the leaves are repeatedly killed as fast as they grow life in the whole plant IS soon extinct. He explained that the food materials taken into the plant by the roots are converted by the leaf into fats and sugars, and these are as ne- cessary to the life of the plant as they are 10 human beings. The leaf destroy 1 ed, the plant will die, just as a man | would die who had been deprived of digestive apparatus.
 Even if the root did not die, the work of the spider in destroying that part of | the hyacinth above the surface would prove beneficial, inasmuch as the plant propagates from the flower as well as the bulb, and the destruction of the flower would prevent that branch of the propagation and reduce the rapid multiplication.
 | Don't understand me to say" said Prof Webber, that the red spider vii destroy the hyacinths completely. His work will be beneficial, and if reinfor- ced by other diseases of the plant vii no doubt open the rivers completely It is highly important, in my opinion for the Government to send an expert into South American rivers to import ] all of the enemies of the hyacinth. This I think, win be the most effective way 1 in which to destroy the pest l Congressman Davis fathered a bill | for an appropriation for this purpose in the last Congress, but, unfortunate. 1 ly, it failed to pass. ."-Flordia Times. l Union.
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law provides that any arrangement or combination entered into between per sons or companies for the purpose or increasing prices or limiting produc- ton is illegal, and those so engaged are punishable by fine or imprisonment or both, unless the trusts are authorized by the general laws of the empire. In a word, the fact that individuals or cor- porations have united in putting up prices or in limiting production is evi- dence of crlminality, unless they can show that they are acting under the statutory authority of the government in so doing. An authorized trust is one where the following statements have been made under oath: Purpose and object of the trust; branch of trade and number of members, giving the name of each privileges and obligations of the members, and contracts and agree ments entered into by the members as to penalties, etc; office of home man. agement; management and general foreign representatives, if there are any; duration of the agreement made by the trust members; eventual agree ment as to the way of settling litiga- tion arising from the trust
 Frhn mi, ct of g1f l.. sion over these trusts, and is authoriz- | ed to examine the commercial books of the trusts the notes of the business transacted by them, and to demand from directors, managers and interested enterprises any information respecting any business relation either external or among the members. More than this the minister of finance Is instructed to obtain from the trust bond to large amount guaranteeing compliance with
 the law The supervision is of a strictly confidential character, those making
 examinations being under oath to di- vulge to none except their superior of-
 ficers the information they obtain, ex- cept, of course, when there has been a
 violation of the rules regulating pro. cedure laid down either by the govern ment or by the minister of finance.
 So far, so good. Now to see whether
 the government will manage the trusts
 or the trusts the government.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14
PLE.jSINGs PEACH ES.

Those who are pleased by peaches (and who is not?) will be especially pleased this year by the fine natives" that are to be seen in the market places. Once upon, time Connecticut had glorious and satisfying peaches. Then peach-growing in this State be- came lost art. Now the art seems to have been found again, and there are no better or more beautiful peaches than those grown here. It is estimated that the value of the peach crop in Connecticut this year will be a million dollars, and the indications are that it will soon be much more. The more the merrier. The time may come when Connecticut will be sending peaches to Delaware, and if that time does come the people of Delaware will have an opportunity to know what really good peaches are.
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what is the necessary preliminary to breaking off the liquor habit?" said Covington Sunday school teacher to one of her pupils.
 Learning to drink" replied the pu- pil.--Louisville Courier-Journal. Even Chances.-" Never mind; I am going to the gold fields next spring, and when l come back rich I won't know you"
 And if you come back broke I won't know you. ."Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. De Montmorenci Jinks-'I am so much troubled about Dorothea, doctor. She is just getting to that age when she thinks her mother has no judg- ment whatever" | Dr. Fifthly--"Ahem! Reaching the age of reason, l suppose. Brooklyn | Life.
 i The pupils ill school were asked to give in writing the difference between a biped and a quadruped. One boy gave the following: "A biped has two legs and quadruped has four legs; ! therefore, the difference between a biped and a quadruped is two legs " London Tit-Bits.
 Young congressman-"W my dear what do you think? I had the honor of being interviewed this morning on the leading topics of the day. His wife--''Indeed. What did you say?"
 Young congressman--"I really cant | tell until I see the morning paper. "- | Richmond Dispatch. | A few days ago q Missouri banker an l nounced himself as candidate for con
 gress and said that if elected he Woulo
 give the duties of the office the same | care and attention he had always giv'
 en to his bank. This was a good play
 but unfortunately his bank burst in l side of week and his boom exploded
 with a loud report.-Omaha World | Eera Id
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TRYING THE BLOODHOUNDS.
A Fugitive's Waiting Race That Gave
 Nervous Spectator a Scare.
 S5neret rrl,o

A Fugitive's Waiting Race That Gave
 a Nervous Spectator a Scare.
 The dogs! The dogs!'
 The cry of agonized terror was simultaneous with the appearance of a man with dishevelled hair distorted features. and the torture of fear in his eyes, who leaped from the arroyo and dashed past with speed of the wind. The horror of the situation struck me dumb and palsied my nerves The yelps of the swift approaching dogs beat on my ears like the roar of cannon, and the pressure on my brain was like that of a man drowning in forty fathoms of water 1 tried to run, and a million pains shot through my limbs. as though l had been shocked by a powerful electric battery. I was only conscious of one fact, and that was that I stood directly in the path of d pack of blood hounds, taught, by instinct and train ing to tear human bipeds to pieces. The knowledge that they would only attacI, the man they were delegated to hunt down did not occur to me. It only cane to me when the pack dashed past in full cry. The dogs paid no more at tentioR to me than if 1 had been one ot the sagebrushes of the plains.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14
PLAIN RORROIYING.

If we understand the resolution pass ed by the councilmen last night, the board of finance is authorized by it to do some plain, old-fashioned borrow ing, without any frills and without any smouching. The aldermen will doubt less take similar action tonight, and then all will be plain sailing, for money is ''easy"-to borrow, though hard to pay. And $20,0O0 isn't much more.
 It was a great day for New Haven when, with hard labor, a good and dur able pavement was taken up and the fine, smooth asphalt put down. It will be a great day for New Haven when the vile dirt is removed from the as- phalt so that it (the asphalt) can be once more seen and appreciated. The dirt can be seen, and is not appreciat- ed It will also be a healthy day for New Haven when the older pavements are again clean. There is yellow fever in New Orleans, and there is yellow government in New Haven. But cour. age, fellow citizens, we can still Dor. row.
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Strength and sensibillty came back as quickly as they had deserted me, and followed the dogs at top speed to learn the fate of the fleeing convict. A hundred yard dash brought me in sight of the race track stables and within hearing of chorus that made by blood run cold, The dogs had caught sight of their game and were yelping like pack of hellhounds; a dozen horsemen and stable boys were shouting at the dogs and trying to turn them from the fugltive's track. But terribly clear and distinct above these sounds came the maddened shriek of the convict, who was plunging in headlong fashion toward the open door of one of the stables. 1t was evident his strength was almost gone, but he dashed through the stable door, and I heard the keys turn in tho rusty lock while the dogs were still several yards away.
 The horror was still upon me when the head of the convict appeared at the open window, ten feet above the ground, and, to my amazement, ne greeted the people and dogs below with jeering laugh. That was a dead easy one," he said, still laughing. Il could have been here ten minutes ago, but I wanted to give you fellows a scare" The dogs recognized the man they had been pursuing and made fran tic efforts to reach him. They jumped toward the window, striking against the side of the barn and falling back, while they yelped and howled in impo- tent rage until the foam streamed from their red chops. appealed to the sta bleman for an explanation, but all could get out of him was: "They are trying the dogs, I reckon"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14
THE GRANDEUn or USEFULNESS

There are several ways of looking at a thing. One of the ways in which Niagara Falls can be looked at is il- lustrated by the Electrical World.
 which makes an estimate of what the
 Falls, if utilized, could earn, or, in other words, of what the failure to utilize
 them costs. Assuming" it says, "the total power of Niagara to be 5,000O00
 horse power, and putting the value of this at the low figure of $10 per horse
 power a year, the annual waste amunts to the enormous total of $5O,-
 oOo o000-enough to pay interest on $1,- 000000, 000." The whole question is whether the cataract, as a spectacle, is worth this sum, and whether it's ener-
 gies should not be employed usefully
 in manufactures, adding to the general supply of wealth, and in this way en- hancing the opportunities and bettering | the condition of all the people of this country and Canada. The Electrical | World intimates that the people 'in | whose natures the aesthetic predomi- l nates'' are not the only class capable | of feeling: Tt is as painful in it's way | to the engineer to see the sad waste | of several millions of horse power at Niagara as it is to the purely senti- | mental person to contemplate the de- struction of the Falls for utilitarian purposes. It should be borne in mind, l however, by those who look forward with regret to the day when there will be no more cataract, if such a day shall ever come, that the industrial develop | ments which in that case will take it's place will be even more beautiful | There is an element of beauty and majesty in the thunderous rush of vast volumes of water over the precipice at | Niagara but it is the beauty of waste
 and destruction. The orderly activity | of the mighty machinery which would | be actuated by the great water power and the harnessing of the elemental l forces of nature in the service of man. kind. would furnish spectacle of ever more impressive grandeur than that
 now displayed by the uncontrolled
 cataract"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14
DESCOTERED.

She-"When you married me you said you were well off He-'I was. but didn't know it.'-Tit-Bits.
 'I wonder if it is true that whiskey weakens the will power?' "No. sir, The more I drink the more I am deter. mined never to stop!'-Life.
 T cant help wonderin'." said Uncle Eben, 'ef lot O dem folks dat's a. gwine to klondike wouldn't git ricf anyhow ef dey was willin' to work as hard at home as dey'n halter up dar' Washington Star.
 MT. Hiiand-''T see that many Nlon dike miners have got enough and ar, returning"
 Mir Enough gold?"
 MT. Hiland-"Nn. enough expert ence. .''-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14

with a very light quality of scarlet cashmere But braid as is braid'' will not down, and is still very freely used, some of the fine fall travelling dresses having their plumes turned to extreme jauntiness by means of quantities of braiding. The artist puts such a model here-a gown of castor colored cloth, trimmed as indicated with line on line of narrow braiding. Chimissette and collar were black and white check silk, and cloth-covered buttons trimmed the jacket front.
 The buttons on tailor rigs are very different lot from those on dressy gowns. Ship-loads of jewelled en- broideries and passementeries, boleros, panels and fronts are on their way for what is called the Fall trade" and this in spite of the fact, as we were told last winter, that the reign of the tinsel- ry was passing. Among these rich or naments buttons are plenty, and al- mond-shaped turquoise. emerald and sapphire jewels will be made to serve as buttons that, of course, are far more or namental than useful. Genuine lapis- lazuli and malechite are being inn pressed into this service with excellent effect, the last mentioned stones having the advantage of being real instead of assimiated, as is the case with "eme- raids" "rubies," etc As to buttons one dress-maker who was very impor- tant with her many trunks just got through the customs house, declared that. 'Its either no buttons. or buttons for ornamentaton." Though some times trimmed with buttons, tailor gowns will fasten under frogging or by masked hooks and eyes.
 FLORETTF
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other shnll advertisements, One Cent a Word ench n. m. sertion Five Cents Word for full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements. per inch, one Tn 6n sertion, S1.20; each subsequent inserSlons: s,n, o cents one week, $3.20; one month' %io' one year. $40. ,s
 Obituary Notices. In prose or verseiI eIor' io cents per line. Notices of Births, ab NM riages, Deaths and Funerals: 30 cents e"'I Local Notices 15 cents per line. .ho,r
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thI,, hs own immediate business tall matter d to rot o unobtectlonable), and their contracts o' "0 Include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14

of a vast umbrella; the part core spending with the stick is an enormous cylinder, thirty feet in diameter, con- structed of steel plates firmly riveted, this structure rearing its head 25O feet above the level of the ground. At the extreme top of the cylinder are to be fastened twelve long arms resembling the ribs of an umbrella-steel trusses reaching almost to the ground-and at the lower end of each of these ribs is suspended a car for carrying passen- gers, each car having a carrying ca- pacity of twenty persons, These mon- ster ribs are raised by hydraulic power acting by means of steel cables oper- ating through the cylinder, aided by a device much resembling that of an um- brella which comes into action when the umbrella is opened; by means of this mechanism the gigantic arms are rais- ed until they are horizontal, the cars in the meantime being carried outward and upward until they reach a point 250 feet above the ground, the diameter of the huge circle formed by the sus- pended cars being also 250 feet When the highest point has been reached another mechanism comes into play and the suspended cars are swung slowly around in a circle, and after this they are lowered to the ground. The sides of the cars are of glass, thus ad- hitting of a most extensive view.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14
FASHION NOTES.
Changes in Brnids and Buttons.

CHHhEes III BrNIds hnd Buftons.
 A variation in braiding effect consists in finishing the costume with bands of material brilliantly contrasting with that of the dress itself, the bands being overlaid with open-work braid This is pretty notion for childrens dresses The little schoolgirl of twelve is really in hurry for school to begin because her bright blue cloth dress is trimmed all over with bands of scarlet cashmere laid under very open black soutache braid, which she thinks too perfectly lovely" especially as the skirt Is lined
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14
TEEATS IN IUSTRT9,

Austria has a trust problem as well as this country. and the Austrian par liament has adopted law for the reg uiation of trusts. In a general way the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, lo CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, $3 FOR SIX MONTHS, So YEAR. TIE SAME TERMS BY MAIL
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14

Only four of the twelve corner lots on Fremont street, Boston, between Scol- lay Square and Boylston street, have changed owners in forty years. One of the four was sold a few days ago for price stated as more than $150,o00 and less than s2O0.OOo, It's assessed val uation is $1220O0. It had been owned by the Lowell family since 1911,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14

A teachers institute in West Virgin- Ia has passed resolution to the effect ~--"That as body of teachers we con- demn the use of alcohol and tobacco by the teachers, and we also condemn the habit of those male teachers who sit In the school room with their hair parted in the middle and their pants in their boots"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14

THE PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14

More water is to be made industrious
 An immense hydraulic and electric plant is to be constructed at Massena, in northern New York, to utilize the rapids of the St. Lawrence. A canal 225 feet wide and 25 feet deep will be ex- cavated across the narrow plateau (three miles wide) that separates the Grasse river valley from the St. Lawrence. A fall of 40 feet will be obtained as the Grasse river empties into the St. Law renee below the rapids. This will be sufficient to develop 150,0O0 horse power
 The power-house will be at first fitted up for the production of half that quan- tity. Massena is said to be well situat- ed for a manufacturing center The power is to be transformed by 5000 horse power Westinghouse generators, by the largest machines for the pur- pose that have ever been built except those for the Niagara Power company
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14

The German Turner's of Lewiston Maine, lost their suit for the recovery of beer seized at their rooms by the po- lice, and unless the decision of the mu- nicipal court is reversed on the appeal to the supreme court, hard blow has been struck at the beer club system in Maine. All the clubs in the city had been raided, and the Turner's made theirs test case. It appears from the text of the courts decision, that the beer was sold on the check system. and that fifty-three members of the Schiller Verein drank thirty kegs a month. The court says that the members who buv checks merely buy so many drinks in advance, and the liquor thus sold ceas- es to be the property of the club and be- comes that of the individual. 1t woulS be reproach to the law and it's admin istration if a combination of persons could by such an arrangement evade the prohibitory law of the State. Lio- uors and vessels forfeited"
 One of the proposed novelties of the Op,a h q U'ra n c m iSSisciDT1i F'-Dpcitior n.