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The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16
+ EARIY.

'It is a good deal of a drawback for a woman to be heartless," said the Corn-fed Philosopher. but to a water melon it is utter n."-Indianapolis Journal.
 The judge said to the colored witness: Twill you swear the man was shot from ambush?" NO, suh, I won't, kaze he wuz shot fum behin' a pine tree At lanta Constitution.
 Berger is the worst bicycle crank I ever saw" "Yes?" "Well. I should say so. He even reads all the coal strike news that has a Wheeling date line. Chicago Journal. Street car conductor (to driver)-"I wonder what that man is running so hard for?" Driver Cooking bacl1)-. "Mebby the fool wants ter git on. G'lang. New York Weekly.
 Mrs. Cumso-"Your husband dresses very quietly" Mrs. Cawker-"Does he? You ought to hear him when he can't find his collars, or his cuff buttons be- come mislaid. .''-Harper's Bazaar
 Commercial traveller (to cannibals)- Well, then, if you have made up your minds to roast and eat me, let me at least entreat you to try our brand of mustard on this occasion. Blatter.
 An Alibi-'I hear that the crowd as- sailed you when you appeared at the Plunkville opera house." False, me boy, false" replied the eminent trage- dian. MT. Barnes Former. "All false There was no crowd. ."-Indianapolis Journal.
 Hobkins-"My brother bought a wheel here last week, and you said ii anything broke you would supply 8 new part" Dealer-"That's right What do you want?" T want two deltoid muscles, a new set of knuckles and kneepan. Life.
 Grocer-"No. sir, we cannot give you credit. This is 8 strictly cash store, ant we do not give trust to any one" Customer (drawing himself up proud ly)-"Then. sir, you cannot have my trade. for I never have cash to pay anybody. ."-Somerville Journal.
 NO, MT. Hankinson," said Tommy tc the young man who was waiting in the | parlor for Tommy's sister, T ain't the kind of a little boy you're always read | in about in the papers what begs candy 1 from the fellers that comes to see the'l sisters. Still, if you've got any in you1 pockets I'd be willin' to take it"-Chi cago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16
THE ZIONIST Y,

The Zionist movement is getting some sharp and sensible criticism The Chicago Israelite points to the curious fact that though both Nordau and Herzl, the leaders of the Zionist" movement, are avowed Agnostics, and as indifferent to Judaism as to other religions, they appeal for and find fol- lowers only among the more than ex- tremely orthodox members of their race. "They occupy" says the Chicago writer, "the anomalous position of heading a movement which, if it lacks a religious basis, has no excuse for it's existence,'' while those who take part in 1t under such leadership, it is assert ed, "belie their entire history and faith, and stamp themselves as hypocrites." :" Continuing, the article more than inti- mates that enthusiasm over this scheme for the colonization of Palestine is felt only by those who see in it chance to be supported there at the expense of
 
 somebody else.
 Rabbi Isaac M. Wise of Cincinnati rises to remark: The truth of the mat ter is that there does not exist the bar est possibility of purchasing any coun- try, of forming and establishing a new government anywhere with the consent of the European powers or of securing the $40o, 100000 to s500,00Oo 900 required for such an enterprise among Jews and Gentiles the world over. Nor is there even the shadow of a possibility to get, among all the Jews in this world, with in the next ten years 100000 emigrants | to go to Palestine to begin life anew l under the precarious protection of a l dwarf statelet
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16
SOCIETY IN EHILICOTH F.

We read and hear much about the lack of Society in the free and boundless West, but there are at least two places in said West where Society f1ourishes. These are Chilicothe and Kansas City. Missouri. There is going to be a flower show in Kansas City, and the flower show is, of course, going to have queen. The queen is going to have maids of honor, and Chilicothe is going to furnish one of the maids. Among those who want to be chosen is young woman who has, 1t is said been summarily shut out of the contest This young woman is all right She is beautiful and accomplished But she earns her own living. Her mother is a. widow. After her father died the young woman went bravely to work to assist her mother in educating her younger sister. She is employed as a shader in a tobacco factory. On ac- count of her occupation her candidacy was vigorously opposed by a number of Society women of Chilicothe. On their own account, and without consulting the members of the local committee, they telegraphed to the chairman of the Flower committee, stating their ob- jections and asking that she be barred as candidate to represent the people of Chilicothe Acting upon this re- quest the chairman telegraphed at once to the local committee: "The business occupation of the young lady is consid- l cred q barrier
 So an honorable maid in Chilicothe
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16
MYSTERY OF A MONTANA MINE
People Who Enter it Fall Asleep ant

People Who Enter it Fall Asleep and
 Their Bodies Become Rigid.
 'In this line of work we come across some curious accidents and narrow es- capes," said Deputy Mine Inspector Frank Hunter the other night. "One thing struck me long ago, and that is how much 1t takes to kill man some times and how easily the thread of life is often snapped.
 Down in Colorado I knew a fellow who plunged down eight hundred feet in a single compartment shaft. He went to the bottom, but did not break a bone. Of course he was pretty badly jared up and a good deal frightened, but he was all right in day or two. When he fell he went down feet first, and big oilskin that he wore opened out at the bottom and acted as a para chute. He said the last part of his de- scent was so much slower than the first that he hardly thought he was drop ping at all and half expected to remain suspended in the shaft like Moham- med's coffin
 | Nearly always when a man falls any distance he turns over, if he starts feet downward, and finishes his plunge head | first. I have seen number of cases where the man fell with his boots on and was found barefooted when he was picked up. I suppose this is because | the blood goes to the head, making the 1 feet smaller, and besides the pressure of the air upon the heel and counter acts
 as a bootjack.
 | 'I had to go over to Sand Coulee to | investigate an accident in which one
 man was killed and another had three
 ribs broken. Speaking of Sand Coulee
 it struck me while I was there that if
 wanted to commit suicide I would gc
 there to do it. I don't mean that life
 becomes such a burden in the coa country that the ties that bind are more
 easily severed than elsewhere. but that
 it affords unsurpassed facilities for 8 | cheap and happy dispatch. It's a won,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

tain that length The two remaining conditions for drst-clast5 fibre, viz, strength and fineness, cannot be dem- onstrated until the time for pulling ar rives; but, where Oregon fibre has been produced heretofore, it's strength is said to have proved very satisfactory, and the t1neness nearly equal to the best Estimates of the yield of straw per acre are set at four and one-half tons, which is stated to be more than double what is derived from the industry in Minnesota or in Canada-exceedine largely, in fact, the figures given for any other part of the world
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16
THE GORGEOUS Biz1s AGAIN

If all the members of the board of finance are present at the meeting or the board this evening, and if none of
 them objects, it is possible that the cost of the street-sprinkling advertis- ing spree will receive some considera- tion It is to be hoped that it will, and it is also to be hoped that the board will not find it necessary to have anoth- CT investigation and make two more re- ports. Furthermore, 1t Is to be hoped that the board will not find it necessary to be literary" about those gorgeous bills. little plain, straight business Is what is needed in this matter, and it is high time that somebody furnished it. The board of finance is supposed to be all business and regardless of politics and literature when bills are considered
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

der to me that some of the many peo- Die who annually launch themselves into eternity from Butte do not take the Sand Coulee route.
 Down in the coal mines there is one passage that Is three miles long, and in some of the chambers air does not seem
 to circulate, Upon the walls there Is a gathering of moisture. and if you puff cigar in one of these chambers the smoke will seek the walls, where 1t clings with an undulatihg movement like a spray of weeds under running
 water. That dew on the walls is white damp, and the dead air of the chamber
 where it is found is poisonous. In a few minutes q feeling of droWsiness steals over a man who breathes 1t. and before long he is asleep and dreaming deliciously, so those say who have been | resuscitated. But the sleep is akin to
 that of the lost traveller over whose numbed limbs the arctic snow eddles l and drifts, for unless help comes soon there is no awakening. If, however, the venturesome explorer of these uh- derground death-traps realizes his dan-
 ger in time and manages to stagger out i into the fresh air, he has an experience l to undergo which may cause him to fe-
 gret that he did not remain inside. EV- cry bone and muscle aches with the ln-
 tolerable poisnancy that is known 10 convalescents from yellow fever. The | treatment is simple, but effective. Be- | ing nearly dead, the sufferer is nearly buried A hole is dug in the soft earth,
 and the victim is made to stand up ln
 it while the dirt is thrown in around him until only his head is seen above
 ground This draws out the soreness,
 and in short time the patient has re- l covered. Butte, Mon., Miner.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16
CLEANING 4UGgAN srRENrs.

The great work of cleaning the Augean streets has begun and the peo- pie will soon breathe more freely and with less disgust. Breathing has been sickening work in these diggings lately. It is fortunate that it has been dis covered that money can be borrowed, for another hot wave is on the way here and if it should come and find our streets in the condition they have been in there would be even more confusion and creature complaint than there has been. But we shall be all right as long as the new money lasts, and when that is gone we can get some more. Money is quoted as easy and will very likely continue to be so quoted until we have to pay up. But that hard time is dis tant, and until it comes let us be con- tent. Perhaps when it does come we shall have three-cent tax, just as they do in some of the thriving western places, and perhaps the three-cent tax will produce so much that we shall not have to borrow, except for emergen- aips
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants Rents, and other small advertisements, One Gent a Word each ln- sertlon. Five Gents Word for full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements per Inch, one ID to seiulon' Sl.2o; each s ssubsequent nnth S1o: one year. $40 ,-
 Obituary Notices. fin prose or verse; 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, NAT Mai riages, Deaths and Funerals. 50 cents each Local Notices 15 cents per line. 4,.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tnelr own immediate business Gall matter 10 pc include Wants. To Let For Sale etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

cannot be a maid of honor in Kansas City because she shades tobacco for living. Some eastern Populist ought to denounce region where such @ thing can happen.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

Experiments made by the FIax Eihra association of Oregon point to an en- couraging degree of success for those enlisted in enterprises in that region for fax growing and manufacturing in America. The average measurement of the stalks produced, ready for pull ing, is stated to be about fiftv-two inches, thus giving a fibre more than four feet in length-a fact regarded as peculiarly satisfactory when it is con- sidered that the well known Courtral fibre is not more than thirty-six inches. while the fibre that is peculiar to north
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16
FdSHION NOTES.
Hints From Mountaineers,

Women who go into the mountains for September and October take along gowns especially prepared for such trips, and these dresses are worth con- sideration by those who cannot boast such excursions. The most tasteful of them are not unlike what women of the million wear upon the street, the finish that is very attractive. Here is one, a simple affair of black woolen stuff in light weight trimmed as the pie ture indicates with black braid. The fronts cs the bloused jacked bodice
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

were decorated with white satin revers covered with lace, white satin also giv- ing the plastron and collar, the latter being smothered in a large lace bow Some of these mountain dresses are too pronounced in their picturesqueness to be suitable for copying, but with wise choice of original, street rig of novel and tasteful jauntiness can be secured.
 Purple, which has been so badly over done, reappears in much softened shades and is very beautiful in the new smooth-faced cloths When made up for street wear, purple should be heavi- ly braided with black. Cloth in delicate texture in satiny finish will be used for reception and dressy costumes more than ever A biscuit color, satin-finish cloth is made up in belted blouse effect, deep yoke of pale green mirror velvet being set in under the scrolled edge of the cloth, the belt matching the yoke, and the edge of the blouse below the hips being s6rolled, as Is the yoke edge, with jeweiled braiding.
 The skirt is biscuit colored cloth, fall ing loose over green silk lining, and ac- SotSNpii EitiitiiiSa VI llit Siih aiio" HIS at the foot beneath the scrolled edges Along the front breadth seams scrolled design is cut out of the cloth, the green silk lining showing through. Malechite buttons are set with double-breast effect on the blouse, and scrolls are cut about where the darts would be in front. The back of the bodice fits snugly into the belt, the green yoke be- ing prolonged to the belt at the back in a sotolled design. Such a dress is entirely suitable for matinee or recep- ton wear, even though you must walk a few steps from your own house te that of your hostess. FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, l5 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH. S3 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

The total width of the floor of the new East river bridge in New York will be 11S feet. The structure will have be- tween the trusses six elevated railroad and trolley tracks, and on the outside of each truss a roadway will be provid- ed. Inside the trusses and above the trolley tracks will be two walks for pedestrians.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

Antonio Apache, grandson of the famous Chief Cochise, is preparing to enter Harvard. He is now about twen- ty-four years of age. He was captured in one of General Crooks campaigns. a boy not yet in his teens, and has been learning white mems ways ever since. He has seen service as an army scout. was an assistant in the department of anthropology at the Worlds Fair, has been a useful helper to Professor Put nam. has written letters to the news papers, and is now making a tour of northern Maine and Canada in the in- terest of the New England Sportsman's Association. His voice is low and mu- sical,' says Boston paper This Eng fish pure and scholarly, his bearing dig nified yet affable, and his character so noble that all who know him are proud of his friendship
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

The fact that metal feels hot when 1t is intensely cold has led a Hungarian scientist to attempt to cook food in a temperature of sixty degrees below zero.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

THE ECARRINGTONP ONPUBLISHINGC co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

As France taxes bicycles and tricy- cles, the number of machines used in the country is known exactly. On Jan- uary 1, 1897, there were 329,814 taxed an increase of nearly 74,000 over 1895 which had shown an increase of 53,ooc over the preceding year. The revenue obtained in 1896 was 3,272,339 francs Paris department, the Seine, heads the list with 62,Ss2 bicycles, paying a tax of 626, ,916 francs.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16
Paw, what is gentleman of the old

SCnOOl !'
 "Er-ah--he is one of these fine, smooth-shaven old gentlemen, who think it awful that woman should know how to repair a punctured tire, but just perfectly lovely for her to know how to fix sewing machine. '- Indianapolis Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

The printer of the London Figaro was recently fined E5 and 92 2s. costs as being "a rogue and a vagabond," in terms of law passed in the reign of George the Fourth, which provides that, If any person shall publish any pro- posal or scheme for the sale of any tick ct or tickets, chance or chances. in a lottery" he shall be punishable as therein provided. From March to June last an advertisement of certain head ache powders" had appeared in the Figaro, under the heading "G20 Miss ing Word Competition" description of the powders was given, with the omission of two words to perfect the sense. Six persons guessed the words omitted, and the prize was duly divided among them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

In the course of a bit of photograph ing a California physician placed a. piece of gold-quartz on the plate Up- on developing the plate there were specks and spots at intervals within the outlines of the piece of quartz. This showed the presence of gold. By se- ries of experiments he has discovered that X-rays will show the presence of gold in rock without the trouble and expense that ordinarily accompan- ies such tests. A number of mining ex- perts are arranging to use these rays in prospecting for the precious metal.
 The Portland (Maine) Express tells the following yarn. A man in that town recently hung his bicycle from the ceiling of his cellar, and not far from a swinging shelf on which food was kept. A mouse jumped from the shelf upon the tire of the front wheel, evidently thereby hoping to reach the HOoT. Ine wheel started, and m0usie naturally ran for the highest part of it. It was unable to stay on top of the tire, but couldn't get enough foothold to jump to the wall. When found next morning the mouse was very much ex- hausted, though still running. The cy- clometer showed that he had run nine ty- three miles.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-16

THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays, One Dollar a Year.
The record-union., 1897-02-15
AT THE TARGET.
BuIl's-Eyes Perforated by the Marks
men Yesterday.

At the shooting ranges yesterday the
following scores were made:
Company G-Captain A. E. StearnS
40, Lieutenant Zittinger 80. Sergeant
De Finis Al, Sergeant Koetz Al. Ser
geant Kline 80 Sergeant Kellogg "a,
Sergeant Guth 80. Corporal ]. NJ. Mill
ken 43, Corporal T. J. Milliken 26, Pri-
Yates H f. Aine Al, P A. Brown AZ,
Heat II, Schofield A., Bates 40, Falk-
men 50. Wackford 80, Peters 80 Richer
5S, Thomas 81 A. E. Brown 81, Cook
81, Wilson 81, Porter SO, league 80,
Day 81 Keis 81.
Pool Shooting-Captain A. E. Stearns
A, Sergeant De F'innes 49, Sergeant
]. NJ. Milliken 43, Major Wallace AZ,
Cook Al, H E. Aine 40, w. V. Kellogg
30 J. Zittinger 43 P. A. Brown SO, T.
Richer 33, J. Guth 80
Company E-Captain Shoemaker 80,
Lieutenant Hughes 43, Sergeant Nc
Martin A, Sergeant Gunter ~, Ser
geant Bessey Al, Corporal Measure Al
Corporal Perkins Al, Corporal Nutting
~, Privates Schowalter ~, Maybery -.
Jones 81, Roman Al, Moon 40, Westfall
%, Torpey 81 Sove 40, Cook 81, o. f.
Hughes 40, Lucy 81, Farmer SO, Gard
ner 40, Olea %. H. Sweeney 80, Han
cock 30, Myers %, Raymond %, Sabin
40.
Pool Shooting-Moon A, Torpey 80,
McMartin II, Perkins 43, Roman SO,
Olea %, Bessey 40, Wallace 40, P Cook
30, Nutting A. Maybery 81, Gardner
43, Stinson ~
AT the Helvetia Rifle Club shoot the
champion class was not decided. First
class medal, won by r. Griesel with 800
points; second class, G. Zuest, 35S
points; third class, 4. Berg, 331 points.
The first target master, r. Griesel.
presented NJ. Miller. on behalf of the
club. with a few well-chosen remarks.
the gold medal for 1896 for the six best
centers during the year.
The attendance was good, and gen
eral good fellowship prevailed
The record-union., 1897-02-15
The Mystic Shriners Again Abroad
on the Desert.

The very first thing l want you to
say in the Record Union, said Louis
Glass just before the special train with
the refreshed pilgrims who had tarried
for awhile at the Oasis Of Sacramento,
and had been regaled at Islam Temple,
is that no Noble of the Mystic Shrine
has spit on the sidewalk
IF any expectoration has been done
it has been by some member of the
Legislature, or the crowd of eager,
hungry men who hang on their heels.
We have done none of it.
Did we have a good time? Well,
now, don't give it away but we did
The Sacramento men, however, re
mgged' this morning That is most of
them did, but the street railway COM
pany and it's employees We're on time
and took us out to Oak Park and gave
us a good time there. Then we went to
East Park, where your athletic grounds
are to be, and came back to-the brew
cry.
"A few Sacramento Mobiles greeted us
there, and we drank-Well, no matter
what we drank, but we quenched our
thirst"
One of the San Francisco Mobiles,
by the way" said another Shriner
must have drank some of your Sacra-
mento water, for he, went into break
fast this morning and ate as II he
hadn't seen a dining room in a year
and then walked out.
The head waiter was much aston
ished to see him walk back into the din
ingroOm a few minutes later, deposit
his person in the same chair he had
just before vacated, order exactly the
same kind of breakfast that he had
just before swallowed, and dispose of 1t
in just the same way as he did the
first.
He was about to return for a third
contribution to his stomach when one
of his friends said to him, Why, you've
had your breakfast He pressed his
hands to his head for a moment and
said, Why, SO 1 did,
You see how absent minded Sacra-
mento water makes mem
Whether or not Sacramento water
made them absent-minded they were
all on time when the special train was
ready to leave, and while their fez caps
were comfortably slowed in their pOck-
cts, their hats fitted their heads, one
and all, and they promised to return
some day and have just as good time
as they had on this occasion.
The record-union., 1897-02-15
BUSINESS FIRST.
Why Madame Laurier Could Not Go
to lone Yesterday.

When Madame Laurier was here on
Saturday she said that she regretted
she could not accept an invitation to
JOIN the excursion to lone on Sunday
as the Canadian Parliament was to be
called for the dispatch of business very
shortly.
Madame Laurier Is always present
in the House of Commons at important
debates. and like Lady Macdonald she
takes the most lively interest in the
proceedings, and has been known to
send down from the ladies' gallery very
valuable suggestions to her husband,
the Premier.
No official announcement has yet
been made Of the calling of Parliament
for the dispatch of business but
Madame Laurier's statement shows
that she has information that a session
will open probably about the end of the
present month.