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The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
DROPPED.

What did you fellows drop Blimly for?" Hes not in our class Why that fellow pays his tailor bills.'-De- troit Free Press.
 Ferry-''Do you remember your first ball and bat?' Hargreaves-"I can't remember my first bawl but I do re- member my first bat.'-Cincinnati En- quirer.
 Papa Crumley-'I judge a man, Sir by the company he keeps" MT. Sultor-"Yes, Sir. I hope you will bear in mind that I've been keep ing company with your daughter for | over two years. s."-Philadelphia North American.
 Editor-"Mr. Faber, in speaking of the wedding of MT. and Mrs. Spatts you may say something graceful with the congratulations. New reporter" How would 1t do to say, We trust that their married life may be interrupted only | by little spats' ?"--Buffalo Times.
 Mother Booming swiftly)-"Why, Will | lie! Striking your little sister?" Will lie (doggedly)-"Aunt Frostface made me" Aunt Frostface-"Why, Willie said if you did strike her I would never kiss you again." Willie (still dogged)-"Well, I couldn't let no chance | like dat slip" p."-Judge.
 Here" roared the old Judge to the son studying law with him, you told me you had read this work on evidence and the leaves are not cut.' | Used X-rays." yawned the versatile son, and the Judge chuckled with de- light as he thought what lawyer the | boy would make.-Boston Post.
 Those stories about the distress in the agricultural districts on account of 1 the threatened failure of crops" ob- served the real-estate man, "are enough to melt a heart of stone" 'I don't know" remarked the board of trade | operator They don't seem to be hav- ing much effect on the urb."-Chicago Tribune,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
THE ANNEX TREATY.

If the people of this country are ready
 to begin colonial expansion perhaps the
 Hawaiian islands are as good a place as
 any to begin in. The annexation treaty was sent to the senate yesterday after
 noon at o'clock. There does not ap- pear to be any reason to find fault with its provisions if the general idea is ac- ceptable. Its provisions are: Hawaii
 surrenders all her territory, including seaports and crown lands, to the
 United States government, and becomes
 a part of the United States under the rame "the territory of Hawaii: the United States not only extends to Ha- wall the protection demanded, but as-
 sumes the debt of Hawaii up to a total
 Of S4,000,000: all citizens of the present republic of Hawaii become citizens of the United States, except those Asiatics who are already excluded from the
 privilege of United States citizenship,
 and the Chinese now in Hawaii are for
 bidden to migrate thence to the United States proper, except as they may be permitted under our statutes; the pres
 ent government and laws of Hawaii are
 to continue in force there; except so far as they may directly conflict with the laws of the United States, until Con-
 gress shall have had the time to frame
 new laws for the government of the annexed territory.
 This Hawaiian matter has been in the
 works long time, and the annexation idea Is now announced as In accord
 ance with the established policy of this
 country. There is evidently going to
 be a large row over 1t in the senate,
 but it seems to be generally believed that the necessary two-thirds vote can
 be secured. It is evident that we must
 either take the islands now or let some-
 body else have them. There are good and important reasons why we should take them. There are also good and important reasons why We should not seek more power and dominion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
ROOM 1T THE TOP.

Are there too many ministers? The
 ministers who can't get "call" any, where and those who can't get 'calr'
 to better places than they now have
 feel sure that there are. And those who hear some ministers preach are also inclined to think that there are too many-of the kind. An effort to find out what the real situation is has been
 made by the Chicago Times-Herald,
 and the result is interesting. The pre- siding officers of several divinity schools were asked for their opinions.
 They appear toNagree that there are not too many clergymen of the right kind, but that there may be an over-supply of second or tllird-rate preachers. In the Mccormick Theological seminary is annually decreasing. This is ascrib- ed by Dr. Johnson to the hard times and the decreased appropriations for seminary purposes, and not to a crowd ing of the field. If it be true, Dr. John- son says, that there were two hundred and fifty applications from as many anxious ministers for one vacant pull pit, it does not indicate that the appli- cants were without places or employ ment It merely shows that a good many ministers were dissatisfied with their field of labor and for various req sons known to themselves were trying to obtain more congenial places. The closing of churches may have increased the number of unemployed clergymen. Dr. Everett of Harvard writes that 'it is still difficult to fill the more import ant pulpits." His remedy for the over supply would be to refuse to aid man in obtaining a theological education who is not by training and nature fitted to do good work as a minister. Among the Methodists, Dr. Little of the Gar rett Biblical Institute of Evanston says the supply of competent clergymen is DeiOW tHe uelILaliu, MHlle lHeIe are hundreds of incompetent clergymen unable to obtain pulpits." There is too much of tendency, Dr. Little thinks, "to encourage every pious youth to en- ter the ministry" and in his judgment half of the students in our colleges and seminaries should be sent away
 Dr. Hastings of the Union Theological seminary, New York, and Dr. Hoffman of the General Theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church agree that the unemployed ministers are more numerous in the vicinity of the large cities, but for these men, Dr. Hoffman says, there are plenty of places open iu
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
HIGH IRT,

Complaint is made that an agent of the gang that is raising the devil with the finances of this city and is seek ing to extend its own power and do- minion carted paupers to the polls on Tuesday to vote for consolidation. If this was done we shall not critlcise it. Instead We shall commend it as a most artistic and entirely congruous piece of work, A genius who could conceive and carry out the idea that more op- portunities and more power should be ushered in by those in the last stages of poverty and weakness is a true artist. There are those too, who will think 1t fitting that paupers should be conspicuous in the latest triumphal procession of those who are responsible Tor the street-sprinkling advertisement and few other things that make the taxpayers feel that lover the hills to the poorhouse" may soon be the dole full song they will sing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
THE MARRIAGE MARKET.

A Socratic Dialogue and Conclusion
 Plain Words About Some Cant of the
 Day-A False Analogy-Virtue Not
 Synonymous With Poverty.
 We once ventured to assert in these pages that the day before the end of the world two subjects would be sure to be under universal discussion-one was "the degeneracy of manners during the last thirty years" and the other 'the badness of modern servants" We de- picted, that is, mans last word on man. kind as "The younger generation don't know how to behave" and Where will you find any servants like the old ones?" We ought to have added a third-the complaint that the fashiona- ble world is nothing but a marriage market in which unfortunate girls are exposed for sale to the highest bidder by their cruel, heartless and avaricious mothers. It was a grave oversight to have left out that extremely hardy pe- rennial among complaints, ancient and modern. There never was an age in which the marriage-market accusation
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

was marriage market l never did You evidently did not understand me; it's like the seoond-class society papers that Agnes says her maid tells her things out of No; won't argue 1t out again, 1t makes one so hot and really, indeed, you can't understand anything about 1t, even if you are older and have read great deal more than many mar ried women. It's like servants. As cook says about Agnes when she's do- Ing the housekeeping: Young ladies never exactly understand" We'll, really feel quite confused with all the questions you've asked me, and I'm sure you ought to have been great lawyer You would have done splen- didly when 1t was necessary to make witnesses say something they didn't mean to. At any rate, you may be quite sure I'd much rather Agnes mar ried a poor man who would be really nice to her than a rich one who wouldn't. That goes without saying. Only, unfortunately, all the poor men aren't good, as the people who write to the magazines seem to think. Of course, the rich men aren't always good either I'm afraid, indeed, that it's pure chance with both."
 A Socratic dialogue such as We have just given would very aptly sum up the general result of the modern aspects of the eternal marriage market controver- sy. It can apparently be shown that something like a marriage market ex- ists, in which the mothers try to sell their daughters to the best advantage; and yet all the time it is quite obvious that the mothers are doing nothing of
 IContinuad on SivtJ Do oa \
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

style. Evening dresses are made with shoulder strap and sleeve puff dropped way below the shoulder, which Is a great relief to bony girl, but though the wearer may look pretty, the lines made by such a cut are not in them selves artistic. Shirt waist sleeves are loose from shoulder to cuff, where they are drawn into a great many tiny tucks like those that insure fatness at the shoulder.
 Besides having the most popular form of sleeve, this pictured dress had a novel cut of skirt. The goods-porce- lain blue cashmere-was arranged in a wide boxpleat in front, was side-pleated at the hips and was in godet folds at the back. A wide band of lace inser- tion edged it's hem. The blue cash mere also furnished sleeves and vest, but the body was white lace over pale green lining. Blue satin gave the wide stock, a band of insertion served as belt and an inverted horseshoe of the inser- tion crossed the vest.
 Fancy bodices are without end, and to judge by some fascinating ones, without beginning either, for those all a series of ribbon and insertion are lovely, and defy close search for the fastening. Other bodices, all layers of ribbon overlapping on muslin ground with little muslin frills fluttering from under the loose edge of the layers, are babylike in daintiness. Such designs suit only slender girls, but if we are no longer slender girls ourselves, may be we are having the delight of dress ing some slender daughter or niece So why not give some sweet slender thing one of those adorable fluty, fluffy af- fairs, and see it worn if we ourselves cannot wear it? FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
FASHION NOTES.
-H--7-- Sleeve Styles Settled.

There is little new to quote in sleeves. The most popular one is much modi- fled leg-o'-mutton like that shown in the picture below quite what we were wearing when big sleeves had not touched the exaggeration point. The tight sleeve, relieved at the shoulder with frilling or pufiing of some sort, is no longer novelty. Sleeves tucked round and round, inlet with serpentine insertion, made in series of diminishing puffs-all these are really but changes on the same
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Q Word each ln- sertion. Five Cents Word for full week (seven times).
 Display Advertisements. per inch. one In, n sertion. $1.20 each subsequent insertion: ,p. 4o cents; one week, $3.20; one month, slO' one year, $40. ..
 Obituary Notices, In prose or verse;, 10 cents per line. Notices of Births. Mar riages, Deaths and Funerals. 50 cents each. Local Notices 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thelf own immediate business Gall matter to be include Wants. To Let For Sale etc
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the States and territories in the West,
 Room at the top, But oh how hard many find it to get on the first step and stay there, and how many of those who get to climbing fall just when they seem to have a. good hold.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

took command he drove them all out of his camp. In fact. the Ethniki He tairia, as 1t calls itself, has hardly rag of character left, and may now de- generate into mere confederacy of private avengers and assassins, like the Mafla, or go out of business alto gether
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

Stepfather is counted for two words and grandmother as one by the Brit ish postal telegraph authorities. When asked why, in parliament the post master general was unable to reply.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

Captain O'Donnell, of Chicago, an ex- pert on pyrotechnics, confesses that he made the floating red and green lights which recently caused so many West ern people to claim that they saw an the people, but was engaged in experi- ments in the line of his profession.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

The quality of American bicycles is indicated by the rapidly increasing ex- ports of those vehicles to foreign coun- tries. The value of bicycles sent abroad during the month of April, this year, amounted to $1,117,S24 as against $780, 990 for the corresponding month in 1896 The increase is still further shown by the fact that the shipments for the ten months ending with April, this year, aggregated $5,2S3,5O4, as against s1, ,0O1,- S47 for the corresponding period of the year preceding.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
THECARRINGTON PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CiTY. la CENTS A WEEK, bnCENTs AMoNTH, 8 FOR S1xMoNTHs, S1 YEAR. IAE SAME TERMs EMAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

Much good is done in Minnesota with an annual appropriation by the State of $10000 to encourage the establish ment of school libraries Twenty dol lars the first year and ten dollars an- nual1y thereafter are given by the State to any school district which raises an equal or a greater amount, the stimulus of which proposition has resulted in an excess of private giving over the State appropriation. In the ten years during which the appropriation has been granted libraries have been established in over eighteen hundred schools, the average number of volumes in each li- brary being sixty-fve. This number is not large, but the growth of each libra ny is continuous. Moreover, the rules governing the choice of books give these little libraries value not represented in the number of volumes. The books are not chosen at random or promiscu- 0usly, but each seasons purchases are confined to some one subject, the pur- pose being to create good reference li- braries to supplement the instruction by the teacher and the textbook.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

As an illustration of the hardships some men in London have to endure, even when they are anxious to work, it is related that last week a pathetic spectacle was witnessed on the en- bankment in the early hours of the morning Three men, who had on the previous evening obtained one thou sand wrappers each to address, found themselves unable to pay the price of a lodging, and so as soon as the daylight was sufficiently strong they began their labors in the open air. Fortunately they had pens and ink. So, squatting down on seat, and using their knees for a desk, they went to work. More than once the police ordered them to move on, but they persevered, and by 10 o'clock had each done five hundred of their thousand, and received the munificent sum of thirty-six cents apiece! With this they were able to go to a common lodging house to finish their task and get some breakfast. The men were philosophical about the mat ter. and told a commiserating reporter that they were used to it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

It is reported that in Russia there are great opportunities for the investment of capital; that within year English capitalists have invested S60OO0,000 in Russian coal and iron industries, and comment is made because Americans have not taken advantage of the chances offered, particularly as Amer jean investments would be cordially welcomed. What is the matter with Russia investing in this country? Such investments would be cordially welcom- ed and made as permanent as possi- ble.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17

Greece isn't pleased with the national society which pushed on the war when the nation was not ready for it, and
 showed itself incapable, undisciplined and cowardly under the storm it had itself invoked. A correspondent of the London Times says: From the begin ming the klephts and irregulars consti- tuted the most serious difficulty with which the military commanders had to deal They spread indiscipline through the army, they exhausted the commits sariat, and in the hour of. battle they fought or fled at their own sweet will.
 Still worse, they plundered and har- ried the Thessalian population, which found them not much more pleasant to deal with than the Turks. They were as bad as the escaped convicts; the plunder of Lamia was mainly their work, and when General Smolenski
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
Spreading it on Thick!
F.M. Brown

Value is what we refer to. Seeing is better than doubting. Here are very few out of a great storeful of specials for Thursday.
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29

brought back by Flondikers who wera
showed in for the winter with Their
supplies, and forced to leave money for
the young fellows support. He is lying
helpless in cabin and cannot recover
He attempted to shoot himself when
abandoned by his stepfather.
A handsome young woman is lying
helpless in a cabin with four men at
Marsh Lake. Her story is that she is
of respectable family in the State Of
Washington and that she ran away
from home with one of the men in the
cabin. In coming across the lake one
night a few weeks ago their t.ezs was
frozen in and the girl and Gas<' lower
were held there the remainde: .? the
long night, finally walking ashore on
the ice in the morning. The exposure
sent her to bed with inf1ammatory
rheumatism and she has beeE Tying
there ever since. The three other men
Joined them for the winter. They have
plenty of food The girl suffers ter
ribly. Her name was not brought out
by the returning Klondikers.
No mail has reached Dawson since
the first of October, and tons are snow
and ice bound for the winter at Lake
Tagish and the mouth of the Little
Salmon River in care of the police. 1t
is improbable that it will get to Daw-
son. before the ice breaks up next May
or June.
Owing to unreliable and exagger-
atetd reports published in sensational
newspapers it is difficult to get miners
to say what amount of gold they bring
out, and a conservative estimate of the
amount brought by the last large
party will not exceed $4,000 in dust
and certified checks.
The commission selected by the min
ers Of the Klondike, consisting nf Dr.
Wells of the Canadian Police Depart
ment, Mr.. Laundryman and repre-I
sentative of an American newspapeS
&c. ]. Livernash of the New Yol
Journal and San Francisco Examiner),
are now on their way from Dawson go
ing to Ottawa, with the protest of the
miners against the Canadian law levy
ing a tax of 20 per cent on the output
of large mining claims and 10 per cent
on small claims, and also against other
obnoxious features of the minKEg laws,
representing that they are a great
hardship on the miners under the gen.
eral conditions of the region and ask
| ing for their repeal.
There was widespread objection in
Dawson to the appointment of a news
paper faker" to represent Canadians
before their own Parliament, but the
appointment of Livernash had been
made by committee of ten, to whom
the matter had been left before the
miners in general could successfully re-
monstrate and after it was too late to
rescind the action. All the outcoming
| Klondikers, almost without exception,
characterize the appointment as i'll adj
vised and very unpopular, and they
say it will result in more harm than
good to the purpose of the commits
sion. A large number of miners re-
fused to subscribe a dollar to the ex-
pense fund unless Livernash was put
| off the commission.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-29
SUFFERING AND
DEATH ON THE
DAWSON TRAIL.
Miners Object to a NeWspa-
per Fdker Presenting
Their Grievances
at Ottawa.
BY HAL HOFFMAN.

DYEA, Alaska, Dec. 23.-(By steam
ship Al-Ki to Seattle, Dec. 2S.)-The
largest party that has yet come out
from Dawson, numbering forty-eight
persons, has arrived here within the
last two days after a rough trip with
the thermometer ranging from 20 to 81
below zero. Among the party was
Mrs. ]. ]. Mckay of Tacoma, Wash,
the first woman to come ~ or down
the Yukon in the dead of an Arctic
winter. She was accompanied by her
husband, who, with a few others, claim
to have made the trip from Dawson to
salt water in twenty-five and half
days, the shortest on record, having
left Dawson November "a.
The complete party on the Al-Ki
comprises: D. A. Campbell, c. NJ.
Rosswo, Ella Rauche, James Hemberg.
T. D. Berry, H. NJ. Westervelt, Ste
phenson, John Montag, Shade
w. w. Cleveland, B. Morrison, L. w.
Fox, w. E. Knowles, S. G.. Coffman, c.
Dugan, B. Murnin, j. ]. Mckay, Mrs.
Mckay, C. F. Rhind, w. H. Price, NJ.
R. Hirshberg, E. w. Pollock, L. T. Err
win, Gunslato, A. B. Cone, Dan Egan,
W. A Kersting, r. Anderson, A. He'd
strom, William Folker, A. r. Diamond,
J. D. Barnes, F. H. Kane, H. Dobson,
George Monroe, L. n. Miller, S. w.
Foote, ]. Dobssiski, ]. Campbell, E. A.
Sather W. J. Christy, M. B. Crane, c.
J. Christianson, E. L. Renaud, h. 5.
Smith, J. P. Jorgensen, L. Newman,
r. H. Mallory, Con. O'Brien, Miss
Lewis, F. F. Carpenter, Ed Darlington,
Jim Heating, A. L. Cheney, w. w. Ev-
ans, r. c. Hammond, L. S. Tenant,
r. w. Ledgerwood and D. B. Glass.
J.B. Barnes is from Snohomish.
Wash. He is the messenger for The
Call. Two-thirds of the entire party
will return to Dawson next spring and
summer. At the mouth of the Pelly
River about two weeks ago $S632 was
stolen from the cabin of ]. K. Kiln of
Juneau, who took cattle into Dawson
in a partnership arrangement with
Hibbard & Norton of Seattle, and was
on his way out with the proceeds. The
Canadian police sent out couriers, and
every man on the trail who was not
farther away than the mouth of the
Big Salmon River was stopped and
searched. No money or cleW was found.
G. w. Johnson of Juneau, who was in
the cabin about the time the money
was stolen from it's hiding place, was
the only man arrested. A Justice of
the Peace happening to be at the
mouth of the Pelly River, an examina-
ton was held, and Johnson was re-
leased, Kiln himself testifying that he
had always known Johnson as an hon
est man.
A young man, name unknown, travel
ing to Dawson with his stepfather, a
Mr.. Mcguire of Chicago, had his feet
and legs frozen to the knees at the
mouth of the Stewart River. Mcguire
abandoned him on the trail, but was