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The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY TO-DAY.

Main Features of TO-day's Programme.
 The main features of the Memorial day programme, printed in full in Sat urday mornings Courier, are as fol- lows:
 At a. m. members of G. A. R., La dies Relief corps and Boys brigade as semble at McIntyre's old store, No, s37 Chapel street, to make necessary ar engagements for decorating soldiers graves.
 Sons of Veterans will decorate the Soldiers monument on East Rock.
 Children will assemble for the Sum- day school rally in the following churches: Center. Trinity Episcopal United, St. Mary's, Calvary Baptist, First Methodist, Redeemer.
 General B. B. Bradley will be chief marshal.
 Short services will be held in the churches named, at the close of which a short parade by the three thousand school children, G. A. k. posts ano Sons of Veterans will be made around the green and reviewed by Mayor Farnsworth and others. At the close of the march a short service will be held on the green, in cluding brief address by Hon. Francis Wayland, selections by the band anc singing and flag salute by the chill dren.
 At 2 o'clock a literary and musica. programme will be given at the Hype. rion.
 Rev. John L. Pitner, department chaplain, and Comrade J. D. Plunkett will speak.
 Music will be furnished by a select chorus of one hundred boys, orchestra and Humphrey Glee club.
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IN BETHANY AND ELSEWHERE
Memorial Observances in Many Places
 Yesterday.

Memorial Observances in Many Places
 Yesterday.
 The work of decoration in the ceme- teries at Bethany was performed yes terday by detail under Past Post Commander N. S. Wilmot and Senior Vice Commander S. B. Bingham. Past Post Commander F. S. Nichols attend ed to the work at Beacon Falls and Millville, and Comrade s. F. Payne had charge of the work in Wooster ceme- tery.
 This morning Comrades John Noble and Charles Hoadley will attend 10 the work in Grove cemetery, and this af- ternoon the c. 4. R. post will assemble at headquarters at l.30 and at ? o'clock, assisted by detail of children from the schools. will perform the work of decor ation at the cemeteries near the village. Last evening the post attended ser vices at the Congregational church in Bethany.
 The ladies of the Relief corps will be at the town hall this morning to re- ceive donations of flowers and arrange them.
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FOR RENT, FLAT corner Whalley avenue and Garden street, 8 rooms, all Improvements. my31 1t II. VALLEY.
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STEAMBOAT EXCURSION

It is expected that many will enjoy the excursion to-day to and from New York by daylight on the steamer c. H. Northam. returning by the Richard Peck Everything has been done by the company to make the trip a pleas ant one. and if the weather is fine a most delightful sail on the sound will be enjoyed
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District of New Haven. ss.. Probate Court
 May 27th, 1897 ESTATE of ANN ELIZA RUSSELL, late ot New Haven, in said District, deceased. The Court of Probate for the District of New Haven hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the credit OTIS of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly attested within said time will be debarred a recovery. All per- sons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 SHERMAN RUSSELL,
 my2S 3t* Administrators.
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Tiytalrts.

One Cent Word each insertion, five cents Q Word for a full Week, seven times.
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SARAH J. DEACON,
 yS.
 HARRY T. DEACON.
 ORDER OF NOTICE. State of Connecticut. New Haven County, ss.
 New Haven, May 20th, A. D. 1897. rah J. Deacon, praying for reasons therein set forth for divorce now pending before the Superior Court in and for New Haven June, A. D. 1S97,-
 1t appearing to, and being found by, the subscribing authority, that the said de- fendant is absent from this State--gone to TT THERhFoRh, ORDERED, that notice of the pendency of said complaint be given by publishing this order in the New Haven Morning Journal and Courier, newspaper printed in said New Haven, once q week, three weeks successively, commencing on or before the 21st day of May, A. D. 1897.
 EDWARD A. ANKTTNLL, Clerk of the Superior Court for New Haven County my21 28 31
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tall Your Physician.

WILL PROMPTLY FURNISH EVERY THING NEEDED IN THE SICK ROOM.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

be growing up in ignorance The figures
are utterly misleading and do great injus-
tice TO the State. The superintendent of
public instruction should not have put
them forth without explanation. and
neither Governor Matthews nor anybody
else should have used them without such
explanation. 1t is true that the legal school
age i'm this State is from six to t~wenty-one
years. and that a very large proportion of
the children of school age" who are not
in school have either finished or have not
yet begun their school education. In both
city and country schools thousands of
young persons have completed their educa-
ton and engaged in business before the
age of twenty-one years. and other thou
sands over the age OF six years have not
yet entered schools. To class these as IL
literates is a gross blunder. and particular
ly so for a State official. The figures
quoted would make the percentage of illit-
in the entire country. whereas it is much
below. There is a good deal to be said in
favor of compulsory education, but it cam
not be advanced by misleading figures
which do the greatest possible injustice to
the State. People who use statistics should
learn that they are often loaded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13
A SAVINGS BANK MANS VIEWS.
John III. RhOaGes, of New York. Makes
Some Pertinent Rcma rks

Ii was $40 o'clock when the gavel sound
ed and the night session came to order.
The chair annouced that ii would be glad
if the vice presidents would come forward
and take seats on the platform, and quite
a number responded to the invitation. Mr..
Ingalls,. president of the Big Four, was rec
ogniZed by the chair.
1.-The question OF when this convention
shall adjourn said he, depends very
much on the work of the committee on
resolutions, and it would seem to be that
the sooner they get to work the better.
| cannot see why it is necessary for them
to wait this evening TO listen to the read
ing of the various plans that are present.
ed. especially as they will go TO the com
mittee. Therefore, / make the motion that
the committee or resolutions shall have
authority to sit during the hours this con-
vention is in session, and that as soon as
Mr.. Rhoades. whom we all wish TO hear,
has finished his address TO the convention
the committee ON resolutions will be per-
mitted TO meet for organization and work
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
and the chairman presented 20 the conyen-
ton Mr.. John II. Rhoades. Of New York,
who spoke as follows:
The members OF the Chamber of Com
merce of the city OF New York are thor
oughly i'm accord with the objects of this
convention and nail with delight this first
organized movement to secure uniformity
of action, looking towards the solution or
the vexed problem as TO what shall con-
stitute IA proper monetary system TOR the
country: a problem. which. for the past
eighteen years, has disturbed the Nation
and brought distrust and loss to every
branch of business. They do not ask to
lead. but they do ask that you shall open
a path, which, overcoming the perplexities
of the way, shall point to a solution, perm
anent in its character and founded upon
the natural laws of trade and finance.
Along such "A path you will find no more
enthusiastic followers than the merchants
and bankers OF the city we represent.
The situation which confronts the coun-
try is most grave. Years of bad method.
unwise legislation and unsound theory have
brought Us TO the verge of reputation. in
jured our credit and paralyzed our COM
merce. IL the evil tendencies Of the day are
not checked. il the unsound methods of
finance now in operation are not stopped.
If the country Is allowed much longer to
hold its course at variance with every
known law of trade and finance, In our
the penalty must be paid with disaster and
ruin. both before and after we have been
tossed upon a wild sea OF Reputation and
speculation
1t is sheer madness TO suppose that We
can overthrow those methods OF finance
which the experience OF the civilized world
has proved TO be the best and most secure
for the purposes OF commerce ard the use
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13
THOMPsON's VIEW OF DICKENS.

Mr.. Maurice Thompson has been talking
about Dickens, and is disturbed because of
the waste of genius shown in his books
waste made distressingly obvious when
we think what a novelist Dickens would
have made could he have written good Eng
lish.' Mr.. Thompson goes on to say:
Dickens must pass out of the list of per-
manent fames--he is already gone. he was
so ignorant and slovenly-while De Quincy
will stay. . Dickens had not the vast
reserve of culture. the serene dignity of one
who is n perfect master of his craft; nor
had he Shakspeare's divine accuracy of ar
tistic apprehension touching even the SIM
plest of human moods. Where Shakespeare
sighed inwardly. silently. Dickens blub-
bered and walled. AMI, alas, in the most
slovenIy literature ever penned."
1t is too bad that Mr.. Thompson does not
like Dickens. because by the inability TO
enjoy his work he misses a pleasure that a
host of novel readers consider. in retro
spect, one of the greatest of their lives. 1t
is evident that this severe Indiana critic
estimates the standing of the English
writer by his own e~xacting literary taste
and not by the matter of book sales and
library statistics. He ignores the fact that
something more than mere c~lesance and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

purity Of style is necessary in the making
sirable. but il is not essential to the popular
tale. as Dickens and others have proved.
while everyone CAN nafnH novels written in
the most unexceptionable English which no
one willingly reads, and which never got
past their first editions. No one ever classed
Dickens as a master of literary style. but
he did have the faculty of telling a story in
a way to hold the attention of the multi
tude and of making his characters, gro
tesque and overdrawn though they might
be. more lifelike than real people moving
through the pages of history-as real as the
people met with in daily life. AS for the
p~ermanency Of his fame. that is not a mat
ter to decide while bookdeaiers continue to
have a steady sale for his books and while
library records show a constant demand for
them. 1t is to be feared that Mr.. Thomp-
son permits his personal prejudices to inter-
fere with his fairness as "a critic. A year or
so ago he condemned Jane Austen's novels
in unmeasured terms, and yet her stories
rank almost as classics both as to style and
persons far more discriminating than the
mass of people who persist in reading
Dickens. She, like Dickens. put a vivid hu-
man quality into her books, and the power
to do this. Mr.. Thompson should realize. is
more essential to the life of a novel than
well-rounded periods of the choicest VERDI
age. 1t is a power that is born in the
writer, not art TO be acquired.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13
WHAT KIND OF a COMMISSION.

III the convention now sitting in this city
should decide TO appoint a commission TO
investigate and report "a plan Of monetary
and banking reform, as the Journal believes
should be done. great care should be ex-
ercised in constructing it. 1t will,
OF course. be selected without ref
erence to the views of Individual
members or TO promoting any particular
plan of action or coercing public opinion
In any way. Its object should and doubtless
will be TO bring the best intelligence of the
country to bear on the problems of the
financial situation and to bring about a So
luton which will bear the test of scrutiny
by financial experts of this and other coun-
tries. To this end the Journal is Of opinion
that the commission should not be COM
posed exclusively of practical bushes men,
but should have some representatives of the
politicO-economical sides of the question.
While a majority of the commission should
consist of pratical business men, prefera-
bly, those who have made d study of applied
finance. the academic side of the question
should not be ignored. This should be rep
resented on the commission by a group of
members who are able TO deal with the his
toric aspect of the question and to point
out the probable consequences of history
repeating itself through wrong financial
principles. 1t is possible for a man to be
eminently successful as a business man,
manufacturer or banker, and to be many
times a millionaire without knowing much
of anything about political economy, the
principles of finance or the history of banks
and banking. yet such a mans practical
knowledge and experience might be very
valuable in framing a sound monetary sys-
TEN. On the other hand. a professor of
political economy or a doctrinaire might be
greatly lacking in knowledge of practical
finance. and yet be able to give very valu-
able on scientific and technical
points. For these reasons it would seem
that the commission should represent the
academic side of the question as we'll as
the practical. in order that the best trained
intellects of the country may work together
from different points of view TO a common
end
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13
A FORECAST.

The administration of Governor Mount
having been auspiciously begun. it seems
appropriate TO say that present circum-
ali essential respects, a very successful
one. Among the factors justifying this ex-
pectation are the personality and character
of the Governor himself and the decisive
majority by which he was elected. Gov
ernor Mount is distinctly a man of the
people. and. besides an excellent equipment
for the duties of the office, he possesses
popular confidence to an unusual degree.
No candidate for Governor ever made as
thorough a canvass of the State. coming
into personal contact with as many of its
people. as did Governor Mount. and the
result was that he received the largest
majority ever given for the g~ubernatoria
candidate Of either party i'm the State. In
1860 Henry 5. Lane received n majority of
9,157; in 1864 oliver p. Morton received 20
$50; in 1865 Conrad Baker received 961; i'm
1872 Thomas A. Hendricks received LAS;
in 1876 James d. Williams received 5.Os4: in
1850 Albert G.. Porter received 6.95S; i'm 1854
Isaac p. Gray received 1892: in 1883 Alvin p.
Hovey received 200; in 1892 Claude Mat
thews received 6,976, and in the last cleo
ton Governor Mount received 500. Since
1872 the figures Indicate pluralities. They
show that no Governor of Indiana has ever
gone into office with as strong popular APP
prevail as does Governor Mount. 1t is for
tunate that he has Republican state Off
GERS associated with him. and. at the be-
ginning of his administration, Il Legislature
Republican in both branches with which he
can cordially cooperate and which will do
all i'm it's power to make his administration
successful. Another consideration of some
Importance is that he. in common with
the State at large. will have the advantage.
too rare in recent years, of an able Repub-
lican United States senator TO represent
Indiana's interests in that field, with every
prospect of another one two years hence.
To all these fortunate circumstances may
be added that there are indications that
party feeling will not run as high during
the next few years as it has done in for
mer years, and that there will be less fric-
ton between the majority party and the
opposition. Perhaps it is too much to en-
pect an era of good feeling. as the admin
stration of James Monroe. from 1917 to
1923. was called. but there is reason to hope
that the Democracy of the State will not
follow the destructive tactics which they
have at some periods in the States history.
Altogether, the outlook is promising for the
success of the new administration and for
the advancement of the best interests of
the State during Governor Mount's term.
1t is to be hoped that the Republicans in
the present Legislature will realize TO the
fun extent the responsible part that de-
wolves on them in contributing To this re-
SnIf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13
MISLEADING AND INJURIOUS
STATE MENTS.

1t is somewhat surprising TO find that
Governor Matthews should have made. in
his closing message. the statement that
I'VE nave over 10000 children OF school
age in Indiana not awaiting themselves of
the means provided by the taxpayers of
the State for their education but il is
still more surprising 10 find that the
statement is based on figures drawn from
the last report of the superintendent of
public instruction. The superintendent
gives the enumeration OF school children
in the State for 1896 as 1850: number en-
rolled. 543. e65. and. deducting from this go
900 as the estimated number of children in
private or parochial schools, leaves leo. $40
as not enrolled. To this the Governor adds
1905 for children enrolled but not at
tending schools. making n total of more
than 26O. eco children OF school age who are
alleged TO be growing up in ignorance. The
census OF 1880 gives the total number OF
illiterates I'm Indiana OF ten years of age
and over as lO5,s29. This includes adults
beyond the school age. blacks as well as
whites. yet II is much less than half the
number of children OF school age who are
reported by these laundering statements TO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

Only think of it: when Congress assem-
bled in December, 1891. Senator Mills, of
Texas, was an aspirant for the speaker
ship. supported by those who were re-
garded as the best element of the party in
the House. He was supported by the East
ern States solidly as an ultra free-trader
and a leader. He was defeated i'm the DEM
occatic caucus, and sulked because he was
not made chairman of the ways and means
committee. Now he is assailing the Demo-
cratic President and asking Congress to
vote a salary of $4,000 a year to a minister
for Cuba.
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classes TO their duty. When organized and
modified. the great conservative business
elemen of the country is an irresistible
power, but as a general rule it holds too
much aloof not only from practical politics
but from participation in public affairs.
In this IL does itself, as we'll as the coun-
try, injustice. In a republic it is the duty
OF every individual and every class to par
ticipate actively i'm governmental affairs
and do all i'm their power TO give a right
direction to legislation. y notable feature
Of the last presidential election was that
il brought the conservative business ele-
ment of the country into action, and the
the same idea. Ii is a good sign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

1t has been evident for some days that
Mr.. Charles w. Fairbanks would be the
nominee of the Republican majority of the
Legislature TO succeed Mr.. Voorhees, in
the United States Senate. This expectation
was made a certainty last night. when the
Republican caucus. the entire eighty-fve
members being present. cast sixty votes for
Mr.. Fairbanks. nominating him on the first
ballot. the nomination subsequently being
made unanimous. The nomination is one
which the Journal believes will meet the
approval OF the great mass of the Repub-
Is a gentleman of culture. fine abilities and
.unquestioned integrity, and is earnestly de-
voted TO Republican principles. For many
years he has been active. jealous and eff
cIent in party service I'm Indiana, devoting
much OF his time I'm campaign years TO the
cause OF his party and constantly aiding
its committees by his counsel. Wherever
the Republican party has had work TO do
MIR. Fairbanks has always been a willing
laborer, and few have been more useful or
effective. He Is In the prime of vigorous
physical and mental manhood. and Indiana
Republicans can rest secure in the GER
tainty that he will discharge his duties as
senator In a manner that will reflect honor
upon himself and credit on the men whose
votes have placed a Republican in the seat
80 long occupied by a reactionary Demo-
crat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

The annual report of Warden Hert, of
the State Prison South, shows that he has
brought to the discharge of his duties a
rare degree of zeal and intelligence. 1t is
a matter of common report that the condi-
ton, discipline and morals of the prison
have greatly improved under his admins
%tration, and the report shows that he con-
templates further improvements. Warden
Hert comes fully up TO the public demand
of the right man i'm the right place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

The Pacific Railroad funding bill had
some strong and legitimate support. based
on good business reasons. but it was de-
feated on account OF the powerful lobby
that was working for it. This is n good
sign. Time was when the stronger the
lobby the greater the chance of getting a
measure through Congress. The fact that
a strong and open lobby now prejudices
a measure shows an Improvement of con-
gressional morals, due no doubt TO an ad-
vance of public sentiment. 1t should be
the same in State legislatures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

The Prussian government is about to re-
quire that Polish residents shall speak only
the German language while they are on
German soil. In the United States il is
different. Here the German citizens speak
their own language when they please and
insist upon having it taught at great ex-
pense in the public schools.
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She WAS a Dnugbter Her.c,f.

Might 1 ask said the lady from South
America. why that plain person at the
far side of the room larrogates unto herself
so many airs?'
She is a Daughter of the Revolution
said the. one ip~terrogated, in awed tones.
Her ancestor fought in the revolution"
oh" said the lady from South America.
Il myself am a daughter of seventeen of
them"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

Washington dispatches state that the
earnest in his efforts to bring about a con-
ferenCs of delegates from wheat-growing
nations for the purpose of fixing a permia-
nent price for wheat by international
agreement OF course. the idea is vision
airy. but how would il do to forestall it
by an International antitrust law?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

Resolutions in either branch OF the State
Legislature relating to Cuban affairs are
entirely out of place Their only result
can DO TO waste time and retard business.
The presiding officers should decide them
out of order.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

The statement made by "A representative
in the monetary convention yesterday to
the effect that Congress never passes bills
presented by those outside of that body
may explain why so few good measures
have been considered by the present SEN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

The present Legislature can do a great
work for the Republican party in Indi-
ana by attending closely TO business.
wasting no time in junkets or unnecessary
a-djournments and making a record for
economy. retrenchment and reform. 1t is
as true in State as in national politics that
he serves his party best who serves his
country hest