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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-19
FASHION NOTES.
Plaided SILK and Ploatea Cashmere.


A youthful and novel combination
was effected in the costume shown be-
low, whose skirt was pale gray accor-
deon pleated cashmere, and whose
blouse waist was bias plaided taffeta
showing white, gray and mauve. Col
lar and belt were mauve velvet liber-
ally supplied with paste buckles, and
the tight sleeves had the small, droop-
ing puffs that are now deemed just
right. The blouse fastened at the side,
and its bolero effect, for of course it
must have some bolero suggestion to be
in the hunt, was gained by several rows
of narrow black velvet ribbon, the eff
feet being heightened by three deceitful
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The Tax on Alcohol.
(From the Boston Herald.y


In arranging for new sources of rev.
nue, the ways and means committee in
congress have undoubtedly to take into
account the internal revenue as we'll
as the tariff laws, and under each cir
cumstances it is incumbent upon the
committee to consider whether or not
the present method of taxing alcohol
should not be revised. Commercial
that is, high test-alcohol has been SELL
ing lately at the distilleries, before the
duty has been paid, and without charge
for the packages, at the rate of about
ten cents a gallon. The tax upon this
is $2.07 a. gallon, so that the impost is
equivalent to a tax burden of more
than 1000 per cent There is probably
no tax imposed by the United States,
that begins to compare with this in
extraordinary proportions. It is alb
surd on the face of it that alcohol used
in, say the manufacture of yarnish, or
in the preparation of medicine. should
be made to cost by a tax $217 a gallon,
when without the tax the price would
be 10 cents a gallon. The only reason
that can be advanced for this fmpost is
that. as a beverage, our own govern
ment and all of the civilized govern
ments of the world believe that alco-
hol is a commodity which can be easily
made to pay an enormous tax. But al
cohol as a basis for Varnish does not
call for a tax any more than turpentine
would when similarly employed, and
the only reason urged against exemp-
ton in these respects is that if discrim-
nations were made it might be difficult
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EATING HIM BACK"

In a farming district in Louisiana a
candidate recently made very SEN
sible talk to some of his disconnected
constituents. He told them that it was
hard to draw the line between the rich
and the poor. you cali the Blanks rich
people, he said, t'but they are simply
we'll to do farmers. Over yonder, in
the river bottom, they would be re-
garded as men of very moderate means
But the big planters of the bottom lands,
even when they are out of debt, are
poor men by the side of the great mer-
chants manufacturers and general OPP
orators in the cities. You think your
selves poor, but there are men who look
upon you as people in easy circumstap-
ces. You are foolish to array the man
with two horses against the man who
has only one"
He then told the following story: zone
day farmer rode into little country
town, in a State adjoining Louisiana,
and got into talk with some friends at
a store where he had gone to make
some purchases. Well, John, said one,
how are you getting along? What, me?
Oh, tolerably well-just the same, just
like always do. And all the neighbors
out your way, how are they getting
along? Well, they're just the same, too
just like I am. We never allow any
difference out our way, you know. No?
Well, how do you manage that? Well
whenever we notice any fellow getting
ahead, you know we Just go to see
him. and we stay with him until we
eat him back.
There are many such communities.
When people see their neighbors get
ting ahead they swarm around them
and "eat them back Atlanta Con-
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The London Lancet has lately pub
lished some correspondence which in
dictates that fishes have a memory for
persons and will come to be fed by a.
friend, while remaining shy in the pres
snca of othars
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A double barrelled decision on pool
room legislation was rendered recently
by the Supreme court of Missouri. The
first question involved was whether a.
repeal clause in an unconstitutional act
was operative An anti-pool-room law
passed in 1895 repealed an act of 1891
which forbade the selling of pools upon
any trial of skill or contest to take
place beyond the limits of the State.
The repeating section was the usual
omnibus one, repeating 'all acts incon-
sistent herewith 1t was the opinion
of the court that, the law having been
declared a nullity, there is nothing up
on which the repeating clause can oper-
ate, because there is no law in existence
which can be inconsistent with a void
act. Having thus established a status
for the law of 1891, the court proceeded
to wipe it from the statute books be-
cause of it's unconstitutionality. 1t
was special legislation, the court said
in that it granted to offenders who
placed wagers on the result of events to
occur within the State an immunity
from punishment not enjoyed by those
who made bets on events to occur out
side of the State.
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nival by a historical and artistic pro-
ression around the Cathedral, including
young women who represented Ursula
and her 1900 virgins, the town tower,
and the mercenaries employed by the
archbishops when they were secular
princes. 1t is asserted that the carnival
has been held at Cologne since pre-
Christian times and that it is the direct
representative of the Roman Saturna-
lila.
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A steamboat has recently been placed
on the river Jordan and makes the trip
from Jericho to liberals in five hours.
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DELIVERED ny CARRIERS in THE CITY. 10
CENTS A WEEK, tOCENTs MONTH, 81 FOR
six MONTHS, S6 4 EAR. The SAME TERMs
BYMAIL
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OF the inhabitants of Massachusetts
1,302,479 have bank accounts OF their
own. No wonder silver didn't get
much encouragement in Massachu-
sets.
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District of New Haven, S. Probate Court,

District Of New Haven SIS. Probate Court,
March 10Th. 1887.
ESTATE OF THE R0yTiffs WHEEL CLUB
OF New Haven, in said District, assign
ing debtor.
An assignment for benefit Of creditors
Haven, in said District. having been this
day lodged for record in the Office of this
Court of Probate, at u O'Clock. and 30 min
of New Haven, being in said assignment
named as trustee of the estate OF said as
signor, 1t Is
1897, at ten o'clock in the forenoon! be and
the same is hereby assigned for approving
or appointing trustee of said estate, and
that public notice thereof be given BY plib-
paper having a circulation In said District.
BY order Of Court
JOHN CURRIER GALLAGHER,
! mh17 3t Clerk.
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Some experiments made lately at the
laboratory of the University of Michi-
gan to determine the strength of weld
ed Joints are of sufficient practical val
lie to be noted. The report shows that,
of a number of the specimens tested,
not one broke in the weld; as, however.
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Robert Bonner has catalogue of his
stock farm at Tarrytown which con-
tains some interesting information. Mr.
Bonner recalls the fact that he bought
his first trotting horse forty years ago,
when there were only nineteen horses,
Including the living and the dead, that
had trotted a. mile in ESQ. Now there
are over Is, 900 in the list. In the sum
mer OF 1856 Mr.. Bonner came near
breaking down from overwork His
family physician advised him to get a
horse and take an hours exercise every
morning in the open air. He not mere
Iy gave the advice, but he actually pur-
chased the horse, and Mr.. Bonner al
lows that IL he has done anything to
stimulate the interest that nearly all
Americans now take in the trotting
horse the credit Is due, in no small de-
gree to his physician.
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THECARRINGToN PUBLISHING co.
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET. A.
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A redwood tree which was recently
cut down in the State of Washington
was 465 feet in height, or about one
eleventh of mile. To the point where
the first limb branched out was 220 feet
AT the base the circumference was
found to be SO feet II inches. If it
were sawed into lumber it would make
96, 345 feet of board. This amount of
lumber would serve for the construction
of eight cottages two stories high, each
containing seven rooms. The age Of the
tree is said to have been 6S4 years.
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A building in the form of a woman's
head is one of the proposed novelties
of the Paris exposition of 1900. The
idea is to make is as near like living
thing and as much unlike plain wood
en- structure in strange mold as 1T is
possible to do. 1t will be made so thin
that powerful electric lights placed in
side will send through the wood a soft
glow that will make the whole appear
both picturesque and beautiful at night,
additional lifelikeness being given by
the use Of shredded rope for the hair.
1t Is intended to use this structure as
the women's building of the exposition
and the inner stores will all be arrang-
ed and constructed with this in view.
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NEW HAVEN, CONN.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-13
OBSAREWITCH STAKES.
ssNIr. Jersey,s'' Norman the Victor
at Newmarket.

EBy Cable to The Associated Press.l
LONDON, Oct. 13, 1S97.-"Mr. Jersey"
(NIrs. Langtry's Merman) won the Ces-
arewitch Stakes at Newmarket today.
The Cesarewitch Stakes is handicap
of 25 sovs. each, with 800 added, for three
years old and upwards; the owner of the
second horse to receive 200 sovs. and the
third 100 sovs. out of the stakes; en-
trance, sovs.; Cesarewitch Course, 2
miles, furlongs and So yards.
There was additional interest in the
race for the Cesarewitch Stakes today,
owing to the fact that two American
horses, Mr.. August Belmont's keenan,
and Mr. j. R. Keenes st. Cloud IL, one
French horse, Count de Berteux's Frio-
lera, and an Australian horse, Prince
Soltykoff's South Australian, were among
the horses starting. There was a large
representation of the fashionable racing
world present, including the Prince of
Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and the
Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.
Tod Sloane, the famous American
Jockey who rode St. Cloud H., made his
debut on the English turf in a minor race
Yesterday and his riding has been Sc
verely criticized. The Pail Mall Gaz-
ette'' for instance said
'.Sloane did not shine in the contest, for
his mount took him all over the course. .
Mr.. Dobelrs The Rush was second and
Mr.. J. L. Dugdale's Carlton Grange was
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-13
MENELIK's ARMY BEATEN.
Ras Mackonnsn Meets His Waterloo
In S0maliland.

by Cable to The Associated Pressl
LONDON, Oct. IS, 1S97.-Mr. J. Bennett
Stanford, who has just returned from
taking part in an expedition to Somali-
land, brings news of the humiliation, at
of 5000 men, under the famous General
Ras Mackonnen, of which number only
So men escaped.
Mr. Stanford, to a representative of
The Associated Press, today, said
while in the interior we came across
powerful Somnali Chief, who had just
returned from the fight. He told me
4hat the Ayssinian force had been raid
ing down the Webbe-Shebeyli River,
nearly as far as the forty-fifth parallel.
The Somalis then overwhelmed them
with large numbers, allowing so men to
go back with the news of the defeat. Ras
Mackonnen was killed during the battle.
1.-THE affair occurred about 100 miles
from where we were. The whole neigh
borhood is still greatly excited and the
possession of so many Italian rifles by
the SomaliS is evidence that the story
told of the Abyssinian defeat is true.
'"The latest news from Harrar was that
an Abyssinian army was being despatched
against the Somalis, who We're eagerly
anticipating another fight.
In regard to the reported massacre of
the Cavendish expedition, Mr.. Stanford
said:--s
There are no expeditions in Somaliland
to massacre. Pool, who was with me,
is away to the South; Lord Delamere IS
near Lake Rudolph, Major Macdonald is
on the trade route towards Uganda and
Cavendish when l last heard of him., was
on the Kikuyu road.
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DAILY LIFE OF THREE PRINCES
The Iron systam TO which Emperor
WilIfa ms SONS Are Subjected.

William IFS sons are subjected, just
like our public schoolboys, to the con-
stant torture of a "methodicaP' educa-
ticn. says the Paris "Figaro.' The two
oldest boys are daily under military. dis
cipline; the daily life at Potsdam OF the
three other little princes. Adalbert, Au-
gust Wilhelm and Oscar is as follows
They get up at six, and have quarter
of an hour in which to wash and dress
From 6:20 to 7:20 they have their first les
son, then their breakfast of milk and
coffee and buttered rolls, with boiled
egg on alternate days. At 135 they start
for the hunting box at Lenstedt, one on
a bicycle, the next on a tricycle. and the
Youngest led by the hand by his COVER
ness. There they study from to 10.
At 10 they have another breakfast OF
sandwiches and fruit and a glass OF wa
fer with little wine in it; this they must
eat while walking round the table, to keep
their -digestions in order. They study
then from 1920 to l., when they return to
fhe new palace at Potsdam and have
dinner. This consists of soup, fish and a
roast. with preserves Every third day a
sweet dish is added to the bill of fare. On
HOLIDAYS only William IIs sons are al
lowed to drink wine undiluted, generally
champagne.
From 8Tto 44lley study. then comes the
swimming lesson which usually lasts till
6. and is the least disagreeable part of
fhesday AT 7sthey have supper. consist
ing of cold meats and sandwiches. Then
at 80 or they are put to bed.
The boys are Is. 10 and years Of age.
respectively.
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cheap prosperity cloth will not be shoddy,
properly so called. 1t will be simply half
cotton, or have a cotton back. The
poor man cannot have an all-wool cloth.
for If he did what would be the use of
prosperity? But he win not in 1898 have
mere shoddy. 1t may be that in 1899 he
Will demand more prosperity, and have to
be furnished with real shoddy, or fin de
steele cloth, but that time has not come.
1t is, however, SO likely to come that it
is wise. on the part of the dealers to pre-
pare him next year with cotton backs.
This will inure him to shoddy and possi-
bly, make him eager for shoddy, as "all
wool"
For our part, we think it is regrettable
that prosperity in America Is nearly
always accompanied by the mixture of
cotton with wool in the poor man S
clothes. For years before the lowering of
the tariff in the Wilson bill, all poor
Americans wore cotton-woollen clothing
and slept under cotton -woollen blankets
Under the Wilson bill they got back to all
wool, but 1t now appears that they are so
prosperous they cannot wear all-wool any
longer, but must recur to '4cotton-backS.
Why is this? What is the connection be-
tween cotton and shoddy and prosperity?
Why do they go together? Why do we
all. when truly prosperous, have to wear
"cotton-backs" to our clothes? We wish
the Wool and Cotton Reporter would
explain this Many gentlemen in the trade
must know
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FELL AMONG ARTISTS.
Story of suicide Nellie Norman, Who
Was Rover by Nature.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 49, 1S97.-Nellie
Norman, the pretty % years old girl, who
committed suicide here yesterday by tax
ing a dose of carbolic acid was Nellie
Anderson. a former belle of Fresno, Calf,
where her father is one of the Wealthlest
men living there.
Her story is a most romantic and in
some respect unusual one. Several years
ago she ran away with and married
against the wishes of her parents Matt
Mitvowich, one or her fathers gardeners
They went to Stockholm where her father
found them. He took the blow as
philosophically as possible and set his
son-in-law up in business. Two weeks
later he heard that his daughter had left
her husband and gone east.
tt beAame known afterwards, from let-
ter seNt by Nellie to her mother, that she
had gone to Chicago, where she got en- en-
ployment in a cloak mouse. rms sne iei
some time afterward, because of an Insult
offered by her employer. Nellie then pc
came an artists model, and, as Sucn, She
was in great demand because OF ner
beauty. She posed for one artist, the acc
ceptance of whose medallion over that OF
other artists undoubtedly superior, caused
a lot of trouble in the World s. FAR
that the girl maintained she was ruined.
Then she changed her name to Nelhe NOR
Rowe. the sculptor, whose works Of art
ON the Transportation building Of the
Worlds Fair are well remembered mas i,s
been searching in vain for a suitable
model for one of the figures in his group
aNavigation,' He finally selected Nellie
Norman who became famous as
model. Her Bohemian life, however, was vas
TOO narch for her. and in six months the
form for Which artists raved was gone and
her beauty faded. Becoming sick and
discouraged she finally decided to END the
struggle by death
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WOMAN AND SOVEREIGN

The principal figure of the Jubilee,
Queen Victoria herself, and the position
she has gained and will hold to the end
not possible for any American, however,
well informed of British affairs. to quite
understand the feelings with which this
imagine "Old Glory and Old Ironsides.
Washington and Lincoln, Bunker Hill,
and My Country Tis of Thee, rolled
into one force, and personified in wom-
an he may form some conception OF the
feelings of the average Briton for The
Queenv for she in her own person SYM
bolizes today the might and majesty of
the land, and its long, varied and glo-
rious history from the beginning. The
Queen means everything that touches
and thrills the patriotic chord. That both
as a woman and sovereign she has
deserved the unique tribute paid her goes
without saying; the widest Radical, or
even Republican, will concur in this.
Sixty years Of unremitting work-she still
signs every state paper herself, including
lieutenants commissions IN the militia
prudence, patience and rare Judgment
have made of this good, able. energetic,
managing and very wise woman q saint,
when her subjects are as little capable
and as little disposed to estimate criti-
cally as the American schoolboy can inn
agine or is disposed to imagine Washing
ton as possessed of human frailties.
Washington, Tell, Wallace, Bruce, Lin
coin. Queen Victoria or Margaret are the
stuff of which heroes or saints are made,
and well it is for the race that the capac-
ity of hero-worship and for saint-wor-
ship remains with both Briton and Am
erican wholly unimpaired.
When a nation ceases to create ideals
it's glorious days are past. Fortunately
for the world, both the Republic and the
Monarchy have the future before them
From Some Important Results of the
jubilee" by Andrew Carnegie in North
American Review for October.
Business Men IS Table d'I5ote u to 3 p. NJ.
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JUSTICE FIBLD Is wEARY.
The Veteran of the Supreme Court
Bench Soon to Retire.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 1S97.-Justfc9
Stephen N. Field, of the U. s. Supreme
Court, 1t is believed by many of his friends
will announce his retirement from the Su-
preme Court Bench some time during the
present term, though he himself would say
nothing about the matter for publications
when newspaper men called at his resi-
dence today. 1t has been his ambition to
eclipse the record of Chief Justice Mar
shall for length of service on the Supreme
Court Bench. and in this ambition he was
successful during the last summer. Ha
was appointed in 1868 to his present posi-
ton, and being now nearly 81 years old
has been eligible for retirement on full
pay for nearly eleven years. He has been
in feeble health for several years, but has
continued in service, though for some
time past his attendance has been rather
irregular, and he has not taken as active
a part as formerly in the preparation of
opinions, and now that he has passed
Chief Justice Marshalls record he has had
retirement under serious consideration.
and it is thought that an announcements
will be made before long that he has taxi
en- this course.
Attorney General McKenna is regarded
as being almost certain to succeed Justice
Field. Both come from California.
An Associated Press reporter called as
Justice Fields residence today. but the
Justice excused himself and sent word
down that he was not feeling well. Mrs.
Field would neither confirm nor deny the
report though giving an impression that
it was at least under serious advtsement.
At the Supreme Court it was said thaS
nothing was known there on the subject.
and that any announcement must ooma
from Justice Field himself. That MEM
bers of the Court believe the Justice Will
decide to make way for a younger and
more active man is shown by the fact
that they have postponed hearing seversk
important decisions until the begtnni1E
of the new year, by which time ~
thought quite likely Justice Field may
have retired and his successor be tp office.
though, of course, it is possible that th6
in office. a decision he reached several
times in the past when his retirement was
contemplated by himself.