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The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12
INFORMAL.

Was her dinner formal?" Formal? Why, even the salads weren't half dressed! d!"--Detroit Journal Joe keeps his wife and mother-in- law mad at him half the time. What yexes them so?'' He calls them his board of lady managers. Chicago Record.
 She-I know I am not the first girl you ever loved. -Well-er--at least, you are the first, girl ever bought more than s17 worth of presents for.- Indianapolis Journal
 Miss Madders-Don't you think we poor humans often misconstrue one another? MT. Fadders-Yes; we often get an idea that a man thinks he owns the earth, when he's merely living in world of his oWn.-Chicago Journal.
 The Colorado legislature has passed a law permitting women to join the mi litia," remarked MT. Snaggs q didn't know that 8 legislative enactment was necessary before women could fight, ," replied MT. Henpeck. News. l Scotty-Yet; that's ole Rowling Ike Useter be the terror of the camp. Visi- tor from the East-You don't say so! He looks quite civil and respectable, I'm sure. Was he converted? Scotty- You betcher life he war! We 'lected his ole woman sher'f.-Puek. l Are you a stockholder in any of these Klondike schemes?" "I guess you might call me a stockholder," said the man who had bought while the fev- CT had hold of him, but I am begin ming to think that stuck holder would be the better phrase. Cincinnati En- quirer.
 "One time," said the travelled boarder, q got showed in on the Rocky noun tains, and the only thing seven of us 1 had for two days to sustain life was a half barrel of pickled pigs feet" You were, indeed" said the Cheerful Idiot, reduced to extremities. .''-Indianapolis Journal.
 "Abner,' said the good wife, 'T wish you would stop at the store and git
 me a rubber ring for the baby to cut his teeth on.'' "S'posen you give him that there gold brick in the cupboard?" ?" said the farmer with a grim smile. Tt worked all right with me. e."-Indianapo- lis Journal.
 It is related that at Princeton theo- | logical seminary recently young preacher persuaded 8 fellow student to listen to him while he rehearsed a ser mon. His subject was Light" With a violent gesture with the right arm, he said: Blot out the sum- With sim ilarly frantic movement of the left arm he roared, Blot out the moon." Then with a combined gesture, made up of both arms, he beloved, Blot out the stars!" But it was enough The audi 1 tor arose to leave with a coarse, cruel | whisper, Turn off the gas!"-Chicagc 1 Interior.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12
TOLD BY AN EYEWITNESS.

When Hamlin Garland was gathering material for the Life of Grant" he spent a day or two in Atlanta, where he met an old Virginia negro who said that he had witnessed Lees surrender. Garland was interested and questioned him closely.
 You say you were present when Lee surrendered?"
 "Dat Wuz, sah!"
 "Did you see Lee give up his sword?"
 ''No, suh, I didn't. Ginrul Lee give up he sword? Not him! Dey tried ter take it fun him, but he made a pass at once CT two of dem en dey lief off I tell you!"
 And where was Grant all that time?"
 "Oh, he wuz right dar, suh! En he tor em, he did: We'll boys let him keep the weepon He can't do much damage, kase he done whipped anyhow :"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12
A Condition vs. Theories.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 I belong to the laboring class and have a family of five to provide for. l have to be careful and not waste any
 thing and am always looking out for places to save, and planning to make q
 little go a great ways. l haven't any disposition or time to read the news
 papers. They don't seem to benefit
 poor people much, though we spend
 considerable to buy them. I suppose this is because we are always looking
 for two things, work and food, and We
 think the papers may help us to these They do sometimes. A while ago l read
 that a woman in New Haven could
 board ten or fifteen folks on four or five dollars week. It doesn't seem pos sible 1 may be wrong about the num- Der, but 1 know all the women III our block laughed at her funny notions. She didn't know anything about living as We know it. Then We heard that MT. Chidsey had hired q hall on 1 Meadow street and put 6 woman in it to
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12
4 .EiiR START.

The board of finance met yesterday afternoon on time, and soon after it met all the members were found to be present, healthy, hearty and sandy enough to do business. Some business was finally done in executive session, and while the populace may not know just how the business came to be done they can know what was done, which will be more or less sufficient unto them.
 Three definite things were done. The board respectfully voted that it wouldn't consider the mess of stuff col lected by the Investigating committee and it didn't even pause to praise the famous literary majority report. It voted that it didn't approve of the gor- geous bills as presented, and it voted a committee to try what could be done in the way of a compromise between the city and the eager newspapers.
 This is reasonable action. The board is right in not wasting it's time in deal- ing with the Investigation and its fec ble results. It is right in dealing only with the bills. It is right in not ap- proving the bills. We don't know of anybody who does approve of them, unless it may be those for whose benefit they were made out, and they don't seem to be very proud of them. The board is also right in trying to make & fair compromise with the makers of the bills.
 So far, so good. A start has been finally made, and the progress of the great work will be watched with much interest
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12
POLITE POsTMAsTEP.

Postmaster Loftin, of Hogansville, Georgia, exhibited commendable pluck when he declined to be removed from office by an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate him, but it must be admit ted that Charles J. Smith, of Ragan- town, Claiborne county, Mississippi, has set a good example. Smith is negro who was endorsed by the Republican or ganization for the post-office at Ragan- town, this endorsement being followed by his appointment to the place. The county is one in which the blacks out number the whites three to one; but as most of the blacks cannot read, and few of those who can read ever write or receive letters, the business of the Ragantown office is almost exclusively that of whites. These patrons of the office were bitterly opposed to the ap pointment of Smith as postmaster and a public meeting was held to express their views concerning the matter, at which resolutions were adopted pro- testing against his appointment, on the grounds that he was not identified with the interests of the people of that To- cality, and was obnoxious personally to 95 per cent. of the patrons of the office, and committee was appointed to re- quest him to resign. When this com- mittee visited him, Smith replied that he desired to be in harmony with the leading citizens and to do nothing in opposition to their expressed will, and that, in view of their wishes, he would return his commission.
 This is a good way out of an unpleas- ant situation, but after a mans oppo- nents have gone so far as to shoot him he is justified in not being as polite to them as he might have been if they had begun politely with him.
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GREAT IND oUIoK CHANGE.


 What astonishing changes little time will bring. It was not long ago that everybody in this country was scared about gold, and some were in a state of panic. Bonds were issued, great finan- ciers came to the rescue and. the scare subsided. Now, but a short time after that very thorough scare, the stock of gold in the United States is the largest ever known here. It broke the record on the 1st instant, and since then has been materially increased both by im- ports and by the production of the mines. The previous high water mark was reached in the return of November 1, 1888, when the official estimate of the gold in the country stood at s711, 705, ,05O. Of this amount $191, ,O74,575 belonged to the gold reserve, and s520, ,630,475 was in circulation outside of the treasury. On the 1st inst. the total stood at $712 ,9s0,- AT, s147, 105 belonging to the gold reserve and s564, ,997, ,312 in circulation. It will be seen that, in comparison with the figures of nine years ago, the gold circulation shows an increase of S44,- 366, ,S37, while the gold reserve is $43,- l11,470 smaller than at the earlier date, the two movements resulting in net l1:4:a., of e1 055 oeT +o o,,r s+ooI, oe gold. Since the 1st inst. there has been, according to the computation of the di- rector of the mint, an addition of S5. COG, ,O00 bringing the present total to $71S, 900, GOO.
 From the depths to the heights Such is life. All aboard for the next turn.
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is no mistake about another fact, to wit; In the practice of the law, as in everything else, honesty and frank, fair dealing are not only enjoined by good morals, but are the best policy. It is a delusion to suppose that the noble pro- fession of the law can be faithfully pur- sued or successfully practiced by trick cry or overreaching subterfuges.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12
FASHION NOTES.
Footwear for Fall Exercise

Many women bicycle riders who wore high bicycle boots early in the summer gave them up and took either to low shoes or to stocky, boyish laced shoes
 These were an improvement, because a urement, and to get a snug fit from toe to knee made foot and leg motion de
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cidedly uncomfortable. Coming to the singing about wheeling was all right Tor this footWear-was it's best use, but
 real wheeling in them was another matter. Now that cool days make wheeling more pleasant than ever,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

A regular Boston man is clamoring for the establishment of schools for the ''cultivation'' of newsboys' voices.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

An Ohio millionaire has begun suit the companys right to refuse to sell mileage books at s20 except on condition that they be used exclusively by the purchaser.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12
ADyERTISING RATES.

ADVERTISING RATES
 Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Gent Word each in- sertion. Five Cents Word for a full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements, per incn, one In. sertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertion; 40 cents; one week, $3.20; one month. SlO; one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices. In prose CT verse. 15 cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar riages, Deaths and Funerals. 30 cents eacn Local Notices 15 cents per line. Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business Gall matter to be nnobjectjonable). and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, l5 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, 8 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

Grover Cleveland gives the following sound advice to a young man about to enter the legal profession: If I were to tender any advice to a young lawyer
 or to young man about to become @ lawyer, as to how he could become a successful one, I think l could not re- frain from asking him to dismiss from his mind the idea that the practice of the law is made up, in an important de- gree, of oratory and eloquent addresses before courts and juries. No one should enter this profession who is not prepared to do very hard work, contin- follow this advice by saying that there
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

The attention of the powerful Aborig- ines Protection society in London has been called to a new curse that is now being forced upon the natives in South Africa. Liquor of the most fiery and poisonous description, specially distilled for native consumption, has long con- stituted a serious obstacle in the way of those who desire to civilize the Kaf- fir, and is wrecking the dusky races of Africa, morally as we'll as physically. Not content with this, the Europeans have now initiated the black man to the charms of opium, the nefarious traffic of which is carried on openly in the Transvaal where white people keep dens in which Kaffir men and women pay sixpence smoke. The hideous eff fleets of the opium on the semi-savage Kaffirs who work at the mines are al- ready showing themselves in a very marked degree, and the mine managers are unanimous in declaring that the curse is many times greater than that of alcohol.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

On account of the prevailing epidemic of yellow fever in the city of New Or leans, it has been found advisable to postpone the session of the Episcopal Church congress, which had been ap- pointed to convene there next month. lAt the last session of the congress, held in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1896, the clergy and 1aity of the diocese of Louisiana, headed by Bishop sessums, invited the congress to meet in New Orleans in 1897 This invitation was accepted by the permanent general and executive committee, and November 16 next was appointed as the time for the congress to assemble there. The reports of the fever now prevalent there were brought officially before the committee, and it was decided by the committee to post pone the affair until some future time. It is likely that the date will be either just before Lent or immediately after Easter next.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

For the purpose of ageing liquors ar officially a Kentucky man has invented an apparatus by means of which the liquor, after being placed in an air. tight receptacle, is brought to a tenn perature of about 145 degrees and then cooled to the freezing point of water by means of refrigerant gas which is forced through the pipes of the recep- tacle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

The Germans who are given to ac- cusing people in this country of trade tricks might well pick the beams out of their own eyes. Consul Monahan at Chemnitz has just informed the state department of form of dishonesty that is very prevalent in some German man. ufacturing towns. Making contracts to exclusively represent valuable Ameri- can machines, they secure models of them, and then, regardless of the rights of the owners of the patents, or the obligation assumed to push the sale of the American articles, they deliberately counterfeit them and sell them as of German origin and even go so far as to enamel some of them over and sell them as their own work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

THE PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

If Lovely Woman kisses pet dogs she may be as sorry as she might be if she should kiss pet men. A young woman was an affectionate creature. It sick ened, and she nursed and petted him, but he did not wish to bite his mistress, Afterward symptoms of hydrophobia showed themselves in his mistress, and she died shortly in convuIsions. It was enough to have kissed the poor brute to poison her blood. The men whom he bit went to the Pasteur Institute for treatment, and are now doing we'll.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

HE WEEKLY JOUhNIL. Vssued Thursdays, One Dollar a Year
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

The medicine will do you good. The pho to VIII please you. Address MONARCH EMEl1lES co, r. c. Box 1f93. New Ha- ye ven, sohi. Sold by all druggists. Price
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

''Was her dinner formal?" Formal? Why, even the salads weren't half dressed" d!"--Detroit Journal
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-12

THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB
 LISHED IN CONNECTICUT.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-02

clude set of pink. a set OF blue, a set of
yellow and a set of white diamonds. Some
OF these gems were owned by the Empress
Eugene and Queen Isabella of Spain This
was to sell for the purpose of keeping the
Stanford University going, but didn't.
Since Queen Victoria has found it neces-
sary to lean on a cane in walking she has
used stout oak stick originally presented
to Charles ii by a loyal citizen of Worces-
ter. When the Queen first used it it. had
only plain gold top, but when she re-
quired something to give a frmer grip to
support her better there was added a queer
little Indian idol, which had formed part Of
the booty of Seringapatam.
The Japanese apply one of their many
pretty ways to the launching of ships. They
use no wine, but hang over the ships prov
a large pasteboard cage full of BIRDS and
the moment the ship is afloat a man pulls
string, when the cage opens. and the birds
fly away, making the air alive with music
ana the whirr OF wings The idea is that
the birds thus welcome the ship as she be-
gins her career ss a thing of life.
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer tells story
Illustrating the almost boyish modesty of
the poet Whittier. A little woman forced
her way into the penetralia of Boston
mansion. when Whittier was visiting there,
and, clasping both the poets hands in her
own, exclaimed: Mr.. Whittier, this is the
supreme moment of my life" Whittier
stood first on one foot and then on the
otner, Withdrew his hands and clasped
them behind his back, and replied prosa-
lcally, us it?'
Mr.. Gladstone expects to spend part of
the coming winter in Cannes, where he will
be the guest of Lord Rendel at Chateau
Thoren. 1T is noted of the aged statesman
that whenever he is likely to be absent from
nome for any time, he likes to take his
own books and writing materials with him.
he mas considerable collection of paper
knives, inkstands, ETC., gifts from admirers.
The knives are nearly all very large Sew
eral nave ivory blades and are mounted in
massive silver. There is one which, since
us presentation some months ago. he has
always had on his desk and taken with him
on his visits. 1t is about twelve inches long.
is made of one piece of mother-of-pearl.
ana pears this inscription on the blade: ITO
the Great Man, Mr.. Gladstone, this knife in
remembrance of the Grand Day of the Dia-
mona Jubilee of Queen Victoria 22d June.
1897. From LUIGI Montesi''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-02

Joseph Jefferson says that he considers
himself rather young because he recently
met Judge Woodbury., OF Boston, VINO knew
his grandfather.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury. though
Jealous teetotaler, always allows his deli
cate guests a glass of wine. He preaches
each year over one hundred sermons IN Ia
vor of temperance.
In the good old times when oil was used
in lighthouses 5000 candle-pewer lamp
was considered immense. The latest electric
lighthouse built in France (HeVe, at haVre)
will have the power of 2,5OO,OO0 candles.
The course of Archbishop CIeaAy of King
ston. Canada, in forbidding Roman Cath
olics to attend weddings or funerals in
Protestant churches is not likely 70 pc im1-
tate6 by American prelates. The Boston
Pilot says that Protestant weddings ana
funerals are regarded by the church as
partly social functions
Miss Marion Hunter, niece of Sir Will
liam Hunter, has been appointed the female
member of the British medical corps sent
out to combat the plague in India. She is,
or was until lately, the only physician Of
her sex who holds the Cambridge diplo-
ma Of public health. The duties of the medi-
cal corps are expected to consume six
months.
Down near Bergerac, in the Dordogne, NJ.
Mounet Sully. the famous tragedian Of the
Coincide Franchise. Is building a country
home The actor intends to dwell there per-
manently when he has retired from the
stage. He is a native of the Perigord dis
trict, and wants to end his days near the
spot where he was born, and far from the
tumult Of Paris. .
Mrs. Leland Stanford has one of the most
remarkable collections of jewels in the
world. They are valued at s2,OOOOOO and in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-02

The annual reports of the officers of the
Charity Organization Society call to mind
the fact that the season is at hand when
there is the greatest need for such a So
ciety, and when the public will be called
upon to make its work of relief possible
The reports are of a, character to encourage
cheerful giving on the part of the charita-
bly, disposed They show that the efforts
of the various branches of the organization
have been direeted to one end, namely-that
of providing work where work can be done,
thus preserving the self-respect of the bet
ter class Of applicants for aid and discour-
aging idlenesS among the others. To carry
out this purpose and at the same time to
relieve the suffering Of the sick and helpless
poor is to solve the most difficult of the
problems of relief work. The existence of
the tramp evil is shown to be the greatest
hindrance to the success of the plan. Over
81 200 was paid out last year for the pro-
fessional Migrants, partly in the way Of
providing work for them, partly for meals
and lodgings. The most of these men will
not work unless compelled to, and the sug-
gestion that the deadbeats be taken care of
by the city authorities and sent to the
stoneyard while the benevolent societies
who are willing to help themselves if given
a chance, is a good one and should be acted
upon 1t is plain that the organization is
under wise management, and contributions
for the coming year can be made with the
certainty that the money will be put where
it will do the most good.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-02

they threatened to break his head when he
requested payment for his services.
1t must be admitted that the methods of
the mascot mayor in promoting the cause
of his Democratic friends in other cities
are, to say the least, novel. If the same
methods are continued in the next cam
paign the new feature will become famous.
1t seems, however, that the mascot mayor
of Chicago got the idea of such methods
from the result of his visit to this city to
assist Mayor Taggart If, with band and
a limited number of heelers, he called at
indianapolis while on his way to the Nash
vile exposition, and thereby caused the
election of Mr.. Taggart by a large plural
ity. what might he not do if he should mar
shall two hundred of his toughs and descend
upon New York? In the event of the cleo
ton of Cookers ticket, will not the mascot
mayor conclude that he is the greatest
power in Democratic politics and travel the
country with his cohort of toughs to make
Democratic victory overwhelming?