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NAMES OF OUR WAR-SHIPS.

A change in the system of naming
our ships of war would seem to be adj
visable, so far as certain features are
concerned The policy of naming a
class Of ships after the states of the
Union, and another class after impor-
tant historical cities and towns is adj
mirable. Still another class bears the
names of our great naval heroes. This
also is as it should be, so far as the
names are regarded, but 1t seems en-
tirely inappropriate that those names
should be borne by the class to which
they are assigned. In the British navy
the names of the great commanders
are given to the greatest and finest Of
the ships, and the example should be
followed by us. Those names would
thus be carried into all parts Of the
world made familiar to all people.
But it seems almost as inappropriate
to give such names as Farragut, Porter,
Somers and the like to a lot Of torpedo
boats-craft without dignity or magni-
tude-as it would be to assign those
names to steam launches, tugboats or
vessels of the mosquito fleet. The
practice of naming the torpedoboats
after this fashion is said to be thor
oughly distasteful to the officers Of the
navy. There is a certain appropriate
ness in giving the name Of Cushing to
such a craft, for it was the daring act
of blowing up the Confederate ram AL
bemarle by a torpedo-boat extempo-
rized from a launch that gave Cushing
his fame. The name Ericsson, too, is
appropriately associated with pecu-
liarly modern and destructive engine of
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4 FUNNY SPANISH pnorEsr.

There was a solemnly funny time in
the Spanish Cortes yesterday, when
naughty and candid Spaniards made
warm protest against Yankee trickery.
1t was charged that some of the Yam
kee warships had actually displayed
the flag of Spain, with intent to deceive
frank and confiding Spaniards, and the
opinion was expressed that nation
that would allow such trickery was no
good.
How much truth there is in the
charge made doth not appear, but if
there is any truth in it the Yankees
have not gone beyond the regulation
which allows the use of foreign flag
to deceive an enemy, but requires that
such a flag must be hauled down before
a shot is fired. They have not yet done
as the Spaniards in Manila Bay did.
The Hong Kong correspondent Of the
London Daily Mail said in his account
of the battle: "There was an act of
treachery on the part of a Spanish boat
which lowered her flag and then fired
at boats crew sent to her. She did
not hit the boat, but our guns were
turned on her and tore her to pieces.
She went to the bottom with all on
board. Several vessels close in shore
behaved in the same way and shared
her fate
If the Yankees are disturbing the
Spaniards by trickery they are making
progress. They have some distance to
go yet before they catch up with Span
ish deceit. The Spaniards shouldn't
complain. It isn't fair in them to claim
a monopoly of trickery in this queer
war.
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THE OREGON.

Now that the Oregon is near home
perhaps the United States is figuring
on misleading the Span1ards who
might take a notion to look for her
She has been reported off Barbados.
Then she was reported at Key West.
That report has been denied, and there
is a. report of ship that might be the
Oregon at Para. Some shrewd ones
think that she may not join SIMPSONS
fleet now, but may turn up at the Nor
folk navy yard or somewhere else
where she can receive the attention she
may need after her long voyage. She
will probably be all right wherever she
is. If she was correctly reported off
Barbados she has made a wonderful
trip in fifty-seven days for a heavily
armed battleship of 10,2SS tons. The
entire distance is over $4,000 miles. She
left San Francisco March 20. Her first
stopping place was Callao, where she
CUdleu kApIll U " cilu ILLS tLip VI
1000 miles was accomplished in four
teen days-a remarkably short time
when the weight and coal-consuming
capacity of the vessel are considered.
But there are other features of the
journey which are even more extraor-
binary. Leaving Callao April 7, the
big battIeship made the entire trip
around Cape Horn to Rio Janeiro, a
distance of $500 miles, by April 80, not
stopping once for coal, and weatherlng
| the Cape Horn storms with apparently
no break or arrangement of her intri-
cate mechanism. After a wait Of four
days in Rio the ship arrived at Bahia.
May 9, and nine days later was report
| ed off the Barbados.
We shall soon know where the Ore
gon is, and perhaps the Spaniards will
| have a realizing sense of her where
| abouts.
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OF ALL DRUGGISTS AND MINERAL WATER DEALERS

ened with gold studs, and at either
side of the front below the yoke was
small flap held with a gold ribbon. The
belt was white satin ribbon, and the
linen collar was finished with bow of
lavender and white satin ribbon.
Lace barbs are being manufactured
again, but don't you indulge in any
but a very choice imitation, and never
wear the barb except upon a dress
occasion suited to the real lace the barb
should be. Very pretty black null
scarfs are finished with white lace,
and are for wear outside of the Jacket
collar. They lend dressy touch to
the travelling costume without being
subject to instant messing. Dashing
scarfs Of plaid effects are deliberately
finished with putting of null and lace.
The fringed scarf is still worn, and
while not yet common, has altogether
lost the distinction 1t once had.
FLORETTE.
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ARE WE TIRED OF HAPPINESS?

The Manchester Guardian is one of
the ablest and most influential news
papers in England, and it is very
friendly toward the United States in
these days. 1t has something interest
ing to say concerning the talk about
permanent change in the foreign
policy of our government, and Of the
extension of the sovereignty of the
United States, at least temporarily, and
for purposes of indemnity over the
Philippine Islands and Cuba, and the
protectorate in Hawaii. 1t says: That
is how men and countries throw away
their happiness with both hands. They
seem to tire of being too much blessed
by fortune. The United States were in
vulnerable in their own solid territory
that stood four-square against inva-
sion, like the Russia that even Napo-
leon could not penetrate without dis
aster in 1912. Almost every other great
power in the world had given hostages
to fortune by the acquisition of outly-
ing islands or distant colonies that
could only be guarded by strong fleets.
America scarcely needed a ship. She
was the only first-rate power for whom
the thought Of being driven off the
seas had no terror. She had only to
walk straight forward in the path
marked out for her by the great men
who founded her constitution, and she
could scarcely have failed to distance
| in the arts of peace, If not the United
Kingdom, at any rate competitors like
France or Germany, who plow with one
hand on their swords. America is tir-
| ing of that happiness. For years a
host of Americans seem to have felt
| that their country has not been living
up to its station in life because it has
| not, like Great Britain, controlled in
distant countries the destinies of brown
men, because it has not spent hundreds
| of millions of dollars on ships, forts and
guns. nor enjoyed the august cares of
| wars, famines and revolts on property
| of its own, or near it, in half dozen
parts of the world So, if this group
has its way, Hawaii is to be annexed,
and the Philippines, and, perhaps,
| Cuba, when the little difficulty of the
seh-denying ordinance published at the
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''Mertie has a score of men in love
with her, and she is engaged to most
Of them" YES. Isn't 1t awful? She
calls them her reconcentrados." New
York Journal.
Suitor Ito her younger brother)-
Come, you ought to know; is there any
chance for me? Brother--Oh, you are
all right That isn't what's troubling
Name. She's wondering If there's any
chance for her.-Boston Transcript.
Might Do Something-The constitu-
ent-Are you goin' to resign and otter
your services to the country on the md
Of battle? The congressman-I'm too
old. The constituent--Well, the peo-
pie would think a. heap of YOU if you
didn't do nothing more for your coun-
try than resign.-Indianapo Jour-
nal.
Misled.-'Durn you and your old gro
cery" shouted the man who had back
ed up against the fresh paint. Didn't
you see that sign, Fresh paint?' +" ask
ed the grocer. "Of course I did, but
I've seen so many signs hung out here
announcing something fresh thatwasn't
lHdt uldll DCliGNS IL. ~Iiluiiildpoiio
Journal.
1T strikes me, Mr.. Brief" said Mr..
Dogway, that your charge of $3.50 for
this opinion is pretty steep" mo
doubt" said Mr. Brief. But you see,
Dogway, when you come and ask me
for an opinion which violates all my
convictions, you've got to pay not only
for your law, but for my conscience. p
Harper's Bazaar
ooh, did you hear about Mrs. War
ble's baby almost getting burned alive
in the fire at their house?"
Good gracious! mol 1t is posi-
ble?"
Eyes. She only had time to get his
best dress on him and curl his sweet,
little hair before the firemen carried
them out Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mr.. Sparkle-What an admirer of you
Joe Pumping is. I never see him that
he doesn't congratulate me on having
such beautiful or such a young-look-
| ing wife! / ran against him this after
| noon, and the first thing he said was
| that he believed you must know where
| the fountain of youth is located. Mrs
| Sparkle--What a foolish fellow Joe al.
ways was! Mr.. Sparkle-By the way,
evening, if you don't object to my goine
| out Mrs. Sparkle-Oh. not at all.
| want to run over to Johnson's anyway
| and I know you wouldn't enjoy it there
! Chicago News.
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opening Of the war can be surrounded
no great conquering nation has ever
found such difficulties insuperable, wit
ness the French and British promises
regarding Tunis and Egypt, which the
jingoes in each country have long pro-
nounced 1t childish to think of keep
ing.
Furthermore, the Guardian affirms
that the distinctively American princi-
pie is that Hawaiians, Cubans and
Philippine Islanders have an indefeasi-
BILE right to determine their own form
of government. The conception of a
country or an island as piece of ter
ritory to be acquired or parted with
like an estate, with the live stock on it,
simply on the grounds of it's usefulness
hateful to men like washington and
Franklin. To say that Hawaii should
be annexed because 1t is the key to the
Eastern Pacific or that the Philippine
Islands should be annexed because
America wants a naval base near
China, would have seemed to them dis
graceful. They would not have seen
in Hawaii and in the Philippines mere
ly an island or an archipelago in GER
tain positions on the map but two
populations entitled to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness as conceived
by the populations themselves. 1t was
because this mode of viewing the rights
of masses of men was foreign to the
world of European international rela-
tions of the eighteenth century that
the founders of the United States shook
off the dust of their feet against that
| world and entered into an isolation
truly splendid, refusing, like the early
Quakers, any completely in actions
| that fell short of their own ideal. FL
deity to such an ideal does not pre-
clude chivalrous acts Of Intervention
for the deliverance of maltreated peo-
| pies, but it does preclude wars of con-
| quest, and most of all does 1t preclude
the dexterous conversion Of wars I'M
dertaken on grounds Of humanity into
wars of conquest The truest friends
of the United States in this country
would see with intense regret the
breakdown Of the finest of American
| t,.,I ~, tha ;N,, Nf
act of rescue into campaign of grab.
Some may hasten to say that these
sensible and apparently honest words
are inspired by English jealousy, but
the Guardian disposes of that idea by
remarking that it only shows how
| thoroughly demoralizing, how derang-
ing war is to ordinary notions Of public
conduct that both in the United States
and in England American projects for
annexing the Philippines and their in
habitants, for giving them away to
Great Britain or to Japan, even for
have been discussed as airily as If the
Philippines were park inhabited by
deer. eve have no right whatever to
the islands, the United States have no
right to them, nobody but their inhabi-
tants have any right TO them; for the
United States to seize and keep them
because they might be strategically
useful would be a crime like the annex
alton of Alsace-Lorraine, and for us to
become the receivers of the spoil would
be almost as odious as a share in the
partition of Poland"
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FASHION NOTES.
YOIxes That Test.

Shirt waists made on a yoke, after
the general manner of the one sketched
below, are many, but only women of
good figure should wear them. AS the
most expensive makers fit them, there
Is almost no fullness till below the
followed, by the waist,so that any slight
imperfection of outline is made con-
spicuous. Waists in which the fullness
begins at the shoulders are much more
baggy. They slope in closely to the
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents, and other small
advertisements, One Cent a Word each IN
aertion. Five Cents Word for full week
tsaven tjmes}.
Display advertisements, per Inch, one IN n
eertiop, $120; each subsequent Insertion: ~
rents; one week. $500; one month, Slo :
one year, $40. 49,
Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. 10
cents per line Notices Of Births, Mar
riages. Deaths and Funerals. so cents each,
Local Notices Is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited. to their
own immediate business (all matter to pc
unobjectionable). and their contracts do not
irclnde Wants, To Let. For Sale, ETC.
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Clerk have been in your employ
now going on five years, and I am get
ting the same salary started with.
Proprietor know it, but every time
that I've made up my mind to cut you
down or discharge you something has
reminded me of your wife and little
ones at home, and SO 1 just couldn't
do it. There, my man, you see 1 have
heart as well as a head.-Chicago
News.
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war, but it would be better to commem-
crate the great Swede, to whom we are
all deeply indebted, by giving his name
to one of the best of the monitors, IN
honor of his invention Of the type
Boston Herald.
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"A truthful writer on Spain says there
is something Spanish about a Spaniard
which induces him to behave in a
Spanish manner
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George Jacob Holyoake of England
says that he was the first person to
use the word "jingo," which he did on
March 10, 1878, in a letter to the Lon
don Daily News.
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Before the rindepest killed so many
cattle in Natal, South Africa, the price
Of a wife was eleven head of cattle,
equal to about a3S, but now eleven
head represent 1882, and it is being
urged that the government should or
dain that three head for the present
must be recognized as the price of a
wife, or should make it rule that money
equivalent may be paid where cattle
are unprocurable.
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a Missouri paper gravely announced
the other day that "Sedalia's mayor,
having plenty of time on his hands,
has decided to begin war against i'm
mortality"
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY,
Is CENTS A WEEK, SO CENTS A MONTH,
So FOR SIX MONTHS, SO A YEAR. THE
SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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waist, and are quite smooth under the
arms. They appear to fall in place
with no effort at ALL but that is all be-
cause they are so perfectly shaped.
Don't attempt to save money on your
shirt waists; the correct thing does
not cost much more than botch, and
the regrets attaching to a botch will
last as long as the waist itself Hav-
ing said that this pictured waist must
be well filed to be a success, thereby
arousing the interest of every femi-
nine reader who isn't either bullying
or scrawny, its specifications should
be given. 1t was of striped lavender
French Bingham with plain yoke and
front. The body was tucked, each
tuck being held down with fancy
stitching done in white silks. It fast
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-24

Says the London Chronicle: Admiral
Dewey's interruption of the battle of
Manila bay to give his crews an op-
portunity Of breaking their fast re-
calls our own glorious list of June"
when Earl Howe, before he gave the
French such hammering off Ushant,
hove to for an hour before attacking
to permit his men fortifying themselves
for the coming fight with a good meal
"a pause which caused much conjec-
ture in the minds Of the astonished
French. It has ever been the Anglo
Saxon way to fight, if possible, on a
full stomach. Wellington once said
that if ever he wanted an Irish or
Scotch regiment to reach a particular
point by certain hour all he had to
do was to promise the former a drink
on getting to it's destination, the lat
ter its pay; but that the correspond
ing bait to an English battalion was a
good dinner of roast beef.
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THE PUBLISHING CO.
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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Edmratin1r.
THE Observation-Disclosures

The only complete institution Of this kind
In, Connecticut. Vocal and Instrumental
instruction. Pupils prepared for. the Mu.
sical Department of Yale. Office hours: ~
to and to D. m.
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The largest map in the world is the
ordnance survey map of England, con-
tanning over 100000 sheets, and costing
scale varies from ten feet to one-eights
Of an inch to the mile. The details are
SO minute that maps having scale Of
twenty five inches show every hedge,
fence, wall, building and even every
isolated tree in the country. The plans
show not only the exact shape of every
building, but every porch, area, door,
step, lamppost, railroad and fire-plug.
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AS sources Of energy it has been pro-
posed to use the peat boys of North
Germany, and what is now practically
waste land is expected to become avail
able for manufacturing on a large
scale. The Dogs of the valley of the
Ems, for example, cover some 10000
square miles, and the proposition has
been made to erect in this section a
10, horsepower electric plant which
would consume annually some 100000
tons Of peat, equivalent to the amount
yielded by 200 acres. One acre of bog
averag ing ten feet in thickness con-
tains about 1000 tons of dried peat,
and the amount produced on 430 square
miles would afford as much heating
power as the 100000 or more tons of
coal annually mined in Germany. The
proposed plan contemplates using the
energy on a canal and in the manu-
facture of calcium carbide.
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Alphonso XII, spain's boy king,
amuses himself by drilling a company
Of guards in the grounds of the palace,
and in one of the apartments are toy
models to the extent of a hundred or
more Of men and officers Of the various
regiments Of the Spanish forces. These
are placed in formation by two or three
veteran officers and perform sham bat
ties against another crowd of toy SOL
diers supposed to be Americans, which,
Of course, have to suffer severe defeat.
He has also models Of different war;
ships floating in one Of the palace
lakes.
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CAPTURED.

''Mertie has a score of men in love
with her, and she is engaged to most
Of them" Yes. Isn't 1t awful? She
calls them her reconcentrados." New
York Journal
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TORPEDO BOATS IN STORM.

Washington, February 10.-The navy
is learning that little torpedo boats are
dangerous craft for cruising along the
Atlantic coast during the stormy winter
season. The last sufferer is the Foote,
which has arrived at Norfolk to repair
her shaft. She came north from Port
Royal, S. c., using only one propeller,
the other shaft being broken, to make
repairs. Lieut.. Rodgers, commanding
the Foote, reports to the navy depart
ment that he had the liveliest kind of a
time on his way up. He made the run
in sixty hours, and in all that time
nobody got any sleep aboard, while
nearly every one was seasick and ex-
hausted owing to the motion of the little
boat and the great vibration caused by
the machinery. The boat might have
come north through the canals and
sounds. according to the department in
structions, but Lieut.. Rodgers decided
to save time by taking the outside route.
His excuse was that it would be difficult
with only one screw to carry the boat
through the canals and as the weather
seemed pleasant and stable, he decided
to make the run past Hatteras while it
held. He had not gotten more than 80
or 40 miles past the inlet before the
breeze began to freshen, the sea to jump
and the Foote was soon rolling at a
great rate. By the time she was off Hat
teras gale was blowing from the N. n.
E. Lieut.. Rodgers says the boat
behaved very we'll as a seaboat but he
had to recommend a few changes to
make her safe and comfortable. Such a
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CHANCELLOR DAY SUED AGAIN.
Mr.. Rockwell Demands $4,000 from
Him.

Syracuse February 9.-The summons
and complaint in an action brought BY
the Rev. William D. Rockwell against
James H. Buckley of New York anc
Chancellor James r. Day of Syracuse
University were served today. Charles
S. Kentis the plaintiffs attorney. This
is the second action. brought by. Mr.. Rock.
we'll against Chancellor Day.
The complaint alleges that the defend
ants wrongfully, maliciously, and wicked
ly conspiIing together on the 9th and
18th days of December, 1897, in the city
OF New York. wrote and caused to be
published in the New York Sun an article
over the signature of the said Day, which
was false, scandalous, malicious, defama-
tory. and Ibellous. The article in the
Sun was then given in full.
For q second and separate cause OF
action Mr.. Rockwell alleges that the
defendants wickedly, wrongfully and
maliciously conspiring together, with in
tent thereby to injure plaintiff, on Janu-
airy 6, 1898, Published on article in the
Christian Advocate. u religious weekly
paper of New York city, of which the de-
PENDANT Buckley is editor, false, ma
licious, scandalous, and defamatory
article concerning the plaintiff. The
plaintiff demands Judgment in the sum
of $685. O0o So 900 against Day and $25, 900
against Buckley, beside the costs of the
action.
MIR. Rockwell was installed asFpastor OF
the East Solvay Nj. E. Church last Sun
day, and among those who spoke at the
services was Dean j. B. Brooks of the
College of Law, Syracuse University, q
staunch supporter of Chancellor Day in
the Peck controversy.