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The Mena star., 1898-09-14
yarmouth's Revolving Tower.

At Yarmouth, England, a seaside re-
sort of growing favor, revolving tow
er has been constructed as an attrac-
ZION. 1t is placed close to the sea, over
looking a large expanse of land and
water. The tower is 1855 feet high, and
mas the capacity of carrying 200 persons
IN each trip. Persons who have never
ridden in a roundabout or been up in
balloon can here. in this revolving life,
experience something of both of these
odd to some and most pleasant to
cthers-sensations. On the little plat
form at the top of the tower the breeze
Is more than refreshing--it is blow;
whilst the view beneath is superb.
Wide. white sands. deep. blue bav-
The Mena star., 1898-09-14
PROUD OF EXTREME WEATHER
Some People Are Pleased III the Their
mometer Is High in Summer
and Low I'm Winter.

Warm weather brings out good
many phases of human nature. The
police know that men are more dis
posed to homicide in hot weather, and
everybody knows that it is much easier
for man to lose his temper when the
thermometer is in the 90s than when
the mercury is coyly retreating into.
the bulb. Yet mankind takes a GER
tain pride in hot weather, and there is
nothing so exasperating to the aver
age man when he has sweltered out
two collars than to be told by the
weather reports that it was only SO,
and that his discomfort was due to
the humidity and not to heat. In the
same way he takes a certain pride
In knowing that the tube registers be-
low zero, and rather scorns the towns
that never see anything worse than
freezing.
An ex-obseryer Of the weather bu-
reau was talking about this phase of
human nature the other day. He has
been in the northwest, the east, the
north and the south, and he says they
are alike in this respect.
when 1 got my first station in Da-
kota more than 20 years ago. said he,
II never experienced more severe
temperature than 10 or 10 degrees
below the freezing point, and when
| the thermometer touched zero for the
| first time ] was rather pleased to see 1t.
During my first winters observations
! the thermometer frequently went 20
below, and a half dozen times it came
very near to 30.
"But, much to my surprise, found
that the weather reports did not give
satisfaction to the citizens cf the
town where was located. Previous to
my advent with a set of carefully
| tested government instruments every
other man had cheap thermometer,
which he used to consult with con-
fidence, and the owners were much
disgruntled to find that the observers
instruments did not agree with theirs.
When ] would report 20 below, their
thermometers would register 80 or
even lower. and | couldn't imagine
why they felt so bad over the dis
crepancy until l discovered that they
were taking a pride in outdoing the
other towns in low temperature.
SIN the rivalry to excel the other
pioneer towns they actually imagined
that it was disgrace TO have the fact
telegraphed that their temperature
was 20 below, when another town in
the same territory reported 80 below
| tried to represent to them that 1t
was no inducement to immigrants to
. hear that their town was colder than
all the rest, but they couldn't see it
in that light. So, in ordinary dis
cussions about the weather, the 25-
cent tin thermometers were always
quoted as the only reliable guides.
II notice that this remarkable in
stance of perverted pride still pre-.
walls, not only in the northwest, but
elsewhere. That's why you read such
: reports as The weather observer re
ports 16 degrees below zero, but re
liable private thermometers register
all the way from 21 to 2s below II
is the same way in summer, and II
will take a heap of education to make
people understand how utterly ride
ulous such statement this is tC
anyone who has the slightest knowl
: edge of meteorology. Chicago Times
Herald.
The Mena star., 1898-09-14

and the Cumberland hills running down
to the shore make up an ideal land
scape. Then. at other points within the
"a miles of country under the specta-
Tors eye, he gets glimpses into West
moreland, Yorkshire, Lancashire and
Cheshire.-Chicago Tribune.
The Mena star., 1898-09-14
That Grand Air.

Papa, | want pug dog; they's SO
ocratic-lookin'."
Bobby, what do you mean by aris-
tocratic-looking?"
wy. they looks like they'd git hop
pin mad il they had ter git acquainted
with anybody. Brooklyn Life.
The Mena star., 1898-09-14
Wanted.

At this Office. several hundred bum
lies of oats on subscription to the Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
Snou1D IrN pRAY so2

In his Fast Day proclamation Cover nor Cooke recommends that the people of the State on that day beseech God Ill the present crisis to avert war 'lt it may be consistent With humanity and national honor"
 Perhaps it will be better for the peo- pie of the State to ask God to avert war without any If" except if 1t Is His will. There is a great deal Of in defnlteness about the words human ity and national honor" and perhaps God would not attach the same mean ing to them that some of the praying people, or Governor Cooke might. Per haps good Spaniards are even now praying to God to look out for their national honor, and their idea of their national honor may be very different from what our idea of it or of our own national honor is. On the whole we think it pious and wise for the people of this State not to try in prayer on Fast Day to put bounds to God by the words humanity and national honor."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
 MORE SH L EP.

Without counting the Wall street '1ambs" the Agricultural department finds that the number of sheep in the country is increasing. It has compiled a list of the number of sheep in the country on January first. The total is 37,656,960. On the corresponding date in the previous year the number was 3e,S1S,643. The figure for 1898 marks the first increase in the size of the total since 1893, fact which indicates that the new tariff is beginning to tell. The f1ocks were steadily increasing up to the time MT. Cleveland assumed office in 1885 and in 1893. After his inaugura- tions declines began. Correspondingly the accession of President Harrison was followed by 8 gain in the number of these animals, which was maintain ed up to 1894, except in 1891. The loss in that year was small, however. The conclusion which is drawn from this increase and decrease is that the Ding ley act has caused another turn in the totals. From now on one may expect to find more sheep in the country, at least until another low-tariff president ic a1octed
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
The Conviction of Znla.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 On February 26 there appeared an article in the New Haven Register on "The Conviction of zola,'' to which, as Frenchwoman and welcomed Amer iean resident, feel it my duty to re- ply, wishing also to comply with the request of some friends not to let this article pass in silence. Regarding Zo- la and his writings, I neither admire the one nor approve of the other, yet cannot but admit his courage and his desire to uphold the "supposed' inno- cent man, Dreyfus. The populace, which is principally composed of Les Danes des Halles-et du Lavin," are Zola's bitter enemies, but the upper classes keep to thenselves their own private views upon this subject. Un- fortunately there exists in France such strong love for the army and the navy that it often blinds the eyes of my countrymen. God only knows the truth and will be the judge of this sad trial.
 Now, my principal point in replying to this uncalled-for article and asser- tion is the attack on what the writer Is pleased to call American ignor- ance" regarding the French language
 Just what connection there can be be- tween the Zola trial and this point of the article I fail to see. Coming as it does from one whose father was an American by birth and name, whose only remaining relatives are of that r., ft,; tn4 thus presumes to criticise those who welcome and aid us in earning our live lihood among them, seems to me un- grateful, to say the least. I cannot in justice to my own nation permit the impression to be given that such is the opinion of French professors and other French people. If it were true that Americans "cannot even read our French papers 1t certainly does not reflect very creditably upon our calling as instructors in our language. Amer jeans can read. and well, too, our
 French literature and newspapers, and many speak our language with ease. have found many kind and generous friends among the Americans, and will stand by them when unjustly accused. I am sorry to say that when I meet with ingratitude and imposition it is too often among my own country-peo- pie. Yes, as Frenchwoman I love my native land, but I prefer to live with these kind Americans and wish to die among them. Their generosity and their love for their sister country, La
 Belle France" will ever be dear to the
 heart of a grateful Frenchwoman. A. J. DE NETS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

never oftain the best service they are capable of performing because of the multitude of reporters in the camps. That is a thought which those who are responsible for armies are bound to ponder, and, knowing as they do it's truth, we do not wonder that they doubt whether to interest the readers of newspaper is an advantage suffi- cient to outweigh so many risks.
 And yet we who see the evils of the system with so painful a elearness are bound to admit that the advantage is sufficient. We are living under democracy, and so living, we must not throw away or paralyze the one aid which democracy can give us in war its gigantic reserve of strength. It is true that the reports of the special correspondents hamper the troops, harass the general, and sometimes, though very rarely, except in civil war, inform the enemy; but they help to turn millions of men who otherwise would be indifferent into potential sup porters of the cause at stake.-London Spectator.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
-----------'-"------ VAR AND BUSIN ESS.

One of the notions quite prevalent is that war would be good thing for the business of the country The Iron Age points out that aside from the loss of life and limb the greatest suffering caused by war is the enhancement of prices that generally follows-that must follow if the currency be depre- ciated. Out of this advance in prices a very few persons make fortunes. A vast number suffer extremely. With the rise of prices there comes, of course vast increase in the disbursements of the government, which means an in- crease in the public debt, and after the war payment of the bonds at their face value, so that in the long run the tax payers have paid two prices for every thing the government used, besides practicing the severest economy, be- cause the rise of prices had increased their expenditures, while their incomes had increased little or not at all. It is a mistake. says the Iron Age, to suppose that war necessarily increases business. It might create a great de- mand for iron and powder and cloth for uniforms and few other things, but it would interrupt business, and the men in the service of the govern ment would spend less than they would have spent in civil life, and many prices would rule lower than in peace. Nor is it true that war creates a ne- cessity for vast additional supply of currency. The money is not destroyed by war, and if the money can be kept in sufficiently active circulation the supply of peace may be quite sufficient for war. In 1861 the banks of New York, Boston and Philadelphia ad- vanced $5,000,000 every six days to the government, which disbursed it all over the country, and in a week the money was back in the deposits of the banks of the three cities again.
 Even if war would make business better that would not be a very good reason for wanting it. There are things
 more desirable than an increase of business.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

ask which of the citys political fac- tions you belong to?" said the stranger. The boss looked at him sternly, and then responded. What you doubtless mean to ask sir, is which political faction belongs to me."-Washingto Star.
 Mrs. Weeks-"In the name of good ness, what was going on at your house last night? It really did sound like lot of Indians on the warpath."
 Mrs. Meek-"Oh, it wasn't quite as bad as that; it was only my husband singing the baby to sleep. ep."-Richmond Dispatch.
 "Why do you allow your wife to rule you as if you were baby?' indignant ly asked MT. Meeker's brother. You ought to have voice once in while in the management of the household. Assert your independence" "1ndepen- dence!" echoed MT. Meeker, bitterly. ''She won't even grant me autonomy Chicago Record.
 T thought" said Dawkins, "that you said you didn't think much of Brad bury as a pianist, and here you have taken box for his recital" T didn't know" answered Morley, "a better way to show my contempt for him as a musician than by taking a box and leaving it empty on the evening Of his recital." l."-Harpers Bazaar.
 Unfortunate.-"Im afraid have lost patient" said the young physician who realizes the value of making an impression.
 Didn't you know what remedy to prescribe?"
 Perfectly. That part of it was sim pie enough. But I couldn't think of the Latin for mustard plaster '-' Washington Star
 Made a Difference.-Hostess Cat a party)-"And does your mother allow you to have two pieces of pie when you are at home, Willie?" Willie (who has asked for a second
 piece)-'No, ma ann Hostess-"Well, do you think she | would like you to have two pieces here?"
 Willie Confidently ''Oh, she
 wouldn't care. This isn't her pie. Y l Tit-Bits.
 ODSefVe HIS DellCale fldlleiy.-Wo' T l man of the house-"I don't know mucf
 about politics, but don't think any the more of you, my poor man, fol boosting of being a free-silverite.' l Tramp (with his mouth fulD-"I ain boastin' of it, ma'am. I said I happen l ed to be born that way. We was match ely a free-silver family. They wal | sixteen boys of us and one gaI."--Chi
 cago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
FASHION NOTES.
vioIets on Top Again.

Orange is a feature of the new mill
 linery. Orange rosettes are added un- der the brim of hats of any coloring, and an orange rosette side by side with one of white or of blue is a favorite combination. A hat completely laden with violets and showing all violet col- or in front will be tipped up at the back by rows of ornamental rosettes twisted out of orange mirror velvet. And these milliners' violets, will they never wilt! Hats banked with violets more thickly than the bloom could pos sibly grow in nature are as plentiful
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
CORRESPONDENTS AT THE
 FRONT


 A man does not want the best friend he has in the world to see him when he trips on the stairs, or to hear him when he mutters his comments upon the business end' of that tin-tack. The correspondents with the army on the Indian frontier are, we believe, all off, cers, and are not only trustworthy, but reticent to an extreme. Yet we vent- ure to say that but for the accidents that Parliament was not sitting and that London has no means of bullying the government of India till Parlia- ment is in session, the British public would have interfered with that army, and would have produced disastrous deadlock. grhe public" is a mob, and q mob cannot govern armies well.
 The possibility of ignorant inter- ference, moreover, is not the only evil. Everything in a campaign depends upon the general in command, upon his coolness, resourcefulness and rapidity of glance. He may be a man who dislikes correspondents, dislike they are certain to return, and he feels, therefore, as if he were perpetualIy watched in the agravest crises by personal enemies feeling which would have been fatal to Marlborough or Eugene of Savoy, the two conn manders most remarkable for immova- ble sang-froid. Everybody is not born with the advertising spirit, and there are insects which, under burning glass, feel torture, instead of that enjoyment of warmth which the operator maintains they ought to feel Imagine the condition of general like Frederick the Great, whose main busi- ness during three years of his cam paigning life was to repair defeat. with fifty correspondents" in his camp re- porting every disaster, every pre- paration, and every execution of the incompetent or the unruly. It would be maddening to such a general to know that the distribution of blame or fame did not depend upon himself, but would be taken out of his hands by writers not under his command, who would declare that an attack like that on Speicheren, which almost cost an army corps, was superb because 1t succeeded, or that the perhaps best general in the army was habitually a little late in issuing his commands We do most seriously believe that there are officer of the highest merit in the British army from the country will
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements, One Gent Word each ln- sertion. Five Cents Word for full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one ih- sertlon, s1.20; each subsequent Insertion, 4o cents; one week, $3.2o; one month, $lo one year, $40
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar riages, Deaths and Funerals. 50 cents each, Local Notices 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business Gall matter to be unobiectionable) and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
ONE OUESTION SETTLED,

While some big questions continue unsettled at Washington, there are other big questions which have been settled there within the last few days. One of them is the question as to whether sauerkraut and pickles should be sold by wet or dry measure. The district attorney has had hard strug- gle with this question, which affects the lives and happiness of millions. But he has come out of the struggle as brilliantly as Solomon did when he of fered to cut the baby in two. He says: The well-known German preparation of
 cabbage, known as sauerkraut, from the methods of it's manufacture con-
 tains more or less of liquids, but the
 greater part of the preparation is solid.
 My opinion is that 1t should be sold by dry measure. As to pickles, the custom, as I am informed, is to sell both by dry and liquid measure. If the pickles are not drained they are sold by liquid measure. If the brine or vinegar is drained off they are sold by
 dry measure. My opinion is that sauerkraut should be sold by dry
 measure and that pickles should be sold by dry and liquid measure, ac- cording as they are drained or not. This is sound and just. Sauerkraut should certainly not be sold as fluid, l and pickles can properly be sold in a mixed way
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
KEdSON JBLE.

Johnny's -Mamma-"You eat so much candy it's no wonder you have a toothache," Johnny-"It can't be the candy, mamma. I eat candy with all my teeth. and there's only one that aches. Pluck.
 Horrors! Husband. I've just heard there is a case of smallpox in the flat above us." Husband-"Yes, l know about it. That's all right. It's the young man who plays the flute. - New York Weekly.
 More Accurately Expressed.-"May
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

Lady Bicyclist (hysterically)-"oh MT. Officer; MT. Officer, somebody has stolen my bicycle" Officer-"What kind of a bicycle was it?' Lady Bi- cyclist-"Why, it has a high-geared, hollow-axle, self-oiling, detachable tires, movable spoke-studs, double ball. bearings, and-oh, yes, now come to think of it-ny baby was attached to the handle-bars Tit Bits.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

now as they have been at any time in five years, and in small quantities they are almost everywhere. Their abund- ance suggests that milliners are not very enterprising in the matter of de- vising new trimmings, but the manner in which they dispose these blossoms, making their arrangement strongly characteristic of tasteful newness, at once disproves my charges of incompe- tence
 Another color that makes a pleasant impression in headgear is a new shade of golden brown. In the hat the artist shows here it appeared in shirred mousseline de soie, and in several TO- settes placed opposite to the right sides white ostrich tips. Lying against the hair on the left side was spray of white oamelias. The tipping of hats to one side or forward prevails, but there is no settled tendency in our headgear' s impending tobogganing. This hat was about to slide off to the left. but others threaten to leave from the right, and the boat-shaped hat, very heavily trimmed, has it's brow pushed well down on the nose. This form of hat still carries itself, on the right head, with distinction, the weight and ugly lines of the hat seeming to give delica- cy to the face beneath.
 One of the best of the new tricks with violets is that which employs the wide grayish leaf with the little pur- pie flower, loops of ribbon standing up among the punches. Black ribbon Is usual for this, but in mind is stun ming toque of violets and their leaves on which several loops of yellow, gray black and light blue ribbon were punched together in aigrette fashion
 and with very pretty effect.
 FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

French postoffice employees are in a dilemma. They have just recieved an order first forbidding them to read pos tai cards and next directing them not to allow insulting or libellous postal cards to pass through the malls.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

The Denver Times says that "the c1i- mate of Colorado Is the next thing to . kiss.'' California must now claim that her glorious climate is kiss.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

A New York judge decides that per- son falling from his bicycle while learn Ing to ride cannot recover damages from his teacher, as he Is bound to fall sometimes. The judge has ridden B wheel, evidently.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

Some intelligent and progressive In- dianapolis women have organized ,s'Quo vadis Euchre Club'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 15 CENTS WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, e3 TOR sIx MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

THE CARRINGTONP NPUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23
Mtscellu11entts.
CHAS. B. MATTHEWMAN.

Attorney and Counselor at Law. S14, S10, S06 First National Bank Building, G2 Church Street. Resident Assistant Secretary and Attorney of the NATIONAL SURETY COMPANY
 of New York.
 Executes Fidelity and Surety bonds and undertakings of all kinds. Ja24 ly
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

It always pays to be kind. Tender hearted women who refused to have their hooks baited with worms while out on Lake Owassa, New Jersey, fish ing, substituted chewing gum instead and one of them caught four-pound bass while the men patiently waited for the first nibble at their worm baited hooks.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

There is an encouraging opinion from the government weather man at the Omaha observatory who ventures the prediction that the spring floods in the Missouri valley will be omitted this season. He has lot of scientific req sons for coming to this conclusion, and is able to show that the river is at least fifty per cent. lower now than 1t was 7cver known to be at this time of the year.