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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29
 CHINESE STORY-TELLERS.
A Sample Story as Told by Profes- sional by the WaYside.

A Sample Story as Told by Profess sional by the Wayside. On pleasant day one cannot go far in Pekin without meeting a professional story-teller standing, with a crowd of listeners about him, under big um- brella by the roadside, telling stories in loud, earnest tone. The characters in the tales are often "the big priest" and the little priest"-a boy whom his parents have consecrated to the ser vice of the temple The following is a typical story in which they appear: Once upon a time, so the story goes, an old priest said to his young com panion: q am going away, little priest, and leave the temple in your charge. No mater who comes. don't lend them anything
 All right. sir. I'll obey your words"
 Not long after the old man left an old woman came to worship. She prostrated herself before the idols and prayed and prayed until 1t rained. Then she said to the boy, Your master knows me well, for I come often to worship. Will you please lend me his umbrella?''
 "No' was the prompt reply, T can- not lend anybody anything"
 So the old lady went home in the rain, and she was very angry.
 Upon the masters return the faithful boy related his experience; but instead of praise he received stern reproof: "Oh, you stupid boy Do you know no better than that? Why. you have driven away one of my best worship pers! You will spoil my business. You should always be polite. You should say, Won't you please step in and have chair? I will steep you fresh tea and bring you little cakes. Make yourself as comfortable as possible; but I am very sorry to say, my master was out in storm one day, and 1t blew and it blew, and it took the skin right off of his umbrella, and strewed the bones all around, and so we have none.' Say | that, and she could not be angry" | "All right, sir. I'll say it next time. Z | Not long after this the master went away again, and there came a man who said Little priest, have been high UT on the mountains and gathered a big | load of kindling wood. It is too heavy
 I cannot get 1t home Will you please | let me take your masters horse?"
 Come In, sir said the little man
 "And make yourself very comfortable
 I will bring you little cakes and steer
 you fresh tea; but I am cry sorry tt
 say, the old horse was out in a storm
 and it blew and it blew, and it took tn,
 skin right off and blew the bones away
 and we haven't any!"
 The man gazed in astonishment upo1
 the boy, and turned away in disgust.
 When the maste returned the boy re
 lated all that had happened, and re
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quiries about me, and went to Milton, Delaware. I heard of the arrival of a stranger in Milton, and I then went to Baltimore. went to friends house, and was in hiding when was arrested. And now if will have to die, will die like a man." Now it is just as evident that Ciaremello killed BTugno as it was that Carbone was the mur- derer.
 In England recently young man was sentenced to long term in jail for having committed highway robbery on woman and he had served two months when 1t was demonstrated that he was innocent, because he had been somewhere else when the crime was committed. The fellow had insisted upon his alibi at his trial, but his iden- tification by the woman was apparently so complete that the court called the alibi story nonsense But the judge, in | the end, was forced to admit that jus tice had miscarried.
 A striking illustration of what cir cumstantial evidence may be is given in the Virginia reports. A man was dis
 covered drawing knife from the pros 1 trate form of another man near road 1 side. The witnesses rushed upon him
 and took the weapon from him. It was
 still dripping with the warm blood of
 the victim. He was accused of the
 murder, but asserted his innocence. He
 claimed that he had happened along the l road but a few moments before ano saw his alleged victim struggling with | another man. Before he could come up 1 the unknown had driven his knife home and had fled into some brush close by
 Seeing the knife still in the breast oi
 the fallen man, he stopped over ane | drew 1t forth, just as his accusers canlt on the scene. That was his story. Tht
 knife being identified as the property
 of the accused, no credence whatever
 was placed in his tale He was tried
 convicted and hanged. A year late
 the man who had really committed thu
 crime, while on his death bed, confessed 1 that he was the murderer and told how
 he had stolen the knife from the inno
 cent man who had been sent to tn l gallows.
 | So appearances are sometimes deceit
 ful. Often, however, they are not.
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DANCING BEFORE THE LORD

Dancing before the Lord at religious meetings is not prevalent nowadays among Christian sects, but there is a great deal of dancing before the Lord by those who profess to live Christian lives. Do they do right or wrong in such dancing? It all depends, we sup pose, on how they dance. Some do right and some do wrong in their dancing There is a widespread idea that Chris tians can be in better business than dancing, and few Christian ministers are ready to unreservedly recommend their fiocks to make practice of caper ing to music. But Jersey City ninis- ter has taken step which will strike many as being as bold as any of the dancing steps. He says dancing is all right. The modern two-step and the old fashioned quadrille both appeal to him as proper exercise for Christians. 1 Where others condemn the dance as sinful, he approves and encourages | what he considers beneficial exercise. | Not only does this progressive pastor, whose name is Rev. Dr. F. l.. Stod- dard. approve of dancing and allow it in
 the church gymnasium, but he has l started a church class in dancing so that all his church members, old and
 young, can learn how to dance. His
 terms are eight lessons for $1, rate
 much lower than that charged by other
 Jersey City instructors. This has rais-
 ed cry of objection from those who
 make their living by teaching the waltz
 and Dr. Stoddard finds that he meets
 with more opposition on that score than
 on any other.
 | This is world of change. Perhaps
 by and by no Christian meeting house
 will be called complete without ball.
 room and bicycle-rink facilities, where
 those so disposed can go joyously danc- 1 ing and wheeling along toward Heaven
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celved a round scoldlng; "Oh, you small idiot; you grow worse aud worse. Don't tell the same story every time. Have some sense-make your story fit. You should have said, I am sorry to say, the old horse was out In the field and tum- hled in hole and sprained his leg and went lame, and we turned him out to grass, and we havnt any"
 All right, sir; will say it the next time.''
 Again the boy was left in charge, and there came a man who said: Your master is my dear old friend. I would like to see him"
 Come in, sir; take a seat, sir I will bring you new cakes and steep you fresh tea. Please be as comfortable as possible, sir. am very sorry to say my master was out in the field and | stumbled and went lame, and we have l turned him out to grass, and we haven't
 any!"
 | So the story runs on, as long as the
 story teller pleases, until it is time to
 take collection.-Youth's Companion
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ed novelty is such an extravaganza. It costs lot at first, is only good taste at first and directly you can get it at a low figure is either common or is after it's time. In either case you were bet ter dressed without it. The owner of a. golf-red satin shirt waist may say that she bought it early this season, that it is still good, so just the same as one might get now, so who is to know? That is just the point, if you had secured it at first you would have worn the cream of te fashion out of it and would now be discarding it, fresh or not, while copiers would be buying for the skim milk effect of the fashion.
 A sort of bodice that holds we'll to it's stylishness is the one made of tucked cloth ornamented very freely with tuck ing. This is not a style that economical folk can be very free with, and this probably what prolongs it's life. Another prolonged feature was incorporated in the bodice sketched here, it's trimming being net over bright silk after the manner of skirts and whole dresses of a year ago. Its goods was tucked dove gray cashmere, the silk was melon pink and besides the parts In which it was
 masked with net, it was used plain for the belt.
 Gold and silver mounted opera bags are made of brilliant silk covered with silk null. It would seem that the bag
 might at once be made of a brocade
 and have done with it, but not a bit of it! The. null with It's brocade figuring
 makes a beautiful soft effect over the silk that would not be reproduced by the weight and the clumsy elegance of
 brocade. Besides, thing as expensive | as an opera bag must be delicate, easily mussed and dinty, else it were no lux | ury, and if no luxury why have it? FLORETTE.
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FASHION VOTES.
Gay waists Gone Of.

Swagger tailors are selling at tremen- dous sacrifice satin, silk and velvet shirt waists, especially those in the brighter colors. such as golf scarlet
 emerald green, orange, etc. These are the choice shades, which is significant and makes advice timely. Women who can afford to put such pronounced ar ticles in their wardrobe should do so as soon as one appears among accepted notions and should expect to wear 1t only lit tie while, That is why the distinguish
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SUPERIOR.

Teaching Johnnie Manners-"Johnnie, will you have some soup?" 'No." NO what?'' 'No soup."-Scribner's
 etaphysical.-Bronco Pete (thought- fully)-"Wonder wot ever become uv Tarantula Jim?" Grizzly Dan-''W'y, don't you remember helping to lynch him last July?" Bronco Pete-"Wy uv
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invitation cards to religious meetings, and funeral notices might be regarded as invitations to religious meetings, as burial exercises are generally accom- panied by religious services.
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ADVERTISING RATES,

ADVERTISING RATES, ,, Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word eacn III sertiou. Five Cents Word for full weeS (seyen times). ,,
 Display advertisements, per inch, one m, In Eertion $1.20; each subsequent insertlonS {, n. 6c cents; one week, $3.20; one montn' %io' one year. $40. K Obituary Notices, in prose or verse; 10 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, aaei, mn riages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cents each' Yearly Advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (all matter to ot De unobjectionable), and their contracts uo no' Include Wants, To Let. For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29

Probably the Rev. George H. Hep worth comes very near the truth when he says concerning the Armenian mas sacres: 'T do not hesitate to declare that religion was not the prime cause of the trouble, and that if there had been nothing more than religious differences there would have been no trouble at all. The conflict between the two peoples is the result of qualities of character, and it is an irrepressible confiict.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 10 CENTsA WEEK. CENTS MONTH. $8 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29

The human race to-day numbers l. a620,000000, and increases eight per cent. every ten years, according to the recent report of the international statistical institute. This society had set it's heart upon having in 1900 a joint count of human noses in all civilized nations. but various governments decline to up- sset their census arrangements made for other years. and the scheme has been abandoned The figures, 1920, ,000, 900, are not an exact count, but as close an estimate as is possible by expert statis- ticians.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29

Education is not necessarily morality. Captain Oberlin H. Carter, under inves- tigation in Savannah for defrauding the government out of immense sums of money, amounting, it is claimed, to as much as $3,OOO, ,OOO, left the best record Of any graduate who ever passed West Point He was perfect in everything save chemistry and engineering, and his marks for behavior and scholarship were 1892 for the entire four years, out of possible 2,000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29

Most of the training for Klondike ex- in Windsor Michigan, are taking meas ures to prepare themselves physically. The would-he miners have shed their winter clothing, and saunter about the streets on the coldest day in summer suits and thin-soled shoes, and with their coats and vests unbuttoned. They sleep at night with their windows open and with only one blanket over them. Their principal food is the fattest meat they can get. If they live to start they will do we'll.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29

A writer in the New York Times has been making collection of names for the simple but ingenious machine that a throws moving pictures on a screen So far he has found the following: Phan- toscope, criterioscope, hnematograph, wondorscope, animatoscope, vitagraph, panoramograph, cosnloscope, anaithmo- scope katoptikum, magniscope, zoeop- trotrope, phantasmagoria projectoscope, yariscope, cinograph, cinnomonograph, hypnoscope, centograph, xograph, cleo { troscope. cinagraphoscope aflimalo- scope, theatrograph, chronophotograp oscope, motograph, rayoscope, motor scope, kinotiphone, thromotrope, phena- kistoscope, venetrope, vitrescope, zine- matograph, vitropticon, stinnetiscope vivrescope, diaramiscope, corminograph kneoptoscope, craoscope, kaleidoscope cinematoscope, mutoscope, cinoscope klnetograph, lobsterscope.
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IAE TONPUBLIsHINGC co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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Mrs. M. c. Allen of Worcester, Massa- chusetts would make a good bicycle ad- vertisement. Tn 1897 she rode 117 cen turies, and the miles she rode during the year were 1026. In four months, June, August, September and October, she rode 267O, 2,6S7, 2,S46 and 2,717 miles respectively. Tn July she made only D. O7S miles, the reason being that she sprained her ankle badly by fall. The largest record for month, 2,S46 miles, was made in twenty days, riding, and is about enough to take one across the continent. Mrs. Allen has thriven on this hard practice. Four years ago she was an invalid, scarcely able to walk across the room. During the time she rode her 21 026 miles her weight increas- ed from 118 to 125 pounds Neverthe- less, she says she will not attempt any more records of this kind. Rational rid ing will be enough for her hereafter.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29

There is an odd custom in New Or
 leans of posting death notices in public
 places. This is attended to by the un- dertaker, and the custom, which is as old as the city, perhaps older, is the medium by which relatives and friends are invited to a funeral. A recently adopted ordinance prohibiting the post ing of printed advertisements was thought to interfere with this custom, and test case was made, an alleged offending undertaken being arrested. The Recorder ruled, however, that the practice might continue. The intent of the ordinance, he said, was ito prohibit the posting of matter calculated to in- terfere with the public peace or the morals of the community. Moreover, ii expressly excepted the distribution oi
The Newtown bee., 1898-10-21

thing in life that counts. By and bv,
with three or four score years. or sooner
IL God wills, each life's history must
close and what we have accomplished
here will be known and read of men.
The world will see what we have effect
ed in the way of business success it will
calculate our worth in mining properties,
in title-deeds to lands and houses, in
gold and silver, stocks and bonds. 1--we
have well-filied box in the safe dero t
vault, the world will know II. But it Is
an old proverb aud q true one, "Ther
are no pockets in a shroud." What W.
have, we leave behind US; what we e,
our character, goes with US into the ts.
You'd. And after the world has read l. y
llfe's history, whether of apparent suc-
cess or seeming failure; after the world
has seen the completed picture of my
life, set forth in all it's lights and shad-
ows; when each future has, with
onerr1ng certainty, become a pres
emit, and each present has alided
hey ond recall into the past; when
all other questions have become as
nothing, and the issues [ thought
SO tremendous depending upon them have
gone up as dust; there still remains this
question, question with which no other
person intermeddleth, question be-
tween each soul and it's God: What
have done with Jesus which is called
Christi
Ii my life day by day is giving a
wrong or even an Indifferent answer to
this question, what shall it profit me to
have gainedithe whole world?
The Newtown bee., 1898-10-21

Few men la this country are better or
more favorable known to the drug and
medicine trade than Mr. e. J. Schall,
buyer in the proprietary medicine de-
partment OF the Meyers Bros Drug Co.,
St Louis. He says: My boy came
home from school with his hand badly
lacerated and bleeding, and suffering
great pain. dressed the wound and
applied Chamberlain's Pain Balm, freely
all pain ceased, and in a remarkably
short time, it healed without leaving q
scar. For wounds. sprains, swellings
and rheumatism, 1 know of no medicine
or prescription equal to it. Iconsider it
q household necessity" Sold by K. FL.
Beers & Co., Newto wn; Warner, Taylor
& Curtis, Sandy hook; A. B. Blake
man, Botsford; w. 81. Hurd, Long Hill !;
A. B. Fancher, Hawleyville.
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IvERS & POND PIANOS.

Convenient systemic of payment now
bring these beautiful instruments within
the reach of all. Our stock of slightly
used pianos will prove interesting to
economical buyers. The New England
Conservatory of Music has purchased
227 Ivers Ct Pond pianos. Write as and
outline your wants. Entire satisfaction
guaranteed. Sold on easy payments.
IVers 81 Pond Piano Co, ia and l16
Boylston street, Boston, Mass.
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For broken surfaces, sores, insect bites,
burns, skin diseases and especially piles
there Is one reliable remedy, DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. When you call for
DeWitt's don't accept counterfeits or
frauds. You will not be disappointed with
DeWitt's Witch Hazel SalVe. Edgar r.
Hawley, Newtown; s. G. Bull & Co.,
Sandy Hook; A. B. Brakeman, Bots
ford; B. Hswley & Co., Stepney
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One Minute Cough Cure surprises PEG.
pie by it's quick cures and children ms y
take it in large quantities without the
least danger. It has won for itself tao
best reputation Of any preparation useo
to-day for colds, Group, tickling in the
throat Or obstinate coughs. e. r. Raw-
ley, Newtown; S. G. Bull & Co., SanC y
Hook; A. B. Brakeman, Botsford; r.
Hawley 81 Co., Stepney.
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Bridgeport Weekly News of Good Clothes.
A Difference,

Made-to-measure clothesa are
as much of an experiment to-
day as when it took mine tail
ors to make a man." Not so
with ready-for-wear, which
comes of scientific methods,
takes account of every varia-
ton of shape, and, being made
wholesale, costs much less than
the One-man tailor can clOthe
you for.
Suits
So it come about that you
may buy of us a fine Worsted,
ChevlOt or cashmere suit, sin
gle or double breasted, tailor
finished inside and out, for
1900 or 1900, which good
tailor cannot match for less
than $50 to $35. SoIofa all our
suits, from the $50 kind to the
1000 kind.
Outdoor Suits.
Here's a rough-and ready
suit tor you men whose bust
ness calls you out Of doors.
Has wear in every fiber, color
doesn't show dust, put together
to stay, of heavy brown and
black fine mixed cashmere.
Both coat and vest are double
breasted. More sturdy good
ness in these suits than ever
you bought for a $40 bill.
Peace Dale.
In the trade, Peace Dale
blue worsteds stand for ''best."
We count ourselves lucky to
obtain a goodly supply of these
goods. Had them made up in
single breasted sack suits, in
regular and stout sizes, coats
French faced, with satin piped
edges and Italian lining, and
the price is 1000 the suit. I'm
usual, do you say? It's true.
Blue and Black Suits
Blue and black the seasons
colors. Rough diagonal chew
lot suits, in three grades of
SOOullCSS, plO, p y, QlO. w 1Qc
vale worsted suits, three but
ton double breasted sacks, silk
faced, SIS and S22.5O thesuit.
Willing to ''break" if you want
odd trousers with dark coat
and vest.
ao-to Meetin' Suits
Undressed worsted is mig hty dressy so is vicu-
"A 1ba+ oil h,+f
the former, $l5 in the latter, $1S Yes, quite
''The thing for everyday when made in
single double breasted sacks, which we have at
$15. Prince Alberts, Thibets, silk faced, proper
cut, 1922. so.
Save SO co.
More men are saving So every year by buying
our best derbys at So. They've been paying S.
for shape-makers hats, but they found out that the
shape makers sell their S. mats for S. so minus
the label. That opened their eyes. We sell sec
ond best derbys for So, though they match good
many ''best,'' and the Meigs & Co. special at
$50, which is especially good for the money.
Alpines, 90, $50, 200. 800.
Boys Suits
We make shopping so easy for mothers of boys
that they like to come Sizes easily found,
and clothes good they deal of mend
ing. Let us fit the boy out for school. From 2 90
to 600 for boys from to IA.
hN|FIE 2Cn
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MILLINERY.

Special sale Of French Alpines, trimmed in
the latest style, with Persian scarfs, Wings and
Quilts
Custom work speciality.
Fine line Trimmed Mourning, for selection,
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The Home Circle.
A Present Day Question.

A SERMON PREACHED IN TRINITY CHURCH,
NEwTO WIN, CONN, BY REV FREDERICK
y. JOHNSON, ASSISTANT RECTOR OF
ST STEPHENS CHURCH, COLORADO
SPRINGS, COLO, OCTOBER 8, lS08.-BY
SPECIAL REQUEST OF THE EDITOR OF
THE BEE, THE MANUSCRIPT is FURNISH,
ED FOR PUBLICATION.
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Text, st Matt. p %. what shall do with
Jesus which is called Christ2'