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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28
How. the Browns Turned Out.

[From the Syracuse Courier.l Elijah Brown, the cobbler, was enamored of And all his time was given up to stanzas He scorned to live tuneless life, inglo-
 riouSly mute 5 And nightly laid his last aside to labor at
 his lute; For he had registered an oath that lyrical
 renoWn Should trumpet to the universe the worthy name of Brown. And, though his own weak pinions failed to
 reach the heights of song, His genius matched brilliant scheme to
 help his oath along; And all his little youngsters as they numer- He christened after poets in the pantheon
 of fame That their poetic prestige might impress
 them, and inspire noble emulation to adopt the warbling
 Tyre. And Virgil Brown and Dante Brown and
 Tasso Brown appeared, And Milton Brown and Byron Brown and
 Shakespeare Brown were reared. Longfelow Brown and Schiller Brown ar
 rived at mans estate, And Wordsworth Brown and Goldsmith
 Brown filled up the family slate. And he believed his gifted boys, predestincd
 to renown, In time would roll the boulder rom the
 buried name of Brown, But still the epic is unsung and still that
 worthy name Is missing from the pedestals upon the hills
 of fame: For Dante Browns a peddler in the vege-
 table line, And Byron Brown is pitching for the Tus-
 carora nine; Longfellow Brown, the lightweight, is a
 pugilst of note, And Goldsmith Browns deckhand on a
 Jersey ferryboat; In Wordsworth Brown, Manhattan has an
 estimable cop, And Schiller. Browns an artist in a Brook
 lyn barber's shon: rowing tar is Virgil Brown upon the
 bounding seas, And Tasslo Brown is usually engaged in
 making cheese; The cobblers bench is Milton Browns, and
 there he regs away, And Shakespeare Brown makes cocktails in
 a Cripple Creek Cafe.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28
THE GorHENBURa PLAN.

A few years ago the Gothenburg plan of dealing with the sale of intoxicating liquors came into prominence and it was heralded as a great boon to rum- in Sweden for twenty-five years, andits working has been very thoroughly studied. By this plan the public sale of liquors is handed over to company consisting of persons engaged in the business not for the sake of profit, but solely for the good of the working classes. The company is allowed to re- tain per cent. of the sales on it's paid up capital and of the remainder the state treasury receives three-tenths, the agricultural society one-tenth and the town treasury six-tenths. The ad- vantages gained by the system are said to be: The improvement of the dram shops, they being converted from dirty, disorderly places, in dark streets, to clean, airy, orderly eating houses where drink is sold. The great reduc- tion in the number of places where liquor is sold, as well as reduction in the quantity of liquor sold, and this is true in places where the population has trebled. Meals are supplied at these places at the lowest prices, while, generally, reading rooms have been at- tached to them. The evil of the bar tender urging drink upon customers has disappeared. The bartender is paid a fixed salary and has no interest to subserve by increasing the sales of in- toxicants.
 On the other hand, drunkenness has not disappeared and, while the number of dram shops has decreased, the num- Der of wine and beer saloons and gar- dens has largely increased, so that now an immense quantity of beer, which was scarcely used in Scandinavia twen- ty years ago. is yearly consumed. The law regulating the dram shop in no way applies to these saloons and gar dens.
 So it would take several Philadelphia lawyers to tell just what the real gain has been. Probably a dispute concerning the matter could be carried
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

and you are quite safe in risking that
 nothing prettier will be offered later in
 the season. The stripes are in all col
 ors, and many of them suggest the Ro-
 man combinations now so popular.
 Plaid organdles are lovely, too, only
 remember that an organdie Is a loose,
 fluffy sort of a dress, anyhow, and
 plaid are likely to still further increase the bulk. If most careful taste Is used
 and the plaid is combined with plain
 material, the effect may be delightful.
 Then it may help him" to forget how cruel you have been and make mamma
 and papa say to themselves that you
 are so lovely that no matter how reck- less you may be you cannot spoil your
 chances of settling in life"
 An extremely dressy way of suggest ing the squares of plaids in bodices Is
 by the use of nets over silk. The nets
 are a very different sort from those
 worn so generally a year ago, and most of them are held at prices usual with novelties. The manner of their em- ployment had an especially tasteful H. lustration in the bodice sketched here with. This was of pink taffeta covered with net composed of squares ot openwork galoon. Between the fronts of this net was vest of shirred pink
 mousseline, and black chiffon frillline edged fronts and epaulettes, the latter capping sleeves that were of black satin, trimmed at the wrists to match the fronts. The sort of net used here is but one of many kinds that are to be much used next season, and many ot the new grenadines are so loosely wov-
 en as to be almost nets.
 FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28
ADVERTISING RATES.


 Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each In sertion. Five Gents Word for full week (seven times)
 Display advertisements, per Inch, one Tn, sertion, $1.20; each subsequent Insertion, ~ cents; one week, $3.20; one month, Slo :; one year, $40.
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. 15 cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar rages, Deaths and Funerals, 30 cents eacn' Local Notices 15 cents per line. Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (all matter to De unobjectionable). and their contracts do not include Wants. To Let. For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

that shirts ever button in the back, The court will not require the defend- ant to submit to an examination to re- but the presumption" And so the dla- mond remained In the bosom which cherished it,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

A young man in Kentucky who had
 not found it convenient to pay tailor's bill, says Case and Comment, was brought up on creditors bill by the cruel tailor before a very kind hearted
 vice chancellor, who liked the youth.
 He was handsomely dressed and wore a costly diamond stud in his shirt bosom, but declared under oath that he had no property except his wearing apparel. The tailor's lawyer claimed that a diamond stud was not an arti- cle of exempt apparel, and asked for its surrender, but the judge ruled that the diamond button held the parts of the shirt together and it's removal would lead to indecent exposure of the person. Then the lawyer urged that the shirt was of new kind which but toned in the back, but the judge met this by saying: "The presumption of the law is that shirts button in front, and the court does not judicially know
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28
on as warmly and inoonclusively as is the dispute about the efficacy of pro- hihltion in Maine.
FASHION NOTES.
Soothing Self Contemplation.

Soothing Self Contemplation.
 She who has been 8 very naughty girl all this season, who has flirted hor- ridly kept mamma in a stew, papa in cold sweat, and the man in both at once, must be sorry all through Lent and make up her mind to do better af- ter Easter. It may soothe her to think of herself doing better in an organdie this summer, one selected from the adorable striped weaves already offer ed, It is always well to think twice be- fore selecting organdie, but think three times and you will buy the goods. This material was never so beautiful as now,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

A singer died recently at Ryde, Isle of Wight, eighty-six years of age, who had sung in the choir for seventy-nine years That must have been queer choir in a queer church.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

First they reduced the size of the governors staff in Massachusetts. and now it is proposed to reduce the rank of It's members. This seems strange in the face of all the war talk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

When Queen Victoria ascended the throne more than fl per cent. of the people in the British islands could not write their own names. The proportion in that condition has now been reduced to per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28
MORE.

If you lend a man grass seed he'll come around later to borrow a lawn mower.-Christian Work
 The Parson-"An' to t'ink ob de New Jerusalem wifi de streets paved wife
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

It Is claimed for the Philadelphia Free library that 1t has a greater cir culation than that of any other library in this country. Its record for 1897 was 1,872,042 volumes, an increase of s22,972 over the circulation in 1896. This Is compared with the home circulation of 1,215,997 of the Chicago Public Ii- brary in 1897, and the 1,005,019 of the Boston Public library. One reason for the higher circulation in Philadelphia may be the large number of branch li- sbraries in the various sections of the city, thus bringing the books nearer to the people. During the year 1897 the circulation of various classes of books was as follows: General works, 6,459; philosophy, 9,940; religion, 14,056; soci- ology. 44,3S5; philology, 2,5S2; natural science, 26,1s4; useful arts, 1s,626; fine arts, 19,467; literature, SS,92S; history, 45,513; travel and description, 43,622; biography, 45,723; fiction, 1,221, ,667, the last named being 7S per cent. of the whole number.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 15 CENTS A WEEK, 30 CENTS A MONTH, S8 FOR SIx MONTHS, S6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

The day before Postmaster Baker was murdered at Lake City, South Car olina, he wrote to the postoff1ce depart men saying that his life was threaten ed and asking protection. The letter was received February 23, the day after the murder. The postmaster general has offered reward of $500 for the ap- prehension of the murderers and has discontinued the postoffice at Lake City.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

THE CARRINGToNPUBLIsHIN co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28

'OlIys
 A man employed as motorman on St. Louis railroad, and heretofore bearing the name of Patrick by gift of his parents, has had 1t changed to Per- cy by the court, on the plea that through his connection with the con1- pany, and also among those with whom he associated in a social way, the name of Patrick has been used unpleasantly, thereby placing petitioner in an em- barrassing position" He will be all right with Percy.
 That is a magnificent silver service which was presented by the women of Denmark to Princess Ingeborg, who has just married Prince Carl of Swe- den and Norway Over hundred wo- men of noble birth subscribed to the gift. which is an exact copy of the his- torical service found at the castle of Rosenberg. near Copenhagen, 15o years ago and presented by the princess great ancestor, King Christian VI, to his daughter on her marriage. The service has thirty-one pieces and in cludes a mirror, hand glasses, two sew en-armed candelabra with saucers jugs and toilet boxes in varied sizes in the style of the silversmiths of the last century, all handsomely chased. Sim liar services were presented to the dowager empress of Russia and the duchess of Cumberland on their mar
, 1898-09-26

The column OF SANDER, v%ilitication
and personal abuse which appeared in
the Boomerang Saturday evening
against the Hon. F. ". Mondell was a
disgrace to the state. How any man
honor or decency in his makeup could
with M iota of self respect. personal
be guilty of such "a libel is past the
knowledge of honest people. and that
we have such a conte mptible piece of
humanity in our community is to be
deeply deplored. All who know Mr..
Mondell honor him for his strength Of
character. sterling integrity. his hon.
esty, his ~steadfastness Of purpose. his
answering fidelity to duty, his untir-
ing efforts in the interests of the state
and his loyalty to his friends. Like the
last agonizing efforts Of the wounded
snake, the venom OF the reptile who
penned that article. will poison the life
blood OF his own party
, 1898-09-26
THE MICROBE OF Badness.

No medical subject has caused more
discussion than the statement by a
famous physician that he has discover
ed the microbe which causes badness.
There are other scientists that claim
there is no such thing as a microbe OF
this kind. Time alone must settle the
question. 1t was long ago settled that
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a stand
ard remedy for the common ailments OF
mankind. 1t is a true cur for dyspep-
STA and indigestion, a true medicine
for the weak and nervous, a true
strengthened and appetizer. People
who take it feel happier. sleep sounder
and Look better than those who don't.
Nearly every disease that afflicts the
human family a be overcome with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
, 1898-09-26
STATE PRESS

A Mutton Proposition
A rather funny story-if it were lot
to the party concerned-comes to us
from the north. Up in the edge Of
Converse county there resides a wool
grower who acknowledges hat he has
received a training in the practical
school of political philosophy. Two
years ago this gentleman had a bunch
Of 5000 sheep. They were worth about
a dollar and a half a head at the time,
and wool was worth enough to pay
freight on it to market-if it wasn't
shipped too far. About this time the
campaign OF 1896 waXed warm, and
there appeared among other things the
free silver speaker with a sliding scale
attachment. This sliding scale was
made to prove that every thing and
everybody. from the time Nero helped
to Oficiate in an official inspection of
the fire brigade up to the last time Mr..
Cleveland had put on a fresh bait and
assumed an aggressive mosquito-fght-
ing posture. had been regulated by sill
yer. That is. as silver moved up and
down. all things else promptly perform
ed a like movement. Converse county
being particularly interested in wool,
the speaker there made an especial
effort to apply the sliding scale to that
commodity. 1t was not strange. there
fore. that our friend with the 5000
sheep was among the converts. And.
in fact. he was so ardent a believer in
the 16 to | or bust theory that he came
to look upon the possibility Of MIR.
Bryan's defeat with the most dire mis-
givings. He reasoned that should sill
yer lose it would take another slump.
that wool would slump with it. and
that as wool was already below the rul-
ing price for saw dust it meant eternal
ruin for the man with the 5000 sheep.
Time logged on apace; the election was
over and the worst had happened. and
our friend was scared. The first man
he me wanted sheep, and no time was
lost in making a transfer Of the bunch
of 1900 head. camp wagon and all. for
a consideration Of a dollar and fifteen
cents per sheep. AS our friend placed
the money in a Douglas bank. he con
graduated himself and wondered what
the poor fellow would do who made the
purchase. and whom his ignorance
couldn't see that sheep and wool and
silver has always slept together and
had slumbered beneath the same t1nan-
cial blanket. Time logged on again
apace and our friend with the deposit
in the Douglas bank began to wonder
what sort OF a band wagon he had fol-
lowed off. Sheep o o climbed up the
scale-not even waiting for silver
and finally after the $500 and $3.50
mark had been passed the deposit came
out of the bank and went into a bunch
Of sheep-not so large a bunch as be-
fore, but to this day it would mean
mortal combat to spring any sliding
scale story on the owner.-Wheatland
World.
, 1898-09-26

consent of any power on earth. Well,
we spent -four years n billions of
treasury and a million lives before we
were convinced that We couldn't do it.
Why? Because the world was against
us. And it is against us now on the
financial question. Gold is the stand
ard of the civilized world, and we must
accept it: the world is against your
free silver proposition, and we must ac-
cept the situation as we find it,"
, 1898-09-26
WHY FREE SILVER is DEAD.

A special telegram to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat from Corning. Iowa.
says:
Colonel James Mitchell, of Little
Rock, Ark, editor Of the Little Rock
Democrat. the leading democratic pa
per OF Arkansas, is here attending the
reunion of the Mitchell family at the
home of Senator w. o. Mitchell. Col
onel Mitchell is an image Of Fitzhugh
Lee, and a gold standard democrat. al
though he supported Bryan in 1896.
"Free silver is a dead ISSUE" he said.
when l was at our state convention
and they adopted resolutions indorsing
free silver and reaffirming their fealty
to Bryan, / told some OF my friends an
ancient story. When a Scythian died
his court arrayed him in all the hab-
iliments of royalty, placed his crown on
his head and his scepter in his cold,
clammy hand. and they, with great
solemnity, would march into the regal
presence, saluting and making obeisan-
ces to the dead monarch, crying, Long
live the king" So with the retainers Of
free silver; they know their monarch
is dead, but they are still going through
the ~post-mortem ceremony.
'In 1896 l was in Denver, and became
acquainted with the managing editor Of
the Denver Republican, a bright young
fellow, who was a strong free silver
man. Why he said to me, do you
mean to tell me that this great and
rich nation isn't able to establish and
maintain a financial system Of its own,
without the aid and consent Of any
other nation?'
"'My young friend replied.
thfrty-six years ago I engaged in the
enterprise OF establishing and sustain
ing a system in the Southern Confeder-
acy, without the aid or consent OF any
other nation on earth. When war was
Imminent some OF us feared We wouh
not succeed without the aid Of some of
the great European powers. But the
leaders said no; we are great and rich
and powerful enough to maintain a
system Of our own, without the aid or
, 1898-09-26
OUR PREMIUMS.

The Republican is now offering a fine
Rand-McNally double map (the world
on one side and the United States on
the other) as a premium for each year
ly subscription which is paid in ad-
yance; and a copy Of the Standard War
Atlas for a six months subscription.
These valuable works may be seen
at our office; and to those who do not
care to pay a year or six months IN
advance, we will sell the map for 81, or
the atlas for so cents.
, 1898-09-26
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM,

The republicans Of Wyoming, in con-
vention assembled, congratulate the
nation on its return to republican rule,
which furnishes a sure guarantee Of the
stability and prosperity Of all u in
situations and a comparison that gives
little hope Of a return to power Of the
democratic party, the party Of decep-
ton and disappointment.
We reafirm the declaration of facts
and principles adopted by the eleventh
national republican convention at st.
Louis. July II, 1896.
The financial policy Of the republic
can party having brought prosperity
to the entire country, and given US a
place among the nations Of the earth
and enabled us to conduct successfully
a foreign war, we therefore, unhesf-
tatingly reaf1rm the financial plank Of
the platform as expressed by the ma
tional convention at st. Louis.
We congratulate the country upon
the fact that in response to the demand
Of the St. Louis platform, and the will
Of the people expressed at the polls in
1896. protection and reciprocity, twin
measures Of republican policy, nave
been re-established and have been en-
bodied in, by the enactment OF the
Dingley bill. and we especially con-
graduate the people Of Wyoming upon
the enactment Of this law, which has
directly benefited our two great indus
tries, viz: the raising Of live stock and
the mining Of coal, by which both d.
rectly and indirectly have brought
prosperity to every business within our
state.
We most cordially approve the ad-
min~istration Of President Mckinley.
He has met the unusually grave and
difficult questions which have arisen
since his incumbency Of the presiden-
tial office In a manner & wise and pa
triotic as to challenge the admiration
of all parties at home and to win the
approval of the best people throughout
the civilized world. We express our
earnest approval Of the vigorous prose-
cution Of the war and our entire con-
fdence in his ability to secure such
terms of peace, which We believe to be
ear at hand, as will advance human
liberty and comfort, with the honor
and dignity Of the American people.
We believe our country under a repub-
lican administration In entering upon
its greatest period Of power. happi-
ness and responsibility, and We realize
the mighty future Of successful progress
and duty which Is even now before Us,
supported by the republican party, is
fully able to pursue a policy upon the
declaration Of peace with Spain which
will at once maintain the dignity and
honor Of our nation and bring pros
perity to the islands which will come
under her control and protection.
We extend to the brave mon on land
and sea who have gone forth to battle
for the glory Of nag and the cause
Of human liberty, our deepest sympa-
thy on account Of the sacrifices they
have made and the hardships they are
called upon to endure. and our warmest
praise for their unconquerable valor;
honor. congratulate and applaud our
country's heroes throughout the entire
nation, and especially those from our
own commonwealth, who have once
more proved the matchless intelligence,
, 1898-09-26

1t ts suspected that Mr.. Arnold's sa-
cred river OF which we have heard so
much. Is Salt river. On the Sth Of No
vember he will begin padding up
etream. while the famished Indian in
his free silver country will return to
work at Z cents per day.
, 1898-09-26

Mr.. Bryan has stated again that his
ideas upon territorial expansion have
undergone no change. BY the way. how
do Arnold and Alger stand upon this
question? Let US have a fair, candid
expression of your opinion, gentlemen.
Are you for or against the retention
OF Porto Rico, the Ladrones and the
PHILIPPINES?
, 1898-09-26

Prosperity comes quickest to the man
whose liver is in good condition. De-
Wits Little Early Risers are famous
little pills for constipation, biliousness,
Indigestion and all stomach and liver
troubles. F. H. Eggleston, druggist.
, 1898-09-26

While Mr. Arnold sits with his Indian
upon the sacred river waiting for death,
Mr.. Mondell comes with words OF hope
and good cheer for the people Of Wyo-
ming. One is all theory; the other is
intensely practical.
, 1898-09-26

Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, O., says,
After two doctors gave up my boy to
die, I saved him from Group by using
One Minute Cough Cure" 1t is the
quickest and most certain remedy for
coughs, colds and all throat and lung
troubles. Eggleston, the druggist.
, 1898-09-26

j.. A. Perkins, Of Antiquity, O., was
for thirty years needlessly tortured by
physicians for the cure OF eczema. He
was quickly cured by using DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve, the famous healing
salve for piles and skin diseases. Egg
gleston's drug store.
, 1898-09-26
TRANSMISSISSIPPI AND NTERNA
TIONAL EXPOSITION.

Omaha, June 1-Nov. /, 1893.
Greatly reduced rates via the Union
Pacific to Omaha for the exposition.
The superb equipment and quick
time Of the Union Pacific makes It the
popular line to Omaha and the exposi-
ton.
For advertising matter. tickets and
tull information, cali on
c. CLARK. Agent