The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06

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own immediate business TALL matter 10 pe
unobjectionable) and their contracts GO not
include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc.--
A Chicago court has given decision
that poetry is worth twenty cents line.
An attempt has been made in Paris
to discourage murder as business by
showing that it does not pay. Out OF
the twenty-one recent murders the ay-
erage profit to each assassin was Sl6.S7,
and in many of these cases the muir
derer was caught and executed.
The invalid pension act of 1890 is con-
demned by Encampment No. of the
Union Veteran Legion Of Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania, whose membership Is
made up of over one thousand soldiers
who served, on the average, over three
years and two months in the civil war.
They ought to be able to speak with
authority.
There is Society in Wichita, Kansas,
too. Here is a Society note from the
Wichita Eagle: Mrs. Horwortle's par
ty Friday evening was great success.
The large pearl-handled knives which
were used at the luncheon belonged to
Mrs. Hardin, Mrs. Horwortle's neigh
Dor. The silver spoons Mrs. Horwortle
borrowed from Mrs. Grandther.''
One way of trying to keep even with
the competition of southern cotton mills
IA that being tried by mills at Lewiston
and Augusta, Maine. They are putting
in new looms to get better cloth and to
do away with the service of about half
of their weavers. The new looms cost
$1S5 each, making the entire expense for
the change enormous, but the new ma
chimes stop automatically when either
warp or filling breaks. and they require
less attendance and do more perfect
work than the old ones,
(, 1t is announced that an order for A.
900, 900 tons Of Mesba ore has been re-
ceived in this country from Cardiff. So
much Of the raw material Of the great
est metal industry has not been export
ed from the United States in many
years; how many even the records Of
the Iron and Steel Association do not
tell. Ever since the civil war the
amount in any one year has been al
most too small to take account Of. This
order is to be filed at the earliest pos
sible moment, and will yield over $780,
100000 to the owners Of the mines.
Philanthropy in this country gained
much last year by gifts or requests.
The money went to colleges, churches,
charities, art galleries, museums libra
ries, etc. In 1896 $a3, $40, 1923 was donated
for similar purposes, as compared to
s2s, 81, $40 in 1896 and s19967,1 16 in 1894.
Ours is. evidently, a philanthropic ma
tion. The record for 1897 shows that of
the sum given or bequeathed for phil
hnthropic purposes $14,7S5,626 went to
charities, s10,203, 450 to colleges, $5,029,-
1888 to churches and religious societies
and s1,21s,000 to art galleries and mu-
seums.
It is related that young man who
drank much more than was good for
him was advised by his friends to take
a cure, but he refused. but" protest.
ed his friends, your physician says
that if you keep on drinking you will
surely soon go blind Now, the ques-
ton is simply this: Do you prefer be-
Ing cured of the drink habit and retain
ing your sight, or do you prefer to keep
on drinking and go blind?" The young
man paced the floor for some time and
was In brown study Finally he turn
ed to his friends and, with a resigned
expression of countenance, replied:
<'Well, I guess I've seen about every
thing.''
The disfranehiseInent of the negroes
In South Carolina would do more harm
than unrestricted suffrage, the Calves
ton News says, "unless it contemplates,
which 1t does, the preparation of the
negro for useful and discriminating cit
izenship The State has wrestled with
the problem for thirty years. She gave
her coiored people schools and suffrage
The results have been diseouraging. In
the dilemma presented she means to
abate no effort to elevate the race, but
only to lift its questionable influence
from the ballot box pending a thorough
study of the question, what is best tc
be done for the State. If she helps her.
self and her colored people, any steps
she takes to do SO will be BLESSING
to the entire South. Her assumption
that the colored man needs to have the
problem of his usefulness and elevation
thought out for him is shared by the
most highly respected authorities NORTH
and South, and any captious or section.