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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30
EASY.

In the Work Wanted column.--For
Young Poets-Will allow poems Of any
sort to be read to me at the rate of so
cents an hour.-F liegende Blatter.
Mrs. Bainbridge-'The girls of to-
day should be taught to say No .
Mrs. Hemphill--"That's what I think,
The pert thing to say is Nit "-Har-
per's Bazaar.
Had to Be.--"'Why do you use such
old jokes in your drama?" "Well the
action of the play is so swift that the
audience wouldn't have time to catch
on to new jokes. Chicago Record.
Why He Looked. - Hojack-"wh are
you consulting the dictionary? 1
thought you knew how to spell?" Tom
dik-"I do. am not looking for infor-
nation, but for corroboration. Tit
Bits.
Sorry He Spoke.-"There are at least
a dozen women who would be glad to
get me If you We're to die" She-"I
don't doubt it. They know have got
you pretty well trained" -Indianapolis
Journal
The dlfference between glass of
Schuylkill water and a tailor's bill"
says the Manayunk philosopher, us
simply that the water will settle itself
If it's allowed to stand. Philadelphia
Record.
Testimonial-Maud (about to leave)
Might / ask you for testimonial
to help me get another placer" Mis-
tress-''But, Mary, what could truth
fully say in a testimonial that would
help you to get another placer Maid
THAT ! know many of your family
secrets, If you please. DETROIT Jour
nal
How News is Made.-"Ts 1t true, Mr..
President" asked the reporter, that
war will be declared tomorrow" "Oh,
no." replied the president, And the
next day the yellow journal printed this
headline: THE president announces
that war may probably be STAYED of
a day r."-Philadelphia North
American
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30
THE PRESIDENTS PoEIcY.

All kinds of stories came from Wash
ington yesterday, but there was no
dangerous outbreak although one was
feared. A Cabinet officer is quoted as
saying: "The President is not yield
ing. When the record is made up and
congress and the public find out what
has been going on they will see that
the President has conducted himself in
all this matter as an American and a
wise, judicious man. 1t will show him
to be on top, and will completely rout
those men who are now trying to force
an issue, and will show how hastily
and unwisely they are acting" We
believe this correctly states the situa-
ton. This is time for patience and
not for disturbance or hasty action by
congress. The Presidents message to
congress is expected to-day, and it will
give congress and the country their
first adequate knowledge of the Presi-
dents policy. 1t will make clear that
the President has not forgotten his
duty to the country and its honor. He
has had hard struggle with the Span
fards and with some Of his own coun-
trymen. He has made progress toward
peace with honor. 1t is no time now
to trouble him or to ignorantly inter-
fere with his well considered plans.
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PROHIBITION IN VERMONT.

Three young men of Nottingham,
Vermont bought two gallons of hard
cider from Albert Potter They drank
it, with the aid of Potter and another
man. Then they got into boat and
started for home. They were too drunk
to keep the boat right side up and one
of them, named Clarent Dix, was
drowned. Dixs widow brought an ac-
ton for damages under the Vermont
Frank N. Mason, the owner of the
house leased by Potter. 1t was shown
on the trial that Potter had sold liquor
before in the house, that Mason knew
it, that he had told Potter it wouldn't
do, and that only two days before the
drowning of Dix an agreement had been
reached that Potter should surrender
his lease and move out The Vermont
statute says that the owner of the
premises, if he knows or has reason
to believe that liquor is being sold
there by his tenant, is equally RESPONSE
BILE before the law. He can be prose-
cuted criminally or (as in this easel
can be Joined with the actual seller of
the liquor as co-defendant in civil
suit for damages. The Vermont jurors,
after hearing the testimony, the law
yers' arguments and the judges
charge, returned a verdict against Pot
ter and Mason Jointly for the full
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A FALSE ACCUSATION.

The Novosti of st. Petersburg ac-
cuses this country of "a barbarous at
tempt to grab Cuba" and says that
"all the European States sympathlZe
with Spain"
If the Novosti is as far wrong about
the attitude of "all the European
States" towards this country as it is
about the attitude of this country to-
ward Cuba it is away off. There is
no barbarous or civilized attempt in
this country to grab Cuba. The people
of this country don't want Cuba any
more than they want Hawaii. Their
feeling toward Cuba is only one of
sympathy with the struggle going on
there to cast off hateful rule and of
pity for the innocent sufferers from an
uncommonly cruel war. This feeling is
deep and honest, and it doesn't cover
any plan or plot to grab Cuba. The
Novosti has given utterance to a belief
which is probably quite prevalent in
those parts of Europe where they do
things in the way the Novosti says we
are doing them, but the facts are all
against the Novosti. The people Of
this country fought for and won their
own independence and they are now
quite capable of being stirred by the
pluck and persistence Of the Cubans
who want and mean to be free.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30
ON oUEAoH FARM.

MOCK TURTLES ON QUEACH FARM.
These are exciting times, but it may
not be improbable to turn away for a
moment from wars and rumors of
wars, and consider some information
furnished by the Register concerning
an interesting and mysterious animal.
Who, while eating mock-turtle soup in
boarding house or restaurant hath not
wondered where the habitat of the
mock-turtle is and what it's habits
are? We read in the Registers Bran
ford column that John Fl. Beach Of
Queach farm while ploughing in field
on Saturday found a mock turtle
marked 1S43 and 1873. The figures were
plain, but the initials of the markers
were illegible. Mr.. Beach says this
particular species Of turtle has been
known to live to the age of one hun
dred years. There is just one place on
the farm where they seem to congre-
gate and that is quite near a fence
There is wondrous harmony in things
despite the seeming discord. 1t doesn't
take more than half an eye to see that
Queach farm Is the place for mock
turtles, and it is surprising that the
natural historians haven't long ere this
reported the combination. And with
three-quarters Of an eye it can also be
seen that mock-turtles are probably
the animals out Of which our great and
successful politicians are evolved. The
mock-turtles congregate near the
fence. The politicians evolved from
the mock-turtles congregate higher up
on the fence.
We hope the Register will hear more
from Queach farm. The mock-turtle
should be studied as well as eaten.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

country eggs at fifty cents, fresh eggs
at thirty-f1ve cents and eggs at fifteen
cents. Whether this type of headgear
Is anything more than a between-sea-
sons resort of women whose pin mon
ey is practically unlimited, is a ques-
ton. If they are a sort that no econ
omical woman should purchase, they
still have afforded her a chance to work
over an old hat and seem to be, for
once, in the advance brigade An ex-
ample of this type is pictured here. 1t
was of white straw, trimmed beneath
the rolled part of the brim with a small
but fluffy rosette of orange chiffon,
drapery of the same chiffon covering
sides and front. In back was drap-
ing of lace over the stems of five or
ange plumes.
The sailor in which we so rejoice for
the summer when we are really having
a lovely time is supposed to be out, but
1t is a little risky to buy as yet 1t is
6, little wider of brin, and less high of
crown than last season, and it seems
likely that 1t will be folded about with
a Roman silk handkerchief Yea re-
member that last season we took to
draping the veil about the brim of the
sailor, and with that much introduce
ton to the idea of folds about the brim,
women are more than likely to accept
and approve the scarf idea. Very like
ly the fad will develop prettily later,
and we will pass about the sailor a
scarf woven of the colors of our hosts
private signal, or the scarf may itself
be modified signal. Perhaps you can
coax your best yachtsman to order for
you a silk private signal small enough
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claimed by plx's widow

amount claimed by Dix's widow
$5,O00
This case has shed some light on the
working of prohibition in Vermont, and
the Rutland Herald sheds some more.
1t wants to see the law against the
owners of premises wherein liquor is
sold enforced. 1t says; There would
be no such thing as sending the Of
tenders to Jail or prison, because all
the jails and prisons would be run
ming over full before one offender in
hundred was shut up and because so
many leading business men would be
taken that daily affairs could not be
carried on; but a thing of that sort
would bring a special session of the
legislature to repeal the prohibitory
law with promptness which would
make people smile. We are continually
told by the prohibitionists that if the
liquor traffic is made Improbable it
will stop. That is perfectly true, but
who gets the profit? Everybody with
the smallest knowledge Of the facts
knows that a great part of the profit
on the rum traffic in this State goes to
the real estate owners-everywhere ex-
orbitant rent is paid by liquor dealers,
and it continually happens that the
actual liquor dealer comes out on the
wrong side financially while the owner
Of the building piles up money hand
over fist" Why isn't the owner pun
ished? Because he is in most cases a
substantial citizen and his neighbors do
not want him punished.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

Il TUu Iue OulCdSO ueCOFu,l
1.-THE Tribune'S sources Of news are too
numerous to depend upon one or two indi-
yiduals or agencies and the various con-
ficting stories are printed for the informa-
ton OF the reader. Chicago Tribune.
If we say that war is on us and our ships
have gone to bottom
Don't. permit the dread intelligence to
grleve you.
That is Correspondent 20-he's been drink
ing and has got EN-,
And In playfulness he writes thus to de-
ceiye you.
Blanco in the palace
We may hit 1t, but the chances are agin
1t.
Yet we print the story free from any
prejudice or malice.
Just to let you size 1t up for what is in It,
We may tell Of cannon roaring and of other
firearms cracking,
Wen describe the gunboats plunging
through the seas, too.
And announce defeat or triumph or retreat
ing or attacking,
And you only need believe just what you
Possibly Wen make assertion in a double
loaded column
That the President has died from being
frightened
Don't be anxious don't be gloomy, appre-
hensive, sad, or solemn;
That is just our way OF keeping you en-
lightened.
OF our correspondents each one is frantic
ambidexter,
Using right or left-or both hands should
he need 'em;
We don't ask that truthful statement be a
portion of his text or
Hamper his Imagination In Its freedom.
Special wires and special cables, special
agencies, commissions,
Private spies and SNUG officials send the
news to
Us for scarehead publication in unlimited
editions,
And you pay your coin and credit what
you choose to.
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ADVERTISING RATES

Situatleps, Wants. Rents, and other small
Acknowledgements, One Cent Word each In
aertion. Five Gents Word for full week
fseven tjmes).
Display advertisements, per inch. one IN n
cents; one week. $500; one month, $40 !;
one year. $40 -
Obituary Notices. In prose or verse, 10
cents per line. Notices Of Births, MAT
riages, Deaths and Funerals. 80 cents each.
Local Notices is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to tneir
own immediate business (all matter to De
unobiectionable): and their contracts 90 MOI
include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

A charitable society recently organ
lied at Basic, Switzerland, announces
one Of it's objects as follows: I'VE es-
cort home the inebriates who are in
conflict with the perpendicular"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

Weary Wtlly-"Ah! lady, dis angel
cake Nv yours is jist like mother used
ter make Lady-"Is it, indeed p"
Weary Willy-"It's de Identical ting:
OATS why run away from home and
went ter sea at de age of six."-Puck.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

The citizens of Keokuk, Iowa, want a
warship. TO be named Keokuk. They
say it is genuine American name, and
no other city in the world bears it. 1t
was borne by "a big chief Of a tribe of
Indian warriors mighty in war and In
peace
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY,
IL CENTS A WEEK, so CENTS A MONTH,
60 FOR SIX MONTHS, SO A YEAR. THE
SAME TERMS BY MAIL
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

New Orleans has a Sound-Money
league, which recently decided upon
special efforts to increase its member
ship and to widen the field of its prop
uganda. 1t is contemplated to secure
In each postoffice town Of the State at
least one Individual who would see that
sound money literature should be dis
tributed in that particular community.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

Canada is contemplating the con-
struction of new ans-continental
railroad from Quebec to Port Simpson,
to be called the Trans Canada railway.
Port Simpson is about $50 miles north
of Vancouver, and is said to have the
finest harbor of the Pacific coast north
of San Francisco. Between the new
railroad and the Canadian Pacific there
would be wedge-shaped area of fer
tile land, having it's broad end on the
Pacific and it's thin edge at Quebec, the
distance between the two lines being
from $50 to 500 miles. The length of
the Canadian Pacific from Montreal to
Vancouver is 2,521 miles; the length of
the new line would be 2,4O0 miles. The
grades of the latter would be easier.
and it would give easy connections
with the new gold fields of the North
west. 1t is hoped TO have it completed
before Russia gets her trans Siberian
line finished.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30
FASHION NOTES.
Planned for short Service.

With all the yiolets that are now
a bloom on hats, and no one can re-
member when there were ever more Of
them, and with all the nasturtiums
and other blossoms from the milliners'
gardens, there is yet this spring sort
of hat on which flowers are few. A
month ago these were styled early
spring hats, now they are offered to in
tending purchasers as spring hats, and
by May !, perhaps, they may be count
ed simply as hats, on the same princi-
pie that actuates the grocer in offering
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

Some Of the funeral customs of the
Swiss are almost as peculiar as some
Of our funeral customs. Att the death
Of person the family inserts formal,
black edged announcement in the pa
pars asking for sympathy and stating
that ''the mourning urn" will be exhib-
tied during certain hours on a special
day. In front Of the house where the
person died there is placed little
black table, covered with a black cloth,
on which stands q black jar. Into this
the friends and acquaintance of the
family drop little black-margined Wis
ting cards, sometimes with a few words
OF sympathy on them. The urn is put
on the table on the day Of the funeral.
Only men ever go to the churchyard,
and they generally follow the hearse on
foot.
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to use later as suggested. If SO, then
hurry, else you won't be the first to do
this sort of thing. FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

"A company has been formed in South
Dakota for cutting, polishing and mar
keting the stone or silicif1ed wood
found in such marvellous quantities in
the forest located near Holbrook,
Apache county, Arizona. The largest,
finest specimens of such petrified wood
in the world there exist. Whole trunks
of trees and stumps with portions of
the roots appear, converted into stone
as dense and hard as the finest agate,
every cell and fibre of the former wood
being preserved in stone. A forest of
trees seems to have been entombed in
the rocks and to have been preserved
by a slow process of replacement by
silica from solutions permeating the
bed; subsequently, the surrounding
sediments were washed away, but the
fossils of the tree remained.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

THE ToNPUBLISHINGC co.
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-30

Those who know Henryk Sienkiewicz
say that he would rather go shooting
or tramping over the mountains any
day than write. He writes his serials
from week to week, and sometimes in
the middle Of one, when the most ex-
citing situation is reached, he takes his
gun and disappears. His publishers
tear their hair, but his readers have to
restrain their curiosity till he returns,
when he takes up the thread Of his
narrative and carries it on to the end,
unless another fit OF restlessness seizes
him. Before "Quo Vadis" was written
Sienkiewicz was supposed to have
made $500, 200 by his pen. AS that book
has sold into the hundreds of thou
sands, after running as serial, he
must be a good many thousands Of dol
lars richer to-day.
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The Scare Crow Press.

GFrom the Chicago Record.l
THE Tribune's sources Of news are too
numerous to depend upon one or two indi-
ylduals or agencies and the various con-
ficting stories are printed for the informa-
tion Of the reader Chicago Tribune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-06

vania has scored on Yale. and although she ala
not cover herself with glory in the Princeton
game. the Providence men have nrst-ra'e
all-around team. Wesleyan has shown up sur,
prsingly well throughout the whole season, ana
deserves a great deal of credit.
Many OF the football editors in various jour
nails are bewailing the fact that. in the event
OF Harvard meeting defea- at the hahus OF
Pennsylvania there will be no chance TO decide
the championship in football since neither Yale
nor Princeton Is to play with pennsylvania
From some points Of view. perhaps this Is cir
cumstance to be regretted; yet. after all the
real object OF football as played by under
graduates. is to furnish strong. healthfu eXer-
else for the students. and not simply 10 decide
championships The question OF championship
of course. is interesting one, but Its sig
nificance paes beside the matter of real sport
For instance, Yale and Harvard want to play
against each other first of all, quite regardless
OF whether their game will decide any cham
pionshp among the colleges or not. If the
games happen to ne arranged that n clear
title to the championship can be given. all well
and good; but that is a secondary consideration
BETWEEN TWO FAMOUS PREP" SCHOOLS.
Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover acad-
emies will play their annual game at Andover
next Saturday This is a contest that at these
two schools excites as much enthusiasm as the
Yale-Harvard game does with the elder
brothers. Exeter and AndOver are splendid
training schools in football, as well as IN Ldtn
Greek and mathematics and the most intense
interest is taken in their annual games by the
many graduates scattered throughout the coun-
try. In the course of the season thus far Exeter
has made excellent showing. scoring against
Dartmouth and Bowdoin, and defeating several
Of the college teams Lately, how yer she mas
had hard luck in getting or two Of her best
players badly injured, Hersey. who is a won
derful drop-kicker being knocked out last
Wednesday, Hersey. by the way. is said to be
headed for Harvard next year. An exciting
game is looked for on the campus at Andover
next Saturday SlDE-LlNE
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SAID TO HAVE PAID $4,000 200.
NEW ELECTRIC COMPANY REPORTED TO
HAVE PURCHASED THE TELEGRAPH AND
ELECTRICAL SUBWAY COMPANY.

There have been rumors without end and denial
70 match each rumor. regarding the objects and
The field OF operation Of the New-York Gas and
Electric Light Heat and Power Company, which
was Incorporated at Albany. with the enormous
CAPITAL OF So 10000 early in October II was re-
ported to have close connection with the pur-
chase. few days before it's incorporation, n tho
Edison Illuminating Company. Of Brooklyn. oy The
Kings County Electric Light and Power Company.
The Kings County company was represented in
these NEGOTIATIONS by Anthony y. Brady and tho
Inference was nimbly jumped at tina; Mr.. Brady.
Ex-Governor Flower and their Associates, already
largely interested in trolley properties In Brookyn
and now entering the electric ligh' field, were form
ing the x25 O0C 900 company for the purpose OF eA-
tending their operations to this borough and would
make an arrangement whereby they should use
space In the condus OF the Mctropolitar street
Railway Company for their electric light wires. or
should avail themselves Of the surplus power gen
Grated BY the dynamos OF the Metropoliian tx
Governor Flower denied all knowledge Of TINS pan
and Of the So 100 company, and PRESIDENT NIte-
land OF the Metropolitan made an equally cnllhat-
ic disclaimer. The iDcOrpOTa tOrS OF the now tphi-
pany were young lawyers OF this city, none OF them
men known in financial circles but they nave kept
we'll The secret OF the men really behind the cor
poration-f indeed. some OF them ever knew 'h'1e
names at all The latest report as to the promoters
of the company says that they are the fsiKhs-
W!dcner Syndicate. of Phadephia. II Is now re-
port ed that the New-York Gas and Electric Light.
81 90. the Consolidate Telegraph and Electrical
Subway Company Of this city. as a necessary step
In carving out It's alleged purpose OF concentrating
the electric lighting business OF me 'f'dl" Nc"
York INFO one concern and using the surplus power
OF the street railroad systems IN the general schene
for furnishing Hight ana power.