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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-13
THE PEACE PROBLEMS.
Reply of Our Government to Spain's
 Protest

Reply of Our Government to Spains
 Protest
 Madrid, Sept 12.-The French am bassador, M. Cambon, who has been acting for Spain in the peace negotia- tions, has cabled to the government here the American reply to the Span ish note, protesting against the hostili- ties upon the part of the insurgents in the Philippine Islands, in spite of the peace protocol The United States promises to send envoys to induce the Tegals to respect the suspension of hostilties, and to prevent vessels leav- ing Manila with insurgents having the intention of propagating the insurrec- ton in other islands
 Washington, Sept. 12.--The Madrid dispatch in regard to the American re- ply to the Spanish note protesting against hostilities on the present in surgents of the Philippine Islands. was shown to the first secretary of the French embassy. He said that Ambas- sador Ca1nbon had been absent from Washington for several weeks and the reply was not sent by him personally. If such a reply had been made, it would have gone through the hands of the first secretary, but he declined pos itively to say whether or not he had forwarded message of such a charac- ter
 The officials of the state department also refused to make known the nature of the communications exchanged be- tween the two governments regarding this matter. It is known however, that in response to urgent appeals from the Spanish government to protect the Spaniards living in the Philippines from the insurgents during the contin- uance of the truce now in force, Gen. eral Otis was instructed to use his in- fuence with the insurgent leaders to cause them to stop active hostilities for the time Touching the departure from Manila of insurgent parties on ships to carry the revolution among the other islands of the group, 1t is learned that no such expressions have been sent out since the signature of the protocol and the incident which form ed the basis of the Spanish representa- tions on the subject happened some time ago when it was granted.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-13
NEW HAVEN YACHT CLUB.

The semi-annual meeting of the New Haven Yacht club will be held at the club house tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-13

MORE SCORCHERS CAUGHT.
 Yesterday afternoon Charles E. Sweeney and Ellsworth Meyers were arrested for fast riding on Orange street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28
INFORMAL

Bancon-Your wife spends hours at the dressmakers. Now, what 1does it all amount to? Egbert-A pretty fig ure-Yonkers Statesman.
 "Dar isn't much comfort in de remahk dat contentment is better dan riches, said Uncle Eben. One is jes' about as hand to get as de Washington Star.
 Kaiser Wilhelm" remarked Rivers, seems to be fishing for trouble. You refer, of course" said Brooks. Ito his carpng about our war."-Chicago Tri- brne.
 Short.--Young Doctor-Did you diag- nose his case as appendicitis, or mere ly the cramps. Old Doctor-Cramps. He didn't hae money enough for ap- pendlcitis.-Life.
 He-Can you tie a true lovers knot, Miss Willing?
 She--No; but I can give you the ad- dress of a clergyman who, I am sure, would be only too glad to obige you.- Chicago News.
 Little Edgar-Papa, who was the greatest hero of the war?
 Fapa-Captain Bibbleson, guess. His magazine story is three pages longer than any of the rest of them has writ ten.-Chicago Record.
 Did you tell that young man that there are microbes in a kss?" said Maud.
 Yes" answered Mamie. But he has a reputation to sustain as a hero. He doesn't dare he afraid of anything Washington Star.
 Mrs Bacon (getting ready to go ou) T can't see when MT. Penman gets time to do any literary work; he and his wife are always on the go.
 MT. Bacon-Well, I understand he finds time to do his writing while his wife is putting on her hat.-Yonkers Statesman.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28
DIDN'T WORK FIERY WELL.


 The referendum has been tried in California and some of its friends are not pleased with the way it has work ed. They point out that while at the November election 27S,3S votes were cast for candidates for office the vote on matters referred to popular approval was in no case more than about half that number, while the most important proposition of all was voted on by only l0',o6a persons. This was the resolution authorizing a convention to revise the Constitution. It will be noticed that as to this resolution 170,S26 voters failed to express an opinion, that is, of those who actually went to the polls only about two-ffths took the trouble to vote at all on this subject. It is re- ported that there was no interest in it. even among those who did vote, and that there was no intelligent discussion of the subject before election.
 We had hoped that the initiative and the referendum would save the country, but if the initiative doesn't work any better than the referendum there will be cause for gloom.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

out on one of these saplings stretched across q crater's mouth, then slipping gently off into the middle of a gurgling, bubbling, ice-cold mass of mud and swinging yourself there, suspended by your hands, until fatgued! Then, with just life enough left to crawl back along the log, you reach unyielding ground again.
 Once plunged into one of the craters of mud, with all ties to the sapling above severed, person would be lost forever, being swallowed up in the murky depths in an instant, for vastly quicker in action and surer of its vic- tim than quicksand is the mud of Men, docino's mysterious volcanoes.
 Cleanliness has nothing to do with it. It is not that for which people face the dangers of the volcano bath. The mud which is beched forth from the earth s interior is supposed to contain impor- tant medciina! properties.
 There are about twenty-five of the,,a singular mud-belching volcanoes in Mendocino county and they are among California's many wonders. They are situated high, on a mountain side, sev- en miles from Cahto. At this time of the year they are unusually active. Their gurgling roar may be heard for a distance of several miles when they are most violent. The mud frequently shoots over the rim of the crater flows down the mountain like a lava stream and enters one of the Eel rivers tribu- taries called Mud creek. It fills the
 Gaters, which are about five feet above the earth's surface and bounded with a circular base or miniature crater from four to seven feet in diameter at the base and two to three feet at the top. Prospecting, parties have hewn down saplings fifty feet in length and pushed them into the mouth of a crater. Some of these have disappeared altogether. Others remain near the surface, play things of the muddy element, which losses them about like fishermen's bob bins in rough sea. A sienificant coin- cldenoe is the fact that when the ocean, twenty miles away, is unusually heavy and rough, the volcanoes become in tensely active, belching forth not only their burden of ice-cold mud, but vol ulnes Of warm vapor. In some myste- rious way the ocean seems to control their action.-San Francisco Bulletin.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28
NOT LIKE CoNvEcrIoUr.

Connecticut may be peopled by Con- necticut Yankees, and even, as has been charged, by Connecticut clam Yankees,
 but 1t can do some things we'll. For instance, build State-house without robbery or iobbery, and within the ap- propriation. How great an achieve
 ment that is appears by comparing it with the performances of some other
 States in State-house building. Our neighbor, New York, started in to build a State-house so many years ago that l little boys have grown to be men with whiskers during the building, and the job isn't done yet The indications now boys will have grown into old inhahi- tants or even oldest inhabitants Mil l lions have followed millions into the work, or into the contractors pockets, until the State-house bill has astonished people accustomed to big bills for pub lie works. In Pennsylvania State-house building seems to be following the New York example. The legislature of Penn sylvania is to be asked to appropriate,
 during the coming session, the sum of S, ,0OO,OOO to complete State-houss which was begun under an act of as sembly limiting the total cost to S559,- 900, and it is openly said that schemers
 hope to get s2o oOO,ooo into the job before 1 it is done.
 Scandalous And not much like Con-
 necticut. Contemplate the beautiful and honest building in Hartford, with it's golden dome serenely and purely shining in the sunlight and the moon light, and be thankful that you are a Connecticut Yankee And when you
 consider the quality of the legislation in that noble structure do not even then repine. It is better than it might be,
 and perhaps it will be better than it has been,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28
Christmns in the Colonies.
'U0I IUHCy'
 FLORETTE

Twas the merry Christmas season and the palms swung in the breeze Of the lovely hot December Ill an island over seas; And a medltat tive maiden of the kind called Philippine Sat and gazed, with pensive visage, on the sultry winter scene. Well she knew that on the morrow all her folks would celebrate, Place q palm tree in the parlor. hang their anklets OCT the grate; On the heaped-up Christmas table, grooming with it's load, thered be Appetlzing blrd's nest truftles and banana fricasee. Let me see," she murmured, softly; ''father'll get his string of beads Blue and yellow-I am certain they're the very kind he needs; For his old ones looked quite shocking
 though he never seemed to care And this new sets quite the SWe.leSt thing gentleman can wear. "And for mamma there's the nose ring that I bought on Thursday week. With the handsome walebone stickpin for insertion in the cheek: And little brothers boomerang! He'll be immensely pleased: That or q bamboo jumping jack are the
 things for which he's leased. "And as for me, only hope they've got the
 things l need- Just one oI two nice costumes made of genuine coral bead; X toe ring would be lovely, and piece Of copper wire To wear around the instep make up all that l desire. Except, of course, some other things that every girl receives, Such as various kinds of dresses made of nicely ripened leaves. For, surely" said the maiden as she smiled a scornful smile, "I'm not like those American girls who al
 ways think of style"
 Chicago Record.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28
E4SHION NOTES.
New Wrinkles in Head Dress,ne

Bows for the hair are still in vogue. The tiny cringled up-standing loops are a little gone by since the cheaper stores are selling them, but exclusive milli- ners sell tiny looped bows of black gauge that rest flat at the top of the low set coil. From them rise a pair of curved deeply pointed ends, and these just show like the tips of pair of but terfly wings from the front. Such bows are expensive finery. Butterflies with upstanding jeweled wings are used in the hair, the wings only showing from the front. Bird-of-paradise sweeps caught in Q pearly buckle are worn in the hair. Little bits of crinkled bows, no wider than a fifty cent piece and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28
VOLCANIC BATHS.

The Rather Clings to a Pole Placed
 Across the Crater and Dips in Ice
 Cold Mud. nowadays in certain parts of California and Mexico. Down in Mendocino coun- ty, Cal, such baths have become most frequent.
 The volcano bath is not water bath. nor is it fire bath or a lava bath, as might be supposed. It is mud bath, and no ordinary mud bath at that. Ice-cold mud of bluish tint and of the consistency of freshly mixed mortar is the element into which the bathers plunge, splashing and spluttering. The way they manage it is unique. A sap ling is felled in the for sts near the vel cano craters, stripped of its limbs, car ried to the crater and placed across it, so that each end of the pole rests on firm ground. Fancy yourself gslidin
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28
sOME CHANGES FOR BUSINESS.

Enterprisng Yankees will be inter- ested in some remarks made by Consul Halstead, of Birmingham, England. He thinks there are great possibilities III England for American manufacturers of paper, pens, fish-hool1s and needles. Sporadic attempts have been made to Sell American paper in England, but the introductory efforts were too costly for individual action. Now that paper production in America is in the hands of trust, Mir Halstead believes that it is possible by this great combination of resources to ship rolls of paper in some sort of wooden protective devices that will prevent loss and damage. and ultimately secure the favor of the great publishing and printing houses of Eng land. There is no reason why paper made in Norway should have big sale in Eneland while Americans allow this trade to be taken away from them by the lack of proper devices for packing. American mills should supply half the paper used in England.
 Three little industries which have been almost entirely neglected, in which there is vast amount of profit for entsrpris- ing Americans, are the making of pens, fish-hooks and needles. The value of the shipments of these articles through the Birmingham consulate last year was $525, ,019. American inventors and man. ufacturers of automatic machinery are needed to come to the assistance of these industries. The machinery used in these industries is old and out of date. Automatic machinery for pen- making is unknown in Birmingham, al- though an enterprisng American is now engaged in building pen factory there that will be the finest of its kind in the world. Yankee ingenuity and inventive skill are also needed to revolutionize the manufacture of needles and fish-hooks. The machinery used for this purpose in Birmingham is of the most primitive type, and yet there is a vast and in- creasing market for the product.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

around the head Then the hair is piled high upon the head and bristles with tiny curls and ringlets. Sight of such coifs is enough to make woman long for return of the smooth locks parted demurely in the center, and at most, the tiny curl in the middle of her fore head that the old song told about. It's about time for a successor to the pom padour. It has lasted as long as hair dressing styles usually hold, but as yet there is no sign that women will generally turn to another fancy.
 FLORBTTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

with one end standing high, are set to oneside of high coil. When the hair is arranged in @ full and fine pompa- dour its owners pride in it Is frequent ly shown by her choice of headwear, which will leave the admirable pompa- dour uncovered. Hats like that shown herewith are not uncommon, and while rather trying to the face, are very at tractive when well carried off. This one was dark red velvet, the brim turn ed up and held with two rosettes of light red velvet. From these rosettes rose two black ostrich tips. Back of these low puffed crown was encircled with folded velvet band.
 Frizzes are much worn and are in great profusion, now extending quite
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small serton. Five Cents a Word for full week (seven times)
 Display advertisements. per inch, one in- sertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertion. 10 cents; one week, $3.20; one L-onth. $1o; one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices. In prose or verse, 15 cents per line. Notices of Births Mar- rlages, 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 nnobjectlonable)l: and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale, etc
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

It is hard for a young woman to tell whether young man means business, but there is a young woman in Charles town, Massachusetts, who has found out about her young man, and she has discovered that he did mean business. They met at a surprise party He es- corted her home and arranged to call the next night. He proposed marriage on the second call and she accepted his proposal. He then called on five sue cessive evenings. On the first evening he borrowed and carried away with him the young womans gold watch, valued at $51 On the second evening he told his aff1anced that he was out of work, but had been promised profit able position on January 1. He needed a new suit in which to be married, and
 the young lady kindly loaned him $40.
 The third evening found him owing his 1andJady three weeks board, SIP; the trusting lady promptly advanced him the sum. On the fourth evening he was in need of about ss for little articles of wearing apparel, which every well equipped groom is expected to have. On tho fifth evening he simply made the final arrangements for the marriage. Then "he never came back any more"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

At Buffalo a committee of the school board has voted that in three of the city's public schools an hours instruc- tion in Polish shall be given daily. The Buffalo Express energetically protests. "The children so instructed will remain Poles" it says, Instead of becoming Americans
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

In Posen, Germany, Count Skorfew- ski has been experimenting with cam els as farm animals. He reports that they were readily acclimated, that they are docile, and that hitched to the blow one camel will do double the work of two farm horses.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

The removal of a brick chimney 135 feet in height by blasting was recently accomplished in Hungary under the di- rection of an artillery officer. The blast ing agent employed was "ecrasite," which is essentially picric acid, and three mines, aggregating thirty-seven pounds, were placed against the outer surfaces of a pillar that had been left by the construction of two openings at the base. The direction in which the chimney was to fall had been carefully determined, and at the explosion of the mines it was seen that the chimney top pled slowly and fell exactly in the re- ouired direction. The debris resulting from the fall was in the outline of a bottle 190 feet in length. The bricks from the upper part of the chimney fell apart intact, while those of the lower third were for the most part broken. In the direction of the fall the air pres sure was sufficient to break windows at a distance of almost five hundred feet, but observers standing on either side did not notice any rush of air in their direction.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

The expedition that was sent out by Andree. the Arctic explorer, who at tempted to reach the North Pole in a balloon, has returned from northern Si- beria, where months were spent in fruit less efforts to learn the fate of Andree and his two companions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

900 old style copper pennies somewhere.
 Nobody knows what has become Of them, except that once in while sim gle specimen turns up in change. A few years ago 4,5oO,OOO bronze two-cent pieces were set afioat. Three millions of them are still outstanding, but are never seen. A million of three-cent sill yer pieces are scattered over the United States, but it is very seldom that one comes across any of them. Of the S00,- 900 one-half- pieces not one has been returned to the government for
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-28

The Boston Commercial Bulletin earnestly advocates an export duty on cotton. The motive is interest in the future of the manufacture of cotton goods in this country. The argument is of course the simple one that since we are g. manufacturing people who also produce nearly all the cotton used in the world, the practical prohibition of all exports of the staple will give the United States monopoly of the manu- fracture of goods for the rest of man. kind. Perhaps this might work well for awhile, but it would probably soon be discovered that cotton could be grown in several other countries.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-01-13
Staying THIN WHITES.
The Seminoles Seeking Revenge For
the Burning Of Two Indians.
GRAVE REPORTS ARE OUT.
a. l. said That twenty-five Persons
Have Already Been KILLED and
the Inhabitants ~ Earlboro
in Imminent Dagger.

South McAlester, l. T., Jan. 70 "A
telegram received here az $40 O'Clock
last evening by the train dispatcher OF
the Choctaw, Gulf and Oklahoma road
states that a hand Of 100 Seminole In.
dians is on the war.path and is leaving
behind IL a bloody trail. The telegram
was sent by the railroad station agent at
Earlhoro. The brief information con.
veyed was that the Seminoles were
ayenging the work Of the mob Of white
men that burned two Seminole Indians
at the stake on Friday last, and that the
infuriatod Seminoles had already massa.
cred % men. women and children.
The station agent at Earlboro said
thai the hand started from a point six
miles south Of Earlboro with the avowed
intention Of setting fire TO Tecumseh
and killing all whom they metz that
the Indians were reported TO have
changed their course and were at the
time Of the sending Of the message
headed toward Earlboro.
The receipt Of this startling informa-
ton created intense excitement AZ South
McAlostor Scores Of people who have
relatives and friends at Earlboro and
other points In that section arr besieginp
the telegraph Office for nows, but the
agent has either left the Eorlboro sta
ton 20 gather further information Of
perhaps was slain or driven to seek ref
L uor
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-01-13

Washington. Jan o. Tho civil scr.
vicc debate, which was inaugunicd in
che hou-o week ago. ended yesterday.
Il opened with a row. bat ended very
tamoly Thor, was not even vote on
the appropriation In the legislative, "a.
ocutiyc and juiicial appropriation bill
Tor the commits ION. ON which the debate
was prrdicaicd Tho Republicans who
an seeking On modify ur rgpal the law
decided 30 lct the debate come o. a Gloss.
but 10 roquirad the casting vote Of the
speaker % accomplish this There are
conflicting statements a. o. the situa.
ton Ia which the future conduct Of the
war against the civil service law l. loft.
All the Republi am opponents Of the law
agrrc that the light Is 90 D. kept mp
The debate was dull until the closing
hour, when Mr. Simpson cnlivenod Il
with rcfcwnoc 10 the Ohio SENATORIAL
election.
Mr.. Bailey Of Texas. made a clear
aNANNANNMA W NAAN NAAAlNAANN NNNAAANAlt
which indicates that the majority will
vote 10 rcpoal, bat not modify the law.
The principal spccch ~ the day was
made by Mr.. Brossius. chairman of Oh,
civil scrvicc commission. who defended
the law In a two hours 'spcoch.
The senate briefly discussed an al
vcrso IMPORT by the pension COMMITTEE,
on a hill % p,nsion General Meadoi
two daughters az eco a month each
Chairman Gallinger saying the commit
tee did no, wish % enter on the pension
ing Of daughter % veterans Senator
Allen Of Nebraska thought that Genera
Mcadc's groat soryico justified such hh
oniiy No acton was taken, and aftc
Senator WOlcott 81 Colorado announce,
a sTccch ON the money question for ncN
Monday, senator Fairbanks addressc,
the senate ON immigration.
After the spccch the Hawaiian troat.
was taken up In executive session.