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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-02
YOUNG IND OLD TETER 4 Ms.

Several important and interesting
matters will be considered at the ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army
at Philadelphia. One of them will be
the proposal to admit to the Grand
Army the veterans of the Spanish war.
This is favored by some of the members
of the old organization, but by many it
is opposed on the ground that the Grand
Army is distinct and unique, a living
though rapidly disappearing monument
to a great cause, and that it's records
and traditions should be kept by them
selves. The admission to membership
of the Spanish war veterans would
serve to perpetuate the organization,
but it is contended by those who OPP
pose the movement that the old Grand
Army, when it shall have served it's full
mission, should be allowed to die as
naturally as it has periodically lived,
and then become part of the history
of the war for the Union without the
admlXture OF younger blood ana new
traditions. The old veterans in taking
this position are not actuated by jeal-
ousy toward the young veterans, but
believe if the Spanish war veterans
want an organization they should have
one of their own, that they may per-
petuate their own records and memo
ries.
1t is not surprising that some of the
young veterans want to join the old
veterans, and it is not surprising that
some of the old veterans want to stay
by themselves. On the whole, the old
veterans who want to stay by them
selves seem to have the best of the ar
gument.
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card-boards is often very annoying.
The Boston notion is a visionary one,
or course, but there is in it a sugges-
ton for local application, that as much
consideration be given passengers who
wish to read as those who desire to
play cards. On late trains the lamps
are carefully trimmed for the card
players in the Smoker" while the light
in the other cars is either good bad,
or Indifferent, as accident or design may
make it; and on some of the trains
making the passage through the tunnel
into the Grand Central Station, the one
dim light provided in a majority of the
cars, in stingy Difference to the law on
the subject, contrasts with the brilliant
ly lighted smoker where the brake
man is made considerate by the toll col
lected from the players for the rent of
the cards.
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OUEER KENOSHA.

Kenosha, Wisconsin, has a queer
name, and it must be a queer place.
Either the women of Kenosha are queer
on bicycles or some of the men of Ke-
! nosha are queer, on or off bicycles. The
city attorney of Kenosha has actually
presented to the city council an ordi-
| unlawful for any female to ride a wheel
in Kenosha without having first obtain
ed from the city clerk a license. To OBJ
tain this license the applicant must be
examined by three experts as to her
ability to ride without endangering the
safety and personal rights of others If
the experts put their approval on her
riding she must file a 500 bond, that
all damages caused by the careless rid
ing or other improper handling or
manipulation of bicycle will be paid
by the said female If the accident is
shown to be resultant from the care
lessness of said licensee" The experts
will conduct their riding academy in
market square. 1t is further provided
that 1t shall be unlawful for any wo-
man to ride within the corporate limits
of Kenosha without having first obtain
ed license, and any violation of the Or
dinance is to be punished by arrest and
Ava
pensation of the experts. In no case
is the ordinance to apply to any woman
riding with male escort on tandem.
Just think of calling a woman bicycle
rider said female" and also think of
the insult contained in the provision
that said female riding with
male escort on a tandem is all right
without a license
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RIPE.

1t always puzzles a horse to find out
what woman's driving at.-Philadel-
phia Record.
"They say that lightning ripens
grapes" VI thought it was currents"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
What is delicate sense of humor?"
ut is distaste for everybody's jokes
but your own. Chicago Record
Mrs Smythe--I wonder why old china
is so rare and valuable. Mrs. De Jones
Why l thought you kept a servant
Chicago News.
Women have no continuity of rur-
pose" Haven't they? My cousin
Laura bought SIS diamond ring and
paid for it 81 at time. Chicago Reel
ord.
Those Loving Girls.-Helen-See my
new engagement ring. Don't you think
George has good taste? Mattie-He GER
tainly has-in the selection of a ring
Chicago News.
Cause and Effect.-Mr. Dukane-The
Sultan Of Sulu came in promptly out of
the wet. Mr.. Gaswell-Yes; he wished
to prolong his reigny season.-Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
Time to Stop.-Jack Bachelor-I sup
pose you will name him after Dewey?
New ed-Well-er-no! You
see, Jane and both think that Dewey
has had honors enough!-Puck.
oh, Dread Dissase!-"Blckersniff
doctor has ordered him to cease riding
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A QUICKSILVER FOUNTAIN.
Household Flatirons Float Lightly OF
Its Surface

| Household F'latirons Float Lightly on
| Its Surface.
| Probably the most ingenious, not to
| say expensive, fountain ever devised is
| 10 be seen in operation daily in the
| Queensland section of the Greater Brit
ain Exhibition, Earl's Court. 1t has
| taken clever young engineer, Charles
Bright, f. r. S. E., over three months
to overcome the difficulties of producing
| anything like an appreciable effect on
the public eye.
Quicksilver or mercury, is very diff
ficult mineral to deal with. 1t is ire
mendously heavy, being at least four
times heavier than water, has pecul-
lar quality of disappearing anywhere
and everywhere on the slightest provo
cation, and is so expensive that few can
indulge In SO interesting a luxury as a
quicksilver cascade
The metal in the Earrs Court foun-
tain falls from an upper bowl, four feet
in diameter, to basin seven feet below.
Both of these basins, as well as the or
namental supporting pillar. are con-
structed of iron, painted dull black to
heighten The effect.
Owing to the great cost of the mer
curry (2s. Cd a. pound), one of the main
problems was to devise the apparatus
SO as to get rid of any possibility of
waste. Hence anything like a Mag
ara Falls Of mercury was out of the
question. The top bowl ~ in fact not a
bowl al all, but a table, with siXty-four
small channels radiating from the CEN
ter to the outward edge. From the
center the quicksilver is thus distrib-
uted evenly over the edge, and drops in
sllvery streaks into the basin below,
where, curious to relate, two houshold
flatirons float about as airily az If they
were ducks on a mill pond-a striking
object lesson, proving the wonderful
density Of the liquid
From the lower bowl there is drain
pipe so feet long and 1 inch in diameter.
which conveys the mercury to a tank
at slightly lower level, forming the
supply to an elevator apparatus for
providing the necessary head" of mer-
curry. The form of elevator adopted
consists of a number of small, thickly
set steel buckets freely suspended at
intervals on an endless bicycle chain,
which is conveyed through the storage
tank.
AS each bucket dips into the latter a
fitting devise insures it picking UP all
the mercury which 1t will conveniently
hold. The buckets are then carried up
ward to a reservoir tank some fourteen
feet above where each in turn by
means of a similar fitting arrangement,
Is emptied, From this upper tank the
mercury is conducted by pipe 106 feet
in length to the upper basin of the foun-
tain.--London Mail.
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SAILORS LIKE CYCLING.

THE men who rent bicycles are al
ways glad to hear of the arrival of one
of the vessels of the Navy at Washing
TOM said a warrant officer of the De-
troit the other day at the Navy Yard,
where the gunboat was tied up.
See those fellows going toward the
gate?" continued he, pointing with the
end of his pipe 10 half dozen iackies
walking away from the dock. In less
than an hour all of them Will be scorch-
ing up and down the streets on bikes,
The sailormans favorite recreation on
shore is bicycle riding, and Washington
Is his favorite place to indulge In It,.
Nearly every man on the Detroit is a
good rider, and the few who don't know
how are anxious to learn to steer a
wheel Those boys have shore leave
too day, and they are going to place
where a wheel can be rented. They
will spend the whole day riding over
the city and out into the suburbs.
IT'S that way everywhere we go. As
soon as they get leave they are off to
hunt up a bicycle. 1t is only of recent
years that the wheel has become popu-
lar in the Navy and how it came about
| don't know. A sailor takes to a new
idea quickly, and now lots of fellows
that used to put in their time ashore
guzzling beer and giving trouble when
they came back to the ship spend their
money renting wheels.
Its fine exercise for them, and their
money Is better spent than If it went
to boost up the profits of gin mill. The
boys all like to get to Washington, be-
cause the streets here afford the finest
bicycle riding in the world, at least,
that part of the world we visit, Yes
terday there were twenty of the men
from the Detroit ashore, and sixteen or
them went for a spin over the smooth
asphalt pavements. They returned to
the ship last night on time, and all the
better for their long ride. Before the
bike became popular the programme
would probably have been eight hours
of carousing, with watch in the brig
TO follow.
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in his horseless carriage for awhile"
What's the trouble?" He's used 1t so
constantly that he has become auto
mobilious. philadelphia North Amer
lean.
1.-The sky is blue" sighed the maiden
fair,
And the scents that come from the
fields are sweet!
o, the world is glad but what do l
care?-
My shoes are overcrowded with feet y
Chicago Times-Herald.
No Equity About It.-"Fate doesn't
order these things with any degree OF
equity" said the young man with the
up-and-down collar. "Why not?' said
the girl For instance" said the youth,
'the oyster retires for four months,
but ice cream has an open season all
the year round "-Cleveland Plain Deal
or
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The officers encourage bicycle riding
among the men. First, because 1t is
good for the men physically and serves
to keep them away from booze. Inc
only trouble they ever have is an occa"
sional jar with policeman about
burst of speed, for sailor after long
cruise feels free from constraint once
he gets mounted on a wheel, and he Is
scorching before he knows it. The po-
lice are very kind however, and |
don't remember that one of our crew
was ever arrested for falling to observe
the laws governing bicycle riding. -
Washington Star.
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FLORETTE.
The Donkey and the Thoroughbred.


A blooded steed that cropped the grass
once saw Il laden donkey pass.
The thoroughbred was of famous stock
But he lmped with a badly damaged hook
His hoofs were split and his knees were
sprung,
And 1t was long since he'd been young
He couldn't work and he couldn't race,
He was of no use around the place.
But he stopped the donkey In the road
And pitied him for his heavy load.
And he boosted of his pedigree
And put on airs fer the ass to sec
81 sigh for you" said the blooded steed,
From my heart of hearts do indeed"
81 work all day" the donkey said
"And | know I'm not Thoroughbred
my beauty is not thing to praise
And I've known few joys in my busy days;
''But better a donkey that tolls away
Ethan a Thoroughbred that has had his
day" Chicago Times-Herad
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The long loose coat that was so swag-
ger last spring reappears. While the
form of the new garment Is not so wide
ly different from the other, there is SO
radical change of materials that little
hope is left restoring fashionable look
to the old coat Women who bought
last spring should have realized that
those coats would go out quickly be-
cause they were so marked in character
and because of the general rush to them
The new coat is in double-faced plaid
and plain goods. and will be worn by ex
quisites on the autumn homeward 1t
is the fashion among wealthy women to
take, If possible, portion of the home
trip by yacht. So the heavy box ulster
is often adapted especially to water use,
and this may be done without uniting
1t for other outing and later winter use.
A cassock ulster of REFER cloth, a dull
blue, woody chinchilla, Is made with
blue and red plaid surface inside and
showing at the hood. This pudding
bag shape. with pair of overlapping
pieces that shade the forehead and
give something the outline so becoming
in the pointed monks hood to which
the golf cape has accustomed U.S. This
cassock is fitted with all sorts and sizes
of pockets. Such garments will serve
for automobile "punting' later Folks
who want to refer In an easy manner to
an automobile, as II they had stable
full of them champing at their bits.
should speak airily of punting them.
Whether one has an automobile to
punt or not 1t will be safe and good
style to have an automobile cassock.
especially If it will serve for the outing
in the fall.
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entirely upon the efficiency and energy
of the commissioners, and the president
of the board announces that there Will
be no tagging. He expects that much
will be done even in the first year, and
those most hopeful as to the operation
of the law are expecting, when all the
taxable property is on the rolls, a de-
crease in the rate of taxation from
$40 per cent. to nearly per cent.
If Michigan can cut down taxation
half by means of tax commission It's
example will probably find imitators'
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MJCHIGA MS TAX WMTSSJON,

Michigan is going to see what a State
Tax commission can do to euualize and
tighten the burden of taxation. Mchi-
gan has been suffering from the same
evils that af1lict some other places. As
SCISSORS are not dishonest, the chairman
of the new commission says, but nearly
every assessor is looking out for the
other fellows in his county with sort
of belief that they are trying to get the
start of his town or ward in the equali-
cation of property, and each, therefore,
assesses real estate and places just as
low valuation on the property of his
town or ward as he possibly can, and
keep in harmony with his tax con-
science. There is also some politics in
the matter. many assessors fearing their
property-ownipg neighbors with politi-
cal influence. 1t is hoped to change all
this by the supervision of a commits
sion, appointed and not elective, and
entirely removed from local influences
The commissioners have the power to
review the assessment in every locality
in the State, and to compel a reassess-
ment, if they have reason to believe
that the original one is faulty A part
of their duties also is to secure a dis
closure of the personal property, which
easily evades taxation. To this end
they will search State. county. munich
pal, and court records, and are empow-
cred to subpoena any person whose tes-
timony or records are desired as to the
value Of property, Results will depend
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Queer things happen. A Melbourne
woman, whose husband is in the bicycle
long ago, while spinning along on her
wheel A st. Kilda hotel keeper got a
puncture in his tire the same day, and
took the bicycle to the shop of the hus-
band aforesaid, with the result that the
wife's gold nugget brooch was extricat-
ed from the tire.
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Special for Saturday.

Pitchers Castoria. .......... ....16c
Perfumed Talcum Powder. DC
Vanilla Extract. ...................Sc
Lemon Extract. &c
Ayers Hair Vigor.. .................61c
Egg Shampoo Cream.... ..idc
Johan Maria Farina Cologne,
o.. ............... ................. - GOV
Cosmo Buttermilk Soap. DC cake
Listerated Tooth Powder. ..lIc
Florida Water, s oz............-..-oc
Violet Ammonia, Half Pint. sc
Herculine Malt Extract. ......... lOc
Bromo Settler. ...s... $50. ..... .oc
Bone Collar Bone, 10c value. be doz'
Empire Shell Combs, 15c and 19c
value 80. ......... .-....''..!o
Shell Side Combs 15c value. 49,: LUG
White and Black Bead Belts, %
A large variety of Children's School
Supplies Half price.
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Indiana and Texas will soon be par
Elephants in an event showing what
progress the friendly feeling between
the North and South has made This
event is the return to Terrys Texas
rangers of the battle flag which was
taken from them during the civil war;
AT the last session of the Indiana leg
islature the request for the return of
the flag was made by Texas, and 1t was
complied with. The day of the return
of the flag, which will be Friday, Octo-
Der g. is to be celebrated in Texas. Pic
lures of the flag have been sent there,
and badges are now being made in large
numbers. 1t has been decided to present
two large silken banners to the COVER
nors of Texas and Indiana in honor of
the event.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-02

Senator Henderson, of Nebraska in
assuming the presidency of the bar as
ISOLATION, expressed doubt whether in
any twelve months since the foundation
of the government there had been so
much legislation as there was last year.
In some of the States, he said, the SEES
sion list for 1899 filled over one thousand
is much over five hundred. Too much
and too bad.
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Agitation against poisonous ingredi-
ents used in pottery has drawn out an
order from the British Office of Works
that all articles supplied under con-
tract to the Public Departments, the
palaces shall be made with leadless
glaze.
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reading car on suburban trains, as
well as smoking car, is request of
the Boston Transcript, which thinks
that such an accommodation would
come bit nearer in the scheme for
civilization to the gates of paradise
than does the smoker " The idea is
tn have one car, al least in which some
thing of the decorum and quiet of
library reading-room may be had, leav
ing the other cars of the train to the
takers, and also to the card-players,
whose steady thump, thump on the
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-02

There Is progress in China. Pekin
now has an electric railroad, running
from the south gate of the city to the
steam railroad station, and it is hoped
that permission to enter the city itself
may be obtained soon. The road was
built by German firm.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-02

Senior Miguel Sanchez, now in this
country in the interest of the Porto
Rican public school system, was at one
time on the staff of General Gomez in
Cuba. II was Swimming one of the
New York Sunday newspapers while l
was in the generals headquarters in
Cuba" said the senior the other day,
''and it was the first to reach us in
several months. I noticed an article on
the newly discovered movements of the
earths surface. Now, you know the
general liked to be consulted-to be
asked questions-no matter how unim-
portant they might be, so in reading the
article 1 stopped and asked: General,
how do you account for the daily revo-
luton of the earth, anyhow That's
easy to answer he replied instantly, so
long as Hayti, Porto Rico and Cuba are
parts of it. >"
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Shenandoah, a borough in Pennsylva-
mia, is not enjoying its experience in an
attempt at furnishing water under mu-
nicipal ownership. This municipal ac-
ton was authorized in 1892 by vote
of the citizens, who had been persuaded
that thus they could obtain lower rates
than those charged by a private con-
Germ. Their first disappointment was
in the cost of the works. On paper the
expense was only $70,0O0 and perhaps
private enterprise might have built the
plant for that price. But under politi
cal management the expense to date has
been 1921, AGO. and the citizens are pay
ing more for water than they did be-
fore the borough went into the business.
They are worried, too, over the annual
deficit of about SO, 300 in the operation of
the municipal plant, and are consider
ing a proposition to lease the works to
private individuals at a rental of $4,000
q year.
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FASHION NOTES.

A Fashion Set by the Automobile.
The demand for novel boleros is as
great as it was few years ago, when
that form of Jacket entered into one out
of two of all fashionable bodices. The
current value of the bolero that is mover
of cut or finish Is so great that the
possession of such means ~the success
of the entire suit Pictured here is an
illustrative example. Pale mauve
cashmere was the goods, and fold trim
ming of cream cloth was reinforced by
ornamental pearl buttons. Beneath the
jacket was bodice of pale pink ana
white striped silk. The odd arrange
ment of the jacket, with its scalloped
fronts and triple revers, was tbs stylish
feature of the gown. Suits of similar
sort are to be many this fall. So far
the bolero is confined almost exclusively
to cloth dresses.
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Boys NegIlgee Shirts

With attached collars and cuffs
made from pretty figured. striped
and checked cambrics, all sizes,
12H to IA, SATURDAY age
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Mems Neckwear.

Bargain Table. West Store
so dozen Nobby Neckwear,
just opened for Saturday Selling,
pretty styles in Checks, Stripes,
Plaids, Four-in- hands and Strings,
their SOC quality,
SATURDAY 25c
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.Boys' School Pants.

Guaranteed All Wool and Fast
Colors, pretty checks and mixtures,
all ages, now marked at $1.00 and
$1.25, SATURDAY 79c
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ladies' Handkerchiefs.

Pretty Handwork Initial Hand
kerchiefs with hemstitched border
all the way from Ireland,
SATURDAY SC ca.
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Boys School Caps.

A big purchase Of a Manufac-
turers Odd Lots in Boys Golf Caps
usually retailed at rs. SO and SOC,
SATURDAY I5c ca,
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ADVERTISING RATES.

ADVERTISING kAIES. u
Situations, Wants Rents. and other sliu'i
advertisements, One Cent a Word eacn N
sertlon. Five Cents a Word for full week
(seven tines.
Display advertisements. per Inch. one ~ "a
sertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertlohs nv, ~
cents one week, 3d. one month"; @Ao'
one year. $40. az
Obituary Notices. In prose or verse, 40
cents per line. Notices of Births, MA,
Tlages, Deaths and Funerals. 90 cents eaen
Local Notices, 10 cents per line 49,
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own immediate business TALL matter to De
nnob)ectionable), and their contracts do not
include Wants, To Let, For Sale. etc.
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ChiIdren'S Drawers
ChiIdren's Aprons

Made from White Lawn, pref
tily trimmed with Val. Lace. very
slightly soiled, were SOC,
SATURDAY 25c