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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-08

The propelling power is supplied by an
unusually powerful electric motor, the
machine being steered by a bird-like
tail, consisting of two adjustable spades.
The motor the propelling power of
which Is calculated to last three hours,
weighs eight pounds, while the whole
machine does not exceed seventeen
pounds in weight. The wings will sus-
tain a man weighing one hundred and
fifty pounds. The whole apparatus is
said to be easy to handle, and to secure
not only rapid ascent, but safe de-
scent, The availability of this machine
having been proved in several success
full trials the inventor is now perfect
ing flying machine, which consists of
an aluminium raven, covered with silk.
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Lille IIlMe sllONs.

Two little shoes OF worsted blue,
With satin ribbons woven through
The scaoped tops, and slowly tied
BY trembling hands that could not hide
Their owners joy, as, standing there,
she proudly held nloft the pair,
Two tiny shoes of azure blue
Were shown to me-but not to you.
She softly spoke What matchess grace
Lighted her sweet Madonna facet
In smiling lips and cheeks aglow
l saw no fear of future Woe;
But, with deepening trust In her tender
eyes,
She leaned, in meditatiye gulse,
And showed me those shoes OF Heavenly
hue,
As she whispered ow-but not to YOU.
She whispers now; yet can see
Her face with Its gentle mystery.
She smiles and beckons: my fancy teens
With fairy etchings, faint ny dreams,
But dimly true, that ! saw in thought
As | looked on the work her hands had
wrought
In hours Observation-Disclosures shoes of blue,
Long hid from me, still hid from you.
Like little ships serene and still,
They wait for passengers to NIL
Their cosy cabins, warm and neat,
Crochetted to shelter babe feet.
In many 4 port OF love and cheer,
Such harbingers of life appear.
From myriad pictures this ! choose,
A woman showing tiny shoes.
For little shoes must ever wait
The little feet that kindly fate
Brings into the hallowed harbor fair
or fathers kiss and mothers care;
And hold thar fast as the world may 90.
Such shoes and shoemakers twill never
outgrow-
Queer little shoes. so soft and blue,
Sometime, sometime yOull see them too.
The Woman's Journal.
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AS TO CADDIEs.

! Some time ago newspaper stated
that Mr.. A. j. Balfour, M. p, had been
presented by a certain institution with
a pair of silver mounted caddies," and
was promptly made the butt Of its wit
ty contemporaries who explained that
Clubs only could be "silver mounted,
and that ''caddes'' were men, who at
tended at golf links to act as gentle
mems ''gillies" or funl1eys. The news
papers blunder however, was very cas-
lily to correct, and probably its con-
tenporaries knew little more about
"caddies" that 1t did itself. The term
"caddies," or 'cadies' or "cawdies," is
akin to ''cad" and cadet" and means
messengers or unattached male serv-
ants. Caddies, in fact, were originally
class of men, found in every Scottish
town of any size, who were at the beck
and call Of everybody who wanted an
odd job done Hence they were at the
beck and call of everybody who was
starting for game OF golf, and now,
thanks to the organization Of labor,
they are employed solely by the golfer.
The London Gem
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show?" asked the prospective purchas.
| er-Chicago News
Bridget-"But you can't sleep there
mum. Miss Alice said no one should
occupy her bed while she's gone away
because 1t isn't very strong. Alces
Cousin--"Oh, well, | can, because Tn
a light sleeper Harlem Life
II discovered that my bookkeeper
/ was fooling away his time making a
flying machine"
What did you do about it?''
II taught him how to fly without a
machine. Chicago Record.
Mr.. Johnson-I notice, Jasper that
you have the rheumatism as bad as
ever. Don't you ever take anything
for it?
Jasper Deed, does, Sab. ! takes
crutches mostly.-Boston Courier
His Interrogation. Little Clarence
with rising rehection)-"Pa?" Mr.
Clippers-"Uh?" Little Clarence-"Pa,
if man 50 years old marrice girl of
II, and his son, aged rs, marries the
girls mother, don't that make the old
man the son-in-law Of his own son, and
the father-in-law of himself? And
and, pa, can I go fishin' all this after
noon with Johnny Jumpup il ! won't
ask you any more questions?' Mr..
Clippers (hastily)--"Great guns. Yes"
Puck
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AN INCUBATOR OSTRICH.
The First Successful Result of That
Experiment.

The First Successful Result of That
Experiment.
Out at the ostrich farm there is an
other curiosity and this time 1t is the
first incubator Matched baby ostrich in
the United States For several years
attempts have been made at Omaha and
Los Angeles to hatch the eggs of the
ostrich, but so far all attempts have
been unsuccessful The question of APP
plying moisture has been the one prob
lem that has troubled all breeders, and
the uncertainty of the birds setting
has made it necessary to use the incu-
bator, il it should be proved possible.
Some time ago Mr.. Campbell had
half a dozen eggs placed in an incubator
and has been experimenting ever since.
When the eggs were twenty-one days
in the incubator he broke two Of them
and found perfectly formed chicks, With
feathers on their backs and rudimentary
tail feathers sprouting. The birds were
alive and are now preserved in alcohol
at the showroom of the farm. Encour-
aged by this apparent success, he has
watched the incubator, which in turn,
has nursed the eggs, and yesterday,
JuSt ipi " -tHN duyo iioii tiiC tiiiit VI
the first experiment, one Of the eggs
showed signs OF muscular life, and Mr..
Campbell broke the shell. Immediately
a claw was stuck through the inner
skin of the shell, then another, and
finally whole foot appeared. Mr..
Campbell waited until the afternoon,
VIXEN the bird was about hale wnv out
of the shell. Finally the head began To
force its way out of the shells Inner
lining. and then the incubator baby
ostrich winked an eye. and he was nat
back in the incubator to finish the pro-
cess Of making his entry into the world
alone.
That part Of the bird which was visi-
bic was perfectly formed, and wis COW
cred With feathers. The foot had claw
about a quarter OF an inch long. Tie
young bird is a kicker and was making
vall9lt struggles to get into business
on its own account.
Mr.. Campbell's success in raising this
bird in the incubator is in the nature
Of valuable discovery. Many hun
dred dollars worth of eggs have been
wasted in experiments, and k Mr..
Campbell shall succeed In Matching out
the eggs which are now in the incubat-
or the discovery will be worth thous-
ands Of dollars. 1t has taken forty-two
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OUEER .DOINGS.

Ex-Alderman James d. Dewell, Jr.,
has respectfully requested the Board of
Finance to give public hearing upon
the Board of Education estimates for
1900. If the Board of Finance treats
this respectful request in the way 1t has
treated the respectful protests that have
been made against it's secret session
antic there will be no such public hear
| ing as is asked for.
| The Board of Finance has taken a
| strange and unwise attitude toward the
public. 1t practically says to the pub
lie that while the board is working it
cannot be bothered by the public, and
that the public hasn't any right to be
inquisitive as to the way business is
done by the Board. 1t is true that it
might be inconvenient for the Board to
do some of its business in public, but 1t
has not yet become an accepted theory
that public officials should put their
own convenience before the rights or
the convenience Of the public and it is
still generally admitted that burdened
taxpayers have a. right to know just
how their money is appropriated.
We sincerely hope the Board of FL
nance will come off it's perch. 1t may
really be as high above the people as it
seems to think it is, but if it persists in
its claims it will be misunderstood and
even reviled by some. 1t will be wiser
for 1T to come down among the folks
and be friendly What if talk does dis
turb it? That Is part of the penalty
people who do public business in this
country have to pay. The wrong of its
position Is plain now. 1t would be plain
er If all the boards should take to secret
sessions. They have just as much right
to as the Board of Finance has, and the
reasons why they should are just as
good, or just as bad, as those which are
urged in behalf of the Board Of Finance.
But the people of New Haven are not
yet quite ready for an Oriental des-
potism upheld by an officeholding aris-
tocracy.
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her hands, She prefers, therefore to
hold him in subsection but spares his
Hfe because he Is in a certain way a
protection against the Vaccinations Of
| Yung Lee. If she alone stood between
| that ambitious person and the throne.
! to which he also aspires, the chances
for her removal would be numerous and
painful to contemplate.
Under the criticism Of Kang the rep
Chang, suffers along with that Of the
grand old woman. Ii, it is said, has
been a cipher for years past in China,
and is entirely without influence there"
But the young emperor comes out OF
the analysis with colors flying. He Is
neither mental ncr physical wreck.
Ee was not i'll but overworEed when 1t
was reported that his health was COM
pletely shattered. While he was in Of
flee he was a slave to duty, reading
daily the piles and piles of petitions
presented to him, and wearing himself
out thinking for the good Of his peo-
pie" Intellectually he Is far superior to
the empress, and he would be an ADLER
administrator than this plotter who
does not rule the state herself, but "be-
Ing a woman of low origin and many
vices, really governs through her favor
lite paramount"
All of which may be as true as some
of the other things that have been said
about Chinese affairs.
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THAT STRENUO US FTGHT.

| A few people in New York seem to
| sponslble for the prize-fight which was
| SO successfully pulled Off tho other
| night. Their idea seems to be that
| while 1t was Tammanys duty to pre-
vent the fight, Tammany couldn't be
expected to do its duty, but it was also
Governor Roosevelt's duty to prevent
the fight, and he could fairly be ex-
pected to do his duty. Prize fighting
is forbidden in New York by State law.
and Governor Roosevelt, knowing, as
did the rest of the public, that arrange
ments were making for it, did nothing
to enforce the law, 1t is. pointed out
that here was an opportunity in which
he might at least have shielded HIM
self from any charge of completely in
the affair by calling the attention of
the mayor of New York to the danger
to State law in his vicinage, and urg-
ing upon him to prevent such action.
He took no notice of the subject. and
those concerned in this prize fight APP
pear to have felt as safe against being
troubled by the State authority as by
that Of the city.
Governor Roosevelt believes in a
strenuous life, and perhaps prize fights
do not shock him as much as some
think they ought to- A correspondent
of the New York Evening Post saws.
when the clubs were established I'M
der the Horton law, Tim Sullivan,
senator from this city, who is inter-
ested in these clubs, invited his friend.
then police commissioner, to witness
one of the fights. The commissioner
was no other than the present COVER
nor. The invitation was accepted and
Roosevelt was reported to have said
that it was manly art and he could
see nothing brutal about it. At the
fight there was an absolute Knockout"
The governor of Texas made it too |
hot for fighting in his State, but
the governor of New York didn't. And
yet New York is supposed to be more
civilized than Texas and better gov
erned
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days careful watching. The thermom-
eter has been kept at 10 degrees, and
the moisture has been applied at inter
walls as MIR. Campbell thought best. The
proprietors Of the Los Angeles farm
have long ago given UP experimenting
with incubators having had no success
whatever, but Messrs. Pearson and lay
Tor, of the Jacksonville farm, on hear
Ing about the twenty-one day result
mentioned above Immediately cabled
to London, England, concern, for on
incubator of the same style ana pat
tern as the concern is manufacturing
for the farms in Cape Colony and large
enough to hatch seventeen eggs at one
time,-The Florida Times-Union and
Citizen.
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rows Of cording and black Mechlin lace
insertion The band hiding the fasten-
ing was corded, the belt matching, a
black satin bow finishing the latter.
One characteristic all these waists
have IN common. That is their ex"
treme length of waist This is SO
marked as to prevent the practice of
economy with last seasons waists,
even il they are in excellent condition.
Their cut wont permit the belt to drop
down in front as fashion now demands
1t should.
Plaid stocks appear again. Wool and
silk, Isle and silk, and wool and Isle
are the best selections Solid silk is
frghtfully expensive, and though in
the German goods the silk will readily
wear, the colors and harmonies are
likely to be crude. Cobalt blue reap
pears, but seems only pretty with white
dots for summer use. Be careful about
stockings of elastic weave made with
close run perpendicular stripes. When
the stocking spreads to fit the instep
and ankle, the stripes are apt to be
pulled apart irIegularly. That effect
is most unbecoming, though in the
bend the stocking may look very pref
ty. FLORETTE.
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EXCEPTIONS.

Expert Judges wonder where |
could get a good cook?" Il don't know;
/ will ask the first policeman | see."-
Indianapolis Journal.
Tough,-"Oh, Henry, don't cut your
pie with knife" Eliza, you ought
to be thankful | don't call for a can
opener Chicago Record
My ledger shows that 1 did a bust
ness of $4,000 last year" said the gre
Ger who was trying to sell out
Yes; but what does your pocke tbook
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F.iSHIOy NOTES.
shirt Waists Galore.

in such great variety that these well
come garments are provided for any
occasion but the sort which implies So
ciety's war paint and feathers. The
house wear waists are as simple as the
palmer summer sorts. About those
used with tailor gowns there is little
elaboration, but exactness as to cut, fit
and up-to-date finish makes the price
as high as IL feminine delicacies were
applied with liberal hand. The dres-
sy sorts are much varied, and make a
here. 1t was canary colored taffeta,
back and sides made with alternate
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hanS You Wei, the Chinese reformer
WHO aft his country to save his pigtail
and the head to which il is attached. il
in London, and has been talking about
AFFAIRS In China in an interesting way.
The power and intelligence of the en-
press doWagcr are both, he saws. great
ly o1pnated. She has been follower
rather than a leader, and has been used
as tool ~ Russia and Russia's agent
the Chinese General lung Lee. AT the
present time She WOULD like to retrace
hr steps AND nScu her nephew on the
throne again hec2us she breads Rus
sian aggression, lut she is restrained
by the knowledge of hel own evil deeds
and the fear that the emperor might
punish her with death in return for
the bad treatment he has received at
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Not a little attention seems to have
been aroused among Vienna aeronauts.
both military and otherwise, in regard
to the merits of Stenzen's novel flying
machine, recently invented at Hamburg.
The apparatus resembles stork in the
form of its construction. The expanded
wings. measuring nineteen feet in lzngth
and five in breadth, are made of hollow
steel ribs, covered with very light linen.
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The burial place of John Paul Jones
has been discovered. 1t was in a grave
ward in Paris which was discontinued
January /, 1893 less than six months
after the brilliant American command
er's death and burial. This graveyard
was opened for Protestants in 1862, and
the Revolution closed it, on the Sd
Thermidor in the year w, which was
July 23. 1896 the land was sold as ma
tional property, and 1t is now owned by
the heirs of the man to whom the first
purchased sold it, The site is oc-
cupied by miserable dirty little build
ings. behind the hospital ST. Louis. All
this has been discovered, and substan-
tiated by documents, by a Paris an
tquary named De Ricaudy, whom Hen
ny Vignaud secretary OF the American
embassy, has employed and who now
makes this report to General Horace
Porter our embassado
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The Alliance Israelite Universele has
instituted legal proceedings against the
executors of the late Baroness de
Hirsch, who refuse to pay over to the
Alliance the sum of 100000 francs.
This legacy has really been bequeathed
to the Jewish Colonization Association,
with the condition that the interest be
handed over to the Alliance for the
maintenance of their schools in the
East. The executors have now declared
that such bequest was contrary to
law, and consequently decline to abide
by the terms of the will.
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The Philadelphia Medical Journal
prints a letter from the secretary of the
Superior Board Of Health of Puerto
Rico" testifying to the fact that eight
hundred thousand vaccinations in the
There is at present not a single case of
the disease in Puerto Rico, though nine
months ago cases We're scattered all
over the island and a serious epidemic
was threatened. The situation proves
the possibility of stamping out the dis
ease, even in tropical countries. The
that Puerto Rico has had no cases of
yellow fever all summer.
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A book entitled Sketches Of Promi-
nent Missourians," about to be publish
ed, will devote several chapters, it is
said, to William Muldrow, popularity re-
garded as the actual original of Mark
Twain's Colonel Mulberry Sellers. A
Missourian who knew him well says
II tell you, he was wonderful man.
The trouble was he was born half a
century too soon. Men are coming mon
ey now putting into execution schemes
originated by Muldrow and which were
derided then. His plans were all right,
and if there had been at that time half
a score more men like him in this coun-
try it's development would have been
begun thirty or forty years sooner"
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The Corn Belt has compiled mortgage
statistics for the State of Nebraska for
the first six months of this year The
total number of farm mortgages filed
during the period covered it reports as
1884 and the amount $11, S42, 032.14. The
number Of farm mortgages satisfied was
14,126, amounting to $14656. S01.53. The
number of city and town mortgages fl
ed was 1880, amounting to $2,S56, 1884.
The town and city mortgages satisfied
were 1885, amounting to $5,OO1, 295. "A.
The total number of chattel mortgages
filed was 4535S. amounting to SIT, 523, $685.
H. and chattel mortgages satisfied were
24306, amounting to S11,65S,376.59.
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In the annual report Of First Assist
ant Postmaster Perry s. Heath vigor-
Gus plea 10 made for rural free deliv-
cry. Mr.. Heath says the service so far
has resulted in increased postal re-
ceipts, enhancement Of the values of
farm lands reached by rural free de-
livery of from So to SO per acre. gem
eral improvement of the condition Of
the roads traversed by the rural car
rier, better prices for farm products, the
producers being brought into daily
touch with the state of the markets
besides educational benefits conferred
by relieving the monotony of farm life
ready access to wholesome literature
and knowledge of current events.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-01-31
pi,cipIine Of the Wood Pile.

Every human male man, who pos
sesses even a lingering taint of tenn
per. should keep an axe and a wood
pile handy, that he may rush out
and work of his wrath when it
wakes fierce. There is nothing IN
this vain old world that will send a
man back to his appointed work
with a wilted collar aud truer com-
prehension of himself than thirty
minutes wrestling with a full-faY-
ored axe. He can use il so harcely
in the wood. All the fury OF his
nature, all the hate he feels for his
enemy, he can infuse into the axe
handle; and how the chips will fly!
Not very artisticslly, probably, but
they will fy And presently it
dawus upon TIE man that be is
experiencing a change of heat. He
does not hate his enemy at all. He
changes his stock, and begins to
chop on the Italian system of pen
manship-the up strokes heavy and
the down strokes light. He rather
loves his enemy now. At last he
puts all his failing strength IN one
terrific blow He misses the tip
with the axe, and smites the chop
ping-blOck With the axe handle. a
tiugle as though he had swallowed
an alarm clock goes from elbow to
hip aud back again, the axe drops
from his powerful hands, and a
weak, limp, nerveless, perspirlng,
trembling, gasping thing, he stag
gers to the house, lies down ol the
first thing that looks like a lounge,
and is ready to die. There isn't a
care or a falter ia his heart. Death
has no terrors, and life has nc
temptations tor him. He has chop
ped out all his baser nature, aud he
is Just as ethreal and spiritual as be
can be on this side of Jordan. 1t il
a great medicine. -Burdette.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-01-31

The Texarkana Clothing COM
pauy's store was broke into last
night at the side entrance on State
street. A large glass was smashed
in, the pieces falling on the inside,
which must have made a great
noise, but still there was no one
heard it and no one of course, in
terferred with the prowIer's plans
aud the supposition Is, he is better
dressed this morning than he was
yesterday, There was no way to
fiud out Just how much the prowler
got, but from signs left behind it is
thought he was liberal and was
willing to divide with the proprie-
tors. At any rate he did not carry
off the stock, but left many bar
gains on the connter for those wAo
are willing to pay for what they
wear, We are sorry the fellow did
not price the suit he stole for we
know he had rather pay the price
asked than run the risk of getting
caught,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-01-31
How 10 Prevent Pneumonia,

You are perhaps aware that pnen-
monia always results from cold or
from an attack of Ia grippe, Dur
ing the epidemic of la grippe few
years ago when SO many cases re-
suited in pneumonia, it was OBJ
served that the attack was never
followed by that diserse when
Chamberlaiu's Cough Remedy was
used. 1t counteracts any tendency
of a cold or la grippe to result in
that dangerous disease. 1t is the
best remedy in the world tor bad
colds and la grippe. Every bottle
warranted. For sale by Smith Drug
Company.