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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21
What is True Greatness

To tho Editor of the journal and Courier:
There have been great men in all ages.
Men of genius have sprung up from
time to time, each in his own way to
aid the march of human progress. We
read with interest the stories Of their
lives, and regret that we have not been
favored with gifts and opportunities
such as theirs. Some of us cry out:
| Where are the men of the present day
| who can compete with these in grand
eur? 1t seems as If all the great men
| had gone out from among US, and
multitude of smaller minds had arisen
that are ill-ftted for the places left va
cant by their predecessors. Genius in
these days starves in a garnet, and the
place of honor Is held by him who COM
mands much of the worlds goods. The
standard of to-day is what man has,
not what he is"
So it may seem to the superficial OBJ
server. Yet the truth is that there is
more of true greatness among us to-
day than there has ever been before.
We are passing through transition
period. The conditions of human life
are changing. Greatness is no more
what we formerly thought it to be.
When the race was passing through the
stage of childhood the overpowering
majesty of genius was needed to awak-
en- In the general mind some ideal Of
the manhood to be attained in the flu
ture ages. The race Is approaching ma
turity.
These great men of the past were i'm
PEELED by a power beyond their will to
be what they were. They were inspired
by powers greater than human under
standing can grasp. They were, If we
study their lives closely, for the most
part unbalanced in character The
learned psychologists of our day tell you
that it is but a step from genius to
insanity. They were fitted for some
special mission, and to the outworking
of that destiny all other thoughts were
to be subordinated. The accomplish
ment of the one all-absorbing purpose
often led the genius to employ unwise,
and sometimes unjust, methods. We
pardon them their faults because of the
good they accomplished for humanity.
The rapid progress of the race during
the last fifty years, the blending of the
cultured life of many nations, and the
rise of the public school system have
brought about q state of mind which
fails to reverence genius as it used to
be reverenced. A man OF fair talent
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21
The Kings Dust,

"Thou shalt dle," the priest said to the
king.
"Thou shalt vanish like the leaves Of
spring.
Like the dust of any common thing
One day thou upon the winds shalt blow."
"Nay, not So" the king said, II shall stay
While the great sun In the sky makes day;
Heaven and earth when i do, pass away.
n my tomb l wait till all things go!"
Then the king died. And with myrrt1 and
nard,
Washed With palm wine, swathed in linen
hard
Rolled in naphtha gum, and under guard
OF his steadfast tomb, they laid the king.
Century fed to century; still he lay
Whole as when they hid him first away.
Sooth, the priest had nothing more to say
He, it seemed, the king, knew everything
One day armies, with the tramp Of doom
Overthrow the huge blocks of the tomb
Swarmlng sunbeams searched its chambered
gloom,
Bedoulns camped about the sand blown
spot.
Little Arabs answering to their name,
With n broken mummy fed the flame;
Then a wind among the ashes came,
Blew them lightly-and the king was not!
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

The proposed amendment to the North
Carolina constitution to eliminate from
the franchise large proportion of the
negro vote, estimated at as much as
lature, and is to be submitted to vote
of the people at the next general cleo
ton. The amendment provides that
every person presenting himself for reg
istration shall be able to read and write
any section of the constitution in the
English language, and, in addition
thereto, shall have paid on or before the
first day Of March of the year in which
he proposes to vote his poll tax, as pre-
scribed by law, for the previous year,
and he shall exhibit his receipt therefor
when he offers to vote. Poll taxes shall
be levied only on assessed property, and
no process shall issue to enforce their
collection except against assessed prop
uary /, 1867, or at any date prior there
to, entitled to vote under the laws of
any State in the United States wherein
he then resided, and no lineal descend
ant of any such person, shall be denied
the right to register and vote at any
election in North Carolina by reason Of
his failure to possess the educa tional
qualification prescribed, provided that he
shall have registered in accordance with
the terms of this article prior to Deem
Der l, 1908, and no person shall be en-
titled to register under this section at
ter that date.
This amendment is almost an exact
copy of the Louisiana suffrage law,
which has been pronounced eonstitu-
tional by many Of the ablest lawyers of
the South.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

be used for this, for it presents no
difficulties of color scheme. While the
cutting and fitting will not be a simple
matter, they will be more difficult than
the sw1e points in almost any princess
gown BY no model that is stylish is
that cut easy, and just now when the
fit of skirts must be precise, a princess
gown is more difficult to make than
ever.
Fashionable women have developed
this winter fanciful notions as to fit in
shoes, especially in high ones. That
doesn't mean that the work of sales
folk in shoe stores is increased, because
Mladi insists on having her shoes made
to order She not only demands perfect
fit, but is fnicky about the quality of
leather, holding out for sort that will
take an oil finish. Such a leather is not
dependent on polish, and always looks
we'll wether wet or just cleaned with
oil. The cut of the lacing is another
important matter with the exquisite
who must have her foot look well view
ed straight in front No ready made
boot will do this, she says. Her laces
must converge at the ankle, spreading
over the instep and above to the calf.
She wants her boot to lace as accur-
ately as corset and narrowing at
the ankle, f1aring above and below.
FLORETE,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21
CONTRARY.


All He Asked. There!
I've paid all my bills, and I'm going to
start all over again." Cleverton-"Well,
don't begin on me. Puck.
Your poetry reminds me of Kip
ling" said the editor "Ah, really?"
cried the poet. Eyes. Every line Of it
Is white mans burden. "-Philadelphla
! North American.
We'll, 1t can't get much colder than
this" remarked Henly, cheerfully IF
1t does groaned the dsconsolate one,
well all be too cold to feel it any
more. '-Philadelphia North American
Parent-"So you really want to marry
my daughter" Suitor-"Well, / can
hardly say that; but there doesn't seem
to be any other way to come in for any
share of her money, you know "-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Bridget, what is that child crying so
wildly for"' Sure, mum, he's just
drinked all his soothin syrup and ate
the cork, and l don't know now what
ails him, unless it's the bottle he wants
to Swallow!"-Tit Bits.
Harris-"Walters has been looking
pretty sad since his daughter got mar
ried, hasn't her" Correll-"Yes; you
see, he had no sooner got his daughter
off his hands than he found he would
have to put her husband on his Feet
Brooklyn Life.
you say that young lady overheard
makes her living by the piano? Strange
I never heard her play"
We'll you see, she collects from every
tenant in the house 10 cents an hour by
day and 20 cents an hour by night for
good thing of ."-Meggendorfer Blat-
ter.
His Private Opinion-Mrs. Homespun
(suspiciously)-"I wonder why Hen
nery's college diploma is writ in Latin,
Josiah?" Mr.. Homespun (grimly) -
oval, Sarah, to tell you the truth,
think the professors have got suthin' to
say about Henry in that diploma that
they don't want us to know about" -
Puck.
Exigencies-"I shall not marry" he
declared, because if I were to be ship
wrecked, wife would be right in the
way!" But he was never shipwrecked.
Instead, he was pursued by wolves, in
Russia. Now at once he became aware
Of the unwisdom of his choice. "Alas!'
he cried, "if had wife / might throw
her out to the wolves and make my es-
cape while they were devouring her!'-
1t is very difficult to anticipate exigen-
cies.-Detroit Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

In case testing the liability of the
city OF Chicago for damages caused by
the railroad riots of 1894, the State SUI
preme court has ruled against the city.
This clears the way for successful dam
age suits involving something like 49,
100000 or more.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

n "A bill has been introduced in the Mas
eachusetts legislature to provide pen
atty for wagon drivers who trespass on
bicycle paths. The measure was draft
I'd because Of the fact that Boston built
p patch for wheelmen on Massachusetts
avenue, and before the bicycle had a
chance to use it the track was ruined
by teamsters.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

The largest order for locomotives
ever received by the Baldwin works at
philadelphia comes from China. 1t in
cludes eighty-one engines to be used
on new railroads that are to be opened
In the Orient. The amount of the con-
tract exceeds 100000.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21
ADVERTISING RATES,

Situations, Wants. Rents. and other small
advertisements, One Cent Word each In
aertion. Five Cents Word for full week
ASeven tImes).
Display advertisements. per inch. one In.
eertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertion. 40
one year. $40
Obituary Notices. In prose or verse, Is
cents per line. Notices OF Births MAJ
flages, Deaths and Funerals. 30 cents each.
Local Notices. Is cents per line
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

In the January number of La Revue
signature Of L. de Norvins, scathing
article upon the millionaire women of
the United States. The writer says
they pass their time in spending quick
ly and copiously the "greenbacks" of
their husbands or of their fathers, and
that they voluntarily cut themselves off
from the common people as severely as
precepts and customs confine Hindu
women to the caste to which they be-
tiers in general, L de Norvins says:
When these exquisite creatures enter
society they cost their parents not less
than 100000. People treat them as
dolls, and dolls they really are. 1 must
avow that this stupid education bears
fruit, and that these proud and naughty
young persons surpass all their sisters
of both hemispheres in uselessness and
empty-headedness Incapable of doing
any WORK. poWelleSS " uilecI HOuSe-
hold or to comprehend the role of their
sex in society and in the family, ignor-
ant of even the most elementary knowl-
edge, they have but one thought, one
preoccupation, one anxiety-it is to ex-
cite the jealousy Of their friends or OF
their parents by a Jewel, dress, a
horse or a piece of furniture, costing
an exorbitant price. Scarcely have they
satisfied this costly whim then they be-
come disguised with the article. When
the multi millionaire women are not fe-
rocously avaricious like Nine. Green,
or foolishly prodgal, like Nine. Cousino,
they are exaggeratedly snobbish.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

DR.. Brush-'T wonder why Rargnet
always speakes of his wife as q dream ?"
Mrs. Brush-'I suppose because she al
ways goes by contraries. Tit Bits.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

i Mr.. Tollemache tells in the Spectator
the following story Of little girl: The
Hr, saying that she had committed a sin
which could never be forgiven and
which was too bad to be repeated. BY
hint Of a little coaxing she was induced
to make a full confession, which was in
this wise: II felt SO sorry for poor Sa-
tan and wanted to give him a little
comfort. So got glass of cold water
and poured it down a little hole in the
kitchen floor.''
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21
FASHION NOTES.
OF Ingenious Cut.

In no other sort of costume is the va
riety of arrangements more noticeable
than in princess gowns. Apparently
there is rivalry among designers of such
dresses, for the output is marked by
great deal of tasteful ingenuity. One
Of the many models that prove this
was taken by the artist for this pic
ture. 1t was dove gray suiting, the
back and sides of the skirt trimmed
with several ruffles of the goods and
finished with two large black velvet
rosettes. The bodice was tight fitting,
three circular ruffles reached from the
shoulder to the waist line and finished
at bust and waist with two more ro-
settles. Any stylish shade of goods could
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

In case at Abilene, Kansas, the other
hay the man indicted went on the stand
In his own behalf and swore positively
that he had not committed certain act.
The jury acquitted him and he was dis
charged from custody. Later the coun-
ty attorney got conclusive proof that the
man had committed the act, and had
him arrested for perjury. His attor-
meys set up in court that practically he
had been on trial for perjury before
that in acquitting him the former jury
had settled the question of the truth or
falsity Of his testimony-and that to try
him again would be placing him twice
In jeopardy for the same offense. The
district judge upheld this view of the
ease and discharged the prisoner with
put trial.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-21

VI In recent lecture Judge James M.
Greer expressed conviction that the
American negro must quit the country
or perish. "Cruel and harsh as it
Sounds" said the judge, death or
transportation is his only future The
Memphis Commercial Appeal dissents
'hinphatically from this view. eff we
may judge from the swarms of picka-
hinnies to be SEEM 1t remarks, ''the
census of 1900 will show that the negro
Us not dying out. In the rural districts
colored children are becoming of value
and distinct consequence. The Missis-
sippi planter who brings colored fami-
lies from the congested sections of the
Carolinas is always ready to do more
for the family where the children are
numerous than for the family where the
children are few
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-12
WANT MORE WAGES.

Omaha Committees from the Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers and
Locomotive Firemen Of the Union Pa
cinc system came here today to lay be-
fore the proper officials of the road re-
quest for an increase in pay. The chief
grievance is that of the fremen on as-
count Of the new big engines that have
recently been put in use on the road.
Under the old scale the minimum pay
for tlremen has been 81 25 per 100 miles.
The company has increased this to $2.75
for tiremen on the now 500 class engines
and to so. 35 on the 1,7O0 class.
This scale has not yet been accepted
by the tiremen and they ask for more,
If not granted strike may result. The
engineers ask an increase on similar
grounds.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-12
SERVED UNDER JACKSON.


st. Louis-Captain ]. T. Anderson,
general Western agent here Of the
Georgia railroad, today received letter
from Colonel Lamar Fontaine, an OK
Confederate of Lyons, Mics, in which
he says that General Joubert, the Boer
commander, 10 a native Of Louisiana, be-
longing to one of the best families there.
Colonel Fountaine says that Joubsrt
commanded Louisiana regiment in the
civil war was served under Stonewall
jackson, from whom he learned the art
OF war.
After Appommatox, Colonel Fontaine
says, General Joubert went to Egypt and
after wards to South Africa, where 'he
organized the Boer frontier police.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-12
DENoUNCEs WOMEN LABOR.

st. Paul-Rev. DR.. S. G. Smith, pastsr
of the Peoples church in this city, whose
recent statements in regard 10 women
wage earners and their interference with
men workers, have attracted wide at
tention and criticism, tonight replied
to his critics in q sermon.
DR.. Smith said In part:
ut was in savage times that woman
was the slave and served hsr master in
menial tasks. We are fast on the road
to new savagery. The problem began
when the discovery Of machinery and
the factory system took the place of the
man and tool. Greedy employers bade
the delicate fingers of woman and the
dimpled hand OF childhood grasp tho
fallen task
Economic conditions have no chivalry
and human avarice has no sense Of honor.
The majority of working women in
this country, now four millions of them,
are between the ages of IA and "a. The
great fact of the last decade, however, is
tho enormous increase among the num-
Der of working girls under 16 years of
age.
I'VE are devouring the possible
strength of the nation, by draining the
life Of its future mothers, Forty i've
per cent OF the manufacturing in the
United States is now done by women.
Make our women beasts of burden,
and the doom Of our strength is at hand.
No army is any more vigorous than the
mothers who bore them. The tendon
cies Of the times are to an enormous in
crease of woman labor, and of immature
young women. 1t is the economic, sos
ial, moral and physical evil Of our time,
and it is the most serious menace to the
nations life"
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-12
CHANGED HER MIND.

Indianapolis A. e. Sterne, a
prominent specialist Of this city has ar
rived home from New York where he
went to we'd Miss Marie Burroughs, the
actress.
On DR.. Sterne's arrival in New York
it was announced that Miss Burroughs
had suddenly been taken ill with typhoid
fever. When asked regarding the re-
port that the engagement had been de-
clared of by her he declined to be inter
viewed.
"Too much has been said about the
unfortunate affair already and wish it
would be dropped altogether. Miss
Burroughs is simply i'll yet" he said.
According to a statement made by an
intimate friend Of Miss Burroughs, she
is not ill of typhoid fever, but is suffer
ing from nervous prostration as result
of the worry over the wedding. AS the
wedding day grew nearer, she found
that although she respected DR.. Sterne,
sic did not love him. When he arrived,
he saw that mental distress was the
cause OF her illness, and readily dag
nosed the case. He offered to release
her from her promises, and she accepted
his generous offer
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-17
The Spider's Appetite.

The spider has tremendous appe
ute and his gourmandizing defies all
human competition. A scientist who
carefully noted spiders consumption
OF food in twenty-four hours con.
GUIDED that if the spider were built
proportlonately to the human scale he
would eat at daybreak approximately
small alligator; by 7 a. m. a lamb;
ny . a. M, a young camelopard; by
o'clock, sheep; and would finish up
with lark pie in which there were 100
BIRDS. Yet, in spite of his enormous
appetite, spider has wonderful power
OF refralning from food, and one has
peen known to live for ten months
when absolutely deprived of food. A
beetle lived in similar state of unre.
freshment for three years!-St. Louis
Globe.Democrat.
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-17
n0.T.nA sl sGa aa gnsEantssa By s ,s;9 drug
FIJIAN FIRE CEREMONY.
Natives Who Walked Over Red Hot
Stones With Impnnity.

Natives Who Walked Over Red Hot
Stones With Impnnity.
Two New Zealand medical men,
Doctors Hocken and Colquohona. re,
Gently visited Fiji where they had an
opportunity Of witnessing the now
rare fire ceremony OF the natives.
1t is SO rare that the power is now
confined to single family living on an
islet twenty miles from the Fiiian me-
tropolis, Suva. These people are able
to walk, nude and with bare feet.
across the white-hot, stony pavement
of huge oven.
An attempt was made on this occa-
sion to register the heat, but when
the thermometer had been placed for a
few seconds about five feet from the
oven it had to be withdrawn, as the
solder of the covering began to melt.
The thermometer then registered 282
degrees, and Doctor Hock4n estimates
that the range was over 400 degrees.
The fire walkers then approached,
seven in number, and in single file
walked leisurely across and around the
oven. Heaps OF hibiscus leaves were
then thrown into the oven, causing
clouds of steam, and upon the leaves
and within the steam the natives sat
or stood. The men were carefully ex-
amined by the doctors before and after
the ceremony.
The soles of the feet were not thick
or leathery, and were not in the least
blistered. The men showed no symp.
toms of distress, and their pulse was
unaffected. Preliminary tests failed to
show that there had been any special
preparation. Both doctors, whiledeny-
ing that there was anything miraculous
about the experiment. expressed them
selves as unable to give any scientific
explanation. London Chronicle.
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-17

Colonel Vifquin, who succeeds Viii.
liam j. Bryan in command of the Third
Nebraska, has been created mandarin
and invested with the Order of the
Double Dragon by the Emperor of
China, "in recognition" says the
Chinese ambassador, "of the valuable
services he rendered his majesty's sub
]ects while United States consul-gen.
eral at Panama $780,"
Natchitoches populist., 1899-02-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

During the year ending September
last l, 253 criminals were sentenced in
Iowa.
In addition to the many reforma
tories on land Great Britain has three
reformatory ships, where hundreds OF
hayward youths are sent every year.
King Oscar, of Sweden and Norway,
has conferred the Order of Vasa on
August Peterson, of Washington, in
recognition of his service in founding
colonies of his countrymen in Amer
lea.
DR.. O'Reilly. chief surgeon of the
army of occupation in Havana, has
gone to Jamaica to study the methods
by which the English army surgeons
preserve the health of their troops in
that bad climate.
Maj. Marchand may have builded
better than he knew when he occupied
Fashoda. Already some of his coun-
inen are oeSinhlnS TO speak OF him
as "the man on horseback" He
comes from the humblest of people,
for his father is still a carpenter in
Thoissey.
When traveller in the Grand Duchy
OF Baden wants to send telegram
while he is on the train he writes the
message on post card, with the re.
quest that it be wired, puts on a stamp
and drops it into the train letter box.
AT the next station the box is cleared
and the message sent.
Saturday has been a fatal day to the
royal family Of England for the last
ls5 years. William I'LL, Queen Anne,
5eorge l., George IL, George Ill,
George ~, the Duchess of Kent,
ihe Prince consort, the Duke of Clar-
once, the Duke ofAlbany and Princess
Alice, all died on that day.