The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-26

not figure in tract.
The Gear is quoted as saying: IT am
sick and tired Of life. What with its
responsibilities, it's hypocracies. its fes-
rivals and its lies, 1 wish I were out of
it." No wonder he is tired.
A Massachusetts legislator who got
excited over the Cape Cod canal bill,
said in the height Of his argument,
ssWhen the God of nature wants canal
There He will put one there"
The natren Of the Children's home at
Wichita, Kansas, has received a letter
from an old man who wants to adopt
child "Send one says the old man.
s.that is lively and will laugh and cry
and get into mischief. I am IS years
old and / would give the world for a
child that will laugh and get in my
way and bother me. Well give it
good home. r have raised five children
but they are all gone now, and I can
tell you there is nothing so sweet as
the bother of children"
More business, more money for post
] masters. The increased volume of
postal receipts will operate to increase
their compensation, when the readjust-
July. The gross revenue is expected to
amount to about S100, 100000 for the
year, compared with a previous aver
age of $85, 900, 900. About hundred
Offices will be raised from fourth class
to third class, and as many from third
to second. The number Of second class
offices to be elevated to first class will,
OF course, be very much smaller.
In September what is expected to be
a most sensational trial will begin in
Moscow. The three managing directors
OF the Moscow City Credit and Mort
gage company will be arraigned on
charges Of forgery, embezzlement, false
bookkeeping and mismanagefnent &C.
ricke, Schildbach and Zvetonechine are
the three high-livers who have now to
pay the piper, and it Is charged that by
their operations the 5000 shareholders
in the company have lost more than ST.
100000. The Importance of this trial
will be realized when 1t is remarked
that up to January J. last the company
issued stock to the value of $7Ee, 900, 900,
Almost every mortgage recorded on
Moscow real estate has been placed by
this concern, and the swindling opera
lions of the precious trio now brought
to book have ruined hundreds of house.
owners In this city.
The washington correspondent of the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat says: NOT a
few colored clerks in government en-
ploy obtained their places by a persist
ent exercise of merit which white clerks
were never called upon to make. They
obtained mental places as messengers
or porters or skilled 1aborers. From
white superiors they gladly welcomed
chances to do without compensation the
clerical work which was entirely above
their positions. Having demonstrated
their capabilities and made friends of
their white superiors, they were ad-
'vanced slowly until they became clerks
OF various grades. Tt is no uncommon
thing in the departments to see colored
messengers sitting at their little tables |
IN the corridors and, between errands, |
doing the work of some white clerk in |
order to win the way to recognition and |
promotion. Once fairly within the clas-
sif1ed service the colored clerk excels in |
faithfulness.
A committee of the Florida legislature !
which has inspected the convict camps
In that State has reported in severe |
Food, In many cases, was scanty or I'M
wholesome; quarters were inefficient !
and filthy; hospital accommodations
were entirely lacking; and punishment |
BY whipping was unnecessarily frequent
ana severe Evidence proved that in
some camps the beds had not been
cleaned for year, and that in one
camp there had been no bedding what
ever for a year, and until within two
DAYS of the coming of the investigating
committee. Convicts were worked over
hours and on Sunday, and regulations
a. to their food were contemptuously
disregarded. In the opinion of the COM
mittee also many deaths of convicts
were in circumstances warrsnting sus-
picion, and recommendation was made
for coroner's inquest in all such
cases.
The alarm created in France by the
recent official disclosures as to the J
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