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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-03-29
The Ex-MilIioratre.
FLORETTE.

Aurelian Flagg of the Board of Trade Discovered Il scheme whereby A million or more could be handlly made Through speculation in rye; So he laid his plans and he blundered in, He staked his all to lose or win, As others had done before; To! the market turned as he said it would, And there, with swelling chest, he stood, Worth a million dollars or more! Aunlan Flagg of the Board of Trade Who had speculated in rye Put on some frlls of the highest grade And exploited capital I; It was not to luck that success was due But q wise foresight had carried him
 through
 And made him a millionaire You had the chance, l had it, too, But we didn't know the things he knew. So we stood aloof and we didn't dare. Aurelian Flagg of the Board of Trade Took q second flyer in rye, And dropped the million that he had made Would you know the reason why? Things didn't turn out as he thought they
 would, Just why he never quite understood lll-luck had entered the deal somewhere. When you win you have wisdom, genius
 pluck, When you lose your loss is due to bad luck As it chanced with the ex-milionaire.
 -S. E. Riser in Chicago News.
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SYRINGE.

Yeast-Did you ever take any of those mud baths? Crmsonbeak-Well ran for office once.-Yonkers Statesman.
 Yeast-Wasn't that a strange lady I saw you with to-day? Crimsonbeak-Yes 8 very strange lady. That was my wife.-Yonkers Statesman
 "She is such a two-faced thing."
 How fortunate!' said the person versed in the subtleties of the dramatic art. 'She can face the villain and the audience at the same time" "-Indianap- oils Journal.
 Wasted Time.-Miss Topnot-Isn't it too bad about this book? Miss Pan handle-Why, what is the matter? Miss Topnot-Why, I didn't discover until 1 had finished it that I had read it before. Detroit Free Press.
 Enforcing the Rules-"The gentle man from Squedunk is a thief liar and" ''Bang!" went the gavel, and the presiding officer exclaimed: "The gentleman will please address his re- marks to the chair. r."-Philadephia North American.
 Bass-I got some eggs of Mrs. Fowler for fifteen cents a dozen. I praised her baby, you know.
 Fogg-That's nothing. I bought some of Fowler himself for twelve and half cents I spoke in admiral ton of his dog. Boston Transcript. ! The Four Georges. es.-Teacher (class in English history)-Now, Peter, what can
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you tell me about the -four Georgesg"

you tell me about the -four Georges? Who were they?
 Peter-Please, ma'am, dey wuz Georgie Washington, Georgie Dewey, Georgie Dixon an'--I forgit de odder!- Puck.
 Some of the French cures or parish clergymen, are in the habit of giving very frank advice to those who come to be married. One of these clerics thus addressed the bride and bridegroom: Tt is from the bottom of my heart, Jo- seph, that I congratulate you upon the great step you are taking. It was, in deed, sad to see you wasting your youth in life of disgusting drunkenness. However, all's well that ends well; and it pleases me to think that you have said goodbye forever to the Wineshop. As to you, my poor Catherine, thank heaven heartily that you have been able, ugly as you are, to find hus- band. Never forget that you ought, by an unchangeable sweetness and devo- ton without bounds, to try to obtain pardon for your physical imperfection, for, I repeat, you are real blunder of nature. And now, my dear children, join you in the holy bonds of matrlmo- ,"-Christian Globe.
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SLOJY.

Spring comes slowly up this way' saith the poet. Doesn't it? Did you ever? The coming of Spring is as slow as the coming of cold molasses, and it's about as dauby. The coast grows wetter and wetter. Clouds and darkness are round about. The darkness can be and is felt. and even Bryan would find it hard to believe that our clouds have silver things. But hope on, hope ever. Every cloud has silver lining, behind the clouds the sun is shining, it's al- ways darkest just before day, it always rains and pours, etc., etc. Brace up, be- loved, and step onward and upward as briskly as the mud and the melancholy will let you. There are better days ahead, golden and shiny days when the thermometer will show 95 or 100 degrees above zero and brows will be wet with more or less honest sweat, even as feet are now wet with more or less honest slop. Read the weather forecast for to-day and rejoice that avalanches and cataclysms are not predicted. Note the increasing easterly winds becoming high westerly" and then wade into your daily task with light heart and heavy rubbers.
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black or steel spangles, whereas others again are close limitations of nature, and include various vetches and other small wild flowers, besides some of the spray orchids, which replace advan- tageously paradise and other aigrettes. At the same time, the production of roses is carried on large scale.
 Some milliners are evincing a great taste for small pompon roses, several mounted together on one stalk, while others prefer larger blooms, arranged with very pale leaves of velvet, some being so pale as to be almost white For the rest, the flowers most in favor are primroses, anemones, wild hyacinths, lilac, forget-me-Eots, and blue corn fowers.-Millinery Trade Review.
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FASHION NOTES.
Tempting Cheapness.

It is very hard to resist the marked down spangled tulle dress. They are down to ridiculous figures, and when one considers that the satin skirt to which she has chung just because it was new last season and she could not af ford to throw it away last winter will go under such q skirt charmingly, then it almost seems a duty to buy one of the robes What a simple matter to get up an evening bodice of black satiny and there you will have a really handsome costume, that treasured satin receiving a new chance.
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If you want to be really fashionable, remember that the new spangled nets which are not marked down have smaller patterns and more delicate tracery than the marked down ones, that they are almost certain to show a bit of chenille in their elaboration, and that the cut of the skirt is different from that of the last season net. So you won't be stylish, and back num- Der extravaganza is always a bad economy. If you can afford a net dress spangled get one of the new ones, they are lovely If you can't afford to pay first price, you are not in a position to wear a net dress at any time. So resist.
 Beading as now accomplished is fine art. The crystal ones are the most stylish and the manner in which they are applied is exceedingly handsome. In the gown shown here they appeared in liberal quantity and very artistic ar- engagement on the band of white cloth that edged the apron overskirt, and they trellished the white cloth of the bodice portion in the manner the pie ture indicates. The gowns only other trimming was the large black rosette at the right side of the bodice. The dress goods was mushroom cloth.
 Bright scarlet is a favorite color for little girls from three to twelve, and jaunty scarlet cloth jackets are quite the thing for girls from ten to fifteen. Tea color, delicate gray and all the light shades are charming for these little folk. Picture hats are worn by little girls from two years to twelve. but for the next four years or so a greater sim plicity is observed.
 FI IOR F,TTE
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ments to join the probationer class of reserve many advantages are offered. Each man enrolled in the seaman" class will receive s3 5s. a year as retainer, two suits of clothes during his five years engagement, and certain drill-pay and allowances. As soon as he has performed twenty-eight days drill, he will commence six months naval training, after which he will be ad- vanced to the qualified seaman" class. In the end, by persevering in his duties as a reserve man, he will become en- titled to deferred-pension certificate.
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BRITISH BOY SAILORS.

With the rapid increase in the size of
 the British navy the difficulty in pro-
 curing a supply of competent native seamen has increased also. That the been directed at last to this state of af- fairs is proved by the announcement made in the new scales and regulations just issued by the Admiralty and Board of Trade under the merchant-shipping act, 1898, for the grant of money all lowances to ship owners in respect of "boy sailors" Both in and out of Par liament strong complaints have been made of recent years against the extent to which foreign seamen are employed in the British mercantile marine To correct this evil, the authorities have framed a new regulation which, coming into operation on April l, next, will eX- pire in 1905. To the owners of British ships which carry boys between the ages of fifteen and nineteen, who have enrolled themselves for service in the royal naval reserve, the government will make an allowance not exceeding one fifth of the light dues paid in respect to the vessels. To earn the money, each
 'boy sailor" must be CD a British sub ject (not Lascar), able to speak and i special class of the naval reserve, to be called the 'probationer class'' and must undertake to join the naval reserve; and (9) be a deck-hand. As induce
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each in- sertlon. Five Gents a Word for full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one in sertlon, $1.20; each subsequent insertion. 40 cents; one week, $3.20; one month, S1o; one year, $40.
 Obituary Notices, In prose or verse, lo cents per line Notices of Births, Mar riages, 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 unObjectlonable), and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let For Sale, etc.
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The Portland Transcript is trying to console it's readers for the present by telling them that in 1916 there was snow in Maine every month in the year.
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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

OF NEW HAVEN, ANNUAL MEETING. The fifty-ninth annual meeting for the election of officers and the transaction of other business of the Chamber of Com merce of New Haven will be held in the rooms of the Chamber, No. $50 Chapel street, lover Judd's book store,l New Ha- ven, on Wednesday evening, March 18th, 1899, at 8 o'clock.
 JOHN CURRIER GALLAGHER,
 Secretary. New Haven, March 24, 1899. mh25 At
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According to the State board of health, the use of antitoxine has saved the lives of 4,oOO diphtheretic patients In Massachusetts within the past four years.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-03-29

Up to date Miss Virginia Fair and w. K. Vanderbilt, jr., have received more than $1OOO,OOO of wedding pres- ents, mostly in jewels of the rarest de- scription. Such things don't bring hap piness, but many people would like to try them.
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MtsceIIxtIEnans.

District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 March 27th, 1899. ESTATE of ELIZABETH BRADLEY TOWNSEND. late of New Haven. in said District deceased.
 The Executor having exhibited his admin, [,l. Court for allowance, it is
 ORDB That the 3d day of April, 1899, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at in said District be and the same is ap- pointed for hearing on the allowance of said account, and this Court directs that notice of the time and place of said hear Ing be given by publishing this order three times in some newspaper having clrcula- don In said District By order of Court, mh2S St ALBERT F WELI.ES, Clerk
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-03-29

A point of interest to United States
 citizens of Canadian birth has just been brought before the department of Justice at Ottawa. It arises out of the adoption by the legislature of British Columbia of the statute prohibiting aliens from acquiring mining claims in that province. It appears that certain important mining rights has been se- cured by a man who was born a Brit ieh subject, but who a few years ago foreswore his allegiance to her majesty and became an American citizen. Now, in order to secure his claims in the At lin district, he wants to get within the folds of the union jack once more, and that right speedily. It does not appear, however, that a man born a British subject. who becomes an American citi- zen, can become British subject again until he has completed the three years residence in Canada, which is required by law of aliens not born under the Brit ish flag. In other words, an American citizen. born a British subject, has no more rights in Canada than an alien born beyond the confines of the British empire.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-03-29

The Chicago Journal reports this: Miss Barker's Sunday school class in a West Side Baptist church is composed of boys six, seven and eight years old. They are bright set for the most part, and are her pride and joy. Thanks to her patient, tactful method of instruc- ton, they take an interest in their les sons and are usually we'll prepared. The school was studying in the Old Testament Miss Barker gathered her pupils about her on the Sunday in question, and started in with the les son. The class was unusually prompt in it's answers. Jimmy" she said, turning to one of the star pupils, "who was it killed the Philistines?" Sam son" said Jimmy, without hesitation But Walter Smiths hand was raised in an indignant protest. "'Twas not" he declared, without waiting to be asked about 1t. Sampson wasn't there at all. It was schley.'
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One of the new things to be shown at Paris next year is model of Vesu- yius 330 feet high and 495 feet in diameter. built of iron, steel, cement and turf. A spiral path, bordered with cafes. will wind up the volcano. Inside are to be represented Dante's heaven and he'll
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The Supreme court of the United States has decided a very important question in relation to officers who ar rest persons for whose capture reward has been offered. The government, having been asked for publicly ad- Svertised reward in connection with the securing of a desperado by a United States deputy marshal refused to pay the money, the attorney general con- tending that, in accordance with tra- ditional policy and statutory law the marshal was obliged to perform his duty In the case involved, and that, therefore, it was contrary to public pol icy to offer him special remuneration. The Supreme court decided that this opinion was not sound, and the mar shal will get the reward. It is custom ary to refuse rewards under the same circumstances to almost all officials having police duties to execute.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-03-29

For years my hats have had no feath- ers says Madame Lilli Lehman, who thus appeals to her sex: T beg all women and girls not to wear birds or birds feathers on their hats any more. Every year 25,O0O,O ,OOO of useful birds are Slaughtered by this terrible folly. The farmers are already suffering from it, and women enjoy wearing feathers like savages. Flowers and ribbons are thousand times more beautiful and more becoming"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
The Expected Hanncns.

the opening of actual hostilities be-
tween the American army in the Phil
ippines and the native insurgent forces,
however deplorable it may be, comes in
the category of those events that are
expected and happen in accordance
With the expectation. The leading men
OF brains, Independence and character
in both the Democratic and Republican
parties have repeatedly warned the
government of the impending danger,
While the civilized world wondered Mt
the inconsistency of policy that &C.
corded the promise of independence to
the Cubans, within five hours of our
shores, and denied that promise to the
t'ilipinos ten thousand miles away. But
warnings, entreaties and the oft-eS-
pressed sentiment of enlightened hu-
manity on both sides of the ocean
everywhere except in Englund-haye
been persistently ignored.
II the country is to be thus plunged
into an unwelcome conflict it will be-
come the duty of citizenship to support
the administration in all active and
conscientious measures looking to a
speedy termination of hostilities. But
the administration will be held respon-
sible for the WARRIOR the desolation Of
the Philippines, the sacrifice of Ameri-
can lives and the depletion of the Uni
ted States treasury which will result
during the next fifty Columbus
Post
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Growing Spinach.

To grow spinach successfully the
work of preparing the ground should
begin in autumn after the fall crop of
vegetables has been harvested. Work
into the soil thoroughly an ample sup
ply of well-rotted manure, then level
the ground off smoothly as possible
and SOW the seed in shallow drills from
twelve to sixteen inches apart. Sow
the seed scatteringly, for it has been
found that thick seeding does not pay.
This done, cover 1t only about half an
inch deep, and in conclusion firm the
ground by treading down each row
with the feet. 1t is well to get the seed
in. early In November, for then the
plants will have chance to come up
and be thinned out before real winter
weather arrives. When the ground is
slightly frozen a moderate mulch Of
litter of leaves may be placed over the
plants. In this way an early crop of
spinach may be gathered-so early, in
fact, that 1t will be entirely out of the
way by the time the ground is ready
for other crops.-Farm and Field.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
DEMOCRATIC POLICY.

student of present political condi-
tons cannot but reach the conclusion
that it is more than likely that the
Democratic party Gun secure major
ity of the electoral totes next year, and,
also, return majority to the House
of Representatives.
1t is true that VIC are having much
industrial activity, but long before the
campaign of 1900 1t will be apparent
TO the common people that the profits
from all this activity have not come to
them, but to those who engineer and
manage the trusts and corporations
which now so largely control all bust
ness enterprises. II is true the present
Republican administration has con-
Quoted a successful campaign against
the Spaniards. but it has produced
along with the glory n number of in
tricate problems. Whether it can save
national honor in their solution is a
matter of speculation and conjecture.
Very clearly this nations strength
cannot be used to widen trade at the
sacrifice of any peoples desire for in
dependence. These problems are yet
those of the Republican party. If they
be solved by it, then that party will be
entitled to the credit; If not, then it
must suffer the criticism for failure.
But, in any case, no substantial adj
vantages will accrue to the body of the
the people.
Evidently the Democratic party in
100 Will find its greatest strength
along the lines of its traditional policy.
1t came into existence through its as
sertion Of individualism. and its logical
mission now is to rescue the people
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Poultry Notea

Drinking water often spreads dis
ease. Fowls with colds or roup should
not be allowed to drink with the 9th
ers.
Common fowls can be greatly i'm.
proved in size and vigor by selecting
the best, and setting only eggs from
the best layers.
Turkeys should not be confined while
fattening. If they are fed plenty of
corn and soft feed three times day
they will keep quiet enough and put on
flesh very fast.
White corn is liked better than vel
low by many turkey growers, who
think 1t gives clear white color to the
flesh. Some wheat, barley and buck
wheat should be given also.
The various oat feeds on the market
are much praised by some poultry feed
ers. They at least afford change
from the everlasting shorts and corn
meal, of which the hens get very tired.
Fowls like turnips either boiled or
raw, and this root should be used free
ly throughout the winter. The hens
will make better use than any other
farm animals of the surplus turnips
and potatoes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

Nlillet has not been regarded US ia
vorably by poultrymen as it deserves
as food for poultry. 1t is said to be
equal, if not superior, to any other
grain as a ration for all kinds of poul-
try. 1t is more fattening than wheat
and should be carefully fed, and very
good way to avoid danger from it is to
feed it unthreshed. This will afford the
fowls exercise while they are scratch
ing it out of the straw. No exclusive
diet will give as good results as more
diversified one, because hens will rel
ish Il change, but there is no reason
why millet will not fill the bill as q
grain ration fully us well as any other.
The seed is very small, and in search
ing after it they will get some exercise,
and picking it up will serve as means
of occupying their time.-Homestead.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

In the fall the tops of asparagus
should be cut and the bed rid of grass
and weeds, says Western Plowman.
The asparagus seed should not be al
lowed to rcseed the bed, as they will
simply cause superfuous plants, max
ing the product small and weak. A
liberal covering of coarse manure
should be applied, serving the double
purpose of enriching the soil and keep.
ing out the frost. If sufficient loose
trash Is spread OMIT must be loose to
prevent heating and smothering-to
prevent the frost from reaching the
crowns, the result will be good, as the
plant is one of the earliest to start in
the spring, and prepares for this during
the winter, If the soil conditions are
favorable. In the early spring time the
coarse manure should be raked off and
the fine manure worked in the ground.
An application of coarse salt is very
beneficial,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01

The day when the American senate
formally refused to reattirm the great
principle of the declaration of indie
pendence that governments derive
their just powers from the consent Of
the governed may well be termed a
day of awful significance in American
history. Fortunate will it be for the
United States of America if in some
future century, when the passions and
prejudices of our time live only in re-
corded history, the thoughtful his
torian does not place his finger upon
Feb. 6, $780, and write: Here began
the decline of popular government in
America"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
The peyi1,s Paint Bru.h.

This worst" weed is rapidly enter
ing Northern Pennsylvania from New
York State. Its similarity to ladies'
paint brush is great SO far as char
acter goes--far greater than the sim
ilarity in name. Salt is the remedy
recommended. Prof. Buckout says
that dressing of ten to fifteen pounds
n square rod will kill nearly all of it.,
and this is especially practicable when
the first patches appear. Another APP
plication may be needed to kill out
some occasional plants that survived
the first application. This amount Of
salt Is at the rate, say, of ton an acre,
and while it will kill very young grass
plants and some leaves, 1t will not ma
terially injure sod. Agricultural salt
will do the work, and is much less ex-
penslye than ordinary salt-National
Stockman