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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22
HEA TENLY HARMONY.

AS the first requisite to the rehabilita-
ton Of the poor old ramshackle Dem
ocratic party is harmony it is pleasing
to notice the rapid and soothing spread
of harmony which has followed the SOL
emn and weighty utterances Of that
greatest Of all great Democrats, Grover
Cleveland. For instance, Senator Stew
art kindly says: Put me down as say
ing that / don't want to comment on
the remarks of people who are dead.
Grover Cleveland does not know he is
dead And Senator Deboe of Kentucky
says: "Mr Cleveland hit the nail on
the head when he said the rank and file
should be given a chance. Bryan rep
resents the rank and file, and if Mr.
Cleveland is for that element of the
party I presume he will join the Neb
raskan.' And Senator Harris thus de-
poses: "Mr. Cleyeland's advice to give
the rank and file a chance comes with
poor grace from a man who, during his
administration regarded the rank ana
file of his party as unworthy of notice.
I know of no people who had so little
chance as the rank and file under Cleve-
lands leadership He absolutely refus-
ed to consult with the men who had
been Democratic leaders for years and
years. Hence the evils and disasters CT
which he speaks so eloquently.'
When Brother Bryan's "Commoner"
begins operations there will doubtless
De more harmony.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

men advised me to procure a piece Of
tough hide from the head of an ak
which was then being slaughtered, and
to suspend it from strip Of the same
material / Immediately followed their
instructions, and repaired again to the
river Seating myself on the stern Of
the canoe dropped my novel bait into
the water and watched for the result
with the utmost interest. In moment
a shoal of caribs collected around the
bait, and began attacking it voracious-
ly. Finding the thick cartilage too
tough even for their sharp teeth, and
unwilling to give 1t up, they kept gnaw-
ing at it like so many little hyenas.
When imagined them to be fairly
stuck through the thick skim lifted
the whole concern over the side of the
canoe, and had the satisfaction Of see
ing about dozen Of the fish dancing at
the bottom of my barge.
Finding this novel mode Of fishing
rather easy and entertaining, contin-
ued it until I was suddenly appraised
into whose company + had thrust my
self by feeling the heel of my left foot
seized by one Of the captives with such
violence as caused me to drop my bait
with the vicious creatures that were
hanging from 1t into the river. MY
CONTINUED on Seventh Page)
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

were we established in the ranch Of the
ferryman than, taking my lines, I has
tened to the rivera ccompanied by the
artist. The hooks were baited with
fresh beef, and dropped near the shore.
Scarcely did the bait touch the water
when 1T was seized by caribs. Without
allowing them time, as it seemed, to
get the whole of it between their jaws,
we pulled in the lines, but alas! minus
hooks as well as bait. We discovered
that one of the hooks had been cut
through while the other was severed
from the wire Still we persevered but
with thesa me result. Greatly annoyed
turned to question courtryman who
stood near laughing at what he consid-
cred mys implicitly. Another tapped
me gently on the shoulder and adj
dressed me with: Roy, you might as
well attempt to catch rattlesnake by
the tail as to think of hookine3 one of
drels?" said I.
What is to be done then for I must
have at least a couple Of these scoun-
drels?"s aid T.
VINO ever saw a genteel young man
like yourself with taste for such dis
gushing creatures?" he replied, imagin-
ing that I wanted the fish for eating.
On my explaining that l wanted to
sketch and preserve them In spirits, the
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FISHING FOR CARIRS

In some oof the large streams in Ven-
ezuela there is small fish so savage
that the people of the country call it.,
after the aborigines, the carib. 1t has
teeth sharp enough to cut any line or
wire, and even the shank of a fish hook
In his book on that counotry, Ramon
Paez, tells how he learned the art of
catching caribs. His ooject was to
have an artist paint the fish:
On a former occasion I had lost most
of my trout hooks, but still preserved
some larger ones, mounted with copper
wire These I supposed proof against
the teeth of any fish, and no sooner
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

you know. All you had to do was to
keep perfectly cool.
The young man-Cool? was so cool
you could have heard my teeth chatter!
Chicago Tribune.
Scandal" seems to me one of the
most distinguished-lo young wo-
men in Boston!"
They tell dreadful stories about her!"
"Indeed?"
Yes, they say. for instance, that the
lenses of her spectacles are plain glass,
with no magnifying power whatever!"--
Detroit Journal
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My sinews of steel can never feel
The torture you have borne.


The torture you have borne.
Click click! click! t-G
Gally the moments run;
Click. click! clickl
ANA, 10 my task is done.
what Is 1t l hear them tell
Or labor and starving pay,
And woman to slave to the needle?
Well-that was before my day.
peep into a modern sweat shop
would take all the optimism out Of
that and leave our apologize friends
still in dilemma in regard to why the
vast Improvements In labor saving
machinery have so little effect in abol-
ishing poverty.
It's Christmas! The last one in the
nineteenth century. Institutional char
ity is rampant, but our priests and pas
tors are burning the midnight oil
searching the scriptures for excuses for
plundering the people, and never get
ting far from their favorite verse, 1.-THE
poor We have always with you" Never
theless there are few we can call ser
wants of the living God who have not
bowed the knee to Standard Oil and
here are two who go to the root of the
matter:
The land question means
hunger, thirst, nakedness, notice to
quit, labor spent in vain, the toll of
years seized upon, the breaking up of
homes, the miseries, sicknesses, deaths
Of parents, children, wives; the despair
and Wildness which spring up in the
hearts of the poor, when legal force,
like sharp arrow, goes over the most
sensitive and vital right of mankind
All this is contained in the land ques-
ton. Cardinal Manning.
God has ordered all things to be
produced, so that there should be food
in common to all, and that the earth
should be a possession to all Nature
has, therefore, produced common right
for ALL but greed has made it for a
feW."-St. Ambrose.
w. Trueman.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

WI Ting Fang has recently and elo-
quently called our attention to the
beauties and benefits of Confucianism,
but If we are going to adopt new re-
ligion perhaps it will be well to look
around a little before deciding where
to move our souls. Something new and
promising in the religious line has APP
peared in Chicago Three followers of
Beha 'Ullah, proclaimed in the Orient
as the manifestation of God on earth,
have arrived in Chicago to gain prose-
lytes for their faith. They are the bear
ers of a message from Abdul-Baha to
his Occidental followers. Abdul BAHIA
is the son of Beha Ullah a Persian
teacher of the Christian religion, who
vas set up as a prophet by the Bahais
sect in 1874 He died in 1892 having
written six hundred religious books,
which are accepted by his followers as
a new dispensation of the Christian doc
trine, the orthodox Old and New Tes-
taments being displaced to the position
Of old Testament in their theology,
The ENJOYS claim a strength in the
world of 100000 believers, and they
claim in Chicago a total of 500 believers.
They are engaged neither in the organ
ization ofcongregations nor in the build
ng of churches, their doctrine being op-
posed to both. There is no hierarchy
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22
THE LATEST IN PENSIONS.

The pension business grows more and
wants congress to grant him a pension
for injuries received before he was
and he lives in New Boston, in Wayne
county. He is a constituent of Repre-
sentative II. c. Smith, who urges the
bill. A brother of Pattie, about
twenty years older than he, was In the
war; and after one of the important en-
gagements was reported dead. This re-
port afterwards proved to be false;
but the shock which 1t caused to Pat
ties mother was very serious, and her
next child was born a. cripple. This Is
the claimant. He is bright intellectu-
ally; but never has had the use Of his
lower limbs He now maintains that
the war and the act Of the government
in reporting his brother dead are re-
sponsible for the injuries that have
made his life Wearisome.
This man deserves a pension and he
will probably get it. Perhaps the next
novelty in the pension line will be that
son of soldier will claim PEN
sion on the ground that he wasn't born
until after the war, when If his father
hadn't gone to war he would have been
born during the war.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22
A LTTTLE TOO ZIG,

One of the big schemes has received
setback in the final report of the special
board of engineers authorized to es-
innate the cost Of a ten, twelve and
Michigan to the Mississippi via the Des
PLANES and Illinois rivers. The report
for the improvement of the lower H.
linois and the Des PLANES to an eight
foot channel is ample for all the exist
ing river navigation in the Mississippi
Valley, and that any extension of lake
navigation inland along these rivere
will require a navigable way of not
less than fourteen feet in depth. The
board is further of the opinion that a
water way for lake vessels extending
only to the mouth of the Illinois will
not develop a commerce that will JUS
tify the expenditure of the amount es-
timated, which Is $30000,000, and that
this improvement by itself is not ad-
Visable. And while the board does not
admit that the engineering obstacles in
the Mississippi are insuperable, it's ar
guments to show that any possible
commercial benefits would not justify
the expenditure necessary to make a
canal Of sufficient depth from the lake
to the gulf are conclusive enough.
There are schemes which are little
too big even for these big times
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

1t doesn't pay to fuss and fret when any
thing goes wrong.
a merry song.
It's always better while you work to whis-
tie than to whine,
And when luck lails, it never pays to sit
down and repine.
The man who makes the best of things
shows sturdy common sense.
The chances are that he will rise to fame
and eminence;
But If he doesn't, none the less he'll make
the most of life,
And women all will envy and congratulate
his wife.
The Somervile (Mass) Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22
ADVERTISING RATES.

S,tuatiops. wants. Rents. and other smali
advertisements, one Cent Word each iu.
ser.!on. Five Cents Word for fuii week
tsevcn timesi L.
display advertisements, per incE. one i ~
scrllon, $1.20; each subsequent incer,ion, ~
cents; one week, $500; one month, slo' ohe
year. $40 ~
Obituary Notices, in prose or verse. ~
cents per iine. Notices OF Births. Martr
ages. Deaths. and Funerals. so cents eaen'
local Notices. Is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited TO tneir
own immediate business tail matter 70 De
npobiectonaole). ard their contracts 90 n''
include Wants, To Let, For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

nor any attempt to bring believers to-
gether for worship, the missionaries
stating that they promote only the indi-
vidual belief.
We need not hurry to accept Abdul
Bahas message, but we can afford to
not massacre his missionaries.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

completed this will be the longest direct
wire in the world, travelling a distance
of nearly nine thousand miles, Mean
time the Pacific surveys for a cable
from the United States to Honolulu,
Guam and the Philippines have been
practically completed and await the ac-
ton of congress.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

Thomas B. Reed has propounded this
conundrum: IF killing ten thousand
Filipinos in ten months, as our soldiers
are said to have done, is benevolent as
similation,' how many must the Span
ish have killed in three hundred years
to warrant us in calling their rule Of
the archipelago tyrannous?"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

Some people know what they want.
Mr. w. H. Derr walked into Chicago
undertaker's shop, looked over the cof-
fms, picked out one that suited him,
paid for it, took a revolver from his
pocket, and killed himself.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

Rev i. w. lies of Kenton county,
Kentucky, claims that in a prayer
meeting for the return of his sight
when two of his friends placed their
hands on his head, four scales fell from
his eyes so that he was able to see
again. AS he married after his blind
ness came, he had never until the pray
er meeting looked upon his wife or
child.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

Dean Shaler of the Lawrence Scien-
tiflc School, of Harvard, defended
slavery on Wednesday at a meeting in
the interests of the Tuskegee Insti-
tute 1T was he said, "the best re-
lation that could have existed between
such cultured and such uncultured peo-
pies BY that discipline in several gen.
erations they were we'll under way. At
the close of the war, when we broke
the chains and gave them the ballot,
we made great blunder. Is it due to
any quality in the negro race? I think
not. If our own people five hundred
years ago had been treated in the same
way they would have made the same
blunder. Our race did not begin with
the ballot and the academy, but with
the arts. If we educate them to work
in the arts with us, the rest will come
in time. Unless we lift them up they
will in time drag us down.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

After year or more Of discussion
the pioneer Pacific cable under British,
or rather pan Britannia, auspices has
been put in the way of practical con-
struction. The governments concerned
in it are those of Great Britain New
South Wales, Queensland and New
Zealand, and they have accepted the bid
of the Telegraph Construction company
to make and lay cable from Vancu-
yer to Queensland ana New Zealand,
via Tanning, Fiji and Norfolk islands,
for the sum of $S,975,00O, the work to be
completed at the end of 1902 The cable
wherever it touches will be ON British
soil, the annexation of Hawaii to the
United States having caused a modifi-
cation of the original plans, which con-
tenplated a station at Honolulu. When
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

A member of the Massa chusetts leg
islature has been sentenced to one
years Imprisonment for aiding in H.
legal naturalization. His name is
Minihan, his home is in Cambridge
and he is a naturalized citizen him
SELF having been born in Ireland
Judge Lowell said that an offence so
serious should not be dealt with light
ly, and the fact that the guilty man
tion papers for at least two hundred
men proved that he should have been
perfectly aware of the character of his
action.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

Many imitation baking powders made from alum upon tho
market Alum corrosive poison used only because = cheap.
The of alum baking powders is condemned by all ply.
scans and many sections their sale is prohibited by law
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

The Medical Society Of Paris has
sary to adopt some measures against
the alarming spread of petroleum
drinking. At first it was thought that
this habit had sprung up from the in
creased taxation on alcohol imposed by
the French government, but an inves-
tigation showed that this was not the
case; the habit had been prevalent some
time previously in certain districts, and
had spread with great rapidity. The
victim of the petroleum habit does not
become brutal, only morose.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-22

The worthy rich and the worthy we'll
to-do can appreciate this year, if never
before, the appeal made by the Organ
lied Charities association for money to
help some Of the. worthy poor get coal
enough to keep warm with 1t must be,
as the association points out, that coal
is more unattainable by the worthy poor
nowadays than some other necessary
things, and extra help in that line is
needed. Give freely in order that some
of your fellow beings in New Haven
may not have to physically as well as
mentally feel that this is a cold world
in Christmas week.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-01-31
Banuuef to Judge Peters.

Arrangements are complete for the
banquet to be given at the Bangor house
I ,-morrow evening in honor OF ex-Cbief-
Justice John A. Peters.
The after dinner exercises viii be
presided over by Hon. Franklin A. Wilson,
aud The speakers in their order will be
Judge Peters, Chief J Justice WisweiI, Gov.
Powers, Senator Hale, Judge Wiiiism l..
Putnam, Judge Thomas H. Haskell,
Judge William p. Whit" house, Hon.
Enoch Foster, Hon. O.vlile D. Baker,
and Col. John F. Lynch. Five-minute
speeches will also be made by other gentle
men. At each plate will be souvenir
card bearing an engraving OF Judge
Peters and containing the list OF the
speakers.
The dinner will be the most elaborate
ever served in Maine. 1t viii consist OF 3
dozen courses, and during the serving OF
it, Pulien's orchestrs CT fifteen musicians
will furnish music.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-01-31
The Scent of Orange Blossoms.

PASADENA, CAL, Jan. Is, 1900.
To the Editor of The american:
So far we are having a most delightfully."-
fine winter, with no great storms OF wind
or rain; but good rains " hich have soaked
well into the ground and put farms In
fine condition to receive seed.
All farmers are.still busy. Much grain
has been sown. Our hay is OF grain-bar-
ley, chiefly, which we feed to horses
without threshing, and alfalfa for mich
cows. OF these two kinds OF fodder, We
are expecting great cro.s. The threshing
machine also will have plenty OF work II
prospects continue as bright as they are
now.
1t is grand sight that meets our eyes
as we ride out through the country
great stretches OF fields with grain up sew
eral inches, blowing and sowing still 60
ing on, and cattle feeding on a thousand
hills which icok as II they were carpeted
with green veive..
This is the trade season for youngsters.
They are on every important street corner.
by the entrance OF every hotel, aud else
where hereon "tenderfoot" Is to be
found, to supply him or her with bou-
quet OF wild flowers, principally the pop
py, " b ic h fasteners go wild over. Orange
blossoms are very sweet, snd will scent
this letter with them. p. g. WOOSTER.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-01-31

A report to the department of state
from T. J. Albert, United States consul
at Brunswick, Germany, is devoted to
the remarkable increase of shipbuild-
ing in Germany, which has become Sec
ond to Great Britain in ocean trans
portation, and which has obtained
this enviable position in the short
period of ten years. How this jump
forward in a great industry was
brought about is told in single SEN
te1ce, which is the strongest sort of
argument in favor Of the passage of
the bill now pending before Congress,
providing for the increase of our own
merchant marine, by a system of
federal aid to shipbuilding; "This
rapid development of shipbuilding in
Germany is to be attributed to the
encouragement given by the govern
ment to the shipbuilding interests
through liberal subventions allowed
the different commercial companies.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-01-31

Now that the winter Is well advanced, and
people have leisure evenings for reading, 1t l.
appropriate to call attention TO that excellent
Maine newspaper, the Lewiston Weekly Jour.
nal. Always supposing that the public srirsted
citizen has subscribed aud paid In advance for
his home paper. the Journal Is offered .up-
Elementary. Within the iast year 1t has made
remarkable advances, aud now Is unequalled In
amount of matter furnished, AS well as In va.
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The Weekly now contains liz long columns Of
reading mater In the news and agricultural sec
lions, with n magazine supplement OF sixty
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the state of Maine a speciality, Its ample col
umns give space for history OF the occur
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The installation of It's excellent haf-tone
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The Journal with lis large corps of local cor
respondents Its full corps OF staff writers at alt
principal points, and Its travelling correspond
ent., together with Its illustrated ,ervlce gives
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The several departments of the Journal make
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National affairs are given special prominence,
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Those subscribers who nay In advance are also
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The Saturday Journal, at points reached by
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-01-31

Five and one half miles in one hour
and forty minutes over billy, icy road !!
How's that for an Ellsworth grand
mother? One OF her sons in law, who Ia
good judge, says it's record-breaker;
he's given up trying to get away
from such a mot r-in-iaw rs that. 1t
hspp ned in thi' way: This Ellsworth
woman rode out to Nico in clubhouse for
days ice boating. The roads were icy
and .'sieaey", and she didn't enjoy the
ride greatly. Tue thong hts of that ride,
and he ride home, took away half her
enjoyment OF the days ice boating, and
W hen it came time to start for home she
low ed she'd walk. And she did.