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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

"ITncharitable!' cried Hewson my
uncle was the most uncharitable man
who ever lived. why, he passed me
over and left every cent Of his fortune
to charity. ''-Philadelphia North Amer
lean
Two Viewe.-Mrs. Differs docking up
from the paper)--Of all things! A cou-
pie who had lived together for sixty
years have applied for divorce. Mr..
Bliffers-My, my! Sixty years! I don't
wonder-New York Weekly.
He was watching his neighbours trou-
blesome boy climb tree, and he had a
lock Of painful anxiety on his counte-
nance. Are you afraid the lad will
fall?" he was asked mo" he replied;
I'm afraid he won't. "-Tit-Bits.
Covered the Ground. Upson--I al
ways wear a large shoe in winter be-
cause it affords better circulation. My
feet are more apt to get cold in tightly
fitting shoes. Atom-Yes, and then a
large shoe fits your foot better.-Chica-
go Tribune.
Too Modest. who is the most re-
marka BILE man mentioned in modern his
the man who had just made some
speeches. you can't interview me. I'm
too modest to talk about myself''-
Washington Star
Uncle 'Rastus, they are discussing
the question in the eaet whether it is
good form for preacher to wear color
ed shirts. What do you think of the
idea?''
Hits all right, chile, eff de preachers
cullud. Chicago Tribune.
In Court.-Lawyer-So witness, your
name is Samson? Witness-Yes, sir.
Lawyer-Now, remember you are on
your oath. Dc you seriously think you
could break your namesake's record?
,Witness-I don't know, sir; but I'd like
to try when you have finished with the
jaw Enthusiastically Life.
I'VE don't appear to be making much
progress" said one member of the north
pole exploring expedition to another.
NO" replied the other; ''our leader is
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

by vest, yoke or front Of the barred
goods. There are many ways of accom-
plising this, but few are more attractive
than the one shown here. Its plaid was
red and green cloth In bright tones the
plain goods dark red cashmere. Lat
tice straps Of black velvet ribbon APP
peared on the bodice, stitching and
heavy corded black braiding giving fur
Their trimming
Mourning Is less worn than it used to
be. There is an increasing objection to
stylish mourning" and to the idea Of
dressmaking and selecting at time of
affltction. For those to whom colors
during this period are distressing a COM
promise is effected in attire of all black
that, except for absence of color, pre-
sents no special feature. A black gown
deliberately trimmed with modish bands
of Grape and decorated with mourning
jet passementerie Is as Objectionable to
many at such time as would be a
bright dress. A. gown simply made of
black cashmere, vicuna or cameps hair,
MORE Persian or black Persian coat,
a black felt hat, trimmed with black
breasts and black taffeta, and either
black or dark gray gloves, will meet the
desire, and it suggests a general style
of dressing that has many endorsers.
FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

harvest was the worst on record for
many years. The coming spring har-
vest in the unirrigated tracts occupies
half the area sown in the last two
record of so extensive and total failure
of crops. In the central provinces the
chief commissioner reports a failure so
severe and widespread as has never
been experienced before The rice crop,
the mainstay of the eastern part of
those provinces, Is more completely lost
than in 1896. Millets in the southern
districts have Jared but little BETTER and
the cold-weather crops in the west and
north are probably worse than in 1897.
In the fertile Berars the cotton crop Is
almost wholly lost. All the other crops
have practically failed entirely. No
such calamity has ever before befallen
this part of India. Similarly through
out Rajputana, southeast Punjab, and
the western half of the states of Gem
trail India, the present drought is with
out parallel in exent and intensity.
in large part Of the area affected il
follows close upon a famine of great
severity, and is accompanied by an un-
precedented scarcity of fodder. The
total area affected is 100000 square
miles. with population of more than
60 900 900
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07
FASHION NOTES.


The combination of plaid and plain
stuffs for little girls dresses is not a
new one, for the trick of securing the
bright shades so becoming to small
misses through brilliant plaids is well
tried favorite. But the scheme just now
is especially good because by 1T the
gown can be made to echo grown-ups'
fashions without copying them too
closely. Overskirts Of complicated cut
do not become wearers of tender years,
because they suggestStoo much prlnk-
ing, but what small miss doesn't tease
for them? A compromise that she will
accept gladly will be an underskirt eff
feet from the plaid, with bodice matched
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07
BROTHER BRYAN'S RE1RACTION

IT want to take something back
once said 1t was true at the time, to
be sure, but it is not true now, for the
meetings which I have addressed in
New England during the last few days
have convinced me of this fact. Early
in the campaign of '96, upon leaving
Nebraska for the East remarked jocu-
larly that / was going into the enemy's
country Again I say I want to take
that back. New England is no longer
the enemy's country.
So said Brother Bryan in Bridgeport
yesterday. Brother Bryan has some
reason for making his retraction. He
has certainly been well received In New
England this time. Great crowds have
gathered to see and hear him, and he
has been frequently and enthusiastic
cally applauded. But it doesn't seem
to US that there has been any great
increase of confidence in him in this re-
gion. When he was around before
there was a more or less prevalent idea
that he might turn out to be the savior
of his distressed country. The feeling
about him now doesn't seem to be as
deep and solemn as it was then.
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The famine in India is so far away
that the Weil-ted people OF this eoun-
try don't concern themselves much
about it, but it is a vast calamity. At
a recent meeting of the Viceroy's Leg
islative Council an official report on the
famine was read, which gives a COM
prehensve view of the situa ton This
document explains that taking the
country in detail, the prospects are good
in Bengal, Burma, and the northwest
provinces and Oudh; indifferent in
Mysore and Madras; fair in the irri-
gated tracts of Sind and southwest
Punjab; while the rest of the country
is famine-stricken. The Punjab autumn
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an awful slow writer and thinks he
must stop the whole expedition each
morning while he commits to memory
the parts of his lecture that he wrote
the day before Judge,
Say, mister" said the man who wac
too strong to work, will you please let
me tell you just how it is? l don't ask
you for money, but I'm starvin actu-
ally starvin, here in this great city.
wouldn't you please to give fellow a
lift to get something to eat?'
Sorry can't do it," the other re-
Piled "but giving fellow lift is not
in my line I'm an auctioneelr It's my
business to knock things down. Chi
cago Times Herald.
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safe home" One who was not quick
enough I saw taken up by the waist
coat shaken gently and dropped kneel-
ing, none the worse, The horses who
were playing were over twelve years old.
They relinquished the game most re-
luctantly when their breathless owner
called "Time!" and enforced his mean
ing with flourishes of formidable four
in hand whip. Then these mature but
noble boys at play rushed for each
Others quealing like pigs in articGo
mortis, showing enormous rows of
teeth, twisting around In sudden gyra-
lions to lash out at each other, one
sometimes catching the others hogged
name or getting pinch Of his smooth
coat in bite but never doing real mis-
chief!
One of the two I speak of taught
little game to a rider, and insisted on
playing 1T, to while away the tedium
OF three hours ascent at foot's pace.
The game on the horses part consisted
in catching the riders toe between his
teeth. 1t was the riders part to pre-
vent this. All the way up hill the rider
had the best Of It, But, returning by
ne aHioSl pcl pSl1ulCuldT tIdCht LIE
Hafflinger gained an easy victory. He
did not squeeze the boot, but shook 1t
as you might shake a friends hand
heartily not roughly-and for the re-
mainder of the road he rested on his
laurels, playing no more that day
Hafilingers show their affection by
lavishly kiesing with the tongue, like
dogs They are extremely self-wlled
again trait In common with the
dachshund. Their PAGES are necessarily
slow, but their staying power is enor-
nous and their surefootedness a proverb
with Tyrolese mountain guides and
drivers. London News.
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A PLAYFUL BREED OF HORSES.
The Haff1ingers of the Tyrol--A Rough
Game

| The Haff1ingerS of the IyfOl--A Rough
| Game
| OF horses the most companfonable are
doubtless Arabs. They have lived for
| generations in the tents Of their masters,
and have assinIilated human ways Of
thought. Barbe and halfbred Arabs in
Europe run the pure Arabs very close
in this respect. They make noble friends,
but on lower level, as playmates for
the lighter hour, / know no breed that
comes up to the Haf1linger. In the Ty-
rolese valley from which they take their
name ! suppose they live as much in
| the company of their owners as do the
Valvognian cows with theirs. But they
are exported far and wide. An Austrian
| baron, who buys them up and does what
| he can to impart style and fine man.
| ners to these queer looking cobs, has
sold two to the Prince of Wales. The
travelling carriages of Switzerland are
largely horsed by Haff1ingers. In that
populous health resort, Meran, they do
nearly all the draught work. Cob is
perhaps a misnomer. They are cobs in
their low measurement from the ground,
but big horses as regards girth, length
of body and size of hoof. The heads are
huge and very plain.
Hafflingers have been compared with
hippopotami and giant 'sea horses"
and with very good reason. Spiritually
they are described as "the dachshund-
en- of the stables because daxies are
1.-THE ways of the kennel" 1t may be
that people have refused to take seri-
ouely the oddly shaped horses and the
oddly shaped dogs, and that both have
thus come to look upon themselves as
a good joke. Comically sits the Half
fingers little eye He laughs in his
sleeve, just like d daXie. Both Waddle
in their gait, owing to the absurdly
short legs.
Haff1ingers ought to make the fortune
of any circus master. They dixie daxies
AGAIN. delight in playing tricks, and will
learn rough games, such as schoolboys
love, and will play them, too, strictly
according to rule. I have watched two
Hafflingers with their owner and his
man. playing a cort of hide and seek,
hurrying and scurrying about a cobble
paved yard in pursuit of the men, loyal
ly abiding by the marks that meant
safe hone" and never Furnishing a
player that had not blundered. They
understood that they might kick or bite
the man, who (being hidden, sought
and found) failed to run fast enough to
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

AN ingenious attempt by Massachu-
setts lawyers to prove that a barbed-
wire fence is something in the nature of
a man-trap has failed. This was the
case of Quigley VS.. Clough in the Mas
sachusetts Supreme court The defend
ant had a house at the corner of two
streets, which were at angles to each
other, and the sides of the house were
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

Mrs. O. o. Hall, who has bought the
farm on which William Henry and
Benjamin Harrison were born, paid
$4,000 for the property, and proposes
to place in the wall Of the dwelling
house tablet telling of the two Pres
idents born under it's roof-tree.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

Only four of the Mississippi senators
voted in favor of the proposed consti-
tutional amendment to divide the school
fund between the races on the basis
Of the share paid in by each in taxes,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07
Ehe luurnat .,nd Uuurter
ADVERTISING RATES.

Adv -.
Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
refreshments, One Cent Word each In
sertion. Five Cents Word for full week
,seven times).
Display advertisements, per inch, one IN N
cents; one week, $500; one month, $40; one
year, $40. -
Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, 10
cents per line Notices of Births, MARI
ages, Deaths, and Funerals. 80 cents each'
Local Notices. is cents per line. ..a,r
Yearly advertisers are limited to thtii
own immediate business TALL matter 10 We
unobjectonable), and their contracts 10 NV
include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

Professor Won Hoist of the University
Of Chicago is receiving the reward OF
his honesty. He is said to be the only
person in the suburb of Hyde Park
who returned honest tax schedules on
personal property. In view of this fact
the board Of review cut down the pro-
fessor's estimate by $4,000, making his
tax 1927 instead Of s47S15, according to
Iia own returns
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

There recently came to an end, illus
trating the occasional delay in pro-
ceedings In British chancery courts, a
lawsuit which had lasted with varying
degrees of excitement for more than a
ago as 1897, 1t seems an unassuming
brewer, one Robert Smyth, of Smock-
Alley, Dublin, failed in business. A
dividend was paid but assets did not,
unfortunately, raise 20 shilings on the
pound. Since that day four genera
tions of hungry creditors have in turn
YEARLY supplied the grist for the legal
mill, and it has now been discovered
that a trif1ing sum invested fer ulti-
mate distribution by order of the court
at the beginning of the proceedings has,
thanks to the mysterious accumula-
tons of compound interest, in hun
bred odd years grown to the respectable
proportions of four figures--quite suffi-
cient, strange to say, for paying off,
not only all the original debts, but most
of the law costs besides. 1t is not odd
that there is claimant alive for ev-
cry penny owed by the unlucky brewer
in 1897.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

The town of McAlester, in the Indian
Territory, has a population of more
than seven thousand, all of them squat
ters who hope that eventually the fed
era1 government will ratify their title to
the property of which they have taken
possession They have no mayor, no
town marshal, no aldermen, no police
There never was survey of the ground
made for town purposes. Yet they have
built up fine residences for frontier
settlement; the houses are built In rows
that leave wide and fairly regular
streets; the people lead moral lives and
are law-abiding in spirit, though there
are no particular laws for them to
abide by. A stranger in the city would
never suspect that the place was not
fully organized and furnished with all
the modern municipal machinery.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

1t has been reported to the Under
Secretary of State for India that the
making of iron and steel in that coun-
try is entirely practicable owing to the
large deposits Of iron ore which are
found in Madras and Bengal, a plenti-
full supply of native coal, and lime
stone to be procured at small expense
from Burmah. The cheap labor of In
and IL the plant were sufficiently large
and located near Calcutta it is believed
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-07

In the attempt to restore and preserve
forests in Pennsylvania $4,000 acres at
the head-waters of the principal rivers
have been purchased by the State, and
10000 more will soon come into its
possession. Most OF the land purchas-
ed has been denuded Of mercantile
timber, the maximum price of S. per
acre fixed by the legislature, barring
the purchase Of more valuable lands.
Some Of 1t has a good young second
growth started, and while the work of
protecting the watersheds may proceed
more slowly than If timbered land could
be obtained, lesson in care of forest
lands will be taught, and great
amount Of land will be secured
through the available appropriation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17
TWO HURT IN i TRAIN CRASH.
NETWORK. NEW-HAvEN AND HARTFORD
ENGINE AND ELEVATED CAR
IN COLLISION.

4 rear end collision between Il passenger train %
the New-YOrk, New-Haven and Hartford Railroad
and a train OF the Manhattan Elevated road
CURED yesterday afternoon at the WilIis-ave sta
ton. Neither train was badly damaged. but two
men, the New-York, New-Haven and Hart
ford locomotive and the other on a platform of
the Manhattan train were slightly injured
William T. Dickerson, forty-hve years old. of No.
SIS East Oue-hundred-and-thirry- eishth-st.. who
standing the pilot OF the Nevv-York New
Haven and Hartford engine, had mis- ankles
sprained. Thomas Jones. forty years Old OF No.
90 West observation-disclosures hirty-second-st, q pas
seuger. standing on the Manhattan train, received
q wound the head. Both men were attended by
DR.. Raynor OF No. 196 Willis-ave-
\ special train on the Manhattan road leaves
Hanover Square little after L o'clock This spe-
ciaI train takes passengers to the Wilis-ave sta
ton &c embark on the New-YOrk and New-Haven
train which leaves the station 1T OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Manhattan train usually reaches the Willis
ave station first. and hired by the company
stands the pilot OF the NeW-York, NeV-Ft2Ven
and Hartford engine 70 give the signal as 20 stop
ping and going ahead TINS man is !'lcAerSol-.
The elevated train had just reached the Nllls-
ave. station when the NeW-YOrk, New Haven and
Hartford train appeared Nearly all the pas
sengers on the elevated train had Clsembarked-
Owing TO some mistake OF signals tne engineer
OF the York. New-Haven and Hartford train
failed TO stop quick enough. though the train was
slowing up AT the time
Jones was just about 10 alight from the elevated
the ground. The rear OF the elevated train was
somewhat smashed and many windows We're
broken Had the accident occurred a little sooner
many persons would have been hurt by lying glass
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17

put down the place of birth of Mr. Cassidy's
father and mother as Ireland at venture and
then went on. What the year Of your i'm
migration TO the United States2''
That's another Of thin things said Mr. Cas-
sidy, that I couldn't be answerin' offhand. Ne
-&lher or me mother could likely tell If they was
alive but they're both Of thin dead Heaven
rest their souls and 1 was TOO young at the
time TO be taktn notice Of aImanacs. But If
yen go 70 all the steamship lines and just run
Yer eye over the books till ye come to the name
Of Thomas Cassidy-that was me father-itH
give IL 10 yer in a minut."
States?'
That question" said Mr. Cassidy AL depinds
on the other and when ye have the one ven
have the both OF thim."
What is your occupations"
on the FIRST of June me occupation was
putin in coal, as I told We. Me occupation for
the rest Of the time is no matther. Billy Mack
would not he iddihed TO hear it,"
How many months were you not empIOyed?' 80
How many was what?"
How many months were you out OF work.
THAT, sir" said Mr.. Cassidy. lis a dom silly
question. on the nr-rst OF June I was not out
Of work any months at all. I was at work the
betther part Of the day, and was putin in coal.
as 1 told yer"
can you read?"
7 can. SOr.
can you write?r
Il can, afther fashion. s0r. but I'd be a long
time gettin' a place in a bank for it,
of course, you can speak English"
You've been hearin me at it, I can Can We
understand l. 2''
DO you own or rent your horneg %
DO I own this place? I do not I rint II If
owned this house would be Twin in it?'
That is all for you" said the enumerator.
Now for your wife,
Wis. sor." said Mr., Cassidy, well take the
Guild woman next. and then Wen begin wild
Eliza here that's the Oldest Of the chIder and
go down till come Jimmy. that's The
youngest, and I'll be as careful about thin as
I've been wild meself. and there's some OF thin
that know more about There's only eight Of
thin, and 7 wish for your sake that there was
twenty, for hear that We get paid be the num-
Der Of names We get. and I'd like TO help ye
along, for I think ye mean we'll"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17
REGISTERED MATTER IN GENERAL PosroFFIcE
DISTRICT DISTRIBUTED BY REG
ULAR CARRIERS

a new plan for the delivery Of registered mail
went into effect Friday for the district south of
Canal-st- It proved TO be 4 success. For the last
twenty years registered mail IN this district had
been delivered by special carriers, carried no
other kind of mail matter. There were thirteen of
these special registry carriers, and their routes
were much longer than the routes Of the regular
carriers On Friday the registered mail matter was
other mail
The General Postoh1ce district was cut up some
time ago everything from WalI-sL south beinz,
taken by Branch =. and that part north from
MorJn-st- 70 CanaI-st- by Branch :. The General
PostOflce district, however. had charge Of the
special registry carriers delivering matter in the
Two districts Now the registered mail is sent 10
the branch stations for delivery.
In the General Postofce district extend!na- from
W0rJh-st- 20 and including Wall-st-. there We're
before Friday fifty regular routes. Now there are
dftythree and the special carriers are working as
regular men The regular carriers. having such
shorter routes than the special carriers had regis
tered mail matter viii reach its destination from
TWO 10 four hours earlier than under the old sys-
Superintendent White Of the General Postoffice
delivery and Mr. DrlscOu. general superintendent
Of carriers, said yesterday that the plan had
worked without a hitch. and declared thar as soon
all the men We're familiar with their new duties
Il great Improvement would be noticeable il the
delivery Of registered mail
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17

morning when Rabbi Samuel Schulman delivered
the baccaIaurea-e sermon DIT. Schulman spoke az
follows;
There is disharmOUy between the results or
science and the demands of the religious feeling
In the last analysis. science describes and explains
the how OF things. IL never even touches as long
as il remains science upon the what and the why
of nature and mans life It's business is with proc
esses and never with purposes Its province Is
exclusively that OF facts IL concerns itself not
with the ideals and hopes the creation OF the
greatest thing in the world the soul
The success or lie is not 20 be measured by the
kuaCk with which ply trades and secure
their emOlumeuts but by the amount Of truth.
righteousness. purity and generous self-saCrifCe
which shine through our vOcariOns.
To YOU the appeal 70 realize the divine COM
nnandrneutS in society and government should come
with a special force. You are the benefcIaries OF
gift Of the community I believe the solidarity OF
our citizenship can be best voiced BY the free
secular and communal college