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The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
BROTHER BRYAN.

It was plain yesterday that neither
 New Haven. MT. Bryan had big
 audience to talk to and would have had
 a bigger one had there been room for
 those who wanted to hear him. He
 seemed to be encouraged by his recep-
 tion, and although it wasn't very of ficial' or entirely harmonious he was
 warranted in being pleased by the eag- erness to see and hear him, and by the heartiness of the applause which greet ed his bids for applause.
 MT. Bryan thinks New Haven has improved since he appeared here be- fore, and 1t is but fair to return the compliment. Mr. Bryan has improved since he was here, and he made much better speech yesterday than he made when he was here before. It was adroit, and eloquent in spots, and though it may not have made many new converts it probably strengthened some of the old worshippers. There was much curiosity to hear what he would say about the silver question. He handled 1t skillfully He called it the money question and talked about a trust. He seemed to be little doubtful about the silver soundness of his audience, but he finally and boldly said: q don't know what you are go- ing to do, but I am going to advocate a double standard until this country is staunch on an independent financial basis.' The rest of his speech was de- voted to trusts and imperialism, and he gave both of them particular and gen eral fits. And truth to tell, he did it well.
 In the early part of his speech Brother Bryan said it didn't matter much to him who occupied the presi- dential chair. Blessed is the man who would rather be right than be president and fortunate is the man whose ann bition eateth him not up. Moreover, lucky is the man who careth not over much for that which he isn't likely to
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
FASHION NOTES.
ROdfccs Varied Sorts.

One should study the possibilities of her neck when planning a low-cut gown. A woman with rather full figure may well adopt the new notion of cut out that lifts in the center of the front
 dipping well below the shoulder at the arms. This part of the neck which rounds up into the shoulder curve is beautiful, and its exposure is possible without display that is considered ex- cessive for such a figure as is described. In adopting the off-shoulder gown re- member that the festoon of the down. dropped drapery sleeve should bear
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
EnrfY lselOW.

Just pity the householder who Must suffer now a thing or two; He rises up from bed at dawn And hastes his frosted garments on His shiyering frame; his fingers blows That he may button up his clothes, And seeks to bathe-but nothing flows From the pitcherthe waters froze. Then swears he just little swear And stumbles down the frosty stair, Down sinks upon his frosted knees And blows in vain an icy breeze When he would start the kitchen fire, But makes no blaze; In haste and Ire To get the kerosene he goes But finds, alas! the oil Is froze. Dear, dear! 'Twould drive a man to drink, He thinks kindly nip or wink From the decanter might warm up The inner man. He gets cup, Unto the sldeboard moves in haste And turns the jug with care, lest waste Ensue, and turns and turns-naught flows, He finds again the liquors froze. Now see, with anger in his heart Again he seeks the fire to start He whittles shavings nice and fine And lays them in symmetric line, From out his pocket brings a match, Essays in vain to scratch and scratch. His stifrened fingers then he blows 10 warm--and finds his breath is froze. He leaps into the air and seeks To swear-the frosty floor but squeaks, Tho opened wide his mouth, no word Or sound or utterance can be heard. He waves his arms and stamps the floor, And leaps and waves and stamps once
 more, So wild his anger, for he knows, He cannot swear--his voice is froze.
 Bismarck Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
MARRIED WOMEN AND WAGE
 EARNING.

EAItlNINI.
 For generations the accepted condi- ton, among people of good breeding and refinement, was that the wage-earning should be done by the husband, and the administration of the domestic excheq- uer be left in the hands of the wife.
 Among comfortably placed and, to some extent, luxuriously living, Ameri
 cans, there is remarkable change from former opinions on this subject of the wife's bread winning. Especially among artists authors, journalists, and people who live by the exertion of the intellect rather than by mere manual labor it is common to find both wife and husband practicing their speciality, whatever it is, and putting their earn ings into a more or less cooperative purse. The wife has a gift for illustra- tion, and her clever fingers eke out her good mans salary, so that luXuries are possible which the two must forego. She writes bright quips and jests, or charm ing short stories, and the crisp checks which come floating to her in the morn ing mail provide for her own dress, or pay the sehool bills of Laddie who is growing stout and sturdy and needs more money spent on him every year. I have heard of an ardent lover who, pre- ferring his suit to a gifted woman, ven tured to call her attention to the fact that their combined salaries would en- able them to maintain very attractive home, quite overlooking the possibility that as a wife the lady of his choice might prefer not directly to contribute to her own support.
 The truth is, that in many cases the wife's ability to supplement the hus- bands earnings relieves her of sort of work for which she may have no peculi-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
4N IMPORTANT OVESTYO

The speech of Senator Pritchard of
 North Carolina on the race question
 has called attention to the second sec
 tion of Article XIV of the Constitution of the United States, which reads as follows: Representatives shall be ap- portioned among the several States &C., cording to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not any election for the choice of electors for President and Vive President of the United States, representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of State or the members of the legisla ture thereof is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, be- ing 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participating in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the propor. ton which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole num- Der of male citizens 21 years of age in such State.
 The question is. how long will the South be allowed to suppress the negro vote and at the same time include the negro population in its basis ot repre- sentation? This question is important and may by and by be pressing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

some relation to the shape of the neck cut, so that when viewed in profile there is harmony of outline. Too many think that just having address cut low serves There Is everything in becomingness of cut. A pretty idea for figure either little too plump or rather thin Is scarf like drapery starting well up towards the shoulder on one side and drawn across the bust line, fastening well down on the other side. This scarf may cross in loose folds for the slender figure and be drawn close for the we'll curved fig ure.
 Fancy waists that are not low cut are galore and are nearly as valuable a fea- ture of the wardrobe as they ever were Three of them are put in this picture, and in materials and the methods of trimmings they hint at how varied these garments are. The waist at the left was tan French flannel, it's tiny yoke and collar of stitched white silk. White stitching also appeared on revers, front and sleeves. A band of black velvet below the collar in front was unusual, as were the bands of white silk trellised with delicate black cording. Next to this is waist entirely of corded pale green satin. Gilt buttons held it, and at top and bottom were white silk fringed tie and a green velvet belt. Last is a bodice of white taffeta finished with al- ternate bands of tucking and of nain- sock beading with narrow black velvet ribbon drawn through. Here was a bare suggestion of epaulettee. Such Is not infrequent in the new models, and makes it seem as if women were in a hurry to get out of plain tight sleeves.
 FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
HI r LJG HTING OF I SHOW.

The arrangements for the lighting of the Paris Exposition at night insure brilliant spectacle. Along the Champs Elysees there will be 174 drect-current arc lamps fed by underground eonduc- tors. At the Porte de la Concorde there will be twelve very large arc lamps; on the cupola and the minarets will be eight searchlight lamps, and sixteen simple reflector lamps upon the pylons.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
YTT1 BLE.

She-You're inclined to be stout, are mt you?
 He Cather obese)-No, indeed I simply can't help it-Chicaeo News peat the golden text.
 Conscientious scholar-tPlease marm, my fathers a democrat. He says sil- vers good enough for him.-Boston Transcript
 Has the thirteen superstition had any influence in your life?"
 Influence? I'm the youngest in large family, and I wish I had a dollar for every dinner I've had to eat off the sideboard. "-Indianapolis Journal
 A Precaution.-"W do you insist on your sons becoming a lawyer?" asked the friend. I've made a will leaving him all my money" was the answer. Tt seems to me that if he is a lawyer himself he will stand better chance of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
Vrnn.morrthed.

She thought her tresses far too dark, And straightway bleached them tawny
 yellow.
 She toned the piquant, winsome spark In her bright eyes to fearful mellow. She'd long bewailed her five foot four, And wished to he majestic, stately; High boot heels added one inch more And delft coiffure helped her greatly. She got a sylphlke,. graceful waist By dint of most persistent lacing; Complexion masks and toilet paste Abolished healthy tints debasing. She diligently studied pose; She exercised, massaged, Delsarted, Until-in short-no mortal knows Just how she looked before she started
 Town Topics.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
ADVERTISING RATES

advertisements, One Cent a Word each in sertlon. Five Gents q Word for a full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one in, sertlon, $1.2O; each subsequent insertion, 4o year, $40.
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, Marri- ages, Deaths, and Funerals. 50 cents each. Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thelf own immediate business Gall matter to be unobJectfonable). and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

Chicago messenger boy has read other day he caught three footpads while engaged in the work of holding up a victim, followed them, pointed them out to the police and saw them safely in prison before he went on his way with his message.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

A sample of Egyptian porcelain found at Memphis was recently submitted to M. Le Chatelier for analysis, and the Interesting fact was brought out that it was entirely different from the Chinese porcelain. This leads to the conclusion that the manufacture of true porcelain was known to the ancient Egyptians. To duplicate this particular kind of por- celain would require forty parts of blue glass, fifty parts of fine sand and five parts of white clay.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

The Rumanian minister of public in- struction has sent a circular to the head mistresses of all girls schools in Rumania to the following effect: "Ex- periments based on science and prac- tice having shown that stays are hurt ful to health and interfere with the action of the organs of respiration, l decree that you strictly forbid the use of stays to the pupils of your establish ago issued by the Russian government.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

into the temple of justice to answer a charge of cruelty to animals, in that he was utilizing a bare-footed monkey in the collection of his precarious income After a careful research into the law of domestic relations, the court reached the conclusion that Signor Florello was under no legal obligation to furnish his friend with footgear, and the case was accordingly dismissed"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

A Washington police court, says the Green Bag, had occasion recently to whether the proprietor of a monkey can be compelled to furnish it with shoes. On the complaint of some be- nevolent idiot Pietro Florello. by pro- fession hand organist, was hauled
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
Her loveliness, that rather lay In light than color"

Like her this winter, away from towns
 and their darkness. A slight mist car-
 ries the light whitens the sky, inter- poses between two headlands, guides
 the pencil of the few sunbeams, pencils of slight color and large design.
 It is true, the banks are rare, but it was Autumn that came like wretched gardener and cut them close. A years growth only was that wild summer hedge of green tipped with the small violent-pink flower innumerable a years growth, the rushes and reeds and the whole company that stood so thronged together in the narrow way between water and land, poor and out lawed. It is their annual death that makes the greatest change in the sea- sons--a transformation for the inland river. great alteration even here, where there are tides and where steel and silver spaces widen and grow nar- rower daily under the banks, and where sea -gulls, dark against the sky. and white against the hills, take long flights into the country of the snipe and heron. Alice Meynell In Golfers Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

This story is told of the late Eddie Gaylor, who was reporter in Chicago: Eddie had got wind that schism was threatened in certain bishops diocese, and accordingly first sent up his card to the dignitary in ordinary fashion. The bishop did not want to talk and refused to see him. Gaylor bribed the servant, stayed in the hall, waylaid his cleric and was ordered out for his pains The next day, however, he was again in the house. This exploit was repeated thrice with no further success. Then, one night when the bishop entered his study he found Eddie seated by the fire reading the Bible. None knew how he came there. That settled it. He got his story on condition he went away forever. There was no need of the pro- viso, for shortly after Gaylor died of gallopng consumption. Let us hope he is in heaven" said a clergyman to the bishop. No doubt he is,' replied the bishop gently T don't think they could keep him out"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

Ar indication of the growth and pros perity of Chicago is found in the fact that the receipts from fares of the cable, electric and elevated roads last year were practically as large as in 1893, when the Worlds Fair enormously stimulated local travel. As to the ef- feet of the Fair in that regard, the roads collected $15, ,773,20S (excluding the suburban lines) in 1893, and only $11,- 1,666 in 1894. In 1899 they took in $15,- 746020, a gain of $3,794,000, or S3 per cent, in the five years. This gain, of course, was partly due to the improve ment of facilities for travel by the com- pletion of the Metropolitan elevated on the west side and the improvement of the South Side elevated.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

Consul Bertrand, who represents the French government at Benghazi, in Tripoli, gives curious reason for the Increased price of the finest grades of Eponges, which are gathered in that section. The fisheries have been so well worked that the divers must go to great depths, and this has increased the dangers of the work. The mortality rate among the divers is high, from 15 to 200 dying each season in total of 500 employed. Only the most desperate men are willing to undertake the task, they being for the most part escaped convicts and fugitives from justice. They are paid from $4OO to $1,2OO each for season of seven months, which is about ten times the usual wage in Tripoli but in spite of this the difficulty of securing sufficient men for the work Is growing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25

The Rev. c. D. Crouch pastor of the Worthing Tabernacle, London, and once pupil of Mr. Sturgeon, who some time ago adopted the experiment of devoting himself to business pursuits in order that he might be free to apply himself to. the work of the ministry without pigment from his congregation has is- sued a report in which he sums up the results. His efforts have been so suc- cessful that he was able to return his peoples offerings at the rate of e5O in the first year and G1oO in the second, while in the year upon which they are just entering the return will be G150. Considerable criticism" he adds 'is aroused by the course which I have felt led to take, but the conviction that I am in the way of the Lords will deter mines me to go forward"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-25
Al WINTER LANDSCAPE.

Until the dying color was swept off in
 mid-December by the high freshness of a storm, the trees stood In rags and were old. But now they are old no longer, and have let go the clasp of the hands of an old summer; clean and fine
 the dark brown twigs stand ready be- tween a bright gray sky and river. If winter is a sleep, 1t is light slumber armed, and all the lances are upright clashing against shield of steel. One night made all things ready. For but night ago little tree stood from top
 to toe in the same yellow. coarsely colored by some child with paint box, too tired of the play to dip his pencil twice for a single tree. Little be- lated work, the contrary of a chef d. oeuvre, 1t stood yet, in many eyes, for the climax of the year; and those lclti- zens who had sit within walls when the bud of the branch had first grown thick, and the dark earth by the way side had borne a ceandine or two and young nettle. or two, gravely bright under the dark and careerng skies of March; those who had sat within walls during the rose and the hawthorn time, and during the long continuance of peoples and so forth, for most of the summer were for the open country then, and then only when the little tree took on that slap-dash cOlor-the "Au- tumn tint"
 Lovelier is winter; not for snows, but for the natural unburdened woods, as the seasons leave them, between one year year and the next, washed through and through in the dark weather, and fresh from the visiting gale. Dark lands new from an Autumn blowing are not more simyply or richly colored than the leafless forests. The green grass refreshed from the dimness to which the sun had faded it, But the hills, nearly as much as the river, are clad in intercepted light, rather than in color
 Her loveliness, that rather lay
The age-herald., 1900-04-21
SITUATION STILL GLOOMY
Devastation and Ruin of Crops Has
 Been Great

Memphis, Tenn, April 2O.-The flood sit- uation in Mississippi and Louisiana re- mains gloomy, but little change in the conditions reported last night. Authentic reports regarding damage to crops in country districts adjacent to Vicksburg by the heavy rains of the early days of the week have just come to hand. From these reports the devastation and ruin is wide spread, crops, especially corn, being nearly a total loss. Whole fielCs, recently plowed and seeded were swept clear by the mad rush of waters down the hillsides, even the loose top earth being carried away down to the hard strata below.
 Young corn was first beaten down and then washed out of the earth by the tor rents from the hills. The first train from the south over the valley road since Mon day reached Vicksburg at o'clock to- night Officials of the road announce that the regular schedule will be in force to- morrow.
 Alabama and Vicksburg trains are sent only as far as Jackson. The Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific is open to Shreve- port.
 In Adams county heavy rains yesterday and today interferred with the work of re- pairing the roadways and railroad track. Young plants were beaten into the ground and covered beyond resurrection. Cotton planters will be the greatest sufferers. Seeds are very scarce and immediate re- planting will be necessary to produce a new crop
 The town of Hickory, Miss. reports a distressing situation, being completely sur rounded by water Tonight, however, the water is reported to be rapidly falling.
The age-herald., 1900-04-21

went. until they came to graveyard.
 "Now." he said to himself, 'Ill find if he's after me-" and he entered the church. yard.
 The man followed him. Vague visions of revolyers and garroters grew upon him. He made a detour of a splendid mauso- leum. Stil the man was after him, round and round,
 At last he turned and faced the fellow and asked: What the dickens do you want? What are you following me for?'
 Well, sir do you always go home like this? am going up to MT. Browns house with a parcel and the porter at the sta- ton told me that you live next door. Are you going home at all tonight?"
The age-herald., 1900-04-21
SUPERB DOUBLE
Daily Passenger Service to Cincinnati
 and Louisville

The Alabama Great Southern Railroad operates two daily passenger trains between Birmingham and Cincinnati and Louisville on quick and convenient schedules.
 No. "Cincinnati Limited" solid vesti- buled train, leaves Birmingham daily at 5:55 a. m., arrives Louisville 7:S5 p. m., Cincin- natl 7:S0 D. m. Through sleeper to Cincin- nati: also cafe dining and observa ton car, serving all meals la carte, Attalla, Ala, to Cincinnati.
 No "Queen and Crescent Special" leaves Birmingham daily at 4;15 p. m., ar rives Louisville 7:55 a. m., Cincinnati 7:45 a. m. Through sleepers Birmingham to Louisville; also sleeper and free reclining chair car, Chattanooga to Cincinnati.
 The scenic line via Lookout Mountain. Detailed information, sleeping car reser- yations, etc., cheerfully furnished upon ap plication to R. M. Ellis, Travelling Passen- ger Agent, 2O19 First Avenue. Phone. 617
 3-30-tf
The age-herald., 1900-04-21
B|G FLOW PLANT
 FOR BIRMINGHAM
An Industry With Capital Slock of $3O0,OOO Has
 Been Secured,

Another big industry has been secured for Birmingham.
 The new company. which will have a capital stock of $3OO,OOO and will employ 25O men, will manufacture blows. and come to Birmingham without asking for a sim gle dollar of local capital or for bonus vantages offered by this district to plants of that kind.
 The plant will be located just below the rolling mill and will be moved here from Columbus, Ga, where it has been in suc- cessful operation for several years The deal has been closed, and according to present plans the plant will occupy ten acres.
 The company will manufacture blows and other varieties of agricultural imple- ments. and will consume large quantities of coal, iron, steel and lumber.
 Pittsburg, April 20-The reports from New York and Chicago that the Carnegie company is purchasing large blocks of the stock of the American Steel and Wire company are not credited in Pittsburg by officials of the Carnegie company. It was the general impression that even if the Carnegie purchases of stock were true, under the existing strained relations be- tween MT. Prick and the company he would become chairman of the new con- cern.