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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-16
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Upon it's personal and social side his presidency was one to be long remem- bered. The honors of the White House were done with a graceful dignity
 such as had never yet been known there. The president had lost his wife some years before;, but his sister, Mrs
 McElroy, an accomplished woman of great social charm, frequently presi
 ded at official functions. The diploma tic dinners were rescued from the slnothered ridicule with which the for
 eign envoys had always viewed them
 and the famous epigram of Mir. Evarts suddenly lost it's point. As for the president himself, he must be regarded as the only man of the world, in the best sense of that term, who has ever occupied the White House. Jefferson might, perhaps, have been cited as an
 other instance were it not that, during his first term, he cultivated an osten- tatious boorishness, such as would have been impossible in thorough
 bred. President Arthur, however, was an ideal host to both his public and his private guests. Of handsome pres ence, courteous, witty, tactful and pos sessing infinite savoir faire, he was g living refutation of the taunt which Europeans sometimes level at us, to the effect that eminence in American politics is unattainable by one who is a gentleman at heart. MT. Arthur kept the domestic side of his menage q thing entirely apart from his official life. Coarse-minded, peeping cores pondents, made and female, found
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is apprentice in printing office. At eighteen he has acquired two cases of long primer and an army press. and is the editor of a country newspaper. At twenty he is married. At thirty he is bald-headed, stoop-shouldered, and the father Of a large family. At thirty-6ve he is a corpse in a cheap pine coffin, and as five hundred delinquent sub seribers file past his bier for the las. look, they are heard to say: Tile was good fellow, but he couldn't save his money."-Lockwood (Mo.) Times.
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ELLESME ERE LAND.

Ellesmere Land, which has just been annexed by the Canadian government. is intimately associated with the voy- ages of Parry, Franklin, Mares. Mo- Clintock and other explorers of the Arc- tic regions. All the territories included under the name have nominally belong ed to thes British empire since 1S19, when they were claimed on behalf of George III. by Sir William E. Parry. at that time Lieutenant Parry, on his first voyage to the Arctic. Ellesmere Island, or, as it is termed, Ellesmere Land, consists of eighteen thousand square miles; North Devon, another island, has an area of twenty-two thousand square miles, and North Somerset is ten thou sand square miles in extent. They have heretofore been classified as a part of the Northwest Territory called Franklin, in memory of Sir John Frank lin. The territory is five hundred and ninety thousand square miles in extent, and consists of all the Arctic islands belonging to British North America. Ellesmere Land is separated from Greenland by Smith Sound. and pos- sesses a range of mountains rising from one to five thousand feet above the level of the sea- The islands are by no means unpopulated, though, so far as is known, no census has ever been talk en. The inhabitants, of course, are Es- quimaux.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-16

oughgoing precautions of the Japanese government and it's medical officers to prevent disease in the army. We Ann orleans are by no means the only nation needing to have the lesson brought home. The English and French armies are in the same sad plight and to a lesser degree the German. We have allowed the half-scorned yellow mem to surpass us in military hygiene and medicine. and the lesson should not go unheeded.
 Perhaps in our next war it will pay us to hire some of the experienced Japanese doctors to show us.
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scant material here for vulgar para graphs of kitchen gossip. There were published no foolish. nauseating chron- ieles of the daily doings'' of the White House. The presidents children were not photographed and paragraphed and made the subject of thousand
 Hat and fatuous stories. Beyond the veil of self-respecting privacy, which
 was drawn before the presidents per- sonal affairs, few ever penetrated. The only tale that reached the public was
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-16

MT. Bacon "There was report around that Gay has been seen taking his typewriter to the theaters and to dinner good deal lately" Mrs. Bacon
 "Yes, isn't it scandalous?" But Gay says it is not fact; that he has done nothing of the kind.'' "Of course, that S just like a man, to deny it! Who is MT. Gays typewriter?" His wife!"--Yon- kers Statesman.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each insertion. Five Cents word for a full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch. one insertion, s1.20; each subsequent inser- tion, 40 cents; one week. sS.2o; one month, s1O; one year, $40.
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THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB- LIsHED IN CONNECTICUT.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS A WEEK. 50 GENTS A MONTH, s3 FOR SIX MONTHS, s6 4 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES. CENTS.
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CoULDN,T SAVE MONEY

The stork disappears and we look into the cradle and behold male child.
 After running the gauntlet of measles, humps and chickenpox he enters school. At the age of ten he is red headed, freclled-faced boy and the ter
 TOT of the neighborhood. At twelve ht
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-16
AN HISTORIC GRouNDHoG DAY.

A "groundhog" day that will always be famous in the history of Oklahoma was the 2d day of February, 1882. The weather was very much the same as we have been having for the past few days-lots of snow, cold, and sleet. It was on the morning of February 2, 1882, that Paynes oklahoma boomers lined
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The Hartford Times thinks that per haps it might agree with the czar in favoring a zemsky zabor if 1t knew what the thing is.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-16

THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
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The modern German professor IS dressed in the mode, writes N. Hudson Moore from Munich. ''He commands large salary which, with his fees for lectures. often exceeds that of the Ger man secretary of state. He enjoys his advantages, good clothes, good food' the opera, athletics and, according to a critic of his own nationality, his as- pirations are often distinctly commer- cial.' Many German professors earn from 5O,ooO to 100000 marks (4 marks to the dollar) a year, so the period of inc pipe and garret is quite past"
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William F'eatherstone, an English man now travelling in this country, has been spending some time in China. While there he heard that a number of American and English officers are in the Chinese army. The government there is offering large inducements to such military men to enlist under the emperor's flag. In doing this they would receive salaries much superior to what they would get in their own countries, and they are offered writ ten contract guaranteeing several years service. Around Hongkong it was cur- rent report that number of young officers of the United States army, who. for one reason or another, have wearied of service in the Philippines, were now with the Chinese at increased rank and pay.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-16

"A story is current in London that the czar suspects M. Witte's wife of conspiring against the throne. Mime. Witte was born a poor peasant girl, but was of remarkable type of beau ty. She married a tradesman and went to St. Petersburg, where Witte saw her. Her husband was induced to allow her to get a divorce, and Witte afterward married her. Later she was concerned in the enormous specula- tions of Adolph Rothstein, president of the Imperial bank of Russia and or ganizer of the Russo-Chinese bank, and was exiled from Russia by the czar. She is now at Nice. Rumors have been in circulation that Mime. Witte has been implicated in the plot to shake off the rule of autocracy and is in part responsible for the present turmoil in Russia.
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Things continue to happen in Dan burv. For instance, this, which is re- lated by the Danbury News: "A fat woman was on her way down street yesterday and was walking in the mid- dle of the street, having gazed ask ance at the slippery sidewalk. She passed a thin woman of her acquaint- ance who was making a precarious progress along the sidewalk. Good morning. said the thin woman, what are you walking out there for?' Be
 cause it's safer replied the fat woman. oh, commented the thin woman, I thought perhaps it might be because there was more room.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-16

It has been stated recently that it was in 1867, at the siege of Candid, in Crete, that siege guns were first used. This statement is contradicted, how-- ever, by writer who says that just before the siege of Constantinople a Hungarian or Wallachian cannon foun- der named Urban cast, in 1452, at Adri- anople, a cannon which remained for many years the wonder of Europe and marks an epoch in the continually ir1- creasing power of guns.' Urban's can- non was dragged by sixty oxen to Con- stantinople in '1453, and threw a stone ball of 1,20O pounds weight. It was fired seven times a day and once each night. The Turks used at the siege two other cannon nearly as large, and altogether had fourteen batteries, each containing four guns, along the length of the wall.
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..WAY DOWN. EAST"

That perennial favorite among high class dramas, Way Down East," will enter upon it's annual engagement at the Hyperion theater next Monday, Tuesday, with matinee Tuesday. Tie Lottie Blair Parker play counts it's ad- mirers by the thousands, and many there are who make a practice Of pat ronizing the play upon every occasion of it's engagement in this city. %~';tis year the production is said U Dc more at tractjve than ever before, oe,ns bright ened and freshened with new scenic featales, and with two new players in the cast, and these with yiTth and rare enthusiasm for the work.
 f The new corners this season are Jo- sephine Bacon, an actress of excellent repute, who succeeds the late Mir. Stev- ems, and aKte Beneteau, who replaces Marion Shirley in the role of Kate Brewster The remainder of the cast includes Robert Fischer as the Squire, Ella Hugh Wood as Martha Perkins, Ulric B. Collins as David; W. T. Ell wvanger- as Lennox Sandecson, C.. C. Blanchard as Rube Whipple, and '. H. Emmy as Seth Holcomb. The village choir. an always important and enjcy' able feature of "'Way Down E;tst,'' is
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Throwing up the window, she leaned out. into the rain. Tt stopped her lips formed the words stiffly, ''in the next block-where Robert lives!''
 Drawing back. the girl groped for the heavy drapery of the window, and clung to it, numb with fear.
 Her brain throbbed with the pain of thinking. Robert had had an acci- dent That was why he had not come. She must go to him, and how could she ever cover the distance between her and the front door. It was so far! Tn that moment when her mind urged her on from one dreadful possibility to another, Robert entered the room. In his haste he had not removed his rain eGat, and was jerking off his damp gloves as he approached ner.
 The girl was outlined against the gloves as he approached her. ....
 The girl was outlined against the dull red curtain, with her frightened face toward him. She did not speak. Placing his hands on her shoulders, Robert held her back from him tender ly. :. :x, <
 Were you worried, darling because I was late?" he said. There was an accident tip the street. and I stood around a bit until the ambulance ca'ne. He lives up here in the next block. Don't look so limp, Margery, he wasn't hurt. love, but Pm wet! Some wretched business kept me at the office, and when tried to call you up your phone was out of order" You are a dear not to scold. I can't touch you till get out of this wet coat--regular deluge outside Mar gery. sweetheart, you will ruin your clothes!" The girl had flung herself into lis wet arms and was clinging to "oh, Robert" she cried, with a great sob of content, 1T can't love you enough. Mary A. Griffin in Vogue. his shoulder. 4a an& "@
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AS TO GRAY STOCKINGS.

"When women come to understand the beautiful harmony and dainty eff feet of steel gray stockings, in contrast with the dark skirts they usually wear on ordinary occasions, I expect to see them quite as popular as the blacks that now obtain so universally" says MT. F. c. Barnard. 9s +3sE As a rule the average woman wears black skirt around the house or on the street, and nothing is more effec- tive than dark gray in conjunction with it. The combination is one not usually
 seen. Women are not afraid of it, but
 they just don't seem, to know anything about it. s.% i,, z. @' 5
 'Black stockings are trim and neat,
 but when worn with black skirt black
 shoes and doubtless even a black jack et,- the effect is too sombre. If the skirt
 is of the long, trailing variety, I grant you that they are seldom in evidence the stockings, of course--but the short walking skirts now so commonly worn give a glimpse of an inch or two of stocking, and it would be an inch, or two of beautiful color blend if dark gray stockings were worn. Some day this fact will dawn on femininity with
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Polls 1heater.

Polls bill proved to be one of the best of the season when "a crowded house saw it last night. It is, a. com bination of novelty and comedy. Fan ny Rice is the star feature and her dancing doll speciality should be the means of crowding this theater all Weel..
 The Italian operatic trio this week are marvellous three, possessing ex- cellent voices and have the right se- lections. The Camille comedy trio of comedy acrobats and bar performers; the Niagara Musical Family, with their music act in a barber shop, was one of the hits of the bill! Adair and Dahn, with tight wire act, Carlin and Otto as the. German pair, Merton and Dean with songs, comedy and dancing, and the electrograph closes the bill.
 Prices: Evenings, 10, 20 30 cents; matinees, 10, 20 cents; ladies at mat inees, 10 cents; box seats, 50 cents.
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! PRINCE MrRsKY.

The Czar's Minister Of the Interior Every one who knows Prince Mirsky,
 Russia's New Minister of the Interror, speaks enthusiastically of the gentle and gracious simplicity of his charac- ter. He is one of those rarely attrac- tive natures whom every one likes at ! first sight without precisely knowing why, and then continues to like in- creasingly, as the fine qualities of his
 heart and mind show themselves | Prince Mrsky is a man of fine mili-
 tary bearing, type of "the soldier in civil employ" as we say in India. He | is only forty-seven, and is thus still in the season Of hope, in every way a
 contrast to the grim winter of his tyrannous predecessor, von Phehve. About middle height, he Is fair com
 plexion, and wears a pointed beard,
 cut In the style made fashionable by King Edward VII.s He has rather
 melancholy, thoughtful eyes. and his whole expression is one of gentleness | and kindness, yet with much underly- ing strength. Perhaps the best recent testimony to his unspoiled nature lcomes from subordinate employe,
 whom he had known in early years,
 and who visited him shortly after his
 appointment as Minister of the Inter- for. "He is just as kind as he used to bel" exclaimed the employe, coming
 out of the Ministers Cabinet, with big
 round. eyes of wonder. This tempera- mental I,xy ie in his dealings with the Russian press.
 With the zenstvos, with the much en-
 during Russian Jews as it was the secret of his success while he was
 Governor-General of White Russia, on the frontier of Poland, with it's many national and religious wounds so easi- | ly frritated. yet so easily soothed. He
 seems endower with rarely happy dis | position. in face of grave and serious difficulties. If he can confront and suc- 1 cessfully solve them, in spite of the tre-
 mendous forces which will leave no
 stone unturned to thwart and oppose
 him, he will stand forth as one of the
 greatest statemen Russia has produced, I Let us consider the heredity and
 circumstances which helped to make
 Prince Mirsky the man he is to-day, i the hope of a new era of Russian free dom. The first picture I have of him is | as brown haired, bare keed boy, in
 Tif1is, very good natured and very fond
 of children, His father, Prince Dimitri ! Sviatopolk- -Mirsky, was one of the high |, officials of the vice-regal court of the
 Caucaus, standing close to the Gover-
 nor General, Grand Duke Michael The ! Grand Duke, who is still great and
 wise figure in Russian life, is the only | surviving son of NicholasI and, there 1 fore grand-uncle of Nicholas II. His
 palace at Tifis was the centre of a.
 vigorous artistic and intellectual life.
 which carried on the literary tradi-
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WASHINGTON.
Low Rate Tour via Pennsylvania Rail-

Low Rate Tour via Pennsylvania Rail-
 January 19 is the date on which wild be run the next personally conducted tour Of the Pennsylvania railroad to Washington. This tour will cover a period of three days, affordirg ample time to visit all the principal points of interest at the national capital in cluding the congressional library and the new Corcoran art gallery! RateS scoverning railroad transportation for the round trip and hotel accomrnoda- tions, $14.50, or SIP. from New York. SIS or s10.5O from Trenton, and pro- portionate rates from other points ac- cording to hotel selected. Rates cover accommodations at hotel for two days. Special side trip to Mount Vernon. < All tickets good for ten days, with special hotel rates after expiration of hotel coupon.
 X Similar tours will be run on February ? and 21, March 9 and 23, April and A. and May IS.
 For itineraries and full information apply to ticket agents, c. Studds, East- ern Passenger Agent, 263 Fifth avenue, New York, or address Geo. w Boyd General Passenger Agent, Broad Street. station, Philadelphia.
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ENGRAyING ON DIAMioNDs.

Diamods can be engraved in d very artistic manner, This development of the diamond cutting art brings into ex- istence a new class of jewelry, for which a considerable demand is expect ed. sIt was long, believed that the dia, mond could not be en ngrHved with safe or satisfactory resilts9 A few stones roughly engraved were found in India, and a diamond was exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1873 on which por-
 trait of the King Of Holland was scratched. But the work was imper- feet, and the stones were rather depol- ished than engraved. Some of the finest specimens of engraving on dia-i fonds are the work of Bordinet, a Paris jeweler. One is scarfpin representing a yataghan, of which the blade is a slender diamond and the handle a ruby. Another is a large circular stone, on which a pansy with it's foliage is en- graved. In. another case the design is a knife made with two diamonds. An elaborate piece of work is a bicycle, of which the wheels are two circular dia-
 monds. The spolres are represented by lines engraved on the diamonds. A small hole Is pierced at each axle. An other diamond is carved ikea fish. A handsome brooch is ssa scarabeus,. sur rounded by sapphires and brilliants.
 The most remarkable is a ring made of one diamond, the interior surface be- ing polished and the. exterior elaborate.
 ly engraved. Other examples are broochs, representing flies, of which the wings are thin engraved diamonds, and two diamonds engraved with arrnorial
 bearings, the imperial arms of Russia
 being used in one instance on shirt and cuff buttons. Formerly it was only pos sible to produce the polish on flat sur faces, but Bordinet has been able to do this on concave portionss as. on the body
 and tail of a fish and tlie iifteriorsof the
 ring. His tools produce not only
 straight lines, as in the wheel, the rac, quet and the flies wings, but a free arms and the scarabeus. He has in vented these tools himself, and intends l that his son alone shall have the use of i them. They are exceedingly delicate and difficuitsto handle. He has spent
 thirtyrfive years bringing then to per- fection. It is comparati but few, I years since it was possible to pierce holes in diamonds This feat made pos sible the placing lsof diamonds on a
 string, alternating with pearls. This work now. is dome generally in diamond cutting establishment ents.--Kansas, City Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-17
ON GENERAL SEDGWICK.
LECTURE LAST NIGHT BY REV.
 DIR. SAMUEL HART.

Delivered Before the New Haven Col
 Ony Historical SOciety-The Cam
 paign in Jamaica of 1655-6.
 The Janaury meeting of the New Ha- ven Colony Historical society, was held last evening. The members and friends listened to an interesting address by Prof. Samuel Hart. D. D., of Middle town, president of the Connecticut His -torical society. The subject was Gen. eral SedgWick, and the Campaign ill Jamaica os 1655-56." Robert Sedgwick came to Boston from England in 1885, being at that time about twenty years old; he entered into a successful busi- ness life and became one of the foun- jders and an officer of the Ancient Artil- lery company, he having had some mill itary education in England. In 1855 England and Spain were at war; fleet was fitted out to capture some of the West India islands, including Jamaica. kAmong the officers of the New England contingent was Robert SedgWick. He formed that portion of the army from England which had arrived earlier than
 
 ized, condition, a large number sick, many had died from want of proper medical care, and the balance discour- 3aged and unwilling to work. General Sedgwick's letters were a vivid pen pie ature of the physical condition of the men as well as their low morals: his own health became Impaired and he de- sired to return, but instead come an or der advancing him to the chief com. mand of the army. This order, says the speaker, was about as welcome as death warrant to a criminal. General Sedgwick made a great effort to com play with the orders of the king and 1 succeeded in effecting some improve ment in the condition of the army, but the effort cost him his life. He died April 20, 1856. Later Jamaica eell to England, and has ever srnce been con- trolled by her. The loss of General Sedgwick caused a sincere regret to both soldiers and sailors; he was of an amiable disposition, true son of Mas sachusetts and his death deprived her of one of her best citizens. He deserves to be better known in history of the seventeenth century.
 One of his descendants was judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts, Thomas S., of the third generation, at- tained a commanding position in the world of letters. E.
 pr. Hart was introduced by Porfessor Williston Walker, president of the New Haven society. and at the close of the address Dr. Hart. on motion of ex- President Timothy Dwight of Yale, was rendered a hearty vote of thanks by the society.