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NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER, "WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1807
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by Mail.
ADVERTISING RATKS.
Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
advertisements. One Cent a Word each In
sertion. Five Cents a Word (or u full week
(seven times). , , .
Display advertisements, per Ipeu. one in
sertion, $1.20; each subsequent Insertion. 40
cents; one week, $3.20; one month, sin,
one year, $40. , -, 1-,
Obituary Notices. In P"0 v"s?y,,P
rents per line. Notices of Births. J"?'"
rlages. Deaths and Funerals. B0 cents each.
Local Notices 15 cents per line. .
Yearly advertisers are limited to tneir
own Immediate business (all matter to m
unobjectionable!, and their contracts do not
Include Wants. To Let. For Sale, etc.
Ten thousand six hundred and forty
two murders were committed in the
United States last year.
The heirs of Aloise Manhardt of Vien
na are much disappointed in the result
of the sale of his remarkable collection
)f railroad tickets, which comprised the
bulk of his legacy to them. There were
over 400,000 of the tickets, which Man
hardt had spent a fortune and most of
hla lifetime in collecting, but the best
market the heirs could make for them
was to sell them to an English house
for about $1,000.
. The postoffice at the Strait of Magel
lan consists of a small painted keg or
cask, and it is chained to the rocks of
the extreme oape, in a manner so that
it floats free, opposite Terra del Fuego.
Each passing ship sends a boat to take
letters out and put letters in. This
curious postoffice is unprovided With a
postmaster, and is, therefore, under the
protection of all the navies of the world.
Never in the history of the unique "of
fice" have its privileges been abused.
The British blue book gives some in
teresting figures as to the condition of
Ireland. While the total population is
t its lowest, 4,560,378, as against 8,295,
061 in 1845, the marriage rate last year
was the highest and the death rate the
lowest since 1871, while the birth rate
was higher than at any time since 1884.
The excess of births over deaths was
81,942, Emigration has been decreasing
for ten years, but apparently a majori
ty of the emigrants are in the prime of
life.
That is a horrible story which comes
from the province of Foo Chow, in
China, about the depredations of man
eating tigers. These fiends in animal
form have become so numerous and so
bold that the foreign settlement of Foo
Chow has been forced to take up the
matter, and offer rewards for every
full-grown tiger killed. Hundreds of
the farmer natives are afraid to work
in the fields and are swarming to the
ig cities and towns for protection.
Many hundreds of cattle were killed
and eaten by the tigers before they
turned their attention to human beings.
Tiger hunts on a large scale have been
organized at Foo Chow for the exter
minaton of the brutes.
A strange performance for the Church
of England was gone through in re
ceiving back at Wittram a person who,
after leaving the communion to become
a Roman Catholic, wished to return.
The vicar Insisted that he should be
solemnly shriven as a -penitent. After
the lesson for the day had been read,
the penitent walked up the communion
rail and knelt down. A novel form of
eervlce then commenced, the vicar put
ting questions and the penitent, in ab
Ject tones, answering them, to the ef
feet that he renounced the Church of
Home and meant to endeavor to lead
ia better life and to embrace the Church
of England as the true and only
church. The minister then absolved
ihlm, pronouncing the formula "in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost," with upraised
hands at the close. ,
An inquiry by a capitalist as to the
cassava production in Florida, with a
view to establishing a starch factory in
the State, has .set the Florida farmers
to dreaming of new sources of wealth.
Cassava, the Jacksonville Citizen says,
grows as freely and on as poor soil as
the potato. It will grow on nearly
pvery acre of soli In the State, Us tops
will propagate like cane, and the roots
will keep in the soil and need not be
rushed to market. Given fair notice,
the Citizen says, Florida can, in two
years thereafter, produce enough of the
cassava to keep every starch factory
'in' the United States at work until
another crop is grown. The present
product is unknown, as It is only grown
lor home consumption. It is better
than the choicest tapioca, Florida peo
ple say, and an acre planted with it
will produce more farinaceous food for
man and beast than the same area
planted for any other crop except ba
nanas. One of the most recent inventions
mentioned among those brought for
ward in Germany is one credited to
Paul Wonneberger of Gruma, near
Dresden, viz., a kind of heatable shoe,
and the means by which this quality is
Insured is claimed to be easily practica
ble. Within the heel of the shoe, which
is adequately hollowed out for the pur
pose, there Is a receptacle for a glowing
substance similar to that which is used
In the well-known Jupantvo ham j
wanner. Uet wv-.-u llir ("Kn, iiu lu ildi 1 1
in usbestDs covers, there is placed a
rubber bag which is filled with water,
the latter being heated above the heel,
and as It circulates while the wearer
of the shue la walking it keeps the en
tire nether surface of the foot warm; a
small safety valve is provided, so that
the bag cannot burst. The warmth
given by this kind of, sole is said to
never rise above 70 degrees Fahrenheit,
and will last for about eight hours. The
shoes are slightly heavier than the or
dinary sort, the sole being but little
thicker than that of the so-called wet
weather boot.
The negroes have done a great deal
for the agricultural development of
Oklahoma, says Mr. Golden of that ter
ritory. "They are particularly entitled
to credit for our large cotton produc
tion, inasmuch as without their efforts
very little of that important product
would have been grown. Though the
soil and climate are admirably adapted
to cotton, and the quality is even su
perior to that raised in Texas, a great
many of our agricultural farmers were
ignorant of its culture. A large num
ber of them had come from Kansas,
Nebraska and other western States
where the fleecy staple is not cultivated,
and it was left mainly to the colored
agriculturists to take the initiative.
The result has been eminently satisfac
tory, and this year Oklahoma will be
found to lead every State in the South
In cotton, taking into consideration the
difference of acreage. It is also one of
the greatest fruit countries I have ever
seen."
MOlel'l TUOVHI.K.
More trouble on the head man's mind,
and on the minds of others who are
loaded with one-man power, etc., etc.
In accordance with section 107 of the
wondrous new charter a school district
meeting was held last evening. This
section says: "There shall be in said
city a department of education, which
shall have the care and management of
all of the affairs of the New Haven city
school district. After this act takes ef
fect no meeting of the New Haven city
school district shall be held for any
purpose whatever, except that there
shall be a special meeting of the school
district on the third Tuesday of Sep
tember, 1897, for the purpose of laying
a tax upon the polls and ratable es
tates within the limits of said district,
for the purpose of paying the expenses
of the school district from July 14, 1897,
to December 81, 1897." The meeting
held last evening was attended by
about a hundred thoughtful and
more or less discouraged citizens. Un
der the influence of their discourage
ment these citizens took rather peculiar
action. They voted to give the mayor
and the board of finance a chance to
help pull the district out of the financial
hole it is in. Of course these officials
wilt welcome the opportunity to add
to their woes, and the action of the
district meeting will find warm approv
al from them. But it is possible that
after wrestling, or appearing to wrestle
with the matter, they will respeotfully
ask the district meeting to do what the
charter tells it to do. The idea that
they might seems to have crossed the
minds of the engineers of the district
meeting, for they provided by adjourn
ment for another meeting.
While all hands are "consulting" the
citizens who are not directly burdened
with the consultation are not obliged to
be unduly agitated. They can be calm
ly sure .of one thing, and that is that
somehow or other . the taxes will be
high enough.
the snoonsu of i.ofti..
The shooting of Postmaster Loftin
of Hogansville, Georgia, was a wicked
and violent expression of ideas which
are undoubtedly generally held in the
South. Senator Bacon of Georgia mild
ly sets forth the situation as follows:
"The appointment of colored men to of
fice in the South will certainly lead to
race antagonism and estrangements
which would otherwise not exist. Such
appointments are of small benefit to
the few negroes thus appointed, and
are of very great injury to the masses
of the negroes in the ill-feeling engen
dered between them and the whites,
upon whose friendship and good will
they are wholly dependent. If the
debts due by the Republican party to
the negro politicians require their polit
ical recognition in appointments to or
flee such appointments should be made
to positions iu communities whose
people do not object to the posts of au
thority and command among them be
ing held by negroes. Such communi
ties and such people are not found
among the whites of the southern
States. The people of Georgia deeply
regret the appointment of negroes to
office by this administration, but they
do not approve of violence to such ap
pointees, and instances of such vio
lence will be rare." And the Baltimore
Sun says: The whole trouble comee
from' the practice of bartering away
public office in payment of the politi
cal debts of individuals. If it is deem
ed essential to appoint colored men to
postofiices there is a way it can be
done without making trouble or giving
offence. There is not a State in the
North which has not well educated ne
groes, far better qualified to hold office
than those of the South, who, perhaps,
have not enjoyed the same educational
advantages. Let the President appoint
these men to postofiices in the northern
Stntt
whi'i'i' such uipo',ntr.H lit? would
: i-x.-iu- ran- prvjuiUo.:-which, we
presume, does not exist in the North.
This Is all very well, but It does not
justify such a dastardly deed as the
shooting of Postmaster Loftin. Lofttn
was led Into a trap by means of a de
coy letter. Four men stationed them
selves at convenient points along the
pathway through which the negro
would have to pass in carrying out the
Invitation of the letter. 'When he came
in sight they all fired, and but for bad
marksmanship he would have been in
stantly killed. The assassins fled, sup
posing that they had accomplished
their work. "When race prejudice, or
any other prejudice, takes such a form
as this it is crime, and crime which
cannot be justified or palliated by
smooth talk.
l'OSTAI. SJI'IMJ . H.lMiS.
One of the arguments for the estab
lishment of postal savings banks is the
way in which the money-order system
of the Postoffice department is used.
This system was instituted tor the ac
commodation of persons who cannot
forward money by checks, but it seems
to be used, more particularly in the
West, as a savings bank. Money or
ders are often obtained by persons
who have a few dollars to lay away.
This is made evident by the operation
of the law, which declares a money
order void when not presented for
payment within one year. AVhen a
money order is retained by the payee
beyond that period it can only be re
newed by the superintendent of the
system, In Washington, and the num
ber of cases where money orders have
been retained for one, two, three and
even more years is surprising. The
records show that in most Instances
where money orders are not presented
within the prescribed period,, the or
der was purchased by the payee with
no other purpose than depositing his
nioneywhere he knew It would be safe
until it was wanted. When the orig
inal money order has become void a
duplicate is issued, upon application,
by the superintendent and void dupli
cates are replaced by warrants upon
a fund created for uncalled for money
which has accumulated since the sys
tem has been in operation. Hundreds
of cases could be given where farmers,
miners, mechanics and other persons
have used the money order system for
a savings bank, among the most strik
ing being the case of a miner at Lead-
ville, Colorado, who purchased an order
for $2,200 payable to himself, and per
mitted the money to remain on deposit
for five years. For the sake of the se
curity afforded by depositing the money
with the government he was not only
willing to forego the interest, which he
would have received had the company
been placed in a savings bank or other
wise invested, but he paid the commis
sion demanded by the government for
Issuing the order.
FASHION XOI'liS.
Color Killed About the Ankles. '
Clocked silk stockings, such as we
used to wear when we were little girls,
we will don again now that we are big
girls and unable to show them as easily
as we used. For dress occasions it is
positively no longer necessary or even
correct to match shoe and stocking.
The dancing slipper may be an excep
tion, but the patent leather "pump,"
which is made to look as much like our
brother's as possible. Is thrown into
distinctly black contrast with the deli
cate colored silken stocking. The lat
ter, however, brings itself into harmony
by elaborated black .clocks. The gown
Itself or its lining must match the
stocking, and almost invariably some
touch of black in the finish of the gown
gives further assurance that the pumps
are intended and are not the mistake
of careless maid or a fault of unin
formed taste.
A dressy costume of broche silk is
shown herewith, the color being helio
trope and the lining taffeta. Collar and
belts were mauve velvet, the latter or
namented with two showy buttons. But
he bolero was the gown's richest feat
ure, being of the velvet with trimming
of narrow gold galoon lace ruffles.
Aside from its jacket, this gown was
quite simple, hut that accessory lent so
much of dressiness that Its designer
topped it in his show room with a pic
ture hat, and it all looked very fine.
Jackets that are to be classified as
garments, rather than as trimmings,
and that are more protective than or
manental are of interest. Among them
are little scarlet ones, strictly tailor
made, double breasted and boxed front,
or single breasted and buttoning from
throat down, which are a pretty over
garment for fall wear in the country.
After the same cut are jackets in dark
blue, which maybe are a better choice,
because if not so picturesque in the
country th:v will be more suitable for
liio city a little later In the season.
, ... FLOHETTE.
FACTS.
"Statistics show that 124 persons own
one-third of Manhattan Island." "Why,
where does Mr. Piatt come In?" Cleve
land Plain Dealer,
Once Was Enough. First boarder
"Were you here last summer?" Sec
ond boarder (crossly) "No; think I'd
be here now if I had been here last
summer?" Puck.
His call had lasted something like
two hours when he suggested that he
believed he could read her thoughts.
"Then why don't you go?" she asked.
Chicago Evening Post.
Little Bob "Aw, I could walk the
rope just as well as the man In the
circus if it wasn't for one thing!" , Lit
tle Willie "What is that?" Little Bob
"I'd fall off." Harper's Bazar.
Hie Hope. The burglar "Me lawyer
is tryin' to put off de trial as long as he
kin." Friend "What for?" The. burg
lar "Well, what I took was silver, an'
silver's goin' down so fast dat de of
fence '11 soon seem trlrlin'." Puck.
"Call that a kind man," said an ac
tor, speaking of an absent acquaint
ance "a man who is away from his
family and never sends them a far
thing? Call that kindness?" "Yes;
unremitting kindness," said the other.
Household Words.
"Why are yez decorating, Mrs. Mur
phy?" "Me b'y Denny is coming home
the day." "I thought he was sent up
for folve years." "Yos, but he got a
year off for good behavoure." "Sure, it
must be comfortin' for yez to have a
good b'y loike that." TIt-Blts.
A Cure. A certain benedict was in
the habit of troubling his father-in-law
with complaints about his wife's be
havior. "Really, thia is too bad," cried
the irascible old gentleman one day on
hearing of some of his daughter's delin
quencies. "If I hear any more com
plaints I will disinherit her." There
were no more complaints. Household
Words.
The lesson was from the Prodigal Son
and the teacher was dwelling on the
character of the elder brother.
"But amid all the rejoicing," he said,
"there was one to whom the prepara
tion of the feast brought no joy, to
whom the .prodigal's return gave' no
pleasure, but only bitterness; one who
did not approve tf the feast being held,
and who had no wish to attend it.
Now, can any of you tell me who this
was?"
There was a breathless silence, fol
lowed by a vigorous cracking of
thumbs, and then from a dozen synv
pathetic little geniuses came the cho
rus:
"Please, sir, It was the fatted calf!"
Aberdeen Journal.
"Who wae that philosopher at the
next table?"
"I didn't notice."
"I mean the one who was talking
about the brevity of life here to-day
and gone to-morrow, and all that sort
of thing." 1 ' ' '
"Oh, that fellow. He runs a bucket
shop." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
WORRIED THE LANDLADY.
Balder Twins Made Her Think She Was
in the Wrong? Business.
The Balder twlns'!have been getting
Into trouble again. This time it was
with a new boarding-house keeper who
had bought 'out the Widow Clancy's
business and didn't know there was a
twin In It. The widow had always been
generous to a fault her own and every
body's else but the new dispenser of
provender had a talent for measuring
and sipping and keeping tally saw
every biscuit that was served. She saw
Harold, the thinnest twin, eating his
supper, and the dimensions of his ap
petite fairly appalled her. She asked
who he was and was told that he was a
regular boarder and belonged to the
Balder family, but not a word of his
being a twin.
"Land sakes!" she said, "he must be
hollow from his head to his heels. I can
never ntake any money with such a
cormorant as that to feed!"
She saw pork and beans, fried eggs,
eggs on toast and bread without eggs
disappearing under the hungry admini
stration of a boy's appetite, and she
hurried into the china pantry and took
down a small memorandum book and
began figuring on profit and loss. She
was at it some time, and when she
returned to the dining-room she ex
pected to find it empty. What was her
horror to find the boy with an appetite
had just received an entirely new order,
which was being served. She stared for
a moment like one distraught, then she
tackled the boy.
"You must be hungry," she said, with
withering sarcasm.
"You bet I am," said the other twin,
Eugene, as he began to devour the near
est dish.
"Young man, you'i; have a flit of
apoplexy, and I won't be half sorry.
Anybody who gorges himself with two
suppers ought to die."
Eugene understood in a flash, but he
only said demurely:
"Wait until I've eaten this one may
be I won't need any more."
The new boarding-house keeper went
through the apartments in a fury, look
ing for the Balders to inform them that
their son was eating himself to death.
The first one she saw was the boy him
self playing checkers with his father.
Her eyes grew round.
"How on earth did you get here be
fore me?" she asked.
"Oh, that was dead easy," paid
Harold, who saw the usual complica
tions, and was happy. "I came up as
soon as I finished my supper."
"But you had begun all over again,"
shrieked the tormented and perplexed
woman, and then Father Balder came
to the rescue and explained about the
twins. But the awe-stricken head of
the commissary department said that
she should sell out, for she thought there
was something uncanny about the busi
ness. Chicago Times-Herald.
HER HAND WAS SAVED..
William Lorts, who nas conductor on
the Union Pacific passenger train
which recently ran off a bridge near
Byers, Col., relates an incident of the
wreck that closely trends upon the
horrible. "The chair car," says Mr.
Lorts, "was on end in the water. After
we had carried the injured passengers
out and were about to abandon the car,
I heard fait groans. I took my lantern
and climbed down into the car. I found
a woman with her head just above the
water. I got assistance and tried to lift
her out, but she was first, and we
i.vuU'1 r.o; move her. I dbcovevt-cl that
she was held fast by her hand between
two seats. I called for an axe and told
her I would have to cut her hand oft to
save her life, as the car was sinking
fust. She looked at me plteously, but
said nothing. I took off my coat and
put it over her head so she could not see
the cruel blows with the axe. Then she
began to beg me not to chop off her
arm. By pure accident I found a piece
of iron down in the water, and with this
I managed to pry the seats far enough
apart to release her. It was the heaviest
lifting of my life. We carried her off
the car, and as we reached safety the
car sank from sight. Two seconds later
and we would all have been drowned.
Kansas City Journal.
HIE: Wind your J
g m WatcD
3 at the same time
m m & Dailp
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Hang in the same way
Let us Clean it
m m m yearlp
and you will he punctuali
ty personified. j t2
THE GEORGE H. FORD
COMPANY
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UNDERWEAR.
All grades and prices.
Ladies' Belts and
Golfing Ties
at just half price.
Chase & Company,
New Haven Houss Building.
IIPORTIM TAILOR.
63 CENTER STREET,
NEW HAVEN.
HIGHEST GRADE DAIRY PRODUCTS.
Pasteurized Milk
. AND
Pasteurized Cream.
Onr FatenrlKed Milk Is a perfect food.
Oar Pasteurized Cream will whip la from
two to three mlnatea.
kOK 8 A OH BV GROCERS.
Dally Delivery to Families.
M. B. andF. S. HUBBELL,
MAPLE BILD FARM.
N -rthfor i, Conn.
fiic-i8 Wooatcr street
f", - - SoloDboao im.
Housekeepers
Rooming
Yale Students
need our Brass-trim White
Iron Bedsteads at $5.62
regular price. As good, if
not better than sensational
stores sell at $5.75. So
much for the hoax of "low
er prices."
) Another important thing.
In view of complete room
furnishings buy furniture
that will endure the pecul
iar usage to which students
subject it. Entire room out
fits are available in our
matchless collection of new
Fall Furniture. Can't we
show it you?
Sellen of good furniture.
Stiangers to poor furniture.
am
Oranze and Crown Streets.
Hot
THE CENTFE OF SAVING, GREATER NEW HAVEN'S GREATEST STORE. t .
Dress Goods
Enthusiasm
is bound to crowd our counters this
week. Almost everything that taste
has conceived in plain and tancy fab
rics can be found here- everything
from the serviceable to the superb.
Hundreds of styles of Dress Goods to choose from at
39c yd.
Fine
Stationery and
Engraving!
High School
Stationery,
; with embossed
school initials :
Marcus Ward &
Co's Royal Irish Linen
writing paper with en
velopes to match.
4 C
I C! quire
West End
Institute
fine grade of
stationery, 24
sheets paper,
50 cents
Your Copper Name Plate
and 50 cards 98 Cents
loo cards printed from your own
plate tor 89 cents
West Stor. Main Floor
Women's Warm Wear!
Oneita Combination Suit,
high neck and long sleeves, natural color only Nos. 4, 5, 6.
These Suits sell for $1.25 each; there aren't many
F. M. BROWN & CO.
THE APOLLO LAMI" the most econom
ical Lamp ever muuiifnctured consumes
only '2 cubic feet of gas per hour; lesa
than hut other Lamp lu the market. Tne
Apollo Lamp onn be adjusted to any Gas
Fixture, la adnpted for natural, coal or gas
oline gas, and la provided with an Auto
matic Regulator, which prevents the break
ing of ohlumeys by a sudden increase of
gas pressure.
The APOLLO MANTLES are the moat
durable ever manufactured; they are made
In any desired tint. The Orange Light be
ing the best adapted for private dwellings,
as It is free from that ghaatly hue so ob-
iectlonable to the ladles. The Blue-White
Aght la the best for stores and where the
greatest possible candle-power Is wanted.
These Mantles are suspended from the top
like a bell, by a loop of material, same as
that from which the Mantles are made.
There is nothing to burn off and destroy
the Mantles, and their being suspended
from the top prevents any sudden lar from
breaking them, as Is emmon with other
Mantles. THE ARNOLTV CO.. Sole Agents,
STATE AND CROWN STREETS.
K0AL.
am now tiellverlnq Koal in
cellar direct from
dirt and
. F. GILBERT,
65 Clmr'ch. St., opp. Postoffice, 81 Railroad Ave.
A ttJtJh Mian-
2$LL '
........ lx.CftfHtt.
WHEN NATURE WEEPS
you will be fortunate if you have one
of our splendid Cravenette Mackin
toshes, with new style of capes. '
We have them in brown, blue, black
and wine color, for
35.00
West Store, Second Floor, Front '
FALL HOUSEKEEPINGS!
Nickled Copper Tea Kettles 69C
Brooms, worth 25c ' 1 5c
Knife and Fork Box, cloth bottom 7c
Skirt Ironing Tables . 98c
Barrel Ash Sifters 59c
Self-Wringing Mops, best ' 25c
Cedar Pails , 230
8 Cakes Laundry Soap ' 25c
Full size, White Floating Soap 5 c
Peerless Waxing Pads 5c
Bissell's Grand Rapids Sweeper
22.48
"Sweeperettes." . 01.59
Household Paints, assorted col- v
ors i Oc
Enameled Paints, ass't'd colors, 1 5C
Fine Wire Dish Drainers, new 1 0c
SoapSavers 5C
Wire Broilers, special . OC
Wire Frying Baskets -1 5c
West Store, Basement
w
EARLE &
SEYMOUR,
BOIilOTTORS Off
American and Eoreign
PATENTS,
868 Chapel Street,
NEW HAVEN, COUCH,
Plumbing and Gasfitting
J. 11. Bucklay, 179 Church S
bags and carried Into the
wagon. Avoid all
buv of
IeMneyoilBfs,Siem aoi ffainr
AUG
ielf Contained, requiring no orlck setting.
V itbciit Gaskets or Tacking, and are that alwayi
tight.
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