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4 NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COl'JUFlt, FBJPAY, OCTOBER I), 1897 JViiK iiArus, cosx. THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB. I.IKIIKI) IN CONNKCTICUT. UK II li.lv 4.1 .y( Tamil' ThnrnflwT. On Onllii, a Yflnr. fXilii (JAKK1JMUXON t UiSLlSHING CO. Office 400 Statu Street. DjtUVLHKD BY CARltlEUS IN TUB CITY, 15 Cents a Week, 50 Cents a Month, $3 foii Six Months, JS a i'tAit. The Same Teums tit Mail. ADVERTISING KATKH. Situations, Wants, Kent a, and other email advflrtlSPinents, Ona Cent a Word Bch In. kertlon. Five Ceuts a Word for a full week (Heven tlmeHi. Display advertisements, per lnen, one In sertion. $1.20: each sill-sequent Insertion. 40 ceutu; one week, $3.20; one month. $10; one year. $40. Obituary Notices, In prose or Terse, la rents per line. Notices of Births. Mar rlaws, Deaths and Funerals. 50 cents cacn. Loral Notices 15 ceuts per line. Yearly advertisers are limited to their own Immediate business (all mutter to be unobjectionable), and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale, eta A young woman In Worcester, Engr land, has just died from eating wax candles to improve her complexion. She didn't improve it. The yellow fever scourge has already cost New Orleans twenty millions, and it will cost much more. It would not jiave cost that much this year to keep . the city clean. New York is about completing the first pneumatic tube system of any size in this country. We are away behind Europe in this matter, though we lead the world in the matter of electric rail roads. Some of the large cities of Eu rope, such as London, Liverpool, Bir mingham, Paris, and Berlin, have been provided with pneumatic tubes for messages for forty years, and they car ry an immense business. Bohemian sportsmen during the year 1895 shot and killed fifty men, women and children, and wounded 2,014 per sons, chiefly gamekeepers. They also Wiled, among other game, over 15,000 flogs, 8,762 cats, 2 horses, 15 cows, 132 calves, 276 goats and 129 sheep. For this they had, to pay collectively over $500,000 for doctors, fines and indemni ties, and to spend 74,388 days in jail. The Austrian government collects the Statistics. Her young man dropped dead just before the wedding day; the' sudden shock killed her mother; her sister died on the way to the funeral, and her brother then committed suicide. These troubles upset a London young woman, and she tried to drown herself. The "magistrate before ' whom she was brought, however, told her that "she had allowed herself to get into a very morbid state," and had acted very fool ishly and childishly. There is municipal control of the waterworks of Pittsburg:, and it is re corded that for nearly twenty years the city of Pittsburg has gone on pumping fully two-thirds of its water supply to twice the height necessary to send it to the consumers on the lower levels. It has at length reached the stage of rem edying this waste of one-third of its power by building a low-level reser voir. Can any one doubt that private enterprise, to which economy and profit were a vital necessity, would have stop ped that waste long before it reached a total of nearly $1,000,000, by putting in a $100,000 standpipe? This is New York city's new ordi nance regulating the use of lamps on vehicles and bicycles: Hereafter, each anS-ftvery bicycle, light wagon or wag ons notused for the delivery of goods, also vehictesLused for the carrying of passengers exclusively, using the pub lic streets or htghways of this city, shall show from one "hour after sunset until one hour before sunris, a light or lights, so placed as to tie seen" from the front and each side, such light or lights to have sufficient illuminating power to he visible at a distance of two hundred feet, said light or lights to Bhow white in front and colored on the Bides. - According to the Kansas City Journal this is how Mrs. Lease went into poli tics: In 1890 the Farmers' Alliance sprang into existence, and Mrs. Lease wanted her husband to join the move ment and become a politician. But he declared that he was not of the stuff of which politicians are made,' and sug gested that she go into it herself and leave him in peace. "Mrs. Lease had never thought of entering politics, but she consented to try it. How, whe and where to get the first speech off was the puzzle. Finally a neighbor, Dixon, was taken into the deal, and he arranged it so that Mrs. Lease could appear before the next Farmers' Al liance county convention and make a talk. She was there on the appointed day, and as soon as her name was men tioned she rose and made a bee-line to the stage. Her maiden speech, they say, was a stemwinder. She was the sensation of the hour, and before that campaign was over Mrs. Lease was the best advertised politician in Kansas." The increased expenditure for free traveling libraries, authorized by the "Wisconsin legislature, is justified by results, -the Milwaukee Sentinel re ports. State expenditure in this direc tion is augmented largely by private aid, and there are few counties in the State not now - provided with one of these traveling libraries, which not only eatisfy to a degree the demand for vho!esome literature, but create a pub- 11c interest, which la apt to result In the establishment of larg-er local libraries. When the libraries were ' started on their rounds in the State they were made up in the proportion of three fourths for adults and one-fourth fur children. Later the proportion for children were increased to 44 per cent., but that did not sllonce the request for more books for children, and an In quiry showed that in many of the fam ilies the young people, who are eager patrons of the scheme, were the only ones able to read English. This is good evidence that the traveling libraries in Wisconsin are filling their mission. a vo ui'itoMii:. Eighteen hundred is leas than forty two hundred, and the diminution of the gorgeous advertising bills from forty-two- hundred to eighteen hundred is quite a saving for the city. The three papers that had the advertising gener ously consented to cut down their bills to six hundred each, and the board of finance generously voted to approve the bills at that figure, though it had pre viously named five hundred as the amount it was willing to allow each paper. But a hundred Isn't much in a matter of that kind, and it gets a troublesome thing out of the way. Well, publicity and free discussion do some good sometimes, m tms case they have saved the city twenty-four hundred dollars and made an impres sive object-lesson for future reference and instruction. KICK Flt IIAPI'X CoVVI.ES, One of the pleasing concomitants of weddings that are not too auiet is the throwing of much rice at "the happy couple." The rice-throwing is done with much hilarity, and some accuracy, and adds greatly to the happiness of the happy couple, especially If some grains get in the eyes or down the necks thereof. It also makes a nice litter for somebody to sweep up. The pleasing custom of rice-throwing at brides and bridegrooms has made so much trouble in the cars and on the platforms of one big railroad in this country that it has been forbidden by the company. And occasionally there are protests from in dividuals who do not rejoice in it. An interesting argument against it is made by the Rev. G. h. Cameron, of Birming. ham, England, who remarks that about two pounds of rice are thrown at the brides and bridegrooms every week at each of the seventy-five churches in Birmingham and its suburbs, and the two tons of rice thus thrown away and absolutely wasted last year might have been of very great use in feeding the recently famine-stricken people of In dia. There are over twenty thousand places of worship in England, and, if Mr. Cameron's estimate be true for the other churehes of, the country, then it follows that nearly nine hundred tons of rice are yearly thrown away at wed dings In that country, and wasted, at a cost of over $20,000. V Of course in a great and rich country like this we needn't consider the eco nomical side of 'the matter. We have money to burn and rice to throw away at weddings. We can do this and still help starving people in India or any other country. But there is a question about the good taste of keeping up such a custom, which might have been well enough when people didn't conceal their thoughts as much as they do now. , AN VKGEXII i: HIST. During the last year or two the prac tice of shipping currency in registered mail packages has been extensively adopted not only by business men, but by banks and other financial institu tions.. The system Is cheap, simple, speedy, and, as a rule, safe, and its use has -undoubtedly resulted in a con siderable saving in the cost of trans mission. But the disappearance of a registered mail package containing $14, 0O0,vw.hile in transit from Denver to Chicago has called attention to the risk in such shipment. The government assumes no liability for the value of the contents of a registered package. It undertakes only to exercise exceptional care in transmitting mail matter of that class, giving and taking receipts for it, and keeping a record so that its progress from consignor to consignee may be accurately traced or the point at which it went astray be clearly lo cated. For the losses resulting from dishonesty, fire, accident or any other breakdown of the system, the govern ment takes no responsibility .whatever, so that in case the missing $14,000 pack age' should never be recovered the loss , would fall upon one or the other of the parties to the shipment. All that the postal authorities could do would be to trace the package as far as possible and punish the persons who might be proved guilty of criminal conduct in causing its disappearance. Of course money sent by express or by special messenger is sometimes lost, but there are safer ways of sending large amounts of money than by regist ered mail. 311 IK IS LIFE. The sanitary scientists make some large claims for the efficiency of their work, and it Is not to be denied that there- are impressive facts which seem to support those claims. For instance, Dr. Louis Parkes, in a lecture in lion don the other day, told what he thought sanitary science had done towards the preservation or prolongation of human life in Great Britain during the Victo ria era. He showed that the mortality from smallpox had diminished by 96 per cent, in 1S91-5 us compared with the mortality in IS3S-42. In the same period the deaths from fever had declined per cent.; while since 1871-75 there had been a decrease of 95 per cent, in the mortality from typhus, and of 60 per cent, from enteric fever. Since 1861-5 the mortality from scarlet fever had fallen SI per cent., although that from diphtheria had risen in recent years and was now about the same as it was thirty years ago. In zymotic diseases there had been a decrease of 24 per cent., and fn measles of 21 per cent., though epidemics of measles and whooping cough were as common as when the Queen came to the throne. In phthisis the mortality had fallen 46 per cent., though it was still high. Can cerous diseases, on tho other hand, would appear to have increased, nor was the whole of the Increase attribut able to more precise diagnosis. Ague had been nearly eradicated owing to the better cultivation of the soil. Only those who died from acute alcoholism were returned as having died from the effects of drink, yet the deaths from that cause were as numerous as they were twenty or thirty years ago. The general effect, he said, of improvement in sanitation was that 600,000 persons reached the age of twenty-one who would have died at the beginning of the Queen's reign. It must not be sup posed, however, that the population had grown so much faster. As a mat ter of fact it had not increased so rap idly owing to the lowering of the birth rate. It was curious also to note that the expectation of life diminished in males after twenty-six years of age, and In females after forty-four years of age. .'' ; . FASHION .VO'iM. For Travel and the Promenade. Here is a traveling gown of the sort that elaborate dresses reserve exclu sively for journeying, but which for the majority of women would do fine service also as a street dress. Of navy blue woolen goods, its skirt was inside pleats tacked down and mounted on a blue taffeta foundation. The jacket bodice had a short basque and was per fectly fitted, opening in front over a vest of white China silk adorned with three knife pleated ruffles of the same Bilk. .The revers of blue stuff,, formed a round collar in back, were held down by straps of the goods and pearl but- tons and were supplemented with white silk revers and collar. A silk belt confined the waist. Without loss of beauty, white cloth could replace the white silk, and a further reduction of the outlay necessitated by this dress could be effected by omitting the silk skirt lining. The correct walking glove at the mo ment is dressed kid that is, kid glace stone gray and self stitched. . The cor rect glove for tailor gowns is white pique or a light gray, .preferably the latter. For evening or reception pale, but not pearl, gray glace with three buttons and uncut wrist above the but tons. A very swagger rought walking glove is made with uncut loose wrists, loose all over and of gray suede almost as heavy as the white castor we have been wearing this summer a-yachting. Real tortoise ; side and pompadous combs are selling for half what they used to because the latest fad in combs is solid gold, the teeth fine and long, the too very heavy and rounded. All filagree effects are voted common. Gold Is nice, but nothing can make tortoise in a good piece of shell and simple de sign less than beautiful, so if you can not have gold don't mind but profit by the reduction in shell. Silver combs made like the gold ones will also be worn, and a few are already shown with jewels sunk deeply along the top. The day of light weight, tawdry combs is gone. A complete set of combs, in cluding long ones for the side, a curved one for the pompadour, a short curved one for the back of the hair under the coil, and one or two odd sizes to push in anywhere. FLORETTE. WOOO I II. Religious Party "M-m-my b-b-boy, aren't y-y-you ash-sh-shamed of u-u-using such 1-1-language?" Small Boy "Aw, say! Git rubber tires on dat an' it'll go smooder!" Truth. Boarder (warmly) "Oh, I'm knowing to the tricks of your trade. Do you think I have lived in boarding-houses twenty years for nothing?" Landlady (frigidly) "I shouldn't be at all sur prised." Detroit Journal. Little boy (pointing to the shop win dow) "What's them?" Mother "Those are diving suits, made all of rubber, so that the diver shall not get wet." Lit tle boy "I wish I had one." Mother "Why what for, my dear?" Little boy "To wear when you wash me." Tit-Bits. Casey "I called wan av thim doods a liar and he says to me. says he, 'Tu quoque.' Now fwat might that mean?" Walade "It mans you are another." "Fwat! An I let um get away widout hittin' um; ah, that is fwat a man gits for havin' no education." Cincinnati Inquirer. First Passenger "Would you ah lend me your spectacles a moment, please?" Second Passenger Certainly, sir." First Passenger "Ah thank yu! now, as you cannot see to read your paper, would you mind letting me have it, please?" Tit-Bits. The One Thing Needed. "I am glad," said the ardent patriot, "that the Rus sian flag no longer floats over Alaska." "So am I," replied the man who wants to go, but is afraid. "Now, if they could only get rid of tho cold-wave flag, the country would be all right." Washington Star. Milllcent "How long did your trip to Rome occupy?" Madeline "Oh, a week altogether there and back." Milllcent "And you saw everything?" Made line "Oh, yes; you see, there were three of us. Mother went to the pic ture galleries, I examined the monu ments, and father studied local color in the cafes." Tit-Bits. Practical Training "No, Herbert," she said to her husband, as he arose from the table, "I don't advise you to go to Alaska. I doubt .very much whether fortunes are so easily secured there as we have been led to believe. At the same time, I am convinced that the experience would be valuable to most men." "In what way?" "It would teach them not to find fault with their breakfasts." Washington Star. Willie and Johnny set up a lemonade stand the other day, and a gentleman was their first patron. Willie's sign read: "Four cents a glass." Johnny's modest announcement was: "Two cents a glass." Being a man with an eye to the fact that "a penny saved is a penny earned," the customer bought a glass of Johnny's lemonade, paid the two cents due and casually inquired: "Why is yours cheaper than your brother's?" " 'Cos mine Is the lemonade that the puppy fell into," San Francisco Argonaut. A FRIEND OF TOLSTOI. M. Tchertkoffon tr.e Russian Ref ormer's Private Life. , The room in which our interview took place was plainly that of an ascetic. The house stood in its own grounds, in one of the prettiest parts of Croydon. But the inside was very dirterent from the conventional interiors of its neigh bors. The stairs were carpetless, and the room where we sat was monkish in its simplicity. An iron bedstead occu pied one corner; the floor was uncov ered, even by a rug. The few articles of furniture were all of the plainest wood, unpalnted and unvarnished. Near the window were two big deal tables containing in orderly array a number of Russian and English books and papers. Before one of the tables sat M. Tchertkoff, a tall, bearded.young looking' man, attired in a shapeless moujlk's smock, yet with the irremov able stamp of the Russian aristocrat upon him. Some members of our for eign office will remember M. Tchertkoff as a brilliant and fashionable young of ficer of the Russian Guards, who spent some time in London eighteen years ago as a member of .the suite of his uncle, Count Schouvaloff, who was then Russian ambassador here. Since fiat time his life has greatly altered. Like another of his uncles, M. Paschkoff, the leader of the Russian Evangelicals, he tired of fashion and society, resigned his commission and' threw in his lot with the poor. Elndlng in Tolstoi one of like mind, he ' became his helper, working ardently to spread the knowl edge of, and to prove the practicability of, the Christian teaching as expressed in Tolstoi's writings. Recently, in con sequence of this and of an endeavor he made to induce the young emperor to check the persecuting zeal of M. Pobe donostseff, the reformer was exiled from Russla.hence his presence in Croy don. ' "What truth is there, M. Tchertkoff," I asked, "In the rumors that have re cently been circulated that the czar in tends to exile Tolstoi?" : "The rumors are not apparently true, and they have probably aiisen because proceedings have been taken against some of Tolstoi's friends. But the em peror has no Intention of exiling Tol stoi's friends, probably thinking that if this were done it would immensely in crease his influence and lead people to look on him as a martyr. Tolstoi has requested the authorities to proceed against him. His books, as you prob ably know, are not allowed to be cir culated in Russia, although they are largely read there In manuscript and In printed copies that are smuggled In. Some time ago a wdrking man in one of the large Russian towns wrote to Tol stoi asking where he could see copies of some of his works. When the working man had sent a third letter of inquiry Tolstoi remembered that in that town there was a young woman physician, not a revolutionist by any means, but who had some copies of his works. He wrote to the man, telling him that if he called on this lady she would probably be able to show him what he wanted. The letter was opened by the police be fore it reached the lady, and they ar rested her and threw her into prison. She had been in prison before for a short time on account of another kind of error on the part of the government, and, being of a weak and very nervous temperatment, became hysterical, would hurl herself against the walls of her cell, and was brought almost to the point of madness. This, ' having pre viously been the case, made Tolstoi es pecially anxious for her, and he wrote to two of the ministers, asking why people who had his books should be punished, while he, the author of the books, was allowed to go free. If his books were regarded as harmful, why did they not punish him? But the au thorities made no response." TOLSTOI'S PRIVATE LIFE. "It is sometimes said, M. Tchertkoff, that Tolstoi, while preaching simplicity, and poverty, lives in the utmost luxu ry is that true?" "I know the rumor, for it is freely re peated all over Russia But to under stand the truth you must be acquainted with Tolstoi's most private and inti mate affairs. He is not alone; he is a married man; he married when he thought very differently on social ques tions to what he does now, and hia wife does not at all share his social views. He prefers simplicity, but he feels that it would be unjust for him to force his family to live in the way that he thinks best. He handed the bulk of his prop erty over to his wife many years ago, but even if he had not done so she could, if she wished, easily have obtain ed from the authorities an order to this effect. His wife maintains her house in the ordinary style of Russians of her class, but to Tolstoi all this luxury is abhorent and painful. He takes no personal share In It, and lives as a guest in the house of his wife; although he may sit at the dinner table, on which there are many Viands, he confines him self to his own simple vegetarian diet; he does everything for himself; he cleans hla own room, and employs no servant to wait upon him." "Pardon the Interruption, M. Tchert koff, but does he really keep his room clean and tidy?" "Well, perhaps if you saw the room you would say that It did not look as tidy as one might like Tolstoi has not the spirit of tidiness, and does not trouble to have all his things nicely ar ranged, as many of us prefer; but that, of course, Is a matter of tempera ment." "Does .he still engage in manual work?" , "Yes. Having no farm of his own, he cannot till his own soil, so he goes and helps his poorer neighbors to plough the land and sow their seed. He also employs himself in bootmaking, and can put together a pair of shoes. Then he engages in chopping wood for the stoves, and woodchopping for a Rus sian fire is very different from what you do here, for wood is used in Russia in considerable quantities for fuel. In various other ways he works with his hands. He also gives several hours each day to writing." "Are his family altogether out of sympathy with him?" "By no means. They all feel for him a very deep affection, as it is hardly possible for any one to know him with out doing. His two oldest daughters, especially, share his views and help him largely in copying out his work and Jn answering his correspondence. Of course, he does not employ any paid secretary or copyist, as that would be quite contrary to his negative attitude toward money and hired labor." Lon don Daily News. SILVERWARE purchased of . THE GEORGE H. FORD COMPANY is genuine. Thatgoes without paying. Their stock is replete with artistic pieces and carefully selected, the same good taste being displayed in the purchase of their smaller articles as in the larger and more expensive pieces, 'j ! & & CORN-POPPERS. It's about time now to get out the corn-poppers. A little hot pop corn tastes very well on a cool night, and corn candy goes even bettor. And, by tltei way, that food chopper of ours will grind up pop corn just right for making Into candy. But suppose you haven't a corn-popper? That's easily remedied we have loads of them. THREE SIZES small, medium and ' ' large. PltlCES 10 cents, 25 cents, GO cents.. . i . 754GHVEL St.,- 320 taje t; IIPOETIM TAILOR. 63 CENTER STREET, NEW HAVEN. The Touch Of A Master Hand makes the difference in paintings, be they portrait or landscape. Lovers of art have no difficulty in identifying masterpieces of art. Lovers of fine furniture just as easily identify and choose the products of Nelson & Matter, or Berkey & Gay, Ours is the only gallery of their goods in New Haven. Dining Rooms are just how receiving a large share of attention. And we are receiv ing a large share of trade from customers who desire Side . boards, Tables, Chairs, etc. that never become ugly and cheap looking. Sellers of good furniture. Strangers to poor furniture. CUll Orange and Crown Streets. QWi " ill" TiT' TiHn ffif" ! iF film i MilfJ Jrtir "nTfw"'iiiiF H" immr' fl""""" J THS CENTRE OF SAVING, GREATER The Best Silk Critics a 200 yds. double warp All Silk Surah in black, 300 yds. Black Faille, all pure Silk; worth 75c, J.Q 350 yds. Black Satin Duch esse, all silk, flJQr 79c value, Otv 400 yds'. Black Gros Grain Silk, worth 79c, f q 200 yds. Black AH SilkPeau de Soiei worth 89c glQ 1 50 vds. 24-inch Heavy Black All Silk Gros G rain ja n worth SI. 00, t 150 yds. 25-inch Black Satin Rhadame, QO worthS 1.50 fOL All Pure Stutt- garter Sanitary Underwear far ment is. It keeps out the cold, it We cians send us many buyers. J F. M. BROWN & CO. WHY DO WE Sell More Furnaces Than Any Other House ? BECAUSE .' ;'( " ; ist We have the Best Furnaces made. 2d It is Powerful and Economical. ? , , 3d It is Simple in Construction, therefore long lived. 4th We use nothing but the best materials. 5th We have a corps of experienced men who do no thing but furnace work. . 6th Our price is low for the high quality of work done. Let us figure on your heating. A catalogue for the asking. The Celebrated ROYAL FURNACE is sold only by HENRY H. GUERNSEY, 6 Church St. Open Every Evening. Telephone 852-3. , KOAL. am now delivering Kcal in bags and carried Into tho cellar direct Irom wagon. Avoid all dirt and buy of W. F. GILBERT, 65 Church. St., opp. Postoffice, 81 Railroad Ave. NEW HAVEN'S GREATEST STORE. are buying here this week! Our Silk supply doesn't depend upon oc casional purchases ! 1 i'. There are lengths and breadths of exquisitely beautful Silks here, more beautiful than .were ever shown in this city at Prices So Low that ladies are laying in rtock for the future. 375 yds. Brocade Gros Grain Silk, worth Si. 50, 175 yds. 24-inch Black Bro cade 1 atteta, ; worth 85c, 3 pes. Black Brocade Moire Antique, S 1.50 value 98c 10 pes. Colored Figured Taf fetas in all the latest de . signsforwaists and gowns worth 85c, 19 pes. Fancy Silks Jacquard Brocades, Roman stripes, Tartan Plaids for waists and gowns all pure silk, worth 89c, 69C Wool, No dye, no irritating kinks about it a soft and silky fleece, that is what a " ' - keeps the body at a normal heat, it ab sorbs the perspiration prpperly. It comes in a variety of garments for men, women and children. Suppose you examine them ? are the sole agents here for I this Underwear, and New Haven physi