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SHE WAS MARRIED.
A Critical Situation That Required Inn
 mediate Action.

 Critical Situation That Required Im-
 mediate Action.
 Jim Skaggs, to use his own words, was the most percrastinatin' lest man in the mountains, but Il good fellow and industrious. He had been working un- der my charge several months, and dur ing that time he had learned to eoniide sufficiently in me to tell me that he was very fond of Miss Susan Nellums, the belle of Ford's Mill, some ten miles away. My business took me to Ford's Mill once a week, and always took din ner with old man Nellums and always saw Miss Susan, or "Suse," as she was better known.
 | was accustomed to chaff her bit about Jim, which she never took un- kindly. and once or twice, or three or fouror five times, perhaps dozen times, I had suggested to Jim that Miss Nel- iums was altogether too fine catch for him te procrastinate as he usually did. He would always laugh at these suggestions. and say he "knowed Susie, :" and she would be willing when he WAS ready.
 On one trip hunted Jim up as soon as l came back
 ..Jim," said I, do you know Hiram Ferguson?'
 .sThat yaller-faced, sandy-whiskered farmer down on Greasy" he inquired, nervously.
 ssHes the one. You know he's in good shape. financially, don't you?' "Yes; he's got more money in day than I've got in seven years.
 And did you know he was making a dead set for Miss Nellums? ?h
 Evidently Jim knew a great deal more on this subject than l did, but he only showed 1t in his face. All he said was: Colonel. to-morrers Sunday, and mebbe l won't he back till Monday night but if l don't, I'll be on hand Tuesday mornin'"
 Half an hour later I saw him dressed i'll his Sundays go-to-meetin' y clothes, streaking it up the mountain road afoot.
 Monday evening at six o'clock he walked into my office looking so serious and solemn that feared the worst.
 .Well." I said, you didn't get back this molning?'
 No, colonel. I jis' couldn't git here. : This most dejeetedly.
 q presume Miss Nellums is all right?'' I yentured, though I felt that 1 was treading on dangerous ground.
 9Th ain't no Miss Neluns, colonel, he replied, with never smile.
 "Geeroosalem, Jim!" exclaimed, .'is Suse married?"
 s.That's what, colonel"
 "Confeund you" l said, in bad hu- nor, you deserve to get left. Haven't been telling you all the time somebody would get in ahead of you2 Now, she s Mrs. Ferguson, and"
 "I reckon not, colonel" and Jim haw hawked and cut pigeon wing; she's Mrs. Jim SlSaggs, an she's up to my .boardin' house this very minute as chip per as blue bird"
 .Oh," l said, and forthwith accom- panied him to call on the bride,-Wash- ington Star.
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GREAT s. s. CONVENTION.
International Gathering to Be Held
 This Week in Boston.
What Has Been Done and What 1t Is Proposed to Do-Though International' the Organization is American
 in Origin.
rcopYRIGHT. 1896. l

The eighth trienn1al international Sunday school convention will be held this week in Boston, Mass, June 23-26 inclusive.
 To millions of Christian teachers and scholars on both sides of the Atlantic the doings of the convention will be most interesting, and the coming meet ing will execel it's seven predecessors in magnitude and importance. With characteristic hospitality Boston will entertain, without remuneration, the 5000 delegates who will attend, and the husbands or wives of the married delegates; and probably five or six times as many non-of1icial persons will visit the New England capital on the occasion.
 Notwithstanding the fact that, in this country alone, from 100000 to 0,00O000 children between the ages of four and sixteen years do not attend Sunday school, the figures representing Sunday school work are stupepdous. There are more than 11,Q00,000 sehol- ars and teachers in the United States, end, in the world, there are 22,590,000. As the majority of these are looking in the direction of Boston just now, the coming event looms up in massive proportions.
 The organization of Sunday schools on a broad scale, which led to the adop- tion of the international lesson sys- tenn, was introduced by Stephen Pax son, who began his work at Winchester, III. He organized 1900 schools in the west, thus providing for the religious instruction of 6o,o00 children. By his system of grouping township organiza- tions by counties and states, the way be- came plain to the great national and in- ternational schemes. Mir. B. F. Jacobs, now chairman of the international ex- ecutive committee, advocated the adop- ton of an international lesson system with characteristic energy and per sistence, and, in 1872, it was adopted by the national Sunday school convention of that year, Rev. J. H. Vincent. D. D. tnow Bishop Vincent1 sharing with him the honor of leadership on that oc-
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in summer than in winter; for, though in winter the air is colder, it is much nearer the point of saturation and will take up very little evaporation, and evaporation is the chief thing in the cooling. Direct escape of the heat hy contact with the air blast and by radi- ation through the steel sides of the power helps, but it is relatively unim portant So, with the aid of this device the eondensing engine, with its great economy, is to-day within the reach of every manufacturer in the land, instead of perhaps half of them. The operation of the tower is inexpensive, as the cost of working is only that of pumping the water 10 the top and operating the fan; and this is slight compared with the saving that results from using con- 6cnsation.
 The towers take up little room; they 7ary in size from 25 feet in height bS 5 feet in diameter, which is suitable for d 40-horse power engine. to one 30 fec in height by 26 feet in diameter for an engine of 1,500 horse power. One of the towers has for some time been in use at the Grand avenue Edison electric lighting station in Brooklyn, in eonnec- sion with a 500-horse power engine; and several others at much greater capacity are in preparation.
 It must not be imagined, however. that the usefulness of a cooling tower stops with it's employment as described above. As Its name implies, ii, may De
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TERSE TRUTHS.
Which It Wm He to Your Interest t
 Read.


 Young man, we would take little of the conceit out of you Don't think that the girl you intend leading to the altar is marrying you for love, cause it isn't so-she's marrying you because she's unable, or disipciined, to provide herself with board and lodg- ing for the rest of her days.
 The man who howls because he's got Ian aching heart" is an ingrate. If he'd got an aching tooth-one that ached in real earnest-he might have something to holler about.
 Daresay you think it's real good thing to be alive? And yet the very happiest time you have is when you are fast asleep and have forgotten everything.
 You can't put an old head on young shoulders and you shouldn't put kids togs on people old enough to be bald After a man has reached the age of whisllers-whether he's got any or not he shouldn't appear in the streets clad in lnickerboekers.
 Be modest like the violet. Reflect that it isn't mans geed qualities that get him into swell society; it's the deueed scarcity of men.
 You needn't ge and hunt all over for 1t. but, should it come your way. you may solaee yourself with the reflection lwhile poulticing the damaged spots with vinegar and brown paper) that there's good deal of similarity be- tween a man and a approximation hurts for good beating occasionally
 Remember that you're never too big to learn. Every night before certain billionaire lays his head upon his pill low he has learned some new way of making an absurd spectacle of him. self.-N. ' Mercury.
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Borrow No Trouhle.

One of the most foolish practices in- dulged in by mankind is that of meet ing troubles halfway, for it frequent ly happens that the troubles to which We are looking forward and expecting with fear and trembling either do not come at all or, when they do come, are not nearly so terrible when actually faced. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" This is a comforting re- fiection, and, if not followed too liter ally, would help us tosstruggle against those fits .despondency and depres- sion to which we are all, at some period or other of our existence, only too pre- disposed. Anxiety about present diff faculties or about prospective troubles cannot bring any good 10 those who give way to it. Anxiety for the future. both temporal and spiritual, in mod eration is good, helt it must not be car ried to excess. If so carried, it degcn- crates into despondency and despair
 N, '. Ledger.
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Holes in the Sails for Speed.

The statement of an Italian sea cap tain that he had proved by experience that a ship goes faster when her sails are ,erforated with a number of holes then when they are quite sound, was at first looked upon as too ridiculous for consideration. Unbelievers, how ever, now find that the Italian has gone long way toward proving his case. His theory is that the force of the wind cannot fairly take effect on an inflated sail, because of the cushion of immova- ble air that fills up the hollow. To pre- vent his cushion collecting, he bored a number of holes in the sail, which let part of the wind blow right through it and allowed the remainder to strike against the canvas and exercise it's full effect. Several trials have been made, and it looks as if this is another of those paradoXical truths which appear so inn possible on the surface. The experi- ments were made in all weathers. Tn a light wind a boat with ordinary sails made four knots, while with the per forated sails she covered five and quarter knots; in fresh breeze she did seven knots with ordinary sails, and eight and three-quarters knots with the improved sails; in a strong wind she did eight and ten knots respectively. If this augmented speed were sustained throughout long yoy- age 1t would increase the value of the ship one-ffth, as she would make the same trip in four weeks that she did before in five weeks.-Boston Tran script
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Stahr, D. D., of Pennsylvania is.
 Der of the Reformed churcb, % p,es are now seven members in tb. ias' spending English committee n vO'ls the present committee bava Oar harness since the beginning os l'a ~ ganization, and of the remain; .uF z four served the second and tb;ss mittees, five on the third con,s.' .N e0a and two were first elected as roraa esi the fourth. In England. eiohs have been appointed members 7. qs a corresponding committee. and VI v ' France, making nine to be odS sls the go Americans who have sas, ssu are still at work as members " " lesson committee. \
 The international plan, as .,, narrated, originated in the 'l Ts9 States, and the headquarters ara ll ' although England and Wales rs A total Sunday school attendano. 4 cluding teachers and scholars If a3 than 6,5o0,00o, is ahead in nrono, 4s1 to population as Sunday M ss' country. As, however, probablv \ majority in England and Wales s,tl the Sunday schools of the Establiss] (Episcopal) church, and do notnss .l international lessons. the use of tt lessons is proportionately much ls,SI in the United States, where tbs N Episcopal churches have a much m.| numerous membership than the EnsI pal.
 From these facts it appears tbst,l headquarters of the internatiopalsI day school lesson committee k t where it ought to be. I
 The lesson committee works in \, feet harmony with the English co, spending committee, after this fasbisl The American committee agrees pB an outline for the entire term \ selects the lessons and golden texts ! one year. This programme is tbs1 upon sent to London to be consdsI by the English committee, which vI gests any notifications which fl gards as desirable. Then the Amers committee makes the final revision
 As now arranged, the meeting Boston will be opened at TrenI Temple, June B. Each day will h| four sessions. Dwight L. Moody 5 take leading part in the opening the convention. and in the daily HE service. which is to be feature Of 5 gathering. Special arrangements, eluding the preparation of a selsc of popular hymns, are in progrsaI insure effective music of popds sort. Rev. F. N. Peloubet, D. D,E getting up the exhibition of Sum
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used anywhere where water is to be de, prived of superfuous heat. For in stance, in the manufacture of ice, where water is frozen by the evaporation of liquefied ammonia, the ammonia, whica has been heated in the process of lique faction by compression, is cooled by means of water, and with the aid of a cooling tower this water can be made ready for use a second time.
 Like nearly all really servieeable dc vices, the cooling tower is provokinglv simple. Anyone might think of it-only nobody did, until Yankee ingenuity took hint from the crude devices Of yesterday and put hundreds of thou actually or potentially-into the pockets of American manufacturers miners and others who have occasion to use the steam engine.
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CLEVER YANKEE DEVICE.
Curious Cooling Towers Built of
 Steel and Packed with Tile.
Much Cash and Fuel Saved for All Users of Steam-not Water Met by Air-BIas and Cooled by
 Evaporation.
[coPYR1aHT. 1898.

At some of the large power plants In snd near New York oity the eye of the visitor or passer-by Is attracted by a new and unusual feature-a circular rteel tower, looking like the tall stand pipe of some high level water system. It is, however, no tank. There iswater in it, but, indeed, this Is perpetually leaking out; in fact, the percolation of the water downward from top to bot tom is what gives the device its unique value. It is the cooling tower of self
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QUEER EXPERIMENT,
Photographing the Splash of a Dr
 Mercury with Curious Results || ||

Photographing the Splash Of pr9
 Mercury with Curious Results
 Prof. Worthington has been si| ing a curious phenomenon for 2Oli The splash of a drop occurs ID twinkling of an eye; yet it is a| quisitely-regulated phenomenon' one that very happily illustrates of the fundamental properties O fluid.
 The problem that Prof. WorthlYI has succeeded in solving IS to 3 drop of definite size fall from height in comparative darkness Y surface, and to illuminate it by of exceedingly short duration ',I Y desired stage, so as to exclude ansI previous and subsequent to tnOsS lected. The many illustrations volume testify to the aecura's beauty of his work. ,a
 The curious results of splasa drop of mercury from heightoi inches upon a smooth glass Pl''E particularly interesting. Fei' after the first moment of impact pE rays are shot out in all direcugE the surface with marvellous regu] From the ends of the rays dropXI liquid split off. The liquid supsl the middle, and soon afterwaful, into a ring. The ring then al'~E such manner as to join up ths pairs. Thereafter the whole eau till the liquid rises in the eenps to form the beginning of the reOO the drop from the plate. lmms9 the drops at the ends of the arns E off, while the central mass .ls S k column, which just falls. itseii Y into drops. ,s,
 He photographed no fewer s successive stages of the spiasn .,,N the twentieth of a second, so ' average interval between .ns about the six-hundredth of Remarkable are the splashes 7. < X drops falling about 16 inches = but more beautiful are the oo" when the height is s2 inches
 edge.
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The Locust Tree.

In spite of enemies the locust is a profitable tree and deserves to be more extensively planted. Every up-to-date farm should have well-eared for wood lot. This wood lot should be arranged so that it will supply the farmer with a great variety of useful materials. He needs wood for fuel. which, when burnt in the proper kind of fireplace, makes the cheapest, healthiest, and cheerfulest kind of fire-maple is good. He needs soft wood for boards and shingies-white pine and white cedar are good. He needs rails-chestnut is good. And above all he needs good fence posts. For that purpose the com mon locust has no equal.-st Louis Republic.
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Mystihed.

Mrs. Ripple-I hear Mrs. Joblots is homeopathist.
 Mrs. Whipple-She may be, butwhen- ever l call there I never find her at home.-Vanity.
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Art,ess Creature.

Madge-Did you notice thas 4 scratch on Harry Wynnes ns ,o
 Mabel Yes; isn't it crue'' ';o never dreamed that had q p,s belt. either.-Detroit Free Iie
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Left Oyer.

What is summer girl?''
 "She is girl who didn't get a pro- Posal of marriage last winter.r- Chi cago Record.
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-As turning the logs WI .tui dull fire burn, so change or ' dull brain.-Longfellow.
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By doing good with his money, man, as 1t were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current Tor the merchandise of Heaven.-Rut- ledge.
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school appliances, publications tares, etc.
 DAVID YECHSL1
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-22
SITE FOR TOWN HALL.

Marcus i, Jacobs Fine Gift to Berlin
Marcus t. Jacobs, the Berlin brick manu-
facturer, who is well known and has many
friends In North Haven and in this city
makes timely announcement and one
which is somewhat unique in the history
of Berlin philanthropy. For some time
there has been n strong sentiment In favor
of the adjustment of the several different
public halls located In different sections OF
the town, and the erection of suitable
town hall on a central site.
The hall has long been agtated by Ken
sington residents They are mainly in fla.
yor of a frame structure, which will be suf
tcently commodious for the offices of the
and a lookup. The court room Is certainly
needed, as the room In the town house
where justice is administered is hardly fiji
for the purpose. to put 1t mildly.
In view of this Mr.. Jacobs has informed
the seieetmen that he will make d present
to the town of a plot of land on the corner
roads Just south of the driving park. progid.
ing the town sees fit to erect the hall on t.
The piece of land designated has been con
sidered fayorably for the site, and will
probably be accepted 1t is worth at
least $1,000, The building of the hall
here will probably be opposed by the East
Berlin element on account of Its distance
from the center OF that section Of the vii.
lage
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-22
EinamcIal.



Generally Higher Prices Ruled on Change
Yesterday.
New York, Dec. 21-The opening
dealings at the stock exchange were
generally at a higher range of prices,
the suspension Of the National bank of
Illinois having had little or no influence
on the market. 1t Is true, Manhattan
broke ~ per cent. in the first hour, but
this decline was due to special infiu-
ences, the litigation just brought by a
bondholder having been taken advan-
tage of by the bearish contingent to
force liquidations.
Consolidated Gas of New York broke
3, to IA, on the reiteration of the
stories of adverse legislation at AL
bany this winter, Sugar also ran off
on the talk about aggressive action
by the Arbuckles, but the general list
held fairly Wen. London in the mean
time had sent in orders for st. Paul
and other stocks listed abroad. For
eign houses were in receipts of adj
vices that their correspondents were
by no means alarmed by the action of
the committee on foreign relations in
the matter of the recognition of the
| Cuban republic and buying orders exc
cuted here to-day certainly bears out
| this statement.
| In the afternoon when it was an
nounced that the senate had postponed
action on the Cameron resolution local
operators promptly changed from the
| bear to the bull side, and this new
buying led to sharp rise in the ac-
tive specialties.
| Another important factor on the bull
| side was the announcement that there
would be no gold shipments to Ger
many, tomorrow. Following this came
a reduction in the posted rate for de-
| mand exchange from $4.SS1a to Sass.
In the rally which followed the favor
able developments noted prices rose "
| to Az per cent.
| Manhattan was the great feature, ris-
| ing to 80. The grangers, Louisville
and Nashville, Reading, Southern Rail
way preferred, Western Union, Chicago
Gas. Rubber, Tobacco, and Leather
preferred were all prominent. The adj
vance brought about realizing sales in
the last hour of trading, but in the
4 maj LTdDSdClIOiIS Llle IldlheI was III III
| in tone Net changes show gains of
| A@1Fs per cent An interesting incl
dent Of the day was the sale of a block
of ST. 600 United States As of 1925 by
| e. III. Hartman & Co. to Harvey Fisk
Sons at 119. The reasons for the sale
could not be obtained, but it is I'M
derstood that the purchasers have al
GRADY placed a round amount of the
bonds with investors
| Bonds were irregular, but in the main
firm. Total sales aggregated $1,1T0,000.
| Following are the closing prices re-
ported by Prince & Whitley bankers
and brokers, as Broadway, New York,
and Is Center street. New Haven:
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-22

speech of the Kaiser at some length.
To-day (the 10th of December) one
reads in another paper, 'Die Hanno-
verscher Courier is authorized to state
that the version of the Kaiser's speech
to the officers of the military school
published yesterday by the Hanover
scher Anzeiger is a complete inVen-
toni" In the mentioned speech the
emperor asked the officers to treat the
civilian more (sic) kindly, but to re-
member the duty due the uniform and
the honor 1t conferred on the Wearer,
etc.
Yesterday there was a sad happening
inWeimar The body of a young
American girl, Bertha Kluckhohn,
aged nineteen, was found floating in
the lin near the Ducal court. She was
music student and full of ardent am
bition, but had no talent, and being so
Informed by her teachers, she prompt
ly put an end to her life. 1t appears
that her Instructors had no diftidence
in expressing their views over the UNI
fortunate girls capability as must
clan, in which the Weimarian teachers
differ from other continental music
masters. There was a most excellent
article in the Ladies' Home Journal re-
Gently which was printed here. Oou
see we are not quite cut of touch with
American ideas.) 1t concerned the
coming abroad to study music, and the
writer sagely said one must have eth
er talent to a great degree or else be
wealthy; the German musicians do, as
q Ia oil
not, in order to pocket their fee; and
the result is usually a waste of time
and money One thing which | have
noticed in reading the names of Amer
lean music students at the Hochschule
in Berlin, Lechetizke's pupils In Wen
ma, the Leipziger Conservatorium, the
Dresden Musk schulz, and others, is
the schools and classes, and also that
9715 per cent. are females. When one
includes the English students in these
lists the per cent. of females daVances
to a trlfle over 80. Herein is food for
reflection. When one can count on
their fingers the names of women who
are concert players of the piano-forte
in the full sense Of the term, while
legion is the name of the men who are
worthy of the name of vertuoso. The
women generally become teachers or
accompanies, while the English wo-
men generally become "the governess, y
with music as an additional qualifica-
ton to the language of that country
wherein they studied music; and usu-
ally both language and music are
equally faulty. / can affirm one thing,
which has been told me in nearly all of
Europe, that we are far in advance of
the English as to the accent of the diff
ferent tongues, and this is truly fact
to be proud of, for we are comparative
ly in the A, B, G of languages when
compared with our English cousins.
ALFRED STILLE IVES.