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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
Reliant MINERS.
Operations of the Termites in Arizona
Described.

Operations of the Termites in Arizona
Described.
TITS as monotonous as herdng sheep,
and that's saying a good deal. Howev-
err sold out at a profit of one hundred
per cent, and I'm going to devote the
future to some other occupation"
That Is how j. w. Blundon, formerly
of Winslow, A. T., summed up his ex-
perience as the owner of lot of red ant
colonies, and the utilization of the little
fellows as jewel miners in the petrified
region of Arizona.
Mr.. Blundon is carpenter and build
err by occupation. Like many others, he
| was attracted to Arizona in the days of
| the Tombstone excitement. The decline
of mining and milling left him depend
emit upon resources other than his usu-
| al calling. But, let him tell the story of
| the ants
1.-THE termite miners are vicious little
red fellows, ranging from one-half to
| five-eighths of an inch in length, with
| body Of corresponding thickness. I
purchased half interest in sixty colo
MES shortly after I reached Winslow.
A colony means an uncertain number
| of ants. They swarm and live in fac
lions. and are subject to the most strin-
gent rules. When you buy colony you
may get a thousand or billion ants; it
| all depends on the disposition of the
| ternite ruler.
81 went in with a fellow, and we
bought sixty colonies from a man that
lived about twenty miles out of Wins
low. We had to make trip with each
colony.
''You have to take a water-cart and
wear high rubber boots. Then you
must have good, broad, wooden shovels.
All Of sudden you go to your colony,
scoop up the ants with the wooden
shovel, dump them in the carts, and
then you start for the Jewel mines.
when you reach the place where the
ants are to work you take your shovels
and dump them out without ceremony.
The ants begin to burrow at once.
First they strike the fine hot sand of
the desert. This the ants deposit in
ring which is remarkable for its SYM
metry. Then comes the coarse gravel
and 1t Is deposited in a circle outside
the sand. Meanwhile the ants are 60
ing downward in search of food and
water
when the gravel and coarse sand
layers are apparently complete, we be-
sin to look out for jewels. Suddenly a
cardinal-hued termite miner will come
up with something in his claws. He
will pass beyond the sand and gravel
layers and start a new strata on the
outer edge. This fellow will be fol-
lowed by his thousand or more mates
and when the sun goes down they will
have made a new home, besides doing
duty for their owners.
1.-THE outer edge of the ant heap is de-
voted to precious stones. The hills
never exceed fifteen inches in height,
but the depth Of the burrowing is some
thing that no man can measure
"The ants have to be fed when they
are transported. We had to feed them
on young grass or anything that was
not cured.
when it's all over you will have
cleared UP about ten dollars a day,
providing you can sell your rough gems
in San Francisco or st. Louis San
Francisco Examiner.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
SONS OF HERMANN,

The members of the Sons of Her
mann in Seymour are now busily en-
gagged preparing for the grand lodge
meeting, which will be held at that
place July % and %, and efforts will be
made to have the convention carried
out as perfectly as possible It is ex-
pected that the delegates with the
grand lodge officers will number $50 and
nearly as many members of the order
will be present on one of the two days
to witness the proceedings.
Besides these, several Of the lodge
which have singing clubs will take
them along, invitations having been
extended, and this will swell the num-
Der of visitors to probaly 300.
The convention will be In session two
days and probably three, as there is
considerable business of Importance
to transact. On one of the evenings
it is quite probable banquet will be
rendered the delegates, although as yet
the committe has taken no decisive
steps in this matter.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
WAS AN ACTIVE CLERGYMAN.

Rev. G. A. Hubbell, Formerly of This
Section, to Celebrate His Golden We'd
ding.
The Rev. and Mrs. George A. Hubbell
will celebrate their golden wedding an
niversary on May 6 at their home in
Vineland, N. J. The Rev. Mr.. Hubbell
in 1895 concluded an active full half
century of labor as pastor and presid-
ing elder in the New York east confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He was presiding elder Of the Bridge
port district in 1876, under the appoint
ment of Bishop Harris. The year fol-
lowing, Bishop Peck changed the dis
trct boundaries, making four in place
of the five previously existing, and then
appointed Mr.. Hubbell to the passionate
of the First Methodist church in Bridge
port. which church he served two years.
At the conclusion of his fifty years of
preaching, being considerably disabled
by acute bronchitis, he found 1t neces-
sary to remove from the seaboard, and
located at VinelaEd.
Mr.. Hubbeil has served the church in
this vicinity In 1852 and SO he was To-
Gated in Milford, '55 and Sc in Birming-
ham. and in 1884 he had charge of the
Ansonia church. He is now suffering
from blindness.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05

glands of the upper jaw was harmless
the doctor lived.
The speaker said that he had in
jected the saliva of both the upper
and lower glands into pigeons, and in
every case where that from the lower
jaw was injected the victim had died
in short time. He showed why so
many animals which are bitten by the
poisonous reptile live. The ducts which
lead from the glands to the mouth open
between the lower lip and the gum
For the saliva to enter a wound 1t
must be forced up from the lip to the
teeth and thence into the wound, Thus
1t is hard for the poisonous fluid to
reach the blood even if the victim is
bitten by the lower teeth,-San Fran
ciso Call
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
THE SPRING RACES.
The Program of Events and the Sew
eral Purses Offered

The Program of Events and the Sew
eral Purses offered,
The entry blanks for the Waterbury
Driving associations spring meeting, to
be held at the park May 81, June /, 2
and g. We're issued yesterday, and all
Bradley, secretary.
The program for the races and the
purses offered is as follows;
First Day-Monday, May 81.
ga class, pace. S5Oo
2:19 class, trot and pace. $500
2:35 class, trot and pace, local.. 5000
For horses owned in towns of Water
bury Naugatuck, Woodbury., Water
town, Thomaston, Bristol, Southington
and Cheshire. To be owned at least
sixty days prior to May Is.
Second Day-Tuesday, June l.
25O class, trot and pace ............$ 5000
2:26 class, trot. $500
232 class, trot and pace...,........$2 $500
Third Day-Wednesday, June q
2:2S class, trot and pace ............ $500
2:3' class trot, ......................$ $500
ESQ Grass, pace. .....................$ 500
Foufth Day-Thursday, June D.
2:40 class, trot and pace. $500
2:22 class. trot and pace. $500
z'5o class, trot.. ,......... S5oo
The conditions governing the races
are virtually the same as those govern
ing all races, as follows; Mile heats,
three In five; five to enter four to start.
Winners will receive but one premium
only, Races called at 40 O'Clock sharp,
No conditional entries received. Ma
tional association rules to govern. En-
trance 10 per cent. Customary division
of purses. The right is reserved to
change the order of any days pro-
gram, and races not called by p. m.
may be postponed.
The association has claimed the fol-
lowing dates for 1897: July 5, 6, and s,
September 6, Z, 8 and 9, and October
II, 10, IA and Is.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05

e. SCHOENBERGER & SON
VIII sell on Saturday all Meats, Poultry
and Vegetables at a low price.
Veal Be per lb.
Chickens Sc and loo per lb.
Beef and Lamb for stewing Sc per lb
Corned Beef Sc per lb.
Hams 919c, warranted.
Eggs 10c per Dozen
Come for bargains to the Palace and Gen.
trail Markets. Nos. 90, "a George street and
Congress avenue.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
EAST HAVEN Y. P.s c. E. SOCIETY

EAST HAVEN Y. P. S. c. E. SOCIETY
The Christian Endeavor society of
East Haven has secured the Yale Glee
and Banjo clubs for an evening of mu-
sic and song TO be given in the town
hall this "wednesday evening, May 5.
The club will be assisted by George
Chadwick Stock, the popular vocalist.
and East Haveners are to have a rare
treat in listening to this combination.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-05
HOME FOR THE FRIENDLEss

The monthly meetings of the board Of
managers of the Home for the Friend
less will be held, until further notice, at
Trinity parish house instead Of at the
home in Fair Haven.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-11
political BOSSES.

II is q humiliating truth that the
! leading States of America are abso-
lutely controlled by petty political
bosses.
This is not an exaggeration. Take,
for example. the three States of New
York. Pennsylvania and Illinois.
Whose will controls legislation in
New York-the greatest State in the
American Union? Who runs things
there? The People? Oh, no. BOSS
PLATT!
In the almost equally great State OF
Pennsylvania, how much say have the
people and the taxpayers had Of
late years in the making of the laws
and the levying of the taxes? Prac-
tically none, Who did the business
BOSS QUAY.
Out in the great State OF Illinois, a
combine runs things. All who are on
the side of the combine are in it,
and all who are not, are not. That
about sums it up, and this autocratic
Illinois combine has decided that Al
derman Billy" Madden deserves to
represent the great State Of illinois in
the United States Senate for the next
six years. It doesn't matter a par
ticle that the United States Senate is
the highest law-making body in the
land: it doesn't matter in the least
what Billy" Madden is, or was. 1t is
simply a question of what is the SOW
ereign will of the bosses.
It is a peculiar, as well as an inter
esting and encouraging fact that it is
only the larger and more important
States that are so seriously troubled
with this political bossism. And yet,
these are the very States that claim
all the intelligence, and political acu-
men. as well as all the wealth, Of the
nation.
In view of the facts would it not
be we'll for these foolish common
wealths to cease their railing at the
sage-brush States of the West? Ar
kansas. Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Ne
braska and others of the Rocky noun
tain and Pacific States, individually
and collectively, make a much better
showing in the Senate than the great
! States like New York, Pennsylvania
and Illinois, or that these States viii
make when the newly appointed Sena'
tors take their seats. These far western
States have sumo of the ablest Sena-
tors and keenest debaters among then
all.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-11
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

An organ has been shipped from Lato-
mia. y. H.. TO a missionary Ia Shanghai
China.
A Nassau n. h man has spent eight
successive Christmases in houses OF cor
rectiOn.
AT the University Of Berne. Switzerland,
nine women obtained the doctor degree
AT the last examinations
1t is stated that Lieutenant Bersier OF
the French army. has invented q compass
which steers the vessel autOmaJcaliy IN
a course set by the navigator.
The Old mill nesting under Crookshury
nm in the hamlet Of WaVerly, near farn-
ham. from which Sir Walter Scott named
his novels. has been destroyed by fire.
The father OF John Oliver Hobbies has
bought the London review. the Academy.
John Morgan Richards. as his full name
reads. is also proprietor OF a brand OF liver
pills most popular in London
Lady Habberton the apostle Of dress re-
form i'm England. If the wife OF the VS.
count 90 that name. she Is utscIlpeQ a.
on one side scorns cOrSets, ana belongs
20 the Pioneer club.
Bv the settlement OF the contest over
the will Of Charles NJ. Pond. the city or
Hartford. Conn. gets a park IN West
Hartford and sum estimated az from
$4,000 10 $4,000 10 maintain ana eE'end
g. Mir Pond brother VINO contested the
will. Will be paid $3.50
In response 10 an invitation from Robert
Louis stevenson to visit him in Samoa
Conan Doyle asked the great romaacer
how one got there. oh said Stevenson.
''vou go to America cross the continent 10
San Francisco. and then it's the second
turning 10 the lett
The British Bishop Of Bath and Wells
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-11

unbearable. IN the cities Of Philadel-
phia and New York the people of all
parties Joined together and demanded
reform. demanded a change from cor
ruDt boss rule to business mans gov
eminent. Always the majority of the
people are in favor of good government
and whenever they come together and
assert themselves a reform takes
place: whenever it lapses back again
into the government Of the boss, the
government Of the partisanship, the
government Of the ward heelers, the
government Of corruption and disgrace,
it is because business men, men Of in
teIigence. men CT character. men Of
patriotic instincts stay at home or for
get themelves and vote simply for
party and not for principle No man
believes that national questions such
as the tariff. as the free coinage Of ST.
YER. the gold standard the policy OF the
government in regard to Cuba or any Of
the great national questions have any
thing whatever to do with the man
agement Of the business interests OF a
city. The maintenance Of PARTY is ore
thing. but it ought not to be made at
the sacrifice of good government Of
cities. in which now nearly half OF all
the people of the United States live.
This policv will not continue, If is not
founded in principle or in good Jug
ment So, then. the true policy is to
separate national politics from city
government and for the people 10 come
together and select their own rulers
because of their fitness for the Tosi-
tons they are to fill in the management
of city affairs.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-11

Good city government is something
that can never be accomplished
through partisan channels. The re-
form must De accomplished by the peo-
ple. themselves. overstepping an party
lines and aimlug solely to elect good
men. We all understand the modus
operaudi OF city politics as it is at
present. and there is no need to go
further into a nasty subject.
The average political city boss, after
he has made it AL right" with the
ward heelers. turns his attention to
the better element" and tells them
that they are lost if they don't support
the party nominees He SAYS TO the
business man who does not give much
attention TO politics. that You must
SUPPORT the nominee Of your party.
leavins in The mind of the business
man the impress on that if he did not
mid in the election of his straight party
ticket. all would be lost. And so
thousands Of good citizens who know
better. who know as well as they know
they live that the business of a city,
its management and its government
has nothing to DO with national poll
ties. so 20 the polls and vote out and
our for the party nominee.
Thus I'm The history of municipal gov
eminent in the United States corrup-
tior NOT only in the business manage
NEXT bur in thousand and one ways
has grown TO such IN extent that in
nearly every one Of cur great cities
the political management has become
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-11
EWING BROS.
NllplNc JANUARY We will offer all III goods IN
- ~RlG REDUCTIONS III PRICE.
EMING BROS, ITO 1.alNe- o"---

was surprised, after putting up az H. ~.
hotel I'm the Pyrenees. TO receive d AuiIoel
Of plumbers business cards II uSF 80 -
that his name had been inserted ~ I.ic 3.
visitors book as Nr. blslOP' '-7'''--N ,
profession, baths ara Wells.
The Conte de 1Iedrano set a spring gun
so that il would discharge on opeHIIiils .,i7
door OF his phtasantry near Mons, ldi--
Re forgot an about Il in showing MS place
TO some friends recently, anG. on lut i1t'i Il
the handle of the door, received tHe LUZ
charge in his breast, dyln6 O. t4ie SPO''
Tho baltimore News says that john
Henfield OF that city, now 80 yetrs oiu. -
the oldest praCticiI5 Photographic III ne ~
United States. During the goid lever III
California ne Travelled thfoush lle ~
in q prairie schooner. htteG up ~ P-; -
tograph gallery, and made a. muCH - 80
a day.
Here IS what Weston ate and drakn on me
dav Of his recent great walk: tilteeh raw
eggs. two quarts Of milk, three @lpioita VI
Vlchv TWO gallons Of cOUee. three -illii5ila
OF setter, nine bottle; OF inpoIttu s'"Py-
ale I'VE pounds of beef extract slE
oranges. one rice pudding, two pounds o.
calls foot jelly.
OF the thirty members in the national
House OF Representatives from Pennsyl i
vania Ernest Acheson Is the only teelo-
taller. Air. AchesOn. says ne never ul.i
taste liquor Of any kind in MS ne aH4
the only man in either branch OF congress
who can ,ruthfuly say what he does
Mrs. Eunice Russ Davis, of Dedham,
Mass. who recently passd her soth olIth
day. Is the daughter of Price AInes. VINO
fought In the revolutionary war ~ -
ingtOn Concord. and Bunker Hlll. Hs
was of white and Indian parenta@e ana
Mrs. Davis mother was NarI nset'
Ind an. Mrs Davis was the only rVlV-
ing member Of the Woman's Anti-@.ayery
Board of Boston.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-11

Since the proposition for indeperd'
ent American bimetallism has been
according to the returns-voCed Gown
in this country. it is the duty of bimet-
auists to cooperate in every reason
able effort that can be made to secure
international bimetallism
No one should give up the fight be-
cause England does not jump into the
arena at first. The best way to secure
.he cooperation Of England is to get
France. Germany, Austria and Russia
to agree to it. then adopt it and prove
to England. as such a course would
most undoubtedly prove, that it is for
her interest to adopt bimetallism.
England will prevent it as long as pos
sibIe. While theree is a large percent
aee of her people and of her represen-
tatives in parliament, in favor of BIZ
metallism. still the government itself
is opposed to it. Her interest is in
buying silver as cheap as possible, just
as she would buy any other raw ma
terial then TO manufacture it for her
own people into money and TO manu-
facture it in her colonies like India. to
be used by the people there. Which
ever way you turn, never reckon on
Great Britain for doing anything that
means business. on a missionary basis.
England blocked the last monetary
conference. II it be in her power she
Will block the next conference. She
wants the mines of America and all
the rest of the world, TO send their
precious metals to her markets. she
wants to dictate the price. and the only
way to prevent this is to open the
minis free. then the coinage value and
the commercial value viii be one and
the same thing. That Will force Eng
land to pay, for the silver which she
needs for her colonies and for her
home consumption. 81 90 an ounce for
the silver which she gets from the
United States. Oh. don't think that
John Bull is in favor Of a policy which
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-11

What is Hanna going 10 90 with NM
self? That is the question that is az
itating Ohio. OF course, it's all his
now. and he can have anything he
wants excepting the moon and the
presidency. The trouble is, Mark
doesn't want anything in the way Of a
cabinet Job. he isn't capable of fill
Ing that sort of an Office to- begin with
and i'm the second place it is not to his
taste. lie has his eve on John Sher-
mans seat iu The Rich Mans Club
known otherwise as the United States
Senate. When man gets into the
Senate De doesn't have to do anything
or think anything. unless he wants TO-.
Mark thinks this would suit him TO a
"t" But old John sherman has the
plum already Ia tand. 1t suits him,
and he doesn't care TO let so good a
thing co-even for his beloved friend
D-D Mark. who is willing 10 give John
any old thing i'm the way of a cabinet
lob if he viii only give him Mark his
Senatorial seat. And this John up to
date positively declines to do. And
there you are.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-11

Nearly eight years ago a remarkable
bit of news was flashed under the At
Iantic to the effect that the old-time
dream Of the alchemists had been real
lied and that the true elixir Of life
had been discovered. The discoverer
of this wonderful preparation for baf-
fling the desires and thwart-ng the in
tentions Of the old gentleman of the
hourgIass and scythe was one Brown
Seouard. a chemist Of international
reputation. who was recognized among
the medical fraternities of both Eu-
rope and America as being the most
eminent scientist Of the age.
At the time Of this reputed discovery,
1889. the discoverer was Y years Of
age. Scientists. no odds what their
special lines of investigation may be,
recognize the fac that men occasionally
seek TO attain what has been set down
in the category of the impossible.
Among these recognized impcssibilities
men OF learning have placed the "foun-
tain Of youth" the philosophers
stone" and perpetual motion. "
Brown-Sequard was, as we have said,
y years of age in 1889, and, when he
announced the discovery of "a wonder
ful rejuvenating liquid one which
lifted a weight Of 20 years from his
life" as a result OF the first injection
people smiled and declared that the old
Doctors mental equilibrium must be
sadly out OF balance.
Thousands Of experiments were made
with seouard's rejuvenatng fluid Che
himself never called it an elixir OF
life" or authorized it TO be so called,
but it has been a question whether
inyalids and old people ever derived
the least benefit from such injections.
In fact. Brown-Sequard and his elk
ir" were so rapidly relegated to the
rear that the masses have almost for
gotten that the great Psychologist ever
lived. It is even doubtful whether one
in a dozen of the intelligent newspaper
readers Of the day know that he has
been dead for upwards Of three years.
Brown-SeQuard's experiments were
not made in vain, however, but were
the basis Of later investigations which
are slowly crystallizing into scientific
truths. In fact, the most learned doe
tors Of America are coming TO consid-
or Brown-Sequard's work along that
line as but the beginning of a series
Of experiments which will eventually
result IN the discovery of the water
of Immortality