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A Mothers Request.
New York Evening Sun.


Mr. Blank | want to have a serious talk
with you about my boy began mother
to her sons intimate friend. Its "a very
grave matter. upon which ] feel most
strongly and / come TO you about II be-
cause / know how great IS your influence
over him. The intimate friend wondered
which one of the many recent escapades
the mother had in mind. Could she mean
the other evening at the Dashes2 or the gay
little supper of the night before? Had some
whisper reached her of certain lively sun
day two weeks ago. 1t was hardly possible.
and yet ait the mere thought of being called
to account for any or all Of these the inu-
mate friend suuirmed uncomfortably. IL
will be 80 easy for him, went on the
mother ana it viii be so easy for you 10
persuade him. I believe he'd do most any
thing Ii you asked it. oh, how many times
have / been on the point of reasoning with
the darling myself about IT, only % stop
when / remembered that a word from you
would count far more than volumes from
me- and that when 1t was a thing OF 50
much Importance, upon which his happiness,
his health his" For heavens sakeE'
interrupted the intimate friend. unable 10
stand the suspense any longer, what IS
it?' why" said the mother sweetlX,
Don't you know? / supposed. of COURSE.
you did. / want you to try and break him
of his dreadful habit Of drinking so much
ice water with his meals.
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RnIIade of a. Letter.

She set her face against the msted pane,
And watched the gray eXpanse of the sky
Blurred by the unremitting gusts of rain
few sad footfarers went stumbling ny,
Meeting the sleety blast with blinded eye;
And she whose lids with bitter tears were wet,
Cried as she gazed with agonizlng cry
"Alas alas, and not a letter yeti!
Back sped ksr thoughts to Summers sweet do
main,
To deep wood beyond the fields of rye;
There did she the pathway once again
Where down came one who made the shadows
fly:
There did her heart leap at his blithe reply,
There hands and lips in lovers rapture met;
Now must she cry her pitiful soul-cry-
'Alas, alas, and not a letter YETI
Oh, all the longing and the yearning vain!
The dragging nights when slumber came not
nigh,
The dreary dawns that brought no cease of pain
The golden hours of day slow to die
Still must she wait and watch despairingly
The sun of Hope in somber vapors set;
Still must she cry her dolorous heart-cry-
''Alas, alas, and not a letter YETI!
ENVOY.
o maidens all, untouched by Destiny,
Ettarre, Clothilde, Hellayne or Violet,
Meier may you cry that melancholy cry
alas, alas, and not letter YETI
Clinton Scolard.
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xeishbor. in New York.
New York Times.

New Workers are far from being a Inorose
or even Il reserved set of people; on the
contrary. they are distinctly easy OF APP
preach as q rule, and 0yerrash rather than
overcautious III granting to acquaintance
the privileges Of friends. Persons unfamiliar
with our ways are likely to see evidence
against the accuracy Of these statements
in the story which the Times published yes
terday Of a man who had lived for eighty
years in one house over on Second street
and yet was not known even by name 10
his nearest neighbors, many Of whom mad
resided in that vicinity for periods not as
was an extreme illustration of metropolitan
possibilities. but as anybody who knows
the city must be aware, there Is nothing
incredible in the tale. and it proves nothing
at all except that New York decades and
decades ago abandoned the false idea that
mere physical pFopinquity is a sufficient
basis TOR intimacy That view Is still held
almost universally in rural America and
widely in all our smaller cities. Its theoret-
ical absurdity and its practical disadvan-
tages are everywhere recognized, or, at
least. are everywhere felt, and yet people
go on exchanging tiresome calls with
other people with whom they have no tastes
or habits in common simply because their
houses are less than q mile or two apart
and because not 10 do so would violate es-
taGlished conventions and make unpleasant
talk. New Workers among themselves, at
any rate are at once more sensible and
more courageous. Here families separated
only hy 4 wall sometimes only by D fight
Of stairs are content TO remain separated
until something moro significant than acci-
dental proximity SUGGESTS the wisdom, the
utility or the pleasure q social relations.
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Washington Post.

washington rust
Bare feet by the way. are shivery things
to think of just now. and the story the wife
of a western congressman told me the 9TH
err day-it was the very coolest day we've
had this season. too-quite gave me chill
1t is her custom to accompany her husband
on his business trips whenever she can, and
once last winter they stayed over night in
q forlorn little hotel in a still more forlorn
little town. / say they stayed over night,
hut in reality they didn't quite do that
The town was one of those places where
the train stops at o'clock in the morning,
So YOU can hardly say that they had
nights rest. They had more rest, however,
than they intended TO take, for the boy in
structed to call them in ample time, over
slept The congressman's wife awoke, with
lust twenty minutes to dress and catch the
train in One stocking was missing. Fran
tically she looked ON the bed. in the bed
under the bed, behind the bureau, inside the
washstand. everywhere, in fact The stock
ing was nowhere to be found, and she was
compelled to slip one bare foot into her
shoe and hohble over the snow TO the sta
ticn as best she could The train had car
ried her several miles before she happened
10 raise her hand to her collar Then she
remembered that she had had trifiing sore
throat the evening before, and had had re-
course TO the homely old-fashioned remedy
aIir crandmothers had such faith in. The
missing stocking was pinned about her.
neck.
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AInnI.an Attractlons.

New York Commercial ADVERTISER.
The naivete Of certain Klondike circulars
is no less interesting that their promises
are aliuring. They advise you To go TO
Alaska soon In order that you may "loo6
around during the winter. and III the next
breath offer sou prof able employment
cutting wood Now. since the place where
you chop wood Ii admittedly ]. 200 miles from
the gold fields. what good would il do %
long aroana there9 There Is also q little
book called Alaskan Nuggets. with two
chaEminssly suggestive nuggets: No THIEF
GELS i fsfitser tf'iat anywhere. ar any prompt
- executions ana fBay mInes from dis
c0uraned miners
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When such suggestions come acquaintance
assumes the form of friendship as rapfdIv
and its substance as often here as else
where. We are as neighborly as other
Iolks, but We do not credit the inhabitants
of our own street or our own ward with 4.
special and necessary compatibility with
curse yes. Thus are numberless annoyances
avoided, nuInberless temptations to gossip
destroyed and numberless formalities the
friends, not the foes. of sincerity and cor
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A Renroof.

..raon't love SO many people: love but me-
4 selfish, and a foolish thing 10 say;
The heart that can most richly give to thee.
Is that which has thousand in les pay
Inlay w Donnan
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ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY
OLD INSTITUTION IN CUBA THAT IN
Gle SAM MUST DEAL WITH.
The Island Has No stock Exchanges,
for the Gambling Spirit.

Havana Letter in New York Herald
One of the most clearly marked indica-
tions of the coming of American rule in
Cuba is the passing of the Havana lottery.
Last Monday / witnessed what will, in all
probability be its last drawing. According
to the government schedule the next draw
ing should be held the first of next month,
but the exact date has not yet been adver-
tised, and it is accepted as a foregone con-
clusion by almost every one that before
that time arrives LOS Yankis' will have
interfered and driven the lottery from Cuba
forever. The two institutions which always
best illustrated the state of the public con-
science and character in Cuba We're the bull
fight and the lottery. While the bull fight
was national and additionally sacred it was
never governmental or political. Its exist
ence could be terminated by single edict.
But with the lottery it was different, fer
this dignihed, well-managed gambling insti-
tuition was one of the chief Cuban sources
of revenue for the Spanish crown The lot
terry here was governmental institution
just as much as was the custom house or
postoffice Its profits were the most infal-
lible of the indirect taxes. It's management
and operation constituted one of the depart
ments of the colonial administration.
GullhG the late LOUISIANA lottery, Tor eX-
ample. none of the profits were ever given
to charitable institutions Every one Of the
million pesos that were annually derived
from the Havana lottery was turned over
to the secretary of the treasury, which is
another way of saying that they were sent
to SPAIN because the idea Of spending in
Cuba any of the revenues that came from
the island has always been entirely foreign
to the Spanish theory of governing. The
Havana lottery was founded in 1912 by a
government decree, which at the same time
prohibited private lotteries and all other
forms of gambling in Cuba In a country
where there were neither stock exchanges
nor bookmakers, the only vent for the gam
ing spirit, always strong in the Latin race,
was the government lottery, which has done
thriving business ever since it started.
1t IS difficult matter to ascertain the eX
act amount OF revenue that has been OBJ
tanned from the lottery, because both its
prizes and income have from time to time
been paid in gold or silver or paper cur
rency, as the price of the different kinds of
money was most advantageous for the gov
eminent. The accounts were last kept on a
sold basis in 1892. During that year the
amount of revenue paid into the treasury
from the lottery was 81, 957.124 Since then |
according to the reports in the Treasury |
Department, the earnings of the lottery, |
paid sometimes in silver and sometimes i'll |
paper, have been as follows:
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which the blacks are utilized as motive
power. The gauge on this road Isl two and
and the iron ties laid on heavy boards TO
keep them from sinking out OF sight Every
family that can afford 1t has the road built
to their front door, where they can get in
their private car and be trundlsd about o.
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Drawings usually took place three times a
month. For each 1900 tickets were offered
for sale at $40 each for the entire ticket or
so cents each for any one of the twenty Sec
tons into which it was subdivided. Three
quarters of the receipts were distributed in
premiums and one-quarter was retained by
the government, which took also all prizes
drawn on unsold tickets. The first prize at
each drawing was $4,000. From that
amount they ranged down to 500 prizes of
$50 each.
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ed for permanent or longtime holding
and always accompanies a plentiful
supply of money. There was no evil
dence, however, of any widespread gem
eral interest in stocks, and the specula-
tive public evidently prefers to wait for
q definite outcome to the naval man
oeuvres in West Indian waters. There
was a good market for Americans in
Eondon, and prices were we'll sustained
on a belief that Spain would shortly
sue for peace. There was a coincident
rise of point or over in Spanish tours
in London and Paris. A rumor that
this was due to ga pending Franco
Spanish alliance did not hurt Ameri-
cans in London.
London was also a buyer of st. Paul
here, and altogether was quite factor
in the strength of the New York mar
ket, Northwest responded to it's excel
lent statement of April earnings with
a rise of 2 points, a radiated strength
through both the Vanderbilt and the
granger groups, with each of which it
is coordinate. Early in the day there
was further advance of over points
in Pullman. Other conspicuous gains
ven ~, Minnesota Iron A. Metropolitan
Street Railway 21s and Leather prefer
red and Rubber preferred about 2
points each. Traders realizing in the
late dealings caused break of nearly
4 points in Pullman, of az in Console
dated Gas and of points in New York
Air Brake. The result was an unset
tied closing considerably below the best
in some cases and with net gains as
rule only small.
The rates for money continued to
droop, and the desire for some evidence
of more active demand as indicating
business activity began to extend out
side the circle Of the money lenders.
The accumulation and Withholding of
exchange resulted in further advance
of one-quarter cent in the rate for de-
mand sterling and of three-quarter
cents for sixty-day bills. Discount
rates declined in London, Berlin and
Paris in consequence of the relief of
those centers from the pressure of ex-
change for New York.
Railroad bonds were narrow and in
active, but prices were well held. Total
sales s1,350,o000
United States new tours declined "
in the bid price. Others We're unchang-
ed.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
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Cuba be attempted during the cam
paign the democrats would certainly
make party out of it. Finally it was
decided to incorporate a company,
with charter something like that of
the Indian Empire company, which
should provide for the purchase of
Cuba for $1OO, 100000, one-fourth to be
paid down in gold and the rest of the
debt to be funded in a twenty year
bond, secured by lien upon the reve-
nues of the island at six per cent in
terest. The island was to be controlled
by board of directors, chosen every
four years, who should select a gov
ernor and such other officers as might
be necessary. The chartered company
was to hold the same relation to the
United States that the Indian Empire
company held to England, having the
right to maintain an army six thou
sand strong and feet of revenue cut
tiers, all to be held and operated under
the suzerainty of Uncle Samuel. 1t
was a wonderfully fascinating scheme
and the Astors, the Vanderbilts, Mar
shall o. Roberts, William H. Webb
and many other New York millionaires
were glad to come into it. The first
payment was Immediately subscribed.
Hon. John M. Forbes, of Boston, went
to Madrid to act for the Americans.
General Serrano, as regent of Spain,
had a Cortes that would obey his
lightest wish; and the Cubans, who
had intepded to revolt that autumn,
concluded to wait and see what might
l. Ae al thA
pected that happened. Just when all
was ready and Serrano had his mes
sage written announcing the sale to
the Spanish nation and the richest
man in Cuba, Domingo ALBANIA. was
prepared to buy two million dollars
worth of bonds on the island at par
General Prim was assassinated and
the storm that broke, September 80,
1868, in the exile of Queen Isabella,
swept Spain like cyclone. The sale
of the island had to be dropped The
house of cards tumbled, after having
cost its promoters half a million dol
lars-chiehy distributed in "gratiflca-
tions' at Madrid to bring the affair so
near successful issue. A few months
later the Cuban revolt began at Yara,
and that ended all attempts in the
United States to acquire the island
from Spain by friendly means.
The third time that the requirement
of Cuba seemed imminent was ain 1873,
just quarter of a century ago. The
capture Of the ship "Virginius" by
Spain, with seventy persons on board
who were held to be filibusters, result
ed in sixty of these passengers being
shot, as all the world knows. The day
of reckoning was nearer to Spain than
perhaps she realized, or she would
have never undertaken the tragedy Of
| the Maine
FANNIE BRIGHAM WARD.
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ANOTHER BIG FIELD DAY.
New Haven Knights Templar Visit
Derby.

New haven hnlBHlS LeIHpldT WISH
Derby.
New Haven commandery, knights
Templar, will have an outing in Derby
June 7. 1t was decided at a meeting
not long ago to spend day in Derby,
if satisfactory arrangements could be
made. The outing committee looked up
the matter and reported favorably. A
good many members of the comman-
derry live in Derby and Shelton. The
Sentinel says of the affair: There will
be short parade The uniforms of
the Knights Templar are rich and at
tractive and they are a well drilled
body Of men. 1t will be another fete
day here and the hospitality of Derby
will be spoken of In a good many or
CARNATIONS and subordinate bodies
throughout the state. A part of the
day will be spent at Lake Housatonic
park.
Landlord w. S. Crofut of the Bassett
house has been engaged to serve the
dinner and will prepare a great spread
for the visitors. Plans for the day are
y
rive in full regalia ON the 1920 train
from New Haven and will go directly
to the park by trolleys. A cold lunch
will be served at the casino, after which
the visitors will enjoy the attractions
at the park.
They will return to the Bassett house
at 1 o'clock and the banquet will be
served in the Sterling opera house. The
Second Regiment band is to accompany
the knights and will give concert
from the balcony of the theater during
the dinner hour. The band will also
render selections at the park during the
afternoon and lead the parade
The parade and drill will be given for
the benefit of the grand commandery
Of Connecticut, which body will be here
on that day. The grand officers will
inspect the short drill.
The affair is an outing for the mem
bers of the commandery and, the grand
officers having been invited it was de-
cided to give parade and drill. There
will be about $50 knights here besides
their friends. This city can congratu-
late herself on the honor paid to her
the past few years on having so many
organizations throughout the state
come here for their annual field days.
conventions and outings. Further par
ticulars Of the programme for the day
will be announced later.
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NEW HAVEN BICYCLES.
$4,000.
At 81 Audubon Street,
EitIanIiaI.
The Stock Market.

New York, May 23.-The level of
prices of stocks was lifted another
notch as a result of to-days trading.
The dealings were not large and there
was no general activity in the market
That is to say, the volume of dealings
in the speculative favorities was not
very large and number of important
stocks were inactive. At the same time
it was noticeable that a number of
usually inactive shares were moved,
and this gave the market the appear
ance of broadening tendency which
a closer analysis did not altogether
confirm.
There was a large number of indi-
vidual transactions in small lots of the
dividend-paying stocks, indicating a
demand from investment sources. Buy
ing of this character is usually design
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SHOT THE FOREMAN.

Boston, May 23.-James Ellis, fore
man of the North End division of the
street department Of the city, was shot
by an unknown Italian this afternoon.
Mr.. Ellis gave an order which offended
the workman and the shooting follow
ed. The italian escaped.
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Chicago Market.

Reported over private wire by H. G.
Friedman & Co., Bankers and Brokers, 10
Wall street, N. Y, and 1853 Chapel street,
Room ? and 8, New Haven. N, A. Tanner
Manager of Local Branch.
Opening Highest Lowest Close
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Closing Prices.

Following are the closing prices reported
by Prince g. Whitley, Bankers and Brokers'
46 Broadway, New York, and 10 Center ST.,
New Haven. Bid. Asked
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Opening, Highest, Lowest Quotations
On the New York Stock Exchange, reported
by Prince & Whitley, Brokers, Is Center
street, New Haven.
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December ........;... 6,39a8' 40 40
January =, b4StIo.f o
Market steady. Sales 9S,400 bales.
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At, Top & S, Fe gen As, ..... SOS 90
Atch., Top. & s. Fe adj gen As. "a 641s
Brooklyn Ell TT. Co. cts 6s..... S41a IS
Broo4.yn Rapid Transit 5s..,.. 941a 951s
Central Ry of y, ]. 6 mtg IS, .112A 113
Chic, Il. l. & Pacific ext. IS. :. .103ss 1895
Chesapeake & Ohio gen g ~. 79M 80
Erie list Con-, prior lien g As. S9& 90
Manhattan Ry Con. mtg As. 92A 90
Mo-, Kan. 4 Texas list mtg As. SO 89A
Mo-, Kan. & Texas I'd mtg As. COY 61A
Mobile & Ohio gen mtg As. ..... 761a u
N. Y, Ont. & West. gen mtg As 971a 9S
N. Y, Sus. & West gen mtg 5s 81 90
No. Pacific prior gen mtg 4s.... 95M 9513
Northern Pacific gen lien 3s. 60 6Ola
Oregon Short Line Con- IS. .r... .102A 103
Phila. s. Reading gen mtg As. 1914 S31s
Rio CIR. & West. LIST mtg As. 1874 "a
Southern Ry LIST Con. 6 5s. 91% 92B
st. Louis & Southw. LIST mtg IS. TN 1914
Texas & Pacific 1st mtg 5s. ...-.103 1031a
Wabash Ry Co., LIST mtg IS. .4-,.1o69s 107
Wabash Ry Co. I'd mtg 5s.... o1sa 81