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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-05
WILL CHART THE YUKON.
Ensign r. H. Schofeld Ordered to
Duty From Hartford.

Ensign r. H. Schofield Ordered to
Duty From Hartford.
Ensign F. H. Schof1eld, U. s. NJ, who
has been an ordnance inspector in this
district during the past year. received
orders, Tuesday, to start in ten days
for Yukon River, to engage with a
government party in charting the
whole of that district. The Yukon has
not been mapped out scientifically, and
the Navy Department will now under
take this important work. The men SEE
lected for it are graduates of the AM
napolis Naval Academy The party, Of
which Mr.. Schofield will be one, %ill
consist of five and be under the direc-
ton of aptain Moore. Early in the
spring they will leave San Francisco
for the North, going to st. Michael and
UP the Yukon River as far as it Is nav
igable for the small craft which will he
used by them. There will be crew CT
about forty seamen to accompany the
party. The engineers expect to be
gone three years, which is about the
line officers.
Ensign Schofield's duties in Hartford
have been to inspect the ordnance
turned out for the government by the
Colts Patent Fire Arms Company Of
this city, the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company Of New Haven, the
Union Cartridge Works Of Bridgeport
and the armory at Springfield, Mass.
He also has served on lhe board to ex-
anime officers of the c. n. G., and has
assisted in instructing the naval militia
here and in New Haven. Mr. Schof1eld
is native of New York state, and
graduated from the Annapolis Naval
Academy in 1890. Pre- viuus to coming
to Hartford he was 'lo;ng duty on the
United States ship Marp1ehead off Asia
Minor.
During his residence here he has
lived at the Linden with his wife. Mrs.
Sshofield expects to leave this week
for her home in Maryland, and soon
thereafter go to Paris. where she will
continue her studies in painting
Has tford Times.
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OF AMERICAN WHEEL.
MEN.

Large Increase in Membership and in
come for the Year.
The annual report of Secretary Bas-
sett of the L. A. W., which will be
presented to the national assembly
next week, shows that the total mem
bership Of the league up to the end of
the year was 1O2,636, against 72,S79 the
year before. The gross income of the
secretary's Office was $165, 042.0S, an in
crease Of $41,546.90 over the previous
year. In some Of the eastern divisions
the membership. has grown rapidly,
while in the west and south there has
been a loss Of membership. The Con-
nectiut division increased from 1,462
to 2,111, Massachusetts, from 9,576 to
12,46S, Maine from 500 to 557, Rhode
Island from I .102 to 1,665, Vermont from
122 to 154, New Hampshire from 1862 to
100, New York from 2e,560 to 26,9S1,
Pennsylvania from 11029 to 24550 and
New Jersey from Att to $3.50.
The statement of Chairman Mott of
the national racing board relates in de-
tail to the conduct of racing during
last year, and contains some recon-
mendations for radical changes in the
rules. According to his report there
are over 1900 professional racing men
in the country, and while the board ex-
ercised the closest, scrutiny of all mat
ters during the year, not case of abb
solute crookedness was discovered,
while only four cases of doubtful char
acter We're noticed. Mott further says
that in the 2,912 meets in 1897 there
were 1875 races decided. He figures
that the value of the prizes distributed
amounted to $1,645,0 1t is the GUS
tom to impose fines upon professional
riders for violations of the racing
regulations. Mott says he distributed
the funds accumulated in this way by
donations Of various sums to riders for
what he calls "meritorious ri'es." He
gave away in this manner $336.35,
which action has aroused considerable
| criticism. He explains the matter in
his report as follows:
"Comprehending the broad words of
the bylaw relating to racing board
funds, that they shall be expended for
the general improvement of the racing
| interests of the l.. A. W. the amount
| derived from fines has been used in va
rious instances to reward public per-
| formanees of special merit by racing
| men, in providing conveniences for
| them and their trainers at race meets
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very best, the most intelligent, treat
ment these roads can receive will be to
reduce the grades. Money spent in
this way is well spent, for the reduc-
ton of a grade means an increase in
the weight of the load, it shortens the
distance. saves time, and requires a
less number of horses to do the work.
One of the most gratifying features
of the commissioners work in 1897
consisted in the towns themselves bid
ding for and securing the contract for
the town to do the work. / should
very much like to see this year large
number of towns taking the contracts
themselves, thereby keeping all the
money at home. The law allows the
selectmen to bid on the work, on be-
half of the town, and common sense
would seem to suggest such a course
should be pursued by certainly all the
towns who have grading to do, if they
feel that they cannot figure on mac
adam or telford work, they have GER
ta1nly no good reason why they can
not take the contract for grading, as
this kind of work does not require any
very large degree of ability, and very
little. if any, tools or machinery to
work with.
1t is an easy matter to see about how
much work you can do for certain
amount of money. I enclose with this
circular a table showing the towns
which have had their work done this
year, the kind Of work done, the price
at which the contract was let, and
many other pieces of valuable infor-
nation which will be of service to you
in intelligently understanding every
thing connected with the work
1t is the purpose of the commissioner
to have all contracts let for the 1897
appropriation as soon as April Is.
This can only be accomplished by the
towns promptly holding their meetings
and getting the preliminary work done
early. By SO doing you give the COM
| missioner more time to visit towns, by
relieving him from Office duties, and
| also secure better roads. Fall built
| roads are never as good as roads built
| in warm weather
| There are no "frills" in this circular.
Every line Of it is rock-b bottom bust
ness, and, If lived up to, will result in
accomplishing much good; also saving
time and money to all concerned.
| Yours respectfully,
JAMES H. MACDONALD,
| Highway Commissioner.
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OLD NEWSPAPER DESK.

Poet Stedman, S. A. Hubbard and
Other Noted Editors Wrote on It
There's an old. tiIrle-scared desk in
the office of the Winsted Herald that
is of much interest to Hartford peo-
Hartford in 1888, wrote in his news
paper days he was editor of the
Herald in 1S53-and it is supposed that
some of his early poems were COM
posed upon it. Then Stephen A.
Hubbard, afterward one of the editors
of the Hartford Courant, took his
turn inditing editorials that stirred
the countryside. His writings, per-
haps became imbued with Stedman's
poetic fire, although they had fire
enough of their own, for Mr.. Hub
bard was a clear and forcible writer.
Then came Tom" Clarke. He wrote
on the same desk. The older people
and some not so old. will remember
him as the stalwart leader of Itch
field who talked as forcibly as he
wrote.
Following him was our old friend,
]. H. Vail. who but recently relin-
quished the editorial pen. Married to
Stedman's poesy and Hubbard's orig
inality and force was the dry humor
for which this worthy editorial sue
cessor is noted. And now the same old
desk is used by E. L. Brand, pupil of
Mr.. Vail, who is now the editor of the
Herald, a worthy successor of a long
line of notables. The desk, although
in the sere and yellow leaf, is too
precious to be sold or destroyed. It is
shown to visitors, much as the desk
used by Mr.. Hudson of the New York
Herald used to be shown, in the old
building. Certainly there is nothing
like it for newspaper associations in
the state.
When the Herald finishes with it the
Historical society rooms in this city
would be good place for it.-Hart-
ford Post
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PROTECTION OF BIRDS.

Fairfield County Audubon Society VIII
Wage Vigorous War Against Their
Destruction.
The first meeting of the Audubon
society of Fairfield county, the pio-
neer organization of the state, was
held recently at the house of Mrs. Will
lam B. Glover, in Fairfield.
The motive Of the society is the pro-
lection of wild birds, dlscouraging the
use for millinery purposes of all bird
feathers, other than ostrich plumes,
the feathers Of domestic fowl and game
birds used for food already protected
by law.
The society also claims to have Bird
Day celebrated in conjunction with
Arbor Day in the public schools, and
to stimulate the general study OF nat
ural history as means of preserving
the beauties of the countries.
The cooperation Of the various
towns and villages in this county is
asked
The society expects to have public
talks upon birds during the coming
season, to distribute leaflets and to
furnish lists Of books to others desir-
ing to study native birds. animals or
plants as but little is at present un-
derstood about the value of birds in
their relation to agriculture.
Action was taken upon bylaws of
the society and the following officers
were elected:
President, Mrs. Mabel Osgood
Wright.
Corresponding secretary and Treas
urer, Mrs. enry 8. Glover. ,.a...s
Recording secretary. Miss Emma
f. Wakeman.
Mrs. William b. Glover, president
of the executive committee.
Bridgeport, Southport, and Fairfield
We're well represented at this meeting
which was most enthusiastic.
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was the ospreys, which is merely the
trade name for aigrettes, that excited
the keenest competition. Unfortunately
for the herons, they are aristocrats Of
feathered creation. The greatest num-
Der of the lots sold at this auction
brought more than G1 an ounce; many
sold at &1 los. and upward, while the
highest price paid per ounce was GA los.
This price did not break the record,
however, for recently at another sale q
choice South American variety of aig-
rettes brought e6 an ounce These
feathers, it should be explained are not
busted, and as they lose in weight by
that process the actual cost to the pur-
chaser is higher than the figures named,
Next in value to the aigrettes came
the birds of paradise, certain OF the
skins bringing 91 each. The parrots
didn't prove such good sellers. The
best of them We're sold for a few pence.
and there Is something saddening in the
fact that 240 OF these innocent feathered
creatures were ruthless killed in their
tropical home to be sold at the rate of
one penny EACH
That sale was by no means the larg-
est of the year" continued Mi. Chap
man. "a few months ago the same
firm put up this consignment: Aigrette
plumes, 1852 ounces: vulture plumes,
1851 pounds; peacocks, 215051; birds of
paradise, 1862; Indian parrots. 22S, 2S9;
bronze pigeons, 1877; tanagers, S,19S;
humming birds, 116.490; jays and king
fishers. 4S,759; impeyan pheasants, 1852;
owls and hawks, 1888 These figures
tell the tale of the heartlessness or ig-
norance of womankind. Let us hope
that it is the latter, and that she will
soon be too enlightened to wear for per-
osnal adornment the feathers of any
bird except the ostrich or those killed
primarily for food. New York Sun.
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WHARTON TO JOIN MOODY.
Will Make an Evangelistic Tour of the
World in 1900.

World in 1900
During the past two weeks the Rev.
DR.. H. NJ. Wharton. who is well known
in this state, has been holding revival
services in Newark churches, most of
the time in the Peddie Memorial
church. Last week he spoke also in
the Clinton Avenue Baptist, the Cln-
ton Avenue Reformed, the Calvary
Presbyterian, the First Congregational
and ST. Luke's churches.
DIR. Wharton has been so successful
that the earnest solicitation of the
Newark ministers he has agreed to re-
main throughout this week in order to
hold afternoon union services in the
First Presbyterian church, for this
reason delaying his departure for
Philadelphia, where he has engage
ments in the Rev. Russell H. Con-
wells Baptist temple, the largest
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in America, and with DR.. Wayland
Hoyt's church.
Later he will join Dwight L. Moody,
and assist him in a series of meetings
announced to be held in the Grand
Central Palace. on Forty-second
street, New York He has also
planned to join Mr.. Moody in 1900 in
an evangelistic tour of the world.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-02-10
AMERICAN LUMBER SUPPLY
The Planting OF FORESTS L;i:cIy to BE an
Important Industry.

Important Industry.
Looking not very far into the future,
it seems that the planting Of american
forests will become productive indus
try. Preservation Of old forests, with
their masses of dry underbrush and fire
inviting collections Of dry leaves, may
be advisable for some reasons. These
Immense masses Of firewood undoubted-
~ tend to collect snow, which, by its
gradual melting, furnishes a supply to
the water reservoirs beneath the surface
Of the ground. Snow thaws less quickly
under the shade Of trees than III the
bright sunlight. Less water, therefore,
runs to supply floods and freshots than
when the snow is made TO pass away
gradually. But this question does not
affect the solid timber interests
In old forests, where there is strug-
gle for life among the trees by reason
of their growing so thickly together,
the result is the necessity of waiting
many years before the trees Will reach
a size to make them desirable for TIM
Der purposes. Where trees have room to
grow and are properly cared for most
kinds of American trees will furnish
useful timber in 90 or 80 years, AID Tor
many other purposes they can Du om.
ployed even younger. 1t takes well on
to "a century for the struggling trees in
a dense wood 20 have any marketable
value.
While good timber is becoming grad
ually scarcer on account Ct our annual
forest fires, rising from the conditions
already stated, the demand is increasing,
and, what is more remarkable, Europe
is already calling On America for a sup
ply Of lumber. American oak especially
is in great demand i'll the old vCrld,
while our black walnut is closCly fol
lowing in its wake. Our lighter wood.
also-such as the tulip tree AID polar
are coming into great demand there
for packing boxes and cases where light
weight is a great object. Those who ara
interested in forestry in our country
should take up the matter Of encourage
ment OF forest planting. 1t will soon be
a greater question than forest presCrya.
tion. --Meehan' Monthly.
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Prosecuted by Office Seekers.

The Inner Experiences of a Cabinet
Members Wife" is one OF the most in
teresting contributions to The Ladies'
lone journal. In a series of letters the
wife OF a cabinet member writes to her
sister OF Office seekers and of those in
the departments. "You can have no
idea" she anonymously declares, chow
Henry cher husband) is prosecuted by
applicants for his influence with the
president or with the heads of depart
ments. He really has no influence out.
side Of his own department, and he is
wearing his symIathies into ta tiers lis
tening to tales OF woe. The saddest case
that has come under my own obserya-
ton is that Of a maiden lady, fully so
years old, who has worked in the de-
partments ever since the war. Senate
rial influence has kept her in all these
years. but now that the civil service re-
forms are being introduced she is in de-
spair, for, although perfectly compe-
tent at her work. she never in the world
could pass one of those rigid examina-
tons. She called upon me bearing let.
ter of introduction from Mrs. Arthur
Folsom MARY Allison), who married
into one of the old families here. Idon'
know whether her family lost their
means By the war or in some other way,
but they did lose everything when she
was a e1y girl at the top of society in
both Alexandria and Washington. She
told me about dancing in set of Ian
GERS opposite Abraham Lincoln, who,
though awkward and angular in his
dancing, seemed to enjoy it and always
had gay word for everybody. She says
her feeling for Mr.. Lincoln was some
thing more than rospect-it was more
like shoration; that she has often won.
dered if people did not feel just SO to-
ward the great religious prophets who
must. have spread abroad what MIR. Lin
coin did--an atmosphere of sympathetic
klnomess, trust, purity and nobility"
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February 3t6
Notice-Timber Culture.
john NJ. DAVIS,
Register.

IL. :. Land Office Huron $. ID. January q.
1898. Complaint having been entered at
this office by Richard Henry NJ. Jones of st.
Lawrence, : d., against the heirs OF Nelson
f. Ballard, deceased, for failure TO comply
with law AZ to timber culture entry No.
lO.223 Huron series, dated November 9TH,
1851, upon the southeast quarter section 5
in township lib, n. of range 80. W. 9TH +.
NJ in Hand county South Dakota, with n
view to the cancellation OF said entry. con
testant alleging that neither the said Nelson
+. Ballard. nor hls heirs. nor any of them
have complied with the law in regard to
planting or cutivatng trees. tree seeds or
cuttings since year 1874, and that said land
fas been absolutely abandoned since the
year 1895. and that there are no trees grow
ing on SAID land now and none have been
growing there since the said Alag was made:
that the only living heir OF said Nelson f..
Ballard is William Ballard, his father, to
mis- best knowledge the said parties
are hereby summoned to appear at
this Office on the 18th day oi March,
1893. at 10 O'Clock a. M. to respond
and furnish testimony concerning said al
legged failure. JOHN VI. DAVIS. Register
JONI L. PYLE, Atty for contestant, Huron.
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First publication Dec16t7
Mortgage Sale.

Default has been made to the payment OF
the sum secured by a mortgage with power
oi sale given by Eunice Struthers and AIonzo
Struthers, mortgagofs, 10 +. A. Egbert.
mortgages, dated February 4th, 1892 re-
corded February Sth. 1892, in the Office of
the Register of Deeds of Hand county, South
Dakota, mortgaging the southeast quarter
of section twenty, (2Ol In township one hun.
dred fifteen 115) north of range sixty seven
$50 west OF the 9Th L. NJ. in said Hand
county, South Dakota. The amount claim
Ell TO be due on said mortgage at the date
Of this notice. is the sum OF Five Hundred
Eighty eight and 50-1oO dollars.
Said mortgage was assigned on the 9th
day of April, 1892 by the said mortgage to
Mrs. NJ. T.. Hunt, and the assignment was
recorded in the office OF said Register of Deeds
ON the 9th day of December. 1897, in book
GS. on page 16S.
Notice - hereby given. that said mortgage
will be foreclosed, by asale OF the mortgaged
premises, on the goth day OF ] anuary, 1895.
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. at the front door of
the court house in the town of Miller, coun-
~ of Hand, state OF South Dakota TO the
highest bidder for cash
Dated December Sth, 1897
MRS. M. l., HUNT,
D., Assignee of Mor;gagee
JoHS l.. PYLE, Atty for Assignee. Huron
ID
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ness was TO turn them in the sun until
they were evenly Laked. Fer TINS LABOR
he received 2 cents day and sometimes
cleared 10 cents week, but 1t must be
remembered that there were many rail.y
days when the force Of youthful work
men, had to be laid of. John S first
real rise to fortune was IN the days
when, as Office boy, he saved money
enough to start il business for himself.
He worked as assistant il the Office un-
til he had climbed up to So week, and
then, seeing that he could get no more,
be bought little stock Of cheap turni-
ture and started i'll to be morchant."-
Pittsburg Dispatch
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ANCIENT POLITICAL "RINGS."
C.den Time Schemes For Obtaining Wealth
and Power.

C.den Time schemes For Obtaining Wealth
and Power.
The evil of monopolies and rings was
known to ancients, Aristotle referring
to them in his Politics" and then, as
now, it was found necessary to hold
them in check by legislation. The mo-
nopolist was in Roman law called u
dardanarius and punished under the
Lex Julia de Ammonia. Monopolies of
clothing, fish and all articles Of food
were prohibited by the Emperor Zeno
under pain of confiscation and exile, so
that it is certain that the "rings'' of
the ancient days were as mischievous as
they are now. At Athens law linn
tied the amount Of corn a man might
buy. The earliest recorded instance we
have was corn ring"
There is an ancient tradition that the
king who made Joseph his prime min
lister and committed into his hands the
entire administration Of Egypt was
Apepi. Apepi was one of the shep-
herd kings and ruled over the whole of
Egypt as Joseph's pharaoh seems to
have done. The prime minister during
seven years OF remarkable plenty bought
up every bushel of corn beyond the alb
solute needs of the Egyptians and stored
it. During the terrible famine that fol-
lowed he was able to get his own price
and bartered corn successfully for the
Egyptian money, cattle and land, and,
taking one-iifth for pharaoh, made him
supremely wealthy. 1t was not merely
provident act, but very polite one,
his policy being TO centralize power in
the monarch's hands. London An.
swers.
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Siddy-I wonder if we should find
any babies, Katie, if we dug up these
gooSeberry bushes?
Katie Fables don't come ont OF
gooseberry bushes, aiddy.
Siddy-Well, where do they come
from, then?
Katie-Why, from the big shops, Of
course. Haven't you seen printed over
some of them, Families supplied:
Sketch,