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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05
SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS.
Held Annual General Court and Ban-


 quet.
 The Society of Colonial Wars held it's General Court" at the Quinnipiac club yesterday afternoon at o'clock. It was the annual business gathering held on the anniversary of the session of the first General Court which was held at Hartford, April 25, (May 4, new calender), 1S26
 Reports were received from the vari- ous officers. and the following were elected for the ensuing year:
 James Junius Goodwin, Esq, govern or; Frederick John Kinsbury, IL. D., deputy governor; Professor Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, LL.B., MA, lieu tenant governor; Charles Samuel Ward, M.D., seretary; Charles Hotch- kiss Trowbridge, Esq, treasurer; Frank Butler Gay, Esq, registrar; Rev. Prof. Williston Walker, historian; Tlt. Rev. John Williams, DID,, LL.D., chaplain.
 Gentlemen of the Council. To fill vacancies caused by the retiring class and to serve until 1901. Timothy Huggins Bishop, M.D., George Dudley Seymour, Stewart Woodruff Smith. To fill the unexpected term of the late Dr. Wm. Freeman French, Walter Nelson Capen.
 Standing Committees-Com on membership: Colonel Louis Richmond Cheney, William Gibbons Daggett, M. D., Rev. William Given Andrews, D. D., John Marchall Holcombe, Esq, Phineas Henry Ingahls, M. D.
 Committee on historical documents Hon. Frederick John Kinsbury, ILL. D., chairman; Prof. Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, IL. B., MA, Rev. Francis Goodwin, M. A., Rev. George Leon Walker, D. D., Prof. Edward Ellbridge Salisbury, LL D.
 A banquet was held in the evening in Harmonic hall which was handsomely decorated with national flags and bunting Sherry of New York catered.
 An interesting paper on the "Old Newgate Prison," was read by Charles Hopkins Clark of the Hartford Cour- ant. Others speakers were General Shipper. of Philadelphia, Professor Arthur H. Wheeler, Professor Theo- dore Woolsey and others.
 Tables were provided for the follow ing members: B. P Learned, J. Dem- ing Perkins. Charles D. Gross, Fran cis Wayland, Wm. w. Farnam, Louis R. Cheney, Ralph Cutler, Frank B. Gay, Jacob R. Greene, Francis Good win, George H. Morgan, Frederick Farnsworth, F. l.. Bissell, H. c. War ren, Winslow T. Williams, George L. Parnelee, Henry c. Sturgis, Jonathan Trumbull, Eli Whitney, Wm. Sharpe Talcott H. Russell, Wm. H. Bishop. Timothy Bishop, E. c. Hoyt, Stewart w. Smith, Walter N. Copen, A. H Smith, w. l.. Baldwin. w. G. Daggett Charles A. Ingersoll, George F. Eaton John K. Beach, George D. Seymour Orange Merwin, Wm. D. Seely, Samuel Beardsley, John c. Curtis, John Elton Henry A. Bishop, N. Thomas Perkins c. E. Munger, A. K. Kimball, Wm. C. | Skinner, w. B. Merriman, George D Taintor, P. H. Ingalls,, D. c. Barbour Henry Roberts, J. M. Holcombe, D. w Williams, H. Grant Thompson, Edwar6 W. Hooker, Judge W. B. Beardsley Charles T. Booker
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05
A KAFFIR WEDDING.

Marriage among natives of South Afica is very much a matter of g S. D., shorn of the glamour Of romance by the fact that the bride is estimated at so many cows or, oxen by her callous and practical father. The Kaff1r patriarch rejoices in a. multiplicity of daughters, for they are truly the props of his old age, and each dusky damsel taken off his hands by an ardent suitor means an increase to his herds, calcu- lated with mathematical precision, ac- cording to the rank of the brides fath- CT. For instance, the hereditary chief in charge of tribe when parting with his dauhter need set no bounds to his bovine ambition, and the legend Brides are cheap to-day is meaning less to one of such exalted rank. A mere appointed chief in charge of a tribe dares not demand more than twenty head of cattle for daughter, but ten head is the average payment made. The ordinary Ikaffir has three or four
 
 with his white master sufficiently long to acquire the amount necessary to ob- tain the desire of his heart, he returns to his ancestral halls, and after brief courtship,, makes his selection in the "Kaftir market" and proposes-to the father. No presents are made to the bridesmaids, for there are none to pre- sent; but that much maligned individ- ual the mother-in-law Is duly recog- nized by the heathen, for she invaria- bly, receives a COW from her son-in- law elect.
 Kaffir modistes receive few commits sions from natives for trousseaux. The brides dyes her hair for the wedding morn, not with Mrs. Aliens best but with red clay, the symbol and badge of every married woman. The ceremony is usually very picturesque, and in that land of sunshine takes place in the open. The officiating clergy consist of a terribly pompous individual, called the Official witness" who publicly asks the woman, in the presence of her assembled friends and relatives, wheth- CT she gives her full and free consent to the union, and in the event of re- pentance at the last moment he in- stantly stops the marriage rites. The wedding breakfast is both primitive and satisfying. It consists of cattle or goats slaughtered for the occasion, and large calabashes of "utywala," or Kaffir beer an intoxicant brewed from a grain resembling a millet. On the coast a vile concoction of treacle and water called isityimiyana is in great request.
 When the marriage is announced, it produces a fiutter in the neighboriag on speaking terms with the brides people make 1t the occasion for hos tile demonstration, known subsequent ly to the averaging law as a faction fight. The uninvited generally ap- proach the scene of the ceremony armed with assegais and knobkerries, and when the ceremony is at most interesting point challenge the able bodied guests to come forth and skirm- ish. Several of the latter, who have drunk of the ''utywala" not wisely but well, sally forth to avenge the insult, and amid jeers and taunts to their level best to break each others heads. Blows are given and taken, but the average Kaffir's head is as cast steel. The wo-
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c0NyECrroU Uy,s soLDIERs.
First Regiment and Battery A Went Into
 Camp Vest rdny.


 Niantic, Conn.,. May At was 3:45 o'clock this afternoon when a. special train rolled into the East Lyme and Mantle station, bearing the first detail of armed troops which go to make up Connecticut's quota of volunteers for service under the flag of the United States. The train, which was a mixed one, of passenger coaches and baggage cars, carried the two platoons con- stituting Battery A, Light artillery, of Guilford and Branford and the Yale battery made up of some of the most prominent members of the senior class at the New Haven university.
 The members of the Regulars" as tradistinction to the Yale men, tum- bled from the train care1essly and took their positions in line in marching or- der in a business-like manner Their impediments were not elaborate, and in many cases were so abbreviated as to be capable of confinement in cigar boxes and small bundles carelessly thrown over the shoulder. The Yale men alighted anxiously and made for their baggage which, slowed in hand some dress suit cases, occupied consid- erable room in the baggage cars. The collegians promptly formed and fol- lowing the regular" battery men, marched solemnly to the camp grounds. The regulars" took it is a matter of course, and swung along easily. Among the students there was none of that hilarity so characteristic nF ,sa,, marched we'll, their faces indicating their appreciation of the serious work upon which they had entered. Upon reaching the camp grounds they were received informally by Adjutant Gen. eral Haven, who ordered them shown to their quarters, which are located near the river. After reaching their quarters the students and regulars picked out their tents and the former began the preliminary duties as sol diers. The trains throughout the day have brought many recruits, large number coming from New London. A delegation from the Third regiment was here to receive the boys of the First as they arrived.
 Large crowds blocked the streets dUouL lic uepOt dHu IepGdleuly cLSeIeu the men as they marched along. The village was at last awakened to the presence of the soldiers. Flags are on every hand and bicycles gaily trimmed with bunting darted in and around the crowd all the afternoon. The men pre- sented fine appearance as they marched into the tented field to the music of the regimental band, while the onlookers applauded on every hand. The soldiers were formed in front of their quarters on the parade grounds and then sent to their company streets.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05

bled very much with falling of the womb and bearing-down pains. A friend advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; Ihave taken five bottles, and think it is the best medicine ever used. Now can work, and feel like myself. used to be troubled greatly with my head, but I have had no basf headaches or palpi- tation of the heart, womb trouble or bearing pains, since I commenced to take Mrs. Pinkham's medicine. I gladly recommend the Vegetable Com pound to every suffering woman. The use of one bottle will prove what 1t can do,'
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men, too, are not behindhand, and urge on the combatants with strong hints as to their degeneracy from the days of yore, and in one case, when several of their injured foes tried to rise, felled them to the ground with flat stones. When the intruders are driven off, the wounded are brought into the kraal, and the whole assemblage sits far into the night, drinking beer and "feasting on red flesh" till the rude awakening in the morning, when the medicine man or herbalist is called in to bind the broken limbs and minister to the black slaves of over-indulgence.-A Re- view.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05
REASONABLE TIGHT LACING.

At meeting of the British associ- in the Physiological Section upon the use of stays. The joint authors, who were, according to the Health News, the late Professor Roy and one of his colleagues in the University of Cam bridge, were enthusiastic in the praise of corsets, alleging that, worn in the daytime, during the principal hours of exertion, these strange disguis- ments," as an old writer once called them, are beneficial, and that reason ably tight lacing increases mental and physical activity by causing more liberal supply of blood to the brain, muscles, and nerves. At the same time they condemned the ex- treme practice of tight lacing. The theory of the professor and his col league sounds logical at first, but upon closer investigation it will be seen that they assumed much more than they proved. Admitting, for arguments sake, that nature has been so remiss in her arrangements that it is necess- ary for women (how are the men to manage, by the way?) to resort to some means of increasing the flow of blood to the head, etc., by robbing the abdominal viscera, is the practice of compression the most sensible? Blood is forced from the abdominal and thoracic viscera to the head, and to the surface of the body by firm press- ure; but is this an unmixed benefit to the wearer of tight stays? On the contrary, the gradually reddening nose, the headache and frequent peev- ish irritability ('increasing mental &C., tivity'?) the laborious respiration and inability either to assume an easy po- sition or to move about with grace and freedom (how about Increased physi- cal activity"?) too plainly demonstrate that reasonably tight lacing' is fraught with discomfort and danger.
 So long as women are to be found who, to gratify personal vanity, or to conform with fashion, will submit cheerfully to any inconvenience, it is little short of folly to advocate "reas- onbly tight lacing." Who shall de- eide, too, what constitutes this condi- tion? Besides, if a woman, through physical weakness, needs some kind of support for the back, 1t should be sup piled by the use of some sort of soft material and not of unyielding corsets, rendered hard by metallic or other in- elastic substances. As regards the numerous ailments to which the votar- ies of tight lacing voluntarily subject themselves, these are generally recog- nized, though the full extent of injury to health, and even danger of life, ow- ing to serious physiological derange- ments, are known only to the unfort- unate victims of the habit and and to their medical attendants. English wo- men ridicule-and naturally, too the absurd custom which causes ladies in China (the practice, we may observe, does not prevail among the lower classes) to cramp their feet till walk ing becomes almost Impossible; yet they do not give thought, apparent ly, to the absurdity and folly of com pressing their lungs till they can scarcely breathe, their hearts till pal pitation and fainting are produced and other internal organs to such an ex- tent that the displacement and distor- tion must result in present suffering and future illness.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05
A GOOD SUGGESTION.

ITO the Editor of the Journal and Courier: New Haven's portion of the 125, 1000 volunteers called for by the president will be the battery of heavy artillery which is now being recruited in this city by Captain F. G. Beach. As a dis tinctively New Haven organization and the only one, the battery will be follow ed into service by the interest and best wishes of all patriotic New Haveners. Would it not be well to voice our inter- est and wishes by presenting to the battery appropriate colors?
 CITIZEN.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05
To the Board of County Commissioners fol

" LIIS loOHlU UT OOuuty CUuIuIBSlOuefS 10FI
 New Haven County: hereby apply for license to sell spir- beer, Rhine wine and cider, at 42-44 Olive street, Town of New Haven My place of business Is not located within 200 feet in al direct line of a church edifice or public thereto, or any postoffice or public library. s
 JACOB STEINIAIER, Appllcant.
 We, the undersigned, electors and taxpay, CTS, as defined by law, of the town of New the above-named for such license Dated at New Haven, this 26th day of April, A. D. 1898. John E. Helshauser, Filled. Hallier, Otto Dieter, Diedrich Boschen.s Carl A. Knoll. ap2S myE
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05
ELKs GOING TO NEW ORLEANS.

A delegation of Elks from the lodge in this city will leave next Saturday morning for New Orleans, where they will attend the National Elks' conven- ton, which will last about fourteen days Among the members of the New Haven lodge who will attend the con- vention are: P. T. Hayes, Dr. F. J. Brothers, w. C. Doughan, Antonio Taborini and Philip F'resenius. Sev- eral others are thinking of going, but have not yet definitely decided
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05
SCHOOL DISTRICT STATISTICS.

Interesting Statement Made to the
 Mayor by Board of Education.
 Mayor Farnsworth has recently re- ceived from the board of education in answer to a request made by him some time ago, a compilation of interesting statistics, financial and otherwise, of the school district covering the last seventeen years. Some of the most in- teresting of these statistics for the years 1880 and 1897 are given below for the sake of comparison. The sta-. tistics are for the fiscal years ending August 31, 1880, and August 31, 1897. The statement was rendered by the board of education in response to a list of twenty-one questions submitted to the board by Mayor Farnsworth. The most important items of the state nent follow:
 Year ending Year ending
 Aug. 31, 80. Aug 31 '97
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BEWARE OF MORPHINE.

Special forms of suffering lead many woman to acquire the morphine habit. One of these forms of suffering is dull, persistent pain in the side, accompanied by heat and throbbing.
 MRS. LUCY PEAsLEY, Derby Center, Vt,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05

New Haven County: N n
 hereby apply for license to sell suir-S ituous and intoxicating liquors, ale lager beer, Rhine wine and cider, at 151 Temple business Is located within 80 feet In a direct line of a church edifce or public school house, or the premises pertaining thereto, or any postofice or public library.s
 We, the undersigned, electors and taxpay- CTS, as defined by law, of the town of NeWi Haven, hereby endorse the application of the n above 4 named for such license. Dated A.. D. 1S9s Wm. Wright, Walter Judsoiiss iis hdw: C. Oakley, Louis 0. Pfaff, Geo. H. PfaH. ar,22 mVE Ssss
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05
To the Board of County Commissioners for

New Haven County:
 hereby, apply for q license to sell spirs beer, Rhine wine and cider, at 28i Chapel street, Town of New Haven. My place of business Is not located within 200 feet in d school house, or the premises pertaining thereto, or any postofice or public library. s
 EUGENE F. NAGLE, Applicant. # We, the undersigned, electors and taxpay- Haven, hereby endorse the application of the above-named for such license. Dated at New Haven, this 26th day of April, Cloux, Max l.. Osterweis, Wm. E. Shannon Patrick Clancy. ap28 my5
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05

The reception to the new pastor of the First M. E. church, Rev. MT. El- dridge, takes place this evening at 8 o'clock at the church. The pastors of other city churches have been invited, and there will be singing by members of the Yale Glee club
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05
To the Board of County Commissioners for
 New Haven Gnuntv. 7fls

hereby apply for license to sell epIr~ ituous and intoxicating liquors, ale, lager beer, Rhine wine and cider, at 53S vhalIey avenue, Town of New Haven. My place of direct line of church edifice or public school house, or the premises pertaining thereto, or any postoffice or public library. @
 JOHN LYONS, Applicant.
 We, the undersigned, electors and taxpay- CTS, as defined by law, of the town Of New Haven, hereby endorse the application 0f| the above named for such license. Dated at New Haven, this 26th day of April.t A. D. 1898. Geo Bohn, A. L. Rice, Fratlk Maylinger, Charles F. Levere, Frederick 0. Z Bergen. aD28 mv5 Sj
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05

GENERALLY stock is one of two things "a speculation or an investment. Sugar, for instance, is a speculation. Pullman an investment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-05

It seldom happens
 that one stock com pines the double ad- vantage, but with Gill pin and Cripple Creek
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and I was so tired and nerv- ous all of the time. l
 was trou-
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 says:--''I was very
 miserable; was so we ak that I could
 hardly get around the house, could do nothing without feeling tired out.
 : My monthly periods had stopped
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! |||I;| 1lIH17lZl!l5ll ([I7l ssk THEATRE > CONTINUOUS PERFOKMANUE.
 Biograph.
To the Board of County Commissioners for

To the Board of County Commissioners for
 New Haven County: 'i hereby apply for license to sell spir-s iituous and intoxicating liquors, ale, lager beer, Rhine wine and cider at 15S Congress avenue, Town of New Haven, My place of business is not located within POO feet in a direct line of church edifice or public school house, or the premises pertaining thereto, or any postofice or public library
 We, the undersigned, electors and taxpay- CTS, as defined by law, of the town Of New Haven, hereby endorse the application of the above-named for such license. Dnteds at New Haven, this 26th day of April.5 A. D. 1898 John w. Gilson, Bernard Btassa dy, Richard Fischell, Michael Mariuarss x Fred. Bernfeld. ap28 my5
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NEW HAVEN LOCAL QUOTATIONS

Furnished daily by KIMBERLY. Roor S DAY. Bankers and Brokers. l33 Orange street.
 BANK STOCKS
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To-day's Quotation
 27c

such is the case. Gllpin and Cripple Greek stock represents one of Colorado's rich gold mines being successfully operated. This stock Is listed upon the Denver Mining Ex change. That is guarantee of the stabil- ity and financial soundness of .ne mine. Being listed it can be bought or sold through any broker, at any time, at mar ket price.
 On February IA 1t started at 10c per share n month 1t doubled itself. Look at it to-day. Gilpin and Cripple Greek is unquestionably buy.
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ELEPHANT

ELEPHANT HUNTING IN THE
 CONGO.
 MT. Herbert Ward relates in Cas- sells Magazine some exciting experi- ences that befell him in the course of
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-04-28
The Cost Of A Boy.
Chicago Exchange.

Chicago Exchange.
1t does not take as much money to
live IN the country, OR in small town,
as it does to live in the city. i read the
other day that it cost $4,000 to bring
up city boy and educate him and
dress him we'll I said to myself ::
THAT is because everything in the city
has to be bought, and living is high" !"
But l began to study the thing, and l
found out that even country boy costs
his parents good deal.
When you count what boy eats, and
what he wears, and the school books
he has to have; and the doctor bills
that have to be paid when he gets the
measels or the scarlet fever, he will cost
his folks at least 500 year. l guess
if boy is pretty bad to smash things,
or to kick his shoes right cut, he costs
more than that. So when | am II
shall have cost father more than
$4,000.
Mother cooked my victnals, made
my cloth hes and patched them, washed
and lroned for me, took care OF me
when I was little fellow, and when
ever got sick, and she never charged
ANYTHING for that. If she were dead
and father had to hire all that done, il
would cost him another 500 a year OF
more, and that's $4,000 worth Of work
mother will have done Tor me by the
time I am man. Four thousane
dollars for boy What do you thinl
OF that ?
These are hard times. When pa
rents put 81, 600 into a boy, what hav'
they right to expect OF him? Is
fair for him to play ball, go in swim
ming, or hang around town all th
time, when maybe his fathers potatoe
are not dug, nor the wood brought Il
for his mother. Is it fair for him t
disappoint them by swearing, smokln
and drinking?
Some of our parents have put abou
all the property they had into us boy
and girls. If We make spittoons an
whisky Jugs OF ourselves, they will b
lpoor indeed. But If we make goo
citizens and substantial men, they wi
feel as if they had good pay for brini
ing us up.
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