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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-24
MEETING THE EM1R OF GARuA.
An African Potentate Surrounded by
Mailclad Warriors


Mailclad Warriors.
An acquaintance of mine who has
lived some considerable time in the up
per reaches of the Binue sends me an
interesting account of the meeting with
the Fulani Emir of Garua. The account
as piece of unwritten history affords
an attractive peep into a lttle-known
world, where the picturesque has not
yet disappeared before the all-levelling
properties of civilization and the Max
i'm gun.
1T was in August, 1885," says my
correspondent, when / was at Yola
(Yola is on the Binue, and is the CAPT.
tai of the Fulani State Of Adamawa,
one of Sokoto's tributary provinces), on
the floating hulk Africa, anchored off
the town, that a native came and told
me the Emir of Garua had arrived and
was waiting on the river bank to see
me. I went on shore and was rewarded
by very picturesque sight. Seated on
a grass mat was man of about forty
years of age. A tall, 1.-the, finely made,
high-caste Fulani, in color almost white
-one of the pure breed, that has never
intermingled with the native element.
IlOuHu his SnOulueTS HuIlS IL While IODG,
spotlessly clean, and lined with shin
ing indigo-dyed cloth. He wore bag
gy, green silk trousers, and sandals;
on his head was fixed one of the enor-
nous Kano straw hats, some three feet
in circumference. He was surrounded
by some thirty or forty soldiers, armed
with swords and spears and few ri
fles.
What greatly struck me was the ar
NOR worn by these soldiers. They had
surcoats of chain mail and helmets on
which the sun glinted. 1t made an ex-
traordinary picture-there in that wild
place, nine hundred miles in the in
terror of the continents scene from
some medieval play in savage Africa
The armor, I afterward ascertained
came from Bornu. The Emir greeted
me very coolly in the Fulani tongue.
and held out his hand without raising.
He hoped to receive a present, but
did not offer him one, and he was too
proud to ask. We parted after the
usual interchange of courtesies Tt was
one of the most interesting interviews
I ever held in Africa, or elsewhere for
the matter Of that.-From The London
Globe.
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UTILIZING FoGs.
The Problem to Which California
Agriculturists are Invited to Address
FTheroSa

Inc problem to Which California
Agriculturists are Invited to Address
Themselves.
Herbert Earlscliffe, of Santa Bar
bara, Cal, has communicated to
the Weather Bureau, through the
Chamber of Commerce of Los Angles, a
suggestion relative to fog that should
call forth all the inventive genius of
America. Mr.. Earscliffe says:
IN California thereaare vast areas
or valuable land where the water sun
ply Is insufficient Nature has en-
deavored TO correct this by sending in
heavy fogs laden with moisture. and
1T only remains for the ingenuity of
man to utilize this. These fogs generally
come IN from the ocean at night during
the dry summer months, when most
needed, but are dissipated early in the
morning by the sun. Here is ample
moisture brought to our very doors If
we could but discover some simple and
practical methods of condensing or
precipitating 1T on large SCALE
1t certainly is tantalizing to think of
this immense quantity of moisture
present and visible but unavailable
Neither science nor art at present can
suggest any feasible method of causing
this fog to descend in refreshing drops
of rain. On the other hand, the green
vegetation at the SUBMITS of MANY
mountains has often been observed to
be due essentially to cloud or fog and
not to rain; it may. therefore, be hoped
that along the coast Of California some
device will soon be introduced that
shall catch the fog particles as they
float along and force them to trickle
down in gentle streams of water so as
to moisten the earth. We do not pro-
pose to condense or precipitate the
atmospheric moisture in the ordinary
sense of those words, but simply to
catch it as the leaves of the trees do.
We recall the so-called drip from every
rock and twig on the summit of Table
Mountain at Cape Town, and especially
on the summit of Green Mountain, in
the island of Ascension, and the damp
ness of tie rocks on Pixies Peak, and
we cannot doubt but that in many
spots throughout the globe vegetation
is kept alive by the small amount of
moisture that is caught on the leaves
and, dripping thence to the ground, is
soaked up by the roots of the plant In
fact, there are several plants whose
leaves and branches are so arranged as
to facilitate drip and the collection of
moisture by this process.
What is needed by the agriculturist
on the California coast is some simple
arrangement by which the
quantity of fog particles shall be inter
cepted as they flow past any given
plant, and shall be forced to drip or
glide downward into the ground at the
root of the plant. Any fan-shaped
of sticks or slate that in
creases the area exposed to the fog
should apparently increase the quantity
IF moisture carried down to the roots
Mechanical devices, the explosion of
dynamite, refrigerating apparatus and
other analogous devices are likely to
be too expensive in comparison with
The return they mahe.-The Monthly
Weather Review.
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| the company. Lieutenant Adams uset
| the same arguments and then proceeded
| to say that the members of the COM
pany who were opposed to the bill had
been holding secret meetings to over
| throw Major Ludington and that such E
proceeding was contrary to military
law. He then gave the impression that
| these members whom he referred tC
were mutinous This was the signal
for the beginning of a torrent of &C
cusations against Major Ludington and
Lieutenant Adams, and their support of
the bill Captain Farnam admitted that
secret meetings had been held and ask
ed Major Ludington why he had not
resigned as he agreed to do if the men,
bers would only elect him and give him
the title. Ex-Sergeant Richards said
that many active members of the COM
pany were not present to oppose the
bill as they were afraid that the com
manding officer would court martial
and dismiss them if they did appear.
Other members charged that officers
of the company had been reduced to
privates for no other reason than that
they opposed Major Ludington.
Lieutenant Forsyth accused Lieuten-
ant Adams of being traitor, and ex-
Captain Farnam said: "There Is always
Judas in every camp. I don't know
how many pieces of silver this one got'
Colonel Burpee happened to come in
to the committee room while the hear
ing was going on and said that at pres
ent the cost to the state for every man
in the National Guard was about $50,
while the cost to the state for each
man in the Governors Guard, Foot and
Horse, was about $110. Lieutenant For
syth stated on the other hand that less
than 1000 was appropriated annually
for the Governors Guard, four COM
panieS, with a total membership of
about 400, making the cost per man in
the neighborhood of $25. He estimated
that if the Second company Horse
Guard was made party of the state
militia, the cost entailed by going to
camp one year would be increased by
1886 for the pay roll alone. He alleg-
ed that the object in attempting to have
the bill passed was to perpetuate in
office the present commander of the
company.
Lieutenant Forsyth also said that if
the company was placed in the Nation
al Guard the better element of the com
pany, consisting of business men, could
not leave their business to go to camp
and that this means was taken to get
rid of them and fill up the ranks of the
company with men favorable to the
present commander, and also give a
chance to appoint officers in place of
those who would be obliged to drop out.
These charges were not answered by
those who appeared in favor of the bill
and the committee took the matter un
der consideration to formulate a report
to present to the general assembly.
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THE EMMETT ANNIVERSARY.

Elaborate arrangements are being
made for the appropriate observance of
Robert Emmet's one hundred and TWEEN
ty-first anniversary The exercises
will be held under the auspices of the
Wolfe Tone club at the Grand opera
house Sunday evening, March 5. A fine
programme is being arranged, includ-
ing songs, choruses, recitations and
tableaux Members of the Governor S
Foot Guards and the Sarsfields will take
part in the tableaux. This celebra ton
is expected to eclipse all previous eff
forts of the Wolfe Tone club, and a
crowded house is assured. An histori-
cal Grafton will be given by one of New
Yorks leading attorneys, Hon. Victor
j. Bowling. Mr.. Bowling is finished
speaker, and his discourse will prove
treat.
The exercises will be under the direc-
ton of the following committee: Frank
w. Foley, chairman; Michael B. Nc
Grail, George Stanford, William F.
Dwyer, Colonel John G. Healy, John G.
MCGOWAN and John ]. Brennan.
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Poli's Wonderland Theater.

1t is a great show at the Wonderland.
OF course Miss Beatrice Moreland made
a complete capture at once. This hand
some comedienne, stately and refined,
dcliciously gowned, is a real actress,
and the audience recognizes it in a mo-
ment. Her play was most warmly re-
ceived Joe Flynn ratified off a funny
song and then he owned the house.
Kelly and Adams also took the house,
especially Miss Adams, who was oblig-
ed to repeat her Irish love song for
four encores. The Golden Trio, Ed Rey-
nolds, the ventriloquist; Kleise Bros,
the Romola' Bros, Murray and Alden,
and the Clemence sisters complete the
bill.
Next week Maude Courtney the clev-
err, and we might say, shrew young wo-
man, who has taken the vaudeville Cir
cults by storm, will be here. She sings
the "old songs She has hit just the
thing, apparently, that the people are
delighted to hear. Another feature next
week will be James r. Dolan and Ida
Lenharr in a new farce played by five
people called "a High Toned Burglar. ;"
Prices 10c and zoe; ladies in the after
noon, 10c.
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YIN. G. Il. ANNUAL CONTENTION.
Prof F.. X. Sanders of New Haven
Elected First Vice President.


Norwich, Feb. 23.-The thrtieth an
nual convention of the Connecticut Y.
M. G. A. opened for four days session
at the Y. M. c. A. building this after
noon. The attendance was not very
large, but it is thought that there will
be few delegates absent tomorrow and
for the remainder of the sessions. The
opening session was held at $3.50 p. m.
and was called to order by l. De Yer
Warner OF Bridgeport, president of the
state associations. According to the
system of the associations the officers
retire with the converting Of the annual
meeting and therefore the convention
nominated Mr.. Warner for temporary
president, and w. A. Sage of Danbury,
temporary secretary. The opening feat
ure was devotional services led by w. A..
Wells of Stamford, followed by an adj
dress of welcome by N. L. Bishop Of
the local association, which was re-
sponded to by Chairman Warner.
The nominating committee then re-
ported the following list of officers
which was unanimously accepted: Pres
ident I. De Yer Warner, Bridgeport;
vice presidents Professor F. x. Sanders
of New Haven, Judge v. Munger of An
SONIA w. A. Smith Of Bridgeport
Eugene Vessels of Danbury, Edwin
Hallock of Derby, Gail V. Munsell of
Hartford, w. H. Chaplin of Meriden, A.
H. Dayton of Naugatuck, M. G. STAN
ley of New Britain, Hon. George F.
Tinker of New London S. S. Greene of
New Haven, N. L. Bishop of Norwich,
c. L. Reid of Stamford, r. r King of
Thompsonville, j. w. Hague of Torring-
ton F., A. Spencer of Waterbury, G. j.
York of Winsted; secretaries, A. H. Will
cox of Torrington, F. S. Smith of Mid
dletown, w A. Sage Of Danbury.
Rev. Alexander Mckenzie, d. D., of
Cambridge, Mass, next spoke on 'Ad-
vance Movement in Christian Work"
This concluded the afternoon session
and adjournment was taken for supper
The evening exercises We're held at the
Broadway Congregational church and
included addresses by Rev. w. D. Bal
lantine of Springfield, Mass, on bible
Study and Rev. DR.. Mckenzie ON
Usefulness in Service There will be
all day meetings tomorrow and Sat-
urday and the convention will be
brought to a close Sunday.
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JOHANN oRTH's SHIP.

The assumption that Herr Johann
Orth 0he Archduke Johann Salvator)
might be still living, since his ship, the
Caesarea,. was offered for sale at Ham
burg, seems to be quite devoid of JUS
tification. The vessel In question did,
indeed, belong to Captain Orth. He
bought it in 1889, while it was on it's
way home, but the return voyage be-
ing protracted he grew impatient, and
acquired another vessel, the Santa Mar
gherita on board Of which he sailed
from Dunkirk for the River Platte early
in 1890. Going around the Horn In bal
last to fetch cargo of saltpetre from
the Peruvian coast, the ship and her
owner disappeared, and were never
heard of again. The Caesarea was re-
sold by the Archduke's agent to Ger
man firm, and oddly enough is now on
it's way to Hamburg after performing
exactly the same journey as that which
proved fatal to Captain Orth.-F'rom
The London Chronicle.
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istence it has witnessed the death and
burial of every company that was in
existence at the time of it's organiza-
ton; every one, without exception,
eventually proving a failure, yet this
standard company has gone along,
year after year, with no change In
and a constantly increas-
ing bank account. There will be matt
nees. Sale of seats now open Prices.
matinees 1Oc, zoe; evenings, 10c, zoe, 30c.
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The Grand.

"On the Bowery," with Steve Brodie
himself in it, is drawing good houses.
Bowery life Is well drawn. There are
the "drink-seeking'' buns, the shoe
string peddlers, the fighting tough, the
sightseeing Jay" the good natured
hackman, the Bowery girls and boys,
and the others all flesh and blood char
acters. Prices 1Oc, zoe, SOC, SOC. Daily
matinees.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-12

North Carolina is just entering upon
her campaign of nliterate negro dis
reimbursement. It will be an ugly
struggle on rae lines. The suffrage
amendment to the state constitution re-
quires OF negroes a reading Inc writ
ing qualification for voting and ex-
empts illterate whites by providing
that b iineal descendants Of men who
We're voters in the United States prior
to 1867 shall be entitled to vote whether
they can read or write, or o The
discrimination against the blacks Is
palpabfe to b dullest mind, and its
utter injustice calls for general rebuke.
And after the North Carolina whites
have passed their amendment to put
down black ignorance and keep up
white ignorance, what are they going
to do about the 18th amendment to the
federal constitution?
What they ought to do Is to try To
get thu 18th amendment repealed. Tina,
is the solution OF the negro problem
Springfield Republican.
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Manning,s Commentary

>NESO'
1t affords me peculiar pleasure, as the
first law student of Hon. John Man
ming, to call to the attention Of his old
students and the legal profession gen.
orally his Commentaries or the First
Book of Blackstone" just published by
the University Press.
This valuable contribution to the le-
gal literature of North Carolina a
| nearly all been written and a part print
| ed before the death of its distinguished
| author, and it has been finished by his
| son, James S. Manning, Esq. This
| volume was intended to be One OF the
| series, but death came upon its author
before the first was finally completed
1t represents in part the course Of
instruction given by DR.. Manning at
| the University for may years, whereby
he so successfully adapted the ancient
| principles of law to modern conditions.
And it is intended to be OF aid to the
| active, practicing lawyers, and 10 i'm
| press upon them the value of fundamen-
tai principles underlying our system OF
| Jurisprudence, to which recurrence
cannot too often be had.
While the Rights OF Persons gen.
| orally are fully and clearly set forth
in this ~volurse, yet especial attention
is devoted to Master and Servant
and Husband and Wife," whose
changed conditions are now so very
different from the era when Blackstone
wrote. Not only decisions are cited
from Jul state reports but also from
many other states, and all are syste-
m~atically arranged and clearly set
forth. The chapter on Husband and
Wife" alone contains $50 pages and LIS
invaluable to the practicing lawyer. o..
As showing Dr. Manning's affection
for his former students the d~edicatory
words OF his book are here quoted, al
follows: Ito those generous young
men whom / have had the pleasure TO
instruct in the great and far reaching
principles Of the law, this volume Ia
| dedicated with anectionate regards"
In perusing the pages OF this volume
, the old students of DIR. Manning will
, almost realize that he is again speaking
! to them IN propria persona, and they
will b. forcibly. and yet 30 sadly, re-
: minded OF his lectures which were as
entertaining as they were Instructive.
II A LONDON.
Pittsboro. n. C.. Sept 9 1899.
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The Atlanta police were called upon
Wednesday to solve a mystery, which,
when solved, turned out to be of a very
amusing character. John A. Gee, who
for a long number of years was pas
senge agent of the Atlanta and West
Point railroad, drove his trap up to the
English-American building, and leav-
ing it in charge of a small boy, enter
ed the building to attend to some bus
mess. Mr.. Gee had hardly entered the
building when the boy got an idea into
his head that he did not want to look
after the outfit and left it to take care
Of itself. Don after he had gon a
lady who was in the building trying to
rent a house from a real estate agent,
came out with the intention of going to
look at a certain house which suited
her fancy. She a accompanied by
the agent, and, stepping up to the trap,
under the impression hat it was h
property Of the agent, she jumped in
and the agent followed, he thinking
that the trap belonged to this lady
customer. The two drove to the house
that the lady desired to see. AS they
were about to alight the lady asked
the agent if the horse would stand
AT this ju%ncture it was discovered that
neither the agent nor his customer
owned the rig, and that they had prac-
tically stolen the outfit. While all of
this comedy Of errors was being gone
through with, Mr.. Gee, believing that
his trap a been stolen by the boy
employed to hold it for him, was tele-
phoning the police headquarters. La
ter in the day the agent found the
owner Of the and returned it to
him.
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"A Kansan Routed the Enemv
manila Freedom.)

About the middle of April, while the
Twentieth Kansas was doing duty on
the firing line at Malolos, it CHANGED
that my company had it's turn at out
post duty the night when the moon
was partly hid by clouds and the light
was very dim.
My turn for guard came at 2 o'clock
and the man who woke me reported
"all quiet" so I perched myself on the
breastwork and commenced to gaze
down a corn row.
Nothing was to be heard save the
lizard and the night birds, who SEEM
ed to be discussing the pros and cons
of national expansion.
The minutes wore on and the corn
rows seemed to widen out and gradual
ly disappeared from view. while in it's
place appeared the street of a peace
full little city in far away Kansas.
Things gradually took form and 1
could see the big maple tree in front
of our neighbours gate, the long line
of stone walls, the fence with roses
hanging over to greet the passer, and
the birds that seemed to sing sweeter
in Kansas than they do anywhere in
the world.
Suddenly there was a stir in the bam-
boo thicket at the end of the corn row
n 1 solved the problem Of aerial
transit on the moment by dropping
over into the trench and leaving Kan
sas without eve saying good-by to the
family cat. / led the hammer of
my Springfield I'd waited, without
daring to breathe, for a repetition of
the noise.
Suddenly there was a crack like step
ping on a twig n a grunted COM
mand. I strained my yes and could
discern a body that moved as though
creeping toward me, while at the same
time l heard a rustic in the brush a
little farther to the right. 1 took a
steady aim and fired. There was a
quick cracking Of brush, and the boys
who were with me sprang to their feet
n poured a few volleys into the
thicket. No more sleep that night, blu,
the next morning we found that my
aim had been only too true, and a
Genus pork" with a dozen pigs to
mourn her loss, had gone to join the
vast majority"
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appreciates the loyal and patriotic spir-
it shown by hosee who have onered
their services. The proposal has been
placed ON record at the war office. Full
consideration will be given TO the oner
should necessity arise for a reinforce
ment of the troops now in South Africa:
London, September 9.-The actual
status Of the Transvaal crisis appears
to be unchanged. In spite Of all the
cla1nor and excitement raised by the
runors preceding the cabinet council
Great Britain's ministers apparently
have lone nothing than strength
en- the hands of Joseph Chamberlain,
the secretary of state for the colonies,
thereby confirming the p~rOgnOStlca-
tionS of the most conservative element
as already quoted in these dispatches.
AS far as the international relations
are concerned, war is no nearer now
than it was a week ago, though the
friction in South Africa itself is Keen
er and more likely to produce a conflict.
Putting aside the countless diplomatic
intricacies that have arisen during the
week, suZerainty remains the main is
sue. President Kruger, Of the Transvaal
republic, has cracked the nut and
found suzerainty its kernel. If he re-
fuses to swallow it, then there will be
war. There is no doubt thatMr. Cham
berlain hoped the cabinet 10 take
more radical measures than they did.
If the general understanding of their
. action is we'll founded, they have only
| countenaced still further delay, speci-
flying a day when such delay must end.
For weeks Nh. Chamberlain has been
telling President Kruger that Great
Britain could stand NO further parley-
ing about suZerainty and intimating by
speeches, that the day and even the
moment had almost arrived when Great
Britain's patience would be exhausted.
Hence this cabinet exhibition Of pro-
longed British patience has tended to
create a more pacific feeling, but which
after all, is probably only a general
realization that unles the Beers take
the initiative we shall have to wait for
some time before the crisis comes to a
head.
Pretoria, September 10.-In the course
of an interview today State Attorney
Smuts said that the Transvaal, having
withdrawn its offer of five years fran
chise, the condition thereto attached,
namely, the reliquishment of suzerain-
ty also falls to the ground. He under
stands the Transvaal's last dispatch as
LII acceptance of the proposal for a
joint commission of inquiry.
The TransvaaL he said, is anxious to
terminate the tension existing, because
trade is stagnant and the country is be
ing ruined. Hence the Transvaal has a
greater interest than has the British
government in briging about a settle
ment.