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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-06
NORTH HAVEN.
Feb. 2.-Candlemas Day

| Feb. 2.-Candlemas Day
"Half your wood and half your hay"
| Rev. Mr.. Lathrop preached in Thorn
aston last Sunday in exchange with the
regular minister of that place.
The grip does not seem to let UP much.
In some families four and five are sick
at time.
f, Rev. Mr., Hubbard, of Straddle HILL
near Middletown, installed the grange
| officers last Tuesday night A. good
supper was very enjoyable after the 9TH
er exercises.
| The next Pomona grange meeting is to
be held with East Haven grange in
April.
A black morocco pocket-book con-
tanning considerable sum of money,
was lost by Mrs. e. G. Munson recently
at or near the Congregational church.
| The finder might do well to let Mrs
Munson know where it is.
| Miss Lavinia Doolittle, Of Meriden
was in town over Sunday, but was
| obliged to hurry home on account of
| the snow Storm This is the second time
this winter that Miss Doolittle has been
| in North Haven a the time of a snow
| storm.
| The following program to be given
| by the young people of the town needs
no praise or any explanation The COM
pany is we'll known by the people of
| the town and their faculty of arrang-
| ing a good program is also understood
| perfectly well. The cause is a good one
and given a good evening the full
| worth of their money is assured all
| who attend entertainment in Memorial
hall Thursday evening, February 8, for
the benefit of the V. I. A.
"a PROPOSAL UNDER DIFFICULT
TIES"
Cast.
John Barlow B. Thorpe
Robert Yardsley. Il. j. Smith
Dorothy Andrews. miss A. M. Stiles
Jennie, the Maid. Mrs. ]. f. Reynolds
COUSIN FRANK.
Cast
Enied Raymond. Miss G. G. Pierpont
May. ..................M Miss l. G. Tuttle
Genevieve .............M Miss w G. Smith
Maud Thorne. ... Mrs. w. III. r. Dubois
Cousin Frank. Dick Skyline
Music.
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WALLINGFORD HAPPENINGS
BREEZY LOT OF ITEMS FROM THAT
BUSY BOROUGH.

Prospects of Good Spring Trade En-
couraging-Report That Foxes Are
Quite PIentifnI-Ezel and Rathbone
Lodges, X. of P., of New Haven, to be
Entertained by Ivy Lodge.
The change to the good of the wealth
err Saturday proved of great advantage
to the merchants and there was much
improved trade during the afternoon
and evening" Several of the factories
are now running full time, and in the
others business seems to be improving
and the prospects for a good spring
trade is quite encouraging.
Janitor Northrop lodged over 400
tramps during the month of January
Saturday night only three applied for
lodging. "Bill and Kate" spent Friday
night in the tramp room, and on Sat-
urday got out of town.
Foxes are reported as very plenty
over on the mountains east of town.
r. w. Miner expects to soon put up
a block 42xSO feet on Center street on
the site of the old Franklin hall.
The Worlds Fair Glass Show and
Ideal Concert company will open up in
town hall this evening for the entire
week under the auspices of the Forest
ers.
Richard Talbot is wrestling with a
severe attack Of the grip.
Water Commissioner H. L. Davis re-
turned Saturday from Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs J. r. Case of North
Main street have a son that was born
Saturday.
kElmert Cook is home from trip to
Boston.
Eel and Rathbone lodges of New
Haven will be entertained by Ivy lodge,
K. of p, on Friday evening.
George T. Jones expects to leave for
Fporida next week.
Tickets for the ladies' cymbal quartet,
who will be in Masonic hall next We'd
nesday morning, under the auspices of
the X. Of p, are now on sale at G. HI.
Dickinson's and w. III. Young's stores.
III. F. Hall has sold to W. I. Todd a
lot 50x100 feet on Prospect street.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-06

GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD that
it's not the price you pay for paint that
the grade of oil used in their manufac-
ture. B. & X. Paint combines the best of
everything in paint manufacture, and its
use gives the largest equivalent alike to
the longest purse and the purse that needs
by economical buying.
THOMPSON & BELDEN,
, 396 and 39S State street
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-06
AN OLD BASEBALL PLAYER.
DR.. Daniel Adams Who Died Here Last
Month.

In letter published in Sporting Life
last week Henry Chadwick has the fol-
lowing to say concerning the late DR..
Daniel Adams of this city and his con-
nection with baseball during the forties:
1.-The death of DR., Daniel Adams at
New Haven, this month Ganuary) is
the striking out of another veteran
members of the Knickerbocker Baseball
club of the forties, inasmuch as the doc
tor Joined the club in 1S45. He was
eighty-five years old at his death. 1
was most agreeably surprised last
August at the receipt of letter from
the worthy veteran from his residence,
146 Edwards street, New Haven. The
doctor was an active member of the old
club up to 1862, and in the early days
of the club he volunteered to make the
baseballs used by the club"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-06
STARlN'S
New Haven Transportation Co,
General Passenger Age


DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY.
Steamer JOHN H. srAKIN, Captain Nc
Al.ister, leaves New Haven from Starins
pier, foot of Brown street. at 1U:15 p. M,
Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Steam
SON, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The STARIN leaves New York from Pier
IL, North River, at p IN. Mondays, Wed
ING. Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Fare Is cents Excursion Tickets $1.25.
Staterooms, S1.O0.
Judson's, S67 Chapel street; Peck & Bish-
op's. 7O2 Chapel street. Free stage leaves
tie depot on arrival of Hartford train
streets every half hour commencing at $50
n m. Through freight rates given and
bills of ladng to all points West, South.
and Southwest.
Order your freight via Starin Line.
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CHAPTER XXX.--(Contlnued)
Whoever among us had done this
was guilty OF wanton malice and trea-
gon 10 tho rest OF his frlends-for
friends we hoped we were, as wen as
brothers In misfortune
We also examined the mutllated
bread bag. In the side thereon was u
clean slash foot In length, made py
some sharp instrument, and by TINS
aperture the biscuits had been ap-
stracted by some one who had inserteu
his hands through the fragile wall OF
our hut, which, as have stated was
composed only of turf and branches
The theft had been committed IN
the night, but by whomY
Was the thief one OF ourselvesY The
eyes of each seemed to ask the hate
full question Of the others, and TO repel
their inQuliing glances; but soon after
three Of our missing biscuits were
discovered by Tom Lambourne, lying
few yards apart among the long
grass, as II the abstracter had droppeu
them during hasty flight toward tue
woods or the Devils Mountain
an addition to ourselves there ID
some one else on this island" exclaim-
ed Hislop, emphaticallyi "and TINS nc,
counts for the loss OF the studdins-sa'i
boom; and without delay, this some
one else must be discovered"
We dreaded lest savages might DO
concealed In some Of the caverns OF
woods, and that they might come upon
US in the night and Stay all, or that
they might make OFF with or destroy
the long boat, our most valuable pos
session.
It was at once resolved that one OF
our number Ito be regularly relieved)
should remain in 1t day and night
armed with the Ratchet, our only
weapon, and that he should be well
fiogged II he slept or neglected the
double duty Of watching the hut ana
boat which were close by each other
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and \ could see 4 shade pass over MIRA.
Dumarcle's face a. she listened. She
followed him Just out OF earahot, "a
he moved away, and spoke To him
earnestly. His parting words only
reached my ear.
"As no Ia a friend OF yours, certain
ly. The room is empty, and, as tho
fever 10 coming on, he will, Of course,
DO moro comfortable whore pure air
can be obtained. Give your own or
ders, II you please, for l am too busy
Just now to attend to IT,"
do you think you could bear being
moved upstairs?" Helen Dumarcie
said, coming back to me. "There Ia
an empty room shall have prepared
for you; but first you must have your
breakfast, Do you feel hungry"
She spoke in a quiet, matter-ot-faet
way, as II she had been all her life q
nurse In a hospital, and then she went
away and presently brought mo 0
dainty mess Of something that she said
I must eat, because she had cooked II
with her own hands. l had no appe'
lite, but tried to eat, because she bad'
me, and something Of the weary sense
Of exhaustion left me when ! had I'M
ished. About noon men came, anc
with Helen to superintend, lifted my
cot and carried me away to tho quiet
lone upper room that had been pre-
pared for me-
When they had gone Helen hustled
In, smilingly, and introduced to my no
tice q big, shiny-looklng contraband
who gave my tired senses q first I'm
preston Of mingled patent-leathe
boots and plano keys, who, she SAID
would stay with me all the time, ant
take care of me when she was obliged
to be absent Then she said some
thing to him apart about "eryslpelas
and giving tho medicine regularly"
remember feeling an air of comfor
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CHAPTER XXXII.
The Mystery Solved.

All day the air had been unusually
sultry and breathlessly hot, even for
the tropics at that season; but when
the sun sank westward, when the air
became cooler, and the shadows Of the
island, with Its wooded bluff and tow
ering blue mountain, across the slope
OF which the light gossamer clouds
lay floating, halfway up, were thrown
far eastward over that lonely sea
which no keel seemed ever to furrow,
we prepared for further exploration,
or, as Hugh Chute said, ito overhaul
that ere cliff from truck to keelson."
Chute and Carlson were dispatched
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In the clean, bare room and delicious
sense of quiet, after the roar Of battle
and the sounds of pain and anguish
that had been ringing In my ears ever
since was wounded. Then followed
blank, whether Of sleep or dellrium |
know not, with occasional intervals Of
waking, always to intolerable pain and
burning In my arm, in my whole SIDE
with O ringing In my ears and a
fevered restlessness entirely beyond
my control, Through my dreams fit
ted Helen, now In the sheen Of pearls
and satin, now In plain hospital garb
Time passed In this strange, dream
like existence, that was peopled by
many another sight, scenes borrowed
from the fury Of battle, the sudden ter
ror of attack, quiet mountain bivouacs
and picket stations under the stars, GU
drear plains that seemed stretched to
mysterious, unending distances, in the
shadowy light.
Helen would often come in, sit be-
side my cot and take my throbbing
hand in hers. Sometimes she was ac-
companed by a sweet-faced Sister Of
Charlty-one of those angels Of mercy,
whose presence in army hospitals is
familiar to all wounded soldiers, and
whose gentle mlnistratlons have
soothed the agony OF many dying
hero.
know that was carefully tended,
but all care could not prevent what fol-
lowed. One morning was lifted from
my cot and placed upon the fatal table.
When they placed me in my bed again
the arm was gone, and with 1t the
awful burning pain, and much Of the
danger that had threatened my life.
1t was not long, then, before l
emerged from the shadowy semi-de-
lirium in which my days and nights In
that quiet chamber had been passed
began to recognize and identify Jem,
the shiny contrabsnd, as something
tangible; to feel amused at his quaint
ways, and odd, lndistinct mode Of
speech; and to feel pleased when he
answered my dim smile by a hearty
guffaw and a fearful display of the
plano keys And began to make
Helen's visits the events Of my monot-
onous life; to watch for her at her ac-
customed hours, and to sink back
every nerve soothed and muscle re-
Taxed, in the deeps Of a measureless
content when she came. | had lost my
arm, my good right arm, poor mans
emblem Of power to do and dare, and
which was all that stood between me
and the cold worlds charities. Ana
yet was strangely happy.
Gradually, with strength, my
thoughts came back to the interests of
life. had many brief talks with
Helen, but they had been chiefly of our
old home; she had never alluded to
herself, nor told me why she was there
It had been enough, in my illness, to
know that, however she came, she was
there, and getting well in her care
and Jem's; for l will not be ungrateful
whatever else am.
But at last came to wonder at this,
though dared ask no question.
Thinking thus, l Cpoke aloud, as one
sometimes does in musing, quite I'M
aware that l had done so, till Jem,
Crouching by the window in the full
rays Of the sun, answered me.
What can have become Of Captain
Dumarcie?"
Master Pauls dead" was Jem's an
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-25
CHAPTER XXI,
The Mystery Increases.

lHt AhNaN
An immediate search was resolved
upon. Lots were cast for the one VINO
was to remain behind to guard our
property and the duty fell upon me-
Armed with the boat stretchers, or
with clubs which they had carefully
selected and cut from the trees, HIS
lop departed with all my companions;
and after proceeding over the grassy
plain, they soon disappeared In the
woods that covered all the lower slope
OF the great mountain.
l cannot describe the sensations OF
loneliness that came over me on md
ing myself for the first time single,
alone, and left entirely to my own
reflections and resources.
The carpenters Ratchet was my on
ly weapon; and armed with 1t l sat
on a grassy slope midway between the
hut and sea gazing anxiously inland,
listening for any passing sound; but
all remained still, save the chatting OF
the waves on one hand, and the loud
buzz of tropical insect life In the thick
cts or among the long grass on the
other.
What, I asked myself, II savages
were actually lurking In the woods,
and, on seeing that all my companions
were gone, they should come tumultu-
ously down upon the hut and boat?
] would at cnce become their victim.
Or what would be my fate II my
friends fell into an ambush, or per-
ished In detail2
Could any human beings be lurking
in the two adjacent isles? was my next
surmise.
We had never seen anything alive
on them--not even wild goats or boars,
and II there were other inhabitants,
the steepness of the rocks, which rose
sheer from the water, and the fury
of the surf that rolled between, for
babe any attempt to cross.
So in such painful surmises, and in
keen watching, l passed the most or
the day alone.
In the afternoon, one by one, all my
shipmates returned to our little head
quarters on the shore, weary and
jaded-torn by brlers and brambles In
the thlckets-and all had the same
tale to tell. They had seen and heard
of nothing save wild boars, wild goats
and sea birds.
Hislop now directed that one OF our
number should guard the hut by night,
and a second the boat, with orders to
hail each other in this fashion:
Boat, ahoy"
"Hut, ahoy!"
This was to insure a watchful look
out; but with all these precautions,
wise and necessary though they were,
our feeling of security and even of
reliance on each other, was gone for
the time.
AS these occurrences excited the i'm
agInation of our companions, some Of
those who watched the hut and boat
by night asserted that when all our
party, save themselves, were safely
lodged and asleep, something like the
figure of a very tall man had appeared
for an instant on the bluffs that over
hung the sea, between them and the
moonlight.
But Of this mysterious parsonage, II
such existed anywhere, except In the
overstrained imagination Of a lonely
midnight watcher, we could discover
no trace during the day.
One night, when Francis Probart
and Ned Carlton were on watch, a
sound like the distant report Of pistol
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-25

though stranger friends, Of her OWL
sex, gathered round her. Her burden
had been too heavy for her, but she
had borne 1t well, and her monument Is
in hundred warm hearts that will
always beat quicker with love and
gratitude whenever her uame Is NEIL
toned or their thoughts revert to her.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-25
Costlr BIblo.

The most costly book in the Royal
library at Stockholm is a Bible. 1t
10 said that 100 asses skins were used
for its parchment leaves. There are
300 pages of writing, and each page
falls but one inch short of being yard
in length. The covers are solid planks.
four inches thick
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-25
A HISTORICAL ANCHOR.
That Of the Cumberland Now on tho
w. II. Macy.

That Of the Cumberland Now on tho
w. II. Macy.
II the port anchor Of the American
ship w. II. Macy now lying at Green
street wharf, could talk It might un-
fold some wonderful yarns The big
but ungraceful mud hook swinging
over the ships bow was once suspend
ed through the hawse pipe Of the Unit
ed States frigate Cumberland. When
1t was made nobody now seems to
know, but It Is more than likely that
Il began It's career Of usefulness with
the launching OF the Cumberland. 1t
was on the Cumberland In 1861 when
the war broke out and probably when
the frlgate disappeared under the wat
ers OF Hampton Roads. Between that
day and the time that the Macy was
launched, which occurred about fifteen
years ago, the history OF the Cumber-
lands anchor IL unknown. "0ld Cum
berland," as the sailors call the big
anchor, weighs about five tons, which
Is nearly twice as much as the average
anchor used by sailing craft. The
stock is sixteen feet long and OF solid
oak, which is as sound today as when II
rested on the deck of the Cumberland.
The ring, through which the cable
passes, Is large enough to admit the
passage OF the body Of full-grown
man, and the fiukes are just three and
q half feet wide. The only signs OF the
anchors past now visible is the name
U. 8. s. Cumberland stamped into the
iron. Some Of the letters are almost
obliterated, but there is enough left
to Identify the anchor
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-25

Nine. Melba, when girl in Austria
lia learned to be q good horsewoman.
an requirement which she has religi'
ously kept ND ever since.
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for my life had been one of roaming
and excitement, afar from old associ-
atoms. But that change! could
even now scarcely realize It. Where
was Dumarcie? Surely he had gone
with the South in this war; And yet
how came she here, nurse In this
Union hospital?
Still in the maze Of thought, raw
her coming back with the surgeon by
her side. The poor fellows on their
cots raised themselves to look at her
as she passed back. and fell back spail-
Ing IL she but glanced at them kindly,
or spoke few words in that wonder
fully calming voice.
The surgeon looked grave as he saw
my arm. lie gave bis orders rapidly.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-05-25

"Isn't Bellies husband old enough to
be her father?" Her father! Why,
nv dear, he's old enough to be'a cap.
tain in the United States navy!"--Phil.
adelphla North American.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-12
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.

Atlanta, Ga. December 9.-Many
circulars have been sent throughout
the southern jurisdiction, Woodmen of
the World, which comprises seventeen
southern states, from it's headquarters
In Atlanta inviting applications for
admission at the rate of 81 each, with
an additional fee of 81 to the camp ply
sician. A circular from the sovereign
headquarters at Omaha is also being
strt broadcast, pronouncing that initi-
alton fees cannot be less than S10 the
regular fee Of the order
Jonathan B. Frost, provisional head
consul Of the southern jurisdiction
says he is III possession of a letter
signed by j. C. Root, sovereign COM
mander of the order at Omaha au-
thorizfng this special offer by the At
Ianta headquarters. Mr.. Frost says,
acting on this communication, he has,
in addition to the offer of reduced
rates, offered a prize of $500 to the 10
cal manager under him who sends in
the largest number OF applications.
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TEI IE CONEsT ENDED.
The Kentucky Election Board issues
Certificates TO the Republican Candi-
dates. q

Frankfort, KY, December 9.-AS s:45
this morning the election certificate OF
william s. Taylor was signed by the
election commissioners and ne was de-
clared to be governor-elect of Kentucky.
The official figures Of the vote flied with
the SECRETARY of state are: Taylor
1874, Geebel 1881.
The operation, which ended for the
time being at least the bitterly fought
guberriatoriaa contest was conducted
in the simplest mariner. The majority
opinion of Commissioners Pryor and
Ellis and the minority opinion of Conn
missioner PoyntZ, were not read.
The three commissioners walked
first TO the Office of the clerk of the
state isupreme court where they flied
two opinions. They then passed into
the office of the secretary OF state.
Clerk Chenault of Tue board Of COM
missfoners read the figures Showing
that the republican candidates for Of
fees on the state ticket had received
the largest number of votes and then
certificates of election were signed at
once, that of Mr.. Taylor being first on
the list.
There were only fourteen persons in
the room at the time, and of this num-
ber- only two were there as spectators.
There was no crowd around the build
ing and no interest was manifested In
the work save by those engaged in 1t.
The three commissioners We're all ap-
parently in good humor, although Com
missioner Ellis and Pryor, who had
done the most work i'm preparing tnelr
dong and elaborate opinion, looked
worn and tired. The certificates, as
soon as signed, were filed with the sec
retary of state, and commissions VIII
he issued to the elected men at once
by Governor Bradley.
Mr. Goebel was apparently In the
best OF humor after being told that MT.
Tavlor's certificate had been signed.
He laughed and shook his head when
asked if he had anything to say: MOI
a thing: I am not talking
when will 70 make a contest?
'I have not decided yet, and i, or
course, cannot discuss when 1 do not
know it myself
The defeated candidate was game
to the last and if there was any lfl-
humor in him nobody knew it but him
self Mr.. Taylor was modest and retl-
cent as usual go
FI expected it, Of course, he Sald.
ssI knew that if the commissioners went
by the law and the evidence rhey coufo
do nothing else than decide tine way
have done"
Commissioner PoyntZ declined TO
sign the republican certificates OF elec-
tion, saying that he stood by the opin-
ion he had rendered and could not con-
lsistently do so. He consented TO sign
the certificates Of the railroad commits
sioners, however.
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Sixty Nee Killed.

Tacoma, Wash. December AIT
1:30 o'clock this afternoon a brief tele-
gram received in this city from Car
bOnado, "a mining town forty miles
from this city, says sixty miners were
killed by an explosion of coal damp in
a mine belonging to the Southern Pa
cific Railway Company.
The explosion occurred just as the
men were preparing to leave the shaft
at noon. About eighty men were in
the mine at the time. AS the mine
filled with fire damp, at once. it is
supposed all are dead. Several hours
elapsed before efforts could be made
to enter the mine. The surviving rela-
tives at once flocked around the shaft,
creating a terrible scene with their
loud lamentations. The mines are
owned by the Carbon Hill Coal Com
pany. They gave work to 400 men and
ihad an output of 300, 900 tons annually
The mines are supplied with every ap-
Iuliance for safety.