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HE LOST MILLIONS.

F. Recluse Brother a Famous Cana
/ dian.
Bridgeport. Aug. 24.Augustin Nc
Donald, the eccentric recluse living on
Fairfield avenue, has had q distinguish
ed visitor for several days-Sir William
Mcdonald of Canada.
Sir William recently presented 5000
600 to educational and other institutions
in Canada and he would establish Au-
gustin, who is his brother in a life of
luxury, but the racluse refuses to ac-
cept help.
He says he prefers to enjoy his quiet
life here where he has resided for four
teen years,
Augustin Mcdonald is man of edu-
cation and was once practicing lawyer
in New York city. He lost a fortune of
several million dollars during the war
of the rebellion when his cotton planta-
tions were destroyed.
He sued the government and after a
number of years got Judgment but it
was eaten Up by counsel fees, and be-
coming melancholy he sought the life of
reclusa and came to this city, where
he has ever since resided, and declines
to return to society and its frivolities.
His distinguished brother, despite
every importantly aud inducement held
out, was forced to return without him.
Some time ago Mcdonald wandered
away erom home while suffering from
temporary alteration of the mind, and
was found In Bellevue hospital
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RELIGIOUs SERVICES.

First Church of Christ Scientist, 15G Or
| ange street.-Services: sunday, 1880 u. M;
| Wednesday, 80 p. N, Reading room open
daily 2:30 to b p. III. Monday evenings,
| Christian Science literature for sale. tt
| First PRESBYTERIAN Church, elm street, be-
| tween Orange and State streets, Rev.. Il. A.
| NJ. Brown. ID. d., pastor = PREACHING at
1890 and 1880. Bible school, II III. Y. T.
s. c. H., G;30. Seats free TT
The Church OF the Redeemer, Orange
street, corner Wall Watson Lyman Phil
| lips, ID. d., pastor; Thomas g, shepard, or
gtlnist and choirmaster. ut 1880
q, IN; Sunday school c,i at - M aouns
6 $50 D. m. AT ''Welcome Hail." Oak street,
Sunday school at 3 p. N. Gospel meeting
at 1880 p N. tt
Grace NJ. 10. Church. Howard avenue and
porlsea street, Rev. A. j. smith, pastor;T-
! the pastor. Sunday school at close OF morn
, ing service Young peoples meeting ut
G:3O D. H. Seats are free and everybody
welcome u
with First Baptist Church morning and eve
ming mt the usual hours. Preaching by pas
tor. Geo H. Ferris Bible school at - III.
Y. T. $. c. f., $50 Mission school, 43o.
First Baptist Church, Rev. Addison Moore,
pastor.--union services WIN calvary Bap-
I tist Church, corner Cnapel ana YORK strtets.
Morning and evening services.
First NJ, f. Church, corner Elm and Col
lege streets. Rev, Gardner S. Eldrige, pas
tor.-10:3O preaching by the pastor. Even
ing service and Sunday school are omitted
for the month of August EpWorth league
6:30 p. N.
United Church: Rev. r. T. Munger, pas
tor.-Morning service at 1920. y. 7. S. c.
e. In the Chapel at d:30 p. m. Tuesday eve
ming service at 7:45. The September Com
munion will be upon the second Sunday of
the month.
Trinity Church on the Green's n. M,
Holy Communion. 1920 a. M, Morning
Prayer and sermon by Rev. Ernest Mar
ret. I p. m, Evening Prayer without Ser
mon.
All Saints Chapel, Howard avenue.-10:30
a. M. Morning Prayer and Sermon by Rev.
Charles .. Bcovie, Evening Prayer ut
8 p. IN.
Davenport Church. Wooster Square, Rev.
Geo. Foster Prentiss, pastor. - Pastor
breaches at 1880 a. m. Summer Class fol-
lows morning service,
Dwight Place Church. (Copgregatlonal)
Rev William White Leete, ID. d., pastor. =
30 a. m preaching by Rev. Charles II.
Epson, pastor of Plymouth Church, Milford,
Conn. In connection with the morning
worship. Il M, Bible school session. 6:30
p. M, general meeting, to which all are In
Vited, under the charge of the Y. p. S. c. E.
Plymouth Church, corner of Chapel street
and sherman avenue. the Rev. VIM. W.
McLanc, y. D., pastor. Divine worship and
a sermon 1920 a. m.
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SUICIDE BY LAUDANUM.


1 Jacob A. Mohr Found Dead in the Elm
City Hotel Yesterday Morning.
Jacob A. Mohr, a married man forty
years of age of "a Norton street, was
/ found dead at o'clock yesterday morn
! ing In the Elm City hotel at 203 Water
street, and circumstances indicate that
! he had committed suicide by taking
4 laudanum.
| Mohr had been at the hotel since
/ Tuesday. He purchased the poison
about o'clock Thursday afternoon at
the drug store of J. j. Hogan Of Water
/ street. George Throm, proprietor of the
hotel, saw him last shortly before S
o'clock Thursday. His death was dis
covered by a chambermaid, who enter
ed his room about . o'clock. The bottle
was found on the dressing case Near
1 it was an unopened letter with a post
! mark showing that it had been deposit
ed in the mail Thursday. Medical EX-
aminer White has the letter. It was
| in response to one sent few days ago
by him to his wife. 1t in she had plead
ed with his WIFE to come and see him.
She had upbraidad him for intemper-
ate habits. He had written other letters
! before in which she had replied that
unless he had abstained from the use
of LIQUOR that she would not live with
him
He left his home on Norton street a
few weeks ago after quarrel, and at
that time he had about $500 with him.
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CRUELTY TO AN ANIMAL.
Colt Played Alive-Humane Society
InterpOSas

Colt Played Alive-Humane Society
Interposes.
Hartford, Aug. 24.-Secretary Miller
of the Humane society has a series of
photographs at his office which shows
one of the worst cases Of cruelty to
animals which was ever brought to the
attention of the society. The photo
graphs, which are six in number, give
different views of four year-od colt
which belonged to Wilfred Brown of
Toland, and were taken a day or two
after the animal had been whipped by
its owner.
The side, head and flank of the horse
shows the welts raised by the whip,
while the flesh on the animals legs lit
terally hung in shreds The photo
graphs We're taken from all possible
points of view and all showed marks of
the horrible cruelty to which it had been
subjected. The horse, which was in fine
condition prior to the beating, was kill
ed by order of the society. Brown was
prosecuted and is under a bond of $500
for his appearance before the superior
court
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ACCIDENT IN CRAWFORD
To New York Lady-Her Arm Broke
in q Collision

To New York Lady-Her Arm Broken
in Collision
By collision with another team while
out driving In Branford on Wednesday
Mrs, G. Gilbert Ellington Of New York
city, who is spending the summer with
her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Honse of
Moose Hill, was painfully injured. She
was driving home from the house of her
son. William IT, Ryer of Brushy Plain.
and was turning the corner near the
Quinivan place, when Edward Palmer,
driving from another direction, coIlided
with her team, Mrs. Ellington was
thrown to the ground and her arm was
broken, besides sustaining other injur-
les. She was taken to fler sons house
and DR.. Gaylord attended her. She will
be laid up for some time.
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L1TrLEF1ELD GOES FREE.
The Charge WIS Illegal

Middlatown, Aug. 24.--John Littlefield,
hotel keeper of Old Saybrook, Conn,
who has been in jail since August IS
his body having been attached by the
order of John Shea of New London, who
claimed that the defendant owed plain
tiff 500. was brought before Judge FL
mer of the superior court this morning
in haheas corpus proceedings. and was
discharged on the ground that the Of
fense alleged by the complainant and
for which Littlefield had previously
been arrested three times, was illegal
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WANTED
EAPER FENCED dressmaker would like
WORK, Sl.Zo per day for the dun season:
willing to go to shore or nearby resorts
au-o up Nj. X, This Office NJ.
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WANTED,
COMPLIMENT woman as cook and laund-
ress, in small family.
au21 II SO YORK SQUARE.
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5aAanIs.

One cent word for each insertion.
hve cents word for full week, seven
times.
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FOR SALE.

TWO FIRST-CLASS DWELLING HOUSES
containing all modern conveniences, sani-
tary plumbing, etc, all in complete repair,
located en- York street. VIII be sold at a
low price, etc.
BOX 624 Z. u.
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CuAIRvOyANr.
Securities f0r SAFE.

$4,000 United Illuminating Company per
cent bonds due February, 1910. IA
$4,000 Denver & Southwestern Railway 3
per cent. bonds. due December, 1929.
$4,000 Connecticut Lighting & Power Coz
5 per cent. bonds, due January, 1880.
$1,000 Norwich Street Railway per cent?
bonds. due October, 1923.
$1,000 New London Gas & Electric Cont
pany 5 percent. bonds, due April, 1927
$1,000 Danbury & Bethel Street Railway
5 per cent bonds, due May, 1914.
$1,000 Richmond Beach 4 Railway Cons
pany per cent. bonds, due July, 1920.
80 shs New Haven Gas Light Co. stock.
CLARENCE (. THOMPSON & SONS
INVESTMENT BRoKNRS.
1O2 Orange Street.
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WANTED,

WANTED,
WORK by young. man % years Of are.
Wen acquainted IN the city and with
good references. Address
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WANTED,
YOUNG man in drug store; must be thor.
oughiy reliable, neat; one who can draw
du@4 IL d., This Offira
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WANTND,
nouH large rooms on second floor, with or
without conveniences; must be GOOD iocn.
ton. Address 1870
aul0 II b. p, Courier Office.
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ON Bishop street very desirable fiat of
five rooms and bath, set range, etc, only
SIT per month. FREDRTQUE r. LEWIS,
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BAN IA Ruff SALE REAL ESTATE.
On September 3. 1900, at Room /, S2s
Chapel street, New Haven, at ten O'clock
in the forenoon, ! will sell at Public Auc-
ton to the highest bidder the equity in the
following real estate being part of the es-
tate of Charles Mann bankrupt:
Land and buildings situated in New Hn-
ven. bounded North by Quinnpiac river so
feet, East by land now or formerly of heirs
Of Sabina Allen, South by Ferry street so
feet. and West by the highway.
Said property Is subject to mortgages for
81, 500 and taxes on list of 1899.
Terms Of sale made known at time Of sale
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au22 % % y 20 s4-Gt Trustee.
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A CHOICE Colonial Sideboard Address
COLONIAL, General Delivery =. o.,
au24 3tp New Haven, Conn.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-29

Maharajah of Dumraon insisted at first on a
picture representing him seated on the Srouho
and surrounded by all his courtiers. Persuaded
out of that desire he sat well for quarter OF
an hour chewing betel nut the whole time.
The mpossibility Of getting sittngs resulted IN
the artists dressing stout old serving Inad III
the Maharajahs coat. hat and jewels and paint
ing from her, the ancient dame shaking with
laughter the heavily trimmed hat raklshly
cooked on one side and the keeper Of the jewels
guarding them with drawn sword in a corner OF
the room 1t was a troublesome piece OF "orh'
the painting of that portrait but when IL was
finished came an attendant a. in the Arabian
Nights bearing q sack of rupees so heaVy
that the Englishwoman could not lift 1t without
help The Maharajah of Dholpore was young
and handsome but eXasperating sitter as
he of Dumraon. He would seldom appear at
ALL and when he did it would be only for hVe
minutes so that the lady had to paint his face
in snatches and his figure from primitive lay
figure made up of cushions dressed in his clothes
for none of his servants or any friend were al
lowed to wear them Very dstracting were the
circumstances under which her work for this
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to have the billiard room kitten removed before
he came down to play Il cannot vOuch," adds
Miss Merrick for the truth of this story, but
1 was told that one of His Excellency's voy-
ages home he asked to have the cat removed
when he came board the ship, and stranger.
not knowing who he was, said to Lady Rob
erts, Don't you think that little gentleman over
there must have been a mouse in former
state?' I was not told what Lady Roberts
said" Another celebrity who appears in these
pages is Henry NJ. Stanley. whose portrait the
fair artist painted in Cairo on his return from
Darkest Africa" We are inclined to believe
that her sketch in words is as characteristic
as that in oil.
Take care of my eyes for Staney's eyes are
known all over the world" was one of the first
requests he made; and when the sitting was
over, and had left, he placed the portrait and
a large looking glass side by side to compare
and made notes of the alterations he would like
and when L next came, solemnly presented me
with piece OF paper, on which was written
Nose not straight enough, forehead too low
hair too gray" etc Sometimes he was quite
silent, at others most entertaining, relating his
experiences; but l must say he rather an
impatient sitter and when he had given me
about eight SttingS of an hour, he suddenly
said he could spare no more time he had
already given me enough TO write hundreds
of pages of his book. l must therefore do his
hands from imagination and hang his trousers
over the back of a chair to do his legs. l
fought hard to get him to sit for his hands, eX-
planning that there was as much character in
them as in a face; but he was obdurate and
said as l evidently had no imagination, | must
get some one else to sit for them; so 1 suggested
his black boy Sali Finally l got the hands of
old soldier into the picture. One day a cor
respondent of a Belgian paper came to inter
view him during sitting, making many i'm
pertinent inquiries about his antecedents; it was
then saw the fash from the Stanley eyes. and
heard him make the perfectly justifiable re-
mark: IF people would only try and discover
what Stanley has done and not who Stanley
is, they would be saving themselves much time
and trouble"
Some of the Oriental dignitaries whose por-
traits Miss Merrick painted offered as many
difficulties the famous explorer The fat old
New-York tribune., 1900-07-29

potentate was accomplished; the women Of his
Zenana amused themselves by throwing stones
at the artist, putting out their tongues at her.
smearing her painting and grimacing and gig
Cling at her.
The Rajah of Bhinga dressed for his portrait
in a richly embroidered black satin coat. and
complained that the trimming on the back
wasn't repre- sented. and that he could see only
half the embroidery on the sleeves. whereas it
went all around. The artist was forced to ex-
plain that if he wanted a portrait of his back
she could turn the canvas around and paint it
there, but it impossible to do back and
front on the same side. He was also grumpy be-
cause, being painted three-Quarter face he
couldn't see both his fine pearl earrings and he
much wished to have the missing one shown
somewhere on his cheek. or people would think
he had only one-but here Miss Merrick drew
the line of complaisance. Another Maharajah
objected to having any shadow put one side
of his pictured face-hs wives. he said, would
think his skin was darker one side than the
other. At Hyderabad the Nizam-an odd little
man who continually rolled his eyes up into his
head. showing only the whites-remarked that
ne should be very pleased to be painted. but it
must be done without any sittfngs. And he
thereupOn hastily hid himself behind the portly
figure of his Prime Minister. The quaint picture
of the five children of the Maharajah of MysOre
painted in a queer room where every chair
the artist sat on played a different tune. and
where figures of lions roared when their tails
were pulled
Like every other traveller in India. our author
quotes various funny specimens of baboo Eng
lsh. 81 saw she says. "a letter lady had re-
ceived from a babOo. the master OF a railway
station, where she was in the habit of sending
an old coolie woman daily for her ice. 1t ran
thus: Madam, we request you Will not send
unto us your handmaden of ice. for she is
Garrulous female and cannot tolerate her
checks on repeating this to a high official. he
told me he once had a letter commencing Your
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SUNDAY, JULY %, 1900.

The enterprising policy which is giving US
every year better and better bookmaking is
admirable on so many counts that we hesitate
to find fault with it Yet it undoubtedly needs
to be critically examined from time to time.
We have often pointed out the disposition Of
the designer of book covers and title pages to
cross the line that divides art from eccentricty,
legitimate adOrnment from irrelevant decor:l-
printer which could we'll be spared. In an
uIiucky moment he has discovered the charm
as it seems to him-Of italics, and as he can
appeal to more than one nOmnally respectable
precedent he proceeds to italicize a whole
preface though it may run to fifteen pages.
This may be artistic, but to the reader it is
abOmnahle. 1t is as bad as printing Il book
entirely in capital letters. Another practice
equally obnoxious is that of printing quoted
titles without inverted commas. There lies
before us a recent volume of essays in which
the titles of nearly a score of Shelley's lyrics
are pressed together in one paragraph, in the
body of the authors text without a single
quotation mark. Here the use of italics would
have been natural and proper; in fact, sucn an
eXpedient is preferable to the employment of
marks of quotation. But in the absence of
both typographical indications the hudded titles
are confusing to the reader, and make, more
over an ugly spot on the page.
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Your camp follower, like your cOurtier, is
always more on his dignity than the general or
the king. 1t is so in literature The artist who
initiates Whistler is more artistic" than the
master himself: the student of stvle is a more
captious stckler for what he believes to be
the rules than the greatest master of StyIe
For this reason it is douhly gratifying when
an important participant in some literary move
ment comes forward to cOunteract the esoteric
dlcta Of the small fry. Thus Fiona Macleod is
one of the initiatorS of the Celtic movement
and one of its most important figures. But in
a recent essay on Celtic" she says: Il am
somewhat tired of an epithet that in a certain
association, is becoming jejune through use
ana MISUSE She mentions some of the charoc-
teristcs which in her opinion distinguish Celtic
Hterature-"intimate national vision: q svift
emotion that is sometimes a spiritual ecstoSv
but sometimes is also a mere intOxication of
the senses; peculiar sensitiveness TO the
beauty Of what is remote and solitary" and
notes other elements which, however. we need
not cite here For the main point is not that
Fiona Macleod gives us Il more authoritative
definition than any of her followers: if is that
she denoUnceS their disposition to take "CeItic',
too seriously, undertaking or neglecting other
things. There is no law set upon beauty"
she says 1T has no geography" She does
not hesitate TO put Catullus and Theocritus
above Bae HoneymOuth ana Oisin. In short
Fiona Macleod has common sensc-thp one
thing needed in the Celtic movement"
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Most Sinking ExceIlency.' instead Of distin-
guished.'"
There is an agreeable mixture OF fun and
seriousness in Miss Merrick's Egyptian renlniS-
cences. She delighted in the picturesque natives
especially the quick witted and all too beguiI-
ing donkey boys. she quotes pretty woman -
telling her that when once riding a donkey from
the Sphinx the donkey boy. looking at her very
inteutIy, remarked. You berry beautiful. you
berry sweet face" Much battered and pleased
with this discriminating donkey boy she was
mortified when he followed up this observation
with: Dis berry good donkey. Dis donkey name
Lily I.angtry; he berry beautiful he berry sweet
face" OF different nature is the artists story
OF two friends who went elephant shooting in
Africa-a story which has been told before. but
which she gives to understand, was corrob-
GRATED for her by the sister Of the survivor.
On their way up the Nile one bought a mummy
and sent it home to his friends IN England. they.
not liking to keep it in their house, sent Il 10 q
museum, where it was unrOied. Inc Two went
with their shooting. and the purchaser or the
mummy tTampled to death BY wounded
and infuriated elephant; his friend buried nm
then and there IN the SAND, but put As many
heavy stones as he could collect in the grave. 20
prevent the body being desecrated by jackals,
etc. a few weeks aft%rWar1 the mother OF MS
friend wrote and asked him 70 bring the body
home: he returned to the grave. only 10 find a
few bones lying here and there all over the
l.
chest was found tablet and written in hero
gIyphiCs: Cursed be the man who moves my
bones: he shall die young and Of a violent death.
and his bones shall be scattered 10 the winds
The artist tells some amusing stories about
her early professional days-of the fun meaning
of one of them she IS perhaps unconscioEs-
When my picture Primrose Day was hanging
in the Academy I happened to see Mr.. Rasizin
Cvhom 1 had met before standing ia 'front.' of 10.
and could not resist asking him % give me
criticism. I was dressed all in gray, and after
looking intentIy at the painting he turned and
said. Whose idea2' I answered. Mine He -e-
Piled: Charming. charming, charming, -l-
though gray is delightful in a costume. you may
have little too much Of it in a picture At
AIma-Ta Iema as teacher she represents I'm ne
light of severity itself. singing incompetent -r
careless students with ruthless comments "A
house painter would call himself ar-.et
before YOU" was one OF his observations She
recalls the story of a supper once given 10 the
students of the Academy schools whereal -5e
Curator in his speech, told them that the
fowls they had eaten were Royal Academy
fowls. having been entirely fed on the bread
that was swept up in the antique school AFR
the students had rubbed out their chalk d-aH
ings with it This reminds her of a time wh-n
she was staying with woman who kept chick
ems On sitting down 10 luncheon her hostess
burst into tears, sobbing This is my dear H---e
sDeckIay hen"