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 GENIUS IS ECCENTRIC.
As Is Proved by some Recent Doing.
 of Actors.

The ancient wearers of the sock and ouskin had many draw backs to con. tend against The strollers who sol emnly performed their parts on the insecure boards of a cart must have ielt at times that they were leaving altogether too much to the imagina- non of the open-mouthed auditors let We have no reason to believe thai they ever cut short tragedy because or these unpleasant restrictions. nor that they rudely drove away in the midst of mutilated comedy. It re- mains for the later-day actor, with ms wealth of realistic surroundings. to flare up over trifes and bare his qulVer1ng nerves before a presumably sympathetic audience Miss Julia Arthur stops her performance and de- nounces the murmur of a ehattering COX party. Actor Richard Mansfield throws up his hands in disgust and rings down the curtain because of a sputtering steam pipe. Perhaps he felt at the moment very much as the oldtlme actor did when greatly an hoyed by the crying of an infant child Breaking off abruptly, he advanced to the footlights and gravely observed: Unless the play stops, the child can not so on.' Mr. Mansfield, however, said nothing-at least, nothing audi 5le to the audience. He taeitly con- fessed his unwillingness to match the ordinary vocal pipes against the va pory sort, and rang down the curtain Genius has always borne a reputation for eecentrieity, but only in later years has it burst through the en- Rironments Of time, and place, and professional obligation. and domi- hated it's chosen field. The musical genius warbles or thrums at will; the actor treads the boards at will. Per haps this independence of action will mark the other professions in time Genius has become, in a measure, a petty autocrat, and as long as there are seryile necks for it to pirouette upon, it may be expected to show stil. further proofs of unpleasant eccen. tricity.
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HOW WE HAVE GROWN.
wonderful Increase in Popuiation and
 Wealth of the United State

The population of the United States which was about 5,000,000 in Washing +on,s time, is now 75.o00, ,000 The larg- sst city in the country then, Philadel- .bia had 6900o inhabitants, now it bas 1900, ,000 or 100000. New York, then with 55.000 population, has 3,50e.- 100 today. Chicago then a hudting ground for Indians, with no place on fhe map until ever a fourth of a cen tury after Washington's demise, has more population now than was be- tween the Potomac and the country's southern line at that time The states of New York and Pennsylvania have each at present many more in- habitants than the entire United States had 100 years ago, says Leslie's Weekly. Tn 1799 the area of the coun- try was 827 ,000 square miles, while 1t is now 3,7G0,000 Its western bound ary. which was the Mississippi then, vas long ago advanced to the Pacific, and has now been extehded to the Philippines in Asiatic waters. It's southern boundary, which was latitude 3i degrees at that time, the northerly line of the present state of Louisiana, has, in the passing years taken in Florida, with that territory's former extension to the Mississippi, and reach cd down to the lower part of the Gulf of Mexico It's northerly line, then the Great Lakes, has, in the case of Alaska, been stretched far north Of the Arctic circle. In the year of Wash ingtons death the receipts Of tne gov arnment were $7,000,000 and it's expen. ditures $9,000,000. In the fiscal year 1898 the expenditures were $700. .0a0 900 and the receipts were slightly ba.7w that mark. The wealth of the ceea, try, which was less than SI,O00, 100000 then, or much below that of the single city of New York. Is $90,000, ,OoO GOO st the present time.
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NEW SOURCE OF oUrTAPERcHA
A German Says the rrees That Produo-
 It Will Grow io the Philippines.

4 German Says the Trees That Produo~
 It Will Grow iu the Philippines.
 In monograph, just published in iermany, it is shown that the Philip. pines are among the few places on earth in which the trees irom which guttapercha is procured will flourish. The value of this statement is not to be underrated for two reasons: One is that guttapereha is an indispensable material for the making of submarine cables and golf balls, the otheI is that the trees in Sumatra and Berneo, from which the chief supply has ht4 terto been drawn are almost entirely ex- hausted. The cause of this exhaus- ton lies in the primitive and destrue- tive methods which were formerly em- ployed for gathering this valuable commodity. T5e natives who never have any thought for the morrow have futh1esely cut down whole forests of trees, so that they might scrape the guttapercha, which is nothing but the sap from inside the bark This whole sale destruction carried on for years has greatly diminished the annual crop, but the discovery that these trees grow and can be successfully culti- vated Tn the Philippines offers hope that new mine of wealth has been found fol American enterprise as soon as the islands are pacifed. While the chief use of guttapercha is, Of course. for the iselating covering of electric wires, large quantity is used for the manufacture of golf balls, for which no other material seems NO yell adapt ed. It's hardness after Naging been submitted to the proper pressure, ana its toughness make it the only golf ball material yet discovered. The amount of cable laid since 1856 is some 4I353 knots, representing cost for the cables alone of millions of pounds sterling, and as the prospects are that during the next fifty years many more cables will be required and laid. the demand for guttapercha is almost un- limited The wealth which gutta- percha in the Philippines holds out to American enterprise is in proportion .o this demand.
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ORIGIN OF THE WIG. :
ai,tory oI Every Nation Mentions Wigs
 Very Early,

Very Early.
 The first wig mentioned in history was made out of goats skfn and was worn by the daughter of Saul, king of Israel. The first artistic wigs were made in the south of Italy for lae Gapiniens, who lived in Apulia. ant were known for the 1uxuries of their toilet. These people were, they say. the first who painted their faces; this they did with the juice of strawberries Xenophon relates that little Cyrus. when he visited Astyages, his grand father whose eyes were framed in blue paint and who wore an enormous wig, threw himself on his knees and Eried: 70. mother. what beautiful grandfather I baye!" The Phoenieian women, who were proud of their hair, having b. 5A ordered by their priests to offer it up on the altars dedicated to Venus after the death of Adonis, obeyed but with murmuring. Soon they were e0nsoled by a Greek merchant who told them that he would give them the means of hiding their bald pates under luxuriant curls In his chariot he had hundreds of wigs of all eoiors. Wigs were in vogue in Rome toward the end of the republic. and so we'll made that, says Ovid, No man could know if his wife had any hair at all before she had given him an oppor- tunity of seizing her by the tresses." <" Teutonie peasants were the providers of blond hair for rich Roman prin cesses, who loved the contrast of it's tlaxen hue with their black eyes, They even had morning wigs. small and tightly curled, of any color, and kept the beautiful fair ones to receive their admirers at night Messalina had 15O wigs to disguise hcrself.-Exchange.
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SILLY VOWS WELL KEPT.
Artist Whose Masterpiece Was Due |,
 an Oath He Teok-

The French artist. Gerieauld vaa determined to allow no distraction to interfere with the painting of his great picture, "The Wreck If the pedusa :" He had his head shaved aEq vowed that he would never allow his hair to grow until his work was done This VOW he religious!S Kept, in spite of strong temptation to break it, and the reward of his heroism was the most perfect painting of his life. story ia told of a young man in E gland a great chess enthusiast, who was sa annoyed at his failure to solve an ap- parently simple problem that he vowed he would neither sleep nor eat until the solution was found. lie shut him. self up in a disused room and was found four days later by his relatives terribly emaciate6 and out of his mind. He spent year in the lunatic asylum as the result of his rash VOW; and the problem remains unsolved. It was for a very curious reason that an old lady, who died few years ago. condemned herself to more than thirty years confinement to her house She had married widower, as miserly as he was nnromantie, and he insisted that his second wife should wear the clothes left behind her by his first wife. The wife was as mutinous as the husband was resolute, and she de- termined that until she could have her own clothes she would never leave ths house-a vow she kept until her death. Woman appears to be at the root Of many eccentric VOWS, for 1t was q ha- tired of the sex that once impelIed a well-known lawyer to swear that he would never speak to woman again as long as he lived Nothing would induce him to see a lady client, and he would never conduct 8 case in which 3 woman appeared ss witness. He never employed a female servant, and deliberately acHt" all his lady acquain- tances. The inevitable result was that the men deserted him, his practice dwindled and he died, less than year ago, alone in a squalid room.-Pitts- burg Dispatch.
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elre week. The Cotton Belt VII
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Nations as Merchants.

America sells three times as much as ehe buys; Germany bdys over $25o.., Poo,oOO worth more every year than she eehs' while Great Britain last year bought twice as much as she sold. uem 09e s}BpommoooB O x2Ia
 ns w 10 IoIauoo Ispun sssnoq SuIspoI
 seQ .pueISuH 'IsassuouvW sssaoH sulspor IxdtosuaW
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that you can not have a pretty home because you haven't lots of money. You must not judge this store by the prices others charge. Don't think you must pay high prices tc get the best. It sn't always necessary. It isn't at all here just at present, We have lots of home-brightness for some one.
 BLUFF CITY
 FURNITURE co.
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worship,nr the Tearru, oniou-

The onion was worshiped by the an
 cient Egyptians. The cauliflower Is & oatrician among vegetables and waa taken from its Cyprus home to Italy and England in the reign of Elizabeth
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Distinction and No pifarence.

Don't you think you're making rather broad statement when you say every pessimist is necessarily mar ried man?" But didn't say that" "0h, didn't you? l thought you did" No. I said every married man Is necessarily 8 pessimist. ."-Philadelphi Press.
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Ruffaloes in AustraIia.

Buffaloes and elephants are by no
 means approaching extinction as rap idly as is commonly supposed Im-
 mense herds of buffaloes roam about the vast northern plains of Australia, but bloodthirsty blacks are also numerous in that region, and buffalo-hunters
 carry their lives in their hands. Also, according to the latest number of the British North Borneo Herald large pumbers of elephants occupy the jun- gles to the south of Sandakan bay. It is suggested that they could be turned into valuable asset for the colony if decoy animals were imported from India and the natives were taught how to construct "kedahs, or trapping en-
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"CHTLDREN OF THE GHETTO. ,

Meesrs. Leibler & Co., the managers
of Viola Allen in "The Christian" James
A. Herne in Sag Harbor" and James
O'Neill in "Yhe Muskateers," will pre-
sent at the Hyperion theater for a two
nights engagement, beginning Tuesday,
January "a, Mr.. Zangwil's well known
play Children of the Ghetto" which is
regarded as one of the most conspicuous
and popular dramas that has been CIV
en- to the public this season. The play
will be presented here with the original
New York and London cast, headed by
Wilton Lackaye, who is recognized as
one of the leading actors of the country.
The play was produced in Washington,
D. c., last September, and after making
fine impressions in Philadelphia, Balti-
more and New York was taken to Lon
don, but did not remain there long,
chiefly because the war in South Africa
has been the means of seriously injur-
ing nearly all the amusement business
in that city. The play was staged by
James A. Herne, whose reputation as
stage manager is well and favorably
known all over the United States The
Children of the Ghetto has the repu
tation of being one of the most pictur-
esque plays that has been given on the
American stage for many years. From
a literary point of view it ranks very
high.
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SARSFIELDS' SMOKER.
First of a Series Given Last Night and
Was Great Success

First of Series Given Last Night and
Was a Great Success.
After the regular monthly drill and
business meeting of the Sarsfields last
night the members held most enjoya-
BILE smoker. This was the first of Sc
ries to be given during the year and was
a great success. Light refreshments
We're served, and some of the members
recited sang, whistled or gave piano Sc
lections. Mr.. Weidig was present with
his monograph, which rendered many
fine selections. Captain Donovan recit-
ed in a clever manner, Quarternaster
Reynolds gave some piano selections
and Corporals Bowen and Donahue re-
cited Riley Phillips singing was fea-
ture of the evening and DR. Kenna con-
tributed to the enjoyment with whist
ling solo.
Further preparations for the ball to
be given on April 16 have been complet-
ed and every effort is being made to
make the affair the most successful
ever given by the company.
There will be no drill of the company
next Tuesday evening on account of the
Junior promenade being held In the
armory. The drill will be held on the
following Thursday.
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ASSOCIATION FORMED.
Naval Officers Made Good Move Last
Night

Naval officers Made a Good Move Last
Night.
The officers association of the Naval
battalion was formed last night and
the following officers We're elected:
President, Commander Averll; vice
president Lieutenant Commander
Cornwall; secretary, Adjutant Inger-
soil, and treasurer, Paymaster Punder-
son. A set of bylaws was adopted by
the association and other business tend
ing to the formation of the association
was transacted
The association includes all the com
miSsioned officers in the battalion, and
is chiefly for the purpose Of bringing
them together. Heretofore many of the
officers never came in contact with each
other excepting on the annual cruise
but now with the formation of the Of
ficers' association, they will be brought
together many times during the year
The drills of the battalion will be
worked up by the association and other
steps for the good of the battalion will
be made. All the officers were present
last night and the meeting was very
long one, lasting until 11:15 O'clock
Regular meetings of the association
will be held on the last Tuesday in
the month of February May and Octo-
her,
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Xranellers' @1rtde.
New York, New Haven and
Hartford Ii. II.

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A''ov "S:VV, $40. $3.50, 1926, x1O:3o A.
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teul' .l:95, 200. $3.50, 500, 1900, *4:17.
f,ov, 'o:lO, 5:35, $50, *7:1O, 1910. s:15
lofldgeport accommodation. 1910. s:15
P. m. Sundays-s4:O5, 1850, xS:0o q. m.
1.oo' x4:So. x6:15. @7:1O. *S;1o. $3.50
1910 p. M ' '''''
FOR WASHINGTON via Harlem
Rlver-~1:05, *11:50 % m. daily,
Poh BOSTON via springheld--*1:1o
$40 ~ll:oS a. M. *1:45. 1852 p. m.
q Emn SID a. NJ, $500 p. m.
pOh BOSTON via New London ana
ioviuence-"2:10. 1920, *11:35 (parlor
sa iii.lieed) a. M, *12:05, *2:47, s4:l5.
100 'o;55 p. m. sundays-.2:lo, 1920
d, m, "l2;O5, %4:55, 1855 p. m.
Y FOR MERIDEN. HARTFORD.
81. n,poEtaaNGFIELD, etc,-+1:10. GAO. 500.
Alo:Io' 3ll;06 a. M, 1910. .1:45. $40, 500.
,o.oa' (e:16 to Hartford), 500, 1000,
LID ito Meriden) p. m. Sundays
l.Io a. m, 1910, *5:52, s:zS D. m.
NEW LONDON DIVISION
for New London, etc.-*2:10. s2.20
,,eo (Guilford acc.), 1908, 11:o5, *l1:35
lparlor car limited a. M, 1905. .2:47.
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AIR LINE DIVISION
For Middletown. Willim.nt, ~
7:45 a m 1o.Es 10 90 Vi IN htic' etc
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town with the vaIla,, $500 a. 4nsu
Willamette wifi Nfid,a,,, 80 anu :,
divisions and q " ID nu nenlni
vile with Colchester hraro,, ~ "
NORTHAMPTON nry1sIon,
For Shelburno Ea,1s T.,,...,. -.
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and intermediate stations-7.sn
and 400 o. m. For Westfield o,,d i,,t+a
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RUBBER TRADE is DULL.


L. Candee e. Co.'S Factory Will Run
Five Days a Week, Half Time.
L. Candee e Co.'S rubber shop will,
beginning next Monday, run on half
time for only five days week. For
some time the factory has been running
on half-tme for six days a week, but
nod, until further orders, it will be clos
ed on Saturday. The shop term for
half-time is ''half- ticket" That means,
for example, that those bootmakers who
have been making fourteen pairs Of
boots day ordinarily when the shop is
running full time will now make only
seven pairs of boots each day for five
days each week. The cause Of this cut
ting down of tickets is attributed to the
weather, which has not been such this
winter as to create a large demand for
rubber boots and shoes. This arrange
ment for half-tme will keep the sixteen
hundred employees busy part of the
time for the present, but it is probable
that If the unfavorable weather for the
rubber trade continues it may become
necessary to lay off some of the en-
ployes. The present schedule will, how
ever, be maintained as long as possible.
Superintendent Ames said yesterday af-
ternoon that snow and wet weather
would probably not cause a demand
such as to benefit the trade much this
season, although such circumstance
would greatly benefit the trade next
season.
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FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS.
Fund to Relieve Widows and Orphans
Being Opened Here

Fund to Relieve Widows and Orphans
Being Opened Here.
10 the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
Dear Sir-At the meeting on Monday
evening Of the w. e. Gladstone lodge,
Order Sons of st. George, attention was
called to an article in a New Haven pa
per to the effect that fund now being
raised by British societies for the wild
ows and orphans of soldiers slain in the
Transvaal was discriminating in its ma
ture. and that the English. Scotch and
Welsh societies were subscribing to
funds for the widows and orphans of
soldiers Of their respective peoples.
1t seems hardly necessary to correct
so palpable misstatement, yet it might
find some believers; so beg you will al
low me the privilege of your columns to
state that the fund is for the widows
and orphans of British soldiers, without
regard to nationality.
To state or to insinuate that any dis
elimination will be shown against the
dependents of the loyal Irish soldiers
who fought so well for Great Britain
and for the principle of mo taxation
without representation" and so glori-
ously upheld their reputation for BRAY
cry in the field, is to do a great injus-
tice to other British sympa thizers, and
is certainly not fair subject to make
political capital from; for, whatever the
causes of the war, surely no right-mind-
ed person would seek to prevent the
charitably inclined from giving to it's
innocent victims. Respectfully yours,
"A MEMBER OF THE SONS OF ST
GEORGE.
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NEARING A MILLION.

Connecticut's Growth in Population
School Census an Indicator
The official returns Of the school emu
meration of October, 1899, have been
compiled and show a gain in children
of school age in the state during the
year aggregatlng 5,100 The total emu
meration shows that ninety-six towns
gain $50 and seventy-two towns lose
Ito. The net gain for the year is 49,
662 This is the increase in the number
of children of school age. In 1890 when
the last census was taken, the ratio of
such children in the state to the total
population was as one to ASP.
The total enumeration for the year is
1874, S17. This, at the ratio of 1890, would
indicate a total population for Connect
icut of 900,054 The chances are that
the total will somewhat exceed this and
that the census of 1900 will show close
to million people for Connecticut.
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LOcalWeather Report.
FOR JANUARY l6. 1909.
Brhef M elhtiom.
High water at noon.

nigh water dl HOOI.
Bargains in shoes at Howarth Bros.
Mrs. Cornwall of this city is spending
b few days with her daughter, Mrs
Oscar Perry on the corner of Green ani
Pond streets. Milford.
The Brotherhood of st. Andrew and
the Daughters of the King of West Ha-
wen held a meeting last night in the
parish house Of Christ P. e. church.
The January meeting of st. Paurs
Church club will be held this evening
and Rev. DIR. Munger will read paper
on 1.-THE Life and Work of Mr.. Moody.
The exhibition of Velox paper at the
rooms Of the New Haven Camera club
will take place tonight instead of last
evening, as has been previously stated.
The women of the First Baptist
church will serve supper at Republican
hall, corner of Temple and Grown
streets, this wednesday, evening at
$3.50 o'clock.
A supper and entertainment will be
given by the Ladies' Aid society of
Christ P. e. church, West Haven, to-
night. 1t will be largely attended, as
the entertainment to be given will be an
excellent one.
Guests present at the banquet of the
Bridgeport division of the Prudential
Insurance company Monday night at
the Atlantic hotel were M r. Everett
superintendent of the Hartford divi-
sion and NJ j. Leonard, superintendent
of the New Haven division.
At the First Baptist church, Bridge
port, Friday afternoon Miss Lucy G.
Stock of this city, secretary of the
State Primary Sunday School associa-
tion, will address the congregation on
topics of material interest not only to
Sunday school teachers, but mothers as
we'll
This evening in Stratford Miss Alice
May Wilcoxson will entertain the
Wednesday Evening Whist club and
Thursday evening the Euchre club
meets at the home of Mrs Charles At
wood of Sutton avenue and the Social
club at the home of the Misses Rogers
of King street.
John Reilly the well known compost
tor, whose wife died of pneumonia and
was buried yesterday, was too i'll to at
tend the funeral. He was taken ill after
his wife's death and is now confined to
his bed at his home, 385h Congress ave-
nue. He is threatened with severe at
tack of pneumonia.
The first advanced pupils recital of
the Dessauer- Troostwyk School of Mu-
sic will be given at Republican hall on
January 81. An excellent programme
is being prepared for the event and the
famous Dessauer- Troostwyk trio will
contribute to the pleasure of the hour
by giving two of their fine selections
for VIOLIN flute and piano.
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COLONEL POST CHOSEN.

Elected President of the G. e. Longley
Company Monday
The stockholders of the C. f. Longley
company met in annual session in the
New Haven house Monday afternoon
and chose for their new president Col
onel George d. Post. Colonel Post was
also elected treasurer and manager Of
the company.
Colonel Post has been associated with
the business in New Haven for fourteen
years and much Of the success achieved
by his firm is due to his able and cease
less efforts.
He is very popular with his employees
and the merchants of New Haven gen
orally, all of whom will approve of his
elevation to the presidency of this inn
portant enterprise