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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-15
WOODWORKING IN THE PHILIP.
PINES.

| lAN
The islands are thfckly grown witt
some of the finest and best hard woods
| in the market, Mahogany grows in
| very many places and is so common
| and so cheap that the native carpenters
| use it in great logs for foundation work
| in the erection of heavy buildings. The
| flooring of all native houses is made
from woods which, If in America,
would be exceedingly valuable. So
much of this hard wood is used in the
erection of the better classes of native
store and house structures that the
buildings are of slow burning con
struction. That is, the overturning of
q lamp or a moderately light fire will
burn itself out before it will ignite the
hard, iron wood fibre. Black walnut is
grown in large quantities all over the
country, and is so plentiful and cheap
that thousands of chests are made
from it and shipped to other countries
These chests are of the ant-proof de-
sign, and the local carpenter trade has
built up quite name for the making
and finishing of the strong little chests
Nearly every soldier buys one as soon
as he arrives to seal up his wooden
goods in a moth and ant-proof box.
Ebony grows here too but there is no
pine.
With all this quantity of valuable
hardwood to handle, the processes of
saving the timber and putting it into
shape for market are of the oldest and
crudest sort. All logs are split by
thanksgiving, and two natives push the
cs,, 10, J~1 ,ocr
a single board Their saws are all old
probably made one hundred years ago
But the cheapness ofslabor for carpen-
tiers makes it possible to work the tim
Der into buildings at a low cost. Car
penters' wages are about twenty-five
cents per day in American money.
There are no machines for planning the
boards, so that as soon as a board is
sd wed from log another set of native
orkmeh go at it with planes, with
which they manage to scrape a fairly
smooth surface on the board after a
quarter of a days labor
All woods for boxes, collins, wheel
tires, wagons, etc, must be cut out by
hand, and every tool used bears the
marks of gerat age. A chisel, hammer .
a saw, or whatever the tool may be, in
variably shows indica ions of about one
hundred years service. Yet with these
ancient tools, the workman manages
to carve out wagon tires. ladder, steps,
handles for brooms, turnings for house
building work, etc. The turning tools
they use are even more than one hun
dred years old. There are from two
to four shops in the average town, and
in each of these the only turning device
viii consist Of 2 handwheel turned by
a boy for driving the article to be turn
ed out by means of a band running
from groove in the driving wheel to
a little grooved wheel on the spindle of !
the article being turned.-Correspon |
ance Boston Transcript.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-15

To accommodate those who are par
tial to the use of atomizers in applying
liquids into the nasal passages for
catarrhal troubles. the proprietors pre-
pare Cream Balm in liquid form, which
will be known as Ely's Liquid Cream
Balm. Price including the spraying
tube is rs cents. Druggists or by mail.
The liquid form embodies the medicinal
properties Of the solid preparation.
Cream Balm is quickly absorbed by the
membrane and does not dry UP the Sc
cretions but changes them to a natural
and healthy character. Ely Brothers,
Sc Warren street, New York.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-15
DocToRs AND wHIsKry

DIR. Goodhart says, with no exaggera-
ton, we fear, that quite young men Of
ten confess to three or four glasses of
whisKey a day--''a poisonous drink 70
them, without the least idea of the harm
that is accruing to them" 1t is obvi-
GUS that such practices are well-nigh
suicidal and that men who indulge in
them, IL they are to be saved from the
results Of their weakness, must be adj
vised without reference to their own
sensations. DR. Goodhart thinks that
medical men are largely responsible for
the degree in which whiskey is used,
He says: 1--WE tell everybody to drink
whiskeS." 1t is serious that so good
and SO genial a judge of his fellows as
DR.. Goodhart should lay at the door of
the medical profession this great re-
sponsibility, but we believe that his
words convey in general sense the
truth. Medical men are too ready to
take the patients tastes and sensations
into consideration when they should as
sumo the entire responsibility of. adj
vice. while in the matter Of the pa
TENTS symptoms they may be too ready
to think that he sufferer can tell them
nothing which they do not know. The
subject of diet-and especially of drink
lis the last subject on which patients
should be allowed to guide the treat
ment Of their cases. The immediate eff
feo,s OF the favo' . ingesta are COM
Portable; the III Its are remote and
Interior ard can be foreseen by the
patient. There / certain times when
the patient may be taken into consulta-
ton with advantage, but he must not
be allowed to dictate either the occa-
sions or the doses of his stmulant, or
disaster may fo,loW.-London Lancet.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-15
TERRIBLE CRAWL FOR SAFETY.

TERRIBLE CRAWL FOR SAFETY
This is a very modest account of what
must have been an extremely hazardous
undertaking, with most severe sufferlng
attending 1.-THE horror Oh the dark
night and the proving mountain lions
adding to the awfulness of the situation
gives one an idea of the courage re-
quired in prospecting for gold in Colo
RADIO, and the danger encountered by the
hunter in the lonely mountain places OF
the Southwest, 1t was sent to frlends
in st. Louis by Mr.. Clyde Hitchcock
from the mining camp in Colorado,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-15
BOSTON HOUSE SERVANTS.
How Much They Are Paid, and tn
Books That They Read.

HOW Much Ihey Are RAID, and the
Books That They Read.
The Labor Bulletin Of the Common
wealth of Massachusetts for February
contains some interesting informa ton
along many different lines. In general,
it lis an effective prosperity document,
as it shows gains along number of
industries, with plenty of work promised
for the future. The bulletin liz also in
teresting to those directly or indirectly
affected by the servant girl problem. -
indeed some of the worst kickers On
that score might get information from
the bulletin which would aid them in
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-15
A BIG DIVIDEND.

A New Haven corporation that has
paid more than twenty-five per cent. per
annum in dividends for the past six
years offers treasury stock for sale for
the purpose of charging it's business.
For particulars address r., P. o. Box
1887. mhS 1t
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-15

TO CURE A COLD QUICKLY.
Take Crown La Grippe Tablets, the
great cold cure, George D. Farovid. GA
Chapel street, City Drug store. t.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-15
PUERTO RICO AND ITS INDUS
TRIES.

TRIES.
Like many of the islands colonized by
Spain, Puerto Rico has been the victim
of a policy so mistaken as seriously to
affect it's industrial welfare. Under
Spanish misrule, agriculture and man.
ufacturing made little real progress
At the same time, it must not Be forgot
ten that the native Incidence of the
Puerto Ricana themselves contributed
largely to industrial depression through
out the island Incidence is as natural
to a Puerto Rican as are spots to a
leopard and as difficult to get rid of. 1t
is something which congress- cannot
change. In his book on Puerto Rico
William Dinwiddie, who knows the is
land thoroughly, says:
Puerto Rico is a veritabe desert for
the poor man unless he goes there with
some definite commission to execute. I
should like to emphasize the statement
it is a good country for the impecuni-
Gus to keep out Of, however ambitious
they may be-"
Puerto Rico needs adequate transpor-
tation facilities as much as anything
else. In 1883 Don Ibo Bosch, a Spanish
contractor received a contract to build
road which would encircle the island.
After a period of four years of desulto-
~ work only one hundred and ten
miles had been built out of the one
hundred and eiglHy-three contracted
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-15
Marvelof 1900
Fine Upright Pianos
$4,000
ONE WEEK ONLY.

Once in lifetime such chance this-not only
to you but We had opportunity like and
may have it again. This phenomenal purchase
could have put in stock and sold the Pianos for nearly
double the and still given you good value for your
.money They not cheap pianos-never made to
sell cheap pianos Choice of mahogany walnut
full ~ ocave three unsons Alto three pedals and
guard continuous hinges sliding desk nicely carved full
iron frame All the essentials all the workmanship of fine
Pianos full rich tone which speaks and only can speak
for itself Only limited number therefore only for lin
tied sale, We wish there were more
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-01
HAVANA SUBURBS.

The Roads, the Villages, the People.
 Excursions into the country districts
 in proximity to Havana are full of in-
 terest and pleasure, no matter in which direction they are taken--more so now,
 perhaps, than they. will be in a few
 months or year or two since by that
 time the evidences of destruction incl
 dent to the late Cubano- Hispano revo-
 lution will have been pretty much eff
 faced. Though not observable on the floor of the United States Senate by MT.
 Proctor of Vermont, yet there are
 everywhere to be seen grim evidences
 of destructive warfare, these but add
 ing to the interest, though marring
 the beauty of what would otherwise ] be describable as an exquisitely charm ! ing landscape. Cuba is beautiful even l when bedecked with snokeless chim-
 neys, fallen walls, destroyed planta- i tions, and burned and uninhabited homes. And Cuba is sorrowfully inter- esting when dotted here and there with | those evidences of state of awful wickedness which threw a non-war-
 loving country into arms against it's earliest ancestral people.
 Tn the main the streets of Havana are abominable. In the main the roads into the country are superb. Nowhere in
 ''the states" are there highways more substantially built or in more perfect order than those leading out of this city long distances into the interior. Spain followed the patterns of other European countries-I have never been in Spain, and cannot, therefore, speak of the condition of it's own roads-in building these highways; they were made to last for centuries. Not even does the Apian way, over which Caesar led his conquering armies, and which has been almost constantly in use from that day to this show better struction, more substantial briging, stronger viaducts or safer culverts than mark the roadway from Havana to Santa Maria, pleasant little summer resort twelve miles back in the hills, which was visited yesterday. The heavy cuts are through solid volcanic rock, easy of grade and sufficiently wide to afford ample roadway, though in many instances the evidence of enormous expense ie apparent. The roads are macadamized and kept in good repair, the bridges show no signs of having had to be overloaded, even the culverts over the smallest water ways bearing evidence Of great sub stantiality and honesty in construc- tion. The cost may have been enorm- ous; Cuba may have been robbed by Spain: the contractors may have made ! themselves prodigiously wealthy at the expense of the people; but the roads and bridgeworlz to be seen in the rural districts around Havana are of char | acter to indicate that the work was not | allowed to be sighted, no matter how great the jobbery. The bikes of Ken | lucky and the beautiful graded road | ways of Western New York are equalled ! if not eXcelled, here. Nowhere is there to be found, better maoadam work or lovelier driveways; nowhere else are the roads for so many miles continuously and symmetrically shaded. Wheelmen
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ONE OF GouGH,s EXPLORATIONS.

l Many and many day ago, on the
 then frontier line of the Valley of the
 Minnesota, in the at that time beauti-
 full village of Mankato, word went out
 that Cough had been engaged by the | local lyceum bureau to lecture on tenn
 perance. Cough came. He was receiv-
 ed by a committee of men who had fought Indians and "secesh," swan rivers, spoiled the virgin forests, opened | new soil, endured poverty, suffered | hunger and never surrendered their be- 1 lief in the right. They escorted him to the opera house and stage
 His speech was slow at first, gestures few, illustrations not many. The viI- lage topers were out in force, and some more decent men for whom women were praying to give over the habit of drink He told something of his own life, of the misery brought by drink, of the laws of self-denial and self-sacrifice He was intense at all times, and this in- teneity bore down upon the listeners until he had made then one with him. self. Even the small village boy inclin- ed' to cat calls and gurgling whistles was silent and there came through the DHlI lO Soullu put the TdW cry of the winter wind from outside.
 He made some slight comment on the condition of drunkards family-the want which came upon them, the loss of self-respect He described the de- gradation of spirit which rested with the habitual thinker and how if that spirit was not destroyed mere signing of the pledge would not redeem. He pleaded for exercise of will power, more potent in affecting reform than all the drugs and medicines in the world. This was but developing the minds of his hearers for a climax.
 Suddenly ho swung one arm high in the air and shouted:
 "A drunkard and his fall to the depths of everlasting hell is like the man who climbs to the top of St, Peters in Rome He is on the very summit of the great dome, the blue sky above and the world far, far beneath. He looks down from his perch, and having nothing to grasp, to hold to, he grows dizzy.
 Every thing is whirlins noW before him. His senses leave him. He is
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A CURIOUS CROWD COLLECTED.
A Man Thought to be Dying on Church
 Street Last Night.

A Man Thought to be Dying on Church
 Street Last Night.
 Pedestrians on Church street near Crown were startled shortly after nine o'clock last night to see a man sudden ly fall prostrate at the corner near Childs' restaurant. The man was cross ing Crown street and just as he was about to step upon the curb in front of the restaurant he pitched forward fall- ing heavily with his face against the pavement. Patrolman Dargan happen ed to be near by and he hurried up to see what was the matter. He found the man lying unconscious and appar- ently lifeless. Dr. Louis $. DeForest happened to be passing and Dargan re- quested him to examine the unfortunate man, who was carried into the Bijou boot -blacking room few doors away. He fosnd that the man was in an epf- leptic fit.
 A large crowd had collected and it was thought that the man was dead. It was learned that he was a medical stu dent named William Lassman. He was taken in a carriage to his room, No. 73 George street.
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MT. Bryan told a good story at the Jackson banquet, one which I am in- formed has never appeared in print. He said:
 Years ago when I first came to Me- braska I was young, poor and anxious to get ahead. Thayer was candidate for governor, and the opposition, find- ing that I could talk a little, engaged me to make speeches against him. I took to the work like a duck to water. I made fifty speeches against Thayer ands often said some pretty severe things against him. I am willing to admit that since then I have often thought that I said things about him which I ought not to have said. But I did, and that was all there was to it.
 "Thayer was elected. After he took the governors chair he was called to be toastmaster at banquet to which I was invited and at which was set down for speech. I did not care to go to that banquet. I did not wish to meet the governor. I remembered all that l had said of him. and felt cheap. had also no doubt that he knew what I had said and would show that he did when we met face to face. But went, and was given place near the governor, and sat there through the early pro- ceedings quite uncomfortable.
 Finally it came time for the gover- nor to call upon me. He rose from his seat, with the programme before him and slowly said:
 MT Bryan-Bryan.'
 Then he slowly turned his eyes upon me and addressed me:
 Do you speak or sing?
 That was as much as asking me what my turn was, and inwardly I shrivelled to the size of pinhead. I never felt more humiliated in my life, but lived through it, and that is all I ever heard from Governor Thayer as to what he thought of my campaign speeches against him. ."-Chicago Times Herald.
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SENATOR HAWIEY'S ACTION
III the Matter of Pension for Mrs
 Wright.

Wright.
 Washington, Jan. S1.-Senator Flaw ley endeavored to bring up in the senate for favorable action the bill granting q pension to Mrs. Louisa M. Wright, wid- ow of Major General Horatio G. Wright of Clinton, The bill had been reported by the senate pensions committee with an amendment cutting down the pro- posed pension from $1O0 month to $50. General Hawley contended that the cir cumstances warranted the hundred-dol- lar pension, but strong opposition came from Senators Gallnger and Berry, and the matter went over for future &C., tion.
 Congressman Sperry has offered a bill placing Colonel James M. Whittemore, U. s, A., on the retired list, with the pay of higher grade. MT. Sperry has also offered a petition from citizens of Middletown, headed by ex-Governor Coffin. to promote the efficiency of the revenue service.
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BROTHERHOOD OF THE UNION.
Bridgeport Brothers Entertained Last
 Night


 Elm City circle No. r. Brotherhood of the Union, laat night held a smoker in the lodge rooms in the Courier building and entertained about fifty members Of the order who came up from Bridge port. Grand Chief M. A. Kinney of Bridgeport and William G. Cummings, organizer of the local lodge, were pres ent as was also the father of the order, George Gugenheimer of Bridgeport, who addressed the lodge on the objects and principles of the order. Past Supreme Exalted Washington Phelps of Phlla- delphia was also present. A programme was rendered as followe: Solo-Mr Lawlor. Dance--J. Terban. Solo--G. Raynor
 Dance--Mr. Coball.
 Piano solo---F. Berger. citation--George Horan. Selections-Elm City quartette.
 The local lodge was organized Decem- Der 6 and last nights gathering was the first social meeting. There are now sixty-five members, and fifteen candi- dates are ready for initiation The or der was established about four years ago and now has membership of 2,SOO. It is a fraternal insurance organiza- ton.
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CONNECTICUT LUMBER DEALERS

CONNECTICUT LUMBER DEALERS
 The Connecticut Lumber Dealers as- sociation will hold it's annual meeting in the Young Mems Republican club Friday. Members of the association from all over the state will attend aEd considerable business of importance will be transacted. In addition officers for the ensuing year will be elected and the reports Of the present officers sub n1itte6
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YOUNG REPUBLICANS PLAY
 WHTGT

The whist players of the Young Mems Republican club held their regular weekly meeting in the club parlors last evening. There were eight tables in all and very enjoyable evening was pass ed. The club will play a match game with the Bridgeport Whist, Chess and Checker club in Republican hall to-mor- row evening.
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SANITARY PLUMBING

And House Drainage Speciality.
 THOMAS F. MEAGHER
 Successor to The Robert Morgan Plumbing dealer in Gas Fixtures, Burners. Globes etc.; Gas Fitting, Steam and Hot Water Heating. Estimates given. Special care in testing by q pressure apparatus the sani. tary condition of the traps and drainage system of buildings by smoke or peppermint under pressure. at Q nominal cost. Tele. phone call 2o7-l2. jy1 1y
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swooning. His feet slip. He is off ths dome. He is in the air. He is falling
 Down!
 Down.
 Down!
 ITO the earth benea. h and the ruin of himself.
 Thus descends the drunkard-- . Down! DownI Down!
 'To the fires of hell and the ruin of his soul!"
 The whole exclamation was accom- panied with such use of his right arm and body as to bring the fearful de- scent immediately to the eye of the mind
 A shudder ran over the audience. The sobs of women were heard. Men felt uncomfortable. Men and women are living to-day who still feel the power of that illustration, uttered by lips long since cold.-Chicago Times Herald
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WHEN MIR. BRYAN FELT SMALL.
 MT. Bryan told a good story at the Jackson banquet, one which I am irl- 1 formed has never appeared in print. He
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-15

Egypt is the land of graves, and the
whole energy of the people, that could
be spared from keeping life together
'Ias devoted to death. The mightiest
tombs in the world, the pyramids,
We're raised upon the deaths of multi
tudes of toiling slaves. The hills We're
honeycombed passages and galleries,
chambers, pits, all painfully eXcavated
in honor of the illustrious dead, and
sculptured and painted with elaborate
skill to make them fit habitations for
his ghost. Wherever he looked, the
Egyptian beheld preparations for the
great turning point of existence. The
mason was squaring blocks for the
tomb-chamber the potter moulded i'm.
ages Of the gods, or bowls and Jars,
to be placed in the grave for the pro
lection or refreshment of the Ka, ex-
hauSted with the ordeals of the Under
world; the sculptor and painter We're at
work upon the walls of the funeral
chamber, Illustrating the scenes
through which the ghost was to pass,
or depicting the Industrious life of the
departed. The very temples which
cluster along the levels beside the Nile
We're, in sense but vestibules to the
tombs in the hills behind. The sacred
lake, now the weedy, picturesque haunt
of waterfowl, was then the scene of
solemn ferryings of the dead. The
temple walls were covered with the
terrors of the Judgment to come. The
houses of the living, indeed, were built
of perishing mud; but the homes of the
dead and the shrines where supplica-
ton was made to the gods who ruled
their fate, were made to last forever.
On these, all the strength, the science
and the artistic skill of the ancient
Egyptians were cheerfully lavished.