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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-12

With Mr.. Pain on the one side and
jects of Her Majesty, it is impossible
to put any Boer-Briton phase on the
street railway controversy
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13
YALE BASKETBALL TEAM WON

The Game With the Hartford Y. M. c..
A. Team Last Night.
The Yale basketball team last night
defeated the Hartford Y. NJ G. A. team
by the score of 20 to 10. The game was
played at Yale gymnasium and it was
witnessed by large crowd.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13

April %, 1887. After an early life spent
| in attendance at the local schools of his
| birthplace he entered the Connecticut
State Normal school in 1857 and gradu-
ated in the class of 1858, teaching in va
rious Connecticut schools for a few
years after graduation. In the fall of
1861 Mr.. Naples went to New York to
teach and remained there until 1877, at
the same time being connected with the
printing business and writing for diff
ferent newspapers and periodicals. In
1871, in company with Judge Whiting
of New York, Mr. Naples established
the Westport Hour, which was moved
year later to Norwalk under the name
of the Norwalk Hour. He resigned at
this time his school connection in New
York.
In 1862 Mr. Naples married Amelia N
Meeker of Westport and four children
were born-Clara, William K, Mary
and James w At the time of his death
he was a member of the F. and A. M
and was prominent in the Masonic Be-
nevolent association and the Norwalk
club. In connection with his journalis-
tic work Mr.. Naples was president of
the Connecticut State Editorial associ-
alton, and had been chairman OF The
executive committee of the National
Editorial association.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13
DAYTON HOOK & LADDER co.

Successful Dance Last Night--High-
wood Firemen Attended.
Some twenty members of the High
wood Volunteer Fire association at
tended the dance given by the Dayton
Hook & Ladder company, given in Old
Union armory, last evening. They also
participated in the street parade given
before the dance by the Dayton com
pany, together with the guests from
the various fire companies throughout
the state, of which there was a large
delegation present The Highwood
boys had the largest visiting delega-
ton in line.
Some time ago a cordial invitation
was extended to the Highwood fire lad
dies to attend the ball to be given by
the Daytons last evening. Owing to a
misunderstanding the Highwood COM
pany received no notice OF the M
tention of their accepting the invitation
and consequently it came as an agree
able surprise when so large delega-
ton from this well known fire associa-
ton appeared last evening at the hall
and they were royalty received.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13
GUN CLUB SHOOT.
Last One of the Season Held Yester
day-Some Good Scores Made.

Last One of the Season Held Yester-
day-Some Good Scores Made.
The last shoot of the season by the
New Haven Gun club was held yester-
day afternoon and it was one of the
most successful of the year.
The shooting continued from / o'clock
until 43o when darkness put an end
to 1t.
The big match of the day was at %
birds between two teams, one COM
posed of Bartlett, Eastman, Stevens,
Karl, Potter, Bristol, Martin, Clark and
Hooker, and the other composed of
Whitney, Claridge, Savage. Brown, Or
ty, Robertson, Benedict, Rosenthal and
Brown. The former team won by the
score of 1872 to IA
On the second shoot the losing team
chose Eastman of the winning team
This time the team that lost first won
bv the score of 1874 to III 1t grew
quite dark and only few birds were
killed by the last squad.
The shooting was very good, and the
following We're some of the larger
scores: Whitney "a, Bartlett u, Gin
ton 81, Stevens 81 Claridge 22
The annual meeting of the club will
be held in January, when the officers
and directors will be elected.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13

| the cobweb pill of the New England
| peasant was easy In Flanders the live
spider is fastened into the empty shell
of walnut and worn around the neck
| of a patient. AS the creature dies the
fever decreases until it Is entirely gone.
This attention to the spider as an
agent is thought to have come from the
epidemic of spider insanity that ran
through Italy at the end Of the four-
teenth century The bite of the Ly-
coas tarantula is supposed to have pro-
duced the epidemic, though it has long
been certain that the creature is per-
fectly harmless. The alleged victim,
however, became oppressed morbid
grew livid and at the sound Of music
would begin a half-maniacal dance,
keeping it up to exhaustion. For three
centuries the ailment existed, spreading
throughout Italy Then it waned and
died, leaving only the "taranteela's
dance as remembrance.
In the United States the southern nee
gro has done a great deal to harbor the
voodoo practices of the old world. In
the backwoods of all the states, hoW-s
ever, -witchcraft and the virtues
of unheard-of animals, insects and re-
fuse matter are extoled, according ia
the enlightenment of the section.
In thousands of communities, there it,
a firm belief that buckeye, or horse
chestnut carried in the pocket, will
keep away rheumatism, or cure it if
the wearer already has it.
1T is believed that for warts the
notching of an elder twig-one notch
for each wart-and it's burial in secret
place will cause warts to disappear
In Pennsylvania the oil of the rattle s.
snakes is preserved most carefully as
lininent especially good for sore
joints and for rheumatism. In procur-
ing the oil the dead snake is nailed
head and tail to board and cut open.
The fat is taken out and laid upon a
cloth in the hot sun, from which the
filtered oil drips into jar. From fear
that the reptile may have bitten itself
the clear oil is tested by dropping d.
portion of it into milk. If it floats in
one globule it is regarded as unaffected.
If, on the other hand it breaks into
beads and curdles the milk it Is de-
ternoined IS poisonous and thrown
away. Skunk oil in like manner holds
a great place among country cure-alls.
Through all these more or less SUPER
stitious agencies has come the present
pharmacopoeia of the physician. With
it have come the water cure, the grass
cure, the faith cure, the mind cure. the
hypnotic cure and scores of similar
schools of practice. These Schools,
are multiplying, too-Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13

To cure a cold quickly-use Crown
La Grippe Tablets. City Drug Store,
644 Chapel street.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13
THE POLITE WAYS OF THE
CUBANS.

| While America is teaching Cuba the
mystery Of practical politics and the
theory of political independence, Amer
icass may find that there is something
the Cubans can teach them. Politeness
| is mate there, and nations that nave
more knowledge of the luXuries OF life
and mole acquaintance with social
amenities need not be ashamed to stop
and take lesson in gentle courtesy
from even the poor and least cultivated
people or the island. Harper's Bazaar
gives a characteristic story, originally
told by an army officer returned from
duty in Havana.
He was sent to inspect the sanitary
condition of a small square, not as
large as an average square in an Amer
lean city. Here, back to back, with
but fifteen feet between each double
line were row upon row of small wood
en- sheds, in some of which lived ami
mails. and In some human beings. APP
preaching the door of one oe the sheds
the officer saw a young man and his
wife sitting down to their noondoy
meal-a solitary dish in the center of
small rough table. The dish con-
tanned rice and a pale green mixture
like pistachio.
When the young man saw the officer
at the door he rose, and with incom-
parable grace bowed and extended the
single plate of poor food to the visitor.
His manner really convinced me that
all the pleasure I could give him the
greatest would be to accept the whole
of his dinner" said the officer.
While the young man did the honors
of the table, the wife stood with pleas
ant dignity acknowledging the presence
of the officer, and by a certain undefin-
able grace of manner conveyed the i'm
preston that she participated in the
invitation given by her husband.
1t is the same everywhere. Havan
travellers tell us that if an American
child is of the party, the natives over
whelm the child with attentions, and
the little bare-footed, scantily-clad ill
fed reconcentrado will run for his own
poor toy-nothing more than scrap of
bright -colored paper perhaps-and with
all his heart force it into the keeping
Of the little ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Com
DaniOn.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13
p w NAPLES DEAD.

South Norwalk, Dec. 12.-Brainard
w. Naples, editor of the Norwalk Hour,
died at his home here tonight at few
minutes before eleven. Death came not
unexpectedly, as Mr.. Naples illness had
been considered most grave for several
DAYS past and the end was thought to
be but a question of a short time. AT
an early hour this evening Mr.. Naples
began to sink rapidly became uncon-
scious and remained so until the end.
The disease was diabetes.
The deceased was born at Norwich on
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13

in Fairfield county in order to secure
his money He always denied his guilt
He was a native of Germany. He was
an applicant for pardon at last week S
semi-annual session of the board. Ex-
Congressman Lewis Sperry of this city
appeared for the petitioner and urged
that he be released in order that he
might return to Germany to die.
Buckholtz was a bookkeeper by occu-
patton at the time of the murder, and
he was well educated. He read a great
DEAL especially from the works of the
German philosophers. Buckholtz was
defended at his trial by ex-Superinten-
dent of Police Bollmann Of New Ha-
ven.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13
PROPOSED LEGISLATION DIS
CUSSED.

At Meeting Here Yesterday Of the
State Business Mems Association.
The State Business Mems association
| held a meeting at the New Haven
| house yesterday afternoon for the pur-
pose of considering the prospective
legislation to come before the coming
session of the legislature. Among the
questions to come up for discussion
We're those of itinerant vendors and the
trading stamp scheme.
In regard to the trading stamps no
action was taken as to legislation as
it was thought that the practice, while
bad, was meeting with a natural death
through the losses of the sorekeepers
who put it into use
The present site legislation in regard
to itinerant vendors was the subject of
considerable unfavorable comment, and
special committee was appointed to
consider the best means of remedying
the laws, the general sentiment being
that the laws of Massachusetts fur
nished a good example of proper re-
strictions for itinerants. The general
committee in whose care will be the
various measures advocated was made
UP as follows: r. II. Whiting of
Bridgeport, P. T. Barlow of Water
bury, John c.. Harbison of Hartford,
]. A. Hyatt of Meriden and x. w.
Mansfield of Norwalk. It was voted
that the meetings of the association
should be semi-annual in future.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13

Trust those who have tried-I suf-
fered from catarrh of the worst kind
and never hoped for clure, but Ely's
Cream Balm seems to do even that
Oscar Ostrom, As Warren Ave, Chicago.
Ill.
! suffered from catarrh; it got so bad
| could not work; / used Ely's Cream
Balm and am entirely well.-A. C
Clarke, S41 Shawmut Ave, Boston.
Mass.
The Balm does not irritate or cause
sneezing. Sold by druggists at SO cents
or mailed by Ely Brothers, SIS Warren
street, New York. oil 3teod1tw
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13
II the Baby Is Cutting Teeth

Be sure and use that old and welI-tried
remedy, Mrs. Winsow's Soothing SyruD.
for chidrens teething. 1t soothes the child.
softens the gums, allays all pain. cures
wind collie, and is the best remedy for diar.
rhea. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
oil MWE &W 1y
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-13
DEATH OF CONVICT BUcKHoLTz.

A 7 7 IIlE
Wethersfield Institution.
Hartford Dec. 12.-William Buck
holtz, a life convict at the state prison,
died this morning after protracted
illness from tubercular consumption.
He had been in the prison hospital for
a considerable period.
Buckholtz, who was forty-five years
old, was sentenced in Bridgeport June
1, 1880, for murder in the second de-
gree. His case attracted much atten-
ton at the time. He killed a German
The age-herald., 1900-06-24

its trusted directory, school and police phrase-of the two towns is admirable. It is in fact immense. Nashville has wired Director Merriam. It's Mayor, its Chamber of Commerce and it's Retail Merchants As sociation bore the expense of the telegram in equal parts The wholesale merchants, however. held aloof Atlanta is also up and doing. All who are not engaged in investi- gating in a personal way its Mayor, are demanding new and enlarged census. The missing fifty thousand more or less, are to be recovered and listed. Atlanta is ready to furnish full quota if Director Merriam will kindly consent to list them--and Di- rector Merriam is a kind-hearted man.
 A second government census will not meet the case. It was tried in Des Moines, Iowa, where there was a tempest in the teapot also The Business Mems Associa- tion took hold of the matter, and the names of $50 persons who claimed they had not been counted was made up. Director Mer- iIdin SuperVlSOr SnOWeu tnat all Ol lHe $50 had been counted except 32, and most of the 32 lived in outlying districts that had not been covered by the enumerators. It was shown in the Des Moines case that there are a dozen ways in which a man can be counted "unawares." Des Moines has subsided, and has accepted for the present at least Director Merriam's figures.
 What Nashville and Atlanta need are not new counts by the Government, but new counts by men of their own selection. This is government, and in this Demo- cratic age self-government is the thing. They need new directory censuses, for of all the various censuses of the century none have proven quite so consoling to lccal pride as counts of that sort.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
Too Many Churches.

A correspondent tells of a town in Maine, having population of 2,0O0, in which there are fourteen churches. each organization having a meeting house, and all but one of them supporting regular services. These churches, on the average, raise little more than s300 year for the preacher, and no one gets more than $500, and but two ap- proach that figure. There are six denomi- nations, and three of these have three churches each in the town. He tells of an- other town in Nebraska, with less than 5000 inhabitants, that has thirteen churches, each with settled minister, and one of these churches has received $75O a year for several years in missionary aid from funds raised mostly in the city churches in the East
 Such facts as these are paralleled in every state and in almost every section of the country; and they force to consdera- tion the question of economy in church af- fairs. In the Maine case a small communi- ty is taxed $7,2OO at least for the support of preachers, there being fourteen where one, or at the most two, would suffice.
 The multiplicity of sects does not ex- plain the Maine case, because there are six surplus churches in the town so far as sects are concerned. A multiplicity of cliques and quarrels is the truer explana- ton in all probability.
 Fewer and therefore more efficient churches seem to be need of the times in rllral communities in this country No other country Is afflicted with so many weak churches-weak, that is to say, nu- merical!y and financially. Money is wasted in the mere support of such churches that could be better expended in home charities or even in foreign missions. The small and multiplied churches are highly deserving and well-meaning, but they involve a waste of money and effort. They are not fin the line of economy. They are not help full to the community. They tax commit nifty without being able to return an equiv- alent. A remedy for this state of things is needed, but no one sees, for example, how the fourteen churches in the little Maine town can be cut down to two, or even to twelve.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
THE ONLY DaIlY REHSPASfs IN AlAsAl
Bishop Winner and the War.

The New York Sun attacks the record of the lamented Bishop Wilmer, because in the military interregnum that followed the civils war he recommended in his dio- cese the omission of the prayer for the President and "all in civil authority" As the President was acting in the capacity of commander-in-chie and there were no civil authorities in the state, Bishop Wilmer thought temporary omission would be best. The Sun, however quotes these words of the Prince of Peace against his position:
 Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you Bless them that curse you and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that talk eth away thy goods ask them not again And as you would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For If ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same And
 
 receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies and do good and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest
 The words that the Sun quotes are as applicable to the one side as the other in the civil strife. They condemn the one as well as they chide the other. The Suns theology does not fit the case.
 The truth is, the good bishop saw that the prayer in question could not in those troublous times be sincerely said in his diocese, and he therefore asked his clergy to omit it for a season. It was an act of man. It was not an act of spite or of treason -or of anything of that nature; it was an omission relating to the times and the restoration of civil authority. The prayer was said by the clergy of Bishop Winners church fully as soon as the minds of men could sincerely say it, and in nine cases out of ten a good deal soon- CT; for "all in civil authority" in this state did not command public respect until several years had elapsed after the war. If prayers should be sincere, then certain ly Bishop Wilmer acted wisely The Sun simply expects too much. It forgets that human nature is human nature
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
War or a Mob in China.

With American troops hemmed in at l Pekin, and American troops fighting under Admiral Seymour to reach Pekin, and an American ship struck by ball from the | Chinese forts at Taku, and American ma | rines battling at Tien Tsin-with all these | things occurring, not to mention the in- discriminate slaughter of Americans in China, it must be admitted that we are on the verge of war, even if we are not tech nically at war with China.
 Until the real attitude of the Chinese government is explained by Minister Con- ger the question of war cannot be decided. If the Chinese government is fighting a mob of Boxers, however powerful they may be, then a state of war does not ex- ist; but at this writing no one in this part of the world knows what the relations be- Boxers really are. The news from Tien Tsin does not express it. The chances are that the Dowager Empress will disclaim the action of the Boxers, whatever her
  If the action at Taku had taken place in any other country it would have been con- sidered an act of war. The ships of the powers went to Taku for the purpose of succoring and relieving their respective le- gations in Pekin. They were known to be in danger. The commander of the Taku forts knew they were in danger, and yet he laid torpedoes in the river collected troops, and cut, perhaps, the wires to Pekin. The relieving force had a right to steam up the river; and when a demand was made for the surrender of the forts at Taku, they opened fire on the ships of the nations. Unless this act of the commander of the Taku forts be discharged, it was and is an act of war-an act of war against the United States as we'll as against Russia and England.
 It is believed, however, that the Chinese government will disown the action at Taku. It is to the interest of this country that it be discaimed, for we are trying | beyond the rescue of Americans in China, to preserve intact the country. It's dis memberment would be a calamity that 1 would indeed stagger humanity. To appor- ton 400.000,000 persons to countries that have nothing in common with them would indeed be appalling. America, Japan and England should be able to prevent such calamity.
The age-herald., 1900-06-24
It Must Be Dollar Gas.

In another column Hon. Frank S. White speaks for the great mass of Birmingham's s citizens when he says that if the Board of Aldermen of this city are seriously inclined to tie up Birmingham's citizens in a thirty year contract for high-priced gas, he is in favor of calling a citizens meeting to pro- test.
 The Age-Herald thoroughly endorses MT Whites views. Birmingham is entitled to dollar gas today. Its citizens should urge it, and should insist that the Aldermen either demand dollar gas from the existing gas company or leave the matter for set clement to succeeding Mayor and Board of Aldermen, to be elected on this issue.