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| several weeks while he was nursed to
 health and vigor by the Ellises The mi | ner told them how they might find recrea- | tion and profit in hunting through the | canyons and foothills of that region for
 pay dirt and showed them where he be- | lived there were indications of gold-bear- | ing gravel.
 and wife tramped up and down the gulches in Alpine County, looking for specks of gold, but all without avail. They
 abandoned seeking riches in the placers
 and confined their attention to their little
 ranch One afternoon as Mrs. Ellis was
 driving home the family COW she was
 seeking stones to throw for tho amuse-
 ment of the dog. She saw in the coarse
 gravel dark, dull yellow stone and
 picked 1t up
 q knew from the moment I picked 1t up," says she, that l had found gold. because it was so heavy, but as I had
 never seen a real nugget I was afraid
 my husband would laugh at me-
 The nugget has never been utilized in gold working and Is still kept for exhbi-
 tion purposes. It Is phenomenally clear
 and the size of a croquet ball, but very
 rough and battered by rolling and tum-
 bling in the water for ages. Mrs. Ellis got
 s2250 for this find.
 The biggest nugget found in California in the last thirty years was picked up in Sierra County. It was melted less than twelve years ago by a New York gold smith after it had been used far and wide for exhibition purposes In August 1869,
 F. A Parish, A. Wood, J. Winstead, r.
 N L. Cheering and Harry Warner were
 partners in the Monumental claim near Sierra Buttes, in Sierra County. In the
 last week of that month they discovered
 a gold nugget which weighed 1593 ounces, troy. It was sold to R. B. Woodward Of
 San Francisco. who paid for it $15,5OO for
 exhibition purposes When it was melted
 about $9800 was realized.
 Although Plumas County, away up to-
 ward the Oregon line and near the Modoc lava bed. is one of the richest counties in California in minerals and has made a
 dozen men millionaires of several degrees. it has yielded few valuable nuggets. The largest was found by a Chinaman near the mouth of Nelson creek. It was worth s2SOO A miner in Elzabethtown, Archie Little, discovered a s260O nugget, and Hays and Steadman found one above
 Mohawk Valley near the county line, that weighed APO ounces and was worth ss7OO. 1 Eldorado County. where the gold was | first found in California, yielded the first | big nugget found in that State. In 1850 | a 121-ounce chunk of gold was dug out | with common spade from the bank of | the American river, near Lawson's bar. | It brought S19. 400 Another was found | near Kelsey. in the same county, and it sold for s4.7OO In 1867. Pilot Hill. a boul- der of quartz gold, yielded $S000. This,
 with several small nuggets. was taken | from the Bowlder-Gravel claim near Pilot l Hill post office.
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From the Denver Gold Nugget.
 There is an exciting incident connected with the finding of the Oliver Martin mug get. the largest ever found in California. which sold for $22, 700 after it had earned s10,000 from exhibition in various parts of the country Although a young man. Oli- yer Martin was little better than a tramp. He spent his time in doing odd jobs and drinking whiskey around the mining camps of Yuba, Tuoloumne Fl Dorado and Calaveras Counties. He didn't even own a pan much less a rocker or long tom. One of his best companions was John Fowler. who was equally shiftless and dissipated.
 One night in November, 1854, the two were on their way from Benton Bar over the Grizzly Mountains to Camp Corona, the spot made famous in literature by Bret Harte. The fall rains had begun and the streams were running high. On the night of the 17th, almost stupid with drink, the two sought refuge in a deserted miners hut. During the night heavy rain peculiar to the mountain ranges. set in. The water fell in torrents and came pouring down the precipitous mountain sides. The narrow canyon where Martin and Fowler lay asleep and drunk was soon filled with rushing waters, which threatened to sweep away the old shack of a building. They were awakened by the water pouring into the cabin and sought to escape by climbing the step sides of the canon Both men were swept back into the flood and were carried down the stream in the darkness. Martin was washed into clump of live oaks and managed to lodge, clinging to the branches until morning. but Fowler was drowned. -s.
 Next day, November IS. toward noon, when the waters had subsided, Martin secured pick and shovel and started to bury his dead companion He selected a sandy spot at the base of the cliff and had not dug down two feet when he came upon the nugget. He made several tests
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tuted with great yigor. Among the em- ployes was the young half-breed Indian. One evening when the men had gone to their tents for supper he went down to the creek to wash his overallS. The sluice and creek were so dirty that he could not see clearly beneath the surface. After spreading his overalls on the sluice boards to dry, the Indians eyes were at tracted by big yellow rock in the muddy stream. He got down into the water and rolled the rock over several times. He had never seen gold in any other form than tiny flakes or bits the size of pin heads, and it never occurred to him that gold could be found in any such mass as that he was rolling in the stream He concluded that lie had discovered some new kind of rock and went to his tent ts sleep in peace.
 Next morning when he returned for his overalls he examined the curious rock again. There was something about it he coul1 neither understand nor define. and he called the foreman to inspect it. The trained eye of the experienced miner at once recognized the precious nugget and the camp went crazy over the find. As the story spread hundreds came long dis tances just to feast their eyes on the lump of gold and to boise it in their hands. It weighed sixty-fve pounds and filled peck measure. The firm sold the nugget to the Adams Express Company for S17,400, and presented each of their employees in the camp S100, giving the half-breed $500 for his luck in making the find. The claim was afterward worked over carefully, but while 1t yielded a mod crate amount of dust, no other nugget larger than pea was found, which Is another proof of the miners axiom that gold is where you find it."
 Two years ago man was literally kicked into a fortune. Louis Roderigo was discharged by the superintendent of the Mistle Shaft mine Every day for weeks he hung around the mine imploring to be taken back. Finally he was kicked off the grounds. He procured a pick and shovel and grub enough to last him for a week or two and started off prospecting in Bear Creek, in the Pine Ridge, some seventy five miles northwest of Frisco. Three weeks later he returned with 5000 in gold dust. which was banned out in less than a fortnights actual work
 Among the mining exhibits In the min ing department of the Worlds Fair at Chicago was nugget of pure gold found In Alpine County by young woman. The history of the discovery of this chunk Is cherished by every woman in the gold mining regions in California. Harry E. Ellis and his wife went to the State in 1874 from Philadelphia because of Ellis , serious lung trouble. They went to live up in the mountains of Alpine County, miles from any neighbor. They got their livelihood by hunting and cultivating a few acres of land about their lonely cabin. Grizzled old gold miners, with their jack asses laden with grimy camp outfits and blankets, came by the Ellis cabin fre- quently. One of the men lay i'll there for
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BY JOHN p. FOLEY.
Copyright, 1901. Cosmographic Col

Copyright, 1901. Cosmographic Col
 The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, with respect to the validity of Dakota divorces, ob- tained under certain conditions, forcibly calls attention to a question which IS fundamentally interesting to the well being of society, and even the conserva- tion of the State itself, In no country in the world there so many diyorces granted annually as In the United States; nowhere else within the pale of civilZa- tion is the law on this subject such tumble of inconsistencies, loopholes and subterfuges. The statutory grounds for the dissolution of the marriage bond are scarcely the same in any two States in the union, although decree legally ob- tained in any one of them is considered as of binding effect in all the others This is about the only uniformity connected with the entire wretchedly contriyed sys- tenn According to the decision that has, just been rendered by the highest judicial tribunal in the country, there are num- bers of men and women now living to- gether as husband and wife. between whom that relation has no legal existence. They comprised that class who were ille- gally divorced in Dakota and elsewhere, and who subsequently, contracted mar riages with other persons. How many or how few these persons are it would be next to impossible to estimate, but there Is no doubt that they are far more nu- merous than Is desirable This is not civ ilization; 1t is barbarsm in a moral point of view, and the laws under which it is made possible should be swept out of the statute books. tfa
 The only adequate remedy for the evils that necessarily flow from the diverse agglomeration of enactments on the sub ject which are digniied with the name of laws Is to invest the Federal courts sole- Iy with the power to grant divorces. This Is not a new idea, but 1t Is the best plan that has been suggested to accom- plish the reform that is becoming more and more imperative with the rapid in- crease of population. There is no good reason why the grounds on which divorce may be obtained should be different in different States. In fact there is every reason in the world why they should be identical. All the States have the same social system, the same civilization, the same interest in the preservation of nor als. the advancement and progress of the race. This grant of power, cannot, of course, be made without an amendment
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to the Federal Constitution and subse- quent legislation by Congress. The time has passed when the spectre of centrali- zation can be successfully raised against such proposition. By the best and most thoughtful men and women in the coun- try, the necessity of the reform is recog- nized, and they would heartily support any man or party that should advocate it. Whether the list for causes for di- vorce should be enlarged or restricted Is not now the question. There will be plen- ty of time to discuss that point later on. Uniformity is the great desideratum for which all should earnestly contend in the interest of the family and the home, the foundation stones of the nation.
 The subject is one of transcendant im- portance. Is the prevalence of divorce a symptom of national decay? George
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 Brussels, Irish roint and Battenberg Lace Curtains-not a pair in this i'm mediate lot which is worth less than $6-most of them worth much 4 OO more, at. f.OO $2.00 Lace Panels 100
 Renaissance Curtains, finest French faces, exceptionally elaborate-$15 to $17.50 is the actual value of O.HS these-at... ... OsSO
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Bancroft, in his history of the United States, speaking of the New England Pu- ritans says "of divorce have found no example" Gibbon. in discussing the con ditions that dragged the Roman people down to ruin, put these philosophic obser- vations record on his imperishabie pages: "When the Roman matrons be- came the legal and voluntary compan ions of their lords. a new jurisprudence was introduced, that marriage. like other partnerships, might be dissolved by the abdication of one of the associates In three centuries of prosperity and ccrrup- ton this principle was enlarged to fre- quent practice and pernicious abuse. Space limitations forbid the extension of the quotation. It will be found in chapter A. In it is contained great lesson. Shall we learn it?
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 All Silk Satin Taffeta, Liberties. Louisines, Satin, Stripe Taffetas, Warp Prints, Satin and Grains, Metallique Taffetas-large selection of fancy rib hons in all the new combinations h to 6 inches wide-at, per QOo yard... =. =. ...............OcO
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Too Much Reform.

From the Baltimore American.
 Cannibal King-What is the occasion of. this mutiny among the troops?
 Commander-It is your reform move ment. Your Majesty. They object to being deprived of canned missionary
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One of the phenomenal features of this sale is handsome, genuine renaissance lace panel, 30x55, for sash curtains, doors, etc., positively I % worth $2, at... ... =. s....... l'Oo
 You know by the price that the maker took loss, but that's your gain. These amazing lace curtain bargains warrant us in believing that we will break all selling records on Monday.
 Swiss Trambour and Brussels parlor Curtains. These curtains purchased in the regular way would cost s5. Think of the great saving 9 GS
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An exceptional lot of high-class nov city Ribbons, especially adapted to millinery, neck ribbons and the new wide sash, in splendid line of colors, m the new imported and domestic plain and fancies-5 to 71s IOc inches wildcat, per yard. ..... fOC
 Black Satin back finished edge Vel vet Ribbon, No. bolt of IOo
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
MIL FO F p.

Nov 19.-Fred c. Fowler of Stamford has been visiting friends in town. Stella lodge, Shepherds of Bethlehem give a dance in Mechanics hall Wed. nesday evening.
 Frank Langlois has accepted a posi- tion in the office of the Bridgeport Y M. c. A.
 Harvey Brinsmade of East River street has accepted a position with J H. Birge, the coal dealer.
 MT. and MT. Oliver s. Thompson, who were married last week, are located on Pond street.
 Dr. A. T. Futile is building a barn on his premises on Broad street.
 Sterling Fox of Plantsville, Conn.,, is visiting MT. and Mrs Irwin Fox Mrs. w. s. Putney has returned from visit with friends in Workers, N. V.
 Nathan Stowe of Jersey City has been visiting friends in town
 MT. and Mrs William Merwin, Mrs. Gillette and MT. and Mrs A. D. Merwin left New York Sunday for Florida
 Mrs. J. B. Benjamin, former Mil ford resident, is visiting MT and Mrs c. A. Smith
 MT and Mrs. Ebert N Clark have been entertaining Mrs. Marguerite Walker of Charleston, S. C., and the Misses Dorothy and Mildred Adey of New York city.
 Mrs. Harry Bristol has returned from a visit in Shelton, Conn.
 Mrs. N, s, Pond has gone to Pelham. N. Y., where she will spend the winter with her son.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
YESTERDAYS PRACTICE.
Sharp Work at the Field for the Foo
 ball Team-Will be on the Alert ft


 Sharp Work at the Field for the Foot
 ball Team-Will be on the Alert for Tricks.
 The practice of the Yale football team yesterday afternoon was sharp, the varsity men lining up for a twenty minute secret half against a strong scrub team There was also ten min- ute open half, The players on the first team were quick and they had no l trouble in advancing the ball. deSaulles and Weymouth were the only varsity men not in the lineup. ExCaptains Rogers and Mcbride put great deal l of life in the team and when the var l sity men take the field in Cambridge next Saturday they will be in shape to play the game of their lives. The coachers are playing the men in a careful manner lest some injury should ] befall a star player. Glass and Bloom CT were on the college side and they aided the scrubs in scoring twice. Yes- | terday great deal of attention was ! paid to breaking up the Harvard for 1 nation, a sort of q tacklesback that they have worked very successfully against many teams this fall. If Yale can master the play 1t will mean a great deal Saturday. The scrubs have been taught the play and yesterday they gained q few yards on the varsity. Coach Stillnlan has taught the men to be on the alert for tricks this year, and so far the varsity have not been too good in stopping these kind of plays. The scrubs have fooled the varsity many times on simple tricks and for this reason the coachers are fearful of the foxy Harvard football strategists springing many a surprise on the men from New Haven. Tricks go just about once during the game and sometimes more than once. The Yale team has fallen back on very few trick plays this year, but it is we'll known that they have few that are yet to be shown. They are good ones, too, 1t is under stood.
 A secret practice will be held this af- ternoon, and it is expected that two fifteen minute halves will be played.
 Tomorrow the scrubs break training with an elaborate banquet and in the afternoon they will have the regular bonfire which always takes place on the last day of practice. This fire consumes all the old gear, wearing apparel and other implements of war that they have used during the season.
 Wilhelmi was out again yesterday but did not do much work. His knee is sore and it is practically decided that he will not get in the game Saturday. If one of the backs is compelled to leave the field, either Rafferty or one of the promising freshman backs will take his place. Pa" Corbin 'S8 and Chamberlain, captain of the '9S eleven were the new coachers to arrive.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
COLONIAL DANES MEETING.
Mrs. Franklin B. Dexter Honored With
 the Presidency.

the Presidency. The Colonial Danes society of Con necticut held it's annual meeting yester day morning at the residence of Mrs
 Denning Duer of 691 Whitney avenue. | The meeting was called to order at i l o'clock by the president, Miss Julis | Davenport of Hartford. After listening | to the opening address by the presiden 1 the various officers read their reports 1 for the last year. This was followed
 by the annual election of officers, whicf | resulted as follows:
 President-Mrs. Franklin B. Dexter ! of New Haven
 1 First vice president-Mrs, Edward H Perkins of Hartford.
 Second vice president-Miss Edith Woolsey of New Haven. Managers for three years-Miss Su- san M. Day of New Haven, Miss Flor
 ence T. Gay of Pennington, Miss Mary P. Hinsdale of Winsted, Miss Mary K. Talcott of Hartford, Mrs. Franklin c. Whitmore of Hartford. Managers for two years-Miss Edith
 Kingsbury of Waterbury and Miss
 Grace Allen in place of Miss Annie B,
 Jennings of Fairfield. and Mrs. Walton
 Ferguson of Stamford, resigned.
 Manager for one year-Miss Clara L.
 Bowman of Bristol in place of Mrs J. c, Day, resigned.
 Delegates to Washington.-Mrs. F. E. Dexter, Mrs. Francis Goodwin, Mrs. F.. K. Hubbard, Miss Martha R. Driggs and Miss Emily H, Whitney; alter mates. Mrs. J. Mason Hoppin, Miss Edith Kingsbury and Miss Elizabeth Ferguson
 The meeting adjourned at 145 On leaving the house they were taken by two special cars to the New Haven Country club, where a delicious lunch was served them.
 At o'clock the party again boarded the cars and returned to their homes.
 The society has no local branches, but the officers are chosen from the different parts of the state. There arc about 256 members in all, and about thirty-five in this city. Among those present at the gathering yesterday were Mrs. Arthur Wheeler, Mrs. Sara T. Kinney, Mrs. George White, Mrs. Henry Champion, Mrs. Franklin B. Dexter, Mrs. Eli Whitney, Mrs. Den ming Duer Mrs. Frank s. Porter, Mrs, Godfrey Dunscombe, Mrs. J. Mason Hoppin, jr., Mrs. William Palmer, Mrs. Williston Walker, Mrs. F. G. Beach, Mrs. Clara Bowman of Bristol Mrs Julia Davenport of Hartford, and about fifty others.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

The national board of directors of the Knights of Columbus held an adjourn ed meeting in this city yesterday There were present members of the board from all parts of the United States The work of the session included the finishing up of business that was left over from the meeting of the board held here in October.
 An important announcement made yesterday by the national officers was that the order now extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts. New councils have been instituted at San Jose. San Francisco, Los Angeles and at Cripple Creek, Col. Heretofore the order extended as far west as Denver, Col, and St. Paul, Mnn., and south in New Mexico.
 The directors also considered the matter of the new schedule of rates for the order.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
LADIES' AID SOCIETY

| Of the Presbyterian Church Will Give a "sock Sociap' This Evening. | The ladies' aid society of the First Presbyterian church will give a "sock social'' this Wednesday, evening, No vember 20. Very unique invitations have been sent out, the paper on which they are written being cut to represent a sock and is worded as follows: This little sock I send to you Is not for you to wear.
 Please multiply
 Your size by two
 And place within with care As many cents
 As twice your size
 Will be immense,
 You know.
 If when you walk
 In number tens
 You are thought
 To go. Fen if you come Tn unkempt hose
 We'll hasten at your knock And darn with yard Your heels and toes. Now don't forget
 Your sock
 Enclosed with each invitatio is a lit- tie silk sock for the pennies Supper will be served from 6:3O until 8 D. m.. after which time an interesting pro- gramme will be rendered, consisting of music, tableaus and recitations
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
MARY CLAP WOOSTER CHAPTER.

Fair Daughters of Connecticut to En- certain Their National President, The meeting of Mary Clap Wooster chapter, D. A. R., held at the Cover nor's Foot Guard armory yesterday af- ternoon at o'clock was one of much importance, Arrangements were per fected for the reception and entertain ment of Mrs. Charles Fairbanks, the president general of the National So- ciety of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution on December is. Mrs. Fairbanks is the wife of Senator Fair banks of Indianapolis She will remain in the city for several days as the guest of Mrs. William H. Moseley at the New Haven house.
 At the next regular meeting on the above date Mrs. Fairbanks will, for the first time, speak to the Connecticut daughters. The occasion will also be that of the first visit of a national president to the state in an official ca pacity.
 The regents and other officers of the many chapters in the state will be in- vited to be present. This will bring to the city at least 400 ladies from all parts of the state. The meetings will be held in Warner hall At the con- clusion of the meeting a reception will be given in Mrs. Fairbanks honor, at which all will be given an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the na- tional president.
 At yesterdays meeting Mrs, s. c. Futile of East Haven read a very in- teresting paper on the invasion by the British of Fort Hale. Another pleas- ant feature of the meeting was the singing of glee club recently organ ized by Mrs. s. S. Thompson and com nnSed nf members of the chantnr
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
REAL ESTATE RECORD.

Deeds Filed in the Town Clerks Office
 Yesterday.
 The following deeds were filed for record in the town clerks office yester- day:
 Warranty deeds-Frederick J. Kings bury, Jr., to Frank w. Pardee, 20 feet Humphrey street; Charles F. McNeil to George L. Peck, 40 feet Lombard street Quit claim deeds-Odd Fellows Mu- tual Aid association to George c. Bradley, 20 acres in the Annex; George L. Peck to Louise J. McNeil, 40 feet Lombard street; John E. Lomas ct al to Marion l.. Platt, 63 feet Fitch street