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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28
WHAT HE WAS THERE FOR,

'Traveling on the steamer Northum- berland on the Rappahannock river last week." said the Rev. F. B. Bagby of the Ninth Street Christian church. T fell in with group of ministers on the up- per deck, and soon we were swapping stories. The eccentricities of the fa- nous evangelist, Sam Jones, proved 0 prolific topic. The Rev. MT. Butts. a Methodist minister from Gloucester county, said that the only time he had ever known Sam to be disconcerted was at H., Va, where he had been called to conduct union revival The first night of the meeting the pastors of the different churches were on the platform and crowds filled the pews. All were looking for something sensational and were not disappointed. Evangelist Jones arose, turned to the Methodist preacher, and said:
 Brother S., how many members have you in your church?'
 ""Three hundred was the answer.
 How many are willing to pray in public?'
 About doZen.'
 "'What is your sa1ary?' Five hundred dollars
 Then each minister was called in turn and interrogated upon the same points, revealing the fact that the amount of salary received by the minis ter and the number taking part In the services was wofully small in compari- son with the size of the congregation.
 Well, said MT. Jones addressing the ministers, but with sidelong glance at the audience, if had such a mean, measly lot of people in my church, you know what I would do? I would get them up in pen and send off and get a hound dog and set him on them, and say: Sic 'en1, Tige; sic 'en, Tige.'
 Excuse me, Brother Jones' said the Methodist minister, rising and stepping forward. but that is just what we have done. We have gathered the people to- gether. Now, Sic 'em, Sam; sic 'em, Sam"
 If Mir Jones was not himself the bal ance of the evening, it was probable that he was thinking of the hound dog g Washington Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28
JOHN GILBERT & SON,
 Tel. 1898. eis Chapel st
COMMITTEE ON STREETS.

The Committee on Streets will meet In Rooms 10 and Il, City Hall, Thursday, the following matters will be considered:
 Petition of Beondie Roggiero for permis- sion to erect post and sign in front of No. 313 Congress Avenue.
 Resolution de inquiry into the present con dition Of the East Chapel and Commerce Street naYements and the best remedial measures therefor.
 Petition of J; E. Smith, ct al., for curbs Fifth Street, and Sixth Street adjoining Bayview Park. sls
 Petition of Patrick seaddim, ct al.. for q erosswalk across filling Street, on the south side of West Carlisle Street.
 Petition of Jules Waas, ct al, for con- crete walk on the north side of Judson Avenue. between Winthrop Avenue and Porter Street.
 walk across Greenwood Street at Gilbert Avenue E
 Petition of John W. Hine, ct al, for cross walk on Whaliey. Avenue at Philip Street. of Prospect Street. between Edwards and Highland Street.
 Petitions of P. L. Harkin, ct al, for curb ing and concrete walks on the Monroe, Pop Avenue in front of the property of the \. for the Shore Line railroad so called.
 Petition of Alderman Foote. ct al., for concrete walk on the east side of Lenox Street, between Oxford and Clifton Streets
 Petition of W. A. Eldridge, ct al, for crosswaIks on east side of Lenox Street, across Amer and Oxford Streets.
 Petition of the National Wire Corporation for grading and repairing of Fa1rmount Avenue. .s4
 All persons interested in the foregoing are notified to attend and be- heard thereon without further notice.
 Per Order, 4 Is f WILLIAM TRuEMAN, Chairman
 Attest: JAMES B. MARTIN
 a26 St Asst City Clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28
GRAND CIRCUIT RACES.
Unprecedented Racing tn the S1o,O00
 TrotttM9 Stake.

Providence, R. T., Aug. 27.--sensations continue to develop at the grand circuit meeting at Narragansett park and if the present record lasts Dan Patch will probably break the worlds record next Friday. It was the Roger Williams $1O,OOO trotting stakeT to-day that smashed all precedent. It :. is still un- finished with five heat winners and all have broken their records. Old time horsemen say it is the grandest race they ever saw. The first four heats all broke the stake record of 2:0s 1-2 and the slowest timed the record of the fast est horse in the race About ten thou sand people were loath to leave until darkness necessitated postponement until tomorrow. It was governor 8 day and His Excellency Governor Kim ball saw the races from box in the grand stand. He was attended by his staff in uniform.
 Scott Hudson's blind horse Rhythmic ! 2:09 IA was picked to win the rich purse but after reducing his record to | 2:OS 3-4 the brown stallion has only one heat in six. Dulce Cor, Roy Mill 1 ler's brown mare, has won two heats and got a mark os 2:03 1-2. the new stake record. Alice Carr won the first
 heat in 2:09 IA, new record for the mare.
 ] Nutbearer, the Hubinger gelding, took
 the fifth heat, reducing his record from i 2:13 1-2 to 2:10 3-4.
 l It was @ killing race. Five heat win- | ners started in the sixth heat and the
 race was between Wentworth and Nut 1 bearer, but both horses broke in the
 stretch and Dulce Cor won from third position. The race will be called at l 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
 The unfinished race from yesterday
 was decided when The King got the odd
 heat and won first money. The 2:05
 pace was fast but Audubon Boy 2:O3 IA
 outclassed the field. He won in 2:O4 IA
 and 2:04 1-2, faster than the records of
 any of his competitors.
 | The Roman won the 2:18 trottins
 stake, reducing his record to 2:09 1-2. i! Driver Benson was fined $100 for laying
 up the first heat. Sensational time was
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28

he boasted of being able to decapitate man or woman with a single blow Of his saber. For fourteen years the of ficers and subjects of the African king knelt before him as slaves, not daring to look him in the face; and with wave Of the hand he consigned to
 dungeon, or to death any one who dis pleas sed him. He committed suicide in 1920. Suffering from partial paralysis, he heard that some Of the generals had revolted and were marching to attack
 him, He had himself put into a rum
 and pepper bath and rubbed by his at- tendants until he felt "good as new"
 for the moment. Then he ordered his people to assemble and seated himself on the throne in his dressing gown and the curious hat he always wore. But
 presently he became so supplied that he fell forward on his knees, before his own court; and this so mortified him that he withdrew to his chamber and
 shot himself with silver bullet. His
 waithful followers immediately sacked
 the palace of all it's valuables: while
 his wife and daughter wrapped the dead king in hammock and fled with 1t to the citadel of Laferriere, where his tomb may be seen surrounded by
 high walls. The citadel is about two
 hours ride from the palace, on top of a
 knoll, several hundred feet above the
 sea. The walls of the fort are twenty feet thick and of great height; and from their dizzy height hundreds of
 people were thrown to their death, by order of the black king. It took six teen years to build the citadel. with it's
 arsenals and storehouses and to mount
 the several batteries, one above an- other, with the largest kind of odnance:
 and 1t Is said that so,OOo laborers per-
 ished in it's construction, driven ito the utmost by their cruel over-seer.
 FANNIE B. WARD.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28
THIS CITY REPRESENTED

At the Reunion of State Law Makers in
 Bridgeport.
 With propitious weather to greet them the gentlemen who represented their re- spective communities in the Connecti- cut general assembly during sessions of that body for the past five years and in the constitutional convention as- sembled at Pleasure Beach, Bridgeport, in reunion yesterday. There were in the neighhorhood of 300 in the assem- blaze. The brief period prior to the serving of the dinner was devoted to a general discussion of the political situa- tion.
 A. F. Gates of Hartford, chairman of the state central committee, was very much in evidence, and in an interview expressed himself as being well satis-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28

made in the 2:14 pacing class when eBdworth, Jr., hitherto unknown, won two straight heats easiyl, both in 2:06 1-2.
 Tomorrow Prince Alert 200 3-4, champion pacing gelding of the world, will start in the free for all pace, the first free for all of the year. There were five entries The summary: 2:13 -Trotting-Purs $1,000-(Con.
 oiiided1
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28
VETERAN ODD FELLOWS.

The State Association's Outing To-day.
 The Veteran Odd Fellows association will hold their summer outing to-day at the Sea View house, savin Rock The members are requested to meet at the Rock for their dinner, which will be served at the hotel at o'clock. There will be no special car from the city, so the members can go down at any hour they choose. J
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28
THE SINGLE TAX CLUB.

The New Haven Women's Sngle Tax club will hold a meeting at 4os Edge wood avenue tomorrow (Friday) even- ing at 8 o'clock, when plans for Henry Georges birthday will be decided upon. All who are interested are invited to at tend. Gertrude Truernan, the secretary has issued the call for the meeting.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28

Dark Waters.-Reporter-I describ- ing this new drinking fountain would you say sthe water issues from an orr nate pipe in a little stream or jet ?''
 Snake editor-It's just Schuylkill wa ter. isn't it?
 Reporter-Yes.
 Snake editor-Then you'd better say "a little stream of jet."-Philadeiphi Press.
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fled with the present outlook for a suc- cessfuI campaign in the fall

7HSNx t1tV " PtNk5SHke cessful campaign in the fall.
 ''The republican party is in excellent shape" said Mir. Gates. 'and think the prospects are bright . Among the prominent men present were Acting Governor Keeler, the Hon. John H. Light, Comptroller Chamber- lain of Meriden, and Judge Cleavelands of New Haven. The New Haven gen. Etlemen present were John O. Shares, Jeremiah F Donovan. F. L. Averill. E. W. Potter, Phelps Montgomery, Charles Page and A. McC. Matthewson.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28
2:o5 Class-pacing-Purse s1. Eco.

2:05 Class-Pacing-Purse S1. .500. Audubon Boy. ch h, by J. J. Audubon
 Flaxey, by Bourbon Wilkes, Hudson Dariel, b m, A. Mcdonald. ..g......... Fred s. Wedgewood. TO h, Geeers. =. Riley B, blk h, Erwin. n............. Royal R. Sheldon, blk 2, O'Neil. .......
 Time 2:o4R, 2:04k. s,
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2:14 Class-Pacing-Purse S1,00o. adWorth Lr.. b h, EhY RedMorth

Bedworth. Jr., b h, by Bedworth, ,
 boWser ''.........: s.............. l Liyewood, br g, Hayden ............. ? Buck Thorne, br g, Snow. ' Home Circle, b g, Nukcols. ........... 3 Dewey H., blk g, Miller. r..............e 4 60 See, D 2, Proctor. .:............... 5 George Wilton, oh g, Gillies. ........., 6 Alice Holmes, blk m, Allen. .......... d
 Time 2:oeh, 2:06k. .:
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Class-Trott,ng-Purse s2.5on.

2:1S Class-Trotting S2,50O. The Roman, b g, by Mckinney
 Wanda. by Eros, Benson ..... 4 i 1 1 Wilque. b g, A. Mcdonald. ...... 1 33 3 Alice Russell, b m, Hudson. .. 2 2 2 2 Austin Boy, b g, Lewis: ........ 3 My Chance, ch h, Crowley. ...... 5 54 5 Time 2:11N, 2:101h 2:O91a, 2:10A. Z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
WILL RECESS TILL NOV. IA

Scranton, Pa. November 1.-The arbi- tration commission which is engaged in settling the differences existing between the anthracite coal operators and the mine workers, decided today while on their tour of the wyoming valley to adjourn next Thursday until Friday November A. when the taking of testi- mony will begin in this city.
 The first four days of next week will be taken up in inspecting the mines and mining towns of Hazelton. south to the end of the hard coal fields. Chairman Gray said tonight that the object of taking recess of one week was for the purpose of giving both sides suf- ficient time to prepare their cases, and also to give the members of the com- mission an opportunity to examine the issues.
 The commissioners feel that the ques- tlons involved are so important that any haste may work an injury to either side of the controversy. When the hearings gre begun week after next, it is the in tention to have the miners who are con- sidered the plaintiffs, to submit their case. The CT individual operators will also be given an opportunity to be heard, as well as all the larger coal companies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
Few People Know How Useful 1t Is In
 Preserving Health and Beauty.

| Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the safest and most efficient disinfect- ant and purifier in nature. but few real ize it's value when taken into the human system for the same cleansing purpose. Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of it the better; 1t is not drug at all but simply absorbs the gases and impurities always present m the stom- ach and intestines and carries them out of the system.
 Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, drinking or eating onions and other odorous vegetables.
 Charcoal effectually clears and im- proves the complexion, 1t whitens the teeth and further acts as natural and eminently safe cathartic.
 It absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels; 1t disinfects the mouth and throat from the poison of catarrh.
 All druggists sell charcoal In one form or another, but probably the best char coal and the most for the money is in Stuarts Absorbent Lozenges; they are composed of the finest powdered Willow charcoal, and other harmless antiseptics in tablet form or rather in the form of large, pleasant tasting lozenges. the char coal being mixed with honey.
 The daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition cf the general health, better complexion. sweeter breath and purer blood, and the beauty of it is. that no possible harm can result from their continued use, but on the contrary, great benefit
 A Buffalo physician in speaking of the benefits of charcoal, says: T advise Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges to all pa tients suffering from gas in the stomach and bowels, and to clear the complexion and purify the breath, mouth and throat; I also believe the liver is greatly bene- fited by the daily use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents a box at drug stores and although in some sense pat ent preparation. vet I believe I get more and better charcoal in Stuart's Absorb ent Lozenges than any of the ordinary charcoal tablets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
MRS. MARY RAMSEY
 SHOOTS HUSBAND

Mrs. Mary Ramsey shot and probably fatally wounded her husband, J. w. Ramsey, last night about o'clock in the yard of the Dixie Bottling works. on the corner of Fourteenth street and First avenue. Ramsey is lying in critical condition at St. Vincent's hospital with a pistol ball in his side.
 It is not known exactly how the shoot ing occurred, or whether Mrs. Ramsey and her husband had any words before she shot him. After she was arrested she told Policeman Norren that she hoped she had killed her husband; that that was what she went to the place for. She only shot one time.
 Mrs. Ramsey Is in the city jail in an extremely nervous condition. She will not talk. She is charged with assault with intent to murder. The warden of the Jail was forced to assist her in climbing the steps to the women's de- partment and about the only words she has uttered were to ask if her husband was dead.
 Before being brought to the Jail Mrs. Ramsey told Policeman Norrell that her husband had been unkind to her and that he had struck her several times, and at least once on the street. She stated he hit her every time she spoke to man on the street.
 Ramsey is an employe of the Dixie Bottling works. The shot fired by his wife went in the left side just below the shoulder blade and it is thought by the physicians to have penetrated his lungs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
MISSOURI.

St. Louis, November With the close of the week preceding the campaign the political managers are estimating results. The republicans say they will carry Mis- souri by a majority ranging from 10000 to 14OOO The democrats declare they will have a majority of 3OOOO and assert that the largest vote ever boiled in an off-year election will be cast.
 At democratic headquarters prediction Is made of the election of all democratic congressional nominees except Blow in the Tenth district. Republican state Chair man Atkins, said tonight that he expect ed five republican congressman to be elected, and expected to carry the lower house of the state legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
NORTH CAROLINA.

Raleigh, N. C., November 1.-Under the constitutional amendment which disfran- chises illiterate negroes in North Caro- lima, only 10000 negroes have registered and the democratic majority, 1t is claim ed, will be much larger than usual in the state election Tuesday.
 Of ten congressmen to be elected. the democrats claim they will elect nine.
 The state ticket it is claimed. will be carried by the democrats by not less than 5O,Oo0 majority. It Is predicted the gen. eral assembly will be four-fifths demo- cratic. and this insures the defeat of Senator Pritchard. republican, and the election of a democrat to succeed him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02

bama, showing that after a statehood of fifty years, and devastating war the en- tire indebtedness of the state amounted to about $3,0O0.000, and that after five years of republican misrule the entire indebtedness was run up to $30,00 GOO, and they had also saddled millions upon the counties so that many of these be- came strangulated.
 The democrats of north Alabama gave to the state in 1874 George s. Houston The state indebtedness was reduced by the democrats to $9,000.000, and the inter- est account from $2,0O00oo to less than $500, ,000 per annuam, which will be 1urtner reduced by Governor Jelks when he re- funds the bonds.
 Tax values have increased from $130000.- OOr to more than $230,OO0,0O0 The repub- lcans put ignorant negroes in congress, the legislature, commissioners courts and other public offices. The pathway of the polls was lighted by the gleam of federal bayonets. Corrupt men presided over our courts; vicious and ignorant negroes prostituted the jury boxes. The republican party, when It nao the power gave to the people of Alabama satur- nalia of crime and corruption. That party taught social equality to the ex- tent of miscegination, which horrible doctrine was upheld by the supreme court of Alabama.
 These things and many others we can not and shall not forget The pious pre- lenses of the fly white purif1cauonists arc worse than false and will not de- aaiye inc people of the state. The white neonle will not join them. The negroes of Alabama spew them out, and 1T we are to judge by the two recent events or the appointments of democrats 10 1eo- eral iudgeship and district attorneyship, the President regards the lily white or ganization as a shop-worn, Job lot or old time carpet baggers and scalawags ana spat upon them. Some of the lily wnnes claim that even Booker Washington has more influence with the head of their marty than they have. This is an indi- cation that those high in authority re- gard the negro as better capable or ad- vising than the lily whites. It is no won der. then, that the white people have not responded to the lily white move ment.
 As to federal politics, Mir Clayton said that events had made the trust question paramount in the campaign. In the Eff ty-fifth congress, when the Dingley bill was passed, the democrats fought the measure for they foresaw the very evils that have come from it. MT. Dingley then declared that some of the schedules of the bill were framed for the purpose of making the tariff prohibitive on im- ports He had said that this objection would be met by reciprocity treaties with foreign countries that would ex- tend our trade. Reciprocity, he declared, is free trade in spots. After the Dingley bill became a law. MT. Mckinley sent an agent abroad and he negotiated reel procity with foreign countries, but the trust magnates had them killed so that the great republican party in control of the congress and presidency have not been able to pass even the Cuban reci- procity bill. The sugar trust, and other trusts. are too powerful. The OK know eth his owner and the ass his crib, he said. The republican party has all of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
RHODE ISLAND.

Providence. R. l., November 1.-The campaign preliminary to the election of two congressman. a governor and gen. eral assembly closed tonight The re- election of Congressman A. B. Capron, in the Second district seems assured. In the First district the reelection of Con- gressman Bull seems probable.
 Both branches of the general assembly undoubtedly will go republican, although in the house the democrats are likely to make strong gains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
OHIO.

Columbus, O., November 1.-Chairman Dick of the republican state committee approximates the total vote in Ohio at S0O.O00 and claims the republican state ticket will have at least 75,00O anc prob ably 100000 plurality. He also claims the election of IT and probably IS of the 21 congressman.
 Chairman Barber of the democratic state committee, claims Ohio will be one of the many states to furnish a democratic surprise, but gives no estimate on the vote or results. He claims the democrats will elect seven out of the twenty-one congressmen that Tom L. Johnson will win Cuyahoga county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
WISCONSIN,.

Milwaukee, Wis, November 1.-The political campaign in Wisconsin practi-. cally came to a close tonight. The cam paign has been the most vigorously fought in the states history. The indi- cations seem to favor Governor Lafoletts 8 reelection over Mayor David s. Rose of Milwaukee, by greatly reduced plu- rality. The legislature, which will elect a United States senator, will undoubted- ly be republican.
 In the congressional fight the republi- cans are practically sure of eight dis tricts. The Sixth district Is generally conceded to the democrats. In the Ninth and the Fifth the democrats have fight ing chance, but the outlook seems to favor Che republicans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
MARYLAND.

Baltimore. November 1.-The campaign in Maryland closed tonight with republi- can and democratic leaders expressing confidence in the outcome. The election will only be for congressment. The present delegation of six representatives is solid- ly republican. The republican managers claim five districts as certain, with one, the second doubtful The democrats main tain that they will carry three districts and probably four. A non-partisan esti- mate would probably give the democrats two and the republicans three, with one in doubt, but with the chances as to the latter in favor of the republicans