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Profusion of National Colors.

Old Glory floats proudly above hun
dreds of roofs and miles of bunting are
stretched from basement to caves. COW
ering nearly every downtown building.
particularly in Pennsylvania Avenue.
the thoroughfare through which the pha-
lanx will march. When the decorating
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CLOSE THE SCHOOLS
And Give or Sell Goai TO the i'oOr and
aeedy snggeats q CorIesponhent.

laGtNF SG&ge8Es q Tories DVMIEhts
To the Editor Of the Journal and Courier:
With the coal situation causing the m1St
amazing Anxiety and suffering on al SIDES,
/ beg leave - suggest through the columns
VI yVur PAPER, tEaL tie ctty 90 lis part 10
ward at4-b.Utl4g the suffering 10y 0scT-IOOA-
ING NOT In- slightest detail. l understand
that the city - 10 receive, to-day, nom one
hundred TO one hundred and n1ty Tons OL
coal ~ be USED in the schools. With nun
ureds OF peVplt suffering from I lack OF COAL
would it hot be far better for the city TO
distribute Tie Goa! to be received IoF The
use Of The Schools among the people at a
reaSOnaUIe pr4ce tEau 10 use It Tor heating
the school buildings: Let the board Of tud-
cation Close the schools one week earlier
IIIaA scheduled and give the parents Oh the
school children chance 10 AS4L tAt4t
homes before lOUkiug OFT for the school
buildings. The loss vi u week WU4A IL
school Is not u he CouPared W4tA the sunCr-
ing ludt one week vi cold weather, such as
Is now upon Us, Will cause.
As an Illustration vi The awful conditions
of the times, an Incident came to my per
sUnal attention Only yesterday. u gentle
man, whose aged mother lies sick and NEAR
to death door, Inquired at hFe uLueitlL
coal offices for coal IaSI Saturday. he WAS
refused at each and every pace, because
there was no coal to be sold. His mother
and a nurse were subjected 10 the greatest
hardships as a result OF tie lack Of coal and
other fuel. This is only one OF great Adiy
greatest sufferers. but there are hundreds
Of people Who are willing and able TO pay
for coal If the coal could only Ii secured.
The local coal dealers are without sup
ply The city is about to come into posses
SIGN vi q supply ranging from one hundred
to one hundred and IiIy tons. Is 1t not lar
wiser and better that tn4s supply should lie
sold to the deserving pco:t0r S4itn TO SOME
il necessary, to relieve their sutIerlng) tnan
to use it for heating the public schools Tor
! one more week Of the term: S,..etN LIE
children of the people who are 50 Sorvly In
need OF c0ul would be tar better on with
warm and Comfortable homes than i'll at
tending we'll heated schools with t"c
thought that their mothers were suffering
at home. and that tnere was nothing Wlti
/ which to heat the home.
i Not sane man or woman, whether tax
payer or not, will object to the plan sug-
gested. The time is d time OF great heed.
+ Ihv cold weather is here in all its force.
The people arr desperately in need Of coal.
| The city is to come into possession OF Il
large supply Let the city officials and the
! board OF education not overlook this oppor-
! tunity to render assistance to our towns
| people. Our schools are grand institutions,
| Dut they will not suffer from one week
suspension. The homes of our city demand
our 1irst and immediate attention.
NJ. G.
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DAMMING UP THE NILE.

The opening of the Assouan dam by
the Duke of Connaught on Monday will
be a signal proof of the enlightened
methods Of British policy. England
was drawn into Egypt by the necessity
for protecting the navigable waterway
to India, and was compelled to remain
in spite of Mr.. Gladstones pledges that
the occupation would be temporary.
The permanency Of British occupa-
ton has been justified by the thorough
reform of administration and by the
marvellous Improvement of the con-
dition of the population. The Assouan
dam and the Assiout barrage are rnonu-
ments of British engineering skill ard
progressive policy. These great works.
which have cost between 100000, 900
and e25,0000O0, will systematic irri-
cation, impart security to crops and
stability to harvest, and widen the area
Of the Nile lands under cultivation.
The annual flood. with the fortified
slit and soil, has already passed, and
the sluices of the Assouan dam are now
closed for the storage of water until
March I. The sluices will then be
there will be good head of water in
the Treery irrigating canal for the use
of cultivators. The scarcity of water
caused by low Nile will be avoided,
and great increase in the agricultural
resources Of Egypt will be brought
about.
The Nile will be held up by a dam
100 feet thick at the base, and the val
ley above it will be flooded for so miles.
Experts making a striking comparison,
calculate that the reservoir will hold
water enough for years full supply
to every town and village in the United
Kingdom. The engineering works also
include an open weir or barrage at AS
stout, long way down the Nile, by
which the distribution of water from
the great reservoir Is secured over a
large area. These costly works planned
by Sir Benjamin Baker, financed by
Lord Cromer and constructed by Sir
John Arid, demonstrate a new genius
of the English people for ordering the
progress of semi-civilized races.-New
York Tribune.
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LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN.
Important Meeting Yesterday--Grand Lodge
Officers Present

Important Meeting Yesterday-Grand Lodge
Officers Present.
John j. Hannahan, of Chicago, Grand
Chief, and f. G. Gear, Assistant Grand
Css,tcf, Of Cleveland, Ohio, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen of the United
States held a very lengthy consultation
with the members of Elm City lodge, No.
II, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
The meeting was held in the Odd Fellows
building, and was attended by grand lodge
officers,
After supper the executive committee and
grand officers held an executive session, last
ing until after midnight. They declined to
make any statement to the press saying
that nothing had been accomplished, and
that as all things were yet embryonic no
thing was ready for publication. 1t was
impossible to learn even what was being
considered, yet it is understood that the
visit was in accord with those held in other
cities by Mr.. Mammalian, who is presenting
plan looking to the formation Of an organ
ization which shall include all men employ
ed in all branches of the railway service of
the entire United States 1t is the intention
TO at least have an executive committee
composed Of representatives Of the fremen,
the conductors, the trainmen and the
engineers.
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REPLY TO VlVISEClIONIST.


of February, 1900, I asked you if you
thought it improper for Congress to en-
act law saying that a dog or a horse
should be put under the influence of an
anaesthetic before being cut to pieces,
or the nerves torn from the brain, and
that you promptly replied II think it
would be most unWise legislation" In
view of that reply, do you not think
that your charge against me that I am
engaged in efforts to secure inhumane
and cruel legislation should be with
drawn, and especially so when we have
undoubted testimony to the fact that
one experimenter is in the habit of
plunging dogs for thirty seconds into
boiling water; that another fastens a
dog to the dissection table and discard
ing the use of anaesthetics, stands
above it with q large empty stone bot
tie, with which he strikes with all his
strength a dozen blows on the head;
while the same experimenter says that
he dislocates both the shoulders, doing
it with difficulty. Another experiment.
err claims that he has "consecrated'
more than eighty large animals, mostly
horses and mules, to the EXTREMIST tor
ture possible, not, as he expressly tells
lis, to solve any problem in medical
theory, but imply to see what degree
of pain can be inflicted through irrita-
ton Of the spinal cord. Another still
says that he has invented a new ma
chine which he calls his 'tormentor,"
and in this tiendish device, which had
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POlf'aaTh eater.

The magnificent dancer, the gorgeous
Papinta, in a scene of dazzling lowell
ness, will be the center of interest on
the Poll bill this week. The first pre-
sentation of the charming dancer with
her wonderful mirror effects and cleo
trical devices will be given this after
noon and will continue the rest of the
week.
The surrounding bill has Frank
keenan, and Dean Edsell in a sketch
THE Two Rubies,' which has a Jealous
wife in it to make things lively. This
is the Frank keenan, who played a
leading part in 1.-The Christian" COM
pany, and the sketch was written by his
partner, Dean Edsell.
Others on the bill will be Hayes and
Healy in the comedy 1.-THE Ringmaster
and the Circus Queen" Claudius and
Corbin with banjo specially; Smith
and Powell with a coon act they have
styled 1.-THE Ignorant Coon" introduce
ing these two creole comedy artists in
a good sketch; Osaz and Delmo with
original juggling feats; Miss Bessie
Lamb with singing speciality; Clarke
AMI Florette with a novelty act of the
latest dances and the popular songs;
and the vitagraph will close what
promises to be a great vaudeville treat
at popular prices. The feature alone,
the glorious Papinta, will be worth the
price Of admission, and with the Won
derful surrounding olio it should prove
a record-breaker for attendance at this
popular vaudeville home.
Prices; Evenings, 10, 20 and 80 cents;
afternoon, 10 and 20 cents; ladies at
mstinees, 10 cents.
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REV. DR.. SMYTH'S SERMON
CONTINUED from Fifth Page->

coming in the strong grooves of law.
The divine love which is able to save
a world, satisfied the law Cf righteous
ness as it took the form If a servant
and endured the Cross. The love which
is to redeem human society must be,
as an apostle says. the love which is
fulfilment Of law. There is a blessing
for him who gives to the least Of men
cup of cold water only; but there
must be a cup in which to bring the
water of light; and righteousness SIS the
cup in which our social charity should
be offered. 1t will be as water spilled
on the earth If it is not a love which
fills the law Of righteousness full.
The greatest common multiple of hu~
man life, the one comprehensive Or
ganizing force, is the power of the
Spirit of the Christ. The power which
Is able to knit all classes together, to
make one living body Of the many
members. in the spirit of Christ. Now
is the opportunity of the true church.
The everlasting gospel is the gospel for
the times. If we hear in our souls the
true gospel-note for humanity, it will
sound joyous and triumphal, and the
glad, jubilant peal of the last trump at
the glorious judgment day.
DR.. Smyth concluded his discourse
with an appeal for moral and religious
enthusiasm. I would sum it all up, he
said, in a word of the Master which
is a word for US in this present season:
But watch We at every season, MAX
ing supplication, that ye may prevail
to escape all things that shall come to
pass, and to stand before the Son of
man." The supreme test of the church
by which it shall stand or fall, the
final test of our national prosperity
the Judgment of our Christian civiliza-
ton is this: Is it able to stand before
the Son OF man?
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Good, clean pantomime, properly pro-
duced and embeliished with clever ac-
robats, pretty girls in stunning gowns
and gorgeous scenery, takes with the
American public. The past season dem
onstrated this by the success of THE
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast The
receipts were the largest ever known
for a full season at a prominent New
York theater. With this end in view,
Messrs. Flack and Floyd procured the
famous Zeb and Zarrow, the foremost
opponents of comedy pantomiTne whose
names are famous on both continents,
and have surrounded them with a COM
pany numbering thirty-fve people,
among the most prominent being the
Damn brothers, Seiger sisters, Marti-
netti and Sutherland, Ben T. Dillon,
Louise Dempsey, Andrew O'NeilI, Amy
Mortimer, Golf Phillips, Carrie Eckert,
Anna Casselle, Bebee Bryant and a
trained chorus of pretty girls who can
sing and dance. The scenery and me-
chanical effects have been prepared on
an elaborate scole from the handicraft
of New York's best artists, designed
worn by the women are all dreams of
the modiste's idyllic fancy, and will
serve as fashion plates for the smart
set. No expense has been spared to
make this entertainment the leader of
its kind. This attraction will be at the
Grand Opera House tonight, to-mor-
row night and Wednesday night, with
matinee Wednesday.
Among the myriad of war pays deal
ing with the disrupted days between
the north and south there are few that
have met with heartier approval than
Winchester" which is at the Grand
Opera House next Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights with matinee Sat
urday. This latest war drama scored d
great trump in New York. 1t is strong
ly melodramatic, with exciting scenes,
chief of which is the thrilling moon
light ride of the heroine from Winches-
ter to KearnstoWn, where amid numer-
Gus obstacles, including the shooting of
the villain, she delivers the reprieve,
thus saving her lover from death. A
carload of special scenery, properties
and electrical effects is utilized, and
two Thoroughbred race horses are car
ried to wildly portray the thrilling
ride. The cast is an excellent one and
includes such well known artists as
Miss Margaret May, who will play Vir-
ginia Randolph; Edward McWade, Guy
Bennett, J. w. Benson, E. L. Snader,
Edward Mackay, John German, Henry
Walthall, Thomas Quinn, Charles
Schaeffer, Mildred Manners, Florence
Lytell and many others. This high
priced play is seen here for the first
time at popular price.
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GRAVITY OF SITUATION.
First Shots Awaken Most Apathetic
Critics tm london.

London, Dec. 15.-The news that the first
shots have been fired in Venezuela has
awakened the most apathetic of the critics
of the gravity of the situation which Is
developing in that country, and the demands
that the government present the official
papers in the matter to parliamentarc now
most insistent. The demands are accom-
panied by comments to the effect that
Foreign Secretary Lansdowne has failed 10
display, either In the war office or the
foreign office such conspicuous ability as 10
induce the nation 10 trust him with Il
BLANK cheque" in such complicated and
combustible matter as Venezuela threatens
to prove The Associated Press understands
that the papers will be issuer to-day or
Wednesday at the latest.
Thus far the British public has had to
depend entirely upon press dispatches for
its news, and the serious complaint is made
that the public is obliged and indebted to
American newspapers for the text of the
British and German u!timatums to Ven2z-
uela. The revelation of the terms of the
British utimatum does not enhance the
existing appreciation of the British govern
ment's management Of the affair. One
newspaper, referring this morning to that
clause of the British ultimatum which de-
mands payment Of sum squat to that paid
to Germany, says such IL peculiar claim
makes the British note a sort of appendix
TO the German note, and asks ironically,
why did Great Britain not entrust the
whole business to Germany; that country
wou!d have been more expeditions i'll the
matter"
Most of the morning newspapers consider
that the bombardment of the fortress at
Puerto Cabcllo puts all likelihood of arhi-
ration or any pacific settlement Of the
difficulty entirely out of the question, and
thry begin to talk seriously of the difficulty
of enforcing payment of the demands should
president castro d, eide to defy the powers
and retire to the interior of the country.
Rculiziug that prolonged blockade or
hostilities would endanger the interests and
Ia rhaps the lives Of foreign residents of
Venezuela many newspapers are beginning
TO ask whether the government has not
acted overhastily.
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ALLIES 30 hbARO.


NNUHIlIIutU ITUITI E1ISL dSt'E
The fact that the people of Venezuela
are in absolute ignorance of the de-
signs of the allies upon their country
creates deep and disturbing impress
sion here. The chief office. of President
Castro's guard said to-day to the repre-
sentative of The Associated Press:
IF there is to be war let US know
and we will fight. If there is to be only
an assault on our coast, where we cam
not reach the allies the only thing left
for us to do is to declare that to destroy
your debtors furniture is a strange
way to force the payment of his obi-
CATION. 1 believe this situation will
soon come within the scope of the Mon
roe doctrine
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COON HUNTING.
A Good Sport of Autumn Nights-Ex
periments In the Dark.

A Good Sport of Autumn Nights--Ex-
periments In the Dark.
Peculiarly a November sport though
often it has its beginning in October, is
the pursuit Of Brer Coon. You who
have never followed a coon in the dead
watches of the night take you straight
way into the circle of your companion
ship the owner of coon dog. A coon
dog is born. not made. Usually he Is q
mongreI, with a bit of the bull and a
bit of the hound in him. Rabbit and
fox he will have none of, but the scent
of a raccoon lOosens his tongue to the
full cry. 1t is a weird sensa ton, the
first coon hunt. With a shot gun in
the party a revolver o. two, and every
man supplied with lantern and plenty
of matches, you enter the black fast
ness of the forest. The dog is loosed
and swallowed up in darkness the in
slant he crosses the narrow circle of
your lantern light. Silent you sit on
an old dog log, for a woodland at night
is not conducive to a freeing Of the
tongue. The stiffness, unbroken save
for the the occasional rustling Of leaves
or impa tient snuff betraying the where
abouts of the dog, enters your very
soul. There is a peculiar sense of lone
illness, a consciousness of being but an
atom in a. universe Of blaCkness. 1t
walls you in on all sides, impenetrable.
Only above is it broken, and there i'm
measurable distance reaches up to the
frosty November sky. Suddenly out Of
cold twinkling points Of light in a
frosty November sky. Suddenly out Of
the darkness rises a weird sound, I'M
cannily suggestive of a little lost child
crying in the wilderness. Then the dog,
unraveling a trail, suddenly gives
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II. PARK CADMAN SPEAKS.

Fl. Park Cadman, of Brooklyn, spoke
at three meetings in this city yesterday.
He addressed the usual Sunday morn
ing meeting in Battell chapel, spoke to
the Yale students again in Dwight hall
last evening and later spoke at United
church, under the auspices of the Mems
club, on the topic THE Puritan in the
Mot her Land"
Rev Dr. Cadman said that the Puri-
tan was a product Of the Renaissance
and the Reformation instead of the
Reformation alone, as was so often
said. He said 1.-The luXuriousness of
Florence in the sixteenth century was
like that Of the New York of to-day.
There was the uneasiness, the debauch-
cry or morals, the corruption. The Pur-
itan was a product of learning and of
art, as we'll as of religion"
Rev. DR.. Cadman eulogized the great
leaders of the Puritan movement, PIN,
Eliot, Hampden and Cromwell. In
closing he keenly criticised the general
educational bill now before parliament.
He said: II will say nothing directly
against this bill, but when men like
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, Hugh Price
Hughes and others unite to tell us that
this bill is an attack on the rights their
fathers purchased, as belonging to the
religious freedom of every man, we may
believe that the bill has no right to
stand in it's present form. l plead for
more temperance in the things for
which men are striving, for greater
Catholicity in the church and for the
brotherhood of mankind"
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FRArERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES,
Fifty Eight Candidates Were Received
Last Night.

Fifty Eight Candidates Were Received
Last Night.
Another large meeting of the New
Haven Aerie, Fraternal Order Of
Eagles, was held in their hall in the
Music hall building last night. Fifty
eight candidates were received into the
order, four of them being members of
the Zig Gag" company, which has
been playing at the Grand Opera
House for the past week, Two of them
and two residents Of the city were
chosen to receive the degrees, the other
fifty-four being obligated.
The committee in charge of the fair
and bazaar to be given by the Eagles
reported that progress was being mad J
with the arrangements, and that all
things would be in readiness for the
opening on Thursday night of this
week. The fair will continue for four
nights and the Eagles promise that
they will have one of the most attrac-
tive bazaars ever given.
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YALE 20, STANFORD 10.

Holly Contested Basketball Game Last
Saturday Evening.
The Yale basketball team was victorious
over the Stamford team in a hard fought
game in Stamford last Saturday night The
Yale men was were two hours late owing
to the trains being delayed. The Stamford
team was demoralized and were unable to
gain aglnst the clever defense of Yale. The
game was rough in the second half r.
Hyatt, Of the Yale team, getting a dislo-
Gated toe and two other players being
knocked out.
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TWO STILL ALARMS OF FIRE YEsTER.

There were two still alarms of fire yester-
day, the first occurred at 1921 O'clock and
was at the home of J. Grocnberg, u Spruce
street.
The second was at 1.20 o'clock and was
at L. TroWbridge's house at 81 Temple
street. No. is hose cart answered the first
and No. Is chemical answered the second.
They were both chimney fires, and no
damage to amount to anything resulted.
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ENTERTAINMENTS.
U<rertCoes '2'heatNr


1.-THE WILDERNESS WILL BE THE
CHRISTMAS ATTRACTION.
The Christmas attraction at the Fly
perion will be Charles Frohmans EN-
pire Stock company, presenting H. V:
Esmond's comedy, 1.-THE Wilderness, ~
with Charles Richnan and Margaret
Anglin in the leading roles.
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VENEZUELA UNFOLDING.
Castro's Reply to Germany a Refusal
pni,

Castro's Reply to Germany a Refusal
on All Points.
A despatch from Berlin dated last
Saturday said; President Castros re-
ply to the German ultimatum is a re-
fusal to yield on any point.
The foreign office has not yet re-
ceived the text of the reply, but only
a bulletin from the German charge
d'affaires, Herr Won Pilgrim Baltazzi,
dated December 10, announcing that
the presidents answer had been placed
in his hands that day, and that the
president refused to yield to the Ger
man demands on all points. This tele-
gram, with the text Of the reply, was
filed at Port OF Spain, Island of Trini-
dad.
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HAY AT WHITE HOUSE.
Venezuelan Situation Again Discussed
With the President

With the President
Washington, Dec. 14.-Aslde from the
dispa tches from Minister Bowen, there
were no important developments in the
Venezuelan situation to-day SO far as
the state department is concerned. The
officials are watching so as to be able
to act promptly should a step become
necessary, but nothing was done to-day