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HE CA MITE I'm.

The canteen continues to find friends,
and some of them are powerful ones
too. For instance, Secretary Root, who
one year ago did not object to the Sec
tion of the law of 1901 which prohibits
the sale of beer and light wines in post
exchanges, except to the degree of say
ing that a great body of reports indi-
Gated that the effects of the law were
unfortunate. But he thought that time
enough had not elapsed to give the law
a fair trial. In his report this year he
says: "a great number of additional
reports have now been received, and
they confirm the impression produced
by the earlier reports. I am convinced
that the general effect of prohibiting
the use of beer and light wines within
the limited area of the army post is to
lead the enlisted men to go out of the
post, to frequent vile resorts which
cluster in the neighborhood, to drink
bad whiskey to excess, and to associate
intimately with abandoned men and
more abandoned women; and that the
operation of the law, is to increase
drunkenness, disease of the most loath-
some kind, characterization and deser-
tion, and moral and physical degenera-
ton"
1t will be interesting to see what
those who were active opponents of the
canteen will do and say. 1t is not like
ly that they have been converted to the
view which is now held by Secretary
Root and some others who have looked
into the matter.
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Ject heard by the Committee on Mill
tary Education, should have given ex-
preston to the ilI-cOnsidered opinion
that the beginning Of the study of sci
ence necessarily comes somewhat later
than that of Latin. The statement
shows how prone We are to draw false
conclusions, how little we think before
We speak. The study of science begins
when the infant opens its eyes; every
step it takes when it tOddles is an at
tempt to apply the methods of expert
mental science; some training in sci
entific method is given in well-con-
Quoted kindergarten schools; but when
school is entered, the curtain is sud
denly drawn upon all such rational
study; if it be the fate of the child to
enter a preparatory school prior to en-
tering a public school. he is at once re-
ferred back to the times Of the Romans
and Greeks, his teachers being OBJ
livious to the real lesson to be learned
from the study of the scholastic meth
DDS of classical tiB1ss-that the train
ing given to the youth should be such
as to fit him to do his work as man.
How can our officers. how can any of
us, be otherwise than ill-prepared to do
our duty in the world when we are so
treated as yOuths?-Nature.
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GAME TO ORDER.

And live game too. Some who go
out to hunt don't care much whether
they get any game or not. Others
want something to show for their
hunting. IN ingenious Frenchman
thinks he has a scheme which will
meet a long-felt want. His prospectus
sets forth that suitable grounds will be
purchased and surrounded with high,
bullet-proof embankment. The pre-
serve will be stocked with every kind
Of game, including deer, wolves, wild
bears, rabbits and many species Of
birds. The hunting grounds will have
a large circular track, inelosed by a
fence. Around this ring big game will
be chased by packs of hounds. Radi-
ating from the track will be alleys.
When sportsman wants tos shoot a
boar, a deer or a wolf, the animal he
selects will be driven into an alley,
and there will be no chance for it to
escape.
This will be good hunting for those
who like that kind Of hunting, and if
there are enough of them the ingenious
Frenchman will get his reward. If
there are not he can sell his animals
to the menageries.
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JUST LIKE CONNECTICUT

They are going to have a Constitu-
tional Convention in New Hampshire.
1t will begin operations to-day, and
there is much solemn talk about it, just
as there was about the Constitutional
Convention which Connecticut had.
Thus the Concord Monitor says: ITO
exemplify the purpose of its conveninS
it must be free from partisanship or
fractional feeling. 1t Is a family affair
rather than legislative assembly. Its
work goes to the people, and to receive
their approval it should be presented
with the unity of family appeal. 1t
should not open with an unprecedented
push on the part of any individual for
place or preferment. Especially will
this be true If it shall appear that po-
litical or corporation influence has
been used to promote anybody's ambi-
tion.'
True as preaching, and how familiar
it sounds. It will be interesting to see
this good advice taken, as of course it
will be. New Hampshire is probably
going to have just as wise, friendly,
non-partisan and unintluenced a con-
vention as Connecticut had. 1t can't
ask for more or better.
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Journey lasted nineteen and half
hours. Passing over Vitbsk the aero
nauts came near to the earth to obtain
some photographs of the town, when
two bullets whistled close to the car
To escape this danger a rapid ascent
was made. but, later on, again coming
down to lower level. fifteen or twenty
bullets few by them in unpleasant
proximity. The descent accomplished,
inquiries were set on foot, when it was
ascertained that the balloon had been
repeatedly fired at by peasants and in
habitants Of the districts passed over:
by some because it was believed to be
an evil spirit, by others because it was
taken for flying fish and by others
again because it was regarded as har-
binger of approaching misfortune.
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SCIENCE AND MILITARY MEN.
AS to the value of Science" to mill
tary men, it Is easy to understand that
they should have little conception what
it may do for them; having never re-
ceived proper training hitherto. they
cannot have had the opportunity of
testing its usefulness or of appreciat-
ing it's merits. But making all allow
ances, it is difficult to understand. an
answer such as that given by Lieut.
Col. Murray (KQ. 4806) to the Commit
tee on Military Education, viz, that
science is a narrowing study for the
young mind, and we want to widen and
open the mind as much as possible;
let them learn their science after
wards" Chat is, after the entrance ex-
amination). The contention of the adj
vocates of Science" has always been
that of all subjects 1t tends most to
widen and open the mind. Why at
tention should be specially called to
this answer by the Committee in their
report is a riddle; I hope it was be-
cause they desired to show they could
rise superior to the occasion. But the
idea that science "can be learned after
wards" Is a very common one, and
one of the most pernicious abroad.
Learning from books and teachers is a
lazy method of learning, and the av-
erage scholar is corrupted at an early
age by exclusive resort to such meth
DDS. Much of the mental inertness of
the day is acquired at school by over
indulgence in book study. But apart
from this, early youth is the period
when the mind is most alert and the
desire to acquire and experiment
greatest; it Is the time when the pow
ers of observing and of reasoning can
be most easily developed into fixed
habits; in fact, if they are not then
developed, it is only in exceptional
cases that the omission can be rectified
in after life. 1t is too cruel that Mr..
Shenstone, the one witness on the sub
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TIL. Pillars of Wall street.

I have gazed at the crowds in Wall stree
Where the pillars stand In rows
Like stolid, stupid giants
UNFOLDING the pOrticOes.
1 have paused at the big stone pillars
That stand by the dOOrways there
Where the people bump against them
And die of the wear and tear.
And those pillars. somehow remind me
OF the men who contrive to hold
The streets affairs on their shoulders
They are hard and strong and cold.
They are sometimes ornamental
And often severely plain.
And here and there Is big one
That is married by an ugly stain.
And all of those cold, hard pillars
Are doomed to crumble away
And each Of the men behind them =
VIII lie In the dust some day.
S. e. Kiser in Chicago Reeord-Herald.
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HOWEVER.

Virtue Is it's own reward, but it's the
tough turkey that lives the longest
Philadelphia Record.
Noodles-"For an actress, she is real
ly modest, isn't she?" Twaddles-"Oh,
really, no one would dream that she
had risen from being a New York So
ciety woman. "-Harvard Lampoon.
First Heiress-"Why did you cut Miss
Plumleigh so, the other day?" Second
Heiress-"Oh, she's impossible. Not in
our sphere at all. She's never been
sought by European syndicate. Chi
cago Herald.
Mrs. Highblower-"Elsie, you never
speak outside of the quarrels between
your papa and myself, do you " Elsie
Oh, no, mamma. But whenever you
are pleasant to each other I always
mention it."-Life.
80 you were held up by bandits?''
Yes, and that isn't the worst of it.
They simply took my money without
OBTAINING me long enough to give me a
start as a magazine writer or lectur-
er. Washington Star.
Mrs. Uplaight-"My husband prom
Used to be home at 10 sharp"
Mrs. Newitt-"But he wasn't"
Mrs. Uplaight-"Not quite. He got
home at 8, dull"
81 see Dedeasy is back from South
America. Told me friend there had
written him there were such large open
ings in real estate"
Yes, said he went down to see and
found his friend was right. Earthquakes
and volcanoes. "-Philadelphia Press.
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A SHORT AND BUSY SESSION.

The final session of the Fifty-Seventh
congress began yesterday, and it will
end March 4, 1903. There will be less
than three months of actual work.
Eleven general appropriation bills must
be passed-the urgent deficiency, the
general deficiency, the army, the naval,
the legislative, executive and judicial,
the pension. the postal. the fortifica~
lions, the agricultural, the sundry civil
and the District of Columbia measures.
Mr.. Cannon, the chairman Of the House
committee on appropriations, says that
the passage of these bills will take up
most Of the session. If there is any
spare time important measures which
will claim attention are the Cuban
Reciprocity bill, the bill. providing for
the admission of Arizona, New Mexico
and Oklahoma to Statehood, the Anti
Anarchy bill and the Ship Subsidy bill.
All these measures were considered at
TIE idSI SeSSiOil. AUUIner~ important
bill which may receive favorable con-
sideration at this session is that Great
ing new executive department of the
government-the Department of Com
merce-the head of which will have a
seat in the Cabinet This>bill was pass
ed by the Senate at the last session,
and was under discussion in the House
when Congress adjourned. Although
the two houses We're not in accord on
some of the provisions of the bill, it is
thought that favorable action by the
House Of Representatives will be secur-
ed at the present session. If the Senate
has time the House bill for the further
restriction Of immigration may also be
considered.
OF course all this wont leave any time
for the regulation of trusts or the revi-
sion of the tariff, whereat those who do
not think the trusts ought to be regu-
lated or the tariff revised will rejoice.
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C. V. Collins, superintendent of pris-
ons in New York State, points out in
his annual report that there has been
a decrease of IS per cent. in the annual
prison death rate and a decrease of II
per cent. in deaths due to consump-
tfon, since special efforts have been
made to fight its spread in prisons. By
these efforts prisoners suffering with
consumption have been transferred to
Dannemora, where they have been
specially treated by DIR. Ransome, the
State expert. Many have thus been
saved, but more have been saved from
contamination.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents. and other small
advertisements, One Cent q Word each IN
sertion. Five Cents Word for full week
(seYen times).
Display advertisements, per inch, one IN %
sertion, 81. 20; each subsequent insertion, 4O
cents; one week, $3.50; one month, SlO; one
year. $40. *
Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, 10
cents per line. Notices of Births, MaErI-
ages, Deaths, and Funerals, 90 cents eacn'
Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own Immediate business (all matter to be
un0bjectionable), and their contracts do not
include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
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= Booker T. washington, talking what
he calls 'hard sense" to a gathering of
his race, says the Philadelphia Ledger,
was trying to explain the shades Of diff
ference between self help and the mere
moral obliquity Of self-interest. He told
them that there is little or nothing to
be obtained without working, adding:
"There was an old negro, professionally
pious, who wanted luxurious Christ
mas dinner and who night after night
prayed to the Lord to send him tur-
key. The days passed, Christmas APP
preached and the old fellow undertook
to compromise by asking the Lord to
send him to a turkey. He got one that
Very night
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big Ben," the clock in the English
House Of Parliament, is to be wound by
an electric motor. The winding up at
present occupies two men three hours
thrice week.
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The official roster shows that there
viii be sixty-one lawyers in the next
Missouri Legislature and forty-one
farmers. The other professions and
occupations will be represented as fol-
lows: Merchants, fifteen; teachers,
eight; clerks, eight; physicians, five:
planters, three; editors, three; contrac-
tors, three; miners, two; machinists,
two, and one each of the following:
Law student, undertaken, plasterer,
soda manufacturer, dealer in stone,
druggist, publisher, bartender, circuit
clerk, painter, journalist, real estate
agent, banker, grocer, jeweler, reporter,
osteopath, minister, salesman and
broker OF the 176 members of this
assembly eighty-one have been mem
bers of former assemblies or are hold
over senator's.
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r Sir Albert Rollit, besides being an NJ.
r. and an English knight, is Knight
of Portugal, a Knight of Denmark, a
knight of the Order of st. John, B. A.,
LII. D., D. G. l., r, E., ]. p, D. L., ex-
sheriff, ex-mayor, president or director
of half a hundred prosperous corpora
tions, banker, ex-chairman of the Lon
don Chamber of Commerce, Elder
Brother Of the Trinity House, ex-royal
commissioner for the Chicago exhibit
ton, one Of his majesty's lieutenants
for the city Of London, vice-president Of
the National Fish Culture Association,
and many other things. He is one of
the big ship owners in the world and a
knight commander of the crown of TIA
,ly. He owns palaces in London, Wind
sor and Paris, is fifty years old and
worth $5o,0OO,0OO.
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"You eat your breakfast food so Slow
ly, Mr.. Beaks," remarked the landlady.
Eyes, ma'an," replied the star board
er, land it reminds me of kiss through
a telephone
"It what way -
"Goes a long way and is tasteIess."
Chicago News.
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District of New Haven, S. Probate Court.
November g. 1902.
ESTATE of HENRY S. PARMELEE, late
of New Haven, in said District, deceased.
The Administrators having made written
application for an order authorizing and
empowering them to sell and convey certain
real estate Of said deceased as by said an
plication on file in this Court more fully
appears. it Is
ORDERED, That said application be
heard and determined at Court of Pro-
bate to be held at New Haven, in said Dis
trlct, on the 3rd day Of December, 1902 at
ten o'clock in the forenoon, and that public
notice of the tendency of said application,
thereon, be given by publishing this order
three times in some newspaper having a
circulation In said District.
By order Of Court.
JAMES KINGSLEY BLAKE,
n29 Ut Clerk.
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IS 1873
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Rates of interest paid by Savings
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Apply to
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a machine which, with one attend
ant, will perform the labor of ten
women, has just been installed in the
department. of agriculture With al
most human ingenuity this complex
machine weighs out, in accurate guam
titles, the seed intended for congress
sional distribution, fills each of five
packets with a different variety, seals
the flaps, places them in a large en-
velope, and seals its flap. Sixteen of
these machines have been installed,
each with capacity of 10000 packets
of seed day. Secretary Wilson is now
contemplating the installation of an
additional machine, which, it is said,
will affix the congressional franks,
bearing the addresses, to the envelopes
as rapidly as they are filled, insuring
accuracy and rapidity, as we'll as econ
omizing labor.
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. BallOoning under any conditions is
exceedingly perilous, but the aeronaut
in Russia would appear to be exposed
to danger Of sudden death from an I'M
usual quarter. Recently large mill
tary balloon left the fortress of Osove-
tire, on the western frontier of Russia,
and after voyage of $50 miles descend
ed In the government of Smolensk The
The sun., 1902-11-05
SENATOR'S UNDER ARREST
E. ". a. tRk CHtRGID WITH
HRfRFRI AT POLLS.
Taken Into tUs'od, WIN Other Demo.
cratic irade-. NJ iinttc buying Votes
In Lodging House District One Of
Clarke l"ru urnants Arrest ed ~ Helena

IrT1f, Mo- No. g.. Charles ". Clark
son of uit"d S;mcs senator W. \. Clark;
Geurg" ". '!rasnN, chairman of the Dem
oora'ic County Central COMMITTEES. and
G. T.. alsop, Dcmo"ra'i, candidate for
ReppSoat in the state l"g.,- urr
and a Clark leader. were arrested ;o-G7 V
on the charge of bribcry in conncctiou
with the election Il il alleged that they
We're passing out money in the lower dis
trictS ard cheap lodging houses Of Butto
for votes. The charges are made by men on
the iIeinzo fusion ticket, The men were
released on bonds.
HELENA. Mon. Nov 4 John Frey,
one of senator ". A Clark's lieutenants in
Helena. and himself candidate for CON
stable on the Democratic county ticket was
arrested and lodged IN isil this afternoon
charged with at rmptcd bribery lie was
later released on "A bond furnished by the
chairman OF III" Democratic County Cen
tral Committee
Frey. il is alleged was attempting o colo
nize voters and three Republicans in a body
accepted money from him with the under
standing hat they were to vote the Clark
ticket Instead, however. they turned he
money and Frey over 10 the chief of police.
The Republicans assert THAT they have
perfect case against Frey and hat they will
max" an example of him The arrest has
caused a -enSat ion
The sun., 1902-11-05
SPEECH or ItHE FIRENFN,
Pfnkies and BoNcrsi Pumps and Red Hat
aud Hue Nhirt lhlefs.

witness who was testifying at he tria
of Fire Chief CROKER referred n his tpsti.
nony to -Pinki y The commissioned
and the counsel on both sides smiled at
he word, which was pronounced in mat
ter-of-fact waY and then the examina-
ton went on.
Outsiders might have been puzzled 10
know what the word meant bat every
body in the Depart ment is aware that a
pinky is a member of an association Of
'iiremen Of which e1-Capt. Clifford was
President. The name comes from the
secret sign of recognition used by mem
bers, which was 10 crook the little finger
| Of the right hand
There II a rival orRaniaa, ion among the
ifremen whose members are known a.
Boxers. The Pinke, held their meeting
in secret for some time and took many
precautions TO exclude any one who might
carry informal ion % the camp Of the enemy.
When a man approached the door the
watcher would say.
1T = As hot as
The rising sun WAS the password that,
would admit
Before the password became generalv
known. Boxer tried 10 get into one of the
word relied ON his wits When the Pink ie
al the door SAID
II : as hot as -
He'll" answered the man from the rival
organization at guess, He was thrown
downstairs
At one time the frcmen in nearly all
the engine houses We're highly worked up
by the contending factions Tn" members
had secret signals Of recognition.
The Clifford men would extend the right
hand, crook the little finger, or pinky as
some children term il They tried to do IL
in an unost cntat ious way, but their rivals
soon discovered IL.
The R,xers got their nickname from
the upfising in China. Their signal Of
recognition was gently 20 slap their own
left ear.
There are other slang words used bv the
firemen in their quarters Pumps" are
officers and blue shirts" are ordinary
fireinen. The officers got their nams f
Is said, because some Of them wear pat ent
leather shoes when they appear al Fire
Headquarters on trial day TO make charges
against the men.
Hugh Bonner who Is now chief Of the
Manila Fire Departmen was referred 10
In quarters as the red hat chi becatl-e
he wore "A rtd hat as foreman in the old
volunteer fire force before lac became a
never wore the blue shirt Of an ordinary
fireman.
Croker. who succeeded Bonner, is known
as the blue shirt chief, from the fact that
he entered the Department as an ordinary
fireman and passed through every grade
IN the uniformed force except that Of
engineer.
An officer who II strict disciplinaran
speedily gets the title of "Elmira" among
the men. He IL generally unconscious II
the honor. for the men refrain from using
the word when he IL about
Drop yer nozzle; here comes the peni-
tentiary!" is the way one fire laclde give.
warning TO the others who are a bit lax in
quarters when he catches sigh, Of the strict
foreman approaching.
jelly is the term they apply 10 tho easv-
going officer. Such an officer usually
gets himself and the men under him into
serious trouble with the Commissioner
sooner or later.
The men refer 10 small fire which caused
a single alarm as just a little soak"
The Commissioner is referred to ns Sixty
seventh street"