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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-01-07
LOCAL FINANCIAL NOTES

N Y, n H. & H. r. r., company
stock is selling in small lots only at Oil
to 212A, the convertible tours, due April
1, 1908 are quoted 204 to 205.
( The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Consolidated Electric Light
company Of Portland will be held on
| Wednesday next; fromerly dividends
were at the rate of six per cent. per an
mum, but owing to competition for the
! last two years dividends have been at
the rate of four per cent.
Edison Electric of Boston right will
expire on Friday of this week they
have sold from four to four one-half,
closing a four three eighths-the first
installment of 80 per cent. on the new
stock will be due February /; this calls
for a payment of $50 per share, as hold
ers are to take new stock at the rate
Of 5000 per share.
Stockholders of the Bankers Loan
and Investment company which form
erly had local office in the Benedict
building, will hold an annual meeting
at "a Wall street, n. Y, on January 81,
the affairs of the company are improv-
lllS edcH year ullutI CAREFUL lIldndSt-
ment and larger dividends are probable.
The Hartford Bank and Insurance
company have generally taken the state
tax under the new law out of the jan
uary dividends. The companies have to
pay the tax in bulk to the state during
the month of February. The New Ha-
ven banks and the Security Insurance
company had the same dividends as last
July, but may take out the tax next
July. If the times continue prosperous
some of the local banks will try and
continue the regular dividends, charging
the tax to expense account. The total
tax to be paid the state by local dis
count banks will be nearly $4,000
Clearings and balances of the New
Haven banks for the weeking ending
January 4, and for the corresponding
week of last year are furnished by the,
secretary of the New Haven Clearing
House by days as follows:
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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-01-07
NEW rORR STOCK M4RRET

Opening, Highest, Lowest Quotations
Reported over the private wire of ]. L. Nc.
Lean d Co.. % Broad street, New York:
New Haven office $40 Chapel street, HUI
binger Building. Norman A. Tanner
manager.
Open. High. Low. Last.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-01-07

Blackintown section. Messrs. Wiley b.
Morris, George Elcan. Garnett Elliott,
John Garnett and other pack owners
have also decided to hunt no more IN
that section until the foxes have be-
come sane again.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-01-07
Etmaneia1
The Union Trust COMPANY

NEW HAVEN.
CHARTERED by the State OF Connect.
cnt with authority to act as Executor. All.
ministrator, Guardian, Receiver or Trustee
under will or deed
is a legal depository of money paid into
Court and all Public Trust Funds. Acts az
Trustee for Municipalities, Corporations
and individuals, and administers trusts Of
all kinds. Empowered to act as registrar OF
stocks, bouds, or other evidepceJ Of iIdebt.
edness, manage sinking funds, and do ali
business such as is usually done by Trust
Companies.
1t also does a general Banking business.
collecting checks, notes, coupons. and re-
ceives deposits. The principal of each Trust
Is invested by itself and Kept separate and
apart from the general assets Of the Com.
EAny.
This Company is by law regularly exam.
ined by the Bank Examiner of the State Of
HENRY l.. HOTCHKIss. President.
EUGENE S. BRISTOL. Treasurer.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13
LOCAL NEWS.

The Action OF The Four prisoners
Pardon Board. conf;nod in +b;o
institution profted by the meeting
of the State Board of Pardons,
which was held in St. Paul last
Saturday. One man, J. F. McC,
number 5377, was conditionally
pardoned, and the following had
their sentences committed: Fl. P.
S., 1928, from seven to four years;
L. A. R., $685., from ten to six
years; and J. B., 1894, from twenty
to ten years. The case Of N. ",
5671, was taken under advisement,
while the application Of F.. H.,
$685., and j. T., 1886, were de-
MED. This is all the Board has
done up to date, but as there are a
number of other cases to be dis
posed of another meeting will
probably be held in the near fu-
ture.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13

The Chicago Record Herald is a
conspicuous example of the sue
cess with which the public re-
wards fearless nonpartisanship in
the columns of a great metropel-
itan daily paper. It is an indie
pendent newspaper, in which men
and measures are invariablyviewed
wholly from the standpoint of the
public good and not from that of
the interests of any particular
political party. It is the very re-
verse of neutral-fearless and out
spoken on all the great questions
of the day, but presenting its edi-
torial opinion upon independents
judgment and entirely regardless.
of political affiliations. Partisan
ship is barred as strictly from the
news columns as from the editor
ial page. All political news is
given without partisan coloring,
thus enabling the reader to form
correct conclusions for himself.
In the ordinary PARTISAN news
paper political news is ordinarily
colored to such an extent as to
make it difficult. if not impossible
for the reader to secure a sound
basis for intelligent judgment.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13

of Moscow. The man who was
Heading this column had led the
most desperate charge at Auster7.
l'litz with nothing IN his hand but.
a small riding whip. They knew
what they were going up against
and they we're, there not to sing,
but to conquer--or, be conquered.
But they did sing little as
they neared the sunken road Of
Ohain, also the British bullets
sang and the veterans felt their
blood rise. Then they passed the
road of Chain. A great ditch
filled to the top with CORY mass
of men and horses. The flower
of French fighting men destroyed
in single breath! Almighty
God!" said the leader, he of the
small riding whip. There was
foam on the lips Of the other
half of the Guard when they
came to the Death Slope.
| Then they came to the red
squares of England and the green
squares of Prussia. It was hell.
A veteran whose arm was shot
loose from his body tore the arm
loose from the single fibre that
still held it and threw it in the
faces of his enemies "Vlve Ma
boleon!" he said. The remnant of
the column retired before the
overwhelming numb of the al
lies. hen they formed the far
famed, last, terrible French square
of Waterloo. They began to move
obliquely toward the Charleroi
road. Around them a blazing
circle of musketry fire and the
screaming of fifty thousand voices.
Surrender! Surrender cried the
English again and again. The
French answered with volley of
ironical cheers, oaths and cat-calls.
Again the lightning of death
leaped out from the ranks of the
allied armies. Wounded, bleed
ing and shot to thousand pieces
the last platoon of the Emperor's
bodyguard went down fighting
like tigers to the end. The great
est battle of the world was over.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13
Waterloo.
CONTINUED from third page.)

without fear, and, most of US with
out hope.' Foy was in the third
column of the Guard as it moved
into action.
This column was different from
the others. There was very little
noise. Here and there a single
voice chanted. LA jour de gloire
est arrive" but most Of the troop
ers rode forward with set teeth
and silent tongue. l will tell you
why. They were VETERANS. They
had seen the Alpine SHOWS and
the sands of Egypt. They had
ridden through the burning streets
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13

Senator Burton of Kansas is
moved to censure the methods
employed by missionaries in the
Sandwich islands. The senator
says the missionaries give the ma
tives certificate to heaven in
place of valuable real estate. The
people of China refused to swallow
the same bait, but it doesn't nee
essarily follow that the Cinnamon
will never go to heaven.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13
Of natures greatest gifts to mar.

OF nature s greatest gifts to max
kind, the coal mines This con
dition Of things will some day be
impossible. Heat will be drawn
from the interior of the earth.
Recent volcanic eruptions prove
that beneath the crust of the
earth there is stored steam enough
to supply all the purposes of man,
and some genius will soon come
forward with method for it's
extraction.
just now the world Is greatly
interested in the airship problem.
Is it not possible that by gradual
improvements on, the ideas of
Langley, Santos Dumont and
Maxim we will soon arrive at a
practical solution of aerial locomo-
ton? On first view it seems i'm
possible that we will some day
have an aerial highway between
Chicago and London; still it is
within the possibilities of the fu-
ture. From the progress already
made in aerial navigation it is ap-
parent that we. are living in an
age which is moulding the inven-
tive future of the world as no other
age has done.
When years ago Jules Verne
wrote the story of Nemo's SUBJ
marine voyage and described the
ship there was no practical ques-
ton of the feasibility Of travelling
beneath the water. Now we have
submarine boats as part of our
navy. Undoubtedly this question
will be worked out further and in
years to come submarine vessels
will be able to obtain their power
from the sea itself as Memo did.
Not long ago [ read a story in
one of the magazines, wherein, by
means of some kind of a camera,
one of the characters was made
invisible. It is possible that
among the scientific wonders of
the future will be an invisible
police and prison guards who will
always be present but cannot be
seen, it being claimed that the
invisibility of the human body
will some day become chemically
possible.
The principal scientific prob
lens of the last century probably
owed their solution greatly to the
play of imagination and men are
today imagining that in the theatre
of the future, the actors, actresses
and dramatic stars to come will
will have the satisfaction of know
ing that they are being seen and
heard simultaneously in America,
Europe, Asia, Africa and Austria
liza. Jules Verne says that even
tually night will be done away
with by means of electricity and
that the human race will some
day invent a method to make
work possible for the whole "a
hours, the necessary rest being
mechanically procurable without
actual sleep. We may finally de-
velope into such creatures as n.
G.. Wells describes in one of his
books. At any rate the great de-
veloping power of the future is
electricity. It will be used for
purposes Of which we do not now
even dream.
We think We are living in. q
wonderful age, but generations to
come will read our history and
wonder how we even found life
worth living with our primitive
methods. q. S.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13
Fabricius the Honorable.


| of his largest elephants to be SO
placed behind d curtain that, when
it was drawn, the elephant would
be behind him. Fabricius, how
ever, remained cool and unterri-
fed. Then turning to the aston
ished Pyrrhus, who was crestfallen
ut the dismal failure of his elabo-
rate scheme, he said: Neither
your gold yesterday nor your big
beast today can move me-"
The embassy failed to secure
peace, but Pyrrhus was SO highly
pleased with the frmness and
honesty of Fabricius that he per-
mitted all his captives to return to
Rome to take part in the winter
holidays, only demanding their
word of honor to return to captiv-
ity providing the senate refused to
make peace. When the senate re-
fused to accept the terms laid
down by Pyrrhus, it is said that
every soldier again returned to
captivity.
Fabricius was considered one of
the most honest men of his day.
No doubt the profigate and cor
rnpt oHiceholders hated him just
as intensely as the same class of
persons today despise the honest
citizen who exposes their dishon-
est methods. He abhorred treach-
cry and publicly denounced those
who, on account of their position,
took advantage Of the public in
order to enrich themselves. He
had his enemies, but we gods what
villainous set of rascals they
we're! If he could have stood the
bunch up in a row no doubt it
would have warmed the cookies of
his heart to think that such hypo-
critics were not his friends.
Another pleasing incident is re-
lated in regard to Fabricius' hon
esty. Pyrrhus' physician, wishing
to revenge himself because of
some grievance, wrote a letter to
Fabricius in which he offered to
poison his king for a certain
amount of gold. The message was
delivered to him in the senate. As
soon as he read the atrocious prop
osition of the physician he arose
in his seat and spoke so eloquently
against treachery and so warmly
championed the virtues of Pyrrhus
that he succeeded in getting the
senate to notify Pyrrhus of the
base conduct of his physician.
When the Epirote king received
the message he exclaimed in
amazement at the magnanimity of
his enemies whom he had always
considered barbarians: ''Adnir-
able Fabricius, it would be as easy
to turn the sun from his course as
thee from the path of honor" In
acknowledgment of the noble
conduct of Fabricius and the
Roman senate, Pyrrhus released
all the Romans whom he had
taken prisoners and sent them
home rich with presents.
That was the kind of Roman
Fabricius was. That was the kind
of honesty he preached and prac-
ticed. But Roman honesty was
already so badly tainted that cor
ruption stalked abroad without a
mask or fear of detection. When
the Numidian king visited Rome
and as he left the city gate it is
reported that he looked back and
sarcastically exclaimed: eff I had
gold enough I would buy the city
itself" S.
Coro%or Prrton .>e Kapcoo &c
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13
| ID

occurred many instances
- which showed what
q keen sense Of honor some
of the Romans possessed. None,
however, stands out 80 conspicu-
ously and entirely separate as does
the type of honor and integrity
which Fabricius. venerable old
senator who existed about 279 B.
c., so frequently gave such mar
velous examples.
History records the simple fact
of his sterling honesty. No other
achievement was placed to his
credit. When we consider what
Rome was at this period we can
readily understand the homage
that history pays to the memory
of Fabricius. Rome was nation
of cruel warriors. The very air
which the Romans breathed was
pregnant with assassinations and
the carnage of war. Since Romu-
lus and his wife stealing soldiers
first laid the foundation of that
lusty city, there was almost con-
tinual state of war, if not inter
necine, then with the Sabines or
some other nearby nation. Rome's
fonudaries we're as elastic as a
xHbber band. The career of her
lawmakers was uncertain and
fraught with great personal dan
ger. Her civil government was
aristocratic, but as unstable and as
shifting as the pawns on a chess
board. The people lived on the
spoils of war. Conquest was their
occupation and it enabled them to
not only live in luxury, but to
maintain the superiority of Roman
arms.
When we remember that the
Romans at this period were almost
deficient in literature and : pos.
sessed little knowledge of science
and art, we wonder that their
moral nature had not become COM
pletely subservient to the savage
instincts which they so frequently
gave evidence in some of their
foreign wars. With the individ-
ual, however, honor was often as
conspicuous as its absence was
noticeable among the members of
the senate and tribune. AS ma
ton Rome seldom distinguished
herself in ways considered highly
honorable. She annuled her
treaties and disavowed her pledges
the moment they interferred with
any of her numerous schemes Of
conquest.
Fabricius was highly honored
among the Romans for his hon.
'esty and temperate manner of
living. When the senate selected
him to head an embassy to nego-
tiate with Pyrrhus, king Of Epirus
who was marching against Rome,
for an exchange of prisoners and
to establish peace, they had i'm
plicit confidence in his integrity.
The crisis demanded an honest
and capable man to extrioate Rome
from her uncomfortable position.
The Office sought the man, just as
it did few centuries before when
the Roman army was in great dan
ger of annihilation. "There is
only one man who can save us.
Cincinnatus must be Dictator, -
unanimously exclaimed the senate,
while Cincinnatus, the honest
farmer, was blowing his field across
the Tiber.
Pyrrhus received Fabricius very
kindly and Immediately attempted
to bride the venerable senator
with costly presents, but he re-
fused to be corrupted by such
tempting offers. A few days later
the diplomatic Pyrrhus endeavored
to win by strategy whore his gifts
had failed. He now ordered one
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13
The Inventive Progress.


imagination is the motive. pow
er which starts the notion and
leads men of science to think out
the possibilities of practical in
ventions. 1t leads to ideas and
ideas are the impelling springs Of
growth and progress. Out OF ideas
have grown great inventions and
discoveries to such an extent that
the present age has become an
age of impossibilities. It has
been demonstrated that ideas are
truths which are possible of real
ization.
In all the wonderful inventions
of the past the Americans take the
lead, and we may Justly pride our
selves on being the most progress
sive nation on the face of the
globe. Looking back through the
inventive history of the United
States we see a succession Of VIC
tories over nature, and we have
good reason to boast Of our
triumphs in steam navigation,
farming implements, mining lna-
chinery and countless labor-saving
devices. We have just opened up
the wide realm of electricity and
as yet know no more the extent of
that empire than we knew fifty
years ago the possibilities Of the
great American desert. Our in
ventions have brought the CONT
nents closer together and the races
of humanity in all parts Of the
world are gradually becoming con-
scious of each other.
Inventive genius is not done
yet, however, and we may expect
still greater wonders than those
achieved in the past. Increasing
knowledge and the worlds de-
mand will necessitate the con-
struction and employment of other
conveniences for carrying on its
business which is steadily in
creasing. The telegraph, tele-
phone, electricity and many other
inventions and discoveries have
changed the conditions of man.
kind, made the world more CON-
Portable and furnished conven-
fences beyond mans anticipations.
What was thought to be an i'm
possibility few years ago is now
common occurrence. Who
thought then that The human voice
would be reproduced in machine?
Who thought that we would some
day talk around the world by wire
or that we could signal across the
ocean by means of wireless teleg-
raphy? In the same way, what is
now thought to be impossibilities
will in the near future become
realities.
1 can remember, long ago, when
reading Edward Bellamy's look
ing Backward" how wonderful, 1
thought, was the imaginary inven-
ton which made it possible to sit
in our own homes and listen to
the news of the day, a sermon or
lecture delivered by some one at q
distant point. Now it is done
every day. I believe that book
led to a practical solution of some
of the authors ideas, yet when it
appeared it only made the people
laugh. Scientists of today go still
further and claim that the time is
not far away when we will have
news transmission by air waves
into photographic instruments
which will repeat the news and
record it at the same time, SO that
people may listen or read as they
prefer. Thew also claim that we
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13

URlNG that period in
which Rome abolished
kingship and established
the supremacy of the
Roman Republic there
occurred many instances
which showed what
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-16
INTEREST CENTERS IN S. A. L.
RumOrs of AmaIEamatfOn with
Other Southern Interests Keep Up.

Rumors of AmalSamation with
other Southern Interests Keep Up.
There has been revival of South
ern Railroad merger talk in the last
few days, after a weeks rest. The
particular interest now seems to be in
Seaboard affairs. If, as is believed by
some, the controlling spirits of the Sea-
board have a big deal on hand,
they have so far succeeded in
lie. There are rumors that the Goulds
are trying to buy the control of the
Seaboard in the open market or form
a traffic alliance with it, conditioned
upon its building line from Birming-
ham, Ala, to Memphis, Tenn, where
it would meet the st. Louis Southwest
ern Railway and the st. Louis and
Iron Mountain and Southern, which
are owned by the Goulds. There is
little belief that the Goulds wish to
buy control of the Seaboard.
Another report is that community
of-interest arrangement is to be made
between the Atlantic Coast Line,
Southern Railway and Seaboard to
Jointly take control of the Louisville
and Nashville, now held by Morgan &
Co.
Soon following Mr.. Morgan's return
next week a variety of important
financial announcements are expected
to be officially made. One 1t is expect
ed will have to do with the Southern
Railway and the Louisville and Nash
vile and the other the st. Louis and
San Franchises project for getting to
the seaboard by use of the Georgia
Central-an arrangement especially
consequential to Central shareholders.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-16
WILLIAMS LAND CO.'S DEAL,

Mr.. williams Talks in Kentucky of
His Railroad Interests.
The Morning News dispatches day
or two ago announced the purchase
of a big tract of Florida timber by
the ]. P. Williams Land Company from
Louisville, KY, capitalists. The rur-
chase was made in Louisville through
Mr.. Williams and Mr.. T. A. Jennings.
The Courier-Journal of Thursday
says:
"Messrs. Williams and Jennings said
the Louisville men had requested that
their names be kept secret, and would
not diyulge them. They also refused to
tell in what part OF Florida the land
is located. The purchasers deal in ma
val stores, and will manufacture tur-
pentine and rosin on the property
Mr.. Williams is president of the
Savannah Cotton Exchange and pres
ident of the Georgia, Florida and At
lanttc Railroad, which is in the course
of construction. The road will extend
from Tallahassee, Fla, to Columbus,
Ga, and all but about fifty miles OF
the track has been laid.
ut will open up some of the best
producing lands in Florida" said Mr..
w ana LHiLk Will De d pay
ing investment from the start. OF
course, the trunk lines will not give US
much assistance. but We think we can
get along with little outside help. The
attitude of the large railroad COM
panies toward the smaller ones has
caused thousands of miles of track to
be laid in the South in the last few
years.
THE people are growing tired OF
mergers, and are going to assert their
rights. 1t is all right for railroads to
buy others, as long as lines are ex-
tended by doing SO, but when a road
absorbs parallel line a wrong has
been done the public. And these things
are done, or contemplated, in the face
OF state laws that prohibit them.
say the people will not see their rights
and the laws thus ignored. The time
will come when they will go to the
courts and settle the matter.
OF course, 1t is impossible to pre-
vent stockholders in one road from
owning stock in a competing line, but
it is not impossible to prevent one line
controlling another"
Mr.. Williams says the new road is
in need of rolling stock, and he will
go to the carworks in Jacksonville to
see what he can find in the way of cars
for immediate use. He has given Or
ders for cars and locomotives, but they
are not ready for service