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pect OF the vote being close adding to the interest
outside and to the actual work and excitement in
the inncrmost circles of the body itself. The con
venton came passing the section providing
for one representative from town on Wednesday,
when the representation article was before II. but
on Thursday the whole thing carried, with a
reconsideration likely come some proposed re-
scindinG action before the body makes final ad-
journmout. The Litchheld County delegates and
the small towns have handled the situation in
genuine political style aided by caucuses under the
lead Of political leaders VINO have been somewhat
noted In that county for the last ten years.
OF the eighty-fiye towns voting for the PROPOSE
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usage cuts figure the court being the arbiter of
all matters of form and procedure, but as par
liamentaran in Legislative body he has been alto
gether out of his field The committee of the
whole which has for the past been presided over
by Vice President Perry. o. Fairfield, has been
handled finely MIR Perry being an expert parlta-
mentaUian; but the convention proceedings nave
often approached the verge Ol being ridiculous
The central point of interest in the convention
having been passed the people of this city are
looking ahead the coming municipal election on
April I. the nominations to be made the present
month. probably the last Friday. The Repub-
lcan nomination is I'm doubt and there Goes not
seem as yet he definite movement cCncen-
tratpd about any particular candidate Mayor
HARRISON would undoubtedly he pleased with re
nomination. but the best judges of the situation
are unable to see how he is going TO get it, Nom
mated two years ago by bare majority of one
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work Mr Comstock was born In MontviNe, Conn,
nfty-two years ago. and when fourteen years OF
age removed Norwich. lie became interested
in Masonry when a young man. and AT tne age
OF twenty-five WAS raised to the degree of Master
Mason i'm St. James'S Lodge. at Norwich. In lS'S
he was knighted in Columbian CommandeTy. ana
was elected Eminent Commander in 1882 ana IN
1898. He has received all the degrees in the SCOT
tish Rite. including the thirty second ana holqs
office IN all Of these bodies i'm the city OF NorWlCH.
Eli Coa Birdsey. the Grand Recorder OF the
Grand Commandery Is one of the best known
Masons in all Connecticut He was born in Acrl-
den i'm 1S43 and has since lived there. lie is direct
descendant OF Deacon John Brdsey; who was one one
of the founders of the town of Milford, coming
from England Boston in i6Sf and removing, 10
Connecticut i'm l639. He married Catherine ButIer,
of the original proprietors Of Hartford. DeYotei9
10 mercantile pursuits he has steadily refused an
political prefermeut. and given his attention 10
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Ton hfty already have only one REPRESENTATIVE and
Of the other thirty-tive represent Gown with
a population large eight thousand. In other
words the small towns. insaneiy jealous OF the
larger ones crowded them out, and the people will
have a chance within three months Of the final ad-
journment Of the convention TO vote the PROPOSE
ton The result Is easily predicted by the veTiest
tyro IN public affairs. The people Will down the
new constitution overwhelmingly. unless complete
revulson Of feeling before the vote is taken
This viii leave the constitution # IS and. what
Is the worst feature of f. conditions will be
they before this convention called. II
there reason for the calling OF the convention
to remedy the evils of unequal representation-and
there certainly was-there will be double the rea-
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advancing the manufacturing and mercantile IN
terests of Aeriden He was secretary of the Meri-
den Merchants Association during the existence
81 that organization. and Is secretary of the
MeTiJen Board OF Trade. He is one Of the wee,
presidents OF the State Board Of Trade ana Il
founder of the Connecticut Society Of the Sons of
the American Revolution. He vas Grand Com3
his address delivered at the annual concIafe IN
1895 is still remembered in Masonic circles.
Samuel J. Bryant. the present Grand Junior
Warden Of the Connecticut Commandery, Is judge
nj the Orange Town Court, although he Is known
through Connecticut for many other things. owing
TO his varied and interesting career. When ne
was graduated from Oberlin College in 1873 he de-
ctded TO enter the ministry, and received his de-
gree from the Yale Theological Seminary In 1916
He had charge of Congregational churches at
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Az OLD CORONATION BIBLE.
From The London Chronicle.

From The London Chronicle.
Though the bibles used a modern coronations
lost the public the nation possesses In the
Cottonian Library volume asserted 10 have been
used AT the coronations Of English soVereigns
three hundred years before the stone in the
coronation chair brought to England from
Scotland 1t is Latin manuscript of the four
Gospels. which tradition asserts the ancient
kings OF England took their coronation oaths This
manuscript duarto volume of 2fI leaves written
apparently toward the end of the ninth century,
and for the period Is fine specimen OF the writing
and art of illumination II narrowly escaped de-
struction in the fire at Ashburnham House. in 1881
and bears evidence OF its danger in crumpled
leaves and singed margins There seems good evil
dence that AstheIstan owned the volume. and gave
II 10 the church Of Dover.
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I'm the city convention, he had the good fortune
10 run against a combination of miXups in the
Democrats party. and a result carried every
ward in the city and elected by over 800
majority. His popularity was so great that he
could not begin settle all his political debts,
although ne made the attempt and the conse-
quence Is that he IS short political friends
hts election
There are several names talk Of, William 9.
skinner. William H Wdtrous and William B.
Dwight being among the number and Colonel
William r Cones has been brought into
the contest recently It Is at all unlikely that
the choice lies between the last two named Mr..
skinner has not been enthusiastic in response to
the requests Of his friends to allow his name 20
be used and is just row in Texas for stay of a
few weeks, with a prospect of his remaining away
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at ship or station. 1t is more often called salt
junk" and would no doubt many times find its
way into the scrapheap If fresh beef could be sub
stituted for il.
However. il bears relation to horse meat
which French soldiers have declared more than once
to be good. sweet meat" but il is invariably, a
fair quality Of corned beef; though 1t is hardened
very much in texture by the use of larger per-
centage of saltpetre in the brine than is custom
airy among the New-Englnd farmers when they
salt down a part of beef "critter' for home
consumption only.
But horses are used at all of the navy stations
TO do the truck work and they become useless and
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Braintree Hin and, Weston. Vt, and at SoUth
Britain. Conn. until he left the ministry, in 1854
In 1888 he was graduated from the Yale Law school
and the same year ne admitted 70 the Con-
necticut bar. He is a member OF the Con-
nectcut Constitutional Convention from Orange.
His Masonic career * long
Edward T. Fuller the present GeneralIssimo of
the Grand Commandery, is secretary OF the Tol-
land County Mutual Fire Insurance Company He
is Grand Marshal Of the Grand Lodge Of Con-
necticut, and has held many other important
Masonic Offices.
G. NJ. Long. Grand Sword Bearer; IS prom
inent oyster grower Of New London and the
pioneer Of steam dredging in Narragansett Bay.
Normaud r. Allen, Grand Standard Bearer, is a
member OF the Hartford drygoods importing house
of Sage, Allen & Co. and recently took his thirty
third degree in Boston.
Julius ". Knowlton. Grand Senior Warden, was
postmaster at Bridgeport for sixteen years, and
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but would accept and well. He represents to
a great degree the conservative element of the
city, and would draw largely from the Democrats
especially from that class of the party which is
looking for a safe" administration.
Ihe Economic League, which has put itself into
the municipal game. is out with announcements
that 1t proposes to control the Republican eau
cusses so far as aldermen and Councilmen are
concerned. but its strength is probematicaI II
started in very large. to all appearances. but it
certainly has been growing smaller in its influence
Tor the last three or four weeks owing to disa-
Sreements among its members.
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possibly until after election. Mr.. Watrous. who
would well with the Grand Army men and
who has many other elements OF strength. is also
I'm the South. Captain Dwight is tho member of
the Republican State Committee from Hartford,
has had much political experience, and has a
large following among the young Republican elc-
ment. He Is young man. very successful in
business, as wool dealer in connection with his
father. General Henry &. Dwight. who has him
self been Mayor of the city. Captain Dwight. once
nomina ted, would be- elected. beyond "a reasonable
doubt. and would make a sensible business Mayor.
HIS training having been in large transactions, and
his financial ability Is thoroughly recognized He
stands for the best element of the young Repub-
licanism of the city. Colonel William r. Cone
has had wide experience In city affairs and for
many years was the abIest member of the Street
Board, where his work in behalf of better streets
and better of inestimabc value to the
department. He will not make a personal canvass
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die too. as they do i'm other lines of work. And
yet sailors know little about horses that the
familiar maxim among them is. Put sailor on
horseback and he'll ride TO the devil And at the
Naval Academy there is nothing in the curriculum
the training and care Of horses. although the
cadets taught the use of hawserS saddles and
Catheads The necessity FOR having Il veterinary
surgeon would seem be apparent in connection
with the report of a board of survey OF the
navy yards recently.
Whenever there is material az a naval station or
on ship that is believed TO be longer useful a
board of officers is detailed hold survey and
10 recommend what disposition shall be made of it,.
So. when a short time ago horse reported TO
be "out of condition" 4 board of survey
tailed. The animal suffering from SPAWN and
hcdNeS. but as the navy regulations prescribed
that boards Of survey can only recommend articles
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SAILORS AND HORSES.
SALT HORSE" AND AN EQUINE ANIMAL
WHICH WAS NO LONGER USEFUL
AT y NAVY YARD.

salt horse is part Of the bill of fare of the
man % -warsman. and it has been condemned in no
unmcasured terms by the bluejaCkets at many a
meal. but rarely condemned by official board of
survey. except when it has taken almost the
character of mahogany, that of the so-called
black marten." when II outranks anything else
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NOTES From THE REGIMENTS.

Company F of the list Regiment has elected Sec
ond Lieutenant James NJ Hutchinson captain
Lieutenant Colonel Wells presided IL being the
wish OF majority Of the company that he do so
Ihe regiment Will soon be supplied with an entire
new outht OF clothing. arms. accoutrements and
The next review of the 23d Regiment will be
rendered To Lafayette Post. G. A. r. of which
Colonel Barnes. of the 23d is president II will be
neld In the latter part of the month \ review in
honor OF the veteran association of the regime MT
Will be held In April. Lieutenant Thomas l.. Chap
man, OF Company ID, has resigned on account OF
business lie joined the regiment in 1855. Company
n Is arranging theatre party for March %
Colonel Eddy Of the 18th Regiment has decided
on Monday, March 81. the for the holding Of
a review in honor of the veteran association. The
projected joint review with the Old Guard of Man
haitian. 10 have been held this spring, has been
postponed until next fall.
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REVIEW or THE SETENTH

Another review of the eth Regiment will be held
IN April Companies g and II will drill bv bat
talon tomorrow night, and will be divided into
tour commands. Companies and will drill
under the same conditions on next Wednesday. In
each case there Will he review and parade and
the regimental band will be present
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TOPICS IN CONNECTICUT.
SMALL TOWNS BLIND TO THEIR OWN
INTERESTS S-HARTFORD PREPARING
FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

Hartford. Conn March Is (SpeciaD.-"The one
andSixty plan" as IT is familiary called has been
adopted by the Constitutional Convention, Presi-
dent Andrews's vote being required TO give it the
necessary two-thirds The convention this
week has been a tremendous tension. the pros
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strange quiet of the racked earth.
Thomas T. Prentiss, United States
consul at st. Pierre was sitting on
the veranda a. his home in the early
hours of the following morning. A
friend came driving by in buggy.
You had better get out of this"
he called to the consul. Il am getting
out, and getting out as fast as can"
"Oh, you are just merely a little
scared" Mr.. Prentiss replied. There
is no need of anyone going away"
at is better to be safe than sorry"
retorted the citizen as he whipped up
his team and fastened on.
1t is from this man, who witnessed
the disaster a short time later from
a neighboring elevation, with a few
who survived the wreckage in the of.
fing and the few who looked on the
cataclysm from distant points, that
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To the Last the Light Population Refused to Believe There
Was Danger, Though the Warning Was Ample.

to say whether there was danger there
or not. Then, too, the governor was
coming, and, moreover, his family was
coming with him. Could there posi-
bly, be any danger where so eminent
and so important personages as these
were? Also a company Of soldiers
from Fort de France were coming
and while the St Pierrans were talk
ing of their arrival the company ap-
peared
II seems singular that the presence
of this small band of soldiery should
have inspired a misplaced confidence,
but it was so, though none seems to
have asked what good the soldiers
could have done, or even the might
est army have effected against vol
canic Pelee.
The governor came, and with him
his family arrived from Fort de France
on the little steamboat Topaz. With
the governor came the geologists, the
wise men who were to sit in judg-
ment and to so fatuously misjudge.
They pondered long, and then gave
fatal assurance that all was well. The
people read the assurances which the
papers printed, drew a long breath of
relief and then turned their attention
to other things to affairs of business
and pleasure and all that goes to
make up the indolent, happy life of
the pleasure loving natives of this
isle. And that night-the night of
May THE wise men FASTENED back
to Fort de France.
The governor and his family were
to have followed the next day, the
French cruiser Suchet having been di-
rected to leave her anchorage at Fort
de France at o'clock for the purpose
of bringing home the governor and his
party.
That plan, If carried out, would
have brought the cruiser to her doom,
and her crew will never cease to
thank their saints and bless the blum
dering mechanic who broke something
in the engine-room as the vessel was
about getting under way, which acci.
dent delayed her departure and proba-
bly, saved the lives of all on board.
Wednesday night-eve of horror!
There are none left alive to tell
what the city was like that night, but
just around a little promontory at
its southern edge nestles the little vii
lage of Carbet, pretty town of some
six or seven hundred people. And
not one of them was hurt, the town
having been screened by the high
ridge which lay between it and st.
Pierre and runs sheer to the sea.
Its northern wall was precipitous
and built close up to it was the south
ern section of st. Pierre. a thickly
populated district whose houses left
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color-red tiled roofs cutting sharp
lines on walls of creamy white, yellow
and orange and bird s-eye blue, min
gled with the green of tropic vcrdure.
Built on a long undulation. which slop-
ed to tho sea, where it clustered in
riot of color near the shore, its sub
urban spots could be picked out here
and there along the flanking spurs
and foothills which roll from Pclee's
base, that great volcanic bulk whose
crest is ever shroudcd in a veil of
clouds.
Over the doomed city the morning
OF May l broke in miracle splendor
skies bright and blue. and foliage
washed to rresher green by hard
rain which had swept over the island
the preceding night. But it was the
last fair day that st. Pierre was to
know.
The market place, the first section
of the city to show life when a West
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analysis, they were too simple, too
West Indian for that. Sufficient that
the rumble had gone.
st. Pierre was gay that night of May
|. The municipal band played music
in the plaza as was It's wont Thurs
day evening This band night was
the one when youths and maidens
might mingle in public, and the young
gallants and mademoiselles, prone
nading around the square under tie
watchful eyes of fathers and mothers
and duennas, talked lightly Of Pelee
and that whitening fall.
Up near Morne Rouge, abode of St
Pierre's wel-to-do, there was a
lawn party that evening, which car
ried its gayety far into the night
zitZas tinkling in the tropic air, and
mantilla draped girls dancing in the
moonlight to the click of castanets.
Friday, day of the evil omen, dawn
ed over St. Pierre. 1t was made
sombre by a thunderstorm, which
brooded over the mountains and from
whose dark clouds came intermittent
flashes of lightning. The nervous
started at every thunderclap and anx-
iously asked one another If that was
not Mont Pelce. while others sought
to trace the alinding flashes to their
source, to see If they were really the
mere play of lightning or volcanic
blazes from the time-worn crater,
which many believed, and all hoped,
was long ago extinct Then a heavy
mist settled over the city and its sur
roundings, and under its depressing
influence the day wore itself to a
close.
Saturday. May 3 Just five days
to the oblteration, to death, utterly,
Wholesale, sudden and tragic! And
yet st. Pierre went forth that day to
carnival doings, local celebration In
honor of something or somebody.
Facts are meager as to that one day
and those following, for it must he
remembered that nobody survived the
horror that was so soon to come. But
there were some who had spent days
in the city just previous to the trag-
edy-some who had left it only a
Grieving for their own lost dead and
with nerves unstrung by the narrow.
ness of their own escape, it may be
that their overwrought minds are
coming visions now. but these tell ear.
nestly of a column OF smoke which
arose, black as a pail, from Pelee S
white shroud to rear its billows OF
Grape into the form or a great up
ended coffin. However that may be
there is evidence that all festival gay
ETY. went when showers of pebbles be
gan to rattle over the city, with now
and then a shower of sand, of grains
hot to the touch despite their lons
flight through the air.
st. Pierre, it is now said. was in q
more sober humor that evening thar
it has been within the memory of thos,
who tell disjointedly the tale of tn,
lavs that ushered in its, doom. Ant
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throes of death. One moment and
church bells were ringing joyous
chimes in the ears of st. Pierre's 30,-
OO0-the next the fiame-clogged bells
were sobbing a requiem for 10000
dead. One wait of morning breeze
flowed over cathedral spires and
domes, over facades and arches and
roofs and angles of a populous and
light-hearted city-the next swept a
lone mass of white-hot ruins. The
sun glistened one moment on spark
ling fountains, green parks and fronG-
ed ponds-its next ray shone on fusing
metal, blistered, fiame-wrecked squares
and charred stumps of trees. One
day and the city was all light and
color, all gayety and grace-the next
its ruins looked as though they had
been crusted over with twenty cen.
turtles of solitude and silence.
Prof. Robert Il. Hill, United States
government geologist and head of the
expedition sent out by the National
Geographical society, has Just come
in from a daring and prolonged in
vestigation of the volcanic activity in
Martinique.
Prof. Hill chartered a steamer and
carefully examined the coast as fal
north as Port de Macouba, at the ex
treme edge of the island, making fre
quent landings. After landing at liz
Precheur, five miles north OF st
Pierre, he walked through an area o.
active volcanism to the latter plac,
and made a minute examination o.
the various phen omena disclosed.
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Reform on the Way in Russia.

Student agitations in Russia ara
bearing fruit 1t is freely predicted by
progressive men in that empire that
the country will have a constitutional
form of government within the next
ten years. The czar and his ministers
realize they must take the lead in
making the reforms or undertake ia
resist them. To resist them means
terrorizing the whole OF the empire
A policy of repression in the present
temper of the people might be extreme
ly dangerous.
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barely enough room for streets, the
buildings budding close to the steep
and wooded acclivity, as if seeking to
escape on the other side of the ridge.
The intervening distance was short.
BY the broad, finely graded bridge q,
and tunneled highway which connect
ed city with village, one would judge
that FIVE minutes brisk walk would
be amply sufficient to reach the one
from the other.
But none sought safety by that
road-at least none escaped by it.
The heart-breaking pity of ii all is that
safety was so near-at the end of
ones fingers almost. For just over
the ridge the grass and palms are
everywhere as green as any in the
tropics to-day, while up to the very
crest of its northern slope are the IN
effaceable marks of ruin and disaster,
as if some sea Of flame had brimmed
TO the very crest of the ridge. to suck
back again before oyerfowing OF the
other side.
So it is the the village folks of Car
bet that one must turn for the last
act in this horrible tragedy.
Night fell, the villagers say. with
an unnatural, unearthly quiet. Not a
breath of air to stir the palms firing
ing on the shores; not a ripple to
break the mirror-like clearness OF
still waters. 1t was as If the hush OF
death lay everywhere. True earth
quake weather. more than one of the
villagers observed as they noted the
oppressive stiffness of the air and the
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III MOlAl 1 NlNN anu lNNfbib WI NAAN
Eruption.)
Indian town awaies, was filling with
,venders and purchasers. when the
first murmur of Pcle", the sleeping
giant, was heard-a deep-toned, Jared
Igro,Jl. which instantly banched the
faces of all who heard, for those bred
in the shadow of the volcano had long
since learned to dread its wrath, and.
growing up. these in turn had taught
other generations of the malevoleno
,Cl that giant bulk. Startled eyes werr
turned to the gloomy mountain,
and were reassurod to see it still quiet
so far as vision went, for its top was
hidden in white mist, and there was
10 sign Of boiling lava and no fall
of hurting rocks.
Those who by chance were in the
city that 'nCrniug, and who by far
luckier hazard were out of it before its