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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-18
ANNU/TIES

Prof. c. S. Grimes of Evanston, Ill.,, now o4 years of age, carried policy of s5,ooo for many years and when he reached the advanced age of 7ohe despaired of it's ever becoming a claim, so he compromised with the company on the basis of an annuity of S41oper year for the rest of his life. During the past 24 years he has received his annual payments with regular ity and great equanimity of mind and, having already drawn So, $40, he has come to the conclusion that he has found the elixir of life in an Annuity.
 At age 70, sI,ooo deposited in The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York will yield an annuity of SI34.77 for life.
 This great corporation is the most wealthy moneyed institution in the world and more than SIo, ,ooo,oo in claims has been paid in this state through the under signed.
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A NEGRO CONVERSION.

Back in the seventies" said a man
 from Arkansas, "I attended negro re-
 Vival in one of the counties lying in the
 St Francis basin, and the church was
 within stones throw of the St. Fran cis river beautifully clear stream
 which gurgles out of the earth some
 where above the sunk lands, and
 sweeps along the eastern side of Crow ley's Ridge, emptying into the Missis-
 sippi about ten miles above Helena
 The spirit of religion had been stirred up to fever heat, and the negroes were fearfully wrought up. They made the hills ring for miles around the place where the meeting was being held. There were many converts, many men and women who had gone up to the mourners' bench to be prayed for, The white people of the surrounding coun- try would occasionally go to the church just to watch the proceedings, hear the strange, weird music of the singers, and see the negroes shout. Negroes are great shouters in the backwoods, and they tell the most amusing and marvel ous tales imaginable when they are giving in their experiences. Moham- med's description of his visit through the seven upper regions is not mark CT in comparison. One night a bad ne- gro was suddenly converted. He told of his experience with the redeeming spirit. At the end of his miraculous story he was overcome by his feelings and began to shout, and the shouting wound up in a swoon. He was carried out of the church and laid on the side of the hill in a bed of leaves. Leaves were plentiful as it was in the fall Of the yeare, and the negro convert was almost buried in these dry and fallen vestments of the trees. The negro did not remain in his swoon very long. There was crowd of mischievous boys in the neighborhood. One of them stuck a match to the dry leaves, and in a short while the negro was almost en- veloped in flame. He came to, jumped up, and made desperate dash down the side of the hill. He never knew the cause of the fire, and the next day he was telling the most marvellous sto- ries in the world about the dream he had of going to hell, and he always be- leved the devil had something to do with setting the leaves afire. It made Christian out of him. New Orleans Times Democrat,
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ON THE FRENCH CONGO.

There are several kinds of trouble in Africa, and there will be until things get more settled there. The condition of British and other foreign merchants on the French Congo seems to be desper- ate, under the new policy of the French Colonial department, and there is ap- parently very little help for them The whole territory has been divided among a number of concessionaire societies, which by the terms of their agreement with the French government enjoy a monopoly of the products of the soil. In a circular letter addressed by the Gov ernor of French Congo to his subordi- mates it was announced that the conces- sionaries were alone entitled to the products of the soil in their respective concessions. The concessionaires at
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-18
CIVIL WAR INCIDENT

In connection with the article in the
 Sun of last Friday relating an incident of the battle of Kennesaw Mountain Georgia, in 1864, when Colonel w. H Martin, of the First Arkansas regiment gave the order to his men to stop firing and hoisted a white handkerchief on a stick that the Federals in his front might remove some of their wounded men from burning woods, Mrs, Su- san B. Hull, of No. 1920 Cathedral street, recOunts an interesting bit of history
 The First Arkansas regiment was composed largely of students of St Johns college, at Little Rock, and was officered by the professors and instruc- tors of the college. The first colonel of the regiment was Mrs. Hulls brother, Colonel John Baker Thompson, who had been president of the college, and who afterwards fell at the battle of Shiloh. The First Arkansas was en. camped near Fredericksburg when the first battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, opened. The command was ordered to the field, and it made the march in re- markedly good time, winning words of praise from General Magruder. The men were not allowed to halt on the march, the roads were dusty and the weather warm, and they suffered terri bly, from thirst. When the battlefield was reached the command was thrown into the forefront of the fighting. AL vet f1tr in Npt t1,n | was a spring of cool water, completely covered, however, by the guns of a Federal battery. This tempting spring, so near and yet so far was exceedingly tantalizing to the thirsty men, and finally, when human nature could stand it no longer, two young boys, both un- der sixteen, whose names, unfortunate ly, have been lost in the flight of time, volunteered to get some water from the spring. With a lot of canteens strung over their shoulders the two young he roes started on their perilous journey. As soon as they came within range of the Federal battery it opened on them, and perfect hail of canister and grape swept the field. The two lads reached the spring uninjured and quickly filled the canteens, while their comrades watched with breathless interest eX- pecting every moment to see them struck down. Suddenly, as if by magic the fire of the battery ceased, Then as the boys started on their return to the regiment an officer on horseback rode out from between the guns of the bat tery, and, lifting his hat, waved it to the boys, while a hearty cheer broke from the throats of the cannoneers. The officer had discerned the mission of the lads and given orders to stop firing. The cheer was responded to by the thirsty Confederates, and a few min utes later they were pouring the re- freshing water down their dusty threats
 Possibly at Kennesaw, when the men and boys of the First Arkansas regi- ment saw the unfortunate wounded
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. - CAN'T BE TOO MANY,

When is man entitled to be called "Colonel?" That is a hard question to answer, and we shall not attempt to answer it, though we believe that any man who wants to be called Colonel should be so called by his polite and &C., commodating fellow citizens. It will not hurt the fellow citizens and it will do the man good. An interesting ef- fort has just been made in Iowa to make it clear when an auctioneer is en- titled to be called Colonel" At a meeting of auctioneers held at Water loo, Iowa, the other day it was asserted that there were too many among them called "Colonels." A motion was adopted to the effect that an auctioneer must cry one thousand sales before ac- quiring the right to be known as "Col- onel"
 This action is, of course, purely arbi- trary. A thousand sales don't make an auctioneer a Colonel any more than one sale makes him Colonel. We think It would have been better to leave each auctloneer to his own chances of being honored by the coveted title. We hope that the action of the auctioneers' con- vention will not be initiated by con- ventions of members of other trades, or professions. Let everybody who wants to be called Colonel be called Colonel, without regard to the number of things he has sold or said, There can't be too many Colonels in the auctioneer busi- ness or anywhere else.
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Pu's Pipe.

Since papa lost his meerschaum pipe The house is filled with gloom, From the attic to the basement 1t Suggests the silent tomb. And papa, once so pleasant now Is cueru!ous and cross, And we all are quite familiar with The story of his loss It's the only thing he talks about From morning until night, You'd think that old pipe was unique, And worth Il million. quite. It has been his boon companion For at least dozen years, And every time he speaHs of 1t His sad eyes fill with tears. The world is very beautiful, But papa has no eyes For all it's oveliness, but mopes And mourns, and fretS, and slghs, Soon roses all around will bloom, And cherries will be ripe, But pa will find no joy in life Until he finds that pipe!
 -Somerylle Journal.
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EHER TIE SAME.

The irreconcilables are not certain in their minds about the meaning of Mondays vote, but they are as certain in their mouths as ever They boldly say that the people rejected the pro- posed Constitution because there wasn't enough reform in it, and they solemnly add Nothing is settled until it is set tied right" Of course, but it may be long time before the right triumphs and when it does perhaps the present irreconcilables will not be alive to see 1t, and perhaps if they were they wouldn't know it as right. Their situ- ation is much like that of the man who prays His prayer may be ans answer may not be in the shape he expected. But they are, all the same, to be congratulated on their fervent faith and glowing hope They have been soothed and sustained by their faith and hope in many crisis, and they will be sustained by them when other crises come, And if they must die without the sight of what they say is right they will die happy in their hope and faith even as did the young man who shouted Strawberries" until he froze to death in the icy Alps. It is fine thing to be consistently ire concilable in saecula saeculorum, world without end, Amen.
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NoT1cH TO CONTRACTORS.

Wooster School Buildings and New Floors in the Washington and Welch School Buildings.
 Office of the Board of Education,
 21 Center Street,
 New Haven, Conn, June 16, 1902.
 Advertisement.
 Sealed proposals will be receive at this office until Friday June p, 1902, at s O clock D. m., at which time they will be opened in public. meeting by the Committee on School Buildings of the Board of Edu- cation, for new Windows in the Washing ton and Wooster School Buildings and new Floors in the Washington and Welch School Buildings.
 Plans, specifications and forms of pro- posals may be obtained at the office of the Board of Education 21 Center Street, New Haven. Conn.
 Proposals must be made for each school separately and on blank form furnished and must be addressed to G. T. Hewlett, Clerk of the Board of Education, 21 Center Street, New Haven, Conn, and endorsed Bid for New Windows" or Bid for New Floors" as the case may be. certified check drawn to the order of the Controller of the city of New Haven for five per cent. of the amount of the proposed contract and the successful bidder will be required to give security to the satisfaction of the Mayor and Controller of the city of New Haven for the faithful performance of his contract, as provided in Section 156 of the revised charter of the City of New Haven.
 The Committee on School Buildings re- serves the right to reject any or all bids.
 c. T. HEWLETT, j17 St Clerk Board of Education.
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GOOD OUTO OF AN ILL WIND.

There are sharp people in this coun- try, and some of them are in the oeo- margarine business. The anti-oleomar- garine act which was passed by con- gress goes into effect on the first day of next month. That law puts q tax of ten cents a pound on artificially-colored oleomargarine, but all oleo that is man ufactured in the meantime and got out of the factories goes at the old rate of two cents pound. The manufacturers are making hay while the sun shines, and ever since it was certain that con- gress was going to pass the hostile law the factories have been working night and day. Tremendous quantities of oleomargarine have been turned out and packed away in cold storage. It is estimated that enough surplus stocksto supply the country for six months will be on hand by July 1. The Treasury de- partment figures show that the facto- ries are being worked to their utmost, for there has been a great run on Com missioner Yerkes for oleo stamps. For instance, the receipts from the sale of two-cent internal revenue oleomargar- inc stamps during the month of April were $101,269 more than they were for the same month of last year. The gain in the receipts for the month of April represented about 50 per cent of the total increase for the ten months of the current fiscal year The figures for May are not yet ready, but many of the collectors ran out of stamps and had to make additional acquisitions
 Thus will the oleo makers profit by legislation that was intended to beat them. And if they can persuade people to eat white oleo as they do the colored product the business will continue to flourish. The tax on the uncolored stuff will be only one-fourth of one per cent a pound and of course it is just as good as the colored stuff.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each In. serilor. Five Gents Word for full week tseven timesl.
 Display advertisements. per inch. one in; fertiOn, SI.20; each subsauuent insertion, 4O cenIs: one week, S3.2O; one month, $40; ona year. $4A
 Obituary NoIces. In prose or verse, 15 cents per line. Notices of Births, Iarts ages. Deaths, and Funerals. % cents each. tocai Notices. 16 Der line
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A western thinker undertakes to prove that bicycle riding is injurious to health because the demand for rubber for use in the manufacture of tires has so enhanced the price of that commod- ity that fewer people wear oyershoes in damp weather
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In London some fashionable women are wearing belts ornamented with Chi nese hieroglyphics in silver, and one woman was chagrined to learn from Chinese diplomat that the hieroglyphics she wore read, May all my enemies die by torture" and May l have fifty sons"
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boys in blue in ranger of horrible death in the burning woods, they re- membered the incident of the first great battle of the War.-Baltimoree Sun
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Ed,trattn1t.
VOICE LLUT ULU BUILDER.
 INTERPRETATION, REPEkTOIRN. FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR, DRESDEN. STUDIO, b5 INSURANCE BUILDING.
Special Summer Season.
 Georgea w. Kelsey

G,ate Director Metropolitan Conservatory and School of Public Performance, Chieago.l Will give instruction in the VIRGIL PIANO METHOD and MASON'S TOUCH and TFCHNIC, at the Music Studios,
 55I CAMPBELL AVE-. WEST HAVEN, from June 23 to August 30 inclusive. Elec- tric cars transferring to all parts of the city pass the door.
 CLASS INSTRUCTION.
 Twenty lessons regularl and ten free lessons (30 in alb, adults, S15.90. Children eleven to fourteen years, Slooo. Children six to ten years, $7.50. Pupils not havlnf instruments can practice one hour daily al the Music Studios. ten weeks, S2.50.
 Private lessons In Voice, Piano and Pipe Organ. with practice on the latter, can be arranged for at regular rates at any time.
 Advanced pupils specially prepared for concerts and recitals. privately or in class.
 Call or address for circular.
 In New York Wednesdays. j2 cod I'm
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The memorial arch which is to be erected at Richmond, Virginia, in honor of Jefferson Davis will be sxty-five feet high At each end of the structure will be figure, one symbolizing fame, and the other the Host cause" The total cost of the arch will be $75,Oo0, more than half of which has already been subscribed.
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School children can hear strange things. One of the English papers gives the answers of certain board school boys who were asked to write down the whole or part of the chorus of Rule Britannia" One of them gave the first line as "Royl Brick Tanner, Brick Tan ner rules the way" a second began it with "Rore Britanier," while a third at tempted a whole verse. This was his version: "The nations not so blest has he but still in stern but still stern stern to God most all this was the Chelter the Chelter of the stall and God in An gles sang the Strang Bulbiatanya bia tanya woves the waves for Britains never will be slain"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-18

An ancient royal charter conferred on the mayor and corporation of the city of Cork jurisdiction lover the har- Dor, as we'll as the rivers, creeks and bays within the same" and this juris- diction is maintained by marking it's boundary every three years, by casting into the sea, at a point about three miles outside the harbor, a dart or iave- lin, to mark the seaward bounds of these rights. On such occasions the mayor proceeds in state to the point in question, accompanied by the members of the corporation and number of the leading citizens, and performs the an- cient ceremony. The present mayor performed the ceremony in the presence of a large company on May 20 last.
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District of New Haven, ss Probate taoa Court ESTATE of RICHARD F. MOORE, of New
 Haven, In said District, absent and un-
 heard from for sixteen years.
 Mary Mclaughlin, of New Haven. having ministration of said estate may be granted, as by said application on file in this Court more fully appears, it is
 ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at a Court of Probate to be held at New Haven, in said District, on the 10th day of June, 1902, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and that public notice of the pendency of said application, and of the given to all parties interested in said estate, by publishing this order three times in a newspaper having circulation in said Dis trict
 By order of Court.
 JAMES KINGSLEY BLAKE.
 i17 St Clerk. District of New Haven, ss Probate Court. ESTATE of CHARLES E. THOMPSON,
 late of New Haven, in said District, de-
 ceased.
 The Executors of said estate having made written application praying an extension of the time last limited for the settlement of said estate for a further period of six months, as by said application on file in this Court more fully appears, 1t Is ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at Court of Probate to be held at New Haven, in said District, on the 23rd day of June. 1902 at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and that public notice of the pendency of said appllcatin, and of the time and place of the hearing thereon, be given by publishing this order three times in some newspaper having circulation iu said District, By order of Court.
 JAMES KINGSLEY BLAKE. jf7 St Clerk.
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An interesting exodus from Phiadel- phia took place the other day, when about 1,200 Italians, men, women and children, started for the south Jersey berry fields. They were in charge of padrones who make annual contracts with farmers and growers to supply a certain number of hands. The pa drones'' accompany the pickers to cer- tain stations, where division is made, and they send the different groups to their destination. The farmers provide frame structures for the pickers. The berry pickers open a season in the strawberry fields. From there they go to picking peas and beans, then dew berries, and wind up in the cranberry growing districts. Many of the Italian families make several hundred dollars in a season and go back to Italy in the winter.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY
 15 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, X s3 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS DY MAIL.
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FOR SALE.

In order to give all our attention to our increasing Lumber and Mill business, we offer the stock and good will of our SASH, DOOR and BLIND department for sale. To the right party very favor able terms will be given.
 The Elm City Lumber Co.,,
 WATER SIT, FOOT OF OLIVE.
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The English people are litigious. Fig ures given out in recent parliament tary return show that on the average, in 1900, one person in every twenty five in England and Wales went to law dur ing the course of the year. These are, of course, average figures based on the fact that there were 1,S10,6S0 civil cases begun during that year. The London Express, in explaining these figures, de- ciares that "the cantankerously litig- ious person and the tradesman who is unfortunate in the number of customers who will not pay their debts bring up the average There are also some l., 357 appeals from old cases which go to swell the return for 1900.
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The Mississippi Supreme court has af- flrmed the constitutionality of the State primary law passed by the legislature at the recent session. The court de- cides that no candidate for any office, State, district, or ward, can be placed on the official ballot as a party candi- date except by means of primary elec- tion. The law does not prohibit con- ventions, the court declares, and con- ventions, if necessary for the declara- tion of party principles, may be called and held, but they cannot be used to make party nominations for office.
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THE WEEKLY J0URNAL,
 Tssued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-12
HATS OFF"

The multiplicity of fuss and discussion
over the visit of Prince Henry reminds
the Elizabethtown, Ky, News of an in
cident during the tour of Dom Pedro,
Emperor of Brazil in Kentucky a num-
Der of vars ago:
The Emperor, with handsomely uni
formed suite, was on his way to Mann
moth Cave. At that time there was no
railroad. and stages were taken at Cave
City. Half way to the cave the party
stopped at a beautiful spring by the side
of the road to get a drink. A number
of natives were standing by admirng the
magnitcence of the party. An officer in
a gorgeous uniform got out a silver pitch
er, and calling to one of the natives
asked him to fill it with water from the
spring Pouring the water out in a sill
yer goblet, the officer handed it to the
Emperor, and at the same time uncov-
cring remarked to the crowd of Kentuck-
ians: Hats off while the sovereign
drinks" The Kentuckians, with their
usual courtesy, uncovered while Dom
Pedro emptied the goblet. After the
thirst of all the party was satisfied some
water still remained in the pitcher, and
filling the goblet the officer handed it to
the man who had brought them the water.
The Kentuckian took it, and fully appre-
ciating the situation, raised the goblet
above his head and called out in a COM
handing term in imitation OF the officer:
Hats off while the sovereign drinks!
Dom Pedro saw the point at once, and
he and all his suite uncovered as this
Kentucky sovereign took something that
his stomach was not accustomed to.