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ANIMALS IN THE MISSISSIPPI
 FLOODS

Some curious sights have been seen and are still visible at times along the railroads leading into Memphis from Arkansas through the flooded country near the Mississippi River. Up to Sum- day the Iron Mountain was the only line that was open, but on that day the Frisco got its first train through. Passengers on the Iron Mountain and Choctaw trains quite generally go to the windows of the platforms when they draw near Memphis in order to see the track in the flooded region. The water is now below the rails, but pieces of driftwood against the rails show that the water was entirely over the track at places. The Iron Mountain has used an immense amount of stone in weight ing down it's track, and along the north side of the roadbed thousands of sacks of earth have been laid and securely packed.
 All the cotton platforms and freight depot stations in the overflowed region are being used as islands of safety and contain tents for people and pens for stock At several points chickens were seen perching on the gable of a house. How they got food was not apparent. One house near the railroad was tethered to a big tree with a heavy iron chain, which had been led out the front door, the other end evidently having been fastened to the timbers inside.
 At one station on the Choctaw there were four mules, one horse. three dogs,
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AMERICAN DIAMONDS.
Valuable Pebbles May be Found in
 Certain Gravel Beds in This Coun-

Valuable Pebbles May be Found in
 Certain Gravel Beds in This Coun-
 try.
 The presence of fresh water pearls in American streams is 8 comparatively well known fact The discovery of dia- monds in the United States has not been so widely advertised. largely, no doubt, because so few jewels of the latter kind have been found here. South Africa is now the largest pro- ducer in the world, and Brazil ranks next in present yield. India, Borneo and the Ural Mountains of Russia have in the past supplied great many dia- monds, In nearly every country which supplies these stones they are found at a considerable distance from the vein of mineral in which they were once oe- posted. South Africa affords marked execution to the rule. Tn that part of the world they are embedded in pans" or "pipes," which are >streaks of lava, that have invaded black shaly rock. The suspicion is now entertained that the intense heat of volcanic action may have converted some of the carbon i'll the shale into jewels.
 One of the regions in the United States from which small diamonds have been obtained is the Piedmont plateau, at the southeastern base of the Appa- lachian chain, between southern Vir- ginia and Georgia. Nearly or quite dozen, one reaching twenty-three ca- rats in size, have been picked up there under circumstances that suggest the probability of having been transported rolled down hill, perhaps-many miles from the place of their birth. Geo. logical conditions like those existing at Kimberley have been observed in Kentucky, but up to date no diamonds have yet been discovered in that state. A possible explanation of the failure is the lower proportion of carbon in the shale.
 A somewhat difficult problem is raised by finding seven diamonds, rang ing in size from four to twenty-one ca rats, and number of smaller ones. in
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2O2, ,5O2: special deposits, si.4S5.54 a to- tai of s17,377.4s7.
 The expenditures made during the year by all the properties and charged to property account were $16.5SG,5
 The average number of employees in the service of all properties during the entire year was 16S.127, receiving for salaries and wages S12O, ,52S. .S43. Total number of stockholders in March, 1905, was 5S,629, an increase of 15,610- This does not include the subscription for preferred stock by the 27,379 employees who were granted the opportunity to participate in the profits of the organi- zation through the purchase of the pre- ferred stock Of the corporation.
 The tonnage of unified orders on the books at the close of 1902 equalled B. 347, ,253 tons of all kinds of manufactured products against S4,497,749 tons at the corresponding period in 1901. In many of the classes of heavier products like rails, plates and structural material, practically the entire capacity of the mills is sold up until nearly the end of 1903.
 The report contains a map showing all the properties of the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel C0rnoratiOO
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six pigs. two COWS. two negroes, and four white men living on big raft, which had been made from a cotton platform and pieces of timber. The men were living in a small tent, and the pigs had their hind legs tied one to another.
 Probably the most interesting feature of the flood is its effect on wild animals. An official of the ChOctaw Railroad. who walked at night seven miles west from the eastern terminal at the Missis- sippi river the frs: day the water got high enough to stop trains, says that at every few feet he saw pair of green eyes gleaming at him in the darkness. There were the optics of snakes and various kinds O. animals.
 A passenger on train saw rabbit sitting on top of a fence post near the railroad track. He mentioned the cir cumstance. and was told by railroad official that the people in the flooded country are now hunting rabbits in trees. It is a fact that the little ani- mals have scrambled from driftwood to the branches of trees that reach down to the water, and crouching there. cold and frightened, may be knocked into a skiff with a stick. One negro was seen who had the bottom of his boat full of rabbits he had captured in this way.
 On the first day the water got high enough to stop the train service on the Choctaw road an official of that line saw ten deer on the track near Ed mondson, which is sixteen miles from Memphis. Six O. these deer were shot by negro, although this is the closed season. A deer was on the track near the bridge just east of Edmonson, and being frightened by the approach of some railroad men jumped into the wa ter. The swift current bore him down against the bridge and the railroad men lifted him out by the ears.
 A. mouse was seen afloat on a small block of wood. He was continually rum ming around his little raft as if seeking some way to escape, and no doubt. won- dered what new kind of trap this was he had been caught in.
 A railroad repair party flushed pos sum which had taken refuge in hole that the water had washed out under the track. The little animal jumped into the water and swan to a nearby tree, into whose branches he climbed. In the top was big birds nest, and MT. O'Possum made straight for it, and ensconced himself therein. True, it was 2 last years birds nest, but with the small amount of good holes and hollows available for 'possums in east ern Arkansas just now, this one was not in mood to demand that anything be charged off on account of deprecia- tion and wear and tear. - Arkansas Gazette.
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ANNUAL RERObT
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 mined, not including that used in mak- ing coke, 709,367 tons; blast furnaces products, 7,975,53O tons; steel ingot pro- duction, 9,743,91S tons. Total tonnage of rolled and other finished products for sale, S,197,232 tons. The aggregate inventory of all properties to Decem- Der S1, 1902, edualled the total sum of $104, ,39O,S44. About one-third of this sum is represented by the value of iron ore on hand. It is necessary to &C., cumulate large tonnages of ore during the summer and fall months for con- version during the period extending from December to April 15 when, ow- ing to the close of navigation on the Great Lakes, the mining of ore is re- duced and shipment from the mines en- tirely stopped.
 The quantities of partly finished ma terials and of finished products, are somewhat above the normal average, owing largely to the railroad conges- ton at principal producing centers, which prevented prompt delivery from the mills. Inventories are taken on basis of actual costs of material and products at the several departments of the company holding the same. Total capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding on December 31 was S50S, ,302, 800 common stock and $510,2S1,- 100 preferred stock. The bonded and mortgaged debt of the United States Steel Corporation and subsidiary com panies in the hands of the public at the beginning of the year was $366, ,097, ,69S. Issues made during the year by several companies $2,370, 33S, total $363, ,46S, ,036. Total bonds and mortgages paid and cancelled during the year $1,697,577, bonds purchased by trustees of sinking funds for investment $3,115,OOO, leaving the bonded, debenture and mortgaged debt December 31, 1902, $363, ,655, 459, g. net decrease during the year of $2,442,- 239.
 Purchase money obligations and bills payable paid off between April 1, 1901, and December 31, 1901, amounted to s11, ,O47, 971 paid off during 1902, $13,6 36S, total reduction of $24, ,700,359. The funds for the payment of these liabili- lLlGS were lJIOfldCu ClIIIlCly tuS surplus net earnings of the organiza- tion, no new capital or bonds or other liability having been created in lieu thereof, although practically all of such payments might properly be funded, as the liabilities were those of the sub sidiary companies prior to or at the time of organization for the requirement of additional property or for moneys borrowed, which were in turn used for purchase of property and construction expenditures. The amount of these lia- bilities outstanding on December S1, 1902, was ,419; bills payable, $6,-
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DANGER OF BIG APPOINTMENTS
 American Medicine expresses A fear


 lest the new-fashioned millionaire en- dowments of research may attract many of the best men away from use- full work. Research work, in this coun- try at least, has been stimulated by the practical demands of practical men. The investigator has had definite ob- ject in view and was ardent in pursuit of it. He was thus little disposed to fancy jobs. always working for imme- diate results. Here and there a man with scientific genius caught all the threads of investigation together and perceived useful general truth-made a discovery, But now endowed re- search" with millions back of it, need not take account of utility. An investi- gator receiving a handsome income for work on a purely useless. but very sci entif1c, line will be tempted to nurse his job"-spin it out-while the subven- tion lasts. He need not hurry it, or look for useful application. The less practical he is the more scientific he will be accounted. Such is the danger
 Germany has heretofore been the land of original research, but it has not pro- duced as many practically useful in ventions and discoveries as Englond
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1O2 CHURCH STREET.
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the Great Lake region, under circum- stances that indicate that they were brought there by the great ice sheet of the glacial period. Most of the stones were discovered in Wisconsin. but one or two also. In every instance the jewels were hidden in the gravel of a kettle moraine," a kind of deposit which geologists recognize as having been left by a glacier Since the ice sheet which carried these stones into the United States doubtess travelled hundreds of miles, possibly thousands, it is hard to locate the center from which they proceeded, although this must have been up in British territory somewhere. However, Canadian geolo- gists have lately expressed the opinion that the highest land from which the ice sheet flowed existed west of Hud- son Bay, but that the source of the ice which invaded the lake region was Lab rador, east of Hudson Bay. T4<las:
 The fact of greatest practical impor- tance is that other glacial moraines in the United States may possibly contain jewels like those already discovered in the lake region. There are such depos- its in southwestern New York and on Long Island, for instance It would pay to keep sharp lookout where gravelly ridges are being cut for roads or other purposes in order to insure the finding of jewels if any exist there. Diamonds in the rough are not exactly round, though they may have blunt corners. They tend to assume srys- talline shape, and have slightly surying, not flat, sides. Some of the Wisconsin diamonds had over a dozen facets. The form does not closely resemble the cut stone, nor does the pebble blisten. Their remarkable hardness enables them to scratch all other substances. Perhaps they, may not be over a six teenth of an eighth of an inch in diam eter. But anything faintly suggestive i of cubical bit Of material found in glacial gravel ought to receive critical study.-New York Tribune.
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and the United States, where even sci- entific workers usually have their feet
 firmly planted on the ground. More
 original research will perhaps do us
 good, but we may not overdo it-get our heads among the clouds? Our big
 endowments put premium, it is held,
 on barren pursuits. This change, says our contemporary, "has been due
 partly to the force of German and French example and partly to the ac-
 quisition of money. The scientist now
 sees a prospect of being able to retire into a cell, where he can cogitate and
 experiment undisturbed by the clamors
 of the classroom and the importunities of the exacting professional public. The situation is now without peril.
 The tendency on the continent-espec-, ially in Germany-is more and more to. pursue science for its own sake. This spirit leads man sometimes to lose
 sense of the proportion of things. AS a recent critic has said of the Germans, they are specialists and classifiers. They deal in formulas, data and rules. They write history just as they culti- vate science-the one is the work of the | seminar, the other of the laboratory. | The heart of the thing is not always in it. We may set up vast and learned apparatus, but the soul of the read
 seer and teacher may be lacking in it.
 President Garfield said that true col | Iege could be represented by log of 1 wood, with Mark Hopkins seated on one end of it and student on the oth- er."
 Science is science, no doubt, and we cannot have too much of it, but the l danger of divorcing science from teach
 ing by means of endowments that cre- ate multitude of soft places" is that we shall have a great deal of useless work homework which leads nowhere
 and is not meant to lead anywhere. The weIl-financed demand may call 1 into existence a host of parasites on
 research It may increase the produc- ton of the kind of essays made to or der for public documents printed at 1 Washington--a fearful prospect. If our endowments increased more slowly, our development of original research would undoubtedly be more real and whole some than it is likely to be under ac- | tual conditions. Now there is a hot
 house atmosphere in the department of
 research which is likely to promote not
 a little jobbery in the distribution of favors and science falsely so called.-- Baltimore Sun.
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Starin New Haven Transportation Line

Ualiy, Except Saturday.
 . Steamer John H. Starin Capt McAliis- ter) leaves New Haven from Starin's Pier: foot of Brown Street, at 1915 D. m., Sun. Erastus Corning, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Steamers leave Pier, 13, North River, N. at p. n. daily lexcept Sat. urday), Fare, 70 cents. Excursion tickets. room for sale at J. B. Judson's, S67 Chapel st., Peck < Bishops, 703 Chapel st. Free stage leaves depot on arrival of Hartford train and corner of Church and Chapel sts. Through freight rates given and bills of lad ing issued to points west, south and south. west. Order your freight via Starin Line. c. H. FISHER, GenI Freight Agent,
 Office, 150 Orange Street.
 F. J. GREGORY, Agent. StaTin Pier.
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IS HELL BEING NEaLE.c..rEp? !.

a
 Bishop Huntington of Central New York feels that hell is being unduly neglected by the clergy. In a midLen- ten sermon in Syracuse on March P he expressed his conviction that there was a place for hell, and that it was there, and that self-indulgent persons whose habits and conduct were not good would some day have a painful personal ex- perience of it. Hell has at times been much overdone. It has been describedas hotter and more continuous than the human imagination can endure, and overmuch freedom has been used in forecasting its population. No hell that contains unbaptized infants or persons who died casually and unintentionally unregenerate will wash in these times. An eternity of hell as a consequence of misconduct of limited continuance also seems to modern minds an improbable dispensation. But the idea that evil- doers who manage to avoid punishment in this life are going to get off alto- gether does not commend itself to the average observers sense of fitness. AL
 most every one believes in God, and every intelligent believer in God must
 believe in eternal justice. Somewhere,
 somehow, the odds come even, and all
 crops are harvested. Without hell, or it's equivalent, we average observers
 cannot see how final justice is going to be done. A good deal of the time the way of the transgressor is hard in this life, but some transgressors play their game so ably as to chide all ob- vious penalties, and make 8 show of having a good me as long as they live. The religious mind is confident that there must be appliances some
 where for getting even with these per- sons -TIornar's Wealx1y ,I'. t'5 5l. t@!
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Harvard Crews ist ce,

Cambridge, Mass, April 1.-Two races with three crews each from the Newell and Weld clubs of Harvard were rowed in the Charles river this afternoon. Weld won both. The first race went to the first Weld sophomore in 1116, and the second to the first Weld freshmen in 11:37. The distance was about two miles.
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New Haven Steamboat Line
 For New York. the South and West. Steamer Chester w Chapin
IN COMMISSION.

; II.- 4&- IN NCUMMISSIUN. 98F9 N 4f4 Leaves New Haven 2:l5 a. ln. daily except Mondays; due New York 7:15 a. n Passengers are privileged to board Steamer at New Haven at any time after 1O:OO p. m.
 From New York Steamer leaves 400 D. la. daily except Sundays; due New Haven 900 Dock, New Haven, and Pier 40 N. R.. foot or Ciarkson Street, New York.
 For tickets and staterooIns apply at the oftice on Belle Dock, also at Bishop & Co.'S. 103-I0o Chapel Street, or at Purser's office on Steamer. s ", " " v
 W. F. MORGAN. Agent, Belle Dock, sssa9f New Haven
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RED STAR LINE.
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F. MosCA, OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY

r. MOSCA, Ob THE IOWN AND CODNIY
 OF NEW HAVEN, CONN. T
 Certificate of names and marks used by me in bottling and selling soda and mineral waters, etc The undersigned hereby certi- ties: That I am engaged in bottling and selling soda and mineral waters in this State, such bottling being done in the Town of New Haven, County of New Haven, in this State, where my principal place of business is located; that use in said busi- ness bottles of various sizes, syphons for carbonated waters and cases and boxes in which the same are placed; that on part of said bottles are engraved the words: "Frank Mosca, New Haven, Conn, Registered" e. Mosca & Co.,, 199 Wallace St, New Ha- ven, Conn., "Frank Mosca, 209 Wallace St., New Haven, Conn.,, Registered" Fran cisco Mosca, Mineral Waters, New Haven, Conn., And said boxes are stamped: Frank Mosca, New Haven, Conn.," Frank Mosca 200 Wallace St, New Haven, Conn., M"
 Wherefore, I file this certificate in the office of the Clerk Of the Superior Court for New Haven County, and cause the same to be printed three times in succession in. a newspaper published in each county in this State. where my said articles are sold. Said certificate is filed in conformity with and: pursuant to Chap. XCIII. of the Publ Acts, 1895. r.. .t, tgs3s& q "
 New Haven, Conn.,. March A. 1903.
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SHIPPING STRIKE BREAKERS.

Consolidated Brings Trackmen Here ! from New York to Replace Strikers. About twenty-four workmen arrived in this city last evening on the Chapin from New York. One hundred more came up on the train that leaves New York at 2 o'clock and arrives in this city at 9:55. The car they came in was switched to a side track at the passen- ger yards and the men were transferred to freight cars which were fitted up for them. They slept in these cars last night. It is said that a cook from the Chapin has been transferred to the yard to cater to these men. The men are here to take the places of the strik- ing trackmen. The railroad company seems determined to break this strike at all costs.