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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
DRUMMING OF RUFFED GROUSE.
Explanation of Sound to Which Mys-
 tery Has Always Attached.

Explanation of Sound to Which Mys-
 tery Has Always Attached.
 Few subjects have been so much dis cussed by sportsmen as the whistle of the woodcock and the drumming of the ruffed grouse. To the latter sound mystery has always attached. The dull roar of thunder comes out of the air from g. distance in the depth of the forest, and excites the wonder of the listener, but it's direction and it's dis tance seem so uncertain that he is not likely to try to find it.
 Few persons have seen the bird in the act drumming, and of those few a still smaller number have been trained to observe the ways of nature or to draw just conclusions from what they may have seen. Nevertheless many people observers and some mere theorists have expounded their views on the sub ject. It has been declared that the grouse drums by beating his wings against the object on which he stands, against his own body, or against eac:g other above the back; but none of these have satisfied all the conditions ana all are to De re1ecLeQ.
 In this year of 1905, Prof. C. F. Hodge of Clark University, carried on a series of observations on his domesticated ruffed grouse which point to another explanation, and which appear to show that the sound is made by the rapidly repeated blows of the stiff wing quiUs against the erected and expanded feathers of the side, which thus form a feather cushion.
 Prof. Hodge says: Tn fact, the sound so far as quality goes, can be initiated by striking with a wing properly stretched or even concave fan on an extensive light eiderdown cushion" Prof. Hodge conjectures. too, that the bird while drumming fills the air sack of the breast ana abdomen. Tn this way the contoud surface Of the strong wing supports along the sides are made to increase a large cavity filled with air and this acts like the resonance chamber of drum, and yields the booming throb to the air
 Prof. Hodge believes, as has long been agreed, that the drumming of the ruffed grouse is a mating call. Tto fact that the birdS x5s-In,.. in autumn is no vah objection U t-iiS conclusion, since many birds produce in autumn sounds which we are accustomed to re- gard as peculiar to the breeding sea- son, though such sounds are often or usually made by young btrds.-FOrest and Stream.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28

District of New Haven, ss. Probate
 Court, December 26, 1905. ESTATE of STEPHEN ALLTNG, late of
 New Haven, in said District, deceased
 The Administrator, to the end and purpose only of prosecuting and col- lecttng a certain claim of said deceased against the United States government of the class commonly known as the French spoliation claims, having exhib- tied his administration account with said estate to this Court for allowance, 1t IS
 ORDERED-That the 2d day of Jan- uary, 1906, at ten o'clock in the fore noon, at a Court of Probate to be held at New Haven, in said District, be and the same Is appointed for hearing on the allowance of said account, and this Court directs that notice of the time and place of said hearing by given by publishing this order three times in some newspaper having circulation in said District.
 LIVINGSTON W. CLEAvELAND,
 d27 St Judge.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
MONEY IN CAVE.

Treasure Trove Has Ta,n of T:on'c
 Revolution Behind Is-If Your I.nagl-
 nat'on is Good.
 While exploring the dark rccezses of q cave hais mile from the terminus of the trolley line in Watcrville about q month ago, Arthur Wells of WaterviIle uncovered & mysterious treasure trove of paper money. The bills were cur rency of Guatemala, and were well pre- served.
 Ire boys in Watervile find it great fun to wander about he cliffs ana cX- plore the caves. They have 'boen ....JLgii .A2.H alL In 0rCer to look far into the dark corners of these places Arthur Wells got an electric pocket light. Then he started out witt some other boys to see h1W the new lamp worked. Ire boys ,ook chse!s Gnl hammers and entered the big cave nea" Frost's Bridge. Far down into the cav ity was a small opening which wasn't large erouga to permit crawling through. The boys set at work to make the opening larger and some of Ihe rough edges of the rocks wsre cGt away. Then Harry sizer crawled into the place. He was followed by Arthur Wells. Then followed Joseph Senesac, and relative of Harry Sizer's, who was visiting here from New Haven. The boys crawled about on their hands and knees. Finally the Wells ,ooy came to 8 natural shelf cf stone. He threw the light on the place, and there neatly folded in a corner were three bills. He took the money and set out for home
 For some time he kept tAe money 0: his house and made no effort to learn the value, of it. Then he went to the bank one day. The bank wouldn't have anything to do with the Guatemala currency. One of the bills is marked Five Pesos, another, One Peso. and the gthird, CinGuenta Cen tavos, or 50 cents (MeX.).
 The natural supposition is that the money was hidden in the cave by an old Spandird who came to Watervilla many years aga and who died there about two years, ago. He was always wandering about in the caves and it is thought that he used this place as a safe deposit vauIt.--Waterbury Ameri- can.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
EMBROIDERED BY BRTGANDs.

Story of a Mexican. Prisoner and His
 Faithful Sweetheart.
 Tn possession of W. c. Darlington there is g. knit tablecloth whose history savers of wild west romance. The tablecloth was given to Mrs. Darlington by her father, who purchased it at q big price. The work represents the labor of three years of a Mexican brigand while serving life term in prison, and 1t brings to light an inter- esting romance from . eC-JUntry where romance abounds.
 From zapatlian in the state of Jalisco to Colina, in Colina, the Republic of Mexico, is a two days journey over the mountains. Yet in past ages these two points were connected by a big tunnel, the retreat of numbers of generations of brigan1s when pursued by the government forces. There were at various places air shafts for ventilation and once inside the tunnel these robber chiefs and their bands were safe.
 Before the railroad went through wagon trains were robbed on the Colima side and the spells disposed of on the Jalisco side before the news reached there. One robber leader suc- ceeded another, generations were born, grew old and passed away. The tun- nell became impossible from side to side, rendering each end only available. Some few years there lived in Jalisco a young man of fine carriage, elegant manners, apparently rich and undoubt- edly of the finest Castilian bloOd-a grandee in every look and action.
 He fell in love with g. beautiful young lady, and, after making love in the Mexican fashion, they became "no- vfces," or were engaged. The girls father was asked for her hand and the day was set During the time elapsing the young man went away, as was his custom, for few days, to his haciends, presumably. Just about this time mat ters around the border between Colima and Jalisco were getting desperate on account of the outrages of these land pirates, who sheltered themselves in this tunnel. So the government sent a regiment of soldiers, who surprised, caught and brought to Guadala jara four of the outlaws and their leader. The leader was neither more nor less than our fine young Castilian.
 His absences were marching expedi- tions and his riches the proceeds of these same expeditions. His com panions were shot, but owing to en- deavors of his devoted "novia" he was given a life sentence in Guadalajara penftentiary. And every day of her life this faithful woman goes to see her lover. For three years this man, once leader of fashion, once chief of his highway robbers, grandee even in jail, patiently toiled on this cloth, carefully placing the stitches outlining the dogs, the flower pot and flowers, the en- bIem of Mexico, and birds shown on it. True to him always, this patient little woman rugged around to sell his three years work and finally did so.--Pueblo Chieftain.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
Geoal Uotiee.

District of New Haven, ss. Probate
 Court, December 21, 19D5, ESTATE of ULTIMA M. ROBINSON,
 late of Washington, D. C., owning
 property in said District, deceased.
 An instrument in writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of said deceased, having been presented in Court, and William c. Robinson, of Washington, D. C.. having made writ ten application praying that the same may be probated, and that letters testa- mentary may be granted, as by said ap- plication on file in this Court more full ly appears, 1t is
 ORDERED-Thats said application be heard and determined at a Court of Probate to be held at New Haven, in said District, on the ,2d day of Janu- ary, 1906, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and that public notice of the pendency of said application and of the time and place of the hearing thereon be given to all parties interested in said estate by publishing this order three times in a newspaper. having a circulation in in said District.
 By the Court.
 GEORGE W. CRAWFORD,
 d25 3t Clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
New Britain, and the newly married couple will reside in that city.
coNv1cTg sKILLFUL woRK.
Fine Exhibition of Manual Art at
 Wethersfieldl Prison.

Fine Exhibition Of Manual <4Ft dt
 Wethersfeldl Prison.
 Hartfordl, Dec. PA fine exhibit of manual art is shown to visitors a the Connecticut State Prison at this lime of the gear. The various prisoners have used their skill and made various articles which they sell to visitors. This morcy is credited 10 them and they are allowed to buy what they will of things permitted by the prison rules The articles are on exhibit in the guard room an deach one bears the name of the maker.
 An automobile and q locomotive are attracting the most attention of any of tAe articles for sale. Lewis John son of New Britain is the convict to whom this work is credited. These articles are miniature representations and are true in every respect. Even the smallest part of the locomotive is intact and all is made of wood. The locomotive was sold for s and short- ly after the sale a gentleman, who is an expert in mechanics, entered the prison and offered $6 for 1t.
 There are many other articles that attract great deal of attention and the sale of them will maEo life more easy within the prison walls for the gifted prisoners.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
A FAMILY IN THE FOREST.
Professor Aliens Home on Slopes of
 Mount Rainier-FOrmerly Yale h.


 structor
 4 Special to the New York Tribune from Seattle says Nestled among the big trees far up on the slopes of Mount Reinier lives the sO-calIed Her init of the Cascades" Professor Edward Allen, formerly an instructor at Yale, and known to many scientific institutions as one of the most active bctanists of the Pacific coast.
 Professor Allen does not live alone, in spite of his title of hermit" for when he suffered a sunstroke about seventeen years ago, and his physicians decided that he most live in the open, but not in the sun, his wife readily afreed to the plan of isOlating themselves in the Far West, and she accompanied him 10 Ashford. Wash, near which they picked out a charming break in the forest, and where they have since made their home. There were three sons in the family, then youngsters. They are now ill the forestry commission service. and obtained their training under their father on the slopes of Mount Rainer.
 Although t:.eir home is many miles from the nearest habitation and the trails leading to it are difficult to find, they have visitors every summer, for ootanists from all over the world make the trip to Ashford to see Professor Allen.
 The long one story cabin in which they live is surrounded by about five acres of cleared land On it they raise what they can toward obtaiEing llv- ing. But it is by his discoveries now and then of rare and unique specimens Of plant life that Professor Allen liN',s. He sends his specimens to the leading institution of the East and Europe. and in the remuneration received enjoys a sufficient income to keep their little home in comforts, and even luxuries, for ordinary things are luxur&2s theTe. The cabin is almost covered by vines and flowers. Roses grow in this coun- try to 9 marvellous beauty. and are found everywhere about the cabin. The flower gardens, which occupy about half an acre, would be 0 credit to the most efficient gardener.
 It is in such surroundings that Pro- lessor Allen and his wife, both now well along in years, with white hair, declare they enjoy life to the fullest ex- tent, and nothing can persuade them to give up their home among the giant trees. There they wish to end their days.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
TAFTvILLE HOTEL
Burned Christmas Morning

DUT U6u CIII TsUIIII NIUTUITs.
 Taftville, Dec. 25-The Miantonomo hotel was completely des, s,royedyIby fire this morning at I o'clock. It was a three story frame building conducted by Abram $. Carpenter, who lived there alone. And cause of the fire is not known but soon after it was discovered it was mass of flames. Two explosions were heard privous to the discovery of the fire. The loss will be about S3.50o.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
CONAIITTEE ON cITY AnYnnrIsrNr.

COMMITTEE ON CITY ADVERTISING.
 The Special Committee to whom was referred the Mayors communication on City Advertising will hold a public hearing in Rooms 10-11, City Hall, on Wednesday, December 27, 1905, at 8 o'clock ?. m.
 All persons interested in the forego- ing are hereby notified to attend and tice. Per order JOHN O. JOHNSON, Chairman.
 Attest: AMBROSE " BEECHER,
 d25 St Assistant City Clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28

The author had been dragged faint ing from a crowd of shoppers. Almost like my last book" he murmured, re- covering his senses. The listeners, be- ing of delicate perception, knew then that the book had fallen dead from the press,-Philadelphi Ledger.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28

District of New Haven, ss. Probate
 Court December 26, 1905. ESTATE of JOSEPH THOMPSON, late
 of New Haven, in said Distric:, de- ceased.
 The Administrator, to the end and purpose only of prosecuting and col lecting certain claim of said deceased against the United States government of the class commonly known as the French spoliation claims, having exhib- ited his administration account with said estate to this Court for allowance, it IS
 ORDERED-That the 2d day of Jan- uary 1906, at ten o'clock in the fore- noon, at Court of Probate to be held at New Haven, in said District, be and the same is appointed for hearing on the allowance of said account, and this Court directs that notice of the time and place of said hearing be given by publishing this order three times in some newspaper having circulation in
 LIVINGSTON W. cLEAvELAND,
 d27 St Judge. District of New Haven, ss. Probate
 Court, December 26, 1905. ESTATE of LOVINIA S. LEE, late of
 Ithaca. New York, owning property
 in said District. deceased.
 The Administrator having exhibited his administration account with said estate to this Court for allowance, it is ORDERED-That the Ed day of Jan uary 1906, at ten o'clock in the fore- noon, at a Court of Probate to be held at New Haven, in said District, be and the same Is appointed for hearing on the allowance of said account, and this Court directs that notice of the tina and place of said hearing be given by posting up & copy of this order on the central sign-post in the Town of New Haven,
 LIVINGSTON W. 'cLEAvELAND, d27 It Judge.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28

Pearson's Magazine for January con- tains eight stories and six special articles, among which is the inside of the recent Jerome campaign. This article is the work of Robert Adams0n. who was at the elbow of Jerome, from first to last throughout the contest. ''The National Ravages of Alcohol is an astonishing article based on Govern ment statistics.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
of the phenomenal development of Municipal Ownership in Europe.

The first article in AppIeton's Book lovers Magazine for January will make a sensation, it is the "LOOting of Alas ka," by Rex E. Beach. Harold Bolce concludes his papers on Japan, Our New Rival in the East" The fiction in- cludes the first half of a new story by Elinor Mccarthy Lane, author of the delightful Nancy Stair
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
Nichols has for Christina:

To go with your MINCE PIE.
 A fine OLD Cheese, Richard Cream. cry. ......s ......... CIDER, that's sweet and pure, by the bottle or gallon.
 Ire OLD FASHIONED DOUGH- NUTS. t~'
 Order day in advance, and don't be disappointed the demand is large for them.
 FRENCH WALNUTS
 NATIVE HICKORY NUTS.
 New white rneated GENOBLH and French Walnuts.
 FLORIDA ORANGES. Cut juicy and fine in flavor, 2ec to 800 dog
 You like good old fashioned PURE RYE BREAD, TRY OURS, 6c and 10c loaves.
 You'll come for more.
 We make speciality of fresh vEGE- TABLES, NATIVE and SOUTHERN. 10. E Nichols
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
STEINERTONE W
 PIAN0FORTE.

Remarkable Instrument at Mann
 faeturers' Priees-Inportant No-
 tiee to Prospective Purchasers.
 Christmas is but a few days off and hundreds are worrying about what they shall buy. If you have not got piano to grace your home why not settle the YuIe-Tide prob- lem by purchasing one, and thus make the hearts of everyone in the home overflow with joy.
 An exceptional offer is made by the SteinertOne company, of 10s Park street, this city, that deserves the interest of intending piano. forte buyers. The company offers that remarkable pianoforte-rae STEINERTONE - at manufactIIr CTS prices. It can do this as if maintains warerooms only at the factory, sells only at the factory and thus saves to the purchaser the heavy expense of costly saIesrooms in the center of the city, which other companies are compelled to add to the cost of piano. No such opportunity to get the finest piano. forte on the market at such req sonable cost has ever been given and should not be allowed to pass.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28

iE. $. Nadal, who knew Henry Irving well, writing of him in the January Soribner,. says that Irving told him that he had decided not to play Hamlet in the United States during his first visit because he believed that the people of
 the United States had accepted Booths Hamlet as the right one, and he did not wish to arouse the national pride in the matter.
 The January Everybody's is virtually an automobile number" Arthur N. Jervis has a spirited article, Car Com inglp with brilliant description of the Vanderbilt Cup race. Eugene Wood in DO ! Want an Automobile" treats the same subject with highly successful hunaor. Charles Edward Russell, who has been studying European solutions of Americans problems tells in a re- markedly significant instalment of his serial, Soldiers of the Common Good"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28

Dodd, Mead Go. have down for pulp lication a charming love story by S. Macnaughton, the author of ''The For tune of Christina Macnab." The title tale, entitled "A Lame Dogs Diary" has its scenes laid in 8 quaint village In England, the hurnor of whose folk, 1t is said, reminds one very much O. Mrs. Gaskells "Cranford"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-25
Pacific Coast Trade
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24-ABeans-
Pink, $3.0O@3.5O; lima, $4.60@4S0; small
white, $320@3.45; large white, $2.60@
$50
Potatoes-Early Rose, $1.25@150 Ore
gon Burbanks, $1.0O@1.3O River Bur-
banks 75c@$1.00; River reds, 60Q75c;
Merced sweets, 75c@$1.00.
Onions-Fancy, $3.50; common, $3.50.
Various-Green peas, 4@7c string
beans, 121s@15c; green peppers, 590
12Ac; tomotaes. $1.O0@1.50; rhubarb.
5@7c; garlic. S@10c.
Flour--Famly extras, $4.S0Q505; I;
bakers extras, $4.756D5.00
Wheat-Shipping, $1.5O@155; milling.
$15541.65.
Barley--Feed, $1.1s% @1.22h; brewing,
$1.22hQ1,25 Chevalier. $1.25@1,3O
Oats-Red, $1.4O@1.55; white. $l.42k0
1.5716; black. $1.35D1.65.
Milstuffs - Middlings, $26.00@2900 /;
mixed feed. $24oo@25.OO; rolled barley,
$25.O0Q260O.
Hay-Wheat S1O.OO@1s.5o; wheat and
oat, $10.0O@13.00; oat. Wild $6.00@9.50;
oat, tame, $S.OO011.50; barley, $1,000
900 alfalfa, $S.00@10.50; clover $1,000
900; straw, 40D50c.
Receipts-Flour, 26,24O; wheat, 5449;
barley 3191; beans, $3.50; potatoes 524S;
bran, 1853; middlings, $3.50; hay, 1858;
hops, 73V hides, sos; wine, 1S2,600,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-25
TRADE CONDITIONS BETTER
Dun and 7radstreet's Review Of the
Business Situation
BY Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-R. G. Duns
& Co.'s weekly review of trade will
say: Better weather has greatly int
proved trade in many sections of the
country, spring merchandise being dis
tributed freely-by jobbers, while retail
business and mercantile collections are
more normal.
In almost every branch of industry
there is confidence of active trade with
the appearance of settled weather. The
prices of commodities are still firm.
Railway earnings for the month OF
February thus far were SO per cent
smaller than last year, and foreign
commerce at this port for the last
week made another phenomenal record
as to imports, exceeding the same
week last year by $9,347, ,234, while ex-
ports were $2,321, ,406 larger.
Failures this week numbered 252 in
the United States against 240 last year.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow will say, With the exception
of q few lake and seaboard ports,
which show the effect of past bad
weather, distributive trade at most
leading markets assumes a more favor
able aspect This is due to the spread
of milder weather conditions and the
increase in the number of country buy
ers.
The tendency of reports as to the
winter wheat crop is that the heavy
snow covering has helped the crop.
Heavy rain on the Pacific coast has
made good crop prospects, especially
in California.
Wool is slow of sale and easier in
price for low grades.
Among the industries iron and steel
still show relatively the most active
demand and the largest turn over.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending February % num-
ber 220 against 243 last week, and 2O(
in the like week in 1904
Wheat, including flour, exports fol-
the week ending February % are 923,
O22 bushels against 536,540 last week.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-25
Metal Market
BY Associated Press,

BY AsSOclateu tEe5S'
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-The London
cables reported an easier market for
tin, which closed G1S0 It's cd for spot,
and G130 5s for futures. Locally the
trade was influenced by the foreign
weakness on the advance, and the
market was easier, with spot closing
$2S. 871s@29.10.
Copper also lost portion of it's re-
cent gains abroad, where demand was
said to be less active, with spot closing
G 50 6s, and futures at ESQ los. Locally,
however, the market remained quiet,
but firm, with large producers holding
lake at $3.50; electrolytic, $13.37h4
15 90 and casting $l500dp15.25.
Lead quieter here and possibly a
shade easier although quotations re-
mained unchanged at $4.45@4.60. The
London market was shade lower AT
e12 Is.
Spelter shared in the generally easier
tendency abroad and closed &24 5s
Locally the market remained quiet ut
Sc. 10m6. 20. Locally the iron market was
firm with demand improving.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-25
Financial Record

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Close: Money
on call firm, 21z@S per cent; closing
bid, 21s; offered at 2% per cent.
Time loans slightly firmer; sixty and
ninety days, per cent; six months,
31s per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, S%@4A per
cent.
Sterling exchange weak. closing
steady with actual business in bank
ers' bills at $4.s6s5@4 1886 for demand.
and at $4.S46@4.s465 for sixty days
bills
Posted rates. $4.s5la@4SS; commercial
bills. $4.S4isc.
Bar silver. 6Ohc; Mexican dollars,
46ssc.
Government bonds steady; railroad
bonds irregular.
LONDON. Feb. 24.-consols 80 15-1sd;
silver 27 11-16d.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-Today's
statement of the treasury balances
shows: Available cash balance, $40, :
2l0.1S1; gold, $50, O,7SO, ,6447.