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New-York tribune., 1906-07-22

out another cupfl of salt and tell them to go away
Tell them that am great white chief, and want
to be alone
was serious THE head man say that he have
much men-not afraid Of white chief with no men;
this his country. More salt and matcheT- rs, - ,,,
But at this rate | protested, III be giving
them all have Isn't there something else we can
do 10 make them friendly:
Fifteens face suddenly frightened He pointed
to the river and indulged in his tavorite lmltaton
Of me taking aim. Kill hippo for them! Meat
fine"
"Bv George, Fifteen!" I exclaimed you've got
a head on YOU Go out and tell your savage friends
that if there are hlppos IN the rveT your master %
will kill one with his devil club and present them
with it, provided they ask him tor no more SAT-
and matches, and 90 back home.
There was excitement among the visitors when
Fifteen delivered this message because the kahrs'
with their crude weapons, are rarely able 70 XII
hippopotarnlls the meat of which they prize highly
They began to advance when | started toward the
river; but | waved them back.
The Hunters Narrow Escape
A T the waters edge | seated myself on rock and
waited. Before me was large unruiiied pool
which ought to be, judged, tavorite haunt Tor
hippos if there any IN the river a quarter
of an hour passed silently In spirit was tar from
this African Jungle when a shout from the trees
brought me abruptly back. 1t was Fltteen $ voice
As | turned ! him tearing down toward me,
rnotioning franticallv, and yelling in Jargon OF
his own tongue and English. thought the kahrs
were playing some trick, and strained my eyes
toward the camp.
no no, chief! Look other way! Quick quicb."
Fifteen shouted in a frenzy 49,,
rear, not more than four feet from me- saw the
gaping jaws of great crocodile, which noiselessly
had stolen up to seize leaped to my feet as If
moved by powerful spring, and ammed my rifle
to my shoulder But there nothing to shoot at;
The crocodile had sunk out of sight silently and
rapidly as it had approached. By about two
seconds Fifteen's warning had saved me from the
awful laws of the man eating reptile. | thanked
the boy with a nervous laugh, and for fully ten min
utes could not muster up enough nerve to return TO
that rock to wait for the hippo When did take
my place again, you may be sure that INDUCED in
more day dreams, and that kept sharp look
had learned a new lesson from my jungle primer
of experience 1t Never sit at the edge of a
river or lake in crocodile country unless the water
IS clear and you can keep your eyes on 1t in all
directions
Presently odd-noving ridges appeared the
water and suddenly the big blunt head and watery,
staring eyes of hippo rose above the surface. 1t
was followed by another and another, until SIX
were lined up surveying me, evidently wonder
ing what Of strange animal might be Stealth
New-York tribune., 1906-07-22
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY r. lSO0

iIv brought nv rifle around to my shoulder, and
then aiming at point between the eyes OF the one
directly in front of me. fired quickly. All dlSap-
peared without haste, the one at whlch nad IIed
Showing no signs Of even ruffled temper his
seemed strange since, at the distance which was not
more than forty feet 1t was highly improbable tnat
/ had missed. Keeping my station on the rock, l
waited for another chance and IN a little While
again saw the hippo that had been the target An
abrasion on his head indicated that the heavy bullet
had struck the skull squaTely, but had glanced OH
The bulky creature. observing me, began TO move
rapidly and about thirty yards away When
took careful aim at spot just behind his ear As
the reDOrt echoed among the hills he went over
backward, came up quickly, thew out stream OF
blood, and disappeared again
Now the Kafirs, with yells of JOY, came running
out of the bush and crowded on the bank, gazing
at me with admiration, and jabbering among them
selves. They say" Fifteen informed me, you
kill hippo. In afternoon, he float This meant
wait Of about FIVE hours Fifteen and went back
TO camp and despatched a frugal luncheon, while
the Kafrs about in silence, absorbed IN my every
movement. When we went down TO the water again.
Fifteen pointed out numerous small dark spots on
the surface He said that each of these the nose
OF a crocodile, and when looked closely | saw that
he was right. The reptiles motiOness, waiting
with oninous patience for their prey
Finally something rose heavily in the water II
was the great belly Of the dead hppopotamus-
Instantly the dark spots began to move and saw
long repulSive bodies glide up to the carcass They
began to tug at it, but could make headway,
because powerful the great Jaws, they could
bite through tear the remarkably tough hide
A Skilled Bridge Builder
ONCE more the Kafrs assembled on the bank.
" They seemed to be getting ready 70 do some
thing; but what 1 could imagine. since It seemed
impossible get the body away from the menaclng
creatures that were surrounding It. After con-
siderable palaver, about a hundred of the black
back toward the bush, and began 10 cut down
saplings, with crude hatchets made of iron which
abounds in that region. The trees were dragged
by boys TO the waters edge as they cut, and
here a Kahr, who older than most Of the others,
but who appeared be particularly 1.-THE and active.
seized them, one at time, and laid them on the
water, with their trunks resting the low bank and
their branches extending outward. In this way he
made several layers, and, walking out them,
placed others still farther out.
The crocodiles will grab him sure!" l exclaimed
to Fifteen.
Not if he not slip, replied the boy Crocodile
not like trees keep away from them
made mental note of this new lesson in jungle
lore but did take my eyes of the perilous work
of building this strange brush bridge out among
the crocodiles. More and more saplings were
brought down and showed out to the daring Kahr.
He would push their slim trunks down until they
entangled in the branches upon which he Stood
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

If you ever cross my path again. be- ware!" said the man with the red face.
 Why, are you going to get an auto- mobile?" asked the other Yonkers Statesman.
 First Arab Cafter spelling out adver- tisement of celebrated pilQ-Hi 'Enry, wouldn't yer like pill for that feeling of fullness after eating?
 Second Arab--1d like that feeling fust.-Punch.
 Mrs. Muggins-The doctor has advised Mrs. Bjones to take things easy for q while,
 Mrs. Bugglns--I wondered why she had discharged her servants and was doing her own Philadelphia Record.
 Here! you, sir" cried the irate old gentleman. didn't I tell you never to enter this house againT'
 No, sir replied his daughters per- sistent suitor. You said not to cross your threshold so l climbed in the window. Philadelphia Press. | "One of the leading papers yesterday referred to my husband as an eminent statesman" remarked the visitor proudly.
 "Oh, I wouldn't mind little thing like that replied Mrs. Goldrox encour- agingly, We are all slandered more or less" Milwaukee Sentinel. 
 Anxious mamma--Little Dick Is up- stairs crying with the toothache,
 Practical papa-Take him around to the dentists. T haven't any money"
 You won't need any money. The toothache will stop before you get there. "-New York Weekly.
 MoLubberty (sourly) -Thotn do! oi am goin' out, and thot sittles ut! Bgorra, ut's too dull for me at home in dhe avenin.
 Mrs. McLubberty-Dull, is ut? How d'yez know ut's dull? Whoy don't ye2 stay at home wan avenin', jist to sec how we pass dhe toime whin ye're Rway?-Puck
 T suppose" said the old-tin1e friend "that your folks no longer feel the anx. iety about social matters that they once experienced"
 Yes, they do," answered MT Cum. rox; mother an the girls are now as busy keepin' other women out of society as they once were gettin' in themselves. Washington Star.
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1HE REAL ROCKEFELLER.

What is he? How can we ever tell, any more than we can tell what other men really are? According to Sister Tarbell and others he is the biggest thief in the world. He has certainly managed to get during his life more than anybody else has in these times, except perhaps the late Alfred Belt. They" say he got much of it dishon- estly. He and some others say he didn't. He has been much cussed in connection with Standard Oil. He is reported as saying that he has been out of it for dozen years. And so forth and So on. There is, we think, a little reaction of public opinion in his favor, and he evidently wants bigger one. He has talked more freely lately than he has for long time. Yesterday he showed his sensitiveness to the situa- tion by saying: T hope the time will come when some of the people will know other of the people better. You newspaper men can do much good to- ward making some of us better ac- quainted with the others. You can tell what kind of people we are. be- lieve it is the duty of the papers to do this"
 The newspapers have certainly done something to make the people acquaint- ed with some of MT. Rockefellers qual. ities, and they are ready to do more They have already faithfully set dowr all his good deeds that they have knowr about, and will be glad to ,set dowr more. They are busy, but they are no prejudiced, and if Mr Rockefeller car only manage to let them know what ht is they will be glad to tell it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

a broadside, an arrangement that haS hitherto not been adopted. This result will be achieved by placing four tur- rets, each containing two guns, at the four angles of a rhonIbus, that is, two turrets will be on the center line, one forward and one aft, and the others on either beam. Therefore, while the Dreadnought can fire at one discharge 5,1O0 pounds ahead or astern and $500 pounds in broadslde, the new ideal will fire 75O0 and 10000 respectively, CT 50 per cent. more than the British ship. The Dreadnought's speed, too, will be exceeded by two and perhaps three knots. The water line arnor on the Italian ship will be thicker than the Dreadnought's.
 Accepting these details as accurate it is seen that the ideal ship would be able to keep outside the danger zone of the Dreadnought's gun fire and sink her while she herself was unharmed. That is unless something happened to her while she was doing the job.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01
HER EXECUTIVE ABILITY.

Some of those who haven't watched the New Woman's performances, or are too prejudioed to learn by watching, are still talking about her lack of execu- tive ability And this too in spite of the fact that they themselves are con- tinually subservient to her executive ability. What she can really do is in- dicated by what she did do the other day in Chicago, Exasperated at the slowness of a Halsted street car and fearful of missing the funeral train on which the body of her friend was be- ing carried to Mount Olivet for inter- ment, Mrs. S M. Chidesler, of Ever green Park, pushed the notorman off the car, took the controller herself and turned on full speed until she reached the railroad station at Fifty-ninth and Halsted streets. Then she stopped the car and jumped off and climbed sand enbankment and caught her train. Tn this flight Mrs. Chidesler knocked three wagons off the track and injured two men. T asked the motorman to hurry up, but he laughed and pointed to the sign which forbids passengers to talk to motormen," she said. "Then I pushed him aside and he fell off. I ran the car for eight blocks, The con- duotor did not interfere until was ready to leave at the station"
 Wise conductor. He knew when he was well off, or on. Sister Chidesler knows what she wants and how to get .4
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01
4 TARIFF ISSUE.

The United States isn't the only coun- try where the tariff is an issue. Aus tria-Hungary and Servia appear to be on the eve of another tariff war. The former Power recently demanded as a condition of resuming negotiations for a new commercial treaty that servia should make seventy-one notifications in her tariff, and that the question of the purchase of cannon should not be prejudiced to the disadvantage of Aus tria- Hungary Servia has agreed to modify the tariff on condition that dur ing the negotiations servian cattle, fruit and other produce shall enter Aus tria- Hungary freely. 5he declined to bind herself as to the cannon.
 Count Goluchowsli has informed the Austrian delegation that the servian answer is unsatisfactory. Servia, he says. made acceptance of Austro- Hun garian tariff demands conditional upon the admission of servian products to Austria Hungary, but when these products are once on our territory" he adds, "Servia will quite simply break i her promises under one pretext or an- other" He denies that Austria Hun gary made it sine qua non that Ser via should buy the Skoda field guns. She only asked that Austrian guns should not be excluded, provided her terms were as favorable as those of other countries. It is not a matter of field guns alone, he says, but of noun tain guns, ammunition, small arms, railroad material and salt The Austro- , Hungarian demands, he claims are quite justified, because the Dual Mon-
 archy buys from Servia much more
 than it sells to her, and is therefore Ientitled to some kind of compensation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

District of New Haven. SIS. Probate Court, July 18th, 1906. ESTATE OF JOHN E. CAMP, late of Montgomery, Mass owing nroperty in said District deceased
 An instrument in writing, purporting to be a duly exemplitied and authenti- cated copy of the last will and testa- ment of said deceased, and of the record of the proceedings in the Probate Court for Hampden County, Massachusetts, proving and establishing same, having been presented in Court, and Merton D. Camp, of said Montgomery, Mass, hav- Ing made written application praying that the same may be filed and record ed, and that letters of administration, c, t. a., may be granted, Nas by said ap- plication 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 9th day of August, 1906, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and that public notice of the pendencey 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 said District
 By the Court.
 GEORGE W. CRAWFORD, Clerk
 j30 St
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.cMhat,s the uaefs

Stories are nothing but clusters of words, Reading is nothing but looking at print; Money is nothing-folks throw 1t at birds; Pictures are nothing but color and tint; Dinners are nothing but something to eat; Walking is nothing but moving your
 Whats the use? Dancing is nothing but prancing in Riding Is nothing but moving alongi Sleeping is nothing but waking too Singing is nothing but talking a song; playing is nothing but fooling around; Boxing is nothing but learning to pound--
 Whats the user Working Is nothing but earning your
 pay; Loan1g is nothing and harder to dc
 do. Loahng is nothing and harder tc Dressing Is nothing but garment and
 SnQBs Smiling is nothing but twisting youi
 face; Moving Is nothing but changing youi
 base--
 Whats the use2 What is the use of it? What is tho
 use? Smoking IS pumping stuff into youi
 lungsi Having your way is to Kick like thi
 deuce; Fame is ladder with grease on tn,
 rungs, What Is the sense of it all, anyway? What is the--Why is the--Hang it all
 Say,
 Whats the use? Chicago Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

Her father-But, sir. you are not the sort of man I should like for son-in- Jaw.
 Young man-Oh, that's all right. You are not the sort of man should like for father-in-law, but I'm not going to make your daughter miserable for life by refusing to marry her on that nccount.-Chicago Daily News,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each insertion. Five Cents Word for full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch' one insertion. s1.2o; each subsequent inser- ton. 10 cents; one week. Ss.2O: one month. s1O; one year. $40.
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LITTLE Ir41T'S BIG BAT11EsHr1


 Italy may be small compared with some of the big nations, but that does nit make her think she is obliged to have smaller battleships than they have. She is, it appears, going to have. the very biggest battleship. Great Britain's Dreadnought will have to dread her, so far as strength and speed are concerned. The talk is that her main armament will be eight 13.5 inch guns, each firing 1,25O pound shot against the Dreadnoughts $50 pounds. In addition to their great calibre, the guns will be so mounted as to enable all of them to be fired either singly or as
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Geeal 1ntites.

 Distcrict of New Haven. ss. Probate ESTATE OF AUGusTUs DUELt igv0, iats of Orange, in said District, deceased. Nellie F. Duell, Executrix,, having made written application for an order authorizing and empowering her to mortgage certain real estate of said deceased as by said application on file in this Court more fully appears, it is ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at Court of Probate to be held at New Haven. in said District, on the 3rd day of August 1906, Ut ten o'clock in the forenoon, and that public notice of the tendency of said application and of the time and place Of the hearing thereon, be given by publishing this order three times in some newspaper having circulation in said District.
 By the Court
 t91 9t
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District of New Haven. ss. Probate Court, July 27th, 1906. ESTATE OF EMILY L. HOTCHKIss, late of New Haven, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the District of Now Haven hath limited and ap- pointed six months from the. date here of for the creditors of said deceased to bring in their claims against said es- tate. Those who neglect to exhibit their claims within said time will be debarred.
 are requested to make immediate pay ment to
 ROGER $. WHITE. 2nd Administrator.
 j30 St
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Hamburg, it is said, uses $7,5Oo worth of blueberries every year for changing white wine into red wine. Blueberries are good.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS A WEEK. 50 GENTS A MONTH. ss FOR SIX MONTHS, sS A YEAR. THE sAMH TERMS BY MAIL SINGLE COPIES, 3 GENTS.
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Going Fishing this SuTnner7

IF you are follower of the late \ Isaac Walton and your vaca-
 tion takes you to the country or the shore you'll be taking a little fishing tackle with you. If you wish that tackle to be up-to-date--- the kind that the modern fish will catch on--we can show 1t to you.
 We have as complete an assort- ment of tackle as you'll be apt to find anywhere. We also have earned the reputation of having stuff that's good. And the fisher men tell us the prices are right. .Ask for owr
 Tide Ta5le.
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Ehe gn1trmaI aud Gumrter

THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co. t
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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The statement that group of Aus tralian gold mines suffers yearly loss by theft Of five million dollars worth of the precious metal is denied by the management who claim that, under the vigilant inspection maintained, the an- nual loss cannot possibly exceed three or four hundred thousand dollars. That isn't very heavy stealing for these days.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

A cemetery containing only the bones of elephants is at the foot of 8 chain of mountains in Uganda, The beasts have evidently come there for long time as soon as they felt that death was approaching them. In no other way can any one account for the fact that hundreds of skeletons of elephants are to be found there The natives know well that the lordly animals are in the habit of selecting this quiet spot as their last resting place, and when ever they want tgory they are confident shat they can get it by searching the %eemetery.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

THM WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdaya, Que Dollar YeaR'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

In Roanoke, Virginia, Sunday morn- ing a Stonewall Jackson memorial win dow in the negro Presbyterian church was unveiled in the presence of local camps of Confederate Veterans and chapters of the Daughters of the Con- federacy. All the money that paid for the window was given by negroes. The parents of the church's pastor, Rev. T. l.. Downing, were members of stene- wall JacKson's Sunday school class at Lexington before the war.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

It *accomplishes in perfection and without removal what all others have attempted; completely removing from rugs, carpets upholstery, statuary, walls and ceilings, all dust. foul gases and dangerous disease germs, and by powerful suction carries them out of the building to the separators for safe disposal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01
snr reports from Manila contain ar

AfSpy reports from Manila contain an anteresting recommendation which shows Nthat the revolver is not an influential weapon in the Philip pines. It is urged that it would be bet ter for the efficiency of the municipal police to change their present arma- unent to carbines or rifles, as the re- volver inspires no confidence in the members of the institution, in such cases as happened few years ago when a few malefactors, armed with rifles. on coming from Iloilo invaded the kentral part of this province. It IS hrged that it would be advisable to leave it to the discretion of the pro- Wincial governor to select the class of arms that the municipal police should have, now that the laws assure their preservation by the giving of bonds and that they are issued subject to the approval of the chief of the insulaI constabulary or of the governor gener. al
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01
NEW HAVEN, CONN,

THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUH-
 LISHED IN CONNECTICUT.
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Owing to the differences in gauge be- tween the railroads in Prussia and Rus sia much delay has hitbsrto been in- volved in the unloading and reloading of goods for transshipment across the frontier. According to announcement in the German press an attempt is being made to meet this difficulty by the employment of adjustable wagons. Two thousand are being installed by way of experiment, and, if they prove successful similar rolling stock will gradually be introduced throughout the entire frontier railroad systems of the two countries.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-01

Some of the civil service examinations are hard. About eight hundred appli- cants for appointment to the police fierce of Chicago have just been put through a written examination and some of their answers to the questions are made public. One man defined gafl- ing as "lstring game without license;" another defined perjury as "unjustly defaming character" a third defined homicide as leaving wife or children under sixteen without a home"
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If you ever cross my path again, be- ware!" said the man with the red face.
 Why, are you going to get an auto mobile?" asked the other.-Yonkers