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The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
M'KAY CASE HEARD.
Testimony That He Tried to Disrupt Ladies Aid Society
 of Taylor Church.
DEFENSE MAKES DENIAL
Former Pastor Will Take Stand in His Own Bellalf-Anothcr Charge is
 Untruthfulness.

The mutual council called to settle grievances between the Taylor Con- gregational church and it's former pas tor, Rev. Thomas Mckay, was started yesterday afternoon at the Taylor church Rev. Dr. Watson L, Phillips of the Church of the Redeemer pre- sided at the meeting and Rev. pr Dewitt of Branford acted as secre- tary
 Specific charges were made against MT, Mckay and witnesses were heard on the first of them. This was that Mir, Mckay had been interfering with the work of the church, The other charge that of untruthfulness, will be heard to-day.
 The question up was the application of Mr. Mckay to find out why he was refused a letter by the church and dropped from the roll when he was no' engaged for another year as pastor about twelve months ago.
 To answer this the church brought forward evidence to show that MT Nc. Kay had been going from house tC house among his former parishionert and asking them to leave the Taylor church. Also that lie had been trSins to disrupt the ladies aid society. Alst that he had threatened to form an, other church which should rival tht Taylor church and disrupt it. Evi dence for the defence was also brough forward,
 Pastors from Congregational church cs of New Haven, East Haven anC West Haven were in attendance and a Is o'clock the meeting was adiournet for the day to meet this afternoon when Mir Mckay will go on the stant in hii own defense.
 He has repeatedly asked for his let ter of credit from the church and i has been refused. He cannot becom, q pastor of the Congregational ehurcl until he gets his letter
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
PUBLIC SCHOOL LECTURE.
Second Ono to be Held This Evening
 Miss Bacon Speaks.

The second free public school lecture under the supervision of the board of education will be held this evening in Hamilton School hall on Wallace street at o'clock
 Mss Alice M Bacon will give an il- lrslrated lecture on Japan After the War" and MT. Edward Wittstein. the well known violinist, will play q violin solo.
 Miss Bacon spent several years in Japan as a teacher in the School for Noble Girls and in the Higher Normal school of Tokio.
 She is the author of several books on Japan, Japanese Girls and Women, Japanese Interior and Land of the Gods"
 In her lecture Miss Bacon uses 100 slides of views In Japan and those who have seen the lecture say that it is livery interesting. This lecture is the second of a series to be given this winter in several lee.
 ture centers, and if the rest of the lectures are as successful as the one given in Welch School hall on last Fri
 day evening, when the hall was filled and over 12O people truned away, il will mean that the citizeHs Of the city ldesire the use of the school building l for more than school purposes.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
MAKING TRUE DIAMONDS.

The production of artificial dia- monds has long been a dream of the superintendent The conditions under which diamonds are produced in na- ture care pretty we'll understood, and on a small scale they have for some time been duplicated in the laboratory and even--though here quite unwit- tingly--in the workshop. Nothing
 more is necessary than to reduce car bona bit of coal or graphite, or l&mpblack-to liquid condition, com bine it with a solvent, and maintain it under great pressure unt'' it eools, when crystals of the pure carbon will form just cs do crystals of quartz, or sugar or salt under like conditions and these crystals of carbon constitute true diamonds
 But the difficulty lies in tho extreme reluctance with which carbon assAmes the liquid state. Under pressure, to be sure, it will liquefy, but the pressure required IS about 15 tons to the square inch In the depths of the earth such a pressure may be applied by tho weight of geological strata, but how may 1t I,he attained in tho laboratory
 A most ingenious answer to this I question was found by Prof Henri | Moissan of Paris. It is based on the I well- known fact that the metal iron
 has the propefty which it shnres l with a few other substances, including
 waterof expanding instead of con tya fin et ls it naceeS frtit3ti ba lfutitI tf I the solid state, combined with the fur ther fact that liquid iron absorbs ol l dissolves carbon much as water does
 sugar. in increasing quantity with ill.
 creasing temperature. Moissan with at I iron reeeptahle with pure iron and pure carbon obtained by ealcinins l sugar closes it tightly, and rapidls
 heats it to the highest temperature I attainable in an electric furnace 1 bringing 1t to degree of heat at wh'c,
 the lime furnace begins to melt, ani
 the iron velatilizes in clouds.
 The dazzling fiery receptacle is ther i lifted out and plunged instantly int
 cold water until it's outer surface f
 cooled and hardened, thus forming { ! shell of iron that holds the interior
 contents with an ihllexible grip. A this molten interior matter cools tn, 1 carbon separates from the iron solyen ! in liquid drops and under the amos 1 uniir,aginable pressure of eNpansion Q
 the soiidifyihg iron these liquid drop I become solid crystals of diamond l EverybodS's Magazine,
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
SUICIDE OF \ SPN9.
A Woman Who Saw Ghostly Visitor
 Shoot Itself.

This is the tale of a ghost who shot himself The woman who relates it had accompanied her husband to Tirzapur, India. He had been sent there to un- dertalie the duties of an agent who had gone home on sick leave. The only ac- commodatfon they could find when they arrived on July 29 was an inspec- ton bungalow. They retired about 10 o'clock, but Mrs. s. remained awake for some time reading a novel by the light of lamp She was just thinking UI turning it out when suddenly q man holding a revolver appeared in the room. She says: Before could move Or speak, he said: Don't stop me; l am going to shoot myself As he put the revolver to his head, I shut my eyes, and was nearly deafened by the report that followed. My husband jumped up, wide awake at once, with a cry of
 Who fired?' and I opened my eyes, expecting to see a ghastly heap on the floor
 ITO my amazement, the room was empty and there was no sign of the tragedy that had just taken place in front of me My husband said he had been awakened out of sound sleep by the noise of the shot, and when I told him what I had seen, we searched the house together. Neither the punkah coolie, who was sleeping on the veran- da, nor the servants, whose houses were close by in the compounl, hand heard anything. Even the dogs chained on the veranda had not been disturb cd It all happened so suddenly that had no feeling of fright or terror. The ! man seemd to come from the direction of my husbands office, where there | was a door connecting with the bed room, in front of which we had placed heavy wardrobe. He was a shortish unpleasant looking man, and he held the revolver in his left hand Neither I my husband nor l were at all nervous people, and when we could find noth- 1 ing to explain what had occurred, we decided that 1t must have been imag-
 ination and that our being in strong lsympathy with each other had caused i us to share the same hallucination,
 Now for the sequel: Shortly after.
 ward Mrs. $. accompanied her hus.
 band on a tour of the district Among
 the hills they met Mime. De Bevery who had been a widow for severa years. In the course of q. conversation
 with her Mrs, $. discovered that at ont
 time she had lived in the bungalow a 1 Tirzapur where the spectral suicide
 had manifested himself, 'On hearini 4 that she knew our bungalow and haC
 actually lived in it." Mrs. $, adds, (
 was impeIled to relate our strange ex
 perience there, which hitherto my hus 1 band and I had kept to ourselves. Sht 1 listened without comment but when \ ended my narrative by saying that VI l had come to the conclusion it mus
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
IN SOCIE1'Y

Caards have been issued by MT, and Mrs J. B. Darlington of l95 Whitney avenue, for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Helen T Darlington to Mir Burnside Window of Yale O4. The ceremony will take place at Center church, Wednesday afternoon, January 10, 1t S:30 and will be followed by d small reception at the house.
 Miss Leila Darlington, sister of tic bride, is to be maid of honor, and the bridesmaids will be Miss Mackay and Miss shrcvc of Boston. Miss Louise Trowbridge of New York, Miss Fitch, Mrs, Hayes c. Trowbridge and Miss Elsie Trowbridge of this city.
 The ushers will be Mir G. Elton Parks, MT. Howard Drummond, Mir James Brady, MT. Edward Clucas of New York, MT, N Stewart Campbell of Providence, MT Fritz Byers of Pitts burg, Mir William L. Mitchell of Gin einnati, and MT E. S. Bronson of this city. MT Carlos F. Stoddard will be the best man.
 MT. and Mrs. Winslow will be at home after February Lat S51 Genesee street, Utica, New York
 The engagement of Mss Katherine B. Gray, daughter of MT. and Mrs. J.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
HELPS TO HAPPINESS.
Christmas Spirit shown by Gifts
 Through the City Mission.

Through the City Mission.
 At the Christmas season as well as Rt Thanksgiving time the City Mis- sionary association at 2O1 Orange street. asks the people if New Haven who are sheltered in comfortable homes and surrounded by helps to make life hap py, to remember that there are oth- CTS" whose condition Is quite different.
 To Rev. MT. Moss man. the general superintendent, Mrs Graves, the lady missionary, and other workers at the Mission house and elsewhere through the city, there are known many fam- lies who are almest always lacking what may be. called the comforts of life. One family, and quite a large one, too, with hungry children growing up, hardly ever have any butter, and meat Is thought only once or twice a week. The father and mother are both hard working people and there are no bad habits to cause losses. but they simply try to live within what they can earn from week to week. Sometimes the very necessities of life arc also lacking MT. Mossman found family of six, only q few days since, with only a few cents worth Of coke burn Ing in the stove, and nothing in the house to eat all day but a little dry bread, and this was all the father had for breakfast before going to work, A few days before, the mother said, she and the children had to stay cov- sred up in bed all day to keep from suffering with the cold, and vet they had neither made complaint nor even let their wants be known Surely with . all the possibilities for providing for such needs, and ready Willingness on the part of the people of New Haven to prevent unnecessary suffering, such conditions should speedily be made better as soon as known, and never allowed to again exist
 At Christmas time it is the endeavor of those in charge of the City Mission work to mako such gifts as shall go further than the day itself. Food supp plies are sent where there is special reed but not as fully to others as at Thanksgiving time. Families are men, toned to those who prefer to provide materials for a Christmas dinner, es- pecially to any who have come to no- tice since Thanksgiving. But addition al to tho daily or nightly exercises for a week or more around the Christmas tree at the City Mission hall (as noted elsewhere), a list of families is made to whom are sent Christmas cares for s2, s or s which can be kept until the amount is greatly needed at some time in the winter season whaa they can be used at any store the same as mons
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
HELP MEN TO BUY STOCK.

There has been such a decided movement on the part of employees of the Great Northern railroad to pur- chase stock in that corporation of late that President Louis w Hill has ar ranged a method whereby employees may make such purchases at market rates with little or no tr@ible to them- selves and without paying commission to brokers.
 It seems that there is in existence a corporation called the Great Northern Employes' Investment Company, Linn tied, and with this company there has been deposited block of Great North orn stock to bc resold in small amounts to employees under conditions given in a circular just issued from MT Hill's office.
 Subscriptions may be made up to one hundred shares through this in yestment company, but purchases of more than one hundred shares will be forwarded to some New York brolz- CT, In other words, this investment company does not propose to deal in stocks for investors who have so much capital on hand that they can swing over a hundred shares of stock at any one time.
 It is to help the employe with a small surplus that the plan has been established. New York market prices will govern, a subscription received to- day, for instance, entitling the send- CT to stock at to-day's price, even down to the price at the exact hour of the receipt of the subscription.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20

Converse Gray of Boston, Massa to MT. Russell $. Fenn of this city, was announced last evening. Miss Gray graduated from Mrs. Dow's school at Briarclif Manor, last spring.
 Mrs. William J. Bradley and Miss Alice E. Fletcher left yesterday for an extended southern trip.
 Mr Minott A. Osborn, who is the master of English at pr. Mulfords school at Ridgefeld, Conn, came over to New Haven yesterday and will spend the Christmas recess with his parents, Col and Mrs. N. c. Osborn of Bradlcg street.
 Professor and Mrs. William Lyon Phelps of High street, left on We'd nesday, for Huron City, Michigan, to spend the Christmastid3 with relatives. They will spend about three weeks in the west.
 Congressman and Mrs. N. D. sperry will remain in Washington during the holidays. Senator and KITS. Morgan c. Bulkeley of Hartford laft yesterday and will spend the Christmas time in their home on Washington street.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
OPPOSES SALOON CLOSING. Mayor of St. Paul Declares All Laws Were Not Made to be Enforced.

St Paul, Dee. 19. Mayor Robert A. smith has declared himself opposed 10 the enforcement in St Paul of the state law requiring that saloons close at D, m, though he is powerless to control the action of the police O'Cennor, chief of police in accord ance with request made by the at torney general, has ordered the early closing lid to be applied, beginning to- morrow
 T am opposed to the Il o'clock closing" said Mayor Smith. Tt is an outrage. All laws are not made to be enforced The II o'clock closing will work against the interests of the people who are lighting the saloon. :"
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
. BOIL. THEM NIL DOWN.

Who reads the Presidents recent message all through? Who is in the habit of reading such state papers as these in their unabridge formg Who goes through from choice, or for his own edification, any of the annual de- partment reports or similar govern- mental publications? Is it not true that most people now depend for their inn pressions of men and affairs not upon what tho principals say in the matter, but what those who condense, alialySe and edit their too prolonged diffuse ut terances say that they have said?
 The fact that the ordinary executive message, department report or other routine governmental publication has to be thus boiled down and predigested before the busy common people will or can assimilate it, should carry its own lesson 10 functionaries of ordinary perspicacity, They should do for their own often ponderous. proliX, verbose, tine-spun outs.vings what, time and again, they see the editors do to these The public generally will not read mat ter of such forbidding length. And in
 most cases it is justified in its refusal. There is a sort of incompatihility be- tween words and ideas. You cannot in the same endeavor marshal Q multi tude of both
 Congress cannot, of course, put Q
 nit to the length or number of White House messages, but it can set a good example in it's own proceedings. And it can lay down the law to the depart- ments so as to improve the quality by reducing the quantity of stuff that goes through the public printing office. The people can see no good reason for legal and official speech to differ so radically as it now does from that ob-
 taining in business and social circles. i There is nothing in law or the affairs of state that cannot be expressed in common speech and at reasonable | length, though it may require some
 radical and general changes in official life before this fact is fully demcn- | trated.-Pittsnurg Post.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
LESSONS IN CLEANLINESS.

To impress upon his youthful mind the importance of guarding against infections, the medical student at the laboratory is given this object lesson;8 Two test tubes, nearly filled with a clear meat broth and then closed at the top with a cotton plug, are given to him, with directions 10 wash his hands with soap and water and clean his nails with q brush as thoroughly as he can for some ten minutes, Al he thinks that his hands have become al- together clean. he removes the/plug from one of the test tubes and barely touches with finger tip it's contained broth after which he restores the cot ton plug and puts both tubes away on d shelf for twenty-four hours What he will see then is that the broth in the test tube which received his sup posedly pure touch is turbd from the presence of millions of microbes, while the other tube remains perfect- ly clear,
 Some years ago Dr. Herman Knapp, the distinguished oculist of New York. in order to remove the incredulity of some medical men on this subject, pre- scented at the Academy of Medicine six rabbits on which he had performed the operation of extracting the lens. of the eye, as. is done for patients with cataract. Three of the rabbits had their lenses removed by instruments taken bright and clean from his oper- ating case; the other three had their | lenses dug out witn an ordinary car pet tack. The result was that the three rabbits that were operated on with his usual instruments for the purpose had lost their. eyes by purulent uleeratlon, while the eyes of the three on which the carpet tack was used had healed perfectly, The explanation was that the carpet tack was first ster- | iiized by passing it through the flame of an alcohol lamp, while the instru- ments wer used directly from their velvet lined case.-E Everybodys Nigga zine,
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20

ey for household supplies. Orders for coal in half-ton lots are given as Christmas gifts where more likely b he needed, to be called for either at onte or later in the winter. In some eases the Christmas order is f1r sh es rubbers or clothing to whateycr amount is decided upon, according to Inc fam ily in this way to be aided Where it seems better to do so, Christmas card is given which can be exchanged for cash when desired, and so is the same as a little deposit in bank for use further on in the cold weather.
 Gifts of money ire always accept ale at the City Mission office and can always be changed into ona or more of the above mentioned forms If helps 10 avoi7 Encouragement in those times of especial need which are already occur ring t. those who ar9 finding it diiil- cult tc get work, as we'll as te these unable through sickness or otherwise to work at all. The object in view IS not to pauperize people, but, neyerthe-
 less, not to fail to supply real and pressing needs not otherwise provided for and which arc likely at any mo ment to confront some of the many families connected in various ways with the City Missionary association.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
ATTENDING CONVENTIONS.
Yale Professors Give Up Christmas
 Vacation for Business.


 While the Yale undergraduates are away for the Christmas vacation, the members of the faculty are continuing their work. and. Yale will be well reg resented by delegates to the conference of the various scientific societies which are to be held in all parts of the coun- try during. the next two weeks.
 The longest journey of all is to be made by Prof. Herbert E. Gregory head of the department of geography and history, who left yesterday for Al berquerque, New Mexico, to attend the meeting of the Geological society Of America, which is being held there. Professor Gregory will remain in New Mexico for about, a week, and on his return will visit his home In Nebra ska. Prof. Paul Baur of the archaelogi- cal department also left yesterday for. Chicago to attend the meeting of th2l American Archaeological society.
 The Modern Language association which at it's annual meeting in tllis city last year discussed among other things the kind of fruit that Eve passed to Adam, and became iIlocu- ated with the sirlplified spelling virus meets this year in Columbus, Ohio. Profs. A. NJ. Palmer and Gustav Gruener of the German department and M S. Carver of the French de~ partment, will be among those pres- ent.
 Many of the professors in the bio- logical and geological departments will remain in this city for the an nual meeting of the American society of Biologists and the Society of Amer Iican Vertebrate Paleontologists, which are to be held here beginning Deceni~ ber 2s Y
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
PHYSICIANS IMPOSED UPON.
Druggists Filling Liquor Prescriptions
 by the Score in Plainfield.

Plainfeld. Dec. 1a.-Physicians rep resenting nearly all the local no license towns i'll the county were present at a conference here this morning to discuss the issuance of prescriptions for in toxicating liquors.
 Since the activity of the temperance people in the various towns the drug gists have been putting up an extra large amount of prescriptions for spir- its fermenti, etc. and there have been some courts of inquiry in several towns to see if the physicians could be pros. |ecuted.
 Many of the physicians claim they have been imposed upon and 1t was decided to hold a meeting and discuss their rights and duties in the premises
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
CHRIsTsIAs PLANS.
City Mission to Enjoy Week of Festive
 Gaicty.

At the Christmas season a beautiful Christmas tree is always placed in the large hall of the City Mission building at 201 Orange street, and after the Christmas exercises of the Sunday school by which it is provided, the tree with its decorations is used for a week or more by other departments of the mission work Santa Claus will be present this afternoon at 4;30 o'clock to meet the children of the Sunday school and on Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock for tte enjoyment of the boys and girls of the weekly sewing school. On Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock the children of the Sunshine band will hold their Christmas service in the auditor ium of the Mission house, and on Sun day evening there will be a responsive song service appropriate to Christmas.
 Tuesday afternoon of next week at ? o'clock Santa Claus will come again with representatives of the Madison Sunshine society to meet 100 or more of the little children of some of the SCluDlS OL lHS CitS. Ou NtulSSudy evening the Berkeley Mems club will give d Christmas supper under the Christmas tree to it's members and friends, and on Thursday, the weeks festivities will end with a Christmas party at 2;So D. m. by the Coreopsis Sunshine society for fifty or more mothers and the children whom they have invited, and the gathering of the Alpha Girls club of the City Mission | in the evening.
 Among those who are to speak or otherwise take part in the Christmas exercises are: Rev. Dr. Sheath, Rev.
 MT Lent, Rev. Mir, Tullar Rev. MT. Fischer. Rev. Mr Mossman Judge l.. w. Cleaveland, Attorney George w. Crawford, Mrs. c. A. Iarmount, Mrs.
 A. R. Miler, Mrs l., s. Graves. MT. F.
 E, Hartshorn, Miss Ruby Street Miss
 Bertha Street, MT. J. w. seeley, Miss i Elsie Kniffen, Mrs. J w. Fenwick,
 Mrs. Fame Robbins and Miss Lillian l Avery.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-20
Mrs. De smythe-rommy. do

Mrs. De Smythe-Tommy, do you want some rice plum jams
 Tommy-Yes mother.
 T was going to give you some to put on your bread. but Two lost the key to the pantry,
 You dent need inc key, mother. I can reach down through the window and open the door from the inside"
 That's what I wanted to know. Now just wait till your father comes home. ? The Catholic Mirror