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in in 10 THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1901. The Siarttord Couraut. FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 22, 1901. SIXTEEN PAGES.

SIXTEEN PAGES. The office of grand vizier will not have the interest of novelty for Said Pasha. has held it five or six times before. He was grand vizier 22 years ago. His reputationa in the Constantinople legations is that of honest man, as far as money is concerned.

Naturally his tenure is carious. Senator Tom Platt went to Seth Low's house yesterday morning, invitation. The call and talk lasted into a second hour. The mayor -elect tells the reporters that the talk was "very satisfactory." The senator, he said, renewed the assurances already given that he wants the Seth Low ministration to be a great success and is not going to do anything to barrass it. Unlike their Western Massachusetts brethren, the Long Island Protestant Episcopalions have not gone outside the diocese for their new chief pastor; they find him at home.

The bishop -elect, Dr. Frederic Burgess, succeeded Con necticut's Bishop Brewster in a Brooklyn rectorship--that of Grace Church on the Heights--a little more than three years ago. He will be the third man of his name in the "American succes the first was George Burgess, first bishop of Maine, consecrated in Christ Church, this city, October 31, 1847, and the second was Alexander Burgess, first bishop of Quincy, consecrated May 15, 1878. BLUMENTRITT ON THE PHILIPPINES. David J.

Doherty, A. M. antiimperialist, has been busying himself with a labor of love. He has translated Professor Ferdinand Blumentritt's monograph on the Philippines, ethnographically, historically and politically considered. The professor did not evolve his Malays from his internal consciousness.

He visited and studied them in their habitat. He resided among them many years, Dr. Doherty says. He tells the doctor that he lived on terms of intimacy with" their leaders. One of the letters written by Dr.

Rizal, Filipino scholar and poet, the night before his execution, was addressed to his good friend Blumentritt. In the matter of land surface, the professor says, there is rather more of the Philippines than of Italy: Luzon is larger than Bavaria, Wurtemberg and Hesse put together; Mindanao equals Saxony plus Saxe-Meiningen, Palauan equals Alsace-Lorraine, Samar and its satellite islands are a little smaller than Mecklenburg-Schwerin. There are only two really large plains in the whole group--one in Luzon, the other in Mindanao. Of mountains there are enough and to spare. Many of these are volcanoes--active, dormant, or extinguished.

We have acquired eruptions and earthquakes, as well as typhoons and ladrones. The Philippine rivers are "noted for their navigability." Mindanao's name--in English "the Land of Lakes no misnomer. There are four large lakes on the island, and a chain of smaller ones. Of the Philippine climate the professor has no harsh report to make. The coast regions of the southern islands have borne a bad reputation, he says, but the Spanish army men considered even those healthder than Cuba.

He believes the islands to be rich in gold and other ores. He thinks there may be surprises when Mindanao is tackled by the prospectors. Luzon has iron and copper; Cebu has coal. But the chief wealth of the Islands will always be, he thinks, their tobacco, sugar, hemp and coffee. The forests are rich in cabinet and dye woods, however, and good roads are the only thing needed to start a boom in the lumber business.

There is also good money in the ilang-llang and the perfume plants generally. "Whatever can be grown in the Dutch East Indies," says Herr Blumentritt, "can be grown in the Philippines." Now: as to the people. In the darkskinned, woolly -haired Negritos our German ethnologist sees the remnant of the aboriginal race. The Jesuits converted some of them in Mindanao: the rest are pagans. Little is known about their religion, and not much more about their language.

They are monogamous and fairly moral, good-natured ordinarily, but revengeful. They are ruled by elders. They have the Gypsy love of roving. without the Gypsy homelessness. Their Christian neighbors, though afraid of them, look down upon them as untameable savages.

In the professor's opinion they are "destined to perish." The mountain Malaysrotes. Kianganes, Ibilaos, etc. -are of stronger build than the coast Malays. They have many fine traits, are chaste, honest and truthful, as well as great lovers of music. But for the most part they are pagans and hereditary headhunters.

They worship their ancestors, like the Chinese. Many of the mountain tribes are industrious tillers of the soil. Some of them were horsemen when the first Spaniards landed. In Mindoro and Palauan they are mildmannered and have a written alphabet. They are all pretty clumsy and timid on the water.

There are between 600,000 and 1,100.000 of them. Nobody really knows; it's all guesswork. The Mohammedan Malays are of mixed blood-mongrels. There are from 000 to 500.000 of them, all told. Their religion has not struck very deep roots.

They are under feudal government. Slavery exists among them, but we know now that it is of a very mild type. They farm, fish and hunt; they also raise horses and poultry. The Christian Malays of the coast-Tagals. Ilocoans, Visayans, smaller than the mountain men but greatly their betters in intelligence and push There are from 6,500,000 to 8.000,000 of them.

In civilization they seem to be ahead of the other Malays and behind the Japanese--whom many of them resemble surprisingly in looks. They farm, fish, and raise livestock. They are naturally industrious; at least Dr. Rizal told the professor so. The professor found them quiet, courteous, docile, honest, ambitious, born linguists and passionately fond of music.

He considers them a highly gifted people, with a just claim on "the sympathy of civilized Europeans." He higher we ascend the social scale the more the costume resembles European modes, and since these, Malays include more cultured people than the Servians and Bulgarians the percentage of persons who wear European dress is larger than among those nations of the Balkan peninsula which enjoy independence and It is to be regretted the illustrated papers present in relation to the political disturbances in the Philippines only types of the lower classes because the reading world, which is unacquainted with the conditions of that country, must be led thereby to form the same underestimate of its brave people that the AmerIcans have formed. We shall not follow the professor as he stoutly traverses the thickets and morasses of Philippine history. We shall not even deal here with his account of the events of 1898, and the later events. He is an anti-imperialist after Erving Winslow's own heart. He 19 dead against the United States of America.

He accuses us of breaking faith with the Filipinos. He considers our conduct shameful. In June, 1898, he was in the islands. He advised a native friend not to trust the Americansto stick by the Spaniards--and his friend and the Filipinos generally thought it silly advice. "If they 1 had had the faintest suspicion that the United States meant to annex the archipelago," he writes to Dr.

Doherty, "they would have taken the side of the Spanlards and would have defended the Spanish flag." He says in his essay that American arms and American statesmanship have cut an equally sorry figure in the Philippines. According to Blumentritt, we have done nothing but blunder. He is convinced with the immovable convincedness of a German professor that the natives will never be reconciled to a change which frees them from the rule of "the personally amiable Spaniard" only to bring them into a harder bondage; only (as the amiable Blumentritt puts it) that "the haughty Anglo-Saxon of America, who abhors dark skins, may swing the whip over them." We don't understand why this interesting pamphlet comes to us from Chicago. It contains in its closing pages just the sort of shrapnel the managers of the Anti-American literary bureau at Boston want for use in their "campaign of education," and of a better quality than they can make on the premises. Professor Blumentritt is in Leitmeritz now, instructing German youth; but a few years ago he was talking face to face with the Filipinos in the Philipines, and he says there is among them "no lack of trained men fit to govern." The Boston men say so, too; but the fact that they know the Filipinos only by report( and sticks in the public mind, and detracts from the impressiveness.

CONTEMPT OF COURT AGAIN. This time the story comes from New Jersey. Some time ago Vice-Chancellor Pitney of that state issued an injunetion. Silk-mill operatives at Paterson were out on strike. They employed part of their leisure in assembling with their friends under the windows of the Dugan mill and serenading the "scabs" at work inside.

The serenades were not a concord of sweet sounds; far otherwise. They annoyed the mill hands serenaded, and the mill managers. The vice-chancellor, in his injunction, ordered the strikers and their friends to desist. Some of them snapped their fingers at the order, and went right on making the unjoyful noises. These bold but imprudent spirits were hauled up for contempt.

The vicechancellor sent two of them to jail. Their lawyer, a Mr. Blauvelt, invoked the interference of the court of errors and appeals. The case came up day before yesterday, John W. Griggs, recently -general of the United States, appearing against the appellants.

Lawyer Blauvelt in his argument cited the decision delivered by the late Chief Justice Beasley in the case of the National Docks Company. It was held in that case that court of errors and appeals had an unlimited appellate jurisdiction, and specifically that 1 its power to review and pass upon any order of the court of chancery brought to its notice was unquestionable. Lawyer Blauvelt argued that, if this were not so, the chancellor or vicechancellor in exercise of the power to punish for contempt might send a man or woman to jail for sixty yearsinstead of, as in the Paterson case, for sixty days--and the victim would have no redress. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, the court of errors and appeals proceeded to reverse Itself and consign the Beasley decision to the waste-basket. The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice Gummere.

He says that, when the court of chancery has established its jurisdiction over the person of the contemptuous offender against its dignity, its punitive order in the case (whether fine or jail sentence) is conclusive and unreviewable. In other words, that there is no appeal from it. The New Jersey papers say that some of the chief Justice's colleagues found themselves unable to concur in this decision. That does not surprise us. For the present, and until the court of errors and appeals reverses itself back to the Beasley doctrine, it behooves Jerseymen to walk very circumspectly where the court of chancery is con- cerned.

TWO PROCLAMATIONS. Governor Stickney of Vermont was in a quoting mood when he sat down to write his Thanksgiving proclamation this year. It begins with two verses of the Psalmist, and ends with a line and 8- half from "As You Like It." His excellency says to the the occasion be observed in the meeting house, with neighbors, and at home with kindred in a manner worthy of the pure and exalted example of our forefathers with whom it had. its beginning. "Hath not old custom made this life more sweet That that of painted pomp?" The President and the governors are not the only public functionartes in this country who write Thanksgiving proclamations.

Principal Chief Thomas M. Buffington of the Cherokee Nation has I written one, and a very creditable one It is. He requests all his people to meet in their usual places of worship next Thursday, and offer thanks for "the many good gifts and graces" they have received during the year. "Especially," he continues, "should every Cherokee citizen have more gratitude than any other people of this great Republic, because of the home that every one of us possesses. In the material things of this world God has abundantly favored us.

From a thankful heart comes gratefulness and generosity. We should not be unmindful of those of our neighbors who are less fortunate than That's the true Thanksgiving spirit. The Cherokees have no cause to blush for the proclamation of their principal chief. It's one of the best in the batch. HORSES AND PEOPLE.

The so-called horse show is now going on in New York. An incident of the show is that it lets some of the best horses in the country have a quiet and undisturbed look at New York's fashlonable society. It is said that this treatment applied to uneasy colts steadies them at once and makes the unhapplest of them satisfied with his lot--and even with his stall when he can't get into the lot. Sassiety is occupied looking at itself. There is probably no exhibition to be found that is more thoroughly and hopelessly human than this given in the name of the horse.

The admirable accounts presented in the great metropolitan journals are proof to the world of the social Importance of this great congregation. The sources of fashion and of the Nile have been said to be alike in one respect -that they cannot be discovered, and, if found, it would prove that they came out of the dirt. Be that as it may, when the fashions get far enough from their source to go to the horse show they invite scrutiny. It is interesting to note what the women who shine in the newspaper columns consider fit for the show and the press. We observe with interest that Mrs.

Joseph Widener of Philadelphia wore, according to the esteemed "Herald," "white lace over white satin," while, according to the she wore a "dark skirt." According to the "'Herald' her hat was "small, white," and, according to the "Journal." it was "black velvet." Miss May Van Alen struck the able reporter of the "World" as wearing a "white and feather and white tulled boa eased, with black," while to the "Journal" fashion expert she seemed to have on a "large black velvet picture bat with veil generously sprinkled with large black chenille dots." Mrs. Elisha Dyer, was seen by one "Journal" reporter wearing a "large black hat" and another saw her under a "hat of white tulle," while to the writer she appeared to have on "brown plush hat" and to still another "World" "Journal" artist to have a "large hat of beige beaver." Mrs. Edwin Gould had a "large black hat" or a "white hat and pale blue feather boa" according to which writer of the "Journal" you prefer. Miss Eleanor Morris was another favorIte of the "Journal's" experts. She wore, it appears from that paper, a "big picture hat of dark blue," a "large gray hat" and a "large black hat." It is to be hoped that none of these important statements are wrong.

If not, they certainly are entertaining. In either event fashion has arrived, and it is up to the faithful reader to figure out what it is. NOTE AND COMMENT. Brooklyn's retiring postmaster, Francis H. Wilson, steps into a $15,000 salary as president of an automatic coaling and weighing barge company.

A fortnight ago a centipede was found in an upstairs room of the parsonage of the Central Church, Worcester, and Wednesday morning another turned up in the basement of the Society of Antiquity building. The people living around Lincoln Square are beginning to wonder where the centipedes come from, and to feel nervous. The Hon. Timothy L. and Mrs.

Woodruff of Brooklyn, N. ate luncheon with the President, Wednesday afternoon. An American eagle shot in Payne county, Oklahoma, last Saturday, had a wing-stretch of 6 feet 6 inches. Major William Wayne, who died at the old Wayne homestead near Paoli, Wednesday morning, was a greatgrandson of "Mad The homestead dates from 1765. General Wayne of the Revolution Inherited it from his father, Isaac Wayne.

It now goes to William Wayne, jr. Warren Brandriff met Esther Smith of Philadelphia at Atlantic City. He made love to her and proposed marriage. She accepted him and let him have $700 for use in his business. He disappeared with the money.

Simultaneously $500 worth of jewelry belonging to Miss Smith disappeared. She told the police. Brandriff was arrested and indicted. Tuesday night he persuaded Miss Smith into a wedding. The mayor of Wilmington officiated.

Wednesday morning, when the case was called in the county court, Attorney-General Ward had to enter a nolle. He had lost his witness. General John W. Foster has removed from the old house on I street, Washington, next-door to the Mexican embassy, to his handsome new house in Eighteenth street. "I wish here to make a record," said Bishop Niles of New Hampshire in his convention address this week, "of gratitude to my brother of Vermont, and to Dr.

Seward Webb, his host and mine. Dr. Webb had placed his private car at the disposal of the bishop and of the deputation from Vermont, for the journey to San Francisco; and it was by them arranged that the neighboring bishop of New Hampshire and Mrs. Niles should be asked to join the party. Every possible provision for our comfort was most carefully and bountifully made.

With agreeable companionship, and in entire freedom from solicitude about anything, the journey both going and coming, was a rest more than a INTERESTING DISCOVERY. New Star May Furnish Proof of the Nebular Hypothesis. (Chicago Dispatch.) By observations on the new star in Perseus, Professor G. W. Ritchte of the Yerkes Observatory, at Williams Bay, is believed to have obtained proof of the correctness of Laplace's famous nebular hypothesis, a discovery which, if verified, will be the most important to astronomy in many years.

Photographs taken at the Lick Observatory, in California, and elsewhere seemed to show that the new star had urne fessor Ritchie at Williams Bay on the night of September 20 showed, after an exposure of three hours and fifty minutes, there were two fairly dense wisps of nebulosity toward the west. with a curve to the north, merging into the convolutions of the nebula. On November 13 Professor Ritchie took a second photograph, with an exposure of seven hours. This negative showed that the spots of density in the west field of the nebula had moved. The inference is that in the new star there is a system in process of formation just as, under the hypothesis of Laplace, our own and all the planets were once a vast inass of gas in rapid rotation.

PENDENNIS. THE CONCERT OF THE PHILHARMONICS DECEMBER 3. Mrs. Warner as Soloist-Teas, Receptions and Other Events-Thanksgiving at Hand. The coming Philharmonic concert December 3 will call out the most brilliant audience of the season.

All the boxes will be occupied with the honorary members and their families and friends, thus making an atmosphere of friendliness and interest and the occasion will be an unusual one from a musical and social standpoint. The sustaining members of the orchestra can still find reserved seats to-day at the music store of Sedgwick Casey, opposite the Allyn House. The associate membership tickets are to be exchanged to- day and to-morrow for reserved seats throughout the season at Sedgwick Casey's, and if there have been any persons who have overlooked or forgotten to enroll their names, they can subscribe at the music store and SO secure reserved seats at once. New members to the society will be cordially welcomed. The rehearsal ticket inclosed is to be kept by each member and used only at the afternoon concerts for the entire season.

These rehearsal tickets are transferable in families. Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner will be the soloist at the Philharmonic concert and play the beautiful Schumann A minor concerto. Through Mrs. Warner's life, there has been a definite purposethe growth of fine music in Hartford.

That she has been constantly in touch with music and musicians and that this is her crowning gift to the orchestra and to Hartford is known appreciated by her many warm and admiring friends. With untiring interest and devotion, she has worked for the suecess of this organization and is SO identified with its growth, that it seems a fitting tribute for her to play at the opening concert this year. A fact keenly appreciated by the playing members of the orchestra, who have worked with so much interest to accompany her. A musician of uncommon talent. many years of study, and the rich experiences of life, Mrs.

Warner's appearance will call out an audience of the greatest Interest and enthusiasm. The President's proclamation, the governor's proclamation, the letters about the prize fight, the profusion of chrysanthemums, the wealth of homefed turkeys and the annual home coming of William Gedney Bunce (who writes that after forty years' expertence, he has decided that is the only place to be on the last Thursday in November), all herald the coming of the exclusively American holiday--Thanksgiving Day--a festival only celebrated in foreign countries by our own people, whose hearts and thoughts are in fatherland. "This year we have everything to be thankful for but apples," old farmer confided to they are $5 a barrel." Those who have stowed away a few barrels have good cause to be thankful as well as generous. Yes, New England is the place to spend Thanksgiving Day, and the Hartford people who have been enjoying the world beyond the sea, are all flocking back to their homes. The arrival of the Fuerst Bismarck brought with it Colonel F.

W. Cheney, Mrs. Cheney, and their three daughters, and Mrs. M. D.

Thompson and Miss May Terry. Miss M. K. Talcott arrived on the Etruria. Miss Florence Cheney was a passenger on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and had a very rough trip, but the Misses Stevens were more fortunate, having had a very smooth passage on the Minnehaha.

Miss Cheney is at home in Manchester, and the Misses Stevens are visiting Mrs. A. A. Welch. A small, Informal, and very delightful tea was given by Miss Leontine Thomson of Asylum avenue, from 5 to 7 on Monday afternoon.

The Gayety Club german, given Wednesday. evening in City Mission Hall, was an unusually enjoyable affair, its success being due to the management of Miss Harriet Barbour and Miss Elizabeth Hyde, and to the leadership of Mr. Frank E. Howard and Mr. Charles W.

Gross. The favors were charming, many of them being bits of Norwegian work in wood, which Miss Barbour herself brought from Norway; and the figures were new and spirited. Withal there was a suggestion of Thanksgiving in the festivities. It was a later german than usual, lasting until after 1 o'clock, but everybody had a good time right up to the last note of the music. The marriage of Miss Ruth Whitmore to Mr.

Robert Parker will take place on Thanksgiving eve, at the home of Mr. Mrs. Franklin G. Whitmore, Highland street. Mrs.

George Goodwin Williams of Prospect street has issued cards for a reception and musicale on Friday and Saturday, November 29 and 30, from 4 to 6. A tableaux entertainment will be given in lower Unity Hall on the afternoon of December 5 under the auspices of the Junior Auxiliary of the South Church. A repetition of the charming play "Roseberry Shrub," which was so well received last year, is being planned for an early date. Rev. W.

A. Richard of Trinity Methodist Church of New York, Mrs. Richard, and their oldest son Howard, have been entertained by Mr. and Mrs. H.

E. Parkhurst, at their home on Seymour street. On Sunday last Mr. Richard preached from his old pulpit at the South Park Church. Miss M.

J. Halstead has been entertaining Mrs. E. M. Whittemore of New York, who was formerly associated with her at the Door of Hope Mission, The engagement of Miss Harriet Bradford to Edward Belcher Aread of York the has Standard been Oil announced.

Company of Mr. Mead's home is in Greenwich. Over 700 guests were entertained at Mrs. Edward W. Hooker's reception at No.

10 Myrtle street last Saturday. The house was handsomely decorated with the flowers of the season. Mrs. Hooker was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Arthur L.

Shipman, Mrs. J. Humphrey Greene, Miss Bowman. Miss Lucy Perkins, Mrs. Rockwell H.

Potter, Mrs. Robert H. Schutz. Mrs. Samnel Williams, Miss Shepherd, Miss Havemeyer, Miss Trumbull.

Mrs. Dray. ton Hillyer and Mrs. E. B.

Hooker. The concert given by Miss Leonora Jackson, the violinist, was largely attended, and much appreciated by the people of Hartford. It is the general opinion that Miss Jackson has become more masterly in her playing since her last appearance in this city. A delightful tea was given by Mrs. Samuel Colt at Armsmere, Wethersfield avenue, on Monday last Mrs.

Samuel Eliot, widow of the former president of Trinity College. The dancing party given by Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Howard, in honor of their daughter, Helen, at Putnam Phalanx Hall, was greatly enjoyed by the young people of Hartford and the Farmington school friends of Miss Howard.

Mrs. Howard was assisted in receiving by her daughter and by Mrs. Clarence H. Wiley, Mrs. E.

B. Bennett, Mrs. John S. Camp and Miss Howard. In all 1,342 new and useful garments were brought to the annual meeting of the Needlework Guild in the City Mission Hall on Thursday, to be distributed among the different charitable institutions of the city.

The officers elected were: Honorary president, Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner: president, Miss A. E. Trumbull; secretary, Mrs. Robert B.

Riggs; treasurer, Mrs. F. I. Prentice; section presidents, Miss A. Trumbull, Mrs.

Beach. Miss E. V. Barnard, Mrs. R.

B. Riggs, Mrs. Robert E. Day, Miss Gertrude Case, Miss A. B.

Hodge, Mrs. Henry Roberts, Mrs. C. W. Burpee.

A charming reception and tea was given by Mrs. Francis Parsons at her home on Prospect and avenues on Wednesday, from Those Asylum, who assisted in recelving were Mrs. E. P. Schutz, Mrs.

E. P. Newton, Mrs. William Skinner, Mrs. John De Witt, Mrs.

Henry Roberts and Mrs. George Perkins. Those who assisted in the dining-room were Mrs. Robert Schutz, Mrs. Francis Pratt, Mrs.

Arthur S. Bosanko, Mrs. Horace Cheney, Miss Marjorie Skinner and Miss Plimpton. At the annual meeting of the Colonial Dames which took place at the home of Mrs. Denning Duer of Whitney avenue, New Haven, on Tuesday, an unusually large delegation were present.

Mrs. Edward H. Perkins of this city was elected first vice-president. Among those who were elected to be managers for the next two years were Miss Mary K. Talcott and Mrs.

Franklin G. Whitmore of Hartford and Miss Florence Gay of Farmington. Cards are out for the coming-out tea of Miss Strong, daughter of Mrs. Edwin Strong, on December 4, from until Mrs. and Miss Strong have issued invitations for a dance to be given in Putnam Phalanx Hall on December 9.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gardner Hart have announced the engagement of their daughter, Christine, to Robert Anderson Wadsworth. "William the First Democratic King of England," was the subject of the address griven by W. Eston Phyfe at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Amos Whitney of 568 Farmington avenue, before the Smith College Club last Saturday. Mr. Phyfe has a charming way putting things, and an exceptional delivery. Mrs.

Albert B. Gillett will entertain a. few friends to-morrow at a euchre party which she is giving in honor of her guest, Miss Mayo of Richmond, Va. Miss Harriet Cady of New York, who is an excellent musician, has been visiting Miss Nellie Flagg of 91 Washington street. During her stay Miss Cady visited Farmington, where she played at the homes of Messrs.

Robert and Charles Brandegee. Professor and Mrs. Edwards will give a dinner for a few friends to-morrow evening at their home at 27 Wethersfield avenue. It is unfortunate that the golf contest takes place on the same day and at the same time as the Yale-Harvard football game, so many people want to see both. The Gillett cup, for which the team will play, has been won once each by Alexander Bunce, W.

H. Deming, E. K. Mitchell and C. P.

Howard. will become the property of the player who wins it a second time. Mr. H. Whaples's address on "Other People's Money," given before the Good Will Club on Monday night, was very much to the point.

Too many people have impossible views and theories on this subject, particularly as to the spending of other people's money, and a few wholesome truths may lend them a clearer understanding. Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Pope are to move from their home on Prospect avenue to their apartment at 112 Riverside Drive, New York.

Three, three-quarter life-size casts of figures have been presented to the antique department of the Art Society of Hartford. They are gifts of Mrs. Charles Beach, Mrs. Edward Perkins and Mrs. G.

G. Williams. The Educational Club held its first meeting of the season at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Solon P.

Davis. Professor Alexander R. Merriam read a paper dealing with the evening school system in general, and its relation to Hartford in particular. The Cotillon Club will give its first german next Tuesday evening, at Mrs. Francis Parsons's.

Mrs. Barnes, assisted by Professor Waldo S. Pratt, gave a delightful afternoon of oratorio music, last Saturday at the Musical Club. Barnes sang solos from the "Messiah," "Elijah" and "St. Paul," while Professor Pratt played and explained the overture of "Samson." I heard a Yale man ask a young lady of this city if she considered Yale blue becoming to never thought of that," replied the maiden, "but I know that men are becoming to Yale blue." "Now will you be good?" yelled an unsuppressable small boy as Princeton's vanquished team left the field.

But Princeton's men made no reply. Pendennis. Wild Geese on Nantucket. (Boston Herald.) Nantucket, Nov. flocks of wild geese have landed on this island every night for the past week, and sportsmen are enjoying shooting never before equalled on Nantucket.

The largest flock yet reported alighted in Capaum pond last night, and is stated to have numbered at least thirty birds. John M. Winslow secured six of them, and numerous others had equally good 11:3 village of Polpis have also been a rendezvous for the geese, and many of the birds shot there were shipped to Boston this morning. Rohort Dunham bagged three at one shot out of a bunch of six at Tuckernuck. Saturday.

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LUDLOW BARKER 153 and 155 ASYLUM STREET, -SOLE LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Appronching the Ridiculous, To the Editor of The have been watching this Ellen M. Stone case with a deal of interest, and I may say that I am really amused at the latest phase of the affair. Yesterday's (November twentieth's) dispatches from Sofia, state that rumors have it that this much-talked-of woman is guarded by only eight brigands, and that they would likely surrender to Bulgarian troops, but would not to Turkish forces! situation has looked all along, this matter-of-fact writer a little strained, but this last statement "takes the cake." The idea eight men can stand off the Turkish empire is too ridiculous to find its way into print, even in these sensational days! Incred. More Sand Needed.

To the Editor of The the reprimand administered at a recent meeting of the street board to citizens who chose to make complaint through the newspapers of what seemed to them shortcomings of public officials, I desire to call attention to the great need of more sand on the asphalt. pavement when the conditions are such as prevailed this (Thursday) morning. On many streets near the curb considerable quantities of ice made during the previous night, making the footing exceedingly dangerous and uncomfortable for horses. I was on several streets as late as 11 o'clock in the forenoon and know that no sand had been used upon them -at least not a particle had reached the dangerous places, which were, in evidence all about. One of the worst places that came under my observation was at the corner of Main and Church streets, on the latter, where there was a sidling spot as much as a rod long and a couple of feet wide where it was next to impossible for a horse to stand up, and where only fool luck prevented serious falls.

Even in this public place the danger was not relieved until the noonday sun had melted the ice. Let's have a little more sand used--and all means let's have sand enough to call public attention to anything that the public is interested in, even at the risk of being called hard names for our temerity, Sand. A Surprise for the Cow. (Philadelphia Ledger.) Duryea, Nov. 19.

-While grazing in a field here yesterday, a cow suddenly disappeared from view. Onlookers made an investigation, and found that the shifting of a body of quicksand had caused the sinking of the earth about ten feet square, which swallowed up the cow. With ropes and a derrick, the cow was hoisted unharmed from its position thirty feet the surface. Natty Velour Coats and Blouses. Prices Range From $25 to $100.

Velour Coats and Blouses are easily the prettiest and dressiest outside garments for winter wear. We have them in all the new styles. The "Empire" Coat with straight back and fancy blue silk vest and the beautiful velour Blouse with wide chinchilla collar and revers are notably fine creations. C. W.

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